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It is time to leave your warriors outside and laugh
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with us inside the treehouse. I'm Daniel Mallley, along with
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Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma on a Tuesday, October fifteenth,
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twenty twenty four. I hate to admit it, but yesterday,
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after speaking and learning about the man that was found
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thirty miles off the coast of Florida linging to a
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cooler in the wake of Hurricane Milton, I spent more
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time trying to find out the brand of cooler that
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saved his life than I care to admit. Two things.
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Two things. Number one, I still don't know what brand
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of cooler it is. But the second thing is I
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have learned a little bit more about this captain. Hey,
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are you guys ready for this?
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Yeah?
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Cruise with the Coast Guards Southeast Division rescued a boat
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captain last Thursday after the man got stuck off the
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west coast of Florida as Hurricane Milton approached and made landfall.
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The boat captain, along with a crew member, had previously
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been airlifted from his vessel on Monday afternoon, around twenty
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miles off the coast of Saint Petersburg. That's according to
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the Coastguard. So relive this scenario again.
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Ready.
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Yesterday we learned that the Coastguard rescued a man clinging
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to a cooler thirty miles off the coast of Florida.
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And then I found out this was the second time
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this boat captain needed to be rescued.
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Oh I didn't know that.
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Yeah, So back to the story I was just sharing
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with you. The boat captain, along with a crew member,
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had previously been airlifted from his vessel Monday afternoon, so
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they found him on the cooler Thursday. On Monday, he
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was on his boat that they pulled him off of.
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So here's what happens. Twenty miles off the coast of
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Saint Petersburg. He and his crew member had been airlifted
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from his vessel. Okay, that was Monday afternoon, But he
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went back to the boat early on Wednesday morning, which
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is about fifteen hours before for Milton made landfall, to
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try to bring the boat back to shore. When he
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wasn't heard from by noon on Wednesday, the owner of
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the boat called the coast Guard, probably saying hey, go
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find my boat, and if you find that captain, fine,
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but please bring back my boat.
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Trey.
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You following all this.
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So he is a captain, but it wasn't his boat, correct.
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That's actually a common thing. This is a it's a
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fishing vessel, so it's actually pretty common for there to
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be a boat owner and maybe they rent out the
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boat for charters and they let someone else captain it,
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so that that sounds like what this situation was. According
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to a press release from the Coast Guard, watchstanders were
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able to make radio contact with the idiot captain that
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I put in the idiot part, who reported the rudder
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was fouled with a line and became disabled during his
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transit back to port. Conditions quickly worsened, as they do
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in the middle of a hurricane. He was instructed to
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don a life jacket and activate his beacon, but the
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Coastguard lost radio contact with the idiot captain less than
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a few hours before the hurricane hit the coast. The
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following day, the boat captain was found thirty miles off
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Longboat Key, just south of Tampa, clinging to a cooler okay,
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according to Lieutenant Commander Dana Grady, the Command Center chief
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of Sector Saint Petersburg, which sounds cool on a business card.
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Was quoted was quoted in the press release by saying,
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this man survived a nightmare scenario for even the most
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experienced mariner to understand the severity of the hurricane conditions.
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We estimate he experienced approximately seventy five to ninety mile
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prour wins twenty to twenty five foot sees for an
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extended period of time to include overnight. He survived because
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of a life jacket, is emergency position indicating locator beacon,
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and a cooler of brand origin. We still don't know,
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but there is just a little bit more. According to
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the Coastguard, they said, we do a lot of searches
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for people in the water, so to get to have
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a success story like this is not as common as
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we'd like it. Uh. And we were all very very excited.
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We couldn't believe it, honestly that he was okay. So
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now you've got a stunned coastguard like, wow, we found this,
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this never happened. Oh man.
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I like when the when they're pulling him back up,
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it's like you again.
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Yeah, Mike, this bump, blow it up. Welcome board again.
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Don't don't forget the cheese story. According to Lieutenant Ian
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logan the helicopter's pilot that found the idiot captain when
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trying to figure out and do a search grid, he says,
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it's a lot of math that determines where we're going
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to go and search because we have limited resources, limited fuel.
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The crew's rescue swimmer asked the pilots how the system worked,
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which I find odd. I would think the rescue swimmer
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would already know that, but I guess that's a need
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to know basis. Anyway, the swimmer asked if they could
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differentiate between an aircraft and a personal locator beacon. They
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opted to trace the new signal, relying on directional bursts
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that came roughly once a minute, according to one of
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the pilots. As we were turning to fly back, we
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started honing in on getting the signal. A uh wait,
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where to go a stronger signal. We got a relative
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bearing marker in the opposite direction, so we turned around
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and started going towards the last vector, the last bearing
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line that we received. As we were trucking that way,
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our swimmer noticed some debris or an object about two
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o'clock on the aircraft. At first it was hard to
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make out. Then as we got closer, we saw the
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arms reach up in the air in realzed at that
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moment we had found the idiot captain floating clinging to
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a big fishing cooler. And there I had my clue.
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It's not just a random cooler, but a fishing cooler.
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Because now we're back to the origin of why I'm
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so curious. I really wanted to find out what brand
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of cooler this was. I have narrowed it down. Okay,
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do I believe either the Yeti tunder sixty five or
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the Coleman three sixteen series marine cooler because I've looked
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at every single photo that there is of this rescue,
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and they don't zoom in far enough to be able
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to read a brand, right, So I had to go
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based on size, and if I'm being honest, I'm not
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used to seeing things that large and white. But the
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Yeti sixty five is sixty five quartz, so it's a
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good sized cooler and it's definitely gonna be durable enough
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to hold a grown man for you know, twenty twenty
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five hours or however long it was that he was
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adrift in the ocean, because he's an idiot, So sixty
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five court capacity three inches of insulation, a rubber lid gasket,
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and an unbreakable hinge. Those are the pros. The cons
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are to the YETI sixty five. It's expensive and heavy.
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There you go now by comparison to Coleman three sixteen
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marine cooler is one hundred and fifty quarts of capacity.
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It's budget friendly, got a built in ruler, six days
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of ice retention, and anti microbial treated stain resistant interior,
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which is probably good because that way all the p
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and he was probably doing from the slashing around in
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the ocean overnight won't stain his nice white cooler.
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Yeah, I was just thinking about crabbing your pants because
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you're in the middle of the ocean. I'm sure the
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stain resistance helps.
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Therein lies a pro for the yetti because those actually
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come in you're in the tree house.
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Visit us online at treehouseonair dot com.
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Let's get Daniel Cook into the treehouse. Eight three three
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Cook DFW is the phone number to get your free
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roof inspection and to get yourself on the cooklist. The
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website cookdfw dot com. You can go there and take
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a look at some of the projects that they've done,
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and yes, you are a roofing company, Daniel, but you
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also have a lot of remodeling and restoration projects. Do you,
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guys do she sheds and man caves, because I imagine
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at your house, your lovely wife Carrie, who hates to
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be hot. She probably has her own separate shee shed.
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That's nothing but just air conditioners blowing on her twenty
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four seven.
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That is so funny, Dan. Last week I told Carrie
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I was gonna build her a walk in cooler so
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I could go put her in because it's like, no
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matter how cool, Like I get frostbite by sleeping in
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her bed. I mean, we go to sleep at night
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and I look over and she's like still a look
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like she's hot. I'm buried under covers. I got a
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shirt on, I got my shorts on, I got socks on.
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I gotta get a toboggan and put it on. And
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she's still sitting there like, oh my god, it's so hot,
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and I'm like I don't know what else to do.
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So it brings back it's like trauma almost now it's
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like wow, but yes, so we can build anything. We
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actually had a client that oneed a she said in
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the backyard with a nice polycarbonate roof.
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She kind of made it like a little.
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Greenhouse and she had little chairs out there and she
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would go out there and relax. We do a several
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patio covers, several home extensions off the backyards. So yeah,
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we're able to do all those things.
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Very very cool. So if you have a dream, uh
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Daniel Cook at COOKEDFW roofing and restoration can help make
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it possible. Or if you're just trying to get you know,
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the frost shingles off the tip of your nose and
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make your wife a walkin cooler, you can do that.
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He'll be happy to do it because he already has
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the plans ready. Eight three three Cook DFW eight three
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what was it you were saying about the Coast Guard
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rescuers of the man floating on the cooler.
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Yeah, I didn't know. So the way they presented the
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story is he went to go check on his boat.
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The boat then whatever capsized or whatever it was, and
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then he floated out to see on that cooler.
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Yeah.
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And I think now that we know the whole story,
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I think it would have been great had they come
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down from the helicopter with his arms out like Woollem
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Dafoe from Platoon and as they were coming down like
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kicked him off the cooler and then just rescued the
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cooler and taken that back up because that was the
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most important save of the day.
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Yeah, we need this cooler. This is clearly the best
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cooler in all the land, and we need we need
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to save it at all costs. This cooler. It saved
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this man in the middle of a hurricane. So we
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need to make sure let go that cooler. Let it
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let go, sir, let it go. Hey, can you bring
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down the rescue shovel?
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All right?
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He got the cooler.
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Now, No, it'd have been fantastic.
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We're gonna need the women and the children and the
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coolers first.
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Yeah, a great beer commercial where they just come down
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off the helicopter, open up the cooler, grab a Miller light.
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Hey, I'm gonna.
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Not all storm debris is bad. Sometimes you find some treasure.
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Oh God. I know that there's been lots of stuff
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going on with hurricanes, you know, with not just Milton
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but Helene, that that went across the South before it,
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all sorts of destruction and horrible things happening. He had all,
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you know, the news about some people saying that the
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federal response wasn't as strong as it should have been. Well,
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I don't think anyone that's ever gone through uh A
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hurricane aftermath has ever thought that, you know, the federal
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response was really great. I'm happy with it. No, everyone's
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usually pissed about it. And there was even speculation and misinformation.
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Perhaps in some cases maybe some of it was true.
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I don't really know, because I wasn't on the ground
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or in the water after these hurricanes to know how
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much federal response there actually was or wasn't. But I
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feel the need to at least say this, even if
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you think that FEMA's response to helping your community after
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a hurricane was lacking. When they do show up, don't
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threaten to kill them. Yes, that's all I'm saying. Whether
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the misinformation is misinformation or not, I don't know. I'm
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just saying that if people show up to help, you,
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don't shoot them. And I do have to say this
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because I saw today hurricane relief workers forced to evacuate
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due to a threat of armed militia.
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On Saturday afternoon, the Washington Post reported a US Forest