Texas Hill Country
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Sep 16, 2026
Mitch MorseGUEST
It's a great cultural melting pot.
Mitch MorseGUEST
It is a blue speck in a Red Sea but there's still some serious i mean if it's a spade a spade right um but you're right out there our family had some property on the hill country so we you can be weekend country you know i mean just go out there and just do all the fun stuff and not actually have to do the the work that goes behind making those things tick totally but it was a hoot man i love it and like every person from texas probably obnoxious about it but it it really is a good place man
Pat SpinosaHOST
It's interesting, though, when you think about your career and where you ended up, which is where we're sitting today.
Pat SpinosaHOST
Go to Kansas City, play in Buffalo, finish up at Jack's.
Steve StocktonHOST
Now, in June of nineteen thirty-six, Max Hahn and his wife were hiking along Red Creek near the small town of London, Texas.
Steve StocktonHOST
It was a day like any other in the Hill Country, hot, dry, and quiet.
Steve StocktonHOST
But as Max navigated the ledge of ancient limestone, he spotted a curious anomaly, a piece of wood protruding from a loose rock.
Steve StocktonHOST
Curiosity gave way to obsession.
James SpannHOST
They are delusional, and they think we're being paid big money by the federal government to cover up this, and that cirrus clouds don't exist anymore, those are all chemtrails.
James SpannHOST
And they think somehow we steered the weather system into the Texas Hill Country, Troy, that killed the kids-
Jonathan MartinGUEST
Yeah, yeah
James SpannHOST
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Adam KinzingerHOST
And that intervention is crucial in the context of hurricane season last summer.
Adam KinzingerHOST
On July 4th, extreme flooding tore through the Texas Hill Country.
Adam KinzingerHOST
FEMA had search and rescue teams staged at the ready, but Nome had instituted a new rule.
Adam KinzingerHOST
She personally had to approve any spending over $100,000, and those requests went through FEMA's acting head, who couldn't be reached for 24 hours.
Steven BrunerGUEST
So we know what a big deal that is.
Steven BrunerGUEST
and also I just want to say that we've had such a wonderful time in the hill country with y'all.
Steven BrunerGUEST
We showed up on Friday and, uh, we, we stopped by yesterday morning for the gratitude breakfast and we saw Myers and Chris out there, flapjacks and eggs.
Steven BrunerGUEST
And so we just had a really good time getting in the river and, uh, we just, you know, we kind of fell in love with the hill country already.
Steven BrunerGUEST
So we feel like we've made some new friends and I brought my girlfriend and some, some guys I have the privilege of sponsoring down with me.
Steven BrunerGUEST
So just a really cool thing to be a part of.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
So it was a flash flood.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
On four- on the evening of 4 July, it had not rained all that spring in Texas, and I think they estimate that a, a couple of months worth of rain fell over three or four days in the Hill Country of Texas.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
So that's what happened.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
It began to rain, and it began to rain hard.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
And the Guadalupe River, uh, runs the, the, the, the foothills, uh, or, or the, the, the origin of the Guadalupe River is in Hill Country.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
So all that water ran off into tributaries to the Guadalupe, piled up, and caused a major, major flash flood.
Dave RichardsonGUEST
When I flew over it a week later, I saw t- huge cypress trees that were dragged down.
speaker_0HOST
Other natural disasters have proved more challenging.
speaker_0HOST
In places like Santa Rosa, Altadena and Lahaina, Texas Hill Country, and New Orleans, the failure to adequately warn citizens of impending disasters has cost countless lives.
John MillsGUEST
The systems are crumbling, and no one is building high-scale, high-availability software.
John MillsGUEST
Standard operating procedures need to change.
Michelle LewisHOST
Thank you so much for what you do for this community.
Michelle LewisHOST
And you're like, what do we do for this community? And honestly, it's giving them an authentic – fresh platform to promote whatever ideas and the great people of dripping Springs in the Texas Hill country.
Steve MallettHOST
You know, it, we'll talk about it a little bit more when we talk about nine 11, but it's, we wanted to do this to build a sense of community where people didn't split each other up.
Steve MallettHOST
Well, that person has that political view.
Robert StackNARRATOR
Forensic scientists needed to know whether these illnesses were bad luck, bad genes, or something else.
Robert StackNARRATOR
[suspenseful music] [pensive music] Dripping Springs, Texas, a town where you can enjoy the beauty of the Texas Hill Country, yet commute to Downtown Austin in just over half an hour.
Robert StackNARRATOR
Melinda Ballard fell in love with Dripping Springs and bought this Georgian-style mansion on 72 acres of land.
Robert StackNARRATOR
In 1994, she met Ron Allison.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
On Friday evenings from May through August, the observation deck along Allen Parkway fills with people eager to hear the presentation made by volunteers of the Gulf Coast chapter of Texas Master Naturalists.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
While urban bat watches are a convenient way to learn about bats, more immersive experiences can be found in isolated natural areas of Texas, particularly the Hill Country.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
Old Tunnel State Park, 10 miles southeast of Fredericksburg, is one of the most popular destinations.
Terry SchnellbeltNARRATOR
From May through October, visitors can get a close-up view as 3 million Mexican free-tailed and 3,000 cave myotis bats, myotis velifer, emerged from a 920-foot abandoned railroad tunnel.
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