97: Quick Hit #4: Policing During Natural Disasters

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folks welcome back we're goin a do a quick hit here quick hit number

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oh

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four it's to keep it topical it's a shrimp basket you get two for one here because this is going to be an episode so

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no

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you

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hush

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get the

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puppies

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hunch probably and the fries you get both so it's the strips obviously understood

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love

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because

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the hush puppies

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whether you guys know it or not at the timing of this

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he

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is kind of surrounded the fact that chris can't join us obviously you heard scott big sargent

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oh

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scots with us and this is shown but one of the things that's been going on lately is obviously the weather the

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oh

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tropical storm that was started out as hurricane in a category for that came ashore in florida chris is right where chris went to move so chris and i both leave

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yeah

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illinois were like there are things you got to worry about weather

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yeah

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wise there like everywhere else but we went to

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yeah

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a beautiful place near the water and what you forget about the

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oh

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water is the water produces these

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oh

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big things called hurricane so to give you plenty of time to prepare and look at them and see them coming and go okay this is going to be

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yeah

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bad but

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yeah

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it still doesn't undo the fact that as you got to stay there and do it so chris couldn't join

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yeah

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us because chris still is to have power in his residence he's out now working

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oh

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twelve hour shifts and doing a lot of different things but you know hearts go out to the folks particularly in florida i came ashore here in south carolina as well as a little bit less it was a class

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oh

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one by the time it hit us and it was mostly

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yeah

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flooding and wind and we got through it pretty you know quickly compared to the folks of florida that's gonna be a problem down there for a good while if i want to understand according to the governor

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yeah

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prob one the most costly hurricanes

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yeah

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in the

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yeah

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history

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it's bad

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of hurricanes and you know i just not

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ah

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to be funny but i wondered like obviously inflation and things like that

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yeah

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the cost of goods and getting goods and everything else is going to

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yeah

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all impact that recovery aspect because

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oh

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trunks and things need to come in and out of there and it's

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oh

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definitely tough but

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oh

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you know chris told us for john a little bit like i think he's got a crank like he's

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my

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got a crank cell phone here he can just wind

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right

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it really

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yeah

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fast and he's

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ight

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getting enough data

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it's hooked to a car battery it's

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right

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where it's

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right

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real cumbersome to

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right

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get around but

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right

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it's you know it's the only source of power

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right

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but it's actually it's hard wired on his fan boat he's riding one

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right

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of those fan

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right

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boats like

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it

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in the upper glades

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the

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just

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problem is

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skimming across the water

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and the other problems is that it's because it's so insecure like it's not normal it's like the cubans are listening to him as well so they're geting all sorts of ideas because he's still close to cuba which actually

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right

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is also still like even the cubans are pissed off about this like in cuba it's still like you know you can call it a paradise down

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oh

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there because it although it's tropical it's not a paradise

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yeah

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economically for people it wasn't what castro and the brothers promised

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m

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and those folks are still without power and they've been out without power forever they're actually etting upset they're actually protesting in havana which

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really

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i guess is a promising sign you know i mean

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oh

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hopefully it doesn't lead to bloodshed or anything like that but the idea that they're

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m

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they're

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oh

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so upset and bothered by

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yeah

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obviously the lack of services um you know it's going on from there but

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you

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it

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got you got hit with some

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ah

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water right you had how much

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oh

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like

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yeah

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you had some

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we

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water in the house like

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even when it ranged like a

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oh

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hard rain day down here in charleston

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oh

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it's known for its flooding i mean

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oh

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you know i worked in an area

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oh

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while i'm going through channing which is the consummate charleston people come to charleston that's what they see of charleston which is what they call on the peninsula and it's the team that i was working with these guys are prose that dealing with the water they all got like

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oh

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waiters and boots up to their ankles are there just walk around to

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hm

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that water all day and come

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oh

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out with like trench foot and all sorts of stuff and it's just part of

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as

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what

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to

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they do and they're

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right

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just like yeah extrepairosoks maybe some drawers we'll be sleeping here

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right

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doing that getting food and i'm like yeah you guys

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just

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oh

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go

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just

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commando

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and they name off all these hurricanes like you know i knew hugo because when i graduated from college

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oh

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you go hitinating on her and her and hugo

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like hurricane

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i'm talking i'm

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herrickanhugo

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talking like

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right

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joe riley who was the marie her and you guys going to have a devastating impact on the

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oh

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low country hark and hark and hugo that's what they were saying well they're saying the police may we're going

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ah

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shoot looters on site was

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yeah

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like wow i mean

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yeah

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again a long time ago a long time ago different

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right

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rules people thinks whatever but but her hugo her an hugo was awful i mean there was really destructive to this area

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well but disana said some of that he was saying some stuff like that to you the other day about hey this is a second amendment state i know he was kind of putting

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oh

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he was putting looters on notice down in florida too so

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remerndthe

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i

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thing that people don't realize and understand is that like

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oh

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you know not everybody that's looting and riding during a hurricane like you know the katrina situation

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oh

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was moved into a lot of things there's a thing out on apple t v right now it's called

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oh

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five days a memorial and they talked a lot

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oh

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about that and i had to do with katrina katrina is like the king mother of government

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yeah

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failure lack of preparation all sorts of things at you look at looting and rioting for people that didn't really need product that we're loading and riding but

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oh

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then people that did need things like water and food and milk

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hm

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and how they're like government

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basic

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can

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necessities

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only yeah

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he

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like when things go bad people think government is the answer to everything it's not it's an illustration during a storm that

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ah

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well you're not going to come out and

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yeah

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help me you're not going to come out and help me this is like what do you think we can do with a storm search that's nine feet like there's

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right

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nothing the police every police

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yeah

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officer in america could come here

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oh

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feel sand bad and

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yeah

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not stop that right now from happening and we

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right

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can work twelve hour shifts we can be on twenty four like fire fighters and things like that fire

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yeah

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fighters police officer is only so much you can do if it's a

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yeah

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nice nine foot search coming up to a city that already below sea

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m

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level like charleston can be at certain points and

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hm

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pretty much all of new orleans was there's only so much people can do and people are like well that's all you got for me it's like

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oh

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yeah this is all i got for you i'm not god i mean i'm not

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yeah

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moses i can't

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yeah

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part water and make things happen just simply because you're

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yeah

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calling me an you're saying hey first responders

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yeah

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are coming out well

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oh

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want realize is that like these emergency operation centers

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oh

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are set up days befo these things are coming in because

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oh

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hurricanes give you that opportunity and it can

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right

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be like yeah we're setting this up because

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yeah

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we think it's going to take this route through the golf or up the gulf

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oh

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coast or i mean up the

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yeah

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atlantic coast things along those lines and we're on land fall there's not

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yeah

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a it's like trust the science

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yeah

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like it's the weather the earth does what it

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yeah

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wants to do people don't realize that they think we can impact like what happens

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yeah

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with the weather and the earth hey hurkanis

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yeah

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a small example if you have no idea what it's going to do how bad it's really the people of florida are seeing that yet again and they have hurricanes like i don't know

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m oh

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if they're like national holidays down there thre'slike eleven of them every year and

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right

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some of them are bigger celebrated than others and obviously i'm being facetious there it's like you look

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oh

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at this and you think yourself when you're actually working the street because we came from the midwest we dealt with really really cold weather

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m

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really severe snow storms and god

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hm

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forbid and i still

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yeah

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think these are the worst natural disast used to deal with other than the politics of illinois

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yeah

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our tornadoes because scott you remember

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yeah

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like tornadoes like you had no warning they just showed up and they were like three hundred miles an

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m

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hour projectile everything is getting red up and what was left

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h

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is just shreds like there's

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m

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nothing left like bitch about water damage in

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m

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a hurricane yeah you do storm surge people can drown die i think you know

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yeah

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god knows everything about a hun

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oh

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was the last account i heard today of people ian in florida but tornadoes

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yeah

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it's like

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oh

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it's a foregone conclusion not only

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oh

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could you die from the event itself but there's projectiles flying at you the size of cars

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h

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and you know tanker trucks

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m

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and

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yeah

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maybe even trains getting flipped over

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well

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because

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and a lot

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of that

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of times those things are changing direction you know

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right

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maybe

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right

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kind of on not on a dime but you know they're changing direction

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ye

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a number of times and yeah like you said all the debris and all that other stuff that's associated with it and you know think thankfully the

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ah

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to your point like we've gotten weigh better with the notifications on things so you know

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hm

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i mean i'm not even down there and i'm glued to the t v i mean i know people that

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oh

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know we've got got family that live in

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m

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in fort myers area

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yeah

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you know so it's like i want to see what's going on down there plus i know chris down there post i know

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hm

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you're out you know on the other side but so you're

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i

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watching it and i'm thinking to myself okay

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oh

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if i this is would be

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oh

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the absolute like latest i would be staying here now like

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m

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i'm listening to what they're saying on t v i'm not even down they're but you know they are telling you over and over and over again and i think they're

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m

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doing a lot better job of these more brief ings and they're being more direct maybe it's

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it

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just

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right

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on the region they're like listen this

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oh

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s going to happen this is going to be

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yeah

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terrible you

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m

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are going to have

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m

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everything

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yeah

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in the path of this destroyed you need to find a way out and like we were talking about before

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yeah

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this okay yeah maybe ever but

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oh

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he doesn't have the means to just pack up and go you know stay somewhere else or maybe even afford a hotel or something like that but you know that's the time that you at least got to be saying

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oh

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okay

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yeah

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i got i got to ask every favor i can or you know reach out to every family friend otherwise somebody

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hm

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that says hey could i even just drive you know a couple of hundred miles north and just sleep on your couch for a couple of nights to try to make sure that i'm not right in the middle of this thing and i think that

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yeah

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we've gotten a lot better with resources

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m

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that

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yeah

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are out there to help those

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oh

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people as well because you hear them talk about like hey there's this

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oh

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you know you can go on to this this

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m

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website and this will you know give you information on where you can go how you know if something does happen how can you get reunited with people so

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hm

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we're doing there but again there's always going to be people who are like hey you know i'm going to write it out or unfortunately

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oh

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you know especially like down in a place like florida you've got a lot of elderly people down there and maybe they don't have family close by or maybe maybe

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oh

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they weren't able to get down there to help them i did hear a couple of stories like that's what sad to hear you know that there's you know some

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yeah

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elderly people that maybe don't have anybody to get

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yeah

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there to help them to facilitate

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yeah

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not that they don't want to get out of there but maybe just don't have anybody to to

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oh

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kind of help them so um and crystal i'm sure he'll be telling us you know a lot more stories which

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oh

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will be anxious to hear about actual um

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ah

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you know stories of what happened but i'm pretty sure that that was one of the things that he told us the other day was that you know unfortunately a lot of it is like more the rescue of people

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yeah or

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and

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recovery

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those types of things

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at this point

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recovery unfortunately

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at this

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yeah

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point

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recovery even right

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yeah you know

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m

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like growing up and i was a kid

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yeah

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like natural disasters i only knew about natural disasters

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yes

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from those those erwin allen movies like earthquake in towering inferno in the airplane

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right

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movies and theyre all having in california

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airplane

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so i was like i'm i'm

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it

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never going out there that's crazy

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yeah

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it's beautiful going out there like they ave these super casts that people like steve mc queen saved everything you know and then

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yeah

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charlton heston even though the dude got sucked out of the plane kind of having karen black i

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right

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was like great i'm going down memory lane here but like

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yeah

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that's what i knew about natural disasters like earthquakes

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oh

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like stand in a doorway get under a table people

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oh

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like that's

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yeah

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all you got for me it's like well it's

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yeah

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the best

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oh

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you can do in the middle of an earthquake all it's going to do is protect

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m

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you from being crushed by things immediately

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right

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like you might be able to survive it and when we look at like what happened with september eleventh that was the first time that people were like wow

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oh

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we ally don't have a lot

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no

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of control over what we do

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ah

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and things that happened like every

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oh

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fire department practically or fire you know

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okay

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precinct in in new york went to respond to that and you saw

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hm

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long that took them to recover

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m

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from that years upon years and

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right

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when you see like americans we don't really i think it a lot of ways to really get

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ah

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it like we were talking before the show

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yeah

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scot and i were taking about you know europe had to deal with two world wars

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yeah

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over a century and there were building

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yeah

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process and things like that luckily

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yeah

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they don't have a lot

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oh

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of crazy natural disasters there like the hurricane season hits us like

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god

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people tell us to the hurricanes are

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yeah

[shaun]: 11:01

our king i but you know they're coming like i got like you know like i went back to my midwest

[scott]: 11:07

oh

[shaun]: 11:07

thing like thirty years there and i'm like like tornadoes are still crazy to hear this train and then you got to hope that it doesn't happen where we lived was known throughout that region for

[scott]: 11:17

yeah

[shaun]: 11:17

you know like twenty people died in a single event and the high school is obliterated in where we

[scott]: 11:23

yeah

[shaun]: 11:23

lived in illinois and

[scott]: 11:24

oh

[shaun]: 11:24

we were like always just waiting for that storm happen and you'd be working and you'd hear the sirens going off and you'd

[scott]: 11:29

oh

[shaun]: 11:29

hear like the alarm is going off

[scott]: 11:31

oh

[shaun]: 11:31

and we'd be notified and people

[scott]: 11:33

yeah

[shaun]: 11:33

would call that a desk can be like you know there's a tornado come and the sirens are going and i'm like yeah pretty much what

[scott]: 11:39

m

[shaun]: 11:39

happens and they're like that's

[scott]: 11:41

hm

[shaun]: 11:41

all you got for me i'm like we'll go to your basement that's all you want me to do em like again what

[scott]: 11:45

yeah

[shaun]: 11:46

do you think i can do

[scott]: 11:47

right

[shaun]: 11:47

and like the realization of that like your government can't save you from something

[scott]: 11:50

m

[shaun]: 11:50

like when the earth decides

[scott]: 11:52

yeah

[shaun]: 11:52

to do whatever it's going

[scott]: 11:52

yeah

[shaun]: 11:52

to do we're insignificant you've got to be better prepared for it so like they say have

[scott]: 11:56

oh

[shaun]: 11:56

a plant have water have things packed up properly take

[scott]: 11:59

oh

[shaun]: 11:59

all your documents if you're afraid of water which a lot of natural disasters present

[scott]: 12:03

h

[shaun]: 12:03

make sure that they're they're in the right place like

[scott]: 12:05

m yeah

[shaun]: 12:05

scan them send them some places have them available to you

[scott]: 12:07

yeah

[shaun]: 12:07

from personal experience like we're looking at memories being

[scott]: 12:10

oh

[shaun]: 12:10

washed away from us because we're a couple of land lock mid westerners that forgot about

[scott]: 12:14

yeah

[shaun]: 12:14

water and the water comes in the water is the single most destructive thing that you can deal with and then you can't swim in it and then if you can't swimming it you're swimming it in filth of humans and chemicals and everything

[scott]: 12:24

yeah

[shaun]: 12:24

else like we sent guys down

[scott]: 12:26

right

[shaun]: 12:26

in katrina from i swat team down there because across the nation when that happened in katrina they sent people down there and they just said when they got down there they were like this was something like out of something out of

[scott]: 12:35

oh

[shaun]: 12:35

a movie not even a third world nation like people hanging on to the side of cars animals were

[scott]: 12:40

hm

[shaun]: 12:40

feeding on to them and their dead bodies and like

[scott]: 12:42

yeah

[shaun]: 12:42

get out of here the dude sends me a picture of what

[scott]: 12:44

yeah

[shaun]: 12:44

i'm like my god this is the united states

[scott]: 12:46

yeah

[shaun]: 12:46

that is going on this

[scott]: 12:47

right

[shaun]: 12:47

is the

[scott]: 12:47

it's

[shaun]: 12:47

most

[scott]: 12:48

scary

[shaun]: 12:48

like one

[scott]: 12:48

yeah

[shaun]: 12:48

of the most civilized you know nations in the history of mankind for access to good quality everything and i was

[scott]: 12:54

m

[shaun]: 12:54

just like

[scott]: 12:54

yeah

[shaun]: 12:55

well it just goes to show you that no matter what the mill terry can't stop but think

[scott]: 12:58

ah

[shaun]: 12:58

you have to have a plan you have to be prepared and no matter how much you

[scott]: 13:02

m

[shaun]: 13:02

prepare if you're in the middle of it right

[scott]: 13:04

m

[shaun]: 13:04

in the middle of it like look at santa bell island there's nothing left i mean like

[scott]: 13:08

yeah

[shaun]: 13:09

i was watching images from fort myers beach it's like you have to be prepared to leave and you have to travel lightly you have to be quite now dick if you think you're going to write something

[scott]: 13:17

yeah

[shaun]: 13:17

out like that you're

[scott]: 13:18

oh

[shaun]: 13:18

just gambling if that's cool that's your lot in life a first responder shouldn't be put at risk to come out there to try to save because we have to be there our job they said for the next two hours we're not goin out and trying to

[scott]: 13:27

yeah

[shaun]: 13:27

do anything other than when you're hunker down and could launch from because it's way too much of risk aviation

[scott]: 13:33

m

[shaun]: 13:33

assets nothing fire nobody was up and out and the cool

[scott]: 13:37

right

[shaun]: 13:37

thing about it is most of the people of the city of charleston were all right cool i'm just going to stay in and deal with it very

[scott]: 13:41

yeah

[shaun]: 13:41

few calls came out and it was it was really great great to hear

[scott]: 13:44

ah well and our thing here you know was always snow and you know that's that's really the only thing i mean we

[shaun]: 13:50

oh

[scott]: 13:51

we have had some tornadoes here and

[shaun]: 13:53

yeah

[scott]: 13:53

and through the

[shaun]: 13:54

yes

[scott]: 13:54

mobile field force thing you know we did have to go out i went out to help another agency around here

[shaun]: 14:00

m

[scott]: 14:00

a few years ago where their whole town got just

[shaun]: 14:03

obliterate

[scott]: 14:04

obliterated and and

[shaun]: 14:05

okay

[scott]: 14:06

and it was

[shaun]: 14:08

yah

[scott]: 14:08

crazy to go out there and see

[shaun]: 14:10

yeah

[scott]: 14:11

just you know again you don't want to be got

[shaun]: 14:13

yeah

[scott]: 14:13

and you're there to help but when you're looking at the

[shaun]: 14:16

yeah

[scott]: 14:16

destruction from something like that and it's like wow how did this house looks like it got four shingles ripped off in this house

[shaun]: 14:22

is

[scott]: 14:22

next

[shaun]: 14:22

untouched

[scott]: 14:22

door across the street it's nothing but a foundation you know and it's just like wow and so you know yeah an that the thing like there's

[shaun]: 14:32

oh

[scott]: 14:32

nothing that we can do about it we can do all the fore warning on the front and back to the thing with the weather here you know it's it's snow and snow is the biggest obstacle here i've been a west guy like my

[shaun]: 14:43

yeah

[scott]: 14:43

whole life so it's like snow okay big deal you know i came was born in michigan

[shaun]: 14:48

yeah

[scott]: 14:48

so it's like okay i see pictures of my my dad shovelling snow you know in in the up and it's like twelve feet high and i'm thinking how did what did you do like how did you get

[shaun]: 15:01

right

[scott]: 15:01

out of there how

[shaun]: 15:01

right

[scott]: 15:02

did you get

[shaun]: 15:02

right

[scott]: 15:02

to the store

[shaun]: 15:02

right

[scott]: 15:03

this is like

[shaun]: 15:03

right

[scott]: 15:04

forty almost fifty years ago and how are we're even getting around back then

[shaun]: 15:08

right

[scott]: 15:08

and and here and you know from from working in the chicago area i mean we have just been

[shaun]: 15:14

yeah

[scott]: 15:14

crushed with some winter storms

[shaun]: 15:16

oh

[scott]: 15:16

we

[shaun]: 15:16

yeah

[scott]: 15:16

had the one back

[shaun]: 15:17

brutally cold too

[scott]: 15:18

five six seven years ago where it shut down entire lake shore drive in the city people were trapped and c

[shaun]: 15:22

yep

[scott]: 15:23

t a buses were trapped and you're

[shaun]: 15:24

yep

[scott]: 15:24

like

[shaun]: 15:25

ah

[scott]: 15:25

this is unbelievable that

[shaun]: 15:27

right

[scott]: 15:27

it got to this but

[shaun]: 15:28

yeah

[scott]: 15:28

then we're also there and you know you know it is just as well we were together through these storms and you're out there and it's i mean it is just bitter cold the kind of cold where you're outside for two

[shaun]: 15:41

yah

[scott]: 15:41

minutes and you can't even feel your face and your fingers

[shaun]: 15:44

right

[scott]: 15:44

feel like

[shaun]: 15:44

right

[scott]: 15:45

they're going

[shaun]: 15:45

you

[scott]: 15:45

to snap

[shaun]: 15:45

can die

[scott]: 15:45

off

[shaun]: 15:45

you literally you can die

[scott]: 15:46

yeah

[shaun]: 15:46

in the weather and it's not because it's like you know i can drown it's just

[scott]: 15:50

yeah

[shaun]: 15:50

you will freeze to death that quickly and then they won't find your

[scott]: 15:53

oh

[shaun]: 15:53

body for a couple of days because it's snowing so hard and people like and my son's missing though

[scott]: 15:57

yeah

[shaun]: 15:57

well the snows melted we found him you know here he is you know kind of thing

[scott]: 16:01

yeah and i can remember over the years a handful of times working out in that kind of cold and

[shaun]: 16:07

m

[scott]: 16:08

we have to go you know assist on a fire call for you know a fire at a house or an apartment complex and you're just

[shaun]: 16:13

hm

[scott]: 16:13

like oh my god i can't i can't stand out here one more minute but you're

[shaun]: 16:17

right

[scott]: 16:18

you have to direct traffic you have to tell people where

[shaun]: 16:20

god

[scott]: 16:20

to go you're trying to help people that are

[shaun]: 16:22

oh

[scott]: 16:22

getting out of there you're trying to help them find shelter because you know how freezing cold it is out

[shaun]: 16:27

right

[scott]: 16:27

there and you're you're putting somebody in the back of your car where they can just stay warm for a little bit but you still got to do your job that's that's the

[shaun]: 16:33

h

[scott]: 16:33

thing about

[shaun]: 16:34

m

[scott]: 16:34

our

[shaun]: 16:34

yeah

[scott]: 16:34

job is that you

[shaun]: 16:36

m

[scott]: 16:36

know to your point you when there's just that time when you can't get out but there's still stuff that we're expected to do within reason but it's like hey i still got to leave

[shaun]: 16:47

oh

[scott]: 16:47

i still got to leave my

[shaun]: 16:48

yes

[scott]: 16:48

house and go to work in that

[shaun]: 16:50

yes

[scott]: 16:50

same weather event that my next door

[shaun]: 16:52

oh

[scott]: 16:52

neighbors ex and seeing it is

[shaun]: 16:54

right

[scott]: 16:54

being told

[shaun]: 16:54

right

[scott]: 16:55

on t v don't leave your house if you don't have to you

[shaun]: 16:57

right

[scott]: 16:58

know stay inside do this do that we still go to work and then we still

[shaun]: 17:03

m

[scott]: 17:03

go out there and do those things to try to help people and

[shaun]: 17:05

oh

[scott]: 17:06

i can remember just you know a variety it

[shaun]: 17:09

oh

[scott]: 17:09

seems like it never fails you have a weather event

[shaun]: 17:13

m

[scott]: 17:13

like that and even if most people are staying home you still wind up having some other kind of crazy something happens

[shaun]: 17:18

yeah

[scott]: 17:19

it's a fire

[shaun]: 17:20

ah

[scott]: 17:20

or how many like horrific car accidents have we

[shaun]: 17:23

yeah

[scott]: 17:23

seen in those winter those bitter cold winter months

[shaun]: 17:25

oh yeah

[scott]: 17:26

and you're you're

[shaun]: 17:26

right

[scott]: 17:27

standing outside you know you're

[shaun]: 17:28

ah

[scott]: 17:28

standing outside for half hour an hour directing traffic on a busy road

[shaun]: 17:34

m

[scott]: 17:34

where you can barely feel your face i mean it's just

[shaun]: 17:37

right

[scott]: 17:37

like

[shaun]: 17:37

right

[scott]: 17:39

you don't really realize that until you have to go out and experience some of that kind of in our job but you know but that's what we go out and do you gotta you got to still be able to get out there and help people when it's when it's safe to do so

[shaun]: 17:50

and one of the things that people don't realize too is that like a lot of this stuff is a company with power out

[scott]: 17:55

oh

[shaun]: 17:55

just whether it's frozen power lines that fall and you can't get to them and you know the winds tear them down or tree limbs knock them over like luckily where

[scott]: 18:03

oh

[shaun]: 18:03

we were it was all just mostly prairies so there's not as many tree problems down here charleston totally different animal

[scott]: 18:08

oh

[shaun]: 18:08

the foliage was everywhere but that all being

[scott]: 18:10

yeah

[shaun]: 18:10

set usually a company's like we had you

[scott]: 18:12

yeah

[shaun]: 18:12

know several hundred thousand people lost power because they came basically the storm and it is

[scott]: 18:18

oh

[shaun]: 18:18

i don't nowhere they get these names from and i was like

[scott]: 18:21

it's

[shaun]: 18:21

ends like the kind of kid like i thought you could take his milk money like you know a mean kind of thing

[scott]: 18:24

yeah

[shaun]: 18:24

like an you know what i mean like but he comes to s like yeah i am the guy that like you did take his milk yeah

[scott]: 18:29

yeah

[shaun]: 18:29

now i'm getting it back and then well basically anyway he came through the golf

[scott]: 18:32

oh

[shaun]: 18:32

and came like lee county was where it came down like naples all that beauty down there as like with that beauty can

[scott]: 18:39

oh

[shaun]: 18:39

also come to extreme terror like that a stuff so it came in land just ripped florida

[scott]: 18:43

yeah

[shaun]: 18:44

part went back out left

[scott]: 18:45

oh

[shaun]: 18:45

over jacksonville came back out over the atlantic and when it came back in it came

[scott]: 18:48

yeah

[shaun]: 18:49

back in on south carolina of course you know this is my wife's first year

[scott]: 18:52

yeah

[shaun]: 18:52

down here so it's going smashingly you know what i mean like

[scott]: 18:54

oh

[shaun]: 18:54

you know the midwest girl

[scott]: 18:55

hm

[shaun]: 18:56

know you worry about crime

[scott]: 18:57

yeah

[shaun]: 18:57

and cold and now there's a hurricane after

[scott]: 18:59

well she's

[shaun]: 18:59

the sick

[scott]: 18:59

upset because you lost your your bronzed baby shoes in the flood

[shaun]: 19:03

no

[scott]: 19:03

right

[shaun]: 19:04

no actually

[scott]: 19:04

the little thing with your there

[shaun]: 19:07

oddly enough they held up very well there was honestly no bullet hit a lot of other things that did not you're like hold shit how do we get this back the burgers in chicago

[scott]: 19:17

right

[shaun]: 19:18

is not going to let me easily find a you know first grade graduation certificate from nineteen seventies age or whatever you know what i mean kind of thing but that

[scott]: 19:28

right

[shaun]: 19:28

but

[scott]: 19:28

right

[shaun]: 19:28

that's all

[scott]: 19:29

oh

[shaun]: 19:29

that part when everything is calmed down that to my point

[scott]: 19:31

h

[shaun]: 19:31

that is that like power out

[scott]: 19:33

h

[shaun]: 19:33

is

[scott]: 19:33

m

[shaun]: 19:33

just go out it takes days like christ is dealing

[scott]: 19:35

oh

[shaun]: 19:35

with days worth of power

[scott]: 19:37

m

[shaun]: 19:37

back well you go work a twelve

[scott]: 19:39

m

[shaun]: 19:39

hour shift and you're going around going so in some cases as extreme

[scott]: 19:41

m

[shaun]: 19:42

as it was with boats from home to home mocking knocking marking houses as condemned

[scott]: 19:48

oh

[shaun]: 19:48

and there are bodies

[scott]: 19:49

hm

[shaun]: 19:50

in them at that point you find a body you got to do with you now you go back home and

[scott]: 19:55

m

[shaun]: 19:55

your power is out and you

[scott]: 19:56

m

[shaun]: 19:56

got to work on all of this

[scott]: 19:57

yes

[shaun]: 19:57

ship at your house and you're not

[scott]: 19:59

all

[shaun]: 19:59

sleeping

[scott]: 19:59

right

[shaun]: 20:00

and you're not look o woe is me you took the job you're right but the bottom line is

[scott]: 20:04

oh

[shaun]: 20:04

is like how long can this go on with so many first responders

[scott]: 20:07

right it's still

[shaun]: 20:08

and again

[scott]: 20:08

stressful that's

[shaun]: 20:08

a

[scott]: 20:09

still

[shaun]: 20:09

peripheral

[scott]: 20:09

yeah

[shaun]: 20:09

problem of

[scott]: 20:10

yeah

[shaun]: 20:10

saying de fund the police nobody wants to be a police officer now you have fewer people doing that work greater amounts of fatigue

[scott]: 20:17

one

[shaun]: 20:17

more people

[scott]: 20:17

oh

[shaun]: 20:18

walking off the job and less service provided to you as the individual

[scott]: 20:20

oh

[shaun]: 20:20

that stood idly by and said oh yeah it's right we should get rid of the police look we're not all that bad and now you're starting to see some of the issues associated with that but to that point like you got to go home

[scott]: 20:29

ah

[shaun]: 20:30

and now take care of your family like one of the big knocks

[scott]: 20:32

oh

[shaun]: 20:32

in no p d was that

[scott]: 20:33

hm

[shaun]: 20:34

although those guys

[scott]: 20:34

yeah

[shaun]: 20:35

didn't you know this is what all these cops just didn't

[scott]: 20:37

right

[shaun]: 20:37

show up to the job didn't left it's like

[scott]: 20:39

ah

[shaun]: 20:39

the most devastating storm maybe in the nation's

[scott]: 20:42

yeah

[shaun]: 20:42

history at that point for how many people impacted

[scott]: 20:44

m

[shaun]: 20:45

how

[scott]: 20:45

hm

[shaun]: 20:45

we prove that government infrastructure

[scott]: 20:47

okay

[shaun]: 20:47

can't support it how the core

[scott]: 20:50

m

[shaun]: 20:50

of engineers how to get involved

[scott]: 20:51

yeah

[shaun]: 20:51

all that stuff broke even after the storm

[scott]: 20:53

yeah

[shaun]: 20:53

you know all the nastiness poverty levels

[scott]: 20:55

m

[shaun]: 20:55

things like that

[scott]: 20:56

yeah

[shaun]: 20:57

and

[scott]: 20:57

everything

[shaun]: 20:57

then you're

[scott]: 20:57

that could go wrong i went wrong on that

[shaun]: 20:59

and then

[scott]: 20:59

one

[shaun]: 20:59

you're paying guys probably the lowest amount of money you could possibly pay somebody to do the police officer's job and you

[scott]: 21:05

yeah

[shaun]: 21:05

go why did all those guys leave like

[scott]: 21:07

oh

[shaun]: 21:07

if you paid me twenty nine thousand dollars a year

[scott]: 21:09

yah

[shaun]: 21:10

and i had to choose ween my family

[scott]: 21:11

oh

[shaun]: 21:12

and my job i think most of us go i'm gonna but this is my family twenty nine thousand dollars your check is not worth it now i'm not knock in new orlanspeedy for the way they pet people and pay people nd things like they've got their own fair share things like that but when i take a step back and i go

[scott]: 21:25

oh

[shaun]: 21:25

on your mind when you're dealing with trying to help all these others people that weren't smart enough to leave or get out of the mixed or couldn't get out of it or your family couldn't go anywhere because you have to stay because you're a cop and they need you to stay

[scott]: 21:36

hm

[shaun]: 21:37

how aggravated would

[scott]: 21:37

m

[shaun]: 21:37

you be where is the mental

[scott]: 21:38

right

[shaun]: 21:39

stress the p t s associated with and now you've got to go home and look at your house that's you know the water lines up to the six foot nine make mark you know and your your house is completely submerged you

[scott]: 21:48

hm

[shaun]: 21:48

at a certain point you would go i'm not going in forget it you know we have guys taken sick days because they just don't want to come

[scott]: 21:54

yeah

[shaun]: 21:54

to work i mean so many people calling off that's

[scott]: 21:56

yeah

[shaun]: 21:56

a whole pariffal effect associated with this that you know you start to see it first hand you know and it's really like it's it's it's

[scott]: 22:04

oh

[shaun]: 22:04

definitely wild i mean it was definitely

[scott]: 22:06

yeah

[shaun]: 22:07

even though we've done this for twenty years and i've seen you know natural disasters as a child in new jersey hugo here as a you know for became a cop

[scott]: 22:15

oh

[shaun]: 22:15

some of the stuff i saw and witnessed in the midwest

[scott]: 22:17

m

[shaun]: 22:18

now this down

[scott]: 22:18

m

[shaun]: 22:18

here with these hur canes

[scott]: 22:19

m

[shaun]: 22:19

it's like

[scott]: 22:20

well

[shaun]: 22:21

yeah

[scott]: 22:21

it's tough to see like florida too i mean heaven that i mean we go to we go to fort myers a lot and it's a great that's a whole great area as great area where it works his is at down there and i'm watching on the news here and seeing

[shaun]: 22:36

yeah

[scott]: 22:36

you know pictures that people are sending of

[shaun]: 22:38

oh

[scott]: 22:38

like restaurants that we go to and places that we go to on the beach and you know my father in law i went down to down there last year and went fishing and went to this restaurant that you bring her all your catch

[shaun]: 22:49

hm

[scott]: 22:49

two and they cook everything up for you i mean

[shaun]: 22:51

m

[scott]: 22:52

this place is destroyed these places

[shaun]: 22:53

oh

[scott]: 22:53

are destroyed these places

[shaun]: 22:54

right

[scott]: 22:55

you the one on the beach that

[shaun]: 22:56

yeah

[scott]: 22:56

we go to all the time down in the benita springs area

[shaun]: 23:00

ah

[scott]: 23:00

it's it's a shell it's it's the

[shaun]: 23:02

yeah

[scott]: 23:02

posts

[shaun]: 23:03

right

[scott]: 23:03

of the building and

[shaun]: 23:04

right

[scott]: 23:04

yan you just think to yourself like how

[shaun]: 23:06

oh

[scott]: 23:06

terrible this is like you know people

[shaun]: 23:09

m

[scott]: 23:09

that that's

[shaun]: 23:10

yeah

[scott]: 23:10

there their living they own these businesses they they

[shaun]: 23:12

hm

[scott]: 23:12

work at these places you know they rely on the tourism all that kind of stuff i mean it's like having it's going to have

[shaun]: 23:19

god

[scott]: 23:20

such a massive impact

[shaun]: 23:21

coming off of covid too which was completely

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on

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impacted

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that whole

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to

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area

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our husnrightyou

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yeah

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know

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right

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it's just you know the sad thing is it's like chris

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and i

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told

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mean i

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me

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guess you can only hope that yeah i wajustgonna say like you

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okay

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can hope that like the the fact that florida has a strong economy hopefully that's going

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hm

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to help you

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hm

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know help speed up building

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hm

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that building that state back up

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right

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you got to hope but there's just so much i mean it's just it's it's pretty tragic to see all that

[shaun]: 23:52

well i mean there will be a lot of things that going on like

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oh

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the already bad economy doesn't help the situation but females on the ground

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oh

[shaun]: 23:58

trying to do what they can to help people with things like that in one moment we've talked about this a lot on this show about bringing people together in one

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right

[shaun]: 24:06

moment president baton whether you like him or not he was there

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oh

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during that female press conference you know in that female center wherever

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oh

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he was doing that one of th things i was watching was like yeah here's what's going on we're here we're

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ye

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going to help things like that

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oh

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and immediately the first question someone from the media asked him was about

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yeah

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his adversarial relationship with governor de santas and how that was going to negatively impact florida and things like that and what's your relationship like that

[scott]: 24:33

oh

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and they were like can you answer that question as

[scott]: 24:35

ah

[shaun]: 24:35

yeah i can answer that question but that's irrelevant it was like the smartest thing i've heard bydon say maybe in his presidency i was like that has

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right

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nothing to do with what

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yeah

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we're tryin and to see if we were trying to save people's lives and he like pretty

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right

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much smack that member of the media down right away and then after that there was like

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oh

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he's like i'm not answering

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ah

[shaun]: 24:51

questions anymore you had your chance as a member of the

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right

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media to try

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right

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to bring people together say

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this

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that

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isn't the arena for that like

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right

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what are

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exactly

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you doing right

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exactly this idea of like

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m

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division is not a time for that during the middle of this people need

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yeah

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to come together and help each other out like

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oh

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september twelfth is like what they talk about

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oh

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get into that mode help each other out there's great way to great ways to donate to this

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h

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one first foremost

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so

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follow the rules and follow the suggestions that your your leaders in government says to do like your emergency amount of people say get out you should

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right

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leave do it it's like look all of that stuff

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yeah

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someone else will knock down some day and build on top of that your

[scott]: 25:28

yeah

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rubble what you take with you is you and what you

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hm

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can take with you

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m

[shaun]: 25:33

and do it just go like people do it and my in laws are from california it's not just natural to say there's like fire whatever they have floods they have fires out ther they have a ton of fires out there they've been impacted twice

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h

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in their home

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m

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like one time completely leveled their home

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a

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second time significant fire damage were there constantly nough people

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hm

[shaun]: 25:48

and things like that but left every single time there was no like we're going to stay and ride this out like yeah okay okay

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yeah

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you

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no

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don't do that don't

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oh

[shaun]: 25:57

it just creates all the more problems because there is a first responder of first responders out there that will go i want to i want to save somebody and this is a stance and i'm sitting here and this person is dying or these people are dying and things like that you don't get into the work to allow of people but at a certain point you just there's nothing you can do the other thing is is like listen to

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hm

[shaun]: 26:13

what they say stock up

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yeah

[shaun]: 26:15

have a plant so if you are stuck you have the means of surviving for a while like

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yeah

[shaun]: 26:19

the supplies that you need like water food radios

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oh

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the means to

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i

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listen to radios even though nobody

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yeah

[shaun]: 26:24

listens to a s anymore is he where

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batteries stuff like

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yeah

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that

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batteries

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yeah

[shaun]: 26:27

we're in

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right

[shaun]: 26:27

the podcasting business for telling people

[scott]: 26:28

yeah

[shaun]: 26:28

listen to radios i mean listen to a

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yeah

[shaun]: 26:31

radio it's one way to do it you know what i mean and get comfortable with it get to

[scott]: 26:34

right

[shaun]: 26:34

know your neighbors

[scott]: 26:34

yeah

[shaun]: 26:34

a little bit too as to what their situations and conditions

[scott]: 26:37

oh

[shaun]: 26:37

are and then the other thing is i make donations where you can if you're not evolved in the middle of americans always do this they always there's always so much support that comes to us but the best place that i've ever seen in any of the stuff that best organization that's most equipped to deal with this is honestly

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oh

[shaun]: 26:50

the red cross if you can go to red cross dot or and you can make a donation

[scott]: 26:53

hm

[shaun]: 26:54

to help out see what's needed there that's a great thing to do because that's all the rest of us can do like if you're not

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that

[shaun]: 26:59

you haven't been impacted by an the

[scott]: 27:01

right

[shaun]: 27:01

other thing you can do is possibly make it is a tough economic time for a lot of people florida

[scott]: 27:04

oh

[shaun]: 27:05

and every other place was just getting

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oh

[shaun]: 27:07

back on its feet particularly

[scott]: 27:08

m

[shaun]: 27:08

in the people in the service industry restaurant industry things like that you make a donation maybe you can help somebody out some you know things like

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kay

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that but

[scott]: 27:15

yeah

[shaun]: 27:15

i would say that

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and

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you

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watch

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know

[scott]: 27:17

the scamps i always got to tell people watch

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right

[scott]: 27:19

the scamps you

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right

[scott]: 27:20

know there's going to be of course there's going to try to be people

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yes

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that are going to try to capitalize on this because there's always

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m

[scott]: 27:26

that lem of people out there that are doing that so like shawn saying make sure that you there's

[shaun]: 27:32

oh

[scott]: 27:32

going to be a lot of people

[shaun]: 27:33

yeah

[scott]: 27:33

that are going to be you're goin t get emails and scamps and everything else saying oh yeah we're taking donations for florida

[shaun]: 27:37

ye

[scott]: 27:38

you know residents in this or maybe some people are legitimately taking some you know air quotes

[shaun]: 27:44

m

[scott]: 27:44

donations but their taking a cut of it you know for themselves or something like that whereas i think you're going to probably get

[shaun]: 27:50

m

[scott]: 27:50

the best bay for your book by go and direct with an agency like the red cross and

[shaun]: 27:54

oh

[scott]: 27:54

and just a side note to that i never really knew much i mean i always knew what the red cross was and what they did and you'd see him

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oh

[scott]: 28:01

on t v helping people

[shaun]: 28:02

yeah

[scott]: 28:02

in that but i did get some exposure to that first hand when i was talking about that incident where we helped another agency here

[shaun]: 28:08

yeah

[scott]: 28:08

with that tornado in that town that got

[shaun]: 28:10

hm

[scott]: 28:10

just creamed in that in that tornado and

[shaun]: 28:14

yeah

[scott]: 28:14

man they were out there so quick like it was crazy i mean they had these

[shaun]: 28:18

yeah

[scott]: 28:18

vans and trucks

[shaun]: 28:19

m

[scott]: 28:19

and volunteers and you knew who they all were because they were

[shaun]: 28:21

okay

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wearing you know the markings

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m

[scott]: 28:23

on them and they're going

[shaun]: 28:23

hm

[scott]: 28:24

around their i mean you talk about

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yes

[scott]: 28:25

like these people were ultra organize they

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right

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were like right there right in the middle of it i mean

[shaun]: 28:30

yeah

[scott]: 28:31

and i happened to be like my detail on that was actually like providing security for

[shaun]: 28:37

oh

[scott]: 28:37

a neighborhood to make sure that only like authorized

[shaun]: 28:40

ah

[scott]: 28:40

contractors were coming in there that they weren't looters weren't coming in there these other scamps and things that go on and

[shaun]: 28:46

m

[scott]: 28:46

i was right like on the same block as this crew from american red cross

[shaun]: 28:51

yeah

[scott]: 28:51

and and

[shaun]: 28:52

yeah

[scott]: 28:52

they were like handing

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oh

[scott]: 28:54

out food and helping people with this it

[shaun]: 28:56

portable

[scott]: 28:56

was just

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showers

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like

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and washing machines

[scott]: 28:58

you

[shaun]: 28:58

and

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could

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all

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just

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sorts

[scott]: 28:58

tell

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of stuff

[scott]: 28:59

the people

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yeh

[scott]: 29:00

yeah

[shaun]: 29:00

my

[scott]: 29:00

yeah like like the stuff that these

[shaun]: 29:02

yeah

[scott]: 29:03

you could tell that they were ready and prepared

[shaun]: 29:06

yeah

[scott]: 29:06

to help people

[shaun]: 29:07

may

[scott]: 29:07

with what immediate needs were of

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m

[scott]: 29:10

you know

[shaun]: 29:10

right

[scott]: 29:11

just quick things like food and supplies and all that so anyway that's my little side

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re

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note

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organization

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to that but that

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and and they actually

[scott]: 29:17

they

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can

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were

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certify

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great

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in c p

[scott]: 29:18

great organization

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r too you know that they

[scott]: 29:20

a

[shaun]: 29:20

can certify in c p r too

[scott]: 29:22

right

[shaun]: 29:22

right cross that's great

[scott]: 29:23

really

[shaun]: 29:24

the question

[scott]: 29:24

wow

[shaun]: 29:24

is what are they going to do for

[scott]: 29:25

yeah

[shaun]: 29:25

me and chris and you we're going to do

[scott]: 29:27

yeah

[shaun]: 29:27

this three cock three three cops talk remember those clam shells with the google eyes that we're gonna we're goin t get all those shells florida

[scott]: 29:34

yeah

[shaun]: 29:34

and tape googly eyes on him like now i got all the google

[scott]: 29:37

right

[shaun]: 29:37

eyes shining at me that guilt in me like what am i gonna do with this like

[scott]: 29:40

well

[shaun]: 29:40

what

[scott]: 29:41

and i've been trying to start that i've been air brushing the sand alas that i picked up

[shaun]: 29:45

yeah

[scott]: 29:45

down there

[shaun]: 29:45

right

[scott]: 29:45

and you know where

[shaun]: 29:46

right

[scott]: 29:46

put the people's

[shaun]: 29:46

right

[scott]: 29:47

names on them

[shaun]: 29:47

right

[scott]: 29:47

and stuff and

[shaun]: 29:47

right

[scott]: 29:48

do a little sunrise

[shaun]: 29:48

right

[scott]: 29:49

but

[shaun]: 29:49

right

[scott]: 29:49

how am i going to get my inventory is going to be wiped out at this

[shaun]: 29:52

the

[scott]: 29:52

point

[shaun]: 29:52

cool thing

[scott]: 29:52

so

[shaun]: 29:52

is just like you're breaking into cars now and you

[scott]: 29:54

that it's going to be hit

[shaun]: 29:55

you bleached off your finger

[scott]: 29:56

yeah

[shaun]: 29:56

tips while you're doing those sandals like yu have no finger tips left because you bleached them off because

[scott]: 30:01

right

[shaun]: 30:01

you're breaking into cars now we can figure who this is he he's the guy anyway

[scott]: 30:05

who

[shaun]: 30:05

um

[scott]: 30:05

is this guy

[shaun]: 30:06

who is that be it said we're going to wrap it up here but again like i said if you can't go to red cross dot or red cross dot or its pretty simple

[scott]: 30:12

oh

[shaun]: 30:12

you just go out he and put it in red cross and your google search whatever

[scott]: 30:15

oh

[shaun]: 30:15

it is your search engine go there and make a donation and

[scott]: 30:17

oh

[shaun]: 30:18

help people out if you possibly can if you want to get a hold of us we're at three

[scott]: 30:21

oh

[shaun]: 30:21

cops talk at g mail dot com or you can go to our website which is a full service website now you can get our video

[scott]: 30:27

full

[shaun]: 30:28

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[scott]: 30:28

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[shaun]: 30:28

if you want to sign up to be a guest on our show we have an opportunity

[scott]: 30:31

recipes

[shaun]: 30:31

portable there you can there no recipes yet but maybe some day

[scott]: 30:39

may be soon

[shaun]: 30:40

maybe he's some day i don't know but

[scott]: 30:42

oh

[shaun]: 30:44

go check it out because we got everything on there obviously we have

[scott]: 30:45

yeah

[shaun]: 30:45

a youtube channel now you can watch the

[scott]: 30:47

yeah

[shaun]: 30:47

video there at our website

[scott]: 30:47

m

[shaun]: 30:48

as we also as www

[scott]: 30:49

oh

[shaun]: 30:49

three the number three cups talk

[scott]: 30:51

oh

[shaun]: 30:51

dot com and we'll hopefully

[scott]: 30:54

yeah

[shaun]: 30:54

be talking to you soon and we'll keep you posting

[scott]: 30:56

yeah

[shaun]: 30:56

on this our next show up is goin to be a good one check it out is the guys from the left of gregg podcast that's going to be a good one coming back episode ninety eight i believe that will be but we'll get this one out this week

[scott]: 31:05

oh

[shaun]: 31:05

real quick for you guys to

[scott]: 31:07

oh

[shaun]: 31:07

give us some feedback but thanks people of florida if you're listening please be safe and continue

[scott]: 31:12

yeah

[shaun]: 31:12

to

[scott]: 31:13

absolutely

[shaun]: 31:14

stand to

[scott]: 31:16

stay safe

[shaun]: 31:18

yeah okay