Episode 173: Helping A Prepper Out

Salty and Spice talk about helping a prepper out. Go to Beans, Bullets, Bandages & You by clicking HERE!

Transcript

spk_1:   0:39
Hello, everybody.

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Good morning, everybody. Or good afternoon. Good evening. Wherever it is, whenever it is, wherever you are. What you show The big show. Largest and most critically acclaimed podcast that it's recorded in our card were in the registered you. Today we're heading to an event, as we usually do. Other weekends on a beautiful Saturday. Beautiful Saturday morning. It's fairly early. It's for me. I'm not a morning person. And we got a mystery episode today. Do

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I tell you what it's about? But no.

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The mystery episode is when I come up with an idea to do a podcast. And my lovely co host Spice does not have any idea what we're talking about. Today we're gonna talk about helping ah, porker out.

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All right,

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She knows how to help a porker out. Now what away? What is the world by talking about helping a pork rind? Is that me actually helping a pig?

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Not eating bacon,

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not eating bacon? Yeah, that's one way to do it. No, that's not that's not what we mean. All right? Right now, in this podcast has recorded, it'll probably be posted fairly. So this is the time of the season when Rag bry occurs. What is ragged? Brian? It's Greg. Present Ackerman for the Registers, a year old bicycle ride across Iowa, more or less in this, when 35,000 people get on their bicycles and ride from one end of the state of Iowa to another, she's always working in the summer, so she'd never had the opportunity to do this. I have done this myself. I have ridden ragged right when I ride Rag. Bry I go with it would serve as an outfitter. They transport my stuff, my tent, my baggage. They set up a camp ground. They have communal everything. It's basically just a way to cut through the nonsense and travel with the team of people who aren't really a team. A lot of people who rides a rag bright thing right as a team, and they have a team buses, and they have. They all meet at the same place, or you can. You can also depend on your luggage being transported by the semis at the Des Moines Register. The sponsor of the event does, but does er that's yeah, it's hard way you write 100 miles in the baking July heat. And then you get to go find your baggage in your tent in a big pile of stuff where they've unloaded two or three semi loads of gear. And that's just not something you really want to do. Trust me when you've ridden a day's worth of rag. Bry, when you get to the end, you want to be done. Is the evening's Camille blast. But you

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get a little towns. He just turn themselves inside out to be beautiful hosts and take all kinds of money from 35,000 tourists.

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Right Years ago it was people were trying to avoid being on the rag brier rabbit. Now it is Ah, highly, highly soft after because it could bring literally millions of dollars into your community because you got 35,000 people and they need everything they need to eat. They need to you know everything.

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People leave for hot showers.

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Yeah, they'll pay you for hot showers will pay you to sleep on your lawn rag. Bry, I like to say rag, Bry is like a major college tail tailgating event. Excuse me for a major college football team, except for it last frayed days you're on bicycles and you're traveling across Iowa, it's, Ah, hoot highly recommend that everybody who can do it at least once. Now we have actually done a state right. What right of Wisconsin together? I'm able to get off in July, and she is not so, but that's where the reasons I don't write all that much time. I don't really like spending my vacations separate, so I probably write it again sometime. But it's anyway. Rag Bride. That's what it is. Oh, you think again, I haven't committed, if you ever It's more fun than it sounds like the service that I always go. Then I'll mention my name because they're outstanding. The best outfitters on the tour is Pork Belly Venture. That's pork belly ventures, and I won't go into the reason why they do there name, but they have. Their motto is, you know, while their name is pork belly ventures, but they always air tryingto develop as much of a community as they can,

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starting with a bunch of people who have just paid

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right there where they're not. We're not friends. We don't know each other, but they're trying to build tribe, too. You know. So do you have a good, friendly, fun time? And one of the things they like to talk about is when you see one of your fellow writers, but he gets another. People who's having trouble or maybe has a flat tire, maybe needs just a good positive word. It's really hot. Whatever. When you get the opportunity, you want to try and help a porker out overall porkers because we're pork belly that your writers write Parker T shirts and you know that's the little stick. So since the first time I went with pork belly Ventures, that's kind of in one of my phrases, you know, it's why do you do something? Well, you gotta help a porker out. That's what you d'oh! And I say that in public, and people just kind of stop they look at me. I've only once had something. Oh, you're a porker. You write report really Ventures? Yeah, it's true. I'm a porker, And any time I ride drag by, I will be a porker and no, excuse me. Oh, goodness. It's early this morning and I'm a little bit clumped. Um, great work, by the way, for clumped I love German words. How did you leave? That's Yiddish. Who is it? I think so. Best of luck. German words. Yeah, where they just pile 45 things, You know, it's great. I love those German words. You're looking a word and you go Oh, really? You're the greatest engineers in the world, and you come up with words like that. Really? But anyway, I digress.

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They could make buildings that are really big, too.

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So we try in everything that we d'oh to keep the service above self in mind. We've talked about before the whole concept of social rent. Yes, we believe very much in social rent. It's for

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the point of being here, in my opinion,

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right? So well. But what I wanted to talk about today is is to encourage you whenever you can to help a porker out. No reward for no, we were just simply because it's the right thing to do. I think we spend as a as a nation of the country far too much time doing what's in our own motivated self interests without paying enough attention to what we need to do as people with others. So this isn't technically a prepping topic, but it ISS because part of being a prepper, I think is too encourage other people two at least recognized prepping as something non nutty

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to see. It is something that's valued and to start to take steps toward that themselves. Reichs us all better off. But can I bring in the biological perspective here? Absolutely. Because this has been it's related to a topic that's been a hot topic and biology for quite a while. Altruism. Because on the surface of it, if you look at biological theory, what it makes most sense for animals to develop, to be able to do is things that benefit them and their progeny. And yet you see altruistic behavior. You see a turtle act. We've actually seen this one. Turtle slips on hillside and falls over on his back, and he's in a ditch and he can't get up. Can't flip over. Other turtles will walk over and get underneath him and shove him over back onto his feet.

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What do they do?

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They help a porker out

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to help a porker out.

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It's not to their particular benefit

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infected, so

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they're not even related to him.

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In some cases, It's from a Gen genetic perspective. It's a dumb move

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because they're competitors. Sometimes they're not even the same species. You've all heard lots of stories of dolphins rescuing or helping humans in the water or driving killer whales or sharks away from him. That's a real thing, too. That is altruism. And for a while people were having trouble explaining this in terms of biological theory. And you gotta resolve that one way or another change theory. Well, here's the thing.

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We'll come back to that in a minute.

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Yeah, when organisms behave in a way that helps out community in general, they all are actually getting a benefit in the long run. It's just a longer timeframe on payback. What happens is if you're in a group of organisms that tend to help each other out with no direct and immediate gain to themselves, well, that's the kind of society you live in. And when you get into trouble, people are more likely to act that way to you. So in a prepping situation, Okay, you're prepped for an emergency. You come across somebody who's having an emergency and they're not prepped. You help a porker out. No, direct benefit to you. But now you've got one more person out there who sees the value of prepping, who doesn't view preppers as a bunch of anti social nut cases who planned to hole up in their bunkers and let yellow starve. You see somebody who sees the value of becoming prepared themselves, and this had a positive role model along that line. The more of those people are out there, the better off we're all gonna be. One times get hard. So there is a benefit. It's just not an immediate and short term benefit. It's a long payoff benefit, and it's not direct. Okay, Salty mentioned a bit ago that, uh, you want to come back to the idea of changing the theory because this is something that just is a normal part of my mindset. I'm a scientist. We do these things. We come up with ideas for how things work, and then we test the ideas. We look for evidence. If the evidence doesn't match the ideas, we change the ideas instead of just ignoring the evidence or trying to recast the evidence or something like that, it's hard to do. It's not along humans natural line, but it's an important part of the process, and we try. And we actually build rules for ourselves to try and hold ourselves to the standard of changing the ideas when the evidence doesn't hold it. A beautiful example was Albert Einstein. He used to be one of the most prominent complete pacifists in the world. He was a leading member of the pacifist movement between World War I and World War two. And then came the rise of Hitler and Albert Einstein left the pacifist movement completely. And he started to do some things that enhanced the war, ever,

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much to their annoyance.

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Yeah, they got on his case and they criticized him roundly for leaving the pacifist movement

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until a point in time.

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Well, I know some people just never change their ideas,

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right, But there were very few passports left by the WW two.

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Yeah, but he was rather bewildered about the attacks, he said, But I'm a scientist. When we change your ideas, when we get new evidence, it's considered to be a good thing. So, yeah, we're in perfect beings, and it's hard to make that happen all the time. But that is the standard, and that's how it's supposed to work. And that's how it works. Eventually, Sometimes it takes a while to overcome people's built in prejudices, but at least that we value the process. So we get there.

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There's different ways that Oh, I'm sorry. I'm I'm really caught up this morning, as they say, I apologize about that, but it is what it is. I'm trying bite through it, but okay, there's altruism in there's ultra. A lot of you know, I am a person who is a blogger for a professional sport. I admit it. I am a I'm a blogger for a professional sports. I do know quite a bit about some professional sports that one of the interesting things is how, when a player and I'll just use football, for example, because we're coming into football season, how a player wants to give back to the communities and then how most of his teammates are open toe help. But very few people are really dedicate themselves to up. There are a few I know they'll have a foundation, and sometimes things just pop up for they don't really know. I'm gonna use the example of J J. Watt. For example, after the hurricane hit Houston, J. J. Watt wanted to raise money to help out people in the Houston end. Other hurricane struck areas. I'm sorry. I apologize again J. J went out to raise. He offered to match 100,000 I believe $100,000 donation if he is every also donate another 100,000 now. He'd matched up to 100,000 by the time people stopped or he cut off the The fund, as most you probably know, ended up raising $31 million for Hurricane. That's real money. Okay, that's real money. J. J. Watt. Yes, he was. He's a famous person. I get that. But he used his fame to help real people. He used that pulpit. He has, if you will. Hey, uh, well, there's one big good event I recognize that was a great thing to do, right? But we're giving a comparing contrast, something that most you probably have not heard. It's another athlete, but it's a it's a it's perfect example of what altruism in athletics, for example, I'm just using isn't example. These are public figures, really. Is Thomas worse dead? Raise your hands if you even know who, Thomas more steady. Is Thomas more stuff? Anybody? I'm

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here with one person in the car here. Reason. Raising a hand. That's that's 50% of the car. I'm hearing

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a lot of crickets out here in the

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I have heard the name before, but I don't know who he is.

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Okay, Thomas more steps is a very generous man. He has a foundation as many problems. Professional athletes. D'oh! Fusing it. Apologize again that his wife is the chair of totally number profit, where they work with local care groups in hospitals to help. Uh, well, they're getting into all the specifics. They help out Children's hospital support group right in their community. More steady is the punter for the New Orleans Saints. Okay, so, yeah, he's a punter. You know, if you're a football player, he's a punter. Yeah, okay.

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Gotta have him on the team, but they're not going to get top billing. Nobody's going to be a lot of their jerseys.

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Yeah, except for New Orleans. A lot of people have Thomas Moore ST jerseys, and here's why. Last year in the playoffs and try not to glaze over if you have political hatred of the NFL. This is not an NFL story. This is a time is more dead story. Last year in the playoffs, the Vikings were down. The game was basically over. They only had one miracles type chance to win the game. Their quarterback drops back kit. Wide receiver Stefan Diggs, who jumped up and caught the ball and the New Orleans defensive back totally and absolutely whiffed on the play. I mean, he just is the biggest whiff I think I've ever seen in my life.

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It was major league with Yeah, I saw that

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digs run down the field and the Vikings win. Yea, for them, I'm not a Vikings fan. I was actually rooting for the Saints. I'm not a Saints fan, either, because we've been saying for years. One of my favorite team does whoever is playing the Vikings. So anyway, it was still a credit. Words do one of the great plays in NFL history and they're all shouting in their old cheering and the game is over, right? Well, in the NFL, up until this offseason, they've changed the rules. You have to kick or you have to have an extra point after every touchdown. There's no time left on the clock. There is no possible way that this game could win end in any way other than a Viking victory. But everybody jumps up, celebrates their doing interviews on the field and, you know, have all the teams that the Saints go into the locker room. But the game isn't over because they literally half to run the next play. It's the rule they can in the game without having the extra point attempt. So somebody sends word into the Saints locker room. Cuming begin I part yes, and who leads the Saints defense quote unquote defense out of the locker room, which is on the other side of the stadium, Out onto the field. Thomas more stead. The punter more Stead goes out there with a bunch of other just random saints and lines up for the extra point. Now the Vikings tell everybody coming, eh? We're just gonna take it name. They're not in any way going. You try and score the points, but still more Stead went out there and he's standing there in the middle linebacker position and this is a okay. Yeah, All right, That's a nice enough story, but there's more more stead on one of the one of us for it. Maybe this first part. But one of the first punch early in the game went out and he tackled the guy who caught the pump. And in doing so, he tour the cartilage between two of his ribs. I don't know. Have you ever had rib injuries? But they're about the most painful things you can have

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run. They're fine until you breathe

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deep, breathe and running around. But he's their only punter. So you know, the next time when he had to go out there and punt, I was watching the game going, Oh my gosh, this guy's gonna hit it 10 yards So he goes out there. He punched and it's a decent pot. I mean, there's nothing wrong with it, and they go back and we show the guy collapsing in absolute agony. After he punched the ball, Eddie pulls himself back up and he runs over to the sideline and he does it again. And he does it again. Just, absolutely could see the guys just gets killing him to do this, but he does his job and he does it well,

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this part is an ultra is, um this part is a man standing up under difficult circumstances to do his job as best he can. Admirable, but not ultras,

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right? We're good so far. And I was impressed. And interestingly, a fan group in Minnesota noticed this. You couldn't help? No spray. Very. And a couple days after the game, one of the guys I believe it was a radio guy. You know, I wish there was a way we could do something because that was just gods. That was class. That was guts. No, he went out there. He did his best. He do his job. He did it very well. And then when? After the embarrassment. But it was embarrassing. Play for the Saints is embarrassing play. After the embarrassment, even though he was injured, he still stood up and went out with the team. Thomas Morton. What could we do? Well, it turns out he has this little foundation. We're talking about what happens if we were to send money. Hey, let's send a little money to his foundation in honor of how hard the guy played, how he played the game the right way. So this little group of Minnesota fans, they sent a donation and they publicized. Boom. It went viral more stead. Didn't know a thing about it. He did nothing. What about his foundation is for the hospitals in New Orleans. These people were from Minnesota. So all of the sudden, somebody in the organization his little organization knows, Hey, we're also getting huge donations. What's going on here? And then So they start pulling up the records is like, These people are all from Minnesota.

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Do we need to point out that the New Orleans fans were not following the Minnesota fan spots right after that came?

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So yeah, they're like, What in the world is going on here? So they found out about it, and it was absolutely on The money just starts pouring it now. It wasn't to the J. J. Watt skin was still big, So Moore said, You know, he goes on the social media. They said, Look, Viking slaves. Thank you. Thank you a lot. I appreciate this. My organization is based here in Louisiana. We help our local Louisiana people, but this is a big deal. So what? I want to do, and I've talked to my people and we've talked to. We found their sister organization that does the same thing is what we do in Minnesota. So we're going to take all of the money that you good Minnesota people. Good Minnesota fans aren't donating, and we're going to send it back into your community in Minnesota. And if we raise 100,000 bucks, I'll come up there and give the check in person during an operation in about 1/4 $1,000,000. But more than that, it shined a spotlight on this organization that helps Children's and Children's families in hospitals cope with the whole thing of being in the hospital again. More studs, the punter for the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota fans are rabid Viking fans, so this is not a situation that's a long term type deal.

spk_1:   28:09
But he ends up buying a bunch of, say, gas cards for parents of Minnesota Children who need to travel to see their Children and don't have the money to get there.

spk_0:   28:16
Exactly. This is the kind of stuff Donnelly that, but since he's done this, donations for this program have gone way up organically because people now know it's there.

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If you do, good people notice exactly if you do good. Other people are motivated to do good.

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If you shine a light on good and there's nothing helping Children and their sick Children and their families, you don't get any better than that. That's that's that's good. Okay, I'll care who you are. Helping Children, sick Children and their families is a good thing. That's what good looks like. And just in case anybody's confused, that is what good looks like. So I just wanted to mention that this is just an example. Yes, it's a famous person, but he was doing his thing in New Orleans when he didn't have to. I'm sorry, and so I just wanted to point it out. Mention it, and we're

spk_1:   29:44
not saying Don't feed your family first or anything like that. But there comes a point, I think, in the proper community. A lot of people are so worried about people finding out they have. Perhaps they don't want They wouldn't try anything out of their hands to help a porker out because somebody might notice they were able to help. Well, you know, we're big people and ah, you can set boundaries and you can decide what you need to do to take care of your family. And absolutely, it's your responsibility to see to your own first. But frankly, if you're well prepared, there are many situations in which you will be able to have enough to spare and to be able to help. And it will do nothing but improve the situation in the country overall, on in your community in particular, if you take those steps. So it's a long term strategy and it's not a direct payoff strategy. As a matter of fact, to some, it doesn't even look like a strategy at all. But, uh, it's good for the community. It's good for the people you're helping. It's good for you because frankly greatly improves happiness to be able to assist other people. You look at the happiness research that's one of the big things that pops up. Being selfish could make you materially successful, but it doesn't make you happy. Apparently, this is just my opinion. This is research stuff, so hope a porker out, man.

spk_0:   31:21
Here's the thing you might be saying. Look, you might be a single parent you might not have money. It's not all about money. There are things you can do everybody can do to help a porker out. It may be baby sitting. So what's Your neighbor could go out and do what she needs to dio it. Maybe, um, I don't know. Maybe all kinds of things that could be welcoming that that neighbor that you haven't met yet. But, you know, taking a taking a loaf of homemade bread over to Or, you know,

spk_1:   31:56
I've been doing a super secret, huh? Kind of prep these last weeks when I've had way more tomatoes than I can possibly eat. And some of them don't store very well given away a bunch of my excess produce. I've got some people planning tomato plants that didn't do it before. So just donating a little tell people see how good it could be to be more self sufficient and to be more prepared, and now some of them have actually started doing, and I provide the starter plants to a couple of people. So there's always something you can do

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is always open, and the thing is, I think it's important that we actively look for opportunities to help work out. Don't just help it out. How poker out when it comes, just look for the opportunities. I gotta be honest with you. Three. B. Y is not a money making pressure. We don't make a dime. This cost us hundreds of dollars a year.

spk_1:   33:09
It's part of our social rent.

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It's part of our, you know, we're just trying to help a porker out. We don't get to die, not one dying. It's all expense

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in time, expense

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and time. Expect a huge time expense.

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But we are trying to help make our community better prepared.

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Right? This is one of the things that we do to we really, truly believe. We're 100% committed to the concept of inclusive propping. We are just 100% absolutely. And we put our money in our time where our mouth is believers, that the more people who are prepped, the better off we all are. If one more person is prepped tomorrow because they listen to our podcast to read our website, you know, that person may end up saving five lives, and I don't know that just to me that makes that makes a difference

spk_1:   34:11
and being more self sufficient and more capable day today because you've learned skills and collected some things that often come in handy. That just improves quality of life, even when there's no big dramatic emergency going on

spk_0:   34:27
right. And this you have. Everybody has talent. Everybody have skills. You can always help a poor crap with what you know, what you can do. Everybody you know it may be. Let's say, for example, I have a friend whose son is fairly mentally challenged. Put it that way is down syndrome. I can't really do Ah whole lot. That requires a higher end mental functionality. But you know what they did last month they went toe Iowa and this young man who's job. He has a full time job, Um, returning cards from the lot at a big box store. That's his job. He loves doing it. They went and filled sandbags in Iowa, where there was flooding. He could do that. He could fill sandbags.

spk_1:   35:34
He's a good man.

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He's a good guy. And he was he. It was his idea to get his dad to drive him upto Iowa when he saw the flooding on TV and people selling filling sandbags. You know, he told his dad I couldn't do that. So they went. When you go and help somebody who's in a flood and you're not flooded, you're helping a porker out. You know, when you stop and help somebody change a tire who may not be able to change a tire? You're helping a poor Kraut. My digression. My digression. You ready for it? Okay, everybody, check your spare tire. Make sure it's got area. Sure is not righted. We treat you have one of your new vehicle. If you have a new vehicle in you, Kevin, check to make sure there's a spare tire in your trunk jacket. There's a good chance you don't have one. You may have a can of fix a flat in there and not a spare tire. A lot of cars today or something. This car we're driving, it was sold without a spare tire in it.

spk_1:   36:43
It's got one. Now.

spk_0:   36:43
He's got one now. Actually, what it's got is a brand spanking new tire of the exact same type on the other. You know, I bought five tires, not four. It's got the regular rim on it. So that it matches the rest of the car.

spk_1:   37:05
Sometimes we're a long way from

spk_0:   37:07
Yeah, sometimes we're a long way from home, and I don't want to drive her out on a doughnut, So But that was because we did that extra. So check your spare tire. Make sure you have one. And I'm not even joking on this, all right? You just want ad for helping a porker out.

spk_1:   37:29
It's worth doing on many levels. And some of the things I've done have given me some treasured memories. As we pass by the one of the levees I sandbagged for in the flood of 83 19 93 Outstanding. Standing on a levee, putting down sandbags and they're starting a hand out the life preservers.

spk_0:   37:51
When they do that, you know you're there.

spk_1:   37:54
And you can say, Hey, yeah, very literally. Help save the town because that particular town made it.

spk_0:   37:59
Okay, one more digression. Just because we've got a couple more minutes and you could we're done with the podcast. You

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can turn it

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off, But we're in West Quincy, and this is one of the scenes of one of the strangest things I've ever heard of uh, this is this area that we're driving right now. We're proud. Four miles from Quincy itself were in the in, the floodplain was under and 93. It was under

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that barn was up to above the

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It wasn't under the wood doors. We were Where we are right now is about 20 feet down, and we can't quite see the levee, but moved towards the levee and this levee just north of the of the bridges. A worker got tired. I wanted to go home, so he started pulling sandbags off of it. Broke the loving.

spk_1:   38:53
This is three weeks. I believe it was into 24 hour work on the levee. Did to try and keep it up by volunteers and every state worker. They could scrape up a national guard and

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and people who were doing their community service. So anyway, he did it. He got arrested, For it is the only person in the history of the state of Missouri has ever gone to prison for the crime of causing a catastrophe that is an actual Missouri law causing a catastrophe.

spk_1:   39:33
The fun thing is that Levy was in no way gonna last that long

spk_0:   39:36
you know

spk_1:   39:36
what, And

spk_0:   39:36
just laughing. It's a saying Love it

spk_1:   39:38
because it was It was very sketchy for the whole week ahead, and it was three weeks into a two month long flood. Never would've made.

spk_0:   39:47
It never would have helped. But the interesting part of it is since he pulled the sandbag off. And since that was the impetus for the river busting through the loving, that's not a flood that is a man made disaster. And all the insurance companies with this whole area had to pay. Not the flood insurance, but the actual insurance. And this includes, well, one of the things that nap hide industries, a big, huge manufacturing plant of truck beds Insurance company had to pay 100% boom nailed it.

spk_1:   40:30
They got completely rebuilt.

spk_0:   40:32
Yeah, but I will tell you, I believe that the fact that Joe Fat Cat had to pay it's what I got this guy

spk_1:   40:45
in the

spk_0:   40:45
big house, For God's sake, we're coming right up on the levee. Now. You can't quite see where it is from where we are. But if you if you're in Quincy and you're driving across the bridge, is if you look north, and you could see it just a little bit. Where there's a section of levee that is rock, that's what broke.

spk_1:   41:04
You can probably still find the YouTube video of gas station exploding. Quincy, Illinois. In 1993 were were This is the gas station where passing because as the floodwaters rushed in, they picked up one of their storage tanks, slammed it against the side of the building, and the whole thing blew up in a spectacular fireball.

spk_0:   41:25
What's funny is my friends. This is just the way people watch the news and understand the news. We have friends who many, many friends who live in Quincy and you know all of their because Quincy was on the news over and over and over again during the flood and all of their dirty. They're friends who have never been to Quincy. We're calling him. Are you being flattered? Quincy's on a hill, Okay, It was West Quincy, which was in the Quincy itself. There on help. They're fine, you know. There there are 100 feet up in the air. They're not a problem there, but the riverfront. Yeah, there's there's marks on some of these buildings as to how high the water got. It was pretty darn high. I'll tell you that much. We're driving across the bridge right now, so we're gonna let you go. Thank you for listening, as always and have a good one.