This episode is dedicated to Mercedes Carrera, who is serving a life sentence for drug possession and distribution charges. We talk to her about her life behind bars and how she got her start in the drug trade. We also talk about drugs and sex on meth.
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00:01:19.000Like you're up for three days and you're drinking for three days.
00:01:22.000You know how hungover you are when you party and you started it early, like around, you know, 1 p.m. and you go to 11 the next day you have AIDS?
00:04:46.000And I told you before about that dude, Brandon, in LA, I forget his last name, who basically tried to blackmail me and said, I'm going to show people pictures of you and I hanging out because him and Jerry Minor, I used to hang out with when I'd go to LA and they're both black.
00:05:24.000There's zero evidence outside of an interview with this girl who's her daughter, by the way.
00:05:28.000I didn't know that when I first heard the story.
00:05:31.000And if she is guilty of molesting her daughter, I want her to get the death penalty, which is strange when it's your friend, but she's not a human being if she's molesting her daughter.
00:05:44.000But I got to say, I've known this woman for years.
00:09:54.000But San Bernardino is one of the only places, and this will probably come up in the interview, where you can go to jail and start a trial with zero evidence.
00:10:03.000And outside of this interview with the girl, there is zero evidence.
00:10:06.000Now, she's been in there since February 6th, I believe, 2019.
00:14:02.000They don't give a shit about anybody but themselves.
00:14:04.000Anita Sarkeesian has made hundreds of thousands of dollars peddling her bullshit, faux video, socially damaging crap.
00:14:14.000And it has been damaging for gender relations and it has been damaging for women.
00:14:18.000And I don't even want to hear about her victimhood because Cytheria, she's a real victim, a real victim of a random rape and assault.
00:14:27.000And, you know, anybody who even dares insinuate that a sex worker doesn't deserve the same type of defense because of, because they work in sex work could go fuck themselves.
00:14:46.000Like, they're very intelligent people, her and her husband, Damien.
00:14:51.000They're the ones who told me about the pill and how it encourages women to date betas because it makes the woman think she's pregnant.
00:15:00.000And when women are pregnant, they're not looking to get boned.
00:15:03.000They're looking for a brother-like figure, a soft, solipsistic sweetie who's going to console her and keep her safe, but not touch her sexually.
00:15:13.000So they end up with these brother-type boyfriends.
00:16:00.000And the thing that scares me is, if I'm right and she's innocent, could this happen to anyone?
00:16:07.000I mean, San Bernardino is unique in that you can go to jail based on a rumor, but does that mean everyone in San Bernardino this could happen to anyone there?
00:16:16.000Anyway, let's have a quick look at what it looks like in there.
00:16:21.000I think it's sort of like, you know, the show 60 Days?
00:17:19.000The jail she's at, there was a big lawsuit about inmate abuse where I think 24 of them came in and said they were getting threatened.
00:17:28.000They said that the COs would walk around with shotguns saying someone's going to die tonight and cocking the shotgun.
00:17:36.000When I first spoke to her, when she first went in there, she had a lot of complaints and she hated cops and said they should all be female.
00:17:40.000But recently she's been in her letters, which they really pile up.
00:17:46.000She said that she actually likes the COs and they're very sweet.
00:18:08.000So far, all of the inmates listed in this lawsuit are in the protective custody unit where they say the only protection they need is from correctional officers.
00:18:18.000This lawsuit is just the beginning, filed this week by six inmates.
00:18:22.000And already by tonight, lawyers say they have found more inmates of the West Valley Detention Center claiming very specific abuse from January 2013 to March of this year.
00:18:33.000The allegations include threats with shotguns.
00:18:35.000racking around, making them believe that there was going to be an execution or shooting someone, and actually pointing the shotgun at someone's head.
00:18:43.000Beating, sodomy, and even claims that guards would play games by seeing how long inmates...
00:21:29.000Some of the worst charges I've ever heard.
00:21:32.000And I know you can't say too much, but the story that's not just that I've heard, but that's sort of going around is that your baby daddy was looking to get custody, full custody, and he got her to say horrible things.
00:21:46.000And San Bernardino is the only place where you can throw someone in jail based on rumors.
00:21:54.000So San Bernardino County is actually the only, I found this out after I was arrested.
00:22:00.000San Bernardin County is the last remaining county in California, to my knowledge, where you can, on allegations alone, hold people on allegations of child sexual abuse alone without any form of evidence.
00:22:17.000And they can stack charges and keep bail artificially high.
00:23:05.000I was just reading about a politician in Britain who had a much worse case, like terabyte and terabyte of kiddie porn that they found.
00:23:12.000And I think it's getting away with like 10 months or something.
00:23:17.000There are cases inside this county where people have been arrested who've had actual tangible evidence and had inside this county like terabytes of child porn, stuff like that, and had bail of like $100,000.
00:23:35.000So this is a very like a political case.
00:23:38.000Keep in mind, I was arrested during that whole Stormy Daniels thing.
00:23:44.000They told the press there was a treasure trove of evidence without even having looked into the hard drives.
00:23:51.000They basically quick claimed my daughter to my ex, gave him custody, gave him restraining orders against me and my husband.
00:24:02.000And once, you know, when they mess up on a case, what they'll do is instead of admitting that they were in the wrong, what they'll do is instead hold people for long terms, hoping that they will eventually tire out being held in jail and push them to plead out on low charges rather than admit they're wrong.
00:24:22.000San Bernardino County has a 98% conviction rate, which is statistically pretty much impossible.
00:24:29.000And it's because they're basically what they do is they wear people out.
00:24:32.000I've seen it happen here where people were truly innocent and they were held for four or five, six years on cases.
00:24:38.000And so eventually they tire out and they want to go back to life and they'll plead out on charges that they really didn't do just because they want to go home.
00:24:45.000And then they'll end up with time served.
00:24:48.000Yeah, they'll get time served or they'll take a misdemeanor charge after four or five years.
00:25:26.000I have a 30-square-foot cell that is all my own at wonderful Central Detention Resort and Spa.
00:25:34.000And a lot of times I get up at 4.30 in the morning, which is when they wake us up for breakfast, chow one, which we at least are served in our cell right now because of the pandemic, which usually consists of bread and peanut butter.
00:29:58.000And then after that, you know, whatever's going on for the day, our tier schedule varies.
00:30:04.000So some days we're out in the afternoon, some days we're out in the morning.
00:30:08.000So whenever they let us out, it's when they let us out.
00:30:10.000And when you say let out, you don't mean running around in a field picking days out.
00:30:15.000When I say let out, I mean they open my cell door.
00:30:18.000And so out consists of a hallway that's in front of my cell door that runs the length of all the cells and encompasses that hallway where our two phones, our showers are.
00:30:31.000And then we have a little common day room.
00:30:34.000So there's two hallways that have our cells and have, so it has the east side and the west side.
00:30:40.000And then we have our common day room area.
00:30:42.000And that's where we have our water cigot.
00:30:44.000And we have some tables that if we want to sit down and play chess or whatever.
00:33:02.000No, but PC charges, you know, usually they're kid cases.
00:33:08.000So it might involve the death of a child.
00:33:10.000It might involve something to do with children.
00:33:14.000It might involve some of them, you know, it could be that they're related to a cop.
00:33:20.000It might involve killing cop, might involve something like that.
00:33:25.000Or it might involve, you know, like over here, not so much.
00:33:28.000I'm trying to think of, but usually PCs are usually related to a child or related to something with cops.
00:33:35.000The Mac scrolls, they're usually just high point scrolls that either have gang connections or they're girls who've been to prison multiple times.
00:33:55.000No, but like let's say like GTA, multiple drug busts, you know, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, you know, might have gotten involved, you know, assault, multiple assault charges, stuff like that.
00:34:57.000Like right now, so it's actually we're in a pretty good spot because the girls up in prison, we're told the prisoners have it really bad because everybody's stuck in their rooms.
00:35:06.000Usually they're allowed to move about their facilities, but everybody's in lockdown.
00:35:12.000So usually prisoners live eight to a room and they're allowed to move around.
00:35:18.000Like they have classes or whatever they're doing, jobs, stuff like that.
00:35:24.000But right now, everybody's stuck inside their room.
00:35:29.000Upstairs here, their dormitory, and they kind of have everything they need in their room.
00:35:34.000They're usually, the doors are open for like six hours a day.
00:35:55.000So when you get back in and if you're not allowed out again and say you've got another five hours before you're going to get tired, what are you doing now?
00:36:47.000If you haven't read the discourses, you know, if you look at society right now, everything makes sense because we're in anarchy, but anarchy follows democracy, right?
00:36:58.000So everybody talks about how America is a republic.
00:37:02.000But, you know, Machiavelli talks about this and he's really clear.
00:37:05.000A republic is the merger of a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a democracy.
00:37:59.000And I think people don't like to talk about it in those terms because when the American Republic was formed, we didn't like to think about the president as a king and Congress as an oligarch.
00:38:13.000The problem is when we went to universal suffrage, when we started allowing people to vote who do not have a pecuniary interest in this government, basically when you have non-taxpayers voting, you start to have a democracy.
00:39:10.000If you read Machiavelli's The Discourses, which I just read in my fucking jail cell, then all of a sudden everything that's happening right now makes sense.
00:41:56.000Yeah, like, you know, I fucked hundreds of chicks, and what did I gain from that?
00:42:02.000It's like partying, you know, you do tons of Coke and pot and mushrooms and acid, and then you drink bottles and bottles of booze and fucking a million beers.
00:46:40.000Okay, so that's not a very good letter at all.
00:46:42.000What was the letter I was looking for?
00:46:48.000Dear Gavin, how can Ryan work as a co-host and producer of a political humor internet talk show and deliberately avoid following politics outside of his 70 minutes on the show each day?
00:46:58.000It would be like the commentators at the UFC just showing up for work and doing it all impromptu.
00:47:38.000Some chick was trying to arrest someone, and the guy just grabbed her and put her in the headlock, and then those five teenagers had to go in and save her.
00:47:44.000In other words, she's useless and shouldn't be doing anything.
00:47:52.000Hey, Gavin, how much of being in a relationship is being your true self, and how much of it is trying to fulfill your woman's needs?
00:47:58.000For example, in my current relationship, my girlfriend instigates everything.
00:48:01.000She always texts first, asks me when I'm free, etc.
00:48:05.000Everything we do is on my terms, and she clears her schedule for me.
00:48:09.000She's a little needy, but it feels great to finally not be doing the dude chasing and be a chill dude.
00:48:14.000Should this game, where she's chasing me, continue for the entire relationship?
00:48:19.000Sometimes I have the urge to text her, but I don't want her to gain this illusional advantage.
00:48:24.000I feel as if too much advice from Patrice O'Neill has fucked me over because everything I do in my relationship is calculated and it's working, but I'm not giving her my complete self.
00:48:33.000Do you still calculate what moves you'll do with your wife not to turn her off?
00:49:51.000You've been married for like 40 years and you're still never giving them the upper hand.
00:49:57.000Now, that doesn't mean you can never relax.
00:50:00.000Once things are established, like you're going out to dinner, you can basically be yourself, sort of, but it's like being a corrections officer, actually.
00:50:12.000You can talk to the inmates and shit, but they have to always know that you call the shots and you can lock them up at any given time.
00:50:19.000And if they get too lippy, you've got to put them back in line.
00:50:22.000And with your wife, or your girlfriend, if she starts talking back and being a snarky bitch, you have to say, whoa, whoa, watch your tone.
00:52:59.000And if you feel uncomfortable with defending someone before they've had a trial and giving them the benefit of the doubt, then you're making a big mistake.
00:53:11.000You have to, That's really the secret to being a grown-up is allowing yourself to be uncomfortable, to confront people and to make uncomfortable decisions no matter what.