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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: What's Up? It's me Zaren Burnett from Ridiculous Crime and

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Speaker 2: the hit CBS series Chicago Code Enforcement. Elizabeth and I

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Speaker 2: brief intros Bolivian Internet. It can be spotty, especially in

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Speaker 2: the Boron minds. We were on our way to complete

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Speaker 2: our initial assignment when we received a telegram from Bette

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Speaker 2: Midler asking for helps or seeing Boron for her neodymium

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Speaker 2: magnet production facility. You can't turn down Bette Midler, So

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Speaker 2: here we are. This though, is the third in our

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Speaker 2: four part series of fan favorite Classics. Episode seventy three.

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Speaker 2: What do you get when you combine twelve hundred college

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Speaker 2: student cadets, football, epic training, truck and car chases, private investigators,

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Speaker 2: and a two hundred pounds owl? You get the Texas

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Speaker 2: A and m versus Rice College rivalry, also known as

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Speaker 2: a snowballs chance. Enjoy No, Elizabeth Dunnan.

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Speaker 3: I'm good.

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Speaker 2: You know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 2: Hell? Do you want to share it with me?

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Speaker 3: Collective nouns?

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Speaker 2: What do you mean?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, like groups of things like murder of crows, parliament,

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Speaker 3: owls saren Have you ever done a deep dive on

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Speaker 3: collective nouns? Oh? Completely, son, Oh yeah, I looked at him.

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Speaker 2: I used to use those as a way to calm

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Speaker 2: myself down in anxious moments.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I don't want to know, but like you know,

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Speaker 3: there's like a colony of bats. You know what jugglers is,

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Speaker 3: a juggalo of jugglers, a never thing of of jugglers.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's fine, which, like you know, you never see

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Speaker 3: a group of jug well, I guess you do see

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Speaker 3: a group of jugglers outside the Loser Convent.

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Speaker 2: No kidding, collective noun for silences.

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Speaker 3: There's a rumba of rattlesnakes, that's cool. And the kingdom

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Speaker 3: of rats, which is kind of like a rat king,

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Speaker 3: which don't google that people. My favorite a death row

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Speaker 3: of turkeys.

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Speaker 2: Oh that is good, right, And I mean.

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Speaker 3: A lot of these are multiple collective nouns for these groups,

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Speaker 3: but a death row of turkeys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's up there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Is there a writing desk of ravens?

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Speaker 3: Sure? Never more.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've got something ridiculous for you.

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Speaker 3: You got to it, probably way more ridiculous than that

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Speaker 3: I have all the time in the world.

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Speaker 2: Oh excellent, because this one, it's a wild one, and

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Speaker 2: it'll take me a second to tell to you. Are

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Speaker 2: you ready. Yes, it's about a Texas town. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you know, I like Texas towns, and it is Texas

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Speaker 2: town in particular. It gets taken over by twelve hundred

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Speaker 2: college age military cadets who are eager to win a

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Speaker 2: rivalry prank war that involves now take notes, Yes, two

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Speaker 2: private detectives, multiple high speed car chases, a night raid

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Speaker 2: on an armory and a depot, a town's telephone lines

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Speaker 2: being seized, casual gunfire, mass arrest, wrongful imprisonment, and a

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Speaker 4: Oh okay, this is ridiculous Crime.

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Speaker 2: A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons.

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Speaker 2: It's always ninety nine percent murder free and ridiculous. Elizabeth Sarah.

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Speaker 2: Before we dive into the insanity of this story, I

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Speaker 2: like to give you a little context.

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Speaker 3: I love content, right, I figure you do.

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Speaker 2: Now you also love Reddit, right I do. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't really check on anybody, but I know you

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Speaker 3: like to lurker. Yeah, I don't post, I just.

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Speaker 2: You just read until you lurk. Rather Well, there was

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Speaker 2: I don't know. This guy put forward a theory that

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Speaker 3: I missed that one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And they say, he said, basically, well, I'll just

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Speaker 2: quote it. He said, conspiracy theory. Quote Alabama is not

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Speaker 2: The title says it all. I don't think Alabama truly

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Speaker 2: to bear Bryant's demon ghost. I have met so many

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Speaker 2: damn many Alabama fans roll tad they say. If you

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Speaker 3: That's incredible, right, I can get behind that kind of theory.

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Speaker 3: Yes he does.

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Speaker 2: As you know, he gets response on Reddit, and so

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Speaker 2: I quote, there are some very humble gentlemen visiting me.

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Speaker 2: Every word I've said is unjust. I now know. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I've just been stressed lately and i wanted to be

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Speaker 2: my ignorance on the beauty of an Alabama education. Nick

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Speaker 2: Saban is handsome and intelligent and every man or woman's dream.

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Speaker 2: I've shown my jealousy of their degree programs and anyone

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Speaker 2: would be lucky to go to school in Tuscaloosa. May

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Speaker 2: God have mercy on my soul, and may Elfan's trample

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Speaker 2: me if I ever Transchrist again.

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Speaker 3: He should have held fast on that one.

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Speaker 2: I'm just glad he found the truth in the way

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Speaker 2: Yes, so you know, there you go. Bear Now you

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Speaker 2: They got Clemson, you got the University of South Carolina

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Speaker 3: But I'll tell you the most maniacal fans are the

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Speaker 3: Like that's all they wear the clothes like they don't

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Speaker 2: Yeah, fire up that tiger rag.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. But you know what, I choose me.

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Speaker 2: I'm so clod for that. You went to Davis for

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Speaker 3: Well that is so that's the extent of my football knowledge.

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Speaker 2: which brings to this story. So the story takes place

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Speaker 2: This is in January. We enter in April. This is

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Speaker 3: It was cool.

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Speaker 2: And so when they're inventing the game of football, it

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Speaker 2: A and M the Agricultural Mechanical School. Yes, they were

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Speaker 3: Oh in the world, and they used basketball.

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Speaker 2: So they just played basketball. It was a basketball.

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Speaker 3: They just really threw the basket.

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying it's a basketball, Okay. I just didn't

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was just invented.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a brandow sport. You were there the basketball

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Speaker 3: To thirteen football basketball.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you know that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I figured that one out.

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Speaker 3: Well, they're ready to get their faces shot off.

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Speaker 2: So they and they grab this owl and they they

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Speaker 2: The Rice students they learn about this when they read

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Speaker 3: Wait, they got all the way home and they didn't

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Speaker 2: No, no, this was that the game was in Rice.

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Speaker 2: So the Texas students go back. Texas students go back. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: so the Rice students are just missing their They weren't

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Speaker 3: It was in charge of cleaning the owl after the games.

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Speaker 2: A and M. Right, they have the owl, they've managed

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Speaker 2: So what are they going to do? They lie, They decide,

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Speaker 2: So they build a new owl and they put that

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Speaker 3: Like when a kid loses the stuff down, the parents

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so get get ourselves a private dick and we'll

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Speaker 2: get him to go look for it. So the private detective,

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Speaker 2: He's a hard dude, right, So they pay him to

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Speaker 2: He does. He's like, okay, I'll go out to college

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Speaker 2: So Private Dick takes the student's money goes off to

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Speaker 2: So they have to sneak onto the campus. Remember, these

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Speaker 3: Right, so theiform No, these the Rice students are just

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Speaker 2: So the Rice students have to go get uniforms so

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Speaker 2: So they're sneaking onto essentially a military ye like a

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Speaker 2: He didn't just take their money and steal away into

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Speaker 3: Right turncoats?

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Speaker 2: They had exactly turncoats. So the scouts they send out.

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Speaker 2: People are starting to question the owl they have in

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Speaker 2: So they're like, okay, well this may be beyond us.

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Speaker 2: We need to hire a new detective. So they're rich kids,

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Speaker 2: This dude's and hey, I swear to God is Snowball.

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Speaker 3: That's the only thing he's referred to.

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Speaker 2: It was a cat's snowball. Yeah, like he's a cat

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Speaker 2: And they're like, I'll take the case.

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Speaker 2: I think he's just a sweetheart.

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Speaker 3: So is this a little powder problems.

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Speaker 2: I'll find your two hundred pound owl mascot or whatever

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Speaker 2: you got right, And so the snowball drives out to

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Speaker 2: Then he goes out to the telegram office Telegram's Rice

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Speaker 2: and he's like, you know, they've got the bird. He

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Speaker 3: Oh exactly.

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Speaker 2: So, now the plot is completely in motion, and after

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Speaker 2: Okay, Elizabeth, you're ready for more of the Great Owl theft? Yes?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 2: Okay. So the Rice students, right, they now know that

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Speaker 2: get into action, right. The seventeen members of their OPA

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Speaker 2: So, the seventeen members of the OPA, the Owl Protective Association,

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Speaker 2: was the one of the fastest cars of his time.

434
00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 2: It was a high performance engine. Like I said, the

435
00:20:20,440 --> 00:20:23,720
Speaker 2: Rice students, rich kids, right, So they've got this car

436
00:20:23,840 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 2: has a distinctive seventy two horsepower, just blazing form nineteen seventeen.

437
00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:31,919
Speaker 2: That's forty more horsepower than you get from a similar

438
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:34,240
Speaker 2: size Hudson the year prior. Right, So we're talking like

439
00:20:34,280 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 2: real fast. Now, if you're wondering top speed, seventy five

440
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 2: miles per hour pretty fast for our non American listeners,

441
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Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty kilometers.

442
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Speaker 3: Excellent. Now.

443
00:20:42,640 --> 00:20:45,359
Speaker 2: Fun fact, the Jode family when they went west in

444
00:20:45,359 --> 00:20:47,760
Speaker 2: the Grapes of Wrath, what they were driving in was

445
00:20:47,800 --> 00:20:52,199
Speaker 2: a Hudson Super six. Whoa, Now, this is what it

446
00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:52,679
Speaker 2: looks like.

447
00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:54,280
Speaker 3: I'm just going to show you a picture of that

448
00:20:54,480 --> 00:20:55,440
Speaker 3: put on Instagram.

449
00:20:55,520 --> 00:20:58,199
Speaker 2: Yes I will, man, it's the Hudson Super six is

450
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,320
Speaker 2: probably one of my favorite cars of era.

451
00:21:00,359 --> 00:21:02,920
Speaker 3: It just looks really cool, right, how many you did it? Seat?

452
00:21:03,320 --> 00:21:05,520
Speaker 2: I'd probably take, like, you know, standards five six.

453
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,399
Speaker 3: People and this we had seventeen boys. And this is

454
00:21:08,640 --> 00:21:09,000
Speaker 3: like in the.

455
00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:10,400
Speaker 2: Era wh people would try to see how many people

456
00:21:10,400 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 2: they could fit in a telephone booth, you know, like

457
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:13,520
Speaker 2: they were really into.

458
00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:14,600
Speaker 3: Like squeezing before that.

459
00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:16,680
Speaker 2: There, it's likely, yeah, that's more the twenties. But I'm

460
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:18,560
Speaker 2: saying leading up to this, this is the college era

461
00:21:18,600 --> 00:21:21,120
Speaker 2: of raccoon hats and big fur jackets and like, let's

462
00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,440
Speaker 2: see how many people we can get in this seat,

463
00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:25,720
Speaker 2: you know, yeah, wacky. So they're doing all of that,

464
00:21:25,760 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 2: and there's a Texas kids, so they go big with

465
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:31,840
Speaker 2: it there seventeen. So the other two cars, those are

466
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Speaker 2: the two old Fords. When I say old Fords, everybody

467
00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 2: back then they just refer to the When I read

468
00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,040
Speaker 2: the newspaper accounts, they just said old Fords because there

469
00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:40,240
Speaker 2: was the only the Model T. They have a bunch

470
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:42,920
Speaker 2: of Fords. It's like previous Model A, but now we're

471
00:21:42,960 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 2: to the Model T. The old Tin Lizzy right, top

472
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 2: speed forty two miles per hour, blazy, yeah, and for

473
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 2: the non American listeners, that's sixty eight kilometers per hour.

474
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Speaker 2: So these are, by the way, this is what the

475
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,680
Speaker 2: Tin Lizzy looks like in case you'd like just a

476
00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:56,600
Speaker 2: quick recollection.

477
00:21:56,720 --> 00:21:56,880
Speaker 3: Yep.

478
00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:59,159
Speaker 2: Yeah. So it's the classic car that you think of,

479
00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: like the buggy if you will.

480
00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 6: Yeah.

481
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 2: So we have seventeen ten as the horn that goes oh,

482
00:22:03,880 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 2: exactly exactly. So we have seventeen young men loaded in

483
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:11,720
Speaker 2: these two open air cars with thin tires, overloaded with

484
00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:14,840
Speaker 2: a bunch of football players, and they're headed out into

485
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,840
Speaker 2: essentially dirt roads for one hundred miles to get to

486
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:21,840
Speaker 2: College Station, Texas from Houston. There mandates is not as

487
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,600
Speaker 2: bad as West Texas, but it's basically central Texas. So

488
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 2: they're going through like some mountainous not quite mountainous region,

489
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 2: but you know the Texas hills country, Yeah, the hill

490
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:33,760
Speaker 2: country and then lots of wooded areas. And they are

491
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:35,879
Speaker 2: not going through easy these you are not like you know,

492
00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:39,520
Speaker 2: paved roads. User cars are designed for driving on basically

493
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:40,680
Speaker 2: a wagon road.

494
00:22:40,760 --> 00:22:41,960
Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, and it's.

495
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 2: Texas, so they got plenty of wagon roads. So these

496
00:22:45,560 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 2: seventeen men at eleven thirty at night, they reach College station,

497
00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,080
Speaker 2: and that's when they meet up with their private Dick Snowball, right,

498
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 2: and Snowball's got some bad news for the boys right now.

499
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 2: There was a contemporaneous account of all that's published in

500
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Speaker 2: the Rice University student newspaper called The Thresher and the Thresher,

501
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Speaker 2: and it's Thursday, February the fifteenth, nineteen seventeen edition if

502
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Speaker 2: you want to look this up on newspapers dot com. Yes,

503
00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 2: they had a first hand account written by members of

504
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 2: the OPA, so we have their actual account. And I

505
00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:15,920
Speaker 2: quote the detective was of the opinion that would be

506
00:23:15,960 --> 00:23:17,919
Speaker 2: impossible to get the bird, and it was as it

507
00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:20,439
Speaker 2: was on the third floor of the US Armory, the

508
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 2: strongest room at A and M. But he stated there

509
00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 2: was a sporting chance to win out.

510
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 3: Huh.

511
00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,119
Speaker 2: So he's like, look, they got it in the basically

512
00:23:28,600 --> 00:23:31,280
Speaker 2: the fort on campus and on the third floor, so

513
00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 2: you have to fight your way in. And they're military,

514
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,400
Speaker 2: so god speak, you Gause are college athletes, so give

515
00:23:37,440 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 2: it as sporting chance. Right, four men decide, okay, we

516
00:23:40,240 --> 00:23:41,440
Speaker 2: need to go see what the lay of the land

517
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Speaker 2: is and they go out on a scouting mission.

518
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Speaker 5: Right.

519
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 2: Their names are for the sake of this story, Full Whiler,

520
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 2: billups Moore, and the leader Jimmy Waters Gas four will

521
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 2: be the only ones whose names I will be telling

522
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:53,280
Speaker 2: you because they will come up over and over again.

523
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,399
Speaker 2: They are essentially the leaders of this racial party.

524
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Speaker 5: Right.

525
00:23:55,920 --> 00:24:00,160
Speaker 2: So full Whiler, billups More and Waters they hit the

526
00:24:00,200 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 2: track running they go, and they sneak onto campus and

527
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 2: they are after their two hundred pound owl mascot. Right.

528
00:24:05,520 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 2: So the four men they elude sentries and these bull

529
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:10,840
Speaker 2: sergeants and all the campus cadets, and they entered the

530
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Speaker 2: US Armory on the ground floor. They make it into

531
00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,240
Speaker 2: the building, all right, So now they have to ascend

532
00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 2: three flights of stairs. They managed to do that without

533
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 2: catching any of the watchmen who are circling through the building.

534
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,600
Speaker 2: They're also you know, students who are on guard because

535
00:24:24,640 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 2: they know they have the stolen owl and they know

536
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:28,160
Speaker 2: it's in that building, so any weird sounds or anything

537
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 2: will immediately alert suspicions. They decide, okay, we need to

538
00:24:31,040 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 2: do this quietly, so they take out big knives and

539
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 2: they try to carve their way through a heavy wooden

540
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 2: armory door. What so imagine like one of those mission

541
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Speaker 2: style California doors. We're like, the boards are like nine

542
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:44,440
Speaker 2: inches solid woods. They're going to carve through.

543
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:45,479
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me?

544
00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 2: So this noise draws the attention of a watchman. They're

545
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 2: just slamming away into the woods.

546
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:51,680
Speaker 3: All these guys need to start going to class.

547
00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,000
Speaker 2: Oh just wait. So Jimmy Water squad leader, he as

548
00:24:57,200 --> 00:24:59,440
Speaker 2: he just says, here's the watchman coming up the stairs,

549
00:24:59,520 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 2: Like we needed to distraction. So he's like, I'm gonna

550
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 2: do something insane. So he runs towards the third story window,

551
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 2: climbs out, and then it gets the watchman's attention before

552
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 2: he does this. Climbs out of the window and he

553
00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:14,000
Speaker 2: manages to walk down the side of the building for

554
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:16,919
Speaker 2: the third story, but climbing like with his hands and

555
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 2: his feet. Basically, he like Spider Man, climbs down the

556
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,280
Speaker 2: side of the building. So the Watchman's like, what the hell,

557
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 2: So he runs down to the ground floor to be

558
00:25:26,160 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 2: there when he gets done with this three like three

559
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:32,800
Speaker 2: story climb. Right, So the watchman is there when Jimmy

560
00:25:32,800 --> 00:25:34,920
Speaker 2: Waters hits the ground. But Jimmy Waters is a track star,

561
00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 2: so he hits the ground starts running immediately, right, He

562
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:40,880
Speaker 2: doesn't even like have any hesitation. The watchman chases after him,

563
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,399
Speaker 2: a perfect distraction, right. So the rest inside they're like, okay,

564
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:46,280
Speaker 2: we can get to it, but they hear more watchmans

565
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 2: are like dah. So now they're hiding in pools of

566
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,160
Speaker 2: darkness and shadow and they wait for twenty thirty minutes.

567
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:53,040
Speaker 2: They don't know what to do, so they're like, ah,

568
00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 2: Now Jimmy's outside just running around for this whole time,

569
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 2: trying to evade sentries and students and guards, and he's

570
00:25:58,280 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 2: doing it for the most part. So another one of

571
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,439
Speaker 2: the three who are now inside, they decide, Okay, I

572
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 2: need to go out and see what's going on. Maybe

573
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 2: I can help Jimmy and distract more people. You guys

574
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: can get in. So he runs out there, and as

575
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 2: soon as he gets out, there's kid full Whiler. He's like,

576
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:14,959
Speaker 2: trying to make his distraction. He runs right into Jimmy

577
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,159
Speaker 2: Waters and a bull sergeant who's grabbed him and is

578
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 2: questioning him. He's out there, Jimmy Waters is nervous, he's

579
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 2: telling his family name, his family's history. He's doing everything

580
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,679
Speaker 2: he can to do. It's okay, it's okay. So what

581
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:27,080
Speaker 2: does full Whyler do he just runs right up into him,

582
00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,240
Speaker 2: knocks down the bull sergeant Jimmy Waters, and he's scamper off, right.

583
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,200
Speaker 2: So now the two of them start leading the bull

584
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:34,600
Speaker 2: sergeants on this mad chase. The two of them split up,

585
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,719
Speaker 2: so everybody's running around. Kids cadets are starting to get

586
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 2: involved and now they know what's going on. Meanwhile, the

587
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,719
Speaker 2: other fourteen members of the seventeen year are watching. They're like,

588
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 2: you know, what's time to blitz the armory. We can't

589
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 2: do this, like you know, skullduggery stuff. So their new

590
00:26:50,359 --> 00:26:54,000
Speaker 2: plan is charge, right, so they just run onto campus

591
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:55,679
Speaker 2: and so now we have all seventeen members of the

592
00:26:55,680 --> 00:26:59,520
Speaker 2: OPA running around, some big ass football players, gangly basketball players,

593
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 2: track star and a bunch of cadets and they're all

594
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 2: chasing each other all around in the nighttime and the

595
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: January air because remember this is also wintertime, so it's cold.

596
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 2: So now to protect their flanks these other members of

597
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,679
Speaker 2: the OPA, they secure the entrances of the US Armory.

598
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 2: So the guys upstairs, because everybody knows where they are,

599
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 2: they're still trying to get inside, so they block the

600
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:20,679
Speaker 2: doors on the ground floor so that way all these

601
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,119
Speaker 2: bull sergeants and students can't get in, and then a

602
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 2: couple of big college football players rush up to go

603
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 2: help the guys knock down the door. So they're armed

604
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 2: with crowbars and fire extinguishers that they've pulled off of

605
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 2: the walls. God, so they run up and they decide, Okay,

606
00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 2: we're all big guys, we'll just knock down this door.

607
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,119
Speaker 2: So they try using their shoulders. First, one guy runs

608
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 2: and he gets bounced off, lands on the tile floor.

609
00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,720
Speaker 2: Now that guy does it. This isn't working. So then

610
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,880
Speaker 2: they decide we'll go in tandem. So two guys hold hands,

611
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 2: two big football players hold hands, and they run at

612
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 2: the door, and that doesn't work, and then two more

613
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 2: do it. Boom, oh, it cracks open. The door knocks down.

614
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,440
Speaker 2: So it turns out they didn't need all the crowbars

615
00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 2: and fire extend They just needed a couple of big

616
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 2: football players to throw themselves right. So when the door

617
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 2: springs open, what did they find?

618
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 3: I have no idea.

619
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 2: The owl is sitting there.

620
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 3: In bed with the general. No, I don't know.

621
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 2: Smoking of cigars like that was nice.

622
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 3: I don't know.

623
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 2: I don't know what people nineteen seventeen, you know, nobody

624
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 2: knows right exactly. According to the contemporaneous accounts in the Thresher,

625
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 2: the quote, the owl was concealed under some canvas at

626
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 2: the rear of the armory. The six men seize the

627
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 2: old birds, soust them in gasoline, and rushed down three

628
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 2: flights of stairs to the ground floor, where the night

629
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 2: watchmen wasn't counting. You're like, wait, gasoline, why did you

630
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 2: hear there?

631
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 5: Right?

632
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:54,719
Speaker 2: Good ears, So they were confronted by this night watchman, right,

633
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 2: and so they tell them, oh, you know, we're students

634
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,000
Speaker 2: from Texas A and M. We're trying to protect it.

635
00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,120
Speaker 2: They got these you know, troublemakers run around on campus.

636
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 2: We're gonna go hide the bird. And the what I

637
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 2: watch them's like, where are you taking? He's like right

638
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 2: over there, and then they just run in the other direction.

639
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 2: Night Watchman's like, wait, what are you doing. They run

640
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: it over to a car. They throw it in the

641
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 2: Hudson Super six and that car takes off. This bull

642
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,480
Speaker 2: sergeant night watchman, he gets pissed. He pulls out his

643
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 2: forty four and starts firing. Oh yes, what so now

644
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 2: the two so the students have to run. They topping

645
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 2: the tin lizzies. They hopping the sets in Super six

646
00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 2: and they're tearing around, but they're not done. They don't

647
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 2: want to just get away. They decide, let's, you know,

648
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: let's car some donuts in the grass. So they start

649
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 2: doing circles into and donuts and they're getting fired at,

650
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 2: mind you. So the OPA is pretty stoked. They got

651
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 2: back there out right. So and meanwhile there's a couple

652
00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:44,080
Speaker 2: others who have not quite made it to the car.

653
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: They decide to grab some paint that they found and

654
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 2: they paint the score of the last football game that

655
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 2: they won twenty to zero on the side of the

656
00:29:50,800 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 2: building in giant numbers. Right, this is more warning. Shots

657
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 2: are firing out, Bugles are being blown, students are yelling,

658
00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:00,440
Speaker 2: and at this point the OPA is like, look repressing luck.

659
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:03,600
Speaker 2: So they decide to floor it and tear ass out

660
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 2: of there. And they managed to escape the campus. Right now,

661
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 2: they've got to drive from College Station back to Houston.

662
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 2: It's about one hundred mile trip. As I told you,

663
00:30:11,760 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 2: she'd take about an hour and a half two hours,

664
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 2: but if you're going forty two miles and I'll solid

665
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,440
Speaker 2: two hours. This is if they can make it there,

666
00:30:19,440 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 2: because remember now they got hundreds of college cadets who

667
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 2: are about to give chase. Yeah, Elizabeth, I'd like you

668
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:26,480
Speaker 2: to close your eyes and picture it.

669
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 3: My eye is a closed Okay.

670
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 2: It's the dark of night. It's January in Texas. The

671
00:30:33,640 --> 00:30:36,240
Speaker 2: air is cold, the wind is howling as it blows.

672
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 2: And there you are with the OPA riding shotgun in

673
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 2: the tiled four to ten Lizzie. Ahead of you is

674
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 2: another ten Lizzy, and and ahead of that is the

675
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 2: year old Hudson Super six. The roads are bad and

676
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,640
Speaker 2: you're getting jumped and bumped around in your seat as

677
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 2: your guys are rocking and rolling down this dirt road

678
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:53,720
Speaker 2: car loaded down with other students members of the OPA.

679
00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 2: You're all racing back to Houston. You're all fired up,

680
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:59,680
Speaker 2: you're excited, you're yelling, but you have this tiny fear

681
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 2: inside of you because you're like, this doesn't seem like

682
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 2: we've gotten away with it. I don't know.

683
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 3: Why, right, that's that would be me.

684
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 2: Your fears are confirmed when the first forward in the

685
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 2: caravan its headlights go out. Oh hits, A bump light

686
00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: goes out. You're like, that's that's no good. So now

687
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:15,200
Speaker 2: you guys are in the middle of Texas. Nowhere you

688
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:18,120
Speaker 2: got no electric lights. There's no it's just endless darkness. Right,

689
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: So yeah, these headlights, so you're likest forget that car. Well, no,

690
00:31:22,440 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 2: we need it. So there's too many of us. Okay,

691
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,160
Speaker 2: you've been in back and we'll keep going. So now

692
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 2: they put the car with no headlights in the in

693
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 2: the back. Keep running. Right. So now you're in the

694
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 2: lead car of the caravan and uh, you're bouncing a roll,

695
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:37,480
Speaker 2: rolling along. Still another miles passes. Now your lights are out.

696
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,720
Speaker 2: You guys hit a bump your lights? Get is going

697
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,720
Speaker 2: on with these Fords? What can I tell you?

698
00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,480
Speaker 3: This is you close your mouth.

699
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: So now that the lights are cut out, both bards

700
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,120
Speaker 2: are running blind. Right, So the Hudson super six takes

701
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 2: over his swords.

702
00:31:52,480 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 3: Maybe the Fords were doing it just because they knew

703
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 3: they had to be secrets. Well, they do this purpose sentiences.

704
00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,040
Speaker 2: They're doing really well the back of the line. So

705
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 2: let's just take it from there. About since super six

706
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,480
Speaker 2: is leading this caravan, the Fords are trying to keep

707
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 2: up doing their forty two miles an hour in the dark.

708
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 2: Now before you can curse her, but I could curse

709
00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 2: Henry Ford's a good name. There's another big run in

710
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 2: the road and it passes the Ford in front of you.

711
00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 2: If they're breaks after they land and you slam your

712
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 2: Ford slams into them, boom, you basically destroy the front

713
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:26,520
Speaker 2: end of your car. Now your Ford doesn't even operate,

714
00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 2: So now give one less car. So everyone's like, oh

715
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 2: suppose this is no good? Is the car shuddering to

716
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 2: a stop? You're like, everybody get in the other cars.

717
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: So now they they got running boards, they got laps,

718
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 2: clinging just like laying on other people. People are clinging

719
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 2: to on the running.

720
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 3: On the can't feel their leg not exactly, not at all.

721
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: But now you and the one operable Ford and the

722
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,800
Speaker 2: Hudson Super six, you're tearing away, all seventeen of you

723
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: in there, and you and your night raid is really

724
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 2: not going too well so far.

725
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 3: But well, I mean we got the owl so far.

726
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, it looks like, you know, you're overcome most obstacles

727
00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 2: except for you notice there's a new obstacle emerging from

728
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: the darkness. It's this bright light and then you have

729
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 2: you hear the train whistle and you're like, oh no,

730
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: Because the whole plan was to get to College station

731
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 2: and there will you guys would do your raid after

732
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 2: the last train had left, So that way they couldn't

733
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 2: the cadets couldn't take a train and just get back

734
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:24,959
Speaker 2: to Houston. But you decided to rush it. Remember you

735
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: got the charge, messed up your timing, and now the

736
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 2: train is rushing along and you look over and you spy,

737
00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 2: Oh how hundreds of students cadets ring out of every

738
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 2: window of the limited that's running to Houston. They're screaming

739
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 2: and shouting because they can see you, guys, and you

740
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 2: can see them. You're not that far away. You on

741
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:48,840
Speaker 2: the dirt road, them on the tracks, and they are

742
00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 2: clipping along. It looks like they're gonna get back to

743
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 2: Houston before y'all. Oh no, So what do you do, Elizabeth? Like,

744
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,360
Speaker 2: what's the move? You're still in shotgun? What's your call?

745
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,800
Speaker 3: I would I would stop and wait till morning, let

746
00:34:01,840 --> 00:34:04,440
Speaker 3: them go and like you know, cooler jets in Houston,

747
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,080
Speaker 3: and wait and wait and wait mm hmm. And then

748
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 3: meanwhile I can wait. I've like hi out and roasting

749
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,359
Speaker 3: it up. And yeah, then I go to Austin. It's

750
00:34:14,360 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 3: called a little tour. But when it's light out, then

751
00:34:16,440 --> 00:34:17,840
Speaker 3: you don't need your headlights.

752
00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, good point. Well, they they listen to most of

753
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,239
Speaker 2: your plan except for they go, you know what, we

754
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:25,279
Speaker 2: should go one further than that, Elizabeth, stopping isn't enough,

755
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 2: So you know, let's just go with the thresher's account,

756
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 2: because I want you to hear it in their words quote,

757
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 2: it was impossible to make any speed on the road.

758
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 2: So the party turned around and started back towards College Station.

759
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:39,880
Speaker 2: They turned up the first lane they found in a

760
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,919
Speaker 2: wild ride of five miles through the woods. Ensued. They

761
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,879
Speaker 2: decide let's head back towards College Station, and they started

762
00:34:46,360 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 2: that's not a good idea, make a right, So then

763
00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 2: they start heading north, heading North and Texas into the

764
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: darken woods and they wrap it off into the woods,

765
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 2: trying to make a run for it. Do you think

766
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,440
Speaker 2: they're gonna get away with it? No, after a quick break.

767
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 2: I'll be back with the end of this insane tale.

768
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 2: I love it, okay, Elizabeth. So where were we?

769
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 3: Uh? Car chase? Poor decisions on the part of.

770
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 2: The Paw Protective Association. Yeah, so we're headed into North Texas,

771
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,799
Speaker 2: North Dallas forty will come Okay. The OPA is on

772
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,880
Speaker 2: the run from hundreds of Texas A and M military cadets.

773
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:42,160
Speaker 2: You've got one hundred miles to get back to Houston,

774
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:44,479
Speaker 2: and however many miles to get back to College station.

775
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:46,799
Speaker 2: One of your ten Lizzie is not working. The other

776
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:50,520
Speaker 2: one is limping after the Hudson Super six. No lights right,

777
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,920
Speaker 2: hit it cars. Things aren't going well, and you now

778
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 2: then break down again one mile down the country road

779
00:35:58,360 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 2: that you guys have just gone, and I reached turn

780
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 2: to the thresher's coverage. The remaining Ford soon gave up

781
00:36:03,600 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: on the struggle and was left with five men to

782
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,640
Speaker 2: guard it and to draw a pursuit away from the

783
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 2: big car containing the owl. So the rating part and

784
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:13,280
Speaker 2: I was all in the Hudson Super six whatever, however

785
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 2: many people they can load in.

786
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:18,160
Speaker 3: Their car left five. There's twelve people in this car.

787
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's twelve people loaded up in this Hudson Super

788
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 2: six and a two hundred pound owl. Yeah, so that's

789
00:36:23,640 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 2: six feet tall. So after oh yeah.

790
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 3: That's after four, they're thirteen in this car.

791
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 2: Yeah. So after four more miles, the super six runs

792
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 2: out of gas because they've.

793
00:36:35,640 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 3: Not even drive it all night.

794
00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 2: No worse than that, they've knocked a hole in the

795
00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 2: gas ty gone over all these rocks and ruts and roads. Right.

796
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,560
Speaker 2: So now the OPA is like, Okay, we got no cars.

797
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:47,960
Speaker 2: We're in the middle of Texas and we have a

798
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,319
Speaker 2: six foot tall, two hundred pound owl. We've got to

799
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:51,880
Speaker 2: carry eighty ninety miles.

800
00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 3: And isn't the owl covered in gasoline?

801
00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:58,160
Speaker 2: Yes, it's covered in gasoline. So hours have passed. Now

802
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,200
Speaker 2: the night is being ginning to give way to on.

803
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:04,280
Speaker 2: So the Purple hour is approaching and Snowball, the private detective,

804
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,799
Speaker 2: he's with them, he's with the raiding party.

805
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 3: Oh so they are now fourteen Actually.

806
00:37:09,200 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 2: Yeah, because he decided it was quote a sporting proposition

807
00:37:12,280 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 2: to go along with the guys if he could rescue.

808
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 3: The owl to regain his youth.

809
00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, he goes off and they break up into two parties.

810
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 2: One of the parties will go into the closest town

811
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: and see if they get gas as soon as like

812
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:25,319
Speaker 2: the sun comes up, and then come back to the

813
00:37:25,320 --> 00:37:27,479
Speaker 2: two cars that they are going to park and hide

814
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 2: in some woods. That's their plan.

815
00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 3: They like shirts and skins.

816
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, the skins will hang out with the owl and

817
00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 2: then hide in the woods. Right, that's the plan, and

818
00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,959
Speaker 2: hopefully they can get maybe a friendly mechanic to come

819
00:37:39,719 --> 00:37:41,919
Speaker 2: and either come back with them and fix the cars,

820
00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 2: or they can load the cars up a gasoline, drive

821
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 2: to town and get the cars fixed there. That's the plan. Meanwhile,

822
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 2: back at the ranch, the Texas A and M cadets, Right,

823
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 2: what are they doing in all of this? Remember he's

824
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,600
Speaker 2: racing on the train. That was only some of them.

825
00:37:55,760 --> 00:38:00,160
Speaker 2: There's twelve hundred students who will be involved.

826
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:02,600
Speaker 3: In this chase. Wait, so how many were on the train.

827
00:38:03,760 --> 00:38:04,319
Speaker 2: A couple hundred.

828
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're now just sitting.

829
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 2: There on the right hands and they're waiting in Houston

830
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:11,279
Speaker 2: just be in trouble making.

831
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,919
Speaker 3: And then you got like a thousand of them coming up. Yes,

832
00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:16,360
Speaker 3: that's about they need to go back to.

833
00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:19,239
Speaker 2: We have an account from the thresher that can give

834
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 2: you some exact numbers.

835
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 3: I want to give the thresher a hand, but not

836
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 3: as a farm X. Every time you say thresher, all

837
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 3: I think is like you.

838
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,040
Speaker 2: You immediately got there. I like that about you. So

839
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 2: I quote from the hand taking thresher. Yes, the AMM

840
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 2: cadets had been busy organizing their pursuit. Everything that had

841
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:46,040
Speaker 2: four wheels had been requisitioned and pressed into service. Eight

842
00:38:46,120 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 2: hundred cadets were brought up to the firing line and automobiles, motorcycles, wagons, buggies,

843
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 2: and of course the train.

844
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 3: This is like mad Max. Yes, So it doesn't.

845
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 2: Take long for these eight hundred cadets going off in

846
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,719
Speaker 2: every direction to find that the raiding party that's out

847
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,399
Speaker 2: in the woods dis down on a road.

848
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:09,200
Speaker 3: Right now, hold on, when they find this little raiding party,

849
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 3: what are they going to do to them? Just tear

850
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 3: them limb from lim They just wait, wait, this is

851
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 3: this is this isn't.

852
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:21,839
Speaker 2: No, there's no no murder in this one. But there's

853
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 2: some sociliarities coming up, so you ready. I returned to

854
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: the thresher. A detachment of cadets raided Millican and found

855
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 2: all of Rice's means of locomotion in the garage. So

856
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 2: the guys who had gone off to the town of

857
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,320
Speaker 2: Milliican with their car, they get discovered, and I continue

858
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 2: the quote. The immediately took charge of the cars. Nine

859
00:39:40,960 --> 00:39:42,839
Speaker 2: Rice men, who had been left to delay pursued as

860
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 2: long as possible, were captured with the cars. One of

861
00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 2: the people captured, Snowball, the private Detective Snowball. So the

862
00:39:52,360 --> 00:39:54,680
Speaker 2: other half of the raiding party, they get a messenger

863
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: back from Milligan. He runs out of town and makes

864
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 2: it back to where they are hiding the cars in

865
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:00,879
Speaker 2: the woods and tells them, you guys need to run

866
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:01,200
Speaker 2: for it.

867
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 3: They're on to us.

868
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 2: We don't have a car. So they're like, okay, so

869
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 2: what do they do? They decide we're going to just

870
00:40:06,920 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 2: run for it. So they decided to take this two

871
00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 2: hundred pound owl and run back to Houston. So they

872
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:14,160
Speaker 2: start running across the tall grass to save themselves.

873
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 3: So no, and I quote didn't happen.

874
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 2: Running with a two hundred pound owl was a larger

875
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 2: contract than the exhausted men could fill, and all hopes

876
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 2: of taking the bird wholesale were abandoned. The A and

877
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:28,719
Speaker 2: M searchers were hot on the trail, so the eight

878
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:31,319
Speaker 2: men hid themselves in a thicket and skinned the cover

879
00:40:31,400 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 2: off the owl and the hide given to four men

880
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 2: with instructions to take it to Houston and stuffing. Was

881
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 2: then set on fire as it had been discovered that

882
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 2: the party was completely surrounded by cadets, so they burned

883
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 2: the owl. Now the thing is is the gasoline makes

884
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 2: it so there's not much smoke, so they almost get

885
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 2: away with it, but this is one of the cadets

886
00:40:49,920 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 2: notices the flame and then they go rushing over to

887
00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 2: where they're hiding in the thickets. So now four of

888
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: the guys the leaders of the OPA, so this is

889
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:03,440
Speaker 2: full while or Drummond uh and my boy More and

890
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 2: Jimmy Waters yea yeah, they take the owl skin and

891
00:41:06,040 --> 00:41:08,279
Speaker 2: they make a break for it. The skin others try

892
00:41:08,320 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 2: to distract, so Sam the owls handed over to the

893
00:41:11,040 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 2: floor fastest. They're all members of the track team.

894
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 3: They're disgusting run for it.

895
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 2: So they and the other ones, the other four, they

896
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:20,759
Speaker 2: lead the aggie search party that's surrounding them in the

897
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,959
Speaker 2: wrong direction. Right, They're like, yeah, making a lot of noise,

898
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,400
Speaker 2: run for you guys, trying to get their attention. Jimmy

899
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,359
Speaker 2: Waters is leader of what we now call the Elusive Four.

900
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 2: The Elusive four are going to be officially a dude

901
00:41:31,719 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 2: named Dane, a dude named Payne, a dude named Waters,

902
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:35,160
Speaker 2: and Drummond.

903
00:41:35,440 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 3: So we got a weird old time nursery run day,

904
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:43,279
Speaker 3: Potters and trumm and getting the owl and off they

905
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 3: went together.

906
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,840
Speaker 2: So and I quote they entered some thick woods and

907
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 2: had over fifty men on their coat tails in no

908
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: time at all. The four men had been well chosen, however,

909
00:41:52,560 --> 00:41:56,000
Speaker 2: and the pursuers were soon distanced. Remember track Stars, So

910
00:41:56,040 --> 00:41:58,640
Speaker 2: the squad runs two miles with the with the owl

911
00:41:58,640 --> 00:42:01,680
Speaker 2: skin hidden on them, and they get to a major road, right,

912
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,600
Speaker 2: so they start waiting for a car to pass, hoping

913
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 2: somebody will be there. It's now morning time, right, and

914
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,479
Speaker 2: I quote it's now ten am Wednesday, and the party

915
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:11,239
Speaker 2: had been without food and water since noon on Tuesday.

916
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:14,080
Speaker 2: A well was found soon found in a small clearing,

917
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,719
Speaker 2: and the four men quench their thirst. So now there's there,

918
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,239
Speaker 2: like finally getting some nourishment to keep their bodies.

919
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:22,240
Speaker 3: Going die of exposure in this stupid crank exactly.

920
00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 2: So a bunch of cadets spot them and they come

921
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 2: running across a cotton field after them. They're like, oh,

922
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 2: they're coming for us, right, they start running The original

923
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:32,440
Speaker 2: fifty cadets who were just seeing them at the thicket

924
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 2: of woods they come from the other direction, so they

925
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 2: now run another two miles under full chase. Right. The

926
00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:41,000
Speaker 2: track stars are so exhausted at this point Jimmy Waters

927
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,600
Speaker 2: can't run over a one foot fence. He trips over

928
00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,600
Speaker 2: a one foot fence. Dane gets tangled up in grapevines

929
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 2: over and over again. Then there's this dude pain He

930
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: tries to jump a four foot creek and he lands

931
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 2: in the middle.

932
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,719
Speaker 3: He goes two feet. These are all track Stars. They're

933
00:42:54,800 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 3: so exhausted.

934
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 2: Their bodies are like pulling a full zola. Butd they're

935
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:01,399
Speaker 2: pretty much going to just collapse. Right. So at this point, right,

936
00:43:01,440 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 2: we're getting into the afternoon hours, right, and I quote,

937
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 2: the pursuers were finally ditched and the refuge was taken

938
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:09,520
Speaker 2: in a thick bunch of overgrowth, where the parties slept

939
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:12,680
Speaker 2: until three thirty pm, keeping one hour watches each. So

940
00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 2: now they've gone full military and they're doing one hour

941
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,200
Speaker 2: watches trying to get away from these cadets. So at

942
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 2: three point thirty they're awoken by the sound of a

943
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:22,600
Speaker 2: group of cadets who've discovered their hiding place. Right, So

944
00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 2: the four Trackstars are like, we're gonna have to split up, guys,

945
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,480
Speaker 2: we need someone to run distraction. So now they take

946
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 2: the owl skin, they tear it in half, they wrap

947
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:34,239
Speaker 2: it around their bodies. Two of them got to get

948
00:43:34,239 --> 00:43:36,560
Speaker 2: this owl home. So the other two run off in

949
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: the other direction, making a lot of noise. Well, the

950
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 2: two guys who have the owl wrapped around their bodies

951
00:43:41,680 --> 00:43:43,840
Speaker 2: run off, and they're doing it like you know, I

952
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,120
Speaker 2: don't even know they did. They have like this vim

953
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 2: and vigor and the zeal of like the French resistance,

954
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 2: like they are willing to do whatever to beat these military. Right,

955
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 2: so the four crawl on their bellies through the tall

956
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 2: grass to escape. They make it out of the thicket

957
00:43:57,239 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 2: in two different directions, right, and now the elusive four

958
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: reunite and they get to another road and they find

959
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 2: that the road is blocked because not because of cadets

960
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 2: for once this time, is just because there's basically river

961
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 2: water stormwater rushing past. The little bridge is blocked, right,

962
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:16,839
Speaker 2: So they're like, okay, what are we gonna do. That's

963
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 2: when they hear a car approach. They're like, oh no, right,

964
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,640
Speaker 2: there's nowhere for them to hide. There's nowhere to go.

965
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 2: They can't cross the river. They're up against the wall,

966
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: and they quote a car was heard crashing through the

967
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 2: brush and it was coming directly towards them. So the

968
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,160
Speaker 2: men had to interrupt their planning and hit out for

969
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 2: cover two with the owl skin remained in hiding while

970
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 2: the two went forward to investigate. The car was occupied

971
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 2: by hunters and the first question was to ask the

972
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 2: best way to get across the river? Who got the owl?

973
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 2: Was the reply, what owl?

974
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 3: You know?

975
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 2: Tell us we can help you out. So this is

976
00:44:49,440 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 2: a group of Texas duck hunters, men, full grown ass men.

977
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 2: They come across these kids and like, we heard all

978
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:56,960
Speaker 2: about this good thing.

979
00:44:57,000 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 3: It wasn't like a good man that's hard to find scenario.

980
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, definitely not. They had These hunters had been

981
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 2: stopped on their way to go duck hunting, and their

982
00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:06,239
Speaker 2: vehicle had been searched, so.

983
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 3: They were well aware cadets.

984
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 2: By the cadets, they're doing in the full lockdown.

985
00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 3: Now right down, it's not even there.

986
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:16,280
Speaker 2: So these hunters are tickled pink by these twelve hundred

987
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 2: cadets trying to find the elusive force. So they're like, yeah,

988
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 2: we'll help you guys out. This is great, right. So

989
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 2: the hunter's like, you just said, we're gonna keep shooting

990
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 2: some ducks. So they make them wait for three more hours. Well,

991
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 2: they get their fill of ducks right once the duck

992
00:45:30,280 --> 00:45:32,560
Speaker 2: hunters are done. They're like, okay, boys, seven PM, let's

993
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 2: go back to town. So they tell them, they're like, okay, well,

994
00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 2: we can take a couple of you. A couple of

995
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 2: you should probably stay here because you know they're gonna

996
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:41,759
Speaker 2: stop us again. So one of the duck hunters he

997
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 2: changed his clothes with the dude named Dane, and then

998
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 2: he hides in the back with the dude named Drummond.

999
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:48,800
Speaker 2: They hide in like a toolbox in the back of

1000
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 2: the truck.

1001
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,760
Speaker 3: Right, So the hunter and drum hunter, one of the hunters.

1002
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 2: And Drummond are in the back, and then Dane is

1003
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:55,120
Speaker 2: up front with the other hunter and they take off

1004
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 2: in the truck. Right. The truck does get stopped by

1005
00:45:57,719 --> 00:46:00,279
Speaker 2: cadets at the first bridge that they reach. Right, he

1006
00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 2: gets closely examined. They managed to pass the inspection. But

1007
00:46:03,920 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 2: then right before they're about to leave, one of the

1008
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 2: cadets is like, oh, I'm gonna go right back into

1009
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 2: town with you, like slaps the back of the truck.

1010
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 2: He climbs in back and he sits on the toolbox.

1011
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,000
Speaker 3: No, no, I would not stop for these guys. If

1012
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,320
Speaker 3: they were like hold, I'd look out of them and armed.

1013
00:46:18,440 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 3: I don't care no military.

1014
00:46:22,040 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 2: These are armed cadets in their uniform.

1015
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:28,960
Speaker 3: Gotten my book, temple faced, I'd be like, no, try

1016
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:31,279
Speaker 3: again and just keep driving. He gets on the car,

1017
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 3: I slam on the brakes and he slides down on

1018
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 3: the hood and then I run him over.

1019
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: In like five months time, these are all going to

1020
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:39,120
Speaker 2: be kids on the front. Well, they're like full on soldiers.

1021
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 2: Like then, they're acting like it, and I'm just telling you,

1022
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 2: pemble faced or not. They got guns and they're like, look,

1023
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 2: this truck ain't going anywhere. So Payne and Jimmy Waters

1024
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 2: right there with the guy who's got the car right,

1025
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:50,960
Speaker 2: and he gets them back to town. They get out

1026
00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 2: before they get to town. He's like, you know, you

1027
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,080
Speaker 2: guys can walk the rest of the way in.

1028
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1029
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 2: And they made that choice, and it was a good

1030
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,279
Speaker 2: choice to make because the driver when he gets to town,

1031
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 2: he gets stopped and he gets arrested and taken in under.

1032
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,280
Speaker 3: Customer tested by the cadets.

1033
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 2: Yes, there are three hundred cadets in this tiny Texas

1034
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 2: town and they have taken over and I quote took

1035
00:47:08,680 --> 00:47:11,080
Speaker 2: over the town, and I quote from the thresher You ready,

1036
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 2: the cadets to complete control of all telephone and telegraph lines,

1037
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,800
Speaker 2: had all roads blocked and were searching all trains that passed,

1038
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: so all means of communication and transportation were under vigilants.

1039
00:47:22,200 --> 00:47:24,279
Speaker 3: So they like declared martial law.

1040
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 2: In this area to dip this owl back.

1041
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 3: Is there any like, is there any authority figure over

1042
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 3: these guys the military? Well no, I mean they's just

1043
00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 3: a bunch of cadets, Like who's there, who's their boss guy?

1044
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:34,719
Speaker 3: It's going to be like.

1045
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 2: Texas College Sports. I don't know what to tell you.

1046
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:38,760
Speaker 2: This is the authority house.

1047
00:47:38,880 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 3: It's so crazy.

1048
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,479
Speaker 2: So these grown ass men, the duck Hunters, they're willing

1049
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 2: to join the resistance with the looser four so that

1050
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 2: that they then call in another friend once they get

1051
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 2: back to town, who was a doctor, and they're like, okay,

1052
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 2: now the phone lines a Meanwhile, they are all being

1053
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 2: tapped and monitors, so they have to use a code language.

1054
00:47:55,640 --> 00:47:58,400
Speaker 2: So they tell the doctor that they need some capsules

1055
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 2: and they've got some other capsules and could you bring

1056
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:01,640
Speaker 2: him to the house, and he's like, I'll come by.

1057
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,840
Speaker 3: So but so the doctor knows this code like that

1058
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:06,680
Speaker 3: they pre established it or is he like oh, I

1059
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 3: guess he needs capsule.

1060
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 2: He's he's friendly with the hundreds. This may not be

1061
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,239
Speaker 2: the first time they've had to, like, you know, do

1062
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 2: stuff like this, so he very quickly catches up with them. Right, yes,

1063
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: now we have pain in waters. They go out and

1064
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,360
Speaker 2: they climb into this car because they're going to be

1065
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 2: they were they'd waited outside of town. So the guy

1066
00:48:23,560 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 2: gets out and drives out of town. The doctor picks

1067
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:28,880
Speaker 2: them up, and the car was run at high speed

1068
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 2: and all challenges ignored is how they put it right.

1069
00:48:32,080 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 2: And at one point, the doctor's car with waters and

1070
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,799
Speaker 2: pain in it, it approaches a blocked bridge right and

1071
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: the cadets are lining the road and the Doctor's like,

1072
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:40,480
Speaker 2: what do you guys want me to do? The road's

1073
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 2: blocked and he's like, they're like, is there any way out?

1074
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:45,719
Speaker 2: He's like, I think I see away. So this is

1075
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,040
Speaker 2: a checkpoint like a war film.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Also, beanwhild there are thirteen of their comrades who've been

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Speaker 2: captured and they're being held at this bridge by the cadets.

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00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 2: So there's hundreds of cadets and they're their own comrades.

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Speaker 2: If you will are standing there, then the doctors starts

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00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,160
Speaker 2: revenue engine. He's like boys hang on, so he then

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00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,839
Speaker 2: floors it in his like whatever nineteen sixteen car.

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Speaker 3: He drives down the ditch, punches it.

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Speaker 2: He gets up to about fifty miles an hour and

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Speaker 2: then rides up the other side of the ditch and

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00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 2: jumps like the general lee from Duke's hazards. They break

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Speaker 2: free from gravity for a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Aren't making this though? I swear this is all really

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00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,160
Speaker 3: this is a burrito cannon. This really happened.

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Speaker 2: The captured member of the OPA. They go nuts. They're

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Speaker 2: cheering as his car is in the air.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: The car eventually lands with a huge crash back on

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00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 2: earth and then roars away at full speed. You know,

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00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 2: old cars, what you need to do. The cadets immediately

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00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,360
Speaker 2: give chase. They run and get in their cars and

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Speaker 2: they tear after the doctor's car. And the doctor he's

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00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 2: a hallacious driver. This ain't his first rodeo, so he's

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00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 2: tearing through Texas. He's enjoying the chase. Right. He manages

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Speaker 2: to get Pain and Waters over to the other house.

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00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,600
Speaker 2: They reunite with Dane and Drummond, who are still in

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00:49:56,680 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 2: hiding at this time. Now all of they're together, and

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00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: the five the make a break for it and race

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Speaker 2: back to Houston. So the doctors like, let's go and

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Speaker 2: run back to Houston. Is now the moment before dawn

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00:50:07,760 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 2: on another day on thinking we've reached the purple hour,

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Speaker 2: and these four men make it back to the Rice

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Speaker 2: campus at seven thirty am on Thursday morning, and they

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00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:20,880
Speaker 2: still had the skin of their six foot tallund.

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Speaker 3: Owl, three pieces of it.

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Speaker 2: Elizabeth, you may be wondering at a lot right now

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Speaker 2: what happened to the thirteen dudes who were captured who

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Speaker 2: were cheering at the side of the bridge. Great question,

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Speaker 2: But they were taken prisoner and they were held at

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00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,279
Speaker 2: Texas A and M in the military prison or the

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00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:38,719
Speaker 2: brig or whatever it was, right, and the president of

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00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 2: Rice University had to negotiate with the president of Texas

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Speaker 2: A and M to get the safe return of the

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Speaker 2: thirteen captured members of the Opaight Night Rate.

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Speaker 3: So he negotiates with terrorists.

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Speaker 2: Apparently, see I've heard that Texans don't do that.

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Speaker 3: I get right now.

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Speaker 2: You may also be wondering, and I know you were.

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Speaker 2: What happened to Snowball.

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Speaker 3: I guess I am watching that now.

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00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:01,600
Speaker 2: It's the best part, and I quote from the Thresher,

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00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:06,800
Speaker 2: Snowball gets paraded around campus, given a regulation army haircut,

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00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 2: turned over to the freshman for a few days. He

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00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 2: was eventually taken to the station late at night, minus

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00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 2: his clothes and told to catch the train. He was

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00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:16,640
Speaker 2: said he wasted no time getting aboard.

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00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:19,200
Speaker 3: Wait, what does it mean? Turned over to the freshman

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00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 3: for a few days and he comes home?

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00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 2: Yes, they I think you can just let your imagination

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00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 2: wander on that one. So then the freshman turn him

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00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:29,520
Speaker 2: out and then.

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00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:36,440
Speaker 3: He caught he's taking over the train station afterwards? Did

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00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 3: he change his name to Snowball because he didn't want

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00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 3: anyone to know who he went?

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00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 2: Do you imagine being a private detective and having to

1141
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 2: go home? How was your weekend?

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00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,680
Speaker 3: Okay? Could you imagine being a private detective a named

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00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:52,920
Speaker 3: Snowball B who gets hired to find like a mascot

1144
00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 3: and gets into this absolutely turn one of the board

1145
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 3: that you're making up in twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty,

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00:52:02,880 --> 00:52:05,640
Speaker 3: Why why Snowball.

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00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 2: Texas College exports? That's my answer?

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00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I want to hear from the descendants

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00:52:11,600 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 3: of Snowball.

1150
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 2: We should see if we can find them.

1151
00:52:16,200 --> 00:52:20,000
Speaker 3: If you are a descendant of Snowball, reach out. We

1152
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 3: want to hear the real story.

1153
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 2: We would like to know how what became of Snowball

1154
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 2: after this.

1155
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 3: We want to honor his memory.

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00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 2: So, Elizabeth, what's your ridiculous take away?

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00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 3: My ridiculous takeaway is, I'm having a lot of heart

1158
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 3: troubled processing right now.

1159
00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 2: Pretty much broke in your brain.

1160
00:52:36,280 --> 00:52:38,000
Speaker 3: I can't speak, I don't know the year.

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00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:41,400
Speaker 2: Try try this. Just say these two words. Roll tide

1162
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 2: that may pull it back.

1163
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 3: Deep breath, roll tide that helped. I did okay, oddly enough,

1164
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:47,800
Speaker 3: it totally helped.

1165
00:52:48,160 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, bear brand be so happy. Yeah, hook him

1166
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: horn totally the other one. See if that one works away,

1167
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 2: that's textic.

1168
00:52:53,440 --> 00:52:55,399
Speaker 3: Hook them horns. Everything feels so good.

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00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 2: You see football, baby, right there? It is football, there

1170
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 2: is Everything feels okay except for the losing.

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00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:02,600
Speaker 3: Well.

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00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 2: My ridiculous takeaway, thank you for asking now, is I

1173
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 2: grew up in the South and I still can't believe

1174
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 2: this happened like this is one of my favorite stories

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00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,080
Speaker 2: of Southern sports ever.

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00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 3: It's incredible. You know what it is? Ridiculous, ridiculous, It's

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00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:17,360
Speaker 3: so ridiculous.

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Speaker 2: But thank you for joining us. I'm Zaron Burnett.

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Speaker 3: That over there is an owl.

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Speaker 2: An owl name Miss Elizabeth Dutton. You can find us

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Speaker 2: online a Ridiculous Crime on both Twitter and the gram.

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Speaker 2: Twitter is the fourth, the one for the discourse that's

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Speaker 2: where we put up the photos for each episode. They

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Speaker 2: will reveal to you what these people look like, what

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Speaker 2: the cars look like, and so forth. The stories are

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Speaker 2: gmail dot com. Thanks for listening.

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