You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak, the polarizing sport of golf, oh Man, big player. This morning, a lot of people fired up for the Masters, some people with the very popular saying, nobody cares about golf. We're trying to make you guys money out there. You know we're trying to make you money. We're trying to help you out in your prize picks. I did bet this one. How about the Birdie War Round one Tiger Woods against Phil Nicholson. I love it.
I got on Phil, Yeah, Phil easy, Tiger's not gonna Yes, I'm been Tiger's not gonna make the cut Land. I don't know these people who think he's gonna make the cut. I don't think he is. I hope he does, but I hope he does too. Yeah. I think everyone hopes he does, but I don't think anyone can bet it. But dude, someone says, when's the World Champion Championship of Chess Supreme Athletes? You high school baseball guy spends twenty years screaming that golf is not a sport.
Yeah, so stupid the golf people like I get it if it's not for you, that's great, But like I don't know, you can't hit everything and make everyone happy. Right. We just did Rangers for fifteen minutes. I mean on game eleven, on Game eleven, so imagine it was the night before the World Series. That's what it is for golf. And I don't think we went nuts covering the Valero Open. No, we don't mention it. Can I say something nice about you two? But we did
mention it. Actually, we did go nuts covering the Valero Open. Actually, if you think about it, I will say this, there are few people in this market that I, in my opinion, that have the capability the knowledge to be able to talk about something as well as you guys do about golf. And no am I a massive golf fan. No, but I like any other sport. I'm interested in the big events. You know. I watched the Daytona five hundred for crying out loud? What's wrong with
that? Do I know anything about NASCAR? No? But if I'm with people that I trust, that that are likable dudes, and they're passionate about it, what's wrong with with just you know, lending an ear and maybe you might learn something right and guess what we're doing four hours every single day. You know you're gonna talk about what's going on. Absolutely you are. And if what's going on aligns with something that one of us is passionate about,
yeah, we're gonna we're gonna hit that. If you know any if somebody is knowledgeable and passionate about something, I don't care what the topic is, it, it will it will gather my interest. Hell yeah, and golf is that that. I think it's one of those things for you guys, And I think that's really really cool. Look, I get it. If you want to find out what you know, what was really behind Morgan Wallan throwing a chair off of a Nashville bar, I'll get to that at
eight thirty ye stand by, stand by and stand down. Basically, Look, if you're mad and you're just screaming there that we're talking a little bit of golf the day before the Masters, I'll just say, if you want to get down on these harry balls, you can jump right in. It's a crotch party up in here, and you can do with that what you will. Friends, I wish you hadn't have said that, you know, I was trying to be nice and then you pretty much just blew any equity
that you might have built. You'd be careful, sir with the word blue. Yeah, you had a rough morning. It's been difficult. We did get a text from someone who knows when on the course on course report. My brother in law is a golf goes a golf pro. His brother was a golf pro. He went to watch yesterday at the Masters. We got notes Scottie is very good. Bryson sucks at chipping and he doesn't have friends. Brooks as you, he has one friend me. Brooks is using a
new putter and it doesn't look good. Terrell Hatton might be a good dark horse pick. Speith is looking good, but he stinks and he smells his boots on the ground. Kepka seems to be somebody everybody's worked up about. Understandably, he's I told you we got the muffin top situation. The other thing had his first kid. Oh, Kevin's standing up showing what a muffin top is. So he did the Masters, and we're going about to get to the scuttle, but we'll get to the news. Everyone calmed down,
we're fine. And he sucked in the last live event whatever. I don't think brook Kepa cares about anything other than playing in major's I have. I have no real reason to believe that brooks Kepka won't be out or near the top of the leader board this week. Right. He's brooks Keopka. This is what he does. But he's been playing poorly and he just had a kid, and they asked him, why do you play so poorly in Miami. He's like, honestly, I just wanted to get done and get back
to my kid. And the truth is, sometimes when the kid comes into the life of a man, the terminator goes away. Joel Damon, Tony fen Now sometime in Jordan Speeth when he had a kid, he is sometimes you get married, you have a kid, things change. This whole one focus approach. All I care about is this. So the truth is we don't. We've never seen brooks Koepka Rory strutting into a major like he does with a kid at home that he cares more about than the upcoming major.
It may not apply to majors. If anyone doesn't apply to it's brooks Koepka in majors. But just keep an eye on let's track Scotty too when his kid, who's doing twenty days or whatever? When Scotty's wife, Meredith has a kid. Let's see how if he continues to be the world's best golfer. I think he probably will probably, but Sam Burns's wife ten days, same thing. Sam Burns could leave this thing, and he's like, he
said, the same thing, I'm leaving now. He hasn't worn a green jack, so he might be like, honey, you're going to do this one without me? Is she pushes through while he pushes through the back nine? All else you got, Mike, come on Augusta. No, that's kind of Sergio. You know I don't hate this week Freaking Pat Reid. Patrick Reid. He's another dude who plays incredibly well here. In the last five years, no one has more birdies and eagles and Patrick Reid at Augusta
National. You want to talk about someone that no one wants to see near the top of a leaderboard for the live angle or for because of who he is, Dude, Patrick Reid could win this thing. Yeah, if fat Pat wins is that the one, it's highly interesting, But it's not I want to see and then I'm on Bryson watch too. I like this text. What did you say? I do not follow or like golf. However, when y'all start talking about it, I usually listen because it's entertaining.
Y'all make it entertaining, and I appreciate that. Thank you. That's all we're looking for. Dude, what are we doing. We're having fun talking with friends, talking sports. We're talking about not a sport, the Masters. So Bryson got all chunky, he got ripped, Actually not chunky got ripped. He just turned in to a big beef cake and then he slimmed back down. It cast some health issues and things like that, but he still hits the ball far it may be, yeah, yeah, he's still
He's still hits a first pretty much ever anyone. I think there's a couple of dudes in the in the game now with him, but he kills it. If it is wet and they get a partial round or most of a round and tomorrow, I think betting Bryson d Chambeau to be leading after round one, which is a popular bet, is a pretty good one because if it does just turn into Bomber's Paradise and it's all wet and that does immediately help people hit the drives far and hit long approach shots far, which actually
Keopka does really good. Too. Long iron approaches is one of the reasons. The reason being the ball is just not going to roll a bunch, right yeah, yeah, yeah, So if you're a hitter, you're not gonna get much roll on all this. You gotta just kind of nut it, and Bryson's gonna do that. I think. I don't think he's gonna win the whole damn thing, but taking him to be the leader after round
one is kind of a bet. I like. The thought is that there's just too much He's so scientific, there's just too much nuance, subtlety to Augusta that it doesn't his the scientist's brain doesn't cannot compute. I mean, the best he's ever finished here is twenty first, and that's when he was an amateur. Jeez, but I tell you this, I think Bryson Dechabo is gonna have his best finish ever as at a Gusta, which would be
top twenty. Basically guy who's completely lost more color. Yeah, he is lost, very popular, lost, a guy people are jumping on board with this week because of his talents. He's a terrible putter, but he hits the ball so good. Is Cameron Young? Slide that into the back of your head. Remember it on the other cam. Remember Cameron's who looks a little bit like a rat. Okay, he does, and he'll tell you that. I think Liftoor guy has won the Masters before. No, he
won the British Open. Sorry, he's won the British Open. Yeah, but he always plays well at Augusta. I think he is the only dude to shoot for straight in the sixties. He's getting their second pencil thin mustache card. Smith could win this week. He could. But if you play like you know, a daily fantasy site, all the live guys are under price man, you can go Sergio pat Reed, Cam Smith and then top fill it with Scottie if you want. And I really struggle with that.
I don't know what to do with that. If you follow at Mike Siroy on Twitter, he posted up a little link if you want to compete against me and him. Yeah, it's a little action online. There's a link there. It's just a little fun and we're gonna fill that up. We'd like for you to fill that up if you want to play. You know,
we're just having fun. If you like to play and gamble in a state that it's illegal to gamble in, get on in there, all right, We're having a good time and it's all legal because it is a strategy technically. We did even mentioned Walkee Neeman, who's a livet toor guy who everyone's jonesing over because he's great. He's great, but I read an article about him that said he gets the shakes every time he walks. On Augusta,
he pooped his pants a little bit. He has he's never had a top ten and nineteen major tries Joaquin Neman, and everyone's pretty hot for him this week. Yeah, I think he's gonna get a little rumbley in his tumbly and have to go off and use the porta potty. We're gonna have a big master's bet at nine o'clock. Oh, and it's sick. It's sick, with a disgusting payoff that we do not want to lose. Everything about nine o'clock is making me making me want to run off to the porta
potty. Yeah yeah, pulling Neman noxious. But right now it's time for the scuttle butt. I'm knows we're gonna find out what that cop did. Which one go ahead? Um in golf this week, but by advanced to their restoration. Did you see the news about Min Woolie broke his finger? He dropped his hand. He dropped a twenty pound dumbbell on his own finger, like five six days ago, and he says it doesn't hurt. It's broken index finger on his right hand, and he says it doesn't hurt.
He's fine. Okay, last one. I was thinking, okay, ox Botia. He won last week? Right, he won eighteenth hole. He had to make like a twenty foot putt to force a playoff. He makes the putt, celebrates and with his celebration arm dislocates his shoulder and tell me these aren't athletes. He's They're incredible. And I love the coverage of OSHA's wife. Oh I didn't he didn't get it? Yeah, a great American golfer about the twenty one, A rising star. Yes, all right,
no more golf for another one hour and twelve minutes. I want to know what really happened to sustain these injuries. This is not Dustin Johnson. I know what happened. Who was humping we didn't mention who it was. Rory that was alleged to have have been boning some gal and crashed through a glass coffee table. Right, No, that was Rory with Caroline Wasna with a major championship tennis winner. Housinger threw a glass table. You got cut up.
Everything is wrestlings and Dustin and Paulina were doing it standing up style in Butler's cabin and fell down the stairs. Yep, that's true. He withdrew from the Masters. He was the favorite. Yeah. He says he was walking downstairs with his socks on. He is the Josh Hamilton of golf, and they were doing He may have been walking down the stairs to find a sock and maybe maybe all right, no more golf talk for the next hour and eleven minutes. We can do it, you can't. We can do
He mentioned Ludwig over. Sergeant Thomas Fry of the Dallas Police Department, he's a sorry. He's accused of stealing three guns from the Dallas Police Department. Now he is facing three charges for theft of a firearm, which is a felony. He turned himself in on Monday to the Mesquite Police. He's been with the department for twenty two years. For a cop stealing a gun, is that like normal people stealing office supplies? He took some pins home?
Where did he steal it from? Like an evidence locker? Or he was another officer's gun. Was it a polite you know, a department issued weapon. I'm not sure. He worked in detention services at the time. I'm not all sure, but you know, I can say they're just be guns laying around the police department. It's probably like a chef stealing an entire tender loin. Yeah, like you know you're not supposed to steal it and work
with it, but you can't take it. It's like us stealing delicious Celsius energy drinks right there in the break room, lying about drink sell see this. I thought that was interesting. He again twenty two years been there. He just felt the need to steal three guns. It's I get it though, the things in front of you. If you had a stealing habit, or you just thought you could just take it, maybe you didn't think much of it, maybe you didn't know that it was a crime. He just
kind of took it. I could see you would know. If you're a cop, you wouldn't know that it's a crime, but I could see where you just see something hanging around the office and you just took it. What's the price of a high quality handgun, like a really good one. I don't a thousand bucks, imagine seven hundred to fifteen hundred maybe for something decent. The cops get a high high like highest quality or yeah, I'm assuming
that they Yeah, they're not they're not buying. I mean, so any line, any line of work, if you have a thousand dollars bill sitting there, that is something that you see and recognize the value of. Well did he find out if he sold these or what was his No, they didn't and they're still investigating. But he turned himself in, so he must have just knew that he was busted. He probably had someone tip him off to it. Hey man, you probably should just go ahead yourself in him,
bring those guns back to words. It's a bad idea. So there's that. I don't know. We have a competitor for Portillos, oh, the Italian beef sandwiches. You just have Portillos, the Italian beef sandwich and I'm still have not gone. Is it hot dogs too? They have hot dogs too. Yeah, it's the Chicago Italian beef place. You get the big ass pickle on your hot dog and the whatever that greenish relish stuff is
looks great. I mean there's nothing better looking than a Chicago hot dog when it comes to hot dog right with the neon relish, Yeah what that is? I don't like all that stuff on my hot dogs, but I don't either. I did have I go I want at a high quality hot dog right now. Yes, I went to Portillo's and had like right now just to try it. Like the Italian be sandwich too. When we watched the Bear on FX like or Hulu, you go oh with the Italian beef sandwich,
it looks pretty good, right okay? And I didn't love it, but I an Italian be sandwich is not something that I would personally seek out very often. It's probably top three of my favorite sandwiches, so it's highly popular. Portillo's. Well, it's a big story, multiple locations. They had that one in the colony. It's when I went to Well now, another Chicago based competitor is making plans to invade DFW. You guys, welcome to ninety seven to one the food two food companies that did combine a few
years ago. It's called Buona and the original Rainbow Cone ice cream shop. You said Bona again, say it again? Be you Inna, It'll makes sense in b U O n A. It makes sense in a minute. So they're coming in twenty twenty five. And this just hit the Sarah Blaskovitch of nowas Morning has had a big art. I don't feel like waiting that long. Yeah, Sarah, We're just gonna portillo Is today. Then, but they both sell or they sell Italian beef sandwiches. And then the Rainbow
Cone ice cream shop has a five flavor stack of ice cream. And it's like under one roof, like a hybrid company, right, And they're gonna hit Frisco and McKinney first, then they're going to open ten to twenty of them. And basically the executive VP of this company is Joe Buona Volanto. Oh, Joe Buona Volanto went on said, I've been spending a lot of time in Texas and I can't believe how much people love to eat there. So this family and it's something you have to do to, you know,
maintain life. How the bear is this nineteen eighty one. Okay, they open up Bona is a Bona. That's what Google pronunciation says. I got a Bona. In nineteen eighty one, the Buona Volatto family started selling these Italian beef sandwiches in Chicago. Right now, Joe the Third and Joe the Fourth run the Bona in Chicago, just like the Bear, Right, you keep it going to the family known for the Italian beach sandwiches. Forty other
menu items hot dogs, hamburgers. Now they're not trying to pivot to fine dining though, right like in the Bear. No, they're not trying to do that yet. Now. Their original rainbow Cone ice cream shop had one location for like ninety five years, and in twenty twenty one merged with Bona. All right, so they're now a hybrid franchise. Yep. Look, I don't like I don't get the sweet tooth very much, but tell me
this sounds good. It's a traditional rainbow cone that includes five ice cream flavors, stacked, not scooped, chocolate, strawberry, palmer House, which is New York vanilla with cherries and walnuts, pistachio, and then orange sherbet. Yeah, that all sounds amazing. The cone is eight inches high, and I can tell you, guys, eight inches is absolutely big enough, because then is Kevin Turner. So why DFW don't introduce me in that same breath?
Okay, thanks, Joe, Budavlanto said. In Chicago, there's an Italian beef stand on every other block. He says, I go to Texas, I go to Arizona, I go to Florida. There's no competition. There's not there's really no because he saw an opportunity and he's trying to branch out in all these states that don't mess around with Italian beef sandwich. Then when I discovered that that thing even existed, probably I don't know, ten fifteen years ago in Chicago, it's like, oh my god, this is
my favorite sandwich. And go back to Dallas, there's nothing. You had to either go to Jimmy's, which is there's this phenomenal by the way on Bryant Street, and then oh god, what was the place on Henderson Wild about Harry's. Yeah, they had more and it's closed, unfortunately, but they had They had one too, not quite as good as Jimmy's, But you know what in a pinch and it was right down the street from my house when I lived on Lower Greenville. I'd go there on occasion and get
one. But yeah, now that port I wonder how much of this has to do with the popularity of that damn TV show. I think some that just the fact that people are even aware that it's a real sandwich and it's amazing. Yeah. I bet they saw Portillo's go there and they said, oh, well, we can go do that. Everyone comes here. We almost need well. I don't blaskovic. I know she's property of the speakeasy, but why there's so many restaurants There's got to be over satirization. But
we're already the most restauranted area in America. Order how many it's just kind of like how many people die to how many the ratio how many people are born every year, because it seems like we every there's a year end list and you see all the closures of restaurants in the previous year, and the list is huge. So I bet it's it's not like we're just stacking restaurants.
I bet there's a little bit of growth, but the ones that we add are probably being you know, cooled out by the ones that we lose. What was the one we just had that's opening. Oh yeah, that Midwest something chain, remember, and they're opening twenty of them Portillo's. No, no, no, there was another one we talked about a couple weeks. Oh yeah, yeah, yah yeah, yea yeah. What it was got Almighty Pizza Pizza? Yeah yeah, yeah, it's a chain. It's
a chain. But they're like, we're invading Texas. Yeah, they're coming. Everyone, come to Texas here any one minute. You ever in Chicago been a Wiener Circle? No? I had the twenty dollars shake. I have not, okay. So I went there with Fits and he's like, you gotta try the shake. I'm like all right. So we go to this place called Wiener Circle, middle of the night, it's opening either twenty four hours whatever. Going there, it's packed, it's like intimidating homers,
yelling, I don't know what's happening. And it was Fits right, and Fits is like, all right, i'mtna get you to the twenty dollars shake. So I hear a hot dog and I'm like, yeah, I want the twenty dollars shake. I'm like, shut up at a shake. I don't want I don't even want to shake, but yes, a twenty dollars shake. How much booze is in it? And you get up to the front and there's a large African American woman I've seen this okay, and she's like, you want twenty dollars shake. I'm like, yeah, like me
twenty bucks. So I gave her twenty dollars and they hit play on something and then whoever, whatever rapper it is, it says shake, Shake, Shake, shake, jake that song, and all the employees, five women, African Americans, quite large, all pull up their tops, jugs out, and they all do the shake dance for a full thirty seconds. I saw they all sing shake, Shake, Shake, Shake, and it's just tease everywhere