Day 289.3 Toliver silverscript

Day 289.3 Toliver silverscript By the Fire With Thomas Toliver Aug 6 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u-r4w-x-8I

Speaking with 84 year man from Charleston, West Virginia that works with youth who have imprisoned parents, using gardening as a therapeutic means to overcome delinquency.

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then it'll go live George I want to tell
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you first thing to do is become a
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Christian
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Maxon Christ to come into light now we
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got that behind us now as a reporter
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this can be hard for you to do because
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negative is themself but don't scuba
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dive in the cesspool of negativism seek
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out the good there's so much good in
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this country why we want to pick out the
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negative because it sells it sounds good
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and we gravitate to it
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but this is the greatest country in the
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world I can authenticate that I am a
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retard good job good family seven kids
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25 print they all working hey 25 25 and
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twenty or twenty and twenty I'm with
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girls
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oh my that's what I told my wife within
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20 girls if she catch me with a woman
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that's a big lie and this is one of your
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grandkids over here that's Phyllis right
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they call the doc I met to get my wife's
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hair shrunk so I get back in this door
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because of George's reporter the reason
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that y'all can tell I got 20 grandkids
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and I learned something even when women
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are wrongly right I felt one wrong now
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you got no teeth so let me just
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introduce Thomas here really quickly
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okay
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Thomas Tolliver lives in West Virginia
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Charleston West Virginia close to where
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I've done some reporting New York
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Clarksburg the FBI ball but no you do oh
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very good I'll be asking for favors
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later on but the reason the reason why I
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just gravitated toward Thomas here by
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the fire in Columbus Ohio is Thomas
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works with mentors kids that are that
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have that their parents are in prison so
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why don't you just tell me the program
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and we're not trying to promote anything
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here but I just thought it was such a
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good story so just tell your story
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Thomas okay but 30-some years I've been
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going into prison and I don't like to
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call myself preaching to him I'd like to
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treat him like man
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own kids that mentor them and tracked
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him to rethink their thinking so that
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will come back to prison but anyway in
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the progression of time I began to see
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these people had children and that
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bothered me you know you're in prison
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and you got children so with my wife's
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encouragement I started or Spillers over
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there she just as fellows who you might
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say anyway we found out that with these
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Pete prisoners they had children so we
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started an organization called family
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youth and development service men and
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children of prisons go in and don't be
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critical
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just don't be criticized we don't really
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have a right to criticize we're also
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gonna have right to try correct no one
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unless you get a relationship and you've
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often heard it say people want to see
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your heart full to hear your mind got
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that it was a gorge just all you people
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I'm listening 100 percent so but what I
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want to tell you is that you'd have to
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come from all
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that's me and Trump to Learjet don't see
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okay Wow their jets come just gone over
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but anyway you would have to come to my
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office grapefruit and I got they're not
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my money by running my night I enjoy Ben
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ignant because I meet good people like
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you to try to encourage me and I'm not
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been asked for more money I don't like
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I'm telling you the truth I don't I
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don't need money clothes money misuse
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for up Chile yes but anyway I've had the
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great opportunity I'll pull out my
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picture I'm gonna show you how to do
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this where I was in teen yet I was like
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to Berlin mall right after came down now
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do I have pictures it before I've been
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in Kenyon Lyle Ferguson and in I was at
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the Berlin Wall right okay I have those
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pictures I have Canada and the way I got
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there really people like then take you
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over there and actually I was on its way
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back to effort so this Africans are so
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respectful to hold people and they found
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out they want me to come back do not
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concern right now okay so the problem
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with America people with good sense and
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intelligent like that white people like
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you have been elected and unelected is
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cost to be disconnected so they're not
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connected especially our kids they're
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not connected to something constructive
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and you know we've explored with our
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kids about playing put
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we need to let move majority kids there
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are more things than sports and so I
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want to go back to that statement I told
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you the countries that ii see that 35
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members of my family anything let's go
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back to talking about these well you
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told me a story before we started about
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mr. hex
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i think is this named network the young
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man no Pitts Pitts Pitts Pitts is going
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to West Virginia University yeah don't
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look out for a young man that I'm
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entered from baby to adulthood he you
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would call it prob people thought sure I
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just love kids like what they can sense
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that and they give me a degree of
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respect other people think I think you
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back that's their nature then I took up
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a lot of time with in Rogers your
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property and then it was for the kids
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that homeless do not really home do for
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the mother and dad in federal the reef
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turned out to be one of the finest kids
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you want to meet that encouraged me now
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to continue but he'll be playing for EE
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you look out for dreams just a final kid
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mountable respectable don't have the big
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head and I'm just and I credit that to
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normal man but
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some poor people poor people my there
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was a well-known lawyer named attempted
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Bureau it was a community involvement
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that was part of it I don't want to take
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all the credit
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yeah I love this story because it
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reminded me of my basketball teammates
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right and I don't know if people know
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this about me but my basketball team was
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eleven black guys and me right oh and
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two two of them were shot and killed and
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then two others have died now so on my
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team on my starting team all of them are
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dead I think maybe I think maybe ones
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alive and I haven't really followed up
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with them but it just shows you I mean
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where we were on one side of the town
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and they were on the other it's it's
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still not that far away in taking care
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of the crime problem every guy guarding
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gotta be participants yeah
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the police can only do so much right
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it's fighting by people with good common
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sense you're gonna have to start from
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the cradle to the grave to deal with you
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just think these kids that committing
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crimes they have nobody like him they
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could easily go upgrade because they had
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no stability it's up to people of good
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sense good good American sense that no
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nation is too free to turn it over to
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thugs yeah I'm not seeing from so thug I
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wouldn't dare say but he's got you know
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everybody's got some self-worth we need
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to find that and try to build it from
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there we got to instill this into these
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kids
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maybe we should keep them away from
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negative television
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we got it I have to give it a lot of
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that fridge to my wife else that was
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crazy as my kids but now she might your
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your wife reminds you so much of my
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mother
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oh so much of my mom you just sit there
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and go it's all going okay but as soon
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as it one no one right it's smack I'm
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from Cleveland Ohio to be from well you
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know the first prize is one week in
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Cleveland second prizes
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whereas wait second prize is one week
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including the first prize is to is you
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know you can be so dumb you can't pass
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and I enjoy that I think how dumb it is
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I spent 25 years in college trying to
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crowd in for so when doing the
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graduation when I got ready to graduate
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they were saying that dr. Marvin Johnson
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cum laude made it
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magna cum Marty Tom Tolliver thank you
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lord
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we're getting the good stuff yet the
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good stuff yeah but I was going to tell
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you this I just can't help thinking
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about even when I came along I wasn't a
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Christian but this country I don't care
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what he was found basically all
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Christian principles they were yes you
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know you don't have to be all this great
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if you live with the basic principles
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that's what we have banding on let's
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stay with them and so you know and you
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struck me as just and we'll wrap it here
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it's just a very deep man of faith right
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but the thing about it I don't use it
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but I want this country to survive so
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bad that I'm will go back in the
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military
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whatever it takes because I'm telling
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you I've been called back I told you
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I've been in Kenya like those Nigeria a
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little Norway Toronto Canada I've been
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always sometimes that you want to
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reenter view me man me tell you how
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rescues and the Polly's from being
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deported we'll talk at next time you
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come to you come to West Virginia I'll
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come to us right yeah yeah we are
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hopefully as a free man no I'm single
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I'm yeah well don't you like my wife
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they asked it she'll be some nice man
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that there they said ask my wife are you
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married and all but my husband is we
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started something you did let me taste
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let me tell you something else
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fifty years ago and I have a way of
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turning negative into a joke beat the
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women way from she got married again she
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was walking down the street and you know
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way I introduced them I know the man I
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said I'd like the auto meet my husband
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alone boy they got man I have weird turn
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in life around that I'm not gonna let
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circumstances Rob
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there's too much good stuff you you
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Thomas
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you've touched my heart you know I love
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meeting people of make that act in faith
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and you are a wonderful person you are
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married to an incredible it was some hey
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hey hey what's the name I mean we'll
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have to get the doctor to get her
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so reporting live here in Columbus Ohio
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just a little bit of the flavor of the
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evening that was been so good and we're
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also here at a at a baby shower and some
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wonderful gals here we're talking with
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and it's been great
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so we'll tune out here tonight I would
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like to tell y'all something sure I
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would like to say this man that we
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interviewing he used to be a black man
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they scared him now he's pale I think
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that FBI can do that to you anyway
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thanks everybody for all your support
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and it's it's been really wonderful just
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talk with people one on one and well
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I'll get it right with you right after
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this and you can look me up on the web
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thanks everybody good night