Episode 50: Talking Texas Society

Liss’N Kristi

Liss 'N Kristi celebrate a black tie Saturday morning in the company of two Texan style, media and society influencers: Society Texas and The Society Diaries alum, and host of the Fun In Fundraising podcast Rob Giardinelli; and Brilliant, The Society Diaries and Society Texas founding Editor-in-Chief Lance Avery Morgan.

The wide-ranging conversation starts with some of Kristi's encounters as a reporter, including her "funeral-crashing" exploits undercover. They talk about the changing social dynamics of Texas philanthropy, and a big fund-raising milestone for Kristi's national non-profit, k9s4Cops.org.

00:00 - Start

00:11 - In black tie on a Saturday morning

01:07 - My old friend Welcome Wilson

01:58 - Faking it 'til you make it

02:55 - The Koch Brothers

03:45 - "They gave her $50,000 a month"

05:32 - "You know who lives next door"? Dianne (Marshall)

07:18 - "Mr. Marshall, I don't know if you remember me"

07:38 - Eating at Anthonys: "This hand comes over" - Mr Marshall prefers to eat alone

08:53 - "I found peel-on tattoos and got the story"

09:14 - She sang "The Wind Beneath my Wings"

10:45 - "They hadn't been in a grocery store for 30 years"

11:10 - "No one will want to watch anybody who isn't famous"

11:52 - The ascension of the reality star

13:24 - Buzz Aldrin and coping with returning from space

15:30 - He kicked a guy's ass at a book signing

16:20 - Everything old is new again

17:40 - Elon Musk's attention span

19:15 - People who choose to give back

20:00 - K9s4cops - just hit $8-billion in contraband seized

21:50 - The woman running fentanyl

23:55 - k9s4cops funding is all through private donations