An East Texas media fixture, the sheriff has long been a regular on everything from TV public service announcements to guest stints as a prime-time weatherman. Things that we used to say, 'I hope the news media don't find out about,' he calls and tells 'em to come out and see. The sheriff is also a hugely popular local speaker. He joined a speakers' group and began getting paid bookings. The sheriff now gives more than a hundred speeches a year and will go as far as Idaho for paid appearances this fall.
Every day is totally different.
Everything that walks through the door is different. What walks through often ends up in his favorite speeches. A mixture of Hee-Haw and TV cop drama, they are a kind of performance art on the absurdities of being a Texas cop. He acts out showing off during a drug raid by leaping through a window, only to hit burglar bars. He crouches to tell of squatting behind a patrol car in a shootout, only to have the rookie he warned to take cover jump in the car and drive it away.