 Welcome to the OG pod. I am Scott Bernstein, your host. This is another quick hitter edition and the headline says it all. The Blue Wave has finally hit Michigan. The Pagan's Blue Wave expansion effort. The Pagan's Motorcycle Club since 2018 has been expanding the brand. An initiative, a mandate issued by the enigmatic biker Don Keith Conan, the barbarian Richter. The Pagan's top shot caller decided to expand Pagan's nation around the country. It's been expanding at a rapid pace over the last five years. The Midwest has been an area the Pagans have never been in before. They started in Ohio. It now looks like as of the spring of 2023, they landed in Michigan. There has been some social media buzz of people that are claiming to be Pagans in Michigan, jumping on social media and claiming that Pagans have arrived. But it was really only a matter of time before they butted heads with the Outlaws, which is the, you know, the big brand name national biker club here in Michigan, in Detroit, as well as other parts of the state. They've really controlled in terms of the national biker landscape. They've really controlled the Midwest and Michigan for, you know, 50 years. The High Women is the biggest club in Michigan, but they are more of like a local homegrown club. They don't have the national or international profile that the Outlaws have. But a couple weeks ago in Flint, Michigan, there was a biker rally known as Bikes on Bricks. And I guess four Pagans were cornered by a group of Outlaws and were assaulted. And that the Pagans, at least two of the four Pagans got their vests taken, their cuts stolen, and the Outlaws took it as like a trophy. I don't know really what this is foreshadowing other than this is kind of par for the course of what we've seen from the Blue Wave over the last five years, going into patches of the country that they've never been and disrupting kind of the natural water things in those areas and then getting into scuffles, most of them violent in terms of not just verbal altercations, but physical violence and in some cases, actual murders and killings that have occurred around the country because of this Blue Wave, butting heads with the Outlaws as well as the Hells Angels and the Banditos. But it stayed out of Michigan. Michigan has always been Outlaws regulated control territory. Again, when it comes to the national biker landscape. But the Pagans are here right now. And only time will tell what that means. But I guess if the Pagans were moving west, going into the West Coast, they were going up into parts of New England. They'd never been in before parts of New Jersey going into Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado. I guess it was really only maybe a matter of time before they landed in Michigan and tried to test the metal of the Outlaws. So we'll see what happens. But that first meeting of the minds, if you will, of the two clubs seeing each other didn't end well for the Pagans. And the Outlaws are saying, you know, Michigan is Outlaw territory. So we'll keep tabs on what's going on with the Blue Wave in general, and then specifically what's happening on what's going on in Michigan with the Outlaws and Pagans. Brewing tensions, escalating tensions that boiled over in Flint, Michigan, which is about an hour, hour and a half out of Detroit and is a factory town and is an area where there's always been a lot of biker activity. So we'll be we'll be keeping tabs on it for you. For Jimmy, we'll be back on the long form podcast later this week. And for Ben behind the glass, I'm Scott Bernstein, OG Podd, out.