Tim Pearce: How a Documentary Halted Gang Violence in Watts ft. Mike Soenen & Cornelius Wills

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Got that, Rudy Pavich is doing the news, and we'll do that right after this.

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From Carolla One Studios in Glendale, California, this is The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's guest today, former member of the LAPD gang unit, Tim Pearce.
Non-active member of the Bounty Hunter Bloods, Cornelius Wills, and venture capitalist, Mike Soenen. Plus the news with Rudy Pavich and now, Adam Carolla.

**Adam Carolla** (3:27)
Yeah, get it on. Got to get it on. No choice but to get on Mandate. You get it on. Tim Pearce is back. He was on a couple of years ago. Got a lot of interesting stories with him. He's got a company. We'll get into that, but a movie, Nothing To See Here. It's a great documentary. Groundbreaking, I would say. Very interesting.
Lean into that, Mike, Tim, and tell us about this doc.

**Tim Pearce** (3:52)
Nothing To See Here, Watts, it's a direct story from the people living and working in Watts. How it came about is Mike Soenen, who's a venture capitalist, lives down in Hermosa Beach, decided he wanted to go on a ride-along and talk to one of his friends, and that friend put him in contact with my old partner down in Watts at Southeast Division.
Mike goes on this ride-along and sees three people get shot, one guy get killed, and the news didn't cover it, and he was just shocked by that. He talked to gang members and victims and detectives and gang officers and patrol, and a wide variety of people in that ride-along, and he came back from it going like, wow, I never knew this existed. Eight miles from my house, he lives on the Strand in Hermosa. Polar opposite neighborhoods, right?