Most Important Thing in the World

You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. The MAVs game was wild last night. Get to that at seven plus something weird that happened in a college basketball game. It's ever good on the coach has to go up to the get the get the crowd microphone and go hey everyone, I'm right here. Everyone stop doing this at seven. Remind everyone they live in Cincinnati, not Cleveland. Yeah, that's the best one. And Sammy wish that was sam one. That was a weird one in a NFL

game. Yeah, we have to yell at the grab the mic at ANFL game. I might trying to find that and grab that And is that hard to do? Feels like it like just to work? Why was there a microphone? You gotta good? Well, you know they're at the I guess for the national anthem singer. Like how how quickly can you get a micro a live mic to the entire HT and T stadium for instance? And man, I'll tell you, the world of AV always continues to impress me.

Depends on where you work. Sometimes you work at places where the AV continues to disappoint you. I don't know, look behind you. How long has that TV been out of commission. It's windy, and that's a part of the most important thing in the world. And that's part of the reason why we don't have a Direct TV situation right now, because the wind keeps blowing the satellite off the room. I'm a real off the roof. Yeah, it's kind a pile of satellites. Yeah, a call into the building.

They have a twelve hour availability to be here. Well, we'll be here from time to eight am and eight pm. I love how put another satellite up there. The satellite companies like Direct TV and Dish Network because their technology is always evolving and their hardware is getting upgraded. That if you have an account for a long time and then maybe you discontinue it or you want to get the get it updated, they just leave the damn old dish up there.

I've seen houses in my neighborhood with like four dishes and they're all the same, just like you can see the graduation of technology as it goes, and it's just it's all like a dish museum on top of these homes. They was like, I just keep it. Did you ever have an old friend with a real satellite dish. Oh my, yes, you guys have that. I didn't have one, but my best friend in high school happened.

I think I've told you guys this story. That his parents always kept it at one end of the satellite because you had to, I mean, to dial that thing in. You had to rotate it around to get certain channels. And it took a long time to get three minutes to get from ESPN to Nickelodeon. Seriously, it was serious, like I'm not kidding minutes, and yeah, you had your coordinates, and his parents always kept it on religious programming, so it was like the Bible Network and all that crap.

But we found out that if you explored and went one hundred and eighty degrees from north to south, from heavy to hell, we could watch what we called back then the screw channel. Yes, that was the first time I ever saw, No, the first time I ever saw Pinnatrociones at your friend's house, and I remember we dialed in. I don't know, he kind of gets pixelated and then it's diald in. There it is, and we're just sitting there going what is this? We're probably thirteen fourteen, Yeah

you're ready, Yeah, you felt strange. Yeah, it's like kind of weird. You know, you felt like you knew something. It was something you weren't supposed to be watching. But we got over that pretty quickly, to the point where his younger brother would be on lookout for if his parents would go out, you know, and you could see the highway. He lived kind of out in the country and you could see the highway from Kicking Dust a mile away. Yeah, and he'd see the headlights of their car

coming in. They go, Mom and Dad are coming in like this. And the goal was to get the satellite to stop back to Jesus' lay Back to Heaven the second they pulled into the drive, because if they pulled in and opened the door and they heard that, they would know they knew that we were watching the screw channel. That's amazing. Huh. Yeah, we had a big one and it was weirdly r to the side of the yard.

You know. I had a golf ball through it one time. Didn't affect it too much, just had a big hole in it, just bladed one. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Is it still there? No, that's gone. Yeah, I got it removed years probably twenty years ago now. But it was there for the first five, six, seven, eight years of my life. I remember the channel. G five nine was the ESPN and G five fourteen was ESPN two five fifteen HBO, G five sixteen Cinemax. But then if you wanted to go to like Nickelodeon, it

was like S four twenty three, whole nother galaxy. And you're just d Now in my head, I'm like, like New York East fans in Bristol, and then you gotta get to Nickelodeon. It's gott to move to Florida. And it's not what was happening, but that's what you thought was happening as a kid. That's why it took so long. It's got to get to Florida. So these satellites are constantly orbiting, right if everyone else is

whipping in a circle around the planet, I guess. But the definition of orbit, right, yes, well, I just never thought about that before. It's we dow that if you're using a out so then the satellite you're using changes. I know, we don't and as we learned, we don't know this stuff. Well, as we learned the other day, there's four nineteen million satellites up there, not. There are not nineteen million. It was like fifteen thousand or fifteen hundred. It was like nine thousand. Yeah,

nine active satellites, fifteen million. Let's support Texas and the most important thing in the world. I want to write a new one of those riety I love it. We need a hip hop one. Wake me a country. It is funny. Yeah, I know. He's like, all right, well, there goes my evening. Go dance with a thought of ours that changes to eighty four hundred active satellites and various Earth orbits. Make it reggae right now? Do reggae? Hi everyone, Hello, all right.

I woke up to this news this morning. Being a native Native Ish Texan and coming from this area. Kevin, you somewhat too. We got a pretty serious situation unfolding out in our very own Texas Panhandle because early this morning, a massive series of wildfires swept across that area near Amarillo, which prompted evacuations, cut off power to thousands, forced the at least temporary shutdown of

Okay. Didn't know this nuclear weapons facility. As strong winds, dry grass, and unseasonably warm temperatures fed the blazes, so an unknown number of homes and other structures in Hutchinson County were damaged or destroyed, and the main facility that disassembles America's nuclear arsenal paused operations Tuesday night. They said they're going to reopen for normal work today and that employees of the plant should go ahead and

plan on showing up for their scheduled shifts now. Our Governor Greg Abbott issued a disaster deckl for sixty counties because the largest blaze, which they're calling the Smokehouse Creek fire, has burned almost five hundred square miles. Dang, it's more. That is more than twice its size since the fire started on Monday, so this has been going on for a couple of days. Felt like,

you know, it's contained, we can manage this. But I think because we've had ninety or near ninety degree temperatures and winds kind of ramp things up overnight, they're having a difficult time containing this thing. And a lot of folks have been evacuated from their homes. A lot of these homes have

been destroyed or at least damaged. They don't know quite yet what may have caused the blaze, but it has torn through some sparsely populated counties, and they're surrounded by these rolling planes, so there's really no mountainous topography out there to kind of constrict the wind, so it's just rolling through. They call it the rolling planes for a reason. Kevin, Yeah, keV. Now the weather forecast looks somewhat favorable for firefighters because we as we woke up today

at fifty degrees. When I went to bed last night it was seventy three. We've got cooler temperatures, less wind out there. I believe it's all moving here, and we got possible rain tomorrow. But for now, the situation's pretty dire in a lot of areas up there. The plant, which is the nuclear Assemble nuclear weapon assembly plant, it's called the plan Text plant, which when I looked at that, I thought, what is that?

Like a vegetarian tampon? Pan text? Pan Text it is. Yeah, it's northeast of a Mario that's probably Panhandle in Texas, mixed together probably Amario, which means yellow. Have you been to a Mario plenty? Have you? Have you? Yeah? How is it going on there? I think that's the largest Texas city I've never been to. Really, Yeah? St. Angelo? You have been there, Yes, you have. Oh you've probably driven through it to go to Yeah, yeah, I've done Abilene,

been Abilene, Waco, Yeah of course. Oh yeah. I used to love of course high school football for Fox Sports Southwest. Every Friday, I would travel all over the state, all these towns and cities. It was really great my first couple of years of living in Texas. I got to see a big chunk of the state. And we flew to Lubbock and we did a game in damn it, small town west of Lubbock. Tiny, but never got up to Amarillo. Because you got a good feel for small

town Texas. The Yeah, a lot of town squares, Yeah, a lot of dairy queens, a lot of dairy queens, a lot of assips. Well cause he's never seen in Alsips. It was the dq big game of the week. Ah, So we'd have to shoot at the local dairy queen every single Friday. Like that's where we did the first part of the video before we went to the game. So I got I literally went to a dozens and dozens of dairy queens in small Texas town anyway, never been

there. It does sound boring, Yeah, pretty boring. That's all going on out there. Yeah, they do have in an Amarillo that has that big ass seventy two ounce steak that if you eat the whole thing you get it for free. Yes, yeah, that's a great idea. Will Ferrell stopped there last year or something. So this this pan text plant, which is northeast of Amarillo, they evacuated non essential staff from the site on Tuesday

night out of an abundance of caution. Now, this plant is has long for a long time been the main United States site for both assembling and disassembling atomic bombs. They completed theirs. Their most recent bomb that they completed was in nineteen ninety one, but they have dismantled thousands since then. And early this morning they tweeted that the facility is open for normal day shift operations and

that all personnel were to report for duty according to their assigned schedule. In Borger, which is a community of about thirteen thousand, it's north of Pantechs. Hutchinson County Emergency Management Services personnel planned a convoy to take evacuees from one shelter to another ahead of expected power outages and overnight temperatures well below freezing man we bitch about the weather in the DFDUB. The weather in the Panhandle is

an effing wild card. Yes, you can go from three degrees to three hundred degrees in what seems like eighteen hours. It is bananas out there and wind, and it's flat and it's boring. So that's why they put a facility like this there, because it makes sense. I didn't know that far from well, if the things go wrong, you're not killing that many people, I guess. I don't know. I didn't know that we had a

nuclearigh like that and has no idea. I'm shocked me. I was like, yeah, it makes sense because you imagine that it would be in New Mexico, Arizona. You know, we think of Nevada a lot. In Utah, I'm not surprised, but yeah, Now, the city that I saw come up time and time again when kind of looking through these reports was a city called Canadian, which is a town of about two thousand people.

So we're looking at you know, high school. Yeah, yeah, I'm about kind of like the size of the towns that Kevin and myself grew up in. They're about one hundred miles northeast of Amarillo and later on Tuesday, they urged anyone who remained in the city and the town to shelter in place or at the high school gym because roads were closed. They couldn't even get out. So that because I read had one article that said that the city

of people in the city of Canadian were basically trapped. So it's like, you know, just stay where you're at. My uncle lives in Bushland, which is just a few miles west of Amarillo. Like I remember when we went to go see him, it was like you were going to Ambillo, Like even though the name of his towns Bushland. I just texted him,

are you safe? Because I don't get when you look at the map and you really see where it's at, you go, whoa, that's and that could go anywhere too, but doesn't it's kind of north that Pampa area too, jeez. As late as last night, the fires were twenty to twenty five miles from the city of Amarillo because wind was blowing wildfire smoke into the

city. This could affect people. That's a pretty big city with respiratory issues, so you think about folks in nursing homes and hospitals or just people that are you know at home with some have difficulty breathing already. This isn't going to make matters any better for them. And then finally, let's see the National Weather Service issued red flag warnings and fire danger alerts for several other states

through the midsection of the country. As winds over forty miles per hour, combined with the warm temps, s, low humidity, and dry winter vegetation, they make conditions right for wildfire. So they're even alerting other states like, Hey, it's a pretty bad down here, you might just want to be pretty vigilant. It says it's burned through three hundred thousand acres more than four hundred and fifty square miles, and was zero percent contained this morning.

Yeah, the fire is now twice the size it reached Monday. Now, I saw I saw a some photos with a fire station that had flower mound on it, and I just assume there's a flower mound near that area, or there's a fire department called the Flower Mound Fire Department, because and if not, then you've got fire departments from other cities as far away from the DFW, you know, making their ways out there to help out. That's

very common, very common. I was amazed, like we had a big one in only last summer, and just as wild being in town while that was happenings, just seeing like which tall falls gram and then all the small towns they're fire trucks in all of them. Different designs, yeah, different. Yeah. Man. I know we always talk about and I know several of us probably have people in Q to do this segment, But ask a blank. I think we've had who have we had on before? Think we've

done too many? But did we do a couple when we were on Afternoons? I feel like we did. But man, ask a firefighter, because man, there's something about the culture of firefighters and that world that those dudes reside in. It's just so unique and they truly behave like actual brothers.

Yeah, you know the brother The amount of the amount of firefighters just from this far south that responded to you know, the attacks on nine to eleven, I mean firefighters from all over the country that were just we got to go. There was like a call to duty. Well, and like for the it's unlimited how big fire can be. Yeah, Like I think for a police response, I suppose there's a limit to how many you would need,

but no one's equipped to handle a fire like this. Maillo. I used to know the fire chief in Flagstaff, Arizona, and they would do that so much. They'd be off from California and they're just ready to go anywhere in Arizona, anywhere in a neighboring state if they're needed, because you have to just congregate together because no one's equipped handle anything three hundred thousands acres.

You know, it's just not even you couldn't prepare for that if you paid everyone in the city to be a fireman, like Malcolm has been. My almost three year old son has been obsessed with firefighters for a long time, but man recently the uptick and his interest is incredible. He went as a firefighter on Halloween and kind of developed a renewed interest in it. For seven or eight days straight from the moment he woke up in the morning.

He wanted to wear his fireman uniform until he went to bed at night. It was only when temperatures reached ninety one degrees that we told him it's like, you cannot wear this stick. Yeah, you simply cannot waste switch back and wanting to grow up to be a nudist, right, I'm just sitting naked in the backyard with a popsicle. Yeah, but he you know, I can't. I don't know if I told you guys this, but we

drove by an area and our home where firefighters were training. They were tearing down this church that was up for a demo anyway, and we stopped and watched for like thirty minutes, and he looked at me and goes, I want to do that. That's cute. I would you know, Look, I'm sure they don't get paid a lot and the dangers involved in that, but dude, if he ended up, you know, that's the career path, noble job. Nothing would make me more proud if that was his passion

was to be a firefighter. Yeah, totally fine with that. Would I'd support anything he wanted to do, But that would that would kind of warm your heart in a special way if your kid ended up like really developing a true passion for that type of work. But text firefighters would love you, guys. Extra Man says each department has a wildland team that will get sent to these kinds of disasters, including the Texas Task Force. Well, I

CA in small towns it's a lot of volunteer firefighters too. Sure. Yeah. And the other thing that you've responded to another text for interesting, He said, He's from the Panhandle. My mom works for that nuclear nuclear bomb facility, lives in the Panhandle. They were on standby for evacuation and Kevin asked if he could call in and he said I can't right now. Mentioned the town of Canadian was surrounded by fires as of last night. They couldn't

even evacuate, which is really ef and scary. But he also added that pan texts that facility the only facility in the country where the bomb, where the bomb and the detonator are in the same facility. Wow, right here in Texas, Texas. My uncle just sent me an update too, he said, Uh, Uncle Craig, report live from Uncle Craig, Uncle Craig. Lots of smoke and a little ash. The only evacuations in Amroller in the northern part, and we live in the south. Closest fire was twelve

miles away though, okay, twelve miles away, that's nuts. Keep an eye on that Sitch Air tractor might get the call today. Oh are you gonna have to scramble to fly SORTI is that why you're wearing a flight suit today? Yeap, in case you're needed. Yeah, you guys didn't see the plane I put out front in the lawn. Do they do the water scoop out of a lake and don't? That's a bag? Yes, that's so cool. How is that typically a hell? That's a helicopter though,

that does that. No, they've built planes planes, and it's that they have other chemicals that they drop on too. But if you cheat it and there's a lake, we're just gonna scoop and scoop and dump. Yeah, it's on all the TV. It's amazing. It's about the big story in the It's you know, it's the big story in the world today. Yeah, stay on alert. You never know when you're gonna get the call to hop on air tractor and get out there and fight some fire. You know

what. You're our very own little master of the air, aren't you sure? Is? Look at you insisted on us installing the fire pole in here the ground floor. We all tiptoe passed. I feel like that's how we have to get off of our floor these days with all the constructions. Exactly, we guys take care of that Dalmatian while I take off. Okay, coming up next MAVs. Oh boy, it was a wild one. We've got amazing calls. It was one of the best NBA games of the year,

no doubt. Maybe ever put it and will next time. Ice haven't one. The free