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Ice Storm · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for our American mamas. Dear mama's,
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  Speaker 1: how did you do with the ice storm?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mama's, mamma and joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Now our American mama's turned out Ofville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: So we had that big old ice storm. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: guess more than a week ago, and there are still
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  Speaker 1: people throughout the South who don't have power from the
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  Speaker 1: ice storm Mississippi Tennessee primarily. This is the first time,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I've lived in northwest Louisiana here for almost
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  Speaker 1: twenty years. This is the longest we've gone where there's
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  Speaker 1: been snow on the ground for more than a week.
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  Speaker 1: I mean there's still snow. Well, yeah, it just won't.
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  Speaker 1: So how did you guys do, because this went from
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  Speaker 1: Dallas all the way over towards North Carolina. How did
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  Speaker 1: y'all fare during the ice storm?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? We were stuck are stuck. Of course, Kevin work's
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  Speaker 2: in the medical field, so he had to go and
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  Speaker 2: like he has a truck that can, but this kind
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  Speaker 2: of ice storm, it wasn't the fun time where there's
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  Speaker 2: snow and you can go out there and throw snowballs.
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  Speaker 2: At each other. It was like a slick yeah. Sleep.
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  Speaker 2: It was slick ice across every single half an inch
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  Speaker 2: thick yeah, the driveway. And so we're all being careful
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  Speaker 2: of letting the dogs out. So you didn't see a
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  Speaker 2: lot of kids out like we used to see whenever
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  Speaker 2: there's like just snowfall. But I loved this is what
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  Speaker 2: I loved. I'll give the high end of this. So
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  Speaker 2: between Rust and Louisiana and Monroe, Louisiana, which is thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 2: there was accidents and the cars simply could not get
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  Speaker 2: through or get by for thirty hours.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, so what was normally a thirty minute drive became
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  Speaker 1: a three thirty hours. Yes, they working lot.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, they literally slept like they had the girls basketball
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  Speaker 2: teams sleep on the bus. They're so close to home.
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  Speaker 2: But the beautiful part of this is since Borrow, Coshatta, Shogrint,
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  Speaker 2: all the little towns in that area, it's rural, so
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of people who have the four wheelers,
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  Speaker 2: the can AM's polaris, you know those vehicles ATVs, ATVs
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  Speaker 2: that can get through ice and ruddy places. All throughout
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  Speaker 2: the thirty hour period, people were saying that all these
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  Speaker 2: kids adults were driving by. What do you need? There's
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  Speaker 2: passing out food, water, gifts, diapers, formula gas, you know,
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  Speaker 2: because some people would run out of gas. And it
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  Speaker 2: was once again just a reminder of the goodness of people.
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  Speaker 2: If you give people a chance to be good, they
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  Speaker 2: will And they were all in it together.
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  Speaker 1: Fascinating again, thirty hours hours stock on the interstick and
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  Speaker 1: before the National Guard got there, before the Louisiana State
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  Speaker 1: Police got there, you had local people in the area
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  Speaker 1: hopping on their ATVs driving up to say how can
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  Speaker 1: I help.
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  Speaker 3: It reminds me of mister Rogers, the helpers, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and when his mom said, look for the helpers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like it doesn't matter at that time, the
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  Speaker 3: political frustration that's going on with when there's a need,
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  Speaker 3: people will show up and they rid themselves of those
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  Speaker 3: the mean, the hate, it's gone and they help each other.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things so that I've noticed though, when
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  Speaker 1: we've had disasters and community does show up, there's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a red pilling effect on this. There's
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  Speaker 1: a guy on Twitter, Matt van Swall, and he's got
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  Speaker 1: a whole bunch, He's got a huge audience. He used
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  Speaker 1: to be a very hard left guy. He lives in
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina and when the hurricane came and then just
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  Speaker 1: sat over his house and dumped water and water and
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  Speaker 1: roads were washed out and he was stranded, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration refused to come help us, and it
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  Speaker 1: was relying on neighbors, and it was relying on the
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  Speaker 1: Amish who came down from Pennsylvania and spent months there
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  Speaker 1: rebuilding stuff. That was when he went, I finally understand
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  Speaker 1: why the right is like, we can't just depend on
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  Speaker 1: the government. We've got to be able to depend on ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: It red piled him and he is now a die
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  Speaker 1: hard conservative.
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  Speaker 2: Wow. I watched the Ruthless podcast. It's like these four
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  Speaker 2: five guys sometimes five guys, And one of them said,
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  Speaker 2: you find out very quickly who the feminists really are
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  Speaker 2: in a snowstorm, because they have zero problem asking the
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  Speaker 2: men around them to help go shovel the snow and
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  Speaker 2: do all the men and the mainly work. But you
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  Speaker 2: took in, you had a crew with you.
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  Speaker 3: For we had we had a house full because people
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  Speaker 3: coming in. My eighty year old aunts there, but we
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  Speaker 3: did get her out on a sled, so we did
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  Speaker 3: have some fun.
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  Speaker 2: Oka.
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  Speaker 3: We live on a cul de sact that's a heel,
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  Speaker 3: and so we had that was fun. Watching children play, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was the cutest thing ever. And helping neighbors not
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  Speaker 3: hit my car when they backed up. That was fun.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, it was good. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: But you had a whole bunch of people at your house.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, four for how many days?
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  Speaker 3: Name eleven?
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  Speaker 1: It was all eleven days. No, you were You're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done with guests at three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know. And there's a lot of people who
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  Speaker 2: had there. It was funny because we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: this recently at the at a at the First Pitch banquet,
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  Speaker 2: and they were talking about how they had family come
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  Speaker 2: in and one of the moms said, you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had family come in and after the fifth day,
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking at my refrigerator, I'm looking at my painter.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, what am I going to feed these It's
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  Speaker 2: a huge responsibility, she said, I'm looking for it. I've
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  Speaker 2: loved my time with them, but as much as they're
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  Speaker 2: ready to go home, I'm ready to have my time back,
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  Speaker 2: and I have to worry about feeding everybody and making
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  Speaker 2: sure everybody's happy and entertained. So there is that. It's
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  Speaker 2: fun and then you're ready to go back to your lives.
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  Speaker 1: And it's fun as long as you have power and water. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't have those, that becomes.
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  Speaker 2: Rose without power for a whole week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like to ask your American mama was
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  Speaker 1: turned out of Kimberly Brothers and thank you so much