The Scuttlebutt

The worst place to be during an earthquake, the winner of the Big D Bracket and much more 

Episode Transcript

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This is a downbeat on ninety sevento one The freak. When you wake
up in the morning and a lotis hurt your head. The first thing
you do when you get up about of bed, hit that street or

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running and try to meet the massesand go get yourself some cheap sunglasses out.
Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it's my little thing. Kind
of followed her all night in afunky fine Levi's and a sweaters kind of

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tight boobs. Is that West Coastrut that was sweet as molasses but were
really knocking be out? Was thecheap sunglasses. It was doing it for

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the sun and for the moon.Have the eclipse day, everyone, don't
fare to forget to wear IOC certifiedglasses today. Kevin, is that Al
Roker at the ross Pero Museum.Oh my god, Al Roker's here,
Kevin the Eclipse Man book Al ispeople with Signs. I sh would have
known Al Roker was going to beat the Proro Museum. See if Kerry

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was there already. He could betoday. Could brain spear Al Roker right
now live on EBC If you're alistener making ninety seven won the freak sign
and hold it up behind Al Roker. Yeah, a little late for that.
Probably grab your election yard sign,considering everybody standing by and Al Rokers
is about the average age of eight. Yeah, he's at the pro Museum.

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Fox four is over at Clyde WarrenPark. We know what a day.
Oh yeah, there's Dan Godwin fromFox four. All eyes on DFW.
It's our data sunt Perro Museum aswell. See a lot of options
people. If you want to geta freak sign, hold it behind a
field reporter on Eclipse Day. Wewould love you for that. It would
really help. I think. Also, we just saw a couple in Russellville,

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Arkansas, get in a hot airballoon and they're going up to watch
the eclipse from a hot air blooddie simultaneously guaranteed that that's me. That's
me. Whenever I see a hotair balloon, we will remind you that
the benskinch Other Speakeasy Clyde Warren Parktoday hanging big watch party. We're the

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official eclipse pregame party all morning longhere and that's going to include breaking country
music news. In one hour ateight thirty, Dany'll have the details in
the more Morgan Wallen incident and thenthirty minutes some more elip stuff that I
think is kind of fascinating. ButI want to do a story that did
cross my timeline over the weekend onceagain, Fellers. What happened? A

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Southwest Airlines jet? What happened?Returned to Denver Sunday morning. It took
off, but the engine cover felloff and it struck the wing flap.
Now there's footage of this and it'sit's a little more vicious than it sounds.
And oh, an engine cover felloff and struck the wing flip.
Yeah, big deal. It's aplane. When you watch it, you're

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like, Holy Lord or Holy Christ? Is the uh yeah? Wrestle media
announcer was so coal. But itwas a Boeing seven thirty seven mowing headed
to Houston and second mishap of theweek for Southwest because they had a flight
that got canceled Thursday in Lubbock whenthere's an engine fire and the Lubbock Fire

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Department did confirm, yeah, there'sa fire, and one of the two
engines that needed to be extinct wishedbecause you're both Boeing seven thirty seven eight
hundreds, not the seven thirty sevenMax, but seven thirty seven eight hundreds.
So I think there's something to allthis. I discounted you guys when
you just kept bringing up playing stories. But I think when you factored in

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with yeah, i'll say that exposethat, uh John Marshall, John Oliver
did about Boeing that was pretty eyeopening, and then the CEO of Boeing
quitting and saying me away from thisthing. Yeah, And then it's just
a tick up and a percentages offlights that are dealing with something I think
they're I think you're actually onto something. I'll tell you this. I would

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not be flying internationally over water anytimesoon if I were in air of you
guys. Yeah, that's one placeyou won't find me. It's on an
airplane perhaps destination Italy. In likenine days, I have been thinking the
same thing a lot. Dude,you're gonna get sucked off. I don't
think the door's gonna folve. It'snot an Alaska Airlines one, it's a

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Boeing. It doesn't matter what nameis painted on the side. Kevin,
I did put in the direct messageon the app request to my doctor.
Hey, I'm flying trans Atlantic nextweek and could you give me something to
help me sleep. Mm hmm.Have you sent them that exact text like

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a thousand times over the last twodays. She said she still can't take
your sea pap machine. I stillcan't get for whatever reason. Oh my
god, you don't have one yet. No, you're getting a machine problems.
Yeah, you gonna giveaway bootleg papsmears at work with your new machine,

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dud. We need to set thatup. What a good event.
Kevin's pame smears? Yeah, likePat smears and it's my it's my papa
and he's just he's got bagels,he's got a speed lunking hat on with
a leg. Let me them,I kep just cut it down there knifes

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of cream cheese on a delicious baggle. Okay, we've mixed seven different Yes,
it's good. Yeah, because somepeople can keep up and those who
can are like, what's the nextstory? And I'll tell you what that
story is if you'll calm down.Had a big earthquake last Friday that we
reported up there in the northeast.Well I say big, it was a

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four point eight and uh there wasone guy though, who was in one
of those You know, you'll alwaysremember where you were when this happened.
Situations. He was laid back withpart of little minimal amount of anesthesia,
but but but lucid, and theneverything starts shaking. He was getting of

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a sectomy during the earthquake. Ohoh, and the doctor's going wait,
the doctor said, what now?Was that was a guy? Oh last
to raw? That was the guyone last the doctor doing that doing boy.

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That was the weirdest headline yesterday.I know I'm bouncing around a little
bit, but there's a headline fromCBS News Texas yesterday South Carolina beats off
challenge from Iowa and Caitlin Clark theyreally said that. Yeah. When I
was in college, I went toNAU and there's the Lumberjacks and the girls

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basketball team is the Lady Jacks andthey were off to like a four and
oh start. So the headline wasLady Jack's off to a good start.
Yep. Yeah, yeah, that'samazing. Who's but it works? Yeah,
but it also worked, and there'sthere's a good cover. Yes,

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you know, it draws attention tothe paper and they're like, oh my
god, I can't believe we letthat through. And meanwhile they're truly they
know exactly what they did, andthey snickers. They're snickering the student department.
Uh. The doctor was like,I think this is an earthquake,
and the guys that I thought hewas messing with me. But he had
to stop because everything was shaking.He put the tools down for a moment.

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He had the scalpel, he putit down. Oh god, that
is really kind of scary, Likewhat a mid la sick? Yeah,
you know, I don't know,Like, how do you know? Right?
Terrible? Terrible, terrible terrible?Did the doctor give you prescription of
sleep for sleep pills? You neverreally told me? Uh no, I
haven't responded yet. Okay, you'reright in here about yeah, but I

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would love an ambient yeah or two. You want to just go to sleep
and then wake up, not wakewoken up bloated, face down in the
Atlantic Ocean. So I'm coming backto work. How your journey? Oh
god, that's like my big I'mtelling you it is going to be a
mess. Buried alive, You knowa lot of people have shark spiders all

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that stuff. No one wants tofall into a pit of rattlesnakes. I
get it, But like buried aliveand then plane crash into the Atlantic is
more so than the Pacific. It'salways been that way. Colder the Atlantic
more than the Pacific. Colder waters. I don't know if that's true.

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Is that it should suck to bein the North Sea, so you have
the bodies of water that you leastlikely have a plane crash down into.
Yeah, I mean the Arctic oakshould one based by temperature? Yeah,
Arctic one. Why do you savethis? And we'll make a bracket?
No? Yeah, no, twofull segments. I don't want to do

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that. I don't think we should. You don't think we should. My
God Speak bracket. Big D Bracketon Dallas Morning came out a few weeks
ago for the you know, MarchMadness, and everyone's doing brackets. All
this was fun, and then wejust stopped doing it. Well, you
know, it's eating up to manysegments have time to get to other things.

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So twelve hundred people voted in theBig D Bracket Challenge and the top
two seeds did play in the finals. Big Text defeated Reunion Tower. Oh
my god, are you kidding?Who's the final four? Do you even
have that? I'm sorry I do. We'll see here. Big Text Reunion
Tower. Okay, there were guywho put this together. His name is

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Dallas Cothrum of the Das Wonders.He made this, he said, what
did we learning this crowdsourcing experiment?My biggest takeaway people love the Fair Fair
Park, Fletcher's Corny Dogs, andBig Texts all made the Sweet sixteenth.
Reunion Tower made the final by defeatingthe Jimmy Johnson expression. How about them
cowboys? Okay, how about thecowboys made the final four? Good god?

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Okay, actually don't know the finalfour? Okay, so, but
the final was Big Text against ReunionTower. Now look at ours and I
got who did Big Tech in thefirst round and they beat Barney? Okay,
who do get in the second round? I wanted to it would have
been Big Text against the French Room. Now for us it was El Phoenix
down to Oh, I'm sorry,my bad, yeah, l Phoenix,
I'm sorry. I could see BigText making the Sweet sixteen, but it

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would have had to beat out theKatie Trail. I don't know, man,
Big Texts could have made it toour final four. I'm pretty anti
big text and I've been clear aboutthat, and I'm sorry. Hey,
Evan Carter said Tennessee barbecues better inTexas well. Big Text so went up
against Barney in the first round.Voted Barney because Big Text has a flat

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ass, and I like my Ilike cowboy butts that drive me nuts.
Oh yeah, hell yeah, youknow he's with me. I'm with you,
ladies, ladies. So who wonBig Text beat Reunion Tower? Did
J R. Ewing make the finalfour because that was a number one seed?

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I think so. And in theEast the number one seed was the
two to one four area code?Yeah? Which are you idiots? Bounced
in the first round? Yeah,because the long horn ballroom beat it out.
It's just not relevant anymore. Noone cares about area codes anymore.

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I care. I don't know.Man, who's dialand phones? I don't
know. But you have a twoand four attached to your number? Probably
no, I don't, Yeah,because I've had the same number. I
never had. What are you afour to six? Nine? Guys and
four? Oh? Man for life? You should be an eight one seven
man for life. I was eightone seven growing up, and they expanded
it and changed it to nine tofour. Oh, I'm gonna look at

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your phone number. I'm'na say,if you have a good phone number.
I do have a great phone game. I'm not gonna give it out,
like give it out. No,I'm not gonna give it out. Uh
No, it's not that good.Tell them, No, we're's six minutes
sorry, six hours, forty minutesor thirty seconds from totality and something that
you should know will be covering thatall day long. Pretty good number,
Danny, all right, No,you got some rhythm to it. There's

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some rhythm. Yes, that backfour is nice. The back four is
awesome. Bam bam. Yeah,have you looked at mine? Look at
mine? I got a banger,I got lucky. Did you really you're
gonna freak out when you see myphone numbers? Six nine six six nine
six nine six nine six nine.All right, what is your phone number?
Look at the back four and tellme online to you eight oh eight?

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No, it's not was that customeror total luck? Total luck?
Luck? Isn't that great? CustomWell? You pay through it? No,
you could request a certain number andif they've got it, it's yours.
I didn't know that. Yep,we're out a numbers. We're gonna
be out of numbers. Oh notlike we requ yeah, you can.
That's solid, all right. Idon't know if that's a commercial thing or

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individual, but yeah, I knowthat. Bam bam. Yeah, that's
good, Thank you, pretty good, thank you. One in seven Americans
have zero interesting still got that Yahooaccount though, bro, Yeah, I
know seeing keep that alive. Onein seven are not interested, Yeah,
one and seven. If you're oneof those seven, call in two and
four eight seven seven eight seven onenine seven swing somebody problem if you really

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don't care. Yeah, they're thrashedby all the news and three months of
it everything. Hey, it's onlya big deal here. Like if this
was happening in Kansas, you know, and missing us, it would be
just like it was in twenty seventeen, where there wasn't three months of lead
up. There's been three months oflead up here because we are one of
the few, the proud, thefew major cities. Is this Cleveland?

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The other one, I guess Cincinetti. I think I think it's Buffalo,
Yeah, Niagara Falls, Yeah,yeah, I mean there's a place of
picks, but we are the biggestmarket in the country. That's getting totality
to you know, this is alittle interesting to me. If you were

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going to be uh in DFW andyou're kind of walking around. Where would
you walk? Bishop Art sidewalk?Well, I know less, but even
less than is it sidewalk? Isit? Where are the options? Okay?
Well, yeah, where do youwalk? We're not a walking city.

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JFW is not a walking We're justnot. It's featured prominently on Netflix
Full Swing season one where they're interviewingScottie Scheffer and his wife and he's having
to avoid a tree that's planted inthe middle of the sidewalk. It's like
it's kind of the way and there'sgy like, Okay, he's got to
go first. The side of walksaren't big. We're not a walking town.
Like you can walk anywhere you want. New York or Lower Greenville area

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is great to walk. Yeah,that's a that's a good you know,
there's a few of those those Bishop, but I mean all the yeah,
absolutely, but I'm talking about likethe surrounding homes. It's same Sam and
Bishop, you know, like allthe the m streets and down there around
the Dublin or and even further south, like all those streets are just wonderful.
Yeah. White Rock Lakes a great, great place to walk. I

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bet White Rock is going to bepopping today right anywhere on the trail Katie
trail, I imagine I'll be relativelycrowded. Yep match, my ice house
will be bumping, I mean,anywhere outside. So the story's gonna do
is about heat islands here in DFW. But because I put out the call,
I do have some eclips haters.All right, let's go Hi.

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What's your name, hey caller?Hello? Yeah, what's your name?
My name is Tim? Where comingfrom? Tim Rowlet So you're kind of
in the path of totality. Youdon't care about the eclipse, Chuck,
It's nothing. This is nothing toyou, man. It's one of those
things that if you don't see it, you'll never care that you didn't see

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it. Huh wait, hold on, I'm gonna need a second. If
you didn't see it, you'll nevercare that. Okay, So if you
didn't know something happened, you'll nevercare about it. No, no,
no, It's like it's like watchinglike Princess Diana's funeral or like balloon Boy
or something like. It's only athing if you're like a part of it

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in the moment. But if youtook a nap, you'd be like,
oh, yeah, it's Monday.Well, what you need to do is
just mess up traffic. Isn't thateverything? Though? Like if you don't
care, watch it or participate init, it just happens without you knowing
it. Now, there's like sociallylike significant things that happen in the world
that you're like, man, Iremember where I was when that happened,

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or like, oh, this islike a historic thing that people are actually
going to care about a week fromnow. And I feel like this one's
gonna be like not one of thosethings. I think, tim with all
due respect, I think that ina week, if you didn't see this
today, I think in a weekyou'd be like, I wish I would
have saw it. Now. I'mgoing to see pictures on social and stuff,

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but it'll be all right, Okay, So what's your plan for today?
At one o'clock, man, Ihad to actually take off work because
my kids are in one of theonly districts that didn't cancel school, and
so if they had, I wouldhave just taken them to grandparents house and
been able to work. So Ihad to take off work today, and
so yeah, I'm gonna be doingI'm gonna be doing tours around the house

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and then I might you know,if it gets dark outside, it might
go out and you know, trynot to burn my eye bolts out.
What's in a lifetime opportunity? Tim, I feel like you're taking it for
granted. You know, it wouldn'tbe the first time, it won't be
the last. I kind of tendto agree with Tim because he is right.
It's not a cultural moment to where, oh my god, I remember

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when I heard, you know,about John Lennon being killed by Howard Cosell
on Monday Night football or some momentousthing like this. This is almost kind
of like an Instagram culture thing ora TikTok culture thing, to where it's
disposable, it goes away. There'sreally no conversation about it. The one

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thing that I am interested in,though, is the experience of if we
don't have cloud coverage and it's justbeautiful bright sunlight, to feel what the
earth The experience is to have itgo as dark as it possossibly can for
you know that four or five minutes. I think that sensation is going to
be really unique. That might besomething that rather than just staring at the

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sun and oh cool ring of flamesaround the moon. Badass. I can
see a much better just you know, photo of that that a professional is
going to take. But I thinkI think there is an experienced factor to
it of just being in it andfeeling sure the earth around you, you
know, go dark, Danny.I'm one hundred percent with you. I

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just I just don't get the hype. I don't the level of hype that
is the thing that I'm pushing backagainst. It's like, I think Beyonce
is a good singer. I don'tthink she's that. I don't think she's
a god. You know what Imean. It's about the hype. It's
the level of hype that it's gettingthat I uh, that I think is
absurd. Yeah, but if you'redon't take it seriously. You don't because

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you don't know what's going to happenduring the eclipse. And what if Jesus
descends and returns to Earth. Yeah, Tim, and you're inside you know,
a computer, if he comes back, I'll be going if you don
and I won't. You know,I don't know that. I don't know
that at all, Tim, Andwhat you're gonna be do you Tim,
neither do. You're gonna be onthe couch. Guy thinks she knows everything,

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but truth is, you don't know. You're gonna be on the couch
home alone, doing chores, andthen you're gonna see a commercial of a
of a spokesperson for a couch companythat might light your loins a little bit.
And then you're gonna start cranking alittle rod. And that what you
want to be doing when Jesus comesback, Loving Joe dirt. So what
I'll be doing next? Caller Timenjoyed the eclipse. For God's sake,

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Get out there, so once ina lifetime event. It's a space phenomenon.
It's a it's a it's an abnormality. You'll never see this again in
your lifetime. Thanks. Boys'll directlyinto the sun without goggles on. Tim,
Hey, No, that's bad advice. Ke Hey, hey, that
was called by Tim, Sorry too, where swim goggles? I was playing?
Okay, another one? We gotanother one? All right? Are

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you are you an anti eclipser?Very much so? Why? Yeah?
State your position. My name isChandler. I'm headed to forty horny getting
a cooler from BUCkies. Oh nice, yep, but no I don't.
I don't see the hype. Justlike the last dollar, I guess if

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Jesus is coming, I'm all forit. Well keep your eye for that.
And if you don't know, unlessyou're out there looking for him.
I'm also the first ever winner ofthe Exterminator game show. That's not a
real game. Do you mean theEliminator? I forgot the name of it.
Em. We're gonna need you tofocus. It's not about the past.

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Today is about what's happening in justa few hours on the return of
our Lord. So the hype ofour Lord, the hype's bothering you because
in four hours, forty nine minutesand thirty seconds, something's going to happen
that will never happen again in yourlifetime. You will be dead man,
that's true. But I drive aroundall day, so I'm not looking forward

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to The traffic is really what itis. Do you fear death? No?
I welcome it? Whoa well?Ye with open arms? Okay,
exactly. Chandler, your times aboutrunning right out of here, hopefully not
his mortality time. No, No, No six, because it's wet.

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One more. Let's get one.We help you both make and clear the
eclipse. Tim Chandler, they're allTim all right? What's your name?
Him? You're live on ninety sevenin the Freeze. It's not Tim.
I named Tim? Tim? HiTim? Yeah? Where are you at,

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man? How you doing good?I'm in Grand Prairie. What's your
other name? My name is Brian? All right, Tim, Brian b
Ryan. Are you on the thirtyside of the twenty side of Grand Prairie?
And uh, why are you soagainst what's happening today? I'm against
the eclipse for two reasons. OneI hate people and two space to super
gay. I mean, he laidit out real quick there. I have

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the preconcise, tight opinion. Yeah, you can't really argue it. Space
is super good. If you wantedto, we wouldn't even know where to
start. Said space is super gay. He was twenty four. He wasn't
even sure about it because he says, I don't know, man, I
don't know, man. I justthink something you said when you're super twenty
four on a podcast, and thatis part of your legacy. Yeah,

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yeah, Riah, tell me aboutit, Tell me about it. I
got a flask with a pig onit. Yeah, that's welcome to my
world. And they also had metalbats. I don't know about that either.
Okay, see we get it.At least none of you have the
I went to TCU and there's beenwomen surrounding me my entire life. Really
all right, Tim, Well,I don't know. Enjoy those Thanks for

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listening to us, to us,no problem, best show on the station.
You're sweet. Thanks Brian, Tim, tell a friend all right,
love you later all over the place. Well, I like Bryan, the
eclipse party will continue. We're theofficial pregame party of today's solar eclipse,

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and people are flocking. And likeyou said, how many million people flocking
the Metroplex. I guarantee you there'sa couple of them right now. Listen,
there's no doubt about it. I'vestumbled upon an eclipse pregame show.
We came here for the for theeclipse. The right spot. Advanced chair
restoration brought us the scuttle. Buttoday and coming up next, we'll move
on to talk about eclipse, acelestial phenomenon, conspiracy theories, what could

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go wrong today, and other thingsthat you'll need to know. How do
you time it up to finish duringthose four minutes? Next on ninety seven
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