This is the downbeat on ninety seven to one. The freak then wildfire is raging through our Panhandle as we speak. Started on Monday, and this thing has continued to grow, consuming at an average rate of burning one hundred and fifty football fields every minute. So imagine you're living out near Amarillo and as the seconds count by, once you get to sixty, this fire has destroyed
one hundred and fifty football fields. You can't even visualize it, right, It's really hard to We're talking about the Smokehouse Creek fire that is ongoing. It appears even as of now, to be zero percent contained. It is already the second largest wildfire in Texas history, only rivaling that of the East Amarillo Complex Fire from two thousand and six, which consumed a total of nine hundred and seven thousand acres. This one is holding steady, but not holding
steady. It is moving steadily so far, having consumed five hundred thousand acres. A half a million acres of Texas land gone up in flames as a result of the Smokehouse Creek fire out in our very Panhandled. People are being evacuated from their homes. Electricity is out for thousands of residents in that area. The extent of the damage is still being assessed, but a hemp Hill County official out there said homes have been burned in almost every direction. Evacuation
orders, shelter and place advisories were issued yesterday. The Pentax facility is that I'm saying that right. Pentax facility which pan tax text Handle, Panhandle in texts. Pantext facility, which has been a long time facility for manufacturing and dismantling nuclear weapons United States Nuclear Weapons has They've resumed their duties as their employees were allowed to return to work today, but they were sent home yesterday.
But a lot of these small towns, the fires have crossed roads which make it impossible for these town people, residents of these towns to leave their cities, and they have been instructed to shelter in place at home or in school gymnasiums around the area. But this a big deal. It doesn't look like
it's going to end anytime soon. The only respite comes in the fact that between now and through tomorrow, hopefully that area will get some rainfall, temperatures will lower, and the velocity of winds in that area are supposed to decrease significantly, hopefully allowing the firefighters, firefighters that are on site to do their job, firefighters that are coming from all regions to come and assist in this
but and and hopefully stop the rapid spread of what's already been incredibly devastating. And it is pretty incredible that in two days this thing started on Monday, it's already the second largest wildfire to ever happen in the state of Texas. Ridiculous. I saw a picture of a bunch of cows running. That's one
thing that we did not cover is how this is affecting wildstock. I saw one farmer or one rancher speak about this early, really early this morning, and he was saying, look, we don't know how many of our cattle have been destroyed by this fire. We don't know how many are still loose. But just for you know, to give them a chance, they were out all morning cutting barbed wire to be able to let their cattle just run free so they can at least instinctively get away from what they know is imminent,
imminent danger and death. So it's chaos, it's absolutely kill. It can't even begin to fight it. Yeah, if they say it's zero percent contained, you know, and where do you start, where do you even start? It's whack a mole. And you're right, it's rain. It's large scale whack a mole. And you can just pray for rain at this point. And look, if you can get the winds to go, if the winds can miraculously die down. Yeah, that's the problem is that area
Kevin As you well know, it is flat and it's windy. When it gets windy, you it feels windier than it does any other place that you've been. It's crazy. It's easy to spread, and yeah, it doesn't have to go up and downhill. And it's been dry. It's been very dry lately. You know, I don't recall the last time we had significant rainfall, but I'm sure it's worse out there in West Texas. But uh yeah, all of these factors have contributed to a very dry tinder box of
a of an area out instable. And I'm not being wacky that far like this could never stop. I mean, it says it's half the size of Rhode Island has been destroyed, eleven or seven times the size of Washington d you see, bigger than New York city chose. Okay, Well, I mean what if that doubles and triples, like what if a fire if rain
never comes and it's just dry and windy. I don't know, but it continue into Oklahoma, and I think I saw reports that it's it's into Oklahoma and then double in size and then double in size to where it's like where if the snowball effect happens, where it's just so big, it could just consume all of Amarillo. Is that what you're saying. Yeah? Probably that's the thing that terrifies me. And it's my parents and brother you still live
out there in the country. I'm just thinking it could happen. Yeah, And those fires they need two things they need. They need air, which is an abundance out there, and fuel air and dry land essentially, and wind to propel it. It's terrible, awful, man, what a mess. Well, I'm sure the other shows be all over it. Yeah, just birthtages real quick. Yeah, Luca is twenty five. I'm gonna play my one of my favorite Luca Doncic moments if you guys don't mind, because
I really love what the PA announcer did here. Let's go back to the bubble Dotchis pulls off three pointer. Bine, it's gone. Dotcha wins the game at the buzzard. That's gone, Luca. Dot's its sucker, Luca. That's in the bubbles. That's fair. Yes, you got a little fake crowd and you had just bad music in the background. Essentially, he is It's like Bruno wars. What's is is that as I'm sorry, best moment or is the that's his big game winning playoff shot, I am But
the next thing, yeah, is Luca magic. The miss epitomized miss free throw just somehow bounces to him and he gets it. Yeah, oh my god. And that was a sixty point triple double, I believe, jeez, I think so. Yeah. Then the seventies three night Yeah, seventy three nights double or double bang. Then the game winner over the Celtics from last year that I remember maybe that was two years ago. I think there's the beating the Suns you know that year. Yeah, pounding that the crap
out of him, and that was something about that that was beautiful. Oh yeah, I know, that's just I love him. Keep stacking them up tonight against the Raptors. Happy Birthday or oldest Chapman's thirty six there is. You know, he's still on the team. Now he's with the Pirates that actually signed him to a ten and a half million dollar deal. Go get your big fella. I tell you what, Ail's not worth ten and a half million dollars market value. I look forward to not biting my nails when
he enters the game every time. There might be a time where you miss him his lack of give a crap body language when it's bad. But then he strikes the guy out and he stares him down, and you're like, he walks two of them and then just starts striking people out. It was a wild, a confusing, and you could tell Boat she was just like, oh, we gotta do it. Oh yeah, we gotta send him out there, and it usually works out getting out there and looked out the
playoffs, man boy, it did no problems. It feels like not long ago, too magical, magical, weird, wild team that was crazy and it's cranking back up for round two. We're never gonna fully accept that.
It's like, it's never gonna feel right. There's a just a there's a disconnect, whether it's a disconnecting baseball in general, but the Bally disconnect, plus none of these guys had tenure, like Michael Young's been here for years, and Ken's been here for years, and Elvis crazy and right off the heels of it, they're like, what the seventh or eighth best odds to win the World Series this year? Yeah, so it's almost like Vegas is like, well, we don't know where that came from, but have fun.
Yeah, good luck again. All the money they're paying are into GROM Yeah, and they can't even join till aug We got nothing out of the Groam and some a little bit out of Shurezer. Yeah, not much, but yeah, you wonder why no big free agent offseason. It's like, look, we're doing it. We did it, we can't what do you
want? It's not just unlimited. This makes these April and May games a little more interesting than I think they would be, though, because it's like or maybe the June games, because April Magic are still like it's new, you know, and gets the June you're like, okay, sixty games and keep in mind, like dude, when those guys come back in August and you have a like did you keep your head above water? Yeah? And then you get your full compliment back. And also keep in mind, and
I saw this article or somebody wrote something about this too. I don't know how long he's planning on working, but we do have the Bruce Bochi factor. And if you remember the dynasty that happened in San Francis, Go started with a World Series, they took a year off, they came back in one one, they took another year off, and they came back in one one. You want three out of five years. If he's able to repeat that, God, I kind of would almost rather have that than a back
to back. Back to backs are effing hard in baseball, effing hard. But a dynasty that's good for a long time, like the Astros, like the like the Giants, like the Yankees, where you win one man miss Ola year or two out there back, sign me up. Now's not the time sign me up for that. And maybe next week is not the time, but it's coming. We have a lot of time to do this. Well, we need to talk about like this White Langford fella. Yeah,
Like Evan Carter's incredible. He just got hurt a little bit, He'll be fine, Adulis and it's like, Okay, they're gonna be spot y Oodi's great gi me spot for everyone, Like they might just have Langford starting Triple A crazy if they have too much talent to repeat like a lot of people will say, yeah, Langford's a better prospect than that being Carter or to run out a team never started, like I've already proven I should be the just won the World Series? What do you want me? Look like?
Garrett would Jason now Dean's forty seven Danny. I don't know hanky hanky talk, but dunk of Dog is that him? I think he's a big green tractor guy. I know that's not him. Who is it? That's Trace Adkins? Trace Adkins? Sorry? What I know that? What year? Though? That's the real question. Who oddly endorsed Jenny Craig or something? I have no idea? Weird I just remember seeing that video. I'm being mystified by that song Doe, but don't get do I think the first country
song about ass? I don't think so no, no, no no, so many Cowboy butts Drive Me Nuts? Catboy but Drive Me Nuts is a great song by Joe Deartey. Ali Larder's forty eight Oh Hot did commercials but was in something. What are you doing hubbing your r can sprayed shaving cream or whipped cream on her boobies and Varsity blues. Oh, James Vanderbeek, his bag dropped the floor, cuts away to the butt bag hitting the forest. His mouth goes, his tongue rolled out. I started going hipness like
a cartoon dog. Finally, Okay, that's the universal sound when a cartoon steps on a wooden plank and it hits him in the face. How old is it? How old is she? Forty eight, forty seven? I mean I deleted already lovely to this day? Yeah, of course. Patrick Monahan is fifty five Saturday Night Live. No, that's Bobby moynihan. That's Bobby moynihan. Thank Patrick Monahan lead singer. Hold On, hold On, hold On, damn it to hell trainy and he looks just like Jason Bateman.
It's nuts. He lives there a cross of Jason Bateman and Peter Gallagher. Look it up. Incredible, impressed. He's never wrong, folks, Patrick Hybrid, you just created he's seeing it. I absolutely am saying he's spot on Jason Bateman, Peter Gallao. Okay, I get another one coming. In. That's correct. He is always right. Ikey Woods is fifty eight, alright, John Totto sixty seven, the incredible John Taturo always has something going on with his feet. I think he looks like an older Brian
demeris all right, you can see it that a little bit. Yeah, Yeah, that's good. I was cool. Oh, Mike, Mario Andretti's eighty four, the great Mario Andretti, the winner of the nineteen sixty nine Indianapolis five hundred that should have been won by my great great uncle Jigger Siroy. Yeah, careful, his name is Jigger Siroi. He qualified to be on the pole position of the sixty nine in Napolis five hundred. His crew chief waved the lap off. His reign was coming and he didn't think it
would hold up. I had the crew chief not waved it off, a Siroy would have been on the pole of the Indy five hundred and nineteen sixty nine might have won the damn thing like Mario Andretti did. The name Siroy might be the most famous name in American auto racing instead of Andretti. He waved off again out pitt A qualifying lap oh qualifying because he thought there's gonna
rain. There was gonna rain, and he didn't think that. He didn't think the speed would hold up, so he waved off the qualifying lap, but it did start raining, thereby ending qualifying. Had he not waved the lap off, it would have counted idiot. And the Jigger Siroy Award is given to the hard luck non qualifier at the Indy five hundred each and every year to this day. Is that true to God? Really? Swear to God? This is true? The picture? Well, he's the one that's
always right. You're the known liar, so I'm just kind of not really sure who they after the Ron Gilligan saga. Yeah, I got a little cred around him. Get the guy some equity man. Baby steps, Mike baby steps. Okay, Mike, you're for the other. Look alike, hurry Gilbert Godfred would have been sixty nine. Looks like Fred Armison. I can't read that headline. Just read it, Yeah, read out loud, clear your name, No, read out loud. Jiggers Siroy a legend despite
never running a lap in the five hundred. That's cool. Congratulations Is that his real name? I think it's Leon? Why do you just go out Leon? Leon's a cool name. Well, I don't I mix up his because his dad was Ah okay, eighty five winning crew chief. His name's not jay Z in real life because Jay sometimes refers to himself using that word. I don't think that's it. Okay, he does, Danny Baylis Leon No j Ward, Yes, y'all ares jjon help me help me. Yeah, he went by jig back in the day. Yes, and yeah,
that's all. That's as far as I'm just going tonight and listen to reasonable doubt both of you and get some schooling. Dean Smith would have been ninety three, So there's your birthday. Dean Smith doesn't have a cool rap name. Gilbert Godfred also looked a little bit like a little Fred Armison across the Fred Armison and Chris Arnold mash him together. Here's Gilbert Godfreed. That's right, Talk Bags. Brought you by Advanced Harrestoration. I should also mention all
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there. Yeah, we got Billboard Bayless tomorrow, folks, March movie is us and we will let you have an announcement on that and let you know what's going on in two weeks. Talkbacks. Hey, I'm not sure if you guys frequently do giveaway before eight i' spe work, but man, I want them lawn seats. I'm a sucker for Darius Rucker. Okay, okay, they just want to say this sucker for Rutger. We have three more pairs of Hoodie the Bluefish tickets to give away later in the weeks. To
stick around for that. We'll probably give them away on Friday. Did JJ giveaway that pair to Rebecca? You did a sweet girl. She knows she had to use a dumb button. Yeah you don't. He she lost. I thought about it. She didn't even have to use a dump but she crushed that game. She should have been penalized better than all of us put together. Penalizer penalized. What a softy that's nice for you. Yeah, this is mister Marconi reaching out to Kevin Kurrt fun tweets Turner to give you
the award for the most funniest host. What puts you over the top was the wide tongue humor you provide it today. Thank you for your service. Suck at soroh and dun coming from him? That help the time and now he sucked morning downbeat love the show. Just some thoughts on Luca. I think with how he you know, moves at his own pace, methodically throughout throughout the court and uh uses his skill set to get to his spots. He doesn't really rely on his explosiveness or athleticism to do what he does.
So you know, God forbid he has a bad injury, you know, to his knees or ankles. I don't know that it would affect him quite as much as it would other players that rely on their athleticism. Okay, that was great. I'm so trained by our listeners, who I will claim right now we have the funniest listeners out of any radio station. Were you not waiting for the joke the whole time, were like a few This is Kevin Kostner, yeah, or you suck Kat boys. Sorry boys, y'all
are going to be my downfall. If there is ever a true crime show documentary about my murder, the detective is going to be confused as hey. He's going to be trying to figure out who two one four seven eight seven one nine seven one is? And what does the text message? Have Dingu deliver the hoodie to me and a spartan outfit me? The final text he sents list of this number, have Dingu deliver the hootie to me in a spartan outfit? What is the hooties? Who is Dingu dinga to deliver tickets
to a winner and a spartan outfit sometime in twenty twenty four? Yes, all right, yeah, all right, bat payoff. One of us is a loser, has to give concert tickets to someone or maass tickets or whatever. This is spartan and we can't just walk across the street anymore because costume world shut down. Good time for one more. I can't wait for fast talker talk tomorrow because Kat's a fast talker. He sounds like the micromachine man. Sometimes you guys are fast talkers. Fast talker and I think I have
multiple gears volume talker, Yeah, you have multiple gears for sure. Absolutely. We get excited though, you go. Yeah, I do get excited, all right. When I get excited, my brain shuts off. I'll be back tomorrow more than six am, Danny, Danny with Billboard Bayless, Tomorrow, the return of Billboard Bayless and much more. We'll be with you at six am, Ben and skin Show with Christina and Steve his next speakeasy.
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