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your support. I want to welcome to the program Sean Hendrix.
In case you are on the Twitter machine formerly known
as X. He goes by the Sean Hendrix. That's Hendrix
with an X, and he actually is one of the reasons,
if not the reason, why folks in western North Carolina
got starlink set up in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.
And so Shawn, welcome to the program, sir. How are you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? Thanks for having me sure.
Speaker 1: And first off, I want to thank you for all
that you have done to help Western North Carolina, all
your efforts, because it didn't just stop with the starlink
tweet that Elon Musk saw apparently and then responded to.
So walk me through. I guess the days where like
the storm rolls in and because you're and correct me
if I'm wrong, are you sort of eastern North Carolina?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm eastern North Carolina.
Speaker 1: So you see the storm. Okay, all right, So you
see the storm come in, you see the aftermath of it,
and I guess what prompts you to Well, I guess
I should ask first, did you then go immediately to
western North Carolina to help and then send Well, I
don't the tweet.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think they knew how bad it was
in the beginning. You know, it's like we didn't get
much of it on the coast, just you know, some
rains and wind. And I got a phone call saying, hey,
it's really bad. Everything's down communication wise. We're gonna we're
gonna fly in on a jet with thirty starlings, but
we can't get a hold of anyone on the ground
to distribute them. And we know from you know, you're
online presence that you're in North Carolina. Would you help
us get them out? And I was like, oh, sure,
you know one percent. So I jumped in, loaded on
my gear up, and headed up and as I got closer,
I realized, oh gosh, this is just getting worse, and
then it became a apocalyptic I was just an absolutely
nightmare to even get to the airport. And then once
we got to starlinks, we started handing them out and
I realized that, my goodness, these fire departments are overwhelmed.
I mean, they've lost houses, they've lost loved ones. They're
not in any position to like take over distributing all
these starlinks and getting them set up. And so I
ended up partnering with the United Cajun Navy. They had
a helicopter and we started dropping these starlinks off and
all these fire stations just going in setting them up
and going, guys, you have internet, and a lot of
these first responders hadn't even middle check in with their
family members outside the area. They have no cook did
their family die in the flood? And so it's just
it was so amazing to see these guys making phone
calls follow in their family outside the area and saying, hey,
we're okay. You know, we lost a lot, but the kids,
the brand kids, they're okay. And I was fold I'm like, oh,
We've got to keep doing this. This is so important.
Seeing people get met orders for heart medicine flown in.
It just it was so important to get communications back up.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember in the first days it was the primary,
you know, first order response that was needed because you
didn't even know. We couldn't get information about where people
were that needed help because there was zero comms.
Speaker 2: And I want to I want to give a shout
out though to Lenor my amateur radio. They the AM
operators were actually the first line we had am communications
the moment the storm hit, but after that we obviously
needed more, right, So it's the HAM radio was like
the only thing during the storm and then right after starling.
But those guys, those guys were super critical and they
sure did a lot to help the recovery.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, Yeah, the HAM operators were essential as well. So
the the All right, so you you start dropping these
off at the fire departments. But and I don't know, uh, starlink,
I don't know how it operates or anything. But I
heard you say that they had Internet, so does But
I thought starlink does Internet or does it not?
Speaker 2: Like, okay, no, it is Internet. Yeah, So starlink is
just a Wi Fi connection. It's just a broadband connection
to low Earth orbit satellites. The thing what we're struggling
with was is like, we're trying to set up account
and put our credit card on them, and it was
slowing us down. That's why I tweeted Elon. I was like, man,
this is killing us. Please make them free just if
starlink turns on a disaster zone. Let's just make it work,
right because minutes, you know, minutes are hours in a
disaster situation. And that's when he retweeted me and said, hey,
they'll be free for the entire disaster zone. And then
they turned on and shipped me like fifty more units.
So uh, it was it was just so critical to
the early recovery effort.
Speaker 1: So did you know, do you know Elon Musk or
was this just like a shot in the arc you
were taking? Just hey, hail Mary tweeted the guy CV response.
Speaker 2: I mean it was definitely a hell Mary. I mean,
to be fair, I said two words to him at
the super Bowl once, but other than that we had
no interactions. I don't even remember that moment. But but
it wasn't like he's a good buddy of mine. I
think he just saw from my post he fundamentally understood
what I was going through, and he immediately recognized it
because I got once I posted it, somebody ran out
to me like Elon retweeted Jim but what and I
just it was a hell Mary. But then all of
a sudden, my phone's ringing and it's like, hy this
is Starling. I'm like, that's kind of crazy. They're like,
whatever you need, we're here to help. I was just thought.
I was like that. I mean, I'll be a Starlink
fan for life over without a loan.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, all right. So all right, so you get
the call, they give you fifty more units. So then
what was the next phase?
Speaker 2: Then?
Speaker 1: I guess you started dropping those off at other locations.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really, I split them a Nick Soda or Chris
Paul took some for me. They had a few day
brought in as well. And Ryan Hall Ryan Paull y'all
the weather guy on YouTube, is who gave us the
original unit, so he started all this and Chandra flew
them out to me. But then United Cajuan Navy was
massive and getting units out today had a helicopter and
then I took care of everything up and down. I
forty like Black Mountain Children, sell makes Self College and
other local fire departments, but we got those out pretty quick.
I mean we had ours deployed before FEMA returned their
first unit on nine days later. And then then the
weather started coming in. It's about to get really cold,
and that's when Operation Shelter was born. We had to
Basically we were going with like hot tins, just a
tent with the wood burning snow, because it was all
about survival at that point. But then all of a sudden,
people started donating r vs to us, so we quickly
givoted to r VS because I mean, America was just
blown away to the generosity. People were giving us like thirty
to forty thousand dollars RVs and just like take it
for as long as you need it.
Speaker 1: So this is what I wanted to get into next
Operation Shelter, And I saw the Gives send Go platform
has Operations Shelter still listed up there? Are you still
taking donations via that platform?
Speaker 2: I mean we're we're building, We're just getting ready to
break ground on a building, a brand new house. I mean,
if somebody wanted to give more money, it would be spent.
Like there's no shortage of monetary need up there. We
have a charity called here we grow it adopted us.
So the Growth Squad dot org. You know that's a
five O one C three. I'd much rather go through there.
I have a lot of people who want to use
gibs send go and I get that. But you know,
we partner together with Excel College, World Vision, Adventure Relief,
Vallyohope Church, Murcery One. It's called the Better Together Coalition,
and we've targeted together with a four acre campus up
there with one hundred and fifty volunteers, and we will
rebuild or restore three hundred and fifty houses by November.
So yeah, I mean, like Western North Carolina is not
going to get to a point any time soon. Whe're like, hey,
we don't need any extra money, right, you know what
I mean? So it's it's it's a long road, right.
Speaker 1: And I've I've done an interview with a fellow from
the Excel College. You can go to their website also
Theexcelcollege dot com Slash Disaster Dash Relief uh And that's
part of the Better Together Coalition. So how how did
you get hooked up with all of all of those organizations?
Speaker 2: Was was that Andrew? By chance?
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember it's been months. Yeah, so I
think it was when it was first launched. Yeah, I
think so.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the way I got hooked up with United
Occasion Navy said, Excel College is a relief center. They
have no internet. Please take them a starlink right now.
I'm like, I'm on it. So I drove down there,
I got them set up. I met Andrew, and we
just have been working together ever since. You know, a
dollar to any of those organizations, Mercury one is a
very easy one to find too. A dollar to any
of those organizations is going to help rebuild western North Carolina.
But yeah, that's how I got connected. I set up
a starlink, and then I got to try go to
Prime from Logan. Paul delivered there. We got Jacklinks to
deliver its higher semi truck full of beef turkey. It
just kind of became our hub up in the mountains.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I would run out and grab truckloads, be it
generators or heaters or what if we needed. I would
go down the mountains at Greenville or Raleigh or wherever,
load up in a loads, and then we just brought
shruckload and truckload of stuff back. I mean I remember
Murphy one, we needed generators really bad, and he's like, well,
send you a truckload. I'm thinking like and a semi
truck pulled over one hundred dollars or the generators on it.
So I was just it was just I was literally
humbled every day of how generous everyone was.
Speaker 1: Well, it's one of these things in every disaster that
I have covered over twenty years in media, it's it's
always the same, which is so many people want to help,
they just don't know how, and so giving them, you know,
the focus or the target, and then they they just
they want to pour everything into that thing. And so
I always look at sort of what my role is
like that certain entities and say, I trust these guys.
I trust this organization they're doing this kind of work.
And one of the things I like about Excel College
is that they're they're organizing volunteer trips, which like some
people can't donate money, but they can donate some time.
They can get together with some people and go up
there and they can do some stuff to help. And
if you can't do that, there's also go up and visit,
be a tourist, pump some money into the local economy.
That's a really big deal as well, because these businesses
were just devastated and a lot of people think that,
you know, it's all still closed down and a lot
of I was talking to Corey Valancourt's from the Smoky
Mountain News and earlier this week, and you know, he
was pointing out like there are some areas that were
completely untouched. It's so bizarre that there are some areas
that are right. Yeah, exactly, Like just because you happen
to be on this side of the mountain, you were fine,
and then right around the bend, you're just wiped out.
And so there are still a lot of businesses that
are open that need support, and a lot of people
think they can't go up there. Sean, I'm gonna hold
you over through the break to do our second segment
if you don't mind, I appreciate your time. And by
the way, is there uh? I mentioned Nextel College and
you mentioned the Better Together Coalition. Are there any websites
you want to direct people too if they want to help.
Speaker 2: I mean the Growth squad, dot Org, Mercury One, Excel College, Like, uh,
those are all the the main Like I said, any
of them, we don't care where it comes in from.
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I'm chatting with Sean Hendrix and he's he's located down
in eastern North Carolina, Greenville, North Carolina, but did a
lot of work and has been doing a lot of
work to help the folks in western North Carolina. Operation
Shelter was what he set up. It's now kind of
been brought under sort of a coalition called the Better
Together Coalition, and I wanted to talk with you about
sort of the status of the relief efforts that are ongoing.
I know and we cover you know, the legislative action
where you know, relief funding from the state, the federal government,
packages and all of that what are you seeing with
the the pace of donations now that we are, what
nine months out from the disaster.
Speaker 2: It's I mean it's one one thousand. It's a trickle,
it's you know, it's just doesn't make the new cycle.
I used to compost something and it would get millions
of use because I mean it was it was in
every new everybody was interested. It was talk. You know,
we're up against like World War three right now, you know,
right made to other things, you know, and also too
to be fair, when came in, uh, you know, the
cleanup effort really got underway. Things started getting restored, and
we're now down to that kind of death by a
thousand paper cuts. You know. It's it's all the leftover stuff.
And so it's not big, big stories. And I think,
you know, people have a lot of open the new administration,
and rightfully so they did a lot, but you know,
in their mind, okay, government's here, it's done, but it
just doesn't work that way. That's the big infrastructural fixes
that we needed. But you know, we've still got you know,
retired couples that were living on a fixed income that
the bridge to the house was thirty thousand dollars got
washed away. There's just not a government fund for private bridges.
The way that government would fix that is to take
an easement to process everybody's property and put one government
own bridge. Yet, well that's going to take who knows
how many years to get everybody to breed to and
that's the current plan. I understand where they're coming from.
They can't maintain maybe responsible for all these private bridges,
but at the end of the day, it's it's still
a lot of individual need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and the bridge is thing. It's interesting you
mentioned that people who don't sort of drive the back
roads in the mountains may not be aware of just
how many bridges there are, because it's not like you know,
the flat landers where we are, where you got curb
and gutter and it's all you know, drainage and everything
underneath the road and it all washes into the treatment
plants or out to the rivers and stuff up there.
It's all just like you know, gravel roads. So a
lot of them are paved, but the drop offs to
the side, it's they're just like these little gullies that
are used to move the water as quickly as possible
and so people just build these bridges across and it's
like every driveway has a bridge almost those all got washed.
Speaker 2: Where you see a culvert in eastern North Carolina is
basically a bridge in western North Carolina.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and so it's a huge problem, and so
we keep you know, trying to get people to you know,
remember what's happening in western North Carolina. You mentioned in
the last segment about your goal is to do three
hundred and fifty homes and is that is that what
you're so is that the pace that you are working
at or is that the goal that you're stretching for?
What's that number? Pace?
Speaker 2: Right now? That's a time I forget a shout out
Operation Blessing. They're part of this as well. There's a
lot of names, and I want to make sure I
honor everyone who's doing so much. But but yeah, that's
what we're on pace. But a lot of those are
just like new Drywall, Bowldy, like Flory, not that that's
a small thing, but it's you know, uh, and so
it's all over the place of what you know considers
the restoration. But houses are unlivable until they are and
the volunteers can do a lot of that work. But
then we get into houses or businesses that need electric, Well,
you can't just take a group of volunteers and do
electrical want of house. It's just not the way it works.
So now we've got to come up with thirty grand
to rewire a business. And that's where a lot of
the Operation Shelters Ash went to. Obviously there's a lot
of it, but just a relief effort. But then we
have a house where rebuilding for Christine. We announced that
on NewsNation. We building a house is not cheap and
not free. The materials not free, but like precision walls,
they're making us like an insane deal for these prefabbed
walls and everybody's really trying to help, but it's, you know,
you still got to buy screws and wire. It's just
there's a still a monetary cost and it's just we
get just enough, it feels like, and it's it's we're
always just need a little bit more, but we're making
it work. And again, if it wasn't for the big organizations,
none of this would be happening because like Mercury one
is just a absolute monster when it comes to getting
things done for us, the same with World Vision. But
you know, as for the government money, we just don't
see it because we're not we're not one of the
big NGO partners tight end with all politicians. That money
just doesn't make it to us.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I've been a Yeah, Mercury One is awesome. I've
been a donor to that organization for probably a decade now.
They just do awesome work. Yeah, everywhere they go. I'm
always impressed with the work that those guys do. If
the radio thing doesn't work out, I might just go
work for them or something.
Speaker 2: But so are in their studio in Dallas. Yeah, phenomenal.
Do you ever get a chance to go visit that's
they got an amazing that's the Blaze media side. But yeah,
you also got a great museum there. It's definitely worth
a trip.
Speaker 1: That's good to all right, good to know. I'll put
it on the bucket list. Yeah. So I also saw
you were at the I saw your Twitter feed and
you were over at the North Carolina Republican Party convention
this past weekend, and so I wanted to ask you why.
But also I thought you made a really good point.
You were calling out some counties that didn't have anybody there,
and it goes to I keep telling people, if good
competent people do not stand up and volunteer their time
to help, you know, may maintain this infrastructure of government
or civic organizations, then you'll be governed by bad incompetent people.
I understand there's a lot of other things you could
be doing, but people need to be involved in stuff.
So why did you Why were you there? Are you?
Are you in? Are you involved in Republican politics? You're
getting involved in it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm a delicate I was a delegate, but it's
exactly what you said. I saw such an utter failure
of government. I was like, Okay, why is this? Well,
there's incompetent people. Why is that? Because, well, the people
that are competent or busy. But it's like you said,
it's on us to go get involved. And you know,
we got counties without representation, and it's there's you need
people who know how to get things done, and it
aren't there because of the politicans. Make everybody's life better.
Not to be Oh, I'm sure this person that you know,
I don't care. Just get it done. And you're right
if you want to get involved that starts at the
low level. Getting involved. You know, worry about federal politics
has very little to do with your county school board.
All this stuff. You can get involved in it make
real change. And guess what feeds into the federal system.
Local to state, state a federal So you get got
trash in, you get trash out, right, So we're going
to put better people in the system so they can
rise up and start running things at a federal level too.
It is a it's a bottom up solution. You can't
just inject yourself. I can't just go run, as much
as people want me to, I can't just go run
for governor. Right, it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: That maybe, Yeah, no, you're exactly right. It's sort of
the farm team, you know. But it is the place
where you can actually have the most direct impact. You
have more control at that local level than at a
national level. Congressman Dan Bishop, I've known him since he
was a county commissioner here in Charlotte, and I would
talk with him about it, and he's like, Dude, you
get up there and it's four hundred and thirty five
people in Congress, Like, you can't get stuff done up there.
When you were a county commissioner, you could get stuff done.
And so it's just if good people, competent people step
forward at the local level. And if you're really good
and you're really competent, then yeah, you could advance up
and go into the you know, go into larger offices
and then have more of an impact. But you got
to know how to do that, and you learn that
at the local level. So Sean, I appreciate you spending
some time. Again, I'm grateful for all the work that
you're doing to help the people western North Carolina. Sincerely,
good for you, Good on you, and hope to have
you on the show at any point in the future.
You need anything, you'll let me.
Speaker 2: Know, all right, So good, thank you, all right.
Speaker 1: Thank you. That's Sean Hendrix. I appreciate your time.
Speaker 2: All right.
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producer when I was afternoons and now he does product.
He's the producer for Mark Show. And they were just
honored with a Service Excellence Award. They flew them up
to DC and for their coverage in the wake of
Hurricane Helene. They lived at that studio for four days.
They couldn't even get out, and they were about to
run out of fuel in the generator because the road
that leads to the studio it's probably like a I
don't know, an eighth of a mile maybe, and it's
through the woods and so like dozens of trees had
fallen across this road, and they were like, we can't
get fuel into the site in order to fill up
the generator, and Mark and Tank could not get out.
So they were living on We had a in the
break room. There was a cupboard that had various assortments
of shelf stable product that I believe it amounted to
basically like chili dogs or something like being a sausages
with some chili whatever. And that's what they lived on
for four days. Up there maybe some packets of ketchup
and stuff. And so they said they were talking about
it on their on their rate because they went they
blew out all commercials. They went live twenty four to
seven and they they put the call out like we
can't get fuel in for the generator. We're gonna we're
gonna run out of fuel and then we're going to
be off air. And they had guys come in with
chainsaws and clear that road so they could get the
fuel in, so they could keep the station on the
air like sort of like double O seven style disarming
the bomb, you know, filling up the generator when there
was like no time left. And so kudos to them,
congratulations to them, but also their families that people don't
realize this when when we come in, when anybody in
radio comes in to work those types of disasters, it
is very difficult on the families because we leave our
family at home to come here, and if we are here,
we may not be able to get home. And so
I want to shout out to to Brandy and to
why am I drawing a blank on Tank's wives. I
know her name, I'm just I just drew a blank
on her name. Andy good lord, Oh my goodness. I
worked with them and I knew him for eight years anyway,
and Brandy and Andy, oh, I just realized that. Now,
Brandy and Andy, that's funny. And uh and the kids
for letting their dads do that. A story at Inside
Climate News by Lisa Sword last month, the North Carolina
Division of Emergency Management fired a subcontractor that had been
founded by top officials at Rebuild NC, the now discredited
state agency that botched response efforts after Hurricanes Matthew and
Florence in twenty sixteen and twenty eighteen. The company is
called Path Built. It had been hired to work on
disaster recovery in western North Carolina. Yeah, so the people
that ran Rebuild NC and utterly failed to rebuild NC
after the two hurricanes. They then left the agency, started
their own company, and then got a contract in under
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a lip syncing air guitar uh Millie Vanilli kind of performance,
like complete with the like on the knees, sliding across
the floor deal. Not like choreographed like it was meant
to be, but like they drank too much. Oh I
believe that, and then we're like screaming Living on a prayeranos.
They were from up in you know, Jersey area. It
was a little it was a little disturbing really. Well,
they had mullets so well, I mean really, you know,
they were in style once upon a time. Yeah, this
was recent though, this was like within the last five years,
what well seven years or so? Well, you know, yeah,
so but never I've never had Metallica played at a wedding.
Did you have Metallica played at your wedding? No, like
even the reception.
Speaker 3: No, we had a classy, super classy.
Speaker 1: Are you saying Metallica is not classic?
Speaker 3: It is classy for the right venue.
Speaker 1: Now it's not a concert. Was that? Did you ask
your wife can we blame it? And she she would
have said she vetoed that.
Speaker 4: She would have said yes, she'd have been like, yeah,
of course, let's blame me, Telly. No, this was one
of those like kind of sinatrac kind of music kind
of things that.
Speaker 1: Is classic, class that is classic. I did see. I
was not invited to this wedding, but I did see
a wedding where from the church to the reception hall
they were escorted by various local mascots like from the
high school or something, from businesses, from sports sports teams.
Really yeah, there was like there was like half a
dozen of these mascots that walked them down the streets.
I think this was up in like Philadelphia or Pittsburgh
or something fantastic. They walked them down the street. And
then when they walked in, you know, like when the
bride and groom walked into the reception. Huh. They the
mascot like walked them in, like was standing between the
bride and groom holding both of their hands and they
all walked in together.
Speaker 3: While that is bizarre, Yes, that is not cool.
Speaker 1: I would I would not be a fit. It was
like a business too, Like you don't even know the mascot,
you know, it's like.
Speaker 4: Tom's plumbing right with the dirty with the dirty plunger
in his hand.
Speaker 1: Now, I'm kind of curious how the call went, like, Hey,
I'm getting married, Oh can I can I rent your
mascot for our wedding? Resists?
Speaker 3: Of course they're probably getting paid. Yeah, they're getting they're
getting paid for this.
Speaker 1: What's the hottest wedding you've ever been to? Not like
sexy hot, but like temperature hot.
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, Cape Cod back in like two ninety seven,
Cape Cod ninety seven summer summer.
Speaker 1: Suits oh outdoors heavy suits, yes, oh yes, yes, I
mean it was really brutal, how about you July? Yeah,
South Carolina. Outside suits, no bride took two laps around
the entire outdoor. Were seated area in a horse drawn
carriage that went about one mile an hour. Wow, so
we're just cooking. Reception hall quote unquote was the little
plantation house because it was like on this old plantation
or whatever.
Speaker 3: H that's great for them, for them, for the.
Speaker 1: In the house. It was such a small hall that
only the wedding party and family were in there. They
set up a large tent outside, which just trapped all
the heat, so it was hotter in the tent. We left,
are you kidding?
Speaker 3: Made we never?
Speaker 1: We left. We saw the we saw the ceremony.
Speaker 3: We you got to wring out your shirt on the
way home.
Speaker 1: Literally, that's terrible. It was brutal. I was not planning
to ask you any of this, but Metallica prompted it,
so I did want to ask you this. Have you
heard of Denise Casper, Obama judge who has now decided
that Trump's executive order requiring all voters in federal electtion
to be citizens. She says that's illegal, No, it's not,
and she implemented an injunction really blocking the implementation of
that executive order.
Speaker 4: Wow, wow, you know, can I just tell you we
have to go back to the seventies, right, the injunction junction?
What's your function? Oh yeah, the after school that's what
we gotta do. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's what we need.
Speaker 1: I'm a bill. How I became a law thing? Was
it his schoolhouse rocks? The school house rocks? Yeah, yeah,
that's right. So this is on Twitter. We've got judges
removing Trump from command of the army.
Speaker 3: Judge is going to remove him from the command of
the army.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, until the Ninth Circuit of all Circuits stepped
in and said, whoa, whoa, my word, right, even that's
too much, even that's too far. They were like, no,
he's allowed to do this, but we'll have a hearing. Right,
So they're going to have a hearing on this. But
you had the lower court judge. Do you know who
that lower court judge was that said that he couldn't
send the National Guard there ruled for Gavin.
Speaker 3: Newsom, Judge Bosberg.
Speaker 1: No, he flew out to San Francisco the issue the injunction. No,
it's a guy by the last name of I think
his first name is Charles's last name Briar ring a
bell Oh, the Briar of the Briar, the Briar Fancial Clan. Wow. Yes,
Stephen Briar, Stephen bres Son, Wow? Who issued there? The
dude is eighty three? And where to believe that? He
wrote like some forty page ruling in an hour?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: But no, but the upside, No, the ice cream is delicious.
Speaker 1: Mint chocolate chip, chocolate chocolate chip, one hundred per chocolate
chocolate chip.
Speaker 3: Who could have used that? In South Carolina?
Speaker 1: It would never have survived because they had no refrigeration outside.
It was brutal.
Speaker 3: Just put a lot of salt around it, all.
Speaker 1: Right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so
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