Big D Roundup

thank you from Dallas

and I was eleven years ago and now they're asking

really is

story again you know

they decorated

right on everything

I don't know what's wrong with

anyway

tell you what happened to me

balance of about

and before I got here

the biggest thing that I think that really wrecked me more than anything what we found out that I wasn't a girl yeah

you know

you know and everything

you can make the most of a bad situation

people are making

born

LA actually is overly

I have to clarify right away

runs through Los Angeles

downtown in downtown is like trying to

you know

which is the oldest part of LA

one senior over over Lakers like

right really big

background and everything

we were the first

anyway

going to go through

and you know that's where everything is

being an office three

every now and then it goes by you know all the

you

places and then you go with the west Hollywood and that's

I live one block from

in the world

I love my friend so happy I was born there and what happened today this is

but a three

and my great grandfather describes what happened

he was from and make

when my whole family

when I get down here

I'm very polite yes ma'am how are you

anyway

you know a little

my mother father you know raise

right and do anything go I have to go to

right

do you have to go to school and all those things and you always grown were you you have to

you know

thank you

it does not want to mind

nobody

you know you know anybody anybody

then you're in trouble

I can't wait till I get to do what I wanna do is you look

I wanted to do what I want to do when I was little I did not want to cooperate

I don't know what it was

you know growing up

you know

I don't know if you're

you know

we now

doing what they wanna do they

thank god they come home and you

we

one would think

you're going to have to go to school and

I have a lot of trouble

a lot of personality

your full hours

personality and

I went through

wait

really good you know

there was never anything

I mean I can not recall one

anybody anything

acted like girls

a little bit more

you know you have to dress up and go to

you couldn't

you know you have to be closed before you could play what we were down

when

several blocks

can you imagine

really cool

they have everything

and you couldn't do anything

yeah like you know you have that many because you can't

girl named Norma

here are your reading there are

this girl was

you know

you know

volley ball you know I'd like

and everything and then

every

so you have to kind of live up

did you

your aunt Martha never act like that

and insulin and you know that's the kind of really clever

all it is

ability to remember whatever I read so I could really

that would be it I read it and that was it for the semester

you

what

you know getting the class

yeah

thank you thank

best of all

you know what I mean by the government and I'm ready the only reason I ran track are you guys I can't

my father was the Golden Gloves

we're going to you know

you know

and we have

we want to be

we don't

thirty

you know

I ran track and I can run like the wind

when he was you know

the smoking cigarettes

okay

I got a three year varsity letter winner

I want

this winter and

in a minute that was over I started smoking cigarettes and everything

we did it

I was one of

there was always integrating or you know representing and I would represent Los Angeles

the United Nations I remember going to the United Nations and represent

an inmate

you know Washington DC and an integrated a restaurant there is a

and what

three important

wonderful

but I was really gonna be something you're not

right

get up and I just wanted

the only baby

I got older

did you walk across the

we have

you don't

grows over your

you

when you go to the

I do you know about those things that they have a selective service card works it made me older and I went to the bars with

groping people but it was

here and everything is run around in those days you if you were in the bar

police come in and raise the bar and Easter rate the bars all the

it was considered many hours and everybody would go to people and we

we

are you

you can you know you

your way

four members really cold I don't remember his name

he was

great

but you know and everything

go down there

he was never I never

the country from the enemies foreign and domestic

and you get in there and tell you what

yeah

when you don't make up the

trying to

I had never been around

been around people from California

these people are from other places

thank you

right

and

you know they put me in this thing I have

I'm in the airport in trouble

they

I'm from Los Angeles California

police in Los Angeles California

you know even

police forces

but that means

police and the police are

I am a policeman with

if you

thanks

we've never ever seen in my life

and I remember getting there and it was like raining it rained a lot

down the mountain

no one here and I thought okay now they didn't have a lot of

well we're all our weapons away from people work you know it

our weapons away at night

started coming down

from

do you know everything

you know

no more and no one in the

make

on the ground you

three

you can

mark

you know

never make it in the world you know never have a job

great

let me get all I got back on

round

no as long as I

and I'm working and drinking every night

what I want to

the house in the back of their house

there

people in and out all these

and

good

what I was

I work in this office

Dr samples

and I would read you know

and then you meet people who helped

if I'm ever going to work or to work

thank you you know I mean you

do you want

interest

they were selling drugs

and you wake up and you drink a lot

all right

they start out rate

these are you know

we

and then you get to walk

on the ground as an actor

I read in my neighborhood and

we will join the over

I remember my

I haven't too much trouble and everything and

thanks

you know the more

yeah

right

the movies or one

you know

and so I went to jail for possession of a row of marijuana road

those days are

the end

so I have to be more

don't you think

can we drink and wine and beer ripping and running

everything I was

if anybody anything you know what I

you know I just

and then you know

the older you get the worse you get

there are always

and

anyway I'm drinking more and more and things are going a little bit

I'm not the guy who was

we kind of had a Bangor Maine he was really a bad I mean he was really you know

so we we

thing and we're doing

he told me one day

there are one

the corner

I ran up to the corner

when I got back in town on the we put a little white thank

right now all these things that we didn't

the rest of

you know I'm in this

zero one we

good wine and we have to move

the reason you because your chances of going to jail goal weight down because so many people there but they can't

all the different drugs

the empty

initial drug

and you would think you wouldn't give me

the range of ten years

at the green

and so I started

being wide awake all night

all this

I didn't really read

I did not need this kind of

on any given occasion

everything has gone wrong by this time I'd make

to make a decision

right now

right now

really great

I know more

two days later I

everything

well now

you can't stop

yeah

to get loaded for years and years and years

every time I

I am running the streets of Los Angeles ripping and running what all these underworld activities and I remember getting it

we got there in the long run mine

and me and our members

Brandon Brandon over it

cool you know and

he was on the

you

the hospital and I got to the hospital

everything else

or

okay great rock and roll

or up anything and they wouldn't give me any

tell you what they they didn't give me

and they didn't have nothing to drink

that was when my life was always

commenting going wrong and then they

started

Avenue in Los Angeles

so they started a lot of different programs that they have these drug programs and they have the free cleaning free clinic and they make a group the group

you know everything

they give you a prescription for codeine and

a really good

I really didn't know

all these different programs program

thank you

on the maintenance program and I wanted you know more

Texas all the way from nothing you can do about

it was

every day just trying to make this beautiful you know and now you know my mother

he really

there's nothing worse than a black woman

you know

to make different things

this alone and that would be it and

in that program

you know I mean their program for years

in that program

you know

you know

email the ratings and all this stuff and we are we are you know

information

nine I came out I was wrong before

what did you

you know I have no way to make it

I know something's wrong with me

I need to know

she looked amazing no you're not gonna

you know

you know

these men

we're in the alley and on the street and they were running a

remember

and

and we

you know we laugh at him and make fun of them and what I

you know we have to respect what they were they

down on the street

round and then people

you know I don't know I don't know what

things are getting worse and worse

twenty something years and live

really drastic

top down anymore your

all these things often

good for me

you want a job you know and then you get there really

what happened to me and I remember going for a job interview one

and I can remember

I went to this job

with an activities director because I have this little license license I got

there

remember in the

get me through

there was

can you imagine

it didn't run around with people that were really

I remember one guy

thank you

what happened was my mother

what happened was that I got into a fight with

one day

and

they are you know and they got rid of me

when I was when it was you know

in the end

they're building and moved away and didn't tell me where they were

you know that they would do me like that

you know

I don't know

no great

and I just moved down down

in a round

you have to get money together and

I wouldn't use any more drugs

thank you for

Thunderbird in me and I'm trying to make it

some days are

three

and

when

when you get down to

No shoes either walking around with all raggedy clothes on

and everything

doing the same thing

correct and you know what

and you know

warning

living in those

you may get in

things are really bad situation I didn't know what

all the time

I had so much happened in my life and I didn't know

we have family

in

nineteen seventy

and you know everybody in the family

part of the

you know and make my knees

where can I

right

I'm ready now

feeling good now and the family

later you know

yeah

we

every year for a family reunion and the theme song

what

we are family

you know you know

using

we

you know

getting

September twenty

thank you

when I got home and they

at least

and maybe if we

that night and I did that

I don't know nothing about

right

you know

you know

we were

we got in trouble

we will

the police

drawn out

I didn't walk around the room

right really bad

people were down you know

they have been

and I remember looking up at

you know

you know I went away you're really not

you know and

some

maybe I should ask somebody

and I

okay so I went through the yellow pages

alcohol

what to do and

because I was waiting for my brain

figure out

thank you

somewhere in our

and this lady answered

help me

can you get down there and I'll look at another location in LA right now

I couldn't get on the bus right there was no way I could walk

I couldn't make it

the call from

right down there

he got through he got game you're right

drop me off and

when

there you know

is there any cross over and

I don't have anything to

sure

from somebody

well it

you know I get in the way

they were there and a lady came and she was kind of a rough looking woman you know and

you know what

here

it's about doing something about

yeah

I really don't

what

you know

you know what

the problem is

I know

no

I need to restart your

in law opened up

good reputation

all right you

really

tomorrow when they ask you where you want to be

you don't want to go the

okay

you look back will roll your own

yeah absolutely out of

never forget it was

winos around

the only thing in there and everything

for a while I

right

I'm sorry I didn't get more

create a water

down the

you can go down you know

you want to wear

and on

they were

I got in the line with the rest of the

man was right right

what do you want to go

remember remember the name of for nothing in the world

every

you know

we use water you know and

are you

she heard around here

yeah

and her name was

and she made a phone call from the band

do you talk to them on the phone

right

okay

you are

every

in the next

we want

you got me to the place

and I want

I would be more

any

let me down and

a couple questions and

forty three years old among the biggest

world

means everywhere and I didn't

the room

in the room

what are you willing to do and I told him twenty ninth of nineteen seventy

well we read book around here

in

over there and we're going to win

the girl maybe maybe something here

I wouldn't be

and I think it was I could not believe

every thing up in your manager

twenty seven years

and it is

to read this book and then you know when you

read more

that was a little I don't know what

all right

important

well you could be

you may be going

you know we did not

I mean what

our

you work on this problem

well

you don't always what I wanted to do

I'm doing exactly what I wanted to do when I want everybody

I want

you know

the next chapter

can you imagine reading rate

early

well you better find out the

that's the root of our company goals

we got you in trouble

to be quite

you know there are many

read this I remember going to

one of the

when you're going to be my next

you you

it's got a whole hard work program thing they told me to

I didn't get in any trouble I didn't I didn't call it anything

question about

you're mad

in your life you know

you got to go to meetings

the meeting that you have to get a job

we got a job working in a clean and old people

three dollars

let me tell you about the people in a

nine people were moved out of the people came over

secondhand store you know the

and K. Turner and

gold ribbon on it

a lot of the girls had gone

the money

when you get

and you know when you're

everybody at the meeting

looking

and everything

the

they call it

close to Venice

and nobody ever told

there are always issues I would feel really bad I'm real shaky I'm never going to

one of

and we

I like

really

a lady came across the room and

there

right

you

if you want

welcome

you can't you can't

you know people want

there weren't very many people

the people that were there to make up for

they were nice they wanted me to get over

they did everything you know

sure

they want to be an alcoholic

I really

going in there

and she

after zero one on

for a reason you know

Florian Mayer

the first black man

and they call him a Negro

we were no longer I think we were African American

but I knew what they were trying to do I did not

you're welcome to me and

this is

it made me wonder alcoholic

yeah I was going right away with

all three

over

right away I started doing

I need a new

are you

you

where are you were you were down in

everything I need

if you drink

where you left off

doing that and making

people started only about

a friend of mine told me

in west Hollywood

everything

we want to hire somebody to do the work and I don't

and

more money and

after you have in there in the

read something like that before and I went down in order

zero one and everything

people want to

well I agree with that went to school and everything I mean

cool

another friend of mine gave me nothing but it might

cool cool degree in psychology

and

you have

I wonder what

anyway I got from the

no don't worry don't worry

you can go

you for the rest of your life on the

we

pretty cool

new place

every three minutes

reader

the program

everything is

the program

the only

greeting

and you know

you can make a lot of money

you're going to make a certain amount that I

three

the thing that ever happened to me

we put our money in my name can you believe it

your business or what have you

local government

what

when their mothers and fathers

you will never have to be there

when I go to meetings

is everywhere and when I get it

would you

come down if you were

for me

I am nineteen years old great thank god

what are

the wonderful