The downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. They're not doing it.
Long discussion on if it's smart or not at one hundred and fifty to
one to put ten dollars on Tiger Woods this week or one hundred dollars And
I know it's stupid, and I know he's not gonna win. But if
you put one hundred dollars on him and he wins, it's fifteen thousand dollars
and you can just and it's Tiger Woods. I mean, if he shows
a little bit and plays finish in the top half of the field, by
the time we get the Masters, he's probably gonna be thirty five forty to
one. Yeah, here's where I end up going. It's more smart to
put that money on a Sea Wu cam or at Corey Connors at eighty to
one than Tiger, who can't bend over and get the ball out of the
hole. Man are not made of magic, That is true. Tiger's made
a magic Corey Connor's see what Kim didn't have never won a major, much
less even the Masters a few years ago. Hey, are you allowed to
let your caddy picked the ball up out of the hole? Great? Did
you and I talk about this when we played the other problem. Yeah,
because Tiger legit. Yeah, it's a struggle to bend down all the way,
bend his knee like that and grab the ball out of the hole.
If a caddy could just go do it and your caddy can tee it up
for you. Yeah, your caddies should be doing that for you anyways,
honestly, okay, because you're eliminating tens of thousands of bends for every golfer.
Even if you're not Tiger Wood, you're already bashed up bens. If
you're on like fourteen and you're like, I'm kind of hungry, I like
a steak. Your caddies should have the ability to get you a steak,
you know too. That's why I use the briefcase grill. Yes, Story
Industries becase I think we stole that one for Bet and Skin and they were
pitching their briefcase grill, which is a real product, now, is it
really? Joel Mchell was sponsoring it. But what you guys know about Tiger
if he plays in a tournament, is he of the mindset that he's playing
in it because in his mind he believes that he has a chance to win
or does or is he one of those guys that'll just show up, Yeah,
I'll play in this one. No, I mean because you've seen him
drop out of stuff. Yeah, well he drops out because he has to
because he can barely walk and he can't feel his legs or his back or
whatever. But does his mind does he go into this thing and you know
what, I got a chance? You know what? Yes, I would
think. Yes. Now this week's a little different and he's the host of
the Genesis, like this is his tournament. There's an outside responsibility. Yes,
he said an espressor that his goal is to play once a month through
the major season, and if he's going to play once this month, it
would be his at his tournament. And he's what forty seven? Yeah,
he's your age, right, I think he's forty eight. I think you
just hearded forty eight tons of Tiger talk throughout the morning. Don't worry golf
fans, one texture said morning Downbeat. One of my coworkers used to be
in the flower business, and they said they got all their flowers from South
America and they got them for about ten cents a stem, which just makes
that seventy five bucks for a dozen. Okay, so much crazier if you're
talking just in the United States. More than half of the roses from the
United States come from Wasco, California. The ones that are grown in the
United States, but it is over like eighty percent are flown in from Ecuador.
Colombia also very popular. It takes a rose fifteen weeks to grow.
As soon as it's cut, a precisely coordinated race begins. Obviously, to
keep them fresh, the flowers are chilled into a dormant state and then move
to airports and refrigerated trucks. Get truck just to have refrigerated true, think
about all the good stuff we could do with that, dude. The answer
is yes, it's an investment. And if you hit on one. Yes,
if we put tiger, that's fifteen gees. I mean that's nowhere near
enough for a reefer. Yeah, but it gets to start it on a
refrigerated truck. Funt. There you go, and then we can start a
gofund me. That'll be my fifteen thousand, and then Kevin will has just
announced he would like to match my fifteen thousand. Okay, stop using my
money in your mouth, Kevin, Hey open your mouth, open your mouth,
take my money out of your mouth. More on that at eight time
for the most important thing in the world's technically it's not my money. You
consider even one hundred dollars won that money with it chucked off, you've got
YouTube. You got all your cash tied up in the lizard. Right you
go, you little sleepy. It's the dumbest time to get your stupid ass
out of bed. About the most importing that, Let me tell Sticky over
there, very it's on the list. The speakeasy had a couple of people
who went on a day they might they might have had the throes of passion,
but gummed it up a bit. Uh. One thing I wanted to
say about the roses coming from South America at this time of year, how
many I don't know, cartels, drug organizations are using the transport of those
roses to get certain things across the border. Dude, that could be in
the movie plot. Yeah, for real, planes full of roses, I
don't know. Rut the stems a little higher up, and then that gives
you about a foot of of space, cocaine space, and you just write
roses. You just write roses. Roses only roses roses on the side of
the plane. What if that's ever been I could find a story for that.
That'd big doings in Kansas City yesterday because the Chiefs were celebrating their big
Super Bowl victory with a parade, which all cities do, you know,
and and I don't. I can't think of one that's kind of gone gone
off without some sort of situation happening. But I think this is going to
take the cake when it comes to bad things that happened at Super Bowl parades,
because one person was killed in gunfire that erupted at the end of the
Super Bowl rally in Kansas City yesterday, and the police chief there said at
a news conference that up to twenty two people were injured and one person was
killed. The person killed, interestingly enough, was a Kansas City DJ for
a low radio station there, the radio station KKFI. Looked it up and
it seems to be kind of like a our version of k e RA A
look an NPR type station. Maybe a little bit of music, but a
lot of you know, mindful talk, not tos similar to you here every
morning. Yeah, mindful talk. Yeah, free range radio. Danny is
what they call it. Her name was Lisa Lopez, a DJ for Kansas
City's KKFI. She was killed in the shooting. The radio station made a
statement yesterday saying, the senseless act has taken a beautiful person from her family
and this KC community. She had two nieces and a nephew that were also
injured. There's seventeen people right now being treated for gunshot wounds across two different
hospitals. At least nine of those victims are children. The children were our
age between six and fifteen years old. All eleven children that are being treated
that this one particular hospital are expected to make a full recovery. None of
them are in critical condition. Seven other people are being treated for non gunshot
related injuries, just wiping out and panic, yeah, running and stuff.
Nine children, nine kids being treated between six and fifteen. I would think
that by now everyone has seen and if you haven't seen them, they're readily
available online, social media, Google, whatever. But the videos that have
come out, I've seen two. One of them shows citizens tackling an alleged
shooter waiting and held him down before police got to him. Another video I
saw you can hear the gunshots and then a guy with his phone just kind
of starts walking toward words of where the noise came from, and you can
see a dude being treated in blood all over the ground as he's you know,
being attended to by citizens. There was like eight hundred cops on the
scene for this thing. And the thing that I find, you know,
everybody always is wondering, is so, well, why aren't the cops here?
Where are the cops when they showed the video of the guy being tackled,
this is one of the suspected shooters or a suspected shooter. They're no
less than one hundred yards maybe yet probably less than one hundred yards away.
There's a group, a cluster of like four or five officers just kind of
standing around, you know, looking looking around, and the people the shot
was taken from a higher vantage point. They're so close, and these people
are like waving their arms and yelling and screaming. I mean, I think
it's just unless you're like right there, this stuff happens so far asked over
too. Yeah, when there's that many people that are trying to leave this
thing, well they're all running too, Like, how do I frankly wonder
how they knew that was a shooter, the one guy that they tackled.
Well, okay, so the a parade and rally attendee said that a gun
could be seen falling away from the person that was tackled. So somebody saw
a dude running, gun falling off. The cops have said they have recovered
a firearm, that this person is in custody. I think they have two
or three people in custody right now. But yeah, with the one video
that I saw was fairly graphic, but yeah, they I don't know,
do you even have an opinion on this or not, But it's just horrible
and it's just kind of indicative of what happens in cities. In big cities,
you get a bunch of people together and these days, if there's a
beef, it's not settled with settled with iron. And I mean, I
don't know what to say. No, I got a lot of thoughts.
Don't know what else to say. I have a lot of thoughts to one
of these. As you mentioned the number nine kids injured two A lot of
that probably from getting trampled. Right, there was nine kids shot. No
well in that situation. Child Mercy Hospital eleven children between six and fifteen and
nine of whom been shot. So two that were in for trampling whatever,
nine nine kids with bullets in them. And I was just say this,
hundreds, maybe even thousands of kids who are gonna be traumatized from that day.
I was thinking about this too. What's the World Series parade? That
was a lot of people all once in wrong with And I remember, I
think I made a joke about it, like throwaway joke on the air.
I comment like, but I don't get shot or something like that, you
know, and there was a gun shot in the air, you know,
Like, but when that happened just to day, I was not a bit
of me surprised. Of course, you see the news and you're like,
jeez, but like I was like, yeah, this is kind of what
it is now. The other thing I thought is, and there's no way
to rank these things. I'm not asking for an answer, really, but
somebody I thought about in my head, it's almost worse when it's just people
fighting that's what they think it is, rather than it just be one person
who just went full extremist or you know, had just leaned into too many
hate groups and decided that everyone was going to have a bad day today.
It's almost worse when it's us just fighting and then someone amps up and pulls
out a gun. Now, I know, we don't really even know one
hundred percent before what happened, but it does seem like that's what it was
was. Maybe some just drunk can mess at the parade, one group gets
into it with another group, and then someone ramps up. But you know,
again we don't know those details. I don't speculate, but jeez,
it's the indiscriminate nature of just opening fire without any consideration of who you might
hit. And then, I mean, how do these people that are in
that just massive state of heightened emotion that decide in a split second. I'm
so pissed off right now that this person that wronged me that I'm going to
just empty a clip without any concern for anybody other than the person that your
anger is actually directed at. And then they go through their life thinking I
shot nine children or seven children, or however many one nineteen people with gun.
It's like they're just this blurry background to whatever your focus is, and
you don't even acknowledge. It doesn't even click in your head that there's the
other people are back there as you're trying to murder this person who who disrespected
you, right or whatever whatever you justify this action with, Why is that?
Why does that part of our brain just or there's certain people's brains just
click off to where it's just a blob of anonymity. You know, behind
the actual person that your anger is directed at, that you have zero consideration
for anybody else. Now, they're gonna wake up one day and realize that
this happened. Number One, Will they care? I think so? I
think they'll care. Yes, I think they were just in this. I
mean, look, I think their shooters were young. Right where they team
they looked like on the video, but then the one guy looked like pit
Bull kind of It's hard to tell. Really he looked older, I mean
teens, right. They're not bright, but they're positive that their geniuses and
they're emotional. Yes, and I don't I look forward to hearing whatever the
story was, what what motivated? Yes? I mean, did they go
there looking for these they're nemesis and but our teams more emotionally charged than they
were fifty years ago? Maybe no, No, to this, to this
level, to do as much, to create as much carnage. Then you
get into the G Yeah, the G word, the accessibility, all that,
the immediate solution. They're a permanent solution to a problem that in the
past we solved it with our fists. You know. Yeah, I mean
I don't. I don't know if I ever thought about this, but there
is something to that. Regardless of where you fall on the gun thing.
I never saw a gun among anyone I knew, anyone who was never even
talked about in my school. It was Florida. But that's not exactly did
you, Yeah, like people guns safe now school? Yes, I mean
kids. I mean kids, I don't mean like grandparents or no, anything
like that. It was just never even like cross anyone's mind. And if
you had a real problem, yes there was gonna be a fight, but
that didn't even cross a mind. So yeah, I think it has and
you should think about it these days. If you're a kid and you got
beef and now it's regular, it's all regular. It happens all the time.
It's normalized too. You know, like you said you win twice when
you yeah, you saw this headline, You're like, yeah, okay,
I thought about it a million times at that Rangers break. What if that
happened here. I thought about it. I think about it everything to go
to a movie being Sam being a whoos or whatever. I don't really care.
I think about it anytime I'm in a public place. It just crosses
my mind. You know, you're looking for the egg? Is that you're
looking for? Yeah, just making sure you've got some kind of plan.
Yeah, And it's not like and I know it's a I'm not doing upon
a swear to God. That's a triggering thing whenever you talk about the gun
thing, because you can add in mental health, and you can add in
a million different things. You can almost just add in bad people, okay,
or people who got on the internet and you turn into extremist, whatever
you can throw in. All those things come with this only happens here as
regular as it happens. It only happens in America. And I go back
to a lot of things. The one thing, and I know if you're
if you roll your eyes what I'm about to say, you don't have a
heart. I just say that too. Okay, when kids got shot,
and it was I think Sandy Hook was the first one. When all those
kids were murdered, nothing was done about it. Yeah, because I was
just gonna say, like, where's the limit where even of vocal and VMA
gun supporter. Yes, you can't touch, don't regulate anything. You can't.
If you give an inch, they take a mile. I understand how
that's what a lot of open door for. Yes, them controlling one thing
and then next thing you know, they're coming for your guns. And I
don't think any any politicians are coming for your guns. I don't think anyone's
going for anyone's guns. I don't think that can even be handled. Let's
disagree on a couple of little things, but is there any tipping point that
that person will be like, man, yeah, something really does need to
be done. And the answer is no, because if it's not going into
what a preest kindergarten whatever Sandy Hook was, Yep, that doesn't do grade
school, or if it's not that Vegas thing, Yeah, it's almost like
those guys are trying to show you how they're trying to make the case right.
And I also believe, like nine gun owners do actually believe in a
lot of these, like minor restrictions that could help. I think they actually
do believe in some of those. Well, I think Kevin like you and
I grew up in rural areas in Texas and it's a different mindset out there.
You know. I grew up handling guns, being trained by my uncle
and my dad on proper safety and knew how knew what was appropriate, what
wasn't appropriate. Don't ever point your gun. It's something you're not ready to
kill, you know, and all that stuff. I mean owning guns.
Is an eight year old having a twenty two rifle and a shotgun a four
to ten shotgun. When I was eight years old and had the trust of
the people that trained me to use them, to be able to take them
out on my own, it was just normal. And for centuries or centuries,
but you know, for a one hundred and fifty years or so in
this country, those areas that's the life, you know, and it's okay,
and it's fine. It's the big cities that are the problems. But
then again, I think you kind of have to you have to look at
each area or each state and realize where these problems are had. These problems
aren't really happening in rural areas in smaller towns, except maybe uve all day
could be one of those things. But look then you get the people that
will say, in New York there was a shooting that happened on a subway,
what probably happens all the time. And then you see the comment section
it's like, yeah, and New York has the highest gun control, one
of the highest gun control the measures put in place in that city. And
then the comment section will say, yep, a lot of good the gun
control laws it up there. It's like, yeah, you're right. It's
an impossible horse to put back in that barn if that's what you're inclined to
want to do, because there are so many weapons out there that you can
get any time you want. You talked about stealing a car yesterday. It's
easier to get a gun than it is to steal a car. Oh yeah,
he's far more easy, is it? Eighteen? Do we know?
I mean, like, is that a fair? Like? Can we just
say do we know? The law enforcements? On? Hold? If you
want to talk to someone from law enforcement? Hello, law enforcement? How
are you hi? I'm good? How are you man? Hi? I
was calling a reference to you all discussion on the Casey Parade incident and where
a lot of the victims are essentially collateral damage from the two knuckleheads that we're
going back and back. Essentially, what might have happened was that they could
have had what was called tunnel vision. Whenever you have an adrenaline dump,
your body loses certain aspects of mobility, to include tunnel vision, which you
lose peripheral vision and you're focus on your target or whatever you're directed at,
and you also lose auditorial exclusion, which means that you kind of lose your
hearing. Innocence. In law enforcement, we're trained to kind of push past
that and hopefully overcome that to when any other any other advices being hit.
But that could be part of the reason why they why that happens, if
it wasn't just them going after those innocent people. That's fascinating vision that we
all know. I've never thought of how literally that's kind of what that means,
and the fact that there is a term that police know and apply that
sort of reaction that's excellent. It is so I've been through it myself,
and it's crazy how you just kind of you kind of are fixated on whatever
you're focused on at that moment, and you just have to kind of snap
out of that to avoid any any other collateral damage so to speak, or
injury to yourself another officer. That's fascinating. And you combine that and man
explained to our listeners, you're being a trained officer that is probably highly trained
in firearms, especially handguns. You combine that with youth, the adrenaline dump
that results in this tunnel vision phenomenon, and then the fact that these kids
that are out there running around with guns have zero real training on accuracy.
How freaking hard it is to to hit your your your object target with a
handgun, even at a fairly close range. You've got to be really good
and really trained to be able to do that. Yeah, that's uh.
To be shooting in that hot that high of a population at that moment is
stupid at so many levels. I mean, as for law enforcement, we're
kind of we're kind of our accountability level for every round that we fire is
there. So for every round that we fire, for whatever incident might be,
we're held held accountable. So it's important that we get every round on
target. And of course these kids or whoever they were, they're not being
held accountable. They don't really look at the overall aspect. And this is
the unfortunate outcome to it. Yeah, And it's one thing to be in
a controlled environment and the proper stance with a proper grip, you know,
firing at a tar get that's whatever twenty feet or thirty feet away, as
opposed to some kid running running and running backwards with a gun turned sideways,
not even really looking at his target. That's not gonna work. Wow.
Side the linem at, proper stance, proper grip and all that plays a
rolling of the outcome where that ron's going to go, And of course these
kids don't. Thanks for calling in, dude, that's that's really interesting.
Inside. Had no idea about the tunnel vision aspect of that. You hit
that siren for us one time, I'm sorry, hit that siren real quick
one time. Oh man, I'm a detective. Oh well, don't you
reach out and put that thing on top of your car like in the Rocker
file. No, man, Yeah, I'm a I'm in cide and I
uh, I don't drive a market unit anymore. And I'm actually just pulling
out to work right now, so I'm not in my service vehicles. Awesome.
Do you mind if we put you on hold and get your info in
case you have any detective questions. Everyone's while yes, sir, go ahead,
cool, okay, well awesome, j Thank you so much, detective.
That's very interesting. I mean, that's like a great, perfect explanation
of exactly what we asked. That's interesting. Maybe more on this a little
bit later in the show. Of course, Mike, we're going to push
back your doctor gold um it Live Spot to the Power hour of seven because
coming up next we're going to do the Scuttle But that coyote story in Arlington's
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