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Speaker 2: Lord have mercy that it was absolutely painful, painful. Ah yeah,

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welcome to Sunday Night with Allen Ray. We’re here. God,

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I hope her here. I hope. I have no proof

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whatsoever that I hope. Guys in chat, I’m going to

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rely on you to tell me if this thing’s blanking

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out or not. For something. Something is absolutely obliterating, Mike.

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Just something is downloading somewhere. Maybe my soft asked, maybe

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it’s it’s it’s Microsoft. Uh something. Something is absolutely just

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killing this computer right now, and nothing is responding. I

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I’m flying blind. I’m flying blind. I don’t know how

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this is gonna go. And it’s been a couple of weeks.

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And the funny part about it, this computer is working

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absolutely magnificently and Raptors saying it’s in and out perfect. Greg,

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you know, I don’t know how this is gonna go.

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I really don’t. It seems to be it seems to

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be Okay, now we’ll see what happens. I don’t know anyways. Yeah, something,

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something weird is loading this thing down. So I’m just

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gonna make a couple of little quick adjustments here on

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the fly, and we’re gonna talk a little bit. I’ve

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got some really cool and interesting things. I’ve also some

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things that have really kind of pissed me off over

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the past twenty four hours forty eight hours. But I

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feel like I haven’t been behind the mic forever. Even

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though I did a show of Stacy last week playing

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in the Dirt, it was a good show. The week

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before that, the two weeks before that, I was on vacation,

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I was kind of off and doing my own thing.

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And I want to tell you about it. And I’m

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not gonna break out a bunch of slides and stuff

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like eurield Bustle’s, my wife and I and we’re all

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in Cleveland, o’hoy, and I’m not gonna do that to yet.

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I’m gonna tell you what we did. Though we had three,

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well technically four stops on this trip. The first up

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was in Buffalo, New York to meet with the East

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Coast Reflector Crew. It was our official yearly meet and

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greet in the Buffalo area. Got there Friday night, had

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dinner with all the crew. Then Saturday, on top of

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this hill, this big hill in this park where that

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overlooks the entire city of Buffalo. It’s really cool, had

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our meet and greet. I had close to one hundred

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people show up. I think fifty, I don’t know, could

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be fifty, and really great time. Hung out with a

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lot of Ham radio operators, people that I talked to

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almost every day. Had a great time, did a lot

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of cool things. It was just absolutely marvelous. And then

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Sunday got up have breakfast with the crew, all the

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people that actually run the East Coast Reflector. I’m a

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net controller, but you know, that’s kind of what do.

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We’re part of the group that runs the thing. And

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then my wife and I went up to Niagara Falls.

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I’d never been to Niagara Falls in my life and

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we’re really only like four and a half five hours

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from Niagara Falls. Never been there, never always wanted to

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see it, and never had an opportunity. My parents never

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took me to places like that as a kid. My

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wife’s parents, you know, they took her all over the

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God’s Green and hear saw all the cool sites. So

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I was kind of like a kid at Christmas, wanted

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to see the falls. Really cool hot day, ninety degrees hot. Uugh,

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But we did. We walked around Goat Island, walked around

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Niga Falls, took a buttload of pictures. It was absolutely

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outstanding and oh good, everything just blinked and now everything

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looks like it’s actually coming to life here. I hope

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he can still hear me. Ah went to Niagara Falls

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and my impression on Nagara Falls it’s beautiful, beautiful. A

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lot of people, but that’s to be expected. It’s it’s

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a spectator thing. Walk around go Island, took pictures, and

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the thing about it was it was beautiful to look at.

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That smell, though, was a little funky. I don’t know

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if I would stand under the falls and let that

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water hit me without expecting my hair to fall out

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or my face to melt or something. Something smell off

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about that water. I’ve been to a lot of rivers,

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I’ve been to a lot of the Great lakes. There

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was something funky, so I’m not sure I would. I would,

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you know, like, go stand under the falls. Just that’s

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off the bucket list. But it was cool to see.

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It was cool mess some cool people there, you know,

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talk to some people. And then from there we went

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on down to Pennsylvania. We were on the road to

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go to Gettysburg. We stopped just across the you know what,

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PJ Politics drunkie, he’s just hit the chat and guys,

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I’ll acknowledge you all in a minute, but I just

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want to tell you the story. We came across this

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little place called Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Little town. I think there’s

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a college somewhere around there because there’s a lot of

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younger people there, so it kind of thinks and they

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can it’s a college town. When we got up the

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next morning, you know, we went to this cool place

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called twin our Thin Line Tavern for lunch. When we

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got there dinner, I should say, excellent, blt great place,

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little atmosphere, but the whole little town there is just

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nothing but little dive bars and stuff and coffee shops. Well,

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we got up the next morning, we didn’t feel like

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hotel food. The hotel food looked really gross, so we

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took off downtown to this little place called Conspiracy Coffee.

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If you ever find yourself in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Right across

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the line, there’s a place called Conspiracy Coffee and they

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serve quick, easy breakfasts and good coffee. They’re not complicated,

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they’re not hash posh, they’re not food food stuff. It’s

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just good coffee and some good breakfast. Nothing fancy eggs, bacon,

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you can get some pancakes, maybe get a buffin something

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like that. But it was good. But as you can guess,

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Conspiracy Coffee, they’re a whole and it’s small. It probably

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fits twenty twenty five people in there, that’s about it.

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And that’s a crowd. There’s probably only ten people in there,

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and half of them were cops, so you know, if

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the cops are going there, it’s good. But the entire

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decor it was all news clippings and articles and stuff

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from conspiracy theories, bigfoot, JFK assassination, UFOs, you name it.

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You know. I looked at my wife. I was like,

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I’m home, let’s move here. I wouldn’t want to do that,

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but it was a cool place. And I talked to

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the you know, I don’t know if it was the

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manager of the owner, but it was the person that

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was like, you know, shouting out mostly orders and stuff

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we were talking about, and I said it was a

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neat place, and I did the meme. I did the meme.

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You know, hey, I’m a bit of a conspiracy theorist myself.

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I told them about the Mountain Dew conspiracy theory, which

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they had no idea what I was talking about. And

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I’m like, really, yeah, go look it up. Every time

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they name a mountain Dew, something happens on like a

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national or global scale that has something to do with

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that title and mountain Dew. The people that own mountain

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Dew or the company that owns mountain Dew, the CIA

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used to have a lot of dealings with them. And

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the guy just looked at me and goes, oh, I’m

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going back to get on the computer right now, you know,

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and he wished me a good day. We were on

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our way, but you know, we talked about two or

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three and a couple of them he had no idea about.

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So anyways, we get to Gettysburg. Hot. Gettysburg was hot,

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Lord have mercy. Gettysburg was hot. But I will tell

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you this, and I’m gonna go into this a little

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bit if I can get I don’t even know if

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things are gonna work. I’ve given up on my computer.

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I’m just gonna use my phone. Screw it. Gettysburg was awesome.

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I’ve never been to a Civil War battlefield in my life,

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and honestly, to tell the truth, it was it was

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just an out of body experience. It was about it

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was one hundred to one hundred one degree the whole

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time we were down there. It was absolutely just mortifying.

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But but if you actually study Gettysburg, the three day

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Battle of Gettysburg, what is it? Starting July first, eighteen

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sixty three and uh and and ending July third, those

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three days it was hot. It was nineties high nineties hundred,

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so you got the real effect. And of course, you know,

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we whipped we’re getting old. We’re not young anymore. We’re

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not gonna walk around a hundred degree whether I don’t care.

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You could download this little app and you can. You know,

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that’s cash you about ten bucks to do. But we said,

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what the heck ground vacation, And they they download an

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actual driving tour through Gettysburg that plays the tour on

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your car stair, you know, your radio, and it took

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it into your cell phone and it was absolutely outstanding.

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We were on all the cool places. Okay, we were

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in the wheat field, We went through the peach orchard,

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the railroad track ravine where the Confederates lost a lot

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of men because they were stupid enough to dive down

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in it thinking they were going to hide. Little Roundtop,

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big Roundtop, the Devil’s Den, all of that. We were everywhere.

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Cemetery Ridge you named, we were. We crawled all over

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that place all day. And I’ll tell you what even now,

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in fact, I don’t know if this had anything to

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do with what I was doing, but I was watching

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videos about a picket of course, pickets Charge where that

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all happened and everything we were there. I was watching

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some videos on that just before I even came on air.

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Little was I to know that my computer was going

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to betray me. What do you do? But anyways, there

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on some of these places, Cemetery Ridge, some of the

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other places that you know, a little roundtop, all these

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places that that you just had this feeling that the

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feeling was almost overwhelming. Maybe it was just me. Maybe

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I was just kind of emotional because I’ve studied all this,

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I know all of it, But the feeling was emotional.

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There there was a lot of times, not even kidding.

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There’s a lot of times, and had tears of my

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eyes because I knew what happened. I knew I was standing,

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I was standing right where thousands and thousands of men died, thousands.

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I knew when I was going across the ridge, across

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the wheat field, thousands of men died there. When you’re

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standing there on little roundtop, you knew the significance, the

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importance of it. And as the day progressed, my wife

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and I were talking about it, and she was like me,

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we’re like little kids. We’re running around there taking pictures,

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getting out of the hundred the car in one hundred

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degree tempts for about ten to fifteen minutes, and then

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like whimps, we’d run back into the air conditioner. It

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was rented. We didn’t care. We’d run it all day,

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air condition, full speed. I don’t care. All kinds of pictures,

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and it just had this feeling when you went into

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the graveyard, the cemetery, and you were standing right where

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President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address, and you studied it

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in history books, you’ve read books about it, but it’s

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nothing prepares you for that whole body experience of just feeling,

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feeling the spirits of fifty one thousand Union and Confederate

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soldiers who had a sacrifice there, dead, missing, wounded, some

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died later. You just felt it. And this is one

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for juxtaposition too. There’s actually an entire series on the

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ghosts of Gettysburg, a big thing. People swear by it.

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People in the areas swear by say, oh yeah, there’s

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ghosts all over here. We see them all the time.

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Didn’t know that. Came back and studied it. But anyways,

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and it was a great thing to do coming up

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on coming on an independence day. So I look this

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up and I’m gonna throw a throw ten facts of

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Gettysburg at you, and we’re gonna get this QUI because’m

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gonna’m gonna get riled up here in just a little bit.

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And I know I’m late, but I’m gonna run till

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ten thirty. I hope Brick don’t mind ten thirty Eastern

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Standard time, God’s time. Rick. I hope you don’t mind, Bud,

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And you feel free to cut in. I don’t care.

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Ten facts about the Battle of Gettysburg. Fact number one.

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The battle was fought at Gettysburg because the area road

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system had nothing to do with shoes. Apparently there’s some

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conspiracy theory out there about shoes in Gettysburg. It’s not true.

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Gettysburg and you can feel this going in to the town.

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Gettysburg is a strategic area and they tell you this.

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I’ve set sell times during the tour. It’s a very

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strategic area, especially at the time. Ten roads meeting right

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there in Gettysburg. It was a conspira, a stupid rumor anyway.

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But the tally Gettysburg population was about two thousand, and

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it was on the rise. It boasted three newspapers, two

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institutes of higher learning, several churches and banks, but there

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was no shoe factories of warehouses. The ten roads that

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led into town are brought or what brought the armies

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to Gettysburg. The shoe myth can be traced back to

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a late eighteen seventy statement by Confederate General Henry F.

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Fact number two. The first day’s battle was a much

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larger engagement than is generally portrayed. The first day of

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fighting at McPherson’s Ridge, Oak Hill, Oak Ridge, Seminary, Ridge,

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Barlows Know, and in and around the town involved some

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fifty thousand soldiers, of which roughly fifteen thousand, five hundred

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were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. The first day in

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itself ranks as the twelfth bloodiest battle of the Civil War,

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with more casualties in the battles of bull Run and

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Franklin combined back number three. The second day’s battle was

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the largest and costliest of the three days. The second

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day’s fighting at Devil’s Den, Little round Top, the Wheat Field,

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the Peach Orchard, Cemetery Ridge, Trossels Farm, Culp Hill and

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Cemetery Hill which I visited, stepped out into every single

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one of those places, and it was just crazy involved

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at least one hundred thousand soldiers, of which roughly twenty

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thousand were killed, wounded, capture, and missing. The second day

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in itself ranks as the tenth bloodiest battle in the

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Civil War, with far more casualties than the much larger

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Battle of Fredericksburg fac Number four. Of one hundred and

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twenty generals present at Gettysburg, nine were killed or mortally

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wounded during the battle. On the Confederate side, Generals Semis, Barksdale, Armistead,

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Garnet and Pender plus Pettigrew, during the pedigruw. During the

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retreat on the Union side, Generals Reynolds, zuck Weed, Farnsworth

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and Bencett promoted posthumously. No other battles claimed as many

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general officers. Fact number five, Colps Hill and Cemetery Hill

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were far more important than the Little Roundtop. Even the

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Little Roundtop is the most famous if you watch Gettysburg,

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its importance to the Union Army is at least debatable.

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The same cannot be said for Colps Hill, Cemetery Hill,

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Coupps Hill and Cemetery Hill. The two latter hills formed

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the center and the right of the Union’s main position

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and also protected the Union army only real lifeline on

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July second and July third. Now, let me back up

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here and disagree with this just a little. And here’s

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what I’ve studied, and here’s what I’ve actually come to realize.

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Even though Little Roundtop wasn’t as important, here’s what it is.

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It was more important for the Union to keep Little

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Roundtop than it was for the Confederate to take Little

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Roundtop Because the reinforcements coming in could have retaken Little

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Roundtop from the Confederate, but at quite a cost. They

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already had Little Roundtop, and the Roundtop was a good

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strategic position, but losing it wouldn’t have been devastating to

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the outcome of the battle or the war. Keeping it

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was very important. It’s kind of hard to explain, but

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keeping that hill cost the Confederate Army a lot more

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people than one would think, you know, was even comfortable

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for an army to lose without just walking away and said, hey,

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let’s try something else. But anyways, Culps Hill and Cemetery Hill,

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the two latter hills formed the center and right of

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the Union’s main position. It also protected the Union Army

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Army’s only real lifeline on July second, third the Baltimore Pike.

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Had Confederates captured and control either of those two hills,

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the Union Army would have had to leave Getty’s brig area.

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It is as simple as that, even with the sweeping

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views and the commanding height. The same cannot be said

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for the Little Roundtop. Fact, six Pickets charge was large

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and grand, but by no means the largest charge of

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the Civil War, not even close. Pickets charge involved some

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twelve thousand Confederate soldiers, which there again I stood right

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on that area where those soldiers were It’s just humbling,

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that’s all I can say the Confederate soldier. But the

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Confederate charge at Franklin had twenty thousand, and even that

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pales in comparison to the Grand Confederate Charge at gains Mills,

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which involved more than fifty thousand Confederate troops. Even the

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well known two hundred and sixty gun bombardment that preceded

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Pickets Charge was not the largest of the war. There

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was at least one bombardment in Peter’s Burg with more

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than four hundred cannons invaulved Fact seventh. The Battle of

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Gettysburg is by far the costliest battle of the Civil War,

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but not necessarily the largest. Well, each of the three

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days of the Battle of Gettysburg rank in the top

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fifteen bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The one hundred

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and sixty thousand troops president Gettysburger eclipsed by the more

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than one hundred and eighty five thousand at Fredericksburg, which

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I want to go to Fredericksburg. That’s that. Somebody told me, Hey,

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if you’ve been to Gettysburg, next stop Fredericksburg. Fact eight

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sixty four Medals of Honor awarded the Union soldiers for

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their action at Gettysburg. The deeds spanned the battlefield and

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were awarded for a wartime into the twenty first century.

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Eight were awarded for actions on July first, twenty eight

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for the actions on July second, and twenty eight for

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the actions on July second, and twenty nine for actions

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on July third. The most recent medal of Honor given

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for heroism at Gettysburg was awarded to Alonzo Cushing by

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President Barack Obama in twenty fourteen. Fact nine. The Gettysburg

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Address essentially said the same thing as the famous orator

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Edward Everett’s speech, but in one sixtieth of the time.

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When Lincoln uttered these two sentences, we have come to

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dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting

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place for those who were here gave their lives that

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nation might, that a nation might live. It is all

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together fitting and proper that we should do this. He

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was essentially repeating the idea that had already been stated,

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only more well more efficiently, ever used more than five

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five hundred words two hours speech. Could you’ve imagine setting

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through that to make the same point. Finally, Fact ten,

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while Gettysburg Battlefield is well preserved, there are still numerous

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parcels to be saved. The Civil War Trust and National

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Park Service have identified several unpreserved parcels which are important

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to the story of American’s greatest battle. The battle itself

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is among the best resources for historians and others to

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learn about the battle. The unique terrain, when used in

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conjunction with the words of those who fought there, image

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is created on the ground and it’s placed by the veterans,

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provide an unparallel learning opportunity. And this, of course, I’d

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like to thank the people of who did this. Battlesfields

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battlefields dot org great little reference. So I’m telling you, you

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get down there, you gotta walk through it. Take an

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entire day. It takes an entire day. Climb up all

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the platforms, look across the areas and just envision the

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battles that went there. Right now, it’s so peaceful, so peaceful,

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but you know, darn well, tens of thousands of men

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died there and then after leaving Gottisburg, and I didn’t

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know this was right on the way home. It was

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actually kind of crazy. And sorry about that. I’m I’m

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trying to recover this stupid computer while I’m talking to you. See,

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I’m multi multitasking. We did not know that the nine

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to eleven memorial to Flight ninety three was right on

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the way home. We didn’t really, I mean, we had

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to take some well, we’ll put it this way. I’ve

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traveled more Pennsylvania back roads that I ever cared to. Again. Okay,

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there is no direct route from Niagara Falls, New York

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to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There’s none. I’ve been to places that

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I really they were beautiful, nice hilly areas, but I

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really didn’t care to go through or will ever go

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through again. But the Flight ninety three memorial was directly

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in our path on the way home. So we stopped

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there and again gut wrenching, gut wrenching, and you knew,

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I mean, standing in a place where people died and

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knowing the story behind flight ninety three and how those

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guys took that plane back over because they knew it

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was going to be used, probably at the White House.

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They figured it out and they said, nope, we’re not

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going to allow this beautiful monument, very tastefully, very well done.

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And you look out over the field where the actual

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plane hit and it brings to yours your eyes, not

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even kidding. So this vacation was very emotional, very emotional.

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I can’t tell you how many times I got misty.

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I just just walking through these places, knowing what had

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happened to both places. And I’m a bit of a

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Civil War buff. It’s a bit of a World War

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two buff. But I will tell you what the visitors

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sitting there at Gettysburg. I probably spent too much money

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there on books. Let me put it to you this way.

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My summer reading. I’m gonna need three or four summers

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to complete the reading for this summer. Not kidding, but guys,

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thanks for joining me in chat. Obviously, Raptor in there,

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I see already in there. Of course he was first.

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Charles Vncent’s in there. Rowdy Rick, who’s producing me right now,

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is in there. Jeff is not a little bit of

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00:26:55,759 –> 00:26:59,240
a hiatus. We’re we’re He’s in our prayers. He had

452
00:26:59,279 –> 00:27:02,480
a little bit of medical problems and uh man, by golly,

453
00:27:02,640 –> 00:27:06,319
he’ll be back eventually soon enough. And you know, the

454
00:27:06,359 –> 00:27:08,799
alien DNA kind of messed up the doctors that were

455
00:27:08,799 –> 00:27:10,519
tending to him. But I think he’s gonna be all right.

456
00:27:10,799 –> 00:27:13,160
It’s similar enough where he should be fine if you know,

457
00:27:13,240 –> 00:27:16,240
you know what I’m talking about. But he usually comes

458
00:27:16,240 –> 00:27:18,880
on before me, and I’m hoping giving him all the

459
00:27:18,880 –> 00:27:26,599
best um chat just disappeared. Yeay, politics junk. He’s in there,

460
00:27:26,680 –> 00:27:28,559
He’s usually in there. Glad to have him in there.

461
00:27:29,680 –> 00:27:31,960
Anybody else I missed? Guys, thanks for check coming in.

462
00:27:32,119 –> 00:27:34,480
We’ve got two hundred and fifty three views already. Okay,

463
00:27:35,480 –> 00:27:39,240
all right, now we’ve hit in the twenty eight minute mark.

464
00:27:41,799 –> 00:27:44,559
I don’t know if I can even take a break

465
00:27:44,720 –> 00:27:47,559
before I get into this, because, let me tell you what,

466
00:27:47,880 –> 00:27:49,759
something has kind of crawled up my butt for the

467
00:27:49,799 –> 00:27:57,960
past forty eight hours. It’s disgusting, it’s vulgar, it’s taking

468
00:27:57,960 –> 00:27:59,960
advantage of a situation that doesn’t need to be taking

469
00:28:00,039 –> 00:28:06,680
advantage of. And the worst part, it’s a lie. And

470
00:28:06,759 –> 00:28:09,920
I’m talking about what certain people in a certain party

471
00:28:11,079 –> 00:28:18,000
is doing with this flood that came through Texas. Of course,

472
00:28:18,759 –> 00:28:21,400
they have gotten their minds. And it’s not just certain

473
00:28:21,400 –> 00:28:29,319
people on the left. The entire left wing media is

474
00:28:29,720 –> 00:28:31,519
doing this right now. You go right through that, you

475
00:28:31,559 –> 00:28:34,839
go into Google News, which is the perfect example of

476
00:28:34,920 –> 00:28:43,480
left wing media saturation and Lord have mercy. I don’t

477
00:28:43,519 –> 00:28:47,240
know what to think about it. How how do you

478
00:28:47,359 –> 00:28:51,000
exploit a situation and try to have and I got

479
00:28:51,039 –> 00:28:56,599
you a moment against President Trump and be so stupid, thoughtless,

480
00:28:56,960 –> 00:29:05,160
careless soulss and not even think about the ramifications of

481
00:29:05,200 –> 00:29:08,079
your stupid mouths, your stupid brains spewing this stuff out.

482
00:29:09,920 –> 00:29:12,000
So what I want to do is I want to

483
00:29:12,000 –> 00:29:19,440
actually give you some some truth about what happened in Texas.

484
00:29:21,279 –> 00:29:26,119
Number One, it took a while for the actual truth

485
00:29:26,160 –> 00:29:28,480
to come out because you know, people just jumped on

486
00:29:28,519 –> 00:29:32,440
this and they just slaughtered the whole story. Now those

487
00:29:32,519 –> 00:29:34,119
who don’t know it, there’s a lot of people that

488
00:29:34,279 –> 00:29:39,960
a lot of people missing down there in Texas. And

489
00:29:40,039 –> 00:29:43,480
the biggest thing, the left jumped on this story. And

490
00:29:43,480 –> 00:29:45,720
I don’t want to get too far into politics on this,

491
00:29:45,799 –> 00:29:49,200
but I’m going to because I’m kind of pissed they

492
00:29:49,319 –> 00:29:51,519
jumped on the whole thing that this is a direct

493
00:29:51,559 –> 00:29:56,000
result of Trump cuts. Oh, Donald Trump did this. He

494
00:29:56,079 –> 00:29:58,480
went down there and he just unleashed all this water

495
00:29:58,559 –> 00:30:01,559
and killed all these people. Oh and you can see

496
00:30:01,559 –> 00:30:04,440
them just just pushing this narrative and it’s not just

497
00:30:04,519 –> 00:30:10,200
the it’s not just the common people doing this, the

498
00:30:11,920 –> 00:30:14,880
mouthy activists and stuff like this. No, no, this is

499
00:30:14,880 –> 00:30:20,680
coming right out of major news outlets, left wing major

500
00:30:20,920 –> 00:30:27,400
news outlets, outlets, and you’re seeing it all. And of

501
00:30:27,400 –> 00:30:30,079
course the drooling six o’clock news watchers, where you know,

502
00:30:30,119 –> 00:30:36,400
the only place they get their actual news is from news.

503
00:30:36,440 –> 00:30:39,759
When they get home, kick their shoes off, they watch

504
00:30:39,880 –> 00:30:43,880
the thirty second blurbs, and none of it’s very accurate.

505
00:30:43,920 –> 00:30:47,039
They have to compromise, they have, but they can get

506
00:30:47,039 –> 00:30:50,319
these people, and they can actually warp them into thinking

507
00:30:50,359 –> 00:30:55,680
that what they’re saying is true. Let’s see if I

508
00:30:55,720 –> 00:30:58,119
can bring this up, because my computer’s just worthless. I

509
00:30:58,119 –> 00:30:59,519
don’t know what the heck is down. I’ve given up

510
00:30:59,519 –> 00:31:01,480
on it. I’m just glad it’s making noise. I’m glad

511
00:31:01,519 –> 00:31:04,759
you can hear me, guys, I really am. Let’s look

512
00:31:04,759 –> 00:31:10,839
at some facts. This happened in Kerr County, Texas, and

513
00:31:10,880 –> 00:31:12,759
we know that well at the time this was written,

514
00:31:12,759 –> 00:31:14,359
fifty nine people are dead. I think they’ve found more,

515
00:31:14,400 –> 00:31:24,359
including twenty one children. The National Weather Service actually issued

516
00:31:25,160 –> 00:31:29,920
several warnings. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood

517
00:31:29,960 –> 00:31:33,400
watch Thursday afternoon that noted Kerr County, where much of

518
00:31:33,400 –> 00:31:37,200
the flooding began early Friday morning, and it said it

519
00:31:37,240 –> 00:31:40,359
was a particularly vulnerable area, along with more urgent flash

520
00:31:40,400 –> 00:31:44,519
flooding emergencies alerts in the overnight hours as the disaster unfolded,

521
00:31:44,559 –> 00:31:48,119
several of them. The National Weather Service was one of

522
00:31:48,119 –> 00:31:51,480
the several federal agencies targeted by the controversial cost cutting

523
00:31:51,480 –> 00:31:54,480
efforts of the Trump administrating Department. But it had nothing

524
00:31:54,480 –> 00:31:56,759
to do with it. This had nothing to do with

525
00:31:57,119 –> 00:32:00,519
And here’s the thing about it is those cuts start

526
00:32:01,200 –> 00:32:04,759
if if passed by Congress. Yes, some people were not

527
00:32:04,799 –> 00:32:08,559
allowed to hire in there, Okay, And now they’re screaming, yooh,

528
00:32:08,720 –> 00:32:11,920
we’re understaff They’re not understaffed. Trust me, they’re not understaffed

529
00:32:12,319 –> 00:32:15,519
at all. The numbers don’t add up from what they’re saying.

530
00:32:16,440 –> 00:32:22,240
But the actual budget cuts to the service, if passed

531
00:32:22,240 –> 00:32:25,480
by Congress, if Hastill hasn’t been passed, would start in

532
00:32:25,519 –> 00:32:29,960
October of twenty twenty five. And what the media is

533
00:32:30,000 –> 00:32:35,839
not telling you is those budget cuts are already self

534
00:32:35,880 –> 00:32:42,440
admittedly from the from Naa, from Noah. The bulk of

535
00:32:42,480 –> 00:32:44,839
those budget cuts come to things that have nothing to

536
00:32:44,880 –> 00:32:48,519
do with the National Weather Service with weather. What they’re

537
00:32:48,519 –> 00:32:52,079
doing is they’re stripping some of the things that perferal

538
00:32:52,119 –> 00:32:55,000
things they have really nothing to do with weather, and

539
00:32:55,039 –> 00:32:59,200
they’re relocating them to different bureaucracies. They’re not going away,

540
00:32:59,400 –> 00:33:04,359
they don’t want to tell tell you that. And they’re

541
00:33:04,400 –> 00:33:08,240
doing this through their own words so they can focus

542
00:33:08,279 –> 00:33:10,240
solely on the weather, which is what they should be

543
00:33:10,240 –> 00:33:22,359
doing to begin with. So even this little blurb here,

544
00:33:22,480 –> 00:33:29,559
where’s this from Forbes dot com, several several flash flood

545
00:33:29,799 –> 00:33:39,079
warnings went out and there’s more flooding possible. That’s the

546
00:33:39,119 –> 00:33:45,640
bad part of it. But you get down to the

547
00:33:45,759 –> 00:33:50,599
actual truth of the matter, strip away all the politics,

548
00:33:50,599 –> 00:33:54,240
to strip away all the stupidity. You do a little

549
00:33:54,319 –> 00:34:06,880
research and you find out why there were masked casualties.

550
00:34:07,079 –> 00:34:11,519
And it took getting into some of the local newspapers

551
00:34:15,079 –> 00:34:19,119
and this was like what is this xx KX A

552
00:34:19,320 –> 00:34:24,320
N and Austin. At a Friday news conference, Kirk County

553
00:34:24,440 –> 00:34:28,639
Judge Rob Kelly said he can’t answer why camps weren’t evacuated,

554
00:34:28,719 –> 00:34:33,000
but acknowledged acknowledged, Now this is important. Hand your butts.

555
00:34:33,440 –> 00:34:39,480
I’m going to absolutely destroy the Crassenstein, Crassenstein idiots. I’m

556
00:34:39,519 –> 00:34:43,199
absolutely going to destroy all of these CNN and all

557
00:34:43,199 –> 00:34:46,480
these things that are pointing fingers at Trump. It boils

558
00:34:46,559 –> 00:34:51,519
down to this. Judge Rob Kelly said, we do not

559
00:34:52,360 –> 00:34:56,840
have a warning system. We didn’t know this flood was coming.

560
00:34:57,800 –> 00:35:00,000
Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming.

561
00:35:00,280 –> 00:35:02,159
We have floods all the time. This is the most

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00:35:02,239 –> 00:35:04,679
dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal

563
00:35:04,679 –> 00:35:06,960
with floods on a regular basis. When it rains, we

564
00:35:07,039 –> 00:35:09,119
get water. We had no reason to believe that this

565
00:35:09,199 –> 00:35:11,960
is going to be anything like what happened here, none whatsoever.

566
00:35:14,840 –> 00:35:20,639
It boils down to this. They don’t have a siren

567
00:35:20,880 –> 00:35:30,719
system in Kerr County. It goes down to let’s see,

568
00:35:30,719 –> 00:35:33,559
Cameistic is located less than twenty miles of Kerr and Hunt,

569
00:35:34,000 –> 00:35:38,280
which is in Kerr County. And one of the people

570
00:35:38,320 –> 00:35:40,519
out there that’s I don’t know they were born and

571
00:35:40,559 –> 00:35:43,000
raised in Kentucky either, one of the witnesses where she

572
00:35:43,079 –> 00:35:46,280
said outdoor weather sirens, primarily used for tornadoes, were common.

573
00:35:47,079 –> 00:35:52,400
On fifth, she stated a changed or online petition urgently

574
00:35:52,800 –> 00:35:55,159
calling for kerrvill and Kerr County to implement an outdoor

575
00:35:55,199 –> 00:36:00,159
early warning siren system for life threatening emergencies like flooding. Oh,

576
00:36:01,079 –> 00:36:03,159
when you get down to it, what happened was and

577
00:36:03,199 –> 00:36:09,800
here’s the history behind it. They tried to get tornado

578
00:36:09,880 –> 00:36:12,960
sirens or sirens in there warning sirens in Kirk County.

579
00:36:13,280 –> 00:36:20,880
The problem was they were extremely expensive, expensive, like grossly expensive,

580
00:36:21,360 –> 00:36:25,119
a lot of regulations to put them up. So everybody went, no,

581
00:36:25,239 –> 00:36:31,079
don’t need them. Deadly mistake, costly mistake. Say whatever you want,

582
00:36:31,159 –> 00:36:33,880
point however many fingers you want. But here’s the reality

583
00:36:33,920 –> 00:36:36,519
of the situation. People. Okay, I’m going to lay this

584
00:36:36,599 –> 00:36:40,920
to you as simply as I can. At two o’clock

585
00:36:40,960 –> 00:36:43,280
in the morning, late at night when this thing actually hit,

586
00:36:45,559 –> 00:36:51,400
nobody’s awake looking at their phones, and I sleep right

587
00:36:51,480 –> 00:36:54,639
through some of these phone warnings. Camp counselors might not

588
00:36:54,719 –> 00:36:56,800
even have let these kids have their cell phones. They

589
00:36:56,880 –> 00:37:02,800
might not have even had their cell phones on. An

590
00:37:02,840 –> 00:37:06,320
outdoor warning siren system can be heard, wake you up,

591
00:37:06,360 –> 00:37:08,559
where you can actually wake up and figure out what’s

592
00:37:08,599 –> 00:37:14,960
going on, probably would have saved lives. You can prepare

593
00:37:15,079 –> 00:37:19,000
all you want, and I I promote it on this

594
00:37:19,119 –> 00:37:21,679
show all the time. Bug Out bags. In fact, I

595
00:37:21,679 –> 00:37:23,440
haven’t even done a summer bug out bag things. I

596
00:37:23,440 –> 00:37:25,199
do it all the time. I find myself repeating myself,

597
00:37:25,239 –> 00:37:30,119
I should probably bug out bags, Plans, where to go

598
00:37:30,159 –> 00:37:31,960
if there’s an emergency, you can meet up with your family,

599
00:37:32,000 –> 00:37:36,320
your house catches on fire, something like it. If you

600
00:37:36,519 –> 00:37:39,840
live in a valley, if you live in a floodplain,

601
00:37:40,920 –> 00:37:42,639
where to go for high ground? How do you get

602
00:37:42,639 –> 00:37:45,679
out of there? You can have all of those plans.

603
00:37:45,840 –> 00:37:51,119
You can make all of those arrangements. If you’re not

604
00:37:51,320 –> 00:37:57,280
made aware that something of this magnitude is coming, it

605
00:37:57,320 –> 00:38:04,119
don’t matter if you can’t tell. There are things that happen.

606
00:38:04,159 –> 00:38:06,400
There are just things that happen. And I’m not excusing anything,

607
00:38:06,440 –> 00:38:09,239
but they could have avoided some of this. There’s a

608
00:38:09,280 –> 00:38:12,559
whole study, psychological study behind why people don’t pay attention

609
00:38:12,599 –> 00:38:17,639
to emergencies. But if you are not warned that danger

610
00:38:17,679 –> 00:38:22,000
is coming, how do you escape danger? And this is

611
00:38:22,000 –> 00:38:23,920
not a Donald Trump thing. This is a Kerr County,

612
00:38:23,920 –> 00:38:28,199
Texas thing. And I don’t care if Kerk County leans

613
00:38:28,280 –> 00:38:31,719
right or Leans left. They had the opportunity to put

614
00:38:31,800 –> 00:38:41,159
up sirens to warn people, they did not. Will they? Oh?

615
00:38:41,320 –> 00:38:44,000
I bet I bet, I bet there’s going to be sirens. Now.

616
00:38:46,159 –> 00:38:48,039
The problem is you’re seeing this more and more. You’re

617
00:38:48,079 –> 00:38:55,159
seeing counties do away with siren systems. It’s very stupid.

618
00:38:55,320 –> 00:39:00,960
It’s one of the dumbest things I can think of. Now,

619
00:39:00,960 –> 00:39:04,079
there’s two schools of thought to this. Number One, if

620
00:39:04,159 –> 00:39:06,400
you do have tornado sirens. If you do have sirens,

621
00:39:07,000 –> 00:39:10,159
you only use them if there’s really a reason to

622
00:39:10,280 –> 00:39:14,280
use them. You don’t just start blasting them off every

623
00:39:14,280 –> 00:39:17,360
time a thunderstorm comes up. There has to be rotation.

624
00:39:17,440 –> 00:39:25,000
There has to be you know, criteria. And number two,

625
00:39:25,800 –> 00:39:30,119
when something like that does happen, people have to check

626
00:39:30,400 –> 00:39:33,199
what’s going on. They have to turn to a TV,

627
00:39:33,320 –> 00:39:38,280
a radio, something. If you simply rely on digital modes

628
00:39:38,320 –> 00:39:40,480
to get the word out, you’re gonna have a cur

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00:39:40,679 –> 00:39:46,639
texas over and over and over again. You’re just going

630
00:39:46,679 –> 00:39:56,519
to and unfortunately, these young children paid the price. You know,

631
00:39:56,840 –> 00:40:03,920
preparing for an emergency, basically what you’re doing is you’re

632
00:40:05,199 –> 00:40:10,599
trying to stack the odds in your own favor that

633
00:40:10,639 –> 00:40:12,159
you can grab, or one in your nicle that you

634
00:40:12,159 –> 00:40:17,079
can grab and go. You’ve increased the odds of surviving

635
00:40:17,079 –> 00:40:21,480
an emergency by a few percentiles. If you have a

636
00:40:21,519 –> 00:40:23,920
backup plan, you have hard maps, you know where you

637
00:40:23,920 –> 00:40:26,639
can go, you know what you can do during an emergency,

638
00:40:26,960 –> 00:40:30,119
you increase that number a little bit more. There is

639
00:40:30,239 –> 00:40:36,000
no one hundred percent, folks. You look at North Carolina

640
00:40:36,440 –> 00:40:40,719
and now you look at Kerr Texas the actual event.

641
00:40:41,679 –> 00:40:45,079
You can plan. You can try to get these people

642
00:40:45,079 –> 00:40:47,360
to understand they live in a flood plan, a floodplan,

643
00:40:47,559 –> 00:40:49,320
have a plan to get out of there the second

644
00:40:49,320 –> 00:40:54,639
things start going south. But it’s only going to work

645
00:40:54,679 –> 00:40:57,079
to a certain percent. It’s only going to work to

646
00:40:57,119 –> 00:41:02,440
a certain degree. And a lot of it, unfortunately, too

647
00:41:02,480 –> 00:41:04,880
much of it, has a lot to do with how

648
00:41:05,119 –> 00:41:14,960
individuals perceive emergencies, their biases, their thoughts, that hole, it’s

649
00:41:14,960 –> 00:41:18,199
never going to happen to me, the whole process of well,

650
00:41:18,239 –> 00:41:20,639
none of my neighbors are running, so why should I.

651
00:41:20,719 –> 00:41:23,480
We’ll be fine. You know, this is why people die

652
00:41:23,519 –> 00:41:27,320
in hurricanes. This is why people don’t evacuate during hurricanes. Oh,

653
00:41:27,360 –> 00:41:29,440
I’ll be fine. I’m not even evacuating. And the next

654
00:41:29,440 –> 00:41:32,679
thing you know, you’re under twenty feet of water, or

655
00:41:32,679 –> 00:41:35,239
you get hit by a stop sign. And remember it’s

656
00:41:35,239 –> 00:41:38,119
not the wind in a hurricane. It’s what the wind blows.

657
00:41:40,360 –> 00:41:48,320
That’s what gets you. So really, honestly, for the love

658
00:41:48,320 –> 00:41:50,480
of God, people on the left, if you somehow stumble

659
00:41:50,519 –> 00:41:56,679
across this some across this feed, stop politicizing it. This

660
00:41:56,719 –> 00:42:01,079
is not a Donald Trump thing. Not to mention the

661
00:42:01,079 –> 00:42:03,440
fact that there was actually extra staff on hand in

662
00:42:04,079 –> 00:42:08,000
the National Weather Service that night in the area because

663
00:42:08,000 –> 00:42:11,079
they knew bad things were happening. It was a stalled system.

664
00:42:11,119 –> 00:42:14,840
It wasn’t climate change either. It was a stalled tropical

665
00:42:14,880 –> 00:42:18,599
storm system that dumped a lot of ring very very

666
00:42:18,599 –> 00:42:26,559
similar to what happened in North Carolina. Don’t pay attention

667
00:42:26,639 –> 00:42:36,679
to these ding bats on ABC. These people have gone

668
00:42:36,679 –> 00:42:39,719
over the edge. They’re over the edge. All they are

669
00:42:39,880 –> 00:42:42,960
is they’re just one on board with seeing if they

670
00:42:42,960 –> 00:42:46,920
can get a gotcha moment to this administration. Go to

671
00:42:47,000 –> 00:42:50,400
actual people who study the weather, actual people who are

672
00:42:50,480 –> 00:42:56,480
giving facts about what happened there. Go do some research,

673
00:42:56,599 –> 00:42:59,360
dig into it like I did, and figure out that, oh, hey,

674
00:43:00,519 –> 00:43:05,880
there’s no warning system. And let’s face it, folks, the

675
00:43:06,000 –> 00:43:10,039
National Weather Service, you’re not gonna want to hear this,

676
00:43:10,280 –> 00:43:14,280
but it’s outdated. A lot of the stuff in the

677
00:43:14,360 –> 00:43:17,639
National Weather service is outdated. Maybe some of the budget

678
00:43:17,639 –> 00:43:19,360
cuts that they’re using to get rid of the bloat

679
00:43:19,400 –> 00:43:21,840
and the way should go to actually updating the system.

680
00:43:22,280 –> 00:43:25,039
Because we know more about weather than we did ten, fifteen,

681
00:43:25,159 –> 00:43:30,880
twenty twenty five years ago. I don’t even turn to

682
00:43:30,960 –> 00:43:34,440
the National Weather Service for advice on weather. You go

683
00:43:34,519 –> 00:43:39,199
to YouTube live streamers like Ryan Hall or Michigan storm Chasers.

684
00:43:39,719 –> 00:43:42,840
You can watch the storm coming across and these people

685
00:43:42,880 –> 00:43:47,800
are actually studying there’s no politics involved. They’re actually studying weather.

686
00:43:48,440 –> 00:43:51,920
Some of them have their degree in weather forecasting and

687
00:43:51,920 –> 00:43:54,000
stuff like that, and they tell you exactly what’s going

688
00:43:54,039 –> 00:43:55,719
to happen if I got their rights. But every time

689
00:43:55,840 –> 00:44:05,400
you could watch this stuff coming at you still at

690
00:44:05,440 –> 00:44:07,480
two o’clock in the morning, when you’re dead to sleep,

691
00:44:08,639 –> 00:44:10,320
unless you have something to wake you up and tell

692
00:44:10,320 –> 00:44:16,480
you you’re about to face peril, mortal danger, there’s the

693
00:44:16,480 –> 00:44:19,719
problem right there. You can narrow it down to that

694
00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:24,000
one thing. If you don’t have a siren system in

695
00:44:24,039 –> 00:44:30,039
your county, and I hate to say this, if you

696
00:44:30,199 –> 00:44:35,440
have to be taxed, a warning system is probably one

697
00:44:35,480 –> 00:44:37,719
of the best things that you can actually spend your

698
00:44:37,760 –> 00:44:41,039
tax dollars on because Unlike a lot of other things,

699
00:44:41,199 –> 00:44:46,519
like funding trans surgeries. I’m just trying to chat at

700
00:44:46,559 –> 00:44:51,199
ten oh seven first, Unlike unlike some of the things

701
00:44:51,199 –> 00:44:54,960
we spend money on as a government, I can’t think

702
00:44:55,000 –> 00:45:03,719
of something more important then an audible system to let

703
00:45:03,760 –> 00:45:05,440
you know there’s something going on that hey, maybe you

704
00:45:05,440 –> 00:45:10,519
should wake up, turn your radio on, maybe you should

705
00:45:10,559 –> 00:45:19,360
wake up, check your phone, see what’s happening. It really

706
00:45:19,400 –> 00:45:21,199
is kind of ridiculous to even have to say this.

707
00:45:22,159 –> 00:45:25,280
I mean, we’ve spent We’ve spent millions of dollars. We’ve

708
00:45:25,320 –> 00:45:29,440
researched people, private people have researched Look up where the

709
00:45:29,599 –> 00:45:31,800
f system of tornadoes come from. I’ve had it here

710
00:45:31,800 –> 00:45:35,800
on this show. Just hours and hours and hours of

711
00:45:35,840 –> 00:45:41,360
research of how much damage a tornado does, the level

712
00:45:41,440 –> 00:45:46,199
of rotation, the level of winds. That all was back

713
00:45:46,880 –> 00:45:51,239
in the late sixties, and they’ve even you know, refined

714
00:45:51,280 –> 00:45:53,679
it revived, you know, refine some of the definitions of it.

715
00:45:53,719 –> 00:45:53,920
Speaker 1: Now.

716
00:45:59,199 –> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 2: Now you just have to get people. And this is

717
00:46:01,000 –> 00:46:02,400
the hole. You can lead a horse to water, but

718
00:46:02,440 –> 00:46:04,599
you can’t make them drink. Now, you just have to

719
00:46:04,719 –> 00:46:08,599
get people to pay attention when something happens. And here’s

720
00:46:08,599 –> 00:46:14,039
another thing too, a mutual follower on Twitter, a lot

721
00:46:14,079 –> 00:46:18,400
of us know them. His daughter actually lost a classmate

722
00:46:18,440 –> 00:46:20,840
in this. He’s gonna have to tell her about it.

723
00:46:23,280 –> 00:46:26,960
He pointed out something too, that every storm system is now,

724
00:46:27,000 –> 00:46:31,039
according to the news, the storm of the century. Oh

725
00:46:31,119 –> 00:46:33,920
my gosh, there’s never been anything like this before. Oh

726
00:46:33,960 –> 00:46:35,559
we’re all gonna die. And they just keep saying this

727
00:46:35,599 –> 00:46:37,719
stuff over and over and over and over again. And

728
00:46:37,719 –> 00:46:43,920
you know what, when everything’s sensationalized, then nothing becomes sensational.

729
00:46:44,719 –> 00:46:47,119
When you keep hearing the same thing over and over

730
00:46:47,159 –> 00:46:49,519
and over again, you roll your eyes and you say whatever,

731
00:46:50,320 –> 00:46:56,480
that’s dangerous. Dangerous. But that’s the media for you. The

732
00:46:56,559 –> 00:47:01,320
media’s job is to sensationalize every single thing because they’re

733
00:47:01,360 –> 00:47:04,599
not really interested in getting your news. They’re interested in

734
00:47:04,760 –> 00:47:16,360
making money. Yes, baby, So keep that mindset. Put that

735
00:47:16,400 –> 00:47:21,079
in your brain. Now. Look around you, study topographical maps

736
00:47:21,119 –> 00:47:24,599
for crying out loud, See what dangers around to you

737
00:47:24,639 –> 00:47:27,079
this all the time. Figure out what dangers are around you,

738
00:47:27,119 –> 00:47:34,119
and plan your preparedness according to that. I don’t worry

739
00:47:34,119 –> 00:47:36,159
too much about floods. Here. Let’s tell you a little secret

740
00:47:36,159 –> 00:47:38,320
where I am, and I’ve shared this with some people today.

741
00:47:39,960 –> 00:47:43,800
The original Lake Erie shoreline didn’t really call it Lake

742
00:47:43,800 –> 00:47:47,119
Erie back then, of course, because it was probably ten fifteen,

743
00:47:47,239 –> 00:47:52,119
twenty thousand years ago. The original shoreline is exactly one

744
00:47:52,199 –> 00:47:59,719
half mile from my house. Whether you’re going south east

745
00:48:00,199 –> 00:48:02,440
or anywhere in between. It’s just this curve that goes

746
00:48:02,440 –> 00:48:05,960
around my house. You can feel it when you go

747
00:48:06,000 –> 00:48:08,280
out for a walk or a run. You’re just going

748
00:48:08,320 –> 00:48:10,679
down this little you know. It’s almost like being in

749
00:48:10,719 –> 00:48:12,679
a beach and then walking into the water and all

750
00:48:12,719 –> 00:48:14,800
of a sudden it drops like a shelf because the

751
00:48:14,800 –> 00:48:19,480
waves of just eroded things. Except it’s out in dry land. Now.

752
00:48:19,480 –> 00:48:29,440
We’re thirty miles away from Lake Erie. So ten fifteen

753
00:48:29,480 –> 00:48:32,719
thousand years ago, I was in lake Front Proberty. Now

754
00:48:32,719 –> 00:48:35,559
there’s a river less than a mile from me across

755
00:48:35,559 –> 00:48:38,719
the field, a pretty decent river, and it floods Old

756
00:48:38,800 –> 00:48:42,079
Baby in the springtime. It really rises up that They

757
00:48:42,079 –> 00:48:44,599
call it the Raisin River because it raises all the time.

758
00:48:48,519 –> 00:48:52,880
I don’t worry about it because it’s down. If the

759
00:48:53,000 –> 00:48:55,840
Raisin River actually makes it to my back door, folks,

760
00:48:55,880 –> 00:49:00,880
we’ve got bigger problems than rising water. We’ve got a

761
00:49:00,920 –> 00:49:07,000
lot of problems. We’re talking building an arc type problem

762
00:49:07,039 –> 00:49:12,000
because it’s way down into a valley. I have run

763
00:49:12,079 –> 00:49:13,960
down that hill and run back up that hill, and

764
00:49:14,239 –> 00:49:18,559
it’s very steep. It’s like one hundred feet elevation. You

765
00:49:18,719 –> 00:49:20,360
have to rise about one hundred feet get to my door.

766
00:49:20,840 –> 00:49:23,800
And there’s also another hill like a ravine that actually

767
00:49:23,840 –> 00:49:26,280
probably was the original river that it could siphon off

768
00:49:26,320 –> 00:49:29,960
of if it gets too much like an outlet. I

769
00:49:30,039 –> 00:49:39,239
knew all this before I even bought this house. One

770
00:49:39,239 –> 00:49:41,360
thing I don’t have to worry about. One thing. I

771
00:49:41,360 –> 00:49:43,679
didn’t consider the dang wind out here, because there’s noth

772
00:49:43,719 –> 00:49:46,960
to stop the wind. The so far knock on wood,

773
00:49:46,960 –> 00:49:51,039
it hasn’t knocked anything of importance down. But I’m just

774
00:49:51,119 –> 00:49:58,000
telling you prepare, But also understand that preparing doesn’t make

775
00:49:58,079 –> 00:50:00,840
you bulletproof. It just increases the add of you surviving.

776
00:50:02,199 –> 00:50:08,880
The only constant in a tragic situation is that there

777
00:50:08,920 –> 00:50:15,039
is no constance. It’s a dynamic situation that changes by

778
00:50:15,079 –> 00:50:17,800
the minute. And if you understand that deeply, if you

779
00:50:18,159 –> 00:50:22,800
if you understand that any emergency situation, any tragedy, any tornado,

780
00:50:22,880 –> 00:50:28,679
any flood, any earthquake, whatever, when you pull pull it

781
00:50:28,760 –> 00:50:34,280
into your psyche that the only thing for sure is

782
00:50:34,320 –> 00:50:36,039
that things are going to change by the second, by

783
00:50:36,079 –> 00:50:43,039
the minute, your chances of survival go up. Now, I

784
00:50:43,079 –> 00:50:47,960
guarantee you that nobody in that camp or the campground

785
00:50:47,960 –> 00:50:52,000
that got washed away full of people probably knew where

786
00:50:52,039 –> 00:50:54,199
to get to in case it was flood. They probably

787
00:50:54,199 –> 00:50:57,360
weren’t even thinking about that. I’m sure the camp counselors

788
00:50:57,880 –> 00:51:00,880
weren’t trained on what to do to take the kids.

789
00:51:02,199 –> 00:51:06,239
I hear stories of heroic efforts from some of these counselors,

790
00:51:06,280 –> 00:51:09,159
and I’m not discounting anything they did. I mean, you

791
00:51:09,199 –> 00:51:10,360
just don’t know what you’re gonna do, and you put

792
00:51:10,400 –> 00:51:16,639
into that situation. But hopefully lessons are learned, hopefully all

793
00:51:16,679 –> 00:51:19,239
you can do. And this is just like North Carolina.

794
00:51:22,039 –> 00:51:27,800
It wasn’t that the Biden administration made cuts or did

795
00:51:27,800 –> 00:51:30,639
something wrong in North Carolina. It’s what they did afterwards

796
00:51:30,639 –> 00:51:33,360
by ignoring it for weeks before they even did anything.

797
00:51:34,920 –> 00:51:37,880
Days went by before they even decided to do anything.

798
00:51:38,880 –> 00:51:41,440
And when they did, it was you give us complete

799
00:51:41,440 –> 00:51:43,639
control of everything you’re doing, or you know you’re not

800
00:51:43,679 –> 00:51:45,920
going to get help, or we’re going to do all

801
00:51:45,960 –> 00:51:48,639
of this by you know, race, We’re gonna do it

802
00:51:48,679 –> 00:51:55,719
by who’s the biggest victim first. This is where it matters,

803
00:51:55,719 –> 00:51:59,280
and this is where Trump Donald Trump. President Trump has

804
00:51:59,400 –> 00:52:05,480
the opportunity to be the bigger person to just say

805
00:52:05,480 –> 00:52:07,440
we’re going in there. And he’s already started. He’s already

806
00:52:07,440 –> 00:52:10,960
basically declared the disaster area and told Governor Rabbitt, We’re

807
00:52:10,960 –> 00:52:12,480
gonna give you anything you need to get this taken

808
00:52:12,519 –> 00:52:23,679
care of. That’s the difference. It wasn’t budget cuts. Hopefully,

809
00:52:23,760 –> 00:52:26,039
lessons will be learned. Hopefully the lessons we learned in

810
00:52:26,039 –> 00:52:29,400
North Carolina can be applied to this. But I will

811
00:52:29,440 –> 00:52:34,320
tell you this, Kirk County has to take the responsibility

812
00:52:34,320 –> 00:52:37,320
of not having a system set up to warn these people,

813
00:52:37,400 –> 00:52:40,000
especially when they know that it’s a dangerous He’s the

814
00:52:40,079 –> 00:52:42,000
guy that judge is right in it. This is one

815
00:52:42,039 –> 00:52:46,519
of the most dangerous flood areas in the nation. Well, then,

816
00:52:46,599 –> 00:52:49,440
why aren’t you prepared. Why don’t you have sirens that

817
00:52:49,519 –> 00:52:51,760
tell people? Why don’t you train people that, hey, when

818
00:52:51,800 –> 00:52:56,360
these sirens go off, you know you got to go.

819
00:52:58,320 –> 00:53:02,000
And I am thinking that may be hopefully I’m still

820
00:53:04,719 –> 00:53:07,320
hopefully I’m still in the show because I can’t see

821
00:53:07,360 –> 00:53:11,159
anything saying. I am hope that the guys can hear me.

822
00:53:11,199 –> 00:53:14,280
If you’re still hearing me, let me know, guys, because

823
00:53:14,360 –> 00:53:17,719
things are kind of weird. Wow, this has been a

824
00:53:17,760 –> 00:53:19,920
really odd day, and I don’t know what’s going on

825
00:53:20,039 –> 00:53:25,760
with my computer. But we’ll see what happens. It’s kind

826
00:53:25,760 –> 00:53:29,280
of frustrating. I don’t know, but anyways, it brings us

827
00:53:29,280 –> 00:53:32,280
almost up back up to the hour mark. Hopefull you

828
00:53:32,280 –> 00:53:34,880
guys are still hearing me. I like to thank each

829
00:53:34,880 –> 00:53:37,119
and every one of you for tuning in to Sunday

830
00:53:37,159 –> 00:53:38,880
Night with Alan Ray GOTD. Have missed you all, missed

831
00:53:38,920 –> 00:53:42,239
you all. I’ve had a great time. Oh yeah, I’s

832
00:53:42,280 –> 00:53:47,320
hearing me, so we’re good. I’ll be back next week.

833
00:53:47,360 –> 00:53:51,159
Lord Willing. I’m trying to get Jeff and Rick off

834
00:53:51,199 –> 00:53:53,440
the hook and learn to do all the producing myself.

835
00:53:53,440 –> 00:53:57,079
But really Rick, Rick’s pressing buttons, but he’s he’s also

836
00:53:57,119 –> 00:53:59,280
setting up my picture and all that. I’m gonna have

837
00:53:59,320 –> 00:54:01,280
to spend some time get trained on this, on the

838
00:54:01,320 –> 00:54:04,599
new stuff, the new way of doing live streaming. I’m

839
00:54:04,639 –> 00:54:06,400
so new to all this. I feel like an old guy.

840
00:54:06,400 –> 00:54:11,239
I’m shaking my cane at all of you. We’re gonna

841
00:54:11,280 –> 00:54:13,159
wrap it up. Everybody. Have a great Sunday night. You’re

842
00:54:13,159 –> 00:54:16,320
going into Monday. Hope you had a great Independence Day weekend.

843
00:54:16,840 –> 00:54:19,760
It was hot, yes, but it was also very, very beautiful.

844
00:54:19,840 –> 00:54:22,400
I played a lot of contacts on radio, just sitting

845
00:54:22,400 –> 00:54:27,920
out on my patio with a couple of different courage

846
00:54:27,960 –> 00:54:33,280
great back man. Really do appreciate that, appreciate the encouragement.

847
00:54:33,920 –> 00:54:36,840
Keep it locked on klor and Radio all week long

848
00:54:36,880 –> 00:54:40,320
for the best programming. I’m Alan Ray Sunday Night with

849
00:54:40,360 –> 00:54:43,239
Alan Ray. God bless see you next week. I’m out

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