I was not a pullover for the police type of dude in a stolen car. It just didn't. The math didn't math for me. So I would make myself as much of a danger to the community as humanly possible. And I would hit one ways going the wrong way. I would blaze through red lights. You know, most of the time when I'm doing high speed chases, I don't even care about the stolen car. It's like, I need to get off all of this dope.

My guest today is JD Delay.

You've definitely seen this guy on YouTube or TikTok before.

JD is an Oregon boy just like me.

He went in and out of prison for years.

He was a shock caller at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

This guy is real deal, ex-con, so entertaining. And he's here today to tell us about

his experience and everything about prison politics, the real inside baseball stuff that you

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Without further ado, I give you JD Delay right here in The Connect with Johnny Mitchell.

Most of the gangs in the Oregon system, there's either a six-month or a one-year prospect period. And at the end of that, you have to put in work. I didn't wait till the end. You know, I went in with the intention to do some harm while I was there. And I went out to yard, and we all huddled. And I'm like, look at your shoes when I talk to you. Don't look at me. You don't got no business looking at me. Look at the ground. That's when I see lights behind me start to flash. And I didn't even think. I just hit it. I was driving like my life depended on. And then I parked the car, popped out, closed the door, and I started running. and he pulls out a burner, shank, it's like six inches. And he passes it to me. And he goes, here, that's yours. Don't ever leave the cell block without this. He was the reason I made it out of that place alive. J.D., what's up, dog? What's up, Johnny? It's good to be out here with you, man. Thank you. how are you finding l. You know, I grew up in California. I grew up in Santa Rosa.

Um, What's up, dog? What's up, Johnny? It's good to be out here with you, man. Thank you. How are you finding L.A.? You know, I grew up in California. I grew up in Santa Rosa. So, like, there's always California native in my blood. And I love it out here. And the hotel that you put me in, you guys, Johnny doesn't play. Just so you know, this man's the real deal. Thank you. 15th floor, King Corner Suite. Oh, yeah. Right by the Staples Center? Yeah. You're downtown. You walk everywhere. Absolutely. And now you're in South Central. But your basically whole narrative is Oregon. You're an Oregon boy like me. I consider you an Oregon boy. I did time with

literally everybody that looked like you. Yeah. Okay. If you want to know like what my cellmate and

everybody on the yard and at who I sat to eat with, just look at my guest, J.D. Well, you know,

I did, uh, I did prison time in seven different prisons in the state of Oregon. I think it was seven or eight.

It's count them. Let's count them. Okay. So start off at Coffee Creek, which as we know is the intake where they take all the men, but it's also the women's prison.

So, you know, you could be out on your little tiny yard and look over through two fences and there's a bunch of chicks over there flashing you through the fences. That was a fun ride. And then they sent me like, I was in there. I was in county jail and in intake with my co-defendant because we were, we wrote out for each other. You know what I I'm saying we were solid for each other nobody told

no absolutely not it was our like third case together wow um and you were at multnomah in portland

we we we where did you fall was out of Eugene Oregon okay lane county home of Nike home of the ducks

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