Casey Diaz (Encore)
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Casey Diaz recounts his story of how leading a violent gang in Los Angeles led to solitary confinement in California’s toughest prison, and the miraculous encounter that led him to renounce everything and lead youth out of gang life. (Encore Presentation)
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, you are listening to an encore presentation of the Eric |
| 0:04.3 | Mataksa show. We only played the greatest stuff for our encore. Here it is. |
| 0:20.6 | It's I, Eric Mataksa. I am so excited. We have an amazing guest today. An amazing |
| 0:25.9 | miraculous story. Don't leave whatever you're doing because this is one of those stories. I'm |
| 0:32.6 | sitting here in the studio with Casey Diaz. The book is the shot caller, a Latino gangbanger, |
| 0:41.2 | is miraculous escape from a life of violence to a new life in Christ. Casey Diaz, welcome. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you for having me. You have an unbelievable, I mean, life of violence doesn't do justice to your |
| 0:52.5 | story. I mean, it's worse than a lot. I mean, a lot of people have a life of violence. You're |
| 0:57.0 | talking a life of extreme violence. So I want to get your story. Where do we start? Where are we |
| 1:03.7 | like? Where do you, I mean, when did you come to tell the story of coming to America? How old were |
| 1:09.4 | you? I was two years old. Two. All right. So we're not going to get a lot of details. You were two, |
| 1:14.8 | right? Yeah, exactly. But came here from Osabador. Okay. And you came here as an illegal immigrant? |
| 1:20.4 | No, legally. You came as a legal immigrant from Osabador when you were two. When I was two, |
| 1:25.4 | yes. Okay. And we settled in what's called the rampart district of Los Angeles. Yeah. And my |
| 1:31.7 | aunt lived in South Central, LA. So we moved back and forth in the beginning, a stage of me coming |
| 1:38.0 | here. Okay. And you got involved in violence. Extremely young. Tell us this story. I was 11 years old. |
| 1:45.1 | You know, it was at a time where kids were still playing outside baseball and football and a lot |
| 1:53.4 | of outside outdoor activity. But the only element with me was that my my folks with my mom, |
| 2:00.8 | she worked as a seamstress in downtown Los Angeles. So she'd leave at four in the morning and |
| 2:06.9 | then wouldn't come back until around 10, 11 at night. And then my father, who was never working, |
| 2:13.4 | he was always out there and you know, he'd be selling weed out there and your father was selling weed. |
| 2:20.2 | Yeah. Wow. And you know, the drug epidemic in the 80s in Los Angeles had just started. So, |
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