Podcasts about i35

In hour four, Mark and Melynda talk about Austin ISD trying to save some of its middle schools, the I35 cap and stitch project, and an Amtrak employee healthcare scandal.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The trucker who caused a deadly crash on I35 is facing pending charges and there is chaos in a juvenile detention system? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Smith Transport, HQ in Roaring Spring, PA is an asset truckload dry van carrier that travels east of I35 with 800 drivers.  If you're looking for a truckload carrier that offers safety and service, call us at 888 GO SMITH. This monthly newscast is the voice-only version of our YouTube, Facebook newscast.  We offer you monthly segments like Shout Outs, news from the shop, custom service, operations, and safety.  This month there are updates on EFS cards, Smith Anniversaries, July CVSA details, Federal Inspections on your truck, Clean Inspection list, and an alternative to the Vector App, and more! 

Wichita says there are 9 reasons the Chiefs should head south on I35

Club Prairie Fire has done it again and got a massive name to join them. Just a few days after playing his final Test for Australia David Warner comes on to talk about everything.We discuss all of his amazing achievements as well as some of the highs and lows off the field. The usual social update and of course quiz also return!00:00 - Introduction01:35 - Prof's holiday in Far North Queensland03:20 - Dave Warner live texting Gilly07:01 - Social update with Ollie09:42 - Magical day three at the SCG12:00 - Ollie's day at the cricket15:01 - Nightwatchmen19:13 - Paksitan series review20:20 - Dave Warner's retirement party21:55 - Gilly and Vaughany Test highlights24:29 - Welcome David Warner27:08 - Final Test memories28:38 - Cricketing mentality30:10 - Party stories with the Siren and Tones & I35:50 - T20 World Cup groups37:26 - Playing in the UAE38:26 - Tape gate with Steve Smith39:31 - Famous disctractions40:25 - Australia's next opener42:18 - 'The David Warner Story' - a book43:21 - Smudge to open?46:06 - Sand paper gate48:41 - Missing baggy green update52:12 - Vaughany in Coogee54:20 - The Quiz1:05:45 - The ToastRemember to follow ​⁠@clubprairiefire on all social platforms. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why Austin has no roads./ The NFL's top two tiers.    To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJeffWardShow

Why Austin has no roads./ The NFL's top two tiers.    To advertise on our podcast, please reach out to sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://www.advertisecast.com/TheJeffWardShow

Slowly getting back into the swing of things; we're back with another timely episode talking about movies from nearly 70 years ago. It's almost silly, but SPOILER WARNING! We're going to spoil them all, insofar as that's possible, since some of them really aren't traditionally spoil...able? Enjoy!00:10 Intro and desultory chit-chat02:45 The nominees04:05 They're how long?!04:41 Around the World in 80 Days10:43 Palin's Around the World in 80 Days14:32 The cameos!17:47 Could it have been shorter?19:18 Giant21:26 Race relations in Giant24:55 Muddled character motivations for Jet28:01 Escalates, but without resolution31:13 The King and I35:41 Anna and the King38:49 Friendly Persuasion44:31 The Hays Code and Gary Cooper47:10 The Ten Commandments52:42 Story variances and a different acting style56:03 "Old" movies58:55 What does Bob complain about this time?1:04:30 Best Picture choices1:05:57 Non-nominees worth mentioningNote: Oscar® and Academy Awards® are the trademarks and service marks of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This podcast is neither endorsed by nor affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.Music:Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

In this Wednesday edition of Bobcat Radio the crew of Thomas Terry, JP Flanagan, Orlando Smart, and Justin Brown discuss Bobcat softball's I35 matchup against UTSA, Bobcat baseball's big win over the Islanders, Paul George's Injury and Aaron Rogers to the Jets! Catch BCR every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, live on KTSW 89.9!

In this Wednesday edition of Bobcat Radio the crew of Thomas Terry, JP Flanagan, Orlando Smart, and Justin Brown discuss Bobcat softball's I35 matchup against UTSA, Bobcat baseball's big win over the Islanders, Paul George's Injury and Aaron Rogers to the Jets! Catch BCR every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, live on KTSW 89.9!

Adam Greenfield is the executive director of Rethink 35, a group pushing for the study of alternatives to the I35 expansion. You can learn more about them and find links for their social media, at their website: https://rethink35.com/ ________________________ @bradswail austincitycouncilman.com Support the show on Patreon!

On this 35th episode of BoomATX Glenn sits down with Heritage Title President and Opportunity Austin Chair Gary Farmer to discuss all things Austin.  From his path to Austin and growing one of the biggest title companies in town to what the Austin real estate market was like in his early year's with Heritage during a real recession, Austin's transition from a sleepy college and government town to a big diverse economic juggernaut to Waterloo Greenway and I35 expansion and much more, give it a list to hear from the man himself on his debut podcast.  What an honor it was to host! Gary is sure even brighter days for Austin are ahead of us and with him continuing to play such a vital role in our economic development I for one will not bet against him!BoomATX - Interesting Austinites Doing Interesting Things!

Join Lee and Glenn for this special Texas BBQ episode featuring  Aaron Franklin of Franklin's BBQ fame along with Ivan Vires with BBQ Social a Youtube BBQ channel creator. You won't want to miss this mouth watering episode to hear from the man himself how Aaron went from a BBQ trailer along I35 to the top BBQ restaurant in the country in just couple years.  Even with selling out of BBQ during lunch every day he is open there have been challenges along the way including the restaurant burning down from hurricane winds in Central Texas!  After a wildly successful BBQ restaurant, an amazingly well-crafted line of BBQ smokers and a couple of Loro Asian smokehouses, hear what's next for Franklin, hint… it's not far from his current BBQ home. Listen closely to this smokin hot episode to see when we are planning to eat at Franklin's to celebrate Ivan's 100th trip thru the longest BBQ line around!  Come and join us!

In this episode James and Nick break down what the railroad is in PoncaCityopoly, what happens when all of I35 is shut down, what the younger generation wants from the Blue Collar world, and where to find the best gas station coffee. We often hear things like "kids these days don't want to work", "we can't find anybody to hire", and "people will leave us for a dollar". We breakdown why these excuses are a reality and explain what the industry can do in order to prevent this from happening. The goal of Dirty and Driven to attract hardworking individuals and cultivate an industry that is sustainable and enjoyable to work in. We talk about our goals of "Gain, Train, and Retain" hard working individuals.   Be sure to follow us @dirtyanddriven on face book and instagram!!! DM us for a FREE STICKER, yes we will mail it to you as well If you're interested in a Dirty and Driven Athletics Tank Top, shoot us a DM or Email!!!  

Troy LeMaile-Stovall, CEO of TEDCO, joins host James Mackey to discuss the venture capital scene in Maryland, the talent acquisition landscape from the investor perspective, making orbits collide and more!00:19 Who is Troy LeMaile-Stovall02:38 Talent landscape from the investor perspective03:52 Remote work has hurt spontaneous innovation07:58 How should growth-stage companies attract talent11:01 Almost everyone says that people are the most important asset, but few actually make the investment13:02 Advice from titans of venture capital14:10 The DNA of an entrepreneur16:15 The importance of the founding team18:55 The business concept of making orbits collide20:03 How to go about creating jobs24:05 Early stage companies tend to need more resources29:33 The geographical axis of DE&I35:00 Challenges of the wealth gap36:00 Wrap up

This week's guest is Philip Skinner! Philip discovered #phish in the 2.0 era and got to see his first show on 7/26/03 in Atlanta Georgia. We talked about how Philip discovered Phish, his first show experience, and some of his favorite experiences from being on the road with Phish over the years. To be on a future episode send an email to sttf.weareeverywhere@gmail.com at 35:06 I say I95...I meant I35 lol

In this episode, Madison tells Bailey about the collapse of the I35 bridge collapse in Minneapolis, MN! Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!Submit your disaster ideas, share your disaster stories, or just say hey: calamityjanespod@gmail.comResources used in this episode:https://www.lrl.mn.gov/guides/guides?issue=bridges https://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/540669701/10-years-after-bridge-collapse-america-is-still-crumbling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-35W_Mississippi_River_bridge https://www.artba.org/2021/03/23/over-220000-u-s-bridges-need-repair-latest-analysis-of-federal-data-finds/ 

D&J are coming in hot this week with the freshest takes on new movies and shows. From the the mullets come back to reminiscing about causing down I35 giving undeserving drivers the finger, this ride will not disappoint! Joel talks about his teeth and Doug reviews FROOT BY THE FOOT. How did Joel feel about the new BOB'S BURGERS? Does Doug shave the top of his head? Get ready for another fine episode of IDSIBIBY. Now! please consider liking and subscribing watch on YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEKkyGml1gEIPWAxPx2fGIQ to LISTEN: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-didnt-see-it-but-i-believe-you/id1472947151 SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/3YttlVYptykrfaedGOjAJK?si=f7b247eb17cc4e4a STITCHER: https://www.stitcher.com/show/i-didnt-see-it-but-i-believe-you Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9tZWRpYS5yc3MuY29tL2lkaWRudHNlZWl0YnV0aWJlbGlldmV5b3UvZmVlZC54bWw?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwio0tyynvfuAhUAAAAAHQAAAAAQBA SpaceHey: https://spacehey.com/ididntseeitbutibelieveyou

I35-09 ears 091242"that moment, few years later you noticed your family-roommates - family pet dog's face and your face had "something" common. And it's rare common. After all, we were so connected somethings.

  All have us experienced those times when we cry out for help in time of need! During our move from Mankato to Scandia, Minnesota, I experienced one of those times. I was driving back to Mankato with my 1990 Ford F150 pickup for a final load of items from our garage when my truck spun out on the interstate highway I35. I was right at the division between 35W and 35E north of the Twin Cities when I totally lost control of my vehicle. I didn't have time to compose a polished prayer. I simply cried out, "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!," as the truck was spinning around on the busy highway. Somehow I landed in the median between 35W and 35E in a bank of snow. I got out and put the truck in 4-wheel drive, but it would not budge, as the snow was up to the frame all around. Being late for a very important appointment in Mankato, which I had scheduled to coincide with my plans to haul garage items, I did not have time to wait for a tow truck. So once again I prayed. This time I used a few more words, which I do not remember, but in essence I said, "Help Lord!" Suddenly I looked up and there was a man at the window. I rolled down the window and said, "Are you an angel?" He did not answer, but said, "I don't know if I can pull you out with my SUV, but we can give it a try." He had a long strap used for towing in the back of his vehicle, which he hooked to the frame of my truck. He told me to turn my wheels to the right, put it in gear, and give it the gas when he started to pull. The truck immediately came out of the snow, and I was on my way to Mankato. I left the truck in 4-wheel drive all the way through the cities and made it just in time to have my appointment in Mankato. That is grace to help in time of need! How to Find Grace to Help in Time of Need How do you obtain help in time of need. By coming to the throne of grace. It's not by your works of righteousness. It's not by the church you attend or your family heritage. It's because you have a high priest over the house of God, who has gone before you with His own blood to make a way for you to obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Since then we have a great High Priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to our confession. For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but One who was in every sense tempted like we are, yet without sin. Let us then come with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. (Hebrews 4:14-16, MEV) The King James Version says "come boldly." I like that! We have a Great High Priest, who knows what it is like to be human, who is at the throne making intercession for you. You may be facing a great time of need with your health, your finances, your family, or your mental wellbeing, but I've come to tell you that there is help for you at the throne of grace. Obtaining Mercy and Grace to Help in Time of Need Hebrews explains the Old Testament sacrificial system, which is a picture or a figure of the true system of access to God in heaven. I've been reading Leviticus, and finding myself so thankful that we do not live under that system. Last week, on our video, we did a calculation of the amount of blood of cattle, sheep and goats shed for the dediation of Solomans Temple. There were 1.2 million quarts of blood spilled, which was still inadequate to take away sins. However, Jesus' blood, a mere 5-6 quarts, was sufficient to take away the sins of the whole world. (Jn 1:29) Imagine the cost of all those animals. That was the price that they had to pay just to cover sins. But Jesus paid the total price for us to remove all of our sins, and gave it to us as a free gift. Like the old chorus: He paid a debt He did not owe. I owed a debt I could not pay. I needed someone to wash my sins away. And now I sing a brand new song. Amazing grace all day song.

(0:20) Rico brings up the events that ensued on Twitter, DJ Auxxcord briefly covers the NFL Draft, Rico predicted eagles draft pick (8:08) (14:23) Sundance chimes in with his views on politics on politics being in entertainment and sports, and (19:03) I35 brings up recent construction in Texas and where is the tax payer money going. 

Amy Edwards A360 radio updates Friday 4/23/2021: Easy headlines today; Bumble match catches a capitol rioter; Heart Attack lessons on LinkedIn; I-35 and 183 are going to be under construction; the new Mortal Kombat movie; How to rent a Baby Goat and I am getting one; what's going on in Austin tonight and Amy's picks; and more. Subscribe to the Statesman today! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A visit with TxDot representative about the upcoming I35 lane switch onto the newly completed Southbound lanes

We actually had the whole gang together for this and we got it recorded! We originally intended to talk about the 100+ vehicle pile up that resulted in 69 injured and 6 deaths. It happened in Fort Worth, TX on I35 due to icy roads. But as usual the show takes an extreme hard left and veers into some unexpected, how do you say, "romantic" conversation in the honour of Valentines Day. Enjoy! We did for sure! Thank you listening, watching, joining and subscribing! We love you all! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/landp/message

We discuss the big pile up on I35 in Fort Worth and our hearts go out to all involved, injured and their families. Also why use gorilla glue for hairspray? its Valentine's Day so spread the love. We love you guys stay safe and warm.

Partially buried skeletal remains were uncovered while on an organized search for a missing boy back in December of 2018.  Evangeline Jane Doe was found in a rural, grassy area in Ville Platte, Louisiana. The identity of this woman remains unknown. Forensic experts at LSU FACES were able to determine a few key points of her identity. However, no sketch for Evangeline Jane Doe has been made available thus far. Authorities have very little to go off, and the case has since gone cold.  Further testing is available through public funding at the 501(c)3 non-profit, DNA Doe Project. After a night of bingo, grandmother and mother Carolyn Riggins disappeared.  70-year-old Carolyn Riggins was last seen on July 11th, 2020 at the Watauga Road Bingo in the Fort Worth, Texas area.  Carolyn had reportedly been on a winning streak that week and had scored a few winning pots the night she went missing.  Authorities were able to establish a partial timeline. Her 2002 tan Lincoln Town Car was caught on camera on I35 driving north of her home and was time stamped for 5:30 AM on July 12th.  Her family have created a Facebook page called “Finding Carolyn” for anyone that might have further information. www.mysteriesofthebayou.com   Scarlett (00:03): Yeah. Roy (00:03): Hey, hello, and welcome to the mysteries of the by you podcast, where you are a true pod, true crime podcast. We're going to be focusing on, uh, cases that come out of Southwest Louisiana, Louisiana as a whole. And of course beyond we don't, we're not going to be totally locked into the area, but my name is Roy and this is Scarlet. Hello, Scarlet. How's it going? Pretty good. How about you? I'm good. Good. You know, I'm based in the Dallas Fort worth area. The reason for my passion for this is not only for the true crime part, but for the area is spent a lot of time down there and it's kinda my adopted hometown area. Uh, I love the people, the food, the culture. Um, there's nothing about it that I don't like. So I like to spend as much time down there as I can. And Scarlet is based in the, uh, you're out of the Lafayette area, correct? Scarlett (00:59): Correct. Yeah. I, um, uh, I, I grew up here and I'm back here and I second everything you just said, except for, I don't like the hurricanes, the mosquitoes and the audio, but you guys have a little bit of that yourselves too, so we're all kind of in the same boat. Roy (01:14): Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've had the, an extra dose of the hurricanes this year. It seems like I know that you've, uh, you've had two of them that you've dodged in the last month or so. Scarlett (01:23): Yeah. And guess what? We have some, I think there's a tropical storm, uh, midweek this week and we're almost in November, so Roy (01:31): Gosh. Yeah. They said it's been a while. I know we made it through our alphabet and then they started working on this, the Greek alphabet or some other kind of alphabet, but anyway. Scarlett (01:43): Yeah. Roy (01:43): Right, right. So I'm going to tell, you know, we'll both kind of tell our story on this episode. We want to, um, you know, why we got into this, why it's important for us. Uh, first a couple of things. Number one, you can find us on iTunes, Stitcher, Google play, and Spotify. We have a website www dot mysteries of the, by you. We're on a Facebook Facebook page and a Facebook group. Eventually we hope to, you know, have enough followers and enough interest that we want to get into some group discussions. We also want you to reach out to us if you have a case submission ideas or especially if you have any information on something that we're talking about, um, you can, all, you can reach out to info at mysteries of the, by you or Roy or Scarlet, either1@mysteriesofthebayou.com. We'll be glad to answer you. Roy (02:40): Or, um, you know, on Facebook you can send us some meshes, whatever, whatever works best. But I got into this true crime. Um, w when I was a kid, there were three girls that went missing from a mall here in the Fort worth, in, in Fort worth and no trace of them ever. So there were some renewed interest. Um, probably, uh, two, three, four years ago, local guy did a podcast. And I thought it was really interesting because, you know, this is something that's been around with not much activity on it for the last 40 years. So there was another girl who unfortunately, a little bit older than me that was murdered in, uh, the same timeframe about 1974. And, uh, he also covered her case, brought a lot of renewed interest. And then lo and behold, about a month ago, um, the police actually, uh, saw, well, they think they solved the case. Roy (03:40): They arrested a guy, processed him. It was a new form of DNA that they were able to extract some, uh, uh, use a smaller amount of DNA and get more out of it. So it was unbelievable, but, uh, I think what, what I didn't understand at the time is that how it, especially in 2020, but how could people just fall off the face of the earth and never find a trace of them, never hear from them. It's unbelievable. And in some instances, um, it's people, the people and their vehicle both just disappear, never to be seen again. So really piqued my interest. And then the next thing, I started listening to a lot of different podcasts and it's like, Oh my gosh, this is so widespread across the U S it's it's rampant. I mean, people just go missing every day, never to be heard. Roy (04:34): So anyway, just peak my interest, not only from that investigative side, that, how does this happen, but also, you know, of thinking about how, how, how do families live with that? And so, you know, we want to be very, uh, family and victim focused. We aren't gonna victim shame, or we don't care about what their lifestyle was. It, uh, matters that they were a person and that there have either been killed or that they are missing. So we want to help as much as we can bring more information, there's never closure. So it's not like we're going to find closure for the family. Cause I don't think that happens, but, uh, you know, at least having the information to solve the mystery about what happened. And so that's kind of how I got into it and why I'm interested. Uh, Scarlet, what about yourself? What, what peaked your interest in true crime? Scarlett (05:30): Oh, well, that's a really great question. Um, you know, I know a lot of people that are involved in true crime, they have some kind of tacit, uh, connectional almost in a way that you do where you knew of someone or it happened in your hometown. And it, it kind of in a way, whether you were cognizant of, but not, it kind of shaped your life going forward, especially like you said, for these families that just don't have the closure. Um, but you know, it's, it's interesting. I read somewhere that, you know, um, there's a lot of interest in true crime cause it, it almost makes us feel a little bit safe in our own lives. It kind of gives us some control, you know, knowing what else, you know, these horrible things happen. Um, and it's out there and it gives us some kind of understanding, but again, like, you know, kind of second what you said, uh, I just so much sympathy for these families and, you know, especially doing something like this and you sit at your computer and you start to Google things, uh, you just see the, the frequency with which this happens and, you know, in your own town even. Scarlett (06:28): Um, so it just kind of broadens that, understanding that this really does happen to people. And then, you know, they have to figure out how logistically, you know, w what life is like and how to, you know, the aftermath and just the day-to-day and how challenging that could be. Roy (06:42): Yeah. And I like these, uh, the three girls that went missing, you know, their families have pushed this with the police. You know, the police can only go so far. There's, um, you know, they're clues and they run them down. But after a while, it's like, you know, where do we go from here? So the families have been really involved with keeping these investigations moving and then family and friends, and, um, you know, in the three girls that went missing, they actually, uh, last year, 2018, maybe they actually pulled some cars up from the bottom of a Lake thinking that they may have some something to do with it. Yeah. So it was a big undertaking, but one of the, uh, girls brothers, uh, you know, he's instrumental in keeping the Facebook page alive and keeping the stuff out there. So, you know, that's great. Roy (07:31): I hope that we can bring, uh, you know, a little bit of help to a family, you know, we're, we're starting out. So I'm gonna, you know, ask or beg mercy from the, you know, people that may see the show we're trying taping, um, on, uh, on zoom. So we can put it up on YouTube for you. But, um, we're gonna start with some fairly, uh, small cases that don't have a lot of information we're doing that just so we can find our footing on how we're going to be able to communicate and talk back and forth about these and make it interesting. We will try to keep these, um, you know, we'd like to do about a 30 to 45 minute episode, those tend to work best. And, uh, you know, just present the facts. We're not going to add a lot of color. Roy (08:19): Uh, w you know, we just want to present what we know as the facts. We don't want to speculate on what may or may not have happened. I don't think that's fair to families, especially of the missing, to speculate on all the bad things that could have happened to the individual, because, um, you know, I view it as my family, that somebody was missing. Uh, you know, we're going to hold out hope, even though at some point you have to give in to the realization, they may not come back alive, but you always want to hold out the hope until, you know, for sure. So, you know, we don't want to speculate on all the bad things that may have happened. We just want present the facts and say, Hey, if you've seen these people, or if you saw something, you know, reach out to law enforcement, get them involved. And, um, even if you think it's something tiny or, um, have no, you know, of no value, let them make that determination because they may be able to put it together with another clue, uh, you know, one in one equal two, and it may, it may, uh, you know, it could be the thing that turns an investigation. You just never know. Scarlett (09:26): Yeah. And I'm so glad that we're doing this, uh, you know, via video, because I'm hoping that, you know, we go to Walmart or something, eventually enough people, you know, we'll see our faces and maybe they'll, uh, when that'd be great, if they just, you know, you're in the shopping line at Walmart and says, Hey, I watched your book. I listened to your podcast. And I got, you know, got this, you know, case or this information or this family member, how cool would that be? Right. Roy (09:49): Right. Yeah. That's the best, the best thing that could happen is we find out that somebody listened to the show and what it was able to, you know, help solve something. Uh, you just never know, uh, part of it is the, it's a game of numbers. It's the more people that put the message out to the bigger audience, the, that it gets to the better chance of, uh, you know, having a break in a case that that's the great thing about this day in time is, you know, used to, you saw you had a local newspaper and, um, the story ran there. And if you didn't read that, or if you weren't in that area, you may not really know. But today, um, you know, this show has been, uh, you know, we've been trying to get the show off the ground for about a year and just been some setbacks here and there. Roy (10:37): But even over that time, we've had visitors to our website, into the podcast from all over the world. So it's such, it's such an awesome thing to have that kind of a reach. So, you know, we're excited and, uh, what we're going to do. I think at least the first couple episodes, like I said, we've got a, we're going to go over two cases, each one, uh, they're sparse details. So we're not going to be long and in-depth into each one, but this way, uh, you know, it just, uh, gives a chance to, to families, to maybe, uh, to get some answers. So unless you have anything else, you just want to jump right in. Scarlett (11:18): I miss, I wish I had a better icebreaker. I, um, you know, just encouraging me. I, I, I do have a, not to sensationalize it in any way. Um, but you know, you mentioned the seventies, you know, a case, you know, that this kind of inspired your true crime. Um, my mom had a Ted Bundy's story around mid seventies. Yeah. And it shouldn't, we shouldn't lead with that. The, and the hook or something really short stories. She went to school in, uh, Pocatello, Idaho. And, uh, he happened, he had the cast and he was at this kind of a local watering hole bar. It was just college kids. It's a real small town. Everybody knew each other. And he said, hi, I'm Ted. And he was kind of strange. And he had a cast and everybody remembered him because it was just, he struck out he wasn't a part of the college crowd. So how crazy is that? Six degrees everyone's I think he started talking to enough people. They might have one of these crazy stories. It's like six degrees of Ted or something in that time period. Roy (12:14): Yeah. Yeah. That's for sure about the six degrees. Uh, you know, that's one thing I always, uh, talking to new people, you always try to find that connection and it, it's always amazing that, uh, there's always something, maybe an event or a person, but usually you can find some kind of common ground there. All right. Well, let's jump into this one. Um, this is one that's been kind of bugging me for probably the better part of a year. Now. It is the, um, it comes out of evangelism parish in Louisiana, and it it's basically called the, uh, evangelism parish, Jane DOE. And what happened was in 2018, December, 2018, there were some remains found of a young lady and they still haven't been identified. And kind of the backstory we'll get into is that, um, the way that this, uh, the skeletal remains were found, what are that? Um, there was a missing child in the area. And, um, so the police over in Ville Platte, or called out to search for this child, and as they're searching, they, um, come across these bones and you, you know, a little bit more about the, uh, the, um, the child they were searching for. You have a little information on that, don't you? Scarlett (13:38): Yeah. Um, you know, it's always horrible when a child goes missing. So naturally, uh, this was an all man on board. You know, they had four wheelers, they had people on horses. They even the Cajun Navy, uh, even came out to lend a hand in the search and rescue, but the child was found, uh, it was, it looked like a runaway case. And so child was found safe. So that that's good. And unfortunately, this, they happened to stumble upon these remains of this, you know, person, unfortunately. Roy (14:10): Yeah. And while you brought them up, it's probably good that we'll just stop for a minute and, uh, say, well, why would the Navy be involved in a search that was that far in, but, uh, if you've never been to, yeah, yeah. Now they're, they're great. They help out a lot. And even through these last hurricanes, they were a big help evacuating and looking for people. But in this particular area, there are a bunch of rice fields that are flooded rice fields, crawfish farms. So anyway, there is a lot of water around as well. So if I'm also, so they found these remains, they were partially buried. They were in a green space by a barn. It it's from I've read. It said it was kind of out in the middle of nowhere, but it was basically, there were some, uh, another house close to it. And they said that the neighbor that lived there at the time was known to have interaction with high risk women. And, you know, I think that's important because Speaker 3 (15:12): Especially Roy (15:13): In a small area, like evangelism parish, it was all over the news. So I feel very strongly that had this young lady been missing from that area. It would have been solved immediately, but it just makes you believe that maybe she was from a different area and whether she was in this area voluntarily, or whether she had been trafficked to the area. We don't know. But again, the impetus for us wanting to do this show is because if this young lady came from outside of the evangelism parish, or, you know, even the South, what that region of Southwest Louisiana, this is where we're hoping if you have someone that, you know, of friend or family that's missing, that kind of fits into this age group or a range that, you know, you may, um, be a good thing to check with the authorities, just to see if it happens to be that Speaker 3 (16:11): Okay. Roy (16:11): She, um, uh, so the, the, some of the other information, she was about 20, uh, she had been there, they think for about five to 10 years and, uh, they speculate that her age was 25 to 35 at the time of discovery. So kind of applying a little bit of simplistic math to that. You would think that her current age today would have been probably in the 32 to 47 range. So if, if you know, somebody who was missing that may be in that, you know, 32 to 47 that went missing, uh, when would that have been, you know, maybe 2008 to 2013, that kind of fits that timeframe? Um, Speaker 3 (17:02): She was, uh, Roy (17:05): They, uh, speculate that she was of mixed descent, probably of, uh African-American and, uh, French Cajun, uh, origin, if I'm not mistaken, when I was going to put this up, sorry about that. I was gonna, uh, I'm gonna put up a little, we're gonna try this and see what it comes out like on our recording. But, um, this is some of the information that we found here on the evangelism parish, Jane DOE, uh, yeah, she was of mixed Cajun French and African descent, female in, um, Speaker 3 (17:46): So one Roy (17:47): Thing else we did, we reached to the Louisiana state police, uh, of course it's an ongoing investigation, so they were not willing to either provide us with more information or, you know, we did offer them a chance to come on and talk with this. And again, uh, because it's an ongoing investigation and I think that's something that we have both, uh, come to terms with a few of the other cases that we've been investigating, basically the same thing. So a lot of times we're going to be able to provide to you information that we found, um, doing internet searches, just because of the, uh, thirties, uh, you know, they need to hold some of this information close just in case they, uh, do make an arrest that, uh, it, it makes it a little more difficult when some information is out in the public. They like to hold it and that way they can use it in interrogation. Scarlett (18:48): Yeah. And, um, I know that we had talked about this pre show. Um, you know, and I'm just so curious that, so it looks like, you know, they, they reported that they found a skull with possibly some teeth. And then, um, you made the, you know, you brought up the thought that if it's she's, you know, they were able to tell that she was female, possibly they found other remains the pelvis, uh, and whatnot. Um, you know, I wish we, you know, too bad. We're not, we don't have any forensic knowledge. I I'm just so curious, you know, how much is needed to do, um, one of these facial reconstructions, you know, how, how much DNA, how much, how much goes into that originally, we don't have those answers. Um, but unfortunately with this case, uh, they weren't able, or they haven't been able to, or they're working or they're backlog, but there there's no image to match this report. Roy (19:38): Yeah. And I had read that they have sent the remains to LSU and, uh, LSU has an awesome program where they do some facial reconstruction. I'm sure that they are, you know, trying, uh, the other thing that's really popular now is, uh, looking at DNA and going backwards is because if I'm just like myself, if something happened to me, they looked at my DNA. Um, if I don't have any in the system and it can get that way, you can get in the system a lot of ways, either through a criminal convictions, it can get there through, um, I think some military police school districts. So there's a lot of ways that your DNA can get in the system, but when somebody is found, they can't do, they can't match their DNA. So what they can do now is they will kind of start working it backwards to see if they can find some relatives and then narrow it down that way. Roy (20:36): And kind of how that works is, uh, like myself, I've gone through, uh, uh, Google 23 and me, but people cannot access, uh, DNA there to do a comparison. So there are a couple of other services. One of them that I'm aware of is it's Jed match GED match. And basically if you upload your DNA there, you're given the authorities the, uh, permission to, you know, try to match it against these unknown cases in that way. It may even if it, you know, if it wasn't me, it may be, uh, you know, they may find somebody that it links close to me. And then, you know, they start the conversation. Is it, you know, brother, sister, father, mother, child, or, you know, they can, our cousin, you know, they start seeing how far away you are, uh, uh, I guess, of a match to this particular DNA. Roy (21:32): And then they can kind of start down that path of figuring out who it may have been. And it's funny because that's actually how the, uh, the 46 year old case that they just solved here in Fort worth. That was part of how that happened was, you know, they found a way to work with this, uh, smaller bit of DNA. And, uh, they matched it to the guy's brother actually. So, you know, they got a match through the, uh, through Jed match, I think. And then they said, well, um, it come up, it comes up as one of these three brothers, we just don't know who, so then they started taking their DNA into, got a positive match on it. So very interesting. The technology that we have today. Scarlett (22:19): Yeah. W I was just going to say, since you brought up Jed match, that was also, you know, gained a lot of notoriety for the golden state killer Joseph Dangelo was, um, they used family DNA and were able to place him, you know, bring him his DNA to the crime scene as well. So it's just interesting. Roy (22:37): So anyway, um, if you have, you know, if you have a loved one that's missing, if you have any more information, uh, you know, if you were in the area at the time and maybe know more about this person, uh, you know, this, uh, young lady who she may have been, where she might've been from, please reach out to either, uh, the veal plat, um, police department. You can reach out to the Vangelis parish Sheriff's department, or the Louisiana state police is involved. So, uh, just reach out to one of those and, uh, you know, please let them know what, you know, it may be able to help solve this and at least give, uh, give her a name. Roy (23:18): All right. If nothing else we'll move on to the next one, this one here. Uh, actually we just paired it, uh, with this other shorter case, it's really not out of, uh, Southwest Louisiana, but it is very current. And that's why, it's why we felt the need to go ahead and put it out. This, this lady is actually missing from the, uh, Fort worth Texas area. Her name is Carolyn Riggins, and she is age 70, about five, nine, and about 200 pounds. So, um, basically she was, uh, at a bingo hall playing bingo at the, and then just turned up missing. And they, this, she eventually, she went missing from on July 11th. So it's been, um, we're going on big, going on three months now. Speaker 4 (24:17): Yeah, Roy (24:17): Yeah. She, uh, let's see, she was last seen July 11th, around 10:30 PM at the Watauga road. Bingo, for those familiar, with the area that's at, uh, mid cities Boulevard and, um, roof, snow area think they caught her. She was on camera at the bingo parlor. And then also they saw her car driving by the convenience store that was up on the corner. They really didn't see that she was the one driving, but they did. Uh, they did see the car go by. So, uh, by, you know, accounts from people there that she had one, uh, several jackpots that night and, uh, on the days leading up to that, that she had won, uh, some, some other smaller pots. So they feel like that she may have had a lot of cash on her, or if somebody had been watching her, they felt like that she had a, um, had a lot of cash with her. Uh, she was last, seen her car is a tan Speaker 4 (25:19): Or pewter. I've read both, Roy (25:22): Uh, on this flyer. It says tan 2002 Lincoln town car, Texas license plate, C Speaker 4 (25:27): E G B one four five three C G B one four five three. Roy (25:34): Uh, this poster is off of the, uh, find Carolyn, uh, Facebook page. There's also an Instagram page. And then, uh, finding Carolyn at, um, Twitter as well. They also have a website set up so you can send, uh, if you have any information, send it to info@findingcarolyn.com. There is a $5,000 reward for, uh, tips leading to find her, you know, this is kind of a kind of strange number one. I know the area of very well. Um, so, you know, I, I can place exactly where this bingo place is while she may have come out of there. Uh, what's bizarre though, is that, that I have read that she was there, like at 10 30 at night and left, and her car was seen early the next morning, about 30 miles North of there, uh, on our 35 in Denton, Texas at the highway three 80 interchange. Roy (26:36): So, um, again, it was just picked up on a license scan, so there's no picture who was driving the car, but, um, yeah, it's just, uh, it's certainly sad for the family again, uh, uh, us had messaged, uh, one of the family members. They were, um, at the time we had talked, they were still setting up, uh, they were a new search for some wooded areas that were behind this, uh, being go parlor. So they were kind of involved in that and I don't think they really had the time to give us, so, uh, hopefully we'll try to catch back up with them because, uh, it was her sister. I would love to have her on as a guest and talk to her more about this. Um, there were really not much else there have been no transactions on any of her cards, our credit report. Roy (27:32): Um, she did have her purse, but she didn't have her cell phone as for some reason she'd left it at home. So, uh, the, she does take medication that she does not have. So, um, then, you know, that's another reason why the family is desperately trying to find her because it's been so long. The, um, that's really about all I know, but because it was timely, you know, we felt like that, uh, from looking at the distribution of listeners that we've had in the past, you know, we do have a pretty good crowd out of the DFW area. So we felt like it would be, uh, you know, worth, at least mentioning this, to see if we can generate some information for the family. Scarlett (28:23): Yeah. Um, I guess just one thing to add, and again, um, this is possible. So on the Facebook page, someone had, uh, you know, maybe it could be a lead, maybe not a lead, maybe just something to think about in the background. Uh, if anyone's thought of maybe checking, uh, WinStar casino, it's, uh, North of Denton, if she had been, you know, if the bingo parlor had closed or her maybe not even her or whoever maybe was driving that vehicle that they pinged at 10:30 PM, or I'm sorry, 5:30 AM on July 12th the next day. Possibly it was on its way to the casino. Roy (28:59): Yeah. That casino is just across the red river in Oklahoma. So yeah, that, that is definitely a possibility. And you know, this is, uh, one of the cases, again, you know, as we said, I said in the beginning, don't want to speculate because there there's so many things that could have happened. And, uh, you know, what we're hoping is that they can still bring her home alive, but the, um, this is kind of the, kind of, one of those interesting parts is that, uh, they have not found the car either. So how does the, you know, how does Carolyn and the car go missing and not be seen for three months? Because, um, you know, generally even if the car had been abandoned, you know, the, they run the plates, they figure out, at least we have that. So another thing that I know that the family has been doing is looking along, uh, you know, 35 going towards that casino to see, uh, you know, if there's ditches that a car could have run off in that you couldn't see them or bodies of water that it might have gone into as well. Roy (30:04): Um, and that happens, um, again, you would think in a huge metropolitan area like this, that that's an impossibility, but I'll tell you it's not actually a ride out here, uh, close to my house about, uh, well, it's been a few months ago. It was back during the summertime. There was a car, two people in it. They had just run off of, um, a major interstate, but they hit down into a ditch and a culvert at just the right angle that you could not see them from the road bed. So about two, three days later, there's a guy has a flat tire running down the road, pulls over and just happens to pull over right on top of this vehicle. And, um, you know, he looked down and saw him and unfortunately one of the gentlemen passed away. The other was saved. But, uh, you know, again, it's stranger things have happened that you can run off the road in a huge metropolitan on the major highway that, you know, has thousands of cars going over to every day and still not be seen. Scarlett (31:16): Right. And I just so much sympathy for her family. You know, I can't imagine something like this, you know, she was a mother and a grandmother and just not really having the answers of, you know, what happened that night. Roy (31:29): Exactly. Exactly. So if you have any information, uh, we'll just kind of recap if you have any information on Carolyn K Riggins, again, she's missing out of Fort worth, Texas since, uh, July 11th of this year, 2020. And then, um, the other case that we covered is the oops, the evangelists and Jane DOE, uh, she was found in, uh, evangelism parish. I'm sorry. Yeah. Ville Platte. Yeah. Veal plaid in evangelism parish, uh, Louisiana, uh, she was found in 2018, but they suspect again that she had been there for, uh, five to 10 years and they, uh, estimated her age to be about 25 to 35 when she went missing. So, um, if you have any information on that, please again, reach out to the proper authorities and let's see if we can, uh, help solve one of these two cases. That's really all I've got. Um, again, uh, we're going to kind of find our way through this been interesting, uh, also using new technology, like I said, uh, we had, uh, anticipated doing the audio for the podcast for sure. But then we, uh, decided to try to couple it with the recording and, uh, try to put it up on YouTube as well. We'll see, uh, see how that goes. And if you have, uh, something nice to say, please reach out and let us know. Don't, don't be mean we're still, Scarlett (33:04): We're trying, we're gonna figure it out. Roy (33:07): But, uh, yeah, if you have some, uh, positive critiquing, please let us know. Uh, you know, we want to make the show interesting where people want to listen. Uh, and we also want to, you know, try to help help these families as much as we possibly can to so anything we can do along those realms, if you have any case submissions, please reach out to one of us. Uh, um, roy@mysteriesofthebayou.com or scarlet@mysteriesofthebayou.com, or you can hit us on either Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, um, uh, yeah, we will be up on LinkedIn, uh, but also, um, Instagram be sure and reach out. Scarlett (33:50): Yes, we do dove Nido wing doves as well. We take down and smoke, so smoke mail as well or anything we're connected on everything. Roy (33:57): Exactly. Yeah. And, uh, Scarlet just met awesome, uh, technology. She just messaged me like, Hey, you forgot something here. Definitely. Uh, you know, we're just starting out. And so w we want to have a mission to help other businesses as they're starting out. We've. Um, the first one again, is up here in the Dallas Fort worth area. It just happened to be going to another place to eat last weekend, drove by an old, uh, farmer's market. And lo and behold, they had turned it into the Cajun, a Cajun market in Colleyville, Texas. So, um, went in, talked to the Phil and Debra, really nice people there got me some Bhutan and some cracklin. So it was, uh, it was really good. Uh, he had some good product and, uh, that's one thing I miss about not living in Louisiana. And the Southwestern part is the, uh, the Bhutan. Roy (34:57): I could, I could eat that stuff every day. So it was nice to find a place. And, uh, yeah, if you're a new business that has anything to do with the Southwest Louisiana area, also reach out to us. We'd love to drop a plug in for you and, uh, you know, try to help try to help these new businesses has gotta be tough with the COVID and everything that's going on. Starting a new business is tough any day of the week, but with the COVID on top of that and everything that's going on, I'm sure that it's even more difficult. So we want to get out patronize them and, uh, you know, show a little love for, for these guys for sure. Scarlett (35:34): Okay. Roy (35:38): All right. So before we go, Scarlet, do you have anything else? Scarlett (35:43): Uh, no. Just, I want to thank everybody for listening and, you know, think our family, I hope they're listening as well as the whole movie. You know, few fan base are already at least. Hi dad. Roy (35:56): We got our, we got our two followers already. Yup. All right. Well until next time I'm Roy I'm Scarlet. Y'all be careful. Be careful out there.  

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Yeager: This is the Friday, May 22, 2020 version of the Market Plus segment. Joining us now, Sue Martin, Hello, Sue. Martin: Hi there. Yeager: I've been talking, I said this to Pfitz a couple of weeks ago, to a computer screen so it's good to have and we're starting to slowly get back into that human interaction. You were making the trip down today along I35 and you're used to seeing traffic on busy holiday weekends. Did it compare at all this week? Martin: It compared very well.

We cover Chapter Five, but first have an extensive discussion of the debate between Thompson and Perry Anderson and Tom Nairn over the history of social class and economic development in England, with sociologist Jonah Stuart-Brundage. What should we make of liberalism in England at the end of the eighteenth century and what it meant for the prospects of revolution? Secondary readings: Perry Anderson, “Origins of the Present Crisis” https://newleftreview.org/issues/I23/articles/perry-anderson-origins-of-the-present-crisis Perry Anderson, “Socialism and Pseudo-Empiricism,” https://newleftreview.org/issues/I35/articles/perry-anderson-socialism-and-pseudo-empiricism Arno Mayer, The Persistence of the Old Regime: Europe to the Great War https://www.versobooks.com/books/475-the-persistence-of-the-old-regime Tom Nairn, “The British Political Elite” https://newleftreview.org/issues/I23/articles/tom-nairn-the-british-political-elite Tom Nairn, “The British Working Class” https://newleftreview.org/issues/I24/articles/tom-nairn-the-english-working-class Tom Nairn, “The Anatomy of the Labour Party: Part I” https://newleftreview.org/issues/I27/articles/tom-nairn-the-nature-of-the-labour-party-part-i Tom Nairn, “The Anatomy of the Labour Party: Part II” https://newleftreview.org/issues/I28/articles/tom-nairn-the-nature-of-the-labour-party-part-ii E.P. Thompson, “The Peculiarities of the English” https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1965/english.htm#n1

This client was rear-ended on I-35 in rush hour traffic. After the negligent driver's insurance paid their policy limits, the Plaintiff made a claim on her own insurance the policy coverage she had pay for over many decade. Allstate denied her claim and forced her to go to trial. The jury sent Allstate a different message. Transcript: Speaker: Welcome to Hill Law Firm cases, a podcast discussing real world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real, and these are the cases we handle on a day to day basis. When people buy car insurance, they oftentimes add what is called UM/UIM coverage. What that does is that provides an additional layer of coverage if somebody is injured by an under-insured or an uninsured motorist. Unfortunately for Texans, some changes in the law have meant that these insurance carriers oftentimes do not honor these policies. They low ball, they deny and they delay paying these claims. I handled one such claim for a friend's mother. She was injured grievously in an I35 rear end collision in San Antonio. What happened next was pure abuse by her insurance company. The other driver's insurance paid their policy limits. She had about $80,000 in medical bills and the other driver's insurance was 100,000 and they paid all of it. When she made a claim on her own uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage, they offered her $500, and then they withdrew that offer. This was a case against Allstate, and Allstate is famous for doing this to people. Now, this information isn't confidential because Allstate made this case go to trial. They took an elderly woman to trial over the policy that she had been paying for for decades. She paid premiums on time for decades, and when she tried to make a claim for the policy she paid for, they made her a zero offer and they forced her to go to trial. They do this to bully people because they know that the expenses and the time are not worth it to most people. I tried this case on behalf of this woman. The jury didn't agree with Allstate, even though Allstate hired experts that cost them $2,000 an hour for their deposition, the jury didn't buy it. After a three or four day trial, the jury returned a verdict for this woman for $386,000. Cases against your own insurance company are some of the most frustrating cases for clients as well as attorneys. We have to explain to our clients that, yes, you did pay for this policy and yes, you're current on your end of paying, but they're not going to pay you what they owe you. We have to explain to them the changes in Texas law, and we have to explain to them that the insurance company doesn't care, that they make their money by holding onto this money and delaying the claim. We continue to represent clients and claims against their own insurance companies because it's important to us that people aren't bullied.

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James:  Hi audience will come to Achieve Wealth Podcast, a podcast where we focus on value add commercial real estate investing. Today we have Devin Elder from San Antonio, to be part of our guests today. Devin Elder is principal of DJE Texas Management Group. Since 2012, DJE has completed more than 200 plus investment transaction and has an ownership stake in more than 1000 units just in multifamily in central Texas. Devin, why not you, tell about yourself, whatever I've missed out.  Devin: Hey James, thanks for having me on, appreciate it. There are a lot of details in there, a lot of ups and downs and learning and all kinds of things that go into these deals. As you know, I started out in the single-family world, same as you and I never really left it. I mean, I've been doing single family since 2012 and then a few years ago, was able to find a really great partner, a younger guy with a construction background and I was getting busier in multifamily. So I said, rather than just kill off this revenue stream in a single family, I would just bring on a partner, have him run it. And I and obviously my company too and we still run it, so we still do a lot of single-family but me personally, I'm focused about 90% of my time on the multifamily business, it's what I do today.    James: Okay, good. And you are a native San Antonio, right? Have you lived there for forever?    Devin:  Yeah, more or less. I mean, there are some times throughout my life when I didn't live here, for a few years here and there, but yeah, for the most part, I grew up here. I graduated from the University of Texas in San Antonio, went to high school here, the whole thing and now I'm trying to buy as much of it as I can. And it's really funny because there are areas in San Antonio, I'm 40 years old, so I'm going, man, for 40 years, this area is not good and now all of a sudden, the hipsters want to live there or whatever. So we're like buying these houses and selling these houses in areas that are coming up for the first time in my lifetime. It's really interesting to see, and you know how much it's changing here. I mean, you've got to frost tower downtown, you've got the Pearl massive development there, you've got cranes in the sky and in downtown San Antonio for the first time in a long time. It's good to see.  James: Yeah. Yeah. I remember my time when I started in real estate.  I'm from Austin, San Antonio. It's like one to one and a half hour drive. I mean we've got northeast one and a half hour drive and it's crazy on the price difference between Austin and San Antonio and the demographic difference.  I remember someone telling me because I was looking at deals in Austin and at that time deals in Austin was like, you know, when I look at single family homes and it was like 100,000, 120, in downtown, it's busy. And at that time, I had a limited amount of money when I started out, I only had like 50,000. I thought, okay, maybe I can buy two deals here but I want to grow very quickly.   And I went to talk to someone, he said, why not buy in San Antonio? I said, I'm not driving there for one and a half hour then. And then, at that time it hit me like a brick because hey, I'm just being lazy not driving that to buy more deals. I mean, you want success in life, you have to take that drive or drive one and a half hours, nothing. Then I look at the prices in San Antonio and I realized the amount of equity that I can generate. By buying in San Anthony, I can buy like six to eight houses there compared to Austin, which is like two houses.  Just because it's a lot more cash flowing deals in San Antonio, there's not much of appreciation play with the now things have changed, but it's just a lot of houses at that point of time, its a much larger city, more cash, was a lot of diversity there and that's why I started driving to San Antonio almost every day, not every day. I think a lot of times on the weekend, after work, we used to drive to go see houses and start buying houses there. So what'd you like about San Antonio? You have been there and what do you see in San Antonio that     Devin: Yeah, yeah. I mean, I like it. I've got a family and it's a great city to raise a family in and there are lots of family activities from a real estate investment perspective. Historically, we've been fairly slow and steady, right? So we didn't really see a big upset in values in 2008, it just kind of went flat for a little while but historically we haven't seen a tremendous amount of appreciation either. Just kind of slow and steady is the name of the game. That's heating up a bit in the last few years and it's changed, but still relative to markets like Dallas, Austin, San Antonio is still relatively quiet, relatively lower costs and some of these assets, especially like the multifamily stuff so that's good. I like this market and investing here for just kind of the long haul, just kind of slow and steady increase.   Really, we've got some good fundamentals in terms of employment. We're not wholly dependent on the price of oil or one sector; we've got a lot of military here, we've got a lot of medical here for sure. San Antonio is trying to get our tech sector ramped up and there are some local entrepreneurs and some of the guys that were a part of Rackspace and left Rackspace, are really doing a great job building technology companies and software companies here. It's very early stages, but I think in the future that does really well for San Antonio when we can start to grow some more technology companies here. So all of that is I think, trending well for San Antonio. And then just looking at the net positive migration numbers, right? How many people are moving to San Antonio.   We're still kind of a workforce housing town. Just because people are moving here doesn't necessarily mean that they're the super high wage earners or whatever. But it's a good metric that you look at when a lot more folks are moving here than leaving. And in the space we play in, workforce housing B and C multifamily, those folks are going to continue to need housing and it's really impossible to build a 1980 200 unit apartment complex, the only stuff that gets built is brand new. So there's kind of a supply constraint there, which I think plays well with the business model.    James: Got It. So yeah, often to San Antonio corridor, it's a huge growth corridor up from what I see. I mean, Austin with the high tech and the high cost of living a lot of people are going in between, Austin, Kyle Buda, San Marcos, New Braunfels, and San Antonio So it's just expanding in a huge way. And if you look at San Antonio, I think that's the closest city to the border, to Mexico; closest biggest city if I'm not mistaken. And the I35 is considered the NAFTA highway, which is good because that's a lot of business going between the US and Mexico. So what are you focusing on right now in real estate? Can you tell me your real estate focus now and we can go into the details?    Devin: Yeah, so I mentioned I've got the single-family business, which is very active. We do flips and things like that. We're building some houses, different things like that going on. But really, as I mentioned, my focus is multifamily. And really, we've got a really good team for all the parts of the business that happens; underwriting and acquisitions and asset management and those kinds of things. Me, personally, I'm really focused on the equity side and putting together equity for the projects that we buy and then the acquisition side. So really going out there and looking at every deal, underwriting every deal, touring every deal. We're focused exclusively on San Antonio. I mean, I've looked at some stuff. I own a property in Seguin now, which is about 45 minutes outside of San Antonio.  We look at properties in New Braunfels or San Marcus. I don't get up to Austin just because I haven't seen how stuff is going to pencil on the acquisition side up there. But also we're really busy in San Antonio. I'm looking at as much stuff right now as I'm happy to be looking at and touring and underwriting just by focusing in this market. So really we're looking for stuff that's over 100 units, 150 plus units, that type of thing that we can buy and do some kind of capital improvements; four, five, six, $7,000 a door of capital improvements. And that kind of run the gamut from just deferred maintenance to sprucing up the outside of a property. Maybe there's a rebrand or maybe there's kind of a management or operations issue, we can go in and fix. Something that we can go in and create some kind of value. Because at the end of the day, it's all investor return driven. So when we look at deals really like the one thing I look at in our underwriting, it's what's the equity multiple over our whole period, you know, are we gonna be able to double people's money in five years? If not, then maybe that's something that we pass on. And then if you do that, if you look at the equity multiple of around two, then your IRR is typically going to be high teens and your cash on cash probably going to be somewhere in the seven to 10 range over the whole period. So the cash on cash numbers kind of work themselves out and the IRR, we're really just looking to see is there a way to add some value cut expenses, improve our rental income by making some improvements and so forth and just hold onto these things. We like a lot of sponsors, underwrite typically five-year-olds and just go in and execute the improvements over the first year or 18 months and then just kind of hang on to the properties and try and grow that portfolio.     James: Awesome. So what's your favorite value add strategy? I mean, I think you have given a lot of the value add deals, right? Why not you describe some of the few deep value-add deals that you guys have time done and we can go into a bit more details into that.   Devin: Yeah, yeah. There's a property right now that we're actually just kind of coming out of our cycle on, a pretty heavy lift and there was a lot of section eight in that property. And then there was also some weird units where they were calling them three bedrooms and four bedrooms, but it was really two one bedrooms on top of each other and they put a spiral staircase in between. And so that was kind of a weird deal where the property was originally built as a much larger property so we went and changed it back to the larger property, basically adding units and then changing it from an all bills paid property to none of the bills being paid by the property. And so that was a pretty drastic repositioning of that property where that's tough to do and there are a lot of moving parts. It's not like just going in and making some little improvements, it was like completely re-characterizing this property as a market property versus like a lot of sectioning that was in there.   So that part was definitely a challenge. Fortunately, we budgeted well for it upfront. A property like that you want to leave a nice fat contingency number in the budget because you can go through and get all your inspections done but we know in real estate, especially old stuff built in the 70s whatever it is, that there's just going to be stuff that comes up there. So you want to be well capitalized. Fortunately, I've been in construction for a lot of years on these single-family houses, I've seen absolutely everything you could imagine, where we just spent $100,000 renovating one house. So it's like we've seen and done everything and so none of this stuff really surprises me. It's just that on the apartments you gotta watch out for things like $100,000 plumbing bill that could come up if it's a really old property or different things where the rehab numbers just get bigger.  But yeah, as far as value-add strategies, I mean on that particular property there was a lot to do. The stuff we're looking at, it seems like lately more now it's really just about kind of doing some interior updates where you're putting in kind of the classic vinyl plank and two-tone paint and new fixtures and then doing what you have to do to the exterior. Or sometimes that's a rebrand. My favorite exterior thing is the solar screens because it might be like 10,000 bucks for a whole property and it like completely changed the look of the property. So I always want to put those on if a property doesn't already have them.    James: Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, I love the solar screen is just I've tried to kind of put it in my properties but haven't gotten a chance yet, but I know the money you spend, it really gives you the exterior look that is very nice, a very clean look, rather a very sharp look of the property.      Devin: Yeah, and then it hides the blinds and it hides all kind of covers a multitude of sins. So I like doing that where possible, it has a nice impact. And I think like aesthetically it has one of the biggest bangs for the buck. You know, if you try to go paint a whole building that's going to be like ridiculously expensive. And you know how much you can on that but it's tough sometimes.    James: Correct. So let's go back to that. A property where you have to do a country Gresham change, right? Because that's a major change, right? And changing from all bills to bills paid, that's another major change. And are you eliminating section eight people and getting into a conventional market as well?    Devin: Yes.  James: Okay. That's another big chase. So you're doing a lot of changes in that deal. So how long do you expect to turn around to stabilization?    Devin: Well, it took about a year to get it stabilized and we're there now, so that's changing the bills from all bills paid to nothing. And it was interesting because we didn't really factor in or underwrite like a big huge rent bump. Usually, sometimes you say, hey, we want to do $4,000 on the inside and that's going to be $100 rent premium and so I think that is like $1,200 a year divided by 4,000, you're getting a 30% ROI on your interior upgrade if you spend 4,000 and you get $100 rent from rent bump. That's kind of like a typical underwriting ROI exercise that you would do. On this property, we didn't see it on really the rent bumps. In fact, the rents didn't really change a whole lot. But we're taking about, something like $200,000 of utility expense off so it kind of almost doesn't matter whether you're raising rents are lowering expenses, it all drops to the NOI [16:09inaudible}    James: Correct. So you go into that building, let's say the broker takes you to the unit and how do you identify the opportunity?    Devin: Yes. So the opportunity on the utilities was just kind of at the first pass of the underwriting saying, hey, based on the location of the property and what we think we can spend and improve it and rebrand it that we can make this a market property. And then the opportunity to convert some units were actually on the first two or after like we'd done some underwriting and looked at it, and then we started seeing all these funky staircases. And first of all, they just look dangerous, right? I mean you don't see spiral staircases in properties and probably for a reason. And so once we figured out the original layout of the property and said, you know what, we're just going to take these out, add some units, it's going to be safer. We're going to change the unit mix because there'll be more one bedrooms on the property, but we're okay with that. And then a kind of underwrote that and said, hey, we've got a pretty low basis now if we're looking at it as 130 unit property and we're picking it up at this price then our basis is pretty low, we feel pretty good about going in and making those changes. But the conversion opportunity, we didn't discover it till we actually did some walk-throughs.    James: So what about the parking lots and parking spots because that can be a problem with the city, right? Because usually, they go by unit mix.    Devin: Yeah, for sure. Luckily the parking ratio was really very good, to begin with, because the property had originally been built as that higher unit count. So it wasn't like we were building new units on dirt and we're running in parking constraints, we're actually just kind of returning the property to its original setup. And so the parking ratio still is pretty good even with all those units.    James:  Okay. So the guy who you bought it from, he may be the one who had converted by making like, two one-bedrooms into two by twos, I guess?  He may have done that.    Devin: They had it for five or six years. I don't think it was them, it was some previous owner. Who knows how many times it's changed hands. I guess I could go look it all up, but it definitely wasn't the donor we bought from, who knows how long it had been in that state.   James: Okay. Okay. So that's very interesting. So what about on the interior side, is there are any unique value add strategy that you really liked to do that you think is the biggest bang for the buck?     Devin: Yeah. You know, you start to tour all these apartment units and see everything and it's like, man, do they start to all look the same, right? You got vinyl planks, two-tone paint, gray walls, updated fixtures and it's all kinda the same thing, resurfacing countertops so that's all kind of the same. One of my favorite things is those little metal pull bars, you can get them for like a dollar on Amazon. You order them a thousand at a time or whatever. Sometimes we'll re-phase cabinets, but usually, we'll just paint cabinets and instead of the little knob pulls, we'll do the pull bars; it costs slightly more but in the scheme of things, we're talking about a dollar per bar instead of maybe a quarter per knob and it just gives it a nice look. I really liked that look and it's really inexpensive. Another thing that we're doing in a property that we just bought is this stone back-splash and it basically just goes right on. So it's 3D, three dimensional, it looks really good, it looks expensive but it actually doesn't really cost us that much and we do it all in house. We use third-party property management, but the property just bought the stone cutter and they can just go in there and cut it and put it right on and it looks really sharp and that's a nice improvement versus like actually going in and putting in subway tile or something that's going to be a lot more costly.     James: Interesting. I've seen like where it comes in pieces, but are you talking about the whole thing coming together?  Devin: It comes in the 12 by 12 pieces, but it basically just sticks right on. So all they have to do is make the cuts.    James: Got it. Interesting, I need to check that out.     Devin: And I've seen like the mosaic tile stick on stuff, but I don't think that stuff's going to hold up for a while, this is more like stone and it goes right on.     James: Do you remember what's the name of it?     Devin: I don't, I could send it to you, but I don't remember off the top of my head.     James: And how much does that cost to do it?    Devin:  I think it should be costing us $150 to put in.     James: Yeah, that's really cheap, right? Just put it in at 150. A lot of people like the back-splash. And that's very interesting that we can put that in. And I know about the pull ball of the cabinet. That looks really nice as well.     Devin: Yeah, it's a nice easy upgrade.     James: Absolutely. Yeah. Got it. Got it. Got it. So is there any deal that you thought was not a good deal and you walked away and later you found out it's a good deal? And can you describe what you could have done to catch that opportunity?  Devin: You know, I feel that way all the time. You know, I underwrite a deal and then I maybe offer on it and the offer wasn't high enough and we lose the deal. And then I see a friend of mine buy it or something and I'm going, well, so they saw something in it, you know, I couldn't get it to work, but what did they see in it? Or like there was another deal that I was like way low on our offer price, I was like $2 million low on our offer price, which I was like, that's as high as I can get it to underwrite to. And then, I see it come out on crowd street and some firm California bought it and they were like super aggressive on their numbers.  And I'm going, man, this is a big firm, they have 5,000 units, I have to assume they know what they're doing and they're being really aggressive. And so, there's not a deal that I can point to, specifically, and say, oh, that was the one that got away because if we lose a deal, I just move on. I mean, we're looking at so many deals and touring so many deals that I don't really worry about it if we lose a deal, I mean, that's just the name of the game you're going to lose. My philosophy is you're going to lose most of the deals and that's okay. That's just the game. But I do see stuff that we look at and then somebody else buys it and sometimes I scratch my head and I wonder how they're making the numbers work.  So, a lot of that I think, unfortunately, is that we've just been in kind of this market where stuff's been appreciating. I mean, we see that a lot on the single family. Like we buy a project and then we rehab it and maybe we go over on the rehab budget, but in the six months it took us to buy to sell, there's been appreciation and it's like, wow, that's really good when it's working for you, but it's not always going to go in that direction. So I think we've seen a lot of that in multifamily and you have to be very cautious right now in this stage of how long we've seen asset prices increasing and just not assume that that's going to kind of continue forever.  James: Right. Yeah. So let's go to a bit more personal side. What do you think is your top three things that you have inside you that is your secret sauce in becoming a success in the business?     Devin: Yeah, I think early on, it was the absolute decision to make this a success. And by decision, you may have heard that the root word of 'decide' is to cut off, right? So it means to cut off any other alternatives. And I think looking back, it's easy to just say, oh yeah, I just made that decision but it's very extremely difficult in the beginning, getting started without really any money to get started or any knowledge or experience. It's not like my family has done this or I learned this from somebody that was close to me, it was really just going out and figuring it out.   So making the decision early on that this was going to be what I did and it was going to be a success and not being a dabbler. A lot of people want to kind of just try things out and I don't think that's the recipe for success in anything. Like it's more like a marriage. Like you commit to it forever. And so I committed to this early on and put everything I had into it in terms of my resources and my money and everything in it and it had to work right? And when it has to work, I think you find a way to make it work. So that the first one. And kind of the most important thing was just being very decisive about this being what I was going to end.....    James: When did you decide, was it when you were in school or when you're doing your W2 job?     Devin: Yeah. While I was doing my W2 job, I, I did my first couple of houses and I decided because I really wanted to get out of my W2 job and I didn't even know that real estate was going to be it, I just didn't want to work for somebody forever.     James: And do you have a triggering point that at that point where you decided, I'm going to do this full time?     Devin: Yeah. I was fortunate in my first career I worked at a really fantastic company and I had a great couple of years. And then after awhile, I started to get a little bit restless and I thought maybe there are better opportunities. And I started kind of moving to different companies, trying to find the next promotion or whatever. And then, I just kind of discovered after a few years of doing that, that it was the same everywhere I went, every company, it was just the same stuff I had to deal with. And somewhere along the lines I just really kind of discovered that I wasn't going to be happy unless I was an entrepreneur unless I was calling my own shots. So that was really the catalyst for me to say, I have to get out of here. My older brother is an entrepreneur, he has been his whole life and I have always appreciated the level of freedom he had, even if other things were crazy. Because as an entrepreneur, there's definitely some crazy stuff, like you have to be on board for that, but I'm definitely on board for, I think I'm just cut out to be an entrepreneur and now that I am an entrepreneur, I'm much happier. So it was finding that vehicle, I didn't know that it was going to be real estate, but I knew first I wanted to be an entrepreneur and then I figured out that real estate was going to be it.    James: Any other thing that you think is your secret sauce?   Devin: I think, finding people that are really good at things and giving them tasks. Because as an entrepreneur, you wear so many hats. It's really important for me to, once I figured out one little process that I give it to somebody else, right? Whether that's like editing my podcast or doing my underwriting, it's like I can do all these things but as a CEO of a company, I shouldn't be doing any of those, I should only be doing a handful of things. And I think it's very tempting for people to spend hours, let's say, underwriting a deal or pulling apart a financial statement on a T12 of a property. It's like, well, you can find really good people to do that, probably better than you, and then you can focus your time on other things.   So I'm very big on a dollar per hour activity and I keep spreadsheets and everything to track all this stuff of what are the highest dollar per hour activity, things that I can do and I need to find somebody else to handle all the other activities.     James: Awesome. Awesome. Is there any proud moment in your life where you think you are really proud of in real estate ventures?     Devin: Yeah, I mean, quitting my day job was a big one. I mean, I was very, very proud of that.     James: At the point of quitting or after a few years after quitting?    Devin:  No. Definitely just getting to the point where I had enough cash flow and everything to be able to quit my job. That was a very big step. I'm very proud of some of the renovation work we've done and this is like single-family and multifamily, but there are hundreds of properties in San Antonio that are like nice properties now because of the work we did, you know? And so we're not buying nice looking properties most of the time, we're buying properties and spending 1 million bucks on making them nicer. And so that's pretty cool to be able to do that. And that's having an impact, even a small impact, on the city that I live in and I love that.   And then now as I've been in business for a while, giving other people some opportunities, you know, whether that's some of the people that work in my business, giving them an opportunity through the company and giving investors an opportunity. So many of my investors you talked to, they didn't know they could put money into a deal like this and make this great return and not have to do any work. And it's like, people just don't even know that it's an option, you know? And so to be able to have people participate in that is really very rewarding. So I'm very proud of like the renovation work that we've done and we've raised and return millions of dollars of capital at this point and that it feels very good to be like a good steward of other people's money, I'm very, very proud of that piece, probably more than anything.     James: Absolutely. I think it's very fulfilling taking a distressed property and changing it. I mean we did a lot of single-family and now we're doing multifamily, but we remember one of the flips that we did, we bought like 42,000 if I remember correctly, and sold it for 140. But we also put like 40 to 50,000 into it but that was a complete change in the house and until now I can remember that house and how it was when we left it. And even when you're old, I'm sure I can drive by that place and say, you know, we flipped that house to look as nice as right now. So, yeah, it's very fulfilling.    Devin: Yeah, it is. I was driving around the other day and I was in this part of town called Beacon Hill, which is like this big up and coming area of San Antonio is kind of on a little bit northwest of downtown. And I don't remember what I was doing over there, I'd met somebody for lunch or something, but I said I'm going to drive down the street where I flipped a house and then I just drove by it, it was like two years later, oh, the house looks good. And I said, you know what, I flipped another one on the other street. And so I drove like four or five houses in that area that I flipped at some point over the last couple years. I said, hey, we did a lot of houses and you spent a lot of time and money and energy over here and it's cool.     James: Yeah. It gives you a lot of happiness inside you. I mean, what are the habits that you think that you have mastered or want to master that you think makes you a very successful entrepreneur?    Devin:  It's definitely systems. So I'm very naturally inclined towards putting together systems. So I like to figure out what a process is and cut it down, anything; whether it's the acquisition process on multifamily or any part of the business.  I like to figure it out, boil it down into stages and then within each stage, go down the steps. And then I like to really document the steps and to give them to other people. And that's really the key for me is I take a process, really spend time breaking it apart and then figure out every single little minute step. I have like a standard for creating training and that is I want to be able to take somebody who's walking down the street and pull them into the office, and if they can read and write, they'll be able to do the task the way that I'm training them, right? So very simple. And I think about McDonald's like as a good example, not that the food is anything great, but the systems are just tremendous, right?   Teenagers run McDonald's, right? It's a tremendously successful enterprise but the systems are so important. So I'm a big systems guy and that's kind of the thing that I'm always striving to do. Is anytime I'm doing something, I go, can I systematize this and automate this and give this to somebody else? And so, that's something that I'm focused on all the time. Now there are some things you can't, so like broker relationships, face to face time, things like that. Like there's no automating those things and that's okay but I want to automate and systematize everything else so that I spend my time, my very short time and energy on the most important things. So definitely just being disciplined about creating those systems and it's difficult but if you can be patient and create one little system or process and automate it and you extrapolate that towards the future of how many times this little task that takes me five minutes, if it's off my plate for the next thousand days, how much time is that going to save me? So I'm always kind of just trying to fine tune that and really segment all the pieces of the business and get them into the hands of people that are the right fit for whatever task or job it is.    James: Yeah. That's something that I'm learning to try to do as well. I mean, my wife and I, we are such a control freak in our business and we want to make everything perfect but it's basically impacting our lives. Because now we have to try to do everything. So as we grow big, right now we have like 30 employees. We recently hired people on the corporate side to help us and it is becoming much better now, but still, it does just take time to really give up that particular work to someone else. And the way to do it is to create systems and process and manuals and all that. So we are actually learning how to do that right now. So it is a very hard thing to do, especially when you grow from small to big. Unlike you go into a big organization, you already know everything is set up but now you're going from doing it yourself, but now you're to delegate to someone else and the understanding that the other person may not do it as how well you can do. And you have to understand that and live with it.    Devin: Yeah, it's a very tricky thing and that's business. It's tricky because you are an equity owner and you would do anything for the business. And then you've got somebody at $12 an hour that's just not going to, you know, if you gave them half the company, they'd work as hard as you but you're not giving them half the company. You can't give everybody half of the company equity that's not how it works. So the way I try to approach that is just creating really, really clear training. One of my assistants is overseas and it was very frustrating for me at first to work with her because I couldn't just like say, here's the problem, just deal with it. She just didn't have that skill sets and just fix it. But I started really creating very specific training on step by step, by step by step. And not only did that make it easier for me to understand the process, but it made it easier for her to understand and everybody was happier.   And so, we use something that a friend of mine turned me onto, it's called Loom and it's a browser extension and for recording little videos. And so there are hundreds of videos in my organization for how to do everything. And so that allows me to kind of give it away and if I sign a task to somebody or there's an automated task, it also includes a link to the training. So if they haven't done that task in a month, they get the task but Hey, there's also a link to a three-minute training, which anybody could learn for that little task.  And over time, instead of like building a operations manual, which to sit down and write would be murder, right? It would just be awful to sit down and write the whole thing. I basically have built the operations manual one tiny task at a time and put it all in a spreadsheet that's by the system, right? Whether it's the accounting system or the marketing system, whatever it is. And so there's this whole library of content basically to how to do just about anything in the business. And so it's been a hard process getting all that going. But, again, the freedom that comes from--it's still me dictating, this is exactly how I want this thing done; I set it up and then transferred over to somebody else, one little task at a time and just have transferred hundreds of tasks over a few years of doing that.   But yes, it's difficult because nobody's going to do it as well as an owner or cares as much as an owner, but there are just inherent limits there.     James:  Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Let's go to another one more topic. Let's say a Newbie who wants to walk your path and be very successful in real estate, single family flips and now into multifamily; what are the 3 to 5 advice that you would give them to get started in this hot market?     Devin: Yeah, it's definitely a hot market. I would say, the number one thing is don't try to do this yourself. Like all yourself, there's too much, right? I mean, this is a business like any other business and you wouldn't try to just go open up a dry cleaner and say, hey, I have zero experience in this business, but I'm going to go open a dry cleaner and it's going to make money, right? There are too many things you don't know.    So like in multifamily, the underwriting, the broker relationships, raising capital, asset management, renovations, all those things are like big topics, where there are lots of variables and you're not just going to learn that stuff overnight. So I think somebody who wants to get in, don't try to do it yourself, but you can partner with somebody that's done it and try to add value to them and be a part of a larger deal. That's kind of from where I sit now, what I wish I would've known kind of earlier on, that you can partner with somebody on a bigger deal in various ways. You've got to be able to add some kind of value to somebody that's further down the path. And if you can do that, then you can get on a larger deal, but you don't have all the responsibility on that project and then you can get in that world and start learning through doing. Because I think we really do learn through doing. And so, that's kind of what I would recommend is, don't assume you have to go out and do it all yourself because I think that's just a recipe for frustration and potentially, for disaster.    James:  Awesome. Awesome. If there any funny stories from residents or tenants that you want to share with the audience?     Devin: There are so many.     James: Choose the funniest one.     Devin: Ah, this is sad. Sad, but funny. So we're doing this project that was like, oh, crazy turnaround project, right? Like 15,000 a door renovation. Crazy. So there's something called a writ of possession and so when you evict somebody, you go to court. And I was actually doing this on this property. I use third-party management now, so I don't go to court and evict people, but I've done that over the years, I've done all of it. So we evicted this guy for nonpayment and that's just how it goes, you don't pay, you can't stay, it's not a charity we're running.    James:  This is Texas and it's landlord friendly.    Devin:  Very landlord friendly. So anyway, we go, we evict this guy, he doesn't move out, whatever and he's got stories. And so finally we get to sink all the writ of possession we filed, the bear county sheriff comes out and they stand outside for an hour. They don't touch anything, but they just stand there to make sure nothing like violent happens. And so we get the crew in and we start moving this guy's stuff. So they opened the door and the guy who'd been like completely combative and everything, he opens the door, the sheriff is there, he's got a neck brace on and he's like, Oh man, oh he can't, he's wearing this neck brace. And I'm like, I've never seen this guy in a neck brace. Right? So the guys move everything out on the lawn and as soon as the sheriff leaves, he walks out on the steps, pulls the neck brace off, starts smoking a cigarette, right? The neck brace was totally just a prop for sympathy. Who carries a neck brace around just to have it for sympathy? And I was like, ah, man!   There's a lot of stories like that. Like, we're buying properties that are, a lot of times, beat up but at the end of the day, you can't have any business' product for free if you're living somewhere, you need to pay for it and that's, how it goes. So a lot of stuff like that for sure.    James: Interesting. Interesting. Yeah. I think that's it, Devin. So why don't you tell about yourself and how can the audience reach you, in case they want to reach you and where to find you best.    Devin: Yeah. Yeah. So we've got all kinds of stuff online and content and stuff like that out there. The easiest way is through the main company website, which is djetexas.com. So that's Delta, Juliet, Echo, texas.com. And if you hit the website, you'll see links to everything else and in a way to if you want to schedule a 15 minute call with me and learn about this stuff or you want to take the next step in this career for yourself, whatever it is, I'm happy to chat with people. So that'd be the best way is the website.    James: Awesome. Thank you for joining us today, Devin, and for all the audience, thanks for joining us. You can always join us into our Facebook group. It's called Multifamily Investor's Group. It's like almost 700 people right now, within one month so join us. And there's a lot of very meaningful discussion happening about multifamily, and we'll talk about other business issues as well over there, but join us today and thanks for joining today for the podcast.     Devin: Thanks, James.    James:  Bye Bye. 

Billboard Advertises Millionaire’s Search for Love A Utah millionaire is hoping to get a wife with a series of billboards The billboards advertise, “LDS millionaire looking for his wife” went up 10 days ago and is already getting attention from a lot of women. The company is keeping his identity a secret but did say he’s between 31-45 years old, 6’1, and “tall, dark, and handsome” So far they’ve received nearly a thousand applications from women all around the world and there’s still two weeks to go before the billboard is taken down!How do you think people would react if this was in San Antonio? What is the “special sauce” that draws Texans to HEB in droves? An HEB recently opened in North Texas and there was another frenzied response. the morning of the grand opening, 3 hours before the opening to be exact, people were already in line just to be the first shoppers inside the new store about 25 miles west of downtown Fort Worth. By noon, all 13 registers were open with long lines stretching throughout the aisles. There were also lines at the self-checkout kiosks too and in the produce department, wine and beer section, deli and dairy, everywhere!What drives people to go crazy for HEB? UTSA Roadrunners and UT Longhorns will meet on the gridiron in 2022 The five-game series will begin in 2022 and continue every other year through 2030 All five contests will be held in Austin at the Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium The first game will be on September 17, 2022 The dates are as follows:Sept 17, 2022 Sept 14, 2024 Sept 19, 2026 Sept 16, 2028 Sept 14, 2030What do you think about this series and do you think it will be better than the I35 rivalry? Viva Tacoland Near The Pearl is Now Closed   Viva Tacoland threw one last party of its own April 28th before locking the doors for good.   Developer David Aldeman, who co owns the property at Grayson and Elmira Streets with TV Star Ricardo Chavira, said he is pursuing a new restaurant to take over the site. HE declined to name the business pending the signing of a lease but described it as a Dallas-based chain with a “cult following” Aldeman and Chavira sued Erck in July alleging a breach of contract and mismanagement of the business, and they seek damages of at least $200,000 Tax records indicated Viva Tacoland was more than $100,000 behind in state and federal payroll taxes at the time the suit was filed.What restaurant do you think is taking over? Students Split on Recommendation to Remove Chick-Fil-A from Trinity University The student government at Trinity University passed a resolution to recommend the removal of Chick-Fil-A from campus and there are mixed reviews on the decision One student commented, “If you disagree with it then you yourself shouldn’t consume it but that doesn’t mean that other people should limit their consumption.” “I felt disappointed because I felt they were listening to a minority of people and then passing that burden on the majority.” Others are commenting, “I think at Trinity a lot of the time people talk about how minorities and different diversities inclusion things here they don’t feel like their heard but this is an instance where they were heard.” Trinity came out with a statement about the situation as well stating, “It’s trinity’s tradition and responsibility to encourage open, free dialogue between and with student about issues important to them. The university’s food service vendor is taking the student government’s recommendation into consideration as part of a process this summer in which their contracts with revolving food service vendors are evaluated for the next school year.”What are your thoughts about this situation? Alamo Drafthouse announces La Cantera Location Expected to Open in 2020 Alamo Drafthouse cinemas announced Monday plans to open its fourth San Antonio location- at La Cantera- by 2020 The new draft house will anchor La Cantera Crossing, a separate partnership development between USAA Real Estate and Barshop & Oles Company, that will feature approximately 38,000 square feet of retail and shopping space. The theatre will consist of 11 screens, 4K resolution, surround sound, and 901 luxury recliners with a full-service bar and 48 beers on tap!What is your current favorite theatre to watch movies?

Bad BridgesBad Bridges are everywhere in the United States. Ruthann sat down and explained where the repairs are needed the most on Americas bridges. There has been many incidents where a bridge has collapsed. People have been injured and even killed when these mass concrete structures come down. In Minnesota a bridge had collapsed on I35 with mass destruction. We can only imagine the Brooklyn bridge coming down during rush hour. Today, 125,000 motor vehicles cross the Brooklyn Bridge each day [PDF], as do roughly 4,000pedestrians and 2,600 cyclists. Emily Warren Roebling was the first to cross the bridge. The bridge's main span over the East River is 1,595 feet 6 inches (486.3 m). The bridge cost US$15.5 million in 1883 dollars (about US$403,339,000 in today's dollars) to build, and an estimated 27 men died during its construction. So with that being said we can see why the bridge has not been reconstructed. Where will they get the money for the rebuild?https://www.tripsavvy.com/people-crossing-the-brooklyn-bridge-442754 Trucking News with Ruthann Human Trafficking Trucking News Human Trafficking Human Trafficking is more prevalent than we realize. Every day someone is forced into the sex slave trade in America. Drug dealers and pimps are one of the leading people that exploit our young people in this country. Learn how to spot people in trouble. By calling the authorities you could save a life. In the trucking industry there are those that would pose as a good trucker only to take advantage of maybe a runaway or someone that may be in trouble. Recently a trucker was caught with two minors tied up in his rig. He claimed he was returning these children but authorities did not buy into it. This trucker now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole. If you have been approached about providing children for the purpose of trafficking, do the right thing and make an anonymous tip. Call federal law enforcement directly to report suspected human trafficking activity and get help: U.S. Department of Homeland Security at 1-866-347-2423 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year, or submit a tip online at www.ice.gov/tips. Trucking NewsTalkCDL is now getting our emails at Troy at Talk CDL . c o m or Ruthann at talk cdl . c o m haha email us. We are always looking for interesting people to come on the show. We have a mic and mixer system that takes incoming phone calls. If you have a story or a subject you would like to talk about on the show please write in and tell us. Please keep the pictures and videos coming our way and we will eventually get them uploaded to our facebook page http://talkcdl.com/trucking-news-7-killed-2-semis-two-4-wheelers/http://talkcdl.com/weekly-wrap-6-10-2018-all-news-all-trucking-talkcdl/

Thank you for listening to the Best BBQ Show. This week we talk to Michael and Asenette Hernandez. Owners and operators of Hays Co BBQ. Their top 50 bbq serves the masses every day and their restaurant just keeps getting bigger. In 2007 they started with a trailer and weren't sure what the barbecue scene was like. As BBQ got more popular, they kept stepping up their game and their customers kept coming. Through bumps and bruises along the way, they found a nice little spot right on I35 in San Marcos, TX. They served from a modular building until they could build what is now a 500 seat restaurant with event spaces, a huge bar and overflow parking in the back that doubles as the seasoning area for many cords of wood. Enjoy this episode with Hays Co BBQ and subscribe now to hear all our episodes as they drop! Thank you for listening and if you liked the show please leave a 5 star rating on apple podcasts. It helps the show grow and get discovered. If you didn’t like the show you can write me at yoni@bestbbqshow.com. Tag us in all of your meat posts and if you see people getting a little too friendly with their bbq, remind them #dontsqueezeyourmeat!   Tag us in all your social media with @bestbarbecue.   Our Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bestbbqshow/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bestbarbecue/

“It was just a convenient place to dump the bodies. There is just a hell of a lot of sin that goes up and down that highway” - Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell, referring to Interstate 35 in 1981.From Oklahoma City to San Marcos, Texas, there is a 400 mile stretch of I-35 where multiple homicides occurred, or bodies were discarded, from the years 1976 to 1981. Twenty-one homicide victims. Few arrests. And several victims remain unidentified to this day. It's unlikely to law enforcement that all these depraved acts were committed by a single individual, especially considering the distance involved; that makes it likely, then, that there were several individuals taking advantage of opportunity and who left an unbelievable count of slain victims in such a short period.To some law enforcements officials, the route became referred to as “the Bloody Route.”You can support gone cold podcast – texas true crime by visiting https//:www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastYou can also find us on Facebook and Twitter by using @gonecoldpodcast#I35 #orangesocks #JaneDoe #debrajackson #abilene #1977

My grandfather is Jackie “Papaw” Justice, my father is Jack Justice. My grandfather was a moonshiner on and off from 1937 to 1955 he enlisted in the Army around 1947 at 17 years old and finished his commitment as an airman as the Army Air Corps split and officially became the Airforce. He made it through the Korean War in the Navy and shipped to the Vietnam War with the Marines as a Corpsman. He didn’t practice moonshining anymore after Vietnam but he passed much of the knowledge to me through stories and taking me to these places and meeting the friends and family that were all part of this real cultural period of Americana. They saw two world wars, survived the Great Depression and Prohibition. It was amazing, meeting these people and hearing the stories for an 8 year old it was like stepping back in time. They were war weary, had a certain distrust of the government and literally were reduced to surviving off the land and many did not survive the period. The Justice family primary occupation before the period was being judges, lawyers and lawmakers. Prohibition provided a means of much needed income to many of these people and entire families came together to form manufacturing and distribution of moonshine, it was an enterprise in and of itself. It wasn’t anything as sophisticated as the bootlegging operation of say, Al Capone but the stuff my grandfather made was all over the east coast and cutting as far south as Charleston, SC with the bulk of it ending up in Portsmouth, VA both places where family was living and would receive and distribute the moonshine. I started the distillery in June of 2015 while finishing up my last military deployment in Sinton, Texas. It was a disaster response mission; I was the commander of the transportation company responsible for moving any assets West of the Mississippi River. I purchased a 6,000 square foot facility; it used to be a lumber yard, then RadioShack and finally an 8-liner game room until they were outlawed in the county. It is on a good cross road between I37 and I35 right off I77 in South Texas so it is a regular detour between those main thoroughfares. The distillery gets its primary grain, corn from the local grain elevator; B&P Elevator in Sinton that produces mainly deer corn and we get sweet corn from an organic farming operation; Picha Farms in Robstown, TX. We started out making moonshine and several flavored variations of it from the deer corn and sugar from the Rio Grande Valley. As it stands today, we source all of our spirit ingredients from within the state of Texas and are registered with the Texas Department of Agriculture’s GO Texan program which promotes Texas made and sourced products. We have expanded nearly 300% since opening, today we utilize a large 250 gallon cast iron boiler with copper stack; that creation is about 20 foot tall at least. Our spirit still utilizes a 100 gallon stainless boiler with a 9 foot copper stack; it’s a cross between a reflux column and pot still that I’ve created. That’s another great thing; we’ve dramatically cut our overhead on equipment by making most of it ourselves. My father helps me refine and construct most of the equipment. For example, I wanted large open fermenters for volume fermentation so we framed in some areas in the warehouse and stretched some pond liner and in the space where only 3- 100 gallon fermenters were working before we are now able to ferment 1,000 gallons. We have 3 of these now, with another 2 nearing completion at the fraction of the cost and room of a large manufactured fermenting vessel. 

In This episode I review Chris King's newest album Animal, Rich O'Toole's new single Back to Back and talk about three more artists you should definitely check out!www.sbi35.comThe Gibbonses:www.thegibbonses.comwww.facebook.com/thegibbonseswww.twitter.com/thegibbonsesduoChris King:www.christopherck.comwww.twitter.com/artificialchrisRich O'Toole:www.richotoole.comwww.twitter.com/richotooleKaitlin Butts:www.kaitlinbutts.comwww.twitter.com/kaitlinbuttsRansom Rhodes:www.ransomrhodesmusic.comwww.twitter.com/ransomrhodesAnthony Ray Wright:www.reverbnation.com/anthonyraywrightwww.facebook.com/Anthony-Ray-Wright-273739079352367www.twitter.com/anthonyraybandHalf Man:www.facebook.com/halfmanmusichttps://youtu.be/zfF1WEHmQwAhttps://youtu.be/u_pC5FZu_v4Contact:southboundpodcast@gmail.comwww.twitter.com/sbi35Podcast art by Moebius Trip: www.facebook.com/cemprojectsIntro/Outro Music:  Down At The Diner by William Naughton via www.themusicase.com

John Milton tells the story of how citizen opposition delayed for many years to completion of Interstate Highway 35 through St. Paul. And labor historian Peter Rachleff describes how he and his partner Beth Cleary plan to convert the closed Arlington Hills public library into the East Side Freedom Library in St. Paul.

This week we contnue with "The Aftermath- Episode 2" from Yap Audio Productions and feature "Scorched Earth- Episode 1 A Stranger Among Us" from I-35 Radio.