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A Glimpse of Freedom · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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Hello, this is a prepaid call from and make it the Virginia Department of
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Corrections. Read Onion State Prison to accept this call, Press zero. This
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is Rando Vall. I'm currently serving one two hundred and fourteen years for capital
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murder in Wallace Ridge State Prison and dis from Gap, Virginia. This is
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my podcast with under Randing. I hope you enjoyed listening to to day.
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Today, I'm gonna talk about the trip I just took to get the biopsy
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on the summer after six years of having it. It was awesome. I'm
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not gonna lie like it was. It was so good to get out of
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this damn pard. This part has been filled with nothing but freaking gossip,
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back body in, just any ass children and like I needed to get away
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because I was getting close to snapping. I wasn't me. I was just
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spending all my time in the cell just trying to drown myself and reading and
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playing games and listening to music. And I really don't even listen to music
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like talking about. I wasn't responding to emails. I really wasn't even calling
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people like talking about like I normally do, just because I was kicking on
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eggs like I mean, I was getting to the point where I was just
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starting to lose the fight. I was starting to lose to trouble. So
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to be able to just leave for like twenty eight thirty hours something, I'm
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not even I'm not even sure how long I was done, but it was
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another It was just a vacation, and my God, that I need a
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vacation. So Wednesday they came in and packed me up, and the CEOs
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in the booth never even called me and told me. Because normally property get
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your around six in the morning and they'll call to the booth and the booth
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yells down, hey, man, go ahead and pack your stuff up and
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get it ready to getting transported. They didn't do that. So I was
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in the cell when the property sergeant McCray and a couple of her officers and
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the rookies and everything came and came up to the door and like, you've
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got your stuff ready, you're leaving, and y'all ain't telling me nothing.
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She turned around and yelled at Jews in the boothy, man, did y'all
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tell him to pack your stuff up? And thankfully the dude in the boom,
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Ceo Turner, was a man, because most of them were a lot
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of said yeah, we told him hours ago, but he was like,
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nah, he said, we never did tell him. So thankfully I didn't
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get in trouble for something I didn't have nothing to do with. Turner was
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a man about it, which I respect that, and I'm gonna let him
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know that when he comes back to work Monday. So I'm hustling. I'm
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trying to pack everything up and carry it downstairs so they can inventory. You
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put it in the boxes, and I make sure I've let Sergeant mc cray
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know, look I've got it. Then writing that I'm going down there,
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I'm getting the bobs and I'm coming right back up here. Do not send
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my property, do not mail my property out, don't just leave it up
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here. She's like, okay, that's not a problem. That makes it
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easy on us. I'm like, all right, good, thank you.
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So I stay overnight with nothing in the sell and uh the next morning,
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around eight o'clock, they pop the door and I walk over to receiving a
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discharge. They stripped me out, but they if I gotta squat and cough,
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I gotta lift up my sack. I gotta show my hund arms.
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I gotta run my finger through my mouth that kind of thing. I don't
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have long hair anymore, so I don't have to run my fingers do that.
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And you know, they put me in in separate clothes, and they
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throw my clothes in a box and set that over in the corner out of
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the way. They put shackles on me. They put a waist chain through
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the belt, loops on the on the orange pants, bright bright orange pants.
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And then they they put the handcuffs on me and they put this box
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on it. And it keeps you from being able to move, like it
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locks your wrist into place, and it's hell on your wrist. I mean,
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you know, it doesn't matter even if they put the coffs on kind
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of loose, your wrist are going to be cut up. They're going to
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be bruised because of that box has no giving. And this is the thing.
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This might be a little interesting tidbit for y'all who listens to me.
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The guy who invented that box was a prisoner. He invented that box.
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And what it does if you picture the handcuffs, it covers everything except for
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the loop that goes around your wrist. So you can't pick you can't take
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a handcuff key and pick up the lock. You can't take a pay per
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click and try to do anything like that. You know, it makes it
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extremely difficult to escape unless you can just you know, you're devil towing it
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down your thumbs and you can pull them off. So this dude who invented
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it, he invented it, and he actually got early release in prison.
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But this dumb ass goes home and he gets locked back up. I don't
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know how long it took him to get locked back up, but he got
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locked back up, and when he got back into prison, the other inmates
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murdered him for creating this box and helping the police and them. Things are
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uncomfortable as they can be. Like if they just put you in a chain
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and they put something on something else, want to be ware it doesn't lock
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those handcuffs to the place, so you got give and you can move and
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everything. It'd be so much more comfortable. Other men, it just hurts
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like hell. So they walked me out and thankfully I didn't get the van
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with the with the damn metal box in the back, you know, the
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dog kennel, and he came real close to getting that because the good vans
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with the actual comfortable seats and the windows and everything were in the shop,
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and the CEO was telling me that even at thirty five miles per hour,
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the rpns were over five thousand. At thirty five miles and hours, that
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van was screwed. It would it would have took us for baby to drive
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down there and that sucker. So I got I got the Uh it was
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a Ford suv. I'm not sure what what kind of suv it was,
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but it was kind of a big one. I know for a fact.
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It wasn't It wasn't a what's the name jam? Uh? Uh what are
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the big ones called? Anyway, I can't remember, I'm sorry. It
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was one of the medium sized ones. And uh it had great views.
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I had a three sick. No matter which way I looked, I could
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see out the front window, I could see out the side windows. I
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could turn around and see out the back windows. The only bad thing about
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that suv was if they had these hard plastic seats in the back and the
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contour of it one was comfortable like it fit me really well. Actually,
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if they would have had like a cushion on it, oh Man dude,
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it would have been lovely. But yeah, it was a hard ass plastic
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seat. And it takes six hours to get down there, six hours to
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get back. So we drive down through Abingdon and I get to see people
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about their daily lives. I get to see trees, I get to see
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homes. I see people out mowing grass, I see people out working.
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I'm seeing cows and dogs and stuff like that, and it's really good.
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These people, they spent two bad lunches with me. It was basically,
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I got four peanut butter sandwiches that weren't dry, I mean, put some
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damn jelly on them. Next time. People. They gave me two bananas,
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which are freaking awesome. They gave me four apple juices, and they
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gave me some carrots. I ate pretty much everything except for two sandwiches and
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the carrots. I didn't touch the carrots because they were dirty. You know.
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Everything else, you know, I ate as I was going down.
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I spaced it out and everything so I wouldn't be starving by the time I
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got there, because honestly I wouldn't. George SUSSX one was gonna feed me
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or not. And I got to drive up eighty one for a while and
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we drove task Rowing Oak and I was able to see a little bit,
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but not too much. There's a lot of trees in the way. But
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when we hit Lynchburgh, which I've been to Lynchburg a lot when I was
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a kid. We used to go to the movie theaters up there all the
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time. When I was in getting new to the menu Willness program. Uh,
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it's like a little weekly kind of treat for those who behaved themselves and
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whatnot, a little assentive thing you could go to the movies. They would
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give you a six dollars allowance, and which was pretty awesome back here.
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Six dollars actually went a long way back in the early nineties, and if
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I remember Correaul, it was around ninety one, ninety ninety one. Yeah,
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And uh, I got to saw Lisburg, I got to saw Liberty
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University, I got to saw places that I've been before, and I got
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to see him crystal clear. Even though they had the caves and everything in
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the back, like the spacings were far enough apart where you did not have
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an impeded view. You could see really really well, and it just and
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it felt so free. I could kind of like half close my eyes and
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just get in the position where I don't move and I don't feel the handcuffs
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digging into my wrist, I don't feel the shackles or none of that.
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And it just kind of felt like I was in the back seat just driving
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down the road going to somebody's house, you know, a friend's house,
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or going to a store. Like it just kind of gave me a slight
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glimpse of just what it's going to be like to be out of prison finally,
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whenever I can make that happen and the Lord comes through for me.
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It felt so good to be out there just seeing people. And he had
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two officers with me. You have one that was driving, and you had
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the other officer and the passenger seat, and both of them were pretty respectful.
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They weren't dicks, they weren't assholes. They weren't trying to throw their
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weight around or either anything like. Obviously, they didn't stop and buy me
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a cheeseburger or nothing. I didn't even ask, of course, But the
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guy in the passenger seat was on his phone and he was watching TikTok videos,
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and so I was able to stoop forward for a while until I got
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too uncomfortable and I had to sit back to relax, but he allowed me
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to look over his shoulder and was watching the you know, the TikTok videos
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and stuff that he was watching. And I've come to realize that TikTok is
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nothing but hand went and bouncing around in bras and panties and dumb ass dudes
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doing dumb ass stuff randomly throughout the day in video and it and putting it
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up there, which I actually asked him, like, wait a minute,
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minute, this is what TikTok is. And it was like kind of yeah,
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basically, And so I said, y'all pay for this, and they
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was like, nah, it's free, otherwise we wouldn't have it. I
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was like, oh, okay, I mean, I appreciate women, you
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know, as much as next man, but damn girls, have some self
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respect about yourself. Just say it. So I asked him, like,
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man, we chopping by Charlot's Vielle and they was like, nah, we'll
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We'll cut through Applematics and then cut across the state towards Sussex one. I
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said, mankind, that sucks for me because I really wanted to see my
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hometown. I really wanted to see my homs. Even I wasn't going to
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see a lot of it. I was gonna be able to see a little
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bit of it, but unfortunately that didn't happen on the way down. So
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we get there. We pull into freaking Sussex one, and I just I
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know I've been there a couple of times before, and you know, I
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recognized the sights. I recognized certain churches, I recognize certain businesses and roads
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and turns, and I just I get so depressed. I hate that place.
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I just I get there and the guy pulls into the front and the
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driver gets out and he takes my package in there to the guy in the
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front and let him know I'm here so they can say officers to come get
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me and all that stuff. And I'm just looking around and I do that.
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So the CEO kind of turns around and said, man, you really
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don't want to be here, do you. I'm like, look, dude,
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pop the door. Let me take a couple of steps, shooting in
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the back of the head man and say I was making a break for it.
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And I was dead as serious, like I wasn't joking most people you
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would think I would. No, I was dead as serious, Like,
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I would have rather that dude put a bullet in my head than for me
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to actually have to step up one single foot inside that gate. I hate
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that place with a passion. So they kick me into receiving. They got
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this huge, crazy like X ray cell phone detector thing. You actually have
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to step up on this platform and it's got this it's like an art that
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goes up and over and it's got all of these sensors and they'll ask you
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your state number, your name, and they'll type that into the computer over
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there in the corner where they're at behind the controls of it. And then
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they're like, all right, raise your hands above your heads. So I
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raise my hands above the heads. I'm still wearing handcuffs, but I don't.
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I don't have nothing else on it. And and it draws you through
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it and then it draws you right back, and you know, it checks
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you for drugs. It checks you for extra lot of guys, you know,
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if they can, they'll they'll stuff drugs up their ass. They call
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it suitcase and in prison, you know, so they actually have a machine
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that can actually detect that stuff. Now, check for weapons, check for
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cell phones and any other type of contraband, and even the CEOs have to
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get on it even to see. They have to take all the nutt off
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of them and get on it and tell their name, and they even have
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ID number. I never knew that until this, Like this was crazy.
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So we go through all that. They stripped me out and they give me
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some other clothes. They had a bag of stuff for me there. It
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had one blanket, had one pillow case, it had one wall cloth,
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it had three tiels, and it had no underwear and it had no T
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shirts and no socks. So the CEO there, he had no choice but
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to give me my sock some my underwear back after he ran it through the
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X ray machine and he, like I mean, dude, went through looking
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for anything and everything. I don't think there was a damn speck of dirt
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on it. After he got done searching it, and I sat over there
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for a couple of hours and then Lieutenant Smith come over and got me and
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uh walked me over the medical Me and him was talking. H I overheard
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him talking to the to the officer in the receiving area. So he had
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to catch a plane that night, and he was supposed to have been out
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of there at uh at three o'clock and it was already three eighteen, and
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he wound up sitting with me in medical for like an hour and a half
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because as soon as I get to medical and I sit down in the little
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examination room waiting for the nurse to come get me and examine me and everything
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to make sure that I'm not about to die on and the what not,
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so they're not liable and stuff, and it comes over the radio inmate unresponsive,
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inmate unresponsive. All units respond, so the nurses they take over running
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to go deal with that some dude named Norman Raleigh because I heard them talking
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about the name and everything. And when they got over there and they tried
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to get him awake and all that stuff. Normally they'll bring you the medical
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and try to work on you there if they can. They didn't even do
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that. They rushed this dude straight to the salid boy chucked his ass in
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the back of a van and haul ass up the road to the hospital.
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And from what I understand, he was pronounced Ea. I don't know if
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he was murdered. I don't know if he died from an overdose. I
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don't know if he died from natural causes. I don't know if he killed
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himself. I don't know why he died. I just from what I was
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told, just he died so evidently. Just want to be an investigation on
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that. And there, of course, every time I go there, something
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happens. When I went there in January ninth of twenty nineteen, they had
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a full blown riot and they wound up transferring forty people on an emergency transfer
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up the Red Onion that night and the very next morning, this time he
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had a dead body. And one of the nurses that responded after they got
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him in the van and he was headed up the road, she came back
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to medical and she was talking to the nurse that was doing my vitals and
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asked me questions and all that stuff. She fell straight backwards. She didn't
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crumple to the ground. She fell straight backwards. Basically just take a stick,
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set it up and just let it fall. And she was a big
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girl. She had some weight to the woman, and she had like you
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know, some of them will gett like really really long brainstead of weeds and
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uh, she had that coiled up in the bun behind her head. And
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she wouldn't have had and she would have had this regular hair, or if
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it would have been even if her weeds would have just been like hanging straight
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down. If would have been in that gun, she would have split the
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back of her sclow ride over there where she just fell string back, I
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mean just gone, eyes rolled up in the back of her head, got
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got out the way and everything. They worked on her and whatnot, and
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uh she came to and everything, and you know, they gave her some
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ice and whatnot. I think they took her to the hospital over and by
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that time, while they was walking on a Lieutenant Smith was like, yo,
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look let's go man, let's let's get up out of here. And
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I'm like, eyes, let's do that. So we go and they take
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me to sing and uh, you know they put me in solitary overnight.
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Nothing special about that. Uh, I will say Sussex won the whole.
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It's changed because now in the middle of the pond there's this huge cage made
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out of just solid old school prison bars, like something you would see from
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the eighteen hundreds in the Old West. And they got cages up in front
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of the up in front of the pod, you know, separating the office
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and everything from the rest of the actual pod in the front door and whatnot,
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and you off the special I had to, you know, they gave
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me a trade around five o'clock that afternoon, and I had to eat it
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with a glove because I didn't have a spoon and they didn't have spoons because
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they don't give a spoons no more. Uh, you got to buy spoons
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from commisary. And obviously I didn't have my property or none of that there.
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So I talked to Sergeant Peace. I'm like, look, can can
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y'all get me anything? And she went and she searched the office to find
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something, and she just came back like, honey, I'm sorry, we
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just don't have anything. And she just gave me a glove, and I'm
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like, works for me. So I was sitting there from beans and meat
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stuff that was just as bland and dull as it could be, but actually
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bought it had some chili seasoning. It wouldn't have been bad at all,
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truth be told, I probably would have enjoyed it. But I ate a
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cinnamon raising bagel that was on a train. And they had these too little,
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small, like really really really super many pink and purple cupcakes and icings
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that had sprinkles on it, so I crushed them. They were pretty good,
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and I didn't drink anything for the rest of the night or eat anything
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until after my surgery and a long story short on PA. I went to
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sleep around seven o'clock that night and I woke up around maybe three point thirty
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the next morning. I just got up. I paced the floor, just
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let my mind want to thinking about things, just waiting, and they come
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and got me at five o'clock. It took me over to receive and had
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to go through that same procedure again, checking me and searching me and put
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me in different clothes. Thankfully, I had a pair of shoes that had
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these hard class the cats over the toes, and they were just digging into
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my big toemail on my left foot like it hit her like sol. So
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I hollered at the dude they worked over there. I'm like, look,
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bruh man, can I just chance he's out for anything else? I don't
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care if y'all don't have different type of shoes. They're like me, give
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me get inside ten or eleven or something like. He's like, I'll check
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to see what I got. And he came back with the old school Jackie
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Chan's shoes. That's what we call him in prison. Basically, on the
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street, y'allould call him a deck shoes or boat shoes. And I was
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like, yeah, dude, man, thank god man. So I pucked
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them on. They were so comfortable. I wanted to keep them when I
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got back up here, but they wouldn't let me. So I sat over
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there until eight thirty. That's when the same officers, Scout and Cook came
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back. They stayed at the hotel over and I actually thought they drove back
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the Red Onion and if somebody from Sussex Swall was going to take me to
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DCU and then drive me back when I was done, But they just they
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stayed overnight at the hotel and everything they got me, put me in the
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shoes. We drove to VCU. When I get there, there was some
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confusion. They didn't say anything about the biopsy, and they just kept talking
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about a set scans, set scans, see t scann. I looked at
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him. I was sitting in a wheelchair waiting on the elevator to go to
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the hospital hospital because VCU had the actual like a secure prison area inside that
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hospital, and they got like holding cells for guys to wait, and then
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they have actual like hospital hospital rooms there in case you have to have like
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major surgery and you have to stay there for a while. And I turned,
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I turned to the offices. Look like, I'm not trying to make
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you all jobs harder. I'm not trying to be a dig but I'm telling
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you right now, if all they do is a ce key scan, they
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don't biopsie my leg, like I don't cuss he normally, you know,
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I'll do what I just did. I kind of I give you the impression
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of the customer without actually cussing. And I need to stop that too,
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and it is something you know. But at the moment, I was a
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little upset. I'm like, look, dude, I'm telling you all right
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now, man, Like, dude, I'm going to raise hell man like
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I'm gonna make myself known, right And I'm not talking about I was going
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to slip the handcuffs off the stuff, whooping people's ass until they pile long
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me, shoot me or new whatever. I'm not talking about that I'm talking
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about I'm going to raise hell like I was going to be hurt. I
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was going to I was gonna raise my voice. I was gonna make a
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scene, you know, like y'all were doing this, and I was,
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you know, because twenty nineteen they took me down there for a biops and
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the doctor there, he completely screwed me. As he did was ac Ray
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sent me back to the damn by prison, and I stayed in the hole
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with solitary. We call it the whole inside prison. I stayed in solitary
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for four months with no TV, no commissary, no privileges, no nothing.
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Even though I had population privileges acprad on you where I was at,
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they still kept me in the day solitary down there, which I'm still pissed
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off about. If you can't pick up on that, I'm not doing this
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again. Then he said his soul, it's just in a man, you
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know, I could tell from it a raies. How could you tell them
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from an X rays? When the fifteen X rays beforehand up here that I
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had it read one what not? They couldn't tell it was the man own.
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That's why they's sitting for the biops in the first place. Like I
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was going to raise holy hell about it, like I mean, I'm telling
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you right now, it's the officers. Right, look, dude, well
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you understand that you do what you gotta do. We're gonna do what we
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have to do. I can respect them. Man. Don't take it personal
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though, because it's not personal, not against you. Two. And so
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when we get back, they talked to the nurses. All right, look
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man, y'all y'all man, They showed in the paper of like y'all keep
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talking about CT scan, set scan, set scan. This dude is here
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for biops. Right, we have to drive all the way back across the
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damn state. They actually stood up for me, like I'm coming here.
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They knew I was serious thing, know about my reputation there, and I
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guess they kind of thought I might take it a little too far. I
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might get it. I might work myself up to going too far. I'm
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not really sure, but like they put parary for me and the nurses like
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they went and looking like no, it's a CT scan and a biopsy at
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the same time. So I'm like, all right, So we get undressed,
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we do all. They take the you know, the metal stuff off,
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they put me in. Ah, they take the arm the handcuffs off
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so I can kind of, you know, get them on my top part
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undressed and whatnot. They put me in flex cuffs and then they take the
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shackles off, and you know, so I can take my bottoms off and
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everything, and I can put their little hospital socks on. It's got them
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rubber grits. I wanted to keep them. Oh, let me tell I
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could have brought them back and got fifteen dollars for them, but obviously I
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don't steal stuff. They stayed at the hospital where they belong. They had
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them more comfort the wadow. You know, they put the uh after I'm
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in the hospital down and everything. They put the flex cuffs on my feet.
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We go through all the whole rigamont that you got to prepare for surgery.
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They come in, they know, they they take on vitals, they
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you know, they put the IV in my arm. They ask me what
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I'm allergic to medicines, you know, all of that kind of thing.
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And then they wheel me in the surgery. So I'm on the gurny.
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I had to hold my leg a certain way. They put me on a
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fending al drew and I'm still awake during the surgery. I'm not asleep or
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nothing. I'm actually I'm told up into him. I'm kind of flirting with
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the nurses a little bit, you know, just practicing. I got to
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make sure I can keep Nick satisfied. And I'm talking to the doctor.
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I'm asking questions. You know, dude, look, man, you know
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from your opinion, is it look like I have bone cans. He's like,
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no, absolutely not. You don't have bone answer. If you had
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bone cancers, you'd have been dead a couple of years ago. With as
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long as you've had this problem. I'm like, all right, that's good
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to know. And I'm like, well, what do you think it is
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to send your opinion? He's like, buddy, I don't know, he
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said, I can't tell you. See, that's why we're doing to buy.
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Obviously, we will know after this for sure what it is. I'm
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like, all right, I respect that, man. What are the chances
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of me having my leg amputated? He's like, I don't think you're gonna
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have to have your leg amputated. And I'm like, all right, that's
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cool. We on will I Man. You know, he's just kind.
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You know. He drills eight holes through the tumor and down into the bone,
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and one of them goes down into the bone barrow. That one kind
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of hurt a little bit. And they actually have the nurse and ask them
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you okay, and I'm like, yeah, you know the other ones they're
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okay, but that won't hurt. She's like, was the pressure over and
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pain? I'm like, no, that one was pain. She's like,
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okay, hold up, let me give you a little bit more, and
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you know, she up the dose. She's on the Fennom. Things kind
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of got a little fuzzy around the edges, but I was I was still
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clear headed, like I wasn't high or anything like that. I was still
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cognizant. I could still function mentally. It was just kind of more like
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tunnel vision. They finished up, and you know, they vanished me up
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and everything. We would be back to the to the room and just like
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hold up, let me go get you. One of the nurses like,
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hold up, let me go get you some food. I'm like, man,
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thank god, because susage one they knew I was leaving the hospital going
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straight back to the ridge. I was gonna be on a six hour draw
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and they did not give me food. The officers they asked and they just
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looked at him like they were stupid. Hey, that was susage one that
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was the kitchen. A susage one was responsible for making me a bad lunch
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and a bad dinner because they knew I wasn't going to have nothing to eat
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until the next morning, but they didn't give me none eat. They just
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looked at offices like they were stupid. So thankfully the nurse came through for
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me. She brought me a turkey sandwich with some mayonnaise and mustard. She
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brought me an apple, She brought me some lemon cookies. She brought me
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a bag of Lathe baked the actual baked potato chips. She brought me an
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apple juice, and she brought me a ginger ale again, which was cool
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because that's about the only soda I will drink. So I'm sitting there eating
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that and I turned the TV on, you know, the officers. I
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asked him to look, but I got to remote right here. I turned
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to see and I was hoping to maybe catch a good movie because we had
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to wait there for an hour or something, but unfortunately, they had like
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seventy some channels and there still wasn't a damn thing on there, and so
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I just I started talking to the officers and we was comversating and talking about
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this or Dad and so on and so forth, nothing really important, just
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I don't chick chat, you know. And I was enjoyed the meal of
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Thank God for that that damn birst came through for me, because otherwise they
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would have been rough because I was getting hungry. We go through the whole
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situation of checking out, blah blah blah. We're back on the damn road.
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As soon as we pull on the road, the heaven's open up.
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It is the frame. It's like a damn monsoon. It's like we were
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driving through a hurricane, like you. And it was foggy on top of
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that, like we could barely see fifteen twenty feet in front of us.
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I thought I was gonna die, like fifteen to twenty damn times on the
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way back, we would be driving in one lane on the highway and uh
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we was taking sixty four to eighty one, and people in the laying beside
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us would would pull up. They would drive fast, pull up, and
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they would get stuck behind a damn track and trailer. There might be ten
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feet in front of us, and they were just root right over in front
27:56
of her lane. They didn't turn the damn turn sick along and let us
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stay there for a moment, so we could even speed up and keep bobs
28:03
so they could get behind us. Moor, we could, you know,
28:04
kind of slow down small meteries so they could sit in front of them.
28:07
They flipped it on and it immediately pulled over our frontal list. But I
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ain't know, I mean drinking. The roads are slip, the cars are
28:15
sliding. I mean the suv I was in was kind of sliding a little
28:18
bit on the road and tricking. I mean, these people, what the
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hell out of to Americans? I mean, you people used to know how
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to drive? What the wrong was y'all? I don't understand. I was
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a better driver at eight years old then most of the people I saw on
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the damn road yesterday or the day before yesterday. I mean, excuse me,
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and it's crazy, But the cool thing is on the way back,
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I didn't ask them. I kind of wanted to, but I wasn't sure.
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Maybe I'm not really sure, but on the way home, they didn't
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drive the exact same roads that we took to get there. They took sixty
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four east. I mean they took sixty four west to eighty one, and
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we drove right by Charlottesville. And I don't know if they did that,
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because I asked him on the way there if we was going by there or
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not. Maybe they just looked out for me. Maybe even they kind of
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felt a little sorry for me, because they told me, like, look,
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Arry, we're not gonna be able to stop and get you something to
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eat for dinner or nothing, even though we're going to stop and get ourselves
29:22
something like, dude, we can't, like we don't want to lose their
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jobs. I'm like, dude, I get it. Don't worry about it.
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Bro, You're good man. I'm fine. I've gone hungry before.
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I don't know, but they drove by Charlottceville and I was able to see
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my hometown a little bit. Not all of it, because we drove on
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the outskirts of it, but I was able to see something. There's a
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brand new mall there. I didn't even know it was built like this.
29:44
Mall was pretty huge. I swear it took us three minutes to drop back
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mall. You know. I saw Mazey's, I saw Dick's Sporting Goods.
29:53
They had all kinds of stores their stuff. I've never even heard of,
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and it was great. I mean, it was just so good to see
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my old stopping grounds. I was really close to home, like kind of
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felt a small connection to see my family and everything. Oh excuse me,
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I apologize. I skipped a partner that I didn't want to talk about.
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I'm no longer the same ass whole criminal I used to do, and I
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know how I'm not. When I was in the hospital and I was I
30:25
was in the room after my surgery and I was waiting, and it was
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this really really older white lady late eighties, early nineties, and she was
30:36
coming and she was searching for a husband. So she scratched at the cloud
30:38
and she was her voice was so weak, and she was calling, Kirk,
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Kirker, you went in there, Kirk, I need you. Goddamn
30:45
my heart. He went out to that old lady, and you know the
30:48
CEO, Kirk was. He got up and he a kind of He's like,
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no, ma'am, I'm sorry, this is that your husband. Maybe
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he checked the one next door. I think he might have be in that
30:57
one. And she was like, okay, thank you, young man.
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And she kind of was hobbling and shuffling like she could barely move, and
31:07
I wanted to get up and take her elbow and escort her to find her
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husband. And then sure she sat down, and like after you mean it,
31:14
think I really wanted to do that, and I realized the difference between
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who I am now at forty four and who I was and when my teens
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are my twenties or something like back then, I would have helped her.
31:26
I would have got up and helped her, and I would have took her
31:27
into her husband's room by my blade. And then you know, I would
31:32
have waited the round long. And I'm just like to steal the money from
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a purse. I'd have done that as a kid. Now I would and
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knew that, like the thought of it made me sick. I just I
31:41
wanted to help this woman. And then you know, I saw this as
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we was leaving and waiting for the elevators and had this The two nurses were
31:49
pushing this this black woman on a garden and she had just come out of
31:53
surgery and her her right arm from like the elbow to the fist was just
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completely wrapped in golf. She had this huge club on her hand and she
32:04
was still passed out from the anesthesia, but she was moaning in pain,
32:07
and like I wanted to give her a hug, like I felt bad for
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I was just sitting there looking at her, like, damn, man,
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I wish there was something I could do for you. So, yeah,
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that's a good thing. Like that. That kind of showed me like I've
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grown in my humanity. I'm not the dick I used to be. I'm
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not that stupid ass little kid said with pain and rage and hurt anymore.
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You know, I might actually be a decent human being now. So that
32:30
was kind of nice to realize that. So we drove back. It really
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nothing special other than I thought it was gonna freaking die a whole bunch of
32:38
times because people kept cutting the soft and yeah, that's crazy. But I
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got back around nine o'clock that night, and thankfully, the uh you know,
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the officers, they went and uh, they caught a head and they
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had they had some food waiting on me. I had another turkey sandwich,
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uh, a pack of peanut butter and stuff, and now I'm just waiting
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on the results. Look, this has been read on your Randy. I
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