Stephen Stanko
speaker
32 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Stephen Stanko’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He was very strict.
I had wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. I had wanted to design jets. But during his senior year in high school, everything changed. That's when a lot of things happened. That's when I went from honor student, 11th in the class, athlete, and everything else. I turned down some scholarships because I thought I had the Air Force Academy in the bag, and then I didn't get that.
My dreams kind of went by the wayside at that point. I was just trying to figure out what I was going to do.
You know, to be considered a genius but do such stupid things. There were times when I would look at it and say, you know, what the heck were you doing?
It was like it was good news and bad news. The bad news is you got a brain defect. The good news is you got a brain defect.
They've showed what's wrong in my frontal lobes. And you can't deny it.
Henry became kind of a friend and a quasi-father for me for a while. He was good people.
Usually it's when I'm confronted with violence. I mean, the only times that it's ever happened is when I was confronted with violence.
or a slap that causes a cigarette to go into my eye. And that's what Laura Ling did? Yes, sir.
You can use whatever word you want. I mean, I have thought about this. I have thought about why I didn't kill somebody in prison. The one thing I never did in prison was fight somebody when nobody else was around.
You know, no matter what happens today, if there's one thing I do believe that somehow, someway, my brain and the things that have gone on with it have got to be useful to science.
I want to live. I didn't at first. I really didn't.
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