Charles Flores
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628 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Charles Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So I've been here for a while and yeah, I can cook pretty good. That's why I'm fat.
Mostly it was week to week. So depending on the matchups, you would make a new lineup. You understand? Okay. You know, Tom Brady's playing whoever, so you're starting Tom Brady. And if it's a two-quarterback league, you know, whoever else it might be. You know, and Rodgers, right? Right. And then—and so— Zekiel Elliott has a good matchup, so you're going to start him.
And then, you know, you're mixing and matching. You're mixing and matching. Okay. And so there wasn't no need to get together and have a draft. But what you would have to do is turn in your team because there's a commissioner that's running it, right? And he's the one that's going to get each team, and then he's going to create what we call master sheets. So there's a deadline.
You gotta turn them in by, you know, Friday at noon.
slide the stuff out from the cells to the day rooms, and then those guys would get the stuff and give it to another day room, and then that guy would tell the commissioner, hey, man, I've got these teams out here, and then he would make his way out there with what we call a fishing line, and it's essentially like a long string that he'll slide to the day room, and he'd pull them back in.
And then the same way, he would pass out the master sheet. You know? And it's the same thing.
I've been here literally 25 years. Before there was no TV. So it was all sports talk radio and it was mostly AM. And when you'd get the station, you would hope it stays in. And so that's where we would get our sports update. Because when you play fantasy football, If you don't know what's going on, you're just donating. You're just donating. You know what I'm saying?
You just might as well just give your money away. You know, we would have to wait on the newspaper. You got to wait on the newspaper to get the stats because, you know, you don't have the stats. You know, nowadays I know that as soon as the games are played, the stats are online. Right, right. But, man, no, man, you know, people would be waiting for the newspaper.
And then the commissioner, he would add it up because everything has to be official, right? Everybody's agreed that he...
Slowly but surely, the guys that played, they've just been pushed out of existence. They've been executed. They're gone. You know, and that's just the reality of being on death row. That's the reality of being sentenced to death.
We were fans. We used to watch at home. Of course, we watched when I was little.
I was real close with my family. I might have lived... But, you know, on the weekend, I'm going to Mom and Dad's house. Just being with them, and we would watch football all the time.
That was one of the main things that we would talk about. The Cowboys this, the Cowboys that. They continued to watch the football games at home. And so it was the same thing. Back then, I would... wake up early and I would start a letter. And a lot of times I would leave it. I would say half of what I wanted to say and then the game would be going. And then after the game I would have comments.
And oftentimes I would be writing my mom and my dad and they would be writing me at the same time. And I remember that I was writing them, you know, at four o'clock and then I would see that mom had started this letter at four o'clock. And so that was like the synchronicity of it all, right? And yeah, man, you know, it was special. There's nothing like that.
So, like I said, I think fandom is part of family too, because it's part of that bond that we have.
So much of living under death sentences is the unknown. You know, we're sent here We were convicted and sentenced to death and sent to death row to have our lives taken from us, to be executed, you know, to be legally murdered. And that's pretty heavy, man. You hang your hopes on appeal courts and on things that...
might happen that will allow you to have a reversal in your conviction or your sentence and maybe get out of the situation. So, you know, that's pretty stressful. And some guys can't take it. You know, some guys lose their mind. I had a friend of mine, his name, we called him Big G. He was from Oak Cliff in Dallas. And we called him Big G for a reason. He was like 6'5", about 300 pounds.
He looked like he could play offensive tackle for the Cowboys. Great guy. One day he told me, he says, man, he says, what if we got it wrong? He says, what if the crazy dudes are normal because they can't cope? And we're the crazy people because we are able to adapt and accept this insanity. And you know, I've never forgot that.
Because that would be, that's a normal reaction would be to go insane. Yeah, lose your damn mind that they're going to kill you. And that you're going to sit around for 10 or 15 years until they do it. And so sports for me, especially football, it takes me out of this place. When the game is on, I'm at the stadium. I'm not in this place. I'm not here. I'm not under that death sentence.
I'm not worried about, oh, man, are they going to set me in execution? Oh, man, are they going to deny my appeals? You know, because that's real. That's real there.
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