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ninety seven one The Freak. So Danny before the most important to make sure everybody's in position? Is everyone good? A lot going on? No, I'm good, I'm worried about eight o'clock. I think we're go get in trouble. He's singing, Yeah, what the we're plugging Christmas Street. Yes, you're worried. You're worried about the I'm worried about the sales, yes, very much so. But I'm worried about, uh, the content as well, very much so. I've never thought, dude, Okay, if
we're gonna get in trouble for something, that'll be it. Like people will be mad texterters and whatever. Someone's gonna swear. You know, I can't believe you guys made fun of that. Yeah, that's not funny. That is not exactly well, don't sound the smoke alarm on it. Just let it happen. A lot of people are looking. But look, let's face it. To cancel you. Life is a combination of comedies and tragedies.
We try to bring those things together. Indeed, on the downbeat, right, well, we were at eight o'clock when we try to sell you the downbeat Christmas tree topper at small stores across the metropolite by playing audio from this exciting product, I feel like this is more relatable than the Halloween ones. Though we stayed out of the big you know the big chains, nah, No, Target, Walmart, No, No more relatable to the common person. Now, we did the lower the price of each one to make our
money back for the Halloween thing. So don't worry so much about that that we raised the price up to fifty nine ninety two. It's weird taxes. Speaking of tragedies, I wanted to share something with you guys that uh I was not aware of prior because this is a demographic that I do not cross paths with. So the little Man and I were out and about over my little break last week, and we decided to go to a very popular chicken finger spot in town. Really, he wanted nugs, he wanted strippies.
He wanted chicken, Like, you know what, that sounds great, let's go get some chick. Gosh. He did not want to go to the car wash. He wanted chicken, damn it. So we went to a very popular chicken spot in Mesquite and ordered our food. We're sitting down and you know, he's lately been very gregarious and talking to people. If he sees a man, he goes hi, guy. If he sees a woman,
he goes hi, lady. So he's talking to everybody and just you know, making friends, and everybody thinks he's cute, and you know, oh hey, I'm talking back, so you know, I'm having to kind of look away from our table to see who he's talking to. And as I'm looking around this chicken spot, I'm noticing it's a Friday night, Okay, so I'm sorry, it was a Saturday night. And I'm thinking, man, this place is packed with kids, like middle school high school kids.
This must be where they hang out. It was right over there by North Mesquite High School, so I'm thinking this is a place where kids congregate. You know, they all have them. We had them when we were kids, where we all hung out with your friends. And I'm looking around and it's like, probably, I would say forty percent full of what appeared to be anywhere between eight and eighth grade and eleventh or twelfth grade, so
middle school, late middle school, high school girls. And I'll be damned if upon further investigation, I didn't notice they're all wearing with small variations from one person to another, the exact same outfit. Interesting, and I want JJ to have ears on this because you're thirty one, is that correct? So you're the closest to having left high school out of all of us. And you're a female, I've never noticed this before, but these are white
girls in Mesquite. Every single one of them were wearing and I'm gonna line item this, some form of flannel pajama bottoms. Okay, like a plaid print flannel pajama. They were wearing either Chuck Taylor tennis shoes, the Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars, or a slip in fuzzy ugs type house slipper.
They were wearing some sort of graphic T shirt that either had like a retro band or something else on it, and then over the T shirt were wearing hoodies, zip up hoodies that were unzipped every and their hair all scrunched up or in some form of ponytail or they look like they were They should have been like a slumber party or like a girl's you know, stay at home little event where they're all super comfy and loungey, right, but they were
out. This was a Friday night out on the town at a very popular chicken spot. And every one of them, and I'm talking like dude, at least a dozen high school aged girls were all dressed exactly the same. And I don't know if this is and they weren't like all together, no y yeah, no, no, no no school like no a team. No. This was like it's seven o'clock on a Friday or Saturday night,
so a weekend night, no school the next day. It's a night that you would think, hey, let's go I don't know, getting gussied up and go meet boys. But no, they all wanted to go eat chicken and dressed like the biggest group of slouches I've ever seen in my life. And like I said, they were at separate tables. They weren't talking to other tables, but they may have been headed to like a church lock in
type thing. That's what it looked like. But I don't know that's why party or is that just no, it's more likely just that's how they dress. Cycle of the style and can you look at the like does it? Billie Eilish kind of dressed real slouchy like that with big clothes. I mean, she has been quoted saying, quote, I love pajama. Yeah, she kind of wears a little bit of everything now though she she'll dress up when she needs to sometimes to JJ has been known to quote things that are
just completely not quote. You can't even because yesterday and then followed up with she didn't say that, but she did quote that she loves hugs. So the I bring this up just because it could have been, you know, a lock in or an event where they're all together. But the thing that this is kind of that nobody was talking to other tables, you know, so you would think if they were all there as a group, yeah, maybe then they would be, you know, shouting at other tables and Christine
over here, here's some chicken. I like. You see these memes every now and again, they'd be shouting to each other, loving, loving fingers. The mentality to conform is interesting, and you see them, you see memes like this. I remember a few years ago there was a picture of all these girls and somebody said, oh, it's Han Solo season because they all had like high boots, like dark jeans and like a vest. They all were dressed like Han Solo, Like nine of ten girls. They all
dressed exactly the same. And also the trend was like they wear like real short shorts with like a long T shirt that kind of goes over the shorts. Even I don't know why I don't. It's not our apartment, Like what do we know? But these odd trends do sort of burn bright and then burn out and change into something else really quickly. And man, at that age, like what you just want to fit in, blend in. I think that's what it was. Yeah, but Friday, Yeah, I
don't know. Girls were girls wearing that kind of were weird, but you were in high school. Look, I get it, let's dress for some comfort, but I'm just on a Friday night, was a little surprised. Makes sense. It is ugs season. I know the white girls low their ugsugs, but it's just the pajama pants that are throwing me. And the sweatshirt. That makes sense too, because i've here. I mean, I have friends who are teachers and they it was the pajama They were not degrees
outside. Every the one thing that was consistent, and it weren't the exact same print, but it was all plaid flannel pajama pants of different colors, you know, depending on who the person was, but that was the consistent everybody had on pajama pants. Okay, I don't like to uh, you know, I mentioned the corporate chain or whatever, but let's let's get real for a second here. Okay, this is a Chick fil a Danny. No, it was not. No, it was the other one, because
it was the raising knee was post. He's supposed to show up. Okay, I'm getting some all right, here come the texts. Here they come. Here comes a wave of texts from Danny Baylis. All right. One person says school spirit week. One person says that last Friday was pajama Day for her daughter's school. But this one person says, exactly what my fifteen year old daughter wears every day. I don't think this was a pajama day
thing. And usually school spirit week is during like homecoming. It's usually yeah, not before Christmas. Yeah. One person says, I've noticed this clothing trend as well in the Northern Burbs. This is a thing. I'm telling you, this is a thing that's crazy. I think there's I've never heard of it. But pajama Day seems like seems like it's well, this is Saturday, though, so it wasn't like it's school. It's Friday night.
I could see the pajama day. Yeah, but no, you said this was Saturday, right, it was a Friday or Saturday no, you know, I could have been a Saturday. I don't remember, but I know it was not a school night. I knew that the kids did not have school the next day. Well, I mean we can point and I guess question this. But when you were in bands or whatever age you guys all had, you had hair that you regret now, yes, and pants that
are tight, right, and a T shirt with a skull. Man it is it's just look to your right, ding dong, it's right there. The only thing missing from that outfit, and that is what I wore pretty much every day at school. Were very very tight tapered black or some kind of acid wash, you know, gene the high top sneaks with the tongue sticking out, and you would lace them all the way up so the tongue
is kind of flopping around. A rock and roll T shirt, some band T shirt, and then either like a leather jacket or a flannel shirt over the top. And that's what all your friends wore too, right. There was only about three or four of us that were kind of like rock and roll metal dudes in high school, and we all exactly the same. So I'm not knocking this. I just find it to be an interesting trend that we've just evolved into. Well, let's just wear pajamas wild And a lot
of teenagers don't want to get their driver's license. And I'm sure we were all in the same boat at counting down the days until we were sixteen and could go drive. And there's a lot of teens who don't even want to go, you know, drive. Well, what says someone said, it's a fad? How about the scraggy little beards the men are all wearing now? Yeah, I see that. One three of us have beards, and point eight years ago, I don't even know when it started. You didn't
see too many beards. I can't remember the last time I actually fully shaved my face. It's been probably fifteen years. One guy goes, we're a woman, says, we're in Burlison, and my stepdaughter has worn that exact outfit her entire school career. Yeah, I guess so, I do orthodonics. I've seen this trend in many teen patients. Hey, I had to buy his fifteen year old and his girlfriend matching plaid PJ pants. That's kipping over all the black people wearing uggs and death the blow city here I don't
know if I I don't think think I fully agree with that. My best friend and I were talking about this with her daughter yesterday. They all dress like hobos. Now she says, well, there's and there's something that just being comfortable when you're trapped in the prison that is school, because that is what you think it is at that age. But there's dress code. They would never let us in school back then show up at pals unless it's like
a spirit day whatever. Really, yeah, no, there's there's dress code. They're very strict on that they are wearing this to school. Well maybe they are, Maybe it's just a couple people are saying that they are. They don't. First of all, where's COVID go. Everything goes back to COVID or whatever, and these kids qulit go into school for a while, so they had that. I didn't think. I think the big city schools are way more loose than the small down schools. Yeah, you're probably right,
Yeah, you're absolutely right to do it. I didn't think about that. The COVID comfort zone that we all got in for a couple of years, where everybody's staying at home, schooling from home. Maybe they just took the house comfort outfit back to school and they just you know, that's what I wear. Now, dude's a boon for the pajama industry. I'm kind of liking it. And I'm at home all the time and I'll go to consumer value stores or I'll go run a quick erran and plaid PJ is no
problem at all. Let's come to anything. Let's all do it. Let's do like the family one. Why are we even wearing shoes? Yeah, somedays I don't pjs. Somedays I rest my feet. Uh. Let's oh my favorite text of that wave of text that came in on the South seas that are two and four eight when is Hey, guys, they just stopped by three different race tracks, and uh, they're all sold out of downbeat Christmas tree toppers. So that's good news. All right, we're getting out
and buying them. We'll give you a little sample at that at eight o'clock. Now, let's skip the most Important Thing in the World song, even though I love it. You just watched that trailer on YouTube. Oh yeah, I sent to you guys right when I saw it. Yeah, GTA the new trailer for Grand Theft Auto six said, Grand Theftot was wild. Played a little bit of it in my past, including the time Ben gave me a copy of it because he bought the game and then realized that you
can get a lap dance and you get more than that. No, well, so this is ten years ago. And then Ben gave me Grand Theft Out. Oh what was probably four or five at that time. He handed you the disc. He's like, yeah, man, I don't know if Maxim Miles need to be seeing this. I didn't know it was that bad. I was like, hell, yeah, it was the disc. It was ten years ago, so I think that was Grand Theft of Five,
right, ten years ago? Yeah, ten years ago. Yes, that was been a long time since a new Boy came out, so we're teasing the new one now. I remember in the aughts, whatever it was, maybe it was for that one to come out, or four for San Andreas to come out. I remember counting the days, and that was early Internet and I'm just scouring for screenshots. I was so excited for it to come out. I was playing a lot of games at the time. Those games
are fun, they're sandbox style. You're in this open world. I mean, I think Rockstar that's the company that made it like this made them, no doubt, and no game has driven parents more insane than Grand Theft Auto in video game history. Rightly so, because yes, we all twenty years ago said, wait, you can get a hooker in this game, and then when you're done in your car, you grab that same car and run her over and take your money back, which absolutely is a very normal thing
to do in life or in the game. In the game. So can you imagine I mean, the congressional discussions about this sort of thing, and there's a viable question like, yeah, that's why they have age restrictions on who can purchase it, which is really weird because video games are so associated with children. But it's like where's the bucks stop though, where you start centering every rated R movie? You know, well, but they're rated R
TV. They're not for kids under seventeen. You know, that's an interesting little gray area that that happened. You know, when they have to label video games with the rating essentially and rated E for everyone or no mature audiences, you know, it's very because these games are incredible, but it doesn't matter. They've always been at the high end of the front end of graphics and interface and all this stuff, and they drop this damn trailer. They're
going back to Vice City, which is Miami, Florida. The original Vice City was in the eighties Scarface era cocaine in Miami, but this one is a modern Florida. Oh look, even if you don't play video games, just google GTA six trailer. It just came out. Watch the most recent when it came out, like two or three days. Yeah, yes, because what I can't get over is how gorgeous it looks, how perfect that blend that they have been aspiring to find of. Can't tell if it's a
game or real life as you expect. Yeah, one question I had, and you played these games semi recently the GTAs, No, I mean not for like ten years, okay, but this will definitely apply. You notice that on the trailers they tend to show or feature more of the the narrative
footage, which always is better than the gameplay graphics. Like it's almost like a little movie, you know, where you have like a transition from one thing or one level to the next or whatever, and it's like a part of the storyline where whatever's happening, and then then you're in the car and you're driving around, and it looks not obviously not as good as the movie. I was wondering if what we saw in this GTA trailer was mostly that
and not the actual gameplay. Uh, probably in some sense, because it's not like the third person view that you'll play the actual game in. But man, I think it's all so blended now that you are essentially playing within and living within those interstitials or those transitions that are so like a movie.
Yeah, when when they're rolling, when you're rolling through some of those neighborhoods and you've got the gang dudes out in the front porch, you know, hanging out with the I mean, the detail on everything is so lifelike. If ever, was the guy in the yard in his underwear just watering the yard when he's wear an advisor, Yeah, just in his underwear an advisor.
I mean the nuance of the subtleties of life in Florida or a caricature of life in Florida are capturing this ninety second thing, including like a guy with a chain thing dragging an alligator out of a swimming pool. And there's a girl that, like some girls in a Muddy Music Fest and they're wearing like American flagman and danas and they're like, hey, like having fun. Yeah, there's the Sisters torking on top of a car in South Beach. It's like close, it's real. It's so close to damn real. I
can't. I mean, I've expected this game to come out. It's been you know, people have been waiting for a long time. And the problem is it doesn't come out until twenty twenty five. Wow, and the trailer just dropped two days ago. They're getting way ahead of it. But they did that in the past. When the last one dropped, they released the trailer or the teaser video, if that's what you're gonna call this, over a year before the game actually came out. I don't believe it's been twelve
years since they did. Grant that's out of five. That's nuts to me. And did you agree with what I texted back to you that in five years what we just saw on this trailer is going to look dated. Well it's that not the Bell curve whatever, exponential yeah whatever, So yeah, yes, yes, that will look dated in probably five years. But that game, the last one, they had a lot of online updates and that sort of thing to keep it fresh. And that's why the last iteration of
Grand Theft Auto survived and succeeded as long as it did. Was there a story were out there that somebody was looking at Dallas as being a potential template for a new GTA. I've not heard that. Love it? How cool will that be? They could? I would? I would buy it? How I would buy it? You you who don't game anymore, I think you could do this because there's the odd pola. I played it a bunch
back in the day. So they had the online component, which I think scares people who got out of gaming, because you want to get online, you get slaughtered by everyone, not survive more than more than one second. But the campaign, it's even if you get GTA six, put it in play yourself, be a tutorial to tell you how to run around, how to interact with people, press this button, a hijack a car and then
yeah, then how to hijack a jetliner and flat across the map. Because they've they've had it, did they have like boats and and uh everything play everything helicopter jet skis, boats, helicopters, hot air balloons, planes, isn't the objective to do as much crap as possible but draw the least amount of to yourself because the more mayhem that you create and get involved in, it draws the attention of the police. So then you end up, you know, running for more and more cops. So, oh, he stole
this helicopter. Now they're bringing out the big gun. Well yeah, when you get the FEDS going, you get five stars, then the FBI and everybody's coming after you. Yeah, they have helicopters chase you. That's kind of the fun of it. If you just run somebody over, it's one star. You go hide in a trash can for thirty seconds, that star disappears. I mean it's really fun. Now, the impact on society, let's hope that's not contributing, but I think everything contributed contributes. Yeah,
it does. It all does. So anyway, grand Theft thought it was sick. It looks badass. Stay tuned a year and a half from now. Yeah, it's gonna be awesome, all right. One hour away from the downbeat singing Christmas Tree top, Oh God, two hours away from the clip of the Year Countdown Part three, go to at ninety seven and the Freak on Twitter for your chance to win Kevin Hart tickets will do that drawing
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