You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. The
MAVs game was wild last night. Get to that at seven plus something weird
that happened in a college basketball game. It's ever good on the coach has
to go up to the get the get the crowd microphone and go hey everyone,
I'm right here. Everyone stop doing this at seven. Remind everyone they
live in Cincinnati, not Cleveland. Yeah, that's the best one. And
Sammy wish that was sam one. That was a weird one in a NFL
game. Yeah, we have to yell at the grab the mic at ANFL
game. I might trying to find that and grab that And is that hard
to do? Feels like it like just to work? Why was there a
microphone? You gotta good? Well, you know they're at the I guess
for the national anthem singer. Like how how quickly can you get a micro
a live mic to the entire HT and T stadium for instance? And man,
I'll tell you, the world of AV always continues to impress me.
Depends on where you work. Sometimes you work at places where the AV continues
to disappoint you. I don't know, look behind you. How long has
that TV been out of commission. It's windy, and that's a part of
the most important thing in the world. And that's part of the reason why
we don't have a Direct TV situation right now, because the wind keeps blowing
the satellite off the room. I'm a real off the roof. Yeah,
it's kind a pile of satellites. Yeah, a call into the building.
They have a twelve hour availability to be here. Well, we'll be here
from time to eight am and eight pm. I love how put another satellite
up there. The satellite companies like Direct TV and Dish Network because their technology
is always evolving and their hardware is getting upgraded. That if you have an
account for a long time and then maybe you discontinue it or you want to
get the get it updated, they just leave the damn old dish up there.
I've seen houses in my neighborhood with like four dishes and they're all the
same, just like you can see the graduation of technology as it goes,
and it's just it's all like a dish museum on top of these homes.
They was like, I just keep it. Did you ever have an old
friend with a real satellite dish. Oh my, yes, you guys have
that. I didn't have one, but my best friend in high school happened.
I think I've told you guys this story. That his parents always kept
it at one end of the satellite because you had to, I mean,
to dial that thing in. You had to rotate it around to get certain
channels. And it took a long time to get three minutes to get from
ESPN to Nickelodeon. Seriously, it was serious, like I'm not kidding minutes,
and yeah, you had your coordinates, and his parents always kept it
on religious programming, so it was like the Bible Network and all that crap.
But we found out that if you explored and went one hundred and eighty
degrees from north to south, from heavy to hell, we could watch what
we called back then the screw channel. Yes, that was the first time
I ever saw, No, the first time I ever saw Pinnatrociones at your
friend's house, and I remember we dialed in. I don't know, he
kind of gets pixelated and then it's diald in. There it is, and
we're just sitting there going what is this? We're probably thirteen fourteen, Yeah
you're ready, Yeah, you felt strange. Yeah, it's like kind of
weird. You know, you felt like you knew something. It was something
you weren't supposed to be watching. But we got over that pretty quickly,
to the point where his younger brother would be on lookout for if his parents
would go out, you know, and you could see the highway. He
lived kind of out in the country and you could see the highway from Kicking
Dust a mile away. Yeah, and he'd see the headlights of their car
coming in. They go, Mom and Dad are coming in like this.
And the goal was to get the satellite to stop back to Jesus' lay Back
to Heaven the second they pulled into the drive, because if they pulled in
and opened the door and they heard that, they would know they knew that
we were watching the screw channel. That's amazing. Huh. Yeah, we
had a big one and it was weirdly r to the side of the yard.
You know. I had a golf ball through it one time. Didn't
affect it too much, just had a big hole in it, just bladed
one. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Is it still there? No,
that's gone. Yeah, I got it removed years probably twenty years ago
now. But it was there for the first five, six, seven,
eight years of my life. I remember the channel. G five nine was
the ESPN and G five fourteen was ESPN two five fifteen HBO, G five
sixteen Cinemax. But then if you wanted to go to like Nickelodeon, it
was like S four twenty three, whole nother galaxy. And you're just d
Now in my head, I'm like, like New York East fans in Bristol,
and then you gotta get to Nickelodeon. It's gott to move to Florida.
And it's not what was happening, but that's what you thought was happening
as a kid. That's why it took so long. It's got to get
to Florida. So these satellites are constantly orbiting, right if everyone else is
whipping in a circle around the planet, I guess. But the definition of
orbit, right, yes, well, I just never thought about that before.
It's we dow that if you're using a out so then the satellite you're
using changes. I know, we don't and as we learned, we don't
know this stuff. Well, as we learned the other day, there's four
nineteen million satellites up there, not. There are not nineteen million. It
was like fifteen thousand or fifteen hundred. It was like nine thousand. Yeah,
nine active satellites, fifteen million. Let's support Texas and the most important
thing in the world. I want to write a new one of those riety
I love it. We need a hip hop one. Wake me a country.
It is funny. Yeah, I know. He's like, all right,
well, there goes my evening. Go dance with a thought of ours
that changes to eighty four hundred active satellites and various Earth orbits. Make it
reggae right now? Do reggae? Hi everyone, Hello, all right.
I woke up to this news this morning. Being a native Native Ish Texan
and coming from this area. Kevin, you somewhat too. We got a
pretty serious situation unfolding out in our very own Texas Panhandle because early this morning,
a massive series of wildfires swept across that area near Amarillo, which prompted
evacuations, cut off power to thousands, forced the at least temporary shutdown of
Okay. Didn't know this nuclear weapons facility. As strong winds, dry grass,
and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blazes, so an unknown number of homes
and other structures in Hutchinson County were damaged or destroyed, and the main facility
that disassembles America's nuclear arsenal paused operations Tuesday night. They said they're going to
reopen for normal work today and that employees of the plant should go ahead and
plan on showing up for their scheduled shifts now. Our Governor Greg Abbott issued
a disaster deckl for sixty counties because the largest blaze, which they're calling the
Smokehouse Creek fire, has burned almost five hundred square miles. Dang, it's
more. That is more than twice its size since the fire started on Monday,
so this has been going on for a couple of days. Felt like,
you know, it's contained, we can manage this. But I think
because we've had ninety or near ninety degree temperatures and winds kind of ramp things
up overnight, they're having a difficult time containing this thing. And a lot
of folks have been evacuated from their homes. A lot of these homes have
been destroyed or at least damaged. They don't know quite yet what may have
caused the blaze, but it has torn through some sparsely populated counties, and
they're surrounded by these rolling planes, so there's really no mountainous topography out there
to kind of constrict the wind, so it's just rolling through. They call
it the rolling planes for a reason. Kevin, Yeah, keV. Now
the weather forecast looks somewhat favorable for firefighters because we as we woke up today
at fifty degrees. When I went to bed last night it was seventy three.
We've got cooler temperatures, less wind out there. I believe it's all
moving here, and we got possible rain tomorrow. But for now, the
situation's pretty dire in a lot of areas up there. The plant, which
is the nuclear Assemble nuclear weapon assembly plant, it's called the plan Text plant,
which when I looked at that, I thought, what is that?
Like a vegetarian tampon? Pan text? Pan Text it is. Yeah,
it's northeast of a Mario that's probably Panhandle in Texas, mixed together probably Amario,
which means yellow. Have you been to a Mario plenty? Have you?
Have you? Yeah? How is it going on there? I think
that's the largest Texas city I've never been to. Really, Yeah? St.
Angelo? You have been there, Yes, you have. Oh you've
probably driven through it to go to Yeah, yeah, I've done Abilene,
been Abilene, Waco, Yeah of course. Oh yeah. I used to
love of course high school football for Fox Sports Southwest. Every Friday, I
would travel all over the state, all these towns and cities. It was
really great my first couple of years of living in Texas. I got to
see a big chunk of the state. And we flew to Lubbock and we
did a game in damn it, small town west of Lubbock. Tiny,
but never got up to Amarillo. Because you got a good feel for small
town Texas. The Yeah, a lot of town squares, Yeah, a
lot of dairy queens, a lot of dairy queens, a lot of assips.
Well cause he's never seen in Alsips. It was the dq big game
of the week. Ah, So we'd have to shoot at the local dairy
queen every single Friday. Like that's where we did the first part of the
video before we went to the game. So I got I literally went to
a dozens and dozens of dairy queens in small Texas town anyway, never been
there. It does sound boring, Yeah, pretty boring. That's all going
on out there. Yeah, they do have in an Amarillo that has that
big ass seventy two ounce steak that if you eat the whole thing you get
it for free. Yes, yeah, that's a great idea. Will Ferrell
stopped there last year or something. So this this pan text plant, which
is northeast of Amarillo, they evacuated non essential staff from the site on Tuesday
night out of an abundance of caution. Now, this plant is has long
for a long time been the main United States site for both assembling and disassembling
atomic bombs. They completed theirs. Their most recent bomb that they completed was
in nineteen ninety one, but they have dismantled thousands since then. And early
this morning they tweeted that the facility is open for normal day shift operations and
that all personnel were to report for duty according to their assigned schedule. In
Borger, which is a community of about thirteen thousand, it's north of Pantechs.
Hutchinson County Emergency Management Services personnel planned a convoy to take evacuees from one
shelter to another ahead of expected power outages and overnight temperatures well below freezing man
we bitch about the weather in the DFDUB. The weather in the Panhandle is
an effing wild card. Yes, you can go from three degrees to three
hundred degrees in what seems like eighteen hours. It is bananas out there and
wind, and it's flat and it's boring. So that's why they put a
facility like this there, because it makes sense. I didn't know that far
from well, if the things go wrong, you're not killing that many people,
I guess. I don't know. I didn't know that we had a
nuclearigh like that and has no idea. I'm shocked me. I was like,
yeah, it makes sense because you imagine that it would be in New
Mexico, Arizona. You know, we think of Nevada a lot. In
Utah, I'm not surprised, but yeah, Now, the city that I
saw come up time and time again when kind of looking through these reports was
a city called Canadian, which is a town of about two thousand people.
So we're looking at you know, high school. Yeah, yeah, I'm
about kind of like the size of the towns that Kevin and myself grew up
in. They're about one hundred miles northeast of Amarillo and later on Tuesday,
they urged anyone who remained in the city and the town to shelter in place
or at the high school gym because roads were closed. They couldn't even get
out. So that because I read had one article that said that the city
of people in the city of Canadian were basically trapped. So it's like,
you know, just stay where you're at. My uncle lives in Bushland,
which is just a few miles west of Amarillo. Like I remember when we
went to go see him, it was like you were going to Ambillo,
Like even though the name of his towns Bushland. I just texted him,
are you safe? Because I don't get when you look at the map and
you really see where it's at, you go, whoa, that's and that
could go anywhere too, but doesn't it's kind of north that Pampa area too,
jeez. As late as last night, the fires were twenty to twenty
five miles from the city of Amarillo because wind was blowing wildfire smoke into the
city. This could affect people. That's a pretty big city with respiratory issues,
so you think about folks in nursing homes and hospitals or just people that
are you know at home with some have difficulty breathing already. This isn't going
to make matters any better for them. And then finally, let's see the
National Weather Service issued red flag warnings and fire danger alerts for several other states
through the midsection of the country. As winds over forty miles per hour,
combined with the warm temps, s, low humidity, and dry winter vegetation,
they make conditions right for wildfire. So they're even alerting other states like,
Hey, it's a pretty bad down here, you might just want to
be pretty vigilant. It says it's burned through three hundred thousand acres more than
four hundred and fifty square miles, and was zero percent contained this morning.
Yeah, the fire is now twice the size it reached Monday. Now,
I saw I saw a some photos with a fire station that had flower mound
on it, and I just assume there's a flower mound near that area,
or there's a fire department called the Flower Mound Fire Department, because and if
not, then you've got fire departments from other cities as far away from the
DFW, you know, making their ways out there to help out. That's
very common, very common. I was amazed, like we had a big
one in only last summer, and just as wild being in town while that
was happenings, just seeing like which tall falls gram and then all the small
towns they're fire trucks in all of them. Different designs, yeah, different.
Yeah. Man. I know we always talk about and I know several
of us probably have people in Q to do this segment, But ask a
blank. I think we've had who have we had on before? Think we've
done too many? But did we do a couple when we were on Afternoons?
I feel like we did. But man, ask a firefighter, because
man, there's something about the culture of firefighters and that world that those dudes
reside in. It's just so unique and they truly behave like actual brothers.
Yeah, you know the brother The amount of the amount of firefighters just from
this far south that responded to you know, the attacks on nine to eleven,
I mean firefighters from all over the country that were just we got to
go. There was like a call to duty. Well, and like for
the it's unlimited how big fire can be. Yeah, Like I think for
a police response, I suppose there's a limit to how many you would need,
but no one's equipped to handle a fire like this. Maillo. I
used to know the fire chief in Flagstaff, Arizona, and they would do
that so much. They'd be off from California and they're just ready to go
anywhere in Arizona, anywhere in a neighboring state if they're needed, because you
have to just congregate together because no one's equipped handle anything three hundred thousands acres.
You know, it's just not even you couldn't prepare for that if you
paid everyone in the city to be a fireman, like Malcolm has been.
My almost three year old son has been obsessed with firefighters for a long time,
but man recently the uptick and his interest is incredible. He went as
a firefighter on Halloween and kind of developed a renewed interest in it. For
seven or eight days straight from the moment he woke up in the morning.
He wanted to wear his fireman uniform until he went to bed at night.
It was only when temperatures reached ninety one degrees that we told him it's like,
you cannot wear this stick. Yeah, you simply cannot waste switch back
and wanting to grow up to be a nudist, right, I'm just sitting
naked in the backyard with a popsicle. Yeah, but he you know,
I can't. I don't know if I told you guys this, but we
drove by an area and our home where firefighters were training. They were tearing
down this church that was up for a demo anyway, and we stopped and
watched for like thirty minutes, and he looked at me and goes, I
want to do that. That's cute. I would you know, Look,
I'm sure they don't get paid a lot and the dangers involved in that,
but dude, if he ended up, you know, that's the career path,
noble job. Nothing would make me more proud if that was his passion
was to be a firefighter. Yeah, totally fine with that. Would I'd
support anything he wanted to do, But that would that would kind of warm
your heart in a special way if your kid ended up like really developing a
true passion for that type of work. But text firefighters would love you,
guys. Extra Man says each department has a wildland team that will get sent
to these kinds of disasters, including the Texas Task Force. Well, I
CA in small towns it's a lot of volunteer firefighters too. Sure. Yeah.
And the other thing that you've responded to another text for interesting, He
said, He's from the Panhandle. My mom works for that nuclear nuclear bomb
facility, lives in the Panhandle. They were on standby for evacuation and Kevin
asked if he could call in and he said I can't right now. Mentioned
the town of Canadian was surrounded by fires as of last night. They couldn't
even evacuate, which is really ef and scary. But he also added that
pan texts that facility the only facility in the country where the bomb, where
the bomb and the detonator are in the same facility. Wow, right here
in Texas, Texas. My uncle just sent me an update too, he
said, Uh, Uncle Craig, report live from Uncle Craig, Uncle Craig.
Lots of smoke and a little ash. The only evacuations in Amroller in
the northern part, and we live in the south. Closest fire was twelve
miles away though, okay, twelve miles away, that's nuts. Keep an
eye on that Sitch Air tractor might get the call today. Oh are you
gonna have to scramble to fly SORTI is that why you're wearing a flight suit
today? Yeap, in case you're needed. Yeah, you guys didn't see
the plane I put out front in the lawn. Do they do the water
scoop out of a lake and don't? That's a bag? Yes, that's
so cool. How is that typically a hell? That's a helicopter though,
that does that. No, they've built planes planes, and it's that they
have other chemicals that they drop on too. But if you cheat it and
there's a lake, we're just gonna scoop and scoop and dump. Yeah,
it's on all the TV. It's amazing. It's about the big story in
the It's you know, it's the big story in the world today. Yeah,
stay on alert. You never know when you're gonna get the call to
hop on air tractor and get out there and fight some fire. You know
what. You're our very own little master of the air, aren't you sure?
Is? Look at you insisted on us installing the fire pole in here
the ground floor. We all tiptoe passed. I feel like that's how we
have to get off of our floor these days with all the constructions. Exactly,
we guys take care of that Dalmatian while I take off. Okay,
coming up next MAVs. Oh boy, it was a wild one. We've
got amazing calls. It was one of the best NBA games of the year,
no doubt. Maybe ever put it and will next time. Ice haven't
one. The free