The Lost Rider Podcast with Herman Brune

Brune elaborates on one of his favorite subjects. He discusses the art of good communication. It is about respecting other folks enough to think before you talk. Don't beleaguer people with clichés and meaningless words. Don't explain your ideas or position with overused and worn out catch phrases.

He gives examples: The word "important". What is important to one person may be moot to another. The word "work"; what is one person's...

David Morris is an Emergency Response and Hazard Waste Crisis Management Consultant.

He's given his expert testimony to The News from the Camp House radio program, and The Lost Rider podcast, numerous times.

It was Morris who, 25 years ago, explained the process of discarding the super saturated concentrate discharge associated with seawater desalination.

This water process technology was first used in 1984 at the Bryan Mound Strat...

This is a fast-moving interview with the Nueces River Authority Executive Director, John Byrum. It is an update on the progress of the largest seawater desalination plant in the U.S. being built near Port Aransas on Harbor Island. Brune relates to Byrum that Public Trust is at an all-time low, and asks whose responsibility is it to establish good will? Should state senators and representatives be more active in their respective com...

Brune visits with documentarian Paul Fuzinski about the making of Chester Moore's film about Great White Sharks off the Texas Gulf Coast. Fuzinski explains the traveling and time involved on this particular project. The filmmakers gathered interviews and video content from the Texas Coast to the Atlantic Northeast. He also elaborates on the distances traveled by tagged sharks and their seasonal territories. Fuzinski is currently pu...

Executive Director of the CM Russell Museum, in Great Falls, Montana, Duane Braaten joins the Lost Rider listeners to relate interesting aspects and nuances of the legendary western artist Charlie Russell's life. Brune and Braaten discuss perspectives of the 1880 to 1920 era and what it took to become a nationally renowned artist, and how Russell's paintings and sculpture helped shape the public's view of the American West. Braaten...

Farm Bureau Director Greg Buenger provides update information concerning screw worms found in Texas.

Presently, 100 million sterilized larvae are flown from Panama and dispersed weekly. Buenger says that 500 million were dispersed weekly during the epidemic in the 1960's.

A Texas facility to produce sterilized flies should be ready near the end of 2027. A Mexico facility is also being built. Buenger also says that his experience ...

In a rare departure from issue related topics, Brune and Troy Fowler talk about the simplicities of knowing your archery equipment. Both gentlemen have experience hunting Big Game and guiding archery hunters. Fowler reiterates the importance of matching arrow and broadhead weights to game that's being hunted. Much like a person upgrades from a 270, 308, or 30.06 with whitetails - to a 300 Win Mag for elk, a hunter must consider upg...

This episode of The Lost Rider Podcast features host Herman Brune sitting down with Aaron Weishuhn, the manager of the Colorado County Groundwater Conservation District (GCD). The two discuss the pressing realities of water management, local conservation efforts, and the political and environmental battles over Texas water resources.

Key Topics Discussed:

• History of the GCD: The...

Dana Tassa is the representative for Women Hunt at Derek York's Podcast Summit. She is from Vancouver, British Columbia, and this is her first trip to Texas.  Dana elaborates how the Women Hunt organization is an off-shoot of the Wild Sheep Foundation, how she found the group, and what she does for them on social media. We learn a little of her background and gain insights into how Women Hunt help ladies find and enjoy the out...

"Heroes on the Water" is an organization helping veterans and first responders heal. Camille Knowles tells us that putting folks in a kayak and sending them fishing has undeniable health benefits. The non-profit provides the experience and opportunity that aides people accustomed to the most stressful jobs to relax. "Often our participants come to us quiet and reserved. By the end of a weekend they have loosened up and are having f...

The GOP candidate for HD85 joins us to discuss the Austin Swamp. With the odds, being $2M in lobbyist money, stacked against him, Dennis "Goose" Geeseman unseated the two-term incumbent with a landslide 15-point win. Geeseman knows he's bucking the Austin establishment and jokes that he'll get an office in the basement at the end of the hall. He only hopes that he gets put on a committee. In this interview we discuss the Austin mac...

Martha Spencer's first career choice was broadcast media. She worked her way up through the ranks to becoming the meteorologist at the ABC affiliate in New Orleans. However, she decided to change careers. Cajun Adventures suited her better and she became an offshore deep-water fishing guide. She loves the deep-water but ultimately moved to guiding the bays along the Louisiana Gulf Coast. Much of her interview is about how to fish, ...

Russell Stacey is the new Executive Director of the Dallas Safari Club (DSC). He came up through the ranks of volunteers and has served as the president of the Dallas Safari Club Foundation.

Stacey relates that while DSC is all about conservation, the Foundation is committed to education.

Also, DSC has added another event to their annual offerings. The DSC Summer Expo and Foundation Gala will be at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Co...

Matt Rice is the spokesman for the organization American Rivers. Rice's expertise concerns problems in the American West with the Colorado River that most U.S. citizens recognize. Meanwhile, American Rivers is coming to Texas, and Rice is interested in learning more about the Texas, Colorado River. Brune elaborates the loss of agriculture, and wildlife habitat as the Texas, Colorado River no longer supplies irrigation water to the ...