Most Important Thing in the World

An early traffic and weather update on the morning of the Solar Eclipse

Episode Transcript

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You're listening to the downbeat on ninetyseven to one the freak. So turn
around every now and then I geta little bit lonely, and you're never

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coming round. Turn around every nowand then I get a little bit tired
of listening to those out of mytears. Turn around every now and then
I get a little bit nervous thatthe best of all the years have gone
by. Turn around every now andthen I get a little bit terrify,

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and then I see the looking andyour rights. Turn around. Ride every
now and then I fall apart aroundride every now and then I fall apart.
And I need you now tonight,freaking knee and all than ever.

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And if you only hold betide,we'll beholding on forever, and we'll only
be making it right because we'll neverbe wrong together. We can take it
to the end of the line.Your love is like a shadow won me
all the time. All the time, I don't know what to do,

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and I'm always in the dark.We're living in a powder cake and giving
off sparks weird lyrics. I reallyneed you tonight. Forever's gonna start tonight,
forever, It's gonna start. Onceupon a time, I was falling
in love, and now I'm onlyfalling apart. All then I can see

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total eclipse of the hard pretty close. It'll get better about the day.
They'll be better later. Wake upyour little sleepy head courage. It's time

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to get your stupid ass out ofbed to hear about the most importing thing
in The'll be better later, talkabout my voice. Sport six two early
sort. Acoustics in his room notsuitable for MI. For what I reconducing,

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It's time for the most important thingin the world, all right here
on ninety seven, won a freak? What is this more eclipsed crap?
I'd have some eclipse stuff in asecond. I do want to what say
that Danny has some breaking country musicnews, and he'll give you more at
eight thirty. But give us thejust, the if, just of it,
the what of it, the reefgist of it. Yeah, right,

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okay, so country Music's darling.The guy that got We thought that
was going to be canceled several yearsyears back. For the guy like to
just shout out the inward Yeah.The guy that gets home late at night
after drinking with his friends and callshis buddy the inward and it's caught on
a ring doorbell camera. Morgan Wallinyou know hemember and you thought all this

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guy's done and his ends up beingthe number one star. He had a
little incident last night at a Nashvillebar and ended up spending the night in
the can. Whoa, And Idon't mean the fun can. I mean
the one that the one that theyput special bracelets on you to take you
into. I'll give you major detailson that. At eight thirty. Morgan

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Wallen arrested the Clink exclusively here onninety seven to one. Yeah, you're
home of Breaking Country News. Iwonder if he had a lot of allies
and they in the clan, probablyhonestly Nashville. I don't know my baby
a little. Who knows? Okay, he probably was able to use his

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power dynamic in prison to get whathe needed, although it was just jail
or was it the can, Idon't really know. Might have come out
a member of the area brother Tattoofor protection. He's got a whole new
album based on that story and howhe got there. It's hilarious, okay,

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and Danny's got you At eight thirtytease so real quick before the updated
weather forecast and traffic and stuff forthe eclipse, and a lot of eclipse
stuff. Today. I will tellyou that I did something on Saturday,
and Mike I do is my witness. Yeah, Mike uh again invited to

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go to a Final four party,just watch party, a gathering of sorts.
It's just an excuse to get together. Yeah, I mean, no
one really cared. I didn't care. Unless you have betting interest or you're
an alumni of do you really careabout much about the Final four basketballs games.
I wouldn't go to a party justfor that, not a lick.
No, I mean I was juston a text chain though that Mike was

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on and there's fifteen numbers on it, and I didn't recognize any of the
other fifteen numbers. In fact,I even texted Mike. I was like,
is this bring the girl thing orlike? Because I didn't know,
and one of you guys made thegreat joke, thank you. Yeah,
well we'll have some yarn. Idid. Yeah, yeah, bring girls,

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we'll have yarn, which is justterrible. It's just terrible, and
we don't laugh at But that's whyit's funny, because it's so wrong,
because we know I know you'd neversay that. No, I would never
say that. I only text that. It's called irony, it's called satire.
Yes, we're watching n C StatePurdue the first game, and then

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well, I mean the men areand the ladies are in the corner making
Canadian yard art. I think honestly, Christina and Roxy were the only chicks
there. And then you guys allleave with badass final four sweaters. Yeah,
twenty twenty four Final four? Wowis it really good? When did

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you guys learn how to do this? We don't know. They just walked
in like zombies, just toward theyard arning. Aren't women just kind of
born with that skill? Yes,just hand of a ball of yarn and
they they black out and the sweaterso I was probably yarning two Gin and
Tonics. Deep. Boy, hewalked in right hand a full bottle of

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gin, doing the shake like winkingat us. Look, I've seen how
he claims he's gonna go all nineinnings and gets pulled in the middle of
the second after giving up Yeah,four home runs. Manager Roxy out there,
she doesn't even she didn't even.Mike maddocksim and pat him on the

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shoulder. Don't want to hear it. This is not a discussion. No,
why contact you're out of the game. Does happened a lot? Yeh?
Hey Ginny, Oh well, thisgem is botanicals without borders. Danny.
You should know that because we startedgetting the head spinning a little bit.
So does n C State, Purdueand Cash had a little uh fun.
We had a little fun action onit, but nothing crazy. And

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then I had an idea right beforehalftime of game one. I said,
what if we juiced up game two? And my original idea was every TV
time out will do squares like fora football game, but every TV timeout
there's a payout, and then youknow everybuddy Joel was quick to that'd be
bad because you never know the TVtime that's are gona happen. It's okay,

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what if we did square so normallyyou'd do for football at the end
of the first quarter, squares forbass skip ball is better because there's no
bad numbers in every sixteen twelve eightfour halftime and then again in the second
half sixteen minutes, twelve minutes left, eight minutes left, four minutes left,
end of game ten payouts, tenpayouts. Danny. Now, this

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might not sound exciting to you now. But if you are one of those
and said, you know what,I'll bund me five squares, I don't
care, you would have been onthe edge of your seat to the point
of I can't believe he's still inthe chair. He's barely on the seat.
Yeah, he's that far so heha isn't even touched in the seat
anymore. He's just in a ninetydegree squat position. Now, he saved

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the Final four four. We neededa hero, and we didn't know we
needed a hero, and he createdsomething so beautiful. He didn't know the
hero would look like this. No, this figure soaked in gin. Oh,
it's soaked in gin. Who itwas excellent. You've only heard a
square I've only done squares for football, and this guy created the most beautiful
square game for a Final four game. It was so fun. He's the

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master of games. I know heis. It's official. If it wasn't,
I know why this comes as asurprise to anyone. Well, the
thing is, it's all good fun. But then a wrinkle gets thrown in.
Now Alabama Yukon was It wasn't asclose as it could have been.
Siroy goes ahead and drops Oppenheimer bombon this thing. First of all,

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clearly everyone kind of who didn't makesense, you know, and then very
reluctant. But then the money startsexchanging the dry race marker on the very
expensive mirror, and this square startfeeling it. Five dollars a square,
one hundred squares, one hundred square, five hundred dollars in the pot,

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so fifty dollars every break. Probablyfour minutes of the game, everyone's staring
like it's about to hit sixteen minutes. Normally you wouldn't even notice a clock
in a college basketball game hitting sixteenminutes or twelve minutes. But we are
all gathered eyes darting at the screen, up to the board. Yeah,
numbers, numbers, Oh my god, free throw you know, action galore.

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Fifty bucks is on the laws.More smaller payouts better than fewer larger
payouts. And what this created.Everyone involved, the women who were there,
were involved. Everyone was there,and they go to commercial. You
come back about all right, twominutes and thirty seconds to the next and
he gets to twelve, and thenyou check the score. But then Mike
goes, well, what if wetook all of the funds, if this

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game goes to overtime, we putthe money back in Winner Take All.
He dropped a nuclear bomb on it. And it's actually been called the sroy
Action Freedom for Everyone plan. Yeah, I gave otherwise known as the Saffop.
I gave it a good name,like the government, so everyone would

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vote for it. The Saffup.Yeah, the saffup. The s roy
Action Freedom for Everyone just rolls offthe tongue. Huh, the saffop.
When you threw the saff up inthere and that game was closed for a
bit, Yes, you're sitting theregoing, oh my god, the probability
this game going to overtime keeps rising. The heat is rising, okay,
yeah, yeah, and that youcould hear, and you could hear everyone's

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heart beating, because if you wanttwo squares, you already won one hundred
bucks. But under the original Saffup, that money, if it goes over
time, disappears out of your pocketback into the main pot for the ultimate
winner, the Ultimate It's kind oflike the power ball. Can you imagine
this level of excitement that we're describing. Yeah, I can no, Seriously,

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dude, I know when you whenyou add juice to any event,
it creates uh, a heightened levelof interest, and he was running around
his living room for the Daytona fivehundred. Yeah, because he had had
action. They had juice. Therewas action. Yeah, I mean this
is different. This is more oftenthere's no disconnect. You're gathered around.

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Yeah, whereas most squares, ifyou had have done that would have been
we'll do one halftime into game no, no, no five and five,
you're on. There are people whonever even got mentioned. The girls were
into it. The floor was litteredwith half finished scarves by the end of
the night. Yeah, we allhave cut off sweaters that were wearing work
today. Your cashmir tank top looksincredible. Mine's got a moon on it

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and the sun and the sun's comingtowards half done. The sun's eyeing the
moon. So yeah, that's justwhat I wanted to say. It was
really fun and if yeah, Imean, no one's having a final Championship
game party tonight. I don't thinkwe are squares work. I told Cash
though, I said, I don'tknow if we'll ever get together again in
our lifetime, but if we do, I don't know if I'll ever be

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invited back. But if I wasto be invited back. Think about a
MAVs two thirty playoff game start,and maybe you want to have some friends
over or something. Yeah, Squakecould go six first quarter, six halftime,
six third quarter, and then sixend of game eight payouts. You

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can do it a very similar fation, and then you incorporate the FAPTA rule
or whatever. Desroy action not theFAPTA rules. That's that's something, all
right, gather around everybody to payup boys. Yeah, dude, I
don't know what you're talking about.The FUPA rule, that's your problem.

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That sounds fun. It was fun. That's fun. Squares worked for basketball
and Kat Proud at this weekend.It would have been nice to be able
to watch anything this weekend. Ohno, Oh, Danny didn't have internet?
Still don't. I'll tell you something. Boy. When A and t
oh, don't go after him byname has an internet outage, not too

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late. It doesn't last for anhour, eh, doesn't even last for
two. No, sometimes it'll lastthe entire weekend and still be lasting when
you wake up on Monday morning sayingit happened to any Internet. And my
favorite thing about them is when youcheck back. This is my favorite part
of yesterday. Oh boy, SoI woke up at seven in the morning

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yesterday it was out, and you'relike, okay, then I'm wondering,
Oh, it's maybe a local thing. Maybe I need to replug in something
immediately dismiss any of that, andI go straight to the app, get
on cellular and find out there isan out a junior area and it's my
neighborhood. I saw other people thatI knew in the neighborhood that were tweeting
about it. I think our buddyDavey tweeted, oh, that was the

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greatest, most exciting MAVs game I'veever streamed on my phone. So anyway,
they keep saying, oh, it'sgoing to be resolved by five,
and you know, around four thirtyrolls around and it's still out. So
I look for an update. Ohit's going to be seven. Oh cool.
It kept pushing it and pushing itand pushing it until ten pm.

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And by the time I went tobed at around ten thirty, I looked
on the app. They don't evengive you a time when they assume it's
going to be finished. Same thismorning, Yep, your internet's out.
They just have the shrugging guy emojipretty much, which is my least favorite
emoji of all time. So Idon't know. Maybe it's it, maybe
it's working, maybe it's not.But my god, this happens a lot

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too, a lot you've heard me. I know, Like I said,
I guess maybe I'm in a goodlucky neighborhood or what. I think it's
the neighborhood. I feel bad.I think it is because everyone's bitched about
every company. So I don't knowif it's that like I think it's like
every it's gotta be. I hadproblems when I lived in the village a

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lot. I'm not sure who Iwas using at the time, but there
was a lot of problems. Andnow I don't really have that. Oh,
knock on wood, knock on wood, don't have that many problems.
And I just wonder if it's likeokay. Now I'm also near now,
I'm near a fire department, sothere's often I mean, for power that
matters. I don't know if thatmatters. There's a wireless company senior center

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a couple of blocks east to me. I think I'm like, okay,
So I don't know. It's incredibleto me that twenty years ago The Internet
was by and large thought of somethingas made maybe more like thirty years ago.
I was thought of something as likea luxury. And now it's just
become so essential. It's gone fora couple hours to our daily lives.

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I mean everything runs on it.Everything is bitch. I will turn into
a bitch. I gonna be afast internet. Or you want to her?
Did you not pay the bill?Oh? It's my bill. It's
just looking for someone to take somethingout on, would you do? That's
called misplaced anger, Kevin, Iknow, and I'm working on it.

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I'm actually very happy. You havetriggers. Don't you so hungover? Actually
not, I'm hungover from Saturday.Okay. So here's what's happening twelve twenty
three. We know this moon beginsto cover the sun today all right from
the left or right right shot.I think that's gonna be below it bottom,

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it's bottom. I think it willbe right, I really do.
But you'd have to be live atClyde Worne Park with the speakeasy and the
bit and skin shy other day tosee for sure. Four is your totality.
When it will go dark, cricketswill stop chirping. Okay, animals
will get confused and go where mycircadian rhythms are off? Here? What's

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going on? Your dog's might appleweird? A lot going on there.
It will end at three oh two. Now, get this, four hundred
times smaller than the sun is themoon four hundred times smaller than the Sun,
no way, So it's going tobleed across us there. And then

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the moon also though, is fourhundred times closer to the Earth than the
Sun is. So that's why whenyou look at the image, this is
a cinematography wonder, traffic jams areexpected, big delays. Text dot is
even saying they're comparing this to ifseven large football games ended all at once.
That's what they're expecting in downtown Dallas, seven Cowboys at once. Now,

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I don't know if that's true ornot. I don't even know how
you could make that up. Idon't know why down Why is downtown Dallas?
The EPISO Hunter just was Clyde WarrenPark, Maybe, like I just
don't understand. There could be justpeople who want to take like the picture
of it with Reunion Tower and theI don't know, it's because people that
aren't from here. They don't knowwhere to go. Yeah, so they

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all just go to the central youknow location, I guess central location.
I guess it would be Clyde ClydeWarren. As far as with the biggest,
I mean, where would you goin New York Central Park? Probably
they're doing there's probably a great viewingvantage point in Brooklyn or the Bronx.
Yeah, I would go to CentralPark absolutely. Yeah, And no,

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you don't know. They are expectedthey're gonna have rolling closures. Which tried
it with rolling blackouts a few yearsago and that didn't go great. But
they're gonna try rolling closures. Ifyou're getting out of the downtown area,
you're gonna be fine. They're leavingall that open to exit. But if
you're trying to get into downtown area, beginning at one pm, they're beginning
rolling closures. They're gonna start blockingoff exits. So if you are going

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down there to see the bin andSkin show, hey, don't mean your
car from one to two. Thebig thing happens at one forty, so
you know, be set and ready. So many people stuck in their cars
for this, yes, yes,with kids yelling I can't see it and
then hanging out the window their glasseson. So many people are going to
be blind tomorrow too. I didn'tget certified goggles. Uh. Dallas officials

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have encouraged residents to stay off cityroads during the eclipse and influx of visitors
expected. And then let's add inthere's a possibility tonight a tornadoes, hail
and flooding. Yes, we getbig weather the next two days. Well,
weather coming tonight. So whether that'syour latest on that. In terms
of visibility, clouds, not perfect, but looking okay right now. They

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do think there will be some clouds. Look, they were expecting it there
to be like thirty percent visibility.It's now up to like fifty percent visibility.
Okay, So you think that's talkback. Guy's still gonna whoop your ass.
If one cloud covers that son.I hope he tries, because I've
been lifting. It's his big dayto really let you have it at tennant.

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Yeah, he wants my ass.That's what he says every time.
I swear to God, Kevin,if one cloud covers that song, your
ass is mine. It's always onmy ass. Yeah, he is gonna
he's gonna take your ass, getaway from my ass. We'll eat my
butt. I hope he, Ihope he calls in today a final threat

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to final. He'll try countdown,but coming up next. We had daytime
MAVs basketball, We had late nightStars hockey, and we had middle of
the evening Rangers baseball. We hadmicrophones attached to players, We had fantastic
finishes, and we have stuff thathappened in our sleep. Sports at seven
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