You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the Freak by the Moon and it. It was just a tennis to make sure JJ was on her toes. That's all us. I promise sports in thirty minutes. Let's do the most important thing in the world. Okay, I'm in the bottle. We're getting right to it today. Screw it, Really, it's that important. Not really. You got some birthdays too, I bet huh. Oh my god, do you know which band that was? Which one it was? Okay? That was the Boys to Men? Yep? Yeah,
boys All for one, All for one? It was it is all for all. I would have never the easiest two bands to get confused? What the mate? Very the same time, I'm pretty sure All from One is all white? Yeah, those are wild Boys to Men are African Americans. Yeah, you do the Voice to Men Vinyl dude, Oh that makes you not racist? And I'm pretty sure they're all on the cover. I'm not racist. I have a lot of black records. It's actually not. It was a it was a gift from MAVs ball that I didn't get. Oh
god, yeah, look at my African American over here. You should a livestream of you taking the plastic covering off that album Jess Friends was on TV a couple of days ago. So oh, I love just Friends. Maybe that should have been in consideration due although we are happy about office Christmas Party December nineteenth. Get your tickets on the freak dot com. Hell yeah, all right, see yesterday, JJ, I want you to just hold steady for a minute. Okay, I don't want you to jump off sides here,
all right? Should we authorize her to go to the break room and get a nice snack? She might want to. I'd like to buy you a soda and a snack. It's on the other side of the building. Yesterday, Time magazine named their twenty twenty three Person of the Year. Here are your candidates. I'd like if you guess the candidate. Okaydidate's Voladimir uh Zelenski. Well, you got close to the Vladimir park Putin. Yes, the Ukrainian dude wasn't on there. They gave it to Hitler in the thirties.
Dude, Yeah, they give it to Yeah. Well, I think they're very clear about their crits here. It's not always the good people. Yeah, but Ukraine, who's not any candidate. He wore out his welcome in twenty twenty two? Oh is it? Yeah? Elon no, Elon? Did he win it before you did get putin? Though I didn't really, I guess someone else. His name just started with a V. So you gave it to me putin this year is time. Was not a candidate. It was nominated, Yes, nominated. He was nominated. He didn't
win. We give us initials. Uh, yeah, sure, I like this game. No one does fix j We're all gonna think Xander and Xavier g Jin the Chinese. Yeah, president, okay, also nominated. This would be a group of people black pink. That's a group of five, five or six people. Pussy Riot. No, they that was ten years ago. But yeah, I see what you said. Either, Like, what's a band name? It's a proper name. This is a band, pussy right, No, I know the one, the real one. No,
it's not a band. It's the Hollywood Strikers. That's okay. I stand with Steve strip On, Steve's sister. So if you don't know, so do. I think it's just dumb that a Person of the Year is an entity or a group of No remember the worst ever? It was Time magazine and the whole front cover was like a like a metallic paper mirror, and it's the Time Person of the Year. Is you? Oh? Is that not? Did they do that? Look it up? Six? They gave it to you. That's terrible. You's with like a mirror. You
see what we did. You're the one. Uh. Your other nominees were the Hollywood strikers. Sam Altman, Oh, the Ai Man? Is that him? He's not the Bitcoin Oh not Sam gt Man? Yeah, Sam Altman is the gag created chat GPT King Charles the Third and his fat fingers. Don't say that every time. I'm looking at that's our king hand right now. Hey, hey, Danny, look at these little smokies. I know I love it. And are you caught up on the crown? By the way, I've seen one or two of the new season, so no,
they love that. They got McNulty to play the or the future King. He Charles the Third ten looks like cray tray in this picture. Seriously, it's kind of weird. Drum Pal Toronto Raptors powerful, you think, Norman Powell? So I like where you're at. Your knowledge of NBA bitch players is not bad. Drum pal is the interest right guy, the what the interest right guy? The chair of the Federal Reserve. Wow did he not win? Yeah? I know right. He's been the news a lot
every time magazine would still be sitting on the show. Also nominated Barbie Barbie, followed up by Vladimir Putin, and then the Trump prosecutors. All of them, all of them. That's a bunch of them, I guess because I had a bunch of prosecutions. Your winner's Taylor Swift. Excuse me, JJ, Taylor Swift your thoughts? She beat Putin? Yeah? Yeah, and jimping to a certain extent. If you want to paint him as the bad they did. They give a reason, I'm sure they do in the
article what what is there? Yeah? Is there one? Like a real quick synopsis of Criterion. She's got a great quote in there about how Beyonce is the best feature one person, group, idea object that, for better or for worse, has done the most to influence the events of the year. I'm not gonna lie Taylor has influenced me is to start cursing on the air more. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. Shuts out now.
Taylor did some in the Time magazine because they do it and they announced it, but there's like a a little bit of an interview in it, and I don't trust me. I don't really care. But she did say something that she's not taking part of the discourse of Taylor and Beyonce, and she thinks it's trash that the public wants to pit two women against each other, even when those two women refuse to even talk about the topic. Yeah, yeah, the public. It's you. You don't look the two were the
public. We're all trying to do that. And I shut it down. No, you don't on top, you on top. I shut it down because it's ridiculous. It is ridiculous. I stand for all women equally. We have the three pack of covers for this. Do you see the weird She's got an odd cover photo. Yeah, so's there's three different versions.
Yeah, but do you mean not the hottest? Two of them are hot two of the three options, and hot is just one of a million criteria that go into yeah, things I think of when I see a strong, powerful woman. I was gonna say persons the year, but yeah, she's got kind of like a I don't know, it's very interesting choice. The picture. You see the least one name. I'm looking at it right now. It's kind of like like she's posing for an ad in an ll bean
cattalogy. Yeah, kind of looking off. They actually moved away. Hot was a big criteria through twenty fifteen when Angela Markle won and then they stopped kind of using that after that year. You just want to talk about the German chancellor for a second. Bezos won in nineteen ninety nine, Is that because that's when Amazon launched. I think that's back when they just sold books, is it, I mean, to the internet and nine was just getting
started. Was it a better world when Amazon just dealt in books? Probably? But maybe not. I don't know someone and you might like getting something delivered to your house in twenty four hours, So do you think, I mean, think about how much you enjoy that. It's actually really fascinating. Do you like how they pulled that off? You know how they turned It's incredible. It's fine. You want to sell books on the internet. Cool,
Yeah, great idea. But to see read the tea leaves and somehow transition that because I guess you had the infrastructure to accept orders and deliver things expediently anywhere in America or the world or just America. It's probably not what you want to do, but you probably always have a job waiting for you
at an Amazon warehouse. But then to turn the company into to ambitiously view the potential of the service we provide, to turn it from books to everything, right, and to see that and there was really no staircase to everything. Usually it's like, well, we're now we're going to add this, right, going to add this. No, it just went we have books, No, we have everything. Yeah, we have everything. And now we all use Amazon like willingly. And it's awesome. I mean, it's
amazing. People do it for groceries now, yeah, Amazon Fresh with Amazon Fresh, it's amazing to come up a lot this week. You know, this has absolutely nothing to do with Taylor Swift for the most important thing in the world. But and it's amazing that we've held on to some of the kind of on the fly, made up crap that we all got accustomed to during COVID, like curb side pickup, like there's still that's still a thing.
Like I went to there's a Walmart by my house over Saint Francis and thirty and I went there the other day, I don't know, to get some Christmas lights or something, and every damn parking space was full of people waiting for Walmart employees to wheel out these blue crates of crap to put in their car. Like have we gotten just get up and going so well and get it, lazy bitch, We're incredibly lazy collectively. Yeah, who doesn't love going inside Walmart? Well, it's so fun of it. Number one,
you're gonna leave with crap you never even thought you wanted. You get to see all the people of Walmart, which is Look, that's worth the price of admission, which is free in itself. You know, Walmart is fun. You can also fall in love with the greeter at Walmart. I guess you could, the way she says hello that the prices are low. Well, I'll tell you one thing then there is there is white privilege at Walmart too, because I can tell you how many times my receipts been checked
when I'm leaving with a back stuff. Yeah, the brother behind me with one item is getting freaking cavity search. Yeah, full vetting. It's like, good Lord, Like they have a little highlighter and when there's a line of white people. They just hold the highlighter out and you just kind of scrape your receipt as you walk by. I'm leaving with two fifty inch visios under each arm, you know, with no receiping. Watch them call it and only one of them will work because it's visioe. Yeah, it is
true. I've set number color coded highlighters, and right the guy puts a monocle in. God, yeah, that's amazing. But no, Walmart's fun. But yeah, those a little curbside pickup and all the little parking spaces that you can't use now because they've got a number on them that says curbside only. I just go on the damn store. The heroes of the year, I think any of these don't hold up well. Comedy First Responders, nineteen ninety eight. Your hero of the year was Mark mcga. All right,
Why whose life did he save when he cheated? Well, he wanted to cheat. They didn't know he was cheating. Then he he smashed records. Okay, I showed up. I think I told you. I went to a Diamondbacks game that year when the Cardinals were in town, just to go see the great Mark maguire got there three hours early for batting practice, and it was one of the coolest sports things I've ever seen, just launching five hundred plus home runs. He did the bit where like the it's packed
for batting practice obviously because of this late in the year too. This is while he's chasing the record, and uh like the buzz roars as he goes to the batter's box for BP. What do you think he does? Very first pitch lays down a bunt in the crowds house. Beautiful and beautiful Jesus Mark, he butted it because of his steroid. Then it went out warning track, but holy great launched it. It was the guy that called him,
what was it, Mike McGuire and Gary Sussa. Yeah, it was when they were, you know, trying to you are chasing Maris, those
two in the end of the year. And remember it was some announcer called him Mike McGuire and was it And Sammy Seusser local newsperson, remember who That was so beautiful because you know, the nation probably got a lot of w g N Cubs games and the Cubs play in the day, and I remember that summer as a ten year old kid, just like all the Cubs play it too, and you like appointment a he's gonna hit the first inning and then you know, go out and play or whatever, and then it's like,
come back in here watching that all summer long. Yeah, it was great, and it was like, why don't these sports cheat more? Yes, cheat eat cheat baseball? Well he uh, he's then he started some mad. Everybody wants to talk about discipline and hard work and all these things. I don't believe in him, not Tim Tebow. He doesn't believe in it. It's funny because when the Rangers were playing the diamonback, same stadium
the Bob back then, and he hit one MVP. If you even remember dead center field, they have that massive screen in dead center field, he knocked a tile out, a digital tile, that damn screen three quarters of the way up in batting practice, I mean show. I mean we were probably ten rows back in left field. We got there early ready, and I don't there's only like one one or two that was near us. They were all just way over us. And then waited. And then in the
game that night he goes over with like two strikeouts. And then the very next night he hit I'm pretty sure three home runs geez at Bank one at the you know, same game. We're like, damn it. So I saw his year, all home runs that year. But anyway, it was that was a sight to see, man, that dude in BP that VP because in the games, obviously it's seventy whatever home runs. God, I was so into baseball. In fact, it was awesome, man into it.
It was very good, and that Chase was pretty magical at the country's attention, and when they would play each other, they would hug, we're friends. Now, we're friends. Now there are some buddies over the over the year, they're having to fly out the Marris family to every game. He got to sixty or fifty eight or fifty nine, just because flat Top
family and his mom flat and that was the thing. It's like it was always a possibility that you know, even when he was at like fifty seven home runs, I mean, the dude could hit three or four in a game. So yeah, you know, you got the family at every game, waiting and waiting. And if I remember, there was like a lull where he won a few games without hitting any right before that, and the Parris family is just like this will be here tomorrow. I don't want to
go home to Milwaukee this weekend. It's a check on the yard. And he would always pick up his chunky little kid at home plate and throw him around. He looked like Bobby Hill. He's keeping a sandwich and his little batting helmet that he had to have on, a smushed sandwich at the top
of his batting helmet. I get hungry. Why are you carrying a sandwich or about to hit There's so many snacks in the clubhouse, Bobby alright, Hey, congratulations Taylor m Jeffrey Wright's fifty eight Jeffrey Wright under rat one are the great character actors of our time and I can't place him. Oh he is a west World right among us boardwalking When he was the robot in West World, that was that was reveal. He's got a movie coming out,
American Friction. He's probably been in forty Fish. I love that dude. Yeah, Hunger Games, Yeah, yeah, yeah, you name it. He's been great actor. He cool. Ted Knight would have been ninety nine. Oh Ted Knight, the uh the judge. Yep, you'll get nothing in like it. Yeah, and Caddy Shack pick up that blood here pick up that blood. Sarah Barelli's forty four singing chick kind of pale. She an opera lady or no, I think she does. She could. I mean, she did pop music for a bit, but I think you can
find her now doing more Broadway type stuff. I would have. I think I'm saying that because I think Tom Waite's is seventy four Danny. I know he's amazing, and I've got I've got a couple of his records, but I'm not I'm not one of those hardcore live or Die by Tom Waits dudes. Not because I don't like him. It's just it's it's a blind spot for me. Yeah, yeah, me too. Aaron Carter would have been thirty six Danny, Danny. Aaron Carter rest in peace? Is he in
the Backstreet Boys? His older brother right track, older brother Nick was Aaron was found in a bathtub super year ago. That's super It's pretty sad, pretty fatah. He had a trouble. He had a troubled childhood. He was another tub tub thumper. He had a troubled childhood, but also sang about from the age of twelve about getting laid just kind of weird when you go back and listen to the Aaron Carter pop songs that were big hits when
he's an eleven year old boy. I mean he's talking about having a house party he's eleven. Did a lot of his songs have the word girl in him? Yes? Yeah? Do you like him? He was a cutie. I just loved him. I remember him the Lizae McGuire episode, the Christmas episode and he sung like I Want candy Like That's probably my biggest memory of him. I didn't follow him music. That was probably his biggest hit was the remake of I Want Who is Your number one? Preteen heart throb?
Like when you were thirteen? Or well? I do believe every blacker goes through a white girl face. So I was definitely into the Backstreet Boys and Seeking all the movie. I was more Backstreet Boys, though they didn't Seek and who is your Backstreet Boy? Yea Howie? It was definitely Nick. Well that is a good battle. I think I think I'd probably be with you on that. What either Nick or Bryant Backstreet over in s Man And I got to see them live a few years ago at jingle Ball,
and when I tell you, they were lit awesome. Well no, no, no, no, well I think those days are past. No, they were. They were all like they still had it, and we're talking like how many years later because they just got back together. It was like right after they like just got back together. Yeah, like maybe a year into them getting back together. They were awesome. And I have three partes. Johnny Bench seventy six, Larry Bird sixty seven, and Torell Owens is
fifty and still thinks he could play in the NFL. I bet he could get you a catcher to fifth receiver. Maybe. I saw there's a Larry Bird documentary on Hulu because I was watching a fire Ago on Hulu last night and I saw it. I didn't watch it, but I saw that there is a Larry Bird documentary. Luca passed him for career triple doubles last night. He sure did. And Luca's twenty Yeah, for ninth all time.
Luca passed last night. The kid has barely been in the league and he's already in the top ten in triple d's and he can cuss on live TV. And we have it for you next on ninety seven one. The Freak