Christian Gallo

I grew up in a very good area, Pacific Palisades.

A lot of people looked at me, and a lot of people's awareness of me shifted.

So I was already kind of in my own little world, and now I was ostracized because I was totally an anomaly compared to all my friends and the trajectory everyone else was on going to college and successful businesses and families.

And that's where I went to school for like, it was like Spartan training, basically.

I ran with the white boys.

I didn't know any of that meant.

They said when they walked in, they were like South Sider Woods, this, that.

I was like,

woods you know and so and you look white enough for them no actually i'm not as a matter of fact you know i would have if anything you would i would went other which is because i'm brazilian and i'm more of a mutt yeah but culturally i'm more of like i grew up in the west you know i grew up like a surf beach town and so like i couldn't really align with the southsiders they're all gangbangers and stuff i couldn't really so the white boys were just like by default

They just happen to be a minority.

And I didn't know any of this.

So I'm in buildings where there's literally, you know, 60 Southsiders, literal gangbangers, like, not a joke, like, from every gang you could think of, all stuck together.

And then there's, like, 10 white boys.

And then, like...

And then there's the paisanos, which are Mexicans from Mexico that go to jail.

Long story short, dude, when riots happen, it's 20 versus 60 fools that are training every day, are already doing gang banging stuff.

And when I realized the severity of this is not a joke, this is actually something you have to be really mindful of because your life is in danger.

I started exercising every day, like just out of like little fear.

Yeah.

And, you know, a couple of riots happen and things.