Kyle Morgan
Appearances
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Man, I watch the episodes.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Your wife pinned your badge on you? Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, it was awesome.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
So we train- How do you know their cartel? So what, the cartel bought the businesses?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Are these the two biggest gangs in the country? Bloods and Crips, yeah. You know, that's what you... Still to this day?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Man, probably 30, 40.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
300,000.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
You've got the Bloods and the Crips.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
I remember the only memory I have of it was... Your mom would take you to community college so that she could get her degree. She'd get her degree.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
He survived?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
So you go from... Go from a dead 12-year-old. Cutting a dead 12-year-old who hung himself in his mom's basement.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Did you get treated like shit?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Most didn't.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Why did they not get along? Was your stepmom who your father had been a friend with?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Well, I'm with you on that, but even so, I mean... It does, when he was in office,
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Because they were threatening to kill a female officer? Female police officer.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
You were going to talk about something that happened a couple of weeks prior. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
That's damn good advice, brother. I tried to live by that, man. I did. I really did. I wanted to make an impact. That's all I wanted to do. Well, it sounds like you made a hell of an impact. I like to think I did. I really do. But there's a lot of people that know you did. I appreciate that. It means a lot, honestly. You're welcome.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Former MLB All-Star Sean Casey, a.k.a.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
At Palmville Middle School. That married a 16-year-old girl. Yeah.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Let's rewind for a minute. Yeah. So did you actually tell your dad that or? I never told my dad that. You never told him that? That was in your head? Always in my head. It's all those questions.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Do you think, why do you think he did that?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Do you think maybe he was dealing with his own guilt? I do. He felt extremely guilty.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
I mean, I can't blame them. It puts food on their table. I mean, some of these, some, here's another question.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
And, um... Blake, I'm not saying I don't understand.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
And I just want you to be free. And that's the only reason I'm bringing it up.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
You can't fix anything on anybody if they don't want to fix it themselves. And that's the problem, is he doesn't want it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Jesus chose wild men.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
I definitely was not expecting to hear that. Saved my life.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
So my wife was the first time my wife ever heard about it.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
So I was going to save my family. Does your son know? No. No. He's going to now, isn't he? Yeah. He listens to your podcast. How are you going to handle that? Man, he's such a cool kid.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Sounds cool. He likes it. So you won't tell him this before he watches? We're going to talk about it, yeah.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
How long have you known this is how you're going to do it? Going to do what?
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Are you expecting some tough questions? Yeah. He's intelligent. What do you think the... I don't even know. ...first question will be? I don't even know.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
There's a lot of lessons to learn from in this already.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Take a break. Let's take a break. Take a break. You all right, Ben? Yeah, I'm good. That felt good. Some heavy stuff. Yeah. Felt good. Good.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
And I hope that it just reaches one person. I think it's going to reach a hell of a lot more than that.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
I know so. Yeah, it felt good.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Maybe it doesn't have to be a call. Maybe it could be a written letter.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
But there's no... I think it does two things.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Let's go to college. Let's go to college. That was a ride. Was it? That was a ride. I rode that train hard.
Shawn Ryan Show
#146 Blake Cook - America's Scapegoats: The 365-Day Service That Never Stops
Almost immediately, honestly. Yeah. What drew you in? He was so loving.