You're listening to the downbeat. I'm ninety seven to one the Freak Announcement eight thirty five. Tell you what that is. I also tell you Friday, we're doing the thing again. It's gonna be at Mike's Gemini Twin. And the thing that I'm talking about is called the Freaking miss Party with Annual Gift Rift and Mike's Gemini Twin two to six on Friday during the speak Years. So we're gonna do a little secret Santa type thing again. Yeah, we
did. Last year was wild ass. It was very wild gift exchange whiskey fest. I want a picture. I think of me eating a key lime pie. I worked hard to get that thing. That dinner was like one day before. Yeah, our Christmas giveaway. You used Amazon Fresh to get that in yep, uh it Fresh. I don't know what I got. I don't have anything yet this year. I've got a couple of things in. But that's gonna be a Friday at Mike's Jimini Twin during the Speakeasy two
to six pm. Come hang with us. We'll do the Annual Gift Rift, a little Freak party. Clip of the earclip show countdown coming up at nine forty three thirty one Ding sings at eight. You're not gonna want to miss that. We're gonna do sports in ten minutes. But right now, as we promised last week, we gave away Adam Sandler tickets to win Star World Casino on resort. He plays there this Friday night after that. Friday is the fifteenth, and they have Kevin Hart playing with Chelsea Handler and Tiffany
Hattish as well. And if you can pass the test of Kevin trivia, then you're going We'll start with collar number five. Let's go ahead and throw them on the air. JJ who do we have here? Hi? What's your name? Jeff? Jeff? Hi, Jeff? Where are you calling from? Hey? Ponder how's it looking out there? But it's a beautiful, beautiful morning. Beautiful? What are you doing right now? Waiting for my daughter? You're ready for school? Great? As she in. She's
going to cosmetology school. Oh so that's she's a twenty or something. I don't know, like twenty two. All right, Yeah, it's cool. Jeff. What do you do? I'm like a therapist at the state school. Oh wow, cool? Really? Yeah? What kind of physical what kind of therapy? Physical? Therapy. Oh okay, okay, right back, Danny, you're feeling good these That feels good, real good. I think gosh, I can imagine being like a psychotherapist at a state school.
That could be tough. Right, Yeah, that's nut's I know, a bunch of women, they're all crazy. What is it? What do you deal with the most? Like? What physical concern Uh? You should gate training like learning to walk and transferred? What I heard? All right? What's your name again? Sorry? Are o? Jeff? All right? Jeff, Jeff? You ready? Let's do it? Man? All right? The answers will involve someone named Kevin Kevin in honor of Kevin Hart.
All right, Kevin, this actor recently has become a meme in the last couple of months. Do you have multi level clues? Here? Is that how this work? I might give him another one if he's a pretty hard one, is it? Yeah? I don't know what. He's a meme leaning on his kitchen sink, social media all over the place. Well, now I got it, I got partner. No, I don't have anything. Kevin Durant, Okay, keep going. Give him another not a great
actor, Kevin Durant, a movie? Okay, he was married to on the on the on the sitcom, he was married to Saved by the Bells Stacey Kerosi, also an actress with a real name who was a scientologist for a while. James, who's not giving a very good amazing? You know I've got I can't think of his last name. I couldn't give this away with the US driver. Keep going, James. I'm trying to help you out, but I don't know this one you called Jeff James, Kevin,
James, Jeff. We knew it started with the Jay. We are there. We had a sales thing last week. We're like, we're gonna stop just giving him away. We're gonna make him earn it. And who's ever online one you're gonna win two. Congrats everybody. I love you too, man, keep it real out there and ponder bro. Yeah we're doing it man, all right, do it all soundhold? All right? Thank you, James, And I want more real quick. It's Tuesday. Get two.
We didn't do an interesting I want James to listen to my advice real quick, or Jeff, what is the name, Jeff, keep an eye on that daughter of yours, because you know what happens cosmetology school attendees, a lot of them turn into stylists. And I've never met a hair stylist in my life that wasn't wild. Ass. That's true. So just that's true. Keep an eye lady does my hair wild? But don't drop out of beauty school because then you'll be in the movie Greece. You are so
stupid our young demographics school. Yeah. Uh, twenty five to thirty four popped. Okay, let's do hobs to the right line four real quick? He do we have here? Jj? Hi? What's your name? Bernesso? Sonesso? That's right? Guys. How you doing, dude? All right today? Yeah? Just here at work? Oh? Now what do you do? Uh? Drag board? Lest there you go. You you're sitting in one right now. No, I'm walking around trying to get away from the noise. Really, thank you acting like you're busy on the phone,
hiding in between the product between the product. Nice. That's an honest that's a damn honest man's work, man's man. Teach us a thing or two. We have soft hands and we sit in conditioned rooms. Yeah sounds nice. I'll trade. Do you have a hard hat on right now? A hard, what hat cheeky? All right, Arnesta, where are you calling from Garland? I like to know. I always like to know. All right, Ernest, here's the deal. The actue will be Kevin in
some form. Kevin to give you mints. This very popular actor, some would call him an a lister, just had a big falling out with the hit show that he was on. Take a guess. I'll give you a couple of guesses. I'll give you one and we'll give you another hint hit TV show that was on Paramount. Okay, we gotta see Yellowstone. M h Yeah, this act Oh my god, I can't remember his laughing. Don't help him, Kevin. Let's put him on the clock. A freaking
come to my mind is Kevin Bacon? But for Kevin, he said Kevin Bacon because he's hungry. All right, you have ten seconds for this? Is it? You know it's Yellowstone, You know his name's Kevin. You have eight seconds? Oh my god, you have five. I know it's the guy from Yellowstone, the old guy, the one that was frying with the ex wife right four. Yeah, Oh my god. He's gonna cost you. It'll cost you to guess. How did you get that the bell. What a genius for Nesto is Costia a savant? It's er have fun.
Kevin Hart, Hey, can I go with you? You're getting two tickets. I'll have my wife if I can take you. Yeah, she's gonna say no, Probably she'll let you bring your friend. You'd come home at like four thirty in the morning and still awake. Yeah, you're trying to Bel's gonna be like, no, can't go home yet. We gotta go play some black jackport. Let's go all right, hell yeah, all right? Our next to congrats man, you want a pair of tickets with
Kevin Hart. Win Star World is here this Friday? That what three more pair to give away throughout the week? Dude, big one win Star appreciate that. Love Woodstar World Casino and Resort. Like playing some golf out there as well, Kevin Hart. Next Friday, go get your tickets. Let's do sports at seven and now sports at seven. Oh yes, Christmas season, it's up, honest guys, and I think a lot of our homes are going to be filled with hungry, hungry family members ready to feast on
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days now, God, that sounds terrible. Before we play this dirt audio, h it's the Mavericks are back at it tomorrow night. Uh, cowboys did lose out on Shack Winard, the linebacker. He signed with the Eagles. He chose the Eagles over the Cowboys. Now he also had he might have taken more money, who knows, and the Cowboys doctors might have been like, eh, he's not hasn't been good in a couple of years, but he's the linebacker's position they need, and he had. But Shack Lenard
has a history with Sirianni. So I'm guessing they put Dom the Finisher in there and said signed up, signed up paper, fine there right there, all bust up kill yeah, family a Shack Leonard will not be joining the Cowboys, but joined the And it won't matter unless we get to January and Shack Leonard, you know, deflex a pass or the like. There's there's gonna be a third and two and we kick it out to Tony Pollard and
Shack Leonard makes the tackle to end our season official. Like I We'll just watch as dumb as this all is that it's been a week of Shack Leonard. Oh my god, Oh Cowboys won, Eagles lost. He's gotta be leaning Cowboys now. All this Shack Leonard will impact the end of the Cowboys season. I can't help but feel like we're on a uh San Francisco crash course. Although so if you win this week against Philadelphia, you'll be tired
of the Philadelphia. Now your record's more difficult than theirs is. Now in the stretch, they've your schedule. Yeah, after this week, really, Philadelphia's made it through the gauntlet, and our gauntlets kind of just beginning is we will have Buffalo, a desperate Buffalo team. We'll have Miami on Christmas Eve. At Miami, you'll have Detroit Detroit to who will be grappling for playoff position. That was a wild ass game against the Saints, by the
way, Yeah that was good. That was a wild game, and there's a lot so I mean, Detroit's good, definitely beatable for sure. But you know, if you don't win the division, you're the five. You'll take on the Saints of the Falcons or the Bucks, whoever wins that division, and then you'll get the forty nine ers in week two. That's probably how this plays out. In true Cowboys fashion, the final play of the Cowboys season will be shack Leonard pancaking Tony Pollard, who's playing center is yeah,
just smushes him. Let me make a quick prediction. Yeah, I think the Cowboys are gonna win this weekend, and then I think the weekend after that at Seattle, I think the Seahawks are going to do us a big favor to beat the Eagles Yep, Monday night. Yep, damn. I could see that because that is not out of the question, man, Eagles at Seahawks. Seahawks would be playing for their ass. The Eagles losing three in a row yep, especially Jalen Hurts is not one and he does
not appear to be. And then they then they have Giants Cardinals Giants to end the year, which is lay probably clean sweep there if it's gonna happen there, because it looks like tiebreaker scenarios will show you that if they have the same record, and assuming the Cowboys win this week, yeah, it looks like the Eagles would have Yes most of the Tiberak. They need to lose again, so good, I need help. But you've put yourself in
that position by losing to the Cardinals earlier in the year. Still a good team. That's on Sunday. We'll deal with that. Let's listen to Dirk. Dirk went on the Stephen Jackson podcast and he's talking about the early days of Luca. This is all the Smoke with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson.
Love it, Love that this exists. Love athlete podcasts existing. I told you, guys, for a while, I've been a fan of a like shoot wrestling podcast that's where guys are long retired and they tell you all these crazy stories from behind the scenes of like the nineties and eighties, and it's just so fun. And I've been screaming other sports need to do this, like just tell us everything. But the problem is that world is kind of
fake and they don't really care what these dudes think. But nowadays you still do care about your other teammates and most team sports and you can't like annihilate bridges I suppose like they do in the world of wrestling. But I do like this. And Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson have a cool podcast where they really do kick around some cool stuff and try to get into some some interesting angles. And yeah, we had sweet sweet Dirk on there for an hour
and five minutes. Oh yeah, good, very good. Listen to the whole thing. Yeah yeah, but this is the cut that I think made the news yesterday. This one's everywhere, is the whole thing. Yes, yeah, So it's Dirk essentially talking about when Luca arrived, like literally seeing him for the first time, and what how the team responded to. All right, well there's the guy, and like I guess his role or lack thereof, and Luca's success and where they are now. It's pretty juicy.
My end of career wasn't pretty. You know, we're struggling. There was some talk of tanking going on, and we needed a little spark block to change things. I didn't think that was gonna be this kid. I didn't think it's going to be this kid when he walked in the first time here in this practic facility. You know, he looked at his sick. He's a big boy. But I'm like, I'm not sure this is gonna work. Is he quick enough? Is he athletic enough to go by guys like
he is in Europe? And so there were there were plenty of doubts there from from everybody on the team. And you know how you meet already before training camp starts. Uh, you know, you meet a month before and you hoop every day and you work out together, and so guys are trying to test him a little bit, and you know, foul him a little bit here and there, and there's scrimmages and and you can already see that this kid's got something about him. He's got that swag. He knows how
to play. He was he was getting some in one mixtape passes out of Nowhere, and I'm like he was, he was flashing some of the talent. So we were we were we were thinking, man, he's he's going to be a really good player. But I didn't think he was going to go to that levels, right, I mean, he's my role with him. I guess we're we're friends where we're cool where you know, when I'm
town, we go to dinners or whatever. Mentor would be a little strong because he doesn't really need me. I mean he's he's as you guys see, he's he plays like a thirty two year old veteran now he reads the game, how how he carries himself on the court, And I mean I didn't really I wish. I would love to say I helped him and talk
to him about it, but it's just the guy just came. He's been a pro since he's like eleven years old, and that's how he plays the game, like there's nothing can rattle him during the game and he just does his thing. And and so his his development has been incredible, and I didn't think he could get better from year to ear, but he's still showing it and I'm super happy for him. There's not a more honest, clear speaking, easy to understand when at the end of it you're not okay.
So what did he mean here or was that a backhanded compliment? I mean, Dirk is he's the perfect human. He's the perfect human. He truly is. President. Yeah. Well, also Luca retweeted him and said, you guess we are friends? Yeah, that's all with the crying emojics, we're friends, a laughing emoj You guess guess we're friends. We just go the Rangers playoffs together. It's also interesting to me though, was like Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson at time absolute MAVs villain. Yeah, you know Matt
Barnes, we hated him, Dirk's heyday. You know, Steven Jackson with both the Warriors and the Spurs at times we absolutely hated. And there's dirt just chilling with us for an hour just laughing. It's all different when you
hang him up man. I was thinking, imagine that when Luca literally was on the airplane coming here, you know, drafted and going all right, Dallas, and you go to Dallas, you land and then you know they pick you up and limo or whatever however they do it now and then you say, all right, when tomorrow, d After tomorrow, we'll go shoot around with some of the boys. Like just the pressure of that non official
practice even just kind of will go bang it around a little bit. They're getting their first look at you, you know, and they're just eye and you no matter how welcoming. Yeah, the the Maverick the current Mavericks at the time were you know, it's hey, what's up man, and you do the half hug and all right, then they check the ball to him, like I mean, that's just an epic moment. I wonder if Steve Verah, the photographer somebody has video of like they don't probably right because they
met in a gem. Who knows where is the maps, second practice court or whatever, but just that moment checking in the ball and saying, here we go and to those guys, you know, to see It's one thing to watch film of him when he's playing in Spain or wherever, But when he gets off the plane and walks into the practice facility and you put eyes on him for the first time without seeing him play in person at all, he doesn't pass the eye test. Yeah, he's tall and he's he's a
big guy. But all of the things Dirk had in question when they just looked at him, were very very reasonable, like, oh, this is the kid, though, that's the guy. That's the guy. Yeah, okay, all right, lily White. He's got a baby face skinnier too, you know, you can t see it, like they have a little old picture of him, and it's But the other thing is comparing to trust that to Dirk when Dirt got here. Dirt got here and was like homesick, yeap, and I don't know if it's gonna work. Yeah he played
in year one. Yeah he almost left the league man to go back home. So I think Luca got off that plane with I think there's so much self confidence that that kid has, and so much belief in what he is capable capable of doing, and that he probably thinks and truly believes that he's the best player in the league and that that I don't know. I don't
know if I bet well, I bet he learned pretty quickly. But I'm saying, like that first check ball when he's like, because he I guarantee you, no matter how good you are in European basketball and how much confidence you're having yourself and where you're drafted, you still, you know, look at the NBA as Michael Jordan and Lebron and like, do I even I don't know if I want to say he questioned if he belonged, but he
didn't know until those first practices. And then he tries something and does something, and then you starts all right, okay, and then I bet real quickly he learned, yes, this all translates, this works, I'm I'm okay, and then he started lighting it up. And then I bet real quick, super cocky or confident, whatever you want to call it, all came back to him and he realized. But I mean, even when we drafted him, I don't think we thought he was going to be just this
triple double machine, like maybe the leading scorer in the NBA. I don't know, you know, I think Dirk said it in that audio he's like. Even then, we were like, damn, he's got a love something. But we didn't expect this to be, you know, one of the one of the best players of his generation. We didn't know who's gonna be on a Lebron like pace. And I don't know. It's a great question. I wonder what he thought when he first got here. It has to
be some apprehension, no matter how much bluster confidence you might exude. If he's ripping off a one mixtape passes and your first like your teammates, you've probably got that. He's not dribbling like Hot Sauce was. But no, there's that or escalade, the catalade. Escalator is my guy, was my guy, but he was everyone's guy. I think. All right, coming up at eight the dingu Power Hour, prepare your buns. We'll continue the clip to your clip show countdown at nine. But coming up next it is
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