This is a downbeat on ninety seven one freak. We are thirty minutes away
or less from the downbeat singing boxes of chocolate? How many pieces of chocolate
we have in there? Because I want to ditch one of my pieces of
chocolate? I think that would put us out eleven if we have twelve?
You have? We have five, six or eight five chocolates for me?
You know I have Trace chocolates, sleesh, So you have two. I
think I want to ditch one. It's just it's just not that funny.
It's not about funny. It's about quality. No, it's about effort.
No, it's about all right, I'll do all the audience liking it.
I don't know what it's about. I think it's just mean. And it's
not that funny. Mean, it's mean. It's Valentine's Day. What would
be possibly mean about a Valentine's Day song? Yeah, this is about love
and the expression of love to someone you care deeply for, Okay, and
that's what this segment represents. Well, that's not how my chocolates came out.
By one that's really good. I know that based on the break when
we all had headphones on, We're rehearsing. Danny's going last. Now you
heard a piece of his chocolate. I heard you make comment that I'm moving
it. Danny will go last. Okay, either way, downbeat, singing
boxes and chocolate coming at eight o'clock, nine o'clock Mojo dojo ladies. Oh,
we got a couple of good ones coming in. What's up? Yeah?
Keep texting them in two four see text it. You can also leave
talkbacks too, because we will listen to those, and it'd be nice to
hear your actual voice on the radio. Yeah, sexy voice today, helly,
exy voice. Do we have a police chase? Someone said that we
had a police chase. I'm trying to find out a little more on that
because we'll have one TV in here right now cause their direct TV box has
been off for three weeks ago. Have you restarted it? But the person
said was on Fox might be over already. Yeah, I have unplugged it
and restarted it. So I think I think it's going to take someone scaling
the building and shaking the satellite. I don't know. I'll i'll head up
there. I really don't know how it works, but yeah someone yeah,
I texted in not sometimes you can fool this when you text and stuff.
But this person said was on Fox, might be over already, And I
asked where, where tell me more? And I got nothing out, nothing
back. So you know there. If we find out more about a police
chase going down in DFW, we will let you know a SAP probably in
the scuttle But nothing on my police chase accounts either, so I don't know.
We'll see. So the first story I'd like to get into in the
scuttle butt involves kyote or kyote, because we had an attack in Arlington on
Saturday. Okay, now, this was at a park called Parkway Central Park
in North Arlington on Van Buren Saturday. A child was bit by a kyote.
Oh, they closed the park last night when they were notified that a
second child was bitten. What the hell? And it was believed to be
by the same kyote. They will go after toddlers man they did recently.
One of Julie's person that lived in Julie's neighborhood is like a two year old
bit run the front porch, Is that right? Yeah? I didn't hear
that just a couple of years ago, but yeah, god knows. What
crap they're carrying around, you know, yeah, crap teeth. So they've
Animal Services has set out traps they're trying to trap, but they closed the
park last night. As far as we know nothing. Now here's the thing
with coties. You can get confused if you're not seeing very well if it
looks like if it's a dog or not, because it's to the untrained eye.
Yeah there, But they're around. I see them all the time all
the time. Uh. And Richardson lived in the village in Dallas. When
I live there, we see them all the time. Why are they there
in the middle of the day, crossing the street? What do they do?
They are they underground? Like where are they at? The tunnel?
Sources of water? Typically, and I live in a neighborhood that has a
creek that runs through if you want to call it a creek, I think
it's just a filter for trash for the most part. But yeah, there's
then that's where they they get their water sources. And there's other animals that,
you know, other smaller animals, rats, possum that they'll they'll eat.
That's how that's how they thrive. But man, they are not opposed
to messing with toddlers or other smaller animals that are out and about. They
lived six to eight years in a while, it says up to twenty one
years in captivity. But I don't know. To live in the middle of
a metroplex, I guess you don't have a choice. But it just seems
like they would have migrated out over the years and gotten the hell away from
this. Why would you live at the village? The thing is, when
I saw one, there's the most telling one recently, about a year and
a half ago, I still lived to the village. I was driving to
work and it ran out in front of the road, but also ran out
in front of the side of where a person was jogging on the sidewalk,
and they stopped and froze, and it ran into this parking lot. So
I flipped my car around drive into the parking lot. There's an old lady
getting groceries out of her car, you know. So I parked my car
for a minute and kind of got out to kind of like, WHOA,
you're ready to go? Coyote attacks the old lady. You were, You're
ready. Look, not all of us are born that way, but you
are. You parked your car and you were ready to spring an action.
You are a man of action. Kevo, fight the coyote. We're gonna
just terry tate the coyote. If you went to the old lady, I
think I was gonna re run it a go full just Goldberg, a full
lot of water boy. I can see katv in a psycho water boy like,
yeah, football, imagine something traumatic from the past and then and let
it bring out the anger. Yeah, yeah, that's what you're gonna do.
You're gonna defend the old lady. I think, so does it?
Try You got out of your car but could find him? Hee say he
was gone, Like he wasn't there. That's too big of a bite.
Though. For the coyote, that don't think. I don't think they typically
go after adults. I think so try to get something they know that they
can drag and you know what, Danny, they shouldn't go after adults,
but use In Rhode Island, a hiker killed a rabid coyote with his bare
hands. What hell. Yeah, he's hiking. He gets attacked by the
coyote and uh gotter I'm sorry, bit him on the leg. Okay,
he's and basically he took the coyote was able to pin it down and then
got it by his neck and choked it out. Isn't that crazy? Wow?
But they're not that big either. Yeah, they did determine that that
coyote had rabies, because the problem with this one is we don't know if
it's got rabies or not because we can't find the coyote. And the kids
are obviously gonna get tested sap and you have to destroy They always say destroy
the coyote and then they have to take out their brain and that's how they
test for rabies. Isn't that crazy? That's what I grew up knowing.
Look that I don't know about you guys, but you know, growing up
in Texas for the better part of my life and mostly rural Texas, it
was hammered into me to stay away from rodents, particularly skunks if you saw
them during the day, because you're gonna get rabies. And if you get
rabies, you're gonna have to get a series of shots in your stomach.
Yeah. I remember hearing that, and that just terrified. I don't want
shit like and the needles this long. Yeah, it's a square what square
needle? Like? Man? I do not want rabies, like to this
day, it's like, uh, I don't think you want rabies, old
yeller, Right, We think about the foam and mouth. I mean that's
I look for mouth foam when I see wild animals. Still, they're just
wild people that you know, maybe too, this guys up to something.
Textman says coyotes are now in every single city in the US. They've been
spoted in Central Park and subways in New York coyotes. There was one on
the subway that was nuts. There was one on the subway in New York.
In fact, one of one of my every beds, modest Mouse,
wrote a song called Coyotes about the sub the couties on the subway. But
they also had like a huge snake on the subway the other day too.
You never know, I mean, you're just rolling the dice. If you're
gonna go live in the big city and get on the sub all the time,
you could be I mean a huge snake and the people didn't eve nact
what they're reacting to it. You know, just kind of know, yeahs
a big, big ass snake over there. It's weird. Weird. So
that's the thing too about this coyote they're like traps, We're gonna do coyote
traps. I think the couty is probably just gonna like move on. Look,
going back to the park. Aren't there specific like tactical units in local
law enforcement, especially in larger cities, that have specifically trained guys that are
that their sole job is to act as snipers? Aren't? And how often
do they get a call where they're needed? Hey, we need to get
a sniper on top of that building to take out this you know this,
this guy in a hostage situation. Just go plant some snipers out in the
woods overnight with their stuff on and take those bastards out back in May.
No, you're right, you're right, because, like I mean, they
would love it. Here's the problem, right, here's the problem. Love
that. So they had in Dallas. Do you know what happened on the
is this back in May of twenty twenty two? And I did look this
up and that the kid that was I told you was in Julie's neighborhood,
like they thought they saw another coyote in the park and the cop was running
after it in the park and shot at it and missed, Which I'm like,
bro, you weren't close enough to it to hit it. Did he
hit the ground and oil came up and they became a millionaire? No?
No, But then he started going uh. He said he thought it was
the coyote and the description, And I'm like, how could you take because
if you missed, then that means you were too far away to tell,
or you were up close and missed and you're a bad shot, which is
another problem. No small to hit critical mass on a coyote, which is
like forty pounds moving and you've got a handgun. It's hard. Yeah,
it ain't like TV. That's why we need trained snipers. Yeah, that's
what I'm saying. Dust off their gilly suit and hide in the hills.
Yeah, with all that brush on them. I think you've ever been in
the crosshairs of someone sniper your whole life, not literally, remember the DC's
secretively every day the d Yeah, that's wild, dude, for like a
year, maybe longer. Hell, I might still think this when I fill
my car up with gas, because they were that's how they were getting some
people. I stay on the move. You're Oscar, Mike, I'm Oscar.
I'd bob a little bit. I just stay on the move. I
don't like to just lean on the car and stay on the move just in
case. So the mom of the mom of Landon Knox Thomas, this is
back when, back in May twenty two, since she walked outside and found
her two year old kid and the coyote had its head and its mouth wrapped
around its head. Yeah, like trying to carry him off. That same
day, Dallas Animal Service revealed that he had received thirteen calls regarding coyotes.
Now, the kid was okay, though he had stitches, and it could
have been way worse, clearly, but I think he ended up being okay,
not a problem. Now, that was a long time. Were going
to remember that, but I saw that story. Once you have anything,
I haven't sad any huge updates, Like they've shut down the park and they're
set up traps, so hoping to find this one, and like, how
do you know it's the one? Cowdies looked the same, PLEI were gonna
pick those apart. You can't even tell. It's weird. It's weird when
you see them during the day too, just loping across the street. Don't
don't just go into the creek, yes, looking for anything. They're desperate.
They're starving all the time. If it's partially because our like you said,
creeks, there's nothing but trash. Oh I hate it. I'm gonna
playing golf at Stevens and there's a nice creek that kind of dances through.
It's a beautiful golf course, and it's crashes and golf balls and tons of
vice golf ball. Why is everyone hitting their golf balls into the creek?
Keep it on the We've just given up? Or like look, no,
no, no. What they do is they probably let it accumulate to a
point where it's really bothersome, and then they go do it all at once.
You know. It's like how often do you wash your car? You
know a fun fact? You know what I'm saying. It's like that mentality.
Okay, ever, I'm at two years. You have a white Jeep
though I have never once washed it. Really Yeah, the outside, I
just wait on rain. I many detail the inside just a week ago.
Well, your car is white, I would never know that it was dirty.
Mine's black, and it's a day after a car wash. It's got
dust and it just doesn't look good. Yeah. But I'm the same way,
like I wait until it is okay, all right, fine, let's
go. It's finally the same thing. Oh look, what the world needs
is the Augusta maintenance crew to just scrub the world. If the if the
world looked like the Masters, that's what we do. That's what we need.
Just beauty. Find those people and also pay them. I say it
all the time, and if this resonates with one person, it's worth saying
again, stop littering. Yeah, do not litter. It's like the It's
like the one simple f you to everyone else around you that you just voluntarily
do and I hate it, and I, by proxy then hate the people
who do it, who care so little about each other. Don't litter,
It's pretty easy. Littering is the Littering is the equivalent of crapping your pants.
Like we have a place, it's the equivalent of crapping someone else's pants.
I mean like yeah, I guess yeah, because you just walk away.
Something like like if somebody if you're like you know, at at I
don't know, some Nashville hot chicken spot, you're blacing in order, and
some guy walks up to you and he opens up the back of your pants
and sticks his butt over it and craps in your pants. That's literally that's
the same thing. And you you don't want to be on either end of
that. And the weird thing is is if you've ever once in your life
said the words don't mess with Texas and you litter double f you. I
mean, it's a campaign against littering, right, yeah. The crying native
different Now I'm from here and Willie Nelson's song attached to it. Isn't that
what it is? What is rooted in? Yeah? The Native American that
was crying predated that don't mess with Texas. That was more of a national
campaign. Okay, well, don't mess with Texas. I bet you proudly
say that and whip your Baja blast out the window. Okay, a Baja
blast unless they got it from Taco Bell, like, do it. Someone
listening right now who litters regularly, just stop? Please stop. My dad
was a serial litterer, really yeah, not just cigarette butt launch out the
window. Strangely enough, he was more concerned about launching SIGs out of the
window because he didn't want to start a fire. So that the factory ash
tray that came with the Ford Galaxy five hundred was strategically heaped to a pile
of sig butts that still to me to this day. I don't know how
in the world that that mountain of butts didn't just fall over, but somehow
it maintained perfect, perfect balance, and he could always get one more on
it before he'd empty out the ash tree at some lousy ass gas station.
But beer cans we do. He had this trick where he kind of half
cracked the window when he's done with his Schlitz or whatever, stick the can
against the window so the the suction of that one window being opened, the
can's kind of wedge there, and then you just roll crank the window down
and just watching go. That's kind of cool. Yeah, it's cool.
Those little kid was like, that's badass. We had a little hangout off
the beaten path and only there's a little you know, and then you go
out of town a little bit back road, you know, the drum will
hang out a little place it at a little pond. Kevin and I are
connecting right now. Just stand by. But my beer of choice in high
school when I was too young to drink but still had people who would buy
it for me. Uh weirdly affiliated with the school which is odd, but
whatever. Uh cores like bottle for me. A lot of people just take
the Keystone route as is cheaper you can get more. But was like bottle,
it was distinctive. Uh. Yes, you just throw it into the
tank here, damn reaissance man. Problem is when you realize that that land
you were on is one of your friends as family, and that pond drives
out in the summer, they find covers like bottled down at the bottom of
the tank. Who are they coming looking for? Yeah, yeah, that's
Kevin. It was like a known thing, like, oh God, that's
him. He was the one doing it. And now I don't litter.
Don't let her, I learned, because we know where to put our waists.
You wouldn't just crack your vants. There's a trash can on every corner.
I remember the last time I litter a Snickers wrapper out the window when
I was in high school and this old couple was behind me at a red
light and they just lay it on the horn for like a full thirty seconds,
and I look back and they're just kind of palms up, like the
hell was that? And instead of me going if you old man, which
you know is an option, when you're at when you're a teen. It
is often the best option. It's the first option. I let it resonate,
and it hit me. I'm like, in a what the hell haven't
lettered sense? I mean, I wouldn't you know, I wouldn't put my
life on that. I'm sure some accidental littering. Your actions have saved the
planet. You know what. This goes to show, thank you. This
goes to show that people can change, Kevin. People can't change. People
can't change. Rather than being defensive and being angry and covering up for what
you know is it is a mistake or making his accuses, you let it
simmer. You processed it, You took ownership of the situation. You did
something to affect change in your life. Yes, therefore affecting other people look
at you. So let's make today this guy, Valentine's Day, the day
of love February fourteenth, the day that you stop littering, The day that
you say you know what, love, I love the earth that we would
do on Earth Day, but love, Love Love Day. Coming up next
will wrap up the Zeros Power Hour with another Danny spot and singing boxes of
chocolate in stores. Today we'll give you a preview of what they sound like
next. On ninety seven, won the Free