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Where?

The eBay app.

Yes, you are correct. You didn't need to talk to me. I already knew it. I love eBay. When you're buying, you can discover loads of hidden gems. There's so many items where you think I would have never found that anywhere else. Then when you're selling, it's so simple and most importantly, free.

It's free, Rob.

When it's this easy to sell for free and there's great deals on things you love. You can't help but say when it's eBay. It excludes vehicles and business sellers. I'm just like, yo, this is crazy. How many offices is there? And I see one person. I'm like, this supposed to be me. Was it hard to be as young as you were working at Rikers Island? That probably was the most challenging thing. What's something that the public doesn't know about Rikers Island that you think they should know about? Mike Marcus grew up in the Bronx and at just 21 years old became a corrections officer on Rikers Island, one of the most dangerous jails in America.

For five years, he worked inside the chaos, dealing with inmates, violence, and the daily

pressure that few on the outside ever see.

Today, Mike shares the raw truth about what it's really like to be a guard on Rikers,

the biggest misconceptions about corrections, and why he ultimately walked away from the job. Mike, welcome to Lockin, man. Thanks so much for coming today. No, I appreciate you, man. I appreciate you for having me for sure, man. Yeah, of course. You came from the city, right? Yeah, yeah. Well, coming from Westchester County. Oh, that's where you live now? Yeah, that's where I live now. But I'm from the Bronx, though, originally. Okay. Did you live in Westchester when you were working at Rikers? No, no, no, no. I was living in the Bronx at that time.

I was going to say that's a little bit of a commute. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely. Yeah, it would have been, yeah, coming from Westchester, it would probably be like a hour away. Why do you pick Westchester?

Just to change the environment mostly because, you know, coming from the Bronx, I'm from the Bronx.

So for me... Chester? Just to change the environment mostly because, you know, coming from the Bronx, I'm from

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