TLPP: 10K Rides into the Night w/ Author Raymond E. Foster

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🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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I talked with author Raymond E. Foster about his new book, Chasing The Surge: Ten Thousand Rides into The American Night, his time as a police officer in the LAPD, the Free Masons, and his 10K rides as an Uber driver. What’s it like to be on the job at the same time as your cop father? What is The Temple Within? And who would be stupid enough to try to steal a cop’s car? (This bad decision lead to one of the three gunfights Raymond’s been in.) Check out my book, That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore: On the Death and Rebirth of Comedy https://amzn.to/3VhFa1r Watch my sketch comedy streaming on Red Coral Universe: https://redcoraluniverse.com/en/series/the-lou-perez-comedy-68501a2fd369683d0f2a2a88?loopData=true&ccId=675bc891f78f658f73eaa46d Rock XX-XY Athletics. You can get 20% off your purchase with promo code LOU20. https://www.xx-xyathletics.com/?sca_ref=7113152.ifIMaKpCG3ZfUHH4 Support me at www.substack.com/@louperez Join my newsletter www.TheLouPerez.com Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/.../the-lou-perez.../id1535032081 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2KAtC7eFS3NHWMZp2UgMVU Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/.../2b7d4d.../the-lou-perez-podcast YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb5trMQQvT077-L1roE0iZyAgT4dD4EtJ Lou Perez is a comedian, producer, and the author of THAT JOKE ISN'T FUNNY ANYMORE: ON THE DEATH AND REBIRTH OF COMEDY. You may have seen him on Gutfeld! , FOX News Primetime, One Nation with Brian Kilmeade, and Open to Debate (with Michael Ian Black). Lou was the Head Writer and Producer of the Webby Award-winning comedy channel We the Internet TV. During his tenure at WTI, Lou made the kind of comedy that gets you put on lists and your words in the Wall Street Journal: “How I Became a ‘Far-Right Radical.’” As a stand-up comedian, Lou has opened for Rob Schneider, Rich Vos, Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and toured the US and Canada with Scott Thompson. Lou has also produced live shows with Colin Quinn, the Icarus Festival, and the Rutherford Comedy Festival. For years, Lou performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (both in NYC and L.A.) in sketch shows with the Hammerkatz and his comedy duo, Greg and Lou. Greg and Lou is best known for its sketch "Wolverine's Claws Suck," which has over 20 million views on YouTube alone. In addition to producing sketch comedy like Comedy Is Murder, performing stand-up across the country, and writing for The Blaze's Align, Lou is on the advisory board of Heresy Press, a FAIR-in-the-arts fellow, and host of the live debate series The Wrong Take and The Lou Perez Podcast (which is part of the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lou Perez podcast on the Lions of Liberty Podcast Network.
0:09.7	I am your host, Luke Perez.
0:11.8	And today I am joined by Raymond E. Foster.
0:15.6	Raymond is an author, a former police officer in the LAPD, and his newest book that just came out in September
0:24.4	is chasing the surge, 10,000 rides into the American Night. And so, spoiler, guys, in addition to being a
0:34.1	police officer, Raymond drove for Uber. So many of my fans can, I don't
0:41.3	if they can relate to the police department part, but they can definitely relate to the Uber
0:45.5	part. So you're, you have a lot of kindred spirits here, I imagine, Raymond. Well, you know,
0:51.0	one of the things that I realized driving an Uber, as an Uber driver, there's lots of dead time.
0:55.5	So one of the things you become a fan of is podcasts, books on tape, but primarily podcasts.
1:01.2	And so when I was looking at the marketing of the book, who am I marketing to?
1:06.1	You know, one of the things is if Uber drivers got the book in their hands and then they talk to their passengers,
1:11.1	who knows how that would work out.
1:13.0	Right.
1:13.7	So.
1:15.1	Yeah.
1:15.8	Or there might be, you know, some kind of like, you know, blips in the universe, too,
1:20.2	where, you know, they're listening to your, you know, to your book and while they're
1:24.8	actually living through something that you're actually going, that you were going through.
1:29.2	But yeah, before we talk about Uber, I'd love to just talk about, you know, your experience as a police officer.
1:38.0	Because what I find is police officers are kind of like professional wrestlers.
1:46.5	And this is the way I mean it, in that every professional wrestler I know, even if they are completely unknown, they were never
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