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ROR 161: On The Bus · 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 debut red on your
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  Speaker 2: Randy dot com. I hope you do. Let's get started
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  Speaker 2: with the podcast. Well, this podcast right here is taking
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  Speaker 2: year after year after year after year after year. I
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  Speaker 2: have been fighting to get transferred out of the Western
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  Speaker 2: Region for years. I have been fighting to get transferred
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  Speaker 2: to a lower level prison, medium security for years. Finally
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  Speaker 2: I record this podcast from Buckingham Correctional Center. Finally got
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  Speaker 2: transferred and it is damn it is awesome. You know,
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  Speaker 2: still sucks because I'm without my property. I gotta wait
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  Speaker 2: for that to get mailed to me, and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, it's boring its health without my tablet
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  Speaker 2: and you know, my TV and my books and my
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  Speaker 2: studies and you know all the things I do. But
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  Speaker 2: it's good. You know, I've got my single self thankfully, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Gay Gardner was able to facilitate that and make sure
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  Speaker 2: that they, you know, keep me out of a situation
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  Speaker 2: that's going to uh potentially be explosive. Man, it was. Damn.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a long ass time. But anyway, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: I'm just gonna simply kind of run you through the
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  Speaker 2: transfer down here and so on and so forth. They
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  Speaker 2: came on Tuesday, what was it, April fourteenth, I think,
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  Speaker 2: if I remember correctly, twenty twenty five, and mister Gigi
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  Speaker 2: came over. I saw him when he come into pod,
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  Speaker 2: and he looked at me and he had this eating
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  Speaker 2: grin on his face, like I knew finally because I
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  Speaker 2: had been screwed. I'd been previously approved to get transferred,
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  Speaker 2: but then my transfer guy denied and I was placed
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  Speaker 2: under an open investigation because supposedly someone had called headquarters
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  Speaker 2: in Richmond and told them that I was selling artwork online.
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  Speaker 2: I don't draw. I wish I could draw. I have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to do it, I just never had to
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  Speaker 2: the patience of the wherewith all to actually sit down
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  Speaker 2: and train myself in drawing. You know. So I have
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  Speaker 2: no artwork though. I know there's a couple of tattoo
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  Speaker 2: things that was posted on my website years ago, but
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  Speaker 2: that had to do with the tattoo episode, just to
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  Speaker 2: kind of give people a little glimpse of what some
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  Speaker 2: prison tacts look you know, look like. So I had
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  Speaker 2: to deal with that. You know, first of all, even
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  Speaker 2: if I was selling artwork online, that's not illegal as
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  Speaker 2: long as I'm not drawing a picture of myself committing crimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, robbing a store, murdering someone, you know, something
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  Speaker 2: along those lines. If I'm just drawing regular artwork, I'm
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  Speaker 2: allowed to sell that online and there's not a damn
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  Speaker 2: thing state can do about it. But it gave them
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity. It gave them the hope. I guess you
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  Speaker 2: could say that they could deny my transfer and keep
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  Speaker 2: me in the Western region. Hell, maybe even send me
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  Speaker 2: back up the red on. You know, Walling's Richmond Keene Mountain,
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  Speaker 2: which you know, it didn't seem like they was trying
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  Speaker 2: to do that. But thankfully I was able to sit
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  Speaker 2: there and prove beyond doubt that I'm not selling art
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  Speaker 2: work online. I never have sold artwork online. I have
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  Speaker 2: no intention of doing it. So then I had to
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  Speaker 2: go back and get ica It again, put back in
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  Speaker 2: for a transfer, and then I got bumped to the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the list. So instead of putting me back
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  Speaker 2: up at the top of the list where I originally
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  Speaker 2: was when you canceled it, you made me wait all
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  Speaker 2: over again. But it is what it is. Screw it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm here now. So when mister g came like I
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  Speaker 2: was man, I was so freaking hot. Oh damn. I
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  Speaker 2: was happy. I was excited. You know. I went right
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  Speaker 2: back into cell and immediately started packing stuff up. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't take me too long because I actually left not
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff, but I did leave a significant
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  Speaker 2: amount there. You know, some extra books I had a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of, like Romney noodles and whatnot, and it just,
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, there was no point in pain to shift
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  Speaker 2: to Roney noodles, and it's just cheaper to buy them again.
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  Speaker 2: Once I get here. You know, I gave I gave
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  Speaker 2: a like half of them to cold Bucket. I gave
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  Speaker 2: the other half to Dutch you know, older guy there
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't really have a whole lot. You know. I
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  Speaker 2: passed the books out around to some people that you know,
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  Speaker 2: I knew would appreciate them and they would like them
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  Speaker 2: and everything, and yeah, I took my stuff over the property,
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  Speaker 2: boxed it up, you know, made a list of everything,
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  Speaker 2: signed it and whatnot, and went back to the pod
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  Speaker 2: and I just I chilled, you know. I made a
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  Speaker 2: couple of phone calls, let a couple of people know
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  Speaker 2: that hey, I was going, and potentially it might be
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  Speaker 2: a couple of days, you know between hearing from me
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  Speaker 2: and so on and so forth. Just made it through
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  Speaker 2: that day, went well somewhat, went to sleep, like I
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  Speaker 2: really struggled to sleep that night. I think I got
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  Speaker 2: maybe total of two and a half hours of sleep,
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  Speaker 2: and I just I kept waking up, drifting off, waking
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  Speaker 2: back up, And finally around three point thirty, the CEOs
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  Speaker 2: came around and popped my door and be like, look,
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  Speaker 2: get dressed. They're coming over to get you here in
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  Speaker 2: a little while. I'm like, all right, and I got up,
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  Speaker 2: made me a quick cup of cold coffee and chugged
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  Speaker 2: that down, eight two packs of oatmeal real fast, brushed
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  Speaker 2: my teeth, cleaned up, cleaned my cell up, took a
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  Speaker 2: My neighbor wanted my blanket, so I gave him my blankets,
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  Speaker 2: folded him up, put him in front of this door
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  Speaker 2: and whatnot, and I went out and jumped onto Kiosk,
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  Speaker 2: and I sent my wife a quick email, Hey babe,
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  Speaker 2: I love you. They just packed up. They just told
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  Speaker 2: me to go, and so on and so forth. And
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  Speaker 2: sat there in the ponds for maybe a few minutes
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  Speaker 2: waiting on them. And then they popped the doors out.
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  Speaker 2: The count cleared, and I walked over, you know, met
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  Speaker 2: the transportation officers. I had to go in a little
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  Speaker 2: back room in the back of property. I had to
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  Speaker 2: strip down. You know, I had to squat and cough.
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  Speaker 2: I had to lift my penis and my balls and
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  Speaker 2: my underarms, run my fingers through my beard and show
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  Speaker 2: them the bottom of my feet and all that stuff. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, didn't make sure I didn't have any type
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  Speaker 2: of drugs, a cell phone, the weapons, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: anything I could potentially use to escape or whatnot, And
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  Speaker 2: took my clothes, threw them over into the closed ben
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  Speaker 2: and then gave me some new clothes back back, a jumpsuit,
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  Speaker 2: a pair of really cheap shoes, put me into shackles
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  Speaker 2: and handcuffs, put the waist chain on me, you know,
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  Speaker 2: cinched me down and everything, and we had to wait
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  Speaker 2: for a couple of other people. Man here we went out,
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  Speaker 2: jumped in the back of the damn van, the one
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  Speaker 2: that's got no windows. It's just solid metal like it
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  Speaker 2: actually has like a metal cage built inside the back
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  Speaker 2: of the van. That kind of sucked. For the first
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  Speaker 2: time in my life, I actually got a car sick.
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  Speaker 2: I actually had to throw up, so thankfully they'd given
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  Speaker 2: us a little small trash bags I could throw up in.
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  Speaker 2: I think the reason why that is, though, is because
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  Speaker 2: I'd learned my lesson when I left Wallace Ridge to
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  Speaker 2: come to keen Mount, because it took me months to
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  Speaker 2: get my umbilical high ernia built, so instead of packing
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  Speaker 2: it up or whatnot, I actually just put it on
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  Speaker 2: in war Now I guess I've had it too tight
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  Speaker 2: and that kind of because I've never been carsick ever.
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  Speaker 2: So we went and drove to Marion, went to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Now we had to wake about forty minutes for everybody
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  Speaker 2: to get there. Then they pulled in and you know,
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  Speaker 2: closed which is the bullpen is nothing more than just
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  Speaker 2: the fenced in area top with razor wire and you
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  Speaker 2: got CEOs that walk around the outside with shotguns in
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  Speaker 2: case you try to escape. So they pulled us off
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  Speaker 2: the van, you know, and they ask you, what's your name,
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  Speaker 2: state number? Where you're going? And I told them, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to Buckingham. I mean, I'm pretty sure y'all
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  Speaker 2: are the ones who should be telling me where I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, y'all are behind the wheel after all, you know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I really genuinely have a problem with
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  Speaker 2: stupid people. I don't mind ignorance, I don't even mind lazy,
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  Speaker 2: but when you're too stupid to know where the hell
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  Speaker 2: I'm being transferred to, Like, that's a problem people. But anyway,
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  Speaker 2: it is what it is because I went got on
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  Speaker 2: their appropriate bus had a bunch of people. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there was a bunch of people, and this is a
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  Speaker 2: they really the inmates that I was in the back
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  Speaker 2: of the van with, in the back of the bus with,
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  Speaker 2: like I was on one van and two buses, two
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  Speaker 2: different buses between the transfers, and it not away bullpen
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  Speaker 2: and all that stuff before I actually made it here
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  Speaker 2: to Buckingham. And I am non exaggerating, I'm not making
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  Speaker 2: this up. Literally, every every person except for me, I
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  Speaker 2: was literally the only person that did not speak about drugs.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody else the whole conversations I had to listen to
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  Speaker 2: for fourteen hours. It took me fourteen hours to get
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  Speaker 2: from King Mountain to Buckingham, and every conversation I heard
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  Speaker 2: was about guys getting high. Can't wait to get high,
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  Speaker 2: can't wait to snore some ice up my nose, can't
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  Speaker 2: wait to smoke some paper, can't wait to find some mess.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the Virginia Department of Corrections could really do
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  Speaker 2: a public service by allowing me to just walk around
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  Speaker 2: and just beat this out of junkies until they learn
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  Speaker 2: their lessons, because I guarantee you after the fifth or
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  Speaker 2: sixth ass whooping I lay on them, they're going to
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  Speaker 2: stop getting high. It is. I sat on that bus,
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  Speaker 2: and on the big bus, the Greyhound bus. You've got
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  Speaker 2: these hard plastic seats and you've got these little small
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  Speaker 2: round windows up at the top And if you're ever
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  Speaker 2: in Virginia and you see a solid white bus with
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  Speaker 2: little tiny windows up top that's tinted out and it's
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  Speaker 2: got like a little metal, small metal grate on it,
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  Speaker 2: you can it's actually kind of hard to notice the
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  Speaker 2: metal grade. That right there is a Virginia Department of
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  Speaker 2: Corrections transportation bus. So I'm sitting up just looking out
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  Speaker 2: the window, and I'm about two inches it is too
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  Speaker 2: short from being able to sink comfortably and look out
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  Speaker 2: of it. So I have to sit up with my
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  Speaker 2: core engage the whole time. And I'm just looking out
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  Speaker 2: the window, looking at trees and houses and people going
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  Speaker 2: about their business and you know, everything else that you
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  Speaker 2: see driving down the roads. And I was depressed and
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  Speaker 2: sad the whole way down here. I thought I would
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  Speaker 2: have been excited. I thought I would have been asking questions, yo, man,
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  Speaker 2: where are you from, you know, just passing the time.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't do that. I did my absolute best to
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  Speaker 2: not speak a single word. There was a few people asked, hey, man,
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  Speaker 2: where are you going. I'm going to bucking In. Oh man,
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  Speaker 2: damn brother, You're gonna get high some mother. But there
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  Speaker 2: I heard it place off the chain bro, I don't
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  Speaker 2: get high, man, I'm straight edge. Nah, Man, you gonna
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  Speaker 2: get high there? Bro? Hey, look man, what did I
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  Speaker 2: just tell you? Man, I'm not some weak ass, my
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  Speaker 2: little kid like you don't speak to me. I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you this. They really really pissed me off. Not everybody
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  Speaker 2: gets high, Not everybody feels the need to get high.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've learned to control my emotions. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not perfect, but I've learned to be in control. I've
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  Speaker 2: learned where true answers are. They're not at the end
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  Speaker 2: of some pipe or joint or the bottom of a
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  Speaker 2: bottle or whatever it is that you do. Like, No,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a hell of a lot stronger than that. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to throw myself into weakness. I do not
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  Speaker 2: have a weak mind. But I sat there and it's
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  Speaker 2: just you know, obviously I can't tune them out because
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  Speaker 2: they're the whole boss. You had, Like, I think you
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  Speaker 2: had close to around thirty people on the bus promryon
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  Speaker 2: to not Away, twenty nine talked about drugs. Twenty nine
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  Speaker 2: out of thirty people were getting high. We're junkies. What
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  Speaker 2: are the odds of that? So? What should have been
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  Speaker 2: one of the best days of my life. Was one
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  Speaker 2: of the most miserable days of my life because I
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  Speaker 2: didn't even waste my time trying to conversate with him.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't waste my time trying to talk to them.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you had dudes were literally bouncing up and
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  Speaker 2: down in their seat like little kids going to Disneyland
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  Speaker 2: because they're going to a new prison where nobody knows
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  Speaker 2: them and they can run up another debt and get
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  Speaker 2: high for free. Because that's all most of them were
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  Speaker 2: going to do. They were gonna go in and pretend
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  Speaker 2: like they got money. Yeah, man, I can cash after
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  Speaker 2: you this, man, I can do this, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm just wait for my stuff to come
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  Speaker 2: blo and got you. And they're gonna just go from
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  Speaker 2: pod to pod to pod until they couldn't go anywhere else,
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  Speaker 2: and then they're gonna go hide in the hole sober
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  Speaker 2: until they get transferred to another prison because they got
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  Speaker 2: too many enemies on the yard and they're gonna get
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  Speaker 2: killed if they ever stepped foot out of sick anyway,
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  Speaker 2: So long ass day, it's hot, it's miserable. I'm unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: breathing in diesel fumes. The whole way down because that
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  Speaker 2: eastern region bussy. They've got a leak, exhaust sleek or
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  Speaker 2: something in there. Because I woke up the next morning
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  Speaker 2: with co two boyson. They my head was split and
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  Speaker 2: wide open. It's like somebody took a damn shake weight,
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  Speaker 2: duct taped it to an axe, turned it on, and
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  Speaker 2: then buried the axe head in my head and just
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  Speaker 2: let it. I mean, it was just excruciatingly painful. I
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  Speaker 2: threw up I don't know how many times. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: not talking about like little I'm talking like just like
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  Speaker 2: turn your stomach inside out throwing them. I was sick
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  Speaker 2: as a dog. Well, I wonder where that expression comes from. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I get here to bucking him and it's you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's it's exactly how I remember because I left I
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  Speaker 2: was here back in two thousand. You know, you have
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  Speaker 2: one minute. It's the exact same layout. It's just more fences,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more security and whatnot. And uh, I
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  Speaker 2: am so glad to be here. On your I am
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  Speaker 2: so glad to be here. This place is as far
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  Speaker 2: as prison goes. It's if it wasn't this sweet back
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand, like it's so sweet right now. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll save that for another episode. Look, I will leave
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  Speaker 2: you with this. If you do drink, if you do
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  Speaker 2: get high, and it is a problem, people get some help.
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  Speaker 2: Don't wind up like these working junkies in here. You're
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  Speaker 2: better than that. There's people who care, and there's people
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  Speaker 2: who believe in you. Fight the good fight. Man. All right.
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  Speaker 2: That's uh, that's all the time we have for now.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate you listening to me more than you'll uh
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: you'll probably ever know. I just want to let you know,
• 19:48
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