Dan Flores
speaker
4,468 appearances
23 recordings
4 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 18 Aug
Dan Flores’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The dwelling in question was an unfinished two-story tar paper shack outside the city.
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It had a well and electricity, but beyond a tin roof, possessed no exterior surface except for plywood covered by faded black tar paper.
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Inside was exposed framing, wiring, and plumbing with no insulation in the walls.
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Downstairs was a shower and a john minimally enclosed in sheetrock.
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There was no heat beyond a kitchen oven and no cooling unless you factored in the very considerable West Texas wind.
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Needless to say, no bank would mortgage such a structure.
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What existed of this house was the work of a founding musician of a somewhat famous Texas band called the Flatlanders.
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But the house had become a pawn in the musician's failed marriage.
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His ex-wife got the building and the 12 acres out of a former cattle ranch it stood on.
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She decided owner financing was the only way she could sell it.
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And I bought it from her.
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Then chased nesting kestrels out of the upstairs, squashed centipedes and scorpions fleeing across the floors, and at disturbingly frequent intervals coaxed West Texas rattlesnakes off the front porch.
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I had no idea how to complete a house like this beyond stapling on fresh tar paper, and I wasn't always a success at that.
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And I'd bought a house that needed a lot of completion.
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I was going to have to get better at that kind of thing.
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The real reason I'd bought an unfinished tar paper shack was because of its location and because of what my instincts led me to do with its setting.
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The house was on ground, nearly impossible to find,
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where I was living in the 1980s.
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That ghastly city was Lubbock, Texas, a town with the irony of having somehow produced Buddy Holly amidst an almost unmatchable Bible Belt cred.
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Lubbock in the 1980s wasn't even three quarters of a century old.
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