Reginald Dwayne Betts

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250 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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It's Been a Minute · What's a pathway to freedom? Reading. · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

Um and and we was raising additional five million dollars, ten million dollars, going from one Freedom Library to eight freedom libraries to fifty to eighty to ninety to a hundred and twenty.

And and I'll just say watching the story on on film made me feel in some ways more disconnected from my life than than I'd ever been, you know, because um

Yeah, because, you know, I have been forced to move fast and and I do feel like I'm a man who's had to invent his life, you know, so often that um

I look at it on screen and I and I recognize that if I were to pause to ask myself about the feasibility of whatever the next step was.

Uh uh I'm like one of those goats that climb the mountain.

They they making these impossible, you know, leaps and jumps and they climbing these mountains.

I'm like one of those goats.

You know, if the goat forget that he's doing the impossible, he becomes eagle food.

And and I feel like, you know, watching what was going on is it's this moment when I just realized that um

This could've easily not have happened and and I end up feeling profoundly grateful, but

But it's a lot.

After my sons watched it, they were both happy that they did and and they had questions, but their questions weren't

You know, why why are you like this or or or or anything like that, you know, which is a beautiful thing to have your children see you portrayed on the screen like that and walk away loving you and and asking the kind of questions that showed that they paid attention, like, Yeah, why were you in solitary confinement?

You didn't explain that that well.

I mean it's interesting because

I used to think I would die at fifty.

A friend told me that uh her her husband had turned seventy five over the weekend.

And I thought, man, I can't wait.

En and to me, you know, the desire to imagine that as a possibility.

Is is it was the first order accomplishment.

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