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Welcome to the Eric Matex's show. It's the show featuring GoGo the Chip. Nothing like a chip to live in a radio show. Easy there GoGo. GoGo. No. No. GoGo. No.

Now your host Eric Matex's. Wow. That's that's an old intro because as you know, GoGo died earlier this year. Took his own life. Very rare for chimps to do that.

But Todd Wilkeson will he'll he'll just drive you over the edge. I if you listen to my first hour with Robert Leon Davis, his book is running scared. This is a New Orleans cop who became corrupt, got arrested and then

then decides to skip off into the woods of Canada for the rest of his life and survive off the land running from the law. One of the most amazing stories just beyond belief.

We got pretty far in the story, but I said we got to do part two. Hey there. Robert Leon Davis. Welcome back to the program.

Okay. Have good. Have good being back. I still cannot get over your story and I don't want to speed past. I said we got to do part two because this is so rich for people are just tuning in. If you didn't listen to part one with Robert Leon Davis, the book is running scared beyond belief. There's one of these stories I cannot. I can't believe it. It says for 22 years of fugitive, the corrupt cop busted by God. And this doesn't that it doesn't begin to tell the riches of this story.

When we last left you, you were, you had escaped the law, your corrupt cop, you're going to go to Angola prison, you're going to, you know you're going to die and you make a decision to study up and to figure out how to live off the land. Your only hope is to escape into the wild woods of Canada and to live your life out there. So you succeed in doing that as we heard in the last show.

And now you are alone in the woods, the deep woods of Canada. What are you planning to do up there with the rest of your life?

Well, by this time after a few years of living out there, when I came out because I really thought I came out one day and went into town. I guess I had been out of woods there for about two, maybe two, two years, two and a half years straight without seeing anybody doing anything.

You might have play tricks on you know all kind of stuff you're talking to yourself and I begin to have vision problems where I couldn't see that good anymore. I thought I maybe beginning to have a tomb. I don't know why my mind went there, but I said, you know, I'm probably have some kind of brain tumor because I had some studies on some medicines like I said, first aid technique and stuff like that.

And so I came out the woods and it was very surreal coming out of the woods. Now where what part of Canada are you in? Are you still in that same area or did you go north?

I was in my house and about a hundred miles west of Montreal in Gettenham National Forest. And so I come out to the main highway and I walk, I start walking down the highway towards the nearest town trying to get to Montreal.

I was going to say at that point, I don't know what the answer is. What's the answer? Yes, I have to say yes. Otherwise, I would be suspicious. I'm out in the middle of nowhere and I just happened to reach an area where there were some tourists.

So I guess thought maybe this guy is just a hiker, a day hiker. And so I took the ride and for the first time when I got behind, I got in the back of his vehicle for the first time I smelled myself because the plexiglass, you know, I was in a enclosed area.

And it wasn't nothing nice. And I was going to say a few smells you. He knows you're not a day hiker.

Apparently he couldn't smell me, but he gave me a ride to the nearest town and I was able to go to a mission at that time and explain to them that, you know, what I was having. I needed to see a doctor and so forth and so forth.

And this particular, but Montreal, even back then, there's a lot of blacks in Montreal. People probably don't know that because a lot of people from the islands, if they can't like Jamaica.

And Haiti there, if they can't get into the US, that's where they go. I didn't know that I never I would never expect to see Johnny Black people in Montreal. That's interesting. Okay. So you could blend in a little bit.

Well, what I mean is from from Haiti mostly because they share a common language with the French and I forgot about that. Okay. Yeah, that's the key. That's the key. And so therefore I was looked up on as a Haitian and at, you know, study up on some French and knew some French people.

Now that's one thing I had I had known that helped me is that I knew some basic French living in New Orleans and I studied it when I was in Montreal.

So I got along with enough to to be able to have a conversation in it. And so I went to a mission and learned a whole five out that I didn't need. It wasn't a brain tumor, but I needed glasses.

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