Rod Blagojevich
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 26 Mar
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And I'm happy to provide any kind of free advice or suggestions I can have.
But in addition to that, I would say— What job would you take?
Well, it's not a job. You ask me, what would I do?
What would I do?
I don't know, but I'll just say it isn't just that, though. See, I think I can bring my own experience from the time I had in prison with my homies in there. Like I said, yeah, most of them all did it.
You can say that unironically. If my friend Spade, you know, Joe Naramore is listening, shout out to Joe Naramore or Walter Hill or, gee, Gregory Blaylock, drug dealer from South Side of Chicago.
Yeah, right.
Yeah, and I try to help them as much as I can now within my limited ability, but the way I can really help is I think I can bring a perspective on how merciless our criminal justice system is and how we do have a country of mass incarceration and how this woman, a black woman, wrote this best-selling book called The New Jim Crow and how it's an excuse and a reason to discriminate against black people based upon their felony convictions.
how they go to prison, but they're not guided to actually learn the skills that they could use one day when they get out of prison. All these things can be corrected. I feel like I can be helpful in something like that.
I don't know enough about all the details, but I'm very suspicious of that, the profit motive in private prisons and a lot of the, for example, the commissary stuff that's been privatized, things along those lines. I don't know enough about that. My feeling is probably not, but maybe you can do some version of that.
By contracting out to some private companies to come in and educate inmates, which might be interesting. Bring some private companies in that could teach vocational training, particularly culinary skills, which is very much something where you can get out of prison and have a chance to get a job, maybe get your own restaurant, start your own business. Practical things. Privatize some of that.
That might be worthwhile. That could work. But as it is right now, government doing it, they're not doing it.
By the way, if you want an argument against, you know, socialized medicine, and I believe healthcare is a human right, and I believe I was the healthcare governor, I frankly think, Joe, even though I'm the only governor impeached in Illinois history, and they won't even let my portrait up there in the state capitol, I'm the only one. Really?
I feel like I was the best governor in Illinois history for the shit that I did for regular people. Healthcare for every child, free public transportation for our seniors, for the disabled. Mammograms and pap smears for underserved women. And if we find cancer, we get it treated and save their lives. This thing called open road tolling where commuters can go without having to pay tolls.
They've got a transponder where they can go all across the country. We're the first in the country to do that. All kinds of stuff where an average citizen says, this Governor Blagojevich did this for me. I can't think of a fucking thing any of my other governors have ever done for anybody I know. If you can think about what has Governor X done for me that I feel in real life.
So I think I did those things. But to brag on myself, I just got off message. What were we talking about?
Yeah.
Helping along the lines of that. And again, even volunteering.
Correct.
Yeah. Correct.
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