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Speaker 1: Ridiculous Crime is a production of I Heart Radio, Elizabeth Dunton,

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Speaker 1: How you be? I'm good? Do you know what's ridiculous?

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Speaker 1: I do you want to share it with me? Collective

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Speaker 1: nouns what do you mean? Well, you know, like groups

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Speaker 1: of things like murder of crows, but parliament of owls saren?

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Speaker 1: Have you ever done a deep dive on collective nouns? Completely? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I looked at him. I used to use those as

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Speaker 1: a way to call myself down in anxious moments. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to know, but like you know, there's

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Speaker 1: like a colony of bats. Um you know what jugglers is? Um?

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Speaker 1: A juggalo of jugglers and never thing of of jugglers.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's fun, which, like you know, you never see

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Speaker 1: a group of juggle I guess you do see a

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Speaker 1: group of jugglers outside the Loser Convent And I'm just kidding.

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Speaker 1: Collective noun for silences. Uh, there's a rumba of rattle

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Speaker 1: snakes and the Kingdom of rats, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: like a rat king which don't google that people. My

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Speaker 1: favorite a death row of turkeys. Oh that is good, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of these. There are multiple collective nouns,

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Speaker 1: phrase groups. But a death row of turkeys. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: that's up there. Yeah. Is there a writing desk of ravens? Sure?

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Speaker 1: Never more. Well, I've got something ridiculous for you. You've

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Speaker 1: got it's probably way more ridiculous than that I have

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Speaker 1: all the time in the world. Oh excellent, because this

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Speaker 1: one so wild one it will take me a second

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Speaker 1: to tell to you. You're ready. Yes, it's about a

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Speaker 1: Texas town. I mean, you know, I like Texas towns,

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Speaker 1: and it is Texas town in particular. It gets taken

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Speaker 1: over by twelve hundred college age military cadets who are

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Speaker 1: eager to win a rivalry prank war that involves now

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Speaker 1: take notes to private detectives, multiple high speed car chases,

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Speaker 1: a night raid on an armory and a depot, a town,

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Speaker 1: telephone lines being seized, casual gunfire, mass arrest, wrongful imprisonment,

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Speaker 1: and a two pound owl. Oh okay, this is ridiculous crime,

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Speaker 1: but podcast about absurd and outrageous capers and cons. It's

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Speaker 1: always murder free and ridiculous. Elizabeth. Before we dive into

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Speaker 1: the insanity of this story, I'd like to give you

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Speaker 1: a little context. I love contact, right, I figured you do.

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Speaker 1: Now you also love Reddit, right, Like, I don't really

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Speaker 1: check on anybody, but I know you're like the lurker. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't post. I just you just read lurk rather Well,

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Speaker 1: there is a post a couple of days ago. He

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Speaker 1: might have seen it. I don't know. This guy put

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Speaker 1: forward a theory that the University of Alabama doesn't exists.

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Speaker 1: That one, yeah, and they say, he said, basically, well,

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Speaker 1: I'll just quote it. He said, conspiracy theory. Quote, Alabama

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Speaker 1: is not an actual school. It is just a football team.

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Speaker 1: And then he makes his case and I continue to quote.

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Speaker 1: The title says it all. I don't think Alabama truly

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Speaker 1: exists as a school. There are no classes. If you

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Speaker 1: somehow break into one of the buildings on campus, you'll

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Speaker 1: find dusty storage rooms with US jock straps and Satanic

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Speaker 1: altars to bear Bryant's demon ghost. I have met so

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Speaker 1: many damn many Alabama fans roll tad. They say, if

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Speaker 1: you ask them what year they graduated, they will usually

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Speaker 1: hit you with and never been to college, Like that's

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Speaker 1: the most ridiculous thing they've ever heard. I live and

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Speaker 1: I can get behind that that kind of theory. So

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Speaker 1: so I quote, um, there are some very humble gentleman

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Speaker 1: visiting me. Every word I've said is unjust. I now know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I've just been stressed lately and I wanted to

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Speaker 1: correct my ignorance on the beauty of an Alabama education.

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban is handsome and intelligent and every man or

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Speaker 1: woman's dream. I've shown my jealousy of their degree programs

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Speaker 1: and anyone would be lucky to go to school and Tuscaloosa.

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Speaker 1: May God have mercy on my soul, and mate Elephant's

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Speaker 1: tramp will be if I ever transgressed again. He should

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Speaker 1: So this story takes place in nineteen seventeen. Right now,

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Speaker 1: Texas A and M, the Agricultural Mechanical School. Yes, they

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Speaker 1: right now. There was a contemporaneous account of all this

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Speaker 1: published in the Rice University student newspaper called The thresh

422
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Speaker 1: and the Thresher, And it's Thursday, February nineteen seventeen edition.

423
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Speaker 1: If you want to look this up on newspapers dot com.

424
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Speaker 1: They had a firsthand account written by members of the

425
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Speaker 1: O p A. So we have their actual account, and

426
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Speaker 1: I quote the detective was of the opinion that would

427
00:22:15,040 --> 00:22:16,960
Speaker 1: be impossible to get the bird, and it was as

428
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Speaker 1: it was on the third floor of the US Armory,

429
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Speaker 1: the strongest room at A and M. But he stated

430
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:25,440
Speaker 1: there was a sporting chance to win out. So he's like, look,

431
00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:28,600
Speaker 1: they got it in the like basically the fot on

432
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Speaker 1: campus and on the third floor, so you have to

433
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Speaker 1: fight your way in, and their military so are college athletes.

434
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Speaker 1: So give it a sporting chance. Right, four men decide, okay,

435
00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 1: we need to go see what the lay of the

436
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:42,320
Speaker 1: land is, and they go out on a scouting mission. Right.

437
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Speaker 1: Their names are for the sake of the story, Full Whiler,

438
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:49,400
Speaker 1: Billops More and the leader Jimmy Waters. These four will

439
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:50,880
Speaker 1: be the only ones whose names I will be telling

440
00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:52,440
Speaker 1: you because they will come up over and over again.

441
00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,800
Speaker 1: They are essentially the leaders of this racing party. Right,

442
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Speaker 1: So full Whiler, billops More and Waters. They hit the

443
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Speaker 1: track running, they go and they sneak onto campus and

444
00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:04,639
Speaker 1: they are after their two h pound owl mascot. Right,

445
00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: So the four men they elude sentries and these bull

446
00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 1: sergeants and all the campus cadets, and they entered the

447
00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: US Armory on the ground floor. They make it into

448
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:14,600
Speaker 1: the building, right, So now they have to ascend three

449
00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:17,199
Speaker 1: flights of stairs. They managed to do that without catching

450
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Speaker 1: any of the watchmen who are circling through the building.

451
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: They're also you know, students who are on guard because

452
00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 1: they know they have the stolen owl and they know

453
00:23:25,320 --> 00:23:27,320
Speaker 1: it's in that building, so any weird sounds or anything

454
00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: will immediately alert suspicions. They decide, okay, we need to

455
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,520
Speaker 1: do this quietly, So they take out big knives and

456
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,720
Speaker 1: they try to carve their way through a heavy wooden

457
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Speaker 1: armory door. What so imagine like one of those mission

458
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Speaker 1: style California doors were like the boards are like nine

459
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Speaker 1: inches to carve through. Kidding, So this noise draws the

460
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Speaker 1: attention of a watchman. They're just slamming away into the woods.

461
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,240
Speaker 1: All these guys you just start going to class. Oh

462
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:56,160
Speaker 1: just wait. So jimmy water squad leader, he uh as,

463
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: he just says he here's the watchman coming up to stairs,

464
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Speaker 1: Like we need a distraction. So he's like, I'm gonna

465
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Speaker 1: do something insane. So he runs towards the third story window,

466
00:24:04,160 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 1: climbs out, and then it gets the Watchman's attention before

467
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 1: he does this, climbs out of the window and he

468
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: manages to walk down the side of the building for

469
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Speaker 1: the third story like climbing, like with his hands and

470
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Speaker 1: his feet. Basically, he like Spiderman, climbs down the side

471
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Speaker 1: of the building. So the Watchman's like, what the hell,

472
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Speaker 1: So he so he runs down to the ground floor

473
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Speaker 1: to be there when he gets done with his three

474
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Speaker 1: like three story climb, right, So the Watchman is there

475
00:24:31,359 --> 00:24:33,520
Speaker 1: when Jimmy Waters hits the ground, But Jimmy Waters is

476
00:24:33,560 --> 00:24:35,320
Speaker 1: a track star, so he hits the ground, starts running

477
00:24:35,320 --> 00:24:39,160
Speaker 1: immediately right, doesn't even like have any hesitation. The watchman

478
00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,600
Speaker 1: chases after him, a perfect distraction, right, So the rest

479
00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:44,359
Speaker 1: inside they're like, okay, we can get to it, but

480
00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 1: they hear more watchmans like, so now they're hiding in

481
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Speaker 1: pools of darkness and shadow and they wait for twenty

482
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Speaker 1: thirty minutes. They don't know what to do. They're like,

483
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:54,720
Speaker 1: now Jimmy's outside just running around for this whole time,

484
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Speaker 1: trying to evade centries and students and guards, and he's

485
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Speaker 1: doing it for the most part. So another one of

486
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Speaker 1: the the three who are now inside, they decide, Okay,

487
00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 1: I need to go out and see what's going on.

488
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: Maybe I can help Jimmy and distract more people and

489
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: you guys can get in. So he runs out there,

490
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 1: and as soon as he gets out, there's this kid,

491
00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:12,800
Speaker 1: Full Whiler. He's like trying to make his distraction. He

492
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 1: runs right into Jimmy Waters and a bull sergeant who's

493
00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,040
Speaker 1: grabbed him and his questioning him. He's out there, Jimmy

494
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:20,879
Speaker 1: Waters is nervous, he's telling his family name, his family's history,

495
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:23,400
Speaker 1: he's doing everything he can to do. It's okay, it's okay.

496
00:25:23,440 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: So what does full Whiler do. He just runs right

497
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Speaker 1: up into him, knocks down the bull star Jimmy Waters,

498
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:30,159
Speaker 1: and he's scamper off right. So now the two of

499
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:32,680
Speaker 1: them start leading the bull sargeants on this mad chase.

500
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 1: The two of them split up, so everybody's running around.

501
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,000
Speaker 1: Kids cadets are starting to get involved in now they

502
00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: know what's going on. Meanwhile, the other fourteen members of

503
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Speaker 1: the seventeen are watching. They're like, you know what's time

504
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,439
Speaker 1: to blitz the armory. We can't do this like you know,

505
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 1: skull duggery stuff. So their new plan is charge right,

506
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 1: so they just run onto campus. And so now we

507
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: have all seven team members the O p A running around,

508
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 1: some biggest football players, gangly basketball players, track stars, and

509
00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: a bunch of adets and they're all chasing each other

510
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: all around in the nighttime and the january air because

511
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: remember this is also wintertime, so it's cold. So down

512
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: to protect their flanks, these other members of the O

513
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: p A. They secure the entrances of the US Armory.

514
00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:15,040
Speaker 1: So the guys upstairs, because everybody knows where they are,

515
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,600
Speaker 1: they're they're still trying to get inside, so they blocked

516
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: the doors on the ground floor so that way all

517
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 1: these bull sergeants and students can't get in. And then

518
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: a couple of big college football players rush up to

519
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:27,840
Speaker 1: go help the guys knock down the door. So they're

520
00:26:27,920 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: armed with crowbars and fire extinguishers that they've pulled off

521
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 1: of the walls. So they run up and they decide, okay,

522
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,360
Speaker 1: we're all big guys, we'll just knock down this door.

523
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: So they try using their shoulders first. One guy runs

524
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:42,400
Speaker 1: and he gets bounced off, lands on the tile floor.

525
00:26:42,440 --> 00:26:44,399
Speaker 1: Now that guy does it. Now it's not This isn't working.

526
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,159
Speaker 1: So then they decide we'll go in tandem. So two

527
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 1: guys hold hands, two big football players hold hands, and

528
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:52,000
Speaker 1: they run at the door, and that doesn't work, and

529
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,960
Speaker 1: then two more do it. Boom, Oh, it cracks open.

530
00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,840
Speaker 1: The door knocks down. So it turns out they didn't

531
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Speaker 1: need all the crowbars and fire extonishers. They doesn't need

532
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: a couple of big football players and throw themselves. Right.

533
00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: So when the door springs open, what did they find?

534
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,560
Speaker 1: I have no idea. The owl is sitting there in

535
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 1: bed with the general. No, I don't know, smoking of

536
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:26,360
Speaker 1: cigars like that was nice. I don't know. I don't

537
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 1: know what. Nobody knows, right exactly, according to the contemporaneous

538
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 1: accounts in the Thresher, the quote the owl was concealed

539
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,240
Speaker 1: under some canvas at the rear of the armory. The

540
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: six men seize the old birds, soust them in gasoline,

541
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,359
Speaker 1: and rushed down three flights of stairs to the ground floor,

542
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 1: where the night watchman was encountered. Yeah, you're like, wait, gasoline,

543
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:51,960
Speaker 1: why didn't he in there? Right? Good ears? So they

544
00:27:52,040 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: were confronted by this night watchman, right, and so they

545
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:56,919
Speaker 1: tell them, oh, you know, we're students from Texas A

546
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:58,879
Speaker 1: and M. We're trying to protect it. They got these

547
00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: you know, bulmakers run around on campus. We're gonna go

548
00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: hide the bird. And what I watched him like, we

549
00:28:03,280 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: are you taking? He's like right over there, and then

550
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: they just run in the other direction. Night watching was like, wait,

551
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 1: what are you doing. They run it over to a car.

552
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: They throw it in the Hudson's Super six and that

553
00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: car takes off. This bull sergeant night watchman, he gets piste.

554
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: He pulls out his forty four and starts firing. Oh yeah,

555
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 1: so now the two so the students have to run.

556
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 1: They top in the tin Lizzie's the Hoppen, the sets

557
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: in super six and they're tearing around. But they're not done.

558
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,400
Speaker 1: They don't want to just get away. They decide, let's,

559
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,879
Speaker 1: you know, let's car some donuts in the grass. So

560
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,879
Speaker 1: they start doing circles and twoing donuts and they're getting

561
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 1: fired at mind you. So the opiates pretty stoked. They

562
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 1: got back there at right. So, and meanwhile there's a

563
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: couple of others who have not quite made it to

564
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: the car. They decided to grab some paint that they

565
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: found and they paint the score of the last football

566
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: game that they won zero on the side of the

567
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: building in giant numbers. Right the more warning shots are

568
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: firing out, Bugles are being blown, students are yelling, and

569
00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: at this point the OPA is like, look repressing our luck.

570
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:02,760
Speaker 1: So they decide to floor it and tear us out

571
00:29:02,760 --> 00:29:05,400
Speaker 1: of there, and they managed to escape the campus. Right now,

572
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: they've got to drive from College Station back to Houston.

573
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: It's about a hundred mile trip. As I told you,

574
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: we should should take about an hour and have two hours,

575
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 1: but if you're going forty two miles and then I'll

576
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,959
Speaker 1: take more like solid two hours. This is if they

577
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: can make it there, because remember now they got hundreds

578
00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: of college cadets who are about to give chase Elizabeth.

579
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: I'd like you to close your eyes and picture it. Okay,

580
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 1: it's the dark of night. It's January in Texas. The

581
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:35,360
Speaker 1: air is cold, the wind is howling as it blows,

582
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 1: and there you are with the O P a riding

583
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: shotgun in the tiled four tin Lizzie. Ahead of you

584
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: was another tin Lizzy, and and ahead of that is

585
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: the year old Hudson's Super six. The roads are bad

586
00:29:45,560 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: and you're getting jumped and bumped around and your seat

587
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:49,360
Speaker 1: as your guys are rocking and rolling down this dark

588
00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: road car loaded down with other students members of the

589
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 1: O p A. You're all racing back to Houston. You're

590
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 1: all fired up, you're excited, you're yelling, but you have

591
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 1: this tiny fear inside of you because you're like, this

592
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like we've gotten away with that. I don't

593
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: know why, right, that's that would be me. Your fears

594
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,880
Speaker 1: are confirmed when the first forward in the caravan, its

595
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: headlights go out. HiT's a bump light goes out. You're like,

596
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: that's that's no good. So now you guys are in

597
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,440
Speaker 1: the middle of Texas, nowhere you've got no electric lights.

598
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: There's no it's just endless darkness, right, So these headlights.

599
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 1: So you're like, let's forget that car. Well, no, we

600
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,520
Speaker 1: need it. So there's too many of us. Okay, you've

601
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: been in back and we'll keep going. So now they

602
00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: put the car with no headlights in the in the

603
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: back and keep running. Right. So, now you're in the

604
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: lead car of the caravan, and uh, you're bouncing a

605
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: roll rolling along still, another miles passes blond. Now your

606
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: lights are out. You guys had a bump your lights.

607
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,600
Speaker 1: Getting is going on with you? Forards? What can I

608
00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,600
Speaker 1: tell you a little of it? You close your mouth.

609
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,600
Speaker 1: So now that the lights are cut up, both boards

610
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 1: are running blind. Right, So the Hudson supersticks takes overwards.

611
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,640
Speaker 1: Maybe the Fords were doing it just because they knew

612
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: they had to be secret. Well they do. There's purposeful

613
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: these sence. They're doing really well on the back of

614
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: the line. So let's just take it from there. Since

615
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: Super six is laiding this caravan, the Fords are trying

616
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,280
Speaker 1: to keep up, doing their forty two miles an hour

617
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:09,760
Speaker 1: in the dark. Now before you can curse, or but

618
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: I could curse, Hanry Ford's a good name. And there's

619
00:31:12,440 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: another big run in the road and it tosses the

620
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: Ford in front of you, hits their breaks after they land,

621
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: and you slam your Ford slams into them. Boom. You

622
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 1: basically destroy the front end of your car. Now FOURD

623
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,600
Speaker 1: doesn't even operate, so now you give one less car.

624
00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: So everyone's like this, there's no good. As the car

625
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: shuttering to a stop, you're like everybody get in the

626
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: other cars. So now they got running boards, they got laps.

627
00:31:37,320 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: People are just like laying on other people. People are

628
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: clinging to the on the running car the back can't

629
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:44,920
Speaker 1: feel their legs. Not exactly, not at all. But now

630
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: you in the one operable Ford and the Hudson Super six.

631
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: You're tearing away, all seventeen of you in there, and

632
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: you and your night raid is really not going too

633
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,520
Speaker 1: well so far. But well, I mean, we got the

634
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: elm so far. Yeah, it looks like, you know, you're

635
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: overcoming most obstacle, except for you notice there's a new

636
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 1: obstacle emerging from the darkness. It's this bright light. And

637
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:08,560
Speaker 1: then you have you hear the train whistle and you're like,

638
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: oh no, because the whole plan was to get to

639
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: College Station, and there were you guys would do your

640
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,440
Speaker 1: raid after the last train had left, so that way

641
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 1: there they couldn't the cadets couldn't take a train and

642
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: get back to Houston. But you decided to rush it.

643
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: Remember you charge that messed up your timing. And now

644
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,720
Speaker 1: the train is rushing along and you look over and

645
00:32:30,760 --> 00:32:36,160
Speaker 1: you spy, oh, how hundreds of students cadets laying out

646
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: of every window of the limited that's running to Houston.

647
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: They're screaming and shouting because they can see you, guys,

648
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,720
Speaker 1: and you can see them. You're not that far away.

649
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: You on the dirt road, them on the tracks, and

650
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: they are clipping along. It looks like they're gonna get

651
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: back to Houston before y'all. So what do you do, Elizabeth? Like,

652
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 1: what's the move? You're still in shotgun? What's your call?

653
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:00,560
Speaker 1: I would I would stop and wait till more, ing

654
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: let them go and like, you know, cool their jets

655
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 1: in Houston and wait and wait and wait, and then meanwhile,

656
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 1: I like roasting it up. And yeah, then I go

657
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:14,800
Speaker 1: to Austin at least call a little tour. But when

658
00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 1: it's light out then you don't need your headlights. Yeah.

659
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: Good point. Well, they listened to most of your plan

660
00:33:20,320 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 1: except for they go, you know what, we should go

661
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,960
Speaker 1: one further than that, Elizabeth, Stopping isn't enough. Uh So

662
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,400
Speaker 1: you know, let's just go with the thresher's account, because

663
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:30,719
Speaker 1: I want you to hear it in their words quote,

664
00:33:30,800 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: it was impossible to make any speed on the road.

665
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: So the party turned around and started back towards College Station.

666
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:39,000
Speaker 1: They turned up the first lane they found in a

667
00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 1: wild ride of five miles through the woods. Ensued, they

668
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:45,600
Speaker 1: decide let's head back towards College Station, and then that's

669
00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 1: not a good idea, make a right, So then they

670
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: start heading north, heading north in Texas into the darkened woods,

671
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: and they wrap it off into the woods, trying to

672
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: make a run for it. Do you think they're going

673
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,560
Speaker 1: to get away with it after a quick break. I'll

674
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: be back with the end of the insane too, okay, Elizabeth?

675
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 1: So where were we car chase? Poor decisions on the

676
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: part of the association. So we're headed into north Texas,

677
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:35,960
Speaker 1: north north Dallas. Forty will come the OPA is on

678
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: the run from hundreds of Texas A and M military cadets.

679
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,600
Speaker 1: You got a hundred miles to get back to Houston, man,

680
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,239
Speaker 1: however many miles to get back to College Station. One

681
00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: of your tin Lizzy is not working. The other one

682
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 1: is limping after the Hudson Super six. No lights right,

683
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: hit it cars. Things aren't going well, and you now

684
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: then break down again one mile down the country road

685
00:34:57,520 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 1: that you guys have just gone, and I returned to

686
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:02,759
Speaker 1: the thresh. There's coverage the remaining forward soon gave up

687
00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: on the struggle and was left with five men to

688
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: guard it and to draw a pursuit away from the

689
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: big car containing the owl. So the rating part I

690
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: was all in the Hudson Super six whatever, how many

691
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: people they can load left five, there's twelve people in

692
00:35:16,960 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 1: this car. And yeah, there's twelve people loaded up in

693
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: the Hudson Super six and a two pound owl. Yeah,

694
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: so that six ft tall. So after after four so

695
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: after four more miles, the Super six runs out of

696
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: gas because they've not even driven all night. No worse

697
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 1: than that, they've knocked a hole in the gas over

698
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,799
Speaker 1: all these rocks and ruts and roads. Right, So now

699
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:44,720
Speaker 1: the op A is like, Okay, we got no cars,

700
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 1: we're in the middle of Texas, and we have a

701
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: six ft tall, two pound owl we've got to carry.

702
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,040
Speaker 1: And isn't the owl covered in gasoline? It's covered in gasoline.

703
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: So hours have passed now the night is being getting

704
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: to give way to dawn. So the Purple hours approaching

705
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: and Snowball the private detective he's with them. He's with

706
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: the raiding party actually, because he decided it was quite

707
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: a sporting proposition to go along with the guys to

708
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,800
Speaker 1: see if he could rescue the owl to his youth.

709
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,720
Speaker 1: He goes off and they break up into two parties.

710
00:36:18,719 --> 00:36:20,919
Speaker 1: One of the parties will go into the closest town

711
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:22,799
Speaker 1: and see if they get gas as soon as the

712
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: sun comes up, and then come back to the two

713
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,360
Speaker 1: cars that they're going to park and hide in some woods.

714
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: That's their plans to Skins will hang out with the

715
00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: owl and then hide in the woods. Right, that's the plan,

716
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,799
Speaker 1: and hopefully they can get maybe a friendly mechanic to

717
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: come and either come back with them and fix the cars,

718
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: or they can load the cars up at gasoline, drive

719
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: to town and get the cars fixed there. That's the plan. Meanwhile,

720
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,359
Speaker 1: back at the ranch, the Texas A and M cadets, Right,

721
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: what are they doing in all of this? They were

722
00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: racing on the train. That was only some of them.

723
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: There's twelve hundred students who will be involved in this chase.

724
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: So how many were on the train there just sitting

725
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: there on the right hands and they're waiting in Houston

726
00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: just be in troublemaker and then you've got like a

727
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: thousand of them coming up. They need they need to

728
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: go back to We have an account from the thresher

729
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: that we can give you some exact numbers. I want

730
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 1: to give the thresher a hand, but that every time

731
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: he's a thresher, all I think is like you immediately

732
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:36,879
Speaker 1: go there like that. So I quote from the hand

733
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:40,479
Speaker 1: taking thresher. The A M. M. Cadets have been busy

734
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: organizing their pursuit. Everything that had four wheels had been

735
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: requisitioned and pressed into service. Eight cadets were brought up

736
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: to the firing line in automobiles, motorcycles, wagons, buggies, and

737
00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 1: of course the train. This is like mad mag yes,

738
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: So it doesn't take long for these eight hundred cadets,

739
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 1: going off in every direction to find the raiding party

740
00:38:01,560 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: that's out in the woods, just down on a road

741
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 1: right now. Hold on, when they find this little rate,

742
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:09,480
Speaker 1: the raiding party, what are they going to do to them?

743
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:15,719
Speaker 1: Just tear them limb from limy. Just wait, this is

744
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: this is this is no, there's no no murdering this one.

745
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: But there's some species coming up. So I returned to

746
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: the thresher a detachment of cadets rated Milliican and found

747
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: all of Rice's means of locomotion in the garage. So

748
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,600
Speaker 1: the guys who had gone off to the town of

749
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: Milliican with their car. They get discovered and I continue

750
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 1: the quote immediately took charge of the cars. Nine rice men,

751
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: who had been left to delay pursued as long as possible,

752
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: were captured with the cars. One of the people captured Snowball,

753
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: the private detective, Snowball kitty detective. So the other half

754
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 1: of the raiding party, they get a messenger back from Millikan.

755
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: He runs out of town and makes it back to

756
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: where they are hiding the cars in the woods and

757
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: tells them, you guys need to run for it. They're

758
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 1: onto us. We don't have a car, so they're like, okay,

759
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: so what do they do? They decide we're going to

760
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: just run for it. So they decided to take this

761
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,040
Speaker 1: two pound owl and run back to Houston. So they

762
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: start running across the tall grass to save themselves. So

763
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: and I quote didn't happen. Running with the two pound

764
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,359
Speaker 1: owl was a larger contract than the exhausted men could fill,

765
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,160
Speaker 1: and all hopes of taking the bird wholesale were abandoned.

766
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: The A and M searchers were hot on the trail,

767
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: so the eight men hid themselves in a thicket and

768
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: skinned the cover off the owl and the hide given

769
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: to four men with instructions to take it to Houston.

770
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:37,440
Speaker 1: Stuffing was then set on fire as it had been

771
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: discovered that the party was completely surrounded by cadets, so

772
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: they burned the owl. Now the thing is is the

773
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: gasoline makes it so there's not much smoke, so they

774
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: were they almost get away with it, but this is

775
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 1: one of the cadets notices the flame and then they

776
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 1: go rushing over to where they're hiding in the thickets.

777
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: So now for the guys, the leaders of the O

778
00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: p A. So this is full while or Drummond Uh

779
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,400
Speaker 1: and my boy More and Jimmy Waters, they take the

780
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:06,239
Speaker 1: owl skin and they make a break for it. The

781
00:40:06,400 --> 00:40:09,520
Speaker 1: skin others tried to distract, so Sam of the owls

782
00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: handed over to the fourth fastest. They're all members of

783
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: the track team. They're like disgusting run for it. So

784
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,719
Speaker 1: they and the other ones, the other four, they lead

785
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: the aggy search party that's surrounding them in the wrong direction.

786
00:40:20,719 --> 00:40:22,359
Speaker 1: Right there. Again, I'm making a lot of noise. Run

787
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: for it, guys, trying to get their attention. Jimmy Waters

788
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: is leader of what we now call the Elusive four.

789
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: The elusive four are going to be officially a dude

790
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: named Dane, a dude named Paine, a dude named Waters,

791
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: and Drummond. So like old time nursery run Potters and

792
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 1: trum getting the owl, and off they went together. So

793
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: and I quote, they injured some thick woods and had

794
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,359
Speaker 1: over fifty men on their coat tails and no time

795
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: at all. The four men had been well chosen, however,

796
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: and the pursuers were soon distanced. Remember track stars. So

797
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: the squad runs two miles with with the owl skin

798
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,839
Speaker 1: hidden on them, and they get to a major road, right,

799
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,760
Speaker 1: so they start waiting for a car to pass, hoping

800
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: somebody will be there. It's now morning time, right, and

801
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,360
Speaker 1: I quote it's now ten a m. Wednesday, and the

802
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: party had been without food and water since noon on Tuesday.

803
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:13,240
Speaker 1: A well was found soon found in a small clearing,

804
00:41:13,280 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: and the four men quench their thirst. So now they're

805
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:17,680
Speaker 1: sitting there like finally getting some nourishment to keep their

806
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:23,360
Speaker 1: bodies going diet exposure exactly. So the bunch of cadets

807
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,760
Speaker 1: spot them and they come running across a cotton field

808
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: after them to the like, oh, they're coming for us, right,

809
00:41:28,000 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: They start running the original fifty cadets who were just

810
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 1: seeing them at the thicket of woods. They come from

811
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: the other direction, so they now run another two miles

812
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 1: under full chase. Right, the track stars are so exhausted

813
00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: at this point. Jimmy Waters can't run over a one

814
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: foot fence. He trips over a one ft fence. Dane

815
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:46,680
Speaker 1: gets tangled up in grape vines over and over again.

816
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: Then there's his dude pain. He tries to jump a

817
00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 1: four foot creek and he lands in the middle. He

818
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: goes two feet. These are all track stars. They're so exhausted.

819
00:41:54,719 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 1: Their bodies are like pulling a full zola. But they're

820
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 1: pretty much going to just collapse. Right. So at this point, right,

821
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,720
Speaker 1: we're getting into the afternoon hours, right, and I quote

822
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: the pursuers were finally ditched and the refuge was taken

823
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: in a thick bunch of overgrowth, where the party slept

824
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: until three thirty pm, keeping one hour watches each. So

825
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 1: now they've gone full military and they're doing one hour

826
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,359
Speaker 1: watches trying to get away from these cadets. So at

827
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 1: three thirty they are awoken by the sound of a

828
00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: group of cadets who discovered their hiding place. Right, So

829
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: the four track stars like, we're gonna have to split up, guys,

830
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: we need someone to run distractions. So now they take

831
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: the owl skin, they tear it in half, they wrap

832
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:33,160
Speaker 1: it around their bodies. They've got to get out to

833
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: get this owl home. So the other two run off

834
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:37,640
Speaker 1: in the other direction, making a lot of noise. Well,

835
00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:39,920
Speaker 1: the two guys who have the owl wrapped around their

836
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: bodies run off, and they're doing it like you know,

837
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: I don't even know they did. They have like this

838
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,680
Speaker 1: vim and vigor and the zeal of the French resistance,

839
00:42:47,760 --> 00:42:49,879
Speaker 1: like they are willing to do do whatever to beat

840
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,200
Speaker 1: these military Right, so the four crawl on their bellies

841
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: through the tall grass to escape. They make it out

842
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:58,919
Speaker 1: of the thicket in two different directions, right, and now

843
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:03,040
Speaker 1: the elusive for reunite. Uh. And they get to another

844
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: road and they find that the road is blocked because

845
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: not because of of cadets for once this time, it's

846
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,279
Speaker 1: just because there's basically river water stormwater rushing past. The

847
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:14,920
Speaker 1: little bridge is blocked. Right, So they're like, okay, what

848
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: are we gonna do. That's when they hear a car approach, like,

849
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,239
Speaker 1: oh no, right, there's nowhere for them to hide. There's

850
00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:22,120
Speaker 1: nowhere to go. They can't cross the river. They're up

851
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:25,520
Speaker 1: against the wall. And I quote a car was heard

852
00:43:25,520 --> 00:43:28,319
Speaker 1: crashing through the brush and it was coming directly towards them,

853
00:43:28,320 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: So the men had to interrupt their planning and hit

854
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,320
Speaker 1: out for cover too with the owl skin remained in

855
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 1: hiding while the two went forward to investigate. The car

856
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,239
Speaker 1: was occupied by hunters and the first question was to

857
00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: ask the best way to get across the river? Who

858
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: got the owl? Was the reply, what owl? You know?

859
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: Tell us we can help you out. So this is

860
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,680
Speaker 1: a group of Texas duck hunters, men, full grown ass men.

861
00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: They come across these kids and like we heard all

862
00:43:53,600 --> 00:43:57,319
Speaker 1: about this good thing. It wasn't like a good man

863
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: is hard to find scenario. Yeah, no, definitely they had.

864
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,880
Speaker 1: These hunters had been stopped on their way to go

865
00:44:02,960 --> 00:44:05,879
Speaker 1: duck hunting, and their vehicle had been searched, so they

866
00:44:05,880 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: were well aware by the cadets there in the full lockdown.

867
00:44:09,480 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: Now right down, it's not even there. So these hunters

868
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 1: are tickled pink by the cadets trying to find the

869
00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: elusive force, and they're like, yeah, that we'll help you

870
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:20,799
Speaker 1: guys out. This is great, right, So the hunters like

871
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: that just said, we're gonna keep shooting some ducks. So

872
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: they make them wait for three more hours. Well, they

873
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,720
Speaker 1: get their fill of ducks. Right, once the duck hunters

874
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,840
Speaker 1: are done, they're like, okay, boys, seven PM, let's go

875
00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: back to town. So they tell them, they're like, okay,

876
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: well we can take a couple of you. Couple of

877
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:38,520
Speaker 1: you should probably stay here because you know they're gonna

878
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: stop us again. So one of the duck hunters he

879
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: changed his clothes with the dude named Dane, and then

880
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 1: he hides in the back with the dude named Drummond.

881
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:47,960
Speaker 1: They hide in like a toolbox in the back of

882
00:44:47,960 --> 00:44:50,759
Speaker 1: the truck, right and hunter one of the hunters and

883
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:52,760
Speaker 1: Drummond are in the back, and then Dane is upfront

884
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:55,000
Speaker 1: with the other hunter, and they take off in the truck. Right.

885
00:44:55,520 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: The truck does get stopped by cadets at the first

886
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,200
Speaker 1: bridge that they reach, right, it gets close examined. They

887
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,919
Speaker 1: managed to pass the inspection, but then right before they're

888
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,520
Speaker 1: about to leave, one of the cadets is like, I'm

889
00:45:05,520 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 1: gonna go right back into town with you, like slaps

890
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 1: the back of the truck. He climbs in back and

891
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 1: he sits on the toolbox. No, no, I would not

892
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:16,160
Speaker 1: stop for these guys. If they were like hold, I'd

893
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: look out of the military. These are armed cadets, uniforms,

894
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: pimple faced. I'd be like, now try again and just

895
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: keep driving. He gets on the car, I slam on

896
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: the brakes and he slides down on the hood. Then

897
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: I run them over and like five months time, these

898
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 1: are all going to be kids on the front. Well,

899
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: they're like full on soldiers. Like then, they're acting like it,

900
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,960
Speaker 1: and I'm just telling you, fad or not. They got

901
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 1: guns and they're like, look, this truck ain't going anywhere.

902
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: So Payne and Jimmy waters right there with the guy

903
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,239
Speaker 1: who's got the car right, and he gets them back

904
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,040
Speaker 1: to town. They get out before they get to town.

905
00:45:51,080 --> 00:45:52,759
Speaker 1: He's like, you know, you guys can walk the rest

906
00:45:52,760 --> 00:45:54,759
Speaker 1: of the way in. And they made that choice, and

907
00:45:54,800 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: it was a good choice to make because the driver

908
00:45:56,640 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: when he gets to town, he gets stopped and he

909
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:02,839
Speaker 1: gets arrested and taken and undercust by the cadets. Yes,

910
00:46:03,239 --> 00:46:05,719
Speaker 1: there are three cadets in this tiny Texas town and

911
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: they have taken over and I took over the town

912
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,920
Speaker 1: and I quote from the thresher, you're ready. The cadets

913
00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: to complete control of all telephone and telegraph lines, had

914
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: all roads blocked, and we're searching all trains that passed.

915
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:21,360
Speaker 1: So all means of communication and transportation were under vigilists.

916
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:25,520
Speaker 1: So they declared martial laws in this area. Is there

917
00:46:25,560 --> 00:46:29,400
Speaker 1: any like, is there any authority figure over these guys military? Well, no,

918
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: I mean there's just a bunch of cadets, Like who's there,

919
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 1: who's their boss? Guys, who's going to be like Texas

920
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: College Sports. I don't know what to tell you. This

921
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: is the authority so crazy. So these grown ass men,

922
00:46:40,560 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: the duck Hunters, they're willing to join the resistance with

923
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 1: the elusive four so that they then call in another

924
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: friend once they get back to town, who was a doctor,

925
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,400
Speaker 1: and they're like, okay, now the phone lines are Meanwhile,

926
00:46:51,440 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: we're all being tapped in monitors, so they have to

927
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: use a code language. So they tell the doctor that

928
00:46:55,880 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: they need some capsules, and they've got some other capsules

929
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: and could you bring them to the house and I'll

930
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: come by. So but so the doctor knows this code

931
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: like they pre established it or is he like, oh,

932
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: I guess he needs He's uh, he's friendly with the hunters.

933
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: This may not be the first time they've had to, like,

934
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 1: you know, do stuff like this. So he quickly catches

935
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,720
Speaker 1: up with them. Right, yes, now we have pain and waters.

936
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: They go out and they climb into this car because

937
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:22,239
Speaker 1: they're going to be they were they'd waited outside of town.

938
00:47:22,239 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 1: So the guy gets out and drives out of town.

939
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: The doctor picks them up, and the car was run

940
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: at high speed and all challenges ignored. They said, have

941
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: they put it right? And at one point, the doctor's

942
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:34,840
Speaker 1: car with waters and pain in it, it approaches a

943
00:47:34,840 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: blocked bridge right and the cadets are lining the road

944
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:38,960
Speaker 1: and the doctors like, what do you guys want me

945
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,239
Speaker 1: to do? The roads blocked and he's like, they're like,

946
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:43,279
Speaker 1: is there any way out? He's like, I think I

947
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: c o A. So this is a checkpoint like a warfare. Also, beanwhile,

948
00:47:47,560 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: they're thirteen of their comrades who have been captured and

949
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,680
Speaker 1: they're being held at this bridge by the cadets. So

950
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,359
Speaker 1: there's hundreds of cadets and their their own comrades, if

951
00:47:55,360 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 1: you will are standing there. Then the Doctors starts reving.

952
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:02,000
Speaker 1: His engine is like bull was hang on, so he

953
00:48:02,120 --> 00:48:05,959
Speaker 1: then floors it in his like whatever nineteen sixteen car.

954
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,400
Speaker 1: He drives down the ditch, punches it. He gets up

955
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 1: to about fifty miles an hour and then rides up

956
00:48:11,840 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: the other side of the ditch and jumps like the

957
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:18,760
Speaker 1: general lee from Duke's hazard. They break free from gravity

958
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: for a little bit. He learned making this. No, this

959
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: is a burrito cannon. This doesn't really happened. The captured

960
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: member of the O p A. They go nuts. They're

961
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:32,840
Speaker 1: cheering as his car is in the air. Right. The

962
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:35,479
Speaker 1: car eventually lands with a huge crash back on earth

963
00:48:35,520 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 1: and then roars away at full speed. You know, old

964
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 1: car immediately give chase. They run and get in their

965
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: cards and they tear after the Doctor's car. And the

966
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: doctor he's a holacious driver. This ain't his first rodeo,

967
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: so he's tearing through Texas. He's enjoying the chase. Right.

968
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: He manages to get painted waters over to the other house.

969
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: They reunite with Dane and Drummond, who are still in

970
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: hiding at this time. Now all of there together and

971
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:00,600
Speaker 1: the five of them make a break or and race

972
00:49:00,680 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: back to Houston. So the doctors like, let's go and

973
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: run back to Houston. Isn't now the moment before dawn

974
00:49:06,920 --> 00:49:10,160
Speaker 1: on another day, once inking we've reached the purple hour.

975
00:49:10,520 --> 00:49:12,560
Speaker 1: And these four men make it back to the Rice

976
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: campus at seven thirty a m. On Thursday morning, and

977
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:17,640
Speaker 1: they still had the skin of their six foot tall

978
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: pounds three pieces of it. Elizabeth, you may be wondering

979
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,640
Speaker 1: at right now what happened to the thirteen dudes who

980
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: were captured, who were cheering at the side of the bridge. Question.

981
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,920
Speaker 1: But they were taken prisoner and they were held at

982
00:49:32,920 --> 00:49:35,400
Speaker 1: Texas A and M in the military prison or the

983
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:37,880
Speaker 1: brig or whatever it was, right, And the president of

984
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:40,960
Speaker 1: Rice University had to negotiate with the president of Texas

985
00:49:41,040 --> 00:49:42,759
Speaker 1: A and M to get the safe return of the

986
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,279
Speaker 1: thirteen captured members of the op A Night Rate. So

987
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: he negotiates with terrorists apparently apparently see I've heard the

988
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: Texans don't do that. Now you may also be wondering,

989
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: and I know you were, what happened to Snowball? I

990
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:59,719
Speaker 1: guess I am. Now it's the best part and I

991
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:04,480
Speaker 1: from the thresher. Snowball gets paraded around campus, given a

992
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:07,440
Speaker 1: regulation army haircut, turned over to the freshman for a

993
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: few days. He was eventually taken to the station late

994
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 1: at night, minus his clothes, and told to catch the train.

995
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: He was said he wasted no time getting a board. Wait,

996
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: what does it mean? Turned over to the freshman for

997
00:50:18,520 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: a few days and he comes home? Yes, they I

998
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:25,520
Speaker 1: think you can just let your imagination wander on that one.

999
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: So the freshman turn him out and then he he's

1000
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:36,520
Speaker 1: taken train station that afterwards? Did he change his name

1001
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: to Snowball because he didn't want anyone to know who

1002
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: he wanted? Do you imagine being a private detective and

1003
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,359
Speaker 1: having to go home? How was your weekend? Okay? Could

1004
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: you imagine being a private detective a named Snowball B

1005
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: who gets hired to find like a mascot and gets

1006
00:50:53,680 --> 00:51:03,320
Speaker 1: into this absolute boards that you're making up in Why

1007
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: why Snowball? Texas College Sports? That's my answer? Oh my gosh.

1008
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,800
Speaker 1: I want to hear from the descendants of Snowball. We

1009
00:51:13,800 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 1: shouldn't see if we can find them. If you are

1010
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:19,600
Speaker 1: a descendant of Snowball, reach out. We want to hear

1011
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: the real story. We would like to know how what

1012
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: became of snowball after that. We want to honor his memory. So, Elizabeth,

1013
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:30,880
Speaker 1: what's your ridiculously My ridiculous takeaway is? I'm having a

1014
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: lot of heart trouble process right now, pretty much broken.

1015
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:37,759
Speaker 1: Your brain can't speak. I don't know the year. Try

1016
00:51:37,840 --> 00:51:40,960
Speaker 1: try this. You say these two words, roll tad that

1017
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: roll tide. But help? Did it totally helped? Yeah? Yeah,

1018
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:51,200
Speaker 1: Bear Bryan be so happy. Hook them horns another one,

1019
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: see if that one works. Sorry, that's Texas hook horns.

1020
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: Everything feels so good at SEC football, baby, right there,

1021
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: CC football, everything feels so good for the losing Well.

1022
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,879
Speaker 1: My ridiculous takeaway, thank you for asking is I grew

1023
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: up in the South and I still can't believe this

1024
00:52:06,840 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: happened like this is one of my favorite stories of

1025
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 1: Southern sports ever. It's incredible, ulous ulous, so ridiculous. But

1026
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: thank you for joining us. I'm Zaron Burnett. That over

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00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: there is and I'll name this Elizabeth Dutton. Do you

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Speaker 1: reveal to you what these people look like, what the

1033
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 1: cars look like, and so forth. The stories are posted

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