1 00:00:04,120 --> 00:00:12,039 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, Luck and load. Michael 2 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:19,320 Speaker 1: Very Show is on the air. The following feature has 3 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:22,680 Speaker 1: been rated. Are it is intended for mature audiences. 4 00:00:22,800 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: I just wanted to say to everyone out there, no 5 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:29,479 Speaker 2: longer mainlining acid or smoking PCP. It's official out You 6 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: know the rest of the story, Joyce, you like movies 7 00:00:33,159 --> 00:00:34,159 Speaker 2: about gladiators? 8 00:00:34,320 --> 00:00:35,840 Speaker 1: What if your child get amnia? 9 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 3: Fuf airs shoes? Take me, take me on. 10 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:57,560 Speaker 1: Your mother was a humpster and your father's snakee off Calaberry. 11 00:00:58,080 --> 00:00:59,320 Speaker 1: How much you want to make a bet? I can 12 00:00:59,360 --> 00:01:00,680 Speaker 1: proll football over the mountain? 13 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,840 Speaker 3: The don't need food? Are you kidding? We got some 14 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 3: family here. Not all. 15 00:01:22,800 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 1: Well, sir, lovey until tonight, then one and more Bye. 16 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to sco the the aggie plumber. At 17 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:52,840 Speaker 1: the end of our conversation with Kelly ray Lean wrote 18 00:01:54,160 --> 00:02:01,760 Speaker 1: this lady is smart, energetic, and extremely organized. If she 19 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,320 Speaker 1: can't make a go of the rum business, nobody can. 20 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:10,080 Speaker 1: I kind of feel the same. I kind of feel 21 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:15,200 Speaker 1: the same. It is so much harder to succeed in 22 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:25,000 Speaker 1: business than anybody realizes. Having studied people who are successful, 23 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:32,640 Speaker 1: from Russell lebarro to Tillmanfretita to Matt Brice. It is incredible. 24 00:02:33,440 --> 00:02:36,960 Speaker 1: I got an email this morning. Let me see if 25 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 1: I can find it real quick, Like, why is that 26 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 1: not coming up? Ramon, play something nice while I find 27 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:47,760 Speaker 1: this email, because I think this proves the point. 28 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:50,400 Speaker 2: It is. 29 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:56,440 Speaker 1: It's about It's about Rosie Caraba, and this fella can't 30 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: hear it is and it says I split. It's from 31 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,760 Speaker 1: Craig Vance. He says, I split time in the Woodlands 32 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: and Galiston, and I don't spend much time in Houston. 33 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: Stopped in for lunch Saturday at the end of the 34 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:14,679 Speaker 1: bar at Caraba's on Voss. I'm sorry. Stopped in for 35 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,280 Speaker 1: lunch Sat at the end of the bar, not Saturday 36 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 1: at Caraba's on Voss. Yesterday, sat and spoke with missus 37 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,760 Speaker 1: Karraba on my way out for about fifteen minutes. What 38 00:03:24,880 --> 00:03:29,000 Speaker 1: an absolute delight. She is so sweet, genuine and kind. 39 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 1: It was like I'd known her all my life. I'm 40 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 1: your age and I just like talking to people. She 41 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:37,360 Speaker 1: was like my precious grandmother. I told her I just 42 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 1: wanted to meet her because you say such great things 43 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,400 Speaker 1: about her on the air. She adores you. Make it 44 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:46,920 Speaker 1: a Great Friday, my friend. And you know when I 45 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: go to a restaurant and there's nobody there other than 46 00:03:51,440 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: the person whose immediate job it is to come and 47 00:03:53,880 --> 00:03:55,320 Speaker 1: ask me for my food and go and get it 48 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:57,040 Speaker 1: and bring it back and drop it down and hand 49 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,280 Speaker 1: me a bill. And I compare that experience. It's to 50 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:06,120 Speaker 1: go into Carabas on Kirby or or uh Carobas on 51 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 1: Voss corob was on Kirby. Johnny's going to be there 52 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 1: and on Voss Rosie's going to be there. And to 53 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:15,280 Speaker 1: sit and talk to a woman in her nineties who's 54 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 1: part of Houston Restaurant Royalty that goes back with with 55 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:24,160 Speaker 1: all the names of Terra, all the names in in 56 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,240 Speaker 1: her in her lineage. 57 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 3: Uh. 58 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:28,479 Speaker 1: It's incredible. 59 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:29,000 Speaker 2: Uh. 60 00:04:29,279 --> 00:04:33,000 Speaker 1: And it makes for a very very special experience. There's 61 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:35,039 Speaker 1: a time and place for the fast food restaurant where 62 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: you walk in and get your meal and you walk out. 63 00:04:37,240 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: But when you want a special experience, man, oh man, 64 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:45,000 Speaker 1: that's that is it? That That's that's absolutely it. There's 65 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: something in the water in Needville. We got so into 66 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:57,920 Speaker 1: following those Nadville boys to the UH to the Little 67 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:01,960 Speaker 1: World series, and now they moved up to the next 68 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 1: level and lo and behold, they just won out Texas. 69 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: They're going to regionals and they may yet win it all. 70 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 1: Andy McCrae joins us again. He's the coach of those 71 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 1: boys and he is our guest. Welcome to the program again, sir, 72 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: welcome back. 73 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:19,040 Speaker 2: Well, thanks for having me back. I appreciate it. 74 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: You're a little bit older. Are you a little bit wiser? 75 00:05:24,640 --> 00:05:26,800 Speaker 2: I'm a little older. I think I think the hopefully 76 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,640 Speaker 2: the boys are a little wiser. I think I'm as 77 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,000 Speaker 2: wise as I'm going to be at this point. 78 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:32,440 Speaker 1: You're not getting any wiser. I thought that when they 79 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: got out of twelve at Post Oh when they turn, 80 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: when they go into the thirteen's, they're coached by young people. 81 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 1: It's no longer dad coach. They're coached by twenty something 82 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,720 Speaker 1: young men. Is I didn't know a dad could be 83 00:05:47,880 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: involved in that. How does that work? 84 00:05:50,640 --> 00:05:53,520 Speaker 2: So? Yeah, you have a juniors Juniors League World Series. 85 00:05:53,560 --> 00:05:57,720 Speaker 2: It's up to fourteen years old. It can a lot 86 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:01,560 Speaker 2: of kids move through that. Probably more of a smaller 87 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,480 Speaker 2: town community thing when you get into the junior's division 88 00:06:05,520 --> 00:06:08,120 Speaker 2: that stay together and play play through it. A lot 89 00:06:08,160 --> 00:06:11,840 Speaker 2: of the little leagues do you know, have a turn 90 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:15,919 Speaker 2: down and participation at twelve, but it's still a very large, 91 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 2: you know, participation at the junior's level. It's just a 92 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 2: little different. 93 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:24,400 Speaker 1: What percentage of teams that achieve some degree of excellence 94 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: to the level you did at twelve year old's little 95 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: league end up winning state again the next year. I'm 96 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:36,680 Speaker 1: guessing you've got less than a one percent likelihood that happens. 97 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,520 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's probably pretty low. I haven't looked 98 00:06:40,520 --> 00:06:43,680 Speaker 2: at the numbers. But teams that go to Williams poor them, 99 00:06:43,760 --> 00:06:47,880 Speaker 2: do that awesome experience and men come back and you know, 100 00:06:48,520 --> 00:06:51,080 Speaker 2: even just to come back because you know, believe me, 101 00:06:51,200 --> 00:06:52,920 Speaker 2: we have plenty of thoughts of boy, we're going out 102 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:55,560 Speaker 2: on top. Why don't we want to do this? You know, 103 00:06:56,080 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 2: but the boys wanted to so we jumped in and 104 00:06:58,360 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: did it. It's been a really great experience. 105 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:04,080 Speaker 1: And so what are the key ingredients for these young 106 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:08,920 Speaker 1: men to continue to be successful to this level? Uh, 107 00:07:09,279 --> 00:07:11,720 Speaker 1: as they're continuing to age. 108 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,960 Speaker 2: They just they're a really dedicated group of kids. They 109 00:07:17,640 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: work hard. You know, it's not there's no secret. There's 110 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 2: no secret to life, and I think they've maybe figured 111 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,400 Speaker 2: it out at a little sooner than some. If you 112 00:07:24,480 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 2: want to be good at something, you have to do 113 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 2: it a lot. And luckily they love doing this and 114 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 2: they do it a lot, and so it makes them 115 00:07:31,880 --> 00:07:34,320 Speaker 2: makes them really good if you start. 116 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: Do you have any younger kids? 117 00:07:37,040 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 2: Have it certain? Son? 118 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:39,559 Speaker 1: You have any younger kids? 119 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 2: No, sir, I have an older son and the then jagged. 120 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:46,840 Speaker 1: So so what if you had a kid who was 121 00:07:46,880 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 1: coming up at five six years old and you were 122 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:54,679 Speaker 1: asked you you were drafted to coach that group of kids, 123 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: what would you do differently? Now? What would be your 124 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: advice to coach es out there who may not have 125 00:08:00,760 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: been a baseball star themselves, but they're beginning to coach 126 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: young folks, not just about the fundamentals of baseball, but 127 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: the life lessons you want to teach. You know, how 128 00:08:09,560 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: much practice you should have some things you've learned over 129 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:17,440 Speaker 1: that period of time. Hold on, this is not my day. 130 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: And do you know I missed a whole segment. I 131 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:23,680 Speaker 1: turned my volume down to call you and I missed 132 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 1: a whole This is not my It might be Joe 133 00:08:27,080 --> 00:08:33,640 Speaker 1: Biden time. Amy McCrae is the coach of a group 134 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:38,000 Speaker 1: of kids from Needville who just keep winning at a 135 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:44,400 Speaker 1: level that is absolutely staggering. You know, everybody has a 136 00:08:44,440 --> 00:08:48,640 Speaker 1: bad day, every team has a bad day. This new 137 00:08:49,360 --> 00:08:52,800 Speaker 1: Netflix documentary series, this is the second time they've done this, 138 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:58,000 Speaker 1: called Quarterback. You see guys like Joe Burrow, who on 139 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,360 Speaker 1: any given week could be the best quarterback in the NFL. 140 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,160 Speaker 1: Statistically speaking, we can argue, if my son Michael t 141 00:09:04,320 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 1: hears me say that, it'll lose his mind because he 142 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:08,640 Speaker 1: thinks Lamar Jackson's the beginning in the end. But this 143 00:09:08,800 --> 00:09:12,439 Speaker 1: guy statistically is as good a quarterback as in the 144 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 1: entire league. And then he may have a horrible game. 145 00:09:16,720 --> 00:09:20,199 Speaker 1: Jared Goff came to Houston and through five interceptions and 146 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,839 Speaker 1: of course they beat us that game. I was that 147 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: it was a bummer. But the point is this team 148 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,679 Speaker 1: performs at such a high level and has now for 149 00:09:28,960 --> 00:09:31,839 Speaker 1: multiple years. As they grow, you think about what's happening 150 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:38,720 Speaker 1: in your life from twelve to fourteen, right, physiologically, biologically, emotionally. 151 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:43,480 Speaker 1: I mean, we've all raised teenagers. Andy McRae, how are 152 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,800 Speaker 1: the boys different now than they were two three years ago. 153 00:09:47,840 --> 00:09:49,520 Speaker 1: You've been coaching these boys for a long time. 154 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 2: I have Yeah, they're I take different. They have a 155 00:09:54,559 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 2: lot of the similar personalities, but they're a lot bigger. 156 00:09:58,480 --> 00:10:01,959 Speaker 2: I think they're a little harder on themselves probably, so 157 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,079 Speaker 2: you have to treat them a little differently. You have 158 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,240 Speaker 2: to be a little more understanding of that they're going 159 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:10,040 Speaker 2: through a lot at that time in their life, and 160 00:10:10,720 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 2: sometimes it's out of their control. So you you try 161 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:16,079 Speaker 2: to be a little more, maybe even more parental with 162 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:18,800 Speaker 2: them now than you were at twelve. Which it's a 163 00:10:18,880 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 2: different type of parenting, right it's a little being a 164 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:23,120 Speaker 2: teenager in a twelve year old. But we try to, 165 00:10:23,720 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 2: you know, put your arm around them and tell them 166 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 2: it's going to be okay. And sometimes we're just having 167 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:30,280 Speaker 2: a bad day because somebody is out of our control. 168 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:30,880 Speaker 2: At that age. 169 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:37,679 Speaker 1: I remember coaching kids myself, and you know, you get 170 00:10:37,720 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 1: all fired up about you the whole day. I'm telling 171 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: them on we got a game tonight. 172 00:10:42,040 --> 00:10:42,440 Speaker 2: The game. 173 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:44,520 Speaker 1: We've got got a strategy. We're gonna do this, gonna 174 00:10:44,520 --> 00:10:46,959 Speaker 1: put ace on the mound, we're gonna try something different, 175 00:10:47,320 --> 00:10:48,359 Speaker 1: we're gonna do a shift. 176 00:10:48,120 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 2: We're gonna do this this. 177 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 1: Then you get there and it's about the third inning 178 00:10:52,000 --> 00:10:57,480 Speaker 1: and one of the kids says coach. Yeah, Morgan, when 179 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,960 Speaker 1: are we going to get the snow cones? It puts 180 00:11:01,040 --> 00:11:04,040 Speaker 1: it kind of puts the whole thing into perspective. So 181 00:11:04,160 --> 00:11:07,280 Speaker 1: I'm guessing these boys from you know, you've been coaching 182 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:10,120 Speaker 1: them longer than since they were twelve, but now at 183 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:13,120 Speaker 1: thirteen fourteen years old, we start to have other distractions 184 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:15,200 Speaker 1: like little girls. 185 00:11:19,120 --> 00:11:22,199 Speaker 2: That you certainly do. You have a wonderful world of 186 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:27,079 Speaker 2: little girls and friends and social media now, which is 187 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:30,319 Speaker 2: way different than when I was a child, And those 188 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 2: are the challenges you got through. And that's when I 189 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:33,640 Speaker 2: laugh and say, you got to kind of put your 190 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 2: arm around them and listen to their stories and try 191 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:39,480 Speaker 2: to help guide them through making the best decisions they can. 192 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 2: You know, half of my half of what I do, 193 00:11:42,440 --> 00:11:46,040 Speaker 2: if not more, isn't the isn't the baseball stuff. It's 194 00:11:46,160 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 2: just trying to be there for the kids. So as 195 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:51,199 Speaker 2: well as the other coaches on our team, we understand 196 00:11:51,240 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: that and we're just trying to help them navigate a 197 00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: trying time in their lives. 198 00:11:56,080 --> 00:12:01,079 Speaker 1: Right, two of your team members, DJ Jablonski and Jagger McCrae, 199 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,319 Speaker 1: who coincidentally happens to share your last name, or making 200 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:08,600 Speaker 1: their third appearance at a World series twenty twenty two, 201 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 1: with the fifty seventy series, twenty twenty three the Major series, 202 00:12:12,280 --> 00:12:16,160 Speaker 1: and now twenty twenty five the Juniors Series. I wonder 203 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:17,320 Speaker 1: if that's ever been done before. 204 00:12:20,360 --> 00:12:23,920 Speaker 2: I don't know. The twenty twenty two Intermediate one hasn't 205 00:12:23,960 --> 00:12:27,040 Speaker 2: been around that long, so this could possibly be the 206 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,160 Speaker 2: only two. But I don't know. I tried to just 207 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:32,520 Speaker 2: look it up one time and it wasn't easy to find. 208 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,120 Speaker 2: I think Little He will probably dig into it. That'll 209 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 2: be a story they hit on, and maybe maybe it is. 210 00:12:37,920 --> 00:12:39,600 Speaker 2: I doubt it's a very many it's a pretty cool 211 00:12:39,640 --> 00:12:40,760 Speaker 2: story for sure. 212 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 1: Jagger McCrae being your son, so you're a father in 213 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: addition to a coach. I watched a lot of dads 214 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: burn their kid out, and I watched kids who had 215 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:52,480 Speaker 1: a natural talent, and maybe they were going to play 216 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:55,480 Speaker 1: D one ball, maybe D two, D three, but at 217 00:12:55,559 --> 00:12:59,800 Speaker 1: least they could have loved playing ball later into if 218 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:01,959 Speaker 1: nothing else than through the end of high school and 219 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: mini quip because they simply were burned out, not because 220 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:08,520 Speaker 1: they lacked the talent. How do you balance that with 221 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:11,440 Speaker 1: Jagger as not just a coach, but more importantly as 222 00:13:11,480 --> 00:13:11,800 Speaker 1: a dad. 223 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:16,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, we've listened. We've been through times where you looked 224 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:18,400 Speaker 2: and you go, man, I don't know if he's There's 225 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:20,439 Speaker 2: been times when you ask, but we talk about it 226 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 2: and we do you want to do this? Or do 227 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 2: you want to you know, do you want to play 228 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,040 Speaker 2: this season? Do you do not? There's been times when 229 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,600 Speaker 2: I probably was too hard on him as a dad 230 00:13:29,679 --> 00:13:32,480 Speaker 2: and a coach about it, and I had to sit 231 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:34,640 Speaker 2: back and go, okay, just let him have fun, right, 232 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 2: because you do. You know, kids who excel, they get 233 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,560 Speaker 2: expectations that sometimes are out of whack at a certain age, 234 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:42,520 Speaker 2: and you have to look back at yourself and go, okay, 235 00:13:42,520 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 2: am I pushing too hard? Am I not? A lot 236 00:13:44,960 --> 00:13:48,160 Speaker 2: of conversations with him, A lot of conversations with my wife. 237 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,920 Speaker 2: It helps his older brother plays a lot of baseball, 238 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:53,199 Speaker 2: so he kind of grew up with it, so I 239 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:55,920 Speaker 2: think that helps him and he's kind of what we've done. 240 00:13:56,520 --> 00:13:58,959 Speaker 2: But you do really have to be careful, and I 241 00:13:59,040 --> 00:14:02,800 Speaker 2: think it's an individual well thing, and there's times we've 242 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,520 Speaker 2: had to take breaks. You know, we've set out you know, weeks, 243 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:06,839 Speaker 2: you know we're not going to do it this week, 244 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,599 Speaker 2: we're gonna sit down or you know, it's just a 245 00:14:08,679 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 2: balancing app for sure. 246 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 1: It's interesting. I'm a biography guy, and I'm a sports 247 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:18,800 Speaker 1: biography guy, and how many players end up being really 248 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: good players who are younger than a player who went 249 00:14:22,160 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 1: before them, so that by the time they start they're 250 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: so much above the other kids at their level because 251 00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:33,800 Speaker 1: they've been shagging flies and hanging out at the ballpark 252 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:36,800 Speaker 1: at late night practices when you know there's no lights 253 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: on the field since they were little, and this is 254 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:41,880 Speaker 1: their moment. They're so far ahead. And it sounds like 255 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: Jagger has that going for him. Andy, what do you 256 00:14:45,160 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: do by day? What's your day job? I remember you 257 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: told us before. 258 00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 2: I work in I work in insurance. I'm in operations. 259 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 2: I manage a team of folks. I take a lot 260 00:14:57,080 --> 00:15:00,760 Speaker 2: of those skills to the baseball feel too, that I've 261 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 2: learned over the years, and. 262 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: They've grown accustomed to the fact that summer is when 263 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,440 Speaker 1: McCray is a little bit checked out because it's baseball 264 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:08,560 Speaker 1: time for the McCoy family. 265 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:12,760 Speaker 2: Luckily, they are headquarters in Atlanta, so I can say 266 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:15,560 Speaker 2: this unless you're airing Atlanta, maybe a little bit, but no, 267 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 2: it's definitely I got a wonder word for a wonderful 268 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,280 Speaker 2: company who has been overly supportive when we get to 269 00:15:22,360 --> 00:15:25,720 Speaker 2: a certain level, and it's been really cool to watch 270 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:26,400 Speaker 2: and witness. 271 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:31,280 Speaker 1: It is cool and we wish you the best of luck. 272 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: I keep an email correspondence going with I guess it's 273 00:15:35,280 --> 00:15:39,920 Speaker 1: your mother in law, Cookie Havens. That's my mom. Yeah, Oh, 274 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:40,480 Speaker 1: that's your mom. 275 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 2: Mom always looks out I'm forty seven and Mom still 276 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 2: looks out for me. So you always got to take 277 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:45,080 Speaker 2: care of mom. 278 00:15:45,240 --> 00:15:47,760 Speaker 1: Well, you're her baby boy, and we talk in emails 279 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 1: about you as if you are. And let me tell 280 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 1: you something, she is unashamed to brag on your grandson, 281 00:15:54,120 --> 00:15:57,960 Speaker 1: on your son, her grandson, Jagger, and I absolutely love it. 282 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,400 Speaker 1: That's why I had to talk to you. She keeps 283 00:16:00,480 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: me very, very well informed on what's going on with 284 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:06,920 Speaker 1: with Needville, littley. She's one of a lot of sweet, 285 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: little old ladies that take the place of my mom 286 00:16:09,760 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 1: and I email with on a daily basis on news 287 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: and perspective and everything else. You'll get them Needville, Uh, 288 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:20,320 Speaker 1: Needville Boys and the Pray Family. Good luck, very show. 289 00:16:25,880 --> 00:16:39,480 Speaker 3: On the other side street. 290 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:48,400 Speaker 1: Hey, how you learned just here, shay Key lickor. I 291 00:16:48,560 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: have decided to vote in for Ron Paul. 292 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,200 Speaker 4: I just understood that he the only one that's gonna 293 00:16:55,280 --> 00:17:01,720 Speaker 4: cut my taxes and quit bothering imsurance and leave me alone, 294 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:08,280 Speaker 4: have my pistol and my mailwon and my rights to 295 00:17:08,440 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 4: be a civil libraritarian. Vote Republican Ron Powell President. 296 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: President Trump does what Biden could never do. As he's 297 00:17:26,240 --> 00:17:30,240 Speaker 1: walking to and from Marine one, the official helicopter that 298 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:35,000 Speaker 1: takes him to places like Camp David made a statement 299 00:17:35,040 --> 00:17:39,440 Speaker 1: to the press just about an hour ago, and he 300 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:41,560 Speaker 1: said that he will be giving out a list of 301 00:17:41,680 --> 00:17:46,440 Speaker 1: influential people and quote hedge fund managers end quote who 302 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:51,840 Speaker 1: basically lived with Epstein? Quote you should focus on Clinton, 303 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,680 Speaker 1: You should focus on the former president of Harvard. You 304 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,560 Speaker 1: should focus on some of the hedge fund guys. I 305 00:17:58,680 --> 00:18:02,600 Speaker 1: will give you a list. These guys lived with Jeffrey Epstein. 306 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:09,439 Speaker 1: I sure as hell didn't. Jeffrey Epstein had an office 307 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:18,560 Speaker 1: at Harvard even after his one year sentence for pedophilia. 308 00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:27,800 Speaker 1: He had the impromanter, the Petina, the gloss of Harvard 309 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,440 Speaker 1: to use when making connections. It gave him a great 310 00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:36,840 Speaker 1: deal of credibility with certain folks. Can't be a bad guy. 311 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:44,560 Speaker 1: He's beloved at Harvard. Well, how do you think that happens? 312 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:52,359 Speaker 1: They don't just hand out offices for nothing. It's going 313 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:57,200 Speaker 1: to be very interesting text rights. As we are of 314 00:18:57,320 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 1: the same age range, you'll remember when New Cooke came 315 00:18:59,720 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: about nineteen eighty five, the uproar that ended, which brought 316 00:19:04,000 --> 00:19:07,119 Speaker 1: back the original formula, which it actually was a shift 317 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 1: from cane sugar to corn syrup. The Cans even stated 318 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,880 Speaker 1: original formula, but that was not true. If you look 319 00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:17,880 Speaker 1: at the cans today, they say original taste because original 320 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:23,240 Speaker 1: formula is false. That's Texts. The eighteen wheeler driver. 321 00:19:24,880 --> 00:19:25,040 Speaker 2: MS. 322 00:19:25,119 --> 00:19:27,200 Speaker 1: Matt writes, When I was in high school in the fifties, 323 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:32,040 Speaker 1: we had two newspapers, morning and evening. Ramon, did you 324 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:33,480 Speaker 1: ever have a two news? Did you ever live in 325 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:36,840 Speaker 1: a two newspaper town? When I lived in England in 326 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: the mid nineties, you would get a mid morning you'd 327 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:42,359 Speaker 1: get a morning paper, and then late afternoon there would 328 00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: be a paper in the town where I lived, and 329 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,240 Speaker 1: then if there was breaking news, they'd do another printing. 330 00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:53,480 Speaker 1: True story. Martha writes Jackie's comments about losing her husband 331 00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: and missing their Michael Barry conversations brought tears to my eyes. 332 00:19:57,680 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 1: I also lost my husband in forty three years last. 333 00:20:01,000 --> 00:20:03,960 Speaker 1: They are your sounding board, your counsel, your protector, and 334 00:20:04,040 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 1: your friend, and their loss is irreplaceable. On my way 335 00:20:07,760 --> 00:20:10,200 Speaker 1: home from various activities, I often see something that I 336 00:20:10,320 --> 00:20:12,360 Speaker 1: just automatically think I need to share with him when 337 00:20:12,359 --> 00:20:14,720 Speaker 1: I get home, and just as suddenly, I realize he 338 00:20:14,800 --> 00:20:17,440 Speaker 1: won't be there. Things that no one else would be 339 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: interested in. He didn't listen to you as often as me, Michael, 340 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: but in the course of our conversations I would often say, well, 341 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: Michael said, yes, you do have a connection with us, Michael, 342 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:29,320 Speaker 1: and you make a difference in our lives. Love you, 343 00:20:29,440 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: Michael Berry. And she sent it a sweet and adorable 344 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:37,000 Speaker 1: picture of her and her late husband and their dog. 345 00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:43,320 Speaker 1: Very cute. Doctor Cywrit's not sure why this popped in 346 00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,600 Speaker 1: my head, but I was wondering. Is jd Vance the 347 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:49,560 Speaker 1: heir apparent? I think Trump wants someone he's mentored to 348 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: carry on NAGA, But the race for president is a 349 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 1: personality contest, not who's best qualified. Then what about Ron DeSantis? 350 00:20:57,160 --> 00:20:58,960 Speaker 1: He would be great, but I would hate for Florida 351 00:20:58,960 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: to lose him. We can always point to Florida as 352 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:05,040 Speaker 1: a shutting example of the conservative experience. Anyway, back to 353 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,080 Speaker 1: my point, when does Trump and companies start promoting bands, 354 00:21:08,119 --> 00:21:10,440 Speaker 1: you know, more high profile stuff that even the media 355 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:18,159 Speaker 1: would pick up on, maybe after the midterms. Understand this, 356 00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:24,800 Speaker 1: I don't personally enjoy if you watch the Astros win 357 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:30,640 Speaker 1: the World Series twenty seventeen, as the game is completing 358 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: in there popping the champagne, the announcers begin talking about 359 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: how will they be any good next year? There's not 360 00:21:37,720 --> 00:21:40,960 Speaker 1: even a moment to enjoy what has just happened. There 361 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: is the immediate or. It is almost as if the 362 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:48,960 Speaker 1: predicting who's going to win and the anticipation of who's 363 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: going to win is more important than the game itself. 364 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:57,320 Speaker 1: It becomes a sideshow. The moment Trump begins grooming his 365 00:21:57,560 --> 00:22:02,080 Speaker 1: successor is the moment he is less relevant. He has 366 00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,399 Speaker 1: four years to do what he wants to do, and 367 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:09,240 Speaker 1: he is not in the process of easing out to 368 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: ease someone else in. He has a lot of work 369 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,040 Speaker 1: to do. I would argue that this is a subject 370 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:19,280 Speaker 1: he does not want to have as a public lottery discussion. 371 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: Or draft discussion, Rodney writes, your tax paying listeners in 372 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:29,440 Speaker 1: Pasadena might hold on a second. I can't do that. 373 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,560 Speaker 1: I can't do that because there's a reference to not 374 00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: mentioning it. My sixteen year old Bronck writer has been 375 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:37,239 Speaker 1: on an online high school program for over a year. 376 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 1: He has a full time job fifty to sixty hours 377 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,200 Speaker 1: a week. He bought his own truck pace for his 378 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:43,480 Speaker 1: own diesel. It's the best option for country boys that 379 00:22:43,600 --> 00:22:45,760 Speaker 1: just want to work. School work has done at night 380 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,160 Speaker 1: core curriculum only no BS, and it works. On the contrary, 381 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: my youngest boy is a baseball player AB student graduate. 382 00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:54,920 Speaker 1: He'll graduate from traditional high school and he'll play ball 383 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,879 Speaker 1: all four years. That's the cloth he's cut from. Parents 384 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,600 Speaker 1: need to honestly know their kids and go down the 385 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:02,760 Speaker 1: path that fits them. I sat in a classroom for 386 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 1: four stupid extra years for absolutely nothing. I like your 387 00:23:06,520 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: idea on the online school for some Philip writes, Confucian 388 00:23:10,760 --> 00:23:13,080 Speaker 1: say he who wear a mask alone in car also 389 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,359 Speaker 1: wear condom alone in bed. This was a letter from 390 00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:19,880 Speaker 1: Jackie that kind of shook me. Earlier in the week, 391 00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:24,480 Speaker 1: she wrote, tzar, my husband of forty nine years passed 392 00:23:24,520 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: away a month ago. He was seventy. I'm seventy one. 393 00:23:27,680 --> 00:23:31,880 Speaker 1: That's still raw a month ago. In addition to the grief, 394 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: I feel there's a lot of adjustments to make as 395 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,760 Speaker 1: I try to figure out how to do life without 396 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,400 Speaker 1: my husband by my side. It's harder than you could 397 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,600 Speaker 1: ever imagine. Dinnertime five to seven PM is one of 398 00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,320 Speaker 1: the hardest times of the day. I can keep busy 399 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,080 Speaker 1: during the day, but dinner we always ate together, catching 400 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:50,119 Speaker 1: up with each other's day. Without him here, I didn't 401 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:53,080 Speaker 1: quite know what to do. It's such a sad time 402 00:23:53,160 --> 00:23:56,040 Speaker 1: for me. I've begun listening to you while I eat. 403 00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,359 Speaker 1: We would often listen to you in the morning and 404 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,760 Speaker 1: when we were in the car together. You're like an 405 00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,919 Speaker 1: old friend to us. When I listen while eating, it's 406 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,320 Speaker 1: almost as if you're having a conversation with just me. 407 00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:08,920 Speaker 1: I don't even know why I'm sending this to you, 408 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,360 Speaker 1: other than to tell you how much I appreciate having 409 00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:14,720 Speaker 1: some company at dinner. May God bless you and your 410 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:17,680 Speaker 1: precious family. Jackie. I'm not going to read her last 411 00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:21,879 Speaker 1: name because I'm not all the rest Because we have 412 00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,280 Speaker 1: so many listeners that are at this phase of life. 413 00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 1: It just breaks my heart. I wish there was a 414 00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:29,359 Speaker 1: perfect way. You know, there are babies born that are 415 00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,639 Speaker 1: not wanted by parents, and then their parents that they 416 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,040 Speaker 1: are individuals that want to be parents, And if you 417 00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:36,200 Speaker 1: could just match all those up, the world would be great. 418 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,200 Speaker 1: I see so many people at this phase of life 419 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:41,320 Speaker 1: and maybe they just need a friend, maybe another woman 420 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 1: going through the same thing. I wish it was something 421 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:48,560 Speaker 1: we could do to fix that is the mailbags. God writes. 422 00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:49,000 Speaker 2: Sorry. 423 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,160 Speaker 1: I find it interesting that other than a brief mention 424 00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 1: on the Will Kine show, nothing was or has been 425 00:24:54,440 --> 00:24:59,080 Speaker 1: mentioned about Virginia Governor Glenn Youenkin's property at the old 426 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:04,239 Speaker 1: Camp era Head property in Hunt, which he acquired, as 427 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:06,760 Speaker 1: I understand it, out of bankruptcy a few years ago. 428 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:09,920 Speaker 1: I believe his wife was a camper there at one 429 00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,879 Speaker 1: point and an SMU grad with a fondness for the camp, 430 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 1: and suggested to her husband, the former Rice Owl basketball player, 431 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,119 Speaker 1: that they should buy it. I also appreciated your shows 432 00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,400 Speaker 1: on the flooding. My wife and daughter were longtime heart 433 00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 1: of the Hills campers and good friends of Jane Ragsdale. 434 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:33,600 Speaker 1: Just a wonderful person and not only was a Heart 435 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:35,920 Speaker 1: of the Hills camper, she loved camp so much. She 436 00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 1: was also a Mystic camper. Once the camp blood enters 437 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:43,399 Speaker 1: the system, it's hard to get rid of. And our 438 00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:46,240 Speaker 1: daughter was a Lamar Redskins softball player. A parent asked 439 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: her about joining his summer travel ball team, to which 440 00:25:48,720 --> 00:25:52,920 Speaker 1: she told him, I can't I go to camp. He 441 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,000 Speaker 1: then asked me what's his camp thing. I told him 442 00:25:55,000 --> 00:25:56,920 Speaker 1: to save his breath, as both the wife, daughter, and 443 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:01,760 Speaker 1: several cousins were HH, that's Heart of the Hills ladies, 444 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:08,320 Speaker 1: and nothing could interfere with this legacy. I got an 445 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: email it choked me up pretty good yesterday. It was 446 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:16,160 Speaker 1: from one of the parents of one of the campers 447 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:21,720 Speaker 1: who passed at Camp Mystic and asked to be connected 448 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 1: with Heritage Films Chance McLean, because they want to have 449 00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: a heritage film made about their daughter because they have 450 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: another child and they want that other child to know 451 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:41,679 Speaker 1: the story of that child's sister who will no longer 452 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,639 Speaker 1: be there. And this other child is so young that 453 00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:50,719 Speaker 1: this child will not know of how wonderful the child's 454 00:26:50,760 --> 00:26:54,679 Speaker 1: sister was in her brief number of years, and they 455 00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:58,560 Speaker 1: want to capture that moment while it's fresh, and I 456 00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:01,200 Speaker 1: picked up the phone, which I never do. I don't 457 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: like to have phone calls instead of emailing, which is 458 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: what I prefer to do because then I can go 459 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,680 Speaker 1: back later and follow up on things. And I call 460 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 1: Chance and he's been on the East Coast doing a 461 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:15,199 Speaker 1: series of heritage films out there. He'll be back tonight. 462 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:19,600 Speaker 1: And I rang about eight times. You know, like the 463 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,879 Speaker 1: girlfriend that gets mad if you're not answering. I was 464 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:28,000 Speaker 1: that guy. And he stepped aside and he said, dude, 465 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,000 Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of a shoot. And I said, well, 466 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,639 Speaker 1: they're all my listeners anyway, they'll understand just telling me 467 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:34,880 Speaker 1: you're talking to me. Well, I know, but but I'm 468 00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,320 Speaker 1: in the middle of a shoot. I said, what I 469 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:39,760 Speaker 1: need to tell you about the email I just got? 470 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: And he said, man, why did you have to tell 471 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:46,560 Speaker 1: me that right now? Now, that's all I'm able to 472 00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 1: think about. I think God puts us in places in 473 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:57,159 Speaker 1: our life. Maybe that's a security guard, Maybe that's the 474 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:01,320 Speaker 1: secretary that takes the call. Maybe that's the bus driver 475 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:04,200 Speaker 1: that you know when a kid is being picked on 476 00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:06,600 Speaker 1: and otherwise might take their own life. But the bus 477 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:09,640 Speaker 1: driver steps in and makes it stop. I think God 478 00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:15,399 Speaker 1: puts us in special places at special times that we 479 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:20,520 Speaker 1: may not always appreciate or realize. But there is a 480 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:26,080 Speaker 1: reason for that. And I was honored to get the email, 481 00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:31,960 Speaker 1: and I know that chance is honored to have the 482 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:36,000 Speaker 1: opportunity to tell this little girl's story. I got a 483 00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 1: nice email from a woman named Debray Yankee, and having 484 00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,840 Speaker 1: spent six years on city council and having a month 485 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:48,160 Speaker 1: before I was elected, witness the death of a Yankee 486 00:28:48,400 --> 00:28:52,240 Speaker 1: in the four Leaf Towers. I know the legacy of 487 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:56,120 Speaker 1: the Yankee family. It's a Polish American family that I 488 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: think when you're born, you just they go ahead and 489 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: fitch you for your your boots and your hat in 490 00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: all your fire equipment. Because all the Yonkees serve in 491 00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: the Houston Fire Department. Lee Brown declared war on that family. 492 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:16,040 Speaker 1: It's just it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing how he treated that family, 493 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 1: who our proud and longtime loyal members of the Houston 494 00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: Fire Department. His name was David Eugene Yankee. He's served 495 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 1: thirty three years in twenty six days as a Houston 496 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 1: Fire Department firefighter. He retired back in two thousand and six. 497 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,360 Speaker 1: But boy, I'll tell you what, those Yankees have given 498 00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,200 Speaker 1: a lot to the city of Houston. His service will 499 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: be on Sunday at one pm at Earthman Resthaven Funeral 500 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 1: Home on the North Freeway, followed by a celebration of 501 00:29:52,080 --> 00:30:02,360 Speaker 1: life memorial service for David Eugene Yankee, longtime Houston fire firefighters. 502 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:07,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about this this evening. President Trump 503 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:13,320 Speaker 1: has issued an executive order with the intention of solving 504 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: a problem that Frankly Ronald Reagan created, and that is 505 00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:25,160 Speaker 1: that Reagan unleashed open the doors to our insane asylums. 506 00:30:25,600 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 1: Now there's a bunch of coded words you're supposed to 507 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 1: use when it comes to crazy people. But there are 508 00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: crazy people, and that's not a mean thing to say, ladies. 509 00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:41,680 Speaker 1: That's a reality. And there are degrees of crazy. And 510 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 1: this is a very complex conversation to have because the 511 00:30:46,760 --> 00:30:50,280 Speaker 1: moment that other people have the power to institutionalize you 512 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: is the moment that you have lost agency. And that's 513 00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: a power. That is the power to enslave, a power 514 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:01,680 Speaker 1: to imprison, a power to control an adult and take 515 00:31:01,720 --> 00:31:05,840 Speaker 1: away their freedom. And I think that power should be 516 00:31:06,160 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: should have many, many checks and balances, But there can 517 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: be no question but for the fact that homelessness has 518 00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:18,240 Speaker 1: exploded in this country and the primary cause is mental 519 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:23,360 Speaker 1: health breakdowns. We saw the number of people who were 520 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: released from asylums during the Reagan administration and then decrease 521 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,880 Speaker 1: as the number increased out on the streets. Some of 522 00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:38,000 Speaker 1: those people literally went from the insane asylum to underneath 523 00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: the bridge or the park bench or whatever else I 524 00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,720 Speaker 1: found in my years of public service. It was the 525 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:47,360 Speaker 1: most uncrackable nut of all the public policy issues that 526 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:50,920 Speaker 1: I dove into and read widely and asked opinions and 527 00:31:51,040 --> 00:31:54,920 Speaker 1: met with people and attempted to find some level of solution. 528 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,360 Speaker 1: It's a tough one, but to his credit, Donald Trump 529 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,320 Speaker 1: is at least a tempting to do something about it, 530 00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,360 Speaker 1: and I think that in and of itself is commendable. 531 00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,080 Speaker 1: As always, I do love to hear from you. You 532 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,160 Speaker 1: can email us through the website at Michael Berryshow dot com. 533 00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: While you're there, you can sign up for your two 534 00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,239 Speaker 1: free bumper stickers, your Gringos gift card. 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