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ROR 125: Life Update December 2023 · Red Onion Randy - Life in a Supermax Prison

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  Hello, this is a pre big call from and make it the Virginia Department
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  of Corrections rend Onion State Prison to accept this call, Chris Zero. This
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  is Randall Vaib I'm currently serving one thy two hundred and fourteen years for Capitol
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  murder and Wallace Ridge State Prison in Big Stone, got, Virginia. This
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  is my podcast read on your Range, and I hope you enjoy listening to
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  me today. For those of you in the US who would like to call
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  and either ask questions or leave a message of some type, call one eight
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  eight eight five two four one nine three two. And for everyone outside of
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  the car you know the United States, just put a plus in front of
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  the one and all the same number and I will respond as soon as I'm
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  capable of doing so. It's been a while. It's the last episode that
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  went up was in August, I believe August the seventeenth, and it's now
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  December twenty twenty three, and today I'm just going to do an update on
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  myself. What's been going on with me and so on and so forth,
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  good to bad and ugly. I think the main thing that I've been dealing
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  with the last couple of months, it's been a combination of two parts.
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  It's still battle and medical over the tumor and the holes in my right tibia,
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  which is my right shinbone for those who don't know what a tibia is
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  getting transferred. You know, I'm closing in on eighteen years charge free and
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  I'm still in a supermax prison. Everybody else in the Virginia Department of Corrections
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  get red onion and Wallace Ridge, who does two years charge free, is
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  automatically put in for a transfer. When they go up for their annual view,
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  they get put in for it, they get approved for it. I'm
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  working on eighteen years and I still have not been transferred to this day.
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  So I was I finally was able to raise enough hell and Gay Gardner was
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  able to put enough pressure on the people that work in headquarters, specifically David
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  Robinson and Rose Durbin and the warding up here Jeffrey ar Trip. You know,
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  I was able to talk to him a couple of times, and you
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  know, he kept telling me that I had to be here for one year
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  before he could put me in. But when my one year anniversary here was,
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  he would put me in, even though it wasn't my annual view,
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  which won't be until January twenty twenty four. So October thirteenth was my one
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  year here at Wallings Ridge, and I give the man credit. Warden Archer
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  kept his word and he put me in for a transfer and he got me
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  approved. And I've been waiting ever since to get sent to keen Mount,
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  which is the prison that they're going to send me to. And I actually
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  had it in writing this time. I have paperwork saying that that's where I'm
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  being transferred to. Just you know. Now, I'm just simply waiting for
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  the transfer. So even though my buddy Chaos, who y'all hear about in
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  two upcoming episodes, he did one year charge Tree, even though he's murdered
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  four people in the system, and he got approved for a transfer after one
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  year charge Tree, I had to do eighteen years basically before I get transferred.
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  You know, lucky me. But I'm looking forward to it because I
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  need it. I need to be transferred out of Wallingstrich. I need to
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  be transferred out of red Onion. Like I'm so tired of being in a
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  supermax. I'm so tired of being in this environment. I'm so tired of
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  dealing with the staff members. I'm so tired of dealing with the inmates here.
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  And yes, I know you got staff members of Keen Mountain. Yes
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  I know you got inmates of Keen mount But it's an entirely different culture from
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  a supermax compared to a medium security person. In the part that I'm in
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  right now, A four, it's a single cell part, which is good.
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  That part I like because I've been in a single cell going on eighteen
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  years, you know, since the last time I slid a Dude's throw back
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  at two thousand and sistix Sussex one, the child molester I've told you all
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  about in previous episodes. I can't have a cell it, you know.
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  So I'm in a single cell pard But for some reason, they have a
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  bunch of mental health guys in this part. And when I say mental health,
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  I literally mean mental health. As a matter of fact, my neighbor,
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  I'm in cell full fourteen. I have a neighbor in four thirteen.
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  We're on the same band together, even though I don't talk to him unless
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  he calls and he asked me a question and I'll answer his question, and
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  I get down immediately because I'm not holding the conversation with him, it's due
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  to start raising. Man, I wish I was making this up. I
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  genuinely wish I was about to lie to y'all. The guy has like four
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  thousand dollars on his books. I didn't know that at first. And I'm
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  the type of dude that, you know, if you don't have anything and
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  I have something, I'm going to share it with you. That's just who
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  I am, you know, because I did twenty some years in the prison
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  system without being able to go to the store by conversation, so I know
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  what it's like to be hungry. I know what it's like to have to
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  rely upon state hygiene, and that stuff is horrible. I mean, there's
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  a reason my teeth for the or the mess that they're in. It's because
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  of the state hygiene. So I started to help him out, you know,
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  I was giving him some soups. I would throwing my honey bun here
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  or there. You know, if he needed some hygiene, I would help
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  him out. You know. Turns out this dude's got four thousand dollars on
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  his books. He just doesn't want to spend his money in case something bad
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  happens to his mom. And he won't be able to get money in the
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  future. That kissed me off. Let me tell you, Dad, that
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  had me upset right there, because that dude's got way, way, way,
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  way, way way more money than I do. And I'm sitting there
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  helping him out of my little and this dude is benitentiary bridge. So I
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  didn't do nothing. I didn't even say nothing to him. I just simply
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  I cut him off and told him, no, he can't ask me for
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  food. No, you want, you want, you want to eat.
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  You go to the store and you buy yourself. You're not getting nothing else
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  out of me. Uh bubba, no, no, no, bu carry
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  your ass. So he starts screaming at night, and I mean he's screaming
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  in word over and over again all night long. I can't sleep. You
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  don't interfere with my sleep because when I'm asleep, I'm not in prison.
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  And this is all I've ever known is prison since I was eleven years old.
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  So I value the way most people value their most beloved family member.
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  You do not interfere with my sleep. So I mean I'm really getting on
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  edge. I mean I'm really getting on edge with this dude. And so
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  one day I'm out in Chaos. My buddy he needs some coffee, so
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  I'm giving him some coffee. And this dude walks up on me in Chaos
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  real aggressively. What are y'all doing? I take a deep breathroom, like,
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  man, don't worry about what we're doing. It's none of your business.
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  Well, I am worried about what you're doing. In any steps to
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  me, I turn on him. The boy, you gotta walk away right
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  now, and he just popping off likeck of mouse. Old. Thankfully,
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  Chaos and a dude named Bobby. Both of them grabbed me at the same
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  time. Because if they wouldn't have, I'd have took that boy's head off.
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  I would have felt so I would have felt sorry for it afterwards,
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  because I know he's regarded. And I don't say that to be mean or
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  cruel. I mean it's just a physical reality. He genuinely is, you
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  know, And I mean, yeah, I would have been sitting in a
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  hole feeling extremely bad and stupid for that. But like, just you know
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  the culmination of what this dude is doing, Like he's just driving me bananas
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  and then he's taking coffee, and he's taking garlic powder and he's grinding a
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  mump on the table, which makes a lot of noise, and he's and
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  he's slamming his little garlic bottle down, you know, to crush him up
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  into a powder, and he's mixing them together and he's snorting it up his
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  nose because he says it gets him hot. It's dude, is snort and
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  garlic, powder and coffee mixed together. This is the type of part I'm
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  in there. There there's a couple of good guys in here. O Chaos,
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  Boss life, even cartoon, even though he's getting on my damn nerves
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  lately, uh with some of the stupid stuff he's doing. Like I'm I'm,
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  I'm I'm in a in insane it's all and it's driving me crazy,
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  Like I'm doing everything I can to maintain to stay focused, to stay positive,
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  and he'll beat to work on myself, work on my writings, email
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  people. Now I swear it's I'm probably starting to piss my uh my correspondence
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  off because it seems like every time I go to you know, I get
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  caught up on my emails. They lock us down or they come in.
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  They confiscated their tablets for weeks on end, so they could do a security
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  check all because there was a game that they gave us. It's a memory
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  game. It's a card with a different animal faces on it, and you
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  got to match that card to this corresponding card, and when you do that,
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  you get to up type in your name in the little top ten scores
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  and on that they've got. They had a thing where you if you touched
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  it, the whole bunch of emojis popped up. So the game that JPY
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  gave us, the game that the Virginia Department of Correction signed off on for
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  JPay to give us for free, is what caused the security check and where
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  they came in and confiscated everybody's tablets for weeks on end for something that they
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  gave us because they said it was a security breach that we had an emoji
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  on our players. Are you kidding me? Like, y'all get like,
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  this is the stuff I'm dealing with up here. This is why I have
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  to leave, you know. On top of that, back to my uh,
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  the timber and the holes in my right tibia. This whole year,
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  I've gone back and forth. I've recorded a couple episodes on that and everything,
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  but this is the latest update. I was supposed to go down there
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  in uh the end of September, so I pack up. You know,
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  i'd actually talked to the lady in charge of medical, her and a whole
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  bunch of people for administration. They made rounds one day and I got to
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  talk to her in the park because my nose has been broken since I was
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  a child, and it's you know, crooked and everything, and it's you
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  know, it's been causing some breathing problems and especially when I'm asleep. So
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  I was talking to her about wanting to, you know, see if I
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  couldn't go over to medical and get the doctor to rebreak it and straighten it
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  out in the hopes of, you know, kind of helping me with that.
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  And it makes my glasses, you know, it's fit me because right
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  now, the way it's you know, cook it to the side, it
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  calls it the glasses to be crooked, so I don't ever wear them,
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  and I actually need glasses. So I talked to her about that. She's
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  like, well, look, let's just wait until a long Let's just wait
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  until after your surgery, and then when you get back up here, you
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  just send me a request for him, and we'll we'll look into this situation
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  to see what we can do to to help you. I'm like, all
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  right, speaking of you know, it's just a down and back right.
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  She says, no, we actually want you to go down there for several
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  weeks because of the pain. I'm like, look, I don't care about
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  pain. I'm an old friend with paint. It doesn't bother me the way
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  it bothers most people. I'm used to it by now. She's like,
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  well, no, no, no, no, it's it's really going to
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  hurt. Like I don't care about that. Look, I want to go
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  down and back. Take me down there, do the surgery, bring me
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  right back up here immediately that day. She's like, okay, if that's
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  what she wants. So the way she said, I'm like, you know
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  what, I better go. I better go jump on top of it.
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  So I went and I called Gate Gardner from the Interface Action for Human Rights,
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  and she contacted Rose Derbin and everything and said, hey, look,
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  this is the conversation Randy just had with the head nurse at Wallace Ridge.
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  Blah blah blah. Broke it down to her and Rose Derbin wrote her back
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  saying nothing into procedure from mister VA surgery has been changed. It's a down
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  in back the way it has been. So I have this in writing.
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  I have the email because gate Gardner sent me the email. So they come
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  packed me up one day and I go over there the next day to transportation
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  and I'm talking to them and I was like, just down in back right
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  and said, no, you're getting transferred there for the next four to six
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  months. I said, no, I'm not. I haven't been writing from
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  Rose Derbin, who's, if I believe, is third in charge of the
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  Virginia Department Corrections, saying it's a down. They showed me the paperwork,
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  the transportation orders. I'm gonna be down there for four to six months.
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  That meant I was going to miss my interim transfer hearing in October because I
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  wasn't going to be here for that, and then I wasn't going to be
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  here for my annual review in January. So when I would have came back
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  in February March of next year after the surgery, I already know what they're
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  going to tell me because they did the exact same thing to me when I
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  was at Red Onion. Oh well, you're gonna have to wait till your
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  annual review next year. So the earliest I would have been put in for
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  my transfer would have been January twenty and twenty four by the time I actually
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  got approved. By the time I actually got transferred, more than likely it
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  would have been twenty and twenty five before I would have got to a Level
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  four, a medium security, which would have been over twenty years charge free.
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  And yet my buddy Chaos has murdered four people since he's been in prison.
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  He only did one year charge through and he got approved for a transfer
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  to the exact same place I finally got approved and transferred to after almost eighteen
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  years of being charged for I love to do and really that's that's that's that's
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  my brother from another mother. I actually called his mom second mama when I
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  talked to on the phone every now and then. You know what's fair about
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  that? What's right about that? So I had to refuse, and you
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  know, I come back to the pod, and the week after that and
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  everything you have our trip loose to ward and then you got the assistant warden
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  up Levin's. They come over to the pod, so I'll pull up on
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  them, and I was like, look, man, what the hell is
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  going on? Like why was I being sent down there for four to six
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  months? And I mean Levin snapped on me and we just started argue of
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  one. And when I say we argued, I mean we argued for thirty
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  minutes, straight back and forth. Our trip was a part of it.
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  But he kind of he would walk off, go talk to somebody else,
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  and then he would come back and interject a few things and I would yell
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  at him, and like, I mean, we wasn't shouting and screaming at
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  one another, We wasn't cussing one another out. We wasn't calling each other
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  names or being derogatory. But her voices was raised, and we was back
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  and forth, and I mean, like it actually shocked a bunch of people,
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  because you don't you don't hear me raise my voice. My voice might
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  get a little high pitched every now when I get excited or something. You
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  know, one of these days I'll hit puberty. But until then, it
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  is what it is. So like, I mean, I'm back and forth
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  and he's like, no, he was only going to be down there for
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  like six to twelve days. Well, why the hell was it written on
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  the paperwork four to six months, like I seen the day and transfer orders.
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  Oh no, it wasn't that usually right, the paperwork man. You
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  can't sit here and lie to me all right, like there's no you know,
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  like I know what the hell is going on? And then like because
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  you know, they were like, well why did you refuse anyone? I
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  talked him about my transfer, Like, y'all don't understand how bad I need
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  to leave these places like it. If I'm here much longer, I'm honestly
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  probably going to lose. I'm probably gonna snap out and you have one minute
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  remaining because they're driving me crazy. And it's probably with the stupid stuff they're
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  doing. That's always trauma. It's always backbiting, it's always arguing in crime.
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  I mean, I'm around a bunch of bitches and I can't stand it.
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  You have you have three, three or four good dudes in this park.
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  And that's it. When I say I'm in an asaying as all,
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  I literally mean it. There's a guy in here to just moments ago,
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  he went and dug a blanket out of the trash can that's covered with all
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  kinds of filth. Did somebody feel away because it's it's the blank is basically
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  no good anymore. And he just walked it up and put it in his
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  sill, wrapped a towel around his head, come down the steps, and
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  started digging through trees from yesterday looking for leftover food to eat. I don't
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  I don't understand his place. I mean, you have crazy guys, Like
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  there's a guy in here that I knew years and years ago. Good dude,
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  solid dude. Now all of a sudden he start raving mad. I
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  mean, I don't like. It's just I have to leave. Basically,
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  That's just all I'm saying is if I don't, I'm not gonna make it.
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  You know. But this is the crazy thing about it all, Like
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  I'm grateful for these little trials and tribulations and tests and stuff that I'm dealing
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  with lately. You know, all of the annoyances, all of the the
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  petty bureaucracy, all of the dealing with medical over and over again. You
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  know, with my leg issues and everything else that I'm facing, I'm finding
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  a deeper strength. I'm growing stronger in certain ways. Yes, it's it's
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  it's a pain and ass to have to deal with this stuff. You know,
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  it's a pain and the ass have to to just constantly go through the
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  same things over and over again, day in and day out. You know,
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  but you cannot grow when things are easy. You cannot grow when things
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  are going good. There's no growth in that. There's only growth, there's
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  only self discovery and understanding. When you're going through trials and tribulations, that's
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  the only time when you find the strength to keep going on, to keep
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  pushing forward, to keep striving for something better, to be something better.
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  And these last few months have been hell on Earth for me. Okay,
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  everything that can be thrown at me pretty much has been thrown at me.
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  And while I'm not enjoying it, I'm not enjoying going through it, for
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  certain, I'm grateful for it nonetheless, because I genuinely feel like I'm getting
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  stronger, like I'm getting better. And that's what we have to look for
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  in the trials and the tribulations and the test that you know that just when
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  you go through hell on Earth, remind yourself, like, I'm going to
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  come out of this a little bit better than I came into it, So
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  be appreciative of it, be grateful for these trials and tribulations, because those
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  are the things in life that are going to help you to become who you
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  want to be, to be who you want to be, And that's the
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  whole message of this. It's not the ditching, it's not the getting things
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  off my chest, or the crying and complaining that I kind of did a
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  little bit. That's not the message. That's just simply to give y'all an
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  understanding of what it is I'm going going through and to let you know that
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  I'm not going to break. I've been pushed to the limit, but I'm
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  not going to break. I'm not going to quit. I'm not going to
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  give in. I'm just going to dig deeper. I'm going to find appreciation
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  for the hard things, and I'm going to become a better man. I'm
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  going to keep growing. I'm going to keep expanding everything that I am.
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  That's where I'm at. So thank you for listening to thank you for using GTL H