The Bobby Bones Show - Las Vegas Shooting Coverage: Bobby Talks To Jake Owen + Multiple Eye Witnesses About The Tragedy At Route 91 Harvest Festival

Episode Date: October 2, 2017

Bobby talks to Jake Owen, Elvis Duran and multiple eye witnesses about the tragedy that took place during the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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At least 20 dead, 100 injured at Route 91 Harvest Festival. This is a big festival in Las Vegas. It's three days. Apparently someone had knocked out a window in the 30th floor to the Mandalay Bay. There are a lot of details we don't know, but Jason Aldina was onstage playing. and all you hear are gunshots. And you know what? I would have thought it was fireworks too.

And a lot of people at first thought there was something going on with like the sound. And then Al Dean, when he drops the guitar and runs off, I think that's when everybody realized. This is for real. You know what I woke up. Then we woke up, I mean, I guess I woke up at like two because my phone was going off. Just from artist friends, just from, I mean, heck man, one of the guys I know that plays in Aldine's band. I was talking to him. And so right now, everybody's just kind of freaked out

and their hearts are still raising to where they're not even talking complete sentences. Hey, listen, I don't even know how to handle this right now. Like, the first song up is a Jason Aldeen song, and it wasn't on purpose. Yeah. Like, I'm just going to let everybody know, like, this just happened.

I don't even know how to handle this right now. We're just going to do the show, and this is obviously what we're talking about here. Here, just plug it in here. and so what we do know is that 20 are dead, 100 injured the hospitals in Vegas

at one point I had to stop taking people because so many were there at once and you see a lot of Snapchat video, a lot of Insta story video of people who again, we're just filming the show when it happened

All right switch we're actually just getting organized too as you can tell because we've been trying to load audio talk to everybody we know. Hey, see if you get Jake on the phone. I was texting with Jake on a few minutes ago. And obviously he was shaken.

I believe he played either right before Al Dean. As far as Jason goes, I know that crew has been told not talk about it yet publicly. I can read you some tweet or some texts and just not say exactly who they're from. Right now I'm a little bit on information overload because for the last two hours, It's just been what's happening, what's happening, what's happening. How about this? From somebody in the, I'm going to say Aldine Camp, okay? I'm okay.

Scariest thing I've ever dealt with in my life. Literally running for my life. There were shots all around us. We had to keep getting behind cars for cover. Now, this is someone that was back there. Again, I don't think it's my right to say exactly who this is, texting me this. Yeah.

But it was someone. that was there, that was back there. Someone else from the same camp. It was there with their mom's sister and they're right in the middle of it to they never heard bullets hit so close before. They were back behind the stage, beside the stage.

Another one from the Aldine camp, we'll call it that. I've never been that scared of my life. I seriously thought I was going to get mowed down. I was watching people get. hit around me insane. Now, we come on the air and we do positive shows and positive news and that's not what happened right now. If you're waking up at least 20 dead, 100 injured at a Las Vegas concert, went to Jake's

voicemail. Okay, I'll try to call up from my phone. He may not have known who it was. I was talking to Jake right before I came on the air. So we'll try to call him for my cell phone. Jake May I played right before Aldean? Yeah, he did. Hello.

Hey, dude, you're on the air. Hey, so where are you right now? All right now. I'm on a bus. It's in the bus lot. They had kind of like the artist buses. You were here. They had the artist buses parked back behind the stage.

So I was back there where our buses was with, you know, Jason and Kane Brown's buses back there. Well, I went on stage to watch Jason is when this all happened and went down. And we thought it was the pyrotechnics or something going off. And next thing, you know, you could hear. ringing off the top of the roof there was people freaking out uh everyone started fleeing every witch away and uh at that point when you got out in the in the parking lot area where everybody where we were running to i mean there's people bleeding and lying in the streets and uh it's me it's like it's literally like a bad movie like something you you dream you would dream and think you gotta wake up at

any point and i think we're all still trying to figure out if this is you know this is this is real life this is weird at what point did you realize it wasn't because i would have also thought it was some sort of firework. Like honestly, at what point did you realize it wasn't that? I realized it. I've seconds into this, and what was crazy as man, it wasn't just like, I've heard guns fire. This sounded like a full on automatic rifle just unloading. And at that point, you could see Jason was out on the catwalk, and he just put his guitar up in the air and started running back towards the drum set to get off the stage. And that's when you knew people started fleeing in the crowd. And it was wild, man. I've never seen any

anything obviously like this before and it's people are scared. I mean, they're still scared. There's people all over, don't know what to do right now out here. Where are you right now? What are you guys doing? Well, I'm currently sitting on a bus with a few of the guys from my crew. A really good family friend of mine was here with her family visiting for her birthday. She's on the bus with me because she got separated from her husband who they fled another

way. I mean, it was kind of like people just, it was every man for themselves. People just started running and we're kind of on lockdown. They won't let us really go anywhere. And I think they're just trying to figure out answers right now. Could you tell it was coming from above or did you have any idea? Honestly, from my perspective and I was talking to some of the guys once I got back over here, and you know, I'm not one to speculate.

But to answer your question, no, I don't think I realized at first it was coming from above other than the thought that we did here hitting the roof of the stage. But once I ran out and realized I was in the open, it sounded like it kept getting closer, and which led me to believe I felt like there was something, like there was someone else on the ground out there somewhere. But, you know, they say so far that it's just one guy that was up in the Mandalay Bay. But, I mean, it was wild how it just continued.

I mean, I'm not kidding, man. It went on for at least five minutes straight of unloading. And it sounded like stopping for a minute, reloading, and then just fully automatic. rifle. Dude, I'm glad you're okay. You know, I've talked to a lot of the folks over in the Aldine camp too. And listen, I'm glad, but there are a lot of people that aren't, obviously, that we're

out in the crowd just enjoying a freaking show. And some words I'm not even going to say decides to take out a gun and hurt and kill and ruin it for everyone. But I'm glad you're good. Thanks for sharing your story with this, buddy. Yeah, man. I think it's important too for everybody out there to know that no matter what, you know, this is America.

We get to live in the land of the free. We get to wake up every day and live this life where we feel safe thanks to the men and women that fight for our freedom. But, you know, as country music, and thank you, buddy, for leading the word out there and being a patriarch for getting this out there. But we as artists, I mean, it's our obligation. We get out there and we put on a show so people can have fun and forget about some of the day-to-day life things, you know. And I saw kids on their parents' shoulders out there tonight. and they'll always remember this concert but I think us as a whole community

in country music and all of music can come together and continue to do this and not be scared of these cowards that come and do this because we will prevail that's what we do as Americans All right buddy, thank you for the call I know it's going to be tough to sleep

tell everybody we said hello we're glad that they're safe there with you All right, see you man All right there's Jake going Yeah Jake reached out last night as soon as it happened And he was like, I mean, he knew we had, we, like, this isn't about us, but we played that stage the night before, like, the Saturday night version of that, that was us. And so, but we left. And so people didn't know what night we played, so they were texting us like, are you okay, you okay?

And I'm like, yeah, we got out. Like, we left Sunday. But we played that on Saturday. And he's right. That crowd was, and I just put it on my Instagram, that crowd was electric and awesome. And it happens, it happens such a great time. and to see, like some dude kicked out a window. You can't open those windows, Amanda Lay Bay, by the way.

Those windows you can't pull open. He had to knock out the window and then and then shoot out the window and then start shooting it down. And then, again, all I'm seeing are Snapchat's. I mean, Jake tells it better than I could because he was there. But either he had multiple guns or he was reloading. And the thing about, at least my history with automatic fire, they get hot after a while.

And I don't know what he had. we'll find out more. You know, I was dealing with speculation two hours ago. People were like, there are multiple shooters. And I was like, whoa, everybody take a beat. We're going to find out what's going on. What we do know right now is if you're just waking up, is that in Las Vegas at the Route 91 Harvest Festival,

which is a really, it's an awesome festival. It's outdoors. It's on the strip. And Mandalay Bay looks out onto it. Someone on the 32nd floor, if I'm, you know, shot, kicked out, somehow got a window open and with some amount of firearms shot down into the crowd and onto the stage. Now, forever they weren't announcing a name. I still don't think they've announced

the name. They just released it. Okay. It's like a 65-year-old white dude. 64-year-old. 64. And they're looking, and again, some of the people on the West Coast, they're going to be like, this is two hours behind. I think our Vegas should pick us up to run us live. Thank God. But I don't, I'm going to sit here and go through some more of this audio. It's updating as we go. Right now, 20 dead, 100 plus injured at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. It's a wide open area. The backstage is wide open.

I'm going to gather some thoughts and some audio and some video and we'll see who else. I mean, I'm telling you, everybody is texting me right now. And not even just about me. The thing about these festivals, too, is you know. don't know who's playing what night. You just see a big list of people for the most part. But even like Kelsey, who's in Europe. Europe right now just texting me. She's like, hey, I'm gutted. Whatever you need to do and whatever you need me to do, like, I'm there. I'm going to go through some text to come back.

A lot of people won't even hear about this till later. I'm going to let you know what we know right now as of 21 after. At least 20 people are dead, 100 plus injured at the Route 90. festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. And it's personal on many levels, one, because we know everyone that was playing at that show last night. Luckily, none of that small group was hurt. On the other hand, a lot of freaking people died that were sitting in the crowd watching a country music festival.

Just fans. A festivals that we go to that we watch that would take part of. Another personal part of it is Our band played there 24 hours before That same exact stage And that's like the least part of it But for me People are just blowing me up like

Hey are you okay? And I'm good And I'm getting texts from people worried about Y'all and the rage you like Yeah they don't know what night you play And they're all they know is they saw you were in Vegas And you were at the same festival and Yeah so it's a really personal thing It's crazy

And we talked to Jake Owen a bit ago and he was on the side stage watching Al Dean because Jake had played right before Jason went on. And what Jake said is, the same thing I would have thought at first, it was Piro. Because if you've ever been to an Al Dean show, there's a lot of fire and a lot of explosion. And I think at first that's what you would have thought.

And again, when I also... Also, let me say this. As I'm talking, I'm just talking. I have no... There's nothing prepared. Like, I woke up and it's just been pretty hectic since 2 o'clock this morning. probably about maybe before that, whenever that happened.

So I may say things that aren't factually correct, just talking. And if I do, I'll try to come back and correct myself and apologize. But there's a lot of fire and explosions, and I would have also thought for a while that that was what that was. You see Jason as he's playing, realize that's not the right explosion. because in that show with that much fire, you have to know where it is at all times and you know when it's going to go off.

And you see him react at a time. And he's like, wait, either something just messed up or something's not right. Well, so you've talked before, I mean, for those of us that don't know what it's like to be on stage with lots of sound and music and pyro and whatnot, but you all have said before how sometimes you can't really hear anything

because you have your in ears in. I bet you he didn't know what it was. It's like other things, so then I can see if the whole band has those in, that there's just, I mean, that they reacted as quickly as they did and figured out. But I mean, I guess you start to kind of see other people, you know, start running and you're thinking, I just, I don't know that I would have, if I had my in ears in and I'm just jamming out, I'm in a concert looking, everybody having fun, that I would, I don't know. The interiors are a great point that I didn't think of. So what happens is when you're on stage and we use these two, you think you can hear the crowd. Like the crowd thinks that the person playing can hear them. For the most part, we can't because these ears seal off your ears.

They're molded perfectly to fit your ear. And what you hear inside those molds is the mix of all the music. And it's going right to your ears. So unless you take one out, you really don't hear the crowd. You hear the things that are supposed to go in those ears. And maybe that's why he delayed for a second. Yeah, I mean, that's what I'm just wondering as a person. Like, I don't know that he hears what everybody,

or y'all is performers on a big stage like that and you're consumed with what's happening. I don't know. You know, your performance. Yeah, I think that's actually a really good point that I didn't think of because he had his ears in. And then maybe he saw people starting to react and then he thought, this is a sound I'm not supposed to hear and I'm out.

I don't think for a while you're going to hear from Jason. I know we posted an Instagram, but that camp has been told to not talk. And not for any bad reason, but because I think they don't want to say something that is factually inaccurate. It's not their job to come out and try to talk about it and make sense of it or report facts. It's kind of ours to come out and talk about it. I have a lot of clips. We've been pulling stuff here. It doesn't, it ain't pretty.

I'm going to tell you right now, it's not pretty. Yeah, yeah. We come and we do the show and we try to be posse, and this is not one of those days where it's pretty. This is something very, very personal in a lot of ways. Well, in the excess of 100 plus injured and excess of 20 plus that have died at this point. And if you were up, and you probably weren't

because I wouldn't have been, have my phone, not been just going off like crazy. But, you know, whenever someone starts to shoot, people start to have all these, oh, there's four people, five people, There's a bomb in this thing. It got really crazy for a while last night. In the end, as of right now, it was a lone wolf.

It was one dude. It was a white dude in his 60s. And they say they're looking for his Asian girlfriend or Asian. Roommate. Companion. Well, companion. Yes. Okay.

Here, here's that. Right now we believe it's a sole actor. And we have the place under control. So, yeah, there's that. I'm going to, uh, we're going to come back. We're gathering clips. Right now, 20 dead at least. Here's the, the reality of it.

It's going to be more than that. 100 plus they're injured. Hospitals were turning people away because it couldn't take any more people. It's going to be more than that. You're just waking up. There's a humongous festival called the Route 91 Festival in Las Vegas. We had played it on Saturday night. Last night was the last night of the three-night festival,

and Jason Aldine was headline. it was Jason Aldine, it was Jake Owen, who we heard from earlier. And as Jason is playing, you hear gunshots. Now gunshots have, they're telling us, we're coming from the 32nd floor of the hotel. The, which, Mandalay Bay. Mandalay Bay, thank you. And a guy was shooting down into the crowd. And so I have a lot of audio.

it's not pleasant. I don't even I know it's early in the morning. I don't even know if you want kids listen to the radio when you talk about 20 people dead, 100 people injured. Honestly, I don't know. So I'm just going to tell you what I play. It's not pleasant.

And if you have a six-year-old in the car, there may be things that you don't want to have to explain to them. Just being honest, I hate to say, hey, change the channel. I would never say, but I just don't think that they're, the kids should have to hear this. So I'm just letting you guys know.

right now that's the deal. So I would not feel right about myself. I didn't say that. Here's a witness that talks about seeing Aldine drop his guitar and this is right when he ran off. I saw Jason Aldeen drop his guitar and I'm like, I'm out of here. Okay. I knew something was going down. And then I couldn't even get up the aisle. And then that's when the 15 seconds or so of just assault rifle shooting occurred. That's when I lead on the ground. I was pulling people down. Get down. Lay down. felt energy from these bullets. I didn't get shit, but I felt it.

It felt like it was right next to me. I was watching the news this morning, and a lot of people were talking and just, nah, it's hard to say, imagine, but imagine that you see people around you getting hit, and you don't know where it's coming from. Think of the helplessness of that. Yeah. And at times people went down, and they were all down. At first, everybody was down, and then you start to hear them go, and again, this is just me

watching all these videos from Snapchat and Insta Stories, and they're like, hey, we got to go. Like we can stay down. We're going to get trampled if we stay down or we might get shot. So we got to go. And then everybody tries to run out. And it's not like it's just wide open thing you can run out of. There are exit holes.

Sure. It's like anything else when you go to a festival. I mean, people just can't walk into a humongous hole so they can't walk out of a humongous hole. And there are exit holes. and people get run over. I saw a girl on the news this morning that it was like, she had blood all over. She was like, it's not even my blood.

Oh, gosh. And it was from all things. People getting a shot, people getting, and at first it was only two. Two people had died. And then it, and it's going to jump again. Elvis Durand is on from our station in New York. Hey, Elvis.

Bobby, Bobby, I was reading all of your tweets this morning. It's so good to hear your voice, first of all. Well, thanks. Listen, we played Saturday night. We played this festival. And for us, it's personal because we know all the artists that we're playing Sunday night. I bet. I bet the first thing you thought of when you heard the news was the names of all the people you know out there started scrolling through your mind.

How are you and how are your friends? And what's the latest that you've heard from your perspective? Well, I can tell you that me, my friends, we're all good. But what stinks for us is that these are our people that come out and watch these shows. Yep. Like, the thing about the country music audience and community is it's all about the fans. and I wrote on my Instagram, it was like, I've never seen a crowd that happy. Like that Saturday night, and we've played a lot of shows, our band, that crowd was

amazingly happy and to watch such an electric atmosphere go to such tragedy. Because we are so much about the fans, we've had artists on already this morning, and they're not upset because of what they went through, what they saw, they're upset because of the people that came out to watch music and how hurt, and some of them, over 50, they just updated it. 50 are now dead. Oh my gosh. Bobby.

Bobby, can I say something? Sure. That happy, happy, wonderful night that you were talking about, it still happened. People still had joy brought into their lives before it turned tragic. So try not to forget that. Secondly, you know what? It takes one person to screw it all up for all these lovely people. So keep in mind that you were one person with the rest of your friends on stage,

making just as many people happy. Don't let that go away. Because that's what fuels us to go out and go to these concerts again. And I'm so sorry that, I'm so sorry what you're going through, Bobby, and your friends and our prayers and all of our positive, warm thoughts with you and them. Well, thank you. Listen, for me, I just pray for the families and the people that were actually at the show. And what I hope doesn't happen is that people go,

ooh, I'm not going to go to a concert now because of this. No, all the more reason to go. I know that may sound very reckless to some people, but it just, look, don't forget all the happiness and joy that you saw in that crowd before this turned this way. Elvis, thank you. We're a very close-knit community over here in the country music world, and we're all hurting for the fans and the listeners today. Hey, man, we love you. Whatever you need from us, you let us know. We're there for you, okay?

Thanks, Elvis. Okay. Carry on. Try your best to get to the day. Elvis Duran in New York. work. Again, people just reaching out. I'm like, hey, are you okay? I'm like, yeah, because I'm, I wasn't, I wasn't someone I got shot by some crazy dude in a hotel room and decided to shoot out a window and

then shoot down into a crowd. And again, I still don't know to process all this. So if my emotions come across as angry or sad or, I, I'm struggling to process this. here is a witness at the concert I thought it might have been some fireworks that seems the last act I look up in here I don't know why he's worried about something

and then I was off running and then the shots it was assault rifle and they went on I'm not kidding you George it seemed like 10 to 15 seconds I was laying on the ground in the aisle

I'm going to play an Alideen song because it's up here and I just refuse to not play an out of these song because some dude shot down into a crowd. So that's why I'm going to play it. I didn't play it because of this, but I'm not going to play it because of this, if that makes sense.

Watching the news right now, they say 50, at least 50 people have died now and 200 injured. If you're just waking up, there's a three-day music festival called the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas. We happen to play it Saturday night, Eddie and myself, The Raging Idiots, On Sunday night, last night, Jason Aldeen played.

And as he was playing, you hear gunshots. At first, people didn't know what to think of it because of Jason and Al Dean shows filled with a lot of sound. Explosions, fire. Once people realized it was gunshots, they fell and ran and Jason dropped his guitar. I saw Jason Aldeen drop his guitar,

and I'm like, I'm out of here, okay? I knew something was going to. one down. And then I couldn't even get up the aisle. And then that's when the 15 seconds or so just assault rifle shooting occurred, that's when I lead on the ground. I was pulling people down. Get down. Lay down. I felt energy from these bullets. I didn't get hit, but I felt it. It felt like it was right next to me. So that's him. Just saying what he saw. Now, just the latest update, 50 dead, 200 plus injured. It's the deadliest mass. shooting in U.S. history. The shooter

was killed by police. Also, let me say this. The fact that we have humans that will go into a situation going in while everyone else is running out, police officers, firefighters, first responders. There's a reason I do this because

I don't have the guts that you do. And so, we try to say it a lot, and I don't think I could ever say it enough. But the fact that first responders exist and go into situations where you don't know what's coming from where and you handle this. Like, we appreciate you. I want to talk to, okay, his name is DJ.

And so I met DJ in Vegas. DJ, what radio station do you work for? In country in St. George, Utah. So I was going through talking to radio stations, and we were doing interviews because we were playing on Saturday night. And so I met DJ. And DJ and I hung out for like 20 minutes or so. And DJ stayed, and you stayed last night, right? Yeah, I mean, it's still nighttime here.

like it just happened over here. I guess you're right. In Vegas right now, it's still 355 in the morning. Where were you last night when it happened? Okay, so I was in the media tent, just side stage, maybe 50 feet off of the stage to the left. And I had just packed up all my stuff, and we were taking photos,

just kind of saying, hey, see you next year, guys, all the media and stuff. And we heard something, it sounded like firecrackers. Like it sounded like some kids were lighting on firecrackers, and we all went, oh, that's weird. Maybe 10, 15 seconds pass. and then it started again. And we went, what is that?

And my first thought was that it was just pyros that went wrong on stage. And so I went out there. And then it just like erupted with gunfire, like nonstop, maybe 15, 20 seconds of gunfire. And they're working with a girl and I was able to grab her and run. And we went back into the media tent and under. And at this point, everybody's screaming. Jason Aldeen had ran off the stage. Music was cut.

lights turned on and we jumped over a fence and then every I mean girls guys everyone was screaming and crying and we made it onto the street and there's I mean everyone's bloody everyone got shot and we had I was lucky enough there was an Uber there I jumped on in an Uber that had maybe 10 people in this Uber car and we just drove and we didn't know where we were going we kept hitting dead ends after dead ends and while we're driving you can hear just all. all the gunfire just spraying out there. So as you were driving, you were still hearing the guy who had reloaded his gun and he was still firing?

Oh, yeah. I mean, this guy reloaded. He was shooting from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay through his window. The glass, I mean, shoot right through there. The blinds were coming through the window and he had reloaded. I mean, he sprayed at least 100 or 200 rounds just down on everybody at the festival. and we had made it to a helicopter airport kind of thing, and they wouldn't let us in at first, and they finally did.

And everyone's screaming. I was with a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl that got separated from their parents and were just hysterics. And I had grabbed them and said, you're going to come with me. And so I had the girl I was working with who was hysterical, the two 16-year-old girls separated from their mom hysterical, and I mean we went and now we're now like 30 minutes off of the trip. I found a hotel here in Henderson and that's where we're at.

So I've got these two girls in here and that I don't have any idea who they are. And they're asleep in the room and the other girl I was Cassie. She's asleep in the room. Cassie was out there and her friend she's what got shot right next to her. When you say got shot, shot like in the arm or shot like, I, I, I, I think she was shot in the chest and she's a mom. We don't, we don't have any idea if she's okay. There's no way to tell.

There's, there's so many people. There's no way to know if everyone's okay. You know, you bring up a good point, too, is that it's still, it's hysterical there. People still don't have a clamp on exactly what's going on. Mm-hmm. Well, I'm glad that you got out and you were able to somewhat organize a group of people to move out. I'm glad that you're okay. It's crazy to me that you got in a car and drove

and you were still hearing shots as you were peeling away. It went, Bobby, it went, I mean, it felt like an hour. It probably went a good five or ten minutes that I was like, I thought it was in the festival. And then I thought it was outside, just right outside. Nobody knew where to run, but everybody was bleeding.

I mean, my clothes, my jeans, my jean jacket, everything is covered in blood. I don't know where it came from, but I am just drenched in blood what DJ appreciate the call I'm glad you are okay buddy thank you Bobby

this has been great thank you man oh my goodness now let me go over to Brandy and Murphy Sparrow hey Brandy good morning good morning

thank you for calling yes sir I know as they told you but I was calling in because you know when when the events of 9-11 happened we didn't have social media I was on active duty

when that morning transpired over the news. And it wasn't a thought then of, you know, radio stations covering stuff because being in the military, we were focused on, you know, the mission that we were about to undertake. So my question this morning for you guys for, you know, the whole team is when such a tragedy like this happens, how do you find a balance on the air as far as covering it but still playing music in a day that is turning out for country music as a whole to be so bad. Yeah, I think it's a good question. I think country music and just humans,

I mean, regardless of a format, some dude shot a bunch of people and killed a bunch people. We now have the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. I'm glad he's dead, you know? How we do it is we just try to be as human as possible. That's how we do it. Like, we've played one song last hour, I think, maybe. And I kept telling Ray, hey, cut the song, cut the song,

you couldn't hear it. But there's no answer. There's never an answer whenever something that you don't expect to happen happens. You know, my phone went off at, you know, 2, 1.30 this morning, and it's like, okay, well, this is a day unlike other days. And so because of that, we approach it the same way. We just try to handle it as human as possible. We know we may not say the right things. We may not make the right decisions.

But we come in and just as we'd like to be talked to, we try to talk to you. Well, and I just, I'm glad you guys are back safe. I know it's hard for you because you do have friends that are out there still and you don't know what's going on with them. But the main thing today is I think that, you know, we all need to be thankful for those that are around us. Brandy, I appreciate you calling. Thank you very much for what you do.

And yeah, I think it's a great question and something that we constantly ask each other even when we have to play a commercial. It's like, okay, what do we do now? What clips do we play? Bobby's even expressed that live on air multiple times a day. like, I don't really know what to do. We're about to go into a song. I don't know.

It feels weird going into a song, but it's like, here, I'm just going to press this button. And I think... Well, and I don't know if you guys have heard, but from other stations, they've actually reported that they've identified the shooter.

Yeah, we talked about that too. He's like a 65-year-old white dude who lives in Las Vegas. He was a resident. He was, what was the rest of it? He lived in a retirement community and he had no police records. record that they see.

So, again, we're trying to keep up with it. Like, everybody else says Brandy, and we're trying to just do the best we can. But thank you for calling. I really appreciate that. Well, you guys are doing great. Thanks for what you're doing. All right, Brandy, Boa, thank you. And I assume that we're, just because she was bringing it up, and we do know, I assume

we're purposefully not saying his name. Oh, I don't know his name. I mean, I don't think it matters. His name is Stephen Paddock. Oh. Oh, so it does happen. Yeah. His name is out.

I just didn't know if we weren't saying it because. At this point, I'm not doing anything for any reason other than I'm just trying to talk about what's happening because I don't know. Like, I got confusing things flying through my head and eyeballs. Okay. So, no, there's nothing contrived with me right now. No, I'm not contrived, but I just... Yeah. Bobby Bones, everybody.

Transmitting across America. This is a Bobby Boll show. Come on, Bob. Okay. So we're on the radio this morning and we're live. And if you're just waking up, I'll brief you. 50 dead, 200 plus injured at a Las Vegas music festival. It's called the Route 91 Harvest Festival.

And I was talking to Elvis Duran earlier who does a national show out of New York and explaining to him that in country music. And he was like, hey, I hope you're okay. I was like, hey, we in country music artists, radio people, like this is a fan culture. Like we, as a radio show, as when, I mean, Eddie and I played Saturday night, the same exact festival. Like, I don't worry about the artists. I worry about the fans and the people that were there. And I check, you listen, again, I looked and as far as I know, all the artists have checked in and said they're okay. I have friends that have played in the band.

I've heard from the guitarist from Aldine. And it seems like that's okay. But I'm telling you, my head didn't even go there at first. My, excuse me. I choked up. But my head goes to where, like, are people okay? And I don't want people to not go to shows. And I don't want people.

There's just, is this like a thousand different feelings and emotions? And it's anger and it's sad. And it's like, I know somebody's going to pop up on the screen. I'm going to hear a name. And I'm going to be like, oh, no, I know them. And they've been shot or now they're dead. But you know what? There are people that are getting that.

They're waking out this morning and finding out their cousin was shot at a frigging festival last night. There are people that wake up. up here and their brother was shy at a festival last night. And there's, I mean, there's just to hear the people that we've talked to that

people are separated right now from loved ones that they were at the concert with, but people were running in different directions, so they literally got separated and they do not know what the status is of the people they were with. And to think that that's a crowd, and I know again, it's not about

you guys, but I mean, y'all were literally, like for me in my brain, I'm like, y'all were literally on that stage the night before. And it's like those same exact fans likely that were at the entire people are there at a festival. They go every day to the show. Like, I think of the festivals, you know, we work out or we go to. Like people are there all weekend. And likely that's the same crowd was just having a great time.

Y'all's just Saturday night. They go back Sunday night, trying to have another great time. And then this person has to come in and just do this. And just like that, like lives are just totally. changed forever. You say that, it's funny because Eddie and I had that conversation this morning that we didn't bring over to air because everything was happening and I was like,

dude, the same people that we were like giving high fives to and doing our show, the same because it's a three-day wristband event. The same people. And not that any of that people are people, so it's not that it matters more because all those are the same people, but it's just something about it and of course just being in

you know, they may be at some other festival we've all been at together before. Fans are fans. They travel all over. Country music is just like that. This is one of the biggest festivals. And it's just like something is just really hitting to where it's just like, oh. It's hitting because one, everything is personal and country music. We're a small community.

And we may fight, but in the end, it's like a family. And you fight with your family, but it feels weird when someone else does. And two, it does feel oddly personal because we play. this festival 24 hours before. And you're like posting all these videos and I was like watching it. That's the same crowd. It did seem like just, I mean, y'all were all going crazy of like,

this has been the best crowd ever. And I just, I'm like, go from tears to complete anger. Yeah, me too. To confusion. To then I have to like control the show and go, okay, what are the facts? And I'm going to read some facts right now. At least 50 dead, 200 plus injured at a Las Vegas concert. It is the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

I'll read you some tweets from some people. Luke Combs, active shooter at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Vegas. We are safe. John Rich, we're okay, but our fans and friends are not. This is the worst of humanity at work. Praying for the victims in Vegas tonight. Martina McBride, watching this horrific news from Las Vegas and Route 91 Festival. We played the festival last year, praying for everyone's safety.

So, it's a lot. Here is, and I just keep getting stuff handed to me, so if this isn't the best put together radio, I apologize. Here's an update on the numbers. Now the number of injures, I do not know yet, but we are looking in an excess of 50 individuals dead and over 200 individuals injured at this point. I do not want to give you an accurate number and it be wrong. So subsequently, that is why I'm portraying it in that. I'm going to give you a number. The fact they say at least 50 dead means there's going to be a lot more than 50 dead.

The fact they say 200 plus injured at a Las Vegas concert means they're going to be way more than that and there are going to be more deaths to this. And if you're just waking up and you have a kid in the car, maybe you don't want to listen to this show. And I say that with disrespect to you. Not disrespect, but just respect. Because although this is a ratings game and we need ratings, I would rather have you take your kids and if you need to turn this off. and we'll sacrifice it.

I just know that this is not going to be a show that kids need to hear. Heavy day. Too much to explain. Yeah, it is. So that's what this show is going to be. Lone Wolf from every indication, they're saying it. It was one dude,

one older white guy in his 60s from the 32nd floor in the Mandalay Bay. He had to, I know the hotel. I haven't even seen this. story. Excuse me. So someone can look this up. He had to kick out the window or shoot out the window at that place. Is that any story that you've seen?

I haven't seen anything about if he kicked it out, shot it out. Those windows don't. They don't open. No, no, no, they don't open. And they said that he had numerous weapons in the hotel room. Okay, so that I didn't know if he was, because my thing earlier was, listen, I know assault weapons and they get hot. And you're shooting a lot of them, they get, and for as much as he shot, I was like, unless he had it on something, there was no way he was shooting that much without it being too hot for him to hold. One guy.

Right now we believe it's a sole actor and we have the place under control. I'm drinking water during the show because the show's not normal. Hold on. My phone's not messing up. Scott, thank you for calling in Tampa. How's it going? You know, we've had better shows. I hate to come in and it was one of those shows where we got on a text message and it was like, everybody, get there early because we don't know what the day is going to be.

And it's actually not going that good. So thank you for calling. No problem. I just wanted to say thank you to you, to all of you all that do the show every morning. My hour drive to work is nothing but you guys. And I enjoy you guys and I appreciate you coming on the show and still doing your business. best, even though some crazy whack job just ruined one of the greatest things in the world, and that's music.

But I don't think that that's going to stop anything. I don't think that's going to stop you guys from performing or any of us from coming and seeing you, because like you said, it's a tight-knit family. And I just think you guys are great. I mean, I think you guys are awesome. You know, you're taking time out of your day to make sure that we're aware of everything going on. I appreciate you guys.

Well, thanks, man. I appreciate the call. I appreciate you. Let's come back. Give us a second. We'll come back. I need to regather my notes. And honestly, it's like every time I get a note,

there's an update. Dan and Shea wrote on Twitter, feeling absolutely helpless watching the Vegas situation unfolded via social media. So everybody's reaching out and posting things. The thing is people are just waking up and seeing this too. If our job didn't have us waking up, I wouldn't

know. People are going to wake up and be like you know, WTF. I woke up and saw two people have been killed. That's the point. I thought somebody pulled out a handgun and shot to kill people in some sort of fight. And then it was like 220. And then as we're on the air, I better go, 2050. And it's

going to get higher. So, if you just waking up, it's not a good day. Sorry, I think it's hanging on my throat. So right now, 50 dead, 200 injured from the Route 91 festival last night. They're saying now that it's the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

This is Jake Owen talking to us. Jake Owen was there. Hey, buddy. Hey, so where are you right now? All right now. I'm on a bus. It's in the bus lot. They had kind of like the artist buses.

You were here. They had the artist buses parked back behind the stage. So I was back there where our buses was with, you know, Jason and Kane Brown's buses back there. Well, I went on stage to watch Jason is when this all happened and went down. And we thought it was the pyrotechnics or something going off. And next thing you know, you could hear it ringing off the top of the roof. There was people freaking out. Everyone started fleeing every witch away.

And at that point, when you got out in the parking lot area, where everybody, where we were running to, I mean, there's people bleeding and lying in the streets. And it's, man, it's like, it's literally like a bad movie, like something you dream, you would dream and think you've got to wake up at any point. And I think we're all still trying to figure out if this is, you know, this is real life. This is weird. At what point did you realize it wasn't? Because I would have also thought it was some sort of firework, like, honestly. At what point did you realize it wasn't that?

I think we realized it about five seconds into this, what, and what was crazy is, man, it wasn't just, like, I've heard guns. fire. This sounded like a full-on automatic rifle just unloading. And at that point, you could see Jason was out on the catwalk, and he just put his guitar in the air and started running back towards the drum set to get off the stage. And that's when you knew people started fleeing in the crowd. And it was wild, man. I've never seen anything obviously like this before. And it's, people are scared. I mean, they're still scared. There's people all over, don't know what to do right now here. Where are you right now? What are you guys doing? I'm currently sitting on a bus with a few of the guys from my crew. A really good family friend of mine was here with her family visiting for

her birthday. She's on the bus with me because she got separated from her husband who they fled another way. I mean it was kind of like people just, it was every man for themselves. People just started running and we're kind of on lockdown. They won't let us really go anywhere. I think they're just trying to figure out answers right now. all it was coming from above, or did you have any idea? Honestly, from my perspective, and I was talking to some of the guys once I got back over here, and I'm not one to speculate, but to answer your question, no, I don't think I realized at first it was coming from above other than the thought that we did hear hitting the roof of the

stage. But once I ran out and realized I was in the open, it sounded like it kept getting closer, and which led me to believe I felt like there was something, like there was someone else on the ground out there somewhere but you know they say so far that it's just one guy that was up in the mandalay bay but i mean it was it was wild how it just continued i mean i'm not kidding man it went on for at least five minutes straight of of unloading and it sounded like stopping for a minute reloading and then just fully automatic rifle dude i'm glad you're okay um you know i've talked to a lot of the folks over in the aldeen camp too and listen i'm glad but there are a lot of people that aren't

obviously that we're out in the crowd just enjoying a freaking show. And some words I'm not even going to say decides to take out a gun and hurt and kill and ruin it for everyone. But I'm glad you're good. Thanks for sharing your story with this, buddy. Yeah, man, I think it's important too for everybody out there to know that no matter what, you know, this is America. We get to live in the land of the free.

We get to wake up every day and live this life where we feel safe thanks to the men and women that fight for our freedom. But, you know, as country music, and thank you, buddy, for leading the word out there and being the patriarch for getting this out there. But we as artists, I mean, it's our obligation. We get out there and we put on a show so people can have fun and forget about some of the day-to-day life things, you know. And I saw kids on their parents' shoulders out there tonight. And, you know, they'll always remember this concert.

But I think us as a whole community in country music and all of music can come together and continue to do this and not be scared of these cowards that come and do this because we're going to we will prevail. That's what we do as Americans. All right, buddy. Thank you for the call. I know it's going to be tough to sleep. Tell everybody we said, hello. We're glad that they're safe there with you. All right. All right. See you, man. All right. Jake, all in there. We're going to talk to ABC 7. Good morning, Washington. I don't know if they're on yet. We appreciate you taking the time to speak with us. You're also in a band, The Raging Idiots, and you guys were just there playing this festival this past weekend, correct?

Yeah, we played on Saturday night, and obviously this happened last night. You know, for us, it's such a fan-oriented culture, like country music's all about the fans. And so, you know, I woke up probably like you guys did at 1.30 this morning and saw at first that there were two people that had been killed, then 20, and now it's over 50, and I'm getting texted by every artist,

and it is everyone worrying about all the people that were there at the event. And it's a massive. of three-day festival. It was so, the crowd was so fun, and to look now and see what happened last night. It's really, really sad. The area, again, 10,000 people, but in kind of the packed-in area with very limited exits to be able to get out of that area in an emergency. Yeah, and it's more than 10,000.

It's, I mean, 13 to 14,000 when you put up the bleachers on the side, and of course it's not a super open area to walk in because they can't just have everybody coming into a sold-out festival. So there are, you know, exits, 10, 12. 13 exits that people have to check in and check their wristbands. So when you're trying to get out, it's not like a big wide open area that everyone can just escape. So you are trying to shoehorn yourself out of it. Can you kind of set the stage for us as far as the vantage point that this shooter would have from the 32nd

floor of Mandalay Bay? I mean, how close are we talking here to where you've got those 10,000 people crammed into a pretty small space? Well, so the Mandalay Bay is behind where the... stages. So when we play, we don't see the Mandalay Bay. So anything that was coming down from what they're saying, I believe, is the 32nd floor is coming from not only up high, also from behind as well. So you don't, like when we were on stage, we did not see that hotel. So they don't see a gun that's coming to them because it's coming again from behind and over the top.

Just absolute sitting ducks there. I've been following your reports this morning all morning long on Twitter. I know you're very plugged in. to the whole country music scene and hearing from a lot of different artists, like you said, I understand that somebody backstage got struck and that there were bullet holes in the bus. Yeah, so I can tell you that, again, this country music community is so close. And when I woke up this morning, it was a lot of the artists and a lot of, and I say artists, even the players, like the guys, guitar players, drummers. And without giving any details, because I don't know who's been notified of what yet,

but one of the players had someone with them that was struck. There were bullet holes in a bus. The stage was hit. And a lot of people that were there playing before were also on the side stage watching the show. You know, I just got a note that, and this just came across, that there were people that I know

that actually lost a couple people that were with them. And so the thing is we're just finding out because it's only 4.30 in the morning right now in Vegas right now, and they're just now starting to, somewhat gather information to be able to put it out there. So many eyewitness reports and scenes and videos we're seeing right now here in our air on News Channel 8 of stories of people saying there were hundreds of rounds that were shot. And so we fear these numbers may go up.

You mentioned you just got to know it now of someone who may have lost their lives, but that you know who might have been there? I've heard from people that have had friends that were hit. And until now, until the last five minutes, I hadn't heard of anyone that had lost their life yet. and that just came across. And they weren't personal friends of mine, but they were friends of a friend that they were with them.

And I think for me, and I think for all of us in this room, and I think for all of us in Nashville in the country community, we're all sitting here going, one, this is really terrible that it happened because we are such a close, our fans are the biggest,

the number one priority to us. So we worry about our fans first, and then we all just wait to see what's going to happen because we still, we don't know. Like we left, I can tell you, we flew back Sunday afternoon. and we got into town, and like eight hours later, I woke up to this.

So, like you guys, I don't know what's happened. I'm watching it as you guys are. This whole music festival, the Route 91 Harvest Festival, we know it's a three-day country music event. Usually these types of festivals, and you've got a huge headliner like Jason Al-Dine, the final night is the biggest night where you see the biggest crowds. Is that fair to say on this music festival as well? I think that, you know, the biggest each night, it's a pretty balanced festival.

Like night one was Eric Church, night two was Sam Hunt, night three was Jason Aldeen. And in the grand scheme of things, they're all those super A-listers. So all three were just humongous packed crowds all three nights. I know that you have a lot of friends that are in the country music business. Have you been able to talk with anybody or heard from anybody in Jason Aldean's camp? I mean, we saw the Instagram post that he put out saying that he and his crew are okay, but have you been able to talk with any of them? Yes, I have.

because I've been asked, they've been asked not to talk because it's very sensitive with them. I have. I won't say who, but I have spoken with them. They're all obviously very shaken up, as anyone would be if you're standing on a stage and there's gunfire on you. And they're all obviously shaken up for their friends and family that are there with them as well. As far as I know from the couple that I've spoken to in the Aldine camp, they are okay. Before we let you go this morning, can you talk? I know obviously with the shooter was not, you know, inside the music festival venue.

He was there at the Mandalay Bay Hotel, but what did you see as far as any security? Was there, you know, an adequate amount of officers there, armed guards patrolling? Oh, it's heavily secure. Never in one second of my being there pre-doing press, being there on stage performing, or being after, did it ever feel like anything was going to happen at the venue. And you know what? It didn't happen at the venue. It took some guy on a 32nd floor of a hotel behind the venue to shoot down on it to happen.

It absolutely was safe. That was never an issue in my mind. And I watch as closely as I can for things like that. So no, that was never an issue. Yeah, you're right. They did such a great job of securing that venue that it took somebody, a deranged individual, from a hotel room 32 feet up. All right, Bobby Bowles, appreciate you taking the time to talk with us this morning.

Our hearts go out to everyone in the country music community. Thanks for joining us from Nashville. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you guys. Have a good morning. All right, that was good morning, Washington. If you're just waking up, I'll give you the awful headline and catch up at least 50 dead, 200 plus injured at a Las Vegas music festival.

Last night, Jason Aldina was on, and someone from the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the 32nd floor kicked out, shot out a window, and then shot down onto the crowd. and shot down on to just the entire festival grounds. Multiple guns, from what we know, it was a lone shooter. They're saying it's the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The shooter has been killed by police. It is not the headline that I wanted to bring to you this morning. It is what we will be talking about. If you're just waking up, it's not good news to wake up to.

But we're sharing as much as we can in the best way we can. And I'll talk to you guys too, Chris and Louisiana's on. Hi, Chris. What's going on, man. Hey, man. How do you think this will affect future festivals and country concerts coming out? I hope it doesn't. Like, listen, I think the human part of us goes, well, I'm not going to do that. And I've been, I've done this too, where something's happened, I'm like, you know what? I just don't think I'm going to go into it. But eventually, it does go away.

If anything, we have to realize, this is one dude who is just, was for whatever reason messed up. It's one dude who is messed up. And I hope it doesn't affect us at all. In a perfect world, you would go, like, screw this guy. Let's go to 10 concerts. But for a second, people are going to think twice. But in the end, we're going to rally. And then it's not going to be a rally.

It's just going to be normal again. That's what I think. Again, this is one just awful person. And we can't let one awful person ruin it all. I'm telling you. It was such a happy play I posted on my Instagram I was like

This is the happiest craziest crowd I've ever seen in my life We played it the night before And I was like this is like And to see the people That had taken their vacations To go And some just dick

Can I even say dick? I don't know Some just shot from The Hotel and killed Listen it's gonna go up You think it's at 50 right now You think 50's it

Just wait. So I hope it doesn't. It will for a second. My advice would be that take it in, let's learn, and no, let's not let it affect us because this is a one-time thing. Yes, sir. I'm talking, but I'm talking straight from, like, right off to my heart. So ask me tomorrow, because I don't know. I don't know anything.

Thank you for the call. Well, we've seen it happen in the pet, like I most recently am thinking of. now this was in Manchester, but the incident at the Ariana Grande concert, and then you had the benefit concert for the victims, and everybody rallied together and the whole world was watching, and it was a beautiful thing to see artists come together and people come together to support the victims. And, I mean, 50 people, this being the largest mass shooting in the U.S., and all of those that are going to be affected and how we are going to have to come together and rally, just like the Manchester. servant similar things. Like we will come together and support the victims and their families and try to figure out what we can do to make it better and show people cowards like that guy that decided to go do such a thing that it's not going to ruin, you're not going to ruin it for

everybody else. I'm watching the Vegas feed. It's 442 right now in Las Vegas. And they're showing the grounds of the festival where, frankly, we've been in the last two weekends. And it just, for two reasons, it hits so close to home. One, because these are our friends. And I say friends, like, and I've said it 47 times today, I'll say it again, like the fans of country music are unlike fans of any other format. And I've worked in other formats. I've done sports, I've done alternative, I've done pop, I've done them all. I just like good music. And there isn't a

fan, like a country music fan. And that's why country music fans, that's why the artists love them so much, because the country music fan gives back so much to the artist. That's why we love our listeners so much because you guys give us so much. And I'm telling you, these artists aren't looking and going, I wonder if all the other artists are okay. I'm telling you these artists are going, how many of the fans are hurt.

How many of our people? Because that's what, even as a radio show, that's what we think of you guys. Like, you're our people. And as artists, that's what we think of you guys. You're our people. And as these artists tweet, they're not thinking, you know,

I wonder if big and rich is okay, because you know what big and rich are okay. They're like, I wonder which of our people aren't alive, are injured, are in the hospital. Hospitals turning people away. The hospitals are too full. First responders, like you guys are the, like I say, I don't have what you have. I don't have the hearts that you have and I'm so thankful that you exist because one, to go in and get this guy, Imagine having to get up to whatever floor he was at or to take him down from below. Because let's just talk about this for a second logistically.

Let's say you're taking him out from below. You're shooting up to somewhere where there are a lot of windows around him too. And a lot of people and a lot of windows around him. And let's say you're going up. You've got to find 32nd floor. You've got to find that exact room all in like, how fast can we do it? How fast can we do it? And two, think of the nurses, the doctors, they have people coming in, the trauma units.

And they're like, oh my goodness. there are 500 people coming in at once and 500 a little hyperbole there but hundreds of people 100 of people coming in at once they're like we can't take anymore because we can't so and to people we don't even know there were heroes on the scene

that were carrying people out we don't know here we are it's central time right it's 645 right now we have no idea what's what's happened so far except some dude was shooting down from a hotel killing people

You know, I want to start this by saying that If you have kids in the car It's probably isn't the best show for them to hear And it's rare that I would say, hey, you probably shouldn't listen to us But if you have kids in the car, this is not a comfortable show to hear So I just want to put that out there before I say the next set of words At least 50 dead, 200 plus injured at a Las Vegas music festival It's the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history

The shooter has been killed by police It's the Route 91 Harvest Festival so many layers it's heartbreaking and weird and sad and it makes me angry it's just it's so many layers we played we were there

like we were there we left I got in yesterday evening from that festival so literally like y'all same people watching the Aldine concert were watching y'all play it's crazy the same crew the same security

the same. And that's who I'm thinking about. Like, the fans that you met that you don't know where they are right now. No idea. If they're injured or. Didn't I mean, agree with like a hundred fans. Yeah.

How are they? It's weirdly personal. And it always is perfect. It always sucks. And these are our friends. And in the country music community, here's the thing about country music that I don't think a lot of people realize is that so we live in Nashville, Tennessee.

And the entire music industry is in a city that's not that big. And so because of that, you are closer than a normal major industry in a major city. Like, it's all right here. And you know everybody. Like, I know the base player for Marin. You know? And so as I was going back and forth with some of the guys in Aldine's band, it's like, I don't just see Jason Aldean the superstar.

I see Jason who I know run off the state. stage and I'm like, who, what else? How's everybody else? How's Jake? Jake was sitting on side stage. Jake called me at four this morning. And I don't even, and I don't even know how to talk about these emotions. So if it comes off as odd, you're listening to a guy who doesn't know how to properly express emotions whenever something is this fresh. Jason was out, Jason Alden was out playing his guitar and you could tell that he kind of was like, huh, what's happening? And then when he realized it. He dropped his guitar and took off. I saw Jason Aldine drop his guitar and I'm like, I'm out of here, okay? I knew something

was going down. And then I couldn't even get up the aisle. And then that's when the 15 seconds or so of just assault rifle shooting occurred, that's when I lead on the ground. I was pulling people down, get down, lay down. I felt energy from these bullets. I didn't get hit, but I felt it. It felt like it was right next to me. And there are a lot of those stories. And watching the videos, once people realized it was a gunshot, they didn't know where it was coming from,

so they did and they got down. Until they realized it was coming from they didn't know above, so then they got out. And try to fit a whole bunch of people out of little holes. And that's what you're doing basically when you're trying to get in and out of festival. They can't open up all the doors

or maybe we just run in to begin with. Like, that's the bit... I mean, I think of sometimes, like, if I'm in a crowd like that and I need to use the restroom, how crazy it can be trying to navigate my way through people. Can you imagine when it's complete mayhem? And I'm watching the mayhem and...

Yeah, so that's what we're doing today, and that's what we're talking about, and a love date as we go. I'm going to take Caitlin in Vegas. Hey, Caitlin. Hi. Hey, thanks for calling. Good morning.

Good morning. Yeah. I just wanted to say thank you for reporting everything that's going on here. I live in Vegas, and I've been up all night watching the news. I don't really know what's been being played nationally because obviously our local news is covering everything. But just getting the word out to everybody so that everybody knows what's going on here, or as much as we know at least. Yeah. So did you wake up this morning and see this?

Actually, I was about to go to bed last night because this all happened about 10 o'clock p.m. So I got a text at about 1045 that told me this had happened. I was there on Saturday night. This was actually the first year that I didn't go the entire weekend. And it was just instantly calling people checking social media to see where people were at and if they were okay or not. And honestly, I've tried to call a few people too. And it's right to voicemail. And I'm guessing that no news is not bad news or I would have heard from other people, that kind of thing.

but yeah Caitlin I mean it sucks you're there there's another way to say it sucks

that a guy this guy takes a bunch of weapons up into it I mean think about that like he packed him into whatever he packed him in he lived in Vegas

so he took went from his again these are things that are popping in my head this is not me thinking before this this guy lives in Las Vegas he has

we don't know multiple high caliber automatic weapons goes from his place of residence checks into the hotel goes up to a high floor

like all of this was thought out right? Yeah totally had to have a plan and I've been so into looking at the please God don't let the numbers rise that I haven't even

put my head around what's the guy thinking why was he thinking how much time did he put into Like this is a... How pre-meted? When did he book this hotel room? This isn't some guy just getting up there and going crazy.

Which is maybe what I felt like it might have been at first when I was just like, who's hurt, who's... This is a guy who planned this out. So, Caitlin, my heart hurts for your city. That's, I mean, that's all. I love it. I love it there. I've been the last two weekends there. I was there for this festival.

All of it. These are my friends that were there last night. So my heart hurts. you. Well, and you talked about Nashville being a small city, and even though Vegas is a big city, it's smaller than you think, and everybody knows everybody.

So when these names start to come out, we're going to know more names on there than we want to. Yeah, me too. Us too. That's the thing, is that you're going to know people, and we're getting... It is not a good situation, and I think it's going to get worse. Thank you for the call.

Thank you for the call. Here's one. Hey, Amy and Florida, thank you for calling the show. Hey. So I know that we're kind of processing still, but one of the things I wanted to kind of remind people, and this is just from having friends who are nurses and paramedics and first responders, police officers, is if you can, no matter where you are in the country, if you're looking for a way to help, now's the time, go donate blood. I mean, the people that, like you said, there's 200 plus that are injured,

and they're going to need surgeries and they're going to need procedures being done. So if you're willing to and able to, I think that, you know, find your local Red Cross and donate blood, they definitely need the donations at this point. I appreciate you. Thanks for sharing that. It's a really good point. And a lot of people are like, hey, how do I help? And there's been times of my life are like, I'd love to help, but I'm broke. Well, you can give blood.

So thank you. Thank you for the call. Appreciate that. Thank you. This is a Bobby Bones show. Come on, Bob. I woke up it. I don't know.

I don't know when I woke up. You know how you see, like, it's like 60 text messages, and you're like, uh-oh, like something's not right. So that's what happened this morning. And I was like, what happened? And so I'm going through it and have my glasses on. And I was like, gunch, what? And then it's everyone.

I mean, I'm looking at my phone now. It's even, I'm going to tell you, It's even artists that aren't there reaching out to me going, hey, let me know what you need from me. It's what a close-knit group. This whole community is and community is and fans and listeners and all of it. I'm looking at my phone now because I continue to get messages and I sent out a bunch like, hey, is, like, are people okay? I had one friend that said he had two people with them that didn't make it

and that was the first time that I got one of those like I can try to call John Rich because I know they played right before I don't know I'll call for my cell phone and I'm sure he's being from Big and Rich I'm going to call for my cell phone in case he recognizes the number

but see like it's trying to call right now the cell phones there It even takes forever to ring through I'm not going to let it ring too much If you're just waking up, at least 50 dead 200 injured At a Las Vegas music festival Trust me, I hate saying those words over and over again But people are just waking up and they're like, what, what?

Yeah, that's what happened. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The Manilae Bay Hotel is, and I can give you perspective Because this happened last night, we played it on Saturday night. You can't see the hotel from where you are. So imagine we're playing and we're looking out and we're looking out and we see New York, New York, and we see the Luxor and we see down the strip, the main part of the strip.

What's behind us is the very tall Mandalay Bay that's gold. And that's where the guy was shooting from, over the top and from behind. And so that's why nobody knows. knew where it was. First of all, if you're getting a shot from over the top, you don't know where it's coming from anyway. But it was coming from behind and from over the top. I shout out to the first responders. I say so many times, not even just this. Like, you guys and girls, and I mean guys as both male and female, but you have something that I don't have. You have so much more courage than I ever have. You'd make and change lives daily because

that's just where your heart is and I appreciate you. There are a lot of people right now that appreciate you. You're saving lives in this situation and other situations all across America, but this is one of those two where you just like to highlight it and go, like we appreciate you so much. I'm going to play this from CBS. How quickly did you see first responders run towards the scene and start helping the wounded? Almost immediately.

Metro is there. They're always right there. You know, Metro's such an amazing police force. And they were right there. Ambulances were coming. We had ambulances everywhere. There were police cars everywhere. And the police officers were helping.

The other concert goers were helping everybody. It was just amazing. We all came together, and everybody was helping everybody. It was wonderful to Zee. And I just love Metro. I'm just so proud of them. I mean, there's somebody completely just saying, thank you, we would not be alive. We would not be without you.

I mean, and we say that too. We're saying it again right now. Now, the number of injures, I do not know yet, but we are looking in an excess of 50 individuals dead and over 200 individuals injured at this point. I do not want to give you an accurate number and it be wrong. so subsequently that is why I'm portraying it in that manner. And again, as you read the headline, at least 50 dead 200, and you're just going to go up. And I hate to say those words, it's going to go up.

They don't put the words at least up there, or the plus sign up for 200. I woke up, it was two. Yeah, and the fact that it's jumped so much in such a short. Oh, my goodness. And because it's happened so fast, and it's so many people at one, and it's chaos. Yeah.

And it's still chaos, because we were talking to someone earlier, 10 people jumped into an Uber and they didn't know each other and a couple of them were hit and they jumped into an Uber and they kept running into dead ends and they ended up getting to an old airport and after half an hour they found a place to go

and it was just chaos here is what I want to do here and I'm getting handed news as the show goes so again as it doesn't sound like it's a very well-thought-out radio show it's not we're reacting as we see and we're reacting to what we hear.

The guy was a lone gunman. He was in a room up high by himself with a bunch of weapons. And we talked Jake Owen earlier, and he was like, dude, it felt like it was forever. Like we heard it. And, you know, Amy made the point about inner ears earlier. And so I'll explain how this works is. So if you'll see an artist on stage, and we use these two, but these things that you'll see them pull them out of their ear and it's got a wire on it.

And what that is, it's built exactly for your ear. And it seals your ear off so you can only hear basically all of the music that you want to hear. Because it's loud. And if you don't seal off your ear, you're not going to be able to hear the music around you, the guitars, the drums. So imagine your ears are sealed off and you're hearing the music. I would imagine Jason didn't even hear the gunshots. But if, and then, because even those that were side stage like Jake Owen was saying, he was right there.

He didn't have inner ears in. and he thought it was maybe fireworks. So even if Jason did hear something faintly, you would think fireworks. And then to know and learn later that it's this is just, oh. Here's a guy talking about exiting the venue. We weren't really running.

We were just, everybody was all nice and calm. There was a few people trying to run and we stopped them and just calmly shuffled our way because it went right down into a gooseneck and just started bottling up there. So everybody just calmly kept going. And then, yeah, we made it open. And then we ran.

Once we got into the road on the streets, then we started to run, and then we took the back. We're here. There's a guy saying that he saw, I may stop this clip in the middle of it, depending, because I haven't heard this one yet. Again, I'm getting audio put up as it's show's going.

So I went to the 64th floor to go to the Skyfall lounge, and it was full of people drinking. Nobody had any idea. So this guy's from the hotel. I haven't heard a perspective. You can hear the gunshots in the background. It sounds like firecrackers, though. It totally does.

Like, here's the thing. This isn't as loud as the pyro from the show, which would make you think it's not anything big or drastic. When it's freaking bullets coming down. Like you go to a pyro of a show, it's all like this. Boom, pow, flame. This sounds like someone throwing some black cats. It was going on, and I had a bird's idea with the Route 91

hardest music festival right across the street. My friend and I personally saw crowds of people running out of the festival and bodies hitting the ground. He has to rewashed these people getting gunned down from the shooter on the 32nd 4th and Mandelaide. It's hard to listen to. Yeah. I'm glad the dude's dead.

I mean, think about how they had to get him. I was talking about, like, there's a lot of stress. How'd they get them, do you know? I don't know,

but I think about that too. Like, they have to come up. Do they go up to the elevator? Do they go up to stairs? They don't know if people are waiting for them in the hallway. The whole thing. And how do you pay,

and if you're going to take them from a, Hello? Like, do you have a sniper that can, but, uh, that's what I, I don't know, because you open the stairwell door or the elevator and, you know, what if he has people waiting for him or he's out in the hall waiting for you? Or if it's behind it. Right. Right. Right. And the people, you have to worry about, oh, what if people are leaving their rooms on that floor that don't know that the person is on their floor? Oh my goodness. That's why the, we're just like, the first responders like. Yeah, they're the brave ones. Right now we believe it's a sole actor

And we have the place under control I thought it might have been I look up in the air I don't see any fireworks I get a little bit worried And then it was pretty eerie Because Jason kind of hesitated in his song And I'm thinking wow he's worried about something

And then I was off running And then the shots It was assault rifle And they went on I'm not kidding you George It seemed like 10 to 15 seconds I was laying on the ground in the aisle here's some of the police when they put the suspect down.

I can tell you at this time, we do have a suspect down. Our officers can confirm that for you. But I understand the people of Las Vegas want to help. I see a lot of people out here that are coming down wanting to help. Please steer clear the area. We have all the resources from Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, as well as our partner agencies coming down to bear on this situation. So please stay away from the area.

We have had reports of people coming down trying to help. We got that. So we're good right now. If you're just waking up at least 50 dead, 200 plus injured at the Route 91 Festival. The headline is terrible. And the headline below it, deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. The shooter has been killed by police. We were in Vegas for Route 91 Festival.

We played Saturday night. And last night's when it all happened where the freaking guy was shooting people. like 50 dead 200 plus entered I want to bring on Paul because Eddie and I met Paul Saturday night at the casino and Paul we didn't know Paul Hey Paul good morning

Hey hey how you guys doing? You know it's weird And we didn't know Paul we met Paul And so we got Paul wristbands He didn't know who we were But his wife was at the festival So you did you guys end up going out last night Paul Yeah we did

So tell me what you saw and what happened Well, we were standing kind of back in the middle of the First of all, we're still a little emotional, kind of shooking up a little bit. So trying to lock it in a little bit here because we got to get back on a plane here to go back to South Dakota. So, but anyway, I appreciate you guys texting me. We were standing back by kind of by that middle bar area. And like you kind of see on TV, I mean, it was non-stop firing. and people were running back towards us,

so it was kind of hard to, you know, turn and go against the crowd, so we were just basically being shoved out the back door. What did you think was happening? Did you, because it sounded like fireworks as compared to pyro. Did you think it was a gunshot? Or did you even hear it?

Everybody says that, you know, when you don't really know what you're going to do or what you're listening to when you actually hear it. I knew right away it was a gun. I mean, people always say that. It sounds like fireworks. or firecracker or something, but I knew right away. And so what was your first reaction?

To get down or to get out? So we got down, hit behind the bar for a little bit, and when he stopped shooting, I figured he was probably reloading. That was my chance to take off and get out of there. Anybody get hurt with you? I mean, that were people, yeah. Yeah, one of the guys, I don't think you met him, Brian. He got shot twice in the leg, one of our friends.

So we just left the ER, just got back here, to the hotel and we got to catch a flight at 7 o'clock here. How was he? You say left the ER, so. Yeah, he's actually still there. He's going to have to stay back. He's fine. He had two bullets right below his knee, his left knee. And, yeah, it wasn't. Were there people coming in like crazy? Doctors, yeah, people coming in, blood everywhere. It was not good.

Hey, thank you for calling. I'm sorry how to go through that, man. Yeah, no, I really appreciate that, you guys. I mean, we really enjoyed your company and you guys put on a good show. I thought you said you weren't that good. I thought you were really good. Oh. Well, I appreciate that.

That's nice. That's very nice of you. Hey, have a safe trip back to South Dakota. Best wishes to your friend, and thank you for the time. Yeah, I really appreciate it. All right. It's all from my seat. You bet, see you.

All right, bye, Paul. That's what I'm taught. Like, we met that dude that night before, and we were just hanging out with them. And it was like, hey, come to the show, passes, and, man, life. I don't even know. You don't even know what to say.

It's the whole thing just like, fuchs. 50 dead, 200 plus injured at a music festival if you're just waking up. That headline sucks to hear, and I hate to say it. But that's what it is. So crap.

Oh, man. The gunman's dead. He was a Las Vegas resident. 50 people are dead, 200 plus injured. I don't know, because some people don't take the full show, and we just had on Paul, who Eddie and I met in South Dakota. We were on the casino floor, and we met him, and he wasn't a listener of the show, but we became friends.

He just standing there somebody and start talking. So he came out to the show, and then we got him, three-day wristbands and so he stayed Sunday night last night and one of his friends was shot in the leg twice and they just left the ER and his friend does not get to leave the ER it's really personal the whole thing's personal

it's because these are our people that watch country music concerts like you know the country music format the people aren't it's not like pop where it's just everywhere like we're a club we're a group We may not always agree on everything, but we're a group.

And you can fight within your family, but when somebody picks on your family, you just get angry and you get sad, and it's personal. And not only those are our people, they're out watching those shows. These are our people who are out playing those shows. These are our friends who are on the stage.

I don't even think about it. We played the night before I even think about. I mean, to me, like the fifth or eighth thing that I even think about. what something happening like that? No, us, that we played it the night before. Like that doesn't, you know. Yeah, okay, see what you're saying now.

Sorry, I was confused. No, I'm confused about the whole thing. I could be saying words that don't make sense. I thought you're saying as an artist like going out there. But you know what? As an artist going out there, I don't think about that. It was the most secure. You felt secure there.

Absolutely. But you can't be secure from someone who's 32 stories up with the heavy artillery who knows how to use it, obviously. Multiple weapons. We know nothing about him except he's by himself and he's dead. Yeah. Here is a lady witness and what she saw. All of a sudden these gunshots were going off.

Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, very fast. And I said, what the is going on? And people just started running and yelling and screaming. It was very confusing. It was chaotic. You know, and that's the thing, too. A lot of people were able to post videos because they were snap or ancestors to ring the Aldine show. So they already had it running.

So they already had it running. And so we're able to see a lot. And for me, when I started looking at the chaos, it was everybody get down because you don't know where it's coming from. And then it's like, okay, we still don't know where it's coming from. We think it's coming from above. So get out. And when that happens and you have confusion, a lot of people hurt are hurt because they got trampled because there was just such confusion. and you've got to think of the festival grounds

because they were, I'm going to say, again, I'm just throwing numbers out here, 20 entrances in, probably, you know, around that number because it's a big area, but you're talking about entrances where you can fit maybe four people shoulder to shoulder in. You know, you don't have a, it's not a hundred yards wide where everybody can just walk in,

or everybody would just walk in and watch a free concert. So it's like a funnel, like it. Well, it's like a bunch of entrances. Yeah, it's a bunch of entrances. And in no way. Wait, what's an unsafe? It was a wonderfully run festival. And the way that it happened was, it was some douche, 32 stories up with guns shooting down.

He was a man who had worked as an accountant over the years. He had a hunting license in Alaska. This is the shooter, by the way. This is info on the shooter they just put up. Here we go. Again, I'm getting these clips as you guys are. He was a man who had worked as an accountant over the years. He had a hunting license in Alaska, had lived in Texas and in Nevada.

Times in New York. He had sued a hotel not the Mandalay Bay in 2012. That was settled in an arbitration. And the other thing we know about him was he had a private pilot's license. So really, we learned nothing from that, except they played a bunch of gunshots behind it. Yeah.

Which is kind of weird. Damn that in time. Oh. Okay. Listen, my phone is getting texted like crazy. So if I take a few seconds, I'm looking because I'm just looking to see people checking in. Like, hey, we're good, we're good, we're good.

I've only had one that wasn't good. And then we talked to a guy we met in South Dakota said his friend got shot in the leg. Yeah, that call was even just hearing, it was so fresh for him. And the fact that, yeah, y'all had met him and gave him their wristbands and then to have him on

and just that you could hear the emotion, I mean, he was choked up. Like, he's just experienced probably one of them. craziest things in his life. And it just set the scene again that where the guy was shooting from you couldn't see from the stage. Like we would be out,

there's a catwalk and then there's a front stage. Like there's a big stage. Let me take the news. The news wants to talk to me. I'm going to watch TV. Oh, Fox 17 in Nashville. Hi, guys. Hey, you can hear me all right?

I can hear you. Okay. This is Bobby. We're live on the air. Awesome. Thank you. You will be talking with Jen. I'm sorry, Kelly. You'll be talking with Kelly. Okay, thank you. So,

I don't know what they're, talking about. I don't know how they talk about anything out right now. But they asked if we talk to them. So we'll talk to. So my perspective is, until they come on, is that on the very front of the stage, you can't see where this guy was shooting from. He was shooting from behind and over the top. Dmandalay Bay is high up in the background. You can't see. Yeah. Stand by Bobby. Stand by. 7. Fox 17 continuing coverage of the deadly match shooting overnight in Las Vegas.

We're a phone right now by Bobby Bowles, radio hosts. musician. He actually performed at the festival on Saturday night. Bobby, thanks so much for joining us here this morning on 517. Hey guys. I have a little trouble hearing you, but yeah, so we did perform the night before, and a lot of people were asking us, you know, what our perspective was. I can tell you this, that when you're on the front of the stage and what Jason was seeing as this happened was, you weren't seeing where the guy was shooting from, because the Mandalay Bay Hotel is actually behind and over the top. And so this guy was up in the, I believe they're saying the 32nd floor, shooting down and from behind.

And so as the people were down, no one knew where the bullets were coming from. The friends that you still have out there, I know the music community here in National is pretty small. I know you still have friends that are out there. Yeah, actually a lot of them. Yeah, I woke up to a bunch of text messages this morning from guys that play in bands, including Al Deans. I talked to Jake Owen this morning who played right before Jason went on, and talk to other friends who work in crews out there. And, you know, I can tell you that the one thing that everyone really is worried about isn't

the other artists. The artists aren't worried about the other artists. Artists are worried about the fans. And I was talking about that on the show just a few minutes ago, is that this is the format where it's the fans and the people first. And not one message has come to me like, hey, how is this other artist? It's like, hey, what can we do to help the people that were at the show? relief for a lot of people music is the opportunity to go

get away from all the craziness of the daily world you're going to kill the right seem like a pretty easy going for you and enjoy the line yeah listen I hear a lot of talk over there with your news channel I'll say this that we played the night before and we left the stage thinking that this was such an awesome crowd and an awesome festival and for us to wake up this morning and see what it happened

to the people that were there Friday night Saturday night Sunday night the country music listener and festival goer. It is just, it's terrible. And to see the 50 dead, at least 200 injured right now, there aren't words, and I'm confused at what words to use. And so, like you, I don't know. I don't know anything except this sucks.

So much to Bobby Bowles, joining us again. We're running a movie show, also a musician, his group playing the night before at the festival. You are clear. Thank you so much for joining us, Bobby. You know, we started the show two and a half hours ago, and we started the show with 20 were dead and 100 were injured. I woke up to two dead, and they didn't know how many were injured. Right now, I'm just, headline is, it's the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history.

At least 50 dead, 200 plus are injured. And my fear and the reality is that number will probably go up. and it was the Route 91 Harvest Festival. It was in Las Vegas. It was on the strip. This happened last night. We were there for the festival. We played it Saturday night.

So not saying that, see, feel sorry for us, but just so you know the context of we were there, we saw, like, we know what it was.

And, you know, the news was asking me earlier if I felt safe, of course, felt very safe. It wasn't someone who was in the crowd who ended up shooting people. It was someone who had

thought it out and climbed up a hotel. And we went in the elevator and took his weapons and found a spot. And like a coward just started shooting down.

Here's a witness. Apparently the guy was hiding in his room. And then then the shooting stopped. I peaked up. the front of the door, I peeked my head out, police officers screamed, go, go. And I rallied everybody out of that room and we ran toward the back, further back of the venue. You know, you see when you watch the concert footage, you know, obviously Jason, Al Dean's confused. Because who shoots at a concert? Like, who shoots at a freaking concert? Obviously, and he's playing and he's stop and he's like, huh?

And then he figures it out once he can kind of see what's happening around him. Jason Aldine actually turned around and ran off the stage. And that's when we realized that, you know, we were in, you know, something bad was going on. So actually, everybody in the crowd actually got down. Again, right now, 50 people are dead. Now, the number of injures, I do not know yet, but we are looking in an excess of 50, individuals dead and over 200 individuals injured at this point. I do not want to give you an accurate number and it be wrong. So subsequently, that is why I'm portraying it in that manner. I was on Saturday

evening talking to a radio personality named DJ who was interviewing me because we were playing and he was there. Okay, so I was in the media tent just side stage, maybe 50 feet off of the stage to the left. And, uh, I had just packed up all my stuff, and we were taking photos, just kind of saying, hey, see you next year, guys, all the media and stuff. And we heard something. It sounded like firecrackers. Like it sounded like some kids were lighting on firecrackers, and we all went, oh, that's weird.

Maybe 10, 15 seconds passed. And then it started again. And we went, what is that? And my first thought was that it was just pyros that went wrong on stage. And so I went out there. And then it just like erupted with gunfire. like nonstop, maybe 15, 20 seconds of gunfire. And they were working with a girl, and I was able to grab her and run.

And we went back into the media tent and under. And at this point, everybody's screaming. Jason Aldeen had ran off the stage. Music was cut. Lights turned on. And we jumped over a fence. And then, I mean, girls, guys, everyone was screaming and crying. And we made it onto the street.

And there's, I mean, everyone's bloody. Everyone got shot. And we had, I was lucky enough there was an Uber there. I jumped in an Uber that had maybe 10 people in this Uber car. And we just drove and we didn't know where we were going. We kept hitting dead ends after dead ends. And while we're driving, you can hear just all the gunfire just spraying out there. So as you were driving, you were still hearing the guy who had reloaded his gun and he was still firing.

Oh, yeah. I mean, this guy reloaded. He was shooting from the 30. second floor of the Mandalay Bay through his window. The glass, I mean, shoot right through there. The blinds were coming through the window, and he had reloaded. I mean, he sprayed at least 100 or 200 rounds just down on everybody at the festival. And we had made it to a helicopter airport kind of thing, and they wouldn't let us in it

first, and they finally did. And everyone's screaming, I was with a 16-year-old girl and a 17-year-old girl that got separated from their parents and were just... I had grabbed them and said, you're not, you're going to come with me. And so I had the girl I was working with who was hysterical, the two 16-year-old girls separated from their mom, hysterical. And, I mean, we went and now, we're now like 30 minutes off of the strip. I found a hotel here in Henderson.

And that's where we're at. So I've got these two girls in here and that I don't have any idea who they are. And they're asleep in the room. And the other girl I was with Cassie, she's asleep in the room. Cassie was out there and her, her friend she was what got shot right next to her. When you say got shot, shot, like, in the arm or shot like? She went down. I think she was shot in the chest and she's a mom.

We don't have any idea if she's okay. There's no way to tell. There's so many people. There's no way to know if everyone's okay. You bring up a good point, too, is that it's still, it's hysterical there. People still don't have a clamp on exactly what's going on. Mm-hmm. Well, I'm glad that you got out and you were able to somewhat organize a group of people to move out.

I'm glad that you're okay. It's crazy to me that you got in a car and drove and you were still hearing shots as you were peeling away. It went, Bobby, it went, I mean, it felt like an hour. It probably went a good five or ten minutes that I was like, I thought it was in the festival. And then I thought it was outside, just right outside. that nobody knew where to run, but everybody was bleeding. I mean, my clothes, my jeans, my jean jacket, everything is covered in blood. I don't know where it came from, but I am just drenched in blood.

That's DJ in Utah who stayed, was there last night before the stage, right beside the stage. I don't know what I'm talking about. Hold on a minute. Hello, Jay and Raleigh. Hey, man. Hey, man, where are you calling? Are you from news? Yeah, I'm from news.

I'm actually a TV reporter here. Okay. Can I help you? Buddy, I just was curious, what do you feel, man? This is a tight community. What are you feeling today? Oh, man. Are we on something?

Yeah, I'm just recording the phone interview. Oh. What am I feeling? I mean, I woke up this morning confused, first of all, because, again, there are so many levels of it being a personal thing to me, one inside the country community like the most important thing are the fans that listen,

that show up, that pay their hard on money, that work all week, and they go out and they want to just let go and enjoy music. And the first thing I think about is those are our people, and our people are hurting,

and our people were killed. Like our people were killed by some jerk up in our hotel room that, I don't, I don't know why. So I don't know.

I don't know. I wake up and I'm confused and I worry about our people. And then I worry about the artists and I try to reach out to everybody because I know all those guys. I mean, I know,

and first thing I did. Have you talked to Jason? What I'll say is that camp was on lockdown of doing any rise of right now. That entire base is on lockdown of communicating outwardly. I will say that I have

I've talked inside of that. I don't want to give anything. Because I was told, I gave them my word that I wouldn't say anything, but they're okay. They're shaking up. They're obviously really freaking shaken up. But they're okay. Some of the stage was shot up. Some of the, from what I've been told, there are buses, because all the buses were back

in that area where we were. The buses are all pulled in. There are buses that were hit. There were people that were hit. But everybody's freaked out, just as any of us would be, if we were somewhere, and all of a sudden people started getting shot around us. Dude, you were just on that stage the night before, you said. I was. We played.

And we played Saturday night. And never for one second did I think anything like that would happen. But you don't think, like, you don't think something like that's going to happen. And the fact that it came from behind and over the top, that's why people didn't know what was happening. It wasn't like someone was in the crowd with a gun and you could see them. And you could even, if someone wanted to jump on and take them out, They could have, but they couldn't even do that because you couldn't reach the guy.

You didn't know where the guy was. I was going to say it's not even a fair fight. It's never a fair. I mean, listen, you go into a festival and you start shooting people. That's not a fair fight. You go into a knife. That's not a fair fight. People are there and enjoy music.

So, yeah, it's a thing where I don't know, I know I'm mad, I know I'm sad, and I know I'm confused, and I have a lot of questions. You know, why? Why? And that doesn't even matter, but I want to know why. And I'm thankful for the first responders because a lot more people could have been hurt. So that's all. That's really all.

Lastly, what can we in North Carolina do? You can keep going and enjoying music. If someone playing a show, don't let this get into your head. This is one horrible dude. Don't let it get into your head. Go enjoy your music. Go love music. Go have a good time.

This is a bad, bad situation. This does not make us go, ooh, I don't know. That's all. Yeah, God bless you. Thank you so much, Bobby. Hey, thanks. Thanks. Like, all the lines are full of news stations.

I'm just going to say the same thing over again. It sucks. I don't even have anything. It's like, this sucks. Let me talk to Jake and Austin. Hey, Jake. Hey, man, how's it going, Bobby? Hey, thank you for calling.

What's going on? Thank you for taking my call. I just want to get your thought. I'm a military veteran out of the Marine Corps for years and thinking about what happened in Vegas, and now we're three days away, four days away from ACL. What's your thoughts on upcoming music festivals other than people need to get out and enjoy the music?

What do you think that people need to keep in mind going to these big venues? So what ACL is, if for those are listening, it's the Austin City Limits Music Festival. It's a humongous music festival at Zilker Park. It's wide open. Listen, what I would keep in mind is the same thing I would have kept in mind before going to this one or any other public place. Just look around. And if you see something, say, hey, I see something that's not right. This is not indicative of what happens.

happens out at music festivals or a large group of events. This isn't. This is not, this is one guy who is now, he's not alive, he's dead now, thankfully, but he's one dude who took a bunch of guns, was upset about something. This is not normal. So I would encourage you to go. It support live music because I'm hoping this doesn't get into people's heads. This is not, this didn't happen at 12 places at once.

You know, where it's like, oh, this is some kind of concerted effort to, you can't. Because if you do, then this guy has power over you. You're letting this guy's actions have power over you. And that's not what we're here to do. It's let some jerkhole have power over us because he decided to shoot up a bunch of people.

So, by the way, Jake, I appreciate you for serving and doing what you did. And you know, you know this too. Like I'm saying this and you already know this, but you can't let someone like this win in any psychological game. terrorism is it's an individual or a group to inflict fear and that now that the history has been

other genres and music are mine look I was a few hours away you know I wonder too and I'll just wonder out loud for Jason he was up there and again this is a festival and you know we're on in Vegas 955 the Bull in Vegas too

so we're on the radio there and we played the festival and um you know in many ways it's super personal but think about being in Jason's mind for a second and you can't. But he's supposed to go out and perform on a week? Oh, gosh.

I know. I mean, yes, he probably will. But I don't even know they probably, like, I don't know. I was thinking the PTSD associated with something like that. Wow. I don't know. It's a good point. I mean.

He's been thought out loud. Think of. You're him. And he hasn't been to sleep. I can tell you right now he hasn't been to sleep. and your mind is spinning of and I'm going to relate it to something that not is as bad but you know just one of the instances of my life

I got a gun held in my head I got pistol whipped I got jumped I see it over and over again over and over again and it wasn't this it wasn't this it was nothing like this I can't imagine over and over again the processing the sing and now hey go get back on stage and do it again you know it happened while he was doing what he does for a

living. Some circumstances, well, you know, you just, you happen to be at an ATM. Well, I was walking to the radio station and got jumped. Okay. So you have a couple of different scenarios. I couldn't walk up the freaking radio station hill for probably nine months without thinking I'm about to get jumped again. Exactly. And then from that point on, we had security that would escort you and us to the building. And I'm not trying to make this about me, but I'm saying that was light compared to this. But you have, you, there, you have PTSD.

from that, from those situations. Like light or heavy, everybody processes things differently, and there's just going to be so much healing that has to go down here. Yeah, it'll be interesting to see if, what Jason does, how he handles it, because how...

Terrible. How terrible for everyone. I mean, right now, 50 people are dead because some guy, I think they said they found five guns. Have you guys? I just saw numerous. I didn't see a number.

Yeah. Again, things are coming through. Numerous weapons, like over 400 people have been put in the hospital. You know, and 200 plus, I think, means over 400 now. This number is going to grow. And some of the people that are injured right now, they're not going to make it. Here is a clip Ray put up. We were watching the show and...

This is a Jen the Stetter. We were watching the show and we heard the pop pop. You know, some people thought it was fireworks, thought it was part of Jason Aldeen's performance. And then some of us thought maybe his microphone, maybe there was a problem with the audio. And then it happened again. And at the point where I saw everyone on the stage,

including Jason, running off the stage, being escorted off the stage by security and a big wave of people just coming right towards us. There were barricades. We couldn't get past the barricades. Finally, somebody took down the barricades. And I was holding hands with the girl that I was with that I had just met this weekend. And she wouldn't let go of me. She's young, 20-year-old girl. She just wouldn't let go of me. And we just ran as fast as we could. And we got separated from the rest of our group. And you're hearing a lot of stories like that. And you're going to hear a lot of stories of people

that were very brave and safe people and people and people aren't going to come out. on the good side of things. I'm getting things passed to me as the show goes along. We weren't really running. We were just, everybody was all nice and calm. There was a few people trying to run, and we stopped them and just calmly shuffled our way because it went right down into a goose neck

and just started bottling up there. So everybody just calmly kept going, and then we made it up. And then we ran. Once we got into the road on the streets, then we started to run, and then we took the back of here. Yeah, how quickly did, Did you see first responders run towards the scene and start helping the wounded?

Almost immediately. Metro was there. They're always right there. You know, Metro is such an amazing police force. And they were right there. Ambulances were coming. We had ambulances everywhere. There were police cars everywhere.

And the police officers were helping. The other concert goers were helping everybody. It was just amazing. We all came together and everybody was helping everybody. It was wonderful to Z. And I just love Metro. I'm just so proud of them. Yeah, first responders, there, anywhere else, man, what you do is, it is amazing.

I mean, listen, think about the security guys that run over and grab Jason. They're bullets. Like, just think about that for a second. There are bullets and they're going over to grab somebody and protect them. I'm watching the sheriff here on my first. feed and they I'll read you the headline in case you're just waking up at least 50 or dead

200 plus injured at a Las Vegas concert it's the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history the shooter is dead multiple weapons were found in his room I mean I'm reading stories here that over 400 were taken to the hospital I think these numbers are going to climb I think

that people just don't know it was just so much at once that it's kind of hard to pick out and you don't want to change numbers until you know for sure Bobby Bones everybody a

movie show If you're just waking up a terrible mass shooting last night it's at the Route 91 Harvest Festival and at least 50 are dead

God that's just such a crazy number to say and I've said it so many times that's unreal at least 50 people are dead. 200 plus injured and it's far more than that.

I mean, there are news reports 400 plus going to the hospital. 50 people were killed at this festival, at least. People are asking me questions like, what was the motive? I don't know. I don't know that the only thing that we know about the shooter

is that just some random things. He was a man who had worked as an accountant over the years. He had a hunting license in Alaska and lived in Texas. and in Nevada at times in New York. He had sued a hotel not the Mandalay Bay in 2012. That was settled in an arbitration. And the only other thing we know about him is he had a private pilots license.

That's, I mean, that's nothing. I hope if there's some sort of manifesto, they burn that thing and don't put it out. I don't. Listen. Yes. I'd rather not know than have some sort of message of his that he put on the Internet out there for everybody to read. Billy in Northwest Arkansas. Hello.

Hello. Hey man, thank you for calling. Yes, sir. Go ahead. Everybody's thinking about the victims and everything else. Yeah, everybody's thinking about them, but I think it needs to go out to the first responders, firefighters, EMF, for their quick response and everything.

I work for fire departments in northwest Arkansas here, and if it wouldn't have been for them, it probably would have got a lot worse, and you can't think them enough and put them in your thoughts and prayers as well. Yeah. Nice, yeah. Bobby made a good point earlier,

Whereas everyone's running out, those are the people that are running in. They're the ones that are the heroes in this situation. And then, you know, concert goers, festival goers that were, are able to stay calm and help others. Because I know I would be in his, like, experiencing, I would be hysterical. And someone that was calm and together would have to like help me keep it together. And those people exist. Thankfully. Yeah.

I have an Aldine song up here. I'm not playing it because of that, but I'm not going to, like I said earlier, I'm not going to not play it because of that. So let's take a 30-minute song, and it happens to be a Jason Aldine song for no other reason that it's a big song. Well, they just updated it to 400 plus injured.

50 people kill 400 plus injured. The gunman fire from the 32nd floor, the Mandalay Bay Hotel, it's the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. That injured number is going to turn into the other one. Here you go. Currently, the Clark County Fire Department is estimating the injuries to be well over 400 and the deaths associated with this event to be over 50. I can't give you an exact number yet because we're still investigating some of the areas

involving the event where the concert was taking. place and we're still exiting individuals that were hidden and it's just a matter of a process. So it's going to take quite a while for us to completely get through the evacuation phase and then eventually we will have an assessment. I'm reading this. There were eight guns in his room, eight guns and two platforms. Obviously this guy had some sort of plan. He had to plan out the room.

He had to plan out all of it. Don't know what it is. I mean, I've got 11 news requests asking me to talk about. I mean, what do they want to say? Well, you do have an interesting perspective that some people don't. I'm sad of my perspective. Well. Let me take Jason.

Hey, Jason in Hampton, Virginia. Hello, Jason. Hey, how's it going? Hey, buddy. What's going on? Hey, everybody that was time with the ones that you love, be thankful that you are home and that you are safe, but also do with the victims of that shooting.

The best way to get over it, get back out there and do what you love. Get out there, put on a great show, and everything will fall into peace. You know, I think that would be for him to kind of figure out in his mind when he wants to go back and do it, and if it's tomorrow,

if it's two years from now, I think right now, the last thing on his mind is going to do another show. I appreciate the call, and thank you for what you do. I appreciate that. So we've had it up, but now the news has it up.

The number people can call if they're trying to locate missing people. Should we say it? Yeah, that's fine. It's 866-535-5-6-4. So we know we have a lot of listeners that probably had friends and family at that. And we're on the bowl in Vegas. Yeah. So we give the number again, please.

It's 866535-5-6. The FBI is now, I'm reading from the FBI of Las Vegas, they're looking for anyone with videos or photos. See that. If you happen to have had your Snapchat or taken a picture and you saw something, because you got to imagine looking at it, looking at the stage, you may have seen what was behind it. Oh, yeah. Because like I said, when Eddie and I were performing, we don't see the Mandalay Bay behind us, but the crowd's looking at it. So their phones are getting on. So maybe their phones got something.

Jamie, how are you? Hi, I'm good, how are you? You know, about like you shaking up a bit. You were there? Absolutely, I was. Where do you live? In Las Vegas. Okay, so you went on, you were there last, I mean,

it feels like it's probably the same day to you, right? Like you probably had been asleep. Yeah, no, we tried to sleep, but that was just kind of impossible, a lot on your mind and wondering if it was a nightmare that you're going to wake up from. Yeah, tell me about what happened. We, you know, we're watching Jason Aldine and decided to leave around 10, and we started walking towards the door and just heard what we thought were fireworks.

That's what the security guard said. And then, you know, we walked out towards the gate and heard 30 to 40 more and seeing cops with their guns pulled and told us to run. The cops told you to run. Yeah, they had their guns pulled and they said, run, go. And you just, I mean, my sister, my family, my friends were still in there because we just, I mean, we didn't know what to do. You're terrified. I don't want to leave them, but I also have a family.

I have a four-year-old that I can't, you know, I have to protect myself too. So we just started running down Las Vegas Boulevard not knowing where we're going. We hid behind a block wall. Somebody at the gas station told us to get down and we just hid them. there for a little bit until cops again told us to get out of the area and run. And we just ran towards the Tropicana, stayed there for a little while. Then we were told to run again by more cops. And thankfully my stepdad came down and picked us up on the corner.

And we just got the hell out of there. Sorry. No, you're okay. It was just terrifying. It was like 10 feet from where we were standing. I don't know. I don't even know what else to say. We were so much closer yesterday in that area where it happened. We were closer earlier in the day, just decided to move. It's just so scary. Have you heard from your friends?

I did. We met up with my family and friends, and then everybody else I was able to talk to over the phone last night. So everybody that I know that was there is safe. well thank you for calling the show i'm glad you're okay absolutely thank you it's just not something you expect i mean you go and you smile and you sing and you don't it's not something that you at all even in worst case scenario you don't expect that and and i would think you never right never i've been to this the past three years and it's i've never even seen a fight there. Like it's just country music, love,

and hanging out. I mean, I've just, you've seen, you know, altercations, but then they make up. I've never seen a fight, let alone this. From what I'm hearing, you know, 50 plus people are dead. It's just not something you think's ever going to happen. Thank you for calling. I'm glad you're okay.

Thank you guys. All right. Bye-bye. Yeah, and as we had mentioned, the night before this, and she was just talking to the crowd. We left, and we were like, man, that was that crazy, as happiest crowd we've ever seen in our life. And not that that makes anything better or worse, but that, it was such a joyful, even, I was talking to Merritt. And Mara texted me a bit ago, and she was like, you know, holy, there's just, everybody's texting everybody right now. Like, it's just like, how can it go from being so freaking amazing to what we're seeing right now?

50 plus dead 400 injured, the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history at the Route 91 Harvest Festival. We don't know why still. We don't know why. I guess the guy killed himself who was the shooter. Just read that. I, if you're just waking up, I said it a few times this morning, and you have kids in the car and you're heading to school, maybe not the show to listen to, because it ain't a good one. 50 plus dead, 400 plus injured in Las Vegas shooting. A gunman fired from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

And our wonder was how they got to him, but apparently they didn't. Well, the SWAT team was up on the 32nd floor. And I guess when they got into his room, that's when they found him. He was dead. Yeah. And we're looking at pictures here of this feed, and it's just confusion. You don't know to get down or to run, and people are yelling different things, and some people are carrying other people out.

Damn. Jennifer in Wisconsin, thank you for calling. Yeah, thank you for having me. Kind of unfortunate, this is the first time I get to talk to you. But I just want to shed a little light. I've been in law enforcement for five years now. And in retrospect, that's nothing compared to some of the great people that I work with. But I want to let everybody know that I just, I went to a training not long back where it was rigorous.

I mean, a week-long learning how to deal with situations like this. And, you know, we're now starting to incorporate our police and fire into how we enter situations like this. And it's made a huge difference. And, you know, it's a very unfortunate event. but I want, you know, all of your listeners to understand kind of what goes into a situation like this. You know, there's command centers that need to be set up. There's hundreds upon hundred to phone calls that need to be made. Tons of police departments coming together where they have to communicate under all of this confusion.

You look at these pictures of people losing their mind and to think of all of the fire, EMS, and police that all have to be on the same page and the snap of a finger, where you listen to one thing and you go. You have an assignment and you do it, and that's the only thing that you can think about. And it's unfortunate that this happened, but, you know, I guarantee when I get to work tomorrow, I'm going to be sat down and we're going to go over all of this and we're going to learn from it, you know, with Columbine. And then you come all the way up to the Boston bombing. The response time and, you know, the United Unity for fire, EMS and police has been outstanding. It's grown to a remarkable extent.

And the response time really needs to be taken into consideration here. because what they did was beyond amazing. They did such a fantastic job. And, you know, they're going to sit down and they're going to realize that it could have been better. That's what they're going to focus on what could have been better. What could we have done to maybe save a few more lives? And these officers guaranteed are not going to be going home for at least 48 hours.

They're not going to see their families either. Their loved ones are at home wondering, when's mom and dad going to come home? You know, so, Grand, I understand the casualties. happen and the people that are hurt, but I want people to take into account that these officers aren't going home for days. They're going to be sitting there, and most of these people, if not all of them, has never dealt with a situation like this. You train for it, and you do mock trials where you have people lay out and pretend that they're dead. But these officers are stepping over people and kids in this crowd, and that's something that's going to stick with

them for the rest of their lives. Well, thank you very much, Nicole. Thank you for doing what you do. You know, we're on in Las Vegas. Like, our show's on in Las Vegas. So that's one part of it. Two, we were just in Las Vegas for this festival. We played on Saturday night. This happened last night. And so we're talking to, right now, like our listeners of the people that were at the festival. We were at the festival. Our friends were playing the festival. It's like on so many layers, such a personal thing to me and to us. Samantha. Samantha's on calling from Vegas right now. Hi, Samantha. Hi, Bobby. How are you doing? You know, I've been better. Um, you know, I don't really know how to do a show like this. So we just come on and we just talk. And so I know you live in Vegas.

Are there any of your friends that, that were there? You haven't heard from yet? Yeah. So, you know, the country community, especially out in Vegas is so small. And we all know each other. and I just have a lot of people I know friends Luckily my family has all been accounted for But as far as friends and people I know Know they haven't all been accounted for And I've been up all night Ever since I heard the news

It's just hoping the country is praying for us It's hard right now Listen I don't think people can be praying any harder Thank you for the call You know we were on the floor the night before and we had met

a couple people this guy named Paul we didn't know Paul Paul was from Sioux Falls South Dakota and we were just standing with them and he was like yeah our wives

are going to the festival and so I said hey give out of your number and if we find some tickets we'll give them to you and so here's Paul because Paul was there I mean they stayed

well we were standing kind of back in the middle of the first of all we're still a little emotional kind of Shooking up a little bit. So trying to lock it in a little bit here

because we got to get back on a plane here to go back to South Dakota. But anyway, I appreciate you guys texting me. We were standing back by kind of by that middle bar area. And like you kind of see on TV, I mean, it was non-stop firing. And people were running back towards us. So it was kind of hard to, you know,

turn and go against the crowd. So we were just basically being shoved. about the back door. What did you think was happening? Did you, because it sounded like fireworks as compared to pyroly. Did you think it was a gunshot or did you even hear it? Everybody says that, you know, when you don't really know what you're going to do or what you're listening to when you actually hear it.

I knew right away it was a gun. I mean, people always say that. It sounds like fireworks or a firecracker or something, but I knew right away. And so what was your first reaction, to get down or to get out? So we got down and hit behind the bar. for a little bit. And when he stopped shooting, I figured he was probably reloading.

That was my chance to get up, take off and get out of there. Anybody get hurt with you? I mean, that were people, yeah. Yeah, one of the guys, one of the, I don't think you met him, Brian. He got shot twice in the leg, one of our friends. So we just left the ER, just got back here to the hotel,

and we got to catch a flight at 7 o'clock here. How was he? You say left the ER, so. Yeah. Yeah, he's actually still there. He's going to have to stay back. He's fine. He had two bullets right below his knee, his left knee.

And, yeah, it's just crazy. I mean, the ER was chaos. Were there people coming in like crazy? Doctors, yeah, people coming in. Blood everywhere. It was not good. Hey, thank you for calling. I'm sorry how to go through that, man.

like that. Yeah, no, I really appreciate that, you guys. I mean, we really enjoy your company and and thanks for their wristbands and you guys put on a good show.

I thought you said you weren't that good. I thought you were really good. Oh. Well, I appreciate that. That's nice. That's very nice of you. Hey, have a safe trip back to South Dakota. Best wishes to your friend

and thank you for the time. Yeah, I really appreciate that a lot. All right, see you. All right, see you. You bet, see you. up and you may be 50 plus are dead 400 plus are injured in Las Vegas. It's the Route 91 Harvest Festival. I'm reading now that the guy shot himself at the exact time they breached the door. So he didn't do it all and they kill himself. He was doing it until they got to him

and then he was, he killed himself before they got him. The dead gunman was a 64-year-old Mesquite Nevada resident. we still don't know a lot about them or why I did it if you're just waking up this is the biggest mass shooting in the world

I mean I'm reading all these other ones in there at least in America U.S. U.S. Is it? Yeah, U.S. history. Well, not a good thing to have. That sucks, man.

God. The sheriff says in Las Vegas, we believe it was self-inflicted gunshot wounds simultaneously with the police explosively breaching the door. Hey, Joe, in Maryland, you're a police officer. Thank you for calling. Thank you for what you do. Hey, Bobby. Good morning, buddy. I'm sorry for what you're going through, Matt.

I was in your show all the time, and I just found out when I woke up this morning. But I've been a police officer for 20 years and, you know, training house, but nothing can prepare you for something like this. I'm calling because I appreciate you being on. I know these guys are more than just artists. They're your friends and they're your family. So, you know, I'm feeling for you this morning, and I want to say I see you today. I appreciate you, Joe.

You know, I feel for the people that were there, people that were shot, people that were not the family member. And I appreciate you for what you do. And it was people like you that went after this dude, that went and saved people while it was happening. Like, okay, we had some that go after this, too. We have other people, the first responders, they're saving people's lives.

Like, some of these injure are going to live because of the first responders. So, yeah, I appreciate the call Joe. Listen, you never want to wake up to do a radio show like this? You never want to wake up to a radio show like this. But we don't have the hard job. Like, you have the hard job. First responders have the hard job.

Our military has a hard job. How quickly did you see first responders? run towards the scene and start helping the wounded. Almost immediately, Metro was there. They're always right there. You know, Metro's such an amazing police force, and they were right there. Ambulances were coming.

We had ambulances everywhere. There were police cars everywhere, and the police officers were helping. The other concert goers were helping everybody. It was just amazing. We all came together, and everybody was helping everybody. It was wonderful to Z.

And I just love Metro. I'm just so proud of them. Yeah, thank you for, if you're in Vegas right now and we're in Vegas, if you're in Vegas, you're probably not listening to the show, but maybe it'll get back to you that we appreciate you. And if you're, I don't care where you are, Tampa, Boston, Sacramento, Austin, if you're doing this, man, you were doing something that is affecting the world in a positive way in helping people.

So we appreciate that. And we watch the numbers and we hope they don't ride. I look up every time we go, please, God, don't let them be any higher. For the past three and a half hours, we've been keeping up with what happened last night. If you're just waking up at Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, they had a mass shooting. And 50 plus people have been killed. 400 plus people have been injured.

I would still assume that number will rise. You hope it doesn't. But I assume it will. The man who's a man in the 60s, was up in like the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel. And just to give a perspective, because we played this festival this weekend, that's where we were.

And so when you go out on the front of the stage and you're playing music, you're looking at the crowd. The hotel's behind you. As we were playing, we never saw the hotel. So the guy is shooting from behind and over the top. So if you're in the crowd and you're looking, you see the Mandalay Bay.

If you're an artist like Aldine was, you don't. You don't know where it's coming from. And so Jason's playing. And you can tell, he can tell something's off for a second and he kind of goes back into it and it's like, okay, something's really off. And he's out.

And I think it really took the people moving for him to realize that something was up. Because again, there's lots of things up on that stage and your ears are full of music. You have these things that fill your ears, these inner ears, that are built exactly to fit your ear holes so nothing can come in.

If I, my ear is in, and Eddie's standing three feet from me and he's talking to me, I can't hear him. Like, that's how much it seals off the world because you'll have to go take your ear out so I can talk. So he's sealed. You don't even really hear the crowd.

And so I'm imagining that he's hearing all the music. Because, again, his guitars are louder than those gunshots were. Right. Like the music was louder than the gunshots were. So he likely was seeing the disbursement of people and then was like, oh my goodness, peace out. Just assuming that that had to be what it was because, again, as you hear the shots, they weren't that loud compared to what was happening around. And so, especially if he had his ears in, I would assume he was like, wait, that's not right.

And then everybody starts running and he's like, I'm out. Yeah, and I don't know if it takes a special trained year. Like we had one concert festival goer that said he knew he could tell it was a gun. And then several other people, including like Jacob and was like, wait, are those fireworks? Because it's Vegas. Like, why wouldn't there be fireworks on a random Sunday night? It's Vegas. It's the final show of a three-day festival.

And it's already a show with lots of pops and bangs. Right. Not everybody has that sort of thing, but a Jason Aldeen concert does, like a pyro type situation. Here's the guy that saw Jason and he dropped his guitar and is out. I saw Jason Aldine drop his guitar and I'm like, I'm out of here, okay? I knew something was going down. And then I couldn't even get up the aisle. And then that's when the 15 seconds or so of just assault rifle shooting occurred,

that's when I lead on the ground. I was pulling people down. Get down. Lay down. I felt energy from these bullets. I didn't get hit, but I felt it. It felt like it was right next to me. You know, they were saying, now they're saying at least 10 rifles are found in this hotel room.

Guys, this is going to continue to climb. All these numbers are going to climb. According to CBS News, he was there for three days at the hotel, so he had time to take his rifles up and everything gets set up. So it wasn't like he just carried him up there and checked in and started shooting. Oh, see, I was picturing him checking in on Sunday, you know? But, wow. Wow.

I know. My stomach is just in knots. And that y'all... I don't even like to bring it back around me. I know. I'm not. I'm bringing it up because it's like I'm picturing, I'm picturing y'all there. Like, obviously we care about every human life.

But I happen to be super close to y'all and y'all were just there. It's making it even more real. Because it doesn't seem real. It almost does it. It just can't, I can't wrap my head around it. Because it's so big and so bad. But it's so real. y'all were legit just there.

Same fans watching them or the same fans watching y'all. The fact that now we know he was there set up, you know, for three days. Like what? This is, it's just insane. He's pissed about something. Yeah. This isn't, I can't. It doesn't seem real.

50 dead, 400 plus injured as of right now in the Las Vegas shooting. Again, he killed himself right as they breached the door. So I guess he knew they were coming. And as soon as they popped the door, he popped himself. I mean, I'm just going to read a good news story because I feel like I could, I feel like we could use it. I can support that. How about this? When New Jersey emergency room nurse Lauren Trulley saw her boyfriend Tom wheeled into the ER on a stretcher, she was terrified.

It was like, it's peanut allergy. And she was like, oh no. but it was all part of his plan to surprise her with the proposal. So he stumbled off the stretcher and was like, I'm just fine, got down on a knee and asked her to marry him. Well, that's quite the plan. Yeah. It's quite the plan to get her with the all.

I might die. This is the first time I smiled all morning, too. Like, I'm going to tell you guys. I know, I'm kind of like that you just sold that. I could use it a little bit. Yeah. It could normally be like, I'm not so sure about that method for a proposal, but it's actually kind of awesome right now.

Especially that it was the peanut allergy method and not that I've just been injured in a car wreck accident. Right, that one would be bad. Well, wow, okay. There's that. You go out of call. Hello, Roxy in Nashville. Thank you for calling.

Hi, thank you for having me. Go ahead. I actually used to live in Las Vegas and that's where I, for listening to your show. So it kind of hits close to home what's going on. But, you know, being so far away, I feel kind of helpless, and I just wanted to spread the word that if you want to help, if you want to do something, you can go donate blood at your local, you know, blood bank.

And, you know, if you're in the local region, it'll kind of help immediately. But you can go anywhere in the United States and donate blood, and that will help. Well, thank you. Thank you for sharing that with us. Yeah, a lot of people have shared your sentiment today, too. Like, hey, if you're broke and you've got to wait until Friday to get paid and you want to help, you can donate blood. Thank you.

Hey, Karen, Clarksville. Hi, yeah. I first off, thank you guys for spreading this positivity. I mean, I think it's awesome. You guys are talking about this and trying to, you know, stay positive about the situation. And I also wanted to say thank you to all the doctors and nurses. I'm a nurse myself,

and I can't even imagine or wrap my head around the chaos. that happened when these patients started rolling up. So I just want to say thank you to those people and thank you to you guys. You know, imagine you're at the hospital and this happens. You don't know what happened. You weren't at the festival, and all of a sudden, here comes 100 people,

200 people rolling into the hospital with gunshot wounds or they've been trampled. I mean, it's like all of a sudden overload. Yeah. And where do you put everybody? And there were hospitals that had to send them to other places. So yeah, thank you for that call too. If you're just waking up, it's been a really poor night slash morning.

Last night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. A man opened fire. And I believe they said now he had 10 guns. Yeah, and they said maybe more. Yeah. Every time we check, it's more. and he fired down onto the Route 91 Harvest Festival and as of right now

50 people have been confirmed dead and over 400 are injured and I guess for me it started around 2 in the morning and my phone just started I don't know what was happening and I was like hey are you okay are you okay are you okay and I was like why

is asking if I'm okay we had played the festival the night before and what happens is there are so many acts you know there are probably six on the main stage each day that you just kind of don't know who plays when and I was like, yeah, I'm fine, like what? I turned on the news and it was like two people.

It was like 20 people and that's 50 people. And this guy had been up there for three days plotting out for whatever reason shooting down onto this festival and you waited until Jason Aldine went on and as Al Dean's playing he starts shooting and he had automatic

weapons, multiple, which is why they said it went on for, depending who you talk to, four, five, six minutes. He would stop, and it wasn't that he was reloading probably, as he was just switching weapons. And he shot down, and as I said right now, as of right now, it is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. It's just starting to be daylight in Las Vegas. So, I mean, we're looking at the news images. Is that the window?

That's the window. Oh, my goodness. And as you're playing and looking out at the crowd, you don't see the hotel. So the guy was shooting from behind the artist and over the top of the artist. And so people didn't know what's happening. They heard pops. It was hitting the top of the stage. You know, I can tell you some of my friends said that some buses were hit.

Because there's a small area. And like our trailer back there is 30 feet from the stage. Like it's not up there anymore. But on Instagram, I was walking around just showing you, where like Marin, because Marin played right after us, Marin Morris and Lauren Elena, and we all had trailers that were right there next to the stage. And those trailers, like you would live in.

But that's where we would stay before we played. And those had holes in them. Some of the buses that were there, a couple buses that were there, had holes in them. And that went to the stage and then went into the crowd. So obviously he was just starting from point A and going all the way to the end, trying to hit as wide of audience as he could.

It's a lot of our friends. And I say friends, like if those are our people that go to shows like that, we went and met hundreds of them, played for thousands of them. And if you're in this format and you're in country music. And we can argue about what is what kind, but it's like a family. Once things start to happen, you're all in it together. And, you know, everybody's calling me from other formats and news stations. and they're like, hey, you know, they don't, I don't really understand what it's, like, what we're like in the entire industry is basically in a little bubble.

We all know each other, even just the work side of things. Like, I know the crew guys from Jake's team that played before Al Dean. I know Al Dean's players. I know Jason. You know, we just saw all the people that were in the crowd the night before when we played and we're like in this odd, it's just like, those same people were there and had to experience that. And some of them didn't make it out of it. They went to a freaking music festival. They went to a music festival.

They worked by three-day wristbands. By the way, they weren't cheap. It's three days of big stars. Like worked, saved up, bought wristbands. And then some jerk with weapons decided to just mow down a crowd because of something in his life. And the whole thing is a mixture of anger and sadness and confusion. and also a bit of like a bad anticipation

where you know that it's going to get worse. You know the numbers up there are going to get worse. There's also some appreciation for the people that stepped in and helped for the cops that not only went and busted in this guy's door because that's what made him kill himself. You know, and you can say, well, they didn't kill him, but they did. Had they not breached the door, he wouldn't have shot himself. self. Right. They did. And the cops that were down on the ground helping the hospital, the staff

at the hospital, nurses, doctors, the assistant, they were helping when hundreds of people come rushing in. Like they weren't ready for that. No. Just no. And then the, what goes into, like I'm looking at where the festival goes on, we're seeing the hotel, we're looking at that window and just how it's like a, it's almost like a little speck. Like when you see little windows up that high. And then for them to navigate how to go even find him as quickly as they did, like all the teamwork and the effort had to go into that of like, okay, it's coming from above. It's coming from Mandalaybe. It's coming from the 32nd floor. Okay, this is where the room number is. So much teamwork and effort.

Here is, this is when they were breaching the door, the cop audio. I need to sit on the suspect's door. I need your brain in that hallway to be aware of it and get back. We need to pop this and see if we get any type of response from this guy and see if he's in here if he's actually moved elsewhere else. Got me all units on the 32nd floor. SWAT has explosive breach. Everyone in the hallway needs to move back.

All units move back. Breach, breach, breach. One suspect down in 1-35, 432, Manilae Bay. I have the floor. Wow. Oh, my gosh. And you know what? those, that SWAT team,

their lives were at freaking risk too. You don't think they were a risk, they didn't know what they were getting themselves into. They had one job, shut it down. And they did shut it down because had they not, he'd have kept shooting. Heroes are stepping up. Heroes are stepping up and getting people there

because minutes counts in this situation. When you're bleeding or actively with a gunshot, you're losing blood. And if you get past a certain point, it's almost impossible to turn around. So the quicker you can get the patients in to try to stop that bleeding and get them transfusions,

the more lives you're going to save. So, kudos to those who are stepping up and doing this. But yes, when you arrive at a, we're used to somebody getting off an ambulance and explaining what's going on and giving all the vitals and saying what's happening. Here, private citizens bringing people in, there's nobody assessing that, obviously, in the car.

Bobby Bones, everybody. We're transmitting across. America. This is a Bobby Bonds show. Alan in Colorado. How you doing? Hey, buddy. Thanks for calling.

What's going on? So I'm from Massachusetts originally on active duty at Fort Carson. I was back home during the Boston bombings, and it's kind of almost the same. We just got to keep pushing strong. Every year we go back. We're not scared. We stay strong. We keep pushing.

Yeah. some people call me earlier and say, hey, what would you do asking me? Like, there's, for example, in Austin, there's the Austin City Limits Music Festival. There are more country festivals there. And again, the first part of you goes, ooh, I'm not going anywhere where there are a bunch of people. Like, that's just, your visceral reaction is, I'm not going anywhere with a bunch of people. But you are, and you should, and just take a little step over that puddle, and don't let this guy and whatever, his agenda was affect your life. Because then it's like this dude's kind of getting what he wanted to get off on.

Like that's his thing. Like I can't let him. It's not like to say win. It's not a game. But yeah, you can't let him have that. So go. Go. That's all.

Go. Don't. Yeah. Thank you for the call. Hey, I appreciate what you do to. Appreciate you serving. Thank you. Have a good day, my friend.

Hey, Monica and Dover. Hey, guys, good morning. Hey, thanks for calling from Arkansas. I just wanted to say, I got up first thing this morning, and of course that's, you know, all you see all over the news is what's going on. And the first thing I thought it was, man, I need to get out to my car, and I need to turn on my radio, because I need to hear from you guys. Like, I don't know if that makes any sense, but, like, hearing it from my local news station,

which is in Little Rock, it just wasn't the same. Like, I knew you guys would know more, not necessarily know more, but feel more, you know, because you're right there, you're right there in the center basically of country music. And I just, I don't know, I just needed to hear it from you guys. And, you know, anyway. I appreciate the call. And I said when we came on the air of five o'clock this morning, Central all was like, hey, we're not good at doing a radio show anyway,

but we're not going to be good at doing this radio show, but we are going to try to be the best humans as we possibly can. And there are many times where we've struggled at doing the show today, but I think people struggle when they see the news. I think people struggle with seeing this happening to other people. And the best that we can do is just try to be as real as possible. And I appreciate that call. Thank you very much.

Thank you, guys. Bye, Monica. Bye-bye. Man, I got, I mean, I have so much that people are, that I'm getting put up here. Here's, this is someone talking about being there. We were watching the show and we heard the pop pop. You know, some people thought it was fireworks, thought it was part of Jason Aldeen's performance. And then some of us thought maybe his microphone, maybe there was a problem with the audio.

And then it happened again. And at the point where I saw everyone on the stage, including Jason, and running off the stage, being escorted off the stage by security, and a big wave of people just coming right towards us. Yeah. And then, you know, we're talking to Jake Owen, and Jake was on, he had played right before and was on the side of the stage watching.

Hey, buddy. Hey, so where are you right now? All right now. I'm on a bus. It's in the bus lot. You know, they had kind of like the artist buses. You were here, they had the artist buses parked back behind the stage. So I was back there where our buss.

as well as with, you know, Jason and Kane Brown's buses back there. Well, I went on stage to watch Jason is when this all happened and went down and we thought it was the pyrotechnics or something going off. And next thing you know, you could hear it ringing off the top of the roof. There was people

freaking out. Everyone started fleeing every witch away and at that point when you got out in the parking lot area where everybody where we were running to, I mean, there's people bleeding and lying in the streets and it's, it's like, it's literally like a bad movie like something you

dream, you would dream and think you've got to wake up at any point and I think we're all still trying to figure out if this is, you know, this is real life, this is weird. At what point did you realize it wasn't? Because I would have also thought it was some sort of firework. Like honestly, at what point did you realize it wasn't that? I think we realized it.

I realized it about five seconds into this and what was crazy as man, it wasn't just like I've heard guns fire. This sounded like a full on automatic rifle just unloading. And at that point, you could see Jason was out on the catwalk, and he just put his guitar up in the air and started running back towards the drum set to get off the stage. And that's when you knew people started fleeing in the crowd. And it was wild. I've never seen anything

obviously like this before. And people are scared. People are scared. There's people all over, don't know what to do right now out here. Where are you right now? What are you guys doing? Well, I'm currently sitting on a bus with a few of the guys from my crew. A really good family friend of mine was here with her family visiting for her birthday. She's on the bus with me because she got separated from her husband. They fled another way. I mean, it was kind of like people just, it was every man for themselves. People just started running and we're kind of on lockdown.

They won't let us really go anywhere. I think they're just trying to figure out answers right now. Could you tell it was coming from above or did you have any idea? Honestly, from my perspective, and I was talking to some of the guys once I got back over here, and I'm not one to speculate, but to answer your question, no, I don't think I realized at first it was coming from above other than the thought that we did hear it hitting the roof of the stage. But once I ran out and realized I was in the open, it sounded like it kept getting closer. And which led me to believe, I felt like there was something like someone else on the ground.

ground out there somewhere but you know they say so far that it's just one guy that was up in the mandalay bay but i mean it was it was wild how it just continued i mean i'm not kidding man it went on for at least five minutes straight of of unloading and it sounded like stopping for a minute reloading and then just fully automatic rifle dude i'm glad you're okay um you know i've talked to a lot of the folks over in the alden camp too and listen i'm glad but there are a lot of people that aren't obviously that we're out in the crowd just enjoying a freaking show. And some words I'm not even going to say decides to take out a gun and hurt and kill and ruin it for everyone. I'm glad you're good.

Thanks for sharing your story with us, buddy. Yeah, man, I think it's important too for everybody out there to know that no matter what, you know, this is America. We get to live in the land of the free. We get to wake up every day and live this life where we feel safe thanks to the men and women that fight for our freedom. But, you know, as country music, and thank you, buddy, for leading the word out there and being a patriarch for getting this out there. But we as artists, I mean, it's our obligation. We get out there and we put on a show so people can have fun and forget about some of the day-to-day life things, you know. And I saw kids on their parents' shoulders out there tonight.

And, you know, they'll always remember this concert. But I think us as a whole community in country music and all of music can come together and continue to do this and not be scared of these cowards that come and, do this because we're going to, we will prevail. That's what we do as Americans. All right, buddy, thank you for the call. I know it's going to be tough to sleep. Tell everybody we said, hello, we're glad that they're safe there with you.

All right, see you, bud. There's Jake Owen. There is, and I just put it up on my Twitter at Mr. Bobby Bones. It has verified the Clark County Commission Chair from Las Vegas. They're raising funds to assist the victims of the shooting. And

it's on my Twitter at Mr. Bobby Bones. and if you want to give five bucks, 20 bucks, no bucks, you want to give blood. Sometimes there aren't bucks to give, but I wanted to put that up there because it was verified that this is a real one. Funds will be used to provide relief and financial support to the victims and families

of the horrific Las Vegas mass shooting. And they're doing this now. I mean, we don't know who's going to need what, but it's always good to have. You know, and I tell you, the Red Cross was there quick. I got a shout out to those guys. because they were there quick last night on the scene. Let me take Jason in Rochester, Minnesota.

Hey, Jason. Hey, how are you? Good morning. Thank you for calling. What's going on? Hey, well, I heard a comment. I had my kids in the car this morning, and after I dropped them off,

you'd mention a comment about, you know, if your kids are in the car, this is something, you know, maybe you don't want them to hear. And I guess I'd respect for a disagree with you. I think it's great to have this dialogue. Now, I'm a law enforcement officer, and been on slot, done all that, stuff, but I've, you know, we train our kids, Lisa and I train all of our kids to, you know,

be ready for this kind of stuff. And, you know, a 10-year-old is our oldest, or four-year-old who didn't talk about it with, but the other kids got a dose of it this morning, so they didn't hear it at school, you know, from the wrong source. Well, I appreciate the call and the perspective. For me, you know, I just don't want to be throwing around the word dead bodies and there be kids listening, and parents can always choose. And listen, it's not like me to be like, change channel.

I don't want to change channel. but there are sometimes where ratings don't matter as much as just talking to people. And if little ears don't need to hear it, I'll let the parents make that up. So yeah, a few times. And listen, I think your perspective is as valid as mine. But I just don't want to talk about 50 people being dead without going, hey, I'm about to talk about a mass shooting. So if you have little ears in the car, maybe you don't want them to hear this. It's good to give that warning.

It's not typically our. No, definitely. It's not. Listen, we need people to listen. but sometimes shows are just bigger than that. All right, so, I mean, we've been doing the show for four hours and 18 minutes, and we started the show. We were like, holy crap, we don't even really know what happened in Las Vegas last night.

And to the point now, here we are, 50 people are, at least 50 people are dead. 400 had been hurt. It was the Route 91 Harvest Festival. A guy on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Casino had been up there for three days, and he had planned this over 10 weapons and he busted out, kicked out, however he got that window open and as Jason Aldine was playing last night he opened fire weapon after weapon after weapon, automatic weapons

and just sprayed the entire grounds from the backstage area to the stage to the crowd and everywhere in between and a lot of people lost their life last night a lot of people are still hurt. As the morning's been going, we've been watching it develop. We didn't know much about the guy. Now his name is Stephen Paddock.

He lives in Nevada. His family is now speaking. Imagine his family. His brother just spoke out. What does brother say? He said, we have no idea how this happened. It's like an asteroid just fell on top of our family. He also says he was.

completely dumbfounded by the news. He was a guy that snapped or something. He was just a guy. Some calls on here. This is Carol Lee in Kansas. Hi, Carol Lee. Good morning. Good morning.

Thank you for calling. Thank you for having me. I just wanted to say that we still have to go to these music festivals, and we still have to go out there and enjoy country music. You know, there are so many fabulous people and kindred spirits that I've met through the years going to country music concerts, and we can't let people like this man steal our joy and steal our love for something that is so person. I agree with you, and I appreciate you calling to say that as well. Thank you very much.

Thank you. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. Hey, Laura, in Washington State. Hi. Hey, thanks for calling. I just was calling. Well, I called in to say I was on my way.

I lived outside of Seattle, and I'm on my way to give blood right now, because my cousin is an anesthetist. anesthesiologist at one of the hospitals that's actually taking people in in Las Vegas. And he said that they're in real need of the universal blood donor. I'm not, but I'm still trying to give blood to see what I can do. Well, thank you again for letting people know. You know, I saw where in Vegas, and we're on in Vegas, they've opened up more blood banks. They've opened up food banks.

There is, on my Twitter, I just retweeted, or I would just say, It's a go-fund me, or I would just say the page. But there is a legitimate go-fund-me that it's just a preliminary go-fund-me to start raising money for the victims of the mask or the family. So that's on my Twitter and Mr. Bobby Bones, if you want to go over there. It just, when you watch it, if you're just waking up

and you haven't seen it on the news, what you're going to see is a bunch of, like, Snapchat video and Instagram video of, one, Jason Aldean playing. And he's up, and he's up in the middle part, of the stage and he just kind of stops and then plays a bit and then goes whoa and then he runs off once he realizes what had happened

I saw Jason Aldeen drop his guitar and I'm like I'm out of here okay and that's when you know it's time when the artist is out because again I think he was watching the people I don't think he could hear he was hearing like those gunshots weren't as loud

as what was around him right Jason Aldine actually turned around and ran off the stage and that's when we realized that, you know, we were in, you know, something bad was going on. So actually, everybody in the crowd actually got down. And so then it was, do we stay down or do we run? And you're watching these videos of people, again, from so many phones, of people not knowing. And some people are staying down, while people are running, while people are behind places.

Because you didn't know where it was coming from. You didn't know that it was the hotel behind the stage. And from up high. Yeah, the guy had obviously He didn't When his brother says he snapped This is a premeditated snap Because this is days

Yeah Like maybe What are you reading? I read that he was The reason they were That lady was on the radar Is because they were roommates So they lived together

And he was using her gambling card In the slot machines The days prior to the shooting night So whenever he was around the hotel He was at the slot machines He was using her card to gather points. And he had it on him.

So that's why they were kind of looking at her. So he was actually still gambling and doing normal things leading up to it. Waiting until the end of it. Yes. And then one thing coming out of Las Vegas, here's a blood bank. It's 6.40 in the morning and the line's already around the block for people going to give blood. I bet you most of the people weren't even to sleep last night. Right.

I can tell you, you know, again, hey, you. wake up and you have like eight tech messages and you're like, hmm, something's happened. I don't know what it is, but something's happened. I like 43, and that doesn't happen to me. I don't even know 43 people. And so it was like, hey, have you heard from so-and-so? Have you heard from so-and-so? Because there's a bunch of artists, and we played this festival the night before.

There's a bunch of artists that were like, have you talked to? And then eventually everybody kind of checked in. And I'll tell you what about Facebook, too. The thing that Facebook, and people are checking in now on Facebook. Yeah. The fact that Facebook has that now is actually a really great thing. Yeah, it is. I agree.

As much as we have our moments with Facebook, it actually really is a way to keep track of people, unite people, find people. Yeah, here is when they breached the door, because when they finally got in, this is the police audio, when they finally got in, he then killed himself. I need to sit on the suspect's door. I need you bring in that hallway to be aware of it and get back. We need to pop this and see if we get in there to respond from this guy and see if he's, see if he's set on the suspect's door. in here he's actually moved elsewhere else. Got me all units on the 32nd floor, swat has explosive breach.

Everyone in the hallway needs to move back. All units move back. Breach, breach, breach. One suspect down in 1-3-5, 432, Manilae Bay. I have the floor. You know, and I just don't know, because someone had asked me earlier that did you feel safe?

And I felt completely safe. We played in a prime spot on Saturday night. It couldn't have felt better and safer. there was security everywhere. It was actually one of the best festivals we've ever played. But I don't know how you would feel safe from someone going up into a building half, okay, at least a quarter mile away. Right.

Because those buildings aren't close. Now they're far. And up that high. How do you avoid that? How do you, right, stop that from happening? I don't know. I was just, yeah, I was just saying that too. And then I don't know because I don't have experience with guns like that at all.

so like what kind of like his aim not that it really matters but yes he have like real do you have to have experience or I mean because he clearly like had a destination he was and of course it's a mass amount of people

how many people like 20,000 so he had like a large space that he's dealing with but I'm like my assumption is that he probably had a little bit of experience but I don't think he had any sort of high-quot training. He had a hunting license, so I mean...

Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot they gave us his... Like, random facts about him. And the fact that he started from the back and moved it forward showed me he really didn't know where he was going to start. Like, it wasn't like he was a trained sniper and knew he was going to take out this group. He started back to where... Back behind where Jake and the stage was. Like, the stage got hit on top of it, and then it went down into the crowd.

So my assumption would be, again, just someone who's used, I mean, listen, 30 out six, I would shoot rivals, but nothing like this. It would be that he really didn't know and he just started from the back and moved his way forward with it. A lot of assuming in that right there. Yeah, you're saying he started closest to him. Yes, and then further. And then went further back. Not really knowing, but knowing what the reach could be. Right.

Anything else, do you're reading over their lunchbox? That's basically it right now. And another question I have, like, how does he get, like, I understand you can request a room, like with the view of the strip. But he was towards the end of the building closest to the festival. Because what happens if he's on this, but he's farther down, does the gunfire not reach there? Or does he go back and be like, no, that room's not good enough? Like, I would assume he just requested the room early enough and got it. like requested a room.

So he probably mapped it out. He had to map it out. That's why the snap thing to me was so weird. Like that doesn't seem like a snap. Like you got to request a room near the right spot. I'm sure he didn't request the 32nd floor room. Whatever. But he requested something up that high in that area looking out at this direction.

Because you can do that. We can do that. Right. When we go. And so that doesn't seem like a snap to me. No, I mean, I'm wondering how close him and his brother were. Or maybe he just because he was. lunchbook said he had been gambling and using his companion's gamble card, it makes me think

maybe two people around him, he still seemed like a normal functioning human, but inside his mind, he was clearly nuts. Here is the brother of the shooter. I mean, if he'd have killed my kids, I couldn't be more dumbfounded. I mean, it doesn't, there's nothing. Last communication. There's nothing. I mean, I can show you the text.

He said, you know, how's mom? did you get power? You know, I mean, that was it. There's absolutely, we have nothing, like I said, we have nothing for you. I mean, I hope

someone finds out, figures out, because we'd like to know. I'm watching a feed of people that were hiding in the freezer during the shooting. Oh. As of right now,

50 dead 400 plus injured, it's the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. This is not, a show that we enjoy doing. It sucked, actually. But it didn't suck for us as bad as it did for people. The music festival, our thoughts with everybody.

It's weird to wake up in the morning and see that, one, a lot of people have been hurt, a lot of people have been killed, being personally connected to it and that our friends were playing, our people were watching. We had played it the night before. It is, all morning long has been this mix of emotions from anger to sadness to wondering to

again, back again, back again. So it's been a mess of a show, but we're humans just like you are and this is a very human show. And I hope that you're able to find some positivity

somewhere today and share it with somebody in some way. So thank you for listening to the show today. I don't even know if we played any songs or we played a couple.

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