This is the downbeat on ninety seven one, the freak. All right, all right, all right, we start at six a m. Of course, Kevin Turner, Danny Batist, Mike's Roy, J J. Jackson with a downbeat, Benantskin Show, next Speakeasy, after that Vibe at Buffalo Wildling's in grape Vine Tonight that Speakeasy two six, and then we will be out there doing the draft. Me and Jeff Cavnall will do the draft six pms. Well, we will get started the NFL draft tonight. Look forward to
that. Come now. I went a little bit of a trip and an adventure, Kevin, my adventure. I went adventure of a lifetime. So long story short, I went. I got engaged in November and we have not said a day and don't really know when we're getting married. But she always wanted to go to Italy. I had never really, I don't know, I've just never really been in a position to be like, oh, I can go travel the globe. I don't know, for whatever reason. And I'm like, okay, yeah, I knew she wanted to go,
and she actually sent me like on this Latina. It was like she sent me like a Dave Matthews Band tour dates Europe. Like you sent it to me, like when the day was released, and I was like, hell, yeah, let's go to Italy. Okay it was it was just like that, and then it was like you know, and then you start talking in person about it, it's like, yeah, let's go. It was
like, let's do it. True. I love that. That's usually how that's happened, right, It's something that seems so far fetched or something you can't afford or whatever, kind of on a whim. Yeah, definitely on a whim, and you'll never really be able to afford. Yeah, if you think about it too much, travel or any of this. Like you just booked the date, you make it happen. Just do it. And that's kind of what we did, and you did it to screw it.
I appreciate you taking that leap of faith. It definitely helps for me going to see it and getting into a danger is can of tuna with wings to go over deep ocean water. It is right, a flying tile and all it really is just a tube. It's so crazy and there's so many people on there. It feels like there's a guy about old man making old man jokes. In my recent flight, and he kept calling it the fart tube. They did it three times in a good two minutes before I could put
my earbuds in trying to make sure everybody hurt him. They were all stuck in the fart tube again. Huh, because this whole the plane, the airplane, is the fart tube. Okay, did y'all hear what I said? Said far too? Okay, someone do something with this guy dad. Then I reclined right into his pasta primavera. So I stormed out of here last Wednesday. Yeah, our flight, it was actually I thought our flight
was earlier than it was. Our I was a little bit later than it was actually seven thirty, but you know, you had to get there. You got to be traffic, so leaving at five year through customs, and I also had not gone to get my medication from the pharmacy. Gotta get snacks because it's a long flight. You might need snacks. You don't want to get to the plane for international travel at least ten hours before your flight, for sure, And that's what I did, but so ended up get
us. I also had to mow the yard before I went to because what my grass grows like dude. When I got home after one week, the weeds were taller than my house in the backyard. It was crazy. Either way, get on the flight. You're sitting down. We're about to go a little nervous. I got my flippers, got my laminated shark guide sheet, and my pool noodle, which is not bad convenient, but we made it. And this is your captain speaking. We've got a bit of a
problem with one of the lights on the plane. Maintenance is on the way, should be able to handle this next ten to fifteen minutes. We appreciate your patients. Thank you for flying American Airlines. No problema, ten fifteen minutes whatever, nine hour flight, what's fifteen minutes thirty minutes later, there's you're grabbing speak. Still having a bit of a problem up here with this light. We're having to download some new software and that's what's the big hold
up, is to change a headlight. Didn't even know what these new cars. Everything's computers, Mikey. So we're gonna we'll keep you updated. Thank you for your patients. Hopefully we'll get up in the air in no time. But we're gonna make sure the plane's perfect. Okay, so I'm just still in my head like, yeah, the plane better be perfect, right,
So I appreciate the pilot saying that. So I'm in the it's a two three two setup across, you know, and I'm in the middle and the two Wait, you're in the I'm in the not in the middle, I'm on the aisle. I'm in the middle. Eree and over on the far left one row behind me is a guy who is clearly a pilot, a pilot. Now he was not dressed up like he was a pilot who
was going on vacation undercover pilot. So this fall on Fox, I don't think he was an American Airlines. But he's talking to his friends and he's explaining to these other two people as well what's going on. And I heard them clearly say are you a pilot? And he goes, yes, I heard that, So he goes. He goes, well, yeah, I goes. It's times like this, It's all about customer service. He's like, part of being a pilot is being half the of being a pilot is
his customer service. If people are freaked out, you have to calm them down, you have to explain. He goes, it could be a lie. It could not be lights. It could be something different than that. And the way he said it, I don't know, it's hard to read into it. The way he said it, it sounded like he was being real. It sounded genuine, genuine, I think. But that's a smart thing for the pilot to tell you is a light because then when you go
ultimately you're like one lights out. Yeah, and guess what, the pilot doesn't want to fly over the ocean if it's a bigger issue either as your grab speaking, Yeah, we're having a hard time figuring out what the situation is and we're not gonna take off over the ocean and a plane that's not ready to go, so we're going to go ahead and deplane and you'll go to this gate. Oh my god, this is exhausting me just to hear those words. So I'm okay, And now I'm like looking at the clock.
I've got a connector in Barcelona to Milan, which is just an hour, fighter hour and twenty minutes. Like it was easy. Okay, Well, as long as you make that, we're good. And they keep giving you the updates on your phone. Fifteen minutes later, thirty minutes later,
thirty minutes, like okay, we're not gonna make it now. So we get off the plane and we're just standing there and I'm like, okay, so they're not ready to go. There's things probably a back eleven o'clock before we can get the new plane in and get on that plane from a seven point thirty scheduled departure ouch. And I was like, well, that throws off our We're not going to make our connecting flight. Now. Do we try to get that right now or do we handle it once we get to
Barcelona? What do you do? There was only one flight scheduled to Milan at the time. There ended up being two more. We got lucky. So we get back and we're hanging out and then we you know, go have a drink, and you're just kind of waiting. Sure, if you got on the plane, you're fine. The flight over there not too much or a problem. Because I was exhausted, and you're standing there and you're waiting. You're about to go to the plane again, and they're going through
the procedures again. Times you're boarding pass, you're eleven, your boarding pass, your passport. There's a lady whoever fifteen minutes is Ago and make sure you have your board. I'm like, lady, shut up, We've already been through, we already nailed that. We don't need to be an I mean, it's a singular group of people all frustrated. Yeah, but Kevin, she's giving that information to the one stupid person that inevidence is not going
to be paying attention. But I also had the feeling that she had a little bit of radio blue balls that kind of felt like she wanted to really be into the PA address and an empty urnmle on the orphanage. So now he's got an empty sack every day every day. So I was also like, does American Airlines do anything for you if you're having to cancel plans or
is that just the way it is? One flights are delayed. I don't know, but it did cancel my plans and I had to buy a new flight once I got to Barcelona. You had to buy a new flight pocket, Yeah, I miss what you follow a grievance with the airlines and Barcelona. The airlines we're using in Barcelona to get to Milan was Boiling, which is popular up there, but it's not terribly short flight. So responsible for this at all. I guess not that we'll get you to Milan. It's
just going to take longer. You didn't want to wait on American too. Yeah, would they put you up for a night or how would that app So your options are options where we could have stayed, found a place to stay in Barcelona, which you've been paying for out of pocket. They should pay for that. Americans just getting you to Barcelona, that's their job. Got you? Got you? Then my flight from Barcelona to Milan on whaling, Yeah, then I understand you're just someone who got you. So this
wasn't a flight to Rome with a connector. These are two separate gotcha. And I don't know if there's probably people who go to Europe all the time or travel or whatever who know if whaling is good or not whaling Even Rocky, She's like pretty sure, that's like the spirit. But it was a short flight for us, sweepening with care. You know, Barcelona Malon is a quick one. So it was just a connector that was available. It
was we missed it. The smaller part to monkey. Now I filed a grievance again whaling and they tell you we'll get you a response in ten days, four laughs. Now, so ten days they can give me a response if they're gonna give you any money back from missing a flight that was American Airlines' fault, No, you're just paying for it. And I was like, I don't care. Oh, we need to get to where we're going.
I do not want to go to because from Milan we had a driver who was gonna pick us up the Malan Airport and this driver was gonna take us up to Lake Como where we're staying, so that gets delayed a little bit too. You're dealing with him and like it's just a lot of crap.
Yeah, that's stressful, and you're like Jesus, just because the light didn't work on American Airlines and they do not have to do anything now that thing that passed yesterday now after six hours, if they if you're international flight is delayed or domestically if it's three hours, you get a refund back.
Probably very helpful for a lot of people. For me, we ended up getting to where we were going, saying in Minagio off of Lake Como, getting there late, having to wake up the Airbnb lady, you know, which is weird. But the driver did it for us. The driver did it for us, like he So what time was it was like there, it was about nine thirty pm. This is the longest day ever because we as we leave eleven pm, we arrive in Barcelona at like five pm Barcelona
time. So the day is continuing. I was like, this is off to a bad start. My golf the next day got canceled. No you got to play no golf. No, no, the golf. Yeah, the one sacrifice of this missed the golf. Oho. But it's okay. They didn't. We didn't have to. You know, we did get a we had not paid for that yet. It was your scheduled all right. There was a surprise attack. But her anyways, but the next day we Sammon Naugio Lake, come on. Just beautiful, Jesus Christ. We sent
videos and it is simply gorgeous. Sad a little boat tour. There's a couple from Indiana on there. There's a couple from Florida. There's a Russian girl was on there. She was sitting on our side of the boat. Let's talk about her. Got cold. It's cold. She was cold too. So there's a Florida man who just hates his wife and he keeps coming back to the back of the boat where we are. It's like three seats in the back. It's me, Rocks and this Russian girl. And she's
nice, but we're all just tourists, you know. And he starts talking and he asked, you know where everyone's from, and he's doing the thing and he's from Orlando. Nice guy. And he starts talking about the war. You know, Russia and Ukraine is in a war. Oh boy, And she responds, how many people actually believe in fighting for Putin's vision? Now, keep in mind, I've been drinking wine. It was a stressful first day. We're here now beautiful, good God, just blown away over
the digs. Good Airbnb, everything, everything good, nice, everything fine. Stiff bed, stiff bed, But I'm good. I'm I'm fine. Horny not something not so much constipated, Yeah, little bit, little that's the opposite to horny. It is you can't be horny and consipated at the same time. He need to make a poop about the war. And she's like, well, a lot of people do believe in fighting for Putin's vision. Me a little drunk, I go, are you one of those people?
And she goes, God, no, I haven't seen my mother in three years now. I didn't double down and ask her what Muzzer was. It was just her accents. You can get back to the hotel room. And Muzza was so offended by my question of asking her if she was down
with Putin's vision. Really, what's how was I to know? Response to his question was a lot of people are haven't been able to see my mom in three years because there's a war going on, and I don't want to go back there, and there's wind up Kevio just asking the uncomfortable question, swirling questions you and those peoples. This is a muzzlim my little Russian doll. She ends up kind of on the other side of the boat. Yeah, and that guy's sitting down with us. He's kind of glaring at me
a few times. I didn't notice it. I was like, this pitch is get off real Putin vibes looking at me like that, you're the reason that they hate America right well, with your Texas Ranger hat on course, Daler and heart T shirt, we agree on much more. Pretending to be cultured with his two dollars, Kiante, we get free on the boat. We agree on so much. I disagree with Putin's vision. I think trying to take over Ukraine for no reason is terrible. This is that it complex
much into once sitting on to Milan. Milan's weird. There's only two places in Italy that have Uber. She gets nothing, Rome and Milan. That's an Uber official or just a ride sharing company like actual Uber Uber which I don't even know is Uber here? I use Alto, of course, I use Alto. Why did you use anything other than Alto? I have Alto in Italy? Oh yeah, one reason I did send you guys. They tell you on the tour that this is George Clooney's villa, the Versachi villa,
Richards villa. They tell you those personal friend Richard Branson. I'll tell you, I don't think that was George Clooney's villa. It feels, but they know that every idiot American knows that George Clooney of the house and like como, so they have to just pick a nice one and point out it like sometimes we see him the thing about though I know in reality it's shores.
Yeah, exactly. Whe's the juice the juice again out the back yard, because I know a lot about being a tour guide because I've been one before you were. I know the tracks of the two weeks at Texas Motor Speedway, I know the tricks of the trade. I know what they're doing. They they try to slow it down in the beginning to kill time so they can do it at the end. Is that when they say where's everyone from? Oh? No, yeah they did do that. I was like,
we don't have to do that. We don't actually want to admit. What's everyone to do for a living? Oh? Florida and Texas? Wonderful? What kind of boat was it? Was it like a nice wooden donzie like you picture, or was it like a double decker tourist boat? No, it wasn't a double decker like a fairy. It was just a but it was like seven people could have fit on it, maybe ten could have fit on it. Was it like a nice wooden kind with the flag on
the back. Yeah, they make you take your shoes off before you get on. There you go, Yeah, but it was not super nicey there. It was great. One do any fishing, No, don't do any fishing. Fish just on a tour. It's kind of cold. Our job is asked questions during this segment. My two regrets, My too regrets would be that it was about ten degrees cooler than I would have liked for it
to be. Although if you're in the sun and it tells you it's forty three degrees on your watch, it feels like it's seventy five, and if you are in the shade, it's forty five like it us. Definitely have a hoodie. Tell that. Doing the malon law it's weird. It was weird, but it was a little bit easier because you could kind of uber where you were going, not to worry about that. I like to support small businesses. We went to a spot called Mister Dick and this place they
sell little pastries that are shaped like penises and waffles. Huh, that's fun. Yeah, it was kind of interesting. Don't get an uber from there though, I know, so the uber guy kept canceling me. He picked me up at mister Dick. Yeah, it was really called mister Dick. Yeah, it was actually yeah, no, yeah place because the guy the owner's mister Dick. But he makes penis shaped waffles and vulva shaped waffles. They dip them in cream. Of a business for him to get into.
Went to see the Last Supper. Get this, you know what, you know what, we'll carry it over. Look at that. We barely even got to Italy. Something strange happened at the Last Supper as I went to see it. Something strange happened. How Jesus brought drama to the dinner table next to ninety seven one the Free