panic attack. like, man, am i going to make it? it was really interesting for me to hear ray slip into the mindset of what i assume roy must have been going through. it kind of showed me what goes through someone s mind when they re on parole. i already got in my mind if i didn t have my daughter, i would tell that [ bleep ] parole board, let me self-invoke right now and i ll stay here and not even get out at all. stay here for my three years on paper. if i could just revoke and if it wasn t for raven, because i don t want to break her heart, i would just self-revoke, stay here, and they can kiss my ass honestly. that s how i feel. finally, ray s release date arrived. and we decided to follow him from prison to home. it was actually kind of fun to watch ray because he was so excited about being set free, and he was trying really quickly to adapt, and he got to use a cell phone for the first time in a long time. hey, i look like a pimp. look at this little phone. i can t belie
refuse to do it. no, i ain t got nothing on me. give me my boxers. he became very verbally assaultive with staff. i just did it. i ain t got nothing on me. what i got, a grenade? i ain t got nothing on me. then you got no problem doing it right. no, i m not doing it. i just did it. i don t have anything on me. do it right. [ bleep ] i m completely naked, i ain t got nothing. do it. no. do what we ask you to. no. because he was so close to the door, i couldn t tell if he had just reached the end, i don t want to squat and cough anymore, i ve done it enough. or if in a weird way, he was trying to hinder his chances of getting out. i say i don t got to [ bleep ] go to this committee. yes, you do. no, i don t. you think i m stupid? i ve been doing this a lot longer than you, a lot longer than you. you were probably still wearing diapers when i was doing this.
skills, no training. his interpersonal communication skills were lacking. i understood why he was afraid to get out. getting a job and holding on to it, you know. and i keep thinking, you know, this is all i know. this is all i know. these guys come in here and feed us three times a day. we go out in this little cage all day. you re going to do what they say. like i say, it s two different worlds, you know. this world over here, you got to be tough. you can t show any type of weakness in here, you know. you front all the way through here hiding behind this guy or hiding behind this name. i m too old. i m 45 now. i just want to retire now. i don t want to come back here no more. i m through with it. i m through with this place. i want to find something to do over there when i get out. i don t know, maybe a pastry chef or do something positive because i m going to be too old to be digging ditches, and i don t want to do that, you know. i want to get my first paycheck. i want to get my
take that one back! but it was fascinating because you think of somebody who comes from this very deprived world suddenly being thrust into a world of so much technology. he was just like a little kid. even more so when ray and his family stopped at a convenience store for some snacks. these are new. these are new. i never ate them before. so i m going to eat these. definitely one of these. yeah. and then they got new everything know what i mean i mean, i ve had it before but they were, you know, these fancy-ass packs. everything is a little different. you know what i mean. yeah. i like candy though. i love candy, actually. but before we could get back on the road again, we discovered that our production vehicle had a flat tire. this back one. oh. that s rough. so we re getting ready to change this tire, and ray insists he wants to do it, and we put up a little fight, and he was not hearing it.
if it s a five-egg omelet, i cut it in half, and i make ten tokens off of it. and i make 16 of them, yeah in a day, and that s not counting the the cheese and the meat i cart out of there. i m telling you, it was sick. i had so many tokens i m telling you that i couldn t hardly get rid of them but it was nice. even deep fried chicken tacos, and i d have dudes yelling, because everybody was locked up, slagle, you got any sandwiches? yeah, everybody, me, too. me, too. hey, what about those deep fried chicken tacos? i d be going to the door sliding them underneath the door. they d be throwing me their tokens. i m telling you, it was cool. slagle s openness about his various prison hustles made him an intriguing character for us to follow. but we would soon discover another fact about ray that made his story even more interesting. he had a twin brother named roy who had not only been in prison, but had appeared on lockup years earlier. roy slagle is one of the more well-known charact