You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven one the Freak you want to get one. We have more on the fourth explosion from yesterday afternoon with some first hand that counts in thirty minutes one hour from now. I want to give you the opportunity to join us on the air two and four or eight one seven seven, eight seven one nine seven to one. It's a new series for the week, the Super wild Card Pump Session. We're gonna have you
also pumped by Sunday. Yeah, you're not gonna know what to do yourself. And we've designed it in a way that we're looking more at the bright side of things Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Kind of wanted to get the the negativity out of the way today. On Tuesday, as everyone knows, the worst day of the week, I wanted to get that knocked out.
So today's question, and there's a couple other that will go with it, that should coach McCarthy be fired if the Cowboys lose on Sunday when the weather turns cold, So well, you know, if you get thoughts on that two and four or eight one seven seven, one hour, we're going to discuss. I have a take on that that might surprise you a little bit. I won't miss it, so buckle up, Buttercup. We're going to talk about job security in an hour. I'll be listening to that once again
in thirty minutes. Especially I told you two first hand, first hand accounts from Fort Worth. But also we're going to have on Brandon Hurtado of her Taito Barbecue, because he is trying to save the Rangers offseason as the Dodgers buy every single player known demand and continue with infinite budget because they're paying O tawny two million dollars a year for the next ten years and giving him all
the money at the end. The Dodgers are on a shopping spree and the Rangers have been very quiet, and Brandon Hurtado of her Tato Barbecue has got away to maybe help save the Rangers and the rotation with briskets. We'll talk to him at seven forty five is. By the way, just remind you guys, the Texas Rangers won the World Series. I couldn't leave that that happened. We were serious champions. Yes, they're going to hold that until
October. We got like nine more months in victory, lapping me goosebumps and then fly that flag forever. And we were in Houston when they clinched Game seven. Yeah, to go to the finals. Your address as a cow for much of the game until you got so hot you had to take your cow out put off, and then you wouldn't wake up and go to the beer at us because you were standing there in boxer short puddle of pasturized milk. I forgot to wear pants, Neil, and we didn't realize that we
left. Why then he wouldn't stand up or doing anything. What I would wear to sleep under my cow out fit. I watched the last four innings of that game and underwear. I put in an interview quest yesterday to a little baby KK of Fox because and I and that kind of into the email with you may not remember it, but we're the guys. We ran into
you in Houston. We didn't run into him at all. But I said that because if you add a personal well note at the end of the emails, they're more likely to go, oh yeah, So in Houston loved the pregame coverage this year. You really just threw that lie in Yeah, and and Cook, I don't line. Let's have something to gain from it. Oh, okay, that's fine. Some people just lie. That's terrible. If we get a little baby KK on the air, I don't know how
it's going to pack things. Not so many fastballs getting ready to work with Tom Brady. We're not gonna do that to him, but you're definitely gonna ask him that. You kind of have to. Yeah, but you know they're not gonna because they responded back. If you does he need to respond I'm doing the Cowboys game. Yeah, I'll go promote it to Dallas. Yes, that does make a little bit of sense for him. They're already gonna have the highest ratings of any game ever. I know he's not exactly
doing it for ratings. We're still a human who likes to talk and sometimes like to answer a questions and go straight to him. It goes to his pr guy. Well, baby KK didn't even check his own email anymore. That's the world we live in, Kevin Burkhardt, you might have had better luck with third leg Greg. Yeah. Maybe, also maybe not seen as the more hot commodity of the two. Why don't you go for Ace Rhino? Now that maybe, well, Ace wouldn't do a Tom n Aldi,
might I bet you can get Ace. I don't think you can get Aaron Andrews. I don't think so either. Really, who do you think these people are? Who they think they are? New? But they're about to do a playoff game in Dallas, Texas, and they've covered half the Cowboys games all year. It's very normal for them to do a little media. All right, Well, let's go ahead and pull up the and get the info for an injuries and I'll fire off an email or she may remember you
from outside her hotel door. That one. Now, that's a good way to never get her. Well, you're lying about your relate relationships. I didn't say I would do it, Okay, I would lie in a way to help me. That would hurt me, that would implicate me. You're even a terrible invasion of privacy by the way, Yeah, awful, And you should be ashamed of yourself for bringing it up. You brought it up
for awareness awareness. Yeah, to remember to put a little piece of tape over the little seeing eye thing in your hotel room doors because you never that one. Let's couldn't get the intro so we can formably get into sports at seven formally, Yeah, it's official guys, we're in it and now sports.
So before the National title thing, the Golden Globes Who, which was seen as the worst awards show ever, uh double the tradings what it had a ton of viewers, okay break which makes everyone continue to question anything we know about how rating systems are measured. But I can tell you very simple. It's because it had an NFL lead in. Well that's right, yeah, it sure did. It sure lead in because we didn't get any red carpet stuff unless it was on like E or something. Yeah, you know,
right into that game. I mean that postgame went right up to seven o'clock. They so we got JB and Bill Cower and Nate Burleson and JJ Watt. We don't need anything else. Boomer and Phil get well soon and then we could do NBA lead in and start our show right after the Maps games, and technically we could. I don't know if that helped. We almost do when they play on the West Coast. Yeah, yeah, on those nights for sure. God stay up for that. So there's that National
Championships. You guys watched the game Washington, Michigan. I did a good portion of it. It's odd because that no dog in the hunt here, really intriguing storylines. You can go gather through a few if you'd like. For me, I was watching this just out of the sheer basis of I like college football, so kind of had it on, but I was one eye on. It really wasn't locked in. One thing I've learned about this town over the years is if you're not really talking about schools that people care
about around here, college football thirst it doesn't really exist too much. I'm sure the local TV ratings will be well great and all that stuff, but I don't think people care too much about college football if it's not talking about your teams and rivalries. And maybe I'm wrong, but Michigan and Washington I don't think did a lot for the DFW Crotch. I think if you have an set S S SEC team involved, I think that heightens interest around here
a little bit more than this game did. Like Alabama had made it, I think that more eyes would have cared. Yeah, Okay, I don't know why. Just maybe well, Washington feels like this weird outlier that does probably like a ratings suck, you know, sort of like of the Mariners make the World Series. Yeah, it's I mean, it's just not one of the one of the hot boys or one of the blue bloods, but
Michigan most definitely is. So I don't know. I imagine ratings were fine, but I was locked into it and I'm not going to miss a National Championship game no to watch this stuff. I didn't think Houston was an odd location for it. I don't know why, because I liked it because they showed like a bump shot of the Rose Bowl. I'm like, there you go, that's where. That's where the National Championship Game should be played.
Maybe you get those, you know. I mean, I would include Dallas just because the Cotton Bowl history, but Miami or New Orleans or I guess Arizona because of the Fiesta, like wherever these big bowls have been to the last years. So it's odd that n RG these damn this is the part of the wissification of America real quick. But getting every stadium a door controlled climate and all that, bs dude, who cares? Whatever the weather is,
Both teams got to go play on it. The more neutral the better, and that's why they go Dome. But if it rains or something, who cares? Make my weather hot take, good one, but that's what they do. They everything's got to be in a dome now, so all super Bowls are going to be like that. Reason would it be if there was a super Bowl in Chicago with no dome. Well they're not going to do that, but it might be miserable. But I mean Miami and Tampa
are still in the rotation. I mean they've rolled the dice on met Life Stadium for a super Bowl and they had no dome. Yeah, that was odd. So like you know, and it rained in Miami for the Colts Bear super Bowl that one year. At the elements, the elements are a part of our everyday life life. Indeed, any given Sunday you can have elements. That's just my take. That is odd. They had the super Bowl in New Jersey, Yeah, and it absolutely could have been a dumping
snow super Bowl. Yeah, and that would have been really memorable if nothing else. But they had it here. If we didn't have a dome, the hear that the super Bowl's here, I mean that would have been terrible. But it was terrible outside for everybody. That's why we haven't gotten one again because I don't trust us. You're not going to get one. I think that's why I can't realize with Jerry. It's got to be some other political thing with Jerry. You know how many billions of dollars and this dance
is. I don't think it's just because we got crap weather that week. Do you think they're blacklisting Jerry. I don't think Jerry wants more than what they're willing to do. I have no idea, but I know there's more politics than your weather sucked that one time. It has to be you know what, You're gonna get your dome blown off real quick? Yes, quite frankly, modern day way, as fast as things are moving, upgrades d
measuring contests twenty five years is about the staying power of a stadium. We are in the back half of AT and T Stadium's career without either massive upgrades or moving the location somewhere else. We're in the back half. I don't know if I agree with that. I don't disagree with it. I realize on actuary tables you might be sort of accurate, but I don't know. No, I don't know anything. Not every stadium will be replaced or live
that life cycle. I agree, but with like renovations and stuff, like they're gonna have to spruce that thing up a little bit like they did. Actually they've added they actually spent quite a few bit of money on Remember they upgraded the big screen this year. They made it bigger, really for longer. I think. Nope, nope, like mixing story, that's the maps. Yeah, I'm an idiot and I should go to hell, Kevin the
Michigan wins, Jim Harball probably leaving tonight. Last night was the last game of the history of the PAC twelve that is no longer a conference anymore. So a hundred plus year history of the PAC twelve. Goodbye, just like that. I have a couple hot things on Michigan. Yeah, I want to say one sort of gently because I don't whatever. I have a friend who worked with and under Jim Harbaugh for many years, and he claims he's an idiot. I could absolutely see that he was wearing receiver gloves in the
pregame. He just says, Harball is an idiot, And he said, I've never been around someone who has born with more of a golden horseshoe up their backside. Thank you lucky. I don't know. This is not confirming what I've always thought. Yes, and my friend is smart. Now, granted, my friend is someone whose name you wouldn't know and is not successful as a head coaching on any level, you know, despite having been in
coaching for a while. So you know. And I've worked at places where i've it's not worked out, and I've been like, well, that guy was an idiot. My bosses were idiots. So I understand there's those sour grapes apply to these sorts of things. But he's been so consistent about it, and when having a couple of beers, he gives me examples. He's like, he's an idiot. Four plus six is eleven, he says.
Now, this is a dude whose dad won a national championship as a player, his brother is a Super Bowl winning coach, and now he is a national champion, like one of the golden families of football at this point. Yeah, but he's going to be doing something I know, I know, but I don't know in college football how much it is just the face and the name and the recruiting and how that all works. And he's like,
and now he'll leave Michigan and he'll probably he'll go to the NFL. Yeah he's and I my friend didn't say and then he'll do great there, because then how can you say he's idiot? But he's just like he's an idiot, and he just keeps winning and falling into these incredible situations. So now they got in plenty of trouble this year, and there's some people with put asterisks. Oh, he's going to get an NFL Joe on this title. But I mean, he continues to win, but he's like he's a moron.
I predict his next stop in the NFL will finally expose him, unless he falls into a great young quarterback, which the Chargers are seen as a teaman. Herbert is just no. But what if he un locks him a little bit or another year, you know, whatever happens, it's possible.
But I've always thought that about him. There's some story from back in the day when he got a big bloody nose on the sideline because he was going up and head button his players, like the number one guy can't stand in this life outside of the rapist and murderer, is worked up football guy, the guy who just can't control himself, and he runs on the field and
gets a personal foul because he can't control himself. The guy that needs a get back coach you know you mean a coach that needs they're right after murderers is the coach that gets fired up he's coaching his men. Worked up football guy, Okay, you panicky freak, calm down. Okay, let's act like we've been here before. It's football. There's gonna be a winner and
a loser. We all die in the end. And here you are, freaking out running on the field, can't contain your emotions at all, setting a terrible example for all the people you're supposed to be leading, and the kids and the children. What about football fan who watches at home and just has hissies. He smashes their TV and does it for real, but doesn't just do it with an old TV because they want to get He's three pegs
below that guy, because who's number one? Murderers murderers and then okay for good like dexter, but murders rapist one a one bah worked up football guy. Oh gosh, here's the guy I hate. Don't do the wave. I paid a ticket. I'll do the wave whenever I want. You hate, don't do the wave. Guy, he loves the wave this one. It's not so much that I love the wave you do. It's that I love that I paid for a ticket. And that doesn't mean I'm gonna break
any rules. But doing the wave is not causing a problem. And let me tell you, the guys on the field don't give a damn. They do not care or know that the waves happen. It's always baseball guy who hates the wave. Like waving football, no one has a big problem with. But in baseball they're like, oh, this is a big moment.
You're disrespecting the sanctity of the game, right, And that just at least a baseball guy being questionable having a lot of codes to live by my second Michigan Hso, I think Blake Korum not only is gonna exceeded in the NFL, I think he's gonna rush for ten thousand yards in his career, which would put him in right around the top thirty running backs of all time scorching
prediction. I watched him a few times. I think great. And you know what name I can't get out of my head when I watched Blake koram Emmitt Smith. Yeah, okay, and he He's not projected all that high. He's probably a second round, second round, yeah, exactly. But the dude is just a bull. I looked up their sizes today. They're very similar. Blake Korum five eight two thirteen, Emmitt Smith five nine two twenty one. You know, Emmitt had that subtle power to his game,
and he's got that. Yeah, he's a bull. I mean Blake's more you see it a little old. He's good and the other guy scored a couple times. Donovan Edwards is gonna play and be that third down Yeah, you know, well maybe that's more of a current modern sexy NFL player. Yeah, But the Blake Korm thing, I bet they don't know what to do with him exactly. He's not a run to the podium in the top
half of the first round. But I think that dude with that build will be so reliable you can just hand him the rock for a better part of a decade. And he probably will never lead the league in rushing, but he I think that dude will just turn for a long time. And I think he's I think he's a good Dude's in trouble for something. I don't
know. Yeah, I don't know about that stuff. I mean, there's a bunch of draft dudes in that game was obviously I mean the National Championship twas of course, like the wide receivers from Michigan, Rome, that guy is ridiculous and he might go top ten. I mean, Marvin Harrison Junior is going to be the top wide receiver that goes in the draft because he's a monster. He may hell, the Bears may be like, we're gonna
go with Justin Fields unless pair him up. It'd be wild to see a receiver go number one again, you know, but they'll trade that number one in New England and move down to three man three and then get another first rounder and take Marvin Harris. Yeah, if they decide to stick with them, it all makes sense. But Rome Donzi, I want to say his last name, Romeo Dunzi Ohnz. He is going to be he had potential
top down'll be safe top fifteen. Yeah, I agree. And the second just Panics throw a ball that was like, dude, unbelievable, just blind. He wasn't you didn't even see the ball. He's ridiculous. Were you surprised that game was as close as it was, as late as it was after the first quarter well, because Michigan just ran it up their backside all day and I was. And then uh, Washington sort of made some adjustments and started getting some stops and Michigan sucked on third down, which was weird
as well as they ran the ball. But yeah, I was. I was surprised it was a one score game going into the fourth quarter and a few minutes in and then that Michigan defense just crushed Washington. And dude, have you seen someone get broken like Pennis got broken? I felt bad for him, he definitely had a bruise. If not, I don't and Rebby wouldn't have been on the field. I don't think. Dude couldn't even stand up every time. He's just wincing and dying. And then you see how
I walked off the damn field. He had a towel like under his helmet. He's definitely crying, he can barely move, holding his guts. It was just very like kind of a weird symbolic image of what Michigan's defense did to them last night. Is that poor bastard who left it all out there, just trying to get his body into the locker room because he got beat up on the biggest stage. I had fear in my heart for his spleen or man like the type of thing that I never even know what it means,
really lacerated. Something got lacerated last night inside of him. Maybe lacerated. Yeah, and then said, I'm playing through it, dude. One hit to the spleen and you're done. Anything that, I'm good. We'll go beat the giants. It's week three, man, you don't have to do it. You're find Come sit. Why are we doing this? It was you know, we ended up being a runaway. But it's like entertaining,
like flipping through the options too. I watch a little sky cast like watching that for a little bit, the behind camera, and I was, uh doing meteorologist stuff to Roxy while she watched TikTok I'm here drawing up like, hey, here's right here. We got two safeties here, so it's a good chance to run the ball for about five yards if you want it right here. You know, it's kind of walking up by the screen doing the thing, practicing my meteorology career. And what is she doing looking at
TikTok Okay? Does she glance up? Probably no, Yeah, it's just a good job of making eye contacting the you know in the back and half smile. She looks up to see if he's left yet. Yeah, he's still here. Don't you have work you need to be doing for tomorrow's four hour extravaganza. No, no, hold on, I want to show you to reorganize your Dave Matthews LPs. Yeah, comes a slant flat combo on the on the left. See this tied end though. They're using him as
a decoy, explaining you geometry of football tour. Because I'm good for a day? Did you should a day in the life is wild? You should come on? Should we do that? They didn't have to play you all kinds of real world stuff to do? I want to, But I'll come to your house and just live for a day. Quietly you will say a word? Yeah, it'd be great, just observe. Can me and Mikey live in your spare bedroom? Can you get us two twin beds? I have one little bunk beds. Build them, No one, I've done enough
building. Me and Mikey will build above bed. Oh yeah, out of sticks twine. We just try to keep an eye on things and report back. Keep an eye on things. You want to watch the primitive actions of this man in the wild, and by in the wild, I mean indoors. Yeah, just like on the Dallas Zoo watching him. Yeah, did you see when Harbaugh was on the sideline his brother in the middle of the second quarter came up and just tapped him on the shoulder, game a hug.
That was kind of cool. That is kind of cool, Like he's not he liked I kind of like John Harbor too. Let's cut Jim Harbaugh stressed his hell and like, you know, kind of dialed inn. He feels a tap on his shoulder and who's tap? You know, like who's there? Yeah, exactly, and he's like, oh hey, and he gives what bro, good luck. It's kind of weird, Like, yeah, you don't see that too much. Fifteen and oh got a handed to
him. Damn they win. College football is over killing. Up next, we have two first hand accounts from Fort Worth, Okay, from yesterday's explosion, plus how this one restaurant owner is trying to save the Rangers off season. Next to ninety seven won the Freak