The Baker Hotel

Published: Feb. 6, 2017, 1:32 a.m.

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives the guys start the show off talking about how for some people\xa0the the snapping of gum. The slurping of soup makes them shudder. They despise it. If that person is you then you likely have Misophonia.\xa0For you that \xa0have\xa0misophonia, these sounds are more than merely annoying\u2014they\u2019re rage-inducing. Being trapped in a room of snappers and slurpers is enough to make you \xa0walk away or\xa0set yourself \xa0on fire.\xa0All too often, folks with misophonia\u2014which literally means \u201chatred of sound\u2014are dismissed as being over dramatic. But new research suggests that they aren\u2019t just making this up\u2014there\u2019s a neurological basis for your anger.

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Then, a\xa0Florida witness at Titusville reported watching an oval-shaped object crossing the sky \u201cshrouded in the bright, meteor-like light\u201d while waiting for an Atlas V rocket launch. Then, Lon Strickler over at Phantoms and Monsters, recently posted an interesting sighting of some sort of bat winged type creature that sounds eerily similar to another sighting years earlier reported to Stan Gordon. Then, Cam brings up a recent unusual Thunderbird sighting that took place in \xa0Minnesota.\xa014-year-old Logan says he and his friend were skateboarding next to a lake when they found the winged creature.\xa0\u201cWe got off our boards and walked over to our walk in boat access,\u201d said Logan. \u201cWe walked down by the lake just to skip rocks and stuff and we both saw it,\u201d he added.\xa0The afternoon sighting reportedly lasted about five minutes. The boy described the creature as a featherless bird with a crest on its head and a long beak curved towards the back at the end. It had no tail.\xa0\u201cIt was huge. It flew low across the lake turning quite sharply for its size and then just flew away towards the town square on the other side of the lake, but it gained a lot of height very quickly it disappeared in the clouds.\u201d

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After the break Cam brings up the historic story of the Baker Hotel.\xa0Historically known for the legendary healing properties of the water, The Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, Texas was opened in 1929, two weeks after the great stock market crash.\xa0Rising 14 floors, The Baker Hotel was the first skyscraper built outside of a major metropolitan area. Costing $1.2 million to build, the hotel was developed by Texas entrepreneur T.B. Baker and featured progressive hotel amenities including the first Olympic size hotel swimming pool, air conditioning, circulating ice water for the guest rooms, automatic light controls to turn off lights when guests leave the room and lock their doors, and valet doors for dry cleaning to keep hotel employees from disturbing the guests.\xa0Doing well throughout the Great Depression, the Baker hosted many celebrity music performers such as Lawrence Welk, Jack Amlung, Herbie Kaye, Guy Lombardo, Mary Martin and Paul Whiteman and a long list of legendary guests including Lyndon Johnson, Pat Boone, Jack Dempsey, Marlene Dietrich, Dale Evans, Clark Gable, Judy Garland, Will Rogers, Roy Rogers, Elliot Rossevelt, the Three Stooges, and Bonnie and Clyde.

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