1 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:10,640 Speaker 1: It's that time time time, time, luck and load. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:14,160 Speaker 2: The Michael Varieshow is on the air. 3 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:19,639 Speaker 3: That a fake Russia investigation that interfered, That was a 4 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:22,000 Speaker 3: terrible thing, that was actually a treasonous thing to do. 5 00:00:22,880 --> 00:00:25,079 Speaker 2: Those people should have been arrested. They made it up. 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 3: They made up a problem with Russia that didn't exist. 7 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:30,760 Speaker 3: Now they've all admitted it didn't exist. 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:32,760 Speaker 4: It was just on to the next one. 9 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:36,400 Speaker 5: There should be no fuzz on this whatsoever. The Russians 10 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:40,959 Speaker 5: interfered in our election during the twenty sixteen cycle. They 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:43,959 Speaker 5: did it with purpose, they did it with sophistication, they 12 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:48,800 Speaker 5: did it with overwhelming technical efforts, and it was an 13 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 5: active measures campaign driven from the top of that government. 14 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:52,760 Speaker 6: There is no fuzz on that. 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 5: It is a high confidence judgment of the entire intelligence community, 16 00:00:57,520 --> 00:01:01,120 Speaker 5: and the members of this committee have seeing the intelligence. 17 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:02,480 Speaker 6: It's not a close call. 18 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:03,640 Speaker 2: That happened. 19 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 5: That's about as unfake as you can possibly get and 20 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:09,319 Speaker 5: is very very serious. Which is why it's so refreshing 21 00:01:09,319 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 5: to see a bipartisan focus on that, because this is 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 5: about America, not about any pic of party. 23 00:01:23,520 --> 00:01:26,119 Speaker 7: I'll be honest with you. When you're talking about cybersecurity, 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 7: a lot of it is classified, and we're not going 25 00:01:29,040 --> 00:01:32,880 Speaker 7: to provide it because the way we catch folks is 26 00:01:33,040 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 7: by knowing certain things about them that they may not 27 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 7: want us to know. And if we're going to monitor 28 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:42,880 Speaker 7: this stuff effectively going forward, we don't want them to know. 29 00:01:42,880 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 6: Him Comy, this is whose daughter was fired the other day, unless. 30 00:01:48,080 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 8: I think Comy and I think his daughter for that matter, 31 00:01:51,760 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 8: are going to figure prominently into the crimes that were 32 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 8: committed against Donald Trump. How can you imagine Trump wins 33 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 8: in twenty sixteen because of you. 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 6: You beat them. They never believed you could do it. 35 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:07,880 Speaker 6: So what do they do? 36 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:12,079 Speaker 8: They impeach him twice, They set up and entrapped the 37 00:02:12,160 --> 00:02:15,880 Speaker 8: January sixth folks after they steal the twenty twenty election. 38 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 8: Look at all the things, all the things they did, 39 00:02:22,880 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 8: and yet in twenty twenty four you came back. Trump 40 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:30,239 Speaker 8: couldn't win without you. So here's Jim Comey in twenty seventeen. 41 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:34,560 Speaker 8: So Trump has won the White House. The left and 42 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 8: the deep state and the media are reeling. They're on 43 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:43,400 Speaker 8: their heels, and they're talking about election interference because because 44 00:02:43,440 --> 00:02:47,000 Speaker 8: Donald Trump couldn't have won without election interfering. Putin had 45 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 8: to win the election for him. There are not enough 46 00:02:49,919 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 8: of you to win. That's what they That's the lie 47 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 8: they told. That is the lie they told. They told 48 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:03,640 Speaker 8: it again and again and again. And yet Jim Comey 49 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 8: knew that Hillary Clinton had used a private email server 50 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:11,920 Speaker 8: while she was Secretary of State. Remember that story. This 51 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 8: is credit Chicago one ray On X for the package. 52 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 8: There's a video package that goes with it. I wish 53 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 8: I could share that with you, but we're an audio medium. 54 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 8: But trust me on it. 55 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 9: Nothing and I will underscore nothing that I was sent 56 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,120 Speaker 9: or that I sent was marked classified. 57 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,359 Speaker 10: Secretary Clinton said, I did not email any classified material 58 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 10: to anyone on my email. 59 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 2: There is no classified material. Was that true? 60 00:03:37,640 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 5: There was classified material email? 61 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,720 Speaker 9: I never sent nor received any information that was classified 62 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 9: at the time it was sent and received. 63 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:48,200 Speaker 10: Sirct Clinton said there was nothing marked classified on her emails, 64 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 10: either sent or received. 65 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:50,720 Speaker 2: Was that true? 66 00:03:50,920 --> 00:03:55,720 Speaker 5: That's not true, And ten emails in fifty two email 67 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,520 Speaker 5: chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain 68 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 5: classify information at the time they were sent or received. 69 00:04:04,440 --> 00:04:07,400 Speaker 9: When I got to work as Secretary of State, I 70 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,320 Speaker 9: opted for convenience to use my personal email account because 71 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,480 Speaker 9: I thought it would be easier to carry just one 72 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 9: device for my work and for my personal emails instead 73 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 9: of two. 74 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,640 Speaker 10: Sector Clinton said, you used just one device. 75 00:04:22,040 --> 00:04:23,480 Speaker 2: Was that true? 76 00:04:24,839 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 5: She used multiple devices during the four years of her 77 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 5: term as Secretary of State. 78 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:33,400 Speaker 9: I didn't have to turn over anything. I chose to 79 00:04:33,480 --> 00:04:37,200 Speaker 9: turnover fifty five thousand pages of my email, but we 80 00:04:37,279 --> 00:04:42,080 Speaker 9: turned over everything that was work related, every single thing. 81 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 10: Sec to Clinton said all work related emails were returned 82 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:46,600 Speaker 10: to the State Department. 83 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 2: Was that true. 84 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 5: No, we found work related emails thousands that were not returned. 85 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:54,640 Speaker 4: To the little what like with a cloth or something 86 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 4: that well dell. 87 00:04:56,279 --> 00:04:59,080 Speaker 3: You get a subpoena, and after getting the subpoena, you 88 00:04:59,240 --> 00:05:03,479 Speaker 3: delete thirty three thousand emails and then usd. 89 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:06,279 Speaker 9: Washerm Everything he just said is absolutely false. 90 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 10: Sector Clinton said, neither she nor anyone else deleted work 91 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 10: related emails from her personal account. 92 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 2: Was that true. 93 00:05:13,600 --> 00:05:18,120 Speaker 5: The email software was removed, that didn't remove the email content. 94 00:05:19,279 --> 00:05:22,520 Speaker 5: The effect was that millions of email fragments ended up 95 00:05:22,960 --> 00:05:26,239 Speaker 5: in the server's unused or slack space, and this helped 96 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 5: us recover work related emails that were not among the 97 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,119 Speaker 5: thirty thousand that were produced to State. 98 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:35,560 Speaker 9: We went through a thorough process to identify all of 99 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 9: my work related emails and deliver them to the State 100 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:41,320 Speaker 9: Department sectain. 101 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,680 Speaker 10: Clinton said her lawyers read every one of the emails 102 00:05:44,839 --> 00:05:48,760 Speaker 10: and were overly inclusive. Did her lawyers read the email 103 00:05:48,839 --> 00:05:50,120 Speaker 10: content individually? 104 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,800 Speaker 5: Now, although there is evidence of potential violations of the 105 00:05:54,839 --> 00:05:59,000 Speaker 5: statutes regarding the handling of class of information, our judgment 106 00:05:59,279 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 5: is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case. 107 00:06:02,520 --> 00:06:05,599 Speaker 11: Did Donald Trump obstruct justice? 108 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:06,440 Speaker 2: As you read. 109 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:11,640 Speaker 1: The incidences as mother list about, Well, I think. 110 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 9: There's enough there that any other person who had engaged 111 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:22,680 Speaker 9: in those acts would certainly have been indicted. 112 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,159 Speaker 8: And then finally Hillary Clinton joined the hags of the 113 00:06:26,279 --> 00:06:31,280 Speaker 8: view and said, there was no denying that the Russians 114 00:06:31,360 --> 00:06:35,080 Speaker 8: interfered with the twenty sixteen election. Remember she blamed women 115 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,000 Speaker 8: who listened to their husbands. Remember all the people she blamed, 116 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:40,880 Speaker 8: But at the end of it all, she blamed the 117 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:46,320 Speaker 8: Russians had interfered with the election. She knew that was 118 00:06:46,360 --> 00:06:46,919 Speaker 8: a lie. 119 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:50,240 Speaker 9: And whether or not there's fire, we need to figure 120 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 9: it out. 121 00:06:50,560 --> 00:06:52,159 Speaker 4: But here is what's important. 122 00:06:52,440 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 9: Put the investigation into Trump, his associates and everybody else 123 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 9: to one side. There is no denying that the Russians 124 00:06:59,480 --> 00:07:03,320 Speaker 9: interfered in the election, whether or not they had willing 125 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:08,600 Speaker 9: or unwitting help from the Trump team, they interfered, and 126 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:11,800 Speaker 9: they did so to help him and hurt me, and 127 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,160 Speaker 9: they did so to destabilize our democracy. 128 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,120 Speaker 4: And they have not stopped. 129 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 9: I mean, there's been enough public testimony before Congress now 130 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:25,720 Speaker 9: by very distinguished, experienced intelligence professionals. 131 00:07:25,320 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 4: Who all say the same thing. 132 00:07:27,200 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 9: This is a clear and present danger to our country. 133 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 4: And I think it's important. And I would say this. 134 00:07:35,280 --> 00:07:38,840 Speaker 9: If the roles were reversed, if I had won the 135 00:07:38,880 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 9: Electoral College and I were in the White House and. 136 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:42,679 Speaker 4: The Intelligence Services. 137 00:07:42,720 --> 00:07:45,840 Speaker 9: I've served with them, I've worked with them, I've read 138 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,400 Speaker 9: their analysis both on the Senate Armed Services Committee and 139 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 9: as Secretary of State. You know, they don't always get 140 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,560 Speaker 9: it right, but these are patriotic, hard working, dedicated men 141 00:07:55,600 --> 00:07:56,000 Speaker 9: and women. 142 00:07:56,320 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 4: And if they will come to me and told me, 143 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:01,280 Speaker 4: you know, we. 144 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,960 Speaker 9: Believe that this election was interfered with, we believe that 145 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,760 Speaker 9: it was influenced, and we believe they are still trying 146 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:11,000 Speaker 9: to get into our systems, I would have stopped at nothing. 147 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:12,680 Speaker 9: I would have stood up and in front of the 148 00:08:12,720 --> 00:08:16,480 Speaker 9: country said, even if it advantaged me, I am not 149 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 9: going to rest until we. 150 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,200 Speaker 4: Know exactly what happened to This is the Michael Berry Show. 151 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: Locked and loaded, didn't load it, LU didn't. 152 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:32,800 Speaker 8: Own survivor. Marcus Petrol is our guest. Welcome to the program, sir, 153 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 8: Thank you, honored to have you. As always, I called 154 00:08:38,600 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 8: to check and see how you were doing. Texted to 155 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 8: check and see how you were doing. And you and 156 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 8: Morgan were in Kerville. As what are you doing there? 157 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:50,280 Speaker 6: You said, Dives, why were you there? 158 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:59,240 Speaker 1: Well, after that storm had come through there. I had 159 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:02,400 Speaker 1: never been to that particular area and I didn't know 160 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:05,040 Speaker 1: what was back there, and I didn't really realize how 161 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:08,000 Speaker 1: many people were affected and how many people that. 162 00:09:07,960 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 6: Were close to me were affected by that. 163 00:09:10,360 --> 00:09:13,640 Speaker 1: So the phone call started coming out that our babies 164 00:09:13,679 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: were in trouble. And it's different when adults. And I 165 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 1: don't know why that is the way it is, but 166 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:20,839 Speaker 1: it just is. 167 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 11: And anyone who has children knows this feeling. It's something 168 00:09:25,480 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 11: that comes on to you after you have kids. 169 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,240 Speaker 1: But if anybody's kids are in trouble, and when this 170 00:09:31,360 --> 00:09:34,680 Speaker 1: phone call started rattling in, they needed an all hands 171 00:09:34,679 --> 00:09:35,520 Speaker 1: on that kind of deal. 172 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 11: So we just packed up and rolled. 173 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 8: When you pack up it at old what do you 174 00:09:42,960 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 8: pack up for a situation like that? 175 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:48,920 Speaker 1: Okay, So I have a go bag that's prepared at 176 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:51,800 Speaker 1: all times, sits in the toolbox my truck, and then 177 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:56,520 Speaker 1: I have one actually in the garage. But it's a 178 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,160 Speaker 1: natural disaster kind of if you live in Texas, you 179 00:10:00,160 --> 00:10:03,439 Speaker 1: live in Houston. Every time a hurricane comes through or 180 00:10:03,480 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 1: our city gets sacked by something like that, everyone usually 181 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:09,440 Speaker 1: has an outfit that they wear for days. If a 182 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: minimalistic approached anything, it's basically just one layer, two layers 183 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 1: of clothes, a toothbrush, and the fresh change of socks 184 00:10:19,000 --> 00:10:20,640 Speaker 1: and just get out the door and get there and 185 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:24,000 Speaker 1: go from there. Because in a situation like that, the 186 00:10:24,040 --> 00:10:25,839 Speaker 1: only thing that you really need is a human being, 187 00:10:25,920 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: is sustenance, and that's just food and water, and that 188 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:29,040 Speaker 1: was provided when. 189 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:29,400 Speaker 11: We got there. 190 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:31,959 Speaker 6: So you and Morgan rode together. 191 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:38,680 Speaker 1: He rolled out first. He rolled out Saturday morning, and 192 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 1: I rolled out Sunday. 193 00:10:39,800 --> 00:10:40,360 Speaker 2: After church. 194 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: I went in and got the prayer, do some up 195 00:10:42,400 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: to the Almighty and tell him what we were about to. 196 00:10:44,160 --> 00:10:46,320 Speaker 6: Do, and where did y'all muster? 197 00:10:47,720 --> 00:10:48,760 Speaker 11: So we rolled up at. 198 00:10:48,679 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: There, a youth center in Curbville, and that's where all 199 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,880 Speaker 1: the leadership and the headshit had rolled into and we're 200 00:10:55,920 --> 00:10:59,680 Speaker 1: setting up shop in there, and that's the first place 201 00:10:59,679 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: that we. 202 00:10:59,880 --> 00:11:03,400 Speaker 8: Were into and then what happens from there? How do 203 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:04,760 Speaker 8: you get dispatched from there? 204 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:09,640 Speaker 12: So we were standing up kind of beside the wall 205 00:11:09,720 --> 00:11:12,320 Speaker 12: there and when Morgan got in, he there was a 206 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:16,080 Speaker 12: I mean when I say all hands on deck, you 207 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 12: couldn't believe who showed up there. 208 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: I mean, every law enforcement agency that we had was 209 00:11:20,679 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: represented in that. They call it the HQ or the 210 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: talk depends on what branch of service you're in. We 211 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,600 Speaker 1: all have different names and acronyms for what that was, 212 00:11:28,880 --> 00:11:31,480 Speaker 1: but it's basically where the leadership, all the computer systems 213 00:11:31,520 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: and everyone checks in and we muster up in the 214 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: morning to get your marching orders, basically where you're going 215 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:39,559 Speaker 1: to go on the river, who you're going to go with, 216 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:41,840 Speaker 1: and what you're going to do. And in the beginning, 217 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,080 Speaker 1: when things are getting set up, it was kind of 218 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,040 Speaker 1: a it was kind of a hodgepodge that everything was 219 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: coming to a kind of into formation. So Morgan linked 220 00:11:52,559 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: up with a Curville Country swat team, and let me 221 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:58,240 Speaker 1: tell you about a bunch of badasses. 222 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:00,760 Speaker 11: They are. I mean, them guys getting it done. 223 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: If I could give any thanks, appreciation and praise, it'd 224 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 1: be it definitely be to them as well. I mean 225 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,440 Speaker 1: there's there's we'll get into who all showed up out there. 226 00:12:11,480 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: But those guys were rocking and rolling and they were 227 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 1: their their sole purpose was transport. So every time that 228 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 1: we found a body, they would get called in to 229 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: transport it to the the Emmy. 230 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 11: So he was riding around with them. 231 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:28,000 Speaker 1: For the for the first couple of days, and then 232 00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: I was a mystic in the water. 233 00:12:35,440 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 6: Was the water still flowing pretty heavy at that point? 234 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:42,079 Speaker 11: No, I mean it had come down back into the banks. 235 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:43,400 Speaker 6: That was. 236 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: That was the crazy thing about it, mikeel When we 237 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 1: rolled into town, and I couldn't say something. 238 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 11: Anybody who was out there knows and saw this thing. 239 00:12:51,960 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: But a minute I rolled in, I was right behind Morgan. 240 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:59,679 Speaker 1: The damage, this kind of it was all through the 241 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,120 Speaker 1: river and up the river banks and over the road 242 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,240 Speaker 1: up probably about two three hundred yards into the houses. 243 00:13:05,880 --> 00:13:07,840 Speaker 1: And the first thing I saw, and I never seen 244 00:13:07,840 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: anything like this there was If you ask anybody who 245 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:11,880 Speaker 1: was there I don't know about this thing. There was 246 00:13:11,920 --> 00:13:15,760 Speaker 1: a guard rail that had been twisted so tired it 247 00:13:15,800 --> 00:13:17,960 Speaker 1: looked like a twizzler stick, like somebody had done it 248 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:18,559 Speaker 1: on purpose. 249 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:21,439 Speaker 11: And I mean, it was it was something that you 250 00:13:21,480 --> 00:13:22,440 Speaker 11: had to stare at. It was. 251 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 1: It was kind of unbelievable. And then once you rolled 252 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:25,880 Speaker 1: in there, the cars were. 253 00:13:25,800 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 11: Everywhere, and you could tell that the debris. 254 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:33,440 Speaker 1: Field had flushed over over and spilled into the houses 255 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 1: because most of them had been torn. 256 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:37,679 Speaker 11: And it's like. 257 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:39,840 Speaker 1: The water got inside of there and spun around and 258 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: then kicked everything out the sidewalk, including the sidewalk, and 259 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:48,280 Speaker 1: the river had gone back down into its normal capacity 260 00:13:48,880 --> 00:13:51,840 Speaker 1: and was still flowing pretty good, but it wasn't like 261 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,480 Speaker 1: It's kind of hard to fathom what it must have 262 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 1: been like when that thing was rolling through there because 263 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 1: of the damage and bro there was a dumpster that 264 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:04,880 Speaker 1: looked like somebody had crumpled up a piece of foil 265 00:14:05,440 --> 00:14:07,440 Speaker 1: and threw it in the corner, And then there were 266 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:12,079 Speaker 1: cars buried completely under the river, and then in trees 267 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: there was a brand new four Mustang. It was black 268 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:19,040 Speaker 1: convertible and it was standing on its nose, perched up 269 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:21,040 Speaker 1: in one of those cypress trees, or three or four 270 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 1: of them actually, and then I remember the one of 271 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: the first ones I saw. The only reason we knew 272 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:28,000 Speaker 1: was a BMW because I had a rim on it 273 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,840 Speaker 1: and you could see the BMW signal. And it didn't 274 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: look like somebody had put it in a car crunch 275 00:14:32,760 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: or it was in a car wreck. It looked like 276 00:14:34,680 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: somebody had grabbed it with one of those excavators and 277 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,520 Speaker 1: thrown it into a multi machine and then spit it 278 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 1: back out and did it again. 279 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 11: So the violence of. 280 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: The water must have been absolutely substantial. 281 00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,040 Speaker 6: I saw a picture, Marcus. The trell is our guest, Marcus. 282 00:14:50,080 --> 00:14:53,080 Speaker 8: I saw a picture of somebody that had the good 283 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 8: sense to take this photo to give the perspective. And 284 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 8: it showed a man who was six feet tall, and 285 00:14:59,080 --> 00:15:00,720 Speaker 8: then he raised his hand. 286 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,480 Speaker 6: Up above his head as high as he could go. 287 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 8: And it showed that, so you figure in what seven 288 00:15:06,280 --> 00:15:08,360 Speaker 8: and a half eight feet And then it showed where 289 00:15:08,400 --> 00:15:12,160 Speaker 8: the water had carried something that got hung up in 290 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:15,440 Speaker 8: a tree that was over twenty feet high, and you 291 00:15:15,720 --> 00:15:19,680 Speaker 8: imagine what it must have been like. I have read 292 00:15:19,760 --> 00:15:23,880 Speaker 8: every report I can possibly find in print about what 293 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,920 Speaker 8: people went through who survived and were able to tell it. 294 00:15:26,960 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 8: I wish so many other people could have told their stories, 295 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:30,400 Speaker 8: but they didn't survive. 296 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:33,480 Speaker 6: To imagine what it was like. 297 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,200 Speaker 8: There was a guy with Texas Monthly that they're in 298 00:15:37,240 --> 00:15:40,880 Speaker 8: a house that's up on stilts fourteen feet high, and 299 00:15:40,880 --> 00:15:43,120 Speaker 8: the house literally just gets ripped off the stilts and 300 00:15:43,160 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 8: before they know it, they're rushing down the river. 301 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 6: They get out and they get up on top of it. 302 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,920 Speaker 6: And you know, I don't have a frame of reference. 303 00:15:52,560 --> 00:15:55,840 Speaker 8: You know, you're a Navy seal, you've trained, you've gone underwater, 304 00:15:55,880 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 8: you've done all these things. I have no frame of 305 00:15:58,400 --> 00:16:02,040 Speaker 8: reference to be able to even process what the heck's 306 00:16:02,040 --> 00:16:03,800 Speaker 8: going on. Marcus the Treil's our guests more. 307 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 12: Than him coming up at least trash Keith rolling around. 308 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:14,720 Speaker 6: Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut. Enjoyed az 309 00:16:14,800 --> 00:16:21,680 Speaker 6: our of talk radio as awful as the Kerrville floods were. 310 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 8: And you know, we use that for shorthand I want 311 00:16:24,440 --> 00:16:29,040 Speaker 8: to be clear there were other counties who suffered terribly, 312 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:35,320 Speaker 8: but Kerrville itself was hit so hard, and a lot 313 00:16:35,320 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 8: of folks in Houston especially knew many of the families 314 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:45,560 Speaker 8: at Camp Mystic and Camp Lahunta. I know we did, 315 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 8: and I know, based on emails you sent, many of 316 00:16:48,120 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 8: you did as well, and so it just hits home 317 00:16:51,280 --> 00:16:55,120 Speaker 8: even more so. I spoke to Pat Green this weekend 318 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:59,520 Speaker 8: and he was in Houston for his brother's funeral. 319 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 6: His brother, his brother's sister, and their kids. 320 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 8: So you know, when the headlines are gone and the 321 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:13,120 Speaker 8: funerals continue and the recoveries continue, those families will suffer. 322 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,600 Speaker 8: As a number of you have emailed, there is no closure. 323 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 8: It's just another step. There's time, things are different, but 324 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:23,719 Speaker 8: there is no actual closure. 325 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 6: A number of folks email me to tell me that. 326 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,560 Speaker 8: So Marcus the trail, like so many people, and his 327 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:34,040 Speaker 8: brother Morgan, the congressmen were there. 328 00:17:33,880 --> 00:17:36,919 Speaker 6: To help in any way they could. I know that 329 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 6: just there. 330 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:44,280 Speaker 8: He won't like the word, but celebrity status notoriety meant 331 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:46,000 Speaker 8: a lot to a number of people, because I heard 332 00:17:46,040 --> 00:17:50,160 Speaker 8: from people, Hey, the la Treill brothers are here. Most 333 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 8: people didn't know which one was which because they're twins. 334 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:55,440 Speaker 6: I'll tell you. 335 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:59,119 Speaker 8: Because Morgan's skinnier now and Marcus has more facial hair, 336 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,719 Speaker 8: it's a lot easier to tell them apart. But I 337 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:05,720 Speaker 8: know that that meant a lot to other people that 338 00:18:05,760 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 8: they were there, and a number of other people were 339 00:18:07,880 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 8: so many law enforcement came from across the country. 340 00:18:09,880 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 6: As Marcus said, Marcus, you were. 341 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:17,639 Speaker 8: Talking about being there at Camp Mystic and seeing what 342 00:18:17,840 --> 00:18:20,719 Speaker 8: had happened, and that's where we lost the most lives 343 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:24,119 Speaker 8: in one single spot. If you would continue kind of 344 00:18:24,119 --> 00:18:26,840 Speaker 8: with what you saw there, it's hard to believe, you know, 345 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,960 Speaker 8: this one hundred year old facilities, so many traditions, so 346 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,840 Speaker 8: much legacy going through that place. So many girls that 347 00:18:33,960 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 8: went on to be moms and grandmothers and civic leaders 348 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:41,280 Speaker 8: and political leaders and educators went through that place. There's 349 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:42,560 Speaker 8: a lot of tradition there. 350 00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:44,800 Speaker 2: You can see that too. 351 00:18:45,080 --> 00:18:47,320 Speaker 11: There definitely a legacy camp. 352 00:18:47,760 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 1: You could feel that when you went in there. And 353 00:18:51,600 --> 00:18:54,320 Speaker 1: let me tell you something, when when we got our 354 00:18:54,359 --> 00:18:56,840 Speaker 1: footing in there and we were there to support those 355 00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,960 Speaker 1: that were supporting and when the first thing you saw 356 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:02,720 Speaker 1: was the DPS when they came in and locked the 357 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:05,439 Speaker 1: roads down. And usually when I'm having to deal with 358 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: the DPS because I've been doing something wrong right and 359 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:11,760 Speaker 1: I'm using the trouble, they were so professional and they 360 00:19:11,800 --> 00:19:15,560 Speaker 1: locked that stuff down, and then the game wardens showed up. 361 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:18,240 Speaker 1: And when they showed up, they started doing their thing. 362 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,840 Speaker 1: They were working the rivers and again I usually don't 363 00:19:20,880 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: run into them unless I'm trying to get away with something, 364 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:25,439 Speaker 1: and they were awesome, and they started bringing in the 365 00:19:25,440 --> 00:19:26,360 Speaker 1: cadaver dogs. 366 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:28,720 Speaker 11: Now the only way we. 367 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:32,080 Speaker 1: Got anything done because we started with our hands with shovels, 368 00:19:32,119 --> 00:19:34,919 Speaker 1: and the civilians were in there with chainsaws, and then 369 00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 1: the cadaver dogs showed up and started spotting the bodies. 370 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:40,439 Speaker 1: And I don't know if a lot of people are 371 00:19:40,480 --> 00:19:44,399 Speaker 1: familiar with excavators, and what an excavator. 372 00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 11: Is is the track vehicle has a huge arm on it. 373 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: When those boys showed up, those excavator drivers, it was. 374 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,360 Speaker 11: A game changer. They won't ever get any credit. Let 375 00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 11: me tell you something. 376 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: There was this country boy sitting on one of those 377 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: excavators and his wife was with him, and she sat 378 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 1: on the outside of that much on the top of it, 379 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: with her arms on that rail, laser locked, laser locked 380 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:08,440 Speaker 1: on those piles that we were uncovering, because they would 381 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: come in there and a great excavator driver is worth 382 00:20:10,880 --> 00:20:14,960 Speaker 1: more money than anything, and he would scratch the surface 383 00:20:15,040 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: so not to disrupt or do any more damage to 384 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:20,960 Speaker 1: any of those bodies, and she would see a piece 385 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: of clothing or something and stop all movement. 386 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 11: And we'd go in there and hit the pile. 387 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: Pull out some shoes or clothes or something like that, and. 388 00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 11: Then she'd get back. She didn't move all day. 389 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,400 Speaker 1: She sat on the outside of the machine all day. 390 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,639 Speaker 1: And let me tell you something, those excavator drivers and 391 00:20:36,680 --> 00:20:41,200 Speaker 1: those skid steer drivers. Thank God for country Rednecks. They're 392 00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,199 Speaker 1: one of the best blessings that Texas ever had in 393 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: the United States. 394 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 11: They were when they show up, they are all business. 395 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,080 Speaker 1: No one ever focuses on them. But you want to know, 396 00:20:50,119 --> 00:20:53,200 Speaker 1: the people who came in and made the difference was 397 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:56,800 Speaker 1: those excavator boys and those skid steer drivers and those 398 00:20:56,840 --> 00:21:00,359 Speaker 1: cadaver guys. And then that in itself, it was just 399 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,760 Speaker 1: an absolute game changer. And then, oh my god, man, 400 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:07,520 Speaker 1: the Christians showed up, and I'm talking about the Rednecks 401 00:21:07,520 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: that had the cutoff wranglers and the rock and roll 402 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:11,600 Speaker 1: T shirt with a net cutout right, and they would 403 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:12,080 Speaker 1: throw up. 404 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,160 Speaker 11: The barbecue pits and sit there day and no one 405 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 11: ever paid for any food. You didn't pay for any water. 406 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 1: It was just it was kind of a utopia on 407 00:21:20,359 --> 00:21:22,120 Speaker 1: the outside of it. And then when you walked into 408 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,400 Speaker 1: the valley to go to work, it's like you knew 409 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:27,000 Speaker 1: when you got out of there there was somebody that 410 00:21:27,040 --> 00:21:30,400 Speaker 1: had your back. Everyone was there for the same purpose, 411 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 1: and it was unbelievable. 412 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 2: The camaraderie. 413 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,600 Speaker 1: God bless Texas. Man, I don't have I still don't 414 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,199 Speaker 1: have vocabulary to tell you how wonderful. But when you 415 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:45,400 Speaker 1: had the people and the police and everybody working in Unison, 416 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:47,639 Speaker 1: and I think the only time that ever happened is 417 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,560 Speaker 1: when we go through tragedy. I mean, most everybody else 418 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:52,239 Speaker 1: is kind of dealing with their lives day to day, 419 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:53,880 Speaker 1: and then the police are there to help us stay 420 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,640 Speaker 1: in the in the lanes, trying to get through our lives. 421 00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,359 Speaker 1: But man, when we come together, it was a force 422 00:22:00,560 --> 00:22:04,560 Speaker 1: to be reckoned with. That in itself is what allowed 423 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:06,679 Speaker 1: you to get in there every single day because you 424 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,800 Speaker 1: saw people from all walks of life in there for 425 00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:11,080 Speaker 1: a common purpose. 426 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:13,000 Speaker 11: Everybody was I mean, everybody's. 427 00:22:12,560 --> 00:22:15,239 Speaker 1: Getting along and they won't any problems, and it was 428 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:17,240 Speaker 1: just amazing, amazing to see that. 429 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 11: And I'll never be able. 430 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,800 Speaker 1: To express my thanks to those those excavator drivers. 431 00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 11: I mean them country boys. 432 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: I'm talking about the ones that were on their daddy 433 00:22:26,560 --> 00:22:28,680 Speaker 1: was an excavator driver, and they were sitting on their lap, 434 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: you know, at four years old, learning the controls on 435 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:31,160 Speaker 1: that thing. 436 00:22:31,560 --> 00:22:32,200 Speaker 11: Because when they. 437 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,480 Speaker 1: Would maneuver in through those cypress trees on the side 438 00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:39,240 Speaker 1: of those rock ledges, the debris field was so extensive 439 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,640 Speaker 1: that that's what was keith, that was what was slow 440 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: in the paste. And when they got in there with 441 00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: those cadaver dogs, it was just a game changer. 442 00:22:47,320 --> 00:22:48,400 Speaker 11: It was an absolute game changer. 443 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 1: I mean, you won't be able to thank them enough. 444 00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,600 Speaker 1: If anybody deserves praise, it's those It's the police officers 445 00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,640 Speaker 1: and them country boys on those machines. 446 00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,680 Speaker 6: For sure, were any it Marcus Latrell is our guest. 447 00:23:01,720 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 8: Where any of the family members there alongside y'all? 448 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 6: Did you? Did you spot them during all of this, 449 00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:09,240 Speaker 6: because I know that had to be tough. 450 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: Yes, their absolutely. They came into Mystic while I was 451 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,600 Speaker 1: standing in there, and there was there was people at 452 00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:20,439 Speaker 1: Camp Mystic in itself that had kind of frontline control 453 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,160 Speaker 1: with them. 454 00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:24,520 Speaker 11: Okay, so we started. 455 00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:27,520 Speaker 1: They wanted us to collect their valuables and we really 456 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,520 Speaker 1: weren't doing that in the beginning, because that was the 457 00:23:29,560 --> 00:23:31,960 Speaker 1: hardest part. If you want to know what I thought 458 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: was the most difficult is their stuff was everywhere down 459 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:38,240 Speaker 1: the river. So you would find stuff with their trunks 460 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:40,520 Speaker 1: with their names on it, or their little CD cases 461 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,040 Speaker 1: or their towels, and then they had their shorts and 462 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: stuff like that, and all had their names in it. 463 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 1: And we were hunting down they wanted. There's Teddy Bears 464 00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,520 Speaker 1: in particular that we were after. It's just kind of 465 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:55,359 Speaker 1: anything that we could find of theirs to bring to 466 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 1: bring back to them was because the anticipation was worked. 467 00:24:00,119 --> 00:24:02,960 Speaker 1: It's kind of like getting into a fight before the 468 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,440 Speaker 1: fight is what's worse. I mean, so we're you're walking 469 00:24:05,480 --> 00:24:07,640 Speaker 1: around and you're hoping you find something, but then you're 470 00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: hoping you don't find something. 471 00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 11: That kind of mentality. 472 00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,720 Speaker 1: But the whole time you're doing that, you're seeing evidence 473 00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,280 Speaker 1: that they're there. It's like you know that it was 474 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:19,960 Speaker 1: brewing up, and we collected as much as that as 475 00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,960 Speaker 1: we possibly could for the families, and you know it. 476 00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:26,320 Speaker 11: As well as I do. 477 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 1: I mean, our Texas we've been through so much in 478 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,520 Speaker 1: the last twenty years that. 479 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,360 Speaker 2: It's just you don't know what to say to them. 480 00:24:31,400 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 11: You just want to be there for him. 481 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,600 Speaker 6: Marcus trails. I guess can you hang for one more seconds? Yes, 482 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:38,760 Speaker 6: take a bak. 483 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:44,600 Speaker 4: Jomay. 484 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 8: Marcus Fatrell is our guest, because I don't know if 485 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 8: you've seen this photo. 486 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:56,840 Speaker 6: The Associated Press put it out. 487 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 8: The caption that the chronicle ran with it says, a 488 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 8: sheriff's deputy pauses. 489 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,720 Speaker 6: While combing through the banks. Let me see if I 490 00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:06,480 Speaker 6: can go back to that. 491 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,400 Speaker 8: While combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near 492 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:15,040 Speaker 8: Camp Mystic Saturday, July fifth, twent after a flash floods 493 00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:18,960 Speaker 8: went through the area. And it's a guy who's biceps 494 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 8: are as big as my legs, and he has he's real, 495 00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 8: he's real, sun tanned, his black hair. 496 00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,040 Speaker 6: He looks like he could be Hispanic or Samoe. 497 00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:29,399 Speaker 8: And you can't tell because his hands are over his 498 00:25:29,440 --> 00:25:33,840 Speaker 8: eyes and he's he's carrying, I don't know, some sort 499 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,200 Speaker 8: of huge stick in his right hand. He's law enforcement. 500 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 8: He's got his gear on. I you seen that picture, 501 00:25:39,000 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 8: but it's one of the most poignant pictures to come 502 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,159 Speaker 8: out of all this. And I guess my question is 503 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:48,159 Speaker 8: when you guys step back away from the families and 504 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:52,600 Speaker 8: we're talking amongst yourselves. What what did y'all notice about 505 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,520 Speaker 8: what this storm had done to this area? 506 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 1: Well, well, let's at you tell you that the largest, 507 00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 1: strongest men among us can get broken down by something, 508 00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: especially when it comes to the little ones. And I 509 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:09,560 Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to be there was a bunch of 510 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:11,760 Speaker 1: seals there and that stuff. Guys, and we kind of 511 00:26:12,240 --> 00:26:14,919 Speaker 1: migrated towards each other, and we all stayed at this 512 00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:19,080 Speaker 1: camp up the road called Camp Baltimore. That's sounds like 513 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: something out of a Harry Potter movie, that's actually what 514 00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,080 Speaker 1: it was. So thank thank them for that, Thank you 515 00:26:25,119 --> 00:26:27,400 Speaker 1: for letting us stay up there. And then we would 516 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,680 Speaker 1: migrate down into the town and the hunt. There was 517 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,800 Speaker 1: a church there, a Baptist church that we would all 518 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:39,080 Speaker 1: rally up at. And one of the saving graces that 519 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: we had was at the end of the day we 520 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,680 Speaker 1: got to go over outside of the valley and get 521 00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,199 Speaker 1: into some air conditioning, had a hot shower and a 522 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,720 Speaker 1: great meal, and then we would all kind of we would. 523 00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,520 Speaker 11: Talk like seals, are we're good at this because we'll 524 00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:51,840 Speaker 11: just talk. 525 00:26:51,920 --> 00:26:53,600 Speaker 1: We just start talking about some stuff and get that 526 00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 1: stuff off our chests and what kind of what's in 527 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,919 Speaker 1: our brain. We don't hold that in and that is 528 00:26:57,960 --> 00:27:00,800 Speaker 1: the absolute blessing about being able to. 529 00:27:00,720 --> 00:27:04,119 Speaker 11: Have those guys around each other. We can do that. 530 00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:07,080 Speaker 1: We also bled into the civilians to help out with 531 00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,879 Speaker 1: that kind of how we cope. But you can tell 532 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,840 Speaker 1: that each day that went by, it was kind of 533 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,800 Speaker 1: it would layer more and more and more, especially when 534 00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: we were when we find the little one, because everyone 535 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 1: knew when that. 536 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,240 Speaker 11: When that happened and you. 537 00:27:21,160 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 1: Could feel that resonate through the camp, there was an 538 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,480 Speaker 1: elation like, great, we found one. But then it was like, oh, 539 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:30,240 Speaker 1: we found another one, and it was as time progress 540 00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:33,240 Speaker 1: and just kind of you could tell like getting onto some. 541 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 11: Of the guys a little bit. For sure. Well the show, 542 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:38,719 Speaker 11: I mean, I don't care how strong you are. 543 00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 8: It happens, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sure you're a 544 00:27:43,240 --> 00:27:46,399 Speaker 8: very different man in twenty twenty five than you were 545 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,200 Speaker 8: twenty years ago in five when Operation Red Wings happened. 546 00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:52,159 Speaker 8: I mean, you start thinking about the world and the 547 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,480 Speaker 8: next generation now that you have children, as you do. 548 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 8: I know, I'm a very I drive differently, I take 549 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:00,480 Speaker 8: chances differ differently. 550 00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:02,800 Speaker 6: I look at my health differently. 551 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,679 Speaker 8: I'm I'm a different person, and we look at the 552 00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 8: world differently. When when it comes to children. Thank God 553 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,720 Speaker 8: for it. I think God plants that set in us. 554 00:28:12,119 --> 00:28:13,600 Speaker 1: Oh, it has to be right, it has to be 555 00:28:13,640 --> 00:28:16,280 Speaker 1: You can't. I don't know if, especially our generation, if 556 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:18,440 Speaker 1: we didn't make the transition, there's no way we would 557 00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 1: we could carry this thing on. 558 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:21,080 Speaker 11: We could. I don't think we could get it done. 559 00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,320 Speaker 11: We're we're just different. 560 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:25,920 Speaker 1: All the wars and pandemics and everything that we had 561 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: to go through. Eventually we had the transition and grow 562 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: up and then there, you know, there is a weakness 563 00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,199 Speaker 1: or a vulnerability I think now inside of us, especially 564 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,359 Speaker 1: like with our generation, we. 565 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:37,320 Speaker 11: Didn't have that at the beginning. 566 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,959 Speaker 1: We you know, go as hard as you can, hopefully 567 00:28:39,960 --> 00:28:42,000 Speaker 1: you die early. And now we have the kids and 568 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,160 Speaker 1: the responsibility of our country and our state Texas. I mean, 569 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:46,479 Speaker 1: it's just kind of like we got to take this 570 00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 1: thing over and when you when you step into that breach, 571 00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,920 Speaker 1: there's vulnerabilities. I absolutely feel that I've killed that guy 572 00:28:52,960 --> 00:28:56,520 Speaker 1: that that was in the wars. He's I'm not very 573 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: I don't have any of that left in me. 574 00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:58,160 Speaker 11: Really. 575 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,120 Speaker 1: I remember it, But I am, just like you said, 576 00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 1: completely different, and I think we all had to make 577 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:03,440 Speaker 1: that transition. 578 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:06,040 Speaker 6: Yeah, I. 579 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:12,080 Speaker 8: Can't help but think about the woman that you talked about, 580 00:29:12,160 --> 00:29:14,880 Speaker 8: because she will her name and story will be lost 581 00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,840 Speaker 8: to history. But the wife who never expected herself. I 582 00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,440 Speaker 8: don't she stay at home wife, or she was off 583 00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:22,920 Speaker 8: from work or whatever. And there she is with her 584 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:26,480 Speaker 8: husband whose name nobody knows, and he's on the excavator 585 00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,080 Speaker 8: and she's out there focused and nobody's patting her on 586 00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:31,040 Speaker 8: the back other than you now, and we don't know 587 00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 8: her name. And I just think how many people did 588 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,480 Speaker 8: things like that, and through every talent they had that day, 589 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,480 Speaker 8: that moment that families will never get to thank them. 590 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 6: And now they're back in Beaumont. 591 00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:48,080 Speaker 8: Or Willis or wherever it is they live, living their lives, 592 00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 8: and no one will realize what a hero that person was. 593 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:51,840 Speaker 6: At that moment. 594 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,600 Speaker 1: There was people out there. There was one guy named Dave, 595 00:29:56,960 --> 00:30:00,520 Speaker 1: had this huge chainsaw. Everyone knows who he is, and 596 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: then there was a dog named Dale, Diver Dale and 597 00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:06,600 Speaker 1: you can you'll never forget him. And so that guy 598 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,240 Speaker 1: on that excavator with his wife, and I wouldn't know 599 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:10,000 Speaker 1: if they wanted me to. 600 00:30:11,080 --> 00:30:12,160 Speaker 11: I will never. 601 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 3: You. 602 00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:15,640 Speaker 1: You couldn't even believe what this what that looked like. 603 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:19,000 Speaker 11: She sat there the entire laser for we, all. 604 00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:20,920 Speaker 1: The seals, we were just kind of sitting there and 605 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,800 Speaker 1: the rest of those that stuff guys just watching that 606 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: go down, watching him dig that stuff out, and watching 607 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:29,680 Speaker 1: her sit there. And I'm talking about if if she 608 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,920 Speaker 1: even laid eyes on anything in those piles, she's stopped 609 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,400 Speaker 1: all all movement, and we'd have to go out there. 610 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 11: And she didn't get help the excavator and get onto us, 611 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:38,920 Speaker 11: but get in. 612 00:30:38,840 --> 00:30:40,720 Speaker 1: There and get down on this man rug, let you know. 613 00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:44,280 Speaker 1: And and she never said anything. I mean she she 614 00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,840 Speaker 1: never said a word. And it was just all up 615 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,479 Speaker 1: and down the river with us integrating into them, from 616 00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: the police officers and the DPS and the game mornings. 617 00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:55,800 Speaker 11: I can't say nothing about. 618 00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:58,760 Speaker 1: The game warnings, man uh and what they did, and 619 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:01,560 Speaker 1: then the state police in there and all the volunteers. 620 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 11: I mean, God bless Texas. 621 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: And our people, because when the Seals came in there, 622 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,760 Speaker 1: we were just kidding. I remember us talking about how 623 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: I actually felt It's the first time in a long 624 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:15,920 Speaker 1: time that I have felt good again. And I know 625 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,880 Speaker 1: it sounds weird because I have the greatest life ever, 626 00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:20,080 Speaker 1: but there's a feeling that goes when you're in that 627 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,280 Speaker 1: in that environment that we were trained for, and it 628 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: rejuvenated my life into where just reminded me how thankful 629 00:31:29,280 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: I am to have all this, and especially have those guys, 630 00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:34,880 Speaker 1: those teammates of mine and showed up there and they 631 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:37,880 Speaker 1: were coming in left and right and doing that and 632 00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,240 Speaker 1: then just getting out of dodge afterwards, never saying a word. 633 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 11: And what you said is true. There's so many people 634 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:44,640 Speaker 11: that came in there and did that. You won't even 635 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,320 Speaker 11: know who they are, but we'll remember them. You'll never 636 00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 11: forget them. And we gave them all nicknames or you 637 00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,800 Speaker 11: remember what they did even if you don't remember their name. 638 00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,040 Speaker 1: But it's it's forever burned inside of our brains and 639 00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:56,520 Speaker 1: we talk about it all the time. 640 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,320 Speaker 6: You I don't know if you remember this because you 641 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,160 Speaker 6: were in the thick of it. 642 00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 8: But when I found out ADPs trooper, a friend of mine, 643 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 8: Stephen Woodard, said you were there, and I reached out 644 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:11,280 Speaker 8: and said, hey, thank you to. 645 00:32:11,320 --> 00:32:13,120 Speaker 6: You and you and Morgan for being there. 646 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,480 Speaker 8: Make sure everybody there knows we appreciate them and you 647 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,120 Speaker 8: for being out there and doing that, and you said 648 00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:22,680 Speaker 8: I was born for this. I really do believe God 649 00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:24,760 Speaker 8: plants in each one of us a skill set, and 650 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,600 Speaker 8: there are certain people. We all have to do our part, 651 00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 8: but there are certain people that are drawn to a 652 00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 8: moment like this because you've got to skill, the talent, 653 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 8: the ability to push through it when maybe the rest 654 00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,680 Speaker 8: of us wouldn't have been able to handle some of 655 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:40,360 Speaker 8: what you've seen and done in your life. 656 00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,200 Speaker 6: But it's fantastic and you're right. 657 00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:46,520 Speaker 8: The message of this is it really is the best 658 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,560 Speaker 8: of Texas. It's the best of our people, and it 659 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 8: takes a. 660 00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 6: Tough moment like this to remind us of it. We 661 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 6: love you, Marcus a trail. Thank you brother. 662 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,600 Speaker 8: You know, I think about that woman there with her husband, 663 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:05,440 Speaker 8: and when people say, you know, why don't you get 664 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:07,160 Speaker 8: depressed for the future, bark because. 665 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:07,840 Speaker 6: That woman went back. 666 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 8: Maybe she's maybe she backs groceries, maybe she's the teller 667 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,040 Speaker 8: at the bank, Maybe she's somebody's secretary. 668 00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:16,640 Speaker 6: Maybe she's a school teacher, maybe she owns a small business. 669 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,480 Speaker 6: Maybe she's a stay at home mom. 670 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,320 Speaker 8: Maybe we'll never know what they're out there, and you 671 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,880 Speaker 8: don't know they're out there. You don't see the goodness 672 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:26,880 Speaker 8: until something like this calls it. 673 00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 3: Out and help. 674 00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:32,480 Speaker 11: Thank you, and good night.