October 3, 2024 • 36 mins
C&B speak to outraged callers from areas near Hurricane Helene aftermath. Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia talks to Clay and Buck about the hurricane response in Georgia. NC caller from impacted area. Jack Brewer, former NFL player and CEO of the Jack Brewer Foundation, on being on the ground in FL and his assessment of federal relief efforts there.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. A lot
of you want to weigh in with what you're seeing
on the ground in North Carolina and East Tennessee, in
northern upstate South Carolina, and also in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let me go to some of these calls.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Let me start with Lindsey in North Carolina, CEO of
Back the Blue North Carolina nonprofit supports first responders.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What are you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Seeing and hearing in North Carolina? Lindsay, thanks for calling.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Thanks for having me on. So I am not there
at the moment, but we cover the whole state in
regards to assisting law enforcement, and so we personally know
a lot of officers, sheriff and chiefs that have responded
out to western North Carolina to assist. And I have
to tell you that the response that we're getting is
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much more catastrophic than the news is reporting. You may
have seen they have reported up to one hundred and
sixty eight or so people.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Killed by the way, just to update you, over two
hundred now as those numbers continue to grow in terms
of lives lost in this storm that just came down
in the last twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But sorry, continue no that's okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I appreciate that. And what I am hearing from boots
on the ground is that it is ten times worse
than that. That it is so bad that they have
run out of body bags, the hospitals have run out
of room to treat patients. The patients are literally dying
on the first floor of the hospitals because they are
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drowning from the aftermath of the storm. One of the
chiefs that I am personal friends with has been a
few times and he has told me he has watched
bodies going down the street. It's with this water. Adults, children, families,
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trapped in overturned cars because they're filled with mud. There
are so many bodies that you cannot even fathom. Like
I said, he's reporting, it is ten times worse than
what the media is portraying. And not only that, our
first responders that are out there to help assist with
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the search and rescue missions are critically lacking in supplies
as well. And as a founder back to blue and See,
that is what I'm trying to help with is providing
the first responders and the canines with the supplies that
they need.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And how can people help get you supplies or donate
to get you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Supplies, visit our website back to Blue ANDC dot org.
On our homepage, we have our gofundmeal listed there you
can find information about supplies needed, physical donation drop off sites,
but we're also taking donations in order to fulfill needs
as they arise, like for example, they're requesting generators right now,
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So day by day these needs are changing as officers
continue to try to work this aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Also, are you hearing anything, First of all, thank you
for what you're doing back the Blue NC dot org.
I see it right now, and that's a place where
people can go to help get the critical supplies out.
Are you hearing from people who are involved in this
that the federal government red tape is both slowing their
response and even making them get in the way of
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non federal responders. Has that come on your radar at
all or not yet?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I have so many people reaching out to me like
how can I help, and I don't even know what
to tell them because so many drop off points or
the pass a few who are trying to take to
deliver supplies are being blocked by the federal government. Or
you know, even fire chiefs, and I don't understand right now.
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It is a citizens trying to help citizens as well
as law enforcement, and it feels as though the government
has not stepped up to help us deliver these much
needed items or deliver any sort of assistance to North
Carolina right now.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Thank you for the call. Let's we've got other people
who want to weigh in again. Back the Blue NC
dot Org is who Lindsey was just calling to to
tell you from what her perspective, what she is seeing.
John in western North Carolina says, uh, okay, Rocko in Beaufort,
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South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hi, how you doing? I love you to show you
making brush croud. I'm in Beuford, South Carolina. I'm a
retirement and I work a couple of days a week
in the local publics down here.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Tell people who don't know sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Buford, South Carolina is where relative geographically we got people
listening in all fifty states.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's in the most southern part east part of South Carolina.
It's just about an hour north of Hilton Head, maybe
seventy five minutes north of Savannah, so it's way way south. Okay,
and we have so many people that have relocated. I
worked Tuesday for about seven hours. Sixty to sixty five
percent of the people I waited on were relocated people.
(05:30):
There were people from Ashville, other parts of North Carolina,
up state, in South Carolina, Georgia, and these were people
who survived it, but they said the infrastructure is completely gone.
One lady told me they came down here, her and
her boyfriend four weeks. They told them there's gonna be
no water. Someone else told me her daughter that a
tree crashed through her den just missed her. She was
(05:51):
sitting on the couch, raised got she was okay. Another
person told me there was four houses. There's was one
that was like on a hill. The other three houses
are completely gone. There's was spared. They just there's no,
I guess, no infrastructure. And these people came in and
there were such good spirit, like so thankful that everything
that they survived, that they weren't complaining. One lady said
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she was just so thankful. It had been five days
since she showered and had a meal. People is a
resort town during the summer. There was as many people
here this week from out of the town as if
you were in June or July of the peak season.
It's just one guy. He had family up in Greenville,
which is an upstate. He brought about three hundred and
fifty four ours and groceries and son and going all
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up there. Things they couldn't get up there. He was
driving up there with a whole car full of groceries
and things they couldn't get in the up far as
the state. It's just amazing how many people came all
the way down here. I think Astil must be about
four and a half five five and a half hours
from here, but this is where they were relocated. I mean,
they just had to get out. And I don't know
what you do with work or school, but I guess
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that's something you don't worry about now. It was just
amazing to see as we are from the centerpoint is
many people came this far away.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thank you very much for telling us what you're seeing
and what's going on. I McClay from what we're hearing.
I mean, the death toll of this, I know we
just updated at over two hundred. It's going to go
much higher than that.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
And I.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Think it's worth noting, just for a moment here that
while this is going on, and while we're talking about
the response, just so you see what the focus is
of the national media. Washington Post front page right now.
First two stories the making of an alleged school shooter,
missed warning and years of neglect, and then Trump made
(07:42):
a telling comment before January sixth, and other takeaways from
Jack Smith's big new filing. Anyone who thinks that Jack
Smith's filing is more important than getting a national focus
on exactly what is going on here to help people
is out of their freaking minds. How New York Times.
New York Times lead stories If Trump wins, could he
(08:04):
really use the Department of Justice to jail his rivals?
Second lead story Trump promised to release his medical records.
He still won't do it. Third lead story Liz Cheney
campaigning with Kamala Fourth lead story, Donald Trump again disparaged Haitians.
Fifth lead story Milaannia Trump released a video signaling support
(08:24):
for abortion rights. All of that is the top of
the New York Times, and they are not, by and large,
at any of these outlets covering what we are talking
to you about, which is the I would argue by far,
most important by far story taking place anywhere in the
United States right now. They are running cover for this
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administration at the expense of people's lives. However much you
despise the Democrat corporate media, it's not enough. However much
you mistrust them, it is not enough. We got Mark
calling in from Houston. Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Just I appreciate the clip you played with Kamala Harris
saying everybody's going to get seven hundred and fifty dollars quickly. Well,
I just came through a hurricane burrows here in Houston,
and I applied for that seven hundred and fifty dollars
FEMA money to replace the food in my refrigerator in freezer,
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which did not even cover what I lost with nine
days of power outage. And I said I wanted it
to be deposited my bank. They mailed it to me.
It took a month to get the check. So what
are these people going to do who have no mail
service and are well with.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
No access even if they got it deposited electronically, no
access to their bank accounts probably either, even if it
were coming electronically.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Exactly so that this seven hundred and fifty dollars it
might come a month or who knows when. That is
not going to help these people. And it's just political
garbage that she's feeling out there to people. It's a lie.
They're not going to get this money immediately.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You're right, I mean, and again for Kamala Harris to
show up in Georgia say well, you're gonna get seven
hundred and fifty dollars. I mean, Buck, if you look
at these aerial shots, we're talking about entire towns that
basically don't exist anymore. So the idea and let's stop
for money talk for a moment. There's still people whose
(10:38):
lives need to be saved. They are pulling dead bodies
out of the tops of trees from the floodwaters. Still
there are people desperate for food and supplies right now, kids,
as you mentioned, Buck, the elderly, people who need medications,
and many of them still haven't been reached at all.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And it's been a week a week. I mean, I'm
just so you know, I'm getting from because you know,
I have family, you know, in laws right in the
astral air, right in the center of the of the
worst of this. They're outside Asheville about twenty thirty minutes,
so they're not in the in the city, but they're
in a more rural area Clay. I'm being told by
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some of their contacts who are sending in information that
I mean, they're they're pulling far more bodies from the
river and from the flood of flood waters then they
can identify. They're having to powerwash bodies because of all
the mud and debris and everything, so they can try
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to identify the dead. I mean, this is a this
is a true national disaster, national emergency situation. And if
you look at the Democrat media right now, it's it's
like it's like there was, you know, some heavy rain
and a couple of car accidents something. I mean, they
really they are so soulless, uh and and they just
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do not care. And I sit here and you know,
I know that politics gets heat and everything else. How
can the people the Washington Post not feel like what
they're in New York Times that they're disgraceful. The amount
of attention on this right now matters. It matters for
resource purposes, it matters for federal government focus. Kamala and
(12:27):
Joe had to be shamed, it seems, into even doing
anything and they're gonna play. They're gonna try to suppress
this as long as they can. This is gonna be
just this is gonna be like one hunter byon laptop
where they're gonna try to say, oh, but you know,
they did a great job, but we don't know. Wait
till the numbers are in. We need to investigate. Let's
have a committee. This is already a massive failing and
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a scandal for this White House and they can't afford one.
So you know, you know what I mean, there's a
there's a overlaid over all of this right now is
a political desperation from the Biden Kamala White House to
not have it set into people's minds how horrible this
is and how the government isn't getting the job done.
(13:12):
It's in fact, making it harder for other people to
get the job done.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, and look, it wasn't very long ago that a
hurricane hit You'll remember this buck in New York City,
and Barack Obama got reelected. Some people say, because Chris
Christy was embracing him and talking about what a great
job he did in New York, New Jersey getting federal
help and assistance after that hurricane in the midst of
(13:38):
the twenty twelve if I remember correctly, presidential election. So
people out there who say, oh, politics should never well,
first of all, the number one job of the president
and vice president of the United States is to take care.
I don't know sometimes we forget this of the health
and safety of United States citizens.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That is the primary job.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Right now, we are dealing with what maybe the deadly
hurricane fallout flooding wise in the Appalachian region that many
of us have seen in the continental United States in
our lifetime. I mean, if they're right, buck, we're over
two hundred dead deaths now, and it appears sadly that
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there are hundreds of more deaths that are going to
be counted and attributed in the days and weeks ahead
as more of these bodies are found all throughout this
four state region. It's going to be one of the
deadliest hurricanes in any of our lives. And it's going
to have happened not on the coast, but inside of Appalachia,
where these massive amounts of water created the biggest flood
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in this region in one hundred years, and it's like
it didn't even happen.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We'll talk more about the relief efforts at the bottom here.
That's something we want to focus on because I know
a lot of you want to do whatever you can
to help. We'll talk to former NFL player Jack Brewer
on hurricane relief efforts. But you know, it's this is
the most important story in America right now, and so
as far as we're concerned, this is the most important
(15:05):
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Speaker 2 (16:43):
Welcome back to Clay and Bock talking about what's going
on in Western North Carolina. Tyler calling in right now
from Western North Carolina, west of Asheville. Tyler, what can
you tell us?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Hey, good to hear your voice. It's been about a
week since I heard you. Guys. Just got Wi Fi back,
power back a couple of days ago. So yeah, I
would just say, just listening to you guys today talking
about the response, really feel like here locally it's been
neighbors helping neighbors and just people showing up out of
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nowhere with resources from other states bringing their own personal
equipment to help clear roads and cut trees. So I mean, honestly,
you guys probably know more about the response than we
do because communication has been has really not been existent
since the storm up until a couple of days ago,
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and self service, Can.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You stick with us and tell us what your experience
in the storm was like For people who are still
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
Today, welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show covering
North Carolina at Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, the disaster that
has taken place in all four of those states. Joined
now by the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp. I know
you have been touring northern Georgia where much of this problem,
these problems have occurred. What have you seen on the ground.
(19:16):
Thanks for joining us first of all, Governor, and what
needs to be happening that's not happening right now?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Well, thanks having me on clay First, Lady Marty Kemp
and I have been on the ground really since Saturday.
We were in Valdosta, Georgia, down there the Florida County
line on Saturday. We went to Augusta Monday, and then
had to get back to Atlanta for a few things,
and then Tuesday we were back down on the ground
in Nashville, Georgia, which is Berrying County, which is in
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the really southern part of our state. And we kind
of worked our way through seven or eight counties over
two days up to just right outside Augusta last night.
So we've been anywhere and everywhere, And I mean, this
is one devastating storm. It was in credible. I think
Georgia Power previously their worst storm ever. They had to
repair seventeen hundred poles in this storm. They have over
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eight thousand, So that gives you an idea of the
really the width of the windshield on the storm. One
of the biggest in the Atlantic. Even though it did
not end up being a Cat five, it's still one
of the biggest hurricanes to come out of the Gulf.
And you know, the only stayed in Florida for a
little while and then hit US went all the way
across our state and obviously went on up in South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Tennessee parts of Alabama. But it was
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devastating for us. I mean, it's bad everywhere we went.
But it's amazing how many people we have responding. We've
got over twenty thousand utility workers in the in the
state right now. We visited with over a thousand of
them yesterday morning at their base camp. We have two
thousand Georgia National Guard called up. We'll probably have you know,
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all of those people working by some time tomorrow. I
know we've got sixteen or seventeen hundred on them the
ground today. So we're getting supplies to people, we're getting
power turned back on, and getting people at least back
to having some comfort in their lives. But it has
been one massive storm we're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Governor Camp's back. Thanks for being with us. We know
you're a call like you see a guy.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The federal response basically a weekend. Now, what can you
tell us about it? Is it lacking? Is it getting better?
What's the truth?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Thanks Buck. You know, look from the Fed's perspective for us,
I mean we did an early state of emergency like
Governor DeSantis did, so we were able to prepare with
state assets, have all of our partners in the State
Operations Center before the storm hit, you know, have people
on point called up ready to go, whether it was
the you know, Department of Transportation chainsaw strike teams, Apartment
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natural Resources chainsaw strike teams, the Georgia Forestry Commission bulldozer
chainsaw and having the Guard teams ready to go heavy
you know, teams that can move heavy equipment, do swift
water rescue, you know, all that kind of stuff that
you may need in a storm like this. We were
able to have prepared and ready to go, so we
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weren't really waiting around on FEMA, and we haven't this
whole storm, so I wouldn't really have a whole lot
to say about, you know, what they've been doing. Other
than the original emergency declaration they did. There was only
eleven counties, which a lot of people were upset about that,
including me. I was hearing from a lot of people
about that. I talked to the White House and the
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FEMA administrator, and shortly thereafter they added thirty counties to
that list. And we're continuing to push them to do more.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Look, there are a lot of people of all different
political persuasions affected by this storm in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
South Carolina. You've seen a lot of it in Georgia.
We hear and are hearing from a lot of our
listeners in all four of those states that the federal
response frankly has been disastrous and that they're not seeing
very much help. And we know that some people are
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starting to get signals now they're listening to us on
battery power radios. Is Joe Biden, in your experience, responsive
as Kamala Harris who is heading this up for them?
Do you think they understand the scale and magnitude of
how awful this storm has been, and do you think
they're responding in a way that justifies the magnitude and
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awfulness of this storm.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Well, I wouldn't be able to speak to the other states, guys,
as you know, have been focused on my own. Amn,
We've got as much damage in some ways as any
of the other states.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Obviously, North Carolina is dealing with tragic situations with literally
hundreds of people that they know is missing, and you know,
not being on the ground, not knowing the response so
far and who's been doing what. From a federal and
state perspective, I wouldn't want to speculate on that. I
can just tell you that from our perspective, we were
ready to go before the storm hit. Concerns that we've
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had that we relate to FEMA, even though we were
frustrated with only the eleven initial counties. You know, they
heard loud and clear where we were, and you know,
I just told them, you know my opinion. I said,
y'all are sending a signal of MITST messages here and
people on the ground feel like they're not being paid
attention to. They feel invisible, and you know that's a
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that's a problem for the response, and it's a problem
from you all. But you know they did act when
we said something to them about that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
When you look at at all the devastation in Georgia
and elsewhere, we got so many people out there listening
to us in all fifty states that are saying, what
can we do? You know, good American spirit uplift? What
would you tell people out there that are seeing what
has happened to this region and seeing how many people
are devastated what can people from outside the region do,
and also in your home state of Georgia. What can
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people do to help everybody that's affected. What would you
ask them to do?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I tell you, we've seen so many heartbreaking and heartwarming
things on the ground. I mean talking to first responders
that had to respond to a twenty seven year old
mother that had was in the bed with her two
one month old twin boys and a tree fell on
them and killed all three of them. You know, talking
to those people that had to respond and extricate those individuals,
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I mean, that is some really tough work, guys. I
mean it is just heartbreaking for our first responders. And
there's been several instances like that, so, you know, people
that want to help, I would be given to nonprofits
that you know are good organizations that support our first responders,
men and women in law enforcement. There's also a lot
of the faith based community that's responding. There's a little
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videold church in Kite, Georgia, which is in Johnson County,
you know, that's feeding for to five hundred people a day,
just trying to keep people fed through this. I think
going to faith based organizations that you know and trust
they know how to filter money to states like ours
and South Carolina, North Carolina to help people in need.
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And then you know, certainly we got the Red Cross
Salvation Army of people like that that are on the
ground in Georgia and many of these other states as well.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Governor Kampa, Georgia, appreciate you making the time for us.
God bless I know you're taking care of a lot
of folks in your state right now. We're our thoughts
are with you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Hey, thanks guys, God bless O.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Clay, you know there you have it. I mean, this
is some states taking a lot of action here, but
we all you want to get to the next Yeah,
let's go to our call in western North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
We appreciate the governor making time to come on and
tell you what he's seeing on the ground directly in Georgia.
But we had a caller right as we went to
break that was telling us about what he had seen
on the ground in western North Carolina. You just now
got communication back. You're listening to us. What was the storm?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
What did you see?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Then?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What have you seen since?
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Thanks play?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
It was it was incredible. I spent twenty almost twenty
years in law enforcement here locally, and we've unfortunately, we've
we've lived through a couple of these ones that have
caused cause quite a bit of damage and flooding here.
So here in this county, in Haywood, we're we're pretty
used to getting prepared. And I will say the emergency
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management here in this county and really cross west North
Carolina did a great job getting in front of this,
letting people know about what was coming, what they needed
to do, how they needed to prepare evacuations.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
But but I don't think anything could have prepared any
of us for what we've seen. Myself, I live on
a hill, so I was very very fortunate as far
as flooding goes. But I've got family that they've been
They they up until yesterday have been trapped, uh in
their little cove that they lived in road. The road
became the creek. Uh and uh so you know, getting
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resources to them daily, trying to get them food, get
them gas for their generators. You know, those stories are
about these mountains, and you've both been here. You know,
you see and in Ease, tennessee all these coves and
these criegs that are they're beautiful, but they're one way in,
one way out, and when that's cut off, you know
you can't get to them, and that that's the biggest issue.
(28:16):
I think the other issue is communication. Uh celf hoone
service went down completely for probably about forty eight forty
eight hours give or take, and it's still coming back
online slowly. But as you can imagine, if you can't
call nine one one and ask for help, nobody knows
you need help. And that's not just for flood those
(28:37):
experience and flooding, that's just day to day emergency medical
emergencies that people have. So those are stories we're gonna
know and hear about probably as the weeks go and come,
and we'll find out about. But the one of the
bigger issues has been a communication and it's been at
(28:57):
all all self services and cut off here really for
several days. And it was you were going to door
to door, you were physically going to people and checking
on them. I spent Saturday and several friends just pump
checking on people that we knew may need help or
just to make sure they were okay. And uh, that's
that's across the border's been so much of that that's
(29:20):
gone on here here since the foot happened.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So I gotta tell you, thank you for the call, Tyler,
and thank you for listening. These are some of the
best people in the world. I mean you're talking about
I spent a lot of time around this crew obviously
East Tennessee, Uh, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You're just hearing from, I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Just good hearted, helpful, incredibly generous people. And I think
what Tyler is telling is actually going to end up
being the primary story here.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Y'all. You can't rely on.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The government, and and I'm disgusted that I have to
say that, but ultimately, I think what you're gonna find
in these states, in this storm, in this region is
only hand you can rely on is the one at
the end of your sleeve. And you got to help
your neighbor up yourself, and you've got to be out
there doing everything that you can. I think what Tyler's
telling us people going knocking on doors, buck, I mean,
(30:09):
he ain't nobody coming to save you all.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Also are people all of you tend to be far
more prepared for emergency on average than than just you know,
the run of the mill American. I mean, let's just
be honest. And we tend to have just people that
you know, have you know, keep food on hand, keep
you know, keep firearms and ammunition on hand to defend themselves.
(30:33):
Keep you know, comms, radios whatever they whatever you need,
you know, am radio by the way, on hand, battery powered.
And and you know, I think if you had told
people if you lived in Western you know, if you
live in Appalachia, you said I'm ready for the floods
whenever they come, people would have set off. Well you
know that's well, now we know you just got to
be prepared in advance. There are just some things you
(30:54):
got to have on hand.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And and it is it is your neighbors who will
be whatever the disaster is, it is good neighbors who
will be able to get to you first. That's the truth,
no doubt.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
And Buck, this transitions perfectly into rapid radios. Your sister
in law is in the Asheville area. You just heard
from Tyler all the cell phones were down. Tell people
what happened. So here here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Rapid radios runs off of all if there's any cell
company that is up, it'll use that. And they actually
have a really interesting explanation of this up on the site.
But also you have instantaneous communication and you don't have
to worry about cell towers getting overloaded. And they were
using it on what Saturday, I think after the Friday
(31:41):
was a hurricane. On Saturday. They were communicating the rapid
radios within the family and it just made everything so
much easier. And I've just I just had a bunch
of them sent to my family in New York. Every
member of my family is now to have one of
the you know, have a set of these in their
home and have it linked up. Because because Laura and
Carrie were actually talking over over their rapid radios as well. Yeah,
(32:01):
my wife, we got the rapid radios at the house.
She wanted to test and see how far the radio
signal would work. And she actually picked it up and
started talking. Ended up talking to your father in law
and then carry your wife in Miami. So you had
North Carolina, South Florida, Nashville, Tennessee all on the same network.
If you got friends and family, you just picked this
(32:23):
thing up, you start talking. Yeah, Laura was like she
didn't even know who she was talking to. She just
picked it up. She was trying to test it. Next
thing you know, she's talking with your wife, with your
father in law and that family circuit because our circuits
were connected on rapid radios. Look, there's a lot of
things you need, but we're telling you exactly what happened
related to these radios. With so much going on, Buck,
(32:45):
my understanding is this rapid radio thing has been absolutely
just so many people trying to buy these things now
because they're every member of my family is having this
in there and has it. I'm glad Carry's family did
has this in their home. This is just a must
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Speaker 2 (33:54):
Welcome back in everyone. Jack Brewer joins now former NFL
player and a federal commissioner. He's also chairman of the
Jack Brewer Foundation, which is involved in disaster and medical
relief missions. Jack, thanks for being with us. Just want
to hand you the floor. What are you hearing? What
are you up to? How are you helping?
Speaker 9 (34:12):
No, thanks so much, guys, It's the honor to be
on with you. We are in Florida and we have
been helping a number of different areas, primarily in levc County,
which is Yankee Town, as well as Taylor County which
is steam Hot Hatchy, as well as Keaton Beach, and
these areas have just been devastated. I know we've all
(34:33):
seen on the news and many of the places in
North Carolina are getting so much attention, which they deserve,
but there are areas of Florida right now that are
just as devastated. I mean homes that have been completely
knocked down. These small towns have taken on over twenty
foot of storm surge. And even the homes that you
(34:53):
see that are still standing, most of them took on
eight to ten feet of water, and so everything in
them they have to bring them ount UH.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
And these aren't wealthy areas.
Speaker 9 (35:02):
These are places where you know, Americans were already you know,
dealing with massive inflation. They're already you know, dealing with
the realities at the gas pump uh and having them
make those life testyle changes.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
UH.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Many didn't have insurance.
Speaker 9 (35:15):
It's difficult to get flood insurance in some of these areas.
Speaker 10 (35:18):
UH.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
And so that now they're just left, they're left out
in the cold with nothing. You know, I've been on
the ground since this storm was over, and I don't
think I've seen a single federal agency, a FEMA truck
or anyone out there yet. And and we've spent a
lot of time on the ground. And so it's just
a sad time right now in America. But I tell you,
(35:39):
you know, Floridians have been resilient. We you know, we
met people from Wisconsin and Michigan and folks coming over
from Tennessee to help, and so that's been really empowering.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
Uh, but they're there.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Definitely needs to be more aid and support. You know,
Governor DeSantis has done an incredible job down here getting
all of these power lines back up. I mean, it
was over a million and a half people without power
in these areas, a lot of people, and so you know,
you'll go down the road and you may see one
hundred and fifty different trucks all working.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
On power lines across these counties. So it really is
as I've been working with Murk One who's been a
big supporter of ours and many of our relief missions.
Glim Back, such a great man, and we're just trying
to continue to serve as much.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
As we can.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Jack, Thank you so much for what you're doing. Your
perfect evidence of what Buck and I have been talking about.
The American people are much better than the American government
that we have unfortunately representing us right now. And it's
going to take a lot of individual efforts. We wanted
to get as many people on Jack, thank you for
making the time, thank you for being flexible, and thank
you for everything that you're doing to try to help
so many people in need.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Thanks so much, Clay y'all got you guys, keep standing.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
For foods man.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Thank you.
Welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show. A lot
of you want to weigh in with what you're seeing
on the ground in North Carolina and East Tennessee, in
northern upstate South Carolina, and also in Georgia.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Let me go to some of these calls.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Let me start with Lindsey in North Carolina, CEO of
Back the Blue North Carolina nonprofit supports first responders.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
What are you.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Seeing and hearing in North Carolina? Lindsay, thanks for calling.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Thanks for having me on. So I am not there
at the moment, but we cover the whole state in
regards to assisting law enforcement, and so we personally know
a lot of officers, sheriff and chiefs that have responded
out to western North Carolina to assist. And I have
to tell you that the response that we're getting is
(01:00):
much more catastrophic than the news is reporting. You may
have seen they have reported up to one hundred and
sixty eight or so people.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Killed by the way, just to update you, over two
hundred now as those numbers continue to grow in terms
of lives lost in this storm that just came down
in the last twenty minutes or so.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
But sorry, continue no that's okay, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I appreciate that. And what I am hearing from boots
on the ground is that it is ten times worse
than that. That it is so bad that they have
run out of body bags, the hospitals have run out
of room to treat patients. The patients are literally dying
on the first floor of the hospitals because they are
(01:44):
drowning from the aftermath of the storm. One of the
chiefs that I am personal friends with has been a
few times and he has told me he has watched
bodies going down the street. It's with this water. Adults, children, families,
(02:04):
trapped in overturned cars because they're filled with mud. There
are so many bodies that you cannot even fathom. Like
I said, he's reporting, it is ten times worse than
what the media is portraying. And not only that, our
first responders that are out there to help assist with
(02:25):
the search and rescue missions are critically lacking in supplies
as well. And as a founder back to blue and See,
that is what I'm trying to help with is providing
the first responders and the canines with the supplies that
they need.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
And how can people help get you supplies or donate
to get you.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Supplies, visit our website back to Blue ANDC dot org.
On our homepage, we have our gofundmeal listed there you
can find information about supplies needed, physical donation drop off sites,
but we're also taking donations in order to fulfill needs
as they arise, like for example, they're requesting generators right now,
(03:11):
So day by day these needs are changing as officers
continue to try to work this aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Also, are you hearing anything, First of all, thank you
for what you're doing back the Blue NC dot org.
I see it right now, and that's a place where
people can go to help get the critical supplies out.
Are you hearing from people who are involved in this
that the federal government red tape is both slowing their
response and even making them get in the way of
(03:43):
non federal responders. Has that come on your radar at
all or not yet?
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I have so many people reaching out to me like
how can I help, and I don't even know what
to tell them because so many drop off points or
the pass a few who are trying to take to
deliver supplies are being blocked by the federal government. Or
you know, even fire chiefs, and I don't understand right now.
(04:10):
It is a citizens trying to help citizens as well
as law enforcement, and it feels as though the government
has not stepped up to help us deliver these much
needed items or deliver any sort of assistance to North
Carolina right now.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Thank you for the call. Let's we've got other people
who want to weigh in again. Back the Blue NC
dot Org is who Lindsey was just calling to to
tell you from what her perspective, what she is seeing.
John in western North Carolina says, uh, okay, Rocko in Beaufort,
(04:49):
South Carolina.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Hi, how you doing? I love you to show you
making brush croud. I'm in Beuford, South Carolina. I'm a
retirement and I work a couple of days a week
in the local publics down here.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Tell people who don't know sorry to cut you off.
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Buford, South Carolina is where relative geographically we got people
listening in all fifty states.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
It's in the most southern part east part of South Carolina.
It's just about an hour north of Hilton Head, maybe
seventy five minutes north of Savannah, so it's way way south. Okay,
and we have so many people that have relocated. I
worked Tuesday for about seven hours. Sixty to sixty five
percent of the people I waited on were relocated people.
(05:30):
There were people from Ashville, other parts of North Carolina,
up state, in South Carolina, Georgia, and these were people
who survived it, but they said the infrastructure is completely gone.
One lady told me they came down here, her and
her boyfriend four weeks. They told them there's gonna be
no water. Someone else told me her daughter that a
tree crashed through her den just missed her. She was
(05:51):
sitting on the couch, raised got she was okay. Another
person told me there was four houses. There's was one
that was like on a hill. The other three houses
are completely gone. There's was spared. They just there's no,
I guess, no infrastructure. And these people came in and
there were such good spirit, like so thankful that everything
that they survived, that they weren't complaining. One lady said
(06:14):
she was just so thankful. It had been five days
since she showered and had a meal. People is a
resort town during the summer. There was as many people
here this week from out of the town as if
you were in June or July of the peak season.
It's just one guy. He had family up in Greenville,
which is an upstate. He brought about three hundred and
fifty four ours and groceries and son and going all
(06:35):
up there. Things they couldn't get up there. He was
driving up there with a whole car full of groceries
and things they couldn't get in the up far as
the state. It's just amazing how many people came all
the way down here. I think Astil must be about
four and a half five five and a half hours
from here, but this is where they were relocated. I mean,
they just had to get out. And I don't know
what you do with work or school, but I guess
(06:56):
that's something you don't worry about now. It was just
amazing to see as we are from the centerpoint is
many people came this far away.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thank you very much for telling us what you're seeing
and what's going on. I McClay from what we're hearing.
I mean, the death toll of this, I know we
just updated at over two hundred. It's going to go
much higher than that.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
And I.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Think it's worth noting, just for a moment here that
while this is going on, and while we're talking about
the response, just so you see what the focus is
of the national media. Washington Post front page right now.
First two stories the making of an alleged school shooter,
missed warning and years of neglect, and then Trump made
(07:42):
a telling comment before January sixth, and other takeaways from
Jack Smith's big new filing. Anyone who thinks that Jack
Smith's filing is more important than getting a national focus
on exactly what is going on here to help people
is out of their freaking minds. How New York Times.
New York Times lead stories If Trump wins, could he
(08:04):
really use the Department of Justice to jail his rivals?
Second lead story Trump promised to release his medical records.
He still won't do it. Third lead story Liz Cheney
campaigning with Kamala Fourth lead story, Donald Trump again disparaged Haitians.
Fifth lead story Milaannia Trump released a video signaling support
(08:24):
for abortion rights. All of that is the top of
the New York Times, and they are not, by and large,
at any of these outlets covering what we are talking
to you about, which is the I would argue by far,
most important by far story taking place anywhere in the
United States right now. They are running cover for this
(08:46):
administration at the expense of people's lives. However much you
despise the Democrat corporate media, it's not enough. However much
you mistrust them, it is not enough. We got Mark
calling in from Houston. Mark, what's going on?
Speaker 6 (09:03):
Just I appreciate the clip you played with Kamala Harris
saying everybody's going to get seven hundred and fifty dollars quickly. Well,
I just came through a hurricane burrows here in Houston,
and I applied for that seven hundred and fifty dollars
FEMA money to replace the food in my refrigerator in freezer,
(09:24):
which did not even cover what I lost with nine
days of power outage. And I said I wanted it
to be deposited my bank. They mailed it to me.
It took a month to get the check. So what
are these people going to do who have no mail
service and are well with.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
No access even if they got it deposited electronically, no
access to their bank accounts probably either, even if it
were coming electronically.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
Exactly so that this seven hundred and fifty dollars it
might come a month or who knows when. That is
not going to help these people. And it's just political
garbage that she's feeling out there to people. It's a lie.
They're not going to get this money immediately.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Thank you for the call.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
You're right, I mean, and again for Kamala Harris to
show up in Georgia say well, you're gonna get seven
hundred and fifty dollars. I mean, Buck, if you look
at these aerial shots, we're talking about entire towns that
basically don't exist anymore. So the idea and let's stop
for money talk for a moment. There's still people whose
(10:38):
lives need to be saved. They are pulling dead bodies
out of the tops of trees from the floodwaters. Still
there are people desperate for food and supplies right now, kids,
as you mentioned, Buck, the elderly, people who need medications,
and many of them still haven't been reached at all.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
And it's been a week a week. I mean, I'm
just so you know, I'm getting from because you know,
I have family, you know, in laws right in the
astral air, right in the center of the of the
worst of this. They're outside Asheville about twenty thirty minutes,
so they're not in the in the city, but they're
in a more rural area Clay. I'm being told by
(11:20):
some of their contacts who are sending in information that
I mean, they're they're pulling far more bodies from the
river and from the flood of flood waters then they
can identify. They're having to powerwash bodies because of all
the mud and debris and everything, so they can try
(11:42):
to identify the dead. I mean, this is a this
is a true national disaster, national emergency situation. And if
you look at the Democrat media right now, it's it's
like it's like there was, you know, some heavy rain
and a couple of car accidents something. I mean, they
really they are so soulless, uh and and they just
(12:05):
do not care. And I sit here and you know,
I know that politics gets heat and everything else. How
can the people the Washington Post not feel like what
they're in New York Times that they're disgraceful. The amount
of attention on this right now matters. It matters for
resource purposes, it matters for federal government focus. Kamala and
(12:27):
Joe had to be shamed, it seems, into even doing
anything and they're gonna play. They're gonna try to suppress
this as long as they can. This is gonna be
just this is gonna be like one hunter byon laptop
where they're gonna try to say, oh, but you know,
they did a great job, but we don't know. Wait
till the numbers are in. We need to investigate. Let's
have a committee. This is already a massive failing and
(12:49):
a scandal for this White House and they can't afford one.
So you know, you know what I mean, there's a
there's a overlaid over all of this right now is
a political desperation from the Biden Kamala White House to
not have it set into people's minds how horrible this
is and how the government isn't getting the job done.
(13:12):
It's in fact, making it harder for other people to
get the job done.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Yeah, and look, it wasn't very long ago that a
hurricane hit You'll remember this buck in New York City,
and Barack Obama got reelected. Some people say, because Chris
Christy was embracing him and talking about what a great
job he did in New York, New Jersey getting federal
help and assistance after that hurricane in the midst of
(13:38):
the twenty twelve if I remember correctly, presidential election. So
people out there who say, oh, politics should never well,
first of all, the number one job of the president
and vice president of the United States is to take care.
I don't know sometimes we forget this of the health
and safety of United States citizens.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
That is the primary job.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Right now, we are dealing with what maybe the deadly
hurricane fallout flooding wise in the Appalachian region that many
of us have seen in the continental United States in
our lifetime. I mean, if they're right, buck, we're over
two hundred dead deaths now, and it appears sadly that
(14:16):
there are hundreds of more deaths that are going to
be counted and attributed in the days and weeks ahead
as more of these bodies are found all throughout this
four state region. It's going to be one of the
deadliest hurricanes in any of our lives. And it's going
to have happened not on the coast, but inside of Appalachia,
where these massive amounts of water created the biggest flood
(14:40):
in this region in one hundred years, and it's like
it didn't even happen.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
We'll talk more about the relief efforts at the bottom here.
That's something we want to focus on because I know
a lot of you want to do whatever you can
to help. We'll talk to former NFL player Jack Brewer
on hurricane relief efforts. But you know, it's this is
the most important story in America right now, and so
as far as we're concerned, this is the most important
(15:05):
story in the world, no question about it. And I
think you see a lot, you learn a lot, You
see a lot by who's trying to run cover and
because it's because it's inconvenient to their political schedule right now,
you know exactly what's going on here. We all see it. Look,
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Speaker 2 (16:43):
Welcome back to Clay and Bock talking about what's going
on in Western North Carolina. Tyler calling in right now
from Western North Carolina, west of Asheville. Tyler, what can
you tell us?
Speaker 8 (16:55):
Hey, good to hear your voice. It's been about a
week since I heard you. Guys. Just got Wi Fi back,
power back a couple of days ago. So yeah, I
would just say, just listening to you guys today talking
about the response, really feel like here locally it's been
neighbors helping neighbors and just people showing up out of
(17:17):
nowhere with resources from other states bringing their own personal
equipment to help clear roads and cut trees. So I mean, honestly,
you guys probably know more about the response than we
do because communication has been has really not been existent
since the storm up until a couple of days ago,
(17:40):
and self service, Can.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
You stick with us and tell us what your experience
in the storm was like For people who are still
learning about this, could you stick with us through a
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Speaker 1 (18:54):
Today, welcome back in Clay Travis buck Sexton show covering
North Carolina at Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, the disaster that
has taken place in all four of those states. Joined
now by the Governor of Georgia, Brian Kemp. I know
you have been touring northern Georgia where much of this problem,
these problems have occurred. What have you seen on the ground.
(19:16):
Thanks for joining us first of all, Governor, and what
needs to be happening that's not happening right now?
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Well, thanks having me on clay First, Lady Marty Kemp
and I have been on the ground really since Saturday.
We were in Valdosta, Georgia, down there the Florida County
line on Saturday. We went to Augusta Monday, and then
had to get back to Atlanta for a few things,
and then Tuesday we were back down on the ground
in Nashville, Georgia, which is Berrying County, which is in
(19:45):
the really southern part of our state. And we kind
of worked our way through seven or eight counties over
two days up to just right outside Augusta last night.
So we've been anywhere and everywhere, And I mean, this
is one devastating storm. It was in credible. I think
Georgia Power previously their worst storm ever. They had to
repair seventeen hundred poles in this storm. They have over
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eight thousand, So that gives you an idea of the
really the width of the windshield on the storm. One
of the biggest in the Atlantic. Even though it did
not end up being a Cat five, it's still one
of the biggest hurricanes to come out of the Gulf.
And you know, the only stayed in Florida for a
little while and then hit US went all the way
across our state and obviously went on up in South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Tennessee parts of Alabama. But it was
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devastating for us. I mean, it's bad everywhere we went.
But it's amazing how many people we have responding. We've
got over twenty thousand utility workers in the in the
state right now. We visited with over a thousand of
them yesterday morning at their base camp. We have two
thousand Georgia National Guard called up. We'll probably have you know,
(20:54):
all of those people working by some time tomorrow. I
know we've got sixteen or seventeen hundred on them the
ground today. So we're getting supplies to people, we're getting
power turned back on, and getting people at least back
to having some comfort in their lives. But it has
been one massive storm we're dealing with.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
Governor Camp's back. Thanks for being with us. We know
you're a call like you see a guy.
Speaker 8 (21:17):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
The federal response basically a weekend. Now, what can you
tell us about it? Is it lacking? Is it getting better?
What's the truth?
Speaker 3 (21:29):
Well?
Speaker 5 (21:30):
Thanks Buck. You know, look from the Fed's perspective for us,
I mean we did an early state of emergency like
Governor DeSantis did, so we were able to prepare with
state assets, have all of our partners in the State
Operations Center before the storm hit, you know, have people
on point called up ready to go, whether it was
the you know, Department of Transportation chainsaw strike teams, Apartment
(21:54):
natural Resources chainsaw strike teams, the Georgia Forestry Commission bulldozer
chainsaw and having the Guard teams ready to go heavy
you know, teams that can move heavy equipment, do swift
water rescue, you know, all that kind of stuff that
you may need in a storm like this. We were
able to have prepared and ready to go, so we
(22:16):
weren't really waiting around on FEMA, and we haven't this
whole storm, so I wouldn't really have a whole lot
to say about, you know, what they've been doing. Other
than the original emergency declaration they did. There was only
eleven counties, which a lot of people were upset about that,
including me. I was hearing from a lot of people
about that. I talked to the White House and the
(22:36):
FEMA administrator, and shortly thereafter they added thirty counties to
that list. And we're continuing to push them to do more.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Look, there are a lot of people of all different
political persuasions affected by this storm in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
South Carolina. You've seen a lot of it in Georgia.
We hear and are hearing from a lot of our
listeners in all four of those states that the federal
response frankly has been disastrous and that they're not seeing
very much help. And we know that some people are
(23:06):
starting to get signals now they're listening to us on
battery power radios. Is Joe Biden, in your experience, responsive
as Kamala Harris who is heading this up for them?
Do you think they understand the scale and magnitude of
how awful this storm has been, and do you think
they're responding in a way that justifies the magnitude and
(23:27):
awfulness of this storm.
Speaker 5 (23:29):
Well, I wouldn't be able to speak to the other states, guys,
as you know, have been focused on my own. Amn,
We've got as much damage in some ways as any
of the other states.
Speaker 8 (23:38):
You know.
Speaker 5 (23:38):
Obviously, North Carolina is dealing with tragic situations with literally
hundreds of people that they know is missing, and you know,
not being on the ground, not knowing the response so
far and who's been doing what. From a federal and
state perspective, I wouldn't want to speculate on that. I
can just tell you that from our perspective, we were
ready to go before the storm hit. Concerns that we've
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had that we relate to FEMA, even though we were
frustrated with only the eleven initial counties. You know, they
heard loud and clear where we were, and you know,
I just told them, you know my opinion. I said,
y'all are sending a signal of MITST messages here and
people on the ground feel like they're not being paid
attention to. They feel invisible, and you know that's a
(24:23):
that's a problem for the response, and it's a problem
from you all. But you know they did act when
we said something to them about that.
Speaker 1 (24:33):
When you look at at all the devastation in Georgia
and elsewhere, we got so many people out there listening
to us in all fifty states that are saying, what
can we do? You know, good American spirit uplift? What
would you tell people out there that are seeing what
has happened to this region and seeing how many people
are devastated what can people from outside the region do,
and also in your home state of Georgia. What can
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people do to help everybody that's affected. What would you
ask them to do?
Speaker 8 (25:00):
Well?
Speaker 5 (25:00):
I tell you, we've seen so many heartbreaking and heartwarming
things on the ground. I mean talking to first responders
that had to respond to a twenty seven year old
mother that had was in the bed with her two
one month old twin boys and a tree fell on
them and killed all three of them. You know, talking
to those people that had to respond and extricate those individuals,
(25:21):
I mean, that is some really tough work, guys. I
mean it is just heartbreaking for our first responders. And
there's been several instances like that, so, you know, people
that want to help, I would be given to nonprofits
that you know are good organizations that support our first responders,
men and women in law enforcement. There's also a lot
of the faith based community that's responding. There's a little
(25:43):
videold church in Kite, Georgia, which is in Johnson County,
you know, that's feeding for to five hundred people a day,
just trying to keep people fed through this. I think
going to faith based organizations that you know and trust
they know how to filter money to states like ours
and South Carolina, North Carolina to help people in need.
(26:05):
And then you know, certainly we got the Red Cross
Salvation Army of people like that that are on the
ground in Georgia and many of these other states as well.
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Governor Kampa, Georgia, appreciate you making the time for us.
God bless I know you're taking care of a lot
of folks in your state right now. We're our thoughts
are with you. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Hey, thanks guys, God bless O.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Clay, you know there you have it. I mean, this
is some states taking a lot of action here, but
we all you want to get to the next Yeah,
let's go to our call in western North Carolina.
Speaker 1 (26:34):
We appreciate the governor making time to come on and
tell you what he's seeing on the ground directly in Georgia.
But we had a caller right as we went to
break that was telling us about what he had seen
on the ground in western North Carolina. You just now
got communication back. You're listening to us. What was the storm?
Speaker 8 (26:52):
Like?
Speaker 2 (26:52):
What did you see?
Speaker 3 (26:53):
Then?
Speaker 2 (26:53):
What have you seen since?
Speaker 9 (26:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (26:57):
Thanks play?
Speaker 8 (26:58):
It was it was incredible. I spent twenty almost twenty
years in law enforcement here locally, and we've unfortunately, we've
we've lived through a couple of these ones that have
caused cause quite a bit of damage and flooding here.
So here in this county, in Haywood, we're we're pretty
used to getting prepared. And I will say the emergency
(27:18):
management here in this county and really cross west North
Carolina did a great job getting in front of this,
letting people know about what was coming, what they needed
to do, how they needed to prepare evacuations.
Speaker 9 (27:30):
Uh.
Speaker 8 (27:31):
But but I don't think anything could have prepared any
of us for what we've seen. Myself, I live on
a hill, so I was very very fortunate as far
as flooding goes. But I've got family that they've been
They they up until yesterday have been trapped, uh in
their little cove that they lived in road. The road
became the creek. Uh and uh so you know, getting
(27:54):
resources to them daily, trying to get them food, get
them gas for their generators. You know, those stories are
about these mountains, and you've both been here. You know,
you see and in Ease, tennessee all these coves and
these criegs that are they're beautiful, but they're one way in,
one way out, and when that's cut off, you know
you can't get to them, and that that's the biggest issue.
(28:16):
I think the other issue is communication. Uh celf hoone
service went down completely for probably about forty eight forty
eight hours give or take, and it's still coming back
online slowly. But as you can imagine, if you can't
call nine one one and ask for help, nobody knows
you need help. And that's not just for flood those
(28:37):
experience and flooding, that's just day to day emergency medical
emergencies that people have. So those are stories we're gonna
know and hear about probably as the weeks go and come,
and we'll find out about. But the one of the
bigger issues has been a communication and it's been at
(28:57):
all all self services and cut off here really for
several days. And it was you were going to door
to door, you were physically going to people and checking
on them. I spent Saturday and several friends just pump
checking on people that we knew may need help or
just to make sure they were okay. And uh, that's
that's across the border's been so much of that that's
(29:20):
gone on here here since the foot happened.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So I gotta tell you, thank you for the call, Tyler,
and thank you for listening. These are some of the
best people in the world. I mean you're talking about
I spent a lot of time around this crew obviously
East Tennessee, Uh, Georgia.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
You're just hearing from, I mean.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Just good hearted, helpful, incredibly generous people. And I think
what Tyler is telling is actually going to end up
being the primary story here.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
Y'all. You can't rely on.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
The government, and and I'm disgusted that I have to
say that, but ultimately, I think what you're gonna find
in these states, in this storm, in this region is
only hand you can rely on is the one at
the end of your sleeve. And you got to help
your neighbor up yourself, and you've got to be out
there doing everything that you can. I think what Tyler's
telling us people going knocking on doors, buck, I mean,
(30:09):
he ain't nobody coming to save you all.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
Also are people all of you tend to be far
more prepared for emergency on average than than just you know,
the run of the mill American. I mean, let's just
be honest. And we tend to have just people that
you know, have you know, keep food on hand, keep
you know, keep firearms and ammunition on hand to defend themselves.
(30:33):
Keep you know, comms, radios whatever they whatever you need,
you know, am radio by the way, on hand, battery powered.
And and you know, I think if you had told
people if you lived in Western you know, if you
live in Appalachia, you said I'm ready for the floods
whenever they come, people would have set off. Well you
know that's well, now we know you just got to
be prepared in advance. There are just some things you
(30:54):
got to have on hand.
Speaker 8 (30:56):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (30:56):
And and it is it is your neighbors who will
be whatever the disaster is, it is good neighbors who
will be able to get to you first. That's the truth,
no doubt.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
And Buck, this transitions perfectly into rapid radios. Your sister
in law is in the Asheville area. You just heard
from Tyler all the cell phones were down. Tell people
what happened. So here here's the thing.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
Rapid radios runs off of all if there's any cell
company that is up, it'll use that. And they actually
have a really interesting explanation of this up on the site.
But also you have instantaneous communication and you don't have
to worry about cell towers getting overloaded. And they were
using it on what Saturday, I think after the Friday
(31:41):
was a hurricane. On Saturday. They were communicating the rapid
radios within the family and it just made everything so
much easier. And I've just I just had a bunch
of them sent to my family in New York. Every
member of my family is now to have one of
the you know, have a set of these in their
home and have it linked up. Because because Laura and
Carrie were actually talking over over their rapid radios as well. Yeah,
(32:01):
my wife, we got the rapid radios at the house.
She wanted to test and see how far the radio
signal would work. And she actually picked it up and
started talking. Ended up talking to your father in law
and then carry your wife in Miami. So you had
North Carolina, South Florida, Nashville, Tennessee all on the same network.
If you got friends and family, you just picked this
(32:23):
thing up, you start talking. Yeah, Laura was like she
didn't even know who she was talking to. She just
picked it up. She was trying to test it. Next
thing you know, she's talking with your wife, with your
father in law and that family circuit because our circuits
were connected on rapid radios. Look, there's a lot of
things you need, but we're telling you exactly what happened
related to these radios. With so much going on, Buck,
(32:45):
my understanding is this rapid radio thing has been absolutely
just so many people trying to buy these things now
because they're every member of my family is having this
in there and has it. I'm glad Carry's family did
has this in their home. This is just a must
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Speaker 2 (33:54):
Welcome back in everyone. Jack Brewer joins now former NFL
player and a federal commissioner. He's also chairman of the
Jack Brewer Foundation, which is involved in disaster and medical
relief missions. Jack, thanks for being with us. Just want
to hand you the floor. What are you hearing? What
are you up to? How are you helping?
Speaker 9 (34:12):
No, thanks so much, guys, It's the honor to be
on with you. We are in Florida and we have
been helping a number of different areas, primarily in levc County,
which is Yankee Town, as well as Taylor County which
is steam Hot Hatchy, as well as Keaton Beach, and
these areas have just been devastated. I know we've all
(34:33):
seen on the news and many of the places in
North Carolina are getting so much attention, which they deserve,
but there are areas of Florida right now that are
just as devastated. I mean homes that have been completely
knocked down. These small towns have taken on over twenty
foot of storm surge. And even the homes that you
(34:53):
see that are still standing, most of them took on
eight to ten feet of water, and so everything in
them they have to bring them ount UH.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
And these aren't wealthy areas.
Speaker 9 (35:02):
These are places where you know, Americans were already you know,
dealing with massive inflation. They're already you know, dealing with
the realities at the gas pump uh and having them
make those life testyle changes.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
UH.
Speaker 10 (35:13):
Many didn't have insurance.
Speaker 9 (35:15):
It's difficult to get flood insurance in some of these areas.
Speaker 10 (35:18):
UH.
Speaker 9 (35:18):
And so that now they're just left, they're left out
in the cold with nothing. You know, I've been on
the ground since this storm was over, and I don't
think I've seen a single federal agency, a FEMA truck
or anyone out there yet. And and we've spent a
lot of time on the ground. And so it's just
a sad time right now in America. But I tell you,
(35:39):
you know, Floridians have been resilient. We you know, we
met people from Wisconsin and Michigan and folks coming over
from Tennessee to help, and so that's been really empowering.
Speaker 10 (35:48):
Uh, but they're there.
Speaker 9 (35:49):
Definitely needs to be more aid and support. You know,
Governor DeSantis has done an incredible job down here getting
all of these power lines back up. I mean, it
was over a million and a half people without power
in these areas, a lot of people, and so you know,
you'll go down the road and you may see one
hundred and fifty different trucks all working.
Speaker 10 (36:08):
On power lines across these counties. So it really is
as I've been working with Murk One who's been a
big supporter of ours and many of our relief missions.
Glim Back, such a great man, and we're just trying
to continue to serve as much.
Speaker 9 (36:25):
As we can.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
Jack, Thank you so much for what you're doing. Your
perfect evidence of what Buck and I have been talking about.
The American people are much better than the American government
that we have unfortunately representing us right now. And it's
going to take a lot of individual efforts. We wanted
to get as many people on Jack, thank you for
making the time, thank you for being flexible, and thank
you for everything that you're doing to try to help
so many people in need.
Speaker 9 (36:48):
Thanks so much, Clay y'all got you guys, keep standing.
Speaker 10 (36:50):
For foods man.
Speaker 2 (36:52):
Thank you.
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