This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one The freak. When you wake up in the morning and a lot is hurt your head. The first thing you do when you get up ab out of bed, hit that street or running and try to meet the masses and go get yourself some cheap sunglasses out. Yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, it's my little thing. Kind of followed her all night in a funky fine Levi's and a sweaters kind of tight boobs. Is that West Coast rut that was sweet as molasses but were
really knocking be out? Was the cheap sunglasses. It was doing it for the sun and for the moon. Have the eclipse day, everyone, don't fare to forget to wear IOC certified glasses today. Kevin, is that Al Roker at the ross Pero Museum. Oh my god, Al Roker's here, Kevin the Eclipse Man book Al is people with Signs. I sh would have known Al Roker was going to be at the Proro Museum. See if Kerry
was there already. He could be today. Could brain spear Al Roker right now live on EBC If you're a listener making ninety seven won the freak sign and hold it up behind Al Roker. Yeah, a little late for that. Probably grab your election yard sign, considering everybody standing by and Al Rokers is about the average age of eight. Yeah, he's at the pro Museum. Fox four is over at Clyde Warren Park. We know what a day. Oh yeah, there's Dan Godwin from Fox four. All eyes on DFW.
It's our data sunt Perro Museum as well. See a lot of options people. If you want to get a freak sign, hold it behind a field reporter on Eclipse Day. We would love you for that. It would really help. I think. Also, we just saw a couple in Russellville, Arkansas, get in a hot air balloon and they're going up to watch the eclipse from a hot air blood die simultaneously guaranteed that that's me. That's me. Whenever I see a hot air balloon, we will remind you that
the benskinch Other Speakeasy Clyde Warren Park today hanging big watch party. We're the official eclipse pregame party all morning long here and that's going to include breaking country music news. In one hour at eight thirty, Dany'll have the details in the more Morgan Wallen incident and then thirty minutes some more elip stuff that I think is kind of fascinating. But I want to do a story that did cross my timeline over the weekend once again, Fellers. What happened? A
Southwest Airlines jet? What happened? Returned to Denver Sunday morning. It took off, but the engine cover fell off and it struck the wing flap. Now there's footage of this and it's it's a little more vicious than it sounds. And oh, an engine cover fell off and struck the wing flip. Yeah, big deal. It's a plane. When you watch it, you're like, Holy Lord or Holy Christ? Is the uh yeah? Wrestle media
announcer was so coal. But it was a Boeing seven thirty seven mowing headed to Houston and second mishap of the week for Southwest because they had a flight that got canceled Thursday in Lubbock when there's an engine fire and the Lubbock Fire Department did confirm, yeah, there's a fire, and one of the two engines that needed to be extinct wished because you're both Boeing seven thirty seven eight hundreds, not the seven thirty seven Max, but seven thirty seven eight hundreds.
So I think there's something to all this. I discounted you guys when you just kept bringing up playing stories. But I think when you factored in with yeah, i'll say that expose that, uh John Marshall, John Oliver did about Boeing that was pretty eye opening, and then the CEO of Boeing quitting and saying me away from this thing. Yeah, And then it's just a tick up and a percentages of flights that are dealing with something I think
they're I think you're actually onto something. I'll tell you this. I would not be flying internationally over water anytime soon if I were in air of you guys. Yeah, that's one place you won't find me. It's on an airplane perhaps destination Italy. In like nine days, I have been thinking the same thing a lot. Dude, you're gonna get sucked off. I don't think the door's gonna folve. It's not an Alaska Airlines one, it's a
Boeing. It doesn't matter what name is painted on the side. Kevin, I did put in the direct message on the app request to my doctor. Hey, I'm flying trans Atlantic next week and could you give me something to help me sleep. Mm hmm. Have you sent them that exact text like a thousand times over the last two days. She said she still can't take your sea pap machine. I still can't get for whatever reason. Oh my god, you don't have one yet. No, you're getting a machine problems.
Yeah, you gonna giveaway bootleg pap smears at work with your new machine, dud. We need to set that up. What a good event. Kevin's pame smears? Yeah, like Pat smears and it's my it's my papa and he's just he's got bagels, he's got a speed lunking hat on with a leg. Let me them, I kep just cut it down there knifes of cream cheese on a delicious baggle. Okay, we've mixed seven different Yes, it's good. Yeah, because some people can keep up and those who
can are like, what's the next story? And I'll tell you what that story is if you'll calm down. Had a big earthquake last Friday that we reported up there in the northeast. Well I say big, it was a four point eight and uh there was one guy though, who was in one of those You know, you'll always remember where you were when this happened. Situations. He was laid back with part of little minimal amount of anesthesia, but but but lucid, and then everything starts shaking. He was getting of
a sectomy during the earthquake. Oh oh, and the doctor's going wait, the doctor said, what now? Was that was a guy? Oh last to raw? That was the guy one last the doctor doing that doing boy. That was the weirdest headline yesterday. I know I'm bouncing around a little bit, but there's a headline from CBS News Texas yesterday South Carolina beats off
challenge from Iowa and Caitlin Clark they really said that. Yeah. When I was in college, I went to NAU and there's the Lumberjacks and the girls basketball team is the Lady Jacks and they were off to like a four and oh start. So the headline was Lady Jack's off to a good start. Yep. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. Who's but it works? Yeah, but it also worked, and there's there's a good cover. Yes, you know, it draws attention to the paper and they're like, oh my
god, I can't believe we let that through. And meanwhile they're truly they know exactly what they did, and they snickers. They're snickering the student department. Uh. The doctor was like, I think this is an earthquake, and the guys that I thought he was messing with me. But he had to stop because everything was shaking. He put the tools down for a moment. He had the scalpel, he put it down. Oh god, that is really kind of scary, Like what a mid la sick? Yeah,
you know, I don't know, Like, how do you know? Right? Terrible? Terrible, terrible terrible? Did the doctor give you prescription of sleep for sleep pills? You never really told me? Uh no, I haven't responded yet. Okay, you're right in here about yeah, but I would love an ambient yeah or two. You want to just go to sleep and then wake up, not wake woken up bloated, face down in the
Atlantic Ocean. So I'm coming back to work. How your journey? Oh god, that's like my big I'm telling you it is going to be a mess. Buried alive, You know a lot of people have shark spiders all that stuff. No one wants to fall into a pit of rattlesnakes. I get it, But like buried alive and then plane crash into the Atlantic is more so than the Pacific. It's always been that way. Colder the Atlantic more than the Pacific. Colder waters. I don't know if that's true.
Is that it should suck to be in the North Sea, so you have the bodies of water that you least likely have a plane crash down into. Yeah, I mean the Arctic oak should one based by temperature? Yeah, Arctic one. Why do you save this? And we'll make a bracket? No? Yeah, no, two full segments. I don't want to do that. I don't think we should. You don't think we should. My God Speak bracket. Big D Bracket on Dallas Morning came out a few weeks
ago for the you know, March Madness, and everyone's doing brackets. All this was fun, and then we just stopped doing it. Well, you know, it's eating up to many segments have time to get to other things. So twelve hundred people voted in the Big D Bracket Challenge and the top two seeds did play in the finals. Big Text defeated Reunion Tower. Oh my god, are you kidding? Who's the final four? Do you even have that? I'm sorry I do. We'll see here. Big Text Reunion
Tower. Okay, there were guy who put this together. His name is Dallas Cothrum of the Das Wonders. He made this, he said, what did we learning this crowdsourcing experiment? My biggest takeaway people love the Fair Fair Park, Fletcher's Corny Dogs, and Big Texts all made the Sweet sixteenth. Reunion Tower made the final by defeating the Jimmy Johnson expression. How about them cowboys? Okay, how about the cowboys made the final four? Good god?
Okay, actually don't know the final four? Okay, so, but the final was Big Text against Reunion Tower. Now look at ours and I got who did Big Tech in the first round and they beat Barney? Okay, who do get in the second round? I wanted to it would have been Big Text against the French Room. Now for us it was El Phoenix down to Oh, I'm sorry, my bad, yeah, l Phoenix, I'm sorry. I could see Big Text making the Sweet sixteen, but it would have had to beat out the Katie Trail. I don't know, man,
Big Texts could have made it to our final four. I'm pretty anti big text and I've been clear about that, and I'm sorry. Hey, Evan Carter said Tennessee barbecues better in Texas well. Big Text so went up against Barney in the first round. Voted Barney because Big Text has a flat ass, and I like my I like cowboy butts that drive me nuts. Oh yeah, hell yeah, you know he's with me. I'm with you,
ladies, ladies. So who won Big Text beat Reunion Tower? Did J R. Ewing make the final four because that was a number one seed? I think so. And in the East the number one seed was the two to one four area code? Yeah? Which are you idiots? Bounced in the first round? Yeah, because the long horn ballroom beat it out. It's just not relevant anymore. No one cares about area codes anymore. I care. I don't know. Man, who's dialand phones? I don't
know. But you have a two and four attached to your number? Probably no, I don't, Yeah, because I've had the same number. I never had. What are you a four to six? Nine? Guys and four? Oh? Man for life? You should be an eight one seven man for life. I was eight one seven growing up, and they expanded it and changed it to nine to four. Oh, I'm gonna look at your phone number. I'm'na say, if you have a good phone number. I do have a great phone game. I'm not gonna give it out,
like give it out. No, I'm not gonna give it out. Uh No, it's not that good. Tell them, No, we're's six minutes sorry, six hours, forty minutes or thirty seconds from totality and something that you should know will be covering that all day long. Pretty good number, Danny, all right, No, you got some rhythm to it. There's some rhythm. Yes, that back four is nice. The back four is awesome. Bam bam. Yeah, have you looked at mine? Look at mine? I got a banger, I got lucky. Did you really you're
gonna freak out when you see my phone numbers? Six nine six six nine six nine six nine six nine. All right, what is your phone number? Look at the back four and tell me online to you eight oh eight? No, it's not was that customer or total luck? Total luck? Luck? Isn't that great? Custom Well? You pay through it? No, you could request a certain number and if they've got it, it's yours. I didn't know that. Yep, we're out a numbers. We're gonna be out of numbers. Oh not like we requ yeah, you can.
That's solid, all right. I don't know if that's a commercial thing or individual, but yeah, I know that. Bam bam. Yeah, that's good, Thank you, pretty good, thank you. One in seven Americans have zero interesting still got that Yahoo account though, bro, Yeah, I know seeing keep that alive. One in seven are not interested, Yeah, one and seven. If you're one of those seven, call in two and four eight seven seven eight seven one nine seven swing somebody problem if you really
don't care. Yeah, they're thrashed by all the news and three months of it everything. Hey, it's only a big deal here. Like if this was happening in Kansas, you know, and missing us, it would be just like it was in twenty seventeen, where there wasn't three months of lead up. There's been three months of lead up here because we are one of the few, the proud, the few major cities. Is this Cleveland?
The other one, I guess Cincinetti. I think I think it's Buffalo, Yeah, Niagara Falls, Yeah, yeah, I mean there's a place of picks, but we are the biggest market in the country. That's getting totality to you know, this is a little interesting to me. If you were going to be uh in DFW and you're kind of walking around. Where would you walk? Bishop Art sidewalk? Well, I know less, but even less than is it sidewalk? Is it? Where are the options? Okay?
Well, yeah, where do you walk? We're not a walking city. JFW is not a walking We're just not. It's featured prominently on Netflix Full Swing season one where they're interviewing Scottie Scheffer and his wife and he's having to avoid a tree that's planted in the middle of the sidewalk. It's like it's kind of the way and there's gy like, Okay, he's got to go first. The side of walks aren't big. We're not a walking town. Like you can walk anywhere you want. New York or Lower Greenville area
is great to walk. Yeah, that's a that's a good you know, there's a few of those those Bishop, but I mean all the yeah, absolutely, but I'm talking about like the surrounding homes. It's same Sam and Bishop, you know, like all the the m streets and down there around the Dublin or and even further south, like all those streets are just wonderful. Yeah. White Rock Lakes a great, great place to walk. I bet White Rock is going to be popping today right anywhere on the trail Katie
trail, I imagine I'll be relatively crowded. Yep match, my ice house will be bumping, I mean, anywhere outside. So the story's gonna do is about heat islands here in DFW. But because I put out the call, I do have some eclips haters. All right, let's go Hi. What's your name, hey caller? Hello? Yeah, what's your name? My name is Tim? Where coming from? Tim Rowlet So you're kind of in the path of totality. You don't care about the eclipse, Chuck,
It's nothing. This is nothing to you, man. It's one of those things that if you don't see it, you'll never care that you didn't see it. Huh wait, hold on, I'm gonna need a second. If you didn't see it, you'll never care that. Okay, So if you didn't know something happened, you'll never care about it. No, no, no, It's like it's like watching like Princess Diana's funeral or like balloon Boy or something like. It's only a thing if you're like a part of it
in the moment. But if you took a nap, you'd be like, oh, yeah, it's Monday. Well, what you need to do is just mess up traffic. Isn't that everything? Though? Like if you don't care, watch it or participate in it, it just happens without you knowing it. Now, there's like socially like significant things that happen in the world that you're like, man, I remember where I was when that happened, or like, oh, this is like a historic thing that people are actually
going to care about a week from now. And I feel like this one's gonna be like not one of those things. I think, tim with all due respect, I think that in a week, if you didn't see this today, I think in a week you'd be like, I wish I would have saw it. Now. I'm going to see pictures on social and stuff, but it'll be all right, Okay, So what's your plan for today?
At one o'clock, man, I had to actually take off work because my kids are in one of the only districts that didn't cancel school, and so if they had, I would have just taken them to grandparents house and been able to work. So I had to take off work today, and so yeah, I'm gonna be doing I'm gonna be doing tours around the house and then I might you know, if it gets dark outside, it might go out and you know, try not to burn my eye bolts out.
What's in a lifetime opportunity? Tim, I feel like you're taking it for granted. You know, it wouldn't be the first time, it won't be the last. I kind of tend to agree with Tim because he is right. It's not a cultural moment to where, oh my god, I remember when I heard, you know, about John Lennon being killed by Howard Cosell on Monday Night football or some momentous thing like this. This is almost kind of like an Instagram culture thing or a TikTok culture thing, to where it's
disposable, it goes away. There's really no conversation about it. The one thing that I am interested in, though, is the experience of if we don't have cloud coverage and it's just beautiful bright sunlight, to feel what the earth The experience is to have it go as dark as it possossibly can for you know that four or five minutes. I think that sensation is going to be really unique. That might be something that rather than just staring at the
sun and oh cool ring of flames around the moon. Badass. I can see a much better just you know, photo of that that a professional is going to take. But I think I think there is an experienced factor to it of just being in it and feeling sure the earth around you, you know, go dark, Danny. I'm one hundred percent with you. I just I just don't get the hype. I don't the level of hype that is the thing that I'm pushing back against. It's like, I think Beyonce
is a good singer. I don't think she's that. I don't think she's a god. You know what I mean. It's about the hype. It's the level of hype that it's getting that I uh, that I think is absurd. Yeah, but if you're don't take it seriously. You don't because you don't know what's going to happen during the eclipse. And what if Jesus descends and returns to Earth. Yeah, Tim, and you're inside you know, a computer, if he comes back, I'll be going if you don
and I won't. You know, I don't know that. I don't know that at all, Tim, And what you're gonna be do you Tim, neither do. You're gonna be on the couch. Guy thinks she knows everything, but truth is, you don't know. You're gonna be on the couch home alone, doing chores, and then you're gonna see a commercial of a of a spokesperson for a couch company that might light your loins a little bit. And then you're gonna start cranking a little rod. And that what you
want to be doing when Jesus comes back, Loving Joe dirt. So what I'll be doing next? Caller Tim enjoyed the eclipse. For God's sake, Get out there, so once in a lifetime event. It's a space phenomenon. It's a it's a it's an abnormality. You'll never see this again in your lifetime. Thanks. Boys'll directly into the sun without goggles on. Tim, Hey, No, that's bad advice. Ke Hey, hey, that was called by Tim, Sorry too, where swim goggles? I was playing?
Okay, another one? We got another one? All right? Are you are you an anti eclipser? Very much so? Why? Yeah? State your position. My name is Chandler. I'm headed to forty horny getting a cooler from BUCkies. Oh nice, yep, but no I don't. I don't see the hype. Just like the last dollar, I guess if Jesus is coming, I'm all for it. Well keep your eye for that. And if you don't know, unless you're out there looking for him. I'm also the first ever winner of the Exterminator game show. That's not a
real game. Do you mean the Eliminator? I forgot the name of it. Em. We're gonna need you to focus. It's not about the past. Today is about what's happening in just a few hours on the return of our Lord. So the hype of our Lord, the hype's bothering you because in four hours, forty nine minutes and thirty seconds, something's going to happen that will never happen again in your lifetime. You will be dead man, that's true. But I drive around all day, so I'm not looking forward
to The traffic is really what it is. Do you fear death? No? I welcome it? Whoa well? Ye with open arms? Okay, exactly. Chandler, your times about running right out of here, hopefully not his mortality time. No, No, No six, because it's wet. One more. Let's get one. We help you both make and clear the eclipse. Tim Chandler, they're all Tim all right? What's your name? Him? You're live on ninety seven in the Freeze. It's not Tim. I named Tim? Tim? Hi Tim? Yeah? Where are you at,
man? How you doing good? I'm in Grand Prairie. What's your other name? My name is Brian? All right, Tim, Brian b Ryan. Are you on the thirty side of the twenty side of Grand Prairie? And uh, why are you so against what's happening today? I'm against the eclipse for two reasons. One I hate people and two space to super gay. I mean, he laid it out real quick there. I have the preconcise, tight opinion. Yeah, you can't really argue it. Space
is super good. If you wanted to, we wouldn't even know where to start. Said space is super gay. He was twenty four. He wasn't even sure about it because he says, I don't know, man, I don't know, man. I just think something you said when you're super twenty four on a podcast, and that is part of your legacy. Yeah, yeah, Riah, tell me about it, Tell me about it. I got a flask with a pig on it. Yeah, that's welcome to my world. And they also had metal bats. I don't know about that either.
Okay, see we get it. At least none of you have the I went to TCU and there's been women surrounding me my entire life. Really all right, Tim, Well, I don't know. Enjoy those Thanks for listening to us, to us, no problem, best show on the station. You're sweet. Thanks Brian, Tim, tell a friend all right, love you later all over the place. Well, I like Bryan, the eclipse party will continue. We're the official pregame party of today's solar eclipse,
and people are flocking. And like you said, how many million people flocking the Metroplex. I guarantee you there's a couple of them right now. Listen, there's no doubt about it. I've stumbled upon an eclipse pregame show. We came here for the for the eclipse. The right spot. Advanced chair restoration brought us the scuttle. But today and coming up next, we'll move on to talk about eclipse, a celestial phenomenon, conspiracy theories, what could
go wrong today, and other things that you'll need to know. How do you time it up to finish during those four minutes? Next on ninety seven one, the free