This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak. All right, we will touch to our program director Zack at eight o'clock. We've got this thing that we're trying to pull off here. So I had the idea at six point thirty. He's like, screw it, why aren't we going to Houston tonight for game seven? And we're like, good idea, but logistics seem a bit much. Called Zach our boss before seven am, and uh, he said he'd work on it. So we got like an hour of
just kind of kind of waiting to see how much he's worked on. We talked a little rangers there. We'll talk about last night's game at eight, and then we'll check in with Zack at eight as well, just to kind of see if you're down right. The downbeat boys are going down to Houston. I'm seeing green lights. Boys. It's mind blowing that for a game with this much importance, how many actual tickets are available on the secondary market. Yeah, it's mind blowing. I wish we I mean, you couldn't
plan this ahead anymore because we could run a freak train down there. Anyone else wants to make this Psycho run down forty five. You know what, I bet, I bet this idea has kind of maybe spurned some inspiration in people thinking, you know what, I might be able to pull this off. Knock off work at around noon, just go tickets. Yeah, we can get in the building. Don't you just want to be there in case
they do win, come on in their building. Yeah? Yeah, So, I bet, I bet, I bet there's a few people that are contemplating this, and I don't know, we'll find a rallying point or something like that to hook up with our fellow freaks if they indeed decide to make the journey, if you're making the journey today, if we can pull it off, if you're making the journey today, or more importantly, if you were inspired to make the journey because of the idea of Mike's roy It's you
got a phone two four eight, one seven seven. We got a number. Yeah, we'll help talk you through it. Yeah, Kevin will explain the who, what, why, where when system that he claims to invented. I did. Maybe you have a kick ass giant car. You want to drive us down here? You have to ask yourself to six questions. Wouldn't it be exciting? To have the whole downbeat sound asleep in the back
of your vehicle for four straight hours. This is so true. No matter how we get down there, if we go, I ain't driving an out of that. Yeah, wakey, wakey, hands off snaky. Yeah. Because Kevin can't legally drive us, he's not allowed to drive other people with narcole ebsy. I'll drive, happy to drive, I'll cannonball run our ass down there. Pop a couple of adterall let's go. Yeah, all right, I love it. We'll jump into uh more the excitement of last night
at at the ballpark down in Houston, because I can't believe it. Man, Game seven tonight go time also go, time for the scuttle But all right, so I said, the story and topic a B, C, D, E, F and G is Rangers Astros today. It absolutely is. We've been talking about that heavily, and we'll continue to talk about that heavily throughout the show. Got a few other things just to get off that,
just for a second, just as a little palette cleanser. First of all, we've been talking a lot about the Oklahoma City Python that's missing the update on that. As I've reached out to Dylan from one of the Fox TV stations there, and I based on the idea of the detective Dick Shale here, I said, look, well we think that snake probably is eating an old woman. The reason why this trailer park is trying to bury the story. Yes, they don't want the inner pole. Yeah, all over
the place, quick reset. This was an eight foot albino python in a trailer park in Oklahoma City, but it had gained about half its size almost it was up to thirteen feet you know when it was last seen a couple of weeks ago because it had eaten a bunch of cats. But Detective Dick Shell thinks it might have swallowed a whole human woman. And you continue to email this poor guy with like all caps. You need me, you need
this info. Very weird text comator email communication between two you. Friday, October sixth, at five point fifty seven am, I just emailed him text me and I give him a number. Same day at seven forty nine, I said, do you even care about this case? You may want to talk to me and then sign it up his cavio Who's then I gave him two weeks. Your missives with him have been borderline threatening. They are oddly threatening, and you don't really have any solid infoto provide to it. I
Detective Dick Jail had a tip. You're just dropping just an idea. You're just dropping the name of a fictional police officer who's not even here. It would take him three months to get back here. Two weeks after that email, though, I said, once again, I saw your latest report, Dylan Brown. I don't understand why you won't get back to me. I have a pro tip from a respected detective. This will set the case off. You need me, this will set the case off. Wasting this dude's
time. Well, was it a waste of time to him? Because if it was a waste of time, then he would not have responded. Oh yeah, but he also okay, go ahead. Sorry. Friday, October twentieth, eleven, fifty three am, after we're off the air, Hey, Kevin Evin, I swear this is the first time I've seen your email. I'm so so sorry. I am insanely interested in what you might know exclamation point what's up? Not only interested, he's insanely interested. His interest
made him insane. Yeah, now he hasn't Yeah, yeah, the arn is all over as mom's basement. People in white coats have had to medicate him. He's gone so insane. And because I knew and I could sense his excitement based on his punctuation and verbage, he made me wait for two weeks. I made him wait for two days. I hit him back forty eight hours later Sunday, almost to the minute. I'll give you the tip, but only if you agree to call it in my radio show Monday morning
in Dallas. Deal nothing, Well, he's waiting two more days. I was spun in an hour ago. I said, what do you say? Seven thirty five am today, I've got a window open for you. And then I signed off as KT this time just to change it. Wow, Yeah, keep one heels, so we'll see between you two. I searched everywhere looking for more information on this python can't find nothing. No updates through the weekend. They buried it in their Oklahoma City news coverage. What's what
are the elderly missing person's report of Okay? See, you can't even find those documents online, Mikey, because the trailer park has buried all of them. Park next to an elementary school? Is it going to take a child getting a beautiful, young white blonde child needs to rage. I think that is funny about this though, is that how how hush hush everything is, and how it sounds like people are being persuaded to silence themselves when it comes
to this story. Have you have you kind of got that vibe from it? Yeah, but also there's like a snake at a trailer park making it a big story and claiming that an old lady might have gotten even like it. It really isn't much of a story unless you believe that the nonsense. It's dispute around here. It's not a story because the management of the trailer park has been intimidating to their residence and they've encouraged them not to talk about
this to the media. Well because this has been going on for a while. Yeah, but it's bad business if you run a trailer park to have a deadly snake anywhere on the premises. So I can see why they'd want to keep it hush. Well, it's too late, it's out. Kevio's on the case. Not only is the news out, the news is reported that the snake went from eight to thirteen feet in a matter of weeks, which is insane yeah, it could be sixteen feet now, dude, seventeen
eighteen. No one's seen it. They've seen it out about. I talk to the guy from Redbeard Wildlife Solutions. He knows the house that it's under claim. There was an insurance dispute going on. Did he left the case because he wasn't allowed to talk about it anymore? Said trailer park management was leaving him uncouthful messages. Yeah, and anytime somebody references insurance issues, that's
a smoke screen, no doubt. Every time I can't I've got some insurance issues that are holding me up. That's what we're gonna get when they tell us you can't take the station vehicle down to Houston. Yeah, they're gonna throw the insurance at us. They better not screwed this station management. Zach's there, but there are people that are over Zach. Zach is an ally. The better question through the thing that was thrown onto their plate forty five
minutes ago. I'm saying is, you know when management gets involved in things, and I don't consider Zach management management, but you know how people get Yeah, I don't think that's gonna work, guys, and that and oh okay and then it's over. You know how these things can happen. Man, You've worked in corporate radio your whole adult life, so now just be just All I'm saying is manage your expectation. Yeah I agree with you on that, but you said they better or not, Like I think you need
to manage your expectations. Dingo, Okay, all right, suit, what what are you doing? Well, he's just trying to like balance. He's one hour old, and like, if we're gonna yell at them for how dare you not just say yes to all the things that we said. That probably is expectation management required on both sides. But all I know is Zackson there frantically working to make plays, as I said, because he's a playmaker.
RPD is an ally the Oklahoma City. Just others that might be like, yeah, I don't see I don't really see the benefit in this, So fight your nuts right now. We're going to kill that idea and then look at us. We got nothing. We're watching the game on our little laptops. Who's measuring the snake ye to gain a foot every meal it has is an eighty year old woman, Yeah, missing gammy yep with her prescription pants just dangling out of its mouth now. I got a Twitter message,
by the way, I'm Kevin with Danny Mike. We get JJ here. JJ is holding it down for us. And if you want to call in, and if you want to make the parade to Houston, if you're thinking about making the track, even though we're very undecided, and preferably if you're a tow truck owners, we'd like for you to make the track to Houston with us. You'd call it it too, And for you stay on our hip, we'll be We'll set the cruise control to thirty five in the left
lane. I got a message on Twitter today from a guy who said this story was made for the downbeat. Would you guys like to go to a ABC outlet here They've got the this is up in Pennsylvania. I believe and yes it's true. This story was made for the downbeat. JJ we creak audio up. Please. Pesky pet pig is running hog wild in Adams County. At almost two hundred pounds. The pig, named Kevin Bacon, has been hard to catch. Foxford three's Marshall Keeley shows us how he got footloose
in the first place. Well, Chelsea. Okay, okay, just stop. What happened to news? Why did news start always been this? Has it always been punny? Yes, it's always been pawn rating Back to the sixties and seventies. When did this start? Because it's well whatever local news starter? Was local news a thing in the sixties? Yeah, probably just national news, which was actually good. Okay, that's one pun. Oh there's more. Hold on. Let's guess the pig's name is Kevin baconcon.
Oh. Oh, they're gonna say if this pig has how many degrees of separation from its family? Oh my god. Do you think definitely you're going to double down on Kevin Bacon? Yeah. I think they'll make a reference to ham or bay. Yeah, I mean another type of meat that comes from piggy or this story is really sizzling. Oh, oh my god. Maybe they'll a reference to a pen getting the pig back in the pin.
I'll go all in, all chips in on on degrees of separation. I'll go all in on trimmers already worked in footloose tremors is excellent, by the way, as they're chasing graboids the first place, Chelsea rumbamb brought home her new porker. On Friday, Kevin Bacon's former family decided he was too big to feed. They had bought him thinking he would be a small house pig.
Things got off on the right hoof. They loved Kevin. They were They were climbing all around him until unruly Kevin thought he needed six degrees of separation. Oh man, yes, an unruly I love the casual use of the pig's first only. Yeah, they loved Kevin. They were climbing all around him until an unruly Kevin thought he needed six degrees of separation and made
an escape into the woods. On Saturday morning, Kevin was inside his head when he decided to kick off his Sunday shoes and cut loose the one hundred and ninety seven pound pig knocking out this post to get free. They veer he could be hurt by a predator or a hunter who might mistake their pet for prey. Unfortunately, they might not know the difference between a wild pig and Kevin, so we don't want him to end up on someone's dinner table.
Meanwhile, the room balls have the table set for Kevin, leaving out ample food and flowers for him to nibble. They've lined the paths on the property with corn, hoping to draw him in. There's a trail of food in the pen and the door is open as this family hopes to bring home mister Bacon in Adams County. Marshall Keeley, Fox forty three News The Fact wrote the copy for that. Just thought they were so clever. Absolutely didn't they? Yes, it's perfect, But why did they feel like they have
to do this? Like did that guy was like, I can't wait for this air at night. Just hey, don't miss my hit tonight, I think so, Like, Okay, where is this? What city? State? Pennsylvania? Okay? How many people laughed in the entire region like we're watching that and like the pigs needed this many degrees? Like no did anyone? Five did? Five people said they're looking at this pig pick named Kevin Bacons first of all pigs named Kiptaen Bacon. Six degrees? You what they
did right there? They said the story got off wrong. I don't know that everyone, uh, you know who lasted the simple cookie cutter humor would get the six degrees of separation reference very common? Yeah, like, no one enjoys it. No one enjoys that, yet it just continues for decades and decades that like brand of local news comedy. Mean, I guess it has to be the most PG thing ever, So that's the best you can do on jokes. But local news puns, why when did it start?
You're right? And why is it like the staple of how we do things. I need puns And it's not like the their program director or news director or whatever. I think it's like good story. But also, look, man, their audience when they're not getting devoured by thirteen foot pythons, their audience is typically old. Okay, you know, it's older people, and like you said, it's it's safe, it's kind of campy. It's it's throwback to a lost era, a bygone era of schmalty, silly comedy,
and that's who they're trying to appeal to. They're trying to make it light, to make it fun for the LBM early people that still watch local news. We just watched local news because we're horny. Yeah right, Kevio can't control his horny levels and we can't even see it. We get a little bit older, and the weather girl stays the same age, locked in at about twenty five that's incredible as a spectacular. I mean, all of it,
beginning to end beautifully done. It's She even set it up with a footloose pun to begin it before throwing it out to the reporter and yeah, perfect. The pig put on its Sunday shoes and somehow they got random pig sounds. Yeah, they got b roll. You know, NAT's up b roll. They did have hidden camera footage of it is huge. It was regular owner thought it would just be a little teacup pig. It's like, oh my god, he's getting getting bit. We can't keep it in the
house anymore. Yeah, my pig good. I don't know if you ever heard the story he did, but mine got odd pounds because I think the hey you had a pig, you know that I had a pig in Ffa. I grew a pig. I raised a pig from from birth basically, and yeah, it got it got so fat and twelve pounds I think, and it got sifted at the stock show, so I didn't get to show him. He did casually just say my pig, though, play the hits man. You do have to play the hits, do it. It's an
old hit. Look, we're not classic rock here. How about you're playing modern hit tomorrow live from Houston, Okay, in a whole new city. You tell the story of your pig, all right, Well, you tell it to a to a person, tell it to an Astros fan night Rangers at a concourd. We're getting some audio. I think that story is intellectual property of another radio, isn't. I don't feel like getting sued. It's
a story that you told. Maybe you love litigame. Look, you're gonna tell an Astros fan the story about your pig in the concourse and make them miss the beginning of the next time. Yeah. And meanwhile, on the way back to to Dallas, I've got cease and desisorders just flying out of the freak vehicle. A story that happened to you can be retold, poor guys. This guys, tell me what happened? Then, something about some kindergarten girl taking a crap and he had a stick with his friend. I
don't even know what's that. That's the best we can we You can poison that place, one Astros fan at a time. Rangers fans are weird, and uh Danny will tell the Astros fans the pig story, and then you'll explain what's going on with your truck restoration. Oh yeah, a copy of amounts of Mondo. Oh so good? You know one boxing in my front yard and the girl okay, made MUDs. Yeah Dan, you Astros story time, Danny's minute stories and then made then it made ing good. Just
a random Astros fans just go up and start talking. Yeah, okay, okay, that's nothing. If if, if, there's so many, so many ifs. Let's get the update from Zach and also Zach's our program director. We'll get the update and he's been working on this. Say, if there's a chance we can pray down down to Houston today. Maybe seems unlikely, but we'll check in with Zach. Get an update on that. Next, and let's talk about last night's game as the Rangers tied the series up
at six, setting up to night's game seven. Next on ninety seven won the Freak