This is the Downbeat. I'm ninety seven to one the free We pick games with our friends, our friends named Glenn and a celebrity guest, and we'll do that in just about thirty minutes. Picks with Glenn's here on ninety seven to one the Freak. This is the Downbeat. Six am, Go time, ten am, who hand the baton to the world famous Ben and Skin Show. They do the same to the Speak Easy at two pm. And both those things will be happening at the Echo Lounge. Kevin. I'll tell
you about that here in a second. I want to tell you really quickly about an opportunity to play some hot, hot golf. When I say hot hot golf, is gonna be beautiful. October twentieth is the date, Cheryl Park and Richardson is the location, Lockwood for good, Lockwood Distilling Company's third annual Copper Cup Golf Tournament. Is what we're looking for three spots to fill out. We'll looking for one high bidder and two of their friends, three of you, one of me. It's gonna be the foursome and uh,
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Dallas Morning News this morning, as I often do. And on the your uh it's in about a newsletter the top stories, and sometimes they have these things on there links you know, you've got it broken up and there's some sports and there's some local stuff, national stuff. Oh oh wait, I stumbled on this a year later, The Freak to throw a party in concert to celebrate. You may want to refresh your tab at Dallasnews dot com. Right now. It's the home pay the top story of the home paper above
the fold. What yeah, they got it as the headline. All right, if you guys are all out there news dot com, if you just go over to Dallasnews dot com and you guys just keep clicking on that because the more clicks in action that article gets, the longer they'll keep it up on the front page. I'm gonna click it now. I just clicked it. I was talking to our audience. Well, we're people too, I'm listening. Corporations are people, my friend? Should we comment on it too?
Can you comment? Or comments disabled? I love can comment. Sometimes radio stations will disable comments sometimes. I do notice that a year later, The Freak to throw a party in concert to celebrate written by Tommy Cummings. Right, we had a nice text exchange yesterday, you did. He seems like a nice guy. I've never met Tommy Cummings. I'd love to meet him, though. Maybe he'll be at the big party tonight at the Echo Lounge and Music Hall. Yeah, maybe we need to invite him right now.
We need to invite everyone right now. The Echo Lounge and Music Hall in Dallas is where we're having a big celebration that begins quite frankly at ten am. Ben and Skinchow will be there with Christina and Steve. You have the speaking from two to six, Jeff Julie and the Shootpies, and then we've got brand new funk. We've got Oatmeal Pizza, the ultimate Nirvana cover band, and we also have the Quaker City Nighthawks playing tonight. And it's
going to be a hell of a fun time. But here's some of the article. The sub header The retail ninety seven to one FM station debut October third, twenty twenty two Today's October fifth, twenty twenty three. How with the lineup that featured long established radio personalities, including several from KTCK. The Freak is iHeartMedia's free form talk radio station in Dallas. Yeah we're free form. Sure, Yeah, I'm having a big party. We've told you about
this for the last couple of weeks. But it's fun. It's like very interesting one. I've a big establishment like the Dallas Morning News or the Dingu Morning News rites about you. So yeah, pretty cool. Uh. I think that the last year has flown by faster the in any year of my life. Yes, sure, I mean I remember so many I don't know if you say hurdles are just things that happened when this thing was starting. I was so nervous, you know, for all of us, for myself,
and I remember thinking, I don't know, I don't know. It's just it's gone by so so quickly, and it does feel very natural now, you know, like I'm God, I was. I was nervous. I was nervous the whole time I worked at the ticket, like for every circ to Surroy on Saturdays, like there was an element of nerves. I wouldn't say I was nervous when I would, you know, producing ten and noon because you're working with norms. Yeah yeah, but every Saturday I would
still have like some element of nerves. There are nerves that just respect the opportunity that sort of thing, And my god, did I have it here when we started? And uh, and then I I've realized that now I don't really have it, And it's only because you have to do it every
day. It's like, I don't have time to be nervous, and I just always wonder that for over a decade, like would there be a time when I would walk in here and do this and not be at least a little nervous, well doing what you and I did, And Kevin had been kind of I guess doing daily shows and participating and being part of the show a co host for a number of years before you know, we started doing
this. There's a part of you as a producer that is, you know, even though your mics are open and you've got freedom to talk whenever you want, there is kind of that safety blanket that you can hide. Of course if you need to. Yes, you can be working on something else. Maybe they're talking about a topic that you're not necessarily needed in. There's space for you to kind of disappear. Here. You're you're exposed, and
you kind of put a big expertation on yourself to deliver every line. Every segment's got to be a ten out of ten, and when you don't hit that marks, it's got defeating man and you go home it's like, oh my god, I'm so terrible at this, and I still feel that way to a certain degree, there's a part of me that believes I'm not any good at this, and there there's a little element of nerves, but it's nowhere near it was in the beginning because it's a different animal coming in here
every day for four hours, knowing that you don't get to take segments off. Yeah, And as on a previous job, essentially you and I had similar roles where yes, all the behind the scenes stuff in the preparation needed to be done, but essentially on Mike, we were just kind of their love grenades, right, punchlines, jokes. Yeah, so you had time to think about those things and you weren't doing all the other stuff. Yeah, and then also trying to mix in funny one liners or whatever. You
know. No, and I knew, like very well the role that y'all had. You had plenty of you know, hosting reps as well, but it was never like more than like two weeks at a time. Yeah, it'd be like, you know, you do your weekend show or maybe filling on holidays. Yeah, there was like the day to day to day to day to day. I have been in get a lot of credit and you know, I starteding them twenty thirteen. It was by twenty fifteen, and they had gone to battle for me a few times because they were like,
no, he can run segments. Let him run segments. He can do it. And not a lot of people will just say, hey, we want the producer to run segments, Like not a lot of people would really want that to happen. Yeah, And then you know, by twenty sixteen, they had made me feel through confidence or whatever, like I was a third host, even though that wasn't what the title was or what the even
role was on their show. But and that helped me. I mean, I got so much confidence from just doing that a ton because those guys were open to it and they liked it. They liked when I would, you know, do a story about a hawk and then they could go question my. They love that. So you know, it's just like it was. It's it's wild how you put all this together, and everyone has a different background of listening to radio or or how it's supposed to work. Right.
It can work in a number of different ways, and it takes time. You got to find your balance, you got to find your chemistry. You've got to also kind of learn how to use that internal conversation traffic cop. You know when to sit back, let it breathe, let other people say things, and not necessarily be part of it. It doesn't always have to be a three way conversation because oftentimes you guys are talking about I don't know whatever, the Rangers, and it's like, you know what they're I don't
have. It's not necessary. I don't need to insert myself into this right now, and I think we're all getting a lot better each other. You didn't step on anybody, But you know what I'm saying, though, it's it's harder than it looks, is what I'm say, No, dude, and it w'ds furthest thing from perfecting it. Yeah, but it's trial and error and addition go and you have to believe it will work itself out.
But I think it's cool. Man, Like I even having done fifteen years at the Ticket and doing like two weeks, I think I filled in the muser shift two weeks in a row main host or whatever, and I was like, all right, that should be proof to me that I can, at least in theory, do this. But man, there's nothing like every damn day and the self doubt of Can I really do this? You know, like it? And I don't know the answer just yet. I know like physically I can do it and workload, we can do it. It's
the execution, yes, and how good can you make it? Do you remember those days when you would fill in and I would do that off and on during holidays, like if I didn't have enough vacation days as the other guys, and would end up doing a full time two weeks run where you're hosting a day part with somebody else, whether it's like Davy or you or whomever. And you walk out of that the end of that two weeks and you get that kind of experience under your belt, and you kind of walk
out with a little bit of confidence. It's like, you know what, I think that this could be something. Yeah, And then you go back to yeah, farting off, farting off and groups to play farts and talking about farts and making jokes about far and singing songs about parts. Yeah, And there's room for all of it though, Sure, there's room for all like everything, And so I think I love about it. Radio can be anything you want it to be. This station, I be real quick about
this. I got a story about something disgusting that happened at at and T Stadium Proteas in the middle of segment. So this can't be reiterated enough. We launched this station at the beginning of October. We had people from a management you know, perspective here, but we did not not have like a formal program director specifically assigned to focus on our station. Twenty four to seven. We have with Zach Now, who was like, that is his thing,
this is the free right. Within a month, we were excommunicated from the building because of rats, and we went to a downtown to a side studio called the Cats Media Group. And thank you Cats for hosting us for about three weeks. But if you're trying to develop chemistry, go through the little ins and outs work your way up as a growing radio station. Boy, that's a lot like getting shot in the kneecap when it's like you guys
have to leave the studio because the building was infested with rats. I can't reiterate enough how insane that whole time was. We got through it, right, not a big deal now, and we're good. I just think of all the things that happened through all of that time and I'm just like and we all knew, like I think I think we all knew that there wasn't We were not gonna have a big support staff in the beginning. We're gonna
have a lot of people. We're repeat some people here, all of it together though, boy a month into it, getting told you gotta go to this room and basically what's now like a political office at Cats Media Group now there. Yeah, we have a problem campaign work. We have a problem with rodents. So we're gonna send you to a place called Cats. Yeah, sense natural fix. No. Cats was great though, they got us
through it and and it was cool. Tonight we're having a big party at the Echo Lounge free if for there before six nine dollars and seventy one cents after six pm. It's gonna be fun. There's a couple of surprises in store. I know that's as well, so please have my outfit laid out. But do you really you know, let's discuss off the year, because I'm considering I had a couple of ideas. I have nothing to discuss with. A mustache is in full enough, the beer could go away and that
can stay. Come on, Garland Richardson, No, he doesn't have enough hair on the side. That's a three month commitment to plan that bit minimal payoff. It's when you see Mikey every day and he's always wearing a cat. I never take it off. I will just say, high five boys, girls, everyone that's been part of it. Man, we made it a year and you know what, they could nix us on Friday, and I'm proud that I and we should all be that we did a damn year in a big ass market. Took a chance to man, took a big
old chance, and who knows how that story ends. I wish I did, and I do not. But look, I know this is iHeart, but this thing is very much the little engine that could. And I know a lot of other shows talk about this a lot. I don't think we do all that often. But I'm proud to work with you guys, all of you, J included, and everybody we got. I believe in it, and let's just hope we keep rolling. And I want to quickly say this, and I spent one more time on this than I wanted to.
But there's not a lot of stations like this, and I mean that from a format perspective. The all free form talk station. There's not many of those in America anymore. There was a few years ago, there really was, but there's not a lot of that anymore. And do this, I think my heart's kind of like we'll keep an eye on, you know, kind of watching you to see how you do, because there's not many of them. See if this would work in other markets. Like there's something to
that too that I think it's kind of important. Picture with Glenn's coming up celebrity mystery guest picker, We're gonna pick two Cowboys two games. One of them will be the Cowboys forty nine ers. This got pretty wild at at and T Stadium the other day. Tell you the sort of Haley and Tyler Waterman. I reached out to Haley. She declined to come on the air today, said she needed to get some sleep. Haley and Tyler Waterman are from here in DFW. She's a Boys fan, he's a Patriots fan.
So they go to the game on Sunday and now I will let our friends at Fox four tell you the rest of the story. He asked me if I wanted to put the diaper bag in the car, and I said no, it's okay. Don't worry about it. I don't need it. It turns out they were wrong. So picture this. It's the second quarter. The waterman's are in the stand with Tyler's dead and brother, also Patriots fans.
When I think it was right about the time where the Cowboys got their first defensive touchdown, and then I stand up and my water broke in the stands, everyone staring at me. Have any of you been on hand right there with a water breaking? Yeah for Malcolm, but we were at home. We weren't a cowboy game. How much of a mess is that? Is it worse than spilling a glass of wine on your carpet? Oh, it's like a gallon of milk. No, it's not that. I mean
the experience that I had it wasn't that bad. Is it an announcement or do you see water? It was an announcement and a quick trip to the to the potty to deal with it without me in the room, which I think is what was preferred. Yeah, she knew. Did she stand up
and say my water broke? Pretty much? So this will girl right here said they were three weeks early, so you know around the time though, that you would take the diaper bag in the car maybe in case, but three weeks before I wouldn't go to the Cowboy game and then bam, a one hundred thousand people and the whole section isn't dripping wet. And then you're on the clock too, Man, that water breaks. You were on the clock. What does that mean? I means that maybe coming like today.
Yeah, well yeah, in the next twenty four I think there's a if the baby doesn't come, I believe it's the first I'm probably wrong on this, thirty six or forty eight hours, then they typically want to go in and get it because once that water break, that water is the last line of defense for any type of infection happening, because then an infection can happen
because it's like a barrier between the baby and the external world. So look, you just become from what I understand, you become at risk for infection if that baby does not come out pretty soon. I love how Katie keeps looking at me like as if I had a child. Yeah, like confirming, but I do. Yeah, for three weeks though, for the water
to break, that that baby coming quick. Yeah, my my best friend water broke I think a month before she was but most I have him, and he was here in like thirty minutes real or like like within the hour. Yeah, are you serious? Yeah, okay, it was pretty cool. That's really quick. I think that's unusually quick. Yeah it was a few hours. Okay, I'll say a few hours that are to be sure. But because it was the day of her baby shower. Oh my god, she's in the picture. Surprise, Like, man, you have a
man shower today? Like, yeah, he came like bad. I hope she wasn't standing over the cake. What but somebody's water brok, added Beyonce. Concert I had to keep bringing up the queen. Yeah, yeah, if that happens, I'm staying like, like you better hold on because this show does the corn fly out? No corn fly out? Chris, great question, like a like an unattended buyer hose. Just look, we don't know how everything was down there. Cowboys had a lot of complaints in section
three point thirty one. Uh I got a wet I don't know what happened back there. Threw a beer on me? Did she have her baby? Those beards of search kicking someone's ass because they think someone threw a beer. Yeah, they had the baby. They did yeah. Uh after again and then you try to get her on the radio. Yeah, it's because the husband. I edited out. The husband goes. I'm really glad it happened because I'm a Patriots fan and I didn't want to stay around much longer.
It was thirty eight to thirty h Well, grats to the Watermans. Yeah, good job. That was their name on the water mains. I think Watermans. Sorry, Hailey Tyler, Devin congrats. Uh see everyone tonight at the Echo Lounge and Music Hall. I'm not saying that like we're going away. In fact, we're not going far at all, because right after this break, it is Picks with Glenn who will the celebrity guest picker? B It starts with the p next to ninety seven won the Freak