This is the downbeat on the seven one, the freak. All right, eight o'clock back to the Big d Bracket Part three. Today is the beginning of the Big Tournament. Eight o'clock. Yeah, eight o'clock, Nicy eight thirty. Dingo's Morning News. Danny, do you have an update on that
sewage spill? We have more than an update. We've got latest details and an interesting piece of audio that was sent to me by a member of the Corinthian Boat Club Corinthians Sailing Club. Yeah, somebody that's affiliated with them sent me some audio that you do not want to miss this. It's incredible. It's something I had no idea about, something we discussed yesterday, and it will just help further evolve and elevate this story. Yeah, word from the
vice commodore, Yes, the vice commodore. You're not going to believe this. And also, man, this may be the most important on this day in history that this city, the city of Dallas, has ever seen something that happened forty four years ago today. Point here is that nineteen eighty email. Damn, that's huge. While you're guessing, well, hold on, no, I'm thinking, no brain guessing all that's coming up in at eight thirty, just all the time to marinate on this hour in the bathroom during
that segment, for time to think. Can I read you, guys an email from a listener before we did the scuttle But I'm good, We're fine. I'm going to read it to you. Why'd you ask, guys? This is from Jim, not Jim. I've been in correspondence with Jim. Try to get him on, but he's driving. I want to start yelling us about hockey. Yeah, Okay, go ahead, Let's just this a listener email. Okay said this to me Astray. Today was the day I
made the switch. I was so excited when I heard two of my favorite people from the station I was loyal to for over twenty years were starting a new station. I listened to the Downbeat and Speakeasy almost every day since Mike Ryaner christened The Freak. I was overjoyed when Mike, Mikey Groobs, and eventually the addition of arguably one of the most talented personalities in DFW radio, Dingo All became the new home for my afternoon drive listening. Even after the
big show mix ups, I was still a loyal listener. We switched shows for those that didn't know in July, you know, and Jeff and Julie, who were on the morning show at the time, were now in the afternoon with Mike Ryner and groups. If I couldn't listen live, I would always catch the podcast asap. All that changed after listening to Monday's March eighteenth show. Uh oh oh, I know you've always made not to be a sports talk radio station, even though half your segments are sports related. Stop
stop the email. First of all, I'll tell you what if you think half of our segments are sport that's one thing I do have a problem with this email. If you think half our segments are sports related, then you ain't listening Bud, Yeah, Bud as we do. Yeah maybe twenty maybe twenty be quiet, twenty females putting for Bogy twenty twenty one percent. Your show has adopted the bin and skin approach to handling. To the handling of
the Dallas Stars. That approach is to ignore them and crap all over the stars, and by association, they're loyal fans, which I maintain are numerous, and a thrown a bone every now and then might help improve that rating. Let me tell you, buddy, talking more stars ain't gonna help these ratings. I'm just telling you one of the and it's nothing that has less to do with the stars than anything else. Trust me, I don't think that's the solution to this Rubik's cube is It's not. It's not because of
the stars or the Stars fans, not at all. Although in fairness, we don't know what the solution is. Well, I know, it's just like we don't know what one station does well when they have the stars and it works. I have my thoughts. Hang on, they were fine before they had the stars. One of my biggest, one of the biggest stories in THEFTW over the weekend was the unveiling of the Mike madonnog statue. Not one mentioned from the downbeat in any of your segments of this historical day.
Nothing, not a zip. He's right. It was on every newscast in the DFW metroplex, but not one mention of the downbeat. What a slap in the face to the stars fans in your audience, people like me, a fifty something guy with a high six figure income fifty four or less. Yeah, what do you mean? Fifty song? Yeah, we should probably find out, because I tell you, if you don't care, fifty five or over, no, we care. They they don't. We're not trying
to get you to go to advanced hair restoration. Fifty five year old, you're right out Oddly oddly, he said, a fifty something year old got a fifty something guy with the high six figure income who has bought Java John's coffee, patronize the album draft House Reliant, and someday hope to retain the services of Franklin Frankel. Which that was an odd note too, because look, I can't wait to get rammed by a semi it. Do call the Frankles if you're in a wreck and it's not your fault, two and four
all three the subtext. But you know you don't want to. I like, we don't want you to have to call them. We want you to call them if you need to. He's looking forward to the day. I thought that was an odd note, but look he's right about the Madonna thing due and I will gladly fall on the sword for this. This was a major oversight. You know, I do a news segment every day, typically at eight thirty, and that should have led the damn news, and I
saw stuff on it all weekend long. The statue unveiling was cool that they did a great job on it. They got the hockey jersey whip, you know, the emblematic jersey flowing in the back of Mike Madonna that's on the statue, which looks really cool. And we didn't talk about it well and I should have. It's a big moment. And I love Mike MacDonald and I love the Stars. I don't get to watch them during the regular season because I don't have access to them, and I don't care about them as
much as I do the MAVs. So it's just it is what it is. And that's a lazy way of getting out of this discussion. But it's true. He's right. We didn't mention it on Monday, and I apologize to that too. Let me just say this though, the teams do us no favor here, and they did this with Dirt by the way too, dirt statue on Christmas Day? Why why do it then? Do it in the middle of the week or do it on a don't put it on Christmas
Day? Monday. I'm sorry, Monday. We're here, we come off a week and a bunch of crap happened on Sunday the parade as well on Saturday. And I get it they were doing it because he's the Grand Marshal of the Prey and all that, But Saturday at four pm is not some great time to get all attention on you to the statue. Thirdly, I don't give a crap about statues, never have, So that's where I stand
on that. Let me just say, though, he's right on that we had it on the wrong sheet and it just sheltered a lot of things. We never got to it. He continues, Okay, go ahead, and let's get to the email. And I have thoughts and you want to go
ahead. No. I stopped listening to The Bit and Skin Show during the Star's deep playoff run last year after they decided to ass all over the Stars by making a joke of them during the show, which was a good thing for The Downbeat since I would use their showtime to catch up on the Downbeats podcast. Now, that's when Ben was doing his big hockey podcast. Now, I had a hockey podcast called The One Timer, but there's only one episode of it today. It was different. After eighteen months of turning my
back on the station. I was a p one for twenty years. I was back. I woke up, fired up my supports, day up, and picked up where I left off eighteen months ago. I was back at two for the speakeasy. After all, Julie at least has the balls to mention the Stars, Reiner seems to be a genuine fan of the team, and even Kavanaugh feigns interest in the Stars regards Jim and I asked Jim to call in, and he was driving through Colorado and he said, I don't
think I could add anything witty. He also said, I'm gonna give Jim a little credit on this. He said, he said, I'm not sure what I would contribute. I'm not witty, funny, or an ex con wrestling fan. Oh boy, it's a shot at Brody. You better listen at nine forty today, Jim. I have a feeling our ex con wrestling fan might have a report for Jim. That's what I was gonna say. I wanted Jim to call in, so you give him the opportunity today. Yeah, but he was driving through the hills of College. Okay. The
one thing we know is when you say that's when I stopped listening. You are definitely dialed in like that week. Yeah, so, Jim, we do invite you to call to and four seven eight seven seven one and ja jedall might take some skill to weed out the fake gyms that are gonna call right now, look at her, she's like, great, hello, Hello, Oh this is Jim. Can I just say that I enjoyed the Stars five to two win over Arizona last night, especially that high scoring second period.
Okay before, okay, before I just heard that email, Danny, What did I say to you on the phone just last night? He told me that we need to ramp up a little bit and start picking some Stars games, maybe one's more of note, and take them in and at least spend a little bit of time on him. And that's before knowing about the gym email. Yeah, before I knew at Jim, I did know about
the gym email. Well, it did hit me because I looked at the damn record because yesterday I was like, what am I going to watch? And it was a good night to watch the Stars, and I didn't because I want out to dinner. My mom's in town. But they are forty two nineteen and nine. Yeah, I'm like I saw it yesterday it was forty one. I'm like forty one at nineteen. Look at these bastards ninety three points tied for the top of their conference. Fine, Look, I've
apologized. I don't know hockey. I don't feel like I can comfortably provide Gym or any legitimate Stars fan any information that they don't have. Yeah, I'm not gonna pretend to do it. Like a lot of stations will. I agree with that one person at our other station that really knows anything about hockey and is worth like really listening to. Otherwise they get guests on to knock out their hockey segments. That's what that is. I enjoy it and
feel like I can talk about it a little bit. But I will say this, there's a couple of things in play here. The ballet situation, I think does not help things. There's another team I have to go out of my way for to get the Bally thing going. For a lot of people in the Metroplex, dare think about all that stiff with hockey's Sometimes hockey people are not the most welcoming when I think the attitude should be joined the bandwagon. I'm not talking to everyone but some people. I remember a long
time ago, and I was never mathis person by. I tried to shoehorn some hockey into the show. But this is back when I was doing a support show and I got a text from someone who knew hockey really well, was affiliate with the station. It was kind of like correcting me on like a stat I'd missed, and I'm like, well, dude, I can't do that. Look, it's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, because if you don't talk about it at all, then you
get ripped for not acknowledging them and talking about them. And if you start talking about them and watching the games, you get corrected, you get accused of being a bandwagoner, you get ripped for your interpretation of the game or not knowing the full scope of the rules or whatever. So it's kind of like it's like politics. It's like, yeah, I could talk about politics, but I'm it's polarizing and generally nobody really wants to hear about it.
You know, a small percentage you want to hear about it. So it's just one of those things unless something of note really happens. And unfortunately in this market. Something of note with the stars happens when the playoffs start. Yeah, and Jim, get ready because once the playoffs start, watch every game, same here, and guess what. Let be fired up. Same
here. I'm gonna you're gonna You're gonna ball your fist and get mad that we didn't trudge through the desert of the hockey regular You'll get accused you didn't earn the right. Yep, you'll be accused of being a bandwagoner when you start talking hockey even when the playoffs starts. So look when I do this
every year, We've been through this, right, and guess what. The playoffs are fun as hell, and I will do the obligatory segment part of a segment where I say, Jesus, hockey playoffs are the absolute best or better than any other playoffs. It was so exciting. I'm standing up. It's all gonna happen. I've been named the emergency goalie for the playoffs.
Yeah, so I'm ready. I amped uh, Jim, if you are in a wreck today, two one four, all stres and we definitely hope you're not the wreck that you're apparently it's hoping and wishing for the day. It's not your fault. It's not your fault. Okay, sorry, I show you down. Listen to feedback. Always welcome email me Kevin Turner. iHeartMedia dot com. If you have a bitch about anything about the show, we are open. We're not just going to sit here and j o each
other all day. I mean, that's a big part of it. But yeah, yeah, all right, let's just go a bun j J. We're gonna a quickie of it today, Jim by Advanced Tereir Restoration. That is the home of the advanced a crown breaking and that's the sponsor you should be excited about calling. Yeah. Absolutely, it's true your life because Jim, let's be honest, if you're over the age of fifty four, chances are what's going on on your dome probably ain't that great. No, it's
right, not helping you. Yeah, you're gonna look young again, Jim. A problem at the dome, there's no solution at home. Call Advanced Terror Restoration. Tiger's golf courses opening. You see that many golf course Mobstroke Popstroke coming gonna open a week from two days. Yes, dude, too many golf courses. It's what too many golf courses, too many golf saying there's too many prostitutes. Too many, he said, too many, too many golf courses. There you go, too many ature golf courses. I
should have paused for effect. Okay, popstroke is awesome. How do you know Sarasota, Florida? Got one? Got one? Been there, been there, putted it tell me everything you need to know about. What is it? Top stroke? Pop stroke, hopstroke? It's because we also we already have the puttery in the cars. I thought pop stroke is when dad went into the bathroom for too long. Yeah, there's the longest shell forever, all day, all day, he's all day. Uh, it's mini
golf. It's it's great mini golf. It's cool mini golf. It's not like wacky. It's it's regular, real holes. But they're all uh, I mean, I don't know how to Are you just playing like wedges and no, no, no, it's all putting. It's all putting, all putting. So but it's like, I don't want to just say high end because the prices are way more than your average mini golf course. Are you
putting on real grass or turfy? It's turf, but it's very good turf, and there's sort of a fair way and like kind of a hilly rough to the side that keeps your ball on the It's just good. It's quality mini miniature golf. This is outdoor, outdoor venue. Got a restaurant in a beer garden. It'll stay up until midnight on Friday and Saturday, so they're trying to you know, dude, it's up, drink it up, you know, party kind of vibe and the food and drink is all good.
And there's all the mini games in that courtyard you're talking about. The one that starts off. It was really fun, always packed often two packed to where you can't get a tea time. Oh noah, like packed packed. Yeah, this is a twelfth one, the twelfth pop Stroke location. Uh. And also we'll have an ice cream parlor. What an ice cream parlor? An ice cream parlor? No, try ice cream parlor. Thank you see thank you four times. And it's gonna have additional outdoor games such
as ping pong, foosball, and cornhole, all that going on. No pickleball. It's so it's gonna be up in the colony in that grandscape area where also Rory McElroy's indoor mini golf puttery puttery. So two golf titans going head to head in the game of mini golf Rory Tiger, so many first dates. I've been to pottery too, You've been. I've been to puttery
by good times. I find myself getting bored with mini golf after about four holes anyways, so it's very I've found puttery to be more instagrammable, completely agree. I think it's almost for chicks. Yes, I wanted to love it, but it was nut to butt, like you're waiting for people to get done taking their pictures per hole. Yeah, the holes are very wacky. There's almost no like golf to it. And popstroke is golf, like you someone will set the course record at popstroke, yeah, and if the
legitimacy, who knows. But they'll have like tournaments there. It's kind of realer putting. Puttery is just wacky. I am condensed and small. There's no no putt over like twelve feet at puttery. But it was kind of cool, like they'll bring you drinks, you know. I mean it's there to have a cocktail and incredibly overpriced drinks, but you can carry them around
the course. And there's a little table at every tea by where you bring your drinks and pottery has uh is it digital golf balls because they have a running score the TVs everywhere the show like how many underpar? Everybody else? That was pretty cool. Okay, it's not a digital ball, but you just put your score. You put your score in, but you have time to do it because the cool thing is like location. So like you go, here's like a ski trip. Of course, here's you're in a library.
Here's when you're like a tropical island. You know, it's just a little well, it's it's interesting. It's interesting. I don't know that I like loved it, but it's interesting. At least did love puttery. I think people will love Popstroke. It's not real miniature golf unless you are putting through a windmill. Right, there has to be one windmill. There's no windmills at Popstroke. Damn it. You've seen the course layout and design.
I've not seen the layout here. Can you bring your windmill if it's small, if if it's in your pocket, I guess yeah. Or you can carry probably a little windmill in and just set it next to the holes if you if you want. Okay, I love you ask the dumbest question of all time. Obviously we laugh and your follow up is okay, oh that does look okay, that looks standard and less less obstacles. There's no obstacles. Well, there's little bunkers and I think those are water now that i'm
seeing it. Nah, you're right, man, everyone is different. Look at this, Danny, see that. I mean that looks like real golf. Bro, It's like real golf, except putting popstroke. It's fun coming to a metroplex near you and you just start somewhere on the green or do you have to get on the green? No? No, there's a little bit of t box, you know, same as mini golf. There's a little dots where you have to start, and then it's a long green. Every hole is its own long green. Only putter. We'll go have a
little downbeat putt popstroke putting challenge. How about that? All right? You hear that? Probably Daniel win by nine frogs and well on one thousand dollars. He is a natural. He won the players bet, he won the stupid April Fools Open, the first. I don't want to gamble anymore, not with golf, not with him. He's a whiz He's a golf whiz. He's a whiz kid. Someone is saying that we talk a lot of golf and racing and no hockey. Yeah, I think that's true, but
we're I love racing, He's passionate about racing. We we all like golf. I love golf, golf. But it's that's a fair point. I mean hockeys, is it? No, it's no less popular, I guess than racing or golf notes polarizing, I guess no. And we have a big team in our city, but just a big good team. Look at that all year we have they have. But I also just kind of look at it, like with the station and the way the station's constructed, also kind of go, yeah, we can let Julie handle that. I really
do think of it that way. H Like, I'm like, we all share topics on shows, sometimes not intentionally because we don't really you know, talk to each other shows in terms of planning specific shows, but like I really do go, like, why should I really break down the stars when Julie can handle that this afternoon? And it's not like they talk it talk them every day, you know, there's a mention of the Stars once every
two or three days on their show. This guy says, the only thing worse than the regular season hockey talk is people who don't know about hockey doing hockey talk. Yeah, right, like yes, I mean, and it's something. Yeah, that's kind of how we feel about it too from our end. You know about coming in here every day, Well did you?
And there's a look, you can't just look at a replay, a seven minute replay, a recap of last night's game, a condensed version, and look at the box score, and it'd be fake your way through it. I'm not that good. Can do that with basketball, can do that with baseball. Well, look, it's a world. You can't make everyone happy. We know that. But I'm open to all feedback. Let's email j back for real and set up he can call in he didn't know, but
say next week sometime, and it we're not going to argue. I think I think it's actually And we've talked about this off air. Yeah, we've talked about like, hey, we're not doing any stars. Yeah, we're not in a rush to do it, but it's it's a spirit of conversation, especially with the playoffs about to begin, and yeah, okay that and I watched a good amount of it, and they whooped their a too. They were up like five nothing, and then I was thinking, what if
they went nine nothing in honor of Madonna? So yeah, I was drunk and stumbling down Greenville Avenue while you were at home watching a statue on being unveiled. I had no ability to talk about the stats A statue. I love Wobbley wobbley Kevin. Yeah, it's so fun when he starts doing politically stuff. Coming up next, Big D bracket. All right, don't miss eight thirty ding Good Morning News, a big update on the sewage spill at white Rock Lake. But the bracket continues next nights and one for