You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven, you get hot seven o'clock. Maybe the most unique finishing move of all time happened yesterday in our city. That's a seven eight o'clock. We got to tell you something new, gotta film news. Eight o'clock lungs you a major announcement, Kevin, Yeah, I got we just say that. Sell the soul. Fret. You stop what you're doing. I think the hot homeless couple has moved on. I think I'm ready to project ninety seven of the Freak is projecting that the hot
homeless couple on the Spring Valley has packed up and moved on. Started middle of last week. I saw less of them a little bit, and then their materials were being packed up today. Nothing. Maybe they're on Spring Great, Okay, well that's a possibility. It's poster down at River A Maya. Typically they they they camp on the little medium that separates the U turn lane from UH eastbound traffic right, and that has been slowly diminishing in footprint,
but the north side still has some residents. And I still saw a couple on the side. Yeah, I saw it up to the burbs. Not not a couple like a man and a woman, but a two maybe it looked like a couple of folks that were still in camp there. But man, the the size of the the encampment has diminished greatly. So yeah, I think you're right. I haven't seen them. They come and clear
them out, you know, every now and again. I don't know where that you send our unfortunate homeless people, you know, get out of here? Where to? We don't have homes. I don't know, not here. But I don't think like, I don't think that's the case. I think maybe greener pastures for our hot homeless couple. And I think this is a good thing. Hopefully they bought a radio. Yeah, so good. We are pulling for you. I see every day and I want it's just
like goodlie hunting. The one thing I want when I swing my U turn on Spring Valley. I want to drive by here one day and have you not here. This is what I want. This is why I support places like Sharing Live Community Outreach. They go buy hotel rooms for homeless people and weather gets cold. Things like that, Yeah, good things. You know. I'm with you, Mike. I think they'll be back there. I think they're just taking quick vacation. Let's do this stragey so important thing.
Wake you little sleepy head. It's potato. It's time to get your stupid ass out of bed. About the most important thing in yeah, except the controversy. The person is roasted. When I heard rustic and she wrote rustics this dressed green or yellow? Is it roasted? It's roasted the way I said it. The artist originally intended it to be roasted. But you know, my lyrics are open for interpretation. That's what I think. That's the way. I'm kind of like the Tom York of comedy songs. I love
that very abstract. It's whatever you, whatever you want it to be. I'm not going to walk it up. Hold your hands, because when I put my art into the world, when I put my art into the world, it's no longer mine. It's ours, it's yours. It's the world. Is it first verse? It's the very first. The first word is the first potato rusted. Yeah, it's roasted, roast, But I think robot Man makes it rusted. Yeah, robot Man makes it sound rustic.
Right. Yeah, there's some good drops air fried and he always hash browns. He has that little depeche mode, kiss of delivery, just a little sprinkle of sass boiled. What are you doing? I have an So Saturday was the Saint Patrick's Day parade, and some of us went there. I went there, and Vita was the grand Marshal. We we elbowed Medano off his float and we made Vita the grand Marshal of the parade. And we're confused. Mikey's mommy is my mom eighty one years old but still spr and
in town and in town? Unrelated to the parade, But I told her the last couple of days, like prior to the print, like we got we have something we're gonna do Saturday. It's gonna be fun. But when you're eighty one, there's a lot of questions. You know what I need to wear? Oh that's tough for anyone, Yeah, for anyone. All right, on St. Patrick's Day? What a parade? Weather has always been a problem for me. Sun out but gonna be kind of cold in
the morning. Or is this? I mean we were in a situation this week with no sun started early in the week was about sixty nine. Well, if a tie sixty nine and the sun peaks out, you're gonna wish your wear shorts. Yep. Now, it ended up being pretty clear cut that it was gonna be a cooler day. Although I still sweating after the end of the I'm still as hell. Yeah, but we you know, we got off the float and walked a little bit of the way, but
that's always a danger zone right there. You can't help but want to get off march, get amongst the people a little bit. You just want to sit on the float the whole time. Well, anyway, I got her all the way there, you know, weird diversion. How to get over there. You know, obviously it's a cluster f all down Greenville, So we went past it to park Lane and we parked at the Costco that's right kind of north of Half Priced Books, which is the rally point if you're
in a float at the parade, you know. But it was kind of surprise. She didn't know what we're doing. So we get all the way there and I'm like, you know, this is where I park. This is fine. We have to go to our wristbands and then find the float whatever, And she's just kind of looking around and confused, and then we finally parsed. She was like, oh, yes, Costco, We're going to Costco. No, Mom, we're gonna get on a flatbed trailer and
throw crap at people. He loves Costco. She thought, my whole day plan to take it to Costco. I'm like, no, we're not going. We're just parking them Costco. And then she started looking around. She saw some things. She goes, are we going to an antique car show? Oh my god, Mom, you love antique car Surprise there was four McLarens were there? Yeah, yeah, back to back. My Alto driver was freaked out by it. Oh my god, I've never seen forma claren
drivers. I'm impressed that you were able to keep this under hat. Yeah from mamma. Yeah, especially after Danny talked about it openly in the air inadvertently spilled the beans. Well, she's been in town, so her listening habits have changed the leads. But anyway, got her there, and I was very excited about that. You know, we've done the periode a handful of times, but I was pretty excited for my mom to get the experience it not knowing what it was, you know, and no idea. So
it's a sight to behold. Man it's a pretty pretty big little Dallas thing that we have. How much walking did mama have to do? Decent amounts? You had to walk down and get the wristbands at half price and then back to the staging area. But I mean a mile and a half total. You know that's nothing to her, right, No, she's okay, that's incredible. She brought she walking shoes which I told her about, was dressed appropriately, and then we found the float and off we went. Kevin.
It was such fun. I came somebody that I do kind of go, Okay, it's gonna suck. You gotta get up early and get down there. But it was the easiest time I've ever had getting down there ever. Now, granted I ordered a ride service by our friends at Alto scooped me up. Did you know that on the app you can change the vibe of the car if you go like you just want to quiet one, then there'll be like no music, and then there's like eight different like settings.
Can you make it sexy? You can go sexy? One was game day? Really, one was yee hal, Can you make it gay? Bar? I think you probably could. What I would want it seven in the morning. Yeah, it was pretty quiet. I mean it was like nine fifteen or whatever. But then I hit one and changed the setting and it cranked up loud. Kind of the driver like while you're in there, like you're physically changing the music. Yes, oh yeah, you're app setting the
vibe like before you got there. The driver knows it, and he's like, all right, okay, Alto's cool, rainbow ribbons up gable, here you go. I'll just cool character half welcome, he said. They work hourly. They don't do it like by ride like I uber. It just cand of depends. He's like, no, we get paid hourly, which is like that's nice, all right, sure, hours either way. You go there, get on the float, Mikey. As we turn on to Greenville Avenue and this is what time nine No, this is when the parade
starts at eleven. You have to be wristbanded and whatever before ten four ten. Gotcha seels like an hour sitting around, you know, standing around and describe the float. I heart Yeah, it was an I heeart float. So all of our cluster stations, including ninety seven on the Freak and the others, we're all like kind of written on the side of it. But it was green with a sequin yeah, fluttering plastic things everywhere and a big shamrock on the back. I was a it was a pretty good float.
Pretty cool deal too. Where a bunch of I think, I don't know, I don't know we are, but I know one of the stations, or maybe all of them have a sponsorship with Texas Lottery because our promotions girl Amanda had a big stack of like five hundred five dollars tickets. Whoa, and we're handing them out to listeners that were over eighteen. Of course. Well, one guy emailed me. I hadn't hand him a single thing, but he emailed me, thanks for the lottery ticket, KT, and it
was a He sent a picture of his ticket. He had won so much, fifteen dollars all right. I saw a couple that was pretty cool, man, because you walk out and hand the scratchers and the eyes of light up. Yeah, like, oh my god, Okay, yeah, Mike, Mike Guy Ray said, thanks KT. You're not expecting someone to give you a free five dollars no lottery tickets. That was really cool. Yeah,
they're good ones too. But as we pull onto Greenville Avenues, we're about to get started, Mike goes, I know what to do here, and Mike takes off to the beer store. Yeah, when you loop onto Greenville and you're like, it's like you're in the pits and then you get up on the start start line, but you know, the F one race doesn't start until the top of the hour, so like, we're cool for a second. We did this last year and there's a little like a what
is it called a miccoke mitochondria? What's a Mexican meat market called If Lionel Messi could call in and tell us mitochondria something in your brain. No, mitochondria is like a component of mitochondria. Is michaela Mexican? M I c h okay yeah, Mitchell ConA okay, something like that. Mitchell o'conna. Yeah, it's always right. Reminded me of Mitchell O'Connell. Dude, that's a great way to remember Mitch McConnell mitro Ocana. Yeah. Look, I'm
the guy that went into a Lavanderia and ordered tacos. They had a friendly guy with a big hat on a box of tide. It looked like an amazing It looked delicious, and there was nothing. There's nothing of washing machines in this taco shop. I was new to South du o'cliff, don't make your love Onderia looks so delicious. Yeah okay, and why do you need
all those vents? You're just making tacos. Oh soapy? So anyway, there is some soapy pe There's there's a Mitch McConnell next to where we stage, and I know the spot, but for two years in a row. See Look, it's early. I don't we don't want to slam beers. Plus going te tea when you're on the your nightmare, you have to manage your fluid intake because some of these folks are smart enough. They're bigger than ours. They are big flatbeds and they have a porta pot in the back
of the flow incredible, which is absolutely genius. We don't have that. It's fine. Our floa was great, but you don't want too much. So we were trying to get some high noons. But the Mitch McConnell did not have Seltzer drinks. I don't know if they're not popular in the Mexican community here. I ain't they are, but not maybe not that kind. Well, they didn't have any kind Oh nothing. Were you sad? Well,
how did you feel? I suppose a pang of disappointment when I was looking frantically for the the Seltzer's, But no, I was not sad. But I got the beer of Seltzers, which is michelobaltra, and we just got it. Yeah, got a bunch this. We had white clothes first. That was the ten am drink. Yeah? Were you? Were you
blown away by? And I know you guys have done this a million times, and I've been down there in the thick of it more times than I can remember, But are you constantly blown away by the level of inebriation that people can achieve before lunch? It's incredible. And I'm talking not just a little buzzy and slurry. I'm talking about the the we're walking is almost impossible. I'd see much yours, kick your ass and your ass. Yeah, well we didn't. I didn't see too much because we're there right in the
window that that's the hours following the parade. Yeah, I didn't see much. I didn't see any of that because we're there right in the window of hell. Yes, this is gonna be the greatest day of our lives. While people are ripping it up and throwing marshmallows and tortillas. It's a little yeah, but Mike's genius. And I tried to this. I memory, I did this a couple of years ago. But Mike's genius. Because we're on the we're heading southbound on Greenville Avenue and you're only on the right side
of the road. The left side of the road is shut down, so one way for the prey to work. And Mike's like, look, all these people on the left side. And Mike has bought his own brought his own bag of candy, and he's handing out beads and little Reese cups and kitkats to all the people on the left side who had been neglected by everyone else. It's I saw him this and I said, okay, let me get my camera and capture this. It's a beautiful moment, a humanitarian history.
That's very sweet. Thank you. It was a tender, touching moment that needed to be shared with the world. And I'm glad Kevin you were there to document in the video. That's the most important. I already pointed that out. Okay, thank you, dude. There's a flaw in that parade. Yeah, you can't physically throw these wispy beads or any I mean maybe you could throw many a little rees's if you wing it, you can't
get it to the people on the left. The people on the right are just drowning in everything coozies and coozies and gift cards, lotto tickets, And there's nearly as many people on the left, including these grand stands. When you right, when you cross Greenville and Lovers, there's grands I mean there. They get nothing unless you get off and walk over there. So yeah, we walked over and we were handing little kids, you know, candies
direct and trying to throw some crap at them. Flaw on the paride, why don't we stagger floats one of the right, one on the left, one of the right, one of the left. Yeah, okay, float stagger. I was thinking about this a lot, but then I think that left side maybe is there for police ambulance, you know, for emergency purposes or that makes sense. Every year switch it then to the left. Yeah,
the right. So you you're playing, it's fifty to fifty when you get there, which side if you're gonna be on the good side or not? Is the left side. Maybe more for families. No, I didn't feel that way. I mean maybe those that are avid parade goers know that. But if you have a family and kids, you want to catch stuff. That's the fun of the parade. You don't want to just be what thirty forty yards away? Yeah, and there they go, and hey,
there's more people. I'll vote for that. Politicians also don't want your first grade later. You know, eye to eye with an errant breast. Okay, you know, I didn't see any breast last year. I think I saw one breast, two breasts. I'm talking female breasts, because I did see some men's breasts this year, but I didn't see one either. This year. I think we hot Hot Hotz moved away from it, and that's a good thing. Support. We support societal advancement. So Preyed ends.
I walked to a house near Greenville Avenue, just randomly walked into a house. It was a Kavanaugh's good friend JJ, and I know him too, uh, I only have one JJ. And so we walked over there, like past Mockingbird Station, then Uber because you had to get out of the kind of the Preyed block party zone, and then Uber down to that house near the truck yard on Greenville Avenue. So I went down and casts stuck my head. And now it's further south than the block party, so it's
past the real mess of things. And I just went into a bar there, and then once I got into that bar, all hell was unleashed on Greenville Avenue would just rain. And I saw so many men taking their shirts off and ringing them out. Yeah, what hit? And saw so many nips, these females with wet shirts. Oh, you saw nips through the show. There's a lot of nips. Dude. We got in a station vehicle right at the next side Mom eighty one. We weren't going to go
get in the mix. We got and I'm so sweet. Some of the girls from our sister stations were kind and I did play the my Mom's eighty one. We need to get in that car, you know. I go a room and it started raining like the second we shut the door. But City, uh well not spot city right then, but pretty good. That's but city came. Yeah, that's what City came after. But we got City generally. I mean, the parade was still going. It was getting rained on pretty hard, and we we we lucked out for sure, timing
one for twelve years. I lived in the heart of that for two years on Vickery and Matilda, and then for ten years on Lano, which is right there in the thick of the actual block party where they shut down all of that stuff. Basically from what Terrelli's all the way up to be able to stands. And I saw some posts that morning of friends of mine. They're still working that thing, you know, bartenders at the Dubliner that are getting their beer tubs all ice down, and the girls have got their green
shirts tied up and they're ready to go. And I'm just looking at these photos, going, God bless all of you because you're willingly signing up for the biggest vomit s show that you're going to experience all year. And grew they make their absolute nut, those squirrels or gathering nuts for the winter when they work that shift, because they will leave with untold amounts of money, so it's worth it. But boy and the Dubliner, the one Irish pub
that's in the center of that, what a windfall for them. It probably does make their year. I have played a gig the night of the Saint Patrick's Day parade at around seven pm inside the Dublin Elm. Yeah. Yeah, and with the old country band I used to play in called the king Bucks. Yes, and we played that thing. And you want to talk about the stumble and fall. I mean, it's basically the Witching Hour when the cops come by and kick everybody off the streets so they can reopen Greenville.
It works out incredible. I did it one time. I was like, I will never do another Saint Patrick's Day gig for as long as I live. I think that King Bucks night might have been the night that I told you Friday where the two girls sex with each other in port Yeah, and a guy went the one next to it sex for himself listening to the two girls. JJ, you have fun. You brought the niece out? I did? Yeah. J was on the float with the little sweet niece.
Yeah. She's ten. So she she goes around her school telling people I'm famous. So I was like, I'm like, I don't tell them that, and then I'm like, let me show her though she tells people famous. My god. Yeah, she tells her her friends at school that I love this. I'm like, I'm not, like, you know, I tell her I'm like, I'm behind the scenes a little bit, like I know She's like, no, I googled that, she googles me. I'm like, stop googling me at school for a while, this little bit.
Yeah, And I told him. I was like, you think she'll like She was like, oh yeah, she tell her to google uncle Mikey. Yeah, yeah, lots of good stuff out there. Did she love it? I mean I think she got hitted. I told her. I was like, watch out for the marshmallows, Like, I'm warning you, now, what are you talking about? I was like, all right, this man. Yeah, I took a full speed the big marshmallow right to
the right to the meat and I just felt it. It didn't hurt at all, but it was a meat shot, and I whit my head. And I see these two guys like high fiving, like their mission. They're like, hit your head off. The face would be completely in their defense. I did sit on the float and ask Kevin, while Holt throwing a single marshmallow up in my hand. I was like, pick somebody, I'm hit him right and then in the nuts. Yeah. So it's not like
that that game plays both ways. I understand. I found that the youngest kid I could find. Yeah, okay, hold on sixty seconds. What because international superstar Lionel Messi is on the phone. Oh, on the freaking line, Hello, Leonel Messi, to go the morning, everybody. How are you doing today? I love how your Argentinian accent has evolved. You've lived and played in many different countries and it's just a smack. Yeah.
That so the correct pronunciation for a Mexican meat market. It's not mitochondria or Mitch McConnell, Mitch McCann, It is mitchell ocana. Indeed, Oh, yes, that's it. Then I got to miss pright today. I was on vacation last week and I was thinking about you guys a lot, really, because yes, because I was in four planes and one plane got canceled. And I said, oh my goodness, then you ba, this is
going to talk about the messy Daniel. He loves their plane stories that he does, he does, and he he loves car washes and he loves bear blades. And I said, oh my goodness, he's gonna talk about me. And then and you fall off and and the God has died what Okay, the God has died for the god, you know, the god the best. But you are alive, right, I think so, But but I think it back as an Italian man. Somehow are Seltzer drinks popular in Italian space? I guess Italy. I don't know where I'm asking. I
actually went to Virgian Islands for a vacation. But yeah, they have they have cell something very good. All right, le? You know, well, I hope you had a great time on the Verdian Islands. It was pretty too good. That was pretty good, all right? See Lanel, good luck this season? Yeah, good luck? Score goal today, score a goal for the downbeat today? Hold on, do I play today? No one knows. How do you think Lionel Messi on his phone has a
calendar that says like game. No, there's someone telling him, you know, the schedule is like put into his phone game practice, game, all right, practice ten o'clock. All right, I'll go dribble it around the cones. We'll talk about the MLS schedule. And was this the greatest basketball finish of all time? Next to ninety seven? Won the freak