Good morning. There's pipes bursting everywhere, pipes bursting in Dallas or Worth water
main brakes. But the roads they're nice. We canceled the Metroplex today for
no reason. The roads are just fine, at least on my right end.
How about your ride in? Yeah? Perfect? Are you talking to
us or people that are I'm always talking or something. I'm always talking to
America and our two percent of listeners in Hong Kong. I'd like to put
out the call for people to phone in if their roads are bad. And
I bet we don't get one call no, because this was like a normal
day driving in. Man, I stand and fight for corporate America. Don't
let these people off today. Okay, you call them right now and you
say nah, water cooler talk. The roads are good. My boy's Kevio
dingu and Detective Dick say no, sweat. You can't get anything done unless
you go into the office. Get him in, big boss man, get
them all in, Round them up, get him in. Don't want your
excuses want you're ass in that chair typing away. How is your company going
to be unique? If everyone's just going back to excuses. Everyone's got excuses.
That doesn't make your company any different. You're just like any other company,
trying to stay above the line. Get your employees to work. Those
episodes of Reacher aren't going to watch themselves. That's what they're doing. They're
watching Reacher today. That's what the oil guy I said yesterday. That was
funny. I've been working all night. We're like, oh, man,
what a badass. He's out there. What are you Roughnecker. Yeah,
he's just with a tank top doing the big metal thing, possibly losing a
finger every ten seconds. Oh my dude, Hell yeah, you're out there
getting it done. Gas price is good right now, it's twelve degrees.
This guy's killing it. Yeah, keeping America. Strong smoke coming out of
his mouth, breathing heavy. He's in a nice heated office watching Reacher.
No. I watched Reacher the whole second season, all of it. God
Boss asked him to come in and an overnight and a beautiful warm trailer crushing
Reacher. He experienced the he experienced the Arctic blast, the twelve feet he
walked from the trail door to his truck. He called in because he was
mad about the cowboys. Right, Yeah, as watch Reacher at worked all
right, everybody trying to get over Well, you know what, people don't
make it make it difficult when they close every school in a hundred radius.
Is it a lot of that, dude? Uh yeah, And a lot
of this was getting ahead of it yesterday. And like I'll say, like
yesterday we had NBC five's Kevin Smith on the meteorologist and he predicted that Rhades
would be treacherous today just because the temperatures were going to remain in the fifteens.
But the problem is we just didn't get enough precip over the weekend.
Was that in line with your models? It was in line with my models.
As the week went on, as we got closer, it became more
evident we weren't going to have as much of a threat of precip. Now.
Look at may be different up north, you know Denton County and up
there toward the Red Yeah yeah, but man, down here, it was
a light dusting and and whatever traffic mushed that into slush and uh melted ice.
It all evaporated. We had enough sunshine yesterday where all that stuff evaporated.
Like my yard had snow in it all gone. Yeah yeah, I
figured it would survive the night, but no, we I don't care if
you get to work or not. But no joke. The roads are totally
fine, at least in Dallas from downtown Dallas from oak Cliffe to Addison,
at least in the toll way and all the side roads. Any one was
about my house, which are sometimes the ones that you know don't get the
treatment. Zero problem thirty east or west from East Dallas area six thirty five,
seventy five bridges, overpasses, high fives, exchanges, just like just
like a normal day. Now we're a little further north Richardson going west to
Addison. All clear. Where our problems are going to be today is water
main bursts. What's a water I think it's like the fire higer right or
is it short for main line? Is it it may and e or is
it m A I N water main m A I N it is, Yeah,
sure, I see it right behind your head on the NBC five TV
right there. Look at that, And that's down where we used to work
by what al Rodgers and what is that pearl? Pearl? So there's a
bunch. There's a guy. His name and I thought this was funny when
I looked at the article. His name was Master plumber David Butler, WHOA
so the master plumber I didn't go to plumbing school for eight years, should
be called mister he Uh he said that. Uh, they got a bunch
of calls yesterday. You know, once the temperatures got going up into the
twenties a little bit. They barely got into the twenties and some places though,
So, I mean, but we have a water main burst downtown off
Pearl Street. The watermain burst in four earth and I s's one off one
eighty three as well. And I don't know the specific neighborhood on that yet
because they're just now kind of starting to report these. But yeah, roads
are gonna suck down there by Pearl downtown. Yeah, that's gonna be icy
and nasty today. But the main thoroughfares are largely unaffected. They've I've got
one break that's Highway three seventy seven north of Benbrook one on Jacksonborough Highway,
which is one ninety nine. Kevin familiar with that stretch of land heading toward
downtown Fort Worth along the thirty five west of Felix Street and then the aforementioned
Pearl Street exit ramp from seventy five to what al Rogers. So those all
three are active, and I think they started around three am, and that's
gonna stick and freeze and turned eyes right, because yeah, we don't jump
out of the We don't jump out of like the twenty and to teens.
We didn't get above freezing until maybe tomorrow. What the thing is is they've
gotten ahead of. This has happened early enough that they've already closed those roads.
So put some Brian on it. I don't know. I think they
need to worry about finding the break and shutting the water off down there,
But as far as like traveling on that stuff, look, go to work.
Watch some Reacher. The highest sixty one next Tuesday, just so everyone,
look, we're gonna make it through it just fine. It'll be sub
sub freezing all day today and then tonight and then tomorrow. I think we're
up into what the low forties. Yeah, the Friday, another cold front
hands. I think the high on Friday's thirty four, the high on Saturday's
thirty six, So stay inside and watch football Saturday. I guess the thing
that blew my mind was opening up the school closing list, the most recent
one, and I mean they made these decisions last night. I know it's
probably difficult to put that horse back in the barn, you know, overnight,
But dude, this list, Mikey, this page. Look at this,
I mean it is look at this. This is all DFW, and
percent of the text that you're seeing there are closed schools or delay openings,
closed their campus to really yes, it's according to this, it's just precautionary
from the hell we all had a couple of years ago, right, yeah,
and why not get ahead of it. What's the real problem if you
miss it this way versus say they're open and then it's hell out there?
Can you imagine someone from Buffalo coming to Dallas for the first time and hearing
this segment, yeah, and being outside to them this is spring beautiful,
y'all coast for hunh you'r coach for who y'all wait won yesterday? I don't
think they sound like that, not at all. Well, but odd voice,
I think you need to keep working workshopping Buffalo, Kevo, don't add
Buffalo to your list. Stop thinking of Buffalo. I don't care what anyone
says. The Buffalo Loud Wings commercial with the singing Buffalo is hilarious, Like
that is they just the commercial stars. You don't see him, and you
hear him going on the barbecue wa and it's a huge buffalo and when it
zooms out you can see how big he is, his heads always hitting the
ceiling and he's talking to the people at the table, just having wings.
It's great. I missed the buffalo. Did you see the newest, the
Great White Buffalo? The Ella Cool Jay Don't turn in your parents commercial?
No, oh, those are obviously we all love those. And it's the
one dude, Oh, I think no, it wasn't Kevin. He's standing
there and then doctor Rick is there. He's like, I don't want to
slowly turn around and just don't do anything. And the guy turns around and
it's hello, cool Jay standing there and he just immediately extends his hand and
says Keith and introduces himself. Instantly freaks out. And then they show him
showing videos of his nephew to Elle cool Jy on his phone, Yeah,
on his phone, trying to find him piano recital. I s all the
blue hair at the store, don't say it. Yeah, that's what I'll
see it exactly, I'll see it blue. It's funny watching like people that
were you know, relevant in the nineties eighties, that are aging and you
know, growing in the middle age, just kind of embracing that role and
remaining in entertainment. Like Ll could probably have never imagined himself in twenty twenty
four being the old guy in the insurance spot. Ye, turning into your
dad. And that's the connector is well, I'm a contemporary of your dad,
so of course they know me. It's just really funny to see because
we're all, you know, I'm probably closer. I'm closer to ELL's age
than you guys. Obviously you are Kevin, but you two Mikey. So
it's just funny to see all these dudes that I grew up with that were
you know, relevant to high school in my early twenties that are now thought
of as grandparents. And he's fifty six. Yeah, he's older than me.
Crazy. What's your exact birthday? I'd rather not give that out.
Why doesn't people don't need to March. We'll just say March. Stay away
from his birth certificate. I wanted to see what slab might be born in
the exact same day as you. Well, why would that you worried about
receiving tons of great presents. No really not. Oh, it's like my
birthday. I don't share it with anybody really great, Like it's Jason Kidd
and like one other person Heath Ledger for me, I meant on your exact
day, like there was one exact year, oh year, and yeah,
okay that I don't know. I don't worry about them. I don't think
anybody good. Yeah, what about minute now or do you go to find
that in the time you're born. I have some sort of like a piece
of art on my in my house was Zoo animals and yeah, like Clay
Numbers and the show the exact I think it was very very early in the
morning. Mine is a baby shoe. Yeah, there you go. We
all got something eight to fourteen pm PM, which explains my night out tendencies
before they said you'll be good for morning drive. I think mine was three
or four of the morning, which in yours as well, which explains our
overnight ol tendency. Yeah, exactly. Hoot. Paul Cogan saved a life.
We'll get to that in twenty minutes. Sports at seven, uh and
the preliminary teas I'm going with right now, although it could use workshopping is
why the Cowboys should hurry and make a decision, much like officials did in
DFW to cancel school today. They should make it fast. I texted you
guys in the middle of the third last night that Eagles game, saying,
I hope Jerry's on the phone with with Bill. Bill was on the phone
or in person with the Atlanta Falcons last night, Bill being Bill Cosby.
Look at him, Bill Belichick? What if it just hit me? What
if Bill Cosy was the coach of the Falcons? How well did that be
if he coached the NFL dame after all of these been through, I had
put people there and they're just dominant. It's like, damn it, I
don't want to pull for him. If they're fun, they're running the fact
he's a bad man. Did uh Belichick really did an interview with him?
He interviewed with the Falcons last night. Yes, that's what I wanted to
ask you guys. I saw that too. Do you think that Belichick is
going to take the first offer that he vibes with or is he going to
do the NFL tour and just first class food hotel? Or does he even
care about that stuff? Can you imagine that dude in an interview, you
know, yeah, you know we you know, we got a big plan.
We had some in our past and you know, look to replicated.
Here here's my dog. Like does he even like try to fake a smile
in an interview, you know, and like put on anything other than I
think so, I think he's a little more relatable than he shows. I
do believe that. You know what I bet it is is I go ahead
that bella chicken saving thing. That documentary on HBO was eye opening. It
showed that he's a real person. He's still boring, but you know,
it showed that he's got something. I bet beyond him slapping down his resume,
which like you need a printed copy of that. His credentials speak for
themselves. I bet what it is is the teams, the suitors are asking
him, hey, looking at our situation, what would you do? And
I'm talking about personnel schemes all that stuff. And then the owners a GM
probably listens to what he has to say and if that stuff, you know,
works for them or gets them excited, he's cool with Arthur Blank Arthur
Mike is going to let him run the show. Now you don't have a
quarterback, so you figure all that out. Yeah, but they got a
lot of other stuff, at least offensively. I wonder how I would love
to talk to a coach, maybe retired one, about the process of interviewing
for head coaching job, because you do here sometimes it's five hours. And
then does Bill Belichick have to go nuts preparing for an interview with the Falcons
and learning every position players, you know, contract situation, who's not going
to be here, what gaps need to be Like, do you have to
do all that beforehand? Does the average potential first time head coach have to
do that? Bill Belichick doesn't really have to do that. It may have
to Bill to do anything. I would imagine, right, he's like,
look who I am? It might be you know how Like we talk about
chemistry and one of the clearest paths to success is to be able to get
along with people you know, and absolutely especially unper management, they love us,
love us. But I bet it's a lot of that just trying to
like kind of getting to know each other, the personality, seeing how how
you gel with the with the people that are obviously going to be there when
when you're gone. Probably that you know, just kind of find out if
you vibe with each other. It's dumb for him if to just go and
take the Falcons job, and the Falcons it's great for them if they could
get Bill Belichick right. Whether you think of Bill Belichick, this is good
for the Falcons either way, if they work. It'd be done for him
to take the job without the Chargers or that the Cowboys hiring anyone. I
mean, you know, at least, dude, you at least listen.
He may have it in his mind, I would never work for the Jones
family. I don't think that's the case. In fact, I think he
would like to be here. I wonder if he has any of the I
don't want to call it infatuational Cowboys franchise, and maybe it's completely fabricated from
us living down here, but there is I think a little mystique to the
damn Dallas Cowboys and for a guy like him, the opportunity to return us
to where we belong, you know, where our fan base believes that we
you know, the normal rules don't apply and twelve when seasons aren't to be
celebrated. If you get bounced, how fast could you prove that it was
not all Tom. Just in the narratives of dummies. It doesn't matter,
but history will still look at no matter what happened, you won without Tom
somewhere else and go to a roster that is ready to win games. I
don't know that they're ready to win super Bowls, but they're ready to win
games. You can't argue that, and that's where you go. Man.
And I don't know. It's like, if you lose McCarthy, how much
does that impact Dak. I don't know. I don't think it impacts him
too much because Dak's been good before Mike McCarthy was his coach. And I
know a lot of people don't want to admit that, but it's true.
So I think Belichick here makes more sense than other people. As listen to
Kavanar said, I don't think that's what Kavanaugh wants. You know, he
wants a young uh you know, kind of a young, more young gun
if we're gonna do it. I also think Kavanaugh fully feels like McCarthy he
said, or say, yeah, he probably should be fired for that loss,
but we all acknowledged we don't know if it's the right thing to do
as well, go it's a risky thing and the next thing could suck,
but the roster's ready to win at least ten, eleven, twelve games.
I know it's he's kind of the unicorn in the world of NFL coaching,
but I mean, Mike Tomlin has been around forever. He's the most tenured
coach in football, right, yeah, and they just keep running him back
out there regardless of the outcome of their seasons. Did you see they don't
they don't win. I mean, they don't. Press conversation at the end
of his press conference, I saw a blurb. Why what was the that
Maddy crak me up, please, Maddie and for aj this morning. He'll
Maddie, let's uh for you play this Competer we unmute? Its working,
Kevin Ken Is this working many? My competer man? It says it's implying
it. So I don't know, Kevin, Okay, whatever the point is
he was at the question was like, it wasn't questions, Mike, you
have a year left on your contract, and then he said deuces and left
and he just did the yep James Harden eye roll and walk off the podium
like before the question got finished. I can't help it that, like we're
so effan messed up in the head with this what the Cowboys are and how
anyone in the league views them. You know, don't I even talk about
him? But it is Mike Tomlin maybe, like you know what I want
to change and the big the big job is open or are we just nuts
to even think that? I mean, the Pittsburgh Steelers, that's not any
step below the Dallas Cowboy or is it perception wise? It is? Is
it? I mean they have more titles than the Cowboys, right? Is
it tied? Are them in the Patriots than they had four in the seventies
and then one they have five? Yeah, I think they have the same.
Yeah, it's forty five. I know, did they win four out
of five years? Seers five? Steelers and Patriots have six apiece? Okay,
Steelers got Cowboys forty nine? Ers have five. Yeah, I'm telling
you, like I the Steelers might well, I don't you know, you
can't say it because the ratings and all this stuff that is consistent with the
Cowboys have two quarterbacks in my lifetime. I have two coaches in my lifetime,
Bill Cowvern, Mike Tomlin. Yeah, that is weird. Did they
go right from Chuck Nole to Cower? I think so. I answered their
bit too right. We have coaches for twenty years at a time for them
to the seven had a losing record with him as head coach. Yeah,
he's incredible from having a rebuild, I guess. But man, so they
got one Super Bowl under Cower? Yeah, yes, the it was the
one with is it when they beat Seattle in six? I believe the Arizona
one? That's right. I think that was Bruce Springsteen at halftime. That's
my memory. They had a bunch of coaches in their first decade basically,
can anyone name one? Peter Hines, No, Peter Hinds. I don't
know. I don't think I've ever heard of any of these people. Richard
three Rivers, you know what? This is their handful of coaches before Chuck
Nold, Bill Austen, Mike Nixon, Buddy Parker, Walt Keisling. These
are all of my grandpa's drinking buddies. These guys all work at air Tractor.
Joe Bach, Oh, yeah he's good. He was good last night
with Troy. That's Buck John Mickelson. And then they Chuck Field's Dad Chuck
Nole there forever. Then Bill Cower for a massive chunk my Tom, and
that is kind of amazing. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold
on. Troy came up. Can I put Can I play something for you
guys? Yeah? Man, oh yeah, I assume it works. Maddie,
Let's see if this is up. You're ready. This is from the
past, because that sets up here we go lecher Cox of the Eagles,
this is from the past, and it was me and Skin on the air.
Okay, cast, okay, and it's gonna We're gonna get back to
Joe. We go back to Joe and Troy in a minute of the date
bletcher Cox of the Eagles one of the best Cox dump it? But Butcher
Cox, what are the best tackles? I didn't hear what you missaid,
but your cos what do you want me to do? Likes? My what
are you talking? Football? Okay? You made it singular. Fletcher Cox
is tough and Troy but now knows how I felt on that fateful day.
You're ready last night Monday Night football and Baker trying to step up. Fletcher
Cock Cox makes a huge play on him and he did. Joe, You're
right, he got hit hard, able to get out. Okay, you
left all of them in there, hit hard and get up. Yeah,
I love it. Celebrities, they're just like us. It's at least so
quick though. Troy kind of oh yeah, I should probably, and Baker
trying to step up. Fletcher cock Cox makes a huge play on him,
and he did. Joe, You're right, he got hit hard, able
to get out, were able to get up. Troy had a little bit
of a sinusy voice last night, But dude, I'll give even the Steelers.
They played the Bills pretty tough. Yeah, they gave it to him
a little bit. And I was thinking of the Cowboys again, like that's
a team with a beat up backup QBU probably didn't belong playing. Yeah,
but Tomlin always has them playing above their heads or above where they should be
sure. And they were down what fourteen and nothing like lightning, and they
had to toughen up and fight and they hung in there and they were in
that game until very late. And it's just the opposite of what happens here.
Yeah, complete opposite. Yeah, the Cowboys were the Cadillac that hadn't
had an oil change in ten thousand miles. But they have a brand new
air freshener pine tree hanging from the rear view mirror that the owner of it
spent more on that than he did, you know, maintaining the engine and
a good washing in detail. Huh in this vehicle just got was Steelers showed
up in what nineteen seventy four snowplaid F one hundred. Well, I'll say
the game was also twenty one bodywork. I think it was twenty one nothing
and Steelers couldn't hold on the ball. The Bills are the clear better team.
I think we're now like asking that like weird question, like we're the
Cowboys the clear better team? I think they were and they were at the
beginning of the year. Where the Cowboys the clear better team than the Packer?
What are the Packers go play San Francisco good? I don't think that's
gonna happen. I really don't. I think San Francisco is far and away
the best team in football. I even think they're better than Baltimore, who
smoked them. I do think that, Like hou s like wonder if like
did things even out that quickly as we went on throughout the year, are
sting to keep these things going. Are you saying that that that the Cowboys
game could have been that weird confluence of one team showing up and having that
anomaly of their worst performance of the year arguably, and the other team showing
up and having their best. Yes, and that's all just to do about
nothing. Well, I'm saying it's possible, that's a part of it.
And if they play that game fifty more times, the Cowboys win it forty
nine, which that is a and isn't that a vote for running it back?
It is, But I mean, yeah, that's a hell of a
jump to make, and there's not much evidence that supports that being that's the
thing is, you can't prove that there's no data that can really improve that.
Yes, right, if the Packers go and god forbid, beat San
Francisco, I mean, it's San Francisco and the rest. Because one of
the four teams of the forty nine ers, the Packers, the Bucks,
and the Lions are going to the Super Bowl, and the Cowbys and Eagles
are better than those teams for majority of the season. You know, yeah,
better Since you're gonna mark Cuban Day at eleven thirty, listen to that
but when you listen to the Menskin Show, just listen for little tiny things.
They'll sprinkle in there. I've worked with them long enough to know they're
not just gonna come out and tell you what's happening. They will sprinkle things.
And Ben kept saying yesterday someone that he knows that's close with decision makers.
You know, dan Quinn was the succession plan, and now that's created
a bit of turbulence. But like, I think it would have been real
easy. If that game was close, then they would have just been like,
man, you had your shot, Mike, here's dan Quinn. Keep
in mind, we got to remember what we said three four or five months
ago, six months ago, because here's what it was when Kellen Morris pushed
out and things removed, and assistant coaches who have been here for a long
time, Dug Nusts Myers of the world are pushed out. They're pushed out
in the name of this is your chance, Mike, go make it happen.
We're giving you the keys. He got the keys, and that happened.
He dropped the keys in the storm grate in the parking lot, so
I think he's probably gone. But yeah, let's do that at the top
of Oh it's not sports yet, all right, it's the top of seven
o'clock because I want to do this every day, because this is gonna change
in our heads every day. It's like, what you think is what you
think the resolution of this is for the Cowboys? Sure, And like yesterday
I was like, you know what sports gun to Monogan, I'm going with
Mike Vrabel. Yeah, And now I don't know if I feel the same
way, So I don't know. Artist sports at seven, let's do the
daily guess on how this soap opera ends over the next couple months. I
get, why do I have a weird feeling that the judges are scrambling to
find a black guy to interview to just get the Rooney rule requirement out of
the way, like they did when they interviewed Marvin Lewis and then hired Mike
McCarthy. They don't like to interview for head coaches either, so it'll be
someone they know or have a good feeling about. So there's that kind of
make sure today a lot of stuff, guys. I'm at a bit of
a war with the city of More, Oklahoma. More on that at eight,
and it does involve Dildo's good big stuff at the Emmy's last night.
I guess nine o'clock will review some of that. I can uncross my fingers
now for eight o'clock. I just thought other big things happening all around the
Metroplex. We're live, we're local, we're kicking ass. Coming up next
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