Howdy and welcome to this bonus episode of Wise About Texas. I'm your host Ken Wise. Thank you for joining well over a

million of your fellow earth dwellers all over the world listening to this

podcast. I appreciate it and I appreciate your interest in Texas history.

This bonus episode celebrates the 200 year anniversary, the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers and what this episode consists of is an interview with two individuals

Russell Molina who is chairman of the Texas Ranger Bicentennial Celebrations,

and Lacey Finley, the Executive Director of the Texas Ranger Association

Foundation.

They are hosting events all over the state throughout the rest of 2023 and I talked

to them about why they're doing what they're doing, what the events consist of,

and how you can get involved in celebrating the Texas

Ranger Vicontennial and I will tell you there are a couple of surprise and

very important announcements in this podcast. So give it a listen and join

me and millions of Texans in celebrating the Texas Ranger Bicentennial.

Here's the inter-

Russell Lacey, welcome to Wise About Texas.

Thanks so much for being with us today.

Appreciate you having.

Thanks for having us.

Yeah, this will be a lot of fun.

Well, it's very exciting, the bicentennial of the Texas Rangers founded in 1823.

It's remarkable for Texas to have anything that's 200 years old and the Rangers are leading away.

What an interesting organization in Texas history.

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