This is the downbeat on ninety seven one the Freak. We started at six am. We've given away four pairs of Weezer tickets, one more to go on a Weezer Wednesday. Thank you Charlie and the Gang the promo department Zach hooking us up five extra pairs Weezer tickets because that show was announced Monday. Tickets don't go on so till Friday at the Fightming Lips opening up for them along with Dinosaur Junior. It's in September. Ticket selling Live Nation on Friday.
It's at the American Airline Center. I love Weezer, but I would go just to see we Are Flaming Lips play. Do you realize I think it's worth going to the American Lilne Center. I think I have it in the top three favorites, top five favorite songs of all time? Yeah, oh yeah. Do you realize Weird Fishes? Weird Fishes is in there too? Do you realize they'll make you cry? My song makes me cry?
That's I saw them again to Jesse Slomon in November and that song plays and you can't help but go, and there's just colors and they absolutely love it. So last time I saw Wheezer, their whole set stage setup was like set up like a car, so like you know, Rivers is out front, and then middle of the set, he goes up to the top and he's like like he's on top of the dashboard because they were on the Indie Rock road Trip tour, so the drummer's up on the like on top of
the glove box. He's I mean, it's just insane how fun they are. It's a party, it's gonna be a blast. So it's a fun show. I've been giving your tickets to all day long, just trying to pay it. Pay it back to our listeners a little bit. Everyone's working hard here. Middle of March, New Year. Some people get to go on spring break and stuff like that, not us. Never before we get your talkbacks, birthdays, stuff like that. To have a listener call in
a little bit earlier. We're gonna say his name or anything. But Danny did a story in Dingo's Morning News that was about some of the things have been going on in Atlanta at a couple of bars and the bucket community.
Dudes are being targeted by being drugged or having their drink spiked with things that are making them pass out, and they're waking up off and on throughout the rest of the evening, being subdued, and then they find out they get dumped off somewhere and then find out, you know, after looking at their phones or their bank accounts, that their phones have been used to bleed them dry from their cash, apps, their venmos, their banks, Zell's,
all of that stuff. And these guys are It happened to New York recently too, that resulted in seven deaths of victims. So dang, that was a pretty pretty wild story that NBC did a big expose on. Well, we have a listener who has been through something like this. We'll bring him on now. Hello, welcome to ninety seven one the freak sur Hey KT, I mean my anonymous friend. So this happened to you something along these
lines in Dallas? Yes, Yeah, So a couple of years ago, I was out in Atlanta after work and met a buddy for for drinks at Johnny's Hideaway and I read I read the story after you after you talked about it this morning, Danny, and it's it's spot on. So so we were having drinks at Johnny's Hideaway. We leave to go to catch an uber
to go back to a hotel. We're waiting on ourn uber out front, and two girls drive by and they do a circle and uh circle back around and they rolled it undo down and asked where we're heading to and we both said we're going back to the hotel and they said, well, we're going another ball. You guys want to go with us. So we you know,
we're feeling good and and maybe not not in our best senses. And we jump in the back seat and get heading down the road and we get to a stop light and the two girls pass a little bag here in the front seat amongst themselves and they're doing little bumps and they passed it into the back seat and they said, you guys want to try this, and so
we did this. We did and then uh I noticed that like when like she put that back down and picked up another bag and offered another bump when we pulled in the parking up to the bar, and it was it was a different substance and we were out cold. We woke up on uh like and some side street in downtown Atlanta at probably four o'clock in the morning. Luckily, we both had our phones uh had to call an uber, so we didn't know where we were. So luckily we had with our phones we
could call an uber to come pick us up. So we didn't know where we were, but the uber could find us through the app. And then we get back to the We get back to our hotel and we still had our wallets, our cash was gone, and we didn't know nothing else was taken until we started getting the call from our credit cards. So and one credit card was taken, not all of them, they just didn't want.
So it was kind of you couldn't really notice that anything was missing except for your cast because but you got most of your credit card, your driver's lining, your phone, so it seems like everything else was there until you start getting the call from your credit cards. But what it was a pretty what a what a oh my goodness when when when the Uber show finally showed up, I couldn't walk. I had to like I had to crawl to the Uber. And then once we get in the Uber, we get to a
stop light and I had to open the door and there was vomiting. Was just couldn't stop. It was horrible. So was your credit card still in your wallet? Yeah? No, no, no, so they had taken one credit card. Luckily they didn't know nothing was taken through the phone as far as like cash apps were taking it, you know, doing no then know or anything like that. It was just the cast taken out of all our wallets. And then they tried to make a purchase for credit cards.
Both both of our card companies had what you know, since we had our phones, they called us to you because they reported some suspicious activity. Okay, so they didn't burn you too bad. Financially, it wasn't too bad. I mean, we had planned for a fun night. We were planning to go out to some different establishments, so we booked out a couple hundred dollars, but no risk, watches or anything else of value on you.
Everything was no, it wasn't. I mean, we both had our watches, both had you know, everything on us except for one credit card missing and cash. So from that second bag you did a toot. And then yeah, he's a doctor buddy of mine, he said he probably think he thinks it was probably it was kind of like right when Sentinel was becoming like a kind of a hot topic. Yeah, so that was that was really
freaking kind of like scared everything when we were real scared. Once we kind of realized that we thought that's what we first thought it was, but doctor Buddy said he thought it was might have been ketamine. I bet your thoughts have changed since, like photos in the news now, but you're like, dude, yeah, where buffs? Yeah? Did uh? Do you recall did you wake up first or your friend? No? Uh, kind of both. We were just real I don't really even remember waking up. It
was just real groggy, but it was amazing. It was so like vibrant colors and like a kaleidoscope, and but I felt like I was in a had like Marionette strings and there was a god up above kind of controlling things. It was really strange awesome. That's nuts. Well, dude, thanks for calling and telling your story. That's fascinating man. Yeah, yeah, for doing that. And it's sharing a lot of kind of personal stuff from traumatic and I wanted to make sure that you know, if something like that
happened, I want people to know how it happens. Yeah. Well, I mean that's a traumatic story. Oh that's you. Do. You like Weezer? Love Weezer, and my youngest son is a huge fan. All right, deal, right, you're going dude? Thank you? Question? Does your youngest son know about the story? No? How did you get through these tickets? Dad? I work hard and I stored a lot of How are you about that? When we keep under wraps, well, we will keep you anonymous, but you do have to give some info to JJ.
But yeah, man, we'll give you a pair of Weeezer tickets. We appreciate listening and calling it man, you appreciate it. That's wild man? Hell you? So we always want people to participating, right, It's like, you know, not just a show for us, people participating a little extra. Thanks for our friend Seth Johnson for calling in. Wait.
Shoot, okay, so I have a couple of talkbacks. Yay, But at first we should think our sponsor, the Almo draft House Cinema, always home of the Let's Freaking chew A movie series, and it is our month. We will be making that announcement next week. I believe. Okay, next week, I believe unless I'm told otherwise. But I know what it is. Five locations here in the Metroplex, of course, tickets at ninety seven one the freak dot Com. Once we announce it, go to draft
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and they're not gonna sell it. So here's what's gonna happen. This is gonna go and it's gonna get stuck on the floor of Congress. I think hmm. Personally I think it it will. Uh. Trump did an amazing thing as he has been like for that and then he has quickly said, oh yeah no if they I don't support it, because now that Biden is like, oh I'll ban it. It's like they can't agree on anything. And Trump flip flop because he has said in the past that he would
be on board of the banning it. Now he's not. And the big problem there is there's four countries. Iran, I think Iraq. I think it's Russia, no Iran, Russia, North Korea and China who fall under these countries where okay, if they have this influence, they own this company, then we're like, not for it. I forgot the way it's termed, but it was very interesting reading about that. Now it would take probably they're giving him like six months. I know Kevin o'larry from Shark Tanks like,
I'm gonna buy it. I'm gonna buy TikTok. I don't think you can, but I do think the fastest way. I seriously mean this. I think it could swing an election. I think twenty year olds twenty again, people in their twenties and thirties would go and vote based less on any policy that's out there from Biden or Trump and more on whether TikTok was getting banned or not. It's funny in a roundabout way, and what you're saying makes a lot of sense. A big fear is that TikTok was going to
be used to influence our election. Now, our reaction to TikTok, our country's reaction to TikTok, regardless of how you feel about what that is, could be a deciding fact that this will just wild to think about this will destroy the daily habits and lives of many people who are addicted to that app. Yeah, I mean it like that is I believe the watching TV. Yeah yeah, it's quite frankly why we should have cameras in here doing our
show, right. I mean I read a big thing about that yesterday about the challenges for broadcast radio, and one of those challenges are making your medium more online friendly all the time, and not just in that one world where we're trying to do Oh here, here's a post here, here's what we're
doing on Instagram, and here's what we're doing on TikTok. We'll do need to be on there constantly, and the best way that would be having a camera in front of our just beautiful faces while we talk about these things. But whatever uh tuckbecks from your iHeartRadio app. Quick birthdays, I'll tell you that Jack Harlow's twenty six, and David Drayman of Disturbs fifty one wow. And William H. Macy is seventy four. Wow. Scatman John would have
been eighty two. But that about does your birthdays for today. Your talkbacks from the red microphone button on the iHeartRadio app as we are five minutes away from Kama Kazi Garyoki. Oh my god, Yeah, who's doing it? We don't know that we haven't done the drawing paper. We're gonna sing us out today, hopefully not me. Hey, I'm Kristen Stewart calling to address the recent controversy surrounding my Rolling Stone cover. I know there's some polarizing opinions
about me. I mean, one side is furious, the other side is furious Lee Cranking rod and you guys just can't handle sexuality, and I are all up in arms, and I bet none of you even notice that that's just the costume that I'll be wearing in my upcoming biopic Steroids and Stunners, where I play film called Steve Austin in theaters April second, April second. It's only a couple weeks away. I can't believe Brodie has gotten cranking Rode
to catch on nomenclature. Well, if it's one of his many talents, Uh, here we go, sorry, Kevin, Hey, downbeat, this is the gata that bit that guy's hand off. First of all, he comes in here with the hook catching the fish that I've been chasing. Around for two days. Hey, I'll bite the hand that catches the fish that feeds me. Don't have to do that again. Love you, love Youkay what amazing appreciate. I did love that gator story for some reason. I
like this phone call nasty attack. That witness telling me just hours ago he saw the guy screaming in pain right in his backyard and minus one hand. A nine foot gator bit his arm. Is this regarding a data attack? Yes, he took his hand off. Oh no, okay, hand is gone, is gone? Oh no, she is okay, is gone? She was? Oh no, okay like Youalizac. Oh no, they're all being recorded to you know. Hey, Danny, I'm watching Warrior. I'm up to the episode where they kill those guys and go to the brothel.
I like it better than the episode before when they kill those guys and go to the brothel, or the one before that when they kill those other guys and go to the brothel. It's pretty good. Yeah, it is a lot of a lot of kung fu and prostitutes, but there's other things. There's there's storylines that go on. But yeah, three or four and he is four for fourscription guy. Sometimes you got to break up some of the boring political maneuvers with a good kung fu war I'm on, and then some
boobs at the brothel. One. Hey, Danny old Ricky Fuller here, I appreciate you picking me for the tournament this weekend. I'm not sure how you know. I was shooting cow pastor pool out in brecking Ridge, but by god, I'm gonna get it done for you. I might not be sponsored by Budweiser, but let me tell you, they gonna help me get through it. I look forward and I'll give you a call and I'll win it all this weekend, or at least get too drunk and pass out halfway
on nine. Okay, let's be clear, I picked Ricky Fowler, not Ricky Fuller. All that makes sense, now, Fuller to win a PGA tournament, especially the especially the purse this size. Sorry, Okay. I once had a pig and it gave me a little baggy to take a snort off. And when I came to you, I had been shifted at the stock show. Okay, that pig cats revenge, they said, shifted. Yes, all right, I see what he was trying to do there. Yeah, yeah, Hey, shooters, gonna shoot an attempt. We allow
some attempts. Yeah, hey, guys, my name is Brian Jobs. I specialized in personal health. The ever in need of a little old advice, just shoot me a call at one eight hundred two four five six nine six nine four at b Jobs, thirty four thirty five at emo dot com. Brian Jobs, Brian Job. Guys, it's me Brian Jobs. Emailed me at b Jobs. Let's do the drawing. You're ready. Wednesday, we'll conclude because we we we a lot of Weezer talk about Dinosaur Junior and
the Flaming Lips are huge bands. Well, Dash your Junior is a big band. And the Flavoring Ups are a huge band. Yeah, and they're opening up for Weezer at the American Airline Center. And do you realize it is one of the best songs of all time? Yeah? Pretty so. Three pieces of paper, one of them says singing. Just hand me one of them. I don't care which to prove the no fixes in. We're gonna sing ourselves out of here via pozzy karaoke. I am not singing,
Please God, I am not singing. Hit play JJ. Hey, it's better for all of us with you, No, it's not. It is and we'll harmonize with you know what group effort we'll find tomorrow, all of us singing at the UH like COVID. We're all in this together, the downbeat singing caught a gold, returned tomorrow singing this hide bro six to ten am bend and skin show coming up shortly. Here's Stanny bayliss Kamakazi, Dude, is more volume that you have the most you do, full face,
come on, help me out. Do you realizes, let realize I can't see that I come out of your shell. Frank glassy got we're quoting in space to you realize my eyes, but that happiness make you cry? Do you realize that everyone you know someday we'll time her? Help me out? Come on, I don't know this And instead of saying all of your organ byes, let him know you realize and line it goes fast. It's hard to make the good things last. You real liner son and will go down.
He's sas an illusion comes by world came around you really hire really had everyone you know Sunday will die for the bridge. And instead of saying all of your goodbyes, let them know you Realize life, it goes fast. It's hard to make the good things last. Realize sun doesn't go down, It's just an illusion cause by Loe spinning. See beautiful, get up out of here. Realize that you have the more beautiful face. Do you see alright? See to Mark six am mm hm