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[Music] Good evening and welcome back to another wonderful episode of Texas Wild with Brian Frigmore. Adventures from the water to the campfire. I'm your host and then the studio tonight we have my lovely, trusty, co-host Diana Yurick and, fortunately and maybe even unfortunately, a gentleman by the name of C.L. Mayhew who has been on our crew before. We affectionately call him "Clah." Junior? Yeah. Welcome back to the crew. Welcome back to the studio. How does it feel to be back on the crew again? Wonderful. Yeah? Yeah. Why is that? I've been missing it. Have you? Yes. What have you been missing about it? Being in the water. We won't talk about why you've been out of the water but... Being in the water. We're happy to have you back despite the fact that you're kind of on a probationary detail right now. But again, we're happy to have you. You were an upstanding diver. You were an upstanding crew member until you weren't. But regardless, welcome back. Thank you. Tonight we're going to use a bunch of puns. We're going to dive into the wonderful world of metal detecting. We're going to tell some stories. We're going to tell a talk about soon-to-be-upcoming adventures. We have one coming up in Houston and potentially another one on the Treasure Coast of Florida, which I've been wanting to get y'all out there for a long time. Well, there's treasure to be had and unfortunately X never marks the spot. Luckily, we know where to look. I'm very excited about that one. Are you? Yes. What do you know about the Singer Treasure? Have you ever heard of it? More context, maybe? Probably, but maybe not. The gentleman who invented the Singer sewing machine? Yes. His brother found a treasure on Galveston before the Civil War. I think you mentioned this one. We kind of have an idea where it is. You have mentioned this one before. It's in a nature preserve, so we can't touch it, but we kind of know where it is. We can't even go in there with a metal detector. No digging, no nothing. That being said, there's plenty of other treasure to be had because the beaches are full. They're littered with all manner of treasure, aren't they? And y'all been there before, right? I have with you. A little bit. That's when we found that ring. The time I went we mostly found trash, but that's part of it too. It's cleaning up the environment. Picture this. The sun rising over the horizon, casting golden light across the sand, the sound of waves gently rolling in, and the quiet beeps of a metal detector cutting through the morning calm. This is where our adventure begins. Something truly magical about metal detecting by the sea. Out in Florida, they've been finding silver and gold coins washing up on the beach for 75 years. And nobody knew what it was about. Nobody knew where they came from. They just knew that they were finding these flat coins that had stamps on them, and it was just a mystery. Until Kip Wagner came along and happened to know the story and find out the rest of it. Well, I won't go into the whole story of how it came to be, but now there's an entire operation taking place, less than 300 yards off the coast of Florida. Yeah, where they're pulling up all manner of coins, gold and silver. They're finding emeralds, they're finding rubies, they're finding sword hilts and cannons. 300 yards is not far. I'm telling you man, pieces of old guns and they're finding picture frames and they're finding... Oh, it's just incredible. And what little kid's dream isn't treasure, right? Oh yeah. Junior, I can hear you breathing from here. It's alright, I'm just messing with you. But anyway, I like to wonder how many kids were walking along that beach and found just what looked like the perfect skipping stone and threw it back. Throw it back. Yeah. Yeah. Well, we're going to go down to Houston in the next few days and we're going to spend a couple days metal detecting on the beach and see what we can find. We're going to do what I like to call team building, team exercises. The three of us are going to be down there. We're going to be swinging metal detectors and we're going to be digging and we're going to be... Pointing. Yeah, pinpointing and just pulling up all manner of stuff. And it's going to be trash and it's going to be treasure and it's going to be great. Yes, it is. It's going to be a lot of fun. Oh yeah, it is. And during our breaks, we'll be taking a break in the water. We'll be swimming around trying to keep from getting eaten by sharks. But if you want to bring your gear and kind of tinker around in the surf, you're welcome to do it. As long as I don't get stung by a stingray again. Well, you'll be able to see them coming this time. Let's see how I did anyway. I got to get used to the water over there first. Oh man. Bring some extra weights. Salt water is tricky. I got to get used to the water first. What do you mean? Yeah. The last time we were down there, you only barely stood around in the sand. Oh, well, she got me to where I got up to money caps. Up to your kneecaps. Just like your dad. Well, that's nothing. Hey, is improvement each time? That's nothing to scoff at. I mean, at least you're in the water. Yeah. I mean, he does personally know someone who was stung by a stingray to be fair. To be fair. I'm not even... Let me tell you. I'm not concerned with stingray fish, with stingrays so much. What I'm worried about are these things called stargazers. I think I've talked about them probably on 80% of my shows when we talk about the coast. Don't go barefoot in the surf. There's these fish called stargazers, and they're really weird-looking. They have eyes that sit up on top of their head, right? And if the venomous stinger on their dorsal fin doesn't get you in the foot, they have this other devilish little organ between their eyes that'll send a shock wave through you. I've heard of them. Like an electrical shock. Yeah. That's what I'm afraid of. I don't want to get... I don't want to step on one of those things to get a double whammy. And realize that they were on the Texas coast. I think when I heard about them, they were farther abroad. But yeah, interesting. I didn't know they were here. Right. They are here. So tell me a little bit about the last time we were down in Galveston. Junior, what did you learn from doing that? The last time we were down in Galveston? Yeah. When we went, let's see. When you fell in love with that bartender. I knew that was coming up. I'm never going to let you forget that one. I remember going out there and teaching me how to pinpoint with salt water. Yeah. Because it's a totally different material out there. And why? Because the iron and salt in the water. It's just a mineralization in the salt water. Yeah. But we ended up finding a bunch of trash. Oh yeah. We found more trash than we did trash. Oh yeah. Until right at the end. Right at the end we found a ring. We did. It was a wedding ring, wasn't it? I can't pronounce it the middle right. Tungsten. Tungsten. It was Tungsten. I remember it had the Zelda symbol all over it. All the way around it. I think I gave it away. Wow. Somebody had talked about how they lost the wedding ring in that general area and I was like here, you can have this one. I mean it's not yours, but at least the wedding ring, right? It's a lot of fun in the salt water. Because we were in the river when we went hunting for a couple of rings too. San Bernard River, wasn't it? Yeah. And what did you do there? Besides burn my eyeballs, I ended up finding some rings. Yeah. That somebody played this for me. Hey, hey, hey. We won't talk about that. Hey. It's training. Yeah. That's what I was going to get at it. Because even though, you know, it's training. Yeah. And it was a good training. Well, you learned something you didn't know beforehand. Yeah. And that's the important thing is that you're expanding your knowledge. Yeah. Instead of being just in a salt, fresh water, being in salt water. I talked about that this morning when we were all on the boat. I had mentioned how much I enjoyed the fact that y'all's association with. With Blue. This happened last week too. With Blue Diver has given y'all new experiences, new stories to tell, new adventures, new knowledge. And I really dig that. I dig that I'm able to share that with y'all because it's been. The best part of my life. Yeah. You're sitting there like a proud father listening to our stories. I really am. I enjoy that. I like to sit back and listen to the things that I've gotten y'all into. It's just like us being little kids and telling our stories. Hey, I caught a big fish. Yeah. Tuna. It makes it. I wasn't going to bring that up, but yeah. You did catch a tuna the other day, didn't you? Yeah. What happened? Five foot metal tuna. Five foot metal tuna. Yeah. Yellow fin. Yeah. You missed the amazing part that it was in Eagle Mountain Lake. Yes. Yes. A tuna in Eagle Mountain Lake. Who would have thought? I mean, when you told me about it, I just a little blinked at you. I'm just like a tuna. Well, he told me it was a stuffed tuna. I was thinking, okay, a stuffed tuna. It's just going to float. But nobody told me it was a metal hollow tuna. Why don't they get that? We didn't know that part either. We know what we were told. Well, the gentleman that hired us to find it said that it was going to be strictly exploratory. There's probably nothing there. He said the marina witnessed it hanging over the boat slip at 7.30 a.m. and then at 8.30, it was gone. And in that hour, a squall had blown through. And I guess it had some highway. I wasn't there. I didn't see it. Something bumped into it or knocked it down. Nope. It has little outlets that it's on with ropes. And it pulled the outlets out of the tuna. I mean, there was still one rope on him, but yeah, it pulled him out. And one of the guys that witnessed it where it was at, pinpointed me. He goes, well, be in this area. I was like, well, you're going to give me five foot area. I'll drop down. I guess he saw it go down, didn't he? I guess. He saw the great tuna escape. But I went down in less than five minutes, brought it back up. About to tell. You swam up with it? Yeah. It wasn't that heavy? No. No. It's hollow. It was a lot like a lot like aluminum tin. You should have stuck your thumb in his mouth and brought it up that way. I mean, I got it. And I got it by his tail and said, is this what you're looking for? He goes, I knew it was here. Well, there's going to be a fish. That's probably what you'll find that is in the water, right? That's right. Diana, what kind of interesting dives have you had lately? Here lately, when we talked about, honestly, the most interesting one was when we talked about it last week, we had the anchor dives since then I've done a whole cleaning. So not quite as interesting. Boring and mundane, huh? Mundane. Yeah. Well, you did find out today that there's a $400 pair of sunglasses, two boats slipped away from where you were, right? This is true. That's a big deal. Yeah, we haven't been asked to go after them yet. But he is definitely thinking about it. I think he also wants a whole cleaning too, so he just wants everything at once. That's good. That's good. I was thinking maybe we'll go down there and find his sunglasses and surprise him where the wind he goes to hire us. Here you go. Where I got him. You can do that. Yeah. Thought I'd make it easy on you. Here you go. Junior talked to him a little bit more, so he probably has a better idea of where they went down. Well, you were under water most of the time, so I don't reckon you spoke too much. I wasn't quite in the water at that point, but I was getting my gear ready to go. Ah, okay. Well, I wasn't there. I was enjoying your third cup of coffee. Yes, I was. I was waking up and getting my feet underneath me, and oh, I had a hard time with this morning. That could be an adventure story too, but we won't go into that. So let's talk about our Houston trip coming up. I'm going to be house-sitting for my brother JT down in Umbel, and there's a metal detecting shop on the way down there called Metal Detecting Stuff or the Metal Detecting Stuff Shop or, I don't remember the name of it. It doesn't mean you went to the point. I like it. I can't remember exactly. I thought it was metal detectors. Metal detecting shop, I think is the name of it. Yeah, I mean, it's a very good point. I love it. Well, for a place you're trying to get a sponsorship from it would be a good idea to remember the name of the business, but we're only down there once or twice a year. We don't get to go to Houston very often, but one of the other things that I was thinking about doing is while we're in the area, I'd like to take my brother's boat. Thank you, JT, out to Party Cove, because I don't think that beach has ever been metal detected. Party Cove? On Lake Houston. Oh, Lake Houston. Okay. You left out that part. Yeah, I did. It's a long ride from the park where we're going to launch to get to Party Cove. It is a long, long boat ride, but once we get there, I mean, oh, yeah, I think it'll be well worth it. Yeah. Ask my cousin where they have their boat at because I know that they're them and their friends are on their Party Cove all the time. You know what, Lake? I need any to ask. They live over in like the Woodlands area. It might be Lake Houston. That's why I'm thinking it was like it might be this. It might be the same Party Cove, so I'll have to message my cousin before I come down there. I have dove there and I didn't find not one thing, not one thing, but I've never metal detected there, but I know there's got to be jewelry in a place where people hang out often. There's jewelry. Is it a lot of sand right there? Yeah. As a matter of fact, the whole area was a lot like the story of family Cove on Eagle Mountain Lake where they created a private beach and then for some reason their permits were pulled. They weren't allowed to build and the beach was still there, so it was just left there. They shipped something like 400,000 tons of sand into this area, yeah, and they built a beach and there's just nothing else there now. There's woods. There's a couple of rope swings, but there's no houses. There's no neighborhood, nothing, so and it's good like Florida Beach sand too. It's not like crummy Texas sand. It's crazy to me what people import. There's the one house on Eagle Mountain that is just surrounded by those big palm trees. Oh, yeah. That's the Dickey's house. Oh, that's right. The people that own Dickey's work where that's their property and they have a huge Buddhist statue, a Buddhist statue too, said Martha Galtama. Yeah, I love just anytime we go by on the boat, I love looking at that property and just kind of wondering about just all sorts of things, consider around those palm trees. Those are not cheap trees and they're also not the easiest to keep alive in this climate. Especially in a windy climate, when spring kicks up, I'm surprised more of them haven't been knocked down. That's what kind of amazes me is how well they've actually done as well. It's kind of what you sound like over here. Now I wanted to stop and talk with them many times as I've driven by because they seem to have like their own personal water park out there on the lake, they've got, oh yeah, they've got two or three boats, they've got half a dozen jet skis, they have that big slide out there, the big air up slide and then they have the, what's that thing where somebody gets on the bottom half and then somebody jumps on the top half and shoots the other boat and I don't know what they're talking about, they've got one of those and they've got, man, they just have their own private water park and in the middle of summer when things really get going, you'll see all the stuff they have set up out there but they take it down in like October and then it goes back to wintertime conditions where it's just everything's on the lift and no activity, no action, no adventure. They have a trapeze out there and you can swing off the top floor of their boat house and swing out and drop, it's cool, I want to do that. That's the part that I'm, yeah, that's cool. Terrified of heights but I want to do it. I like doing all the circus things so yes, please give me a trapeze. I could see you doing the trapeze act. Yeah. Have you ever tried it? Yeah, we almost went for my birthday a couple of years or I guess a few years ago and then it just felt for, we never actually made it but they do have, well, I try to get a group of girls together and like we all go out there and at first everyone's so excited but then just like little things that people had to drop out and then one of my friends like right before we were supposed to go, she's like, "Oh, I didn't realize it was flying trapeze." I'm like, "Well, what did you think it was?" And she's like, "I don't know, just like a trapeze near the ground." Sitting trapeze. Apparently. Yeah. So she thought it was sitting trapeze and then she's like, "Oh, no, I can't do that. I'm too afraid of heights." I'm just like, "You've been playing this with me from the beginning. Isn't there a safety net?" Yes, there is. Of course. Yeah. Yes, but yeah, that was just the funniest thing that this entire time we're talking about, she's so going home about it and finally she's like, "Oh, I didn't realize it was flying trapeze." I don't really know what other trapeze there is. I mean, there's trapeze bars on kids' monkeys. Stationary trapeze. But yeah. So it was just kind of funny, so it never ended up happening. Maybe I'll try again sometime. When I see that taking place on TV, like I get that there's all these safety precautions to keep anybody from getting hurt like the net, et cetera. But I still, when I witness it, I get goosebumps and I get a shiver down my spine and I get like one of those moments where there's absolutely no way. There's no fiber of my being that would let me get up there and do it, but I still want to. People feel that way about our diving. Yeah. Oh yeah. I know it. We hear it every time we're in the lake, don't we? Yes. A lot of our customers are divers. A lot of our customers are certified scuba divers who probably have more dives than we do, but... My favorite was for the ex-wife of the owner of a dive shop. None of their dives are in black water. They all have what we call the room of 80s, 80 degree air temperature, 80 degree water temperature, 80 feet of visibility. What? I've never had 80 feet of visibility. I've never had 80 feet of visibility. Right? Yeah, I mean, maybe 80 feet of life. What about the ex-wife of that dive shop? Oh, that was my favorite dive to do for another diver was a woman that is a diver and is the ex-wife of the owner of a dive shop, but she's still... Say which shop? Yes. We talked about this one. Which shop? I don't remember. I think it was just DFW. Huh. Oh, that's right. They used to own DFW dive shop before Terry and is it Larry? Jimmy. Jimmy. I don't think... There's no way it's Terry and Larry. Jimmy. Jimmy. Yes. Yeah. I guess it was the owners before them. And that was the phone wallet. Yes. It was almost a full purse. There was so much in that wallet. Yes. Oh, wow. And we had a dive there the other night for a set of keys, but by the time we got about halfway there, they canceled because some tough guy got in the water and swam all the way down and found him. He said he was out of breath, but the time he got back up, but he found him. Oh, I'm sure. It's funny how often people think that they can just dive down really quick, and it's not as easy as people think it is. Oh, I love the ones where they try to do the 15 and 20 foot free dive. Oh, God. And yeah, they say, well, I got about five feet down and that was it. Yeah. Yeah. But in their defense, I had a situation that takes almost one afternoon where I try to do the same thing. I had an o-ring bloke. No. The valve on the top of my tank was loose. Like it was unscrewed partially. So my tank was bone dry. And this is years ago. That was when I learned take two tanks without fail, take two tanks. If you're going out of town, if you're going on the road, take a lot of tanks, take more than two tanks. Yeah. Because you're going to get there and something's going to go wrong and it's going to kill your dive. I wound up having to get online and find somebody to come and bring me a rented tank to go down and find that phone. And I did find the phone and it did still work, so it was a successful dive either way, but it was embarrassing. Yeah. It was interesting, but we still made it happen and we were still successful. So one of them, metal detecting isn't without its challenges. Sometimes you spend hours without finding anything at all significant. You have to deal with the elements, scorching sun, unexpected rain and strong winds. But every beep of the detector holds the promise of something amazing and that's what makes it all worthwhile. Even in Party Cove, even when you hear the metal detector go off on cans, you still think it's going to be something great. It doesn't change. Like you still... I don't get my hopes up, but there's always a wonder, like what could it be? See, I don't... My hopes to stay up. From the moment my head goes underwater, until the moment my head comes back up, I feel like I'm going to find treasure. That's sort of like that private lake that being you went to, that we felt for that wedding ring. Yeah. It wasn't a wedding ring, it was a wedding ring engagement band combo. Yeah. But we found a bunch of nails and stuff, everything else before we found even the rings. The nails that we found on that job looked like they came out of some 1500s shipwreck. I still got pictures of them. Yeah, I still had three or four of them in the truck. What are you? Yeah, I like them. Where are they square? It's hard to tell. They had a different head, they didn't have a round head. Yeah. I'm not even talking about the head of where the nails themselves square, if they're round, they weren't that old. They weren't square. Okay. If they're round, they're not that old. Couldn't tell what shape they used to be. Yeah. They're kind of rested. Yeah, they're a little corroded. Yeah, I've got some nails that we took out of the barn on my family's property whenever we were just rebuilding part of it. And they're actually nails that my great-great-grandpa had made in the blacksmith shop in that barn. So I actually have some old square nails that I think my great-great-grandfather had made and built the barn with. Right on. That's cool. So I saved some of those. I like mementos like that. It's like when I'm on a road trip across the state and you see one of those, either an abandoned house or an abandoned shack or an abandoned barn. And that's not that old. I always wanted to go explore it and get a piece of it to keep. But I don't do that because that's trespassing and that's theft. But the idea that some level of adventure took place on that location at some point and there's stories there. You don't know what they are, but they're there. The land holds stories. Oh, yeah, completely. Yeah. Yeah, we'll never know what they are, but even if they aren't great adventures, just the lives of the people that lived there had been in one abandoned house. There were newspapers and magazines from the fifties just thrown everywhere. And it was just so interesting to see that glimpse into the time when the house was actually abandoned. Right. It's interesting, isn't it? Very. So let's talk about that singer treasure for just a second down in Galveston. He discovered what they believe was Jean Lafitte's treasure that was buried on the island before Jean Lafitte left Texas. And it was something to the tune of 250,000 in silver. And he buried it in a sand dune that he called Money Hill. And any time he needed something, he'd go there and get it and then he'd put it back. He'd put the treasure back. But then the Civil War came along and I believe it was the Confederacy came along and they requisitioned his property for use during the war. And when it was all said and done, they burned it down. And when they burned it down, he lost Money Hill and never found it again. Specifically in a sand dune? A sand dune. Dunes move. Exactly. Constantly. Precisely. So, it was never recovered, it was never found. Okay. This does not make sense to me, it does not look cute. Because the dunes move due to wind. So if something was buried in a dune, it would have been uncovered by the wind ages together. Depending on where he buried it in the dune, we don't know. I tell you what, during the break, why don't you get on the Google, get on the Internet and look up the singer treasure and read to us when we come back. I looked it up, I don't know if I read it. If you don't want to read to me, I'll read to you. You know what, I can go in and chat GPT and say, "Tell us about the singer treasure on the coast of Texas." You could. Yeah, and it'll bring up. It was all an idea. Yeah, because if he buried it under a dune, sure. But then also how would he find where he had buried it? Because like I said, dunes move. So I don't know, just that one detail bothers me. You can't bury something in a something that moves. Sure you can. No, because the treasure doesn't move with us. That would be under the dune. But then the dunes, the dune moves. Technically that's still in it. But the dune left. Yeah, it's about. So what is marking the piece of land that it's buried? How did he keep going back to it if dune was by-by? Like that was his mark on this dune. I wasn't there. I'm sure he used some sort of a marker and made the confederacy moved it, I don't know. Okay. Anyway, we'll be back in about two minutes. 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Reach out to us at ntxradio.com at t.hurd@ntxradio.com for advertising rates as low as $50 a month. I like $50 a month advertising. I like $0 a month advertising more but $50 is pretty much the next best thing. So, we were talking about the singer treasure. Yes. You know I wrote a song about it once? Oh really? Yeah, it makes me a real singer songwriter. Anyway, the legend of the singer treasure is one of the many captivating tales that add a touch of mystery and allure to the coast of Texas. The story dates back to the mid 19th century and involves a man named John Lafitte, a notorious pirate and privateer who operated in the Gulf of Mexico. John Lafitte was known for his daring exploits and amassed a significant fortune through piracy and private tiering. According to the legend, Lafitte buried some of his treasure along the Texas coastline, particularly in the area around Galveston Island. Among the rumored treasure troves, one stands out in particular, the singer treasure. The singer treasure is named after an alleged witness who, a man named Joseph Singer, the brother of the inventor of the singer's sewing machine, who claimed to have seen Lafitte burying a cache of golden silver on the Texas coast. Now, I didn't know that he was said to have seen Lafitte burying it. I don't know any veracity to that at all. I just understood that he found Lafitte's treasure. Singer's account passed down through generations, describes how Lafitte and his crew landed on a secluded beach and hid chests filled with valuable loot. The exact location was never revealed and Singer's tail has fueled speculation and treasure hunt for years. To my recollection, he found it. One of the articles I just looked up said that she found, the wife, sorry, his wife, found some coins and then a box with $8,000, but that was just one article I just saw. But it was in a sand dune, wasn't it? I mean, she'd found the coins washing up on the beach, but where he actually found it, it did that article didn't say. What was the bit you mentioned about sand dune? Oh, that you can't bury things in a sand dune? No, no, no. Oh, that was a different article. What did it say? I read two articles in the time of our break. What did it say? Again, that he buried it in a sand dune. But again, I say, yes, you can bury something in a sand dune, but the sand dune is going to take off very quickly. You're going to get up? It blows away, yes. That's how science works. It blows that how science works, yes. The wind blows it away. The dune shifts constantly. They shift less if there are plants growing in the dune. So if there's a lot of dune grass or even some cactus there, then they shift a lot less and they're more stable. We should take some cactus down there. I mean, there's already a lot of cactus down there, I might bring some cactus back up. Can you have cactus? We can take down there. I have a lot of cactus. We can just take it all down there and plant it in the dunes. No. Well, we're going to take some down, but to my boyfriend's parents, I'll tell you some corpse, Christy. You're not going to leave any in the dune? Probably not. Okay, that's probably safe. Yeah. Not everybody likes cactus as much as we do. The allure of the singer treasure lies not only in the potential wealth it represents, but also in the romanticized image of pirate legends and the adventurous spirit they evoke. The ideas of hidden gold and silver waiting to be found beneath the sands of the Texas coast continues to capture the imagination of treasure hunters and enthusiasts alike. While the existence of the singer treasure remains unverified, the legend endures drawing people to the beaches of Texas with dreams of uncovering a piece of pirate history. With the fact of fiction, the tale of Jean Lafitte in his buried treasure adds a rich layer of intrigue to the already fascinating history of the Texas coast. In addition to Mr. Lafitte and his booty, there are several other ships that are sunk in Texas waters that are parts of old Spanish treasure fleets that are said to still contain amounts of treasure beyond anything we've ever seen. Oh, yeah. There's definitely a few ships missing that have never, you know, they don't know where they went off. They just at the time disappeared. Right. So there's still a lot to be found. I want to take the misty maid down there with a magnetometer and I want to find us a treasure ship and put a salver's claim on it. That would be cool. That would be cool, wouldn't it? It would have so much fun. Oh, it'd be a blast. You wouldn't get paid for it. You'd have to have a job on land somewhere. Oh, yeah. Yeah. But you'd get to keep pieces of treasure. Yeah. That is, I mean, just being able to work on something like that would be memorable. Unforgettable. Unforgettable. Yeah. Well, I'm expecting to take y'all out to Florida this summer, hopefully in August. And we're going, I don't know if Bill's listening. Bill Black, if you're out there, give us a call, 817-637-2585. But that'll be the gentleman's boat that we're going to be diving from, it's called Showdown. And he has brought back some of the most amazing stuff this summer. In particular, he found the largest pieces of China ever related to the 1715 fleet. And it was only within the last month or so that he found them. The reason that that's significant is because what they're actually hunting in Florida is something called the Queen's Jules. She never consummated her marriage because she never got her dowry. The dowry was on the 1715 treasure fleet coming from the new world and it consisted of riches beyond your wildest dreams, rubies and emeralds and gold and silver and chains and just untold riches bound for Spain and it never made it. The dowry was kept on the flagship of the fleet and it would have been Captain, yeah, Captain Eubia, it would have been in his quarters on the boat. The finest China, the finest porcelain on the fleet would have been on his boat too. So that could sit the right area. Very close, very, very close. All they got to do is just keep hunting. But it's day in and it's day out and sometimes you don't find anything but sinkers and trash. And those are the days that make you question whether or not you still want to be there because let me tell you, there's one job on that boat that's absolutely miserable and that's pulling rope and everybody has to have their turn at it. Yes, you're going to be doing it for a couple of hours at a time. You're setting anchors, you're pulling rope and it just sucks. It freaking sucks. Builds character. Yeah. But when you come up with a glove full of coins, it makes it all worth it. That's what you do when you're detecting and you find a coin, you slip it in your glove so you don't lose it. And when you come up with gloves full of coins, it makes all that rope pulling well worth it. Yep. It's like male fisher used to say, "Today's the day," and then one day it finally was. Y'all know about the Atocha? No. The Atocha to date is the largest treasure haul from a ship ever found. That's about to be shattered by the San Jose off the coast of Columbia once they finally get that recovered, but the Atocha gave out 485 million in one day in gold and silver. The day of his initial find, there's pictures of him just draped with life chains across his shoulders and his neck and chains on his neck and gold bars the size of these microphone arms here and coins handfuls of coins. Can you imagine? Can you imagine telling your crew that today's the day and then finally it is the day? There's your treasure. That'd be cool. Wouldn't it? Yeah. You can actually, you can pay to dive on the Atocha and potentially find your own coins too. Do you know that? Yeah, it probably costs you about as much as the coins are going to cost you. It probably costs a pretty penny. I don't know how you go. Oh, you know what? I think you have to invest. I think that's what it is. I think it's going to be curious because that just, I don't know, I'm not sure if I love that because that just is a potential to destroy pieces of history. What do you mean? Just the wreck itself. It wrecks are pretty delicate. They've been so- Well, there's nothing left about itself. Oh, yeah. So it's just they tell you where to go dig in the sand. More or less, yeah. They have coins. They're not really risking destroying something historical, I guess, that's not. Not really. There's nothing left of the boat. Oh, okay. So yeah, they just say go dig over there and hopefully you get lucky. Pretty much. The woodworms make short work of the wood on the boat. There was one piece, I remember, it was a long timber, and I don't remember where it was found or how it had escaped the woodworms, but it wound up hanging on the wall in Jonah's house. Do you remember talking about Jonah? Jonah Martinez was the treasure finding his captain in Florida. He recently had a pretty hard fall from grace. I won't go into detail because it's not my business, but he had a timber from one of the 1715 ships preserved and hanging on the wall in his house. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I mean, that's a piece of history right there. Part of one of those ships that actually floated and was destroyed in the hurricane on those shoals and somehow it escaped the woodworms, tenacious appetite for wood and he was able to take it home. That'd be cool, wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. Look, it was buried or some kind of special conditions. I wonder, I think it was found somewhere like it had been carried far and away from where everything else had taken place and I don't remember. It was either, I don't know, it was either in waters deeper than the woodworms go or it was in a preserved area or I don't, like I said, I don't remember. I don't remember the story as to how it survived. There are even areas that have higher salt content, so a lot of things can't live in them. They're like little pools within the ocean. Really? Yes. I think you're pulling your pool in my leg. You know, sadly I learned about it via SpongeBob. There's like some lagoon that SpongeBob plays in. I don't know, I don't watch SpongeBob. But yeah, there's some lagoon that SpongeBob and his friends go to and it was actually a video talking about how if it was like actually in the ocean, then, firstly, it's no big deal. Well, look who it is. It's Kim and Alyssa from the following show. Hi, Steve with Kim and Alyssa. How are you? We make an entrance, man. Yeah, you do. Slammin' doors. Didn't mean to do all that. Everything. I didn't realize my strength. That's all right. I forgive you. So y'all just came back from Florida, didn't you? Me. I was on a solo trip. Well, you went dude, didn't you? No, not this time. I went earlier. We went May together. Oh, right on. That's what I was referring to. Yeah. Yes. You know, you did your first live remote from there, right? Yeah. How was that? It was a disaster, but it was really good. It was super fun. Well, we were sitting on the balcony of our Airbnb that we had and it started to rain. So like midway, like we're picking up the camera and like running inside and it was... Yeah. And it did not help that I was way many drinks in. She was very tender. I was feeling it. I was on a level. I had a certain point because I was like, we got a show to do. That's pretty great. I didn't even care. So where were y'all in Florida? We were in Pensacola. Pensacola. Did y'all visit Fort Barranquis? No. You didn't? No. We visited the condo, the beach, the margarita machine in my condo, the beach. Yeah. That's about it. Yeah. That's about it. That's all you really need. We did stop in Biloxi and we went to the Beau Revage Casino. I've been there. Super fun. Yeah. Yeah. We pretty much had half the casino looking at us, but hey, it's fun. It's fun. We were having fun. What were y'all doing to attract that much attention? Making TikToks and being drunk and... We were on an adventure, right? We were on an adventure. We were the adventure. I had no part in that. No. This was with my cousin that we've been like sisters since we were kids, and this was our first time to travel together since we were kids, like, so no husbands, no kids. It was just me and her rolling with all the gangster old school rap and all the, you know, all things. Tell me about some of the TikToks you did. Well, I've got lots of content, so I just have not put them together because I'm coming off of my four-day bender. I'm still sobering up. Are you feeling better? I mean, I had some drinks today, so I'll sober up tomorrow. You didn't happen to bring a sweater with you, did you? I haven't even been whole, like I haven't even been whole. I have my suitcases but... It's not in there. You have shells. You have shells. I have shells. So you didn't put them on empty handed, that's good. No, no. I actually found a couple of sand dollars, and I was going to have to bring those up. Three of them? Were they already dead, or did you kill them? Already dead. Okay, that's good. No. Did not bring the live ones. I put those back in the ocean, but there was a ton of jellyfish this time. Oh, yeah? A ton of jellyfish, and then on the bay side, saw some baby shark, probably about... You know, well, and here's, I don't know, we have a little bit now on our show called "Am I the Asshole?" So am I the asshole that I saw a baby shark on the bay side, and then we were at a restaurant and this boat pulls up, docks, they get out and they're swimming in the bay side, and I was like, "Hi!" I'm going to have my margarita, get a look at that shark out there. I didn't tell them. Do you know what kind of shark it was? No, a fast one. Because I didn't get a picture. I mean, if it was a baby one, then it was... It was a baby. We did see lots of dolphins. We did see lots and lots of dolphins, which was, I guess, supposed to be good, because if there's dolphins around, there's no sharks around. Dolphins, supposed to keep the sharks away. Yeah. So... How does that work though? If there was a shark around? Well, the shark was on the bay side, not on the... Oh, he was getting well away from them. Well away. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it was good. You didn't do any metal detecting on the beach? No. There's free treasure up there. Could be weird. I believe you, but I did good to get my own ass down there. I had to carry a chair and a drink, so you know how hard that is. Oh, my God. Yeah, I do. I've done that before. But I will tell you, you know, we went to Fort Walton. Yeah. And the sand was real powdery, but Pensacola last year, it was like that. But this year, there was tons of shells, tons of like where you could see that high tide and like, it was like a stair step. So like, you really had to like jump down to get down into the ocean. So it was... That's called a cut. Okay. It was a cut. There was like three cuts. That's where you search for treasuries on the cut. Yeah. There was a guy out there. So good. Yeah. I was going to do inappropriate things, but I kept it. Just decided not. That was good. Good. Yeah. Yeah. I was proud of myself. It's like very, very 40 year old of you. Very mature. Good job. Very mature. It's like I got my oysters on a half shell and it was... No. It was delicious. I'm there with you. I'm there with you. I enjoyed that with you. Yeah. I wonder who looked at the oyster and said, "I wonder what that snot tastes like." Right. Someone's very amazing and very smart. It tastes good. I mean, that said about a lot of things. I mean, eggs and milk and I mean, who was the first person for all of these things, honestly? True. Cat fries. There's another good example of that one. The first time back in the day was wild. You never knew what was going to happen. Is this going to kill me? Is this going to feed me? Is this going to make me trip? My sister, these days, she's like, "Okay." Let me know in about 30 minutes what you see, girl, as you see. Are you seeing tracers? Yeah. There's one mushroom in particular, it's called the Angel of Death. You ever heard of it? I have heard of it on a movie or something. Yeah. By the time you realize that you've eaten the wrong mushroom, it's done. So much damage to your liver and kidneys that you're already dead. You now have the death sentence and you will die. Yes. Like, there is no reversal for it. So I just stayed the hell away from all of them. Now there is a Netflix special that this guy goes on this documentary series about psychedelics and how they are, they're like better than prescription drugs. Parents, McKenna? Yeah, yeah. Love that guy. He did the mushrooms, he did the... DMT? Yeah, he did all, like, acid. Not at the same time. What's the Indian stuff, what's it? Ayahuasca. What's the... Peyote. Peyote. Now he had to get special permission for that because they really do use it for rituals and stuff. But he was like, "Everyone that I talk to that's gotten onto a psychedelic, they have a better life. They're happier." Me and Clint were like, "My husband, we were like, 'We need to do something second. We got to do it safe at our house with my children." There are a lot of medical studies at this point. So psychedelics are illegal in certain states and poor medical. So there are actually a lot of studies done that prove that doing the psychedelic mushrooms and tripping can actually improve your mental health and improve some aspects of your physical health as well. A single dose has been shown to alleviate the symptoms of depression for up to six months at a time. Oh, I literally see it in my sister all the time, like, she's 30 and I'm 40. So we're a vast difference in maturity and age. Well, I don't know. But she'd do inappropriate things on the beach in front of the detector is? No, I'm that way. That's just me. That's just me. No, she's done the mushrooms and all that. And she is happier. Like, I've seen a transition in her. She's not this dark doom and gloom. She is. She is happier. So I could tell you a story about a guy who I know personally who not that long ago was suicidal for most of his life, craved it even. If you can imagine craving suicide and after a few psychedelic experiences, he found where he was supposed to be in life. He moved forward with what he wanted out of life and got it. That's amazing. And now he's, you know, treading water, water off the ducks back, nothing bothers him, nothing gets under his skin. I can't believe the transformation that he made from A to B. It's absolutely mind-blowing. And if, if, let me tell you, if psychedelics had anything to do with it, sign me up. Yeah. I'm not saying become an addict, don't help with your mental health. If you microdose and you do it the right way, exactly, that's, but you know, you've got, you've got those, you got those people, those people out there that ruin it. The wine ruins it for all of us. I'm kind of more interested in the macro dosing. I want to see what, I want to see what's really out there. Like everybody who does it reports almost exact same experiences. They go to the same place. I want to try it. I'm scared. What are you scared of losing control? Maybe that's what you need to do. I mean, have we met me? I have the wildest personality. Yeah. No, I know. You had psychedelics to this personality. Oh, hell. I feel sorry for Burleson. It could be a blast. Yeah. Yeah, my friends that do it, they don't describe the same place whatsoever. It's always, it's always very personal and very different. Yeah. I mean, there are common themes such as like getting more in tune to like colors, like colors representing things or speaking to a higher being, but it's not always the same higher being and it's not always the same place. I mean, one of my friends, we were house sitting once and she had taken some and she tried to leave and luckily she came back. That's good. But the reason she came back is because while she was driving, she thought something about it became an alligator roller coaster. I still don't quite get that one, but, but she was on an alligator roller coaster and she realized that she was not safe to drive and she came right back around, but apparently coming right back around still took like 30 minutes because she could only drive three miles an hour. Wow. Well, I wandered off by myself. That's what I did. Nobody knew where I was. We've been talking about it. One time. Tell us about it. I didn't like it. It was very weird. I wandered off by myself, like just away from the group. I didn't say nothing but I just got up and they were like, "Oh, where'd she go?" And they found me, I was sitting at a, at a picnic table and I was talking to the people who were there. There was nobody there, but there were people there. Oh my gosh. What? White tree things? What substance was it? I couldn't even tell you. Oh, must've been a good one. It's in my room. I know that. Okay, must've been. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I've done that. They finally found me and they were like, "Where are you?" And I was like, "I'm here." I'm having a conversation with my friends. Do you mind? Yeah. And I was like, "Listen, listen. Do you hear what they're saying?" Do you hear what the trees are saying? Because they were like, "We're just going to sit here with you for a while." Oh my gosh. Yeah. I made a, I made a lot of content. I just haven't put it all together. Well, we're, we're anxious to see what you've come up with. It will be. We want to, we want to share in your content. It will be highly entertaining. It will. I'm almost certain of it. Yeah, I do love the TikTok. So when I was stationed in Pensacola, one of the things that I enjoyed doing more than anything else was sleeping on the beach. I would drive down there and I would dig a hole and I would, like a, like a bed, I'd make a hole in the sand and I'd pile up some for a pillow and I had a blanket behind a seat in my truck and I'd take a blank with me and I'd spend the night there and a hole on a bed. It's so cold. Even the middle of summer the sand was so cold. Thanks. But what I remember the most was the bioluminescence in the waves. Did you see any of that? I don't even know what that word means. Some critters in the ocean have bioluminescence so when they get agitated, they give off light. Oh, no. Like the waves glow or like when you use water and glue. Haven't seen it. Oh. I remember the waves used to light up neon blue as they crashed and rolled in. I kind of waited for that to happen. My cousin went down. You don't even have neon psychedelics to see it. Well, she went down in the water and all of a sudden there were all these little fish like at her downward parts and I was like, "What, what's wrong with you? I'm not getting down there." I have sign up for that one. No, we have a running joke. Down in the waters. Pinnacle is awesome. The Bayside stinks though. There was a glow in the dark kayaking. This much water sitting in all the kayaks and they all smelled like really old shrimp and I was like, "No." I was like, "I don't just have swamp ass." No. No. It's a smell like that. No guy. One on purpose. One on purpose. One on purpose. It smells like that. I promise you. Yes, but Pym's a cold. It was beautiful. The weather was great. We didn't have any red flags. We didn't have any shark attacks. No riptides. No riptides. It was what we dealt with when we were there. Yeah. It was the riptides. Double flag one day. Yeah. One day. Those things will take you straight out to the ocean before you even know it. Yeah. On the right day of my five-year-old's getting on my nerves, I might let it. Got him in there. Might send him off in the ring. Just go. Just go with the flow, honey. It'll be okay. We'll catch you next time. You'll play with the baby sharks. Yeah. All right. Well, we're going to start winding this episode down. Thank y'all for coming in tonight. Hey. Thanks for letting me slam your door. Hey. You can just slam my door anytime you want. It's the opposite of three's company. Comment slam on my door. Right. We'll see y'all next week for another episode of Texas Wild, adventures from the water to the campfire. Yes. And stay tuned for high tea with Kim and Alyssa. They've got some interesting stories to tell. It's going to be good. Always. Stick around. [music] From Burleson to Venus and Grandview to Godly. This is the voice of Johnson County, Joe Co, community radio. The Dakono Music and Spirits Festival returns to Centennial Park Saturday, August 3rd from 2 to 10 p.m. And it's free live music from the Warren Treaty. Chris Daniels and the Kings is Callie and Moore. Enjoy a spirits competition, Kid Zone and fireworks presented by Oxy and the City of Dakono. 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