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it's a thing that's probably developing, still investigating everything that happened. But yesterday around three thirty pm, a suspected gas leak caused an explosion at this hotel and for Earth it's called the Sandman Signature Hotel building. Well, it's the Sandmans Signature Hotel. Now it's in a building that it's known as the WT Wagoner Building, which I only thought of the Derek Jeter commercial when I saw Wagoneer. The Sandman Signature Hotel opened in March and housed with a twenty
story WT Wagoneer building, so the Sandman's signature had been renovated. Now this explosion, as they're still investigating, they still get into the details of it, but it caused one person to be in critical condition, four in serious conditions, sixteen suffering minor injuries. According to MedStar, several people had to be extracted in the hotel's basement. I'm sorry to twenty one people, repeat exactly what you said. One person in critical yep, four in serious condition
and sixteen minor injuries. Man, Okay, last night they were reporting that there was a person missing. Is everybody at least accounted for? Here is the fire chief yesterday giving his update from last night. I think this is gives you a little bit of a catch up on what happened. Well, actually, before I play that, let me let me let me do this first before I play that. So in the hotel's basement there is a restaurant called Massume. One of my favorite restaurants in Dallas is Massume. Hell I
got engaged in the speaks of that restaurant. Oh you did the Dallas version, Yes, and it's awesome. Good friend of mine, Josh Bab is the co founder of Masume. He is the co founder of this restaurant that had this explosion. Well, I've misunderstood your proposal. I thought that you got engaged on the Speakeasy. No three o'clock live, No, no, no no. If I was gonna do it, I would have done it when it when I was still a host of the Speakeasy and in this type
slot. I also would have been castrated on the spot. If I even threw out the idea of getting engaged on the air, it would have been no fly zone for Rocksanna with a serrated knife. Yeah ouch at old times. Why is she always carrying that with her just in case? Because you never know? And what have I gotten myself into. Josh Bab is a good friend of mine, has been for over ten years. Okay, I don't know. Do you guys know Josh Bab Yeah, I met him a
couple of times. I met him at our one year party. Cool dude, Yes, restaurant tour, huge radiohead fan, Uh, hell ya, big movie guy, loves movies. You know, he'll go through the Academy
Awards list and he's got hot thoughts on all the movies. Great dude, But he's the co founder of this And I texted him yesterday not fully understanding, so I misread it as another restaurant, not Massume, but I but that Massume was in the area and I misread that first, and I had kind of an awkward text exchange with him as I texted him, you're okay, dude. He said, yeah, crazy, and I said, glad
you were there, Jesus, it looks like bomb footage. And then ten minutes later I realized, no, like it sounds like the reports are that it happened from in there, and I've hit back. I was like, oh God, the way I said that doesn't sound good. So he wasn't there, and he put out a big statement yesterday on Instagram that basically cleared up whether that no one was there at the time, or at least there was only three employees there at the time. The restaurant was closed, so
there was no people eating delicious three thirty pm sushi. But they were still working and I think this restaurant still knew. I don't know where the construction was taking place, whether it was in the hotel, whether it was coming from the massume in the basement, and that's all a little bit. Those details really haven't been terribly clear. This is Craig Crojitz, the Fire Department, croach a check yes, the fire department for the fire department, you
know, basically spokes spokesperson for the media last night. Can you create me up when does this happen? Now? We have not made one hundred percent determination, but we wanted to make it clear that this was some type of gas explosion and we're still working on the details of that to figure out what all calls that. So when you pull up on the scene, I mean
it's it's there's a lot of destruction and stuff that's going on. Not only when you're looking at the building itself that you could tell that there's been some windows. It looks like maybe some some walls and stuff that have been blown out. Covers from from whether it be gas or water, that are you know, inside the streets. The covers were blown off from from from the street side. So I mean when you're looking at you know, like I said, there was a small fire, I know that they had to extinguish.
I mean it was it was It was chaos there for for a minute. When you show up and you're you're trying to figure out, Okay, how many people were we talking about what all resources and stuff do we do? We need to make sure that we can keep this as small as possible. We had initial calls that people weren't trapped in the basement. We did extract several people from the basement that weren't able to get out on their own. Now, earlier, when I talked to you guys, I said that
there was one person that was not accounted for. That person was found, But since then we have found that we had another patient that was trapped there in the building. I think what he meant by that is when we told you there was one, there's actually two and we got them both. I got them both. So if you look at the footage of the street, yeah, it looks like it was. I mean, yeah, we don't have any explosion video yet for many traffic cams or anything like that. I
mean, there has to exist just audio. I don't have a video. Yeah, that has a lot of videos. Shortly after as people yeah, pulled them out, but their phones, the the misinformation online out of control. Ready, dude, if you out Twitter, because I was like going through just like searching Twitter like on it just to say, like try to talk to someone who was there on foot, maybe someone who was in the built, you know when that happened. And I mean, dude, it
it is a cess pool. I mean, people coming in making a fake name of a migrant, yeah, suspect, And there was a name that was surfacing, forty four year old Omar or something, you know whatever, and it's like, no one is saying that y'all have made that up and it's crazy. But that was just spreading like like crazy, and I don't know, like this seems pretty simple, and that's what people were saying.
Witnesses blocks away from the building basically said it was very loud, they thought it was an earthquake at first, and there was also a smell of gas that was kind of the rotten egg type smell that was lingering in the air for a little bit afterwards. Okay, a gas explosion. We see this once twice three times a year locally, a house explodes because of a gas
explosion. I have no idea what you do about that. Like this happens, it's kind of common now when it happens in a restaurant, in a hotel, in a downtown area, mount ramps up how big the story is and how many people could have potentially been hurt. Yeah, I don't understand how that how it works. Frankly, I don't know how it doesn't happen more often. If it happens sometimes, you know what level of malfunction with a gas leak. I guess I don't even know how it works. And
then it also needs a spark of some kind. Yeah. I also don't get pilot lights confuse me, Like it's supposed to be lit on all the time and if it turns off, that that's the trouble. I don't understand it. But it's scary. And I guess enough people smelled the sulfur smell or whatever that you don't understand the pilot light. I don't read. No, I don't want to understand gas. Yes, the pilot light is something.
It's a light that stays on all the time to ignite my Like I would my house's gas as far as heat and stove, stove top oven and most now a modern uh STO will have an electric yeah pilot where when you turn it on, it's a little electric charge that will spark that will that will ignite the gas coming out from you know. But in the old days, it was like a gas heater or a furnace. It was just a tiny little flame that was constantly on and it's just a little bitty hole that
has a very very minimal amount of gas coming through. But that thing needs to remain lit. So when you hit the big ones, the big burner, it ignites that big amount of gas to light your furnace or your stove or your oven, and those are dangerous. I can't imagine an actual gas pilot light being in a modern probably not that fits his old place. In
the bathroom, there's like a little fire in the wall always time. And if that goes out so bizarrely antiquated, absolutely anyone would have that right now. But back in the day, that thing, if it was dangerous. If your pilot light went out, you wanted to make sure that you turn your gas off because slowly burning gas it helps indicate that your gas is on, but it's there next to the big burner, you know, so when you turn that on, it it it ignites that gas. So you can
cook or you know, turn a furnace on or whatever. But if the pilot is off, that it's like a constant is just coming out exactly. But it's a very very tiny amount. But and that's why they add the odor to that gas because otherwise it's it has no smell. Yeah, it's undetectable. So they put that added to be in there, that rotten egg additive that yeah, you mentioned to kind of let you know that, oh crap, I smell gas. We need to get the hell out of here
or figure out what it is turn it off. But yeah, that's the thing, man, if you your pilot line. I remember that in my grandparents' house, they had a furnace that was underneath the floor and it constantly had that little flame on there and if it went out, the wind blew and it knocked it out. You wanted to make sure that pilot light was always on. Otherwise, well, you're filling your entire houseful gas at a
very slow rate. But still nonetheless, and by the way, this is all happened like eighth Street, you know, downtown Fort Worth, a couple of blocks away from the convention center. So our buddy Georges lives just a couple of streets away from this thing. And this is the word that kept jumping out to me in these articles I was reading about all this is renovated, it's old building here, and the hotel just reopened in March, So you know, you start putting a restaurant down in the basement, and who
knows that. I mean, that restaurant's I think I don't think it even opened, and I could be wrong. I don't think it opened in March when the hotel opened, But it's just kind of part of a new kind of part of that wagon wagoner building. Uh. And it's so who knows what kind of old you know, technology is not the word. All the appliances they had, you know, and struck sure. Yeah, now some people I saw another article last night that was like one person said they did
not smell the burning gas thing and it was more like burning paint. Which paint is paint flammable? Yeah, sure, some paint. See it's hard to know these things because I don't play with fire. Anymore. So there's that. Now at seven thirty, we're going to have two first hand accounts people. Were you yesterday when the explosion happened? He said, this is at three thirty pm and you get off work at ten am? Where were you at three thirty yesterday? Honestly, you guys really want to know.
Yes, Kevin, I was out there blasting this body to pieces at the gym. Okay, I was listening to speak easy on my and he logged in. Yeah, can anyone vouch for you? Were you logged into your elliptical or no? I don't. Oh so no one has my own I don't. Mike, will you please obtain all of the CCTV footage from this quote unquote Jim that Kevin goes to Kevin's Jim the Richardson Center of Fitness,
Richardson City. It's the city, like I don't know. And Danny and I were together at three thirty pm yesterday, Arsonist, Me and Danny and JJ were together, real doing. But you were unaccounted for him. Yeah, Well that's scaring me. And I do want to hear firsthand reports. And you got a couple of people who are nearby, right, Yeah, we'll get that at seven thirty. Have a couple of people who were one's a listener, one's a good friend of mine who was down near the scene
with the Gangsta lean. But let's do birthdays, hey, s is more on the explosion all day long, all that stuff with birthdays. Big one today, my guys, and we'll start out with the oldest and go younger. Bart Starr would have been ninety on Cowboy Packer Week. It's all starting to just align a little bit when you look at these things. At eight o'clock, we're beginning our series this week of the Super wild Card Pump Session. Hell yeah, and today's topic is about Mike McCarthy and call in and
join in on the discussion there. But bart Starr would have been ninety and his son, yes, his name Brett, he was. Tell me more about that, Mikey. That's all I really know. Christina Ray an amazing ironic note. It's a big day for Christina Ray and I today and for stripmall Steve because okay, all three of us, our favorite musicians share the same birthday. For Christina, Jimmy page is eighty eighty. Huh. Yes,
boy, that is pretty significant. We live in a world where Jimmy Page is eighty years old and she I am tired, among others are clinging to the hope that they get the band back together one more time at a oh do it? God? He was born in nineteen forty four, meaning that's crazy. I don't think his arthritis, just crazy. And I know he still plays, But for him to go play twenty songs a night, you might be surprised. You think you can go rip up twenty five tour
dates? Yeah, with those old wrists, I don't be that though. Just well, one one off, right, and that more likely than a get the spinny tour? Yeah, Zepplin at the Sphere, Oh that'd be great. What if they did that? If Zeppelin played the Sphere, Yeah, that'd be pretty cool. I'd try to find a way, Yeah, you know, I would have I think it would be out of my price range, but yeah, out of mine too, But I'd have no choice. I would just send her to the sphere and I would stand outside the
sphere. Where was she born? Eighty nine? Eighty nine, so they'd already been broken up for almost a decade when she was born. I mean her story is she discovered I think the second one, led Zeppelin two or four. Whatever she discovered it just changed her entire life. I relate, what did it come on at Hot Topic? Now act she had a friend introduced her to it. Mixtape Hot Topic was not playing led Zeppelin. You're probably right or real like you know fall that boy's version of led Zeppelin.
They were applyaying lots of awdhorn highs, skateboard music. Ohio is for lovers. Steve Harwell, smash Mouth is fifty seven, Steve, he said, well he may call in today, right, just wait, wait he's dead, right yeah, yeah, he would have been fifty seven, but he died. Yeah, yeah. And Dave Matthews is fifty seven. Whoa so smash Mouth, Dave Matthews and Jimmy Page all share the same damn birthday. You think that's a lot, but also big day in the world of Jeff
skin Wait is Carl Bell of the band Fuel is fifty seven. Did you know Dave Matthew's birthday without looking at it? Yes, you know. For a long time changed my ryan on my albums on my wall in my living room. I have nine records, and you change it by month, like this month you change I changed the color or if that piece on your wall. Uh, it's it's just nine albums that I hang up, you know, three by three and I put up on these little things I've put into
the wall. Then where they they stand, and I changed my decoration. My next week, next month, February, it'll be red albums. You know, I'm surprised that was allowed to stay when you and Rocks moved in together. That seems like one of the first things that a female not going to have your albums as art. She's going to wake up to nine because I've changed it this morning. She's gonna wake up to nine pictures of Dave
Matthews all on because I have all their live albums. And of course does she tolerates, She likes, she does, She learned it hatescause just like everyone you fall in love with, when you give something a chance, and it's all I'm asking you to listen more than once out there to what Dave Matthews to me? Do you do something special? Huh Dave's birthday? Like, do you go through a few huge jack? What night hour McDonald's. Matthew Knowles is seventy two Papa Bear, that's daddy to Beyonce was a mommy
just a couple of days ago. Yeah, how old is Papa Bear seventy two? Papa Bee seventy two? JK. Simmons sixty nine. He's yelling at someone now he's awesome. Whiplash. I love so good. I need to see that. Oh it's so good. Ammelda Staunton sixty eight was the kid in Whiplash, the kid from the band Cheese of Ed Sheerhand. Now it's Miles Teyler. Miles Teyler who I saw as the celebrity flag waiver at
the ND five hundred. Ah. I saw a good friend of Aaron Rodgers with him, and weirdly, Taylor Swift Miles Tayler's wife, really good friends with Taylor Miles Taylor really good friends with Aaron Rodgers. Okay, sports birthdays. Two guys who have always looked old no matter their age, Greg Odin, uh oh, no, sixty five will be the age on these guys.
But we have a NASCAR driver and a former center fielder always had old face sterling Marlon Mark Martin who drove the Viagra car proudly, and Otis Nixon. Boy. Otis Nixon sure did have old face, kind of amazing. Muggsy Bokes fifty nine, fifty nine years old, Sean Paul's fifty one. AJ from the Backstreet Boys is forty six. Big day for Reiner, Chad Ocho Cinco for you have a lot of birthdays today. Kevin Sergio Garcia is forty four. Oh he's clapping for the guy who doesn't hit the ball.
A big problems with Sergio. Big problem. Lives in Austin. Now he's one of us. Oh he's not. I embrace those that moved for the great city of Texas as fast as they can. Honor the pace of play. He's got a waggle. It's a mental tick. It's an issue. He makes up for it by running up the hill and jumping to see where the ball went. Kate Middleton's forty two. He did once thirty years ago. Forty two for Kate Middleton. And she'll be the queen one day,
Queen Regent. Yeah, yeah, I don't know that man, the wife of the king. Is that right? Good? So I did get it. M. F. Doom would have been fifty three, Bob Denver would have been eighty nine. That's Gilligan. Wow, you could have told me, he would have been one hundred and seven and I would have believed it. When did he kick he? Pretty young man? Was he? Yeah?
Heroin know? Probably all those cigarettes he was smoking at appearances. I think we see the picture of the appearance with the red shirt and the like. Eight years after the show was canceled, I'm pretty sure he'd died of cancer due to eating some radiated vegetables. Okay, the one episode we watched he made it to two thousand and five, did he really? Yeah? Holy crap, gosh, I thought he was dead in the eighties Denver was
a heavy smoker, throat cancer. And lastly, Siroy, your guy President Nixon would have been one eleven tricky dick, not a crook at all. Wronged he was wrong? White House Plumbers really good? Is it? Yeah?
It's really good? Oh, long time, blappy birthday and all your all your favorite artists Kevin big birthdays and special day for me, Steve and Christina especially well more on the fourth Explosion with some first hand accounts in thirty minutes, but coming up next in Around the Sports or Sports at seven. We got a new champ crown in college football, and every NFL team wants a piece of this cowboy coaches ass next to ninety seven won the free