You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seventy one, The Freak, the countdown
to Chase Elliot? Is it two hours? Let's he doing He's not even
awake. Well, it's seven thirty. He's probably changing his tires, don't
They do it every day? But he doesn't do it. He changed his
oil, didn't he? I figure he wants to be under the hood of
a car. He's in Martin's. Martin are the Martinsville this weekend? Yeah,
he's in Martinsville, Virginia. He's awake seven thirty. Yeah, dude,
it's Wednesday. Yeah, dude, we're practicing to day. We're't gonna
take it. It was a late offer and we were like, we already
had Christopher Bell. We could have said no. We said yeah, but
it said yes. It's the son of Bill Elliott. That is the main
reason I was like, hell yes. And in two thousand and nine he
was on the Sports Illustrated UH cover issue with one Jordan's Beef in a future
Phenom's piece. Who else was on there? The only other name that I
know was one that didn't turn out very well. Michael Kidd, Gilchrist the
basketball player you know which not to be confused with Shakeel just Alexander. Oh,
I didn't some do though, because of the hyphen and the G.
Don't get stuck on that though. And just the three I was the three
of them. One of those starts thirteen people on the cover. Yeah,
we just go through all thirteen of them. I couldn't find him. I
was looking for it, getting ask him. Went to the Sports Illustrated website
and it said, Nope, we don't exist for sale. Yeah one dollar
Bama. I guess it's a bummer. I don't really don't read it anymore,
but yeah, dude, and at Natica Love, run into the mailbox,
grabbed the latest Sports Illustrated, Yeah issue, run inside and read it.
Yeah, and look at the end, amazing photographs. Cranky little Rod
base percent Greg Little Rod to Rick Riley. Okay, Rick Riley, what
a beating. I always liked Rick Riley his last page thing. And then
he turned in one of these guys that everyone hates online. I never liked
him. Did the smart He was smart? They didn't identify with small town
Kevin who's twelve rings was illustrated. I didn't understand these things he's talking about.
You're more of a faces in the crowd, guy, Oh my god,
give me faces in the crowd all day all Dick magazine. So that
mama something, That mama panda appears to be plowing her baby. Why is
it snowing all of a sudden. I thought you said it was a live
cam live stream. It just started snowing. It did not snow that much
in two minutes. It was not snowing. It dumped. We're watching a
panda live stream. For those that don't know, there's one chatter in this
well you she guse So it's a she. She's just chatting to the pandas
because no one else in the chat box. And she's like, good morning,
yang yang yang yang. They're about the damn cutest thing in the world.
Yes, it's treating her baby like they're human beings. See. Look,
this pant is climbing a tree and mom's gonna came like, get down
right now. Climbs and he's climbing higher. The mom just freak out every
time he gets high on something. Yes, oh my god, she's going
up. She's going up to get your ass. Don't make me come up
there. Oh my god, that little baby's way. See the baby just
fall down from the top of the screen. A mom's gonna slip and fall.
I dragging. This is horrible radio. But my god, everyone loves
Pandas. Oh it's so funny. Wow. Okay, alright, alright,
okay, we'll post a video of that on social media. We'll give you
a look at what we're seeing. We'll show you the pandas. But let's
do the thing. What do you find, Panda? That sounds like a
website. I go to watch the MAVs, gmes, Welcome to Pandas Dream.
She's oh, she just took off her belt. She's went spanking.
We country Pandas. It's time to get your ass out of bed. Most
speaking of exotic animals, stay tuned for nine o'clock when I've got some stories
animal style. That's gonna be great. I can't here, I'm in the
chat. I'm gonna say good morning, Yang Yang. Well we had on
earthquake class. We didn't we didn't. They A seven point four magnitude earthquake
struck last night yesterday afternoon evening off of Taiwan. Now it killed nine people
and injured At time of this publication, eight hundred and eighty two people,
and this number of casualties could exponentially rise in the coming days. It happened
at about eight pm Eastern time, so seven pm for US. It was
at a depth of twenty one miles and eleven miles south southwest of the island's
east coast. It prompted tsunami warnings that were later lifted in Taiwan, Japan,
and the Philippines. NBC News talked to an American who has lived in
Taiwan for seventeen years, and she said that she was still feeling after shocks
in the afternoon and hours after the initial quake. It's said, in all
the years that I've lived here and in southern California, felt a lot of
earthquakes, this was by far the strongest and the most frightening. Now we've
all been pretty inundated online with images and video of the effects of this well
that was happening in real time. It's one of the wonderful benefits of having
an HD four K camera in your pocket at all times, and everybody in
the world has one. One that comes to mind pretty quickly is the building
that is half collapse. It appears to be about a four story housing a
development, like a small apartment complex that is just sitting, you know,
kind of just tilted at about a fifteen degree angle, and it looks like
the instability that I feel when I look at this photo and see the video
of this building is pretty big. It's like watching KT interview a nascard right
instability of this structure. And all it would take is a is a mid
Robert Devaal impression to send this thing crashing to the crowd cream. I showed
you guys a moment ago the video of the guy that was swimming in a
in a in a big high rise apartment pool and somebody was shooting video of
him while he was swimming ruin the earthquake hit and the amount of splashing and
teetering and tottering backward that that guy's dealing with while he's in that pool is
incredible. And he's just kind of frozen standing in the pool like my good
at spot as any maybe well, I think in those moments. And I
saw another video of uh, these two people that were on scooters on a
pretty big ass bridge and somebody behind them had their camera out and they were
shooting, and you just see the bridge just swaying back and forth. You
see the flags on the bridge moving back and forth, and everybody is just
kind of bracing themselves. Yeah, because you don't know what to do.
You're just sitting there going uh and hoping that it ends. And I guess
if you're on a bridge on a scooter, do you try to get off
or you're gonna crash. You're gonna crash if you even try to move.
So they're just kind of legs out standing and waiting for what a minute?
Yeah, you take for a while. I think you're on You're right about
the uh. Everyone having phones and now we get to see and it really
kind of humanizes these things. I mean, you could read about a earthquake
in Taiwan twenty years ago and you just read about it and like, oh,
that sounds terrible, but you go on Instagram and instantly watch video from
all over. It just humanizes the hell out of it. I think that's
a good thing. I don't know what that result of that is. But
and the thing about videos, and we all know this, you know it.
The vibe that you get from a cell phone video is such a tiny
percentage of what the experience has to be like I mean you get just a
even with the video, it's still a minute glimpse into the reality and the
totality of the situations. You said a seven to four seven four, John,
What the magnitude is? Was of the most powerful earthquake ever recorded?
Yeah? No, nine point one, No eleven point three. I believe
the skill taps out at ten, but I could be wrong, but I'll
say, really, you guys are sandwiching it. You said nine to one,
higher, nine three higher, nine to eight, Kevin, Oh my
god, nine, let's just say between ninety four. No. I think
it's important because you might rank it if there were two that were the same
that were in that range. It's in nine to five in Chile. In
nineteen sixty Alaska had a nine to two. I don't know how that's ensured.
I understand we have the Richter scale, right, but yeah, based
off of former New York Rangers goalie Mike Richter. Yep, it's based off
of him. Yeah, he had a passion for the earthquake, for tectonic
plate movement. Or for those non hockey fans out there, Conan's former psychick
Andy Richter. There you go, or oh, Brodie, there's a girl
wrestler, Wendy Richter Rich, Yeah, she'd be the one most likely to
cause an earthquake. No, she was skinny and hottish, I think,
yeah, but not when you're look anybody can create damage when you're flying off
that turn buckle with that that velocophy. I mean super fly Snooko wasn't a
big guy per se by comparison, but man, when he went flying off
of that turnbuckle, woe. How did Rick Renner never have a feature called
the Richter scale? Like pre game before MAVs rockets tonight his top five highlights
of the night on the Richter Scale? Ricter, This dunk was eight,
not bad? And if you suggested that to him, I bet it would
be on tonight's broadcast. And Rick Renner is a sweet man? Is I
love it? D Yeah? I just don't know the measurement, like how
accurate it is? Like doesn't it depend on where you're picking up the readings
And if the episode of the earthquake is like right next to where their reading
scale is, that might crank it up a little. What doesn't matter.
Seven point four is a big boy, largest one in Taiwan in twenty five
years and among the creepy ones sick. They're working a free sixty people who
are trapped in a tunnel like the movie Daylight starring Sliced alone. Do you
ever see that? Uh Daylight? Yeah? Light, I feel like I
did, like a I don't know if it's a Cabby or what a New
York driver. And then there's a for an earthquake. Something causes the ends
of the tunnel to collapse and they're trapped inside. Water levels are rising.
We need a hero. Good things sliced the loans in here, otherwise what
would we do? Yeah, it was supposed to be Cliffhanger for tunnels.
They had hard to replicate that area. Was expecting a big influx of visitors
this weekend because they have a big holiday in Taiwan for a traditional Chinese festival
known as Tomb Sweeping Day when people honor their ancestors. But the earthquake has
disrupted all rail services and damaged the main road into I can't pronounce the city
Julleen h u a l Juaaleen Hualeen, and there's no easy way to get
there at the moment, So that kind of screwed up their their big party
tomb sweep. That'sundly a great idea. I would assume it. He used
to go clean up. Maybe the graveyards put flowers down. And Mexico has
Ada we don't have anything like that. Yeah, we just die go away.
Yeah, get some more faster where your money die, your money going
old man. Yeah, Oh, it's so much of that end kidding inheritance.
Now in small towns, they do try to take care of the cemeteries.
They have cemetery boards things like that. I'm not sure about the city.
I don't even know. I mean, I I know a few cemeteries
that I like. If I died, I was gonna get buried up around
here somewhere. I wouldn't know where to go. I know, where do
you go? What if you Yeah, I kind of know what cemetery I
would be put in off the top of my head. And only there's two
cemeteries. They probably put you in the smaller one, a little further out
of town. Yeah, they're running out of a room on the big one.
But again, like I said, they have a board of executives.
So maybe one of my friends or family members is on the cemetery board,
or they vote to like you know, clean it up or cemetery board.
The amount of committees in small towns is amazing. You don't want to get
true creamed. I'm sorry, you don't want to get creamed. Oh well
not today? Like now when you want to get cremated and you want to
get buried or cremated buried? Really? Yeah? When we cremate you,
what's your whole body intact? Like what are you a pharaoh? Yeah?
I have to find the power to rise from the dead like they'll do back,
like they're going to two thousand years. They're gonna unearth the tomb of
King Kevio, put him on a display and ah around the world. Yeah,
I could be the Nixonian. I could, but I may not likely
cremate you fire up an area like Jesus, you get me, fire up
a tractor and just dumpy all over only your your native land. I have
helped spread ashes on the ballpark. For whom you've done that to? Yeah,
a friend of mine's friend's dad. So you illegally brought ash to a
ballpark. Yea, spread it. The problem is I was in a major
league field. That's illegal. Caught in the background dumping it on the first
base foul line. I was seen in the background of the set of MLB
First Pitch or whatever with Chris Rose and Jason Verattek or whatever the other analyst
is. It is Kevin lar christ Ers that shows love kicking Kevin malar me
and my buddy in the background. You can see us kind of looking around
really and then going in your pocket. Yeah. It was twenty eleven World
Series availability day, you know, before the game, getting audio for work.
But his dad, his buddy's dad was a big Ranger fan. I
was like, well, let's dump it by where Michael Young caught the fly
ball to clinch the twenty eleven ALCS and you did the super secretly the first
base foul line. Yeah, because they had you in the media, like
in the dugout, so you know, you talked to Wash for a minute
and that, you know, just the group gang Bang interviews and take the
tape back to the station and load it so you can do tickers or whatever
on which kind of tiptoe out there. I just imagine, sure enough,
we're seeing but I have got a picture of it, like on my old
phone. Let's imagine Kevin and his friend out there, like like Andy defrayane
trying to get rid of the evidence from digging a cell. There were whistling
trying to look on talant in the field's pristine too. It's in World series
shape. That's a dumb move. Could have lost my job that day,
didn't. I have a list of a taiwan worst natural disasters in world history.
Hit me, well, you're gonna try, Okay. See, that's
actually things that coincided sort of that that the people who tsunami that for that
one a few years ago coincided pretty closely with everyone having a cell phone in
their pocket. And the videos that came out of that are unreal. That
one three point turn car we all saw he's driving and then oh nope and
rattles off a quick three point turn and hits it vertical pedal on the right.
Put the heel to the steel, my man, and that saved the
dude's life. But we have number one and number two are the same natural
disaster head and shoulders above the others as the deadliest of all time. What's
the worst and it's a little out of the box. Okay, volcano probably
right, No, no, and look I don't know, I'm just Wikipedia,
Okay, in terms of deaths. Yes, okay, flood, flood,
flood, hurricane. Yeah, blood is Moses. I mean, uh
noah, the thing they killed the whole world except for two people. It's
number one, and Wikipedia didn't have it. That means it's not real.
Four million dead nineteen thirty one China floods, Wow, four million Jesus.
And then two million dead is number two eighteen eighty seven Yellow River flood.
Also in China. They got a bat over there with all of the the
underground stuff. He's Danny Baalos. I'm just saying, with all that stuff
that's connected the earthquake, the tsunami, the flooding, it's all about the
shifting, the geological nightmare that those people live on over there. Yeah,
I mean we what do we have? Tornado? Well, I guess we'll
let you let him out of it. Huh, Well, we'll let you
out of this one, this recovery flood flood. Then the third is also
China, six hundred fifty five thousand's nuclear reactor N seventy six Tangshan earthquake.
And then the only other one in the half a million club, a cyclone
in East Pakistan is now Bangladesh. They're not counting what's it called, oh
like plagues because the Black Death is the big one, yeah, of them
all. Well, plague is different than a natural disaster. It's a you
know, yeah, I think it's a biological thing and we don't always know
the cause. So you want to be buried with your body intact? That's
interesting? What about you cremation? Hey, I'm getting creamed. I think
so too, And I think I want I get creamed and have my ashes.
Just spread it, you know, I'm an east Alis guy, spread
them over a white rock lake and hopes that I can grew up somebody's regatta
that weekend. That's I'm gonna spread a pinch of yours at La Banketta.
That's a good idea. That actually put it on your you, okay,
ding in remembrance of Ding, one pinch of ash on my Chisodia. Put
a new seasoning on this. This is great. It made a lot of
green sauce off set this. Eat my butt. Uh, there's some cigarette
ash on this toc and what have you got? Butt ash? You don't
know? That was the that was the part you got. Uh, Well,
my daddy went away. We cremated him, and it was kind of
cool though. We went out to Sarasota Bay, you know, he kind
of grew up there racing boats, and we put all put all the ashes
in the bay, like in an area where he would go rip it up
and then and you do this. A lot of water water based people do
this, and you get the boats going a circle kind of around the air.
After you put the ash in sail, put whatever in the ash,
and then you do like a circle around it. Like some people have seen
this when they're in the Caribbean or Hawaii, you know whatever. You're like,
why are these boats doing a weird circle? It is generally like a
funeral, a se a funeral at sea, Viking funeral, kind of a
funnel of ash sort of. And then we ripped full speed right through the
middle of them, mad ass ass hauling funeral. Yeah. Yeah, and
it was that moment you became a man. Yeah. God, well that's
kind of cool significance. Yeah, I'm not joking like them. No,
it was obviously quite memorable day. But yeah, the whirlpool of ashes going
and yeah, and I think it was my suggestion, let's all ass through
it, get out of here. The full Chase Elliott and whoever was you
know, yeah, that's bad as it was, like, yeah, let's
do it. It's all the boats just there's maybe I don't know, three
or four boats, and we just kind of right through the middle of it,
all these floating little checker flags and stuff, you know, like other
little stuff that probably got lodged in the blowhole of a dolphin within the hour.
Take a few with us. Well, if anything happens to this Taiwan
situation, we'll keep you abreast. Terrible man Terrible didn't get to the bottom
of what is Taiwan, and we won't, which will indicate the entire nine
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