Ryan Ferguson Story (An Interview with Chalene Johnson) — Transcript

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1. 0:00you know I had hope but it was it was
2. 0:03pretty hopeless if that makes any sense
3. 0:05as to count one guilty of murder in the
4. 0:08second
5. 0:11degree it just sucked the air right out
6. 0:14of
7. 0:15us we were absolutely
8. 0:19[Music]
9. 0:21devastated love you where do you find
10. 0:26inspiration to say okay I've got to pull
11. 0:28myself out of this state of mind and
12. 0:31make some changes what was the
13. 0:32inspiration before going to prison I had
14. 0:35such a good life I had you know an
15. 0:37amazing upbringing uh my childhood
16. 0:39couldn't have been better and I had the
17. 0:40most amazing family the most support a
18. 0:42person could have I had 48 hours and dat
19. 0:45line out there were actually putting the
20. 0:48facts out to the public so the the
21. 0:50public could see the reality that I was
22. 0:52innocent um you know I had hope I
23. 0:55believe that I was better
24. 0:58than what had happened to me now the
25. 1:00title of my book came up uh stronger
26. 1:03faster stronger because my father told
27. 1:04me in the first week there son I can't
28. 1:07do anything for you while you're in
29. 1:10there in in the context of of me being
30. 1:13there to help you I can help you out
31. 1:14here so he said you got to do everything
32. 1:16you can to make yourself stronger faster
33. 1:17and smarter and so that's that's exactly
34. 1:20what I did I had to get bigger if I
35. 1:22wanted to
36. 1:25survive Brian Ferguson is actually
37. 1:28innocent
38. 1:31I think I saw Ryan it is oh my God I
39. 1:34it's there oh my gosh look
40. 1:37at it cannot get better than
41. 1:41[Applause]
42. 1:43that today for the first time in nearly
43. 1:46a decade Ryan Ferguson woke up a free
44. 1:49man having spent almost all of his 20s
45. 1:52in prison for a crime he always
46. 1:55maintained he did not
47. 1:57commit I'm ready for anything I kind of
48. 2:00want some Dairy
49. 2:03Queen