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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Dairy Show is on the air. Shut to my fact,
like this job and shove it. Joey, you like movies
(00:24):
about glad heats. He's down in the tone, but sometimes
I get the minstrel crabs for your hard This time
you pipe on tupa.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You wanna sit down in the kitchen and pix me
something good to eat, make my head a little high
and the whole day crack his wax. We're gonna lay
around the Shandy Marama and put a good boy.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm a guy who can get it for cigarettes, a
bag of briefer, professor.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thing will pass to be a baby will pass to
me's foe. We'll take time out to smile a little defoil.
Laddya go because we're gonna lay on the sheltering mom.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And put a good boys.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
They have a cast at Gorilla would escape from the
zoo and punched you and I.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I saw the sweetish post.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
It was two police officers sitting in a restaurant in Beaumont.
Something scanteen. I can't find it now, but I said,
it's a treat. When my dad calls and asks me
to join him for lunch, and I studied the picture
a little closer.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He's he's older than her.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
He I mean, just glancing at it looked like just
two you know, police officers sitting at a restaurant having
lunch together. It was a police officer and her father.
And she said, what a treat to get to have
lunch with him, and he even paid, and it was
obviously they're both long horseman alsters. Obviously they're both still
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active duty. And I thought, what a nice thing. So
much of life is perspective right now, every single person listening,
every single one of us right now, could go from
having a blow day or an okay day, or just
another day or it's nothing special. Maybe we're looking forward
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to a concert in July, I mean in November. Maybe
we're looking look forward to a vacation or the beginning
of college football or whatever else. But we could actually
have a wonderful day today. And it's all of our choosing.
I can't have wonderful day to day. I'm not traveling today.
We're not going and sitting at the beach and drinking
margarita's all day. We're not doing this. You could choose
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to have a wonderful day right now, and you can
make someone else this day wonderful, which just a little
simple thing like that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, I gotta work today.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I can't leave for lunch today, because I guarantee you,
if you decided right now that you were going to
set aside one hour including drive time, and you're gonna
move fast, that you would work faster and fill the
time now to get back and finish your work in
the afternoon if you wanted to, if it was important
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to you, if you were a person who takes charge
of their own life. I choose to be happy every
single day. I make that choice. And one of the
things I do that makes me happy is trying to
do something to bless someone else. Not because I'm a
good person. I want to be clear on that. It
is not because I'm a good person. I am no
better than the next guy. Is because I am a
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very selfish person. I am hedonistic. I live for my
own pleasure, and I find pleasure when I go by
and check on my dad and his mac z cliner
and find a new feature, as we did on the
z Cliner that he wasn't aware of that was a
heating pad because he'd had a fall the day before,
and that heat right on his lower back was giving
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him great pleasure, and he wanted to tell me about that.
And then I got to talk, and now we start
talking about my mom, and we started telling stories and
laughing and having a good time. And he was happy,
which made me happy. And I felt like a king
because I was able to take someone out of the
stupor of sitting in your chair and watching old Baywatch
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episodes and live in a memory for a moment. That's
a choice I made. It didn't cost me anything. I
didn't have any it didn't it didn't require much. I
just did it, and you can do it. And I
don't tell you because I need you to tell me.
I'm a good son. I don't need that. I tell
you because you can do that. In every aspect of
your life. We keep we keep punting our personal responsibility
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for personal responsibility. Okay, well, I need you to get
involved to help Patston. Hey, Paston needs to do more.
You need to do more.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
How about you need to do that. You think Donald
Trump got elected? He didn't you elected him when Trump
was running in twenty sixteen because I was on the
opposite side when Trump was running and I was with
the cruise. I never seen a juggernaut like that before
or since. I had people coming up to me that
I hadn't seen in years, would see me across the room.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What we do you think about Trump? I don't know.
What do you think about Trump? Man?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'm excited. I'm going to a rally this weekend. I'm
putting a sign out on my property. I've never seen
before or since people on seventy one or ten or
two ninety or thirty six putting signs out Trump big signs.
They wanted everybody to know it. You don't like it, fine,
it's my property. I'm telling the world I'm proudly for Trump. Okay,
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you think that didn't contribute, You think that didn't validate
someone else who wasn't sure if they were for Trump
when they saw that. Of course it did. People posted
about it. When someone criticized, they ignored it. They moved
on because they wanted Trump to win and nothing could
rain on their raid. They personally took charge. And I
don't just mean showing up at rally. Showing up at
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rallies is fun. It doesn't change anything to people who
are there, are already there. You're not convincing anyone else.
Go to rallies, But go to rallies so you get
to be around other like minded people. You don't go
to rallies to win elections. I want my god win
so bad. I'm gonna go to a rally. Okay, when
you get there, what are you gonna do? I'm gonna
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cheer and then what uh? I'mna be happy I was there? Okay,
but that doesn't actually win anything over. What if you
talk to everybody around you. What if you made sure
of everybody that works with you, that shares your views.
What if you got them registered to vote? What if
you sat down with the calendar and memorize it. Right now,
it's only a few days. What if you say, right,
here's the last day. We got to make sure that
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you're let's check your registration. Oh you're registered. You're not
registered to vote anymore? Are you're not registered to vote?
Or you're still registered to vote in another state? You're
not showing up in Texas since you moved here. All
of these things, Each little drop in the ocean is
a rising tide. Each little bit makes a difference. But
it's more than that. We all talk about how terrible
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the teachers are. The teachers are terrible, The teachers aren't
doing any good tea. What are you teaching your kids?
What are you teaching your kids? How much are you
engaging with your kids? How much time are you spending
with your kids? Are your kids little brats? Or are
you teaching them to engage, to look people in the eye,
to shake their hands, to communicate with adults? Are you
talking about their future? Are you talking about their study habits?
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Are you talking about learning? Are you teaching them the
value of learning? Are you encouraging them to read? I
don't really because I never much reader. Okay, so you're
passing that down to your kid. Well, you know what,
You're right, I ought to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You're not going to.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I ought to, though, you know I ought to because
I've never been a reader, readers, or leaders.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Reading is a great skill. Well, I'm so worried about AI. No,
you're an excuse maker.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
You don't want to engage in the improvement of yourself
or other people around you, So you use AI's excuse
same way a guy uses his wife or she uses
her husband as an excuse, the same way I'm going
to start working out. But somewhere down the road, I'm
going to do this. I was going to go to
law school, but I do know. Take control of your
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own life right now. Don't blame the liberals, don't blame
the media. Don't blame well I would, but but Biden, no.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Do it yourself. Start right now. Johnny, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I'm on testaf show and you're on Test Show. We
go go to Baylor or we see the doctors and Baylor.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I deal with.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
You're like doctor Phil and uh and Rush Limball kind
of a hybrid there sometimes but uh uh, I deal
for the large Cross state. Don't have my TSA members
are good consistently. But I'm fifty having my life of
sistey four uh uh. Menopause is kicking my butt. I've
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been married twenty five years and when we've been through
all kinds of problems business and work. So uh that
was in October two years ago. It's like such life
fell by the way time. Oh I'm sorry, I'm gonna
live next to the restaurant anyway. Doctor on the show
one day to talk about solutions for these tal problems
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for helping the ladies out with their with their such drugs.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, that was a woman named ANDW. Davis. She's my
she's my dad's concierge. Doctor.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Uh, she's my friend. She's a a she's a hormone specialist. Diabetes.
I'm sorry, diabetes is an area of expertise. She treats
my dad as his primary but also deals with his
diabetes and takes the phone calls at two o'clock in
the morning when he has to be rushed to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
She's a wonderful, wonderf lady.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
But her expertise, which I learned at dinner at our house,
which I did not know. I asked her how she
got into diabetes and why she wanted to devote to
career to that, and she said, I don't know if
you remember the story, but she said, well, I do
treat diabetes, and I love your father and I'm happy
to do that. I enjoyed, it's rewarding, but my actual
passion in life is women's hormones and menopause. And the
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story went that. I said, well, tell me about menopause
and what it is. And as she started talking, I
didn't realize this. My wife told me. I can't remember
it was that night laying in bed or the next
morning when we woke up. I think it was the
next morning. And she said, you didn't realize this, because
when we do a dinner party, I separate. When I
do anything like this, I separate the person you came with.
So I'll put I put doctor Davis on one end,
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and I put her boyfriend down on the other. I
put myself caddy corner from her, and my wife caddy
corner from him. So you're not allowed to sit next
to your spouse because people don't engage, they don't open up,
they don't relax when they're with their spouse. They end
up talking to their spouse because that's a comfort level.
It's an anxiety thing. So anyway, she said, you didn't notice,
but each of us was having a conversation with somebody
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else's husband or wife, and when y'all start talking about menopause,
every woman at the table went quiet and turned and
listened and just stopped talking. She said, you need to
have her on the air, and I said, oh, that's
going to sound great. We skew male. We're not all male,
but like most talk radio we skew more male than female,
and it's natural, right.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm a guy.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I don't shy away from that, and guys tend to.
You know, women are listening to Dana on Sunday ninety
nine point one, and women are listening to softer music.
They don't want to hear my stuff to the same extent.
So anyway, I had her on if you remember, we
talked for three hours and I had to say I
had to say in advanced fellas, I'm just going to
be honest with you. I think this is important. I
think it's important to people's lives, and I know it's
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going to bother you all. Michael, you talked about menopause.
I got more emails from men than I did women. Johnny,
I had men telling me you saved my marriage. You
gave me the opportunity, you open the door for me
to talk to my wife about why she doesn't have
a sex drive, why her moods have dipped while her
energy has dipped. And people went whether they went to
see doctor Davis. A lot of people email me. I
connected them to her and she's treating them them now.
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But a lot of people just went to their primary
They said, Hey, is there something out there that can
help me, because we.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Live in a great time. This is a golden era.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
People take too many pills for too many things and
too many shots, and they trust too often. But there
are some pretty wonderful things. And hormones are real, and
women's hormones. I remember my mom was forty and she
started talking about it was the end of the world.
You know, she was crashing. She was going through menopause.
So that was a dirty word to me because I
remember my mom went crazy for a few years going
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through menopause, and come to find out, it's like blood
pressure and testosteros. It's one of those things that you
can regulate and it makes a wonderful I get emails
to this day of women who say, you gave me
back my life. I have a sex life again. I
feel young again. I feel good again. I feel happy again.
I'm not mean and resentful. So yeah, go treat that Johnny.
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Did we lose him?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
No?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
I just put it on mute because I'm in this
noisy Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The restaurant are you in?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
I'm on It's called Caicape. It's on Ella near six
ten North.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
It's close to.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
TC gesture and uh and.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Uh did you just have breakfast or you're about to
have breakfast?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I'm eating it as we speak. But what are you
having my web those rancheros? I get my eggs over medium.
They did not overcook the egg yoke, which is good.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's problem.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
And I like the hole in the wall talkers.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I need to know what else
you got on that plate.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I let's just reap my beans and that's a good
ran taro sauce. But you know what, I live in
clear Lake and there's a place I go down there
called Flounces, and they serve and they may give you
three Webel's rancheros instead of two. Uh, give you reef
i beans. They also give you the fried banana I like.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, thetonos. I love those. Yeah. Did you get some
rice on that plate?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
But I liked you and rice as well.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Did you get tortillas? I got corn tortia corn tortillas? Okay?
Are you having coffee?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Having coffee? Half regular, half leaded, half well leaded?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And uh uh I like corn tortillas. I've grown to
like them yet me. Yeah, I'm with you on the
hell are you fifty seven. All right, do you want
me to talk to your wife?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Uh no, you know, honestly, don't live ascillated between asking
Jesus to take me home. They want to run off
with a latina.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Who's you moment half now, you don't bring that. I
don't do that. Here's what you afford it.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
It's like, it's like my wife and I talk about
all the time, if if one of our kids, if
if we're aggravated, we're not going to give up on
our kids. Don't give up on your wife. Go home
and say, hey, look I'm I'm not demanding, I'm not criticizing.
I'm not here to judge you, because Lord knows I'm
not perfect. But I want to talk. Let's let's get
to a point where we are madly in love again
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and let's talk about the happiness. Let's talk about what
I want to go through this with you and show
her that you understand what she's going through, because it's real.
Women go through this. It's real. If you can remember
the name Anu, which is a n U A New
Davis DA V I S. She's at River Oaks Medical
Practice at Kirby and Sam Phillippi in that building she's.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Very good for women.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I've sent a lot of women to her, and she's
very good with women, especially menopause and hormone.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Good luck to you, my man, good luck to you.
I appreciate you calling.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I would love for you to call me in three
months and give me a happy Indian to this story,
I hope you have a happy ending.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Here's something funny.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
So I was very moved by this post. I said, Heather,
it's Hayley, this woman posted on Facebook. I don't know
why it popped up on my feed. I don't follow her.
So Hailey Morrow, who's popo? Real pretty girl by the way,
and she posted when dad sends a text that says lunch. Absolutely,
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we enjoyed Lacentina Mexican grill Beaumont today and I had
my favorite shrimp Diablos grilled shrimp with cheese and jalapano
wrapped in bacon. I guess that's for the uninitiated. She
had to explain that, and yes, Dad picked up the tab.
I'm getting the next one, though, So I said, man,
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what a nice picture, what a nice story, Hailey Morrow.
And I was going to look up her dad, but
I didn't, so I posted to my friend Corey Crenshaw,
who's the former district attorney. He's a city councilman, and
I said, hey, you need to take these guys lunch.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's a good story.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
But he didn't answer because he's maybe at city cal
whn knows what they're doing. So I called my brother's
best friends to Pericone, who was longtime Beaumont police officer,
knows everybody in law enforcem my brother knew everybody in
law enforcement and that Beaumont law enforcement community. My brother
started as a Port author police officer. He was a
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Beaumont police officer. He was a Jefferson County Jefferson County
Sheriff's deputy, and so they run in small circles.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So he knew the Drafty boys who were the.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
DPS troopers for there, and he knew all the FED guys,
and he knew every police department guy and all the
constables and anyway, So I called Steve Pericone, his buddy,
and I said, hey, she's too young for you to
know her, but I need you to get me a
phone number for this woman named Haley Morrow.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
She's a Beaumont police officer. And he said she's not
too young.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I know her, I said, oh okay. He said, that's
Bobby Rector's daughter, and I said, wait to say it.
Her dad's last name is not Morrow, because it didn't
cross my mind to be a married name.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I said. I said, Chris was friends with Bobby Rector.
He said, of course he was. Yeah, he knew.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
So here is this picture. I mean, look, it's not
like I saw a picture of a family and Uganda
and it turns out I grew up next door to him.
It is Beaumont and it is police. But what are
the chances that this picture that so affected me? The
dude's friends with my brother? How's that tim on the
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black line? You're up, sir.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Michael.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I just want to tell you the week I took
the act day, I took my son in school, I
took to work with him last week. I'll remember you
saying some show some time ago that you engaged with
young people and you ask them, hey, what do your
parents do? And they have no clue. They kind of
resonated with me. My son and I discussed what I do,
but she doesn't really know. So since she was out
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of school, he didn't have your neighview. I'll say hey,
they go to work with me. So we get up
in the morning, I have Breck heading to work, and
as heading the work, I'm telling them what I do.
Get there, I introduce them all the people there, and
I said, hey, if if you have anything to do
with paperwork or whatever, he's got a work. So throughout
the course of the day. Of course, my company is
so nervous about liability. They are afraid he's don't get
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a paper custoer didn't get do much with him. But
that experience was really good for me because I think
it's important as a black man to show your black
son's examples of you going to work, making an honest living,
doing things the right way. How you engage with people.
It doesn't matter what you do, whether you're a mechanic,
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whether you work at a clerk at a shop, just
take them to work with you and engage with the man,
talk to him and have and showed them a good example.
All superheroes don't wear capes. The example shouldn't be a rapper,
it should not be a sport athlete. It should be
just show them that example. Take that time, take your
kids to work with you engaged. I bought it a
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great spirit.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't know what caused you.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
To pick up the phone dial our number, weight on
hold through two segments to talk to me, but I
am so glad you did.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Well, Michael. Like I said, these things are important because
I don't think at the rate of single parent homes
and black fathers have to be gone, we just have
an epidemic industries right now of black kids growing up
in no direction because their fathers are not there.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
It's not just believe yes it is. It is far
more disproportionately black kids. You are right about that, So
so we.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Have sort of I mean, like I said, just take
kids because, like I said, I think I bonded more
of my son over over that ten hour shift than
I had a long time under you. I I work
for an environmental company. I handle hazardous waste.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Do you handle it or you point to people who
handle it?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
No, we handle it, and we actually receive it, and
we're responsible for basically make sure it's bar code because
it's regulated. We got a bar coded You got to
make sure.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You do you wear a hazmat suit?
Speaker 8 (21:14):
No? No, no, we don't actually do what do the
pick up side of it? We es? Basically we have.
We have our guys that will go out to different
sites pick it up from customers, and they'll bring it
to us, and we just make sure that it's getting
sent to our destruction facilities. We're basically I got I
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got hired on in twenty twenty one when I got
let over my last job right off the COVID.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Yeah, it's been it's been a great experience. But I
had no idea. Uh I last last year, I pulled
down seventy last year.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, is that overtime included?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
That's why we get a lot of over time, A
lot of us.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
What do you make per hour?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I make twenty five an hour.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, that's a lot of overtime.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah, we don't we get we get a lot
of I mean we do at least fifteen twenty hours
overtime a week, sometimes more. Wow, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, And are you? Are you and your son's mom married?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
You know, we're not married. We're split up, but like
I said, I'm still I'm still pretty involved in it.
Why we had a rough time at it when when
he was when he was younger, but we've kind of
gotten to a point that we're stayble now we're we're
more culture from one another now and it's and it's
been different my son as well.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Of course, what's your son's name?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
My son dangers Timothy Gibbs Junior.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
All right, all right, what part of town do you
live in?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
I live in the I live in the Clear Lake area.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
I grew up in Georgia originally I moved to Houston,
Texas in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Your father was involved in your life, absolutely.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
I didn't. I did not know. I did not know
my father at all.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh, he was not involved.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
He was kind of all. I never knew him.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Well, I find that when a dad is determined, like
they've made a decision I'm gonna be a good dad,
it's either because their dad was good to them and
they realized how important it was to them, or their
dad wasn't around and they don't want that for their
son or daughter.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Right, And that's decision I made, because Uh, I didn't
want I made my son a promise soon as farn
I told them, no matter what the situation is, I'm
never gonna a band. I'm always from the hereport and
uh and that's one point I failed at some things
in life, but this is one thing I'm not gonna
feel that.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Tim. I'm so glad you called today. You have touched somebody.
I may not know their name, but you have. You have,
you have made somebody a better dad today.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Because of your call, we.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Have tracked down the aforementioned Hayley Morrow, who posted to
Facebook after lunch with her daddy, who it turns out,
my brother new and she is our guest.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Hello, So your dad gave my friend Steve Perricone your
city issued phone and not your personal phone.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Well that concerned.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
We try to keep the personal phone on lock as
much as possible.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Are you married to a cop?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I am not anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're not married anymore, I'm not okay. Was he a cop?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
He was?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Well, you know, cops are volatile I hear. You know
the only thing more volatile than a male cop.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
A woman cop? You already saw that coming?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, I figured that's where it was going.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
I've known a lot of women cops and they were crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm serious, I'm serious.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I don't necessarily identify.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
With that, but you know, I have to tell you,
I don't know why I'm not not minimizing it. You
have to understand to put this into context. I don't
know why George Strait has sixty number one hits and people.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Go, are you crazy? He's great, No, he's great.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
I just I can't understand how he ended up hitting
five thousand home runs when you know Hank Aaron had
just over seven. I don't understand the separation. I don't
understand why. There's there's an essence there that I can't
get to. And I'm just scrolling and it says when
Dad sends a text that says, lunch, absolutely, we enjoyed
lockan lock Contina, Lo contina Mexican grilled Beaumont today and
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I had my favorite shrimp diabolos. And then for some reason,
you explained what that was, and yes, Dad picked up
the tab. I'm getting the next one though. I don't
know why that affected me so much, but it did,
so do you know the story? I then, I responded,
and then I said I want to get her on.
I want to know what was going through her head.
So I called my friend Steve Pericone. You know Steve
(25:54):
Percom I do, Okay, Well, Steve was my brother Chris
Berry's best friend, and I said, can you do you
know this? That she's too young for you to know?
And he said, I do know her. I know her dad,
Chris knew her dad. Her dad's Bobby Rector. And it
hadn't crossed my mind that your last name, that your
dad's last name would not be Morrow because you took
a Mary Day. I said, Christ's talk about Bobby Rector
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all the time and he said, I know, that's what's so.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Weird about this thing. Yeah, what did your dad have?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
What did your dad have for lunch?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
He had three tacos, That's what.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It looks like. Those are hardshell tacos.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I think he got soft ones.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
They he doesn't look you know what, You're right, you're right, right, right, okay, yeah, yeah,
I'm just studying this, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And how long has he been on.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Dad has been with the department twenty five years, I think,
and you almost thirteen.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
How did y'all decide where you were going to have lunch?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Dad picked? He said, you want to go to Line
and I said sure, and he said Black Antina. So
I think that's one of his favorite Mexican places. So
of course it's a you know, I don't know how
long you've or I don't know if that's the first
time you've seen my Facebook posts, But I, you know,
as the chargeant over the police Community Relations unit at
Beaumont and a public information officer, which before I promoted
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to sergeant and moved back into community relations, I was
an officer in community relations as the public information officer
for almost nine years.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
So you know, do you think you in that position
because you have such an adorable accent or because you're
so pretty?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I mean, I like to think it's because I'm good
at my job, but I have a very big passion
for community and bridging the gap between law enforcement and
a community.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
And it's not every you see a police officer that
wears that has French nails.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well, you know, I'm not on patrol because I am
in community relations, so I'm not you know, the patrol
officers are the ones out there, you know, on the
front lines answering those calls for service. And I didn't
have nails back when I was on patrol. But now
that I'm in a you know, a public facing more,
do you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Just eat out all the time?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Here's a post from the same day that morning We're
having coffee with the chief at Oz Cafe, and boy
did I hit the footy jackpot strayberry and nutella on
local sourdough?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Did you eat that whole thing?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
So I did, and so I'll give you a backstory
on where the food stuff came from. So, because I
was a PIO, created a Facebook page years ago, because
you know, I really started having a following from being
the public Information Officer and being seen out in the
community so much and just being a trusted voice for
Beaumont PDE. And so I created the Facebook page and
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you know, post mostly law enforcement related, you know, traffic alerts,
things about cases that were going on, and then it
kind of evolved a little bit as people got to
know me. I shared a little bit more. Obviously, every
post that I make with me and is always the
most engagement that I get on my page, just because
people love the father daughter in law. My sister is
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a nine to one one dispatched supervisor at Bonmot Pette.
She's on a hiatus right now because she had two babies,
so she's kind of in a holding pattern with that.
But my brother is also an officer. He was at
Baumont Peatie and now he's in Chambers County, so our
whole family's in law enforcement. So I really just started
sharing more about my life and in an effort to
just let people see the humans behind the badge. And
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every year at the South Texas State's Fair, you know
Beaumont Peadi, we have a ton of officers at work
for the YNDL out there for security at the fair.
Dad and I both work it, so we can to
spend a lot of time together. And I am a
foodie at heart. I love food. I want to eat
the best things. And so I started doing this little
series during the fair of the food that I was eating.
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I was working there every day and so I would
go straight from work to the fair and I had
to eat dinner. So I just started sharing it and
it became the huge thing, and people really do follow
me for the food recommendations of the fair. They will
come out there specifically to eat whatever I'm eating, and
so that's kind of where it came from. And then
now I try to find local places. I was on
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a Chinese food kick not too long ago, a little
literal hole in the wall. It was my recent favorite,
and so people just like that, and I, you know,
obviously use the page to share law enforcement related stuff
as well, but it's just another way to kind of
connect to the community.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I think there's a and you obviously know this, there
is a very profound purpose to what you're doing. It
is important that people understand that police officers are not
a robot, a machine. They're just like the rest of us,
a human being that goes home to a family, that
has likes and dislikes, that gets tired, that gets scared,
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that hurts, that fears, And I think there is a
vow a very value in policing, in criminal justice, in
law enforcement to what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I really do. I think that's important.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
My brother, having been an officer, I often say that,
and I say I'm biased towards these people because I
have this weird view that they're actual human beings. A
lot of people think of cops as as, you know,
some odd thing that doesn't they're just like you. I mean,
I could put on a uniform tomorrow, Ramon could put
on you know, anybody could put on a uniform, and
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then you're given a very very tough job to do.
And I think it's important that people understand that that's,
you know, We're happy to show some compassion for you know,
a person that makes a mistake, or a mother when
her child misbehaves, or or this or that. But what
about these people? And I do think there is there
(31:51):
is something very valuable to that. Can you hold with
me for just a moment, Hayley Morrow here. Don't take
any calls during the break because they'll call and say,
oh God, don't stay on with him. They'll ask you
how much you make, and don't don't take any of
those calls.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They're all lying, okay, m hm.
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. The
Michael Dairy Show is on the air. Shut to my fact,
like this job and shove it. Joey, you like movies
(00:24):
about glad heats. He's down in the tone, but sometimes
I get the minstrel crabs for your hard This time
you pipe on tupa.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
You wanna sit down in the kitchen and pix me
something good to eat, make my head a little high
and the whole day crack his wax. We're gonna lay
around the Shandy Marama and put a good boy.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm a guy who can get it for cigarettes, a
bag of briefer, professor.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Thing will pass to be a baby will pass to
me's foe. We'll take time out to smile a little defoil.
Laddya go because we're gonna lay on the sheltering mom.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
And put a good boys.
Speaker 5 (01:04):
They have a cast at Gorilla would escape from the
zoo and punched you and I.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I saw the sweetish post.
Speaker 6 (01:18):
It was two police officers sitting in a restaurant in Beaumont.
Something scanteen. I can't find it now, but I said,
it's a treat. When my dad calls and asks me
to join him for lunch, and I studied the picture
a little closer.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
He's he's older than her.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
He I mean, just glancing at it looked like just
two you know, police officers sitting at a restaurant having
lunch together. It was a police officer and her father.
And she said, what a treat to get to have
lunch with him, and he even paid, and it was
obviously they're both long horseman alsters. Obviously they're both still
(02:02):
active duty. And I thought, what a nice thing. So
much of life is perspective right now, every single person listening,
every single one of us right now, could go from
having a blow day or an okay day, or just
another day or it's nothing special. Maybe we're looking forward
(02:23):
to a concert in July, I mean in November. Maybe
we're looking look forward to a vacation or the beginning
of college football or whatever else. But we could actually
have a wonderful day today. And it's all of our choosing.
I can't have wonderful day to day. I'm not traveling today.
We're not going and sitting at the beach and drinking
margarita's all day. We're not doing this. You could choose
(02:44):
to have a wonderful day right now, and you can
make someone else this day wonderful, which just a little
simple thing like that.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well, I gotta work today.
Speaker 6 (02:54):
I can't leave for lunch today, because I guarantee you,
if you decided right now that you were going to
set aside one hour including drive time, and you're gonna
move fast, that you would work faster and fill the
time now to get back and finish your work in
the afternoon if you wanted to, if it was important
(03:16):
to you, if you were a person who takes charge
of their own life. I choose to be happy every
single day. I make that choice. And one of the
things I do that makes me happy is trying to
do something to bless someone else. Not because I'm a
good person. I want to be clear on that. It
is not because I'm a good person. I am no
better than the next guy. Is because I am a
(03:37):
very selfish person. I am hedonistic. I live for my
own pleasure, and I find pleasure when I go by
and check on my dad and his mac z cliner
and find a new feature, as we did on the
z Cliner that he wasn't aware of that was a
heating pad because he'd had a fall the day before,
and that heat right on his lower back was giving
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him great pleasure, and he wanted to tell me about that.
And then I got to talk, and now we start
talking about my mom, and we started telling stories and
laughing and having a good time. And he was happy,
which made me happy. And I felt like a king
because I was able to take someone out of the
stupor of sitting in your chair and watching old Baywatch
(04:20):
episodes and live in a memory for a moment. That's
a choice I made. It didn't cost me anything. I
didn't have any it didn't it didn't require much. I
just did it, and you can do it. And I
don't tell you because I need you to tell me.
I'm a good son. I don't need that. I tell
you because you can do that. In every aspect of
your life. We keep we keep punting our personal responsibility
(04:45):
for personal responsibility. Okay, well, I need you to get
involved to help Patston. Hey, Paston needs to do more.
You need to do more.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
How about that?
Speaker 6 (04:54):
How about you need to do that. You think Donald
Trump got elected? He didn't you elected him when Trump
was running in twenty sixteen because I was on the
opposite side when Trump was running and I was with
the cruise. I never seen a juggernaut like that before
or since. I had people coming up to me that
I hadn't seen in years, would see me across the room.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
What we do you think about Trump? I don't know.
What do you think about Trump? Man?
Speaker 6 (05:18):
I'm excited. I'm going to a rally this weekend. I'm
putting a sign out on my property. I've never seen
before or since people on seventy one or ten or
two ninety or thirty six putting signs out Trump big signs.
They wanted everybody to know it. You don't like it, fine,
it's my property. I'm telling the world I'm proudly for Trump. Okay,
(05:43):
you think that didn't contribute, You think that didn't validate
someone else who wasn't sure if they were for Trump
when they saw that. Of course it did. People posted
about it. When someone criticized, they ignored it. They moved
on because they wanted Trump to win and nothing could
rain on their raid. They personally took charge. And I
don't just mean showing up at rally. Showing up at
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rallies is fun. It doesn't change anything to people who
are there, are already there. You're not convincing anyone else.
Go to rallies, But go to rallies so you get
to be around other like minded people. You don't go
to rallies to win elections. I want my god win
so bad. I'm gonna go to a rally. Okay, when
you get there, what are you gonna do? I'm gonna
(06:25):
cheer and then what uh? I'mna be happy I was there? Okay,
but that doesn't actually win anything over. What if you
talk to everybody around you. What if you made sure
of everybody that works with you, that shares your views.
What if you got them registered to vote? What if
you sat down with the calendar and memorize it. Right now,
it's only a few days. What if you say, right,
here's the last day. We got to make sure that
(06:47):
you're let's check your registration. Oh you're registered. You're not
registered to vote anymore? Are you're not registered to vote?
Or you're still registered to vote in another state? You're
not showing up in Texas since you moved here. All
of these things, Each little drop in the ocean is
a rising tide. Each little bit makes a difference. But
it's more than that. We all talk about how terrible
(07:09):
the teachers are. The teachers are terrible, The teachers aren't
doing any good tea. What are you teaching your kids?
What are you teaching your kids? How much are you
engaging with your kids? How much time are you spending
with your kids? Are your kids little brats? Or are
you teaching them to engage, to look people in the eye,
to shake their hands, to communicate with adults? Are you
talking about their future? Are you talking about their study habits?
(07:32):
Are you talking about learning? Are you teaching them the
value of learning? Are you encouraging them to read? I
don't really because I never much reader. Okay, so you're
passing that down to your kid. Well, you know what,
You're right, I ought to do that.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
You're not going to.
Speaker 6 (07:48):
I ought to, though, you know I ought to because
I've never been a reader, readers, or leaders.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Reading is a great skill. Well, I'm so worried about AI. No,
you're an excuse maker.
Speaker 6 (07:59):
You don't want to engage in the improvement of yourself
or other people around you, So you use AI's excuse
same way a guy uses his wife or she uses
her husband as an excuse, the same way I'm going
to start working out. But somewhere down the road, I'm
going to do this. I was going to go to
law school, but I do know. Take control of your
(08:19):
own life right now. Don't blame the liberals, don't blame
the media. Don't blame well I would, but but Biden, no.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Do it yourself. Start right now. Johnny, you're on the
Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
I'm on testaf show and you're on Test Show. We
go go to Baylor or we see the doctors and Baylor.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
I deal with.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
You're like doctor Phil and uh and Rush Limball kind
of a hybrid there sometimes but uh uh, I deal
for the large Cross state. Don't have my TSA members
are good consistently. But I'm fifty having my life of
sistey four uh uh. Menopause is kicking my butt. I've
(09:05):
been married twenty five years and when we've been through
all kinds of problems business and work. So uh that
was in October two years ago. It's like such life
fell by the way time. Oh I'm sorry, I'm gonna
live next to the restaurant anyway. Doctor on the show
one day to talk about solutions for these tal problems
(09:28):
for helping the ladies out with their with their such drugs.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Yeah, that was a woman named ANDW. Davis. She's my
she's my dad's concierge. Doctor.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
Uh, she's my friend. She's a a she's a hormone specialist. Diabetes.
I'm sorry, diabetes is an area of expertise. She treats
my dad as his primary but also deals with his
diabetes and takes the phone calls at two o'clock in
the morning when he has to be rushed to the hospital.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
She's a wonderful, wonderf lady.
Speaker 6 (10:01):
But her expertise, which I learned at dinner at our house,
which I did not know. I asked her how she
got into diabetes and why she wanted to devote to
career to that, and she said, I don't know if
you remember the story, but she said, well, I do
treat diabetes, and I love your father and I'm happy
to do that. I enjoyed, it's rewarding, but my actual
passion in life is women's hormones and menopause. And the
(10:26):
story went that. I said, well, tell me about menopause
and what it is. And as she started talking, I
didn't realize this. My wife told me. I can't remember
it was that night laying in bed or the next
morning when we woke up. I think it was the
next morning. And she said, you didn't realize this, because
when we do a dinner party, I separate. When I
do anything like this, I separate the person you came with.
So I'll put I put doctor Davis on one end,
(10:48):
and I put her boyfriend down on the other. I
put myself caddy corner from her, and my wife caddy
corner from him. So you're not allowed to sit next
to your spouse because people don't engage, they don't open up,
they don't relax when they're with their spouse. They end
up talking to their spouse because that's a comfort level.
It's an anxiety thing. So anyway, she said, you didn't notice,
but each of us was having a conversation with somebody
(11:08):
else's husband or wife, and when y'all start talking about menopause,
every woman at the table went quiet and turned and
listened and just stopped talking. She said, you need to
have her on the air, and I said, oh, that's
going to sound great. We skew male. We're not all male,
but like most talk radio we skew more male than female,
and it's natural, right.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I'm a guy.
Speaker 6 (11:27):
I don't shy away from that, and guys tend to.
You know, women are listening to Dana on Sunday ninety
nine point one, and women are listening to softer music.
They don't want to hear my stuff to the same extent.
So anyway, I had her on if you remember, we
talked for three hours and I had to say I
had to say in advanced fellas, I'm just going to
be honest with you. I think this is important. I
think it's important to people's lives, and I know it's
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going to bother you all. Michael, you talked about menopause.
I got more emails from men than I did women. Johnny,
I had men telling me you saved my marriage. You
gave me the opportunity, you open the door for me
to talk to my wife about why she doesn't have
a sex drive, why her moods have dipped while her
energy has dipped. And people went whether they went to
see doctor Davis. A lot of people email me. I
connected them to her and she's treating them them now.
(12:11):
But a lot of people just went to their primary
They said, Hey, is there something out there that can
help me, because we.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Live in a great time. This is a golden era.
Speaker 6 (12:21):
People take too many pills for too many things and
too many shots, and they trust too often. But there
are some pretty wonderful things. And hormones are real, and
women's hormones. I remember my mom was forty and she
started talking about it was the end of the world.
You know, she was crashing. She was going through menopause.
So that was a dirty word to me because I
remember my mom went crazy for a few years going
(12:42):
through menopause, and come to find out, it's like blood
pressure and testosteros. It's one of those things that you
can regulate and it makes a wonderful I get emails
to this day of women who say, you gave me
back my life. I have a sex life again. I
feel young again. I feel good again. I feel happy again.
I'm not mean and resentful. So yeah, go treat that Johnny.
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Did we lose him?
Speaker 1 (13:11):
No?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
I just put it on mute because I'm in this
noisy Mexican restaurant.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
The restaurant are you in?
Speaker 7 (13:17):
I'm on It's called Caicape. It's on Ella near six
ten North.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
It's close to.
Speaker 7 (13:24):
TC gesture and uh and.
Speaker 6 (13:26):
Uh did you just have breakfast or you're about to
have breakfast?
Speaker 7 (13:30):
I'm eating it as we speak. But what are you
having my web those rancheros? I get my eggs over medium.
They did not overcook the egg yoke, which is good.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
That's problem.
Speaker 7 (13:40):
And I like the hole in the wall talkers.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Yeah, no, no, no, no, I need to know what else
you got on that plate.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
I let's just reap my beans and that's a good
ran taro sauce. But you know what, I live in
clear Lake and there's a place I go down there
called Flounces, and they serve and they may give you
three Webel's rancheros instead of two. Uh, give you reef
i beans. They also give you the fried banana I like.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Yeah, thetonos. I love those. Yeah. Did you get some
rice on that plate?
Speaker 7 (14:09):
No?
Speaker 8 (14:09):
But I liked you and rice as well.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Did you get tortillas? I got corn tortia corn tortillas? Okay?
Are you having coffee?
Speaker 7 (14:16):
Having coffee? Half regular, half leaded, half well leaded?
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Okay?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And uh uh I like corn tortillas. I've grown to
like them yet me. Yeah, I'm with you on the
hell are you fifty seven. All right, do you want
me to talk to your wife?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
No?
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Uh no, you know, honestly, don't live ascillated between asking
Jesus to take me home. They want to run off
with a latina.
Speaker 1 (14:41):
Who's you moment half now, you don't bring that. I
don't do that. Here's what you afford it.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
It's like, it's like my wife and I talk about
all the time, if if one of our kids, if
if we're aggravated, we're not going to give up on
our kids. Don't give up on your wife. Go home
and say, hey, look I'm I'm not demanding, I'm not criticizing.
I'm not here to judge you, because Lord knows I'm
not perfect. But I want to talk. Let's let's get
to a point where we are madly in love again
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and let's talk about the happiness. Let's talk about what
I want to go through this with you and show
her that you understand what she's going through, because it's real.
Women go through this. It's real. If you can remember
the name Anu, which is a n U A New
Davis DA V I S. She's at River Oaks Medical
Practice at Kirby and Sam Phillippi in that building she's.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Very good for women.
Speaker 6 (15:29):
I've sent a lot of women to her, and she's
very good with women, especially menopause and hormone.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
Good luck to you, my man, good luck to you.
I appreciate you calling.
Speaker 6 (15:38):
I would love for you to call me in three
months and give me a happy Indian to this story,
I hope you have a happy ending.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Here's something funny.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
So I was very moved by this post. I said, Heather,
it's Hayley, this woman posted on Facebook. I don't know
why it popped up on my feed. I don't follow her.
So Hailey Morrow, who's popo? Real pretty girl by the way,
and she posted when dad sends a text that says lunch. Absolutely,
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we enjoyed Lacentina Mexican grill Beaumont today and I had
my favorite shrimp Diablos grilled shrimp with cheese and jalapano
wrapped in bacon. I guess that's for the uninitiated. She
had to explain that, and yes, Dad picked up the tab.
I'm getting the next one, though, So I said, man,
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what a nice picture, what a nice story, Hailey Morrow.
And I was going to look up her dad, but
I didn't, so I posted to my friend Corey Crenshaw,
who's the former district attorney. He's a city councilman, and
I said, hey, you need to take these guys lunch.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
It's a good story.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
But he didn't answer because he's maybe at city cal
whn knows what they're doing. So I called my brother's
best friends to Pericone, who was longtime Beaumont police officer,
knows everybody in law enforcem my brother knew everybody in
law enforcement and that Beaumont law enforcement community. My brother
started as a Port author police officer. He was a
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Beaumont police officer. He was a Jefferson County Jefferson County
Sheriff's deputy, and so they run in small circles.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
So he knew the Drafty boys who were the.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
DPS troopers for there, and he knew all the FED guys,
and he knew every police department guy and all the
constables and anyway, So I called Steve Pericone, his buddy,
and I said, hey, she's too young for you to
know her, but I need you to get me a
phone number for this woman named Haley Morrow.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
She's a Beaumont police officer. And he said she's not
too young.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
I know her, I said, oh okay. He said, that's
Bobby Rector's daughter, and I said, wait to say it.
Her dad's last name is not Morrow, because it didn't
cross my mind to be a married name.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I said. I said, Chris was friends with Bobby Rector.
He said, of course he was. Yeah, he knew.
Speaker 6 (18:03):
So here is this picture. I mean, look, it's not
like I saw a picture of a family and Uganda
and it turns out I grew up next door to him.
It is Beaumont and it is police. But what are
the chances that this picture that so affected me? The
dude's friends with my brother? How's that tim on the
(18:27):
black line? You're up, sir.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Michael.
Speaker 8 (18:32):
I just want to tell you the week I took
the act day, I took my son in school, I
took to work with him last week. I'll remember you
saying some show some time ago that you engaged with
young people and you ask them, hey, what do your
parents do? And they have no clue. They kind of
resonated with me. My son and I discussed what I do,
but she doesn't really know. So since she was out
(18:55):
of school, he didn't have your neighview. I'll say hey,
they go to work with me. So we get up
in the morning, I have Breck heading to work, and
as heading the work, I'm telling them what I do.
Get there, I introduce them all the people there, and
I said, hey, if if you have anything to do
with paperwork or whatever, he's got a work. So throughout
the course of the day. Of course, my company is
so nervous about liability. They are afraid he's don't get
(19:17):
a paper custoer didn't get do much with him. But
that experience was really good for me because I think
it's important as a black man to show your black
son's examples of you going to work, making an honest living,
doing things the right way. How you engage with people.
It doesn't matter what you do, whether you're a mechanic,
(19:39):
whether you work at a clerk at a shop, just
take them to work with you and engage with the man,
talk to him and have and showed them a good example.
All superheroes don't wear capes. The example shouldn't be a rapper,
it should not be a sport athlete. It should be
just show them that example. Take that time, take your
kids to work with you engaged. I bought it a
(20:00):
great spirit.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
I don't know what caused you.
Speaker 6 (20:12):
To pick up the phone dial our number, weight on
hold through two segments to talk to me, but I
am so glad you did.
Speaker 8 (20:26):
Well, Michael. Like I said, these things are important because
I don't think at the rate of single parent homes
and black fathers have to be gone, we just have
an epidemic industries right now of black kids growing up
in no direction because their fathers are not there.
Speaker 6 (20:40):
It's not just believe yes it is. It is far
more disproportionately black kids. You are right about that, So
so we.
Speaker 8 (20:47):
Have sort of I mean, like I said, just take
kids because, like I said, I think I bonded more
of my son over over that ten hour shift than
I had a long time under you. I I work
for an environmental company. I handle hazardous waste.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Do you handle it or you point to people who
handle it?
Speaker 8 (21:03):
No, we handle it, and we actually receive it, and
we're responsible for basically make sure it's bar code because
it's regulated. We got a bar coded You got to
make sure.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
You do you wear a hazmat suit?
Speaker 8 (21:14):
No? No, no, we don't actually do what do the
pick up side of it? We es? Basically we have.
We have our guys that will go out to different
sites pick it up from customers, and they'll bring it
to us, and we just make sure that it's getting
sent to our destruction facilities. We're basically I got I
(21:35):
got hired on in twenty twenty one when I got
let over my last job right off the COVID.
Speaker 7 (21:42):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (21:42):
Yeah, it's been it's been a great experience. But I
had no idea. Uh I last last year, I pulled
down seventy last year.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
Okay, is that overtime included?
Speaker 8 (21:54):
That's why we get a lot of over time, A
lot of us.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
What do you make per hour?
Speaker 8 (21:58):
I make twenty five an hour.
Speaker 1 (22:02):
Okay, that's a lot of overtime.
Speaker 8 (22:05):
Yeah, yeah, we don't we get we get a lot
of I mean we do at least fifteen twenty hours
overtime a week, sometimes more. Wow, I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, And are you? Are you and your son's mom married?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
You know, we're not married. We're split up, but like
I said, I'm still I'm still pretty involved in it.
Why we had a rough time at it when when
he was when he was younger, but we've kind of
gotten to a point that we're stayble now we're we're
more culture from one another now and it's and it's
been different my son as well.
Speaker 1 (22:34):
Of course, what's your son's name?
Speaker 8 (22:37):
My son dangers Timothy Gibbs Junior.
Speaker 6 (22:39):
All right, all right, what part of town do you
live in?
Speaker 8 (22:42):
I live in the I live in the Clear Lake area.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Where'd you grow up?
Speaker 8 (22:48):
I grew up in Georgia originally I moved to Houston,
Texas in nineteen ninety.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Your father was involved in your life, absolutely.
Speaker 8 (22:56):
I didn't. I did not know. I did not know
my father at all.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Oh, he was not involved.
Speaker 8 (23:00):
He was kind of all. I never knew him.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
Well, I find that when a dad is determined, like
they've made a decision I'm gonna be a good dad,
it's either because their dad was good to them and
they realized how important it was to them, or their
dad wasn't around and they don't want that for their
son or daughter.
Speaker 8 (23:21):
Right, And that's decision I made, because Uh, I didn't
want I made my son a promise soon as farn
I told them, no matter what the situation is, I'm
never gonna a band. I'm always from the hereport and
uh and that's one point I failed at some things
in life, but this is one thing I'm not gonna
feel that.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Tim. I'm so glad you called today. You have touched somebody.
I may not know their name, but you have. You have,
you have made somebody a better dad today.
Speaker 1 (23:48):
Because of your call, we.
Speaker 6 (23:52):
Have tracked down the aforementioned Hayley Morrow, who posted to
Facebook after lunch with her daddy, who it turns out,
my brother new and she is our guest.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Welcome to the program.
Speaker 6 (24:03):
Hello, So your dad gave my friend Steve Perricone your
city issued phone and not your personal phone.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Well that concerned.
Speaker 4 (24:13):
We try to keep the personal phone on lock as
much as possible.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Are you married to a cop?
Speaker 4 (24:23):
I am not anymore.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
You're not married anymore, I'm not okay. Was he a cop?
Speaker 8 (24:31):
He was?
Speaker 6 (24:32):
Well, you know, cops are volatile I hear. You know
the only thing more volatile than a male cop.
Speaker 7 (24:38):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (24:39):
A woman cop? You already saw that coming?
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Yeah, I figured that's where it was going.
Speaker 6 (24:44):
I've known a lot of women cops and they were crazy.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I'm serious, I'm serious.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
I don't necessarily identify.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
With that, but you know, I have to tell you,
I don't know why I'm not not minimizing it. You
have to understand to put this into context. I don't
know why George Strait has sixty number one hits and people.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Go, are you crazy? He's great, No, he's great.
Speaker 6 (25:10):
I just I can't understand how he ended up hitting
five thousand home runs when you know Hank Aaron had
just over seven. I don't understand the separation. I don't
understand why. There's there's an essence there that I can't
get to. And I'm just scrolling and it says when
Dad sends a text that says, lunch, absolutely, we enjoyed
lockan lock Contina, Lo contina Mexican grilled Beaumont today and
(25:33):
I had my favorite shrimp diabolos. And then for some reason,
you explained what that was, and yes, Dad picked up
the tab. I'm getting the next one though. I don't
know why that affected me so much, but it did,
so do you know the story? I then, I responded,
and then I said I want to get her on.
I want to know what was going through her head.
So I called my friend Steve Pericone. You know Steve
(25:54):
Percom I do, Okay, Well, Steve was my brother Chris
Berry's best friend, and I said, can you do you
know this? That she's too young for you to know?
And he said, I do know her. I know her dad,
Chris knew her dad. Her dad's Bobby Rector. And it
hadn't crossed my mind that your last name, that your
dad's last name would not be Morrow because you took
a Mary Day. I said, Christ's talk about Bobby Rector
(26:16):
all the time and he said, I know, that's what's so.
Speaker 1 (26:19):
Weird about this thing. Yeah, what did your dad have?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (26:25):
What did your dad have for lunch?
Speaker 4 (26:29):
He had three tacos, That's what.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
It looks like. Those are hardshell tacos.
Speaker 4 (26:34):
I think he got soft ones.
Speaker 6 (26:36):
They he doesn't look you know what, You're right, you're right, right, right, okay, yeah, yeah,
I'm just studying this, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:45):
And how long has he been on.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Dad has been with the department twenty five years, I think,
and you almost thirteen.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
How did y'all decide where you were going to have lunch?
Speaker 4 (26:58):
Dad picked? He said, you want to go to Line
and I said sure, and he said Black Antina. So
I think that's one of his favorite Mexican places. So
of course it's a you know, I don't know how
long you've or I don't know if that's the first
time you've seen my Facebook posts, But I, you know,
as the chargeant over the police Community Relations unit at
Beaumont and a public information officer, which before I promoted
(27:19):
to sergeant and moved back into community relations, I was
an officer in community relations as the public information officer
for almost nine years.
Speaker 6 (27:27):
So you know, do you think you in that position
because you have such an adorable accent or because you're
so pretty?
Speaker 4 (27:35):
I mean, I like to think it's because I'm good
at my job, but I have a very big passion
for community and bridging the gap between law enforcement and
a community.
Speaker 6 (27:46):
And it's not every you see a police officer that
wears that has French nails.
Speaker 4 (27:54):
Well, you know, I'm not on patrol because I am
in community relations, so I'm not you know, the patrol
officers are the ones out there, you know, on the
front lines answering those calls for service. And I didn't
have nails back when I was on patrol. But now
that I'm in a you know, a public facing more,
do you.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Just eat out all the time?
Speaker 6 (28:13):
Here's a post from the same day that morning We're
having coffee with the chief at Oz Cafe, and boy
did I hit the footy jackpot strayberry and nutella on
local sourdough?
Speaker 1 (28:23):
Did you eat that whole thing?
Speaker 4 (28:25):
So I did, and so I'll give you a backstory
on where the food stuff came from. So, because I
was a PIO, created a Facebook page years ago, because
you know, I really started having a following from being
the public Information Officer and being seen out in the
community so much and just being a trusted voice for
Beaumont PDE. And so I created the Facebook page and
(28:46):
you know, post mostly law enforcement related, you know, traffic alerts,
things about cases that were going on, and then it
kind of evolved a little bit as people got to
know me. I shared a little bit more. Obviously, every
post that I make with me and is always the
most engagement that I get on my page, just because
people love the father daughter in law. My sister is
(29:09):
a nine to one one dispatched supervisor at Bonmot Pette.
She's on a hiatus right now because she had two babies,
so she's kind of in a holding pattern with that.
But my brother is also an officer. He was at
Baumont Peatie and now he's in Chambers County, so our
whole family's in law enforcement. So I really just started
sharing more about my life and in an effort to
just let people see the humans behind the badge. And
(29:32):
every year at the South Texas State's Fair, you know
Beaumont Peadi, we have a ton of officers at work
for the YNDL out there for security at the fair.
Dad and I both work it, so we can to
spend a lot of time together. And I am a
foodie at heart. I love food. I want to eat
the best things. And so I started doing this little
series during the fair of the food that I was eating.
(29:53):
I was working there every day and so I would
go straight from work to the fair and I had
to eat dinner. So I just started sharing it and
it became the huge thing, and people really do follow
me for the food recommendations of the fair. They will
come out there specifically to eat whatever I'm eating, and
so that's kind of where it came from. And then
now I try to find local places. I was on
(30:13):
a Chinese food kick not too long ago, a little
literal hole in the wall. It was my recent favorite,
and so people just like that, and I, you know,
obviously use the page to share law enforcement related stuff
as well, but it's just another way to kind of
connect to the community.
Speaker 6 (30:32):
I think there's a and you obviously know this, there
is a very profound purpose to what you're doing. It
is important that people understand that police officers are not
a robot, a machine. They're just like the rest of us,
a human being that goes home to a family, that
has likes and dislikes, that gets tired, that gets scared,
(30:54):
that hurts, that fears, And I think there is a
vow a very value in policing, in criminal justice, in
law enforcement to what you're doing.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
I really do. I think that's important.
Speaker 6 (31:08):
My brother, having been an officer, I often say that,
and I say I'm biased towards these people because I
have this weird view that they're actual human beings. A
lot of people think of cops as as, you know,
some odd thing that doesn't they're just like you. I mean,
I could put on a uniform tomorrow, Ramon could put
on you know, anybody could put on a uniform, and
(31:30):
then you're given a very very tough job to do.
And I think it's important that people understand that that's,
you know, We're happy to show some compassion for you know,
a person that makes a mistake, or a mother when
her child misbehaves, or or this or that. But what
about these people? And I do think there is there
(31:51):
is something very valuable to that. Can you hold with
me for just a moment, Hayley Morrow here. Don't take
any calls during the break because they'll call and say,
oh God, don't stay on with him. They'll ask you
how much you make, and don't don't take any of
those calls.
Speaker 1 (32:04):
They're all lying, okay, m hm.
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