Well, good Tuesday, Metriplex the down Beat us here with you. I'm Kevin Turner. We had Nanda Alis, but no Mikey Siroy. He was power texting us last night from New Orleans. That was nice having a little a little text tryst with New Orleans Mike Siroy. He's having a good time. I texted him earlier that day he sent us the picture of the Jarnians commercial. He sent me a picture of a Portocol hamburg Kay, And yeah, it was half eaten, so it looked kind of gross at the time,
but I'm sure when it was served it was perfect. But yeah, Portocol, is this joint really awesome, this little spot in in New Orleans. It pound for pound, It's my favorite hamburger that I've ever had, With all due respect to Maple and Motor gold Rush, the Landing Portocol is badass and no one thing that I forgot to mention to Soroy when because he said he's gonna go. They went their first days. It seems like it
was their first meal when they were but they don't do French fries. Instead you get you get a hamburger, and then instead of French fries, they give you a giant baked potato. Whoa, And I tech he because I saw Christina had posted something about that they were at portocol and it is like its eighteen minutes ago. And I texted Mikey immediately and I said, U gonna need a picture of that burger bro. Then he sent me the photo and I was like, oh my god, the baked potato. I forgot
to tell you about that. He goes, baked potato is kind of stealing the show. Okay, baked potatoes are dope. Why do we forget about the baked potato because fries are so easy? Is that what? O? Foods are great? We love snacks. Yeah, yeah, and I I mean you're both in the same page. War to teamotatoes, not haters toats. And a baked potato should serve as the same thing as a French fry, but it's just not. It's because it takes like forty five minutes in
your oven. Yeah, but you can do a lot of cool things with baked potatoes and mash a lot of ingredients in there if you want. Mm hm. You'll have to still prefer the fry though, like the one at a time. Man, the bite size. I'm just saying, chop. We as much as we love the potato, I probably have like one baked potato a year, and it's criminal, yeah, because they are so good.
I saw that picture the Mikes Roy's baked potato, and I immediately went to my fridge to see if I had any potatoes, and of course I didn't know, but I had a whole freezer full of crinkle fries and waffle fries and tater tots because it's a good air frar snack that takes five minutes
and your toddler loves them too. Yeah. Boys, there anything better then air frying up a nice batch of tots and then you take them out and then put the aluminum foil down on the toaster great or whatever that thing is, put them on that and then put cheddar cheese and jalapenos and just kind
of give it a nice little salamander melt. It's amazing. Okay, Carl Lewis, We're gonna be hungry all day now, I know because we did this to ourselves sometimes in the first hour we talk about and they were hunky. We're sitting there going at eight o'clock or God could use a water burger. Burger and some of us elite the whole thing. Huh, and then feel bad all day. But yeah, he uh, he's okay. So I didn't know this. So Mikey, he's off all week. He's in
New Orleans, him and Christino taking a little little mid December Vaca. He went to the damn Cowboy game on Sunday night. I didn't know that. I'm not surprised. I mean he does make the list of people that you would expect to show up somewhere big, you know, somehow, some way. Yeah, and he's got a lot of golf friends that have connections and free tickets and cash. Yeah, he rubs, he rubs elbows with folks that we could only imagine. Oh. Christina Ray has known for a lot
of things, but one thing she did that just blew us away. Long time ago. There's a big concert for what this isn't Green Day and Wheezers a few years ago. But Ben was trying to get tickets to it, and Ben like called John Daniels the Rangers GM at the time, like can we get tickets? And He's like, man, that's concerts like next week? Like I don't, probably not, And I was like you know, it's like in the middle of the trade deadline, he's just bothering. What
is been doing? Yeah, and uh, Christina got sent up there yn't go to the iHeart Suite. Just do a couple of social media posts and she's like, oh my god, I had the sweet to myself. And Ben's like, I was trying to get tickets to this thing and she's like, yeah, no one was in the iHeart Suite. It was just me and Mike. It's like so that they're pretty good. It ended up at
big events. Yeah, those two. Cause he we were texting yesterday and you know, talking about the delicious portocol Hamburger and I said it so, well, you know there's a bar right down the street from where you guys are, easy walking distance, my favorite bar in New Orleans. But I don't think they're open yet. This was about like twelve thirty or one yesterday
afternoon. Yeah they opened. I looked ups, like, yeah, they open it three and he said, yeah, man, I went to the game last night and I think I only slept from about three am till six am. So we're gonna go grab a nap. So man, I love vacation. Siroy is oh man, there's a distinction between vacation Siroy and in vacation time me that you're tired, just trying to not be tired. Yeah. If I can do that at the end of a vacation, I'm happy. Well, you know, Mike and Christina both go have a good time
and can rally with the best. I can still do it for one day, yeah, and then it's we've hit them and we've just crossed that line. I've accepted it. I don't even try to fight it anymore. Now we've got one day next week where up it might get a little silly. Yeah, yeah, might be ubering to the U Alamo Draft House in Lake on Tuesday night. Yeah, fine with it. Buy your tickets if you want to take part in that chit canery at ninety seven on the Freak dot
Com. Tell more about that real quick. It's Alamo Draft House. Uh, let's freaking chill series and it's office Christmas Party A good comedy movie. Jason Bateman, Jennifer Aniston, TJ Miller, Kate McKinnon, Olivia Munn and more funny movie. I don't think any of us have seen it. I haven't seen all of it. Yeah, so I'm looking forward to it. I wanted I wanted to watch something I hadn't seen before. Same kind of thought that'd be kind of cool. Yeah, And I mean, I don't
know. We had to do something Christmas season. The do you like? We were making fun of Mike Trico and Chris Collinsworth yesterday claiming that they watch home alone every single year. I don't know. Maybe I'm a jerk. I don't like feel the need to. That's Chris was time was load up some Christmas movies or you know what I do? Though, I found some of my favorite TV shows of all time, Parks and rat Community, two
of my faves, The Office too. Everyone loves The Office of course, of course, but I might run through a Christmas episode or two of that stuff, like you'll go dig in and find them in there. I just find a couple of series and kind of funny. You know what's funny is most of my twenties and thirties I didn't I kind of lost that Christmas spirit. But there is something about having a baby in the house. Yeah, I am all about it and have been now for three years straight. Like
I like putting up the decorations. I like having the lights on in the house. I put up the lights on outside on the front and make sure that I'm turning them on when they need to be on and all that. And I love driving through neighborhoods and showing Malcolm, you know other houses they're badass Christmas lights, and going on walks and looking at inflatable Santa and all that stuff. I don't know. I'm way into it, like okay, real quick. So this year we'll do what we did We've done for the
previous two. So this will be his third Christmas. He's not three yet, but you know, he was born in March of twenty twenty one, so this will be his third Christmas. And we always go to, Uh, there's this house and I always forget what street it's on, but it's a Highland park and it's called like Santa Village, and these people have been collecting all of these, you know, different types of Santas and all these
badass Christmas displays and their entire front yard. Their electric bill in December must be about probably, I'm not kidding, probably about ten. Grand City gives them at tax Tit's insane. There's like one hundred and twenty Santa lit up
Santa Clauses in their front yard. That is so crazy. It's really really cool and it's kind of a Dallas ella se thing to do, especially if you're in the neighborhood, because you'll go, you'll go on any given you night after dark and they'll be I don't know, half a dozen to twenty people standing out that make that a stop that it's a destination point. People have their they're all bundled up, they've got their coffees and their mittens,
and they've got music going in the front yard Christmas music. It's just really cool and Malcolm loves it, and we'll do that again this year. Yeah, it's kind of a little You just create these little traditions that are fun for kids and you find a way. That's one cool thing about having a kid later in life is you get to relive all this stuff that you thought was kind of dead inside. That's awesome. Well, this is where I like acause now that I'll live with a woman too, that'll change things a
little bit. Yep, because like trees going up, well, it wasn't in the last ten years when I'm living in an apartment alone, I wasn't doing anything. It's like lights are going up, there are decorations now, and all that stuff. That's all back. Okay, so your family is enough to you with all me only being what hour and a half, couple hours away? Yeah, so you probably didn't spend too many holidays by yourself,
now just a couple. There were times. I remember plenty of times where I would get takeout at Maggiano's at North Park on Thanksgiving because I knew I was spending Thanksgiving by myself. You know, ten years ago is a breaking into the business. Ten years fifteen years ago now almost like I had to work overnights and things like that though, So you're like you're kind of there. Yeah, you're running the board for the Robert Rolonski, you know,
Christmas show or whatever. So like that. I remember a couple of Christmases or Kavanaugh and I just went to a wing place and watched basketball. I've spent a couple of Christmas is doing that. I kinda there's part of me that kind of loves nice, right. One of my favorite things to do on holiday nights. If I am kind of an orphan, a holiday orphan, there's no better time to go to a dive bar than the night
of a holiday. Yes, Wednesday before Thanksgiving, of course, well that's kind of like that's I don't want to say amateur hour, but that's a big night in the bar industry because you know, family is just getting in town and you want to kind of tear it up because nobody's working the next day and it's a lot of people that are from out of town. You know, your cousins are in town or whatnot. You want to take them out to. But yeah, the holiday night. Most people aren't going to
get a free pass to go out on Christmas night. But if you're single and you live alone and you don't have any family around, and you have don't have to really answer to anybody, that's a great time to show up because that's when the true hardcore, dedicated barflies are there and it's just fun to be with who you said single, Yeah I did, but trust me, girls aren't there. It's you know, dude, it's sad only dudes that are that are hanging out. It's just kind of fun to converse with
those guys. You know, I go. I still do like the Polyphonic Spree Christmas thing every year, pretty much every once start doing tooth year and like this year usually like my brother and his wife will come up for it, or a couple like my parents went last year. So like it's like weird kind of kind of way like to get together and then that always turned into a wild, long night. Yeah. Usually it's like this year, like my brother's bringing his five year old. My brother's got three kids under
the age of five. He's bringing his five year old niece or my niece, my niece to go to my daughter. Yeah, I guess she can handle it now, she can you know, it wouldn't be sensory overload and intertention spans broader. Yeah, and you know, you know, like you just like as you know, when the two year old's God, they just go off on their own now, and you can they do like hover at
all time. Well, they set the tone too, and dictate the evening, because if you're one song in and a tantrum goes down and they want to leave, it's over. It's pretty much over. Yeah. But the five year old's like and she's she'll be six in January, Sojesus, she'll be able to handle it. Absolutely. It's gonna be kind of fun and it will be cool. That's the type of thing that makes me go, oh, you know, we're also fortunate enough in this town to have a
I've got a couple of friends. You may may or may not know them, but Max Hartman, good good buddy of ours, and Ricky Derek. They both do a Sinatra Yeah I'm kind of not impression, but a tribute to Sinatra. And they do these things kind of that tonight. I don't know if it's tonight, but Max has been doing them his Sinatra thing more and more frequently lately, but he does like the Sinatra holiday thing, and Ricky does his with like a full orchestra, and typically it's like at the
Granada or something like that. But those are always really fun to go too as well. I haven't made one this year, but I think I will. The stuff like that that I still I still feel like I do all that Christmas stuff like a a few like a little bit of it. And it's more and more that I live with a woman like now, it's like mapping out to like Christmas Eve, I'm going to her family and then figure out the rest with my family. And it's a little more scattered now.
But I was thinking about this last night, and maybe I was just mad because the Packers were getting beat. I'm a Packers fan and they just lost the Giants, and is mad. I was just like so, And then
there's thinking about this. I mean, Christmas is so stressful. I think I was just in a bad mood, but it is because I do get to a point around this time, two weeks before it where I'm just like, I want it to stop, because people have been talking about Christmas for three weeks now, and I'm kind of like I want it to stop. I want it to be over. Well, there's radio stations that have been playing the music since like the day after Halloween. Yeah, crazy thanks like
Thanksgiving or November one. That's when the playlist gets transferred and kicked in and you're here in Silver Bells. I think you did something. You said something. It's gonna change my outlook though, because you said, like those things that you thought were dead inside, you can get them back, absolutely, because I you know that he says a kid that is like the number one thing you look forward to all year long m hm for whatever reason. So
I don't know, maybe I need to get that back. I'm going to change my attitude today, Danny. Oh love that today is a day of change. So next week I'm out and you guys are working Monday and Tuesday. Correct, But I'm gonna come up on Tuesday. I want to come hang with you dudes, all right, And I think we're gonna do our downbeat gift exchange. Yeah, that's not a white elephant kind of thing or
secret Santa. We've just you know, gotten some things because JJ got all of us something last week and we said, you know what, hold on because we've got a plan in place here and we're gonna to do this next week and we'll do this on the air next week. So I'm excited about getting y'all's presence together. I have an audio gift that I was gonna play last week, but the fire alarm went off in the building, So great, save that for that day too. Amazing. You're a giver, Kevin.
I'm a giver. It's the season of giving. Like I don't even I don't even mind the the Christmas commercials now you know, now you're back in I don't care safety. Oh Toyota Lexus has a bow on the car. Awesome. You like when that hot blonde got her boyfriend a dog again for the that chick's got to be like sixty three by now, who's driving the car? They're standing and the snowy no one knows who's driving the car.
What about the one where he walks outside and she's like, no, that one's mine as she picks the bigger one, like the truck over the car, and I'm like, who got two cars? That's seriously not relatable. It's literally anymore. You you just racked up eighteen hundred dollars a month in car payments and that's probably on a ridiculous eighty four month note, yeah, which is a thing now eighty four months. Yep, it's a big deal. Essentially, a car is now a mortgage. Pretty much? Who's
got two big luxury cars? Commercial actors Jardians galm makes probably fifty thousand for that commercial. I bet you made more than that. No, there's no way. I bet you don't have a huge budget they have. I'm sorry, what Jardian's Big Pharma doesn't have a huge budget? Okay, fair, come on, I bet I guarantee you she made at least one hundred grand for that. That pill does have a story to tell. It's little,
but it does have a big story to tell. We're having Chris Jericho at studio at nine ten, which that ought to get our wrestling audience all fired up. But he's way more than that, and he will join us at nine ten, and probably it's a thing with just quite frankly, let's just be open here me and you would have been like, no, I'm good, but Mikey was like, oh, dude, y'all need to take Chris
Jericho like he's a big deal. And I'm like, I know he's a big deal, Like I knew that, but I didn't realize how big. No, I didn't realize how big. I didn't realize how how he had diversified his career either into a million other things. Dude, talk about a guy with range, Yeah, I can. Can't you kind of read up on that? That fella, he's like the boss who's got time. You think skin's busy, try being Chris Jericho for a day. Good lord, so much stuff. And then when he gets done with us, he's gonna
sit down with AO. But he'll join us at nine ten. So Wrestling Hill, why are you promoting? I don't know? This is on my email is it really Ao was gonna interview him? Yeah, and their show off right now? Yeah, I wonder what they're running. They're running best of They're playing Godzilla? Yeah, Stephan things they're playing Godzilla? No, they might be actually hold on, let me find out you see, Yeah,
go take a look. We're gonna find out what lone Star ninety two point five is playing because we're in a studio right next door to them. They're in the iHeart Family, the Dallas Cluster, if you will. Kevin's gonna peek his head and then find out what jam they're playing by I predicted Godzilla. It could be Oh, I don't know, feel like making Love. It could be Goodbye Stranger by Super Tramp. It could be the Rain Song by led Zeppelin. What is it? Katie? Commercial? Commercial?
Something we don't do much. We have big, long, fat segments here on ninety seven, Won the Freak, What was he saying? Oh? Yeah, Christ Jericho, Ben and Skin's performance reviews at nine thirty five. Today, we have to take a look at their year in and just kind of see if they're gonna make it back for twenty twenty four and after what they pulled yesterday. Things do not look good for them in the upcoming year. No, and when you say they pulled, you gotta be careful because
those guys are always pulling. H that's Kevin Turner makes always off this week people or so eight thirty ding use Morning News eight o'clock. When did this? We're gonna do a couple of these, you know, until we're gone for the holiday season. His Next Tuesday looks like it'll be our collective last year. I believe next Monday, JJ, I'm gonna task you with Monday your top ten movies of the year. All right, jee, you took
a day away from me. I know, I'm gonna have to move that to Monday now because Tuesday is gonna be loaded because we're getting Daniel to come up here. I'm sorry, I can stay home. No, it's fine, I don't mind, trust me. Presents come come Yeah, Monday at nine probably JJ's top ten movies of the year. A buckle up for that. I'm gonna do it. Eight. We're gonna do a couple more couple things in there. Let'll see if we have time. It's look, just
tell everybody it's it's time. Not to mail it in, but it is time. For year end wrap up stuff. It's time for lists, it's time for bestus. Look, everybody does this, and there's a reason they do it. It's there's two reasons. Number one, it's pretty easy, and number two, people kind of like it. I think. Let me tell you, narrowing down my top ten songs of the year was the hardest thing I've done in my entire life. Okay, it was torturous and it
took forever. My top ten TV shows the year as well, I think I can do those quickly. Okay, at eight o'clock probably we'll see seven point thirty in the sky. I got some things and one of them involves controversy at Saturday Night Live, which may not may may not get anyone fired up. I'm all ears kind of interesting. They left a rookie cast member out to dry on Saturday Night and TMZ has picked us up. It's kind of taken off a little bit. Also got a new brewery and deli in
town nextored to each other. Might talk about that and little more details in the map cell as well. Got a lot of sports too. We have boy Mikey and Kat were sad babies last night watching their football teams. I was a bitch last night exactly. Luca went bananas again. That dude's playing on an entirely different level. So we'll hit all of that at seven. He's the only healthy mav dude. He is insane. And there's something Luke headband Lucas has a new attitude too. That or being a future father.
No, he's been dad now. Actually the thing already came out. I forgot eight thirty Dingo's Morning News. And we've been so bad this week because one of our own, Dallas's own, appeared as the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel was this Friday. This was like last Wednesday. We've done a terrible We've done an injustice to our community. We're going to talk about that.
We're going to play a little bit of the audio from that performance. But one of Dallas's biggest exports right now, I would say, who is blowing up and has been blowing up over the last couple of years, did a very unlikely cover when we tell you who this guy is, and the song that he chose to cover just kind of made for a really fun night on
Jimmy Kimmel last week. And we'll finally get to that at eight thirty and Dingoose Morning News and also real quick if we have time, so you said at eight o'clock, you're gonna do your top ten songs of the year and in top ten movies. If we have time, TV shows, TV shows, we'll see what happens. Okay, if there's extra time, If not,
we can hold it till tomorrow. If you're on Spotify, you know the year in wrap ups, and I'm sure other platforms do this too, where they kind of tell you what your most listened to artist of the year was, most listened to songs of the year were I've got mine, And that end of itself is not terribly interesting, you know, to me, I don't really care. It's pretty easy radio show fodder to go down.
Yeah, you know, it's kind of like a self serving thing, like, look how cool I am and all the cool songs I listened to this year. I have a twist on this because I want to go back to twenty twenty, before I was a father or a second time father, and I want to compare how awesome my musical tastes were then as opposed to now on my year and wrap up and we'll compare and contrast those if we have time. If not, we'll get to it tomorrow. Get baby sharked?
Good God, did I ever? It'll happen. Uh huh. Well, we'll celebrate Al Roker day here on the downbeat as he celebrates his forty fifth anniversary at NBC. That is just reading what you saw on TV. Uh huh, sorry, said christ Jericho, nine o'clock. A lot more stuff throughout the day, a lot of fun. We'll talk to Sports at seven coming up next. There were some big dominations unveiled yesterday. Who got snubbed next? On the Freaking