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ROR 126: Keen Mountain · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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Hello, this is a pre big call for US random and the Pinian Department
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of Corrections read a new state person to accept this call PROS zero. This
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is Randall Bob. I'm currently serving once out the two hundred and fourteen years
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for capital murder right on your state person in State of Virginia in the USA.
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This is my podcast, Right on your rand I hope you enjoy listening
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to me today. This is Randall Bomb. I'm currently serving one two hundred
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and fourteen years for capital to murder and on arbery and Keene Mountain Correctional Center
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in Oakwood, Virginia. This is my podcast Right on your Randy. That
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is right, y'all heard. I've been finally transferred to a medium security prison,
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no longer in supermax and I can't thank God enough for it. But
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a little bit of business take care of first. I have a toll free
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number if you would like to call, you know, leave a message,
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encouragement, ask a question, whatever it may be. The number is one
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eight eight five two four, one nine three two. That's in the United
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States. Anyone outside of the US. Simply put a plus in front of
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the one and it's the exact same number and hope to hear from me.
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I apologize that it's taken me so long to get back to recording. Twenty
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twenty three was pretty much the worse here in my life. I'm not gonna
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go into all the reasons why. You know I will, and you know,
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following podcasts here and there, you know, I talk about a lot
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of the stuff that I was dealing with and going through there. But I've
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been gone so long. I want to I want to do I want to
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do a positive podcast. Let y'all know that. You know, I'm okay.
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I'm out of Red Onion, I'm out of Walling's Ridge. I'm no
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longer there, and I couldn't be more happy. You know, when I
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got here to King Mountain, Damn, it's it's such you know, it's
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such a culture shock. It's it's so different. The prisons are different,
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you know, the buildings are different, the yard is like everything about it
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is different. It's an old school prison. I'm wearing boots. I'm wearing
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actual boots. Yeah, granted for you know people on the street. State
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boots would suck for y'all. You know, they're they're hard soul, They're
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I mean, they're one inch thick solid rubber soles made from recycled up car
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tires. You've got this really stiff, cheap leather uppers and everything, and
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they you know, they're they're like a like a doodoo brown in color.
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And they got shoelaces. And I'm loving it. I'm flat out loving it.
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I get to wear boots, you know, as I get to wear
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something on my feet that feels solid. I'm used to you know them they
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crappy boat shoes, you know that we call Jackie Chan's or you know the
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velcrow shoes that they sold on commissary up there for damn here forty dollars that
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you get them wet once and they basically just disintegrate and melt, which you
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know is a waste of money. Look, I got jeans, actual blue
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jeans. They got a button on them, they got a metal zipper.
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You know, I have to be careful because I'm used to wearing nurses grips
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all the time, and I don't want to get something small and precious caught
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in the middle of the teeth that's going to hurt like health. So I've
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had to be very careful. Seriously. I'll stand there in a porcelain toilet.
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By the way, no more metal from me. I've graduated, Devin,
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I can I can defecate and irritate and an actual porcelain toilet. Man,
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y'all don't know how good that feels on my ass. And it's just
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like, so I'm not trying to be too descriptive, but I'm trying to
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be descriptive at the same time. So like, you know, when I
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go to zip, like I'm pushing everything in, I'm pulling the zipper out
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as far as it can go, and I'm like, I'm being extremely careful,
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I'm keeping one eye on it. And it's just it's just funny,
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you know, to me. You know, I've got a button up shirt.
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I don't even know what it's not Dentim. It resembles dnim, but
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it's not actually Dentim. And it's just I feel like a human being.
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Now. It's amazing just how much clothes, how good it can make you
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feel like I'm wearing prison stay clothes. Like, trust me, anybody in
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the fashion world tried to wear this, like, they would be absolutely horrified.
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I'm telling you right now, Like if Heidi Klomb or somebody had to
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wear these clothes like that when they took them off at night, they would
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crawl in a shower like a rape victim, Like they would be that horrified
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at it. But for me, simply because I have perspective, simply because
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I've spent the last twenty five twenty six years, you know, in a
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supermax prison wearing scrubs, like I can put my hand in a pocket,
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you know I can. God, it feels so good, you know.
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On the food is slightly better here. It's not great, you know,
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it could and it should be better, but it's better than enough. Top.
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You know. I have to constantly tell the people here who you know,
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who cripe and complain about the food, Like, bro, it's much
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worse. It's much much worse at red Onion in the ridge, Like man,
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stop this, man, y'all, don't y'all really don't know how good
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y'all have it here? You know, this one boy was crying like,
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man, I would rather be it red Onion. I would rather be it
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Walling's Ridge. I hate this place. I said, all right, you
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see that ceo over there, Yeah, well walk over there and punch him
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in the mouth. I guarantee if they will accommodate you quick fastening, a
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hurry and your desire to go to red Onion or the ridge. Uh uh,
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you ain't gonna do it. No, I ain't gonna do that.
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Then, well you don't want to go there bad enough, you know,
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not talking to him. You know, it's just like it's so much better
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here. I get to go out on the yard, and it's the yard
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is actually huge. The smallest yard we got we used to be one giant
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wreck yard that everybody would you know, everybody would go out to uh them
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days over with now uh, you know, simply because of all the gangs
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and the gang violence and all that stuff. But me personally, I say,
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let them fight, you know, because it's it's gonna it's gonna stop
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a lot of the bullsh they have to deal with and we have to deal
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with. Let them fight. But they see things a little bit differently than
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I do. So I'm ass out on that wish. So the smallest yard
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is bigger than the entire prison at red Onion or Waller's Ridge, you know,
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I mean it's the smallest reckyard we have is the entire red Onion prison
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would fit inside it. And then you've got two huge yards. It's when
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I go on the lower yard from the building the front of the building.
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For me to walk all the way down to the lower yard and all the
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way across the lower yard to get at the back where you've got the weight
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pile at, it takes me five minutes of walking just to get there.
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That's how big it is. And I'm loving it. I love I've been
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lifting weights. I know I'm an absolute proponent and I will continue to always
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be. You know of Convict Conditioning and Paul Wade, you know his his
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workout routines and everything, because they got me strong, Like they really did
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get me strong. It's just they weren't building the muscle on me that I
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want. And that's simply because I can't get the you know, the sausages
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and the cheese and the you know, the tuna, fish and the macle
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on everything every single week that I would need to get big on calisthenics.
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So you know, I've started lifting weight since I've been here, and I'm
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starting to get jacked. You know, my chest is popping out, my
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damn triceps, I'm not gonna my trups look amazing. I mean, I'm
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getting bigger, I'm stronger, I'm faster, I'm better, I'm healthier,
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I feel better mentally. I didn't realize. I mean, I knew I
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was undistressed at the Ridge, especially the ridge like a four. That part
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was the worst part I've ever been. And there was just so many fake
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killers. And yeah, I'm not going into all that because I'm probably gonna
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have to start cussing if I do, and y'all don't want to hear me
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doing that, and I don't want to do it my damn self. But
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I mean, I'm just I feel so free, Like I look forward to
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waking up in the morning. You know. When I was at the Ridge,
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I got the psychiatryself there to put me on Benadrill just so I could
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get an extra three or four hours of sleep every day so I didn't have
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to deal with the place, so I didn't have to face it. Like
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now I got off the Benda drill. I'm no longer taking to bend drill,
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I'm no longer taking the lexa pro from a PTSD. I just I
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feel so much better. I enjoy waking up in the morning, you know,
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I enjoy walking around, Like I get to go to the library.
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I don't have to wait for the books to come to me. I can
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actually turn in a slip of paper. They saying, hey, I want
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to visit the library on this day. And I get to go, and
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I get to walk over to the library and it's actually a man, there's
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a good library. They got the entire back wall is you got one half
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of it from Florida ceiling is all fantasy and the other half of science fiction.
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I'm not the biggest science fiction guy, but they do have a lot
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of Star Wars books, and I do like reading the Star Wars novels,
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so I'm going to give me a couple of them. I got some Ed
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green Wood books the last time I was over there. I want to get
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some different ones this time. But you know, like I go to the
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chow hall, you know, and there's a couple of guys. We sit
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at the same table and we eat. We got this old guy named Red.
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Like, let me tell you, people, there's probably going to be
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about ten separate episodes just on Red alone. This is a character, man,
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He's a character. He's been in prison for forty seven years. He's
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been in prison two years longer than I've been alive. He fought in the
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Korean War, he fought in the Vietnam War, and he was a paratrooper.
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This man, he led a very interesting and exciting life. And you
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know he's killed thirteen people and stabbed thirteen people. You know, not he's
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killed and stabbed thirteen people. Excuse me, I said that wrong, since
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he's been in prison and that's what he ran his time up because he when
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he first came into the system, he only had eleven years, you know,
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and now he's forty seven years later. And you know, this old
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bastard's just a crazy and just just willing to stab somebody the day as he
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was back then. And you know, I've had to call him his ass
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down a couple of times. I literally had to get in between him and
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a child molestic because he was gonna beat the damn child molested death. I'm
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like, come on, Rady, you got to stop mess man. Call
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you know. Yeah, he's a piece of shit, man, but you
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know, just let it go, buddy, let it go. Man.
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I'm you know, he's he's a damn who. You know, I'm I'm
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loving it, you know, It's I'm in the best part up here.
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I get wreck all day long. I'm about to get visits. Uh My
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buddy Michael one and uh PAULI they're coming to uh visit me the end of
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April. I've got some other visits coming. Other people around the world are
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coming. Another guy from Australia's coming to visit me, and uh in May.
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I've got a buddy of mine, David and his wife's Sarah, are
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getting ready to come visit me uh in about two weeks so that they will
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be them two will be the very first visits I've ever had in my life
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in prison. You know. The cool thing is they they only live like
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two hours up the road in Rowanoke, Virginia, So you know, like
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I mean, just I feel so much better here. You know, I
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feel like a damn human again. Like I feel like I can be a
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man again. I feel free. You know. I've told several people here
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like they look at me like I'm crazy, Like I feel like I'm on
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vacation, like I'm not even in prison, you know. And it comes
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down to perspective, you know, I know how much worse it gets.
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A lot of these guys they don't they don't have a clue how much worse
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it gets, you know, so when they get to crying, they complain,
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and I just like, I'm not trying to hear it. Man,
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Like, I'm loving it, buddy, I'm having a damn ball here,
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you know. And if you're not, it's because you choose not to.
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I choose to have fun. I choose to live life and enjoy no matter
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where I'm at. I officially asked Nick, that's short from Nicole, by
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the way, to marry me, you know. She said yes, you
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know, she she couldn't deny my Southern sexiness any longer. So we're we're
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in the process of getting the paperwork and everything done so that we can't get
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married. That might be a little bit of a pain and ass to do
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because she's from another country. We're definitely gonna get it done, and I'm
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definitely gonna marry her because that woman, God himself couldn't put into words how
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I feel about her, you know. And it's just I mean, Danser
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just on it up and up, you know. Yeah, the second loot
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log did get shot back down again, but it's going to be back,
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you know. It's my time in prison is coming to a close. I
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feel it you know, I need to maintain and you know, I had,
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I had. I had a really close call earlier this week. I'm
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not gonna go into detail over it, but uh, you know, I
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definitely will in a later podcast. You know, but someone stole my wife's
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phone number and called her and you know, tried their hand and pulling her
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and that. Yeah, that's just it's it's just some lines in life you
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don't cross, you know, and that's one of them. I don't.
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I didn't mind you trying to take my wife from me, Like if you
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if you think you got the game to puller, like, hell, I'll
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put you on the phone. Just be a man and ask me. Don't
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steal. You know what I'm saying, don't. Don't. Don't be a
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coward and sneak into somebody's player or sell or whatnot and get information and then
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go try your hand like that's that ain't cool, you know what I'm saying.
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That's that's my problem with that one. But uh, you know,
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I'll go into detail about that later. I'm just I'm loving it people.
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I cannot begin to tell you how much I'm enjoying this place. You know,
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you got to you got a few little hiccups here there, and that's
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to be expected. I'm gonna have that on the street when I give this
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time back and come home. You know, whenever that may be, You're
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always gonna have hiccups and hiccups in life. But this is the thing.
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Go. I want you to do something. I want you to look over
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your life just kind of. It doesn't have to be a long, long
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drawn out process. Take a somewhat quick snapshot of your life and think about
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some of the bad things that's happened to you. Where you raped, where
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you beat up, where you robbed, where you molested, where you wrongfully
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accused of something, where you embarrassed, Did you get caught in a lie
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like kind of think of the things bad that's happened to you, broken relationships,
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was you cheated on? You know that kind of thing. And I
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want you to do something. After you do that, think of this.
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You're still alive, You're still there to think about these things, so that
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means you survived them. And if you've survived all of those things, it's
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made you a little bit stronger. Whether you're aware of it yet or not,
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it's made you stronger. Every hardship you go through in life that does
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not kill you, that does not break you. It made you stronger.
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Think about that the next time you go through something, look at it from
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this perspective. This is just making me a better person. This is making
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me a better man. This is making me a better woman. You know.
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This is making me a better Christian. This is making me a better
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muscle. This is making me a better this the better that it doesn't matter.
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It's making you better. And focus on that instead of the hell that
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you face. That's where people go wrong. You're constantly focusing on the bad,
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the bad, the bad. You be aware of the bad, but
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focus on the good. You know, don't live your life like a damn
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ostrich with your head in the sand. Be cognitive of your life. Be
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cognitive of your past mistakes. You know the things that we're done to you,
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and so on and so forth. But choose to focus on the good.
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Choose to focus on Hey, this made me better, This made me
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smarter, This made me love a little bit more, This made me care
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about people a little bit more. Because when you do that, you'll be
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just like me. You'll be walking in a prison where everybody else is crying
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and complaining and about everything, and you'll feel like you're on a vacation because
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at the end of the day, I'm on a vacation because this prison ain't
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gadget on Red Onion or Walling's Ridge. It's so much better here. You
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have one minute remaining, you know, the commissary is one hundred times better.
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The hygiene up here is one hundred times better. The showers, the
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windows, the chair, the sell I'm not done with this episode, trust
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me. There's going to be more to follow about how good this place is
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and about how perspective can it should change your life.