HBM024: The Friendliest Town In Texas
Here Be Monsters
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🗓️ 5 September 2013
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Shoppingspree Clark showed up on the side of the road outside the “Friendliest Town in Texas” with nothing more than a sketchpad and the burnt-out ruin of the RV he’d just bought.
Content Note: Explicit Content
Coleman, Texas’ self-claimed title is true because it used to be on a billboard above the highway. And the people that live there are diverse, troubled, religious, unusual…and friendly.
This episode contains many adult themes, including suicide, prejudice, and racism. There are also unbleeped swear words and racial slurs. Use discretion.
This episode was originally released by Shoppingspree Clark in June 2013.
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| 0:00.0 | Today's show is a bit different. A couple of weeks ago I heard this thing online that really struck |
| 0:06.5 | a chord with me. It was this audio documentary about, well it was about a lot of things, |
| 0:10.9 | but it was about this small town in Texas, it was about a beat-up |
| 0:14.7 | camper van, and the kind of unusual lives of several Americans who, through some twist of fate, |
| 0:21.8 | or maybe just sheer chance they they managed to to wind up meeting each other at the exact right moments in their lives |
| 0:29.8 | It was both tear-jirking and hilarious and I can't remember the last time that I've been affected that way by something I've heard on the radio. |
| 0:39.0 | I wrote a message to the guy who made it and I asked him if I could re-air the piece for an episode of Hereby Monsters and much to my surprise he said yes and that's what this show is. |
| 0:51.0 | It's an unedited re-erring of a piece made by a guy named Shopping Spree. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm going to stick with the original title that he picked for the piece, which is the friendliest town in Texas. Just so you know there's some pretty |
| 1:05.8 | dark themes in here there's suicide there's prejudice there's racism there's |
| 1:11.5 | lost wherewards in here too, so none of those are bleeped out because well, they're important to this story. |
| 1:19.0 | But I understand if that bugs you, you might want to skip this episode. |
| 1:24.4 | Enjoy the show. |
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| 2:07.0 | That needy, manased up white bread. |
| 2:11.6 | The podcast about. The podcast about the unknown. I'm shopping spree and I would like to share |
| 2:21.2 | something with you that happened to me in March of 2013. |
| 2:25.0 | I have some apprehension of sharing this particular experience. |
| 2:29.0 | Firstly, there is some temptation to keep it all for myself and tot it around like some magical personal |
| 2:35.0 | secret which I have obviously chosen not to do and secondly that it is simply too story shaped |
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