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eight thirty. That's an hour from now. But at eight o'clock we have
a look, I suppose, into the excitement of opening Day, which is
right around the corner for your World Series champion Texas Rangers. All the food
stuffs have been announced, all the wild foods they got out the ballpark.
Every radio station in DFW is talking about the foods, and we're gonna do
that. We're gonna go through what the foods are. But then we actually
we're supposed to have this. I have a list of the rejected food items
that the Rangers apparently considered and decided not to serve at a Globe Life field
this season. Now we're blowing the whistle. Shocking, very shocking. I'm
learning that they've reconsidered a number of these items and they might be offering them
as off menu selections, way off menu. For some of these. You
have to really be in the know and know the secret handshake to obtain these
morsels of goodness generally a pretty safe close to the vest organization that this world's
serious title has got into their head or what because some of the things that
were voted down. Yeah, just to pre pre reiterate, pree, these
are not going to be served at Ranger games this season. That's all we're
saying. Yeah, I don't even know if we should say they were considering
these, they did, they didn't. But do not miss eight o'clock when
we talk about some rejected food stuffs that will not be available at Major League
at our major League park here in Arlington. That's coming up in just about
twenty minutes. But right now it's time for Kevin Turner in the scuttle Button.
All right, brought you by advanced hair restoration. Yeah, we'll get
to the p Diddy story at eight thirty in Dingu's Morning News. He was
investigated or he was raided two of us. Oh, it isn't even said
that he owned the houses. Houses that he was in connection with, one
in Miami, one in LA were raided yesterday. More on that at eight
thirty in Dingu's More News. The big story on the Globe is this Baltimore
Bridge collapse. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, which was built in nineteen seventy
well started construction in nineteen seventy two, was finished in nineteen seventy seven.
It was hit around twelve thirty Central last night by a huge ship called Dolly.
This was a cargo ship from Singapore. The Dolly lost propulsion as it
was leaving the port, and then they did warn Maryland officials of a possible
collision, so they were seeing delights on That is that they got ahead of
the fact that they were going to hit that bridge, which that means they
did the right things there and that might help explain why the search is on
for seven people. We were told that construction workers were on the bridge at
the time of the collision, which, again, just talking about this doesn't
do it justice. You do need to see video of the bridge hitting I
mean of the ship hitting the bridge and seeing the full collapse. This is
over a part of six ninety five in Baltimore over water, and it is
a big This is big on big. The ship is nine hundred and eighty
four foot cargo ship. Just close your eyes and think of those big shipping
container ships, and this is about as I don't know, I think,
as big as they get. Yeah, when you're talking over three football fields
in length, absolutely packed as high as it can be packed with shipping containers.
Yeah, the scope of this thing cannot be fully grasped just by looking
at the video on your TV. You're talking about three football fields long of
a ship. Yeah, I was just watching it. It looks like a
tiny boat when you just watch it on TV. It doesn't look all that
violent. But the nearly immediate collapse of I don't know, maybe a quarter
mile length of bridge in the middle is quick and violent. I was just
watching an angle I suppose that I hadn't seen yet, and it was sort
of a time lapse for a full minute prior to the boat hitting. It
shows the boat their lights flickering and sort of veering off course toward one of
these support beams of the bridge, and you could see a fair amount of
traffic passing over the bridge. You're just watching traffic go by, and this
is as amateur reporting as you can get. But right about when it does
hit, there is a what appears to be a gap in the traffic.
I don't know how lucky you know I mean this is, but I mean
I saw trucks, maybe four cars at a time going over the bridge that
collapsed moments later, but the instant that it hits, I didn't see any
cars right above it. And then I looked to the right portion where the
traffic would be coming from, and I didn't see any any other vehicles.
I don't I mean, relatively speaking, they may have gotten a little lucky
on the amount of traffic that was on top of the bridge in that exact
moment. But terrifying nevertheless, and there were confirmed construction workers working on that
portion of the bridge that we're not in moving vehicle. Just brutal, terrible
story. It's got you know, people are finding out. If you're waking
up this morning and you see the video, you'll you kind of know it's
a wild thing to wake up to a bridge collapsing. Also, what's going
to effect here? And it's looked again their search and rescue for seven people
right now as there, whether they were in a vehicle not or whether they
were construction workers working on the street that collapses. It's one hundred and eighty
five foot fall at the top at the highest peak, probably the lowest,
I don't know, one hundred Yeah, you know, everything about it is
far bigger than it looks like on the That bridge is bigger, it's taller,
the boat is bigger, the collision was more violent. The scale is
nuts. How it can yeah, you know, it can change your perception
of what it is. But when you really can zoom in and see it,
you're like, oh, holy crap. This port supports one hundred and
forty thousand jobs. Thirteen straight years. This port has led the nation and
importing, exporting cars and light trucks. The port also supports the cruise industry,
so lots of cruise ships passed through there as well. I mean,
this is going to be again, I'm looking for seven people first, right,
but they're gonna shut that down. It's going to affect the traffic and
it could have a little bit of a supply chain effect for a little while.
I would imagine, and I don't know people that live in Baltimore just
freaking out, like, hey, drive over that every single day, good
Lord, And they gotta go around wherever you're headed, and tunnels are going
to be crammed. This is one person said, This is a person who
serves on a This sounds weird, but Transportation subcommittee in Baltimore said, I
believe this will take a very very long time to fix. God. Yeah,
I mean that's that's probably phase seven. Yeah, but it's that's one
of the more tangible, you know, issues that Baltimore's facing here is result
of this. But they're doing search and rescue right now as a priority.
As Danny said earlier, they're using sonar and infrared technologies as well as drones.
He said they have identified vehicles submerged in the water, and the Governor
of Maryland has declared a state of emergency following the collapse of the bridge.
Please say no all in on saving and finding. But you know, with
the temperature of the water, which is sub fifty degrees. You know they
are I don't think all that optimistic that they're going to continue to find survivors.
I am reading here that the search and rescue mission not only the temperatures
are a massive concern, but the missions being complicated by rising tides. But
they said that they're going to continue until divers determine they have reached the quote
non survivability point. Jeez. But upwards of seven people are missing, two
have been rescued. One of them is very seriously injured. Yeah, they
said one was uninjured and the other one is hospitalized right now, very serious
condition. Boy. I bet the one that is uninjured, we'll have a
story to tell. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Absolutely. Now. I
was going through kind of how time does this happen in the United States.
I mean, there's been a few in you know, over the nation going
back to the year two thousand. Couple in the year here Port Isabel,
Texas in South Padre eight killed thirteen survivors. Back in two thousand and one
on concrete bridge. It said four loaded barges veered one hundred and seventy five
feet west and struck one of the bridge supports causing a big collapse of the
bridge. I forty Bridge disaster and Weber's Falls, Oklahoma, fourteen people were
killed. A barge struck one pier of the bridge, causing a partial collapse.
That was two thousand and two. There was one. There was another
big one that was I'm trying to get through. Like we talked about the
one in Minnesota earlier, that was two thousand and seven, and that one
killed over one hundred people, and that one was a big Yeah, I'm
sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I light on that one that was
thirteen killed, that killed one hundred and forty five people were hurt thirteen somehow
it was just thirteen. But that was on I thirty five, And that
was that was not anything hitting it. That was just a total bridge failure
like that started or stories of people driving and seeing just the road in front
of them start to shake, you know, and collapse. You know.
Seven You can kind of keep going through. You can find a few that
have happened, you know, in the United States, but nothing in the
recent history that I had seen, you know, because it's a big story,
it would stick with you a little bit too. But I haven't seen
anything, you know, crazy like this in a long time. There was
one in Mexico a few years ago. So there's If there's anything that we
need to update you on with that, we will be sure to do that
right here, don't remind you. Tonight Alamo draft House and the Cedars were
showing step Brothers. Uh seven dollars tickets. Go to draft House dot com
for your tickets. Me, Mike and Danny will be there. JJ,
you're going to the movie tonight. I actually won't be able to make it
nice. She's going to a real movie that came out now from years ago.
Right, we're handled the two thousand and eight viewing. Yeah, I'm
going to see Kong ca. Yeah, who's Kong fighting this year? They're
a teaming up fighting some I'm from the ground on Long and Zilly or on
the team now teaming up Now Kong and Godzilla are best friends. Yeah,
yeah, they put their fast they all. So. Do people think they're
gonna fist bump at any point in this movie? I hope? So that'd
be great. Why not, they're already over the top. I heard there's
actually a very passionate sex scene in this movie between a gorilla and a lizard.
Yep, Okay, well that's stupid, but I'm not going all in
that he's in correct, and I won't look away. No, is Kong
Kong is a boy? Yeah right, it is Kong a boy. I
assume, yeah, it's king, but they don't ever show it. I
don't think. Yeah, they can't that in the budget the CGI. Now
the hair covers it up. What's the deal with the gorilla is? You
can never see their wings? Would you think when they get down? When
they get down, I think I don't know how it appears. It bursts
through the pubic hairline. Ground. I'm just saying, you see these male
gorillas running around the zoo, and you would expect like a freaking elephant trunk
just warn what yes to and fro and you never see that. Yeah,
let's get literally everyone else want to answer that. He's a school teacher.
He probably knows that's the kids. I've asked him that Usually our questions are
about a seventh grade level. It will probably be the first topic that comes
up in the debate. Guys, Actually, thanks for calling me. Actually
have something on this. I think a lot of people are sick of the
old school nature of you know, not knowing if gorillas have a penis or
not. But I mean, I'm sure that the male gorilla has one.
You just would expect it to be more pronounced and available. But if you're
tired of not knowing, here's another option for you. Okay, let's do
some audio right here, JJ, if you don't mind, I have Otani.
Yesterday Otani spoke. This is another those sports stories that crosses over into
mainstream news because he spoke yesterday four forty five press conference and he's got new
translator, just a guy named Will next to him, and Otani speaks,
and then the translator writes it down as if he didn't have the statement with
him, and I got two clips here. Here is number one. So
I never bet on baseball any other sports, or never have asked somebody to
do it on my behalf. And I have never went through a bookmaker uh
to bet on sports. It has been stealing money from my account and has
told lies. So I has been telling everybody around that he that has been
communicating with shohe on all of this account, and that hasn't been true.
Okay, here's the second part here. So up until that team meeting.
I didn't know that I pay had a gambling addiction and was in debt.
I did not never agreed to pay off the debt or you know, make
payments city bookmaker. And it was revealed to me during that meaning that he
paid admitted that he was sending money using my account to the bookmaker. Obviously
I was. It was an absurd thing that was happening, and I've contacted
my representatives so you know, in conclusion, I do want to make it
clear that I never bet on sports or have woefully sent money to the bookmaker.
So no going back on things, no taking up free pay nos all.
Basically, he did it and now he pays. Probably looking at some
prison. That's likely how this is going to go down, I would imagine,
because I thought he could maybe soft pedal it if he wanted to take
up for his boy. But his statement was pretty matter of factly, we're
gonna go with he did. He did it, and then he took the
money, and I'm devastated by it, so he can burn in hell.
I've made my theory clear on this, and I don't I'm not wavering from
it. But the one thing I didn't see this, but I talked to
my brother Cash yesterday and he saw it, and he's like, Cash believed
him, he said, because he wasn't like really using too many notes,
like he seemed to be talking very from the heart about this. It's the
pursuit of legal action that makes you kind of wonder, you know, like
if team Otani is really pursuing to have this guy pay the you know,
go to jail essentially, which he will. That's a convoluted thing with a
lot of evidence and a lot of text messages, you know, and interactions
that they can certainly dig up. I don't know if his quest for legal
justice is performative. Yeah, and then behind the scenes it'll be you know,
charges have been dropped and Epay is now back in his hometown in Japan,
and this whole thing just goes away. But assuming he does pursue it
thoroughly, then that does lead you to think that there's a chance. O
Tawny truly didn't know anything about this and didn't place any bets. But I
don't care who you are. If your annual salaries five hundred thousand dollars and
that's what you're betting on a college basketball game or some soccer match that that's
doesn't feel like a logical explanation for when you work for someone who's making hundreds
of millions a dollar. The only thing that would make this make sense for
his debt to be that big if he was you said, he's making half
a million a year doing this, Is that right? That's what Kevin said
a couple days ago when this first broke that that was about his salary.
Yes, he was making three hundred to five hundred. Let's say that he
had a real deep, hardcore gambling addiction and you know, maxed out,
maxed out his means. You know, then you start getting into lines of
credit that a bookie might extend you and then oh, I can't pay you
know what the the interest on something like that is if they're if they're totaling
the note for you. You know, we watched The Gentleman on Netflix,
and we saw how a relatively you know, manageable debt can get out of
hand with just that revolving interest that just you know, a cruise daily and
you have these deadlines to pay it off and the next thing you know,
you're in debt four million dollars. It's like what this was like one hundred
thousand dollars. Bet bro, I don't know, bookie, take a half
billion dollar bet when you know the person is chasing. If they were betting
fifty five thousand to win fifty thousand, you know, and they are getting
a little hole, all right, I'd like to bet two hundred and fifty
thousand. His connection to Otani might have afforded him some a larger line of
credit than than that was outside of his means by him telling you, oh,
my boy's got my back, you know he's good for it. But
just think, I don't know, if you're Otani, you actually allow financial
access to any of your bank accounts. I mean, you know what level
of friendship and trust that has to entail. And then you're gonna say we
have that level of relationship. But I don't know that his life is on
the line because he's betting his entire annual salary on one basketball game. It's
just not logical, No, it's not. So we'll see the level of
pursuit that he has the you know, on the legal front. Uh,
and if that proves at all, no questions from the press, bs BS
take questions. We okay, we're gonna do us. We're gonna we're gonna
get ahead of this here because that's a big super segment coming. The absolute
thing you need to know about the new ballpark foods that were unveiled yesterday because
there's something that they did not tell you. You cannot read this in the
Dallas Morning News. We'll give you that at eight. But we also talked
to someone who has family in Baltimore who can see the bridge and has some
info on the bridge collapse that's next on ninety seven. Won the Free