The Downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak. All right here we are live in Houston at iHeart. We're on doctor Iheart's tab today broadcasting life from a conference room. He sent us a text doore call on two at four eight one seven seven eight seven. Let's know how we're sounding. Let's know how you're feeling today. You know, just wanting to check in with
you back in the Metroplexus. We're down here in Houston. We decided to go and take it yesterday and we did thanks to our friends that prosper Ford getting us down here safely and securely in quite frankly vehicle that I would recommend over the cheep wagon Are, although I'm sure the Wagoner is great. The prosper Forward Expedition does have the Derek Jeter's step up board. I hesitate to use it. Did you have used it? I have step right over there.
Yeah, me too. It's like an unnecessary little half. You know, it's not that tall of a vehicle or you need a little I mean, how much does it cost to have when you start the car those things come out or when you unlock it. And after making the decision to take the stairs last night to section three twenty three. Yeah, I didn't want any more stairs, no more steps, No, no more steps. I am Kevin. We were both about like halfway at the end of flight two.
It's like feeling the burn, Yeah, feeling the calf burn. Calves were popping. That's what happens though. We sit up there. When that's with the escalators, we think, get going now. Yesterday, when we got into Houston, we immediately went to the iHeartRadio building because we had to check our connection to make sure that we could even be on the air as we are right now. Sweet band Charlie gave us a key, cards,
everything we needed. We parked in the parking garage, but as we were leaving in a bit of a time crunch here, we had to get out of here, go to the hotel, check in, do a quick change. More on that later. There was a parking lot attendant who came up and knocked on our prosper Forward expedition. He popped up out of nowhere, he really did. It was like a whack a mole. Yeah, here's a thought. I mean, in another world, give a few seconds in
another direction, maybe he could have clipped him. Yeah, he was his face was like touching the glass too. When he knocked on my window, he was so close. Who and he was so small. He had information for you too. He wanted you roll your window down. Yeah, and he said, applied, what what are you guys doing here? Basically it was it was an odd so we were in temporary parking, but also so that's where we parked this morning because we didn't know, and we were like
ten am. I moved it back to the oversized vehicle parking lot, all right, But then I told the security guy and he didn't seem to even know the lot I was talking about. So I don't know. We might need Prosper to send a new vehicle today and a guy to deal with the wrecking yard. Yeah, they're gonna smash there. Yeah, I got to sort that out. They gotta there. They're lowering it into the crusher right
now with two hundred and fifty miles on it. I mean, given her yesterday went ed went over there in my back Yeah sure, so yeah, you'll have one down there field something with a little lower mileage. Prosper they handled us a car with six miles on it. I know, like I couldn't well, I couldn't be sure that I was seeing the odometer, you know what I mean. So I've never seen one, say six before. Yeah, and I'm like, wait, that is the odometer. Yeah,
okay, there's another mile. I mean, at least once in our lives we've bought a new car off the lot before. I don't ever remember seeing one an odometer that low. I've never had a new car. Yeah, really, yeah, I think I've done it once once, no, twice, two times. And I'm not reporting that a car that big or a sub that big and beautiful is so smooth when you're driving one hundred and five miles an hour. No, yeah, you WoT you would assume that it
would be. I would assume it would I am not reporting that that thing could be one oh five and it feels like seventy five. I think I think we've renamed I forty five the Texas Autobahn. Right, Well, this is actually kind of a part of something that maybe let's just do it here. Good lord, Okay, let's just an overarching thing because we're gonna continue talking about the game all day. Here's the most important thing in the world.
Don't think we've had a to get draftified out and he always shakes his head at his own opens. Get this, guy says, or someone says, you guys sound like hot pieces of ass. Thank you like our voices, like as people of podcast you know, oh yeah, well yeah, of course. So Texas in Houston can mean a lot of different things to a lot of people. Recent years, some semblants of a rivalry, you know, the silver boot thing wore out pretty quick, which you start doing
it every single year. But then you go to what's happened with the Astros over the last seven years, with what's happened to the Rangers over the last seven years, and there's been a lot of I don't want to say contrived, but there's a lot of vino. It's just like a kind of an old fashioned Texas debate, who's better Houston or Dallas or DFW. And I don't have any ill will towards the Astros fans that we interacted with last night.
In fact, a good portion of Astros fans that we interacted with yesterday or last night I actually felt a little sorry for because they were taken out of the game really quick. But this is more of an overarching thing. If you think if you ever think that living in DFW is not cool or it's not your jab, I'll just tell you dfw' is way better than Houston, which we already kind of know. I very kind of know that you haven't even been here twenty four hours, Kevin, But I've been here multiple
times. We went down one street to get to the game yesterday. Well, I want to talk about when we were making the track down and you know, we got out a little afternoon. We probably we were probably ten fifteen minutes late getting out, but we were probably, you know, twelve fifteen on the road. Kevin was stressed in the drive too, and we had to stop to go Pepe once and then we stopped again for BUCkies whatever. And I could tell Kevin was stewing. Well, I was worried about
making these people wait here. Oh, I know I was too, Yeah, but I was. I kept threatening to stop at random places. You said we're gonna go ahead, sorry, go ahead. I was gonna step on your line when you said we're gonna go to the build a Bear place, like there's some famous one on forty five. There is, I don't know about it. The home offices are hour north of Houston, come on, we can make a Ranger one. We can make a Ranger bear.
We will name him BOMBI yeah, we'll work together and make Kevin a beautiful build a bear take like an hour. Kevin, chill, and Charlie's waiting on us at heart Houston. I think it's gonna be bad. I think after I said build a bear, he's even like no, like for a millisecond before it registered that clearly I was whinding you up. I seriously started looking around to see if there was a build a bear. I thought you were serious. Build a bear over here, stop at build a bear real
quick, Kevin, just chill. We're gonna make it. I know our prospects of getting to where we needed to be because I build a bear, I told them, never seen outside of the mall ever. But somehow there's one next to a Bucky. I don't even know it's a thing. I was in Conroe. I just started to think it's something real dumb. It would take way too long. But you get in your head three and a half hour to Houston, now there's probably three forty five. You start telling
yourself the short end of things. Whenever you're going somewhere or driving somewhere maybe it's four hour. Let's just say it's four hours. Okay, we were told it's three and a half hours. Point is I've been on this chain with I heard operatives from Houston her holding us or her bribing us with beaver nuggets. So we actually do have to make a bucky stop to get beaver nuggets for them to allow us to broadcast out of this beautiful conference room.
And then I had told them all said hey, well left, and they kind of asked, well, what do you think your ETA is? And I was like between four and five. Well, that four point fifteen ETA turns into four thirty, probably because before we were twenty minutes out of town, I didn't think we'd made the NS yet. We stopped at a Broms. It was actually okay, there was the Broms in Nis. We were like hungy, Yeah, we're all starving. Exit and you know I was
hungry too, so I would smash the burger. But the point as you're sitting there going it's gonna set us back a tad minutes. But then we get there, so we couldn't eat in the car. We would never eat in that vehicle. No, So we had to dine in Yeah, for sure. But then I started getting messages from people, just a couple of listeners friends. They're like, have you guys made it to Huntsville yet?
Have you made it to Conro yet? Forty five South is a train wreck, going oh no, we're kind of looking at the NAB and how can we manipulate this? Well, we were like cross referencing different map platforms like okay, let me, let me cross references. Okay, Ways says it's ten minutes faster. I think we're okay. I think we're okay. It wasn't bad at all, man, But traffic was not bad from what I
kind of had expected in my mind. But at that point in the ride, when we were going forty to forty five miles per hour and having to stop every few minutes, you know, because of traffic, given how we were kicking ass getting out of there kicking, it's kind of like, man, this is a slow burn. And then Houston traffic sucks. You thought Houston traffic sucked. No, I didn't think it sucked. But Houston is just gigantic. It's massive, Like it starts what north of the Woodlands.
When you feel like you know you get that feeling like there's a lot of crap on the trees side. Yeah, the trees start looking different. You see the giant ass Sam Houston statue over your left, and that's when you feel like you're in the neighborhood. I think you if you take like all of Dallas and for Earth, and if you counted all of that as one city, that's Houston. You know. Yeah, right, it's so damn
big. But I found the traffic to be no worse, in fact, probably even better than Dallas it. And look, we make no mistake. We arrived at four thirty, so it is in what should be the heart of afternoon drive traffic or people knocking off work or whatever. And it wasn't bad, man, No, it was not bad at all. But that's it. I mean, everything we had to do. We made it to the park. We barely been about to game ten minutes to spare right, we were in our seats, and it was to our seats. I mean
National Anthem was playing while we were entering the park, essentially. Yeah, And we talked to Julie on the speakeasy that you can hear two to six. She's like, oh, I fuck, you have a lot of time, and I was sitting there going, no, we don't we'd have a minute to spare. Even here, I got nervous. And the sweet people here they're like, let me take you, show you a tour of the building, and they were kind of showing us all the stations here, and
I was like, don't have time for this. We need tour of the building. But you know what, nice facilities, in fact, nice digs. We could take some notes from what they're doing down here. Well, and then they said, this is a rumor. Guys, stop me if I'm going too far. Did you guys have a rat infestation last year? When we went, no, what do you? What are we just I was like, actually we did a month after we launched the station, and we don't know if it affected our ratings or not. Probably not, but
still tough time for everyone. Get through it. I did see one of a giant cable that said ratings on it and it was a nod halfway through it was coming right out of our studio. Ratings cable got eaten by rats rat chewing on it. Here's about three quarters the way through it. So that explains that. No, yeah, I uh, it was fine. I look, the most important thing in the world is a simple sentence.
The Texas Rangers are going to the World Series. And if you haven't guessed by now, this show at least today through ten o'clock, and I would imagine through six pm when the speake's he's done. Today is going to be primarily about that and all the angles about it. But we came down to Houston, so there's gonna be a lot of the travel and things that we saw, sits and sound and that you may get on watching it on TV back in the metroplay. Yeah, that is the idea. But the bottom
line is the thing that everybody's awake right now. I'm excited about and waking up to the feeling of knowing that your Texas Rangers are. This Texas Rangers team is going to the World Series. You find out who you play what tonight? Right? Yep? Yeah, oh yeah Game seven to night Phillies and Diamondbacks, which we're all gonna probably lock into a little more seriously than we have that an LCS prior to this, I promised to watch more pitches
than the zero I've seen so far in that series. And what's even more wild to me is we. I was not fully aware until we were walking to the car last night, or walking to our uber after the game, that no matter what happens tonight, the Rangers have home field advantage in the World Series. Unbelievable. I didn't even know that. It's it's so wild and still not even fully hitt at home yet. More on that. You just don't do birthdays and stuff just as a palette cleanser and then and then
jammed back into a seven Kevin Kevin Birthdays. Kevin's really on edge because you never got that Build a Bear. If you were squeezing that thing right now, how lower your stress would be. And you know, I think that you can record that, you know, like they'll make a Build of Bear talk. You can customize the things that the Build of Bear says in your own voice. So me and Mikey could have voiced the voice of of of Bombie the Build a Bear. We could have left some soothing messages on it.
So if we're not around, how does Bombie sound? And look? Kid? He said, it's in the voice of Bombie. You need to relax more, Kevin. I am relaxed. I am from Cuba. Hug me Kevio. Leave me hugged as a cube bear holding up a little trophy. Press me close your man breasts for birthdays today, Feed me you don't want to start older, I'll start with olds and then go young. Just do whatever you want, man, JP The Big Bopper Richardson would have been
ninety three. Danny, that's Danny's guy, that's my guy. He getting done a plane crash, Danny? Yes, was he on the uh? He was on the Richie Vallins? Yeah? Yeah? Was he any good at music? The Big Bopper? You know, the Big Bopper was a visionary Mike Siroy. He was a legend in his own time. It seems like a kind way to speak of, to kind of just say past artist, and if you want, I'll tell you something. You guys want to
learn more about the Big Bopper, Tune in today at two o'clock. Oh okay, somebody that uh more of a contemporary of the Big Bopper more than myself. Was he a big cow seyes man? I don't know. I know he was at the beginning of the advent of rock and roll. Yeah, he was a key figure. Why no, don't tell us any more about it? Talk more about the big bopper, think Goo one of the great sports names of our time. Y A Tittle would have been ninety seven.
Why a Tittle? I mean incredible, your old program director at the Fan that was why a Spittle. Bill Wyman is eighty seven. Oh hey, by the way, he appears on the new Rolling Stones record that I was not aware of. Yeah, yeah, just on the cover. You're more about that at two o'clock today. No, you did a whole segment on it the other day. I did, but Mikey was off. So I'm good. F Murray Abraham's eighty four. Oh I love f Murray Abraham. He's so funny and has so many me too allegations in real life?
Does it really? How much do you love it? Mikey? I tell you his work. He's a great character. I can separate the man from the art uh Amadeas, which I just watched recently and loved and give full recommendation to you the listener watching the movie Amadeus. Even though that may sound like a tedious and of sad afternoon or evening, it's so great and it's so funny, and he as unbelievable as Solieri, the nemesis of Amadeas.
But also he was great tell in White Lotus one they just did. He was good in the TV show on Apple that I'm forgetting what it is right now. It's the game show that Rob McElhenny. Who's macromoy Sonny. He's in that too. He's kind of the story writer of the video game all right. Uh. Nathaniel Wyeth would have been one thirteen, not a household name. But he did invent the plastic soda bottle. We'll have never had him with that, Daniel. That's that's stupid. What you can't make it.
He didn't invent the plastic soda bottle. He just reconfigured plastic into something that already existed. They probably would have said he invented plastic if that was the case. That's what I'm saying. Look, did he invent plastic? Hey, then he didn't invent the damn the bottle already existed. Well, he made a nice mold and figured out how to make plastic thin enough. That's yet strong enough. Danny, I can't even believe you. I'm holding
believe his name crossed your lips today. Nathaniel Guy as an impostor he is. We're going faster now, I don't want a second on Kevin Klein, who's seventy six. Oh, Fish called wand I love him. I made bacon eyeglasses. Look, I made eyeglasses out of bacon. He had glasses, Yeah, made out of bacon. Kevin Klain was walking in an airport
and Fish called wand and he had a gun. He had to get it in and he looks like looks right, walks through a metal detector and steps through as he throws the gun on the outside and catches it after he stepped through. It's one of the greater physical comedy maneuvers in movie history. That's what you did with your vape security, all my vapes and juggling shrugs, paraphernalia on both sides, and they're just like, you don't how to do
this, or actually you're support vaping here. Used to Jeff Mangham of the Neutral Milk Hotel would have been fifty two pass. Neutral Milk Hotel underrated, really outstand enough, too many bands, Neutral Milk Hotel. You know what, I'm not gonna do it. I don't care. One of the most respected celebrated indie rock records of all time. You would you would actually really like that. I probably would. You would. The Arrowplane over the Sea is the song you want to hear, Mike. You listen to it on
the way up right now? That's sure? Do you think poor JJ is looking up all right? Neutral? Finally? God? Could there be a more white? He definitely is a trip down Caucasian road? JJ said the other day, what does she say that about? I forgot the CIH. Yeah. If JJ listens to Neutral Milk Hotel and reviews it and gives it a thumbs up to me, I will listen. I don't think you're gonna
be yeah. Uh, Mania's forty three. It was just forty three of Brandy and Monica, is what I would say that she's more known as Yeah. I mean, Monica had her own career successfully, but it really took off when Brandy and Monica did The Boy is Mine, Drake's thirty seven, Tila Tequila's forty two? What has she Ever done? V H one stuff? And then she had sex tapes. Jaylen Ramsey twenty eight, Mike, I need him, need him back. The most underrated wide receivers of football
A Monroe Saint Round twenty three. Yes, he is so good very good, and there's your birthdays for Tuesday, October twenty fourth. Let's keep the Ranger party going, though, tell you a little bit what it was like inside the ballpark about when we realized they're kind of giving up and walking out. Next on ninety seven one the Freak