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Guaranteed Human.

Quality Facts with Joseph Scott Moore.

I'm of the opinion that there is no such thing as a God-forsaken town.

I just, I don't believe in that.

I don't think God forsakes places. People act on places and they

create a culture many times. Sometimes, though, the environment will create a culture. And it's kind of

like being over in London. You know, if you're walking around in London and you're complaining

about it raining raining they'll say

well it's not bad weather's poor clothing choices and I think that that can be said that's a

through line a fancy Hollywood term there that's a through line that you hear many times in life

and listen for every town that has something bad, there is something good.

And we're going to talk about one such location today, a place that I'm kind of familiar with called Beaumont,

Beaumont, Texas. And for years and years, Beaumont has, you know, held the title of, what was it called, the Carcinogen Coast. They were, you know, held the title, what was it called, the carcinogen coast.

They were, you know, the area just outside of Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana,

those areas where you had all of the petroleum industry and chemical factories and all these sorts of things.

But had a lot of cool stuff too.

You know, you had access to some of the best fishing in the world.

Old spindle top.

People may have heard of it that fantastic oil find back decades and decades ago.

It's made that location, that area has made a lot of people wealthy.

But there is kind of a darkness there sometimes, I think. You wait with bated breath during hurricane season because in an instant, everything that you have can be gone.

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