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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, we have an update to the story of the
famous embalmer Amber louder milt. I think it's one of
those stories where she probably doesn't realize that she has
a fan club out there. She was the thirty four
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year old embalmer who cut the Fellas willie off after
finding out that he was a.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sex predator. She has turned herself in.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I did wrong. She was on the lamb when we
were doing the story yesterday. She has turned herself in
and she has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse,
which I guess it'll be interesting to see what her
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punishment is because so many folks today. I'll bet you
she'll be punished more.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
For cutting his.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Willie off after he's dead than he was for the
sex crime that made him a sexual offender. There's something
wrong with that. There's something real wrong with that. Another
interesting tidbit from the case. The dead man's new spouse,
so he had been recently married, and his daughter from
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a previous marriage. We're going to split up his remains
after he was cremated. So well, yesterday afternoon, the Texas
Funeral Service Commission suspended Loudermilk's license. They're asking for anyone
with information to contact them or Harris County Precinct one.
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Loudermilk's bond has been set at five thousand dollars. Her
next court date is scheduled for May thirteenth. KPRCTV reports
the incident investigated by Constable Rosen's office happened at Memorial
Mortuary and Crematory at on Pine Street, according to records,
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after the funeral director in charge had a conversation on
the phone with the family of Charles Roy Rodriguez, fifty eight,
Poor old Charles, he got dragged back into this thing.
According to investigators, Rodriguez had been charged with sexual assault
and given deferred adjudication related to an incident involving a
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woman at a bar. He was also required to register
as a sex offender. They discussed splitting Rodriguez's remains between
the new spouse and his daughter from a previous marriage,
according to records, and the family member mentioned that he
was a registered sex offender. Soon after that phone call,
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an employee said they witnessed Laudermilk cut off Rodriguez's penis
halfway and stuff it in his mouth. Why don't you
just cut half of it into court?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Records.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Just before Rodriguez was put into crematory equipment. Another employee
said they noticed the penis in Rodriguez's mouth and Loudermilk
quickly covered the groin area with a towel, claiming he
had quote a lot going on with him. I guess
that's one way to say it, now, Yeah, I mean,
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I guess she went off half. Better not say that one.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Here was the story from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The allegations here are rare and disturbing. This embalmer is
accused of stabbing this dead man twice in the groin area,
then cutting off part of his private part and putting
it in his mouth. Investigators say it all happened after
she learned about his past at Memorial mortuary on the
Southwest Side. It's a situation that no family would ever
want to hear about their loved one.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
This was a vicious, brutal attack of a corpse. The
person's already dead. It's kind of shocking even to me.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Licensed embalmer Amber Laughtermilk is accused of using a scalpel
to twice stab a man in the groin after he
died of pneumonia last month. She cut off his private
part put it in his mouth, according to records, and
told a trainee who witnessed it, you didn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Two troubled lives co existed at the same time. But
this person, clearly, our suspect, clearly just went off the edge.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Harris County Precinct one Constable Deputies investigated. They say employees
were too scared to report her, who, according to records,
cover the dead man up with a towel when a
colleague noticed the disfigurement. While a motive isn't clear, records
show mortuary staff had just learned the victim was a
registered sex offender. How important are ethics in this line
of work?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Ethics is everything in this line of work.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Jason Altieri runs Southeast Texas crematory, not connected to this case,
admitting this could have been hard to predict. He says
families should be aware of where loved ones will be cremated,
feel comfortable to ask questions, and be able to visit
and see it in person.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Whether we have a particular judgment one way or the other,
it doesn't matter. We're they are for a family and
we have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Staff reported the case involving watermilk to the Texas Funeral
Service Commission. The executive director says it's the only criminal
abuse of corpse case across the state in the last
two years.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is in
an incredibly difficult time, and there are predators who exploit
this vulnerability.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Family should proactively verify the credentials of funeral homes and directors,
he says, using the agency's licensed look up before putting
someone to rest Latermilk has been a funeral director in
Texas since twenty twenty one, according to records. Now the
state will seek to suspend and possibly revoke her license.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It makes us all look bad, and that's the sad
thing about.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
This memorial Mortuary tells KPRC too Laughtermilk no longer works there,
but declined to provide any additional detail, citing a personnel
matter and ongoing legal case.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I like how they say that we haven't had a
case of you know, abusive a corpse in over two years.
How would you know who exactly, other than the fact
that somebody else was in the room. But you know,
we were thinking it might be useful to have a
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If someone you know died, it might be useful to
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Speaker 2 (06:25):
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your business. That's what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump built
a brand of his name to the point that his
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brand was worth more than the assets themselves. And that
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two vans to transport them. And the idea was, well,
why not make these these vans a moving billboard for
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And folks will stop the when the van is pulled
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JJ himself was a city councilman there. But he built,
starting in high school, a very very successful business transporting fuel.
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And he has these big tankers. And Russell Lebarrow and
he are good friends because the Pasadena connection. And at
some point Russell asked him, Hey, what would you think
about if we put Camp Hope on the side of
those tankers. And so it was done, and I get
emails from people who see those tankers on the road.
(11:56):
I think he said they put a tanker on the
road every forty.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Five seconds or something.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
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not pipeline company, maybe in Texas, maybe beyond.
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It's a lot of trucks on the road every single day,
and every single truck is an opportunity to say to
a veteran suffering with PTSD, there's help, and here's where
it is. Or to say to their mother or their father,
or their brother or their spouse.
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Number coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We're going to talk to a fellow.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I got an email from a guy who said, hey,
maybe you can help this guy.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
He does this.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Bay dog competition where they hunt hogs and you don't know,
it's it's a very old fashion. It's it's it's like
using the old Jim, what's the term. My brother was
into this, that the old guns, that that uh, you
put the ball and what's.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
This black powder? Black powder? The old black powder.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think that's the term guns as opposed to the
modern you know, new things are classic cars.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's it's it's a it's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
A love of the past. And there is a fella
in Orange who does a competition where, you know, guys
bring their bay dogs out and the way you hunt
the hog is the dogs. You've got different types of dogs.
One goes and catches him, the other one pins him up,
and the bay dog they hold the dog there for
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you to go up the hog there, and you go
up and kill the hog. But no guns are allowed.
And I took my boys to do this. It's a
it's a it's a fascinating, fascinating activity sport, I would say. Anyway,
so this guy hosts a competition and apparently some leftist
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comedian wherever. They didn't tell me who the name was,
but I'm gonna ask, went after him and he moved
the competition to Louisiana. He's moved it back to Coots now,
but the competition is coming up. Is maybe you could
just help this guy because we you know, in our community,
we all love the guy. Well, yeah, of course I will.
So we're gonna talk to the fella in just a moment.
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And if you've never done that, this may.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Be a great opportunity for you to.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I'll tell you what I took my boys to do it.
It's it's one of the best weekends that ever had.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It's my Hawaiian Chad Nakanishi Aloha bro Han the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If I received an email from a fellow named Russell
King who goes zar and no time is short, I'll
get to the point. There's a Southern tradition known as
hog baying, using certain dogs bred for this, notably the
Louisiana katah Ula leopard dog and blackmouth cur dog. This
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activity involves the dog quote unquote baying a wild hog
in an arena type environment, not fighting dogs. Not fighting
dogs are disqualified for biting and holding. The dog has
the purpose of stopping and turning the wild hog to
face them, like they are bred to do in their nature.
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They are not allowed to attack or bite the hog,
other than to turn or stop the hog from running.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That is baying. Be AYI g.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So there is a guy that keeps the sport alive
and it attracts people from other states all over, but
it's based in Louisiana called Uncle Earls, and it's celebrating
thirty years starting next Monday for seven straight days. The
owner Jack Lalsano, I think is how you pronounce this
isiaca n I think that's Lausano. But we'll see in
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Orange owns Hogbaying dot Com, the official website of the
World Championship of Hog Bank and is a true Southeast
Texas entrepreneur. He was attacked a few years ago by
a mid level woke Texas actress comedian as if he
was engaged in animal cruelty, but it faded away. The
group are extremely sensitive to the dogs and the hog's
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well being. He's now doing his business in Louisiana, but
he wants to relocate back to Coon's, where the contest
was held for decades. I figured you'd be interested in
this story and would like to interview him on your show. Unfortunately,
the big show at Uncle Earl's, the Woodstock of of
Hog Dog Bang, starts next Monday, March seventeenth. I have
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an athlete, female katahula lepardog that showed up on my
porch December twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, so three months ago,
two months Christmas Day. So I named her Holly. She's
ten months old and I'm entering her in the puppy
category for the first time. The puppy category uses small
wild hogs to let them bark at them. I hope
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you'll consider interviewing him on your show. He's a good dude.
Thank you, Rusty King Hampshire Finette. By the way, I'm
the one that told you about the doors Jim Morrison
using Jerry Chef, Elvis Presley's bass player on their last
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up on Katahula Leopard Dogs. So our guest is Jake,
Is it Lausano? How do you pronounce your last name?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Lloyd cannot?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Oh, you're mispronounced my voice?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Okay, yeah, my voice is a little scratchy. Had a
bunch of football games last night.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Is that a French name?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Tell you it's Italian. Why is this sea hard in
the middle of a bunch of vowels that don't make
any sense?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Well, probably because we're rednecks and that's just how my grandfather.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Now Lloyd cameo.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
All right, do you live in Orange?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I live in Orange currently, Yes, sir, I'm from Finette,
but I've lived in Orange about eight years.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, what do you do there?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I was a process operator. Currently I am an outside
sales guy for an industrial specialty company. Who iss Industrial
specialty services?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is that out at the plants there in Orange? On
chemical row?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
All up? And down Chemical Row, Beaumont Port author. I mean,
we're all over the Gulf coast, but our area is
mainly here around southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And where do you actually live.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I live in Little Cypress, am north of the high
school Michael Berry's old stomping grounds.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You exactly, Yeah, I know that area well. I know
that area very well, Little Cypress, more Eastville. That area
has ex exploded as people have kind of moved out
of Orange and and moved out there for for a
number of different reasons. But that area is out of control.
I mean, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It won't be long Doweyville, that's all.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
One of my dear friends in high school, Chad Prowse,
his brother Brandon Prowse, is the athletic director there at Deuiyville.
So for folks that don't know about this hog band,
first of all, why do you do this?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, Uh, I've always had working dogs growing up. I
was born with a yard for of cow dogs. We
were ranchers and stuff. And then, uh, the popularity of
hog hunting became Uh, I guess it reached us and
we realized that these versatile dogs could do both and uh,
you know, if you're not familiar with hunting a wild hog,
you send some track dogs out and they actually tracked
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the hog down. And back in those days, we didn't
have these GPS collars and things that we have the
technology we have now. So the dogs had to bark.
So the bay dogs they go bark at it to
indicate the location of the game. And then you went
in to harvest it however you may seem or if
it was one you didn't want to harvest, you just
called your dog out and went down the trail and
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found another one, and so you got now, I guess,
go ahead. Well, it's kind of a it's kind of
parlayed essentially. It's kind of like rodeo. Like, for instance,
all these guys that compete in different rodeo events, they
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normally had some type of cowboy background. Well, these competitions
you had some type of hunting background or whatever. And
now you go to compete on the biggest stages for
the biggest prizes and things like that. And most of
the time the dogs don't do both. Like you don't
go pincows on your roping horse. These dogs are just
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specialized in these time petitions. And to you know, for
more longevity and things like that. They just compete in
the field trials, although occasionally some people do turn them
out in a wild and try to catch some wild hogs.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And so you will have your event beginning next week,
and that'll be in Coots.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
No, sir, it'll be in Winfield, Louisiana the event, yes, sir,
it's still in Louisiana. And what it was. I had
my shows in Coots and when I got the contract
to do this in Louisiana, I had two herds of
hogs because you can't take wild hogs across the state
lines and anyway, I kind of consolidated my herd up
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in North Louisiana to cut the overhead because it just
wasn't working out having two sets of hogs, and especially
when just one of them is in Louisiana. So I
moved everything over there. Got to help me with that
up in Downsville. Most of the shows at his place,
but this one, the super Bowl, is in Winfield. And
the name Uncle Earl's comes from some of the most
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influential politicians from Louisiana, the Long family, Huey Long, Earl Long.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Who's familiar with that yep, all right, Well, this is.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
A commemoration of for for instance, like like Winfield is
a small town, they're always trying to do touristy stuff
to get people to come to town. And for Hughey's one
hundredth birthday, every month that year they did some type
of activity that Hughey liked and you know, to bring
some type of event in town whatnot. Well it worked
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so well. A couple of years later, to commemorate Earl
Long's one hundredth birthday, they were going to do the
same thing. Well, some old friends and caretakers of his
knew his favorite his you know, his best pastime, his
most passionate sport was the sport of hal hunting with
hands dogs, and so they decided to have haldolf field
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trial in Winfield. It was a one day on a Saturday,
just like the rest of these events to commemorate the birthday.
And this sucker ran for like seventy two straight hours.
So many people showed up.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Woll hold on, there hadn't been to ask you if
y'all ever come across Aisle Hall, want you there or
know if they have those a new events.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
The hold just pan.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Michael Berry show continues game in all Mile.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
One of the Memorial villages was just named the wealthiest
town in Texas, and that village would be Hunter's Creek Village.
According to an analysis from Stacker, a digital content distribution firm,
the median household income in Hunter's Creek Village is in
excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
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The analysis found that's the median and seventy five percent
of households in the small city of about forty four
one hundred people earn at least two hundred thousand a year. Meanwhile,
just one point six percent of families in the community
fall below the poverty line. Those factors set Hunter's Creek
Village in the Memorial area apart in this analysis, even
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compared to other towns considered among the wealthiest in Texas,
such as West University Place, also in Harris County, or
Highland Park in the Dallas area. Sacra's analysis relied on
data from the Census Bureau and considered communities with populations
of at least one thousand people. Census data does not
show median earnings above two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
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Stacker pointed out that while the nation's wealthiest towns generally
offer nice amenities, these may vary state by state. Ninety
let's see analysis that rank cities by their number of
millionaires or billionaires generally conclude that major cities are the
wealthiest in any given state. There are ninety nine hundred,
So we'll say ninety one thousand millionaires living in Houston,
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for example, according to a report from Henley and Partners,
ninety one thousand millionaires. Jake Loy Kano, Loycano or Locano.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Either way depends on where you're from. How you say
you answered either one? I say Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Cano, Lloyd Keno. All right, I'll say it how you
said Jake.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Loyd Cano owns hog baying dot Com, the official website
of the World Championship of hog bank So your competition
will begin in Winfield, Louisiana on Monday. And how many
folks will compete? How many actual dogs will compete?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
In that? There'll be around seven hundred dogs?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What how much just a cost to register this thing?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Well, there's there's different classes. There's the puppy, there's the
old and young. Where there's a grown dog running with
a puppy, and then there's the one dog, then there's
the two dogs, and that varies from like eighty bucks
to one hundred and sixty bus they'll be large prizes.
They'll be over sixty thousand dollars paid out next week. Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So I went with a group out in Brenham several
years ago. I took my boys, and my boys at
the time were say thirteen and fourteen, and these guys
had quite There were property owners in the area who
actually paid them to work their properties to keep the
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hogs off because the hogs do so much damage. And
then they made this their hobby and boy they were
I mean, they were obsessed about it. And we show
up and they've got equipment. They've got pins that they
carry these dogs around in and the dogs get out,
and they've got the most elaborate setup on these dogs.
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And they did use GPS, I will say that, but.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
They it's very tired. We typically all do.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Now you do, okay, that my next question.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And so they were kind of showing me what they
were doing, and they send the trackers out and all
of a sudden they start barking, and when they do,
we look on the GPS all right, there's where they are.
And they got one fella, I can't remember his name,
but he was the monster and he waits back and
it was like a prize fighter. Right, here's the undercard.
But we're gonna bring out Tyson in a minute, and
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he's gonna knock somebody out.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
This fella was so.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Squat and I don't know what breed he would have been,
but he was the big dog. And it wasn't that
that big, but I mean in terms of mentally he was.
And when they let him out, he goes running through
and there was thin wire on this fence and I
don't know if he saw it and didn't care or
didn't see it, but he hit that wire and just
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kept going.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And I mean, you didn't get in the way of
this thing.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But they go and get the hogs and then and
then my kids got to stab them, and it was
it was a fascinating process, this whole thing. But it
was amazing to me how intense these guys were into
this deal. Well, their dogs were all cut up because
there was a hog out in that area that they
had been tracking. They were hoping to get that day
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that they had taken the calling Hogzilla and this hog
had killed several of their dogs.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Quite the match for these dogs. But I was fascinated
by the culture of these guys. And by the way,
these were all public officials, police chiefs and fire chiefs
and sheriffs and all this sort of stuff, and just
it was. It is one of the most fun days
I ever had with my boys ever out in nature
and with these guys and the culture of these guys.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
You'd be surprised how many people actually do this. Like
even folks that live in town. They may have a
couple of dogs and you know, in their backyard, and
that's what they do with them. They get a boat
and they go to the lake, go to the river,
and they're all hunting. You know, you don't have to
own a lot of property or being avid marksmen. The
hog it's I always tell people, like you were saying,
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it was fascinating your first time to see that like that.
That's the reaction every time. I always tell people that
this is the best feeling you can have with your
clothes off, both hunting, any type of archery, rifle, whatever.
This is the most fun type of hunting I've ever done. Now,
if I have any free time. I don't go fishing,
I don't deer hunt.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I run my dogs and you run them there an Orange.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I run them all over Texas and Louisiana. I've been.
I've caught hogs in the foothills of California all the
way to Tennessee, South Carolina. I think I've been as
for north as South Carolina, Tennessee. But they're all over
the South, man. I mean there's a lot of hogs around.
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Like I have friends in Riverside right outside of Los
Angeles that they catch hogs right there outside the city.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well that's the thing about hogs. Everyone is there undefeated.
I mean, you just you're not going to star these things.
And in Texas has gotten so bad and Louisiana's gotten
so bad, it's just absolutely crazy. So so you own.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Yes, sir, I produce a show, I promote it. Uh
we uh you know, obviously we have we have sponsors
and stuff that uh that help us and a lot
of the uh A lot of the participants they own
their business owners and they like Animal Housing Solutions out
of Florida. They're one of our biggest contributors. You know,
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there's dog food label showtime dog food stuff like that
that help us from ope the event, help us to
make it better, uh, you know, help us to make
it more marketable, things like that.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's fascinating. So if you got seven hundred dogs, how
many individual people that own these dogs are.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Coming into Windfield?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Because I'm wondering, I'm guessing wind Fields a pretty small town.
How do where do these people stay?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
This is this is one of the best parts of
this story. I'm glad you asked because the economic impact
per capita to Winfield is probably greater than having the
Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Uh okay, Oh, I'm sorry, Jim, I couldn't hear that.
I wasn't sure if it was in or not.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
All right, we'll be back and well if more coming
up with Jack Boy Cannell.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The website is hogged Baying dot com hogg Babe b
A Y I n G dot com
Well, we have an update to the story of the
famous embalmer Amber louder milt. I think it's one of
those stories where she probably doesn't realize that she has
a fan club out there. She was the thirty four
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year old embalmer who cut the Fellas willie off after
finding out that he was a.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Sex predator. She has turned herself in.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I did wrong. She was on the lamb when we
were doing the story yesterday. She has turned herself in
and she has been charged with felony abuse of a corpse,
which I guess it'll be interesting to see what her
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punishment is because so many folks today. I'll bet you
she'll be punished more.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
For cutting his.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Willie off after he's dead than he was for the
sex crime that made him a sexual offender. There's something
wrong with that. There's something real wrong with that. Another
interesting tidbit from the case. The dead man's new spouse,
so he had been recently married, and his daughter from
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a previous marriage. We're going to split up his remains
after he was cremated. So well, yesterday afternoon, the Texas
Funeral Service Commission suspended Loudermilk's license. They're asking for anyone
with information to contact them or Harris County Precinct one.
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Loudermilk's bond has been set at five thousand dollars. Her
next court date is scheduled for May thirteenth. KPRCTV reports
the incident investigated by Constable Rosen's office happened at Memorial
Mortuary and Crematory at on Pine Street, according to records,
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after the funeral director in charge had a conversation on
the phone with the family of Charles Roy Rodriguez, fifty eight,
Poor old Charles, he got dragged back into this thing.
According to investigators, Rodriguez had been charged with sexual assault
and given deferred adjudication related to an incident involving a
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woman at a bar. He was also required to register
as a sex offender. They discussed splitting Rodriguez's remains between
the new spouse and his daughter from a previous marriage,
according to records, and the family member mentioned that he
was a registered sex offender. Soon after that phone call,
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an employee said they witnessed Laudermilk cut off Rodriguez's penis
halfway and stuff it in his mouth. Why don't you
just cut half of it into court?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Records.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Just before Rodriguez was put into crematory equipment. Another employee
said they noticed the penis in Rodriguez's mouth and Loudermilk
quickly covered the groin area with a towel, claiming he
had quote a lot going on with him. I guess
that's one way to say it, now, Yeah, I mean,
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I guess she went off half. Better not say that one.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Here was the story from yesterday.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
The allegations here are rare and disturbing. This embalmer is
accused of stabbing this dead man twice in the groin area,
then cutting off part of his private part and putting
it in his mouth. Investigators say it all happened after
she learned about his past at Memorial mortuary on the
Southwest Side. It's a situation that no family would ever
want to hear about their loved one.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
This was a vicious, brutal attack of a corpse. The
person's already dead. It's kind of shocking even to me.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Licensed embalmer Amber Laughtermilk is accused of using a scalpel
to twice stab a man in the groin after he
died of pneumonia last month. She cut off his private
part put it in his mouth, according to records, and
told a trainee who witnessed it, you didn't see anything.
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Two troubled lives co existed at the same time. But
this person, clearly, our suspect, clearly just went off the edge.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Harris County Precinct one Constable Deputies investigated. They say employees
were too scared to report her, who, according to records,
cover the dead man up with a towel when a
colleague noticed the disfigurement. While a motive isn't clear, records
show mortuary staff had just learned the victim was a
registered sex offender. How important are ethics in this line
of work?
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Ethics is everything in this line of work.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
Jason Altieri runs Southeast Texas crematory, not connected to this case,
admitting this could have been hard to predict. He says
families should be aware of where loved ones will be cremated,
feel comfortable to ask questions, and be able to visit
and see it in person.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Whether we have a particular judgment one way or the other,
it doesn't matter. We're they are for a family and
we have to keep that in mind.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
Staff reported the case involving watermilk to the Texas Funeral
Service Commission. The executive director says it's the only criminal
abuse of corpse case across the state in the last
two years.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Dealing with the loss of a loved one is in
an incredibly difficult time, and there are predators who exploit
this vulnerability.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Family should proactively verify the credentials of funeral homes and directors,
he says, using the agency's licensed look up before putting
someone to rest Latermilk has been a funeral director in
Texas since twenty twenty one, according to records. Now the
state will seek to suspend and possibly revoke her license.
Speaker 4 (05:47):
It makes us all look bad, and that's the sad
thing about.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
This memorial Mortuary tells KPRC too Laughtermilk no longer works there,
but declined to provide any additional detail, citing a personnel
matter and ongoing legal case.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
I like how they say that we haven't had a
case of you know, abusive a corpse in over two years.
How would you know who exactly, other than the fact
that somebody else was in the room. But you know,
we were thinking it might be useful to have a
funeral home if you you know, if someone you died.
If someone you know died, it might be useful to
(06:22):
be able to well, you know, have.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
You lost a loved one you never really loved it all?
Speaker 5 (06:28):
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lost personal Have an uncle who left you out of
the wheel, no problem. We'll take his wallet and shove
it straight up his How about that sketchy cousin who
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We'll chop those thieve and hands right to the bone.
And now introducing our Green's point in Sharpstown. You stab him,
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we'll slap him special self defense only, of course, Happy
Everything's Funeral Home, where we put the cringe in your revenge.
Let's bury the had together from Portland to Albany and
all Greek cities in between.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
The Michael Berry Show is nichewide.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Linda Wright zar funny story. Yesterday I showed up for
lunch at a Houston barbecue company. I just wish she'd
said which the barbecue was, because now my mind starts
racing to meet a salesman who asked me to mentor
his sister in law, who is a semester away from
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the newest Michael Berry show sponsor. He chuckled and said, oh,
you're a fan. I just heard about our sponsorship and
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I like that guy.
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(08:27):
I guess two twins is twins. I guess is the
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the point. They moved their shop to Galveston County last year.
But they do branding of all anything you put your
company logo on, whether it's your guys out on the
(08:48):
oil rig, they do a lot of those. Or you're
getting ready for a convention and you need all of
the branding of the materials you're going to put up
around your station.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
They do all that.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Great guys, But I am a big fan of putting
your brand wherever you can, because that's how you grow
your business. That's what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump built
a brand of his name to the point that his
(09:19):
brand was worth more than the assets themselves. And that
is a rare, rare thing. Indeed, he built a brand,
he protected that brand, he promoted that brand. He didn't
own buildings that lacked that lacked his name and you
(09:41):
would later find out that that was a Trump building.
He promoted his brand aggressively and in the process.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Built his brand.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
And I think that I think you're crazy not to
do that because every person you interact with your vehicle
out on the road. You know, Matt Brice at Federal
American Grill and Russell Lebarro and a few other Cat's
Coffee was big in this. Actually, Abby Cats. This was
(10:17):
a big one for him that we needed to We
needed two trucks two vans for Camp Hope because the
guys are constantly going to medical appointments and we needed
two vans to transport them. And the idea was, well,
why not make these these vans a moving billboard for
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veterans suffering with PTSD that there's help and hope available.
And folks will stop the when the van is pulled
over to get gas, folks will come up and ask
about it. Hey, I've heard about this. I've got a
son that needs help. Is you know how much does
it cost? It's absolutely free our people.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You PayPal it.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But think of the lives that are saved by the
awareness of that about shoot, I itt it's been ten
years ago, maybe not that long. There's a fellow named
JJ Isbel. His dad was the mayor, longtime mayor of Pasadena.
JJ himself was a city councilman there. But he built,
starting in high school, a very very successful business transporting fuel.
(11:33):
And he has these big tankers. And Russell Lebarrow and
he are good friends because the Pasadena connection. And at
some point Russell asked him, Hey, what would you think
about if we put Camp Hope on the side of
those tankers. And so it was done, and I get
emails from people who see those tankers on the road.
(11:56):
I think he said they put a tanker on the
road every forty.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
Five seconds or something.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
They I think they're the largest fuel transportation over road,
not pipeline company, maybe in Texas, maybe beyond.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
It's a lot of trucks.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
It's a lot of trucks on the road every single day,
and every single truck is an opportunity to say to
a veteran suffering with PTSD, there's help, and here's where
it is. Or to say to their mother or their father,
or their brother or their spouse.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
That's a big one.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We get wives or ex wives or estranged wives, girlfriends
who say, my man's got a problem. He needs help.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
There's the number right there, there's the.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
Number coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
We're going to talk to a fellow.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
I got an email from a guy who said, hey,
maybe you can help this guy.
Speaker 6 (12:52):
He does this.
Speaker 1 (12:55):
Bay dog competition where they hunt hogs and you don't know,
it's it's a very old fashion. It's it's it's like
using the old Jim, what's the term. My brother was
into this, that the old guns, that that uh, you
put the ball and what's.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
This black powder? Black powder? The old black powder.
Speaker 1 (13:18):
I think that's the term guns as opposed to the
modern you know, new things are classic cars.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
It's it's it's a it's.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
A love of the past. And there is a fella
in Orange who does a competition where, you know, guys
bring their bay dogs out and the way you hunt
the hog is the dogs. You've got different types of dogs.
One goes and catches him, the other one pins him up,
and the bay dog they hold the dog there for
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you to go up the hog there, and you go
up and kill the hog. But no guns are allowed.
And I took my boys to do this. It's a
it's a it's a fascinating, fascinating activity sport, I would say. Anyway,
so this guy hosts a competition and apparently some leftist
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comedian wherever. They didn't tell me who the name was,
but I'm gonna ask, went after him and he moved
the competition to Louisiana. He's moved it back to Coots now,
but the competition is coming up. Is maybe you could
just help this guy because we you know, in our community,
we all love the guy. Well, yeah, of course I will.
So we're gonna talk to the fella in just a moment.
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And if you've never done that, this may.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Be a great opportunity for you to.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I'll tell you what I took my boys to do it.
It's it's one of the best weekends that ever had.
Speaker 5 (14:36):
It's my Hawaiian Chad Nakanishi Aloha bro Han the Michael
Berry Show.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
If I received an email from a fellow named Russell
King who goes zar and no time is short, I'll
get to the point. There's a Southern tradition known as
hog baying, using certain dogs bred for this, notably the
Louisiana katah Ula leopard dog and blackmouth cur dog. This
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activity involves the dog quote unquote baying a wild hog
in an arena type environment, not fighting dogs. Not fighting
dogs are disqualified for biting and holding. The dog has
the purpose of stopping and turning the wild hog to
face them, like they are bred to do in their nature.
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They are not allowed to attack or bite the hog,
other than to turn or stop the hog from running.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
That is baying. Be AYI g.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
So there is a guy that keeps the sport alive
and it attracts people from other states all over, but
it's based in Louisiana called Uncle Earls, and it's celebrating
thirty years starting next Monday for seven straight days. The
owner Jack Lalsano, I think is how you pronounce this
isiaca n I think that's Lausano. But we'll see in
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Orange owns Hogbaying dot Com, the official website of the
World Championship of Hog Bank and is a true Southeast
Texas entrepreneur. He was attacked a few years ago by
a mid level woke Texas actress comedian as if he
was engaged in animal cruelty, but it faded away. The
group are extremely sensitive to the dogs and the hog's
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well being. He's now doing his business in Louisiana, but
he wants to relocate back to Coon's, where the contest
was held for decades. I figured you'd be interested in
this story and would like to interview him on your show. Unfortunately,
the big show at Uncle Earl's, the Woodstock of of
Hog Dog Bang, starts next Monday, March seventeenth. I have
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an athlete, female katahula lepardog that showed up on my
porch December twenty fifth, twenty twenty four, so three months ago,
two months Christmas Day. So I named her Holly. She's
ten months old and I'm entering her in the puppy
category for the first time. The puppy category uses small
wild hogs to let them bark at them. I hope
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you'll consider interviewing him on your show. He's a good dude.
Thank you, Rusty King Hampshire Finette. By the way, I'm
the one that told you about the doors Jim Morrison
using Jerry Chef, Elvis Presley's bass player on their last
album La Woman Ps. If you don't know, please read
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up on Katahula Leopard Dogs. So our guest is Jake,
Is it Lausano? How do you pronounce your last name?
Speaker 6 (17:45):
Lloyd cannot?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
Oh, you're mispronounced my voice?
Speaker 6 (17:49):
Okay, yeah, my voice is a little scratchy. Had a
bunch of football games last night.
Speaker 1 (17:54):
Is that a French name?
Speaker 6 (17:56):
That's it?
Speaker 1 (17:56):
Tell you it's Italian. Why is this sea hard in
the middle of a bunch of vowels that don't make
any sense?
Speaker 6 (18:02):
Well, probably because we're rednecks and that's just how my grandfather.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Now Lloyd cameo.
Speaker 1 (18:07):
All right, do you live in Orange?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Now?
Speaker 6 (18:11):
I live in Orange currently, Yes, sir, I'm from Finette,
but I've lived in Orange about eight years.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Okay, what do you do there?
Speaker 6 (18:20):
I was a process operator. Currently I am an outside
sales guy for an industrial specialty company. Who iss Industrial
specialty services?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is that out at the plants there in Orange? On
chemical row?
Speaker 6 (18:36):
All up? And down Chemical Row, Beaumont Port author. I mean,
we're all over the Gulf coast, but our area is
mainly here around southeast Texas.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
And where do you actually live.
Speaker 6 (18:47):
I live in Little Cypress, am north of the high
school Michael Berry's old stomping grounds.
Speaker 1 (18:53):
You exactly, Yeah, I know that area well. I know
that area very well, Little Cypress, more Eastville. That area
has ex exploded as people have kind of moved out
of Orange and and moved out there for for a
number of different reasons. But that area is out of control.
I mean, it's it's amazing.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
It won't be long Doweyville, that's all.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
That's exactly right.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
One of my dear friends in high school, Chad Prowse,
his brother Brandon Prowse, is the athletic director there at Deuiyville.
So for folks that don't know about this hog band,
first of all, why do you do this?
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Well, Uh, I've always had working dogs growing up. I
was born with a yard for of cow dogs. We
were ranchers and stuff. And then, uh, the popularity of
hog hunting became Uh, I guess it reached us and
we realized that these versatile dogs could do both and uh,
you know, if you're not familiar with hunting a wild hog,
you send some track dogs out and they actually tracked
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the hog down. And back in those days, we didn't
have these GPS collars and things that we have the
technology we have now. So the dogs had to bark.
So the bay dogs they go bark at it to
indicate the location of the game. And then you went
in to harvest it however you may seem or if
it was one you didn't want to harvest, you just
called your dog out and went down the trail and
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found another one, and so you got now, I guess,
go ahead. Well, it's kind of a it's kind of
parlayed essentially. It's kind of like rodeo. Like, for instance,
all these guys that compete in different rodeo events, they
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normally had some type of cowboy background. Well, these competitions
you had some type of hunting background or whatever. And
now you go to compete on the biggest stages for
the biggest prizes and things like that. And most of
the time the dogs don't do both. Like you don't
go pincows on your roping horse. These dogs are just
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specialized in these time petitions. And to you know, for
more longevity and things like that. They just compete in
the field trials, although occasionally some people do turn them
out in a wild and try to catch some wild hogs.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
And so you will have your event beginning next week,
and that'll be in Coots.
Speaker 6 (21:22):
No, sir, it'll be in Winfield, Louisiana the event, yes, sir,
it's still in Louisiana. And what it was. I had
my shows in Coots and when I got the contract
to do this in Louisiana, I had two herds of
hogs because you can't take wild hogs across the state
lines and anyway, I kind of consolidated my herd up
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in North Louisiana to cut the overhead because it just
wasn't working out having two sets of hogs, and especially
when just one of them is in Louisiana. So I
moved everything over there. Got to help me with that
up in Downsville. Most of the shows at his place,
but this one, the super Bowl, is in Winfield. And
the name Uncle Earl's comes from some of the most
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influential politicians from Louisiana, the Long family, Huey Long, Earl Long.
Speaker 2 (22:13):
Who's familiar with that yep, all right, Well, this is.
Speaker 6 (22:16):
A commemoration of for for instance, like like Winfield is
a small town, they're always trying to do touristy stuff
to get people to come to town. And for Hughey's one
hundredth birthday, every month that year they did some type
of activity that Hughey liked and you know, to bring
some type of event in town whatnot. Well it worked
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so well. A couple of years later, to commemorate Earl
Long's one hundredth birthday, they were going to do the
same thing. Well, some old friends and caretakers of his
knew his favorite his you know, his best pastime, his
most passionate sport was the sport of hal hunting with
hands dogs, and so they decided to have haldolf field
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trial in Winfield. It was a one day on a Saturday,
just like the rest of these events to commemorate the birthday.
And this sucker ran for like seventy two straight hours.
So many people showed up.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
Woll hold on, there hadn't been to ask you if
y'all ever come across Aisle Hall, want you there or
know if they have those a new events.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
The hold just pan.
Speaker 5 (23:25):
Michael Berry show continues game in all Mile.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
One of the Memorial villages was just named the wealthiest
town in Texas, and that village would be Hunter's Creek Village.
According to an analysis from Stacker, a digital content distribution firm,
the median household income in Hunter's Creek Village is in
excess of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year.
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The analysis found that's the median and seventy five percent
of households in the small city of about forty four
one hundred people earn at least two hundred thousand a year. Meanwhile,
just one point six percent of families in the community
fall below the poverty line. Those factors set Hunter's Creek
Village in the Memorial area apart in this analysis, even
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compared to other towns considered among the wealthiest in Texas,
such as West University Place, also in Harris County, or
Highland Park in the Dallas area. Sacra's analysis relied on
data from the Census Bureau and considered communities with populations
of at least one thousand people. Census data does not
show median earnings above two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
(24:39):
Stacker pointed out that while the nation's wealthiest towns generally
offer nice amenities, these may vary state by state. Ninety
let's see analysis that rank cities by their number of
millionaires or billionaires generally conclude that major cities are the
wealthiest in any given state. There are ninety nine hundred,
So we'll say ninety one thousand millionaires living in Houston,
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for example, according to a report from Henley and Partners,
ninety one thousand millionaires. Jake Loy Kano, Loycano or Locano.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
Either way depends on where you're from. How you say
you answered either one? I say Lloyd.
Speaker 2 (25:18):
Cano, Lloyd Keno. All right, I'll say it how you
said Jake.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
Loyd Cano owns hog baying dot Com, the official website
of the World Championship of hog bank So your competition
will begin in Winfield, Louisiana on Monday. And how many
folks will compete? How many actual dogs will compete?
Speaker 6 (25:38):
In that? There'll be around seven hundred dogs?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
What how much just a cost to register this thing?
Speaker 6 (25:48):
Well, there's there's different classes. There's the puppy, there's the
old and young. Where there's a grown dog running with
a puppy, and then there's the one dog, then there's
the two dogs, and that varies from like eighty bucks
to one hundred and sixty bus they'll be large prizes.
They'll be over sixty thousand dollars paid out next week. Wow.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
So I went with a group out in Brenham several
years ago. I took my boys, and my boys at
the time were say thirteen and fourteen, and these guys
had quite There were property owners in the area who
actually paid them to work their properties to keep the
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hogs off because the hogs do so much damage. And
then they made this their hobby and boy they were
I mean, they were obsessed about it. And we show
up and they've got equipment. They've got pins that they
carry these dogs around in and the dogs get out,
and they've got the most elaborate setup on these dogs.
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And they did use GPS, I will say that, but.
Speaker 6 (26:54):
They it's very tired. We typically all do.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Now you do, okay, that my next question.
Speaker 1 (27:02):
And so they were kind of showing me what they
were doing, and they send the trackers out and all
of a sudden they start barking, and when they do,
we look on the GPS all right, there's where they are.
And they got one fella, I can't remember his name,
but he was the monster and he waits back and
it was like a prize fighter. Right, here's the undercard.
But we're gonna bring out Tyson in a minute, and
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he's gonna knock somebody out.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
This fella was so.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
Squat and I don't know what breed he would have been,
but he was the big dog. And it wasn't that
that big, but I mean in terms of mentally he was.
And when they let him out, he goes running through
and there was thin wire on this fence and I
don't know if he saw it and didn't care or
didn't see it, but he hit that wire and just
(27:47):
kept going.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
And I mean, you didn't get in the way of
this thing.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
But they go and get the hogs and then and
then my kids got to stab them, and it was
it was a fascinating process, this whole thing. But it
was amazing to me how intense these guys were into
this deal. Well, their dogs were all cut up because
there was a hog out in that area that they
had been tracking. They were hoping to get that day
(28:12):
that they had taken the calling Hogzilla and this hog
had killed several of their dogs.
Speaker 6 (28:17):
It was.
Speaker 1 (28:19):
Quite the match for these dogs. But I was fascinated
by the culture of these guys. And by the way,
these were all public officials, police chiefs and fire chiefs
and sheriffs and all this sort of stuff, and just
it was. It is one of the most fun days
I ever had with my boys ever out in nature
and with these guys and the culture of these guys.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It's pretty cool.
Speaker 6 (28:41):
You'd be surprised how many people actually do this. Like
even folks that live in town. They may have a
couple of dogs and you know, in their backyard, and
that's what they do with them. They get a boat
and they go to the lake, go to the river,
and they're all hunting. You know, you don't have to
own a lot of property or being avid marksmen. The
hog it's I always tell people, like you were saying,
(29:02):
it was fascinating your first time to see that like that.
That's the reaction every time. I always tell people that
this is the best feeling you can have with your
clothes off, both hunting, any type of archery, rifle, whatever.
This is the most fun type of hunting I've ever done. Now,
if I have any free time. I don't go fishing,
I don't deer hunt.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
I run my dogs and you run them there an Orange.
Speaker 6 (29:26):
I run them all over Texas and Louisiana. I've been.
I've caught hogs in the foothills of California all the
way to Tennessee, South Carolina. I think I've been as
for north as South Carolina, Tennessee. But they're all over
the South, man. I mean there's a lot of hogs around.
(29:47):
Like I have friends in Riverside right outside of Los
Angeles that they catch hogs right there outside the city.
Speaker 1 (29:54):
Well that's the thing about hogs. Everyone is there undefeated.
I mean, you just you're not going to star these things.
And in Texas has gotten so bad and Louisiana's gotten
so bad, it's just absolutely crazy. So so you own.
Speaker 6 (30:10):
Yes, sir, I produce a show, I promote it. Uh
we uh you know, obviously we have we have sponsors
and stuff that uh that help us and a lot
of the uh A lot of the participants they own
their business owners and they like Animal Housing Solutions out
of Florida. They're one of our biggest contributors. You know,
(30:31):
there's dog food label showtime dog food stuff like that
that help us from ope the event, help us to
make it better, uh, you know, help us to make
it more marketable, things like that.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
That's fascinating. So if you got seven hundred dogs, how
many individual people that own these dogs are.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
Coming into Windfield?
Speaker 1 (30:49):
Because I'm wondering, I'm guessing wind Fields a pretty small town.
How do where do these people stay?
Speaker 6 (30:56):
This is this is one of the best parts of
this story. I'm glad you asked because the economic impact
per capita to Winfield is probably greater than having the
Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Uh okay, Oh, I'm sorry, Jim, I couldn't hear that.
I wasn't sure if it was in or not.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
All right, we'll be back and well if more coming
up with Jack Boy Cannell.
Speaker 1 (31:26):
The website is hogged Baying dot com hogg Babe b
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