You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. The song reminds me of Guardians at the Galaxy three. Want the great scenes? If you want to see Dave Bautista, just start dancing, hilarious. Happy Friday, Metroplex. Did you like Guardians three? I loved it. I last night, I was here to me I this morning. I thought of JJ handing out a five dumpling rating to Dune two and if you missed it yesterday, I just want to repeat that a few times, and I will between
now and Friday when the movie comes out. But she saw it, and we've never had a five dumpling rating awarded. Did that? I'd give everything everywhere, all at once and five. I don't think it was a five. I'm just saying that. Mind that, if she ever likes a movie more than doune Tune, the rating system is flawed. Why are you the way you are? Because it's common knowledge more than one movie can be Yeah, like just a side. She's a wit, so we just cut off.
No, there can be one best. No, it's not a ranking, it's a rating four eight and changed it to a five. Gives you the wiggle room to have a four nine logic is completely screwed. So put everyone into the Hall of Fame dancing. So every Rolling Stone review that gives an album the rare five star review means that there that no other album can be can receive a five star rating. Yeah, that's ridiculous. It's not a ranking, it's a rating. It's a different word. They have different
means. In the sports card world, they have PSA and they grade cards and sometimes they give it a PSA ten. That means this card is perfect. And they can get handed in another card five seconds later and say, p s A ten, this card's perfect. Two things can be perfect. Yeah, but those are just judging that card off of condition. Well that's what she's judging the movie off the condition of the movie. It was perfect,
how much she liked it. Look, I brought it up because I'm happy that she liked the movie so much, and she's a fair critic and she doesn't just throw these things out flippingly, And she did yesterday and said Doom two, which comes out next Friday, which I recommend you visit an Alamo draft house to watch. It's a five dumpling great. Okay, it's awesome. This is a day to celebrate, not to do whatever it is you do, Kevin. So she watches I take my job very seriously,
Kevin. I know she does. I know you do. But what if you see Challengers starring Zendaia and the other two guys, and you like it more than Doom Tune and you give it a five to one. If you like it more than Doom too, it deserves to be a five to one. Not everything is equal. I'm sorry, it's just not when it comes to grading things. When I read clear the top movies at the end of the year, that would tell you what We'll realize then that Doom two should
have been a four to eight. A long thank you. I'm so sorry. You know the center of the issues on this morning show, JJ do, and they're right there. Unfortunately, I actually think most people are going to agree with me. They're not. It's a different movie. Different movies can be geez. I think it's perfect. And you still haven't answered the question why are you the way you are? Just simple question. Nothing is
a ten, okay except Jesus, oh my god. So if you go to school and you have two kids in the class that get a hundred on their paper. Yeah, yeah, I should have one of them got a one oh two. Yeah, one kid in class get one hundred. They're taking a right and wrong answer to you test. What if it's a subjective creative writing class and it's not about checking boxes or AI grades though, so I don't really worry about it. In the eighties, all right, Well,
our teachers will tell us they're not reading all those essets. It's like arguing with a foot It is, yeah, iPhone footcase, I talk over that. I wish you knew how much I loved you and how much I take you seriously. It's things like this comes the text pouring in like this, looking at them, not one, I don't see one. All I see is a bunch of dudes that crap their pants. That's resonated on good lord, Kevin real tear down Turner is up to his old tricks. Kevin
is way off base on this one. Kevin is a dumb ass. The end. Those are the only three texts that well, those are those are all ticket listeners. If their ticket listeners, how do they listen to us? Five? Respect and love? I hope you guys know how much I like Mike and Danny. But I don't understand why KT's on the show. I don't understand why those are It's me, Kevin, You're an idiot. Shut up perfect well, well said, okay, I'll read this, guys, because he did it a week ago. He said I like Dune too,
Dune two chicks at the same time. He wrote it verbatim four days ago, and then he did it again. So there you go. Those are my favorite lines from Office Space. He's sitting there with his long hair. Yeah. If you had a million dollars two jigs at the same time, it's pretty wild, Like a million dollars, you said, a million
dollars maybe things. So like last week, John Oliver offered Clarence Thomas, who's on the Supreme Court, a million dollars on a huge win obago, one million dollars a year until he dies and a big ass winnebago if you just quit the Supreme Court, he did. Yeah, he's guys, you have thirty days stirs, who is oh okay, no, no, not just face, but of those like, hey, the thirty days wrote up the contract A million dollars until you die and Winnie in the studios just to
leave Van dreams. I respect the winnebego. Oh absolutely, Ben and I are talking a lot about our Van dreams. Never had Van dreams. No, it's getting a van, yeah yeah, And I understand the cobby boy and a big screen TV and a wet bar. Yeah, Van dreams. It's a it's a little apartment that you can drive. And nine out of ten people that buy one of those things use it once and it turns into a giant bowflex on wheels. Not everything is just as clothes hitting on it.
Not vain. It's the pool table of the outdoors. It is treadmill of Oh it's not the upkeep on those Oh my god. I believe that can bring billiards back though with the Secret Wizard. I'll explain to you guys later. With that is I can't wait. The Secret Wizard is the most incredible game of all time. Invent newpool game, uh fifteen years ago, eighteen years ago. But you have a game on a billiard table. It's called the Secret Wizards. I think it's gonna save the sport. It captures
everyone's attention every time I break it out. I usually like to play pool kind of anonymously. I'm really not interested in capturing attention. You say that, play pool. You say that, but until you've sucked the toe of the secret Wizard, it's hard to really know. Man. You'll everyone's a little skeptical at first, but at least gets a little bit of their attention, and then they see it and the dollar bills start stacking up on the side of the table. Is the is the wages go up? Oh,
it's an incredible game. I'll explain it to you in a break. A secret Wizard's very powerful, my guess. I'm telling you the ball that is once. Okay, real quick, before we get into mass Charlie Woods update, we told you about Tiger's son, Charlie, who's fifteen. He had to finish in the top twenty five of yesterday's qualifier and then would have to finish in the top four on Monday, and then he would get a tea
time with Rory and Ricky Fowler next week at the Honda Classic. He shot sixteen over eighty six, So it's basically what I hung at DAC on Wednesday. Tiger was not in attendance. Charlie was followed by his mother elon Ay. She was out there, but there was also a huge gallery following him. He shot at twelve on a hole. Oh my yeah, hell I've done that. Yeah, that's Dingo style. This is at one point not with Cashers my caddie though, that was with Bridwell. Sorry, I run
it Bridwell randomly on a golf course. I feel like once every five years. It's a very strange time. He plays every day. As by whole five, spectators began to realize there were no ropes to bar them from the course, so they walked very close to Charlie Woods on the fairway, ignoring repeated requests from tournament officials to stay on the cart path. So they were getting close to him, Like, and he's frustrated because he's failing. You
know, he's just not playing well. This kid's got a long way to go, a lot of growing to do. It's telling he's a chance that he's really good. But these are the most like these are You're never going to crack into these expectations ever. The son of the greatest, I mean, Michael Jordan's son is like the best he could do to even get close to that is really just a hook up with Scotty AND's ex wife Larsa.
I mean, that's that's like still an incredible story. They just broke up too, didn't they, And they thought it feels like it's still open though, so I had a chance to save it. And the whispers are that MJ said, look, dude, I'm a billionaire and if you'd like to be a billionaire one day, knock this s off, because I think he wanted to ask her to marry him and he's going, hey, and MJ said, you don't have to. We're done with this, assuming you like
a billion dollars in a few years. Wow, she's twenty years older. Wow. Maybe my sources say, I believe no idea about this? Yeah, was this reported a lot? Or yeah, it's just kind of been their relationship or that the fact that Michael Jordan's kid was dating Scottie Pippen's ex wife. Yes, yeah, thought I had no idea about You didn't know about Thoughty Pippen. Don't call her Thoughty Pippen twice. Don't repeat your mid jokes. We did what she's known as. Do we need to have another
talk? It's not a joke. It's what she's known as in pop culture realms. It's absolutely wild and thought what is it that hoe over there? Yes, okay, oh that's what that means. Huh, what's pog mean? Yeah? What is pog? Help me on that one? Clearly fat ass white girl and it's a pH he said it on the radio. It is dude. For years, we know Michael Jordan's kid dating Scottie Pippen's xual
wife. I didn't they were sorry, I should have known this. They were both on the hot TV show Traders too, on Peacock, on a reality show. I just watched he it's on right now actually, but yeah, it's weird to see them interact and very much in love, but they I think just broke up. I had somebody text me, who's played that course that Charlie Wood's played on a lot. He said, He's played at
fifteen straight years. He said. The fact that Charlie shot in eighty six with a quad and a triple is insane, like in a good way. Yeah yeah, I mean, you're he's not good enough not to avoid some huge numbers. But apparently that course from the tips when you're fifteen years old is just a different damn sport. A quad and a triple, I mean that puts you in the seventies right there if you avoid those. This kid just got his driving permit two weeks ago. He also had fans or people
on the course running up to him. One lady after a whole twelve approached him with a pen and a copy of Tiger's book How I Play Golf asking for an autograph because they didn't have proper security detail for you know, the following that was going to be there. So he had a two man security detail there. But that's it. And it's just not enough for people to randomly ignore the rules of the golf marshall, the course marshal, and then
walk out there and bother him. But eighty six if he had a quad, so he had a twelve, right, so he had a twelve and then he had that's okay. I mean as much as I tried to him a little, a twelve four number, Yes, what did you do? Go o b it was a part four any mad, I'm trying to look
it up right now. On ten cup, it's a no. To get twelve, you have to go I don't pump it, ob ret, pump it O t rete pump water b RETEA no, because you can't even do water because you want to make a twelve, you have to be ob which means you go back to Yeah, back to the t because on the water you always move the ball up, probably depending on where the water is. Like a five, one, two, three, four, five, six seven eight in the water, nine drop ten on the green two put.
That's a way that you could very logically get it. So how many OB's like three ob reached one, two, three, four back on the tee, five, six, back on the te seven, say the rough eight in the water by the green, drop nine, hit it on the green ten to put twelve. I mean it's just something like that happened twelve twelve. I could do that, right, you could do You could get a twelve on a part four. Yeah, any okay, I could do it
at that place across from the Fireplace Lounge. It's tennis and it's a famous course. Maybe grew up playing. Stop calling it the place across the Fireplace Lounge. Tennis and Glenn the Highlands, tough course, the glen though Danny could he could tear up the glen. He could tear up the glen in more ways than one. Yeah, he'll tear up some glens tonight. If you show up, ladies. One tonight girls might be your night, Well we will, this could be yours. We will not be the home of
Charlie Woods. We're gonna let the kids go. MAVs beat the Sun's last night, and again they just didn't say they had to have it. But it was a tie breaking type of wind, third time against the Suns this year, so you have all playoff advantage on him now. One twenty three, one thirteen. An excellent second half in a fun game start to finish. I mean, just action packed crap, so good, so good. It had everything you anticipated out of a MAVs son's rivalry game. It was
awesome. I thought the I thought the MAVs. I texted you guys this last night. They looked more physical last night than I ever remembered them looking, and some of them were kind of They kept saying on the on the broadcast that silly fowls or careless fowls. But there were dudes going at dudes last night. Gafford pretty much creamed one dude out of bounds. You know, he miss miscalculated his defense and jumped a little early, but just can't
remember who. It was, absolutely floored. Somebody out of bounds. You had Devin Booker taking it to the dome a couple of times. I think Lucas smacked him one time. Yeah, they were giving it back too. But I thought in that second half, you know, obviously three point shooting outside of little Timmy Hardaway helps, making your baskets helps. But I thought that they got in the Sun's heads a little bit. They did, I really do. I saw that, and that was it was more than the
second half. Obviously, once some Avericks kind of came out. I had a really good third quarter. Gafford was the one PJ. Washington. His defense is incredible and he was kind of getting discussed a little bit for that in Charlotte. Like I has been playing defense, and I think everyone was like, no, he's a good defensive player. He was just in a bad basketball environment. Get him here, and boy, he was locking down
Katie some last night. Yep. I mean, holy cow, and Kevin Durant s to what got his right And I mean it's gonna happen in twenty three points. But like watching that game, you're sit there, man, think about Booker. They've got Durant, Wait till they get Bradley bill Off, Like back from injury, like the Suns are still good, end up
being good and a tough team to beat. But it kind of feels like the Suns might not want much to do with the maths, and I started thinking about other Western Conference teams who might be going, you know what, I don't want to play them. I don't know who does. I mean, they're the hottest team in basketball. Seven straight wins. I just looked. I'll just won the title thirty six to one. People keep talking about them in a certain way that says they can make it to the Western Conference
finals. That's the Twitches best great, Okay, yeah, they can make it to the Western Conference finals. They also make it to the Western Conference finals two years ago, and this roster is way better than that roster two years ago. I kind of think this team scares the hell out of almost everyone. I think so, especially because the second they made the trade, they haven't lost and it's all working perfectly, and it's so funny. How happy Luca is. I mean, we said it even at the Doldrums.
He hates losing and that's what causes the outburst, which he had another one last night. Alway says one, are you fine? With that tech. I have no problem with that one. So watch with Christie and she's like really, and I'm like, man, yes, that's that's how you work in official is when it's justified, like truly justified. You know, Well, do you think he deserved to get the tech? I'm saying, do I think he deserved the tech? I he deserved to be thrown out of
the game. Okay, I don't know about that, but I think he definitely deserved the tech. He was three feet away from and he whipped the ball kind of at the guy's head and then he plays super innocent. What No, I was just you were pissed and you whipped it. I didn't have a problem with him what he did to get the technical, okay, because I thought that was that was strategy, That is sending the message to the official at a for an appropriate reason. Or I think a lot of
his are just lazy or just hissy. Yeah we're losing, yes, exactly. That one was like, dude, do better, just because I got smashed twice in a row and he didn't call nothing. And the numbers, you know what, they had seventeen free throws and we had five at halftimes
yeah, noah. I mean there's truth to it. And the national commentators were talking about Jason kid gets that technical or let Tim Hardaway get that technical, and it's you in the first half, meaning if you snap one time, like third quarter, something doesn't go on in the first two minutes and you pull a Luca and snap, but he's then you like, then you get thrown out, Like you give yourself no margin Forreyer when you get a
first half technical. The difference between Luca and maybe more traditional hot heads, he's really good at playing with one technical. Yeah, he rarely gets that second one off. He dances on the razor's edge. I told you guys real quick, which goes to show he can control his emotions. Now. Granted, I think you get a little bit more leeway when the refs know you're playing with one and you're a superstar. Yeah, yeah, it's got to be bad. It's got to be really bad to get actually tossed.
But I think Luca's he's he's smarter than people think. Away from the suspension, Yeah, that's gonna happen. Yeah, games left like that's not good. He's chasing. He's one behind Dylan Brooks, who's a known guy, knowing what's anything to do with in this league anymore, because he's just a problem if he could avoid getting the first in unnecessary situations. But last night I had no problem with him getting one. Dude, Kyrie is insane.
I don't know what more to say about how perfect he is. The one thing that, just the one play that he made that just stands out was him bringing the ball up. They are defending him as hard as they can. They're trying to mount a run, and the behind the back dribble into the paint, the spin move and knowing, I mean, it looks like he's out of control, and when he ends up in a position to shoot, he's exactly where he knows he needs to be and just banks it off
the glass. We all remember that one. That one stands out ridiculous. And then just on a more of a humanitarian move, when he dove for the ball on a scramble to save a ball going out of bounds and just plowed into two or three people on the bench during the break, goes over to the guy, brings him a towel, shakes all of their hands, probably offered to buy the dude's beer, you know, sorry about that. Everything about the guy, I absolutely effing love him. He's perfect. I
hope he knows that people are thinking of him that way around here. I think he does. I mean, I think I hope so I think he does. I mean he knows how we know? He probably does. I don't know. I don't know, because I think I think there is a
bigger appreciation from all of MAVs fans right now. And maybe they weren't saying this three weeks ago when he wasn't playing because he was hurt, right, But like, well, it's almost, yeah, it's almost like That's why I asked if it's all real, Like who's the guy who gets run out
of every town he's in or wants to leave, you know? And maybe that MAVs are a good little melting pot where he is reacting perfectly to it, or maybe he knows he needed to re you know, re establish his his vibe or what ever, Like he knows what the thought was about him nationally, and he's like, you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna do, right, I don't know what it is, but whatever it is, he's perfect. He's better than perfect. He's like the nice all I want to
do is be friends with Kyrie Irvan. He seems like the nicest, coolest, smartest, also one of the best. The thing is about Kyrie is when dudes try to reform themselves or put on their Okay, I'm really gonna try hard, I'm gonna put on my best face, best foot forward and all that, they end up slipping up somewhere. He's done nothing but just get better. So maybe this is who he actually is because sometimes and you can tell it's transfers. Yeah, this seems so genuinely who he is.
And then when you apply to every teammate, well not every but almost every teammate's ever had they love him. You can tell the reaction from other former teammates when the mass play them. Mm hm. He's just a good thing. Maybe it's a place where everyone is allowed to just be who they are, Like Jason Kidd is who he is is. Whether that drives you crazy
or not, that's up to you. But Jason Kidd is You never like, sit there and go with Jason Kidd's acting out or something, Jesus being him and you may want more from him at one point, But maybe Jason Kidd's not being overbearing as he was perceived to be, you know, in other areas. Allows Kyrie to come in and kind of be a natural leader. And I guarantee Kyrie's taking joy in us all realizing don't believe what you read and what you hear all the time, which is a lesson for far
more than basketballall. I don't think he's really getting that, Like I hope someone's telling him that, and it is real quick. One more thing, I wanted to say something that makes this map significantly better, and it's obvious, but there was one moment in the game last night where Gafford was There was a free throws being shot by the Suns. Gafferd's on the in the
lane and after the first free throw he comes in. He gets tapped out and replaced by Derek Lively and they said on the announcer said, well, there's one tall guy getting substituted for another tall guy. I'm like, yeah, yeah, I like this. There's no drop off and they're they're different in their styles and Gafford's a banger. I love Danny Gafferd love Carter his previous team, and now he's not. But he just seems happy as hell and he's set a big tone when he knocked over Nurkic in the second I
was thinking of. There was a comment Kevin Harlan said on the broadcast not to mention the amazing block shot yeah that he had. Yeah, yeah, well, Kevin Harlin had coming about Derrek Jones junior too, like a guy who's having a career year starting playing in a lot of minutes. He's like, well, whatever, I just want to win because he's gonna lose minutes
when PJ. Washington and Gaffer. But when Derek Jones is your ninth or tenth best player and he's out there giving you solid minutes against the Suns, we might be the deepest team in the league now too. I don't disagree with that. This is just hold onto your butts and enjoy because it's so fun. And the thing about these little streaks that what they're on right now, and the good vibes and the chemistry, that stuff tends to have a
snowball effect. Three seconds, Yes, I think it was, Reggie said, Uh, Kyrie Irving and Alan Iverson are the two greatest ball handlers in the history of the sport, and I just thought that was cool to hear from Reggie Miller. Yeah, and Iverson said it on his podcast on a podcast he did with someone that he First of all, he said that Luca kind of plays like a brother, which I think was also okay. Yeah, but he said that Kyrie Irvings got the best handles in the league.
I have close and he's our second best player. People are right raving about the Maverick right now. This is cool. We're the coolest, go the coolest, all right. But some mask fans might have yelled at something at Kevin Durant. We'll get into that. Also, in News of the Week recap Next Time Night, he said the one the freak