ADS Evidence Based Programs - #6: Ronnie & Christine

Speaker A 00:00:01 - 00:00:09

All right. Thank you two for joining me. Could you start by saying your name and introducing yourself, telling me a little bit about you.

Ronnie Martin 00:00:10 - 00:00:11

My name is Ronnie Martin.

Speaker A 00:00:12 - 00:00:14

Tell me a little bit about you.

Ronnie Martin 00:00:14 - 00:00:21

Oh, I don't know. Depending on what you want to know about me, you can ask.

Speaker A 00:00:21 - 00:00:23

Okay, well, what did you use to do?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:23 - 00:00:25

I worked at a factory.

Speaker C 00:00:25 - 00:00:26

Okay.

Ronnie Martin 00:00:26 - 00:00:27

About 20 something years.

Speaker A 00:00:27 - 00:00:28

Are you still working?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:28 - 00:00:28

No.

Speaker C 00:00:28 - 00:00:29

Okay.

Ronnie Martin 00:00:29 - 00:00:31

I'm on Social Security disability.

Speaker C 00:00:31 - 00:00:32

Okay.

Speaker A 00:00:33 - 00:00:34

Are you from Milwaukee?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:34 - 00:00:35

Yes, I am.

Speaker C 00:00:35 - 00:00:35

Okay.

Speaker A 00:00:35 - 00:00:37

What part of town did you grow up on?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:37 - 00:00:38

Six and locust.

Speaker C 00:00:38 - 00:00:39

Okay.

Speaker A 00:00:39 - 00:00:42

You've been over there for pretty much your whole life in that area?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:42 - 00:00:45

About 20 something years. I'm no longer there now.

Speaker C 00:00:45 - 00:00:46

Okay.

Ronnie Martin 00:00:46 - 00:00:49

About 20 something. 26. 25. 26 years.

Speaker A 00:00:49 - 00:00:50

How was it growing up?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:50 - 00:00:52

It was okay. Not bad.

Speaker A 00:00:53 - 00:00:56

Yeah. What was your family dynamic like? What was growing up like?

Ronnie Martin 00:00:59 - 00:01:06

Kind of crazy fun, but, you know, just normal life. Just normal life.

Speaker C 00:01:06 - 00:01:06

Okay.

Speaker A 00:01:06 - 00:01:12

Okay, normal life. Could you state your name and tell me a little bit about yourself?

Christine Wallace 00:01:12 - 00:01:30

I'm Christine Wallace. I'm 55 years old. I'm from Louisiana originally, but I grew up on six and Hadley for about 15 years. Yeah. And I'm an only child, so I didn't have siblings.

Speaker C 00:01:31 - 00:01:32

Okay, okay.

Speaker A 00:01:32 - 00:01:33

How was it growing up?

Christine Wallace 00:01:33 - 00:01:34

Kind of lonely.

Speaker A 00:01:34 - 00:01:35

Yeah.

Christine Wallace 00:01:35 - 00:01:35

Yeah.

Speaker C 00:01:36 - 00:01:36

Okay.

Christine Wallace 00:01:37 - 00:01:39

No siblings. No.

Speaker A 00:01:41 - 00:01:46

I mean, some people see that as fun, you know, to get spoiled, according to some people.

Christine Wallace 00:01:46 - 00:01:47

Some people, yeah.

Speaker C 00:01:48 - 00:01:49

Okay. Okay.

Speaker A 00:01:50 - 00:02:00

What are some of your interests and some of the activities that you enjoy? I'll start over here. Some of your interests and activities that you enjoy.

Ronnie Martin 00:02:00 - 00:02:15

Music activities. I, like, enjoy listening to a lot of music, and I'm not really a sports person. I watch a little bit, but I'm not a person to play or no athletic type person, so.

Speaker C 00:02:15 - 00:02:18

Okay. Okay. What about you?

Christine Wallace 00:02:18 - 00:02:25

I just enjoy being at home. I don't pretty much do anything. Like I said, I'm on disability also.

Speaker C 00:02:25 - 00:02:25

Okay.

Christine Wallace 00:02:25 - 00:02:28

I'm pretty much at home all the time.

Speaker C 00:02:28 - 00:02:31

Gotcha. Gotcha. Okay.

Speaker A 00:02:31 - 00:02:38

Okay. How do you typically spend a day, like, in a 24 hours time span? What does that look like for you?

Ronnie Martin 00:02:38 - 00:02:53

I'm somewhat like a clean freak. Neat freak or something. I just don't know how to stop finding something to fix or something to work on, something to clean. So what kind of neat freak type person? So that's how I describe it.

Speaker A 00:02:53 - 00:02:54

You just do that all day?

Ronnie Martin 00:02:54 - 00:02:55

All day long?

Speaker A 00:02:55 - 00:02:56

All day long.

Ronnie Martin 00:02:56 - 00:02:58

Be tired as. I don't know what.

Christine Wallace 00:02:58 - 00:03:00

Pretty much done rubbed off on me.

Speaker C 00:03:00 - 00:03:01

Yeah.

Ronnie Martin 00:03:01 - 00:03:05

Trying to figure out why am I so tired? I said, cause you ain't sat down from the time you woke up.

Speaker C 00:03:05 - 00:03:06

Oh, wow.

Christine Wallace 00:03:07 - 00:03:12

That ain't all bad, you know, it's nerve wracking.

Ronnie Martin 00:03:12 - 00:03:16

Gotta know when to give it a break, and I just don't know when to give it a break.

Speaker A 00:03:16 - 00:03:18

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Christine Wallace 00:03:18 - 00:03:25

Cause, you know, all the years we were together, but we started getting on my nerves. I'm like, sit down somewhere.

Speaker A 00:03:26 - 00:03:32

But you're not getting on your nerves. How do you spend your day?

Christine Wallace 00:03:33 - 00:03:43

I stay at home all day, pretty much bring my daughter to school, and he picks her up from school and pretty much headed back to the house.

Speaker C 00:03:43 - 00:03:43

Mm hmm.

Christine Wallace 00:03:43 - 00:03:44

Yeah.

Speaker C 00:03:44 - 00:03:45

Okay.

Speaker A 00:03:47 - 00:03:57

Are there any routines or hobbies that are particularly important to you? Any routines, anything that you kind of do every day, that you gotta do.

Christine Wallace 00:03:57 - 00:04:01

It every day, clean and pick his daughter.

Speaker A 00:04:01 - 00:04:01

Hobbies?

Ronnie Martin 00:04:01 - 00:04:02

I don't have any hobbies.

Speaker A 00:04:02 - 00:04:03

You don't have any hobbies?

Ronnie Martin 00:04:04 - 00:04:04

No.

Speaker C 00:04:04 - 00:04:07

Okay. Okay. What about you?

Christine Wallace 00:04:07 - 00:04:15

No. Pretty much take my daughter to school, wait on her to get out. He picks her up. I pick her up from his house, and then I go back home.

Speaker A 00:04:16 - 00:04:18

All right, so y'all just be sitting down.

Speaker C 00:04:18 - 00:04:18

Just.

Christine Wallace 00:04:18 - 00:04:21

I watch tv all day long, and.

Speaker A 00:04:21 - 00:04:23

You upping about all day long up in a box.

Ronnie Martin 00:04:23 - 00:04:26

Tv. I don't know if it's a month.

Christine Wallace 00:04:26 - 00:04:28

Rent is too high. I'm enjoy all my house.

Speaker A 00:04:28 - 00:04:29

I hear you.

Ronnie Martin 00:04:29 - 00:04:33

My age or whatever, but I. Tv mainly bores me or put me to sleep.

Speaker A 00:04:33 - 00:04:34

Yeah.

Ronnie Martin 00:04:34 - 00:04:38

No matter interest, like I used to have in tv, not movies. And none of that.

Speaker A 00:04:39 - 00:04:46

I hear you. Looking back, what are some life experiences you think have shaped you the most?

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