Who are you? >> I'm James. Um >> James. >> Yeah, I go by James Johnson. >> James Johnson. >> Yeah. But um my friends call me Grande. I I I think the mayor and I will hit it off >> pretty well. So I imagine by the end of the day he'll be calling me grande. >> Ah >> the mayor and the chief to settle their differences in a ring. >> I don't understand why in the world a professional mayor and a professional chief of police would ever go into a ring and do something like that. There's an open investigation. The police chief and mayor in Sedona, Arizona, have both filed complaints against each other, each claiming that the other creates a hostile work environment. Chief Foley appears to have spent the last two years building her 157page complaint against the mayor, which includes emails, text messages, screenshots, audio recordings, and much more as evidence. She basically claims that the mayor is pushing his toxic masculinity by refusing to talk to her and only talking to her male subordinates within the department. It appears to me that she's basically claiming that he won't talk to her because she's a woman. It looks like all the crime is solved in Sedona because the chief just spent two years building a 157page complaint about a guy that won't talk to her. So, the mayor claps back with a three-page complaint of his own, claiming that as a former police officer, he wants to be invited to ceremonies like badge pinnings and retirements, but that the chief won't invite him. So, your taxes paid both of these clowns to build and file complaints on each other. And now your taxes are paying for an outside HR company to investigate both of them. My buddy Roy thought this was ridiculous and they should just settle their beef on their own and leave the rest of us out of it. So, he decided that me and him should drive to Sedona to try to recruit the mayor and the chief to fight it out in the ring on the YouTube channel Street Beefs. They've basically been known for successfully getting people to punch it out in the ring through boxing and MMA rather than shooting it out in the streets. So Roy thought it would be a good idea for these two [ __ ] to settle their [ __ ] in the ring rather than at the expense of all of us taxpayers. So he jumped in his truck to head out and knew exactly where to find me in the medians of Serita begging for money. >> Would you like a sandwich? >> What is this? >> It's all I have right now. >> Said money, you stupid [ __ ] >> James, wake up, bro. We got to go to Sedona. Get in. We're going to Sedona. Sedona? Here, man. Some stupid gave me a sandwich. You want a bite? >> Yeah. I love bologoney sandwiches. [Music] I'll take a number one with everything on it and another number one animal style with everything on it. [Music] [Applause] As soon as we arrived in the parking lot, before we even got our camera equipment set up, this nosy [ __ ] came out and wanted to know what we were doing. Truth is, I'm actually pretty good at reading people and I could tell how nasty and controlling she was and that there was no way she was going to try to help us find the mayor or the police chief. So, I wanted nothing to do with her. Truth is, we were hoping to actually just walk around and find them. It's worked for us before in places like Surprise Arizona and others. >> Who Who are you? >> I'm um I work in the city manager's office. >> Oh, okay. Trying to set this right. >> Are you meeting with somebody in particular? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Do you want me to let them know you're here? Um, I'll let them know because I think we got like 10 minutes or something. Okay. >> I think they're coming up. >> What was your name? >> Christie. >> Christie? Yeah. Nice to meet you. >> Nice to meet you. >> I'm James. >> What's your position here? >> I'm um the city manager's executive assistant. >> Executive assistant. Yeah. >> All right. Perfect. We'll come in there and talk with you, too. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Just moments later, Christy sent another woman to investigate us. So, I flipped the investigation on her. >> All right. I'm with our comm's team. Are you guys here for someone or >> Yeah. >> I'm just trying to figure out who's in helping you. Um, I can't divulge that information yet. >> Okay. >> It's for an investigation. >> Got it. Okay. >> Is that okay? >> Yeah. I'm just My my boss is asking me to find out, so I'm trying to find out. >> Who's your boss? >> Uh, Lauren Brown. She's the deputy city manager. >> Lauren Brown. >> Yeah. That's okay. I'm sure you guys will. >> Deputy >> city manager. Yeah. >> And what's your name? >> Keegan. Keg GN. >> K E Gn. >> Yeah. >> And you are? I'm the public relations analyst. Yeah. >> Public relations. >> So, you're not allowed to divulge what agency you're with. >> Well, I mean, that's what that's my company's policy. >> Okay. >> Is just to do the investigation and report my findings. >> Okay. That's good. >> Uh public relation analyst. >> Yes. >> All right. How long you been in that position here? >> Um, three years. >> Three years. >> Yeah. Do you ever have you ever done this job uh anywhere else before? >> No, I mean I worked at the Chamber of Commerce for nine years and but I haven't done >> this specific job. >> Does it pay well? >> Um I'm not going to say anything. I don't know what you guys are doing. So I'll talk to you later. >> It's okay. >> Yeah, I think it pays well. >> Yeah, >> I can live in this area. So >> my my job pays well. >> Good. >> Yeah, should >> you can live in this area? >> I live in So yeah, 20 minutes away. >> All right. >> Yeah. What's a what's a a three bed, two bath cost in the area? >> I don't know. I live in a town home, so >> Oh, okay. >> Yeah. >> Um, any pets? >> I don't know how I got I'm going to go. Byebye. >> Okay. Thank you. Uh, thank you, Keegan. >> Yeah. >> Let me know if you want to chat again later, Keegan. Yeah, she's got like 10 cats. But we weren't here for the nosy deputy city manager or any of the women that work for her. We were here to help the mayor and police chief settle their beef. >> Hi, can I help you? >> Hey, is the mayor here? >> He is not. >> Oh, where's he at? >> I don't know. >> Okay. >> I'm not his assistant. His assistant is in the city manager's office. >> Oh, who's his assistant? >> Her name is Christy. >> Okay. Okay. This is This is actually her. Can you hold one? Sure. Yeah. >> So, Christy has been spying on us since the moment we got here, and peeking through blinds, she watched us walk into this office. She calls this guy to ask him if he needs help and then tries to encourage him to call the police. He quickly turns down the volume on the phone since we can hear everything she's saying, and although the microphone doesn't pick up the rest of the conversation, I could still hear it. We're just trying to find the mayor and chief to get him to fight, but Christy will not stop inserting herself and interfering. >> Christie. Hey, do you need help? >> Uh, not that I'm aware of. >> I do. I don't I don't feel any need for it right now. All right. Thank you. Bye-bye. >> Okay. She Okay. >> Yeah. Do you need to speak with her? >> Uh, I might. Yeah, I'll I guess I'll head over there. What did she ask you if you needed? >> Oh, it wasn't related to this. >> Oh, something else. >> What are you looking for? >> I just wanted to chat with the mayor. >> Okay. Maybe get to maybe take him to lunch. >> You can arrange that through Christy. >> Okay. >> Or you can just reach out to him directly through email or phone. >> I could tell this guy knows the mayor, so I try to turn the charm on to get what I want. >> Okay. I figured in person would be I figured once he saw my blue eyes, he might go to lunch with me. >> I don't know. I can't have eyes on that. >> Okay. Can't hurt to try, right? >> Yeah. >> That's kind of what I figured. Okay. All right. Well, I guess I guess I'll see see if I can find him. You can let him know James was looking for him. Do you want me to write it down? >> Yeah. >> And you don't need his contact information? >> Nah, that's I prefer in person. So, I'm not really an email or >> you could set it up like that. It's typically how you would set it up. >> Yeah. Kind of old school. I like to just walk in and haven't really used the interwebs really before. So, is it pretty nice or >> the >> the interwebs? That's where you do the emails and everything, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Convenient, >> huh? >> Convenient. >> Convenient. >> I feel like it just takes the human element out of things. I never tried it. I mean, I don't know. It's It's hard for me to compare, you know, whether it's better or worse since I've never done it. >> Um, you know. >> Yeah. One of my buddies was trying to get me to do some new stuff the other night in the hotel room and I was like, "Well, I can't say it's bad because I haven't done it before." >> No, not good or bad. It just is. >> Yeah. All right. So, it's James Johnson. Um, here I can put a phone number there for him, too. It's It's I don't use it, but um he can get a hold of my mom at that number. >> Okay. >> And my mom gives me messages. >> Okay. So, it's it's James Johnson is what I go by, but uh friends call me Grande. >> Okay. And you're asking that he contact you? >> Yeah. Yeah. See if he's got time. See if I can buy him lunch. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And and if not, maybe I'll come back. Have you had your lunch break today? >> I have not, but I have I run home. I have chores on lunchtime. >> Okay. >> Animals to take care of. >> Okay. He just seemed like a nice guy, so figured >> pretty nice, I think. >> Yeah. >> You got blue eyes, too, huh? Yeah, I'll let I'll let I'll let you meet with the mayor and I'll get his opinion on it. >> Sounds good. Maybe you'll try it after he tries it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Great, man. What was your name, man? >> My name is David. >> David? >> Yeah. >> All right. >> If he approves of you. >> Uh, is he married? >> Uh, yeah, he is. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Are you? >> No. >> Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Well, David, it was great to meet you, man. >> All right, James. We'll pass this on to the mayor. >> Thank you. >> All right. I'll let him know about our chat. >> We'll do. Awesome. Great. Put in a good word for me. >> All right. I'll do that. >> Tell them about my blue eyes. >> All righty. >> I'll tell them about yours. >> All right. >> All right. Have a good one, David. >> It was at that point that we realized that in order to get a hold of the mayor, we would likely have to go through the nosy controlling at the city manager's office. >> Hi. >> Hi. How are you? >> Good. >> Good. I was told this was the place to come to. >> Okay. Okay. Is Christy here? >> Well, that's We already talked outside. >> Oh, you're Christy? >> Yes. >> I wrote you down as Lauren. >> No, I'm Christie. >> Yeah, I was still trying to get my paperwork together. So, >> yeah. How can we help you guys? >> Is the mayor here? >> No, the mayor's office is actually at the clerk's so >> his office is not here. >> Yeah, I was trying to chat with him. >> Okay. >> Maybe take him to lunch. >> Do You want me to call him? >> Yeah. Yeah, that'd be that would work. Sure. >> Who are you? >> I'm James. Um >> James. >> Yeah, I go by James Johnson. >> James Johnson. >> Yeah. But um my friends call me Grande. I I I think the mayor and I will hit it off pretty well. So, >> and what >> I imagine by the end of the day, he'll be calling me Grande. >> Ah, hang on a minute. Let me see. >> Okay, great. >> He he has his personal cell phone number. We tried to reach him. He's answering. So, >> Okay. Yeah. So that's the next best best thing that we can provide. >> Okay. Lorata would be willing to pay the mayor and the chief to settle their differences in a ring. Um it's called street beefs. You can look it up online. Uh you jump in the ring. I would be the referee. Uh Grande Johnson and they would just jump in the ring and duke it out punching, kicking if he wanted. I heard the the chief is kind of a feminist. Is that right? >> I don't understand why in the world a professional mayor and a professional chief of police would ever go into a ring and do something like that because there's an open investigation. >> First off, clearly this woman has not read the complaints the chief and the mayor made against each other because if she had, she wouldn't be sitting here calling them professionals. But I can tell that I've hit a roadblock. I'm not going to get anywhere. And these two are really easy to trigger. So, I just go in for the kill. >> Sure. Well, the the reason is because in the office it would be inappropriate for the mayor to kick the chief in the uh clamshell, >> but when you get in the ring, those types of things like it's not considered unprofessional to kind of kick her in the >> Okay. >> So, >> I think we have enough information. >> Yeah. Thanks, guys. >> Thanks. Have a good day. >> Will you let them know though? >> Yes. >> Uh, can I do an open records request? >> You can do that at the clerk's office. Yes. >> Okay. I can't do it here. >> And I'm going to ask you guys to leave, please. Can I not do the open records request here? >> No, you cannot. You can also go online and do a records request if you'd like. >> Oh, well, state law says I can do it here. So, do you want me to just write it on my own? >> I would like you guys to leave. >> Why? I can't do an open records request here. >> Okay. >> Is that We'll go to the clerk's office, I guess. >> Well, one of the uh people that was supposed to be part of the beef is the chief of police. So, maybe we should go talk to this person. >> How you doing? >> Good. How are you? Can I help you guys? >> Uh, yeah. Let's get in the shade though. It's hot. >> Okay. Ask what you guys are here for. >> Uh, looking for a few things, but one thing is I need to do an open records request and they're saying I can't. >> Well, they said that there was alarm going on, so I just need to talk to the city manager's office real quick. >> There's an alarm going on. >> Yeah. So, I just need to talk to the city man. >> Oh, cool. Cool, man. >> Thank you. >> I'm James. >> Okay. Um, I'll give you a fist bump, dude. >> Oh, you don't you don't shake hands? >> No, sir. >> Oh, okay. That's what professionals do. I'll give you a fist bump. What am I four years old? >> Now, because I told these that I wanted to help the mayor and police chief settled their beef and I wanted to do an open records request, they hit a panic alarm and locked the door. >> I think you can go in there. Yeah. >> Yeah, it's a public lobby. You can go in there. >> Did they tell you what I was really looking for initially? >> No. >> This uh YouTube channel called Street Beefs. You ever heard of it? They basically got this fighting ring >> and anybody can come in, pick an opponent, come in and and just get your beef out in in the pit. >> You seen it? It's good stuff. I mean, most of these people are not professional fighters. You know, it's a good way for people to consensually get their beef out, you know, throw their punches, kick each other, whatever, right? So, I heard that the mayor and the chief had a little bit of a beef. And so what we wanted to do is see if rather than going through all these, you know, bureaucratic crap that they do internally with HR and all that nonsense, we're here to recruit the chief and the mayor to beef it out in the ring. >> That sounds like a very novel concept. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> I mean, everybody, you know, at the end of the rule is though, you know, once it's over, it's over, right? You guys get your anger out, you beef it out, you >> Do you have a contact information that I can give her? >> I can give it. I I've given my phone number and my name to multiple people. Do >> you have a pen on me? Yeah. >> And so, you know, I'm thinking Mayor is a previous uh law enforcement, right? She's in law enforcement. I know some of you guys do, you know, handtohand combat training. Others don't. This could be a good matchup. I don't know what they look like. Uh it's uh uh James, but I I go by Grande, though. >> Grande. >> Yep. And the last name I go by is Johnson. >> How about like an email address or a phone number? Either one. >> I can give you a phone number. It's And that's uh my mom's house where I live. So, uh, I'm I'm in the basement, but she'll take messages for me. They were just buttthurt about it. Like, dude, we weren't hurting anything. >> Again, I I think it's a very novel concept, and I think sometimes we sometimes we should just work things out like that. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. Well, I will pass this along. >> Okay. That's actually my cell phone that's in my pocket, man. So it goes directly >> because you wouldn't give me your mom's phone going on. >> We're trying to keep it light, have a good time, and settle this beef that's going on in Sedona. >> I'll pass this on. You know, you have the information for the public reference request. >> Yeah, they told me to do it over there, which is I mean, I I'll double check the state law cuz I haven't checked it here. In almost every other state, though, I can just write it on a piece of paper and hand it to them like the whole >> I think you can. I think you can, but that's where the receipt goes to. >> Yeah. Now, if you wanted to do it here and pass it on, I'm sure that they would pass it on to that. >> Yeah, I I wasn't going to make a big deal out of it. That's usually how it is, though, that I can give it to anybody. I could give it to them and they just pass it on. But they were they were being >> No, I'm not I'm not too worried about it. I'll go. Like, they were getting crazy about it and that's why I was like, "Bro, really?" Like, I mean, come on. I see the toxic femininity that they're talking about in the papers. You know what I mean? Just an office. Anyways, don't smile at that, but it's true. It's >> Don't smile at that. >> No, it's true. >> Sir. >> Hey, thanks. >> Yep. >> Anytime, >> I'm a man. >> You know what? >> Thank you, sir. >> All right, guys. Have a good one. >> While we anxiously awaited calls back, we went and checked out the town. >> What do you recommend for a girl? >> Oh, uh, I like strawberry, banana, and peach. But >> let's try that. >> Okay, >> let's try. And then a >> what's what's pussycat gelato? >> Oh, did you want gelato? It's inside. >> What What is this? >> It's like ice cream, but they made a kit with dairyfree. I don't remember what gelato is. >> No, let's get her to the smoothie. Do you want something? Do you want Sure. You don't want some of that gelato? >> No. Yeah. It's >> Hold the gelato. >> Hope she enjoys it. >> I appreciate that. >> It's been 2 weeks and neither one of these two have called back. If you think these two [ __ ] should beat the [ __ ] out of each other instead of wasting our tax dollars on their petty dispute, feel free to reach out to them and let them know. Tell them Grande Johnson is awaiting their call