Schools, Cover-Ups, and the Epstein Files | Rich Hy | Ep. 438

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🗓️ 23 March 2026

⏱️ 168 minutes

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Rich Hy is a police detective in the Special Victims Unit in Buffalo, New York, an Army Reserve drill sergeant, and the creator behind Angry Cops, a YouTube channel with over 1.5 million subscribers built over a decade of consistent work. He's a combat veteran with a civil affairs background, multiple deployments, and 21 years of combined service. He's also expecting his first kid.

We pick up where we left off the last time Rich was on. The Buffalo schools investigation he blew open landed with an outside law firm, and the results were exactly what you'd expect when the DA's office won't share files, the police department hides behind juvenile protections that don't apply, and evidence gets conveniently deleted. They found systemic issues. Nobody got held accountable. A principal refused a subpoena. A school withheld camera footage showing a second child in an attempted abduction. The investigation acknowledged the problems Rich raised and then did nothing about the people responsible.

We get into the Epstein files and why most people are reading them wrong. Rich breaks down the difference between investigative documents and verified evidence. We talk Malibu Fitness, Tim Kennedy, and what it looks like when you own a mistake versus when you try to talk your way around one. Rich walks through a case he caught involving a blind refugee found dead in Buffalo — what the media reported versus what actually happened. We cover ICE operations, the Minnesota shooting, why the how matters more than the what in enforcement, and what happens when politicians throw their own people into the meat grinder hoping for a bad headline. Then we get into taxation, the Revolutionary War starting over a one and a half percent tax, property taxes in New York, the death tax, drill sergeant stories, peptides, Iran, and Rich's new podcast Overserved.

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0:00.0	Okay, got the red smoke.
0:02.5	Gun runs, north and south, west of the smoke.
0:06.9	West of the smoke.
0:08.6	Okay, copy, west of the smoke.
0:10.7	I'm looking at danger close now.
0:13.1	I'm all winter, baby.
0:14.0	Give it to me.
0:14.5	I need it.
0:15.5	You're cleared hot.
0:16.7	Company, cleared hot.
0:18.9	And I feel like everybody in their policing career, of which I have zero seconds whatsoever,
0:23.3	should aim to be a jump out boy at some time.
0:25.3	So you've got enough to talk on the internet about policing then.
0:27.8	More than enough.
0:28.4	I do.
0:29.0	Yeah.
0:30.0	As a blank and then tell me what I should do about my job.
0:33.8	What are your thoughts on the policing you see on the internet these days?
0:36.9	You know, I actually just recorded a video. Are we starting? Is this going on now? Okay, cool. Ever since we've been making fun of Michael in a close-up on his eyeball, smart, as we should. That's a good way to kick off the show. Ridicule the editor? There's like, editor? That's not a sign role. You're not even an editor? No. That's just how we kick off every show. What would you, what would your role be? He has the little buttons that he pushes for the camera switching. Professional button pitch. So he does that. He used to, it started, I would record an entire episode multi-camera. I would have to go back and watch my own conversation and cut the cameras. Those are fun, isn't it? Watching yourself, talk about yourself. It's horrible. It's, I love me some me. I tell you what, I sit down with popcorn and watch it two or three times in a row. Then I made Michael start doing that. That's how he began. And now the biggest benefit, other than he can look things up in real time and completely correct me when I talk out of my ass, which is 72% of the time anyway. Jamie Light. Yeah. He does the switching. And so at the end of the episode, you're actually ready to go. You don't have to go back and spend any other time. Yes, a little box he's got with the buttons. If we like look to that camera, then look to that camera, then look to that camera, he would have to jump to each one.
1:45.8	I'm not that good.
1:46.7	Damn, I was look to that camera.
1:44.2	He would have to jump to each one. I'm not that good. Damnly. I was going to say exactly those words, but he knows to be honest. We're teaching him about honesty as if you were a child. Okay. Yeah. A lot of people could learn some honesty talk. Malibu Fitness. You follow the man? Bro, what a fucking heartbreak.
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