Garet McLendon
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
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Uh, I, I go around and, and, and this year I advocate for families in criminal justice and then, uh, and I share over telling my testimony in recovery meetings.
Uh, I haven't got the clearance yet.
Yeah.
I'm trying.
Oh, I, it's on my radar, but I haven't got cleared yet, man.
Like it's, uh, and that, and that to me, and I'm close.
I'm close to going that tenfold of being able to go share in the prison systems and, and to these guys on, and especially like on the four yard over in Tehachapi where I was, where I, where I first, I was one of the first meetings I ever went to.
I was in the, I was on the, I was in the four yard in Tehachapi state prison and they brought in a,
And they brought in a panel, and I was two hips looking cool, man, but they had good coffee.
And I remember hearing a guy carry a message, man, and I will.
And I will soon be doing that.
nice dude yeah but he said yeah he said you got to get he said you got to get like special permission yeah you have to do you have to fill out you have to get in and but the good thing about it today is like i'm i'm not on like i'm i'm clear like yeah i like i'm still on paper yeah so i got at least two more months to get off paper even so you can't even you can't even try and do that it's like trying to get your voting i've been off paper i've been off paper for uh
for probably going on eight years now and so uh i i mean i discharged high control i was in treatment i i got like um once i got off high control that's probably another reason why i stayed at that treatment center for so long is that is that i wanted to is like i i wanted to stay there until i was off parole and and uh and because i like the they're testing i was i was still on high control when i got out inside of a treatment center so they're testing me twice a week and
And, uh, and, and doing all that stuff.
I got a job.
They come to my job, like all that embarrassing stuff.
And, uh, and, um, I discharged it, man.
No.
And, uh, I didn't, I didn't even get my discharge card.