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EPISODE 341: The road.

Back when I was a magazine reporter — this was many years before I locked myself inside the PTFO studio in New York City — I loved spending time on the road, driving around our country.

But one place I’d never been before is a town in East Texas called Livingston.

Livingston is the home of the Polunsky Unit: a supermax prison otherwise known as Death Row.

You may recall that we sent PTFO correspondent Dave Fleming to this place, back in October 2024. We wanted Dave to find out about the apparently enormous role that football fandom plays for the inmates there: the men whose last words, before state execution, sometimes even wind up being shoutouts to their favorite NFL teams.

Which, in a sense, says everything.

But today, more than a year later — and ahead of Super Bowl Sunday — it’s my turn to meet our guide to a fandom unlike any other: a remarkable inmate by the name of Charles Don Flores.

Charles Flores spends almost all of his life at the Polunsky Unit in solitary confinement. But now… as we’ll explain… he’s running out of time.

Even though he should’ve never ended up in here, at all.

NOTE: PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION TO FREE CHARLES FLORES.

He needs our help.

(The link, again, is right here.)

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