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Speaker 2: Welcome to an army of normal folks. I'm Bill Courtney.

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Speaker 2: I'm a normal guy. I'm a husband, a father, an entrepreneur,

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Speaker 3: That's what big Al Holdron, the voice we just heard,

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Speaker 2: His extraordinary charity Secret Families, but today we're talking about

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Speaker 2: Good day Army and normal folks, winn and thank you,

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Speaker 1: How was drift drive was interesting? We thought Indiana had

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Speaker 2: Then and Katrina happen. And they looked each other and said, surely, God,

436
00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 2: we can help. And Bob's is that right?

437
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bob's attached with a group and I believe Feeding

438
00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 1: America and which is a huge, large organization. Uh, they

439
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:13,960
Speaker 1: had a smoker and so they pulled the smoker down

440
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 1: there and they were down two guys, these two guys

441
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 1: in the stand health and kind of through that Bob

442
00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:21,720
Speaker 1: had been connected. So they go down and then they

443
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,880
Speaker 1: spot them in a place where there's no food. Because

444
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 1: when you get down to these places some of these times,

445
00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:29,560
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about Joplin there I met the town

446
00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:33,600
Speaker 1: is missing. I mean it's not like there's something still standing.

447
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,840
Speaker 1: Guses isn't standing. It's gone that.

448
00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 3: Which means no water, no sanitary and no.

449
00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,439
Speaker 1: Food and no buildings. I mean, that's just they just

450
00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:44,360
Speaker 1: washed away and crushed and you got cars in trees,

451
00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: and you got dead animals everywhere, and you got people

452
00:22:49,080 --> 00:22:51,520
Speaker 1: that they haven't searched the buildings for and they're putting

453
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:55,040
Speaker 1: xes on them and there's so they're down there cooking

454
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:56,800
Speaker 1: and they get down there and they so they go

455
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,439
Speaker 1: on you know, we all go on volunteer donations. We're not,

456
00:22:59,640 --> 00:23:02,119
Speaker 1: I mean it's our own nickel and whoever gives us money.

457
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:04,359
Speaker 1: So they get down there, they come back. The short stories,

458
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: they come back from Katrina and Joplin hits at the end.

459
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: After they've been at Katrina for weeks, they're out of

460
00:23:10,920 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 1: food and they're out of money. What are they doing.

461
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 1: First of all, yeah, I'm sorry.

462
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 3: They take a they take a they take a.

463
00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,359
Speaker 1: Cooker, smoker, big smoker, and then they.

464
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 3: Go down and they go to Katrina in place you

465
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:22,399
Speaker 3: don't have food, and they just start cooking.

466
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: Start cooking, and people are lined up as far as

467
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,040
Speaker 1: you can see to get a pulled pork in Typically,

468
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 1: we have a our to our tornado meal is we

469
00:23:29,359 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: cook it every time. Is it's a it's uh, it's

470
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: a it's pulled porkpropriate.

471
00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 2: It is so inappropriate that I'm laughing. I wish you

472
00:23:39,480 --> 00:23:41,840
Speaker 2: people could see Big Oul because he's hilarious.

473
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:43,400
Speaker 3: Our tornado meal is.

474
00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:46,520
Speaker 1: Our tornado meal is, and it's pulled pork. It's as

475
00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:51,200
Speaker 1: good as you ever had, so easy, just as easy.

476
00:23:51,240 --> 00:23:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm as good as you ever had pulled pork in Memphis. Yeah,

477
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 1: these guys have no clue. Rocket, these folks from Rocky

478
00:23:56,880 --> 00:24:00,399
Speaker 1: would dominate. You're in rock SATs. Rocky would dominate. These

479
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,199
Speaker 1: guys would have no idea what we have the.

480
00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:05,040
Speaker 2: World Championship Barbecue cook Off down here every spring. He

481
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 2: had to pull his thing down here and get in

482
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 2: the big leagues.

483
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,960
Speaker 1: Well, you know the reality is, you know we someone else.

484
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna let someone else win a trophy when someone wants,

485
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:14,520
Speaker 1: you know.

486
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 3: That's it.

487
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:20,879
Speaker 1: So as peanut coleslaw, peanut cole slaw, homemade cookies, peanut coleslaw,

488
00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: and barbecue baked beans, and it's like five different beans

489
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: and it's and the main thing is we can cook

490
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: a lot of it because we're sometimes feeding one thousand

491
00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: to twenty five hundred people in a day.

492
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,760
Speaker 2: Okay, So in Katrina, I want to set this up,

493
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 2: so we go into what you guys have actually morphed into. Sure,

494
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:44,120
Speaker 2: in Katrina, they show up with this cooker and they

495
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,040
Speaker 2: just start cooking because nobody has any food, nobody has

496
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,000
Speaker 2: any power. They're cooking and if you had a if

497
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 2: you did have a grill, it was probably washed away

498
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 2: in Katrina.

499
00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,280
Speaker 1: It's out to sea now somewhere.

500
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,760
Speaker 2: So they're from Indiana. Where are they getting the meat

501
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 2: to cook and the buns and all that stuff?

502
00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:01,200
Speaker 1: They take a lot with them and then but they

503
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,920
Speaker 1: do with Feeding America, and there's some there'll be stations

504
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,399
Speaker 1: set up. So once they get to buildings out to

505
00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:09,840
Speaker 1: the outskirts where there's places there's there's supplies coming in.

506
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,480
Speaker 1: Because I'd say there's.

507
00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 3: Supplies, and somebody's got to actually do something.

508
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: They gotta go get them, and somebody's got to go

509
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:17,639
Speaker 1: get the supplies, get them back down into what a

510
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: lot of what happens a lot, and I've seen it

511
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,120
Speaker 1: over and over and all this whole list of all

512
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: these that will run through some stories with the problem

513
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:31,600
Speaker 1: is is getting a to B because the smokers out

514
00:25:31,600 --> 00:25:34,400
Speaker 1: here are the people out here, but mainly a lot

515
00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: of the groups, and we are not going to get

516
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 1: into specific sk You and I would talk about that

517
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: off the record, and it would be a whole different

518
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,800
Speaker 1: conversation than what is appropriate for your podcast. They want

519
00:25:44,840 --> 00:25:47,720
Speaker 1: to do what's fluffy and looks good and take a

520
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 1: lot of pictures.

521
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:50,640
Speaker 2: I understand when you say a lot of the groups,

522
00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,840
Speaker 2: you mean a lot of the quote AID people correct

523
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 2: or AID really not people.

524
00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:59,080
Speaker 1: Organization organizations, and they're on the edges and we're not

525
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 1: where the people. They're not where they're not they're not

526
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,880
Speaker 1: into They don't roll into hell. We only roll into hell.

527
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: If it's not crazy, we don't go. If it's just

528
00:26:09,040 --> 00:26:11,159
Speaker 1: if it's fluffy and all that, we don't want to go.

529
00:26:11,400 --> 00:26:14,240
Speaker 1: It has to be something where I know that we're

530
00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: affecting some change where they're hungry, where they don't have stuff.

531
00:26:18,480 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: Our goal is to buy, borrow, or steal whatever supplies

532
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: every That guy on the street that just had his

533
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:27,480
Speaker 1: house washed away, he needs, he may need a tarp

534
00:26:27,560 --> 00:26:30,320
Speaker 1: to sleep under, I'll get it to him. I'll either

535
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: bring it because I bought it. I know where the

536
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 1: facilities are. You can get anywhere with good barbecue. I

537
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 1: can buy and bribe my way into anywhere with good

538
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: barbecue and a cold beer. Colder the beer the more

539
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: you get in, and that means National Guard guys, that

540
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: means state police officers could care less. My goal is

541
00:26:48,840 --> 00:26:50,760
Speaker 1: I've got to get there. Well, a lot of times

542
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 1: that they get blocked off. They don't let those groups in.

543
00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 1: They'll let me in because so that's what we that's

544
00:26:56,720 --> 00:27:01,320
Speaker 1: what we're moving who on several weeks, several weeks just.

545
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 3: Cooking, they were just cooking out, sleeping in the truck, or.

546
00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, wherever you can. Sometimes if you can find a

547
00:27:07,800 --> 00:27:11,359
Speaker 1: church building YMCA. Sometimes we have to drive some of

548
00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 1: the places where we may have to drive an hour.

549
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:16,119
Speaker 3: To get a shelter to then go back, so we

550
00:27:16,119 --> 00:27:16,480
Speaker 3: can go.

551
00:27:16,440 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: Back and we go back in the morning and they'll

552
00:27:18,040 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: go back and roll back in at four o'clock. Get

553
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: that smoker started because they got have food ready for eleven.

554
00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:25,160
Speaker 1: Start serving. Then we usually serve. We don't do eat breakfast.

555
00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: They only will serve lunch and dinner. And well they'll

556
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 1: cook whatever they can get their hands on, so they'll

557
00:27:31,720 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: go out come back. We've slept under trucks, in trucks

558
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,320
Speaker 1: we were in. When we were down in Texas, I

559
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,680
Speaker 1: forget the that was Harvey. Down at the color of

560
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:45,639
Speaker 1: the tip of Texas. We slept in a jail. The

561
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:48,320
Speaker 1: jail had not been effected so that we had one cell,

562
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: so we had four sets of stainless steel bunks and

563
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: we had eight guys there, so we had Yeah, we

564
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: were in the jail, so we.

565
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,399
Speaker 2: Going to get to that. My question is these guys

566
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,919
Speaker 2: spent three week down there. Yeah, were you aware they

567
00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 2: were down there?

568
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:06,360
Speaker 1: Yes, I knew they were there, but I really wasn't affiliated.

569
00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 3: With Bob and you did just nice.

570
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were just doing they were doing that night

571
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:18,760
Speaker 1: they roll Joplin happens with Joplin is a twister seventh

572
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: like one of the seventh. Worst death fatalities are they

573
00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:25,199
Speaker 1: in Jopling. So they're in they're down in Katrina and

574
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: they're they're eventually they're just going to come home because

575
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:28,960
Speaker 1: they're out of money and they're out of food, so

576
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: they're coming back to Munsie to really just take a nap,

577
00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: reload a little bit. They get a call and say,

578
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: Joplin just got eliminated from the map. Half of the

579
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: whole city is gone. I mean when I mean gone,

580
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 1: I mean you can look out and there's no trees,

581
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: there's no buildings, and it just looks like a desert

582
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: barrel landscape just with stuff chewed up. So they said,

583
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: we need you in Joplin. We don't have any cooking stations.

584
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,680
Speaker 1: Off they go. They go to Joplin.

585
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 3: They didn't even get back to No.

586
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: They would straight to Joplin. Met up with another crew

587
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,080
Speaker 1: of guys and we'll talk about some of those other guys.

588
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: They met that other crew there. So when they got there,

589
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,760
Speaker 1: they have no food, no money, so they're.

590
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:13,000
Speaker 3: Just they had the cooker, that's it.

591
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 1: And then there was a Tyson semi pulled up, reefer

592
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: truck pulled up, and so they had Tyson chicken frozen chicken.

593
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: So they're just gonna fix chicken. This is where I

594
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 1: come in. This is when I get the So I

595
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: get a text message and it was kind of a

596
00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: massive text to a bunch of people, said we need money,

597
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 1: we need food. God speaks to me on Wednesdays. Okay, Wednesdays, Wednesday.

598
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,480
Speaker 1: I have no idea when I when I when I

599
00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: when I when I get when I get out.

600
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 3: Of the average day in the middle of the week,

601
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:48,920
Speaker 3: I get it Wednesday is.

602
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: It's kind of hum day. And so God talks to

603
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,120
Speaker 1: me on Wednesday's when he tells me to go to

604
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 1: these I mean that more sincerely than you. And all

605
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: of a sudden, so I get this text from Bob,

606
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: and I'm like, going.

607
00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 3: What does Bob say?

608
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: But Bob, Bob just get I get this text. I said, Okay,

609
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: I said, I just text him back and it was quick.

610
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,960
Speaker 3: What did he say to you on the text?

611
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,400
Speaker 1: Just the text? He said, where we need money, we

612
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: need money donated.

613
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,840
Speaker 3: And we need food and probably stuff.

614
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 1: And just anything because they gotta have pans and gloves

615
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:23,720
Speaker 1: and everything and just everything. And we're out and we've

616
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: just we're kind of rolling in here and we're trying

617
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: to make it up as we go along, and so

618
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,640
Speaker 1: I text him back, and this was on Wednesday, and

619
00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:31,200
Speaker 1: so I'm like, so I pray about it, you know,

620
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:33,560
Speaker 1: kind of quick hat my desk forgot to ask permission

621
00:30:33,600 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: for my wife. Probably would have been a good phone

622
00:30:35,760 --> 00:30:38,800
Speaker 1: call to make. And just I texted him back and said,

623
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: I'm coming with all kinds of stuff, gonna fill a van,

624
00:30:43,000 --> 00:30:48,480
Speaker 1: gonna grab somebody and go. He's like, all right. So

625
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:50,760
Speaker 1: he called me and said what are you going to do?

626
00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: And I said, I'm gonna make it up as I

627
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,240
Speaker 1: go along, which is usually what I do. And so' and.

628
00:30:56,160 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 2: So once again it's Chris right, yes, all right again

629
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 2: Chris is in the corner giggling and shaking her head up.

630
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 3: Does he make everything up as he goes?

631
00:31:05,200 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 4: It's just kind of been your life. Just just go go,

632
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 4: go go go. Oh that sounds good, yeah, yeah.

633
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:18,160
Speaker 3: But he's effective.

634
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:21,800
Speaker 2: So you get a text and you say, I'm on

635
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 2: the I'm gonna grab somebody.

636
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: And one on the way we're gonna who are you

637
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: gonna grab? A Guy's name's Tony Rawley. Uh, Tony is

638
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: no longer with us. Tony was killed in a car

639
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:35,720
Speaker 1: accident several years after we had we had gone was

640
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: a dear friend just to Ben there. But he all

641
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: looks like the fourth brother, uh, the fourth fourth Courtney Brother,

642
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: big old dude. And so it was just the two,

643
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: just him and I I said. I told him. I said, hey,

644
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,160
Speaker 1: Bob Balls and Struggle Bush, we're gonna raise some money.

645
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 1: And I said, you just start texting everybody you know

646
00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: and put the word out and uh, let's raise all

647
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,920
Speaker 1: Uh Choplin.

648
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 3: Was it was.

649
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 2: It was hot, okay, So I was, it's it's on

650
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:07,080
Speaker 2: the other side of secret families.

651
00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: Where it's it's summer, I want to say. And so

652
00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: I said, you in. I said, here's the thing. I

653
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 1: don't want to go and stay forever. So let's go.

654
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: And I told Bob because when the kind of the

655
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: order of events bill with any of these going on,

656
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: when it hits, they quarantine the whole area because you

657
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: can't travel. There's live power lines down, there's trees in

658
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:31,360
Speaker 1: the road.

659
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 3: There's cars and truth with all the laughter and all, you've.

660
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: Got it there, and they will not let you in

661
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 1: an area until they put They usually put and I

662
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: think this is true, they put a they'll put a

663
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 1: red X on the property or on the ground that

664
00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: there's a body under there. Well they mark the bodies

665
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:51,640
Speaker 1: with certain they put an X because they've checked it

666
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: and there is none. If there's a body, they're bringing

667
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: cadaver dogs in and they bring all those dogs everywhere,

668
00:32:57,840 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: and they don't want you there because the dogs are

669
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: picking up your sent also, so they have can't get

670
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: in for a while. So they're on the edge of

671
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:08,680
Speaker 1: it with it. And this big church they're in this

672
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 1: this big church parking lot they're set up. They're just

673
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,719
Speaker 1: feeding people because you know, everybody that was where their

674
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:17,440
Speaker 1: house got squished, they've all moved to the outskirts or

675
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 1: into other towns and they're coming back to get go

676
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: through their stuff, running through and when they go to responders,

677
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: everybody's got to eat. You got you got police to feed, you,

678
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: got everybody else to go do it. So they're just

679
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: working that with what they've got right now. And so

680
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: you've got to give it a few days, usually about

681
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: four days. So this is on a Wednesday. God's told

682
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:39,040
Speaker 1: me to go. Tony Rowley said, we can.

683
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:40,959
Speaker 3: Go getness setting call you on Thursday that I had

684
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 3: a whole week for you to say.

685
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: Yes, it's been awful.

686
00:33:43,200 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, wait till next Wednesday.

687
00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 1: I'm like, you gotta call me on Wednesday. I mean,

688
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 1: I'm a m I'm a busy guy. They'll let me

689
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:53,760
Speaker 1: just kid. They so give us some time. So they

690
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 1: got kind of all clear that they had really opened

691
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:58,760
Speaker 1: it up on a Monday, and I told Bob just

692
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,040
Speaker 1: keep in touch with us, let us know because it

693
00:34:01,080 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 1: took us a few days. So we just sent out text,

694
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: called everybody. We had some other lists of people and said, hey,

695
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go. You guys know Bob ball give me

696
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: five hundred bucks. And people did, and we had I

697
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: think between Tony and I, he had to be I

698
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: made him. Somebody always gets made treasure, which means we

699
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:23,440
Speaker 1: have a money bag with hundreds wrapped as thousands in

700
00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: that bag, and I think Tony and I had somewhere

701
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:28,760
Speaker 1: between twelve and fourteen thousand dollars.

702
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 2: So in three or four days, Yeah, people, he's fourteen

703
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 2: grand in cash. Yep, you load up a bunch of

704
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 2: crap in a van that's probably also donated.

705
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 3: Nope, that was our van, God lover, No, not the van,

706
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 3: but stuff in the van.

707
00:34:40,719 --> 00:34:41,440
Speaker 1: Oh, stuff in the van.

708
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 3: Meet And so if you don't.

709
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 2: Have any empt you don't. You're a you run a

710
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 2: collection agency, yep, and your Santa.

711
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,959
Speaker 1: Claus one day at one day a year, at one.

712
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:54,240
Speaker 3: Day a year, and.

713
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,040
Speaker 2: Nobody you're not part of an India. Nobody tabs you.

714
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:03,719
Speaker 2: It's there's need, go do it. Let's do it.

715
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,919
Speaker 1: Let's go do it, and so and let's have fun.

716
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:08,120
Speaker 1: We we gotta make it fun. No game won't go

717
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: back with you if you don't have fun the first And.

718
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: Everybody, please remember the thousands of times I get the

719
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 2: emails and the questions, is I really want to be

720
00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:17,479
Speaker 2: effective in help?

721
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,160
Speaker 3: I'm motivated. I'm inspired by hearing all these stories, but

722
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:23,839
Speaker 3: I just don't know how. Here's how. You just do it,

723
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 3: Just do it. You got to show up. We'll be

724
00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:34,600
Speaker 3: right back.

725
00:35:48,000 --> 00:35:51,520
Speaker 2: So you raised fourteen grand from everybody, from everybody, we

726
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 2: say we're going to jop them.

727
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: We get we big bar and steal four big coolers,

728
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: I mean big big coolers. Throw them in the back

729
00:35:58,080 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 1: of a van of what meat and meat, pork pork butts. Yeah,

730
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: because they're cooking chicken. They're cooking chicken. They're looking. They

731
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: want right, I want We're gonna do some. We're gonna

732
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:11,399
Speaker 1: do some tornado meal and Rocky's chomping at the bit

733
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,160
Speaker 1: because that's what he's he wants.

734
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 3: So we guess you get plates and seasoning and napkins, and.

735
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, we and so and we had well. And we

736
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:26,640
Speaker 1: also stopped all the way across Indiana, down round through

737
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: Saint Louis, all the way across Uri. We stopped because

738
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 1: we only had some meat donated. We really didn't have

739
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:34,719
Speaker 1: all the connections because we had never done this. We

740
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 1: had some money. We stopped at every Walmart then they

741
00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: were they were opened twenty four hours and we were

742
00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,399
Speaker 1: in Wheeland and dealing because you can get deals done

743
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:45,360
Speaker 1: with a night manager at a Walmart.

744
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 3: I'm telling you what you're negotia, what are you saying?

745
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:48,840
Speaker 3: We're going to drop it?

746
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: It going to jop on elp with people out how

747
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: much you're gonna give me and how much do I

748
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: have to buy? And he would go back and say, well,

749
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: we've got some stuff that's really got been pulled off.

750
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: It's got to be used in the next three days.

751
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 1: I said it's going to be used in the morning,

752
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 1: and be like, That'll sell it to you for ten

753
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 1: cents a pound, but you got to buy it all said,

754
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,799
Speaker 1: I've already backed the van. I'm a loader up baby.

755
00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: So we were buying everything that was as close and

756
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:16,920
Speaker 1: then if we needed more that at the end we

757
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:18,760
Speaker 1: bought enough just to fill. But once we get the cool.

758
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 3: So from Indiana to Joplin, you're pillaging walmarts yep.

759
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: And the opening we needed restrooms too, because we drove

760
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 1: all night. We drove that whole night because we didn't

761
00:37:27,120 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 1: waste another so we had all night. It was a

762
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 1: long drive. I don't know how many hours. There was

763
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:34,839
Speaker 1: a lot, so we drive all night. We get there

764
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: and pull in and they throw it, take it immediately

765
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: out of the coolers because I need the coolers because

766
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 1: then we go back to the local walmart at Joplin

767
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 1: that had not been hit and we fill one of

768
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: them completely full an ice cold beer. And remember it's

769
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: real hot, and so dude, if you want to get

770
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: things done, we talked to a National Guard guy and

771
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: you give him a plate of barbecue and two cold michelobs.

772
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,400
Speaker 1: I swear to God, I think he would have driven

773
00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: our van wherever we wanted, and they let us go

774
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,759
Speaker 1: into all the areas that had not had anything. And

775
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: I'm carrying when the van with me sixty meals already,

776
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:13,280
Speaker 1: clamshelled up, cold beer, cold coke, and diet coke, pepsi,

777
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,760
Speaker 1: diet pepsi in a case, and a whole thing of water.

778
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,879
Speaker 1: And the people are on homemade cookies. One of the gals, oh,

779
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: how many dozen? It was like forty dozen homemade cookies.

780
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: Because here's the thing. When you're working and you're out

781
00:38:27,000 --> 00:38:30,400
Speaker 1: and it's hot like that, you need sugar, you need energy.

782
00:38:30,800 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: So these cookies have now become a thing. So now

783
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: when we go the things that people don't have. You

784
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 1: just remember your house got blown away and you're sorting

785
00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: through all your stuff. You don't even got any gloves

786
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:45,000
Speaker 1: because your gloves are in your truck that's in the tree,

787
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:48,920
Speaker 1: So you don't have gloves. So we take leather gloves

788
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: men and women's gloves, cookies, and we will have cold drinks,

789
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: and we call as much pork as we can, and

790
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: then we will buy when we go out there. Now

791
00:38:58,440 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: we try to call head. Now we do it a

792
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 1: little a little more strategic. We try to find meat

793
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:05,279
Speaker 1: markets or meat suppliers that are close that we can

794
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:06,799
Speaker 1: get out to and we'll cut a deal with them,

795
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: and then we will buy with it, buy from them.

796
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 1: So that's what we that's what we go out and do.

797
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: So we just show up. They take all of our pork,

798
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,799
Speaker 1: empty our coolers, We fill them full of drinks, and

799
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:17,160
Speaker 1: then ware we go.

800
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 2: So you got to Joplin and in two days you

801
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 2: fed four or five thousand people.

802
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:27,879
Speaker 3: It was crazy. Yeah, yeah, that's unbelievable.

803
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:31,479
Speaker 1: They were lined up and they had As we got there,

804
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,319
Speaker 1: it was so here's the thing. We've got enough meat,

805
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:36,319
Speaker 1: but this meat goes quick. I mean, you're feeding that

806
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: many people. What we had was just I mean it

807
00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,280
Speaker 1: was just a little not enough. And so the first

808
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 1: best one of the first best stories. So those guys

809
00:39:46,239 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: they empty the coolers, they're going, Okay, you're in charge

810
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 1: of procurement. I said, what does exactly does that mean?

811
00:39:55,040 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: He goes, we don't have any idea, but here's the

812
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: things we need and you need to go find them.

813
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: So we did. And there's and just remember there's churches,

814
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: and there's places that have pepsi trucks pulling up and

815
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,840
Speaker 1: unloading pepsis and gatorades and that kind of stuff, and

816
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: people bringing van fulls of tarps and just I mean,

817
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,120
Speaker 1: it's just crazy, they're just warehouses. So we go find out.

818
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: I said, if you guys eat, and may we have

819
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: anything to eat for a day? I go, wow, I'll

820
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:21,839
Speaker 1: be right back. So we go get some meals from

821
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: the ikaid. We have the cookers, so I bring them back.

822
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 1: I feed all their people and they go, bam. Anything

823
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: you need, I said, well, while you're talking. While we're talking,

824
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,799
Speaker 1: I need access, but I don't want to sign out

825
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: because you have to. You have to come and they

826
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:36,360
Speaker 1: give you one rake and one shovel. I need forty.

827
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,879
Speaker 1: I need a box of tarps to throw in the van.

828
00:40:39,160 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: I need whatever else I can get my hands on.

829
00:40:42,440 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 3: So we just go through.

830
00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: I said, I don't want to sign in out, and

831
00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: if this gold vam pulls in, nobody stops me. And

832
00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,120
Speaker 1: I'll feed you all the PEPSI coke and all the

833
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: barbecue that you can eat in the next four days.

834
00:40:53,600 --> 00:40:56,400
Speaker 1: Handshake deal. So you always find the director, bribe your

835
00:40:56,440 --> 00:40:59,160
Speaker 1: way in and away you go. And that's and that's

836
00:40:59,160 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: what we do. And so now we just have access

837
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: to that stuff all night long. And he goes, I said,

838
00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,319
Speaker 1: you guys open twenty four to seven. He goes, yeah.

839
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:08,239
Speaker 1: I said, we'll be back around too, and we got

840
00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:09,880
Speaker 1: to load up for the morning to go do that.

841
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: So we as we're out and about running around Tony's

842
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:17,120
Speaker 1: like we got to find more meat. Bob said, we

843
00:41:17,760 --> 00:41:21,479
Speaker 1: forgot about. We got busy because what we do Villa

844
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: is that we will go out and we cordon off

845
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:26,799
Speaker 1: and we work the streets whatever area we grab us

846
00:41:26,920 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 1: find us to city map somewhere. So we're working street

847
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: by street by street north and south the first two

848
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 1: days and then east and west the next two days,

849
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,560
Speaker 1: and we go literally up to every house if there's

850
00:41:40,600 --> 00:41:44,360
Speaker 1: somebody there, and say what do you need? That's what

851
00:41:44,440 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: I think your comment was very sage to people. Just

852
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: do something if you don't know what to do. When

853
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:55,640
Speaker 1: in doubt, run people will either run two problems or

854
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: away from problems. I like to run two problems, but

855
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,960
Speaker 1: takes somebody with you that really doesn't care. If they

856
00:42:02,960 --> 00:42:06,360
Speaker 1: don't care, they're not afraid, We don't scare. We're just

857
00:42:06,400 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: going to go talk to them and just say.

858
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 3: What do you need?

859
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: He goes, I could use a couple of tarps, you know,

860
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 1: I need a shovel as he gang gloves nine gang gloves.

861
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: We got gloves. How about cold beer? Oh my god,

862
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: you kidding me. I haven't seen a beer in a week.

863
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 1: We got one for you have thrown a couple. You're

864
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 1: making friends just by being just by being a friend.

865
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: And you know what, sometimes they want to sit there

866
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,080
Speaker 1: and cry because their son was killed in the tornado

867
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: and all they need is set They just want to

868
00:42:32,040 --> 00:42:34,479
Speaker 1: set in your van and just talk to you because

869
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:37,719
Speaker 1: there's nobody else. So we've set on tree stumps, We've

870
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:40,760
Speaker 1: set on trees, we've set on whatever lawnchair. We found

871
00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 1: that the launchair belonged to the guy who lived a

872
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: mile away, just have to fly in his yard. And

873
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 1: we're sitting there just having conversation with me. Once to

874
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,440
Speaker 1: tell me about his son that was killed, that was

875
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: pulled out of his car out through the side window

876
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: and thrown into a retention pond and then their house

877
00:42:56,600 --> 00:43:00,080
Speaker 1: fell on top of it. Anyone to tell me about that?

878
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: That And so there's there's some crazy. Now if you

879
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:08,160
Speaker 1: can't mentally do that, we're okay with that. And I cook,

880
00:43:08,680 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: we just couldn't. You got to do something. You just

881
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:16,080
Speaker 1: gotta but here just sometimes just that conversation. So there's

882
00:43:16,080 --> 00:43:18,239
Speaker 1: some there's some sad stories with it, and we'll talk

883
00:43:18,239 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: about some of them. So we're out and about the

884
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: first best story. We're out about running aund Tony's and

885
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: you got to know the big glute and he's like, dude,

886
00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 1: you gotta find some brick and meat. We gotta we

887
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: bob and then we're gonna kill us if we don't

888
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: show up. We came out here. You're supposed to be

889
00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:34,759
Speaker 1: in procurement. We're out serving everybody. I'm going we got

890
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 1: to do both. So he pulled over and all of

891
00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:41,240
Speaker 1: a sudden, he goes used, I'm like, what the hell

892
00:43:41,239 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: wheel that van in? Pull in? It's a building. It's

893
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: not a big it's maybe two thousand, like a home outside,

894
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 1: but it's a block building and it's whatever somebody's meat market.

895
00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,360
Speaker 1: No lights on because there's no electricity. I mean, you

896
00:43:57,400 --> 00:43:59,359
Speaker 1: just remember we're still in the we're on the edge

897
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: of the zone, no electricity. I walk in and the

898
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: husband and wife, the older gentleman and his wife are

899
00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,440
Speaker 1: letting their staff go. They have a meeting. They're standing

900
00:44:08,520 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 1: up in the front of the meat coolers and you

901
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 1: nothing running and said, we apologize. They've told us it

902
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 1: could be a month before we get power back. When

903
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: our coolers timp down, all this meat has to be

904
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 1: thrown away. But we've got about two and a half days.

905
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,760
Speaker 1: If we don't open the cooler before they start temping down,

906
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:30,479
Speaker 1: we can put some out in our refer a little

907
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: They have a small reefer truck that they they were

908
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: the ones that sold tenderloins and whatever meet to all

909
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: the little local people. But I have to let you go.

910
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,120
Speaker 1: I only have enough money to give you half a paycheck,

911
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we're going to be able

912
00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:47,360
Speaker 1: to reopen or not because I can't meet payroll. If

913
00:44:47,400 --> 00:44:49,239
Speaker 1: I could meet payroll, I think, you know, if I

914
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,399
Speaker 1: could get some money, I could get a generator in here,

915
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: and I think I could do it, and I think

916
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: we'll make a fortune because we're going to be some

917
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,760
Speaker 1: of the only meat and the whole part of this county.

918
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 1: Now worst, we've kicked the door open because it was stuck,

919
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: and Tony kicked it open, and we're standing in the

920
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: back and they're still having the conversation, and I just said,

921
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 1: excuse me, customer, and they're like, yeah, do you what

922
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: do you want? I said, I heard your conversation. I

923
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: said what if you sold every piece of meat, no

924
00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: matter what it is in here right now? How much

925
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: would all of that be? What kind of deal can

926
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,160
Speaker 1: I make on everything? You got all the He goes,

927
00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 1: you want lamb and you want all that? I said,

928
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: I didn't ask what it was. I just asked how much.

929
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: I said, how many pounds of meat do you have?

930
00:45:45,160 --> 00:45:47,440
Speaker 1: He said, well, Mom, she can tell you exactly. And

931
00:45:47,520 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: she goes back to her a little she's working a

932
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: little manual calculator over there, and said, there's I don't

933
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: know how much. I mean, thousand pounds of meat in

934
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,760
Speaker 1: the cooler, some of us frozen, others fresh in the cooler.

935
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:01,399
Speaker 1: He said, but that cooler stuff's gotta be done round west.

936
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:05,760
Speaker 1: We understand, He said, you mean the sausage and ground everything.

937
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 1: I said, just quit asking me questions, Just tell me

938
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,320
Speaker 1: how much there is. And then he said, well, there's

939
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,080
Speaker 1: I don't know, forty six hundred pounds of meat. I said, okay,

940
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: I'll just buy it all. What's the price on it?

941
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,520
Speaker 1: He goes, you're going to buy it all at any price?

942
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:24,439
Speaker 1: I said, no, no, we're going to have a conversation. Well,

943
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 1: we'll come to Jesus meeting here, and he said, well,

944
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: I'll do I can do half of it for fifty

945
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,799
Speaker 1: cents a pound, just to get my cost back out

946
00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 1: of it, and the other half I'll do it a

947
00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:39,720
Speaker 1: dollar a pound. I said, seventy five cents a pound,

948
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:43,800
Speaker 1: cross the board cash. I thought he was going to

949
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: take my arm off, and so we hand him whatever

950
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: it was five thousand, and I think we made it

951
00:46:49,600 --> 00:46:53,279
Speaker 1: fifty five hundred just because of the Bobby Felt priest, and.

952
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 3: So he paid.

953
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:57,880
Speaker 1: He made all his payroll, rented a generator, and we

954
00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,399
Speaker 1: cut the deal that every morning he had to fill

955
00:47:00,440 --> 00:47:04,600
Speaker 1: the he had to fill, put meat in in the

956
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: reefer truck and drive it over to the church. So

957
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: I didn't have to forget about it anymore. So he's

958
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,839
Speaker 1: hauling all that meat over there, cleaned it all out,

959
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 1: said it would be great, no problem. They got it back.

960
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:16,399
Speaker 1: Business is still there and great. We never saw him again.

961
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,000
Speaker 1: We never went back. I just wrote him a check

962
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:20,879
Speaker 1: and he just took all the meat over to Bob

963
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: and those guys over the next couple of days, I believe,

964
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: because we didn't see them a whole lot. We're just

965
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 1: out doing our thing, and it was perfect.

966
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 2: So literally by showing up. By showing up, you probably

967
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:32,360
Speaker 2: saved the business.

968
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 3: I hope so.

969
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: And he was. They were wonderful and they were very kind.

970
00:47:35,320 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: They kept talking. They kept telling those guys the story

971
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: of this two idiots that showed up and didn't know

972
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: where the hell they came from and show I mean,

973
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:47,799
Speaker 1: if we'd been five minutes later, he's out, he's gone.

974
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 2: And that concludes Part one of my conversation with Big

975
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 2: al Holdron, and you do not want to miss Part

976
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 2: two that's now available to listen to as it just

977
00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: keeps getting better, which isn't bad for six point five guys. Together, guys,

978
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 2: we can change this country. But it's gonna start with you.

979
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:09,879
Speaker 2: I'll see in part two. Mm hmm