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Speaker 3: This, and now it's time for week Day up Day,
Speaker 3: featuring veteran news anchor Kat fun tweets. Here are the
Speaker 3: important stories he's currently tracking from around the world.
Speaker 4: Yeah, normally it has something local, but I've found a
Speaker 4: couple of things that from the world of wildlife I
Speaker 4: wanted to bring to you real quick.
Speaker 2: Okay, So this lady.
Speaker 4: Had a squirrel in her car. So she's in a
Speaker 4: parking lot and there's a guy who's like poking inside
Speaker 4: the hood of her car and trying to get the
Speaker 4: squirrel out so hot, so it's preventing her car from starting.
Speaker 4: But the story usually the squirrel gets out and then
Speaker 4: kind of a bold squirrel and he's he's had bold
Speaker 4: squirrel hanging out on her on her windshield and then
Speaker 4: on her door. But her voice is the real, uh,
Speaker 4: the real thing we're listening for here.
Speaker 5: Okay, Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god,
Speaker 5: you sound like.
Speaker 1: Okay, why did you start sounding like Robert F.
Speaker 2: Kennedy Jr. It's so crazy. Her voice just got so crazy.
Speaker 4: The squirrels, you know, splouting and freaking out, and he
Speaker 4: jumps over here, and you got the zoomies. The squirrel
Speaker 4: was also wearing black face. I see it was ben
Speaker 4: in the hood of her car, and he had dipped
Speaker 4: his head into some oil.
Speaker 2: Oh man, that squirrel is gonna get canceled. But she
Speaker 2: was still laughing at and that, My God, sound like,
Speaker 2: who's that guy? It's a guy's like her husband, I guess.
Speaker 2: Or what the heft?
Speaker 6: Do?
Speaker 2: You sound like Jesus?
Speaker 7: Not the best. So when you laughed that hard you
Speaker 7: can't even talk.
Speaker 2: I feel like if.
Speaker 1: You grab that and edit it a little bit, whenever
Speaker 1: we're laughing, you can just play that like a laugh track.
Speaker 2: Or play it with a laugh track. My god, sound
Speaker 2: like Jesus. Jesus, I don't even like you anymore.
Speaker 4: Chicago is where we will go. Now this is just
Speaker 4: awkward television chemistry. There is a pregnant beaver in the
Speaker 4: Chicago River. Okay, they're gonna have a contest where you
Speaker 4: can name the beaver.
Speaker 2: Name the wet beaver. No, here we go. Just you
Speaker 2: get the IDEA.
Speaker 8: Well, beaver with a big, possibly pregnant belly living along
Speaker 8: the Chicago River has gone viral on social media, and
Speaker 8: now environmental nonprofit Urban Rivers wants your help to name
Speaker 8: this beaver and Sammy Clark Beaver researcher with Urban Rivers
Speaker 8: joins us Live to discuss the contest, also the uptick
Speaker 8: of beaver sidings along the Chicago River.
Speaker 2: It's fun to have you on, Sammy. Thanks for being here.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much for having me.
Speaker 8: All Right, so tell us what is so special about
Speaker 8: this beaver and where she has shown up on the
Speaker 8: Chicago River.
Speaker 6: Okay, so this beaver is in the Bubbly Creek area.
Speaker 6: Seeing this individ looking so plump, especially this time of year,
Speaker 6: gives us hope that it's possible that it could be
Speaker 6: the female pregnant.
Speaker 8: Again, Okay, so they're not beaver body shaming, right, We think.
Speaker 2: That is probably not.
Speaker 6: We have been seeing a number of different beavers of
Speaker 6: various sizes here, so yeah, it's been very.
Speaker 2: Exciting to watch.
Speaker 8: And so it is not just the beavers, right, because
Speaker 8: if you if you look, you can see some I
Speaker 8: want to say predators right that are also.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, beavers and predators.
Speaker 1: Don't know he's describing a bar and you're a college Yeah.
Speaker 8: You can see some I want to say predators, right
Speaker 8: that are also hanging around the frozen river.
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well that also is the next call out about
Speaker 8: the name suggestions. I noticed a couple of good ones
Speaker 8: that I'll just share a damn. Ryan was a good one,
Speaker 8: and also Sigourney Beaver. What some of the other names?
Speaker 8: And how can people jump into the is so bad?
Speaker 7: Pretty good?
Speaker 2: Beer is great? That's good? What was the other one? Brian?
Speaker 2: What's it get that? I'll get it either like a
Speaker 2: Chicago things.
Speaker 6: Well, one of my favorites is rotundra.
Speaker 2: What that's all we got?
Speaker 4: This is why you can't just let anybody go on
Speaker 4: TV and you gotta have something. They gotta add something.
Speaker 2: So what she looked like? She was like a scientist?
Speaker 7: Yepist, glasses.
Speaker 2: Pasty? Okay, oh, she looks like a Scottish scientist. I
Speaker 2: don't remember. I don't what do you mean you don't remember?
Speaker 4: Weather update Tomorrow should be the last day of extreme
Speaker 4: cold right now?
Speaker 2: Look at my watch?
Speaker 4: Thirty three degrees all right, so we did break eighty
Speaker 4: six year daily cold temperature record today getting down to
Speaker 4: twelve cool.
Speaker 7: Look at us when Monday's like seventy one as a high, right,
Speaker 7: I think.
Speaker 4: Pick the day off high sixty. He's in low seventies
Speaker 4: next week. Golf it up, dude, I'm dying to Thursday morning.
Speaker 4: Today we hit a low of twelve degrees. So that
Speaker 4: is the lowest temperature we have had since nineteen thirty nine.
Speaker 2: I will never forget that. I thought, sure, I thought
Speaker 2: we've hit below that before.
Speaker 4: We always talk about real feels and wind cheels.
Speaker 1: He's saying, dude, all you're saying on this day, you
Speaker 1: think that's what it is. Yeah, that's what it is.
Speaker 1: That's the coldest it's been on that day.
Speaker 2: Man, I don't know, you'll see.
Speaker 7: You think it's been colder than that. It felt like
Speaker 7: one the other day.
Speaker 2: I think it's been colder than twelve degrees in the city.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, the hell when the whole city stopped working four
Speaker 1: years ago, I guarantee you it got below twelve degrees.
Speaker 4: Say it's more happenstance than on February twentieth. Today's the
Speaker 4: cold It's not even a record, it's just a note.
Speaker 4: It's the coldest it's been on that day.
Speaker 2: Bro Okay.
Speaker 4: As we also mentioned earlier, good friend Zach Martin, who
Speaker 4: is retiring from the Dallas Cowboys pastic today's the birthday
Speaker 4: would have been the birthday. What's still the birthday of
Speaker 4: Kurt Cobain. He's right, and if only he were here
Speaker 4: to celebrate with us. Do we know what year Kurt passed?
Speaker 4: Was it ninety four?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 7: The unplugged thing was the last thing he.
Speaker 1: Did, right, and I think it came out after he died, right,
Speaker 1: Do you guys know April fifth, ninety.
Speaker 2: Four is when he died. I don't know when Unplugged came.
Speaker 1: Out, Okay, I could be wrong with all that. It
Speaker 1: was around the same time.
Speaker 2: I didn't know.
Speaker 7: That the lilies were like a big deal because of
Speaker 7: that too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think like he taped it and then it
Speaker 1: came out after he died, I believe.
Speaker 2: But I was thinking about this so earlier.
Speaker 1: We had our buddy Josh Campbell of Oatmeal Pizza. He's
Speaker 1: the lead singer and he does a really good job of,
Speaker 1: you know, embodying Kurt on stage and sounding like Kurt.
Speaker 1: And that's if you don't know, I'm maybe I'm being presumptuous.
Speaker 1: Our own Christina Kray Ray is the guitarist in Oatmeal
Speaker 1: Pizza And you guys have a gig Sunday in Denton
Speaker 1: at Andy's.
Speaker 7: Yep, but time a farewell to Andy's. I believe doors
Speaker 7: are at seven.
Speaker 2: Thirty, okay.
Speaker 1: And so when we had josh on, he was talking
Speaker 1: about you know, we were talking about this whole idea
Speaker 1: of what Kurt meant and all that stuff, and Josh
Speaker 1: started talking about the kind of life that Kurt Cobain
Speaker 1: had been through. And so I'm I'm four years younger
Speaker 1: than Kurt Cobain, Okay, so he's pretty much my you
Speaker 1: know era, right, he's gen X, but I feel pretty
Speaker 1: close to him in age. And then also, you know,
Speaker 1: I was whatever, I was twenty three, about to turn
Speaker 1: twenty four when he died. And one of the things
Speaker 1: Josh was talking about is that Kurt did not like
Speaker 1: to be like the voice of a generation or that
Speaker 1: wasn't his goal to be the voice of a generation.
Speaker 2: But one of the ways that.
Speaker 1: Those things I was thinking about this while he was
Speaker 1: telling us, this is one of the ways that those
Speaker 1: things happen is because they are not trying to do that.
Speaker 1: They just embody what a lot of people are going through.
Speaker 1: And when I started thinking about his parents got you know,
Speaker 1: divorced when he was ten. I could be wrong, there
Speaker 1: may be stats, but I do believe that my generation
Speaker 1: is the first generation in America that had widespread divorce. Really,
Speaker 1: I believe so now there was divorce before that, but
Speaker 1: I think that there were before that because of how
Speaker 1: society was. I think there was a lot of women
Speaker 1: that stayed in very unhappy marriages. Yeah, because they didn't
Speaker 1: want to be judged. They're saying the divorce revolution. This
Speaker 1: is just online real quickly, the evolution of divorce. Couple
Speaker 1: of articles are about the sixties and seventies. Seventies is
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, yeah, so sixties.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially with how you look at like religion and
Speaker 4: things like that. Yeah, you're just like, I'm staying, we
Speaker 4: have to there's a lot of people that stayed in
Speaker 4: unhappy marriages. And I can even remember in the neighborhood
Speaker 4: I grew up in when different families started getting divorced,
Speaker 4: you know, I would have been that would have been
Speaker 4: late set seventies, you know, when it first started happening,
Speaker 4: and then it carried over into the eighties, and so
Speaker 4: things happen societally, and it's not all everything happening at once.
Speaker 4: It's just a culmination of what's happening with the country
Speaker 4: and how people feel. And then you go back on
Speaker 4: it a decade later and look back and you go, oh, well,
Speaker 4: this thing was happening. It's not like it was.
Speaker 2: A movement or anything.
Speaker 1: It's just how a lot of people felt at one time.
Speaker 1: And so for people that are my age, they were
Speaker 1: in their late teens or their early twenties when Nirvana
Speaker 1: became a huge thing, and so there was a lot
Speaker 1: of people that were my age that were identifying with
Speaker 1: what he was singing about because they went through a
Speaker 1: similar thing. And a lot of people will use the
Speaker 1: arts or something like that to articulate how they're feeling,
Speaker 1: and they latch onto it and it becomes.
Speaker 2: Very very important to them.
Speaker 1: And when I was that age, you know, I was
Speaker 1: way into rap music, almost to the exclusivity of other
Speaker 1: kinds of music. Like I missed out on Nerva. I mean,
Speaker 1: I knew it. It was everywhere you missed out on Garth.
Speaker 1: I missed out on Garth big time. But one of
Speaker 1: the things it was that I think back on now
Speaker 1: and I feel differently about it than I did at
Speaker 1: the time. But one of the writers from Rolling Stone
Speaker 1: Magazine went on MTV because when Kurt Cobain took his life,
Speaker 1: it was twenty four hour coverage on MTV.
Speaker 2: You guys were five or whatever, right. I know a
Speaker 2: lot of.
Speaker 7: People know exactly where they were when they heard that news.
Speaker 2: Yes, and they went outside.
Speaker 1: There was all these makeshift you know, memorials and all
Speaker 1: these things, and people were out and.
Speaker 2: Bawling and all this.
Speaker 1: And I remember the guy for and I liked Nirvana fine,
Speaker 1: but I really didn't care about him. They I would
Speaker 1: get into them way later in life, but at the
Speaker 1: time I was more in a hip hop and I
Speaker 1: remember the guy from Rolling Stone going, you don't understand
Speaker 1: this is like John Lennon dying. And I remember thinking,
Speaker 1: that is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard in
Speaker 1: my life. You are out of your mind. Get over it.
Speaker 1: And then as time went on, I look back on
Speaker 1: it and I understand why people would feel that way,
Speaker 1: where I didn't in the moment.
Speaker 2: But John Lennon spoke.
Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to speak for a generation, but he
Speaker 1: did it.
Speaker 2: Dude, you were young to have a get off my
Speaker 2: lawn take like that too.
Speaker 6: I was.
Speaker 1: I had a total get off my lawn take. I
Speaker 1: was like, man, they put out two albums which I
Speaker 1: didn't even know Bleach existed back then. I was like
Speaker 1: they put out two albums, Please Get off My Nuts,
Speaker 1: And then now I look back on and go, I
Speaker 1: get it, like when you're in it.
Speaker 2: Maybe it does, maybe it doesn't.
Speaker 1: But that's how history works, and that's how you look
Speaker 1: back on things and ascribe meaning to them because you
Speaker 1: have the distance and you have perspective, and you look
Speaker 1: at how it impacted culture and mass and it really
Speaker 1: is incredible that they had such a short discography, but
Speaker 1: they acted so much that we were talking the other
Speaker 1: day about post Nirvana and I'm sittinger going, you know,
Speaker 1: those guys didn't do anything together for thirty years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, thirty years.
Speaker 1: It was such a thing, and that is that is
Speaker 1: a huge cultural moment in the mid nineties. For that
Speaker 1: guy to die the way that he did and how
Speaker 1: he impacted so many people and we still play them
Speaker 1: all the time day then put out a record in
Speaker 1: thirty years. Crazy, isn't that crazy? Haaby Birthday, Kurt, Happy birthday?
Speaker 1: Told Kirk, yep, all right, it's submit and Skinshaw, I
Speaker 1: tell you what, keep it in that motive or that motif.
Speaker 2: We will do the today game next