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Roger Reaves

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first: 2021-07-11
most recent: 2021-07-11
sittings or episodes: 1
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“Catch me if ever I waver a slip, and I know I'd want you as captain on any sinking ship. I also know a new chapter is written. It's almost time to move on. It's time to sail another sea and to witness a brand new dawn. It'll be good to see you at the helm again as you point out our destination. The laughing dance on the upper deck is while the boat glides through Be good to see you on the go as I know you like to be and to know you can open any door without any key. But while we revel in our days together, we were no better than to hurry, because as you told me many times, life is an incredible journey.”
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“I'm happy to be near you, although I'm not as close as I was before, but because of your loving encouragement, I've been able to open new doors. I'm grateful to be in school, and I'm generally happy where I am, and I even like when you call and tell me to study for the next exam. What a life you've given me, Daddy. It's a tremendous and a magical gift. We already have so many stories to tell, there are far too many to list. But I want to thank you again this day with a very big, happy birthday to you, and to tell you just a few more things that I knew in my heart to be true. That'll love you, Daddy, with all of your wrongs and your rights, that you're ahead of our family, and you've kept us all bound tight, that you have an honest love in your heart for God and all mankind, and you truly do believe in yourself when you say it will all be fine. I know you will be there to”
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“I think we fell in love. The European jaunt, well, it is considered a book in itself, but it's a story about beauty and knowledge, suspense, and worldly wealth. We went from Holland to Sweden, and we went from France to Spain, and I promise you I have no regrets. I would definitely do it all again. I would see the world with you anytime, sir, there's no doubt in my mind because being by your side, Daddy, always ensures a wild good time. So our pass took a turn, and we're back in the US of A, but life here isn't so bad, and I'm plum content to stay.”
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“Gave us presents in Kibis King, and hotels pleasure galore, and three dozen roses as we came through the airport door. I can see your face in Amsterdam with a luggage carousel, and you look like a boy with a secret that you would just dying to tell. You taught me mathematics in the sands of far away places, and taught me to sail and we left without any traces. We climbed glaciers in Argentina and saw the blue of the beautiful caves and witnessed a majestic beauty of such a jaggling maze. I learned how to change gears on the dirt roads of Brazil. We ate hot dogs in Paraguay, a memory we smile over still. We talked about lines, elephants, and bears on a hacienda in Uruguay, but decided it was better if Europe we did fly. Oh the old world and all its luxury, what a good time it was. From South America to the cosmopolitan.”
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“I can remember on Quervo, Daddy, with you holding me in your arms as you sang Jim Reeve's songs and talked about the farm. I can see you walking through the door from one of your travels far and wide and the thought of you coming home, Daddy kept a twinkle in our eyes. I can smell you as I did when I used to climb into your bed, and you would talk to me again about one of the adventures that you led. I can see me and Maria asleep and one of your airplane's extraordinaire, and remembering wondering to myself why there wasn't an available chair. I remember having to meet you and worrying that you wouldn't be there, but you would pop from behind some counter and give us all a happy scare.”
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“Go daddy's poem. A year ago I became a poet when I wrote your birthday prose, and here I am today ready to give it another go. First, I would like to wish you a very happy birthday to be, and to thank you so very much, for without you I would not be me. Secondly, I want to say that your support has been immense. It has been true, honest, loving, and free of all pretense. Thirdly, it goes without saying you love us surpassed all my wrongs, and you always made me smile with one of your old country songs.”
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“I'd be glad to. I was doing eleven years up in Lompok Penitentiary Maxim Security Prison for a parole violation for possession of marijuana in nineteen seventy seven. They should have given me six months, but they gave me eleven years because they wanted me for what they call silent beef. Anyhow, while I was in that dungeon, I received a letter from my daughter Miriam.”
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“And we're meant to that was my guilt. I love everybody and everything. I do, and it's just, and I'm sorry if I put a stumbling block in anybody's way, I wouldn't want to. But these are these things, and I just think about, oh, what a... Hypocritical world we live in, though. Like most anybody out there listening, okay, he's a drug dealer. And I would say most of them are committed adultery. That's a cardinal sin. Yet they move throw rocks at me for moving marijuana cocaine across the road. It's just if you saw the two different things, you'd say, what a terrible difference it is. But we become conditioned with this mad society that we have.”
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“Are living in this flesh That's beyond a shadow of a doubt with me. If you walk out of your body and have out of body experience you will know it”
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“When I first got out of prison, always something like that. Yeah. So I don't know. It's just And I noticed that something about me is sometimes in prison there'd be a knife fight. And people just, you see them rough guys that turn white from it. I just got almost like smile. I mean, if they come at me, I turn white and get away. But it doesn't bother those things that doesn't bother me. I just prison didn't bother me.”
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“Yeah, like my brother, I mean, he kept his hands clean and his shoes shining. Here I was barefooted catching a wild hog or wrestling a horse trying to get it down.”
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“I don't know just it's just kind of like who you are even when I was a child I was like I'm different from other people You know, and just as a boy, I was like,”
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“He has them also just like that. He tells about how it happens on him. I happen differently But you certainly can come out of your body.”
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“Oh I don't know, but certainly certainly a phenomenon happened and there's a guy Bill Monroe that wrote the book on Out of the Body, tells about it. And who was the guy that? The alchem Those things?”
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“Just unbelievable that, and I don't know how many people have it, but I have it. I walked out of my body just like just where I could come up to you and look and set up on the radio. I used to be at work on the railroad and I had them there.”
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“And I have out of the body experiences also. And I came out of my body. I just floated out of my body and went into a veil and like into a mist. And I believe that's probably why it happened.”
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“I was on a porch and I believe I was in Central America place. I was an old man with khaki pants and a white shirt. And it was a chair with wide arms and it was straight. And there was like the beams coming out above my head and I'm on the porch.”
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“I have visions visions and they often happen very, very clear, like what I have seen in the future. Scientists might call it wormholes. In the Old Testament, they call it prophets, but I see sometimes into the future around the corner. It's clear as we're sitting right here.”
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“Little stuff, yes. And it might be big, but I usually win her over, you know. But anyhow, I just feel like Mari was always there. It was like she was at my anchor. I was coming home. I was always coming home to her and the children. And you can see throughout my life, I'm working on getting there.”
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“I just don't know how to do it, but I do know that you have to work on a relationship. Murray and I have had problems. I mean, we could really.”
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“She said, What do they do if they catch? And I told her what the lawyer said four months at the most Rick and Leaves. I said, What do you think? She said, do you need a co-pilot son?”
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“And when I started, I would ask about it. I went to a lawyer and a good number of people in California at that time wanted to legalize marijuana. Back 1973. And I went to a lawyer and I says, Mr. Lawyer, I put $100 on the table. What would they do if I caught me bringing marijuana across the border? He said, if you have a criminal record, I said, no. I've never had a speeding ticket. Nothing. Not even a traffic ticket. He said he worked for the fire department. I don't know, sir. I said, yes, sir. He said, you'll get probation. The worst you'll do is you'll get one year and you'll spend four months raking leaves on the military base. So my mother, my father died some years before, and I brought mother and baby sister came out and I took them down to Disneyland and she said, what are you doing, boy? I said, I'm hauling pot, mom. She said, how much are you making? I said, making $40,000 any day I want to go.”
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“I didn't know that your friend told on you five years later you'd still go to prison. Right. That was a problem. I didn't know that.”
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“I kind of thought I was bulletproof. I mean, they didn't catch you. I thought if they didn't catch you, you was all right. And it was hard to get you, hard to catch you in the air.”
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“Well, whenever I did the first loot, I've got $10,000. And that was just about two years pay on the fire department take home. And I brought that home.”
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“Oh yes hundred percent I wouldn't have done it again if you don't think you're going to get caught. And it's just, no, it's just, I did it for money and I had everything in the world I wanted before I did that.”
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“I got over and quit, quit the tears. Everything was just pulsating with life. It was just unbelievable to get out of that place. It really was.”
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“A picture of her and with the children. It just was heartbreaking. And about the third day, I thought, man up, fella. I mean, you've got to.”
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“I cried for three days. Everything I'd look at a picture of her, I came home and there she prepared a meal for me. It was the old oak table that I'd Redone and the chairs, same one, and the green place mats in the same china that we had in the same silverware. And all of it just brought back the same paintings on the wall. It was just like unbelievable after 35 years she had all my clothes cleaned and my shoes shining. And I put the shoes on and I walked out of the strings and the soles came off with the shirts and all fit perfect and everything. So it's just wonderful. And just to see her. And then just to think about see her picture of her 50th birthday of her 60th birthday, of her 70th birthday. I wasn't there”
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“That's right. Have a family and stick with it. Surely, you're going to get angry. You're going to get disappointed. You're going to get all kinds of stuff. But come back and make up before you go to sleep.”
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“Relationships, yes. I mean, so many people particularly are children from relationships where They not wanted their divorce, their father's left, they don't know who their daddy is, they discost their homes. 500,000 children in foster homes in America today. And we have, and our government inadvertently is encouraging those people. My daughter is a doctor, and she delivered a couple years ago a baby from a 10-year-old child. That child, and she said, Indivision room is four generations, all of them on welfare. Now we got one more, and it reminds me of Elvis Presley's song in the ghetto.”
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“And I would say that in prison, the prison system should come in and you get a thief, young fans of thief, a robber. And you say, all right, we need carpenters. We need plumbers. We need electricians. We need sheep. Sentence them to that trade. And when you get an A plus in that, where you can go out and make you $30 or $50 an hour, you go home. Now, you can mess around 10 years if you want to, or you can do this in two. I think that would That's just for the prism. But anyway, I would say that they find somebody and be true to them, that we have... Just be honest and true in your life”
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“Be a good man or woman. If I had it to do over with, I'll just tell you what I'd have done, I would have paid attention and studied my lesson, and did the best I could. In school, yes, and went as far as I could have. I would have liked to have been a doctor. I just didn't have the stickability or anybody to tell me, go there and do that. And if you can do that at a very young age, start in a trade. Learn to do something. Doesn't matter what it is. If you learn to do something good, there is a great demand for you.”
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“I don't know about that, but they certainly should be controlled if a person is an add Should be able to go down and get his fix with somebody there to help him with a clean needle and a glass of orange juice. It's so much cheaper than prison. It's so much cheaper than him stealing cars or prostitute having to go to work. That's sad.”
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“Over drugs, and drugs should be a health issue. You can't Police it enough. It's just they know the only thing that overdoses is opioids, the heroin. And if they can give it to them, it costs about a dollar a day to give the worst addict his fix. But they'll give it methadone, which is from a pharmaceutical company, which is just as bad. Why in the world? We tried it all over the world and Portugal and England, and when they give the girls cleanup, no more stolen cars who wants to keep this forest going? They just perpetuating it like, oh, every little police place is getting old, these suits and armor and machine guns. It's just like, oh, it's such a spin. It's sad.”
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“The prisoners are filled, absolutely filled with people that have some mental problem. Now, you see Tent City all the way up and down here. I guarantee you every one of those people have mental problems to some degree, however little it is, but they are a little bit off. Now then you get a DEA agent that wants to make a name for himself. He goes down there and gets two of them to sell a little two grams of methamphetamine to the other one, and he gets a conviction. Young prosecutor, he gets a conviction. He wants to make a judge. And we got to judge in, where was it? I'm going to give a million, what was his name, Gilbert? I'm going to give men a million years before I get off the judge. You get fools like that in charge. You're going to fill prisons up with pitiful humanity. And those are the ones. And then the other.”
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“Clue. That's just some people are evil and they will kill you and hurt you and lie to you. I just don't do any of that. It just makes you sick. I've seen it when I was in the shoe. Three guys tried to kill a guy and they stabbed him so many times but their stab went Blaken and the blood getting out of the room and I said, you're going to kill him. You're going to kill him and save his life. Drug him up there where the guards could see him. There's stuff like that. I'm just not of that nature of those people. They're just evil. Those people born evil, I believe.”
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“Didn't even see it didn't happen around me. In prison, it did. I sewed people up. They called me Doc. Dental floss and one time I had to get a blade and try to help keep them from my patient from getting again. But it was just like if I shot at those people, I shot at them to keep them from killing me. I certainly didn't mean to kill them.”
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“Then, when I was a tobacco farmer, come sit on the front pew, Mr. Reeves. Come on up here, you a gentleman. You just joined the Masonic Lodge and you joined our church, and you just come on and sit down with the good people. You grow two marijuana plants. Get out of here, you scumbag. And the marijuana doesn't hurt anybody. It's just that's the truth of it.”
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“I would like to tell them that they have been indoctrinated by the spin of news and politicians, and they don't know the truth of the situation. You lay the truth out there in an envelope and let me open it. Besides something else that is false, and it's staggering. The truth is that I was a tobacco farmer. Tobacco kills 500,000 people a year in America and six million have a debilitating diseases because of it. Drugs all drugs combined kill between ten and fifteen thousand people a year by overdose, and sixty percent of those are pharmaceutical.”
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“Put me out and sent me home, and the parole officers couldn't even come. They weren't working. They were just doing everything by video. Better not have a drink. The only thing was, I couldn't even have a drink of wine. So after a year, I had to take psychiatric treatment every week. I had to go talk to the psychiatrist, psychologist. And me and her got along great. She was a good Christian woman. We just chatted and talked. And I think they said, so I had to pee in the bottle every week. I said, I've been in 33 years. How many piss deaths do you think I've had? Never been dirty. Only thing if y'all want a clean one, you come get me.”
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“Got out last April right in the middle of it, and they were dying bad in there. So I was treated worse for that last year in America than I was for the whole 20 years in Australia, 18 years in Australia.”
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“And they slammed me, put me on the ground, handcuffed me, and put me in the shoe for a week. Got out, man, they put me back in the place, they treated me rough so. Got in a little more trouble and they put me back in the shoe, and I wouldn't come out. They would have had that, the virus was out killing people. They killed eight people in that unit I was in. So, I mean, I wouldn't even come out to take a shower. I had a little straw that I put in the sink, and I'd take a sock that I had and scrub myself with it with some soap and glass water over my head and then clean the floor up and put it in the toilet.”
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“What? I've been in there for six months. So then there was a lovely little lady. She was a case manager or something. She said, you can ask for a parole on the record. And I said, please do. She said, I'll send them an email. And the next day I got my parole 90 days later. They sent me to Terminal Island and put me in the place there with the infalt, I guess I'm as old as I am, 78 years old. So they put me into people in there dying and wheelchairs and legs off and arms off and cancer. So I was in there and I pushed the fellas around. And I come out of the chow hall there and I went to go to the right to get me a haircut. And two Mexican guys there, Lieutenant and another one, walked between us. And he went like the boop, boop, boop. I could outrun you.”
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“Christopher Cannon was his name, and I don't know who got to him. He didn't do anything to get me out of there. I got one 15-minute phone call a month, and I couldn't get out. So then, after six months, they shipped me to put me on Con Air. Double shackled and black box on my hands. Went to Oklahoma and they let me out on the floor. I couldn't imagine. Then I could call after a couple of days. And they said there was a man here from Washington give you a parole here and you only got here at 330. So he left. He said he'd be back next year.”
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“More than six months. So after three or four days, the little Judas window slide opened and a man, a nice looking man in a suit, come there. Hello, Reeves. Just want to see what you look like. I saw you in Naxon Geographic documentary, and it does me pleasure to keep you in isolation. He slammed the thing and I couldn't get out of there. And by law, the US Parole Commission is supposed to give you a hearing within ninety days. So Murray paid a lawyer seven thousand five hundred dollars, and he never picked up the phone. Somebody got to him.”
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“Whenever I came back to the United States, I was laughing and talking, and when I got off the plane in LA, I had three marshals with me from Australia. I was slammed upside the wall. I mean hard, put ankle bikes on and handcuffed so tight till he cut my lane off face forward, face forward, lands apart. Good gracious and walk me up fifty steps and turn me over to the marshals and they took part of that off. That was a border patrol that was there over my marijuana charge from 1977. I did 11 years for parole violation. Now they want me for more violation. And they put me in down in Los Angeles. They put me in the marshes, put me in there, and they put me in isolation. I thought, what in the world it got me for isolation for? I done anything”
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“It was unbelievably good that we were left alone basically. They was there. The guards were certainly there, but they had their shack, and we had apartments, four apartments to the building, and six men to the unit with your own door and a key to it, and a kitchen, dining room, freezer, refrigerator, and they gave you allowed you 360 a week to buy groceries. And I cooked for about 16 years. And learned to cook good. And the people and other people have their specialties. So that was quite It wasn't so like being in prison. It was somewhat living with men. It was difficult, man. I had some good fights and carry on, but you don't get along with everybody.”
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“And he's there. I had five or six cars looking at me with one way mirror. And that's whenever I thought I might never get out. I got a life sentence. I had all this time waiting here in Germany. And so they had a... They had a computer in there, but it didn't have a program on it. And I wrote, so I just started writing these little stories of what I did in my life. And I wrote one line, and I wrote over a million words with them looking at me. So it was after a year they let me out. And it wasn't long before they put me in a place called self-care. And particularly, I was in what they call the lifer's pod. It was 268 men in self-care there.”
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“Well, down in Australia, I spent the first little over a year in the shoe. It was like did you see the movie the Silence of the Lambs? Thank you, Mike.”
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