May 5, 2026

Episode One | Sneakers to Shackles: The Takedown of Ricky Foster

Episode One | Sneakers to Shackles: The Takedown of Ricky Foster
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Season 1

From the hype-filled streets of sneaker culture comes one of the most bizarre true stories of the year: the rise and explosive fall of Ricky Foster, the man at the center of the viral documentary series The Devil Wears Dunks. Ricky Foster, a Denham Springs, Louisiana local, burst onto the scene as a supposed high-rolling investor and rare Nike collector.
He dazzled sneaker stores, collectors, and enthusiasts with tales of private jets, luxury homes, multi-million-dollar deals, and insider access to ultra-rare Dunks and Nike samples. It all sounded too good to be true… because it was. What started as a routine sneaker transaction quickly unraveled into a web of lies, manipulation, broken families, and shattered trust. In this episode,
Jim Chapman dives into what motivated Jeremy Green, the CEO of ECCO to expose Ricky Foster and how that quest led to an investigation so shocking, it rocked a community and led to arrests including SA, Extortion and Crimes against nature.

#Jeremygreene #rickyfoster #devilwearsdunks #podcast #exposed

Timestamps
04:00 Who Is Jeremy Greene
07:00 The Sneaker Culture
10:00 Investing Troubles for Ricky
18:15 Something Don’t Smell Right
29:53 Ricky's Deception Unravels
30:30 Pressure Mounts
33:26 Another “Hustle”
43:05 The Shocking Turn

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Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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I am your host, Jim Chapman, and today I am

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bringing you a story that, when I'm done, I can

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assure you this will be one of the most bizarre

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and sickening stories you have ever heard. It's also, for

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sure a story that is closer to home than any

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story I have ever told. I believe it happened right

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here in Denim Springs, Louisiana, and it centers around a

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guy by the name of Ricky Foster. Now, before we

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get into this one, I do have to say some

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legal ease. In this country, you are innocent until proven guilty.

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So everything I'm about to tell you about are allegations

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alleged against Ricky Foster that are public and put out there.

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You can find that. We'll discuss some ways you can

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do that. But as I said, these are all allegations

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at this point. But we'll get into it, and we're

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going to talk about Ricky Foster, who on April first

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of this year, was arrested on ten counts of third

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degree rape, ten counts of extortion, and four counts of

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sexual battery. Now all of this stemmed from an initial investigation,

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if you will, that was launched by a guy named

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Jeremy Green. Jeremy Green is a multi millionaire CEO. He

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actually owns a company called Echo, along with other companies

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that will get into Foster. Ricky Foster attempted to hustle

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him into a deal to gain equity into Echo. This

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piss Jeremy Green off. Jeremy Green then decided I'm going

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to expose this guy for the liar that he is,

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and I'm not only going to do it personally, but

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I'm going to put it out there for the world

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to see. He launches a documentary put it on YouTube,

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initially called The Devilwares Dunks. Now. This documentary it garnered

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millions and millions of views that eventually led to the

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arrest of Foster and others which we're going to get into.

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I'm going to cover it all. I'm going to give

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you the complete story as it stands today and go

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in depth regarding my personal experience with Ricky Foster. And

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this story really starts with Jeremy Green. As I told you,

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he is currently the CEO of Echo. Echo is an

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AI application. It's an app you can download and you

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can take this downloaded app and you can search for

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any movie on God's Green Earth. This completely free app.

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It doesn't cost you anything. It scours streaming services like Hulu, YouTube, Netflix,

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HBO Go, pretty much all of them anywhere, and it'll

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pull up whatever movie you are searching for right there

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through the app. Now, I can remember several years ago,

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I was sitting at home and I was wanting to

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watch Rocky two. I was in the movie for Rocky Too, Man,

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a great movie. I started searching it on Netflix. It

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wasn't there. I then went to another application I had.

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It might have been HBO Go or something. Wasn't there.

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Could not find Rocky Too Well. An application like this,

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it would have took me two seconds to pull it up.

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I took about an hour and then realized I couldn't

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find it anywhere. I even tried like Amazon and all that.

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So a great idea, And this is the type of

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person that Jeremy Green is. He acts on those ideas.

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I just basically thought, man, I wish someone would have

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vent an application that would search this stuff. Some people

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have the idea, some people follow through with the idea.

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He does that, and that's why he has seen the

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success that he's seen now, this application Echo, it's backed

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by people you have heard of, Shack, Kevin, Hard, will Smith,

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among others. And Jeremy Green has one heck of a

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story in his own writing. This all plays a part

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in my story that I'm going to tell you today.

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He was born in Maine. He grew up in the

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foster system, and at the young age of fifteen, he

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was actually sent to juvenile prison. However, Jeremy Green had

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talent and a lot of it in the singing realm.

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So after getting out of juvie, he pursues a music career.

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And back in the day, my Space was like the

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Facebook of the day, it was what Facebook is now.

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He was very big on my Space, so big in fact,

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that he became the top artist on MySpace. Now. This

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attracted a lot of attention from the music industry and

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even more notably a guy I've done a lot of

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episodes on in the past, Seawan Diddy Combs. Seawan Combs

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signs Jeremy Green to a million dollar contract with bad

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Boy Records, and back in those days, that's like two

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point five million these days. But what should have been

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that big break for Jeremy Green was not at all

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what it was cracked up to be. Why well, not

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for lack of talent, but for Diddy being well, Diddy

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the dude was a freak even in those days. So

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Jeremy talked about what happened on a podcast called Simplistic

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and you're not gonna believe this story. Check out this

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clib No we'll go anywhere alone with.

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Puff called me up to his apartment one night at

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like twelve o'clock at night. Wow, I was a kid.

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I want to talk to you. And I got there

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and he was like, let me talk to the bathroom

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and I was like what, no, way, yeah, yeah, way,

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yeah way. He said, let me talk to you in

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the bathroom and I was like what.

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He's like, I want to show you something. I was like,

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what where's this going?

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And I like and bro, and by the way, he

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opened the door and look what you would imagine he'd

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over there like he had like silk pajamas on, no

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white so yes, yes, but open top fucking hair in

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the middle.

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You know what I mean? What the fuck opened the door?

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He said?

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What some I was like, you call me. He's like, oh,

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let me come in, let me talk to you. I

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thought CASTI was here, but it was like no one

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was there.

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He coman.

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He's like, let me HOI out to you from me

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in the bathroom. I was like, what we go in

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the bathroom. I'm like, I don't know. It's it's a

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huge bathroom, so it's like it's not like a small enclosed,

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like uncomfortable space. Yeah, And Pap was like, let me

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see you singing the mirror. I just thought it was

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so weird. I was like I looked at him. I

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was like, what, well.

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You only sing in the mirror. I just thought it

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was like the weirdest thing, right.

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He's like, yeah, playboy, like you know, I kind of

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even know you go sing these panties off these girls.

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Let me see you sing in the mirror.

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And I was like.

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I'm not doing that, you know. And he was like,

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let me show you, like turn. He's like he looks

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at the manor and I was like, I want to see,

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like spready. He's like, let me see see my face

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see him like into it, And.

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I was like what the fuck?

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Yeah, and then he like tried to rub my shoulders

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for a second and I like kind of slipped, like

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hit him on the slip and he tried to grab me.

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Who try to grop you? Try to grop you, my

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joh and I ran out of the apartment. So he

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assaulted you. That's like, that's like boy, that's technically baseline.

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He tried to grab me. Yeah, I ran out of

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the apartment.

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I never talked to him, a yein I like, I

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like literally went home into the hotel, packed my shit

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up and left to main and like left New York. Wow. Wow,

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And you were still under contract at that time though, right, Yeah,

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I asked you dropped wow and they did.

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Yeah. I pretty much threatened him, So yeah, he got

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the heck out of there. But this didn't stop Jeremy

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Green from seeing massive success not only through Echo but

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through other businesses. As a matter of fact, he has

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a company he owns called Samples, and Samples is located

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on Ventura Boulevard in the Sherman Oaks, California area, a

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retail location, and the primary focus of that retail location

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is sneaker culture. You may wonder what is sneaker culture. Well,

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that's the collecting, sometimes training, and sometimes selling of rare sneakers,

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especially dunks, which are really a legendary line of sneakers

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introduced by Nike way back in nineteen eighty five, and

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they are super collectible these days. And that's really where

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this story kicks off, with Dunks in a specialized shoe

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similar to what we call around here the Crawfish. Now,

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the Crawfish was a twenty fourteen collaboration between Ruckus Skate Shop,

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which is located in Baton Rouge, and Nike, and Ruckus

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basically designed this shoe in collaboration with Nike that symbolized

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South Louisiana's unique Cajun culture. And this shoe is very

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collectible and there are a lot of fakes out there,

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and that's one of the problems with Dunks is a

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lot of people will fake. Those samples are also shoes

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that salespeople get, so they go around and they might

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be pitching a skate shop somewhere and they might have

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four samples of a particular shoe, let's use the Crawfish

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for example, and they'll say this is the shoe, walk

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around in it, try it out, and they're trying to

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sell these shoes to certain skate shops. And these samples

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are very rare. There's only so many of these that

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go around well, they're fated all the time. So I'm

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trying to paint a picture here of what the shoe

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culture is, because when this documentary was released, a lot

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of people didn't understand shoe culture and so they were

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a little confused as to how this relationship formed between

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Ricky Foster and Jeremy Green. So that's kind of a

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version of that. So let's get into how he got

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into that relationship. As I understand it, the crew over

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at Samples, they had a video that they aired kind

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of like a YouTube short, and they were close to

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purchasing what is known as blue Tile Nike shoes, and

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a guy by the name of Ricky Foster. He reaches

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out to Jeremy Green on Instagram and he basically says,

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don't buy those shoes. They're fake. So they start talking

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Jeremy Green and Ricky Foster back and forth, and Ricky

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knew a lot about Nike shoes and dunks and sneakers

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and all those sorts of things, and so he was

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able to kind of carry on a conversation and he's

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laying it on Thick during these conversations. Eventually they set

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up some sort of call and Ricky's on the phone

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with other people, and within twenty minutes of jumping on

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this call, Ricky is saying things like, hey, I'm a millionaire, which, look,

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that may impress the local community that you live in,

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but it's like saying you're breathing oxygen to someone like

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Jeremy Green. Everyone around Jeremy Green, for the most part,

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are millionaires, including himself. And just a fun fact here,

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but I came across a clip a few days ago

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where Jeremy Green was talking to Elon Musk, and Elon

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Musk at the time had offered Jeremy Green two hundred

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million dollars to buy Echo, which Green turned down flat.

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He felt like it was worth more, and he's probably right.

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So Elon is worth what eight hundred billion dollars right now.

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Some people say he's going to be the first trillionaire.

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And the reason I bring that up is if you

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think you're impressing Jeremy Green by saying you're a millionaire,

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you're not. He talks to people that are almost trillionaires,

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probably quite often. So Ricky goes on to tell Jeremy

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that he sold a trucking company and that he partnered

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with his cousin and it was for one hundred and

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fifty million dollars that he got when they sold this

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trucking company. Now, I'm gonna neglect to say a lot

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of the names that were said in the original in

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the original Devilwares Dunks podcast. And the reason I'm gonna

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do that is, I just don't think it's necessary to

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put people's names out there if they don't need to be.

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There's nothing illegal about that. Unfortunately, when someone like Ricky

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comes along and he has family and things, they become

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public figures, just like Ricky is now a public figure.

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So I'm gonna try to avoid from saying names and

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protect the innocent if you will, as they say on TV.

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But I'll move on. He goes on from there, Ricky

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to say that his cousin they bought this trucking dealership

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initially because his cousin built a chip for NASCAR. He

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went on to say that his cousin sold that chip

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to NASCAR for millions of dollars, and through that boom,

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they partner up. They buy this trucking dealership, and then

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they end up selling it for one hundred and fifty

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million bucks. Made a ton of money, and now he's

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just living his best life, and he's investing in all

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these other companies. And that's when he says, Hey, I

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like what you're doing at Echo, and I want to

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invest in it. Now. Jeremy Green, he knows the game.

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That's why I gave you kind of a setup with

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Jeremy Green. I told you his story before he got

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into Echo, and the reason I did that was I

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wanted you to know this guy's not only business savvy,

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he's super streetsmart. So you're not going to pull the

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wool over his eyes easily. But Ricky he was persistent.

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And look, I'm speaking from experience here and I'll get

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into that later, but what I can tell you now

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is that Ricky can be convincing. And he makes this

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offer to Jeremy. He tells him, look, I'm willing to

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drop like twelve million dollars to invest money to buy Echo.

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Then up that at another point to fifteen million dollars.

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Now that is serious money, and certainly this gets Jeremy

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Green's attention. So let me just break down how this

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works in the real world. When you're dealing with companies

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like Echo or really any multimillion dollar company. It's not

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like investing in your brother in law's long care business.

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These cats right here, they're gonna do some serious due diligence.

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They are gonna look into your background, your finances, your

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overall history. They're probably gonna do a deep dive into

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your social media. Why because a major company is not

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gonna partner with someone who could potentially throw shade all

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over that company later on in life because they didn't

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know something about that person. Partnering with the wrong person

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can literally shut your business down if you're not careful.

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So companies like Echo they're very cautious about that. Now, Ricky,

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one thing that he was good at was laying on

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and then covering his bases when it came to pulling

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a hustle on someone. He would go to so many lengths,

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y'all that if you are on the other side of that,

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you would be thinking, this guy has got to be

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telling me the truth, because no one would go to

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that length and be bullshitting you, no one. He would

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do things early on in this deal with Echo like

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speak to them on FaceTime while standing in front of

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his quote, twenty million dollar mansion, and then he would say, oh,

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check out my cars, and he would be on FaceTime

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and he would pan that camera and you would see

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exotic cars sitting everywhere, just so many things that you

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would have to go to extremes to fake. So during

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this deal process, Echo, they're doing everything correctly. They're checking

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Ricky's oil if you will, and Ricky is producing everything

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you could expect that he would produce, as far as

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paperwork if he were telling the truth. The house, the cars,

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everything seemed completely legit. So time comes for the rubber

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to meet the road and Ricky says, look, I'm loading

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up the private jet and me and my girlfriend are

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coming with a bag full of money, and we're going

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to get this deal closed. So the boys for Echo,

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they do get the call and his girlfriend, Melissa, she

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was sick. Oh, big surprise the day he was supposed

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to leave. Fever and all that. He says, so he

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can't fly, so we're gonna have to reschedule it. And

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the boys at Echo, especially Jeremy Green, they're like, WT,

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I get it, I get it, your girlfriend sick, but

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you're gonna let that stop you from making a fifteen

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million dollars deal. And that became like a huge issue,

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and from there things really seem off when Ricky starts

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showing them the house again on FaceTime. Now, let's talk

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about intuition real quick. That's something we all have. Some

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people listen to it, some people don't. What I have

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found is that most of your ultra successful people almost

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always listen when something inside of them is telling them

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something is not right. And man, that intuition must have

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been pumping with Jeremy Green because he gets a genius idea.

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While Ricky is painting through his twenty million dollar mansion

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on FaceTime, the front of it, Jeremy Green, he screenshots it.

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He then takes that screenshot and he sends it to

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a realtor friend of his, who just also happens to

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be Josh Altman. Now that's the same Josh Altman who

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is the star of the Bravo TV show Million Dollar Listing.

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And guess what. Guess what they find out within like

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hours of that Ricky Foster's twenty million dollar mansion it's

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actually a verbo. It's a rental like an Airbnb. Holy smokes.

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It's at this point Jeremy Green realizes he is being hustled. Now,

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at this point, most people, like the vast majority of people,

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they would be backing off of this thing. They just

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wouldn't answer Ricky's calls or messages, and likely they would

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just chalk this up to a learning experien And honestly,

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that is how these hustlers like Ricky Foster get away

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with it so much. But not these guys, and not

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Jeremy Green. You mess with the wrong dude. And Ricky

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Foster wasted Jeremy Green's time and a significant portion of it.

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And when you're Jeremy Green and you're worth millions and

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millions of dollars, you didn't only waste his time, you

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wasted his money. And he don't play. He was pissed.

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So Jeremy calls Ricky Foster himself and he confronts Ricky

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on this house be us. And Ricky initially sticks to

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his guns and he says, oh, I do own that house.

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Jeremy Green is basically telling him, look, we have done

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some due diligence and we've seen the deed and you

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do not in this house. And Ricky realizes that he

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was caught and he starts crying. Basically, he gets his

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girlfriend Melissa on the phone and she springs this story

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about how they are under a gag order and they

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can't speak about why they can't tell him their names

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are not on aded, but they really do own the property.

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There's just all this shit going on behind the scenes

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that they can't talk about. But Jeremy Green knows what's up.

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And after some coaxing him, telling Ricky, look, you gotta

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tell us what's going on, Ricky says, all right, I'm

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gonna be honest with you. I'm an FBI protective custody

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And the boys at Echo are like, for what, and

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he says, well, I testified against a Louisiana senator in

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a corruption case. And of course I'm paraphrasing here, but

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he brings up this corruption case and he says his

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ex wife was trying to pay off these judges all

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over the state of Louisiana because they were going through

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this messy divorce. Just the most insane line of bullshit

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you would ever hear in your life. Say, look, long

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story short, Jeremy Green buys none of that, And honestly,

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the fact that he would not come clean that just

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pissed Jeremy off more so. Now it's a vendetta of

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sorts for Jeremy and he starts calling every single person

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that knew Ricky Foster, and I'm talking everybody from family

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to friends that he could get in touch with. They

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managed to get in touch with Ricky's son. Now, I

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didn't know Ricky son personally, but I saw him a

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lot of times. My children went to the same high

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school that Ricky Foster's kids went to, and I would

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see his son as son was on the football team,

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and my three kids were in the band, and I

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would always go to the football games and I would

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see him there as he was walking through or as

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he was talking to Ricky Foster, and he appeared to

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be a very well rounded kid. Well, Jeremy Green calls

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Ricky's son and he asked him about everything that Ricky

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had told him. He said, Man, your dad's telling us

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he's an FBI custody Just every lie under the son

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that Ricky Foster had told Jeremy Green and his own

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son basically and not so many words. Said, Look, my

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dad is pretty much full of it, and he's been

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full of shit his whole life. He then tells the

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boys for Maco a story. He tells them his dad

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calls him and he says, hey, I need your help.

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With this trucking dealership in Florida, which, y'all, there was

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a trucking dealership. That was one of the things Ricky,

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I guess, decided to tell the truth about. One did exist.

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There's a lot of fabrication with it, but one certainly existed.

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His kid goes up there to help his dad, Ricky

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with this trucking dealership. He's gonna do like title workshit

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like that. Now, at the time, I'm not exactly sure

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how old he was, but I believe he was the

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same age as my son at that time, so maybe

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twenty something like that, maybe even a little bit younger.

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But he goes up there and he only stays a

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total of two weeks. And this is in Tampa, Florida.

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Why did he only stay two weeks. Well, he goes

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on to tell the boys at Echo that while he's there,

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he goes bar hopping one night with his dad. One

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of the things you want to do with your dad

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right now. In this home which is now determined to

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be a verbo, Ricky lived with his girlfriend and his

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girlfriend's daughter, which according to his son, was sixteen or

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seventeen at that time. So they go bar hopping and

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this guy goes up to Ricky's son inside of the

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bar and he says, hey, man, what's up with your dad?

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Why is he in the parking lot making out with

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his daughter? And he went on to say that was

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not the first time he had heard this either. He

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also told about a time where he was working at

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a bar himself the sun somewhere in Louisiana, I'm assuming,

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and people would walk up to him and basically report

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that his dad is making out with this underage girl.

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And he said, I know she was seventeen at the

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time and not eighteen because we had to sneak her

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into the bar. She couldn't just walk through the front

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door because she wasn't old enough. Now, how humiliating was

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that for this kid? This was happening multiple times according

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to this kid. Then it gets shockingly worse. He said

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his dad also told him at one point that his girlfriend,

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Ricky's girlfriend, wanted to have sex with his son. Ricky

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tells his son this. He then pulls out his phone

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and he starts kind of like flipping through the pictures

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and showing his own son new pics of his girlfriend Melissa, allegedly.

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I mean, how sick is that? So at this point,

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this whole investigation Echo launched just took a dramatic turn.

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And the boys at Echo, they really at this point

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felt like, look, we have got to get to the

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bottom of this because there's some seriously criminal shit going

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on here. It is not just Ricky being a liar

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and we're wanting to expose him personally. There may be

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some rape going on here and some other things. So

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it lit a fire under Jeremy Green so bad that

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he will wanted to expose everything about Ricky and he

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was not gonna stop until he did that. So the

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boys at Echo dig deeper, and they speak with a

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lot of friends, one of which, and when I say friends,

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I mean friends of Ricky's girlfriend's daughter. And one of

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those friends who was friends with his girlfriend's daughter, she

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would confirm Ricky snapchatting, for example, back and forth with

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his girlfriend's daughter for hours on end every freaking day.

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And that's not normal, y'all, by anyone's standard, for a

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man in his mental late forties to snapchat a seventeen

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year old or sixteen year old girl, even a eighteen

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year old or nineteen year old, I think it's not normal,

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But certainly a minor. Now, it's important to mention that

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all of these phone conversations, everything during this investigation, they're

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being recorded, and this is all going to be a

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part of a YouTube documentary called The Devil Wears Dunks. Now,

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more on that in a bit. But Resa shired Echo

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has evidence to back up everything they're saying, and that's important.

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Through friends of the daughter of Ricky's girlfriend, Jeremy is

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also told that the daughter actually was sleeping in the

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same bed with her mother and Ricky. And when Jeremy

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hears this, he can't believe it. I mean, it's shocking,

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to say the least. This sounds like a bad movie

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right now. This same friend also said Melissa, Ricky's girlfriend,

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had slept with someone her age, which when I say

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her age, seventeen eighteen years old, somewhere around there a

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young boy that age. Now that is her story. Obviously

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I have no direct knowledge, but it sure seems like

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Ricky and his girlfriend have the same sick kinks going on,

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if nothing else. So during this time the boys at Echo,

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they do speak to Ricky several more times. Now, in

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one conversation, Ricky fully admits to Line. He says he

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just wanted to be known as the man basically and

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that he was sorry and basically trying to manipulate these

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guys into feeling sorry for him. They asked him about

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his relationship with his girlfriend's daughter. They're like, man, we

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talked to all these friends of hers and they're saying,

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y'all got something going on. Even your own son is

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telling us you sleep in the bed with the with

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the girlfriend's daughter and the girlfriend and he fully denies that,

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as you would expect he would do. Jim, did you

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see what happened in Texas today? Wait before you tell

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me that, let me tell you what happened in New York.

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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana. You know what, we should

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do a podcast about it, And with that we did.

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463
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464
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465
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466
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simply by searching Crime War Weekly or clicking the link

467
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in the description of this podcast. But these guys dang

468
00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:49.799
backing down and Ricky, he's feeling pressure and you can

469
00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:54.480
tell it in his voice during these phone conversations. Now,

470
00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:58.559
all of this, y'all, is a result of Ricky Foster

471
00:30:59.359 --> 00:31:02.799
messing with the dude. Keep that in mind. Had he

472
00:31:02.920 --> 00:31:07.319
not messed with Jeremy Green and Echo and Jeremy Green

473
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.920
not being the person that he was, none of this

474
00:31:11.160 --> 00:31:14.720
would be public right now in my view. Now, any

475
00:31:14.839 --> 00:31:19.200
psychologist is going to tell you that when a narcissist,

476
00:31:19.359 --> 00:31:24.079
a master manipulator feels pressure, they are going to first

477
00:31:24.119 --> 00:31:27.319
try to make you feel sorry for them, and if

478
00:31:27.480 --> 00:31:30.559
that doesn't work, the next step is they are going

479
00:31:30.640 --> 00:31:33.839
to try to scare you into shutting up. Now, Ricky,

480
00:31:34.359 --> 00:31:37.400
he's not dominant. Well he may be domenough, actually, but

481
00:31:37.960 --> 00:31:42.279
let's just say he knew that physically threatening Jeremy Green

482
00:31:42.519 --> 00:31:46.039
would go absolutely nowhere and that likely he would just

483
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:48.480
end up with a good old fashioned ass weapon. So

484
00:31:48.519 --> 00:31:53.720
he went to the next tactic these narcissists use, and

485
00:31:53.759 --> 00:31:56.880
in one of those phone conversations with the boys at Echo,

486
00:31:57.000 --> 00:32:00.720
he actually tells them quote a love you dog. I

487
00:32:00.799 --> 00:32:03.160
just can't handle this pressure, but I love you dog,

488
00:32:03.279 --> 00:32:05.799
and he hangs up the phone in an effort to

489
00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:11.000
make them think he was going to off himself. Now,

490
00:32:11.640 --> 00:32:15.680
this actually scared him a little bit, because you never

491
00:32:15.799 --> 00:32:20.359
truly know what someone is capable of doing or what

492
00:32:20.400 --> 00:32:23.960
they will do when they're under that type of pressure.

493
00:32:24.119 --> 00:32:28.359
Truth be told, they were more concerned about Ricky taking

494
00:32:28.359 --> 00:32:31.839
out his girlfriend and his girlfriend's daughter than anything else.

495
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:35.279
But they do what you should do in that situation,

496
00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:38.680
and that is they contact the Denim Springs Police and

497
00:32:38.720 --> 00:32:41.559
they say, hey, we need a welfare check. This guy

498
00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.440
did not sound right, he hung up on us whatever,

499
00:32:44.960 --> 00:32:48.200
And police go over there and they conduct a welfare

500
00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:52.400
check on Ricky Foster's house. Now, long story showing on

501
00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:55.680
that one Ricky does nothing. And it's just what I

502
00:32:55.799 --> 00:32:59.640
told you. These type of people do that to scare

503
00:32:59.759 --> 00:33:03.400
you into backing off. It was Ricky's hope. I'm sure,

504
00:33:03.759 --> 00:33:07.480
and I'm speculating here, but I'm sure someone that thinks

505
00:33:07.599 --> 00:33:10.400
like him is thinking, well, if I scare them into

506
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:13.319
thinking they're pressure in me so much, I'm gonna kill myself,

507
00:33:13.599 --> 00:33:16.319
that may back off. Well they didn't. So I got

508
00:33:16.440 --> 00:33:19.519
just one more crazy story that I'm gonna tell you

509
00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:23.559
on this podcast today, and this is one that if

510
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:27.359
you watch the documentary this story was not in it.

511
00:33:27.400 --> 00:33:31.920
But unless you saw this person's Facebook post, you're not

512
00:33:32.079 --> 00:33:35.599
familiar with this particular story, and it centers around a

513
00:33:35.680 --> 00:33:39.480
guy by the name of Brandon Browning. Now, if you're

514
00:33:39.519 --> 00:33:43.119
from Livingston Parish, you were at the very least familiar

515
00:33:43.279 --> 00:33:46.759
with the name. Brandon was a sheriff's deputy here in

516
00:33:46.839 --> 00:33:50.119
Livingston Parish. I think when he left he was a lieutenant,

517
00:33:50.359 --> 00:33:53.680
so high ranking in the department. He went on to

518
00:33:54.079 --> 00:33:57.200
real estate for a while, made a name for himself there,

519
00:33:57.720 --> 00:33:59.880
working with his wife build a heck of a real

520
00:34:00.160 --> 00:34:03.680
estate business. And then he went to work for parish government,

521
00:34:03.759 --> 00:34:07.680
and he served as the director of public Relations and

522
00:34:07.720 --> 00:34:11.199
the deputy Chief Administrator, And on top of that, he

523
00:34:11.280 --> 00:34:13.880
even had a podcast at one point going on for

524
00:34:13.960 --> 00:34:17.079
several years. So I say that to say this, he's

525
00:34:17.159 --> 00:34:21.320
far from stupid. In my conversations with Brandon over the years,

526
00:34:21.480 --> 00:34:24.559
I never took him as someone who could have the

527
00:34:24.679 --> 00:34:29.519
wool pulled over their eyes easily or be manipulated easily.

528
00:34:29.679 --> 00:34:34.000
Quite the opposite, actually, so several years ago he tells

529
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.840
me a story about his experience with Ricky Foster. Now

530
00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:40.239
I've never repeated it because I felt like it was

531
00:34:40.320 --> 00:34:42.760
his story to tell, and it's not really my business

532
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.039
to put it out there. But I think it speaks

533
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:49.920
to just how good at fooling people and manipulating people

534
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:56.199
Ricky Foster is, and really how evil this sum bitch is. Now,

535
00:34:56.239 --> 00:35:02.199
shortly after the first few episodes of Devil Dunks was released,

536
00:35:02.840 --> 00:35:06.440
Brandon started talking about it publicly. He actually put out

537
00:35:06.840 --> 00:35:11.000
a post on Facebook. So I'm gonna read that post

538
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:15.639
to you verbatim, just how it was written on March

539
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.119
fourteenth of this year. You're not gonna believe this, So

540
00:35:19.199 --> 00:35:23.039
it starts. I've never told this story publicly before. Part

541
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.840
of the reason is it sounds so far fetched that

542
00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:29.519
I figure people would not believe it. The other part

543
00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:32.360
is that it's a bit embarrassing to admit I put

544
00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:36.079
myself in my family in this situation. But here goes.

545
00:35:36.719 --> 00:35:40.400
This is the very short version, even though it's still

546
00:35:40.800 --> 00:35:43.400
a long one. Several years ago, I had a podcast

547
00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:47.000
called The Livingston Parish Thread. One of the main purposes

548
00:35:47.039 --> 00:35:50.920
of it was simply highlighting things happening around the community.

549
00:35:51.119 --> 00:35:54.559
Around that time, a group caught my attention called the

550
00:35:54.679 --> 00:35:57.320
Dads of Denim. These guys would show up at Dinim

551
00:35:57.400 --> 00:36:03.159
Springs football games, flags, flying music, blasting, cooking, big bots, Apostoli,

552
00:36:03.519 --> 00:36:07.480
and Jumbali. They fed family, students and the football team

553
00:36:07.559 --> 00:36:12.119
for free. It wasn't just food either, it was energy, hype, music,

554
00:36:12.199 --> 00:36:17.280
pumping people gathering around Dad's doing something positive for their town.

555
00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:19.559
I respected it, so I went out to one of

556
00:36:19.599 --> 00:36:22.599
the games, met them, had a great time, and eventually

557
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:25.639
recorded a couple of podcast episodes with a few of

558
00:36:25.639 --> 00:36:28.840
the guys about what they were doing. Through that, I

559
00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:32.800
developed somewhat of a friendship with one of them, Ricky Foster.

560
00:36:33.039 --> 00:36:36.000
At the time, I was doing real estate full time,

561
00:36:36.079 --> 00:36:39.039
but I was also thinking about finishing out my law

562
00:36:39.119 --> 00:36:43.199
enforcement career. The real estate market had started shifting anyway,

563
00:36:43.280 --> 00:36:46.079
so I was already in a season figuring out if

564
00:36:46.119 --> 00:36:48.599
I was going to stick with it or pivot. Over time,

565
00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:51.559
Ricky started telling me about a business opportunity that had

566
00:36:51.559 --> 00:36:54.760
come his way. A family friend named Wesley had reached

567
00:36:54.800 --> 00:36:58.960
out to him about buying a semi truck dealership around Tampa, Florida,

568
00:36:59.000 --> 00:37:01.800
and Ricky was fiedired up about it. He would update

569
00:37:01.880 --> 00:37:05.280
me on it pretty regularly. He would tell me about

570
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:08.760
Wesley calling him with the opportunity. He showed me documentation

571
00:37:09.079 --> 00:37:12.639
of the dealership purchase, and he even showed me paperwork

572
00:37:12.719 --> 00:37:16.960
outlining what the ownership percentage was going to be and

573
00:37:17.119 --> 00:37:20.760
what he was expected to make. The numbers were big.

574
00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:24.239
From where I was sitting, it looked legit. It wasn't

575
00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:27.519
just taught. There were documents, details, and what appeared to

576
00:37:27.519 --> 00:37:31.079
be real movement behind it. As things progressed and he

577
00:37:31.119 --> 00:37:35.079
got settled in Florida, the conversation eventually shifted toward me.

578
00:37:35.559 --> 00:37:38.639
Ricky started saying they needed someone to come help lead

579
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:41.719
the sales team and help manage the facility. He told

580
00:37:41.719 --> 00:37:44.760
me he respected my work ethic and that my marketing,

581
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:48.239
communication and sales experience would fit well with what they

582
00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:52.280
were building. Then he told me this salary three hundred

583
00:37:52.519 --> 00:37:56.320
thousand dollars a year, plus a fifty thousand dollars bonus,

584
00:37:56.519 --> 00:37:59.320
just to help ease the stress of relocating and get

585
00:37:59.320 --> 00:38:02.719
the life on. Now, when someone throws a number like

586
00:38:02.840 --> 00:38:05.719
that at you, you don't just brush it off. You

587
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:08.800
stop and you really think about it. At the time,

588
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:12.239
my kids were homeschooled and my wife wasn't working outside

589
00:38:12.280 --> 00:38:15.880
the home, so we started thinking and praying through how

590
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:18.800
something like that could work. I figured maybe I could

591
00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.519
run a place in Florida. The family could come stay

592
00:38:21.599 --> 00:38:24.159
for weeks at a time, and when they weren't there,

593
00:38:24.320 --> 00:38:26.800
I could fly home on the weekends. My wife and

594
00:38:26.840 --> 00:38:30.199
I prayed about it and eventually decided it might be

595
00:38:30.320 --> 00:38:33.440
a risk worth taking. But I'll never forget sitting in

596
00:38:33.519 --> 00:38:36.360
the kitchen table with her two nights before I left

597
00:38:36.639 --> 00:38:40.000
and telling her, I don't know why, but something about

598
00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:43.880
this just doesn't feel right. It was just a gut feeling,

599
00:38:44.039 --> 00:38:48.559
one of those quiet warnings you can't really explain looking back.

600
00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:52.119
It was probably God trying to get my attention. Risk

601
00:38:52.199 --> 00:38:55.639
has a way of arguing with your instincts. It's like

602
00:38:55.719 --> 00:38:58.639
hearing a rattle in the engine of your truck just

603
00:38:58.760 --> 00:39:02.800
before a long drive. You know something might be wrong,

604
00:39:02.920 --> 00:39:06.639
but you also convince yourself it's probably nothing, because turning

605
00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:10.320
around means walking away from where you're trying to go.

606
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:13.440
So I packed up my truck and I drove to Tampa.

607
00:39:13.480 --> 00:39:15.480
When I got there, Ricky told me to meet him

608
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:18.599
at the house the company had purchased. It was a big,

609
00:39:18.679 --> 00:39:21.199
five bedroom home, and he told me he had been

610
00:39:21.320 --> 00:39:25.119
the only one living there, but When I walked inside,

611
00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.760
there was a woman in the house, and I knew

612
00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:31.400
she wasn't his wife. Ricky pulled me aside and told

613
00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:34.400
me he and his wife were getting a divorce and

614
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:38.280
that the woman there was his girlfriend. Later I would

615
00:39:38.360 --> 00:39:41.920
learn that wasn't even true, but right away it created

616
00:39:41.960 --> 00:39:44.559
a problem because I had told my wife the living

617
00:39:44.639 --> 00:39:48.760
situation would just be me and him, and this was

618
00:39:48.840 --> 00:39:52.159
the first red flag. The next morning, we went to

619
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.400
the dealership, and on the way there he told me

620
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:57.960
something else that struck me as odd. He said they

621
00:39:58.000 --> 00:40:01.760
didn't want to upset the employees by bringing in an outsider,

622
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:05.639
so for now I shouldn't mention anything about the job.

623
00:40:06.159 --> 00:40:08.920
We would just tell people I was in town hanging

624
00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:11.960
out with him. It sounded strange, but I tried to

625
00:40:12.000 --> 00:40:14.719
give him the benefit of the doubt. A couple of

626
00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:18.400
nights later, we went to dinner with his business partner, Wesley.

627
00:40:18.639 --> 00:40:21.840
During the dinner, I casually asked a question about the

628
00:40:21.880 --> 00:40:26.239
company health insurance. The moment I said it, Ricky immediately

629
00:40:26.280 --> 00:40:30.480
cut in and changed the subject. It happened so fast

630
00:40:30.719 --> 00:40:33.960
that it stuck with me. Later that night, we went

631
00:40:34.039 --> 00:40:36.480
back to the house and Ricky went to bed, but

632
00:40:36.800 --> 00:40:40.480
something in my gut was bothering me. So I looked

633
00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:43.199
up Wesley on Facebook and I sent him a message,

634
00:40:43.239 --> 00:40:46.679
and I asked a simple question, quote, Hey man, do

635
00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:49.039
you know why I'm here? He wrote back, and he

636
00:40:49.119 --> 00:40:51.559
said that Ricky had told him I was just visiting

637
00:40:51.599 --> 00:40:55.000
and that maybe someday in the future I might come

638
00:40:55.039 --> 00:40:58.639
to work with them. So I asked him another question, quote,

639
00:40:59.159 --> 00:41:01.840
do you know anything about me taking a job here

640
00:41:01.920 --> 00:41:05.920
for three hundred thousand dollars and a fifty thousand dollars

641
00:41:05.920 --> 00:41:09.440
by us? He replied pretty quickly, and he said, no,

642
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:14.239
there's no job here for three hundred thousand dollars. We're

643
00:41:14.280 --> 00:41:18.320
not hiring anyone right now. I remember sitting there staring

644
00:41:18.360 --> 00:41:20.280
at my phone, thinking I had to be in some

645
00:41:20.480 --> 00:41:24.920
kind of twilight zone situation. I shut down my real

646
00:41:25.079 --> 00:41:30.159
estate business, giving business away, set aside the possibility of

647
00:41:30.239 --> 00:41:34.400
going back into law enforcement, and driven across several states

648
00:41:34.760 --> 00:41:40.400
for a job that apparently didn't even exist. So I

649
00:41:40.440 --> 00:41:43.400
did the one thing that made sense. I packed up

650
00:41:43.440 --> 00:41:46.280
my truck that night and drove all the way back

651
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:50.079
home from Tampa. And y'all, that is not a short

652
00:41:50.159 --> 00:41:54.559
drive from where we record out of and where Brandon

653
00:41:54.599 --> 00:41:58.159
Browning is from. You're talking about a thirteen hour or

654
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:01.320
so trup. He goes on to say, long story short,

655
00:42:01.400 --> 00:42:04.880
the whole business deal fell through, and from what I understand,

656
00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:07.960
it was surrendered back to the original owners. It was

657
00:42:08.079 --> 00:42:11.679
all fake. There was never a job. That's part one

658
00:42:11.719 --> 00:42:14.480
of the story. The reason I'm telling it now is

659
00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:17.880
because recently some things have come to light about Ricky

660
00:42:18.280 --> 00:42:22.800
that made men realize the situation probably wasn't nearly as

661
00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:27.039
random as it seemed at the time. Now, that, for me,

662
00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.400
is one of the craziest stories I've ever heard. And

663
00:42:30.480 --> 00:42:36.519
I remember distinctly thinking when Brandon told me this story

664
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:40.920
several years ago, why what do you do that? Where

665
00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:44.760
is the motive? How could he think Brandon was not

666
00:42:44.960 --> 00:42:48.079
going to figure this out? Why would you even put

667
00:42:48.159 --> 00:42:52.280
someone through that? It made absolutely zero sense to me?

668
00:42:52.440 --> 00:42:57.360
Is I'm sure it made zero sense to Brandon. It's evil, honestly,

669
00:42:57.440 --> 00:43:00.360
And the fact is it sums up this song some

670
00:43:00.440 --> 00:43:06.639
bitch's life totally fake, nothing is real. But that is

671
00:43:06.920 --> 00:43:10.920
all about to catch up with Ricky Foster courtesy of

672
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:16.519
the Boys of Echo, a local longtime marshal in a

673
00:43:16.719 --> 00:43:22.440
Livingston Pears, Sheriff's office detective with a knack for solving cases.

674
00:43:22.840 --> 00:43:26.440
If you think your mind is already blown, wait until

675
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:31.880
you here next week's episode. It gets way worse and

676
00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:36.079
way more bizarre. Can't wait to bring you that couple

677
00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:40.000
of announcements before I get out of here today. Shout

678
00:43:40.039 --> 00:43:44.280
out to the states of Louisiana, Texas, in New York

679
00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:49.039
You're my top three listening states this past month. Also,

680
00:43:49.199 --> 00:43:52.280
thank you, thank you, thank you. We have eclipsed one

681
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million downloads in just the past six months on Exposed

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in Folks, we only release this podcast in audio form,

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Patreon supporters. Could not do this, absolutely could not do

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it without the support of each and every one of you,

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And until next time for Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite,

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