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Stories in this episode: Creepy FedEx Driver | whisperwhite22 (0:40) A Man Thought I Was Alone on Padre Island | saucy_bev (6:54) The Ride Operators | CatzAgainstHumanity (13:41) I Got Stalked For Years by the Boy I Crushed On| RojoPrincessa (19:40) Creepy Man Cornered Me | Deep_Recognition_679 (25:11) Man Hid From the Police With Me | Dogmomma-21 (31:04) Was a Child Used to Try to Frame My Mom? | Crazy-Confusion-3817 (34:47) My "New Friend" Turned Out To Be Recruiting For Some Kind of Cult Leader | harlequinn (37:23) Extended Patreon Content: My Sister's Walk Home | Angela My Terrifying Marriage | KP1998 Creepy Tinder Date | KP1998 Always Have Your Keys Ready | ariellemyles88 Due to periodic changes in ad placement, time stamps are estimates and are not always accurate. Follow: - Twitch - https://twitch.tv/crypticcounty - Website - https://letsnotmeetpodcast.com/ - Patreon - https://patreon.com/letsnotmeetpodcast - Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/letsnotmeetcast/ - TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@crypticcounty Check out the other Cryptic County podcasts like Odd Trails, Cryptic Encounters, and the Old Time Radiocast at CrypticCountyPodcasts.com or wherever you get your podcasts!    Get access to extended, ad-free episodes of Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast with bonus stories every week at a higher bitrate along with a bunch of other great exclusive material and merch at patreon.com/letsnotmeetpodcast. This podcast would not be possible to continue at this rate without the help of the support of the legendary LNM Patrons. Come join the family! All of the stories you've heard this week were narrated and produced with the permission of their respective authors. Let's Not Meet: A True Horror Podcast is not associated with Reddit or any other message boards online. To submit your story to the show, send it to letsnotmeetstories@gmail.com.    

In this episode of Unscaled, we take you on a whirlwind adventure through Corpus Christi, Texas, where art, beaches, and tasty bites collide. From the inspiring Selena Museum to crafting your own keepsake at Sew Bonita, we dive into the city's creative and artsy side. We'll explore art galleries, feast on mouth-watering Gulf seafood, and return to Padre Island's pristine beaches. ____________________________________ S02 Ep75 ____________________________________ Connect with us on social media:  Instagram: @unscaledtravelshow Twitter: @fullmetaltravlr Facebook: @fullmetaltraveler Website: ⁠⁠https://www.unscaledtravelshow.com/ Spotify: ⁠⁠https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/unscaled⁠

For the seagrass beds of southern Texas, rising sea level may be a case of give and take—or make that take and give. Higher waters are killing off some seagrass. But as the water rises even higher, newly submerged land has the potential to increase the total seagrass area.Seagrass is important for many coastal ecosystems. It can protect the coast from storms, filter pollution from runoff, and provide habitat and food for fish and other life. So losing seagrass is a big deal.Researchers at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute studied beds in Upper Laguna Madre—a narrow estuary behind Padre Island. They looked at the beds today, and examined records from the past three decades.Sea level in the region is rising much faster than the global average—roughly half an inch to an inch per year. As the water rises, less sunlight reaches the bottom—a big problem for seagrasses. Because of the deeper waters, two species of seagrass have vanished since 2018 at one study location. A check on a wider area showed that seagrass had disappeared at almost a quarter of the sampled locations.On the other hand, seagrass may colonize newly submerged regions. That could expand its total habitat by as much as 25 square miles by 2050.Not every seagrass habitat will be that prolific. Beds in much of the world are hemmed in by development, so they have no place to go. For those regions, there won't be much give and take—rising sea level will be all take.

Texas Standard commentator WF Strong says that, starting in the 1950s, participants in the Padre Island Walkathon covered 110 miles – all walking, no running – over three days. The full transcript of this episode of Stories from Texas is available on the KUT & KUTX Studio website. The transcript is also available as subtitles […] The post The craziest race you've never heard of happened on Padre Island appeared first on KUT & KUTX Studios -- Podcasts.

One of the most popular public events in the National Park System was the release of sea turtle hatchlings, shuffling off into the Gulf of Mexico at Padre Island National Seashore. I say was, because the number of those public events has been drastically scaled back in recent years.  The programs featuring the release of Kemp's ridley sea turtle hatchlings at Padre Island offered young and old a crash course in conservation of a species that has narrowly avoided extinction, and remains highly endangered. In 2019, before the COVID 19 pandemic shuttered the public hatchling releases at Padre Island, an estimated 16,000 people viewed the releases. In 2020, online video presentations of the events attracted about 1 million viewers.  Yet despite the strong conservation value of these events, not just in public education but in the tens of thousands of hatched turtles released to the ocean, advocates of the program say the national seashore's Sea Turtle Science and Recovery program itself is endangered. For after the Park Service recruited Dr. Donna Shaver to build that sea turtle science program, a role that saw her lifted to international prominence, the agency now seems to be squandering her success and hoping she will retire.  What's been going on at Padre Island since 2021 has drawn the concern of the Sierra Club's Lone Star chapter, based in Austin, Texas. It recently led a petition drive to raise concerns over the direction of the sea turtle program. Dr. Craig Nazor, the chapter's conservation chair, recently met with Kate Hammond, the Director of the Park Services Intermountain Region, to question the direction of the program. 

Majestic wildlife abounds across the National Park System. You can see wolves, grizzlies and bison in Yellowstone, California condors at Pinnacles and Grand Canyon, moose in Voyageurs, and sea turtles at Cape Hatteras and Padre Island, and elephant seals at Point Reyes National Seashore, just to name some of the possibilities. Another charismatic species in the park system, but one you're not likely to see, are panthers. Also known as mountain lions, or cougars, depending on the region of the country. These are big stealthy cats, most often on the move after dark, which is why you're not likely to spot one.  South Florida is best known as home for the Florida panther. Another reason you might not spot one of these cats is because there are so few of them. Conservationists at the South Florida Wildlands Association fear the population of the iconic Florida Panther may have dwindled to as few as 100 cats.  They don't know for sure, though, because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has not released a species status assessment and population count since 2009. And without current information, the fight for the panther's existence and efforts to curtail development that threatens it, are more challenging than ever.   In this week's podcast, the Traveler's Lynn Riddick speaks with the executive director of that organization to hear about their latest efforts to address the assaults on the panther's habitat and their approach in protecting this incredible, endangered creature.

Stories about my time driving the van through Texas. Fredericksburg, Corpus Christi, and Padre Island. Camped on Padre Island for 2-3 weeks. Happy times and sad. Good times and bad. Wrote a song on the beach and posted that video separately. Check it.

This is the first song I ever wrote. At the time I was camping on the beach at Padre Island and feeling pretty down but this song helped. I explain what led up to the song on Episode 11 of my podcast Adventures of Andrew B. Lyrics: Here I go, leaving home, again. Say goodbye, to the oldest friends. Won't look back, won't turn around. My feet move fast, When they hit the ground. Please don't miss me, when I'm gone. It hurts too much, but I know that's wrong to want. There's distance now, Im far away. You've got snow, And I've got waves. Everything seems different, I'm starting to change. But who will I be, When my inside rearrange? I pray it's something better, Better than before. This echo inside of me, Is one I can't ignore. Maybe, just maybe. I'll find something that will change me. Maybe, just maybe. I'll find something that will change me. I'm not really sure, What I'm doing here. I'm alone again, With all my fear. And I know it never helps, But I'll have another beer. And another, and another. I'm waking up, To a clear blue sky. But I can't shake these clouds, From my mind. Somethings wrong, And I don't know why, I tell myself, All these lies. And if this is what I wanted, Why am I so scared? Cause the change you're looking for, Searching for, Is rare. Maybe, just maybe, I'll find something that will change me. Maybe, just maybe, I'll find something that will save me

The U.S. National Park System encompasses over 400 national parks. Of those, 70 are supported by the Western National Parks Association. Carlsbad Caverns, NM.  Canyon De Chelly, AZ. Padre Island, TX. And so many more renown, enticing places to visit in a dozen western states. CEO Marie Buck joins Russell and Alan to talk about how WNPA not only supports parks, but also park visitors and the park experience. 

In which everyone hits up Padre Island for Spring Break! Nancy's invited there by her camp buddy Mercedes (Selena Gomez), who is dating disaster himbo Buck (Ryan Hansen), and the Hardys (themselves) decide to crash this tender, hormone-flooded reunion. Ned is there too, and there are SEVERAL make out sessions AND banging opportunities for my OTP, so I am one happy narrator for this pirate treasure romp. They also discover a corpse, natch, because if you invite Nancy Drew, you need to just plan for corpses.

Running from Corpus Christi to near Brownsville, Padre Island is the longest barrier island in the world. Up until the late 1950s, you could drive the entire 113 miles of the island if you had a vehicle with decent four-wheel drive. That option was blocked in 1957 when the Port Mansfield Cut was dredged. The […]

Episode 46 welcomes Kent and Veerle Ullberg.  Over the past 46 years, this couple has built a life, a business, and a legacy with realistic wildlife sculptures, all serving to spread the beauty of nature and engage onlookers to recognize a need for the preservation of our natural environment. Kent makes the sculptures and Veerle runs the business. They have operated in exactly this way for nearly half a century!  For more on Kent's work as a sculptor and naturalist, view his bio below. Also note the headline quote by the late Roger Tory Peterson who, himself was an author, artist, and educator, and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his extraordinary work in the field of ornithology.  "No one during the latter half of this century has celebrated the animal form with greater enthusiasm and virtuosity. Very simply, Kent's public monuments have come close to symbolize an age of environmental awareness that is a stepping stone to the next millennium." –––––– Roger Tory Peterson A native of Sweden, Kent Ullberg is recognized as one of the world's foremost wildlife sculptors. He studied at the Swedish University College of Art in Stockholm and worked at museums in Germany, the Netherlands, France, Africa and Denver, CO. After living in Botswana, Africa, for seven years he has made his home permanently in the United States where he now lives on Padre Island, Corpus Christi, TX. He also maintains a studio in Loveland, CO. Ullberg is a member of numerous art organizations and has been honored with many prestigious awards. In 1990 his peers elected him a Full Academician (NA), thus making him the first wildlife artist since John James Audubon to receive one of the greatest tributes in American art. A selection of his memberships include the National Sculpture Society; the American Society of Marine Art; the Allied Artists of America; Nature in Art, Sandhurst, UK; the National Academy of Western Art in Oklahoma City, OK which awarded him the Prix de West, the foremost recognition in Western Art. In 2010 he received the Briscoe Legacy Award and in 2016 the lifetime achievement award from the Society of Animal Artists. Best known for his monumental works executed for museums and municipalities across the globe, his Fort Lauderdale, FL, and his Omaha, NE installations are the largest bronze wildlife compositions ever done, spanning several city blocks. Both earned him the coveted Henry Hering Medal Award from the National Sculpture Society, NYC. His most recent monumental installation is "Snow-Mastodon," a life-size bronze Mastodon placed outside the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Kent's work is nothing short of "larger than life". His Spirit of Nebraska in Omaha, NE for instance, consists of 67 bronze and stainless steel works.  This site occupies the Bank properties on all four corners of the 16th and Dodge intersection as well as works on 15th Street. This wildlife monument includes 3 bulls standing at 8' and weighing nearly 1,400 pounds, several yearling bulls, and 2 cows with their calves, as well as a large water feature with 8' Canada Geese in bronze taking flight. As the geese fly across the street they are attached to 18' bronze trees, a traffic signal, the corner of a building, a light post, 2 other poles, and culminate with several stainless steel geese suspended within the glass atrium of the Bank's headquarters. Each of these works has been strategically placed to engage visitors, particularly children, as they pass. To say that Kent and Veerle have built a "successful" life in the world of art and creativity would be a complete understatement. While their days as Creative Moonlighters passed back in the 1970's, hearing their story is awe-inspiring for any creative who is currently looking for a way to make the transition from moonlighting to daylighting.  Enjoy and as always, send questions and comments to Griffyn.co@gmail.com  Visit www.kentullberg.net #kentullberg #sculptureandartist #becominganartist #spiritofnebraska #orinthology #naturalist #nature #realismart #wildlifeart #wildlifescuptures #environment #preservation #conservation #corpuschristi #padreisland #corpuschristimonument  #creativemoonlighting #griffynco #griffyncoproductions

As technologies advance and costs decline for entry into the industry, a spaceport infrastructure will be necessary to link activities within the space industry. This creates opportunities for research, education, tourism, and manufacturing. A Spaceport can serve as the axis of an ecosystem providing access to space through vertical launch capabilities and/or horizontal takeoff flights. One of the most notable companies that are responsible for a lot of the growth in space is SpaceX. Starship is the next generation of rockets that can carry large payloads off-planet. Boca Chica is where these megarockets are born.  Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport is close to the Starship base. Today's guest is the airport's Deputy Director of Development & Security and is behind the effort for a spaceport in the area. Show Notes: ABOUT FRANCISCO PARTIDA Deputy Director of Development & Security of Brownsville San Padre Island International Airport  FranciscoPartida@brownsvilletx.gov Brownsville San Padre Island International Airport https://flybrownsville.com/ https://www.facebook.com/flybrospi/ City of Brownsville, TX https://www.brownsvilletx.gov https://www.facebook.com/BTxRGV https://twitter.com/BTxRGV Spaceport Trust Fund https://gov.texas.gov/business/page/spaceport-trust-fund ABOUT IZZY Izzy's website - CLICK HERE Author of Space Marketing: Competing in the new commercial space industry on Amazon and Audible - CLICK HERE Podcast host for Space Marketing Podcast - CLICK HERE Organizer for Space for Kentucky Roundtable - CLICK HERE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 506, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Places In The News 1: In October 2000 a bomb damaged the U.S.S. Cole in this Mideastern country. Yemen. 2: He wasn't an alien visitor, but Felix Baumgartner did come from 24 miles up when he landed in this Southwest state in 2012. New Mexico. 3: In May 2013 hearts rejoiced when 3 women missing for nearly a decade escaped to freedom in this city. Cleveland. 4: In August 2013 ex-president Pervez Musharraf of this country was charged with the murder of Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan. 5: In August 2013 ex-president Pervez Musharraf of this country was charged with the murder of Benazir Bhutto. Pakistan. Round 2. Category: Motown 1: Beginning with "Where Did Our Love Go", this group has 12 No. 1 hits, more than any act on the Motown label. the Supremes. 2: "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" was the first of his 19 Grammys, a record for rock performers. Stevie Wonder. 3: This lead singer of the Miracles wrote "My Guy" for Mary Wells and "My Girl" for the Temptations. Smokey Robinson. 4: On one of his early albums, released in 1963, he was billed as a "12 year old genius". Stevie Wonder. 5: Renaldo Benson, Abdul Fakir, Levi Stubbs and Lawrence Payton performed under this name, starting in 1956. the Four Tops. Round 3. Category: Word To The Chef 1: Roe is fish eggs; roebuck is this meat. Deer/venison. 2: Tybo and Tilsit are types of these. Cheeses. 3: To make small squares of food is to dice; to make them a little larger is to do this, the shape of dice. Cube. 4: This French term refers to food that has been strained and blended to a smooth consistency. Puree. 5: 5-letter word for a male chicken that's been "fixed". Capon. Round 4. Category: Texas 1: David G. Burnet, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Anson Jones and Sam Houston were the only ones to hold this office. president of the Republic of Texas. 2: In 1972 adman Harve Chapman coined the term "Metroplex" for the area shared by these 2 cities. Dallas and Fort Worth. 3: It was said they "can ride like a Mexican, trail like an Indian... and fight like a very devil". the Texas Rangers. 4: This island off Corpus Christi is the largest in Texas, Dad. Padre Island. 5: Now a Republican, he began his career as an aide to freshman Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. John Connolly. Round 5. Category: (5,5) 1: Very, very, very, very dark, like tar. Pitch black. 2: Mine are vibrating even as I speak. Vocal cords. 3: The best thing to win; it's blue ribbon level. First place. 4: Term for a periodical published by a business for its employees. House organ. 5: A person's temperature and pulse and respiration rates. Vital signs. Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

We're talking about the murder of Mark Kilroy by a black magic priest in Matamoro, Mexico in 1989.Mark Kilroy and three of his friends were in South Padre Island, Texas for spring break in 1989, but by pure misfortune he crossed paths with Adolfo Constanza, a palo mayombe black magic priest who doubled as a drug cartel boss, who was unhappy with his previous human sacrifice. Mark became his next one. If you like our content, please become a patron to unlock our premium episodes and get our public episodes ad-free! The satanic panic was all over the news in the 1980s and 1990s. Everyone was convinced that satanic cultists were hiding behind every bush in America, which simply wasn't true, but as with so many other cultural trends in the US, after a certain critical mass of political debate is reached, a person comes along and makes a myth into reality. Adolfo did exactly that when his gruesome sacrificial altar was discovered in the summer of 1989 in Matamoros, Mexico, just over the border from Brownsville, Texas. A hot party spot for spring break tourists coming over the border from Padre Island, Texas, Matamoros was also a major crossing for drug cartels. Adolfo said he needed the screams of terror to make the most powerful magic, and he grew weary of rival drug gang members who simply wouldn't scream and beg. His instructions to his followers when they went out to find Mark Kilroy was simple: "A student. Someone blonde and soft. Someone I can use. Someone who will scream." 1, 2 The Hernandez drug cartel, a small pot smuggling family in Matamoros, believed in the magic, and brothers Elio and Ovidio Hernandez-Garcia assisted in the ritual murders. They thought the magic made them invisible to the police and invincible versus bullets. Sara Aldrete Villareal also believed, she was an American honors college student by a day and Adolfo's priestess by night. She performed at least one human sacrifice... a man who offended her was boiled alive after she cut off his nipples with scissors. 1. Gary Cartwright. The Work of The Devil. Texas Monthly. June 1989 ⇤2. Guy Garcia. The Believers: Cult Murders in Mexico. Rolling Stone. June 1989. ⇤

HOUR 3 - Seth and Sean discuss the story of a psycho dolphin haunting Padre Island, react to Derek Ruscin's rant in response to an Arkansas baseball player's press conference, and dive into some of what Tony Buzbee had to tell In the Loop on Friday about where things are with the Watson lawsuits.

On April 29, 1554 a severe storm blasted a convoy of four Spanish treasure ships. Three sank and one escaped. Four ships, the Espiritu Santo, the San Esteban, the Santa Maria de Yciar and the San Andreas set sail from San Juan de Ulúa, down near Veracruz, Mexico, on April 9, 1554, with Antonio Corzo as captain-general.  The combined cargoes of the four ships had an estimated value of a little over two million pesos. This equaled more than $9.8 million in value in 1975, which means today the cargo has the value of $52,370,617.10. Twenty days later they were caught in a storm and the Espiritu Santo, the San Esteban, and the Santa Maria de Yciar sank. The San Andreas escaped and reached Havana. It was so damaged that it had to be scrapped rather than undergo repair. It is believed that half to two thirds of the 300 people on the three battered ships that sank drowned before they could make it to the shore of Padre Island. For perspective, recall that Cabeza de Vaca and his surviving cohorts from the ill fated Narvaez expedition had crashed ashore just about twenty five years before, in 1528. Things had not gone well for them and things did not go well for the survivors of these ships. A small group, including some skilled mariners, set out to sea in one of the boats that had been saved from the sunken ships. Their goal was to reach Mexico and organize a relief expedition. The larger group that remained set out on foot. They did not understand the distance they would have to travel.  As you might expect, they ran into some problems with some of the indigenous bands along the way and as the Handbook of Texas puts it, the trip became a death march. They made it as far as the Rio Grande before they started suffering casualties. But when they crossed the Rio Grande they lost the few crossbows they carried. After that they were constantly stalked and picked off. Only one person survived to reach Panuco: Fray Marcos de Mena, a Dominican lay brother.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some 615,000 visitors a year flock to the hard-packed gray sands of Padre Island National Seashore along the Gulf Coast of Texas. This undeveloped national seashore boasts an abundance of natural wonders in its tidal flats, dunes and grasslands. Ample solitude can be found on it 65-mile stretch of beach, including 60 miles that are only accessible by four-wheel drive. The Traveler's Lynn Riddick takes an in-depth look at Padre Island National Seashore and finds that not only is it a popular destination for campers, windsurfers, and anglers, but history buffs might find intrigue in the remnants of early settlements, cattle ranches and military installations found there.

In 2018 James and Michelle Butler left it all behind and set out on a cross-country trip of a lifetime. This trip would be tragically cut short at the hands of two strangers. 

Mike Savage is a former radio personality, television news anchor, and criminal mastermind. He served fifteen years, two months, and twenty-eight days in federal prison for international money laundering. Crime was his second life, one that his wife and family knew nothing about until federal agents raided their home. He is currently an adjunct professor teaching Bible, theology, and psychology. He and his wife live on Padre Island in Texas. Mike is the author of A Prisoner's Perspective: Redemption of a Criminal Mastermind, his memoir that won Best in Memoirs at Book Talk Radio Club 2018 Awards. He along with his wife Cynthia Savage are co-hosts at A Savage Perspective podcast. We are blessed and excited to share the story of Mike Savage, host of the A Savage Perspective podcast, and author of A Prisoner's Perspective. Connect with Mike: www.facebook.com/asavageperspectivepodcast / @asavageperspectivepodcast www.instagram.com/mcsavage89 / @mcsavage89 twitter.com/mikesav78418 / @mikesav78418 mikesavagebooks.com A Prisoner's Perspective: mikesavagebooks.com/books A Savage Perspective Podcast: www.spreaker.com/show/a-savage-perspective Dave's Appearance on A Savage Perspective: https://www.spreaker.com/user/asavageperspective/dave-ebert Thank you to purple-planet.com for out theme music! #OGHG #testimony #Jesus #God #HolySpirit #freedom #prisoner #redemption #faith #author #podcaster

This is the time of year that Peregrine falcons make their incredible journey from Greenland to Argentina and Chile, a distance of over eight thousand miles. One of the most popular migration stopovers for Peregrines is Padre Island. There, they rest and eat for a few days. Texas Standard commentator WF Strong says it’s like […]

This week Bernie's wife is even more pregnant than last time. Gabe sees Ice Cube and B-Real on S. Padre Island and has to fend off a Methican. Dave goes to Chicago and tries to produce this podcast on 3hrs of sleep and 3 Monster Energy drinks. 

Holy crap we cannot believe we have recorded 100 episodes! Thank you so much for your support over the last year-ish. We so very much appreciate you. And of course, we love you and definitely mean it. Last week was the Bachelorette Season 17 premiere, with Katie Thurston as the lead! Jeff, the skin salesman (you read that right), arrived in an old, dusty Breaking Bad RV as his entrance. It did nothing but creep us and Katie out. He may (allegedly) be a murderer. (10:19) James and Michelle Butler seem like a truly cool couple, full of life, laughter, and adventure. Originally from New Hampshire, they set out on a trip across the country. They were camping in their RV on the beach in Padre Island, Texas when two creeps (allegedly) murdered them to steal their truck and trailer and headed to Mexico. Links Discussed in the Episode: Paula DeAnda - Walk Away (Remember Me) Connect with us at linktr.ee/CrimeandRoses There you can see links to listen and share the podcast and connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Email: CrimeandRoses@gmail.com. Send us crime suggestions and any questions or comments you may have. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/crimeandroses/support

Happy 1st day of May! This week (after a month-long break) we're continuing to explore Texas, starting with Padre Island, known for its April 1554 shipwrecks. Next we drive about 4 hours to Rocksprings to glance into the "Devil's Sinkhole," and meet some of the winged creatures that live there. Lastly, we enter the 3,400 square foot castle in Bellville.

Padre Island is perhaps best known for its visitors: spring breakers in March and April, endangered sea turtles during summer, and migrating birds in the winter. And there’s plenty of room for them, because Padre is the longest barrier island in the world. Barrier islands form as waves and currents drive sand from the ocean floor toward land. Eventually, enough sand piles up to rise above the water. Such islands protect the coastline from tropical storms and other threats. Most barrier islands are long and skinny -- including Padre Island. It stretches 113 miles along the Texas coast, from Corpus Christi to near the Rio Grande River. At its widest, though, it’s only about three miles across. It separates the Gulf of Mexico from Laguna Madre, a super-salty lagoon. Padre Island probably rose above the water at least 3,000 years ago. Today, its dunes reach heights of 25 feet or more. Plants have taken root on many of the dunes, holding them in place. The middle portion of the island is a national seashore, which protects both the island and its life -- native and visitors alike. The list of creatures includes about 60 species of butterflies, about 400 species of both birds and plants -- and five species of sea turtles. The endangered Kemp’s ridley is the most famous sea turtle. Dozens of females have been brought to the island to nest. The nests and hatchlings are protected until the youngsters can head out to sea -- hopefully to visit Padre Island once again in the years ahead.

In this episode of Prickly and Blooming, host Jessie Browning talks to her longtime friend, Mercer Black. Mercer is a writer who is known for sharing her life experiences dubbed as "Mercer stories." She shares a few of these stories, what inspired her love of storytelling and what she is currently writing about. Episode Timeline: [00:03] Intro [08:41] How Jessie and Mercer became friends [14:30] Mercer stories [17:09] Why she tells stories [24:09] Meeting Steve Guttenberg [29:48] The Bambi effect [32:41] Her parents [37:38] Helping a man who was electrocuted [43:15] Trying to find a rave [51:55] Padre Island for Spring Break and other travel stories [1:02:02] "Write it down, Mercer" [1:08:58] Dad breaks her shoulder [1:14:47] Jessie's rapid fire questions [1:25:33] Outro Resources Mentioned: Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor Standout Quotes: "Having a good story comes down to having a poor lack of boundaries." -Mercer Black [32:15] "There's just such a deeper knowing of you when you know people's parents." -Jessie Browning [33:23] "Everyday I get to work on telling a story is a good day." -Mercer Black [1:08:45] Connect: Connect with Lajoie Society: Lajoie Society is Prickly & Blooming; please rate, review, and subscribe. Lajoie Society on Instagram Lajoie Society on Facebook Lajoie Society on Twitter Lajoie Society Website Learn more about Mercer Black: Mercer Black's Website

In this episode of Prickly and Blooming, host Jessie Browning talks to her longtime friend, Mercer Black. Mercer is a writer who is known for sharing her life experiences dubbed as “Mercer stories.” She shares a few of these stories, what inspired her love of storytelling and what she is currently writing about. Episode Timeline:[00:03] Intro[08:41] How Jessie and Mercer became friends[14:30] Mercer stories[17:09] Why she tells stories[24:09] Meeting Steve Guttenberg[29:48] The Bambi effect[32:41] Her parents[37:38] Helping a man who was electrocuted[43:15] Trying to find a rave[51:55] Padre Island for Spring Break and other travel stories[1:02:02] “Write it down, Mercer”[1:08:58] Dad breaks her shoulder[1:14:47] Jessie’s rapid fire questions[1:25:33] OutroResources Mentioned:Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor Standout Quotes:“Having a good story comes down to having a poor lack of boundaries.” -Mercer Black [32:15]“There’s just such a deeper knowing of you when you know people’s parents.” -Jessie Browning [33:23]“Everyday I get to work on telling a story is a good day.” -Mercer Black [1:08:45]Connect:Connect with Lajoie Society:Lajoie Society is Prickly & Blooming; please rate, review, and subscribe.Lajoie Society on InstagramLajoie Society on FacebookLajoie Society on TwitterLajoie Society Website  Learn more about Mercer Black:Mercer Black’s Website

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For All Abilities – The Podcast  Henry Furler Part Two    For this episode of For All Abilities: The Podcast, I got to talk with one of my very favorite people. I interviewed my son, Henry Furler! Henry and I talk about the life threatening medical problems (including epilepsy, dysautonomia, autoimmune disease, autoimmune encephalitis) that he has faced throughout his life and how he has succeeded despite all the challenges.    To connect with Henry, please follow him on LinkedIn (Henry Furler) or email him at jhenryfurler@gmail.com.    Please subscribe to For All Abilities – The Podcast! Please follow me on Instagram @forallabilities, LinkedIn (Betsy Furler) and on Facebook (For All Abilities). Go to our website www.forallabilities.com for information on our software that enables employers to support their employees with ADHD, Dyslexia, Learning Differences and Autism. Thanks for listening!  Betsy     Thanks for listening to For All Abilities today!    Share the podcast with your friends, they’ll thank you for it!   Get our newsletter and stay up to date! The newsletter link is on our website www.forallabilities.com   Follow me   Twitter: @betsyfurler   Instagram: @forallabilities   Facebook: @forallabilites   LinkedIn: @BetsyFurler   Website: www.forallabilities.com   Transcription by Otter.ai   Betsy Furler  0:05   Welcome to for all abilities the podcast. This is your host, Betsy Furler. The aim of this podcast is to highlight the amazing things people with ADHD, dyslexia, learning differences and autism are doing to improve our world.   Henry Furler  1:17   I'm so glad to be here again. So when we left off, we were talking about middle school and then High School is when it really got interesting, right? Yes, I'm in ninth grade. For the first semester. I was completely, I was completely homebound. And   that would have been 11th grade. No, it was 10th grade Dengue  Oh, I think it was in 2008 it might be 11th grade because Henry's usually right about dates. So, okay, anyway, so I'll start at 10th grade since we're mentioning that. Um, so in 10th grade I started at a very small private school called Xavier educational like how to me where the majority of the classes are online, but you go to a school location and they have like tutors   interact with. So okay, tell them about being Dengue So in 2015, I went on a youth group trip and to Port Aransas, Texas, and a week later   National Institutes of Health on tropical diseases and specifically, I think the West Nile and Dengue so he had a presumptive diagnosis of dengue fever, with all the symptoms and you're right that after   Betsy Furler  9:38   So we forgot Henry also to tell them that while all this was going on, you were very active in Boy Scouts. And you're also very active in the children's advisory board at Texas Children's so wanted to tell them a little bit about Boy Scouts because you had finished your Eagle before he had dengue   Henry Furler  9:56   Let me finish with the dengue first   Okay.   to the National Institutes of Health because the disease had finished its progression and she couldn't report it it was tested too late yes um, and dengue of the   Betsy Furler  10:33   pretty much for your lifetime after you get them dengue is one of those and that will come up later. And he also during the dengue he started having a lot a lot of severe dizzy spells and heart rate variations and breathing variations and was ultimately diagnosed with dysautonomia, so tell them a little bit about your extracurricular activities since your life wasn't awesome.   Henry Furler  11:00   In the hospital, it seemed like it was. So a few years before I got dengue I became an Eagle Scout. Through the Boy Scouts of America, I built a cell phone charging station for the emergency Center at Texas Children's Hospital. And then I was on the children's advisory board at Texas Children's Hospital, which helped a lot with making the hospital more family pay family. Patient Centered Care is what they call it.   Betsy Furler  16:01   All through your life really, although you've been really medically complex and sick so much, but the good thing about you, Henry is, if you're not in the hospital, you're pretty much living life as quote unquote normal. So, maybe dengue  was awful, and then you develop the dysautonomia after it. And then two years ago, almost in November, on November on November of 2018,   So much for being on my podcast for two episodes. Yes, I am glad that I got to share my story with all of your listeners. And if somebody wants to reach out to you to get more information or find out more about you, how can they find you? My email again is jhenryfurler@gmail.com. Thank you for being here, Henry. I love you so much. I'm so proud of you. I love you too. So, thanks for listening to my part two of my interview with my son Henry. And please like rate review, and subscribe and all of those things to my podcast on whatever podcast you're listening to this on. Please share the podcast and please follow me, Betsy Furler on LinkedIn and on Instagram at for all abilities on Facebook for all abilities, Twitter.   Have a listen to for all abilities, the podcast and please subscribe on whatever podcast app you're listening to us on. Hi, everybody. Welcome back to for all abilities the podcast. This is your host Betsy Furler. And today we are talking about talking with someone who has succeeded so exceptionally despite a lot of challenges. Frequently we talk to people with different types of neurodiversity like autism, ADHD, dyslexia and learning differences or with people with physical challenges, and today I am talking to my son for part two His medical story and medical challenges. So part one talks about kind of birth three Middle School. And part two, we are starting with his high school years. So welcome back to the show, Henry.   Henry Furler  1:40   that was a mess.   Betsy Furler  1:42   And he had had we also forgot to say that he had a vagal nerve stimulator implanted, which is an implantable device, almost like a pacemaker for your brain, right?   Henry Furler  1:51   Yes, that within. That was at the beginning of eighth grade.   Betsy Furler  1:56   But yet your seizures persisted. It has helped over time Yours at your Caesars Caesars persisted. So for ninth grade you are home. And do you remember why what were we what we were getting ready for   Henry Furler  2:09   for that fall? I do not. We were   Betsy Furler  2:11   getting ready for the ketogenic diet. Oh, yes. So tell them about starting the ketogenic diet.   Henry Furler  2:17   So when we first decided that we were going to do the ketogenic diet, and we went to the hospital and talked to the doctors, they were adamant that I would not follow the diet completely, because I was a teenager, and they were wrong.   Betsy Furler  2:36   So I said, Henry is like the most compliant person on the face of the earth, even if he is a teenager. So why don't we just try it? So we actually changed hospitals. Remember, we had to change   Henry Furler  2:48   we moved from the Texas Children's Hospital to children's Memorial Hermann.   Betsy Furler  2:53   Yep. So we had to change. neurologists made a new neurologist and then she got him started on the diet. So tell him about that. fat.   Henry Furler  3:01   So it's an interesting diet, lots of mayonnaise, butter, olive oil, um, you have to measure all of your food in you have to weigh all of the food, and it's very time consuming. And we did it for almost five years.   Betsy Furler  3:23   So for the first like two or three months, I think I made almost all your meals. Remember, we used all those little recipes or those little things that we had to follow and measure to wait a 10th of a gram. And then you took over, learn to cook started cooking all sorts of super interesting keto things, and it did help them with it did help with your seizures after when you start the diet.   Henry Furler  3:50   Like my mom said, for the first what is it three to four months I think you have to do everything very very specific and you have to weigh everything no carbs at all. And then after that you can start transitioning into the more relaxed where you don't have to weigh anything, weigh everything, but I'm still a lot of oil and drinking olive oil, which is not the best thing to do with olive oil please   Betsy Furler  4:27   and eating Manet she got a you liked eating man a straight?   Henry Furler  4:31   Yes.   Betsy Furler  4:32   Mayonnaise is delicious and heavy cream, lots of heavy cream.   Henry Furler  4:35   Yes. But you can mix things with heavy cream. So   Betsy Furler  4:38   that's true. And so you kept on that and you did well and then in 10th grade Well, you had a couple of hospitalizations, several hospitalizations on getting the keto kind of settled in your body. Because you had refeeding syndrome. Remember, like prisoner Have war have when you're fed, again because of the effects of the keto, and then some hospitalizations for illnesses and seizures and all the regular stuff for us. And then in 10th grade, you got really, really sick. And, and tell them about that.   Unknown Speaker  5:20   So   Henry Furler  5:23   around   Or mentors that are actual teachers. I'm there to help you with all of the assignments. So the assignments are online. And for the majority of the classes and they're graded, and outside of the school, that's how   Betsy Furler  6:17   it was done then yeah, now it's a little different   Henry Furler  6:20   yet now they have actual teachers, um, and quite a few of my classes while I was there had actual teachers I'll mention that in a minute. Um, but, um, because you could work at your own pace at that school that worked very well with my medical issues at the time.   Betsy Furler  6:43   Henry didn't really like being homebound and ninth grade and being homeschooled. He was homebound through the school district, but I also homeschooled him or he homeschooled himself, but he really likes the input of other teachers and peers. So Xavier worked really well for that and it was nice and flexible.   Henry Furler  7:01   I loved the majority of my classmates as well my graduating class was I think 10 or 11 students. I loved the majority of them. There were a few that were a little difficult, difficult to   I started having some really bad symptoms, my body would be aching a lot.   Betsy Furler  7:43   So you had a severe headache behind your eyes here you can tell that he had a severe headache behind his eyes, severe body aches and was very weak. And so we ended up going to the into the emergency room they thought he had meningitis. So they did a spine They'll tap on you with no anesthesia. Um, and they he was admitted, because he was so sick. And after quite a few days in the hospital, he was they, they didn't really know what was wrong, but my husband saw something on TV about Dengue fever. And we were able to through our network contact a local woman who also happens to be a national authority on tropical diseases. So she actually came to see him after we got home.   Henry Furler  8:34   She, she is a doctor and she is one of the national authorities with the   Betsy Furler  8:58   the disease progresses To that point where you have bleeding under the skin, and bleeding and the GI tract,   Henry Furler  9:06   I think, I think the the bruise was from an IV that I had at the hospital during the hospitalization and it stayed for over two weeks, even though there was no bleeding like from the IV, like they got it was a really good idea, actually. But the lady who came the National Authority who came to our house and did the test, she said, um, a week or so, later, she said, it's ding gang.   It is to help children so that they don't feel scared in the hospital.   Betsy Furler  11:39   And we learned a lot about things like we talked to the other kids and learn that they only gave people one chance of drawing blood. And we had been giving them three chances. And we realized that the error in our ways and we went to the one chance because if they don't get it on the first chance that they're probably not going to get it right. So you also were inquiring Middle School. Shut up, shout out to Mr. bola.   Henry Furler  12:02   Let me say something else about the Texas Children's advisory board. So there were a lot of fun things that I did with the children's advisory board one time. We tried new foods from the kitchen at the hospital and rated the foods and they were actually all really good. The food at Texas Children's is actually really good. Another thing, if any, but if any of you know of radio lollipop that some hospitals some children's hospitals have, we went to the hospital one night and we did like a children's advisory board takeover of the radio station and that was a lot of fun. Um, we have like a little day trip every year to celebrate the end of the children children's advisory board year and that was we did a lot of fun things and where are we now with the   Betsy Furler  13:04   choir. So I think that he did children's advisory board for like eight years, like from 11 to 19. Okay and then choir just say just give a shout out to Mr. bola   Henry Furler  13:16   shout out to Mr. bola for directing the linear middle school choir and for doing all those awesome trips with the choir we went to Disney World twice. It was a fun school trip to Disney World. And then we went to Fiesta Texas in San Antonio once   Betsy Furler  13:34   and one of the benefits of having a medically complex child is you get to go on all the trips because they get kind of scared of him and so I get to go and I don't know maybe the next time you go on a trip you might go by yourself finally because you're 22 now but anyway, I like having you there with me. Through all the school trips, I got to go even if they already had enough chaperones. They'd either kick somebody off to let me go or does add me as an extra. So that was fun. He also did the the geology thing.   Henry Furler  14:10   Yes. When I throughout the time that I was in high school, I did a G a series of geology field trips through the University of Texas at Austin. They have a program called geo force, Texas. And we did a series of professional college level and geology trips. A lot of my education actually since about fifth grade has been a college level staff, but presented so that a a middle schooler, or mostly high schoolers, it was like, it was like, I've been taking AP classes basically since I was in fifth grade. But um those trips were like college classes. And they were a lot of fun because we go to a lot of different places one year, we went to Padre Island and Puerto ramzes. And we went out and we took like an open ocean like boat and they let us swim in the ocean and a shark actually brushed my foot. It was a little scary but fine. We went to Utah, Montana and Idaho I think the last year and we went to go see I get Yellowstone and Yosemite mixed up all the time. It's the one with the big geyser. I think that's Yellowstone.   Betsy Furler  15:46   So that was really fun. And I didn't go on the trips, but I went to the location and hung out just to make sure that he was okay. And so we so we you got to do a lot of fun stuff.   you had or there earlier in that month, you'd had a little cold. And then about a week after that, you got the flu shot. And then a week after that, you want me to tell the story or you want to have it a week after that.   Henry Furler  16:48   I kept being what we thought were frontal lobe seizures, they call I think they call them focal seizures now, and that would look like temper tantrums For a few months before that,   Betsy Furler  17:04   really years but they've gotten progressively worse and we thought you had Pam's and tell them what pan's is because I always get it wrong.   Henry Furler  17:12   That's the pediatric autoimmune, neurological, something,   Betsy Furler  17:22   something like that. Anyway, we thought that he had that and then in November, I came home, our washer and dryer both broke that day. And so I Henry had had a seizure that morning, and then went into a catatonic state, he'd been having progressively more seizures and more strange behavior. But that morning in particular, he had a grand mal seizure. And then later in the day, he went into a catatonic state and our washer and dryer both broke, I ran to the store to buy a washer and dryer, and when I got home, he met me at the car with his backpack gone and said we have to go to the emergency room. There's something wrong with me. So we went and in the emergency room he went into a psychotic event and, and also started seizing and was very aggressive. Do you remember any of that? No. So they put him in scrubs like they would for a psychiatric patient. And then I convinced I and our wonderful nurse Lacey, and convinced them that it was medical because he was having so many seizures. So they did not put them on the psych ward, which is such a blessing because had they have done that it would have been really hard to get the medical testing that we needed. And it's a very long complicated story, which we might have to have a whole separate podcast for someday, but the short version of the of it is that he ended up having autoimmune encephalitis.   Henry Furler  18:55   If any of you have seen brain on fire The movie with what's her name? Susanna Callahan. Um, her story. It's basic, it's it talks about the autoimmune encephalitis   Betsy Furler  19:15   so you were having delusions and you are very, very scared and you are responding to that with being very aggressive and only certain people could be around you or touch you. So I was one of those people and Lacey was one of those people. And then as you got transferred to a different hospital there, there would be nurses here and there that you were okay with them touching you, but if someone would come at you or be confrontational at all, you got very aggressive and very upset and very scared. And like you wanted to flee and you were paranoid and it was horrible, horrible, horrible, and then your   Henry Furler  19:59   There were points before November, where when did we go to the wedding reception in Tyler?   Betsy Furler  20:09   That was right before that,   Henry Furler  20:10   Okay, um, when we got home when we were driving home, we passed No offense to anybody if they are a member of this faith but we passed at Jehovah's Witnesses meeting house and I thought that they were coming after me. And before that when my mom would be driving me back to school, I think that was for the spring semester.   Betsy Furler  20:41   So you went off to southwestern University and Georgetown taxes and you lived on campus for two years. And towards the end you got really so you are having a lot of separation anxiety   Henry Furler  20:53   when she would drive me up when she drove me up to the school for the spring semester. I was crying I didn't want to go back and I was having a lot of that separation anxiety. And one of the another one of the big symptoms of the autoimmune encephalitis is I'm trouble writing or reading and I basically stopped reading because it would hurt my eyes and I just couldn't understand what was going on. And when I looked back on some of my writing from that time, the letters would be, they wouldn't be wrong, but I like would squish them together. So there would be like an a and an E squished together and into a very small space. They weren't, they were distinguishable. But they were very squished together kind of like a cursive but no fanciness   Betsy Furler  21:50   and he really went after the psychotic event in the hospital and he remained in the neuro ICU and he's lost His ability to read completely at that time lost his ability to write his balance got very, very, very poor, and he was unable to swallow safely. He was aspirating when he swallowed. I at that point stepped in and told the doctors that I thought thought it was autoimmune encephalitis. And they told me to go back in the room and be a mom and stop being so smart. But they ultimately did start testing him for it and as I said, is a really long story, which we probably need a whole separate episode on. We could probably do a whole podcast itself on it. We ultimately through really through my advocacy and my mama bear ness. He finally ended up being diagnosed it took the several months,   Henry Furler  22:44   this specialty doctor at Texas Children's that we saw one appointment with, we walked in, he looked at our history, I think there were four doctors in the room. First, the they all looked at the history, I think before we got They're the psychologist who was the psychiatrist who was there. We walked in, she said hello to us. She said, I've looked at your history, it's not psychiatric and she walked out. And the specialty doctor for autoimmune encephalitis said, that's what this is.   Betsy Furler  23:19   And at the time, he was on very, very high dose steroids when I got convinced them kind of that it was autoimmune encephalitis. And they put him on very, very high dose steroids and which caused a lot of other issues and also hospitalizations for blood pressure and all sorts of things because the results of the steroids but they slowly started work, they really helped tremendously, the very beginning, but he still had a lot of swelling in his brain and a lot of issues and still lost a lot of time. And then ultimately, tell them me what she finally started the treatment with. We started the ibig Or what is it? intravenous immunoglobulin treatments? Last August? It's been about a year.   Henry Furler  24:09   Yes. Um, and they have I don't know why we haven't been doing that forever now. They've basically made my life like all my it's treated all of my health issues basically.   Betsy Furler  24:26   Yeah, so now he's like 95% back right from that I mean encephalitis, his allergies   Henry Furler  24:32   will ever get to 100 but I'm good with 95   Betsy Furler  24:35   allergies are better, seizures are better, everything is better. You hardly ever have dizziness. And, um, you're in your senior year of college now. So it's gonna be a super senior. So   Henry Furler  24:47   I've been in college for five years,   Betsy Furler  24:49   but he's only been in college for five years. He's gone to five different schools took one semester completely off and he's only done one summer of work for schools.   Henry Furler  25:00   Southwestern University of St. Thomas. St. Constantine, the College of St. Constantine and   Betsy Furler  25:08   H nhcc. Oh, five schools. So he's amazing. So since my my big thing is accommodations, tell them what accommodations you have in college,   Henry Furler  25:20   I have a lot of extended time accommodations, and extra, I think one of them is like extra time with the professors if I need it. And I'm deferred. I think one of them is the deferred testing. So if I need to move the test to another day or if I need extended time for a due date, because a lot of my my entire anthropology degree program is online, which is something they offer for anybody but it works really well with my health issues. And also the school is like an hour from our house. We don't have to drive there. But um, all of those accommodations, the professors are very good with them. And the professors are nice anyway. And, um, during the regular school year, it's easy because the online classes, it's a lot more about. Um, I want to say it's about reading and the content. There aren't a lot of assignments, discussions on online discussion boards. And it's all spread out over the week. But over the summer, the first half of the summer, I took three classes that were only five weeks, and that's one whole semester of classes squished into one third of the time, and I got two A's and a B on those classes. So   Betsy Furler  26:51   yeah, so you're doing great in school. I'm so proud of you. My   Henry Furler  26:55   GPA right now is I think 3.6   Betsy Furler  26:58   Yeah. So So We're almost out of time, but tell everybody what you what your plan is after you graduate next May   Henry Furler  27:06   a go to school for graduate school, and I hope to do Holocaust and genocide studies. All not all at the same time. Not all three of these at the same time I should confirm because Holocaust and genocide studies is one degree museum studies and World War two studies   Betsy Furler  27:26   because you're very interested in empathy based curriculum around Holocaust and genocide studies, right?   Henry Furler  27:33   Yes, if anybody has heard of facing history and ourselves, that's a an empathy and understanding based curriculum for English on the social social sciences that helps students understand each other as well as understand historical events.   Betsy Furler  27:52   And you've done so much containing add on Holocaust and genocide studies. It's incredible. So, Henry, thank you. So   Betsy Furler or far for all abilities, and also I have a special LinkedIn group that is all about connecting people who were involved in technology for people with disabilities and digital accessibility. So if you connect with me on LinkedIn, I would be happy to include you in that group. Thanks so much for listening, and I will talk to you soon. Thanks so much for listening to the for all abilities podcast. This is Betsy Furler, your host and I really appreciate your time listening to the podcast. And please subscribe on any podcast app that you're listening to us on. If you'd like to know more about what we do in our software that helps employers support their employees with ADHD dyslexia, learning differences in autism, please go to www dot for all abilities.com You can also follow us on Instagram. And you can follow me on LinkedIn at Betsy Furler. It's f as in Frank. You are le Have a great day and we will see you soon.

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The search is now on for a person of interest in the murder of a New Hampshire couple on Padre Island last month, ,someone decided to toss a Molotov cocktail into a San Antonio office building overnight, and political experts try to diagnose what went wrong for Beto O'Rourke's presidential run. All news, all for Texas! Powered by the KTSA Newsroom.

This week in Episode 266 of the RV Podcast, we’ll meet Len and Sherrie Johnson, a remarkable California couple with quite a story to tell us, a story of a devastating injury from an airplane crash and a determination to embrace the RV Lifestyle afterwards despite the obstacles. You’ll be inspired by this couple! But also this week, lots of RV news, RV Tips and an off the beaten path report from the Burketts. WHAT MIKE AND JENNIFER ARE UP TO THIS WEEK MIKE This episode is being released on just before Halloween 2019 and it’s a time that many, or most of the campgrounds in the northern states and provinces have now pretty much shut down for the season. This is also the time for the first wave of the annual snowbird migration, when the frost and early snow flurries up north are sending tens of thousands of RVers flocking to southern states like Florida and Arizona. JENNIFER The second wave always happens right after Christmas as snowbird RVers who stayed home with family for the holidays head south to take advantage of those snowbird campground special seasonal rates, typically from Jan 1 through March 31. MIKE For those whose remain in the colder states, now is the time to make sure they winterize their RVs, draining out water and running antifreeze through the plumbing system. There are about as many ways to winterize an RV as their RVs but if you’re new to this, or maybe looking for some new ideas, head over to our RV Lifestyle Channel on YouTube, where we have put together a whole playlist of videos related to winterizing. CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE RV LIFESTYLE WINTERIZING PLAYLIST ON YOUTUBE While we’re talking about the YouTube Channel, lets remind everyone that the best way to stay up to date on our videos and special YouTube reports is to subscribe. And when you do subscribe, be sure to click the little bell icon you’ll see there on YouTube to be notified as soon as we post new material, which we do all throughout the week. CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE RV LIFESTYLE CHANNEL ON YOUTUBE JENNIFER We are coming to you this week from Florida, where we’ll be until about Thanksgving time. Among other things, we’re using this time to travel Florida’s Gulf Coast, from pretty much Naples up through Tallahassee, doing research for one of our 7 Day Adventure Guides. We’re actually planning two of them on Florida – one on the gulf, or west coast; the other on the Atlantic, or east coast. We hope to have those guides ready right after the holidays and they’ll be joining our growing library of RV travel guides. MIKE We have five of those 7-Day Adventure Guides already available… for the Michigan Upper Peninsula, for Utah, Colorado, Yellowstone National Park and the Adirondacks. Plus we have a guide on boondocking and how to buy an RV. We hope to get the new Florida guides out right around the first of the new year. CLICK HERE FOR INFO ON OUR LIBRARY OF RV LIFESTYLE GUIDES JENNIFER Besides the research for our Florida RV travel guides, we’ve been traveling around in our RV, visiting small southern towns and digging into the history of how they got their names. We’ll have a video on it in a couple weeks but it was another reminder to me about how much better it is traveling off the interstate on two lane roads. We’ve also forced ourselves to slow down and take our time as we travel through those small towns. They all have a story to tell and there are always fascinating things to see and do. This part of the podcast is brought to you by Dish Outdoors, which lets RVers pay as they go and watch HD satellite television from wherever they are camped with easy to set up gear made with the RVer in mind. Just go to https://rvlifestyle.com/dish for details on the service and special deal just for listeners of this podcast. RV LIFESTYLE NEWS OF THE WEEK MIKE Fears rise over fate of Missing RVers near Padre Island, TX As this episode was being reported the RV community was intensely following the disappearance of a New Hampshire cou...

Enrique Cruz joins us to share his heartbreaking story about his late wife Laura Avila who tragically died after plastic surgery gone wrong in Mexico. He starts by telling us how he met the beautiful Laura in El Paso 16 years ago at a Fashion Show. Cruz admits to having been a big time player and womanizer before he got serious with Laura. She changed him to become a better, more respectable man.Laura was his person and he knew instantly that he would marry her one day. Laura was a very commanding person and the boss in their relationship and he was totally fine with that. He actually loved it.He tells us that when you grow up in a border town like El Paso or Padre Island it is totally normal to cross the border to Mexico to go to doctors and hospitals. Cruz takes us through the details of surgery day at the Rinocenter in Juarez, Mexico - from the normal nervousness before surgery to him getting back to the clinic early to make sure everything was going ok.He had received no phone calls from the clinic during the duration of the surgery.Upon arrival at the clinic he was told the surgery never took place because something went wrong with the anesthesia and they were just waiting for it to wear off which should be within the hour.4 hours went by and Cruz kept demanding to see Laura, but they always refused. When he finally goes back to see her he found her convulsing. Laura was left a minimum of 6 to 8 hours laying in the back of the clinic after an allergic reaction to anesthesia with no urgency to get her emergency medical help. She was not even given oxygen. Finally an ambulance was called and it was then that Cruz learned the seriousness and grave situation Laura was in.The anesthesiologist Dr. Ciudad Juarez made a fatal mistake and administered an epidural in the wrong place in her spine where the anesthesia went to Laura's brain instead of her spine. This caused her brain to be without oxygen for over 1 minute, making her brain swell, her kidney's fail and she went into cardiac arrest. Laura's mother had no idea that Laura was doing this surgery, Laura wanted to surprise everyone later. Cruz recounts the days of the ICU stay in the hospital in Mexico, to her Mom and sister arriving and then how complicated it was for them transferring Laura to University Medical Center in El Paso.Laura's sister caught the doctors from the Rinocenter red handed trying to change information on Laura's medical charts while she was in the hospital in Mexico. They were trying to cover up their mistake. They had to get security involved. The University Medical Center in El Paso had to inform the family that there was nothing more they could do for Laura and that they would have to make "THAT DECISION" as a family. Cruz describes the days of him staying in Laura's room, while she was hooked up to so many tubes including a feeding tube. He describes the agonizing times the desensitized nurses would carelessly stick longneedles into Laura and he could see that it was painful for her and even would see tears form and run down her face. It was so difficult for all of them to make the decision to take her off all the machines and transfer her to a hospice facility. Cruz says that every day he could see her disintegrate more and more.One of the catholic priests from Laura's Mom married Laura and Cruz on her death bed. Laura passed away on November 24, 2018 peacefully surrounded by her husband and her family.Cruz had not realized how big this story had become in the media and that it had reached international attention. He told Laura that she was famous right before she passed away. Cruz says that there are different angles of everybody's sides in this story but it all ends the same. Cruz and 30 family members and friends traveled to Tulum, Mexico where they spread her ashes and celebrated Laura's life. We learn about the closing and reopening of the Rinocenter and that Dr. Ciudad Juarez is still working. We learn how political it is in Mexico and that they are still trying to file charges. Cruz wants everyone to remember the positive things about Laura's life, not just the tragedy how her life ended. Cruz thanks everyone that contributed to the GO FUND ME that raised over $ 80.000. This money is helping the family with the hospital bills as well as attorneys to try to get Justice for Laura. He also thanks the entire Venegas family from El Paso because it was them that introduced Cruz to Laura and it was them that were there and helped them in so many ways through this ordeal.

Dave Evins calls in with a sports report and Lago talks with owner/editor of the Island Moon, Dale Rankin about school bus issues with Flour Bluff ISD, the possibility of a new Margaritaville, Felicity Huffman's prison sentence, the worth of Padre Island, and more.

Dave Evins calls in with a sports report and Lago talks with Linda Lindsey about a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project; Owner/editor of the Island Moon, Dale Rankin stops by to talk about area speed traps, the worth of Padre Island, local music and more.

Lago talks with Tyler Thorsen about fishing and the possibility of Margaritaville coming to Padre Island; Lago discusses Beto O'Rourke's comments from last night's debate about taking away AR-15s.

Dave Evins calls in with a sports report and Lago talks with Carolyn Vaughn about the old County Courthouse, comments made in Commissioner's court, the county budget and more; Chad Magill discusses the possibility of Margaritaville coming to Padre Island, his trip to Washington D.C., and new developments in Corpus Christi.

Lago talks sports with Dan McReynolds and owner/editor of the Island Moon, Dale Rankin is in the box to discuss a move made by the Port Aransas city council, UTVs on island roads, plastic bags on Padre Island, the Harbor Island project, and more.

Dave Evins calls in with a sports report and Chief Mike Markle calls in to discuss school zone safety and UTVs on Padre Island; Lago talks with Blake and city councilman Gil Hernandez about water bills, desalinization, ransomware, and more.

Tyler Thorsen calls in with a fishing report and Lago talks with Blake and Mike Hummel about Padre Island in 1970, hemp cultivation, the Green New Deal for guns, and more.

Dave Evins calls in with a sports report and Lago talks with Blake and Dale Rankin about the legality of ATVs on Padre Island roads, the exploitation of cows, exercising the open carry law, the new Island grocery store, and more.

Dave Evins calls in with a sports report and discusses Megan Rapinoe's speech; Lago talks with Blake, Tyler Thorsen, Jacob Augs and Paulette Kluge about changing the name of Padre Island, oyster farming, Independence Day weekend and more.

Jeff Platt takes you through the top stories in the poker world, while Sarah Herring lies on the beach in Padre Island! Jeff breaks down the US Poker Open, diving into an absolutely wild comeback for David Peters. He also takes a look at some tournament results from this last week. Is there a new "power couple" atop poker's list? Plus, with the St. Jude "Against All Odds" event coming up on Saturday, March 2, Jeff chats with Honorary Chair (and one of poker's biggest superstars) Daniel Negreanu! Negreanu discusses his relationship with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, and what it means to him.  He also shares his thoughts on the current high-roller scene, tells us why we didn't see him at the US Poker Open, and provides a sneak peek into his WSOP plans. Let's just say his schedule might look a bit different this year.  This week's sponsor: Natural8!

Lago talks sports with Dave Evins and owner/editor of the Island Moon, Dale Rankin is in the box along with musician Stevie Start. They discuss developments on the Island and Start's new ode to Padre Island, "Thank God It's Padre."

By Davy Crockett Both a podcast and a full article (listen to the podcast episode for a bonus bear story) What was the first American ultradistance race in the modern era? Perhaps the answer is the Padre Island Walkathon 110-miler, a three-day stage race that was started in 1953. It may have even been the first modern trail ultra in the world. This unusual race was a point-to-point race that ran along the sandy beaches of the Gulf of Mexico in Texas. Those who put it on were very forward-thinking, introducing features that would be used in ultras decades later. Previously long endurance races were mostly limited to professionals. This race was for everyone, the old, the young teenagers, and even women during an era when female participation in endurance events was viewed as inappropriate. About Padre Island The Gulf-Side Casino Hotel Padre Island, about 113 miles long, is the longest barrier island in the world. This long, skinny, sandy island is the second largest island by area in the lower-48 states. Only Long Island in New York tops it. In 1908 the first development was established on the island, the Gulf-Side Casino Hotel, near the southern tip of the island. But the hotel received serious damage from storms and hurricanes over the years. For many years it closed to make repairs. Finally in 1945 the top story of the hotel was taken off by a storm and the entire structure was finally demolished in the early 1950s.   Padre Island today The Padre Island Causeway Around 1930 a causeway was built to connect Corpus Cristi to the northern end of the island allowing access to the Gulf’s beaches. During World War II, the northern section of the island was used as a bombing range. By 1953, the island was again undeveloped and used almost exclusively by ranchers. It wasn’t until 1970 that development started again. Founding the Race In 1951, Cash Asher (1891-1981), a journalist and author, was the publicity man for the Padre Island Park Board and the causeway. He likely came up with the idea of holding the race and became the race director. The objective was, to walk the length of the island end-to-end. This would be a way to get more publicity for the island and thus attract tourists. Asher named the race “Padre Island Walkathon.” The term ultramarathon would not be used until 1964. The controversial “walkathons” held in indoor halls had ceased by 1953, and that term would start to be used for any long walking event. This event sometimes also called a "Bunion Derby," taking that name from a coast-to-coast event in the 1920s. Why walk and not run? In the 1950s the idea of someone being able to run ultra distances still was viewed as inconceivable. Word of the race was publicized, and registration opened in early 1953. Race Format The format for the event was as a three-day staged race from the south tip of the island to the northern end, a distance of about 110 miles. The contestants would walk on no roads, just beach and sandy tracks pounded down by vehicles. This could have been the first trail ultramarathon event in American History, at least in modern history. For the first year, the walkers would cover 25 miles the first day, 42 miles the second day, and 43 miles the final day. They would all camp at the start and then for each night after Day 1 and Day 2. A large support caravan of vehicles would go along with the walkers, providing food, medical treatment, news coverage, and transportation for those who dropped out. If a walker dropped out, they were expected to continue with the caravan to the finish. Entrants would to be provided tents. The rules were pretty simple. Running was prohibited. The published rules stated, “anyone caught running will be thrown out of the race.” Beer or hard liquor were also prohibited during the race. Anyone who partook, would be disqualified automatically. The event was scheduled for Friday March 27, 1953 and would end on Sunday evening.

Episode 11 -Me and the homies, analyze the shenanigans of Spring Break 2018!! Hear our reaction, And Listen as we break down the Top 10 Do's and Don't when on Spring Break. Thinking about letting your significant other go on a girls/guys trip with friends? Or if Padre Island island is the destination for you on SB as a 25 year old?? Think again!!

The Wolfman is packing to depart for Austin, Texas. Spring break crowd on south Padre Island is growing in size and intensity. Discussing police, crowds and the city of Austin. 

Discussion on the Paris climate agreement and domestic energy policies. Attorney Kevin Shenkman of Malibu, CA, is suing to diversify city councils. Donna Shaver has spent her career saving endangered turtles on Padre Island, Texas. John McGann of Rutgers University explains the truth about humans' sense of smell. Rod Gustafson of Parent Previews reviews Wonder Woman and Captain Underpants. Adam Woolley of BYU discusses a new blood test to identify mother's risk of pre-term labor.

On a leap of faith and armed with determination, Tasha Schaded opened LifeFit Personal Training Studio in 2016. She helps people achieve their fitness goals and live a healthy, active lifestyle.Tasha has specialized in weight management, prenatal fitness, senior fitness, sports performance and nutrition certifications. She is certified by the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) since 2008.Tasha also spent four years competing in figure and bikini competitions. She won "natural figure pro status" with the Musclemania Federation in 2016. Tasha now helps prepare other women to compete.She is happily married to an amazing, supportive husband, and is a mother of three very smart, talented children ranging from 2nd grade to college-age.LifeFit Personal Training StudioLifeFit follows the tagline, "Don't wish for it. Work for it!"The studio is a unique boutique style private training facility located on beautiful Padre Island in Corpus Christi, Texas. Tasha leads a team of highly knowledgeable personal trainers who help their clients achieve RESULTS.LinksGo to Tasha's website to schedule an appointment or connect for an interview http://lifefitpt.com

Hey everybody, check this shit out! We’re back! We haven’t gotten fired yet, and I don’t know about you guys, but as far as I’m concerned, that is NOT a familiar feeling. Thanks Chris and Brian! Finally somebody has faith in my crazy ideas! (I’m looking at you Mom). This week we take on the truly groundbreaking 1988 classic, “Straight Outta Compton”. I was tempted to write this in some clever fashion, with lots of puns and references to how white we are, but as funny and subversive that kind of humor is, I guess I’m just feeling a little blasé this week. I do want to comment on how hilariously silly the lyrics to this album are, and how much things have changed in the intervening 25 years since Straight Outta Compton was released. What seemed scary and “other” has been so co-opted, that now even the unintentionally hilarious is just as funny as the intentional. In fact, sometimes it’s hard for me to discern between the two. When we were recording I kept trying to remind myself to tell a story but I eventually forgot. I suppose I should share it with you here. At some point in the show I give a character profile of a guy I went to high school with named Judd. There are only 2 things I really remember about Judd. At parties, he would only drink Gatorade mixed with Peppermint Schnapps. He pretty much only listened to NWA. OH! .And He drove a kick ass HUGE 70’s van, (yes, he had a moustache). It was the first car I had ever ridden in that had neither a working speedometer nor gas gauge; made for lots of adventures, but those are for another day. When that van finally died, he bought an identical one. That was just his identity by that point, you know? When I was in 10th grade Judd and I went to Padre Island for Spring Break with a group of friends. One afternoon, we were cruising THE VAN up and down the main strip, and every time we passed a group of comely lasses (which was often), Judd would lean out of the window and coo at them “Wasssup LADIES! Wanna party?!”…upon the immediate and inevitable rejection he would invariably mutter “vicious bitches”. This went on for hours, and he never once altered this initial pitch, nor his reaction to the letdown…It was sort of like watching a gif of a dog chasing, then catching, a skunk. Purchase Straight Outta Compton on Amazon ### Coming Up ### We’re gonna continue our move out of the 70’s and 80’s and talk about something a hell of a lot more recent: Father John Misty and the 2012 record “Fear Fun”. Lot’s of songs about drinking and drugging. WOO HOOOOO!!!