Welcome And Story Setup

George Blitch 0:00

Hello everybody, welcome back to the Son of a Blitz Podcast. I'm your host, George Blitz. On this episode of Storytellers, we hear from John Stone. You guys may know from the Stone Ranch, Heartbeat of the Hunter brand. And this is a story about his mother, who basically saved his father during a home invasion. It is an incredible story. It talks about the nickname Warrior Princess who ended up winning the Mother of the Year from a Mother's Day Award here in Houston at a local radio station. And it's just an incredible story about making decisions. One way or the other, she chose to face danger and helped to save her and her husband. It's incredible. Anyway, listen to it. Let me know and make sure you check out my episode with John Stone to learn more about what he's got going on. That's episode 99 of the Son of a Bleach podcast, of which this story came from. Y'all enjoy. Take care.

Illness, Stroke, And Vulnerability

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He was a workaholic, and uh, so I kind of grew up doing the same thing, mowing grass, you know, uh nights and weekends at the time when I was going to school. But he got bit by a mosquito, got West Nile virus, and then from there he gotis meningitis, had a stroke. So he wasn't super, super fit, you know. So anyway, uh, fast forward, unfortunately, one night uh they were in the spring branch area, and and uh, you know, he's in a wheelchair or sits

Home Invasion And A Split-Second Choice

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sitting up. So bad guys broke into the house, uh, put a gun to his head, so I'm gonna blow your head off. And uh, you know, they asked if anybody else was in the house. He's not gonna give my mom up. So they cracked his head open, they threw him on the ground, you know, cracked his chest. And uh, so the only good news is they made so much noise, beating the hell out of my dad. I woke my mom up. So literally, my mom, I built a back door for them to ever get out, but uh, instead of running out the back door and calling 911, my mom's kind of a badass. So she grabbed a gun and ran into the fire and uh ran those bastards off. And uh, so anyway, I tell you that part of the story is because it was around light, it was around Mother's Day.

Warrior Princess And Mother’s Day Award

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And in Houston, there's a radio station, 104 K R B E. They said, nominate your mom for Mother's Day. So anyway, I I I called in. Long story short, my mom won it, ruled up, nicknamed my mom the Warrior Princess. She loved it, so we kept the warrior princess name.

Ranching Begins From Family Love

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But the reason I tell you that is um my father, since since he can't get around much, we moved him up to Crockett. And uh, you know, he loves and my both my folks love the outdoors. So I found a little piece of dirt right around where they lived, threw a high fence around it, and uh there's a little story on the development of that. But uh anyway, he threw some animals on it so I could take some pictures and videos so I could show my folks and uh put smiles on their face, and that's you know, that that's all I really gave a damn about is making them happy. So that's literally how I got into ranching, and you know, I had no idea, but I figured, you know, other human beings can do it. Um if they can do it, I can do it. Just gonna take a whole lot of whole hard work and focus. And that's how it started.