WEBVTT - Fan Favs: A Snowball’s Chance

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<v Speaker 1>Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>What's Up? It's me Zaren Burnett from Ridiculous Crime and

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<v Speaker 2>the hit CBS series Chicago Code Enforcement. Elizabeth and I

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<v Speaker 2>are away from headquarters and only able to record these

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<v Speaker 2>brief intros Bolivian Internet. It can be spotty, especially in

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<v Speaker 2>the Boron minds. We were on our way to complete

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<v Speaker 2>our initial assignment when we received a telegram from Bette

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<v Speaker 2>Midler asking for helps or seeing Boron for her neodymium

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

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<v Speaker 2>here we are. This though, is the third in our

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<v Speaker 2>four part series of fan favorite Classics. Episode seventy three.

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<v Speaker 2>What do you get when you combine twelve hundred college

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<v Speaker 2>student cadets, football, epic training, truck and car chases, private investigators,

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<v Speaker 2>and a two hundred pounds owl? You get the Texas

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<v Speaker 2>A and m versus Rice College rivalry, also known as

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<v Speaker 2>a snowballs chance. Enjoy No, Elizabeth Dunnan.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm good.

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<v Speaker 2>You know what's ridiculous?

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<v Speaker 3>I do?

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<v Speaker 2>Hell? Do you want to share it with me?

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<v Speaker 3>Collective nouns?

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<v Speaker 2>What do you mean?

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<v Speaker 3>Well, you know, like groups of things like murder of crows, parliament,

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<v Speaker 3>owls saren Have you ever done a deep dive on

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<v Speaker 3>collective nouns? Oh? Completely, son, Oh yeah, I looked at him.

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<v Speaker 2>I used to use those as a way to calm

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<v Speaker 2>myself down in anxious moments.

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, I don't want to know, but like you know,

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

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<v Speaker 3>a juggalo of jugglers, a never thing of of jugglers.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh that's fine, which, like you know, you never see

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<v Speaker 3>a group of jug well, I guess you do see

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<v Speaker 3>a group of jugglers outside the Loser Convent.

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<v Speaker 2>No kidding, collective noun for silences.

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

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<v Speaker 3>of rats, which is kind of like a rat king,

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<v Speaker 3>which don't google that people. My favorite a death row

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<v Speaker 3>of turkeys.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh that is good, right, And I mean.

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<v Speaker 3>A lot of these are multiple collective nouns for these groups,

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<v Speaker 3>but a death row of turkeys.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's up there.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Is there a writing desk of ravens?

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<v Speaker 3>Sure? Never more.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I've got something ridiculous for you.

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<v Speaker 3>You got to it, probably way more ridiculous than that

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<v Speaker 3>I have all the time in the world.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh excellent, because this one, it's a wild one, and

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<v Speaker 2>it'll take me a second to tell to you. Are

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

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<v Speaker 2>you know, I like Texas towns, and it is Texas

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<v Speaker 2>town in particular. It gets taken over by twelve hundred

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<v Speaker 2>college age military cadets who are eager to win a

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<v Speaker 2>rivalry prank war that involves now take notes, Yes, two

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<v Speaker 2>private detectives, multiple high speed car chases, a night raid

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<v Speaker 2>on an armory and a depot, a town's telephone lines

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<v Speaker 2>being seized, casual gunfire, mass arrest, wrongful imprisonment, and a

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred pounds owl.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh okay, this is ridiculous Crime.

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<v Speaker 2>A podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, heists, and cons.

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

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<v Speaker 2>Before we dive into the insanity of this story, I

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<v Speaker 2>like to give you a little context.

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<v Speaker 3>I love content, right, I figure you do.

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<v Speaker 2>Now you also love Reddit, right I do. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 3>I don't really check on anybody, but I know you

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<v Speaker 3>like to lurker. Yeah, I don't post, I just.

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<v Speaker 2>You just read until you lurk. Rather Well, there was

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<v Speaker 2>a post a couple days ago. He might have seen it.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. This guy put forward a theory that

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<v Speaker 2>the University of Alabama doesn't exist.

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<v Speaker 3>I missed that one.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, And they say, he said, basically, well, I'll just

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<v Speaker 2>quote it. He said, conspiracy theory. Quote Alabama is not

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<v Speaker 2>an actual school. It is just a football team. And

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<v Speaker 2>then he makes his case and I continue to quote.

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<v Speaker 2>The title says it all. I don't think Alabama truly

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<v Speaker 2>exists as a school. There are no classes. If you

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<v Speaker 2>somehow break into one of the buildings on campus, you'll

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<v Speaker 2>find dusty storage rooms with used jockstraps and satanic altars

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<v Speaker 2>to bear Bryant's demon ghost. I have met so many

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<v Speaker 2>damn many Alabama fans roll tad they say. If you

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<v Speaker 2>ask them what year they graduated, they will usually hit

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<v Speaker 2>you with, ah, I never been to college. Like that's

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<v Speaker 2>the most ridiculous thing they've ever heard. I live and

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<v Speaker 2>work in the South. I've interacted with fans of every

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<v Speaker 2>other SEC team, and most of them have actually attended

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<v Speaker 2>the university they root for. I have never not once

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<v Speaker 2>met an Alabama fan that went to Alabama.

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

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<v Speaker 3>Yes he does.

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<v Speaker 2>As you know, he gets response on Reddit, and so

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<v Speaker 2>far he had had to post an edit, and so

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<v Speaker 2>I quote, there are some very humble gentlemen visiting me.

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<v Speaker 2>Every word I've said is unjust. I now know. Maybe

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<v Speaker 2>I've just been stressed lately and i wanted to be

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<v Speaker 2>the center of attention. Hopefully my new friends can correct

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<v Speaker 2>my ignorance on the beauty of an Alabama education. Nick

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<v Speaker 2>Saban is handsome and intelligent and every man or woman's dream.

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<v Speaker 2>I've shown my jealousy of their degree programs and anyone

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<v Speaker 2>would be lucky to go to school in Tuscaloosa. May

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<v Speaker 2>God have mercy on my soul, and may Elfan's trample

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<v Speaker 2>me if I ever Transchrist again.

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<v Speaker 3>He should have held fast on that one.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm just glad he found the truth in the way

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<v Speaker 2>of Alabama football because also, I'm legally required to say

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<v Speaker 2>this because it'll be broadcast in Alabama.

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<v Speaker 3>Role Tide.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, so you know, there you go. Bear Now you

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<v Speaker 2>lived in South Carolina. We've talked about this, and they're

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<v Speaker 2>an sec style like fanatics for football in that area.

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<v Speaker 2>They got Clemson, you got the University of South Carolina

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<v Speaker 2>game Cocks. Now is that told true? Like the Alabama

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<v Speaker 2>fans where you'd meet people who like, they're like, oh, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>I love Clemson and you're like, oh, well, yar'd you

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<v Speaker 2>graduate and the like, oh I ain't never been to school.

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<v Speaker 3>One hundred percent percent. Yeah. I mean when I moved

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<v Speaker 3>down there, people would say, who do you root for?

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<v Speaker 3>Clemson or USC? And of course, coming from California, I'm

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<v Speaker 3>like you already Trojans? Are you kidding me? And uh

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<v Speaker 3>so then I was educated on that that it's the

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<v Speaker 3>Cox and uh so they everyone said I had to

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<v Speaker 3>choose and I was like, like, you know Kelly on

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<v Speaker 3>nine o two and oh, I choose me. So I

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<v Speaker 3>wouldn't want to pick a side. But then I was

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<v Speaker 3>you know, I'd ask people, oh, you went to Clemson,

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<v Speaker 3>were you like, you know, an AG major of some sort?

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<v Speaker 3>And no, they didn't go to Clemson. And same with

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<v Speaker 3>the most almost every USC fan really yeah that most

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<v Speaker 3>of them didn't go to those schools. They went to college,

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<v Speaker 3>they just didn't.

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<v Speaker 2>Went to smaller school. Yeah, and they wanted to support

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<v Speaker 2>the big.

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<v Speaker 3>But I'll tell you the most maniacal fans are the

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<v Speaker 3>Clemson fans who actually did go to Clemson.

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<v Speaker 2>Why are they most maniacal?

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<v Speaker 3>Like that's all they wear the clothes like they don't

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<v Speaker 3>know any other clothes, all on and gear and they're

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<v Speaker 3>super into it, which you know, hey, respect, you love

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<v Speaker 3>your you love your alma mater.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, fire up that tiger rag.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah. But you know what, I choose me.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm so clod for that. You went to Davis for

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<v Speaker 2>college and they have a football program. It's now an

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<v Speaker 2>NCAA team. You did you go to games? Did you

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<v Speaker 2>care about?

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<v Speaker 3>Like once or twice they had? You know, I went

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<v Speaker 3>to games?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you no?

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<v Speaker 5>Big?

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<v Speaker 2>Was it like a thing? Like? Because you know, I

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<v Speaker 2>grew up in Davis's my hometown, so we rooted for

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<v Speaker 2>UCD and I know that idea of being the touny rooting.

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<v Speaker 2>And now obviously it wasn't like oh I was like eleven,

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<v Speaker 2>So I was like, oh, you could go to school there.

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<v Speaker 2>Nobody thought that. But we look, we see the players

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<v Speaker 2>walking around town. They were huge to us. It might

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<v Speaker 2>as well be like an NFL star, an NBA star.

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<v Speaker 2>We loved the team, but we noticed the college kids.

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<v Speaker 2>You guys didn't give it. You didn't know anything about

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<v Speaker 2>the teams. You didn't know, like the game was on Saturday.

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<v Speaker 3>I kind of stumbled into it a couple of times,

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<v Speaker 3>and I was always distracted by the like associative activities,

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<v Speaker 3>like the T shirt cannon. The T shirt you mean

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<v Speaker 3>the game, that's a game campus we're in. The full

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<v Speaker 3>back just fires a T shirt cannon at the other players. No,

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<v Speaker 3>and then here's here's the thing. I seem to recall

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<v Speaker 3>that they I think I made this up, and now

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's real. Someone put a burrito in the

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<v Speaker 3>T shirt cannon. I don't know if it really happened.

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<v Speaker 3>I think I was imagining it that they would go

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<v Speaker 3>burrito madness and like fire burritos that would explode and people.

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<v Speaker 3>But like I guess, you know, if you asked me,

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<v Speaker 3>I'm like, yeah, totally, I saw that. I don't think

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<v Speaker 3>that actually happened. You know, it's all a blur burrito madness.

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<v Speaker 2>I love that.

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<v Speaker 3>Well that is so that's the extent of my football knowledge.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm not a football person, no.

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<v Speaker 2>I know this. I definitely know that it's the community

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<v Speaker 2>aspect of football that I find really fascinating, especially college football,

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<v Speaker 2>because people will, you know, find themselves in a team

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<v Speaker 2>and they will go to war for their team. Oh yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>which brings to this story. So the story takes place

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<v Speaker 2>in nineteen seventeen. Right now, that was the year that

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<v Speaker 2>we would enter World War One. This is just before then.

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<v Speaker 2>This is in January. We enter in April. This is

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<v Speaker 2>in January.

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<v Speaker 3>Is that the year football was invented?

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<v Speaker 2>No, we can just say, yes, this is the year

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<v Speaker 2>football was invented.

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<v Speaker 3>It was cool.

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<v Speaker 2>And so when they're inventing the game of football, it

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<v Speaker 2>took place in Texas. They invented football in Texas, Texas

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<v Speaker 2>A and M the Agricultural Mechanical School. Yes, they were

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<v Speaker 2>playing Rice University. But in this instance, since it was January,

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<v Speaker 2>which is after football season, they decided to play a

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<v Speaker 2>football game on the basketball court. And they wore basketball

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<v Speaker 2>uniforms and then they'd use a basketball.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh in the world, and they used basketball.

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<v Speaker 2>So they just played basketball. It was a basketball.

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<v Speaker 3>They just really threw the basket.

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

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<v Speaker 2>want you to get too jarred. Yeah, because I know

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<v Speaker 2>you've just become a fan of football.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it was just invented.

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

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<v Speaker 2>game that they played was Houston's Right University versus college

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<v Speaker 2>stations Texas A and M. Right big rivalry. Basketball was

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<v Speaker 2>a huge sport at the time. And although it was

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<v Speaker 2>a really interesting game because when they won the game,

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<v Speaker 2>the score was twenty one to thirteen. So Rice beats

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<v Speaker 2>Texas A and M and embarrasses them twenty one.

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<v Speaker 3>To thirteen football basketball.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm glad you know that.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, I figured that one out.

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<v Speaker 2>So this was also the Texas A and M's first

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<v Speaker 2>victory over a Right sports team in three years. Right,

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<v Speaker 2>they're just fired up about this. They go big, they're celebrate,

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<v Speaker 2>and they're doing everything they can. They're getting drunk, they're yelling,

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<v Speaker 2>they're screaming, the driver around and their Model T cars

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<v Speaker 2>in the campus. Right, but it's not enough. They need

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<v Speaker 2>something else, the symbolic expression of their victory, something they

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<v Speaker 2>can hold on to, right, something to unite them and

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<v Speaker 2>give them this moment. So what do they do. They're like,

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<v Speaker 2>it's cast about and find something that we can always

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<v Speaker 2>have this feeling right, And they find exactly what they need.

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<v Speaker 2>The Texas A and M basketball players, some fans, some students,

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<v Speaker 2>and some non student alumni. They all discover however that

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<v Speaker 2>Rice has left their mascot behind and it's unprotected, right,

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<v Speaker 2>And their mascot is an owl that is about the

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<v Speaker 2>size of a man, about a six foot tall owl.

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<v Speaker 2>It's not real. It's a statue. It's got a wooden understructure.

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<v Speaker 2>It has a canvas skin stretched over it. It weighs

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred pounds. It is a huge structure.

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<v Speaker 3>Did a man climb up inside of it?

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<v Speaker 2>No, it's just a statue that they carry around. They

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<v Speaker 2>plopped out. It's more of, yes, an effigy. That's probably

0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:31.800
<v Speaker 2>the better way of putting it. So this effigy, this

0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.199
<v Speaker 2>canvas creation of theirs, it's you know, filled with sawdust

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<v Speaker 2>and excelsior, which is stuffing material. Sounds right, and not

0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:41.480
<v Speaker 2>a great word. Excelsior. It's always like that. Stanley's favorite

0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.760
<v Speaker 2>word is also on the motto of the New York State.

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<v Speaker 2>It just means like ever on. Yeah, it also means stuffing, yes,

0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:53.040
<v Speaker 2>New York stuffing. So this, uh, this wool stuffing that's

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<v Speaker 2>filled in this bird is what gives it its volume,

0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:59.320
<v Speaker 2>its weight, its shape, and then obviously the wooden understructure. Right,

0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:02.360
<v Speaker 2>So the thing two hundred pounds and it's six foot tall.

0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.920
<v Speaker 2>It's basically like picking up a man, right, like a

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<v Speaker 2>big football player size guy. Now, these guys they pick

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<v Speaker 2>up this owl and they run off with it, and

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<v Speaker 2>they manage to get away without any of the Rice

0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:16.679
<v Speaker 2>students catching them, right. And then you have to keep

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<v Speaker 2>in mind also that these Texas ANA and M students,

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<v Speaker 2>they are corman, they are cadets because Texas A and

0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.680
<v Speaker 2>M at this time was a military institute that required

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<v Speaker 2>the students to be cadets.

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<v Speaker 3>And oh, I didn't know that coming in.

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<v Speaker 2>Just a few months, these kids are all about to

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<v Speaker 2>go off. They all will be released to go join

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<v Speaker 2>World War One. And at this time they're training for

0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.959
<v Speaker 2>the war. So they're on war footing. They're like war craze.

0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.560
<v Speaker 2>They are already in a military mind. So they start

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<v Speaker 2>to act like this is an operation.

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<v Speaker 3>Well, they're ready to get their faces shot off.

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<v Speaker 2>So they and they grab this owl and they they

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<v Speaker 2>you know, back all off with it into the dark.

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<v Speaker 2>They loaded into a car, they drive to the train station.

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<v Speaker 2>They load the owl onto the train station. They hand

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<v Speaker 2>it over to the Wells Fargo agents. They go get

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<v Speaker 2>this back to college station and don't tell anyone, you

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<v Speaker 2>have it, and they're like, okay, are you going to

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<v Speaker 2>pay for this?

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<v Speaker 3>That's all?

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<v Speaker 2>That's all, yeah exactly, So they do. They put it

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<v Speaker 2>on the train, they load it up, and they take

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<v Speaker 2>the owl back to Texas A and M.

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<v Speaker 3>Right.

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<v Speaker 2>The Rice students they learn about this when they read

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<v Speaker 2>it in the news. The Texas A and M. They

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<v Speaker 2>put it in the news. It filters over to Houston

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<v Speaker 2>and then they're like what so.

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<v Speaker 3>Wait, they got all the way home and they didn't

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<v Speaker 3>realize they forgot a two hundred pound owl.

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<v Speaker 2>No, no, this was that the game was in Rice.

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<v Speaker 2>So the Texas students go back. Texas students go back. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so the Rice students are just missing their They weren't

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<v Speaker 2>they weren't thinking of it.

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<v Speaker 3>It was in charge of cleaning the owl after the games.

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<v Speaker 2>That's a really good question. I will put that to

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<v Speaker 2>our researcher. And who's an owl cleaner here? So, Texas

0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:44.160
<v Speaker 2>A and M. Right, they have the owl, they've managed

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<v Speaker 2>to get it back, and the Rice students figured this out.

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<v Speaker 2>So what are they going to do? They lie, They decide,

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<v Speaker 2>you know what, we're gonna say they didn't steal the owl.

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<v Speaker 2>So they build a new owl and they put that

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<v Speaker 2>on campus and they insist that's the original owl.

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<v Speaker 3>Like when a kid loses the stuff down, the parents

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<v Speaker 3>get it one.

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<v Speaker 2>So they try that, and now all thing that has

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<v Speaker 2>to do is pretty much suffice for all of the

0:14:06.600 --> 0:14:08.840
<v Speaker 2>students and the local population. They could show the newspaper,

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<v Speaker 2>well see we still have our owl, but they know

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<v Speaker 2>the truth. So like, we got to get our owl back. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>So seventeen students get together a bunch of student athletes,

0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:18.280
<v Speaker 2>members of the track team, football team, basketball team. They'd

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<v Speaker 2>create the Owl Protective Association. So they decide, you know,

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<v Speaker 2>two days after this owl is stolen, that they were

0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:28.440
<v Speaker 2>going to get their owl back. And so then they

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<v Speaker 2>hire a private detective. That's their first move. We need

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<v Speaker 2>somebody to find out where the owl is.

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<v Speaker 3>Side one.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so get get ourselves a private dick and we'll

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<v Speaker 2>get him to go look for it. So the private detective,

0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.680
<v Speaker 2>they're like, they go and they meet this guy and

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<v Speaker 2>he's like a grizzled nineteen seventeen private detective probably you know,

0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:46.960
<v Speaker 2>like I don't know, beat up railroad strikers for the Pankertons.

0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:47.800
<v Speaker 3>I don't know this guy.

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<v Speaker 2>He's a hard dude, right, So they pay him to

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<v Speaker 2>travel to college station and hunt around for the owl.

0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.840
<v Speaker 2>He does. He's like, okay, I'll go out to college

0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:59.400
<v Speaker 2>station and i'll telegraph you guys when I find it. Right,

0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.000
<v Speaker 2>So Private Dick takes the student's money goes off to

0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:06.520
<v Speaker 2>college station. They don't hear from them. Maybe we made

0:15:06.520 --> 0:15:09.760
<v Speaker 2>a mistake. So they decide, okay, we need to go

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<v Speaker 2>over to college station to find out what's going on.

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<v Speaker 2>So they have to sneak onto the campus. Remember, these

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<v Speaker 2>are all cadets. So they go to the store like

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<v Speaker 2>the Army Navy store and they get some army uniforms.

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<v Speaker 3>Right, so theiform No, these the Rice students are just

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<v Speaker 3>college students, are just like rich Texas A and M

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<v Speaker 3>is the cadets.

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<v Speaker 2>So the Rice students have to go get uniforms so

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<v Speaker 2>they can sneak onto Texas campus. Right, So they managed

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<v Speaker 2>to do this. Now have they have all the uniforms

0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.040
<v Speaker 2>and they're gonna go. You have to understand Texas A

0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.080
<v Speaker 2>and M As I told you military institute. So they

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<v Speaker 2>have real military officers who were armed as sentries on

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<v Speaker 2>the campus. They've got bull sergeants so as they call

0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.800
<v Speaker 2>them who run around, who tell the students what to do.

0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.640
<v Speaker 2>So they're sneaking onto essentially a military ye like a

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<v Speaker 2>DeBie base in Texas. Right, So the right students, they

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<v Speaker 2>got their work cut out for them. So when they

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<v Speaker 2>get to town, turns out their detective was on the case.

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<v Speaker 2>He didn't just take their money and steal away into

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<v Speaker 2>the night. That's what I thought when I was reading this.

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<v Speaker 2>It turns out he did, you know, find the guys

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<v Speaker 2>who like may have stolen it. He's like, I couldn't

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<v Speaker 2>find the owl. I hate to tell you guys. They're like, man,

0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.200
<v Speaker 2>that sucks. That's terrible news. It's a dark night, it's raining.

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<v Speaker 2>They're like, well, we already came all the way to

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<v Speaker 2>College Station, which is about like a ninety mile one

0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.040
<v Speaker 2>hundred mile trip. So they're like, I guess while we're here,

0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.160
<v Speaker 2>we can hunt around. So they hunt around on the

0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.880
<v Speaker 2>Texas A and M campus, pretending to be student or

0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.200
<v Speaker 2>cadets rather. Yeah, and they have with them two transfer

0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.880
<v Speaker 2>students who know the university. So they're like, okay, where

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<v Speaker 2>where are It's like the dormitories, where's the where would

0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:36.760
<v Speaker 2>they put this?

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<v Speaker 3>Right turncoats?

0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.360
<v Speaker 2>They had exactly turncoats. So the scouts they send out.

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<v Speaker 2>They search all of the buildings except for the dormitories

0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:45.880
<v Speaker 2>because there'll be too many people who may recognize them.

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<v Speaker 2>But everything other than that, they're avoiding centuries, military guards,

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<v Speaker 2>the whole bit. They can't find the owl. No luck, right,

0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:56.160
<v Speaker 2>so the OPA their their scouts to go off. They

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<v Speaker 2>return to Houston four more days past to start sweat.

0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:02.400
<v Speaker 2>People are starting to question the owl they have in

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<v Speaker 2>the campus.

0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.000
<v Speaker 3>Because they look right.

0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.080
<v Speaker 2>So they're like, okay, well this may be beyond us.

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

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<v Speaker 2>they throw some money together and they hire a second detective.

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

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<v Speaker 3>That's the only thing he's referred to.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a cat's snowball. Yeah, like he's a cat

0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.000
<v Speaker 2>like snowball. The cat producer Dave spot On with the

0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.560
<v Speaker 2>acknowledgment of the snowball is essentially like his code name.

0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.440
<v Speaker 2>But it's the silliest damn code name he could come

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<v Speaker 2>up with. And he's in Texas, right, So Snowball shows

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<v Speaker 2>up on your heart bit detective, what do you guys need? Right,

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<v Speaker 2>And they're like, I'll take the case.

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<v Speaker 3>Snowball like the nose tutans, No, No.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's just a sweetheart.

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<v Speaker 3>So is this a little powder problems.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll find your two hundred pound owl mascot or whatever

0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:52.480
<v Speaker 2>you got right, And so the snowball drives out to

0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.600
<v Speaker 2>college station and he starts snooping around and he poses

0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.920
<v Speaker 2>as a Houston area newspaper reporter. He's like, I heard

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<v Speaker 2>about the owl nab and I want to get the story.

0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:02.640
<v Speaker 2>And the kids are like, oh, it's great, yeah, because

0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:04.439
<v Speaker 2>they want the story to go back to Houston and

0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:08.159
<v Speaker 2>embarrass all the Rice students, so they never questioned the story.

0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.320
<v Speaker 2>He manages to get in and meet the actual Texas

0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.879
<v Speaker 2>A and M bird nappers. They show him the bird

0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.280
<v Speaker 2>because he's like, I need pictures for the paper. They're like, okay,

0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:17.800
<v Speaker 2>we'll take it this way. They take them up to

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<v Speaker 2>the place where they're hiding the bird. He snaps his

0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.520
<v Speaker 2>photos and he's like, okay, the bird's here, and he's

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<v Speaker 2>like thank you guys, pretends to be a reporter and leaves.

0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.320
<v Speaker 2>Then he goes out to the telegram office Telegram's Rice

0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.879
<v Speaker 2>and he's like, you know, they've got the bird. He

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<v Speaker 2>sends a coded message The bird's nickname is Sammy, That's

0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:35.800
<v Speaker 2>what the Rice students call him. So he sends his

0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.359
<v Speaker 2>coded message, Sammy is fairly well and would like to

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<v Speaker 2>see his parents at eleven o'clock.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>So, now the plot is completely in motion, and after

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<v Speaker 2>this short break, I'll be right back to tell you

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<v Speaker 2>the next installment in this insane.

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<v Speaker 6>Two Nice.

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

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<v Speaker 3>Please?

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<v Speaker 2>Okay. So the Rice students, right, they now know that

0:19:21.880 --> 0:19:25.480
<v Speaker 2>the bird is still fine, it exists, and their detective

0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.840
<v Speaker 2>Snowball has found it for them, So they need to

0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.480
<v Speaker 2>get into action, right. The seventeen members of their OPA

0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.440
<v Speaker 2>are called out on a raiding party and they're ready

0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:38.800
<v Speaker 2>to roll. The Owl Protective Association. Yeah, sorry, I should

0:19:38.920 --> 0:19:41.959
<v Speaker 2>keep you up with the acronyms. So they decided that

0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.399
<v Speaker 2>Snowball's message and a quote was a signal that the

0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:46.320
<v Speaker 2>owl had been located and that his capture was now

0:19:46.359 --> 0:19:49.719
<v Speaker 2>a matter of daring. So daring is called for, and

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<v Speaker 2>daring is what they're prepared.

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<v Speaker 3>With a feat of daring do Yeah, exactly.

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<v Speaker 2>So, the seventeen members of the OPA, the Owl Protective Association,

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<v Speaker 2>the rock up in two old Fords and a Hudson

0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:02.760
<v Speaker 2>Super six. They load up all seventeen people in these

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<v Speaker 2>three cars. Right. The second car, the second car just mentioned,

0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.680
<v Speaker 2>the Hudson Super six. Yeah, that was introduced in nineteen sixteen,

0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.600
<v Speaker 2>much like professional football. So it was called the Super

0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:16.679
<v Speaker 2>six because I had an inline six cylinder engine. It

0:20:16.760 --> 0:20:18.720
<v Speaker 2>was the one of the fastest cars of his time.

0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.359
<v Speaker 2>It was a high performance engine. Like I said, the

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<v Speaker 2>Rice students, rich kids, right, So they've got this car

0:20:23.840 --> 0:20:28.600
<v Speaker 2>has a distinctive seventy two horsepower, just blazing form nineteen seventeen.

0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:31.919
<v Speaker 2>That's forty more horsepower than you get from a similar

0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:34.240
<v Speaker 2>size Hudson the year prior. Right, So we're talking like

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<v Speaker 2>real fast. Now, if you're wondering top speed, seventy five

0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:39.960
<v Speaker 2>miles per hour pretty fast for our non American listeners,

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<v Speaker 2>one hundred and twenty kilometers.

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<v Speaker 3>Excellent. Now.

0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:45.359
<v Speaker 2>Fun fact, the Jode family when they went west in

0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.760
<v Speaker 2>the Grapes of Wrath, what they were driving in was

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<v Speaker 2>a Hudson Super six. Whoa, Now, this is what it

0:20:52.240 --> 0:20:52.679
<v Speaker 2>looks like.

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<v Speaker 3>I'm just going to show you a picture of that

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<v Speaker 3>put on Instagram.

0:20:55.520 --> 0:20:58.199
<v Speaker 2>Yes I will, man, it's the Hudson Super six is

0:20:58.240 --> 0:21:00.320
<v Speaker 2>probably one of my favorite cars of era.

0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.920
<v Speaker 3>It just looks really cool, right, how many you did it? Seat?

0:21:03.320 --> 0:21:05.520
<v Speaker 2>I'd probably take, like, you know, standards five six.

0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:08.399
<v Speaker 3>People and this we had seventeen boys. And this is

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<v Speaker 3>like in the.

0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:10.400
<v Speaker 2>Era wh people would try to see how many people

0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:12.280
<v Speaker 2>they could fit in a telephone booth, you know, like

0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:13.520
<v Speaker 2>they were really into.

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<v Speaker 3>Like squeezing before that.

0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:16.680
<v Speaker 2>There, it's likely, yeah, that's more the twenties. But I'm

0:21:16.680 --> 0:21:18.560
<v Speaker 2>saying leading up to this, this is the college era

0:21:18.600 --> 0:21:21.120
<v Speaker 2>of raccoon hats and big fur jackets and like, let's

0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:23.440
<v Speaker 2>see how many people we can get in this seat,

0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:25.720
<v Speaker 2>you know, yeah, wacky. So they're doing all of that,

0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:27.320
<v Speaker 2>and there's a Texas kids, so they go big with

0:21:27.359 --> 0:21:31.840
<v Speaker 2>it there seventeen. So the other two cars, those are

0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:34.160
<v Speaker 2>the two old Fords. When I say old Fords, everybody

0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:35.800
<v Speaker 2>back then they just refer to the When I read

0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:38.040
<v Speaker 2>the newspaper accounts, they just said old Fords because there

0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.240
<v Speaker 2>was the only the Model T. They have a bunch

0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.920
<v Speaker 2>of Fords. It's like previous Model A, but now we're

0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.520
<v Speaker 2>to the Model T. The old Tin Lizzy right, top

0:21:45.560 --> 0:21:48.600
<v Speaker 2>speed forty two miles per hour, blazy, yeah, and for

0:21:48.640 --> 0:21:51.160
<v Speaker 2>the non American listeners, that's sixty eight kilometers per hour.

0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:53.840
<v Speaker 2>So these are, by the way, this is what the

0:21:53.880 --> 0:21:55.680
<v Speaker 2>Tin Lizzy looks like in case you'd like just a

0:21:55.760 --> 0:21:56.600
<v Speaker 2>quick recollection.

0:21:56.720 --> 0:21:56.880
<v Speaker 3>Yep.

0:21:56.960 --> 0:21:59.159
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So it's the classic car that you think of,

0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:00.560
<v Speaker 2>like the buggy if you will.

0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:01.080
<v Speaker 6>Yeah.

0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.480
<v Speaker 2>So we have seventeen ten as the horn that goes oh,

0:22:03.880 --> 0:22:07.000
<v Speaker 2>exactly exactly. So we have seventeen young men loaded in

0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:11.720
<v Speaker 2>these two open air cars with thin tires, overloaded with

0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:14.840
<v Speaker 2>a bunch of football players, and they're headed out into

0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:17.840
<v Speaker 2>essentially dirt roads for one hundred miles to get to

0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:21.840
<v Speaker 2>College Station, Texas from Houston. There mandates is not as

0:22:21.840 --> 0:22:24.600
<v Speaker 2>bad as West Texas, but it's basically central Texas. So

0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.160
<v Speaker 2>they're going through like some mountainous not quite mountainous region,

0:22:28.160 --> 0:22:30.840
<v Speaker 2>but you know the Texas hills country, Yeah, the hill

0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:33.760
<v Speaker 2>country and then lots of wooded areas. And they are

0:22:33.880 --> 0:22:35.879
<v Speaker 2>not going through easy these you are not like you know,

0:22:35.920 --> 0:22:39.520
<v Speaker 2>paved roads. User cars are designed for driving on basically

0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:40.680
<v Speaker 2>a wagon road.

0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:41.960
<v Speaker 3>Sure, yeah, and it's.

0:22:41.800 --> 0:22:45.000
<v Speaker 2>Texas, so they got plenty of wagon roads. So these

0:22:45.560 --> 0:22:49.280
<v Speaker 2>seventeen men at eleven thirty at night, they reach College station,

0:22:49.720 --> 0:22:52.080
<v Speaker 2>and that's when they meet up with their private Dick Snowball, right,

0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.040
<v Speaker 2>and Snowball's got some bad news for the boys right now.

0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:57.720
<v Speaker 2>There was a contemporaneous account of all that's published in

0:22:57.760 --> 0:23:02.560
<v Speaker 2>the Rice University student newspaper called The Thresher and the Thresher,

0:23:02.600 --> 0:23:05.520
<v Speaker 2>and it's Thursday, February the fifteenth, nineteen seventeen edition if

0:23:05.520 --> 0:23:07.919
<v Speaker 2>you want to look this up on newspapers dot com. Yes,

0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.159
<v Speaker 2>they had a first hand account written by members of

0:23:10.200 --> 0:23:13.000
<v Speaker 2>the OPA, so we have their actual account. And I

0:23:13.200 --> 0:23:15.920
<v Speaker 2>quote the detective was of the opinion that would be

0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:17.919
<v Speaker 2>impossible to get the bird, and it was as it

0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:20.439
<v Speaker 2>was on the third floor of the US Armory, the

0:23:20.520 --> 0:23:23.080
<v Speaker 2>strongest room at A and M. But he stated there

0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:24.760
<v Speaker 2>was a sporting chance to win out.

0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:25.359
<v Speaker 3>Huh.

0:23:25.600 --> 0:23:28.119
<v Speaker 2>So he's like, look, they got it in the basically

0:23:28.600 --> 0:23:31.280
<v Speaker 2>the fort on campus and on the third floor, so

0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.560
<v Speaker 2>you have to fight your way in. And they're military,

0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:37.400
<v Speaker 2>so god speak, you Gause are college athletes, so give

0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:40.240
<v Speaker 2>it as sporting chance. Right, four men decide, okay, we

0:23:40.240 --> 0:23:41.440
<v Speaker 2>need to go see what the lay of the land

0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:42.960
<v Speaker 2>is and they go out on a scouting mission.

0:23:43.000 --> 0:23:43.160
<v Speaker 5>Right.

0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:46.600
<v Speaker 2>Their names are for the sake of this story, Full Whiler,

0:23:46.680 --> 0:23:50.240
<v Speaker 2>billups Moore, and the leader Jimmy Waters Gas four will

0:23:50.280 --> 0:23:51.680
<v Speaker 2>be the only ones whose names I will be telling

0:23:51.720 --> 0:23:53.280
<v Speaker 2>you because they will come up over and over again.

0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.399
<v Speaker 2>They are essentially the leaders of this racial party.

0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:55.640
<v Speaker 5>Right.

0:23:55.920 --> 0:24:00.160
<v Speaker 2>So full Whiler, billups More and Waters they hit the

0:24:00.200 --> 0:24:03.080
<v Speaker 2>track running they go, and they sneak onto campus and

0:24:03.160 --> 0:24:05.479
<v Speaker 2>they are after their two hundred pound owl mascot. Right.

0:24:05.520 --> 0:24:07.920
<v Speaker 2>So the four men they elude sentries and these bull

0:24:07.960 --> 0:24:10.840
<v Speaker 2>sergeants and all the campus cadets, and they entered the

0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:13.040
<v Speaker 2>US Armory on the ground floor. They make it into

0:24:13.080 --> 0:24:15.240
<v Speaker 2>the building, all right, So now they have to ascend

0:24:15.240 --> 0:24:17.680
<v Speaker 2>three flights of stairs. They managed to do that without

0:24:17.720 --> 0:24:21.080
<v Speaker 2>catching any of the watchmen who are circling through the building.

0:24:21.600 --> 0:24:24.600
<v Speaker 2>They're also you know, students who are on guard because

0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:26.159
<v Speaker 2>they know they have the stolen owl and they know

0:24:26.160 --> 0:24:28.160
<v Speaker 2>it's in that building, so any weird sounds or anything

0:24:28.200 --> 0:24:31.040
<v Speaker 2>will immediately alert suspicions. They decide, okay, we need to

0:24:31.040 --> 0:24:33.359
<v Speaker 2>do this quietly, so they take out big knives and

0:24:33.359 --> 0:24:35.560
<v Speaker 2>they try to carve their way through a heavy wooden

0:24:35.680 --> 0:24:38.040
<v Speaker 2>armory door. What so imagine like one of those mission

0:24:38.040 --> 0:24:40.720
<v Speaker 2>style California doors. We're like, the boards are like nine

0:24:40.760 --> 0:24:44.440
<v Speaker 2>inches solid woods. They're going to carve through.

0:24:44.680 --> 0:24:45.479
<v Speaker 3>Are you kidding me?

0:24:45.560 --> 0:24:48.160
<v Speaker 2>So this noise draws the attention of a watchman. They're

0:24:48.240 --> 0:24:49.760
<v Speaker 2>just slamming away into the woods.

0:24:49.760 --> 0:24:51.680
<v Speaker 3>All these guys need to start going to class.

0:24:51.920 --> 0:24:57.000
<v Speaker 2>Oh just wait. So Jimmy Water squad leader, he as

0:24:57.200 --> 0:24:59.440
<v Speaker 2>he just says, here's the watchman coming up the stairs,

0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:01.240
<v Speaker 2>Like we needed to distraction. So he's like, I'm gonna

0:25:01.240 --> 0:25:04.960
<v Speaker 2>do something insane. So he runs towards the third story window,

0:25:05.000 --> 0:25:08.080
<v Speaker 2>climbs out, and then it gets the watchman's attention before

0:25:08.119 --> 0:25:11.160
<v Speaker 2>he does this. Climbs out of the window and he

0:25:11.240 --> 0:25:14.000
<v Speaker 2>manages to walk down the side of the building for

0:25:14.040 --> 0:25:16.919
<v Speaker 2>the third story, but climbing like with his hands and

0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:19.800
<v Speaker 2>his feet. Basically, he like Spider Man, climbs down the

0:25:19.800 --> 0:25:23.280
<v Speaker 2>side of the building. So the Watchman's like, what the hell,

0:25:23.400 --> 0:25:26.080
<v Speaker 2>So he runs down to the ground floor to be

0:25:26.160 --> 0:25:29.280
<v Speaker 2>there when he gets done with this three like three

0:25:29.720 --> 0:25:32.800
<v Speaker 2>story climb. Right, So the watchman is there when Jimmy

0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:34.920
<v Speaker 2>Waters hits the ground. But Jimmy Waters is a track star,

0:25:34.960 --> 0:25:36.960
<v Speaker 2>so he hits the ground starts running immediately, right, He

0:25:37.000 --> 0:25:40.880
<v Speaker 2>doesn't even like have any hesitation. The watchman chases after him,

0:25:40.880 --> 0:25:44.399
<v Speaker 2>a perfect distraction, right. So the rest inside they're like, okay,

0:25:44.400 --> 0:25:46.280
<v Speaker 2>we can get to it, but they hear more watchmans

0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:48.320
<v Speaker 2>are like dah. So now they're hiding in pools of

0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:51.160
<v Speaker 2>darkness and shadow and they wait for twenty thirty minutes.

0:25:51.200 --> 0:25:53.040
<v Speaker 2>They don't know what to do, so they're like, ah,

0:25:53.280 --> 0:25:55.560
<v Speaker 2>Now Jimmy's outside just running around for this whole time,

0:25:55.600 --> 0:25:58.240
<v Speaker 2>trying to evade sentries and students and guards, and he's

0:25:58.280 --> 0:26:01.240
<v Speaker 2>doing it for the most part. So another one of

0:26:01.000 --> 0:26:03.439
<v Speaker 2>the three who are now inside, they decide, Okay, I

0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:04.880
<v Speaker 2>need to go out and see what's going on. Maybe

0:26:04.920 --> 0:26:07.000
<v Speaker 2>I can help Jimmy and distract more people. You guys

0:26:07.040 --> 0:26:09.520
<v Speaker 2>can get in. So he runs out there, and as

0:26:09.520 --> 0:26:12.320
<v Speaker 2>soon as he gets out, there's kid full Whiler. He's like,

0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:14.959
<v Speaker 2>trying to make his distraction. He runs right into Jimmy

0:26:14.960 --> 0:26:17.159
<v Speaker 2>Waters and a bull sergeant who's grabbed him and is

0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.800
<v Speaker 2>questioning him. He's out there, Jimmy Waters is nervous, he's

0:26:19.840 --> 0:26:22.359
<v Speaker 2>telling his family name, his family's history. He's doing everything

0:26:22.400 --> 0:26:24.679
<v Speaker 2>he can to do. It's okay, it's okay. So what

0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:27.080
<v Speaker 2>does full Whyler do he just runs right up into him,

0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:30.240
<v Speaker 2>knocks down the bull sergeant Jimmy Waters, and he's scamper off, right.

0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:32.200
<v Speaker 2>So now the two of them start leading the bull

0:26:32.200 --> 0:26:34.600
<v Speaker 2>sergeants on this mad chase. The two of them split up,

0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:37.719
<v Speaker 2>so everybody's running around. Kids cadets are starting to get

0:26:37.760 --> 0:26:41.040
<v Speaker 2>involved and now they know what's going on. Meanwhile, the

0:26:41.080 --> 0:26:44.719
<v Speaker 2>other fourteen members of the seventeen year are watching. They're like,

0:26:45.040 --> 0:26:47.359
<v Speaker 2>you know, what's time to blitz the armory. We can't

0:26:47.400 --> 0:26:50.320
<v Speaker 2>do this, like you know, skullduggery stuff. So their new

0:26:50.359 --> 0:26:54.000
<v Speaker 2>plan is charge, right, so they just run onto campus

0:26:54.040 --> 0:26:55.679
<v Speaker 2>and so now we have all seventeen members of the

0:26:55.680 --> 0:26:59.520
<v Speaker 2>OPA running around, some big ass football players, gangly basketball players,

0:26:59.520 --> 0:27:01.480
<v Speaker 2>track star and a bunch of cadets and they're all

0:27:01.560 --> 0:27:04.600
<v Speaker 2>chasing each other all around in the nighttime and the

0:27:04.720 --> 0:27:07.560
<v Speaker 2>January air because remember this is also wintertime, so it's cold.

0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:10.560
<v Speaker 2>So now to protect their flanks these other members of

0:27:10.600 --> 0:27:13.679
<v Speaker 2>the OPA, they secure the entrances of the US Armory.

0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:16.119
<v Speaker 2>So the guys upstairs, because everybody knows where they are,

0:27:15.920 --> 0:27:18.560
<v Speaker 2>they're still trying to get inside, so they block the

0:27:18.600 --> 0:27:20.679
<v Speaker 2>doors on the ground floor so that way all these

0:27:20.680 --> 0:27:23.119
<v Speaker 2>bull sergeants and students can't get in, and then a

0:27:23.160 --> 0:27:25.919
<v Speaker 2>couple of big college football players rush up to go

0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.040
<v Speaker 2>help the guys knock down the door. So they're armed

0:27:29.040 --> 0:27:32.159
<v Speaker 2>with crowbars and fire extinguishers that they've pulled off of

0:27:32.200 --> 0:27:36.080
<v Speaker 2>the walls. God, so they run up and they decide, Okay,

0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:38.240
<v Speaker 2>we're all big guys, we'll just knock down this door.

0:27:38.280 --> 0:27:41.119
<v Speaker 2>So they try using their shoulders. First, one guy runs

0:27:41.160 --> 0:27:43.240
<v Speaker 2>and he gets bounced off, lands on the tile floor.

0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:45.720
<v Speaker 2>Now that guy does it. This isn't working. So then

0:27:45.760 --> 0:27:48.880
<v Speaker 2>they decide we'll go in tandem. So two guys hold hands,

0:27:48.880 --> 0:27:51.120
<v Speaker 2>two big football players hold hands, and they run at

0:27:51.119 --> 0:27:53.360
<v Speaker 2>the door, and that doesn't work, and then two more

0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:57.119
<v Speaker 2>do it. Boom, oh, it cracks open. The door knocks down.

0:27:57.240 --> 0:27:59.440
<v Speaker 2>So it turns out they didn't need all the crowbars

0:27:59.480 --> 0:28:01.400
<v Speaker 2>and fire extend They just needed a couple of big

0:28:01.400 --> 0:28:04.879
<v Speaker 2>football players to throw themselves right. So when the door

0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:06.399
<v Speaker 2>springs open, what did they find?

0:28:07.440 --> 0:28:08.359
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea.

0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:12.120
<v Speaker 2>The owl is sitting there.

0:28:11.320 --> 0:28:17.320
<v Speaker 3>In bed with the general. No, I don't know.

0:28:18.400 --> 0:28:24.359
<v Speaker 2>Smoking of cigars like that was nice.

0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:26.840
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.

0:28:26.920 --> 0:28:30.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what people nineteen seventeen, you know, nobody

0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:34.320
<v Speaker 2>knows right exactly. According to the contemporaneous accounts in the Thresher,

0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:37.800
<v Speaker 2>the quote, the owl was concealed under some canvas at

0:28:37.800 --> 0:28:40.040
<v Speaker 2>the rear of the armory. The six men seize the

0:28:40.040 --> 0:28:42.560
<v Speaker 2>old birds, soust them in gasoline, and rushed down three

0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:44.720
<v Speaker 2>flights of stairs to the ground floor, where the night

0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:48.680
<v Speaker 2>watchmen wasn't counting. You're like, wait, gasoline, why did you

0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:49.720
<v Speaker 2>hear there?

0:28:49.800 --> 0:28:49.960
<v Speaker 5>Right?

0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:54.719
<v Speaker 2>Good ears, So they were confronted by this night watchman, right,

0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:56.760
<v Speaker 2>and so they tell them, oh, you know, we're students

0:28:56.800 --> 0:28:59.000
<v Speaker 2>from Texas A and M. We're trying to protect it.

0:28:59.040 --> 0:29:02.120
<v Speaker 2>They got these you know, troublemakers run around on campus.

0:29:02.160 --> 0:29:03.520
<v Speaker 2>We're gonna go hide the bird. And the what I

0:29:03.520 --> 0:29:05.040
<v Speaker 2>watch them's like, where are you taking? He's like right

0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:06.840
<v Speaker 2>over there, and then they just run in the other direction.

0:29:06.920 --> 0:29:08.840
<v Speaker 2>Night Watchman's like, wait, what are you doing. They run

0:29:08.880 --> 0:29:10.480
<v Speaker 2>it over to a car. They throw it in the

0:29:10.560 --> 0:29:13.600
<v Speaker 2>Hudson Super six and that car takes off. This bull

0:29:13.680 --> 0:29:16.480
<v Speaker 2>sergeant night watchman, he gets pissed. He pulls out his

0:29:16.600 --> 0:29:21.520
<v Speaker 2>forty four and starts firing. Oh yes, what so now

0:29:21.640 --> 0:29:23.880
<v Speaker 2>the two so the students have to run. They topping

0:29:23.960 --> 0:29:25.960
<v Speaker 2>the tin lizzies. They hopping the sets in Super six

0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:28.560
<v Speaker 2>and they're tearing around, but they're not done. They don't

0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:30.640
<v Speaker 2>want to just get away. They decide, let's, you know,

0:29:30.720 --> 0:29:33.240
<v Speaker 2>let's car some donuts in the grass. So they start

0:29:33.280 --> 0:29:36.280
<v Speaker 2>doing circles into and donuts and they're getting fired at,

0:29:36.280 --> 0:29:39.320
<v Speaker 2>mind you. So the OPA is pretty stoked. They got

0:29:39.360 --> 0:29:42.360
<v Speaker 2>back there out right. So and meanwhile there's a couple

0:29:42.480 --> 0:29:44.080
<v Speaker 2>others who have not quite made it to the car.

0:29:44.200 --> 0:29:46.160
<v Speaker 2>They decide to grab some paint that they found and

0:29:46.200 --> 0:29:48.600
<v Speaker 2>they paint the score of the last football game that

0:29:48.640 --> 0:29:50.760
<v Speaker 2>they won twenty to zero on the side of the

0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:54.680
<v Speaker 2>building in giant numbers. Right, this is more warning. Shots

0:29:54.720 --> 0:29:57.840
<v Speaker 2>are firing out, Bugles are being blown, students are yelling,

0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:00.440
<v Speaker 2>and at this point the OPA is like, look repressing luck.

0:30:00.480 --> 0:30:03.600
<v Speaker 2>So they decide to floor it and tear ass out

0:30:03.600 --> 0:30:06.280
<v Speaker 2>of there. And they managed to escape the campus. Right now,

0:30:06.280 --> 0:30:09.280
<v Speaker 2>they've got to drive from College Station back to Houston.

0:30:09.520 --> 0:30:11.520
<v Speaker 2>It's about one hundred mile trip. As I told you,

0:30:11.760 --> 0:30:13.960
<v Speaker 2>she'd take about an hour and a half two hours,

0:30:13.960 --> 0:30:16.920
<v Speaker 2>but if you're going forty two miles and I'll solid

0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:19.440
<v Speaker 2>two hours. This is if they can make it there,

0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:22.280
<v Speaker 2>because remember now they got hundreds of college cadets who

0:30:22.280 --> 0:30:24.800
<v Speaker 2>are about to give chase. Yeah, Elizabeth, I'd like you

0:30:24.840 --> 0:30:26.480
<v Speaker 2>to close your eyes and picture it.

0:30:27.000 --> 0:30:28.400
<v Speaker 3>My eye is a closed Okay.

0:30:28.560 --> 0:30:33.600
<v Speaker 2>It's the dark of night. It's January in Texas. The

0:30:33.640 --> 0:30:36.240
<v Speaker 2>air is cold, the wind is howling as it blows.

0:30:36.720 --> 0:30:39.920
<v Speaker 2>And there you are with the OPA riding shotgun in

0:30:39.960 --> 0:30:42.120
<v Speaker 2>the tiled four to ten Lizzie. Ahead of you is

0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:44.080
<v Speaker 2>another ten Lizzy, and and ahead of that is the

0:30:44.120 --> 0:30:46.480
<v Speaker 2>year old Hudson Super six. The roads are bad and

0:30:46.480 --> 0:30:48.640
<v Speaker 2>you're getting jumped and bumped around in your seat as

0:30:48.640 --> 0:30:50.480
<v Speaker 2>your guys are rocking and rolling down this dirt road

0:30:50.560 --> 0:30:53.720
<v Speaker 2>car loaded down with other students members of the OPA.

0:30:53.840 --> 0:30:56.080
<v Speaker 2>You're all racing back to Houston. You're all fired up,

0:30:56.080 --> 0:30:59.680
<v Speaker 2>you're excited, you're yelling, but you have this tiny fear

0:30:59.680 --> 0:31:01.520
<v Speaker 2>inside of you because you're like, this doesn't seem like

0:31:01.520 --> 0:31:03.160
<v Speaker 2>we've gotten away with it. I don't know.

0:31:03.120 --> 0:31:05.080
<v Speaker 3>Why, right, that's that would be me.

0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:08.080
<v Speaker 2>Your fears are confirmed when the first forward in the

0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:11.320
<v Speaker 2>caravan its headlights go out. Oh hits, A bump light

0:31:11.400 --> 0:31:13.320
<v Speaker 2>goes out. You're like, that's that's no good. So now

0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:15.200
<v Speaker 2>you guys are in the middle of Texas. Nowhere you

0:31:15.280 --> 0:31:18.120
<v Speaker 2>got no electric lights. There's no it's just endless darkness. Right,

0:31:18.120 --> 0:31:22.360
<v Speaker 2>So yeah, these headlights, so you're likest forget that car. Well, no,

0:31:22.440 --> 0:31:24.040
<v Speaker 2>we need it. So there's too many of us. Okay,

0:31:24.160 --> 0:31:26.160
<v Speaker 2>you've been in back and we'll keep going. So now

0:31:26.160 --> 0:31:27.800
<v Speaker 2>they put the car with no headlights in the in

0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:30.480
<v Speaker 2>the back. Keep running. Right. So now you're in the

0:31:30.520 --> 0:31:33.440
<v Speaker 2>lead car of the caravan and uh, you're bouncing a roll,

0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:37.480
<v Speaker 2>rolling along. Still another miles passes. Now your lights are out.

0:31:37.520 --> 0:31:39.720
<v Speaker 2>You guys hit a bump your lights? Get is going

0:31:39.800 --> 0:31:41.720
<v Speaker 2>on with these Fords? What can I tell you?

0:31:41.800 --> 0:31:44.480
<v Speaker 3>This is you close your mouth.

0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:48.440
<v Speaker 2>So now that the lights are cut out, both bards

0:31:48.480 --> 0:31:51.120
<v Speaker 2>are running blind. Right, So the Hudson super six takes

0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:52.440
<v Speaker 2>over his swords.

0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:54.480
<v Speaker 3>Maybe the Fords were doing it just because they knew

0:31:54.520 --> 0:31:58.280
<v Speaker 3>they had to be secrets. Well, they do this purpose sentiences.

0:31:58.800 --> 0:32:01.040
<v Speaker 2>They're doing really well the back of the line. So

0:32:01.400 --> 0:32:04.040
<v Speaker 2>let's just take it from there. About since super six

0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:06.480
<v Speaker 2>is leading this caravan, the Fords are trying to keep

0:32:06.560 --> 0:32:08.680
<v Speaker 2>up doing their forty two miles an hour in the dark.

0:32:09.120 --> 0:32:11.280
<v Speaker 2>Now before you can curse her, but I could curse

0:32:11.320 --> 0:32:14.240
<v Speaker 2>Henry Ford's a good name. There's another big run in

0:32:14.240 --> 0:32:16.680
<v Speaker 2>the road and it passes the Ford in front of you.

0:32:16.960 --> 0:32:19.680
<v Speaker 2>If they're breaks after they land and you slam your

0:32:19.720 --> 0:32:24.360
<v Speaker 2>Ford slams into them, boom, you basically destroy the front

0:32:24.440 --> 0:32:26.520
<v Speaker 2>end of your car. Now your Ford doesn't even operate,

0:32:26.680 --> 0:32:29.320
<v Speaker 2>So now give one less car. So everyone's like, oh

0:32:29.320 --> 0:32:31.320
<v Speaker 2>suppose this is no good? Is the car shuddering to

0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:33.360
<v Speaker 2>a stop? You're like, everybody get in the other cars.

0:32:33.640 --> 0:32:37.600
<v Speaker 2>So now they they got running boards, they got laps,

0:32:37.600 --> 0:32:40.680
<v Speaker 2>clinging just like laying on other people. People are clinging

0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:41.560
<v Speaker 2>to on the running.

0:32:41.800 --> 0:32:44.960
<v Speaker 3>On the can't feel their leg not exactly, not at all.

0:32:45.360 --> 0:32:47.320
<v Speaker 2>But now you and the one operable Ford and the

0:32:47.360 --> 0:32:49.800
<v Speaker 2>Hudson Super six, you're tearing away, all seventeen of you

0:32:49.880 --> 0:32:53.160
<v Speaker 2>in there, and you and your night raid is really

0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:54.880
<v Speaker 2>not going too well so far.

0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:57.400
<v Speaker 3>But well, I mean we got the owl so far.

0:32:57.480 --> 0:33:01.000
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it looks like, you know, you're overcome most obstacles

0:33:01.760 --> 0:33:04.920
<v Speaker 2>except for you notice there's a new obstacle emerging from

0:33:04.960 --> 0:33:07.280
<v Speaker 2>the darkness. It's this bright light and then you have

0:33:07.440 --> 0:33:10.320
<v Speaker 2>you hear the train whistle and you're like, oh no,

0:33:10.680 --> 0:33:13.240
<v Speaker 2>Because the whole plan was to get to College station

0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.480
<v Speaker 2>and there will you guys would do your raid after

0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:19.000
<v Speaker 2>the last train had left, So that way they couldn't

0:33:19.040 --> 0:33:21.240
<v Speaker 2>the cadets couldn't take a train and just get back

0:33:21.280 --> 0:33:24.959
<v Speaker 2>to Houston. But you decided to rush it. Remember you

0:33:24.960 --> 0:33:28.560
<v Speaker 2>got the charge, messed up your timing, and now the

0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:32.080
<v Speaker 2>train is rushing along and you look over and you spy,

0:33:33.480 --> 0:33:37.480
<v Speaker 2>Oh how hundreds of students cadets ring out of every

0:33:37.600 --> 0:33:42.560
<v Speaker 2>window of the limited that's running to Houston. They're screaming

0:33:42.600 --> 0:33:44.719
<v Speaker 2>and shouting because they can see you, guys, and you

0:33:44.720 --> 0:33:46.920
<v Speaker 2>can see them. You're not that far away. You on

0:33:46.960 --> 0:33:48.840
<v Speaker 2>the dirt road, them on the tracks, and they are

0:33:48.920 --> 0:33:51.000
<v Speaker 2>clipping along. It looks like they're gonna get back to

0:33:51.040 --> 0:33:55.080
<v Speaker 2>Houston before y'all. Oh no, So what do you do, Elizabeth? Like,

0:33:55.160 --> 0:33:57.360
<v Speaker 2>what's the move? You're still in shotgun? What's your call?

0:33:58.120 --> 0:34:01.800
<v Speaker 3>I would I would stop and wait till morning, let

0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:04.440
<v Speaker 3>them go and like you know, cooler jets in Houston,

0:34:04.520 --> 0:34:07.080
<v Speaker 3>and wait and wait and wait mm hmm. And then

0:34:07.200 --> 0:34:12.040
<v Speaker 3>meanwhile I can wait. I've like hi out and roasting

0:34:12.120 --> 0:34:14.359
<v Speaker 3>it up. And yeah, then I go to Austin. It's

0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:16.400
<v Speaker 3>called a little tour. But when it's light out, then

0:34:16.440 --> 0:34:17.840
<v Speaker 3>you don't need your headlights.

0:34:17.920 --> 0:34:20.680
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, good point. Well, they they listen to most of

0:34:20.719 --> 0:34:22.239
<v Speaker 2>your plan except for they go, you know what, we

0:34:22.280 --> 0:34:25.279
<v Speaker 2>should go one further than that, Elizabeth, stopping isn't enough,

0:34:26.520 --> 0:34:29.000
<v Speaker 2>So you know, let's just go with the thresher's account,

0:34:29.000 --> 0:34:31.520
<v Speaker 2>because I want you to hear it in their words quote,

0:34:31.640 --> 0:34:33.759
<v Speaker 2>it was impossible to make any speed on the road.

0:34:33.920 --> 0:34:37.160
<v Speaker 2>So the party turned around and started back towards College Station.

0:34:37.719 --> 0:34:39.880
<v Speaker 2>They turned up the first lane they found in a

0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:42.919
<v Speaker 2>wild ride of five miles through the woods. Ensued. They

0:34:42.920 --> 0:34:45.879
<v Speaker 2>decide let's head back towards College Station, and they started

0:34:46.360 --> 0:34:47.880
<v Speaker 2>that's not a good idea, make a right, So then

0:34:47.920 --> 0:34:51.279
<v Speaker 2>they start heading north, heading North and Texas into the

0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:53.520
<v Speaker 2>darken woods and they wrap it off into the woods,

0:34:53.560 --> 0:34:54.920
<v Speaker 2>trying to make a run for it. Do you think

0:34:54.920 --> 0:34:58.440
<v Speaker 2>they're gonna get away with it? No, after a quick break.

0:34:59.160 --> 0:35:01.920
<v Speaker 2>I'll be back with the end of this insane tale.

0:35:02.000 --> 0:35:23.799
<v Speaker 2>I love it, okay, Elizabeth. So where were we?

0:35:24.280 --> 0:35:28.440
<v Speaker 3>Uh? Car chase? Poor decisions on the part of.

0:35:28.239 --> 0:35:33.680
<v Speaker 2>The Paw Protective Association. Yeah, so we're headed into North Texas,

0:35:33.719 --> 0:35:36.799
<v Speaker 2>North Dallas forty will come Okay. The OPA is on

0:35:36.840 --> 0:35:39.880
<v Speaker 2>the run from hundreds of Texas A and M military cadets.

0:35:40.280 --> 0:35:42.160
<v Speaker 2>You've got one hundred miles to get back to Houston,

0:35:42.320 --> 0:35:44.479
<v Speaker 2>and however many miles to get back to College station.

0:35:44.960 --> 0:35:46.799
<v Speaker 2>One of your ten Lizzie is not working. The other

0:35:46.840 --> 0:35:50.520
<v Speaker 2>one is limping after the Hudson Super six. No lights right,

0:35:51.200 --> 0:35:54.920
<v Speaker 2>hit it cars. Things aren't going well, and you now

0:35:55.080 --> 0:35:58.359
<v Speaker 2>then break down again one mile down the country road

0:35:58.360 --> 0:36:00.279
<v Speaker 2>that you guys have just gone, and I reached turn

0:36:00.320 --> 0:36:03.600
<v Speaker 2>to the thresher's coverage. The remaining Ford soon gave up

0:36:03.600 --> 0:36:05.560
<v Speaker 2>on the struggle and was left with five men to

0:36:05.600 --> 0:36:07.640
<v Speaker 2>guard it and to draw a pursuit away from the

0:36:07.640 --> 0:36:10.520
<v Speaker 2>big car containing the owl. So the rating part and

0:36:10.719 --> 0:36:13.280
<v Speaker 2>I was all in the Hudson Super six whatever, however

0:36:13.320 --> 0:36:14.480
<v Speaker 2>many people they can load in.

0:36:14.480 --> 0:36:18.160
<v Speaker 3>Their car left five. There's twelve people in this car.

0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:21.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, there's twelve people loaded up in this Hudson Super

0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.640
<v Speaker 2>six and a two hundred pound owl. Yeah, so that's

0:36:23.640 --> 0:36:26.680
<v Speaker 2>six feet tall. So after oh yeah.

0:36:26.520 --> 0:36:29.759
<v Speaker 3>That's after four, they're thirteen in this car.

0:36:29.880 --> 0:36:33.960
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So after four more miles, the super six runs

0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:35.880
<v Speaker 2>out of gas because they've.

0:36:35.640 --> 0:36:37.080
<v Speaker 3>Not even drive it all night.

0:36:37.360 --> 0:36:39.560
<v Speaker 2>No worse than that, they've knocked a hole in the

0:36:39.600 --> 0:36:43.000
<v Speaker 2>gas ty gone over all these rocks and ruts and roads. Right.

0:36:43.080 --> 0:36:45.560
<v Speaker 2>So now the OPA is like, Okay, we got no cars.

0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:47.960
<v Speaker 2>We're in the middle of Texas and we have a

0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:50.319
<v Speaker 2>six foot tall, two hundred pound owl. We've got to

0:36:50.320 --> 0:36:51.880
<v Speaker 2>carry eighty ninety miles.

0:36:51.920 --> 0:36:54.160
<v Speaker 3>And isn't the owl covered in gasoline?

0:36:54.280 --> 0:36:58.160
<v Speaker 2>Yes, it's covered in gasoline. So hours have passed. Now

0:36:58.200 --> 0:37:00.200
<v Speaker 2>the night is being ginning to give way to on.

0:37:00.480 --> 0:37:04.280
<v Speaker 2>So the Purple hour is approaching and Snowball, the private detective,

0:37:04.440 --> 0:37:06.799
<v Speaker 2>he's with them, he's with the raiding party.

0:37:06.960 --> 0:37:09.319
<v Speaker 3>Oh so they are now fourteen Actually.

0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:12.239
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, because he decided it was quote a sporting proposition

0:37:12.280 --> 0:37:14.560
<v Speaker 2>to go along with the guys if he could rescue.

0:37:14.280 --> 0:37:16.680
<v Speaker 3>The owl to regain his youth.

0:37:16.880 --> 0:37:19.560
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he goes off and they break up into two parties.

0:37:19.560 --> 0:37:21.759
<v Speaker 2>One of the parties will go into the closest town

0:37:21.960 --> 0:37:23.520
<v Speaker 2>and see if they get gas as soon as like

0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.319
<v Speaker 2>the sun comes up, and then come back to the

0:37:25.320 --> 0:37:27.479
<v Speaker 2>two cars that they are going to park and hide

0:37:27.480 --> 0:37:29.120
<v Speaker 2>in some woods. That's their plan.

0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:30.320
<v Speaker 3>They like shirts and skins.

0:37:30.360 --> 0:37:33.840
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, the skins will hang out with the owl and

0:37:33.880 --> 0:37:36.319
<v Speaker 2>then hide in the woods. Right, that's the plan, and

0:37:36.360 --> 0:37:38.959
<v Speaker 2>hopefully they can get maybe a friendly mechanic to come

0:37:39.719 --> 0:37:41.919
<v Speaker 2>and either come back with them and fix the cars,

0:37:41.960 --> 0:37:43.640
<v Speaker 2>or they can load the cars up a gasoline, drive

0:37:43.680 --> 0:37:47.520
<v Speaker 2>to town and get the cars fixed there. That's the plan. Meanwhile,

0:37:47.640 --> 0:37:51.160
<v Speaker 2>back at the ranch, the Texas A and M cadets, Right,

0:37:51.480 --> 0:37:53.719
<v Speaker 2>what are they doing in all of this? Remember he's

0:37:53.760 --> 0:37:55.600
<v Speaker 2>racing on the train. That was only some of them.

0:37:55.760 --> 0:38:00.160
<v Speaker 2>There's twelve hundred students who will be involved.

0:37:59.800 --> 0:38:02.600
<v Speaker 3>In this chase. Wait, so how many were on the train.

0:38:03.760 --> 0:38:04.319
<v Speaker 2>A couple hundred.

0:38:04.400 --> 0:38:07.799
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, they're now just sitting.

0:38:07.480 --> 0:38:09.960
<v Speaker 2>There on the right hands and they're waiting in Houston

0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:11.279
<v Speaker 2>just be in trouble making.

0:38:11.280 --> 0:38:13.919
<v Speaker 3>And then you got like a thousand of them coming up. Yes,

0:38:13.960 --> 0:38:16.360
<v Speaker 3>that's about they need to go back to.

0:38:17.400 --> 0:38:19.239
<v Speaker 2>We have an account from the thresher that can give

0:38:19.280 --> 0:38:20.280
<v Speaker 2>you some exact numbers.

0:38:20.360 --> 0:38:24.239
<v Speaker 3>I want to give the thresher a hand, but not

0:38:24.400 --> 0:38:29.359
<v Speaker 3>as a farm X. Every time you say thresher, all

0:38:29.400 --> 0:38:34.640
<v Speaker 3>I think is like you.

0:38:32.360 --> 0:38:36.040
<v Speaker 2>You immediately got there. I like that about you. So

0:38:36.640 --> 0:38:40.360
<v Speaker 2>I quote from the hand taking thresher. Yes, the AMM

0:38:40.400 --> 0:38:43.319
<v Speaker 2>cadets had been busy organizing their pursuit. Everything that had

0:38:43.320 --> 0:38:46.040
<v Speaker 2>four wheels had been requisitioned and pressed into service. Eight

0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:52.400
<v Speaker 2>hundred cadets were brought up to the firing line and automobiles, motorcycles, wagons, buggies,

0:38:52.840 --> 0:38:53.799
<v Speaker 2>and of course the train.

0:38:54.239 --> 0:38:57.680
<v Speaker 3>This is like mad Max. Yes, So it doesn't.

0:38:57.360 --> 0:38:59.400
<v Speaker 2>Take long for these eight hundred cadets going off in

0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:02.719
<v Speaker 2>every direction to find that the raiding party that's out

0:39:02.719 --> 0:39:04.399
<v Speaker 2>in the woods dis down on a road.

0:39:04.480 --> 0:39:09.200
<v Speaker 3>Right now, hold on, when they find this little raiding party,

0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:10.680
<v Speaker 3>what are they going to do to them? Just tear

0:39:10.719 --> 0:39:16.560
<v Speaker 3>them limb from lim They just wait, wait, this is

0:39:16.920 --> 0:39:18.280
<v Speaker 3>this is this isn't.

0:39:19.200 --> 0:39:21.839
<v Speaker 2>No, there's no no murder in this one. But there's

0:39:21.880 --> 0:39:26.920
<v Speaker 2>some sociliarities coming up, so you ready. I returned to

0:39:26.960 --> 0:39:30.400
<v Speaker 2>the thresher. A detachment of cadets raided Millican and found

0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:32.719
<v Speaker 2>all of Rice's means of locomotion in the garage. So

0:39:32.760 --> 0:39:34.480
<v Speaker 2>the guys who had gone off to the town of

0:39:34.520 --> 0:39:38.320
<v Speaker 2>Milliican with their car, they get discovered, and I continue

0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:40.840
<v Speaker 2>the quote. The immediately took charge of the cars. Nine

0:39:40.960 --> 0:39:42.839
<v Speaker 2>Rice men, who had been left to delay pursued as

0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:45.640
<v Speaker 2>long as possible, were captured with the cars. One of

0:39:45.680 --> 0:39:52.319
<v Speaker 2>the people captured, Snowball, the private Detective Snowball. So the

0:39:52.360 --> 0:39:54.680
<v Speaker 2>other half of the raiding party, they get a messenger

0:39:54.719 --> 0:39:57.080
<v Speaker 2>back from Milligan. He runs out of town and makes

0:39:57.080 --> 0:39:58.840
<v Speaker 2>it back to where they are hiding the cars in

0:39:58.880 --> 0:40:00.879
<v Speaker 2>the woods and tells them, you guys need to run

0:40:00.880 --> 0:40:01.200
<v Speaker 2>for it.

0:40:01.280 --> 0:40:02.120
<v Speaker 3>They're on to us.

0:40:02.160 --> 0:40:04.600
<v Speaker 2>We don't have a car. So they're like, okay, so

0:40:04.640 --> 0:40:06.799
<v Speaker 2>what do they do? They decide we're going to just

0:40:06.920 --> 0:40:08.560
<v Speaker 2>run for it. So they decided to take this two

0:40:08.640 --> 0:40:10.880
<v Speaker 2>hundred pound owl and run back to Houston. So they

0:40:10.920 --> 0:40:14.160
<v Speaker 2>start running across the tall grass to save themselves.

0:40:14.840 --> 0:40:17.320
<v Speaker 3>So no, and I quote didn't happen.

0:40:18.920 --> 0:40:20.920
<v Speaker 2>Running with a two hundred pound owl was a larger

0:40:21.000 --> 0:40:24.040
<v Speaker 2>contract than the exhausted men could fill, and all hopes

0:40:24.040 --> 0:40:26.719
<v Speaker 2>of taking the bird wholesale were abandoned. The A and

0:40:26.800 --> 0:40:28.719
<v Speaker 2>M searchers were hot on the trail, so the eight

0:40:28.760 --> 0:40:31.319
<v Speaker 2>men hid themselves in a thicket and skinned the cover

0:40:31.400 --> 0:40:33.719
<v Speaker 2>off the owl and the hide given to four men

0:40:33.760 --> 0:40:36.719
<v Speaker 2>with instructions to take it to Houston and stuffing. Was

0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:38.840
<v Speaker 2>then set on fire as it had been discovered that

0:40:38.880 --> 0:40:41.920
<v Speaker 2>the party was completely surrounded by cadets, so they burned

0:40:41.960 --> 0:40:45.319
<v Speaker 2>the owl. Now the thing is is the gasoline makes

0:40:45.320 --> 0:40:48.080
<v Speaker 2>it so there's not much smoke, so they almost get

0:40:48.120 --> 0:40:49.880
<v Speaker 2>away with it, but this is one of the cadets

0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:52.040
<v Speaker 2>notices the flame and then they go rushing over to

0:40:52.080 --> 0:40:55.000
<v Speaker 2>where they're hiding in the thickets. So now four of

0:40:55.040 --> 0:40:58.600
<v Speaker 2>the guys the leaders of the OPA, so this is

0:40:59.239 --> 0:41:03.440
<v Speaker 2>full while or Drummond uh and my boy More and

0:41:03.520 --> 0:41:06.000
<v Speaker 2>Jimmy Waters yea yeah, they take the owl skin and

0:41:06.040 --> 0:41:08.279
<v Speaker 2>they make a break for it. The skin others try

0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:11.040
<v Speaker 2>to distract, so Sam the owls handed over to the

0:41:11.040 --> 0:41:13.000
<v Speaker 2>floor fastest. They're all members of the track team.

0:41:13.080 --> 0:41:16.200
<v Speaker 3>They're disgusting run for it.

0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:18.319
<v Speaker 2>So they and the other ones, the other four, they

0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:20.759
<v Speaker 2>lead the aggie search party that's surrounding them in the

0:41:20.800 --> 0:41:22.959
<v Speaker 2>wrong direction. Right, They're like, yeah, making a lot of noise,

0:41:23.040 --> 0:41:25.400
<v Speaker 2>run for you guys, trying to get their attention. Jimmy

0:41:25.440 --> 0:41:28.359
<v Speaker 2>Waters is leader of what we now call the Elusive Four.

0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:31.640
<v Speaker 2>The Elusive four are going to be officially a dude

0:41:31.719 --> 0:41:34.520
<v Speaker 2>named Dane, a dude named Payne, a dude named Waters,

0:41:34.560 --> 0:41:35.160
<v Speaker 2>and Drummond.

0:41:35.440 --> 0:41:39.719
<v Speaker 3>So we got a weird old time nursery run day,

0:41:40.360 --> 0:41:43.279
<v Speaker 3>Potters and trumm and getting the owl and off they

0:41:43.360 --> 0:41:44.239
<v Speaker 3>went together.

0:41:45.480 --> 0:41:47.840
<v Speaker 2>So and I quote they entered some thick woods and

0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:49.920
<v Speaker 2>had over fifty men on their coat tails in no

0:41:50.000 --> 0:41:52.520
<v Speaker 2>time at all. The four men had been well chosen, however,

0:41:52.560 --> 0:41:56.000
<v Speaker 2>and the pursuers were soon distanced. Remember track Stars, So

0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:58.640
<v Speaker 2>the squad runs two miles with the with the owl

0:41:58.640 --> 0:42:01.680
<v Speaker 2>skin hidden on them, and they get to a major road, right,

0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:03.600
<v Speaker 2>so they start waiting for a car to pass, hoping

0:42:03.640 --> 0:42:06.120
<v Speaker 2>somebody will be there. It's now morning time, right, and

0:42:06.239 --> 0:42:08.479
<v Speaker 2>I quote it's now ten am Wednesday, and the party

0:42:08.520 --> 0:42:11.239
<v Speaker 2>had been without food and water since noon on Tuesday.

0:42:11.640 --> 0:42:14.080
<v Speaker 2>A well was found soon found in a small clearing,

0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:16.719
<v Speaker 2>and the four men quench their thirst. So now there's there,

0:42:16.800 --> 0:42:19.239
<v Speaker 2>like finally getting some nourishment to keep their bodies.

0:42:18.920 --> 0:42:22.240
<v Speaker 3>Going die of exposure in this stupid crank exactly.

0:42:22.600 --> 0:42:25.160
<v Speaker 2>So a bunch of cadets spot them and they come

0:42:25.280 --> 0:42:27.600
<v Speaker 2>running across a cotton field after them. They're like, oh,

0:42:27.600 --> 0:42:30.480
<v Speaker 2>they're coming for us, right, they start running The original

0:42:30.480 --> 0:42:32.440
<v Speaker 2>fifty cadets who were just seeing them at the thicket

0:42:32.440 --> 0:42:34.960
<v Speaker 2>of woods they come from the other direction, so they

0:42:34.960 --> 0:42:38.239
<v Speaker 2>now run another two miles under full chase. Right. The

0:42:38.320 --> 0:42:41.000
<v Speaker 2>track stars are so exhausted at this point Jimmy Waters

0:42:41.040 --> 0:42:43.600
<v Speaker 2>can't run over a one foot fence. He trips over

0:42:43.640 --> 0:42:46.600
<v Speaker 2>a one foot fence. Dane gets tangled up in grapevines

0:42:46.680 --> 0:42:49.360
<v Speaker 2>over and over again. Then there's this dude pain He

0:42:49.440 --> 0:42:51.640
<v Speaker 2>tries to jump a four foot creek and he lands

0:42:51.680 --> 0:42:52.160
<v Speaker 2>in the middle.

0:42:52.239 --> 0:42:54.719
<v Speaker 3>He goes two feet. These are all track Stars. They're

0:42:54.800 --> 0:42:55.520
<v Speaker 3>so exhausted.

0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:57.520
<v Speaker 2>Their bodies are like pulling a full zola. Butd they're

0:42:57.520 --> 0:43:01.399
<v Speaker 2>pretty much going to just collapse. Right. So at this point, right,

0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:04.560
<v Speaker 2>we're getting into the afternoon hours, right, and I quote,

0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:07.200
<v Speaker 2>the pursuers were finally ditched and the refuge was taken

0:43:07.239 --> 0:43:09.520
<v Speaker 2>in a thick bunch of overgrowth, where the parties slept

0:43:09.600 --> 0:43:12.680
<v Speaker 2>until three thirty pm, keeping one hour watches each. So

0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:15.279
<v Speaker 2>now they've gone full military and they're doing one hour

0:43:15.320 --> 0:43:18.200
<v Speaker 2>watches trying to get away from these cadets. So at

0:43:18.200 --> 0:43:20.040
<v Speaker 2>three point thirty they're awoken by the sound of a

0:43:20.080 --> 0:43:22.600
<v Speaker 2>group of cadets who've discovered their hiding place. Right, So

0:43:22.680 --> 0:43:25.399
<v Speaker 2>the four Trackstars are like, we're gonna have to split up, guys,

0:43:25.400 --> 0:43:27.480
<v Speaker 2>we need someone to run distraction. So now they take

0:43:27.520 --> 0:43:30.160
<v Speaker 2>the owl skin, they tear it in half, they wrap

0:43:30.200 --> 0:43:34.239
<v Speaker 2>it around their bodies. Two of them got to get

0:43:34.239 --> 0:43:36.560
<v Speaker 2>this owl home. So the other two run off in

0:43:36.560 --> 0:43:38.560
<v Speaker 2>the other direction, making a lot of noise. Well, the

0:43:38.600 --> 0:43:41.280
<v Speaker 2>two guys who have the owl wrapped around their bodies

0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:43.840
<v Speaker 2>run off, and they're doing it like you know, I

0:43:43.840 --> 0:43:46.120
<v Speaker 2>don't even know they did. They have like this vim

0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:48.520
<v Speaker 2>and vigor and the zeal of like the French resistance,

0:43:48.600 --> 0:43:52.279
<v Speaker 2>like they are willing to do whatever to beat these military. Right,

0:43:52.360 --> 0:43:54.600
<v Speaker 2>so the four crawl on their bellies through the tall

0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:57.200
<v Speaker 2>grass to escape. They make it out of the thicket

0:43:57.239 --> 0:44:01.120
<v Speaker 2>in two different directions, right, and now the elusive four

0:44:01.680 --> 0:44:05.080
<v Speaker 2>reunite and they get to another road and they find

0:44:05.120 --> 0:44:08.280
<v Speaker 2>that the road is blocked because not because of cadets

0:44:08.320 --> 0:44:11.120
<v Speaker 2>for once this time, is just because there's basically river

0:44:11.200 --> 0:44:14.799
<v Speaker 2>water stormwater rushing past. The little bridge is blocked, right,

0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:16.839
<v Speaker 2>So they're like, okay, what are we gonna do. That's

0:44:16.880 --> 0:44:19.600
<v Speaker 2>when they hear a car approach. They're like, oh no, right,

0:44:19.640 --> 0:44:21.640
<v Speaker 2>there's nowhere for them to hide. There's nowhere to go.

0:44:21.680 --> 0:44:23.680
<v Speaker 2>They can't cross the river. They're up against the wall,

0:44:24.640 --> 0:44:27.040
<v Speaker 2>and they quote a car was heard crashing through the

0:44:27.040 --> 0:44:29.360
<v Speaker 2>brush and it was coming directly towards them. So the

0:44:29.400 --> 0:44:31.160
<v Speaker 2>men had to interrupt their planning and hit out for

0:44:31.239 --> 0:44:33.680
<v Speaker 2>cover two with the owl skin remained in hiding while

0:44:33.680 --> 0:44:37.000
<v Speaker 2>the two went forward to investigate. The car was occupied

0:44:37.080 --> 0:44:39.440
<v Speaker 2>by hunters and the first question was to ask the

0:44:39.480 --> 0:44:42.280
<v Speaker 2>best way to get across the river? Who got the owl?

0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:45.080
<v Speaker 2>Was the reply, what owl?

0:44:45.600 --> 0:44:46.040
<v Speaker 3>You know?

0:44:46.360 --> 0:44:49.400
<v Speaker 2>Tell us we can help you out. So this is

0:44:49.440 --> 0:44:52.520
<v Speaker 2>a group of Texas duck hunters, men, full grown ass men.

0:44:52.560 --> 0:44:54.440
<v Speaker 2>They come across these kids and like, we heard all

0:44:54.480 --> 0:44:56.960
<v Speaker 2>about this good thing.

0:44:57.000 --> 0:45:00.120
<v Speaker 3>It wasn't like a good man that's hard to find scenario.

0:45:00.080 --> 0:45:02.799
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, definitely not. They had These hunters had been

0:45:02.840 --> 0:45:04.640
<v Speaker 2>stopped on their way to go duck hunting, and their

0:45:04.719 --> 0:45:06.239
<v Speaker 2>vehicle had been searched, so.

0:45:06.560 --> 0:45:08.080
<v Speaker 3>They were well aware cadets.

0:45:08.080 --> 0:45:10.840
<v Speaker 2>By the cadets, they're doing in the full lockdown.

0:45:10.360 --> 0:45:12.319
<v Speaker 3>Now right down, it's not even there.

0:45:13.239 --> 0:45:16.280
<v Speaker 2>So these hunters are tickled pink by these twelve hundred

0:45:16.280 --> 0:45:18.879
<v Speaker 2>cadets trying to find the elusive force. So they're like, yeah,

0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:21.040
<v Speaker 2>we'll help you guys out. This is great, right. So

0:45:21.080 --> 0:45:23.080
<v Speaker 2>the hunter's like, you just said, we're gonna keep shooting

0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:27.759
<v Speaker 2>some ducks. So they make them wait for three more hours. Well,

0:45:27.800 --> 0:45:30.239
<v Speaker 2>they get their fill of ducks right once the duck

0:45:30.280 --> 0:45:32.560
<v Speaker 2>hunters are done. They're like, okay, boys, seven PM, let's

0:45:32.600 --> 0:45:35.759
<v Speaker 2>go back to town. So they tell them, they're like, okay, well,

0:45:35.840 --> 0:45:37.239
<v Speaker 2>we can take a couple of you. A couple of

0:45:37.320 --> 0:45:39.400
<v Speaker 2>you should probably stay here because you know they're gonna

0:45:39.400 --> 0:45:41.759
<v Speaker 2>stop us again. So one of the duck hunters he

0:45:41.840 --> 0:45:43.839
<v Speaker 2>changed his clothes with the dude named Dane, and then

0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:46.640
<v Speaker 2>he hides in the back with the dude named Drummond.

0:45:46.640 --> 0:45:48.800
<v Speaker 2>They hide in like a toolbox in the back of

0:45:48.840 --> 0:45:49.160
<v Speaker 2>the truck.

0:45:49.239 --> 0:45:51.760
<v Speaker 3>Right, So the hunter and drum hunter, one of the hunters.

0:45:51.520 --> 0:45:53.160
<v Speaker 2>And Drummond are in the back, and then Dane is

0:45:53.239 --> 0:45:55.120
<v Speaker 2>up front with the other hunter and they take off

0:45:55.120 --> 0:45:57.719
<v Speaker 2>in the truck. Right. The truck does get stopped by

0:45:57.719 --> 0:46:00.279
<v Speaker 2>cadets at the first bridge that they reach. Right, he

0:46:00.320 --> 0:46:03.880
<v Speaker 2>gets closely examined. They managed to pass the inspection. But

0:46:03.920 --> 0:46:05.640
<v Speaker 2>then right before they're about to leave, one of the

0:46:05.640 --> 0:46:07.520
<v Speaker 2>cadets is like, oh, I'm gonna go right back into

0:46:07.520 --> 0:46:10.480
<v Speaker 2>town with you, like slaps the back of the truck.

0:46:10.640 --> 0:46:13.160
<v Speaker 2>He climbs in back and he sits on the toolbox.

0:46:13.239 --> 0:46:16.000
<v Speaker 3>No, no, I would not stop for these guys. If

0:46:16.000 --> 0:46:18.320
<v Speaker 3>they were like hold, I'd look out of them and armed.

0:46:18.440 --> 0:46:21.480
<v Speaker 3>I don't care no military.

0:46:22.040 --> 0:46:23.840
<v Speaker 2>These are armed cadets in their uniform.

0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:28.960
<v Speaker 3>Gotten my book, temple faced, I'd be like, no, try

0:46:29.000 --> 0:46:31.279
<v Speaker 3>again and just keep driving. He gets on the car,

0:46:31.400 --> 0:46:33.279
<v Speaker 3>I slam on the brakes and he slides down on

0:46:33.320 --> 0:46:34.440
<v Speaker 3>the hood and then I run him over.

0:46:34.560 --> 0:46:36.279
<v Speaker 2>In like five months time, these are all going to

0:46:36.360 --> 0:46:39.120
<v Speaker 2>be kids on the front. Well, they're like full on soldiers.

0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:41.080
<v Speaker 2>Like then, they're acting like it, and I'm just telling you,

0:46:41.120 --> 0:46:43.719
<v Speaker 2>pemble faced or not. They got guns and they're like, look,

0:46:43.760 --> 0:46:47.560
<v Speaker 2>this truck ain't going anywhere. So Payne and Jimmy Waters

0:46:47.640 --> 0:46:49.319
<v Speaker 2>right there with the guy who's got the car right,

0:46:49.360 --> 0:46:50.960
<v Speaker 2>and he gets them back to town. They get out

0:46:50.960 --> 0:46:52.640
<v Speaker 2>before they get to town. He's like, you know, you

0:46:52.640 --> 0:46:54.080
<v Speaker 2>guys can walk the rest of the way in.

0:46:54.280 --> 0:46:54.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:46:54.480 --> 0:46:56.040
<v Speaker 2>And they made that choice, and it was a good

0:46:56.080 --> 0:46:58.279
<v Speaker 2>choice to make because the driver when he gets to town,

0:46:58.320 --> 0:47:01.560
<v Speaker 2>he gets stopped and he gets arrested and taken in under.

0:47:01.320 --> 0:47:03.280
<v Speaker 3>Customer tested by the cadets.

0:47:03.400 --> 0:47:06.200
<v Speaker 2>Yes, there are three hundred cadets in this tiny Texas

0:47:06.239 --> 0:47:08.640
<v Speaker 2>town and they have taken over and I quote took

0:47:08.680 --> 0:47:11.080
<v Speaker 2>over the town, and I quote from the thresher You ready,

0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:15.640
<v Speaker 2>the cadets to complete control of all telephone and telegraph lines,

0:47:15.800 --> 0:47:18.800
<v Speaker 2>had all roads blocked and were searching all trains that passed,

0:47:18.920 --> 0:47:22.200
<v Speaker 2>so all means of communication and transportation were under vigilants.

0:47:22.200 --> 0:47:24.279
<v Speaker 3>So they like declared martial law.

0:47:24.120 --> 0:47:25.960
<v Speaker 2>In this area to dip this owl back.

0:47:26.120 --> 0:47:28.560
<v Speaker 3>Is there any like, is there any authority figure over

0:47:28.600 --> 0:47:31.000
<v Speaker 3>these guys the military? Well no, I mean they's just

0:47:31.040 --> 0:47:33.839
<v Speaker 3>a bunch of cadets, Like who's there, who's their boss guy?

0:47:33.960 --> 0:47:34.719
<v Speaker 3>It's going to be like.

0:47:34.960 --> 0:47:37.000
<v Speaker 2>Texas College Sports. I don't know what to tell you.

0:47:37.480 --> 0:47:38.760
<v Speaker 2>This is the authority house.

0:47:38.880 --> 0:47:40.040
<v Speaker 3>It's so crazy.

0:47:40.120 --> 0:47:42.479
<v Speaker 2>So these grown ass men, the duck Hunters, they're willing

0:47:42.480 --> 0:47:45.960
<v Speaker 2>to join the resistance with the looser four so that

0:47:45.960 --> 0:47:48.319
<v Speaker 2>that they then call in another friend once they get

0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:50.800
<v Speaker 2>back to town, who was a doctor, and they're like, okay,

0:47:50.960 --> 0:47:52.680
<v Speaker 2>now the phone lines a Meanwhile, they are all being

0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:55.040
<v Speaker 2>tapped and monitors, so they have to use a code language.

0:47:55.640 --> 0:47:58.400
<v Speaker 2>So they tell the doctor that they need some capsules

0:47:58.400 --> 0:48:00.000
<v Speaker 2>and they've got some other capsules and could you bring

0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:01.640
<v Speaker 2>him to the house, and he's like, I'll come by.

0:48:01.880 --> 0:48:04.840
<v Speaker 3>So but so the doctor knows this code like that

0:48:04.880 --> 0:48:06.680
<v Speaker 3>they pre established it or is he like oh, I

0:48:06.719 --> 0:48:07.640
<v Speaker 3>guess he needs capsule.

0:48:07.800 --> 0:48:10.239
<v Speaker 2>He's he's friendly with the hundreds. This may not be

0:48:10.239 --> 0:48:12.239
<v Speaker 2>the first time they've had to, like, you know, do

0:48:12.360 --> 0:48:15.680
<v Speaker 2>stuff like this, so he very quickly catches up with them. Right, yes,

0:48:16.000 --> 0:48:19.080
<v Speaker 2>now we have pain in waters. They go out and

0:48:19.080 --> 0:48:21.360
<v Speaker 2>they climb into this car because they're going to be

0:48:21.400 --> 0:48:23.520
<v Speaker 2>they were they'd waited outside of town. So the guy

0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:26.879
<v Speaker 2>gets out and drives out of town. The doctor picks

0:48:26.920 --> 0:48:28.880
<v Speaker 2>them up, and the car was run at high speed

0:48:28.920 --> 0:48:31.680
<v Speaker 2>and all challenges ignored is how they put it right.

0:48:32.080 --> 0:48:34.120
<v Speaker 2>And at one point, the doctor's car with waters and

0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:36.799
<v Speaker 2>pain in it, it approaches a blocked bridge right and

0:48:36.840 --> 0:48:39.040
<v Speaker 2>the cadets are lining the road and the Doctor's like,

0:48:39.040 --> 0:48:40.480
<v Speaker 2>what do you guys want me to do? The road's

0:48:40.520 --> 0:48:43.279
<v Speaker 2>blocked and he's like, they're like, is there any way out?

0:48:43.280 --> 0:48:45.719
<v Speaker 2>He's like, I think I see away. So this is

0:48:45.760 --> 0:48:47.040
<v Speaker 2>a checkpoint like a war film.

0:48:47.120 --> 0:48:47.440
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:48:47.640 --> 0:48:50.160
<v Speaker 2>Also, beanwhild there are thirteen of their comrades who've been

0:48:50.160 --> 0:48:53.480
<v Speaker 2>captured and they're being held at this bridge by the cadets.

0:48:53.480 --> 0:48:56.000
<v Speaker 2>So there's hundreds of cadets and they're their own comrades.

0:48:56.040 --> 0:48:59.640
<v Speaker 2>If you will are standing there, then the doctors starts

0:48:59.680 --> 0:49:03.160
<v Speaker 2>revenue engine. He's like boys hang on, so he then

0:49:03.640 --> 0:49:06.839
<v Speaker 2>floors it in his like whatever nineteen sixteen car.

0:49:07.280 --> 0:49:09.719
<v Speaker 3>He drives down the ditch, punches it.

0:49:09.800 --> 0:49:11.920
<v Speaker 2>He gets up to about fifty miles an hour and

0:49:11.960 --> 0:49:13.799
<v Speaker 2>then rides up the other side of the ditch and

0:49:13.920 --> 0:49:18.560
<v Speaker 2>jumps like the general lee from Duke's hazards. They break

0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:20.200
<v Speaker 2>free from gravity for a little bit.

0:49:21.480 --> 0:49:24.319
<v Speaker 3>Aren't making this though? I swear this is all really

0:49:24.400 --> 0:49:27.160
<v Speaker 3>this is a burrito cannon. This really happened.

0:49:28.560 --> 0:49:31.000
<v Speaker 2>The captured member of the OPA. They go nuts. They're

0:49:31.120 --> 0:49:32.839
<v Speaker 2>cheering as his car is in the air.

0:49:32.960 --> 0:49:33.120
<v Speaker 5>Right.

0:49:33.680 --> 0:49:36.080
<v Speaker 2>The car eventually lands with a huge crash back on

0:49:36.120 --> 0:49:38.799
<v Speaker 2>earth and then roars away at full speed. You know,

0:49:39.000 --> 0:49:41.640
<v Speaker 2>old cars, what you need to do. The cadets immediately

0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:43.360
<v Speaker 2>give chase. They run and get in their cars and

0:49:43.400 --> 0:49:45.799
<v Speaker 2>they tear after the doctor's car. And the doctor he's

0:49:45.800 --> 0:49:48.200
<v Speaker 2>a hallacious driver. This ain't his first rodeo, so he's

0:49:48.200 --> 0:49:51.640
<v Speaker 2>tearing through Texas. He's enjoying the chase. Right. He manages

0:49:51.680 --> 0:49:54.000
<v Speaker 2>to get Pain and Waters over to the other house.

0:49:54.200 --> 0:49:56.600
<v Speaker 2>They reunite with Dane and Drummond, who are still in

0:49:56.680 --> 0:49:59.400
<v Speaker 2>hiding at this time. Now all of they're together, and

0:49:59.440 --> 0:50:01.480
<v Speaker 2>the five the make a break for it and race

0:50:01.560 --> 0:50:04.080
<v Speaker 2>back to Houston. So the doctors like, let's go and

0:50:04.239 --> 0:50:07.680
<v Speaker 2>run back to Houston. Is now the moment before dawn

0:50:07.760 --> 0:50:11.040
<v Speaker 2>on another day on thinking we've reached the purple hour,

0:50:11.360 --> 0:50:13.439
<v Speaker 2>and these four men make it back to the Rice

0:50:13.480 --> 0:50:16.680
<v Speaker 2>campus at seven thirty am on Thursday morning, and they

0:50:16.680 --> 0:50:20.880
<v Speaker 2>still had the skin of their six foot tallund.

0:50:19.840 --> 0:50:21.319
<v Speaker 3>Owl, three pieces of it.

0:50:21.760 --> 0:50:25.120
<v Speaker 2>Elizabeth, you may be wondering at a lot right now

0:50:25.120 --> 0:50:27.040
<v Speaker 2>what happened to the thirteen dudes who were captured who

0:50:27.080 --> 0:50:30.120
<v Speaker 2>were cheering at the side of the bridge. Great question,

0:50:31.600 --> 0:50:33.759
<v Speaker 2>But they were taken prisoner and they were held at

0:50:33.760 --> 0:50:36.279
<v Speaker 2>Texas A and M in the military prison or the

0:50:36.320 --> 0:50:38.719
<v Speaker 2>brig or whatever it was, right, and the president of

0:50:38.760 --> 0:50:41.800
<v Speaker 2>Rice University had to negotiate with the president of Texas

0:50:41.840 --> 0:50:43.560
<v Speaker 2>A and M to get the safe return of the

0:50:43.600 --> 0:50:45.879
<v Speaker 2>thirteen captured members of the Opaight Night Rate.

0:50:46.000 --> 0:50:47.759
<v Speaker 3>So he negotiates with terrorists.

0:50:48.160 --> 0:50:50.440
<v Speaker 2>Apparently, see I've heard that Texans don't do that.

0:50:50.520 --> 0:50:51.600
<v Speaker 3>I get right now.

0:50:52.000 --> 0:50:53.879
<v Speaker 2>You may also be wondering, and I know you were.

0:50:54.520 --> 0:50:55.600
<v Speaker 2>What happened to Snowball.

0:50:56.360 --> 0:50:58.000
<v Speaker 3>I guess I am watching that now.

0:50:58.600 --> 0:51:01.600
<v Speaker 2>It's the best part, and I quote from the Thresher,

0:51:02.280 --> 0:51:06.800
<v Speaker 2>Snowball gets paraded around campus, given a regulation army haircut,

0:51:06.920 --> 0:51:09.120
<v Speaker 2>turned over to the freshman for a few days. He

0:51:09.239 --> 0:51:11.840
<v Speaker 2>was eventually taken to the station late at night, minus

0:51:11.880 --> 0:51:14.600
<v Speaker 2>his clothes and told to catch the train. He was

0:51:14.640 --> 0:51:16.640
<v Speaker 2>said he wasted no time getting aboard.

0:51:16.760 --> 0:51:19.200
<v Speaker 3>Wait, what does it mean? Turned over to the freshman

0:51:19.239 --> 0:51:21.080
<v Speaker 3>for a few days and he comes home?

0:51:21.840 --> 0:51:25.320
<v Speaker 2>Yes, they I think you can just let your imagination

0:51:25.480 --> 0:51:28.719
<v Speaker 2>wander on that one. So then the freshman turn him

0:51:28.719 --> 0:51:29.520
<v Speaker 2>out and then.

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<v Speaker 3>He caught he's taking over the train station afterwards? Did

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<v Speaker 3>he change his name to Snowball because he didn't want

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<v Speaker 3>anyone to know who he went?

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<v Speaker 2>Do you imagine being a private detective and having to

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<v Speaker 2>go home? How was your weekend?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay? Could you imagine being a private detective a named

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<v Speaker 3>Snowball B who gets hired to find like a mascot

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<v Speaker 3>and gets into this absolutely turn one of the board

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<v Speaker 3>that you're making up in twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty,

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<v Speaker 3>Why why Snowball.

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<v Speaker 2>Texas College exports? That's my answer?

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<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, I want to hear from the descendants

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<v Speaker 3>of Snowball.

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<v Speaker 2>We should see if we can find them.

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<v Speaker 3>If you are a descendant of Snowball, reach out. We

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<v Speaker 3>want to hear the real story.

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<v Speaker 2>We would like to know how what became of Snowball

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<v Speaker 2>after this.

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<v Speaker 3>We want to honor his memory.

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<v Speaker 2>So, Elizabeth, what's your ridiculous take away?

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<v Speaker 3>My ridiculous takeaway is, I'm having a lot of heart

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<v Speaker 3>troubled processing right now.

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<v Speaker 2>Pretty much broke in your brain.

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<v Speaker 3>I can't speak, I don't know the year.

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<v Speaker 2>Try try this. Just say these two words. Roll tide

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<v Speaker 2>that may pull it back.

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<v Speaker 3>Deep breath, roll tide that helped. I did okay, oddly enough,

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<v Speaker 3>it totally helped.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, bear brand be so happy. Yeah, hook him

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<v Speaker 2>horn totally the other one. See if that one works away,

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<v Speaker 2>that's textic.

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<v Speaker 3>Hook them horns. Everything feels so good.

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<v Speaker 2>You see football, baby, right there? It is football, there

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<v Speaker 2>is Everything feels okay except for the losing.

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<v Speaker 3>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>My ridiculous takeaway, thank you for asking now, is I

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<v Speaker 2>grew up in the South and I still can't believe

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<v Speaker 2>this happened like this is one of my favorite stories

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<v Speaker 2>of Southern sports ever.

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<v Speaker 3>It's incredible. You know what it is? Ridiculous, ridiculous, It's

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<v Speaker 3>so ridiculous.

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<v Speaker 2>But thank you for joining us. I'm Zaron Burnett.

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<v Speaker 3>That over there is an owl.

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<v Speaker 2>An owl name Miss Elizabeth Dutton. You can find us

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