Good morning everybody. Here we go. It's gonna get mild before it gets wild. It's gonna warm up for the downbeat. And we have stuff all day long for you. Gonna pay tribute something turning twenty five years old today at nine o'clock. It's gotta butt for you a little bit later. Didn't go this morning news? Of course? Did Aaron Rodgers apologize to Jimmy Kimmel? Did he cuss a lot on National TV? Have that for you? A quick way to get rich? Sure? How we can save Mike Siroy
get that seven o'clock. Let's do it now. It's cowboys stuff, tons of cowboys stuff. Cowboys. You're gonna win, right, I got another bad thing, though I had another bad note. There's more good notes than that notes, mostly good notes. At seven MAVs we're gonna have Jason Kidd today and the MAVs lost by a lot, and uh, I don't mind either getting in touch at the PR guys, and like you know, we're gonna have to do it tomorrow. When do text him right after the game?
Uh yeah, near the end. To me, the guy that I'm going with now is Alan. It makes to be bff with Scooter, I know, and he was awesome. And I'm sure Alan's great. Who's been great? Yeah? Yeah? Did he work under Scott, I don't know. I'm sure sure know if he was brought in he has an understudy. Yeah, because Tomlin was my favorite in twenty five years in this business, My favorite. Pr got to deal with yeap the best, so good, no disrespect to any others, but you know, it got to be a
goat. It was him takes That's a tricky job, man. It takes a certain kind of person, it does, and there are some people that are really good at the nuts and bolts of that job. But Scott was not only great at that part, but he was always in a fabulous food And that is honestly the key to be positive attitude not and put that vibe out and it makes even it makes when you get declined for interviews that much
better. You don't get mad, you don't think it personally, you know, I doubt anyone is confused, but every sports team has at least one I mean usually a team of media relations people and there's sort of one point person at least, I mean, there's different levels because like John Blake, is it for the Rangers, but we tend to deal with rich Rice unless you have like a really big yeah, unless you're the manager or an owner.
So it just kind of works itself out. And then the relationship over time, you figure it out who you should go through and what and every team has them and that's who we need to go through, and they need to decide when to ask. The coaches of the players, you know, you got to do some stuff. You don't have to say yes everything. And then the player's personalities come into that, and then the relationships with the media outlet goes into that, and then the importance of the media outlet goes
into that. And what are you asking for five minutes on the phone? Are you asking for a twenty minute, well lit, green screen television sit down? And there's just a lot of spinning plates that they have to manage, and it's a really tricky job. It's interesting. I havn't really, I don't know, sat down for a minute and thought of but you're right. So the annihilated last night by maybe the worst offensive team in the NBA, and we already had an agreement to have Jason kidd on and I wonder
what time an hour after the game, how far after the game? And then you're like, so, Alan, what's uh? What's so? I hid scheduled tomorrow and he'd been working. We have been talking for seven days, you know about and I wanted to get this in the middle of the week, you know, away from cowboys madness and all that stuff at the
beginning of the week. And he's really great. So last night I just sent him a about ten o'clock, I sent him an email said, not the result we wanted there, but just let me know if he's still down to do it. I'm sure asking or reminding of nights like these isn't very fun. And that's just me being mindful of the job they have to do well. It shows your experience as well, yes, and that I'm not a selfish a whole. I think it is a big part of that.
Does a lot of people do this, I'll be honest. This in general fair or unfair, And I'm gonna say specifically radio types, although there are different forms of radio types. You're people who go play music and don't have to talk for four hours, no offense or your you know, the sports A lot of the sports talk people, which we are not but is you know, in my opinion, weird DFW's talk station. To me, that's
the way I see it. But like the the people, the sports people, I think, especially nationally, just have such a e f and high opinion of themselves and act like they matter. And if I'm a John Blake or a white Joe Trahn or An Allen okay, you know, doing the PR jobs here, I'm like, well, you know, I got partnerships I gotta think about here, and you know they've got a multiple interview requests.
The thing that I think also, I've always this might be over the last five to six years, I've really thought about a lot these jobs a or more like what players do is more than what anyone ever knows. But coaches Bruce Bochie one hundred and sixty two games, okay, pregame meeting with the media, postgame meeting with the media, plus other obligations. Are we talking about five hundred interviews? Are we talking about one thousand interviews? It's
a lot. Yeah. In at three hundred and sixty five day year, you may do three times that many interviews. Now you get a little bit time off granted. Pictures and catchers reporting a month Okay, baseball is really stupid. I heard the other the day the red Zone guy was like game two hundred and seventy two of the NFL season. I was like, God, they've played one hundred and sixty two games per team in baseball. It's
pretty insane. And that's my point. You did the right thing for giving the responsibility of having kid on today a soft place still land in an option, and I would imagine Alan didn't even ask I mean didn't ask him. It never you know, And that's part of the job, is managing that and maybe asked him prior or not not even do you think Jason Kidd cared
about and inevery he was going to do in two days? No, So Alan has his calendar or however the hell he organizes all this stuff, and he's like, all right, after the game, I'll set him up ninety seven to one, okay, And then you text him and he's I bet a lot of almost majority of requests never make it to the player. It's not even like a request to the player. Yeah, I mean, Jason Kidd listens to Alan and he's like, where what do I have to do? Where do you need me? I don't think it's hayy, can you
do ninety seven won the Freak on Wednesday? No, it's do radio to care. He's like, hey, I got a radio for you at you know nine am. I mean, that's it. It's it's part of his job. It's that, it's absolutely But part of Allen's job is managing when the requests go in, when to lie to us, which is fine and say hey, coach, isn't availab tomorrow because it's not like he asked him? And he's like, hey, I really am not available. Allan's the
liaison. He knows how to read the situation to if he doesn't need to lie to us and go yeah, he's not available. He knows when to ask even ask at all yes and then and then if the interview is set up, then it's on Alan to you know, the day of depending on how long before the interview, to remind him and then to text him to the exact number. So now all he has to do is press the button
when it's the time to call in call now, Jason Bam. Part of that media aaison is making the job as easy as possible for the people you work for, which is the Mavericks not us for the coaches and Jason Kidd could have an ESPN or an NBA TV interview this morning, and they're like, you know what, No, I'm already doing NBA TV man, I don't want to. Yeah, the juggling f that job for me. And that's why we brought up Scott Tomlin. And honestly, I like everyone.
I don't think I like every one we've dealt with. I love Sarah Melton. Oh so that was great. Rich Rice has been great. John Blake has been great. John Blake is famous around here and like John Blake's awesome and he's been there forever, Like he's the kind that would be like, no, you know, but I like John Blake. Yes, I did too. I really like him. All it takes it takes a special kind
of person to have that job. But even though he tried to kick me out a Yankee stadium once you know what a time, you know, and supported your arrest as his stadium, he was a witness for the get out of right dugout. You have a good reputation at that time, either, you know, yeah, like I do now, so uh well, I could have just let him dangle and just like see what he says, but he said, sorry, yes, he'd like to reschedule with Friday following a win, work if we win. Okay, so he's got a caveat what
should I play the nick? I don't want to talk to Jason Kidd the day after a loss. I know that a lot of people will go, let's go grilling. I have no interest in doing that. Honestly, I don't have interest in that. But I watched that game even more closely than the average MAVs game. I watch knowing that we were at the time going to have the head coach on, and I had some doozies. Well, you know what I keep coming back to, you had your weapon loaded? Well, I was like, how do you ask this? How do you
ask is defense just about effort? And I was like oh, and then some things I kind of write and I'm like, I wouldn't do But it's like, are there nights when NBA players take the night off. That's what they did last night. They did. You know what they did, Mikey? They cut corners. They cut corners down, the cut cut cut Okay, Dave, it's not his birthday anymore. Cut these cone It's birthday week for Dave Matthews. Do you celerate the whole birthday week? Absolutely? Did
you wait till rocks? He went to bed last night and light a single candle and put it in a sad Kroger cupcake. He went Tom thumb idiot said, Kevin's favorite band is the Dave Matthews Band and his birthday was yesterday. And did you get were you on the text too of Kevin's LP mural of the Dave Matthews Band. I glanced at it and I assumed in on every album cover, So you've got this. It's nine right. Those are
an album covers. Those are just pictures. Those are pictures from discs on live albums, all right, Because is that what you were talking about yesterday when you're talking about your your your LP shrine. Yeah, yeah, okay, but those are pictures from different live albums. And you're engaged to a woman that lives with you and she allows that she likes Dave. No, she does. I don't think she does. After your response yesterday when we
asked you that I know how this works. My brother's cash the roy He loves fish more than anything in the world. And sweet Mary that doesn't really like fish Well, I believe that people can be different. That's the dumbest thing you've ever seen quick on this world. You're much smarter than both me and Roxy. That may be true, but you're hesitant to when we asked you yesterday. Is Roxy like Dave Matthew's band and you're you're the cash coming
around? Or he said something like that. Even goes far to say that if you're in a relationship the woman that you're with, if you're a dude, there's a nine out of ten chance that she hates your favorite band and just tolerates it. Because your favorite, she kind of likes you a little bit. I like her favorite. Who's her favorite? Harry Styles? Okay, yeah, I sure you like Harry Styles. Harry's House just added to the Rolling Stone Top five hundred albums of all time. Thank you. Yeah,
that does nothing to do with you. I love Harry Styles. No, you don't know. You don't. It's amazing. You do not sit around and spind Harry Styles Vinyl at your house. I le do not on your own. I got all three albums. You don't do this on your own. I saw him live. He's amazing because of her. No one
because of her. You would not seek out Harry Styles before. If you lived in a second bastard bachelor apartment or a duplex on Lower Greenville somewhere and have a little record player set up, I guarantdamnity you you would not be well but to go home tonight and put on the Harry Styles LP. Yeah, well I know you would. I get it when I met you, you know, ten to fifteen years ago, when I was a part time guy at the Ticket I know I was really cool and everyone knew I had
great music days. So it doesn't seem like I would be, you know, spinning Harry Styles records. I'm not saying that you don't appreciate Harry Styles and you realize that he may be misunderstood by guys that go suck. Yes, it's guy, I agree. I agree. Yes, half off Harry Styles at your house unless it's brought on by her. Are you with me on this? I am. Although I I don't hate Harry Styles. It's
sort of like what Timberlake was for most of the decade. Yeah, Gary a boy band who broke out, for sure, and you're and you're kind of like, he's kind of cool and plus he has the acting crossover, although I've never seen him act, and they go on Saturday Night Live and they're really funny and engaging, and they you see a version of them that you're not used to, and it's like, you know what, I like Harry Styles, but you don't really like Harry in my life press play on
a justin Timberlake anything on my own time, even though I was like, ah, he's cool, and I think Harry Styles is cool, and I think I know rat what's he got? Raspberry buttercut? What's his song? Yeah, Raspberry Buttercut. He's got like two or three songs that I know, and I'm like, they're catchy, man, they're pop songs, and pop songs are fun. But I've never pressed play in my own time Harry Styles song or bed Bath and body Works flavor the cat name of candle,
Watermelon Sugar. There you go, yeah, yeah, you can probably do that. I'm just saying that we make it. We make consolations when we're when we're betrothed. The guy who's single. Yeah, right, And guess what I'm not doing tonight going home and putting on a g D Harry Styles record, even though I like him and I respect him, but he's really good. You know when when he comes on, I don't turn it off.
But I'm not buying the albums and jamming them out. Throw it on, jam it out to it and then maybe yellow Yeah, with what my dog, don't do it with your a, your dog, your god. Speaking of that, we got a letter from prison speaking of that. I don't know all of our fans and cool people in prison. That's how you
transition and speak of speak of them. Kidding. So I actually posted the picture of this on the down on the ninety seven one the freak TikTok page, and when I get time, I'll put it on the Instagram and and Twitter and I'll I should have time right now. But he's so busy. It's he's so busy cleaning his hairy Styles LPs, dusting your hairy styles collections. This is from I'm not No, i'man like today like now I hear at work, not what I'm doing at home. It's our listener Picasso Picasso.
Yeah, okay, so we're number one in prison. You guys can do freak out all you want over the ratings. We're number one in prison. Uh here, ninety seven won the freak and uh, he drew a picture of us without ever seeing us, and it's great and I've posted that to go check it out. Now, this is a he's an incredible artist, Yes he is. He's really good. I've seen stuff he's done with like just pen on a sheet of paper in the past. But then I
don't know when months ago or we redid it a few days ago. We challenged him to draw us, and he's color on a regular good quality stock or something that is a plus art. Now, if he nailed us or not, I don't you know. I don't know, but we never seeing is yeah, pretty good, incredibly good. Yeah, yeah, he nailed my athleticism. Yeah, I mean yeah. And you're smoking a cigarette. I think, no, you're playing with a quarter. I don't know.
Let me see that in the picture. Doesn't have a mustache, you heard a mustache, and you're bald with the hair on the side. But you know, it's kind of the detective Dick Shale. I'll tweek that out from a at down Beat DFW as well if you're a Twitter type, because it's so damn good. It's really good. This is written on twelve thirty, twenty three. Okay, all right, ready for the big prison New Year's Eve blowout? All right, down beat, I've been listening, just too
lazy to write or draw for a bit. I did get your request, so I put them in at the letter. You guys also had some questions about music in prison, so I'll talk about that. And I don't remember this, but we're wresting about how do they get music? I guess. So they used to sell us MP three players about the size of a zippo lder, but they've replaced those with iPad many tablets. These tablets can be used to play video games, rent movies, play radio, purchase EMP three's.
I've got the old MP three player which only has radio, and purchased EMP three. So there's a database of MP three's that you can buy music from. The database is limited, and no one understands how they pick what they could choose from. One song costs a dollar fifty. The player as a whole cost ninety five dollars. They can damn purchase you said, a tablet, mini iPad tablet, But they can, you said, look at internet and watch movies. Yeah, okay, play iPad iPad mini sized tablets.
They can be used to play video games, rent movies, play radio, or play purchased MP three's. Yeah, I bet it's all some weird contained network that's super limited. Yeah, you don't play Dick Dug. Yeah, so he says, we can purchase our own little archive of music to listen to after you guys go off the air at six pm. Sorry news junkie, but yeah, one song cost one fifty The player was ninety five
dollars. A new style tablet is one hundred and thirty five dollars. But maybe you have a loved one who comes in and brings you some you know, Okay, I always think that video games in the penitentiary would be a good idea. Yeah, are you too right? Yeah? I guess you could limit and maybe not play grand theft auto. I understand that, But is that really? Is that having the problem? You know? Madden and FIFA? Yes, maybe what are you in for? I stole a car
back in ninety three city, But here's some grand theft auto. No, I understand that might be what you solicitation of prostitute aggravated as ault. It's a common one. Yeah, here's a grand theft auto for you. But don't they want uh? Their inmates to go chill for four hours. I would think so, and not be an ass whip and like have not be plot and whatever, like just go kill some time, whether it be reading
a book, I would think so. But playing some games. But then again, is that a reward for, you know, someone who's screwed up. It seems to me like you'd want the mind occupied rather than just sitting there spinning around thinking of slam. Yeah, where does crab walk? What wall to crab walk up? And what shed to hide in cavalcante? Our friend Picasso writes also, and he's in prison by the way. Also, people can check out instruments from the rec center and form bands who play during
the various holiday weekends. We have an r EM cover band, but they play you two as well. This could be my road to platinum. Danny Bayless's prison jam band. Uh. The quality is varied, but some guys can play. I'm no musician, so to me it all sounds all right to me, So to me, it all sounds all right. My friend tells me the equipment is very nice, at least as far as finding out about new music very difficult, he said, I'm a huge music fan.
But they only put new stuff on the database once per month, and all the indie stuff is very limited. I hope that answers your questions. If you have any new questions or drawing requests, you know what to do drawing request. I feel terrible for even asking no. Well, but he's clearly good. Much like we just said, occupy the mind. I mean, if you don't have a new xbox S, this is a way to spend
time. That's beautiful. Also, no pressure on this one, but I would like for you to draw Danny in a cow suit but realizing he wore athletic shores and I know that's a minute made part in Houston with the Rangers celebrating and him scared to stand up because he might have a half bone, wearing sleep shorts. I would also like to see a picture of Mike's a Roy Whiskey in hand, pacing in his living room as the Bills are up by a touchdown over the Dolphins, because that's a visual that's been in my
head. Kind of old. And his dog Simon's in the corner just kind of staring at him. Yeah, and I'm standing in front of the TV, hands on hips like a dad on election night. Come on, only you can't call it? How do you call it? I doubt there was a whiskey in your hand on a Sunday night game night. Hold on, we got a chance here. Yeah, wait till all the precincts are in
this robs. Uh shut up, Chuck Todd. Todd, Okay, so uh he said, I did want to throw my hat into the scorching hot predictions for what's gonna happen in twenty twenty four scorching hot prediction picasto from prison for the whole year. Yeah, well, next time you're right it tell us when you the earliest you might be getting out. Yeah, I want to know how long he in. I don't need to know what you did. I think he probably told us in the past. Doesn't matter. He
didn't know know who those letters are. We get him somewhere. Number one Tite gonna announce her baby. She and Kelsey will announce, not have the birth of their child. They're gonna announce it, but not have it. Extra point if when born in twenty twenty five, they name it Dragon and he goes on to be the first platinum selling tight end in the NFL. Dragon Kelsey swift Man, AS's got chance for extra points? Pretty good?
Number two? Oh, chalk dust everywhere. Next summer, In a last ditch effort to fight climate change, a coalition of world governments shoot chalk dust into the stratosphere to create a solar shield, which is designed to cut the amount of heat the sun radiates into the planet. And there's two unforeseen consequences. The sky turns a haunting gray green color and zombies raise up, starting
an apocalypse. Okay, picasso, pretty good. Fertile mind here and number three, A conflux of TikTok, trump Mania and mass gun violence creates a new trend hashtag shoot the Vote, where people record themselves recording their votes for Trump by shooting the hole in the ballot. Instead of using the punch lever, the're just shooting the electronic voting machine. Shooting the electronic voting machine.
That's funny. They gotta get out and shoot the vote. Okay, Minor on record, thanks for the post year or for the past year of great radio. And I'm looking forward to the next Find the Bunny Holiday, white Sannah and all the rest. I think white elephant. Yeah, yeah, his hands not white. We know that. Just look at my emojis and all the rest. Do you guys truly do a great service to those of us who are in a low patch of our lives. I consider you all
like friends, which is kind of embarrassing. But my hero, Kurt Vonnegut said, isn't it embarrassing to be human? And he is right, love you all. Picasso and he cites Vonnegut. I think Picasso is a guy I want to hang out with. I know right, Yes, he makes great predictions. He likes Kurt Vonnegut, and he's an excellent artist. What do you do? Maybe find that out for you? Does that book that reservation for two? He was a serial killer of middle aged white men.
Change that idea. Yeah, non platinum middle age. That's cool, man. That's why the that's why the bare necked ladies are still living because they went platinum. Yeah, just made it. It's ben being okay, thank you for goss so for real, thanks for listening. Man, So movie out there thinking that you got through you know, the weather, it's been a little cold, but you know, let's go warm back up into the sixties. Beware, because we're on the brink of chaos here in DFW,
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