April 8, 2024 • 24 mins
We are LIVE from Klyde Warren Park today!! Julie is back but TC pops on with us! Would you like to die while making love? Kit Sawers, director of Klyde Warren Park, join us to discuss the epic day we’ve had out here!
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Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us.Who would have thought not me? Our
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time four minutes, half two pm. Several daylight times according to the
Tower of the Friendly Merchant to you. Your tuner is set to ninety seven
one the Freak and this is theSpeakeasy warmus. Greetings to one and all.
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It is Monday, and that wouldbe the eighth of April. As
we am and a live from ClydeWarren Park, Clyde Warren Park, we
are all at a tizzy right aboutnow, having experienced firsthand the off balley
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hood yet bound to be disappointing eclipse, so we thought anyway. I would
be Mike Render, joined by JeffCavanaugh, Julie Dobbs. Hello, Shoopy
high shoopy at the helm, Hishooping. How are we? We're good?
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Good? Are we ready for anotherbig broadcast day out here at Clyde
Warren Park. Oh yeah we are, Oh yes we are. We've got
a throng of people out here,probably one of the biggest crowds they've had
out here for this things quite sometime. I mean, not to see
us. There's a larger issue here. Everybody's reason for making their way out
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here. I the eclipse is over. If they're still here, they're here
for us, dude, literally allthese people. Yeah, that thing's been
over for a while. It's stillnot over for all of what twelve minutes.
You can look up right now?Is it not over? Look over?
It's really not over. Hold putyour glasses back on to Oh,
oh we're still eclipsing. How aboutthat? Oh yeah, we are still
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eclipsing. Huh. Probably good onthe twenty minutes worth kick ass man.
Now we have fallen out of thesea of totality though. Oh and yes,
we're prepared to edify you accordingly,everybody recuperate, okay from that,
but we get through this. Bythe way, we have TC fleming here
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with us as well. Hey,it's going on in the little buddy.
Thanks for having me. How longyou had that shirt? Less than you
think or more than you think.It looks very faded, I assume,
yeah, is it inside out?No? No, this is the way
it's supposed to be. Oh,I think it's just uh, this is
how it's printed to look weathered.Evon, I think your mic is on
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Ivon, What the hell? Man? What the hell bro and Ivon get
it together over there. Yeah,I swear we can't take you. We
can't take you anywhere. Maybe itwas just in our ears. We need
to get it together. Yeah.TC's got a Notre Dame shirt that looks
like it's been faded over the courseof a few decades. But you're telling
me that is the way it that'sthe way it came. Yeah, this
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is cool, This is very cool. This is cool, and if you're
trying to look cool, this ishow it's done. Yeah, yeah,
I can see that. Yeah.Well, TC was in for me all
last week and we missed you.I had some fomo, So when he
came out here to join us tobe a part of the big Eclipse party,
I said, just hang around,do the show with us. It's
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fun. The more the merrier,I appreciate it. Yes, I hope
we get to hear about what youwere doing during the show last week.
During the show last week, Iwas in I was in Mexico with family,
family vacation, much needed cousins,celebrating my father in law's seventieth birthday.
Did you swim with stingrays? Idid not. Did you swim with
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salmon? I swim with humans.Did in law swim with stingrays? No?
He did not swim with stingrays findssomething seventy year olds liked to do?
Yeah, have you ever done it? I have cool, pretty awesome.
Okay, we swim swimming with stingraysor totality? Definite totality? All
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right, Yeah, i'd say there, you can go down there and swim
with stingrays anytime you want. Yeah, I would like to go back to
your claim that that's something that seventyyear olds like to do. Is that
a survey a pole? No,just more a knee jerk guess by me,
okay than anything else. Okay,but not based on nothing. He
was down there swimming. You couldsee you what the other people were doing.
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Yeah. Yeah, and there areother people's out there. Yeah,
we were swimming with stingrays and thoseof us who weren't we're having sex.
Oh wow, isn't that right?Isn't that what killed what's his name?
Yeah? Having sex? He didn'the get stingrays? Sex in the chest
or something. Steve Irwin, Iguess you could call it that. I
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think you're talking about David Kerdine.Who's that the guy that died from having
sex. Oh, I we're goingto power rank the way to go.
I think that's probably at the topif you don't have to factor in how
the partner is going to feel forthe rest of their life. He didn't
have a partner solo. Yeah,what killed him? The noose around his
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neck? Oh, dear, sexdidn't kill him, Kim, he pulled
that trick over the line, kinkpulled that off for him. What do
they call that asphyxiation? Autoerotic asshixiation? Yeah? Have you ever done that?
No? But it's it sounds likea lot of fun, doesn't it.
Yeah, anything that someone's willing todie for that heroin overdose, it's
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like they have to have a reason. Yeah, we're any of you guys
scared when we hit the path oftotality moment? No speaking of I don't
know death, and I got reallyscared for a second there. It's just
that feeling like you have no ideawhat you're about to expel experience. Never
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experienced something like that, And whatif people do something crazy in that moment?
Luckily no one did. Oh wedon't know yet. Tomorrow's news cycle
would be great. What did peopledo during totality, At least here at
Clyde Warren Park, everybody was invery good spirits and hugging and taking pictures.
But I was hoping somebody would dosomething crazy. Yeah, I hope
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that tomorrow. It's like, uh, I love the day after the Fourth
of July just seeing who did what, and like, who's missing a hand
and how'd that go? Who blewthemselves up with the fireworks? Who did
something real weird during that five minutesor whatever. I look forward to tomorrow's
show being four hours of what didthey do during totality? Did you ever
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know anybody who came back from theFourth of July missing a hand? No,
not personally, but I did thinkour whole family was going to die
one time when they were setting upa real big firework show and Uncle Jim's,
and as they were lighting it andtrying to run away, they tumped
it over towards the house. Mygod, where everyone is sitting there staring
down towards the one edge. Hejust shot fireballs at the house over and
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over for a few minutes, andpeople scrambled and were terrified, but no
one got hit. They were theywere the good fireworks are you ignite the
house? No, No, nolasting damage, just uh just terror.
Wow, here's why you shouldn't messwith anything other than black cats. No,
I don't know. He said thatthere was no casualties. Yeah,
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nobody does, no consequences. Theyhad a great people came close. There
were adults with black clothes. Youdon't come close the binary things. I
didn't throw it. If you ifyou swallowed it, you'd come close.
Yeah, if you did that,Nor would it be put out by the
moisture of you esophagus. Let's findI don't know. I think it would
be put out. I don't know. But if you swallow it, you're
an idiot. Mike. I thinkyou'd be fine. We can do this.
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We'll give it a shot. We'llsee how it goes. You're planning
the safety of the black cat.We're gonna put it to the test.
I don't know, man, Imade back off of this. I just
like the like NFL players can blowoff three fingers and get back to the
league and be fine. Just well, they put on a baby hand,
so he was just able to playit through with. With the baby hand
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they attached to his it stump onhis arm that is very interesting. Yeah,
we've got a very special cast andwe've got to have on here.
Yeah, and she will be joiningus momentarily. Here. She is kit
Stars. She is the major domoof all things Clyde Warren Park. Oh
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that's a cool job. Yes,she's enjoying herself today. That's good to
see. How are you? She'snot really good yet, just you know
what she's what Ivan was letting youknow that he has to turn her mic
up on the air feet Ye hereI am, yes, here she is.
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I just asked you how you are. You said you're good, and
now we can proceed. It's quitea day out here. I mean it
is more dramatic I think to haveit super humid and complete cloud cover and
then all of a sudden to clearright before the eclipse. Huh. Yes,
that was our mic drop moment.It was kind of like a sporting
event. Right at the very end. Someone drains at three to push it
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to overtime or whatever is the weathergoing to cooperate, and it did.
We're always happy after exactly. Yeah, it was great. How amazing.
You know, normally when we havepeople on here such as you, I
let them get on here and tellus what they've got to tell us about.
But I must say, you guyshave done an awesome job. Thank
you place. I mean, thisis a civic treasure right in the middle
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of our fair bird like nothing we'veever had before. And it just keeps
getting better and better. Hey,you guys just keep building onto it and
adding on to it and finding newthings and new ways to amuse the masses
who come down here. It's awesomework. Well we have, we figured
out last year based on kind ofsome AI information, we had one point
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three million visitors in twenty twenty three. We have more than thirteen hundred free
programs for people to enjoy, everythingfrom fitness classes to movies to things like
this. And when we realized therewas this eclipse coming a couple of years
ago, we were like, wereally take seriously our job and kind of
being Dallas's town square, We're like, we've got to have a big eclipse
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event. We rely on friends andpartners. The Parroa Museum provided thirty five
thousand pairs of eclipse classes. Todaywe had about thirty thousand people we've counted
well. And then we had someastronomers you know, who gave kind of
a panel discussion about what was happening, and we've had a great band playing.
They're no petty theft, but they'rea great band. And it was
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a good day. Oh good,Okay, well it's a really awesome event.
And then I want to go backto you know, when you guys
found out that this was coming,did you have anybody on staff that was
familiar with this sort of thing orknew how exactly how this was going to
come down or were you just kindof learning as you go. So,
Mike, our staff is about fifteenpeople to do this whole thing. As
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the question, Yeah, we're fortunateto be compared to our friends and partners
have two hundred person staff, butwe're anybody, and so we again partner
with others, and we knew thePro Museum was going to be doing some
different things, and so we reachedout to them. They had this partnership
with Carnegie Science and they flew inthirty astronomers, they passed they bought a
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million pairs of those eclipse glasses thatthey passed out to d ISD and DSD
kept the kids in school today sothat they could do programming, and then
we were able to kind of pony, you know, like or kind of
play off of what they were doingto really provide something. There's so many
out of town people here too,I know, I know, And the
past weekend I talked to our foodtruck operators and our abe, one of
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our food truck operators told me yesterdayhe's like, I don't think I served
anyone from Dallas today. I meanthey were all from out of town.
The hotels have been worked for months. So it's kind of an exciting moment
to have all these people in Dallashere in a green space or multiple green
spaces, focusing on something about nature, you know, because you don't really
think of Dallas in that way.So it's really exciting and how cool that
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Dallas was like one of the placesthat just happens to be in the path
of totality where everybody is trying tocome. I mean, what was the
build up, the anticipation, thehype leading up to this moment And now
that it's past, how does thatfeel for somebody that was in charge of
the whole thing. Well, youknow, we always have to keep our
fingers crossed with the weather, rightwe just we're an outdoor venue and this
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was clearly an outdoor event, butI think doubt it's fun for me.
I actually went to the eclipse intwenty seventeen, and it was not where
I went there. You just wentto the park and you sat there,
and so it's fun. Not.So I said, well, look,
when we have it in Dallas,we're going to have we're going to do
what we do best. We're gonnahave music, and we're going to have
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people talk about it, and we'regonna have activities. And not only did
Clyde Warren Park to that, everyplace did that in Dallas. It's such
a kind of particular North Texx experience. We so want to host people.
We want these people who are comingin from out of town to have the
best time ever. And I thinkwe really rabile to shine. Yeah,
and how about for the rest ofthe afternoon, Like because now that you
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know the sun's back out and thatmoment has passed, people are still kind
of wanting to enjoy the party vibenow the holiday vibe. Do you have
anything else going on the rest ofthe day If people maybe want to come
out, We're going till about three. Okay, people are more than welcome
to hang out my little staff hasbeen here all week and long, so
I'm gonna let them kind of startwrapping up at three pm. And then
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I guess we've got some more weathercoming in this see, oh do we
so? But uh yeah, Imean people are more than welcome to hang
out. You know, the parksopen un till ten o'clock tonight. They
can hang out, they can goto meet Casina. All these out of
towners need to try Mombo taxi.Yeah, and enjoy the rest of the
day. Yeah, well, we'regoing till six, so they can come
see us, right, come hangout with us, parties just getting started
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here. Well, you all comeback anytime. You've added a lot,
and we're thrilled to have you,and anytime you'd like to come back,
we'd love to have you. Thiswas a phenomenal event because it is a
great work you guys did, andI'm really happy that we got to be
here today. And it's been reallynice talking to you. All Right,
next time, Petty theft right,all right, let's do it all right?
Yeah, cooked, And you dida great job with the clouds and
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the moon, right, and getthis, you know what I'm really good
at. I'm actually really good atbad weather. So I don't know who
is in charge of the weather today, but we delegated that we got great
weather. Delegation is important. Thatis Kitsars. She is the director,
is that right? Director that worksof Clyde Warren Park, everything that goes
on down here. She is themajor DOMO. If you don't like something,
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come find her. Oh. Actually, if you don't like it,
Mike's in charge. You like me, find Mike, I'll find her.
We'll get it handled. I likethis idea for the rest of the show,
Mike. I think what we'll dois we'll just have anybody who has
a complained about Dallas come see Mike. All right, all right, Yes,
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talked to mister Dallas about it.Yeah, yeah, I'll think you
can handle it. I love thisplace. I don't get out here all
that often, but I've been herefor like different concerts and whatnot. Clydborne
Park is just badass. I takethe kid here's off your song. I'll
bet you saw R. E.K a time or two here, did
you. I don't know if Iever saw Robert in here, but I
should have because he's awesome and thisplace is awesome. Yeah. I remember
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the night they opened. I hadlike a I don't know, three or
four month stint through t XA twentyone doing news. It was really random,
but it was when this park opened. So we came out for the
big ceremony and polyphonics free and Iremember just how excited people were about the
possibility of having a park in themiddle of downtown Dallas and not knowing really
what to expect. And now it'scrazy, it's awesome and I love it,
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and it sounds like they have plansto just keep going and building it
and making it bigger and better.I remember when that idea start first started
getting floated, and before then,probably the nearest thing that we had to
downtown was probably Lee Park, yeah, or maybe Rubber Sean and you know,
where there would be gatherings and stufflike that. But I mean,
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close to downtown you're gonna put apark where, you know, because like
all this was concrete. But it'sbeen so long since this has been here,
I really can't remember what was herebefore. And it's become such a
part of the fabric of our fairBird that I mean, it just seems
only natural. It's really cool,and it is a civic Jewel right in
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the middle of it. In yourlifetime, this was elevated highway right used
to be tall. Yeah, yeah, it used to be tall, and
who knows, maybe at some pointit was just the streets. I guess
there was a time before the ladhere. I don't know where the timeline
is. There was a time whenonce you left downtown the first thing you
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hit was Ross Avenue. Yeah,and then you hit McKinney and that's probably
you know where we're sitting right nowtoday. Yeah, I think there's a
part of the access road that's stilltechnically in McKinney Avenue. It was.
It was elevated during the big vanHalen concert. That was the last large
event here, as Van Halen playeda free show in the West End outdoors.
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So it's kind of that was bigand then there's today. Those are
the two big downtown Dallas events.Okay you think, yeah, I can't
go to that, No, probablynot. I can't. Yeah. I
can't picture what this used to looklike either at all. It's hard,
man, I have no idea.It's hard. Like I say, it's
become such a part of the fabricof the place that you can't imagine it
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without it? Well, good job, Eclipse, I give you a good
job, Eclipse. Good job,Claid Warren Park. Was it more exciting
than you anticipated, less exciting thanyou anticipated, or about what you anticipated?
Let's go around the warn here realquick? More for me? Really?
Yeah? I was all set tobe rather nonplused by it, as
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I am by so much stuff inthis world that doesn't measure up to my
high expectations. But boy, thisdid. It was really cool. What
was the coolest part? Like?For me? It was looking up and
seeing what it actually looked like whenthe moon was covering up the sun.
That blew me away. Yeah,I mean that. I think that was
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the big That was, you knowvan Halen playing you really got Me or
something. Yeah, I felt likeyou're on drugs for a second there looking
up into the sky. It's crazy, Jeff more or less the same.
Oh, it was way cooler,and I thought it would be. Uh.
And I was really excited that theyhad an astronomer of some sort on
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the bed and Skin show. Yeah, because I wasn't clear on if I
was going to die when I didwhat I was gonna do, because I
want to see what it actually lookslike. So I knew the glasses were
coming off. Yeah, ild I'mwould take a peach. And when I
heard astronomer man be like, yeah, the sun's covered up, like you
may not want to stare directly atit forever, but you can look in
the general direction of And so thenknowing that, all right, we're in
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totality, take these suckers off.What are we working with? Yeah?
And if you didn't know any better, if you didn't know what was coming,
I could see looking up there andbe like, oh the world ending.
That looks like a meteorite that isbarreling straight down to end us.
Sweet. But I knew that wewere safe, right, And so I
was just like, job, thatlooks super cool. Do you think there's
anybody in the world that had noidea what was happening? It was just
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like out in a remote I doplay somewhere. You just started panicking because
that's probably what the animals feel like. Yeah, yeah, you know what
about UTC overwhelmed, underwhelmed, orwhelmed. I had extremely high expectations,
and I would say they were betterexceeded. I thought it was gonna be
awesome, and it was really awesome. I Uh, I just it's great
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being out here. I loved experiencingit as like a communal thing. Just
feeling everyone else's collective excitement. Yeah, was kind of more neat than seeing
the sun, you know, likewhen the sun was awesome, but just
seeing how many people were cheering andhow did you can just feel how hyped
everyone was for it? For suregroovy. I've never felt more alive.
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Oh no, that was really cool. Like I knew it was gonna be
awesome, but still like I've neverlived through one, I don't believe,
so I didn't know totally what toexpect, and like it getting cooler a
couple of different times, just thedarker at God and stuff like that I
didn't think about until as it washappening, like, oh my god,
like it really is a thing.Yeah, that was exciting, And like
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Skin was saying, it looked likeit was around eight thirty PM and that
not here to trash Skin. Atthat point, I felt like it didn't
look like anything I'd ever seen.It's not like that. The quality of
light was totally different. Yeah,you're right, it was weird, and
just seeing the little crescents on theground stuff like that from the shadows like,
yeah, stuff like that is socool. Yeah, the self conscious
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feeling you get when you realize you'restaring up and your mouth is open and
you're like, if anyone's looking atyour ey stupid, right, stupid.
But I didn't care, you know, I was seeing something that I don't
think I've ever seen before. Imean, I've been through these things before,
but they've never delivered the goods likethis did. Yeah, I've never
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seen one that was all that itwas cracked up to be like this was.
And the fact that the weather wastotally awesome like that was such a
worry obviously coming into this, like, oh god, it's going to rain
or at the least it's going tobe super cloudy, and so that's gonna
negate it. And no, itwas. It was perfect. It was.
Now it's a little damn hot becausewe're wearing black shirts most of us.
It is a little damn hot.I'm looking forward to how many people
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went blind today, because I didnotice that after it was over and the
sun came back out, the numberof people with glasses that they were like
on and then they push them upand I was like, no, guys,
not anymore. Stop it, butpeople would want to think I'm going
shirt off the rest of the day, all right forward to that shirtless shoopy.
That's a good tease. I don't. I don't drive the crowd.
Yeah, well it's not gonna happen, so don't. Oh I'm joking.
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Well, I'm looking forward to,uh if we can get to a break.
And there's not much of the lineover there at that corny dog,
because nothing makes me happier than acorn dog, like sex, corn dogs,
fireball. It's kind of like myokay, well you get a corn
dog over there, you'll be twofor three already today I have had a
fireball. Yeah ye shout out toBecca, a jell o shot of fireball.
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Yeah, shout out to Becca.Period. Oh my god, her,
this whole thing came together. Shedid all the heavy lifting, all
the legwork. Just amazing, amazing. So it is now a lawn chair
Monday at Clyde Warren Park. Bringyour ass. I can get freak Jesus
out there in his lawn chair.We're rocking and rolling out here, so
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come out and see us. We'rea Clydwarren Park and we will be here
all freaking day let's party hell ona nice sports desk. Oh, that
is a good plan, Julie,what do you think? Is this the
path of totality for our Dallas teams? Right now, they're all really good.
That's next.
Let's begin the show by starting it. Look at us, Hey, look
at us, Look at us.Who would have thought not me? Our
(00:47):
time four minutes, half two pm. Several daylight times according to the
Tower of the Friendly Merchant to you. Your tuner is set to ninety seven
one the Freak and this is theSpeakeasy warmus. Greetings to one and all.
(01:17):
It is Monday, and that wouldbe the eighth of April. As
we am and a live from ClydeWarren Park, Clyde Warren Park, we
are all at a tizzy right aboutnow, having experienced firsthand the off balley
(01:42):
hood yet bound to be disappointing eclipse, so we thought anyway. I would
be Mike Render, joined by JeffCavanaugh, Julie Dobbs. Hello, Shoopy
high shoopy at the helm, Hishooping. How are we? We're good?
(02:05):
Good? Are we ready for anotherbig broadcast day out here at Clyde
Warren Park. Oh yeah we are, Oh yes we are. We've got
a throng of people out here,probably one of the biggest crowds they've had
out here for this things quite sometime. I mean, not to see
us. There's a larger issue here. Everybody's reason for making their way out
(02:30):
here. I the eclipse is over. If they're still here, they're here
for us, dude, literally allthese people. Yeah, that thing's been
over for a while. It's stillnot over for all of what twelve minutes.
You can look up right now?Is it not over? Look over?
It's really not over. Hold putyour glasses back on to Oh,
oh we're still eclipsing. How aboutthat? Oh yeah, we are still
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eclipsing. Huh. Probably good onthe twenty minutes worth kick ass man.
Now we have fallen out of thesea of totality though. Oh and yes,
we're prepared to edify you accordingly,everybody recuperate, okay from that,
but we get through this. Bythe way, we have TC fleming here
(03:15):
with us as well. Hey,it's going on in the little buddy.
Thanks for having me. How longyou had that shirt? Less than you
think or more than you think.It looks very faded, I assume,
yeah, is it inside out?No? No, this is the way
it's supposed to be. Oh,I think it's just uh, this is
how it's printed to look weathered.Evon, I think your mic is on
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Ivon, What the hell? Man? What the hell bro and Ivon get
it together over there. Yeah,I swear we can't take you. We
can't take you anywhere. Maybe itwas just in our ears. We need
to get it together. Yeah.TC's got a Notre Dame shirt that looks
like it's been faded over the courseof a few decades. But you're telling
me that is the way it that'sthe way it came. Yeah, this
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is cool, This is very cool. This is cool, and if you're
trying to look cool, this ishow it's done. Yeah, yeah,
I can see that. Yeah.Well, TC was in for me all
last week and we missed you.I had some fomo, So when he
came out here to join us tobe a part of the big Eclipse party,
I said, just hang around,do the show with us. It's
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fun. The more the merrier,I appreciate it. Yes, I hope
we get to hear about what youwere doing during the show last week.
During the show last week, Iwas in I was in Mexico with family,
family vacation, much needed cousins,celebrating my father in law's seventieth birthday.
Did you swim with stingrays? Idid not. Did you swim with
(04:44):
salmon? I swim with humans.Did in law swim with stingrays? No?
He did not swim with stingrays findssomething seventy year olds liked to do?
Yeah, have you ever done it? I have cool, pretty awesome.
Okay, we swim swimming with stingraysor totality? Definite totality? All
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right, Yeah, i'd say there, you can go down there and swim
with stingrays anytime you want. Yeah, I would like to go back to
your claim that that's something that seventyyear olds like to do. Is that
a survey a pole? No,just more a knee jerk guess by me,
okay than anything else. Okay,but not based on nothing. He
was down there swimming. You couldsee you what the other people were doing.
(05:30):
Yeah. Yeah, and there areother people's out there. Yeah,
we were swimming with stingrays and thoseof us who weren't we're having sex.
Oh wow, isn't that right?Isn't that what killed what's his name?
Yeah? Having sex? He didn'the get stingrays? Sex in the chest
or something. Steve Irwin, Iguess you could call it that. I
(05:50):
think you're talking about David Kerdine.Who's that the guy that died from having
sex. Oh, I we're goingto power rank the way to go.
I think that's probably at the topif you don't have to factor in how
the partner is going to feel forthe rest of their life. He didn't
have a partner solo. Yeah,what killed him? The noose around his
(06:13):
neck? Oh, dear, sexdidn't kill him, Kim, he pulled
that trick over the line, kinkpulled that off for him. What do
they call that asphyxiation? Autoerotic asshixiation? Yeah? Have you ever done that?
No? But it's it sounds likea lot of fun, doesn't it.
Yeah, anything that someone's willing todie for that heroin overdose, it's
(06:39):
like they have to have a reason. Yeah, we're any of you guys
scared when we hit the path oftotality moment? No speaking of I don't
know death, and I got reallyscared for a second there. It's just
that feeling like you have no ideawhat you're about to expel experience. Never
(07:00):
experienced something like that, And whatif people do something crazy in that moment?
Luckily no one did. Oh wedon't know yet. Tomorrow's news cycle
would be great. What did peopledo during totality, At least here at
Clyde Warren Park, everybody was invery good spirits and hugging and taking pictures.
But I was hoping somebody would dosomething crazy. Yeah, I hope
(07:21):
that tomorrow. It's like, uh, I love the day after the Fourth
of July just seeing who did what, and like, who's missing a hand
and how'd that go? Who blewthemselves up with the fireworks? Who did
something real weird during that five minutesor whatever. I look forward to tomorrow's
show being four hours of what didthey do during totality? Did you ever
(07:43):
know anybody who came back from theFourth of July missing a hand? No,
not personally, but I did thinkour whole family was going to die
one time when they were setting upa real big firework show and Uncle Jim's,
and as they were lighting it andtrying to run away, they tumped
it over towards the house. Mygod, where everyone is sitting there staring
down towards the one edge. Hejust shot fireballs at the house over and
(08:07):
over for a few minutes, andpeople scrambled and were terrified, but no
one got hit. They were theywere the good fireworks are you ignite the
house? No, No, nolasting damage, just uh just terror.
Wow, here's why you shouldn't messwith anything other than black cats. No,
I don't know. He said thatthere was no casualties. Yeah,
(08:28):
nobody does, no consequences. Theyhad a great people came close. There
were adults with black clothes. Youdon't come close the binary things. I
didn't throw it. If you ifyou swallowed it, you'd come close.
Yeah, if you did that,Nor would it be put out by the
moisture of you esophagus. Let's findI don't know. I think it would
be put out. I don't know. But if you swallow it, you're
an idiot. Mike. I thinkyou'd be fine. We can do this.
(08:48):
We'll give it a shot. We'llsee how it goes. You're planning
the safety of the black cat.We're gonna put it to the test.
I don't know, man, Imade back off of this. I just
like the like NFL players can blowoff three fingers and get back to the
league and be fine. Just well, they put on a baby hand,
so he was just able to playit through with. With the baby hand
(09:11):
they attached to his it stump onhis arm that is very interesting. Yeah,
we've got a very special cast andwe've got to have on here.
Yeah, and she will be joiningus momentarily. Here. She is kit
Stars. She is the major domoof all things Clyde Warren Park. Oh
(09:33):
that's a cool job. Yes,she's enjoying herself today. That's good to
see. How are you? She'snot really good yet, just you know
what she's what Ivan was letting youknow that he has to turn her mic
up on the air feet Ye hereI am, yes, here she is.
(09:56):
I just asked you how you are. You said you're good, and
now we can proceed. It's quitea day out here. I mean it
is more dramatic I think to haveit super humid and complete cloud cover and
then all of a sudden to clearright before the eclipse. Huh. Yes,
that was our mic drop moment.It was kind of like a sporting
event. Right at the very end. Someone drains at three to push it
(10:20):
to overtime or whatever is the weathergoing to cooperate, and it did.
We're always happy after exactly. Yeah, it was great. How amazing.
You know, normally when we havepeople on here such as you, I
let them get on here and tellus what they've got to tell us about.
But I must say, you guyshave done an awesome job. Thank
you place. I mean, thisis a civic treasure right in the middle
(10:43):
of our fair bird like nothing we'veever had before. And it just keeps
getting better and better. Hey,you guys just keep building onto it and
adding on to it and finding newthings and new ways to amuse the masses
who come down here. It's awesomework. Well we have, we figured
out last year based on kind ofsome AI information, we had one point
(11:03):
three million visitors in twenty twenty three. We have more than thirteen hundred free
programs for people to enjoy, everythingfrom fitness classes to movies to things like
this. And when we realized therewas this eclipse coming a couple of years
ago, we were like, wereally take seriously our job and kind of
being Dallas's town square, We're like, we've got to have a big eclipse
(11:24):
event. We rely on friends andpartners. The Parroa Museum provided thirty five
thousand pairs of eclipse classes. Todaywe had about thirty thousand people we've counted
well. And then we had someastronomers you know, who gave kind of
a panel discussion about what was happening, and we've had a great band playing.
They're no petty theft, but they'rea great band. And it was
(11:45):
a good day. Oh good,Okay, well it's a really awesome event.
And then I want to go backto you know, when you guys
found out that this was coming,did you have anybody on staff that was
familiar with this sort of thing orknew how exactly how this was going to
come down or were you just kindof learning as you go. So,
Mike, our staff is about fifteenpeople to do this whole thing. As
(12:09):
the question, Yeah, we're fortunateto be compared to our friends and partners
have two hundred person staff, butwe're anybody, and so we again partner
with others, and we knew thePro Museum was going to be doing some
different things, and so we reachedout to them. They had this partnership
with Carnegie Science and they flew inthirty astronomers, they passed they bought a
(12:30):
million pairs of those eclipse glasses thatthey passed out to d ISD and DSD
kept the kids in school today sothat they could do programming, and then
we were able to kind of pony, you know, like or kind of
play off of what they were doingto really provide something. There's so many
out of town people here too,I know, I know, And the
past weekend I talked to our foodtruck operators and our abe, one of
(12:54):
our food truck operators told me yesterdayhe's like, I don't think I served
anyone from Dallas today. I meanthey were all from out of town.
The hotels have been worked for months. So it's kind of an exciting moment
to have all these people in Dallashere in a green space or multiple green
spaces, focusing on something about nature, you know, because you don't really
think of Dallas in that way.So it's really exciting and how cool that
(13:15):
Dallas was like one of the placesthat just happens to be in the path
of totality where everybody is trying tocome. I mean, what was the
build up, the anticipation, thehype leading up to this moment And now
that it's past, how does thatfeel for somebody that was in charge of
the whole thing. Well, youknow, we always have to keep our
fingers crossed with the weather, rightwe just we're an outdoor venue and this
(13:35):
was clearly an outdoor event, butI think doubt it's fun for me.
I actually went to the eclipse intwenty seventeen, and it was not where
I went there. You just wentto the park and you sat there,
and so it's fun. Not.So I said, well, look,
when we have it in Dallas,we're going to have we're going to do
what we do best. We're gonnahave music, and we're going to have
(13:56):
people talk about it, and we'regonna have activities. And not only did
Clyde Warren Park to that, everyplace did that in Dallas. It's such
a kind of particular North Texx experience. We so want to host people.
We want these people who are comingin from out of town to have the
best time ever. And I thinkwe really rabile to shine. Yeah,
and how about for the rest ofthe afternoon, Like because now that you
(14:16):
know the sun's back out and thatmoment has passed, people are still kind
of wanting to enjoy the party vibenow the holiday vibe. Do you have
anything else going on the rest ofthe day If people maybe want to come
out, We're going till about three. Okay, people are more than welcome
to hang out my little staff hasbeen here all week and long, so
I'm gonna let them kind of startwrapping up at three pm. And then
(14:37):
I guess we've got some more weathercoming in this see, oh do we
so? But uh yeah, Imean people are more than welcome to hang
out. You know, the parksopen un till ten o'clock tonight. They
can hang out, they can goto meet Casina. All these out of
towners need to try Mombo taxi.Yeah, and enjoy the rest of the
day. Yeah, well, we'regoing till six, so they can come
see us, right, come hangout with us, parties just getting started
(14:58):
here. Well, you all comeback anytime. You've added a lot,
and we're thrilled to have you,and anytime you'd like to come back,
we'd love to have you. Thiswas a phenomenal event because it is a
great work you guys did, andI'm really happy that we got to be
here today. And it's been reallynice talking to you. All Right,
next time, Petty theft right,all right, let's do it all right?
Yeah, cooked, And you dida great job with the clouds and
(15:20):
the moon, right, and getthis, you know what I'm really good
at. I'm actually really good atbad weather. So I don't know who
is in charge of the weather today, but we delegated that we got great
weather. Delegation is important. Thatis Kitsars. She is the director,
is that right? Director that worksof Clyde Warren Park, everything that goes
on down here. She is themajor DOMO. If you don't like something,
(15:43):
come find her. Oh. Actually, if you don't like it,
Mike's in charge. You like me, find Mike, I'll find her.
We'll get it handled. I likethis idea for the rest of the show,
Mike. I think what we'll dois we'll just have anybody who has
a complained about Dallas come see Mike. All right, all right, Yes,
(16:03):
talked to mister Dallas about it.Yeah, yeah, I'll think you
can handle it. I love thisplace. I don't get out here all
that often, but I've been herefor like different concerts and whatnot. Clydborne
Park is just badass. I takethe kid here's off your song. I'll
bet you saw R. E.K a time or two here, did
you. I don't know if Iever saw Robert in here, but I
should have because he's awesome and thisplace is awesome. Yeah. I remember
(16:26):
the night they opened. I hadlike a I don't know, three or
four month stint through t XA twentyone doing news. It was really random,
but it was when this park opened. So we came out for the
big ceremony and polyphonics free and Iremember just how excited people were about the
possibility of having a park in themiddle of downtown Dallas and not knowing really
what to expect. And now it'scrazy, it's awesome and I love it,
(16:48):
and it sounds like they have plansto just keep going and building it
and making it bigger and better.I remember when that idea start first started
getting floated, and before then,probably the nearest thing that we had to
downtown was probably Lee Park, yeah, or maybe Rubber Sean and you know,
where there would be gatherings and stufflike that. But I mean,
(17:10):
close to downtown you're gonna put apark where, you know, because like
all this was concrete. But it'sbeen so long since this has been here,
I really can't remember what was herebefore. And it's become such a
part of the fabric of our fairBird that I mean, it just seems
only natural. It's really cool,and it is a civic Jewel right in
(17:32):
the middle of it. In yourlifetime, this was elevated highway right used
to be tall. Yeah, yeah, it used to be tall, and
who knows, maybe at some pointit was just the streets. I guess
there was a time before the ladhere. I don't know where the timeline
is. There was a time whenonce you left downtown the first thing you
(17:52):
hit was Ross Avenue. Yeah,and then you hit McKinney and that's probably
you know where we're sitting right nowtoday. Yeah, I think there's a
part of the access road that's stilltechnically in McKinney Avenue. It was.
It was elevated during the big vanHalen concert. That was the last large
event here, as Van Halen playeda free show in the West End outdoors.
(18:17):
So it's kind of that was bigand then there's today. Those are
the two big downtown Dallas events.Okay you think, yeah, I can't
go to that, No, probablynot. I can't. Yeah. I
can't picture what this used to looklike either at all. It's hard,
man, I have no idea.It's hard. Like I say, it's
become such a part of the fabricof the place that you can't imagine it
(18:37):
without it? Well, good job, Eclipse, I give you a good
job, Eclipse. Good job,Claid Warren Park. Was it more exciting
than you anticipated, less exciting thanyou anticipated, or about what you anticipated?
Let's go around the warn here realquick? More for me? Really?
Yeah? I was all set tobe rather nonplused by it, as
(19:00):
I am by so much stuff inthis world that doesn't measure up to my
high expectations. But boy, thisdid. It was really cool. What
was the coolest part? Like?For me? It was looking up and
seeing what it actually looked like whenthe moon was covering up the sun.
That blew me away. Yeah,I mean that. I think that was
(19:22):
the big That was, you knowvan Halen playing you really got Me or
something. Yeah, I felt likeyou're on drugs for a second there looking
up into the sky. It's crazy, Jeff more or less the same.
Oh, it was way cooler,and I thought it would be. Uh.
And I was really excited that theyhad an astronomer of some sort on
(19:42):
the bed and Skin show. Yeah, because I wasn't clear on if I
was going to die when I didwhat I was gonna do, because I
want to see what it actually lookslike. So I knew the glasses were
coming off. Yeah, ild I'mwould take a peach. And when I
heard astronomer man be like, yeah, the sun's covered up, like you
may not want to stare directly atit forever, but you can look in
the general direction of And so thenknowing that, all right, we're in
(20:06):
totality, take these suckers off.What are we working with? Yeah?
And if you didn't know any better, if you didn't know what was coming,
I could see looking up there andbe like, oh the world ending.
That looks like a meteorite that isbarreling straight down to end us.
Sweet. But I knew that wewere safe, right, And so I
was just like, job, thatlooks super cool. Do you think there's
anybody in the world that had noidea what was happening? It was just
(20:27):
like out in a remote I doplay somewhere. You just started panicking because
that's probably what the animals feel like. Yeah, yeah, you know what
about UTC overwhelmed, underwhelmed, orwhelmed. I had extremely high expectations,
and I would say they were betterexceeded. I thought it was gonna be
awesome, and it was really awesome. I Uh, I just it's great
(20:49):
being out here. I loved experiencingit as like a communal thing. Just
feeling everyone else's collective excitement. Yeah, was kind of more neat than seeing
the sun, you know, likewhen the sun was awesome, but just
seeing how many people were cheering andhow did you can just feel how hyped
everyone was for it? For suregroovy. I've never felt more alive.
(21:11):
Oh no, that was really cool. Like I knew it was gonna be
awesome, but still like I've neverlived through one, I don't believe,
so I didn't know totally what toexpect, and like it getting cooler a
couple of different times, just thedarker at God and stuff like that I
didn't think about until as it washappening, like, oh my god,
like it really is a thing.Yeah, that was exciting, And like
(21:33):
Skin was saying, it looked likeit was around eight thirty PM and that
not here to trash Skin. Atthat point, I felt like it didn't
look like anything I'd ever seen.It's not like that. The quality of
light was totally different. Yeah,you're right, it was weird, and
just seeing the little crescents on theground stuff like that from the shadows like,
yeah, stuff like that is socool. Yeah, the self conscious
(21:55):
feeling you get when you realize you'restaring up and your mouth is open and
you're like, if anyone's looking atyour ey stupid, right, stupid.
But I didn't care, you know, I was seeing something that I don't
think I've ever seen before. Imean, I've been through these things before,
but they've never delivered the goods likethis did. Yeah, I've never
(22:15):
seen one that was all that itwas cracked up to be like this was.
And the fact that the weather wastotally awesome like that was such a
worry obviously coming into this, like, oh god, it's going to rain
or at the least it's going tobe super cloudy, and so that's gonna
negate it. And no, itwas. It was perfect. It was.
Now it's a little damn hot becausewe're wearing black shirts most of us.
It is a little damn hot.I'm looking forward to how many people
(22:37):
went blind today, because I didnotice that after it was over and the
sun came back out, the numberof people with glasses that they were like
on and then they push them upand I was like, no, guys,
not anymore. Stop it, butpeople would want to think I'm going
shirt off the rest of the day, all right forward to that shirtless shoopy.
That's a good tease. I don't. I don't drive the crowd.
Yeah, well it's not gonna happen, so don't. Oh I'm joking.
(22:59):
Well, I'm looking forward to,uh if we can get to a break.
And there's not much of the lineover there at that corny dog,
because nothing makes me happier than acorn dog, like sex, corn dogs,
fireball. It's kind of like myokay, well you get a corn
dog over there, you'll be twofor three already today I have had a
fireball. Yeah ye shout out toBecca, a jell o shot of fireball.
(23:22):
Yeah, shout out to Becca.Period. Oh my god, her,
this whole thing came together. Shedid all the heavy lifting, all
the legwork. Just amazing, amazing. So it is now a lawn chair
Monday at Clyde Warren Park. Bringyour ass. I can get freak Jesus
out there in his lawn chair.We're rocking and rolling out here, so
(23:45):
come out and see us. We'rea Clydwarren Park and we will be here
all freaking day let's party hell ona nice sports desk. Oh, that
is a good plan, Julie,what do you think? Is this the
path of totality for our Dallas teams? Right now, they're all really good.
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