I want to tell you a quick story that might be the true origins of this podcast.

It was a hot summer afternoon in Texas, and I was about 12 years old.

I was spending some time at my grandfather's house, and at some point he said he wanted to show me something I might find interesting.

So he went to his office, and he took out a small wooden box, a little bigger than a shoe box.

He opened the lid, and inside were three pistols. One was the standard issue Colt 45, which he carried in World War II.

The second was a German Luger, which he got from someone who wouldn't be needing it anymore.

And the third was a Colt 45, 1917, a big, hefty, six-shot revolver.

I knew the story behind the first two, but I didn't know anything about the revolver.

And that's when he told me that I had a great uncle who ran a bank in Kansas.

And this uncle was considered a potential target by the famous bank robbing duo, Bonnie Parker

and Clyde Barrow.

So the United States government shipped this revolver to my great uncle in the event he had

to defend himself from Bonnie and Clyde.

I love hearing stories like these.

You know, family lore.

And not just lore about my family, anybody's family.

You hear it from time to time.

I'm related to Pocahontas, or my great-uncle invented the yo-yo, or my grandmother was

almost cast as Dorothy Gale.

Those are kind of unusual examples, but I'm interested in the unusual ones.

The ones that seem a little far-fetched are just intriguing.

In this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell their family stories.

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