Joe Loya
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It was really effective.
And the other thing that was to my favor was I didn't have to make a thing because when they asked the women, like, did he show a gun?
They said no.
And they said, well, then why'd you give him the money?
I said, because of his eyes.
It was weird to read that when I got the discovery.
I was menacing enough to do it, and it was quiet menace.
I didn't have to pull out a gun.
I would just speak to a way.
You know how I spoke?
I spoke the way my dad did when he menaced me as a boy.
Just slow and time, and just like...
And like the energy of that, I had it.
I had it.
Why?
Because I was conditioned, habituated to it.
So when I would dial up my thing and I would look at them and do it, they'd be like, oh, okay.
I was able to get things done with just a sheer menace and intensity of my presence.
Now, that said...
And also by that time, I got out of prison the first time in two years.