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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael vari show is on the air several times
over the years, I've told the story of my father.
The last time he drove, the diabetes got the better
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of him and his blood sugar had dropped and he
didn't realize it, and he was driving from Orange to Beaumont.
I bought him a new truck, was the first new
vehicle he'd ever had, and he loved it so much.
He just made excuses to drive around places. And there
he was driving in his truck over to Beaumont, and
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he was on it at about Rose City, and his
blood sugar had dropped to the point. If you've never
been around this, you don't know what it's like. But
his blood sugar dropped to the point that he start
eventually goes into a like a seizure and goes unconscious.
It's very, very dangerous, but it's never happened while he
was driving. It happened in the middle of the night.
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Because his blood sugar is his pump is releasing too
much insulin and it's attacking the sugar and sugar is
going too low. So that day he just hadn't eaten enough,
or maybe had too much insulin, and we don't know,
so he must have been trying to stop. He doesn't remember,
and he has his foot on the brakes in the
middle of the highway. He's discombobulated at this moment. It's
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like you're extremely drunk, except he doesn't drink, and it's
ten o'clock in the morning. And eventually, as he goes
in and out of consciousness, his foot comes off the
break and the car begins rolling. The truck begins rolling,
reals slow. Two different guys, two different vehicles jump out,
and they're trying to get into the vehicle, but he's
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got the windows locked and he can't help them. One
of them smashes out the back cross through throws it
into gear. They get him moved over to the side.
The guy happens to have nursing training and gets some
orange juice that he keeps in the console there in
case something ever happens. Saved my dad's life. Most people
drove by. Those two guys stopped, and you think about,
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just sometimes in life, how grateful you My dad wouldn't
be here today but for that. We're all in a
place at a time where we're supposed to be and
you just never know when you're going to have an
opportunity to change or even save a life. Liberty County
Sheriff's Office posted yesterday. On April sixteenth, twenty twenty five,
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Deputy Austin Wistman was headed home from an extra job
when he observed a vehicle occupied by a mail driver
who was driving a raddic. Deputy Whisman conducted a traffic
stop on the v vehicle for the traffic violation rule.
Can you ask him if it's Whispman or Wiseman, it's
Whisma n Upon contacting the driver and only occupant of
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the vehicle, Deputy Whispman could tell that the driver was
very emotional and appeared to be distressed, so he asked
the driver if he was okay. The driver began speaking
with Deputy Whispman and explained to him that he had
just retired from the military after serving for twenty two years.
He then told Deputy Whisman that his wife of nineteen
years had just left him and he was having a
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very bad night, to the point that he was planning
on taking his own life. When he got home, Deputy
Wispman sat on the side of the road and spoke
with the mail for several minutes to help him take
a different path. By the end of the conversation, the
mail looked at Deputy Whisman and told him that he
was his saving angel. The mail also told Deputy Whisman
that had it not been for his kindness and compassion
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in the situation he was in, that he would have
gone home and carried out his plans of ending his
own life. The morning after the Star, Deputy Whisman was
informed by his lieutenant that the mail from the Traffic
Stuff had brought him a gift and a note. The
mail gave Deputy Whisman an official US Naval True North
compass that was presented to him at his last post
as chief. The note read as follows, Austin, sometimes when
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we're fighting demons, God sends us help. I was in
a hurry to complete a mission, but you stopped me
and you lent a kind ear. You treated me with compassion,
dignity and respect. Popo, he said, POOPO get a bad
rap these days, but you're the kind we need. Please
accept this coin as a small token of my gratitude. Wow.
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Deputy Austin Wisman of the Liberty County Sheriff's department. I
don't know whether to say congratulations, wow, baby, I'm a maid.
I don't know how to react. That's incredible, just incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You're up, sir, are you It's a it's a good
feeling to know, you know, are you able to I
am not, no, sir.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
How long have you been a Sheriff's devide?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I'm right at six and a half years.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
What made you want to serve?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Uh? My sister actually being my role model that she is. Uh,
she's a cop as well, and uh, when I was
in high school, that's when she started her law enforcement career.
And I just remember seeing her uniform one day and
I was like, man, that's that's really cool. I want
to do that. And so I just kind of followed
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in her footsteps.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And what is your usual shift? What time did did
this happen? And what is your usual I'm and I
guess you get you serve on a day shift and
then you have an extra job in the evening.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So, yes, I was. I typically worked a five am
to four pm shift. That extra job was actually a
church revival I was working, and I was headed home
from that and it was actually I was headed home.
It was about ten PM. I'm never out that late.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So do you allow yourself to listen to dis sermon
at the revival and clap along or do you try
to just not listen so that you stay focused on
the core mission.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I typically pay attention to working because that's what I'm
there for. I will listen, but my mind stays focused
on I'm here for a job.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And how often do you work that extra job that
one was?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's not that often. They just happened to be in
town that week.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Do you have other their extra jobs?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I do. I don't work any churches. I just do
traffic control stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And that's for Liberty County or for other counties, or
just like it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It's in Chambers County. It's just just a little side gig.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay. What do you like most about being a Sheriff's tipty?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well, when I started this, because I've got a pass
like most people do. When I started this, I always
wanted to be different and the help I needed when
I was before I was a cop was what I
wanted to offer people. Go the extra step and go
the extra mile and let people feel like they actually
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have someone that has their back, not someone that just
feels annoyed or someone that doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's an interesting perspective. Hold with me for just a moment.
Austin Wistman, Pretty County Sheriff's deputys. I guess John Michael.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Many more things.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Values a million dollars record sales.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Now, Austin Wistman is our guest Deputy Whistman, Uh, tell
me what happened that night.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I was, I was driving home from my extra job
and I looked at my review and I saw this
truck just lying up on me. So I kind of
hit my back lights just to say, you know, hey,
cop sitting here, you know, going a little fast, and
this truck he just didn't let up. He just blew
my doors off, and I was like, well, I can't
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kind of blind out of that, so conducted traffic stop
on him. He pulls over, and I walked up to
the truck and I give him the bill a lie,
I'm stopping him, and I could tell he was he
was upset, but I mean, most people don't like getting
pulled over, so you know, I asked him for his
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identification and all that, and he, uh, he hands it
to me, and I could tell he was. This was
more than just I got pulled over. You know, I
made a small mistake. I could tell there was actually
something wrong. Thought just asked him, like, you know, is
everything okay, and he was just I mean for a
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second he was like, you know, start really talking back.
And then he just I was like, man, you know,
he's kind of like, I'm having a really bad night.
I just kind of stood there and I was like, well,
I mean, what's going on? You know, I mean, I've
been doing this long enough. I know when there ever,
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you can stop being a copy, you can start being
a person. You can tell when someone's just legitimately just
having a bad night. So we just sat there and
we talked, and he just told me about his time
he was in the military and he just retired and
he was with his wife for almost his entire military career,
and she decided she was up and leaving him. And
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he told me, you know, he was upset, and he
was like, I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna go home
and I'm gonna I'm gonna end this. And I was like, well,
there's you know, there's different paths we can. Let's find
a different way other than that we can there's definitely
something better. So we sat there and we talked and
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brought up other things that's worth living for. And at
the end of it, he was like, God puts you here.
You know you you're my saving angel. You were I
feel like you were meant to be here to stop
me tonight from going home and doing what I plan
on doing. And uh I got his phone number that
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night and I told him like, I'm gonna I'm going
to reach out to you tomorrow. I want to I
want to check on you, and uh I did. I
end up talking to him the next day, and that
was after he had dropped off the coin and the
note at the Sheriff's office that my lieutenant gave me,
and I called him and the first thing he said
was he was like, hey, man, did you get that
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that coin? And I was like, yeah, I did. I
was like, you don't mean you didn't have to do that.
That's I really appreciate it. And he explained to me,
you know what that coin meant, and I was like, man,
that's awesome, you know, but I mean, that was it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So when the Liberty County Sheriff's Department posted the story
on Facebook, what happened from there.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, I got employee of the months the sheriff during
our monthly meeting, you know, read it out. My sergeant
sent into the sheriff and was like, this is a
really good deed and I think, you know, Deputy Wiston
should get employees the months of this. And so they
gave it to me and they shared just the story
on Facebook. The sheriff does that from time to time,
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you know, he likes to share certain things or however,
you know, and so he shared it and I was like,
that's cool. I like that because it is a good
feeling to know that you did something good, especially in
a time where you know, concert just looked down on
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like we're the bad guys now. And it blew up
so big that actually called my sergeant last night and
I was like, this is blowing up to be huge,
like way bigger than I ever thought it was going
to be. And it just took me by surprise, you know,
because I never I don't do this job for the recking.
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I don't do it for pats on the back, you know.
I do it to serve to help my community better
and just to be a public servant, you know, give
back where I can and just do what I can
to be better, you know, and be there for anyone
that needs it. So for this to blow up the
way it did, and everyone just seeing all the good
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comments of everyone just saying, you know, good for you,
And I feel like it's putting a little faith back
in us in law enforcement to know that not all
of us are bad. And I like that because not
all of us are bad. There's a lot most of
us are good, and there's just bad apples. And you know,
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we're not out here just to be ticket writers and
take people to jail. And I want people to remember too,
even with this story, that at the end of the day,
I'm a guy with the job to do, but I
can still reason with you, and I can get down
on your level as a person and we can figure
this out together.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
That veteran agreed to come on for a minute or
so and just share his thoughts as to how he
felt after you arguably saved his life. They get away,
my man. Thanks Michael.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Well, first of all, I've already talked to Austin and
he knows how much I appreciate him, but I'll take
this opportunity to thank him again. He talks about how
there's bad apples out there, and there's bad apples in
every community, and sometimes they give the whole community a
bad name. But Austin is an example of one of
the good ones. And yeah, I said, Popo, it was
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kind of to be silly, but also that's.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What I say.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Well, he's real, he's a genuine person. And you know,
he told me last night that he was a little
bit uncomfortable with the kind of recognition that he was
getting for this and how much it was going up.
And you know, often it's the ones who don't seek
the accolades who deserve them the most. And so Austin
and you know, God bless you man.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing a great job
out there.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
And Michael for you, just thanks for the opportunity and
thanks for sharing Austin's story in my story, because at
the end of the day, we get so much negative
publicity for our people and uniform, you know, and it's
good for people to be out there highlighting the ones
that are actually doing good out there. So God bless
the both of you. Thank you for this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
You know, I'm a big believer veteran if that when
your life is saved or spared. That that's God's way
of saying, now live in my service from here on out.
I have given you a second chance. And keep that
in mind with every single thing you do going forward,
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and let that drive your decisions. And be a servant
of God, a servant of others, be a person. You
and I talked about you joining a church after all
this happened. But let that God, your life, your pain,
make you the next Austin Wistman for somebody else somewhere
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down the road. That would be my prayer for you. Guys.
Thank you for being on with us. I hope a
lot of officers heard this and think differently next time
they make a stop. And I hope a lot of
people who are stopped will realize that guy's there to help,
not hurt. He really is just trying to go home
to his own family. Target has announced that they are
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ending their self checkout due to too much theft shoplifting
in their stores. Ha, that's funny. It's not the self
checkout that's causing the shoplifting. It's shoplifters shoplifting and you
not doing anything about it. Companies decided that when you
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steal from the store. They're not going to stop. You
remember the Lululemon story. An employee and a manager of
Lululemon stopped a thief from stealing clothes from the store
because we were all raised that's not what you do,
that's not right, you shouldn't do that. And they fired
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those employees for stopping them, as they stole all these clothes,
well from the Houston stores alone. They recently stole in
one day fifty five thousand dollars worth of stuff. Of
course it's Lululemon, that's just a couple of yoga pants.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
But still.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
The problem with these companies is, this is the problem
with all of the bad guys today, protesters, shoplifters, thugs,
blm Antifa, murders. Is everyone is relying on them to stop.
But if they don't stop, eventually they kill you, your business, yourself.
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Eventually you have to pull out a gun and shoot them.
There's nothing short of that. Eventually they push too far.
So in New York City the crime has gotten so bad.
I saw yesterday Walmart is I think Walmart's closing every
store in Portland. I believe that's right, maybe every store
in Oregon. I was scanning headlines. But it was Walmart
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closing a bunch of stores, and not because the stores
don't make money, but because well the theft. That may
not make money because of the theft, but Walmart doesn't
typically close stores. So in New York City, the mayor
is his big idea is they're giving an alarm button
to the bodegas, the little corner shops where you get
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your you know, illegally buy your pot, but it's where
you buy you know, your various items on the corner.
And these bodegas are the lifeblood of neighborhoods and they're
being they're being mugged, they're having everything stolen, they're being
held at gunpoint. So they're getting a button that the
city is paying for to go there. That'll be a
hotline to the cops. Well what's gonna happen when the
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cops show up? Well, you might have to arrest somebody,
and if a guy doesn't want to be arrested, you
might have to shoot him. Well, there we are back again.
Surely your liquor has thoughts.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
You heard that New York City finally fit the cracked down.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Uh somebody cracked down?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Well, the mayor up there, you remember that man I
told he's about and Mayor Adams he come out with
a new plan. He gonna install five hundred bulldog alarms
all over the city.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
What that's gonna do.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Well, anytime a bull dog in danger or anything, or
somebody threatening, harass or do something with the move down
there alarm will go off and the police to show
up in there.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Uh that took care of it. Well, that's I love
a good idea. Issues I need to do. I had
already went to the restaurant. Girl, get off the floor. Beth,
you are on the Michael Berry Show, Beth on Sonic?
You're up? What you got on Sonic?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Beth?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I think it's Jan. It's who I think it's Jan?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Is your name?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Jan?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yes it is?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, he wrote, Beth. How do you Oh, you weren't
sure how to spell it, so you spelled Jan b
E t H. What did you call about son.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Well, I was listening to it as I was driving home,
so I couldn't call it then.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But he was.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
He's a very proficient writer, and he got to consider
writing as a as a new career because it was Oh, yes,
the sonate.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Ramon wrote sonic and I got it. I gotta said,
we're gonna have a Cherry live aide story.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He was a good writer, I have to That's why
I read that. I thought it was at the it
was very well, very well written.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, I wonder if you have any way to get
in touch with him again, because he really ought to
be guided to go into that direction of some sort
in some way. That would be a good way to
for him to to funnel his his intentions about everything
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into something good and and I think he would be
very successful as a writer.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
You know, what a positive outlook, what an optimistic outlook.
I need to be around you more. Jan You have
such a sweet disposition.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Well, you know we've met several times before. This is
Janice Freed from King with Texas.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh sure, yeah, I remember you.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
And you know it's like, you know, I've done a
lot of different things of my life. I've lived a
very nice life and it's nice to be able to
funnel that to somebody else. And actually now I'm actually
on a dog sitting event.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So and.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
The one I'm dog sitting for two dogs, and one
is a big one hundred and ten pound Rottweiler who
looks really scary. That guy just loves me. He sits
on my seat and rolls onto his back, so I
have to pet his belly, and then his other one,
who I think is a retriever of some sort. When
she sees me giving the other dog attention, she's got
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to like stick of her face in mind and get
attention to. Yeah, it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That dogs are.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
So love you.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
When I walk into the kitchen where my wife always is,
I go out of my way to go up and
give her a big hug and kiss on her and
love on her because it drives George gray. She gets
so jealous and she will come up and she will
drive her snout, which is a big one. She'll drive
her snout in between the two of us to keep
me off of her because she wants to keep her
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for herself. It is the funny. My wife thinks that
she's doing that because she wants my because George wants
my attention. I think she's doing it because she doesn't
want me loving on my wife because she sees herself
as you know, that they're buds. So anyway, Steve, you
are on the Michael Berry Show, proceed my man or
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Bob or whatever, Steve has written on the screen, so
I have no idea what your real name is at
this point.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Yeah, my name is Steve.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, sir, Hell, yes, sir, you're up, go ahead, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
My name is Steve. I'm a toe truck driver. You're
talking about your father rolling along there with dozens of
vehicles passing and nobody really helping. Sparked a memory or
a thought maybe you could pick up the ball and
run with it in some politicians and pick it up
in games and points for extinguishers. I'm a tow trut driver.
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I've literally seen twenty plus people burning to death and
vehicles and hundreds of vehicles passing by. Currently, only commercial
vehicles are required to carry a fire extinguisher.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
I think all vehicles should be required to carry a
fire extinguisher. I mean if a thousand cars passed by
and only five stout to help, that's five fire extinguishers
that that more likely would not have been there and
saved lives. And one of the situations actually played out
live on TV here in Easton on two ninety a
while back.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Uh diesel that naked woman.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Uh no, sir, no, it was a sud got rearended
by a bus and everybody was out looking around and
stuff like that. Apparently gass had been leaking for a
little bit and all of a sudden it ignited. And
then the lady had left her kid in the car
because it was you know too, it was unsafer the
kids out on the S freeway, you know, walking around,
so let the kid in the car seats in the
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flames ignite it, you know it just there was fire,
a couple of fire extinguishers there, but it was not
enough to knock the flames down, and thousands of people
passing by. A politician, get Michael Mary Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You read a great story about an HPD lieutenant who
had saved a woman's life. I believe it was her
retirement party with her girlfriends. She's choking, which is frightening.
In this lieutenant saved her life. We came to learn
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his name is Jamal Martin and he is our guest lieutenant.
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm great? How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Going great?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm doing great. Did you have to check with the
chief if you could come on with me?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yes, come on, come on, and new interviews and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I know I was with him at an event a
few weeks ago, and I said, look, when I need
my cops on, I need my cops on fast, I
need you to issu you a blanket statement that if
they asked, they can come on my show. If ray
Hunt clears it, they can come on the show. Where
were you and what happened? I think it's a great story.
I'm so impressed with you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yes, indeed it was. The incident occurred last Thursday. We
were at the restaurant Mexican Sugar.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh where is that? I've heard about this, but I
haven't been there yet.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's located right off of West Dallas.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
It's a fairly new restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So West Dallas.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And what I know?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You know because you're a cop and y'all always know
the streets in the.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Block fifty won Let me look it up real quick.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Where are you looking it up?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's off the thirty five hundred block of West Dallas.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
But what's the cross street like Taffed or Dunlevy.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, okay? And so are you with some other officers
when this happens.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I was actually meeting with some fellow officers.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
That had dinner. But as I was walking into the restaurant,
I was by myself.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Were you in uniform?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
They had already been Yes, I was in full uniform.
They had already been seated and was waiting for me.
I was actually running late. I had a late arrival.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You know, there's a term for that.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And what is that term?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well, you already know what it is. I can't say it,
you can. It's seep time. Okay. So what time were
you was running late? What time were you supposed there about?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
We were scheduled to be there at five o'clock?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
What time were you I got about.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Five thirty years. Oh, I was running significantly late.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yes, obviously, okay. Uh, Now you work evening.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
So not only was I running correct?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So I was also running late from the office and
then got caught, of course.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
In rush hour traffic trying to make my way over there.
So that's probably I played.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
A big role in me running late.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Now where do you work? Are you downtown?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yes? I worked downtown, a downtown division.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All right, So you're walking in and what happens.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
As I'm being shown on the table where my fellow
officer is sitting at As I'm crossing the table where
Mss Torres is sitting at and her rest of her
retirement party. I heard a very loud commotion and at
the moment, I couldn't really make out what was going on,
so I kind of slowed down and began scanning the room,
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and that's where I noticed her table where her table
was located, Several people were scrambling, chairs were being knocked over,
and at that point I still coulnot decide for what
was going on, but I could tell that there was
some type of situation that probably was going to call
for me to take some type of action. And then
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shortly after that's where I noticed Miss Torres. She had
this this face, she had this facial expression day I
could tell she was just crying out for help, but
no noise was coming out. And then I also began
seeing her daughter, who I later came to find out
with her daughter performing the him lick on her trying
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to perform the him lich, and I just managed to
make my way through the crowd. It was a lot
of people over there, a lot of people panicking, and
I just managed to make my way over to her.
I moved her daughter out the way, and I approached
my tourists from the rear and began performing the himlick
on her and managed to dis lodge the large piece
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of meat that she had accidentally swallowed.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Could you tell what kind of meat it was?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
At the moment, I thought it was a chicken breast,
but I came to find out that it was a
slice of state okay.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And did it come all the way out on the
table or just dribble down?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
No, it flew flat on the floor, and I didn't
notice it originally. She turned around a at me before
I performed. She's like again, She's like, it's on the ground,
It's on the ground. I'm good, Now, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You can stop. How many pups are that? How many
puffs did it require to get it out?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So for me, all are attended it twice, But I
came to learn later on that there were three other individuals,
her boyfriend, another individual that was standing by at the
table that was identified I guess later as as a lifeguard,
and then her daughter who is a nurse. So those
three individuals all attempted prior to me making my attempt,
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So it's three other individuals performing. So four people actually
performed the Hindlich on her before this food was just
lived and she also informed the situation was going on
probably about two minutes, oh to my arrival.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Oh what were they doing wrong? Down too low? What
do you suspect they were doing wrong?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Obviously you can't know, right, I don't know for certainty,
but I think that a lot of it was because
it was an emotional situation, emotional sitting. Because both individuals,
the lifeguard and her daughter, are both trained and have
the skills to do this. I think the fact that
this is you know, their mother, and that this is
someone that care about love that I think they just
kind of were in a panic mode, which probably allowed
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them to not fully think about what they were doing,
and it just kind of was more of an emotional
response than them actually slowing down and taking the proper
steps to perform the himlink.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Had you ever performed the Heimlich before live?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No? Never, never in a real life situation. So this
was the first time that I was able to use
something a.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Skill, a skill.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Set that I've learned over the course of my career
and actually applied in a real life scenario.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So when you go over to your table, your buds
who you're thirty minutes late. For what do they say?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
They look at me and they say, hey, what happened
over there? And I just casually tell them and then
they're all like, wow, you saved a woman's life and
and whatnot. And they were very pleased to hear what happened.
And then the response that we got. There were so
many people that were either involved them.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
As towards this party or just in.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
General at the restaurant that observed what happened. They came
over to show gratitude and appreciation for what I had done.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Did she give you a big hug?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yes, she did. She did.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I don't know if she's really tiny or you're really big,
but the picture, I mean, you just like dwarf her
a lot bigger than her.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
In the combination of both.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
What a great story that is. Uh well, First of all,
thank you for saving a citizen's life. Thank you for
being willing to engage. Thank goodness you were late.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I guess huh right, it was a perfect time.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I appreciate you for sure. I appreciate you coming on.
Let us love on you be safe out there. Thank
you for serving and protecting. It's a great story. Jamal Martin,
you should be very proud of yourself, all right, thank you.
That's that is honoring the badge that makes every officer
look good. Think about it is you don't realize how
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many times in the course of a day an officer
does a kindness and nobody knows, you know what I mean.
They're out there doing something, helping somebody. It doesn't make
a report, nobody. You know, something bad goes down, okay,
but how many times somebody does a nice thing. So
every one of you HPD officers over voting on your
contract today, y'all call Lieutenant Jamal Martin and ras him
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a little for being late, and thank god he was
It's that time time, time, luck and load.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
So Michael vari show is on the air several times
over the years, I've told the story of my father.
The last time he drove, the diabetes got the better
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of him and his blood sugar had dropped and he
didn't realize it, and he was driving from Orange to Beaumont.
I bought him a new truck, was the first new
vehicle he'd ever had, and he loved it so much.
He just made excuses to drive around places. And there
he was driving in his truck over to Beaumont, and
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he was on it at about Rose City, and his
blood sugar had dropped to the point. If you've never
been around this, you don't know what it's like. But
his blood sugar dropped to the point that he start
eventually goes into a like a seizure and goes unconscious.
It's very, very dangerous, but it's never happened while he
was driving. It happened in the middle of the night.
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Because his blood sugar is his pump is releasing too
much insulin and it's attacking the sugar and sugar is
going too low. So that day he just hadn't eaten enough,
or maybe had too much insulin, and we don't know,
so he must have been trying to stop. He doesn't remember,
and he has his foot on the brakes in the
middle of the highway. He's discombobulated at this moment. It's
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like you're extremely drunk, except he doesn't drink, and it's
ten o'clock in the morning. And eventually, as he goes
in and out of consciousness, his foot comes off the
break and the car begins rolling. The truck begins rolling,
reals slow. Two different guys, two different vehicles jump out,
and they're trying to get into the vehicle, but he's
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got the windows locked and he can't help them. One
of them smashes out the back cross through throws it
into gear. They get him moved over to the side.
The guy happens to have nursing training and gets some
orange juice that he keeps in the console there in
case something ever happens. Saved my dad's life. Most people
drove by. Those two guys stopped, and you think about,
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just sometimes in life, how grateful you My dad wouldn't
be here today but for that. We're all in a
place at a time where we're supposed to be and
you just never know when you're going to have an
opportunity to change or even save a life. Liberty County
Sheriff's Office posted yesterday. On April sixteenth, twenty twenty five,
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Deputy Austin Wistman was headed home from an extra job
when he observed a vehicle occupied by a mail driver
who was driving a raddic. Deputy Whisman conducted a traffic
stop on the v vehicle for the traffic violation rule.
Can you ask him if it's Whispman or Wiseman, it's
Whisma n Upon contacting the driver and only occupant of
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the vehicle, Deputy Whispman could tell that the driver was
very emotional and appeared to be distressed, so he asked
the driver if he was okay. The driver began speaking
with Deputy Whispman and explained to him that he had
just retired from the military after serving for twenty two years.
He then told Deputy Whisman that his wife of nineteen
years had just left him and he was having a
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very bad night, to the point that he was planning
on taking his own life. When he got home, Deputy
Wispman sat on the side of the road and spoke
with the mail for several minutes to help him take
a different path. By the end of the conversation, the
mail looked at Deputy Whisman and told him that he
was his saving angel. The mail also told Deputy Whisman
that had it not been for his kindness and compassion
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in the situation he was in, that he would have
gone home and carried out his plans of ending his
own life. The morning after the Star, Deputy Whisman was
informed by his lieutenant that the mail from the Traffic
Stuff had brought him a gift and a note. The
mail gave Deputy Whisman an official US Naval True North
compass that was presented to him at his last post
as chief. The note read as follows, Austin, sometimes when
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we're fighting demons, God sends us help. I was in
a hurry to complete a mission, but you stopped me
and you lent a kind ear. You treated me with compassion,
dignity and respect. Popo, he said, POOPO get a bad
rap these days, but you're the kind we need. Please
accept this coin as a small token of my gratitude. Wow.
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Deputy Austin Wisman of the Liberty County Sheriff's department. I
don't know whether to say congratulations, wow, baby, I'm a maid.
I don't know how to react. That's incredible, just incredible.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
You're up, sir, are you It's a it's a good
feeling to know, you know, are you able to I
am not, no, sir.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
How long have you been a Sheriff's devide?
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I'm right at six and a half years.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
What made you want to serve?
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Uh? My sister actually being my role model that she is. Uh,
she's a cop as well, and uh, when I was
in high school, that's when she started her law enforcement career.
And I just remember seeing her uniform one day and
I was like, man, that's that's really cool. I want
to do that. And so I just kind of followed
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in her footsteps.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
And what is your usual shift? What time did did
this happen? And what is your usual I'm and I
guess you get you serve on a day shift and
then you have an extra job in the evening.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So, yes, I was. I typically worked a five am
to four pm shift. That extra job was actually a
church revival I was working, and I was headed home
from that and it was actually I was headed home.
It was about ten PM. I'm never out that late.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So do you allow yourself to listen to dis sermon
at the revival and clap along or do you try
to just not listen so that you stay focused on
the core mission.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
I typically pay attention to working because that's what I'm
there for. I will listen, but my mind stays focused
on I'm here for a job.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And how often do you work that extra job that
one was?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
It's not that often. They just happened to be in
town that week.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Do you have other their extra jobs?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I do. I don't work any churches. I just do
traffic control stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
And that's for Liberty County or for other counties, or
just like it.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
It's in Chambers County. It's just just a little side gig.
That's all.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Okay. What do you like most about being a Sheriff's tipty?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Well, when I started this, because I've got a pass
like most people do. When I started this, I always
wanted to be different and the help I needed when
I was before I was a cop was what I
wanted to offer people. Go the extra step and go
the extra mile and let people feel like they actually
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have someone that has their back, not someone that just
feels annoyed or someone that doesn't care.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's an interesting perspective. Hold with me for just a moment.
Austin Wistman, Pretty County Sheriff's deputys. I guess John Michael.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Many more things.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Values a million dollars record sales.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
Now, Austin Wistman is our guest Deputy Whistman, Uh, tell
me what happened that night.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
I was, I was driving home from my extra job
and I looked at my review and I saw this
truck just lying up on me. So I kind of
hit my back lights just to say, you know, hey,
cop sitting here, you know, going a little fast, and
this truck he just didn't let up. He just blew
my doors off, and I was like, well, I can't
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kind of blind out of that, so conducted traffic stop
on him. He pulls over, and I walked up to
the truck and I give him the bill a lie,
I'm stopping him, and I could tell he was he
was upset, but I mean, most people don't like getting
pulled over, so you know, I asked him for his
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identification and all that, and he, uh, he hands it
to me, and I could tell he was. This was
more than just I got pulled over. You know, I
made a small mistake. I could tell there was actually
something wrong. Thought just asked him, like, you know, is
everything okay, and he was just I mean for a
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second he was like, you know, start really talking back.
And then he just I was like, man, you know,
he's kind of like, I'm having a really bad night.
I just kind of stood there and I was like, well,
I mean, what's going on? You know, I mean, I've
been doing this long enough. I know when there ever,
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you can stop being a copy, you can start being
a person. You can tell when someone's just legitimately just
having a bad night. So we just sat there and
we talked, and he just told me about his time
he was in the military and he just retired and
he was with his wife for almost his entire military career,
and she decided she was up and leaving him. And
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he told me, you know, he was upset, and he
was like, I'm not gonna lie. I'm gonna go home
and I'm gonna I'm gonna end this. And I was like, well,
there's you know, there's different paths we can. Let's find
a different way other than that we can there's definitely
something better. So we sat there and we talked and
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brought up other things that's worth living for. And at
the end of it, he was like, God puts you here.
You know you you're my saving angel. You were I
feel like you were meant to be here to stop
me tonight from going home and doing what I plan
on doing. And uh I got his phone number that
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night and I told him like, I'm gonna I'm going
to reach out to you tomorrow. I want to I
want to check on you, and uh I did. I
end up talking to him the next day, and that
was after he had dropped off the coin and the
note at the Sheriff's office that my lieutenant gave me,
and I called him and the first thing he said
was he was like, hey, man, did you get that
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that coin? And I was like, yeah, I did. I
was like, you don't mean you didn't have to do that.
That's I really appreciate it. And he explained to me,
you know what that coin meant, and I was like, man,
that's awesome, you know, but I mean, that was it.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
So when the Liberty County Sheriff's Department posted the story
on Facebook, what happened from there.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Well, I got employee of the months the sheriff during
our monthly meeting, you know, read it out. My sergeant
sent into the sheriff and was like, this is a
really good deed and I think, you know, Deputy Wiston
should get employees the months of this. And so they
gave it to me and they shared just the story
on Facebook. The sheriff does that from time to time,
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you know, he likes to share certain things or however,
you know, and so he shared it and I was like,
that's cool. I like that because it is a good
feeling to know that you did something good, especially in
a time where you know, concert just looked down on
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like we're the bad guys now. And it blew up
so big that actually called my sergeant last night and
I was like, this is blowing up to be huge,
like way bigger than I ever thought it was going
to be. And it just took me by surprise, you know,
because I never I don't do this job for the recking.
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I don't do it for pats on the back, you know.
I do it to serve to help my community better
and just to be a public servant, you know, give
back where I can and just do what I can
to be better, you know, and be there for anyone
that needs it. So for this to blow up the
way it did, and everyone just seeing all the good
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comments of everyone just saying, you know, good for you,
And I feel like it's putting a little faith back
in us in law enforcement to know that not all
of us are bad. And I like that because not
all of us are bad. There's a lot most of
us are good, and there's just bad apples. And you know,
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we're not out here just to be ticket writers and
take people to jail. And I want people to remember too,
even with this story, that at the end of the day,
I'm a guy with the job to do, but I
can still reason with you, and I can get down
on your level as a person and we can figure
this out together.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
That veteran agreed to come on for a minute or
so and just share his thoughts as to how he
felt after you arguably saved his life. They get away,
my man. Thanks Michael.
Speaker 7 (14:19):
Well, first of all, I've already talked to Austin and
he knows how much I appreciate him, but I'll take
this opportunity to thank him again. He talks about how
there's bad apples out there, and there's bad apples in
every community, and sometimes they give the whole community a
bad name. But Austin is an example of one of
the good ones. And yeah, I said, Popo, it was
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kind of to be silly, but also that's.
Speaker 4 (14:41):
What I say.
Speaker 7 (14:44):
Well, he's real, he's a genuine person. And you know,
he told me last night that he was a little
bit uncomfortable with the kind of recognition that he was
getting for this and how much it was going up.
And you know, often it's the ones who don't seek
the accolades who deserve them the most. And so Austin
and you know, God bless you man.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Keep doing what you're doing. You're doing a great job
out there.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
And Michael for you, just thanks for the opportunity and
thanks for sharing Austin's story in my story, because at
the end of the day, we get so much negative
publicity for our people and uniform, you know, and it's
good for people to be out there highlighting the ones
that are actually doing good out there. So God bless
the both of you. Thank you for this opportunity.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
You know, I'm a big believer veteran if that when
your life is saved or spared. That that's God's way
of saying, now live in my service from here on out.
I have given you a second chance. And keep that
in mind with every single thing you do going forward,
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and let that drive your decisions. And be a servant
of God, a servant of others, be a person. You
and I talked about you joining a church after all
this happened. But let that God, your life, your pain,
make you the next Austin Wistman for somebody else somewhere
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down the road. That would be my prayer for you. Guys.
Thank you for being on with us. I hope a
lot of officers heard this and think differently next time
they make a stop. And I hope a lot of
people who are stopped will realize that guy's there to help,
not hurt. He really is just trying to go home
to his own family. Target has announced that they are
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ending their self checkout due to too much theft shoplifting
in their stores. Ha, that's funny. It's not the self
checkout that's causing the shoplifting. It's shoplifters shoplifting and you
not doing anything about it. Companies decided that when you
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steal from the store. They're not going to stop. You
remember the Lululemon story. An employee and a manager of
Lululemon stopped a thief from stealing clothes from the store
because we were all raised that's not what you do,
that's not right, you shouldn't do that. And they fired
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those employees for stopping them, as they stole all these clothes,
well from the Houston stores alone. They recently stole in
one day fifty five thousand dollars worth of stuff. Of
course it's Lululemon, that's just a couple of yoga pants.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
But still.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
The problem with these companies is, this is the problem
with all of the bad guys today, protesters, shoplifters, thugs,
blm Antifa, murders. Is everyone is relying on them to stop.
But if they don't stop, eventually they kill you, your business, yourself.
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Eventually you have to pull out a gun and shoot them.
There's nothing short of that. Eventually they push too far.
So in New York City the crime has gotten so bad.
I saw yesterday Walmart is I think Walmart's closing every
store in Portland. I believe that's right, maybe every store
in Oregon. I was scanning headlines. But it was Walmart
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closing a bunch of stores, and not because the stores
don't make money, but because well the theft. That may
not make money because of the theft, but Walmart doesn't
typically close stores. So in New York City, the mayor
is his big idea is they're giving an alarm button
to the bodegas, the little corner shops where you get
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your you know, illegally buy your pot, but it's where
you buy you know, your various items on the corner.
And these bodegas are the lifeblood of neighborhoods and they're
being they're being mugged, they're having everything stolen, they're being
held at gunpoint. So they're getting a button that the
city is paying for to go there. That'll be a
hotline to the cops. Well what's gonna happen when the
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cops show up? Well, you might have to arrest somebody,
and if a guy doesn't want to be arrested, you
might have to shoot him. Well, there we are back again.
Surely your liquor has thoughts.
Speaker 6 (19:15):
You heard that New York City finally fit the cracked down.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
Uh somebody cracked down?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Well, the mayor up there, you remember that man I
told he's about and Mayor Adams he come out with
a new plan. He gonna install five hundred bulldog alarms
all over the city.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
What that's gonna do.
Speaker 8 (19:35):
Well, anytime a bull dog in danger or anything, or
somebody threatening, harass or do something with the move down
there alarm will go off and the police to show
up in there.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Uh that took care of it. Well, that's I love
a good idea. Issues I need to do. I had
already went to the restaurant. Girl, get off the floor. Beth,
you are on the Michael Berry Show, Beth on Sonic?
You're up? What you got on Sonic?
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Beth?
Speaker 5 (20:10):
I think it's Jan. It's who I think it's Jan?
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Is your name?
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Jan?
Speaker 5 (20:17):
Yes it is?
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Oh, he wrote, Beth. How do you Oh, you weren't
sure how to spell it, so you spelled Jan b
E t H. What did you call about son.
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Well, I was listening to it as I was driving home,
so I couldn't call it then.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
But he was.
Speaker 5 (20:37):
He's a very proficient writer, and he got to consider
writing as a as a new career because it was Oh, yes,
the sonate.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Ramon wrote sonic and I got it. I gotta said,
we're gonna have a Cherry live aide story.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:55):
He was a good writer, I have to That's why
I read that. I thought it was at the it
was very well, very well written.
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Well, I wonder if you have any way to get
in touch with him again, because he really ought to
be guided to go into that direction of some sort
in some way. That would be a good way to
for him to to funnel his his intentions about everything
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into something good and and I think he would be
very successful as a writer.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
You know, what a positive outlook, what an optimistic outlook.
I need to be around you more. Jan You have
such a sweet disposition.
Speaker 5 (21:42):
Well, you know we've met several times before. This is
Janice Freed from King with Texas.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Oh sure, yeah, I remember you.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
And you know it's like, you know, I've done a
lot of different things of my life. I've lived a
very nice life and it's nice to be able to
funnel that to somebody else. And actually now I'm actually
on a dog sitting event.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
So and.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
The one I'm dog sitting for two dogs, and one
is a big one hundred and ten pound Rottweiler who
looks really scary. That guy just loves me. He sits
on my seat and rolls onto his back, so I
have to pet his belly, and then his other one,
who I think is a retriever of some sort. When
she sees me giving the other dog attention, she's got
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to like stick of her face in mind and get
attention to. Yeah, it's a wonderful thing.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
That dogs are.
Speaker 5 (22:32):
So love you.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
When I walk into the kitchen where my wife always is,
I go out of my way to go up and
give her a big hug and kiss on her and
love on her because it drives George gray. She gets
so jealous and she will come up and she will
drive her snout, which is a big one. She'll drive
her snout in between the two of us to keep
me off of her because she wants to keep her
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for herself. It is the funny. My wife thinks that
she's doing that because she wants my because George wants
my attention. I think she's doing it because she doesn't
want me loving on my wife because she sees herself
as you know, that they're buds. So anyway, Steve, you
are on the Michael Berry Show, proceed my man or
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Bob or whatever, Steve has written on the screen, so
I have no idea what your real name is at
this point.
Speaker 9 (23:21):
Yeah, my name is Steve.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Yes, sir, Hell, yes, sir, you're up, go ahead, Yes, sir.
Speaker 9 (23:32):
My name is Steve. I'm a toe truck driver. You're
talking about your father rolling along there with dozens of
vehicles passing and nobody really helping. Sparked a memory or
a thought maybe you could pick up the ball and
run with it in some politicians and pick it up
in games and points for extinguishers. I'm a tow trut driver.
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I've literally seen twenty plus people burning to death and
vehicles and hundreds of vehicles passing by. Currently, only commercial
vehicles are required to carry a fire extinguisher.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (24:06):
I think all vehicles should be required to carry a
fire extinguisher. I mean if a thousand cars passed by
and only five stout to help, that's five fire extinguishers
that that more likely would not have been there and
saved lives. And one of the situations actually played out
live on TV here in Easton on two ninety a
while back.
Speaker 2 (24:25):
Uh diesel that naked woman.
Speaker 9 (24:30):
Uh no, sir, no, it was a sud got rearended
by a bus and everybody was out looking around and
stuff like that. Apparently gass had been leaking for a
little bit and all of a sudden it ignited. And
then the lady had left her kid in the car
because it was you know too, it was unsafer the
kids out on the S freeway, you know, walking around,
so let the kid in the car seats in the
(24:51):
flames ignite it, you know it just there was fire,
a couple of fire extinguishers there, but it was not
enough to knock the flames down, and thousands of people
passing by. A politician, get Michael Mary Yeah right.
Speaker 2 (25:09):
You read a great story about an HPD lieutenant who
had saved a woman's life. I believe it was her
retirement party with her girlfriends. She's choking, which is frightening.
In this lieutenant saved her life. We came to learn
(25:30):
his name is Jamal Martin and he is our guest lieutenant.
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (25:37):
How are you doing this morning?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm great? How are you doing.
Speaker 4 (25:41):
Going great?
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I'm doing great. Did you have to check with the
chief if you could come on with me?
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Yes, come on, come on, and new interviews and whatnot.
Speaker 2 (25:52):
I know I was with him at an event a
few weeks ago, and I said, look, when I need
my cops on, I need my cops on fast, I
need you to issu you a blanket statement that if
they asked, they can come on my show. If ray
Hunt clears it, they can come on the show. Where
were you and what happened? I think it's a great story.
I'm so impressed with you.
Speaker 1 (26:12):
Yes, indeed it was. The incident occurred last Thursday. We
were at the restaurant Mexican Sugar.
Speaker 2 (26:19):
Oh where is that? I've heard about this, but I
haven't been there yet.
Speaker 1 (26:25):
It's located right off of West Dallas.
Speaker 4 (26:27):
It's a fairly new restaurant.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
So West Dallas.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And what I know?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
You know because you're a cop and y'all always know
the streets in the.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
Block fifty won Let me look it up real quick.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
Where are you looking it up?
Speaker 1 (26:46):
It's off the thirty five hundred block of West Dallas.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
But what's the cross street like Taffed or Dunlevy.
Speaker 5 (26:56):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Yeah, okay? And so are you with some other officers
when this happens.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
I was actually meeting with some fellow officers.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
That had dinner. But as I was walking into the restaurant,
I was by myself.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Were you in uniform?
Speaker 1 (27:09):
They had already been Yes, I was in full uniform.
They had already been seated and was waiting for me.
I was actually running late. I had a late arrival.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
You know, there's a term for that.
Speaker 4 (27:24):
And what is that term?
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Well, you already know what it is. I can't say it,
you can. It's seep time. Okay. So what time were
you was running late? What time were you supposed there about?
Speaker 1 (27:36):
We were scheduled to be there at five o'clock?
Speaker 2 (27:39):
What time were you I got about.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Five thirty years. Oh, I was running significantly late.
Speaker 2 (27:47):
Yes, obviously, okay. Uh, Now you work evening.
Speaker 1 (27:50):
So not only was I running correct?
Speaker 2 (27:53):
Correct?
Speaker 1 (27:53):
So I was also running late from the office and
then got caught, of course.
Speaker 4 (27:57):
In rush hour traffic trying to make my way over there.
So that's probably I played.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
A big role in me running late.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Now where do you work? Are you downtown?
Speaker 4 (28:05):
Yes? I worked downtown, a downtown division.
Speaker 2 (28:08):
All right, So you're walking in and what happens.
Speaker 1 (28:13):
As I'm being shown on the table where my fellow
officer is sitting at As I'm crossing the table where
Mss Torres is sitting at and her rest of her
retirement party. I heard a very loud commotion and at
the moment, I couldn't really make out what was going on,
so I kind of slowed down and began scanning the room,
(28:34):
and that's where I noticed her table where her table
was located, Several people were scrambling, chairs were being knocked over,
and at that point I still coulnot decide for what
was going on, but I could tell that there was
some type of situation that probably was going to call
for me to take some type of action. And then
(28:54):
shortly after that's where I noticed Miss Torres. She had
this this face, she had this facial expression day I
could tell she was just crying out for help, but
no noise was coming out. And then I also began
seeing her daughter, who I later came to find out
with her daughter performing the him lick on her trying
(29:15):
to perform the him lich, and I just managed to
make my way through the crowd. It was a lot
of people over there, a lot of people panicking, and
I just managed to make my way over to her.
I moved her daughter out the way, and I approached
my tourists from the rear and began performing the himlick
on her and managed to dis lodge the large piece
(29:38):
of meat that she had accidentally swallowed.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Could you tell what kind of meat it was?
Speaker 1 (29:44):
At the moment, I thought it was a chicken breast,
but I came to find out that it was a
slice of state okay.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And did it come all the way out on the
table or just dribble down?
Speaker 1 (29:54):
No, it flew flat on the floor, and I didn't
notice it originally. She turned around a at me before
I performed. She's like again, She's like, it's on the ground,
It's on the ground. I'm good, Now, I'm good.
Speaker 2 (30:07):
You can stop. How many pups are that? How many
puffs did it require to get it out?
Speaker 1 (30:12):
So for me, all are attended it twice, But I
came to learn later on that there were three other individuals,
her boyfriend, another individual that was standing by at the
table that was identified I guess later as as a lifeguard,
and then her daughter who is a nurse. So those
three individuals all attempted prior to me making my attempt,
(30:34):
So it's three other individuals performing. So four people actually
performed the Hindlich on her before this food was just
lived and she also informed the situation was going on
probably about two minutes, oh to my arrival.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Oh what were they doing wrong? Down too low? What
do you suspect they were doing wrong?
Speaker 1 (30:53):
Obviously you can't know, right, I don't know for certainty,
but I think that a lot of it was because
it was an emotional situation, emotional sitting. Because both individuals,
the lifeguard and her daughter, are both trained and have
the skills to do this. I think the fact that
this is you know, their mother, and that this is
someone that care about love that I think they just
kind of were in a panic mode, which probably allowed
(31:17):
them to not fully think about what they were doing,
and it just kind of was more of an emotional
response than them actually slowing down and taking the proper
steps to perform the himlink.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Had you ever performed the Heimlich before live?
Speaker 1 (31:32):
No? Never, never in a real life situation. So this
was the first time that I was able to use
something a.
Speaker 4 (31:37):
Skill, a skill.
Speaker 1 (31:38):
Set that I've learned over the course of my career
and actually applied in a real life scenario.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
So when you go over to your table, your buds
who you're thirty minutes late. For what do they say?
Speaker 1 (31:51):
They look at me and they say, hey, what happened
over there? And I just casually tell them and then
they're all like, wow, you saved a woman's life and
and whatnot. And they were very pleased to hear what happened.
And then the response that we got. There were so
many people that were either involved them.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
As towards this party or just in.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
General at the restaurant that observed what happened. They came
over to show gratitude and appreciation for what I had done.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Did she give you a big hug?
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Yes, she did. She did.
Speaker 2 (32:20):
I don't know if she's really tiny or you're really big,
but the picture, I mean, you just like dwarf her
a lot bigger than her.
Speaker 4 (32:30):
In the combination of both.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
What a great story that is. Uh well, First of all,
thank you for saving a citizen's life. Thank you for
being willing to engage. Thank goodness you were late.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
I guess huh right, it was a perfect time.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
Man.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
I appreciate you for sure. I appreciate you coming on.
Let us love on you be safe out there. Thank
you for serving and protecting. It's a great story. Jamal Martin,
you should be very proud of yourself, all right, thank you.
That's that is honoring the badge that makes every officer
look good. Think about it is you don't realize how
(33:06):
many times in the course of a day an officer
does a kindness and nobody knows, you know what I mean.
They're out there doing something, helping somebody. It doesn't make
a report, nobody. You know, something bad goes down, okay,
but how many times somebody does a nice thing. So
every one of you HPD officers over voting on your
contract today, y'all call Lieutenant Jamal Martin and ras him
(33:27):
a little for being late, and thank god he was
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