Fred Santor
Appearances
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
A living hell. I've been locked up 17 years. I've been down three different times. Every time you get out, there was nothing out there for us to go back to but our old lives. You know, doing drugs, robbing people, whatever we were doing, that's what we did. This last time I was locked up, I got a little three years old. I was 58 at that time.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Then there were some flyers from New Freedom being passed out on the yards. And I started to ride them. I rode them for a year and a half. They put you on a mentorship program. So you get a letter, they send you a newsletter. They're feeling you out as much as you're feeling them out, okay? They accepted me. They came to the prison and picked me up. They brought me to New Freedom.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And the funny thing is, I grew up less than a quarter mile from that place. My parents still live at that house, or my brother does. I go there. The first night I'm there, it's a little overwhelming because everybody is so giving and caring. Oh, welcome home. Welcome home. Well, you know, I'm thinking to myself, this isn't my home. So I get overwhelmed. I go to my room. I go to dinner.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
I see some of the fellows from the yard. I talk to them. They say, hey, just open your eyes a little bit and see what they got to say. I go to my first class the next morning, and the counselor's asking for anybody to give their life story. So I jump up and give my story. And from then on, it was all, uh, it was just, it's a family. They treat you like family.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Uh, I went through the vocational program. The, my employer was in, was running the program. There is a PHP, John Morrison, Greg Quinlan. They came in two nights a week. They taught us how to be better people, better employees, better citizens to begin with. I was hired two weeks into it and I stayed there 90 days. And I went right to work with PHP. I've been working there for two years.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
I believe without New Freedom, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing right now. I'd probably be back in prison.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
It's the stigma of being in prison. Like he said, when I got out, I went to that program. And the first people I see are people I used to do crime with. I know those guys. I know them from the streets. I know them from the prison system. You can trust them.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
And that is a fact that we have a hard time trusting people because so many people have said shit to us to get us to do things, but they don't care about us. All they care about is what we're going to do for them. New freedom is not like that. When those guys said something from the janitor to the head guy, they care. Yeah. And it's the same with the vocational people. Excuse me.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
My boss, he cares. We have a family-run business. Six of the upper echelon people are from New Freedom. Project managers, supervisors, our head estimator, all graduated from New Freedom.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Yes. Yes. If Matt Watson's involved with it, then it could get reproduced anywhere.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Well, it's just ridiculous with the recidivism rate of people going back to prison for nothing because they don't have nothing when they get out. They give you the structure. They give you what you need to succeed. And if you just follow the recipe, you're going to succeed. I mean, I'm little Bruce. I'm 60 years old.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Yes, it is. It's a big surprise because I never figured I would be on the streets this long. You know, it's a nice deal that there's someone out there that cares about us enough to do what he did. And hopefully someone watching this will start something like this in another state and get it on the ball because it's a game changer.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
If people want to change and they're given the opportunity to, I think most of us will change, you know? My family's back in my corner. I've been with the same woman for 28 years, and she said the most beautiful words to me she's ever ever said was, you're a man of your word. Because I wasn't a man of my word for a lot of years. So I take care of her.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Uh, you know, I'm really not going to bullshit no one on that. I'm not a big believer in any of that crap. Uh, you're going to change if you want to change.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
I don't do NA, I don't do AA. I decided I wanted to change, and this is what I did. I go to work every day, I go home, I go to the gym, I'm building a motorcycle, and I do whatever my girl needs me to do. I guess that'd be my spiritual deal, if that's what you want to call it.
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Navy SEAL: How To Make Your House A “Bug-In” Fortress Before Disaster Strikes w/ Joel Lambert + Matt Waltz & Fred Santor – Ask Dr. Drew – Ep 439
Let's see. Sorry, you guys. I just want to just look if there's anything. A lot of interesting stuff in here in the restream today.