Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, your award-winning Texas

history podcast. I'm your host Ken Wise. Thank you very

much for loving the state of Texas and for tuning in for a little bit of Texas

history. Well this podcast is the 80th regular episode. I've had some bonus episodes, but this is the

80th regular episode, so I'm very excited about that. This episode is being released in March of 2020.

And we are in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.

Now, I don't know when you're going to listen to this episode,

but people years from now, if they do hear this episode,

will know the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 as history and I'm curious what they'll think but we are

right smack in the middle of it and in an effort to preserve a little bit of what's going

on at the time I will tell you that we are under in the

state of Texas we are under an emergency order that has prevented restaurants and bars from being open to large groups.

Takeout services available.

People are under work from home orders, including the Court of Appeals on which I now sit.

We are working from home to the extent possible.

Luckily, we are online, so the court system continues to function at least at the appellate level

but everybody is

buying lots of groceries from the grocery store there seems to be a run on certain items the obvious ones hand

sanitizer soaps uh disinfectant wipes the not so obvious ones toilet paper not sure why everybody's buying that

but anyway there's a little rundown on where we're at

as I record this episode but this episode is also being released between the 184th anniversary of the

fall of the Alamo and the 184th anniversary of the Goliad Massacre. So we are also

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