Listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one The freak It's see what Since's is brought to you by Andrews American Pizza Kitchen, Preston and Plano Parkway, the best pizza in North Texas. We all agree, agree, all right, case closed? Check them out this story, boy, and you'll uh, you'll know why this peaud my interest and why I'm leading with it here in just a second. But we had the big We all saw the videos of the massive rogue wave wave that hit Ventura over the weekend. I believe
it was a New Year's Eve and how that water. Just Man that we've walked those very streets for Cowboys training camp, I know that you probably had too, Kevin. I mean that sweet Water Bar was right there. I mean all those little restaurants that are right there on the beach, man, and you saw that wave come in. And nobody died, thankfully, but I think it was like eight people injured and flooded. You know, a good portion of some of those businesses that were right there. But it wasn't
just that part of California that got hit. Apparently big waves were hitting up and down the California coast. All on New Year's Eve and something interesting washed ashore up in Santa Cruz County because they had to have their sheriff Sheriff's Office bomb team respond to a call at a place called Pahero Dunes, which is
located between the cities of Santa Cruz and Monterey. This was around two twenty pm on Sunday, and according to the Sheriff's Department, a World War Two era bomb yes washed ashore on this California beach at around two twenty pm, all the way from the Guadalajara Canal. Maybe maybe not though, so they had Bomb Team Tech show up and this was an ordnance item that was believed to be a practice bomb, but it was from the World War Two era,
so we're talking about something that was around eighty years old. And the Travis Air Force Base Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team was requested to examine the bomb because of its size and degraded state, and they performed an on site visual, did an X ray scan, and they determined that the bomb was in fact an inactive military ordinance and was free of explosives, so not an active bomb. But still, dude, if you're cruising around that beach. Hey,
let's go check out the aftermath of this wave. And there's this huge bomb that was you know, a practice bomb that was dropped by a B fifty two in nineteen forty two or whenever. You know, we were respond unding to or uh to Pearl Harbor and preparing for our Pacific campaign and you know, they're dropping practice bombs and in the Pacific Ocean. I mean, you don't know, you don't know if that thing can go off at any moment. Yeah, but it's got to be a pretty cool thing to see,
you know. Oh yeah, something fun to find. Yeah, the metal detector is going nuts. Yes, I was wearing a metal detector. Really. She moved to Sarasota, Florida. There's a lot of metal detection going on in the mornings, really, yeah. And Crescent Beach and Siesta. Is it all old people? No, it's as young as hot as people. Yeah, it's like twenty one year old Swedish bikini bottles out there with. I just love this new hobby. I do you feel like we are
entering an air of people who aren't going to want to work? You know, so I can now on the drum all day. Oh I can now TikTok while metal detecting, and then I think people would watch your metal detection videos on TikTok Okay, I'm weird you say that is one of the few wormholes I've gone down in on TikTok was a magnet fish, yes, and I think we talked about it right, Yes, magnet fishing. You know
about magnet fishingn what do you think fishing with magnets. You put a magnet magnet into a pond of lake or a tank and then you pull up anything metal from the bottom of yes, water, but these are big ass magnets, so you could pull up the chassis of an old four like they're really big. They got a big one anything huge storage container unit yeah yeah, al capone safe. Oh my god. But they do this. And the first time I saw was on the Sane River in Paris, and they're pulling
out bikes. I mean it's you. It's mostly bicycles that you find, bicycle pooters, and then yes, full cars. But they're looking for old coins and god, they found out a guns, tons of guns. You can wear themhole that forever. I mean, all over America, all over
the world. Magnet fishing well, I wonder how many if they've had any cases or instances where like a cold casecut solved because they you know, magnet Fisher found a weapon and turned it into the cops and they're like, oh my god, this was the weapon, the murder weapon for this case and the ballistics matchup, and this was the guy that owned it. We just couldn't find the more murder weapon to convict. And now definitely a lot.
Yeah, I bet that's happened. Yeah, So this was and reading in this article a little further about this bomb, the World War two era bomb that washed up on shore near Santa Cruz over the weekend. Man, I didn't realize this, but there's a ton of remnants of war unexploded military ordnance such as grenades, rockets, bombs that get found across the world. A
lot of this stuff gets washed up on shore. You've heard, you know, stories about all of the these these fields that are filled with old land mines that people, you know, kids be you know, playing in a field and they step on an old land mine that's been there for for god knows how long. I think there's been some pretty high profile celebrities that have been advocates for the removal of these mines. Was Angelina Joe Lee one of them? Or yeah, oh, I think I don't know about that.
I think like in Bosnia or Herzegovina or whatever, some of those countries that had been affected by all that. But yeah, I didn't realize this, but after World War Two, thousands of unexploded bombs were left behind by the United States and Japan, and every year researcher researchers estimate that more than twenty people are killed or seriously injured when these bombs just go off. Dude,
what well that was like? Had it? I guess I don't know how bombs work either, though, you know the way we see a bomb, bombs never look like that, right, you know, if I ever get to send you a bomb emoji, it doesn't look like that, like the like the big head with a little thing, yeah it or did it? Back then? Bombs that drop out of planes look like that? Really? Yeah? Are you talking about like the the long the longer bomb? Yeah? Yeah, I think Kevin's talking about the ones like cartoons. It's a
bowling ball with Okay, I don't know about that. I don't know bombs ever. Looked like that. I think they did. Maybe they did, like it looks like a cannon ball with batman has to pick up and run around. Yes, and forever. It was that clip and he's he's got the lit bomb and he runs and then there's like a bunch of children playing and he's like he turns around, runs back, and then there's two nuns walking and he's like the over and the great Puppies. That was such a
great, great show puppies. But anyway, everything, everybody's cool. It was a World War two bomb, but it was a practice bomb that washed up on shore. We did a lot and when I was in the Air Force about that, because we do a lot of like war simulations. I was fortunate enough to be in the military between the two uh Gulf for conflicts, I suppose, So we just had practice stuff and there's a lot focused
on that. Unexploded ordinances and you'd have to contact the EOD, I think Unixploded Ordnance Detection something like that, what was it, Explosive ordnance disposal And there are professionals that exactly that finding out if these are live and how to dispose of them properly. But that's a massive thing. Even in modern warfare, there's unexploded bombs that just clunk into the ground, even from planes. Sure they go on detonated, and then how do you handle it and what
do you do with it? Well, think about all those those mortar rockets. You know that they would be duds. You know they would just land. And you see all the World War two movies where you're in your fox hole and then the mortar lands right by you and it's just sitting there spinning. It's like, oh, thank god. Yeah, I mean there's still gunpowder in those things or some type of explosive you know, element that makes those things detonate, and uh yeah, I'm there's probably millions of them all
over the world. I think of all the wars and all the crap that we've done to each other throughout time. There's just stuff everywhere. This is why I'm a bad history person, is my When I think of bombs like the big bowling ball with the fuse and a sweaty guy cutting, do I cut the red or do I cut the blue? Which the clock is running down? And then what you the way to handle that is put your your cutter right over one of them and then right the last second, you switch
and cut the other one. Yeah, it's my it's a it's the macgrouver knowledge of that's what you have. That's what you have to do. Just go against, go against your instincts that we're telling you to do this, and at the last second do the other one and then get all fired up for the one you think you're gonna do. But you have to kind of convince yourself and all that, and then it's definitely and then maybe wipe your brow and then right when you get under five seconds or so, switch it,
clip it, hero ticker tape per Absolutely so. We watched the debut of the Floor, the hottest game show that's sweeping the nation, the debut on Fox last night. I don't know if you guys stuck around and watched a little bit of the news following that I did. And the first the leadoff story is one that is absolutely heartbreaking, but it could have been so,
so much worse. This happened on New Year's Eve in Mesquite where a father was holding his toddler just hanging out in their house and a bullet enters the home from a dry by shooting the bullet grazes the father's neck and the side of the toddler's skull. Both of them are okay, but raised both grazed, both of them. In between them, he was holding his son like the imagine the kid's head right here, it hit the and you can
see, I mean, they've got photos right here. You can see there's the child's there's the child's head right there, and there's the father's neck. Hell, he's like probably cradling him and it just in between. And Mesquite police are saying, they're talking about that these people were in all likelihood not the target. That it was a reckless drive by shooting or a mistaken identity
or something like that. But there you saw the ring cam footage from a neighbor across the street or down the street that shows a car driving in front of this house and then you hear the gunfire and then the car ends up driving off. That's what that was if you were commenting on the weird footage that was on TV earlier. But they're taught. The cops are saying that man, we're literally talking about millimeters about this being a homicide investigation of a
child. Yeah, milimeters either way. Millimeters either way. But yes, I mean, I know you live in a gunshot neighborhood. I do too, Yep. I mean I'm not far from where this happened. I live in Dallas proper, but I'm super close to Mesquite. How do you get people to stop? Okay, I know I'm saying that was a drive by, but I'm just saying the New Year's shots in the sky even, Yeah like that, you think you'd have a chance at convincing someone please don't shoot
your gun up in the air because guess what. The bullet is coming down? Yeah, that's coming down, and the road rage thing is just firing into a car, but you don't know who the passengers are. We saw the story. I think it was over holiday break where you know, a family with a i think a two year old in the car seat in the back accidentally cut somebody off. The guy got pissed, rolled up on him, and fired a shot into the car and killed their freaking two year old.
They watched their kid die in his car seat because some guy couldn't manage his emotions over getting cut off. When it's incredible, Yeah, it is incredible how angry people are and how many people have guns. The ability to press a button and kill. And there's always every New Year's Day, there's just stories of all kinds of crazy gun stuff. There was a story of a apartment in Dallas in uptown, you know, or just a bullet went through. Now what for or was it a celebration, And it's just like
that's happening. I mean, I've never experienced, but I don't think these are lies that are being made up. You know. You see some click bait articles and then there's that one a guy got shot in the leg by random gunfire in northwest Fort Worth on New Year's Eve. It was just right around midnight, everyone shooting their guns up in the air. Someone got a hit, you know, acres away or you know, some distance away and
at a different house randomly gets shot. And I may be a little bit off on this, but the bullet is coming down in landing on whatever target it hits after you fired into the air at the same speed that it basically leaves the gun. You know. I don't know how that works or it's something it's it's pretty proportional velocity. Yeah, yes, I know, it's weird. I have done this. If I hear I'm I'm in bed and I hear gunshots into what I determined to be anywhere within a few blocks,
I do the roll on the side. What do you mean? I roll on my side in my bed because I'm like, all right, I think that that could come down. I don't want to get hit in the junk and I don't want to get hit in the spine. So in my tiny brain, I think, all right, if I roll on my side, that's weird that you're thinking that tiny d mostly worried about his junk. I can't have my tiny d shot off. Is it weird to think about that? If you hear gunshots right next door or close, I'm never thinking of
my duper. I think about that because I'm like, all right. I think it was one of the news in Centraumatic. I don't know was in a committee in the city, like proposing a public service campaign to tell people to stop shooting their guns in the air because I think someone he knew or something died or yeah, that was something like this, and it's such an easy one. But then it'd be also like, it's pretty easy for you say, don't shoot your gun at people's near people's bodies. Don't road rage,
shoot them, don't shoot anyone period. But that's obviously a whole different conversation. But if we can just say just don't celebratory fire your gun in the air, Like, doesn't that feel like maybe a different category even to someone who is prone to be likely to shoot their gun at another human. Maybe, Look, it was a like you could hit your own grandma who
lives down the road. I don't know how you make it sound like that's something that you know what, Fine, I won't shoot my gun six times straight in the air because that's six bullets coming down, and who knows.
I just think the percentage of people that own guns now in twenty twenty four, is that that have been raised with them or train on real gun safety and how to operate it by a professional is so minuscule compared to maybe what it was in like the seventies, like when I grew up, because that was so just drilled into your head, Like I grew up with a family that had them. I grew up owning two guns as a little kid, and it was just it was second nature on how to handle them and things
that you were just absolutely not supposed to do. Don't fire at anything that other than like a target and a controlled situation, unless you plan on killing that thing, you just don't really nilly just fire your gun. But I just don't think people are I think they easy. They're easy to get large, and I think they just acquire them and figure it out on their own
or mimic what they see on television. Dumb people do that. I think they far vast majority of gun owners would don't need to be told don't in a residential area, go outside, shoots your gun up into the air. I just don't think there's enough people in this. Okay. What I'm saying is the people that own guns, it's disproportion to the emotional maturity that they should have to own them. In a lot of cases, yes, yeah, And if you're out at a ranch and shooting out to a field,
fine, do whatever you want to do. Yeah, but I think you're at moron if you shoot a gun up into the air in a residential area. I think near one hundred percent of gun owners a lot a high percentage would not even dream of doing something like that because it's so stupid. But then it leads to this. A guy holding his toddler and both of them getting grazed by a gun that happens to go within millimeters of both of their
brains. So the investigator of the shooting that happened in Mesquite, where a father and his young son, a toddler, were both grazed by a bullet as a result of a drive by shooting. The investigators are looking into the shooting and they've got the surveyor's video that I talked about a minute ago that shows a small four door sedan driving down their street, which is Springwood Drive, just after seven pm. Police said that the video showed the driver stopping
the vehicle near the home. Moments later, someone is seen exiting the vehicle and shooting towards a white vehicle. The driver of the white vehicle called police moments after the shooting. They contacted us, the cops talking police officials. They contacted us. They do not understand what happened or why this happened. All they can say is they heard a loud pop and then their window broke and we saw several bullets in their vehicle as well broken glass, broken windows.
They recovered a bunch of shell casings from the scene. Apparently this was a drive by shooting. That was like gone wrong. I guess they all are wrong, but mistaken identity or the misinformed target what ever that they got the wrong person. But anyway, yeah, that bullet, one of those bullets went into a home, and uh, thank got the dad and the little boy are alive and okay and recovering and just superficial wounds. But like I said, just a couple of millimeters away of that being a child homicide
case. Happy New Year, mesquite, hope you like guns? All right, that'll do it. No joke, Nope, no comic strip, not today, No, not today, somber, don't draw, just move on. Nope, yeah there just don't laughs anymore? What laughs? Going up next to story that took the country by a storm that you need to know about, the Saga of Gypsy Rows.