You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak great. We got big guests coming up kind of for the rest of the show. Chris Catan snl alum at eight thirty no nine o'clock, I'm sorry, nine o'clock and then nine thirty nine forty or so. Jason Kidd, the head coach the Dallas Mavericks, will join us. But right now, real quick,
we have some of the phone. His name is James Danny of the story and Dingo's Morning News about a chicken farm that went up in flames down in Brian Texas, and we, as we often do, got the kicking around questions that we don't know answers to, and then our buddy James was listening. He texted that he works at a chicken farm and he's on the phone right now, so we might have some questions for you. James, Do we have you? Yeah, I'm here. How are you doing today?
I'm following yourselves, good man. Are you working? Yeah, I'm on the road right now, on the road. Are you heading to a chicken fireman? No, I actually left the chicken farm and I'm headed to East Texas right now. Are you going to another chicken farm. Yes, well, I work in a processing plant where we actually cooked the chicken and I just take it up to a lab and have it stuff tested. But I have worked in the or in a keel plant where the chickens are actually
processed. Are you transporting chicken right now? Yes, not live chicken, but cooked chicken, cooked chicken. But how was the chicken prepared? It goes through a line and okay, so, as you know, they hatch and then they get taken to a processing plant where they're unlived, and then they're cut up and all that, and then from there it gets sent to another plant and it goes through the processing plant where it goes through the ovens
and all that and gets battered. And that's how you get your chicken tenders and things that are already pre battered at the store, at restaurants or whatnot. Did you say in that process the point where the chickens were unlived, where they were, yes, where they were processed. It is that interesting term. It is. Is that something that the industry has pivoted towards to kind of lessen the sting of the reality. No, I've just noticed that word has been used a lot, so I didn't know if that was more
politically correct. I was trying to be radio etiquette. Thank you, thank you for that. I don't. You don't have to do that yourself for us, my man, all right, unless you're going to drop a big f. Don't do that. Oh no, no, no, I know how to control that. I don't. I do only when at work. So how many? I mean? I obviously every plant is different. But you heard our discussion, and we were talking about how how possibly there's enough
wings produced to sell the amount of wings that are for sale? Hell in Addison where we are in DFW, in Texas and the United States and the world, billions and billions of chicken wings? How does this? How do we get there? So, in a processing plant where the chickens are killed and processed, you're killing two hundred and fifty thousand chickens per shift, So in two eight hour shifts, you're killing five hundred thousand chickens. Okay,
figure every chicken has two wings. So and it's not just one because the one you were discussing, it's not part of the plant I'm at. We have multiple plants that produce chicken. I'm just at one of the country's largest. Okay, the process of unliving these chickens, this is clearly not done by hand like Grandma did with the hatchet to the neck. This has got to be a fully mechanized endeavor, and it is. It is very mechanized.
You have guys that are standing in the back and as the chickens are unloaded out of cages off of the eighteen wheelers that are transporting from the farm to the plant, you have guys that are standing back there, and they come on a conveyor belt down to where the guys are standing, they actually grab them by the legs and hang them on hooks, no hopes that are killing them, but cooks that are holding them by their feet, and then
it transports them through a room and from there, the way they're killed is it's actually like rollers, and as they roll through, it's their necks that's actually rolled through the rollers which is killing the chicken. It's breaking their necks. And then from there it processes through it to have them deefeathered and all that have everything taken off of them to where you have just the clean carcass.
And then from there it's transported through the plant where it's cut in certain places, and then different parts of the chickens, say like your thighs, they'll go to one section, the breast will go to another, and then from there you have it's going down a line where you have people standing there.
You have a whole line of people with knives, and as the chickens are coming past you, you sit there and you just cut the bones out and then it rolls through and when it re which is the end, all you have is a straight carcass of the body and then all the meat has been removed, and then that's when it gets boxed up, packaged and all
that and sent off to wherever it's going. And then you have a department that's in charge of the innerds and gizzards and whatnot, because those are all you know, people like to eat those, Okay, Right, you have a separate apartment for each and every part of the chickens, and you'll have a whole department full of people that are standing there just collecting that part of the meat and as it's cut off the body, and then from there someone
else is taking the bones out and it's just processed through. Okay, So you in a in a full shift, you're saying that a half a million chickens are processed in a day. Yes, in a day, because per shift you're looking at anywhere from two hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand chickens, and that sounds like a massive amount. But this is happening every day, every day. My question is is how do the you've got to replace
these live chickens with fresh new chickens. It's just a NonStop cycle and that's all being done like right on the same premises. Yeah, because you have they're called super chickens and hell yeah, okay, yeah, that's that's a term of the industry. But they're these they've been genetically engineered to be stronger, bigger, not buck steroids or anything like that because that's illegal. But
so they're they're laying eggs. They have these huge roosters that are just constantly having fun with them having their way and they're just dropping eggs and as they go to the hatchery. From there, that's where they incubate the eggs, and their process they're sped it's a little bit sped up. And then as after they hatch from hatch to be in processed, a typical chickens life is three months okay, Okay. From there they're they're full grown at three months
to be processed. Okay, so that three months. Man, I get confused a lot when it comes to hens too. So you have hens and there there's no way to do this. I'm the female chicken is the hen? Right, yeah, the hen is incimonated. The hen is inciminated well naturally from a rooster, from sex, all natural. Yeah right, yeah, they're they're out there having sex and they've been, like I said, through breeding and all that. They're just naturally engineered to be bigger and stronger.
Okay, okay, okay, it'll makes sense. So you're telling me it's not at all a sham though, Like everywhere we're getting wings, we're getting real wings because there's enough chickens to go around to feed America. There is more than enough chicken to go around for everyone. Man, How do like if you have a guess when you distribute or sell these chicken, like some you know, like places have different quality of chicken they sell or size
or like regulations on where the chicken came from. Like some will be labeled non GMO, right, no steroids, blah blah blah. You guys just one kind that goes to whatever grocery stores, and I imagine you have a contract with you because the ones that we met personally at the plant where I'm at, Like I said, it's a cooked plant, so we're actually battering home or it goes to the battering process and it's cooked and then they get
bagged up. And that's where, like when you go to the grocery store and you buy your chicken tenders that you can throw in your air fower or whatnot. We're making the things like that, gotcha. But then you've got the other plants that are they're processing and distributing raw chicken, and that's where you would go datb or get your food there and then take it home to cook and then you set. They have bigger boxes that are selled, like
you know, bigger processes that are to restaurants and stuff like that. We're all thinking it, James, Yes, do you like to eat chicken? I'm kind of sick of chicken, but I eat a lot of it. Do you? Uh? Do you like Rob Zombie or Alice Cooper? By chance? I love the both of them. Would you like to go see them? I would love it more than anything. Hell yeah, all you have to do is tell two chickens to listen to ninety seven one the Free.
I will tell the whole farm. I'm telling my van right now full of cooked chicken, all right, I just told them September eighteenth at Dicky's Arena and Fort Worth. Tickets go on sell February second at ticketmaster dot com. We got a pair of tickets for you to see Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper. You just stay on hold and jj I'll get your information. Thank you for your insights, dam man. Thanks j P. Love you guys, Thank you, love your buns. Well, sweet dude, Yeah I
learned. Did you learn? I learned a lot so much sometimes news hard, and yeah I winced through some of that when textures came in. You guys should bump Jason Kidd for this. This is pretty damn interesting. Well how about we have them both. We have this guy. You can have it all with the downbeat, or we just asked Jason Kidd chicken industry questions and see how far that interview goes. He might prefer that. Do you
guys know, do you guys hot? I'm not doing it? Do you guys know who would be the Chicken play by play voice of the Dallas Mavericks if they had a Chicken radio network. Okay, hold on, I'll just let him go. Who would it be? Let's go wing for Kluck Cooper Stein. So the MAVs were down seventy seven sixty one at halftime last night. I was in the house and it was Cluck Cooper all right, set this up. You were there, man, I was there, and uh,
why were you there? Well? I was there because they the Mavericks do a thing here with our Again, I don't think after weset this by will we carry every Mavericks game here on the Freak. We're the home of the Dallas Mavericks. So, for instance, tomorrow night's game in Minnesota, you can listen to that here on the Freak with Chuck Cooperstein and Brad Davis and Cage. He's got the pregame show, great Kevin Gray, who joined our team a few months ago. So we I Heeart does a bit with
the Mavericks and it's karaoke cam. And once they do it, they usually have whether it's May Cavanaugh did it last time. I think I've seen Jeff Ka from ninety two to five. Do it. I've you know, seen this bit happen a few times, so I was like, yeah, I'll
do it. And it's cool because like they give you tickets to the game, you had good seats, Yeah, game with good seats, so you're there and you're watching the game, and uh, but I've been in communicado with the Mavericks people because there's a time that they want to do this, like they want to do this at third quarter maybe second break of the third quarter maybe, And so I'm texting them and they're kind of like, okay, we'll come by and get you. And I've been texting them leading up
to this. I actually requested a song. I was like, I want to do hey y'all by Outcast. But they're like, okay, just so you know, you're not actually singing like it's it's it's lipsy lip singing. I'm like, okay, that's great, but did you have any responsibility to introduce the bit? No? Nothing, You're just on camera kind of singing in the beginning of the song and then they jump back to you a few times. So it's seventy But I got told okay, we'll let you know
what the song is. We don't really do that. You don't get to pick your song, you know. But it's based on the energy in the room, right, which is wild. Why I'm sitting there watching the first half and watching the Magic go sixty five percent from the field and every one of their damn giants is making every shot BND Caro not missing. I mean, yeah, he's incredible. They're all so good and fun. I kind of like the Magic. So you watched the first time, like this sucks.
I get the text and they're like, not gonna be Hey, ow aboutcast. It's gonna be sweet Caroline. You need a little bit more of a muted tone for karaoke, something the crowd loves, but it's not really high energy. We're losing by sixteen. Whatever happens third quarter. Now I get told they're gonna come find me at halftime, and I knew where the section was. It's like three sections over. Our friend Shippy is the DJ for the MAVs and the Stars, and Shivvy was texting me and he just
come over here. So I go to where I'm supposed to be and it's supposed to be the second break of the third quarter. Now, how did you guys take in the MAVs game last night? Illegally just say that I received a text from our audience out there, from Mike and Danny, and I'm sure a lot of you out there can relate to this, those of you that don't have BALLY. And I pull up my phone and I'm looking at my phone. In a minute, I get a text message and I
see one of the most disgusting pictures. Oh, I see one of the most beautiful pictures. As Danny is streaming, I'm sitting on my couch and take a photo because I have my computer on the chase and casting the game to my television. Got that little thing, the little software that will connect it with your TV wirelessly, And that's how I watch the Maps games. And it's a pain in the butt. You know, you got to find the crackstream side or whatever, and you got to fight through a bunch of
pop ups. But eventually you get the game and it's you know, hit or miss. Sometimes it collapses and you gotta restart the damn thing or close out your browser. But anyway, that's how I consume games. I think that's probably how a lot of people are consuming games because Bally's is a nightmare. I open up a picture of Danny's laptop or a computer and it says, first of all, you can't ignore the image of the naked woman.
But get horn with April Flores at jerkmate dot net. Yeah, a pop up advertisement that I have to close out feverishly to get to my MAVs content. You know, you're at the game, and people you know how tied it is at those games, you know, and if there is somebody's sitting behind you, they know everything that's going on your phone. You can see everything. And I just whip out my phone all casually in the holy crap, naked woman on my phone, and there is the enormity of April in
all of her glory. She is definitely a lot of glory. Yes, very glorious. So point is seventy seven to sixty one and the half it's not looking good, okay, but I'm fighting back a little bit. I go and get in position, and they've gotten me up on this platform. And then that is when the Mavericks go on a run, and it is the big run to where they end up taking the lead. So I'm getting ready. They've got the MAVs dancers like surrounding me. The camera guy is
on a knee. It's about to be Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond. And then the girl who's like in game operations. Her name is Nicole, I think, and she got the headset on. She goes, Okay, okay, we're not doing it. We're going hot. You hold on, We're gonna push it back. I said, again, know how it works? Great? You know, thumbs up, cool, whatever you gotta do,
because Maverick's going this huge run. Take the lead. We're popping T shirts into the crowd and we're blasting club music and we're getting the party going. Who wants a T shirt? Woo? No, oh you didn't. I didn't save it. I just texted you about friend. I saw that. Yes, yeah, who wants a T shirt? Like seven times? I thought you had the audience I should have. So we go third quarter and she goes, can you do? Can you do fourth quarter? One for
to one? And I said, uh sure, yeah yeah, And it's a good game now too, And I wasn't thinking about leaving early at that point. Now that we're back in it and things are awesome, right, So yeah, so I'm sitting on the platform. The MAVs dancers are gone. It says, okay, we're read at the drum line behind you now and uh, we're gonna change the song rude to heyh by Outcast and yes, that's what I wanted. So there we go. It goes to break
and they're so basically the way it works. The camera guy's on a knee and he's filming me, and I'm surrounded Instead of being surrounded by MAVs dancers, I'm surrounded by the drum line guys now, and they just rip off heya, and you're just kind of looking at the board and going with it. And it was but it was kind of crazy to see the in game
operations work like that. I mean, he's basically aborted their log. Mikey and I had the same experience because we were prepped on this, and thankfully for the benefit of the illegal streaming, you get the in house production depending on what arena, uh the home arena is, so it doesn't go to any any commercials at all. You're like getting all of the jumbo tron stuff, any activity contest, waterburger, French fry into a giant buck. We
get all of that and last night we're both prepped. I've got my screen capture. I'm ready to get the audio of keV oh. And I'll be damned if the second they didn't go to that commercial break that you're being featured on. They do the NBA legal where it's like all broadcast rights an he read blah blah blah, you know, broadcast of this the subject of penalty
by law. They do with the that whole thing, and then it joined you in progress going absolutely bananas with the most aggressive clapping I've ever seen in my life. Yeah, so I didn't get you talking to the crowd if in fact you actually did not no microphone, okay, just were didn't miss anything then really just lip syncing, you know, but I think I think with Cavin on did it he got all the small things by blank on two.
But you know, you're led to believe the audience thinks you chose the song if it's karaoke, right, So I was like, I kind of want a cool song, Well you got one. Yeah, I got the coolest song of all time. Hey, that was a feel good hit of a bunch of summers ago. You were passionate, you were dancing hard, because I love that song. Yeah. And the thing is, though,
the whole thing is the crowd had gotten into it. I was just dreading, what if we're losing by twenty get and then you start going, well it big and like, you know, you can't even do interpretive dancing at all with that song, and they're gonna cut by the time it goes to the chorus. They're gonna cut to the audience because it does cut back and
forth and then back up to me and then back and forth. But it was fun and it was like adrenaline pumping, and it I didn't wind down until close to midnights because you're just you're in it and it's time to, you know, turn on. They tell you, like, we want big energy, and I said, don't worry about me. I'm a powerhouse, like the least of your concerns. Yeah. But in the all right, all right portion, Katie leaned right into the camera. Yeah, I knew
it was coming. I was ready and then big claps dancing, Oh my god, beautiful. Well you were very well represented this phenomenal company we work for. I think so you did well. That's what happens when you can't get Nick Creamer there to perform. You know, you can give me this thing karaoke. There's a video, a couple of videos. Oh don't think that we didn't if we didn't post some content. Last night after the Kevio appearance, Danny posted a video This is the one and only Kevo, which
I was kind of regretting that we're in my Cavio suit. Yeah. I mean it's not convenient at all, but full video of just kind of what it's like, and you kind of get a behind the scenes version of what it's like before you go on too. At the ninety seven to one the Freak TikTok page ninety seven won the Freak on Instagram at ninety seven one the Freak on Twitter. I don't know if I put it up on Facebook or not, but someone will if I didn't. So I got a good video
on at Downbeat DFW. Yes, you did, thank your tea right now. Look at him. He had the crank going the fist crank and then into the hard collapse. You look great, You look really cool doing it. Man. Kevin got some week moves man ned two beers, so is perfect just the right amount of energized. But it was great and I feel the victory. I did it. You did it. Now, you know. We can talk about Lucas forty five and Tim Hardaway's thirty six all we
want. But it was really me to re ask Jason Kidd in a karaoke cam if he saw you last. I actually do wonder how much of those in and put none of it right. The interesting I see nothing on the jumbo players do. They're always peering over depending on what the entertainment is one of their videos where they know their YA features up there, I'm looking at the white board. Yeah, they're like, uh huh uh, that's a
good question for kid. Have you ever had to yell at a player to snap back and pay attention to the white board while they're looking at themselves on it on a jumbo tron? Bit? Yes, No, that'll be good, love Jason Kidding ninety Christ Cantannic at nine ten. Coming up next,
though, we have a guy who's kind of a TV legend. He's setting up home base in Fort Worth. He is building his own TV network that launches next month, and I've got the exclusive weird promotional trailer that he did next to ninety seven won the free