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ROR 164: Statewide Lockdown · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if the
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  Speaker 1: present Department of Correction read an in state prison to
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  Speaker 1: accept this call, crass zero.
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  Speaker 2: This is Randall bob Aka read on you, Randy. I'm
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  Speaker 2: currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years for
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  Speaker 2: capital murder and arm robbery now and finally at a
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  Speaker 2: level three fucking Air Correctional Center sowa's throw from where
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  Speaker 2: I grew up. If you have any questions or comments
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  Speaker 2: a voicemail line. That number is one eight eight eight
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  Speaker 2: five Zuit four one nine three suit. You can also
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  Speaker 2: visit my website which is new and improved and got
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  Speaker 2: different features and whatnot at deput deft red on your
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  Speaker 2: Randy dot com. I hope you do. Let's get started
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  Speaker 2: with the podcast. Well, folks, you have my apologies, uh
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  Speaker 2: that you did not hear my dulcet tones last week.
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  Speaker 2: Apologize for that. Unfortunately we got caught with our pants down.
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  Speaker 2: Became my editor. We didn't have, you know, wanting the
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  Speaker 2: can or anything. But in our defense, I did just
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  Speaker 2: get transferred, and you know, it's the back and forth
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  Speaker 2: and getting things set up and getting my stuff and everything.
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  Speaker 2: Though I do hope that you enjoyed hearing from the
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  Speaker 2: lady from California. You'll forgive me, but I can't remember
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  Speaker 2: her name. I'm sorry. You know, we thought that a
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  Speaker 2: different perspective, even though that was original, you know, content
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  Speaker 2: from prison audio and my editor's chain. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: thought y'all might enjoy just, you know, hearing something, because
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  Speaker 2: by the time we got off of State Widelock, there
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  Speaker 2: was literally just no time. But yeah, State Widelock, they're
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  Speaker 2: just hurting. Things have been getting crazy here in the
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  Speaker 2: state of Virginia. You know, you have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys come here from out of state, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: because they see white guys and black guys and you know,
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  Speaker 2: Spanish guys and Asian guys like all hanging out making
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  Speaker 2: meals and doing business and you know, living in the
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  Speaker 2: cells with one another and all that. You know, mostly
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  Speaker 2: out West especially, you know, the white guys are with
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  Speaker 2: the white guys, the black guys are with the black guys,
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  Speaker 2: the Spanish guys with the Spanish guys, and there's a
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  Speaker 2: little crossover between Spanish and white. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the blacks are completely along. You know, they've
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  Speaker 2: got their island and then the other races kind of
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  Speaker 2: have there. So they come here to Virginia and they're like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's soft here, it's weak here. I can't
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  Speaker 2: tell it. In two weeks, in a two week time
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  Speaker 2: span before we went on lock. So it's been about
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  Speaker 2: a month now. You had three MS thirteen gang members
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  Speaker 2: attacked five coos at Walling Church. It actually made the
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  Speaker 2: national news. I know it was on News Nation there.
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  Speaker 2: It made the local news here in Virginia. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if it made CNN or MSNBC or whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: they stand up three of them and they beat the
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  Speaker 2: hell out of two more. They put five Three MS
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  Speaker 2: thirteen's put five staff members in the hospital. Now the
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  Speaker 2: kind of hospital stay where you go in for a
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  Speaker 2: couple of hours, you get a few stitches and then
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  Speaker 2: you you know, you go back home, you know, like
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  Speaker 2: they stayed there for a minute, like them boys put
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  Speaker 2: work in for real. Then like three or four days
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  Speaker 2: after that, here at my new prison Buckingham, you had
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  Speaker 2: two CEOs got stabbed up down in a building. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if there's any truth to what I'm about
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  Speaker 2: to say. It's just simply inmate dot com. But I
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  Speaker 2: heard the reason why was because they had made a
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  Speaker 2: deal with a game remember to bring in you know packages,
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  Speaker 2: you know, drugs, cell phone blah blah blah, and you
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  Speaker 2: know they got the money, but then they refused to
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  Speaker 2: provide the service and actually bring it in. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: the higher up sent one of his youngins at them
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  Speaker 2: and they got stabbed up. Then like a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days after that, you had a CEO at I believe
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  Speaker 2: it was either green Rock or Greensville got stabbed. And
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  Speaker 2: then on the Wednesday that they actually locked us down,
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  Speaker 2: I'm outside. I go out, I got my leg work out,
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  Speaker 2: and I've got the fifteen pounds dumbbells in my hand
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  Speaker 2: and I'm actually running around the track when I you know,
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  Speaker 2: the CEOs come out, start blowing the whistle and you know,
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  Speaker 2: God start heading up towards the gate and everything. I've
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  Speaker 2: got my headphones on, so I couldn't even actually hear
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  Speaker 2: the whistle. I just kind of see what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: I dropped the weights, I pulled the headphones off, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, yo, what's going on. It's like, man, they
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  Speaker 2: come out and told us to lock down, So I
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  Speaker 2: grabbed the ways back. I run down someone where they're
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  Speaker 2: supposed to be and I run back in. I immediately
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  Speaker 2: get on the kiosk, shoot the email to my wife, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're going on lock I don't know if we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get our video visit today. Jumped in the shower real fast,
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  Speaker 2: started taking my shower. Of course, the CEOs come in.
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  Speaker 2: They're screaming at me to get out the shower, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like brom, I was on the reck yard, I'm
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  Speaker 2: working out, I'm durnstance what I'm getting a shower. I'll
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  Speaker 2: lock down here momentarily. Just give me a minute or two.
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  Speaker 2: Thankfully they did. They could have been dicks about it
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  Speaker 2: and called it in saying I was refusing or what not.
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  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, where I know
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  Speaker 2: what policy says, and policy says, if you get outside
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  Speaker 2: reck you get a shower when you come back in.
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  Speaker 2: No matter what, it doesn't matter if we on lockdown
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  Speaker 2: or not, you still get your shower. So that lockdown, though,
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  Speaker 2: was precipitated by something that did not even happen at
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  Speaker 2: this prison. It was actually at not a way week.
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  Speaker 2: So they called us in about about nine o'clockish, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm assuming around like eight point thirty give or take.
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  Speaker 2: A female investigator at not Away Correctional Center got stabbed
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  Speaker 2: and I mean almost bled out from what I was told,
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  Speaker 2: she barely made it to the hospital in time, and
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  Speaker 2: they had to airlift her off. They had to fly
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  Speaker 2: the helicopter and pick her up flyer to VCU and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they got her into an emergency surgacy surgery
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  Speaker 2: pretty well, pretty much in the nickel tom. So they
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  Speaker 2: lock us all down. That's five, six, seven, eight, nine.
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  Speaker 2: That's in two weeks, in fourteen days, nine CEOs got stabbed.
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  Speaker 2: Nine cos had to go to the hospital, and one
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  Speaker 2: of them was absolutely life threatening, and a female at that.
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  Speaker 2: So how the sauft can the state of Viginia be?
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  Speaker 2: You know, And of course it's understandable that rich Man
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know what this, We're locking the whole
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  Speaker 2: state down. I mean they locked everybody down. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure about you know, like the work camps and whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, work must continue. But I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 2: if he wasn't working for the Department of Correction, Joe
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  Speaker 2: ass was locked in that cell and he wasn't coming
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  Speaker 2: out for nothing. I mean, they literally canceled doctor visits
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  Speaker 2: Dennis appointments, everything up here in Buckingham. They canceled my
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  Speaker 2: video visits. You know, my editor he got his canceled.
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  Speaker 2: My wife had numerous video visits counseled. Uh. My buddy
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  Speaker 2: Brian who's an actor from LA his video visit got canceled.
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  Speaker 2: All that stuff, and of course not a single one
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  Speaker 2: of them has been reimbursed by GTL for that, which
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  Speaker 2: you know, I will be raising hell over that starting
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow as soon as the Memorial Day weekend is over with,
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  Speaker 2: when they've gone back to work. I'm sure when they
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  Speaker 2: ass out, Man, it was a sucky ass lockdown. It
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  Speaker 2: was just because where I come from, up in the mountains. Look,
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  Speaker 2: if you've been listening to my podcast for any length
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  Speaker 2: of time, you know I don't have very much nice
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  Speaker 2: to say it all about the western region, you know,
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  Speaker 2: about being a red Onion Wallings, redg Keen Mountain River North, Like,
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  Speaker 2: there's not much good to say about the places. Like
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  Speaker 2: when I first got to Keen Mountain it was all right.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's because though I had a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more freedom and so on and so forth there,
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  Speaker 2: and that the trades were actually pretty decent when I
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  Speaker 2: first got there though, that changed by the time I left,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so I like I had perspective, I had understanding,
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  Speaker 2: and I think, like you know what, I'm no longer
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  Speaker 2: than a superman. So I was definitely seeing Keen Mountain
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  Speaker 2: due some rose colored glasses. But it didn't matter. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't matter. There was only one time. There was one
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  Speaker 2: time they canceled a video visits during Locke and we,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we raised hell about that, and they actually
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  Speaker 2: came back and apologized to us, saying that, yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: video visits should not have been canceled and they will
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  Speaker 2: not be canceled again. And they wasn't. They was actually
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  Speaker 2: they were men of their word when he came to that,
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  Speaker 2: because there was numerous times. You know, I remember one incident,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I mean, dude just freaking engraved into my head.
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  Speaker 2: I've got my video visit the pod is getting their
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  Speaker 2: pod where it's like eight o'clock at night and it's
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  Speaker 2: actually with my buddy Brin, the actor from LA and
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  Speaker 2: there's a dude underneath the steps in the back of
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  Speaker 2: the pod. He's freaking od in, like I mean, he's
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  Speaker 2: overdosing hard. So they called it in and everything and
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  Speaker 2: the CEOs come on and in hard lockdown, lockdown, lockdown.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody in the pod lockdown except me because I had
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  Speaker 2: a video visit. They're literally dealing with the god Odin
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  Speaker 2: and they did not lock me down because they said
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  Speaker 2: there was no longer going to cancel video visits, and
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  Speaker 2: they meant it. So I'm thinking, you know this, it's
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  Speaker 2: definitely going to be the same way down here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we go on lock I'm gonna still get my video visits.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be able to speak to my wife. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna be able to speak to my friends who set
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  Speaker 2: up the video visit and everything, and I'm okay. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really care about lockdown. I'm used to being
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  Speaker 2: in that cell. It means nothing to me. It's just
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  Speaker 2: I have become accustomed to my video visits though. It's
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  Speaker 2: just you people out there have no idea how much
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  Speaker 2: that helps, how happy that makes me, you know, other inmates.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it is. It is an absolute true to
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  Speaker 2: get a video visit, you know, especially when you get
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  Speaker 2: fifty minutes, because let's face our phone calls are only
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  Speaker 2: twenty minutes, and there they get expensive. Like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I would love to be able to call somebody and
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  Speaker 2: just you know, talk three or four times, you know,
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  Speaker 2: an hour or so. But like I mean it, that's
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  Speaker 2: three day dollars right there for me to be able
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  Speaker 2: to do that, you know, and they just simply cannot
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  Speaker 2: afford that. Help. There's very few people in prison who
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  Speaker 2: actually can't afford that. So I want my video business.
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  Speaker 2: Like that's fifty minutes for seven dollars. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: actually get to see the person. I get to see
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  Speaker 2: their mannerisms, their expressions, you know, I get to you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially if they pick the laptop up and they walk
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  Speaker 2: me through their house, they you know, take it and
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  Speaker 2: take me outside and show me the yard or the
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  Speaker 2: street or wherever the case may be. Like I get to.
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  Speaker 2: Now that's the hell of an escape. So Wednesday morning,
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  Speaker 2: after I'm back in the shower, after I'm back in
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  Speaker 2: the cell, after my shower, I mean now maybe forty minutes,
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  Speaker 2: I see the warden making around. So I pull up
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  Speaker 2: on the door and when he comes in the part,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, hey, your newcomer, I mean, I mean, I'll
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  Speaker 2: let you. And he's like, what's up? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, uh, you know what kind of lockdown we on.
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  Speaker 2: He said, well, I don't know. What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: You don't know you're the one that had to get
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  Speaker 2: on the radio and call for the lockdown. This is
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  Speaker 2: what Richmond called and said to put us on lock
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, huh okay. And I'm like, well, look, bro am,
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  Speaker 2: I gonna get my video visit with my wife at
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  Speaker 2: three o'clock today. And he's like, I don't see why
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't. I'm all right, good, I don't you know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care about anything else. Man. You know, throughout
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  Speaker 2: the day they pass out lunch and so on and
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  Speaker 2: so forth, and guys are asking the podfreaters. Because when
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  Speaker 2: the podfreaters came out there talking to the CEOs and
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  Speaker 2: the sarch, I'm like, what's going on? And originally it
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  Speaker 2: was room or that someone here had written on a
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  Speaker 2: request form. They didn't sign their name or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: They just wrote two crips are going to murder a CEO.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why we was on lock supposedly while we
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  Speaker 2: was a lot. And I'm like that makes no sense,
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  Speaker 2: Like where you're gonna lock us down over something like that?
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  Speaker 2: First of all, if I'm an investigator and I can
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  Speaker 2: get of a quest form like that, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 2: ball that's and throw it in the trash. There's literally
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  Speaker 2: it's impossible to investigate something like that. The only way
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  Speaker 2: I think you could actually investigate that is to call
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  Speaker 2: the Virginia State Police in and say, hey, we got
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  Speaker 2: this request forum saying that two of our officers you know,
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  Speaker 2: or officer or whatever the case may be, is going
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  Speaker 2: to be stabbed and murdered. You know, like, we need
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  Speaker 2: y'all to come here and fingerprint this so we can
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  Speaker 2: find out who sent this request one and like that's
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  Speaker 2: the only reasonable way, and then they come in they
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  Speaker 2: fanger printed. Let's face it, you're you're not in prison
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  Speaker 2: unless they have multiple, multiple sets of your fingerprints, your DNA,
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  Speaker 2: I mean they have all of that. Then you call
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  Speaker 2: that person over there to the investigator and you'll be like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, look, man Walter, did you send this wood?
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  Speaker 2: What two cripts are going to do this? What pop?
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  Speaker 2: What you're going to talk? And if they don't solve
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  Speaker 2: on the moon, let send you get an ass beat
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  Speaker 2: as simple as that, Oh it's police boup cology, look
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  Speaker 2: something like that. You do something like that, I'm all
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  Speaker 2: on the police side. Whoop, we can ask get the
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  Speaker 2: information you need from them, take us off lock and
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  Speaker 2: let's go on about our damn business. That's some right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a punk. And I already know if if
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  Speaker 2: this actually did happen, if this was just one of
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  Speaker 2: those catalyst things like everything together, you have to do
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  Speaker 2: what you have to do. That that's not something net
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  Speaker 2: you can take lightly, don't you gotta do? Like I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna hold that against y'all, Like I'm not actually
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  Speaker 2: going to say anything bad to y'all about that. But
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  Speaker 2: I know if it happened, I know why it happened.
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  Speaker 2: It's some little punk ass chunky ran up a drug
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  Speaker 2: debt to those two inmates, and he can't pay. He
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  Speaker 2: doesn't really want to check in, so he tried to
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  Speaker 2: do some punks to get them locked up so he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have to pay them. That's why. You know, if
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  Speaker 2: you're a correctional officer and you listen to me, which
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  Speaker 2: quite a few dude, surprisingly and h just something like that,
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  Speaker 2: and they just balled up and throwing the trash, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's no point in doing this right here. I mean
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  Speaker 2: we was locked down. I mean they were not letting
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  Speaker 2: us out, you know, and I mean it. I almost
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  Speaker 2: lost it. So because the warden had told me that
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why you wouldn't get your video visit.
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  Speaker 2: To me, that's tantamount to you saying absolutely you're getting it.
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  Speaker 2: I ain't canceling and I'm not going to counsel it.
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  Speaker 2: So ten minutes before three o'clock, the CEO comes in
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  Speaker 2: the park and I'm like, hey, yo, brother, I got
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  Speaker 2: a video visit. He tells me, Man, dude, all video
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  Speaker 2: visits been canceled. I'm like, hell no, man. I spoke
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  Speaker 2: to the warden this morning, like he told me I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting my video visit. Like, now I want my video visit.
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  Speaker 2: Man popped this door. He's like, well, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: what to tell you. We got into it, bro. Now
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  Speaker 2: look did I take my frustration out on him, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I did. However, I did not custom him. I was
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  Speaker 2: not yelling, I was not screaming at him. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: cursing or any of those things. But I told him
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  Speaker 2: about himself, and I told him about the department. You
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  Speaker 2: have one minute remaining. I had that boy so upset,
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  Speaker 2: like he got so nervous, so scared of me that.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, he popped the door. He told him and
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  Speaker 2: opened the door just to He's like, go over there
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  Speaker 2: and tell your wife that you cannot have the video visit.
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  Speaker 2: It's been canceled and you got locked back. Man, make
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  Speaker 2: sure you locked this door. I said, all right, fine,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. He walked up out the pard and let
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  Speaker 2: me in the park. The door open. So I walk
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  Speaker 2: over to the video visit monitor and it was gone.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it said no upcoming visits today. So they
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  Speaker 2: had already canceled it. And I didn't see that man
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  Speaker 2: for a week and a half. I did apologize to
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  Speaker 2: him the other day. I thought I made him QUI
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  Speaker 2: that's the reason why we didn't have a podcast episode
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  Speaker 2: last week. All right, that's all the time we have
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