postyX - July 24, 2026


14 Year old saves drowning man with lasso


Episode Stats


Length

5 minutes

Words per minute

181.4

Word count

910

Sentence count

65

Harmful content

Toxicity

8

sentences flagged

Hate speech

7

sentences flagged


Transcript

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00:00:00.000 In this case, it was a white teenager, but it's just more white excellence, I think. 0.84
00:00:05.200 So this kid, it is. 0.67
00:00:08.660 So this kid here, a 14-year-old Montana kid, he is apparently a rodeo, wannabe rodeo star or something, which is, again, very white-coated.
00:00:19.680 He rescued a drowning man with his lasso and his rodeo skills. 0.99
00:00:26.120 Now, this was fucking based. 0.97
00:00:28.340 so i don't think this is the guy that was drowning but this is the kid with his roping skills and he 0.99
00:00:35.400 basically like he would have roped a fucking calf you know in the rodeo you know arena or whatever 0.92
00:00:42.340 he literally roped this guy after one try um he saved a man from drowning by lassoing him 0.99
00:00:49.040 like a cowboy 14 year old jory thomas was just visiting with his first throw yes
00:00:55.700 was visiting with his grandparents on their campground near Yellowstone.
00:01:00.480 Jory had his lariat to practice the roping skills he'd been learning,
00:01:03.760 and that's when he heard cries from help from the nearby river.
00:01:06.280 So let's see if we can hear him.
00:01:07.320 I'm Isabel Farts here outside of Greycliff,
00:01:09.280 where a family's quiet camping trip quickly turned into a dire rescue mission.
00:01:13.600 But the positive outcome was all thanks to the quick thinking of a 14-year-old boy
00:01:18.340 and his unlikely skill.
00:01:20.460 It started as a normal July afternoon.
00:01:22.460 Dory Thomas was camping with his family along the Yellowstone River near Graycliffe.
00:01:26.940 We come down to this campground a couple times during the summer.
00:01:30.180 But then shouting began.
00:01:31.900 All we heard was, help, help.
00:01:34.160 A flotation device had capsized, throwing four people into the river.
00:01:38.600 But one of them seemed to struggle as he floated downstream, holding on to only a cooler for support.
00:01:44.800 This turns into a tragic accident.
00:01:47.520 The 14-year-old quickly jumped into action and took off running along the riverbank.
00:01:51.680 He was moving pretty quickly. Only thing I could focus on was helping him get out of the water
00:01:56.920 because I didn't want to see anyone go in front of me.
00:02:00.140 But with him that day, Jory had brought his lariat, a skill he'd spent the year practicing.
00:02:05.360 I actually started really getting into roping this year. I went to brandings and started roping cattle then.
00:02:12.040 Never, ever brought his lariat with him before, and that day he did.
00:02:18.520 You want to throw your loop, you just want to let the coils go.
00:02:22.400 No, you know what it was, Austin, is I had two sources open.
00:02:25.260 It's the way the software's set up.
00:02:26.840 I have to mute one because otherwise it plays it through both the computer and through the browser.
00:02:30.500 So I just didn't have it set up properly.
00:02:33.100 So like a scene out of a Western, Jory used those roping instincts and threw his loop straight for the drowning man.
00:02:39.540 Luckily I caught him first try.
00:02:41.360 Paramedics and first responders arrived at the same time, and thanks to Jory, the man was headed to shore and okay.
00:02:47.580 I felt pretty good afterwards that I knew he was okay.
00:02:51.140 He comes up and he said, I think I just saved a life.
00:02:56.320 And we all said, yeah, you did.
00:02:59.120 His grandmother, Sandy Thomas, says helping others has always come naturally.
00:03:03.160 Jory believes he was there for a reason.
00:03:05.760 But that's Jory. He's always there to help somebody else.
00:03:08.820 God was trying, basically putting me in the place of all of this.
00:03:12.080 You never know when a hobby can save a life.
00:03:14.300 But for Jory, it'll be an experience he'll never forget.
00:03:17.580 I just thought I could help in cattle, not in, like, real helping humans and stuff like that.
00:03:26.260 But I'm glad I was here to help.
00:03:28.680 In Great Cliff, Isabel Sparts, MTN News. 0.60
00:03:31.620 So isn't that very white-coated and totally, like, this is something that, like, again, you know, maybe there's the outlier.
00:03:40.300 But I could not imagine. Yeah, like an Indian or, you know, black or whatever like that, even even a Chinese person, you might get lucky, but I doubt it. Right. This is inherently white coated to do this kind of stuff. He didn't have to do that. You know what I mean? And the fact that he was a kid too, and he didn't panic or anything like that. He literally launched that fucking lasso. What first shot, you know, hooks the hook the guy. 0.91
00:04:10.300 he's going to win some awards in the rodeo. I'm telling you that right now. But the point being
00:04:14.460 that like, in society nowadays, so many people just, you know, stand by and film. They're not
00:04:21.240 willing to step in to do any kind of, you know, to help or anything like that. Now, you know,
00:04:26.460 in this case, and he didn't necessarily put himself in danger. I mean, he could have the
00:04:29.740 guy could have probably, you know, if he pulled on the rope and panicked could have pulled the
00:04:32.980 kid in or something. But, you know, even when it's not like we see this all the time, right?
00:04:37.260 We see these videos of, you know, somebody being assaulted by a group of feral, you know, young YNs or whatever, blacks or whatever. 0.99
00:04:46.500 And people just stand by and film it instead of actually stepping in. 0.99
00:04:51.780 So to see something like that, like I said, again, is white coated. 0.99
00:04:54.820 I thought, what a great story to preface all the shit that we're going to have to wade through today. 0.99