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o'clock. Season one. Winner of the Floor got a chance to win Burt Kreischer tickets at nine thirty, before we get to the most important thing in the world, an update on the wildfires. Danny, you left us with the riveting teas. Dude, what is this thing that you've discovered? Okay, so I I know I've told you guys about the HBO show Tokyovice, and I don't know if either one of you have jumped on board. They started their second season just a couple three four weeks ago, something like that.
Nover you mentioning the title is all I remember, though I don't know anything else. And that's the thing. It's like the title kind of makes you think, oh, this is some car race movie or something. I'm not interested, saying like a Don Johnson reboot. Yeah, it's not that at all, And this isn't the show that I want to talk about,
but I'll be real quick on that one. It's wonderful. They started their second season on Max, HBO, Max, whatever you want to call it, and it's basically a story about an American, a very young American journalist. This guy that moves from Middle America and he moves to Tokyo, Japan, and he's trying to make his way in the world of journalism there.
He's fluent in Japanese and he gets a job, lands a job at a local newspaper, and because he's such a good reporter investigator, he gets kind of entwined with a lot of the criminal element that goes on in the underworld of Japan as he's reporting on some of these stories and becomes friends with a local police officer and is the tentacles of that organized crime situation that in Tokyo.
And it's really really well done, beautiful to watch, and it's gritty and it's crime, and it's the stuff that we all have been liking for the last twenty years. Thank you, Sopranos. So I finished I got caught up on the most recent episode of that, and I've been seeing this other show promoted on HBO now and it's always kind of at the top, you know, and it's things that you will like. And somebody on our tech stapp tip me off on this too. It's kind of like reconfirmed that
maybe I need to watch this. And the show in question is a television show on HBO called Warrior. Again. The poster for the show, or the graphics that they use to promote this show and the name of the show makes it sound terrible, all right, as a bad poster. It is not terrible. In fact, it may be one of the most inner fun television series that I have seen, maybe since Breaking Bad wo And I'm not kidding, this is excellent. Let me give you a setup. It is
the late nineteenth century in San Francisco. Basically the story centers in the heart of Chinatown, where you have a lot of people immigrating from China into San Francisco. You have a lot of Chinese people that are a little bit older that had worked on the railroads, okay, and working on tunneling and all the railroad work, and they all end up in San Francisco. So there's this massive Chinese community in San Francisco, and of course when you get people
that are the racism in this movie is unbelievable. The way that those people, those folks were treated back then and marginalized and dehumanized is unbelievable. And what you end up doing is, look, you gotta hustle, you gotta find ways to eat, you gotta make a living, and you end up getting these separate factions of gangs that are scheming, that are hustling, that
are organizing crimes to commit. And take that setting, and an immigrant from China who his sole purpose was to come to America, to San Francisco to find his sister who had, under precarious reasons, had ended up in San Francisco. His whole mission is to come over here and find her, all right, then he ends up getting involved with one of the gangs. They don't call him gangs, they call him something different in the show. But anyway, that being said, that's kind of like you're set up. But
this show is spaghetti Western. It is intentionally slightly campy, not dumb, like not dumb campy, there's just a little element of camp to it. There's an element of of silly dialogue and a very small element of bad acting. And I'm putting I'm doing finger quotes because it's very well acted. It's like really good actors intentionally trying to be kind of spaghetti westerns a little smirk to it. But dude, it has everything that you want. It has
crime, it has it's got a Western feel to it. But ultimate, the ultimate thing about it, there is so much badass kung fu in this thing, like so much martial arts, bad karate movie. Dude, it is phenomenal. It's well written. I'm seven episodes through of season one. Yeah, season one, there's three seasons. Are there burgers and airplanes? There's no burgers. Maybe there's burgers, but there are no airplanes. But I kind of connect this to Deadwood. We all like Deadwood, right,
Okay, It's got a very deadwood feel to it. You know, the streets are dirty, the the the buildings and the structures are all made of wood and kind of slapped together. The set's incredible, but it has a deadwood in the heart of San Francisco feel. And this dude that plays the main character is so badass, and I didn't know this until the weekend. But apparently this whole concept and the stories were written by none other than Bruce ef Fing Lee, whoa when he was alive, he had the concept for
this show all right. He came up with the original concept and the treatment of this show. It was inspired by Bruce Lee, and it's executively co produced by his daughter, Shannon Lee Cool. And the guy that plays the main character is about as Bruce Lee as you can get. But it's funny, it's it's it's ry, it's witty. The fight scenes are incredible,
it's very graphic, and the stories are excellent. There's one one one episode is dedicated to the the fake Bruce Lee character and his buddy who worked for this gang for them to deliver a body, uh that had that had one of their leaders had had died or one of their gang members had died, and they were supposed to deliver this body across some into Nevada and they end up having to spend the night in this hotel in the middle of nowhere,
and them, in very Clint Eastwood fashion, have to defend the city and teach the city to defend against these bad gangsters that are trying to steal all the gold. But it is so much fun and it's addictive, and I ran through freaking seven episodes over the weekend and I could not wait to tell you guys about this. But it's Warrior. It's on HBO, and it is an absolute blast to watch. Warrior Warrior Max on the Tomato meter from
critics, yeah, ninety six percent for ADI. It's IMDb has an eight point four out of ten, so it is widely appreciated, very very good. I can't wait to watch another one tonight. I don't know if we got MAVs, but if we. If we don't, you're gonna get down on some Warrior tonight. Okay. And Showgun's great too. Show Gun is getting still really good. Yeah, we're raving reviews. I actually liked episode one. You started no Showgun, you know, Okay, Yeah, Showgun's
phenomenal FX. You can watch it on Hulu. And then obviously Tokyovice I talked about that a couple of times, and that's on HBO two. So yeah, it seems like my interest have moved from the UK in Scotland and Ireland, all that shifted all the way over to China and Japan. So there's some good stuff out there to watch on TV, and you know, it's a kind of a bad sports time. There's really not a lot going on unless you have a big MAVs or starspan when things will ramp up here
in a few weeks. But there's your TV review, thank you. Only one man in the metroplex can tell us about the hit TV show Warrior and then transition into a wildfire update. It's Dandy Bayliss, but the most important thing in the world. Oh wow, fallss. He's the only one that could do it, Mike. I know I couldn't. I don't even try. It's like, he's spectacular to see you do it, so I'm a little jealous. It's just like a came that is on a leaf and then
it jumps to the bark portion of the tree. You know. I could forward you the article and you could basically read it, which is all I'm gonna do. There's really no skill involved here. You can train a crocodile to do this. I'm your secrets, all right. This article that I have in front of me gives us an update on what I still think is the most important thing in the world, and that would be the Panhandle.
The Texas Panhandle wildfires, they are still going strong. It is now the largest wildfire in our state's history and strong winds spreading flame All day yesterday we had at least one evacuation. Airplanes are dropping fire retardant over all over the Panhandle. Firefighters are working NonStop to stop this largest fire in state history, and we're learning now. I think on Thursday, my last day last week,
we had about three percent of it contained. We've gone up to fifteen percent of this giant Smokehouse Creek fire contained, which has burned well over one million acres. Not only that, there are two other fires that are separate from this that have burned a combined one hundred and eighty thousand acres. Those fires, fortunately have been sixty percent contained. We still don't know what has ignited these fires, but strong winds, dry grass, and unseasonably warm temperatures
fed the blazes. Let's keep something in mind. California. California is dealing with the most biggest ass blizzard like conditions that that state has ever seen. Certain parts of that state. Texas is dealing with massive wildfires due to heat and dry land. It is winter with that area got sleep. It is
on Friday, effing winter and we're dealing with wildfires. This isn't something happening in August in the Panhandle when you would expect it to, when there's no rain and all those crops out there have just been being beaten into the most dry possible conditions imaginable. But it's barely March and we're dealing with the largest wildfire in Texas history. Well, it's crazy to me that, like I thought, I thought it would almost be extinguished. But I have underestimated things.
I don't know as much, just because they got cold weather on Friday and precipitation, But it wasn't as widespread up in the northern parts of the fire that kind of I expected because it's down into that Oklahoma area. It is, but the largest portion of that built into It's crazy.'s really yeah, that coming here? Uh No, they didn't make it. We got that's where we got the groppol Oh. Okay. We only have two people dead from this, which I guess is a minor good thing for the
size of this bad boy. Yeah, I'm on CNN, though, it's just as two people are dead. Truck driver Cindy Owen was working about fifty miles north of Pampa, Texas on Tuesday when the smokehous fire creek overcame her. She left her truck, tried running for safety, but received fatal burns over almost her entire body. Can you imagine. I mean that's a sentence I just read, but can you imagine that scene. You're in your truck and then you're just no recourse and then I'm gonna run. Oh, It's
terrifying. One of the kind of subheadings out of this whole thing that that kind of gets lost. We focus on the number of acres that are burned, We focus on the people that have their homes, the people that unfortunately have passed away died as a result of this. But man, something that could have long term lasting effects is the cattle industry. That's a big,
big area for cattle out there. And there's so many stories about ranchers that are coming out that are kind of they're detailing their experience and what has happened. There's one this one guy we mentioned last week the city of Canadian, Texas, and there's a fifty six year old farmer that has a ranch out nearer Canadian Texas and he talked about seeing the enormous wildfire approaching the ranch that he manages. He said, his first concern wasn't his home, it was
his animals. You know a lot of these ranchers, you know, cut their barber fences so their cattle aren't stuck there just to burn to death. At least give them half a chance. And he said once he returned after the fire had kind of ravaged through a portion of his ranch, fifty cattle dead, nursing cows desperately searching for their lost calves, and a lot of
them injured, still alive that had to be put down. It's just a mess out there, and it looks like our beef production situation, maybe our even our dairy production, depending on how much milk cows are out in there area too. It could have long term economic impacts. We could have a beef shortage. You know, we hear all the time when we talk to
our brisket buddies. You know, we have a lot of people that a lot of friends of the station that are in that industry that talk about the price of a beef that it's just so damn expensive and they can't absorb all of that costs they have to pass it on. So that's why when you go get barbecue a lot of times it's like whoa, hey, but that's everything. It's everything, but still but still, that's going to directly impact that world. Between ay percent of the nation's beef supply comes from the Texas
Panhandle. There you go, it's going to be a chicken summer then huh yeah, a chicken summer transition into chickens. Yeah. The state is home to about four point one million beef cattle, and more than eighty five percent of those Panhandle. Yeah, fifteen percent of our of our four point one million beef cattle in this state are somewhere other than the Panhandle. They already had that, you know, they were just recovering from that explosion at that
one plant too. A double whammy if I've ever heard of one. I think the pork meat people are excited about this. Yeah. Yeah, they're saying there's no grass out there. Now, there's no water for the livestock. As one rancher says, we've lost over three thousand head, which he says is a very small number. So you think about the enormity of this industry. Wait, three thousand head, three thousand head. He said, this is a very small number. Somebody said that's going to double a triple
easily. We've got cattle we're going to have to euthanize because the damage to their hoofs. Their utterers were just going to have to put them down as a bad question. Please, is one head one cow? Yes? I gotta thank you. But what if a head was one hundred and they just it's the way they talk that makes sense. One head could be ten or one hundred. Now there. I have seen the phenomenon of the two headed cow. Yeah, that, but that still counts as one head because it's
just one cow. Are you sure? I think I think that's two heads. I think it's two heads one brisket. It is one brisket. Yeah, so it's going to count as one cow. How about cows with two brisket? Try to get your grandma to watch that video two heads, one brisket. The reaction to that audio turn that off? Is there one brisket per cow? I think you guys, I'm from Florida. I have seen this before, Like, we don't do this. They have the maps like where you can I mean the map? Yes, I've been here. I've
been in the hallway near a bathroom at a barbecue place. I've seen the mass that is where they showing the cow map. Here's what you're eating the cow. Well, Danny, thank you for the update. Man. Let's do birthdays right. Unless you're done, you have more. I mean, it's just bad. It's just still fires, lots of dead cows, people are dying, and it's spreading to Oklahoma. They've got red red flag alerts for a number of other states that are that are directly north of us.
So, you know, fifteen percent contained. But well that's rain tonight at least here, So that would mean that it would be a couple of days next to today and then later in the week there's more chances of raine.
So that is what we need. It just it just goes to show that as much as as we feel as a society that we you know, have evolved and we're very technology technological, and we have all these advancements and everything, that the end of the day, how how reliant we are on just the natural evolution and mother nature to kind of dictate our existences and farm yeah, and farms too in our cement towers but hearing what these people out there
are dealing with when when they're look, we have a problem. Now, if a microphone buzzes, you call somebody to fix it. Yeah, you know, if you're if you're if your air conditioning bill is three thousand dollars, you call reliant. You know. If you want a delicious pizza, you pick up the phone, or you go to Andrew's American Pizza Can. It's very simple. You don't have to ask. You have to wait for nature to form you a pizza and put it in your car. These people
out there, well, we're just praying for rain. I mean it sounds like something out of the eighteen hundreds. So we think we're all advanced and we're evolved and we're we're just this mature nation. No, man, we're all winging it. We're all winging it. And when it just comes down, we don't even know we're winging it. No, we think we're thin. We got to figure it out. I think we are so effing smart. We're winging it and we're not. Absolutely everyone. What if it is
some jackass that just threw a cigarette, It doesn't matter. It could have been an errant lightning, a dry lightning strike. Some of these are preventable. Though, if it was that they do find out, and they won't, they still don't know that it was a guy who's to a butt out, then that's on us, and we deserve it. I don't deserve it. I mean these things have been going on for hundreds of years. I mean that's the planes, it's grass, it's dry, We've had look unseasably
warm temperatures. It starts with you, though, all right, you're just trying to start with you. He's trying to work in some whatever sex bear joke that he wants to make. He's transitioning. Well, his story is transitioning. Yes, I'm not. Yeah, anyway, I'm just making the point that, look, mother nature is going to do what Mother nature going to do, no matter no matter how many conveniences you think you have at your fingertips, right, Kevin, All right, to take that, Kevin,
and you can save your stupid birthdays for later. No, I'm doing them now because we're giving away Burt Kreischer tickets at nine thirty five and the very and the very fun game that Collers can play. What is Smiley Hoffman's catchphrase? His clutch phrase. Actually, boy, crutch phrase crutch. That's what I wanted. And it's just like on the fly. Now I'm frustrated. Draymond Green's twenty eight. See even Kevin's winging it. He's twenty eight.
Well he's not. He said thirty nine or something. He's not thirty nine twenty eight, he's thirty four. Okay, Okay, that's different. That's what I meant from twenty eighteen. Nick Castiano's just thirty two. All right, something bad just happened. There's some horses loose on I ninety on that TV, and it's hilarious. Look at that thing. That's incredible. I love just top stories horses on I nine. That's in Ohio. Look at him. Go that's not even Texas. Those look like real badass horses.
Took the wrong way. This isn't this isn't London horse. But there are two of them. It's it's rained a little bit, so you can tell they're kind of slipping a little bit. There's no roundabouts in Ohio. Yeah, okay, And then we go to Dak Prescott's go tea t is the other big news of the day. Michael Gallups thirty four Kim Jong UN's fifty. Really, yes, fifty, Margaritas are not gay. He's shot eighteen today. Shut in eighteen is Pebble Beach fifty. That's the weirdest score.
Chas Bono fifty five and it was the first time he'd ever played right. Paul W. S Anderson is fifty nine. The filmmaker, the director. Yes, okay, there's one for Mike right here. Stephen Webber sixty three. Stephen Webber a professional bowler. No, pete brother, Stephen Webber actor? Do you know who I'm talking name? No? I'm just like, ye, you really are? I have no idea. He was the ga. I was going to say, the guy that invented the barbecue grill,
but he's too young. That's a reference. He was in Wings. Oh okay, this was for Mike the Great Wings. Was that a show about airplanes? Yeah? Yes, they're kind of the story of air tractor airport. Yeah boom boom man. Yeah, he killed somebody, didn't her? What was his name? So Kwan and Duck Kim, Yeah, Duck Duck Kim Kim Kwong. No, he's right that he's close. Hey, you don't want to know what's funny stuck Kim duck Ku Kim speak speaking to
ducks. That's the racial slur that the Chinese had for white people back in back. They used that all the time in Warrior. Yeah, they hate the white the white man. They call us ducks. O hey, quackers. Okay, that's pretty good. Look, that's pretty good. Kevin pre pill Kevin, that's pretty good. Yeah, we're about to take it early today. No, no, no, no, you know that thing out the window. Kathrine O'Hair seventy, Rick Perry seventy beautiful, Catherine o hera
love take this. Bobby will Mack would have been eighty. That's the great Bobby. I have a couple of things from I know no one wants to hear Jerry Jones talk, but you guys need to hear one sentence but he said, it's insane. I'm trying to figure out what the hell he's saying and the words permitted. It's just a horrible ratio. It's nuts. Plus, Travis Kelcey talks about his meeting with the cowboys. Yeap, it's pretty funny. I heard this. Uh he should have been a cowboy, but
he didn't get to. And we're losing a Cowboys legend. Are we gonna do that all? Right? Now? Let's do it all next? Yeah? Where on ninety seven won the Freak the Home of Kevin Kevin at seven