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This is the downbeat on ninety seven
to one, the freak I like big.

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I want a girl walks with anybody
went around thing in your face,

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you'll get sprung. I want to
pull up Good Morning Metriplex story of the

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day, the big explosion yesterday in
Fort Worth Downtown Fort Worth, got a

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couple of first hand accounts coming at
you. I do want to remind you

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that this segment is brought to you
by Parker University Parker dot ed U kind

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of in thirty minutes the beginning of
our we calling segment the Super Wild Card

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Pump Session, which we will ask
the question should Mike McCarthy be canned if

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the Cowboys lose on Sunday? Trust
me, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday will

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be more positive and looking at the
realities of things. And the reality is

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the Cowboys are heavy favorites in this
game. But I think you think this

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is a topic of conversation. It's
a narrative that's gone on for a long

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time. Two one four or eight
one seven seven eight seven one nine seven

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to one at the top of the
hour, if you would like to weigh

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in on this, should Mike McCarthy
be fired? If the Cowboys lose on

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Sunday, we'll talk about other options, other teams that are interested in dan

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Quinn, and there are many.
Obviously, maybe the most famous NFL head

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coach of all time, Bill Belichick, might be available still with the Patriots

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still under contract for now. But
I think we all know that news could

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break, you know, on that
at any point if the Patriots decide to

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move on. So a lot there. You can call in at two and

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four or eight when seven seven,
eight, seven one, nine seven to

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one and weigh in at the top
of the hour. Should coach McCarthy be

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fired if the Cowboys lose on Sunday? I don't know. We got takes.

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We'll have a good conversation at eight
o'clock. Right now, let's do

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the scuttle butt. Okay, So
the big story yesterday thirty there was a

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big exclusion and this happened at the
Sandman Signature Hotel building. It was the

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Sandman's Signature hotel, but the building
is the Wagoner Building, famous in the

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National Registry of Hotels. Go ahead
at the National Go ahead now. Twenty

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one injuries reported, one person in
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and sixteen suffering minor injuries. It
was the latest as of last night.

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An hour ago. We played you
some audio from the four Worth Department

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fire chief. I told you that
a good friend of mine is the co

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owner or co founder of the restaurant
in the basement of that hotel, Masume.

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It's an Asian fusion restaurant. I've
been I haven't been to this location.

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I've been to Massume, Dallas a
million times and for my money,

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the best sushi in this town.
But they said twenty six people were occupied

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in the hotel at the time of
the explosion, just having about three thirty,

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and they do think it was a
gas leak. Put out the call

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a little bit, got a few
listeners, got a listener that was down

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there, and a good friend of
mine who was down there. Let's go

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to the free hot line to my
friend Keith. Keith texted in yesterday afternoon

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to the speakeasy and kind of sent
some pictures of what he saw. Hello

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Keith, how are you doing this
morning? Keith? I don't know if

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we have Let's try that again.
Hello Keith there, Oh yes, yep,

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I hear you loud and clear.
How you doing this morning? Keith?

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Good? How are you all,
good man, Thanks for listening to

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the station number one, thanks for
texting some photos. And I guess so

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I don't know, walk us through
it. First thing you heard saw while

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you were down there in Fort Worth
and this building exploded. Yeah, I

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was just just working, you know, working hard as always, had my

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headphones on and just hard zones.
It sounded kind of like thunder. But

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I first saw was, you know, Delka said we're going to have any

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serious storms, So I was like, that's odd. And then you know,

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kind of looked up and saw everybody
else was doing the prairie dog thing

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and looking up other cubicles, and
you know, it was like, did

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you hear that? And we also
kind of felt it too. It was

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just kind of a thud. We're
in a big building downtown from the ninth

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floor, so it's kind of kind
of out of the ordinary. So we're

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all looking around, and the people
closest to, like the north window,

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were kind of hard to getting up
and move in that direction. So of

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course, you know, we all
got up and it went that way and

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looked and pretty much when we got
there, all we could see was on

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the other side of the building next
to us was a big kind of cloud

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of dust kind of puffing up and
then kind of blowing away. And then

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we were watching, you know,
everybody's guessing what it could have been.

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And then we saw we could see
the city Hall and the courthouse, the

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fourth Courthouse from where we were at, and all the I think there were

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marshals that are there there came like
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the street and the building where where
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know, they got there pretty quick. And then a few minutes later police

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cars started showing up and blocking streets
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after that, the fire department got
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Man, there were just a ton
of hot cars and fire trucks all

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there, and you know, we're
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and thinking, you know, of
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our safety, and I wanted to
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nothing to do with trying to get
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work. Of course, we we
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that, and and so of course
we all go to social media and are

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looking at the w Scanner and w
FA trying to see fusing firsthand reports,

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you know, right away, so
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you know the I guess we fit
out of the casts guess the explosion and

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and we're also kind of concerned about
casualties too, because it was pretty big.

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And yeah, a lot of people
downtown that you know, the brutshoulders

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we have going to and from buildings. So did you smell anything? We

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didn't smell anything. Of course we
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ye didn't smell anything. He just
saw the big cloud of dust and and

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felt, uh put them and that
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a big firework, you know,
which inside a building, you know,

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you know, almost a block away
that that was concerning that. No,

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we didn't. We didn't smell anything. And even when I was walking back

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to my car after after all this
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smell anything. I don't know what
angle you had. You said you were

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a block away. Did you see
anyone exiting the building? Was there frantic

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people in and right around the building, not counting obviously the responders that were

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getting there. There were there were
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seemed like not really like injured.
We didn't se anybody looked like they were

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injured or anything like the guy that
was holding his leg you know, last

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week. But people were kind of
like caught off, you know, it

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was a surprise. But it didn't
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that we could see. Uh,
just a lot of There were more I

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guess the fourth police or marshals whatever
going towards the building and people coming away

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from it. And then eventually people
started congregating, you know, down the

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ends of the streets, you know, watching all the all the stuff going

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on. But cool, Well,
Keith, thank you, thank you so

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much for the time this morning.
We appreciate it. Yeah, I know

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I texted you late last night.
It's let you texted in on the uh

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on our text machine thing. So
thank you for listening to the station,

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and thank you for your account.
No problem, have a good one.

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Tell your co workers to listen to
the station. Two. I will all

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right, all right, don't think
he's going to do that. We'll do

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next up on the free catline.
Is is a good friend of mine.

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He's produced many documentaries over at Dallas
Cowboys Dot com He now is a audio

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producer on the Athletic, producing many
podcasts, including About the Tiny Little Podcasts

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No Many Big ones actually including about
Them Cowboys hosted by me and John mischiodasad

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Yusuf. And he was also the
keyboardist or synth man for the pop punk

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band Forever The Sickest Kids. It
is my good friend, the great Kent

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Garrison. Hello, Kent, what's
up KT? Thanks for having me?

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Good to be here. Yes,
So you living for Worth? How close

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are you to the madness that happened
yesterday on Eighth Street, KT, I'm

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just south of the madness, right
across the highway. I thirty would be

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right around the hospitals if you're familiar
with Fort Worth. And my wife works

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right downtown, right in the center
of all that madness, and so it

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was right close to home. Is
she a suspect? Well, as soon

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as the news broke she got a
lot of calls. So I'll leave that

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where it is. But a super
dramatic situation out here yesterday. I mean,

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it's twenty twenty four. I feel
a rum in my house and my

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first thought, of course, in
twenty twenty four is aliens. You know,

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I mean, it's it's finally,
you know, it's come around finally

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on us. By the way,
shout out to the Downbeat for covering,

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you know, the real journalism such
as the Miami Mall incident. Thank you,

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Thank you for shedding light on real
stories. And hopefully Kat brings up

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the Malaysia ORBS at some point to
leave that out there and y'all can get

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to it when you do. But
crazy situation, I mean is, first

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of all, Fort Worth usually known
for weather events, so it was a

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little surprising that we made the national
news and it didn't have anything to do

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with like a tornado blasting through town
or some kind of deep freeze scenario.

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But I mean, it looks insane
down there. I mean, I'm just

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very blessed that my wife wasn't down
there at the time, because she does

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work within arm's reach of that place
and had some friends co workers that were

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supposed to be lunch at the restaurant
Kase he mentioned that ended up canceling thankfully

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and not being down there, so
you know, avoiding nine to eleven.

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A little hand of fate dealt to
my family there, so that was nice.

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But I mean, I can't help
it be re minded of the Pickwick

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Hotel incident of eighteen hundred and eighty
five, which I know you're very familiar

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with this incident as being a four
Worth historian such as yourself. Where the

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commands she Chief Quanta Parker, was
in town in Christmas of eighteen eighty five,

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stays downtown Fort Worth the Pickwick Hotel, smells some gas, but doesn't

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decide, decides not to do anything
about it. He goes to bed.

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His father in law, Chief Yellow
Bear, dies in his sleep. What

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is it sabotage? Was it murder? Did they just forget to put out

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the little lamp before they went to
bed? We never know. But yet

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another natural gas hotel incident story has
struck Fort Worth some almost one hundred plus

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one hundred and fifty years later.
You know, I forgot to tell you

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guys. Kent is a he should
bear a UFO expert. Really, he

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really reads up on this and there's
more stuff. You know, there's more.

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I think another testimony or another house
meeting on this on the UFOs coming

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up later in the week, So
we might to talk to Kent next week

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about some of this stuff, and
maybe we can get an update on the

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Malaysian ORBS. Yes, an update, well he knows about it. Well,

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Kent, thank you for your first
hand account being near and that's crazy

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that you had you know they had
scheduled, you know, launched there and

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can split jeez. Yeah and pretty
pretty wild stuff. KT and I'll be

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around anytime you want to talk orbes
yep, absolutely can't. This is as

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we got a text message. Tell
him we need more music from them.

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I guess they're talking about forever the
sickest kids. He can't. Real quick,

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you have to plug your podcast.
He's already gone. Good. Okay.

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He does a movie. I think
it's called Mad About Movies as well

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that he does. But he's a
He works for the Athletic and I have

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pretty easy side gig where I just
go talk cowboys for an hour and email

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him the file. Is that all
the work that's about them cowboys that you

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do about them cowboys? Yes,
that's not rushing the passer, that's not

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rushing the past or who found my
cheese? Who moved my cheese? Are

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making it Ukraine and get it Ukraine? Good? Another one of my favorites.

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Can I give a tiny element of
clarification real quick before we get to

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our next guest. You mentioned that
you had read or heard that the what

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was formerly you know before it was
the Sandman was where Kennedy stayed and his

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last night of being alive. Not
the case. It was one and a

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half blocks down. His last night
was in fort Worth at the Hilton by

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the Hilton yet because that JF came
amore directly across the street on the south

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east side of eighth. So yeah, but Sun dances like it's it's separate.

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Those two hotels are separated by a
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want to like on the whole gas
pipeline explosion, which again they're still investigating

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to fully find out what happened.
But Texas find Atmas Energy one point six

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million dollars back in twenty twenty one
because of an event that happened in twenty

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eighteen involving at Northwest Dallas house and
that house in Northwest Dallas at the time,

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I'd lived in a house in twenty
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from this house that exploded and it
killed a twelve year old girls. Remember

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the story, yep, And I
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what it looked like after that house. It's unbelievable. I mean, you

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sit there and you might think you
live in a small neighborhood or wherever.

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Just just look around and imagine your
house exploding and how you know what around

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you would be affected by that.
And they got fine, you know over

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you know, one and a half
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So who knows, you know,
how that's all going to play out.

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And they're still investigating on that.
But that's just crazy. I don't

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know how. We don't have anyone
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just how long a gas leak has
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this size? This was a big
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and scary. Yeah, with stuff
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there was no fatalities. I mean, and I know we still have somebody

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in critical condition, I believe,
but it's almost like it you needed a

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lot of gas to be almost pressurized
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know, getting compromised. I don't
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had to because for an explosion like
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in the basement at the time.
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know, the co founder of Massume, said three employees are in there,

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and then if we had twenty six
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hotel was full, you know at
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on Monday maybe a checkout day and
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time of maybe a given day is
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on a Monday. Yeah, maybe
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again, big stuff happens in DFW, We cover it. We talked

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to people on the scene, and
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do here. On ninety seven on
the Freaking Your Comedy, First Responders on

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the Down. Let's go now to
thecotline again. That was on transition a

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little bit for a man who's trying
to save the Rangers offseason. You know

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him from Hurtado Barbecue, for my
money, one of the best barbecue places

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in this town. It's succulent over
there in Arlington and actually more locations.

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It's Brandon Hartato. How are you
doing, Brandon? Hi, guys,

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good morning, how you doing whoa, Hi Brandon, this is a Annorah.

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Awesome to have you on. Thank
you so much for making some time

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for us. Jack Wagons Man.
I saw your video where basically, you

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know, the Rangers have had a
quiet off season and I don't know how

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much of this has to do with
the Bally TV deal, but you've offered

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a starting pitcher and free agent Jordan
Montgomery free Hurtado barbecue for life if you'll

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just sign with the Rangers. Have
you heard back from Jordan on this.

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I haven't heard back from Jordan just
yet, but I would imagine what the

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buzz that's going around. He's probably
seeing our offer by now, and I

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gotta say I think that, you
know, I feel pretty good about it.

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So you're the official you know barbecue
of the Texas Rangers. Correct,

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Yeah, we're the official barbecue restaurant
of the Texas Rangers. Out of twenty

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twenty three, which is a really
good year to check it in there and

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partner with the Rangers. It's really
awesome because you got the you know,

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the the stand in the ballpark and
obviously right there is it off Division.

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I've been there four or five times. Is that where your restaurant is the

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home base is Yeah. So our
our flagship location, the first one that

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we opened is off Division in downtown
Arlington. We have a second location that's

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in Fort Worth in the Hospital district
right off of Eighth and Rosedale. That's

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been open for a little over a
year and a half now. So we

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have two locations that we're about to
open a third one in Mansfield in the

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next thirty days or so. Wow, congrats on that. So what if?

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What if? Jordan Montgomery says yes
right, signs and he kind of

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in the press conference makes a joke
about the tipping point was the offer from

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her Todd Barbecue, and it's a
yes, right. How does that work?

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Is it? When he leaves the
ballpark every day? You guys just

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bring him a mountain down to the
clubhouse house. It's going to work.

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Here's the deal. You know,
obviously, these guys, they're superstars.

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They can afford to go in the
restaurant and pay for their own barbecue.

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But I think a lot of things
about baseball go far beyond just baseball.

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And I think that the fact that
a small business, a mom and pop

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business, is willing to you know, barbecue is not cheap twenty twenty four.

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Just kind of weird to say barbecue
is not cheap and it's not getting

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any cheaper. Food costs is high, labors high, It's an extensive restaurant

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to get into. But I think
the fact that a small business is willing

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to say, hey, we're willing
to put everything on the line. We

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want to put some skin in the
game and provide you or I'll donate it

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into a local charity. We want
to do. But the fact that we

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want you back, we need Jordan
Montgomery sures is not going to be ready

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yet. You know, whatever opening
day comes, the ground's not going to

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be ready yet until maybe later in
the season. We need Montgomery in our

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pitching corps, and I think,
you know, I'm talking anyone jumping out

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to the to the plate, you
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And I'm like, hey, we
got to do something. We need this

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back. If people forget to we
could go out to see your home run

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and l Bombie. We think about
that stuff. I remember that played Tampa

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Bay Jordan Montgomery, who is a
tank of a man. Remember that diving

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catch on the bunch on the first
baseline. Howly athletic gets up like people

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forget how big of a play that
was and the whole Ranger playoff runt.

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And it's a savvy business move by
you, because Rangers do good, more

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people go to Ranger game, more
people try her Toado Barbecue right there in

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the game, Like it's this is
a win win for everyone on and for

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him to make those plays and pitch
grade, he needs high quality, delicious

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proteins, a lot of it exactly, Maybe an El Cappo or an El

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Patron. Brandon, did you consider
changing the offer from Jordan Montgomery to uh

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Barbecue for life for owner Ray Davis
if you sign Jordan Montgomery. I haven't.

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I have not considered that yet.
I think the Great Ones Barbecue.

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We're more than happy to bring it
in. Well, thank you for your

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time this morning. We appreciate it, and we'll be coming out to try

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Hurtado soon. Man. Hey,
guys, I appreciate you, and we're

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ready to run it back this year. Let's let's bring another world theory.

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That's eff and Go. That is
Brandon Hurtado. I'm freaking starving Tado Barbecue.

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Yeah, because I'm on their website. Yeah. Oh are you kidding

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me? Oh? You're gonna be
salvating good. When we went to opening

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May, I think, I don't
know it's Brandon himself, but her Tatos

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brought out a oh god, remember
that dual platter. I don't know if

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it was the al Cappo. That's
their big thing that feeds six with everything

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on it. Yeah, Jesus,
that's the thing about like them being at

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the ballpark, because let's face it, most ballpark food is garbage because it's

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the in house naccho cheese and wieners
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they'll get some food establishments to come
in, but they're typically not like mom

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and pop really good, earthy,
organic, homemade type spots. We're really

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lucky to have her Tato, to
have a damn outlet in the ballpark.

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It's incredible to have food that high
quality be part of a ballpark. I

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think it's food option, don't you
agree? No, No, it's it's

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very uncommon, That's what I'm saying. It's super uncommon. Dude. We

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we went and walked around Houston with
there, you know, just didn't have

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anything I would have had I not
been wearing underwear and nothing else. Yeah,

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they kind of call it Mexicue,
a little bit dude, the brisk

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the barbicoa tostada, and her title
barbecue. It's ridiculous. Put it up

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there with one of the best things
that were eating in my life and my

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life Natasha. I wonder if Brandon, right, Yeah, I wonder if

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he would consider giving barbecue for life
to the three knuckleheads that h put him

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on the air for the last eight
minutes. I don't think he would consider

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that. That's too bad. I'll
probably be illegal too. Yeah, well,

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not great about it. Yeah,
it's twenty twenty four. Time to

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live dangerously? Hell yeah, yeah, everyone, the most crazy, devisive

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year on our planet lived dangerously out
there? People, you've seen the first

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nine days of this year. What's
that an explosion? Kimmel's going after Aaron

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Rodgers? What Gypsy Rose? Jesus
No gipsy story is good? Coming up

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next? The phone number is this
two one four or eight one seven seven

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eight seven one nine seven one.
We're starting a new series this week called

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the Super wild Card Pump Session.
We want to pump you up because pumpers

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like to pump cowboys. Packers gonna
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long gonna handle the tough part of
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McCarthy be fired if the Cowboys lose
on Sunday, we'll discuss next On ninety

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seven, won the Freak