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ROR 180: Celeste Blair | In the Absence of Paint | Part 2 · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if the
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Speaker 1: present Department of Correction read an in state prison to
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Speaker 1: accept this, all press zero.
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Speaker 2: This is Randall bab Aka read on you, Randy. I'm
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Speaker 2: currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years for
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Speaker 2: capital murder and on robbery now and finally at a
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Speaker 2: level three fucking air correctional center. So always throw from
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Speaker 2: where I grew up. If you have any questions or
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Speaker 2: also visit my website which is new and improved and
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Speaker 2: got different features and whatnot at deput debut red on
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Speaker 2: your Randy dot com. I hope you do. Let's get
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Speaker 2: started with the podcast. Hey everybody, this is Randy. This
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Speaker 2: is going to be a part two of my conversation
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Speaker 2: with Celeste, former federal prisoner. And if you haven't listened
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Speaker 2: to part one, please go back and listen to part
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Speaker 2: one so you can kind of catch up on what's
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Speaker 2: going on. But since there's quite a few episodes with
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Speaker 2: me and Celeste and just give you a quick update
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Speaker 2: with what's going on with me. I know everybody listened
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Speaker 2: to the Seli Adventures. Well, I have a bit of
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Speaker 2: a potentially good update. We'll see what happens with it.
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Speaker 2: But uh my, Sally just went the other day for
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Speaker 2: his annual review. They lowered his security points down to ten,
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Speaker 2: which makes them a level two, which means he should
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Speaker 2: be getting transferred from here to Deal one in the
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Speaker 2: next week or so. And I've already got a celly
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Speaker 2: lined up and picked out and waiting in the wings
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Speaker 2: as soon as they come package. I'm getting the paperwork
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Speaker 2: and me and old boy are going upstairs at the
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Speaker 2: union managed office and it's going to mappen the very
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Speaker 2: next day because I am not getting stuck with some
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Speaker 2: random ask. Dude, ain't happening. But here's me and Celeste.
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Speaker 2: I hope you'll enjoy the conversation. So yeah, to answer
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Speaker 2: your question will fully, I reached out, you know, because
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Speaker 2: I craved a family, and the Marine Corps, the Army,
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Speaker 2: the Navy, one of them could have and would have
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Speaker 2: given that to me. I craved structure and discipline. That's
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Speaker 2: when I'm at my best. So nobody reached back. Nobody
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Speaker 2: reached back, and I was I was in my forties
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Speaker 2: when somebody did, and that was Michael Garbert. He's the
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Speaker 2: one you know through him this podcast is here?
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Speaker 1: Is he in Australia? That the one in Australia?
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Speaker 2: Yes, see him and his wife Jujanne, who did the
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Speaker 2: original editing and everything before health reasons, you know, put
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Speaker 2: it in a tweety's lab.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, how did that happen? That's so cool?
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Speaker 2: Uh? In the documentary I was talking about I have
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Speaker 2: the ability to pace the floor and close my eyes
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Speaker 2: and daydream and I can actually build it in my
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Speaker 2: head like a three D model on a computer. Nice,
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Speaker 2: I like, I like, say, what now?
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Speaker 1: I appreciated that when you said that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. So he's a professor of art at the University
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Speaker 2: of New South Wales and he was really interested in
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Speaker 2: what I said because he's, you know, trying to teach
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Speaker 2: his students that very thing. Oh so he wrote me
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Speaker 2: and we we wrote back and forth on JPA for
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Speaker 2: a while, and then one day I just sent him
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Speaker 2: an email like, look, this would be so much easier
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Speaker 2: if I could talk to you, And I told him
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Speaker 2: how that, you know, because at that time Skype you
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Speaker 2: could get an international phone number. And so we went
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Speaker 2: through all that and we got the phone numbers set up.
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Speaker 2: There was a few hurdles we had to overcome, but
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Speaker 2: we started talking on the phone and after a couple
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Speaker 2: of weeks of just talking, he's like, man, you would
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Speaker 2: be perfect for a podcast. Let's do a podcast together. Absolutely,
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Speaker 2: what's a podcast? He explained it to me, and it
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Speaker 2: was like absolutely, and uh we just uh we started
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Speaker 2: recording and one thing led to another.
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Speaker 1: That's so cool.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely is. God has put some really really good
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Speaker 2: people in my life. But you know, for that long though,
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Speaker 2: I had nothing and no want So back to your
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Speaker 2: original statement about you know, the young ladies and whatnot
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Speaker 2: during time in the federal prison system being upset because
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Speaker 2: their salad wasn't perfectly crisp. They forgot to put, you know,
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Speaker 2: a couple of slices of bacon on it, or whatever
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Speaker 2: the case may be. Like, it comes down to perspective,
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Speaker 2: and that's the one thing among us, quite a few
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Speaker 2: things in this country that our children are simply the
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Speaker 2: teachers in school are neglecting to teach. You know, get
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Speaker 2: man is good, science and history is good. Those things
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Speaker 2: have their place. However, we are not going to fix
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Speaker 2: our problems in this country much less take care of
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Speaker 2: the world if you do not start teaching young children
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Speaker 2: how to want thank for themselves. Two, teach them how
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Speaker 2: to have perspective and what perspective really is, and three
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Speaker 2: teaching them how to actually learn growth. Memorization is not learning.
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Speaker 2: You're just simply memorizing a formula and calling that education
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Speaker 2: and is bullshit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. You know, I'm an artist and one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest strategies that for me is of like
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Speaker 1: watching the decline of art and creativity. And that's one
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Speaker 1: of the problems that exists in federal prison as well,
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Speaker 1: is that you know, creativity and art healed, and like
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Speaker 1: you said, it was finding that artistic space for creativity
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Speaker 1: inside your mind that allows you to thrive in such
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Speaker 1: esthetically void situation. And you know, really, when you're talking
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Speaker 1: about perspective, I think I think I've credit a lot
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Speaker 1: of that is due to the fact that children don't
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Speaker 1: read books much anymore, and that's where we gained such
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Speaker 1: inside and empathy and perspective for fellows human beings. And
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Speaker 1: I think, uh, I think you've hit it on the
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Speaker 1: head with that, you know, I think that's so relevant.
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Speaker 2: But well, it's and it's it's the thing is it's
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Speaker 2: not just about reading books. It's about reading the right
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Speaker 2: books right very and that's and that's key because you know,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm sorry, but you know, mandatory readings of
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Speaker 2: the Twilight series is not. I mean, I'm sure they're
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Speaker 2: excellent books. I even watched the movies when they played
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Speaker 2: them on the DVD channel. It right on you. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they were okay, but like, you're not going to learn
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Speaker 2: perspective from that. You're not going to learn life skills
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Speaker 2: from that. You're not going to have that moment and
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Speaker 2: those types of books that are going to change the
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Speaker 2: course of your life. Yeah, I don't necessarily mean you
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Speaker 2: need to go read The Great Gatsby neither, because hell,
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Speaker 2: I've never read the Great Gasby and I have no
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Speaker 2: intentions of ever reading the Great Gasby.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but there's definitely some literacy that would be better.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely Call of the Wild. I mean, there's there's there's
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Speaker 2: so many different books that, you know, a matter of fact,
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Speaker 2: a book I just me and Michael just came out with, uh,
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Speaker 2: like two weeks ago, you ain't beyond saving, you know,
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Speaker 2: And that's part and then while part survival, God part
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Speaker 2: self help God.
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Speaker 1: You know, like, yeah, Michael, tell me about it. I
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Speaker 1: can't wait to get my copy and read it.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, I appreciate your ordering the copy. But
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Speaker 2: it's it's about you. You see the differences between my life.
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Speaker 2: It really highlights the struggles, the problems, the violence, the anger,
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Speaker 2: the abuse, the mistreatment, that just being lost, the fighting
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Speaker 2: to overcome accepting who I was learning to see myself
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Speaker 2: and not allowing it to break me. And if a
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Speaker 2: lot of people they're not capable of doing it, you know,
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Speaker 2: they take a true, genuine look at themselves and they
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Speaker 2: can't accept it. You know, you have to realize it now.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that that reminds me, you know, to come back
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Speaker 1: to the situation with the difference between state prison and prison,
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Speaker 1: and it reminded me of how the women in edual prison,
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Speaker 1: you know, they they live in a huge pod and
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Speaker 1: especially since the pandemic, it's almost like they're always doing
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Speaker 1: jail times like they they many of them, they stay
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Speaker 1: in bed, they read stupid books, it's at all and
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Speaker 1: then they just kind of way around and wait for
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Speaker 1: somebody to step in and change their life instead of
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Speaker 1: taking the initiative to do it. On their own and
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Speaker 1: so you know, I created a program that has one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty mentors now at a book at CI Alexville,
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Speaker 1: and it's it was I'm going to tell you it
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Speaker 1: was hard getting the mentors first of all, getting them trained,
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Speaker 1: self motivating them, you know, getting them to where they
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Speaker 1: were self motivated. I mean, getting the community to actually
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Speaker 1: utilize the program and understanding you know, accountability and the
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Speaker 1: goals that were within their reach, you know, and uh,
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Speaker 1: to get us and just something that's going to translate
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Speaker 1: to a better re entry. And I think that I
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Speaker 1: think I was a little surprised at what what how
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Speaker 1: much work would be involved in motivating grown out people
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Speaker 1: to try to be their lives, you know, kind of.
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Speaker 2: You're speaking to the choir on that one. I noticed
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Speaker 2: all all too. Will I bet you do it.
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Speaker 1: So you know, I'm sure it's done a lot of
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Speaker 1: mentoring in your seasons.
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Speaker 2: There, right, Yeah, Uh, nothing official. You know, Doc has
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Speaker 2: a habit of hating me because you just you cannot
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Speaker 2: piss down my back and tell me it's writing standing
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Speaker 2: there with dick in your hand, like I ain't stupid,
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Speaker 2: I'm some dumb not palm dumb. Yeah, you know so,
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Speaker 2: and I'm not scared, Like I don't have very much
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Speaker 2: fear in me, Like my fear isn't I'm not afraid
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Speaker 2: of fighting somebody. I'm not afraid of stabbing somebody or
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Speaker 2: getting stabbed or shot or to me, violence is my
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Speaker 2: happy place. That's where I'm home. That's where I'm the
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Speaker 2: most comfortable, is in extremely violent situations, like I can
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Speaker 2: actually kind of like step back and take a breath,
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Speaker 2: like all right, I'm home again. So yeah, I don't
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Speaker 2: have that, you know, And I don't have that backup
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Speaker 2: or give in me. So because of that, because of
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Speaker 2: the podcast, you know, because I did not do the
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Speaker 2: documentary the way they wanted me to and hope that
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Speaker 2: you know, I would give them a five star rating. Well,
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Speaker 2: I don't work with Travelocity. I can't give you a
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Speaker 2: five star, four star, one star. All I can do
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Speaker 2: is simply tell the truth, because that's all I do
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Speaker 2: to the best of my ability to do so. And
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Speaker 2: so because of that, like me and Michael worked on
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Speaker 2: a program together called Building Perspective, and we did another
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Speaker 2: one for accountability, though I haven't written that one up
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Speaker 2: and turned it in because I'm waiting for a you
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Speaker 2: know to hear back from the institutional program manager here
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Speaker 2: on building perspective, and it's been over a month, you know.
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Speaker 2: And other people who's turned their programs in have received
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Speaker 2: an answer, and usually in the positive within a week
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Speaker 2: to a week and a half, and yet my program
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Speaker 2: has been sitting over there for a little over a month,
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Speaker 2: you know. So I do what I can on my own.
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Speaker 2: You know. If I can help somebody to read better,
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Speaker 2: I will. Matter of fact, I had to help my
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Speaker 2: selly today write up over quest for him so he
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Speaker 2: can try to get his accumulated good time where for
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Speaker 2: the last two years he hasn't received an annual review,
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Speaker 2: which means he has not been awarding good time. So
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Speaker 2: I had to help him write that up so we
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Speaker 2: can hopefully get that back. You know. I do stuff
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Speaker 2: like that, of course.
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Speaker 1: So that's talent.
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean I don't I don't need I
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Speaker 2: don't need do OC to pay me or give me
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Speaker 2: a job or title or whatever the case may be.
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Speaker 2: To help someone. If I see someone that needs help,
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Speaker 2: buy help. That's just that's just all there is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, good for me, that's awesome. So I have another
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Speaker 1: I I how did you meet your wife?
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Speaker 2: So this is, uh, this is definitely an interesting story.
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Speaker 2: So leus I met my wife. She had watched years
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Speaker 2: before she reached out to me. She had actually watched
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Speaker 2: the Red Onion documentary that I was in solitary looking
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Speaker 2: cebr at Union Street Prisoner. And you know, the funny
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Speaker 2: thing is she'd watched it, you know, pretty rough time
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Speaker 2: in her life, and she's like, well it at least
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Speaker 2: my life is better than his. You know, not in
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Speaker 2: like a mean bitch kind of way. She just you know,
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Speaker 2: like in a perspective way, like you know what, like
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Speaker 2: stop crying, girl, Like your life is still better than his.
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Speaker 2: You know, you've got something like it. And you know
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Speaker 2: she went on for a while, and you know, but
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Speaker 2: it just it just kept getting worse. Her life just
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Speaker 2: kept just spiraling out of control. You know, she started
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Speaker 2: drinking more, using some drugs and whatnot. And you know,
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Speaker 2: now she's completely clean, sober, you know, which I'm extremely
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Speaker 2: proud of her. Before. But what happened was one day
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Speaker 2: she was at work and I mean she had h
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Speaker 2: one of about one of the worst days you could have.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go into details
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Speaker 2: because that's that's her story to share if she ever
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Speaker 2: decides to. You know what it was, it was. It
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Speaker 2: was an exceedingly terrible day. M h yeah, I can't.
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Speaker 2: I can never. I can never think about that day
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Speaker 2: without uh, without my blood starting the ball and it
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Speaker 2: affected me. But uh, long story short, you know, we're
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Speaker 2: just that day with just the use just everything that
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Speaker 2: she went through, just you know, the family drama, you know,
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Speaker 2: just the problems in life in general, you know, and
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Speaker 2: everything that she was going through, the loneliness and just
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Speaker 2: you know, the hurt and the pain and the trauma
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Speaker 2: from just a lifetime of other people, you know, abusing
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Speaker 2: on her and mistreating her, you know, a lifetime of
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Speaker 2: you know, bad choices and decisions and so on and
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Speaker 2: so forth. It just it just it came to a hit.
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Speaker 2: And that day she was on the train headed home
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Speaker 2: and she broke down. She just broke down and just
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Speaker 2: started sobbing on the train, and the people that was
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Speaker 2: in the train call with her. Every single last one
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Speaker 2: of them turned her back, turned their backs on her.
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Speaker 2: I mean, not a single person walked over and said, hey, honey,
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Speaker 2: you okay, you want to talk about it. Nobody gave
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Speaker 2: her a hug, nobody gave her a pat on the shoulder, squeeze, nothing.
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Speaker 2: They just got up, walked down to the other end
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Speaker 2: of the car and was looking over their shoulder like, bitch,
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Speaker 2: how dare you make us feel uncomfortable? You know, not
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Speaker 2: knowing what she was just put through, not knowing you know,
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Speaker 2: how traumatized she was, how down and just desperate for
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Speaker 2: any kind of help, any kind word, just one single
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Speaker 2: kind word, And they were so caught up in their
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Speaker 2: own lives that once she kind of realized what was
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Speaker 2: going on, just she just realized, this is it. I
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Speaker 2: have nothing else, there's nothing left for me to get.
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Speaker 2: I've gotten, I have no more energy, I'm done. And
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Speaker 2: she made the decision to go home and kill herself
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Speaker 2: and her dog and you know the world. So she
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Speaker 2: felt better, you know, she kind of she got a
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Speaker 2: little strengthful, little energy from making that decision and the
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Speaker 2: knowledge that you know what, here in a couple of hours,
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Speaker 2: it's all going to be over. I'm going to go home,
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Speaker 2: I will make an incredible meal for me and blazoned
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Speaker 2: and yeah, that's going to be it. Our pain and
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Speaker 2: our suffering is over with. And about that time, somebody
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Speaker 2: that she followed on YouTube posted something on his site
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Speaker 2: and it alerted her phone, and it was talking about
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Speaker 2: the Red Onerandy. Excuse me, nope, nope, nope, Sorry, I jumped.
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Speaker 2: I jumped the gun. That's my bad. It was talking
19:54
Speaker 2: about the documentary that I was in and it was
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Speaker 2: specifically talking about me. And as she was looking at that,
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Speaker 2: somebody posted a comment underneath like yo, bruh. You know
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Speaker 2: this guy's got his own podcast now right Onion Randy,
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Speaker 2: And she was like, hmm, you know, it's a little interesting.
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Speaker 2: And she turned her phone, went and doing whatever she
20:17
Speaker 2: was going to do. But when she got home, you know,
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Speaker 2: she took the shower, cleaned up, she took the dog
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Speaker 2: for a walking, everything, and she started making her last
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Speaker 2: meal or their last meal, and just something put it
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Speaker 2: on her heart. Well, God put it on her heart.
20:38
Speaker 2: Let's just be honest here. I know who it was.
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Speaker 2: You know, God put it on her heart to actually
20:43
Speaker 2: just go and check out my podcast. So she looked
20:49
Speaker 2: it up, she found it, and she started listening to it,
20:54
Speaker 2: and while she was sitting there and cooking and everything,
20:56
Speaker 2: it just she listened and she wound up bane listening
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Speaker 2: to me. You know, she's a whole bunch of episodes
21:02
Speaker 2: basically all night kind of thing until she just simply
21:05
Speaker 2: fell asleep and woke up and started listening to some
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Speaker 2: more and my story, you know, it touched her. It
21:16
Speaker 2: touched her heart. It gave her the strength to make
21:21
Speaker 2: the decision not to quit, to not give up, to
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Speaker 2: not you know, kill herself and her dog. And you know,
21:31
Speaker 2: she she still she still has some she had to
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Speaker 2: go through, you know, before she could come out clean
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Speaker 2: on the other side. And she did that. She's working
21:43
Speaker 2: for you know, two incredibly incredibly talented well one is
21:49
Speaker 2: an extremely talented makeup artist and Kitty you know, which
21:52
Speaker 2: is you know, like a sister to Nick. And now
21:55
Speaker 2: she's working for Ella's, you know, which is an actual
21:58
Speaker 2: salon during late her removal, tattoo removal, skin rejuvenation, like,
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Speaker 2: you know, all of these beauty type things. So she's
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Speaker 2: she's got two jobs now and she went back to school.
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Speaker 2: She's you know, she's graduated in the top of her classes.
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Speaker 2: Like she's done extremely well. Since she walked away from porn,
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Speaker 2: she walked away from drugs, she walked away from alcohol,
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Speaker 2: and she walked away from a lot of stuff. She's
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Speaker 2: overcome a lot of stuff and just one of them
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Speaker 2: days just I don't even know how many days it
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Speaker 2: was after she'd you know, listened to just basically all
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Speaker 2: of my podcasts, you know, and some of them over
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Speaker 2: and over again and everything, and she just decided to
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Speaker 2: just write a letter to me. And she'd never done
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Speaker 2: anything like that before. So, you know, she hunted down
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Speaker 2: how and she found out, you know, she'd write me
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Speaker 2: through JPA. So she wrote me an email and you know,
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Speaker 2: started it off like, you know, I just wants you
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Speaker 2: to know you I think you saved my life the
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Speaker 2: other day. And she just started just you know, telling
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Speaker 2: me some about herself and her life and everything. And
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Speaker 2: I had wrote her back, you know. And the crazy
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Speaker 2: thing is when it was on a Sabbath. It was
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Speaker 2: on a Saturday, so I went out to the kiosk.
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Speaker 2: I remember exactly where I was at. I was still
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Speaker 2: in Red Onion State Prison at the time. It was
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty two. I can't remember the exact date. I
23:32
Speaker 2: know it was October because it was right before I
23:35
Speaker 2: got transferred on the thirteenth of October twenty two to
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Speaker 2: when I got screwed and sent to Wallace Ridge instead
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Speaker 2: of King Mountain, like I was supposed to have been
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Speaker 2: sent and then I had to wait another eighteen months
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Speaker 2: to get there. But so it was that Saturday before
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Speaker 2: the thirteenth, whatever that day was, and I remember going out,
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Speaker 2: sinking my player, going back into the cell down and
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Speaker 2: occasionally I go through my contact to see if anybody
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Speaker 2: knew its signed up to write me or whatnot. And
24:10
Speaker 2: I saw her name and it was outlined in purple,
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Speaker 2: because each name has a different color, and when you
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Speaker 2: get to like all the colors are used, then it
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Speaker 2: just basically kind of cycles to and you know, does
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Speaker 2: the colors all over again, and hers was purple. And
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Speaker 2: I just remember looking at that name and just thinking
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Speaker 2: to myself, watching this right here, this is going to
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Speaker 2: be my wife. This is going to be the woman
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Speaker 2: I'm married. And a couple of years later we got married,
24:43
Speaker 2: you know, but I had wrote her back, and I
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Speaker 2: had talked to her, you know, encouraged her. We eventually
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Speaker 2: got the phone call set up. We eventually started doing
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Speaker 2: video visits. And you know, she's my kind of woman.
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Speaker 2: She's everything, everything and more that I could possibly want
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Speaker 2: and need, all wrapped up into one. You know, she
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Speaker 2: is way way too freaking good for me. I genuinely
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Speaker 2: don't deserve her, but I'm not getting rid of her
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Speaker 2: from nothing in this world. You know. I love the
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Speaker 2: fact that she's a fighter. I love the fact that,
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Speaker 2: you know, her story would just bring tears to just
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Speaker 2: the coldest heart. I mean, it would soften the coldest heart,
25:37
Speaker 2: you know.
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Speaker 1: It just.
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Speaker 2: She's a fighter. You know, I couldn't be more proud
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Speaker 2: of her than I am. You know, I love absolutely
25:47
Speaker 2: everything about this woman. She is. She's absolutely and utterly amazing.
25:55
Speaker 2: But yeah, that's ah, that's the story of how we met.
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Speaker 1: That's a cool story. Thank you for sharing that with me.
26:03
Speaker 2: Welcome. As a matter of fact, actually yesterday was our
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Speaker 2: one year anniversary.
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Speaker 1: Well okayngratulations.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I'm gonna have to record a podcast on
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Speaker 2: that sometime this week.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, she would be evigila. I'm sure that's awesome.
26:26
Speaker 1: So you know that one has to feel about. It's
26:30
Speaker 1: kind of back to the comparisons between state prison and
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Speaker 1: federal prisons. It's not a little more delicate topic, you know.
26:38
Speaker 1: I I let me start that thing that when I
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Speaker 1: researched how other countries, how especially like in Europe and uh,
26:49
Speaker 1: Norway and Finland and Sweden. How how they how their
26:54
Speaker 1: prisoners ice Blend Greenland, you know, where they keep them
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Speaker 1: in communal colleges or allowed it to have conscious of
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Speaker 1: visits in order to keep down like the savagery of
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Speaker 1: rape and assault that takes place in federal persons. And
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Speaker 1: you have one minute, Yeah, we're going.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we'll definitely hold that question because that's that's
27:24
Speaker 2: a really really interesting subject for me. Also is the
27:26
Speaker 2: comparisons between Northern Europe and America and other places. But yeah,
27:32
Speaker 2: we'll definitely, uh, we'll definitely have to set some more
27:36
Speaker 2: episodes up because I think this is going to.
27:38
Speaker 1: Be a regular I love that idea. Really is so
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Speaker 1: amazing to me too.
27:45
Speaker 2: You too, man, Thank you joining our podcast and sharing
27:49
Speaker 2: your struggles and what you went through in life.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you so much. Talking to you again.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, you have a wonderful day.
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Speaker 1: You too. I've been think all right about.
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