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DEVIANT

Off Script: Prison Officer Mike Cantrell

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

Education, Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Very few places can match the pressure, the violence and the bizarre logic of a US prison. Mike Cantrell is one of the few who understands how it all works, and has spent his career making it work. As a state and federal corrections officer, he's seen and been through it all. And as the host of The Prison Officer Podcast (https://theprisonofficer.com/), he brings his wild and unbelievable stories into the light. In this episode of DEVIANT Off Script, Mike wows hosts Dan Szematowicz and Andrew Iden with the story of his life. JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2024 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

In a special episode of a millennial mind, I sat down with Nicola Adams to explore how appearance-based

0:11.3

compliments and body talk shape our self-worth without us realising it. In partnership with the

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0:21.1

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0:26.4

at Dove.com forward slash Y2K.

0:30.2

Hello, everyone, and happy New Year. We hope you had a safe and wonderful holiday season.

0:37.0

We're back. You're back. Let's get back to doing some

0:41.2

shows. We're going to start off again with Offscript and pretty soon we're going to get back to

0:45.6

our Tuesday shows where we're going to be doing some great storytelling about crimes and

0:51.6

criminals, the deviant that you have become used to on Tuesdays. We are working on our news stories right now, and we'll have those to you soon. In the meantime, join our Patreon, and you can find out what those stories are going to be as we work on them. You could do that by visiting deviantpodcast.com, all sorts of tiers for membership starting it free and all sorts of great benefits.

1:12.0

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1:13.6

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1:14.6

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1:16.1

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1:17.9

And if you're new to this show and you want to catch up, you can catch all our stuff in our archives, anywhere you get your podcasts and on YouTube.

1:25.3

So let's get back to our Deviant Offscript series now with some fascinating interviews with amazing people. We're glad to be back with you. I think prison does that to you.

1:46.0

You see the absolute, I mean, you look into the depths of evil.

1:51.0

I've seen evil.

1:54.0

It exists at a level.

1:56.0

I saw him giving a guy CPR at the medical center.

1:59.0

And when they revived him and his heart started beating again, he woke up and he was screaming.

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