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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load. So Michael Arry Show is on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Jiman, did you know that if a jellyfish stings you,
you just need to peel on it. The problem is
where do you find that jellyfish again? Because he's way
out in the ocean. A friend of mine called me
to tell me his sweetish car broke down and all
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the details about what a hasslet caused him, And I said,
nobody wants to hear your sob story. My buddy took
his girlfriend of the baseball game last night, said they
had a great time. He kissed her between the strikes
and she kissed him. Betwe nevermind.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We thought you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
A family program. That's a family program. Marcus Latrell will
be at nine fifteen, Susan will be at nine oh seven. Susan,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart,
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Michael. You were talking earlier about those lives lost in
the flood and that the three people they're still searching
for that they would finally have closure. Michael, there's no
such thing as closer. My husband and I have two daughters.
One of our daughters was killed in a car wreck
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two years and seven months ago, eight months ago, tomorrow
and burned up in that vehicle. There's no closure, Michael,
she's never coming back.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tell people that tell me that, I'll tell you that. Yeah,
I'm sorry, Go ahead, you're good.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
All the people that tell you if you need anything,
just let me know, they're just trying to say kind words.
But you won't be surprised that, or maybe you would
be surprised at all. The people that disappear out of
your life after something like that. They don't come around,
they don't call, they're just absent. So you just sometimes
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really feel quite alone. I sent you an email a
couple of weeks ago. It was pretty lengthy. I know
you don't read lengthy ones, but I don't even know
if I did it right. I'm sixty six years old,
so the phone is not my best friend for trying
to figure out how.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To do stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So, but susan scary every day for somebody who has
lost a loved one recently, You've learned something about yourself
and about the grieving process that you could never have
known until you go through it. What would you say
to somebody who that's going to happen to in the future.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm going to tell them that God doesn't give you
anything more than what you can handle. You can handle it.
It's pretty tough, but God makes us pretty darn strong.
And the things that we don't think that we can
make it through, we do make it through. And it's
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I mean, if I didn't have God in my life,
I'd be one lost Buffy. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That, Susan, thank you for the cost we heart. God,
bless you. I love my kiddos more than anything in
the world. I know you do too as well. Let's
go to Craig greg Girl on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Go ahead, Oh, Michael, Uh, I want to start with amen. Amen,
brother God. God is great, God His glory. Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So I was coming through Houston Saturday morning in a
hurry to get down of my little man.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That guy's got me bothered.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Down my little place and flashes and I was in
a rush. Had my crew sat on eighty eighty miles
an hour, and as I would come traffic was pretty light.
As I would come on traffic, I would use my
turn signal, but I would pass them sometimes you can
accelerate and uh, getting in about about kid well, I
noticed the motorcycle coming up behind me, and I yielded
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to that motorcycle, but the motorcycle didn't pass me. He
stayed behind me, or it stayed behind me. So I
was coming up on another car. Now turned my signal.
I got back in the left lane and I accelerated
on that car and uh sooner after that motorcycle had some.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Ready blue license. It was a police officer. So the
police officer.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Pulled me over and I got off the highway, got
off the feederoe got into a motive parking lot and
he asked for my license and insurance. Well, my insurance
was but I had I assured him I had insurance.
And anyway, make a long story short as I can.
He went back to his motorcycle, and he came back
a couple of months later and he said, I'm gonna
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let you go with a warning. And it was his
officer was mister Taylor with the Houston Police Department.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And I want to thank mister Taylor for.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Cuting out slack because I was just kind of absent
mind of being stupid. I was being safe, but I
was being stupid. And but those people like that, I really.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But that's all I got Mike, let me ask you this,
Uh what what? What had were you speeding?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is that? What was going?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yes, I was doing eighty and the sixty five.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And you were in what were you driving?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A pickup truck?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You know, I don't know how your vehicle drives. But
when I was younger, I prided myself on speeding. I
thought it was cool, and I bragged on it. And
now I'm such an old fuddy dud, and I wanted
to be. You know, my kids were at an age
for those number of years that I knew they were
watching how Dad drives, and I didn't want them to
think that driving like a maniac or above the speed
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limit was a good idea. So I was a very
careful driver. And they'll tell you that today. When I
was younger, that was not true. I thought it was
cool to be a reckless driver and a fast driver.
But I changed that because I knew that I had
two little ones in the backseat that were going to
do what I did when they got behind the wheel,
and I didn't want one of them to hurt themselves
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or someone else because they were mimicking Dad when Dad
could taught them a better way to do it. But
you know, my wife and I were out in a
crowd on Saturday afternoon and we were at a market
and there was a lady who said to her daughter,
her daughter had kind of wandered off and she got
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her back, and she said, if that happens again, who
do you ask for help? It was a police officer
over to the side, and she said, you asked a
guy in the uniform. Now, it's not in every community
that people learn that a police officer is there to
help you, But that officer did more at that moment
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to make you a partner with You know, you talk
about real community oriented policing. Lee Brown talked about it,
but didn't put it into practice. An officer that can
show kindness even if he had written you a ticket.
An officer that can show kindness in the midst of
a difficult job and stress goes further to help preventing
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crime than anything else you can do. Thanks for the crow.
Marcus Patrell is our guest coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Must be right.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You were listening to Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You've been back five segments and you already screwed up.
My goodness, everybody heard it. Everybody heard it, everybody noticed,
and it was the intro for Marcus Trel. I wanted
us to put our best foot forward, and what do
you do but skip the record. Let's get you put
a scratch record on lone survivor. Marcus Theatrel is our guest.
Welcome to the program, sir, thank you, good morning. Honored
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to have you. As always, I called to check and
see how you were doing. Texted to check and see
how you were doing. And you and Morgan were in Kerville.
That's what're you doing there? You said, Dives, why were
you there?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, after that storm had come through there. I had
never been to that particular area and I didn't know
what was back there, and I didn't really realize how
many people were affected and how many people that were
close to me were affected by that. So the phone
call started coming out that our babies were in trouble.
And it's different when adults. And I don't know why
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that is the way it is, but it just is.
And anyone who has children knows this feeling. It's something
that comes on to you after you have kids. But
if anybody's kids are in trouble, and when this phone
call started rattling in that they needed an all hands
on that kind of deal. So we just packed up rolled.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When you pack up, it old, what do you pack
up for a situation like that?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, So I have a go bag that's prepared at
all times, sits in the tool box my truck, and
then I have one actually in the garage. But it's
a natural disaster kind of if you live into you
live in Houston. Every time a hurricane comes through or
our city gets sacked by something like that, everyone usually
has an outfit that they wear for days. It's a
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minimalistic approach to anything. It's basically just a one layer,
two layers of clothes, a toothbrush, and a fresh change
of socks, and just get out the door and get
there and go from there. Because in a situation like that,
the only thing that you really need is a human
being as sustenance, and that's just food and water, and
that was provided when we got there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So you and Morgan rode together.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He rolled out first. He rolled out Saturday morning, and
I rolled out Sunday after church. I went in and
got the prayer through some up to the all money
and tell him what we were about to do.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And where did y'all muster?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So we rolled up at there was a youth center
in Curbville, and that's where all the leadership and the
headshed had rolled into and we're setting up shop in there,
and that's the first place that we rolled into.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And then what happens from there? How do you get
dispatched from there?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So we were standing up kind of beside the wall there,
and when Morgan got in, there was a I mean
when I say all hands on deck, you couldn't believe
who showed up there. I mean, every law enforcement agency
that we had was represented in that. They call it
the HQ or the talk depends on what branch of
service you're in. We all have different names and acronyms
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for what that was. But it's basically where the leadership,
all the computer systems and everyone checks in and we
muster up in the morning to get your marching orders,
basically where you're going to go on the river, who
you're gonna go with, and what you're gonna do. And
in the beginning, when things were getting set up, it
was kind of a it was kind of a hodgepouse
as everything was coming to a kind of into formation.
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So Morgan linked.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Up with the Curville County swat team.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And let me tell you about a bunch of badasses
they are. I mean, them guys were getting it done.
If I could give any thanks, appreciation and praise, it'd
be it definitely be to them as well. I mean
there we'll get into who showed up out there, but
those guys were rocking and rolling and they were their
their sole purpose was transport. So every time that we
found a body, they would get called in to transport
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it to the the Emmy. So he was riding around
with them for the for the first couple of days,
and then I was at mystic in the water.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Was the water still flowing pretty heavy at that point.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Now, I mean it had come down back into the banks.
That was That was the crazy thing about him, Mike.
When we rolled into town, and I couldn't say something.
Anybody who was out there knows saw this thing. With
a minute I rolled in. I was right behind Morgan.
The damage, this kind of it was all through the river.
It hucked the river banks and over the road up
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probably about two three hundred yards into the houses. And
the first thing I saw, and I never seen anything
like this there was Hey, if you ask anybody who
was there, the don't know about this thing. There was
a guardrail that had been twisted so tired it looked
like a twizzler stick, like somebody had done it on purpose,
And I mean it was something that you had to
stare at it. It was kind of unbelievable. And then
once you rolled in there, the cars were everywhere, and
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you could tell that the debris field had flushed over
over and spilled into the houses because most of them
had been torn, and it's like the water got inside
of there and spun around and then kicked everything out
the sidewalk, including the sidewalk, and the river had gone
back down into its normal capacity and was still flowing
pretty good, but it wasn't like it's kind of hard
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to fathom what it must have been like when that
thing was rolling through there because of the damage. And however,
that bro there was a dumpster that looked like somebody
had crumpled up a piece of foil and threw it
in the corner, And then there were cars buried completely
under the river, and then in trees there was a
brand new Ford Mustang was black convertible and it was
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standing on its nose, perched up in one of those
cypress trees, or three or four of them are. And
then I remember one of the first ones I saw.
The only reason we knew was a BMW because they
had a ram on it, and you can see the
BMW signal. And it didn't look like somebody had put
it in a car crunch or it was in a
car wreck. It looked like somebody had grabbed it with
one of those excavators and thrown it into a multi
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machine and then spit it back out and did it again.
So the violence of the water must have been absolutely substantial.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I saw a picture, Marcus. The trell is our guest, Marcus.
I saw a picture of somebody that had the good
sense to take this photo to give the perspective. And
it showed a man who was six feet tall, and
then he raised his hand up above his head ashigh
as he could go, and it showed that, so you
figured in what seven and a half eight feet And
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then it showed where the water had carried something that
got hung up in a tree that was over twenty
feet high, and you imagine what it must have been like.
I have read every report I can possibly find in
print about what people went through who survived and were
able to tell it. I wish so many other people
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could have told their stories, but they didn't survive. To
imagine what it was like. There was a guy with
Texas Monthly that they're in a house that's up on
stilts fourteen feet high and the house literally just gets
ripped off the stilts and before they know it, they're
rushing down the river. They get out and they get
up on top of it. And you know, I don't
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have a frame of reference. You know, you're a Navy seal,
you've trained, you've gone underwater, you've done all these things.
I have no frame of reference to be able to
even process what the heck's going on. Marcus the trails,
our guests, more of him, come up, these chairs, Keith
rolling around. Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut
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and jar Bizaar of talk Radio. As awful as the
Kerrville floods were, and you know, we use that for
shorthand I want to be clear there were other counties
who suffered terribly, but Kerrville itself was hit so hard,
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and a lot of folks in Houston especially knew many
of the families at Camp Mystic and Camp Lahunta. I
know we did, and I know, based on emails you've sent,
many of you did as well, and so it just
hits home even more so. I spoke to Pat Green
this weekend and he was in Houston for his brother's funeral.
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His brother, his brother's sister, and their kids. So you know,
when the headlines are gone and the funerals continue and
the recoveries continue, those families will suffers. As a number
of you have emailed, there is no closure. It's just
another step. There's time, things are different, but there is
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no actual closure. A number of folks emailed me to
tell me that. So Marcus the Trail, like so many people,
and his brother Morgan the congressmen were there to help
in any way they could. I know that just there.
You won't like the word, but celebrity status no notoriety,
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meant a lot to a number of people, because I
heard from people, Hey, the Ta Trail brothers are here.
Most people didn't know which one was which because they're twins.
I'll tell you. Because Morgan's skinnier now and Marcus has
more facial hair, it's a lot easier to tell them apart.
But I know that that meant a lot to other
people that they were there, and a number of other
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people were so many law enforcement came from across the country.
As Marcus said, Marcus, you you were talking about being
there at Kemp Mystic and seeing what had happened, and
that's that's where we lost the most lives in one,
one single spot. If you would continue kind of with
with what you saw that it's just hard to believe,
you know, this one hundred year old facility, so many traditions,
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so much legacy going through that place. So many girls
that went on to be moms and grandmothers and civic
leaders and political leaders and educators went through that place.
There's a lot of tradition there.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You can see that too. Definitely a legacy camp. You
could feel that when you went in there. And let
me tell you something, when when we got our footing
in there and we were there to support those that
were supporting and when the first thing you saw was
the DPS when they came in and locked the roads down.
And usually when I'm having to deal with the DPS
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because I've been doing something wrong right and I'm usually
in trouble, they were so professional and they locked that
stuff down, and then the game wardens showed up. And
when they showed up, they started doing their thing. They
were working the rivers and again I usually don't run
into them unless I'm trying to get away with something,
and they were awesome, and they started bringing in the
cadaver dogs. Now the only way we got anything done
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because we started with our hands with shovels, and the
civilians were in there with chainsaws, and then the cadaver
dogs showed up and started spotting the bodies. And I
don't know if a lot of people are familiar with excavators,
and what an excavator is the track vehicle has a
huge arm on it. When those boys showed up, those
excavator drivers, it was a game changer. They won't ever
get any credit. Let me tell you something. There was
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this country boy sitting on one of those excavators and
his wife was with him, and she sat on the
outside of that machine, on the top of it, with
her arms on that rail, laser locked, laser locked on
those piles that we were uncovering, because they would come
in there and a great excavator driver is worth more
money than anything, and he would scratch the surface so
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not to disrupt or do any more damage to any
of those bodies, and she would see a piece of
clothing or something and stop all movement. And we'd go
in there and hit the pile, pull out some shoes
or clothes or something like that, and then she'd get back.
She didn't move all day, sat on the outside of
that machine all day.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
And let me tell you something, those excavator.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Drivers and those skid steer drivers, Thank God for Country Rednecks.
They're one of the best blessings that Texas ever had
in the United States. They were hacking. When they show up,
they are all business. No one ever focuses on them.
But you want to know, the people who came in
and made the difference was those excavator boys and those
skid steer drivers and those cadaver guys. And then that
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in itself was just an absolute game changer. And then,
oh my god, man, the Christians showed up. And when
I'm talking about the Rednecks that had the cutoff wranglers
and the rock and roller T shirt with a net
cutout right, and they would throw up the barbecue pits
and sit there day and no one ever paid for
any food. You didn't pay for any water, it was
just it was kind of a utopia on the outside
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of it, and then when you walked into the valley
to go to work, it's like you knew when you
got out of there there was somebody that had your back.
Everyone was there for the same purpose, and it was
unbelievable the camarade, God bless Texas. Man, I don't have
I still don't have vocabulary to tell you how wonderful
when you had the people and the police and everybody
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working in Unison. And I think the only time that
ever happens is when we go through tragedy. I mean,
most everybody else is kind of dealing with their lives
day to day, and then the police are there to
help us stay in the lanes trying to get through
our lives. But man, when we come together, it was
a force to be reckoned with. That in itself is
what allowed you to get in there every single day
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because you saw people from all walks of life in
there for a common purpose. Everybody was I mean, everybody's
getting along and they won't any problems, and it was
just amazing, amazing to see that. And I'll never be
able to express my thanks to those excavator drivers. I
mean them country boys. I'm talking about the ones that
were on their daddy was an excavator driver, and they
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were sitting on their lap, you know, at four years old,
learning the controls on that thing. Because when they would
maneuver in through those cypress trees on the side of
those rock ledges, the debris field was so extensive that
that's what was keithling, that was what was slow in
the pace. And when they got in there with those
cadaver dogs, it was just a game changer. It was
an absolute game changer. I mean, you won't be able
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to thank them enough. If anybody deserves praise, it's those
It's the police officers and uh and their country boys
on those machines. For sure.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Were any Marcus latrell Is our guest, Were any of
the family members there alongside y'all? Did you? Did you
spot them during all of this, because I know that
had to be.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Tough, Yes, sir, absolutely. They came into Mystic while I
was standing in there, and there was there was people
at Camp Mystic in itself that had kind of frontline
control with them. Okay, so we started. They wanted us
to collect their valuables and we really weren't doing that
in the beginning, because that was the hardest part. If
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you want to know what I thought was the most
difficult is their stuff was everywhere down the river. So
you would find stuff with their trunks with their names
on it, or their little CD cases or their towels,
and then they had their shorts and stuff like that
and all had their names in it. And we were
hunting down they wanted. There's Teddy Bears in particular that
we were after. It's just kind of anything that we
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could find of theirs to bring to bring back to them.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Was because the anticipation was worse.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It's kind of like getting into a fight before before
the fight is what's worse. I mean, so we're you're
walking around and you're hoping you find something, but then
you're hoping you don't find something. That that kind of mentality.
But the whole time you're doing that, you're seeing evidence
that they're there. It's like you know that it was
brewing up, and we we collected as much as that
as we possibly could for the families, and you know
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it as well as I do. I mean, our Texas
we've been through so much in the last twenty years
that it's just you don't know what to say to them.
You just want to be there for him.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Mark, because I guess can you hang for one more seconds?
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Boum Jomway.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Marcus Latrell is our guest. Mor Because I don't know
if you've seen this photo. The Associated Press put it out.
The caption that the chronicle ran with it says a
sheriff's deput he pauses while combing through the banks. Let
me see if I can go back to that. While
combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp
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Mysstic Saturday, July fifth, after a flash flows went through
the area. And it's a guy who's biceps are as
big as my legs, and he has he's real, he's real,
sun tanned, his black hair. He looks like he could
be Hispanic or Samoa, and you can't tell because his
hands are over his eyes and he's he's carrying, I
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don't know, some sort of huge stick in his right hand.
He's law enforcement. He's got his gear on. I've you've
seen that picture, but it's one of the most poignant
pictures to come out of all this. And I guess
my question is when you guys step back away from
the families and we're talking amongst yourselves. What what did
y'all notice about what this storm had done to this area.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, let's actually tell you that the largest strongest men
among us can get broken down by something, especially when
it comes to the little ones. And I was fortunate
enough to be there was a bunch of seals there
and that stuff. Guys, and we kind of migrated towards
each other and we all stay at this camp up
the road called Camp Baltimore. That sounds that come out
of a Harry Potter movie. That's actually what it was.
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So thank thank them for that, Thank you for letting
us stay up there. And then we would migrate down
into the town in the hunt. There was a church there,
a Baptist church that we would all rally up at.
And one of saving graces that we had was at
the end of the day we got to go over
outside of the valley and get into some air conditioning,
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had a hot shower and a great meal, and then
we would all kind of we would talk like seals,
are we're good at this because we'll just talk. We
just start talking about some stuff and get that stuff
off our chests and what kind of what's in our brain.
We don't hold that in and that that is the
absolute blessing about being able to have those guys around
each other. We can do that. We also bled into
the civilian to help out with that. That's kind of
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how we cope. But you can tell that that each
day that went by, it was kind of it would
layer more and more and more, especially when we were
when we find a little one, because everyone knew when that.
When that happened, and and you could feel that resonate
through the camp, there was an elation like great, we
found one. But then it was like, oh, we found
another one, and it was, uh, it's time progress to
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just kind of you could tell you getting onto some
of the guys a little bit for sure. Well, I
mean I don't sure how strong you are.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It happens, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sure you're a
very different man in twenty twenty five than you were
twenty years ago in five when Operation Red Wings happened.
I mean you start thinking about the world and the
next generation now that you have children, as you do.
I know, I'm a very I drive differently, I take
chances differently, I look at my health differently. I'm a
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different person, and we look at the world differently when
it comes to children. Thank God for it. I think
God plants that set in us.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh, it has to be right, it has to be
You can't. I don't know if, especially our generation, if
we didn't make the transition, there's no way we would
we could carry this thing on. I don't think we
could get it done. We're We're just different. All the
wars and pandemics and everything that we had to go through,
eventually we had the transition and grow up, and then
you know, there is a weakness or a vulnerability I
think now inside of us, especially like with our generation,
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we didn't have that at the beginning. We you know,
go as hard as you can, hopefully you die early.
And now we have the kids and the responsibility of
our country and our state Texas. I mean, it's just
kind of like we got to take this thing over
and when you when you step into that breach, there's vulnerabilities.
I absolutely feel that I've killed that guy that was
in the wars. I'm not I don't have any of
that left in me. Really, I remember it, but I
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am just, like you said, completely different and I think
we all had to make that transition.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, I can't help but think about the woman that
you talked about, because she will her name and story
will be lost to history. But the wife who never
expected herself. She stayed home wife, or she was off
from work or whatever. And there she is with her
husband whose name nobody knows, and he's on the excavator
and she's out there focused and nobody's patting her on
(28:38):
the back other than you now, and we don't know
her name. And I just think how many people did
things like that, and through every talent they had that day,
that moment that families will never get to thank them.
And now they're back in Beaumont or Willis or wherever
it is they live, living their lives, and no one
will realize what a hero that person was at that moment.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There was there was, There was some people out there.
There was one guy named Dave. He had this huge chainsaw.
Everyone knows who he is. And then there was a
dive named Dale, Diver Dale and you can'll never forget him.
And so that guy on that excavator with his wife,
and I wouldn't know if they wanted to be the
say the name I will never you.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You couldn't even believe what this what that looked like.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
She sat there the entire laser for week.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
To all the.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Seals, we were just kind of sitting there and the
rest of those that stuff guys, just watching that go down,
watching him dig that stuff out, and watching her sit there.
And I'm talking about if if she even laid eyes
on anything in those piles, she stopped all all movement
and we'd have to go out there. And she didn't
even put the excavator and get onto it, but get
in there, get down on you man, rug lead, you know.
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And and she never said anything.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I mean she she never said a word.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And it was just all up and down the river
with us integrating into them, from the police officers, from
the DPS, and the game morning. I can't say enough
about the game warns man uh and what they did,
and then the state police in there and all the volunteers.
I mean, God bless Texas and our people, because when
the Seals came in there, we were just kidding. I
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remember us talking about how I actually felt It's the
first time in a long time that I had felt
good again. And I know it sounds weird, because I
have the greatest life ever. But there's a feeling that
goes when you're in that in that environment that we
were trained for, and it rejuvenated my life into where
I just reminded me how thankful I am to have
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all this, and especially have those guys, those teammates of
mine and showed up there and they were coming in
left and right and doing that and then just getting
out of dodge afterwards, never saying a word. And what
you said is true. There's so many people that came
in there and did that. You won't even know who
they are, but we'll remember them. You'll never forget them.
And we gave them all nicknames or you remember what
they did even if you don't remember their name. But
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it's it's forever burned inside of our brains. We talk
about it all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You if you remember this because you were in the
thick of it. But when I found out ADPs trooper,
a friend of mine, Stephen Woodard, said you were there,
and I reached out and said, hey, thank you to
you and you and Morgan for being there. Make sure
everybody there knows we appreciate them and you for being
out there and doing that. And you said I was
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born for this. I really do believe God plants in
each one of us a skill set, and there are
certain people. We all have to do our part. There
are certain people that are drawn to a moment like
this because you've got to skill, the talent, the ability
to push through it when maybe the rest of us
wouldn't have been able to handle some of what you've
seen and done in your life. But it's fantastic, and
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you're right. The message of this is, it really is
the best of Texas. It's the best of our people,
and it takes a tough moment like this to remind
us of it. We love you, Marcus Treil, Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, I love your brother. You know.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I think about that woman there with her husband, and
when people say, you know, why don't you get depressed
for the future of our because that woman went back.
Maybe she's maybe she backs groceries, Maybe she's the teller
at the bank, Maybe she's somebody's secretary. Maybe she's a
school teacher, maybe she owns a small business. Maybe she's
a stay at home mom. Maybe we'll never know, but
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they're out there, and you don't know they're out there.
You don't see the goodness until something like this calls
it out.
It's that time, time, time.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Time, luck and load. So Michael Arry Show is on
the air.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Jiman, did you know that if a jellyfish stings you,
you just need to peel on it. The problem is
where do you find that jellyfish again? Because he's way
out in the ocean. A friend of mine called me
to tell me his sweetish car broke down and all
(00:55):
the details about what a hasslet caused him, And I said,
nobody wants to hear your sob story. My buddy took
his girlfriend of the baseball game last night, said they
had a great time. He kissed her between the strikes
and she kissed him. Betwe nevermind.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
We thought you.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
A family program. That's a family program. Marcus Latrell will
be at nine fifteen, Susan will be at nine oh seven. Susan,
you are on the Michael Berry Show. Go ahead, sweetheart,
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Michael. You were talking earlier about those lives lost in
the flood and that the three people they're still searching
for that they would finally have closure. Michael, there's no
such thing as closer. My husband and I have two daughters.
One of our daughters was killed in a car wreck
(01:54):
two years and seven months ago, eight months ago, tomorrow
and burned up in that vehicle. There's no closure, Michael,
she's never coming back.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
Tell people that tell me that, I'll tell you that. Yeah,
I'm sorry, Go ahead, you're good.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
All the people that tell you if you need anything,
just let me know, they're just trying to say kind words.
But you won't be surprised that, or maybe you would
be surprised at all. The people that disappear out of
your life after something like that. They don't come around,
they don't call, they're just absent. So you just sometimes
(02:41):
really feel quite alone. I sent you an email a
couple of weeks ago. It was pretty lengthy. I know
you don't read lengthy ones, but I don't even know
if I did it right. I'm sixty six years old,
so the phone is not my best friend for trying
to figure out how.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To do stuff.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
So, but susan scary every day for somebody who has
lost a loved one recently, You've learned something about yourself
and about the grieving process that you could never have
known until you go through it. What would you say
to somebody who that's going to happen to in the future.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm going to tell them that God doesn't give you
anything more than what you can handle. You can handle it.
It's pretty tough, but God makes us pretty darn strong.
And the things that we don't think that we can
make it through, we do make it through. And it's
(03:45):
I mean, if I didn't have God in my life,
I'd be one lost Buffy. I'll tell you.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
That, Susan, thank you for the cost we heart. God,
bless you. I love my kiddos more than anything in
the world. I know you do too as well. Let's
go to Craig greg Girl on the Michael Berry Show.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Go ahead, Oh, Michael, Uh, I want to start with amen. Amen,
brother God. God is great, God His glory. Okay.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
So I was coming through Houston Saturday morning in a
hurry to get down of my little man.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
That guy's got me bothered.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Down my little place and flashes and I was in
a rush. Had my crew sat on eighty eighty miles
an hour, and as I would come traffic was pretty light.
As I would come on traffic, I would use my
turn signal, but I would pass them sometimes you can
accelerate and uh, getting in about about kid well, I
noticed the motorcycle coming up behind me, and I yielded
(04:50):
to that motorcycle, but the motorcycle didn't pass me. He
stayed behind me, or it stayed behind me. So I
was coming up on another car. Now turned my signal.
I got back in the left lane and I accelerated
on that car and uh sooner after that motorcycle had some.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Ready blue license. It was a police officer. So the
police officer.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Pulled me over and I got off the highway, got
off the feederoe got into a motive parking lot and
he asked for my license and insurance. Well, my insurance
was but I had I assured him I had insurance.
And anyway, make a long story short as I can.
He went back to his motorcycle, and he came back
a couple of months later and he said, I'm gonna
(05:30):
let you go with a warning. And it was his
officer was mister Taylor with the Houston Police Department.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
And I want to thank mister Taylor for.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Cuting out slack because I was just kind of absent
mind of being stupid. I was being safe, but I
was being stupid. And but those people like that, I really.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
But that's all I got Mike, let me ask you this,
Uh what what? What had were you speeding?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Is that? What was going?
Speaker 4 (05:57):
Yes, I was doing eighty and the sixty five.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
And you were in what were you driving?
Speaker 2 (06:06):
A pickup truck?
Speaker 1 (06:10):
You know, I don't know how your vehicle drives. But
when I was younger, I prided myself on speeding. I
thought it was cool, and I bragged on it. And
now I'm such an old fuddy dud, and I wanted
to be. You know, my kids were at an age
for those number of years that I knew they were
watching how Dad drives, and I didn't want them to
think that driving like a maniac or above the speed
(06:32):
limit was a good idea. So I was a very
careful driver. And they'll tell you that today. When I
was younger, that was not true. I thought it was
cool to be a reckless driver and a fast driver.
But I changed that because I knew that I had
two little ones in the backseat that were going to
do what I did when they got behind the wheel,
and I didn't want one of them to hurt themselves
(06:55):
or someone else because they were mimicking Dad when Dad
could taught them a better way to do it. But
you know, my wife and I were out in a
crowd on Saturday afternoon and we were at a market
and there was a lady who said to her daughter,
her daughter had kind of wandered off and she got
(07:16):
her back, and she said, if that happens again, who
do you ask for help? It was a police officer
over to the side, and she said, you asked a
guy in the uniform. Now, it's not in every community
that people learn that a police officer is there to
help you, But that officer did more at that moment
(07:40):
to make you a partner with You know, you talk
about real community oriented policing. Lee Brown talked about it,
but didn't put it into practice. An officer that can
show kindness even if he had written you a ticket.
An officer that can show kindness in the midst of
a difficult job and stress goes further to help preventing
(08:02):
crime than anything else you can do. Thanks for the crow.
Marcus Patrell is our guest coming up.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Must be right.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
You were listening to Michael Barry.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
You've been back five segments and you already screwed up.
My goodness, everybody heard it. Everybody heard it, everybody noticed,
and it was the intro for Marcus Trel. I wanted
us to put our best foot forward, and what do
you do but skip the record. Let's get you put
a scratch record on lone survivor. Marcus Theatrel is our guest.
Welcome to the program, sir, thank you, good morning. Honored
(08:43):
to have you. As always, I called to check and
see how you were doing. Texted to check and see
how you were doing. And you and Morgan were in Kerville.
That's what're you doing there? You said, Dives, why were
you there?
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Well, after that storm had come through there. I had
never been to that particular area and I didn't know
what was back there, and I didn't really realize how
many people were affected and how many people that were
close to me were affected by that. So the phone
call started coming out that our babies were in trouble.
And it's different when adults. And I don't know why
(09:22):
that is the way it is, but it just is.
And anyone who has children knows this feeling. It's something
that comes on to you after you have kids. But
if anybody's kids are in trouble, and when this phone
call started rattling in that they needed an all hands
on that kind of deal. So we just packed up rolled.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
When you pack up, it old, what do you pack
up for a situation like that?
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Okay, So I have a go bag that's prepared at
all times, sits in the tool box my truck, and
then I have one actually in the garage. But it's
a natural disaster kind of if you live into you
live in Houston. Every time a hurricane comes through or
our city gets sacked by something like that, everyone usually
has an outfit that they wear for days. It's a
(10:09):
minimalistic approach to anything. It's basically just a one layer,
two layers of clothes, a toothbrush, and a fresh change
of socks, and just get out the door and get
there and go from there. Because in a situation like that,
the only thing that you really need is a human
being as sustenance, and that's just food and water, and
that was provided when we got there.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
So you and Morgan rode together.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
He rolled out first. He rolled out Saturday morning, and
I rolled out Sunday after church. I went in and
got the prayer through some up to the all money
and tell him what we were about to do.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
And where did y'all muster?
Speaker 2 (10:44):
So we rolled up at there was a youth center
in Curbville, and that's where all the leadership and the
headshed had rolled into and we're setting up shop in there,
and that's the first place that we rolled into.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
And then what happens from there? How do you get
dispatched from there?
Speaker 2 (11:00):
So we were standing up kind of beside the wall there,
and when Morgan got in, there was a I mean
when I say all hands on deck, you couldn't believe
who showed up there. I mean, every law enforcement agency
that we had was represented in that. They call it
the HQ or the talk depends on what branch of
service you're in. We all have different names and acronyms
(11:20):
for what that was. But it's basically where the leadership,
all the computer systems and everyone checks in and we
muster up in the morning to get your marching orders,
basically where you're going to go on the river, who
you're gonna go with, and what you're gonna do. And
in the beginning, when things were getting set up, it
was kind of a it was kind of a hodgepouse
as everything was coming to a kind of into formation.
(11:41):
So Morgan linked.
Speaker 6 (11:43):
Up with the Curville County swat team.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
And let me tell you about a bunch of badasses
they are. I mean, them guys were getting it done.
If I could give any thanks, appreciation and praise, it'd
be it definitely be to them as well. I mean
there we'll get into who showed up out there, but
those guys were rocking and rolling and they were their
their sole purpose was transport. So every time that we
found a body, they would get called in to transport
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it to the the Emmy. So he was riding around
with them for the for the first couple of days,
and then I was at mystic in the water.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Was the water still flowing pretty heavy at that point.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Now, I mean it had come down back into the banks.
That was That was the crazy thing about him, Mike.
When we rolled into town, and I couldn't say something.
Anybody who was out there knows saw this thing. With
a minute I rolled in. I was right behind Morgan.
The damage, this kind of it was all through the river.
It hucked the river banks and over the road up
(12:47):
probably about two three hundred yards into the houses. And
the first thing I saw, and I never seen anything
like this there was Hey, if you ask anybody who
was there, the don't know about this thing. There was
a guardrail that had been twisted so tired it looked
like a twizzler stick, like somebody had done it on purpose,
And I mean it was something that you had to
stare at it. It was kind of unbelievable. And then
once you rolled in there, the cars were everywhere, and
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you could tell that the debris field had flushed over
over and spilled into the houses because most of them
had been torn, and it's like the water got inside
of there and spun around and then kicked everything out
the sidewalk, including the sidewalk, and the river had gone
back down into its normal capacity and was still flowing
pretty good, but it wasn't like it's kind of hard
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to fathom what it must have been like when that
thing was rolling through there because of the damage. And however,
that bro there was a dumpster that looked like somebody
had crumpled up a piece of foil and threw it
in the corner, And then there were cars buried completely
under the river, and then in trees there was a
brand new Ford Mustang was black convertible and it was
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standing on its nose, perched up in one of those
cypress trees, or three or four of them are. And
then I remember one of the first ones I saw.
The only reason we knew was a BMW because they
had a ram on it, and you can see the
BMW signal. And it didn't look like somebody had put
it in a car crunch or it was in a
car wreck. It looked like somebody had grabbed it with
one of those excavators and thrown it into a multi
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machine and then spit it back out and did it again.
So the violence of the water must have been absolutely substantial.
Speaker 1 (14:25):
I saw a picture, Marcus. The trell is our guest, Marcus.
I saw a picture of somebody that had the good
sense to take this photo to give the perspective. And
it showed a man who was six feet tall, and
then he raised his hand up above his head ashigh
as he could go, and it showed that, so you
figured in what seven and a half eight feet And
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then it showed where the water had carried something that
got hung up in a tree that was over twenty
feet high, and you imagine what it must have been like.
I have read every report I can possibly find in
print about what people went through who survived and were
able to tell it. I wish so many other people
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could have told their stories, but they didn't survive. To
imagine what it was like. There was a guy with
Texas Monthly that they're in a house that's up on
stilts fourteen feet high and the house literally just gets
ripped off the stilts and before they know it, they're
rushing down the river. They get out and they get
up on top of it. And you know, I don't
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have a frame of reference. You know, you're a Navy seal,
you've trained, you've gone underwater, you've done all these things.
I have no frame of reference to be able to
even process what the heck's going on. Marcus the trails,
our guests, more of him, come up, these chairs, Keith
rolling around. Damn it all right, this is Mark Chestnut
(15:52):
and jar Bizaar of talk Radio. As awful as the
Kerrville floods were, and you know, we use that for
shorthand I want to be clear there were other counties
who suffered terribly, but Kerrville itself was hit so hard,
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and a lot of folks in Houston especially knew many
of the families at Camp Mystic and Camp Lahunta. I
know we did, and I know, based on emails you've sent,
many of you did as well, and so it just
hits home even more so. I spoke to Pat Green
this weekend and he was in Houston for his brother's funeral.
(16:38):
His brother, his brother's sister, and their kids. So you know,
when the headlines are gone and the funerals continue and
the recoveries continue, those families will suffers. As a number
of you have emailed, there is no closure. It's just
another step. There's time, things are different, but there is
(17:00):
no actual closure. A number of folks emailed me to
tell me that. So Marcus the Trail, like so many people,
and his brother Morgan the congressmen were there to help
in any way they could. I know that just there.
You won't like the word, but celebrity status no notoriety,
(17:20):
meant a lot to a number of people, because I
heard from people, Hey, the Ta Trail brothers are here.
Most people didn't know which one was which because they're twins.
I'll tell you. Because Morgan's skinnier now and Marcus has
more facial hair, it's a lot easier to tell them apart.
But I know that that meant a lot to other
people that they were there, and a number of other
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people were so many law enforcement came from across the country.
As Marcus said, Marcus, you you were talking about being
there at Kemp Mystic and seeing what had happened, and
that's that's where we lost the most lives in one,
one single spot. If you would continue kind of with
with what you saw that it's just hard to believe,
you know, this one hundred year old facility, so many traditions,
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so much legacy going through that place. So many girls
that went on to be moms and grandmothers and civic
leaders and political leaders and educators went through that place.
There's a lot of tradition there.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
You can see that too. Definitely a legacy camp. You
could feel that when you went in there. And let
me tell you something, when when we got our footing
in there and we were there to support those that
were supporting and when the first thing you saw was
the DPS when they came in and locked the roads down.
And usually when I'm having to deal with the DPS
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because I've been doing something wrong right and I'm usually
in trouble, they were so professional and they locked that
stuff down, and then the game wardens showed up. And
when they showed up, they started doing their thing. They
were working the rivers and again I usually don't run
into them unless I'm trying to get away with something,
and they were awesome, and they started bringing in the
cadaver dogs. Now the only way we got anything done
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because we started with our hands with shovels, and the
civilians were in there with chainsaws, and then the cadaver
dogs showed up and started spotting the bodies. And I
don't know if a lot of people are familiar with excavators,
and what an excavator is the track vehicle has a
huge arm on it. When those boys showed up, those
excavator drivers, it was a game changer. They won't ever
get any credit. Let me tell you something. There was
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this country boy sitting on one of those excavators and
his wife was with him, and she sat on the
outside of that machine, on the top of it, with
her arms on that rail, laser locked, laser locked on
those piles that we were uncovering, because they would come
in there and a great excavator driver is worth more
money than anything, and he would scratch the surface so
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not to disrupt or do any more damage to any
of those bodies, and she would see a piece of
clothing or something and stop all movement. And we'd go
in there and hit the pile, pull out some shoes
or clothes or something like that, and then she'd get back.
She didn't move all day, sat on the outside of
that machine all day.
Speaker 6 (20:02):
And let me tell you something, those excavator.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Drivers and those skid steer drivers, Thank God for Country Rednecks.
They're one of the best blessings that Texas ever had
in the United States. They were hacking. When they show up,
they are all business. No one ever focuses on them.
But you want to know, the people who came in
and made the difference was those excavator boys and those
skid steer drivers and those cadaver guys. And then that
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in itself was just an absolute game changer. And then,
oh my god, man, the Christians showed up. And when
I'm talking about the Rednecks that had the cutoff wranglers
and the rock and roller T shirt with a net
cutout right, and they would throw up the barbecue pits
and sit there day and no one ever paid for
any food. You didn't pay for any water, it was
just it was kind of a utopia on the outside
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of it, and then when you walked into the valley
to go to work, it's like you knew when you
got out of there there was somebody that had your back.
Everyone was there for the same purpose, and it was
unbelievable the camarade, God bless Texas. Man, I don't have
I still don't have vocabulary to tell you how wonderful
when you had the people and the police and everybody
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working in Unison. And I think the only time that
ever happens is when we go through tragedy. I mean,
most everybody else is kind of dealing with their lives
day to day, and then the police are there to
help us stay in the lanes trying to get through
our lives. But man, when we come together, it was
a force to be reckoned with. That in itself is
what allowed you to get in there every single day
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because you saw people from all walks of life in
there for a common purpose. Everybody was I mean, everybody's
getting along and they won't any problems, and it was
just amazing, amazing to see that. And I'll never be
able to express my thanks to those excavator drivers. I
mean them country boys. I'm talking about the ones that
were on their daddy was an excavator driver, and they
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were sitting on their lap, you know, at four years old,
learning the controls on that thing. Because when they would
maneuver in through those cypress trees on the side of
those rock ledges, the debris field was so extensive that
that's what was keithling, that was what was slow in
the pace. And when they got in there with those
cadaver dogs, it was just a game changer. It was
an absolute game changer. I mean, you won't be able
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to thank them enough. If anybody deserves praise, it's those
It's the police officers and uh and their country boys
on those machines. For sure.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Were any Marcus latrell Is our guest, Were any of
the family members there alongside y'all? Did you? Did you
spot them during all of this, because I know that
had to be.
Speaker 2 (22:33):
Tough, Yes, sir, absolutely. They came into Mystic while I
was standing in there, and there was there was people
at Camp Mystic in itself that had kind of frontline
control with them. Okay, so we started. They wanted us
to collect their valuables and we really weren't doing that
in the beginning, because that was the hardest part. If
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you want to know what I thought was the most
difficult is their stuff was everywhere down the river. So
you would find stuff with their trunks with their names
on it, or their little CD cases or their towels,
and then they had their shorts and stuff like that
and all had their names in it. And we were
hunting down they wanted. There's Teddy Bears in particular that
we were after. It's just kind of anything that we
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could find of theirs to bring to bring back to them.
Speaker 6 (23:20):
Was because the anticipation was worse.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
It's kind of like getting into a fight before before
the fight is what's worse. I mean, so we're you're
walking around and you're hoping you find something, but then
you're hoping you don't find something. That that kind of mentality.
But the whole time you're doing that, you're seeing evidence
that they're there. It's like you know that it was
brewing up, and we we collected as much as that
as we possibly could for the families, and you know
(23:47):
it as well as I do. I mean, our Texas
we've been through so much in the last twenty years
that it's just you don't know what to say to them.
You just want to be there for him.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
Mark, because I guess can you hang for one more seconds?
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (24:01):
Boum Jomway.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Marcus Latrell is our guest. Mor Because I don't know
if you've seen this photo. The Associated Press put it out.
The caption that the chronicle ran with it says a
sheriff's deput he pauses while combing through the banks. Let
me see if I can go back to that. While
combing through the banks of the Guadalupe River near Camp
(24:39):
Mysstic Saturday, July fifth, after a flash flows went through
the area. And it's a guy who's biceps are as
big as my legs, and he has he's real, he's real,
sun tanned, his black hair. He looks like he could
be Hispanic or Samoa, and you can't tell because his
hands are over his eyes and he's he's carrying, I
(24:59):
don't know, some sort of huge stick in his right hand.
He's law enforcement. He's got his gear on. I've you've
seen that picture, but it's one of the most poignant
pictures to come out of all this. And I guess
my question is when you guys step back away from
the families and we're talking amongst yourselves. What what did
y'all notice about what this storm had done to this area.
Speaker 2 (25:22):
Well, let's actually tell you that the largest strongest men
among us can get broken down by something, especially when
it comes to the little ones. And I was fortunate
enough to be there was a bunch of seals there
and that stuff. Guys, and we kind of migrated towards
each other and we all stay at this camp up
the road called Camp Baltimore. That sounds that come out
of a Harry Potter movie. That's actually what it was.
(25:44):
So thank thank them for that, Thank you for letting
us stay up there. And then we would migrate down
into the town in the hunt. There was a church there,
a Baptist church that we would all rally up at.
And one of saving graces that we had was at
the end of the day we got to go over
outside of the valley and get into some air conditioning,
(26:07):
had a hot shower and a great meal, and then
we would all kind of we would talk like seals,
are we're good at this because we'll just talk. We
just start talking about some stuff and get that stuff
off our chests and what kind of what's in our brain.
We don't hold that in and that that is the
absolute blessing about being able to have those guys around
each other. We can do that. We also bled into
the civilian to help out with that. That's kind of
(26:28):
how we cope. But you can tell that that each
day that went by, it was kind of it would
layer more and more and more, especially when we were
when we find a little one, because everyone knew when that.
When that happened, and and you could feel that resonate
through the camp, there was an elation like great, we
found one. But then it was like, oh, we found
another one, and it was, uh, it's time progress to
(26:48):
just kind of you could tell you getting onto some
of the guys a little bit for sure. Well, I
mean I don't sure how strong you are.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
It happens, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm sure you're a
very different man in twenty twenty five than you were
twenty years ago in five when Operation Red Wings happened.
I mean you start thinking about the world and the
next generation now that you have children, as you do.
I know, I'm a very I drive differently, I take
chances differently, I look at my health differently. I'm a
(27:20):
different person, and we look at the world differently when
it comes to children. Thank God for it. I think
God plants that set in us.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Oh, it has to be right, it has to be
You can't. I don't know if, especially our generation, if
we didn't make the transition, there's no way we would
we could carry this thing on. I don't think we
could get it done. We're We're just different. All the
wars and pandemics and everything that we had to go through,
eventually we had the transition and grow up, and then
you know, there is a weakness or a vulnerability I
think now inside of us, especially like with our generation,
(27:49):
we didn't have that at the beginning. We you know,
go as hard as you can, hopefully you die early.
And now we have the kids and the responsibility of
our country and our state Texas. I mean, it's just
kind of like we got to take this thing over
and when you when you step into that breach, there's vulnerabilities.
I absolutely feel that I've killed that guy that was
in the wars. I'm not I don't have any of
that left in me. Really, I remember it, but I
(28:11):
am just, like you said, completely different and I think
we all had to make that transition.
Speaker 1 (28:16):
Yeah, I can't help but think about the woman that
you talked about, because she will her name and story
will be lost to history. But the wife who never
expected herself. She stayed home wife, or she was off
from work or whatever. And there she is with her
husband whose name nobody knows, and he's on the excavator
and she's out there focused and nobody's patting her on
(28:38):
the back other than you now, and we don't know
her name. And I just think how many people did
things like that, and through every talent they had that day,
that moment that families will never get to thank them.
And now they're back in Beaumont or Willis or wherever
it is they live, living their lives, and no one
will realize what a hero that person was at that moment.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
There was there was, There was some people out there.
There was one guy named Dave. He had this huge chainsaw.
Everyone knows who he is. And then there was a
dive named Dale, Diver Dale and you can'll never forget him.
And so that guy on that excavator with his wife,
and I wouldn't know if they wanted to be the
say the name I will never you.
Speaker 6 (29:20):
You couldn't even believe what this what that looked like.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
She sat there the entire laser for week.
Speaker 4 (29:24):
To all the.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
Seals, we were just kind of sitting there and the
rest of those that stuff guys, just watching that go down,
watching him dig that stuff out, and watching her sit there.
And I'm talking about if if she even laid eyes
on anything in those piles, she stopped all all movement
and we'd have to go out there. And she didn't
even put the excavator and get onto it, but get
in there, get down on you man, rug lead, you know.
(29:45):
And and she never said anything.
Speaker 6 (29:47):
I mean she she never said a word.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
And it was just all up and down the river
with us integrating into them, from the police officers, from
the DPS, and the game morning. I can't say enough
about the game warns man uh and what they did,
and then the state police in there and all the volunteers.
I mean, God bless Texas and our people, because when
the Seals came in there, we were just kidding. I
(30:10):
remember us talking about how I actually felt It's the
first time in a long time that I had felt
good again. And I know it sounds weird, because I
have the greatest life ever. But there's a feeling that
goes when you're in that in that environment that we
were trained for, and it rejuvenated my life into where
I just reminded me how thankful I am to have
(30:30):
all this, and especially have those guys, those teammates of
mine and showed up there and they were coming in
left and right and doing that and then just getting
out of dodge afterwards, never saying a word. And what
you said is true. There's so many people that came
in there and did that. You won't even know who
they are, but we'll remember them. You'll never forget them.
And we gave them all nicknames or you remember what
they did even if you don't remember their name. But
(30:52):
it's it's forever burned inside of our brains. We talk
about it all the time.
Speaker 1 (30:58):
You if you remember this because you were in the
thick of it. But when I found out ADPs trooper,
a friend of mine, Stephen Woodard, said you were there,
and I reached out and said, hey, thank you to
you and you and Morgan for being there. Make sure
everybody there knows we appreciate them and you for being
out there and doing that. And you said I was
(31:19):
born for this. I really do believe God plants in
each one of us a skill set, and there are
certain people. We all have to do our part. There
are certain people that are drawn to a moment like
this because you've got to skill, the talent, the ability
to push through it when maybe the rest of us
wouldn't have been able to handle some of what you've
seen and done in your life. But it's fantastic, and
(31:43):
you're right. The message of this is, it really is
the best of Texas. It's the best of our people,
and it takes a tough moment like this to remind
us of it. We love you, Marcus Treil, Thank you, brother.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah, I love your brother. You know.
Speaker 1 (31:59):
I think about that woman there with her husband, and
when people say, you know, why don't you get depressed
for the future of our because that woman went back.
Maybe she's maybe she backs groceries, Maybe she's the teller
at the bank, Maybe she's somebody's secretary. Maybe she's a
school teacher, maybe she owns a small business. Maybe she's
a stay at home mom. Maybe we'll never know, but
(32:22):
they're out there, and you don't know they're out there.
You don't see the goodness until something like this calls
it out.
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