Episode 01: Calipatria

Love and Radio: Blood Memory

Love and Radio

Documentary, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2026

⏱️ 35 minutes

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0:00.0	You find out what your beliefs are when they're put to the test.
0:03.0	If they don't stand up to the test, then you damn well better re-evaluate to determine
0:08.0	what your beliefs actually are.
0:10.0	Because otherwise you're just living a facade when you step forward and take a stand for something.
0:19.0	There's intimate knowledge associated with that stand.
0:24.6	Elsewise, you wouldn't be taking it, you see. My intent is not to stand against anything,
0:31.7	but stand for. And there's a difference. It's about relationship.
0:38.3	Whether you're riding a 2,000-pound bull that doesn't want you on its back, or you're in a knife fight, there's an intimacy there.
0:47.3	Can you think of a specific example of a fight that you were in where you especially felt that sense of intimacy and
0:55.4	connectedness with the person you were fighting with?
0:57.6	Sure.
0:58.6	I took a knife away from a guy once that was intent on killing me.
1:03.5	I felt that as I was getting ready to walk by him and then I just took his arm and I pushed
1:08.3	it into the bars and he had a knife in it. So I held him there
1:12.5	and took the knife away from him. I took him down and he pled for his life. He begged me.
1:20.7	You were holding him down on the ground or what? Yes. With the knife to his throat.
1:25.3	Close. He wasn't going to move.
1:28.3	Choice was mine.
1:29.3	Within prison culture, I would have been perfectly within my rights to take his life
1:34.3	because he was going to take mine.
1:36.3	But that's not how I see it.
1:38.3	And that's where ethics comes in.
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