Folks, you are listening to an encore presentation of the Eric

Mataksa Show. We only played the greatest stuff for our encore. Here it is.

Hey there folks, welcome back. This is the Eric and Taksa Show. This is the show where I get to have

amazing conversations with amazing guests. One of them is here now. I'm continuing my conversation

with Casey Diaz, he's the author of the Shot Caller, a Latino gangbangers miraculous escape

from a life of violence to a new life in Christ. Casey, the story is crazy, beautiful, amazing,

and it's true. So you're telling me now the guy comes in there to kill you and he can't do it

and you lead him to faith right there. The man with the shank in his hand. Now I would think that

in the prison world they're going to put a hit out on his life and they're going to put somebody

else to kill you. So I mean, what happens that day the next day? Well, for several years, two

years actually there's these are notes that we used to write when we were put a hit or we needed

something to be moved from one prison, yard to another. These, they were called kites. And so I

started to use that system to witness to other gang leaders in there. And shortly after that,

one of the founding members of MS-13 came to Christ through one of those kites and then another

gang leader from a gang in South Central, Sanchez came to Christ. So there was about four or five of us

that started to really witness out there and we were going through the ringer for two years.

But after those two years, over 200 inmates at New Folsom State Prison came to Christ and there

was a subliga celebration that took place in that prison. This is just amazing. I'm amazed I have

not heard this story because this is like, to me, this is national news. If the news were not crazy

and avoiding this kind of stuff. But let me ask you, you talked about hard candy, whatever,

what was what happened? You said that there's a... Well, we would get jumped, you know, we'd be

walking to whatever an appointment or on the yard or to chow. And the next thing you know,

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