This is the story of America's bloodiest prison, told by the people who lived it, of

the inside and outside of the gates. The brutal history has never heard of before, from

its origin as a slave plantation to its gradual growth as the bloodiest maximum security

prison in America. Come with us as we take you through the gates, in ways that you've

never heard before. Bloody Angola.

This is the 911 calls podcast with the operator and his exact twin, minus being born and raised

in Kentucky and his heroic military service and being born to a completely other mother,

Kent Chungus.

Okay, she thinks it's a deer. No, it's a body. It's a body.

Hi, hi, oh my, you keep beating me to it. You're supposed to let me go, hello, Kent. Hello.

Hello operator and oh, hello chase. Oh, hello, everyone. And hello, Jess. Oh, hello, Jess.

She won't even unmute. She just gives us dangerous eyebrows. But now she just has three people

to glare at. Yeah. Well, we all know she loves you to death chase your her favorite of the

church. Well, someone has to. For those of you who don't know who we're talking about,

we're talking to chase Ellerman. We brought him on the show today reluctantly. He didn't

want to. He was like, that show doesn't do very well. And we're like, yeah, but maybe if you're

on it, everyone's on a little bit better and it's like fine. So chase, Ellerman, Chase is

the creator, writer, recorder, and star of the 1159 hit show Tethers podcast. And we thought

it would be fun to have him on just to interject his thoughts and opinions on things as we move

forward through today's episode. And let you all know you should go check out Tethers on wherever

you're going to listen to podcasts. Why? Because it is. I tried to explain it on the uncut

that each episode is sort of connected together. And it's a string, you know, the story that

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