⚡MINI: How THIS Story Of Nick Yarris' Made Will & Woody Cry On Air

From death row to freedom, hear the incredible story of Nick Yaris on this week's episode of My Heart. His journey of resilience will inspire you to overcome any obstacle.

This week we had Nick Yaris, exoneree and motivational speaker, on the podcast to share his unbelievable story. Nick spent 23 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. He talks about the brutal conditions he endured and how he managed to survive and thrive despite the injustice. Nick is now using his experience to spread a message of hope and empowerment around the world. His story serves as proof that the human spirit can overcome even the darkest of circumstances.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
A Willan, what do you thanks for Westpac? I think
we did the best interview we've ever done. The other
day a guy called Nick Yaris was on the show.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
You Shouldn't Be Alive. Nick tell us.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
Why other than being shot, stabs, strangled, run over by
a car, or kind of mayhem. I was sentenced to
death at the age of twenty one for the rape
and murder of a woman I never met in my life.
I spent twenty three years on death row in solitary confinement.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Hell of a story. That does a lot of the
talking for you.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
But just twenty three years of your life and then
he said yesterday, So twenty three hours of every day
he was in solitary confinement as well, and then still
lives his life with this gratitude. It actually it's really uplifting.
So again, if you want to get the full chat,
go wherever you get your podcasts from. Look up Will
and would you get the full chat there. If you
want to see Nick as well, go to YouTube. We
put a full YouTube video of an interview with Nick.

(01:12):
But we also want to play you. Another part of
our chat with Nick will I need to mention really
before this, is that there is going to be a
massive motion picture being made about his life, played by
a very very big actor who he would prefer us
not saying. Yes, that's all you really need to know.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, for sure, and also a content warning lifeline eleven thirteen, eleven, fourteen,
and one hundred respect if you need those numbers. But
he's a little bit more of an incredible conversation with
a guy called Nick Garris.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
When you're on death row for so many years, Nick,
are you living day to day not knowing that you
know it could be your last day? Or do you
have an idea?

Speaker 3 (01:54):
No? Man, No, Look I had a hustle going. I
was selling legal work, I was selling school works. I
was a doughnut magnet. I was a football a gambling.
I grew up in death throw. I ran in the
place man. I did twelve years in a unit that
the average rate of survival was only five. Man, they

(02:15):
made me cage fight for money. Look at this, botty,
I'm sixty four years old.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
You are in radin. You're an extra.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
It's called gundalinga yoga, and I'm a master of martial arts,
that tape streak. One of the most deadly people on
the street. I ain't dragging. I would never hurt anybody,
But I had over fifty cage fights.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Whoa wow in prison.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
Yeah, they were making me fight because I'm six to
two and I weighed over two hundred pounds. I was
able to make the money. A lot of the white
kids that were on that brow couldn't fight.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Oh my, this is just I got white for this movie.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Hey, Nick, I'm reading here that you you didn't talk
for two years. What's that about.

Speaker 3 (03:00):
I wasn't allowed to speaking myself for the first two years.
If they caught you speaking, they came into yourself. They
put a football helmet on a nurse and a flak
jacket and four men ran into your cell wearing riot here.
They beat you down, and then she ran in and
stabbed in the ash for the needle, and you lost
a week of your life. And then if you talk
again after that, they put you in the glass bubble,

(03:22):
which was a glass bricked cell where they kept the
lights on twenty four hours a day and made you
stand up every sixteen minutes for a head count. And
see you went out of your mind? Oh sorry? Did you?
And so did you?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
And you?

Speaker 1 (03:35):
Did you spend time in the glass bubble? Oh?

Speaker 3 (03:40):
Nick?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
Oh Mike, I just I.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
Lasked as long as I could. They called with the
white out. You can't keep going. You keep waking you up,
and then they beat you and they wake so did
three days. That was a long record at one point me.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Oh man, I'm sorry. Sorry, just knowing that you were
innocent as well. I just can't even imagine how hard it.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
Made me so powerful because I didn't belong there. But
I paid for everything I did as a kid, you know,
all the times I let my mom and dad down.
I paid for all that, every line, every broken window.
I made good, you know, And then I got a break.
You know, No, don't be because I love it that
I'm still allowed to have a human part that les
me crying. When you stop crying, there's nothing left, man,

(04:27):
worry about me. I'm fine, that's fair. I've been through
somebody there, I know, but look, I'm the same guy.
I had my six month old baby died in my
arms in twenty sixteen. I came back from that. That
was horrible. To have a sid's death where you put
the baby down for a nap and then she dies.
You know, so I can do so much more than

(04:48):
death robing.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
That sucks. I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (04:51):
No, it doesn't Listen. Life is suffering, and it's you
don't believe that life makes you beautiful, then you're missing
the point. I've been through so many things that most
people being crazy in the head over and yet I
go around the world teaching about neural that let pasticity healing,
and I get people to stop doing drug, don't hurt themselves,
come back to being loving. I want to know why

(05:12):
we're all looking for someone stronger than us to say, hey,
it's okay. Show me. A man has been broken a
thousand times, and I can tell you Nick Garris has
been rebuilt one thousand and one time.

Speaker 1 (05:23):
This is just so powerful for people to hear Nick.
Everyone needs to hear you talk. Everyone needs to hear you.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
Getting this film done so I can go back to speaking.
I have had the honor. This is crazy. I work
so hard on my education. Within ten months of my release,
I was on the stage in the Colosseum of Rome
addressing twenty thousand people. What a remarkable feat. You know
what I mean? There I was. I've spoken before the
United Nations in Geneva, the major universities around the world,

(05:54):
and I have a platform based on neuroplasticity healing where
I am proof positive that I can help embrace any
PTSD because I should be mentally destroyed and yet I thrive.
I've just written a brand new television and series based
on my experiences called Kings of the Gallows, and we're
having a script produced about it now with the production team.

(06:16):
I've used every experience of my life for a betterment,
not a detriment, do you understand.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah, man, I love that.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
It's a phenomenal chat. If you want to see more
of that Willim Wody on YouTube you can see the
full chat with Nicky Arris. Yeah, We're gonna play more
of that for you guys tomorrow because it is so good.
It's a beautiful conversation right up next. Can you hear it?
Double nothing? There is some real beauty in that conversation.
I how it brings you guys as much perspective as
it has us.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
Just you just have to go and watch that on YouTube.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, it's really cool.

Speaker 1 (06:52):
Watch it with your partner and watch with whover you
love change your attitude towards life instantly.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
Nick Garris, fresh off the Joe Rogan Podcast, on Willim
Wodiot's Can You Hear It? Double Nothing Up next