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ROR 153: Keefe Group · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Speaker 1: Hello, this is a prebate call from and if they
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  Speaker 1: the present a Department of correction read an in state
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  Speaker 1: present to accept this all crass zero. This is Randall
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  Speaker 1: Bob currently serving one thousand, two hundred and fourteen years
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  Speaker 1: for capital murder on Roberts, currently being housed at key
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  Speaker 1: Mount Correctional Center in Oakwood, Virginia, US A. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: on Randy dot com. I hope you do that. Get
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  Speaker 1: started with the podcast. I'm not sure how long this
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  Speaker 1: episode is going to be, and I will try to
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  Speaker 1: do my best to refrain from just you know, bitching
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  Speaker 1: and complaining about it. You know, but as a prisoner,
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  Speaker 1: and you know someone in prison, and you know, if
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  Speaker 1: I think you know quite a few of the people
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  Speaker 1: who subscribe and listen to me on a weekly basis,
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  Speaker 1: you know, have family members that are themselves in prison,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of the reasons why you know, people
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  Speaker 1: listen to me so they can, you know, truly understand
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  Speaker 1: what their family members are dealing with and going through,
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  Speaker 1: especially here in Virginia. Well, I guess I'll just get
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  Speaker 1: right to it. The group which is responsible and holds
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  Speaker 1: the contract with Virginia to supply the Virginia Department of
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  Speaker 1: Corrections with Commissary electronics. You know what little bit of
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  Speaker 1: clothing they do sell t shirts, a bathrobe, pajamas, socks,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, underwear and stuff with shoes and you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuff of that nature. Though I have heard that in
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  Speaker 1: a level three on down you can actually buy five
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  Speaker 1: oh one Levi jeans and a jacket and you know,
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  Speaker 1: stuff of that nature that you just can't get here
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  Speaker 1: at a Level four or the five. They raised their
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  Speaker 1: prices yet again. I don't just mean by one or
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  Speaker 1: two cents. I'm talking a hike. I almost had to
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  Speaker 1: quit drinking coffee. That would have been a freaking nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't even drink it really for the taste.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like it, Don't get me wrong. I
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  Speaker 1: drank it because it's hot. I drank it because it's
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  Speaker 1: it adds that warmth. It's just it's comforting. I just
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  Speaker 1: there's something I enjoy about sitting in the chair, kicking
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  Speaker 1: my feet up on my mattress and just looking out
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  Speaker 1: my window and watching the birds, you know, the grass
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  Speaker 1: and the wind and the sky and the clouds and
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  Speaker 1: the trees all the way on the other side of
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  Speaker 1: the wreckyard. You know, like it's just something so comforting
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  Speaker 1: for me to just to be able to sit there
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  Speaker 1: and drink that coffee and just look out my front porch.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it went from four dollars and thirty one
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  Speaker 1: cents for three ounces of coffee, by the way, Like
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  Speaker 1: that's that's four dollars and thirty one cents for three
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  Speaker 1: ounces of coffee. That's what it was. They jumped the
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  Speaker 1: price all the way up to four dollars and seventy
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  Speaker 1: cents for that exact same bag at one price hype.
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  Speaker 1: In every quarter, literally every single quarter, Keefee has been
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  Speaker 1: raising their prices on commissary for every single item across
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  Speaker 1: the board. The only thing that does not raise, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they everything they do not raise. Yeah, I'm that frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that the prices do not get raised
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  Speaker 1: on every single quarter is the price of stamps, because
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  Speaker 1: that price is controlled by the post Office, not Keefee.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise I'd probably been paying five dollars for a stamp
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  Speaker 1: instead of the seventy cents that the stamps cost now.
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  Speaker 1: But yet, for those who actually have a prison job
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  Speaker 1: making twenty seven, thirty five cent or forty five cent
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  Speaker 1: an hour, our pay raises have we have not received
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  Speaker 1: pay raises in Virginia. I think, matter of fact, the
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  Speaker 1: thirty three years I've done in prison, juvenile and an adult,
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  Speaker 1: the pay raises have not gone up once. They've never
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  Speaker 1: wanced raised how much we get paid. So for the
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  Speaker 1: guys who for me, thank god, I have a few
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  Speaker 1: friends and you know I've said their names before. That
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  Speaker 1: helped me out. They blessed me, you know every month
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  Speaker 1: with a little something and an adds up and I
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  Speaker 1: can go to the store and you know, I can
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  Speaker 1: pay my type. I can you know, even put a
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  Speaker 1: few dollars into my savings every single month off for
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  Speaker 1: those emergencies. But you've got guys in here that their
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  Speaker 1: only income is that state check. It's you know, they
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  Speaker 1: get a job, they get it, that's it. The prices
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  Speaker 1: are constantly going up, so they're there. They can only
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  Speaker 1: order less and less and less every ninety days, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just I understand inflation. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: I understand you know that with Trump and you know
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  Speaker 1: his tariffs and everything, prices are going up and so
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  Speaker 1: on and so forth. I mean, I can respect that.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's bound to happen for y'all w on the streets.
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  Speaker 1: It's certainly going to affect us in here because keep
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  Speaker 1: groove and gto and you know, secure technologies vibe half.
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  Speaker 1: All of these companies that are in these prisons. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have to compete with anyone, so they don't have
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  Speaker 1: to lower prices so that we'll be more willing to
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  Speaker 1: buy from them than we would from their competition, like
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  Speaker 1: they do on the streets. We have no choice. If
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  Speaker 1: I want to drink a bag of coffee, I have
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  Speaker 1: to go buy me a bag of coffee, and no
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  Speaker 1: matter what it costs, or I have to quit. It's
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  Speaker 1: that simple. It truly is one of my only enjoyable pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't get pleasure from eating food that much.
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  Speaker 1: If I make something like my wedding cake, you know,
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  Speaker 1: every now and then you know I might make a
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  Speaker 1: big meal. Yes, I'm putting out a prison cookbook. I have,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, forty one food recipes, and you know a
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  Speaker 1: couple of recipes for drinks, not many because I don't
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  Speaker 1: you know, water, coffee. That's pretty much what I drank
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  Speaker 1: every now and then. I might drink a soda, but
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  Speaker 1: it's that's pretty rare for me. Water and coffee, that's
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  Speaker 1: those are my two staples. I don't drink milk. I
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  Speaker 1: don't drink a little high fruit toast, corn syrup juice
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  Speaker 1: they served. I don't touch that stuff. Even though I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting ready to do a prison cookbook. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: eat that's that's the title of it. Comment. I actually
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  Speaker 1: like that. It's pretty funny, especially to anybody who ever
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  Speaker 1: watched a movie Life with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence
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  Speaker 1: and it's man, that was a great movie right there.
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  Speaker 1: But I do like food. I enjoy food, but I
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  Speaker 1: eat food for fuel. I don't look at food the
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  Speaker 1: way a lot of normal people do because I don't
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  Speaker 1: get to go fancy all the time. Every now and
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  Speaker 1: then I can, and when I do, believe me, I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the out of it. I mean, yeah, I make
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  Speaker 1: that experience as much of an experience as I can.
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  Speaker 1: And that's the way you should do it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're in a position to where you can make
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  Speaker 1: big meals every single day or a couple times a week,
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be, maffled tough, I'm happy
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  Speaker 1: for you. I'm not in that position. Maybe I will
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  Speaker 1: be someday, maybe I won't. I'll leave that in God's
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  Speaker 1: hands and I'll simply do the best I can in between.
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  Speaker 1: But when a certain company has a monopoly and you
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  Speaker 1: can only utilize their services, they can charge whatever they want,
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  Speaker 1: and that directly affects our loved ones. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing this episode, because it's my friends that are
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  Speaker 1: buying my coffee. Sinclair, Paulie, John, josh Ava, my wife.
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  Speaker 1: You know, these are the ones sending me money. These
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  Speaker 1: are the ones that have to bust their ass work
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  Speaker 1: in a job so they can send me a few
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  Speaker 1: bucks so that they can feel comfortable. They can feel
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  Speaker 1: happy and at peace knowing that I'm not forced to
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  Speaker 1: eat these state trays up here, and I can have
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  Speaker 1: me a damn good cup of coffee when I want to.
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  Speaker 1: I can sit back, my feet up and watch the
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  Speaker 1: world go by and just enjoying myself, you know, and
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  Speaker 1: pretend that I'm on the front porch and my wife
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  Speaker 1: is in the kitchen cooking something for me. That's why
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  Speaker 1: it's important. Look, if you listen to me, get involved
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  Speaker 1: in some type both of prison advocacy group in your area,
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  Speaker 1: in your country. You don't have to go out and
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  Speaker 1: pick it. You don't have to send to people money
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  Speaker 1: or whatnot. You can if you want to. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the five bucks can make a difference, especially if you've
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  Speaker 1: got five thousand people sending you five bucks if you
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  Speaker 1: can't afford to help them, help them, but even just
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  Speaker 1: simply signing your signature digitally, you know, to a petition
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  Speaker 1: that they can then take to their lawmakers. These things
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  Speaker 1: make a difference the more people they have who are
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  Speaker 1: willing to do it. It can't just be on us
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  Speaker 1: persons like I do what I can to fight. I
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  Speaker 1: do what I can, you know, to right wrongs in here.
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  Speaker 1: I do what I can to stand up. I do
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  Speaker 1: what I can to make my voice hurt, to get
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  Speaker 1: it out there, to try to reach politicians, to try
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  Speaker 1: to share it with people, the truth. And I think
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  Speaker 1: my long term listeners will flat out tell you I
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  Speaker 1: don't lie, I don't exaggerate, and if I say it,
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  Speaker 1: I stand on it, point blank period. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: am as honest as a person who you are going
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  Speaker 1: to find in this world. I don't believe in lying anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe in exaggerating anymore. I do my best
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  Speaker 1: to speak the truth and nothing but the truth, because
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  Speaker 1: one of these days it really is going to be
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  Speaker 1: so help me God. I might not have understood that
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  Speaker 1: fact when I was in my you know, my teens,
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  Speaker 1: in my twenties, I damned or understand it now that
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  Speaker 1: I'm forty six. Stand in the breach with me. If
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  Speaker 1: you can take five minutes and write a quick email
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  Speaker 1: to your congressman, or your senator, or your governor, or
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  Speaker 1: whoever the case may be. You know, why do y'all
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  Speaker 1: keep allowing these companies to rob us blind, to charge us.
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  Speaker 1: I have to pay eighty six cents for this phone
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  Speaker 1: call right here. Every single podcast I do, I pay
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  Speaker 1: for it. I don't get free phone calls in the
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  Speaker 1: state of Virginia. You know, I'm not even asking for
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  Speaker 1: free phone calls in the state of Virginia. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: simply asking them. Man, sure, I'm to prices to fifty
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  Speaker 1: cents a phone call. If I could make two phone
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  Speaker 1: calls for a dollar, you have no idea how much
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  Speaker 1: that would help me financially, how many more people I
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  Speaker 1: would be able to talk to on a regular basis,
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  Speaker 1: and the good that would do for my mental health,
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  Speaker 1: Little things like that. But because Kify Group, because Secure Technologies,
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  Speaker 1: because by a Path, and some of these other companies
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  Speaker 1: that prey on prisoners and their families, they realize the
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  Speaker 1: simple truth. They can go and they can bribe a
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  Speaker 1: couple of officials within headquarters, within the governor's office and
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  Speaker 1: the House of Delegates and legislation and what have you.
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  Speaker 1: They can bribe a few key members under the table,
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  Speaker 1: they'll get the contract. And yeah, they might have had
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  Speaker 1: to pay two or three million dollars in bribes to
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  Speaker 1: get in here and to stay in here, but they're
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  Speaker 1: making hundreds of both millions of dollars off of us
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  Speaker 1: in pure profit every single year. I'm tired of standing alone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm tired of being a lone voice. Stay with me.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to cost you nothing but a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: write an email and save it that way, every week,
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  Speaker 1: then just email it to your congressman, email it to
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  Speaker 1: your senator. You know, if you live out of country,
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  Speaker 1: you can still do the same thing. You can go
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  Speaker 1: online and find you have one minute remaining. You can
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  Speaker 1: go online and find my senator in congressman's emails. Just
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  Speaker 1: cut and paste it every week and just send it
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Become anoisance. That old
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  Speaker 1: adage to squeaky will gets the oil is true, especially
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to prison. So start to squeak out there.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we'll get a little bit of oil in here.
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  Speaker 1: And a guy who's seventy years old lost all of
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  Speaker 1: his family won't have to pay half of his paycheck
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  Speaker 1: so he can buy a bar soap, a bag of coffee,
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  Speaker 1: and three soups. Well, appreciate your hope, or at least
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