Speaker 1: And now it's time for Benson's week day Up Day,
Speaker 1: featuring veteran news anchor kt F on tweets. Here are
Speaker 1: the important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 2: Something really cool happening tomorrow I'll tell you about in
Speaker 2: a second. Let's start with last night though, because Jack
Speaker 2: White was in town Tuesday night.
Speaker 5: It was a big deal.
Speaker 2: We were all talking about it. And then Wednesday just
Speaker 2: sneaking into town because you couldn't see him, he's so small.
Speaker 2: Paul Simon played last night, and I know that played.
Speaker 2: That might not mean a ton to like the Eagle audience,
Speaker 2: I would imagine, but Christina Ray was at the Paul
Speaker 2: Simon Show last.
Speaker 3: Night, and he's pretty iconic. I mean, we have Disturbed
Speaker 3: covering Sound of Silence. We played that quite a bit
Speaker 3: and it's an awesome cover. But yes, Paul Simon was
Speaker 3: in town last night. He's in town again tonight. So
Speaker 3: for a long time I thought I was going tonight
Speaker 3: last night, but yeah, he played at Winspear Opera House
Speaker 3: and he is a tiny, tiny man.
Speaker 5: He's tiny.
Speaker 4: How many I've never been in the wind Spear he does.
Speaker 4: Actually that is not true. I have been in the
Speaker 4: wind spirit.
Speaker 5: It's super nice. Is it hold about fifteen hundred?
Speaker 3: I'm like, kt, I'm bad with numbers, but I can
Speaker 3: say it was very intimate. We had great seats on
Speaker 3: the floor right in front of him, right in the center,
Speaker 3: like right by the lighting and sound guy in the back.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Helmy was Yes, it was five about three, okay,
Speaker 6: five to three, and you're with and athletically built Mike Soroy.
Speaker 6: Is his full body size about the size of Siroy's torso.
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, just about. But again, it was very intimate.
Speaker 3: It was probably the quietest concert I've ever been to.
Speaker 4: I mean, he's gotta be seventy eight eighty three, Oh
Speaker 4: my gosh.
Speaker 3: So that was a thing. I'm like, I think this
Speaker 3: is one the shortest person I've seen perform live, but
Speaker 3: also the oldest too. And he still sounded great. I
Speaker 3: know he was on S and L not too long ago,
Speaker 3: and it was kind of iffy, but he sounded awesome
Speaker 3: all night. And there are two different sets he did,
Speaker 3: like one whole set, and he told us before of
Speaker 3: these like seven songs that he just released back in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty three, and I didn't mind him all they
Speaker 3: were gorgeous with this guy behind is like this boring sucks.
Speaker 4: A guy at the Windspare Opera House was saying something
Speaker 4: was boring.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 3: It was like, dude, it's Paul Simon.
Speaker 5: Shut up.
Speaker 4: Fine for amazing sound. To be able to see a
Speaker 4: show like that there is pretty incredible. I didn't even
Speaker 4: know he was coming. I didn't even hear about this.
Speaker 3: I don't know how Mike found out about it, but yeah,
Speaker 3: so it was just him an acoustic guitar. There was
Speaker 3: like a cello player, a flute. There's a guy with
Speaker 3: a clarinet too. Wait, was there heavy drums? There was
Speaker 3: a big drum kit, but I wouldn't say heavy, but
Speaker 3: he did do all like the big hits, like a
Speaker 3: Homeward Bound. That was the first song that actually made
Speaker 3: me tear up because I realized, like this might be
Speaker 3: the first and only time I see Paul Simon perform,
Speaker 3: you know, But it was also kind of nice. I
Speaker 3: was like, really appreciate this moment because this is provole.
Speaker 3: And then also they played Me and Julio down by
Speaker 3: the school yard. That was like the way to end it.
Speaker 3: And then he came back on for an encore. I
Speaker 3: was very impressed with him.
Speaker 4: Did they have a hologram of Gene Hackman out there
Speaker 4: during Me and Julio down by the schoolyard.
Speaker 5: No, that would have been incredible.
Speaker 3: There was a projector behind him, but they didn't really
Speaker 3: put that much up on there. But I will say so.
Speaker 3: They did like two songs, two or three songs for
Speaker 3: the encore. Then everyone left the stage and it was
Speaker 3: just Paul Simon and he did this sound silent. Oh
Speaker 3: my god, and I cried so hard, my old friend.
Speaker 3: It was incredible. So again, he's playing another show tonight.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's sold out, but if someone
Speaker 3: wants to go, I don't recommend it.
Speaker 5: No way, that thing's not sold out.
Speaker 4: The great thing about him is that the parts that
Speaker 4: he sings, there's not a lot of range. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 4: like even on the Simon and Garfunkel stuff, Garfunkel saying
Speaker 4: all the high harmonies and stuff.
Speaker 3: He had his wife come out for a few songs.
Speaker 5: Too, Dallas native ed Berkel ebro Kel, Edie Berkell.
Speaker 3: She is awesome and very tall compared to him. She
Speaker 3: has a great voice.
Speaker 5: So he's the definition of a short king.
Speaker 2: Yes, he had a powerful, short guy's awesome two hundred
Speaker 2: the capacity the all right, So tomorrow night at at
Speaker 2: and D State post Malone, it's his big stadium tour
Speaker 2: and Jelly Roll's opening, of course, but that's not the
Speaker 2: reason we're doing this, Yes, it is. What he's got
Speaker 2: is postmone has been promoting this big traveling tailgate party
Speaker 2: at all of these huge stadium shows. So from noon
Speaker 2: until six pm in the parking lot of AT and
Speaker 2: T Stadium, which is a huge parking lot. I guess
Speaker 2: it's all kinds of carnival games, tattoos, live music going on.
Speaker 2: But one thing that he did because he went to
Speaker 2: grape Vine, is he invited the grape Vine High School
Speaker 2: band to come out and play at like six pm
Speaker 2: at the end of his like of the big tailgate things.
Speaker 5: So there's a video.
Speaker 2: The audio is not great, it's kind of muffled up,
Speaker 2: but where the band director is telling all the kids
Speaker 2: you have been invited to come play at at and
Speaker 2: T Stadium. Post Malone is inviting you to come play.
Speaker 5: God, that's cool, but you know it's not like they're
Speaker 5: gonna be on stage.
Speaker 2: Well, like I s they could be, but that the
Speaker 2: whole plan is like they're gonna be out in the
Speaker 2: Telgate and it's huge. Like I'm telling you the amount
Speaker 2: of crap that they're from voting, They're they're giving away
Speaker 2: a motorcycle, beer, carnival games and then uh and then
Speaker 2: that is just what a cool thing for a high
Speaker 2: school kid.
Speaker 3: I think our friends like Billy the Kid them are
Speaker 3: involved with They did help do that.
Speaker 2: I know, Zan, Yes, the program director at Mix one
Speaker 2: O two nine, Zan, I know she helped had something
Speaker 2: to do with this.
Speaker 5: Yeah, werked her ass off for get that to happen.
Speaker 3: So that's cool.
Speaker 5: That's badass, man. I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 2: And I think there's having like a big thing at
Speaker 2: Canes tomorrow too.
Speaker 4: Canes location the one, yes, right Northwest Highway and thirty five.
Speaker 2: It's the blue the one that's Cowboys that they're having
Speaker 2: a merch pop up there tomorrow.
Speaker 5: All right, cool, fantastic postman them