1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:04,400 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Tutor Dixon Podcast. Today, we are going 2 00:00:04,440 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: to talk about what is going on in North Carolina. 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:09,680 Speaker 1: We haven't talked about it much. Our guest today has 4 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:11,799 Speaker 1: been there, and I just want to start this off 5 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,520 Speaker 1: by saying we've been praying for the folks there. It's 6 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:18,840 Speaker 1: a very, very horrific situation. This is something that I 7 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:22,239 Speaker 1: don't remember us having a hurricane like this since Katrina, 8 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: and here we are, of course, headed into another hurricane today. 9 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:30,400 Speaker 1: We're looking at this and we're going what can Florida 10 00:00:30,480 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 1: endure if we're already dealing with North Carolina. But I 11 00:00:33,240 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: just wanted to say our prayers are out to those families. 12 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,000 Speaker 1: We're praying for Florida. It's kind of an unprecedented hurricane 13 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,720 Speaker 1: season that we're in, and that's why we're bringing someone 14 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,919 Speaker 1: in who has been on the ground in North Carolina. 15 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,519 Speaker 1: His name is Mattlin, and he is the owner of 16 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:53,400 Speaker 1: the Jacksonville, Florida based company, harry Hood Catering, And like 17 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:55,360 Speaker 1: I said, he's been right in the heart, right in 18 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 1: the thick of things in North Carolina, feeding the people 19 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:02,000 Speaker 1: on the ground. Matt, thank you so much for joining me. 20 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:03,800 Speaker 2: Of course, thanks for having me too. 21 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:06,920 Speaker 1: I appreciate it absolutely tell us a little bit about 22 00:01:06,959 --> 00:01:09,000 Speaker 1: what you do, because I think people hear this and 23 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:11,400 Speaker 1: they're like, wait a minute, you just decided to go 24 00:01:11,440 --> 00:01:14,679 Speaker 1: from Jacksonville to North Carolina in the middle of a 25 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: disaster and take a food truck of how does that 26 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: even work? 27 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, so I sell food for a living. 28 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 3: I'm basically a concession or cater for music festivals across America. 29 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:30,640 Speaker 3: So what I do is we'll set up sometimes with 30 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:33,759 Speaker 3: no power, no electric, no infrastructure at all, and we'll 31 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:36,760 Speaker 3: go into an area for a festival and we'll set 32 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,199 Speaker 3: up contenting and floor range structure and bring aline water 33 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 3: and basically start from a restaurant from the ground up 34 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:49,600 Speaker 3: in a temporary environment. So it lends itself to disaster 35 00:01:49,720 --> 00:01:53,720 Speaker 3: relief pretty well. This is actually, I'm sorry, the second 36 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,840 Speaker 3: time that we've done this. We did it first for 37 00:01:55,920 --> 00:02:00,880 Speaker 3: Hurricane Michael out in the Panhandle, and then we were 38 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 3: through and as in Huntsville, through in Nashville, Tennessee, and Louisville, 39 00:02:05,880 --> 00:02:08,919 Speaker 3: Kentucky working shows. They were all affected by the hurricane. 40 00:02:09,320 --> 00:02:11,240 Speaker 3: And so I called everybody and said, listen, we have 41 00:02:11,280 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 3: a week off. You guys could take a rest, you know, 42 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:17,480 Speaker 3: get take Sunday night. By Monday we can be in Knoxville. 43 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 3: I can see how many donations we can get and 44 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:21,639 Speaker 3: we'll just go feed people until the money runs out. 45 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:23,680 Speaker 2: And so everybody. 46 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 3: You know, I have a lot of females that work 47 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,200 Speaker 3: for me and they've never done anything like this, so 48 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:29,959 Speaker 3: we I had to talk them into it. But you know, 49 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:34,519 Speaker 3: lo and behold, they came along thankfully, and we we 50 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 3: just went and just did it. Just found a spot 51 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 3: and you kind of you just go in and do 52 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:38,799 Speaker 3: your thing. 53 00:02:39,160 --> 00:02:41,799 Speaker 1: I mean, I imagine that is somewhat scary if your 54 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: boss calls you up and says, hey, do you want 55 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:47,200 Speaker 1: to go into a total disaster zone and you have 56 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,200 Speaker 1: no experience with that, because I honestly, it would be 57 00:02:50,280 --> 00:02:52,080 Speaker 1: nerve wracking to say, Okay, well what are we going 58 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,919 Speaker 1: to what are we going to encounter? Because I think 59 00:02:53,919 --> 00:02:56,119 Speaker 1: the key of what you said there is you set 60 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: up where there's no electricity, there's no power, there's no water, 61 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 1: and that's what the folks on the ground are dealing with. 62 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:03,200 Speaker 1: And I think that we've seen a lot of stuff 63 00:03:03,240 --> 00:03:06,120 Speaker 1: on the internet in the past week where people have 64 00:03:06,160 --> 00:03:08,400 Speaker 1: gone I don't know what I'm going to go into 65 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:10,960 Speaker 1: am I going to see a bunch of dead bodies. 66 00:03:11,040 --> 00:03:14,240 Speaker 1: Is there anybody there? Is there anybody taking care of 67 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,960 Speaker 1: these people? How much disaster is there? And we do 68 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:19,800 Speaker 1: remember back to Katrina when there were the markings on 69 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 1: the houses and people were saying, okay, well an animal 70 00:03:23,360 --> 00:03:25,800 Speaker 1: was found here, a body was found here. This many 71 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:29,080 Speaker 1: live people were found here, And it's a scary thought 72 00:03:29,120 --> 00:03:31,520 Speaker 1: to go into that. So I know I'd seen a 73 00:03:31,560 --> 00:03:34,800 Speaker 1: news report where you said you actually did see some 74 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:37,400 Speaker 1: pretty horrible scenes there. Can you go into that a 75 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:39,400 Speaker 1: little bit because for those of us who are just 76 00:03:39,520 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: reading off the internet, we're getting a little confused. 77 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:42,360 Speaker 2: Yeah. 78 00:03:42,440 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 3: So there's a couple of different areas that are really 79 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 3: affected by by the storm. And when you think of 80 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,800 Speaker 3: the storm as a typical hurricane, this is all flooding. 81 00:03:51,880 --> 00:03:55,560 Speaker 3: This is all flooding and landslides. So it's a little 82 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:57,760 Speaker 3: different than like when you walk into Florida and you 83 00:03:57,800 --> 00:04:00,760 Speaker 3: see a hurricane. You look around your neighborhood, a couple 84 00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:03,160 Speaker 3: of trees are down, we got to fix some stuff. 85 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 3: In North Carolina, you don't depending on where you are, 86 00:04:05,720 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 3: you don't see it. So when you drive into North 87 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 3: Carolina proper. Like we came from Greenville, Tennessee, up north 88 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:14,880 Speaker 3: and we took seventy down. When you drive in, you 89 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,400 Speaker 3: don't necessarily see the damage when you get into Asheville, 90 00:04:18,440 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: But when you go down Tunnel Road, which was one 91 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 3: of the roads that flooded south of the Ashville Mall, 92 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,200 Speaker 3: you see. I mean, I've never seen any destruction like it. 93 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 3: You can't really get close to it because there are 94 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,360 Speaker 3: a lot of first responders around. 95 00:04:33,640 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 2: And you just kind of let them have their whatever 96 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:36,599 Speaker 2: it is that they're doing. 97 00:04:36,640 --> 00:04:38,200 Speaker 3: Is there's a lot of when we got we got 98 00:04:38,240 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 3: there on Tuesday afternoon, a lot of search and rescue, 99 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,559 Speaker 3: and you just don't want to mess with those people 100 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,520 Speaker 3: because their job is awful. They're basically pulling people out 101 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,839 Speaker 3: from whatever it is that they find, and so you 102 00:04:50,920 --> 00:04:52,000 Speaker 3: just want to let you did. 103 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: See a lot of crews there, I mean, that's what 104 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: I think. A lot of Yeah, you still have felt like, oh, 105 00:04:56,320 --> 00:04:59,279 Speaker 1: there's no one there, but you're you're confirming you saw pere. 106 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:00,680 Speaker 2: No, there's a a ton of people there. 107 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 3: So the first lot that we were I mean, if 108 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,760 Speaker 3: I can tell you a little of the story, pain 109 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:08,440 Speaker 3: a little bit for you But the first lot that 110 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 3: we were at was in the Asheville Mall. Duke Energy 111 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 3: had set up their headquarters there and so we couldn't 112 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:17,560 Speaker 3: serve there because they didn't want to bottleneck like the 113 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,240 Speaker 3: guys that are running the Lineman rightfully. So we went 114 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 3: to the next lot. I kind of just started going 115 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:26,520 Speaker 3: because we went in with again, know nothing. You just 116 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:28,960 Speaker 3: kind of go find your space, do what you can 117 00:05:29,000 --> 00:05:31,600 Speaker 3: for the people. And so the next lot over there 118 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 3: was at least New Jersey Search and Rescue, if not 119 00:05:35,520 --> 00:05:38,359 Speaker 3: New Jersey and Virginia Search and Rescue, and I couldn't 120 00:05:38,400 --> 00:05:41,280 Speaker 3: set up there either because it was a much smaller lot. Again, 121 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 3: you don't want possibly two thousand people to come visit 122 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:47,480 Speaker 3: you when there's a massive recovery effort going on. We 123 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:50,800 Speaker 3: went across the street to where Ross is and there's 124 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 3: this big, wide open space. Again we couldn't serve there. 125 00:05:54,279 --> 00:05:54,839 Speaker 3: We found out we. 126 00:05:55,160 --> 00:05:57,600 Speaker 2: Actually had our whole entire setup. 127 00:05:57,720 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 3: We were eighty percent done setting up the tent and 128 00:06:00,520 --> 00:06:05,000 Speaker 3: getting the everything going, and APD actual police department, came 129 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:06,479 Speaker 3: by and said, you can't set up here either. 130 00:06:06,520 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 2: Who told you could be here? I'm like certain nobody 131 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:09,400 Speaker 2: told us. We could be here. 132 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:11,120 Speaker 3: We're just trying to blast it on eighty eight point 133 00:06:11,120 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 3: one FM and do what we can do. He said, 134 00:06:13,880 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: those those those reefers across the street from you are 135 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,479 Speaker 3: basically the morgue, and so we don't want people to 136 00:06:21,560 --> 00:06:25,039 Speaker 3: come and get food. And see that said, you know what, 137 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 3: that's a very valid point, and he said, go up 138 00:06:28,360 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 3: to the Innsbrook Mall. It's kind of up the hill. 139 00:06:30,680 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 3: Nobody will bother you. And so that's how we finally 140 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,200 Speaker 3: wound up our spot. But in that moment where we 141 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:40,039 Speaker 3: were at ross there down Tunnel Road, there was the 142 00:06:40,160 --> 00:06:41,840 Speaker 3: you'll hear about like I don't know if anybody heard 143 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:43,599 Speaker 3: about the Lows, but there's a Lows down there that 144 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 3: got looted pretty badly. 145 00:06:45,400 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 2: That was I was in that area. 146 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,360 Speaker 3: So it's down a hill and the the water, the 147 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:54,600 Speaker 3: river rose and just created what to me I can 148 00:06:54,640 --> 00:06:58,159 Speaker 3: only explain as a classified rapid. It moved pull trucks, 149 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:03,720 Speaker 3: It moved fifty three foot uh tractor trailers. I mean 150 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,440 Speaker 3: any car was up to you know, up to eye 151 00:07:06,480 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 3: level of just water. And so I went kind of 152 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:12,200 Speaker 3: through it to see it, and there were just U 153 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:14,360 Speaker 3: hauls that were on the side of the road that 154 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:18,160 Speaker 3: were pancaked, and it looked like but basically like water 155 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 3: got under the road, lifted the road up, broke it, 156 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 3: and then created this road cake where it was just 157 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:27,840 Speaker 3: eight layers of asphalt stacked up on each other and so. 158 00:07:28,840 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 1: Where and people are just trapped them behind that. 159 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:33,480 Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I. 160 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:35,680 Speaker 3: Mean there was at the point that I got there, 161 00:07:35,720 --> 00:07:38,559 Speaker 3: I think that area had been cleared pretty well. 162 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 2: That I didn't. 163 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:43,120 Speaker 3: I saw more of a not a rebuild, but clearing 164 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,000 Speaker 3: out of the mud. They like they these guys were 165 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,480 Speaker 3: just using back cooes and excavators to get I mean, 166 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:50,960 Speaker 3: dump trucks full of mud and dirt out of the 167 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 3: Walmart parking lot, out of the Low's parking lot. And 168 00:07:54,360 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 3: so that was realistically all I saw damage wise until 169 00:07:59,320 --> 00:08:01,840 Speaker 3: I came back a supply run. I went to knoxvill 170 00:08:01,920 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 3: for a supply run Wednesday night Thursday morning, LOO came 171 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 3: back and I let my GBS kind of I thought 172 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,000 Speaker 3: I was going to go the same way I came, 173 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:10,680 Speaker 3: let my GPS take care of it, and the next 174 00:08:10,720 --> 00:08:12,840 Speaker 3: thing you know, I'm on twenty six South coming from 175 00:08:12,920 --> 00:08:17,960 Speaker 3: Johnson City, Tennessee. Twenty six South now is basically barricaded 176 00:08:18,040 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 3: off until twenty twenty five. They I think they just 177 00:08:22,160 --> 00:08:24,280 Speaker 3: announced that they have so much work to do to 178 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,960 Speaker 3: it to make it passable again. But you see that 179 00:08:28,440 --> 00:08:31,840 Speaker 3: this whole entire there's acres of twenty six where you 180 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:37,199 Speaker 3: get off, and it's just like match sticks of trees 181 00:08:37,320 --> 00:08:38,360 Speaker 3: just all over the place. 182 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:41,800 Speaker 1: That's what I saw an image today of And that's 183 00:08:42,080 --> 00:08:45,920 Speaker 1: such a great analysis. It just looks like from above, 184 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,720 Speaker 1: it just looks like they were all they all blew 185 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: over it. It just all fell and it's just like it 186 00:08:51,320 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: looks like sticks from above, but it's actually trees. 187 00:08:54,720 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 2: It's trees. Yeah. 188 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:58,720 Speaker 3: Like the one that got me was the Lake Lore 189 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:02,480 Speaker 3: photo a bit where Chimney Rock had washed away into 190 00:09:02,559 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 3: Lake Lore and it's this lake but it's got all 191 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 3: these logs in it, and you can't even tell it's 192 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 3: a lake because there's so many logs. 193 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,920 Speaker 1: And there's a boat like in the middle of it, 194 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:14,640 Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, how is that in the middle 195 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,400 Speaker 1: of all those trees. Oh, all those trees are in 196 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:17,839 Speaker 1: the water. 197 00:09:18,440 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 3: Yeah. From from from the destruction standpoint. For for me, 198 00:09:22,800 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 3: I didn't see a lot of it. I from the 199 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,160 Speaker 3: relief effort had heard about it like there's a there's 200 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 3: a pack mule committee that went up there, took mules 201 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 3: to get up into the mountains, like the If you 202 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 3: think about the they call it, I think they called 203 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:43,160 Speaker 3: the island. But basically the river became it cut people 204 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:46,439 Speaker 3: off the mountain from civilization, and so they couldn't get 205 00:09:46,440 --> 00:09:50,319 Speaker 3: supplies up the mountain. All the roads were washed out, destroyed, 206 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 3: I mean, trees down, you name it. They couldn't they 207 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 3: couldn't use side by sides, they couldn't use much of anything. 208 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,560 Speaker 2: So these guys took pack mules, loaded. 209 00:09:59,240 --> 00:10:01,920 Speaker 3: Them up with everything they could and went up the 210 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:07,520 Speaker 3: mountain to start distributing relief supplies, water, you know, diapers, batteries, 211 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:10,680 Speaker 3: whatever you can get to the kids or to anybody 212 00:10:10,679 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 3: that needed anything. I talked to the gentleman that was 213 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 3: receiving those supplies. 214 00:10:17,000 --> 00:10:17,839 Speaker 2: He had come down. 215 00:10:18,360 --> 00:10:20,160 Speaker 3: He had gotten down the mountain to try and put 216 00:10:20,200 --> 00:10:22,960 Speaker 3: some relief efforts together and came to see me because 217 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,600 Speaker 3: another one of the local Jacksonville businesses were coming with 218 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:28,960 Speaker 3: seven trucks full of stuff, and I was one of 219 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,160 Speaker 3: the stops. So he wanted to come and make sure 220 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:34,480 Speaker 3: that stuff was still coming. Long story short, so I 221 00:10:34,559 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 3: met Pat the pack meal guys. I mean, it's just 222 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:40,440 Speaker 3: everybody was doing everything that you could. And by the 223 00:10:40,480 --> 00:10:43,199 Speaker 3: time that I had left on Friday, we were still looking. 224 00:10:43,800 --> 00:10:46,760 Speaker 3: They were still looking to go into places up Black 225 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,600 Speaker 3: Mountain that had still I mean we're talking a week 226 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 3: later that they still haven't. They don't have any relief 227 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,200 Speaker 3: effort even getting to them because they're still going under 228 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:57,240 Speaker 3: search and rescue. 229 00:10:57,520 --> 00:10:59,719 Speaker 1: More with Matt Lennon coming up, but first I want 230 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:03,320 Speaker 1: to tell you about my partners at IFCJ October seventh 231 00:11:03,480 --> 00:11:06,160 Speaker 1: was the one year mark of the worst massacre of 232 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:09,680 Speaker 1: the Jewish people since the Holocaust. 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We're like, okay, well we know that this 257 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 1: these the roads were washed away that I mean, it 258 00:12:37,240 --> 00:12:40,920 Speaker 1: seems so hard to imagine a hurricane going through the mountains, 259 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:44,440 Speaker 1: you know, how the hurricane affects the mountains and having 260 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:46,360 Speaker 1: the river rise. You know, we just think of this 261 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:49,160 Speaker 1: as something that happens right at the coast and not 262 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: back into the mountains. And so when when you hear 263 00:12:52,280 --> 00:12:56,079 Speaker 1: that the roads are washed away, are like, how funny 264 00:12:56,360 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: did in this day and age we have nothing that 265 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: can get up there and we go back to like 266 00:13:00,240 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: biblical times and we take mules up there. But I mean, honestly, 267 00:13:04,679 --> 00:13:08,560 Speaker 1: think about what the meaning of that, the fact that 268 00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: people have come together. And that's what I think people 269 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:12,520 Speaker 1: need to hear right now, because you hear so much 270 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,800 Speaker 1: other nothing's happening. Nobody's got this coordinated. No, there's a 271 00:13:15,840 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: lot of people, and this is what America does. We 272 00:13:18,600 --> 00:13:21,240 Speaker 1: come together. You find a way. And they have found 273 00:13:21,280 --> 00:13:23,960 Speaker 1: a way. They found they I mean to actually take 274 00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:26,960 Speaker 1: mules up there and find a way. I think that's 275 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:28,319 Speaker 1: incredible to hear. 276 00:13:29,240 --> 00:13:31,199 Speaker 3: One of my one of my friends, one of my buddies, 277 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:33,160 Speaker 3: donated that donated to me. He was like, you know, 278 00:13:33,200 --> 00:13:35,319 Speaker 3: Americans are just going to get it done for Americans, 279 00:13:35,400 --> 00:13:36,400 Speaker 3: and that's. 280 00:13:36,320 --> 00:13:37,720 Speaker 2: It's wholeheartedly true. 281 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,640 Speaker 3: Like the last the last time I did this for Michael, 282 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,760 Speaker 3: there's a very brief moment after a storm where you 283 00:13:44,880 --> 00:13:49,080 Speaker 3: have female local and state all looking at each other 284 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,280 Speaker 3: on how we're going to coordinate and what we're going 285 00:13:51,280 --> 00:13:54,040 Speaker 3: to coordinate. While they're doing that, it could be a day, 286 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:56,360 Speaker 3: two days, three days. You have people that are just 287 00:13:56,880 --> 00:14:01,360 Speaker 3: flat out suffering, not because of government efficiency, they're just 288 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 3: trying to figure out what to do right And whether 289 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 3: you believe it's government and fishing it out, it's up 290 00:14:05,640 --> 00:14:07,600 Speaker 3: to you. My job is to get in there, like 291 00:14:07,640 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 3: I just want to go feed people, like I don't 292 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 3: want to deal with the BS. I don't want to 293 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 3: deal with the red tape. I'm not doing this. I 294 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,520 Speaker 3: never did this for money. I never did this for anything. 295 00:14:15,520 --> 00:14:18,000 Speaker 3: I just wanted to go get it done. So right 296 00:14:18,040 --> 00:14:20,880 Speaker 3: after the storm, like I mean, last drop, last inch 297 00:14:21,040 --> 00:14:23,440 Speaker 3: of rain, you just go and you figure it out. 298 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,880 Speaker 3: And I think that's what happened. The Cajun Navy went 299 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:29,040 Speaker 3: in and they were the ones that were pretty much 300 00:14:29,040 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 3: starting to clear roads on side by sides of mountains 301 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,280 Speaker 3: to get to get relief supplies there. As far as 302 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:39,440 Speaker 3: I know, World Central Kitchen, they're around a lot of 303 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:43,520 Speaker 3: natural disasters all over the world. With Chefjose Andres they 304 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:45,880 Speaker 3: had gone into Bear's Barbecue, which is like I think 305 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 3: an eight hundred square foot barbecue restaurant and can't come 306 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,760 Speaker 3: and do it that. They went into another couple of 307 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 3: kitchens in downtown Ashville to start feeding people. But the 308 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:58,320 Speaker 3: difference between World Central and me is have I have 309 00:14:58,440 --> 00:15:00,360 Speaker 3: one base and I say you come to me and 310 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,560 Speaker 3: I'll feed you. You know, World Central has a base, 311 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:05,400 Speaker 3: but they also say, hey, we can deliver to you. 312 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:08,880 Speaker 3: And so we're just you know, where we were feeding 313 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:12,240 Speaker 3: nursing homes at one point in time where I was located. 314 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,680 Speaker 3: Somebody came up on that Thursday Friday like and thirty 315 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,720 Speaker 3: five meals and you don't say now, you just say, yeah, 316 00:15:19,960 --> 00:15:22,120 Speaker 3: just give us a minute, like bear with us and 317 00:15:22,160 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 3: we'll get you something. So you know, there's a lot 318 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 3: of different people there now doing a lot of different things, 319 00:15:29,720 --> 00:15:33,240 Speaker 3: and it's it's a massive it's a massive undertaking. So 320 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:36,640 Speaker 3: you have to kind of give this to me. You 321 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:38,200 Speaker 3: have to give the search and rescue people of their 322 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:40,720 Speaker 3: space to do everything, because if there are bodies in 323 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:44,640 Speaker 3: mud and entrees, which there were and are still, you 324 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,600 Speaker 3: need to let that kind of clear its way. And 325 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,480 Speaker 3: so once that starts getting taken care of, then infrastructure, 326 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:54,000 Speaker 3: I mean they had by the time we were leaving on Friday, 327 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 3: the parking lot across the street from US had started 328 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 3: to get power back, and so it was I need 329 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:02,840 Speaker 3: to come back. The Builtmore village, which was the one 330 00:16:02,920 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 3: that flooded bad like twenty foot thirteen fourteen fifteen twenty foot. 331 00:16:08,600 --> 00:16:11,200 Speaker 2: Wow, they had gotten power back. 332 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 3: I mean, these these guys are these guys are going 333 00:16:13,200 --> 00:16:16,640 Speaker 3: to be without water for they say three to six weeks. 334 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:19,040 Speaker 3: I think I think that's three to six weeks from now. 335 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:22,360 Speaker 2: It's very it's really heartbreaking. 336 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:27,800 Speaker 3: Like the pipe, the pipe broke and went away. The 337 00:16:27,840 --> 00:16:32,120 Speaker 3: infrastructure around the pipe is gone, the pump house is gone, 338 00:16:32,640 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 3: you know, so it's like they're staying. 339 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:36,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, and you see people who are saying, like I 340 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: don't have any water? How can we not have any water? 341 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:44,080 Speaker 1: And this is where I think local government people are saying, yeah, 342 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:46,240 Speaker 1: this is what happens. Like this is why you have 343 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:49,560 Speaker 1: people that manage this stuff, because the infrastructure's gone. Once 344 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:52,000 Speaker 1: the infrastructure's gone, man, you got to get in there 345 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: and rebuild quickly, because it's just I mean, we're just 346 00:16:55,760 --> 00:16:57,360 Speaker 1: we don't know how to live with that water. I 347 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: mean you literally can't. But we're talking about bringing in 348 00:17:01,840 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 1: I mean you you're bringing in water, you're not showering 349 00:17:04,760 --> 00:17:07,040 Speaker 1: in bottled water. You're not you know, all the things 350 00:17:07,040 --> 00:17:09,320 Speaker 1: that are normal to us suddenly go out the window 351 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,440 Speaker 1: and it's just survival mode. And then I saw someone 352 00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,159 Speaker 1: on the news that was like, we're even being told 353 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:15,920 Speaker 1: that we're gonna have to boil water once we get water. Well, yeah, 354 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:18,120 Speaker 1: because you know they're rebuilding. 355 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 3: You If that's all you have to do, then count 356 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:21,879 Speaker 3: your blessing. 357 00:17:22,080 --> 00:17:24,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, right, exactly, because you have water. 358 00:17:24,520 --> 00:17:25,640 Speaker 2: To boil at that rate. 359 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,359 Speaker 3: And I mean the last day I was there, I 360 00:17:28,400 --> 00:17:31,760 Speaker 3: had heard of people talking to me that said they 361 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:34,760 Speaker 3: were starting to bring toilet water to people to boil. 362 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:38,440 Speaker 2: And it's like, are we really, you know, are we there? 363 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,440 Speaker 3: Like have we gotten that little help to that area 364 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:43,359 Speaker 3: that we have to do that. 365 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:47,560 Speaker 2: I know that it's crazy, but it's out there. 366 00:17:47,720 --> 00:17:50,000 Speaker 3: I mean, people are just doing what they especially up 367 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 3: on the mountain, they're just doing what they can to 368 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:56,159 Speaker 3: try and survive. And mountain people are stubborn and they 369 00:17:56,200 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 3: will stay there and they will not go. 370 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: And you know, so I think a lot of us 371 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,080 Speaker 1: are stubborn. You know, we don't want to just leave 372 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: our houses. We don't want to just abandon and in 373 00:18:04,680 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: the end, like you said, you brought up the looting, 374 00:18:06,640 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: people are afraid to leave. They want to protect their stuff. 375 00:18:09,280 --> 00:18:12,160 Speaker 1: I saw this thing yesterday on social media and at 376 00:18:12,160 --> 00:18:13,800 Speaker 1: first I thought it was a joke. I'm like, this 377 00:18:13,840 --> 00:18:17,480 Speaker 1: is some weird, woke thing where they were putting garbage 378 00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:20,000 Speaker 1: bags in the toilet and then filling them with kitty litter. 379 00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,560 Speaker 1: And I was like, oh no, if you have no toilet, 380 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: you know what are you going to I mean the 381 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:28,200 Speaker 1: things that we take for granted that you just don't 382 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: think about when people are like we have no running water, 383 00:18:30,920 --> 00:18:34,600 Speaker 1: It's that is completely I don't know how people live 384 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:37,080 Speaker 1: like that, you know, So that's why this is such 385 00:18:37,080 --> 00:18:39,399 Speaker 1: a disaster. But I want to get to what you 386 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 1: were doing down there, because I mean, it is a 387 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,600 Speaker 1: rare person who runs into a storm or even the 388 00:18:44,640 --> 00:18:46,840 Speaker 1: aftermath of a storm. So I just want to say, 389 00:18:47,119 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: you know, I give you complete credit and kudos and 390 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:53,919 Speaker 1: congratulations for being such a hero because this is not 391 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,440 Speaker 1: the normal reaction. And like you said, you talk to 392 00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,119 Speaker 1: your employees and they're like, eh, yeah, I don't know 393 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:01,960 Speaker 1: about that, because it is not the normal reaction to say, 394 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 1: you know what, I'm just going to pack everything up 395 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,240 Speaker 1: and rush to them. And I also think it's interesting 396 00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:08,720 Speaker 1: that you said this isn't something you get paid for, 397 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:13,200 Speaker 1: because there are massive government contracts that go out when 398 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,800 Speaker 1: a hurricane occurs, and everybody is vying for that money. 399 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:20,200 Speaker 1: And you are truly the American story of Hey, we're 400 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,399 Speaker 1: going to go do this, Who's going to give? And 401 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:25,280 Speaker 1: it's just a crowdfunding of people to say, yeah, we 402 00:19:25,359 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: want to help out. Now, when you're on the ground 403 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:29,439 Speaker 1: there and you get there and you have all this 404 00:19:29,520 --> 00:19:31,480 Speaker 1: food and people are coming to pick it up, you've 405 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: got to be hearing some stories. 406 00:19:34,280 --> 00:19:34,480 Speaker 2: Yeah. 407 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 3: I mean, I wore my staff coming from having done 408 00:19:37,520 --> 00:19:39,320 Speaker 3: this with Michael before, and none of my staff having 409 00:19:39,320 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 3: done Michael with me at that time. I told him, 410 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,919 Speaker 3: I said, just be prepared because some people are going 411 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,800 Speaker 3: to want to tell you everything that's happened to them. 412 00:19:46,119 --> 00:19:48,840 Speaker 3: Some people are going to be you know. I did 413 00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:51,280 Speaker 3: have a heart to heart with one of my people 414 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,600 Speaker 3: and she told she just said, some of these people 415 00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:57,320 Speaker 3: are rude. I said, listen, you have to understand, you know, 416 00:19:58,160 --> 00:19:59,000 Speaker 3: And it's hard. 417 00:19:59,080 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 2: Shock. 418 00:20:00,280 --> 00:20:02,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're in the eyes like we're in the hospitality business. 419 00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 3: Let's just be hospitable. But these people were living a 420 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:07,879 Speaker 3: very normal life and they have and I know this 421 00:20:07,960 --> 00:20:09,840 Speaker 3: isn't and I'm not judging and I'm not trying to 422 00:20:10,040 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 3: blanket everybody with this. Some of these people have a 423 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,480 Speaker 3: thousand dollars in their bank account. Some of these people 424 00:20:14,520 --> 00:20:17,160 Speaker 3: have fifteen percent charge left in their phone, a quarter 425 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 3: tank of gas, no job, no water, no electric and 426 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,880 Speaker 3: this is their life now. So let's give them some 427 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,880 Speaker 3: grace to be a little angry. It's gonna be okay, right. 428 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:29,919 Speaker 3: Our job is to just give them a little bit 429 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 3: of comfort. And if that means to be a whipping 430 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 3: post that was, that's so far fringe, Like we didn't 431 00:20:35,840 --> 00:20:38,320 Speaker 3: we don't have We didn't have that a lot, you know, 432 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,520 Speaker 3: we had. We had more of a touching. Oh my god, 433 00:20:40,560 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 3: you guys are doing. Thank you so much for being here, 434 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 3: like people would. There is one gentleman that just come up, hey, 435 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,159 Speaker 3: can we get you something, and he just bald, He 436 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 3: just broke down and started crying. He's just like, thank 437 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:52,240 Speaker 3: you so much for being here. You have no idea 438 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:53,920 Speaker 3: what it means to the community, You have no idea 439 00:20:53,920 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 3: what it means to me, to us, And that's and 440 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:59,560 Speaker 3: that's all you're trying to do. It's like we serve 441 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:03,639 Speaker 3: we park it from volume of food from six we 442 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:06,800 Speaker 3: served six to seven thousand meals in three days. And 443 00:21:06,880 --> 00:21:10,880 Speaker 3: we did that and we also gave away six generators. 444 00:21:11,119 --> 00:21:15,159 Speaker 3: So it was a really big effort and we did 445 00:21:15,240 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 3: everything we could do to make it as comfortable. Like 446 00:21:19,320 --> 00:21:21,320 Speaker 3: we were playing a bunch of earth Wind and Fire 447 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:22,879 Speaker 3: and one day we had a hip hop day, and 448 00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:24,360 Speaker 3: one day we had a country day, and one day 449 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 3: we had you know, we just tried to play music. 450 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 3: We just tried to get people. 451 00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 2: You know. 452 00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:33,520 Speaker 3: One one, a former food truck owner in Jacksonville, had 453 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 3: moved to Asheville and she sat up in her third 454 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 3: story apartment and watched as the water rushed over her 455 00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:42,800 Speaker 3: street level food truck and. 456 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,120 Speaker 2: Engulfed the whole entire thing. 457 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:44,800 Speaker 1: Wow. 458 00:21:44,840 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 3: So she just spent hundreds of thousands of dollars getting 459 00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:50,920 Speaker 3: up to code in her building that she just bought 460 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 3: in Ashville to get it to the six foot water 461 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,480 Speaker 3: mark that they need to have the water rise to thirteen, 462 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 3: you know. And so I see her and it's just 463 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:04,720 Speaker 3: like there's so many people dealing with so many things. 464 00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:08,080 Speaker 3: It's it's pretty amazing, man, and just to bring them comfort, 465 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:10,800 Speaker 3: Like for I don't even care it's for five minutes, 466 00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:11,760 Speaker 3: it's so worth it. 467 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 1: Every twenty six seconds violent crime takes place in the 468 00:22:14,960 --> 00:22:18,600 Speaker 1: United States, and rising crime is threatening our families. 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I think when you said these people 483 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 1: don't have jobs, they don't have homes, you lose everything overnight. 484 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:19,239 Speaker 1: And there's no place to go, and it's kind of like, 485 00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: you know, many people must just walk around like zombies, 486 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,520 Speaker 1: you know, like what just happened? How can you you 487 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,880 Speaker 1: can imagine suddenly losing everything would be so devastating. Tell 488 00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:33,520 Speaker 1: us what was it like when you had people coming 489 00:23:33,520 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 1: with their families. Was it mostly like an adult that 490 00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,040 Speaker 1: would come and pick up and take back or how 491 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,240 Speaker 1: did that work? Were you seen a lot of kids? 492 00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:41,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it. 493 00:23:42,080 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 3: Was a bunch of everybody. There was no demographic, There 494 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 3: was no age group. It was. It was sometimes it 495 00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:50,360 Speaker 3: was four or five teenagers getting out of a car. 496 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:54,120 Speaker 3: Sometimes it was one that was feeding a neighborhood. And 497 00:23:54,160 --> 00:23:56,520 Speaker 3: so you never could tell, like if we had thirty 498 00:23:56,560 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 3: people in front of us, that could be easily two 499 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,800 Speaker 3: hundred meals, because people can I get one from my wife, 500 00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:03,439 Speaker 3: she's in the park, and I get one from my husband. 501 00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:06,679 Speaker 3: My grandparents can't get down the mountain, can I. You know, 502 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,960 Speaker 3: So it was it's a little bit of everybody. It really, 503 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 3: there was no necessary rhyme or reason. I mean, it 504 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:14,880 Speaker 3: was the melting pot. 505 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:16,920 Speaker 2: It was. It was whoever could get to us. 506 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 3: We fed first responders, we fed doctors that we were 507 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:24,199 Speaker 3: staying next to in a hotel. Our parking lot was 508 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 3: next to a hotel, and that's where all the doctors 509 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,960 Speaker 3: and ems were staying from outside the area. 510 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:32,160 Speaker 2: So we had a lot of them that would come over. 511 00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 3: And so we never I mean, we just did it 512 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:38,600 Speaker 3: whoever came to us, and that's how we build it 513 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:40,399 Speaker 3: like we were. I was lucky enough to get on 514 00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 3: a couple of different radio stations locally and I could say, hey, listen, 515 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,040 Speaker 3: you know you're just bring everybody. We don't care. We're 516 00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:49,960 Speaker 3: not going to say no, come get hot food. And 517 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:52,520 Speaker 3: it was just a. 518 00:24:52,359 --> 00:24:58,520 Speaker 1: Massive Did it feel like an overwhelming loss of life? 519 00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:04,240 Speaker 2: No, not at that time. I think it was over. 520 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,679 Speaker 3: I think these I think most of the people that 521 00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:10,640 Speaker 3: I talked to are still in shop, so they're really processing. 522 00:25:10,840 --> 00:25:12,920 Speaker 3: Some people got you know, I had to. 523 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 2: Remove you know, you'll hear. 524 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 3: I had to remove drywall up to knee high. I 525 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,880 Speaker 3: had to remove six foot of drywall. I had moved 526 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:21,920 Speaker 3: all my drywall and let it and let it draw. 527 00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,160 Speaker 3: I lost my eyes, I lost my car and my house. 528 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:27,399 Speaker 3: I lost my car and I lost my business. And 529 00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:31,960 Speaker 3: so you know, everybody's like, hey, it's all good. You know, 530 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,000 Speaker 3: we're we're we'll rebuild it. We're we're pretty bad ass, 531 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,439 Speaker 3: and we'll rebuild. It's going to be okay. And so 532 00:25:37,520 --> 00:25:39,280 Speaker 3: I think most of the people that I saw were 533 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 3: just still in shock and not necessarily coping, but they 534 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,320 Speaker 3: had a really rosy outlook for. 535 00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:47,879 Speaker 1: What was so amazing. 536 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's so cool. 537 00:25:51,359 --> 00:25:53,920 Speaker 1: So so when you do this, you ask for people 538 00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:58,040 Speaker 1: to help you out. I mean, we're seeing another hurricane 539 00:25:58,119 --> 00:25:59,280 Speaker 1: hit as we speak. 540 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,720 Speaker 3: I'm on the other side of the state from it 541 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,440 Speaker 3: right now. So my mom just showed up. 542 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,639 Speaker 1: So you had to evacuate your own hometown. 543 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:10,639 Speaker 3: Well, no, well I'm in Jacksonville, so I'm on the 544 00:26:10,640 --> 00:26:13,600 Speaker 3: northeast coast, but she lives towards Tampa. So I was like, 545 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,000 Speaker 3: just come up, please and hang out with us. And 546 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 3: I think by the time it gets to us, it's 547 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,080 Speaker 3: a Category one. But I have the generators and all 548 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,879 Speaker 3: the extension cords and enough water to stick around. 549 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,320 Speaker 2: So but it was just kind of like man Dan Jovan. 550 00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 3: Right, right, Yeah, So we're we're dealing with that just 551 00:26:30,680 --> 00:26:32,880 Speaker 3: a little bit here. Feel bad for the West coast 552 00:26:32,880 --> 00:26:34,840 Speaker 3: because they just had to go through it and there's 553 00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:39,560 Speaker 3: still there's still just stuff on the street that they're 554 00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,200 Speaker 3: trying to get thrown away that's about to get picked 555 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:44,280 Speaker 3: up by this hurricane and get launched into the air. 556 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,760 Speaker 3: You know, everybody, I know, everybody worries about flooding, But 557 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,119 Speaker 3: when you get up to like Cat three Camp fourth 558 00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:55,480 Speaker 3: and wind water rain prior to the hurricane, that's when. 559 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:56,400 Speaker 2: It gets diicy. 560 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,680 Speaker 3: I like that was the thing about Asheville that made 561 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,919 Speaker 3: this storm particularly crazy was it got thirty inches of 562 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,639 Speaker 3: rain into the reservoir, that filled the reservoir. 563 00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:06,560 Speaker 2: Then the hurricane. 564 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,240 Speaker 3: It's kind of Theatrina thing, got a bunch of rain, 565 00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,440 Speaker 3: pushed it back up in a lake. Pontra train had 566 00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:13,640 Speaker 3: nowhere to go, had to release somewhere. It just that's 567 00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:15,840 Speaker 3: what happened in Ashville, you know, thirty inches of rain, 568 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:16,760 Speaker 3: then a hurricane. 569 00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,320 Speaker 2: Now it's going to the path of least resistance, you know. 570 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,400 Speaker 1: And it's been raining in Florida. I mean, I don't 571 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:24,119 Speaker 1: know where you are, but my sister is down there 572 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,240 Speaker 1: and she's like, it's been raining and raining and raining 573 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: and raining. 574 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,280 Speaker 3: We had I mean up I feel like for the 575 00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 3: whole entire month of September where I live, it's just rain, 576 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:35,920 Speaker 3: which is weird because it's never like that. 577 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:37,720 Speaker 2: So that adds. 578 00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,159 Speaker 3: Another adds a different dimension to a hurricane because everything 579 00:27:41,200 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 3: on the ground has a tendency to kind of loosen 580 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,080 Speaker 3: up a little bit and it doesn't grip as hard, 581 00:27:45,119 --> 00:27:48,679 Speaker 3: and so one hundred mile per hour wind could definitely 582 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,320 Speaker 3: affect some stuff. So that's well, obviously my mom to 583 00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:52,720 Speaker 3: get here. 584 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:56,920 Speaker 1: We're yes, yes, we're watching, and I know that we 585 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,919 Speaker 1: have some people even who work on this podcasts, who 586 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:05,359 Speaker 1: have escaped their home. And I mean, but it's crazy 587 00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:07,919 Speaker 1: because you listen to this and the mayor of Tampa 588 00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,919 Speaker 1: coming on and saying this is you will not survive 589 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,480 Speaker 1: if you stay. I mean it is really these are 590 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:17,479 Speaker 1: words that we've never really heard spoken like this. I mean, 591 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: they're not they're not mincing words. They're saying get out. 592 00:28:20,119 --> 00:28:23,480 Speaker 1: And so what we're we're bracing for in Florida could 593 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,199 Speaker 1: be just as significant. I So my question to you 594 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,480 Speaker 1: is will you do this again? If if need be? 595 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:34,439 Speaker 1: And if so, you must need people to contribute to 596 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: how do they do that? 597 00:28:36,359 --> 00:28:36,840 Speaker 2: Oh? 598 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 3: I mean it for me, the ability to do it 599 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,800 Speaker 3: is always there. It's timing for my schedule sometime, you know, 600 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 3: if I can do it, I'll do it easily. But 601 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,200 Speaker 3: I just put stuff out on Facebook, like, hey, my 602 00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 3: personal it's kind of a a it's a it's a 603 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,080 Speaker 3: massive commitment for me to give my company to this. 604 00:28:56,560 --> 00:28:59,240 Speaker 3: It's another it's a different commitment to bring kind of 605 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,560 Speaker 3: like stakeholders in. You know, Hey, strange person, give me 606 00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 3: ten dollars, give me a thousand dollars, and I'm going 607 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:08,760 Speaker 3: to go feed people. So it's to me, it's it's 608 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 3: kind of like, hey, I've done this before. Please if 609 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,880 Speaker 3: you want to donate, trust me. And so I've been 610 00:29:16,000 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 3: very as transparent as humanly possible about all this money. 611 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 3: But I'll just put something up on Facebook or on 612 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,120 Speaker 3: the work on the Work Facebook page. 613 00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,160 Speaker 2: And do the best I can with what I have. 614 00:29:26,360 --> 00:29:28,880 Speaker 3: Like I tell everybody, hey, Buck fifty issues going to 615 00:29:28,920 --> 00:29:30,120 Speaker 3: get you a meal for somebody. 616 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 2: We're going to stay as long as possible. 617 00:29:31,840 --> 00:29:35,640 Speaker 3: And Ashwelle we raised probably close to eleven twelve thousand 618 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:38,800 Speaker 3: dollars and we were we were there for you know, 619 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:41,400 Speaker 3: three full days and a half a session on Tuesday, 620 00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,760 Speaker 3: so we got a lot of food out. There's money 621 00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 3: left over and one of the guys, another local business 622 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:49,840 Speaker 3: treatment is barbecue and Jacksonville. He's going to the west 623 00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,080 Speaker 3: coast of Florida as soon as it blows through, and 624 00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:55,440 Speaker 3: he's going to deliver supply. So I know Terry's legit 625 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,960 Speaker 3: basically American citizen that's going to go help. I'm giving 626 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,760 Speaker 3: him the rest of the money because I know he's 627 00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:01,720 Speaker 3: going to turn that into water. 628 00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:03,320 Speaker 2: I know he's going to turn that into diapers. I 629 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,560 Speaker 2: know that he's going to turn that into that. You 630 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: know he's going to do He's done this, He's done 631 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:08,800 Speaker 2: Katrina Michael. 632 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,080 Speaker 3: Now you know this current two weeks of stuff, so 633 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:13,840 Speaker 3: I know that he's going to go take care of stuff. 634 00:30:14,240 --> 00:30:16,480 Speaker 1: Well, that is that is just I mean, the story 635 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,200 Speaker 1: is so amazing. I mean, really, God bless you. Tell us. 636 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,680 Speaker 1: Tell people what your Facebook page is, how they can 637 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:22,200 Speaker 1: find you. 638 00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:29,840 Speaker 3: Oh gosh, uh, Facebook and Instagram at Harryhood Catering and 639 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,800 Speaker 3: then email harryhead Catering at gmail dot com. 640 00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:34,479 Speaker 2: All as it sounds super easy. 641 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:38,600 Speaker 1: Awesome. Well keep doing what you're doing, Matt Lennon. We 642 00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:41,280 Speaker 1: appreciate having you on and I'm assuming that they can 643 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:43,360 Speaker 1: find you other places too, so they can go out 644 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:44,520 Speaker 1: and try your amazing food. 645 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you're ever at a major music 646 00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 3: festal in America, chances there that I'm there feeding people 647 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 3: are doing the same thing. 648 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:56,240 Speaker 2: So we keep that data so awesome. 649 00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 1: I love it. So check out his Facebook page, check 650 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:00,880 Speaker 1: out Instagram, and thank you so much for coming on 651 00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:02,040 Speaker 1: and telling us about this today. 652 00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 2: Awesome thanks to I appreciate having me. 653 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,920 Speaker 3: I just hope you know the next week is quiet 654 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 3: around the stand of flow. 655 00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:09,440 Speaker 2: Hope. 656 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:13,040 Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, we will keep praying all of us. 657 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,320 Speaker 1: I know, I know everybody out there will keep praying, 658 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:17,600 Speaker 1: and I appreciate our audience is great, So thank you 659 00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,760 Speaker 1: for being here, and thank you all for listening to 660 00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:23,080 Speaker 1: the Tutor Dixon podcast. You know for this episode and others. 661 00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:26,120 Speaker 1: Go to Tutor Dixon podcast dot com or the iHeartRadio app, 662 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:29,240 Speaker 1: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts and join 663 00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:30,920 Speaker 1: us next time. Have a blessed day.