EP265: Emma McCormick Sails Away, Real-Life John Wayne and Rhett Butler and The Scout Never Called: Growing Up in Competitive Sports

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After graduating college because, in her words, is a person who loves adventure and doing something new is our own Monty Montgomery himself. Hillsdale graduate with the story of see it's hard not to deny comes back. If you ever so much as it's hard to imagine what like to own one person who decide to make those dreams into reality is Emma McCormick who did it on with an IMAP financial downloader. Right now I'm a sailor I never even noticed after college when I moved to Detroit to the city know anybody and I out for a run one day and I saw a poster free.

No necessary, learn to sail by. As I showed up and yacht club that race theory and they would take new people and just put you on about training and learning them over the winter everywhere got. I cut but in 2020, was told she be working remotely decided to make the most of it. She can work remotely. She could live remotely to live in was the question she had the answer for myself I like myself that I was selling about the possibilities of doing that. That was also pretty far-fetched while you do this by myself a lot more fun than driving and it all came together. I cancel my lease before I had even officially thought about the second hardest part about going about finding one by first hardest part is maintaining all of them have something wrong with almost 2 full months searching is looking into different types of votes by so it was listed on Craigslist and the man who was selling was 92 and only bought about 88 box. She did so many other people from the Midwest do when spring rolls around, she went to Florida house like 25 on why the headroom is actually about United which means I can't stand up technically for people to sleep on. So actually slept five for a few nights around. I never slept on about five office have a little galley kitchen with a two burner alcohol stove dining room there stories behind so generally pretty tiny person because it's a small space where living room, dining room, kitchen, bedroom is all you leave something out so be prepared to pull out about zero working but when I think you got it maintain work and expect and cost to move down here definitely simplified things a lot like one pot one pan and handle shirts living in a marina like in the kinds of people who spend time there. Unsurprisingly, very eclectic group of people certainly like to talk, sailing community boating community. Everyone is so kind and so excited your younger go the bathroom there's bathrooms and showers and laundry everything in the entrance lounge area lot. There without talking to somebody is always people out about, there's always in sync. People and where you are here maybe a little bit different clientele anchored in some random by you, but I do love hearing people stories. What brings them here by one of my friends broke up with his girlfriend decided to set want to move to a new state do something different and fun life. There's several family they have day jobs and thinking of the wife's doctor. The husband runs a sale bringing company and their families on the cat ran but have any of her friends from up north come to visit all my friends in Florida so sunny. Come visit and I wasn't sure how many people would actually jump on that biplane to come down. Everyone told about it and just basically every week never been on sailboats and so they love might go until I show them the friends but now their press. The wonderful piece and special friends to Monty Montgomery first management and special thanks to McCormick for telling her story.

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Here's Roger McGrath West carved empires of the wilderness were larger-than-life characters during intelligent creatures great strength iron will looking exhibited these characteristics more than Richard King New York City Irish immigrant parents in 1824 Richard King is only three years old when his parents died and left in the care of nine years old is apprenticed to ensure that you work so hard 60s a week stay off the young boy walks down to the docks and watches the ships come and go. He dreams of to board a ship's 12 years old. He does just that.

Nancy historian at Texas A&M University Kingsville roadway to Dr. New York City's knuckle born oceangoing ship called the Mona about the hold that ship for about two weeks to scrounge whatever food he could get his hands on. After two weeks, some sailors found them in the hold that ship and at this point the ship was already well actually actually grabbed brought them up to the captain And asking the question, what is your name boy, but he immediately answered, my name is Richard to throw me overboard or put me to work but I'm not going back And seemed to be impressed by the young man's attitude toward putting the work for the next seven years.

King works in a variety of capacities on several different ships demonstrates such intelligence, talent and leadership are two different ship captains school women navigation in command of the ship time is 16 is a pilot's license and knows the Gulf Coast and the rivers of the cotton kingdom like the back 42 English for service in the seminal war in Florida.

It is during this war service meets Mifflin Kennedy another ships officer King and Kennedy will become lifelong friends had been born in Pennsylvania and like King first got to see as a cabin boy and worked his way up to become a ships pilot lighting 43 Richard King has grown and matured.

The 19-year-old, a square Chartwell muscle control for the times. At 5'11" when provoked during the purple with profanity and makes his friendship with the soft-spoken quicker.

Kennedy something of a surprise. In 1847 Richard King was first taking command of the ship. Col. Cross and rices drink of Capt., U.S. Navy during the Mexican war, King serves for the worst duration, transporting troops and supplies becomes intimately familiar with the Texas and Mexican coast with the Rio Grande River during his service in the Mexican war. The king recognized steamship service would revolutionize the commerce of South Texas, especially the Rio Grande Valley. When the war ends. He buys the ship he commands as war surplus and is often steaming Kingston forms a partnership with his old friend Mifflin Kennedy.

By the mid-1850s. Their company is operating more than two dozen ships and thanks in part to their low rates there monopolizing shipping on the Rio Grande River will continue in this preeminent position for more than two decades.

Dennis William Yancey in 1850 Capt. King steamboat Rhonda Rio Grande city and back.

You had a rough couple days you have problems with the sailors you had problems with the engine going steamboat, the final straw was when he got back to Brownsville he went to Moore's steamboat in the slip normally kept somebody already had about their today there was steamboat and the slip now everybody Brownsville you not to park their steamboats. There goes that was Richard King slip, but today there's a steamboat there was the start portion, a blue streak had to go down the river a little ways found an empty slip to Moore's boat and he starts walking back towards his houseboat about the occupant of that houseboat is not well he never got a chance to do that.

There was a young lady on the houseboat who would hurt him, and she decided to confront him first and to walk towards each other. This young lady says essentially who you think you are using language like that. This is my father's houseboat. He has just as much right to be here. If you do want to spend less time making a fool of yourself and more time washing your filthy boat and that Richard King didn't really have a response is not someone who was left speechless very often, but this time he was left speechless turned around and walked back to his boat and he had to say worse. But the rest of afternoon washing that boat over the next several days, he couldn't get this young lady out of his mind so he could go to his best friend and business partner Mifflin Kennedy goes to Kennedy and ask him who young lady whose father's houseboat sparked my slip and can be says with us. Ms. Henrietta Chamberlain her father's new Presbyterian minister and tell Kennedy said only one what you don't get to meet her message you start going to church with her. Well over the next several weeks and months.

He becomes very faithful Presbyterian is there every time the doors of the church are open, and to make a long story short, get a four-year courtship of Ms. Henrietta, but eventually the two of them will be married in 1854. There Brownsville. Her father perform the ceremony. The ceremony was at their church takes risks when those with cards shy away steam sections of the Rio Grande where others think impossible to go design ships specifically for the fast currents near the river, enabling him to reach destinations previously considered impossibly remote trade on the Rio Grande King recognizes that much of the land itself Western Texas would not support farming would be good for cattle. As a result begins by property, including the 53,000 acre center. Gertrude's grant he pays $1800 for the grant thought by many to be near worthless because recurrent droughts leave much of the waste land in 1854 Richard King is going to find some help for his cooperation from an unlikely source.

During the 1850s he made several trips to Mexico to buy cattle to stock is ranch with one particular occasion he went to a village called Korea switch was in the state of Tamaulipas. Maybe 100 miles southwest of Matamoros. This village at the time was well known for its cattle herds affords vaqueros or cowboys but they were in the middle of a three year drought all the grass was dead. There wasn't any water. The cattle were done so. Richard King goes there and he makes a pitch to the villagers because they only hoarded common and you basically said to them, want to sell me your entire herd and the villager said here's what were willing to do were going to sell you the entire herd if you will take as many of us is want to go back to your ranch and will work that hard for you was a no-brainer and he needs help they need. Cattle work about 100 villagers got a come back to the ranch in Texas with Capt. King at that point they become the first vaqueros or cowboys on the ranch and over time they take a lot of pride work for Thinking they start to call themselves King nine euros, which roughly translated means King's men or kings. People can King buys more land's philosophy is simple by land never sell when we come back we continue the story of Richard King here on our American stores. Millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment.

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Texas sees from the choice of Confederacy within months. The U.S. Navy effectively blockades the Gulf Coast, cutting off the South's greatest source of income. Cotton exports. These dire circumstances becomes one of the Confederacy's blockade is so successful that it becomes alleged it doesn't hurt that he is handsome and will build becomes a real life but Union forces raid the King Ranch late 1963 everything I can, however, their principal target. Richard King escapes when the Confederates retakes out Texas in 1864, King is back in business with the Confederate surrender in April 1865. King slips in the Mexico story might have ended right there. Late in 1865. He secures a pardon from Pres. Andrew Johnson resumes all his former activities is William Nancy historian at Texas A&M University Kingsville now not to 1867 before we really start to reestablish his full-time cattle operation that just goes to show what good sense of timing the man had because around 1867 there start to develop a huge market for beef in the Northeast as the Northeast becomes more industrialized people are moving in the city sober not raising growing their own food. You also have a large influx of immigrants from Europe, there is a need for beef and Richard King becomes one of the four S. Texas ranchers to realize that you can make quite a bit of money supplying that lead now very many railroads in Texas so you know where it is needed.

You have to walk for the railroad and that meant cattle drives Richard King will become one of the four S. Texas ranchers to drive cattle. Specifically, Texas Longhorn from his ranch in South Texas to railhead's first in Missouri and later in Kansas at the time, you could purchase Longhorn's for between 2 to 4 dollars ahead in South Texas sell them for around $20 ahead in Fort Worth may be for the size 40 by the time you got Kansas and Capt. King was able to make a considerable amount of money actually Longhorn however going to fall out of favor northeastern markets problem. Longhorn beef is very tough and stringy and eventually as railroad start to penetrate more the country. It's easier for ranchers and other areas to raise better tasting breeds brief locomotor railroad cars and ship them slaughterhouses in Chicago for movement onto the east. In 1869. Jesus first heard on the long drive for King coming from his ranch in the extreme south western region of Texas. The drive to the Kansas relatives is more than 1200 miles. Despite the length of the drive losses to stampede swollen streams and Indians. King makes an arm's profits from 1869 through 1884, King Sands will more than 100,000 cattle to the real Lansing Kansas order ranges of the northern High Plains continue supply was profit back into cattle and land until he hundreds of thousands of acres and tens of thousands of cattle Butler in gone with the wind is a Richard King -like character during the Civil War than Tom Denson is a Richard King like character in Red River Kings great cattle operation is not without problems, which include regular cross-border raids by Mexican banditos such as Juan Cortina and Juan Flores in three years. King loses 33,000 cattle yes the state for help, but the governor refuses in 1867. King begins his huge ranch at first his crews put up wooden fences after Bob wire appears in 1874 work goes faster in 1880 390,000 pounds of Bob wire during the mid-1870s, King wages, personal floors and is banditos entirely at his own expense, King supplies, Capt. We met Nelly and his company of Texas Rangers with horses, food, and the latest Winchester rifles for pursuit banditos met Nelly is spectacular successful, but not without controversy pursues Mexican bandits through Texas right into Mexico and Mexico story several banditos sanctuaries and defeats of Mexican army US government is apoplectic over met Nelly's border crossing. Richard King couldn't be happier as death in 1885, King is increase the size of his ranch to 614,000 acres in loser acres.

Actually, rather than leases from the government following his instructions to buy land and never sell his son-in-law Robert Kleeberg as more acreage to the ranch until by the 1890s, the King Ranch is larger than the state of Rhode Island likely Eastern industrial barons King tries to control all businesses related to his ranching operation invests in railroads, feedlots, packinghouses, ice plants, harbors and ships King in many ways is it King to improve his Longhorns, King brings in durables from Kentucky's goal is to produce a steer with Longhorn's toughness and endurance bulk against Prof. Yancey in 1940, the US Department of Agriculture recognized the Santa Cruz breed is the first breeder beef cattle produced in the Western Hemisphere and really the first anywhere in the world and over hundred years pursuing a stream which King invents modern ranching for him to scandalous sideline in the cities fresh meat was luxury. Few could afford the King Ranch turns ranching into a big business. It also helps turn Americans into a nation of Beefeater's Richard King is a colorful character whose violent temper and wild roughhewn nature never diminish with each can get several fights in his lifetime and seems to enjoy the on one occasion the angry cowboy exclaims to King if you were not Capt. King, the great cattle baron. He would not be able to get away. The profane remarks that he just made King is no longer young man cattle man explodes.

Damn you forget the riches and the captain titled and let's fight and fight they do is one of the best fights anybody can recall a cowboy in the captain, will each other with vicious blows for half an hour then. They shake hands thereafter.

Cowboy says he will stand back to back with King anywhere and anytime we tend to think of Hollywood's portrayals of the Workings of the old West is exaggerated actually a close look at Richard King demonstrates that such a classic Western is Red River and John Wayne's character of Tom Denson told the tale. No taller than the facts of the real life of Richard King and great job Greg Hagler and special thanks as always to Roger McGrath, author of gunfighters and vigilantes and also special shout out to William Yancey, historian at Texas A&M University Kingsville Richard King's story here on our American story millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this UHC Medicare health plans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives. I know everything there is to know about running a coffee shop for small business insurance. I need my State Farm agent make sure my incompetent business owners to help you pass. State Farm is in your corner and on neighbor. There call your local State Farm agent for quote today radio and the black podcast network are sponsored by better help online therapy to help online therapy a more convenient, affordable and accessible way to try therapy and heavy brown host of the jobbing gems podcast podcast about the potential of personal growth in the human spirit, and surveys to grace and an internal help.com/black, a fact for 10% off your first then we returned to our American stories. Next will hear from our regular contributor in Iowa. Roger wrench is here to share with us some memories about his time in competitive sports good, the bad and the way Roger. I think it was around fifth or sixth grade when my interest in sports began that interest would grow into a lifelong love.

Before that I was a chubby clumsy kid not very fast or strong in the summer between sixth and seventh grade I shot up 6 inches to 6 feet tall, thinned out and got pretty strong in coordinating. I went to graceless school and we had a great sports program and a network of schools in Kansas City and Eastern Kansas.

I played flag football and basketball and I was the star center on our team. I also like baseball.

The summer after seventh grade my mom sign me up for Little League at our first practice.

I didn't recognize a single face. Not only was I the new kid but the rest of them had played together for years the coaches it coached them since they were little. I was a rookie on a team of experienced stars.

Next summer I played in a different league team with friends from my school and I had the opportunity to shine as one of our two starting pitchers I had never pitched before this wicked curveball that could be hit and moved about a foot, as the batterers would see it coming out of laid back up off the plate afraid to get hit, curved back over the plate often first strike I got dozens of strikeouts at summer.

It felt great to be a star again be able to show what I can do in ninth grade, things changed as I went to public school for the first time I went from a small private school with about eight kids in my class to West junior high right hundreds of classmates when it came to sports.

I was in the big leagues now with a lot more competition bigger faster stronger athletes first came football I was very fast but I can catch anything from their most all six so they put me at tight end was also the punter to kick in a good 40 yards pretty consistently to stand out memories from that season. The first cabinet practice one day must've dropped the past left to ponder it something else to upset the coaches with this one guy would line up against two other guys try to fight his way through coach called my name and then he called the names of the biggest and meanest guys on our team to double-team Charles the toughest guy in our team cannot not in James was our biggest heaviest guy and I knew I was going to get killed.

So I did what any scared skinny string bean would do in that situation got creative when we lined up and coach blew the whistle.

I dove straight down to the ground in the space between them and tried to crawl through when we did this drill. The whole team was watching and boy did I earn the comedy laughs my efforts. The coach even enjoy the entertainment but unfortunately he made me do it again and face my fear and this time Charles and James were licking their chops to get. I prepared for launch. And sure enough when they hit me I went flying in the air about 10 yards straight back. I think you still have a bruise on my behind today from that it but you know I have to think my coach. I figured if I could survive that hit from those two monsters.

I didn't have to be afraid of anything, but other memory was in the game we were playing at seeing those beating us bad were backed up to our own 10 yard line and it was fourth down time upon again about the sixth or seventh time that game so I came out the pond standing right on the end zone line. James was lined up behind the line of scrimmage to block anyone would try to get through. They hike me the ball and as I stepped forward to kick it. James is backing up and I kick the ball right into his backside.

It bounces back to the end zone and the other team recovers. It for a touchdown. Despite that moment, I really enjoyed my first season of tackle football and it prepared me for the basketball season where I tried out made the team and played with some of my football teammates my basketball experience was quite different with 11 guys on the team and they were all good. I was the 11th guy. The odd man out. So a practice where we went five and five. I didn't even get enough court time to place we were good in one city championship. So I did get to play a few games. We had a big lead, but every day I mostly just sat there watching practice, I felt left out and I didn't think the coach like me in the middle of the season I made one of the worst decisions of my life. I quit.

I didn't go to practice and I didn't go talk to the coach. I just didn't show up. I let my teammates down. I let my coach down and I let myself down quitting like that felt horrible way worse than any feeling of being left out but I did it and I learned from it. I made a decision later never to quit anything just because it wasn't going my way. That decision has served me well in high school I expanded my sports repertoire. I played football for couple years and that led to testing out another sport the first day of football practice are coach made us run a full mile high heat and humidity is about 100° by the end of the first lap. Several of our speedy players past me and were way ahead, but as the run went on, I passed them all back and ended up finishing first about 1/2 lap ahead of the next guy that raise some eyebrows among my teammates and also my coaches and one of them said to me, that's impressive. You should try out for the cross country team.

So the next school year. I did just that. I ran well and made varsity but in practice after we go out and run several miles, which I love are coach made us go over the track and run quarter and half miles. Several of them again and again and I hated it.

I could see the point to it since were running a 3 mile race and competition. I completely lost interest before the season started.

I talked to coach and told him thanks but no thanks.

However, I loved long distance running and kept doing it each day on my own and 44 years later I'm still doing every day.

In 1980 I went to St. John's College in Winfield, Kansas, a small school with only about 300 students at St. John's I played baseball my junior year really had one catcher practice. I started warming up her pictures and ended up becoming our backup my shining moment came when we traveled to Atchison Kansas for weekend baseball tournament hosted by Benedictine College. The first night are starting catcher went out and had a little too much fun missing curfew.

So are coach Saddam on the bench for the next game. And guess who got the start that catcher. I did expect that was a little nervous, but I was also excited that game was against the host team Benedictine and on their team were a few of my teammates from that first Little League team I played on Kansas City.

Also in the audience that day as a pro scout checking out the small college town so the game started was pretty close.

I do think spectacular but did my job okay until about the fourth inning when the ball was popped up. Now you know how when a ball is popped up. The catcher will throw off his face mask look up to try to find the ball and then run over to catch it well. I threw off my mask and then with my other hand I thrust my catchers mitt to a few seconds later, the razzing started first from a few of my friends on the other team who knew my name were shouting it out of their dugout along with their jokes. Then one of my own teammates brought down the house when he shouted for everyone to hear. Next time so the shin guards. Both dugouts erupted in laughter. It was embarrassing, but I had to laugh to so slowly picked up my face mask in my glove looked over their dugout and then ours bowed before my audience.

Some of them even stood and cheered. Needless to say I never got a call from that pro scout despite blowing my opportunity to get called out for spring training, sports and athletics have always been a big part of my life. Along with running I bike ride every day lift weights two or three times a week. I always wanted to stay in shape to keep up with my kids and I played all kinds of games and sports with them growing up and now it's my grandkids turn in my lifetime. I played many sports games I've experienced both the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat along with a few humorous and embarrassing moments, sports is help me make friends learn teamwork kept me in good physical shape, I'll keep running and playing as best as I can for as long as I can and if I die doing it.

It will be with big smile on my face and a great job on the production by Madison and a special thanks to Roger Rentz reminding us why we play sports and is for the fun it's for the bonding in high school I was captain of my basketball team really good team and I wasn't paying attention.

We won the tip I got the ball raced for the other guys basket two points for the other team wrong way will be with my name for the next two years. Roger wrenches story here on our American story millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage.

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