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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, Luck and load. The Michael Verie
Show is on the air. The Parlean band Dads they're
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calling him, took down a suspect who fired into a
band competition this weekend. One school staffer was wounded. Thank god.
Four veterans stepped in to the breach. Who knows how
many lives they saved? Where the.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Where all? Where the reply?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Try you got at.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Those four dads were thirteen year Air Force veteran Abrahm Trevigno,
Ephron Polo Castillo, a four year Marine Corps veteran, longtime
Houston Popo Sergeant Joe Sanchez, and fourteen year Army veteran
Adam Curo. Who's our guest, Adam, Welcome to the program, sir,
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good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
How we are doing today?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Is it Curo kiro?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yes? Sir?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Are you still in the Army?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
No, sir, I got out in twenty fourteen after starting
in fourteen years in the United States Army?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And then what have you done since then?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Since then? Let's see?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Now, I work for a Gama Tech Industrial. I'm Radiation
in Safety Consultants embedded out a Cedar Bayou or cp
CAM at a baytown and in between, I traveled to
California and Corpus Christy and this.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Dude's complete military speak for everything. Honey, could you pick
up some milk and breadle? I mean, can you imagine
his answer to that? She said, could you decode that
you're not married to a veteran?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Are you? I sure?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Am my wife sir six years. We actually met in
two thousand and four on the deployment to Iraq. Honestly,
I fell in love and I never went home.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
A rack will do that to somebody.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yeah, we've been together ever since. We have four wonderful kids,
three of them Max to go to Perland High School
and my youngest daughter goes to Magnolia Elementary.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
How come you were the only one wasn't Hispanic in
the group.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
I may look Hispanic, but I'm actually Asian European. Pearland
the high school. We're so diverse, and I mean, we're
such a good group.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I've heard I've heard of Eastern European. I never
heard of Asian European.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yes, my mom is from Thailand and my dad is
a European from where do you know where the family's from? Scotland, Ireland?
And then Scandinavia, Germany.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Is that what kind of Namekiuro is?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Cairo actually is a German name, but back in the
days during the medieval time. It's actually a small city
in Poland. It's a Kiro and it comes from Kroski
as well, so Polish Pulish German.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Interesting. Okay, what instrument does your child play?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
My oldest son primarily plays the bassoon, but for a
marching season and indoor drum line, he played symbols, so
he's on the symbol line.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I didn't know they still played the bassoon. Bassoon, yes,
to do well? Yeah, for a concert? How old are you?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I am forty four years old?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
All right, so you're ten years younger than me. This
might be the generational separator ramon. When we were in school,
there was a kind of educational cartoon thing they would
play and it would teach you the different instruments, and
that's how I knew what a bassoon was. Did y'all
have that? And they came to life like a stick
figure insect and they were very charming, and that's how
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we learned all the instruments. I've never known of anybody
to play the bassoon. How did your child get to
play in the bassoon.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
In middle school.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
What they do if they give him an option or
a career path if they want to do art, choir
or or band. And my son had an idea what
instrument he wanted to play, So what they do is
they go around the room to attempt different mouthpieces and
instruments and see what fits the student. And the two
instruments that he chose, apparently his mouth wasn't quite developed
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right for that particular mouthpiece. So the instructor asked.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
What was his hobbies?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What did he liked to do?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
And she goes, I think I have the instrument for you,
handed him the double read he put in his mouth
and he was able to make a sound out of it,
and she goes, that's it. You're going to play with soon.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Do you play any musical instruments.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
In elementary, junior, high, in high school? Actually I played
the violin a total of seven and a half years.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh you said you were half Asian? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you do you still play?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
If you give me a violin, I could probably do
you know, a D scale, maybe a C scale, but
other than that probably not. Then god, twenty plus.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Years, let me tell you some hug practice a little
we'll call it a fiddle, and put you in a
country band. They're in very high demand. I'm serious. If
you got to play in Texas? Y yeah, absolutely, does
your wife play that?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
No, she does not. My wife actually sam choir. See
what my wife sings? So she was in choir in school?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh wow? Okay? And what does she do for a living.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
She's actually a sales assistant for a company, Lockwood Partners,
and they do piped valves, flanges and all that stuff
for the gas and all industry.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Interesting. So y'all are at this band competition right at
Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday? Is this one of
those things like every other kids event that I've been
to in my life for every sport, is that you're
there all day long?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
No, you don't have could be then all day long.
This particular performance essentially, it's one performance and you're done
for the day, and then if you want to come
back for the awards, you're welcome to. If not, you're
free to go home. So this is a marching band deal.
This is this is a inside okay, into your drumline.
So it's essentially gonna be your percussion, your drum, your
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battery and then your symbols. Okay, and then we have
a couple of dancers for our show portion of it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
My brother was in a show base. Our high school
was like, you know, you either had military back then,
which is meant which meant you walked in these awesome
rows and turned and all that, and then you had
show bands where they kind of freestyle and create, you know,
create different images. And I don't play any musical instruments.
I'm a fan of music, but I was telling earlier
before we tracked you down, I really really enjoyed going
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and supporting him for those because I enjoyed watching the
band's perform I thought that was so much fun, and
to this day I still do. During halftime of a
of a Universe City, they're they're school like the Ocean
of soul. The TSU games, whether the football team is
any good this year, who cares? But they're band at halftime,
holy smokes. So they put on a show. Adam Carroll,
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give me just a moment, and I want to ask
you to tell me what happened at that event. Okay, sure,
hang tych.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Look at what is humber.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Them?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Michael Berry, the window Chico.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's another one. Anybody leaves Poncho for Alfonso was a
big one. Tato, Tato and Tacho. I had a professor
at University of Houston. Tacho, Mindiola, Cholo, Chambo, Chicho, mon Chi,
Paco Weed had already Pepe, she know, she knows another one.
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If somebody has kind of an Asian look and they're Latin,
you get a lot of Chinos for that. Chico. My
mom had an uncle they called Chico. I grew up
with a boy we called Chico in Beville. Chico. Uh, pinchet, gringo.
That's a big one. That's really not one we ought
to be using. Uh, some of these I can't use.
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Nacho came up with a few of them. Uh Chicano nicknames. Uh, Beto,
we did Mondo for Armando. That's another one. Memo, memo.
I've known a lot of memos for Guillermo. Then this
Alfonso Wrights Art short for Arturo. That's not a Chicano nickname.
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You gouber Art is everybody's Mono. That's another one. See Mano.
I was going through some of these emails. All right,
I'll get to it later. Adam Turo is our guest.
He and three others Abron Trevino, a thirteen ye Air
Force veteran, Ephron Polo Castillo, a four year Marine Corps
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veteran and longtime Houston Popo Sergeant Joe Sanchez, joined with
fourteen year Army veteran Adam Kuro to save the day
at a band competition Saturday night at Pasadena Memorial High School.
They have come to be known as the pair Land
band Dads. When they well, we're about to find out
what they did actually, Adam, can you paint the picture
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using pretty words and descriptive words of exactly what happened
at this event? Sure.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
We arrived little before six o'clock, and we found out
that the eighteen wheeler was parked on the south side
of the school and we were parked on the north
side of the school with our props. So we already
offloaded the trailer, and the option we had was load
the trailer back up, transported to the other side where
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the eighteen wheeler was at, or let's go ahead and
wield our props to the other side since everything was
on Dolly's and so I made that choice. So we're
wheeling our props to the other side, and so happened.
We are passing the east side's east side entrance of
the school, and all of a sudden there's a commotion
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active shooter, gunshots fire, gunshots fire. Tied Dil and I'm
walking by Joe Sanchez and we look at each other.
We stopped wheeling our props and next thing you know,
we're running.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
To the door.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Followed behind us was Abraham and Polo, and almost in
a way like a see in a movie, how you
have four people stacked on.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Top of each other by ready to clear a room.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Next thing you know, Joe and I are at the door,
I yelled out, I see the gun. Next thing you know,
both Joe and I are inside. Joe is by the
suspect Torso and grabbed his wrists. I'm right next to him.
We're hip to hip. I grabbed his wrists and I
saw the gun, so I started grabbing the gun. By
the time I started to grab the gun, Joe noticed
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that I had his wrist as well, so he went
ahead and released his grip to go ahead and start
detaining the suspect to grab his left arm. By that time,
Polo was at his head to secure it. Abram was
at his legs. By that time, I ended up struggling
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to get the gun. The magazine was released, the suspect
released the pistol, I went ahead and cleared it, make
sure it was cleared. After it was cleared, I went
ahead and put it behind my belt loop on my
back so I could go ahead and grab the magazine
from the suspects.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
At that time, he was struggling with us to.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Either hide the magazine or put it back in his
coat pockets. We struggled for a little bit. Went ahead
and grabbed the magazine. Two loose rounds came out. So
I had a magazine, two loose rounds, and I spent caseine.
And while that was done, Abram was going through his
pockets just to make sure he did having things maybe
a secondary weapon or a knife or anything. And he
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was just searching his legs make sure he didn't have
anything at his you know.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
His feet.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Also, it wasn't just the four of us. There are
also other people, other veterans that were there to help
out as well. The two of them from the Waller area.
One of them was a Marine X Marine, another one
was an Army X and then the administrator from Angleton.
We want to give out a big shout out to
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him because initially he's the one that took him down
the first time, and then we just came in and
we followed up and we made sure that he was
disarmed and he was detained.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
After.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I do not know you want to say right now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
With every marine listener out there for saying an ex marine,
So I just want to say that I wreck. Did
you see? Yes, you're welcome to say excellent. The Marines
will lose their mind. They're the best at brand maintenance
I've ever seen of any organization anywhere. People sign up
and oh it's incredible. So so what was his what
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was his middle state? Was he screaming anything? Or was
he resigned to the fact that y'all taking him down?
What was going on.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
When he was down on the ground and we're disarming
him and attempting to detain him, he just kept yelling,
they're trying to shoot me. They're trying to kill me.
They're trying to shoot me. And so we kind of
pause for a second. We're looking around to see, you know,
maybe a potential there was a secondary shooter or something
like that. There was nothing going on, so we continue
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to detain him. After we detain them, his wife just
kept saying, he let my husband go, my husband, I
we need to go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We need to go.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
And she was, you know, starting to become very upset
about it because he was detained by us, and she
wanted to take the husband out of the building and
hop in the car and go home. So they stayed
until passing the MPD showed up and we went ahead
and said, hey, he secured, we didn't need handcuffs. The
officer that was doing the security for the school, unfortunately,
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was on the opposite side of the school, so it
took him a little bit to get to where we
were at. So we gave him as much information as
possibly could, and then he ended up handing his handcuffs
to Joe. Joe cuffed him and then there was a
loose phone on the ground. I said nine to one one,
So I went ahead and pick up the cell phone
and I go hello, Hello, and the operator goes hello
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and now one one, and I go okay, And so
I'm communicating with the nine to one one operator what's
going on in the situation, if there's any other people
that were involved, And she asked, has anyone hurt, anyone
got shot, And at the time I galed out, anyone
get hurt, anyone gets shot, and there was no answer.
So I told the nine one one operator that no,
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no one was injured. But we didn't know that. The
soundtech from the Anglican school the faculty member was shot,
but he ran out of the school and we didn't
know about it. So we didn't know that until after
everything was said and done that they came back and said, yes,
we do have a faculty member that was injured and
the alter caate or was injured and the medical is
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taking care of him.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Do we know if he's okay where he was hit.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yes, he was well.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
We were told he was a famous soldier. It came
out to make he had surgery yesterday and he was released.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Adam Puro, thank you, brother, and thank you for being available,
and thank you for your service fourteen years the us
R with your wife, appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Just in here listening, Michael Ferry.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Most folks here, gun fire and they start running. At
a banded competition passed into Memorial High School on Saturday night,
man walked into the building and started shooting. He hit
one school staffer, who's been wounded, but apparently he's going
to recover. Before he was taken down by three veterans
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I've run Travino, thirteen year Air Force veteran, fourteen year
Army veteran Adam Kiro who was just our guest, four
year Marine Corps veteran Ephron Polo Castillo, and longtime Houston
Popo Sergeant Joe Santez. Joe, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Sir, Hi Michael, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What were you doing when they tracked you down?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We were actually walking the driveway behind the school where
there were a bunch of people are running out of
the lobby.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You know, I'm met right now, like right now? When yeah, like.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Radar dead work? Brother?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Are you day shift?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Which station do you work out of?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Travis shitquarters?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh you're at headquarters? Okay, so you're not in patrol.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Not evey more nessary.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
How long have you been on the department?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Thirty two years?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
When you told the PIO you were coming on the
Michael Berry Show, what did they say?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Okay, no problem.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
What do you think of the new chief?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Great? You're great?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well you have to say that, but I will tell
you that people who don't have to say that because
they're not on the air, Like they're telling me the
truth off the air, and they run down every chief
they so far, they really like the guy, very humble, unpretentious.
They really really the rank for the rank and file
to like a police officer a chief for this long
in my experience twenty five years is h is a
pretty big deal. Okay, So tell me what happened on
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Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, so we're at the school and we're moving off
props from one side of the barking not to the
other and we're walking on What.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Does that mean my props? Because Kiro said that what
are these props?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Okay, So usually and bank competitions, we have props or
objects that they should use as part of the performance,
like what and they ease them to showcase like, no,
these are tall, I guess. There's they're tall Retangler aluminum beams,
I guess. And that's just there's to kind of show
the kids come around. It's kind of just a showmanship basically.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Okay. Is it is there a marching component to this
or are they seated the whole time?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
No, they're the kid's marching fight.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yes, Okay, and they're using these beams, these props as
something that that they're turning around and just to add
to the showmanship. Okay, all right, so y'all are carrying
the pla.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah, so it carr the props along the driveway. And
then all of a sudden, I see people running out
of the lobby in the back yelling night to shooter,
active shooter, and so immediately I stopped what I'm doing.
I'm running toward the lobby doors. And as I'm running
toward the doors, I see the guy in the ground
with the handgun and another guy on top of him
holding them down, and I assume that's just happened because
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no one was trying to take the sussex gun away.
So immediately I run over there and I grab his
arm and I see that he's got his finger and
they're shtting the trigger guard. Oh something, it's gonna around.
That's why I do it. So I tried to take
the gun out, but then Adam and short up like
with in the second afterwards, he grabbed try to get
the gun as well. So I let go and I
grabbed the suspect's arm wrists so I could put profession
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let him let go of the gun, and Adam was
able to take a gun away from him at that point,
but the magazine was a checked so then the subject
grabbed the magazine as well, wouldn't let go of that
until Adam wristwold got out of his hand. He had
a very strong grip.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Really, what do you think his mental state was? I mean,
what would you say he was angry? Would you say
he was delusional? Would you say he's in the middle
of an episode?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
You know, he wasn't didn't seem to be angry. He
was calm. He just kept saying, someone's out to me.
They're shooting at me. A very calm boy. So, yeah,
there was something definitely wrong with him mentally.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And and and Kiro told me that the wife kept saying,
they're shooting at us, they're shooting at us.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I never heard her say that. I just remember her
saying that to my husband, and so we says what
we were doing.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Interesting, So did you know these other dads from previous competitions?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yes, if I've been none of the guys my family
and I've been in high school for about niney years now,
so been working with him for many years.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, So what if I'm building like an A Team
takedown team, Give me the height weight on Abraham Travinial
because he's air Force, so I'm already kind of thinking
he's probably not going to, you know, be my top guy.
But what's his height weight? Would you guess?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Oh, man Abrams? I would say five ten I've lived
maybe six. He's pretty tall. Wait, probably about.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He's pretty fit.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
He's pretty fit, sharp guy.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yes, okay. Would you say he would have any any
special talents? At a moment like this, you think he
might be a martial arts guy. You think he would,
you know, poke the eyes out like the Three Stooges.
What would you say would be his special skill?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I don't know if any fighting skills they have, but
he's definitely he's got the knowledge and the church to
go in there.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Okay, all right, how about Adam Kuro? What's his height weight?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Adams about some height tennis and gosh, maybe twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He's a little bigger boy.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, scout them very strong.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So some of that's muscle?
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Oh, yes, for sure, definitely muscle.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
All right, so what would you want what would you
want Kiro on the A Team takedown team to be?
Would would he hit him low? Is he more like
your middle linebacker Romanovsky kind of guy?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Yeah? I think I can go either way. He's good,
he's okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Could he be edge rusher or is he not fast
enough for that? No, he's fast, okay. And then Efron
Polo Castill. What's his height weight?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
He's about my fight six seven? Uh, he's the most
treamous about one fifty.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This is a lean crew, okay. And what are you
what's your five six? And what's your weight? Okay? And
what would be your role on this team? You do
the paper after they had him down? You do you
file the report? Yes, sir, thirty two years on how
long are you planning to stay?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
My since a senior high school, so maybe five more years.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
What instrument does your child play?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
He's snare captain for Parland.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
He's a what do you call it?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
The snare snare cat snare captain?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right? And how did he take
up snares?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
All right? Ever since he was in the seventh grade.
He loved the snare. It been at it ever since,
loved it.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Did you play a musical instrument? No? I did not
does his mother play a musical instrument?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
No, she did not either, Interesting athlete, but our families
did both our.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Families, y'all come from a musical family.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, yes, sir, we do.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Interesting. Did they win the competition.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Then he get to perform? They canceled everything once that
incident took place.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Well that's a bummer.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
We've got three more coming up though.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, good for you. I hope you win them all.
It's a wonderful story. We all need a good, feel
good story. Uh Houston. Sergeant Joe Snchez, thank you for
being our guest on short notice.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Thank you, brother, I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You know, God forbid somebody fire around. You're at your kid.
I don't know any parent understands this, but if you
fire around, well, I'm at a restaurant by myself, I'm
going to have a very different set of emotions. We
don't control this than if you fire around and my
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wife's gone to the restroom and you might potentially be
between me and her. And then if you fire around
and my kids are there as well, Oh my goodness,
that you summon a strength at a moment like it's
a good thing. The moms didn't you know the moms
would have killed us basket, they'd have killed his dead.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I'm serious, But Michael barry Shaw, we're gonna.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to
the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that
covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What
a beautiful name, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's appropriate, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you'll look at the right side of the aircraft,
you won't see the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That was the pilot coming over the intercombe speaker. What
do you call that? Intercoms that tell people about the
Gulf of America. I'm hearing from listeners who are telling
me that pilots are making reference to the Gulf of
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America because you know, they love to talk, man, Pilots
love to talk. I think a lot of them they
fly so they get to talk. I think a lot
of them have sat and thought, man, I wish I
had a captive audience of a couple hundred people who
had nowhere to go, a microphone and speakers that could
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not be turned off, that are so loud they are
always sold you are not going to ignore that them talking.
You're just not going to do it. It's not going
to be tolerated. You're going to listen whether you like
it or not. You may want to put your little
kids that don't know anybody, We'll put their fingers in
their ears because it's always so loud, and it's all ways.
(27:01):
About ninety percent of it is more than you needed
to know. It's things you just didn't need to know. Well,
we're going to be uh, we're about to be cleared
for take off. Heiring about time a minutes. We got
a couple of playing a runo, so hus it tight
and keep you there. Real worried about that seat belt
(27:22):
woo man, that seat belt becomes like one of those
things that they obsess over. If you'll notice, we still
got the seat belt sign on. We're just sitting here.
We're not even taxi. You'll know if we're going to
keep you in your seat a seat belt sign on,
it's here to be able to get you. We're going
to get to get up in the air. We're going
(27:43):
to try to make up for lost time. Wait oh whoa, well, hey, whoa,
So you're admitting to me that you could get there faster.
But the company doesn't get me there faster because that
would burn more fuel and cost more money. Well, how
come you don't offer one option a day because some
(28:04):
people might be willing to pay for that? Right, Okay,
here's your Spirit Airlines. You know, general customer, then you
go to Southwest Airlines, then you go to economy, then
you go to first class. There may be some people
it'd be worth looking at.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
It's like the what was that amazing, amazing flight they
did it in the seventies, the from US to what Concord.
I mean, think about this. We're supposed to only be
moving forward, right Think about the fact that fifty years
ago they had a plane that could get you across
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the Atlantic in way less time than today, and we're
taking longer today. That just doesn't make sense. It's crazy.
But anyway, so I'm hearing from people that the pilots
are referencing the Gulf of America and people are breaking
out into which is just fantastic. We don't do breaking
(29:04):
news on the show, so I'm not going to tell
you what just happened. The only reason I'm not going
to is I'll get some smarty email from somebody and
then I got to block them, and then they wonder
why they got blocked, and they email from another email
address begging me to unblock them. I thought you didn't
do breaking news. Let me explain this to everybody. Understands it.
If you tune into our show to get the breaking
(29:25):
news updates as they're happening, you're not. That's not what
our show does. You can get breaking news on your phone.
You can get breaking news anywhere, all the time, everywhere,
all the time. You can get news alerts on your phone.
You don't need me for that. Okay, that's number one.
Number two, Just remember this when you get breaking news
(29:47):
that a conservative white Iraq war veteran has just shot
up a shopping mall, and then you go, oh, conservative
white mail just back from Iraq, vot for Trump, shut
up a shopping mall, And then within a few hours,
oh no, actually it was a Muslim illegal alien from
(30:09):
Pakistan who raped eight kids and has been let off
each time. Oh well, so you got the breaking news.
Everybody likes to get the breaking news first. I don't
because you're relying on and therefore validating, quote unquote primary
news sources, and some of those people are very very biased.
(30:33):
And what they do is they muddy the water by
withholding details or providing false details, and that becomes the narrative.
And that's not what we're about. We are here to
talk about what has happened and what it means, not
to just read off news stories. We have news reporters
at the tops and bottoms of the hour and they
do that. That's their job. That's the news portion of
(30:55):
the news talk station. So I'm going to not break
the news, but I'll tell you anyway, President Trump spoke
to the Mexican president. They just finished their conversation a
matter of minutes ago. The Mexican president immediately announce You
want to know if the tariffs are working. How about this?
The Mexican president immediately announced the tariffs are going to
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pause for one month. You don't say. Number two, Mexico
is going to deploy ten thousand troops to the US
border to help strengthen the border from our side because
they're all coming in from their side. Increased US efforts
to curb firearm trafficking into Mexico. I will remind you
(31:46):
that under Barack Obama, his Attorney General Eric Holder was
part of a program called which they schemed up called
Fast and Furious. The goal was to move guns from
American gun shops illegally into Mexico, where they would fall
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into or be handed into the hands of the cartels,
who would kill judges and members of the media and
maybe some politicians and some cops. Some of those would
be caught, and here would be the gun. They wouldn't
bother to file down the serial number. It would be
traced to a legal sell, a sale that is legal
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in the United States. Missouri is where they caught them.
And what that would allow the Democrats to do would
be to impose gun control, limiting your ability to own
a gun, because you if you get a gun, you're
just going to give it to the cartel, so we
can't let you have a gun. I am not a
tariff proponent. Let me say that a tariff is slapping
(32:56):
an expense on a product that we import, and as consumers,
you don't want that because it increases the cost. But
what nobody, especially the Wall Street journal that's embarrassing themselves
be clowning themselves with dumbassy in their editorials. These tariffs
are not going to last. What Trump is doing is
busting Canada, China, and Mexico across the jaw and saying
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I'm going to hurt you until you do what I want.
And everybody's going, oh, no, don't hurt them, don't hurt them.
If you hurt them, they'll hurt us. No, they're not
going to hurt us. They've been hurting us for a
long time. What Trump is doing is putting America first.
And wow, isn't it nice.
It's that time time, Luck and load. The Michael Verie
Show is on the air. The Parlean band Dads they're
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calling him, took down a suspect who fired into a
band competition this weekend. One school staffer was wounded. Thank god.
Four veterans stepped in to the breach. Who knows how
many lives they saved? Where the.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Where all? Where the reply?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Try you got at.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Those four dads were thirteen year Air Force veteran Abrahm Trevigno,
Ephron Polo Castillo, a four year Marine Corps veteran, longtime
Houston Popo Sergeant Joe Sanchez, and fourteen year Army veteran
Adam Curo. Who's our guest, Adam, Welcome to the program, sir,
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good morning.
Speaker 5 (01:58):
How we are doing today?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Is it Curo kiro?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Yes? Sir?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Are you still in the Army?
Speaker 6 (02:04):
No, sir, I got out in twenty fourteen after starting
in fourteen years in the United States Army?
Speaker 1 (02:10):
And then what have you done since then?
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Since then? Let's see?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Now, I work for a Gama Tech Industrial. I'm Radiation
in Safety Consultants embedded out a Cedar Bayou or cp
CAM at a baytown and in between, I traveled to
California and Corpus Christy and this.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
Dude's complete military speak for everything. Honey, could you pick
up some milk and breadle? I mean, can you imagine
his answer to that? She said, could you decode that
you're not married to a veteran?
Speaker 5 (02:42):
Are you? I sure?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Am my wife sir six years. We actually met in
two thousand and four on the deployment to Iraq. Honestly,
I fell in love and I never went home.
Speaker 1 (02:54):
A rack will do that to somebody.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yeah, we've been together ever since. We have four wonderful kids,
three of them Max to go to Perland High School
and my youngest daughter goes to Magnolia Elementary.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
How come you were the only one wasn't Hispanic in
the group.
Speaker 6 (03:12):
I may look Hispanic, but I'm actually Asian European. Pearland
the high school. We're so diverse, and I mean, we're
such a good group.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
But I've heard I've heard of Eastern European. I never
heard of Asian European.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
Yes, my mom is from Thailand and my dad is
a European from where do you know where the family's from? Scotland, Ireland?
And then Scandinavia, Germany.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
Is that what kind of Namekiuro is?
Speaker 6 (03:42):
Cairo actually is a German name, but back in the
days during the medieval time. It's actually a small city
in Poland. It's a Kiro and it comes from Kroski
as well, so Polish Pulish German.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
Interesting. Okay, what instrument does your child play?
Speaker 6 (04:03):
My oldest son primarily plays the bassoon, but for a
marching season and indoor drum line, he played symbols, so
he's on the symbol line.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I didn't know they still played the bassoon. Bassoon, yes,
to do well? Yeah, for a concert? How old are you?
Speaker 6 (04:20):
I am forty four years old?
Speaker 1 (04:22):
All right, so you're ten years younger than me. This
might be the generational separator ramon. When we were in school,
there was a kind of educational cartoon thing they would
play and it would teach you the different instruments, and
that's how I knew what a bassoon was. Did y'all
have that? And they came to life like a stick
figure insect and they were very charming, and that's how
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we learned all the instruments. I've never known of anybody
to play the bassoon. How did your child get to
play in the bassoon.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
In middle school.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
What they do if they give him an option or
a career path if they want to do art, choir
or or band. And my son had an idea what
instrument he wanted to play, So what they do is
they go around the room to attempt different mouthpieces and
instruments and see what fits the student. And the two
instruments that he chose, apparently his mouth wasn't quite developed
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right for that particular mouthpiece. So the instructor asked.
Speaker 5 (05:23):
What was his hobbies?
Speaker 1 (05:24):
What did he liked to do?
Speaker 6 (05:26):
And she goes, I think I have the instrument for you,
handed him the double read he put in his mouth
and he was able to make a sound out of it,
and she goes, that's it. You're going to play with soon.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Do you play any musical instruments.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
In elementary, junior, high, in high school? Actually I played
the violin a total of seven and a half years.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Oh you said you were half Asian? Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you do you still play?
Speaker 6 (05:53):
If you give me a violin, I could probably do
you know, a D scale, maybe a C scale, but
other than that probably not. Then god, twenty plus.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Years, let me tell you some hug practice a little
we'll call it a fiddle, and put you in a
country band. They're in very high demand. I'm serious. If
you got to play in Texas? Y yeah, absolutely, does
your wife play that?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
No, she does not. My wife actually sam choir. See
what my wife sings? So she was in choir in school?
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Oh wow? Okay? And what does she do for a living.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
She's actually a sales assistant for a company, Lockwood Partners,
and they do piped valves, flanges and all that stuff
for the gas and all industry.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Interesting. So y'all are at this band competition right at
Pasadena Memorial High School on Saturday? Is this one of
those things like every other kids event that I've been
to in my life for every sport, is that you're
there all day long?
Speaker 6 (06:59):
No, you don't have could be then all day long.
This particular performance essentially, it's one performance and you're done
for the day, and then if you want to come
back for the awards, you're welcome to. If not, you're
free to go home. So this is a marching band deal.
This is this is a inside okay, into your drumline.
So it's essentially gonna be your percussion, your drum, your
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battery and then your symbols. Okay, and then we have
a couple of dancers for our show portion of it.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
My brother was in a show base. Our high school
was like, you know, you either had military back then,
which is meant which meant you walked in these awesome
rows and turned and all that, and then you had
show bands where they kind of freestyle and create, you know,
create different images. And I don't play any musical instruments.
I'm a fan of music, but I was telling earlier
before we tracked you down, I really really enjoyed going
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and supporting him for those because I enjoyed watching the
band's perform I thought that was so much fun, and
to this day I still do. During halftime of a
of a Universe City, they're they're school like the Ocean
of soul. The TSU games, whether the football team is
any good this year, who cares? But they're band at halftime,
holy smokes. So they put on a show. Adam Carroll,
(08:11):
give me just a moment, and I want to ask
you to tell me what happened at that event. Okay, sure,
hang tych.
Speaker 2 (08:20):
Look at what is humber.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
Them?
Speaker 7 (08:24):
Michael Berry, the window Chico.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
That's another one. Anybody leaves Poncho for Alfonso was a
big one. Tato, Tato and Tacho. I had a professor
at University of Houston. Tacho, Mindiola, Cholo, Chambo, Chicho, mon Chi,
Paco Weed had already Pepe, she know, she knows another one.
(08:57):
If somebody has kind of an Asian look and they're Latin,
you get a lot of Chinos for that. Chico. My
mom had an uncle they called Chico. I grew up
with a boy we called Chico in Beville. Chico. Uh, pinchet, gringo.
That's a big one. That's really not one we ought
to be using. Uh, some of these I can't use.
(09:20):
Nacho came up with a few of them. Uh Chicano nicknames. Uh, Beto,
we did Mondo for Armando. That's another one. Memo, memo.
I've known a lot of memos for Guillermo. Then this
Alfonso Wrights Art short for Arturo. That's not a Chicano nickname.
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You gouber Art is everybody's Mono. That's another one. See Mano.
I was going through some of these emails. All right,
I'll get to it later. Adam Turo is our guest.
He and three others Abron Trevino, a thirteen ye Air
Force veteran, Ephron Polo Castillo, a four year Marine Corps
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veteran and longtime Houston Popo Sergeant Joe Sanchez, joined with
fourteen year Army veteran Adam Kuro to save the day
at a band competition Saturday night at Pasadena Memorial High School.
They have come to be known as the pair Land
band Dads. When they well, we're about to find out
what they did actually, Adam, can you paint the picture
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using pretty words and descriptive words of exactly what happened
at this event? Sure.
Speaker 6 (10:38):
We arrived little before six o'clock, and we found out
that the eighteen wheeler was parked on the south side
of the school and we were parked on the north
side of the school with our props. So we already
offloaded the trailer, and the option we had was load
the trailer back up, transported to the other side where
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the eighteen wheeler was at, or let's go ahead and
wield our props to the other side since everything was
on Dolly's and so I made that choice. So we're
wheeling our props to the other side, and so happened.
We are passing the east side's east side entrance of
the school, and all of a sudden there's a commotion
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active shooter, gunshots fire, gunshots fire. Tied Dil and I'm
walking by Joe Sanchez and we look at each other.
We stopped wheeling our props and next thing you know,
we're running.
Speaker 1 (11:29):
To the door.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
Followed behind us was Abraham and Polo, and almost in
a way like a see in a movie, how you
have four people stacked on.
Speaker 5 (11:40):
Top of each other by ready to clear a room.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Next thing you know, Joe and I are at the door,
I yelled out, I see the gun. Next thing you know,
both Joe and I are inside. Joe is by the
suspect Torso and grabbed his wrists. I'm right next to him.
We're hip to hip. I grabbed his wrists and I
saw the gun, so I started grabbing the gun. By
the time I started to grab the gun, Joe noticed
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that I had his wrist as well, so he went
ahead and released his grip to go ahead and start
detaining the suspect to grab his left arm. By that time,
Polo was at his head to secure it. Abram was
at his legs. By that time, I ended up struggling
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to get the gun. The magazine was released, the suspect
released the pistol, I went ahead and cleared it, make
sure it was cleared. After it was cleared, I went
ahead and put it behind my belt loop on my
back so I could go ahead and grab the magazine
from the suspects.
Speaker 5 (12:43):
At that time, he was struggling with us to.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
Either hide the magazine or put it back in his
coat pockets. We struggled for a little bit. Went ahead
and grabbed the magazine. Two loose rounds came out. So
I had a magazine, two loose rounds, and I spent caseine.
And while that was done, Abram was going through his
pockets just to make sure he did having things maybe
a secondary weapon or a knife or anything. And he
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was just searching his legs make sure he didn't have
anything at his you know.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
His feet.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Also, it wasn't just the four of us. There are
also other people, other veterans that were there to help
out as well. The two of them from the Waller area.
One of them was a Marine X Marine, another one
was an Army X and then the administrator from Angleton.
We want to give out a big shout out to
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him because initially he's the one that took him down
the first time, and then we just came in and
we followed up and we made sure that he was
disarmed and he was detained.
Speaker 5 (13:49):
After.
Speaker 6 (13:49):
I do not know you want to say right now.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
With every marine listener out there for saying an ex marine,
So I just want to say that I wreck. Did
you see? Yes, you're welcome to say excellent. The Marines
will lose their mind. They're the best at brand maintenance
I've ever seen of any organization anywhere. People sign up
and oh it's incredible. So so what was his what
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was his middle state? Was he screaming anything? Or was
he resigned to the fact that y'all taking him down?
What was going on.
Speaker 6 (14:22):
When he was down on the ground and we're disarming
him and attempting to detain him, he just kept yelling,
they're trying to shoot me. They're trying to kill me.
They're trying to shoot me. And so we kind of
pause for a second. We're looking around to see, you know,
maybe a potential there was a secondary shooter or something
like that. There was nothing going on, so we continue
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to detain him. After we detain them, his wife just
kept saying, he let my husband go, my husband, I
we need to go.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
We need to go.
Speaker 6 (14:51):
And she was, you know, starting to become very upset
about it because he was detained by us, and she
wanted to take the husband out of the building and
hop in the car and go home. So they stayed
until passing the MPD showed up and we went ahead
and said, hey, he secured, we didn't need handcuffs. The
officer that was doing the security for the school, unfortunately,
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was on the opposite side of the school, so it
took him a little bit to get to where we
were at. So we gave him as much information as
possibly could, and then he ended up handing his handcuffs
to Joe. Joe cuffed him and then there was a
loose phone on the ground. I said nine to one one,
So I went ahead and pick up the cell phone
and I go hello, Hello, and the operator goes hello
(15:34):
and now one one, and I go okay, And so
I'm communicating with the nine to one one operator what's
going on in the situation, if there's any other people
that were involved, And she asked, has anyone hurt, anyone
got shot, And at the time I galed out, anyone
get hurt, anyone gets shot, and there was no answer.
So I told the nine one one operator that no,
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no one was injured. But we didn't know that. The
soundtech from the Anglican school the faculty member was shot,
but he ran out of the school and we didn't
know about it. So we didn't know that until after
everything was said and done that they came back and said, yes,
we do have a faculty member that was injured and
the alter caate or was injured and the medical is
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taking care of him.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Do we know if he's okay where he was hit.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
Yes, he was well.
Speaker 6 (16:26):
We were told he was a famous soldier. It came
out to make he had surgery yesterday and he was released.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Adam Puro, thank you, brother, and thank you for being available,
and thank you for your service fourteen years the us
R with your wife, appreciate you.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Just in here listening, Michael Ferry.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Most folks here, gun fire and they start running. At
a banded competition passed into Memorial High School on Saturday night,
man walked into the building and started shooting. He hit
one school staffer, who's been wounded, but apparently he's going
to recover. Before he was taken down by three veterans
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I've run Travino, thirteen year Air Force veteran, fourteen year
Army veteran Adam Kiro who was just our guest, four
year Marine Corps veteran Ephron Polo Castillo, and longtime Houston
Popo Sergeant Joe Santez. Joe, Welcome to the show.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Sir, Hi Michael, thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
What were you doing when they tracked you down?
Speaker 5 (17:35):
We were actually walking the driveway behind the school where
there were a bunch of people are running out of
the lobby.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You know, I'm met right now, like right now? When yeah, like.
Speaker 5 (17:47):
Radar dead work? Brother?
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Are you day shift?
Speaker 5 (17:50):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (17:51):
Which station do you work out of?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Travis shitquarters?
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Oh you're at headquarters? Okay, so you're not in patrol.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Not evey more nessary.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
How long have you been on the department?
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Thirty two years?
Speaker 1 (18:04):
When you told the PIO you were coming on the
Michael Berry Show, what did they say?
Speaker 5 (18:09):
Okay, no problem.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
What do you think of the new chief?
Speaker 5 (18:13):
Great? You're great?
Speaker 1 (18:14):
Well you have to say that, but I will tell
you that people who don't have to say that because
they're not on the air, Like they're telling me the
truth off the air, and they run down every chief
they so far, they really like the guy, very humble, unpretentious.
They really really the rank for the rank and file
to like a police officer a chief for this long
in my experience twenty five years is h is a
pretty big deal. Okay, So tell me what happened on
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Saturday night.
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, so we're at the school and we're moving off
props from one side of the barking not to the
other and we're walking on What.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Does that mean my props? Because Kiro said that what
are these props?
Speaker 5 (18:46):
Okay, So usually and bank competitions, we have props or
objects that they should use as part of the performance,
like what and they ease them to showcase like, no,
these are tall, I guess. There's they're tall Retangler aluminum beams,
I guess. And that's just there's to kind of show
the kids come around. It's kind of just a showmanship basically.
Speaker 1 (19:06):
Okay. Is it is there a marching component to this
or are they seated the whole time?
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Uh?
Speaker 5 (19:12):
No, they're the kid's marching fight.
Speaker 1 (19:13):
Yes, Okay, and they're using these beams, these props as
something that that they're turning around and just to add
to the showmanship. Okay, all right, so y'all are carrying
the pla.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yeah, so it carr the props along the driveway. And
then all of a sudden, I see people running out
of the lobby in the back yelling night to shooter,
active shooter, and so immediately I stopped what I'm doing.
I'm running toward the lobby doors. And as I'm running
toward the doors, I see the guy in the ground
with the handgun and another guy on top of him
holding them down, and I assume that's just happened because
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no one was trying to take the sussex gun away.
So immediately I run over there and I grab his
arm and I see that he's got his finger and
they're shtting the trigger guard. Oh something, it's gonna around.
That's why I do it. So I tried to take
the gun out, but then Adam and short up like
with in the second afterwards, he grabbed try to get
the gun as well. So I let go and I
grabbed the suspect's arm wrists so I could put profession
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let him let go of the gun, and Adam was
able to take a gun away from him at that point,
but the magazine was a checked so then the subject
grabbed the magazine as well, wouldn't let go of that
until Adam wristwold got out of his hand. He had
a very strong grip.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Really, what do you think his mental state was? I mean,
what would you say he was angry? Would you say
he was delusional? Would you say he's in the middle
of an episode?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
You know, he wasn't didn't seem to be angry. He
was calm. He just kept saying, someone's out to me.
They're shooting at me. A very calm boy. So, yeah,
there was something definitely wrong with him mentally.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
And and and Kiro told me that the wife kept saying,
they're shooting at us, they're shooting at us.
Speaker 5 (20:48):
I never heard her say that. I just remember her
saying that to my husband, and so we says what
we were doing.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Interesting, So did you know these other dads from previous competitions?
Speaker 5 (21:02):
Yes, if I've been none of the guys my family
and I've been in high school for about niney years now,
so been working with him for many years.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Okay, So what if I'm building like an A Team
takedown team, Give me the height weight on Abraham Travinial
because he's air Force, so I'm already kind of thinking
he's probably not going to, you know, be my top guy.
But what's his height weight? Would you guess?
Speaker 5 (21:25):
Oh, man Abrams? I would say five ten I've lived
maybe six. He's pretty tall. Wait, probably about.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He's pretty fit.
Speaker 5 (21:35):
He's pretty fit, sharp guy.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yes, okay. Would you say he would have any any
special talents? At a moment like this, you think he
might be a martial arts guy. You think he would,
you know, poke the eyes out like the Three Stooges.
What would you say would be his special skill?
Speaker 5 (21:48):
I don't know if any fighting skills they have, but
he's definitely he's got the knowledge and the church to
go in there.
Speaker 1 (21:53):
Okay, all right, how about Adam Kuro? What's his height weight?
Speaker 5 (21:58):
Adams about some height tennis and gosh, maybe twenty five.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
He's a little bigger boy.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Yeah, scout them very strong.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
So some of that's muscle?
Speaker 5 (22:09):
Oh, yes, for sure, definitely muscle.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
All right, so what would you want what would you
want Kiro on the A Team takedown team to be?
Would would he hit him low? Is he more like
your middle linebacker Romanovsky kind of guy?
Speaker 5 (22:21):
Yeah? I think I can go either way. He's good,
he's okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (22:26):
Could he be edge rusher or is he not fast
enough for that? No, he's fast, okay. And then Efron
Polo Castill. What's his height weight?
Speaker 5 (22:35):
He's about my fight six seven? Uh, he's the most
treamous about one fifty.
Speaker 1 (22:40):
This is a lean crew, okay. And what are you
what's your five six? And what's your weight? Okay? And
what would be your role on this team? You do
the paper after they had him down? You do you
file the report? Yes, sir, thirty two years on how
long are you planning to stay?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (23:01):
My since a senior high school, so maybe five more years.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
What instrument does your child play?
Speaker 5 (23:07):
He's snare captain for Parland.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
He's a what do you call it?
Speaker 5 (23:11):
The snare snare cat snare captain?
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Okay, yeah, okay, all right? And how did he take
up snares?
Speaker 5 (23:17):
All right? Ever since he was in the seventh grade.
He loved the snare. It been at it ever since,
loved it.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
Did you play a musical instrument? No? I did not
does his mother play a musical instrument?
Speaker 5 (23:30):
No, she did not either, Interesting athlete, but our families
did both our.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
Families, y'all come from a musical family.
Speaker 5 (23:39):
Yes, yes, sir, we do.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
Interesting. Did they win the competition.
Speaker 5 (23:44):
Then he get to perform? They canceled everything once that
incident took place.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Well that's a bummer.
Speaker 5 (23:50):
We've got three more coming up though.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
Well, good for you. I hope you win them all.
It's a wonderful story. We all need a good, feel
good story. Uh Houston. Sergeant Joe Snchez, thank you for
being our guest on short notice.
Speaker 5 (24:04):
Thank you, brother, I appreciate you very much.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
You know, God forbid somebody fire around. You're at your kid.
I don't know any parent understands this, but if you
fire around, well, I'm at a restaurant by myself, I'm
going to have a very different set of emotions. We
don't control this than if you fire around and my
(24:30):
wife's gone to the restroom and you might potentially be
between me and her. And then if you fire around
and my kids are there as well, Oh my goodness,
that you summon a strength at a moment like it's
a good thing. The moms didn't you know the moms
would have killed us basket, they'd have killed his dead.
Speaker 7 (24:49):
I'm serious, But Michael barry Shaw, we're gonna.
Speaker 8 (25:03):
Be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to
the Gulf of America, which has a beautiful ring that
covers a lot of territory. The Gulf of America. What
a beautiful name, and it's appropriate.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
It's appropriate, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (25:29):
If you'll look at the right side of the aircraft,
you won't see the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That was the pilot coming over the intercombe speaker. What
do you call that? Intercoms that tell people about the
Gulf of America. I'm hearing from listeners who are telling
me that pilots are making reference to the Gulf of
(26:16):
America because you know, they love to talk, man, Pilots
love to talk. I think a lot of them they
fly so they get to talk. I think a lot
of them have sat and thought, man, I wish I
had a captive audience of a couple hundred people who
had nowhere to go, a microphone and speakers that could
(26:40):
not be turned off, that are so loud they are
always sold you are not going to ignore that them talking.
You're just not going to do it. It's not going
to be tolerated. You're going to listen whether you like
it or not. You may want to put your little
kids that don't know anybody, We'll put their fingers in
their ears because it's always so loud, and it's all ways.
(27:01):
About ninety percent of it is more than you needed
to know. It's things you just didn't need to know. Well,
we're going to be uh, we're about to be cleared
for take off. Heiring about time a minutes. We got
a couple of playing a runo, so hus it tight
and keep you there. Real worried about that seat belt
(27:22):
woo man, that seat belt becomes like one of those
things that they obsess over. If you'll notice, we still
got the seat belt sign on. We're just sitting here.
We're not even taxi. You'll know if we're going to
keep you in your seat a seat belt sign on,
it's here to be able to get you. We're going
to get to get up in the air. We're going
(27:43):
to try to make up for lost time. Wait oh whoa, well, hey, whoa,
So you're admitting to me that you could get there faster.
But the company doesn't get me there faster because that
would burn more fuel and cost more money. Well, how
come you don't offer one option a day because some
(28:04):
people might be willing to pay for that? Right, Okay,
here's your Spirit Airlines. You know, general customer, then you
go to Southwest Airlines, then you go to economy, then
you go to first class. There may be some people
it'd be worth looking at.
Speaker 5 (28:19):
You know.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
It's like the what was that amazing, amazing flight they
did it in the seventies, the from US to what Concord.
I mean, think about this. We're supposed to only be
moving forward, right Think about the fact that fifty years
ago they had a plane that could get you across
(28:40):
the Atlantic in way less time than today, and we're
taking longer today. That just doesn't make sense. It's crazy.
But anyway, so I'm hearing from people that the pilots
are referencing the Gulf of America and people are breaking
out into which is just fantastic. We don't do breaking
(29:04):
news on the show, so I'm not going to tell
you what just happened. The only reason I'm not going
to is I'll get some smarty email from somebody and
then I got to block them, and then they wonder
why they got blocked, and they email from another email
address begging me to unblock them. I thought you didn't
do breaking news. Let me explain this to everybody. Understands it.
If you tune into our show to get the breaking
(29:25):
news updates as they're happening, you're not. That's not what
our show does. You can get breaking news on your phone.
You can get breaking news anywhere, all the time, everywhere,
all the time. You can get news alerts on your phone.
You don't need me for that. Okay, that's number one.
Number two, Just remember this when you get breaking news
(29:47):
that a conservative white Iraq war veteran has just shot
up a shopping mall, and then you go, oh, conservative
white mail just back from Iraq, vot for Trump, shut
up a shopping mall, And then within a few hours,
oh no, actually it was a Muslim illegal alien from
(30:09):
Pakistan who raped eight kids and has been let off
each time. Oh well, so you got the breaking news.
Everybody likes to get the breaking news first. I don't
because you're relying on and therefore validating, quote unquote primary
news sources, and some of those people are very very biased.
(30:33):
And what they do is they muddy the water by
withholding details or providing false details, and that becomes the narrative.
And that's not what we're about. We are here to
talk about what has happened and what it means, not
to just read off news stories. We have news reporters
at the tops and bottoms of the hour and they
do that. That's their job. That's the news portion of
(30:55):
the news talk station. So I'm going to not break
the news, but I'll tell you anyway, President Trump spoke
to the Mexican president. They just finished their conversation a
matter of minutes ago. The Mexican president immediately announce You
want to know if the tariffs are working. How about this?
The Mexican president immediately announced the tariffs are going to
(31:20):
pause for one month. You don't say. Number two, Mexico
is going to deploy ten thousand troops to the US
border to help strengthen the border from our side because
they're all coming in from their side. Increased US efforts
to curb firearm trafficking into Mexico. I will remind you
(31:46):
that under Barack Obama, his Attorney General Eric Holder was
part of a program called which they schemed up called
Fast and Furious. The goal was to move guns from
American gun shops illegally into Mexico, where they would fall
(32:10):
into or be handed into the hands of the cartels,
who would kill judges and members of the media and
maybe some politicians and some cops. Some of those would
be caught, and here would be the gun. They wouldn't
bother to file down the serial number. It would be
traced to a legal sell, a sale that is legal
(32:34):
in the United States. Missouri is where they caught them.
And what that would allow the Democrats to do would
be to impose gun control, limiting your ability to own
a gun, because you if you get a gun, you're
just going to give it to the cartel, so we
can't let you have a gun. I am not a
tariff proponent. Let me say that a tariff is slapping
(32:56):
an expense on a product that we import, and as consumers,
you don't want that because it increases the cost. But
what nobody, especially the Wall Street journal that's embarrassing themselves
be clowning themselves with dumbassy in their editorials. These tariffs
are not going to last. What Trump is doing is
busting Canada, China, and Mexico across the jaw and saying
(33:17):
I'm going to hurt you until you do what I want.
And everybody's going, oh, no, don't hurt them, don't hurt them.
If you hurt them, they'll hurt us. No, they're not
going to hurt us. They've been hurting us for a
long time. What Trump is doing is putting America first.
And wow, isn't it nice.
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