Episode Transcript: #831 - Byron Bowers

Man, thank you for having me. My pleasure. What's the latest and the greatest with Byron?

You've been traveling all over the place man. Check your Instagram out.

Oh man, I just got back from the Dominican Republic a few days ago and it was a very

interesting experience. Yeah? Yeah. Like anytime you go somewhere tropical you like, man this place

is beautiful. Then by that third day you be like, man this is this is horrible.

The politics, the way they treat people. Oh yeah. So you see the balance of you know everything,

especially as a you know being from where I'm from and being black and what's going on.

I'm always in exotic places when cops are killing black people. So it pulls you out of the situation

and lets you see how you know fucked up things are for like Haitian people. Well yeah, I mean at

pretty much every third world country deals with all kinds of fucked up shit. Yeah. Like

way worse than we have it here. It puts things into perspective. Like I often think like if

if United States wasn't established just a few hundred years ago, if that didn't happen,

like what would the world be like? Like what would most of the world be like a lot of these

countries that you visit where you deal with insane police corruption? Like I've had friends that have

been pulled over in Mexico and you know the cops basically just straight up tell you like,

do you want to get out of this? Give me some fucking money. Yeah. I think I had a situation like that

coming through TSA, but I didn't realize until they let me go. But they held me for a long time. Where?

In Dominican Republic because I had on a button up shirt that's denim, like the one I'm wearing now.

And they was like, take your jacket off. And I'm pre-check. So when you become pre-check,