
Podcast: Dreamy Audio
Episode: 12
Title: Police Captain
Host: Lewis Moten
Release Date: April 28, 2005, 5:38 am
Restored Date: January 16, 2026
Duration: 3:12
Channels: 1 (mono)
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Encoding: MP3, VBR (~130 kbps)
File Size: 811 KB
Summary
In this twelfth Dreamy Audio entry, Lewis Moten recounts a dream where he serves as a police captain in a chaotic pursuit—driving with his feet, firing from a window, and relying on a partner to supply ammunition. The chase ends not from failure, but choice: it simply isn’t worth continuing.
The dream then slows into reflection. He explains how past promotions skipped hands-on training for better pay, leaving him unprepared when budget cuts force him back into street work. Authority, expertise, and practicality clash, revealing a quiet reckoning with responsibility and misplaced priorities.
Transcript (auto-generated)
I was a police captain and I was in my car chasing down a Pontiac. I was out the window and driving with my feet and shooting at the car. My partner was in the back loading up more bullets and handing them to me as I needed them. But when he couldn’t find any more bullets I stopped with everybody else. Then he said he found more bullets but I just stopped anyway because it wasn’t worth going after the guy because I had other things to do that day. After work I didn’t want to spend time chasing down this guy.
I was in the areas of a container and I have no idea what these different calibers mean or anything about bullets. I pretty much explained to the guy that something to do with the past. Something to do with how I was promoted through the force. I didn’t take any of the training because it would have meant that I would have gotten less money. But now the force has ran into money problems so that I have to go on the street with this guy. I don’t know much about the street. I’m like a captain. Then another guy comes around and explains the same thing to my partner.
