Sneaking Deacon time. Yeah it is. Wait a minute, I gotta I
gotta air some dirty laundry out. Nor normally we do this behind clothes.
Keep so much to yourself. Yeah, normally I don't talk about my personal
life. I keep everything behind closed doors. I'm addressing this one on the
air man. Uh huh, sneaking Deacon, Greg, get you you there?
He is, Yes, Okay, So we're coming back from my uncle's
funeral and we're riding together. It's me, Susan and uh and Greg and
Greg goes, you know, Dave Jennings the funniest thing on your show.
I just love it when he starts talking. And Dave Jennings this day,
I'm like, catch to wedd in a week moment. That was a good
time. Bring that up, So Greg, I went, well, thanks
Greg, that makes me feel better. And Dave had no problem with mobile.
No, but in my mind I want to say, why you just
marry Dave Jennings? Then Greg, get your sneaking deacon. Yeah. Well,
you know, you guys are going back and forth so much. I
think you missed half the things. He says, No, yeah, that's
the truth. Well, some of them were not smart. Enough to get
anyway. Hey, listen, we wanted John because it's thunder over Louisville.
A lot of families out there with children. Give us some safety tips.
I mean, there's so many things to think of, Greg, if you
lose your child, what to do in a in a horrible situation. Can
you talk about best practices for families just in case. Yeah? Absolutely,
And you know I'm not going to go into the little common sense stuff,
you know, hat sunscreens and you know, basic a plenty of water and
some band aids and stuff. But I want to talk about more if something
unusual happens, you know, with my old line at work, and I've
been to many of these thunders. As Mayor Fisher's I was one of his
bodyguards for the first five years of practice. So we went to this thing
all day and night long. Then I did it as a I was on
this team called the JSU Unit Join Emergency Services Unit, and we were a
hazmat technical team I'm sorry, tactical team. So we were there to respond
in case of a you know, a horrible event where some chemicals were released
into the crowd. So I can tell you with the experience I've hit that
crowd for at least ten years every year, and this is kind of what
I put together, and there's this there's gonna be about ten of these things.
So he stopped me. If I go too long, right, But
I know, I know Dave would would remember him. But anyway, the
first thing is, yeah, the first thing I would suggest would just be
familiar with the Great Lawn and where you're gonna watch it if you're outside,
I know there's into our events. The weather looks really good, So either
go to the internet now or maybe they'll have some maps there, but just
be aware of the different places you can exit in an emergency, you know.
You know, I've been on this your show a bunch of times and
people always say, man, oh you ever talk about a situational awareness.
I'm like, yeah, that's a pretty big deal in our world today.
So when you go in there, look at the map or look you know,
they'll have it on the internet on the news. See where the different
don't people always go to the gates they came in, and that has gotten
people killed, you know, because that's kind of kind of a choke point
and you don't want to go right, So look at the other gates.
Don't have emergency gates around, be familiar with those. And if you couldn't
get to a game, the worst case scenario is look for some cover.
You know, there's a difference between cover and concealment. Concealment is hiding behind
you know, a piece of wood and concealment I mean, and cover is
like hiding behind the metal dumpster, right, So be aware of that kind
of stuff. Here's some things people don't always think about. Besides, you
know, fully charge your cell phone, but there were a couple of spare
batteries in there. You can buy these cell phone batteries, you know,
the size of a you know, a half of a cell phone, and
then you'd have a whole charge. Because if you're out there all day,
oh yeah, absolutely right, and we are so dependent on our cell phones,
you know, something goes wrong, you know, I can call nine
to one one, or I can call my kids because I can't find them,
or my spouts or what are your spice or whatever? You know,
and uh, that extra battery could come in handy for a couple of people.
The other thing is when I would sit there and we'd walk around to
the crowd, I mean, That's what we did all day, walk through
the crowd. People had so much stuff. They look like they're going across
the Sahara desert. You know. They had you know, pulling wagons and
they you know, it's like camels. Dude, I would suggest you light
and your load and leave whatever you can in the car, right because if
you leave in a hurry, you know, you got to leave your stuff.
It's kind of like you know, evacuating an airplane. You know,
just leave your stuff and go and hopefully you grab a couple of your kids
with you. But yeah, we're talking. We're talking. Well, you
know, I was about to make a joke about talking to the wives about
that, but dudes, are is just as bad. Look at Dwhite every
morning. Oh I know, I know, yeah, and you know,
I know this is kind of serious stuff. But the other thing is,
you know, for the women, instead of bringing a purse, bringing a
small backpack because you know that frees your hands up to you know, grab
a kid or you know, bay you'll see people down there with babies and
infants and little children and uh, you know, somebody got to grab those
kids. That the crowd starts going crazy and you get into one of those
stamp you know, stampede modes. So that's pretty important. And speaking of
kids, put some kind of a colorful shirts on them, you know,
and you know, maybe buying one of those twenty dollars glowsticks or whatever.
But give them some way to help identify that. Yeah, pick them out
of the crowd. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I had, Yeah,
I had like a Kentucky T shirt. Right, yeah. Yeah, it's
a lot of help. Uh help if you put them around the wrists or
they're you know wherever, I'll hang them up the belt. I'll tell you
want to get big brother throw an air tag on them, right oh that.
Yes, Look, we have we have Life three sixty on all our
kids. And I don't know what we did before we had that app because
we tracked them. How many miles an hour they're driving their cars, how
long do they spend It's insane and I wish, I wish we didn't have
it sometimes, but we do. We track them. But here's what I'll
ask you, And I think this is when you become a dad. This
is the thing that you kind of do is you're talking about situational awareness.
So I'm sorry I judge people that are around me. Sorry, I'm a
judge. E wudgie. Uh So when I if we're going to pick a
spot on the lawn, you know we're not. I'm not going to pick
a spot where I think that there could be people that are going to get
intoxicated or have a you know, a fight, or I'm sorry, I'm
gonna try to go be with maybe more family oriented folks, or you could
spot trouble. I'm sorry. At your job as a dad, right,
Greg, I mean you look who are the people that are around you.
Immediately, if there's a bunch of college kids that are slamming drinks, you
might want to move that corn dog lady who didn't look right. I'm just
saying, well, you know, it's funny you say that because you know,
we worked for six years as a policeman here. We worked six years
in the infield of the Kentucky Derby, and without a doubt, each turn
inside the infield was a different group of people exactly. There was a family
section, there was a high school college section, there was a biker and
hooker section, and there, I mean it was crazy and we spotty.
We're watching them, you know, I mean, but they anyway so your
family members did not want to hang out with the bikers, right example.
So yeah, so that I think that's big. One of the biggest things
Greg get you, if I may thank you, doctor to make sure that
you are to wear a mask. Tell you can you keep a six foot
radius around from everyone else that I never have believed that docs. But hey,
speaking of the kids, I don't want to forget this, because this
is one of my big ones. Take a picture of what your kids are
wearing, because if they get lost, you want to be able to give
that picture to a first responder who can text it out to the whole group.
The Hire Army first responders, please fire ms. So take a picture
of what the kids are wearing, God forbid in case they get separated.
Have a plan if you get separated, We're going to meet at that flag
pole or or that big you know landmark every thirty minutes half hour on the
hour until we connect again. Right Because everyone relies on cell phones, but
I have been in situations where cell phones didn't work any longer. A power
goes down, remember it used to go to Derby and you can never get
a call out because everyone was a local power. So I'm just saying,
we're so relying on these cell phones. If they don't work, you got
to have a plan. So every half hour, every thirty minutes, you
know, you meet at the flag pole and you point it out so everyone
knows that this interview is. This interview is way different from my childhood,
anytime that my dad would take me to one of these events and go,
okay, it's hide and seek, go yeah, yeah? How many?
You know? I don't want to get I mean, this is all about
security. Look for guys like you, going thunder just must be a nightmare.
You're just like, this is a nightmare to try to control, especially
if something happens. And we're not saying something's gonna happen, which just if
something happens, are there, but like snipers, Like how many I assume
that they will be snipers at this event? Right? Somebody on a top
of a hotel somewhere, they have a team for this event. Right.
Uh, you know, I'm not going to give out the playbook, but
basically, you know, any event, let's just use our common sense.
You're going to have spotters, right, So the spotters with binoculars are looking
for trouble, right, remember when the gang kids were like causing trouble and
fights and running over people and stealing their stuff. I remember that, so
law enforcement had spotters on that. Now I'm not saying there's guys with rifles
ready to shoot you in a second. I'm saying that there could be the
possibility to have you know, our SWAT team out there, which includes snipers
if needed. And then you have the you know, the crowd response to
people that are especially trained, because unfortunately we went through all that, you
know, those protests a few years ago, and they got a bunch of
real world training, so they're very good at what they do. The other
kid. One thing I want to say about kids, and you know this
is going to sound weird. Dwight would like this. You know, you
think about writing your phone number, your cell phone number, on a kid's
arms, because if the kids did get up, they could and your cell
phones are working, they could call you and say, hey, we're up
here by the stage or we're up here whatever. Right. My dad used
to do something, so he would write take one, they're free on me
and me and my brother. That's a great idea, great that that really
is, because there's no anybody's been a parent man. That's sinking feeling.
When you're in a crowd and you lose them for just a minute or two,
you're just like worre's Wor's where's Whor's where's where's? And that feeling is
so it'll make you physically ill. So yes, that's a great tip.
Get get that number somewhere on them. That's a great idea. Yep.
And then let me know if I'm running out of town, I got just
a few more about one minute, about two minutes, okay, two minutes.
If something happens, use your common sense. Your sixth sense is going
to tell you that something is not okay or the way people are reacting,
So just be ready to leave. That's why you want to carry camel's worth
the swords stuff in there with you. But if your six sense is telling
you something done, look right or whatever and leave. The other thing I
want to talk to you about is uh, if you can locate the direction
of trouble, obviously run opposite. And then if you're in a big crowd,
move with that crowd. You can't stop or go against it, So
move with the crowd. But you know, as you can angle away to
the corners of it. Right, you don't want to get you want and
you want to grab your kids. You want to be like a boxer if
your hands are free, to keep the space in front of you so you
don't get crushed in a stampede type of crowd. But you want to anger
yourselves towards the corner boy dogles Coke points I talked about earlier, and if
you can't get out to an exit, look for some kind of cover.
If you get out, get far enough away because unfortunately we know if somebody
has a shoulder weapon like a assault weapon AR fifteen type of weapon, you
know they shoot very accurately at six seven eight football fields. So we want
you to get away and cover as far as far as possible. That's it.
Great advice, Greg, get you the sneaking deacon. It's you don't
want to scare your kids, but you have to have conversations when you're going
to go to a crowd like thunder over Louisville. This has been fantastic.
We love you, buddy, and thank you for taking care of my buddy
Dwight at for his uncle. It was really nice of you, you know,
I was glad to be there for him. And when I hugged him,
I actually walked away out check my shoes. I was afraid I might
have stepped in something fun It's funny after Greg gets your hugging me and my
wallet and rischwatch was missing, and he said, I like Dave Betta.
Thanks for calling the day, Jenny, So Greg, We'll see you,
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