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ROR 166: Answering Listeners’ Questions · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Grandall, how you doing, man?
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  Speaker 2: This is Christmas from.
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  Speaker 3: Combland, Virginia.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just checking out your podcast just the
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  Speaker 1: other day, and I know what his fight being locked up.
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  Speaker 4: But I've never been in.
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  Speaker 1: No maximum security, you know. I've been in like a
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  Speaker 1: level one, level two, you know, small shit, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: I've had a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of probation violations and all that mess. My original
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  Speaker 1: sentence is twenty one years because of a nighttime burglary.
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  Speaker 1: So he get me twenty one years night down because
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  Speaker 1: it was in the.
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  Speaker 3: Nighttime then, and I got out being been straights in
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  Speaker 3: twenty eleven. Did my present time my jailed time? You
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  Speaker 3: know part of that shit.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, man, just keep your head up, man, and
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  Speaker 1: praying for you. Just that amount of time just seems
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  Speaker 1: unreal for anyone to pull.
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  Speaker 3: You've been there for I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know what thirty some years now.
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  Speaker 4: It's ridiculous too much.
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  Speaker 3: How much time you got, man, I'm sure you're hanging
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  Speaker 3: hanging in there and doing your thing and a man,
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  Speaker 3: but man, the heartful after you and the family through
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  Speaker 3: stay space.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, this is a prebiate call from and it makes
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  Speaker 5: a present apartment of correction read an in state present
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  Speaker 5: to accept this call RAS zero.
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  Speaker 2: This is Randall Bob aka red Onion Randy. I'm currently
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  Speaker 2: serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years for capital
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  Speaker 2: murder and armed robbery now and finally at a level
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  Speaker 2: three Buckinghair Correctional Center sontways throw from where I grew up.
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  Speaker 2: If you have any questions or comments and want to
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  Speaker 2: leave a message or whatever, I've got a voicemail line.
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  Speaker 2: That number is one eight eight eight five four one
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  Speaker 2: nine three. So you can also visit my website which
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  Speaker 2: is new and improved and got different features and whatnot
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  Speaker 2: at www dot red on your randing dot com. I
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  Speaker 2: hope you do. Let's get started with the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Hey Ranning, big fan of the show. In the podcast,
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  Speaker 4: I just have a quacking, simple, easy question. How old
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  Speaker 4: do you think you'll be when you get out of jail?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you? Thanks, stay safe.
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  Speaker 2: As I record this. I am currently forty six. I've
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  Speaker 2: applied for a party.
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  Speaker 5: I have.
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  Speaker 2: Basically everything in my favor. To be realistic, I would
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  Speaker 2: say forty seven years old. I turned forty seven on
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  Speaker 2: December the fourth, twenty twenties twenty five. The new governor
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  Speaker 2: will take over from Glenn Younkin, the current governor, January
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  Speaker 2: fifteenth of twenty twenty six. My pardon won't be filed
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  Speaker 2: until probably around September October. You know, there's still things
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  Speaker 2: we have to get and work on. The chances of
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  Speaker 2: Glenn Younkin and his clemency slash pardon board receiving it
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  Speaker 2: and actually reading it and making a decision yay or nay,
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  Speaker 2: it's probably very slim unless God just performs an outright
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  Speaker 2: miracle for mean, which would be cool. So I'm assuming
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  Speaker 2: it will be under the new governor her next year,
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  Speaker 2: and it's all signs of pointing towards Miss Abigail Spamburger,
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  Speaker 2: and she has already promised to cut the prison population
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  Speaker 2: in half. The votes very very well for me, and
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  Speaker 2: I've done everything I possibly can to rehabilitate myself and
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  Speaker 2: to show that I've been rehabilitated. So my answer is
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  Speaker 2: forty seven years old, that's when I realistically think I'll
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  Speaker 2: get out of prison. Nothing is carved in stone, of course,
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  Speaker 2: except God's work, and we'll see what happens. Take care
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  Speaker 2: and stay safe.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, Randy, is Caleb out here in Alaska? A couple
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  Speaker 6: questions for you the first one, and just to roll
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  Speaker 6: the dreams in prison and sleep, how it's a sort
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  Speaker 6: of escape for you, and just how it feels to
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  Speaker 6: wake up find yourself in prison out there a good
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  Speaker 6: dream or whatnot.
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  Speaker 2: I received another call from Caleb in Alaska asking me
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  Speaker 2: about dreams. How do you wake up on a good
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  Speaker 2: dream in prison? You know, what do you dream of?
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  Speaker 2: That sort of thing? First of all, I've said it before,
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  Speaker 2: I'll say it again. I love my sleep. If I
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  Speaker 2: could sleep for fifteen hours a day in here, I
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  Speaker 2: would not hesitate for a second because I have some
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  Speaker 2: wild dreams. I mean, I have some pretty crazy as
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  Speaker 2: a matter of fact. Oh, my wife is not gonna
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  Speaker 2: like this, but I'm gonna tell it anyway. So I
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  Speaker 2: actually had a dream the other night and I've got
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  Speaker 2: a long beard now. It's actually down a little bit
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  Speaker 2: past my collar bone, right right about in that area.
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  Speaker 2: And I've never had a long beard before. So I
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  Speaker 2: decided this year to just grow it out and you know,
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  Speaker 2: see what happens, to see what it looks like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: before cutting it eventually, which I'm sure I will wind
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  Speaker 2: up trimming it down eventually, though I'll never go clean shaven.
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  Speaker 2: So I was in the dreaming in the mirror, which
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  Speaker 2: I was dreaming standing in front of the mirror, and
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  Speaker 2: I was trimming my beard up with a razor and everything,
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  Speaker 2: you know, putting the line on it, what not, keeping
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  Speaker 2: it nice and neat and uh. In the dream, I
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  Speaker 2: was just and I don't know why, like I just.
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  Speaker 2: I got got a little frustrated with my wife and
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  Speaker 2: I said, you know what, screw nick, and I shaved
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  Speaker 2: my beard. But I didn't shave the sides of it.
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  Speaker 2: I just shaved my mustache all the way down into
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  Speaker 2: my chin. So all I had was this is just
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  Speaker 2: like big goofy, bushy sideburn. I also made the mistake
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  Speaker 2: of telling my wife about said dreams. She was not amused.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny, but a lot of my dreams I don't remember.
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  Speaker 2: The ones I do remember, are I think they're the
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  Speaker 2: ones that I kind of I dream about the most. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why. A lot of times I'm back
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  Speaker 2: at where I was originally, you know, grew up at
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  Speaker 2: with the family and whatnot, at my grandma's And you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I said in the past, my grandma lived like
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  Speaker 2: three hundred yards away from where my mom and Dad's
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  Speaker 2: trailer was and it was you know, one kind of
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  Speaker 2: like clear opening with it, you know, the gravel road
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  Speaker 2: yard and all that stuff there. But for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: I always dream that I'm there and I'm flying. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why, but just like I'm just walking doing
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  Speaker 2: something and I just like I want to fly, and
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  Speaker 2: like I just take off running. I start flapping my
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  Speaker 2: damn arms and I actually start flying around. But for
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  Speaker 2: some reason, I'm always swooping and diving near the damn
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  Speaker 2: power lines. And like every time I get near the
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  Speaker 2: power lines, and I kind of like I barely miss it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I kind of fly away, and as
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  Speaker 2: for some reason, something just sucks me right back towards
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  Speaker 2: the damn power lines. I notice the power lines keep
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  Speaker 2: getting taller and bigger, and they move it get in
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  Speaker 2: my way. And I don't know what that's all about.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, that's one of my most frequent dreams, though
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  Speaker 2: it has been a little while since I've actually dream
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  Speaker 2: that dream about flying. The second most frequent dream that
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  Speaker 2: I have is I'm in prison. But the prison is
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  Speaker 2: never actually like a prison prison. It's it's changed, like
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  Speaker 2: it has woods inside the prison. It has a mall
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  Speaker 2: inside the prison, it has like these different types of whatever.
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  Speaker 2: It's just honestly, it's kind of like somebody just took
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  Speaker 2: a took like a town or you know, like a
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  Speaker 2: small city or something like Charlottesville, and just fenced in
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  Speaker 2: the whole damn town and then like that's my prison,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm always in there, just running around fighting dudes
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  Speaker 2: and chasing dudes or getting chased by guys. And I
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  Speaker 2: have to jump in a car and like I've got
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  Speaker 2: the pedals smashed to the floor boards, but the car's
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  Speaker 2: only going just slow as hell, and I'm looking in
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  Speaker 2: the mirrors. They keep getting closer, but somehow they never
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  Speaker 2: catch me, even though like I'm going maybe like three
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour up the road and I'm like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: cussing car out. Those those are, you know, my most
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  Speaker 2: frequent dreams. But lately, I don't know whether it's just
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  Speaker 2: I don't know whether you know, I'm finally out of
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  Speaker 2: the mountains, and you know, I'm dealing with a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot less stress and a whole lot less frustration, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't have to be on edge as
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  Speaker 2: much as I did up in Red Onion Walling's Ridge
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  Speaker 2: King Mountain, not so much. I mean it's they they're
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  Speaker 2: getting a little crazy up there because you've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of level fives there because they just they can't
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  Speaker 2: send them nowhere else because Red Onion and Walling's Ridge
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  Speaker 2: and River North they're just slammed packed. You know, the
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  Speaker 2: only way you can get sent up there anymore is
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  Speaker 2: you actually have to stab somebody or assault stamm You
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  Speaker 2: don't even go up there for knife charges anymore. They'll
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  Speaker 2: just throw you in a hole for a couple of
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  Speaker 2: days and put you right back on the yard now,
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  Speaker 2: which has got a lot of dudes messed up because
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  Speaker 2: they can no longer run up a debt and you know,
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  Speaker 2: drop a knife and fun to see an ash Dann
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  Speaker 2: Brook get locked up and get sent up there, and
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  Speaker 2: oh man, I can't pay, brouh, I can't pay. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our excuse is out the window now. As far as
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  Speaker 2: how to wake up from a good dream, there's just
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  Speaker 2: no way to do it. There's no good way to
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  Speaker 2: wake up in prison. I'm sleeping, I'm happy, i'm free,
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing whatever. I know. I dream every night, I
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  Speaker 2: just don't always remember said dreams. But yeah, when I
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  Speaker 2: wake up and I see that damn top bunk, I
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  Speaker 2: see the prison walls, and you know everything, and it's
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  Speaker 2: just it's like getting punched in gut. I mean I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking about like the big guy who knows how to punch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking like Lennox Lewis or Mike Tyson in his prime,
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  Speaker 2: getting punched in the gut when your stomach is completely relaxed,
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  Speaker 2: you're not flexed at all. Though, I think he's a
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  Speaker 2: way to getting hits out of in would hurt no
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  Speaker 2: matter what. Yeah, there's just no good way of waking
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  Speaker 2: up in prison. Man, good dream, bad dream, that don't matter. Man,
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  Speaker 2: waking up in prison sucks. I hope that answered your question,
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  Speaker 2: Caleb the Man, Thank you for calling in bruh and asking.
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  Speaker 2: It was actually a pretty interesting question because I really
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  Speaker 2: don't think about my dreams that often, ununless I'm stupid
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  Speaker 2: enough to actually tell my wife that I said screw.
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  Speaker 6: And then the second question is a former correction officer myself,
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  Speaker 6: just a relationship you've had with them over the years,
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  Speaker 6: some of the good, some of the bad. Appreciate the time, have.
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  Speaker 2: A good one. Caleb had a second question because he's
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  Speaker 2: a former correctional officer in Alaska, and he asked me,
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  Speaker 2: you know, about my relationships with correctional officers in the past.
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  Speaker 2: Most correctional officers I meet are just there, they're They're
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  Speaker 2: just part of the scenery. They're just part of the furniture,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I've met a couple of good ones. I've
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  Speaker 2: met some really really bad ones. Now it's not as
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  Speaker 2: strict here in the state of Virginia as far as
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  Speaker 2: prison politics goes, whether you can talk to the CEOs
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  Speaker 2: or not, or you've got to, you know, go through
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  Speaker 2: like a pod representative to speak to him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like it is on the West Coast. Ah, I see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, And that's the thing, like it's I guess,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's really up to your own personal preference.
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  Speaker 2: I see some gang members they won't speak to uh,
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  Speaker 2: they won't speak to the police no matter what, even
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  Speaker 2: if the police, you know, are actually doing their jobs.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got some that sit there and will stand
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  Speaker 2: on a boulevard and laugh and joke with them as
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  Speaker 2: long as they can get away with it. Me, I
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  Speaker 2: usually tend to stay away. I show respect, But as
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  Speaker 2: far as becoming buddy buddy he talking every time I
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  Speaker 2: see him, you know, asking them about their family. Hey man,
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  Speaker 2: did you go fishing over the weekend? That kind of thing.
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  Speaker 2: I usually tend to stay away from that, simply because
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  Speaker 2: I'm old school. I came up in the prison system
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  Speaker 2: when it was a different error. It was a different time,
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  Speaker 2: and it was a different way of doing that time.
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  Speaker 2: And back then you really didn't talk to officers that much.
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  Speaker 2: Nowadays here in Virginia has completely changed. I show respect
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  Speaker 2: to everyone, no matter who you are, no matter what
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  Speaker 2: side de fence you on, no matter what color your
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  Speaker 2: skin is, no matter what beliefs you hold, it don't
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  Speaker 2: matter to me, you know, I show respect. However, I
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  Speaker 2: do tend to distance myself a little bit. I will,
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  Speaker 2: you know, speak every now and then, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I may even, you know, wind up getting caught in
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  Speaker 2: a conversation, and that's okay. I don't get upset about it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't, you know, look for ways out of it.
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  Speaker 2: If it happens, it happens. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 2: I do keep my distance.
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  Speaker 7: Any Randy, my name is Simon. I am a fellow
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  Speaker 7: convict out here in California and San Diego, and how
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  Speaker 7: we do time here is very Rachel you segregated. I'm
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  Speaker 7: very political, and I've noticed that through your podcasts you
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  Speaker 7: don't talk too much about the prison politicisans Virginia. So
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  Speaker 7: I was wondering how it might be for someone who
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  Speaker 7: becomes impersonrated in the Virginia prison system, if where they eat,
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  Speaker 7: what they can and can do and so forth was
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  Speaker 7: dictated my race and work politics. Man, I really appreciate
• 16:26
  Speaker 7: your podcasts and I hope you get home sended. Keep
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  Speaker 7: it up.
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  Speaker 2: I got another question from a guy named Simon in
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  Speaker 2: the California system. He asked me about prison politics. I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually in the pod with a guy named t K
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  Speaker 2: who's did a lot of time in the California person system.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've met other guys from California before, you know,
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  Speaker 2: through the interstate compact, so and so forth. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: actually pretty from fail you with y'all system. And I
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  Speaker 2: know in California, for those who don't know, the blacks
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  Speaker 2: stay to the blacks. The whites states are the whites,
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  Speaker 2: the Spanish states of themselves, though they do deal and
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  Speaker 2: run with the whites on occasion. Everybody else tends to
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  Speaker 2: duck their heads, stay in the cell and fit in
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  Speaker 2: where they fit in. There is no crossing racial divide
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  Speaker 2: in the California prison system and in a lot of
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  Speaker 2: the West Coast prisons, they have what they call it
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  Speaker 2: tear boss for each race, and that tear boss, if
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  Speaker 2: you have an issue with someone, or you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: make a deal with someone, or whatever the case may be,
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  Speaker 2: you do not go and make that deal on your own.
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  Speaker 2: You go to your tear boss, and your tear boss
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  Speaker 2: will facilitate it that way, and that's the way for
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  Speaker 2: them to keep you know, the race riots to a
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  Speaker 2: minimum in the California. It's also it's it's it's just
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  Speaker 2: their way of doing it and it works long. However,
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  Speaker 2: here in Virginia, we don't have that. We have the politics,
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  Speaker 2: we have the different gangs, we have the different religious sects,
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  Speaker 2: we have you know, all that bullshit. You even have racism. However,
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  Speaker 2: our racism isn't organized like it is on the West Coast.
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  Speaker 2: It's more of an individual expression. You know, you have
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  Speaker 2: black people that are racist towards whites. You have white
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  Speaker 2: people that are racist towards blacks, but they never like
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  Speaker 2: join up, they don't form groups. It's just them themselves.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Blacks in Virginia Whites in Virginia, we talk,
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  Speaker 2: we hang out, we live together, we eat together. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we work out together. It's there is no segregation in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Virginia. And you would think that with
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  Speaker 2: Virginia being the first state of the South, that you
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  Speaker 2: would have something like that. However, it's not. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we all hang out, we all tall eat together. It
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter, you know. So that it is the one
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  Speaker 2: good thing about the state of Virginia. Though the bad
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  Speaker 2: thing about it is because it's such individuality in the
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  Speaker 2: in the Virginia prison system, you can't get people to
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  Speaker 2: stand up together. You can't get people to come together
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  Speaker 2: in unity and be like, all right, look, y'all got
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  Speaker 2: to stop treatingssage looking away. You know. In California, all
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  Speaker 2: it really takes is one of the big shots to
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  Speaker 2: sit there and call a meeting among the other you know,
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  Speaker 2: cure bosses and leaders and whatever, and say, look, we
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  Speaker 2: need to set our stuff aside. This is what they're doing,
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  Speaker 2: this is what they're trying to do, and we ain't
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  Speaker 2: standing for it. And all the other tier bosses they're
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  Speaker 2: for the most part, gang leaders and everybody, they're like,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well, that's right, man, we'll call a truce
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  Speaker 2: until we got this dealt with and they come together
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  Speaker 2: and they stand together. We don't have that here in Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: and that sucks. You know. I've told the stories before
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  Speaker 2: about me standing up and you know, trying to fight
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  Speaker 2: the people, and you've got guys in the pod cheering
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  Speaker 2: the police on to whoop my ass. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: from now, from that point forward, I've always been an individual.
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  Speaker 2: But that's pretty much the prison politics. It's it's completely
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  Speaker 2: a completely different world. In some ways, it's better, in
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  Speaker 2: some ways it's worse. No matter what prison system you're in,
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  Speaker 2: is never going to be perfect. You will never ever
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  Speaker 2: find a perfect person. There's pros and cons to all this.
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  Speaker 2: You know. Look at least the segregation and everything is
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  Speaker 2: one thing I've never had to deal with. And I
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  Speaker 2: hope i'd answers your question, Broke Randy.
• 21:21
  Speaker 8: I just have to say, after I saw the Red
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: Onion documentary, I thought the kindred connection to you, your
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: love of the Wheel of Time, books at D and
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: D and the way that you articulate yourself and your
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: story and the hard things you've been through. I just
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: have a tremendous sense of kindred spiritedness. I don't have
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  Speaker 8: a question there necessarily, but if there's a way for
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: us to correspond, and my heart broke when you had
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  Speaker 8: the bad experience moving away from role playing game, that man,
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  Speaker 8: I would just like to be your friend. And I
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  Speaker 8: know that you're in a tough spot. But yeah, if
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  Speaker 8: you can reach back out and we can connect and
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  Speaker 8: liais in some way maybe on JP man, I would
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  Speaker 8: I would love that. And if I don't hear from you,
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  Speaker 8: I'll try again. God bless you, Thank you glorifying Jesus
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  Speaker 8: in the tough spot that you're in and sharing your stories. Brother.
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  Speaker 8: All right, that's it.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of people recently have reached out, you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: through the phone number or sending emails to the editor
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: or the website or what have you wanting to get
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: in contact with me, and that's pretty cool. I have
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: no problem doing that. So for those of you who
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: are serious about it, there's a couple of ways. Unfortunately,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: my call list is full. I don't have any more
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: slots available for phone calls. So the only other two
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  Speaker 2: options that we have is you can go to JPay
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  Speaker 2: dot com and sign up there on the email account,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and I will say this, I have had a lot
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: of people in the past actually add their name to
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: my contact list on JPay. However I never heard from
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: them again. And I think the reason why that is
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: is because y'all expect the JPay email to work like
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: y'all's email account on the street, and it doesn't do that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: You have to set up the notification on your jpayapp
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: to actually notify you when an email for mea robs.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: You simply have to log into JPay and actually check
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: the account to see if an email for me has arribbed.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: Otherwise JPay will not let you know that an email
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: has shown up for me. The other way for you
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: to contact me is through video visits, and for that
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: it's four dollars for a twenty minute visit and seven
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: dollars for a fifty minute visit. Though they have been
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: talking about lowering those prices and maybe even making the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: video visits free. We don't know it's government, so that's
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: right there. It takes time. However, if you would like
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: to set up a video visit, you can go to
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  Speaker 2: https colon forward slash forward slash d a d oc
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  Speaker 2: dot g t L visit dot com forward slash app.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: I'll actually talk my editor into putting that up on
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: the website for those in case you didn't get it.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: The only thing I ask if you do actually set
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: up video visits, and it's I'm more of an open
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: to them. I actually really really like video visits. It's easier,
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: you get a little bit more time, I get to
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: see you, you get to see me, and it's just
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: it's more of a better connection than just, you know,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: a regular email. So if you do sign up, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: please still sign up on JP and just send me
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: the date and time so that I can be prepared
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: in advanced because sometimes if they pass out a piece
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: of paper in the morning letting you know when you
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: have video visits, sometimes they don't do it at all.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Like today, for example, I have a video visit at
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: three o'clock HEMP a little bit, and they never let
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: me know. I had to actually go out and look
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: at the video visit monitor and see my name up there,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: and my wife had told me yesterday that we had
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: one for the day. Otherwise I could easily be on
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: the RECORDRD. For the love of God, please do not
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: set them up in the morning. That is my go
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: outside work out, get distressed off of me, so I
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: don't do something stupid time twelve o'clock on after I'm good.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: But that's if you want to contact me. Those are
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: the two best ways to do so. We also have
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: a third option for those of you who actually sign
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: up and join our Patreon and support us and what
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: we're trying to do. We can set up a phone
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: call through Zoom. We can you can, for example, if
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: you want like a personalized message from me or something
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: like that. We don't charge you extra for that, by
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: the way, it's just the Patreon is five bucks and
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: that's what it is. And you know, if you saying, say, hey,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: you know, man, like dude, I'm looking depressed right now
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: and having a hard time getting out to bed, and
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I will record something special just for you because you
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: are in fact supporting me and that means something to me,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you know, and I will do everything I can to
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: help you. Or we can we can set up a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: three way or something along those lines. But that is
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the third way that we can't communicate and reach out to,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: you know, reach out to y'all.
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: My name is Amber and I personally just listen to
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: your podcast that you did with other people's lives on YouTube,
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: and I just I wanted to take a second and say,
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: first of all, the vulnerability is that you exhibit in
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: that episode with sharing a little bit of your story
• 28:23
  Speaker 9: and what it's like in solitary, well done, Well done,
• 28:26
  Speaker 9: because I know that that must not always be an
• 28:29
  Speaker 9: easy thing for you to seek about. I personally watch
• 28:35
  Speaker 9: another former inmate that now does you see. Her name
• 28:38
  Speaker 9: is Jessica Kent. I don't know if you've heard of her,
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: but she doesn't talk about extensively sorry tired confinement, like
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: that's not one of her big things. But I wanted
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: to say the fact that you do when you're trying
• 28:53
  Speaker 9: to raise awareness for what it's really like, I think
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: that there's something to be said for that, and I
• 28:58
  Speaker 9: think you're incredibly breathe to share your story, and I
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: just think that it's really cool that you're trying to
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: help others even though times have not always been easy
• 29:10
  Speaker 9: for you. I am currently a psychology student in college,
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: and I just find like the psychological aspect of things really.
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  Speaker 4: Fascinating.
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  Speaker 9: But I am sending you all the love, all the light,
• 29:26
  Speaker 9: all the positivity. Keep doing what you're doing, and I
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: am sending you a lots of love and I hope
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: you're doing well, and I hope you're excited for summer.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: And yeah, you know, you didn't really have a question
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: for see, but just more of making a comment on
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: the psychology of solitary confinement. And you know, if you
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: listen to other podcasters talk about it without having a
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: specific question that you know I can answer. The only
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: thing I can really recommend is go back and re
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: listen to some of my older episodes, you know, like,
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: for example, I believe it's episode eight a Torture Chamber.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Just I do go into it pretty extensively in some
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: of those earlier episodes about the psychology, about what it
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: does to you, how it breaks you down, you know,
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. If you want to
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: know something a little bit more specifically you want me
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: to fine tune and answer, just call back in and
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: you know, ask that question and we will definitely record
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: it in We can either put it on an episode,
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: or you could email. You could email the website and
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: I'll record the episode, or I'll accord the answer I
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: mean to say, and my editor we'll just email it
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to you. All right. That's all the time we have
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: for now. I appreciate you listening to me more than you'll, uh,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: you'll probably ever know. I just want to let you know,
• 31:14
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