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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Gets out.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Please that mama, she's gonna thinking the count. What's that
Hawaiian knows that anyway, that's the way you for nothing.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Put your chas. We got to this.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Custom kitchens deliver.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We got some moves.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We got some moves.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The African drum language, which is white boy stole.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They can call it the Morris code.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They took the same pulsation and rhythm, and now they
called it the telephone.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
They took the same pulsation and.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Rhythm, and now they called it a computer, which is
nothing but.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
An African drum.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
But if you don't the cat test people to the computer,
you don't see it bad food.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You do it?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I missed diamond silk, I really do.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Billy Martin no relation to the longtime baseball coach and
rival of George Steinbrenner.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
This year's Little League World Series marks the fifty ninth
anniversary for my Little League teammates winning fourteen straight games
to win the Little League World Series. This is the
nineteen sixty six Houston Westbury American Little League World Series champions. Billy,
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if you and or any of your teammates from the
nineteen sixty six International Champion, World Little League Champion Houston
Westbury American Little League team would like to call up.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I would love to hear from you, he says.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
We continue to play together through high school and college,
and we still meet together regularly and are looking forward
to celebrating our sixtieth anniversary next year. I know you're
a big Little League fan and thought you might like
to do an interview with the team sixty years later.
Why yes, I would, Billy, Yes, I would. Why don't
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you put that together for me and double back with
me once you've got everybody's contact information. I love your
show and love of our country, Billy Martin. And then
he gives his phone number and then open pairing text
or leave voice message on first call in parenthesis, and
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then he's got an email address with an AOL hand.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, we don't have AOL kit.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
That's too much, that's too far, amoon. And he didn't
he didn't do that. There was an email from Joe Williams.
Let me see if I can find that. Let me
see if I can find that email from him. I
don't hear it is okay? So Joe Williams is an
interesting cat. You know, silver Wings out in Brenham. I
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was getting these emails from this fellow and he would say, hey,
you know, we'd like to do your next event out
at silver Wings and Brenham and I would say, uh so,
who's this skating rink and say yeah, but we do
concerts too.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I did not know that.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So we go back and forth and he's like, you know,
I know you like country artists. We got a relationship
with this person. We got relationships relationship with this person.
So we're at this for a little while, and we've
been emailing back and forth for over a year. Turns
out he's a black dude.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Not a big deal.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
But have you ever had a moment ramon where you
find out somebody's black that you've been communicating with and
you didn't know it and you didn't expect that. That
is the power of stereotypes, right that food making the
statement about white people wouldn't have no computers.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It wasn't for the bongo drum and then the black
one own. I's really right, Oh, that's real, real smart.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Jesse Jackson when he said.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
They talking about illegal aliens, illegal aliens. They're not aliens,
they're from this country. Well that's not what the term means,
you dumb ass. But unfortunately these become the faces of blackness.
And and really the part that really bothers me about
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this this where people start getting uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Could I get some? You feel an uncomfortable music? Moon Like?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
This is the part, you know, this is the funeral
where the mistress gets up and she wants to say
about the something about the dearly departed, And the wife
is sitting there and his kids are sitting there, and
they're like, lady, could I get some? Uh, this is
really uncomfortable music.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh okay, but we're we don't. We're waiting. It's weird
when there's dead air, We're still there. That's okay, I
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do that.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
It is in a lot of people's vested interest to
portray black people as stupid, angry, dirty, violent, self centered, narcissistic,
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the incapable, incompetent, an island all their own, separated from
the crowd without any music while they're trying to make
a point. It is in certain people's vested interest to
do that, first and foremost the white liberal. And the
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reason is and Malcolm X talked at length about this.
I could do an entire show of Malcolm X talking
about white liberals and you would say.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I've heard you say that for years. I had no idea.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
The white liberal is the devil. And the reason is
because the white liberal views minority as pets, especially black men.
You learn a lot about race when you are a
white man who is perceived as a racist, who has
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black children, particularly black sons. You learn that the only
people who ever say anything awkward are liberal white women.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They feel this.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Need to almost protect your children because you're such a monster,
and they care so much for these pets. And that's
what blacks are to white liberals. They are pets. They're
to be kept in their place. This is why you
will see white liberals get very angry at black conservatives
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because the pet dares try to eat the food.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's on the table. Your food is over there. You
know your place.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You're to be posted on my Instagram account, isn'ty cute?
You're to be petted, and then you're to be put
over there while we have adult conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It is the worst, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Did I mention I hate white liberals.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I want to go back to one of these women
are cheap Michael berry Man, I think that there might.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Be, because I've got nothing going on down there. Probably.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So we're talking about Silver Wings ball I think they
called Silver.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Rings ballroom skating rink and they do concerts there. And
the video for that song Happier Alone. The song is
by Austin Meade, but it features co Wetzel and Co
Wetsel has just blown up. He has gone big time.
But he's from somewhere around there, and I think, no,
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not Palestinian blow up ramone. No, he's gotten really big.
He's having his moment. He's like Ci from Gandam style.
Remember he's like that. You remember the guy in the Hangover,
the Asian dude who gets out and he's real sassy
gay guy. Well he's had a moment for a while.
But remember for a minute there he was in everything.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Rama.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Why don't you I tell what to keep from bothering me?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Wyon't you take a couple of minutes while I'm talking
and doing the show and think of three people who
had a moment like they were in everything all the
time overnight. So anyway, what it doesn't it doesn't have
to be recently. It doesn't have to this. I feel
like I'm dealing with my kids when they were, you know,
seven and eight. I tell what, go in that room
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and play.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, can we have no just Clinn, and just don't
be talking to me right now. I'm on the phone
trying to negotiate my contract.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
So yeah, just people who blew up at some point
and they had a moment all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
They were everywhere all the time. Everybody wanted to be associated. Well.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
So the song is called Happier Alone by Austin Meade
featuring co Westle and it's filmed at Silver Wings Ballroom,
and it's silly and ridiculous and awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I love the video, and I love the.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Fact that they did it to pay tribute to their
hometown and the place that they went in high school.
I think one of them worked. I think Austin Meade
worked at Silver Wings Ballroom. You know, he was one
of the guys that when you get your skates, he
was one of the guys that you know.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You get you you buy your your old r you.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Rent your old fashioned skates, like working at the at
the bowling Alley. The guy that does the shoes, but
he did the skates there. Anyway, It's a fantastic song
and a fantastic video. Roy Thibodeau writes, I worked my
way through college at Silver Wings. I started as a
floor guard, keeping kids in check on the skating floor.
Then I was a DJ and bartender on dance nights.
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I'd work about forty hours from Friday through Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
For years. Instead of driving back and forth the Huntsville,
Jimbo would let me sleep there.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I guess Jimbo's the father in law Joe Williams, who
I know that's his I guess that's probably his wife's father.
Back in the day, they would have a concert every weekend.
Everyone from George Strait to Brooks and Dunn played there.
My wife started working there in the snack bar, and
that's how we met. It would be a great place
for one of your events. Huh, there you go. Tom says,
(11:22):
nice use of the Austin Mead bump after about the
Silver Wings. After the after talking about the Silver Wings ballroom,
Thomas A. Stark Partner, National Appraisal Partners seven one three
four sixty three eighty seven sixty one Texas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What an odd three places to be? How do you?
How do you end up? How do you end up?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I've got a buddy who's I got a buddy who's
having a bad day. And everything I say he puts
in a negative comment. He's I guess he no story.
Joe Williams, who is the son in law? And now
I think he's the one that kind of runs silver
Wings ballroom ballrooms. Now he will send me he gets
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a little uh, he'll sit out on his back porch.
Did you ever read Black Rednecks and White Liberals by
Thomas Soul. He's a black redneck and so he shares
my love of cigars in bourbon and country music and anyway.
He will almost every night he will send me lightning
round ideas. So last night was this one might be
dumb and or too complicated for the masses. I'm a
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couple of penelopes in that's his bourbon. But listening to
your show about Ozzie, I've never truly known or been
a fan of his music. Born in eighty two, Black family.
I just missed the whole. No Joe, not Ozzy Ramon.
See this is what I said, Go find three people
who had their moment.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Joe is black. We've talked about that.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Don't if you mentioned it again, it becomes weird. It's like, Okay,
he's black, get over it. But I knew him and
his family from the TV show The Osbourne's made me
think of a neat topic Round two or second act?
Who had the best second acts? Could someone or something
I suppose that independently from each other reached as much
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or more success in the second act as the first
And it's totally separate from an independent of the first act,
meaning you don't even need to know the first act
existed to appreciate and be aware of a hugely popular
second act. Starters George Foreman boxing, then Grills, Ozzy music,
then very popular TV show Jennifer Lopez, though I hate
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to admit it, dancing, then music, then acting in fashion.
Maybe not in that order. How about we just talk
about her booty that's mine, not his. John Madden coaching,
than broadcasting, Andy Griffith, Andy Taylor, then mattlock Ford Bronco
back then and the New Broncos. That one seemed kind
of random, And here's one. Tracy Chapman fast car Round
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one then second act loop Colmbs redo. My favorite part
was black people who got mad that Luke Colmbs did
a redo of Tracy Chapman's car the song, and that
it became extraordinarily popular. They had ripped off Tracy Chapman.
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All Right, I know something about media. You don't angry
black person trying to get attention and feel sorry for yourself.
Nobody had thought about that song in thirty years. Now
Tracy Chapman is being brought out on stage at national
award shows.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
He made her relevant again. You dumb ass morning suits
to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Ramon and has decided to come off his high horse
and open the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So he didn't like to be bothered, but he's decided
that nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand. I asked why Thomas A.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Stark, partner at National Appraisal Partners had a location in Texas, Minnesota,
and Wisconsin, because that sounded weird, and he said, we
had a guy that wanted to quit to move up
to Wisconsin to be with his girlfriend now wife. We
didn't want to lose him, so we started an office
up there. I guess if you opened in Wisconsin, you
have to open Minnesota two Okay on the first act,
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second act Lightning Round, Logan Rights, Marty Robbins, Country and
Western artist in race car drivers sometimes both. I don't
know how many people know of him as a race
car driver. Does He wasn't that good.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He wasn't Damn Pastorini good. I mean that's good.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Damn Pastorini raced race cars, race boats. John Wrights. Sugar
protectionism versus Rum. You were talking about it earlier in
the program. Rum is very affected by the sugar manipulation.
One of the first craft distilleries was I'm going to
get this wrong. But ray Lean's in San Leon.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You know what, Ramon.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
And Kelly Raylen and her husband, who spent years jumping
through the hoops to legally operate and then more years
to fight to get their rum into stores, can talk
all about just how helpful our government can be. They
have retired and closed the place. I'm sad about that,
but if you can find them, I suggest they would
be just a sort of interview we in your audience
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would enjoy. As a side note, my mean old wife
would not let me buy them out and take over
the distillery because she is not ready to give up
the life of living vagrantly on a sailboat. Her superpower
is pie crust. And since I grew up in that
part of rural Texas where old men's status is in
the community is determined by their wife's pie crust, I
am helpless to resist her. That's a nice description. I
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got a lot of listeners fromone. We have a lot
of listeners who live on a boat, and that sounds
like a good idea. But if you ever tried to
go poop in a boat, it's not pleasant. It's like RV's.
People that go all over the world in RV's are
all over the country in an RV. It sounds like
a good idea until you actually are in an RV
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and you want to have a good you know, you
really want to stretch out.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You know what I'm saying, you can't do it.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
In one of those actors that blew up you were
talking about folks who had a moment.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
How about Andrew McCarthy. He was everywhere in the eighties.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Ramon, have you seen that documentary about the brat Pack
or whatever they were called. Hell, Lou Ramon, Oh you're
getting the phones? Okay, have you seen the documentary though,
have you seen the documentary? Oh that's okay. No, I'll
wait on you to finish that call. Just sit here,
We'll all just sit here. Buddy of mine told me
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a story last night. He pulled up to water Birder
to order I guess breakfast, and or maybe it was breakfast,
but they weren't serving breakfast yet. They hadn't switched over,
and four minutes till they switched over, so he said
four minutes. His wife said it was ten and he
said ten fifty six and she said ten to fifty.
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So I don't know if that was at night. I
don't know what the timing was. But the point of
the story was they were on a date. Now they
have two kids. She can't get out. She's locked in.
He's got her in.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
He's a good friend of mine.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
But at this point she's still trying to ferryh She's
gonna mary This guy, Brian mcmackin's's name, if you wonder.
So he pulls up and he wants breakfast, and they say, sir,
we don't serve breakfast yet, and he said, it's four
minutes to a breakfast time. And all I'm thinking is
Michael Douglas and falling down and pulling out the machine
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gun and blowing the ceiling out because they sure served
him breakfast, then didn't they.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
See that's what it takes.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
You ever think to yourself when people are being a
stickler for a stupid rule.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I don't mean a rule is that is.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Designed and tailored to protect people and make things better.
I mean somebody that's enforcing the rule for the sake
of being a little rule nazi. And what you really
want to do is throat punch them, but you can't,
And so what you want to do next is burn
the place down, but not hurt anybody.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Just burn the place.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
You're just raging because they could so easily give you
joy in your life, but they don't because of their
stupid rule. And usually people who stick to a rule
like that, when they have the authority and ability to
bend the rule, it's a sign that they're not a
very deep thinker. Right, you could take the lowest IQ
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person and go follow.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The rule, and you go, oh yeah, yeah, of course
you can't.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Of course you can't serve breakfast yet because it's two minutes.
So he throws his truck into part his wife then
Kristin Mullen says, what are we doing? He said, I'm
going to wait here until they serve breakfast. She turns
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very discreetly Sissy in Bud's truck is over her left shoulder,
and realizes there's already eight cars behind them.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I think there might have been a little drinking involved.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't know what time they switch over from dinner
to breakfast, so I don't know exactly. But anyway, so
he sits there until the time, and he swears that
at the moment the second it becomes time that they
start serving breakfast, she says, welcome to Waterburger.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
And he was surprised that she acted like nothing had
happened and he hadn't backed up. Cars are honking. He's
locked it into park because he's ready for breakfast. The
scene in Falling Down is so good. It is so
incredibly good on that subject, because we've all been there,
and all I could think at that moment was how
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horrified his wife was. Because his wife is a rule follower.
She's an organizer, she's a coordinator. She's a rule follower.
She likes rules, she likes orderliness, She likes organization. This
is what she does for a living. And here she
is and this guy is doing that, And I thought,
what guy hasn't done that? If your man has never
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had a moment like that, then well how best to
say this?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Every dude I know has had a moment like that.
Where you are where where some stickler for the rules.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
The person who's in that position is incapable of seeing
life from the perspective of the consumer.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Nope, this is the rule. No, this is the rule. Joyce.
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I'm seventy year old, a man citizen who is buying
my own home, and my sister lives with me seventy three.
We have neighbors that are his panic or not sure
that they are legal, because when they start came there.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
They said none.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Were they doing barble cars out back? Hold on, Joyce,
hold on, We're going to get to this. Hold on,
come hold on, shot you got the phone lines open.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I got an email from Kelly ray Lean. She said,
you were just talking about me and my distillery on
the radio. I'm trying to call in, but the line
is busy.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I'd love to talk to you. Great show.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
We listen pretty much every day. Keep up the good work.
How come people are so honest? Why would you say
pretty much every day? Do you know how that just
eats at me? How much he's pretty much seventy percent
on the days you don't listen? Why don't you listen?
Do you listen some of the day, not all the day?
That would just eat at me. That'll make me crazy.
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I'd rather wear hobbs, call in and say hey when
you're out instead of playing Uncle Ted, why don't you
play Ramon? I'd almost rather that all most. And that's
saying something. All right, hold on, let's see, I can't
get Joyce potted up here? Can you get Joyce potted up?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
All right? Joyce? You got some Mexicans that moved in
and what happened?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Okay, they moved in next door, and to start with,
we tried to get.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Along with them.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
We even gave them our old appliances when we got
stamous steel they wanted, you know, and we would go
walking with him in the afternoon where we found out
the man does not use his last name.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
He said it's because he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Like his daddy, so he uses his wife's last name.
They have a son these kids are wrong now. And
they have a son that is doing his second term
in prison for aggravated assault of a family member. Okay,
he gets out in February, and I've been told by
a Texas ran, a retired Texas ranger, that more likely
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they will kill us.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
He will kill us in February.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
They have broke our fence down and let our dog out.
We had to go and find our dog and bring
it back home. They poisoned our graph that we paid
fourteen hundred dollars for. After the drought, we put down
new graph and they poisoned it. They poisoned our Magnoia tree.
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They bring their dog over or used to bring their
dog over to our yard to pooh in our yard
and would not clean it up. They cussed my seventy
three year old sister out, called her the B word
three times, told her to go f herself. They asked
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me the date we went to the homeowners' association and
allowed us to put a fence in our front yard
so they couldn't come on our property.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
And the day we put the fence.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Up, one of them came over there and cuts me
out and asked me if I had my.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Burial policy in order, did you Yeah, I do have
a bit more, but.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I've taken notes.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
We don't know if these people are legal. We can't
get anybody. I've talked to Ice, I've talked to a
retired Texas ranger. I text the District Attorney's office last night.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
I even tried to get in touch with.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Trump, and we can't find out.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Trump never replied I talking to him, sir, what.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Community are you in?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I live in Indian Forest Subdivision in Willis, Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
All right? Are you in Montgomery County?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Yes, sir, all right.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
So he went on uh one summer. He went on
six trips by himself, in one with the family. Said
he wanted to see America. He went to Hawaii twice.
He went to California, he went to uh Niagara Falls.
I don't know where all he went, and he's been
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says he went to the police academy, but then after
he went he wouldn't be a police officer because he's
afraid of dogs.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
But yet they have a pit bull.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
What's the pit bull's name, Dory.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Dory, like a Spanish dory or English dory. What language
do they speak?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
They speak mainly Spanish, but they can. I mean they
can speak English.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
They have talked to us. They catch out in English.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
All right, so here's my notes. All right. We got
the Mexican next door.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
He's made six trips Hawaii twice, California, Niagara Falls. He
went to the police academy, but he didn't become a
cop because he's afraid of dogs, even though he's got
a pit bull named Dorry. I don't have any on
the wife. The son's in prison. I got a reference
to a fence. I can't remember that. We'll come back
to that. He's got dogs. They poisoned your grass. You
spent fourteen hundred dollars on it after the draft, which
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is why you did it. They poisoned your magnolia tree.
The hoa allowed you to put up a barrier of friends,
but he came over and cushed you out and asked
if you had your burial policy in order.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Their dog they got thirty four year old daughters. The
one that does all the cussing out. The man usually
plays very innocent. He doesn't talk to anybody. Okay, he's
a very so.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
And their dog poos on your yard and they won't
clean it right in the custom her seventy three year
old sister, calling her a bitch three times and told
her to herself one time.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, okay. And how many people live in the house.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Me and my sister. Oh, in their house.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Yeah, I'm sorry. It's the husband, the wife, the thirty
four year old daughter, and they have a daughter that
is hold is over.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
They have a daughter that's.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
In her twenty The son did live there off and owned.
He got a girl from Columbia pregnant and she his baby.
They have the baby out there periodically. The sun is
then the block unit in Beaumont. Yeah, he had a
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charge in Montgomery County.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
He served in when he walked.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Aggravated assault of a family member.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You said, okay, which we.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Durned that time, and then Harris County picked him up
for aggravated assault of a family member and now he's
serving the second tom.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
So he had aggravated assault in two different counties. Then
that's two different aggravated assaults. Okay, hold on, just a second,
It's that time time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Gets out.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Please that mama, she's gonna thinking the count. What's that
Hawaiian knows that anyway, that's the way you for nothing.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
Put your chas. We got to this.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Custom kitchens deliver.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
We got some moves.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
We got some moves.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
The African drum language, which is white boy stole.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
They can call it the Morris code.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
They took the same pulsation and rhythm, and now they
called it the telephone.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
They took the same pulsation and.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Rhythm, and now they called it a computer, which is
nothing but.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
An African drum.
Speaker 5 (01:21):
But if you don't the cat test people to the computer,
you don't see it bad food.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
You do it?
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I missed diamond silk, I really do.
Speaker 5 (01:36):
Billy Martin no relation to the longtime baseball coach and
rival of George Steinbrenner.
Speaker 6 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
This year's Little League World Series marks the fifty ninth
anniversary for my Little League teammates winning fourteen straight games
to win the Little League World Series. This is the
nineteen sixty six Houston Westbury American Little League World Series champions. Billy,
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if you and or any of your teammates from the
nineteen sixty six International Champion, World Little League Champion Houston
Westbury American Little League team would like to call up.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I would love to hear from you, he says.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
We continue to play together through high school and college,
and we still meet together regularly and are looking forward
to celebrating our sixtieth anniversary next year. I know you're
a big Little League fan and thought you might like
to do an interview with the team sixty years later.
Why yes, I would, Billy, Yes, I would. Why don't
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you put that together for me and double back with
me once you've got everybody's contact information. I love your
show and love of our country, Billy Martin. And then
he gives his phone number and then open pairing text
or leave voice message on first call in parenthesis, and
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then he's got an email address with an AOL hand.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
No, we don't have AOL kit.
Speaker 5 (03:14):
That's too much, that's too far, amoon. And he didn't
he didn't do that. There was an email from Joe Williams.
Let me see if I can find that. Let me
see if I can find that email from him. I
don't hear it is okay? So Joe Williams is an
interesting cat. You know, silver Wings out in Brenham. I
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was getting these emails from this fellow and he would say, hey,
you know, we'd like to do your next event out
at silver Wings and Brenham and I would say, uh so,
who's this skating rink and say yeah, but we do
concerts too.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
I did not know that.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
So we go back and forth and he's like, you know,
I know you like country artists. We got a relationship
with this person. We got relationships relationship with this person.
So we're at this for a little while, and we've
been emailing back and forth for over a year. Turns
out he's a black dude.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Not a big deal.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
But have you ever had a moment ramon where you
find out somebody's black that you've been communicating with and
you didn't know it and you didn't expect that. That
is the power of stereotypes, right that food making the
statement about white people wouldn't have no computers.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
It wasn't for the bongo drum and then the black
one own. I's really right, Oh, that's real, real smart.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Jesse Jackson when he said.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
They talking about illegal aliens, illegal aliens. They're not aliens,
they're from this country. Well that's not what the term means,
you dumb ass. But unfortunately these become the faces of blackness.
And and really the part that really bothers me about
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this this where people start getting uncomfortable.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
Could I get some? You feel an uncomfortable music? Moon Like?
Speaker 5 (05:14):
This is the part, you know, this is the funeral
where the mistress gets up and she wants to say
about the something about the dearly departed, And the wife
is sitting there and his kids are sitting there, and
they're like, lady, could I get some? Uh, this is
really uncomfortable music.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Oh okay, but we're we don't. We're waiting. It's weird
when there's dead air, We're still there. That's okay, I
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do that.
Speaker 5 (05:56):
It is in a lot of people's vested interest to
portray black people as stupid, angry, dirty, violent, self centered, narcissistic,
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the incapable, incompetent, an island all their own, separated from
the crowd without any music while they're trying to make
a point. It is in certain people's vested interest to
do that, first and foremost the white liberal. And the
(06:38):
reason is and Malcolm X talked at length about this.
I could do an entire show of Malcolm X talking
about white liberals and you would say.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I've heard you say that for years. I had no idea.
Speaker 5 (06:52):
The white liberal is the devil. And the reason is
because the white liberal views minority as pets, especially black men.
You learn a lot about race when you are a
white man who is perceived as a racist, who has
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black children, particularly black sons. You learn that the only
people who ever say anything awkward are liberal white women.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
They feel this.
Speaker 5 (07:30):
Need to almost protect your children because you're such a monster,
and they care so much for these pets. And that's
what blacks are to white liberals. They are pets. They're
to be kept in their place. This is why you
will see white liberals get very angry at black conservatives
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because the pet dares try to eat the food.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
That's on the table. Your food is over there. You
know your place.
Speaker 5 (08:02):
You're to be posted on my Instagram account, isn'ty cute?
You're to be petted, and then you're to be put
over there while we have adult conversation.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
It is the worst, the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Did I mention I hate white liberals.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
I want to go back to one of these women
are cheap Michael berry Man, I think that there might.
Speaker 6 (08:26):
Be, because I've got nothing going on down there. Probably.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
So we're talking about Silver Wings ball I think they
called Silver.
Speaker 5 (08:37):
Rings ballroom skating rink and they do concerts there. And
the video for that song Happier Alone. The song is
by Austin Meade, but it features co Wetzel and Co
Wetsel has just blown up. He has gone big time.
But he's from somewhere around there, and I think, no,
(09:01):
not Palestinian blow up ramone. No, he's gotten really big.
He's having his moment. He's like Ci from Gandam style.
Remember he's like that. You remember the guy in the Hangover,
the Asian dude who gets out and he's real sassy
gay guy. Well he's had a moment for a while.
But remember for a minute there he was in everything.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Rama.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Why don't you I tell what to keep from bothering me?
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Wyon't you take a couple of minutes while I'm talking
and doing the show and think of three people who
had a moment like they were in everything all the
time overnight. So anyway, what it doesn't it doesn't have
to be recently. It doesn't have to this. I feel
like I'm dealing with my kids when they were, you know,
seven and eight. I tell what, go in that room
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and play.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Okay, can we have no just Clinn, and just don't
be talking to me right now. I'm on the phone
trying to negotiate my contract.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
So yeah, just people who blew up at some point
and they had a moment all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
They were everywhere all the time. Everybody wanted to be associated. Well.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
So the song is called Happier Alone by Austin Meade
featuring co Westle and it's filmed at Silver Wings Ballroom,
and it's silly and ridiculous and awesome.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
I love the video, and I love the.
Speaker 5 (10:16):
Fact that they did it to pay tribute to their
hometown and the place that they went in high school.
I think one of them worked. I think Austin Meade
worked at Silver Wings Ballroom. You know, he was one
of the guys that when you get your skates, he
was one of the guys that you know.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
You get you you buy your your old r you.
Speaker 5 (10:34):
Rent your old fashioned skates, like working at the at
the bowling Alley. The guy that does the shoes, but
he did the skates there. Anyway, It's a fantastic song
and a fantastic video. Roy Thibodeau writes, I worked my
way through college at Silver Wings. I started as a
floor guard, keeping kids in check on the skating floor.
Then I was a DJ and bartender on dance nights.
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I'd work about forty hours from Friday through Sunday.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
For years. Instead of driving back and forth the Huntsville,
Jimbo would let me sleep there.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
I guess Jimbo's the father in law Joe Williams, who
I know that's his I guess that's probably his wife's father.
Back in the day, they would have a concert every weekend.
Everyone from George Strait to Brooks and Dunn played there.
My wife started working there in the snack bar, and
that's how we met. It would be a great place
for one of your events. Huh, there you go. Tom says,
(11:22):
nice use of the Austin Mead bump after about the
Silver Wings. After the after talking about the Silver Wings ballroom,
Thomas A. Stark Partner, National Appraisal Partners seven one three
four sixty three eighty seven sixty one Texas, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
What an odd three places to be? How do you?
How do you end up? How do you end up?
Speaker 5 (11:50):
I've got a buddy who's I got a buddy who's
having a bad day. And everything I say he puts
in a negative comment. He's I guess he no story.
Joe Williams, who is the son in law? And now
I think he's the one that kind of runs silver
Wings ballroom ballrooms. Now he will send me he gets
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a little uh, he'll sit out on his back porch.
Did you ever read Black Rednecks and White Liberals by
Thomas Soul. He's a black redneck and so he shares
my love of cigars in bourbon and country music and anyway.
He will almost every night he will send me lightning
round ideas. So last night was this one might be
dumb and or too complicated for the masses. I'm a
(12:34):
couple of penelopes in that's his bourbon. But listening to
your show about Ozzie, I've never truly known or been
a fan of his music. Born in eighty two, Black family.
I just missed the whole. No Joe, not Ozzy Ramon.
See this is what I said, Go find three people
who had their moment.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Joe is black. We've talked about that.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Don't if you mentioned it again, it becomes weird. It's like, Okay,
he's black, get over it. But I knew him and
his family from the TV show The Osbourne's made me
think of a neat topic Round two or second act?
Who had the best second acts? Could someone or something
I suppose that independently from each other reached as much
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or more success in the second act as the first
And it's totally separate from an independent of the first act,
meaning you don't even need to know the first act
existed to appreciate and be aware of a hugely popular
second act. Starters George Foreman boxing, then Grills, Ozzy music,
then very popular TV show Jennifer Lopez, though I hate
(13:34):
to admit it, dancing, then music, then acting in fashion.
Maybe not in that order. How about we just talk
about her booty that's mine, not his. John Madden coaching,
than broadcasting, Andy Griffith, Andy Taylor, then mattlock Ford Bronco
back then and the New Broncos. That one seemed kind
of random, And here's one. Tracy Chapman fast car Round
(13:57):
one then second act loop Colmbs redo. My favorite part
was black people who got mad that Luke Colmbs did
a redo of Tracy Chapman's car the song, and that
it became extraordinarily popular. They had ripped off Tracy Chapman.
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All Right, I know something about media. You don't angry
black person trying to get attention and feel sorry for yourself.
Nobody had thought about that song in thirty years. Now
Tracy Chapman is being brought out on stage at national
award shows.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
He made her relevant again. You dumb ass morning suits
to coordinating accessories.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Ramon and has decided to come off his high horse
and open the phone lines.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
So he didn't like to be bothered, but he's decided
that nine one thousand, seven one three nine nine nine
one thousand. I asked why Thomas A.
Speaker 5 (15:01):
Stark, partner at National Appraisal Partners had a location in Texas, Minnesota,
and Wisconsin, because that sounded weird, and he said, we
had a guy that wanted to quit to move up
to Wisconsin to be with his girlfriend now wife. We
didn't want to lose him, so we started an office
up there. I guess if you opened in Wisconsin, you
have to open Minnesota two Okay on the first act,
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second act Lightning Round, Logan Rights, Marty Robbins, Country and
Western artist in race car drivers sometimes both. I don't
know how many people know of him as a race
car driver. Does He wasn't that good.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
He wasn't Damn Pastorini good. I mean that's good.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Damn Pastorini raced race cars, race boats. John Wrights. Sugar
protectionism versus Rum. You were talking about it earlier in
the program. Rum is very affected by the sugar manipulation.
One of the first craft distilleries was I'm going to
get this wrong. But ray Lean's in San Leon.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
You know what, Ramon.
Speaker 5 (16:04):
And Kelly Raylen and her husband, who spent years jumping
through the hoops to legally operate and then more years
to fight to get their rum into stores, can talk
all about just how helpful our government can be. They
have retired and closed the place. I'm sad about that,
but if you can find them, I suggest they would
be just a sort of interview we in your audience
(16:24):
would enjoy. As a side note, my mean old wife
would not let me buy them out and take over
the distillery because she is not ready to give up
the life of living vagrantly on a sailboat. Her superpower
is pie crust. And since I grew up in that
part of rural Texas where old men's status is in
the community is determined by their wife's pie crust, I
am helpless to resist her. That's a nice description. I
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got a lot of listeners fromone. We have a lot
of listeners who live on a boat, and that sounds
like a good idea. But if you ever tried to
go poop in a boat, it's not pleasant. It's like RV's.
People that go all over the world in RV's are
all over the country in an RV. It sounds like
a good idea until you actually are in an RV
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and you want to have a good you know, you
really want to stretch out.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
You know what I'm saying, you can't do it.
Speaker 5 (17:15):
In one of those actors that blew up you were
talking about folks who had a moment.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
How about Andrew McCarthy. He was everywhere in the eighties.
Speaker 5 (17:25):
Ramon, have you seen that documentary about the brat Pack
or whatever they were called. Hell, Lou Ramon, Oh you're
getting the phones? Okay, have you seen the documentary though,
have you seen the documentary? Oh that's okay. No, I'll
wait on you to finish that call. Just sit here,
We'll all just sit here. Buddy of mine told me
(17:47):
a story last night. He pulled up to water Birder
to order I guess breakfast, and or maybe it was breakfast,
but they weren't serving breakfast yet. They hadn't switched over,
and four minutes till they switched over, so he said
four minutes. His wife said it was ten and he
said ten fifty six and she said ten to fifty.
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So I don't know if that was at night. I
don't know what the timing was. But the point of
the story was they were on a date. Now they
have two kids. She can't get out. She's locked in.
He's got her in.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
He's a good friend of mine.
Speaker 5 (18:18):
But at this point she's still trying to ferryh She's
gonna mary This guy, Brian mcmackin's's name, if you wonder.
So he pulls up and he wants breakfast, and they say, sir,
we don't serve breakfast yet, and he said, it's four
minutes to a breakfast time. And all I'm thinking is
Michael Douglas and falling down and pulling out the machine
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gun and blowing the ceiling out because they sure served
him breakfast, then didn't they.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
See that's what it takes.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
You ever think to yourself when people are being a
stickler for a stupid rule.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
I don't mean a rule is that is.
Speaker 5 (18:51):
Designed and tailored to protect people and make things better.
I mean somebody that's enforcing the rule for the sake
of being a little rule nazi. And what you really
want to do is throat punch them, but you can't,
And so what you want to do next is burn
the place down, but not hurt anybody.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Just burn the place.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
You're just raging because they could so easily give you
joy in your life, but they don't because of their
stupid rule. And usually people who stick to a rule
like that, when they have the authority and ability to
bend the rule, it's a sign that they're not a
very deep thinker. Right, you could take the lowest IQ
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person and go follow.
Speaker 2 (19:31):
The rule, and you go, oh yeah, yeah, of course
you can't.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Of course you can't serve breakfast yet because it's two minutes.
So he throws his truck into part his wife then
Kristin Mullen says, what are we doing? He said, I'm
going to wait here until they serve breakfast. She turns
(19:56):
very discreetly Sissy in Bud's truck is over her left shoulder,
and realizes there's already eight cars behind them.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
I think there might have been a little drinking involved.
I don't know.
Speaker 5 (20:09):
I don't know what time they switch over from dinner
to breakfast, so I don't know exactly. But anyway, so
he sits there until the time, and he swears that
at the moment the second it becomes time that they
start serving breakfast, she says, welcome to Waterburger.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
How can I help you?
Speaker 5 (20:29):
And he was surprised that she acted like nothing had
happened and he hadn't backed up. Cars are honking. He's
locked it into park because he's ready for breakfast. The
scene in Falling Down is so good. It is so
incredibly good on that subject, because we've all been there,
and all I could think at that moment was how
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horrified his wife was. Because his wife is a rule follower.
She's an organizer, she's a coordinator. She's a rule follower.
She likes rules, she likes orderliness, She likes organization. This
is what she does for a living. And here she
is and this guy is doing that, And I thought,
what guy hasn't done that? If your man has never
(21:12):
had a moment like that, then well how best to
say this?
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Every dude I know has had a moment like that.
Where you are where where some stickler for the rules.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
The person who's in that position is incapable of seeing
life from the perspective of the consumer.
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Nope, this is the rule. No, this is the rule. Joyce.
You're on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 4 (21:51):
I'm seventy year old, a man citizen who is buying
my own home, and my sister lives with me seventy three.
We have neighbors that are his panic or not sure
that they are legal, because when they start came there.
Speaker 6 (22:12):
They said none.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Were they doing barble cars out back? Hold on, Joyce,
hold on, We're going to get to this. Hold on,
come hold on, shot you got the phone lines open.
Speaker 5 (22:30):
I got an email from Kelly ray Lean. She said,
you were just talking about me and my distillery on
the radio. I'm trying to call in, but the line
is busy.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
I'd love to talk to you. Great show.
Speaker 5 (22:38):
We listen pretty much every day. Keep up the good work.
How come people are so honest? Why would you say
pretty much every day? Do you know how that just
eats at me? How much he's pretty much seventy percent
on the days you don't listen? Why don't you listen?
Do you listen some of the day, not all the day?
That would just eat at me. That'll make me crazy.
(22:59):
I'd rather wear hobbs, call in and say hey when
you're out instead of playing Uncle Ted, why don't you
play Ramon? I'd almost rather that all most. And that's
saying something. All right, hold on, let's see, I can't
get Joyce potted up here? Can you get Joyce potted up?
Speaker 2 (23:18):
All right? Joyce? You got some Mexicans that moved in
and what happened?
Speaker 4 (23:22):
Okay, they moved in next door, and to start with,
we tried to get.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
Along with them.
Speaker 4 (23:28):
We even gave them our old appliances when we got
stamous steel they wanted, you know, and we would go
walking with him in the afternoon where we found out
the man does not use his last name.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
He said it's because he doesn't.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
Like his daddy, so he uses his wife's last name.
They have a son these kids are wrong now. And
they have a son that is doing his second term
in prison for aggravated assault of a family member. Okay,
he gets out in February, and I've been told by
a Texas ran, a retired Texas ranger, that more likely
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they will kill us.
Speaker 6 (24:07):
He will kill us in February.
Speaker 4 (24:11):
They have broke our fence down and let our dog out.
We had to go and find our dog and bring
it back home. They poisoned our graph that we paid
fourteen hundred dollars for. After the drought, we put down
new graph and they poisoned it. They poisoned our Magnoia tree.
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They bring their dog over or used to bring their
dog over to our yard to pooh in our yard
and would not clean it up. They cussed my seventy
three year old sister out, called her the B word
three times, told her to go f herself. They asked
(24:55):
me the date we went to the homeowners' association and
allowed us to put a fence in our front yard
so they couldn't come on our property.
Speaker 6 (25:05):
And the day we put the fence.
Speaker 4 (25:07):
Up, one of them came over there and cuts me
out and asked me if I had my.
Speaker 6 (25:12):
Burial policy in order, did you Yeah, I do have
a bit more, but.
Speaker 2 (25:24):
I've taken notes.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
We don't know if these people are legal. We can't
get anybody. I've talked to Ice, I've talked to a
retired Texas ranger. I text the District Attorney's office last night.
Speaker 6 (25:42):
I even tried to get in touch with.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
Trump, and we can't find out.
Speaker 6 (25:51):
Trump never replied I talking to him, sir, what.
Speaker 2 (25:58):
Community are you in?
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I live in Indian Forest Subdivision in Willis, Texas.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
All right? Are you in Montgomery County?
Speaker 6 (26:12):
Yes, sir, all right.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
So he went on uh one summer. He went on
six trips by himself, in one with the family. Said
he wanted to see America. He went to Hawaii twice.
He went to California, he went to uh Niagara Falls.
I don't know where all he went, and he's been
(26:38):
says he went to the police academy, but then after
he went he wouldn't be a police officer because he's
afraid of dogs.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
But yet they have a pit bull.
Speaker 2 (26:52):
What's the pit bull's name, Dory.
Speaker 5 (27:00):
Dory, like a Spanish dory or English dory. What language
do they speak?
Speaker 4 (27:06):
They speak mainly Spanish, but they can. I mean they
can speak English.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
They have talked to us. They catch out in English.
Speaker 2 (27:16):
All right, so here's my notes. All right. We got
the Mexican next door.
Speaker 5 (27:21):
He's made six trips Hawaii twice, California, Niagara Falls. He
went to the police academy, but he didn't become a
cop because he's afraid of dogs, even though he's got
a pit bull named Dorry. I don't have any on
the wife. The son's in prison. I got a reference
to a fence. I can't remember that. We'll come back
to that. He's got dogs. They poisoned your grass. You
spent fourteen hundred dollars on it after the draft, which
(27:44):
is why you did it. They poisoned your magnolia tree.
The hoa allowed you to put up a barrier of friends,
but he came over and cushed you out and asked
if you had your burial policy in order.
Speaker 4 (27:55):
Their dog they got thirty four year old daughters. The
one that does all the cussing out. The man usually
plays very innocent. He doesn't talk to anybody. Okay, he's
a very so.
Speaker 5 (28:12):
And their dog poos on your yard and they won't
clean it right in the custom her seventy three year
old sister, calling her a bitch three times and told
her to herself one time.
Speaker 2 (28:26):
Yeah, okay. And how many people live in the house.
Speaker 6 (28:31):
Me and my sister. Oh, in their house.
Speaker 4 (28:34):
Yeah, I'm sorry. It's the husband, the wife, the thirty
four year old daughter, and they have a daughter that
is hold is over.
Speaker 6 (28:48):
They have a daughter that's.
Speaker 4 (28:50):
In her twenty The son did live there off and owned.
He got a girl from Columbia pregnant and she his baby.
They have the baby out there periodically. The sun is
then the block unit in Beaumont. Yeah, he had a
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charge in Montgomery County.
Speaker 6 (29:17):
He served in when he walked.
Speaker 4 (29:23):
Aggravated assault of a family member.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
You said, okay, which we.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
Durned that time, and then Harris County picked him up
for aggravated assault of a family member and now he's
serving the second tom.
Speaker 5 (29:40):
So he had aggravated assault in two different counties. Then
that's two different aggravated assaults. Okay, hold on, just a second,
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