October 1, 2025 • 42 mins
Tasty! Police Officer and Congressional Candidate Brian Stahl shares hilarious stories on where NOT to use the bathroom, candy thieves, and MORE!
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Hosted by retired police officer Steve Rutherford and retired officer Josh Jackson
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Speaker 1 (00:25):
Welcome, Welcome to Offbeat The Light Side of Law Enforcement,
Mardy Treehouse Podcast Network. On today's show, we'll talk about pranks, pursuits,
rookie traffic stops, and who knows what else.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You never know, Yeah, you never know what.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're going to get into. Steve here, co host for
today Josh Jackson, and we're joining with one guest. Today.
We've got Officer Brian Stall.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How's it going going well?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I appreciate it absolutely, man, and it's a pleasure to
have you here in the studio with us today. You
kind of hesitated there at the game.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I don't know if you were going to keep talking
or not. I was waiting for more.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We all wonder that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It was. Wow, such a big intro. I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, Wow, pick on Steve Day, isn't it every time
I'm here?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, I've got no argument with you on that one, Josh. Now,
it's because I love you, Okay, that's kind of creepy. Now, Brian,
you're currently an officer I am? And what agency do
you work for?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Fort Worth PD?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
How long you been? How long you've been over for Worth?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So I've been in Fort Worth for a little over
ten years and now I started my career a little
over twenty years ago in Irving though, so I did
a little over ten in Irving and then came to
Fort Worth and I've been there a little over ten
years and now currently assigned to the Weapons Range as
a firearms instructor.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
A full time nice. So that's climate controlled at Fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right it is.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, we are very spoiled, very very spoiled.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That's a good that's a good place to be at
twenty years, you know, you know, twenty places years in
the profession.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
It's yeah, there's definitely worse things to do in law enforcement,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Absolutely. And I will say this. We we've known each
other for quite some time, and that goes back to
something we we kind of have in common. My my
wife Karen, as we've mentioned on the show before, she's
a survivor of a phone Fort Worth officer Dwayne Friedo
into Watch twelve seventeen, two thousand and six. Well, Brian,
(02:27):
you you lost a coworker and you're actually married to
to the co worker's sister. I am, and we are
talking about Andrews Barza, Irving Police Department. Andrews into Watch
April thirteenth, two thousand and seven, Badge number nine sixty six.
(02:49):
May may he rest in peace, but thank you. That's
how we know each other.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That is, yeah, we've we've we've known each other for
a long time. It's been it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm sorry, chat.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think we all think we all kind of met
at the kind of at the same time. I think
we all both names got put on the wall in
DC together, I think, and I think that's kind of
how we met.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
But yeah, Andrew was he was my partner.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We went to the academy together, and we trained on
every ship together.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
When we got cut loose, we worked together.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And I just happened to have enough id on him
to take off and go out of town.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The night he passed away.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So yeah, Zoe and I we met through Andrew and.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Got married shortly after his accident.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And and she's been stuck with you ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
She has she's she's she's amazing. No, she's she's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It's she's definitely my rock and my support going through
all the things that I'm going through, especially right now
and throughout my career. So it's it's been, it's been
a blessing. Man, that's that's awesome. Your your wife's is
incredible and you know what, I even know her parents,
and man, those people are incredible as well. They're fun,
(04:07):
they are fun, they are incredib they're definitely incredible people.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It's a it was it's a fun wild family to
uh marry into, for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And it's been it's been a blasting.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well you look like you're holding up. Well, yes, Oh, Now,
in your twenty plus years in law enforcement, I know
you've seen a couple of things. And you know that
that's what we like to feature here on the shows,
the funny stories because we've all we've all done the job.
We know that there's a lot of funny that happens
out there, and and sometimes we tend to overlook that.
(04:37):
But I understand that you've got a story about prank
on a rookie.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I do.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, So we had a he was a really good,
good officer, you know, he was. He's a go getter,
wanted to to really, you know, get out there and
do a lot of fun and exciting things.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And he he was just one of those rookies. I
was kind of wound tight.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Know that.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, I'm seeing that before. You know, it's a good thing, especially,
you know, compared to nowadays. You see rookies that they're
just waiting to get out of patrol.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They don't want to do anything in patrol.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But this, this officer was a complete opposite, and he
just wanted to run around and chase bad guys.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So we my partner and I at the time.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He was an old salty Vetuh, he used to he
used to give rookies a bunch of crap. And we
went and worked an accident and he started gathering up
a bunch of glass on the highway and he put
it in an evidence bag, and uh, this partner, yes,
and so I'm asking him what he's doing and he
just kind of tells me, you know, you'll see, yeah,
(05:43):
And I had no idea what was going on. So
he calls a sergeant and he calls the shop and uh,
you know, make some phone calls. Well, we find this
rookie parked at a restaurant on a lunch break and
open his car and roll his passenger window down and
sprinkled glass all over the place, and perfect take his
patrol bag and everything out of his car and then
(06:05):
just go park like caddy corner in a business and wait.
And so this rookie comes out and he sees his cars,
you know, broken into there's glass everywhere, and he gets
on the radio and starts screaming, and he's running through
the parking lot and asking people if they saw anything.
And after the fourth different description of a suspect was
put out on the radio, the sergeant who's in on it,
(06:26):
finally says, hey, just take the car down to the shop.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Get another car, like, yeah, just down the car man.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So he drives it down there, and we just happened
to be loosely tailing him while he's driving down there,
and he's distraughted enough not to notice. Oh he doesn't
know anything. Yeah, he thinks he's getting fired for sure,
you know. But the maintenance guy who's in on this,
you know, the rookie pulls up and the maintenance guy
just rolls the passenger window all the way up, and
(06:55):
you know, we had his bag and everything, and he
was not very happy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But it what's he gonna say? It was worth it though,
That is awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And you know, I do have a story about that. Myself.
Very similar story. We had a guy. It was the
day before his retirement. This guy, he really didn't care
about anything. Similar deal went down the city shop. Well
I actually happened to be at the city shop. Looked
in the trash can. There's a munch of broken glass there.
They had just pulled out a windshield and bunch of
broken glass in it. So I asked him if they
(07:25):
had a box I could put it in. So grabbed
it and so that this will come in handy later. Yeah,
and anyways, found this this guy. He was sitting at
his favorite place we like to eat. And anyway, so
called another officer. And at the time our cars were
not all keyed the same, which that's a whole nother story. Yeah,
but anyway, so I called another officer, said, hey, grab
(07:48):
his spare keys for me at the station. Bring him
over to me. And we did that. We rolled down
the driver's side window, sprinkled the glass, took out his MDC,
his laptop, we took out his rifle, we took out
his bag, and we went and we sat up next
parking lot over and watched him. Well, he came out,
looked at it, looked up, looked down, got in his
(08:08):
car started driving off. And that's the difference between the
rookie and the veteran. Yeah, he was just gonna drive
the station. He's like, well, I'm returning, you know, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Keeps that much less I have to check back in. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
he could care less not my stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Veteran. Yeah, veterans were definitely different.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I remember there was a guy who was his last
day in patrol and they sent him to a call
and he got on the radio and he's like, nah today,
you know, right in the middle of his last shift,
and like, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
He said, he can show me how the service that
was it I'm done. Yeah. He's like, you know, I'm
not dealing with that right now.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I'm not going to.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh yeah, well, I mean we all we're all rookies
at some point. Yeah, so so I I wasn't a rookie,
but I h I'll tell him myself. Dave Gilstorp, who
was on the radio or on the podcast, he he
I aim with the shop and uh, I was on
a BMW and motor I'm a motorcycle right, and I
(09:07):
had never been on a motorcycle. And he goes, hey,
don't forget. You got to get the air changed and
the tires. I don't know. I'm only got two wheels.
So I'm like, heck, yeah, I'm gonna go get this
checked out. So he calls BMW fort Worth and mind you,
I've worked in Capello and he calls them. He's like, hey,
Josh's gonna come down there to get winter air, but
(09:28):
tell him it's on his time. I drove all the
way to BMW for were nice, showed up to the
tech and I'm like, I need the winter air. Exchanges like,
oh yeah, you got to get that done, all the
way to BMW four.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's wrong. It was the tech in on it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh he was in on it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, he didn't change it out, but it went. It
went pretty food far enough. Oh yeah absolutely, and build
me for it. Yeah personally.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, let's just say what it costs you to get
that cold air.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It was BMW, so it's gonna be a lot. Yeah,
certified air, yeah, certified BMW German air.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That costs more to bring that over Germany.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It has to.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
It would have been so much better if you they
would have done it and then build you like a
dollar seventeen cents or something, because you would have just
paid it. You'd have been like, well like, okay, I'll
just pay this, like it sounds reasonable. Yeah whatever, Yeah,
they yeah, Dave, Dave.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Dave could say it in such a stoic way that
it just seemed like it was legit. Right, So I
was like, Okay, that seems legit, and I asked around.
The guys are like, but you know, you don't realize
that until afterwards.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, and you bring up Dave day. Dave, isn't he
running for a uh?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He is running for Hill County commissioner. So he's running
for a Hill County commissional County commissioner.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And I bring that up because Brian, you two are
also running for positions.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I am, I am.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I'm running for United States Congress currently down in Congressional
District six outstanding.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And what what is uh this six compromise?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So the new map, if if that holds up, it's
gonna be all of Navarro County, all of Ellis County,
and then a portion about thirty percent of Johnson County,
and then fifteen or twenty percent of Teant and actually
twenty percent of Dallas fifteen to twenty percent of Dallas. Yeah,
so it's it's a kind of a it's a big map,
(11:22):
but it's kind of it's kind of shaped weird. It
starts down low and kind of bends through the metroplex.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We have all of all but.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Most of Arlington, Grand Prairie, Irving, a little bit of
Fort Worth, a little bit of burlesson Cleeburne, Grand View,
and then further south into Ellis in Navarro County.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So wait, I've gotta I gotta ask you this. Twenty
plus years in law enforcement and you you're now running
for Congress. I am golly, Josh, what are you doing
in retirement?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, I thought I was doing a lot till somebody's
running for congress.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, it was really awesome.
It's it's been fun. It's been it's definitely been fun.
It's it's go, go, go, all day every day. It's
it's been a lot of fun. Very excited about it.
We're getting a lot of momentum, a lot of support.
We have a lot of events coming up, fundraising events
(12:20):
we'll talk about later. Said, yeah, I know, it's it's
something that you know, Uh, at first, when I got
into politics a year and a half ago at the
city level. I was kind of like, oh, you know,
I don't know if if that's the thing, But then
I fell in love with it. And it's a completely
different way of serving people. And I think being in
law enforcement really plays into serving the people and understanding
(12:42):
how to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, and that's that's exactly where I was going to
go with my next question. You know, what what made
you want to run?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, so I became a city council member and about
a year and a half ago became mayor pro tem.
And you know, like I said, first, I was asked
to kind of try that out, and you know, usually
cops don't really want to deal with politics, right, and
so so I gave it a go, and then I
(13:12):
realized how much I loved it and how much you know,
they kind of parallel each other honestly, you know, serving
serving a community in a different way, but you're still serving.
And in order to do that effectively, you have to
be available for people and listen to people and and
and solve problems. And I think that we're missing that
significantly with the current person that's holding the seat so
(13:35):
you know, I started looking at after I was in
city council and did that for a little bit. I
started looking at other issues within our district and and
the elected officials and and really started to dive into
that and do some research, and and you know, I thought,
I can do I can do this, and I can
do this better, and I know how to serve people
(13:56):
and a significantly better in different way than how they're
being so right now.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So it's kind of a calling.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, absolutely, just like law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It is calling. So do congressmen, if you're gonna be
a rookie in the Congress, do they do pranks on
each other?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You probably probably probably ready?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, yeah I will, God willing, I'm gonna be a
rookie again.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah all right, I'm gonna ask for a commitment then
right now, Okay, if elected to Congress, any pranks, you encounter,
any pranks, then I'm gonna request that you come back
on the show and share.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Those guaranteed outstanding we.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You can you can telephone them in too. Yeah, like
if he's important stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I will come. I will come to you when I'm home,
I will come. I will come back out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Here, and I will your stories now joining us from
the Halls of Congress represented Brian.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Stall that even uh that even like Trump's a firefighter, right,
maybe depends everybody loves fireman. Everybody loves everybody loves the fireman.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, no, it's good to be a fireman.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Getting back to some of the stories, Brian, you you
were talking about your first traffic stop.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Did you ever conducted?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I was telling you about that earlier.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Let's share it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, it was, you know, it's one of those stories
I think nowadays people would be fired over it, unfortunately,
you know, but it was a great learning lesson. So
I met my very first traffic stop ever on day
one out of the academy. It was like four hours
into the shift, and I pulled this this girl over
for running a stop sign. And I go up to
the car and I don't get any of the right information,
(15:35):
like none, like it's your first one.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's my first one, you know. And so I go
back to the car.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
My training officers like, you know, did you ask her this, this, this, this,
and this? And I was like, well no, and he's like, well,
go back up there and ask her, you know. So
I go up there and right when I get to
the car, I hear sirens in the distance, and so
now I'm getting like flustered because I I'm trying to
remember what to ask, but I really want to know
what going on, because like they're sirens, and I don't
(16:02):
want to miss it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's my first day.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
There's got to be something really cool happening, right, So
I'm trying to ask her questions, and the sirens are
getting louder. So I'm trying to ride as fast as
I can. And you know, I probably asked you the
same question four times. I don't remember. But this card
running code comes around the corner down the street, and
now I'm confused, like I have no idea what's going on. Well,
(16:25):
he stops behind me and gets out, walks in front
of his car and slaps the back of my head
and says, turn your f and radio on, Rookie, and
gets back in his car and drives off. And I
look back at my training officer and he's crying, laughing.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, yeah, you can't can't do that anymore.
Speaker 5 (16:42):
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(18:00):
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(18:34):
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(19:02):
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Speaker 1 (20:26):
Josh, you you really liked that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I love the lights, which I know they are cool. Yeah,
they are cool, you know that's what I did on motorcycles.
That's what I did.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Remember it looked like that though on your bike, No,
they didn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And in the Harley lights first, the BMW lights and
the Honda, I'm totally different. Yeah. So it's just like
the writing.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So you miss, you miss having a toggle switch to
flip on your line.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I miss everything about motors, but not enough to go
back to law Everything about motors, but not enough to
go back.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
We guys, welcome back, Welcome back to Offbeat, the Light
side of Law Enforcement. Steve here, I'm joined with Josh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I'm Josh, Steve. You're getting confused in your retirement age.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You can make a name of it for me too
if you want.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, and we're joined with one guest in studio. We've
got Bob.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That are we victims of something. We're victims of this show.
Help help, we're trapped joining knows in the studio. Today,
we've got officer Brian Stall. Welcome Brian, thank you, thank you,
And we probably should get onto our segment.
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(22:03):
I think Curtis has some competition.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
There is Curtis do that too? He does. He does
not as good, not as good now, not even close.
He's like an elementary kitch versus my, like varsity level. Okay,
so you can tell him that I will. I will,
he will.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
He will probably watch the show and text me and
say way better.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Now he can sing better than me. He can definitely sing. Man,
that guy's got sing.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Wa wait wait wait, I think that's up to interpretation.
Who sings better? So, Josh, you've heard Curtis sing. But
go ahead, Josh, I don't want.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
To break any type of tool instrument that you have
in here, and and I'm pretty sure that s CC
would shut us down.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh dang it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Nice try though, Yeah it was a valid effort. Can
you get Curtis to sing on here or not?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah? Okay, you can't get him to stop singing.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I wrote around in the car with him for about
a year, so okay, he can sing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He absolutely can now he did tell a story about
a partner passing gas and uh, that you that was
not me. It was pretty epic if I remember.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Dang, you took that only back to like episode one.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You know that's what I do, steel trap, steal trap,
Steve still trap. I don't mess up names.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I can probably guess who he's talking about, because I'm
pretty sure I know. But it wasn't me, Okay, I
bet I would probably guess right.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And that was referencing back to Curtis in a squad
car with his partner passing gas and I think he
said he was singing the national anthem or something.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It was something I can't remember. Go back to season one. Yeah,
and we also get to see Steve pose with blue
bonnet butter.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, we need we need to move on. These poor
listeners don't need to be that. I do want to
mention we got a couple of patches in We've got
one from Calgary Police Service and the other one from
the Warren County, Mississippi Sheriff's office. So both these were
actually given to us by wise county deputy who had these.
(23:58):
Deputy I believe is his name, So yes, thank you, sir,
we appreciate it. We'll get those hung up on the wall.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I love the story of love to know the story
of how you got Calgary.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, well was was Calgary? The the motor guys from
Canada that came down. Did you guys in Louisiana really
from Calgary?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I don't know where they were from. I can't remember, okay,
and I probably wouldn't say it right if I. For
some reason, I think they were northeast. I don't know
part of Canada, but I can't remember. I mean, that's all.
I mean. They wore their pretty ready uniforms and that
was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Wow, why are they ride in their motorcycles?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Okay, no, they looked like us, So all right, it's
pretty boring.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Now and again, and not to get too far off track,
going back to one of our first episodes, you'd mentioned
going down there for the motor rodeo in Louisiana, and
you mentioned that you guys went out to an alligator far.
We did, and we already know that you handled an
alligator on a call.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I did. I did, And then we we had some
lemonade that we were drinking.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Okay, wait a minute, we were talking alligators and you
just went off to the lemonade.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm trying to make it sound like we're drinking beer.
And we went down on these peninsulas and I was
trying to trying to be nice and you know, like
professional and all that, like little peninsulas and there's a
guy with a stick and he said it's it's it's
kind of like Super Mario Brothers. If you turn your
back on the alligator, he'll come after you. And he
has the stick and he just like poked this, poked the alligator.
(25:32):
Because that doesn't piss it off, right, I mean, like
I said, we're drinking a little bit. We'd had some
good Cajun food, and uh, we were all getting a
chance to pull and that it looks weird. We were
all like pulling on the tail and you know, all
pulling on the tail and trying to lift it and everything,
and it was man, those things are stout. Yeah, but
(25:54):
uh yeah, that was nice.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And I brought that up just because you mentioned the
guys from Canada and you told us that they came
down to the motor rodeo with you guys. What did
the guys from Canada think about the alligators.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know, I don't think they were at that one.
I think because so the alligator farm got shut down
because every time would flood down to that area, the
alligators would get out. Well, they had a lot of
really nice homes in that area, so the people of
the really nice homes didn't love the alligators.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
God go imagine that.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, no, thanks, I don't want to find an alligator
in my house after a heavy rain.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And and uh, you know there's a picture of Mark
Lemon's who's been a guest on the show Wrestling and
Alligator too. I think I think I sent that to you. Really. Yeah,
we'll have to we'll have to get that back on. Yes,
he looks a little bit younger then.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
To be continued on that. Yes, okay, moving right along now, Brian,
I understand you've got a story about a vehicle pursuit.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I do you know what it's.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
It's a funny story, but I was never actually involved.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Those are the best.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, so no, meet undo their officer.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
We were at the station working on an arrest report
or something, and we were up in the report writing
room and you know, we hear the radio that Dallas
is in pursuit approaching our city.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
A couple of minutes later, there's a little bit of
chatter about the pursuit, I mean nothing like they weren't
really requesting assistants or anything. And so this officer gets
up and and you know, he pushes away from the
computer and he he disappears, and I figured he was
going to the bathroom or whatever, you know, And about
(27:37):
ten minutes later he comes back and sits back down
and just.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Like starts typing and like, yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Didn't think anything of it, you know, And come to
find out, what he did was is he went downstairs,
got in his car, and drove up to the freeway,
and when the pursuit was approaching, he threw his spikes
across the freeway and then left them and spiked two
or three DPD.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Cars and like four or five civilian cars. But then
he just left.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
He just went back to his police car, drove back
to the station and sat down and started typing. And
and it didn't take long for people to find out,
like where in the heck did these spikes.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Randomly appear from?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
And wonder not it?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, so it was it was It was a funny story,
you know, they were asking on the radio for a while,
like who threw these spikes?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And he just never know.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He's trying to concentrate on his reports.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
He's just up there writing a report like, Oh, I
wonder who spiked those people?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
That's that's weird, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
The only thing better would have been you know, hey, man,
can I see your keys? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
If you want used mine? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So, so was that before or after GPS or like
before GPS and all the cars.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Oh, it was way before GPS. Yeah, yeah, it was.
It was definitely before GPS. I don't even think all
of our cars had cameras at that point.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Even better, Yeah, honestly, I know, well ours did because
we were both training on so we had cameras.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But is that back in the day where you had
the vhs and they actually had the on off switch
for whether or not it would come on with the
lights or you could.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, manually crazy. It was the good old days, good
old days, not anymore now. An officer, and it like
clicks on your camera and every time many.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Everything turns your camera on. And I know I've mentioned
it before when the last half of my career I
was actually in the station or I had an office
in the station. I was never there, but there's a
bathroom right across the hall from from my office, and
that seemed to be the preferential facilities to use. Yeah,
(29:43):
wonderful location. But they upgraded all their body cameras where
we had all the sensors on your holsters. So if
you can holster, it turns on your camera. So these
guys would all go in there and go to the bathroom,
and I would see someone go inside the bathroom. I'd
be sitting there and I'd have my gun belt next
to me on the floor. I just you know, just
like slack to go down the holster, put it back
real quick, because if mine triggers, then.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's gonna around there. So yeah, and if the videos
less than two minutes, it has to be reviewed.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's it's amazing how many of those videos are out there.
You know, like if somebody's going like let's meet up
at QT or wherever, and they're in there, you know,
going to the bathroom real quick, and their buddy shows
up and opens the driver's side door and activates their camera.
You know, it's that I can't imagine how many thousands
of those videos have to exist.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
There was There was one of the officers I won't
say his name, and my my past agency, and he's
he's code brown right. Everybody know, everybody's warned. A duty
belt knows code brown, right. And so he's finds a
church and there's people in the church, and so he's
running into the church. That's not right. He's working nights,
and so that he was, he was running into the church.
(30:52):
He just had to get somewhere, and somebody tries to
talk to him. He's he didn't realize his video was
on and so all this I didn't see the video,
but I was. It was told many times. But then
he sat down finally and then there was like no
toilet paper, and he's like trying to get just little
bits of pilet paper, a little bits and toilet and
(31:13):
you know, the evidence is there. Yeah, that was not
brought up at his retirement though, Oh I'm sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A funny story about that.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Actually, there was a big house up in the northern
part of the city and there was an alarm call there,
huge house, and two of the officers get there and
and I found out about this like shortly after it
happened because it happened, right, and one offs like, hey,
I need to the bathroom real bad, like, and you
just watch out the bay window and if they show up,
(31:43):
holler at me. So the officers watching out the bay
window where there's a back driveway that they didn't know about.
And so the officer watching out the window gets, you know,
a tap on the shoulder from the homeowner.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He's like, hey, you know, and it scares him.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah, buddy comes and downstairs and he starts apologizing like, man,
I'm sir, I'm really sorry I had to go to
the bathroom. He's like, I hope you didn't use the
one on the left, and he's like I did and
I'm really sorry. And he's like, well that bathroom hasn't
worked in like six months. So they just packed their
stuff and kind of the home owner was really cool.
He was like, I'll take care of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Just get out of my house.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Please just go. Yeah. So it didn't. It didn't ask
for like criminal charges.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
No, but we didn't let him live it down. That's
why would you. Yeah, that's classy. Yeah, So y'all.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Didn't let him live it down. And then toilet didn't
let even flush it down.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No, that's awesome. Yeah, now it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Just go get out of my house.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, please.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Right, And again we mentioned in the first segment that
you are running for Congress, and I understand you've got
several fundraising events coming up. There's one in particular you
had mentioned there was a shoot it is.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah, So next weekend on October fourth, out of Etts
from four to nine and walks Ahatchie Ett Gun Range,
we're gonna have a bunch of auction items out there,
and we have three different pistol shooting events. It's kind
of a you know, we're going to provide everything so
you don't need to bring gun belts or guns or
(33:13):
ammo or or nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So we're gonna have three different pistol shooting events.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
We're gonna have some Scott shotguns, skeet shooting, probably have
seven or eight full auto weapons out there.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Let people shoot some belt feds and machine guns.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
And then we're gonna have a night vision shoots where
we have quad tubes coming out on helmets and guys
are you get to shoot targets out to like two
hundred yards using lasers and pecks And so it's.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
We're gonna have live music and food trucks and we
have a bunch of, like I said, a bunch of
good auction items that we're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So and what dave is that again?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
October fourth at Etts.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Okay, how can somebody get some more information about this
their website or something.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So we have an event for that actual event.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
We have a website at stall for t X just
tx dot com and that has it's we're updating it
daily with all the different items we're getting donated to us.
And you know, we have crime stoppers are going to
come out there and they want to be a part
of it. And sons of Liberty Gun Works they are
(34:17):
thinking about setting up out there. So you know, it's
open to everybody. It's free to attend. The shooting events
are kind of a pay to play thing. If you
want to do something and you can want to you know,
experience that, then you can buy that package or that
experience and nice.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, but they want everybody out there to come hang out.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Hey, I'm all about the belt fed gun. Yeah, that's
a lot better than a magazine fedgun.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It this is offbeat, the light side of law. Enforcement.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
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(35:08):
in studio today. We've got Officer Brian Stall.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hey.
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Now, if you've not checked out the website, check it out.
It's Offbeat Cop Show. Jack out.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Curtis has he's got some competitions competition I think, yeah,
so yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
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Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh sorry dot com.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Oh, Curtis, Curtis just took the lead.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It also, guys, check us out on Facebook and Instagram.
If you are watching the show on YouTube, give us
a like and go ahead and click that subscribe button. Now, Brian,
I understand you've got a story that's well kind of sweet.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
It is.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yeah, involves my dad and footchases and candy and yeah,
so we get we get sent to a call of
a couple of people breaking into a concession stand at
a at a high school stadium. And I go around
the backside of the stadium and and see a car
match in the description and and they're loading their trunk
up and I only see one person, so I put
(37:14):
the car in park and get out and footchases on. Well,
there's another passenger in the car that happens to get
out too, and my dad happened to step out at
the time.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So your dad's with you. He's riding along with me, Oya.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
So he gets out and he just lights a cigarette
and and the other guy gets out of the car,
and I'm chasing the driver and we end up catching
him across the parking lot through the field, and you know,
there's a bunch of bunch of units coming to us.
And they finally get to me, and I tell one
of the officers to go back to the car to
get the bag that they're throwing in the in.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
The suspects vehicles. See what they've got.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, So you know, this officer grabs this big trash
bag full of candy.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
That's what they took, and.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. That's there.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Yeah, So sheer seeds to bring it to us, but
she drags the bag across the parking lot and when
she gets to us, she lifts this empty bag up
and there's a trail of candy back to the car.
And then one of them asked me, well, where's the
other guy at?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
And I'm like, oh crap.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So I run back to my car and the second
guy is proned out on the sidewalk, hasn't moved, and
my dad's like three cigarettes deep and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Why didn't you run? And he's like, because that guy right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
I was like, you know it's my dad, right, and
he was like, oh, like this just look of you know,
disgust on this kid's face. He's like, I could have
easily gotten away here. And I have no idea to
this day what my dad told this guy. I don't
know what he said. I don't know what he I
have no idea. I mean, he gave that dad look,
he gave that disuburbing dad look.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, and the cigarette was like old school detective. So
the guy's like, yeah, everybody's heard those stories.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
That kid's like, this guy's been around for seventy five years.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm not gonna I'm not going to get asked coc today,
not over a watch McCall it.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Oh maybe he just you know, hey, he jumped out.
He's got the senior authority going on. Yeah, and kids
like you know what, I'm gonna lay down, Well, what
type of cigarette filtered or not filtered.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
No marble or reds like full full strength?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, he knew, he knew not to mess with.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah. I think so probably, I mean maybe if it
had have been like a Virginia slim, the kid would
have ran or something, probably like all those little cigars
that all the kids smoke noways whatever those things are called.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yeah, it is now a good.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Time for us to share that. Okay, kids, uh, do
not smoke. Smoking is bad for you. I wasn't sure
where you were going with that. Yeah, we you know,
very educational show.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
We always as you were telling this story, I couldn't
help but think they were just getting ready for a
trunk or treat because it is almost October.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And so they were putting the trees in the trunk.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, it's a trunk or treat they were. They were
probably going to a church, probably the community.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeaheah, absolutely right, you're just missing We just happened to
totally misunderstood.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
All right, guys, this brings us to the end of
the show. Brian, I do want to mentioned again to you.
You are currently running for Congress. Where can people where
can people find out information on you? You have a website?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
We do, yes. Our campaign website is Stall for Texas.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
That's all spelled out S T S T A h
L You for Texas t e X A S dot
com and that has a lot of our issues and
our endorsements and where you can go to donate to
the campaign, a lot more information about myself and our
stance on things and how we differ from our opponent.
(40:40):
And then the event website is Stall for t X
just t X though, and that will bring you to
the our fundraising website and things that we have going on,
and you know, pertending to that with a list of
the auction items and it's gonna be a good time.
We got a lot of guns, suppressors, thermal optics, regular optics,
custom knives, stuff from Safari Land and five eleven and
(41:01):
Neotech and Sons of Liberty and Daniel Defense and Block
and so it's miss any geez.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
You know, I can't help but think probably other congressmen
don't have that type of fundraiser and other parts of
the country.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
He had me at belt fed. Yeah, there is gonna
be some of that out there. No, we're really excited
about it. It's again, it's opened everybody. We want everybody
to come out. So it would be great to have
you know, a thousand people there would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well and again if elected then yeah, from the halls
of Congress, joining us today's.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Show find out what the pranks are in Congress.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Ryan, it's been pleasure having you on that show.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Today fun Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Until next time, keep it real, keep it funny, stay safe,
and watch each other.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
Six e
Welcome, Welcome to Offbeat The Light Side of Law Enforcement,
Mardy Treehouse Podcast Network. On today's show, we'll talk about pranks, pursuits,
rookie traffic stops, and who knows what else.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You never know, Yeah, you never know what.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
We're going to get into. Steve here, co host for
today Josh Jackson, and we're joining with one guest. Today.
We've got Officer Brian Stall.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
How's it going going well?
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Sir?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
I appreciate it absolutely, man, and it's a pleasure to
have you here in the studio with us today. You
kind of hesitated there at the game.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I don't know if you were going to keep talking
or not. I was waiting for more.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We all wonder that.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
It was. Wow, such a big intro. I like it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Yeah, Wow, pick on Steve Day, isn't it every time
I'm here?
Speaker 1 (01:18):
Yeah, I've got no argument with you on that one, Josh. Now,
it's because I love you, Okay, that's kind of creepy. Now, Brian,
you're currently an officer I am? And what agency do
you work for?
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Fort Worth PD?
Speaker 1 (01:31):
How long you been? How long you've been over for Worth?
Speaker 4 (01:33):
So I've been in Fort Worth for a little over
ten years and now I started my career a little
over twenty years ago in Irving though, so I did
a little over ten in Irving and then came to
Fort Worth and I've been there a little over ten
years and now currently assigned to the Weapons Range as
a firearms instructor.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
A full time nice. So that's climate controlled at Fort Worth.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right it is.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, we are very spoiled, very very spoiled.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
That's a good that's a good place to be at
twenty years, you know, you know, twenty places years in
the profession.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
It's yeah, there's definitely worse things to do in law enforcement,
that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Absolutely. And I will say this. We we've known each
other for quite some time, and that goes back to
something we we kind of have in common. My my
wife Karen, as we've mentioned on the show before, she's
a survivor of a phone Fort Worth officer Dwayne Friedo
into Watch twelve seventeen, two thousand and six. Well, Brian,
(02:27):
you you lost a coworker and you're actually married to
to the co worker's sister. I am, and we are
talking about Andrews Barza, Irving Police Department. Andrews into Watch
April thirteenth, two thousand and seven, Badge number nine sixty six.
(02:49):
May may he rest in peace, but thank you. That's
how we know each other.
Speaker 4 (02:52):
That is, yeah, we've we've we've known each other for
a long time. It's been it's been a while.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I'm sorry, chat.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I think we all think we all kind of met
at the kind of at the same time. I think
we all both names got put on the wall in
DC together, I think, and I think that's kind of
how we met.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
But yeah, Andrew was he was my partner.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
We went to the academy together, and we trained on
every ship together.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
When we got cut loose, we worked together.
Speaker 4 (03:19):
And I just happened to have enough id on him
to take off and go out of town.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
The night he passed away.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
So yeah, Zoe and I we met through Andrew and.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Got married shortly after his accident.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
And and she's been stuck with you ever since.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
She has she's she's she's amazing. No, she's she's amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
It's she's definitely my rock and my support going through
all the things that I'm going through, especially right now
and throughout my career. So it's it's been, it's been
a blessing. Man, that's that's awesome. Your your wife's is
incredible and you know what, I even know her parents,
and man, those people are incredible as well. They're fun,
(04:07):
they are fun, they are incredib they're definitely incredible people.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But it's a lot of fun.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
It's a it was it's a fun wild family to
uh marry into, for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And it's been it's been a blasting.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Well you look like you're holding up. Well, yes, Oh, Now,
in your twenty plus years in law enforcement, I know
you've seen a couple of things. And you know that
that's what we like to feature here on the shows,
the funny stories because we've all we've all done the job.
We know that there's a lot of funny that happens
out there, and and sometimes we tend to overlook that.
(04:37):
But I understand that you've got a story about prank
on a rookie.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
I do.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, So we had a he was a really good,
good officer, you know, he was. He's a go getter,
wanted to to really, you know, get out there and
do a lot of fun and exciting things.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And he he was just one of those rookies. I
was kind of wound tight.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Know that.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
Yeah, I'm seeing that before. You know, it's a good thing, especially,
you know, compared to nowadays. You see rookies that they're
just waiting to get out of patrol.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
They don't want to do anything in patrol.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
But this, this officer was a complete opposite, and he
just wanted to run around and chase bad guys.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
So we my partner and I at the time.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
He was an old salty Vetuh, he used to he
used to give rookies a bunch of crap. And we
went and worked an accident and he started gathering up
a bunch of glass on the highway and he put
it in an evidence bag, and uh, this partner, yes,
and so I'm asking him what he's doing and he
just kind of tells me, you know, you'll see, yeah,
(05:43):
And I had no idea what was going on. So
he calls a sergeant and he calls the shop and uh,
you know, make some phone calls. Well, we find this
rookie parked at a restaurant on a lunch break and
open his car and roll his passenger window down and
sprinkled glass all over the place, and perfect take his
patrol bag and everything out of his car and then
(06:05):
just go park like caddy corner in a business and wait.
And so this rookie comes out and he sees his cars,
you know, broken into there's glass everywhere, and he gets
on the radio and starts screaming, and he's running through
the parking lot and asking people if they saw anything.
And after the fourth different description of a suspect was
put out on the radio, the sergeant who's in on it,
(06:26):
finally says, hey, just take the car down to the shop.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Get another car, like, yeah, just down the car man.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So he drives it down there, and we just happened
to be loosely tailing him while he's driving down there,
and he's distraughted enough not to notice. Oh he doesn't
know anything. Yeah, he thinks he's getting fired for sure,
you know. But the maintenance guy who's in on this,
you know, the rookie pulls up and the maintenance guy
just rolls the passenger window all the way up, and
(06:55):
you know, we had his bag and everything, and he
was not very happy.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
But it what's he gonna say? It was worth it though,
That is awesome.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
And you know, I do have a story about that. Myself.
Very similar story. We had a guy. It was the
day before his retirement. This guy, he really didn't care
about anything. Similar deal went down the city shop. Well
I actually happened to be at the city shop. Looked
in the trash can. There's a munch of broken glass there.
They had just pulled out a windshield and bunch of
broken glass in it. So I asked him if they
(07:25):
had a box I could put it in. So grabbed
it and so that this will come in handy later. Yeah,
and anyways, found this this guy. He was sitting at
his favorite place we like to eat. And anyway, so
called another officer. And at the time our cars were
not all keyed the same, which that's a whole nother story. Yeah,
but anyway, so I called another officer, said, hey, grab
(07:48):
his spare keys for me at the station. Bring him
over to me. And we did that. We rolled down
the driver's side window, sprinkled the glass, took out his MDC,
his laptop, we took out his rifle, we took out
his bag, and we went and we sat up next
parking lot over and watched him. Well, he came out,
looked at it, looked up, looked down, got in his
(08:08):
car started driving off. And that's the difference between the
rookie and the veteran. Yeah, he was just gonna drive
the station. He's like, well, I'm returning, you know, I'm leaving.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Keeps that much less I have to check back in. Yeah, exactly. Yeah,
he could care less not my stuff, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Veteran. Yeah, veterans were definitely different.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
I remember there was a guy who was his last
day in patrol and they sent him to a call
and he got on the radio and he's like, nah today,
you know, right in the middle of his last shift,
and like, what do you mean?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
He said, he can show me how the service that
was it I'm done. Yeah. He's like, you know, I'm
not dealing with that right now.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
I'm not going to.
Speaker 2 (08:46):
Oh yeah, well, I mean we all we're all rookies
at some point. Yeah, so so I I wasn't a rookie,
but I h I'll tell him myself. Dave Gilstorp, who
was on the radio or on the podcast, he he
I aim with the shop and uh, I was on
a BMW and motor I'm a motorcycle right, and I
(09:07):
had never been on a motorcycle. And he goes, hey,
don't forget. You got to get the air changed and
the tires. I don't know. I'm only got two wheels.
So I'm like, heck, yeah, I'm gonna go get this
checked out. So he calls BMW fort Worth and mind you,
I've worked in Capello and he calls them. He's like, hey,
Josh's gonna come down there to get winter air, but
(09:28):
tell him it's on his time. I drove all the
way to BMW for were nice, showed up to the
tech and I'm like, I need the winter air. Exchanges like,
oh yeah, you got to get that done, all the
way to BMW four.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
That's wrong. It was the tech in on it.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh he was in on it.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yeah, he didn't change it out, but it went. It
went pretty food far enough. Oh yeah absolutely, and build
me for it. Yeah personally.
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Yeah, let's just say what it costs you to get
that cold air.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It was BMW, so it's gonna be a lot. Yeah,
certified air, yeah, certified BMW German air.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
That costs more to bring that over Germany.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It has to.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
It would have been so much better if you they
would have done it and then build you like a
dollar seventeen cents or something, because you would have just
paid it. You'd have been like, well like, okay, I'll
just pay this, like it sounds reasonable. Yeah whatever, Yeah,
they yeah, Dave, Dave.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Dave could say it in such a stoic way that
it just seemed like it was legit. Right, So I
was like, Okay, that seems legit, and I asked around.
The guys are like, but you know, you don't realize
that until afterwards.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Well, and you bring up Dave day. Dave, isn't he
running for a uh?
Speaker 2 (10:40):
He is running for Hill County commissioner. So he's running
for a Hill County commissional County commissioner.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And I bring that up because Brian, you two are
also running for positions.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
I am, I am.
Speaker 4 (10:53):
I'm running for United States Congress currently down in Congressional
District six outstanding.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
And what what is uh this six compromise?
Speaker 4 (11:01):
So the new map, if if that holds up, it's
gonna be all of Navarro County, all of Ellis County,
and then a portion about thirty percent of Johnson County,
and then fifteen or twenty percent of Teant and actually
twenty percent of Dallas fifteen to twenty percent of Dallas. Yeah,
so it's it's a kind of a it's a big map,
(11:22):
but it's kind of it's kind of shaped weird. It
starts down low and kind of bends through the metroplex.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
We have all of all but.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
Most of Arlington, Grand Prairie, Irving, a little bit of
Fort Worth, a little bit of burlesson Cleeburne, Grand View,
and then further south into Ellis in Navarro County.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
So wait, I've gotta I gotta ask you this. Twenty
plus years in law enforcement and you you're now running
for Congress. I am golly, Josh, what are you doing
in retirement?
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Well, I thought I was doing a lot till somebody's
running for congress.
Speaker 4 (11:58):
Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty awesome. Yeah, it was really awesome.
It's it's been fun. It's been it's definitely been fun.
It's it's go, go, go, all day every day. It's
it's been a lot of fun. Very excited about it.
We're getting a lot of momentum, a lot of support.
We have a lot of events coming up, fundraising events
(12:20):
we'll talk about later. Said, yeah, I know, it's it's
something that you know, Uh, at first, when I got
into politics a year and a half ago at the
city level. I was kind of like, oh, you know,
I don't know if if that's the thing, But then
I fell in love with it. And it's a completely
different way of serving people. And I think being in
law enforcement really plays into serving the people and understanding
(12:42):
how to do that.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Well, and that's that's exactly where I was going to
go with my next question. You know, what what made
you want to run?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Yeah, so I became a city council member and about
a year and a half ago became mayor pro tem.
And you know, like I said, first, I was asked
to kind of try that out, and you know, usually
cops don't really want to deal with politics, right, and
so so I gave it a go, and then I
(13:12):
realized how much I loved it and how much you know,
they kind of parallel each other honestly, you know, serving
serving a community in a different way, but you're still serving.
And in order to do that effectively, you have to
be available for people and listen to people and and
and solve problems. And I think that we're missing that
significantly with the current person that's holding the seat so
(13:35):
you know, I started looking at after I was in
city council and did that for a little bit. I
started looking at other issues within our district and and
the elected officials and and really started to dive into
that and do some research, and and you know, I thought,
I can do I can do this, and I can
do this better, and I know how to serve people
(13:56):
and a significantly better in different way than how they're
being so right now.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
So it's kind of a calling.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Yeah, absolutely, just like law enforcement.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
It is calling. So do congressmen, if you're gonna be
a rookie in the Congress, do they do pranks on
each other?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
You probably probably probably ready?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Yeah, yeah I will, God willing, I'm gonna be a
rookie again.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Yeah all right, I'm gonna ask for a commitment then
right now, Okay, if elected to Congress, any pranks, you encounter,
any pranks, then I'm gonna request that you come back
on the show and share.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Those guaranteed outstanding we.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
You can you can telephone them in too. Yeah, like
if he's important stuff.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
I will come. I will come to you when I'm home,
I will come. I will come back out.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Here, and I will your stories now joining us from
the Halls of Congress represented Brian.
Speaker 4 (14:47):
Stall that even uh that even like Trump's a firefighter, right,
maybe depends everybody loves fireman. Everybody loves everybody loves the fireman.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Yeah, no, it's good to be a fireman.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Getting back to some of the stories, Brian, you you
were talking about your first traffic stop.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
Did you ever conducted?
Speaker 3 (15:09):
I was telling you about that earlier.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
Let's share it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Yeah, it was, you know, it's one of those stories
I think nowadays people would be fired over it, unfortunately,
you know, but it was a great learning lesson. So
I met my very first traffic stop ever on day
one out of the academy. It was like four hours
into the shift, and I pulled this this girl over
for running a stop sign. And I go up to
the car and I don't get any of the right information,
(15:35):
like none, like it's your first one.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
It's my first one, you know. And so I go
back to the car.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
My training officers like, you know, did you ask her this, this, this, this,
and this? And I was like, well no, and he's like, well,
go back up there and ask her, you know. So
I go up there and right when I get to
the car, I hear sirens in the distance, and so
now I'm getting like flustered because I I'm trying to
remember what to ask, but I really want to know
what going on, because like they're sirens, and I don't
(16:02):
want to miss it.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
It's my first day.
Speaker 4 (16:03):
There's got to be something really cool happening, right, So
I'm trying to ask her questions, and the sirens are
getting louder. So I'm trying to ride as fast as
I can. And you know, I probably asked you the
same question four times. I don't remember. But this card
running code comes around the corner down the street, and
now I'm confused, like I have no idea what's going on. Well,
(16:25):
he stops behind me and gets out, walks in front
of his car and slaps the back of my head
and says, turn your f and radio on, Rookie, and
gets back in his car and drives off. And I
look back at my training officer and he's crying, laughing.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Yeah, yeah, you can't can't do that anymore.
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(18:00):
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(18:34):
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(19:02):
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Speaker 1 (20:26):
Josh, you you really liked that.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
I love the lights, which I know they are cool. Yeah,
they are cool, you know that's what I did on motorcycles.
That's what I did.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Remember it looked like that though on your bike, No,
they didn't know.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
And in the Harley lights first, the BMW lights and
the Honda, I'm totally different. Yeah. So it's just like
the writing.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
So you miss, you miss having a toggle switch to
flip on your line.
Speaker 2 (20:49):
I miss everything about motors, but not enough to go
back to law Everything about motors, but not enough to
go back.
Speaker 1 (20:59):
We guys, welcome back, Welcome back to Offbeat, the Light
side of Law Enforcement. Steve here, I'm joined with Josh.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
I'm Josh, Steve. You're getting confused in your retirement age.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
You can make a name of it for me too
if you want.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Yeah, and we're joined with one guest in studio. We've
got Bob.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
That are we victims of something. We're victims of this show.
Help help, we're trapped joining knows in the studio. Today,
we've got officer Brian Stall. Welcome Brian, thank you, thank you,
And we probably should get onto our segment.
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(22:03):
I think Curtis has some competition.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
There is Curtis do that too? He does. He does
not as good, not as good now, not even close.
He's like an elementary kitch versus my, like varsity level. Okay,
so you can tell him that I will. I will,
he will.
Speaker 3 (22:16):
He will probably watch the show and text me and
say way better.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
Now he can sing better than me. He can definitely sing. Man,
that guy's got sing.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Wa wait wait wait, I think that's up to interpretation.
Who sings better? So, Josh, you've heard Curtis sing. But
go ahead, Josh, I don't want.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
To break any type of tool instrument that you have
in here, and and I'm pretty sure that s CC
would shut us down.
Speaker 1 (22:38):
Oh dang it.
Speaker 4 (22:40):
Nice try though, Yeah it was a valid effort. Can
you get Curtis to sing on here or not?
Speaker 2 (22:45):
Yeah? Okay, you can't get him to stop singing.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
I wrote around in the car with him for about
a year, so okay, he can sing.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
He absolutely can now he did tell a story about
a partner passing gas and uh, that you that was
not me. It was pretty epic if I remember.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
Dang, you took that only back to like episode one.
Speaker 2 (23:07):
You know that's what I do, steel trap, steal trap,
Steve still trap. I don't mess up names.
Speaker 4 (23:13):
I can probably guess who he's talking about, because I'm
pretty sure I know. But it wasn't me, Okay, I
bet I would probably guess right.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
And that was referencing back to Curtis in a squad
car with his partner passing gas and I think he
said he was singing the national anthem or something.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
It was something I can't remember. Go back to season one. Yeah,
and we also get to see Steve pose with blue
bonnet butter.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Okay, we need we need to move on. These poor
listeners don't need to be that. I do want to
mention we got a couple of patches in We've got
one from Calgary Police Service and the other one from
the Warren County, Mississippi Sheriff's office. So both these were
actually given to us by wise county deputy who had these.
(23:58):
Deputy I believe is his name, So yes, thank you, sir,
we appreciate it. We'll get those hung up on the wall.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
I love the story of love to know the story
of how you got Calgary.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
Yeah, well was was Calgary? The the motor guys from
Canada that came down. Did you guys in Louisiana really
from Calgary?
Speaker 5 (24:20):
You know?
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I don't know where they were from. I can't remember, okay,
and I probably wouldn't say it right if I. For
some reason, I think they were northeast. I don't know
part of Canada, but I can't remember. I mean, that's all.
I mean. They wore their pretty ready uniforms and that
was pretty awesome.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Wow, why are they ride in their motorcycles?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Okay, no, they looked like us, So all right, it's
pretty boring.
Speaker 1 (24:45):
Now and again, and not to get too far off track,
going back to one of our first episodes, you'd mentioned
going down there for the motor rodeo in Louisiana, and
you mentioned that you guys went out to an alligator far.
We did, and we already know that you handled an
alligator on a call.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
I did. I did, And then we we had some
lemonade that we were drinking.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
Okay, wait a minute, we were talking alligators and you
just went off to the lemonade.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
I'm trying to make it sound like we're drinking beer.
And we went down on these peninsulas and I was
trying to trying to be nice and you know, like
professional and all that, like little peninsulas and there's a
guy with a stick and he said it's it's it's
kind of like Super Mario Brothers. If you turn your
back on the alligator, he'll come after you. And he
has the stick and he just like poked this, poked the alligator.
(25:32):
Because that doesn't piss it off, right, I mean, like
I said, we're drinking a little bit. We'd had some
good Cajun food, and uh, we were all getting a
chance to pull and that it looks weird. We were
all like pulling on the tail and you know, all
pulling on the tail and trying to lift it and everything,
and it was man, those things are stout. Yeah, but
(25:54):
uh yeah, that was nice.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
And I brought that up just because you mentioned the
guys from Canada and you told us that they came
down to the motor rodeo with you guys. What did
the guys from Canada think about the alligators.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
You know, I don't think they were at that one.
I think because so the alligator farm got shut down
because every time would flood down to that area, the
alligators would get out. Well, they had a lot of
really nice homes in that area, so the people of
the really nice homes didn't love the alligators.
Speaker 3 (26:21):
God go imagine that.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Yeah, no, thanks, I don't want to find an alligator
in my house after a heavy rain.
Speaker 2 (26:29):
And and uh, you know there's a picture of Mark
Lemon's who's been a guest on the show Wrestling and
Alligator too. I think I think I sent that to you. Really. Yeah,
we'll have to we'll have to get that back on. Yes,
he looks a little bit younger then.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
To be continued on that. Yes, okay, moving right along now, Brian,
I understand you've got a story about a vehicle pursuit.
Speaker 3 (26:53):
I do you know what it's.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
It's a funny story, but I was never actually involved.
Speaker 1 (26:59):
Those are the best.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah, so no, meet undo their officer.
Speaker 4 (27:02):
We were at the station working on an arrest report
or something, and we were up in the report writing
room and you know, we hear the radio that Dallas
is in pursuit approaching our city.
Speaker 3 (27:14):
You know.
Speaker 4 (27:16):
A couple of minutes later, there's a little bit of
chatter about the pursuit, I mean nothing like they weren't
really requesting assistants or anything. And so this officer gets
up and and you know, he pushes away from the
computer and he he disappears, and I figured he was
going to the bathroom or whatever, you know, And about
(27:37):
ten minutes later he comes back and sits back down
and just.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
Like starts typing and like, yeah, okay, I.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
Didn't think anything of it, you know, And come to
find out, what he did was is he went downstairs,
got in his car, and drove up to the freeway,
and when the pursuit was approaching, he threw his spikes
across the freeway and then left them and spiked two
or three DPD.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
Cars and like four or five civilian cars. But then
he just left.
Speaker 4 (28:04):
He just went back to his police car, drove back
to the station and sat down and started typing. And
and it didn't take long for people to find out,
like where in the heck did these spikes.
Speaker 3 (28:16):
Randomly appear from?
Speaker 2 (28:17):
And wonder not it?
Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yeah, so it was it was It was a funny story,
you know, they were asking on the radio for a while,
like who threw these spikes?
Speaker 3 (28:26):
And he just never know.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
He's trying to concentrate on his reports.
Speaker 4 (28:29):
He's just up there writing a report like, Oh, I
wonder who spiked those people?
Speaker 2 (28:33):
That's that's weird, that's weird.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
The only thing better would have been you know, hey, man,
can I see your keys? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (28:40):
If you want used mine? Yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So, so was that before or after GPS or like
before GPS and all the cars.
Speaker 4 (28:46):
Oh, it was way before GPS. Yeah, yeah, it was.
It was definitely before GPS. I don't even think all
of our cars had cameras at that point.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (28:55):
Even better, Yeah, honestly, I know, well ours did because
we were both training on so we had cameras.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
But is that back in the day where you had
the vhs and they actually had the on off switch
for whether or not it would come on with the
lights or you could.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
Yeah, manually crazy. It was the good old days, good
old days, not anymore now. An officer, and it like
clicks on your camera and every time many.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
Everything turns your camera on. And I know I've mentioned
it before when the last half of my career I
was actually in the station or I had an office
in the station. I was never there, but there's a
bathroom right across the hall from from my office, and
that seemed to be the preferential facilities to use. Yeah,
(29:43):
wonderful location. But they upgraded all their body cameras where
we had all the sensors on your holsters. So if
you can holster, it turns on your camera. So these
guys would all go in there and go to the bathroom,
and I would see someone go inside the bathroom. I'd
be sitting there and I'd have my gun belt next
to me on the floor. I just you know, just
like slack to go down the holster, put it back
real quick, because if mine triggers, then.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
It's gonna around there. So yeah, and if the videos
less than two minutes, it has to be reviewed.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (30:10):
It's it's amazing how many of those videos are out there.
You know, like if somebody's going like let's meet up
at QT or wherever, and they're in there, you know,
going to the bathroom real quick, and their buddy shows
up and opens the driver's side door and activates their camera.
You know, it's that I can't imagine how many thousands
of those videos have to exist.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
There was There was one of the officers I won't
say his name, and my my past agency, and he's
he's code brown right. Everybody know, everybody's warned. A duty
belt knows code brown, right. And so he's finds a
church and there's people in the church, and so he's
running into the church. That's not right. He's working nights,
and so that he was, he was running into the church.
(30:52):
He just had to get somewhere, and somebody tries to
talk to him. He's he didn't realize his video was
on and so all this I didn't see the video,
but I was. It was told many times. But then
he sat down finally and then there was like no
toilet paper, and he's like trying to get just little
bits of pilet paper, a little bits and toilet and
(31:13):
you know, the evidence is there. Yeah, that was not
brought up at his retirement though, Oh I'm sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
A funny story about that.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
Actually, there was a big house up in the northern
part of the city and there was an alarm call there,
huge house, and two of the officers get there and
and I found out about this like shortly after it
happened because it happened, right, and one offs like, hey,
I need to the bathroom real bad, like, and you
just watch out the bay window and if they show up,
(31:43):
holler at me. So the officers watching out the bay
window where there's a back driveway that they didn't know about.
And so the officer watching out the window gets, you know,
a tap on the shoulder from the homeowner.
Speaker 3 (31:55):
He's like, hey, you know, and it scares him.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
What's going on?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Yeah, buddy comes and downstairs and he starts apologizing like, man,
I'm sir, I'm really sorry I had to go to
the bathroom. He's like, I hope you didn't use the
one on the left, and he's like I did and
I'm really sorry. And he's like, well that bathroom hasn't
worked in like six months. So they just packed their
stuff and kind of the home owner was really cool.
He was like, I'll take care of it, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Just get out of my house.
Speaker 2 (32:19):
Please just go. Yeah. So it didn't. It didn't ask
for like criminal charges.
Speaker 4 (32:23):
No, but we didn't let him live it down. That's
why would you. Yeah, that's classy. Yeah, So y'all.
Speaker 1 (32:30):
Didn't let him live it down. And then toilet didn't
let even flush it down.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
No, that's awesome. Yeah, now it's terrible.
Speaker 1 (32:38):
Just go get out of my house.
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, please.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Right, And again we mentioned in the first segment that
you are running for Congress, and I understand you've got
several fundraising events coming up. There's one in particular you
had mentioned there was a shoot it is.
Speaker 4 (32:53):
Yeah, So next weekend on October fourth, out of Etts
from four to nine and walks Ahatchie Ett Gun Range,
we're gonna have a bunch of auction items out there,
and we have three different pistol shooting events. It's kind
of a you know, we're going to provide everything so
you don't need to bring gun belts or guns or
(33:13):
ammo or or nothing.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So we're gonna have three different pistol shooting events.
Speaker 4 (33:17):
We're gonna have some Scott shotguns, skeet shooting, probably have
seven or eight full auto weapons out there.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Let people shoot some belt feds and machine guns.
Speaker 4 (33:28):
And then we're gonna have a night vision shoots where
we have quad tubes coming out on helmets and guys
are you get to shoot targets out to like two
hundred yards using lasers and pecks And so it's.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (33:38):
We're gonna have live music and food trucks and we
have a bunch of, like I said, a bunch of
good auction items that we're really excited about.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So and what dave is that again?
Speaker 3 (33:47):
October fourth at Etts.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Okay, how can somebody get some more information about this
their website or something.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
So we have an event for that actual event.
Speaker 4 (33:57):
We have a website at stall for t X just
tx dot com and that has it's we're updating it
daily with all the different items we're getting donated to us.
And you know, we have crime stoppers are going to
come out there and they want to be a part
of it. And sons of Liberty Gun Works they are
(34:17):
thinking about setting up out there. So you know, it's
open to everybody. It's free to attend. The shooting events
are kind of a pay to play thing. If you
want to do something and you can want to you know,
experience that, then you can buy that package or that
experience and nice.
Speaker 3 (34:32):
Yeah, but they want everybody out there to come hang out.
Speaker 1 (34:34):
Hey, I'm all about the belt fed gun. Yeah, that's
a lot better than a magazine fedgun.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
It this is offbeat, the light side of law. Enforcement.
Speaker 3 (34:45):
Check us out online at Offbeatcopshow.
Speaker 1 (34:47):
Dot com and we're back back to more offbeat the
light side of law enforcement. We're joined with one guest
(35:08):
in studio today. We've got Officer Brian Stall.
Speaker 2 (35:12):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Now, if you've not checked out the website, check it out.
It's Offbeat Cop Show. Jack out.
Speaker 4 (35:22):
Curtis has he's got some competitions competition I think, yeah,
so yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
They're on the website. Guys, listen to all episodes. Also
at the top of the website, there's a link to
the RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation. Click on the link and
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(35:48):
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Also on the website, there's a little microphone on. If
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(36:10):
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If you'd like to come in studio and share your
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Show at gmail. Dock y, let's do this again again.
That's Offbeat Cop Show at gmail dot org.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Oh sorry dot com.
Speaker 4 (36:30):
Oh, Curtis, Curtis just took the lead.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
It also, guys, check us out on Facebook and Instagram.
If you are watching the show on YouTube, give us
a like and go ahead and click that subscribe button. Now, Brian,
I understand you've got a story that's well kind of sweet.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
It is.
Speaker 4 (36:52):
Yeah, involves my dad and footchases and candy and yeah,
so we get we get sent to a call of
a couple of people breaking into a concession stand at
a at a high school stadium. And I go around
the backside of the stadium and and see a car
match in the description and and they're loading their trunk
up and I only see one person, so I put
(37:14):
the car in park and get out and footchases on. Well,
there's another passenger in the car that happens to get
out too, and my dad happened to step out at
the time.
Speaker 3 (37:23):
So your dad's with you. He's riding along with me, Oya.
Speaker 4 (37:26):
So he gets out and he just lights a cigarette
and and the other guy gets out of the car,
and I'm chasing the driver and we end up catching
him across the parking lot through the field, and you know,
there's a bunch of bunch of units coming to us.
And they finally get to me, and I tell one
of the officers to go back to the car to
get the bag that they're throwing in the in.
Speaker 1 (37:47):
The suspects vehicles. See what they've got.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Yeah, So you know, this officer grabs this big trash
bag full of candy.
Speaker 3 (37:54):
That's what they took, and.
Speaker 2 (37:57):
Yeah, yeah, I like it. That's there.
Speaker 4 (37:59):
Yeah, So sheer seeds to bring it to us, but
she drags the bag across the parking lot and when
she gets to us, she lifts this empty bag up
and there's a trail of candy back to the car.
And then one of them asked me, well, where's the
other guy at?
Speaker 3 (38:12):
And I'm like, oh crap.
Speaker 4 (38:14):
So I run back to my car and the second
guy is proned out on the sidewalk, hasn't moved, and
my dad's like three cigarettes deep and I'm like.
Speaker 3 (38:24):
Why didn't you run? And he's like, because that guy right, Yeah.
Speaker 4 (38:28):
I was like, you know it's my dad, right, and
he was like, oh, like this just look of you know,
disgust on this kid's face. He's like, I could have
easily gotten away here. And I have no idea to
this day what my dad told this guy. I don't
know what he said. I don't know what he I
have no idea. I mean, he gave that dad look,
he gave that disuburbing dad look.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
Yeah, and the cigarette was like old school detective. So
the guy's like, yeah, everybody's heard those stories.
Speaker 4 (38:52):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (38:52):
That kid's like, this guy's been around for seventy five years.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
I'm not gonna I'm not going to get asked coc today,
not over a watch McCall it.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1 (39:03):
Oh maybe he just you know, hey, he jumped out.
He's got the senior authority going on. Yeah, and kids
like you know what, I'm gonna lay down, Well, what
type of cigarette filtered or not filtered.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
No marble or reds like full full strength?
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Yeah, he knew, he knew not to mess with.
Speaker 4 (39:19):
Yeah. I think so probably, I mean maybe if it
had have been like a Virginia slim, the kid would
have ran or something, probably like all those little cigars
that all the kids smoke noways whatever those things are called.
Speaker 2 (39:28):
Yeah, it is now a good.
Speaker 1 (39:30):
Time for us to share that. Okay, kids, uh, do
not smoke. Smoking is bad for you. I wasn't sure
where you were going with that. Yeah, we you know,
very educational show.
Speaker 2 (39:41):
We always as you were telling this story, I couldn't
help but think they were just getting ready for a
trunk or treat because it is almost October.
Speaker 1 (39:49):
And so they were putting the trees in the trunk.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Yeah, it's a trunk or treat they were. They were
probably going to a church, probably the community.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeaheah, absolutely right, you're just missing We just happened to
totally misunderstood.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
All right, guys, this brings us to the end of
the show. Brian, I do want to mentioned again to you.
You are currently running for Congress. Where can people where
can people find out information on you? You have a website?
Speaker 3 (40:17):
We do, yes. Our campaign website is Stall for Texas.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
That's all spelled out S T S T A h
L You for Texas t e X A S dot
com and that has a lot of our issues and
our endorsements and where you can go to donate to
the campaign, a lot more information about myself and our
stance on things and how we differ from our opponent.
(40:40):
And then the event website is Stall for t X
just t X though, and that will bring you to
the our fundraising website and things that we have going on,
and you know, pertending to that with a list of
the auction items and it's gonna be a good time.
We got a lot of guns, suppressors, thermal optics, regular optics,
custom knives, stuff from Safari Land and five eleven and
(41:01):
Neotech and Sons of Liberty and Daniel Defense and Block
and so it's miss any geez.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
You know, I can't help but think probably other congressmen
don't have that type of fundraiser and other parts of
the country.
Speaker 3 (41:14):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (41:15):
He had me at belt fed. Yeah, there is gonna
be some of that out there. No, we're really excited
about it. It's again, it's opened everybody. We want everybody
to come out. So it would be great to have
you know, a thousand people there would be awesome.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
Well and again if elected then yeah, from the halls
of Congress, joining us today's.
Speaker 2 (41:35):
Show find out what the pranks are in Congress.
Speaker 1 (41:38):
Ryan, it's been pleasure having you on that show.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
Today fun Thank you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:42):
Until next time, keep it real, keep it funny, stay safe,
and watch each other.
Speaker 2 (41:48):
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