So the roads were fine this morning. We actually had no problem getting in
Mike from downtown, Danny from East Dallas. I was coming through from Richardson.
No problems this morning. There are some water main breaks, including one
downtown over by Pearl Street, so that's a bit of a problem and that's
caused some ice Urkott forecasting a little bit of a higher demand this morning,
so they're doing the whole thing where I want you to conserve your energy just
a little bit to help out the grid. You know why they're doing this
to just make sure well, no, no, no, why there's a
higher demand today two twofold people start getting lax. Number Number one is yesterday
business most a lot of businesses were closed because of the holiday, so today
they're reopening, which is going to be more usage. And number two,
because Houston and you know, one of the biggest cities in the in the
country, this hit them late, so they're kind of experiencing this stuff today
for the first time. And with that big of a population, people are
cranking up their heat down there. They're getting the super cold temperatures down there
in a day after week. So okay, you know a little context.
I like that thank you. Yeah, well that's still that's good to know.
And I dipped down to sixty five last night, so it's just a
little less really, Yeah, it still be. We'll play it safe,
you know, for Urkott. Yeah, do it for Urcott. I generally
like helping the greater good. Yeah, so seventy, I went to sixty
five. I mean, and I'm cold sometimes. Look if I was,
if it was my call, I'd probably been seventy. But she was like
sixty five. I'll say this. Her and her family were impacted horribly by
the grid failure of twenty twenty one. I mean they were basically just we,
you know, whatever, whatever one dealt with if your power went out,
like debating, do we need to go out and chop down some of
our trees to put them in the fireplace. Yeah. It is kind of
pathetic that we're talking about setting our thermostats between sixty five and seventy when the
man and his wife underneath the Spring Valley Tollway bridge, their thermostat was set
at eleven last night, permanently, and we feel bad for them. There's
been a lot of you know, pipe we talked about watermain blasting, things
like that, and it'd said also some pool equipment exploded. That was just
some wild security footage. So you know, make sure your pipes are dripping
a little bit longer. We're gonna be back in the forties tomorrow. All
good, I know, a lot of schools were canceled and all had to
have stuff. Traffic fine today for the most part. There was a few
things that happened I wanted to get to though, including there's a big crashing
grapevine yesterday and this was one over by fourteen, had like eight vehicles,
including a fire truck in the crash, and that the fire truck was there
helping with another crash and then it got hit by multiple vehicles, and I
think it was damn there was I mean that that was a situation where there
was some kind of slick roads in that area at that time. Now again,
yesterday we all saw our drive in yesterday was not bad, but there
were some spots you could easily see, but it wasn't bad. But that
that happened everything everyone okay. I don't think no one passed away or anything
like that. Have we learned kind of a big thing that happened yesterday.
Through the years that if we ever break down on a major highway and you're
able to get off onto the shoulder to get away from the scene and not
sit in your car. Don't try to fix it. Don't Maybe maybe the
best you can do is pop your hood, turn on your flashers, and
find a damn gas station. I think let somebody else handle that to get
over the railing. Yeah, out of the way, run you over and
also just PSA. And I think everyone knows this, but if you don't,
you don't. You don't have to fix your own tire. You don't
have to change your own tire. There's a number on the back of your
driver's license. Call that number. They will come change your tire for you.
They will do it in a safe way. They will put up all
the safety precautions to keep cars from driving in that lane. And when you
try to tip them, they will tell you we're not allowed to take tips,
so it's free, even if you want to them, they say it's
on Well, we pay for it with their taxes, so I mean right,
yeah, But so number on your on the back of your driver's license
right there, and you just give them a call and they'll just come.
Roadside service man you guys don't have triple A. I mean, if you
want to do that, that's fine. But forty three year member, oh
wow? And yeah, that card is gold that you're looking at. You've
been driving since you were four. I got put on it when I was
a young boy. But why not you? So? Is it just cheaper?
Because why not? Or is it free? No, it's not free.
You pay for it. Why not use the thing? Is that the
back of your Texas roadside assistance that we pay for. It's not free.
We pay for it. We pay for it with our taxes. Texas As
sure as hell does. Say they're pretty quick too. They're so quick.
I've had to use them before, and it is. And I tried to
tip the guy and he said, no way, man, not allowed to
take tips. And I said, dude, just under the table here,
I'm trying to give you forty bucks. You think you're testing him though,
And he goes, no, man, what about a toe? Well you
gotta pay for a toe, right to pay for a toe? But they
will come out and change your tire. Yeah, they'll, they'll bring you
gas. They'll off a roadside assistant gas. Yes, yes, I've seen
that happen before. They just don't want the damn car on the road because
it's a bigger deal and there's more craft to clean up, and it's no
great. I don't think I ever knew that insurance will typically cover you know,
you may have a copair something like that on a toe, but yeah,
usually your insurance will handle towing. I do get with Triple A,
you get a free towing within whatever forty miles or whatever they're running here,
A hundred bucks or something something like that. I'll be as much as the
Peacock subscription that I started that I never cancel. All seven seven dollars a
months. You're gonna be paying to that to perpetuity. Also in the world
of news, there was a plane crash the other day. North Texas surgeon
and his two children died in a small plane crash Sunday afternoon in Parker County,
CESSNA three ten crash near Poolville, which is if you'll remember, yeah
that what does that near slip down Mountain where Mike McCarthy that big wheel of
cheese down and they raced down to get the big cheese and that backfired.
Hunter Lepke with the wind. I don't know if you get the wind.
Why is this guy flying a plane in on the coldest and possible snowy day.
It was a kid Sunday afternoon. He has six year old and eight
year old. He was a his name's Heath Smith, Paradise ISD School board
member. And yeah, they they landed in a pasture near a Lone Star
Road middle of the afternoon, one fifteen Sunday afternoon. Terrible, terrible story.
Don't know why. There was some more details on, you know,
but it wasn't yet freezing Sunday afternoon. It wasn't bad yet. It wasn't
below freezing, but it wasn't bad. You know. It didn't get bad
till Sunday night. I guess if this is a joy ride, I don't
understand why you would do it on a day when stuff could be frozen.
But I don't know. Yeah, no, I know, I don't know.
There was a guy shot in uptown. I'm sorry. He was shot
in downtown. There was twenty eight year old Justin Allen. He died at
the hospital Saturday. Sorry, I got bad news today, guys. Yeah,
Tuesday's the worst day of the week. But he was shot in downtown
and that was off Prather Street, South Irvy, Okay, so shot down
there, but detectives have determined that's where he was shot because they found him
off Lemon Avenue in Uptown. WHOA? How far? Is that? About
two miles? Which seems long to me? Yeah, but it seems long
but it's not. But you think it's long because of all the buildings that
are, you know, in between those two points. They still don't know
why, you know, he was shot. They don't even have an arrest,
mad or anything like that, and they don't know why or how he
made it that far from downtown to uptown. But how the detectives find that?
Was there a trail of blood? Makes you wonder they found his dead
body in uptown? Yes? WHOA? Well, I don't know he wasn't
dead yet because he died at the hospital, but they found his I've been
show body. Yeah, that is how that's supposed to be put going.
It kills, Oh, it kills. And then so he walked from what
south side all the way to uptown two miles? Did he walk? Did
he crawl? I don't know? He shot in the arm or the Dead's
not great on that one. That's always blown my mind until you look at
an actual map, you know, you think about the route that Lee Harvey
Oswald took after JFK was shot. You're thinking, how did he make it
over there that fast? And when you look at the map itself, it's
like, it's not that far from downtown to where you live. You gotta
taken a line bike too. I get a bit on his scooter. I
don't know, high speed scooter. I gotta get there fast and blaeding out
and for the commission to get done. Find out how he did that.
So yeah, well, if more details on that, we'll let you know.
Of course, I have a feeling we're not gonna have any more details.
Probably not. That's that on that that might be mid segment reset.
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one four eight seven eight seven one nine seven one had a bit of a
terror threat too. A forty two year old man was arrested last Wednesday.
There was a suspicious package and a threatening note left outside the County Building in
downtown Fort Worth. What fourth had a weird week last week with the explosion.
There was a white styrofoam ice chest, the worst cooler. You hate
styrop I hate it. And you know when people they forget to bring a
real cooler or they don't have a real cooler, so they buy a gas
station styrofoam cooler just to keep drinking and they just peel it off and it
makes that noise and squeak and as the walk. I hate it. I
hate it. Syrophone is like the worst substance. It lasts forever. Yeah,
it works, it's a but Yeah, every like beach, there's this
styropham crap washed up on it. This it's it. It is the insulation
part, like I have that in my attic. I don't have like old
school insulation. I have the styrofoam little white little poops. You do,
yeah, okay, a little white poops. I use the best stoke.
It seems to work. Well, that's a bad plan and you have a
kid. So the threatening note was directed toward law enforcement and it was left
on a porch of the Arrant County Plaza building. Bomb squad swoops in there,
like god, we just had a whole thing Tuesday. Even though we
think it was a gas leak. I was in there delicious Arizona iced tea.
There was not any delicious Arizona iced tea in there, but there was
a yellow Ford Focus that was seen leaving the scene. Let me just say,
if you're gonna commit any type of crime, let's not have a yellow
car. It stands out has a bad color choice. Basic white, gray
and black, all normal yellow. You don't ever see the yellow car?
Do you raise in your hand and yell? And I did it? I
mean just awful. The chopper easily. Yeah, yeah, we found him.
Yep, it took us about ten seconds there he is, oh no,
no, no, We're not gonna lose him. Make model Ford focus
color Canary Austin James Starkey the suspect. What was Jesus open threatening? Note
there was a not top of the cooler. Yeah, but the cooler was
empty. He stuck it. They were went like some like Venison didn't say
and they didn't have venice and that he just went to hunt. Are you
to follow up on this story when more info comes? Hello, because that's
what I do. I'm the news finisher. I like that you're an empty
promises of story? Follow up? Are about to get on my nerves,
just a series of teasers. There's this nut job stories. There's this nut
job university called Lake Superior State, and there's a bunch of dorks and they
have tradition each year where they release a list of words that they're banning.
You know, we're banning these words because these words are overused, they're misused,
or they've lost their meeting. So here are the words for twenty twenty
four, or phrases that they're trying to get rid of this year. All
right, dout hack, hack, hack? What's wrong without now or verb?
Now? Not like the verb would be like I'm taking a hack at
it, like baseball or lumberjacking, or hacking this website, hacking like I've
been hacked. That's what I think of that. I think of calling someone
that. That's a funny thing to call someone. You're a hack, oh
man, that's a funny or a phony. I love calling people phonies.
Okay, Grandma, you're a hack. You're a phony. Well he's a
phony, maloney. I like this one too. We need to get rid
of this one. The impact, the what impact? If we do this,
it'll make a big impact. Okay, A lot of things can make
a big impact. This is a part of my stand up routine. If
I went over there and kicked over your cup and it's spilled all over you,
that would impact your day, wouldn't it. Is that me making a
big impact. But it's used a lot in Corporate America, which you know,
I kind of raz Corporate America for the emails that are vague and like
just the terminology and language that is used a lot. But also we do
it too in our everyday life. We just don't think that we do it.
Imagine anytime someone asks you to do something and you go, yeah,
yeah, i'll text you later about it. Well, we'll get back to
you. We do do that as people. So it's a part of our
culture that we should just accept. And probably it's not. I'm saying it's
not just limited to Corporate America. And here I am shilling for the company,
but look, we all do those things. That the distinction is that
Corporate America has their own set of language for it. Yeah yeah, yeah,
Like I would say, hey, man, I'll text you later,
Corporate America say let's circle back this, I'll circle I'll ping you later.
What about impact? Is that making a big impact? Danny what impact.
It was a cool word thirty years ago. The impact on impact that was
rad you know, and now it's just like, oh, changing things,
making an impact? Well, did I impact the world when I peed on
the bushes before I came to work today? No, you impacted that bush
exactly. I'm a little loft. What's the next word? Riz? And
uh, Mike, you're the rizzler, I'm not. I don't mind getting
rid of riz, Dick. That's because you don't have the risma. Man,
you don't have the same RIZ that I do. I'm not here rising
it up. You are a little low on the RIZ. I will,
yeah, I agree, I agree. I will ironically adopt some of the
lingo, you know, and use it kind of funny because it's just funny
to hear an old man say that stuff and then kind of sneer or snicker.
But I never got that one. I never used riz. That's kind
of newer, isn't it last year or two? Yeah, if you're the
rizzler, you get so much charisma. Slay I've never used that. You
have to same, No, I never once. No, I don't think
I've ever said slave slay. You said slay queen. Yeah, I screamed
that when I walk in the studio at the term iconic they want to get
rid of too over at Meet Bowl University. I think people do say things
are iconic more than they are. That's an iconic moment. Well, yeah,
but everybody uses I just did it. Everybody uses phrases and superpluous manners
all the time. Me man, not me perfect game on that end,
everyone knows it like everyone everyone does. And by the way, Trump won
the Iowa coccus last night. What mean, what's up, Danny? You've
got the deep to have on that one. Yeah, explain that the Iowa
caucus. What do you want to know Trump won last night? Do you
even know what a caucus is? It's when they It's like something that you
ask a guy to do if you're in a group. I was watching some
of that when the Emmy's in the game or not on you know, I
would flip over to that, just make cut in during Monday night football.
And they showed a guy updating the thing. And there's like one county where
Trump got three votes and DeSantis got one, rather than there's four people that
voted. The caucus is just kind of a the parties will have them.
So the Republican Party in Iowa has a caucus and they're essentially people, they're
voters. It's a small sample size rather than having a general election to elect
your states, you know, to put your president, your your choice a
president on the ballot. As far as like the main republic and they get
together. It's like this brain trust that kind of get together of Republican people
and uh and uh and voters get together and it's a small group that decides.
Yeah, you know. And now they're on a New Hampshire. And
I saw that and I realized, I don't know if there's a state I
know less about than New Hampshire. Boy, no, kid, do you
have a here's one that might be get eliminated. Do you have a you
have a New Hampshire? Blind spot? Blind spot, get rid of it,
get rid of it. I don't know. If I don't think every
state has a caucus. I think there's only a select few. Well,
New Hampshire is next. They were talking about that. I mean, you
might down an off day, like right when I wake up and ask me
if New Hampshire is a state, and I would be unsure of the answer.
Let's go to the New Hampshire Caucus, New Hampshire. Then you point
it out on a map. Yeah, I'm good with that. I think
is it their New Hampshire? Is it their capital Concord? Maybe? I
think maybe? Uh bump bump bump. Sure the hell is. Because I'm
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