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Speaker 3: Welcome everyone. It is Kentucky Sports Radio, Monday, May the nineteenth.

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Speaker 3: I'm Matt Jones and we are here in London, Kentucky,

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Speaker 3: at this one of the sites of the tornado damage

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Speaker 3: that hit the state on Friday night. We're gonna open

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Speaker 3: He'll make them pay. We are right off the interstate

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Speaker 3: what was the worst of the tornadoes that hit Kentucky

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Speaker 3: on Friday. A for lack of a better term, you

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Speaker 3: that's exactly an accurate term. But I would say at

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Speaker 3: and there were at this point, nine teen fatalities, although

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Speaker 3: In the last five years, it's unbelievable what Kentucky has

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Speaker 3: But I've now been here twice and it doesn't. You

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Speaker 4: You know, I kind of agree with you. It's worse

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Speaker 4: Eighty of them are gone.

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Speaker 4: It's amazing the force of that tornado, just because a

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Speaker 3: I'm kind of amazed looking at it. Amazed. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I really am, Mike, when you consider just how bad

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Speaker 5: And Drew, yeah, I mean, like many people, you've seen

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Speaker 4: State's Well, you're right. You could see it in Andy's face.

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Speaker 5: It absolutely kind of got to be in a hurry.

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Speaker 5: It would be so unfair for this particular spot to

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Speaker 5: we don't know where all these people come from to

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Speaker 5: A truck just pulled up here off the road, dropped

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Speaker 4: It's that Kentucky gets hit all throughout the state. But

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Speaker 4: the death total that this one is what makes this

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Speaker 3: I think it's because everything was so concentrated right here. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Like I said, you just picture yourself a typical Kentucky neighborhood,

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Speaker 6: This is it, man, this is it well man.

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Speaker 4: I can see why because those houses are not there.

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Speaker 4: It's just this foundation because there was nothing else there.

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Speaker 5: just have some root to damage the guilt. I would

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Speaker 5: feel that my whole neighborhood has disappeared and I'm still

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Speaker 5: with just a few minimal problems. I mean, obviously this

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Speaker 5: won't ever be the same. I remember West Liberty very

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Speaker 5: well seeing that path for the first time, because I'd

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Speaker 5: never seen that was what over fifteen years ago, but

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Speaker 5: that seemed to mostly just be through a wooded area.

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Speaker 5: I mean, this is a very concentrated residential spot.

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Speaker 3: Well, when we come back, Senator Brandon I said, James

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Speaker 3: Storm Shannon, that's the wrestler. I don't think we didna

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Speaker 3: do anything that was in the Netflix show. Remember I

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Speaker 3: said draw five hundred dollars. I felt really bad about that.

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Speaker 3: This is Brandon's Storm. Different Storm will join us right

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Speaker 3: when we return. This is Kentucky Sports Radio. TJ Smith,

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Speaker 3: personal injury attorney, called TJ.

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Speaker 2: He'll make them pay Now more Kentucky Sports Radio presented

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Speaker 6: Here's my Joe.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back Tucky Sports Radio. State Senator Brandon Storm, who

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Speaker 3: is the Senator for Laurel County, is here with us.

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Speaker 3: I just started. I mean, you said you grew up.

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Speaker 3: Did you grow up in London? Yes, grew up in London,

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Speaker 3: live in London. What was it like for you? What's

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Speaker 3: it like for you to see all that?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 7: Man, I mean you can just look out over this.

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Speaker 7: It's a disaster. It looks like a bomb went off,

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Speaker 7: it really does. You know, it's unimaginable. Pictures don't do

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Speaker 7: it justice. When you see a photograph on Facebook or

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Speaker 7: social media, you know, you just you know, you can

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Speaker 7: kind of see it. But when you come out here,

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Speaker 7: you can actually feel it. I think that's what someone

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Speaker 7: said at the press conference the other day. You can

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Speaker 7: actually feel the destruction and the sadness. You know, we've

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Speaker 7: lost so many lives here that do we know? Officially

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Speaker 7: in the mount I've heard between seventeen and nineteen. I

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Speaker 7: also heard another report that it could be as much

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Speaker 7: as twenty or more. I haven't heard an official account

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Speaker 7: this morning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So now you know, I'm looking around and like

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Speaker 3: there's a sense of what is next for people? You know,

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Speaker 3: what what does this community do next?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 7: I think right now we hope to have ten FEMA

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Speaker 7: teams on the ground today to assess the damage. All

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Speaker 7: kinds of volunteers have just poured in from all across

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Speaker 7: the county, other regions, and right now we're just trying

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Speaker 7: to clean up and get the roads assessible, get valuables

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Speaker 7: out of homes that you know, you can look over here.

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Speaker 7: The roofs are destroyed and we're going to have rain

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Speaker 7: in tomorrow. So we've had church members, volunteer members just

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Speaker 7: get together and try to get the belongings out of homes,

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Speaker 7: try to salvage those.

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Speaker 3: Let me ask you. I've had people write me and say, Okay,

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Speaker 3: I want to do something today. Would it be beneficial

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Speaker 3: to have people to come help with that process before

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Speaker 3: the rain comes tomorrow?

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Speaker 7: Or no, Well, you know, I'm going to leave that

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Speaker 7: to the coordinators of this. What we've been trying to

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Speaker 7: do is.

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Speaker 3: Courtate who is that? Yeah, I don't even know who

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Speaker 3: that is.

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Speaker 7: So we have an e building downtown. It's it's in

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Speaker 7: behind Calvary Baptist Church and they're directing all the operations.

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Speaker 7: And so I do know that there's some people here

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Speaker 7: in town. There's two crews that have been trying to

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Speaker 7: tarp homes and try to you know, if anybody's out

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Speaker 7: there listening, and they know of a home that needs

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Speaker 7: to be tarped. We're trying to get those tart before

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Speaker 7: the rain moves in. So if they can come to

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Speaker 7: my Facebook page, they're welcome to private message.

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Speaker 3: Is the Calvary Baptist Church the place that's if someone

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Speaker 3: would contact or to do something.

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Speaker 7: Well, No, it's in behind Calvary Baptist Church. The EEO

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Speaker 7: building is the Emergency Operations. Yes, yeah, so, but yeah,

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Speaker 7: if they want to send that message to me on

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Speaker 7: my private or on a private message on Facebook, I

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Speaker 7: can try to put them in contact with them if

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Speaker 7: they need their their homes tarped. Some homes you can

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Speaker 7: look and it's just a total loss. There's nothing that

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Speaker 7: can be done. And so if they also see it's

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Speaker 7: a need where they just need to get belongings out

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Speaker 7: and it's safe to go into the home, let us

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Speaker 7: know that. And there's there's people that are volunteering to

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Speaker 7: go in there. Now, what we want to make sure

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Speaker 7: we're avoiding matt and folks looters.

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Speaker 3: Because we've also had a problem with that.

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Speaker 7: We've had some issues with looters that people have come

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Speaker 7: in and you know, they may appear to be volunteers

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Speaker 7: maybe and we want to make sure that the people

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Speaker 7: going into these neighborhoods.

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Speaker 3: I just don't understand how a human being could do that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean I know that people can be When I

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Speaker 3: was at the press conference Saturday, there was a lot

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Speaker 3: of talk about looting, and I thought, but you'd have

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Speaker 3: to be a despicable person to look at this and

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Speaker 3: to sit there and think I'm going to go take

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Speaker 3: stuff from these people. But you all have had some

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Speaker 3: problem with.

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Speaker 7: That, yes, And actually last night up here in the

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Speaker 7: Southern Subdivision Sunshine Hills, I believe they had had to

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Speaker 7: install a mobile unit with cameras on it that are

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Speaker 7: motion sensitive so that they can detect when people are

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Speaker 7: going into homes after hours, you know, when it's dark

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Speaker 7: and no one's there working to try to secure the scene.

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Speaker 7: You don't need to be going in and out of

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Speaker 7: that house, and so it could be something nefarious, and

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Speaker 7: so what they've had to do is actually start monitoring that.

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Speaker 7: We had another situation I heard about where one of

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Speaker 7: the victims who passed away in this her family went

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Speaker 7: the next day to kind of give her belongings and

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Speaker 7: her home had already been ransacked.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 7: So again it's just it's unbelievable that people would do

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Speaker 7: that kind of thing to their neighbors.

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Speaker 3: That's that's awful. I mean, that is that's awful. And

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Speaker 3: also during this period, that's the last thing we people

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Speaker 3: need to have to sit and worry about, is is

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Speaker 3: that how's this going to like? You know, what's this

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Speaker 3: due to the community?

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Speaker 7: Well, I thought, I think it's brought us all together.

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Speaker 7: You know, I came home from church yesterday and when

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Speaker 7: I went to my neighborhood, it looked like a war

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Speaker 7: zone had went off, trees everywhere. But you would not

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Speaker 7: believe that people from other parts of the county that

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Speaker 7: I recognized that we're there who were just out there

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Speaker 7: with chainsaws, out there with their their crew of men,

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Speaker 7: their crew of women who are volunteering just you know,

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Speaker 7: helping their neighbors. And so there's people in this neighborhood

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Speaker 7: we're looking at right now that I guarantee you two

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Speaker 7: thirds of those people don't live there, but they're here.

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Speaker 6: To help those individuals.

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Speaker 7: And then my neighborhood were I left this morning, you know,

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Speaker 7: we got hit by the tornado. And as I came

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Speaker 7: through to meet with you all, there was other individuals

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Speaker 7: there volunteering. So it's just it's really awesome to see

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Speaker 7: people come together.

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Speaker 3: Is that this is the worst area, right?

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Speaker 6: I would I would say that your back there?

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Speaker 3: Yeah there, Yes, yes, I mean I we were I

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Speaker 3: was back there. That that back there? What's that? Sunshine

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Speaker 3: Shine Hills? Sunshine Hills. That's that's hard to look at.

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Speaker 6: Yes it is and it and it kind of came.

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Speaker 3: Who are the people that lived here? Like, who like

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Speaker 3: or live here? Like? What's is there? Are they older folks?

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Speaker 3: A lot of them.

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Speaker 7: There were some that were were I think unfortunately killed

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Speaker 7: in this incident. But you know, I've got cousins that

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Speaker 7: live back here, children will live back here, nurses that

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Speaker 7: live back here. You know, there's first responders that live

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Speaker 7: back here. So it's just a whole squat. There's you know,

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Speaker 7: I've got friends that are US attorneys that live back

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Speaker 7: in the subdivision who were out with the ATF agents yesterday,

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Speaker 7: who were actually volunteering to solid debris and things. So

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Speaker 7: this is just a it's a conglomerate of just good people.

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Speaker 7: And you know, there's a church back here. I was

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Speaker 7: telling you a moment ago that my fathers went to

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Speaker 7: for probably close to fifty years and it was destroyed.

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Speaker 3: So tell the story you talked.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So Sunshine Hill Baptist Church, which is right up here,

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Speaker 7: was destroyed in the tornado. And there was a flyer

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Speaker 7: that was actually on social media that was recovered in Hazzard, Kentucky.

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Speaker 7: And when you look at the flyer, it's it's barely damaged.

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Speaker 3: It's it went. It went from here to hazard. Yes,

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Speaker 3: that's what forty five mile or forty five minutes or something.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, at least an hour, I would say, yeah,

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Speaker 7: from this location. Yeah, and so it's not torn it's

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Speaker 7: not dirty, it's you know, it's it's amazing that it

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Speaker 7: went that far. We've had, you know, a young man

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Speaker 7: one of my cousins, he had a letterman jacket that

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Speaker 7: was found I think five or six miles away from

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Speaker 7: his home. So, you know, which, it's amazing the devastation

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Speaker 7: that this toot.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any are there stories? I mean I

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Speaker 3: saw there was a twenty five year old firefighter, is

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Speaker 3: that right, passed away?

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure if he was twenty five, but yes,

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Speaker 7: there was a firefighter first responder that was trying to

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Speaker 7: understanding he was trying to help another person the tornado

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Speaker 7: just picked him up and threw him maybe into a

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Speaker 7: house or a structure, and it killed him.

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Speaker 3: And so he was actually trying to to rescue someone.

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Speaker 6: That's my understanding.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Yeah, and I you know, I talked with some

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Speaker 7: folks last night in my neighborhood where the tornado came

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Speaker 7: over a ridge and you can just see in the

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Speaker 7: tree line. You see woods on both sides and you

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Speaker 7: can just see where the tree line it came over.

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Speaker 6: It's it's devastating.

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Speaker 7: Hits a house, uh, takes another house and the roof

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Speaker 7: just totally blows off and goes about three houses down

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Speaker 7: and across the street. All their windows busted out. And

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Speaker 7: this gentleman was a veteran and disabled veteran, and he

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Speaker 7: ran out like after the tornado hood passed to go

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Speaker 7: see what the damage was and he heard somebody yelling

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Speaker 7: or screaming across the road. He goes over there, goes

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Speaker 7: into the home and he finds a couple who are crushed.

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Speaker 7: Now they're alive, but they're crushed and they're begging for help.

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Speaker 7: So he actually rescued them.

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Speaker 3: So that's the kind of disabled.

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Speaker 7: This disabled veteran, Yes, went across the street.

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Speaker 3: See now, I mean that's a that's an amazing story. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I mean I bet there we I mean, those things

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Speaker 3: may take a while to come out, but there's probably

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Speaker 3: a lot of stories of people being rescued in those moments, right,

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Speaker 3: I mean you had emergency services out here all night, right, yes, yes, yeah,

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Speaker 3: the uh. I was talking about how impressed I was

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Speaker 3: with the way the everyone has worked together. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you guys, you know, the governor, we talked about it

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Speaker 3: as a Democrat, a lot of these local officials, Republican,

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Speaker 3: the police. Like I just watching everybody Saturday. You know,

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Speaker 3: it's easy to get so cynical about things. It actually

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Speaker 3: sort of encouraged me to see all that. Does it

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Speaker 3: you feel like that as well? Oh?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 7: I mean right now, it's time to come together and

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Speaker 7: it's time to help one another. You know, we're all

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Speaker 7: brothers and sisters in Christ. We're all here to you know,

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Speaker 7: help our community, our neighbors, and so it's not about

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Speaker 7: politics about helping people.

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Speaker 3: So what is as I said a second ago, and

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Speaker 3: maybe you can find out before the show ends, what

656
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Speaker 3: is the thing you would like? I mean, people all

657
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Speaker 3: over the state to kind of hear and when they

658
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Speaker 3: say how can I help? What would you what would

659
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Speaker 3: you suggest?

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Speaker 7: Well, I would suggest you know, right now, if you

661
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Speaker 7: look at these these locations, they're trying to bring in

662
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Speaker 7: excavators and dump trucks, and it's it's very dangerous for

663
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Speaker 7: pedestrians to be out here trying to just walk around.

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Speaker 7: It's not very secure if they're doing that, and these

665
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Speaker 7: folks that are the experts trying to move this debris.

666
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Speaker 7: So I would say, don't send a lot of volunteers

667
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Speaker 7: into these locations. There's an operations center set up at

668
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Speaker 7: the airport that people can go to and drop off

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Speaker 7: supplies if they want to drop off supplies, or they

670
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Speaker 7: can gather supplies and drop.

671
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Speaker 3: Off what is in terms of supplies, what would be

672
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Speaker 3: something you know that is needed in the I think

673
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Speaker 3: the governor had told me tarps, gloves and like boxes

674
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Speaker 3: things to help with anything else that you know of.

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Speaker 7: I think plastic toats are critical right now because a

676
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Speaker 7: lot of the you know, rains coming in on Tuesday,

677
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Speaker 7: and so we need to get these things that are perishable,

678
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Speaker 7: their belongings, their photographs and stuff put those in waterproof toats.

679
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Speaker 7: That's probably the biggest things I've got a list here

680
00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,000
Speaker 7: of different locations and things, but where they can drive

681
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Speaker 7: things off. But most of the places are getting a

682
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Speaker 7: lot of water, and so.

683
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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, they don't don't necessarily need that right.

684
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Speaker 7: No, they don't need that water right right now. It

685
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Speaker 7: may happen in another week or so, but but right

686
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Speaker 7: now they need you know, critical some medical uh things,

687
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Speaker 7: you know, band aids, medical kids, things of that nature, tarps, gloves,

688
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Speaker 7: work gloves, things of that nature. And then I know

689
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Speaker 7: they're also trying to make sure that people have homes.

690
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Speaker 7: You know, a lot of these these people don't. They're

691
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Speaker 7: displaced right now.

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Speaker 3: So where are people gonna stay? Right?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So we've got a couple really awesome people in

694
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Speaker 7: our community, Practical being one of those. They've come up

695
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Speaker 7: and they've said that there's somebody that needs a place

696
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Speaker 7: to stay, that they're gonna pay the cost of their

697
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Speaker 7: hotel room if they can't find a place. We also

698
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Speaker 7: have different places that have shelters. I've got First Baptist Church,

699
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Speaker 7: The Logic, Cumbland Falls, Pine Grove, Holiness, Wildcat, Harley Davidson,

700
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Speaker 7: Dodge City Campground, Victory Life Church, Bethel London Multicultural Church,

701
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Speaker 7: Pine Grove Church, just various churches. We're hosting I think

702
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Speaker 7: at our church Kentucky to the disaster relief group and

703
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 7: they're accepting water and gatorade type products right now. But again,

704
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Speaker 7: if anybody needs a place to stay, if you want

705
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Speaker 7: to communicate with me, I'd be happy to try to

706
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Speaker 7: put them in contact with somebody. Also, have some other

707
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Speaker 7: friends of mine that are they don't necessarily want their

708
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 7: names to be mentioned, but if there are people that

709
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 7: need resources for homes or something like that, they're willing

710
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Speaker 7: to step up and try to help them.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Well, well listen, thank you very much for coming

712
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,840
Speaker 3: out and for keeping us informed, and if you need anything,

713
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Speaker 3: you you let us know.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, thank you all. Thank you all for coming down

715
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Speaker 7: here and supporting our community. I mean everybody in this city,

716
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 7: this country, this state. Late we all love you guys,

717
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,520
Speaker 7: and so you all being down here to support us

718
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Speaker 7: really means a lot.

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Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate it. Brandon Storm, State Senator. We will

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Speaker 3: thank you very much. We'll take a break and be

721
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Speaker 3: right back. It's KSR. Welcome back, it is Kentucky Sports ready,

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Speaker 3: all right, Channon will open up the phones. Eight five

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Speaker 3: nine twenty two eighty seven. Especially, we'd like to hear

724
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Speaker 3: from you if you're or from the area or had something,

725
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Speaker 3: you know, dealt with it on Friday night you we'd

726
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Speaker 3: love to chat A five nine two twenty two eighty seven.

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Speaker 3: lot of a lot of you know, power company, et cetera,

734
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Speaker 3: and volunteers coming in. I thought it was really touching.

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Speaker 3: We were driving this morning, the Amish people, m hm

736
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Speaker 3: that we saw with the hats and everything walking over there,

737
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Speaker 3: just helping people go through their belongings. You know that

738
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Speaker 3: there's something about that that I found really touching.

739
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Speaker 5: That and of all the things, Brandon said, the disabled veteran,

740
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Speaker 5: who well, that helps save two of his neighbors. I mean,

741
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Speaker 5: that's that's a touching story. But at the same time,

742
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 5: the looter thing is infuriating. When we were driving around,

743
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 5: I saw the camera thing he's talking about, and I

744
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 5: even thought, I hope that's not there for looting. And

745
00:36:10,120 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 5: to hear that people would do that, I mean, that

746
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Speaker 5: is just absolutely despicable.

747
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Speaker 3: I mean, can you imagine, Shannon, how awful you would

748
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 3: have to be to look at this situation and say

749
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna go loot. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean that's the worst of the worst. We talked about,

751
00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 2: you know how great Kentuckians aren't helping out. But then

752
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 2: there's also on the flip side, a few, you know,

753
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Speaker 2: people that are that are doing this, and that always

754
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Speaker 2: happens with disasters like this. It's just unfortunate.

755
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, the state police officer that's our friend, PJ.

756
00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:38,440
Speaker 3: Burnett got up and said that during the conference, and

757
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Speaker 3: I remember thinking, I guess Pj's just hardened by law enforcement,

758
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,359
Speaker 3: like thinking people will do that. I was like, Oh,

759
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,479
Speaker 3: people wouldn't do well, I guess they would.

760
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Speaker 5: We see the good and bad and people in this situation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a special place in hell for those kind

762
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Speaker 4: of people.

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Speaker 3: I was about to say, Ryan's gonna have a very

764
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Speaker 3: strong comment. I just knew I could like to say

765
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Speaker 3: more too. I could tell on your face. Ryan, I

766
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:02,200
Speaker 3: could tell something was coming that was not gonna be h.

767
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Speaker 3: That makes you really angry, doesn't it?

768
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Speaker 4: To try to take advantage of somebody in their worst moment,

769
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Speaker 4: their lowest point in their life. They just lost everything.

770
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Speaker 4: You're gonna go in look around for some medication or

771
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Speaker 4: something you can steal from him.

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Speaker 3: It's just bet it's more than medication. Yeah, I mean,

773
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Speaker 3: that's that's a sad story about going to your mother's

774
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Speaker 3: house and seeing all that that gone. You're wearing the

775
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,320
Speaker 3: Laurel County State Champs shirt.

776
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they just had the documentary came out in March.

777
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 4: These were the original shirts were made in nineteen eighty two,

778
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 4: so they had made some replicas and I got one.

779
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 4: You know that shows this county when they were probably

780
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 4: had the most pride. So proud of that team that

781
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 4: won the state title.

782
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Speaker 3: Now here talk about pride about something else. Reed Shepherd

783
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 3: was out here Saturday. Reed Shepherd was out here Saturday,

784
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Speaker 3: and nobody knew. If that dude doesn't post, that's true, right, yep?

785
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Speaker 6: I was.

786
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Speaker 3: I mean, I just another work here. I didn't see him,

787
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Speaker 3: but I mean, like, but that's because he wasn't making

788
00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:57,239
Speaker 3: a deal out of it, right, he was one of

789
00:37:57,239 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 3: the many people out here working. I think that. I mean,

790
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 3: he's a great kid and that was awesome to see.

791
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Speaker 3: And then Mark Pope was on the roof yesterday. I

792
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,080
Speaker 3: have to tell you I wasn't ready Drew to see

793
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Speaker 3: a seven footer on a roof like that's that's kind

794
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Speaker 3: of uh. You don't see that a lot, but a

795
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Speaker 3: seven footer on a roof is quite a sight. By

796
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Speaker 3: the way, this is the North Laurel I think, uh

797
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,839
Speaker 3: football and baseball team I was told was coming out here.

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Speaker 3: That all was right, that's that's awesome.

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Speaker 5: But I like the photo of reading the caption the

800
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Speaker 5: guy said Red just texting him, said, I don't know

801
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Speaker 5: what you need me to do, but I'll be there

802
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 5: in twenty minutes, like just no hesitation, not even know

803
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Speaker 5: what he's getting into. I'm on my way to help out.

804
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Speaker 5: I'm not surprised that he did that, but but seeing

805
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Speaker 5: those photos was really great.

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Speaker 3: Some big boys right there. I don't know if I

807
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:43,359
Speaker 3: would want them.

808
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Speaker 5: His shirt says big, bold and nasty.

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00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 3: His shirt does say big, bold and nasty. All I'm

810
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 3: wearing jeans and boots. They know where they're coming right right,

811
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Speaker 3: They're not. They're not looking like Ryan and us and

812
00:38:55,400 --> 00:38:59,080
Speaker 3: me and these khaki shorts, and these dudes came understanding.

813
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 3: Now feel very much not as mainly as I should be.

814
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Speaker 2: For nobody's coming to clean up in kaki shorts.

815
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Speaker 3: Well, I did because I forget, because I got up late.

816
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 3: I forgot. But I'm but we will go over there

817
00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 3: and do the la. That's the group I would want

818
00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:18,440
Speaker 3: the I would want them working at my house if

819
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 3: I'm not twenty twenty said, how about Mark Pope on

820
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Speaker 3: the roof? Though seven feet tall?

821
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Speaker 4: It was a little comical despite the situation, to see

822
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Speaker 4: a seven footer up on this roof walking around that.

823
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Speaker 4: He shows you kind of person he is trying to

824
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Speaker 4: do anything.

825
00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 3: How bout he comes here to about here and he

826
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Speaker 3: takes the roof job. Yeah, and he doesn't take the

827
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Speaker 3: ground job. I guess he didn't need a ladder. He

828
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Speaker 3: could just step up on the room and listen. Let

829
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Speaker 3: me say, all these other guys would have done something.

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Speaker 3: One of the great things about Cow was his disaster relief.

831
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Speaker 3: Rick would have done something, all of them, but he's

832
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Speaker 3: the only coach we've had that would have gotten up

833
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Speaker 3: on that roof. Did you agree with that?

834
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Speaker 5: I need more details on how it happened, Like, I mean,

835
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Speaker 5: there's obviously one hundred jobs you could do when you

836
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Speaker 5: get here, but the seven footer said, I'll get up

837
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Speaker 5: there and get that.

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Speaker 3: We're interviewing him tomorrow after this show. You have to

839
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Speaker 3: find out. So I got to ask him how I

840
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Speaker 3: ended up on the roof right, because that is it

841
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Speaker 3: was quite a visual.

842
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Speaker 4: I wondered if his daughter that was with him did

843
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Speaker 4: it first, and he's like, well, my daughter did it.

844
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Speaker 3: I got to get up there. Now was she up there?

845
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 5: Uh?

846
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Speaker 3: Huh oh, I didn't see her. I didn't know that

847
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:19,399
Speaker 3: was his daughter was Well, that was quite a side ef.

848
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Speaker 3: I'm nine to twenty two eighty seven. Who's up first, ship, Jacob, Jacob,

849
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Speaker 3: go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Jacob, Hi, good morning. I just wanted to start off

851
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Speaker 8: by thinking you off for I really I think it's

852
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Speaker 8: awesome that you guys decided to go to that area

853
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 8: so you know, to visit and kind of tour the devastation,

854
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Speaker 8: and thank you for drawing attention to all the tragedy

855
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Speaker 8: over these past couple of days. And also I just

856
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Speaker 8: wanted to kind of question I'm not and I know

857
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Speaker 8: a lot of people probably are able to actually drop

858
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Speaker 8: off directly. Why or is there somewhere where we can

859
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Speaker 8: actually order like the tarts or gloves or flipm it

860
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Speaker 8: and have that dropped off.

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Speaker 3: I have not seen that, but I will. I will

862
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:05,320
Speaker 3: ask and maybe watch my social media. If that's something

863
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 3: that that is doable, I will. I will let you know.

864
00:41:08,840 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 3: I know they will have relief efforts from a fundraising

865
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Speaker 3: standpoint that will kind of get going in the but

866
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Speaker 3: as we've talked about, and I appreciate the call, unfortunately

867
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Speaker 3: been through of these there's this period of five or

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Speaker 3: six days that they are in the immediate need standpoint,

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Speaker 3: and even money you donate will not have time to process.

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Speaker 3: They kind of want to do the donations in sort

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Speaker 3: of the intermediate phase, which is where we've tried to

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Speaker 3: be of help. But right now this is still in

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Speaker 3: the you know, this just happened phase, and I so

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Speaker 3: so that will come. I think I heard Tuesday is

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Speaker 3: when that will come. But for right now, I will

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Speaker 3: ask because that's a good question. There might be a

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Speaker 3: way to donate money for some of that stuff, you know,

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Speaker 3: But I will let you know, And.

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Speaker 5: Like you mentioned and we've seen in the past sometimes

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Speaker 5: you're donating things that kind of get in the way

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Speaker 5: and it just adds more work.

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Speaker 3: Closely, I've been told that the clothes do kind of

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Speaker 3: get I mean they still have clothes left over from

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Speaker 3: some of these in the other ones, because like you know,

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Speaker 3: people mean well, but like there's just it's a very

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Speaker 3: that's a very hard thing to to. It's the other

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Speaker 3: stuff that we talked about earlier that they could use.

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Speaker 3: Right now, we will take a break, come back. Our

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Speaker 3: number two is ksrry