First time I was at this small casino. I went in there and it was just almost too easy, I guess.

Tell us about your transition into crime. You said you were doing checks and those types of scams. How did that come about? What's your first one? I give him my ID or whatever, and then he looks at it, reads it. And he goes, man, to stand up. And I'm like, what? for what?

And he puts me in the handcuffs.

He goes, I have no idea.

I just know I'm here to apprehend you.

So you and your dad are in a prison cell together.

What's that conversation even like?

Getting a hold of my attorney. for what? And he puts me in the handcuffs. He goes, I have no idea. I just know I'm here to apprehend you. So you and your dad are in a prison cell together. What's that conversation even like?

Getting a hold of my attorney the next day. And I'm like, he's like, how are you out? He's

tripping too. Like, can I tell him the story? And he goes, well, my advice as your attorney is, you know, go turn yourself in right now.

Tell us about Nevada State Prison.

What's that like?

You would either check in or just get smashed off the line, you know?

He scammed casinos for thousands, got indicted by the FBI,

got released by accident, and served time with his own father. This is James Redda's story. James, welcome to Lockton. Thanks so much for coming on the show today. Thank you very much. Glad to be here. Yeah, I'm glad you reached out to us because we had reached out. I guess you got a new number. So we thought we didn't think the interview was happening. Uh, because some people were like when you could tell they're not coming. Right. When they don't answer the text or the emails. And then we were surprised, but in a good way that you hit us up yesterday that you're coming. Yeah. You know my, it's a long story with the phone number thing, but it got hijacked, basically, and I couldn't get it back. But I remember, I remembered about that. And I was like, oh, my God, that's, you know, that's why I check my emails because I get so many emails that you don't really see them when they come in. Well, I'm glad you checked it. And it worked out because you happened to be in Connecticut for your work. Yes, correct, yep.

You have a really cool job.

Yeah, it's interesting for sure. It's got us up and downs. And you're a tour bus driver, right? Correct, yes, for just music tours, basically. So if anyone needs a tour bus driver, hit you up? Absolutely, absolutely. OnTor Solutions.com. we'll put that in the episode description too they can they can check it out and um yeah where are you

raised where are you from um so Absolutely. OnTor Solutions.com. They can... We'll put that in the episode description too. They can check it out.

Yeah.

Where were you raised?

Where are you from?

So I was born in Lexington, Kentucky, but when I was six months old or whatever,

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