Giddings

Earhart was arrested and charged with capital murder.

His trial was moved to Giddings, a small town about 60 miles south, to ensure a fair jury pool.

Prosecutors presented bullet comparison evidence.

An expert testified that the bullet recovered from Candy Kirtland was analytically indistinguishable from ammunition found among Earhart's belongings.

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If you're hearing me up in I don't know, Montgomery or College Station, Texas or Huntsville or out in Brenham and Giddings and New Ulm and, you know, wherever.

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All right.

Today's guest is practically a neighbor, just a few, like an hour drive away.

Judson Lindner owns Lindner Land Services out of Giddings, Texas, where he was born and raised.

He's doing land clearing, excavation, site prep, bunch of other things all over Central Texas.

He also takes on work you don't hear about every day, like cattle guard restoration.

I always love when we get a chance to meet the, our, our clients and, and, uh, I, when I saw your name come in, I actually saw your website when we were building that out, and I thought, "Oh man, he's like right down the street."

Yeah, close.

I'm up in Hutto, he's over there in Giddings, which I think is, like, a 35, 40-minute drive, right?

Yeah, it's not bad.

You know, there's lots of cities, right? Not everybody listening to my podcast lives in Austin, right? So I can't say, right, oh, go to this park.

You know, I got followers and listeners in Dallas, Houston, you know, Giddings, like all over Texas, so...

You know, you got to be the one to decide that.

But, you know, neighborhood or your own like apartment complex is nice.

The soldiers felt sorry for Jim and me and treated us as kindly as they could.

Colonel Giddings had charge of this regiment, and knowing the plight we were in told us that we could stay with his men as long as we wished.

We were too young to fight, but we began to feel as if we were real soldiers.

Once, while we were with the regiment, the soldiers captured, somewhere on the Arkansas River, 400 mules, 125 or 30 wagons, and several Yankees.

or serving a long sentence in the penitentiary.

Chapter eight, The Hanging of Bill Longley.

On the eleventh of October, eighteen seventy-nine, I witnessed the execution of Bill Longley, who was hung at Giddings, Lee County, for the murder of Wilson Anderson.

The sheriff, Jim Brown, who had charge of the execution, was the noted horse racer who was afterward killed in Chicago by a policeman.

So I think, you know, skipping past the letter, whenever I was working for Representative Cook, he was the chairman of the subcommittee on juvenile justice issues.

I go in a Torah facility in Giddings, um, because it, you know, it's part of the job we're going in.

We work with, you know, TJJD, um, go in there and find this book there, you know, and, and it's just, it's crazy to see that in person.

And then you go look at the letters and you see letters from those facilities and just brings it all, you know, all full circle, uh, of, of how, of the impact, but you know, These letters are fantastic.

I said at the top that you wear a couple different hats because you're doing this, running this ministry, right? This prison evangelism.

And then you've also done work in the Capitol, chief of staff, legislative director for different members.

Are there any areas where that is intersected? I suppose, you know, the story of kind of seeing that book in Giddings is one.

Are there any other examples?

We're going to Lee County.

Seven o'clock Friday night at Buffalo Stadium in Giddings.

It is a matchup of unbeatens with a really interesting backstory as the Lexington Eagles visit the Giddings Buffaloes.

Giddings 3-0! Giddings off to a 3-0 start.

3-0 start.

I think they won two games last year.

Giddings is rolling right now.

Here's what is fascinating about this.