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First Day Out

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NHPR

Documentary, News, True Crime, Society & Culture

4.4803 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Josh gets out of prison, Emily tags along. Neither of them know what they’ve gotten themselves into, or could have predicted what happens next.

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0:00.0

How are you feeling?

0:03.0

Nervous. Very nervous. Excited, nervous.

0:08.0

All the above.

0:10.0

Josh gets out of prison on a spring morning in New Hampshire.

0:15.0

The trees are just starting to turn green, but the sky is gray and it's raining.

0:20.0

Josh isn't dressed for the weather. He's wearing

0:23.2

prison-issued sweatshorts and a t-shirt. Still, he seems immune to the dampness and the chill.

0:30.4

You got to bounce in your steps. Oh, yeah. When is the best show up? Who's it? When is the best show up?

0:39.3

What is that?

0:40.3

When is the best show up?

0:41.3

About 7.40-ish.

0:43.3

Awesome.

0:44.3

All right.

0:46.3

You're all seven.

0:47.3

Thanks.

0:48.3

The bus is early, but Josh hustles across the parking lot,

0:52.3

like he's worried it's going to leave without him.

0:59.0

These are Josh's first moments as a free man in two years.

1:05.0

His face, his walk, you can see this battle between exhilaration and apprehension. Like he's so light he could float straight into the air,

1:14.6

except something is pulling him back down.

1:18.6

And he keeps repeating this refrain about how he's feeling.

1:22.6

Very excited, very nervous.

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