This is old blowers and I'm gonna try to stay on a subject better this this week I got a lot of criticism from different people that told me I never did tell what I started out to tell But that blame it I still believe I done the right thing by you know telling people the background But anyway, we won't we won't Well on that I'm just going going with the story and you remember that I told you that we got this building up here What that used to be the novice hospital it belongs to the state But they moved out of it and just left it empty So the the the town took over the place and and it is a good building it It really is and we wanted to do something Stretzy with it. So what we done after a lot of meetings and arguing back and forth is we turned it into a homeless Shelter you see we had a lot of people a lot of people that didn't have no place to live and they moved in down here And all they was you know They was they was dirty and they didn't have no place to live and they was stealing and and they was peeing on the streets and stuff like that So what we done to make a long story short is that we passed a tax and we turned that building See it had two dormitories and we turned it into a homeless shelter for men and women and then you know Them women stayed in the women's dormitory and the men stayed in the men's dormitory Well, that wasn't perfect You see cuz some of the people had kids and if they was a girl kids They had to stay in the girls dormitory and if they was boys they had to stay in the boys dormitory Well, some of them people wanted their kids with them. You see, but we couldn't have that So I mean it just didn't work. So that's the way we had to do it now some of them didn't like it But that was just the way that it was well in a way You know, you do something and you try to do the right thing and Sometimes it's hard to know what's gonna happen now if you know You know something about human nature and everything, you know, you could you could maybe Expect some of this stuff, but it's kind of hard to think about what all can happen when you're trying to do a thing It's hard to think about all the different things that that people could do and how they could misuse a property And of course the women the church people up here had a lot to do with it And and you know church people is some of the most naive people that they is because and that ain't criticizing them I don't mean that I'm criticizing them I think that they believe that because they do what they do and they act the way they act that if you do something for People they're gonna do the same thing and and that just ain't human nature But anyway, what happened was and that's what I've got to get to here But I was trying to explain to you that we just didn't know what was gonna happen down here when we would we were we Come up with a with the idea But what did happen was that I went up there looking around one time just to see what was going on making sure that the building was Was in good shape and that they was taking care of it And what I found that was and I found two or three beds down in the laundry room down there and two or three beds down there in the basement and What I figured was I didn't know but what I figured was that some of them people was well I don't know no good way of putting it but they was up Getting together, you know some of the men and the women was was up or it was getting together down there And I wasn't sure that they was up that they was married people see and You know we couldn't have that kind of thing going on down there becomes Well, you had kids down there and and and people wanted privacy and and you know You just had to have some supervision is which you had to have and we didn't have no money to go to To hire nobody down there We'd spend all the money that we had on you know putting the place in order and buying food for them And and you know we just we was operating on a shoestring So to speak and so we didn't know what we was going to do because it was obvious that them people You know left of their own own own wasn't going to do the right things and So we got this talking about it And you know big John Cole is down here and he got no job and like I told you he ain't good for nothing that I could see but he He didn't have nothing to do and we were we got to talk into him and would ask him would he go down there and just kind of supervise the place and we said we'll give him his board if he'd do that just go down and supervise it and make sure that the boys stayed in the boys domino or in the girls stayed in the girls domino or in and And we told him we'd give him his boards and now we couldn't afford to pay him nothing But he said that would be all right with him that he would he would go down there and he would supervise and he would make sure that everybody followed the rules and that they would behave they cells and So he moved in down there had him up You know they they used to have these rooms down there were the you know They had supervisors at that at when that was a nervous hospital And so he had a room off of the boys domino or you know big room a room in a kind of a kitchen And they had in a bathroom down there, you know, he was he was set up pretty good But he was you know, Johnny Beale just ain't got good sense and You know when Johnny Beale was talking about supervising he's talking about whooping and That's just the way he supervises.
So whenever he couldn't get whenever he could see a boy or a girl Not doing what he told him to do well, he had whoop him you see and the parents They got you kicking on that because they didn't they said if their kids needed whooping that they would whooping they sailed But Johnny Beale said no that he was in charge and he was hard by the community to keep rules down there and keep the law down there And anybody that didn't do what he said was gonna get a whooping Well, that was the first thing that we had to deal with that we had to you We talked to Johnny Beale about it and told him he had to quit that and he said he would but then he'd get mad You know it he'd do it again and he'd he'd whoop one of them kids and I was down there one time He didn't know I was there and so he had this one boy to well two boys was what had been fighting down there and So Johnny Beale called him fighting and like I say I heard his I was there to see it But he didn't know I was there and so anyway, Johnny Beale I heard him talking to him and he said boys You've got 30 seconds to get your clothes off and get it made Well them kids, you know, they know that they didn't want to work it So they got out of their clothes they got out of their clothes in 15 seconds. Maybe 10 seconds I mean it it sure didn't take them no 30 seconds and so after they got mad Johnny Beale said you too late And he walked them anyway, so I told Johnny Beale I said you and Johnny Beale if you can't do better than that I said we go have to let you go. Well, he told me he's gonna quit whooping them But anyway, another thing that Johnny Beale started doing was he he'd added all these girl friends and they'd come to they'd come to see him and You know the the moe is the people like Lester Park and Jimmy Vanderstig and you know, they don't they don't like Johnny Beale. No way because he's a well He's he's got a smart mouth and he's always, you know Call them names and making fun of them and everything so they tried to do you any kind of devil but that they can to Johnny Beale and so Johnny Beale has got a bunch of girls.
I guess But Jimmy Vanderstig and him know who they are so every time Johnny Beale gets one girl to come see him Well, they send two or three of them down there They say Johnny Beale needs some company and so the other girls are going down there too And so Johnny Beale I see anyone time he was sitting on the bench and he had two girls one on each side of him and they was looking at each other and was swearing off at each other and Directly they got into a fight with each other and Johnny Beale was trying to say you know, y'all quit that you know, I like both of you and so they was fighting and So anyway to make a long story so we had to get rid of Johnny Beale because he was causing more problems And he was solving he was he was whooping the kids and and he was getting up the The girls to the fighting over him and you know, that ain't good for kids to see You know, you got them young kids down there and they trying to grow up and learn right and then they see the adults Behaving that way and that ain't right. So we had to let Johnny Beale go and see if we was back where we started We had that same problem down there needed a homeless shelter shelter had a homeless shelter But we didn't have nobody to supervise it. So I'm gonna tell you in the next Podcast what we done about it And I tell you come up with idea was old old flossy butts and you know flossy butts is a she's a she's a smart old girl She really is and so she come up with the solution to the problems I don't know if it was old flossy butts or was over in the pocket Maybe both of them but they come up with a solution to our problem and that place is operating just like it needs to now And and I want you to know that we ain't got no homeless problem down here no more So I won't tell you about it in the next podcast with him two girls come up with