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Well, this episode is being released in September of 2019.

And last week, the World Headquarters of Wise About Texas was directly underneath Tropical Storm Emlda, which dropped about 14 inches of rain in about an hour and a half or two hours.

Luckily we did not flood. Many of my neighbors were not so lucky and of course our prayers go out to everyone who was flooded during tropical storm

Emelda especially to the east of Houston. It did confirm a small roof leak and

wise about Texas headquarters so we've had a little production delay but we're back up and

running and ready for this episode 74. Today we're going to do comedy. Now don't worry I'm not

going to try to do comedy but this show is about comedy and sometimes good comedy

is discovered under the strangest circumstances.

You might say, comedy's funny that way.

So let's go back to the early 1900s and get wise about Texas.

In the early 20th century, of course we didn't have television.

In the early 20th century, of course we didn't have television.

And one of the big entertainment venues would have been the local theater.

And on the stage of the local theater, might have been a vaudeville show.

Vaudeville is a term that's used to generally describe a style of stage show

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