Kirk Bloodsworth shares the value of a piece of toast after surviving death row — Transcript

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1. 0:00I had a tough time in the first um 10
2. 0:04years of my uh Freedom uh it was so hard
3. 0:08uh I got up in the morning the first
4. 0:12morning so it's 4:00 in the morning
5. 0:15right I can't sleep I can't sleep I've
6. 0:19already uh and I'm sorry to to tell you
7. 0:22this but I got up in the middle of the
8. 0:23night thinking I was in myself me too so
9. 0:26what I'm going to do when I go to the
10. 0:27bathroom I'm going to go in the bathroom
11. 0:29in the cor where the toilet is there
12. 0:32wasn't no toilet there it was a
13. 0:34lamp and uh I just was all I got all
14. 0:38upset so disoriented oh I was I was I
15. 0:41was still in jail I kept hearing them
16. 0:43brass keys I you know and I work with
17. 0:47metal all the time now and I hear any
18. 0:49kind of brass and it just takes me back
19. 0:53but I got up and it was 4:00 in the
20. 0:55morning and I got up and I see my
21. 0:57mother's toaster and I I haven't had a
22. 1:00piece of toast in 10 years you know it's
23. 1:02like a long time to have a piece of
24. 1:04toast and I put the toast in there I put
25. 1:07it down and the toast popped up and I
26. 1:10did it man I was just eating this thing
27. 1:12I was I was I couldn't even savor it you
28. 1:15know and uh so I called my lawyer at
29. 1:194:30 Bob Moren he there a judge I was
30. 1:21telling you about it's chief judge of DC
31. 1:23now and I called him I said Bob guess
32. 1:26what I'm doing he says I don't care
33. 1:33that wasn't very nice he says okay what
34. 1:34are you doing I said I'm eating a piece
35. 1:37of toes let me tell you something but
36. 1:40they take it away from
37. 1:43you and nothing no better than a piece
38. 1:46of toast