This is old boys and I want to tell you one other story about old Houston forward I don't think it'll take too long to tell this but you know old car owner He don't he don't run a gambling place that way. He don't he don't what I mean is he don't have a game a car game In his place But if you want to go up there and play cards in other words If if you've got two or three people and they want to go up there and play cards You know me decarls Carl let you do it He's got a back room back there and you can go back there and play cards and you can gamble if you want to but Carl Let it know he he let it out. He said he didn't want no cheating up there He wouldn't have it and he said he was gonna watch him and so anyway, they go up there and play cards And I don't ever play cards You know, but sometimes I'll go up there and watch him and and of course They all Carl let some do that because when they come up there to play cards Of course, you know They they order them drinks and he makes a lot of money and so he'll let them play cards up there But he don't let them have he don't have no cheating up there at all And of course they everybody knows that Carl means business and so, you know, they don't give him no trouble over that but a while back I was a man from Memphis That come over here. I guess he found out about these people playing cards up here I don't know what made him come his name was JD black and he come from Memphis and he was up you know, he had his fancy clothes on and and he wanted to Play cards in the game, you know, and they said well everybody's welcome, you know, they didn't know him but they they let anybody into the game, you know, so he got in the game and It wasn't very long before he started winning, you know, he he was he was dealing Blackjack is what they was doing and oh JD black was dealing it and and he got that he got to get in 21 might near every time and He was taking the money.
I mean he was he was taking the money and oh Carl, you know, I found out about it because they was back there cussing, you know, and he come back there to see what he was and they you know, they was cussing about this guy winning all the time and and I guess Carl got suspicious and So what he done and I happened to be down there at the time I didn't I like I say I didn't play cards I never do gamble because I work hard for my money and I don't want to lose it in no card game But anyway, I like to watch it and so they was back there playing and what Carl done He sent Houston forward back there and I thought that was kind of funny at the time But he said oh Houston forward back there and Houston forward just kind of Set down in a chair there and and kind of listened to the game You know, of course, I told you Houston forward can't can't see but he could listen to what was going on and of course they would they would call out the cards and and He got me you know, he got talking to me and he said what I want you to do is tell me what cards is played and And so I said well, I'll do it Houston I thought he was just Interested in the game, you know, and of course he couldn't he couldn't see it and he wanted me to Tell him what cards was played so I did and I told him every every card that they played when they when he Dealed out the cards I'd say well so and so has got a six and a two or a ten or whatever it was, you know And he said there and listen we we are I guess they played about ten hands And so Houston finally he told me he said well, you can quit now He said I believe I've heard just about enough so he left and directly Carl come back there and oh Houston was with him and And Carl said what's going on back here and Houston said well, he said I've been sitting here and he said I've seen I've three Ace of spades and two aces of clubs and I've seen four kings King King of diamonds And he said, you know ain't no deck of cards has got that many aces and that many kings and he said somebody is Cheatin well JD black jumped up, you know, he was going to whoa Houston, but oh Carl of course he stepped in front of me and that guy didn't need him on a mess with Carl because Carl would have made three of him and Carl said JD have you been cheating back here and JD said well I mean he said hell no, I ain't been cheating. He said these people just can't play well Carl Ritched down and picked him up and shook him, you know And when he did a whole bunch of aces and and face cards and tens come out of his coat and his shirt and so That made everybody mad and everybody was gonna whoop him, you know and Carl said no They're gonna be none of that we ain't gonna have no fighting but he said I tell you what I am gonna do so he retched in old JD's pocket and took his bill full out and He looked in the bill full and there was about $6,000 in that bill full and so Carl took the bill full and put it in his pocket and JD said you ain't gonna take my bill full and Carl said well I already have and JD said well I had some money when I come down here and Carl said okay, how much did you have and JD said well? I don't know he said I know but I had some money and Carl said well if you can't tell me how much you had He said I'm just gonna keep it all and so JD said well, I'm gonna go get the sheriff. It's what he said and Carl said well I'll just go with you and we'll talk to the sheriff and and I'll explain to him what she was doing down here and and So JD course he didn't he backed off and he said no, he said he wouldn't go to the sheriff, but he said Carl was low down so and so for taking all of his money well Carl retched down and picked him up and Took him outside there and set him down on the on the porch and Carl's got this big old Doberman up there that he keeps an opinion and when that place closes He turns that doberman out and that doberman guards that beer garden up there.
All right he don't never go nowhere he just stays around that beer garden and and Looks after it and he don't ever bother nobody But I wouldn't want to go around that beer garden when you know when Carl wasn't there, but I've seen the dog He don't you know, he don't he don't even mark when people come up there He just stays in his fin, but I've got a feeling that if you you know if you come up there at night He might do more than mark I mean he might grab take a leg off, but anyway Carl said JD He said you can start running and he said I'm gonna give you about 10 to get started And it said if you don't I'm gonna turn this dog loose Well JD black took off running and he took off down the road and he ain't been seen since and And so I asked old Bill I mean oh Houston about that thing about what happened and he said well He said you know you told me what was happening and he said I just listened He said I didn't keep up with all the cards because I can't remember that But he said all I'd done was just kept up with aces and kings because he said I know if he was cheating And he said I figured he was because Carl told me he was and he said I used to be in Las Vegas They'd there for you know good long time and he said I've learned about cards and he said it didn't take me very long To know what he was doing, but anyway, that's the story and and old JD black Ain't been back and I ain't looking for him to come back neither But anyway before I wind this up, I'm gonna tell you a little bit more about old Houston He he and old Francine has been going out together and they go down to this Cafe down here that that me and old my girl Emily goes to and I see them in there quite a bit Every chance they get you know he takes her down there and and and I seen them You know holding hands in there and and so I just I'm just telling you that I wouldn't I wouldn't spy on them I just happened to see him and I know he's really struck on her so I look for you know for announcement Any day now about a Gagement because I noticed she sure wasn't pushing him away or nothing like that So I think she's just as struck on old Houston as he is on her But I'm gonna I'm gonna quit now because I've talked long enough and I'll be back I'm gonna tell you about some other people down here I think I've said enough about old Houston But if he was to get married, you know I'll come back on here and let you know But I'm gonna tell you about some other people on the next podcast What I want to tell you about is the barbarians and at least that's what they call them That's not what I call them But that's what everybody else calls them down here and I want to tell you about them on the next podcast One one other thing that I I meant to tell you on that When I was talking to you about a JD black a minute ago But I wanted to tell you what old Carl done with the money Of course, I meant to tell you then I got to talk in and I got to thinking about a Houston and Francine and and I forgot to tell you what he done with the money But he he talked to all the people and he said now if you'll tell me the truth about what you lost He said I'm gonna give it back to you, but he said I better not hear no line and so They all told him, you know There was about to ten of them not not right then, you know He there was just a four or five of them right there when he thought OJD out But there was you know, he'd been up there the day before so there was about four or five more of them And he talked to all of them and he told them he said now if you can tell me the truth He said I'll give you money back this one time because he said I don't want nobody coming down here cheating in the card games So they ever won, you know come up to him and they told him the truth And they really did some of them just like lost, you know five dollars and Carl gave it back to him one man lost $50 and there was a whole bunch of them some of them lost 27 and 24 but they they could tell him how much they had lost except one person old luck Oh Bobby Chance he couldn't tell him. He said Carl. I've got to take the truth He said I don't know for sure. He said I got my check my paycheck Yes, did he and I got $80 and he said I've got $47 left, but he said I bought some groceries with some of it And he said I don't know what I lost and Carl, you know, he got he pence on he said well Do you think he lost?
more than $20 and Oh Bobby said well, no, I don't believe a deal. He said cuz I got about Oh You know $30 worth of roasters at least and he said I got a drink or two up here So Carl said what do you think it would be fair if I was to give you $20 and Bobby said well Yeah, that'd be more than fair Carl. He said I ain't gonna tell you I lost $20 and Carl said well That's all right. I'm gonna give you 20 When way when he got through paying them all off there was still about $4,000 left that he had took from OJD black and He got to talk into frame scene and he asked her was there something that they needed up there at the school and she said Yeah, I said they needed a new What they call this a stereo system see they had this old television and and and speakers and a Record player, but it had got old, you know and the television had quit and so he went out with that $4,000 and he bought what they called a entertainment center and it was a television and speakers and and you know a CD player and all that stuff, you know and one one Thing you know one year was two pieces it was a screen and then a control center and that screen was about to hold four feet Four feet to square at least so he got him that he said he didn't want to keep the man's money But he said he was gonna use it for some some good calls So he gave it to Francine and she was just tickled a death and that principle of the school come up and thank go Carl He said that they'd been needing that entertainment center for a long time But they just couldn't get the money up for it and you know Carl just said well you you you welcome I'm glad to do it.
He said y'all do a good service for the community So I just want you to know what happened to the money because it was you know Carl is a good man Like I told you and Carl wouldn't keep nothing that didn't belong to him and he tries to be Fire with everybody that he has dealings with