1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:11,280 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Michael Varry Show is on the air. 3 00:00:27,880 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: I was sent a post on the Facebook by a 4 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: footpo who said, this is your kind of story. And 5 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 2: it was a post by a fellow named Larry McDougall, 6 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:45,960 Speaker 2: and it was talking about being a cop, why he 7 00:00:46,040 --> 00:00:49,600 Speaker 2: went back to being a cop. And Larry McDougall has 8 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:52,920 Speaker 2: been around the political world in Houston Harris County for years. 9 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:58,880 Speaker 2: He was general counsel for the Republican Park Fort Member 10 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,640 Speaker 2: Republican Party. He's held various positions. He was a state 11 00:01:04,680 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: bar of Texas president I believe, or one of the 12 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:11,880 Speaker 2: senior officers statewide. And he's a guy that if you're 13 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 2: around the political process, you know his name. We're not 14 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 2: close friends, but a lot of people I know their 15 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 2: name and I see their name keep popping up. So 16 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:24,120 Speaker 2: the guy sends me this email says, you know, somebody 17 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,200 Speaker 2: curates a piece for me and tells me why I 18 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:27,880 Speaker 2: would find it interesting. I'm going to take the time 19 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,000 Speaker 2: to read it. So it was a post from Larry 20 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 2: McDougal on his Facebook page and it went as follows. 21 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 2: I am frequently asked why with my background did I 22 00:01:36,640 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 2: take a job as a patrolman with the Multon Police Department, 23 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:43,320 Speaker 2: So allow me to answer this. I want to save 24 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:47,320 Speaker 2: one more life before I get called home. I've performed 25 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 2: CPR seven times now I have two saves. This guy's 26 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 2: like a modern day Mojo. He's like our dentist. He's 27 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:00,480 Speaker 2: like Guy Lewis out just saving people at that Astro's 28 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 2: game and in Spirity Suite with a triple pump. I've 29 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 2: pulled people out of a burning car. 30 00:02:09,160 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 3: I have. 31 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 2: Sorry, I've pulled people out of a burning home as well, 32 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:17,640 Speaker 2: and I've stopped the bleeding until ems arrived. Well, you 33 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 2: ain't done nothing. I've caught a rapist in the act. 34 00:02:22,600 --> 00:02:24,840 Speaker 2: I've pulled men off their wives when they were beating them, 35 00:02:24,880 --> 00:02:28,600 Speaker 2: and a few wives off their husbands. My brother used 36 00:02:28,639 --> 00:02:30,640 Speaker 2: to say when he get called to a domestic disturbance, 37 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 2: you just never know which one's beating us not out 38 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,000 Speaker 2: of the other one. And he said, you've never seen 39 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,600 Speaker 2: a wife who loves her husband more. Then you show 40 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 2: up and they're in a fight and she's hit him, 41 00:02:44,520 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 2: and then he hits her back, so she calls the 42 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 2: cops because she knows she wins, and they show up 43 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 2: and she slaps him around a little to try to 44 00:02:53,000 --> 00:02:54,680 Speaker 2: bait him into hitting her one more time, and he 45 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:56,720 Speaker 2: won't do it, and then finally he can't stand it 46 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: and he knocks her out. Bunches are real hard. My 47 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 2: brother say, you know you lock him, you cuff him, 48 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:08,840 Speaker 2: and you start to don't take my husband. He's all 49 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: I got. Witness said, you called me here to take him. 50 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:18,560 Speaker 2: It's a dirty business man. Woo man. I have pulled 51 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 2: men off their wives when they were beating them. In 52 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:24,160 Speaker 2: a few wives off their husbands. You see that. You'll 53 00:03:24,160 --> 00:03:27,160 Speaker 2: see these wives beating their husband. I mean, you got 54 00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:29,960 Speaker 2: to get them out of there. I have found lost children. 55 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,200 Speaker 2: I cannot remember how many thieves, robbers, and burglars I've caught. Unfortunately, 56 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,960 Speaker 2: I've had people dye in my arms, but at least 57 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:41,240 Speaker 2: they did not die alone. I want to do it 58 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 2: one more time while I still can. And the police 59 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:47,440 Speaker 2: department always gets there first. That's why we call the 60 00:03:47,480 --> 00:03:51,560 Speaker 2: fire department second responders. The police fire rivalry is one 61 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:53,480 Speaker 2: of the funniest things in the world. They both go 62 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:56,480 Speaker 2: at each other. Second. I love the community of molten 63 00:03:57,320 --> 00:03:59,200 Speaker 2: I've been Popo there for six months now and I 64 00:03:59,240 --> 00:04:01,480 Speaker 2: have yet to have a single person be rude or 65 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:04,400 Speaker 2: disrespectful to me. I spend much of my day just 66 00:04:04,480 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 2: waving and waving back, visiting with people when I'm on patrol. 67 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: It's a clean, friendly, rural Texas community, almost like being 68 00:04:12,240 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 2: taken back to the past. And I probably shouldn't publicize them, 69 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 2: but many of the residents do not lock their doors 70 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 2: because they don't have to live in fear. But why 71 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: I'm alting This is where the answer gets a little 72 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,840 Speaker 2: more complicated. But it's the popo. It's not the funding 73 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: or the pay, but the officers who make up the department. 74 00:04:29,880 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 2: So he went through this whole thing, and here's a 75 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:39,520 Speaker 2: guy who practices law does these different things, and had 76 00:04:39,560 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: been I looked him up and had been a law 77 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:48,120 Speaker 2: enforcement officer earlier in his life and kind of feels 78 00:04:48,160 --> 00:04:53,000 Speaker 2: this desire to go back and do something. You know, 79 00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: people used to make fun of the Walmart greeterer when 80 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,039 Speaker 2: they still had greets. I always felt like that was 81 00:05:01,080 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 2: the wrong thing to do, because there's two reasons somebody 82 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:07,280 Speaker 2: becomes a Walmart reader. Number One, they really need the money. 83 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:09,920 Speaker 2: Because it's always old guys. Remember old guys and old 84 00:05:09,920 --> 00:05:12,640 Speaker 2: women and for those of you too young to remember, 85 00:05:12,640 --> 00:05:14,360 Speaker 2: you'd walk into Walmart and they would be a greeter. 86 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 2: They'd be wearing the little blue jacket and they would 87 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,800 Speaker 2: literally greet you pleasantly and be real sweet and if 88 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 2: you needed something, that directs you toward that aisle. But 89 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:26,719 Speaker 2: they were there because they were a smile as the 90 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:32,000 Speaker 2: face and the front of a cold, soulless corporation full 91 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:35,680 Speaker 2: of a bunch of cheap commodities from China. There were 92 00:05:35,720 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 2: two reasons somebody was doing that. Number one, they needed 93 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 2: the money, in which case, why are you making fun 94 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,400 Speaker 2: of an old person that, instead of going on welfare 95 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 2: is getting out there working, Because a lot of them 96 00:05:45,600 --> 00:05:47,960 Speaker 2: were old, and that was part of the charms. They 97 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: were so old. Why are you making fun of somebody 98 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:53,640 Speaker 2: that's having to bust their ass late in life but 99 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,280 Speaker 2: is doing it. Or Number two, they were doing it 100 00:05:57,400 --> 00:06:00,560 Speaker 2: because they were bored at home and inner acting with 101 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:05,520 Speaker 2: you was actually a highlight of their day. Now, I'm 102 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:09,560 Speaker 2: not saying this fellow Larry McDougall was figuring out Walmart 103 00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 2: reader or police officer, but I think there's people all 104 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:16,920 Speaker 2: over the country that are sitting at home board and oh, 105 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,360 Speaker 2: I'll get the email, Michael, nobody wants to hire us 106 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 2: no more? If we're old, that's bull you're on. Indeed, 107 00:06:23,880 --> 00:06:27,080 Speaker 2: don't give me excuses. I hate the excuses. How do 108 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:30,479 Speaker 2: you know nobody wants to hire you? Well, you know 109 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:34,080 Speaker 2: you can just tell or I applied for three jobs 110 00:06:34,080 --> 00:06:36,320 Speaker 2: and I didn't get them. Well, yeah, there's also a 111 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 2: twenty three year old that didn't get him. What why 112 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:41,000 Speaker 2: didn't he get it? If you want, if you have 113 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:45,280 Speaker 2: skills to offer, if you have skills to offer, an 114 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:49,279 Speaker 2: experience and a good heart and a willingness, and you're 115 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,080 Speaker 2: not crippled, although sometimes even for crippled, depending on john, 116 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:57,440 Speaker 2: communities need you. I loved this story. I loved this 117 00:06:57,520 --> 00:06:59,599 Speaker 2: story so much. I was so glad he posted. I 118 00:06:59,600 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 2: hope it was a few more law enforcement officers out 119 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:07,400 Speaker 2: to go out and work in Fayette County and Moulton. 120 00:07:07,520 --> 00:07:10,600 Speaker 2: And he's our guest, Larry McDougall, welcome to the program. 121 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:13,360 Speaker 4: For having me. 122 00:07:14,200 --> 00:07:18,120 Speaker 2: I love your post. What's going through your mind when 123 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:20,640 Speaker 2: you make this post? Where are you sitting? What made 124 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,040 Speaker 2: you say I got to do this? 125 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:27,240 Speaker 4: Well? I get a lot of you know, having been 126 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 4: a lawyer and had a successful law practice. A lot 127 00:07:30,160 --> 00:07:32,360 Speaker 4: of people ask me, why would you give that up, 128 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:35,800 Speaker 4: retire from your law practice and then go be a 129 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,800 Speaker 4: police officer. And I've always been a police officer at heart. 130 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 4: I started in law enforcement when I was nineteen, and 131 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 4: I actually, even though I was a lawyer, I stayed 132 00:07:46,400 --> 00:07:49,840 Speaker 4: active in law enforcement until twenty eighteen, when I decided 133 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 4: it was probably time for me to retire. But I 134 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 4: missed it. And what I miss is helping people. I mean, 135 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:59,400 Speaker 4: it's being a police officer. You're there in their most 136 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 4: immediate time of crisis, and we have an opportunity as 137 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 4: police officers to help people really like no other. And 138 00:08:08,560 --> 00:08:12,600 Speaker 4: I missed that, And that's one of the reasons Ripple 139 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:13,400 Speaker 4: I went back. 140 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 2: Hold on. You know Wayne Stanfield of Carol James Fan, 141 00:08:18,840 --> 00:08:21,040 Speaker 2: He went back to He sent me a picture in 142 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 2: his uniform strapping young Buck in his uniform. Yeah, man, 143 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 2: where's the uniform? Well we know that about show. I 144 00:08:31,640 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 2: get the police reference. Very clever, well done. But sometimes 145 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 2: if I send people photos of that, I've taken of 146 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:44,840 Speaker 2: them with no context, no meaning, just like, Okay, Michael, 147 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,079 Speaker 2: that's kind of weird. That's a photo for me from 148 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:50,400 Speaker 2: nine years ago. And if they'll say okay, and I 149 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:54,439 Speaker 2: never respond leave them wondering like what was he thinking? Hum? 150 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:56,920 Speaker 2: I wonder why he sent me that? 151 00:08:57,120 --> 00:08:57,200 Speaker 4: Is? 152 00:08:57,200 --> 00:08:57,360 Speaker 2: That? 153 00:08:57,600 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 3: Was that? 154 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:00,720 Speaker 2: On this day? What is? But it's just that I 155 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 2: was scrolling through looking for a photo, came across it 156 00:09:04,200 --> 00:09:07,520 Speaker 2: and sent it. So when I send my wife photos, 157 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 2: and you know, thirty six years, I got a lot 158 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 2: of photos of her, So I'll send a photo of 159 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:14,320 Speaker 2: her out gardening, I'll send that and then I'll send 160 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 2: a link to that song. And she still doesn't get it. 161 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 2: She didn't grow up here. That's lost on her, and 162 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:23,839 Speaker 2: so she shoes go, oh there was a song? Did 163 00:09:23,880 --> 00:09:25,200 Speaker 2: you mean to send that? Because a lot of times 164 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,439 Speaker 2: I send things to the wrong person? Did you mean 165 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 2: to send that song to me? Which one? You sent 166 00:09:31,440 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 2: a picture of me gardening? I don't know why you 167 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:37,960 Speaker 2: was that? What happened? You don't acknowledge? And then there 168 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,400 Speaker 2: was a song? Oh no, no, that was for someone else. 169 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 2: Don't no, don't worry. Larry McDougall posted that how old 170 00:09:46,280 --> 00:09:46,800 Speaker 2: were you, Larry? 171 00:09:48,800 --> 00:09:49,600 Speaker 4: Sixty seven? 172 00:09:49,840 --> 00:09:53,560 Speaker 2: Sixty seven? So tell me about the day you call? 173 00:09:54,240 --> 00:10:04,360 Speaker 2: Is is the Chief Daniel Byer? Yes, that's HP who 174 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 2: is the chief of Moulton. 175 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:08,400 Speaker 4: Daniel Bayer. 176 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:12,439 Speaker 2: Oh it is Daniel Byer. Okay, So, uh, when you 177 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:14,800 Speaker 2: when you decide that you want to do this, do 178 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,520 Speaker 2: you call him? Do you walk in the door? How 179 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:20,320 Speaker 2: does that work? Well? 180 00:10:20,440 --> 00:10:23,080 Speaker 4: Actually that they've been kind of hitting me up for 181 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,240 Speaker 4: a while because I bought a retirement home outside of Moulton. 182 00:10:26,920 --> 00:10:30,400 Speaker 4: And uh, I give you the kind of long story. 183 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 4: Short is I had a good guy with a gun 184 00:10:33,040 --> 00:10:35,920 Speaker 4: murder case that I tried where I walked the good 185 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:39,120 Speaker 4: guy out with a not guilty, told my wife that 186 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:41,840 Speaker 4: was the icing on the cake with a cherry on top. 187 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,440 Speaker 4: And then I showed up a couple of days later 188 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:46,240 Speaker 4: in Daniel's office and said, let's do it. 189 00:10:48,240 --> 00:10:50,719 Speaker 2: How about that? And so what does that? What'd that 190 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:51,560 Speaker 2: process look like? 191 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:55,920 Speaker 4: I had to get my t COL license back up 192 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:57,760 Speaker 4: to speed. There was classes I had to take. I 193 00:10:57,800 --> 00:11:00,280 Speaker 4: had to take a physical and it's sixty s and 194 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:03,319 Speaker 4: I passed it. And I had to take a psychological 195 00:11:03,720 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 4: and then I had to do a little bit of 196 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 4: training and get me back up to speed. And now 197 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:09,360 Speaker 4: they've turned me loose. 198 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:14,080 Speaker 2: So how how long had it been since you'd been 199 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: in a patrol car? When you went back out there. 200 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:24,560 Speaker 4: I retired from law enforcement from the Columbia Brazoria School 201 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:29,800 Speaker 4: District in June of eighteen, and it'd been missing it 202 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:33,720 Speaker 4: ever since. I mean, it's your brother could probably tell you. 203 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 4: It's once you're out there and you become part of it, 204 00:11:36,480 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 4: it gets in your blood. 205 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 2: You know. Larry, my brother, qualified for retirement at I 206 00:11:43,760 --> 00:11:46,520 Speaker 2: think he had thirty years when he was fifty two, 207 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:49,600 Speaker 2: let's say, and he qualified for his full retirement. His 208 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:54,040 Speaker 2: needs were simple. He, you know, every five years would 209 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:57,199 Speaker 2: get a four f one fifty. That was his big indulgence. 210 00:11:58,320 --> 00:12:01,560 Speaker 2: He had a few acres out in the country in 211 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:04,880 Speaker 2: Harper where he had a little fifth wheel he'd placed 212 00:12:04,880 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 2: out there. He didn't buy new clothes, he didn't. He 213 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,360 Speaker 2: had a home he had built. It was very modest. 214 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,880 Speaker 2: I mean, he lived very lean. So he didn't have 215 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: a lot of expenses. So he could retire so he 216 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:20,480 Speaker 2: wouldn't have to deal with this. He'd been a patrol officer, 217 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,199 Speaker 2: he'd been swat, he'd been undercover. He'd done a lot 218 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:27,400 Speaker 2: of stuff that I think takes its toll on a body. 219 00:12:27,400 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 2: And we talked about on a mind, and so he 220 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:32,320 Speaker 2: was so eager to retire, and he retired in six 221 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:35,520 Speaker 2: months and his wife said, you got to go back 222 00:12:35,559 --> 00:12:39,200 Speaker 2: to work. You're miserable, Like how many episodes of Sanford 223 00:12:39,280 --> 00:12:41,400 Speaker 2: Center are you going to watch? And so he did. 224 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:44,480 Speaker 2: He went back to work and his last job, I 225 00:12:44,559 --> 00:12:47,520 Speaker 2: noticed that you posted about how much you loved the 226 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 2: community of Molton. His last job was Vider Police Department 227 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,920 Speaker 2: because a guy that he had gone through the academy 228 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,240 Speaker 2: with thirty two years earlier was now the chief of 229 00:12:58,280 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 2: police Invider. And he said he called him and said, Chris, 230 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:05,160 Speaker 2: why don't you come back to work? And he called 231 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:06,920 Speaker 2: me one day and he said, Michael, it makes me 232 00:13:07,040 --> 00:13:11,120 Speaker 2: almost want to cry. He wasn't a crier. He said, 233 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 2: I stopped to eat my lunch and I can't pay 234 00:13:14,920 --> 00:13:16,720 Speaker 2: for my lunch. I get up to the counter and 235 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:19,760 Speaker 2: they say, somebody paid for it already, or we're paying 236 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,280 Speaker 2: for it. He said, I've never been treated like this. 237 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 2: He was Jefferson County alose years. I've never been treated 238 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:25,800 Speaker 2: like this. The people of are the nicest people in 239 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:26,160 Speaker 2: the world. 240 00:13:28,280 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 4: So it's nice if that's Molten, that's out as a 241 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,880 Speaker 4: Malton people appreciate us in those small communities like that. 242 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 2: Are you working to they like us? 243 00:13:35,760 --> 00:13:38,920 Speaker 4: They? Well, I'm off today. I don't come back until 244 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:39,640 Speaker 4: next weekend. 245 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:42,000 Speaker 2: So do you have a spot. It's kind of the 246 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:45,079 Speaker 2: cops spot used to be Burton Cafe for cops in 247 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,120 Speaker 2: in Uh, you know, outside of Brenham. Back when I 248 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:50,560 Speaker 2: had a place out there, a lot of cops would 249 00:13:50,559 --> 00:13:51,960 Speaker 2: go to Burton Cafe. But do you have a place 250 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 2: in Molton where you go? 251 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:54,880 Speaker 1: Not? 252 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,600 Speaker 4: Well? Home my wife for forty seven years. When I 253 00:13:58,600 --> 00:14:00,319 Speaker 4: need to take a break, I go spend time with her. 254 00:14:00,720 --> 00:14:03,800 Speaker 2: Good for you forty seven years and you're sixty seven. 255 00:14:03,880 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 2: So you were eighteen when you met her like I 256 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:08,560 Speaker 2: was with my wife. Uh? 257 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,680 Speaker 4: Yep, met her of Wharton Junior College. 258 00:14:11,000 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 2: How about that? How about that? That is? That is fantastic? 259 00:14:15,720 --> 00:14:19,640 Speaker 2: Did wait? Ramon, you're not part of this. Ramone's dad 260 00:14:19,640 --> 00:14:21,480 Speaker 2: went to Wharton Junior College. I'm not not sure why 261 00:14:21,480 --> 00:14:23,840 Speaker 2: we're bringing that up right now. Did you used to 262 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 2: live on Maryland Street in Rosenberg? 263 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 4: I did? 264 00:14:28,600 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 2: Uh? And your son Larry Jr. Is a lawyer? 265 00:14:33,200 --> 00:14:33,760 Speaker 4: Yes he is. 266 00:14:34,040 --> 00:14:37,880 Speaker 2: And your friends with Ray Stephanie's dad. 267 00:14:38,800 --> 00:14:39,760 Speaker 4: He's a big Stefanie. 268 00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 2: He's a big landowner. I can't remember Stephanie's maiden name. Well, 269 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 2: his son in law, Cody Johnson's a good friend of 270 00:14:45,040 --> 00:14:46,320 Speaker 2: mine and he sent me a message. 271 00:14:46,520 --> 00:14:48,280 Speaker 4: I know Cody Johns you're talking to Ray More. 272 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:51,960 Speaker 2: Yeah, how would you describe Cody? Yes, and this is 273 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:55,400 Speaker 2: not judgment, but if a guy had if a guy 274 00:14:55,600 --> 00:14:58,560 Speaker 2: was on the run, you'd he'd just broken into a 275 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 2: place and you were way away from your car. But 276 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,600 Speaker 2: you were calling in and you were describing Cody Johnson 277 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 2: to dispatch, how would you describe him? 278 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:08,960 Speaker 4: Big? 279 00:15:12,120 --> 00:15:12,560 Speaker 2: How big? 280 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:15,960 Speaker 4: Cody Johnson grew up down the street from me. Yeah, 281 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:17,880 Speaker 4: and uh, I mean when I was a kid. But 282 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:20,280 Speaker 4: you know, he when he was a kid, and I 283 00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 4: was the Rosenberg Fire Department for a while, and so 284 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:26,360 Speaker 4: was his dad. So I've watched him grow up. 285 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:28,920 Speaker 2: He's a good dude. Yeah, that's all my best friends. 286 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,600 Speaker 4: Oh he's well then you know he's crazy too. Not 287 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,920 Speaker 4: crazy in a bad way, crazy in a funny way. 288 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 2: Well that's debatabook. Uh, let me ask you about let 289 00:15:42,760 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 2: me you know, you're not a young man anymore. My 290 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,360 Speaker 2: brother used to say, I'm a better cop as an 291 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,479 Speaker 2: old man than a young man because I make better decisions. 292 00:15:49,520 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: And I don't try to create drama or aggression or 293 00:15:52,760 --> 00:15:55,560 Speaker 2: a fight or conflict. I try to I try to 294 00:15:55,560 --> 00:15:57,280 Speaker 2: deflect it. When I was younger, I thought it was 295 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 2: mad enough to defeat it. Now I realize you don't 296 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,520 Speaker 2: want to do that. How are you a better cop now? 297 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 2: At sixty seven? 298 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,400 Speaker 4: I think things out more and as you get older. 299 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,320 Speaker 4: I mean when I was young, we would just go 300 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:18,800 Speaker 4: bareling into something, and I've learned to talk my way 301 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 4: out of it. I've learned how to better defuse situations 302 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 4: and truth. You know, being a lawyer is kind of 303 00:16:27,160 --> 00:16:29,560 Speaker 4: cool because I could give people legal advice right there 304 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 4: on the side when they need it. 305 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:36,560 Speaker 2: Hold on just a moment, learn mcdoogle is there, and 306 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 2: it's fifteen. It's not law, it's not just law enforcement. 307 00:16:42,520 --> 00:16:48,120 Speaker 2: But I think it's a great example. You know, if 308 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,640 Speaker 2: you start looking around or a way to give back. 309 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 2: You start with the high minded idea that you're going 310 00:16:57,440 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: to do something for other people, but you find out 311 00:16:59,360 --> 00:17:04,359 Speaker 2: you're doing it for yourself. When people say thank you 312 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 2: for doing this or that for that person. I am 313 00:17:08,200 --> 00:17:12,960 Speaker 2: very honest when I say anything I do that is 314 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 2: perceived as nice as completely utterly one hundred percent selfish. 315 00:17:17,800 --> 00:17:21,600 Speaker 2: I feel better about myself if I do something for 316 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:25,359 Speaker 2: someone else. We all do. It's not wrong with that, 317 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 2: it's a good thing. We should encourage people that you 318 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 2: will feel better when you do for other people. We 319 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:37,359 Speaker 2: should stop with this nonsense of oh I'm a saint, 320 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,560 Speaker 2: I find no I derive no joy from this. I 321 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:44,080 Speaker 2: do it absolutely joylessly, because if I got any joy 322 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:48,080 Speaker 2: out of it, it wouldn't be noble. No. Learn to 323 00:17:48,359 --> 00:17:54,040 Speaker 2: incentivize the behaviors you want in society and you'll get 324 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:58,600 Speaker 2: more of that, Believe it or not. Larry McDougall is 325 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,560 Speaker 2: getting more out of this than the community is, and 326 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,000 Speaker 2: they're having a ball with it because now he wakes 327 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:09,760 Speaker 2: up in the morning and he's needed, he's wanted, he's appreciated. 328 00:18:10,359 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: Everything's fresh again. The last day you were a cop 329 00:18:14,119 --> 00:18:16,520 Speaker 2: is not nearly as fun as the first day back 330 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,199 Speaker 2: after you've been away. That's what my brother told me. 331 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:22,639 Speaker 2: Everything that I was tired of, bored of, sick of. 332 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:26,400 Speaker 2: After thirty years, I realized, oh I'm good at this. 333 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:40,240 Speaker 2: I enjoy this. It's just fun. Larry McDowell, Larry Yess, Michael, Yes, Michael, 334 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 2: has there been a moment since you came back that 335 00:18:42,640 --> 00:18:44,439 Speaker 2: you have for a second regretted it. 336 00:18:46,840 --> 00:18:51,080 Speaker 4: No, I really haven't. It's my wife thinks I'm probably 337 00:18:51,080 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 4: a little nutty because I love being out there. I 338 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 4: love being on the streets. I love meeting, talking and 339 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,240 Speaker 4: helping people. And You're one hundred percent right, is a 340 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:03,760 Speaker 4: selfish thing. But it's it's selfish because it gives me 341 00:19:03,800 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 4: a feeling of purpose of self worth and that's what 342 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 4: I get out of it when I'm out there helping people. 343 00:19:10,720 --> 00:19:12,880 Speaker 4: You know, as a police officer, it's just a part 344 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:15,840 Speaker 4: time spot that I have. I worked maybe six to 345 00:19:15,920 --> 00:19:19,200 Speaker 4: seven days a month. We work twelve hour shifts and 346 00:19:19,480 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 4: just like Wayne Stanfield doesn't too there at Moulton, and 347 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,760 Speaker 4: it's it, you know, it gives you that feeling that 348 00:19:25,840 --> 00:19:28,800 Speaker 4: you have. I mean, I hope I instill that in 349 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,160 Speaker 4: my kids because my three daughters all became teachers and 350 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:36,440 Speaker 4: two of them are now principles and the other one 351 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:39,040 Speaker 4: went back to the church and from public school and 352 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:43,600 Speaker 4: it's teaching at a Catholic school. So and they get 353 00:19:43,640 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 4: that too, you know, when they're doing it as teachers, 354 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,840 Speaker 4: you get that feeling that you've accomplished something, you've done 355 00:19:49,880 --> 00:19:53,760 Speaker 4: something good, and it's almost like a drug. 356 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 2: It is it is. It's the same reaction, it's the 357 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,480 Speaker 2: same feelings, it's the same awesomeness. So did you tell 358 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:04,879 Speaker 2: me where isn't there a Molten cafe? Where do you 359 00:20:04,920 --> 00:20:09,399 Speaker 2: stop and eat? Most days if you're on duty, I 360 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:11,840 Speaker 2: actually go home? Oh you said you That's what I 361 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:13,359 Speaker 2: was trying to remember what you said it with. But 362 00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:14,719 Speaker 2: there is a Molten cafe. 363 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,280 Speaker 4: Not a Molten cafe. We have Klazels, which is the steakhouse, 364 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:22,720 Speaker 4: which is really nice. You're not going to find a 365 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 4: better cheeseburger in Texas than Brian's, which is like a 366 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 4: little dairy queen there. Uh. There is a little taco 367 00:20:29,680 --> 00:20:32,080 Speaker 4: stand in Molten. It's a little trailer right by the 368 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:36,159 Speaker 4: railroad tracks. It's got the best crispy tacos you've ever ate. 369 00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:40,439 Speaker 4: And then we have a Mexican restaurant in town. And 370 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 4: that's it. I mean, that's all we have in Molten 371 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:44,920 Speaker 4: as far as eating place. 372 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 2: There's no cafe type deal where you can get breakfast, lunch, dinner, 373 00:20:49,080 --> 00:20:52,399 Speaker 2: simple food. Come for food. 374 00:20:51,920 --> 00:20:56,400 Speaker 4: There's Alleys Barbecue that serves a breakfast and they're pretty good. 375 00:20:56,520 --> 00:20:58,800 Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's a breakfast lunch, but they're not 376 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,359 Speaker 4: open in the evenings. No, the it's we really don't 377 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:07,080 Speaker 4: have that much in Molten as far as places to 378 00:21:07,119 --> 00:21:12,040 Speaker 4: eat out and uh. But again, I take my time away. 379 00:21:12,080 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 4: I come home, sit down with a wife, tell her 380 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:17,120 Speaker 4: what's going on, We talk, gossip. 381 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,119 Speaker 2: Whatever does make sam she cooks something. 382 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:24,919 Speaker 4: She's check, she cooks. 383 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 2: Okay, all right. 384 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,160 Speaker 4: I've always said check women. They don't cook for health, 385 00:21:32,440 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 4: they cook for flavor. They make comfort food. 386 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 2: Yeah. I like that. 387 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:36,119 Speaker 4: I like that. 388 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,640 Speaker 2: Well, I love this story. I just wanted to share 389 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:42,280 Speaker 2: this story quickly. I got a message from Carol James 390 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 2: with the picture of Wayne Stanfield in his uniform and 391 00:21:45,600 --> 00:21:48,040 Speaker 2: he's going back and done this. I'm not saying that 392 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:50,320 Speaker 2: folks at sixty seven on to get back on the 393 00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:55,520 Speaker 2: gang unit at HPD, but I am saying that we 394 00:21:55,680 --> 00:21:59,160 Speaker 2: all have gifts and why let them. You know, there's 395 00:21:59,200 --> 00:22:03,720 Speaker 2: a certain frustrat to the idea that you know your 396 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 2: skills are not being used anymore. Somebody wants those skills. Now, 397 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:09,719 Speaker 2: it might not be the first person to whom you 398 00:22:09,800 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 2: offer them. It might not, but somebody wants your skills 399 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 2: out there. Somebody could use your skills, and you would 400 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:22,000 Speaker 2: feel wonderful putting them to use. And that you know, 401 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 2: not everybody is the big city cop you see on TV. 402 00:22:27,200 --> 00:22:30,520 Speaker 2: There might be a little position out in little Molten 403 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:32,280 Speaker 2: that would like somebody to come out there and take 404 00:22:32,320 --> 00:22:34,800 Speaker 2: care of the little old ladies. But here's our tribute 405 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,280 Speaker 2: to the cops, Paul Harvey style. 406 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 3: A policeman is a composite of what all men are, 407 00:22:39,280 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 3: I guess, a mingling of saint and center, dust and 408 00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:47,359 Speaker 3: deity called statistics wave the fan over stinkers underscore instances 409 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 3: of dishonesty and brutality because they are news. What that 410 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:53,679 Speaker 3: really means is that they are exceptional. They are unusual. 411 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,679 Speaker 3: They are not commonplace. Buried under the fraud is the fact, 412 00:22:56,760 --> 00:22:58,600 Speaker 3: And the fact is the less than one half of 413 00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:03,040 Speaker 3: one percent of policemen misfit that uniform. And that is 414 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:07,840 Speaker 3: a better average than you'd find among clergymen. What is 415 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 3: a policeman? He, of all men, is at once the 416 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,800 Speaker 3: most needed and the most wanted, A strangely nameless creature 417 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,080 Speaker 3: who is served to his face and pig or worse 418 00:23:17,119 --> 00:23:19,840 Speaker 3: behind his back. He must be such a diplomat that 419 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 3: he can settle differences between individuals, so that each will 420 00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 3: think he won. But if a policeman is neat, he's conceited. 421 00:23:26,040 --> 00:23:28,440 Speaker 3: If he's careless, he's a bum. If he's pleasant, he's 422 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,560 Speaker 3: a flirt. If he's not, he's a grouch. He must 423 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,719 Speaker 3: make instant decisions, which would require months for a lawyer. 424 00:23:34,840 --> 00:23:38,560 Speaker 3: But if he hurries, he's careless. If he's delivered, he's lazy. 425 00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,360 Speaker 3: He must be first to an accident, infallible with the diagnosis. 426 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:45,360 Speaker 3: He must be able to start breathing, stop bleeding, ty splints, 427 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 3: and above all, be sure the victim goes home without 428 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,840 Speaker 3: a limp or expect to be sued. The police officer 429 00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 3: must know every gun draw on the run and hit 430 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 3: where it doesn't hurt. He must be able to whip 431 00:23:56,840 --> 00:23:59,280 Speaker 3: two men twice his size and half his age without 432 00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:03,680 Speaker 3: damaging his uniform and without being brutal. If you hit him, 433 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,760 Speaker 3: he's a coward. If he hits you, he's a bully. 434 00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 3: A policeman must know everything and not tell. He must 435 00:24:10,440 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 3: know where all of the sin is and not partake. 436 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,760 Speaker 3: The policeman from a single human hair. Must be able 437 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,119 Speaker 3: to describe the crime, the weatmon the criminal, and tell 438 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:23,119 Speaker 3: you where the criminal is hiding. But if he catches 439 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:25,960 Speaker 3: the criminal, he's lucky. If he doesn't, he's a dunce. 440 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,119 Speaker 3: If he gets promoted, he has political pull. If he doesn't, 441 00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:32,679 Speaker 3: he's a dullard. The policeman must chase bum leads to 442 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:35,880 Speaker 3: a dead end, stake out ten nights to tag one 443 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:39,040 Speaker 3: witness who saw it happen, but refuses to remember. He 444 00:24:39,160 --> 00:24:42,960 Speaker 3: runs files and writes reports until his eyes ache to 445 00:24:43,040 --> 00:24:45,760 Speaker 3: build a case against some felon who will get dealed 446 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,800 Speaker 3: out by a shameless shamous or an honorable who isn't honorable. 447 00:24:50,119 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 3: The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, 448 00:24:54,119 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 3: a tough guy, and a gentleman. And of course he'll 449 00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 3: have to be a genius, because he'll have to feed 450 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,760 Speaker 3: a f family on a policeman's salary. 451 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 5: The star top, Brad, we'll suppose your eyes and drink 452 00:25:30,119 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 5: me and going on a. 453 00:25:31,359 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 2: Truth through history. 454 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 5: I want to see society day. 455 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 2: And we'll go back when time's young, and you learn 456 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,240 Speaker 2: the tuggar up the gun. He'd be six feet on 457 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:49,159 Speaker 2: the way when the mountains closed about his side, and 458 00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:53,120 Speaker 2: the rivers hill the mine's pride. It was a year 459 00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 2: forty nine in those days and not gone it didn't 460 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:05,680 Speaker 2: wish as line from the Cowboys, And I'm on to 461 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,320 Speaker 2: go time traveling through Texas, Whandy. 462 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,520 Speaker 5: I want to go time traveling through Texas, Wendy, I 463 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,040 Speaker 5: won't to be then. 464 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,760 Speaker 2: Read the air and see all I can. 465 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:24,640 Speaker 5: See in my Texas time traveling machine. 466 00:26:28,240 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 1: The state of Texas is the greatest in the Union. 467 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,320 Speaker 1: We're lucky to call it home. For nine years it 468 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,439 Speaker 1: was its own nation, and throughout history it's held a 469 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,560 Speaker 1: special place in the hearts of all Americans. We're gonna 470 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:50,400 Speaker 1: celebrate texas great history today. Now here's your host, Michael Barry. 471 00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,720 Speaker 2: Oh it's a little Texas Time edition. What did I 472 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 2: ever goof on this one? Oh, I'm not about to 473 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:00,520 Speaker 2: tell you. I'll tell you all air. Okay, tell you now, 474 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,600 Speaker 2: but not for on air. Take us off are okay. 475 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:06,639 Speaker 2: I don't know why I was thinking that Molton was 476 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:12,520 Speaker 2: near round Top. I don't know why I cannot I 477 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,639 Speaker 2: must have been. What must have happened is I was 478 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 2: in round Top and you know, you know, on those 479 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:24,160 Speaker 2: country roads sometimes they'll say, you know, Beaumont, this direction, Well, 480 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,680 Speaker 2: you're not anywhere near Beaumont. That's just if you went 481 00:27:26,880 --> 00:27:28,800 Speaker 2: to want to go to Beaumont, be that direction and 482 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:32,160 Speaker 2: just be a few hours. If I was to say 483 00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,800 Speaker 2: that on the air, I'd have to how come you 484 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:37,080 Speaker 2: think Molten near bon near near round Top? Mot ain't 485 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,480 Speaker 2: nowhere near round Top. I've been living here my whole life. 486 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:42,240 Speaker 2: I know I made a mistake, is the point I've 487 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 2: been living here. Ain't not an einting close. You got 488 00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,119 Speaker 2: to cross over right ten, you gotta go up Barning. 489 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:51,040 Speaker 2: I got it. I hit your area of expertise. I huh, 490 00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 2: what is it? Forty five miles that this? No, But 491 00:27:56,840 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 2: here's the deal. I was thinking of Molten like near Warrington, 492 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,080 Speaker 2: you know, at the most Fayetteville. I didn't. I was 493 00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:11,320 Speaker 2: thinking of, uh, what's uh Windale or something like that, 494 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:16,040 Speaker 2: and you know, if not Carmeene and you know, kind 495 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,320 Speaker 2: of the same same deal. And I don't know where. 496 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,720 Speaker 2: I don't know why. I thought that I've seen a 497 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 2: sign or something when I was out there that said Molten. 498 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 2: And I kind of remember it. When you go into 499 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:44,000 Speaker 2: into round Top off two ninety to eighty seven, you 500 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 2: take is that two eighty seven? Do you remember? And 501 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 2: you go down and if you go kind of if 502 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,480 Speaker 2: you're going southwest from there, So you go round Top 503 00:28:53,520 --> 00:28:59,200 Speaker 2: and then Warrington and then uh, what's the next Uh 504 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,280 Speaker 2: two thirty seven? Did I say two eighty seven? Two 505 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 2: thirty seven? Yeah, just two thirty seven cut off? Yeah, 506 00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,680 Speaker 2: and then you go Warrington and then somewhere right around 507 00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,480 Speaker 2: there if you turn to there's a sign if you 508 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:11,920 Speaker 2: turn to the right, and I'm trying to think of 509 00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,600 Speaker 2: what the name of the darned community is, but there's 510 00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 2: a sign that if you go to the right, Uh, Valhalla. 511 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 2: It's Valhalla. Maybe I was thinking of Maybe I was 512 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 2: thinking Molten was near Valhalla. But I looked during the 513 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:31,960 Speaker 2: break and I took a screenshot of where it is. 514 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 2: It's it's not anywhere near there. It's i Ten. You 515 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,120 Speaker 2: know why I saw that? You know what I'm confusing. 516 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 2: We had a place in Carmen, which is two ninety 517 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:51,520 Speaker 2: just passed round Top cutoff, and uh, we had a 518 00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:55,840 Speaker 2: place in Welder, And I'm conflating the drives to those 519 00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,760 Speaker 2: two places, which is some of the happiest times in 520 00:29:57,760 --> 00:30:01,560 Speaker 2: my life. I'm conflating those two drives because when you're 521 00:30:01,600 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 2: going to Welder, I believe there's a molten cut off 522 00:30:05,480 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 2: at about Flatonia, and I think I must have been 523 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:14,440 Speaker 2: thinking that that molten cutoff went north on ten toward Roundtop, 524 00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:18,560 Speaker 2: because truth be told, ninety nine times out of one 525 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,160 Speaker 2: hundred that I've gone to Roundtop, I've gone the two 526 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 2: to ninety route. So if I end up over on 527 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,760 Speaker 2: ten going up to Roundtop, I can get confused, real 528 00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,880 Speaker 2: real easy. I don't. I just that route is not 529 00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:34,959 Speaker 2: natural to me. But let's see, I just looked it up. 530 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,320 Speaker 2: So it's I tend there's a shell station right there, 531 00:30:38,040 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 2: and then you take ninety five south and then you 532 00:30:41,800 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 2: go into looks like you got molten. You got old molten, Molten, 533 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:53,080 Speaker 2: Barsville Cemetery, Burkett Cemetery. Now you wonder why I'm saying 534 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,360 Speaker 2: the names of places that nobody's gonna know, because there's 535 00:30:56,400 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 2: one person out there that's gonna email me, Michael, my 536 00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 2: grand did he built that cemetery? Guaranteed it happens every 537 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,440 Speaker 2: time you got the smith unit over there, you're not 538 00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:11,200 Speaker 2: really a small town unless you got a prison unit nearby. 539 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:16,280 Speaker 2: That's the sign that really you got to Shiner, Hillsdale Guesthouse, 540 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:21,280 Speaker 2: Hanyak Industries. You got prah Over there. That's how you 541 00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 2: know there's a bunch of checks around there. You got 542 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 2: prah Over there, Ingle, Platonia, Armstrong, Kominsky, Witting, breslau Henk House, Shiner. 543 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:34,840 Speaker 2: You know what's funny when you go to small towns, 544 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,200 Speaker 2: there's always some family there and they owned the bank. 545 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,800 Speaker 2: And by Houston standards, they're not rich, right, that means 546 00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:48,120 Speaker 2: they could afford a house in sugar Land. But by 547 00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,840 Speaker 2: this was before all the rich Houstonians started moving out there. 548 00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:52,520 Speaker 2: But back in the day, there wasn't any money in 549 00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:56,440 Speaker 2: these small towns. So there'd be one family in the 550 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,480 Speaker 2: little town that had all the money. So they would 551 00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 2: buy up all the four closed homes because nobody would 552 00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:05,240 Speaker 2: be a bit against them. They might have the bank, 553 00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 2: and they might have the car dealership, and they might 554 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:12,800 Speaker 2: name the church after them, I mean, and you know 555 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,640 Speaker 2: they they would be the patrons of the of the 556 00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 2: theater and also the Homecoming Queen competition and the fair 557 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:25,040 Speaker 2: Queen competition for for FFA, and there'd be that one 558 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,160 Speaker 2: name and everything I have their name on it, and 559 00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:31,360 Speaker 2: a lot it's just true in a lot of little 560 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,560 Speaker 2: towns and they'll have their name on it and the 561 00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,760 Speaker 2: other people that were the families I grew up in, 562 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 2: the plant worker, the you know whatever, the hand out 563 00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,720 Speaker 2: at the ranch. That boy that name, when that name 564 00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,520 Speaker 2: was mentioned, that was Jock Ewing. By god, I mean 565 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,560 Speaker 2: that was that was it. You remember in Roadhouse Brad, 566 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:52,719 Speaker 2: the guy that ran the town, and he went in 567 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:57,240 Speaker 2: and he torched Red's parts supply because Red wouldn't pay 568 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 2: the omerta to him. There's always that in a small town, 569 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:05,840 Speaker 2: and they'll have a name, and in an area like this, 570 00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:09,120 Speaker 2: it'll be you know, some Czech name or some German name. 571 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:12,640 Speaker 2: And I'm just picking one out of a thing. I'm 572 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 2: not picking on the Komenskis. But there will be the Komenskis. 573 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:20,400 Speaker 2: And you know, when Isaakill you ask mister Kaminsky over you, 574 00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:22,520 Speaker 2: you you bind your p's and q's around him. He 575 00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 2: owns a bank. Someday you're gonna want to know him, 576 00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:27,640 Speaker 2: you know, make sure you say hello to him. You 577 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:29,360 Speaker 2: might be able to go to work for him one day, 578 00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:30,880 Speaker 2: to go to school. You might be able to go 579 00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,680 Speaker 2: to work for him. And there will always be that 580 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,720 Speaker 2: one family like that, and everything in town will be 581 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 2: named for them. It's true. No, I've nothing wrong with it. 582 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,479 Speaker 2: That's it's not good or bad, it's the way it is. 583 00:33:43,760 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 2: You hope they're civic minded and not just arrogant, because 584 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:49,840 Speaker 2: they'll give you know, I was reading an article the 585 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:54,440 Speaker 2: other day about used to if you had great wealth 586 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 2: the Vanderbilts, Jay Pierport, Morgan, you would it was a 587 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,680 Speaker 2: sign of great strength and character that you would endow 588 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,680 Speaker 2: universities and foundations and these things. Now they go, you 589 00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:12,600 Speaker 2: know what, what does what does besos do? Oh? Well, 590 00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:14,480 Speaker 2: I want to fly into space with my mistress.