All right, good morning everyone, got down meet your comedy first responders. Yeah, a movie tonight, Step Brothers the Albamo Drafts House in the Cedars, tickets ninety seven one. The freak dot Com Today's weird one woke up to breaking news that a huge bridge collapsed in Baltimore, the Francis Scott Key Bridge get hit by a ship and it is gone and it's shocking. If you see the video, this happened overnight. You guys what sel videos? You guys sell video? Is this right? Yes? Gosh, they still
don't have the microphone button there it is. You have to finger at like seven times before it turns red. And I'm like, who did the knatty over there to make it so sticky? It wasn't me. I know. You guys keep a close eye on me to make sure I'm not doing the naughty during the show, because that was a bit of an issue when we
first started. I'm impossibly horning at six am, so tough. The blood's still there from the rush overnight, but I have to press my button twenty five times to turn it on. And as a comedy first spawner, sometimes my my jokes are just you know, like timing is everything based, and then it's like twelve seconds later, you've been robbed. H. No, I haven't seen the video yet, but I will watch it. Uh, well, there you go. We got it up on them. Yeah,
I got livestream pulled up over there. Freight shipping. Freight I blinked it thinks so and container ship is thank you. It was a ship out of Singapore. Ah, dunt dun duh. The Baltimore Police have pretty much made
it clear there's no indication that the ship intentionally hit the bridge. I have read a couple conflicting reports, one of them that the roads were blocked off because they were doing construction on the bridge when the ship hit it and knocked it all the way knocked, I mean knocked it down, but that you know it was construction workers who were on the bridge at the time. Yes, if you if you watch or if you haven't seen the video, if
you're just waking up to this, it's uh, it's pretty incredible. Because rescue workers in Baltimore right now are they say they're only searching for about seven people. They'd found two. Yeah, they found two alive. A major bridge in the port was struck by a container ship at about one point thirty this morning. It's an active search and rescue situation. The number of people missing could change, and as Kevin said, two people have been saved from
the water so far. And the video shows the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. This bridge is one point six miles long. It's a four lane bridge hit by a shipping container and like Kevin said, most if not all, of the cars that were on the bridge that went into the water were of people that were working on the bridge because it was shut down for
construction, I believe. And you can see when the bridge collapses. What happens is I don't know how or why this shipping container was that close to one of the support columns that holds up this bridge, because there's no way it can go through it. It's way too tall to go under it. There's no opening in the bridge. You know how they'll kind of draw the things up and and allow the ship to pass. That's not even in play
here that the ship was dangerously closed. It hits one of those support columns and the thing just collapses and you see cars that go into the water along with the bridge and all of their hazard lights are on, so to me, that's an employee. Somebody works there, a construction worker that you know, this is where I'm parked. But yeah, there are as many as
seven people are missing right now that they're searching for in the water. Conditions unsafe for rescuers due to objects hanging from the structure because that thing is freshly collapsed and you don't know how stable the crap hanging off that thing is.
There's freezing conditions in Baltimore right now. They say that the water when you get in it, it feels like about thirty degrees or lower, and body heat escapes much faster in water than it does on dry land in cold conditions, and they said the window of survivability for something like this in those temperatures
is probably a max of about three hours. And the recent report that I saw there was live coverage that a spokesperson from it was either police or fire, said that they are now at the point where it's more of a recovery mission, that it's it would be miraculous for someone to survive in the water for that long. So I saw that this is going to absolutely make traffic a complete mess for a long time now. Over there. That took them years to build that bridge. And also I think it it opened in the
seventies. I think seventy seven, I believe is when the bridge was christened. You watch the like the live stream or the time lapse video from far away, you'll go, oh my god, a ship hit a bridge and then the bridge went away. Okay, but it doesn't give you a good angle to show you how high up that's two hundred feet up in the air. Yeah, I think one. Yeah, it's it's not a small fall, clearly on a bridge, but like when you see the video, it
does look like smaller. That was a huge bridge. Yeah. It extends over the Patapsco River and serves the outermost crossing of the Baltimore Harbor. And from my understanding, this is a pretty essential link of I six ninety five. And I was reading somewhere that it's in the top ten of UH one of our most trafficked ports, ninth biggest in the US for Internet cargo geez, fifty two million tons valued at eighty billion dollars. That was just last
year, right, yeah, wow. And it says it's a cruise terminal this port. The port ranked first in the US for autos and light trucks. What does that mean? Hands handling a record eight hundred and fifty thousand vehicles, Oh man uh leading port for farming and construction machinery, as well as imported sugar and gypsum. So, Kevin, you're not going to get your gypsum. Well, there's one TV guy in Baltimore who's taken in the
shorts online for talking about Amazon and new cars. It's like, well, they're trying to look for the construction workers who are in the water right now, and stead worried about the because there's an Amazon apparently on one side of it. Nearby there's an Amazon warehouse that does a lot of shipping and the like, Hey, can we maybe focus on the people first rather than the gypsum? Your gypsum. That's why I wouldn't. I wasn't making a gypsum
joke this morning, Kevin. You would never, Ken Kevin. Fortunately he stocked up on his gypsum supply last week. Yeah, I got ahead of it. Yeah, it's not gonna affect me down here. Fortuitous of you unless a bridge went down here, And speaking of which I might need to talk to you after the show. See if I could maybe borrow some gypsum. Yeah, sure, just give me a couple of handfuls. He's gonna
bring some in. I need it. I have it. Seven the uh the new presidential candidate named literally anybody else calling in which this is not a joke. This is not a joke. That's his name. His name is now literally anybody else. And when I talked to him last night, he saided like a guy who needed a campaign manager because he was a little scattered with how many interviews he's doing TV today? He asked me first, he goes, can we move it to Wednesday? And I said, well,
I would like to get you right now. Said I don't have any guarantees you're going to be available on Wednesday. This story is spreading like wildfire. And he said, you're right. I said, have you done any other radio in Dallas? He said no. I said, all right, then jump on with us tomorrow. Make it happen. He's a school teacher. It's a day job. Where is he for real? Uh? North Richmond Hills? Wow? Okay, and you know, a real presidential candidate?
But he does. He teaches during the day and he governs at night. Governs at night no sleep. You know, we I think we can all assume that Donald and Joe are getting sleep. They're sleeping a lot one of them. One of them has the nickname Sleepy m but the other one gave him that. Yeah, that's where that council was an official nickname. Look at that, Mikey, I keep looking after its brutal starts. Yeah,
that's that's it. It looks like God, you ever seen videos, you know, I know you like your your AI speed crash videos at three hundred miles an hour. You ever look at the bridge construction time lapse? Well? No, like the basically a bridge construction simulator videos. You know, I want to see where you send me some Well, there's a game where you play where you try to learn how to make bridges, because the bridge
is pretty fascinating. You know, like what what different techniques work? You know, where you need support beams and you know some of them, God, I'm not ready for this conversation. But the freestanding you know, like the support beams are way pillars. I don't know, but some of I mean, it's all about perfect engineering that creates a bridge. And there's techniques that use or that work and some that you'd think would work and don't work.
So anyway, there's a bridge can truction simulator game that. Yeah, it's pretty educational I think, and pretty interesting. It does, yeah, because when you look at them, there's a deep level of physics, right that goes into the kind of defies general understanding of well, how is that long stretch just not supported? Well, it all works and they know how to make it work, right, we don't because we're stupid. We're stupid, Kevin, you're stupid. Did you know this? Oh? Yeah,
absolutely you're not. Not only are you stupid, you're also hopped up on gypsum and you're just not being productive to DFW. Well, I mean, like take large Marge, Right, it's pretty, but there's those big towers with all those beautiful yeah, metallic ropes coming down. I think it's a suspension bridge. I'm not sure. But all those cables serve a purpose, yes, not other than just being illuminated and look pretty. That's what makes
it work. And the wait distribution has to be at a perfect angle and all that. I don't understand it. Well. I went to one semester of college and I was put on interscholastic probation. So basically, any knowledge that you think I have, I'm just reading crap from my computer. Well that's part of kind of everything. Like the TV people who are reporting the news aren't experts in their field most of the time. They're just at the
video for bridge constructing stuff. Wow, Like you build bridges and then you have to send a car over a truck over to see if they work. Yeah, yeah, so I'll say work fun. One that stuck with me was the seven Minnesota bridge collapse, which was up I thirty five. That sticks with you, absolutely, it does. I mean that is that one freaked me out. I don't like overwater stuff. I've been like nervous about the flat even before plane Boeing was in the news this year. The flight
over the ocean freaks me out. There's no there's nothing you can do. I don't like that. I don't like having that feeling. But that one, and I was in college when this happened. But I just remember, Okay, this is the highway I drive on every day thirty five right now, it's up in Minnesota, but still it's the same piece of highway collapses people in the middle of reridge. And that was during the day. That was people driving to and from work. I don't know if it was in
the morning or the afternoon. I will remember, and both cars and cars and cars and cars and cars just falling into the river. Yeah, or the lake. I guess it was the lake. I was like, Oh, they're like, this happened two hours later, three hours later, four hours later. Yeah, people on their way to work. Jesus. Yeah. One in the morning, the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed after getting hit by a cargo ship. At least seven people are unaccounted for. They've rescued
two. This is a balmer. I know the remember the Tacoma Arrows Bridge, that's one of the more famous ones in American is okay, the one that started wabbling because that was just a construction flaw and I got windy and exactly what we're talking about. Bridge construction simulator started wabbling, wobbling, and then it eventually just disintegrated. But I think more often than not it is something hitting them. There was another one in Washington in the last twenty years.
Was there two? I think? Well, Tacoma Arrows is the famous one from I think the seventies or eighties. Boy you see it wobbling, and you know, the technology that you had at the time was way different. I guess I was her biggest buildings were built though, And back then I aways thinking about inspectors. It's inspectors' jobs to inspect these bridges or indeed buildings elevators. No amount of getting done, no amount of inspection is gonna
stop a gigantic cargo ship from just wasting your bridge. Yeah, well, I don't know then. I know, as far as building construction, I think the requirement I mean, you know, to save money. I think a lot of them have come down a little. That's why I like a good cement building from the sixties or seventies. Yeah, and we had that collapse in South Florida and that was bad. It was terrifying. But so yeah, I don't hopefully are never any quest to save money is somewhat limited
when it comes to structures like that. And then some in new buildings are so futuristic. I mean they're designed to you know, sway in the wind and handle tornadoes and hurricanes and all that stuff. Earthquakes. They sit,
bend and not break. Yeah, they said responders, we're hearing loud pops of steel shifting because the tide was hitting and it was raising that ship up like after he hit, it was raising it up and it was causing like even the the parts of the bridge that you're seeing right there on the sound. Look at that and ship. You know that ship is ship. How much crap can you put on? There's not a foot of space that doesn't have a shipping container on it. It was probably going to that Amazon warehouse.
And that thing comes from Shanghai all the way here I think Singapore. Oh okay. The owners of the Dolly, the Singapore flagged ship, confirmed that the vessel hit one of the pillars. That's Maersk, I believe the Danish shipping company. All crew members accounted for and no injuries to them. But the construction workers on top of the bridge outside of two of them that we know of him probably dead. I mean, what is the course? Were they doing that close? I mean the sleep well? Uh did he
just the opening? I don't know because when you watch the video and it doesn't appear that it's got enough clearance to get under it, but it clearly it had to otherwise it wouldn't have It wouldn't have drifted. That's the biggest sport in America. Yeah, that's sordid. It's not a drawbridge if it's a heavily trafficked bridge. I mean they have it built high enough, and the height requirements of that ship were all measured out. I just think he
veered off course. But like twenty twenty four, those things are still steered by Hugh Captain and wheel, not GPS stout. I don't know. It does seem when you look at the far away footage, like you said, off to the side a little more. I don't know, man, I don't know what all goes into that because if you if you don't, boy it sure looked like on the video though, that the ship was way bigger.
Yeah, Dick, it would know not to go through there. And I don't know what angle that you know that video was shot from, so it could be misleading, but it doesn't really make any sense that if that ship did not have clearance to go under that bridge, it should have been
anywhere close to it. Well. One thing that it just like any any like after a natural disaster, boyd just shows, no matter how ornate and beautiful and big and researched and strong, and proud of a structure that we can be and think, look at this strong bridge, Look at this beautiful,
you know, one hundred story iron building. It just takes one fell swoop of the hand of God or a big ship just to crumble it up like a wadded up piece of the foil that wrapped your burrito in, you know, and you stand back and go, what, how how does this even happen? It's like, dude, we are such tiny, little, tiny little things. There's Baltimore people with a chunk of six ninety five gone eight ninety five is going to be absolutely nuts. I don't even want to
think about it. I mean, it's one of their It's just like getting rid of one of our big highways. Yeah, let's get rid of Central Expressway until it can be rebuilt. It's pretty wild. I mean it's this thing is a mile and a half long. Look at that angle, Yeah high it is. And this ship took out would you say half of it? Do you would think that it that it would only take out a maybe a small portion of the bridge. I mean, this thing knocked out what
appears to be about half of this sucker. I bet it's about a quarter mile the highest suspended part because I think the full bridge length starts from Mike right here with this press conferences, you know, yea, but yeah, it's a ton of it right in the middle. Man, poor construction people, you know, I know, man, got a dangerous ass job, and you can't be thinking about that even if you're working. You're like,
is that ship? That ship looks seconds? Do you even notice? You probably don't even notice until it's until you're like, geez, you just a little close, a little close. Hey the Dolly, the Dolly d a l I so suck my tongue as the name of the Singapore ship that hit it. Yeah, another thing, man, I ef and I was thinking about. So it's kind of a little confusing. So don't worry about it. It's a little confusing, I say, go for it. Well, so I don't know enough about the world, so like has Matt Materials.
I read that has Matt Materials passed on that bridge, and it was kind of the only place because the other outside that bridge, the other part of uh, if you're traveling on that highway there, they have a tunnel around the beltway there, but has Matt Materials aren't allowed to go through that tunnel, so that was also the only place that has matt materials could pass. This is going to affect that economy, I mean, bigger than we even
can even wrap our hands around right now. And I know the focus should be on the alleged seven people who fell, you know, into the water and they're you know, it's freezing out. Yeah, Oh, there you go. There's the whole thing. There's the whole thing for you, Mikey. You see the car right on the right, all those cars going into the drink. Dude, this is huge. Ever, I mean everyone's talking about online. You wake up and see it. It is a big world
story. It is shocking to you know, grab your phone and look at news and try to get your head around what we're going to do today. And that's plastered all over board. Nobody's more happy about this bridge collapsing than puff daddy. Yeah, I don't think, because that would have been a huge Oh it still will be. Yeah, we'll get to get to that for sure. But I mean, obviously this is in the grands game of things. Maybe more pressing. There's Greg Popovich to talk about. Yeah,
the spokesperson for the for Baltimore and okay, pretty good. Someone said Campus Drive Bridge and Fort Worth at I twenty westbound collapse in the eighties when a truck hit a pillar, hit a pillar and landed on a car. Do you guys have a little uh oh, yeah, we talked about this fort They have a little hammer in your car. Uh yeah, I have something. I think about it. But I know I've given this tip before and I will give it again. If you're ever in your car submerged in water.
Your head rest, yeah you know, it's one button. Your headrest comes out and those two metallic prongs that hold your head rest in and they slides up and down. Those I don't know if they're designed to be, but they can easily be used to punch out the window. Punch punch okay, punch out the window. Highly morbid. Thank you for that. I would struggle getting the head rest off, and I forgot, but I remember what he usued that, but I forgot. Yeah, it's right there,
thank you. Hey, use your head rest. Well, no, I'm just for this to remember. The thing is, Hey, what I need to calm down, use my head and then maybe that'll trigger you to think of the head rest. But to Danny's point, you should get good sleeps, well rested, it'll contribute to preventing this from happening. I've read and seen some I'm fascinated by the the how how to get out of a car and dude, it's something I think about when I go over, you know,
going to rock wall or something like that. It's like it always crosses my mind, what happens if this thing goes over or somebody beers into me and my only my only option is to go into the into the lake. Like a benign traffic incident on a normal road, they happen a lot. And if it does happen and timing wise, and they give you the strong barriers. I think on bridges, you know they can handle quite a bit of impact, but a benign impact could lead to you careening over the side
of that thing. You flip over and launch over the barrier. I've heard that once you when your car hits the water, your normal instinct would be to seal yourself in right to preserve as much air as possible in the car. I've heard that when you are on top of that water and you know your car's get that window down as fast as possible. Well, aren't because
you want it to fill up so you can get out and swim. Otherwise, if you wait until the pressure is so much that it's near impossible to break that window unless you have a special tool or the head rest, it makes it much more difficult headress techniques. But you also need something to cut the seat belt if you can't unlatch it. I don't know if I still have it, but I have that tool. It's got the razor in the handle, you know, and you can rip your seat belt. And then
it's got the little you know, the tipped steel tipped hammer. I mean in fight it got us those way back in the day. I think in Florida maybe it's percentage points more common to be concerned with the water escapes. I remember they did a water escape challenge on Fear Factor one time when I was like twelve, and it freaked me out. So now every time I crossed the Runaway Bay Bridge, I'm most like, what happens when you hold
your breath? Because it's only about twenty twenty five seconds. I think that lake's only about eight feet deep. I hit rock is okay, We're gonna track it all morning. Obviously, it's the biggest story in the absolute world, and there will be updates throughout the day. I would imagine we're gonna have new presidential candidate literally anybody else that's his name. At seven local, we had all the other stuff, little sports. Next, at eight o'clock,
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