I went to death row and interviewed a prisoner
Lights On with Carl Lentz
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4.8 β’ 797 Ratings
ποΈ 3 December 2025
β±οΈ 57 minutes
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Summary
I visited Angola Prison, one of America's largest maximum security facilities, and what I witnessed broke me in the best way possible. This is Yogi. He's serving 65 years. He might be the freest man I've ever met.
I went with my friend Jake Bodin from God Behind Bars to experience the first-ever daddy-daughter dance inside a maximum security prison. Men serving 40 years to life, some who hadn't hugged their daughters in decades, slow dancing with their little girls.
I wasn't ready.
We walked through death row. We talked to men who will never leave. And what I found wasn't despair. It was faith, peace, and freedom I've rarely seen outside these walls.
Yogi got denied parole after doing everything right for 25 years. His response? "Maybe it's for one more."
One more person to reach. One more life to change.
This episode will challenge how you think about freedom, faith, gratitude, and what it really means to be stuck.
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| 0:45.8 | Who knew that some of the people who are the most free mentally might be bound physically. |
| 0:52.0 | And who knew outside those walls some of the people that seem the most free are the most imprisoned in their own mind? |
| 0:57.0 | Society says you can't. You can't change them. They're too far gone. |
| 1:01.1 | They're worthless. They're this. Whatever. The label they want to put on them. But I'm like, watch this. |
| 1:06.8 | I know someone who can. If you've heard our pod over the past year or so, we partner with God Behind bars. I got a special ask for you today. I'm going to ask that you consider caring about the |
| 1:12.9 | next hour. I went to Angola Prison in Louisiana, which is one of our country's largest |
| 1:18.8 | max security prisons, and spent a day there with my friend Jake, who you're about to meet. And I |
| 1:25.8 | talk to men that will impact me for a long time, |
| 1:28.3 | unprecedented access, what they're doing. |
| 1:31.3 | I mean, I got to go see a daddy daughter dance |
| 1:34.3 | for men who are doing at least 40 years or more. |
| 1:38.3 | And to see these men connect with their daughters, |
| 1:41.3 | it broke me in a place of my heart. |
| 1:43.3 | I didn't even know |
| 1:44.2 | could be broken in the best way. And I think it's going to impact you. And so no |
| 1:48.4 | matter where you find yourself listening to this pod, I just want you to consider what do |
| 1:53.0 | you care about? What moves your meter? What are you investing in right now? Where does your |
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