You're listening to the downbeat. On ninety seven one the Freak Reminder. Tonight Alamo Draft House Cinema, Lake Highland's location, we will watch Office Christmas Party for the Let's Freaking Chill series. We've been having a movie every month with each show, and we picked that one. Hopefully some of our other freak friends will be there as well. To speak Easy Broadcasting Live two to six
pm. We'll get going at six fifteen tickets at ninety seven one. The Freak dot Com JJ just did her top ten movies of twenty twenty three and a few texts with people going borby One Guy's Barbie, No One of the stream cut up. Let me just tell something about Barbie. If you're the type to question Barbie before seeing Barbie, that's kind of what the movie Barbie is about. In a way, It's about a lot of things, but it is about the whole idea of maybe not fully giving something a shot.
There's a lot of elements of what that movie's about, and anyone who hasn't seen it and wants to say something about it, I kind of go, yeah, they're kind of making fun of you in that movie because you didn't go see it, go see it. It's amazing, very good and also inspired the Picks with Glynn's theme song. So we are popping this morning, having a big fun day because this is our last Downbeat of twenty twenty three, proper one hundred and four shows of the Downbeat in twenty twenty three the
New Downbeat as we had a lineup change back in July. So that's been good. And now we've got a few surprises coming up and also a little musical rendition of a couple of things coming up at eight thirty. Now, look, I just went to the bathroom and came back and I was standing doing my business and someone did walk into the other and I don't know who it was. Now could have been my co host, Mike's Roy, but I'm not sure. But ladies and gentlemen, on a vacation day, he
showed up and pajama pants and a Texas Rangers World Series sweater. Please welcome Danny Bayles fulls a Downbeat action. Do you need to make a poo poo? What are you doing? I got bored one day, yeah, one day. All I don't want to do with pretty much. Uh it was it's by the way, it's definitely your co host because there's nobody else here. Yeah, there's one guy here that's always here, and he's on a ladder with his head in the scene, working on a Wi Fi for the
other side of the building, right yep. So yeah, I don't know what what kind of trouble Mike he's gotten himself into in the stall. But I heard sound effects as I walked past the mind this doesn't bode well for any of us. So you just decided I'm good. I'm just gonna wake up and drive on up. Yeah, throwing a hoodie and I even wore my house slippers. I know he did. I'm dressed like a high school girl right now. I like it. Flannel pajama pants, hoodie and house
shoes. You look comfortable. I'm telling you there's something to this. JJ have ugs on. I mean they're sketchers, but yeah, it's not the same. You gotta have the ugs. I don't you know how much hugs are? Like one hundred and thirty dollars. How long are you? You look lighter? Really? Yeah? Thank you? Is it because you just mad a chocolate tail? You grow chocolate tail? Friend? Hey, Willie
Wonka, No, I'm talking to some high level executives. I had made a whole circle of the entire floor, and I didn't see you the higher level floor. What are you doing here? Why do you have pajama pants on? Because I can you look adorable? He does look sweet, doesn't they. There's something awesome about waking up at six point thirty instead of four. I don't know if you guys are aware of this. Holy mackerel. Now, the traffic is awful. Really, it's a forty five minute drive
from my house, is it? Yeah? About twenty three? Yeah, But dude, look at him on his vacation day. That alarm went off at six thirty. I was like, I feel God, click your heels, I feel to make coffee. And there's something to this. We need to embrace that. We need to all embrace dressing like middle school girls. Okay, I'm serious, because you wake up, you slide into your house, shoes, you toss on the hoodie, tussle you her hair a little bit, and just getting the car on the day. Hell yeah, it's
amazing. You have Christmas tree pajama These are last season, so yeah, I've got new ones this year. We have polar bears. Okay, all right, well, hell dingers here, what are you guys doing? Our dilf is returned, by the way, I loved the top ten JJ year in Movie Review and Kevin's right, Barbie is amazing. And I went into this with the most hesitancy of any film that I think I've ever gone. I went in there with my arms crossed and going, God, I can't
believe I gotta sit through this for the show. And I walked down of there thinking that might be the year's best film. Yeah, it is so stinking smart and good and and surprising. They did a great job of keeping the lid sealed and not letting you know too much about what it was about. You can't That's what I'm saying, Like, nobody can't explain it. There were so many and there was so many leaked foakhotos on set of this
movie. We were seeing photos damn here every day, Oh, Marlo, Robbie and Ryan Gosling skating it. Yeah, like there was leak photos every and then that you're still like, okay, so what is this movie? And then the trailer comes out and you're still like, okay, what is this movie? It looks fun but what is it? It's this everything that they that was involved in it, from promotion to you know, all the actors, everything, all the elements to this movie. It was just it
was top tier. Like that's how you do a movie. That's how you promote it, that's how you put it, that's how you do it. I think any amount any reviews that you read, you still don't get the You don't get what it is until you experience it exactly right. And even during it, you're still kind of going, where's this going? Mm hmmm, because they do a couple of cool little twists there, and then I don't know, by the end of it, there's enough moments that there were
just laughed too. It's funny as hell. There's a moment at the end where I cried exactly really you laughed, Yeah, cried. It was the
feel good movie of the year. I cried with the last cheese stick going down, lodged in your throat a little bit off the studio, and then every little girl who had a Barbie doll who used to play with, you know, Barbie's and Barbie like how they did Barbie Lane was so awesome like that, like literally, my little the little girl in me was like, oh my god, like, this is how they just brought it to life. It was awesome. I think you're right, because to guess what it
was about, you'd have no clue. And honestly, I mean, granted, girls and boys are probably different on this, but I was never against it. But I was like, Barbie, what the hell, what a weird what a weird idea for a movie? And then they cast the hell out of it, And then honestly, those promo photos I think helped it. I didn't get helped too, because I was like, what the hell
is going on with Goslin. Yeah, when you're seeing what they're wearing, you're like, oh my god, cause that's what Barbie used to and the people in the real world are side eyeing them and like, what the hell is this? And if that's the angle they were going to take, I'm like, all right, that's good. I thought it was great. Having hot people helps too. Yeah, it doesn't hurt. I al still think
what man hasn't looked into the eye of their lover? On acoustic guitar playing push by Matchbox twenty on the beach, How funny, what a great That was my favorite scene of the movie, because what a great song to put in that moment. It is so perfect thought that. Man, I like what Kevin said for Barbie, it helps to have hot people. Like what were they going to cast Paul Giamatti in Clint Howard Howard? What is that
your go to? Because he's like number one Barbie starring Ria Pearlman and Steve Bushimi as can that would not have worked, But we do have Barbie to think for the advent of the mozzarella stick buddy system, Yeah, that was not a thing no before Barbie. No, Now it's something that we not only recommend, we also encourage. I will be very possibly utilizing the montrelistic buddy system tonight at Alaba Draft House. Yes, we don't back it up
with a pretzel. That's the other thing, you know, maybe the bigger mistake the pretzel Delicious. No one told you to do that. I don't know, but it's when you order you're not thinking that far ahead. I wouldn't have ordered the pretzel after I finished the MONSTERRELLI states, I just got excited is delicious at Albader apps House, and it sounded like a good idea eyes bigger than the stomach. Let's see a cool movie chasing tequila with bourbon.
Yeap, order large tequila and large bourbon. Please, I want them all why. I want to get drunk as fast as possible. If you could insert it, that'd be great. Yeah. Okay. First of all, they gotta quit doing bits where they arrest the Grinch's stage saw on TV, and there's one where they had the Grinch built over a conference room table like we were in Heart two sixteen of the Senate building. Once every half show, just once every half gave a new thing, you know, that
is Annie. I've been gone one day, I know. Do you know about the gay sex and the Senate? Oh Jan six No, sir, because that will be a real twist for that side two days ago. Wait a minute, what we're not about that? Dude? He should be the video live on the area today and then the stream cut out two hours later. Something's up. We got shut down. You set a bazooka through the firewall, Mikey. He did. All right, here's the first image you
need, but I don't worry. The Capitol Building is covering oh my god, the tender zone. The first image, Yeah, Nash, the vid that's is that Matt Gates. So it's a couple of ones. There's the video that gab Yeah it happened. This is the most important thing in the world yesterday pixelation. Yeah. So basically it is the Japanese kind of it's rid of that blur. It's an aid, it's the aid of some senator. Yeah, he's got the hardest name in the world to say it's a
Stori aid with the aid of another senator. No, I don't or another Well, that's part of the deal, is no I don't. The thought is that this dude, this is the recipient he is, doesn't work there and may have been illegally brought into the building. Among the violations that the young man I can't find his name, but the young man did, so he got fired. He's no longer. He was ben cardon aide Maryland and
he got canned. But among the reasons he got fired. Let's say it's so shocking because it's like in that conference room in that video, huge long conference tape and just seating. If there were to be an audience there, they're just sit there and vote on something. It's got the huge projector screen for if they were actually going through some bill or something and they're just in there and it looks like it could be three in the afternoon. Yeah.
Just and he brought up a good point, what cameras galore everywhere in the or or is it no cameras because maybe they do some things that are not to be recorded. Yeah, but just like a CCTV thing, just even if it's like greeny, black and white footage, just for security practices, for security alone, there has to be yes. Yeah, I mean what my can obtained there was was what we call one of the male POV. Yeah. I wouldn't say obtained that. I obtained it. It's just a
story. Yeah, they're looking at Yeah, uh, what's his name? Aiden? It was pretty shocking though. Aiden Maceski is the dude's name, twenty four year old. And he brought his buddy in and they went out. I mean that and that room, as Kevin continued to say, is what go ahead? Heart two sixteen? Is that right? It's a room where they have a lot of hearings and stuff. Okay, Senate room Heart two sixteen. It's a legendary. I'm want to get a dictionary room.
I want to get a neon light of it. And hang it in here Heart two sixteen. Can you imagine like once this video was discovered, like immediately there were like guys in there with spray bottles with blue liquid, just knocking it out good. That was That was the room where like the nine to eleven commission, the whole thing happened. Like it's kind of weird to think about like that, but like we said yesterday, you know, they quickly checked. They're just looking for an R A D as they say,
who did this? Who did this? Oh? Yes? Or no? Yeah? Because the one dude I can't get over his his tweet is you know, he linked the story in some former senator. What have they done to my beloved senate? Beloved senate? What have they done? It? Desecrated it? What have their man love? What have they done? And they basically act like Joe Biden was there cheering them on a pennant and a foam finger, giving them instructions a little faster. Come on, come on,
come on, I had a meeting in three minutes. Let's go. Come on, man, go ahead and finish, get to the air. Come on, man, come on, man. Frankly, you'd never see that in my senator one of the best Senate floors will keep it clean. Only porn stars. You grab them by the p line them up, just grab them. That's how I do it in my Senate. So it's good to be bad. We're mad, We're mad or not mad. I don't know. I never know gifts. Ef we get some gifts in nine o'clock.
I did gift time. Is that all of them? Yeah, it's one, it's one for each of you, one for each of you. Yeah, getting bags. I had so many bags, So you do have bags. I didn't see a bag. Oh yeah, bags, three bags. And I'm the damn near Santa Claus around here, and Danny just has those. Okay. I think you guys are gonna like my gifts hopefully. I don't know. Might are pretty boring, but are kind of cool. I think I did put thought into them for each of you. Yes,
you know. I didn't just give you gift cards to a steakhouse. Yours is cool. Yours is funny and cool. Don't gag me, Yours is awesome. And then I have stuff from Malcolm. It's gonna be fun. We're doing this. I'm funny and something awesome at ye presidentshy I bought you a car wash. We're gonna open up a meth lab together. Did you happen to hear a conversation on the on the brand new Pro Bowl? No? You know what though that brings racial Oh yeah, yeah, whites versus
blacks? Is that what it was? That's what suggested, were merely reporting a news story from a Super Bowl champion. Champion, Yeah, I heard that. Yeah, the white team would be a lot of two tight end sets, maybe the wishbone. Ye, maybe not the wishbone, maybe the Yeah, with a with a full back and on the rare occasion you split out one of your lighter tight ends and run him as flanker. Flanker protect Cooper Cup out there sweating. We were having a hard time trying finding wide
receiver too, with like a thirty five year old in theling. What do you say we Yeah, me and Mike were kind of in charge of coaching the wise. We admitted that we're going to say our team is he he can come out of our time. Yeah, we had to grab guys out and pull him out of retirement. Largent the all time teams with the all time teams hurt us, probably right. So it's the you get Tom Brady,
you get Tom or Peyton. For those who think it's not just current, well, yeah, and we had a great actually put a team together, Josh All. We did our line seven we did. Yeah, we we did Kelsey at center and Quentin Nelson at guard and Zach Martin a guard and Lane Johnson attack. Like, we had a great offensive line. Yeah, we're pretty stacked on offense. Enough pass rushers we can. We don't have any cornerbacks. You know, that's what I was about to say,
You're going to get smoked. The only thing we get by going all time is we get to add Jason C. Horn, who's like the only white corner of all time. He wasn't even that good. He wasn't even that great even. Yeah. Yeah, we get Adam or to let out there. And there was tough debates on what you would do with the Biracials, like yeah, and finally, if dad is black, they're black. But what about mama, what's the oh your hair looks dope today? Four hours?
That took four hours. She wanted a Wolf of Wall Street, the Wall Street Soppenheimer Plu Killers. They're done. Jesus, can you imagine that movie marathon. That's when you need to get your hair did while you're watching these dumb ass long movies. Yeah, we put the Wolf of Wall Street in what's the name of the writer? The black dude, huh key and Peel Goal. He's the black dude. But he's real controversial and he's on
like the ESPN shows. Kind of a big dude from Kansas City. Because he responded to Mendenhall and then men and Hall made a video back at him. It was actually a real juicy oh oh, used to like it used to be on ESPN. Yeah yeah, but he's real yeah yeah almost other sides. Sometimes this is in reference to the racist Pro Bowl. Yes, okay, hey, let me read you. Uh, let me read you. Men in Hall's actual tweet. All right, all right, Danny, this is it, Richard men in Hall. I'm sick of average white guys
commenting on football. Y'all not even good at football. Can we please replace the Pro Bowl with it all black versus all white bowls so these guys can stop trying to teach me who's good at football. I'm better than your goat. And it was kind of fun. I don't think it was meant it's fun. It's kind of awful, although Kevin said it's the greatest Pro Bowl idea of all time. It's the one thing to make the Pro Bowl interesting again. Many problems that would be so many problems, so many pr Yeah.
Yeah, and are they promoting it or oh man, be fun? Like in the eighties, like I think they actually cared a little bit. Everybody played. Yeah, they had the little athletic events, the skill events leading up to it. Yes, you know, I used to love it. I used to love like seeing that little there's a dolphin. He had a dolphin on his helmet or a cowboy for you guys. He was like, there's our boy, Jason Whitlock. Jason Whitlock, exactly right, thank you him. No, we don't want it. We don't want him.
Know what did he say he can't play corner? We don't want him. Know he's a big boy. He eggs out with Klay Travis, we're good on the line. We need corners. I'll find out what he said a minute. I don't even know. You got McCaffrey playing both ways. Gotta play both ways. That's what we gotta do. Like three a Texas ball. Yeah, Uh, let me bring it up. Who's your who's your
three receiver team? Feeling the Cooper Cup and we decided we'll just go with Kelsey and then maybe we'll do like a Mark Andrews or a George Kittle, just carry two tied ends rather than three wives. There's two acceptable white wide receivers in the league. I don't want to take Bobo Bobo. We didn't want Jake Bobo. We don't want the Dolphins of Craig Croft. I don't want River. Okay, we get Islanders, No, yes, Dundeel,
Wait a minute, we need them? We get Islanders? No, we need I don't think I read what Whitlocke said, because his point was he looked up for some reason, Rashad Mendenhall's wife, who he has a picture of and appears to be white. What's that mean? I don't know, because he said, see people like Whitlock and those people are looking for stories like this to not have fun with them. Yes, yeah, exactly. We see that. We're like, okay, let's have fun. Let's make
a little dream team. Yeah. I don't want to read that. I dream teams. Find not the best way to say that, but let's make a little team with it. I think just everybody is posting crap, so people like us will talk about it, and that's you know, it drives me nuts, but we talk for four hours. We have to do some or much of this stuff. This stuff that is just sizzling for a moment, news that is insignificant. But you can't come on here and do that
right. Well, when you have reputable people, reporters, talking heads, whatever, posting stuff like this, it kind of just the sheer fact that that exists makes it somewhat news, and it's incumbent on us to kind of report on news. So you kind of get caught in that cycle, that trapped to where one feeds the other. Right, But like that's perfect because you kind of make fun of it, you have fun with it, so
that's fine. Yeah, But these goobers who are just obsessed about staying in the news to come up with a hot a contrived hot take, that's where they ruin everything, just always want to be the opposite of that. We're way better off. We got news once once a day in the morning. It was measured news that you had to take a some time to write the
article and research. It was better. Now it's just screaming of news all day, every day, claiming it or not news, and it's not verified and everyone goes nuts over it and we all know it's stupid, but it still drives people crazy. We need to be better. The downbeat will be better next year, not this year. No, no, we have one and a half hours to be bad. We're going well. Coming up next,
we'll celebrate Christmas. Okay, some of our teammates have done great work involving Christmas or birthday songs and we need to check that out because Stripmont, Steve and Christina who come out from ten to to today have done very very good and will review that next on ninety seven won the Freak