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ROR 162: Buckingham · 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 call crass zero.
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  Speaker 2: This is Randall bob 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 arm robbery now and finally at a
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  Speaker 2: level three fucking Air Correctional Center sowa's throw from where
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  Speaker 2: I grew up. If you have any questions or comments
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  Speaker 2: and want to leave a message or whatever, I've got
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  Speaker 2: a voicemail line. That number is one eight eight eight
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  Speaker 2: five zuit four one nine three suit. You can also
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  Speaker 2: visit my website which is new and improved and got
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  Speaker 2: different features and whatnot at deput Deaf dot 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. Well, as people heard from the
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  Speaker 2: last episode, uh, I've finally been transferred. I'm no longer
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  Speaker 2: in the mountains. I'm no longer in the Western region.
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  Speaker 2: I'm no longer around jackass CEOs. Well, I'm still around
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  Speaker 2: one jackass CEO. I won't leave his name unsaid, but
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  Speaker 2: me and him were definitely gonna have to have a
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  Speaker 2: conversation and the next day or two, because yeah, he's
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  Speaker 2: he's he's a very very rude sum bitch and you're
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  Speaker 2: not going to disrespect me. But outside of that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's been smooth saling here the new prison, Buckingham Correctional
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  Speaker 2: Center in uh Buckingham County in Virginia, and uh my god,
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  Speaker 2: I'm loving it. You know, it sucks. I still don't
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  Speaker 2: have my property. I've been here for a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks and they still have not given me my property.
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  Speaker 2: And they actually had the unit manager this morning get
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  Speaker 2: on the radio and call down the property and I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: as vis property shown up yet, and I mean without
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  Speaker 2: hesitation with it wasn't a second to way she said, Nope,
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  Speaker 2: not here yet. Even the unit manager looked at it,
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  Speaker 2: looked at the radio. He said, what about the warehouse
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  Speaker 2: is shown up to the warehouse? Nope, not yet, and
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  Speaker 2: he just looked at me and he's nothing else I
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  Speaker 2: can do. I was like, all right, I appreciate it, man,
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  Speaker 2: thank you at least you tried. This is really getting
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  Speaker 2: on my nerves because I'm in a single self, you know,
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  Speaker 2: thankfully you know, Rose Durbin and Headquarters in Richmond. She
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  Speaker 2: called up here, and she made sure that the wardman
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  Speaker 2: and them honored my single cell status put me in
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  Speaker 2: a single cell. And I'm in a single sell. I'm
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  Speaker 2: in a decent pod. You know. I wasn't exactly thrilled
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  Speaker 2: about being placed in the sampod, which is the shared
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  Speaker 2: highlight management pod, you know. And here you've got a
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  Speaker 2: mandatory group meeting with everybody in the pod on every
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  Speaker 2: Friday from eight am in the morning til about eight
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  Speaker 2: thirtieth give or take, depends on how many people kind
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  Speaker 2: of talk and whatnot. You know, I'm not, uh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: all for therapy. I'm all for talking about your problems,
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  Speaker 2: but I have y'all as my therapist. You know, I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really do group sessions too much. So I've
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  Speaker 2: been kind of just sitting in the back. You know.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm called on, I'll answer, I'll you know, say
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  Speaker 2: my piece, but I'm gonna keep it short and I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna keep it sweet. Nah, keep it moving so I
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  Speaker 2: can get outside, so I can go work out and
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  Speaker 2: live weights, do my thing and whatnot. And but anyway,
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  Speaker 2: all right, so I get here, and you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: the exact same buildings. It's the exact same layout. Though
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  Speaker 2: up front it looks it looks really really nice. It's
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  Speaker 2: like the front part of the prison looks like a
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  Speaker 2: college campus. I mean, the grass is manicured, the sidewalks
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  Speaker 2: are like they're clean, kind of like whitish almost. I'm
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  Speaker 2: talking they got little bushes. They they got the ground
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  Speaker 2: like the grass cut away from the from the sidewalk
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  Speaker 2: a little bit with little bushes. They're putting down gravel.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like they're about to actually plant flowers and whatnot,
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  Speaker 2: though they haven't quite got to that part just yet.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like the front of the prison looks fantastic.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I'm even on like the front part of
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  Speaker 2: the prison where we're at, not just the administration side
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  Speaker 2: like when you first drive up. I'm talking about actually
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  Speaker 2: inside the person. When you get to the back, the
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  Speaker 2: wreckyards and everything where we go out, you got is
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  Speaker 2: we used to be one huge, gigantic wreckyard. I'm talking
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  Speaker 2: like if you actually ran the circuit of the reckyard,
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  Speaker 2: it was probably i will probably say a mile and
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  Speaker 2: a half. You know, the circumforts of it probably was
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  Speaker 2: about a mile and a half, if not maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit longer than that. But now they got A
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  Speaker 2: and B building segregated from C and D buildings. They
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  Speaker 2: got two fences about five feet apart running down the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the yard, cutting us in half. So if
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  Speaker 2: he really wants to when you come out for wreck,
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  Speaker 2: like I could easily just when I come out, instead
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  Speaker 2: of walking through the back I would just walk out
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  Speaker 2: the front, walk down to boulevard, and then just walk
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  Speaker 2: into A and B building entryway and just walk out
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  Speaker 2: through the back door down onto the reckyard. And then
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  Speaker 2: when reck is over with, I can easily come back.
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  Speaker 2: You have some people that do it, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: a lot because at the end of the day, the
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  Speaker 2: overwhelming majority of this prison population is white. I've never
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  Speaker 2: been around so many white dudes in prison in my life. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I was shocked when I got here because I'm used
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  Speaker 2: to being not just the only white guy in the
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  Speaker 2: pod for the most part. But hell, I mean there
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  Speaker 2: were times I was one of the only white guys,
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  Speaker 2: if not the only white guy on an entire prison compound,
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  Speaker 2: especially back in the day. You know, it's changed a
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  Speaker 2: lot since then. You know, my last maybe five or
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  Speaker 2: six years, I've really been running across a lot of
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  Speaker 2: white dudes in the Virginia doc I'm not used to that.
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  Speaker 2: But even of that, you know, white, black, Spanish, it
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  Speaker 2: don't matter. The majority of the prison population here is
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  Speaker 2: also i would probably say sixty years older. Like it
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  Speaker 2: genuinely looks like a damn Florida prison retirement home, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's all that stuff about. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the people up at Wallace Rich and Keen Mountain, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the last two or three years telling me I ain't
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  Speaker 2: the fuckingham squid open. Man, Like the gangs there out
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  Speaker 2: of control there. There's there's not enough staff. So man,
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  Speaker 2: they're just running wild down there. Man, them young as
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  Speaker 2: they running up their cells, they banking dues. They they
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  Speaker 2: stabbing dudes, man, robbing. I get donna give a down there.
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  Speaker 2: I come down here expecting, like, all right, you know
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  Speaker 2: what you might have to come out of retirement. You know,
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  Speaker 2: how to slide up in the cell, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: see if old Randy still got it. I come down
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  Speaker 2: here and I'm I mean like I'm I'm in that mindset,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, all right, I'm I'm about to get tested.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's been a long time since, uh you know,
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  Speaker 2: something been on low Lands. It's been a long time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm something out of action. Who knows what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 3: I I'm literally sitting in the pod on the phone
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  Speaker 3: with my jeans rolled up to my knees.
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  Speaker 2: And a paradamn shower shoes on. That's how comfortable I
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  Speaker 2: am here. That's how sweet this prison is. Like it is.
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  Speaker 2: The food, Oh, the food is good, like I mean
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  Speaker 2: genuinely good. I have not missed a single trade since
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  Speaker 2: I've been here. We only actually had one bad tray,
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  Speaker 2: and I ate most of the tray. I couldn't eat
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  Speaker 2: the main dish, and that's it was a peanut butter
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  Speaker 2: and jelly sandwich. How in the world do you up
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  Speaker 2: a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, two of the greatest
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  Speaker 2: flavor combinations God, in his almighty wisdom ever created. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he did mankind a favor. He gave us the death
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  Speaker 2: of his son Jesus Christ, and he created peanut butter
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  Speaker 2: and great jelly sandwiches. Like if that doesn't prove he
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  Speaker 2: loves us, nothing ever will. And the Virginia Department of
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  Speaker 2: Corrections found a way to get up Like I sat
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  Speaker 2: there at that table in a chiwhawt. I almost started crying.
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  Speaker 2: That is not an exaggeration. I genuinely got emotional and
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  Speaker 2: upset that they up of peanut butter and jelly sandwich
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  Speaker 2: instead of putting the peanut butter in one slot, the
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  Speaker 2: jelly beside it, the bread and then you know you
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  Speaker 2: dessert and your vegetable. It was now they did something
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  Speaker 2: like I guess they melted to peanut butter into jelly
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  Speaker 2: down they put it together. They somehow stirred it up together,
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  Speaker 2: and it even that you would think like, okay, I
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  Speaker 2: think that's you know, it is what it is. Ian last,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get jelly all over. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know why it does. I don't know what else
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  Speaker 2: they put in it. I they it up so heartbroke
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  Speaker 2: and so disappointed. So I had to come back, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, thankfully I did have a soup that I
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  Speaker 2: had gotten from somebody. I had to go because I
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  Speaker 2: still don't have my property. You know, it took a
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  Speaker 2: while for my money to get here. But thankfully my
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  Speaker 2: buddy Sinclair in Brisbane, Australia and my buddy Matthew were
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  Speaker 2: for work Texas. They stepped up and actually sent me
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of money, you know. So I got
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  Speaker 2: my first commissary order today. But I had to go
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  Speaker 2: and get the toothbrush. I had to get toothpaste at deodorant,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I got a couple of suits, just
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  Speaker 2: you know, just a case. But it's it's been so
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  Speaker 2: much better, Like this is the best first it's this
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  Speaker 2: is this prison now is better than it was when
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  Speaker 2: I was here in two thousand. Two thousand was actually
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  Speaker 2: turned up a little bit. And you know, because hell
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  Speaker 2: I was turned up a little bit back then. It
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  Speaker 2: it is, it is freaking sweet. I came here, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I had to go to orientation a couple of days
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  Speaker 2: after I got here. I went over there. I had
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  Speaker 2: to sign paperwork. I had to you know, sign my
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  Speaker 2: emergency contact and all of that stuff. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've built that paperwork out and everything. And they was
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  Speaker 2: when it was in there, talking about it. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they was actually saying like, look, it is extremely difficult
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  Speaker 2: to get a charge here. They said, look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like the staff they have in place of verbal resolution.
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  Speaker 2: You know, so if the staff pull up on you
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  Speaker 2: and say, hey, look, you know you don't have to
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  Speaker 2: cuss them. You don't have to disrespect them or or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: just sit there and have a conversation with them, like
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  Speaker 2: they will genuinely try to not write a charge, like
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  Speaker 2: you really have to be to get a charge on
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  Speaker 2: his compound, Like you really have to step out of line,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to make them write a charge. It's you know,
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  Speaker 2: so they was telling them stuff like that, and then
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  Speaker 2: they was talking about, Uh, they got this new program
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  Speaker 2: here with in conjunction with the dark are in business
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  Speaker 2: school in uv E or the University of Virginia, uh
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  Speaker 2: in my hometown Charlotte School, Virginia. So I send a
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  Speaker 2: request for him to the uh the DCE principle here
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  Speaker 2: Mss Tully and uh she sent me an application back.
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  Speaker 2: I already filled that out, put it back into mail,
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  Speaker 2: you know. So it's it's a free uh one point
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  Speaker 2: five college course credit. And yeah, I'm I'm hopefully I
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  Speaker 2: get accepted and approved for that, you know, so I
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  Speaker 2: can learn some a little bit about business, you know,
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  Speaker 2: with the with the podcast, you know, growing slowly but growing,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the books that I'm writing and so on
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  Speaker 2: and so forth. You know, some ideas that I have
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  Speaker 2: and we're kind of playing around with. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: figured it would, it would behoove me to actually learn
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  Speaker 2: about business a little bit more than what you know
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  Speaker 2: I currently have. It's then, like it is, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is good here, like it is genuinely good here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pissed off at property. It should not have taken
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  Speaker 2: so long, you know. I mean she didn't even freaking
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  Speaker 2: like it will immediately answer, Like she didn't even take
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds to just sit there and look at her watch.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I just checked. It's still not here yet. Sorry,
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  Speaker 2: we'll get it when it's soon as it gets. You
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  Speaker 2: didn't even do that. Sorry. That is a bone of
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  Speaker 2: contentional me because I'm sitting in a cell by myself
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  Speaker 2: with nothing to do. I don't have my tablet, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have my Bible, I don't have my studies, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have my books. I don't have anything to do.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there. And that's one thing I made
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  Speaker 2: a decision, a red onion. Everybody knew me and Walling's rich.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knew me at Keen Mountain, everybody knew me. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to be popular here. I don't want everybody
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  Speaker 2: knowing me. As a matter of fact, I only want
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  Speaker 2: a small handful of people to know me. So I
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  Speaker 2: have been riding the cell. I'm not in the pod,
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  Speaker 2: you know, talking getting to know guys. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: friends here. I don't. I'm done with that. Like my
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  Speaker 2: wife just paid thirty five hundred dollars to James Dillingham
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  Speaker 2: to help me file for a pardon. I'm not doing
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  Speaker 2: anything to mess this up. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: I am going out of my way to not mess
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  Speaker 2: it up. I'm going out of my way to do
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  Speaker 2: everything I possibly can. You know, I'm the business course.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to sign up for a couple of other
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  Speaker 2: pro grams. I'm not sure if I'm going to apply
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  Speaker 2: for a job or not. I don't know yet. I'm
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Kinge Mountain. I could not get a job.
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  Speaker 2: I created the job that actually saves the Virginia Department
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  Speaker 2: of Corrections damn near million dollars, and they just ignored it.
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  Speaker 2: Even though the Department of Corrections is only supposed to
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  Speaker 2: get fifteen percent of taxpayers money for a fiscal year,
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  Speaker 2: they're actually getting thirty nine point nine percent of the
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  Speaker 2: fiscal budget because they're so over budgeted. It's ridiculous. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: doc is damn near bankrupting the state of Agia. Things
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  Speaker 2: just spending way too much money. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't get a job there. I couldn't get a
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  Speaker 2: job at Walla's Rich even though I've been nineteen years
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  Speaker 2: charge free. I don't know if I'm going to apply
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  Speaker 2: for it here or not, but it is. If I don't,
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  Speaker 2: that's okay. The good thing is, you know, even though
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  Speaker 2: a couple of my friends, you know, times have just
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  Speaker 2: gotten so tight and so tough for people on the
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  Speaker 2: streets that, you know, a couple of my friends had
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  Speaker 2: to write me and tell me like, hey, look, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're so sorry, please forgive us. We can no longer
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  Speaker 2: help you. Man. I'm like, dude, system, Hey, it's okay,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry about it. Thank you for holding me down
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  Speaker 2: as long as you did. Y'all bless me. Believe me,
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  Speaker 2: y'all bless me. So the good thing is, like the
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  Speaker 2: food here is so good that I can't eat betrays
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to order commissary for every single meal,
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  Speaker 2: every single day, like I had to do for the
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  Speaker 2: last eight to nine months of Keen Mountain. The cells
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  Speaker 2: are nice here. I've got it Oh my god, I
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  Speaker 2: almost forgot I have an actual porcelain toilet. And yes
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  Speaker 2: I did have a porcelain toilet a keen mount. But
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  Speaker 2: if you have one minute remaining, the porcelain toilet here
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  Speaker 2: actually has a legitimate, real toilet seat that you can
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  Speaker 2: lift up and down. It is. Oh it's nice, and
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  Speaker 2: I haven't got to paint yet, but I'm in the
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  Speaker 2: process of getting paint. I can actually paint myself, and
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  Speaker 2: if I want to go and buy like different color
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  Speaker 2: paint off a commissary, I can And I can actually
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  Speaker 2: paint myself whatever I want. It does not no matter.
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  Speaker 2: I can draw designs on the wall and myself and
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  Speaker 2: they're totally cool with it. But anyway, there's there's more.
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  Speaker 2: You will definitely be hearing more about Buckingham in the
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  Speaker 2: way it's being run and just how much I'm loving
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  Speaker 2: it here even though I don't have my property. Y'all
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  Speaker 2: take care, stay safe out there, all right. That's uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's all the time we have for now. I appreciate
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: you listening to me more than you'll uh you'll probably
• 20:34
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• 20:38
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