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out for the week. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Some guys said he loved it, but also said, you know, maybe not every big event, or maybe not all the time. I said, only big events. Yeah, that's a special event. Sink out of my ow. Get ready more eclipse stuff at nine. I think we got some audio of how news stations handle this. Nine o'clock is going to be soil voted with fun. Yeah, it's ready. It should be good. It was amazing.
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think much of it. Yesterday in my backyard, I watched it totality immediately. Thank God for allowing me my children to experience. It. Was unreal. I think some people even and not to say this guy cynical, but I know some of us are, and maybe it serves you well in this modern world. But I was just thinking that moment, all that crab washes away and you just deep breath, and that's how it was for me.
Man. I wonder if there was also the communal aspect of it, that for four minutes at least in our area, you had upwards of I don't know millions of people all doing the exact same thing together. Yeah, I just thought about that aspect of it. I don't know if there's some some kind of connected energy or some kind of cool factor in that that, you know, with all of our differences in a world that's separated by politics and misinformation, that for one, you know, brief moment in time that only
happens in this area once every however many years. I think the next one's two hundred and ninety seven years away if you live in DFW. That for that one brief moment that we were all able to come together for a common cause, and it was. It was beautiful and peaceful and good, one quiet moment. Who COVID vital time out if you will a reset? Yeah? Yeah, the slate is white clean. We've been rebaptized by the sun and the moon, the sun god that we looked up in song Raw.
Did it make you guys want to go to North Dakota in twenty forty four or whatever? I thought about? What was it? Alaska? So there's Alaska. But they're saying, don't come around here. Well, it's just tough because the cloud the high risk of clouds always in Alaska. Well, there's other options too. We might get into some of those later. Another another great text that I thought. I mean, I don't know if you read this one, Mikey, We're just gonna pretend like Kevo didn't just say
that he eats peanut butter sandwiches with no jelly. Yeah. I don't like jelly. It's too sweet. But you said you like the fluffer Nutter. I love the fluffer nutter and that's marshmallow, right, yeah, and that's sweet. Yeah, there's way more sweetness than jelly, unless you get sugar free jelly, which I can tell you is disgusting. So you like a sandwich with peanut butter and marshmallow. Oh yeah, it's number one. It's your number one. The fluffer Nutter game. My year soda was a year
of fluffer nutter and it's good. Yeah, peanut butter and marshmallows. That good October treat. Do you melt the marshmallows or they're just all sponge little sponges of the spread, Oh, the marshmallow spread. When you say once a year and you mean once a month, no, it's a year. Okay. So you have a jar that you have a jar that crap in your fridge and you just use it once a year. What do you do with it? You throw it away afterwards because it can't be good after you
you're still in my cabinet. Yeah, now I don't put it in the fridge. Marshmallow lasts over a year in a cabinet. You like bread, I don't know, but it's still in there from last time. I don't know. Those are the questions everyone's asking themselves. Is marshmallows still good after a year and a cabinet? If you nasty bit can knock the fluffer nutter if you want. I'm just saying, much like the eclipse, let it take over your body. Minutes a fluffer nutter changes your life. And when
the room get it's darker. As you bite into that fluffer nutder, you look around and go, this is the world really is bigger than me. Fluff nut ke seems like the kind of guy that would have the peanut butter and jelly combo in a jar. You know, remember that invention from thee I just don't like jelly that much. I don't like jelly. I don't like jello. A little thin smear of grape or of strawberry preserves peanut butter jelly. If you put jelly on bagels too, sometimes you see that horrible
not on bagels. English muffins fine, but not bagel. Has never been a jelly fan my whole life. I realized you didn't invent the fluff nutter. It is a popular thing, but I I've never tried it, and I have no worge to do. So JJ, how'd you take in the eclipse at home? Yeah? Yeah, I was like, huh, alright, Okay, it was cool because I want a different communities treat outdoor and celestial events differently by different communities. Do you mean the African American if that's
what you're saying, No, he met walks of hatchees. Yeah, the community of the community at the community. Well, I have a very good friend Donovan, who famously doesn't really care about things that happen outside, doesn't want to go look at animals or celestial events. I did appreciate the TikTok jokes afterwards, of like making fun of cheap glasses that were used and all that stuff having pretty funny. But yeah, I like, I didn't.
Honestly, I couldn't. I was like, oh, it's coming up because it was getting darker, and so I was like, okay, and then just watch everything go pitch black and all the street lights come on. You're like, oh, okay, that's actually pretty cool. You didn't have a moment of clarity when it went full and a deep breath and a reset of your life and existence. No, I watch a little on Instagram Live. Then I was like, this is cool. What do you watch on it?
You had insta Instagram Live. Yeah, I'm supporting. Did you go out with your he says nephews, Like, no, I didn't. It was crazy because walks out you was actually out of school. Wait, so were they? Yeah? They were. I'm assuming they're at home, oh, because I don't know if they experienced it. I don't know if they
experienced it, but but you think they may have just stayed inside. No, they probably went out because I was under that anyone who just I think for families and kids like something like this is cool, like real cool to experience with your family. But you know, I'm just like, okay, cool. I don't know. I'm not big with it, like with something like that. White people love the eclipse. Maybe that's watch the eclipse and go back inside and start up the wire. I literally went back to bed
because it was in the middle of my nap. But you well, I was like laying in bed on my phone about to go to sleep, and I thought, I was, oh my god, the eclips a couple of minutes. Why not you almost leapt through almost I was wondering how many people
napped through the eclipse, but he had to work too. Like like I was like, I went to the store last night and I was like, all, if these people get to go outside, like they're a cashier that a store, Yeah, they allowed to go outside and take in this ten minutes. Check this out. So the mail after totality happened, the sun started, you know, coming back, and the world became light again.
My mailman letter carrier was just arriving at our house and Malcolm and I are out in the front yard and he was on the phone and he and he stopped to have a conversation. He's a great dude, so we kind of talking about it a little bit, and he told me that the directive was given by his bosses. Hey, when the eclipse happens, we want you guys to keep working, don't stop and you know, don't stop your route, just to stare at the sun for ten minutes. And he said,
yeah, like any of us were going to do that. No, he goes, when that thing happened, I was standing out on somebody's front yard. He had his glasses and everything. Yeah, it was like, good for you, dude, and we kind of connected on that. It was kind of you know, it was dude, everybody that I've talked to and all everything that I've heard, all the posts that I've seen, it was a really unique experience. I just don't know how else to describe it.
And probably people are I bet there are cynical people listening to us right now, going you guys shut up about the stupid eclipse. Yeah, probably probably, but they don't have love in their hearts like we do. I'll never forget it. And there was almost no cars that were going by, including over the arts. But I did see mail or mailman. I saw Amazon truck, I saw some other Yeah, like three delivery vehicles were staying on the move, and I did see one, yeah truck Amazon guy. I
don't know. It wasn't during totality. Yeah, he got out and delivered something and ran back in his truck and kept moving. When Amazon driver Joe big A right, like how the lights it was at during the eclipse, and so those of course I like come on his color at night on movement. It was, Yeah, that's pretty interesting to see like like one o'clock in the afternoon it's it's black. Oh my god. Yes, yeah, but that's so weird. That they were told, hey, you have a
job to do, keep keep moving. And I had the glasses. I was going to offer him to the male guy if he came by, like to take a look. Enjoyed this for one second, but that nerd ass boss said, hey, you stay on the move, especially at Amazon and the track. You're pretty good there. Get to your phil I noticed that you thtopped for three minutes, no motion whatsoever. You're off and fired.
Yeah, maybe you no longer work at Amazon. It's mind blowing. I have more like a little news round up of some things that had happened. Both of the presidents definitely took some shots at each other. It was pretty good. During the eclipse. Oh yeah, we had some some barbing back and forth. We get some barbin um. And the eye thing is a big deal right now. And if you're experiencing a little blurred vision, maybe some dark spots, I'll tell you what you need to do at seven thirty
five. Or if you're absolutely screwed, that's a seven thirty five. Do you ice hurd bikey? Uh no. My neck hurts a little bit and neck pain is also a possibility. But I would be the number one target. I think. Someone said, my granddaughter words at Cheddars, and the eclipse happened. They all went outside, met the Chick fil A employees next door. They all watched the eclipse together, all right, So yeah, look at that Cheddars and Chick fil A coming together. Yeah, two great
tastes I mean pushed into one, hated rivals. Yeah. Another guy said, I was in a Chick fil A. Everyone left and I emptied out both registers. No, no pushback, what's no pushback? It just happened to stole a bag. A chicken sandwich is spicy. Hmmm. We do have crimes committed during the eclipse. We do. It's seven. Come on, boy, what about your work in the grill at Chick fil A or or what do you do? You know, like they couldn't go out. We don't realize how lucky we are that this was in our lap, in
our path. That's another thing, okay, like to be a cynical, to be cynical or jaded about it, like, okay, well this could have been Oklahoma cities. No, this was ours. It was for us. Don't take it for granted. That's why we get bad weather, That's why we get bad things. That happened during some events Eye Storm yesterday, I ended up working out the clouds cleared out in most places. There are still a lot of places who didn't see it due because they were getting screwed.
I'll tell you this real quick. I thought that the the intermittent cloud coverage kind of added to the drama of it all, is this gonna happen or not? Like if we had had perfectly blue skies, all right, and you're just staring at this one thing and it's happening and it's clear and it's perfect. I kind of equate it to when you open up your favorite adult video site and you just go right into the hardcore. I don't know.
I think that I think that were guys that like a little uh, you know, I want you to reveal a little under booth and then tease me and push it back down, you know. Then I want to see the drop, yeah, and then the full tea drop. It was kind of like a tease and you had to kind of work for it, and it added to the drama of it. I don't know magical, and I have no magic. It's not for sports. At seven let's go and now sports, we have a big viewing night tonight. We have MAVs at six.
You'll get your w FAA of that coverage of that if you like, or you can hear it here on ninety seven to one the Freak pregame at five thirty. I'm ready MAVs, Hornets at six, Rangers, A's at seven, Stars, Sabers at seven. We got a three for tonight, full slate, a triple header. I watched zero, well, I say zero. I would paid no attention to any basketball last night. The college basketball game, the championship, no bit. I flipped it over. I
was surprised that it wasn't on CBS. It was on like TBS and TNT and through TV. But they wiped the NBA out on that night. So you know, the college basketball can get their shine. That's nice of them. I do know that Connecticut won, and I do know that the men and women's team are the first to ever go back to back as national championships. Yukon H So that's the only school that has a chance to win every year, Yukon. I just realized I didn't see one shining moment for the
first time in a long time. I usually like one shining moment the Little Guys I w I never I always thought the song was just so corny. Really, I mean, yes, it's course same thing. You can enjoy things. This night's corny. No, No, I think I get topped skin rid of a song called one Curse of Nolan one time about the Rangers. Well, one Curse of Nolan will destroy this whole team. One Curse of Nolan will poop on our dreams? Is that what I miss is me?
And again my old buddy Donovan, who sang one Ailing Norman. It's a catchy song. I guess I don't know one Ailing Norman. Here's all these highlights of Cod and Mary his wife, Mary grips the sigh and nd Jesus so dark he laughed, he cracked up when we played it. Anyway, go Huskies, Yeah, I guess I would over three next year. A bit of the Rangers I watched was they got five runs in the first innings. That should be enough. Yeah, turn it off. Wasn't enough.
Bad things then happened. Heeney gave up a BUTTL load. It was just rough. So they end up using they tie the series at the Astros, so we don't get the silver boot. But it didn't lose it either. We get a chance at redemption on Friday as we begin a three game set with them on the road in Houston, where we will have an undeniable champion of the first seven games of the year, and if we get the boot, we can bring it home. We get Oakland. You are what's
going on with Oakland? This is insane to me. They're moving their ballpark this year. This is happening to Sacramento. They're not moving their ballpark. Well no, I'm sorry, Yeah, a good point. They're their team. That would be weird. We're moving the whole thing four billion dollars. That's the reason they're leaving is because they hate their ballpark so much. They're moving to Sacramento to a minor league ballpark that holds ten thousand people. I
kind of love this. And they're doing it from twenty five until twenty eight. I think because the Vegas move's not happening or is not ready to go. They're going to play in a ten thousand seat park for three years in Sacramento. Dude, and there one of our division rivals. Well, they're one of the teams in our division. You're like, God, I gotta go to that minor league park and play, but they hate it. There's
the amenities would be trash compared to what you're used to. Of course, now, if i'm the other teams in baseball, I'm like, if they're not gonna be serious, let's just get rid of them. Like they're they're trying to lose games too. I mean, it does not look like they're trying to win. It's really ridiculous that that's happening. So do we know where they're building that park in Vegas? Is that going to be Strip Boy too? They fully know that they're going to Vegas. I don't think it's
done. Oh really yeah, that's my understanding without reading a deep article on it or anything. What is the point I Jeff passed on ESPN talking about the other day and he was like, so that they're going to the Sacramento He's almost like shaking his head like that. It is the point of them going to Sacramento. Their fans don't want them there. They don't go to
the games. Now, they're like three thousand people go to their games, and they've already like announced that they're leaving officially or no, yes, they signed a deal to go to Sacramento next year. Okay, but Vegas. So but Vegas. The Vegas deal I don't think is done. I think it's all just talked about. I don't think that's done. So they're just lame ducks and a team that doesn't care anyway and maybe trying to lose. So weird. Yeah, that's very odd. It's very strange. Uh I
see, maybe it's for a later date. But I was just thinking, I mean, okay, fine, we're not going to get the a's here, but we just moved into what the fourth spot for the Metroplex, Like, I think we're the fourth biggest market now. I mean New York has two, LA has two. Okay, Eric Johnson, let's go, and Chicago has two. Let's go. I mean, it's not insane. Are you creating audio clickbait Mikey he's trying to swing the election. Are you going
to bring the chiefs in town to well? No, okay, laugh about it, but why it's not insane that the Metroplex would have a second baseball team. I don't know about a second football team. That seems like a bit much, but well probably yeah, Houston counts as that for us Chicago doesn't have that other team in there. New York. Houston's five hours away, I know, but it's still a part of our Like the areas have
ten teams within five hours. Yeah, I know, I'm saying right now to talk about and yeah, whenever Eric Johnson talks about it's like, yeah, sure, guy, but the three in front of us all have two. And it's just crazy to think it's not crazy to think it shouldn't be. So I don't know that if the A's in Vegas is not a done deal, and I don't think that it's even been discussed. But yes, a brand new, badass future dome and Frisco before Worth get on it,
and a second baseball team Frisco get on it. If there's no way Fort Worth would embrace any team other than the Rangers, you'd have to go to Frisco. Dallas could have done it. Dallas could have done it. How far is Arlington actively talking about building a new ballpark in downtown forty Frisco's Frisco Frisco we know is big enough, but to the masses, I don't know.
Probably it is, but bigger than like Kansas City. And you're right though, it's not crazy to talk about it's not right, but but the Rangers are the eight one sevens team predicted No way A's are predicted to open up uh at the side of the Tropicana on Las Vegas Strip, and it's not predicted of until twenty twenty eight. In fact, last weekend was the last weekend at the Tropicana. So the hotel so a dump I've not stay troupe. There's some dumpers down there. I have one what fifteen second clip
I have to play for you today. All right? This aired on c W over the weekend. It's a lift tour coverage. Here's noted hothead Tyarll Hatton. Okay, he hits a T shot. Oh yeah, this is amazing. I can reach though straights, con it mostan bounce that it's fine. Could you hear what you think? He said? A lot of fs? Yeah, and the last one, No, it was a double of the worst. It was a C word. Are you serious? Was it f C? Yes? Hard FC? Was that? The announcer going,
I can reach the straights, con it most wank bounce. It's fine, that's awesome. He is a rally. Do you have the un all right? I don't want to hear that in the break. What a wank bounce that one. Please tell me that you're going to incorporate that in your golf vernacular. What a wank bounced that. There's sports beautiful coming up, keV. We'll have master stuff for you tomorrow, Kevin, coming up next? Your eyes hurting? Did you look up at the sun? Did you?
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