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The Opener: January 3, 2024

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Here's the opening segment for Wednesday January 3rd, 2024, featuring the return of the Dallas Observer Radio Host of the Year

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Six am on the damn button, mister sixty nine recording as an eligible receiver. I didn't say it was a good joke, I said, I got you. You actually said it was a dumb joke. Yeah. My whole rundown for the week is right in front of me, and that's the only sentence that's written. And away we go. This is the damn downbeat, the dirty, damn downbeat. We are having some live local laughs here on ninety seven to one the freak. My name is Michael Siroy Daniel Bayless.

Welcome in, My buddy is sitting five and a half feet to my left, even oh, announcing himself as he enters a room, It is Kevin Turner, sitting nine feet directly across the table from me. Good morning, boys, how are we doing? Welcome back boys? Thank you. Sick man, dude, it's uh. I think there's something that all listeners can relate to. Being sick well yeah, but also being off for like the better portion of a month and then getting sick. The one day that you

have like circled on your calendar is this is you know return dates? Yeah, not only is it the biggest fear coming back after an elongated time off because you I know we've talked about this. You forget you think that you've forgotten how to do your job. Yes, you have that panics like you and you walk in it's like turn on the microphone. I needs mucking. Yeah, I don't know anything. I'm so stupid and I don't know how to do this. I think everybody suffers from that. Everybody though I don't

know, No, I do by every metric. We probably don't know how to do our job. It's just us really, there's real habit. We've also figured out that everybody's just winging it in life too, and nobody really knows what they're doing. Yes, also very very true. But then you compound that with that twinge that you get in your throat a couple three days before you're supposed to return, and you're praying to Jesus, yes, please, God, don't let me get sick to miss the grand return. Yes,

and not only you, but Skin had it too. And Skin's going to miss today as well. I think he's missing all week. He's tested positive for something real bad. Yeah, big flu. I don't want to violate any hippo laws, but is it flu? Big flu? There's two. There's two flu flu a and there's Spanish flu or is it flu b? It's Spanish fly I believe. Okay, that's from the Beastie Boys video. And he's got him both, yes, all hitting him at once.

You're right, I don't know for he's asleep though, he's all hopped up on mess. He's got flew a. That's what he said. I texted him last night and to check in on him, and he said he's feeling good. And he said his temp never got above ninety nine yesterday. That's to go with his normal medical woes. Yeah, and yes, that he deals with. Yeah. What a wreck of a man. Mm hmm.

He is grumbling. We were loosely talking about a station dead. I was talking about a No Deadpool draft yesterday and the first pick, dude, how great would that be? Run to the podium, ten teams, ten draft picks. No, I love it. I don't care. I love it. That don't make people. Man, I'm like Steven holding him back, you know, trying to keep it from picking Manzell. That'll go viral.

And he just has a little note card with his skin on it. And skin would be honored to be the one one and he's like, what's he what skin like fifty five? Skout your age, he's fifty two fifty two. I mean, dude, there's forty eight points right there just for the take, right, because you subtract. You got it. Mom's the information you you've you've got the scouting process. Yes, Like that's just intens maybe

insider trading a little bit a problem. Like I think if you see the head of the PGA Tour j Monahan's head get chopped off, maybe that's a guy you draft. You know, you're thinking it could happen. Yeah, he's in some or like partially chopped off. Yeah, well half of his

yes, but he's still alive. Then you gotta draft him quick, like oh god, it's he got an hour and then it goes this thing by by lunch and then we call it off at holiday break next year, and then the losers got to do Big d and why big freaking way up here because he has fun ideas and then he throws in right at the end. You also have to watch the Tonys. This is you gotta do the dow

Year's Eve. You gotta do if you lose, like Mike Siroy's big freak rocking New Year's Eve for three hours from nine to midnight, from nine to mid night up here, you just gotta come do it. He's great at coming up with the games, the prizes or the punishments. Not your not your A line of expertise. I don't know. I think I'm pretty good a lot of things. Yeah, I'm just saying a lot of things. But that's not one of them. Oh well, you know that's debatable.

Well that's what we're doing. We're actually, well, that's two. It's one in this room, but out there, out there the text I'm saying, millions of people think this is a great Kevin idea. Like somebody that came up with the floor, came up with a great concept for a game show. Then they were smart and handed it off to the idea. The idea guy that came up with the prize, hold off on the floor. That's today's most important thing in the world. Yes, okay, maybe the

greatest game show slash TV show of all time. From here last night, thirty minutes stick around, forty four minutes of Rob Low. We're ready to declare this thing is top shelf all time. It's gonna be a lot of pants damage. And here talking about rob Low good gravy. That guy's sexy. We were talking about the game show and all Danny was writing in the text was how hot rob Lan you said you wanted? This is what you said. I read it. I'll stand by. He's scrolling and he's got

it. He's so good looking. If he were to manipulate himself in the bathtub, I would go in there and lick up the drain. I remember that one verbatim. I remember he really was excited lick up the drain as that the gig the game and also Saltburn weird movie. Did you watch it? Yeahs that got the bathtubs. You're not gonna want to watch it with your family. I watched the trailer and I was kind of fired up. I'm like, I want to watch this. But then that was tense about

this bathtub scene. Is it just a solo bathtub scene or is it there involved? Uh? Well not really yeah, not in that scene. No, okay, uh, definitely a movie that went on for fifty minutes too long, But that's you know, do we need to just get movies all down to about forty minutes? All everyone does a bitch about how long they are. So let somebody go over the top. Let's have a movie that's about the length of a sit or an hour long CBS show. I think

everything has to be faster now. I do too, world and time is currency too, you know, especially like for me, Like I'll look at Netflix and I'll go, man, I really want to watch that, And if the running time is over one twenty it's just that mindset of committing to something that long. But then I'll watch fourfing crime shows in a row that are fifty minutes each. So it's like, how does this even make sense? It does? It doesn't. It's dumb. Yeah, why can't I

just commit to those the one movie? Right? Like if Oppenheimer was a HBO Max special, yes, fine, make it four percent, we would all lost our mind. Yeah, been in a race to watch it and probably loved it, yep, but I still here eight months later or whatever it was. Kent press play on it because of just the crap. Killers of the Fire Moon was great, good, three hours and thirty minutes. Great, But guess what I did while watching it? Put together some furniture.

So you're just kind of get the screw out you're doing it while it's on. And I never got bored. And it went by really fast because I was putting together a wine cart. You know, so how many pieces were left over when you completed the process? Get it all done? But it's still one even on one side. And it makes you go, am I gonna have a wobbly wine cart forever? And did I really need it?

I didn't want it, just more of a household or interested in the fact that Kevin has enough wine that he warn'ts putting together a cart to hold it. Why didn't you buy and buy and assemble a dishwasher? And I know, so you can wash all of your dirty wine glasses. And it

wasn't for me, so like that's the thing. It was a Christmas gift for someone else, okay, so and you assembled it because I'm a man, And then by putting one bottle of wine on him and trumble shaking and put coasters underneath it, two coasters, stop wobbling, and sure enough, yet Leonardo DiCaprio and the whole gang. It's great. It's awesome. Never we'll never watch it again, but it was great. But if that was on HBO and it was a three part thing. You know, everybody would

rave about it. They're already raving about it, but we would all be talking about how great it is. Maybe is it because you have the option to stop and go to bed and you don't feel like you have to complete the movie? Or are we just so trained now by the series and the limited series? That's that's just kind of like how we how we consume more digestible and you know, in a limited series, they will they will cut it up properly, you know, versus the commitment of thinking, oh,

three hours right now, it's crazy. Yeah, you feel bad about pausing finding a stopping point in Killers of the Flower Moon and going back to it the next day and resuming it. But with the yeah, with the series is like, okay, forty five minutes, I can do that. But I always am like, shoot, I should go to bed, right,

but I'm gonna watch one more. Yeah, But then like you're like, I don't have enough time for this, I'll just watch it one episode and the next thing you know, nine hours have gone by and you're drowning in a sea of Guardetto's bags that are all empty in your little chair. What have I done? Every aspect of our life is broken though, just as an example, it's gonna take us off the road for a minute. But here it is. Yeah, when you're a kid, what's the definition of

this word? Your sleep shorts are covered in melbow tost seasoning sand. When your sleep shorts are just crusty from the hand wipe. And how about what you're sitting there and you kind of look up at the paper toweling. That's fun to you bad. Wipe it off, Just wipe it off. You have an orange hand shaped smeared on your right thigh. Although that's a part of the Internet breaking us, it really is because we no longer had to do anything. If you wanted information, you used to have to do things.

The two fair examples are encyclopedias or dictionaries. You had to actually go to the book and look up how to spell this word. Or man if you're going on a road trip, better print out that map totally, map quest or something, go to the service service station ask for directions, or buy the damn folding map that you could never put back together. The just things we had to do manually to do these basic tasks, and now it's done for you. Well, movies. Same thing. I don't have to

watch the three hour movie. I'll watch the cooler one hour show. You know. Well, by the way, I won't watch it live ever, you know, so I can blast through the commercials. I sort of got outside of sports that. Damn. The Floor was probably the live TV or TV show that I've watched that when it's actually airing for real, only because I reminded you guys, like day before yesterday, and then someone reminded me at seven fifty eight pm, Hello, great job, because I forgot.

I forgot. Yeah, I was finishing up a celebrity Jeopardy and I'm like, oh crap, the Floor's coming out. The Floors finally here after the Floor, three months of sag, after a commercials they've been shoving in our face for their free show The Floor. You know what's so funny? No writer, I want to play it the other night. I do too. The other night when you texted and don't forget the debut of The Floors on Wednesday, had no idea what the floor was. Were kidding, looked it

up and like, oh, this looks good. I had no idea. If we talked about it, I don't remember. Yeah, but it would have been promo during Cowboy Games. Yeah, that's where he saw it. When Rob Low walked out to host the floor. That was the first time that I even knew that Rob Low was attached to it. That's why I was like, holy crap, it's Rob Low. Look his hair. He's so good looking. You look up his age fifty? Is he really? Yeah? Nine? What's with you freaks? He's had some work done too,

but it's he's a believer in creams, good work in tans. He likes tanning, facial creams. He's all about that stuff. He said in the past he woided getting canceled. Uh yeah, I mean honestly, an Epstein list type of crime. That was. He was like, it's to nine. You're right, like it's all like it was filmed, bro, what do you do under your Yeah he did. Now she was close, right, Yeah, she was close. But oh we had to check the internet for state line rules. Well this was in the eighties, I believe

too, or nineties. Okay, I mean I remember this. Let me scroll down to controversy as sex tape. Okay, you want it, I got it. Yeah, nineteen eighty eight, Low, who was twenty four at the time, was involved in a sex scandal over a videotape of having sex with two women, Tara Siebert, who was twenty two and her younger friend Lena Jan Parsons, who was sixteen at the time. Oh rot Row the three Metic Club Rio in Atlanta nightclub. There was a videotape the night

before the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta. Does that have to do with anything? Okay, yeah, I know. As the age of consent in Georgia was seventeen fourteen at the time, then he's fine until nineteen ninety five and was raised to sixteen. Both were of legal age to engage in sexual activity, although eighteen was the legal age to be involved in such a recording.

That's problematic, That's what it was. It was. There was a lot of gray area, but for the time and the fact that it was recorded. Yeah, there was a tape of it. It was uh, I don't know. It was pretty scandalous fourteen geez. Yeah. At the time, Lowe was campaigning for Michael Ducaucus went on to become one of our great president after he drove into the DNC in a tank. Remember that. Yes, triple triple H. Isn't the first person who invade enemy grounds at a

tank. That's what did Michael Ducaucus's campaign. And they said, although he just got smoked, bye, that was George George H w Right, m M. I believe that's correct. Yeah, eighty eight. Yeah, that would have been. That would have been big George. She had a commercial where he was looking like a tough look like a tough guy. You know. I guess maybe that was one of the things on Douco because he was a soft boy and he was in a tank with his little hard hat on.

That's pretty rad okay, And he was campaigning for him. He should have had Rob Low with him at the time. Yeah, in the tank with the two girls. Yeah, and they both pop out of size of the tank. What's the twenty two year old girl doing hanging out with the sixteen year old girl too? I mean, I mean, I guess hooking up with the Rob Low. I guess it's funny. It's a six year age difference, you know. Weird? Well that no, I mean, sixteen's weird. Yeah, that's like Danny dating a forty eight year old.

That's not weird. You didn't even think of that. Yuck okay. Leo yuck. That's not gonna get a moving yucky. What's that percent? Fifty eight percent, sixty one percent, one or two percent? We need down there, that's all you need. It's this party going. So yeah, we'll do the floor at six thirty five category category maybe honestly, at first, I guess say it. I guess say it. Hot thoughts my favorite game ever, Maybe save it. It's a top ten games show of all

time already. It's gonna be hard to explain rules though. I think I think, uh, I think I'm gonna make a decision here. We're gonna move Aaron Rodgers Versus Jimmy Kimmel to eight o'clock. Okay, because there's a little more to it. There's a little background. I went and oh, I went through the weird wormhole of Aaron Rodgers Versus Jimmy Kimmel, which has been building up, and it involves the Epstein list. That's at eight o'clock today, all right, and it's seven. I got some cowboys things.

We got the Panthers owners doing weird stuff up in the press box. Yeah, getting fined three hundred g's. The Lions coach Dan Campbell had his first radio Interview of the week and he is just showing his ass. Now, I'm curious what you mean by that, because I was bummed. I misyesterd. I thought you guys were awesome yesterday discussing that and having Glandino on, which was I heard on the way in this morning, including with both of

y'all's voices set to like two and a half times. That's funny. Yeah, it just sounds very natural, very normal for a radio station today. Thanks for not calling me out on not knowing the NFL rules on advancing a fumbling. I did do like a minor, like a little Christy tigue and cringe face when when you fired that one. Yeah, I was. I was living in nineteen ninety still, because there was a time when you know, you knocked a fumble out of bounds and it went forward that's where it

landed. Yeah, I don't know you were living by Georgia Law in nineteen ninety correct, a different time while campaigning for Nicki Hayley. So there's there's that. That'll be the Dan campbe Stuf's great Russell Lewson crazy stuff at seven. Yeahy as far as what do they call it? The lions Gate I believe is what the term? Have you seriously have you seen any of the Detroit Press online regarding the end of the Cowboy game. I read. I

couldn't even finish it. It was so long. It was like going through the It was like going through the Warren Commission report on the Kennedy assassination, as far as all of the text, all of the reasoning, all of the the video footage, the still photography with players circle here. He's clearly pointing at the defense showing that they're doing this package and he's not checking in. I mean the breakdown that they have. They are so ass hurt over

not winning that game. No, they should be. They should be. I mean, they got screwed. And when you have all your eggs centralized into this thing, if this happens, that it does happen, and you pull off essentially the perfect play that you also went and clearly explained to the rest before the game even started and it works, they should be ass hurt.

And I'm not gonna argue that they the league should consider just giving them that win, because you can't do it because once you're told the defense that a different players reported their their reaction is different. I get all that, but I mean, this is right on the edge of the something should be considered for them, like it's that bad and it's that much just the referees ignorance or rushing things or whatever it was, which essentially what Blandino said.

Yeah, I mean, if I'm almost would love it, being that I'm not a psycho Cowboy fan, I would love it if this was reversed, we would be going ape for them to replay the last whatever we play the down right one play? How much would the tickets go on play? How much would tickets cost one for one play? We're doing a primetime game Wednesday night. No, you're due at the halftime of the National Championship game or something. Oh yes, they all have to go down to Houston and suit

up. One play from the two be from the four. Okay is where it would be now. But that's you can't reverse it because if the ref also announces sixty eight reported, then the Cowboys would have covered right. No, exactly, So I didn't understand. That's all crazy. I just wish it was reversed for like an hour, just to hear us all losing our

s. That's the that's the interesting thing about it. It's not like the Cowboy's fault, Like the Cowboys didn't I don't know, interfere with somebody commit a penalty or anything like that that just got overlooked or missed or ignored. I mean, this is one incumbent upon the officials. Yeah, and you know what I'll say, I'll say this again later when we uh, when we had I don't guess we are talking to. It almost covers every time that a Cowboy fan has bitched about a referee all year, and maybe for

multiple years. That was the narrative all week, right and dude, you I mean, unfortunately we're tethered to Twitter, Cowboy Twitter, where it's just the pissing and moaning about referees. Fine, I get it. That's sports nowadays, when you give everyone the ability to say whatever they want immediately. Never never bitch about refs. If you're not gonna look back and think about

that game. Well, this is basically okay. Yeah, So like you're saying, if the Cowboys are bitching about all week long, it's Michael Parsons is getting held on every play and it never gets called. We talked about that with Blandino yesterday. But we always also will say that when it comes to officiating, it all evens out in the end. This is kind of the ultimate balancer because they literally gave you a win. Yes, they gave you a win, and they essentially gave you the ability to win the NFC

East. And also yeah, no, no, no, but I guarantee in the first quarter of this Sunday's game, is it Sunday, Sunday Sunday through the Commanders storm, be a slight tug of Micah's jersey and Twitter will blow up in my God, the reps are out to get us. They won't call a hold on Micah. Yeah no, And it's like, just

remember you got handed a dub that. I have way bigger issues with the Cowboys not running forty more seconds off the clock and giving the Lions a minute forty than the phantom tripping call that help that hurt the Cowboys or the mistake at the end that hurt the Lions. Way bigger issues with the things that are in your control. And on the second noun, deck whips a fifty

yard pass to the pylon to nobody. Yeah, and then after the game is like, yeah, I know, I've got to go down there, I've got to complete a pass there, and I'm like, yeah, clearly, it's like or you know, you run. I mean the lines with a minute left, don't score. I think probably. I don't know that

game is a Sunday, January seventh. I would pay any Dallas Cowboys media member at least a fifty dollars gift card to go to the Capitol on Saturday, January sixth, take a selfie and just put storm in the Capitol. That's it, and then hashtag Cowboys or something. Any Cowboys beat reporter, you got a gift card for him? Off a fifty dollars gift card my fifty Specs gently used, Yeah, let me seventy five beer garden. Let me just start by Specs and see if this card is live. Well,

if not, I'll just been mowing fifty bucks. That's what I did for the Wander Franco pool. I'm in the pool mode, so look out, guys coming up with all kinds of pool ideas. I love it. Uh nine o'clock today, I posted a poll on my Twitter account, which is a kt fun tweets, and I said, y'all want the Jippy Gypsy Rose segment tomorrow or no, and I tell you what the Metroplex is. Torn said yes, yes, you know, and one said burritos please. One

hundred and eighty one votes. Okay, fifty four percent want it now, forty six percent don't. But I think those are people who aren't in the know. And this is really the last day we could do the story. Gypsy Rose is going to fade from public memory after this week. Probably I want it. If can I have a super vote? Yes? Please? Okay, it's a yes. Yeah. Did you know about this story at all? No? For And I googled the name and I saw one or two headlines and I said, click that X. I don't need to read

this. I got Kevo on my side. Yeah, we're gonna do it. Be weird, it's real weird. It's insane because I watched the uh there was a limited series on Hulu that I watched about this story, so I couldn't when he kept saying Gypsy Rose, I wanted to do the Gypsy Rose segment. It sounds like a seventies country cover band. Yeah, you know La the Night at the Wild Horseshoe Gypsy Rose at seven pm like Dallas's ninth oldest bar, that just shut shut down something that gypsy rows right there

on Greenville Avenue. The rent was too damn high, all right, was so high. But the karaoke was so fun on Tuesdays, all right, pe San Francisco Rose. The other thing about the story, I take my heroes name is Blanchard. I watched a documentary about that her story in twenty seventeen. But she had done interviews with a bunch of people, and uh,

there was clubs to and get tipsy for gypsy parties. I mean, there's all types of She became an internet sensation meme and had been for a while because a lot she had a lot of support to not go to prison.

And if you don't know who I'm talking about, stick around for nine o'clock, because it's a fascinating story that you could go up to your water cooler at work, or as you go, hit a four on the vending machine at work, and you can just whip the ass of one of your coworkers, and then you realize that a four is Guardetto's and I already bought them all, Yeah, you bought them all. Probably the spring of snacks just spins, so you're left with the lone pop tart that's been in there

since June expired pop tart. So yeah, we're kind of a fun one today. Hell yeah, man, I look forward to it. I don't know it's already happening. All right, Mike, go ahead and tease. What's coming up? And the most important thing in the world. Oh what was it? What did he say? Seriously? What is it? What? What? Oh? We're going to talk about the game show. Look, we waited, we waited two months, the world waited, the world weighted. And then last night eight pm on five Fox broadcasting channel, Rob

Lowe was there. And where was he standing? Not on a stage, He was standing on the floor. And we'll discuss the greatest game show in world history next right here. On ninety seven won the Freak

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