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Lord have mercy that it was absolutely painful, painful. Ah yeah,
welcome to Sunday Night with Allen Ray. We're here. God,
I hope her here. I hope. I have no proof
whatsoever that I hope. Guys in chat, I'm going to
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rely on you to tell me if this thing's blanking
out or not. For something. Something is absolutely obliterating, Mike.
Just something is downloading somewhere. Maybe my soft asked, maybe
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it's it's it's Microsoft. Uh something. Something is absolutely just
killing this computer right now, and nothing is responding. I
I'm flying blind. I'm flying blind. I don't know how
this is gonna go. And it's been a couple of weeks.
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And the funny part about it, this computer is working
absolutely magnificently and Raptors saying it's in and out perfect. Greg,
you know, I don't know how this is gonna go.
I really don't. It seems to be it seems to
be Okay, now we'll see what happens. I don't know anyways. Yeah, something,
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something weird is loading this thing down. So I'm just
gonna make a couple of little quick adjustments here on
the fly, and we're gonna talk a little bit. I've
got some really cool and interesting things. I've also some
things that have really kind of pissed me off over
the past twenty four hours forty eight hours. But I
feel like I haven't been behind the mic forever. Even
though I did a show of Stacy last week playing
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in the Dirt, it was a good show. The week
before that, the two weeks before that, I was on vacation,
I was kind of off and doing my own thing.
And I want to tell you about it. And I'm
not gonna break out a bunch of slides and stuff
like eurield Bustle's, my wife and I and we're all
in Cleveland, o'hoy, and I'm not gonna do that to yet.
I'm gonna tell you what we did. Though we had three,
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well technically four stops on this trip. The first up
was in Buffalo, New York to meet with the East
Coast Reflector Crew. It was our official yearly meet and
greet in the Buffalo area. Got there Friday night, had
dinner with all the crew. Then Saturday, on top of
this hill, this big hill in this park where that
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overlooks the entire city of Buffalo. It's really cool, had
our meet and greet. I had close to one hundred
people show up. I think fifty, I don't know, could
be fifty, and really great time. Hung out with a
lot of Ham radio operators, people that I talked to
almost every day. Had a great time, did a lot
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of cool things. It was just absolutely marvelous. And then
Sunday got up have breakfast with the crew, all the
people that actually run the East Coast Reflector. I'm a
net controller, but you know, that's kind of what do.
We're part of the group that runs the thing. And
then my wife and I went up to Niagara Falls.
I'd never been to Niagara Falls in my life and
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we're really only like four and a half five hours
from Niagara Falls. Never been there, never always wanted to
see it, and never had an opportunity. My parents never
took me to places like that as a kid. My
wife's parents, you know, they took her all over the
God's Green and hear saw all the cool sites. So
I was kind of like a kid at Christmas, wanted
to see the falls. Really cool hot day, ninety degrees hot. Uugh,
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But we did. We walked around Goat Island, walked around
Niga Falls, took a buttload of pictures. It was absolutely
outstanding and oh good, everything just blinked and now everything
looks like it's actually coming to life here. I hope
he can still hear me. Ah went to Niagara Falls
and my impression on Nagara Falls it's beautiful, beautiful. A
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lot of people, but that's to be expected. It's it's
a spectator thing. Walk around go Island, took pictures, and
the thing about it was it was beautiful to look at.
That smell, though, was a little funky. I don't know
if I would stand under the falls and let that
water hit me without expecting my hair to fall out
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or my face to melt or something. Something smell off
about that water. I've been to a lot of rivers,
I've been to a lot of the Great lakes. There
was something funky, so I'm not sure I would. I would,
you know, like, go stand under the falls. Just that's
off the bucket list. But it was cool to see.
It was cool mess some cool people there, you know,
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talk to some people. And then from there we went
on down to Pennsylvania. We were on the road to
go to Gettysburg. We stopped just across the you know what,
PJ Politics drunkie, he's just hit the chat and guys,
I'll acknowledge you all in a minute, but I just
want to tell you the story. We came across this
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little place called Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Little town. I think there's
a college somewhere around there because there's a lot of
younger people there, so it kind of thinks and they
can it's a college town. When we got up the
next morning, you know, we went to this cool place
called twin our Thin Line Tavern for lunch. When we
got there dinner, I should say, excellent, blt great place,
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little atmosphere, but the whole little town there is just
nothing but little dive bars and stuff and coffee shops. Well,
we got up the next morning, we didn't feel like
hotel food. The hotel food looked really gross, so we
took off downtown to this little place called Conspiracy Coffee.
If you ever find yourself in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Right across
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the line, there's a place called Conspiracy Coffee and they
serve quick, easy breakfasts and good coffee. They're not complicated,
they're not hash posh, they're not food food stuff. It's
just good coffee and some good breakfast. Nothing fancy eggs, bacon,
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you can get some pancakes, maybe get a buffin something
like that. But it was good. But as you can guess,
Conspiracy Coffee, they're a whole and it's small. It probably
fits twenty twenty five people in there, that's about it.
And that's a crowd. There's probably only ten people in there,
and half of them were cops, so you know, if
the cops are going there, it's good. But the entire
decor it was all news clippings and articles and stuff
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from conspiracy theories, bigfoot, JFK assassination, UFOs, you name it.
You know. I looked at my wife. I was like,
I'm home, let's move here. I wouldn't want to do that,
but it was a cool place. And I talked to
the you know, I don't know if it was the
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manager of the owner, but it was the person that
was like, you know, shouting out mostly orders and stuff
we were talking about, and I said it was a
neat place, and I did the meme. I did the meme.
You know, hey, I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist myself.
I told them about the Mountain Dew conspiracy theory, which
they had no idea what I was talking about. And
I'm like, really, yeah, go look it up. Every time
they name a mountain Dew, something happens on like a
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national or global scale that has something to do with
that title and mountain Dew. The people that own mountain
Dew or the company that owns mountain Dew, the CIA
used to have a lot of dealings with them. And
the guy just looked at me and goes, oh, I'm
going back to get on the computer right now, you know,
and he wished me a good day. We were on
our way, but you know, we talked about two or
three and a couple of them he had no idea about.
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So anyways, we get to Gettysburg. Hot. Gettysburg was hot,
Lord have mercy. Gettysburg was hot. But I will tell
you this, and I'm gonna go into this a little
bit if I can get I don't even know if
things are gonna work. I've given up on my computer.
I'm just gonna use my phone. Screw it. Gettysburg was awesome.
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I've never been to a Civil War battlefield in my life,
and honestly, to tell the truth, it was it was
just an out of body experience. It was about it
was one hundred to one hundred one degree the whole
time we were down there. It was absolutely just mortifying.
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But but if you actually study Gettysburg, the three day
Battle of Gettysburg, what is it? Starting July first, eighteen
sixty three and uh and and ending July third, those
three days it was hot. It was nineties high nineties hundred,
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so you got the real effect. And of course, you know,
we whipped we're getting old. We're not young anymore. We're
not gonna walk around a hundred degree whether I don't care.
You could download this little app and you can. You know,
that's cash you about ten bucks to do. But we said,
what the heck ground vacation, And they they download an
actual driving tour through Gettysburg that plays the tour on
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your car stair, you know, your radio, and it took
it into your cell phone and it was absolutely outstanding.
We were on all the cool places. Okay, we were
in the wheat field, We went through the peach orchard,
the railroad track ravine where the Confederates lost a lot
of men because they were stupid enough to dive down
in it thinking they were going to hide. Little Roundtop,
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big Roundtop, the Devil's Den, all of that. We were everywhere.
Cemetery Ridge you named, we were. We crawled all over
that place all day. And I'll tell you what even now,
in fact, I don't know if this had anything to
do with what I was doing, but I was watching
videos about a picket of course, pickets Charge where that
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all happened and everything we were there. I was watching
some videos on that just before I even came on air.
Little was I to know that my computer was going
to betray me. What do you do? But anyways, there
on some of these places, Cemetery Ridge, some of the
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other places that you know, a little roundtop, all these
places that that you just had this feeling that the
feeling was almost overwhelming. Maybe it was just me. Maybe
I was just kind of emotional because I've studied all this,
I know all of it, But the feeling was emotional.
There there was a lot of times, not even kidding.
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There's a lot of times, and had tears of my
eyes because I knew what happened. I knew I was standing,
I was standing right where thousands and thousands of men died, thousands.
I knew when I was going across the ridge, across
the wheat field, thousands of men died there. When you're
standing there on little roundtop, you knew the significance, the
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importance of it. And as the day progressed, my wife
and I were talking about it, and she was like me,
we're like little kids. We're running around there taking pictures,
getting out of the hundred the car in one hundred
degree tempts for about ten to fifteen minutes, and then
like whimps, we'd run back into the air conditioner. It
was rented. We didn't care. We'd run it all day,
air condition, full speed. I don't care. All kinds of pictures,
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and it just had this feeling when you went into
the graveyard, the cemetery, and you were standing right where
President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address, and you studied it
in history books, you've read books about it, but it's
nothing prepares you for that whole body experience of just feeling,
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feeling the spirits of fifty one thousand Union and Confederate
soldiers who had a sacrifice there, dead, missing, wounded, some
died later. You just felt it. And this is one
for juxtaposition too. There's actually an entire series on the
ghosts of Gettysburg, a big thing. People swear by it.
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People in the areas swear by say, oh yeah, there's
ghosts all over here. We see them all the time.
Didn't know that. Came back and studied it. But anyways,
and it was a great thing to do coming up
on coming on an independence day. So I look this
up and I'm gonna throw a throw ten facts of
Gettysburg at you, and we're gonna get this QUI because'm
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gonna'm gonna get riled up here in just a little bit.
And I know I'm late, but I'm gonna run till
ten thirty. I hope Brick don't mind ten thirty Eastern
Standard time, God's time. Rick. I hope you don't mind, Bud,
And you feel free to cut in. I don't care.
Ten facts about the Battle of Gettysburg. Fact number one.
The battle was fought at Gettysburg because the area road
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system had nothing to do with shoes. Apparently there's some
conspiracy theory out there about shoes in Gettysburg. It's not true.
Gettysburg and you can feel this going in to the town.
Gettysburg is a strategic area and they tell you this.
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I've set sell times during the tour. It's a very
strategic area, especially at the time. Ten roads meeting right
there in Gettysburg. It was a conspira, a stupid rumor anyway.
But the tally Gettysburg population was about two thousand, and
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it was on the rise. It boasted three newspapers, two
institutes of higher learning, several churches and banks, but there
was no shoe factories of warehouses. The ten roads that
led into town are brought or what brought the armies
to Gettysburg. The shoe myth can be traced back to
a late eighteen seventy statement by Confederate General Henry F.
Fact number two. The first day's battle was a much
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larger engagement than is generally portrayed. The first day of
fighting at McPherson's Ridge, Oak Hill, Oak Ridge, Seminary, Ridge,
Barlows Know, and in and around the town involved some
fifty thousand soldiers, of which roughly fifteen thousand, five hundred
were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. The first day in
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itself ranks as the twelfth bloodiest battle of the Civil War,
with more casualties in the battles of bull Run and
Franklin combined back number three. The second day's battle was
the largest and costliest of the three days. The second
day's fighting at Devil's Den, Little round Top, the Wheat Field,
the Peach Orchard, Cemetery Ridge, Trossels Farm, Culp Hill and
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Cemetery Hill which I visited, stepped out into every single
one of those places, and it was just crazy involved
at least one hundred thousand soldiers, of which roughly twenty
thousand were killed, wounded, capture, and missing. The second day
in itself ranks as the tenth bloodiest battle in the
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Civil War, with far more casualties than the much larger
Battle of Fredericksburg fac Number four. Of one hundred and
twenty generals present at Gettysburg, nine were killed or mortally
wounded during the battle. On the Confederate side, Generals Semis, Barksdale, Armistead,
Garnet and Pender plus Pettigrew, during the pedigruw. During the
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retreat on the Union side, Generals Reynolds, zuck Weed, Farnsworth
and Bencett promoted posthumously. No other battles claimed as many
general officers. Fact number five, Colps Hill and Cemetery Hill
were far more important than the Little Roundtop. Even the
Little Roundtop is the most famous if you watch Gettysburg,
its importance to the Union Army is at least debatable.
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The same cannot be said for Colps Hill, Cemetery Hill,
Coupps Hill and Cemetery Hill. The two latter hills formed
the center and the right of the Union's main position
and also protected the Union army only real lifeline on
July second and July third. Now, let me back up
here and disagree with this just a little. And here's
what I've studied, and here's what I've actually come to realize.
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Even though Little Roundtop wasn't as important, here's what it is.
It was more important for the Union to keep Little
Roundtop than it was for the Confederate to take Little
Roundtop Because the reinforcements coming in could have retaken Little
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Roundtop from the Confederate, but at quite a cost. They
already had Little Roundtop, and the Roundtop was a good
strategic position, but losing it wouldn't have been devastating to
the outcome of the battle or the war. Keeping it
was very important. It's kind of hard to explain, but
keeping that hill cost the Confederate Army a lot more
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people than one would think, you know, was even comfortable
for an army to lose without just walking away and said, hey,
let's try something else. But anyways, Culps Hill and Cemetery Hill,
the two latter hills formed the center and right of
the Union's main position. It also protected the Union Army
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Army's only real lifeline on July second, third the Baltimore Pike.
Had Confederates captured and control either of those two hills,
the Union Army would have had to leave Getty's brig area.
It is as simple as that, even with the sweeping
views and the commanding height. The same cannot be said
for the Little Roundtop. Fact, six Pickets charge was large
and grand, but by no means the largest charge of
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the Civil War, not even close. Pickets charge involved some
twelve thousand Confederate soldiers, which there again I stood right
on that area where those soldiers were It's just humbling,
that's all I can say the Confederate soldier. But the
Confederate charge at Franklin had twenty thousand, and even that
pales in comparison to the Grand Confederate Charge at gains Mills,
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which involved more than fifty thousand Confederate troops. Even the
well known two hundred and sixty gun bombardment that preceded
Pickets Charge was not the largest of the war. There
was at least one bombardment in Peter's Burg with more
than four hundred cannons invaulved Fact seventh. The Battle of
Gettysburg is by far the costliest battle of the Civil War,
but not necessarily the largest. Well, each of the three
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days of the Battle of Gettysburg rank in the top
fifteen bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The one hundred
and sixty thousand troops president Gettysburger eclipsed by the more
than one hundred and eighty five thousand at Fredericksburg, which
I want to go to Fredericksburg. That's that. Somebody told me, Hey,
if you've been to Gettysburg, next stop Fredericksburg. Fact eight
sixty four Medals of Honor awarded the Union soldiers for
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their action at Gettysburg. The deeds spanned the battlefield and
were awarded for a wartime into the twenty first century.
Eight were awarded for actions on July first, twenty eight
for the actions on July second, and twenty eight for
the actions on July second, and twenty nine for actions
on July third. The most recent medal of Honor given
for heroism at Gettysburg was awarded to Alonzo Cushing by
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President Barack Obama in twenty fourteen. Fact nine. The Gettysburg
Address essentially said the same thing as the famous orator
Edward Everett's speech, but in one sixtieth of the time.
When Lincoln uttered these two sentences, we have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting
place for those who were here gave their lives that
nation might, that a nation might live. It is all
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together fitting and proper that we should do this. He
was essentially repeating the idea that had already been stated,
only more well more efficiently, ever used more than five
five hundred words two hours speech. Could you've imagine setting
through that to make the same point. Finally, Fact ten,
while Gettysburg Battlefield is well preserved, there are still numerous
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parcels to be saved. The Civil War Trust and National
Park Service have identified several unpreserved parcels which are important
to the story of American's greatest battle. The battle itself
is among the best resources for historians and others to
learn about the battle. The unique terrain, when used in
conjunction with the words of those who fought there, image
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is created on the ground and it's placed by the veterans,
provide an unparallel learning opportunity. And this, of course, I'd
like to thank the people of who did this. Battlesfields
battlefields dot org great little reference. So I'm telling you, you
get down there, you gotta walk through it. Take an
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entire day. It takes an entire day. Climb up all
the platforms, look across the areas and just envision the
battles that went there. Right now, it's so peaceful, so peaceful,
but you know, darn well, tens of thousands of men
died there and then after leaving Gottisburg, and I didn't
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know this was right on the way home. It was
actually kind of crazy. And sorry about that. I'm I'm
trying to recover this stupid computer while I'm talking to you. See,
I'm multi multitasking. We did not know that the nine
to eleven memorial to Flight ninety three was right on
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the way home. We didn't really, I mean, we had
to take some well, we'll put it this way. I've
traveled more Pennsylvania back roads that I ever cared to. Again. Okay,
there is no direct route from Niagara Falls, New York
to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There's none. I've been to places that
I really they were beautiful, nice hilly areas, but I
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really didn't care to go through or will ever go
through again. But the Flight ninety three memorial was directly
in our path on the way home. So we stopped
there and again gut wrenching, gut wrenching, and you knew,
I mean, standing in a place where people died and
knowing the story behind flight ninety three and how those
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guys took that plane back over because they knew it
was going to be used, probably at the White House.
They figured it out and they said, nope, we're not
going to allow this beautiful monument, very tastefully, very well done.
And you look out over the field where the actual
plane hit and it brings to yours your eyes, not
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even kidding. So this vacation was very emotional, very emotional.
I can't tell you how many times I got misty.
I just just walking through these places, knowing what had
happened to both places. And I'm a bit of a
Civil War buff. It's a bit of a World War
two buff. But I will tell you what the visitors
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sitting there at Gettysburg. I probably spent too much money
there on books. Let me put it to you this way.
My summer reading. I'm gonna need three or four summers
to complete the reading for this summer. Not kidding, but guys,
thanks for joining me in chat. Obviously, Raptor in there,
I see already in there. Of course he was first.
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Charles Vncent's in there. Rowdy Rick, who's producing me right now,
is in there. Jeff is not a little bit of
a hiatus. We're we're He's in our prayers. He had
a little bit of medical problems and uh man, by golly,
he'll be back eventually soon enough. And you know, the
alien DNA kind of messed up the doctors that were
tending to him. But I think he's gonna be all right.
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It's similar enough where he should be fine if you know,
you know what I'm talking about. But he usually comes
on before me, and I'm hoping giving him all the
best um chat just disappeared. Yeay, politics junk. He's in there,
He's usually in there. Glad to have him in there.
Anybody else I missed? Guys, thanks for check coming in.
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We've got two hundred and fifty three views already. Okay,
all right, now we've hit in the twenty eight minute mark.
I don't know if I can even take a break
before I get into this, because, let me tell you what,
something has kind of crawled up my butt for the
past forty eight hours. It's disgusting, it's vulgar, it's taking
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advantage of a situation that doesn't need to be taking
advantage of. And the worst part, it's a lie. And
I'm talking about what certain people in a certain party
is doing with this flood that came through Texas. Of course,
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they have gotten their minds. And it's not just certain
people on the left. The entire left wing media is
doing this right now. You go right through that, you
go into Google News, which is the perfect example of
left wing media saturation and Lord have mercy. I don't
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know what to think about it. How how do you
exploit a situation and try to have and I got
you a moment against President Trump and be so stupid, thoughtless,
careless soulss and not even think about the ramifications of
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your stupid mouths, your stupid brains spewing this stuff out.
So what I want to do is I want to
actually give you some some truth about what happened in Texas.
Number One, it took a while for the actual truth
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to come out because you know, people just jumped on
this and they just slaughtered the whole story. Now those
who don't know it, there's a lot of people that
a lot of people missing down there in Texas. And
the biggest thing, the left jumped on this story. And
I don't want to get too far into politics on this,
but I'm going to because I'm kind of pissed they
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jumped on the whole thing that this is a direct
result of Trump cuts. Oh, Donald Trump did this. He
went down there and he just unleashed all this water
and killed all these people. Oh and you can see
them just just pushing this narrative and it's not just
the it's not just the common people doing this, the
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mouthy activists and stuff like this. No, no, this is
coming right out of major news outlets, left wing major
news outlets, outlets, and you're seeing it all. And of
course the drooling six o'clock news watchers, where you know,
the only place they get their actual news is from news.
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When they get home, kick their shoes off, they watch
the thirty second blurbs, and none of it's very accurate.
They have to compromise, they have, but they can get
these people, and they can actually warp them into thinking
that what they're saying is true. Let's see if I
can bring this up, because my computer's just worthless. I
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don't know what the heck is down. I've given up
on it. I'm just glad it's making noise. I'm glad
you can hear me, guys, I really am. Let's look
at some facts. This happened in Kerr County, Texas, and
we know that well at the time this was written,
fifty nine people are dead. I think they've found more,
including twenty one children. The National Weather Service actually issued
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several warnings. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood
watch Thursday afternoon that noted Kerr County, where much of
the flooding began early Friday morning, and it said it
was a particularly vulnerable area, along with more urgent flash
flooding emergencies alerts in the overnight hours as the disaster unfolded,
several of them. The National Weather Service was one of
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the several federal agencies targeted by the controversial cost cutting
efforts of the Trump administrating Department. But it had nothing
to do with it. This had nothing to do with
And here's the thing about it is those cuts start
if if passed by Congress. Yes, some people were not
allowed to hire in there, Okay, And now they're screaming, yooh,
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we're understaff They're not understaffed. Trust me, they're not understaffed
at all. The numbers don't add up from what they're saying.
But the actual budget cuts to the service, if passed
by Congress, if Hastill hasn't been passed, would start in
October of twenty twenty five. And what the media is
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not telling you is those budget cuts are already self
admittedly from the from Naa, from Noah. The bulk of
those budget cuts come to things that have nothing to
do with the National Weather Service with weather. What they're
doing is they're stripping some of the things that perferal
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things they have really nothing to do with weather, and
they're relocating them to different bureaucracies. They're not going away,
they don't want to tell tell you that. And they're
doing this through their own words so they can focus
solely on the weather, which is what they should be
doing to begin with. So even this little blurb here,
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where's this from Forbes dot com, several several flash flood
warnings went out and there's more flooding possible. That's the
bad part of it. But you get down to the
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actual truth of the matter, strip away all the politics,
to strip away all the stupidity. You do a little
research and you find out why there were masked casualties.
(34:07):
And it took getting into some of the local newspapers
and this was like what is this xx KX A
N and Austin. At a Friday news conference, Kirk County
Judge Rob Kelly said he can't answer why camps weren't evacuated,
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but acknowledged acknowledged, Now this is important. Hand your butts.
I'm going to absolutely destroy the Crassenstein, Crassenstein idiots. I'm
absolutely going to destroy all of these CNN and all
these things that are pointing fingers at Trump. It boils
down to this. Judge Rob Kelly said, we do not
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have a warning system. We didn't know this flood was coming.
Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming.
We have floods all the time. This is the most
dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal
with floods on a regular basis. When it rains, we
get water. We had no reason to believe that this
is going to be anything like what happened here, none whatsoever.
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It boils down to this. They don't have a siren
system in Kerr County. It goes down to let's see,
Cameistic is located less than twenty miles of Kerr and Hunt,
which is in Kerr County. And one of the people
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out there that's I don't know they were born and
raised in Kentucky either, one of the witnesses where she
said outdoor weather sirens, primarily used for tornadoes, were common.
On fifth, she stated a changed or online petition urgently
calling for kerrvill and Kerr County to implement an outdoor
early warning siren system for life threatening emergencies like flooding. Oh,
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when you get down to it, what happened was and
here's the history behind it. They tried to get tornado
sirens or sirens in there warning sirens in Kirk County.
The problem was they were extremely expensive, expensive, like grossly expensive,
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a lot of regulations to put them up. So everybody went, no,
don't need them. Deadly mistake, costly mistake. Say whatever you want,
point however many fingers you want. But here's the reality
of the situation. People. Okay, I'm going to lay this
to you as simply as I can. At two o'clock
in the morning, late at night when this thing actually hit,
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nobody's awake looking at their phones, and I sleep right
through some of these phone warnings. Camp counselors might not
even have let these kids have their cell phones. They
might not have even had their cell phones on. An
outdoor warning siren system can be heard, wake you up,
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where you can actually wake up and figure out what's
going on, probably would have saved lives. You can prepare
all you want, and I I promote it on this
show all the time. Bug Out bags. In fact, I
haven't even done a summer bug out bag things. I
do it all the time. I find myself repeating myself,
I should probably bug out bags, Plans, where to go
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if there's an emergency, you can meet up with your family,
your house catches on fire, something like it. If you
live in a valley, if you live in a floodplain,
where to go for high ground? How do you get
out of there? You can have all of those plans.
You can make all of those arrangements. If you're not
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made aware that something of this magnitude is coming, it
don't matter if you can't tell. There are things that happen.
There are just things that happen. And I'm not excusing anything,
but they could have avoided some of this. There's a
whole study, psychological study behind why people don't pay attention
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to emergencies. But if you are not warned that danger
is coming, how do you escape danger? And this is
not a Donald Trump thing. This is a Kerr County,
Texas thing. And I don't care if Kerk County leans
right or Leans left. They had the opportunity to put
up sirens to warn people, they did not. Will they? Oh?
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I bet I bet, I bet there's going to be sirens. Now.
The problem is you're seeing this more and more. You're
seeing counties do away with siren systems. It's very stupid.
It's one of the dumbest things I can think of. Now,
there's two schools of thought to this. Number One, if
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you do have tornado sirens. If you do have sirens,
you only use them if there's really a reason to
use them. You don't just start blasting them off every
time a thunderstorm comes up. There has to be rotation.
There has to be you know, criteria. And number two,
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when something like that does happen, people have to check
what's going on. They have to turn to a TV,
a radio, something. If you simply rely on digital modes
to get the word out, you're gonna have a cur
texas over and over and over again. You're just going
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to and unfortunately, these young children paid the price. You know,
preparing for an emergency, basically what you're doing is you're
trying to stack the odds in your own favor that
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you can grab, or one in your nicle that you
can grab and go. You've increased the odds of surviving
an emergency by a few percentiles. If you have a
backup plan, you have hard maps, you know where you
can go, you know what you can do during an emergency,
you increase that number a little bit more. There is
no one hundred percent, folks. You look at North Carolina
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and now you look at Kerr Texas the actual event.
You can plan. You can try to get these people
to understand they live in a flood plan, a floodplan,
have a plan to get out of there the second
things start going south. But it's only going to work
to a certain percent. It's only going to work to
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a certain degree. And a lot of it, unfortunately, too
much of it, has a lot to do with how
individuals perceive emergencies, their biases, their thoughts, that hole, it's
never going to happen to me, the whole process of well,
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none of my neighbors are running, so why should I.
We'll be fine. You know, this is why people die
in hurricanes. This is why people don't evacuate during hurricanes. Oh,
I'll be fine. I'm not even evacuating. And the next
thing you know, you're under twenty feet of water, or
you get hit by a stop sign. And remember it's
not the wind in a hurricane. It's what the wind blows.
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That's what gets you. So really, honestly, for the love
of God, people on the left, if you somehow stumble
across this some across this feed, stop politicizing it. This
is not a Donald Trump thing. Not to mention the
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fact that there was actually extra staff on hand in
the National Weather Service that night in the area because
they knew bad things were happening. It was a stalled system.
It wasn't climate change either. It was a stalled tropical
storm system that dumped a lot of ring very very
similar to what happened in North Carolina. Don't pay attention
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to these ding bats on ABC. These people have gone
over the edge. They're over the edge. All they are
is they're just one on board with seeing if they
can get a gotcha moment to this administration. Go to
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actual people who study the weather, actual people who are
giving facts about what happened there. Go do some research,
dig into it like I did, and figure out that, oh, hey,
there's no warning system. And let's face it, folks, the
National Weather Service, you're not gonna want to hear this,
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but it's outdated. A lot of the stuff in the
National Weather service is outdated. Maybe some of the budget
cuts that they're using to get rid of the bloat
and the way should go to actually updating the system.
Because we know more about weather than we did ten, fifteen,
twenty twenty five years ago. I don't even turn to
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the National Weather Service for advice on weather. You go
to YouTube live streamers like Ryan Hall or Michigan storm Chasers.
You can watch the storm coming across and these people
are actually studying there's no politics involved. They're actually studying weather.
Some of them have their degree in weather forecasting and
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stuff like that, and they tell you exactly what's going
to happen if I got their rights. But every time
you could watch this stuff coming at you still at
two o'clock in the morning, when you're dead to sleep,
unless you have something to wake you up and tell
you you're about to face peril, mortal danger, there's the
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problem right there. You can narrow it down to that
one thing. If you don't have a siren system in
your county, and I hate to say this, if you
have to be taxed, a warning system is probably one
of the best things that you can actually spend your
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tax dollars on because Unlike a lot of other things,
like funding trans surgeries. I'm just trying to chat at
ten oh seven first, Unlike unlike some of the things
we spend money on as a government, I can't think
of something more important then an audible system to let
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you know there's something going on that hey, maybe you
should wake up, turn your radio on, maybe you should
wake up, check your phone, see what's happening. It really
is kind of ridiculous to even have to say this.
I mean, we've spent We've spent millions of dollars. We've
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researched people, private people have researched Look up where the
f system of tornadoes come from. I've had it here
on this show. Just hours and hours and hours of
research of how much damage a tornado does, the level
of rotation, the level of winds. That all was back
(45:46):
in the late sixties, and they've even you know, refined
it revived, you know, refine some of the definitions of it.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Now you just have to get people. And this is
the hole. You can lead a horse to water, but
you can't make them drink. Now, you just have to
get people to pay attention when something happens. And here's
another thing too, a mutual follower on Twitter, a lot
of us know them. His daughter actually lost a classmate
in this. He's gonna have to tell her about it.
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He pointed out something too, that every storm system is now,
according to the news, the storm of the century. Oh
my gosh, there's never been anything like this before. Oh
we're all gonna die. And they just keep saying this
stuff over and over and over and over again. And
you know what, when everything's sensationalized, then nothing becomes sensational.
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When you keep hearing the same thing over and over
and over again, you roll your eyes and you say whatever,
that's dangerous. Dangerous. But that's the media for you. The
media's job is to sensationalize every single thing because they're
not really interested in getting your news. They're interested in
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making money. Yes, baby, So keep that mindset. Put that
in your brain. Now. Look around you, study topographical maps
for crying out loud, See what dangers around to you
this all the time. Figure out what dangers are around you,
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and plan your preparedness according to that. I don't worry
too much about floods. Here. Let's tell you a little secret
where I am, and I've shared this with some people today.
The original Lake Erie shoreline didn't really call it Lake
Erie back then, of course, because it was probably ten fifteen,
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twenty thousand years ago. The original shoreline is exactly one
half mile from my house. Whether you're going south east
or anywhere in between. It's just this curve that goes
around my house. You can feel it when you go
out for a walk or a run. You're just going
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down this little you know. It's almost like being in
a beach and then walking into the water and all
of a sudden it drops like a shelf because the
waves of just eroded things. Except it's out in dry land. Now.
We're thirty miles away from Lake Erie. So ten fifteen
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thousand years ago, I was in lake Front Proberty. Now
there's a river less than a mile from me across
the field, a pretty decent river, and it floods Old
Baby in the springtime. It really rises up that They
call it the Raisin River because it raises all the time.
I don't worry about it because it's down. If the
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Raisin River actually makes it to my back door, folks,
we've got bigger problems than rising water. We've got a
lot of problems. We're talking building an arc type problem
because it's way down into a valley. I have run
down that hill and run back up that hill, and
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it's very steep. It's like one hundred feet elevation. You
have to rise about one hundred feet get to my door.
And there's also another hill like a ravine that actually
probably was the original river that it could siphon off
of if it gets too much like an outlet. I
knew all this before I even bought this house. One
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thing I don't have to worry about. One thing. I
didn't consider the dang wind out here, because there's noth
to stop the wind. The so far knock on wood,
it hasn't knocked anything of importance down. But I'm just
telling you prepare, But also understand that preparing doesn't make
you bulletproof. It just increases the add of you surviving.
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The only constant in a tragic situation is that there
is no constance. It's a dynamic situation that changes by
the minute. And if you understand that deeply, if you
if you understand that any emergency situation, any tragedy, any tornado,
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any flood, any earthquake, whatever, when you pull pull it
into your psyche that the only thing for sure is
that things are going to change by the second, by
the minute, your chances of survival go up. Now, I
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guarantee you that nobody in that camp or the campground
that got washed away full of people probably knew where
to get to in case it was flood. They probably
weren't even thinking about that. I'm sure the camp counselors
weren't trained on what to do to take the kids.
I hear stories of heroic efforts from some of these counselors,
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and I'm not discounting anything they did. I mean, you
just don't know what you're gonna do, and you put
into that situation. But hopefully lessons are learned, hopefully all
you can do. And this is just like North Carolina.
It wasn't that the Biden administration made cuts or did
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something wrong in North Carolina. It's what they did afterwards
by ignoring it for weeks before they even did anything.
Days went by before they even decided to do anything.
And when they did, it was you give us complete
control of everything you're doing, or you know you're not
going to get help, or we're going to do all
of this by you know, race, We're gonna do it
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by who's the biggest victim first. This is where it matters,
and this is where Trump Donald Trump. President Trump has
the opportunity to be the bigger person to just say
we're going in there. And he's already started. He's already
basically declared the disaster area and told Governor Rabbitt, We're
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gonna give you anything you need to get this taken
care of. That's the difference. It wasn't budget cuts. Hopefully,
lessons will be learned. Hopefully the lessons we learned in
North Carolina can be applied to this. But I will
tell you this, Kirk County has to take the responsibility
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of not having a system set up to warn these people,
especially when they know that it's a dangerous He's the
guy that judge is right in it. This is one
of the most dangerous flood areas in the nation. Well, then,
why aren't you prepared. Why don't you have sirens that
tell people? Why don't you train people that, hey, when
these sirens go off, you know you got to go.
(52:58):
And I am thinking that may be hopefully I'm still
hopefully I'm still in the show because I can't see
anything saying. I am hope that the guys can hear me.
If you're still hearing me, let me know, guys, because
things are kind of weird. Wow, this has been a
really odd day, and I don't know what's going on
(53:20):
with my computer. But we'll see what happens. It's kind
of frustrating. I don't know, but anyways, it brings us
almost up back up to the hour mark. Hopefull you
guys are still hearing me. I like to thank each
and every one of you for tuning in to Sunday
Night with Alan Ray GOTD. Have missed you all, missed
you all. I've had a great time. Oh yeah, I's
(53:42):
hearing me, so we're good. I'll be back next week.
Lord Willing. I'm trying to get Jeff and Rick off
the hook and learn to do all the producing myself.
But really Rick, Rick's pressing buttons, but he's he's also
setting up my picture and all that. I'm gonna have
to spend some time get trained on this, on the
new stuff, the new way of doing live streaming. I'm
(54:04):
so new to all this. I feel like an old guy.
I'm shaking my cane at all of you. We're gonna
wrap it up. Everybody. Have a great Sunday night. You're
going into Monday. Hope you had a great Independence Day weekend.
It was hot, yes, but it was also very, very beautiful.
I played a lot of contacts on radio, just sitting
out on my patio with a couple of different courage
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great back man. Really do appreciate that, appreciate the encouragement.
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Lord have mercy that it was absolutely painful, painful. Ah yeah,
welcome to Sunday Night with Allen Ray. We're here. God,
I hope her here. I hope. I have no proof
whatsoever that I hope. Guys in chat, I'm going to
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rely on you to tell me if this thing's blanking
out or not. For something. Something is absolutely obliterating, Mike.
Just something is downloading somewhere. Maybe my soft asked, maybe
(04:33):
it's it's it's Microsoft. Uh something. Something is absolutely just
killing this computer right now, and nothing is responding. I
I'm flying blind. I'm flying blind. I don't know how
this is gonna go. And it's been a couple of weeks.
(04:53):
And the funny part about it, this computer is working
absolutely magnificently and Raptors saying it's in and out perfect. Greg,
you know, I don't know how this is gonna go.
I really don't. It seems to be it seems to
be Okay, now we'll see what happens. I don't know anyways. Yeah, something,
(05:16):
something weird is loading this thing down. So I'm just
gonna make a couple of little quick adjustments here on
the fly, and we're gonna talk a little bit. I've
got some really cool and interesting things. I've also some
things that have really kind of pissed me off over
the past twenty four hours forty eight hours. But I
feel like I haven't been behind the mic forever. Even
though I did a show of Stacy last week playing
(05:37):
in the Dirt, it was a good show. The week
before that, the two weeks before that, I was on vacation,
I was kind of off and doing my own thing.
And I want to tell you about it. And I'm
not gonna break out a bunch of slides and stuff
like eurield Bustle's, my wife and I and we're all
in Cleveland, o'hoy, and I'm not gonna do that to yet.
I'm gonna tell you what we did. Though we had three,
(06:01):
well technically four stops on this trip. The first up
was in Buffalo, New York to meet with the East
Coast Reflector Crew. It was our official yearly meet and
greet in the Buffalo area. Got there Friday night, had
dinner with all the crew. Then Saturday, on top of
this hill, this big hill in this park where that
(06:23):
overlooks the entire city of Buffalo. It's really cool, had
our meet and greet. I had close to one hundred
people show up. I think fifty, I don't know, could
be fifty, and really great time. Hung out with a
lot of Ham radio operators, people that I talked to
almost every day. Had a great time, did a lot
(06:44):
of cool things. It was just absolutely marvelous. And then
Sunday got up have breakfast with the crew, all the
people that actually run the East Coast Reflector. I'm a
net controller, but you know, that's kind of what do.
We're part of the group that runs the thing. And
then my wife and I went up to Niagara Falls.
I'd never been to Niagara Falls in my life and
(07:06):
we're really only like four and a half five hours
from Niagara Falls. Never been there, never always wanted to
see it, and never had an opportunity. My parents never
took me to places like that as a kid. My
wife's parents, you know, they took her all over the
God's Green and hear saw all the cool sites. So
I was kind of like a kid at Christmas, wanted
to see the falls. Really cool hot day, ninety degrees hot. Uugh,
(07:30):
But we did. We walked around Goat Island, walked around
Niga Falls, took a buttload of pictures. It was absolutely
outstanding and oh good, everything just blinked and now everything
looks like it's actually coming to life here. I hope
he can still hear me. Ah went to Niagara Falls
and my impression on Nagara Falls it's beautiful, beautiful. A
(07:53):
lot of people, but that's to be expected. It's it's
a spectator thing. Walk around go Island, took pictures, and
the thing about it was it was beautiful to look at.
That smell, though, was a little funky. I don't know
if I would stand under the falls and let that
water hit me without expecting my hair to fall out
(08:15):
or my face to melt or something. Something smell off
about that water. I've been to a lot of rivers,
I've been to a lot of the Great lakes. There
was something funky, so I'm not sure I would. I would,
you know, like, go stand under the falls. Just that's
off the bucket list. But it was cool to see.
It was cool mess some cool people there, you know,
(08:37):
talk to some people. And then from there we went
on down to Pennsylvania. We were on the road to
go to Gettysburg. We stopped just across the you know what,
PJ Politics drunkie, he's just hit the chat and guys,
I'll acknowledge you all in a minute, but I just
want to tell you the story. We came across this
(08:59):
little place called Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Little town. I think there's
a college somewhere around there because there's a lot of
younger people there, so it kind of thinks and they
can it's a college town. When we got up the
next morning, you know, we went to this cool place
called twin our Thin Line Tavern for lunch. When we
got there dinner, I should say, excellent, blt great place,
(09:20):
little atmosphere, but the whole little town there is just
nothing but little dive bars and stuff and coffee shops. Well,
we got up the next morning, we didn't feel like
hotel food. The hotel food looked really gross, so we
took off downtown to this little place called Conspiracy Coffee.
If you ever find yourself in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Right across
(09:40):
the line, there's a place called Conspiracy Coffee and they
serve quick, easy breakfasts and good coffee. They're not complicated,
they're not hash posh, they're not food food stuff. It's
just good coffee and some good breakfast. Nothing fancy eggs, bacon,
(10:01):
you can get some pancakes, maybe get a buffin something
like that. But it was good. But as you can guess,
Conspiracy Coffee, they're a whole and it's small. It probably
fits twenty twenty five people in there, that's about it.
And that's a crowd. There's probably only ten people in there,
and half of them were cops, so you know, if
the cops are going there, it's good. But the entire
decor it was all news clippings and articles and stuff
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from conspiracy theories, bigfoot, JFK assassination, UFOs, you name it.
You know. I looked at my wife. I was like,
I'm home, let's move here. I wouldn't want to do that,
but it was a cool place. And I talked to
the you know, I don't know if it was the
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manager of the owner, but it was the person that
was like, you know, shouting out mostly orders and stuff
we were talking about, and I said it was a
neat place, and I did the meme. I did the meme.
You know, hey, I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist myself.
I told them about the Mountain Dew conspiracy theory, which
they had no idea what I was talking about. And
I'm like, really, yeah, go look it up. Every time
they name a mountain Dew, something happens on like a
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national or global scale that has something to do with
that title and mountain Dew. The people that own mountain
Dew or the company that owns mountain Dew, the CIA
used to have a lot of dealings with them. And
the guy just looked at me and goes, oh, I'm
going back to get on the computer right now, you know,
and he wished me a good day. We were on
our way, but you know, we talked about two or
three and a couple of them he had no idea about.
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So anyways, we get to Gettysburg. Hot. Gettysburg was hot,
Lord have mercy. Gettysburg was hot. But I will tell
you this, and I'm gonna go into this a little
bit if I can get I don't even know if
things are gonna work. I've given up on my computer.
I'm just gonna use my phone. Screw it. Gettysburg was awesome.
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I've never been to a Civil War battlefield in my life,
and honestly, to tell the truth, it was it was
just an out of body experience. It was about it
was one hundred to one hundred one degree the whole
time we were down there. It was absolutely just mortifying.
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But but if you actually study Gettysburg, the three day
Battle of Gettysburg, what is it? Starting July first, eighteen
sixty three and uh and and ending July third, those
three days it was hot. It was nineties high nineties hundred,
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so you got the real effect. And of course, you know,
we whipped we're getting old. We're not young anymore. We're
not gonna walk around a hundred degree whether I don't care.
You could download this little app and you can. You know,
that's cash you about ten bucks to do. But we said,
what the heck ground vacation, And they they download an
actual driving tour through Gettysburg that plays the tour on
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your car stair, you know, your radio, and it took
it into your cell phone and it was absolutely outstanding.
We were on all the cool places. Okay, we were
in the wheat field, We went through the peach orchard,
the railroad track ravine where the Confederates lost a lot
of men because they were stupid enough to dive down
in it thinking they were going to hide. Little Roundtop,
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big Roundtop, the Devil's Den, all of that. We were everywhere.
Cemetery Ridge you named, we were. We crawled all over
that place all day. And I'll tell you what even now,
in fact, I don't know if this had anything to
do with what I was doing, but I was watching
videos about a picket of course, pickets Charge where that
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all happened and everything we were there. I was watching
some videos on that just before I even came on air.
Little was I to know that my computer was going
to betray me. What do you do? But anyways, there
on some of these places, Cemetery Ridge, some of the
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other places that you know, a little roundtop, all these
places that that you just had this feeling that the
feeling was almost overwhelming. Maybe it was just me. Maybe
I was just kind of emotional because I've studied all this,
I know all of it, But the feeling was emotional.
There there was a lot of times, not even kidding.
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There's a lot of times, and had tears of my
eyes because I knew what happened. I knew I was standing,
I was standing right where thousands and thousands of men died, thousands.
I knew when I was going across the ridge, across
the wheat field, thousands of men died there. When you're
standing there on little roundtop, you knew the significance, the
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importance of it. And as the day progressed, my wife
and I were talking about it, and she was like me,
we're like little kids. We're running around there taking pictures,
getting out of the hundred the car in one hundred
degree tempts for about ten to fifteen minutes, and then
like whimps, we'd run back into the air conditioner. It
was rented. We didn't care. We'd run it all day,
air condition, full speed. I don't care. All kinds of pictures,
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and it just had this feeling when you went into
the graveyard, the cemetery, and you were standing right where
President Lincoln gave the Gettysburg address, and you studied it
in history books, you've read books about it, but it's
nothing prepares you for that whole body experience of just feeling,
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feeling the spirits of fifty one thousand Union and Confederate
soldiers who had a sacrifice there, dead, missing, wounded, some
died later. You just felt it. And this is one
for juxtaposition too. There's actually an entire series on the
ghosts of Gettysburg, a big thing. People swear by it.
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People in the areas swear by say, oh yeah, there's
ghosts all over here. We see them all the time.
Didn't know that. Came back and studied it. But anyways,
and it was a great thing to do coming up
on coming on an independence day. So I look this
up and I'm gonna throw a throw ten facts of
Gettysburg at you, and we're gonna get this QUI because'm
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gonna'm gonna get riled up here in just a little bit.
And I know I'm late, but I'm gonna run till
ten thirty. I hope Brick don't mind ten thirty Eastern
Standard time, God's time. Rick. I hope you don't mind, Bud,
And you feel free to cut in. I don't care.
Ten facts about the Battle of Gettysburg. Fact number one.
The battle was fought at Gettysburg because the area road
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system had nothing to do with shoes. Apparently there's some
conspiracy theory out there about shoes in Gettysburg. It's not true.
Gettysburg and you can feel this going in to the town.
Gettysburg is a strategic area and they tell you this.
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I've set sell times during the tour. It's a very
strategic area, especially at the time. Ten roads meeting right
there in Gettysburg. It was a conspira, a stupid rumor anyway.
But the tally Gettysburg population was about two thousand, and
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it was on the rise. It boasted three newspapers, two
institutes of higher learning, several churches and banks, but there
was no shoe factories of warehouses. The ten roads that
led into town are brought or what brought the armies
to Gettysburg. The shoe myth can be traced back to
a late eighteen seventy statement by Confederate General Henry F.
Fact number two. The first day's battle was a much
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larger engagement than is generally portrayed. The first day of
fighting at McPherson's Ridge, Oak Hill, Oak Ridge, Seminary, Ridge,
Barlows Know, and in and around the town involved some
fifty thousand soldiers, of which roughly fifteen thousand, five hundred
were killed, wounded, captured, or missing. The first day in
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itself ranks as the twelfth bloodiest battle of the Civil War,
with more casualties in the battles of bull Run and
Franklin combined back number three. The second day's battle was
the largest and costliest of the three days. The second
day's fighting at Devil's Den, Little round Top, the Wheat Field,
the Peach Orchard, Cemetery Ridge, Trossels Farm, Culp Hill and
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Cemetery Hill which I visited, stepped out into every single
one of those places, and it was just crazy involved
at least one hundred thousand soldiers, of which roughly twenty
thousand were killed, wounded, capture, and missing. The second day
in itself ranks as the tenth bloodiest battle in the
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Civil War, with far more casualties than the much larger
Battle of Fredericksburg fac Number four. Of one hundred and
twenty generals present at Gettysburg, nine were killed or mortally
wounded during the battle. On the Confederate side, Generals Semis, Barksdale, Armistead,
Garnet and Pender plus Pettigrew, during the pedigruw. During the
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retreat on the Union side, Generals Reynolds, zuck Weed, Farnsworth
and Bencett promoted posthumously. No other battles claimed as many
general officers. Fact number five, Colps Hill and Cemetery Hill
were far more important than the Little Roundtop. Even the
Little Roundtop is the most famous if you watch Gettysburg,
its importance to the Union Army is at least debatable.
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The same cannot be said for Colps Hill, Cemetery Hill,
Coupps Hill and Cemetery Hill. The two latter hills formed
the center and the right of the Union's main position
and also protected the Union army only real lifeline on
July second and July third. Now, let me back up
here and disagree with this just a little. And here's
what I've studied, and here's what I've actually come to realize.
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Even though Little Roundtop wasn't as important, here's what it is.
It was more important for the Union to keep Little
Roundtop than it was for the Confederate to take Little
Roundtop Because the reinforcements coming in could have retaken Little
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Roundtop from the Confederate, but at quite a cost. They
already had Little Roundtop, and the Roundtop was a good
strategic position, but losing it wouldn't have been devastating to
the outcome of the battle or the war. Keeping it
was very important. It's kind of hard to explain, but
keeping that hill cost the Confederate Army a lot more
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people than one would think, you know, was even comfortable
for an army to lose without just walking away and said, hey,
let's try something else. But anyways, Culps Hill and Cemetery Hill,
the two latter hills formed the center and right of
the Union's main position. It also protected the Union Army
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Army's only real lifeline on July second, third the Baltimore Pike.
Had Confederates captured and control either of those two hills,
the Union Army would have had to leave Getty's brig area.
It is as simple as that, even with the sweeping
views and the commanding height. The same cannot be said
for the Little Roundtop. Fact, six Pickets charge was large
and grand, but by no means the largest charge of
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the Civil War, not even close. Pickets charge involved some
twelve thousand Confederate soldiers, which there again I stood right
on that area where those soldiers were It's just humbling,
that's all I can say the Confederate soldier. But the
Confederate charge at Franklin had twenty thousand, and even that
pales in comparison to the Grand Confederate Charge at gains Mills,
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which involved more than fifty thousand Confederate troops. Even the
well known two hundred and sixty gun bombardment that preceded
Pickets Charge was not the largest of the war. There
was at least one bombardment in Peter's Burg with more
than four hundred cannons invaulved Fact seventh. The Battle of
Gettysburg is by far the costliest battle of the Civil War,
but not necessarily the largest. Well, each of the three
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days of the Battle of Gettysburg rank in the top
fifteen bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The one hundred
and sixty thousand troops president Gettysburger eclipsed by the more
than one hundred and eighty five thousand at Fredericksburg, which
I want to go to Fredericksburg. That's that. Somebody told me, Hey,
if you've been to Gettysburg, next stop Fredericksburg. Fact eight
sixty four Medals of Honor awarded the Union soldiers for
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their action at Gettysburg. The deeds spanned the battlefield and
were awarded for a wartime into the twenty first century.
Eight were awarded for actions on July first, twenty eight
for the actions on July second, and twenty eight for
the actions on July second, and twenty nine for actions
on July third. The most recent medal of Honor given
for heroism at Gettysburg was awarded to Alonzo Cushing by
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President Barack Obama in twenty fourteen. Fact nine. The Gettysburg
Address essentially said the same thing as the famous orator
Edward Everett's speech, but in one sixtieth of the time.
When Lincoln uttered these two sentences, we have come to
dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting
place for those who were here gave their lives that
nation might, that a nation might live. It is all
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together fitting and proper that we should do this. He
was essentially repeating the idea that had already been stated,
only more well more efficiently, ever used more than five
five hundred words two hours speech. Could you've imagine setting
through that to make the same point. Finally, Fact ten,
while Gettysburg Battlefield is well preserved, there are still numerous
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parcels to be saved. The Civil War Trust and National
Park Service have identified several unpreserved parcels which are important
to the story of American's greatest battle. The battle itself
is among the best resources for historians and others to
learn about the battle. The unique terrain, when used in
conjunction with the words of those who fought there, image
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is created on the ground and it's placed by the veterans,
provide an unparallel learning opportunity. And this, of course, I'd
like to thank the people of who did this. Battlesfields
battlefields dot org great little reference. So I'm telling you, you
get down there, you gotta walk through it. Take an
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entire day. It takes an entire day. Climb up all
the platforms, look across the areas and just envision the
battles that went there. Right now, it's so peaceful, so peaceful,
but you know, darn well, tens of thousands of men
died there and then after leaving Gottisburg, and I didn't
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know this was right on the way home. It was
actually kind of crazy. And sorry about that. I'm I'm
trying to recover this stupid computer while I'm talking to you. See,
I'm multi multitasking. We did not know that the nine
to eleven memorial to Flight ninety three was right on
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the way home. We didn't really, I mean, we had
to take some well, we'll put it this way. I've
traveled more Pennsylvania back roads that I ever cared to. Again. Okay,
there is no direct route from Niagara Falls, New York
to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. There's none. I've been to places that
I really they were beautiful, nice hilly areas, but I
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really didn't care to go through or will ever go
through again. But the Flight ninety three memorial was directly
in our path on the way home. So we stopped
there and again gut wrenching, gut wrenching, and you knew,
I mean, standing in a place where people died and
knowing the story behind flight ninety three and how those
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guys took that plane back over because they knew it
was going to be used, probably at the White House.
They figured it out and they said, nope, we're not
going to allow this beautiful monument, very tastefully, very well done.
And you look out over the field where the actual
plane hit and it brings to yours your eyes, not
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even kidding. So this vacation was very emotional, very emotional.
I can't tell you how many times I got misty.
I just just walking through these places, knowing what had
happened to both places. And I'm a bit of a
Civil War buff. It's a bit of a World War
two buff. But I will tell you what the visitors
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sitting there at Gettysburg. I probably spent too much money
there on books. Let me put it to you this way.
My summer reading. I'm gonna need three or four summers
to complete the reading for this summer. Not kidding, but guys,
thanks for joining me in chat. Obviously, Raptor in there,
I see already in there. Of course he was first.
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Charles Vncent's in there. Rowdy Rick, who's producing me right now,
is in there. Jeff is not a little bit of
a hiatus. We're we're He's in our prayers. He had
a little bit of medical problems and uh man, by golly,
he'll be back eventually soon enough. And you know, the
alien DNA kind of messed up the doctors that were
tending to him. But I think he's gonna be all right.
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It's similar enough where he should be fine if you know,
you know what I'm talking about. But he usually comes
on before me, and I'm hoping giving him all the
best um chat just disappeared. Yeay, politics junk. He's in there,
He's usually in there. Glad to have him in there.
Anybody else I missed? Guys, thanks for check coming in.
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We've got two hundred and fifty three views already. Okay,
all right, now we've hit in the twenty eight minute mark.
I don't know if I can even take a break
before I get into this, because, let me tell you what,
something has kind of crawled up my butt for the
past forty eight hours. It's disgusting, it's vulgar, it's taking
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advantage of a situation that doesn't need to be taking
advantage of. And the worst part, it's a lie. And
I'm talking about what certain people in a certain party
is doing with this flood that came through Texas. Of course,
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they have gotten their minds. And it's not just certain
people on the left. The entire left wing media is
doing this right now. You go right through that, you
go into Google News, which is the perfect example of
left wing media saturation and Lord have mercy. I don't
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know what to think about it. How how do you
exploit a situation and try to have and I got
you a moment against President Trump and be so stupid, thoughtless,
careless soulss and not even think about the ramifications of
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your stupid mouths, your stupid brains spewing this stuff out.
So what I want to do is I want to
actually give you some some truth about what happened in Texas.
Number One, it took a while for the actual truth
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to come out because you know, people just jumped on
this and they just slaughtered the whole story. Now those
who don't know it, there's a lot of people that
a lot of people missing down there in Texas. And
the biggest thing, the left jumped on this story. And
I don't want to get too far into politics on this,
but I'm going to because I'm kind of pissed they
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jumped on the whole thing that this is a direct
result of Trump cuts. Oh, Donald Trump did this. He
went down there and he just unleashed all this water
and killed all these people. Oh and you can see
them just just pushing this narrative and it's not just
the it's not just the common people doing this, the
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mouthy activists and stuff like this. No, no, this is
coming right out of major news outlets, left wing major
news outlets, outlets, and you're seeing it all. And of
course the drooling six o'clock news watchers, where you know,
the only place they get their actual news is from news.
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When they get home, kick their shoes off, they watch
the thirty second blurbs, and none of it's very accurate.
They have to compromise, they have, but they can get
these people, and they can actually warp them into thinking
that what they're saying is true. Let's see if I
can bring this up, because my computer's just worthless. I
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don't know what the heck is down. I've given up
on it. I'm just glad it's making noise. I'm glad
you can hear me, guys, I really am. Let's look
at some facts. This happened in Kerr County, Texas, and
we know that well at the time this was written,
fifty nine people are dead. I think they've found more,
including twenty one children. The National Weather Service actually issued
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several warnings. The National Weather Service issued a flash flood
watch Thursday afternoon that noted Kerr County, where much of
the flooding began early Friday morning, and it said it
was a particularly vulnerable area, along with more urgent flash
flooding emergencies alerts in the overnight hours as the disaster unfolded,
several of them. The National Weather Service was one of
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the several federal agencies targeted by the controversial cost cutting
efforts of the Trump administrating Department. But it had nothing
to do with it. This had nothing to do with
And here's the thing about it is those cuts start
if if passed by Congress. Yes, some people were not
allowed to hire in there, Okay, And now they're screaming, yooh,
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we're understaff They're not understaffed. Trust me, they're not understaffed
at all. The numbers don't add up from what they're saying.
But the actual budget cuts to the service, if passed
by Congress, if Hastill hasn't been passed, would start in
October of twenty twenty five. And what the media is
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not telling you is those budget cuts are already self
admittedly from the from Naa, from Noah. The bulk of
those budget cuts come to things that have nothing to
do with the National Weather Service with weather. What they're
doing is they're stripping some of the things that perferal
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things they have really nothing to do with weather, and
they're relocating them to different bureaucracies. They're not going away,
they don't want to tell tell you that. And they're
doing this through their own words so they can focus
solely on the weather, which is what they should be
doing to begin with. So even this little blurb here,
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where's this from Forbes dot com, several several flash flood
warnings went out and there's more flooding possible. That's the
bad part of it. But you get down to the
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actual truth of the matter, strip away all the politics,
to strip away all the stupidity. You do a little
research and you find out why there were masked casualties.
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And it took getting into some of the local newspapers
and this was like what is this xx KX A
N and Austin. At a Friday news conference, Kirk County
Judge Rob Kelly said he can't answer why camps weren't evacuated,
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but acknowledged acknowledged, Now this is important. Hand your butts.
I'm going to absolutely destroy the Crassenstein, Crassenstein idiots. I'm
absolutely going to destroy all of these CNN and all
these things that are pointing fingers at Trump. It boils
down to this. Judge Rob Kelly said, we do not
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have a warning system. We didn't know this flood was coming.
Rest assured, no one knew this kind of flood was coming.
We have floods all the time. This is the most
dangerous river valley in the United States, and we deal
with floods on a regular basis. When it rains, we
get water. We had no reason to believe that this
is going to be anything like what happened here, none whatsoever.
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It boils down to this. They don't have a siren
system in Kerr County. It goes down to let's see,
Cameistic is located less than twenty miles of Kerr and Hunt,
which is in Kerr County. And one of the people
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out there that's I don't know they were born and
raised in Kentucky either, one of the witnesses where she
said outdoor weather sirens, primarily used for tornadoes, were common.
On fifth, she stated a changed or online petition urgently
calling for kerrvill and Kerr County to implement an outdoor
early warning siren system for life threatening emergencies like flooding. Oh,
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when you get down to it, what happened was and
here's the history behind it. They tried to get tornado
sirens or sirens in there warning sirens in Kirk County.
The problem was they were extremely expensive, expensive, like grossly expensive,
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a lot of regulations to put them up. So everybody went, no,
don't need them. Deadly mistake, costly mistake. Say whatever you want,
point however many fingers you want. But here's the reality
of the situation. People. Okay, I'm going to lay this
to you as simply as I can. At two o'clock
in the morning, late at night when this thing actually hit,
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nobody's awake looking at their phones, and I sleep right
through some of these phone warnings. Camp counselors might not
even have let these kids have their cell phones. They
might not have even had their cell phones on. An
outdoor warning siren system can be heard, wake you up,
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where you can actually wake up and figure out what's
going on, probably would have saved lives. You can prepare
all you want, and I I promote it on this
show all the time. Bug Out bags. In fact, I
haven't even done a summer bug out bag things. I
do it all the time. I find myself repeating myself,
I should probably bug out bags, Plans, where to go
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if there's an emergency, you can meet up with your family,
your house catches on fire, something like it. If you
live in a valley, if you live in a floodplain,
where to go for high ground? How do you get
out of there? You can have all of those plans.
You can make all of those arrangements. If you're not
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made aware that something of this magnitude is coming, it
don't matter if you can't tell. There are things that happen.
There are just things that happen. And I'm not excusing anything,
but they could have avoided some of this. There's a
whole study, psychological study behind why people don't pay attention
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to emergencies. But if you are not warned that danger
is coming, how do you escape danger? And this is
not a Donald Trump thing. This is a Kerr County,
Texas thing. And I don't care if Kerk County leans
right or Leans left. They had the opportunity to put
up sirens to warn people, they did not. Will they? Oh?
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I bet I bet, I bet there's going to be sirens. Now.
The problem is you're seeing this more and more. You're
seeing counties do away with siren systems. It's very stupid.
It's one of the dumbest things I can think of. Now,
there's two schools of thought to this. Number One, if
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you do have tornado sirens. If you do have sirens,
you only use them if there's really a reason to
use them. You don't just start blasting them off every
time a thunderstorm comes up. There has to be rotation.
There has to be you know, criteria. And number two,
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when something like that does happen, people have to check
what's going on. They have to turn to a TV,
a radio, something. If you simply rely on digital modes
to get the word out, you're gonna have a cur
texas over and over and over again. You're just going
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to and unfortunately, these young children paid the price. You know,
preparing for an emergency, basically what you're doing is you're
trying to stack the odds in your own favor that
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you can grab, or one in your nicle that you
can grab and go. You've increased the odds of surviving
an emergency by a few percentiles. If you have a
backup plan, you have hard maps, you know where you
can go, you know what you can do during an emergency,
you increase that number a little bit more. There is
no one hundred percent, folks. You look at North Carolina
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and now you look at Kerr Texas the actual event.
You can plan. You can try to get these people
to understand they live in a flood plan, a floodplan,
have a plan to get out of there the second
things start going south. But it's only going to work
to a certain percent. It's only going to work to
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a certain degree. And a lot of it, unfortunately, too
much of it, has a lot to do with how
individuals perceive emergencies, their biases, their thoughts, that hole, it's
never going to happen to me, the whole process of well,
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none of my neighbors are running, so why should I.
We'll be fine. You know, this is why people die
in hurricanes. This is why people don't evacuate during hurricanes. Oh,
I'll be fine. I'm not even evacuating. And the next
thing you know, you're under twenty feet of water, or
you get hit by a stop sign. And remember it's
not the wind in a hurricane. It's what the wind blows.
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That's what gets you. So really, honestly, for the love
of God, people on the left, if you somehow stumble
across this some across this feed, stop politicizing it. This
is not a Donald Trump thing. Not to mention the
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fact that there was actually extra staff on hand in
the National Weather Service that night in the area because
they knew bad things were happening. It was a stalled system.
It wasn't climate change either. It was a stalled tropical
storm system that dumped a lot of ring very very
similar to what happened in North Carolina. Don't pay attention
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to these ding bats on ABC. These people have gone
over the edge. They're over the edge. All they are
is they're just one on board with seeing if they
can get a gotcha moment to this administration. Go to
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actual people who study the weather, actual people who are
giving facts about what happened there. Go do some research,
dig into it like I did, and figure out that, oh, hey,
there's no warning system. And let's face it, folks, the
National Weather Service, you're not gonna want to hear this,
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but it's outdated. A lot of the stuff in the
National Weather service is outdated. Maybe some of the budget
cuts that they're using to get rid of the bloat
and the way should go to actually updating the system.
Because we know more about weather than we did ten, fifteen,
twenty twenty five years ago. I don't even turn to
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the National Weather Service for advice on weather. You go
to YouTube live streamers like Ryan Hall or Michigan storm Chasers.
You can watch the storm coming across and these people
are actually studying there's no politics involved. They're actually studying weather.
Some of them have their degree in weather forecasting and
(43:51):
stuff like that, and they tell you exactly what's going
to happen if I got their rights. But every time
you could watch this stuff coming at you still at
two o'clock in the morning, when you're dead to sleep,
unless you have something to wake you up and tell
you you're about to face peril, mortal danger, there's the
(44:16):
problem right there. You can narrow it down to that
one thing. If you don't have a siren system in
your county, and I hate to say this, if you
have to be taxed, a warning system is probably one
of the best things that you can actually spend your
(44:37):
tax dollars on because Unlike a lot of other things,
like funding trans surgeries. I'm just trying to chat at
ten oh seven first, Unlike unlike some of the things
we spend money on as a government, I can't think
of something more important then an audible system to let
(45:03):
you know there's something going on that hey, maybe you
should wake up, turn your radio on, maybe you should
wake up, check your phone, see what's happening. It really
is kind of ridiculous to even have to say this.
I mean, we've spent We've spent millions of dollars. We've
(45:25):
researched people, private people have researched Look up where the
f system of tornadoes come from. I've had it here
on this show. Just hours and hours and hours of
research of how much damage a tornado does, the level
of rotation, the level of winds. That all was back
(45:46):
in the late sixties, and they've even you know, refined
it revived, you know, refine some of the definitions of it.
Speaker 1 (45:53):
Now.
Speaker 2 (45:59):
Now you just have to get people. And this is
the hole. You can lead a horse to water, but
you can't make them drink. Now, you just have to
get people to pay attention when something happens. And here's
another thing too, a mutual follower on Twitter, a lot
of us know them. His daughter actually lost a classmate
in this. He's gonna have to tell her about it.
(46:23):
He pointed out something too, that every storm system is now,
according to the news, the storm of the century. Oh
my gosh, there's never been anything like this before. Oh
we're all gonna die. And they just keep saying this
stuff over and over and over and over again. And
you know what, when everything's sensationalized, then nothing becomes sensational.
(46:44):
When you keep hearing the same thing over and over
and over again, you roll your eyes and you say whatever,
that's dangerous. Dangerous. But that's the media for you. The
media's job is to sensationalize every single thing because they're
not really interested in getting your news. They're interested in
(47:04):
making money. Yes, baby, So keep that mindset. Put that
in your brain. Now. Look around you, study topographical maps
for crying out loud, See what dangers around to you
this all the time. Figure out what dangers are around you,
(47:27):
and plan your preparedness according to that. I don't worry
too much about floods. Here. Let's tell you a little secret
where I am, and I've shared this with some people today.
The original Lake Erie shoreline didn't really call it Lake
Erie back then, of course, because it was probably ten fifteen,
(47:47):
twenty thousand years ago. The original shoreline is exactly one
half mile from my house. Whether you're going south east
or anywhere in between. It's just this curve that goes
around my house. You can feel it when you go
out for a walk or a run. You're just going
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down this little you know. It's almost like being in
a beach and then walking into the water and all
of a sudden it drops like a shelf because the
waves of just eroded things. Except it's out in dry land. Now.
We're thirty miles away from Lake Erie. So ten fifteen
(48:29):
thousand years ago, I was in lake Front Proberty. Now
there's a river less than a mile from me across
the field, a pretty decent river, and it floods Old
Baby in the springtime. It really rises up that They
call it the Raisin River because it raises all the time.
I don't worry about it because it's down. If the
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Raisin River actually makes it to my back door, folks,
we've got bigger problems than rising water. We've got a
lot of problems. We're talking building an arc type problem
because it's way down into a valley. I have run
down that hill and run back up that hill, and
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it's very steep. It's like one hundred feet elevation. You
have to rise about one hundred feet get to my door.
And there's also another hill like a ravine that actually
probably was the original river that it could siphon off
of if it gets too much like an outlet. I
knew all this before I even bought this house. One
(49:39):
thing I don't have to worry about. One thing. I
didn't consider the dang wind out here, because there's noth
to stop the wind. The so far knock on wood,
it hasn't knocked anything of importance down. But I'm just
telling you prepare, But also understand that preparing doesn't make
you bulletproof. It just increases the add of you surviving.
(50:02):
The only constant in a tragic situation is that there
is no constance. It's a dynamic situation that changes by
the minute. And if you understand that deeply, if you
if you understand that any emergency situation, any tragedy, any tornado,
(50:22):
any flood, any earthquake, whatever, when you pull pull it
into your psyche that the only thing for sure is
that things are going to change by the second, by
the minute, your chances of survival go up. Now, I
(50:43):
guarantee you that nobody in that camp or the campground
that got washed away full of people probably knew where
to get to in case it was flood. They probably
weren't even thinking about that. I'm sure the camp counselors
weren't trained on what to do to take the kids.
I hear stories of heroic efforts from some of these counselors,
(51:06):
and I'm not discounting anything they did. I mean, you
just don't know what you're gonna do, and you put
into that situation. But hopefully lessons are learned, hopefully all
you can do. And this is just like North Carolina.
It wasn't that the Biden administration made cuts or did
(51:27):
something wrong in North Carolina. It's what they did afterwards
by ignoring it for weeks before they even did anything.
Days went by before they even decided to do anything.
And when they did, it was you give us complete
control of everything you're doing, or you know you're not
going to get help, or we're going to do all
of this by you know, race, We're gonna do it
(51:48):
by who's the biggest victim first. This is where it matters,
and this is where Trump Donald Trump. President Trump has
the opportunity to be the bigger person to just say
we're going in there. And he's already started. He's already
basically declared the disaster area and told Governor Rabbitt, We're
(52:10):
gonna give you anything you need to get this taken
care of. That's the difference. It wasn't budget cuts. Hopefully,
lessons will be learned. Hopefully the lessons we learned in
North Carolina can be applied to this. But I will
tell you this, Kirk County has to take the responsibility
(52:34):
of not having a system set up to warn these people,
especially when they know that it's a dangerous He's the
guy that judge is right in it. This is one
of the most dangerous flood areas in the nation. Well, then,
why aren't you prepared. Why don't you have sirens that
tell people? Why don't you train people that, hey, when
these sirens go off, you know you got to go.
(52:58):
And I am thinking that may be hopefully I'm still
hopefully I'm still in the show because I can't see
anything saying. I am hope that the guys can hear me.
If you're still hearing me, let me know, guys, because
things are kind of weird. Wow, this has been a
really odd day, and I don't know what's going on
(53:20):
with my computer. But we'll see what happens. It's kind
of frustrating. I don't know, but anyways, it brings us
almost up back up to the hour mark. Hopefull you
guys are still hearing me. I like to thank each
and every one of you for tuning in to Sunday
Night with Alan Ray GOTD. Have missed you all, missed
you all. I've had a great time. Oh yeah, I's
(53:42):
hearing me, so we're good. I'll be back next week.
Lord Willing. I'm trying to get Jeff and Rick off
the hook and learn to do all the producing myself.
But really Rick, Rick's pressing buttons, but he's he's also
setting up my picture and all that. I'm gonna have
to spend some time get trained on this, on the
new stuff, the new way of doing live streaming. I'm
(54:04):
so new to all this. I feel like an old guy.
I'm shaking my cane at all of you. We're gonna
wrap it up. Everybody. Have a great Sunday night. You're
going into Monday. Hope you had a great Independence Day weekend.
It was hot, yes, but it was also very, very beautiful.
I played a lot of contacts on radio, just sitting
out on my patio with a couple of different courage
(54:27):
great back man. Really do appreciate that, appreciate the encouragement.
Keep it locked on klor and Radio all week long
for the best programming. I'm Alan Ray Sunday Night with
Alan Ray. God bless see you next week. I'm out
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