July 27, 2025 • 8 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Well according to the Kingstree, So that's what he told me.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, of course we want to make money, and if
the tactic care business is better, why we ought to
unresidered the proposition.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, we tell the kings, they come. You ought to
be here any minute now, let him see anything till
you like it.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Told me he is in a mess right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Boy, with that garner sheet business on the bank.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Account, I'll see we in a myth.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We didn't put that seven dollars and a half in
the bank yesterday. That's one thing we got. And what
you took in the day, how much is that?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I took in five dollars and twenty five cents.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Lucky, we ain't got that in the bank.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, but that just bot pay with princess for the week,
and then we ain't got nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, we ain't lost nothing though. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Hell, Rubert Taylor coming back here Monday, and I trying
to get ahold all the money I can.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Then you get they didn't just mess and somebody tie
up the money in the bank.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We didn't have but fourteen dollars in there.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, but fourteen dollars and fourteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I started to get myself a lawyer. But I figured
that by the time I finished listening to him explaining
it to me, I'd be mixed up more than I is.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Now, you ain't have no business signing that note for
the funiture company. But we're the parker in the bus.
Please you know that much.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, they was gonna take a furniture away from us
if I hadn't signed a note.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, better to let him take a pun of good
than our money in it. He didn't buy the funiture.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well that's why I tell you him. Uh, don't never.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Get mixed up with no galm.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You is the one that team me.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I regret it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'll tell you what I gonna do here after I
gonna put the money in the bank and keep it
in there in my name. That's what I gonna do.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Uh, according until the furniture coming in. If I don't
pay that note, they gonna close up the taxticab company.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The furniture company gonna close up the tax cab hun
cause you sign the note.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's what the man told me today down at the
furniture company.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, tell me this, why why blah blah blah, Why
can't you write with the parker A husband or letter
and tell him the situation and see if he can't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Lean to pay it his name if she was married
when I find that note.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I know, but you're married now.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I wonder if her husband would pay that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It ain't gonna her to ask you.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I wonder what her husband would think that he got
a bill for something that she bought before they was married.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Don't you worry?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Plenty mans gets married and after they is married they
find out that the wave boards a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Don't you worry about that?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I believe I'll write him a letter what his name?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And his name is John Watkins in it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
John Watkins, and he lived in detail the King's Les.
You give me his address, I.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Said, I alrite that on business paper.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
But we ain't got nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We ain't got no business much left, no business paper.
Write it on a piece that people there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's good. Now.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I ain't got no ink either.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Wait him with a pencil. He he can read pencil.
You ain't gotta have no ink.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Alright, I'll start out here.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Call him, uh dear sir, ew or deal s u
are sir?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
See he is a businessman like I is.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I gotta let him know that I know something what
you got down there? Now, dear sir, well, why don't
you think eighty minute?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Now, wait a minute. You ain't try to tell me
what to say?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Is you well, what is your figure on being?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well? They done garnish me. I got that in the
letter right here. If they wrote me yeah a R
and I s a double see that.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
She business in there, that's with the ball, all right,
he got you in that net.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I ain't such. She ain't.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I ain't there you bad, she ain't neither.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Anytime that you get this garnishe business in there? It's
always a woman's fault. That's why they got he in it.
If it was a man's fault, they would call a
garnish him.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Trouble is, though they.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Done gone is done alright, Amus, alright, just let me
write the letter.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's all shut up.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
There, sir there, cir, I know that's down here. The
way I order start out, I order start out. Yeah,
I has got your letter of the twenty first instinct
and beg.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You do something with you, you know that's what all do.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But the trouble is, I ain't got no letter from 'em,
and I can't start out that way.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Well, down start out another way.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It is if you just keep that big mouth of
your shut. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, yea, sir. I
start out say, uh, here's what I do. I'll say,
your wife bought some furniture.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, yeah, that that not now now you coming down?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Good, down, good, well, let me get that down there
now you old wife, put that down.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Put that down, the old.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
He bought s U m some uh how you sell.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Furniture au furniture, that's uh. If you they've gotta p
in it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think Wait a minute, wait a minute, now, if.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You if you furniture, wait a minute now, if uh.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It look like I'm gonna have to draw a picture
of a chair down here.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Then he go on things that that she done bought
some chairs. You gonna have to draw the whole center.
You gonna draw it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Wait a minute, wait a minute. I got him.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
If you and is fun, I t c h ch
Why oh you are your furniture there?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You will? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, that that's it. Yeah, I'm glad you got that.
That's oh well, I.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Know it's fella.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
If I just think, that's all I gotta do is think.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The more I think, the better off for years.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
We'll go on there, right, come over, Wait.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A minuteture, Wait a minute, something wrong?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What was the matter? What? What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well look here, I stay down here.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Your wife, well that's Dray.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What's the matter with that?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, when she bought the furniture, though, she wasn't his wife.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You see, well she she was married though before she
married him, she was a white Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But but when she bought this furniture, she hadn't got
no diavos from her other husbands. She was what we
call uh s strangled from her other husband. She was
huh yeah, that's a dirty trick or strangler, ain't it?
Oh no, no, wait a minute, I mean uh heir
strangled meaning uh a way.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You strangle anybody? They going a wheelway?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Wait a minute. They come to Kingstick. Don't tell him.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Now that he's still bother.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, hello there, Kingsby, Hello there, boys, that was a boy.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I was everything.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well things ain't even toli about Kasish.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm glad you come tell Andy was you were telling me,
William Kingsey?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, Kingfish, tell me some of that stuff that they
mus was talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's why I come by here, brother Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
He must get up off that box. Well he didn't
let the Kingfish sit down there there you in Kingsley
that you is go ahead sit down today.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, boys, I don't know whether this is gonna work
out or not, but I just got a letter from.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
The Grand Supreme King Fish.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He's got charge of all the lodgers.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know. Yeah, there is under his Georish dictionary anything. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
He is talking about me coming down and being the
Kingfish of the New York lause. And in case I recept,
I was thinking that it would be a good idea
for you boys to take your Tactic caab comany right down.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
To New York City.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well I'll come you figure that well, brother, And there
in New York there's millions of people, and the Tactic
caabs are scared.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I bet it ain't n taxicabs in the whole city.
People are standing in the street begging for Tactic cabs
all day and all nights. You can't find none nowhere.
And if you boys would take your taxicab company down
to New York City and open up their first air
taxtic caab company in New York, you could make all
kinds of money.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That all's good doing it.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It ain't bad.
Well according to the Kingstree, So that's what he told me.
Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, of course we want to make money, and if
the tactic care business is better, why we ought to
unresidered the proposition.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Well, we tell the kings, they come. You ought to
be here any minute now, let him see anything till
you like it.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Told me he is in a mess right now.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Boy, with that garner sheet business on the bank.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Account, I'll see we in a myth.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
We didn't put that seven dollars and a half in
the bank yesterday. That's one thing we got. And what
you took in the day, how much is that?
Speaker 1 (00:39):
I took in five dollars and twenty five cents.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Lucky, we ain't got that in the bank.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Yeah, but that just bot pay with princess for the week,
and then we ain't got nothing.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, we ain't lost nothing though. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:54):
Hell, Rubert Taylor coming back here Monday, and I trying
to get ahold all the money I can.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Then you get they didn't just mess and somebody tie
up the money in the bank.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
We didn't have but fourteen dollars in there.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah, but fourteen dollars and fourteen dollars.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I started to get myself a lawyer. But I figured
that by the time I finished listening to him explaining
it to me, I'd be mixed up more than I is.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Now, you ain't have no business signing that note for
the funiture company. But we're the parker in the bus.
Please you know that much.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, they was gonna take a furniture away from us
if I hadn't signed a note.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Yeah, better to let him take a pun of good
than our money in it. He didn't buy the funiture.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well that's why I tell you him. Uh, don't never.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
Get mixed up with no galm.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
You is the one that team me.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I regret it.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I'll tell you what I gonna do here after I
gonna put the money in the bank and keep it
in there in my name. That's what I gonna do.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Uh, according until the furniture coming in. If I don't
pay that note, they gonna close up the taxticab company.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
The furniture company gonna close up the tax cab hun
cause you sign the note.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
That's what the man told me today down at the
furniture company.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Well, tell me this, why why blah blah blah, Why
can't you write with the parker A husband or letter
and tell him the situation and see if he can't.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Lean to pay it his name if she was married
when I find that note.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
I know, but you're married now.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I wonder if her husband would pay that thing.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It ain't gonna her to ask you.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I wonder what her husband would think that he got
a bill for something that she bought before they was married.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Don't you worry?
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Plenty mans gets married and after they is married they
find out that the wave boards a lot of money.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
Don't you worry about that?
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Now?
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I believe I'll write him a letter what his name?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
And his name is John Watkins in it.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
John Watkins, and he lived in detail the King's Les.
You give me his address, I.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Said, I alrite that on business paper.
Speaker 3 (02:53):
But we ain't got nothing.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
We ain't got no business much left, no business paper.
Write it on a piece that people there.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
That's good. Now.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I ain't got no ink either.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
Wait him with a pencil. He he can read pencil.
You ain't gotta have no ink.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Alright, I'll start out here.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Call him, uh dear sir, ew or deal s u
are sir?
Speaker 3 (03:18):
See he is a businessman like I is.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
I gotta let him know that I know something what
you got down there? Now, dear sir, well, why don't
you think eighty minute?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Now, wait a minute. You ain't try to tell me
what to say?
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Is you well, what is your figure on being?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
Well? They done garnish me. I got that in the
letter right here. If they wrote me yeah a R
and I s a double see that.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
She business in there, that's with the ball, all right,
he got you in that net.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I ain't such. She ain't.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
I ain't there you bad, she ain't neither.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Anytime that you get this garnishe business in there? It's
always a woman's fault. That's why they got he in it.
If it was a man's fault, they would call a
garnish him.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Trouble is, though they.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
Done gone is done alright, Amus, alright, just let me
write the letter.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
That's all shut up.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
There, sir there, cir, I know that's down here. The
way I order start out, I order start out. Yeah,
I has got your letter of the twenty first instinct
and beg.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
You do something with you, you know that's what all do.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
But the trouble is, I ain't got no letter from 'em,
and I can't start out that way.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Well, down start out another way.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
That's what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It is if you just keep that big mouth of
your shut. Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, yea, sir. I
start out say, uh, here's what I do. I'll say,
your wife bought some furniture.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Yeah, yeah, that that not now now you coming down?
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Good, down, good, well, let me get that down there
now you old wife, put that down.
Speaker 1 (05:04):
Put that down, the old.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
He bought s U m some uh how you sell.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Furniture au furniture, that's uh. If you they've gotta p
in it.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
I think Wait a minute, wait a minute, now, if.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
You if you furniture, wait a minute now, if uh.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
It look like I'm gonna have to draw a picture
of a chair down here.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Then he go on things that that she done bought
some chairs. You gonna have to draw the whole center.
You gonna draw it.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Wait a minute, wait a minute. I got him.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
If you and is fun, I t c h ch
Why oh you are your furniture there?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You will? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (05:53):
Yeah, that that's it. Yeah, I'm glad you got that.
That's oh well, I.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Know it's fella.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
If I just think, that's all I gotta do is think.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
The more I think, the better off for years.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
We'll go on there, right, come over, Wait.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A minuteture, Wait a minute, something wrong?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
What was the matter? What? What's the matter?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Well look here, I stay down here.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Your wife, well that's Dray.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
What's the matter with that?
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Well, when she bought the furniture, though, she wasn't his wife.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
You see, well she she was married though before she
married him, she was a white Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But but when she bought this furniture, she hadn't got
no diavos from her other husbands. She was what we
call uh s strangled from her other husband. She was
huh yeah, that's a dirty trick or strangler, ain't it?
Oh no, no, wait a minute, I mean uh heir
strangled meaning uh a way.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
You strangle anybody? They going a wheelway?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Wait a minute. They come to Kingstick. Don't tell him.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Now that he's still bother.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, hello there, Kingsby, Hello there, boys, that was a boy.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I was everything.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Well things ain't even toli about Kasish.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I'm glad you come tell Andy was you were telling me,
William Kingsey?
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Yeah, Kingfish, tell me some of that stuff that they
mus was talking about.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's why I come by here, brother Andy.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
He must get up off that box. Well he didn't
let the Kingfish sit down there there you in Kingsley
that you is go ahead sit down today.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Well, boys, I don't know whether this is gonna work
out or not, but I just got a letter from.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
The Grand Supreme King Fish.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
He's got charge of all the lodgers.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
You know. Yeah, there is under his Georish dictionary anything. Yeah. Uh.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
He is talking about me coming down and being the
Kingfish of the New York lause. And in case I recept,
I was thinking that it would be a good idea
for you boys to take your Tactic caab comany right down.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
To New York City.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Well I'll come you figure that well, brother, And there
in New York there's millions of people, and the Tactic
caabs are scared.
Speaker 5 (07:59):
I bet it ain't n taxicabs in the whole city.
People are standing in the street begging for Tactic cabs
all day and all nights. You can't find none nowhere.
And if you boys would take your taxicab company down
to New York City and open up their first air
taxtic caab company in New York, you could make all
kinds of money.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
That all's good doing it.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
It ain't bad.
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