Speaker 1: Hey guys, it's spilled Courtney with an army of normal folks.
Speaker 1: And we continue now with part two of our conversation
Speaker 1: with big Al Haldron. Right after these brief messages from
Speaker 1: our Jenner sponsors, somebody had an elephant from a circus
Speaker 1: to drag stuff in Joplin.
Speaker 2: While we were there in the church parking lot. There
Speaker 2: was a circus that was coming into town and they
Speaker 2: were going to be performing on that Friday night. And the
Speaker 2: tornado hits whatever a few days prior to the arena's gone,
Speaker 2: and the town. Who's going to a circus? You're trying
Speaker 2: to You're looking for Fluffy because it's your dog's running around, right,
Speaker 2: So the circus people came over to the church and
Speaker 2: they and circus people are in interesting and there's a
Speaker 2: whole other out holding story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everybody listening knows that circus people are interesting.
Speaker 2: They're very interesting. They're an interesting lot.
Speaker 1: Parney's roadies, all of it. Yeah, they were very gips
Speaker 1: and all kinds of things. I supposed to say. This
Speaker 1: song about probably is a song about that, And I
Speaker 1: think what I just said is probably politically incorrect, but oh.
Speaker 2: Well, oh well, it's me and you right, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: So about ninety five thousand other people listening.
Speaker 2: But it's okay, yeah, that's all right, that's.
Speaker 1: Maybe one hundred thousand. So tell the story, okay.
Speaker 2: Now that I'm scared. So the circus came and said,
Speaker 2: because there was a lot of kids and everybody was
Speaker 2: in line all that, and they said, can we perform
Speaker 2: in the parking lot? We just like to entertain some
Speaker 2: of the kids. So they brought out they were and said, also,
Speaker 2: we're not able to make any money. We got to
Speaker 2: we got to pay some of the bills. Could we
Speaker 2: give camel rides in the parking lot? So they set
Speaker 2: their camel ride up in the parking lot and for
Speaker 2: two dollars, they'd throw three or four kids on that
Speaker 2: and they'd give camel ride in the parking lot. Made
Speaker 2: a fortune made, of course, the kids were riding the camel.
Speaker 2: The jugglers are out there juggling and doing all that. Well,
Speaker 2: they ended up we got clear from that where we
Speaker 2: were at at the church. When you just say it
Speaker 2: was on like the southeast side of the of the
Speaker 2: area that was affected. If you go on the northwest side,
Speaker 2: they were out there and they had a problem they had.
Speaker 2: There was a big ravine, huge ravine, and however would
Speaker 2: the tornado come in? It just thinks, I mean, you
Speaker 2: just remember this thing. This was an F five. It
Speaker 2: was on the ground for twenty two miles and it
Speaker 2: only moved at a couple miles an hour, which are
Speaker 2: the dangerous ones because it's a grinder. It's just a grinder.
Speaker 2: It's barely moving hardly at all, and so it just
Speaker 2: grinds everything up and then just pukes it up. You know,
Speaker 2: two houses down whatever it Brent picked up here, it grinds,
Speaker 2: it pukes it when it gets too heavy, and it
Speaker 2: just grinds trees, cars, flipping them up, carrying trees and
Speaker 2: just nuts. So it's throwing all these all the heavy
Speaker 2: stuff when it come over top that ravine, everything that
Speaker 2: it's pulling, the big heavy stuff dropped it in the ravine,
Speaker 2: which is like thirty cars and trucks. So at the
Speaker 2: bottom of this ravine it's like a just a jungle
Speaker 2: mess of cars. They've got to get him out of
Speaker 2: there because there's gas and oil and they're afraid of
Speaker 2: polluting the river that was down there and the revine.
Speaker 2: Every I didn't ask, but probably was probably was one
Speaker 2: hundred and I think we looked at one hundred and
Speaker 2: fifty eight people killed. I would say, yes. So we
Speaker 2: get over there, and the problem was the ravine was
Speaker 2: so it was so steep. They would put a guy, uh,
Speaker 2: they'd put a mountaineering guy, rescue guy on the cable
Speaker 2: and then the truck would just start letting the cable
Speaker 2: out and he'd let the cable the guy down the ravine.
Speaker 2: He'd hook the cable on down there, get out of
Speaker 2: the way, and they would drag a truck up. Well,
Speaker 2: they didn't bring a big enough wreckord. Wow, and then
Speaker 2: almost flipped the big it was a big record, but
Speaker 2: it was they needed the big semi records, which you've
Speaker 2: you know with your other business. Probably sometimes they needed
Speaker 2: one of those, and it needed to be farther away
Speaker 2: and it needed to be tethered to something because then
Speaker 2: they start pulling it up up it was it was
Speaker 2: about ready to flip it over into the ravine. So
Speaker 2: they stopped stop that, they let it back down. Well,
Speaker 2: elephants during the brother they used to set up circus
Speaker 2: tants with elephants. They have these huge, huge leather harnesses
Speaker 2: they put on them and then they would just take
Speaker 2: that elephant and they would hook a cable on the
Speaker 2: back and they would they have they have a skid
Speaker 2: plate on those big tip poles, and they put the
Speaker 2: big out and they would hook and it had a
Speaker 2: ring on the bottom of it. They hook onto that
Speaker 2: and the elephant just walks away and it just skid
Speaker 2: plates and as that thing comes up, the tip goes up.
Speaker 2: So the guy was like, eh, we'd pull those out.
Speaker 2: He had elephant can pull x amount of pounds. So
Speaker 2: they just put the guy put a huge cable on
Speaker 2: the back of that elephant and let the elephant backed
Speaker 2: up and let the guy down hooked on. The elephant
Speaker 2: just went you take a watermelon and you walk in
Speaker 2: front of him and the elephant will just follow the watermelon.
Speaker 2: He walked over and all said, we look, becomes a
Speaker 2: car flipping over the thing.
Speaker 1: Crazy.
Speaker 2: And they did that all for promotion stuff. So Alex,
Speaker 2: you get some and so he was like, he said,
Speaker 2: we can't do that many of them, but let's let's
Speaker 2: get the ones out that you need off the top.
Speaker 2: Because once they got some of them out of that
Speaker 2: that were really nestled in there, then they did that.
Speaker 2: So all of a sudden. So we sat there and
Speaker 2: watched them pull two or three over and then he
Speaker 2: put the elephant back in the truck and they went on.
Speaker 2: So just just crazy, you know that. It's just crazy
Speaker 2: kind of stuff, you know, with that and build the
Speaker 2: things that we saw. The house was completely gone except
Speaker 2: every I mean it was. It was just a concrete
Speaker 2: slab next to the hospital that had the million dollar
Speaker 2: helicopter laying upside down. They couldn't get it out of
Speaker 2: there when they saw it was too late coming in.
Speaker 2: They couldn't fly fly off, had to leave it. It was
Speaker 2: on top of the helicopter, on the helipa on the
Speaker 2: hospital and the helipad, and it just flipped it off
Speaker 2: and landed it down almost on the road. The house
Speaker 2: right next to it, the pad was completely cleaned off
Speaker 2: except three bowling balls in a triangle right where they
Speaker 2: were in the closet. Never moved them.
Speaker 1: You're kidding me.
Speaker 2: I'm like, what the heck wouldn't I believe this? And
Speaker 2: one of the guys at the church said, did you
Speaker 2: see the three bowling balls? I said, well, we saw
Speaker 2: a house. He goes right, yeah, left of the hospital
Speaker 2: with the three bowling balls. He goes, nobody will move them.
Speaker 2: It's there all. It's this crazy, superstitious thing. There's something
Speaker 2: about those three. Never rolled them, never moved them. That's
Speaker 2: where they were. The guy went and got him. They
Speaker 2: made him put him back because everybody want to see
Speaker 2: the three bowling balls.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 2: Across the street from that literally was a nursing home
Speaker 2: and a church. And this church had a It was
Speaker 2: made out of TV antenna, TV tower, you know, triangle trusting,
Speaker 2: huge cross. The church is gone and the cross is
Speaker 2: stand in The nursing home is gone. When I mean gone,
Speaker 2: it looks like it was never there, just a slab.
Speaker 2: It just wiped them clean off it and that TV
Speaker 2: tower and they have no idea and the TV tower
Speaker 2: and the cross was still standing. That's not a god thing.
Speaker 2: I don't know what is bill?
Speaker 1: All right? So that was the Joplin experience. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: after that you thought, well we kind of figured out
Speaker 1: how this works, yep, And so you created your own
Speaker 1: big al Munsey response team. What was the next one.
Speaker 2: The next one was actually in Indiana. Went to drive
Speaker 2: very far for this one thing. Yeah, it was in Henryville,
Speaker 2: and we ended up down in Saliarsville. Henryville's down southern Indiana,
Speaker 2: south of Columbus, southern part of the state, between Columbus
Speaker 2: and the Louisville off right off. It sets right on
Speaker 2: Highway sixty five. We came through it on the way down.
Speaker 2: On the way down here, we got to Henryville and
Speaker 2: they didn't need us. They had it was a it's
Speaker 2: a really little tail, it's a really really little town.
Speaker 2: They really didn't need it. So they sent us on
Speaker 2: to Saliersville, Kentucky, and it's same tornadoes, same tornado spots.
Speaker 2: It came through Henryville, came across going east west to east,
Speaker 2: came through Henryville, absolutely just destroyed. It hit the high school.
Speaker 2: They had just gotten out of school. They thank goodness.
Speaker 2: They released the kids early, had a school bus and
Speaker 2: a hair salon setting upside down. The town just got
Speaker 2: squished pretty bad. But while we got there, there was
Speaker 2: some local barbecue guys and some people seven, so they
Speaker 2: had plenty of food. But they got to Salarsville, this
Speaker 2: thing then it started jumping, and a lot of hills
Speaker 2: and hollers and it was jumping over these ravines. But
Speaker 2: it got down into Saliersville and just in these ravines
Speaker 2: and it didn't move. It moved again real slow, and
Speaker 2: it just was crushing. The houses were a little more random.
Speaker 2: You had to drive back to places, and I just
Speaker 2: have to say it was a little tougher there. You
Speaker 2: didn't want to sneak up on some of these guys
Speaker 2: because we saw some shotguns and I'm like, hey.
Speaker 1: Worried about loaders.
Speaker 2: I think they just carry them with them all the time.
Speaker 2: It was and I had and this time I've got
Speaker 2: my oldest daughter with me. Katie was with me and
Speaker 2: both of my girls have gone on one one trip
Speaker 2: with me. So it was again Bob Ball and Rocky,
Speaker 2: you know, the King of Barbecue, We're with us. It
Speaker 2: a small group. Tony Raleigh, my buddy that was that
Speaker 2: had got killed in the car wreck, and Katie. We
Speaker 2: were all in one vehicle and Bob and Rocky were
Speaker 2: in another one. So we got Sagersville and there was
Speaker 2: no place to set up because we try to get someplace.
Speaker 2: We need some water, we need a garden hose, we
Speaker 2: can just clean things, electricity if we can find it.
Speaker 2: So on the outskirts of town there's a funeral home.
Speaker 2: He said, well, we're good, but he said, we got
Speaker 2: a funeral in three days for the eight people that
Speaker 2: were killed in town. Several children, several kids. He said,
Speaker 2: we have a huge funeral here. You can be here,
Speaker 2: and I've got it and I'll provide it to you
Speaker 2: and I'll give you some money. And and again happened again.
Speaker 2: Grocery store just down the street. Colors are temping down. Well,
Speaker 2: I go down, I thought. Tony's like, rinse and repeat,
Speaker 2: let's go do it. We bought every We bought all
Speaker 2: their meat. They didn't have as much. What they had
Speaker 2: was probably five hundred Totino's pizzas. And I'm not talking
Speaker 2: big ones. I'm talking you know, the little midsize going
Speaker 2: on decent sized microwave you could go and she he's like,
Speaker 2: you guys, got any interested in a Totino's pizza. I'm like,
Speaker 2: are they in the freezer? And he goes yeah. I
Speaker 2: said how much? He said, oh, quarter apiece. I gotta
Speaker 2: get rid of him, because I'm woman to do with
Speaker 2: all of them. I said, well take them all. So
Speaker 2: I throw all those puppies in the truck and bring
Speaker 2: back to them and they're like rock. He's like, oh man,
Speaker 2: you're down there, I knew you were going to that
Speaker 2: grocery store. I knew you went and cut that deal.
Speaker 2: I said, I got you sport. But I said, what's
Speaker 2: a Totina pizza on a smoker? Dude? He said, I
Speaker 2: don't know, but we're going to find out. And that
Speaker 2: has become a thing.
Speaker 1: Smoked pizza awesome.
Speaker 2: And if you don't believe me, go buy. You got
Speaker 2: to buy the cheap stuff. Don't buy good ones. You
Speaker 2: buy the cheap Tatina's, throw them on a smoker. So
Speaker 2: all these barbecue guys, you really think.
Speaker 1: Alex, I don't think to Tina's is ever now going
Speaker 1: to be a sponsor of the show.
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, there by the cheap ones, Well we do.
Speaker 2: Totinas will now become a sponsor of the show, because
Speaker 2: they should, because they should do that.
Speaker 1: And they should make a pizza called the Twister.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, the Big Rocky.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Big Big Rocky. It was lacking, could be
Speaker 1: sausage twister, could be pepperoni.
Speaker 2: And what I should say have said was inexpensive because
Speaker 2: we only paid a quarter apiece for him, and we
Speaker 2: and those things and the kids and the line. Once
Speaker 2: the word got out, they were.
Speaker 1: Like these people are smoking pizza.
Speaker 2: It was unbelievable at the funeral home, at the funeral
Speaker 2: home for Good and it ran down and I don't
Speaker 2: know how long. That line was several hundred people for hours,
Speaker 2: and they were burning taking those pizzas off, and Rocky
Speaker 2: was throwing a little extra parmesan on them and throw
Speaker 2: a little barbecue on him. And and they're quick. I
Speaker 2: mean he's making them, he's pulling them off as fast
Speaker 2: as they can, and they're just cutting them into force,
Speaker 2: throwing them on a plate. Went crazy.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back.
Speaker 2: The state police had set up a station they always have,
Speaker 2: they always build it, put up a couple of tents
Speaker 2: on the remote because they're going out on calls and
Speaker 2: gas calls and people looters and all that kind of stuff. Well,
Speaker 2: those guys came down, they saw, they came. We got
Speaker 2: in there and got set up late that evening, came in.
Speaker 2: We had ribs with us, and so I'd always bring
Speaker 2: in some stuff that we want to eat because Rocky
Speaker 2: makes what he calls the pork Trinity. It's pork wrapped
Speaker 2: and pork wrapped in pork, so it's on Dee's sausage
Speaker 2: and he butterflies a tenderloin, puts on dewey sausage in
Speaker 2: it and then wraps it with thick apple wood smoke
Speaker 2: bacon wraps it and then we cut it. When you
Speaker 2: once it's all done, slow cooks that puppy for many
Speaker 2: how many hours and it's it's submersed in apple cider vinegar. Okay,
Speaker 2: pull that out, cook it and so we have when
Speaker 2: you slice, it looks like a car tire.
Speaker 1: So it's like a.
Speaker 2: Hub with all baby sausage. Just putting on a bun,
Speaker 2: put in a sandwich, one of the greatest things delivery.
Speaker 2: Just dip it and barbecue sauce and have at it. Well,
Speaker 2: those guys heard about that. They actually came by and
Speaker 2: so we gave one of the the head. He was
Speaker 2: the head of the northern Northern Kentucky. He's head with
Speaker 2: the entire state police for the northern half of Kentucky.
Speaker 2: He came down, he took a couple of them and
Speaker 2: these guys and all of a sudden, here comes all
Speaker 2: these cop cars. They're just coming in. I mean, the
Speaker 2: boys were coming in. He's like, he's like, you got
Speaker 2: you one of those things. Rocky said, well, yeah, I've
Speaker 2: got a feeder pet war like that. Just feed those guys, Rocky,
Speaker 2: I said, I'm going to get mileage out of them.
Speaker 2: Next two days, I could get anywhere. Police escort are
Speaker 2: where I went coming because there's traffic jam. It's the
Speaker 2: only one little road in now. I just you get
Speaker 2: in behind him. They just take you right down the middle.
Speaker 2: At sixty miles an hour. I could get any We
Speaker 2: had to get gas and get places. If not, we'd
Speaker 2: be there all day. So they got down the stairs.
Speaker 2: All of a sudden, they've picked their tent up and
Speaker 2: moved and moved to the funeral home parking lot because
Speaker 2: they were doing police escort the next day for the
Speaker 2: funeral also, but they moved in. He's like, why should
Speaker 2: we go away from the food. We've been trying to
Speaker 2: find food for these guys. I said, we'll feed you.
Speaker 2: So there's thirty twenty thirty State police cop cars a plus.
Speaker 2: We just leave our stuff out. What are you going
Speaker 2: to do steal it? I mean, these guys are arm
Speaker 2: So there's some photographs of us. It was hilarious. So
Speaker 2: the Toyota guys always put magnets, Toyota magnets on their trucks,
Speaker 2: they ay, and we take pr pictures for them. Hey,
Speaker 2: Toyota can solve any problem, even at a tornado, and
Speaker 2: they use it for all their publicity. I told the
Speaker 2: officer and the night we were getting ready to leave, said, hey,
Speaker 2: would you be up for a couple of really cool pictures?
Speaker 2: I said, I want to spoof our general manager. So
Speaker 2: there's a picture of all of the guys and Katie's
Speaker 2: standing there going with her hands like this, and three
Speaker 2: of the officers with hands on their pistols like ready
Speaker 2: to ready to jump us, and we're all on the
Speaker 2: truck like like they're going to search us with that.
Speaker 2: But make sure they could see the Toyota, and I said,
Speaker 2: I sat back and said, so sorry about the trucks.
Speaker 2: It didn't go as well as we thought. They've been
Speaker 2: pounded all the vehicles. Sorry, sorry, Chad, He's like, what
Speaker 2: the heck you guys playing with us and what? So
Speaker 2: there's so there's some there was some fun picture. Now
Speaker 2: on the way home, Katie had to be back in school,
Speaker 2: so we were going to and through through a Sunday.
Speaker 2: We're going to have to drive all night because she
Speaker 2: got to be back in school. That next you know,
Speaker 2: at eight o'clock the next so we're barely going to
Speaker 2: get her. Just get back in time for it, going
Speaker 2: at sixty miles an hour, but it's hills and hollers.
Speaker 1: I said.
Speaker 2: I told the police. I said, you got any pull
Speaker 2: because I didn't know who he was at this time.
Speaker 2: Told him guy said, any guy's going to pull with
Speaker 2: the the state police guys. I said, he's like, that's
Speaker 2: Northern that guy you've been giving crap to for two days,
Speaker 2: that's Northern Kentucky's superintendent. He said why, I told him
Speaker 2: he was just go talk to him. I said, I
Speaker 2: need to drive ninety miles an hour through the Northern
Speaker 2: Kentucky to get this kid home for school. He pulled
Speaker 2: out his business card. I never I honestly never looked
Speaker 2: at the back of it. He wrote something on the
Speaker 2: back and then he radioed and he said, okay, gold
Speaker 2: Chrysler van plate number dooo do do do whatever it
Speaker 2: was he said, got carte blanche to the Ohio River.
Speaker 2: If you see him, please escort no one stop him.
Speaker 2: Just escort him. And he has my card and will
Speaker 2: identify him health and we'll wave at you if you
Speaker 2: pull up beside him. His name's such and such. Holdron
Speaker 2: got his daughter trying to get her back to school.
Speaker 2: He's been helping our family and our friends down here.
Speaker 2: We need to take good care of him. Getting there
Speaker 2: as soon as you can, he said, Now when you
Speaker 2: cross the river, I can't help you. In Indiana, and
Speaker 2: I had hammered down. I don't know how fast a
Speaker 2: Chrysler van will go, but we found out that night,
Speaker 2: and we had the hammer down, and sure enough, all
Speaker 2: of a sudden they come out and I saw some
Speaker 2: lights come on and then off, and then right beside me,
Speaker 2: he's waving. I waved at him, he said, and he
Speaker 2: pulled out in front of me and he and I was.
Speaker 2: I was on and cleared all the way clear to
Speaker 2: through Louisville through. Yeah. So it was, you know, so fun. So,
Speaker 2: you know, we see a lot, we've seen a lot
Speaker 2: of tragedy with it and heard a lot of crazy stories.
Speaker 2: But people, I will tell you, you can make something. Really.
Speaker 2: It's been so positive for my for my with my family,
Speaker 2: with all these things, with my daughter, the lessons and
Speaker 2: the people. She's you know, freshman's sophomore like high school?
Speaker 1: Is that right?
Speaker 2: When Kate went, yeah, that she had. She was going
Speaker 2: up and talking to older people and serving them and
Speaker 2: taking them meals and just listening to them cry and
Speaker 2: parents talk about we've lost everything, we have no insurance.
Speaker 2: What we have left is what we have left, just
Speaker 2: the lessons and the appreciation for what you have is remarkable.
Speaker 1: So again, army of normal Folks is about normal folks
Speaker 1: seeing areas of need and filling it, which is exactly
Speaker 1: what this is not part of anything. Just accept humanity. Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: tell me about the last one that you've been on.
Speaker 2: The last one was really was the most recent one,
Speaker 2: most recent one, and actually.
Speaker 1: It's not the last. You're going to keep doing it.
Speaker 2: Us doing it was in as actually up and it
Speaker 2: was an Indian. Again we've been solving Indiana got hit holes.
Speaker 2: Probably about a third of that community, which would have
Speaker 2: been the southern part of the tornado, just came through it,
Speaker 2: jumped and jumped over a cemetery of all things, kind
Speaker 2: of weird, jumped over the cemetery and just took out
Speaker 2: a hilarrea. We did not do a lot there other
Speaker 2: than we really took a load of generators because that's
Speaker 2: what they really needed. A lot. Some of the houses
Speaker 2: were damaged.
Speaker 1: Are you every time calling up people and saying, I'm
Speaker 1: going here, I need money? Yeah, they just just coming
Speaker 1: out with fifteen dollars Facebook. Facebook's a wonderful time. They're
Speaker 1: just rolling out. And then we got a pocketful of money,
Speaker 1: and you're going to spend it where you think it
Speaker 1: needs most, and people trust you with that, and you
Speaker 1: don't come back with any of it.
Speaker 2: That's correct. That's a perfect summary of exactly when this
Speaker 2: time they needed generous we bought.
Speaker 1: I had eight, once again, stopping every home depot and
Speaker 1: those on the way in.
Speaker 2: Actually I had a little I had a little bit
Speaker 2: of a couple of days time. I went to twelve
Speaker 2: pawn shops and bought all the generators I could, and
Speaker 2: so and exp because I need a place I can
Speaker 2: wheel and deal that and I don't need new ones.
Speaker 2: They're only going to need them for a week or so.
Speaker 2: So I just got used inner And they're like, now
Speaker 2: every pawn shop thinks that the price of a generator
Speaker 2: should be new, And I said, if I want to
Speaker 2: buy new, I'll just go to Minard's and get a
Speaker 2: brand new one. But I'm wanting to buy yours as
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I'll buy them all. So how much.
Speaker 2: Well they're four dollars apiece. I said, oh, you said
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty five bucks. That'd be great. I'll
Speaker 2: just load them up. And the guy says, well, one
Speaker 2: fifty and I said, well that's great. I guess I
Speaker 2: didn't hear you the first time. Well, so I heard
Speaker 2: it the second time. But I want them all started up.
Speaker 2: And by the way, all those extension cords laying over
Speaker 2: there in that bucket, you're going to throw those in
Speaker 2: two because how many generators have you sold this week?
Speaker 2: And the answer was zero. And Al's going to take
Speaker 2: six of them, put them in the back. And I said,
Speaker 2: and we'll just go in and I said, I want
Speaker 2: them all with full tanks a gay. So we take
Speaker 2: gas can's extension cords. And that's what we were. And
Speaker 2: it was great because when you think about it, was
Speaker 2: really interesting. Roger is a gentleman that an older gentleman
Speaker 2: that I am usher with at church. He is an
Speaker 2: extra ordinary human being. He talks exactly one hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty degrees as much as I do. I think Roger
Speaker 2: in the first year, I think.
Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, what's it like in a room with those
Speaker 1: two guys. Yeah you hear yeah.
Speaker 2: I think Roger spoke seven words to me in the
Speaker 2: first year. I assured with him the whole year. Wonderful guy.
Speaker 2: He is a working machine. He would be, he would
Speaker 2: he would, he would be. You wouldn't need an extra
Speaker 2: new machine to stack lumber. Roger could stack it as
Speaker 2: fast as that. I mean, unbelievable. He's just just a neat,
Speaker 2: neat guy. And so he was the only one who
Speaker 2: went with me. And so I went and grabbed the
Speaker 2: generators and I said, you want to go? He said absolutely,
Speaker 2: and had never went and done anything like this, just
Speaker 2: went with me. He's in and out of the back.
Speaker 2: But we couldn't get into the area, could not get out.
Speaker 2: They had they had.
Speaker 1: It all blocked off, all.
Speaker 2: Cordon off the city. The city guys were blocking off.
Speaker 2: I said, look, I'm in and out. I and I went,
Speaker 2: and so I and I even went this time. I
Speaker 2: did try to go through the which is always a mistake.
Speaker 2: It's always a mistake. Permission is Forgiveness is much easier
Speaker 2: than permission. And so but I came across an assistant
Speaker 2: fire chief that was there from an adjacent that were
Speaker 2: there there staffing one of the fire departments because the
Speaker 2: local fire departments out in that area because they have
Speaker 2: gas fires all the time, and just so these guys
Speaker 2: are man in there. So I ran this young kid.
Speaker 2: I said, I can't get in there, and I got
Speaker 2: these generators. They just want me to drop them off.
Speaker 2: I said, I know more than all of you. I've
Speaker 2: been to nine ten of these. I know how it goes.
Speaker 2: These are all going home with the employees that are here.
Speaker 2: They're going to steal them all because that's what they're
Speaker 2: going to do. Seeing it done, seeing them load them
Speaker 2: in their trucks, heard them in the stories.
Speaker 1: Told me.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm taking them directly to people, whether I
Speaker 2: have to drive through the playground area or not. He goes, Ah,
Speaker 2: the police are a little jumping whatever. I said. I said, so,
Speaker 2: what's your position? He said, I'm fire chief at a
Speaker 2: little lot coal out here. He goes, but I'm a
Speaker 2: county sheriff too. I said, get in the truck. I said,
Speaker 2: you had anything to eat? He goes, we haven't eaten
Speaker 2: for I said, and we don't have any smokers. When
Speaker 2: I don't have my guy who's with I just got Roger.
Speaker 2: So I said, well, we're going to go to lunch
Speaker 2: wherever you want in town. I'm buying. He was really
Speaker 2: I said yeah, I said, you get me in there now.
Speaker 2: So we pull up. He's like cousins with the guy
Speaker 2: holding the you know, blocking the road. He goes, just
Speaker 2: get out of the way. You don't want to argue
Speaker 2: with this guy. You're gonna We're gonna be here for
Speaker 2: an hour. So we went. We were only there for
Speaker 2: a few hours, but just he had people that just
Speaker 2: need electricity, and so we fire them all up. Some
Speaker 2: of them are new, you put oil in them. We
Speaker 2: just get them fired up, get them going, run cords
Speaker 2: into him. It was the least of anything we've ever done.
Speaker 2: But the ten people that we took jenerators to it
Speaker 2: changed their life. Maybe for just a day or two,
Speaker 2: but it changed their life.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back, m give me al give our
Speaker 1: listeners the most memorable story you have of all of these?
Speaker 1: What do you call this thing? Hotshots? What do you
Speaker 1: call yourselves when you go do this? Do you even
Speaker 1: call yourself anything? All right?
Speaker 2: I mean, we're just gonna call it.
Speaker 1: We're guys, We're just gonna call it the Mounsie Mobile
Speaker 1: disaster Relief. Perfect, all right, the mobile monthly disaster relief
Speaker 1: that is basically al hitting up everybody he knows from
Speaker 1: money and time of need and driving into what you
Speaker 1: called hell. Give us, give us maybe the most memorable
Speaker 1: from a a standpoint of you know, driving out, you
Speaker 1: made a difference.
Speaker 2: Ah, I would say, I would. I would say if
Speaker 2: it was Joplin, it was that first one because we
Speaker 2: were so wrong.
Speaker 1: Besides Joplin. Yeah, something something you haven't heard, something we
Speaker 1: haven't heard. Tell us, tell us what else? I look. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm hoping people hear you and say there's something I
Speaker 1: could do. And the next time there's a disaster within
Speaker 1: five hundred miles of me, I'm gonna go raise fourteen
Speaker 1: thousand dollars, look up my van and trailer and I'm
Speaker 1: going and I'm gonna cook, and I'm gonna serve. This
Speaker 1: is I'm sitting here, actually listening to you, thinking I've
Speaker 1: got a lumber yard here with every tool and trailer
Speaker 1: and things known to mankind. It is something I could do,
Speaker 1: And I think it would be cool to take my
Speaker 1: son's and see what service looks like in the face.
Speaker 2: Of next time we come south. We're just gonna scoop
Speaker 2: you on the way, Tyler.
Speaker 1: But in the face of I mean, let's be candid.
Speaker 1: Sure people have lost everything, including family members in these things.
Speaker 1: They are desperate, and you're rolling in serving, and so
Speaker 1: I'm hoping people will be motivated when they hear you
Speaker 1: to think, why couldn't I do that? An army of
Speaker 1: normal folks serving in areas of need. What that we
Speaker 1: haven't heard are things that people might see and what
Speaker 1: they can expect.
Speaker 2: And probably probably Ida, which was New Orleans area grand Isle.
Speaker 1: We had a that's dangerous down there.
Speaker 2: It was very dangerous. We were so dumb that we
Speaker 2: don't know what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Sometimes will tell me about Ida and Grande.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that was a crew and I had Fortunately,
Speaker 2: I had two really good Munsey City Police officers with
Speaker 2: me in our a truck.
Speaker 1: And how many of you went there was six that time,
Speaker 1: two trucks, trucks taking a smoker.
Speaker 2: Smokers are already there. We pulled, we pulled a trailer
Speaker 2: down of supplies. I don't know how many cookies we
Speaker 2: took this time. It was nuts. It was I think
Speaker 2: we had one.
Speaker 1: Hundred dozen, one hundred dozen cookies and six guys. Two
Speaker 1: cops are among the six guys.
Speaker 2: And they have enough ammunition under that back seat and
Speaker 2: they have a full auto with them. I got full auto.
Speaker 2: I mean that's and he one of them. I mean,
Speaker 2: and you're headed a grand a grand as we're we're
Speaker 2: rolling down these guys because they have badges, they drive
Speaker 2: like a bat out of hell. I mean, I'm pulling
Speaker 2: a trailer and I'm trying to keep up and it's
Speaker 2: it's hard, and they these guys are rolling, I mean,
Speaker 2: they are rolling. So it was a great trip. Dear
Speaker 2: friend Kenny Glob went with me, and as goes with me.
Speaker 2: He's kind of right hand a man on some of
Speaker 2: these trips with that gives me more crap than anybody
Speaker 2: in the world. But you know, still a still taking
Speaker 2: brother by another mother. Well, so we go, We're all
Speaker 2: the way, We're going all the way down there, and
Speaker 2: when you get down into grand Isle, you know, that's
Speaker 2: where that's where the pirates and now the drug dealers,
Speaker 2: that's where they're bringing in all. That's where the drugs
Speaker 2: are coming in. One of the great places are great,
Speaker 2: very very very tough, very very very well. They can't
Speaker 2: get all of the bridges have been.
Speaker 1: By the way, were you surprised by the dialect because
Speaker 1: it's an interesting dialect in and around there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess yes, a little bit. It catches me
Speaker 2: off because I laugh because I only know the dialect
Speaker 2: by movies, right, and it's always played up pretty hard.
Speaker 2: I always know it by by Adam Sandler, you know,
Speaker 2: by the guy that was. That's about the only thing
Speaker 2: that way I really have it.
Speaker 1: But that's what we're talking about. We're talking about.
Speaker 2: It was. It was we were at a church and
Speaker 2: we had we had great accommodations which were which were
Speaker 2: a very large that had power. Because we were on
Speaker 2: there was kind of a niche in there and this
Speaker 2: church or the larcher and the pastor or the associate
Speaker 2: pastor there was wonder if he said, just pick you
Speaker 2: a room out and we are fixed. We will, My
Speaker 2: ladies are fixing this huge breakfast every morning for all
Speaker 2: of you. You can just take a room. We will
Speaker 2: lock it. You can leave all your stuff in there.
Speaker 2: You don't have to move it every day. Sleeping bags,
Speaker 2: we got air mattresses for you. We just normally don't
Speaker 2: have that. They were also a location that was where
Speaker 2: all supplies were coming in, so I didn't even have
Speaker 2: to big barrow. I just walk out in the morning,
Speaker 2: load the trucks up. We'd throw thirty tarps in shovels,
Speaker 2: just fill it full, and then we were going to
Speaker 2: We were going to a home depot and buying other
Speaker 2: things that we would need if we need a chain
Speaker 2: saw or something.
Speaker 1: You hit everybody up for money on the way down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so, and our goal is to come back. We
Speaker 2: need only enough money to fill that tank for the
Speaker 2: last time and then get the months it was zero
Speaker 2: and if not, we throw it in the money bag
Speaker 2: of the seat. So we got down there, and the
Speaker 2: problem was none of the local none of the people
Speaker 2: that had any sense and that knew anything, would take
Speaker 2: food out into grand Isle. Those people have been isolated.
Speaker 2: Some of them had an't eat anything in three days.
Speaker 2: All food's gone. They've been wiped off because they're scared
Speaker 2: of the people that are out there. They said, these
Speaker 2: are scary people, and guys from the church are I going.
Speaker 2: You guys don't want to go? Well, of course all
Speaker 2: you got to do is tell us six that we
Speaker 2: don't shouldn't go do something. And of course we're like
Speaker 2: we're in, we're going, we're going, and now when we
Speaker 2: go anymore, because on the way down there we had
Speaker 2: got a report that there was a gentleman after it hit.
Speaker 2: Just remember the things that are in swamps that got
Speaker 2: shoved inland by the surge ten miles like snakes, like
Speaker 2: very large, very very very large snakes, and alligators and
Speaker 2: everything else just got washed in. Lady and husband down
Speaker 2: the basement to get stuff out. He said, how do
Speaker 2: you go on out and get that. I'm going to
Speaker 2: get grab one more thing. She never saw him again.
Speaker 2: The gator had him to the arm and drug him off. Wow,
Speaker 2: she never saw him again at that time. I would
Speaker 2: have to say that. The next thing I did was
Speaker 2: go to my gun safe and we loaded several clips
Speaker 2: into the glock and it was and then I had
Speaker 2: two of them with me and they were in the
Speaker 2: console of the truck. And we never not had one
Speaker 2: with us. Because where you're at, you're in washed areas
Speaker 2: where had been flooded. Would you'd once in a while
Speaker 2: you could you could see where gators had drugged. We
Speaker 2: really never saw any with that, but the locals were saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're over there. There's one there's one behind them. He said,
Speaker 2: we had three gators in our swimming pool. We came
Speaker 2: out that morning and there's three glligators in the swimming pool.
Speaker 2: And so here's the thing you got to go do
Speaker 2: that we've never taken. Chris been with me with one.
Speaker 2: We had a neighbor lady and her son wanted to go,
Speaker 2: and that was down at Livonia, Arkansas. We typically do
Speaker 2: not take a lot of ladies with us, just because
Speaker 2: sometimes there's things that I'm going to go do and
Speaker 2: that we might say that out of respect. I don't
Speaker 2: want my wife there. It's a boy's trip. It's like
Speaker 2: it's like a golf trip. There's sometimes I don't want
Speaker 2: my daughter over there because Dad might go do something.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying I'd ever regret it, but I might
Speaker 2: borrow something. It just happens. Bill things happened. So they
Speaker 2: so we ended up we were there, so we were
Speaker 2: taking meals down there and then they diverted us and
Speaker 2: said that they got a bridge and a boat just
Speaker 2: got like hundreds of meals taken in from a different
Speaker 2: feeding state and I think they were taken in by
Speaker 2: the state police. So it was a different grip. So
Speaker 2: ours just went to a different feeding station. We just
Speaker 2: moved stuff all day long. But we went into some
Speaker 2: areas and that's what and that's what I'll tell everybody.
Speaker 2: We really had very few problems ever, And we were
Speaker 2: in some of the poorest of the poor areas down
Speaker 2: in that Grand Isle area, in some of the area
Speaker 2: where they or the local they said, just don't go there.
Speaker 2: That is where all the drug dealers and everything.
Speaker 1: But that's also where the biggest need was.
Speaker 2: Probably it's where we will go every time. Give us.
Speaker 2: We want the worst of the worst situation because and
Speaker 2: you know what, they were the most appreciative people, kindest people,
Speaker 2: because we treated them reasonable and maybe in the first
Speaker 2: people they said, well, you know, nobody comes over here
Speaker 2: and brings up to everything. Everything goes to the north
Speaker 2: side of town. I said, so we're here, what do
Speaker 2: you want and we could use this and this and this.
Speaker 2: I'm like, we'll be right back. We go borrow some
Speaker 2: stuff and we come back borrow yes, sir, whether they
Speaker 2: returned it or not, I could care less. I borrowed it.
Speaker 2: I'm gone, Yeah, I got to move on to and
Speaker 2: you know, and we just we go find that stuff
Speaker 2: for them. And then you also get the whole, the
Speaker 2: whole other side. There was a gentleman from a home depot,
Speaker 2: was a general assistant general manager at a home depot
Speaker 2: down there. We go in and we we pick up
Speaker 2: I don't know we bought that nine thousand dollars worth
Speaker 2: of stuff. I don't know how many extension cords they
Speaker 2: had deals on some generators. They just had a truckload
Speaker 2: in and we just and we bought a bunch of
Speaker 2: and so we get up and we go through the line.
Speaker 2: I've done the math. It's nine grand. We've got about
Speaker 2: eighteen grand with us, so we're we're in a great
Speaker 2: position still. I've only got a few days left and
Speaker 2: we've already bought I don't know how much meat and
Speaker 2: and got and so we had we had a lot
Speaker 2: of money really left with us. And you know, you
Speaker 2: just never know where generosity is going to come out.
Speaker 2: And he came up in the general major. He came
Speaker 2: up and said, I was talking to one of the
Speaker 2: guys and said, what are you guys doing with all this?
Speaker 2: He reselling them because there's a hell, it's a black
Speaker 2: market down there. You get generator, your gold, you can
Speaker 2: double the money on it and quick views.
Speaker 1: Oh no.
Speaker 2: We came out from Muncie and he saw herre the
Speaker 2: you know, a couple that some of the checks and
Speaker 2: all that and on the side of the truck and
Speaker 2: he's like yeah, and all of a sudden, we get
Speaker 2: up in our bills four thousand dollars. Wow, Well the
Speaker 2: guy that paid it wasn't the guy that he was
Speaker 2: talking to. See, we didn't he did, sew him to
Speaker 2: four thousand dollars, paid him four thousand dollars, paid the
Speaker 2: cash or four thousnd dollar. We got in the truck,
Speaker 2: got out and said, I said how much how mu
Speaker 2: should you give him? He said, oh, forty two hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: I said, dude, you go back. I said that was
Speaker 2: like nine grand I did the math. I did quick
Speaker 2: hillbilly math on a piece of paper and Brian and
Speaker 2: Bryan said, and the guy's out there and he's waving
Speaker 2: Asisdon just had this whole crew out outside, you know,
Speaker 2: and was waving at me and those guys off my
Speaker 2: trunds and all my guys.
Speaker 1: But that's part of the thing is action effort and
Speaker 1: generosity beget action effort and generosity all day long when
Speaker 1: you start, it's amazing how many people will follow. But
Speaker 1: you've got to start.
Speaker 2: You gotta start a fight. There's no fight. I mean
Speaker 2: once in a while, you just got to call it
Speaker 2: out and just go do it. And I will tell
Speaker 2: everybody I don't care what is, it doesn't matter how small.
Speaker 2: But and I do what I do, and I don't
Speaker 2: apologize ever for that. What fits me doesn't fit you,
Speaker 2: doesn't fit somebody else. But every little thing, every little idea,
Speaker 2: or every little offer of kindness and or generosity, I
Speaker 2: think there'll be somebody appreciate it and the world will
Speaker 2: move you to you just can't be scared. But also
Speaker 2: don't let don't let the governing factors at these things
Speaker 2: dictate what you do, because what they do is they
Speaker 2: gather assets, take credit for it, and pass them out.
Speaker 2: You go do it, just win and doubt. Door to
Speaker 2: door is an interesting.
Speaker 1: Have you ever been asked, well, what part of organization
Speaker 1: you with.
Speaker 2: Every time we go?
Speaker 1: And what do you say?
Speaker 2: We just say, we're just a bunch of dudes from
Speaker 2: months seeing you want to beer and it's a barbecue,
Speaker 2: and it's a barbecue and it's and it's when you
Speaker 2: you lead with food and a cold drink on a
Speaker 2: hot day. You can make all the friends in the
Speaker 2: world and that and it's such a great thing. And
Speaker 2: Bob and Rocky and those guys been so generous of
Speaker 2: just letting us kind of horn in on it. But
Speaker 2: then we go do a you do because I don't
Speaker 2: like to cook. I don't like to be pigeonl because
Speaker 2: I want to be toe to toe. I want to
Speaker 2: go talk to the guy who's got problem if I
Speaker 2: can fix that problem. If you want to know, what
Speaker 2: makes me happy is when you have a problem and
Speaker 2: I fix it. That's what makes out hold and happy.
Speaker 2: That's why I get up in the morning and just
Speaker 2: it's just fun to go do that. Because when they
Speaker 2: when they when you're pulling away and they're standing at
Speaker 2: the driveway waving and he's got electricity. Now he's got
Speaker 2: a generator, maybe a coat because we didn't need a
Speaker 2: coat or need a pair of boots or gloves, and
Speaker 2: a cookie and he's hold one of your cokes in
Speaker 2: his hand, and it's just kind of like, well, his
Speaker 2: day wasn't worse, his day got better because you showed
Speaker 2: up on his doorstep. What happens is this stuff gets.
Speaker 2: I saw at Joplin a a a loader, a payload,
Speaker 2: what I call a payloader at a stone quarry, a
Speaker 2: big one. There was a front endloader, thank you, yeah, bucketer.
Speaker 1: You got like the front end of a bacco or
Speaker 1: even bigger. Yes, And this was huge, huge, big, articulating
Speaker 1: in the middle, big front end loader exactly.
Speaker 2: And that thing. There was a mountain by side the church,
Speaker 2: and I mean a mountain. It was probably fifteen twenty
Speaker 2: feet tall, spread down. And that was the little packets
Speaker 2: that churches put together in a ziplock bag that has
Speaker 2: a toothbrush, toothpaste, maybe a little deodorant that everybody builds,
Speaker 2: all these churches built. I bet you there was fifty
Speaker 2: thousand packages, and there was a front loader scooping them
Speaker 2: and putting them into a depression and covering them with dirt,
Speaker 2: just waste. And so do the math. It probably was
Speaker 2: about four dollars, okay, even travel size at a buck apiece.
Speaker 2: Four bucks times fifty thousand, two hundred thousand dollars. I
Speaker 2: could have fed all of Joplin with really good rocky
Speaker 2: barbecue the whole They could have stayed for weeks. We
Speaker 2: could have take can care of all of that. It
Speaker 2: would have bought one hundred generators, could have given aybody
Speaker 2: a brand new generator with extension cord. They would have
Speaker 2: been fine and all that because they don't know what
Speaker 2: to go do. The worst thing is doing something and
Speaker 2: doing what everybody else has done. Sometimes you just need
Speaker 2: to go to the fight and figure out what the
Speaker 2: fight is. Then go back, go volunteer at one, figure
Speaker 2: out going. They don't need that.
Speaker 1: And what we we figured out, you know what's a
Speaker 1: good way to find out what somebody needs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, ask them, ask them, just to ask them, you
Speaker 2: need some.
Speaker 1: Toothpaste or some leather gloves.
Speaker 2: And you looked at and here's the thing. The guys
Speaker 2: were giving the gloves to the women and the men's
Speaker 2: hands were bloody. Craziest thing I saw, and I've got
Speaker 2: to tell you because you love this story, the funniest
Speaker 2: thing we saw and it was only in a photograph
Speaker 2: and then we heard the story told to us. It
Speaker 2: was the first day we showed up Joplin. There's a
Speaker 2: picture of a couple officers and there's a guy he
Speaker 2: was not in good shape in one of the chairs,
Speaker 2: like we're sitting in a just a an office chair,
Speaker 2: and he's got his hands on his knees and he's
Speaker 2: duct taped to the chair. He looks like life is
Speaker 2: not going well for him in the last three days.
Speaker 2: The story goes that he was a looter stealing copper
Speaker 2: and the three brothers whose mom I believe had perished
Speaker 2: at the Joplin at their homestead. He was out one
Speaker 2: of those nights looting the copper from their property and
Speaker 2: these boys came up and they were going through That's
Speaker 2: what we did a lot of They're just looking. We'd
Speaker 2: find joy bullets and ammunition everywhere you had a metal detectory,
Speaker 2: it would just it would have just screamed all the time.
Speaker 2: They were just ammunition. Is amazing. We never found any guns, though.
Speaker 2: We did see about a sixteen foot snake dead as
Speaker 2: we picked up a wall trying to find it, and
Speaker 2: we found it. We found a lady's photograph album, probably
Speaker 2: the greatest thing I ever found. She took it, left
Speaker 2: everything else on the property, clutched it, got in her van,
Speaker 2: Melissa kiss and left and Tony Riley opened the thing
Speaker 2: up and I grabbed it and was like, she goes,
Speaker 2: that's all I came for. I wanted all my family
Speaker 2: pictures the rest of it. I'm not looking through it. Well,
Speaker 2: these boys were just down the street, and we left
Speaker 2: there and pulled up and where they and these guys
Speaker 2: were telling us the story that lived across the street
Speaker 2: from said, so you hear about the guy in the chairs,
Speaker 2: and they said, well, made front page of the paper.
Speaker 2: So these three boys caught him and he said, well, hey,
Speaker 2: I'm just to my house here, trying to get some
Speaker 2: copper and get some money out of it. And they go, oh, really,
Speaker 2: we live here. So they played with him like a
Speaker 2: cat does with a mouse before they kill it. So
Speaker 2: they they beat him up. They found a desk chair
Speaker 2: across the street, put him in the chair, duct taped
Speaker 2: him to it, tied a rope onto the chair, and
Speaker 2: drug him up and down the road free times. They
Speaker 2: then taped a sign that was on his chest on
Speaker 2: this newspaper it may still be up him, I may
Speaker 2: have a staple in my shop, and it said I
Speaker 2: am a looter. Please shoot me in the face. They
Speaker 2: taped it on his They taped it on his chest,
Speaker 2: and they took him and just threw him in the
Speaker 2: back of the pickup truck, drove him to the police. Station.
Speaker 2: Now the police are not at the station. They're all out.
Speaker 2: You know. At that night they left door front door
Speaker 2: and they found it and then reporter got took a
Speaker 2: picture of him and there was like three officers. You know.
Speaker 2: It's kind of like the old Wildlist, you know, if
Speaker 2: they killed the guy with a bounty, they all got
Speaker 2: there a little face with you, I like and it
Speaker 2: was an I frigan and he you get drugg in
Speaker 2: a chair down a road. That's not that's that's not
Speaker 2: a happy day bill. Yeah. Interesting.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back when you guys get back from
Speaker 1: any of these and you decompress from it and you
Speaker 1: think about all of it, what is the greatest lesson
Speaker 1: you get from it?
Speaker 2: Now? God bless me with some great friends, some great
Speaker 2: contributors to any of these things that we do, because
Speaker 2: you don't do it without can't. They don't take air
Speaker 2: at you know, home depot. They still like cash. And
Speaker 2: that he just has provided me with the opportunity with
Speaker 2: a family that's understanding that lets me go run away,
Speaker 2: you know, and go do that. And that he and
Speaker 2: he just that that he'll love on he'll love on
Speaker 2: me and my guys. He's always protected us. We've never
Speaker 2: really had any any problems, and we have a ball
Speaker 2: and that he that it's something that I enjoy. And
Speaker 2: it's terrible to say, but I never can't. I can't
Speaker 2: wait to go to the next one because it's a
Speaker 2: hoot all the way down there. We just get to
Speaker 2: make those boy trips. We just laugh and raise hell
Speaker 2: all the way down there and all the way back
Speaker 2: and we get we just go do wherever. They're like,
Speaker 2: well we're gonna do today. I'm going we're going to
Speaker 2: go to the left and we're going to work to
Speaker 2: the right, and when we get halfway done, we're gonna
Speaker 2: And there's always this little pop up taco stands, you know.
Speaker 2: It's literally like Bubba with a grill and mom and
Speaker 2: they're trying to make some money because their place of
Speaker 2: employment got smoked, and they're doing some of the best food.
Speaker 2: We just we work four hours, we eat, and we
Speaker 2: work four hours more. We just always go left to
Speaker 2: right and then at the end we go Rocky's got
Speaker 2: something ribs or something waiting for us, and it's rent
Speaker 2: and repeat, three or four days in a row. I
Speaker 2: don't get to do that all the time, and it's
Speaker 2: just God has blessed me with the ability to actually logistics.
Speaker 2: Most people don't like the logistics. It's with your company.
Speaker 2: If people had to do all the things you had
Speaker 2: to do, they like, oh, it's great, he's got this
Speaker 2: great big wood come in whatever. And they do not
Speaker 2: see what I saw in one hour today, okay, And
Speaker 2: if they saw that and had to go do that,
Speaker 2: they don't want to do that. Bill, And I've been
Speaker 2: blessed enough that that doesn't bother me. And I like
Speaker 2: I like having stuff that I can share, and it
Speaker 2: just makes me happy when people will vow you what
Speaker 2: I'm doing and take it.
Speaker 1: Have you stayed in touch with any of the people
Speaker 1: we've met on these trips.
Speaker 2: No, we intentionally don't.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we were there to do what we did and
Speaker 2: leave and leave and go out. I was there and then,
Speaker 2: and God has not told me to go do that.
Speaker 2: Even with the secret families. Families we intentionally.
Speaker 1: Write secret families.
Speaker 2: And I don't want to be I don't I don't
Speaker 2: know that I have the capacity to be responsible for
Speaker 2: that many families, because there may be some that call
Speaker 2: me every week, and we have a lot. It's we're
Speaker 2: kind of a we're kind of commandos. We we kind
Speaker 2: of come in raid do what we do make that
Speaker 2: situation better. But that's the key, that's the key, getting in,
Speaker 2: do make it better. Let's make it better and then
Speaker 2: move on because somebody else will be skilled and doing that.
Speaker 2: Our pastor that at our church that just retired here
Speaker 2: last year, great guy, Mark Dill is a wonderful pastor.
Speaker 2: Great guy. He always laughed. He always because I always
Speaker 2: have an analogy in a story for everything. And I
Speaker 2: always told him, I said, you know, I'm not the
Speaker 2: guy that's going to be day to day counseling and
Speaker 2: dealing with somebody's problem because somebody's son has an addiction
Speaker 2: problem or that. I'm not that guy. I'm not that
Speaker 2: counselor I'm not that data. I'm not the fifth grade teacher,
Speaker 2: my lovely life, fifth grade teacher. She she buys in
Speaker 2: those thirty kids. I mean it's like she's like cooland
Speaker 2: she may be their teacher, but she's dealing with their
Speaker 2: families and dealing with that. I'm not built that way.
Speaker 2: And I always told them, Mark, I'll catch them, you
Speaker 2: claim them, and I'll get them. I'll get them here
Speaker 2: and we'll tell them about that I'll sell it and that,
Speaker 2: but keeping them here someone else needs to do that.
Speaker 1: But that's the beauty of it. And it speaks exactly
Speaker 1: to what we always talk about. That's your discipline and
Speaker 1: your passion seeing an opportunity in a place of need
Speaker 1: where your discipline your passion meet opportunity someone else's discipline
Speaker 1: and passion is and that's okay. And if you have
Speaker 1: an army of normal folks with varied sundry disciplines and
Speaker 1: passions meeting opportunities, areas of needs get filled as they
Speaker 1: need it by different people, different disciplines, and yours happens
Speaker 1: to be commando, which I just had a mental picture
Speaker 1: of what commando means.
Speaker 2: And I'm a little yeahsle disturbed should be disturbed And
Speaker 2: that's a well and I guess even and going to
Speaker 2: going to your analogy and I we we got to
Speaker 2: watch Undefeated the other night. Wow, pretty cool. It's a team.
Speaker 2: You didn't need money to carry the ball. You don't
Speaker 2: need to knock someone's head off, right, and that he
Speaker 2: had his job to do and his job to do.
Speaker 2: Those the lignement are not the same as the running back.
Speaker 2: That running back bear be quick and bear getting the
Speaker 2: end zone. But somebody's got a clear hole. My job
Speaker 2: is a clear hole. I'm not a running back. I'm
Speaker 2: more alignment and I like that and I you're right,
Speaker 2: and I think everybody stay in your lane, do what
Speaker 2: you do really well.
Speaker 1: And do what you're passionate about, and burn out on
Speaker 1: anything you're passionate about.
Speaker 2: Amen. Amen. And that's and that's the key to it,
Speaker 2: because you want to go back, you want to go
Speaker 2: do other things, you want to go do it again.
Speaker 2: I can't wait. We haven't been on one for I
Speaker 2: mean the Solvent one. There wasn't a lot there. I'm
Speaker 2: ready for another three or four day or you know,
Speaker 2: here and there, and the guys are all they're not
Speaker 2: chomping at the bit, but they if I'd say go there,
Speaker 2: I mean it's they're they're lock and load. They're ready
Speaker 2: to rock and roll with it.
Speaker 1: Have to be confused with you're ready for somebody to
Speaker 1: get hit by.
Speaker 2: Not at all. But it's when it happens. We want
Speaker 2: to be we want ready to go. And we've been
Speaker 2: very blessed that we've been able to buy. There was
Speaker 2: these guys, the guys we had initially joined up with
Speaker 2: there were three smokers, and if I get this right,
Speaker 2: there was one in Oklahoma, Bob had one in Muncie,
Speaker 2: and then there was one out of Minneapolis. So these
Speaker 2: guys all met up because they all bought smokers from
Speaker 2: the same guy who's some truck driver in Texas that
Speaker 2: builds these on the size welder and so he built
Speaker 2: and so they need they want more. So part of
Speaker 2: the sometimes when we have money left over, we'll leave
Speaker 2: it with one of them. And we gave him enough
Speaker 2: money they built two more. So months he has two.
Speaker 2: There's two down in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1: So you literally have smokers on step by waiting to
Speaker 1: go to the next disaster grad rock and roll. That's hilious.
Speaker 1: If anybody here's us and wants to support this, I
Speaker 1: guess they just reach out.
Speaker 2: To you absolutely and it's you know again, it's ahldron
Speaker 2: h O L d r E and at aalyscollections dot net.
Speaker 2: And if you'll love it and want to go do
Speaker 2: that send me a check. You ask me how much
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars?
Speaker 1: What if they want to meet you somewhere, Oh.
Speaker 2: My god, next time, you let me know and tell
Speaker 2: me where you're at. And if we go someplace in
Speaker 2: that area, or give me your email address. I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: and you can raise money in your town. Throw some
Speaker 2: guys in a truck. You go meet us and we'll
Speaker 2: teach you and you'll just take you with us. I'll
Speaker 2: have three trucks out of four, and uh, we'll we'll
Speaker 2: show them the ropes. Wait some good barbecue and do that.
Speaker 2: And if they contact you, guys, you'll you'll get me.
Speaker 2: You'll get them to me. And uh, you know it's
Speaker 2: people always say, and here's the thing, folks, I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: here's the key to to raising money. Ask for what
Speaker 2: you want.
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't say hey I need some money, say hey
Speaker 1: I need five hundred.
Speaker 2: Be specific, and you have to make up a number. Anyway.
Speaker 2: If you just say, it's easy to ask and they'll
Speaker 2: give you five bucks, fifties a little harder, five hundreds
Speaker 2: a little bit harder. Tell them go raise the five hundred.
Speaker 2: You don't have to be all yours. Go get for
Speaker 2: your friends to give you a hundred, and throw a
Speaker 2: hundred and send me a check. We will put it.
Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I have seen so much money wasted
Speaker 2: at these events by groups. And then I will well intentioned.
Speaker 2: They just but there's a lot of pump and circumstances
Speaker 2: and salaries. We don't have salaries. We take days off
Speaker 2: work and probably lose money and go and go do that.
Speaker 2: If you find a local group that's doing something that
Speaker 2: you can put money in mouth, that's what you want
Speaker 2: to support. You want to and you should always ask,
Speaker 2: and you should know where your money is going. I
Speaker 2: will tell you specifically where it's going. I'm going to
Speaker 2: buy I'm gonna buy one brand new generator with your check.
Speaker 2: I'm going to buy one hundred pounds of pork with it.
Speaker 2: But if you want to come and join us, we
Speaker 2: would love it, and we'll have a ball.
Speaker 1: And we'll teach you and you can go do it
Speaker 1: yourself the next time.
Speaker 2: In your area. It might be someplace that we can't
Speaker 2: get to. I can't if something happens in California, it's hard,
Speaker 2: we can't get there, we can't drive there. It's not
Speaker 2: going to But if it's central United States, but we've
Speaker 2: been to. We were out at Sandy, my youngest daughter
Speaker 2: went to. When Sandy hit New Jersey, we took a crew,
Speaker 2: took two crews out to New Jersey. So that probably Mississippi.
Speaker 2: That's not true Texas East.
Speaker 1: You know, we were the eastern half of the United States.
Speaker 2: If you're in sure, reach out to let me know.
Speaker 1: It's awesome. Al you're the best. Uh. This concludes the
Speaker 1: second Alholdroom segment of an army of normal folks and brother.
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how much I appreciated the first
Speaker 1: story and the second story. And this time you're coming
Speaker 1: down and spending time. I hope you have a great
Speaker 1: time in our fair city. Enjoy some real barbecue.
Speaker 2: We're gonna do it. Absolutely. Yeah, it's some real good
Speaker 2: but we're going to Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna have
Speaker 2: some tomorrow lunch yet after it.
Speaker 1: And yes, sir and my friend, thank you so much
Speaker 1: for being a beautiful illustration of you don't have to
Speaker 1: be an a lister. You don't have to be part
Speaker 1: of an organization. All you have to have is a
Speaker 1: passion of discipline, sying area need, and even a six
Speaker 1: point five can get stuff done.
Speaker 2: Hold on, baby, thank you for your time. You guys
Speaker 2: are your courtesy and willingness to do this. I just
Speaker 2: think this thing is going to have legs forever. You
Speaker 2: I mean, what you guys, do is is just awesome
Speaker 2: and it's just neat. It's neat to see you guys
Speaker 2: care and you get to care enough to go do it.
Speaker 2: And I saw that walking around your company with your employees,
Speaker 2: I saw they all seem to like their jobs and
Speaker 2: there's a huge lover of respect. I appreciate it, and
Speaker 2: that's pretty cool. I appreciate that. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 2: You're awesome.
Speaker 1: Thank you, and thank you for joining us this week.
Speaker 1: If Big Al or another guest has inspired you in general,
Speaker 1: or better yet, inspired you to take action by responding
Speaker 1: to a natural disaster, supporting on the ground groups like
Speaker 1: Big Owl's or something else entirely, please let me know.
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