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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Well, it's been about what two months, It's been more
than five thousand miles and Raleigh Jenkins of ABC Home
and Commercial Services plus his brothers are finally back in
the Promised Land, so to speak, in the good Land
of Texas, wrapping up the big.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Charity ride that they did.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Roley joins us now for his final episode of the
series that we have been doing all summer. Raley, we're
speaking on Wednesday. Everything ends Saturday. So where are you
right now? We're in Texas, are the Jenkins brothers.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We're in the heart of Texas. I feel like this
is probably our seventy eighth day right now. So we'll
land in College Station in just two days, and you know,
we're just outside of wake Up. And I'll tell you,
I love Texas. It is so beautiful. And to see
it from a bike at you know, seventeen or fifteen
(00:58):
miles an hour a whole nother viewpoint. But my gosh,
it's a beautiful state and so wonderful in so many ways.
And the people, you know, being around Texans is always
a better place to be. Not that everybody else is
any different than or rough or tough, or it's just
there are people.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
No doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But I mean it's got to be a site for
sore rise after being on the road all this time.
I mean, you haven't been home, you know, with the
exception of everything that happened in July.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's been since June that you guys haven't been home.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
June fifteenth is when we were home last, besides coming
home after the Curial flood and tending funerals for family.
So fortunately we are just on the cusp of getting
there and I can't wait to see my wife and
my children and my grandchildren. I've got eight grandchildren to
see all them. They'll be in College station right there
(01:54):
at the finish line. They'll be probably a group of
almost seventy five people of family and friends that will
be there to welcome us home, and we're excited about it.
In addition to that, you know we're coming in on
game day Utah State, so you know that one hundred
thousand of my closest friends will be there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The question is did you get tickets to the game?
I mean somebody had to.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Did Alan canadat A and M give you guys tickets
to the game or what?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, we have season tickets we are born and bred
Texas Aggies. I don't miss hardly any home games and
try to attend to at least a couple away games
a year. So no, we won't miss any football games,
that's for sure, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So then my question is you're going to get up
off the bike. I don't know how long you're going
to be on the bike four on Saturday? Are you
going to go right to your seat and sit for
like three and a half four hours?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So we'll come in our RV, which is all decked
out in Brothersbike dot Org burbage, talking about our charities,
talking about the distances that we're going to five thousand,
five hundred miles of we're riding or have ridden, and
we're going to be in the fan zone. So the
RBO will be parked out for you. If you're going
(03:04):
to the game and you see this big maroon RB
sitting out there and you're curious about it, come over
and say howdy. We'll give us a chance to tell
you our story if you want to hear it. If
you feel so inclined to make a donation, why you're there,
but we'll be there rooting it on them and just
tell you. No, the RB goes up for sale on Saturday.
So if everybody's looking for an RV, this is the one,
(03:26):
this is the time to buy it quick and easy.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
First of all, I like the fact that you're doing
the cell job.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's the born salesman in you're from ABC Home and
Commercial Services.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And I love the fact that you stuck in verbiage there.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
If anybody listens to Houston's Morning News, they know that
that word is key to the show because.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That is what Sky Mike uses all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Except if we're talking like smushes and kerfuffles and you
guys are on the bike, that's a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
We don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I understood, all right, So I got to the whole Well,
the whole thing that you guys did was about a
cause bigger than just riding a bike. It was about charity,
it was about kids, it was about.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
An entire country. How much have you guys raised so far?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And I know everything was interrupted, but how much have
you guys been able to put together?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah? And our goal, I mean Mission Lazarus is one
that's you know, about patients and remembering them and giving
them a hand up, not hand out. As a country
that they need to just survive, they need to thrive,
and they feel like they've been forgotten. I will tell
you I have a chance to visit with them. And
the other one is for SUDC. So I'm not unexpected.
(04:42):
In children. My brother lost his grandchild, perfect health, everything
was great, went up to take a nap at fifteen
months and when he laid down, he didn't wake up.
And this was about twelve years ago. And it has
been laid on our hearts for both these causes to
ride this ride and to go through all this turmoil
(05:03):
and pain for the last to eighty days just so
that we can use it as a podium to say, hey,
this is important and we need we need help, and
we need to we need to make a difference. And
it's going to take money, it's going to take prayer.
So yeah, I mean we're we're there, and we're ready
to finish our accomplishment of getting into college station.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
All right, So, I know you guys are beat up.
As we've talked about in the previous episodes.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're in your mid sixties and look, I'm in my
fifties and even just walking around, you know, you get
beat up. On a daily basis. So how beat up
are you guys right now or is it just almost
like you're on that high knowing that, okay, the finish
line is in sight.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, there're two things. One is we're way beat up
for the first thirty forty fifty days of the ride,
and yeah, it hurt and moving was tough and sore.
You know, now we're at the seventy seven and all
of a sudden, you do feel a lot stronger. Your
confidence is way up and like you just said, the
high of coming home, the high of pulling into Waco
(06:08):
here in the next twenty miles and you know you
can't see straight. All of a sudden, you're going, this
is over. We're gonna finish this. I never have felt
so confidence until now, because that's scary. I mean we're
on a road that there traffics is whizzing byans at
seventy miles an hour, and you know, no offense. It
all takes is one little hiccup and the boom you're
hit by a truck or a car or an obstacle
(06:30):
gets to the way. So I hate to put the
gloom on it. Yeah, I mean we were we were
nervous about let's just get home safely, Let's get it
all the way back, and we are. We're going to
get home safely. We're going to do it on time,
and it's going to be a wonderful celebration.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So real question, real talk here, is after you get
off the bike on Saturday, how long are you going
to stay off the bike, Because I can't imagine that
after seventy seven, seventy eight days of this, you're going
to be like, all right, I'm just going to go
on the bike tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I imagine you're taking some time off.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I'll take a lot of time off. We did this
bike ride for Haiti eight years ago. We went from
Seattle to New York and we raised about six hundred
thousand on that one. And that was I got off
the bike there and I didn't touch it again until
I started training for this. I don't know, I don't know.
(07:25):
I'm afraid to say that I'm not going to touch
my bike again. But at the same time, I love
the condition to shape I'm in right now. I'm feel
so confident. I'm ready to get home, play a little pickball,
play little tennis, play a little golf, and I think
if that improves by a game, I'll do whatever it
takes to get better at golf and tennis.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
At last, you didn't say you were going to improve
it whatever it takes to you know, get better at pickleball.
So okay, you've done all of this.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
This was about as big as you guys can go.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Except I'm sure in the back of your mind, either
you or your brother or somebody else in the family
is thinking what can we do to make this even bigger?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And when can we do it?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Without a doubt. I mean, I know it in the
back of my heart and back my mind that there's
a bigger mountain to climb, there's a higher goal to reach.
It's a bigger cause than us saying no to We'll
come across us right now. It is not at the forefront.
It is just about saying, let's get home. But you know,
(08:28):
if God calls us, we're going to answer. That's just
a fact.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It was a very obviously trying time between what happened.
You know, first of all, biking this it's not just
a physical thing. It's a mental thing, as you and
I have talked about before, Raleigh. But yeah, you know,
going through everything that happened with the hill Country and
how it affected your family directly.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
How did you guys get.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Through it, because I you know, it's one thing to
have the stress of a six thousand mile bike ride
for charity on your mind. It's another thing to do
it with all the suffering going on that's hit so
close to home.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, you know, we talked about stopping the ride altogether
and just let let's stay at home heal our families
and be involved with them. But they were great encouragers
of it as well. I mean they all pushed and said, hey,
get out there, do this ride. It is for a
bigger cause. Not a bigger cause, it's for a big
(09:28):
cause and it's important. And if we didn't have their
support to get back on the road, we would have stopped.
It's been heavy on our hearts ever since, and you know,
we've been praying for the other families and all the
other missing children that are still missing today and just this.
We haven't been able to come home and really deal
(09:49):
with it because we've been getting on the bikes every day.
So we'll be starting from scratch kind of when we
hit the doors of our homes.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Is that going to be even tougher now that the
bike ride is almost over, and once you guys pack
your stuff up and you sell the RV, dealing with
the reality of what happened in July, is that going
to make it even tougher.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, it'll become real. And dealing with the other family
members that are hurting still face to face as a
post so just over the phone and comforting them is
going to be Yeah, it'll get There's some action that's
going to happen here. And I pray to God that
everybody just you know, understands where we are today and
(10:32):
we just get through life and get through the healing.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I got to tell you, it's been an absolute
pleasure just to hang with you for as little as
we did, for all these episodes of this of this series,
on this podcast here on KTRH.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I mean, you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Guys are an inspiration even you know, not just for
the charity work, but for anybody that wants to get active,
not necessarily going a six thousand mile bike ride, but
still even if it's just you know.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Be that weekend war.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, you guys in your sixties are proven that hey,
just because you're in your sixties doesn't mean you got
to sit there and do nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You can get up there and do stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Agreed, And I thank you so much for allowing us
to tell our story and get as many people aware
of the two charities that are going on Mission labsrus
as well as SUDC. It's been wonderful. It has been
a great adventure and epic adventure and you have helped
make it that way.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And don't forget.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You can still donate at brothersbike dot org brothersbike dot org.
Rawlei Jenkins from ABC Home and Commercial Services thank you
for taking us on this ride throughout the country and
Canada too.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I cannot forget Canada.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yes that's true. We will not forget Canada, trust me.
Thank you very much. You have a glorious day.
Well, it's been about what two months, It's been more
than five thousand miles and Raleigh Jenkins of ABC Home
and Commercial Services plus his brothers are finally back in
the Promised Land, so to speak, in the good Land
of Texas, wrapping up the big.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Charity ride that they did.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Roley joins us now for his final episode of the
series that we have been doing all summer. Raley, we're
speaking on Wednesday. Everything ends Saturday. So where are you
right now? We're in Texas, are the Jenkins brothers.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
We're in the heart of Texas. I feel like this
is probably our seventy eighth day right now. So we'll
land in College Station in just two days, and you know,
we're just outside of wake Up. And I'll tell you,
I love Texas. It is so beautiful. And to see
it from a bike at you know, seventeen or fifteen
(00:58):
miles an hour a whole nother viewpoint. But my gosh,
it's a beautiful state and so wonderful in so many ways.
And the people, you know, being around Texans is always
a better place to be. Not that everybody else is
any different than or rough or tough, or it's just
there are people.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
No doubt about that.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
But I mean it's got to be a site for
sore rise after being on the road all this time.
I mean, you haven't been home, you know, with the
exception of everything that happened in July.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's been since June that you guys haven't been home.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
June fifteenth is when we were home last, besides coming
home after the Curial flood and tending funerals for family.
So fortunately we are just on the cusp of getting
there and I can't wait to see my wife and
my children and my grandchildren. I've got eight grandchildren to
see all them. They'll be in College station right there
(01:54):
at the finish line. They'll be probably a group of
almost seventy five people of family and friends that will
be there to welcome us home, and we're excited about it.
In addition to that, you know we're coming in on
game day Utah State, so you know that one hundred
thousand of my closest friends will be there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
The question is did you get tickets to the game?
I mean somebody had to.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Did Alan canadat A and M give you guys tickets
to the game or what?
Speaker 3 (02:21):
No, we have season tickets we are born and bred
Texas Aggies. I don't miss hardly any home games and
try to attend to at least a couple away games
a year. So no, we won't miss any football games,
that's for sure, all right.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
So then my question is you're going to get up
off the bike. I don't know how long you're going
to be on the bike four on Saturday? Are you
going to go right to your seat and sit for
like three and a half four hours?
Speaker 3 (02:44):
So we'll come in our RV, which is all decked
out in Brothersbike dot Org burbage, talking about our charities,
talking about the distances that we're going to five thousand,
five hundred miles of we're riding or have ridden, and
we're going to be in the fan zone. So the
RBO will be parked out for you. If you're going
(03:04):
to the game and you see this big maroon RB
sitting out there and you're curious about it, come over
and say howdy. We'll give us a chance to tell
you our story if you want to hear it. If
you feel so inclined to make a donation, why you're there,
but we'll be there rooting it on them and just
tell you. No, the RB goes up for sale on Saturday.
So if everybody's looking for an RV, this is the one,
(03:26):
this is the time to buy it quick and easy.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
First of all, I like the fact that you're doing
the cell job.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
That's the born salesman in you're from ABC Home and
Commercial Services.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
And I love the fact that you stuck in verbiage there.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
If anybody listens to Houston's Morning News, they know that
that word is key to the show because.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
That is what Sky Mike uses all the time.
Speaker 1 (03:48):
Except if we're talking like smushes and kerfuffles and you
guys are on the bike, that's a bad thing.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
We don't want to do that.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I understood, all right, So I got to the whole Well,
the whole thing that you guys did was about a
cause bigger than just riding a bike. It was about charity,
it was about kids, it was about.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
An entire country. How much have you guys raised so far?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And I know everything was interrupted, but how much have
you guys been able to put together?
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah? And our goal, I mean Mission Lazarus is one
that's you know, about patients and remembering them and giving
them a hand up, not hand out. As a country
that they need to just survive, they need to thrive,
and they feel like they've been forgotten. I will tell
you I have a chance to visit with them. And
the other one is for SUDC. So I'm not unexpected.
(04:42):
In children. My brother lost his grandchild, perfect health, everything
was great, went up to take a nap at fifteen
months and when he laid down, he didn't wake up.
And this was about twelve years ago. And it has
been laid on our hearts for both these causes to
ride this ride and to go through all this turmoil
(05:03):
and pain for the last to eighty days just so
that we can use it as a podium to say, hey,
this is important and we need we need help, and
we need to we need to make a difference. And
it's going to take money, it's going to take prayer.
So yeah, I mean we're we're there, and we're ready
to finish our accomplishment of getting into college station.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
All right, So, I know you guys are beat up.
As we've talked about in the previous episodes.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
You're in your mid sixties and look, I'm in my
fifties and even just walking around, you know, you get
beat up. On a daily basis. So how beat up
are you guys right now or is it just almost
like you're on that high knowing that, okay, the finish
line is in sight.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Yeah, there're two things. One is we're way beat up
for the first thirty forty fifty days of the ride,
and yeah, it hurt and moving was tough and sore.
You know, now we're at the seventy seven and all
of a sudden, you do feel a lot stronger. Your
confidence is way up and like you just said, the
high of coming home, the high of pulling into Waco
(06:08):
here in the next twenty miles and you know you
can't see straight. All of a sudden, you're going, this
is over. We're gonna finish this. I never have felt
so confidence until now, because that's scary. I mean we're
on a road that there traffics is whizzing byans at
seventy miles an hour, and you know, no offense. It
all takes is one little hiccup and the boom you're
hit by a truck or a car or an obstacle
(06:30):
gets to the way. So I hate to put the
gloom on it. Yeah, I mean we were we were
nervous about let's just get home safely, Let's get it
all the way back, and we are. We're going to
get home safely. We're going to do it on time,
and it's going to be a wonderful celebration.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
So real question, real talk here, is after you get
off the bike on Saturday, how long are you going
to stay off the bike, Because I can't imagine that
after seventy seven, seventy eight days of this, you're going
to be like, all right, I'm just going to go
on the bike tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I imagine you're taking some time off.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
I'll take a lot of time off. We did this
bike ride for Haiti eight years ago. We went from
Seattle to New York and we raised about six hundred
thousand on that one. And that was I got off
the bike there and I didn't touch it again until
I started training for this. I don't know, I don't know.
(07:25):
I'm afraid to say that I'm not going to touch
my bike again. But at the same time, I love
the condition to shape I'm in right now. I'm feel
so confident. I'm ready to get home, play a little pickball,
play little tennis, play a little golf, and I think
if that improves by a game, I'll do whatever it
takes to get better at golf and tennis.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
At last, you didn't say you were going to improve
it whatever it takes to you know, get better at pickleball.
So okay, you've done all of this.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
This was about as big as you guys can go.
Speaker 1 (07:55):
Except I'm sure in the back of your mind, either
you or your brother or somebody else in the family
is thinking what can we do to make this even bigger?
Speaker 2 (08:06):
And when can we do it?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Without a doubt. I mean, I know it in the
back of my heart and back my mind that there's
a bigger mountain to climb, there's a higher goal to reach.
It's a bigger cause than us saying no to We'll
come across us right now. It is not at the forefront.
It is just about saying, let's get home. But you know,
(08:28):
if God calls us, we're going to answer. That's just
a fact.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
It was a very obviously trying time between what happened.
You know, first of all, biking this it's not just
a physical thing. It's a mental thing, as you and
I have talked about before, Raleigh. But yeah, you know,
going through everything that happened with the hill Country and
how it affected your family directly.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
How did you guys get.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
Through it, because I you know, it's one thing to
have the stress of a six thousand mile bike ride
for charity on your mind. It's another thing to do
it with all the suffering going on that's hit so
close to home.
Speaker 3 (09:07):
Well, you know, we talked about stopping the ride altogether
and just let let's stay at home heal our families
and be involved with them. But they were great encouragers
of it as well. I mean they all pushed and said, hey,
get out there, do this ride. It is for a
bigger cause. Not a bigger cause, it's for a big
(09:28):
cause and it's important. And if we didn't have their
support to get back on the road, we would have stopped.
It's been heavy on our hearts ever since, and you know,
we've been praying for the other families and all the
other missing children that are still missing today and just this.
We haven't been able to come home and really deal
(09:49):
with it because we've been getting on the bikes every day.
So we'll be starting from scratch kind of when we
hit the doors of our homes.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
Is that going to be even tougher now that the
bike ride is almost over, and once you guys pack
your stuff up and you sell the RV, dealing with
the reality of what happened in July, is that going
to make it even tougher.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Yeah, it'll become real. And dealing with the other family
members that are hurting still face to face as a
post so just over the phone and comforting them is
going to be Yeah, it'll get There's some action that's
going to happen here. And I pray to God that
everybody just you know, understands where we are today and
(10:32):
we just get through life and get through the healing.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Well, I got to tell you, it's been an absolute
pleasure just to hang with you for as little as
we did, for all these episodes of this of this series,
on this podcast here on KTRH.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
And I mean, you.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
Guys are an inspiration even you know, not just for
the charity work, but for anybody that wants to get active,
not necessarily going a six thousand mile bike ride, but
still even if it's just you know.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Be that weekend war.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
I mean, you guys in your sixties are proven that hey,
just because you're in your sixties doesn't mean you got
to sit there and do nothing.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
You can get up there and do stuff.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Agreed, And I thank you so much for allowing us
to tell our story and get as many people aware
of the two charities that are going on Mission labsrus
as well as SUDC. It's been wonderful. It has been
a great adventure and epic adventure and you have helped
make it that way.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
And don't forget.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
You can still donate at brothersbike dot org brothersbike dot org.
Rawlei Jenkins from ABC Home and Commercial Services thank you
for taking us on this ride throughout the country and
Canada too.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I cannot forget Canada.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Yes that's true. We will not forget Canada, trust me.
Thank you very much. You have a glorious day.
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