This is a downbeat on ninety seven one the Free More Metroplex Downbeat here fully active. We had Danny Baytis back after a week off, back and thumping back and thumping. Thumper's got a thump. Flapper is gonna thwap? Do you call it thumping or thropping? Yeah? Two and four eight one, seven seventy flap and read your text all day. Well, you guys are funny. You also send us some talkbacks via the red microphone button on the
iHeartRadio app. We'll get to those at nine point thirty. That'll be coming up after the nine o'clock segment, which is the Clip of the Year clip show Countdown Part one Top fifty Clips of the Year is voted on by you, the listener, So we will have fun together belly laughs all across the Metroplex nine o'clock. There's something I do every year, guys, because I just have up. You know, Look, we all make the funny joke that everyone loves list from Chris Arnold saying that a long time in the past.
That's right, people love lists. But we got one year end organization and really summing up a whole is what happens. The world is new cycle, new cycle, and then forget about it, and then you realize that none of it ever mattered. And I like to kind of go, well, hold on, let's take our time and look back. And that's why later in the week I will have my twenty twenty three death song. Every year look at the celebrities who passed away and took their big sleep, and
we put them in a song. Now I do alternate years. Last year pre produced, this year will be acoustic, next year pre produced. And just switch over to those of you yeah tracking this. There are many out there who are on just one one person, and we're glad to have them with us. Most people think that because it is December and the year is ending, it's just an excuse to mail it in and not follow the new cycle and just repackage, uh, stories that you've already done or audio that
you've already you know. Yeah, But in Kevin's case, he takes it, takes on more work than he normally would in what would be a mail in month of of you know effort. Yeah, so we will start scuttle but part one of five, the year end timeline review. Now I'd like for you guys to know this is about to you by Parker dot eedu park January first, Jeremy Renner run over by a snows That's the point of it. That's the reaction I want almost every one of these, at least in
the early stages. It's gonna it's gonna get some form of a reaction that's like, oh yeah, he does both at the same time. Oh I like this. January one, twenty twenty three. So far, this whole thing's going good. He got smushed by his own snowplow, run over by a snope killed, okay, a bunch of bones. It came up. Last time this came up, it was only a week ago, and I'm now I can't get out of my head. That yes, sad story. I think everyone like Jeremy RENNERD pretty high Q rating. I don't think he's
but he is a superhero. And if it was just him cleaning his driveway and then getting out of the thing and then doofing and then the thing started going, He's like, oh no, and he just crushed. That's not good. Now. He jumped behind the snowplow to try to stop it from crushing his nephew. That's what a superhero does, but we couldn't get it confirmed that that's what happened about, that's what the story is. Where is sure he said it? I mean, it just seems like an insane think
he already said it. I'm going to crush my nephew. I had to try to protect him when it's probably slipping and falling all God, maybe some drinks. Maybe he was dah drink it his hot toddy in the morning while he brushes the snow off his ranched white driveway and just kind of slips on the ice. And then I mean, terrible story. I don't know about the save my Unfortunately, I saved my nephew's life. I think we did. Jesuscovered that it was like a fifteen pounds oh mask, what'd they call
it? A snow cat or something. Yeah, it was not a little rascal, Yeah, a little rascal like the Super Bowl had to include the fact that he saved her life. It wasn't a ditch witch. It's like the coolest name of a piece of construction equipment. And then a rough year for Jeremy Runner and but good to see he's rehabbing, he's running again. He'll be back on the Silver screen before we know it, and the world will be better. And he also learned like, hey, I can just
pay someone just to plow my snow. Yeah, and he there was some time when he was in a war with Barry Pepper for who would take the mantle of guys who kind of look like that and be the Hollywood star and Jeremy Renner won swiftly help me out on this, Barry Pepper. It's just an actor that kind of looks like him. Barry Pepper played uh, what's his name in sixty one. Yes, he was dal Earnhardt in the made for TV I just want to race Race Daddy, Okay, I could see
that. And he was also the sniper in Saving Private Ryan. Yeah. Yeah, they kind of got the square head happening. Yeah, there was a Barry Pepper Jeremy Renner battle, maybe just in my head apparently so, but congratulations Jeremyra. Yeah, he was a great Roger Merris. Yeah. January two, Bill's Safety Tomorrow Ham one collapsing. Oh my god, these are hot. We got off to a bad start this year, guys.
That was January second. Yeah, cardiac arrest after the tackle game got canceled, and they end up not making it up, just called it a no contest because you know what do you do some little When the Bills and Bengals played this year, same stadium, and it did feel like they were using the Demor Hamlin thing to kind of sell the game. Of course, of course I don't know, Danny. You're the one wearing an NFL hat today. This city killed its president and we use a building where it happened from
to sell our city. The main thing it's there are gifts. There are gift shops selling nine to eleven memorabilia outside of the New World Trade Center. That's what we do. Yeah, we make money off of everything. There's no such thing as if if somebody tells you their principle they're lying. Money is all that matters. It's such, It's not good always. Tomor Hamlin, by the way, still the significant favorite to win NFL Comeback Player of the Years. He didn't even play for the first six or so games.
I think that Dolphin game I was at was the first time he actually went on the field or played a full snap, not a special team snap. Do you have our other odds? Odell Beckham, maybe TUA number two. He had his watermelon wrong that leader to be the m v P after the first half of last season. It's like he been gone. Well, that's usually what it is, someone that missed some time and was hurt. Yeah, I can't did they I vote to him? Who else? Didn't they
retire Damar Hamlin's football number on the football zamboni or whatever. When the big cart comes out to haul peat players away, it's got like his number number two, right, it's the honorary DeMar Hamlin injury gone. Yes, I'm not kidding. They have his number or his number was on an ambulance somebody had to get hauled off. Does it play the sad NFL on Fox to go to break music? Yeah, it sounds like when the Stars give up a goal. It's that same kind of music. But yeah, Sword of
God. There was an ambulance or some big ass KRT that came out to haul of player away, and I'll be damned if it didn't have Damar Hamlin's number memorializing him on the side of it. I know that. I thought we talked about that. Maybe not Russell Wilson third, Okay, Lamar Jackson. He never went away. He's always been awesome, don't yell at me, seriously, stop yelling, Joshua Dobbs okay spaceman. However, January ninth,
the Georgia Bulldogs won the College football National Championship. They beat TCU sixty five to seventeen. You know what's wild? Oh too much, I'll be quicker. There's a big story though when TCU went remember you guys talking about this in the afternoon back then, it was like, this is a big story mass TU and the coach leaves SB to go to TCU. Just SMU just went like ten and two, won their conference, just got snubbed out of a New Year's Day Bowl. Like it's just weird. How in one
year things flipped real quick. Not that SMU's going to the playoffs pretty thing, but t was kind of a bad team this year, and everyone thought, well they got the good coach. Well the coach at SIMU did good, red lashly. We had so many of our buddies that ponied up for tickets and airline tickets to go to it. Well, it was championship game. We were afternoons. So on today a year or at night January third or sixth, January ninth, ninth, we called both what was it?
Travis Haim, the barbecue magnate was it? And then we called out there with his TCU lifers and they were there at so far pumped the dream. And then we had Christy Tiagan cringe face when the game started, like, oh they got Jeremy Renter, smush they did. They had snowploud and we're glad he was doing better and shout up very January tenth, Uh. This
is the eightieth annual Golden Globes of Gulden Globe Awards. Kevin Kosner Best Actor in a Drama, Jeremy Allen White Best Actor in a Comedy for The Bear, which is not a comedy, but they have to make the categories work. Zindaia won for Best Actress in Euphoria. Julia Gorner won for Best Actress in Ozark. Who's Your Big Winners Fableman's Best Picture Drama ban sheees have been
cheering? Best Picture Musical or Comedy. You hated the fable is the worst thing I've ever seen, gratuitous look at his own life, self aggrandizing. Oh my god, I hated it. She's been cheering. I loved, loved that was a cool, weird ass. I still don't know, like why it existed. But it's one of those slice of life films and then one of the most unlikely scenarios. It's just I love movies like that that surprise me. You're like, what is this made? This is so weird
and it just works. Two guys and one of them don't want to be friends anymore. Screw it. It was awesome, though, it's a weird small town in Ireland, right, Yeah, best drama of last year, you guys remember best TV drama House of the Dragon A teaser? Do you see the new teaser? Yes, I haven't watched it yet. I'm going to rewatch the whole first house. That awesome. I watched the first episode and I loved it. It's as good a great show. No, it's not as good, but it's good. Oh I said it's good. Yeah,
you said good. No, no, real good, it's good. I wonder what the how history will look at this House of Dragon once hot d Yeah, once it it takes its full run and you know you you set it up side by side the Game of Thrones. I guess. I don't know how long it depends if they water it down with more and more and more series. That's how it'll be looked. I mean at the end of time. Well, they're jumping around a lot in history like they they've
already had to. They had to replace the main character midway through season one, just age purposes. Yeah, but in the trailer, those women, it's very much kind of like what the Crown's done, you know, Yeah, the Crown had to absolutely hot da very good. Avid Elementary one Best TV Comedy in The White Lotus won Best Limited Series. Did you guys ever get on The White Lotus? Yes, awesome, loved it, very nice.
We have two down, two down. Three. They're going to Thailand and it's going to be more about so yeah, the first one was about sex and the second one was more kind of about money, you know, and then there's a few things they're going to more of a religious look at things. In season three. They have cast one rumored hot rumors not confirmed, Harry Styles to be one of the actors season three of The White Lotus, and he'll be great. He'll probably be great, although he wasn't awesome.
And don't worry, Darling when he goes all off, we could have all off. January twelfth, toad Zilla unofficially the world's largest toad was discovered in Australia. He was six pounds. Damn six pounds. Show me to your hands, six show me six pounds with your hands. Okay, here wider, there you go. That's a six. Yeah, okay, got it. I don't remember us reporting the story of toad Zilla earlier this year. That's why we do this segment. It nott our Zilla. That wasn't
on Mike's mind that day. Coming up next, toad Zillah did the stir of the Chonkasaurus. January twenty second, My birthday, Oh, happy birthday, Kevin forty nine Ers nineteen Cowboys twelve. Yeah, close game, both of them are cost I mean two years ago when they lost. It was twenty three seventeen when the clock ran out. This was the year that Zeke snapped the ball in the final play. I mean two years of just fumble
farting the last second of the game. They tried to go clock the ball, okay, like you're down by six, and they tried to complete a short pass run up and clock it and they couldn't do it. And then the next year Zeke lined up at center for his final play as a Dallas cowboy, his illustrious cowboy's career. He snapped it, blessed ripped a slap pass, and a turpin went off his hands, I mean smashed too. The dumbest fun Like don't you want to see like the the All twenty two
practice cam or whatever of that play working perfectly? What was what was the best option? That was definitely the worst out of the thousands of variables that that play could have taken, Like just immediate crunching and like, is it You're not eligible to throw a to Zke in that scenario? That's why is
no longer here. It's suck. Like there was a day when Kelly Moore was in some hotel room and Atlanta wherever he was, He's like, ham a minute, and he slowly reaches for his laptop or a piece of paper and a pen and he's like, whoa twenty one at center, I've done it. Zeke's gonna snap the f and ball ineligible, ineligible, but he's
eligible for the pitch and off its linemen out here. So it was probably snap and then a quick screen ish type play maybe with blockers, and then a kind of hooking ladder switch with Zeke to get Zeke the ball again. Meanwhile, Zeke is pancaked, planted like a petunia thirty yard line. He's always said, all their offensive linement out the side, the forty nine ers like their defensive linement didn't go with them. They're like, I think we'll
just smash yeah, all right here, new plan. Just smash him and then we'll get him and then it'll be over. Yeah, he throwing the past at a number sixty three. That's the only way I got to cope with it, is just like we gotta laugh at our pain here. I guess I remember when that play happened and and it ended. I just looked at the TV, and I think I said, what the hell? All all right? And then I couldn't stop watching it, Like I found it
online and just watched it like forty times in a row. You know, it's gotta be bad because there's so much other stuff in that game, like stuff you could actually break down and like reasons why the game was the final that it was. But all we think of is Zeke ass over elbows. Tony Pollard would have got hurt in that game. You know who knows? Yeah, it's like, well, oh, my god. January twenty seventh, ABC News cuts ties with TJ. Holmes and Amy Robock. Remember that
affair. No, TJ. Holmes and Amy Roeback were basically porking. They're the host of Good Morning America three or whatever they call it. That's pretty exciting. Now. Amy Robock was married to Billy from Melrose Place, but they got a divorce Billy, TJ. Holmes was so they were having affairs. They're having news anchor affairs. Okay, so they'll do that. I don't remember that, huh, well vaguely, but I mean hot people working in close proximity. I think it's easy for Danny and I to keep our
hands off each other every day. There was footage of her. Can you imagine? And the notches on Dan Godwin's bedpost. Oh my god, leave Foxsports. Dan Godwin out of this. He's still out in the field the Thumper. He's streaming it right now on the iHeartRadio app. Dang it, Dan the Thumper Godwin. If you only knew. February one, Tom Brady announces his retirement and that held up so far that the Browns could have used him like he could have had options all the quarterbacks got hurt this year,
he's had options. He's like, no, I'm good. I wonder how many phone calls Jets. Oh don't you think that there was like there was like that was that was an article like whispers of the Tom Brady option. And imagine that. Imagine if you'd have said yes in week two crazy to the Jets. They would have been great. They're still crazy that Rogers tours Achilles on four per series of the was that the first game was that Thursday night. It was the first series Monday night, the first Monday, first
Monday night game. Like I was so pumped because they I was its like for football. I hate the Jets, but I was like, this is cool. And then the hard knocks all of it and the here we are got was that helped, you know, feed that whole fire man and that bastard. Yeah, just knows what happened to Like, now this is done, We'll stay on time. We'll get to February tomorrow. That is your look back at twenty twenty three. So far, so good, so far,
so good, and tomorrow's a heater, trust me. February yeah, Choris month, but you better get through feb March and April tomorrow, Homie, well I will. Tomorrow's gonna be a big day for Kevin. Big plans coming up in day for Kevin and Dan the Thumper Goblin. Yeah, every day it is a big day for the Thumper. We'll have Mike's brother Cash call in in about fifteen minutes as he went to the Spirit. Also,
we'll discuss what happened in college football this weekend. I'm calling it corruption next to ninety seven one