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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, welcome back. We are here with episode number six
of Rollie Jenkins and his brothers with ABC Home and
Commercial biking for a great cause that they're going to
tell you about they started. This is like a six
thousand mile thing. We've been going at this since June
and I just looked up and Rally's with us today. Man,
you are close to Texas. You are just like you're
(00:23):
where are you right now?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We are so close and yet so far away. We're
in a gallup New Mexico heading towards Albuquerque. It sounds close,
yet I mean we're over right around nine hundred miles away.
So on a bicycle. Remember that's that's like forever. I mean,
the idea of getting another nine hundred miles in is
(00:47):
just it's going to take us another fifteen no, no, yeah,
fourteen days. That's what we've got left.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
All I know is that I'm looking at Brothers Ride
on Facebook. That's the account that everybody needs to go to,
and I see you guys, you've all got smiles on
your face. I mean, you've done let's say you're nine
hundred miles away, this is about six You've done almost
five thousand miles already I'm not seeing any you know,
casts or tape or oh it's there.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No no, no, no, no, trust me, you might not be
seeing it. We could take a picture really quick and easy.
But now the struggles are there. The just see the
physical waring and pushing, and you know, every morning you
get out of bed and you just go, oh, my gosh,
we've got another sixty to seventy miles today, and we
(01:37):
got to push through it. I will admit, when we
get to around fifty five miles, all of a sudden,
you go, Okay, today's almost over, and then you remember
tomorrow's coming. But I'll tell you the toughest part of
this ride has just been through the Mohave Desert. You know,
we were afternoon temperatures of one hundred and twenty degrees,
which is just not reasonable. That was so up. And
(02:00):
then you know, ben at the views just not the same.
But New Mexico is just unbelievable. It's just beautiful. I
love all the mountains in the countryside. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I got to tell you something. You did not know
this about me, but for a four year period from
the late eighties till the early nineties, my dad lived
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I have been there on
a number of occasions. I got to tell you, riding
your bike through that particular state, it's not flat by
(02:35):
any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
There.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's a lot of elevation change. And as a runner,
I know how bad elevation change can be. It's got
to be the same for you especially. I mean, look,
you're about ten years older than me, but for us
guys in our fifties and sixties, that's no bueno, as
we would.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Say, Yeah, well, couple that with the wind, and so
now you've got lots of climbs and lots of falls,
which you know, every mountain you climb, you get to
descend down that mountain at a nice pace. But I
think the biggest killer is the wind. When you get
the wind in your face and you're pushing through it,
you just you don't have any people to look forward
(03:17):
to except the wind may be stopping sometime or tomorrow.
But yeah, it is not a flat plane area. We're
excited about getting intotectives at another so days six days,
so that'll be wonderful because then the idea we get
into Lubbock and we keep on crawling our way into
College Station, where we'll have a big crescendo and really
(03:40):
be able to celebrate a great epic ride. And more important,
just the charities that we are really out here to
do and push and we are. We're getting the word out,
We're talking to people all the time, and it's just amazing.
And I will tell you the one thing that has
just amazed me is how kind and wonderful people are,
because you know, they're three, there are four of us,
(04:02):
three on the bike and one driving the RV, and
people will walk up and hand us one hundred dollars
because they will have googled our causes, read about it,
and they'll come up and just say and then it'll
leave their name. They just say thank you for doing
what you're doing, for raising the awareness for SUDC and
for Mission Lazarus and the children and people of Haiti.
(04:23):
So it's it is very heart filling when we're going
through those places and meeting those people.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
How much have you raised so far? Do you even
have a good figure a good handle on that as
of yet.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We did get derailed. The curbill catastrophe derailed this whole
event by quite a bit and we quit pushing and
trying to raise money because the more important thing we're
taking care of the families and everything in Curbill and
those surrounding areas. We all went home for a couple
of days, came back and started riding again. So we're
(04:59):
not anywhere near our target. We're somewhere around two hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars, but we're going to We're
starting our big push. I started doing a bunch of
you know, we got finished at a decent time yesterday,
sending out letters reaching out to people saying, please know
our why that we're doing this ride. We're not out
here just trying to get exercise and view the countryside.
(05:22):
We're out here to raise awareness for some unexpected death
and children that we you know, families that are going
through those huge catastrophes of losing the child for some
unknown reasons. They're about three to four hundred children that
die each year that we don't have an answer for that.
So the research that we're raising money for, if it
(05:44):
could find the cause and somehow stop this from happening,
or at least allow people to you know, forewarn themselves
so that they can get ready to prepare for not
losing their child. Anything can do something different that would
be amazing for that to happen. There is for Haiti.
I mean I've had a passion for Haiti since twenty ten,
shortly after the earthquake. And the people of Haiti are
(06:08):
just amazing and wonderful. And yes, the gangs have taken
over and the government has shut down, but the people
are still wonderful and we're still doing amazing things with
Mission Lazarus. We're working with our communities, we're working with
our schools. The gangs are really bad at Port of Prince,
but out where we are, things are happening in positive ways.
(06:29):
They're going to be more sustainable. People are farming areas
that were not farmed before because they have to. And
there's good stuff that's happening right now. And you can
see Christ working and a lot of people even though
this is so bad. So the big push here is
don't forget Haiti. And if you could consider donating to
Mission Lazarus, that would just be amazing and that would
(06:51):
help us do what God has put on our heart.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And where can they go to do that?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So Brothersbike dot Org, brother Bike dot Org. If you
go to that site, you'll see both of our missions
on there and go into it and make a donation,
and you can also read up about the ride that
we're doing and the missions and what they do as well.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know, I should say and we should point out.
I know you don't like to call attention to yourself
and everything that you guys have gone through, but we
talked about the floods derailing everything. That's because you guys
were affected directly by what happened in the Hill Country
in July.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, that was I just words could not explain, you know,
what we've gone through as a group. But people are
going through all through kervill all the families across Texas,
and it's just an incredible and I don't my heart
bleeds for those people that have gone through what they're
going through today, and we just they need our prayers,
(07:54):
They need every commitment who can to keep support them
as well. So although I will say that we're ready
to start getting back, finish our eyes and be strong
in our mission financial rate, raising the money as much
as we can.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right, I got to ask you, it's a couple
of weeks to go any thoughts into what you guys
are going to do like that first meal that you
get back from when you're here in Texas, when you
finish things in College Station on September sixth, and the answer,
the answer better be barbecue.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Ralely, it is barbecue. No, no, no, there was out
a doubt. We've had one night of barbecue this whole trip,
and we're all sitting there just going we're Milligan. We've
got to get back. Yes, barbecue is first and foremost. Naturally,
you know, we've got our special Mexican food restaurants around
College Station, and I you know, we live in Houston,
(08:49):
so you know, we can't wait to get back those,
and then our friends and family. I mean, I haven't
seen my wife, and we've never done this before for
this long of a stint. I'm very wife dependent, and
with her so far away from me at this point
in time, that will be a wonderful time that we'll
spend together when we get home.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well wait a second, I see, if I spend this
amount of time away from my wife, I'll probably get
a text don't come back.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah. Yeah, well she's she's filling her calendar up. I mean,
I'm kind of you know, observing what she's doing, and
I'm just going, you're having more fun without me than
with me. You're not gonna want me back. But now
we're both excited about getting back together and getting back
home and just you know, we're like I said, you know,
I'll be turning sixty five in October, and the fact
(09:36):
is this is the last big hoorah that we're going
to do. This is epic and it is so big
it's overwhelming. You know, eighty days of riding sixty to
seventy miles a day has just been tough. But I
will tell you there's a lot of good benefits. I
mean physically, I feel strong, my legs, my knees and
my hips. I mean, everything's just doing great. So you know,
(10:00):
I'll take the benefits that are coming in with this,
but this is first and foremost a podium to talk
about Mission Lazarus and Miles Pride Foundation.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
All right, last one for you, once you get done
with this, how long is it going to be before
you go back on the bike.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I will tell you the truth, I might not ever
get back on a pie check in. I don't know.
I don't know. I've got a pond at my house,
and I've been kind of contemplating that I might be
chunking it into the pond and let it be fish habitat.
But seriously, I don't know I really can answer that.
I'll be happy to get off it and not do
(10:40):
this every single day. But I'm excited. This is going
to be good. This is gonna be an epic ending
and being in College station, getting on the football field
during the game, to be able to see one hundred
thousand of my closest friends, I'm sure will be wonderful.
And we really do appreciate will appreciate any any donations
(11:01):
that come into Mission Lacerith or mosk Craft Foundation. That's
just again, that is why we're here.
Hey, welcome back. We are here with episode number six
of Rollie Jenkins and his brothers with ABC Home and
Commercial biking for a great cause that they're going to
tell you about they started. This is like a six
thousand mile thing. We've been going at this since June
and I just looked up and Rally's with us today. Man,
you are close to Texas. You are just like you're
(00:23):
where are you right now?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We are so close and yet so far away. We're
in a gallup New Mexico heading towards Albuquerque. It sounds close,
yet I mean we're over right around nine hundred miles away.
So on a bicycle. Remember that's that's like forever. I mean,
the idea of getting another nine hundred miles in is
(00:47):
just it's going to take us another fifteen no, no, yeah,
fourteen days. That's what we've got left.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
All I know is that I'm looking at Brothers Ride
on Facebook. That's the account that everybody needs to go to,
and I see you guys, you've all got smiles on
your face. I mean, you've done let's say you're nine
hundred miles away, this is about six You've done almost
five thousand miles already I'm not seeing any you know,
casts or tape or oh it's there.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
No no, no, no, no, trust me, you might not be
seeing it. We could take a picture really quick and easy.
But now the struggles are there. The just see the
physical waring and pushing, and you know, every morning you
get out of bed and you just go, oh, my gosh,
we've got another sixty to seventy miles today, and we
(01:37):
got to push through it. I will admit, when we
get to around fifty five miles, all of a sudden,
you go, Okay, today's almost over, and then you remember
tomorrow's coming. But I'll tell you the toughest part of
this ride has just been through the Mohave Desert. You know,
we were afternoon temperatures of one hundred and twenty degrees,
which is just not reasonable. That was so up. And
(02:00):
then you know, ben at the views just not the same.
But New Mexico is just unbelievable. It's just beautiful. I
love all the mountains in the countryside. It's just incredible.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
I got to tell you something. You did not know
this about me, but for a four year period from
the late eighties till the early nineties, my dad lived
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and I have been there on
a number of occasions. I got to tell you, riding
your bike through that particular state, it's not flat by
(02:35):
any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
There.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
That's a lot of elevation change. And as a runner,
I know how bad elevation change can be. It's got
to be the same for you especially. I mean, look,
you're about ten years older than me, but for us
guys in our fifties and sixties, that's no bueno, as
we would.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Say, Yeah, well, couple that with the wind, and so
now you've got lots of climbs and lots of falls,
which you know, every mountain you climb, you get to
descend down that mountain at a nice pace. But I
think the biggest killer is the wind. When you get
the wind in your face and you're pushing through it,
you just you don't have any people to look forward
(03:17):
to except the wind may be stopping sometime or tomorrow.
But yeah, it is not a flat plane area. We're
excited about getting intotectives at another so days six days,
so that'll be wonderful because then the idea we get
into Lubbock and we keep on crawling our way into
College Station, where we'll have a big crescendo and really
(03:40):
be able to celebrate a great epic ride. And more important,
just the charities that we are really out here to
do and push and we are. We're getting the word out,
We're talking to people all the time, and it's just amazing.
And I will tell you the one thing that has
just amazed me is how kind and wonderful people are,
because you know, they're three, there are four of us,
(04:02):
three on the bike and one driving the RV, and
people will walk up and hand us one hundred dollars
because they will have googled our causes, read about it,
and they'll come up and just say and then it'll
leave their name. They just say thank you for doing
what you're doing, for raising the awareness for SUDC and
for Mission Lazarus and the children and people of Haiti.
(04:23):
So it's it is very heart filling when we're going
through those places and meeting those people.
Speaker 1 (04:31):
How much have you raised so far? Do you even
have a good figure a good handle on that as
of yet.
Speaker 2 (04:38):
We did get derailed. The curbill catastrophe derailed this whole
event by quite a bit and we quit pushing and
trying to raise money because the more important thing we're
taking care of the families and everything in Curbill and
those surrounding areas. We all went home for a couple
of days, came back and started riding again. So we're
(04:59):
not anywhere near our target. We're somewhere around two hundred
and twenty five thousand dollars, but we're going to We're
starting our big push. I started doing a bunch of
you know, we got finished at a decent time yesterday,
sending out letters reaching out to people saying, please know
our why that we're doing this ride. We're not out
here just trying to get exercise and view the countryside.
(05:22):
We're out here to raise awareness for some unexpected death
and children that we you know, families that are going
through those huge catastrophes of losing the child for some
unknown reasons. They're about three to four hundred children that
die each year that we don't have an answer for that.
So the research that we're raising money for, if it
(05:44):
could find the cause and somehow stop this from happening,
or at least allow people to you know, forewarn themselves
so that they can get ready to prepare for not
losing their child. Anything can do something different that would
be amazing for that to happen. There is for Haiti.
I mean I've had a passion for Haiti since twenty ten,
shortly after the earthquake. And the people of Haiti are
(06:08):
just amazing and wonderful. And yes, the gangs have taken
over and the government has shut down, but the people
are still wonderful and we're still doing amazing things with
Mission Lazarus. We're working with our communities, we're working with
our schools. The gangs are really bad at Port of Prince,
but out where we are, things are happening in positive ways.
(06:29):
They're going to be more sustainable. People are farming areas
that were not farmed before because they have to. And
there's good stuff that's happening right now. And you can
see Christ working and a lot of people even though
this is so bad. So the big push here is
don't forget Haiti. And if you could consider donating to
Mission Lazarus, that would just be amazing and that would
(06:51):
help us do what God has put on our heart.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
And where can they go to do that?
Speaker 2 (06:57):
So Brothersbike dot Org, brother Bike dot Org. If you
go to that site, you'll see both of our missions
on there and go into it and make a donation,
and you can also read up about the ride that
we're doing and the missions and what they do as well.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
You know, I should say and we should point out.
I know you don't like to call attention to yourself
and everything that you guys have gone through, but we
talked about the floods derailing everything. That's because you guys
were affected directly by what happened in the Hill Country
in July.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Yeah, that was I just words could not explain, you know,
what we've gone through as a group. But people are
going through all through kervill all the families across Texas,
and it's just an incredible and I don't my heart
bleeds for those people that have gone through what they're
going through today, and we just they need our prayers,
(07:54):
They need every commitment who can to keep support them
as well. So although I will say that we're ready
to start getting back, finish our eyes and be strong
in our mission financial rate, raising the money as much
as we can.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
All right, I got to ask you, it's a couple
of weeks to go any thoughts into what you guys
are going to do like that first meal that you
get back from when you're here in Texas, when you
finish things in College Station on September sixth, and the answer,
the answer better be barbecue.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Ralely, it is barbecue. No, no, no, there was out
a doubt. We've had one night of barbecue this whole trip,
and we're all sitting there just going we're Milligan. We've
got to get back. Yes, barbecue is first and foremost. Naturally,
you know, we've got our special Mexican food restaurants around
College Station, and I you know, we live in Houston,
(08:49):
so you know, we can't wait to get back those,
and then our friends and family. I mean, I haven't
seen my wife, and we've never done this before for
this long of a stint. I'm very wife dependent, and
with her so far away from me at this point
in time, that will be a wonderful time that we'll
spend together when we get home.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Well wait a second, I see, if I spend this
amount of time away from my wife, I'll probably get
a text don't come back.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
Yeah. Yeah, well she's she's filling her calendar up. I mean,
I'm kind of you know, observing what she's doing, and
I'm just going, you're having more fun without me than
with me. You're not gonna want me back. But now
we're both excited about getting back together and getting back
home and just you know, we're like I said, you know,
I'll be turning sixty five in October, and the fact
(09:36):
is this is the last big hoorah that we're going
to do. This is epic and it is so big
it's overwhelming. You know, eighty days of riding sixty to
seventy miles a day has just been tough. But I
will tell you there's a lot of good benefits. I
mean physically, I feel strong, my legs, my knees and
my hips. I mean, everything's just doing great. So you know,
(10:00):
I'll take the benefits that are coming in with this,
but this is first and foremost a podium to talk
about Mission Lazarus and Miles Pride Foundation.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
All right, last one for you, once you get done
with this, how long is it going to be before
you go back on the bike.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
I will tell you the truth, I might not ever
get back on a pie check in. I don't know.
I don't know. I've got a pond at my house,
and I've been kind of contemplating that I might be
chunking it into the pond and let it be fish habitat.
But seriously, I don't know I really can answer that.
I'll be happy to get off it and not do
(10:40):
this every single day. But I'm excited. This is going
to be good. This is gonna be an epic ending
and being in College station, getting on the football field
during the game, to be able to see one hundred
thousand of my closest friends, I'm sure will be wonderful.
And we really do appreciate will appreciate any any donations
(11:01):
that come into Mission Lacerith or mosk Craft Foundation. That's
just again, that is why we're here.
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