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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael
Very Show is on the air. The following feature has
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I just wanted to say to everyone out there, no
longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP. It's official out You
know the rest of the story, Joyce, you like movies
about gladiators?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What if your child get amnia?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Fuf airs shoes? Take me, take me on.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Your mother was a humpster and your father's snakee off Calaberry.
How much you want to make a bet? I can
proll football over the mountain?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The don't need food? Are you kidding? We got some
family here. Not all.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, sir, lovey until tonight, then one and more Bye.
I'm not trying to sco the the aggie plumber. At
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the end of our conversation with Kelly ray Lean wrote
this lady is smart, energetic, and extremely organized. If she
can't make a go of the rum business, nobody can.
I kind of feel the same. I kind of feel
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the same. It is so much harder to succeed in
business than anybody realizes. Having studied people who are successful,
from Russell lebarro to Tillmanfretita to Matt Brice. It is incredible.
(02:33):
I got an email this morning. Let me see if
I can find it real quick, Like, why is that
not coming up? Ramon, play something nice while I find
this email, because I think this proves the point.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It is.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's about It's about Rosie Caraba, and this fella can't
hear it is and it says I split. It's from
Craig Vance. He says, I split time in the Woodlands
and Galiston, and I don't spend much time in Houston.
Stopped in for lunch Saturday at the end of the
bar at Caraba's on Voss. I'm sorry. Stopped in for
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lunch Sat at the end of the bar, not Saturday
at Caraba's on Voss. Yesterday, sat and spoke with missus
Karraba on my way out for about fifteen minutes. What
an absolute delight. She is so sweet, genuine and kind.
It was like I'd known her all my life. I'm
your age and I just like talking to people. She
was like my precious grandmother. I told her I just
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wanted to meet her because you say such great things
about her on the air. She adores you. Make it
a Great Friday, my friend. And you know when I
go to a restaurant and there's nobody there other than
the person whose immediate job it is to come and
ask me for my food and go and get it
and bring it back and drop it down and hand
me a bill. And I compare that experience. It's to
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go into Carabas on Kirby or or uh Carobas on
Voss corob was on Kirby. Johnny's going to be there
and on Voss Rosie's going to be there. And to
sit and talk to a woman in her nineties who's
part of Houston Restaurant Royalty that goes back with with
all the names of Terra, all the names in in
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her in her lineage.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And it makes for a very very special experience. There's
a time and place for the fast food restaurant where
you walk in and get your meal and you walk out.
But when you want a special experience, man, oh man,
that's that is it? That That's that's absolutely it. There's
something in the water in Needville. We got so into
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following those Nadville boys to the UH to the Little
World series, and now they moved up to the next
level and lo and behold, they just won out Texas.
They're going to regionals and they may yet win it all.
Andy McCrae joins us again. He's the coach of those
boys and he is our guest. Welcome to the program again, sir,
(05:15):
welcome back.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're a little bit older. Are you a little bit wiser?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'm a little older. I think I think the hopefully
the boys are a little wiser. I think I'm as
wise as I'm going to be at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You're not getting any wiser. I thought that when they
got out of twelve at Post Oh when they turn,
when they go into the thirteen's, they're coached by young people.
It's no longer dad coach. They're coached by twenty something
young men. Is I didn't know a dad could be
involved in that. How does that work?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So? Yeah, you have a juniors Juniors League World Series.
It's up to fourteen years old. It can a lot
of kids move through that. Probably more of a smaller
town community thing when you get into the junior's division
that stay together and play play through it. A lot
of the little leagues do you know, have a turn
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down and participation at twelve, but it's still a very large,
you know, participation at the junior's level. It's just a
little different.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What percentage of teams that achieve some degree of excellence
to the level you did at twelve year old's little
league end up winning state again the next year. I'm
guessing you've got less than a one percent likelihood that happens.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I think it's probably pretty low. I haven't looked
at the numbers. But teams that go to Williams poor them,
do that awesome experience and men come back and you know,
even just to come back because you know, believe me,
we have plenty of thoughts of boy, we're going out
on top. Why don't we want to do this? You know,
but the boys wanted to so we jumped in and
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did it. It's been a really great experience.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And so what are the key ingredients for these young
men to continue to be successful to this level? Uh,
as they're continuing to age.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
They just they're a really dedicated group of kids. They
work hard. You know, it's not there's no secret. There's
no secret to life, and I think they've maybe figured
it out at a little sooner than some. If you
want to be good at something, you have to do
it a lot. And luckily they love doing this and
they do it a lot, and so it makes them
makes them really good if you start.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Do you have any younger kids?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Have it certain? Son?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You have any younger kids?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
No, sir, I have an older son and the then jagged.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So so what if you had a kid who was
coming up at five six years old and you were
asked you you were drafted to coach that group of kids,
what would you do differently? Now? What would be your
advice to coach es out there who may not have
been a baseball star themselves, but they're beginning to coach
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young folks, not just about the fundamentals of baseball, but
the life lessons you want to teach. You know, how
much practice you should have some things you've learned over
that period of time. Hold on, this is not my day.
And do you know I missed a whole segment. I
turned my volume down to call you and I missed
a whole This is not my It might be Joe
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Biden time. Amy McCrae is the coach of a group
of kids from Needville who just keep winning at a
level that is absolutely staggering. You know, everybody has a
bad day, every team has a bad day. This new
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Netflix documentary series, this is the second time they've done this,
called Quarterback. You see guys like Joe Burrow, who on
any given week could be the best quarterback in the NFL.
Statistically speaking, we can argue, if my son Michael t
hears me say that, it'll lose his mind because he
thinks Lamar Jackson's the beginning in the end. But this
guy statistically is as good a quarterback as in the
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entire league. And then he may have a horrible game.
Jared Goff came to Houston and through five interceptions and
of course they beat us that game. I was that
it was a bummer. But the point is this team
performs at such a high level and has now for
multiple years. As they grow, you think about what's happening
in your life from twelve to fourteen, right, physiologically, biologically, emotionally.
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I mean, we've all raised teenagers. Andy McRae, how are
the boys different now than they were two three years ago.
You've been coaching these boys for a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I have Yeah, they're I take different. They have a
lot of the similar personalities, but they're a lot bigger.
I think they're a little harder on themselves probably, so
you have to treat them a little differently. You have
to be a little more understanding of that they're going
through a lot at that time in their life, and
sometimes it's out of their control. So you you try
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to be a little more, maybe even more parental with
them now than you were at twelve. Which it's a
different type of parenting, right it's a little being a
teenager in a twelve year old. But we try to,
you know, put your arm around them and tell them
it's going to be okay. And sometimes we're just having
a bad day because somebody is out of our control.
At that age.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I remember coaching kids myself, and you know, you get
all fired up about you the whole day. I'm telling
them on we got a game tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The game.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We've got got a strategy. We're gonna do this, gonna
put ace on the mound, we're gonna try something different,
we're gonna do a shift.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We're gonna do this this.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Then you get there and it's about the third inning
and one of the kids says coach. Yeah, Morgan, when
are we going to get the snow cones? It puts
it kind of puts the whole thing into perspective. So
I'm guessing these boys from you know, you've been coaching
them longer than since they were twelve, but now at
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thirteen fourteen years old, we start to have other distractions
like little girls.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That you certainly do. You have a wonderful world of
little girls and friends and social media now, which is
way different than when I was a child, And those
are the challenges you got through. And that's when I
laugh and say, you got to kind of put your
arm around them and listen to their stories and try
to help guide them through making the best decisions they can.
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You know, half of my half of what I do,
if not more, isn't the isn't the baseball stuff. It's
just trying to be there for the kids. So as
well as the other coaches on our team, we understand
that and we're just trying to help them navigate a
trying time in their lives.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Right, two of your team members, DJ Jablonski and Jagger McCrae,
who coincidentally happens to share your last name, or making
their third appearance at a World series twenty twenty two,
with the fifty seventy series, twenty twenty three the Major series,
and now twenty twenty five the Juniors Series. I wonder
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if that's ever been done before.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't know. The twenty twenty two Intermediate one hasn't
been around that long, so this could possibly be the
only two. But I don't know. I tried to just
look it up one time and it wasn't easy to find.
I think Little He will probably dig into it. That'll
be a story they hit on, and maybe maybe it is.
I doubt it's a very many it's a pretty cool
story for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Jagger McCrae being your son, so you're a father in
addition to a coach. I watched a lot of dads
burn their kid out, and I watched kids who had
a natural talent, and maybe they were going to play
D one ball, maybe D two, D three, but at
least they could have loved playing ball later into if
nothing else than through the end of high school and
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mini quip because they simply were burned out, not because
they lacked the talent. How do you balance that with
Jagger as not just a coach, but more importantly as
a dad.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, we've listened. We've been through times where you looked
and you go, man, I don't know if he's There's
been times when you ask, but we talk about it
and we do you want to do this? Or do
you want to you know, do you want to play
this season? Do you do not? There's been times when
I probably was too hard on him as a dad
and a coach about it, and I had to sit
back and go, okay, just let him have fun, right,
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because you do. You know, kids who excel, they get
expectations that sometimes are out of whack at a certain age,
and you have to look back at yourself and go, okay,
am I pushing too hard? Am I not? A lot
of conversations with him, A lot of conversations with my wife.
It helps his older brother plays a lot of baseball,
so he kind of grew up with it, so I
think that helps him and he's kind of what we've done.
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But you do really have to be careful, and I
think it's an individual well thing, and there's times we've
had to take breaks. You know, we've set out you know, weeks,
you know we're not going to do it this week,
we're gonna sit down or you know, it's just a
balancing app for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's interesting. I'm a biography guy, and I'm a sports
biography guy, and how many players end up being really
good players who are younger than a player who went
before them, so that by the time they start they're
so much above the other kids at their level because
they've been shagging flies and hanging out at the ballpark
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at late night practices when you know there's no lights
on the field since they were little, and this is
their moment. They're so far ahead. And it sounds like
Jagger has that going for him. Andy, what do you
do by day? What's your day job? I remember you
told us before.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I work in I work in insurance. I'm in operations.
I manage a team of folks. I take a lot
of those skills to the baseball feel too, that I've
learned over the years, and.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
They've grown accustomed to the fact that summer is when
McCray is a little bit checked out because it's baseball
time for the McCoy family.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Luckily, they are headquarters in Atlanta, so I can say
this unless you're airing Atlanta, maybe a little bit, but no,
it's definitely I got a wonder word for a wonderful
company who has been overly supportive when we get to
a certain level, and it's been really cool to watch
and witness.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It is cool and we wish you the best of luck.
I keep an email correspondence going with I guess it's
your mother in law, Cookie Havens. That's my mom. Yeah, Oh,
that's your mom.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Mom always looks out I'm forty seven and Mom still
looks out for me. So you always got to take
care of mom.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, you're her baby boy, and we talk in emails
about you as if you are. And let me tell
you something, she is unashamed to brag on your grandson,
on your son, her grandson, Jagger, and I absolutely love it.
That's why I had to talk to you. She keeps
me very, very well informed on what's going on with
with Needville, littley. She's one of a lot of sweet,
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little old ladies that take the place of my mom
and I email with on a daily basis on news
and perspective and everything else. You'll get them Needville, Uh,
Needville Boys and the Pray Family. Good luck, very show.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
On the other side street.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Hey, how you learned just here, shay Key lickor. I
have decided to vote in for Ron Paul.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I just understood that he the only one that's gonna
cut my taxes and quit bothering imsurance and leave me alone,
have my pistol and my mailwon and my rights to
be a civil libraritarian. Vote Republican Ron Powell President.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
President Trump does what Biden could never do. As he's
walking to and from Marine one, the official helicopter that
takes him to places like Camp David made a statement
to the press just about an hour ago, and he
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said that he will be giving out a list of
influential people and quote hedge fund managers end quote who
basically lived with Epstein? Quote you should focus on Clinton,
You should focus on the former president of Harvard. You
should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I
will give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein.
(18:03):
I sure as hell didn't. Jeffrey Epstein had an office
at Harvard even after his one year sentence for pedophilia.
He had the impromanter, the Petina, the gloss of Harvard
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to use when making connections. It gave him a great
deal of credibility with certain folks. Can't be a bad guy.
He's beloved at Harvard. Well, how do you think that happens?
They don't just hand out offices for nothing. It's going
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to be very interesting text rights. As we are of
the same age range, you'll remember when New Cooke came
about nineteen eighty five, the uproar that ended, which brought
back the original formula, which it actually was a shift
from cane sugar to corn syrup. The Cans even stated
original formula, but that was not true. If you look
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at the cans today, they say original taste because original
formula is false. That's Texts. The eighteen wheeler driver.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
MS.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Matt writes, When I was in high school in the fifties,
we had two newspapers, morning and evening. Ramon, did you
ever have a two news? Did you ever live in
a two newspaper town? When I lived in England in
the mid nineties, you would get a mid morning you'd
get a morning paper, and then late afternoon there would
be a paper in the town where I lived, and
then if there was breaking news, they'd do another printing.
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True story. Martha writes Jackie's comments about losing her husband
and missing their Michael Barry conversations brought tears to my eyes.
I also lost my husband in forty three years last.
They are your sounding board, your counsel, your protector, and
your friend, and their loss is irreplaceable. On my way
home from various activities, I often see something that I
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just automatically think I need to share with him when
I get home, and just as suddenly, I realize he
won't be there. Things that no one else would be
interested in. He didn't listen to you as often as me, Michael,
but in the course of our conversations I would often say, well,
Michael said, yes, you do have a connection with us, Michael,
and you make a difference in our lives. Love you,
Michael Berry. And she sent it a sweet and adorable
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picture of her and her late husband and their dog.
Very cute. Doctor Cywrit's not sure why this popped in
my head, but I was wondering. Is jd Vance the
heir apparent? I think Trump wants someone he's mentored to
carry on NAGA, But the race for president is a
personality contest, not who's best qualified. Then what about Ron DeSantis?
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He would be great, but I would hate for Florida
to lose him. We can always point to Florida as
a shutting example of the conservative experience. Anyway, back to
my point, when does Trump and companies start promoting bands,
you know, more high profile stuff that even the media
would pick up on, maybe after the midterms. Understand this,
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I don't personally enjoy if you watch the Astros win
the World Series twenty seventeen, as the game is completing
in there popping the champagne, the announcers begin talking about
how will they be any good next year? There's not
even a moment to enjoy what has just happened. There
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is the immediate or. It is almost as if the
predicting who's going to win and the anticipation of who's
going to win is more important than the game itself.
It becomes a sideshow. The moment Trump begins grooming his
successor is the moment he is less relevant. He has
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four years to do what he wants to do, and
he is not in the process of easing out to
ease someone else in. He has a lot of work
to do. I would argue that this is a subject
he does not want to have as a public lottery discussion.
Or draft discussion, Rodney writes, your tax paying listeners in
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Pasadena might hold on a second. I can't do that.
I can't do that because there's a reference to not
mentioning it. My sixteen year old Bronck writer has been
on an online high school program for over a year.
He has a full time job fifty to sixty hours
a week. He bought his own truck pace for his
own diesel. It's the best option for country boys that
just want to work. School work has done at night
core curriculum only no BS, and it works. On the contrary,
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my youngest boy is a baseball player AB student graduate.
He'll graduate from traditional high school and he'll play ball
all four years. That's the cloth he's cut from. Parents
need to honestly know their kids and go down the
path that fits them. I sat in a classroom for
four stupid extra years for absolutely nothing. I like your
idea on the online school for some Philip writes, Confucian
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say he who wear a mask alone in car also
wear condom alone in bed. This was a letter from
Jackie that kind of shook me. Earlier in the week,
she wrote, tzar, my husband of forty nine years passed
away a month ago. He was seventy. I'm seventy one.
That's still raw a month ago. In addition to the grief,
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I feel there's a lot of adjustments to make as
I try to figure out how to do life without
my husband by my side. It's harder than you could
ever imagine. Dinnertime five to seven PM is one of
the hardest times of the day. I can keep busy
during the day, but dinner we always ate together, catching
up with each other's day. Without him here, I didn't
quite know what to do. It's such a sad time
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for me. I've begun listening to you while I eat.
We would often listen to you in the morning and
when we were in the car together. You're like an
old friend to us. When I listen while eating, it's
almost as if you're having a conversation with just me.
I don't even know why I'm sending this to you,
other than to tell you how much I appreciate having
some company at dinner. May God bless you and your
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precious family. Jackie. I'm not going to read her last
name because I'm not all the rest Because we have
so many listeners that are at this phase of life.
It just breaks my heart. I wish there was a
perfect way. You know, there are babies born that are
not wanted by parents, and then their parents that they
are individuals that want to be parents, And if you
could just match all those up, the world would be great.
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I see so many people at this phase of life
and maybe they just need a friend, maybe another woman
going through the same thing. I wish it was something
we could do to fix that is the mailbags. God writes.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I find it interesting that other than a brief mention
on the Will Kine show, nothing was or has been
mentioned about Virginia Governor Glenn Youenkin's property at the old
Camp era Head property in Hunt, which he acquired, as
I understand it, out of bankruptcy a few years ago.
I believe his wife was a camper there at one
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point and an SMU grad with a fondness for the camp,
and suggested to her husband, the former Rice Owl basketball player,
that they should buy it. I also appreciated your shows
on the flooding. My wife and daughter were longtime heart
of the Hills campers and good friends of Jane Ragsdale.
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Just a wonderful person and not only was a Heart
of the Hills camper, she loved camp so much. She
was also a Mystic camper. Once the camp blood enters
the system, it's hard to get rid of. And our
daughter was a Lamar Redskins softball player. A parent asked
her about joining his summer travel ball team, to which
she told him, I can't I go to camp. He
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then asked me what's his camp thing. I told him
to save his breath, as both the wife, daughter, and
several cousins were HH, that's Heart of the Hills ladies,
and nothing could interfere with this legacy. I got an
email it choked me up pretty good yesterday. It was
from one of the parents of one of the campers
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who passed at Camp Mystic and asked to be connected
with Heritage Films Chance McLean, because they want to have
a heritage film made about their daughter because they have
another child and they want that other child to know
the story of that child's sister who will no longer
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be there. And this other child is so young that
this child will not know of how wonderful the child's
sister was in her brief number of years, and they
want to capture that moment while it's fresh, and I
picked up the phone, which I never do. I don't
like to have phone calls instead of emailing, which is
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what I prefer to do because then I can go
back later and follow up on things. And I call
Chance and he's been on the East Coast doing a
series of heritage films out there. He'll be back tonight.
And I rang about eight times. You know, like the
girlfriend that gets mad if you're not answering. I was
that guy. And he stepped aside and he said, dude,
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I'm in the middle of a shoot. And I said, well,
they're all my listeners anyway, they'll understand just telling me
you're talking to me. Well, I know, but but I'm
in the middle of a shoot. I said, what I
need to tell you about the email I just got?
And he said, man, why did you have to tell
me that right now? Now, that's all I'm able to
think about. I think God puts us in places in
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our life. Maybe that's a security guard, Maybe that's the
secretary that takes the call. Maybe that's the bus driver
that you know when a kid is being picked on
and otherwise might take their own life. But the bus
driver steps in and makes it stop. I think God
puts us in special places at special times that we
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may not always appreciate or realize. But there is a
reason for that. And I was honored to get the email,
and I know that chance is honored to have the
opportunity to tell this little girl's story. I got a
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nice email from a woman named Debray Yankee, and having
spent six years on city council and having a month
before I was elected, witness the death of a Yankee
in the four Leaf Towers. I know the legacy of
the Yankee family. It's a Polish American family that I
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think when you're born, you just they go ahead and
fitch you for your your boots and your hat in
all your fire equipment. Because all the Yonkees serve in
the Houston Fire Department. Lee Brown declared war on that family.
It's just it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing how he treated that family,
who our proud and longtime loyal members of the Houston
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Fire Department. His name was David Eugene Yankee. He's served
thirty three years in twenty six days as a Houston
Fire Department firefighter. He retired back in two thousand and six.
But boy, I'll tell you what, those Yankees have given
a lot to the city of Houston. His service will
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be on Sunday at one pm at Earthman Resthaven Funeral
Home on the North Freeway, followed by a celebration of
life memorial service for David Eugene Yankee, longtime Houston fire firefighters.
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I'm going to talk about this this evening. President Trump
has issued an executive order with the intention of solving
a problem that Frankly Ronald Reagan created, and that is
that Reagan unleashed open the doors to our insane asylums.
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Now there's a bunch of coded words you're supposed to
use when it comes to crazy people. But there are
crazy people, and that's not a mean thing to say, ladies.
That's a reality. And there are degrees of crazy. And
this is a very complex conversation to have because the
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moment that other people have the power to institutionalize you
is the moment that you have lost agency. And that's
a power. That is the power to enslave, a power
to imprison, a power to control an adult and take
away their freedom. And I think that power should be
should have many, many checks and balances, But there can
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be no question but for the fact that homelessness has
exploded in this country and the primary cause is mental
health breakdowns. We saw the number of people who were
released from asylums during the Reagan administration and then decrease
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as the number increased out on the streets. Some of
those people literally went from the insane asylum to underneath
the bridge or the park bench or whatever else I
found in my years of public service. It was the
most uncrackable nut of all the public policy issues that
I dove into and read widely and asked opinions and
met with people and attempted to find some level of solution.
(31:55):
It's a tough one, but to his credit, Donald Trump
is at least a tempting to do something about it,
and I think that in and of itself is commendable.
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Speaker 2 (00:22):
I just wanted to say to everyone out there, no
longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP. It's official out You
know the rest of the story, Joyce, you like movies
about gladiators?
Speaker 1 (00:34):
What if your child get amnia?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Fuf airs shoes? Take me, take me on.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Your mother was a humpster and your father's snakee off Calaberry.
How much you want to make a bet? I can
proll football over the mountain?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
The don't need food? Are you kidding? We got some
family here. Not all.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Well, sir, lovey until tonight, then one and more Bye.
I'm not trying to sco the the aggie plumber. At
(01:49):
the end of our conversation with Kelly ray Lean wrote
this lady is smart, energetic, and extremely organized. If she
can't make a go of the rum business, nobody can.
I kind of feel the same. I kind of feel
(02:10):
the same. It is so much harder to succeed in
business than anybody realizes. Having studied people who are successful,
from Russell lebarro to Tillmanfretita to Matt Brice. It is incredible.
(02:33):
I got an email this morning. Let me see if
I can find it real quick, Like, why is that
not coming up? Ramon, play something nice while I find
this email, because I think this proves the point.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
It is.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
It's about It's about Rosie Caraba, and this fella can't
hear it is and it says I split. It's from
Craig Vance. He says, I split time in the Woodlands
and Galiston, and I don't spend much time in Houston.
Stopped in for lunch Saturday at the end of the
bar at Caraba's on Voss. I'm sorry. Stopped in for
(03:14):
lunch Sat at the end of the bar, not Saturday
at Caraba's on Voss. Yesterday, sat and spoke with missus
Karraba on my way out for about fifteen minutes. What
an absolute delight. She is so sweet, genuine and kind.
It was like I'd known her all my life. I'm
your age and I just like talking to people. She
was like my precious grandmother. I told her I just
(03:37):
wanted to meet her because you say such great things
about her on the air. She adores you. Make it
a Great Friday, my friend. And you know when I
go to a restaurant and there's nobody there other than
the person whose immediate job it is to come and
ask me for my food and go and get it
and bring it back and drop it down and hand
me a bill. And I compare that experience. It's to
(04:00):
go into Carabas on Kirby or or uh Carobas on
Voss corob was on Kirby. Johnny's going to be there
and on Voss Rosie's going to be there. And to
sit and talk to a woman in her nineties who's
part of Houston Restaurant Royalty that goes back with with
all the names of Terra, all the names in in
(04:24):
her in her lineage.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
It's incredible.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
And it makes for a very very special experience. There's
a time and place for the fast food restaurant where
you walk in and get your meal and you walk out.
But when you want a special experience, man, oh man,
that's that is it? That That's that's absolutely it. There's
something in the water in Needville. We got so into
(04:51):
following those Nadville boys to the UH to the Little
World series, and now they moved up to the next
level and lo and behold, they just won out Texas.
They're going to regionals and they may yet win it all.
Andy McCrae joins us again. He's the coach of those
boys and he is our guest. Welcome to the program again, sir,
(05:15):
welcome back.
Speaker 2 (05:17):
Well, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
You're a little bit older. Are you a little bit wiser?
Speaker 2 (05:24):
I'm a little older. I think I think the hopefully
the boys are a little wiser. I think I'm as
wise as I'm going to be at this point.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
You're not getting any wiser. I thought that when they
got out of twelve at Post Oh when they turn,
when they go into the thirteen's, they're coached by young people.
It's no longer dad coach. They're coached by twenty something
young men. Is I didn't know a dad could be
involved in that. How does that work?
Speaker 2 (05:50):
So? Yeah, you have a juniors Juniors League World Series.
It's up to fourteen years old. It can a lot
of kids move through that. Probably more of a smaller
town community thing when you get into the junior's division
that stay together and play play through it. A lot
of the little leagues do you know, have a turn
(06:11):
down and participation at twelve, but it's still a very large,
you know, participation at the junior's level. It's just a
little different.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
What percentage of teams that achieve some degree of excellence
to the level you did at twelve year old's little
league end up winning state again the next year. I'm
guessing you've got less than a one percent likelihood that happens.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, I think it's probably pretty low. I haven't looked
at the numbers. But teams that go to Williams poor them,
do that awesome experience and men come back and you know,
even just to come back because you know, believe me,
we have plenty of thoughts of boy, we're going out
on top. Why don't we want to do this? You know,
but the boys wanted to so we jumped in and
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did it. It's been a really great experience.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
And so what are the key ingredients for these young
men to continue to be successful to this level? Uh,
as they're continuing to age.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
They just they're a really dedicated group of kids. They
work hard. You know, it's not there's no secret. There's
no secret to life, and I think they've maybe figured
it out at a little sooner than some. If you
want to be good at something, you have to do
it a lot. And luckily they love doing this and
they do it a lot, and so it makes them
makes them really good if you start.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Do you have any younger kids?
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Have it certain? Son?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
You have any younger kids?
Speaker 2 (07:40):
No, sir, I have an older son and the then jagged.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
So so what if you had a kid who was
coming up at five six years old and you were
asked you you were drafted to coach that group of kids,
what would you do differently? Now? What would be your
advice to coach es out there who may not have
been a baseball star themselves, but they're beginning to coach
(08:04):
young folks, not just about the fundamentals of baseball, but
the life lessons you want to teach. You know, how
much practice you should have some things you've learned over
that period of time. Hold on, this is not my day.
And do you know I missed a whole segment. I
turned my volume down to call you and I missed
a whole This is not my It might be Joe
(08:27):
Biden time. Amy McCrae is the coach of a group
of kids from Needville who just keep winning at a
level that is absolutely staggering. You know, everybody has a
bad day, every team has a bad day. This new
(08:49):
Netflix documentary series, this is the second time they've done this,
called Quarterback. You see guys like Joe Burrow, who on
any given week could be the best quarterback in the NFL.
Statistically speaking, we can argue, if my son Michael t
hears me say that, it'll lose his mind because he
thinks Lamar Jackson's the beginning in the end. But this
guy statistically is as good a quarterback as in the
(09:12):
entire league. And then he may have a horrible game.
Jared Goff came to Houston and through five interceptions and
of course they beat us that game. I was that
it was a bummer. But the point is this team
performs at such a high level and has now for
multiple years. As they grow, you think about what's happening
in your life from twelve to fourteen, right, physiologically, biologically, emotionally.
(09:39):
I mean, we've all raised teenagers. Andy McRae, how are
the boys different now than they were two three years ago.
You've been coaching these boys for a long time.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I have Yeah, they're I take different. They have a
lot of the similar personalities, but they're a lot bigger.
I think they're a little harder on themselves probably, so
you have to treat them a little differently. You have
to be a little more understanding of that they're going
through a lot at that time in their life, and
sometimes it's out of their control. So you you try
(10:13):
to be a little more, maybe even more parental with
them now than you were at twelve. Which it's a
different type of parenting, right it's a little being a
teenager in a twelve year old. But we try to,
you know, put your arm around them and tell them
it's going to be okay. And sometimes we're just having
a bad day because somebody is out of our control.
At that age.
Speaker 1 (10:32):
I remember coaching kids myself, and you know, you get
all fired up about you the whole day. I'm telling
them on we got a game tonight.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
The game.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
We've got got a strategy. We're gonna do this, gonna
put ace on the mound, we're gonna try something different,
we're gonna do a shift.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
We're gonna do this this.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
Then you get there and it's about the third inning
and one of the kids says coach. Yeah, Morgan, when
are we going to get the snow cones? It puts
it kind of puts the whole thing into perspective. So
I'm guessing these boys from you know, you've been coaching
them longer than since they were twelve, but now at
(11:10):
thirteen fourteen years old, we start to have other distractions
like little girls.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
That you certainly do. You have a wonderful world of
little girls and friends and social media now, which is
way different than when I was a child, And those
are the challenges you got through. And that's when I
laugh and say, you got to kind of put your
arm around them and listen to their stories and try
to help guide them through making the best decisions they can.
(11:39):
You know, half of my half of what I do,
if not more, isn't the isn't the baseball stuff. It's
just trying to be there for the kids. So as
well as the other coaches on our team, we understand
that and we're just trying to help them navigate a
trying time in their lives.
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Right, two of your team members, DJ Jablonski and Jagger McCrae,
who coincidentally happens to share your last name, or making
their third appearance at a World series twenty twenty two,
with the fifty seventy series, twenty twenty three the Major series,
and now twenty twenty five the Juniors Series. I wonder
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if that's ever been done before.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
I don't know. The twenty twenty two Intermediate one hasn't
been around that long, so this could possibly be the
only two. But I don't know. I tried to just
look it up one time and it wasn't easy to find.
I think Little He will probably dig into it. That'll
be a story they hit on, and maybe maybe it is.
I doubt it's a very many it's a pretty cool
story for sure.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Jagger McCrae being your son, so you're a father in
addition to a coach. I watched a lot of dads
burn their kid out, and I watched kids who had
a natural talent, and maybe they were going to play
D one ball, maybe D two, D three, but at
least they could have loved playing ball later into if
nothing else than through the end of high school and
(13:02):
mini quip because they simply were burned out, not because
they lacked the talent. How do you balance that with
Jagger as not just a coach, but more importantly as
a dad.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
Yeah, we've listened. We've been through times where you looked
and you go, man, I don't know if he's There's
been times when you ask, but we talk about it
and we do you want to do this? Or do
you want to you know, do you want to play
this season? Do you do not? There's been times when
I probably was too hard on him as a dad
and a coach about it, and I had to sit
back and go, okay, just let him have fun, right,
(13:34):
because you do. You know, kids who excel, they get
expectations that sometimes are out of whack at a certain age,
and you have to look back at yourself and go, okay,
am I pushing too hard? Am I not? A lot
of conversations with him, A lot of conversations with my wife.
It helps his older brother plays a lot of baseball,
so he kind of grew up with it, so I
think that helps him and he's kind of what we've done.
(13:56):
But you do really have to be careful, and I
think it's an individual well thing, and there's times we've
had to take breaks. You know, we've set out you know, weeks,
you know we're not going to do it this week,
we're gonna sit down or you know, it's just a
balancing app for sure.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
It's interesting. I'm a biography guy, and I'm a sports
biography guy, and how many players end up being really
good players who are younger than a player who went
before them, so that by the time they start they're
so much above the other kids at their level because
they've been shagging flies and hanging out at the ballpark
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at late night practices when you know there's no lights
on the field since they were little, and this is
their moment. They're so far ahead. And it sounds like
Jagger has that going for him. Andy, what do you
do by day? What's your day job? I remember you
told us before.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
I work in I work in insurance. I'm in operations.
I manage a team of folks. I take a lot
of those skills to the baseball feel too, that I've
learned over the years, and.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
They've grown accustomed to the fact that summer is when
McCray is a little bit checked out because it's baseball
time for the McCoy family.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Luckily, they are headquarters in Atlanta, so I can say
this unless you're airing Atlanta, maybe a little bit, but no,
it's definitely I got a wonder word for a wonderful
company who has been overly supportive when we get to
a certain level, and it's been really cool to watch
and witness.
Speaker 1 (15:27):
It is cool and we wish you the best of luck.
I keep an email correspondence going with I guess it's
your mother in law, Cookie Havens. That's my mom. Yeah, Oh,
that's your mom.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Mom always looks out I'm forty seven and Mom still
looks out for me. So you always got to take
care of mom.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Well, you're her baby boy, and we talk in emails
about you as if you are. And let me tell
you something, she is unashamed to brag on your grandson,
on your son, her grandson, Jagger, and I absolutely love it.
That's why I had to talk to you. She keeps
me very, very well informed on what's going on with
with Needville, littley. She's one of a lot of sweet,
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little old ladies that take the place of my mom
and I email with on a daily basis on news
and perspective and everything else. You'll get them Needville, Uh,
Needville Boys and the Pray Family. Good luck, very show.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
On the other side street.
Speaker 1 (16:44):
Hey, how you learned just here, shay Key lickor. I
have decided to vote in for Ron Paul.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
I just understood that he the only one that's gonna
cut my taxes and quit bothering imsurance and leave me alone,
have my pistol and my mailwon and my rights to
be a civil libraritarian. Vote Republican Ron Powell President.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
President Trump does what Biden could never do. As he's
walking to and from Marine one, the official helicopter that
takes him to places like Camp David made a statement
to the press just about an hour ago, and he
(17:39):
said that he will be giving out a list of
influential people and quote hedge fund managers end quote who
basically lived with Epstein? Quote you should focus on Clinton,
You should focus on the former president of Harvard. You
should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I
will give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein.
(18:03):
I sure as hell didn't. Jeffrey Epstein had an office
at Harvard even after his one year sentence for pedophilia.
He had the impromanter, the Petina, the gloss of Harvard
(18:30):
to use when making connections. It gave him a great
deal of credibility with certain folks. Can't be a bad guy.
He's beloved at Harvard. Well, how do you think that happens?
They don't just hand out offices for nothing. It's going
(18:52):
to be very interesting text rights. As we are of
the same age range, you'll remember when New Cooke came
about nineteen eighty five, the uproar that ended, which brought
back the original formula, which it actually was a shift
from cane sugar to corn syrup. The Cans even stated
original formula, but that was not true. If you look
(19:13):
at the cans today, they say original taste because original
formula is false. That's Texts. The eighteen wheeler driver.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
MS.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Matt writes, When I was in high school in the fifties,
we had two newspapers, morning and evening. Ramon, did you
ever have a two news? Did you ever live in
a two newspaper town? When I lived in England in
the mid nineties, you would get a mid morning you'd
get a morning paper, and then late afternoon there would
be a paper in the town where I lived, and
then if there was breaking news, they'd do another printing.
(19:48):
True story. Martha writes Jackie's comments about losing her husband
and missing their Michael Barry conversations brought tears to my eyes.
I also lost my husband in forty three years last.
They are your sounding board, your counsel, your protector, and
your friend, and their loss is irreplaceable. On my way
home from various activities, I often see something that I
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just automatically think I need to share with him when
I get home, and just as suddenly, I realize he
won't be there. Things that no one else would be
interested in. He didn't listen to you as often as me, Michael,
but in the course of our conversations I would often say, well,
Michael said, yes, you do have a connection with us, Michael,
and you make a difference in our lives. Love you,
Michael Berry. And she sent it a sweet and adorable
(20:32):
picture of her and her late husband and their dog.
Very cute. Doctor Cywrit's not sure why this popped in
my head, but I was wondering. Is jd Vance the
heir apparent? I think Trump wants someone he's mentored to
carry on NAGA, But the race for president is a
personality contest, not who's best qualified. Then what about Ron DeSantis?
(20:57):
He would be great, but I would hate for Florida
to lose him. We can always point to Florida as
a shutting example of the conservative experience. Anyway, back to
my point, when does Trump and companies start promoting bands,
you know, more high profile stuff that even the media
would pick up on, maybe after the midterms. Understand this,
(21:19):
I don't personally enjoy if you watch the Astros win
the World Series twenty seventeen, as the game is completing
in there popping the champagne, the announcers begin talking about
how will they be any good next year? There's not
even a moment to enjoy what has just happened. There
(21:41):
is the immediate or. It is almost as if the
predicting who's going to win and the anticipation of who's
going to win is more important than the game itself.
It becomes a sideshow. The moment Trump begins grooming his
successor is the moment he is less relevant. He has
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four years to do what he wants to do, and
he is not in the process of easing out to
ease someone else in. He has a lot of work
to do. I would argue that this is a subject
he does not want to have as a public lottery discussion.
Or draft discussion, Rodney writes, your tax paying listeners in
(22:26):
Pasadena might hold on a second. I can't do that.
I can't do that because there's a reference to not
mentioning it. My sixteen year old Bronck writer has been
on an online high school program for over a year.
He has a full time job fifty to sixty hours
a week. He bought his own truck pace for his
own diesel. It's the best option for country boys that
just want to work. School work has done at night
core curriculum only no BS, and it works. On the contrary,
(22:49):
my youngest boy is a baseball player AB student graduate.
He'll graduate from traditional high school and he'll play ball
all four years. That's the cloth he's cut from. Parents
need to honestly know their kids and go down the
path that fits them. I sat in a classroom for
four stupid extra years for absolutely nothing. I like your
idea on the online school for some Philip writes, Confucian
(23:10):
say he who wear a mask alone in car also
wear condom alone in bed. This was a letter from
Jackie that kind of shook me. Earlier in the week,
she wrote, tzar, my husband of forty nine years passed
away a month ago. He was seventy. I'm seventy one.
That's still raw a month ago. In addition to the grief,
(23:31):
I feel there's a lot of adjustments to make as
I try to figure out how to do life without
my husband by my side. It's harder than you could
ever imagine. Dinnertime five to seven PM is one of
the hardest times of the day. I can keep busy
during the day, but dinner we always ate together, catching
up with each other's day. Without him here, I didn't
quite know what to do. It's such a sad time
(23:53):
for me. I've begun listening to you while I eat.
We would often listen to you in the morning and
when we were in the car together. You're like an
old friend to us. When I listen while eating, it's
almost as if you're having a conversation with just me.
I don't even know why I'm sending this to you,
other than to tell you how much I appreciate having
some company at dinner. May God bless you and your
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precious family. Jackie. I'm not going to read her last
name because I'm not all the rest Because we have
so many listeners that are at this phase of life.
It just breaks my heart. I wish there was a
perfect way. You know, there are babies born that are
not wanted by parents, and then their parents that they
are individuals that want to be parents, And if you
could just match all those up, the world would be great.
(24:36):
I see so many people at this phase of life
and maybe they just need a friend, maybe another woman
going through the same thing. I wish it was something
we could do to fix that is the mailbags. God writes.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
Sorry.
Speaker 1 (24:49):
I find it interesting that other than a brief mention
on the Will Kine show, nothing was or has been
mentioned about Virginia Governor Glenn Youenkin's property at the old
Camp era Head property in Hunt, which he acquired, as
I understand it, out of bankruptcy a few years ago.
I believe his wife was a camper there at one
(25:10):
point and an SMU grad with a fondness for the camp,
and suggested to her husband, the former Rice Owl basketball player,
that they should buy it. I also appreciated your shows
on the flooding. My wife and daughter were longtime heart
of the Hills campers and good friends of Jane Ragsdale.
(25:30):
Just a wonderful person and not only was a Heart
of the Hills camper, she loved camp so much. She
was also a Mystic camper. Once the camp blood enters
the system, it's hard to get rid of. And our
daughter was a Lamar Redskins softball player. A parent asked
her about joining his summer travel ball team, to which
she told him, I can't I go to camp. He
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then asked me what's his camp thing. I told him
to save his breath, as both the wife, daughter, and
several cousins were HH, that's Heart of the Hills ladies,
and nothing could interfere with this legacy. I got an
email it choked me up pretty good yesterday. It was
from one of the parents of one of the campers
(26:16):
who passed at Camp Mystic and asked to be connected
with Heritage Films Chance McLean, because they want to have
a heritage film made about their daughter because they have
another child and they want that other child to know
the story of that child's sister who will no longer
(26:41):
be there. And this other child is so young that
this child will not know of how wonderful the child's
sister was in her brief number of years, and they
want to capture that moment while it's fresh, and I
picked up the phone, which I never do. I don't
like to have phone calls instead of emailing, which is
(27:04):
what I prefer to do because then I can go
back later and follow up on things. And I call
Chance and he's been on the East Coast doing a
series of heritage films out there. He'll be back tonight.
And I rang about eight times. You know, like the
girlfriend that gets mad if you're not answering. I was
that guy. And he stepped aside and he said, dude,
(27:28):
I'm in the middle of a shoot. And I said, well,
they're all my listeners anyway, they'll understand just telling me
you're talking to me. Well, I know, but but I'm
in the middle of a shoot. I said, what I
need to tell you about the email I just got?
And he said, man, why did you have to tell
me that right now? Now, that's all I'm able to
think about. I think God puts us in places in
(27:52):
our life. Maybe that's a security guard, Maybe that's the
secretary that takes the call. Maybe that's the bus driver
that you know when a kid is being picked on
and otherwise might take their own life. But the bus
driver steps in and makes it stop. I think God
puts us in special places at special times that we
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may not always appreciate or realize. But there is a
reason for that. And I was honored to get the email,
and I know that chance is honored to have the
opportunity to tell this little girl's story. I got a
(28:36):
nice email from a woman named Debray Yankee, and having
spent six years on city council and having a month
before I was elected, witness the death of a Yankee
in the four Leaf Towers. I know the legacy of
the Yankee family. It's a Polish American family that I
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think when you're born, you just they go ahead and
fitch you for your your boots and your hat in
all your fire equipment. Because all the Yonkees serve in
the Houston Fire Department. Lee Brown declared war on that family.
It's just it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing how he treated that family,
who our proud and longtime loyal members of the Houston
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Fire Department. His name was David Eugene Yankee. He's served
thirty three years in twenty six days as a Houston
Fire Department firefighter. He retired back in two thousand and six.
But boy, I'll tell you what, those Yankees have given
a lot to the city of Houston. His service will
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be on Sunday at one pm at Earthman Resthaven Funeral
Home on the North Freeway, followed by a celebration of
life memorial service for David Eugene Yankee, longtime Houston fire firefighters.
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I'm going to talk about this this evening. President Trump
has issued an executive order with the intention of solving
a problem that Frankly Ronald Reagan created, and that is
that Reagan unleashed open the doors to our insane asylums.
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Now there's a bunch of coded words you're supposed to
use when it comes to crazy people. But there are
crazy people, and that's not a mean thing to say, ladies.
That's a reality. And there are degrees of crazy. And
this is a very complex conversation to have because the
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moment that other people have the power to institutionalize you
is the moment that you have lost agency. And that's
a power. That is the power to enslave, a power
to imprison, a power to control an adult and take
away their freedom. And I think that power should be
should have many, many checks and balances, But there can
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be no question but for the fact that homelessness has
exploded in this country and the primary cause is mental
health breakdowns. We saw the number of people who were
released from asylums during the Reagan administration and then decrease
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as the number increased out on the streets. Some of
those people literally went from the insane asylum to underneath
the bridge or the park bench or whatever else I
found in my years of public service. It was the
most uncrackable nut of all the public policy issues that
I dove into and read widely and asked opinions and
met with people and attempted to find some level of solution.
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It's a tough one, but to his credit, Donald Trump
is at least a tempting to do something about it,
and I think that in and of itself is commendable.
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