{"id":66804,"date":"2016-04-30T10:18:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T17:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66804"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T22:10:23","slug":"q939-transcript","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=66804","title":{"rendered":"Q939 Transcript"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(This tape was transcribed by the late Michael Bellefountaine. The editors gratefully acknowledge his invaluable contributions to the site, including this transcript.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> \u2013and two-fifty total price.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> The Los Angeles Peoples Temple will just suddenly cease to exist. It was caught up<\/i><\/em> in a moment of a twinkling of an eye. (Pause) We\u2019re sure waiting on that one. Got two feelers anyway. That\u2019d been a hell of a job, selling, we got to live out on the ranch, an orphanage or children\u2019s home. So we get a little of that money in, we will buy us a boat and we will get some shit moving here. (Pause) What would you do? My last qu\u2013 question, it\u2019s ten after ten. What would you do? Sister Etta [Thompson] said we would say uh, well uh, come and get us all. Well, (tape edit) (unintelligible) you kinda move that essentially that\u2019s it. But you should say whether you go to Russia, you don\u2019t. What would<\/i><\/em> you do? What would be your demand?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) How many want to stay here and fight it out?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Long cheer followed by extended ululaltion)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Oh, shit. (pause) Well, us old timers might sit down here and fight it out and s\u2013 send our kids on to Russia and\u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Reacts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (call of protest) We\u2013 we\u2013 we\u2019ll think that through, honey. But I like that sentiment though. We didn\u2019t get this land easy, and they didn\u2019t build it. We did it. We ain\u2019t going to lose it easy.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> No.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Thank you. Anybody got a unique idea? Who said fight it out?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Well, there might be another point of view, it\u2019d be much more wise than that.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Honey, if we fight it out, there ain\u2019t nobody going nowhere.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Calls)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> So you better vote for Russia or America, if you\u2013 (chuckles) If you vote\u2013 vote fighting out, when that line gets formed \u2013<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> We would\u2013 we watch folk during that time, oh, some\u2013 some got sick, (laughs) some\u2013 some hiding down behind cupboards. (Pause) Wasn\u2019t long till their asses out there on the line though. (chuckles) But they couldn\u2019t hold up their cutlass [if] somebody watched them, and it wasn\u2019t long until everybody was holding it up. I thought Bruce said it best, Bruce Oliver, what made some people\u2013 Bruce could put it better, I can\u2019t remember the exact words he said. First I was afraid to die. What was the next state\u2013 statement? Say, after several hours of that shit, I wished I could<\/i><\/em> die. Bruce said, by god, before it was over with, I didn\u2019t give a shit one way or the other.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> And I like that uh, Bruce was volunteering to go back and do a little job, and his wife [Shanda James Oliver] was volunteering at the same time, that\u2019s a lovely marriage. He didn\u2019t know she\u2013 I don\u2019t know whether they both made a pact, but she said (Unintelligible) they won\u2019t suspect me, I\u2019m little I\u2013 (trails off). Had a hell of a plan. I don\u2019t\u2013 If I was you, I wouldn\u2019t want to co\u2013 commit no shit<\/i><\/em> \u2018cause some of these people got some plans. You don\u2019t know who you settin\u2019 by. Some of these little old ladies, they got plans, honey, they got\u2013 they\u2019ll\u2013 they\u2019ll have you sewed up and throwed in the Oakland Bay, and you won\u2019t know what even hit you.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughter)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> I\u2019ve never read some of these fucking plans, I don\u2019t mean they\u2019re just s\u2013 stupid plans, I mean, ye gods. But Bruce said (Call out) I am ready, you can be afraid of dying. (Conversational) That\u2019s why some of you tonight that put up your hands, we ought to get to talk to you, \u2018cause we ought to\u2013 you ought to get the counseling started, I want the counseling started immediately. All take care\u2013 all you need to do out is there on that goddamned line, that\u2019d take care of you. Let the rain fall on you, and get down there and lay down on the ground, and get up off the ground, go get a shower and back on the line.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Even though I did fix all the food, hell, I killed everything we had, we wasn\u2019t sure it was over with, I killed the chickens and the fucking hogs and shit<\/i><\/em>. We ate. You talk about the last supper, honey, we\u2019d eat it. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Cheers approvingly)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Hey! And if that fucking army come up that st\u2013 Uh, if that fucking army had (chuckles) come up that first s\u2013 squadron wasn\u2019t very much, we\u2019d eat them too<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughter)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> They\u2019d say, where\u2019s our boys? We don\u2019t know shit. We just had the last supper with the Lord.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Murmurs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> That\u2019s what made Bruce able to say, (Calls out) \u201cDon\u2019t make no difference to me<\/i><\/em>. First I was afraid of dying, hours later I wish I could<\/i><\/em> die. And then some more hours it got me so steeled and so ready and so I look at life and how it was and how the enemies are and what life really represents, and I didn\u2019t give a shit one way or the other<\/i><\/em>.\u201d (Moderates, then builds) And that\u2019s what happened to me. Too many times I went around that circle, too many times before then, too many times I grabbed their arms and loved them and kissed them and cried over them. Shit, when you get through dying like that, I\u2019m ready for anything<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Cheers)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Ready for anything. So love your neighbor, love your neighbor.<\/p>\n

(Pause)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Hums) (Sings and hums unknown hymn)<\/p>\n

Pause.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> We may not have a Saturday night meeting, because this is Thursday night, and we can behave ourselves. Sit. Now I\u2019m gone get these things taken care of, \u2018cause we just gone go down the line.<\/p>\n

Voices:<\/b><\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Pause.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Rhonda Page, I was so proud of her that she got throwed on the ran\u2013 anarchy crew, (unintelligible word) could say, you know Jerry Robinson and shit backwards, and she worked her\u2013 worked hard<\/i><\/em> and diligent. Penny [Kerns] said she worked so fucking hard, she even pushed Penny\u2019s ass when she was moving slow.<\/p>\n

Woman\u2019s voice off mike:<\/b><\/strong> Yes she did. (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) I like Penny for that. I said, \u201cPenny, how\u2019d she do?\u201d Said, \u201cShit, she pushed me around all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Chuckles, and then breaks into laughter)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) Lot of praises, they can uh, be mentioned over public announcement, others could do<\/i><\/em> this, if it\u2019d be helpful, and they could probably do some of this. I appreciate leaders getting on the work crew and showing that there\u2019s no stigma. I\u2019m looking for\u2013 forward to the day that I<\/i><\/em> can be on the work crew. Every night I start to get out here and work in the night, I say I\u2019m so fucking tired of this radio, I\u2019m going to bury that fucking septic tank. \u2018Cause you don\u2019t understand how much I love work, \u2018cause if I could work with you, some of you, some of you would love to work, \u2018cause when you watching me work, you see I don\u2019t fuck with it. I took that wheelbarrow the last good deal I had, run up and down here faster than they could get the wheelbarrow, and then I\u2019d fill it too. Work is delicious<\/i><\/em>. Delightful. You can rest<\/i><\/em> after you work. (Clears throat) But I wish I had more time away from crisises, but if you people deliver me from crisises, I\u2019ll go from crew to crew, and that\u2019s the best thing leadership can do, is to get in with the workers, and that\u2019s the best example. That shows. But you keep leaders tied up<\/i><\/em> with a bunch of shit<\/i><\/em> planning. You know what I mean.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>Yes.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Well, that\u2019s good. Learning Crew. (Clears throat) We\u2019re having to read all those good reports off tomorrow. And I\u2019m riding over just the little things, because I don\u2019t want to keep you late. So uh, be sure to know that just because you do not get mentioned tonight, that doesn\u2019t mean that you didn\u2019t deserve to get mentioned, you just\u2013 you getting kind of a break because it\u2019s the night meeting to look at the beauty of death. Revolutionary death. The privilege for dying for what you believe. And if you\u2019re having a problem with dying, I do want those names to start counseling, \u2018cause we can help<\/i><\/em> you with it, we can really help you. (Pause) Santiago Rosa,<\/b><\/strong> since he went out and met some of them fellas out there in that jungle, he\u2019s doing good in his work, and his attitude is excellent, much better. You see, that\u2019s why we have to have folk go out there, two weeks two days. And that proves that there\u2019s all kinds of strokes, different strokes for different folks. We don\u2019t like<\/i><\/em> the different strokes, I don\u2019t like<\/i><\/em> that walk myself, do you? I don\u2019t think anybody enjoys it.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> It might upset the shit out of them because\u2013 Yeah, he had a\u2013 he had a\u2013 he had an experience out there. Miraculous, miraculous, uh, protection. Now is that the last of the Learning Crew? Garnett Johnson been working real good and so is his attitude, last two days. You keep that up, you only got\u2013 I want to hear at the end of the day how he\u2019s doing, \u2018cause two weeks is the kind of a period I like to get people off. In the last two days, Noir Blanch\u2019s work is\u2013 his attitude is good, he even worked on his break<\/i><\/em>. Now that is good. Noir Bu\u2013 uh, will rest<\/i><\/em> in the uh, the main dorm area. He\u2019ll spend his nights there with Penny\u2019s situation, but he\u2019ll be off the work crew. Where does he go, back to his school?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> He didn\u2019t go out there with Big Foot, but he\u2013 he sent two out there and that did him in. He\u2019s been good for two days, and that\u2019s beautiful, real good. Garnett Johnson, (unintelligible word)\u2013 attitude good, work good, one more day and you\u2019ll be off. Jair Baker, last two days, his work and attitude have been real good. We\u2019ll hear about that tomorrow and he\u2019ll go back to uh\u2013 What was he doing? Now don\u2019t any of you people take advantage to go back on this crew, \u2018cause it gets worse and worse. Jair will stay in the uh, area, he likes the light, but uh, where does he work, if\u2013 if he goes off tomorrow. Hmm? (Pause) (Unintelligible) OK.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Santiago Rosa, he\u2019s been uh\u2013 he\u2019s had his hell through these weeks and he\u2019s done really well these two days. Okay, he\u2019s off. Where does he go? Where\u2019d he go?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> That\u2019s (unintelligible word). Back to the kitchen and the pots. Is that\u2013 (Unintelligible) the kitchen? Hmm?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Garnett Johnson, what does he do\u2013 if he goes another day, and Jair goes another day, they\u2019ll be off. No, no Jair\u2019s off<\/i><\/em>, Jair\u2019s off tonight. Jair goes (Unintelligible) Okay. He goes\u2013 Jair stays in that structure, though. (Clears throuat) He wanted to be there in the light, and I think it is a good idea. What is it?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Many people work on that\u2013 uh, all you people in control of the toilets, will you please get on that and\u2013 and\u2013 and (unintelligible word) insect control, we had the flies and it\u2019s getting (unintelligible word) again. Get after flies, the fly swatters. The shipment, when we get the damn shipment out, we got two hundred fly swatters, and that\u2019ll be a help<\/i><\/em>, but let\u2019s make some simple ones up and use them, honey. How many\u2019ll get the fly swatters out, \u2018cause we\u2013 we\u2019ve had these damned flies damned near to zero. (Clears throat) For a week. (Pause). Now they said in the\u2013 in the\u2013 in the war they could put the\u2013 they could make a toilet with a goddamned diesel tank underneath it \u2013 half tank \u2013 filled with a little oil and you never had the shit or smell. How many in the war? Is that true? Hmm?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Somethin\u2019<\/i><\/em> we gotta do, somethin\u2019<\/i><\/em> that can stop that shit. It\u2019s better<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> They can\u2019t get no lime.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (clears throat) Yes.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> The breather\u2019s stopped up?<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b><\/strong> It\u2019s stopped up.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s it stopped up with?<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b><\/strong> And\u2013 well. When they uh\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> When it was up high.<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b><\/strong> Yes. When they uh, they opened up that uh\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Woman 2:<\/b><\/strong> That thing where\u2013 where the nest goes through, that is\u2013 the\u2013 they\u2013 they stopped that thing up and\u2013 and it\u2013 they say it can\u2019t go up. You have to go inside, but if they would\u2013 if they would take it and uh\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> The coordinator disagrees with you, honey bun\u2013<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> How\u2019s that, that\u2013 that sounds reasonable. Huh?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> It\u2019s open. Well, the odor is not as bad if you\u2013 you got some charcoal in there now? Can we put some more and see what the hell it\u2019ll do? \u2018Cause you can almost put your nose that way and smell the night air.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> I think it\u2019s appropriate to build the Peoples Rally near the shithole, though, because it usually smells. The rally. Yes, Sly? Ujara.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, peace. We can\u2019t get to peace yet. Forget that ballyhoo, (unintelligible word) ordered, and we got some can\u2013 canoes coming in for hunting, they\u2019re already in that shipment to get the damned canoes here, some of you\u2019ll be glad to hear that. The motorboat, uh, motor\u2019s already here, I guess. But to fish<\/i><\/em> again, we haven\u2019t got enough fish to eat<\/i><\/em> yet, but the fish is a marvelous, marvelous fertilizer and it\u2019s marvelous to control \u2018em, I heard that from different\u2013 different ones. Now there\u2019s one sister here, (Clears throat) (Pause) that\u2019s already reported on the Learning Crew I have. Any complaint that I did not mention. Lucy Miller, who\u2013 where is Lucy Miller?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Aah, she works too fucking hard down at the\u2013 at the ditches. She may be\u2013 Honey, you\u2013 uh, I ain\u2019t going to argue with you, but you\u2013 you got picky, you\u2019re picky with food, honey. Don\u2019t raise any issue. No, no, don\u2019t come out, don\u2019t\u2013 just don\u2019t raise no more issue about food, will you now? You\u2019re awful good to work on the\u2013 you\u2013 you\u2013 you\u2019re awfully good to work out there in the field, you\u2013 you clear away when you work when you do your guard duty, you do work, you copy? You hear me? And because of that, I\u2019m not going to bring it up, but don\u2019t raise no fuss about food, will you now? Okay. I\u2019ll put up with some eccentricities, where you clean that damned place\u2013 She does<\/i><\/em> work down there. Some of you young people ought to think of work as hard as some of the seniors, cleaning out debris and cleaning away these ditches and making the places to plant, and I hope that all those dorms get cleared up like some of the rest, but uh, some issue was raised about uh, hair in the food. Don\u2019t worry about the hair, (unintelligible word) shit (unintelligible word). It\u2019ll just help your shit get through, honey. (Clears throat) It\u2019s protein<\/i><\/em>, really. Hair is protein. Don\u2019t ever worry about hair. Don\u2019t ever worry about it. When it goes down, it is actual meat, high rich protein. But people naturally want to be careful about uh, hair, but I don\u2019t care having hair in my food. But no complaining about food, please.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Julia [likely Birkley] told me, Lucy wasn\u2019t\u2013 Lucy accused her of putting a zodiac on her.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Oh, honey I\u2013 I don\u2019t\u2013 uh, Lucy may be a little\u2013 Lucy may be a little loose<\/i><\/em> with the zodiac, but I\u2013 she works<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Will you fuck\u2013 quit fucking with your zodiac.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> No other complaint? If you make a meeting on Saturday, you\u2019ll wish you ain\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Got\u2013 Check with (unintelligible word) tomorrow see if we can get a movie in here\u2013 You\u2013 you did? I mean check tomorrow Georgetown. They could fly one in. We gonna eat some meat on Christmas Day. I never did answer, either, you want to ask me about meat, hell, when you live this close (unintelligible word), I\u2019m gonna eat that meat on Christmas<\/i><\/em> Day, ain\u2019t nothing good about Jesus being born, but I want\u2013 I do<\/i><\/em> want to have some ham on Christmas Day.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Cries out in approval)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Peace. Peace. You\u2019re having some trouble, did you say, Eva [Pugh], keeping that meat down in that cellar, did I hear you say it? I was in a mess of a crisis, and she was trying to talk to me, and hell, I was between two radios, I was switching from San Francisco to Georgetown fast as I could move. Where\u2019s Eva?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones: <\/b><\/strong>Uh, Eva, you\u2019re getting further to the back. What\u2019s happening?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s this uh\u2013 what\u2013 what\u2013 You say that meat\u2019s having trouble holding up in the uh, cellar?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Huh?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones: <\/b><\/strong>How much more meat you got?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Huh?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Meat. I am talking about (unintelligible word), honey?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s she sayin\u2019?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>Midlands\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Midlands. Oh, my God.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Yeah, how\u2013 how much meat, pounds-wise? What\u2019s a midland hold?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible word) you have time to bring that midland down into pounds? Huh?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> One side of the hog? You got two sides of the hog? What?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What the hell we gone do<\/i><\/em>, honey? Because I\u2013 I already done it. Knowing how things were, I ordered uh, 6000 pounds more meat. It\u2019d be hard to turn that back. And there\u2019d be 2000 pounds of fish<\/i><\/em>. That means you\u2019re gone eat a lot of fish, \u2018cause I know that shit in fish. You have to eat it in one night. Hell, we had fish, there wasn\u2019t nothing\u2013 but I guess when you\u2019ve had nothing but fish, \u2018cause they uh\u2013 everybody had a great<\/i><\/em> big fish steak last time. Two<\/i><\/em> great big fish steaks. \u2018Cause they had to eat all the fish that night. We gotta find a way to preserve<\/i><\/em> this stuff, honey.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What? Pickle \u2018em?<\/p>\n

Voices<\/b><\/strong>: (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s you find out there, Lew [Jones]? He\u2019s the pig man. What about it?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Brother Jeffrey. What about the Comrade Jeffrey? What about the pi\u2013 uh, pig?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Well, we got any room in the freezers?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Huh?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Get the (unintelligible word) out of it?<\/p>\n

Voices:<\/b><\/strong> (Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Oh, you got\u2013 and shit, the way the boat moves\u2013 the way the boat flies. It\u2019s like the crow flies. They probably won\u2019t be able to be coming in before\u2013 oh, what would I say, Charlie [Touchette]? Would I be safe in saying, uh, a week from Tuesday? That\u2019d be safe, wouldn\u2019t it? (Laughs) You at\u2013 You at least\u2013 You\u2013 You\u2019re probably two<\/i><\/em> weeks away before the meat gets here. That gives us some time to work on the meat you got.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Okay, we\u2019re gonna have meat on Sunday. Jesus is born<\/i><\/em>, we\u2019ll celebrate his fuckin\u2019 birth for that. For a piece of ham. (Cries out) Thank you, Jesus. You can come back now, honey, you can come back. Wake up, love. Now I know she ain\u2019t sleepin\u2019, she just want to\u2013 She\u2019s Jonah in the whale, she don\u2019t want to hear the truth<\/i><\/em>. Jonah got in the whale<\/i><\/em>, so he couldn\u2019t hear the truth. I said, Jesus is dead, we\u2019re gonna resurrect the fucker, we\u2019re gonna eat ham on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Calls approval)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Present it your own Christmas<\/i><\/em> style. Yeah, Momma.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Smoke it? Honey, if you know how to smoke it as well as you know to fix that (unintelligible word), then does\u2013 go at it. Smoke on it all you want to.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Jeffreys, you get up there with her, you know to smoke it? You talkin\u2019 about that new lar\u2013 that new load comin\u2019 in? Oh, will you talk off (unintelligible word), got no microphone. Jeffrey, louder.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Got to have what?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Green<\/i><\/em> wood. Shit.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Stirs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> We got any green wood for these folk?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Stirs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Chips on what? Any\u2013 any wood? I don\u2019t know anything \u2018bout smokin\u2019 any. What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Who did that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Rosie [likely Ijames]? Oh, Rosie? Goddamn. I knew in her day, she was a good fucker, she\u2019s a good smoker too, huh?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Calls out) Aren\u2019t you glad Love Life [Lowe] (unintelligible word) her god?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Stirs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Yes, honey, let\u2019s do that then. Let\u2019s smoke it, huh? Can we smoke it up there a little bit? Boy, I\u2019d like that.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Well, we\u2019ll work on that, (unintelligible word), we\u2019re working on all of it, we\u2019re trying to.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Are we hearing that construction (unintelligible word)? Can we do that? Is that conceivable? What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> It make it tough. Goddamn these old timers, I don\u2019t know. Shit. We thought we wouldd\\ get this cured, but the (unintelligible word) now is gone make it tough. That\u2019s if you boil it. Tish [Leroy] says the stars are right.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) She says, that\u2013 that\u2019s only if you boil<\/i><\/em> it, honey. She just read the chart<\/i><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019d you say, Eva?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Well, can somebody help us now? Can you\u2013 all you ladies get\u2013 get together and we eat fish with a chart and see if we can\u2019t get some of that meat smoked? There\u2019s a will, there\u2019s a way. What\u2019s that, honey?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Shh. Shift.<\/p>\n

Older woman:<\/b><\/strong> Do not let pregnant women go round no meat.<\/p>\n

Voices:<\/b><\/strong> (Disagree)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What do you want me to\u2013 What\u2013 what about the\u2013<\/p>\n

Older woman:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible word) spoil your meat. That\u2019s an insult. (unintelligible under Jones)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Are you fuckin\u2019 pregnant, (unintelligible name), you did this to our meat?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Stirs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> I told<\/i><\/em> you, Margaret [James?], to stay away from that meat. Paying to keep your pregnant ass at home.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Stirs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Honey, I think that come out of the book of the wives\u2019 tales. Irene [Edwards], what you gone tell me? That old fuckers ain\u2019t supposed to be around the meat?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible, laughter)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Shh. Clear the microphone, (unintelligible word) Eighty-some-year-old talkin\u2019 there. What?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Irene is talkin\u2019. What\u2019d you say, Irene? Say it again.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Irene:<\/b><\/strong> Those things were nothing (unintelligible word), and they know, by God, they\u2019ll do it. And they just don\u2019t care. That\u2019s it. And pregnant womens will mess<\/i><\/em> it up. Ask me to stand their ass around. Make<\/i><\/em> \u2018em leave from around there. Hey<\/i><\/em>, make \u2018em leave. I say, make their ass go away.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> I didn\u2019t see a pregnant woman around that meat, honey.<\/p>\n

Irene:<\/b><\/strong> For just one minute. Hey, hey, wait. Hold\u2013 hold it here.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Let\u2019s just drop the pregnant woman and go on to the water, will you?<\/p>\n

Irene:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible sentence). Ain\u2019t that right? Too many here to\u2013 for eat\u2013 to feed, too many of \u2018em got\u2013 got to be fed. And let anybody waste, by God, and mess up on a thing like that. And you don\u2019t need to say you don\u2019t know \u2018cause by God, you know. Let\u2019s keep their ass from around it. That\u2019s what you do.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Irene:<\/b><\/strong> Stay from round it. I mean it. Stay from round it.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> She used to be\u2013 she used to be a holiness\u2013<\/p>\n

Irene:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible under Jones) help, God, don\u2019t come around. That\u2019s right. They ain\u2019t no help, they ain\u2019t no good. Go on \u2018bout your business. That\u2019s right.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) Oh, will you ever get off this pregnant shit and tell me how to make some meat.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s that?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Shit. I\u2019m gone have to have\u2013 You le\u2013 you\u2013 you people have a pork meeting tomorrow, will you? At noon? Shit, I ain\u2019t got\u2013 I got\u2013 As many different folk as I got, I got different ideas.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2019s that? Shh.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Why don\u2019t you go up the river and get some oranges, honey? Stand up before I get any more crazy shit. (Pause) I know what\u2019s wrong. Saturn\u2019s fucking Taurus tonight. (Laughs) (Calls out) What\u2019s this?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Yeah, I know, I know how you want to take that radio. One day we\u2019re going to have you do that performance about that radio. You\u2019ve never, never laughed so much until you hear Patty [Cartmell] talk about the radio on the night we were going to die. Ah, it\u2019s funny. If you\u2013 You gotta put a program<\/i><\/em> on, when you get the (unintelligible word) on, just\u2013 I mean, you\u2019ll laugh, uh, you going to remember how we (unintelligible word) dying, we\u2019re trying to get the boat, we\u2019re trying to get folks to come here\u2013 come here. Give us five minute sample, \u2018cause we ain\u2019t gone have Saturday night meeting. How many\u2019d like to hear five minutes of this?<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Calls out)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Come on. Come on. Tell us\u2013 Tell us about how to die.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> It will be. Get your hat\u2013 get\u2013 get your hat on. You\u2013 Something\u2013 (stumbles over words) Some folk were in Georgetown, she was uh\u2013 she was ready to die, trying to get some to go to the sea, some were going to have to die in the sea, and some were going to live on land. And the little radio in there, in Georgetown, talkin\u2019, and she\u2019s out trying to collect some oranges, and she come back in there in Georgetown after we was all gettin\u2019 ready to die out here. So now tell us all about it.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> First of all\u2013 First of all, you gotta understand the radio. Okay. First of all, you should understand that I was afraid to die. That\u2019d be the first thing to understand.<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(Unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Fuck you too, (unintelligible word) (laughs) First of all, I had a giant fear of death. Now I feel I want that known. So we have\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Now she afraid she won\u2019t die (unintelligible word). Don\u2019t talk too fast, so you can get\u2013 (voice fades)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Okay. So. We have this radio in Georgetown. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve seen the radio in here or not. There\u2019s a radio in Georgetown, and (unintelligible word) talk to this old fuck, you know, roger, roger, come back, say again, run that fucker around the (unintelligible), nobody can hear ya, then there\u2019s the radio in here. Now the one\u2013 and they have a little\u2013 you notice, they have little square eyes, and they have a little round mouth. Right?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (too far from mike)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Right. And the one in Georgetown has uh, two green<\/i><\/em> eyes. Now that sucker in there has two blue<\/i><\/em> ones. And we\u2013 (laughs) And we got a new<\/i><\/em> one that has\u2013 it has (unintelligible word), it has one blue and one white, and a little cast red dot. (unintelligible) (Laughs) A little red mo\u2013 A little\u2013 little mouth. Now I\u2019m 48 years old, and I\u2019m talkin\u2019 to this sumbitch.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> And the sumbitch is talkin\u2019 back. So I come in, and working hard, and everyone but me<\/i><\/em> decides we\u2019re gonna die. I<\/i><\/em> don\u2019t want to die. I was\u2013 (unintelligible as she laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Okay. So everybody is there, bravo, is going to die, and they ask my opinion, which I thought I had\u2013 should answer, and I said, no, I think I\u2019ll live.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> That was the first<\/i><\/em> mistake.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> That was the first mistake.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> They go around the room, they ask, what\u2019s your opinion, you know, I say, well, I mean, there must be some other way, to go on the boat, ship, you know, out on the high seas, swim, stop from the boat, I didn\u2019t particularly want to do that. Fat bitch (unintelligible sentence), can I have an opinion on whether I want to die. No, you\u2019re gonna die, you son-of-a-bitch, now (unintelligible under laughter), I don\u2019t want to die (unintelligible).<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> So, everybody\u2019s settin\u2019 around this room, deciding, you know, will they jump first? Maybe they\u2019ll push me out, sure, but they\u2019re not gonna push me. And\u2013 and there\u2019s a little fuckin\u2019 radio in the background talking (speaks gibberish), and\u2013 and the radio\u2019s going all the time, we\u2019re all going to die. I still<\/i><\/em> don\u2019t want to die. (Laughs) I say, I think, you know, I thought maybe we could\u2013 maybe we could talk<\/i><\/em> to somebody. We call (unintelligible name). You should die, you son-of-a-fat-bitch. Why don\u2019t you (unintelligible)\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) Now we all decided to get the high (unintelligible word). Uh, go on, go on. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Oh. Take the boat to sea?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (stumbles over words) You know, just\u2013 just put that in, and how you\u2013 you still had to go on with work, just like you always were.<\/p>\n

Patty: <\/b><\/strong>Oh yeah, oh yes, (unintelligible) die, and go get my immigration papers, fingerprint, but I\u2019m gone still die. So (Laughs) 89 hours later, we\u2019re still talking about whether we\u2019re gone die. By then, I thought maybe we should\u2013 I\u2013 I told one person, I said, if we don\u2019t, I\u2019m gone kill you, then I\u2019m going to kill myself. I hate you. I hate your fuckin\u2019 guts. So the next day, we all go to church, and we\u2019re always talking about it for hours, with this fuckin\u2019 boat and jumping. We\u2019re going to have to (unintelligible). So I go to church the next day, I had to go to church the next day, I go to church, and I\u2019m saying, this goddamn (unintelligible word) church, I swear, the preacher\u2019s singing, \u201cOn the Waters As We Face Our Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> It\u2019s my birthday, my goddamn birthday. I\u2019m getting paralyzed by fear, my blind eye won\u2019t even open, I know that that night, I\u2019m going off this fucking boat, and I\u2019m supposed to make this good impression\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> And she thought we were going to take out the boat, (unintelligible word) lot of paranoid folk, or she gotta be going (unintelligible under laughter)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> But I thought, (unintelligible). So then, we decided if we went to one service, we should be big, and go to another service. We go to the goddamn Nazarene Church, and I\u2019m settin\u2019 there, one eye\u2019s down, and one eye\u2019s open\u2013 (unintelligible) I\u2019m gonna die, my friends are gonna kill me, we gonna die, we\u2019re all gonna die, when (unintelligible) we\u2019re gonna jump in the fuckin\u2019 (unintelligible word) this goddamn radio, and\u2013 (Laughs) and I look up on the wall, and I swear to Christ, there\u2019s a picture of a sailboat sinking in the water.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) Picture of a sailboat sinking in the water.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> And I\u2013 And\u2013 Okay. But my\u2013 but my eye\u2019s shut, and (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) Only been up three days and three nights.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Three days (unintelligible word)\u2013 So then\u2013 Oh, this little fucking radio. We\u2019re in Georgetown, you folks are here, and I\u2019m sure that they\u2019re all happy (unintelligible) didn\u2019t get here, and so we\u2019re gettin\u2019 this\u2013 this news to get\u2013\u00a0get over here, and we got the radio on. And this goddamn radio\u2019s talking to\u2013 and so we\u2019re on the radio, and I say, you have to tune this in and\u2013 right? And all I can hear, I know what\u2013 we got all these code signals, you know. Johnny says, that means something to somebody, I don\u2019t know what the fuck\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Cuba.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Uh, I just\u2013 I just got to Henry Morgan, (unintelligible name) said don\u2019t lift your foot, for the good of the picture, get your shower, I don\u2019t know what the fuck\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> I\u2013 I\u2019m settin\u2019 there trying to talk to these uh, (unintelligible word, twice) that I\u2019m sitting in the room with, and I hear\u2013 (low voice, unintelligible) uh, (speaks in radio code rapidly)\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) That\u2019s the way that radio sounds when you heard it.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> And I can hear back in the background, (radio code, faster) (speaks in radio code rapidly)\u2013 And we got\u2013 and we got\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> We get a new sound in there, it goes\u2013 (radio sound). And then a cow joins us, a cow. (radio noise) We\u2019re gonna die, we\u2019re gonna die. A\u2013 This giant cow pervades our\u2013 our\u2013 invades our radio, and here, (radio code, faster) (speaks in radio code rapidly)\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> This goes on for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> She heard Mother\u2013 Mother [Marceline Jones] and Stephan [Jones]\u2013 It\u2019s good to laugh about (unintelligible word). She heard Mother talking to Stephan and Stephan is telling Mother we have to die. Her voice (unintelligible word)\u2013 She didn\u2019t know what the hell\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> What\u2013 We\u2013 \u2018Cause she didn\u2019t really get it all in place, and Mother had to get it all in place, and we were going to go to Cuba in Johnny\u2019s place, and all of you were going to join us, like I said, (unintelligible) going to be taken out from George<\/i><\/em>\u2013 uh, from uh, Georgetown<\/i><\/em>, but she thought\u2013 thought she gone (Laughs, unintelligible under laughter) She thought they was all\u2013 that she\u2013 they have all been waiting to kill her (laughs) so that they could (unintelligible under laugh).<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> So I decided, okay, okay. (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> (unintelligible for several sentences) It just goes on and on and on and on. And finally, uh\u2013 what the fuck (unintelligible under breath). I must have passed out about that point. What was the bitchiest thing (unintelligible)?<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> I don\u2019t know. (Laughs)<\/p>\n

Patty:<\/b><\/strong> Oh<\/i><\/em>. I decided\u2013 I decided, Fine. Die, you son-of-a-bitch. By then I wanted to die, (unintelligible phrase) The other thing is, I got\u2013 I got some kind of sickness, the next day, we had to go to downtown (speaks quickly, unintelligible) I\u2013 I felt sorry the (unintelligible word) couldn\u2019t move, my leg wouldn\u2019t go. I\u2019m okay now, I\u2019m down in the boat, and she saying, (unintelligible word). I said that\u2019s fine. But I\u2013 I\u2013 This is the one request, I want to take that goddamn fucking radio (unintelligible), I have visions of it at night (unintelligible), roger, roger\u2013 roger roger roger roger, and I\u2019ve agreed to go on the boat. I\u2019ve agreed to die, but I took the radio (unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> (Laughs) That\u2019s pretty good, that\u2019s pretty good. She can tell it funnier than that, too, she just\u2013 It was uh, amazing. If you had heard that goddamn radio, you\u2019d be\u2013 it\u2019d be funny to you, \u2018cause that\u2019s all the sounds that fuckin\u2019 radio makes. (Laughs) And she went through that sea thing, and she gone\u2013 they gone throw her off, and she said, one goddamn thing I\u2019m doing, I\u2019m carrying that radio so it can drown too. (Tone sobers) She showed her courage, \u2018cause now she goes every week on the river and out, and last time, boy, her and Rheaviana [Beam] and Tommy [likely Bogue]] had a shit mess\u2013 They had a\u2013 uh, I tell you\u2013 Save that for the next meeting. That\u2019s something else, that was something else. Her and Tommy and Rheaviana. Tommy deserves three cheers for be\u2013 being between the fat bitch and the slim bitch. (Laughs) Where is Tommy?<\/p>\n

Voices in crowd: <\/b><\/strong>(unintelligible)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> He\u2019s in Georgetown getting glasses. Bless his heart. (unintelligible word) It\u2019s funny how he gets along with those others. But they all<\/i><\/em> three got on a different boats.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Reacts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> The last time they all three got on different boats, and we\u2019ll save that for the next time, because we must<\/i><\/em> hear, how the three got back together again. (Laughs) Stand up.<\/p>\n

Crowd:<\/b><\/strong> (Reacts)<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Woo. I love you. (Pause) (tape edit) \u2013the mighty miracles, the mighty (unintelligible word) the mighty purpose<\/i><\/em>, the mighty cause. We love the cause. What would it be without a cause? Life may be fucked up, but at least we got a cause. United forever, in friendship and labor\u2013<\/p>\n

Jones and crowd sing variation of \u201cState Anthem of the Soviet Union\u201d:<\/p>\n

United forever in friendship and labor,<\/p>\n

Our mighty people shall ever endure.<\/p>\n

The great socialist union shall live through the ages.<\/p>\n

A dream of the people their fortress secure.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> Louder now<\/p>\n

Long live the socialist Fatherland,<\/p>\n

Was built by the people’s mighty hand.<\/p>\n

Long live her People, united and free.<\/p>\n

Long live this communist dream.<\/p>\n

Jones:<\/b><\/strong> I hope that\u2013 that you\u2019ll think on the miracles, so we don\u2019t do anything rote. Do it. It\u2019ll bring so many so many beautiful things. I can\u2019t get over just this week\u2019s alone, too many to mention, that stands out so sweet to me, (unintelligible name), with one-third vision gone with glaucoma, one-half vision gone in the other eye, and now it\u2019s all reversed. Diana McKnight, dying with sickle cell and her kidneys being passed through her urine, and then went into Georgetown, and the tests found her kidneys \u2013 mighty<\/i><\/em> socialism! \u2013 normal. And the miracles, the miracles. All of our people coulda been lost with the high seas, had it not been for me calling the\u2013 back the boat, delaying it. Miracles<\/i><\/em>. Every day, every way. Remember, you who have been admonished, be sure your attitude is straightened out. One of you has an attitude that\u2019s gotta be straightened out (unintelligible word) tomorrow. This is Thursday night. Peace for the blessing. Blessing, blessing. Love you. Pick\u2013 Pick up, put things back, seniors. (Clears throat) Dale [Parks] will be held up a little bit uh\u2013 telling Dale will be held up a little bit till the end of next week because of a\u2013<\/p>\n

End of tape<\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

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