1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:03,560 Welcome to Vancouver True Crime. I have very special guest Henny 2 00:00:03,560 --> 00:00:05,280 and what's the name of your podcast again? 3 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:08,840 It's called Pregame with Henny. Henny sent me a video of kind of 4 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:10,480 unsettling video. We'll get into it. 5 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:13,440 I thought it'd be great to talk to her about, you know, the 6 00:00:13,440 --> 00:00:16,840 current situation in Vancouver. She's a young woman, she goes 7 00:00:16,840 --> 00:00:19,640 out a lot, you travel a lot. So I thought you'd be able to 8 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:23,080 provide perspective of the environment in Vancouver 9 00:00:23,080 --> 00:00:25,360 compared to places that you travel is a crime. 10 00:00:25,360 --> 00:00:28,160 The same is the same kind of considerations when you go out. 11 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:29,950 So. We're going to talk a little bit 12 00:00:29,950 --> 00:00:33,310 about the general finest safety in Vancouver. 13 00:00:33,510 --> 00:00:36,870 Her experiences, her testimonies of being a young woman in 14 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:40,830 Vancouver and when she travels and and get into her podcast. 15 00:00:40,870 --> 00:00:43,750 And thank you Annie for coming on Vancouver true crime. 16 00:00:43,990 --> 00:00:45,670 Pleasure to have you. Thanks for having me. 17 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:47,390 So I remember you sent me that video. 18 00:00:47,390 --> 00:00:50,310 You were in Burnaby, right? Where I was trying to metro 19 00:00:50,310 --> 00:00:52,110 town, like what point area was that? 20 00:00:52,270 --> 00:00:53,550 Yeah. So there's kind of like. 21 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:56,260 Field outside of Patterson Station. 22 00:00:56,260 --> 00:00:58,660 So it's just one station away from Metrotown. 23 00:00:58,740 --> 00:01:02,700 And yeah, I mean, I guess I decided to lay out on a hot 30 24 00:01:02,700 --> 00:01:05,660 degree kind of day. And yeah, I mean I wasn't really 25 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:07,060 kind of exposed or anything like that. 26 00:01:07,060 --> 00:01:09,860 I really had on high wasted shirts. 27 00:01:09,940 --> 00:01:14,380 I had on like a crock top and I just lay out in the field, you 28 00:01:14,380 --> 00:01:17,180 know, play some music, you know, eat some watermelon, whatever it 29 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:18,340 is and. Chill. 30 00:01:18,340 --> 00:01:22,100 Enjoy yourself out in the park. Yeah, I mean, it's like a rare 31 00:01:22,180 --> 00:01:24,260 hot day in Vancouver. I'm going to take advantage of 32 00:01:24,260 --> 00:01:26,500 it. So I went out for probably what 33 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,260 it was like no more than two hours really. 34 00:01:29,340 --> 00:01:32,860 And someone just decided to randomly approach me. 35 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:35,940 It was in the middle of the day. It was probably like 2:00 PM And 36 00:01:35,940 --> 00:01:38,460 yeah, I mean, he decided to approach me and just ask if, you 37 00:01:38,460 --> 00:01:41,300 know, if he can massage me. He kind of stood over, you know, 38 00:01:41,300 --> 00:01:44,540 wanting to massage me. I mean, I was minding my own 39 00:01:44,580 --> 00:01:46,340 business. It was kind of a busy field. 40 00:01:46,340 --> 00:01:48,860 I mean, people definitely saw that someone approached me, but. 41 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:51,920 I guess I didn't look like I needed help or anything like 42 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,240 that, which I didn't. But it was just a really 43 00:01:54,240 --> 00:01:56,720 uncomfortable situation to be in because he kind of stood over 44 00:01:56,720 --> 00:01:59,680 being, you know, asked me a couple times tries to get my 45 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:02,040 attention. After the third time he asked, 46 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,440 He kept, you know, repeating like ma'am, ma'am. 47 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,880 And so I really turned around. I guess he needed some help or 48 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:08,199 something like that, I don't know. 49 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,440 But it's to, you know, look his way. 50 00:02:11,440 --> 00:02:15,000 I guess he could massage me. I said no, forcefully, I said 51 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,400 no. And then he just, he looks 52 00:02:17,440 --> 00:02:18,920 pretty disappointed, walked away. 53 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:21,280 You know, kind of like strutted off. 54 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:23,640 That's really weird. I mean. 55 00:02:23,640 --> 00:02:27,160 And then I went on to the Vancouver True Crime page. 56 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:30,200 I saw that there was an incident in English today and I, you 57 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:32,960 know, send the video in because I don't, I don't know if it's a 58 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:35,440 related. Well, it's it's unsettling, 59 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,560 first of all, right? And generally speaking, right, 60 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,600 It's like, I can't imagine, let's just say for a minute, 61 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:44,120 Mark mark the creepers out and hey, ladies, want a massage, 62 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:47,640 right? Yeah, I that that just saying 63 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:49,400 that gives me an icky feeling, right? 64 00:02:49,400 --> 00:02:54,680 So yeah, if if I was saying it is icky experience, they must be 65 00:02:54,680 --> 00:02:56,120 worse, right? Serious. 66 00:02:56,120 --> 00:03:00,040 There was a serious situation. And on English Bay, a woman did 67 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:03,520 get sexually assaulted and that was the precursor to the event, 68 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:09,280 a man asking for massages. And you know, she unfortunately 69 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,120 got sexually assaulted. So I thought, you know, maybe 70 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:14,840 just on the safe of caution because I didn't. 71 00:03:15,410 --> 00:03:18,650 I know they have made an arrest, but maybe they could identify 72 00:03:18,650 --> 00:03:22,250 that they put 22 together and this guy is a serial, you know 73 00:03:22,770 --> 00:03:25,170 what he does? So again, you know, this 74 00:03:25,170 --> 00:03:28,690 platform's really about community safety and informing 75 00:03:28,690 --> 00:03:30,690 the public. Yeah, I thought that he did a 76 00:03:30,690 --> 00:03:34,330 great thing sending it to me and hopefully it may be if that I 77 00:03:34,330 --> 00:03:37,530 thought he says, well, maybe I shouldn't be asking random women 78 00:03:37,530 --> 00:03:40,050 for massages, right? So maybe it helped. 79 00:03:41,370 --> 00:03:43,800 Yeah. Yeah, you should be doing that. 80 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,600 That's, that's a super creepy. Super creepy it is. 81 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,360 That's like that's like that's up there with a guy in a van, 82 00:03:49,360 --> 00:03:52,800 you know, driving around parks, hey kids, I have lost a puppy or 83 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,160 you know, like it has that same getting into that same 84 00:03:56,160 --> 00:03:58,360 territory. Wouldn't you travel a lot? 85 00:03:58,360 --> 00:03:59,640 Right. And you're about to go on a trip 86 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:00,240 to Europe. I am. 87 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:03,160 Yes. In the last while, it's like, 88 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:05,600 how many cities have you been to and they'll say in the last 89 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:07,680 couple of years? Summer has probably been the 90 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:10,960 most I've ever traveled, really. So I've been to Los Angeles 91 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,670 twice. I went to Montreal and then I 92 00:04:14,670 --> 00:04:18,149 just came back from Vegas. Actually, so okay. 93 00:04:18,149 --> 00:04:23,190 Now the reason why I asked that because I feel that the safety 94 00:04:23,190 --> 00:04:26,910 in Vancouver has declined. I've been here for a long time, 95 00:04:26,910 --> 00:04:29,390 or very long, right? So I've seen many, many 96 00:04:29,390 --> 00:04:31,990 different Vancouvers. This is the most unsafe 97 00:04:31,990 --> 00:04:34,870 Vancouver I remember in my long memory. 98 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,520 So when you travel to other places, every place you have to 99 00:04:38,520 --> 00:04:41,920 use precaution and use, you know, use common sense, do you, 100 00:04:41,920 --> 00:04:46,640 how do you feel from your perspective, being out in 101 00:04:46,640 --> 00:04:49,520 Vancouver, being out to stay in Montreal or even Vegas? 102 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:52,400 I think the freshest memory I have right now is probably of 103 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:57,200 Vegas, cuz I just came back like just a few days ago in terms of 104 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,960 safety. I think that I felt safe in 105 00:05:00,960 --> 00:05:03,720 Vancouver for a while, I think after. 106 00:05:04,420 --> 00:05:06,820 Probably COVID. I've just noticed a kind of like 107 00:05:06,820 --> 00:05:08,620 a decline in safety. I don't know if it could be 108 00:05:08,620 --> 00:05:12,180 mental health, probably associated with, you know, 109 00:05:12,180 --> 00:05:16,180 Vegas, for example. I do feel safe in Vancouver to a 110 00:05:16,180 --> 00:05:18,580 certain extent. I don't think that it's 111 00:05:18,580 --> 00:05:20,940 completely safe. I've been in situations where I 112 00:05:20,940 --> 00:05:24,780 just say I'm partying in Vancouver versus in Vegas. 113 00:05:25,020 --> 00:05:27,660 I don't think Vancouver has a good nightlife in general. 114 00:05:27,860 --> 00:05:31,100 I mean, Vegas has a pretty good nightlife, I would say. 115 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:33,720 And yeah, I mean, like, you know, if you're invited to a 116 00:05:33,720 --> 00:05:36,280 table, for example, I mean there's security guards at every 117 00:05:36,280 --> 00:05:38,640 table kind of, you know, watching over. 118 00:05:38,720 --> 00:05:41,680 In Vegas or or in Vancouver? Yeah, in Vegas. 119 00:05:41,760 --> 00:05:46,240 I don't find many in Vancouver, but to be fair, I just haven't 120 00:05:46,240 --> 00:05:49,400 really been partying in. I mean, girl, but I know. 121 00:05:49,400 --> 00:05:51,560 I haven't even know when you're just out and about like you 122 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,800 know, and a lot of the violence in Vancouver has been random, 123 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:57,110 like you know. And during the day at the 124 00:05:57,110 --> 00:05:59,830 grocery store, at the parking lot, when you're in the mall, 125 00:05:59,830 --> 00:06:02,590 you know, I'm just saying from the headlines like what like 126 00:06:02,590 --> 00:06:06,230 we're when you're talking about nightclubs specifically you 127 00:06:06,230 --> 00:06:08,730 feel? That Las Vegas has a better 128 00:06:08,730 --> 00:06:11,890 security apparatus, so to speak, like more security guards. 129 00:06:11,890 --> 00:06:14,850 If if something happens, it's quicker to say, hey, I need 130 00:06:14,850 --> 00:06:16,690 help. So you know, like with Las 131 00:06:16,690 --> 00:06:19,610 Vegas, for example, you know, the tables are right beside each 132 00:06:19,610 --> 00:06:21,090 other. There's a security guard or like 133 00:06:21,090 --> 00:06:23,490 a bouncer or something like that just in every section, 134 00:06:23,490 --> 00:06:25,330 basically. So they're honestly right beside 135 00:06:25,330 --> 00:06:27,170 each other. Kind of like the process of 136 00:06:27,170 --> 00:06:29,330 getting into the clubs is very complex. 137 00:06:29,330 --> 00:06:32,250 They really pack down, you go through all these metal 138 00:06:32,250 --> 00:06:34,940 detectors and whatnot. And you know, and you go like 139 00:06:34,940 --> 00:06:37,660 once you go into like let's say through the elevators, there's 140 00:06:37,660 --> 00:06:39,780 like another process where it's like, you know, they'll, they'll 141 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:43,220 pat you down again, you know, just to make sure that people 142 00:06:43,220 --> 00:06:45,340 aren't really bringing anything in with them. 143 00:06:45,340 --> 00:06:48,420 It's it is the men that got, you know, patted down and all that. 144 00:06:48,780 --> 00:06:51,860 A little bit of that treatment I would say, I would say like in 145 00:06:51,900 --> 00:06:55,020 in Vancouver, it's just kind of like, OK, quick pat down, you're 146 00:06:55,020 --> 00:06:59,220 good to go, you know, experienced, you know, a time at 147 00:06:59,220 --> 00:07:01,340 a nightclub in Vancouver a few years back. 148 00:07:01,660 --> 00:07:03,420 You know, you think you're having a good time. 149 00:07:03,620 --> 00:07:05,900 All of a sudden people start running away and you come to 150 00:07:05,900 --> 00:07:09,900 find out cabs in the middle of their dad's floor. 151 00:07:09,900 --> 00:07:11,540 So, you know. Yeah. 152 00:07:11,540 --> 00:07:14,380 And it's just like that where I think people, you know, I mean, 153 00:07:14,380 --> 00:07:16,940 you never know. I guess you put yourself at risk 154 00:07:16,980 --> 00:07:18,900 going, I guess anywhere nowadays, right? 155 00:07:18,900 --> 00:07:21,820 But you never know what the who's carrying what or what 156 00:07:21,820 --> 00:07:23,580 their intentions are going to places, right? 157 00:07:23,580 --> 00:07:25,860 It's not just having fun, like if you're having the intent, 158 00:07:26,140 --> 00:07:27,940 other people are bringing knives, you know? 159 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:29,260 What? I mean, yeah, yeah. 160 00:07:30,100 --> 00:07:32,930 I'll live there, right? So I mean, I would say there are 161 00:07:32,930 --> 00:07:36,210 differences I guess in the way that like you choose to engage 162 00:07:36,210 --> 00:07:39,250 in nightlife, right. So I would say, I would say that 163 00:07:39,290 --> 00:07:42,090 makes me feel a little bit. It gives you an unsettling 164 00:07:42,090 --> 00:07:44,250 feeling more. Definitely, I would say. 165 00:07:44,810 --> 00:07:48,690 See, when I I lived downtown for 10 years and when I was in my 166 00:07:48,690 --> 00:07:52,130 drinky stupidity phase, I'm calling. 167 00:07:52,130 --> 00:07:56,050 I would get so hammered. I'm talking like just barely can 168 00:07:56,050 --> 00:07:58,730 stagger home. I never felt unsafe. 169 00:07:58,730 --> 00:08:00,210 You know, I live downtown. And you. 170 00:08:00,850 --> 00:08:04,450 You walk stagger home, barely could get my key in my lot. 171 00:08:04,450 --> 00:08:08,170 I'd be the easiest target in the world being like 5-6 seven in 172 00:08:08,170 --> 00:08:10,210 the morning. Now I would never do that. 173 00:08:10,690 --> 00:08:13,690 You know target is the target on your back, right? 174 00:08:14,250 --> 00:08:16,730 So there's like a for me speaking. 175 00:08:16,930 --> 00:08:20,610 It just seems like violence escalates fast out of nor. 176 00:08:20,610 --> 00:08:22,570 Before I now you know I worked in bars. 177 00:08:22,570 --> 00:08:24,450 I was a bartender. I was a bouncer. 178 00:08:24,450 --> 00:08:26,130 I 20s. I experienced a lot of 179 00:08:26,130 --> 00:08:28,490 nightlife. Generally speaking shit can 180 00:08:28,490 --> 00:08:32,610 happen anytime, right? But there wasn't the level of 181 00:08:32,610 --> 00:08:37,570 weapons and intents of go there and then F up everyone else's 182 00:08:37,850 --> 00:08:41,450 good time to the degree that I feel that it happens now. 183 00:08:41,450 --> 00:08:44,210 And basically what you're saying is that they probably should 184 00:08:44,210 --> 00:08:46,570 have more securities in the venues and. 185 00:08:46,810 --> 00:08:50,530 I think so. I mean, I think they're as much 186 00:08:50,530 --> 00:08:54,170 as it may be difficult for people to trust authority, you 187 00:08:54,170 --> 00:08:56,490 know, like I think it is necessary to. 188 00:08:56,990 --> 00:08:59,910 Increase the number of police officers, let's say, or like 189 00:08:59,910 --> 00:09:03,070 some kind of security guards, because I feel like if people do 190 00:09:03,070 --> 00:09:06,350 see that there is, you know, a police officer, they might be 191 00:09:06,350 --> 00:09:08,350 less likely to do something. Right. 192 00:09:08,350 --> 00:09:09,830 Yeah. That's like when I live. 193 00:09:09,830 --> 00:09:14,070 When I was in New York, for example, there was a cop walking 194 00:09:14,070 --> 00:09:16,950 a beat on every block. So if you know it didn't have a 195 00:09:16,950 --> 00:09:19,670 sense of OK, you know, no one's going to cause shit. 196 00:09:21,360 --> 00:09:23,520 Right. You know, it's so this simple as 197 00:09:23,520 --> 00:09:24,760 that, like what you're saying, right. 198 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,520 But a one of the things I want to talk about is online dating 199 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:30,600 because in my opinion, you know, predators use these apps and 200 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,760 things like that. Even catfish, I post a lot about 201 00:09:33,760 --> 00:09:37,400 stuff and creeps and I get a lot of my followers, oh, this guy, 202 00:09:37,400 --> 00:09:41,080 he's doing this or that or he's in and I do a lot of stuff on 203 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:43,920 domestic violence, right. So this is not going to be, 204 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,040 we're not going to talk about domestic violence in this one. 205 00:09:46,380 --> 00:09:49,340 However, right, we can talk about your personal safety when 206 00:09:49,340 --> 00:09:51,300 you're out and about when you go to nightclubs. 207 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:53,980 And of course be careful of your drink and you just seem like a 208 00:09:53,980 --> 00:09:57,780 common sense person, you know, care for your surroundings, that 209 00:09:57,780 --> 00:10:00,350 sort of thing. But a lot of these situations 210 00:10:00,350 --> 00:10:03,750 that I report on and I the partner that you choose or don't 211 00:10:03,750 --> 00:10:06,590 choose, could have a major impact in your life and if 212 00:10:06,590 --> 00:10:09,470 something's gonna happen to you, and in that sort of regard, it 213 00:10:09,470 --> 00:10:12,190 might be someone that you invited into your home, right? 214 00:10:12,390 --> 00:10:16,150 The the topic of online dating, in my opinion, that's sketchy 215 00:10:16,150 --> 00:10:18,070 than what I did it. I would say so. 216 00:10:18,150 --> 00:10:21,390 I think also with, I mean, I don't know anyone really who's 217 00:10:21,390 --> 00:10:25,230 not on any form of, or at least on some form of social media 218 00:10:25,230 --> 00:10:28,590 platform, right. I think it's really important. 219 00:10:28,870 --> 00:10:33,030 To really get to know who you're personally, I think what works 220 00:10:33,030 --> 00:10:35,430 for me is because I had an incident actually with a friend 221 00:10:35,710 --> 00:10:39,590 who would who's very active on social media, she in real time. 222 00:10:39,590 --> 00:10:43,790 So if we are in a restaurant, she will the 2nd that we sit 223 00:10:43,790 --> 00:10:46,750 down, it's like okay, let's take a quick video of this interior, 224 00:10:46,750 --> 00:10:49,910 let's take a picture and let's tag the location. 225 00:10:51,030 --> 00:10:54,310 So I think that that kind of taught me. 226 00:10:55,270 --> 00:10:58,470 I mean a lot because I don't. You never know who's out there. 227 00:10:58,710 --> 00:11:01,190 And have a. Confidence of you know, her 228 00:11:01,190 --> 00:11:05,030 posting something in real time guy who followed her was like, 229 00:11:05,030 --> 00:11:07,830 oh hey, I'm just across the street, let's meet up, you know. 230 00:11:08,630 --> 00:11:12,710 And it's unsettling for sure. It's something that you're. 231 00:11:12,950 --> 00:11:14,870 I don't know. I just I think posting in real 232 00:11:14,870 --> 00:11:18,350 time is kind of just just, you know, it's okay to not, you 233 00:11:18,350 --> 00:11:19,870 know, put all your business out there. 234 00:11:19,870 --> 00:11:22,230 You should be mindful of what you put out there on social 235 00:11:22,390 --> 00:11:23,820 media. It could be a guy that you 236 00:11:23,820 --> 00:11:28,140 rejected online, you know, trying finally gets the 237 00:11:28,180 --> 00:11:31,100 opportunity to see where you're at and can show up with ill 238 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:32,540 intentions. You don't know that. 239 00:11:32,780 --> 00:11:37,420 Also sharing locations with with the PR very important as well, 240 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:39,420 informative. You want to communicate with the 241 00:11:39,420 --> 00:11:41,540 people when you're leaving, when you're on the way, when you're 242 00:11:41,540 --> 00:11:44,780 home, you know you don't want to walk by yourself, especially at 243 00:11:44,780 --> 00:11:47,940 night or especially in places that aren't populated, you know. 244 00:11:47,940 --> 00:11:49,740 Things like that just to be mindful of. 245 00:11:51,330 --> 00:11:54,490 In your circle of friends, you've probably heard of horror 246 00:11:54,490 --> 00:11:59,130 stories and planning later on to do a series on online predators 247 00:11:59,130 --> 00:12:01,770 and creepers and stuff. There was one recently. 248 00:12:01,890 --> 00:12:03,770 What was it? He was in Saanich. 249 00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:06,330 He scammed like 200 grand out of women. 250 00:12:06,330 --> 00:12:07,650 But he also was impersonating that. 251 00:12:07,650 --> 00:12:09,210 He was a caught, too. There. 252 00:12:09,210 --> 00:12:11,170 I posted about that one a little while ago. 253 00:12:11,170 --> 00:12:13,490 So yeah, they're out there. They are out there. 254 00:12:13,610 --> 00:12:14,730 Yeah. That's the thing. 255 00:12:14,890 --> 00:12:17,050 You just don't know. You know, You don't know who's 256 00:12:17,130 --> 00:12:19,570 really around you. Your every move you would have 257 00:12:19,570 --> 00:12:20,380 felt. Yeah. 258 00:12:20,500 --> 00:12:22,380 And they could be pretty obsessive, right? 259 00:12:22,380 --> 00:12:24,820 When, you know, we talked to before we started about trolls. 260 00:12:24,820 --> 00:12:27,100 And I have some trolls. I won't really get into it, but 261 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:30,420 but yeah, it's it's that's the creepy mindset about them 262 00:12:30,420 --> 00:12:33,500 because I've been doing this and long enough where I've have, you 263 00:12:33,500 --> 00:12:38,860 know, a few, a few of them. And it's just like move on, move 264 00:12:38,860 --> 00:12:40,260 on like it. But they can't. 265 00:12:40,260 --> 00:12:43,300 Like, it's like once they get tunnel vision, it's it's kind 266 00:12:43,300 --> 00:12:46,220 of, it's kind of unsettling. Let's talk about personal 267 00:12:46,220 --> 00:12:47,940 boundaries. That's how the conversation 268 00:12:47,940 --> 00:12:49,420 started, right. We met. 269 00:12:50,140 --> 00:12:53,260 Through you sending me a video cuz someone was violating your 270 00:12:53,260 --> 00:12:55,340 personal boundaries. You wanted to go chill in the 271 00:12:55,340 --> 00:12:58,540 park and you know enjoy the day. It was one of the first warm 272 00:12:58,540 --> 00:13:03,940 days of last midspring and Mr. Creeper kind of ruined, ruined 273 00:13:03,940 --> 00:13:06,460 the fun right. So but just in general you know 274 00:13:06,460 --> 00:13:09,020 when you're out in the club and you might have a nice outfit on, 275 00:13:09,020 --> 00:13:10,900 you're with your pretty girlfriends that's you know, 276 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:12,820 it's unfortunate it's gonna track sometimes. 277 00:13:13,330 --> 00:13:16,290 Toxic male attention and you have to set your boundaries. 278 00:13:16,290 --> 00:13:19,650 What's some advice would you say for setting boundaries when 279 00:13:19,650 --> 00:13:22,090 you're out and about? I think it just goes back. 280 00:13:22,170 --> 00:13:24,290 I'm all for you know, wearing what you want. 281 00:13:24,290 --> 00:13:27,490 But with that does also come a little bit of attention. 282 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:30,410 You know, whether or not you seek it, different intentions 283 00:13:30,410 --> 00:13:33,330 with, I mean, damn, you can wear like AT shirt and someone has 284 00:13:33,330 --> 00:13:37,570 like a weird intention, right? I think you know, not walking by 285 00:13:37,570 --> 00:13:39,890 yourself. I think, you know surrounding 286 00:13:39,890 --> 00:13:42,280 yourself with. The core group of people, people 287 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:44,760 that you trust. If I'm out and one of my friends 288 00:13:44,760 --> 00:13:47,040 isn't, I'm going to share my location with them. 289 00:13:47,240 --> 00:13:49,560 I will communicate with them. Hey, like I'm here. 290 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:52,120 I know you can see my location, but you know, I'm going to 291 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:54,560 probably head back at around this time or whatever. 292 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:57,560 Just so you know, being aware of what's around your drink. 293 00:13:57,760 --> 00:14:00,160 Don't leave your drink unattended for sure, you know, 294 00:14:00,160 --> 00:14:02,600 just just be mindful of your surroundings. 295 00:14:02,600 --> 00:14:07,280 It's okay to, you know, dads do your thing, but you know, be 296 00:14:07,280 --> 00:14:09,360 aware of your surroundings. I think that's honestly. 297 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:12,060 If you're going out to a nightclub, you're surrounded by 298 00:14:12,340 --> 00:14:15,180 there is an increase in drugs and alcohol obviously, right. 299 00:14:15,220 --> 00:14:18,220 Sure. So yeah, so I think that you 300 00:14:18,220 --> 00:14:22,620 know, especially in Vancouver, I think that you know the pat 301 00:14:22,620 --> 00:14:25,300 downs aren't as right. I don't know who's coming in 302 00:14:25,300 --> 00:14:27,220 with something. You hear of gang related stuff 303 00:14:27,220 --> 00:14:30,220 or random sabbings. You just have to be really aware 304 00:14:30,220 --> 00:14:31,900 of your surroundings, I think for the most part. 305 00:14:32,460 --> 00:14:35,780 You know, that's good. Common sense advice Okay. 306 00:14:35,780 --> 00:14:38,580 This is what I want to ask you. Like, this is kind of like we're 307 00:14:38,580 --> 00:14:40,980 back to like kind of the Vancouver situation. 308 00:14:41,340 --> 00:14:43,940 So since the pandemic, and this is something actually you 309 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:46,340 brought it up in the last I've almost done an interview every 310 00:14:46,340 --> 00:14:49,620 day for like last two weeks. And almost every single 311 00:14:49,620 --> 00:14:52,380 interview, regardless of the different subject, if it's 312 00:14:52,420 --> 00:14:56,780 domestic violence or personal safety or other stuff like 313 00:14:56,780 --> 00:15:00,580 narcissism, the pandemic comes up, made us crazier. 314 00:15:00,980 --> 00:15:02,780 I did. They locked us down. 315 00:15:02,780 --> 00:15:05,700 It pitted us against each other. The mask, where's a non mask 316 00:15:05,700 --> 00:15:07,940 where the backs and anti vaxxers, you know it could be 317 00:15:07,940 --> 00:15:11,260 This Is Us against them and and we've So since then do you feel 318 00:15:11,260 --> 00:15:12,980 like you've altered your routine? 319 00:15:12,980 --> 00:15:15,300 Like does he feel like you changed the way you're out when 320 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:16,860 you're out and about just personally? 321 00:15:17,660 --> 00:15:20,300 A little bit. I mean I think pretty mindful 322 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:22,980 when I'm on the Sky Train, I guess nowadays or the buses you 323 00:15:22,980 --> 00:15:26,460 hear of Brandon stabbings on the bus, it helps that there is a 324 00:15:26,460 --> 00:15:30,530 silent alarm I guess on. I'm not sure if there's a silent 325 00:15:30,530 --> 00:15:31,810 alarm on the bus. I know there's one on the 326 00:15:31,810 --> 00:15:32,650 section like that. Yep. 327 00:15:33,250 --> 00:15:35,930 Yeah. I think those are really good to 328 00:15:36,730 --> 00:15:40,330 keep. However, I do think that with 329 00:15:40,410 --> 00:15:43,130 all these, like random sabbings on the bus, like I was on a bus 330 00:15:43,130 --> 00:15:46,290 yesterday and I haven't been on a bus in a month, all stories 331 00:15:46,290 --> 00:15:49,330 coming out and yeah, you know what I'd rather Uber or I'd 332 00:15:49,330 --> 00:15:52,570 rather walk like. Buses are not for the faint of 333 00:15:52,570 --> 00:15:55,730 heart. Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. 334 00:15:55,730 --> 00:15:59,200 Yeah. Yeah, but you know, I, I, I kind 335 00:15:59,200 --> 00:16:02,640 of think that, I mean I've been on situations where the this, 336 00:16:02,640 --> 00:16:04,960 there's someone just arguing with the bus driver, the port 337 00:16:04,960 --> 00:16:08,200 bus driver, you're, you know, kind of left to deal with it. 338 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,160 There's no kind of security guard or anything like that. 339 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:13,800 People are, you know, scared because they don't know if it'll 340 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,360 escalate or not. And there's no kind of already 341 00:16:16,360 --> 00:16:19,720 on the bus, right. So they'll leave, catch the next 342 00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,190 bus. So there have been instances of 343 00:16:22,190 --> 00:16:24,230 that. I kind of, yeah. 344 00:16:24,230 --> 00:16:26,990 Like I said, I think I'm more aware now when I take public 345 00:16:26,990 --> 00:16:30,630 transportation, I don't really, I can't really blast my music. 346 00:16:30,630 --> 00:16:33,950 Like if someone sits beside me, I'm kind of lowering my volume a 347 00:16:33,950 --> 00:16:34,950 little bit. I don't know what. 348 00:16:34,950 --> 00:16:37,990 You just have to be very, very mindful, I think nowadays. 349 00:16:37,990 --> 00:16:39,990 So yeah, I definitely altered that a little bit. 350 00:16:40,990 --> 00:16:43,890 Cuz he travel? And you probably meet people 351 00:16:43,890 --> 00:16:45,770 there, right? And then if they said, hey, I'm 352 00:16:45,770 --> 00:16:48,690 planning to move to Vancouver, what advice would you give that 353 00:16:48,690 --> 00:16:51,130 person if you had that conversation when you're out and 354 00:16:51,330 --> 00:16:53,970 out traveling? I mean, I just tell them that 355 00:16:53,970 --> 00:16:59,250 there's no nightlife in Vancouver, but I mean it is 356 00:16:59,290 --> 00:17:01,970 like, I mean, overall I just feel safe at one point. 357 00:17:01,970 --> 00:17:06,050 I believe that we can get there again, honestly, if. 358 00:17:06,790 --> 00:17:10,150 If if it's like, I mean I, I talk to my friends, everyone's 359 00:17:10,150 --> 00:17:12,910 kind of saying the same thing where it is an issue, you know, 360 00:17:12,910 --> 00:17:14,190 like they don't feel safe at night. 361 00:17:14,390 --> 00:17:16,950 They do have, you know they could be randomly been bare 362 00:17:16,950 --> 00:17:19,109 based, you know what I mean? And it's it's like what do you 363 00:17:19,109 --> 00:17:22,630 do or you know some people walk around with pocket knives like 364 00:17:22,630 --> 00:17:25,790 what are you going to do really it's just I feel like it's the 365 00:17:25,790 --> 00:17:29,270 safety is declining for sure. There are steps that we can take 366 00:17:29,590 --> 00:17:33,670 as a sitting, you know just to make sure that everyone feels 367 00:17:33,670 --> 00:17:35,670 safe because I feel like a lot of people don't. 368 00:17:36,270 --> 00:17:39,350 No, no. Again, like for about a year. 369 00:17:39,350 --> 00:17:41,550 I kind of I started on the start. 370 00:17:41,550 --> 00:17:43,790 I started talking about this when it wasn't popular. 371 00:17:43,790 --> 00:17:46,870 People would get really mad at me or your fear mongering Okay 372 00:17:46,870 --> 00:17:50,590 after a machete attacks and how many bear sprays and major 373 00:17:50,590 --> 00:17:53,750 incident, major incident. For example I interviewed a man 374 00:17:53,750 --> 00:17:58,110 to see the police officer for the the Metro Vancouver Transit 375 00:17:58,110 --> 00:18:01,150 Authority. She told me when you show the 376 00:18:01,150 --> 00:18:04,630 podcast, she's she said they used to have one. 377 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:07,780 Major mental health incident a month. 378 00:18:08,700 --> 00:18:12,260 Now they have three to four a day, two to four a day when they 379 00:18:12,260 --> 00:18:15,820 used to have one like you know, someone having a drug induced 380 00:18:15,820 --> 00:18:19,780 psychosis or something. So this is the reality, and I 381 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:21,740 said this on a few different podcasts. 382 00:18:21,860 --> 00:18:25,700 We're letting a large portion of our population who need mental 383 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:27,780 health, They need a mental health therapy. 384 00:18:27,780 --> 00:18:29,540 They need, they have mental health issues. 385 00:18:30,550 --> 00:18:33,470 And we're allowing like psychiatric patients really to 386 00:18:33,510 --> 00:18:37,150 wander around and do drugs like what can go wrong with that. 387 00:18:37,630 --> 00:18:40,710 So that that's that's scary because again, now when I get in 388 00:18:40,710 --> 00:18:42,710 there and I don't get in the confrontation with people, if I 389 00:18:42,710 --> 00:18:45,310 do, I was pretty good at de escalating. 390 00:18:45,310 --> 00:18:47,470 You know, I'm pretty, you know, I was pretty good at de 391 00:18:47,470 --> 00:18:50,350 escalating situations. Now it's like there's nothing 392 00:18:50,350 --> 00:18:52,750 really you can really say. So it's just having hyper 393 00:18:52,750 --> 00:18:55,430 awareness and avoiding the situation before. 394 00:18:55,770 --> 00:18:58,130 It gets worse. And my advice to anybody 395 00:18:58,130 --> 00:19:01,570 listening, including yourself, yeah, go and have fun, but don't 396 00:19:01,570 --> 00:19:04,970 get really intoxicated in public because that now that's almost 397 00:19:04,970 --> 00:19:08,170 like I feel that could be a target to all that chicks 398 00:19:08,170 --> 00:19:10,410 wasted. Oh, you know you get like a pack 399 00:19:10,410 --> 00:19:12,570 of hyenas now if that makes sense, right? 400 00:19:12,770 --> 00:19:14,970 Of course, yeah. I mean, people feed on the most 401 00:19:15,010 --> 00:19:16,330 vulnerable, right? Sure. 402 00:19:16,490 --> 00:19:20,690 Well, I appreciate you coming on and sharing your insights and 403 00:19:20,690 --> 00:19:22,210 stuff with me. Tell everyone about your 404 00:19:22,210 --> 00:19:25,200 podcasts. I'm starting my podcast soon. 405 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,640 I'm very excited. I have already invited Mark to 406 00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:32,600 be one of my guests, so only people can listen in and, you 407 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:36,000 know, learn more about, I guess you know what my podcast is 408 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,880 going to be about. It's a little bit of a surprise. 409 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:41,920 I'm kind of going to fill it out at first, but I'm sure it'll get 410 00:19:41,920 --> 00:19:46,360 the ball rolling once. Well, it took me 10 years to 411 00:19:46,400 --> 00:19:48,680 start my podcast. Mine started at the most 412 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,760 humblest beginning. I was a stay at home dad. 413 00:19:52,270 --> 00:19:55,750 And I was just like, I needed something to put my energy into. 414 00:19:55,750 --> 00:19:58,470 I was burnt out from the corporate rat race, and I 415 00:19:58,470 --> 00:20:02,510 started mine on an iPhone 7, on a voice, doing voice memo clips 416 00:20:03,110 --> 00:20:06,950 and teasing them together, and they probably sounded off. 417 00:20:07,390 --> 00:20:10,990 But I prefer me though. It wasn't about having a Polish 418 00:20:10,990 --> 00:20:13,510 perfect, It was just doing it each one. 419 00:20:13,830 --> 00:20:16,150 You're going to get people that say stuff, but they're not doing 420 00:20:16,150 --> 00:20:17,670 it right. Anything you want to do, you 421 00:20:17,670 --> 00:20:19,270 just got to do it. And then. 422 00:20:19,700 --> 00:20:22,380 Do it a little better each time and a little better each time. 423 00:20:22,380 --> 00:20:25,780 And F the haters, F the trolls, they're not on your path. 424 00:20:25,780 --> 00:20:28,180 So it was a really pleasure talking to you, Eddie, and I 425 00:20:28,180 --> 00:20:31,220 hope we can talk soon. Again, enjoy your vacation, and 426 00:20:31,220 --> 00:20:33,620 I'll be honored to be your guest on your podcast. 427 00:20:33,980 --> 00:20:35,860 Thank you so much. It's been a pleasure. 428 00:20:36,380 --> 00:20:38,020 Okay, you take care. Have a wonderful day. 429 00:20:38,380 --> 00:20:39,180 Thanks. You too. 430 00:20:40,340 --> 00:20:40,580 Bye, bye.