TOMA 4 - Fairbanks Correctional Center
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2014
⏱️ 35 minutes
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In which Russ and I find ourselves wearing shorts without underwear in a medium-security Alaskan prison.
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| 0:00.0 | Your body isn't anymore, doesn't ask for much. |
| 0:06.0 | A little music and a soft touch, why don't you let it out to play. |
| 0:14.0 | Your heart isn't a birdcage, singing in your chest. |
| 0:20.0 | You want to shut it up and give it a rest, you're gonna die one day. |
| 0:26.0 | The first thing I noticed in prison is how much it looked like school. |
| 0:31.0 | By that I mean the architecture, the long hallways with nowhere to hide, the sight lines, very clear, |
| 0:40.0 | so that only a few people could control lots of other people. |
| 0:44.0 | That was the first thing I saw, like this place looks like fucking school, man. |
| 0:49.0 | And it turned out later I looked into it a little bit and it turns out that a lot of the same architectural companies |
| 0:55.0 | that design schools also design prisons. |
| 0:58.0 | They're places of control, efficient control. |
| 1:02.0 | So there you go. |
| 1:04.0 | The first thing that Russ and I had to figure out, the first conversation we had was, |
| 1:10.0 | are we gonna lie about what got us in here? |
| 1:13.0 | Because we figured it's Memorial Day weekend, it's Thursday night, we've got Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday. |
| 1:20.0 | We're gonna go to court Tuesday morning. |
| 1:23.0 | So we've got four days to deal with and more importantly four nights. |
| 1:29.0 | And what are we gonna do? |
| 1:32.0 | Are we gonna tell everybody that we killed somebody? |
| 1:36.0 | Are we gonna refuse to answer? |
| 1:38.0 | What are we gonna say? |
| 1:40.0 | Because you know the first thought was like, well maybe if we pretend we're real bad as mother fuckers, |
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