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ROR 181: I Want to Give the World Nachos · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from.
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  Speaker 2: The present Department of Correction read an in state prison
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  Speaker 2: to accept this call, crass zero. This is Randall Bob
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  Speaker 2: aka red Onion Randy. I'm currently serving one thousand, two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fourteen years for capital murder and arm robbery
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  Speaker 2: now and finally at a level three fucking in correctional
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  Speaker 2: Center soles throw from where I grew up. If you
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  Speaker 2: have any questions or comments and want to leave a
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  Speaker 2: message or whatever, I've got a voicemail line. That number
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  Speaker 2: is one eight eight eight five Zuit full one nine
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  Speaker 2: three suit. You can also visit my website which is
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  Speaker 2: new and improved and got different features and whatnot. Atta
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  Speaker 2: debut dot read on your Randy dot com. I hope
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  Speaker 2: you do. Let's get started with the podcast everybody's Read
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  Speaker 2: on Your Randy. I got a guest today. He's actually
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  Speaker 2: in the prison and the poded I man, I call
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  Speaker 2: him Razor. His real name is Kyle Hobert. Came to me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when I first got here. It's Buckingham and
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  Speaker 2: he said he heard about me, heard about the podcast
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  Speaker 2: and what I was doing, and he was unarrested, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, SA me and my editor gave him some advice,
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  Speaker 2: gave him information and you know, helping him and his
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  Speaker 2: people set it up. So I thought, why not, let's
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  Speaker 2: just put him on here, give him a platform. See
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  Speaker 2: if we can't, you know, get him some listeners straight
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  Speaker 2: out the gate. If you like what you hear, go
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  Speaker 2: check him out. He'll give you the information where that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be found at. And uh, he can be
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  Speaker 2: a bit of a weird dude, but he's he's damn entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give the boy that like. He can get out there.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes he's definitely got some weird views, but he's entertaining
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  Speaker 2: and funny as hell. So I thought y'all might actually
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it. I thought you might enjoy hearing something a
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  Speaker 2: little bit different, you know, from a different perspective and
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  Speaker 2: a different personality. I hope you enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, they're catching kittens. My name is Kyle Holbert. I
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  Speaker 3: am incarcerated, have been since two thousand and one December,
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  Speaker 3: so this December makes twenty four years for me. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 3: I am locked up for murder. It was it was
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  Speaker 3: say tragedy that never should have occurred. And I've never
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  Speaker 3: shied behind my mental health or the circumstances of the case.
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  Speaker 3: I've never hidden behind it. I did something horrible, and
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  Speaker 3: the last twenty three years I have worked extremely hard
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  Speaker 3: to become a whole person, to find a way to
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  Speaker 3: make up for what I took from the world. And
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  Speaker 3: while I can't, I don't know how that'll ever play out,
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  Speaker 3: how that will ever bounce the scales.
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  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 3: Struggled with the idea of who I am and what
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  Speaker 3: I'm leaving behind in this world. And that's where my
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  Speaker 3: podcast comes in. My sub stack. Prison culture is all
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  Speaker 3: about robbing people of hope, of desire that get some
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  Speaker 3: so beaten down to the point where they don't even
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  Speaker 3: want to try anymore. They don't want to stand up
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  Speaker 3: for what theirs when it's taken from them by the administration,
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  Speaker 3: because what's the point. Nothing's going to change, right. I
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  Speaker 3: don't believe that. I don't believe in that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I see from in here the world itself is very, very,
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  Speaker 3: very torn up. There's a lot of seriousness and a
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  Speaker 3: lot of there's a lot of seriousness about things that
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  Speaker 3: don't need to be too serious about. People have lost
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  Speaker 3: the capacity to just live in the moment and enjoy themselves.
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  Speaker 3: My subject, chest our Madness is all about trying to
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  Speaker 3: help everybody lighten up and stop being so stressed out
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  Speaker 3: they want to choke it in the air. This person
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  Speaker 3: I know that read on your Randy, is who I
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  Speaker 3: am internally grateful for forgiving me an opportunity because he
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  Speaker 3: has a huge following. He's been doing this for years
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  Speaker 3: and if you listen to him, then you're already my
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  Speaker 3: kind of people. I have first things from a more
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  Speaker 3: lighthearted side of things, but I wanted to share with
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  Speaker 3: you my so you haven't under idea of what you're
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  Speaker 3: what you're getting yourself into. I want to share one
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  Speaker 3: of the story, one of my prison stories that are
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  Speaker 3: more upbeat. I initially wrote this for a writing contest
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  Speaker 3: they about food for Vocal Dot Media, and I've gotten
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  Speaker 3: it's one.
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  Speaker 2: Of the most well reviewed things I've received. I've gotten
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  Speaker 2: more criticism from that from on a positive note than
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  Speaker 2: anyone else, and I wanted to share that with you all.
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  Speaker 2: Please forgive me.
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  Speaker 3: This is literally like one of my first couple of
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  Speaker 3: times doing recordings, So I know I'm stammering. I know
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  Speaker 3: I don't sound very professional, but hopefully I'll make you
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  Speaker 3: believe that I'm actually a real person. My story is
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  Speaker 3: called I Want to Give the World Nachos. It's a
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  Speaker 3: tale of cheesy media awesomeness. At the time that I
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  Speaker 3: wrote it, I've been locked up twenty two years, and
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  Speaker 3: I had learned that food had become very significant. It'll
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  Speaker 3: it's a very special kind of significance for inmates. For
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  Speaker 3: anyone who's ever been in prison to tell you that
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  Speaker 3: the food served there is trash, I mean, it's barely
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  Speaker 3: meats the definition of food that I understand the word.
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  Speaker 3: Most of them made who cook the food or more
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  Speaker 3: concernive stealing anything they can get in their pockets than
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  Speaker 3: they are with making sure that they're fellow and they
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  Speaker 3: get to eat as well as they do. And on
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  Speaker 3: the rare occasions that something is good is put on
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  Speaker 3: the menu, there's this huge rush to sell things. You'd
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  Speaker 3: be surprised at how much a good tray on Thanksgiving
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  Speaker 3: or Christmas can go for, with its extra meat portion
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  Speaker 3: and its cake with ice white icing. I've seen them
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  Speaker 3: go for as much as ten dollars or more, depending
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  Speaker 3: on who was selling it, or who or who was buying.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, if you might imagine food, but sulfe commisaries
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  Speaker 3: better but more expensive. The food that you you know,
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  Speaker 3: the bag of a zorritos that you that you can
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  Speaker 3: buy for you know, two blocks costs me almost three
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  Speaker 3: of ramen noodles cost me almost ten dollars. And that's
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  Speaker 3: like the basic food staple for the free world. Growing up,
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  Speaker 3: I spent most of my time in psychiatic facilities, group homes,
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  Speaker 3: foster care. I was not unfamiliar with going to bed hungry,
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  Speaker 3: So this hard shift wasn't you know, in person, wasn't
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  Speaker 3: anything new. It's actually the opposite for me when those
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  Speaker 3: rare and wonderful people that I meet in the free
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  Speaker 3: world who have shown me kindness that has led to
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  Speaker 3: me going to bed with a full belly.
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  Speaker 2: That takes a lot more getting used to than starving.
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  Speaker 2: And that's basically what the story is about. Several years ago,
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  Speaker 2: I was transferred from Vadoc to.
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  Speaker 3: Darber Corrections, where I was to I was go be
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  Speaker 3: a River North at the time. I was transferred to
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  Speaker 3: a Loud and County adult detention center where I was
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  Speaker 3: having an admitsary hearing from my habus corpus and I
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  Speaker 3: was play to mac excurity block. It had sixteen inmates.
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  Speaker 3: Of those men, two of them and I became real close,
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  Speaker 3: real quick. It happens, as you just said, you meet
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  Speaker 3: a couple of people who resonate with you, and you
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  Speaker 3: spend all your time together. While my heaviest corpus was
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  Speaker 3: the proceedings were going on, my birthday came by and
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  Speaker 3: I was blessed with by my loved ones with enough
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  Speaker 3: fund to go to commisary to purchase food stuff for
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  Speaker 3: a meal. My two friends, uh they Jay and Corey.
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  Speaker 3: They if you guys ever hear this, what's up? They
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  Speaker 3: pitched in and then they found out with my birthday,
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  Speaker 3: they threw in. We all went to the store and
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  Speaker 3: we made a pretty bad ass spread of nachos and
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  Speaker 3: what I can assure you with the most bootleg birthday
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  Speaker 3: cake you will ever ever encounter. But for us it
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  Speaker 3: was a feast. So we're sitting down to our nachos
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  Speaker 3: and I've just stout, I am.
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm one of those people who understands beyond the immediate,
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  Speaker 3: that understands that things that make me happy aren't just
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  Speaker 3: that I have something and somebody else does. And it's
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  Speaker 3: because the things that I have are possible because of
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  Speaker 3: people who care. I was only going to have this
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  Speaker 3: badass spread of nachos and a birthday cake because people
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  Speaker 3: outside of my circle, the people in the world, outside
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  Speaker 3: of here in the free world, they loved me and
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  Speaker 3: they cared enough to make sure that I had had
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  Speaker 3: the ability to go to commisary and hit something. And
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  Speaker 3: these two guys sitting with me, who'd become like brothers
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  Speaker 3: to me already and three months that we known each other,
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  Speaker 3: they had their loved ones had put given them money,
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  Speaker 3: and they use that money to make to make something
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  Speaker 3: bigger than we could have done individually. So it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: just that I was going to bed that night with
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  Speaker 3: full belly for once, but it was because I was
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  Speaker 3: sitting on a table two other guys who become part
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  Speaker 3: of my family. We pulled our resources, we made something
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  Speaker 3: that none of us could have afforded individually, and it
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  Speaker 3: was only made possible because people be on the walls
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  Speaker 3: that we lived behind cared about us. It was a
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  Speaker 3: feast made possible by kindness. And in that moment, with
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  Speaker 3: all the uncertainty stretching in front of me, with my
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  Speaker 3: habyest Corporence and how all those things were going to go.
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  Speaker 3: I was happy, perfectly happy in that moment. The only
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  Speaker 3: thing I wanted all the world was for everyone else
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  Speaker 3: in the world to feel my happiness. They were only
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  Speaker 3: sixteen men in the block that I was in. I
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  Speaker 3: was in a maxim security block sixteen people was a
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  Speaker 3: max in Eche of us had our single selves, and
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  Speaker 3: I invited all thirteen to the other guys to join us.
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  Speaker 3: I half of them. I didn't even know their names,
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  Speaker 3: never spoken to more than a couple of words to
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  Speaker 3: some of them, And it didn't matter. That night, on
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  Speaker 3: my hatching day, we shared not just the entire unit.
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  Speaker 3: And while I was watching these guys eat and hearing
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  Speaker 3: the way they were talking, you know, the jail the
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  Speaker 3: whole like jailhouse nachos, I realized I was so much
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  Speaker 3: happier right at that moment sharing all of this then
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  Speaker 3: I would have been if the three of us just
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  Speaker 3: eating them all ourselves. And that meant more to me
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  Speaker 3: than anything In that moment. At that moment, it didn't
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  Speaker 3: matter what the judge decided about behaviors. I was happier.
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  Speaker 3: The world was complete. And there are several guys you know,
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  Speaker 3: thank me. And there's one of them who you know asked,
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  Speaker 3: you know, why would you share your you know, your
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  Speaker 3: meal like this with a bunch of strangers You don't
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  Speaker 3: even know most of us, And that's a fair question.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a person sharing with anyone who's not part
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  Speaker 3: of your click is usually a trick. It's pretty lude
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  Speaker 3: to a con or, you know, some predation in one
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  Speaker 3: form or another, and a lot of us aren't accustomed
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  Speaker 3: to kindness. I gave him the only answer I had.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody likes nachos, And in that perfect moment, seeing how
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  Speaker 3: the guys in my unit were in the act of
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  Speaker 3: sharing a feat of jail health nachas, I just wanted
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  Speaker 3: in a moment, to keep the whole world notches. I
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  Speaker 3: want to give you all naches. And it's funny the
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  Speaker 3: way these things resonate, the way these things carry out
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  Speaker 3: into the universe. On my subseack, you will see my
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  Speaker 3: declaration that this is the year of the towel, and
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  Speaker 3: all the good things are happening. Last week I got
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  Speaker 3: a letter from a friend of mine who wanted to
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  Speaker 3: share something pretty staggering that it occurred. She's been playing
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  Speaker 3: this game called Dreamlight Valley. It's an online role playing
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  Speaker 3: game based with Disney characters, and she's been playing it
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  Speaker 3: for years. And the different characters that you meet in Friendship,
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  Speaker 3: Public Team make they get to ask you requests, you know,
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  Speaker 3: go find me this type of wood, or pick me
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  Speaker 3: a flower, or make me this food. And there's literally
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  Speaker 3: hundreds and hundreds, if not thousands of options they could
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  Speaker 3: choose from. One of the most recent characters that they'd
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  Speaker 3: gotten was called the Cheshire Cat, And anybody who knows
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  Speaker 3: me knows I identify as the matches Shire chess shared
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  Speaker 3: cat with the Matt Hattis Grin and you just got
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  Speaker 3: If you want to know more about that, you're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have to check out my substack. But last week he
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  Speaker 3: asked her, out of all the hundreds of thousands of
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  Speaker 3: things he could have asked her for, And then all
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  Speaker 3: the time she's been playing, this has never been asked
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  Speaker 3: for before, and has never been asked for since, the
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  Speaker 3: Chesshire Cat asked her for nachos. And she wrote to
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  Speaker 3: me and told me about this and said, if that
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  Speaker 3: isn't a sign that the Chesshire Madness is not already
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  Speaker 3: spreading throughout the multiverse, I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I want to give you all nachos, and I hope
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  Speaker 3: that this story is a major smile. I hope the
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  Speaker 3: anecdote from my friend Jade and her travels in Dreamlight
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  Speaker 3: Valley it's a major smile. I hope that you sign
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  Speaker 3: on to my site and you see the stuff that
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  Speaker 3: I'm going, that I'm doing, and you like what you see,
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  Speaker 3: and that you'll follow me and you'll share me with
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  Speaker 3: your friends. Because all I, ultimately, all I want is
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  Speaker 3: when I die, for people to remember me. I want
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  Speaker 3: to leave behind something better than what I took from it.
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  Speaker 3: I want to leave behind it a memory that I
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  Speaker 3: lived the life worth living. And that's why I do
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  Speaker 3: what I do. That's why I'm fighting for clemency, That's
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  Speaker 3: why I'm fighting for freedom. And I really really appreciate
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  Speaker 3: right on your Randy giving me this opportunity to give
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  Speaker 3: me this platform to speak my piece. I really hope
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  Speaker 3: to see some or all of you on Cheshire Madness,
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  Speaker 3: and thanks for listening. With nothing else, I hope I
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  Speaker 3: have brightened your day. I am the Kyle and I've
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  Speaker 3: approved this message.
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  Speaker 2: Just west of the River, Mississippi mud, don't then't even mind, Babs.
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  Speaker 1: And on the road it's where I found freedom the
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  Speaker 1: hotel roads.
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  Speaker 3: It's where I found here.
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  Speaker 1: I spent my old life from there, I.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be, it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a long way.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's gonna take it. It's gonna take.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna take my heart and soul, my art.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: We started off before I started school. Mam and Dad said,
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  Speaker 1: where heading south?
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  Speaker 2: Where gonna move?
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  Speaker 1: What? I hung on for a year or two after
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  Speaker 1: what I forgot that house and trailer in trop I
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  Speaker 1: spent my old line. It's gonna be, it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be a long.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna tell you. It's gonna tell you. It's gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you art. So alright, I'll wanna.
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  Speaker 3: See it now in memory or in the night on
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  Speaker 3: a long drive.
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  Speaker 2: Someday I'll put off the roads wearing as in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: and I'll find that little church.
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  Speaker 3: For my family field.
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  Speaker 1: I spend my life. Food, it's hot, it's home. It's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a long. It's gonna it. Don't say it.
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  Speaker 1: Don't take you it don't be it don't be, don't be.
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  Speaker 1: It's don't say it. It's don't say.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's uh, that's all the time we have
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  Speaker 2: for now. I appreciate you listening to me more than you'll,
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  Speaker 2: uh you'll probably ever know. I just want to let
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  Speaker 2: you know. You know, don't forget to check out my
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