The Downbeat on ninety seven to one, The Freak seven thirty will say,
if your eyes are going to be permanently messed up from yesterday eight o'clock.
Author Don Van Nada joins the show. He's writing the Jerry Jones biography.
I just wrote down off the top of my head, like four questions,
but there's many more, the wrenth of my mind about this one other thing
on that, because we're talking about why Jerry would let the guy who continues
to write expose's on his poor behavior write a book about him. And I
think you're probably spot on what you said to anywhere. It's just either he
didn't care, he respects the best of the best, does good work like
that was thorough the way you rip me a new one. But also is
anyone else doing it? And if somebody approaches you and is like, I
want to write your story, your whole life story, Like isn't that everyone's
not everyone's dream because not realistic and all of our lives are nowhere near full
enough to write a book about. I suppose, well, I'm gathering from
what you've said that this is an authorized biography, then well that's a good
question. There was a picture of them talking on the man. We can
ask him that, Yeah, I mean, obviously that'll be a big thing.
We ask him, is the Jerry Jones support or involvement in this?
Yeah? Yeah, because typically an authorized biographies, I think that can be
misleading because then you you, I think you end up giving up too much
control to have the narrative customized to benefit the person that's being written about.
Right. Yeah, this doesn't say, and he may not be willing to
say, is this book didn't come out for another two years? Has he
even started it? Surely he started it. Surely he's been working on us
for a long time. And I think just by interviewing someone about their life,
if they're willing to talk to you, I mean, Jerry's pretty open
to talk to anybody. You know, hop on the bus, let's go
have a have a cocktail and let's chat. Yeah, it could be no
more than that, and that's gonna be the things from those conversations could be
included in the book. But as far as Jerry having a lot of control
on what's written and what's what goes to press, I doubt. I don't
think Don would write. I don't think Don would write a book like that,
and imagine Jerry's like, look, yeah, tell my story. And
Jerry, in the deep part of his head is probably you don't know the
worst. Like Don's like singing, writ yeah the daughter, and yeah I
did this and yeah I went to that rally and Don's like, well the
picture yeah, And then Jerry's like, whoa who you talk to? I
don't know how you keep that book under five thousand pages long like I have.
You're gonna you have to leave that huge stuff. I mean, were
you talking about the Are we talking about the party House in nineteen ninety three?
Yeah? You, yes. I don't know that he will Maybe that's
cowboys centric and that's more of a Michael Irvin Eric Williams tail maybe then a
Jerry Jones tail. Maybe that's left out. I don't know. That's why
I want to ask him. Interesting. OK, we'll have him just because
we didn't. I mean, we had some response from some listeners who are
like, yeah, you should do this. Tomorrow we're having on comedian Dusty
Sleigh. I gotta do some Dusty Sleigh homework tonight. You're gonna see him
and you're gonna think he's Joe Dirt and then you're gonna be blown away by
his voice. I might see him and go, oh that guy you and
him. You might yeah, but he's a I listen, I'm not gonna
tell you that I'm a Dusty Sleigh fan. I have not seen much of
his stuff. I've seen a couple of things enough that when I got the
email, I knew his name and okay, interesting, and I think we
do it out there on the air last week, and we got a little
bit of listener feedback was like, yeah, you absolutely take him. We'll
see, we'll have him for ten minutes tomorrow. But right now, let's
do the most important thing in the world. Wait, yes, talking before
we discuss how we took it in. Here's how it went down live on
ninety seven one The Freak yesterday at Clyde Warren Park with the min and skin
show in the speakeasy. Thirty seconds, everybody, it's about to get really
weird. It does look like night rain. Like right now, your boys
got so high because I really gonna eat me quiet because people are hating us.
Right now we are eight seconds away from your life being changed forever.
Ladies and gentlemen, soak it in. It's the path of totality. It
is happening. I swear girlfriends with pubic hair is heavier than that. Yes,
there's no sexual morality in the path of totality. It's so weird that
people are clapping for the sun. Who are they clapping for the moon?
Everywhere? That is a question whose side are we on? Here? Take
your glasses off and look around at how dark it is? My legal dark,
most there, almost there, almost there, almost there, almost there,
adding Christina, look at how dark it is. This happened show.
No glasses were days. Look at it. Look at this and this is
completely orgasmic. Shooty, oh my god. Look at how well lit me
Cosina is. Oh my god, that's funny. We're all dead. We're
all dead. Grooves grooves are shoo bad. That's funny. I was listening.
Yeah, it was a little delayed, you know when you listen.
I was watching on the Instagram live you see the video, and I actually
had social media yesterday with Ashley and she was, uh yeah, she had
pictures of it too, happening. I don't know where she got that feed
or if she was doing it herself. I'm not sure how that worked out,
but it was cool because a good shot at the eclips happening on the
feed. I don't know if we get ratings credit for watching on Instagram live
or not, but the company is tracking our Instagram engagement, so maybe a
good thing. I don't know and don't care. Go ahead, what'd you
guys do? I had quiet experience, so go ahead kick it off.
So there's a park. I was gonna go down to Clydeborne Park and join
the gang, but then I was like a traffic and all that stuff.
But more on that later. Traffic. The uh, there's a park near
my house. So I got home and immediately like I tried to go to
sleep. I said, look, I'm sleeping till twelve and then so so
and I, Uh, I made myself a peanut butter sandwich, no jelly
I had. I hit fast forward. Yeah, yeah, that doesn't sound
like essential information. I got some sun chips, okay, fast forward,
fast forward times two. They didn't have moon pies at the store. Can
we listen to this? At one point five? That's what people do?
This a podcast what people do sometimes? The point is a lovely picnic at
twelve fifteen, twelve twenty. It begins at twelve twenty three, and we
were talking about the one forty twelve twenty three. It's on goggles on,
it's covered, it's starting to cover it. It was badass, okay,
so let's start with that. So the big concern, and I was really
convinced that it was just going to be thick ass clouds, were you,
guys? I was shocked when at about twelve ten, the rays, the
real sun rays started beaming down on my neighborhood. I'm like, okay,
this thing might happen. Well, you were down playing it all day saying
it was gonna be cloud covered, and we were all boned. I fought
clouds pretty much the whole time. Yeah, I think everyone did, and
some people did probably get somewhat screwed by clouds, but I'm talking about but
there were gaps, it was partly cloudy, and they were moving quickly,
so there was very little time where the sun was just completely obscured for long,
like minutes upon minutes. And I really did think that with that storm
coming in, which it just seems like it came in a lot later than
they expected, I did that it was going to be those thick, thick,
gray white clouds just covering the entire area for the duration, so we
got really lucky. It was awesome. This is going down, lovely picnic,
great day. But there's tons of people in the park where I'm at,
and there was a school and this is kind of where you got me.
Uh, this is this is what's weird. But this is where I
kind of got chills more than anything. It is like so it's just like
it's preschool where kindergarten kids and the clouds are covering it up and they start
chanting, go away, really cloudy. It's like forty kids, but the
clouds do go away and it starts to happen, and kind of like that
in that clip, you could hear the crowds start to just kind of uh,
you have all these people, but especially these kids just started shrieking.
You know what it's I mean, it's a bunch of kids and they were
on the other side of the park, but they're just shrieking as as they're
seeing it happen, just getting louder because they were effing thrilled. And that
part I just like, I was just like, this is unbelievable. I
don't know why that part got me a little bit but I was just like,
it's so cool. I think every I think what you just described in
that audio that you played of them listening live told the stories, the same
story for all for all of us. What was you were thinking and hearing?
Because yes, it's cool, right, Oh my god, it's covering
it. You keep looking, it keeps trying to cover it, right,
and I feel like and I'm somewhere, maybe in Florida years ago I saw
a partial eclipse, because I remember I was not I was excited, but
I wasn't blown. I wasn't all that excited for you stas. I'm like,
all right, it's gonna be cool. You know, I give or
take. I know this is gonna look like same cool. Excited, I'm
outside. I went to my front yard but plopped a chair out there,
had Simon and Hendrix by myself, glasses on, chilling, and it kept
covering, covering. I had no idea that when it got to that totality
what it was going to be, and that audible shriek was on air,
I mean skin They were screwing around, making jokes and then then when it
hit total you could hear them yell and act differently. Those kids acted differently
when it hit. I absolutely acted differently. All the way up to winter,
it was just a little sliver of the sun. I'm like, oh
cool. But when that thing hit total and I took those glasses off,
I involuntarily said, oh my effing god, I know I did, and
again I was by myself. Yeah, I shrieked like it was David Blaine's
birthday, and I said, Oh, my efing god, I don't know
that. Look, I'm not radio man. That's one of the most amazing
things I've ever seen in my damn life. It was awesome. I can
Before it left totality, I was like, I can see why these crazy
people traveled to fight to hunt these things. I can see. I mean,
dude, I would fly to whatever, Arizona something a couple hours to
experience that. Again. Too much, absolutely incredible to experience. Yeah.
Look, I'm historically and one known to be one that will downplay things or
not buy into hype. Kind of like, was it Tim yesterday that I
did? I kind of, I don't know. I saw his point of
view. I didn't agree with it completely. I was concerned, obviously that
I thought that the clouds were going to screw this whole thing up. But
I still thought total darkness would be cool. But nothing that anybody, no
photograph, no video, and no personal description could prepare me for the feeling
that I had when that happened yesterday. So I was at home with Malcolm.
It was just he and I and at about twelve twenty, it's like,
let's go, let's go out in the backyard. And because I wanted
him to see how interested he would be in and he doesn't like wearing glasses
or things on his face, but I didn't get him to put him on
and look up at the sun when the when the moon started kind of starting
starting to invade on the Sun's property a little bit, and that was really
cool, and he did check it out, but he was more interested in
pointing out where Geraldine's dog poop was in the backyard. That though it is,
it's very important. And once we i'd say it reached about twenty five
percent coverage, I was like, let's go out in the front and we
went out in the front yard and kind of killed some time. He got
in his swing and I'm looking up at it, kind of monitoring it and
everything. And then once it gets to the point where, okay, this
is getting close. I went across the street to my neighbor's yard and he
doesn't have any trees, so I was able to get a real clear view
of it. And Malcolm was in our yard across the street, you know,
hitting baseballs off of a tee at me, and when it happened,
the it's it's I'm almost speechless to describe it. The sensation, the feeling
that in one moment it is pure daylight, and then for a stretch of
about four minutes, the neighborhood become something that you'll never experience again. In
that way. People's people's lights that are set to timers or are set on
a light sensitive timers that you know there, there's their porch lights go on
when the sun goes down. All of those came on. The street lights
came on. A guy that still has his damn Christmas lights up that are
set to one of those. Those went on, and the birds went completely
silent. You could hear animals, you could hear dogs in the neighborhoods kind
of making some you know, some reaction to it. I heard cheering in
the park down the street. It was it was ominous. In a way.
But it was also it was there was a sense of elation, there
was no sense of dread. It was it was an emotional experience. And
I'm not one to really say things like that about something that you know and
did you see? Did you? I'm having a hard time getting it into
words, I really am, But were you? Sort of what I said,
which was, yeah, this is gonna be cool, but until it
hit, you had a different I had a completely different reaction than I expected
when it went total. Man, I just don't know what I I guess
I did expect that didn't city build up or anything. No, I did,
But I was like, all right, I give or take. I
know what this is going to be. Yeah. Sure, whether you mentally
calm yourself or prep yourself or try not to get too excited, I don't
know whatever. But when it hit, man, I felt like I was
on a different planet. Yeah, and it was just I don't want to
be cheesy, but like a peaceful moment. Oh I got misty eyed,
but I cry like I'm getting worse. I I haven't got MISTI oud of
nam WrestleMania. Okay, I'm sorry, I don't I don't care. Oh
my God, it's Meek Mill. He's here, so like it's it probably
happened four times this weekend, so it's not abnormal for me. I don't
know why, and I'll still whoop your ass say something about it. No,
I'm tough as hell, but I also cry a little bit. And
I'm not saying ball, but I get misty eye. Man, I get
emotional on important things that maybe I just deem important for a brief moment,
or something that's important to someone else really gets me. If I can watch
anyone around a marathon toward the finish line, I'll cry the whole time because
these people are achieving their life dream. Whatever I did, I got misty
eyed and I was just there in silence, and I pet my dogs and
I'm like, I don't know, this is just a magic moment that I'm
not gonna forget. But I just felt way different than I was expecting to
feel because of Bamn. When I've hit I found myself. And maybe i'll
play this later, I don't know. I don't know if I want to,
but it's pretty awesome. But I did film about a minute and a
half of the neighborhood when it was in totality, and you can see Malcolm
in the background just firing off baseballs and at one point he goes, Daddy,
is it nighttime? Yeah, the most basic, simple question. Yeah,
it kind of is. But not for long man, and the reaction
that I have to it. I'm not even realizing that I'm filming. And
I go back and I listen to this, like, you sound like an
idiot. I sound like the guy that saw the double rainbow. Oh my
god, my god, is this real? Is this real life? Okay?
Like I know that if you're a person who was just tired of the
hype because this has been in the news around here for three months, like
I get I actually understand that part. I'm just tired of hearing about it.
Everyone's been talking about it for three months. I get that, And
I think even those people get swung on it, you know eventually where I
think I ended up feeling and I knew. I kind of knew it was
gonna happen, I think, but I was like almost in my head,
going, how could you take this for granted? This is the ultimate everything
is bigger than you moment? It truly was. Yeah, maybe that's the
root of it. I think that's what stop and go. I don't really
matter that much and I don't know man it when it happened to me,
like as dark as the guy I heard TC. He jumped on with the
Speakes yesterday and he mentioned a skin reference because skin is like, it's like
it's eight thirty PM. And TC said, no, it's kind of like
a no shade of color that I've ever really seen. And I agree with
that outside a text TC, and it remind him skin is color blind.
He couldn't see a thing. Yeah, don't trust me. Don't trust him
about anything when it comes to that. Skin doesn't know what color anything is.
When people say they don't see color, skin truly does not see color.
He thinks I'm Mexican. Yes, he always goes hey, dingle.
It's really shocking. He shouldn't do it that way. But I wish he's
allow it because we know of his condition. Right. But I agree the
color, the shade of that color was, I agree, like not it
almost felt like you were in the upside down and stranger things. Yeah,
yeah, it was like you It's like Apple put a filter on on your
world for about four minutes. That that is not known to man I ran
into look I got when that was happening. I'm like, dude, I
downplayed this in my head. Maybe not downplayed it, but it just wasn't
what I expected. And I thought back to Tim's phone call yesterday, and
I go, Tim was wrong. These people that traveled here, good for
them, you know what I'm saying. That there were people at the park
at freaking Saint Francis Park right down the street from my house when I went
up there. Afterwards, we walked to the park to go play playground,
and there were people that were not from the state that travel to Hear two
Texas, and somehow they found in far east Yallas this little park and they
camped up there and sat out there and watched the eclipse. And I heard
him talking as they were they had met some other people that had come from
out out of town, and like, so, are you guys heading back
tonight or tomorrow. It's like, yeah, we got to fly out in
the morning, so we're gonna go do some blah blah blah, and like,
what the hell? They're in my neighborhood, my little silly neighborhood.
And they found that spot out of the way to watch the eclipse and they
traveled here for it, and good for them. I think it's awesome yea,
and I would love to see this again sometime to experience that again tomorrow.
Do you want to do it tomorrow? Yes, God, let's go
to Clyde Warren Park tomorrow and just see if it happens. By all accounts,
that was not exaggerated, that the number of people coming, the specific
number might have been. But even then on the area yesterday, we're just
like men, was even panicking about I don't want to hand out all these
ninety seven one of the freak chirchs to people who don't live here, panicking
because there was a lot of people who weren't from here. Can you see
everyone with glass on staring at the sun and the moon, and Ben just
staring at the merch table, just John d dang it from Michigan. I'm
gonna listen, gonna help us. I get out. We started going in
line and interviewing people asking where they were from. Dude, We've got an
ESPA. More of eclipse stuff throughout the show. I want to hear JJ's
experience too. We'll get that next. We will do a little bit of
sports as well, and and more than its seven thirty. The whole eye
Eye thing, we'll get to that. It's a big show. It's fun
stuff, all right. We'll continue the excitement freak