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VISIONARY ANGELA 12/25/24 · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Please, gentle night, May I have your attention.
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Speaker 2: Please?
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Speaker 1: The show starts at te like eight seven six, Hi
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Speaker 1: all three two FN go.
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Speaker 3: Well, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, and to all those that celebrate,
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Speaker 3: I want to wish you got a merry Christmas. Merry Christmas,
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Speaker 3: and welcome to the Crew podcast, y'all. I was in transition.
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Speaker 3: Sorry for running late, but yet I am yet here here.
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Speaker 3: I pressed my because I said that I was going
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Speaker 3: to do a show on today. Wanted to keep Simone's
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Speaker 3: show going. Tonight would have been Simone's show. But of
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Speaker 3: course we know that Simone is going through some things
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Speaker 3: right now with her health and want to send a
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Speaker 3: shout out to her. Continue to keep God first and
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Speaker 3: continue to press Know that your sisters are over here
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Speaker 3: praying for you and we are lifting you up. But
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to stop by tonight. Wanted to just
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Speaker 3: be present, just wanted to you know, never know who
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Speaker 3: may be tuning in, So I wanted to show up
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Speaker 3: on tonight tonight. I have a guests with me. We
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Speaker 3: have y'all know that I advocate a lot for those
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Speaker 3: that have been wrongfully or overly incarcerated. Tonight I have
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Speaker 3: an opportunity to have one of our family. I'm just
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Speaker 3: gonna go ahead and say family, because Cornell has truly
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Speaker 3: become family to me. Just hearing his case, spending time
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Speaker 3: with him, having conversations with him, understanding the ins and
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Speaker 3: outs of what this man has endured. It has truly
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Speaker 3: given me a heart and a passion for those that
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Speaker 3: have been wrongfully and overly incarcerated. And I tell you
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Speaker 3: when I prayed and God said Shannette, I'll tell you
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Speaker 3: that she was definitely a answered prayer because she is
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Speaker 3: definitely what I was praying for for this network, someone
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Speaker 3: to to be able to help me help those that
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Speaker 3: are incarcerated, wrongfully, overly incarcerated, unlawfully incarcerated, whatever, whatever you
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Speaker 3: want to give to it. But thank you, Cheanette for
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Speaker 3: all that you do. I'm gonna move away tonight and
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Speaker 3: and let Cornell share just a little bit. I want
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Speaker 3: him to talk about what life has been like over
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Speaker 3: these last thirty four years during holiday seasons and you know,
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Speaker 3: having to deal with being away from his family. And
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Speaker 3: I really want to focus on the mental aspect because
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Speaker 3: I listened to Chanette's show on Monday, and I was
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Speaker 3: listening to you guys have the conversation with your guests
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Speaker 3: and y'all were talking about a lot of mental health issues.
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Speaker 3: So I really want to know, you know, really, how
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Speaker 3: how does one deal with their mental especially when they
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Speaker 3: have been incarcerated. As long as you have wrongfully incarcerated,
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Speaker 3: you know that, I know that takes a toll on you.
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Speaker 3: So if you would please share with me.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, thank you, ma'am for having me on tonight.
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Speaker 2: And I guess maam. Of course, when one deal with
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Speaker 2: prison life, you know, it takes a lot to have
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Speaker 2: to learn, to have to adjust to the prison life
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Speaker 2: because when one entered the prison life, you know you
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Speaker 2: have to abide by so many rules and regulations, and
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Speaker 2: you know you're dealing with people from all walks of life.
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Speaker 2: So with that being said, you're dealing with different mentalenty
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Speaker 2: for people and dealing with hatred to getting with people
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Speaker 2: who have no issues of platitude problem you know, mood
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Speaker 2: slangs and stuff like that. So you know, when you
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Speaker 2: in prison, all surrounded by a bunch of people like this,
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Speaker 2: you have to learn how to adjust to where you
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Speaker 2: can make life uncomfortable for yourself being incarcerated. So now
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Speaker 2: with that being said, yes, you know, doing the holidays,
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Speaker 2: see since you know it can be dramatic, you know,
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Speaker 2: being incarcerated away from fact, the members their family and
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Speaker 2: stuff like that. So being incarcerated, you have to allow
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Speaker 2: yourself to open up and allow other individuals to become
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Speaker 2: your family, you know, and to become your family people
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Speaker 2: that's incarcerated to become your family because you know, believe
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Speaker 2: it or now, you can meet some good people being incarcerated,
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Speaker 2: you know, and a lot of these people are very smart.
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Speaker 2: So you know, we learn from each other, we take
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Speaker 2: from each other, you know, the good, the bad and
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Speaker 2: ugly whatever. So you know, with that being said, yes, ma'am,
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Speaker 2: you know, uh, being incarcerated man can take a toad
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Speaker 2: on an individual because you know, because the most part
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Speaker 2: of a lot of guys are struggling, you know, not
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Speaker 2: being at home that they love ones, and you know
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Speaker 2: they turn the drugs and alcohol and feels and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that trying to extep you know, the reality of
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Speaker 2: being away from family members.
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Speaker 3: How have you because I know you have been incarcerated
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Speaker 3: for well over twenty five years, which is normally the
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Speaker 3: what normally the expand of you know, normally the time
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Speaker 3: that a lot of people spend and then they come home.
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Speaker 3: But you have spent over twenty five You have spent
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Speaker 3: over thirty years behind prison. Walk What has that personally
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Speaker 3: done to you? What have that done to the cornell
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Speaker 3: that before prison? What even you can share the good,
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Speaker 3: the bad, the ugly. You know, I want people to
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Speaker 3: truly see, you know, if there have been things that
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Speaker 3: you know, this prison experience have taught you in a
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Speaker 3: good way, I want you to share that, you know,
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Speaker 3: I want people to understand and be able to relate
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Speaker 3: to exactly what you have experienced. And the bad.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well you know I have what we fratify as
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Speaker 2: a reputation. You know, some guys got good reputation. Some
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Speaker 2: guys are bad reputation. So I don't come from you know,
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Speaker 2: no poverty neighborhoods, but against the mentality, so I come
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Speaker 2: from suburban neighborhoods. But either way, ma'am, you know, when
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Speaker 2: you come in, you have to harden yourself because if
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Speaker 2: you don't, ma'am, people will take advantage of you're in
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Speaker 2: this prison system. And with that, man said me myself.
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Speaker 2: You know, I have been the prison before, so I
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Speaker 2: knew what to expect. This time in prison, you know,
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Speaker 2: because I carry myself kind away to where I'm a
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Speaker 2: poverty person all the time. You know, I try to
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Speaker 2: not have no mood trams with nobody, but all at
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Speaker 2: the same time, I'm a very dangerous person. Why because
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Speaker 2: if somebody next with me, I have to convert back
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Speaker 2: to who I used to do, and I try not
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Speaker 2: to do that. To what I do now. Is the
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Speaker 2: fact that I try to, you know, make my peace
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Speaker 2: to God and make my peace with people. You know,
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Speaker 2: and you know a lot of people respect me for
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Speaker 2: who I am because you know, like I said, me
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Speaker 2: myself knowing that I was wrong the convicted, I have
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Speaker 2: to come down here and allow myself to learn about
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Speaker 2: my situation. And then the process is a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that are dealing with the same situation. So I
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Speaker 2: was able to you know, help them in order to
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Speaker 2: show them the things that I was learning, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of form them so you know, when of course
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Speaker 2: they like this landman, was a lot that I have
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Speaker 2: to take form, you know, learning how to you know
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Speaker 2: fight in prison, you know, with the dangers of you know,
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Speaker 2: shanks and people you know, having fights in the day room,
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Speaker 2: riots in the their room, game and talent and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that. So you know that's the bad part about it.
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Speaker 2: But the good signe of it is that you know,
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Speaker 2: I have to also learn how to go to church
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Speaker 2: and learn about God and to learn to be at
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Speaker 2: peace with myself because that's what I do in prison. Rand, So.
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Speaker 3: Can you share some of the things that you do
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Speaker 3: that keep you positive? What are some things that you
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Speaker 3: have adapted to because see, a lot of people they
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Speaker 3: don't learn to adapt. You know, I've come to realize
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Speaker 3: that a lot of people, you know, we fail because
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Speaker 3: we don't learn to adapt. So what are some things
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Speaker 3: that you have learned to adapt with that has helped
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Speaker 3: you on this journey? Because remember, you know this is
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Speaker 3: not just ten fifteen years. You you've done over thirty
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Speaker 3: years behind prison walls. So how have you adapted?
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you know every day is a very challenging
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Speaker 2: day for the most part. So you know, when a
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Speaker 2: person wait up in the morning, you know your dad
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Speaker 2: really already made. But for the most part too, you know,
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Speaker 2: you have to learn how to adjust because every second
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Speaker 2: of a value or danger a second everything can change
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Speaker 2: with them. So me myself, you know, I had to
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Speaker 2: love of us to be able to you know, put
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Speaker 2: God in my life. You know why, because I lose
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Speaker 2: the old corner Hell as opposed to the corner and
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Speaker 2: who I needed it to be in order to survive
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Speaker 2: in the SIP system. So, you know, going to church,
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Speaker 2: you know, I learned how to you know, like I said, again,
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Speaker 2: be at peace and learn more about God than none
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Speaker 2: about you know what I had to do as far
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Speaker 2: as to walk this journey to make myself a better
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Speaker 2: person and to be good with people. So I'm a
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Speaker 2: people's person now, why because the fact that I lunged
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Speaker 2: to the spirit of God how to be that person
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Speaker 2: that everybody can like it. So, you know, like I say, man,
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Speaker 2: I learn how to do legal work. You know what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying. The people that you know need to hope.
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Speaker 2: I give that hope. I help the mind if I can't.
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Speaker 2: You know, I've come to a lot of people get
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Speaker 2: out of prison. God'll be wondering, why come I can't
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Speaker 2: give myself out of prison. Well, ma'am, I don't have
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Speaker 2: that answer to that question. And man, God got the
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Speaker 2: answer to that question. Then I keep pressing on because
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Speaker 2: I know God has shown pay on me and God
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Speaker 2: has made me have to be a better person than
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Speaker 2: who I used to be because men, believe it or not,
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Speaker 2: I run my own facility, a five thousand man unit
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Speaker 2: in the printing system. I can call the rider at
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Speaker 2: the drop of a din. All I had to do
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Speaker 2: was say it, and it was gonna happen. But I
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Speaker 2: knew that that's a lot of me to cause a
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Speaker 2: lot of people to get hurt, just because of you
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Speaker 2: know who I used to be. So with that thing
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Speaker 2: sitting in my blood, holler, you know, it's just to
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Speaker 2: life through you know, the spirit of God and through
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Speaker 2: who I know I can be.
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Speaker 3: So a day like this, what would your normal normal
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Speaker 3: day be for like holidays? How does a facility operate
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Speaker 3: to recognize these holidays for you guys?
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, it's a thing where everybody's expecting to have
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Speaker 2: a good deal man, and everybody's supposed to be in
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Speaker 2: good spirits where hand makes get together. Then they'll put
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Speaker 2: a spread on the table or put food on the table,
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Speaker 2: and everybody will get together in there, eat and stuff
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Speaker 2: like enjoy themself or listen to music and play Domino's
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Speaker 2: and cars to look at TV and stuff like that.
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Speaker 2: So for the most part, manmo on the daylight, just
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Speaker 2: saying everybody's supposed to be a good spirit, but still
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Speaker 2: you have people that's suffering from mental issues, so you
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Speaker 2: know another one, you know, not being able to see
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Speaker 2: the family, not being able to be at home, and
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Speaker 2: you know stuff like that. So any visuals have a
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Speaker 2: way of being drunk in the penitentiary or using drugs
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Speaker 2: in the centry. But either way that can change an
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Speaker 2: attitude and at the top of the dame something can happen.
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Speaker 2: Everybody who's just got through eating, now we're killing each other.
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Speaker 2: So you know, that's the danger. You know, some of
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Speaker 2: the negative aspects of being in prison, you know during
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Speaker 2: the holidays, so everybody got to try to get along.
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Speaker 2: And that's what older guys like myself we try to do.
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Speaker 2: We try to keep the peace in the prison system
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Speaker 2: because we know how it can turn into a death
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Speaker 2: storm just that bass language. So that's what I'm dealing
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Speaker 2: with it right now as we speak. Because of the
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Speaker 2: TV situation, guys want to fight about kvs and stuff
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Speaker 2: like that. So it takes God like myself to try
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Speaker 2: to calm these guys down and let them know that's
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Speaker 2: not our TV. We didn't buy a TV, so why
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Speaker 2: are we gonna keep each telling about a TV? But
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Speaker 2: this is the thing. We have to try to make
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Speaker 2: sure that everybody can get along, you know, to keep
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Speaker 2: things like that from happening. So oh, a day like
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Speaker 2: this now for the most part, everybody's getting along and
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Speaker 2: looking at TV wow, enjoying itself.
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Speaker 3: Wow. And I know it's been a long journey, but
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Speaker 3: we know and we are praying that, you know, God
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Speaker 3: will open that door for you. You know, man, have man
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Speaker 3: have given you a parole? They they have actually given
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Speaker 3: you a parole, but they will not move forward with dates.
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Speaker 3: They will not move forward with the different things you know,
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Speaker 3: and and it's it just it saddens me. But during
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Speaker 3: this holiday season, knowing that you well into your program
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Speaker 3: two months now, how has that affected you? And and
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Speaker 3: and and staying positive because you do so much. I
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Speaker 3: listen to the things that you have done for other
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Speaker 3: people that are incarcerated, you know, the individuals that depend
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Speaker 3: on you for their legal work and different things that
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Speaker 3: you do. What if what keeps you grounded and in
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Speaker 3: ace too? Want to help somebody else when yet you're
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Speaker 3: going through When yet these people have given you a
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Speaker 3: parole date, they've given you an FI six For those
15:03
Speaker 3: that don't know what an FI six is, it is.
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Speaker 3: They have granted him parole upon completion of a program.
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Speaker 3: It is supposed to be a six month program. So
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Speaker 3: the thing is, why is he not in the program?
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Speaker 3: Here it is two months after the program, and yet
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Speaker 3: he's yet to be moved to the program. I do
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Speaker 3: have a question from Schanett. She say, will it be
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Speaker 3: hard for you to adapt when you are released from prison?
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Speaker 3: And that is probably a question that a lot of
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Speaker 3: people have about individuals that have been incarcerated and been
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Speaker 3: incarcerated for as long as you have been incarcerated, because
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Speaker 3: a lot of people on the outside we hear a
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Speaker 3: lot of things that happen in the prison goes on
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Speaker 3: in the prison. So share with us. You've been away
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Speaker 3: from society for over thirty years. You know that you
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Speaker 3: know everything has evolved, things have a lot of the
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Speaker 3: things that you may have been a customed to. It
16:17
Speaker 3: is not the norm anymore. Like we have advanced in
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Speaker 3: in in telephones, computers, a lot of different things that
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Speaker 3: you may not be customed to. So how will do
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Speaker 3: you have a plan for adapting? And how have you
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Speaker 3: set your mindset so that you can adapt.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's a good question, because I got to say
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Speaker 2: since then in coorse orated, now I may bow them
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Speaker 2: myself to come down here in the line about my situation,
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Speaker 2: you know, because I've been through it before, so you know,
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Speaker 2: le systems all I've ever done, so practically I know
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Speaker 2: about the legal system, legal system, know about legal system.
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Speaker 2: So with that, Dan said, now you know I was
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Speaker 2: able to be blessed by God to meet you with
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Speaker 2: what I do. I already am a legal scholar really,
17:10
Speaker 2: but I ended up meeting you. It was a podcast
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Speaker 2: host and you know, to say that you little help people,
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Speaker 2: and when I meant you, ma'am, I learned that there
17:19
Speaker 2: was a whole other side tonight. You know, people needed
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Speaker 2: a voice. Because of that, you know, me becoming friends
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Speaker 2: with you and the Core podcast and the host of
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Speaker 2: the Crew podcast and learning about what y'all do on
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Speaker 2: the other side. I never realized how powerful your voice
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Speaker 2: was I could be, So then I realized how powerful
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Speaker 2: my voice was and what I do. So because of that,
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Speaker 2: I became an active people criminal justice report And what
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Speaker 2: that man said, ma'am, like I said, I've learned a
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Speaker 2: lot in the past year. So I've learned a lot.
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Speaker 2: So now I've become a partner of the true podcast
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Speaker 2: of Spying Up a magazine, and now I have become
17:58
Speaker 2: a co host of Let's Talk About It. So what
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Speaker 2: that man said, that show was a very very positive,
18:04
Speaker 2: positive to UH syndicated show where people can come on
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Speaker 2: and tell their story. And like I say, we've done
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Speaker 2: great because we've allowed people to come on and tell
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Speaker 2: their stories and a positive you know, get nothing to
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Speaker 2: get true to everything. But I've learned a lot. And
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Speaker 2: with that man said, I don't want to say thank
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Speaker 2: you for everything that I've taught me and Janette, thank
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Speaker 2: you for everything you taught me. And yet upon our release,
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Speaker 2: I know exactly what I want to do. I want
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Speaker 2: to make sure that I say a positive and an
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Speaker 2: advocate for criminal justice reform. And that is what I
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Speaker 2: am going to do, but not just you know, the adults,
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Speaker 2: but the juvenile system as well. Now to be an advocate.
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Speaker 3: Wow, Well, I know today is Christmas and I know
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Speaker 3: that a lot of people maybe going through maybe missing
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Speaker 3: their families. Some people may have not had visits since
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Speaker 3: they prison, because I hear it often. You know people
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Speaker 3: they they weigh and they family forget about them that
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Speaker 3: saying out of sight, out of mind. It's real and
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Speaker 3: a lot of people have adapted to, you know, what
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Speaker 3: is going on in prison. They have come accustomed to,
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Speaker 3: you know, adapting to what is happening around them. I
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Speaker 3: understand that there have been some serious drug issues within
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Speaker 3: the prison system. I wrote an article inside of Aspiring
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Speaker 3: Out magazine. We were talking about the drugs and the
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Speaker 3: drug crises within the prison system. Could you elaborate rate
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Speaker 3: on that just a little bit, because I have a
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Speaker 3: serious issue with a lot of what they do concerning
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Speaker 3: how they handle the drug crisis that's going on within
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Speaker 3: Texas and a lot of the prison systems, because at
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Speaker 3: the end of the day, when you look at it,
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Speaker 3: there's no way if everybody is doing their job within
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Speaker 3: the prison system, if the guards are doing their jobs,
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Speaker 3: from the least of them to the greatest of them,
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Speaker 3: if they're doing their job, there shouldn't be drugs inside
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Speaker 3: of the prison system because these prisoners they cannot go out,
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Speaker 3: they don't go out, they can't go out and buy it.
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Speaker 3: They can't go out and hit up the drug dealer.
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Speaker 3: So someone is bringing it in. I often hear them
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Speaker 3: saying that they're on lockdown and what they're doing. But
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Speaker 3: when you know that is having a tomb fit, Oh
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Speaker 3: they have a tone fit, they send them to medical,
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Speaker 3: then they bring them back. They okay, But the rate
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Speaker 3: that these people are dropping dead, you know, I'm hearing
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Speaker 3: every other day. I'm in a couple of groups that
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Speaker 3: are inside. They have loved ones inside of TDCJ, and
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Speaker 3: you are constantly seeing individuals saying, well, somebody died last night.
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Speaker 3: Somebody died. That you hear about what happeneding so from
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Speaker 3: someone from the inside, because a lot of us we
21:34
Speaker 3: get secondhand information, but tonight we want to hear it
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Speaker 3: from someone that is living there, someone that is in
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Speaker 3: the midst of this, because they'll tell us that this
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Speaker 3: is not so, this is not happening. You know, they'll
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Speaker 3: give us different statistics. So for someone that is going
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Speaker 3: through this, that sees it on a daily basis, that
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Speaker 3: have witnessed people, you know, having these fits and and
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Speaker 3: doing this, what told does that have on your mental
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Speaker 3: Because dealing with people that are going through this and
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Speaker 3: having to deal with this every day, how does that
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Speaker 3: affect you?
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Speaker 2: Okay, ma'am, that's a good question, man, I'm okay. I
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Speaker 2: mean myself personally. I don't use drugs, man, I don't
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Speaker 2: drink on users us and don't take pills. Why because
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Speaker 2: in the critical system like this, man, that's not a
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Speaker 2: place to even be thinking about nothing like that, you know.
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Speaker 2: But inside of the systems around it has turned into
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Speaker 2: a positive I mean a pit of serious EPI entity
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Speaker 2: where the whole prison system around is infested with Druggs
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Speaker 2: clan and I mean have been turned into a hobby
22:44
Speaker 2: now for most kids because they see it as just
22:46
Speaker 2: something to do or on recreational data. But it's getting
22:50
Speaker 2: more powerful than posing as you know, the day go by,
22:54
Speaker 2: because they studies brand this stuff with something that's you know,
22:58
Speaker 2: and all types of different types of chemicals. And these
23:01
Speaker 2: kids are not taking it as serious as they need
23:03
Speaker 2: to be. They smoking and doing whatever they do to
23:06
Speaker 2: it now and automatically, I stay hard and these people
23:10
Speaker 2: are dying. So now when these kids are slumping over
23:12
Speaker 2: in their their rooms and stuff like that, all the
23:14
Speaker 2: people can do is so get them, take them to
23:16
Speaker 2: thenother goal, check them out, see if they you know,
23:18
Speaker 2: come you have one. They do, They send them back
23:20
Speaker 2: to their house and let them just sit back and
23:22
Speaker 2: you know they threw it again. So this has turned
23:25
Speaker 2: into an epidemic, man, and our government needs to try
23:28
Speaker 2: to do better about these people, to try to curb
23:30
Speaker 2: this epidemic. Man, because this is very serious. People are
23:33
Speaker 2: dying every day and another guy guy yesterday. So this
23:38
Speaker 2: is sad, but on my medal estate. Man, it's sad
23:41
Speaker 2: because I've seen what the pial system can do to
23:44
Speaker 2: these young kids. It's destroying these kids' lives now. They
23:47
Speaker 2: don't have no other way to turn because the parole
23:49
Speaker 2: Board's not helping them, TDC not helping them. I programs
23:54
Speaker 2: are out there or nothing. So that's what's going on
23:56
Speaker 2: over there. Man. Well, my bumbler cut off I.
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Speaker 3: Man, so our carneval is calling back. I asked you, y'ah,
24:06
Speaker 3: how can we save our kids? How how can we
24:09
Speaker 3: get our kids back on the right chat Because it
24:12
Speaker 3: may be too late for some of the grown ups,
24:15
Speaker 3: It may be too late to reach some of the adults.
24:18
Speaker 3: It may be too late to reach these these young adults.
24:24
Speaker 3: How how can we reach these babies before these babies
24:29
Speaker 3: go down these same roads? You know, we have to
24:33
Speaker 3: understand and it's gonna take us. See, we fight against
24:38
Speaker 3: each other because everything we can say, we can say
24:43
Speaker 3: what we want to say, but the truth I was
24:47
Speaker 3: having a conversation today, I have to acknowledge this woman,
24:52
Speaker 3: this this this this amazing spirit. Because this lady, I'll
24:58
Speaker 3: never forget her as long as I live. Because of
25:00
Speaker 3: this lady. She corrected me. She made me look at
25:08
Speaker 3: me like, have you ever had those people that you
25:11
Speaker 3: know we'll correct you and they correct you in a
25:15
Speaker 3: way that will make you look at yourself and make
25:19
Speaker 3: you evaluate and reevaluate and really consider are you doing
25:25
Speaker 3: right well? I thank God for this woman because it's
25:30
Speaker 3: been about five six years now that she's come into
25:35
Speaker 3: my life, and I truly thank God for her. Had
25:40
Speaker 3: a conversation with her today, actually had an opportunity to
25:43
Speaker 3: go sit down and chat with her for a while.
25:49
Speaker 3: We exchanged some gifts, and what she poured into me
25:53
Speaker 3: today was just so amazing. I cannot wait to you know,
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Speaker 3: just I can't wait for God to release those things
26:02
Speaker 3: that He's put in her, because what she poured into
26:08
Speaker 3: me today, y'all I am. I mean, it lit a
26:10
Speaker 3: fire under me. When you see people that are going
26:14
Speaker 3: through and you know what they're going through, and you
26:20
Speaker 3: see them, you see what they're dealing with. But yet
26:24
Speaker 3: they have nothing but positive things to say. They have
26:27
Speaker 3: nothing but but but but but gratitude. They have nothing
26:32
Speaker 3: but that they're they're grateful. You know, how how can
26:38
Speaker 3: you not be grateful? You know, I'm sitting here someone
26:44
Speaker 3: that is, you know, getting these different diagnoses every other
26:49
Speaker 3: doctor visit, getting different You know when when when when
26:54
Speaker 3: they tell you, every time you go to the doctor,
26:56
Speaker 3: they tell you something else is wrong with you, But
26:59
Speaker 3: yet you still have that's him. I just want to
27:06
Speaker 3: be like that. I just want that spirit. I just
27:08
Speaker 3: want to stay up under that annunton y'all. We gotta
27:13
Speaker 3: do something for our babies. We got to show our
27:17
Speaker 3: kids that they are important, that they are somebody, that
27:21
Speaker 3: they don't have to go out and be rappers and
27:24
Speaker 3: be celebrities and be these different things that society has
27:28
Speaker 3: said that we should be. See a lot of our
27:31
Speaker 3: babies end up behind these prison walls, or they end
27:35
Speaker 3: up in graves because we don't teach them young who
27:40
Speaker 3: they are and what they are and give them the
27:43
Speaker 3: love that they need. See if we instill these things
27:48
Speaker 3: into these babies, God, and then know only that I
27:51
Speaker 3: went out, I visited my godsister on today and she
27:55
Speaker 3: had this show play. It was a TV show. I'm
27:57
Speaker 3: gon go see if I can find it on Netflix.
27:59
Speaker 3: But it was a young she was a CEO of
28:04
Speaker 3: a company, was running a company, and she woke up
28:08
Speaker 3: one day in a child's body and she had a
28:14
Speaker 3: chance to go back to middle school. She got to
28:17
Speaker 3: go back to middle school, and she got a chance
28:19
Speaker 3: to go back, and she got a chance to see
28:21
Speaker 3: where she was diverted and where she took on this
28:27
Speaker 3: different mindset and this different mentality. And see, that's what
28:31
Speaker 3: we need to do. But y'all, we got to put
28:34
Speaker 3: something in our babies. We can't send our kids to
28:36
Speaker 3: school and expect the school to teach them because the
28:39
Speaker 3: school has selled them. We look back over our lives,
28:44
Speaker 3: look back over those twelve years that you spent in school.
28:47
Speaker 3: It didn't teach us how to own no business, didn't
28:50
Speaker 3: teach us how to budget no check book. Then teach
28:52
Speaker 3: us how to do nothing that would have us living
28:56
Speaker 3: as entrepreneurs, living as as as legacy builders, but always
29:04
Speaker 3: living under man and keeping somebody else stream alive. Because
29:11
Speaker 3: that's what they want us to do. But that's not
29:16
Speaker 3: what he want from us. Well, y'all, we got Cornell back,
29:20
Speaker 3: and I just wanted to share that, y'all because that
29:23
Speaker 3: thing was dropped in my spirit today and it's been
29:25
Speaker 3: all on me. But we got Cornelled back, So I'm
29:29
Speaker 3: gonna bring him back on and y'all, I'm not gonna
29:31
Speaker 3: be on here alone. We're gonna we probably gonna be
29:33
Speaker 3: about on here about ten more minutes and then we're
29:35
Speaker 3: gonna get off. I just wanted to jump on and
29:39
Speaker 3: let you guys know that this is what we do. Holidays.
29:43
Speaker 3: Don't stop us now, don't stop us this. We are
29:47
Speaker 3: here to be a voice for the voiceless. We are
29:50
Speaker 3: here to be the change that we desired to see
29:54
Speaker 3: in this world. So with that being said, I'm gonna
29:59
Speaker 3: bring my gas back in the conversation and allow him
30:04
Speaker 3: to reflect on this day, reflect on this season. The
30:07
Speaker 3: what does the reason for the season mean to you?
30:12
Speaker 3: What does that mean to you? We we hear that
30:14
Speaker 3: all the time, but truly, what does the reason for
30:18
Speaker 3: the season mean to you? Especially someone that is incarcerated?
30:22
Speaker 3: What does that mean to you?
30:25
Speaker 2: Well, ma'am, you know, first of all, God's son and
30:28
Speaker 2: foremost Noam that has allowed me to learn a lot
30:31
Speaker 2: about myself, about my ability, about my words, about who
30:35
Speaker 2: I am. You know I'm at well, I'm going to
30:38
Speaker 2: get that. So what's not being fitting down you know
30:41
Speaker 2: my ways, man, is because I want a better way
30:44
Speaker 2: of life. Now I'm get that better well of life.
30:47
Speaker 2: Now I have to think to myself how to mylf
30:50
Speaker 2: around the POC people. Thats gone from what I have
30:52
Speaker 2: to be able to do that anything negative, ma'am, I
30:55
Speaker 2: never get that. So now I have to put it
30:57
Speaker 2: inside of my heartange my heart, because that's what we
31:01
Speaker 2: have to do. Change our heart, the art to change
31:04
Speaker 2: our minds. That's what things will work out better for.
31:07
Speaker 2: So that's what I do. That's my reason, because I
31:10
Speaker 2: want to be a better person. I want to have
31:12
Speaker 2: to spend the rest of my life behind balls being
31:15
Speaker 2: told them when to eat, when to sleep, money shower
31:17
Speaker 2: by somebody who don't even know me. So what that
31:20
Speaker 2: thing says, Now I'm getting a lot. Like I said,
31:22
Speaker 2: this is a very powerful season for me. Why because
31:26
Speaker 2: I am somebody and I learned that about my thanks
31:30
Speaker 2: of the power of the spirit of God. So for
31:32
Speaker 2: anybody who's listening to this podcast tonight, now, thank you
31:37
Speaker 2: very much. Of all. The second of all, please get involved,
31:41
Speaker 2: like you say, until your kids lives, teach them the
31:44
Speaker 2: values that they have, Teach them a better way. A
31:47
Speaker 2: music is not the way anybody won't we music is
31:51
Speaker 2: not the way. No sagging pants is not the way.
31:56
Speaker 2: These kids are better than that. Teach them that they
31:58
Speaker 2: are better than that. And that's what we have to
32:01
Speaker 2: do involved to show them that they are somebody. That's
32:06
Speaker 2: what I have. And I appreciate you, ma'am for allowing
32:09
Speaker 2: me this opportunity to come on your show tonight, and
32:12
Speaker 2: thank you missusing that to allow me to be a host.
32:15
Speaker 2: And let's talk about it. Man, I appreciate the both
32:18
Speaker 2: of you because I've learned a lot from the both
32:20
Speaker 2: of you, and yes, I am going to be a potitive,
32:23
Speaker 2: influential ethic. Let's talk about it and the cool podcast.
32:28
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, ma'am.
32:30
Speaker 3: Well, I want to thank everyone for tuning in, everyone
32:34
Speaker 3: that has chimed in on the conversation. I just just
32:39
Speaker 3: wanted to be here on tonight sitting in for Simone.
32:45
Speaker 3: Just wanted to come on and just wish everyone a
32:49
Speaker 3: happy holiday. I hope that you guys are truly truly
32:53
Speaker 3: remembering the true reason for the season is it's not
32:57
Speaker 3: about the gifts. The gifts are great that they it
33:00
Speaker 3: just it just help remind people of the love that
33:04
Speaker 3: you have for them. But the true reason for the
33:07
Speaker 3: season is to truly love on your family. And this
33:11
Speaker 3: is something that we should be doing on a constant basis.
33:14
Speaker 3: We should be doing it every day. It shouldn't be
33:16
Speaker 3: one particular day that we recognize these different things. Yes,
33:21
Speaker 3: we want to honor Jesus for coming and bearing that
33:25
Speaker 3: cross for us because he his Because of him, we
33:30
Speaker 3: are able to do the things.
33:31
Speaker 2: That we do.
33:32
Speaker 3: So I thank him. I thank him, I thank him
33:35
Speaker 3: for the Holy Spirit that leads God and direct us.
33:40
Speaker 3: So I'm grateful. I am grateful for this podcast and
33:44
Speaker 3: every single host that counted not robbery to allow their
33:49
Speaker 3: voices to speak and to be the change that they
33:52
Speaker 3: desire to see in this world. No, none of us
33:55
Speaker 3: are perfect, but we strive to be perfect. We strive
33:59
Speaker 3: to be more like Him daily, to to catch up
34:02
Speaker 3: with our destiny, to catch up with that that He's
34:04
Speaker 3: already preordained for us. You know, I truly enjoy sitting
34:10
Speaker 3: with Meally gross On today and having that time with
34:13
Speaker 3: her and getting to you know, take in those those
34:18
Speaker 3: positive nuggets that I can imply, can implement and apply
34:23
Speaker 3: to my life. You know, I tell people all the
34:26
Speaker 3: time when we read these scriptures, we're so customed to saying,
34:30
Speaker 3: let these these these words just not be words, but
34:35
Speaker 3: let them be life. Let them be life, and not
34:40
Speaker 3: just be hears of the word, but to be doers
34:43
Speaker 3: of the word. Y'all, these the scripture to should be
34:48
Speaker 3: living in our lives. It should be something that we
34:52
Speaker 3: live by. It should be something that we practice on
34:55
Speaker 3: a day to day break basis. We we put so
34:59
Speaker 3: much faith and doctors, and so much faith in so
35:03
Speaker 3: many other things. But knowing that a doctor only has
35:07
Speaker 3: a license to practice, he only have a license to practice,
35:12
Speaker 3: God has given you a license. He's given you a
35:15
Speaker 3: license to practice the scriptures. So practice the scriptures in
35:20
Speaker 3: your life, allow them to come life, allow them to
35:24
Speaker 3: do what He has put them here to do. And
35:28
Speaker 3: if you apply them to your life, he will reveal
35:31
Speaker 3: those things. He will reveal those things to you, guys.
35:35
Speaker 3: So I want to thank you guys for stopping by
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Speaker 3: and spending your holiday with us on today. Those that
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35:52
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35:55
Speaker 3: truly appreciate everyone for tuning in and supporting the podcasts.
36:01
Speaker 2: Y'all.
36:01
Speaker 3: We are gearing up to close out this season on
36:04
Speaker 3: December thirty. First, I invite all of you to stop
36:08
Speaker 3: by and share with us. On that night, we're gonna
36:12
Speaker 3: have every single one of our hosts in the building.
36:16
Speaker 3: They're gonna be in the building. You're gonna get a
36:18
Speaker 3: chance to meet some of those up and coming hosts
36:22
Speaker 3: that are gonna be joining the platform in twenty twenty five.
36:25
Speaker 3: And I'm just gonna put a little plug in there.
36:27
Speaker 3: If you're out there and you're looking for an opportunity
36:32
Speaker 3: to share your brand, to allow your voice to speak,
36:36
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36:39
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36:42
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36:46
Speaker 3: feel and the only way you will be able to
36:48
Speaker 3: get a slot on the Crew podcast is if one
36:52
Speaker 3: of the Crew Podcasts members decide to step down. That
36:57
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37:09
Speaker 3: If you're out there and you want to join these queens,
37:12
Speaker 3: this is a great opportunity to join. We're gonna be
37:15
Speaker 3: lunching season three in February. Our first show is gonna
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Speaker 3: air on February to second. Because we don't do shows
37:24
Speaker 3: on Saturday, no more, y'all. We got our Saturday's free
37:28
Speaker 3: because guess what, we want to get back out in
37:30
Speaker 3: the community. You want to honor the Sabbathe, We want
37:33
Speaker 3: to get back out in the community and do some
37:36
Speaker 3: things within the community. So y'all, we're gonna be out
37:38
Speaker 3: and about. If you're having events and you need event hosts,
37:43
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37:47
Speaker 3: we got it over here at the Coup Podcast. We
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38:09
Speaker 3: thank you for tuning in for another episode of the
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38:17
Speaker 3: thank God for each and every one of these hosts.
38:20
Speaker 3: I pray that your day has been blessed, and I
38:23
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38:28
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38:30
Speaker 2: Y'all.
38:30
Speaker 3: I love y'all and I appreciate y'all for all that
38:33
Speaker 3: y'all do. Y'all have a great night, y'all, have a
38:37
Speaker 3: great night. Cornell, anything you would like to say before
38:40
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