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you let Rogers host the show one night? We'll see NFL weather this weekend. The first game on Saturday indoors Cleveland and Houston as you're covered there. Miami at Kansas City Saturday night exclusively up No. Sixty four and Son no win. It's a cover your Spigott type of game. What is it? Absolutely frigid. Temperature should be around ten degrees at kickoff, closer to zero by the end of the game. Jesus, ten to fifteen mile per hour
wind in the balls. Oh wow, we're talking about probably a wind chill well below zero during that one. Yuck, yeah, yuck. And then Sunday your first one at noon Pittsburgh at Buffalo cold potentially snow temps in the twenties, win gussed up to thirty miles per hour, which gives out a night Jo Pittsburgh at Buffalo and there without TJ. Watt too. Yeah, I heard me, Sorry, Mason Rudolphin ain't gonna happen. Uh, Packers, Cowboys clearly indoors, Rams, Lions indoors. And then you have a
Monday night game Philly at Tampa Bay. Chance for rain, you could get a little Florida rain. I love a little mud. It's not good mud, but she took had a lot of rain for that. Too far away for that game to start. Kind of worried about that. Yeah, I'm seeing eight degree temperature for Dolphins. Chiefs boy. That's the average temperature of the island or the city in Hawaii that Tuo was brought up on. I bet degrees. I don't think he's ever experienced eight degrees in his life.
He may never have a seventy percent chance of precipitation in that Bills game where it'll be under the snow. Game potentially Sunday could be fun. Oh yeah, keep you fun. Yeah, I'm Kevin Turner. That's Danny Bayos. That's Mike Sroy, also winner of the Dallas Observer Radio Host of the Year award back in twenty twenty three. Don't say back in say just say raining? Is it okay? Yeah? Rain? Check the dates when the next
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happens. Now. All right, let's pay off on this tease because I'm a bad man. So drones, drones, twenty twenty four will be the year where North Texans can get a drone to bring you groceries. Now, we've talked about this a lot and it's all been taught. You know, it's an article here, article there. Yeah, drones are gonna happen. But Walmart is in charge now, and they announced yesterday they're expanding their drone
deliveries to cover up seventy five percent of the metroplex. Uh, deliveries across thirty municipalities. Municis No, you did it right, paladies, you did so. Wait they announced today that they are they're about to hit seventy five percent of the metro plex. Yeah, yeah, damn yeah, that's always what What was it prior to today? Uh, it was just Frisco and it was just Lewisville, so up there in the north north part right there. Okay, have you guys ever seen a delivery drone out there? Work
in the skies. Oh no, I haven't either, but we're going to seventy. And this seems very easy the way it's lined out. Sometimes you read these articles and you get a little confused about too many words. Well, this company that is handling deliveries, there's two of them. One is called Wing, one is called zip Line. And there are companies that have been approved by the FAA to fly their drones without someone observing them at all
times. You don't need an air traffic controller. You know of someone tracking your drone, right, so they're clear to do this. And it's free. So if you place an order through the Wing or the zip Line app, you'll be able to get items within thirty minutes. Wal Mart says, and the service is free. So look, I need you know what, man, I'm thinking that tonight, I want a frozen pizza boom delivered to
me within thirty minutes for free. That's amazing and I love it. I've never done this, and I've never really even considered it a viable option, but let's blanket go. How about just order a regular, fresh made hot pizza and have it delivered to your door for thirty minutes. Yeah, free, thirty minutes I mean, frozen pizza is something that you eat. It was a bad example. Yeah, you don't get a fresh new za.
Okay, let me redo that. Another example we'll throw out example A example B. I need a frozen pizza right now, which isn't gonna be ready for another twenty five minutes after I get Yeah, okay, hold on, let's try. As you're on the toilet and then you notice I'm out of toilet paper, that it would be nice if I had got through this without having to burn through any of my paper towels or any other emergency. Or the shower of paper, the shower, jump in the shower and up,
just go with a shower. In that case, you know what I'll get on the wing or the zip line app. I'll order some toilet paper, some quilted Northern from Walmart, and it'll be delivered to my home within thirty minutes. Better grab a free Better grab a backup shower curtain too, fushul
change those out anyways. Right after a year, they get all moldy, especially if you're using them for what you're using them, not using them for the Do you think they're gonna gently set down what you ordered or drop it from a reasonable height. Yeah, what if I want a bag of a dozen eggs taco flavored Doritos, They're gonna drop it from one hundred feet,
then I'm just like eating crumbs with a spoon. Okay, I did not see a video, but I saw an image, which this image is probably made just for branding and have a good graphic to show you what it does. But the Walmart sack was on the ground and the little helicopter, a little drone helicopter was holding it securely. But the bag's on the ground, so the drones. Okay, so it's gonna set it all the foot off
the ground. Yeah, they're gonna drop like an Amazon package. This could be a game changer, and I've yet to see it, but tell you, it's one of those things where after you've seen it three times, will
be acclimated and used to it, and we'll start using it. Dude, It's a good thing that this technology wasn't available when I was in high school, because you're talking about delivering the seventy five percent of the metroplex and I don't know if that's area or population density, Because if if I was a kid growing up, i don't know an Azel or Springtown. I'm using that as live skeet shooting practice. That will be an issue. I'm gonna blast
that sucker out of the sky just for fun. Yep, that will be an issue and uh at least near impossible to track. Yeah, I mean, are they are these equipped with cameras so you can have a record of Oh? I bet yes, I bet they all have cameras in our recording on some database. Can you imagine little dingu Oh just just hey, man, don't you call that drone over Walmart and get you four to ten. Let's go out in the yard and wait for it. Wait, people are
definitely gonna shoot the drones. Make sure you get the Dorito's before you shoot the thing. Tracy, Well, he's a man in this scenario. Yeah, my best friend. Well, what are you shooting eight or what are you shooting it with? I don't know, BB gun or something damage the drone? You gotta get a real gun both action four to ten cab Is that a crime firing your gun in the air and side out in the country. Yeah, Well they may not. They're not going to deliver out in
the country. All I'm saying need battery power. Okay, but look the country being relative, someone will shoot the drone. How many people at the metroplex seven million? At least one six and a half maybe no, Mayke six and up to eight I don't know. Nobody knows. Walmart's saying seventy five percent of the area and one point eight million households by the end of the year. They've done twenty thousand drone deliveries already, and they they had
a fancy titled name Senior vice president of Innovation. Drone delivery is not a concept of the future. It's happening now. It soon will be a reality for millions of additional Texans. Last summer they launched the service with the Frisco and Lewisville store. They're going to add eleven Walmart stores and Dallas, Garland, Mesquite, Murphy, I know, Richardson Ralet and the colony. I don't know why that sounded like a Huffin's commercial, but this is kind of
incredible. I like that. And now mcginney is this gonna be though, like the Wild West of those scooters we had, where it's gonna be difficult to regulate and then everyone's gonna do it, and then every pizza joint is gonna do it, because I guarantee they're working on it too. For the same joke that we made a few minutes ago. All the big boys, Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, they're gonna be doing this. They're probably already working on it. And are we gonna have in in a couple
of years just just air pollution. I don't mean actual pollution. I just mean looking so much crap flying around like a space trash. Yeah, constantly seeing low flying space garbage. And then in thirty years, when we all pass on, like right toward the end, is it just gonna be stuff flying. It's gonna look like something out of one of the New Star Wars movies when they go into a city, right exactly, like you're just trying
to enjoy, Oh, look at the clouds. Oh there's birds, cool helicopter, and then your your peaceful, serene moment is interrupted by Dingu's order. Exactly. They're gonna have to regulations on times a day when this gets shut down, because at least currently drones make a decent amount of noise. These things are gonna get plucked out of the sky by shotguns across this three county yes, or by dumb unaware birds. Oh yeah, think of all
the potential bird deaths. Gets on board that we start losing some rare birds. I actually think this works. I think this is gonna work. How about this very prevalent. I think it's been very prevalent in if you're I know, I completely agree, and I kind of like it because if well, God, then I mean everything is so layered, because if you take all the delivery vehicles off the roads that are currently having to zip around and bring Dan his damn cool ranch taco flavor waste of a trip, then Okay,
that's cars off the road. That's better for pollution, but that's also
jobs we're losing. So then we get to that side of it. But man, I can see you're right in just a couple few years this jumping into every one of those arguments, because now this Walmart has doesn't deliver anything by truck unless it's over two hundred and fifty pounds or whatever the limit will be in the future, and then jobs are gone, and then pros cons I think we're right on the precipice of this being a really interesting conversation. Yes, as of right now, I'm like, all right, I like
the idea of press button. Thirty minutes later, it's sitting on my front porch. How about drive your ass to the store and get it like a damn man? Now? Okay, nineties T shirt bands? Guy? Yeah, dude, you like Kirvana? Yes? I mean are we saving the climate a little bit too by leaving your car at home for those short little trips of the store, right, and I mean just a little bit of assuming the landing zone is good, your driveway, it's dropped off, very
simple. You're gonna problems. What happens if they took it to my neighbor's house? What the hell gym? I don't know, because you know, they just programmed, but they can GPS sit very accurately. I don't that will be an issue. How about when the first kid gets his two fingers chopped off? Serious? Yeah, it's gonna happen. But I mean, look, innovation comes with some casualties, or they damage your new car. How are we gonna have self driving cars without people dying in self driving car
accidents? We're all just guinea pigs for the advancement of technology of course that's all we are and commerce. Yeah, we're little piggies that we need to gobble up our doritos and our treats. We want them now, but at least fly it to me into my mouth, fly mouth. Why does the drune stop in my front yard. I'm donna want to get up. I don't want to get off my couch. Oh yes, I'm gonna get Wallet Drone Drone Plus with the extra feature that opens the bag and pours the doritos
into my gaping mouth as I stand on my front door. Yes, far as you sit on your couch, come on, hovers over your mouth, doors, open, shoots some sort of protein carbohydrate goo into your mouth, and then leaves. It's all not insane, okay, But this does lead to one of my favorite things, which is imagine that as a scenario, drones everywhere and they're flying GPS safe, smart, We've got it perfected,
bigger drones people. It's happening, yes, and I look forward to that because why not go in my front yard and have my new Honda Stratosphere or whatever you're gonna call it, and I sit in the comfortable thing. I
play a stupid game on the internet. I dial in exactly where I want to go, and no piloting, no human error, They're all going to be safe from each other, and you are zipped straight to your job job in addison, which then also sounds like an antiquated idea that you'd have to fly somewhere to do a job, which leads to us all just being home
eventually anyway, but that is within our lifetime going to happen. Someone's gonna perfect, They're gonna figure out the regulations and we're gonna be zipping around via personal drone and then luxury drone a little bit larger family of four. This isn't crazy, No, it's not crazy, but I don't know. No one's start that one together. And and exponential growth once Walmart is on board and everything's getting delivered to your front porch, we're not that far away from
your ass getting delivered where you want to go. And Walmart it's not going to be the only store you know that the doopsis technology, But I mean the next is Target and then you know Dollar Tree or whatever, the Dollar General. Yeah, a little quick update on the fort Worth explode in General Motors. Uh, they had uh all forty plus masume workers will have jobs
at the company's other North Texas locations. At the Fort Worth Sushi restaurant got damaged and the explosion on Monday, So basically, Josh Babbo's a friend of mine, go fo, I'm just giving you know, everyone's if you were working there, we got we got jobs for you. Still clearly now two of the three workers injured in that blast have been released from the hospital. There's still one in stable condition, still investigating. The Fort Worth put out.
Fort Worth officials put out of statement yesterday basically saying we do think it's a gas explosion. Uh, and kind of we're putting out and I'm paraphrasing you now it's more of kind of stop with the fake news, no foul play. It is a safe area. It's a hot zone that we wants you to avoid for a few days. But there's no threat of other attacks or explosions because it was not an attack. It was a gas explosion. I think we've got a situation where gas explosions are happening a little more off
and but you know, it's uh, it's it's something to watch. There's still going to be investigating what happened. But luckily no one died and really looks like a lot of minor injuries and could have been way worse. So that's kind of your latest on that that. I'll do it for the scuttle butt for West Stage January tenth. Yeah, enough time to stay on time here because at big nine o'clock hour in thirty minutes, Mike, I got away for you to make a lot of money on something. Okay, Okay,
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