EP26: Bottled Rainwater, Ford v. Ferrari: The Rematch, and Overcoming the KKK
Our American Stories
iHeartPodcasts
4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Our American Stories podcast, we bring you the story of one out of over 80 bottled water companies in the United States, that has changed the game forever, Richard's Rainwater, and the man behind it all, Richard Heinichen; also, Jon Elfner brings us the story of Ford's 100th anniversary celebration and its new supercar built to showcase its heritage and future through the eyes of industry legends Neil Ressler, Scott Ahlman, and Mark McGowan; and finally, the story of Shiana Rasheed, a young woman who struggled with her family being in the KKK, rebelled against them, and married a Middle Eastern Muslim man.
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| 0:00.0 | From the small towns to the big cities. |
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| 1:01.0 | tell these stories. And now today we bring you the story of Ford versus Ferrari. Also, we'll bring you the story of Shiana Rashid, who went from the KKK to marrying a Muslim man. |
| 1:18.6 | But first, the cloud-juicing entrepreneur who bottles rainwater. |
| 1:26.6 | The idea behind Richard's rainwater started because of a dirty Texas well. |
| 1:30.3 | Well, I moved out to Drippian Springs. I lived in Austin, Texas, and moved out to |
| 1:38.3 | Dripping Springs to help my sister and law build the Austin Zoo out. |
| 1:42.3 | Her parents had this property out there. |
| 1:45.0 | And Susie, my wife and her sister lived out there, and her sister was raising goats. |
| 1:52.0 | And anyway, it turned into a zoo. |
| 1:53.3 | So I moved to Dripping Springs and built a house. |
| 1:57.0 | And out here in the hill country, there's no other source for water except for well water. |
| 2:02.3 | And so I drilled a well and the well guy was leaving with a fistful of my dollars says, |
| 2:09.0 | Mr. Heineken, you have a lot of water there. That's a darn good well, a good flowing well. |
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