SCREWORM STORY

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I swore if if you brought up screw Worm again,
I was going to play the song.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
I know, and I think maybe you should.

Speaker 3 (00:06):
I want to. I'm not going to play the whole song.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
But yeah, were there.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
I knew what screwworm was back in nineteen ninety nine
when I picked up step Inside the House, This House
from Lyle love It.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'll be damned. I had no idea and he.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
There's a there's three songs in a row all about
Bosque County where it's like it's like flies on the rough.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Roast and that's where the screw worm.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
The town's going like it's tough, tough love back then. Okay,
Mary Martin was a schoolgirl.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Do we need to say that the screw worm, yeah,
eats the eats the living flesh of whatever animal it's in.

Speaker 3 (00:38):
Right, But you didn't know screworm until recently.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
I've been sitting on screw worm since the late nineties,
thanks to this song that.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Sounded funny on the truck trucks.

Speaker 4 (00:51):
It's in the fair Cayleskin, feed on and still the.

Speaker 5 (00:59):
Welcome and a sneak by to good child.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Hold on a second, hold on a sat You don't
think you understand a child just died in this.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
And the cows can't eat the prickly pair. They starving. Yeah,
the weather took the water.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
Jesus, cows can't feast on prickly pair, all right, up,
and then you're all gonna learn about screworm.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Whether got the water? Yeah, and a sneak by to
good chat and a fine and the old barn took
the day. The bill had five. It's got the money,
got the cows.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
You got what it gains. The screw worm got the cow.
That's how I made sure.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
For a second thought, it said couchesn't make a crout
a dead child.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah. All the hay went up in a fire. Yeah, horrible, horrible?

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Is that a the squworm? Screw worms come out all
the time or just during week Tragic Moments.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Nineteen thirty nine, Bro talk about apocalypse.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Well, now there's a screwworm in cows and a dog
and a goat, So we're gonna have to have issue.
We're gonna have to figure this out.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
You guys are looking for something to do in the
heat of the afternoon, Pick yourself out to the porch.
Hey pull up tricks his trilogy Boss County Romance School.
Take yourself out of the.

Speaker 4 (02:23):
About fourteen years ago, old.

Speaker 3 (02:25):
Lady explain to where we went a screwwork. It's even
not a high school.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
Folks said it wouldn't last.

Speaker 5 (02:32):
When you grow up in the country, you grow a
mighty fast