Johnny Chang

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1,314 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 May

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Anything Goes with James English · My Life in the Triads - Gang Leader Johnny Chang Tells His Story · 9 May 2026 podcast

It was very hard now that I think about it to do that to my own mom.

But yeah.

Um, she tried, she tried to, you know, she was Buddhist, so she would give me like little chants and stuff like that, you know, where traditionally were raised Buddhist, uh, most Chinese households.

But, um, yeah, she, she just really like try to lead me correctly, um, in there spiritually, you know, giving me these Buddhist chants, prayers and stuff like that.

And, um, yeah, yeah.

Yes, yes, yes.

Every yard that I went to, thankfully, I think was a blessing.

We had homies, people from my neighborhood.

Different sides, different factions, but...

Same umbrella, same gang.

So it was good, actually.

They welcomed me in.

And I started to, believe it or not, really meet a lot of good people in prison.

I thought it was going to be all crazy, which it is.

But there were actually a lot of people who were mature.

There were people who were very disciplined, believe it or not.

And California prisons are very respectful.

They're ran almost very militant, where if you...

step behind somebody you say excuse me you know things like that so i was actually taught to clean my cell i had a lot of like physical endurance because you're doing calisthenics burpees you got to be very innovative about the way you work because they're not giving prisoners barbells and you know dumbbells they'll kill each other so you have to like find out ways to do burpees and you know upside down push-ups and so so you my workout routine my regimen was really good

I mean, but I think mentally I was just there was nothing feeding my mental, you know, everything was more physical, working out, you know, running, reading.

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