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REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Carl "Booger" Townley, Tony Gerbine, & Andres "Dre" Severino

REAL ONES with Jon Bernthal

Jon Bernthal

Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Carl Townley is a retired Caddo Parish Lieutenant. Tony Gerbine worked with Carl on a multi-agency narcotics task force. Jon met Carl over a decade ago while researching and shooting a film in Shreveport, LA - Carl introduced Jon to Tony during their friendship and the three have remained close friends. They are joined by previous Real Ones guest Dre Severino, a Baltimore Police officer.  Follow JON and REAL ONES: Jon Bernthal YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/realoneswithjonbernthal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonnybernthal/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/jonnybernthal?lang=en REAL ONES Instagram: https://instagram.com/realones_podcast?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= Tik Tok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTdbr85av/

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0:00.0

People didn't want to sell you drugs since you were too scary look, but yeah, that's how I got the name

0:04.5

Goes there from the revenge of the nerds in it

0:06.7

But when you live and play the undercover, you're playing a bad guy, you know, especially when you're living

0:11.0

I mean, I'd spend hours or days, you know, all in each year live and you know, you kind of get that mentality

0:17.2

I don't shit, and I got a member on the podium, shit

0:31.0

Look, man, I appreciate y'all being here today

0:34.0

You know, look, I think we're at a time. I'm not going to I'm not going to try to, you know, pontificate on this

0:39.6

But we're at a I think incredibly complicated time right now for law enforcement in this country

0:45.4

And it's a big reason why I think I sit forward to try to even do this

0:50.1

You know, after what happened with with George Floyd and like the entire nation was sort of like focused on this

0:56.9

You know, I found myself my cousin had just died from COVID. I was up in the, you know, where in my home where I live, you know, in the country

1:03.2

And you know, I saw all these people sort of marching in this movement against, you know, what those officers did that day and you know, to be honest

1:10.6

Which you, you know, that like that really resonated with me like I thought like what that guy did was was really wrong

1:16.1

But then I put on the TV and I saw people

1:19.9

You know, throwing bottles at police officers and throwing things at police officers and that like killed because I know every single one of those

1:26.7

People is a father, a husband, a brother, you know, a son, you know, a sister and

1:34.3

You know, I just felt that, you know, in that moment right there, you know, why can't I be both why can't I stay with that guy was wrong

1:42.4

But also be extraordinarily pro law enforcement understand the necessity of police officer understand the the pressure that the police are under and

1:50.4

Understand, you know, how unbelievably misguided it would be to let the actions of a few

1:57.2

Take down this institution that where I think people are taking, you know, perhaps the most

2:02.6

Important walk by putting on a uniform every single day and going out and keeping us safe

2:07.1

I'll stop talking in a second, but I've been enormously blessed. I think in in my career for for a whole host of reasons

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