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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 1_ EPISODE #168_ HOST VISIONARY QUEEN ANGELA · DA CREW Podcast

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founded in May of twenty twenty by Queen Angela. It featured one two one
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two. Here we go time right, it's my time light, it's my
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time to live, It's my kind of well. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome,
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Welcome. I want to welcome you guys to another episode of The Crew
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podcast. I tell you, it's always a pleasure and an honor to be
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able to come before you guys, every opportunity I get. So, of
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course, I am not Natalie. I am the visionary Angela Thomas Smith,
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and tonight I am standing in y'all. You just have to be ready all
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the time because you never know what may happen. You never know when you
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may have to step in. I tell you, I stay with something that
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I can talk about because there's always something pressing that's going on around this great
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United States of America. I tell you, there's so much going on.
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For those that do not know who I am, I'm effectually known as as
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the Queen of Collaboration. My name is Angela Thomas. I am the visionary
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of The Crew podcast as well as Aspiring Author's magazine. And of course I
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would not be doing a lot of this if it had not been for a
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A l a C. Which is the African American Author Literacy Awareness Campaign.
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I truly believe that in order to see change, we have to be that
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change that we desired to see. I tell you, I am back in
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school, y'all, working on my masters and had an opportunity to mix my
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oh my god, my passion with my school work. Y'all know, for
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the last year and a half or so, I've been working with some individuals
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that's incarcerated and I was able to get the opportunity to present a proposal through
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a project in class, So I'm excited about that. Tonight, we're gonna
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talk about some of those things. I know, y'all. Oftentimes y'all hear
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we talk about corruption, and that's exactly what my proposal is about. And
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my proposal is aimed to address the corruption within the parole process and the judicial
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system of Texas. It highlights the problems and the consequences of corruption, proposed
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solutions such as establishing anti corruption task Force, implementing transparent preency measures targeting governmental
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officials, judicial authorities, and the general public as as well. I also
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include a call to action that urges the support of legislation to reform the active
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participation and advocacy a lot of the things that a lot of the organizations are
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doing, and I feel like if these steps are taken, these are things
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that can help restore public trust, ensure fairness, as well as comeback corruption
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within the parole process. It's not something that's gonna happen overnight, and there
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has to be goals put in place, and then we have to be specific
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about who we want to make sure get this information. We have to make
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sure that we include the government, the government officials, these people that we
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elect into our office, those legislators, those that can address the the key
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decision makers are the ones that we need. Legislators, senators, policy makers,
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I tell you, and the list goes on. But we have to
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start. We cannot sit still. And the most important thing is that we
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must provide a comprehensive and analyze, analyzed, multiple form uh and show these
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people how corruption has been prevalent in the state of Texas and the parole system.
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And we have to show how bribery has taken place, favoritism, nepotism,
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how political influence, all those things, and present data. Y'all.
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I've been I've looked up different cases and different things. So i have data
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that I'm gonna be sharing and I'm gonna support all of my my stuff with
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with facts. So I'm excited about this project. I'm excited. I'm excited.
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I'm excited I actually get an opportunity to give individuals an opportunity to understand
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and exactly what it is that I've been talking about, and get an opportunity
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to understand the consequences of corruption, as well as an opportunity to hear what
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the proposed solution is. So I'm excited, y'all. I'm excited I have
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someone here with me tonight to share a little bit on this topic that I
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have been talking about. He is someone that I have gathered a lot of
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my information, been able to gather a lot of my information from. He's
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been able to connect me with a lot of these individuals that's incarcerated. So,
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without further prolonging the show, I'm gonna go ahead and turn it over
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to mister Cornell. Drummer, mister Carnell, if you would please, and
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if you would speak up so that could hear you very much having me on
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your show. On the show, name is Corny. I'm inclocerated, you
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know what I'm saying to take the prison system for thirty three years and I'm
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from San Antonio, Beer County, Texas on a crime of murder in another
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case, but he living in a control system. It has been incarcerated it.
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You know, I've went through a lot of dealing with the legal system
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and trying to understand, you know what I'm saying, the ramifications of how
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to get out of prison. But come to find out our system is so
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packed with so much corruption and so much favoritism and so much you know,
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served in our system that it's not easy be indy visuals like I sailed to
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get out of prison anymore. More or less, it's more easier for us
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to stay in prison because of the complications of trying to get out of prison.
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Okay, So it's for as you know, the address you know,
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the corruption in our state of Texas. It has been discovered that our system
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is placked with Grand Jerry racketeer and you know racial juryman's conduct, you know,
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lime lab, cris parole board, you know marking our point system numbers
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to be not individual's paroleed. And you know, our criminal justice system is
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so short a staff, and our medical system is so so short a staff,
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and that you know, people are now sleeping on the doors and you
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know in the medical facilities and even in the units. Now man, so
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you know, to address anything, any form of corruption, all of this
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has been brought to attention of our government down here. You know, I'm
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part of a pre Texas campaign man and the last three months or so now
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I can say that, but the Free Texts campaign man has addressed this matter
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to the governor, to the state representative, to Texas senators, the director
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of the Parole Board, the director of the TDC staff, and everybody.
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And still to this day, ma'am, nothing is being done. Not one
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thing is being done. Okay, well, I do see, I do
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see where the State of Texas, uh Harris County, I think it is.
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They are actually gonna be spending eleven million dollars to send prisoners to the
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great state of Mississippi when those eleven million dollars could be used right here in
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the state of Texas and can be used with rehabilitation those people that they're sending
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to texts from Texas to Mississippi. Why can't they look at how they can
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transform these people back into society and these people can be working and paying paying
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restitution and paying different whatever so that they can get back into society. I
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don't understand how you could just throw away eleven million dollars to another state when
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your state already needed. It's just like, it's what's going on in America
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right now. You know, we given billions of dollars to other countries when
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we are hurting right here in America. You have people sleeping under the bridge
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you have people sleeping on in in cardboard boxes, you have people sleeping in
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tents, you have people that I mean, it's ridiculous, but this is
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the world that we're living in and it's all about money. And if you
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don't have money, your voice is not heard. Your voice is not heard,
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you're brushed under the rug, your throw to the wayside, and you're
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just another number to them. And that's what's happening. What you mentioned.
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I'm hearing cases of suicide, some forms of homicide that they cover up and
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try to make it look like suicide, but the bare fact is that they
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cannot. They cannot patrol and do what they need to do and check on
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these people like they supposed to and even do their rounds. I've had inmates
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tell me that there's been twelve officers to a facility that houses thirty five hundred
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house. That is a safety violation for not only the inmates, but a
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safety violation for the correction officers. And see a lot of people ask how
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do you know all this stuff? Because once again, I was a correction
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officer. Also, I was a correction offer for south Fordton County back in
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the early I want to say early two thousands, I was a correction officer.
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I also was a security officer for the police department. So I've had
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a lot of experience. A lot of people just don't believe I've done a
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lot of the stuff that I've done that I have. I used to do
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security for the police department. That's how i got into becoming a correction officer.
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So I've been on all sides of this this spectrum. If you want
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to say, when we talk about the food, we talk about the living
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condition, we talk about a lot of stuff, and a lot of this
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goes back to corruption. You know, we can't we can't brush aside all
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of the corruption that's going on because again it goes back to a dollar.
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You talk about eleven million dollars that they've sent into Mississippi and then not to
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mention other states that they may be doing the same thing too. When you
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got innocent people, you got innocent people that have been proven innocent, that
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are fighting to get out and have spent ten, fifteen to twenty thirty years
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in prison wrongfully because these people will not do their jobs, and then they
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keep brushing them off, they keep doing whatever they're doing to keep brushing them
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under the rug and keep to keep having to make a decision on their cases.
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And how can that be done when they rushing they hurry up and brush
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their hands of y'all Attorney general when he should be up under the jail with
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with all that crooked stuff that he done. I don't understand. How can
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you? Okay, not like I don't understand. So go ahead, I'm
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I'm gonna move out the way because I get I get passionate about this because
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again this is something now because you are absolutely you're absolutely correct, Ma'm okay.
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I started coming to prison prison, uh the pre prisoner set nineteen Okay,
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back then we had what we call the mandatory supervision, and back then
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the federal government had the prison systems. Back then and back then now everything
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that was under the federal government for what TDC is concerned with automatically minnitory to
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what good time for that time work time? People, they all mount of
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your center. With that being said, the rage of officers the inmates had
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to match up because if the inmates to rich the inmates didn't match up,
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they have to close the whole system down. Was that ninety five percent capacity
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back then and ninety four percent, the whole system shut down, and what
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they would do is put buses outside of each unit in the system and make
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sure that they let go everybody who was eligible to be set free. So
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with that being said, that's what they called the revolving door because back then
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you have people getting now coming back to prison, getting out, coming back
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to prison. But the issue turned out to be this when they gave the
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issue to the state and it turned into frontred and fifty percent capacity. That's
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when they started building all these systems, these units and filling up these units
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with inmates. Okay, so when they want to fill up the units with
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inmates. When the state took over control, the state just relinquished all responsibilities
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to maintain the eighth Amendment, which is to keep people free and call union
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punishment. You have people downing here from medical conditions. You have people you
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know what I'm saying, sleeping on the floors. You have people in up
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there. I'm talking about m parole as a joke. You know, don't
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nobody make parole in the state of texts? Wow, Because it's the more
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to billion dollar enterprise now. So now our government he's refusing to issue an
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emergency release the way we did back in nineteen eighty five, the same way
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he got the power right now to relieve the system of all these in nations.
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Elan, we got special needs people up there the cave when wrong people
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got terminal counsel. These people are not a prince of society. We got
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people who are over there incorported thirty forty years in prisons. Okay, we
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have people up there, man that parole bo lads during nine eighty five percent
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of the term. We have people up here, a man that's ready to
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make parole right there, but the government will not issue an emergency release.
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Instead, what he's doing is taking people off the count and sending them to
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Mississippi and paying eleven million dollars to house them over in Mississippi while he continued
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to maintain the system that he got right now with a shortness of staff.
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So the day we had two wardens standing out there beating child, man the
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warden't have to beat child because we so short a staff. We had six
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officers work. How many people are undred? How many people? For how
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many people on this about two hundred twenty five twenty five hundred people? Six
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people one of a run of twenty five hundred people. Man, the one
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has to beat out. So that's how short I found here. The system
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is bad and the need if my government don't do nothing to them, Man,
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this is gonna be bad. People are gonna be sleeping on the floors
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begin, ma'am. And our county jails are gonna ever be corroded like they
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are full of inmates. So that's our problem down here, man. I
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mean, it truly looks like someone needs to take a look at really what's
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going on, because everybody can't be all bad that cannot be rehabbed, cannot
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have a second chance, like I've heard so many people come on this show,
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and it can't be where people sit and make up these things because y'all
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come from different units. Y'all are spread all over Texas. Some of y'all
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are thousands of miles apart from each other. But y'all stories are the same.
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Everything that y'all say, it's like a pattern, and it's not even
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the same words. It's the concept. It is the It's crazy because we
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see a pattern here, we see what's going on, but it's like nobody
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is stepping up, nobody's doing nothing bout it just like everybody just turning a
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blind eye in a death ear to what's going on right before their very eyes.
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And I don't understand how. I don't understand how the citizens will allow.
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You know, these elected officials. We elect these people. Y'all elect
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these people. Well, now, if they're not doing what y'all need them
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to do. If you have a loved one that's incarcerated and your loved one
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is not being handled correctly or something that's going on, you have the right
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to speak up. You have the right to say something. You have the
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right to write these people. You have the right to reach out to your
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representative, of your congress person, your legislator and make sure that these people
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are doing what they supposed to do. You know, until I met a
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lot of these people that I've had the opportunity to sit down and talk to,
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you know, I did not realize that there are so many innocent people
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behind prison walls. There are so many people that you know, even though
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some of these people did what they did, they don't deserve the time that
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they're serving. Like if they've been in another state, they would have been
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on probation, they would have probably have time served. And you know,
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given some stipulations, it wouldn't be like a lot of the stuff. It's
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like everything that Texas do, they overdo it. It's like they try to
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make an example out of everybody. You can't make an example out of everybody,
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because if you lock everybody up, then guess what Eventually you gonna you
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You're gonna start going downhill. You know, you you people are not gonna
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keep wanting to come to Texas if they realize that, you know, there's
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an opportunity that there's a chance that if if if I step left, these
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people can lock me up and don't wait to key even if I didn't do
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nothing. You know, that is the reputation that Texas is getting right now,
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and that's not something that you know, they should be proud of,
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you know, all the time. And I'm not going back down. I'm
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not gonna sit down. I'm not gonna be quiet about this. And every
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time I see one of these representatives, one of these even the governor,
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you Monica de la Cruz, run Renolds, Sherman, Carlos Sherman, Sheila
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Jackson, Lee, Jeff Leech, all of y'all I call y'all name because
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all of the ones that are over there on the Free Texas campaign page.
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And I know that y'all see the things that I post. I know that
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you are aware of the various things that I've shared because I share in emails,
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I send y'all emails, I tag y'all in emails, and I'm constantly
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saying and I'm not gonna stop because all the way from South Carolina, I
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will allow my wars to be heard because you guys, the world is watching
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y'all, whether y'all realize it or not. So many people are talking about
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the state of Texas and what's going on in the state of Texas. We
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did not realize that the state of Texas was like it's you know, everybody
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all he's talking about go to the big lone Star state. You know,
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that's always somewhere that people want to visit, but you never hear people talking
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about moving there. They always talk about visiting. And now I see,
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I see why. But I know that on this journey you thirty three years,
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you've been fighting for just various things. What what what are three other
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pressing things right now that you would like to see change come immediately so that
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these people that could have a second chance at life, get free. We're
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talking about immediate release type stuff, like something that can happen within Like all
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they got to do is walk over there and say, okay, let's open
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the doors and let this this person out, this person out, this person
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out, this person out, and just going down to this So what would
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you like to see right now, ma'am. That's a good talk tea made.
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Okay, have it right now, ma'am. Hood. Our system have
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a process that ma'am, they can history an emergency release right now. Wow,
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because a lot of people have been rehabilitated. We have people up there,
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like the school have got master's degrees. Give in the state of Texas.
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The only way you can make co role now under four A, which
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is institutional adjustment and sixth say, which is completion the programs. Well,
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if a person that did all they have to do in the prison system,
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man, and then got master degrees and everything, then they've complied with the
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rules of laws and now forore to take the board, department, parotion,
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all of them, you know, with release. But the parole board here
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in Texas, ma'am, what they're doing is blocking out the blood system number
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and the nine These people believe. So with that being said, our governor
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had that power to overstep the Parole Board's authority, but he won't do that,
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you know. So as to right now, ma'am, what I'm saying,
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I've been recognized for pushing a bill called Joint House Resolution fifty three.
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And the Joint House Resolution fifty three is a bill that if a person has
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done ten years you know of judge has the power right now to grant them
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a reduction of their seer or a reformation of their femerm with the fact that
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they've completed the programs in the prison system. Right now, the bill was
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knocked down in the previous House, but it's been brought back up because the
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public has acted this bill to be passed. So as of right now,
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we have fifty five and forty four percent going on right now for the bill
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of pass So as of right now, we have not heard anything whether or
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not it's a bill, it's a law, or whatever, but you know,
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it's getting traction. So my point now was that if the same deal
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can apply to just a non capital individual, but what about the capital individual,
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should they be allowed to provide you know them the same access to a
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judge being able to consider their sentence suit because they're under the second up field,
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they have to do forty years mandatory. But if these individual kids have
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never had a chance of opportunity now for any type of release to parole because
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of the back state committed a capital case. We're talking about kids who was
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influent board. Those that committed clients who didn't have the capacity or the mental
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capability to know what they were doing don't have no access to release. So
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with this deal, now I'm ask for for state representatives and TEXTA lawmakers to
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allow the same deal that applies to a non capital individual to I took capital
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indivisions. Okay, the same way with the law parties Bill Crown. We
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have a law called the law party that if anybody commit a crime and you're
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part of it, that everybody gets sent us the same. But your capability
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is the fact that you didn't even know what was going on. But because
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you're getting a life time for something you don't have nothing to do with.
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So with that being said, we actually that the text law parties will be
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changed now and that people that's committed the crime be the ones who held accountable,
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not the person who didn't commit the crime. So that's one issue.
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And as far as our grand jury racketeering process, every indictment in this state
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is Mamma's a fraud indictment right because of the secrecy of our grand jury process,
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these indictments are being issued with our wants to be in the process,
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our judges, you know, to hold you accountable or home hold you on
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the probable comes. Because Anandez versus the City of Houston, it has been
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discovered that probable cause has not been established in the last fifteen years of past
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and now here it is a guy just want a class actually to ask for
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for them to release everybody who has convicted it to twenty twelve under that law.
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And the course agreed with him and has granted in him that opportunity.
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So with that being said, now this is happening in all these things stays
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down here, all these cities down here in Texas. So with that being
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said, ma'am, if anybody's missing this, this is what we need to
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ask out to stay representatives or take the law maker in our government them to
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do is to recognize the corruption that's going on within our criminal justice system that's
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making this massive incarceration and ask for them to reform the laws that they already
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have in place that can leave the county jails and the prison systems and made
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observing all these long sentences he then makes rehabilitated and stuff of you know,
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being incarcerated all these years. Man. So that's what my going is on
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that. Well, I'll tell you you have definitely shared a lot of insight
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on tonight. A lot of us may not have known these different laws,
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these different bills, but you have definitely shared a lot of insight on that
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tonight. So I definitely thank you for stopping by and sharing with us and
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enlightening us on some of this of what's going on in the great old state
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of Texas. But I want to thank everyone that has chimed in on tonight,
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everyone that's stopped by, Patrese, I thank you for tuning in,
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and all those that have tuned in, thank you for stopping by and sharing.
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If you would please share this in your circle of influence. You never
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know what the next person may be standing in need of. You never know
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what nugget may be dropped into. Someone does not always have to be someone
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incarcerated that need to know this and may be an advocate out there, may
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be someone that just have legal expertise that can drop some knowledge or maybe able
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to see something that we may have missed. But we're always looking for that
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person that can assist, that person is willing to help these individuals, and
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there's so many of them. There's thousands of individuals around this world, hundreds
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of thousands of individuals around this great state, the great United States of America,
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that are wrongfully and overly incarcerated because of judicial power and greed money.
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Greed, money and power are two things that will, I'll tell you,
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destroy anybody. And that's what a lot of people are allowing to happen.
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Letting them take it, take them out of their character, and take them
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out of what they are called to do. But y'all, I want to
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thank you guys for stopping by again for another episode of the Crew Wiodcast.
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Y'all. The visionary is coming from behind the scene, behind the screen.
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I'll be live on air thirteen Days of Me and I will be having
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visionaries stop by and share. So tomorrow we have doctor Richelle Micheline. She
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will be stopping by and sharing with us, so y'all tune in tomorrow night,
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Again, I thank you guys so much for being a part of this
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amazing network. I tell you I wouldn't do I wouldn't trade it for nothing
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in the world. Thank you, guys. I love I love you,
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and I appreciate you guys so much and that's absolutely nothing you can do about
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it. Y'all have a great night. Bless you.