Good morning, a heavy groundhog day, and guys, look, I don't
want to spoil anything, but the weekend is upon us. Happy Friday.
At nine o'clock. There's been a lot of questions about mid flight problems,
plane crashes, doors flying off. So I went and got us the Dallas
Morning News aviation reporter to find out the truths. Alexandra Scores makes her radio
debut on the Freak and probably ever who knows today nine eight thirty how drinking
has changed, and it's even changed my weekend plans. An absolute game changer
in the world of drink. Eight thirty Buckle up, this is effing huge.
Wow, you're not gonna believe it's nothing. And eight it's Billboard Bayless.
Was you like a ten second preview of the Billboard Bayless intro song?
Yes, just ten seconds. I would hate to, you know, make
you think it's something different. Here's ten seconds of the intro for Billboard Bayless.
All right, you'll get the rest of it today. Just a little
snip, like Kavanaugh, a little snip. Seven point thirty didn't use Morning
News. We got the talks ecology report on the Kansas City thing. We
have preliminary talks reports on the Kansas City three, and you guys are going
to be blown away on how these dudes met their maker. Hear the audio
of the friend. I'll help you find it if you don't. You do,
you do? You don't? You don't? Won't you tell me?
I will if I don't? He Oh? Is that five more seconds?
That's the friend? He was DJ You said we have Alexandra's scores on and
I don't remember if you said it, if I just thought it. Oh
yeah, you said it's maybe her first radio appearance, right, yeah,
maybe hard to know. So do you think she's awake right now and nervous
if it is her first time ever on the radio. And I would like
to ask if you guys recall your very first time ever on the radio?
Yes, yes, I have mine. Yeah, okay, good by anybody,
Kevin, Like first time when you open the mic and I have two?
Yeah, you called into a station and some grade. Yeah, oh
you're talking about I thought you met no like I I mean both. They
invited me up to the studio because I was an active caller who did station
witchcall falls. Okay, so you were a regular caller to this yeah,
and like this is definitely a kid who calls in every week and they invited
me up. Looking back at it, it might have been kind of creepy
because they just wanted the good eyes. I was good. Yeah, seventh
and eighth grade. I was all over the radio. Bro. I got
some tape I have seven to anything with. I've got tapes of me and
junior high or early high school calling my high school's basketball games. But you
started calling the Witchitolt Falls radio station. Yeah, like sixth grade. Do
you remember your first call? First time I got through anything like? No?
And what were you doing? Just talking about requested songs? Man,
requested songs, Friday night music show, anything else to do to hang friends?
What songs were you requesting? Well, this is weird because it's way
different than them that you know today. But back in nineteen ninety nine,
so you're saying that the Kevin I know today isn't weird right nineteen ninety I
feould like to argue that topic. What was a different time in the world
of uh Texas country music? Danny in nineteen ninety nine. Okay, let's
call in and request the new Cross Canadian ragweed song. Okay, no shame
in that? Well, No, they're not. They're one of the greatest
bands that ever lived. But they're not one of the greatest bands that ever
lived. You know. Again, it's all subjective, but in my opinion
they're not. But you know, I would agree with you, but I'm
not. They're one of the greatest Texas bands that ever lived, maybe when
twelve. I don't know anything about them. They have a song, I
know, No, Yeah, I've heard of them, but I don't know
what they do. Well, they don't have anything I would guess though,
Why are they not with us anymore? No, Cody Canada With's solo right,
Yeah, they had to break up for reasons. Well I think we
know, but I know at least, but unknown what I'm tight with,
Like, well, my grandparents are tight with Cody's family, so yeah,
see from the no, they're from Oklahoma. Cross was the rhythm guitar player,
Grady Cross, Canadian was Cody Canada, Ragweed was Randy Ragsdell and the
drums Jeremy Plato, the bass player likes to smoke weed, but he didn't
get his name in the title. No No, but I think he actually
still plays with Cody and Cody's still band that was twelve. I was in
a lot of like all that stuff was huge and wasn't watered down yet no
offense, but it is now. And they had like special shows and which
off was like special, Like we're just playing that. Keep in mind grow
by a town where you got four radio stations. You got one top forty
station and three country stations. Oh no, there was a fifth class rock.
I mean it wasn't. It wasn't options. The internet was not even
on the radio yet. Radio is on the internet yet, I does this
off ramp? Ever, get back on the highway. It's groundhog Day.
There's groundhog Day. I remember the first time I was on the radio,
I called why one hundred in Miami and I won tickets to see Starship.
Did you go? No, I don't think I went, but I remember
being on and I had the tape somehow, like on a cassette tape.
I don't even know how they used to. You probably taped yourself little jam
box, and I just recorded, Yeah, you hit record when you were
sitting on hold. I remember I such squeaky voice, little kid, you
know. And I said where you're from? And I said, Miami is
Nick Creamer? And I said no, North Miami, like I screwed up
where I was and that meant something to me. Anyway, I want the
Starship tickets and I had to go to the studio why one hundred. It's
interesting because I don't know if these all impact like you want to do radio.
For Kevin, for sure, he's wanted to do radio since he was
that age, right, and calling into radio station and then probably going up
there of course impacted your dreams and what you wanted to do, and it
may have done the same for me. I don't know. I was like,
oh my god, I was on the radio, and then I went
up to the studio to get my tickets, but I didn't know anything about
Starship, and I'm like, well, I don't even want to see this.
But Madonna was on tour with her True Blue Tour, and I tried
to trick the front desk lady into saying I won those tickets. Yeah,
what a game, sister, at age like eight that day, so industry
I was born that day. I mean, it's not even in the same
league where they will you would at least do recon before you gave way those
delicate and few fair pair of Madonna tickets. Well, in my line,
I was like, look, she's and this is I guess smarter me.
I was like, well, she's sitting at a desk, probably all these
tickets to get envelopes on envelopes. I mean there was a chance that if
I go in there and say that, she might say, oh, you
know what here, And it turned out I was probably right. But I
ended up getting the Starship tickets and I have zero recollection if I went.
I don't think I went to a concert at all. I was thinking when
you when you said what do you remember your first time, it was like
your first time like on the radio, either part of a crew or hosting
or whatever, like as a job. But yeah, I mean we had
Look, my life in Knox City was eight years of just unadulterated grab ass.
That's all we did. It was just j O and all the time.
So yeah, we that was common. You'd call into the WY ninety
five country station in Haskell, Texas and prank the you know, the DJs
and record it and laugh. But our pranks were always just doing voices,
you know, like some old lady, I'm murdish, Fro'm not shitty and
I need y'all to play more George Straight do stuff like that as little kids,
just messing with them and then you record it and laugh. But so
that probably impacted you want to be on the radio maybe, or planted the
seed for at least continuing to do that into early adulthood, which led to
this. Were you an FFA Kevin Only? Okay, you're familiar with Future
Farmers of America and the cool quartery blue jackets that we all were familiar with
it. I participated in it just because any activity that you any extracurricular was
just something that was something to do in a small town. So I was
in it for gosh, four years, I think, all through high school.
And they have different events and one of them that was a radio team
that they would assemble, and I guess they thought I was a good communicator
back then, so they put me on the radio team and it was me
into a butt two buddies, and all you would do is just go into
a room with a microphone and read a script. And it was always like
like farm reports and weather and and pig stock prices, you know, stuff
like that. You're just reading a script. There was no improvisation, there
was no conversation. It was just you read something, read copy, which
is probably the way it was back then. You know, you had your
you had your words in front of you and you set them into a microphone.
So I was on a radio team and we won one district one year.
Yeah, there's a picture of me standing on the radio team Tracy Carter
and Michael Row holding our first place banner. Yeah, for the NOx City
farm radio team. Did you win tickets to farm aids? Non win tickets
to anything that was? You know, that was probably the first is just
calling in the radio stations and messing with them and then I get made a
job out of it. I mean that's school. We didn't have any type
of technology or anything that could have done any type of radio, but I
did with just small town nearby, and I started doing their games like play
by play, like I guess eighth grade, ninth grader before I was on
varsity right, and it was like most of their football, basketball, all
the football games, all the basketball games, and maybe playoff baseball games.
And taught me a lot real quick though about being on like and I had
to do it with a couple of guys. One guy used to work at
the Ticket. One of those guys you used to work at the Ticket.
You know, Gordon has made fun of him. Michael Crink. God,
that's the abominable snowman of df W radio history. He's Anthony Kim, he
really is. I hope he comes back like Anthony Kidd. Klay Stewart was
the guy. I don't know. It was an inside joke for those guys.
Back to the point is, so you're kind of a radio prodigy doing
it in eighth grade. But one of the most fun though, is like
when I was a senior in high school andn't have any classes. I've done
them all, so there's like very little. They couldn't let you, like
leaves. They had to make you do busy work, office hours and all
that trap. Senior year was study hall and football. But me and my
buddy who's now the current mayor of Only Texas, Rure Rogers, would do
the morning announcements every day and just piss off a few of the teachers who
were like, god, these announcements are going on to him. But he
would read the basic stuff and I was just throwing the barbs. It was
great. I mean, that's my start. I was working in celebrity birthdays
into the announcements. Did you always forget then? Yeah, uh no,
it's nothing I forget. It's that we run out of time and it's a
ratings game. You guys know this. So that's happening today. Birthdays with
groundhog dates. The guys could come up, he could come up. And
when are they just gonna hit him on the head? What time? What
time do we do this? I don't know, but when are they just
going to hit him on the bonking yeah? Stay down? What if like
the oil protesters or whoever's throwing crap on them? Onna Lisa? And what
if they attack Phil right this morning? He's going to train Phil? Yeah
Lake punch of train Phil and they just behead him right when he sticks his
head up? Do you know that the like Groundhog Day down here is nothing.
Nobody thinks about it, Nobody actively comments on it. Really, boy
in the Northeast, my mom every damn year will will post on Facebook the
results of Groundhog Day. Dude, this is a big day. I don't
know, man, I you are right, it's just a regional thing.
But I like to bet on this. You have prop bets on over under
six twenty am oh, so it's already happened. No, it's what it's
expected. Seven twenty am as the seven twenty eastern the do date, Yeah,
seven twenty east. Okay, so six minutes from right now. It
happened live on our show TV because we don't have any Our direct TV is
broken, that's why. So they're all gathered around, and that one guy
looks like a monopoly man is out there ready, and camera crews are all
except this except this year. The guy with the big hats got a mallet
and he's just gonna thump him like faces of death. He's going to commit
a crime that even Peter would be on board with. What's it called groundhog
Day? Yes, groundhog Day live cam. He could be coming out right
now livestream fills prediction. Here you go. If he sees his shadow,
we have six more weeks of winter. If he doesn't see his shadow,
the spring weather right around the corner, well, it's supposed to be cloud
coverage today, so he's not going to see his shadow. Waste time.
There's twelve dudes in tuxi. Oh my god, look at all those people.
Let's go. Looks like farming. That's like it. Yeah, it
does look at that. That's a second farm made reference in the first segment.
Which one did you click on their mind? I googled was it a
groundhog Day live cam? Groundhog Day live cam? Yeah, they're at Gobbler's
Knob. This is all a damn bit. It's amazing. And this is
a tree trunk that he's gonna pop out of. Yeah, there's steal some
Uh, let's go to ABC six in Philadelphia just have it lightly playing underneath.
Is this just another excuse for Americans to drink? Okay, okay,
because isn't that what every holiday is? Is this a drinking party? It's
not a holiday. The people gotta go to work after this groundhog Yeah,
they're gonna go home wasted and just mail it in on a Friday. There
are this is a crowd. Well, sir, can we get some moonshine?
That's the first thing they s Yes, a drink is drinking. They're
all drunk. The thing is they all look like they all look like colonial
They're all you know, they'll wear their long coats and top hats. What's
that about. Well, it's cold. I don't know why the outfits.
Gobbler's Knob, home of Punksy Phil Pucks of Tommies, and they have a
little tree trunk, so they're going to force him out of there. And
then it's if he sees his shadow. He's only been right, stupid.
I like it. I love dumb stuff. I love dumb stuff and spirals
and it is something that's a party whatever. People have fun with this.
They're having a good time. He's only been right thirty nine percent in his
life. He's an idiot. He doesn't even know what he's doing. No,
much like the rest of the meteorologist community. Boom, I mean true.
By the way, another questionable act from Pete Delkas. I mean is
that our weekly thing? Now? My god? What's he doing? What
do you do? Are you talking about the banana comment? Yeah, Mike
texted this to me last night. I've got it right here, please,
I mean, And then he retweeted it like once someone pulled it. He
retweeted it. Boy, this live camp's kind of funny. Hey, JJ,
can you give me a favorite? Can you on that computer? Can
you get on a YouTube and type in Groundhog Day live camp so we can
see it on that TV, because, uh, you don't see when he
comes up. I want to see the moment. Yeah, does the crowd
go crazy when they pump in poisonous gas to get filled to it from his
tree? When this bat guy hits the little hydraulic lift pumping poison sweet and
then he sees all these people freaks out. Knock on wood. Here we
go. They pumping poisonous gass. They are freaking its about the seven go
ahead and do it, and you know what, and they just there's a
little knob on the back. Unsurprisingly all white people. I didn't notice that
too. Also with us this morning was Jason Horrist big chill, Oh bi,
big chill, big chills. Here is a huge man. There's a
Jason Sedeika's looking guy leading the crowd right now. I agree, at the
left hand of the father they're introducing all the future is queer. But Jay
Lundy is overcast. Oh he just said, seated at the left hand of
the father, former president. Give it up for Jeff Lundy, fairweather man.
He's trying to do bits like the hot dog guy. Pat Cassidy is
the head huntsman. Pat as the Cohens. Oh Zone, I love it,
and I know you've been waiting patiently so for our ceremony. Give it
up your friend. Our friend's like Paul g a muddy exact Rainmaker. You
guys want to see the Rainmaker on this TV right here? Heavyweights, the
Acacia Cane, the presidents off the Groundhog Club. Inner circle is Tom Uncle
Jingles Shaker for Shingles Shako. Okay, this is so ridiculous. I'm getting
on the feed JJ's on so we can see it on the same screen.
I want to hear the Delkas audio. Okay twenty seconds away from the pop
up Tom. The crowd wants it listen, and the live chat on the
Associated Press YouTube is ridiculous. It's just blowing up with people going Phil Look,
these people are dressed as chipmunks too. This is the rain Maker president.
That's a zone nut's Look, that's cute. There's kids on their parents'
shoulders. It's cloudy up there too. In circle. Yeah, they're talking
about that. That's the that's the cane that he's going to hit them.
Yeah, that's a that's what I would imagine. The mysterious, likely fictional
secret society that controls the world looks like, yeah, I know the deepest
of deep states. It was God the hell girl sleepy dude. They look
like poor magicians and hold him high for all to see. Oh. He
will then place Phil upon the stumps. His mic just started working. Hill
and I will have a little talk about whether he sees his shadow or not.
He's got it on globe. I'm going to ask you it's a shadow.
He sees six more weeks of winter, there will be Okay, So
if it's sunny out, then they got six more weeks of winter. It's
just yeah telling you if it's overcast, breaker, please place the royal red
carpet. Oh, then put the red carpet of royal red carpet. Okay,
Now they're gonna get they're sending in the toxic gas. Look at the
smiles. There are a raising signs. Release the gas. Okay, there's
there's the cyanide. Yeah. Ready, he cracked the cyanide tablet. That's
a tradition. Before we get fill out, we get them fired up,
chanting Phil, Do til Phil, Phil, Phil. He's knocking on his
little wood door. He's coming up through a tree trunk that's about three or
four five feet tall. Maybe what do we need to look at these cell
phones up as people? Oh, he's knocking on the little door. Why
do we need a varmit to tell whether there's clouds or not? Just look
at hill. We're outing fun. O. Hey, man, if you
only call Grant Johnson of NBC's Flat Environment, that's on you. Pill pillill
pill, And Kevin passes out more than three times. All right, So
he lifts him up to the crowd and it's a fright know he's so frightened.
Oh he doesn't pop out of the thing. Oh, I guess my
audio is ahead of Oh my mom is watching this right now? Really all
work? Do you have audio of that? Crank yours up so they can
so we can hear of that computer? Does it? Does it? Do
it work? We could hear we were hearing it right there. That was
way ahead of it, though, I don't care. Now they're holding a
little animal up. Gentlemen here, that's j just down, gentleman, gather
around. So is he gonna talk and say I can see it shadow?
Oh, okay, he's about to He talks to him and finds out,
well, there's a little shadow in front of though. Okay, Oh he's
studying. If he's we have a decision, This is nuts. How Oh
he pointed to the scroll. A decision, a prediction has been made,
mister President, this is insanity. And also hear ye now on this February
second, punks at Honey, Phil the Seer of Sears, prognosticator of all
prognosticators, was awakened from his wintry nap at dawn a gobbler's knob. Phil
looked to the skies and then, speaking in ground hoggies, directed the President
to the proper scroll, which reads fox Ford just took it live, another
winter's slumbered pause so I could meet the crowd. Hard to sleep anyway when
the party is this loud. I envy your energy, I envy the fun.
I envy all of you and your opposable thumbs. But it's not what
I feel. It's what I see and what you hear. So gather round
and let me be clear. Atmosphere is a wonderful thing, and we can
create our own and the weather it brings. It brings hope for the future
and so much more. Maybe some punk satoni Phil write in votes in twenty
twenty four. But what this weather did not provide is a shadow or reason
to hide glad tidings on this ground hot day. An early spring is on
the way, all right, Spring, all right, so it's going to
be spring today. Alga money's reading from a scroll. Yeah he's showing it
too, because he's showing he reddit verbatim. There it is. The crowd
went nuts when they got announcement. That was great. Did you hit back
by four minutes? Let's play it all again? God? Oh, all
right? Well that the world alright. I've never in forty eight years watch
that live me neither or heard it or heard any more than just the announcement.
We've seen a few still shots. Our text messages are blowing up right
now with people channing Phil Phil. The guy's chanting dill. That's not right.
I don't think until eight months ago it'd ever been a wa at this
hour, not once. So spring starts, so sad, I guess today?
Right? No, what is it? It's six weeks early it's supposed
to start. I don't understand. I mean six weeks is like daylight savings
time already, so I mean makes sense? Yeah, Danny, Well,
March tenth, we're going to lose an hour, guys. You guys ready
for that one? Yep? Well, actually I'm ready for that one.
It's actually like that time of year. Better. Yeah, it's gonna be
dark longer in the morning. Right, Okay, all right, this's be
good man. We got some big stuff in the next segment, the most
important thing in the world. Yeah, massive, this it is massive.
New technology is dropping today. We'll be we'll we all be wearing these bad
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