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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't saw the wings. You saw the garage. I
see the garage, but I don't saw the garage. You
are speaking incorrectly. You are more to ring the King's English,
et cetera. See schalk, see shut out.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I
think you're okay with you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You okay, we'll punching, you know, I think, And I
love Colin, and I think towards the end he started
to punch a little harder, but like if there grooves,
I mean, like this dude has to be knots over
the head like hard, right, like there is no nicetas
with him, like at all, Like you you go clean
off on him, right, because we in these hot ass
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Texas streets, y'all know, we got governor hot wheels down there,
come on now, and the only thing hot about him
is that he is a hot ass mask honey. So
so yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Twice three times.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But the fact that you literally are going to plan
enemy attacks on a signal chat and then you don't
even know who's in the signal chat, and then y'all
want to come at us and act like people of
color are the problem.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Are that women are the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Like baby, you probably need a good black woman in
the room who can check you and tell you that,
first of all, you shouldn't be doing this on signore
or anything else. But y'all still mad about Hillary Servers?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is that what I hear?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So anyway, Literally, I don't know if like your homeboy
was drunk at the time that he was sending these
messages or what, but clearly this administration is not ready
for prime time. There has been no oppression for the
white man in this country. You'll tell me which white
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men were dragged out of their homes. You'll tell me
which one of them got dragged all the way across
an ocean and told that you are gonna go at work,
We are gonna seal your wives, we are gonna rape
your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression. We didn't
ask to be here. Were not the same migrants that
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y'all constantly come up against. We didn't run away from home.
We were stolen. So yeah, we are gonna sit here
and be offended. When you want to sit here and
act like and and don't let it escape you that
it is white man on this side of the aisle
telling us people of color on this side of the aisle,
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that that y'all are the ones being oppressed, that y'all
are the ones that are being harmed your rooms twice
three times.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There is a video going around of the Sheriff of
Montgomery County, Wesley Doolittle. There was a road rage incident
and the sheriff rolls up on it himself. It's in magnolia,
I believe, and he makes a felony stop himself and
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takes the guys down. The video is is pretty good.
Somebody had the good sense to put inner circles, bad
boys behind it. If Wesley too Little has a he
had to. He had a. He beat uh Ran Henderson,
who was the sitting sheriff, who I endorsed and supported
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because I knew him and liked him. I did not
know Doolittle. Uh Most of the people that I know
we're supporting do Little the challenger. But I was committed
to my candidate, and I stuck with my candidate and
do Little one and the voice of the voters is
what matters. I've since gotten to know him, and I
really liked the guy. I really like him. But he
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he's a he's a retired Texas ranger. And you know,
people will tell you about a cops, cops and veterans.
If you ask him about somebody that has a reputation
as a copper, a veteran, they'll tell you the truth
of that guy's a bluffer bluster, you know. They they
don't mind telling you. They'll talk bad about each other
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in a second off the air, off the record, and
people said, no, this guy's This guy's a real real deal.
We we've gotten to know each other and I like
him a lot. But if he's running for reelection at
some point, I don't care who's running against him. All
you have to do is show that video. I mean this,
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that's to see a sheriff take somebody down his own
dang self. Yeah, that's that's Uh, that's Wesley do a
lot Ramon, not do little? Am I right?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I just found out that one of his captains, or
maybe the captain over patrol at the Moco Montgomery County
Sheriff's Office, is Ryan Drodty And that makes me very happy.
You've probably heard me say the name Reagan Rotti. The
Droughty twins were DPS troopers, and to say that my
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brother worshiped those two boys is not an exaggeration. In fact,
I used to tell him, Chris, you're too queer for
them Droughty boys. He's stupid. You need to meet him,
and they're great, They're awesome. And then I knew I
was under his skin, so now I had to prod him.
Reagan Droddy, the brother, is the one I told you
the story. I think I can get through it now.
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But the first time I told you the day he retired,
he pulled over side of the road and was crying
because he and my brother had planned out what they
were going to do on the day they retired, and
now he was retiring. My brother wasn't there. Yeah, that's
those Droughty boys. But anyway, if Doolittle has brought Ryan
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Droddy to be the captain over patrol in the Woodlands
for Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, he's bringing in good people
and that's good. Anyway, I don't know, something got lost
in the mix. I asked him if he could come
on the show to talk about this takedown. I actually
first heard about it from somebody on Magnolia Police Department
because I guess it happened in Magnolia, and they made
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him an honorary Magnolia Police and I sent back, well,
that's good, but I'm right here. I mean, Ramona and
I are available. Hello. Well, we got to take somebody
down in the road rage, we got to earn it. Yeah, well,
I do need to know what close uniform, you know.
I'm I'm increasingly of the opinion that I'm I'm liking
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going back to the black black as a uniform. The
distinctive baby blue for HPD is good, but I don't
think it sends the right message. I don't think it
says I'll shoot you. Okay, we're not playing any tort reform,
I mean any bail bond reform. I'll shoot you. I
will shoot you, and you'll be shot and then you'll
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know you've been shot. And I think black with maybe
some gold piping. I think that's good. Yeah, I think
that'd be real, real nice. I like the boots as
a look, but let's be honest. In Houston, you got
to give chase and theraphics suggests that if it's me
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and the demographics suggests I'm already at a disadvantage. You
know what I'm saying. I mean because I'm older, Ramone, mean,
because I'm older. I got a lot to tell you
about seagulls, which I will do in just a moment.
You know why they fly over the sea, Ramon? I know,
but people, because if they flew over the bay, they'd
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be bagel.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, that's the one. Can I know you don't like
me to spell things out because there's ten percent or so.
That was the Walton and Johnson will was It was
that a ten percent or one percent? One percent. My
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name is Tempersent. They that is a very underrated show
for the influence they had on myned FM morning talk
and talk shows. I mean, I don't know how much
influence they had on me because I love the show
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and listen. I remember my brother would call. They would
do the Taser report, and my brother would would call
me and he'd go, this was before I was in radio,
and I had never met him. He said, you know
these guys Walton and Johnson, have you ever met him? No?
And they are And he'd be laughing as he said
it because he was just a listener. He was an
unashamed listener and a fan. And I'd say, no, I
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don't know him. What is the point And he'd say, uh, man,
they do this Taser report and they play Shock the
Monkey and it's funny. It's all good. You gotta listen,
you gotta listen. Of course I didn't because I'm hard
headed and I don't think anybody, especially my brother, can
tell me anything. And then I'd go back later and listen.
And then I realized I should have liked our Friday
drive home show. The first time he called and said,
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I got I got the song for you, Friday Drive
Homes by a band called BlackBerry Smoke. You ever heard of? Nope,
it's great, you got it. You got to listen to it.
It's called a good one coming on. I said, okay, Chris,
do you want me to come tell you how to
arrest people or what to do in a situation in
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a standoff? No, you don't, because that's what you're good at.
Now I'll handle this. And then at some point I
heard it and oh, crap, he's right, but gott to
use that. It's fantastic, And now I view it as
a tribute to him, and it makes me think of
him every Friday evening. Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, oh,
Ramon doesn't like me to tell why he does what
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he does with us with the background music or the
bumps or whatever. But that was block of seagulls. So
occasionally I had to tell you so that some people
be more mindful to be listening. There's always a reason
behind everything. And the song was Iran, not the country
it was. That's, you know, a noun and a verb.
Friend of mine murdered hundreds of seagulls in the nineties.
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I don't remember all the details, but here's the cliffs
cliffs notes. He took a job as a dispatcher truck
route manager for a waste company. They washed the garbage
trucks daily. Their truck yard was at the dump. Seagulls
were constantly crapping on the trucks. He decided to thin
out the herd a little bit. Only wanted to kill
six or seven birds to make them leave, not six
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or seven hundred. He brought a lawn fertilizer spreader from
home and a bunch of rat poison. Mixed the rat
poison with I think bird seed, but I don't remember
it was something they would eat. He broadcasted it all
over the parking lot. Good use of broadcast in a
lawn and garden sense that afternoon. The next morning, there
were dead seagulls all around the dump and in the
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nearby neighborhood. The Popo and health department were investigating, thinking
it may have been a pandemic. He came clean, gotten
some kind of charge or fine. I don't remember. Anyhow,
They didn't have any seagulls at the dump for a
long time. Why would you call them clean? Nobody knows
it's you. If it was the nineties, they didn't have cameras.
All right, sir, we're doing an investigation on all these
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dead seagulls. That's a damnedest thing, isn't it. Yeah? Did
you have anything to do with it? Lord?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Isn't it a crime to kill seagulls according to the
Migratory Migratory Bird Treaty Act of nineteen eighteen. I'm just
reading that just a while back. I think they just got,
you know, like bird flew or something. I don't know.
Nancy says, yes, it is a fifteen thousand dollars fine
anywhere in the United States to kill a seagull is
illegal for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of nineteen eighteen,
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and no killing one seagull in an area won't keep
others away. Clark writes, I don't know about killing seagulls,
but we ran the birds out of my buddy Doug's
yard in South Louisiana growing up. They have a cluster
of pine trees in the backyard, and in the early
eighties we plucked them off with bb and pellict guns
until the birds wouldn't fly into those trees any longer.
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Cheryl says it's unlikely that a gull someone killed will
scare away other gulls. They are opportunistic eaters and scavengers.
They will feed on their own species. I had a
number of people tell me, if you think killing a
seagull is going to get other seagulls to go away,
you're wrong. They will eat their own seagull. Seagulls are
protected throughout the US under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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of nineteen eighteen. This protection is due to their coastal
nesting habitats being potentially under threat, which could impact their
population numbers if breeding grounds are destroyed. Please don't use
impact as a verb in emails to me, just a
personal favor. Jeff says, as far as killing one and
leaving it to word off others, that won't work. We
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catch them all the time on our lines off the dock.
Once you get one on your line, it's very loud
and an exciting experience. The one snage goes crazy and
draws in dozens of other seagulls. You need to cover
their heads with a towel, otherwise they'll bite the crap
out of you and it hurts. I've never intentionally killed one,
but I do know during the chad bait fish die
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off each year in the canals, there are thousands of
gulls that gorge themselves for days. Several eat themselves to
death and die on the spot. Dozens of dead birds
along the bulkheads and on the docks. They do not
have any concern for their dead. They will stay till
the last chat is gone with the tides. Fun fact,
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they taste like bald eagle, but a bit dry. James writes,
I don't know if it's federal or state, but seagulls
are protected like vultures. They pick up dead animals and
trash off the beaches and sides of waterways. They're considered scavengers.
I know for a fact that if you shoot a seagull,
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the other seagulls will not run away. They will, in fact,
try to eat the dead seagull. You know what people
don't do anymore that they used to do. They don't
go out with the metal detectors. That was a term
for that. Like, there were societies of people when I
was a kid. You would go, you'd be driving along
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and they'd be a white man approximately fifty eight in overweight,
and he was he would be out with what looked
like a weed eater and it would be strapped to
his shoulder and he'd be out there just running it
over the ground. And if you ever talked to one
of those guys, you better be prepared to spend forty
seven hours listening because they love to talk about it.
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But people don't do that anymore. Those guys just died off.
I guess those were the guys that retired after thirty
years at the plant or as a cop and drove
the country with mRNA. He and Murna just got in
an RV and they just drove and they know every
koa from here to Oregon, and they just drove and
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drove and drove, and he wore shorts and tube socks
and comfortable shoes from Mephisto or sas Clay Rights. I
was intrigued by your story of the playing of White
Christmas as a signal to leave Nam fifty years ago.
Turns out they couldn't find the Bing Crosby version and
they had to play Tennessee Ernie Ford. Mostly, he says,
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that's true story. It shouldn't be heroic for the sheriff
could take down to idiots during a felony road rage incident.
But sadly, we've got sheriffs that won't even arrest people,
and we've got sheriffs that sit behind a desk, and
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we've got sheriffs that well make Wesley Doolittle hero for
doing exactly that. Welcome to the show, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hey, good morning, are y'all?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Is this the first time we've had you on since
you won your election? Yes? Okay, well, congratulations, As I
do not hide behind I endorsed your opponent campaign for
your opponent never said anything ill of you. I didn't
I'd never heard anything ill of you, But you won
that election fair and square, and I only hear good
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things about your leadership there from within the department and
the community, so I want to make sure I got
that out there.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well, I appreciate you. You know, politics are a fickle thing,
and I saw a need to run for sure, and
aggressively saw to work my butt off. And now I'm here,
so I'm enjoying it, and I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Tell me what happened yesterday and Magnolia.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Well, brother, I just really be honest with me. I
was driving out there for a building dedication for sure
Tommy Gage renamed the West County Annex after him, and
was talking to his chief of staff on the phone,
and drove up on a physical altercation in the middle
of fourteen eighty eight and downtown Magnolia.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I told Chief.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Montgomery over there, they're going to have to make me
a honorary police officer over there for having to clean
up their streets. But these guys are getting after it,
and I just got out want to prevent any further violence.
And got about halfway up there and figured out they
were playing on guns too, so I figured I would
and get work myself. I guess, I just what makes
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you ready equal playing fields and try to de escalate
that thing. And thankfully they both complied, and I was
able to want to get them both kind of in
custom and get a little bit of help.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Did they know you were a lawman?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And I think it was self evident.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well you're positioning, Uh, you know, your crouch positioning looked like,
if nothing else, he's seen a lot of movies.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh well, you know, I started down to Texas Highway
Patrol and I work my tail off and I would
control work by myself a lot out in the country.
And you know, you figure out when you're when you're there,
nobody's gonna take care of you but you. So you
got to take care of business.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay. So I'm watching from behind, Thank goodness, somebody filmed this,
and I'm funny. I'm watching you in this crouch position,
in that in that that certain style you guys walk
in that I love. I mean, it's it is straight
out of a great movie. It you got pretty close
on him. It looks like before you drew. I guess,
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did you not realize that they there was gunplay going on?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, not until I saw it. I hadn't uh when
I was talking to him. The guy said, when the
smaller guy hit the ground, he pulled the gun at
that time, So I didn't see it when I drove
up until I know, kind of rounded the corner of
the truck there for the first time, I saw it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, And then and you you start barking orders.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I basically wanted them to put the gun down, and
gave him some explicit and direct order, and then he
get him on the ground so I could to get
at least one of them handcuffed and get a little
bit of help.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, I don't know if that big boy had ever
been shot before, but I can tell you he did
not want to be shot. He was holding that gun
as if it was if bolavirus. He had that gun
like he wanted to get rid of it. He did
not want you shooting him. I could tell that he
whatever he needed to do, he was going to comply.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah. I pretty much told him that. I said, Blaze,
don't make me shoot you. I said put it down,
and he was happy to comply. And I was very
happy to see the compliance.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I have heard it said by law enforcement on multiple
occasions that the guy who keeps screaming, put it down,
I'm going to shoot you. Is less frightening to a
person who says, don't make me have to shoot I
don't want to have to shoot you. That for some reason,
psychologic is like racking around of a shotgun. It messes
with the guy's head. I don't know. Do you have
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a thought on that? Do you have a training, a
technique you use on that?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, every situation is different and people get to choose
what happens. We only get to react to that. You know.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I want to say.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Something that I would tell you that you know our death.
These do this day in and out every day put
themselves in that position. And I think all of us
are police officers. You know, everybody carries a badge. No
matter what your job is, your first responsibility is public safety,
and you know, to act on things when you see them.
That's the kind of work we expect from our deputies.
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And I just appreciate what they do every day because
I know they deal with these types of situations every day.
It's just so rare that I might drive up on
something like that.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What were you carrying? What was the weapon in your hand?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I still got a little ranger in me, So I
carry a cult forty.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Five, nineteen eleven. That's a lot of gun.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I hear it. It's a proven performer.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's good. Like that. Tell me what's your biggest challenge
as sheriff has been? Obviously you're not new to law enforcement,
but that's a big agency that you came into. What
has been your biggest challenge that you had not foreseen?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I'll tell you my biggest challenge we're facing today is
our jail is about forty years old, and it was
built to hold about six hundred people, and we're pushing
twelve hundred and fifty three beds in there now. And
we got a vary into my first month or so
here in office, and we're going to add sixty four beds,
which will put us to thirteen hundred and seventeen. Although
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a study done in two thousand and five by the
Texas Jail Commission showed we needed twenty five hundred beds
in twenty twenty five. So we're working with our Commissioner's
Court and hopefully be working with our community to educate
them about our needs to not only arrest bad guys,
but to keep them here and keep them safe. So
they don't continue to disrupt our public.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I have heard it said by Brett Ligan and by
your predecessor and any others officers and deputies that when
folks are arrested in Montgomery County, they will There are
stories of them telling the arresting officer, you know, I'll
be out in a couple hours. No, no, no, you're
in Montgomery County. And some of them are surprised to realize, oh,
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I didn't know this was mcgunn. They don't want to
be arrested in Montgomery.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Absolutely a game changer. I'll tell you. Ratt Ligan does
a wonderful job. Or judges, they do a wonderful job.
But more especially our jurors that volunteer their time to
come to court and to hear these cases and hand
out these convictions and stuff like that. They are They're
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just amazing that people here in Montgomery County do everything
they can to support us, and we certainly appreciate every
one of them.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well, that is it's true that there's such a sense
of community in Montgomery County. I love it someone and
they think that's why it's blowing up. So I think
that's why so many people Republic. Grand Ranches a big
sponsor and supporter of our share. We've done events out
there and it's how many people email me and they've
just bought out there and they're so excited. And law
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enforcement and criminal justice are one of the big reasons
that people love that. I do have to commend to
you before I go. You've got Ryan Droddy on your team.
My brother, who is sheriff's deputy for a very very
long time in Jefferson County, loved those draughty boys, him
and his brother Reagan, so obviously you've got an eye
for good talent.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
He's absolutely awesome. Hey, thank y'all for all that you do,
and thank you for supporting law enforcement and more especially
for us here in Montgomery County. Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Brother, live life, doing it big on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And the kids that are done. Okay, I wanted to
have ever clear play the RCC. It was a stretch.
And so when your kid is looking at universities and
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you know they're barely passing their classes, they may get
kicked out of their school and they tell the school
guidance counselor that they're looking at maybe going to Harvard.
The term in modern education is that might be a stretch.
It's one of us talk about our stretches. That's a stretch.
They it's funny how that word is used. That's not
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my kids. I don't want to suggest that it is.
They also have no interest in going to Harvard. They
think it's a whack job institution. But it was a
stretch for us to get art Alex sexis Alex Saxis
the or to get ever Clear as a band to
come and play the RCC financially, it was gonna be
a stretch. And I knew. I knew I could pack
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the house for Willie Nelson one time, but I didn't
know how our audience would be with Everclear, because it's
a little bit younger. We were going to have to
have some folks, some of the younger folks. By younger,
I mean forty and fifty thirty forty fifty folks were
going to have to show up. And they did and
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it was a success, but I didn't know if they
would play, and then I got worried. I didn't want
them to agree to come and we sign a contract,
we send the deposit, and I sell the tickets and
people are expecting it, and then the day before they arrived,
somebody tells them, oh, he's some right wing, lunatic, racist,
xenophob misogynist, awful person. And so I had a conversation.
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I asked if I could talk to the if I
emailed directly to their agent, and I said, listen, I
want you to google me. I want to make sure
they're comfortable coming to play. He said, oh, we already did.
I appreciate you doing that, but we already did. L
Aright said he's looking forward to it. Didn't say he's
the biggest fan or just he's looking forward to it.
So they came, and Chad has a very strong Portland
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past in addition to being from Hawaii. He went to
a University of Oregon. But he's got a lot of
Portland in him. His mom lives in Portland now, and
Art lives in Portland and sings about it. You know,
the house up on the hill that he's going to
buy his girl, that they go up and look at
that house behind the hill, behind the gates that he's
going to put her in one day. It's they're just dreaming.
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That's all about Portland in a particular neighborhood in Portland,
and everybody knows that. But he spent some time in
Kate and oh, when I say Katie Chaggetts met, what's
the area that just totally went to hell? Huh. He
spent some time in a Leaf growing up, and he
sings about it. And so he came into the studio
that day. Some of you remember we had him on
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the air. We hung out. He talked about a Leaf,
he talked about the show, he talked about their music
and where they were. It was one of it was one.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
It was.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Maybe surprisingly it was one of my favorite experiences of
the RCC was Everclear. Who would have guessed, but I
felt like it was. It was probably a stretch for
both of us personally, with different people. But I love
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his music and I even love their goofy videos, their
video for Wonderful. I mean, I could do without the
dye blonde hair. But you know, look, I look at
it this way. I expect artists to be different. You know,
they shouldn't. They often don't look like the rest of us.
And anyway, that's my story on art. Alex Saxis and
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Everclear and that was a wonderful time. And I'll tell
you the other one that surprised me, But it was early,
So nothing surprises me about what happened early. Because it
is raining. We needed it, You're right, we needed it.
Ramon beat me to it. It's raining out there. Yeah,
we sure needed it. Sure did. And if you're at
the feed store and everybody's having coffee, if you're at
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the Farmer's Mercantile in Orange, Jojo Harris owns it, and
I hadn't been since I was a kid, But I
just imagine I'm glad she owns it because it's an institution.
I wouldn't want it to go away, and it's probably
a lot of hard work as a family run business.
There kind of place it when you open the door
and you know it's all concrete flooring and you open
the door and then the ding ding ding, and you
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know there's guys over in the corner sitting and playing
dominoes or whatever and drinking coffee. It rain't it out
there yet? Yeah, Yeah, looks like it. It just as
I was pulled in, not a lot and then they
like to tell you not a lot. It was. Of
course I thought it, we're gonna get it about an
hour ago. Yeah, we went out and checked my I
(29:44):
thought we were gonna get it, and then we got
the slightest little drizzle, just a little boy driving in.
I was trying to figure out if I was gonna
have to turn on my windshow wipers or right, and
I didn't in it. You know, it just went on dry,
on up, and then I had to stop off the bank.
And then I thought, well, they have any parking because
they got the they're getting ready for the event on Saturday,
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and it being Friday and on they blocked off the parking.
So I said, shoot, I don't want to get you know,
two blocks from the bank, and then I'm stuck in
there and it comes down raining. So I waited five
minutes and then it kind of cleared up. I grabbed
my I didn't have my umbrella, my nephew to it,
so I grabbed the newspaper so I could put it
over my head if it started raining. But I got
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in there and I got out. Of course, they're running
slow right now because lou Ellen is off this week.
She's her mom's been sick. She's home taking care of her,
and she's the only one in there that knows what
the heck's going on. They got they always got somebody
in there. It seems like they got somebody training. Every
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time I'm in there, they got somebody new in their training.
About the time that person gets to figuring out you
know how many quarters should be in a roll and
could give you the cash for it, Well, shoot, she's
moved on. Where'd she go? She took up with some guy.
They've moved to home or slide down or somewhere. And
so anyway, you know, you're in there and you're thinking, Man,
(31:07):
I hate to be rude because you people hurry up
because it's gonna come down. And here I'm gonna be
stuck in here, and I got five things to do
before I pick up. You know, the school's cutting out
early today and I got to be over at eleven fifteen,
and lord knows, if you're not there, miss Jones will
lose her mind. Like you think, we don't have anything
else going on? Lady, you know, can my kids stay
an extra ten minutes? Is it gonna kill y'all? You're
supposed to be in this business. So anyway, I just
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gonna get in here, get some feed, and get out.
But what y'all got going on? Oh? Really, huh, how
are we doing?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You know what, as as I live and breathe while
we're talking, right now, it's coming down. Yeah, we sure did.
We sure needed it. We sure needed it.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
The farmer's got to be grateful. They got to be
grateful because it's this ground's so dry, it has been
so yes, so dry, and my grass is turned brown
and I had put out some hydranges and I it's
it's sad to watch. I like them penguins. Oh yeah,
(32:07):
those are nice too, but uh yeah, well we sure
needed this. Yeah yeah, Well y'all have a good day.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
H m hm
It's that time. Time time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I don't saw the wings. You saw the garage. I
see the garage, but I don't saw the garage. You
are speaking incorrectly. You are more to ring the King's English,
et cetera. See schalk, see shut out.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I think that you punch. I think you punch. I
think you're okay with you.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
You okay, we'll punching, you know, I think, And I
love Colin, and I think towards the end he started
to punch a little harder, but like if there grooves,
I mean, like this dude has to be knots over
the head like hard, right, like there is no nicetas
with him, like at all, Like you you go clean
off on him, right, because we in these hot ass
(00:59):
Texas streets, y'all know, we got governor hot wheels down there,
come on now, and the only thing hot about him
is that he is a hot ass mask honey. So
so yes, yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
You.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Twice three times.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
But the fact that you literally are going to plan
enemy attacks on a signal chat and then you don't
even know who's in the signal chat, and then y'all
want to come at us and act like people of
color are the problem.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
Are that women are the problem.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Like baby, you probably need a good black woman in
the room who can check you and tell you that,
first of all, you shouldn't be doing this on signore
or anything else. But y'all still mad about Hillary Servers?
Speaker 1 (02:01):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Is that what I hear?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
So anyway, Literally, I don't know if like your homeboy
was drunk at the time that he was sending these
messages or what, but clearly this administration is not ready
for prime time. There has been no oppression for the
white man in this country. You'll tell me which white
(02:25):
men were dragged out of their homes. You'll tell me
which one of them got dragged all the way across
an ocean and told that you are gonna go at work,
We are gonna seal your wives, we are gonna rape
your wives. That didn't happen. That is oppression. We didn't
ask to be here. Were not the same migrants that
(02:47):
y'all constantly come up against. We didn't run away from home.
We were stolen. So yeah, we are gonna sit here
and be offended. When you want to sit here and
act like and and don't let it escape you that
it is white man on this side of the aisle
telling us people of color on this side of the aisle,
(03:07):
that that y'all are the ones being oppressed, that y'all
are the ones that are being harmed your rooms twice
three times.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
There is a video going around of the Sheriff of
Montgomery County, Wesley Doolittle. There was a road rage incident
and the sheriff rolls up on it himself. It's in magnolia,
I believe, and he makes a felony stop himself and
(03:48):
takes the guys down. The video is is pretty good.
Somebody had the good sense to put inner circles, bad
boys behind it. If Wesley too Little has a he
had to. He had a. He beat uh Ran Henderson,
who was the sitting sheriff, who I endorsed and supported
(04:10):
because I knew him and liked him. I did not
know Doolittle. Uh Most of the people that I know
we're supporting do Little the challenger. But I was committed
to my candidate, and I stuck with my candidate and
do Little one and the voice of the voters is
what matters. I've since gotten to know him, and I
really liked the guy. I really like him. But he
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he's a he's a retired Texas ranger. And you know,
people will tell you about a cops, cops and veterans.
If you ask him about somebody that has a reputation
as a copper, a veteran, they'll tell you the truth
of that guy's a bluffer bluster, you know. They they
don't mind telling you. They'll talk bad about each other
(04:56):
in a second off the air, off the record, and
people said, no, this guy's This guy's a real real deal.
We we've gotten to know each other and I like
him a lot. But if he's running for reelection at
some point, I don't care who's running against him. All
you have to do is show that video. I mean this,
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that's to see a sheriff take somebody down his own
dang self. Yeah, that's that's Uh, that's Wesley do a
lot Ramon, not do little? Am I right?
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (05:30):
I just found out that one of his captains, or
maybe the captain over patrol at the Moco Montgomery County
Sheriff's Office, is Ryan Drodty And that makes me very happy.
You've probably heard me say the name Reagan Rotti. The
Droughty twins were DPS troopers, and to say that my
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brother worshiped those two boys is not an exaggeration. In fact,
I used to tell him, Chris, you're too queer for
them Droughty boys. He's stupid. You need to meet him,
and they're great, They're awesome. And then I knew I
was under his skin, so now I had to prod him.
Reagan Droddy, the brother, is the one I told you
the story. I think I can get through it now.
(06:14):
But the first time I told you the day he retired,
he pulled over side of the road and was crying
because he and my brother had planned out what they
were going to do on the day they retired, and
now he was retiring. My brother wasn't there. Yeah, that's
those Droughty boys. But anyway, if Doolittle has brought Ryan
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Droddy to be the captain over patrol in the Woodlands
for Montgomery County Sheriff's Department, he's bringing in good people
and that's good. Anyway, I don't know, something got lost
in the mix. I asked him if he could come
on the show to talk about this takedown. I actually
first heard about it from somebody on Magnolia Police Department
because I guess it happened in Magnolia, and they made
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him an honorary Magnolia Police and I sent back, well,
that's good, but I'm right here. I mean, Ramona and
I are available. Hello. Well, we got to take somebody
down in the road rage, we got to earn it. Yeah, well,
I do need to know what close uniform, you know.
I'm I'm increasingly of the opinion that I'm I'm liking
(07:21):
going back to the black black as a uniform. The
distinctive baby blue for HPD is good, but I don't
think it sends the right message. I don't think it
says I'll shoot you. Okay, we're not playing any tort reform,
I mean any bail bond reform. I'll shoot you. I
will shoot you, and you'll be shot and then you'll
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know you've been shot. And I think black with maybe
some gold piping. I think that's good. Yeah, I think
that'd be real, real nice. I like the boots as
a look, but let's be honest. In Houston, you got
to give chase and theraphics suggests that if it's me
(08:02):
and the demographics suggests I'm already at a disadvantage. You
know what I'm saying. I mean because I'm older, Ramone, mean,
because I'm older. I got a lot to tell you
about seagulls, which I will do in just a moment.
You know why they fly over the sea, Ramon? I know,
but people, because if they flew over the bay, they'd
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be bagel.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Y'all.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Yeah, that's the one. Can I know you don't like
me to spell things out because there's ten percent or so.
That was the Walton and Johnson will was It was
that a ten percent or one percent? One percent. My
(08:46):
name is Tempersent. They that is a very underrated show
for the influence they had on myned FM morning talk
and talk shows. I mean, I don't know how much
influence they had on me because I love the show
(09:09):
and listen. I remember my brother would call. They would
do the Taser report, and my brother would would call
me and he'd go, this was before I was in radio,
and I had never met him. He said, you know
these guys Walton and Johnson, have you ever met him? No?
And they are And he'd be laughing as he said
it because he was just a listener. He was an
unashamed listener and a fan. And I'd say, no, I
(09:33):
don't know him. What is the point And he'd say, uh, man,
they do this Taser report and they play Shock the
Monkey and it's funny. It's all good. You gotta listen,
you gotta listen. Of course I didn't because I'm hard
headed and I don't think anybody, especially my brother, can
tell me anything. And then I'd go back later and listen.
And then I realized I should have liked our Friday
drive home show. The first time he called and said,
(09:55):
I got I got the song for you, Friday Drive
Homes by a band called BlackBerry Smoke. You ever heard of? Nope,
it's great, you got it. You got to listen to it.
It's called a good one coming on. I said, okay, Chris,
do you want me to come tell you how to
arrest people or what to do in a situation in
(10:16):
a standoff? No, you don't, because that's what you're good at.
Now I'll handle this. And then at some point I
heard it and oh, crap, he's right, but gott to
use that. It's fantastic, And now I view it as
a tribute to him, and it makes me think of
him every Friday evening. Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, oh,
Ramon doesn't like me to tell why he does what
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he does with us with the background music or the
bumps or whatever. But that was block of seagulls. So
occasionally I had to tell you so that some people
be more mindful to be listening. There's always a reason
behind everything. And the song was Iran, not the country
it was. That's, you know, a noun and a verb.
Friend of mine murdered hundreds of seagulls in the nineties.
(10:57):
I don't remember all the details, but here's the cliffs
cliffs notes. He took a job as a dispatcher truck
route manager for a waste company. They washed the garbage
trucks daily. Their truck yard was at the dump. Seagulls
were constantly crapping on the trucks. He decided to thin
out the herd a little bit. Only wanted to kill
six or seven birds to make them leave, not six
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or seven hundred. He brought a lawn fertilizer spreader from
home and a bunch of rat poison. Mixed the rat
poison with I think bird seed, but I don't remember
it was something they would eat. He broadcasted it all
over the parking lot. Good use of broadcast in a
lawn and garden sense that afternoon. The next morning, there
were dead seagulls all around the dump and in the
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nearby neighborhood. The Popo and health department were investigating, thinking
it may have been a pandemic. He came clean, gotten
some kind of charge or fine. I don't remember. Anyhow,
They didn't have any seagulls at the dump for a
long time. Why would you call them clean? Nobody knows
it's you. If it was the nineties, they didn't have cameras.
All right, sir, we're doing an investigation on all these
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dead seagulls. That's a damnedest thing, isn't it. Yeah? Did
you have anything to do with it? Lord?
Speaker 2 (12:08):
No?
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Isn't it a crime to kill seagulls according to the
Migratory Migratory Bird Treaty Act of nineteen eighteen. I'm just
reading that just a while back. I think they just got,
you know, like bird flew or something. I don't know.
Nancy says, yes, it is a fifteen thousand dollars fine
anywhere in the United States to kill a seagull is
illegal for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of nineteen eighteen,
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and no killing one seagull in an area won't keep
others away. Clark writes, I don't know about killing seagulls,
but we ran the birds out of my buddy Doug's
yard in South Louisiana growing up. They have a cluster
of pine trees in the backyard, and in the early
eighties we plucked them off with bb and pellict guns
until the birds wouldn't fly into those trees any longer.
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Cheryl says it's unlikely that a gull someone killed will
scare away other gulls. They are opportunistic eaters and scavengers.
They will feed on their own species. I had a
number of people tell me, if you think killing a
seagull is going to get other seagulls to go away,
you're wrong. They will eat their own seagull. Seagulls are
protected throughout the US under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act
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of nineteen eighteen. This protection is due to their coastal
nesting habitats being potentially under threat, which could impact their
population numbers if breeding grounds are destroyed. Please don't use
impact as a verb in emails to me, just a
personal favor. Jeff says, as far as killing one and
leaving it to word off others, that won't work. We
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catch them all the time on our lines off the dock.
Once you get one on your line, it's very loud
and an exciting experience. The one snage goes crazy and
draws in dozens of other seagulls. You need to cover
their heads with a towel, otherwise they'll bite the crap
out of you and it hurts. I've never intentionally killed one,
but I do know during the chad bait fish die
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off each year in the canals, there are thousands of
gulls that gorge themselves for days. Several eat themselves to
death and die on the spot. Dozens of dead birds
along the bulkheads and on the docks. They do not
have any concern for their dead. They will stay till
the last chat is gone with the tides. Fun fact,
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they taste like bald eagle, but a bit dry. James writes,
I don't know if it's federal or state, but seagulls
are protected like vultures. They pick up dead animals and
trash off the beaches and sides of waterways. They're considered scavengers.
I know for a fact that if you shoot a seagull,
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the other seagulls will not run away. They will, in fact,
try to eat the dead seagull. You know what people
don't do anymore that they used to do. They don't
go out with the metal detectors. That was a term
for that. Like, there were societies of people when I
was a kid. You would go, you'd be driving along
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and they'd be a white man approximately fifty eight in overweight,
and he was he would be out with what looked
like a weed eater and it would be strapped to
his shoulder and he'd be out there just running it
over the ground. And if you ever talked to one
of those guys, you better be prepared to spend forty
seven hours listening because they love to talk about it.
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But people don't do that anymore. Those guys just died off.
I guess those were the guys that retired after thirty
years at the plant or as a cop and drove
the country with mRNA. He and Murna just got in
an RV and they just drove and they know every
koa from here to Oregon, and they just drove and
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drove and drove, and he wore shorts and tube socks
and comfortable shoes from Mephisto or sas Clay Rights. I
was intrigued by your story of the playing of White
Christmas as a signal to leave Nam fifty years ago.
Turns out they couldn't find the Bing Crosby version and
they had to play Tennessee Ernie Ford. Mostly, he says,
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that's true story. It shouldn't be heroic for the sheriff
could take down to idiots during a felony road rage incident.
But sadly, we've got sheriffs that won't even arrest people,
and we've got sheriffs that sit behind a desk, and
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we've got sheriffs that well make Wesley Doolittle hero for
doing exactly that. Welcome to the show, Sheriff.
Speaker 4 (16:41):
Hey, good morning, are y'all?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
I'm good?
Speaker 4 (16:44):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Is this the first time we've had you on since
you won your election? Yes? Okay, well, congratulations, As I
do not hide behind I endorsed your opponent campaign for
your opponent never said anything ill of you. I didn't
I'd never heard anything ill of you, But you won
that election fair and square, and I only hear good
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things about your leadership there from within the department and
the community, so I want to make sure I got
that out there.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Well, I appreciate you. You know, politics are a fickle thing,
and I saw a need to run for sure, and
aggressively saw to work my butt off. And now I'm here,
so I'm enjoying it, and I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
Tell me what happened yesterday and Magnolia.
Speaker 4 (17:29):
Well, brother, I just really be honest with me. I
was driving out there for a building dedication for sure
Tommy Gage renamed the West County Annex after him, and
was talking to his chief of staff on the phone,
and drove up on a physical altercation in the middle
of fourteen eighty eight and downtown Magnolia.
Speaker 1 (17:49):
I told Chief.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Montgomery over there, they're going to have to make me
a honorary police officer over there for having to clean
up their streets. But these guys are getting after it,
and I just got out want to prevent any further violence.
And got about halfway up there and figured out they
were playing on guns too, so I figured I would
and get work myself. I guess, I just what makes
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you ready equal playing fields and try to de escalate
that thing. And thankfully they both complied, and I was
able to want to get them both kind of in
custom and get a little bit of help.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Did they know you were a lawman?
Speaker 4 (18:26):
And I think it was self evident.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Well you're positioning, Uh, you know, your crouch positioning looked like,
if nothing else, he's seen a lot of movies.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Oh well, you know, I started down to Texas Highway
Patrol and I work my tail off and I would
control work by myself a lot out in the country.
And you know, you figure out when you're when you're there,
nobody's gonna take care of you but you. So you
got to take care of business.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
Okay. So I'm watching from behind, Thank goodness, somebody filmed this,
and I'm funny. I'm watching you in this crouch position,
in that in that that certain style you guys walk
in that I love. I mean, it's it is straight
out of a great movie. It you got pretty close
on him. It looks like before you drew. I guess,
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did you not realize that they there was gunplay going on?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Well, not until I saw it. I hadn't uh when
I was talking to him. The guy said, when the
smaller guy hit the ground, he pulled the gun at
that time, So I didn't see it when I drove
up until I know, kind of rounded the corner of
the truck there for the first time, I saw it.
Speaker 1 (19:34):
All right, And then and you you start barking orders.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
I basically wanted them to put the gun down, and
gave him some explicit and direct order, and then he
get him on the ground so I could to get
at least one of them handcuffed and get a little
bit of help.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Well, I don't know if that big boy had ever
been shot before, but I can tell you he did
not want to be shot. He was holding that gun
as if it was if bolavirus. He had that gun
like he wanted to get rid of it. He did
not want you shooting him. I could tell that he
whatever he needed to do, he was going to comply.
Speaker 4 (20:12):
Yeah. I pretty much told him that. I said, Blaze,
don't make me shoot you. I said put it down,
and he was happy to comply. And I was very
happy to see the compliance.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
I have heard it said by law enforcement on multiple
occasions that the guy who keeps screaming, put it down,
I'm going to shoot you. Is less frightening to a
person who says, don't make me have to shoot I
don't want to have to shoot you. That for some reason,
psychologic is like racking around of a shotgun. It messes
with the guy's head. I don't know. Do you have
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a thought on that? Do you have a training, a
technique you use on that?
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, every situation is different and people get to choose
what happens. We only get to react to that. You know.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
I want to say.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Something that I would tell you that you know our death.
These do this day in and out every day put
themselves in that position. And I think all of us
are police officers. You know, everybody carries a badge. No
matter what your job is, your first responsibility is public safety,
and you know, to act on things when you see them.
That's the kind of work we expect from our deputies.
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And I just appreciate what they do every day because
I know they deal with these types of situations every day.
It's just so rare that I might drive up on
something like that.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
What were you carrying? What was the weapon in your hand?
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I still got a little ranger in me, So I
carry a cult forty.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Five, nineteen eleven. That's a lot of gun.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I hear it. It's a proven performer.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
That's good. Like that. Tell me what's your biggest challenge
as sheriff has been? Obviously you're not new to law enforcement,
but that's a big agency that you came into. What
has been your biggest challenge that you had not foreseen?
Speaker 4 (22:08):
I'll tell you my biggest challenge we're facing today is
our jail is about forty years old, and it was
built to hold about six hundred people, and we're pushing
twelve hundred and fifty three beds in there now. And
we got a vary into my first month or so
here in office, and we're going to add sixty four beds,
which will put us to thirteen hundred and seventeen. Although
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a study done in two thousand and five by the
Texas Jail Commission showed we needed twenty five hundred beds
in twenty twenty five. So we're working with our Commissioner's
Court and hopefully be working with our community to educate
them about our needs to not only arrest bad guys,
but to keep them here and keep them safe. So
they don't continue to disrupt our public.
Speaker 1 (22:54):
I have heard it said by Brett Ligan and by
your predecessor and any others officers and deputies that when
folks are arrested in Montgomery County, they will There are
stories of them telling the arresting officer, you know, I'll
be out in a couple hours. No, no, no, you're
in Montgomery County. And some of them are surprised to realize, oh,
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I didn't know this was mcgunn. They don't want to
be arrested in Montgomery.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
Absolutely a game changer. I'll tell you. Ratt Ligan does
a wonderful job. Or judges, they do a wonderful job.
But more especially our jurors that volunteer their time to
come to court and to hear these cases and hand
out these convictions and stuff like that. They are They're
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just amazing that people here in Montgomery County do everything
they can to support us, and we certainly appreciate every
one of them.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Well, that is it's true that there's such a sense
of community in Montgomery County. I love it someone and
they think that's why it's blowing up. So I think
that's why so many people Republic. Grand Ranches a big
sponsor and supporter of our share. We've done events out
there and it's how many people email me and they've
just bought out there and they're so excited. And law
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enforcement and criminal justice are one of the big reasons
that people love that. I do have to commend to
you before I go. You've got Ryan Droddy on your team.
My brother, who is sheriff's deputy for a very very
long time in Jefferson County, loved those draughty boys, him
and his brother Reagan, so obviously you've got an eye
for good talent.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
He's absolutely awesome. Hey, thank y'all for all that you do,
and thank you for supporting law enforcement and more especially
for us here in Montgomery County. Y'all have a great day.
Speaker 2 (24:41):
Brother, live life, doing it big on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
And the kids that are done. Okay, I wanted to
have ever clear play the RCC. It was a stretch.
And so when your kid is looking at universities and
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you know they're barely passing their classes, they may get
kicked out of their school and they tell the school
guidance counselor that they're looking at maybe going to Harvard.
The term in modern education is that might be a stretch.
It's one of us talk about our stretches. That's a stretch.
They it's funny how that word is used. That's not
(25:32):
my kids. I don't want to suggest that it is.
They also have no interest in going to Harvard. They
think it's a whack job institution. But it was a
stretch for us to get art Alex sexis Alex Saxis
the or to get ever Clear as a band to
come and play the RCC financially, it was gonna be
a stretch. And I knew. I knew I could pack
(25:53):
the house for Willie Nelson one time, but I didn't
know how our audience would be with Everclear, because it's
a little bit younger. We were going to have to
have some folks, some of the younger folks. By younger,
I mean forty and fifty thirty forty fifty folks were
going to have to show up. And they did and
(26:15):
it was a success, but I didn't know if they
would play, and then I got worried. I didn't want
them to agree to come and we sign a contract,
we send the deposit, and I sell the tickets and
people are expecting it, and then the day before they arrived,
somebody tells them, oh, he's some right wing, lunatic, racist,
xenophob misogynist, awful person. And so I had a conversation.
(26:40):
I asked if I could talk to the if I
emailed directly to their agent, and I said, listen, I
want you to google me. I want to make sure
they're comfortable coming to play. He said, oh, we already did.
I appreciate you doing that, but we already did. L
Aright said he's looking forward to it. Didn't say he's
the biggest fan or just he's looking forward to it.
So they came, and Chad has a very strong Portland
(27:05):
past in addition to being from Hawaii. He went to
a University of Oregon. But he's got a lot of
Portland in him. His mom lives in Portland now, and
Art lives in Portland and sings about it. You know,
the house up on the hill that he's going to
buy his girl, that they go up and look at
that house behind the hill, behind the gates that he's
going to put her in one day. It's they're just dreaming.
(27:26):
That's all about Portland in a particular neighborhood in Portland,
and everybody knows that. But he spent some time in
Kate and oh, when I say Katie Chaggetts met, what's
the area that just totally went to hell? Huh. He
spent some time in a Leaf growing up, and he
sings about it. And so he came into the studio
that day. Some of you remember we had him on
(27:47):
the air. We hung out. He talked about a Leaf,
he talked about the show, he talked about their music
and where they were. It was one of it was one.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
It was.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Maybe surprisingly it was one of my favorite experiences of
the RCC was Everclear. Who would have guessed, but I
felt like it was. It was probably a stretch for
both of us personally, with different people. But I love
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his music and I even love their goofy videos, their
video for Wonderful. I mean, I could do without the
dye blonde hair. But you know, look, I look at
it this way. I expect artists to be different. You know,
they shouldn't. They often don't look like the rest of us.
And anyway, that's my story on art. Alex Saxis and
(28:39):
Everclear and that was a wonderful time. And I'll tell
you the other one that surprised me, But it was early,
So nothing surprises me about what happened early. Because it
is raining. We needed it, You're right, we needed it.
Ramon beat me to it. It's raining out there. Yeah,
we sure needed it. Sure did. And if you're at
the feed store and everybody's having coffee, if you're at
(29:03):
the Farmer's Mercantile in Orange, Jojo Harris owns it, and
I hadn't been since I was a kid, But I
just imagine I'm glad she owns it because it's an institution.
I wouldn't want it to go away, and it's probably
a lot of hard work as a family run business.
There kind of place it when you open the door
and you know it's all concrete flooring and you open
the door and then the ding ding ding, and you
(29:24):
know there's guys over in the corner sitting and playing
dominoes or whatever and drinking coffee. It rain't it out
there yet? Yeah, Yeah, looks like it. It just as
I was pulled in, not a lot and then they
like to tell you not a lot. It was. Of
course I thought it, we're gonna get it about an
hour ago. Yeah, we went out and checked my I
(29:44):
thought we were gonna get it, and then we got
the slightest little drizzle, just a little boy driving in.
I was trying to figure out if I was gonna
have to turn on my windshow wipers or right, and
I didn't in it. You know, it just went on dry,
on up, and then I had to stop off the bank.
And then I thought, well, they have any parking because
they got the they're getting ready for the event on Saturday,
(30:05):
and it being Friday and on they blocked off the parking.
So I said, shoot, I don't want to get you know,
two blocks from the bank, and then I'm stuck in
there and it comes down raining. So I waited five
minutes and then it kind of cleared up. I grabbed
my I didn't have my umbrella, my nephew to it,
so I grabbed the newspaper so I could put it
over my head if it started raining. But I got
(30:27):
in there and I got out. Of course, they're running
slow right now because lou Ellen is off this week.
She's her mom's been sick. She's home taking care of her,
and she's the only one in there that knows what
the heck's going on. They got they always got somebody
in there. It seems like they got somebody training. Every
(30:47):
time I'm in there, they got somebody new in their training.
About the time that person gets to figuring out you
know how many quarters should be in a roll and
could give you the cash for it, Well, shoot, she's
moved on. Where'd she go? She took up with some guy.
They've moved to home or slide down or somewhere. And
so anyway, you know, you're in there and you're thinking, Man,
(31:07):
I hate to be rude because you people hurry up
because it's gonna come down. And here I'm gonna be
stuck in here, and I got five things to do
before I pick up. You know, the school's cutting out
early today and I got to be over at eleven fifteen,
and lord knows, if you're not there, miss Jones will
lose her mind. Like you think, we don't have anything
else going on? Lady, you know, can my kids stay
an extra ten minutes? Is it gonna kill y'all? You're
supposed to be in this business. So anyway, I just
(31:29):
gonna get in here, get some feed, and get out.
But what y'all got going on? Oh? Really, huh, how
are we doing?
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Well?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
You know what, as as I live and breathe while
we're talking, right now, it's coming down. Yeah, we sure did.
We sure needed it. We sure needed it.
Speaker 2 (31:47):
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
The farmer's got to be grateful. They got to be
grateful because it's this ground's so dry, it has been
so yes, so dry, and my grass is turned brown
and I had put out some hydranges and I it's
it's sad to watch. I like them penguins. Oh yeah,
(32:07):
those are nice too, but uh yeah, well we sure
needed this. Yeah yeah, Well y'all have a good day.
Speaker 4 (32:14):
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