1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:10,680 Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 2: Till Michael Very Show is on the air, all all American. 3 00:00:15,560 --> 00:00:17,919 Speaker 3: I'm proved to tell you today that that's timed legislation 4 00:00:18,960 --> 00:00:20,320 Speaker 3: without law Russia forever. 5 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:22,640 Speaker 4: We become bombing in five minutes. 6 00:00:26,079 --> 00:00:27,920 Speaker 5: If I get to like it, someone made around. 7 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 6: I noticed when you get to dislike and someone standing 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:33,400 Speaker 6: around for a wrong name. 9 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 2: Guy's got a lot of pick up. 10 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:37,520 Speaker 5: It's got a cop motor, a four hundred and forty 11 00:00:37,560 --> 00:00:41,440 Speaker 5: cubic inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. 12 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,559 Speaker 5: It's a model made before catalytic converters, so it'll run 13 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:46,960 Speaker 5: good on regular gus. What do you say is that 14 00:00:46,960 --> 00:00:49,840 Speaker 5: the new bluesmobile or one thanks a cigarette rider. 15 00:00:49,960 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 1: I sure appreciate it, sir, if you could find it 16 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: in your heart to hang him up by his neck 17 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,080 Speaker 1: until he was digging. 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 3: Boy escalated quickly. 19 00:00:58,640 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 6: I was just. 20 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:00,880 Speaker 2: Explaining to your better head have here that when we 21 00:01:00,880 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 2: were tunneling out, we happened to hit the main sewer line. 22 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,959 Speaker 6: Dumb luck that, and we followed that till we busted 23 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:07,480 Speaker 6: out of jail. 24 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:08,640 Speaker 1: No man pop. 25 00:01:08,880 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 7: We released her chats on our own recognition. We have 26 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:36,600 Speaker 7: bask the one side. 27 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, seven one thousand. 28 00:01:53,440 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 2: Looking forward to seeing you good folks tomorrow evening. I'm 29 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 2: looking forward to some college Footballtimore. Who man, there are 30 00:02:02,400 --> 00:02:06,840 Speaker 2: some games on tap. Gary, you're on the Michael Berry Show. 31 00:02:06,880 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 6: Go ahead, Hey, Michael, this is Gary, longtime listener, love 32 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:13,840 Speaker 6: your show. 33 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:15,919 Speaker 4: Topic for you. 34 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:18,400 Speaker 6: I'd like to get your input. I just went to 35 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:23,880 Speaker 6: Ted Cruz fundraiser up in Huntsville on Wednesday, had a 36 00:02:23,960 --> 00:02:28,919 Speaker 6: big crowd, and he mentioned that there's a one hundred, 37 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:35,360 Speaker 6: one hundred million dollars flooding into Texas from Soros and. 38 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 2: The left Yes to prop up Colin Hall Red. 39 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 6: And I just want to say that it's despicable that 40 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:49,360 Speaker 6: we're allowing so much money to be flooded into these elections. 41 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,840 Speaker 6: I know there was campaign reform done in the eighties 42 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:57,280 Speaker 6: when Reagan was in office, but that probably didn't hold 43 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,120 Speaker 6: much water. What's your take on how are we going 44 00:03:01,240 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 6: to if you think that campaign contribution is a problem 45 00:03:05,720 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 6: for the future, and how can we solve it? 46 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:13,440 Speaker 2: Well, let me ask you a question, Gary, how much 47 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,200 Speaker 2: should we limit the campaign funding to. 48 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:25,239 Speaker 6: Well, I would love to see campaign contributions for state 49 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:30,880 Speaker 6: officials limited to those from people who live in the state. 50 00:03:31,720 --> 00:03:35,240 Speaker 2: I don't I don't disagree with that that that is 51 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 2: a very thoughtful and reasoned and narrowly terror tailored restriction. 52 00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:51,360 Speaker 2: It was ruled in Citizens United case years ago. Some 53 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:57,320 Speaker 2: people will remember it was ruled that campaign contributions are 54 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:04,720 Speaker 2: free speech. Now, that made people up that, but I 55 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 2: believe it to be true. If I make, if I 56 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:11,800 Speaker 2: or you make a lot of money in our lifetime, 57 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:15,480 Speaker 2: and we say I want to help that candidate over 58 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:20,080 Speaker 2: there get elected, I want to contribute to them, then 59 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,200 Speaker 2: why who should be able to say no, you can't 60 00:04:23,279 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 2: do that. That was the ruling, and I think it 61 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:31,719 Speaker 2: was the right ruling. Everybody wants to reform campaign contributions, 62 00:04:31,720 --> 00:04:36,039 Speaker 2: but nobody wants to actually give money. And that's not 63 00:04:36,120 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 2: a popular talk radio thing to say we can take 64 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:41,520 Speaker 2: all the money out of the processor, so I'm told, 65 00:04:42,720 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 2: But I don't know that that makes things any better. 66 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 2: What we really get down to and let's let's let's 67 00:04:49,560 --> 00:04:52,440 Speaker 2: I think it's better to really boil things down to 68 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 2: the true problem. The true problem is that there are 69 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:05,600 Speaker 2: people who want to control our government for purposes that 70 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 2: are outside our best interests, and those people are going 71 00:05:10,640 --> 00:05:14,200 Speaker 2: to do whatever they can do to get there now, 72 00:05:14,279 --> 00:05:18,720 Speaker 2: whether that's cheating at the ballot box, whether that's registering 73 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:25,279 Speaker 2: illegal alien voters or foreign voters abroad, whether that's mailing 74 00:05:25,320 --> 00:05:30,479 Speaker 2: out ballots to everyone, to people that are dead and 75 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:33,760 Speaker 2: somehow managing to get those ballots returned and keeping the 76 00:05:33,800 --> 00:05:37,599 Speaker 2: process from being able to check, giving money to candidates 77 00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,080 Speaker 2: to spend, because the idea is if they have money, 78 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:43,200 Speaker 2: they can convince you to vote against your best interests. 79 00:05:43,240 --> 00:05:46,320 Speaker 2: All of those things are true, and there will always 80 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 2: be other ways to do that. Self governance is an ugly, messy, 81 00:05:51,400 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 2: sloppy process. There's nowhere around that. There is no way 82 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,760 Speaker 2: around that. And when you think about all the people 83 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 2: of a football game this weekend, all the people from 84 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 2: around the country trying to control who wins and loses 85 00:06:05,880 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 2: that game. But it should be the boys on the field, right, 86 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,720 Speaker 2: it's their game, it's their team, it's our country. You've 87 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:17,559 Speaker 2: literally got the entire world now participating in our election. 88 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:23,560 Speaker 2: That's sickening, sickening that this should happen, that it could happen, 89 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 2: but it is happening. And as you note, we know 90 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:31,599 Speaker 2: it's happening. But if people did the right thing, I 91 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:34,159 Speaker 2: will tell you I'm going to speak out of turn 92 00:06:34,240 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 2: here right now. I think Trump wins by between six 93 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 2: and ten percentage points. In Texas. He could win fifty 94 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:46,279 Speaker 2: five to forty five. Probably not that high, be too 95 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:48,920 Speaker 2: much cheating in Harris County, but he could. It's possible 96 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 2: cruises up by a percentage and a half, and there 97 00:06:54,040 --> 00:06:57,039 Speaker 2: are a lot of reasons for that. But a percentage 98 00:06:57,080 --> 00:07:00,520 Speaker 2: and a half is within the margin of error. And 99 00:07:00,560 --> 00:07:03,359 Speaker 2: so people tell me things. They say, Hey, Test's not 100 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 2: over here, and tests not over here, and test not 101 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:10,680 Speaker 2: spending money in ten because Ted doesn't have the money 102 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 2: that all Red does. Well, well, I already have all 103 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 2: the money because California, in New York, he's not doing 104 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 2: public appearances. I know exactly what he's doing. I know 105 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,040 Speaker 2: where he lives. He's sitting in his house. He's not 106 00:07:27,160 --> 00:07:30,520 Speaker 2: going out. That is a strategy by some very smart people. 107 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:33,600 Speaker 2: They're spending a lot of money, and they're flooding the airwaves. 108 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 2: They are flooding the airways with Colin all Red's a 109 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:43,160 Speaker 2: great guy. And Ted Cruz took a trip to Mexico. 110 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 2: You mean during the storm when a US senator, when 111 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 2: the other US senators were in Washington, d C. And 112 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,679 Speaker 2: had nothing to do with what was going on in Texas. 113 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: His daughter, who was in a bad way at the time, 114 00:07:55,840 --> 00:07:58,679 Speaker 2: he took a vacation with her because since the Senate 115 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 2: wasn't in session, he put being a father first. Okay, 116 00:08:02,080 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 2: all right, so you're gonna put allread in. Do you 117 00:08:04,160 --> 00:08:06,480 Speaker 2: know anything about already? You know anything about him? Do 118 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: you know that he declared that if they build a wall, 119 00:08:09,400 --> 00:08:12,200 Speaker 2: he'll tear it down. Do you know that he declared 120 00:08:12,840 --> 00:08:15,560 Speaker 2: that people who have a problem with men who identify 121 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:18,679 Speaker 2: as girls being in girls' bathrooms, that that's their problem, 122 00:08:18,760 --> 00:08:24,640 Speaker 2: not the kid. The kid comes first. All Red is 123 00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,720 Speaker 2: all wrong for Texas. That's why I call him all wrong. Allred. 124 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 8: He's a bad, bad guy. He's a very bad guy. 125 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:40,040 Speaker 8: He's outside our interests. But Ted doesn't have enough money 126 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,480 Speaker 8: to compete on that level. So it's our job to 127 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:46,120 Speaker 8: help him win because if he doesn't win. 128 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,680 Speaker 2: You see, Barack Obama came out of nowhere and they 129 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 2: painted him as a certain person, and then boy, he's 130 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:55,720 Speaker 2: the devil. That's what's happening is because people are not 131 00:08:55,880 --> 00:09:11,000 Speaker 2: focusing on what's happening in Texas. Mary, You're on the 132 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,240 Speaker 2: Michael Berry Show. We're honored to have you. Go ahead, sweetheart, 133 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:16,040 Speaker 2: thank you. 134 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,320 Speaker 9: I just wanted to tell you. When I was growing up, 135 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 9: I heard about and they called it the Texas City Blast. 136 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,160 Speaker 9: I heard about that, you know, all the time, because 137 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:29,959 Speaker 9: I lived with my I was lift with my parents 138 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 9: and they divorced, and then it was with my grandparents. 139 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 9: But I was I wasn't born yet. It was in 140 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 9: forty seven. I was born in forty nine, but that was, 141 00:09:38,920 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 9: you know, a big thing. And I still have the 142 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,480 Speaker 9: newspaper clippings. We moved recently, and I have my father's, 143 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:49,160 Speaker 9: I have things of his, my grandmother's, and I had 144 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:52,960 Speaker 9: the newspaper clippings all about it, and they're like yellow 145 00:09:53,160 --> 00:09:56,200 Speaker 9: and brittle, but it's all about the Texas City Blast. 146 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,080 Speaker 9: My father, my uncle, and my grandfather worked at the 147 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:03,360 Speaker 9: plants in Texas City at the time. And I remember 148 00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:07,160 Speaker 9: my grandmother telling me how my aunt and my sister 149 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 9: I had an older sister, and my grandmother and my 150 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 9: aunt were all just waiting on pins and needles because 151 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:15,880 Speaker 9: you know, they felt that they lived in Keema and 152 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 9: felt that they heard it. No cell phones or anything. 153 00:10:19,360 --> 00:10:23,000 Speaker 9: They didn't know if they were okay, if they were dead, 154 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:25,280 Speaker 9: if they were on their way home, and I think 155 00:10:25,320 --> 00:10:29,480 Speaker 9: they had to catch rides with other people to get 156 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 9: home because they couldn't take their car. I think there 157 00:10:32,480 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 9: was probably one car, maybe two, but they worked at 158 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:38,640 Speaker 9: the plants and it was there used to be in 159 00:10:38,679 --> 00:10:41,800 Speaker 9: Texas City. I'm sure there is. There's a memorial to 160 00:10:41,920 --> 00:10:45,120 Speaker 9: all the people that they didn't find. They just found 161 00:10:45,360 --> 00:10:49,360 Speaker 9: body parts, and it's a memorial to the people that 162 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:51,000 Speaker 9: died in the Texas City glass. 163 00:10:51,320 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 2: You've been there a mom. Mary, I'm looking at a 164 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,520 Speaker 2: story on the Texas City blast, as you call it, 165 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 2: and it's a two ton anchor that they retrieved, a 166 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:11,560 Speaker 2: two ton an that was thrown one point six miles. 167 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 2: Why are you not in your hand like, yeah, huh oh, 168 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:16,560 Speaker 2: you've seen it. 169 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:19,760 Speaker 9: Okay, I am too. That's all right because we've both 170 00:11:19,800 --> 00:11:22,960 Speaker 9: seen it, and yeah, it was it was really something. 171 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,160 Speaker 9: When I was growing up, they talked about it all 172 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:25,720 Speaker 9: the time. 173 00:11:26,840 --> 00:11:30,760 Speaker 2: Mary. Did you say, did you say we have both 174 00:11:30,800 --> 00:11:34,400 Speaker 2: seen it or we both seen it both. 175 00:11:34,679 --> 00:11:36,800 Speaker 9: I'm sure he's seen it and I've seen it when 176 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:37,440 Speaker 9: I grew up. 177 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:37,600 Speaker 10: Down. 178 00:11:39,040 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 2: I love that. I like you, Mary. I can tell 179 00:11:41,920 --> 00:11:43,840 Speaker 2: I like you. I could tell we could. You could 180 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 2: live next door and you'd come over, or I'd come 181 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 2: over and we'd all sit out back, and I'd put 182 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,880 Speaker 2: a bug zapper on and I'd bring a ice chest, 183 00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 2: and we'd drink beer and talk bad about people, and 184 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 2: it would be fun. 185 00:11:56,160 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 9: Well, I would love to have you, but I live 186 00:11:58,400 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 9: in Huntsville. 187 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,360 Speaker 2: Now I'll come the hospital. I got one of these 188 00:12:01,400 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 2: things now they call an automobile. I can go anywhere. 189 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 10: You know what. 190 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:06,600 Speaker 3: You know what. 191 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:09,439 Speaker 9: You wouldn't like me because I have cats. 192 00:12:09,679 --> 00:12:12,400 Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't hate cats as much as 193 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:14,400 Speaker 2: I act like. Here's the thing. I'm gonna tell you 194 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 2: the truth, Mary, can I can I confess something to 195 00:12:16,320 --> 00:12:18,040 Speaker 2: you that I've never told him? I said, do not 196 00:12:18,080 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 2: tell us I told you this. I always hated cats, 197 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:27,199 Speaker 2: partially because they aggravate my allergies, but partially because I 198 00:12:27,240 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 2: love dogs so much, and a dog, a dog loves 199 00:12:31,520 --> 00:12:34,000 Speaker 2: you back. A dog loves you more than you love them. 200 00:12:34,040 --> 00:12:36,600 Speaker 2: You come home, you can walk outside for two minutes 201 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:41,200 Speaker 2: and George, my German shepherd, I can leave and forget 202 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:45,200 Speaker 2: my keys and come back here and say, right, George, 203 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:49,440 Speaker 2: I've been gone for sixty seconds, whereas cats look at you, 204 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 2: you know, like why are you here? But I have 205 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 2: come to appreciate, especially in the country, the things that 206 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,320 Speaker 2: cats kill. It's rather amazing for what a little bitty 207 00:13:01,360 --> 00:13:04,680 Speaker 2: thing they are, and how much good they do with mice. 208 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 2: And they're very useful around a farm. So let's not 209 00:13:08,679 --> 00:13:13,320 Speaker 2: let that impede our burgeoning friendship. Mary. 210 00:13:13,800 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 9: Well, my cats don't go outside, because it's a long 211 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:20,400 Speaker 9: story that anyways, my cats, Mary, if you. 212 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 2: Just don't want to be my friend and just say it, 213 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:23,760 Speaker 2: listen to this. 214 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:24,760 Speaker 9: Mary, I do want to. 215 00:13:24,960 --> 00:13:29,439 Speaker 2: On Wednesday, April sixteenth, nineteen forty seven, around eight am, 216 00:13:29,920 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 2: smoke was spotted in the cargo hold of Grand Camp 217 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,160 Speaker 2: while she was still moored. Longshoremen used a gallon jug 218 00:13:38,200 --> 00:13:42,559 Speaker 2: of water and two fire extinguishers, but they had no effect, 219 00:13:42,679 --> 00:13:46,240 Speaker 2: and the cargo hold filled with smoke. Maybe we could 220 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:48,520 Speaker 2: do the reck of the Edmund fish Joe, just something 221 00:13:49,679 --> 00:13:52,840 Speaker 2: no better word. The longshoremen were then ordered to leave. 222 00:13:53,880 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 2: At this point, the captain of Grand Camp ordered that 223 00:13:56,559 --> 00:14:01,600 Speaker 2: no water be used lest the cargo be went. Instead, 224 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,760 Speaker 2: he ordered all hatches sealed and the hold to be 225 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:08,400 Speaker 2: filled with steam in an attempt to smother the fire. 226 00:14:08,600 --> 00:14:12,840 Speaker 2: Mary This was unlikely to be effective, as ammonium nitrate 227 00:14:13,080 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 2: is an oxidizer, thus neutralizing the extinguishing properties of steam. 228 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,720 Speaker 2: The steam may have contributed to the fire by converting 229 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:26,760 Speaker 2: the ammonium nitrate to nitrous oxide while augmenting the already 230 00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:31,520 Speaker 2: intense heat in the ship's hold. Around eight thirty am, 231 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 2: the steam pressure became so great that it blew off 232 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:39,080 Speaker 2: the hatches. A column of yellow orange smoke billowed out, 233 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:44,160 Speaker 2: the typical color for nitrogen dioxide fumes. The fire and 234 00:14:44,240 --> 00:14:50,240 Speaker 2: its unusual looking smoke attracted spectators along the shoreline who 235 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 2: believed they were at a safe distance. Can you imagine, honey, 236 00:14:54,520 --> 00:14:57,560 Speaker 2: let's go look into fire. There's a fire down there 237 00:14:58,280 --> 00:15:03,880 Speaker 2: where over on that they got that ship. Laverne said, 238 00:15:03,920 --> 00:15:06,040 Speaker 2: it is a fire going down. Oh okay, let me 239 00:15:06,040 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 2: put my shoes on, and they went down to watch 240 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 2: the fire. Responding fire departments, including the Texas City Volunteer 241 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:17,160 Speaker 2: Fire Department and the Republic Oil Refining Company firefighting team. 242 00:15:17,680 --> 00:15:21,360 Speaker 2: At nine to twelve a m. The ammonium nitrate reached 243 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:25,000 Speaker 2: an explosive threshold from the combination of heat and pressure. 244 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:30,040 Speaker 2: Grand Camp detonated, causing utter destruction within two thousand feet 245 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:35,360 Speaker 2: and extreme damage through the port. The tremendous blast produced 246 00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:40,680 Speaker 2: a fifteen foot tsunami and a shockwave, leveling nearly one 247 00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:44,680 Speaker 2: thousand buildings on land. Among the buildings destroyed was a 248 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 2: Monsanto Chemical Company plant, killing one hundred and forty five 249 00:15:48,040 --> 00:15:52,720 Speaker 2: of its four hundred and fifty workers. Flying shrapnel resulted 250 00:15:52,800 --> 00:15:56,600 Speaker 2: in ignition of refineries and chemical tanks along the waterfront. 251 00:15:57,280 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 2: Falling bales of burning twine from and Camp's cargo added 252 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 2: to the damage, and her anchor was hurled across the city. 253 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:10,960 Speaker 2: Two sightseeing planes flying nearby were blown out of the sky, 254 00:16:11,560 --> 00:16:14,920 Speaker 2: while eight miles away, half the windows in Galveston were shattered. 255 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:23,920 Speaker 2: While eight miles away, half the windows in Galveston were shattered, Moon, 256 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 2: are you listening? While eight miles away, that's a long way. 257 00:16:29,680 --> 00:16:34,560 Speaker 2: Half the windows in Galveston were shattered. The explosion blew 258 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,760 Speaker 2: the almost sixty three hundred and fifty short tons of 259 00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 2: the ships steal into the air, some at supersonic speed. 260 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:51,720 Speaker 2: All the fire fars. The Texas City disaster is considered 261 00:16:52,200 --> 00:16:59,320 Speaker 2: the worst industrial accent accident in American history, the. 262 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 10: Worst Nobody ever talked about it unless you lived through it. 263 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:06,440 Speaker 10: And my grandmother, my sister, and my aunt, and then 264 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 10: of course my uncle and my father and my grandfather. 265 00:17:09,960 --> 00:17:13,600 Speaker 10: You know, I mean, it was a really scary time 266 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 10: for them. 267 00:17:14,240 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 2: No, Mary, you're the call of the day. Hold on, 268 00:17:17,880 --> 00:17:20,840 Speaker 2: I'm gonna send you at gringos yestortivity. They don't have 269 00:17:20,840 --> 00:17:24,760 Speaker 2: a Gringos and the Huntsville to them, what will be 270 00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 2: the clos con. 271 00:17:29,520 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 6: The nine food. 272 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 2: Dwayne Hefley was a probably thirty year firefighter. How many 273 00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 2: years he was a fire fights firefighter for a long time. 274 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,480 Speaker 2: His brother was Hammerhead that used to do the FM 275 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 2: morning fishing report down there. He was a hoot too. 276 00:17:47,320 --> 00:17:50,480 Speaker 2: But Dwayne, at about I think he was twenty seven 277 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,520 Speaker 2: years old, started the Firehouse Saloon fifty nine in fountain View. 278 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,600 Speaker 2: And he started it. It's a funny story. You got 279 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:06,080 Speaker 2: to hear him tell it. But his opening weekend, he 280 00:18:06,119 --> 00:18:08,639 Speaker 2: hadn't even paid his rent yet. His rent would be 281 00:18:08,720 --> 00:18:11,320 Speaker 2: due in a week, but that the idea was he 282 00:18:11,320 --> 00:18:14,200 Speaker 2: wasn't going to open yet. But he didn't tell Ken 283 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 2: Singer or whoever owned the property at the time. Ken 284 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,080 Speaker 2: Singer would own it later. I don't know if they 285 00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 2: owned it at the time. But I mean, you talk about 286 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,320 Speaker 2: a shoe string. This business had no there's no way 287 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:25,240 Speaker 2: this thing was going to make it. But it did 288 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,479 Speaker 2: because Dwayne is a scrapper and a scrounger and and 289 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:31,199 Speaker 2: he's going to make it happen. He's this is a 290 00:18:31,240 --> 00:18:33,919 Speaker 2: guy one way or another, he's getting you through that storm. 291 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 2: So they had their their beer delivered and most of 292 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,680 Speaker 2: you wouldn't know this, there's no reason you would. But 293 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:49,320 Speaker 2: state law in Texas is that you cannot take delivery 294 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,160 Speaker 2: of alcohol on terms. You have to pay for alcohol 295 00:18:53,640 --> 00:18:58,000 Speaker 2: as it's delivered. So and it's a big deal. TABC 296 00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,280 Speaker 2: will nail you. This is there's things people do in 297 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:04,639 Speaker 2: the business that they shouldn't do what they do, that's 298 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:07,399 Speaker 2: one of them that you do not get caught doing. 299 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,120 Speaker 2: And the beer like the big Boys, Silver Eagle, Foul Star, 300 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 2: they won't even risk it because there's nobody worth them 301 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:19,679 Speaker 2: getting into trouble over this. But somehow Dwayne back in 302 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:26,120 Speaker 2: the day got the beer delivered and did this whole Oh, 303 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 2: I don't have my money, you know what, let me go. 304 00:19:30,080 --> 00:19:31,879 Speaker 2: It's gonna take me two hours to drive and get it. 305 00:19:31,920 --> 00:19:35,119 Speaker 2: But I'll go get the cash. The guy says, he 306 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:39,399 Speaker 2: delivers on Saturday morning. All right, you and get me fired, 307 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 2: but I'll come back on Monday. You've got to have 308 00:19:41,440 --> 00:19:44,199 Speaker 2: my money, he said, Okay, he had to sell the 309 00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 2: beer to pay for the beer. He didn't have the 310 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:48,320 Speaker 2: money to pay for the beer. But this is classic 311 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 2: quintessential Dwayne. Well. I say all that to say this, 312 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,320 Speaker 2: You just played a Joe Diffie song. So I for 313 00:19:58,520 --> 00:20:01,720 Speaker 2: years I would quiz people about what they did right 314 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 2: and what they did wrong. And Firehouse was a was 315 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:10,880 Speaker 2: a long time music venue, and I asked him one time, 316 00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 2: I said, who is the band or artist that was 317 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 2: the biggest delta between what you thought they would do 318 00:20:19,640 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 2: and what they did do. You thought they were gonna 319 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,520 Speaker 2: kill it, You're gonna have a huge crowd, and nothing. 320 00:20:25,960 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 2: What was the one? He said, I don't even have 321 00:20:27,880 --> 00:20:30,640 Speaker 2: to think about it. In fact, Michael, you can call 322 00:20:30,760 --> 00:20:33,280 Speaker 2: everybody in Texas, it's in our business and ask him 323 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:36,479 Speaker 2: this question and it'll all be one answered Joe Diffy. 324 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:40,159 Speaker 2: And I think Joe Diffy had three number ones, but 325 00:20:40,280 --> 00:20:44,000 Speaker 2: Dwayne said he had the number one song on the 326 00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 2: air at the time on What's the one hundred point 327 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:53,199 Speaker 2: three or what was kilt? Yeah, no, no, I think 328 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,040 Speaker 2: it might have been KKK at the time, but I 329 00:20:55,080 --> 00:20:57,080 Speaker 2: think it was killed. But he said he had the 330 00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:59,360 Speaker 2: number one song in the not the red dirt song, 331 00:20:59,520 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 2: number one song in the country. Did Joe diffy? He said, 332 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:04,919 Speaker 2: And it was fifty thousand dollars, And I thought it 333 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:07,840 Speaker 2: don't matter because there's gonna be so many people come in. 334 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:11,000 Speaker 2: He said there wasn't but a dozen. Or it was 335 00:21:11,040 --> 00:21:18,000 Speaker 2: the biggest bust of my life. So fast forward. We 336 00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,520 Speaker 2: had a night like that, but it wasn't on me. 337 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:27,240 Speaker 2: Pastorini was putting on an event and Larry Gatlin was singing, 338 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 2: and Larry was I think ten thousand. So it made 339 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 2: sense because it's a fundraiser, right, you wanted to make 340 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:37,040 Speaker 2: you want to make some money for the Pastorini charity 341 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 2: out of the deal. And Larry has always had voice problems, 342 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,879 Speaker 2: and Larry's throat goes out, so he has to cancel. 343 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:49,159 Speaker 2: It's like four days before the show. Dan says, you 344 00:21:49,200 --> 00:21:53,240 Speaker 2: got to get me somebody else. Well, it's a Saturday night, Dan, 345 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:55,879 Speaker 2: it's a red flag. Somebody doesn't have a gig on 346 00:21:55,920 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 2: Saturday night. So I start scratching and scratch and calling 347 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 2: people that I know. Can you you don't have a show, 348 00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,399 Speaker 2: Can he come to a show? Well, the Tracy Birds 349 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 2: and Mark Chestnuts and everybody I know, Saturday night is 350 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:13,520 Speaker 2: the night Cory Morrow, Roger Craigor, everybody's. But so I 351 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,560 Speaker 2: put it out to a booking agency and I said, 352 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 2: just tell me everyone that's available for Saturday night and 353 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:21,480 Speaker 2: they said, there's literally only one name you're gonna know, 354 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:29,119 Speaker 2: Joe Diffy. Yeah, Yeah, that's my Joe Diffy story. You 355 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 2: can you can slug that segment. He's passed away now, 356 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,840 Speaker 2: so I can tell it without feeling bad because it 357 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:38,639 Speaker 2: doesn't make him a bad guy. It's not like, you know, 358 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:42,560 Speaker 2: it's not like he stole from us or you know, 359 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 2: did anything wrong. He just recorded songs that did well 360 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:49,919 Speaker 2: on the radio, and nobody ever, nobody wanted to come 361 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 2: out and see him in a show. Likewise, you got, 362 00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 2: you know, the other side of that corners. You got 363 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:57,840 Speaker 2: guys that never really got a lot of airplay, but 364 00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 2: they could kill well. Grateful to yea perfect example, no airplay, 365 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,359 Speaker 2: crowd that would go on the road and you know, 366 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 2: caravan behind him. It's crazy to think Ramon. I don't 367 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:14,399 Speaker 2: know if I ever told you this story. Did I 368 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,800 Speaker 2: ever see your story about whippets? Okay, So, Lauren Cole 369 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:20,919 Speaker 2: was our general manager at the time, and we had 370 00:23:20,920 --> 00:23:23,439 Speaker 2: a Wednesday afternoon meeting in between our morning show and 371 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,880 Speaker 2: evening show. I would drive to the RCC and our 372 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,920 Speaker 2: management team we would all meet. We would go over 373 00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:33,720 Speaker 2: operations personnel. That would be our cabinet meeting, and then 374 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 2: we would we would talk about who we were going 375 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:39,639 Speaker 2: to book. And she said, I can't remember who the 376 00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,960 Speaker 2: band was, Joe Blowband whatever. It was a red dirt 377 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,679 Speaker 2: band and it wasn't a major band, but it was 378 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:48,560 Speaker 2: one of these many mini bands that are out there 379 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,200 Speaker 2: trying to make it named Jason or Josh or Justin 380 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:57,600 Speaker 2: or something, and so she said, yeah, Well, I said, 381 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,920 Speaker 2: how was the weekend and she said, well, Saturday was 382 00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:04,680 Speaker 2: da da da dah, and Friday was okay, but you know, Jason, Justin, 383 00:24:04,760 --> 00:24:08,720 Speaker 2: Josh whatever, Jeremy is certainly not coming back. And yeah 384 00:24:08,720 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 2: they he no, they start going And I said, what 385 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,760 Speaker 2: do you mean not coming back? What did they do? 386 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:14,800 Speaker 2: I need to know what they did, not because I 387 00:24:14,800 --> 00:24:18,880 Speaker 2: need to know, but I'm you know, nosy and she said, oh, 388 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:21,400 Speaker 2: you didn't hear and I said no, and the other 389 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 2: they didn't want me to know things like this because 390 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,120 Speaker 2: they thought it was something that I just the less 391 00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 2: I knew, the better. And uh, he was doing whippets 392 00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:33,480 Speaker 2: out behind a bus, and I said, what are whippets? 393 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 2: And apparently whippets are. Do you know this? You take 394 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,440 Speaker 2: whip cream and you take the nicer so ox side 395 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 2: or whatever it is whatever that I may not be 396 00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: get it, and it makes you momentarily high. Well now 397 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 2: apparently they sell them as just the unit because you 398 00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 2: know this. You don't even have to mess around with 399 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,560 Speaker 2: the whip cream. You just buy the straight leg. 400 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,560 Speaker 1: Laugh doing it big on the Michael Berry Show. 401 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:00,159 Speaker 3: M. 402 00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:16,800 Speaker 1: All the Zoro talk radio for the liberal sphere, his 403 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:28,320 Speaker 1: miatch what you doubeh okyos, all the very Brigade catches. 404 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 2: Lies Land the last say what you're us? I don't 405 00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,840 Speaker 2: know that. I don't think I'm any have you It's. 406 00:25:41,440 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: Cho those superis be a fan head his show and 407 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:49,399 Speaker 1: George by as. 408 00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 2: Sash is pre Ai somebody else. 409 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,159 Speaker 1: Pretio hell. 410 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:01,879 Speaker 2: And them want to stay talk right now widnim is 411 00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 2: something we did? 412 00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,200 Speaker 11: I want to say talk We got to think about 413 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:15,400 Speaker 11: life every ready, that might be a Mike Bobian profession. 414 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 2: Steve, you're on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sir. 415 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:21,480 Speaker 1: Michael. 416 00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 3: I've been been waiting and trying to tell you this 417 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:30,000 Speaker 3: story about the baseball field in West University for a 418 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:33,560 Speaker 3: long time. So you brought up Dwayne Hefley this morning, 419 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 3: and I grew up with all of the Hethleys. Roy 420 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:44,040 Speaker 3: Senior was actually in my aunt's class at Lamar High School, 421 00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:49,440 Speaker 3: and Roy Junior, he and I were, and we played 422 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 3: ball at West University of the league all the way 423 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,200 Speaker 3: through the All Star team. So the story about the 424 00:26:56,280 --> 00:27:03,639 Speaker 3: field was in nineteen sixty Shell said they were going 425 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:08,159 Speaker 3: to move their world headquarters to Houston, and when the 426 00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:13,159 Speaker 3: league was founded in nineteen forty seven, the field was 427 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:17,480 Speaker 3: built behind Coke Coal Bottling Company at Bess and That and. 428 00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 6: Wake Forest, and so. 429 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 3: Coke came to the league and said, look, you know 430 00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:29,639 Speaker 3: we needed property to expand. It's their property, but we 431 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 3: got to expand. So we petitioned HISD to allow us 432 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,240 Speaker 3: to build a field on West University Elementary school grounds 433 00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:47,360 Speaker 3: and they approved it. So in nineteen seventy we started 434 00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,280 Speaker 3: it and it was all the dads and all the kids, 435 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,919 Speaker 3: and we built that field at the corner of Auden 436 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:59,840 Speaker 3: and West University. And so I just thought it was 437 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:05,920 Speaker 3: a pretty cool story because most people don't know that 438 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 3: that field was built by the dads and the kids. 439 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 2: That's pretty cool. I'm processing, that's pretty cool. 440 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:19,399 Speaker 3: Did the other thing the other thing about it? That 441 00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:23,160 Speaker 3: was really cool? Wash And I'm still friends with this guy. 442 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 3: He and I became friends in kindergarten. His dad was 443 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 3: a genius electrical engineer, and he fabricated the two scoreboards 444 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:37,560 Speaker 3: that were mounted on the press box and the concession stand. 445 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:43,280 Speaker 3: He fabricated and made them by and using LCD's liquid 446 00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:47,680 Speaker 3: crystal displays that weren't even being used in the marketplace 447 00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 3: at the time. And those scoreboards stood up on that 448 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:59,360 Speaker 3: building until they remodeled it, probably twenty five years. So 449 00:29:00,040 --> 00:29:03,200 Speaker 3: AH just been walking a U and wes U. Guy, 450 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 3: I know you lived there and I grew up there, 451 00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:09,680 Speaker 3: and I just wanted to tell you that story. 452 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 2: I lived at the corner of Brompton and Pittsburgh, fronting 453 00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:21,160 Speaker 2: on Pittsburgh. It was one hundred foot wide. 454 00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,560 Speaker 3: Right down the street, right down the street. 455 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:27,640 Speaker 2: So much In fact, if you lived there, you knew 456 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:32,920 Speaker 2: the husband had died in the house. But the wife, 457 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,720 Speaker 2: Dlight Swaeney is who I bought it from in nineteen 458 00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 2: ninety seven. And Dlight was a Dlight. She was a sweetheart, 459 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 2: and she moved to Industry, Texas, and we would get 460 00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:53,000 Speaker 2: mail for her for her for years. And I went 461 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:58,080 Speaker 2: down to the back then it was called mailboxes, et cetera. 462 00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,880 Speaker 2: And I got a brown mailing envelope. I still do 463 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,600 Speaker 2: this my dad for all. I handle all their finances. 464 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:10,080 Speaker 2: So I have just a big brown envelope, padded envelope, 465 00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:12,440 Speaker 2: and I go ahead and put you know whatever, five 466 00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 2: or ten dollars of stamps on it. Emily does it, 467 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,040 Speaker 2: so I don't know how much she puts on there, 468 00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:18,800 Speaker 2: but and my dad has them at the house, and 469 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,280 Speaker 2: so once a week he takes all the mail and 470 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,120 Speaker 2: dumps it in that thing and sends it to me 471 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:24,360 Speaker 2: and then I go through it. And he didn't have 472 00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:26,520 Speaker 2: to fool with it. And I used to do that 473 00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,960 Speaker 2: for Delight, and she would write me back a thank 474 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:32,680 Speaker 2: you note for every time I send him, and I'm like, sweetheart, 475 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:36,320 Speaker 2: you've lived in this house at this point for fifty years. 476 00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,040 Speaker 2: Her husband came home. True story. Her husband came home 477 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:44,640 Speaker 2: from World War Two and they got married immediately upon 478 00:30:44,720 --> 00:30:47,120 Speaker 2: him getting return one him return, or maybe they got 479 00:30:47,120 --> 00:30:52,080 Speaker 2: married right before. And they lived with her parents for 480 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 2: a year and a half and in late forty six, 481 00:30:55,040 --> 00:31:00,120 Speaker 2: early forty seven they moved into that house and they 482 00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,400 Speaker 2: lived there till I bought it from Dlight. He had 483 00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:06,680 Speaker 2: passed away in ninety seven, So fifty years they lived 484 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 2: in that home. How about that? And it was the 485 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,320 Speaker 2: coolest thing ever living on that street at that time. 486 00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 2: About four houses over was Craig Bigio, nicest neighbor you could, 487 00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 2: let me tell you something. That was the nicest neighbor 488 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,840 Speaker 2: you could ever have. Now, he didn't want to be bothered, 489 00:31:24,080 --> 00:31:26,880 Speaker 2: but he was very polite, very kind. But it was 490 00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 2: doctor Rowe. I had all the best doctors. Richard Harper, 491 00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:36,520 Speaker 2: who was a prominent neurosurgeon in town. Every doctor will 492 00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 2: know Richard Harper, he was at better College of Medicine. 493 00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,520 Speaker 2: Had Jack Roth who lived immediately next door to us, 494 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 2: who had developed a cancer treatment that was cutting edge 495 00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:49,800 Speaker 2: at the time that M. D. Anderson had made a 496 00:31:50,000 --> 00:31:51,880 Speaker 2: fortune and he had made the fortune off of that 497 00:31:52,680 --> 00:31:54,560 Speaker 2: spinning it off because the company had come in and 498 00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:59,960 Speaker 2: bought the technology. There was David Lienberger, prominent doctor Bill Bryant, 499 00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 2: who's a very very prominent orthopedic surgeon. He was the 500 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,280 Speaker 2: one when I was playing basketball with the kids in 501 00:32:08,320 --> 00:32:11,600 Speaker 2: the neighborhood, because I was the old guy who would 502 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:13,320 Speaker 2: play basketball with the kids in the neighborhood, which I 503 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,280 Speaker 2: got a kick out of it. I came down on 504 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,680 Speaker 2: I got little, I got a little bit of tiny 505 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,040 Speaker 2: spindling ankles to start with. I've always had trouble with 506 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:23,560 Speaker 2: my ankles, and I come down on this kid's foot, 507 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:27,239 Speaker 2: so I don't get to land and my ankle is 508 00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:31,320 Speaker 2: so bad, and my wife we hobble over to Bill 509 00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,640 Speaker 2: Bryan's and he's diagnosing my problem on the spot. And 510 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,080 Speaker 2: since he was the astros orthopedic doctor, I asked him 511 00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:42,479 Speaker 2: how it compared to win Seesar Sadanio had shattered his ankle, 512 00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,520 Speaker 2: and he said, well, he screamed and hollered a lot 513 00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 2: more than you, but his was also a lot worse 514 00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:49,920 Speaker 2: than yours, So I guess we can figure that in. 515 00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 2: And who else was on that street? There was another 516 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 2: doctor on the oh, my hash Ramchandali, who was a 517 00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:07,440 Speaker 2: heart surgeon, and oh, it was such a neat We 518 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,240 Speaker 2: had this house that should have been torn down, and 519 00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:11,440 Speaker 2: everybody else had five million dollar houses. And that was 520 00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 2: back when a five million dollar house was a big deal. 521 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,640 Speaker 2: Now they're all five million dollar houses. But oh, Pete Roussel, 522 00:33:18,680 --> 00:33:21,719 Speaker 2: who was Press secretary to Ronald Reagan, was directly across, 523 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,560 Speaker 2: and he was in a house that had been built 524 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,760 Speaker 2: in nineteen forty that he had been born into. And 525 00:33:27,800 --> 00:33:31,800 Speaker 2: then Paul Bragg, who was the CEO of Pride Energy. 526 00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:33,600 Speaker 2: It was just kind of funny because here I was 527 00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:37,080 Speaker 2: in my mid twenties, I had my little b business, 528 00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:38,640 Speaker 2: I had no money, and I had bought this little 529 00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:40,320 Speaker 2: house and everybody thought it was gonna be torn down, 530 00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,000 Speaker 2: and I couldn't afford there down