Banky Pound’s raw testimony provides a visceral reality check to academic sociology, proving that lived experience holds more psychological truth than any peer-reviewed study. It is a masterclass in human adaptation that no textbook could ever replicate.
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SOME OF THE CRAZIEST THINGS IVE HEARD IN PRISON DOING 33 YEARS ( TBP REAL PRISON STORIES)Added:
[music] >> Yeah, the bacon is special. Yeah, sure delicious.
My name is >> [music] >> Banky, man. Everybody calls me Banky.
That's the name that I got from my grandmother [music] when I was young.
I'm coming out here after 30 years.
[singing] Yeah, I ain't got nothing, but I'm going to have something because I'm rich in personality, you know? And I'm rich in love. My family love me and I really [music] That's That's really the all that counts.
>> [cheering] [applause] >> Back up in here.
>> [applause] >> Yes. Yes. Big shout out, man. Everybody on team Banky Pam, man. I appreciate the love. I appreciate the love.
Let's go. Let's get it.
Big love, man, to all of y'all, man. All of my subscribers, man. All of my members. All of TBP nation. Let's go.
Let's get it, man. We on it. We on it.
We on it. Can't stop. Won't stop, man.
You dig? We got to do it. We got to do it. If not us, then who?
Let's go. Let's get it, man. Listen.
Man, just think it Shout out again to the Morning Mud. If y'all don't join the Morning Mud, man, we on the Morning Mud every morning most mornings at 7:00 to 7:30, man, on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, uh, and IG.
Tap in, man. We just be chopping it up, drinking a little mud, and you know, a lot of ideas come out of the Morning Mud. Like this morning we was talking, man, and somebody kept on saying something when we was I was talking about how people, you know, you can literally get hurt in prison for laughing at a joke or something. But, the jokes be crazy and the things people say in prison be crazy. Man, I'mma tell y'all some of the craziest things I've heard while doing 33 years in prison.
Some of the craziest things I've heard, man, and some of be super funny.
But, it's always funny if it's not, you know, directly towards you. But, these things be wild, man. They be wild. I've I've heard some things, man. And, you know, considering the video yesterday, if y'all ain't see the video yesterday, go back and watch. I told you that that's one of the craziest things I've ever heard in my life and 30 or 59 years worth of living.
When the dude told the dude, you know, the gay dude, the big muscle dude, you know, big red told the dude, "Shut up before I suck your dick."
That is insane to me. I've never heard, like I said, I've never heard a woman say that to a man, let alone a man say that to a man and be serious about that, so sincere about it, so that's just like one of the craziest things, man. And, uh I've heard dudes say some stuff, man, that you probably only heard penitentiary, man. I remember one of the running these things I used to uh heard people say when I first started hearing them say this, I thought it was kind of crazy, too. You got to put put yourself in the context, too. If I'm I'm new in prison, I'm young, and I'm hearing old heads say things like this when they catch a dude being nosy or something like that or asking questions, which he they'll go crazy in the morning, mother.
All them questions y'all be asking in there.
But, one of [applause] the things the dudes used to say [cheering] in there is, you know, uh "Hey, man, you you ain't nothing but a good man's arms."
They say that to nosy dudes, right? And that is supposed to be offensive and, you know, slick at the same time.
Man, you you you know what I mean? You ain't anything but a good man's arm.
And you you know, that's basically, you know, he he sex playing with you. He testing you. If you don't stand up to that, what you mean? Or or, you know, bang bang, take off, then it's going to be more to come.
Right? So, just I used to hear some of these things, especially since I'm young and still got the street on me, you know, and my my my blood used to start boiling, man, and I get hives and stuff.
I was like, man, ain't nobody never say, you know what I'm saying? Nothing like that to me. I used to just be thinking like that, but when I look back on it, that's like some crazy stuff to say to a dude, man, you know what I'm saying? Even if you could just say, "Hey, man, you being nosy, dude. You ain't anything but a good man's arm." Or something.
>> [laughter] >> You know? And then, I've heard dudes say, too, "Man, you ain't anything but a casket, man. Don't go get in one." You know, it you know, for all the nosy dudes, they used to pump that joint out, man. And it just, man, I'm telling you, man. I I've heard lies on top of lies.
And dudes would get mad when they tell lies if you call them out on the lies. I told you, they had a dude in there when I first got locked up on the Augusta two. You talking about late '80s.
And this dude literally named, I spoke about him before, his literal name was ugly. They called him ugly cuz that's how he looked. He was just so you know, uh ugly, atrocious looking. And he even answered to the nickname Ugly.
But the thing about it was, the bummer could rumble and he he he could fight. I guess that's why he was ugly, you know what I'm saying? He ain't worried about taking no whoopings. But he claimed he was from Indiana.
He claimed he grew up down the street from the Jacksons. He claimed he was Janet Jackson's first boyfriend.
>> [laughter] >> Man, if you this ugly at this stage of your life, I can't imagine that you was somewhere handsome back in the day where she wouldn't even consider looking at you. But, if you call him a liar, he literally is going to fight. He want to fight you.
Straight up, he want to rumble, man.
It's It was just insane to me, man. I used to think Man, I Man, I'm in the twilight I used to think I was in the twilight zone. The things that I was hearing people say, man. I'd heard dudes say they they had all this money on the street.
They was this big-time drug dealer, whoop-de-whoop-de-woo.
They had, you know what I'm saying, millions of dollars and was driving Ferraris and all of this and all that.
And then the next hour or so, they'd be asking you, "Hey, uh can I borrow a couple soups?"
A couple of what?
You said you had what? And how long you were locked up? Been locked up 3 4 years. And you had all of this, but you ain't got no money now?
So, it just man, I used to be like, man, where am I at, man? What, you know what I'm saying?
I mean, what's going on, man? I mean, you I It's just the things that I could think of that I heard, man. So wild, so crazy, man. Even like Herc, man. Herc Herc probably got a hundred quotables of some of the craziest things I've heard. You know what I'm saying? And just off the top of my head, man, who where else in life would you hear a man say this when he was got mad at his own grandmama, the only person that was holding him down, the only person that would come see him, only person that thought he was worthy of being seen, you know? And he get mad at her because she don't bring no woman up there. He wanted her to even bring some of his cousins. You can't bring um my cousin so-and-so Sharon or you can't bring my cousin uh or He wanted them to bring him up so he could try to do it to him.
He would go to jail. He would literally take his the go to jail trying to screw his own cousin in the visiting room. His own cousins because he been he's so sexually perverted.
And then when she said nobody don't want to come up there with him and he tells her, "Don't you come up here no more unless you going to give me some p."
What?
What? And he would tell you that he said it and he would say, "Yeah, yeah, I'm man I'm trying to I'm trying to I'm trying to hump, man. I ain't trying to just sit over there in the visiting room, eat no food or talk to nobody, man. I need a woman."
Man.
And you talking about somebody crazy.
When you in penitentiary, man, you are literally around the insane, man.
You you are in a insane asylum and you don't even know it.
You don't even know it at the time though, but that type of talk, that type of mentality, that type of thinking alone, that's insane, my brother.
Who would ever even look at their grandmother like that, let alone be able to process that type of thought and say it out loud with no shame, with none, zero shame.
You know what I'm saying? He meant that.
You know what I'm saying? So I'm like, man, this this is unbelievable, man.
Unbelievable, bro. And uh dudes used to uh break wind, pass gas, fart, whatever you call it.
And you get them old perverted old heads in there, man, and this some stuff that will probably make you laugh if you just saying, "Man, this dude crazy." And man, if somebody will pass gas in the pod or something and you will hear one of them old heads, man, especially if they can hear it. If If they can hear it.
Somebody fart.
>> [clears throat] >> Who was that?
Ooh, we do it again.
>> [applause] >> Be serious.
>> [applause] >> Yeah, I can smell you.
I can smell you.
I know that good. Or they say some crazy stuff like That sound wet.
Why you be in that joint like >> [snorts] >> Like these some perfect You be like, man, you like you this.
It's like, man, what the [ __ ] you know?
And then one of them dudes said the joint, man, I never forget it, man. Dude dude passed gas and he said Sweet music from the cheeks I love. Play it again, Sam.
>> [applause] >> Yeah.
Yeah, I'm telling you, man. You literally be like, man, these jokers is freaked out. These jokers is sick. These dudes is gone, man. You don't It's just be like, man, this some unbelievable stuff, man.
Hey, man, I I I'm telling you, man, I don't been around some real life uh insane dudes, man. I don't been around some real life insane dudes, man.
And and they don't even know it. They don't even think they insane.
They don't even think they insane, man.
They really be thinking that they on point. And I'll be just tripping off of it, man. And then like the dude I was around and I told y'all, man, um he was telling me the dude that I said he he he he was my cellie. I think he was my cellie before.
And he was like he had worked at a a job, man, one of them restaurant, I can't remember, Burger King, McDonald's, one of them joints. And he was trying to sell weed on the side. And he tried to sell some weed to a dude, and went out there, met the dude at the drive-thru, and gave the dude the weed, and the dude, you know what I'm saying, gave him some some money, they won't right or whatever, they get to arguing, arguing, dude jump up, he stabbed the dude.
That's how he got locked up. Stabbed the dude. That's how he got locked up. So, at the drive-thru, at the job you working. But he said he had been there.
And his manager loved him cuz he was the best worker.
Right? His manager. So, he said that even though going through his trial and all this, and he got his time and everything like that, he said he had talked to his manager and stuff on the phone. And this joker said that his manager told him when he get out he got his job back. He always got a job there. So, man, I'm no matter what, I'm going to hire you when you get out, you good. So, he told me that this is what he going to do when he get out. This is I'm going back there. My manager already told me I got a job. It's guaranteed. I ain't I ain't worried about no job. You know, but I'm going to do this and stack money. And he telling me his whole plan, right, of what he going to do when he get out. Now, this is where the problem lies at, right?
He got 50-some years.
>> [applause] >> Bro, he got 50-some years under the new law. He got dude like 80 5% of that.
So, I'm listening to him, but in my mind, I'm saying, is you not cognizant Is you not think 50-some Bro, you talk you First of all, you think your your your You think your manager still going to be there? That's number one.
And he like, "Oh, [laughter] yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."
>> [laughter] >> Second of all, you think after 40-some years, that you going to be able to go right back there and your manager still going to be there and he going to say, "Yeah, I always told you always say Easter does this." Well, he he he so bad his word. What do he says?
But, even furthermore, he said he going to go back and live with his mom.
Right? Which is already she was already an elderly lady. So, I don't know how old she would be by the time he get out.
But, he said he going to go back and live with her. Go back and work at the restaurant, save all his checks till he get about 50,000. Then he going to go buy a brick. He going to take the brick, go on the corner, break it down, make him, you know what I'm saying, a couple of hundred thousand, you know what I'm saying? And then he saving up all his checks plus the hundred thousand he make from the bricks, and then he going to be set for life.
This is his plan when he get out, right?
And I'm looking at this joke and I'm like, really in bewilderment like, are you are you kidding me, dog? Are you serious?
And he get mad. He said, "Yeah, I'm serious. What's What's What's What's What's What's wrong with that? What's wrong with I mean What What What What What's so funny? What you" I'm like, "Bro, you got You got to chill. You got That's a good plan. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he These That's how delusional you get when you in the penitentiary. I don't know he might have been like that before he came in. But, this is what the penitentiary [clears throat] would do to you, bro. It would break you down where you thinking in your mind about things that is just impossible, bro. It just don't even I mean, I don't even get it. But, dudes would say the craziest things in here, man.
It's craziest stuff that you ever heard of, man, in prison, man. So, that's why I said, I don't believe nobody. I don't listen to nobody. I mean, I I heard I don't hear. I look and I don't see. You dig?
>> [laughter] >> I look and I don't even see, man, because the things I seen dudes talk crazy crazy, man. I mean, like crazy and saying stuff about the boys, you know what I'm saying? Like, you know, scream on them, threaten to kill them. You know, argue with their man that they if they got a man argue with their man. Man, tell that don't look at me. Whoop the whoop. And if you lay back, if you lay back and don't go to eat like I didn't go to eat, you see a lot of things unfold. So, I might especially like when I had the phone, I had the phone and I'll be laying in the cut in there, but I got to get up because I got to hear when I that side door open and somebody come in. So, I may look out there. When I look out there, man, I peek I stand in the back and look out the door so I can see so people can't see me at the door.
You know what I'm saying? And man, I see all type of dudes creeping and I see them dudes creeping the ones who be saying, "Oh, man, I I'm arguing." And they'd be sneaking up in boys' cells and stuff when they going when everybody going to eat.
Sliding in there in there 10 minutes, come back out. You know what I'm saying?
And I'll be like, It sounds so convincing.
Same thing like what the dude did when me and Harvey caught the dude with Michelle. Man, that dude that I've done seen that dude punch and knock a boy out on the yard and then had beef with the boy man because he knocked this boy out on the yard. That's how much he say he detest boys. But, me and Harvey look back there, you got the man in the Chinese uh frog.
Going to tell.
You know what I'm saying? So, [applause] I don't believe nothing no no man say.
If I ain't around them or if I can't see it or nothing, I I believe it, bro. I don't believe none of that, man, cuz they just be Man, jokers be talking to be talking, man. They be talking to be talking, and I don't I don't be paying that stuff no mind, even out here in the real world now, man. You can't tell me anything. You got to show me. So, cuz like I say, man, I've done seen dudes say the craziest stuff, man, and and make up the craziest lies. Like I say, dude told me his mama He had told dudes so many dudes his mama died to try to get sympathy that he had to end up telling them all different type of people, different type of all times his mama died. Mama and them died five times while I was around.
Five times, at least five times. I said, "Bro, you just told me your mom died last year." "No, she just died. She was on life support then." "But you said she died, though." This only when they owe you some money or they trying to get some sympathy. Can they get some so they can do this or do that cuz they ain't got none, man. My mama sick, she can't even work, man. She Then she passed away, and that was my only baby to look out for." Man, they be coming with all types of game, bro.
And that might be just to go get high.
Or to take that and go try to gamble.
You know what I'm saying? So, it just it it it just never stopping there, man.
You You just got to be You got to be aware of that stuff, man. And and and the game that they running there, man, is long con. It's not no short con. You know what I'm saying? Dudes going to keep coming with it, and they going to keep coming with it, man. If you ain't on point, you going to get caught up.
It's going to make you so mad, you going to hurt somebody, and then you going to hurt somebody, and then you just set yourself back. It's just a cycle, man.
It's a cycle of vicious lies, vicious rumors, all types of stuff in the penitentiary. And like I say, dudes will say anything out there, man. I heard dudes talk so tough, and man, I'll kill you, and I'll And dudes smack fire from them, and they don't do nothing. Go check in.
>> [laughter] >> Go check [snorts] in. You know what I'm saying? Go check in, man. Hey, I'm telling you, man, it's just It's a different world, man. It's It really is, man. It's just a whole different world in there, man. But, dudes say the craziest stuff you ever want to you heard in your life. He like, "Wally World."
You know what I'm saying? Wally World, man. It stuff some of Wally Wally World be on the list with about 40 50 things I ain't never heard nobody say some of the wildest stuff. You know what I'm saying?
Wally World sit right there in your face and tell you he eat boy butt.
He will tell you he eat boy butt. He will tell you he kiss boys. He will go over in the visiting room and prove that what he saying is true. He will go over there with a a 2 300 lb boy, you know what I'm saying, and kiss him in the visiting room before he leave and hug on him and tell him he love him and everything just to get the sack. In front of female officers, come back and do some man. They say, "You was over there with a boy kissing a boy." He will say, "Yep."
And now they tell me he up in the mountains.
And he a Muslim.
He say his life is changed. You know what I'm saying me? But, he will sit there and tell you dudes are saying, "Man, man, somebody stealing soap." They be stealing soap in there. If you leave your soap, that's how poor people is in the penitentiary.
You leave a used soap in the shower, somebody will steal it and use that.
Man, I'm not using nobody used soap.
But, you crazy. You know what I'm saying? Or dudes will drop their soap on the floor in the shower, which is known that if you drop it on the floor in the shower, it's gone, man. Ain't nobody picking it up off that floor. You know what goes on on the floor at the shower floor, a prison shower floor.
And Wally World said, "Shh, I use."
He said, "I you I steal soap, too. Yeah, I steal soap they leaving in there. I'm taking it." And you will use? Yeah. Man, I mean like it's nothing.
It's nothing to them, man. It's nothing, bro. I ain't I'm telling you, bro. It's nothing, man. And they they had the transsexual come there and [snorts] the transsexual was working on a real life transsexual. While I told told him look man, I don't know if I'm trying to holler at you and everything man, but they ain't got what it takes to get them women like you. While I told him he had [ __ ] wee-wee and eat his butt hole, all of that.
>> [applause] >> The video turned around and closed him out of money and they'll be pressing about the money and he'll get the joint I ain't paying you nothing. Then he a gangster. You know what I'm saying? So come on man.
>> [clears throat] >> And you I mean like I say the things you will hear and the things you will see in prison will be unlike anywhere else you will be in life. Anywhere else you will be in life. This is only for prison man.
You would never see this stuff man. And yeah man. So I just used to be in there man. Like I say it took a minute. It's going to take a long time, years man, for you to just adapt and get used to what's going on around you because it I think the first five six years I don't know man, maybe six seven years I guess. That's that's your that's probably going to If you can't adapt and adjust by then that's be your breaking point where you might go crazy.
Especially if you got a long time ahead of you.
If you got a long time ahead of you when you hit the five to seven year mark you'll be saying to yourself man, I can't I can't I can't handle it.
The mental alone you'll be like man I can't handle it. You know what I'm saying? And it's just it just be that wild bro. It be man it's yeah [clears throat] man. Just reflecting on some of this stuff man. I be like man, I know I'm blessed man to to to have made it through things I came through bro. Sometimes don't even seem real. Now the longer and longer I stay out here it's like did I dream this or did I really do it?" But then when I look at my birth certificate That's how I was sleeping for 33 years.
I actually did that. So, it's crazy, man. It's crazy work though, man, but you know, anyway, man, I'm just getting back, man. I just wanted to drop something on y'all, get a video up today, man. I'm going to go back in the lab and get to it, you know what I'm saying? Y'all know how we do, the most consistent uh prison YouTube on YouTube. Yeah, don't believe me, just watch. You dig?
Membership videos and all. Let's go, let's get it, man. TBP nation, stand up, man. Y'all talk to me, I talk back. You might say something to make me remember a whole 'nother video. That's how we do over here, man. Peace. Look, we out here. Duck them hooks. You don't want no policy this life.
The bacon's special. Yeah, sure delicious. [music] Super delicious.
My name is uh Blanket, man. Everybody calls me Blanket. That's the name that I got from [music] my my grandmother when I was young.
I'm coming out here after 30 years.
Yeah, I ain't got nothing, but I'm going to have something [music] because I'm rich in personality, you know? And uh I'm rich in love. My family love me, and that [music] really That's That's really the all that counts.
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