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doing this for a little bit now, I see this is gonna make everyone
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Man, I think, are we going to afternoons? No, that'd be
a big announcement. Yeah, it would be. We would do that live
on a remote, The down Beat. Please afternoon. The Downbeat would like
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on Tuesday, March twenty sixth, Tuesday, I'm busy that day. It's
a week from tomorrow. Tuesday, March twenty sixth, at Alamo draft House
in the cedars. Well, that's what I'm busy with. I'm going to
this, so this is gonna work out. Oh yes, theeter I didn't
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car. So that's freaking chill. Movie series continues and you can get your
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the movie what will be showing is yes step Brothers. Ah, yes,
hell yeah, what of this? It was my top vote, my top
candidate, and it got pushed through winner. You're kidding. We got step
brothers, step brothers. This is going to sell out in twenty four hours.
My words, go, don't make Danny look like an idiot. Take
it your seven dollars ninety seven one the Freak dot Com. Guilty in the
story the theaters, dude, get the good seats right now. Yeah,
this is gonna be now in three days. You don't have to be on
like, you know, first couple of rows. It is Alamo, So
the first row is fine at Alamo. It's different than other theaters. Yes,
bigger gap, the biggest gap in theaters, like you could put a
small orchestra between the screen and the first row. Watch our video. I've
played golf. You have in the gap between the screen screen in the first
row, you hit it into the popcorn. Popcorn, Yeah, and we'll
show you our commercial. Dude to this movie. I haven't seen it in
a long time. Yeah, I love that and it is a laugh a
second. It's one of those movies that you're gonna miss a joke because you're
laughing so much at the one before the next joke. It gets better every
time. Every time I've seen it a good probably five or six times,
I always find something that was like every time, I respect that the first
time or the second time, or the ninetieth time. Step Brothers ninety seven
on the Freak dot com. I would be curious if anyone hasn't seen it
too, and that's there that night. I would love to talk to them
about that too. But go eat your tickets now because this could sell out.
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Draft House in the Cedars. The Let's Freaking Chill series continues with your downbeat
friends. All right Tuesday night. I think I think we're gonna get going
at Uh, I've been told seven or seven fifteen. I'll find out for
sure, and it's not long. It's like ninety minutes or something. You'll
be out of there and in bed by ten o'clock. Yeah, ud wake
up with us the next morning. God, this is perfect. I do
want to read this email I got from a listener. A listener named Jeff
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both to know. Kevin and You're going to be the most valuable member of
the station in management and sales eyes. So I was like, they'll be
for Almo Draft House to know that at least uh one lovely lady is loving
the new seat and Trey combo at the Richardson Alamo Draft House. I'm curious
what that means. I like to see they're always ahead of the game.
But yeah, have they made a change? I don't know. Yeah,
tech, is there a new tech and Richardson. I don't know. I
go there regularly and I didn't see. I mean, it's perfect the way
it is. But if they're doing something new, so theaters twenty six?
Brother, next Tuesday, dude, is that when the eclipse is happening.
Nope, the April eighth, you might not have to worry about that.
You're good? Yeah, what if we did do let's freaking chill during Mattinee.
You can be in a theater and I'm sure there's a movie called the
Eclipse. Yeah there's something. Yeah, watch it. Everyone just misses it.
How many people just us and carry laughing in there? We're not seeing
it outside? We protest, Ladge of Honor. Yeah, missed the whole
thing. We don't need your eclipse. I saw the eclipse in a theater,
all right, guys. Yesterday was selection Sunday for March Madness. And
we're not gonna break down every matchup, all right. And we're not going
to give you gambling tips. You can show and hear enough of those on
weekends here on the Free. But I got some good underdog tips last night.
I do love the pretend experts this week, you know, yeah,
like without saying too much. I you know, you work with people who
I know didn't watch any college basketball. Then one second and then you have
to say, oh, this is a big this is an upset bruin here,
this twelve seed over the five on their defense is really good. Like
what have you been reading? We're just reading summaries of teams and gambling.
Forest is in a lot of trouble if they think they're gonna get out of
the second round. Right, it's a lot of insta expert. Now.
I do care about a couple of teams, but that's that's the tournament.
That's Thursday. Don't worry about it. It's Gonzaga's year. I mean,
there's just no doubt about it. I will say, you can go watch
the games on Friday. Rock and brew I believe up there we'll double remote.
They're Rock and Brews in the Colony, Been and skin Show on the
speakeasy. That's Friday. Okay. But the Dallas Morning News went in dis
a favor because I was thinking last night. I was kind of up late
thinking about, oh, that's some ideas we could do something bracket wise,
you know, maybe put the most famous person of each you know whatever.
Dallas Morning News did it for us already. We're gonna start on it live
on the air. It's a big d bracket challenged by the Dallas Morning News,
and they've putting all these they put all these things from the city and
then put them weirdly against each other. And we're just gonna work our way
through it. So in round one year we have number one Reunion Tower,
and Danny, you're gonna to help me out with some historical references on some
of these places. I think because Reunion Tower at number one goes up against
number sixteen. Abbie Holliday's little White House. I've heard that mentioned a million
times. I can't tell you where it is. I know where that is.
Is it by that kind of by the the big Uh? Maybe it's
not. I thought I was right by the cemetery. So we're all easily
voting for the Northwest. I've seen it. This is an iconic Oh yeah,
ya, yeah, yeah, you're right, you're right, yeah,
yeah, yeah, it's Tollway and uh in Northwest II. Yeah, yes,
is that the home of all things Abbie Holiday? Yeah? And that
is a little white old tour. Yes, but she passed a couple of
years ago, right, al Abby, who knows if your name is Abby?
Is that our greatest abbie? You probably passed. I liked your sister
Floey. Oh ye, she died one O four, you said, Flowy.
So we have all three. We have three of us. We're gonna
have vote three and majority advances. Yeah, okay, I actually like this.
I don't normally like brackets this week on every show, but this is
too. Hey, man, don't be a jerk man. What it's great?
Brackets are fun. I just said this one was fun. This one's
fun. Yeah. So she's been a Reunion Tower and Ebbie Holliday's Little White
House. M hm right, I pick Reunion Tower. Moves on easy three?
Number three, oh sweet, yeah for sure. Number eight Dallas Zoo.
It's number nine. The Old Red Courthouse. Danny it to help us
out on the Old Red Courthouse. I mean, you know what the Old
Red Courthouse is. It's that big, old red courthouse building. It's right
there in downtown. It's one of the oldest buildings in downtown Dallas. The
Zoo, I yeah, cool, Dallas. It may not even be the
best zoo in the metroplex. I think the Dallas Zoo's phenomenal. But in
a city that has no problem in this drawing their history. It's wonderful to
me that the old Red Courthouse is still standing. It's going to get my
vote. And I understand if you don't want to go that route. If
you want to support animals, I get that too. Go ahead, let
me just give a little infect you haven't locked in yet. Eighteen ninety two
doubt the Old Big Red or Old Red Courthouse, red sandstone. It's rated
one hundred South Houston Street, Dallas, Houston. Uh do we say that
we say Houston. I thought we say everything differently here. It's New York
that calls it Houston. Okay, Old Red Museum at the Houston Oilers or
Texans. I thought we changed everything to a different than what the Houston Rockcrecation
is. Anyway, I've been there a long time. Give me the zoo.
The zoo easy, the zoo where you can walk, look at animals,
and drink at the same time. Absolutely, And I love the Fort
Zoo, but I'm a Dallas zoo guy. I think it's better. I
love it. Yes, and they've been good to us animals. They brought
animals and then draped them upon our shoulders. Well, you voted cournoun standing,
but it's dead Dallas Zoo advances. I'm keeping my own bracket separate,
number five, okay, and at the end I'll show it to you.
You'll see that'll be good for radio. You'll see number five Hobbers the Great
Mexican Food Restaurant. And it's number twelve Clyde Warren Park. This is our
first big battle of the day, A five and a twelve. This is
good. This is juicy, yeap, much like, oh god, we
got some brutal matchups coming up. Yeah, now it's gonna get tough.
Ou. I'm a big supporter of Clyde Warren Park, probably more than you
two. I've probably been there more just because cash lives right there. We
walked down there with the dogs, like when the Christmas trees up. I've
gone down and had a snowball fight with the family. And the first snow
of the season. You got snowballed at Clyde Warren Park. Yep. Incredible.
Yeah, a little public washroom right there in the corner. Take a
nice snowballing. My dad, he said, back in high school, my
nickname was the Snowman. I'd say why is that? And I think he
said because I snowed all the women, and I'm like, I don't know
what that means, but I get him a high five, and the trend
continues. I love Clyde Warren Park. Yeah, I don't know. I
don't know the kind of nineteen fifties term that that is. I don't know
what that is. I love Hobber's. It's delicious, but I will be
voting for Clyde Warren Park. The twelve seed pulling the uppy here, So
the cigar room at Hobber's didn't pull it through. Huh for me? I
don't know. You guys got votes. Have you ever been to Clyde Warren
Park many times? I was there when it opened with Owen Wilson, Trombone
Shorty and the Polyphonic Spree. What a night. Owen Wilson walked by and
we said, hey, it's Owen Wilson, and he turned around, he
goes, hi, guys. They kept walking come to the park. Everyone.
No one really wanted to take the time to have any interaction. You
know, taking photos with celebrities wasn't a big deal back then. All right,
Kevin, it's up to you. And me. Are we picking an
authentic, upscale Mexican restaurant Mexico City restaurant? Are we picking a park?
A park named after a kid? But so we get him on. By
the way, Clyde was the little grandson right of Kelsey Warren. Maybe yeah,
it sounds right, And it was like fifteen years ago. Whenever it
opened, it was like, oh my god, they named after a little
kid. How cool is that? So now he's in his twenties, Yeah,
he has his own park. Let's get Clyde Warren on. Boy,
Hobviers is good, though, Danny, it's great. It's one of the
best steaks you'll get, skirt steak. I'm gonna let Danny do the voting.
I think the park's gonna be around forever. Right. We need we
need this for our city more than we need a restaurant. So I'm gonna
go with the park. That's a When Clyde Warren Park advance, that's well
put. We need Clyde Warren Park. I mean, Hobby is amazing,
but the city would press on. Yeah, with one less Mexican restaurant,
then we've got another conundrum at hand for our next one. Oh, it's
real tough. I'm gonna have to you an official lobbyist in this next category,
Campez's Egyptian Room against number thirteen Bishop Arts. Can I make an argument
here please? Okay, I know you're probably gonna fall, and I totally
get it, and I'm probably gonna lean your way because of this, and
this only Campezies when I first moved here was one of the first restaurants that
I ever ate at. Mind blowing. The room that you walk into at
the main entrance when you go in is just about as old school mid century
Italian restaurant as you can imagine. They have the little banquet room that's right
to the west of that room. If it had remained that, I think
that I could have it beating Bishop Arts. When they opened up, they
expanded, which I get it, you need more room, you want to
make money, want to be a very profitable business. But they opened that
large room that's adjacent to the east of the main room, and it just
kind of took the vibe away, very sterile feeling. It took. Yes,
they tried to expand, but they it's not it's not the it's not
the same. Yeah, I think that for the importance of the city Bishop
Arts here to stay. But oh my god, Campses is such a Dallas
icon. It's a hard one. Kevin Mike, you lived down there,
you should take the floor here. I am in a support Bishop Arts here.
I within a week of living here, my brother took me to Campezes
and we ate the little mini crab claw appetizer. Oh life changing love Campezes.
I might pick Campese. I haven't. I don't even know what's on
this list. There's sixty four Dallas things. Oh, there's snuffers, cheese,
fries, don't go too far, vawn Eric's iron Okay, I don't
know where. I don't know, but I feel like Campezes would have for
me won most matchups here. I could put put the X against Campezes.
You have the iron claw against the crab claw. Oh man, hello,
Hello, It could get there. It could get there. If he turns
back on his neighborhood, that's true. But I'm not going to turn my
back my neighborhood. I live right essentially in Bishop Arts. I walk there
and support their businesses. I love that they don't really allow franchises. That
everything down there is kind of unique, and I would argue it's the best
little on a beautiful day place to go walk and have a very, very
beautiful Dallas experience. I love it. I'm a denizen of the area.
I vote Bishop Arts District biship Arts Advances. I would have voted Bishop Arts
too because and I love Chimpses. Thank you. I absolutely love it.
Still, that's really tough. That's too. We got a twelve beating of
five and a thirteen beating of four. Of you guys posted tough stuff.
These brackets number seven the Bush Presidential Center against number ten the S and d
Oyster Company. Has anybody been to the Bush Presidential I have heard it's incredible.
Been twice. It's cool, Right, it's great. I have not
been to S and d Oyster Company. I want to go. It's good,
it's very good. It's been there forever, just a nondescript brick building
on McKinney Avenue, right up there by where the old hard Rock Cafe used
to be. Yep, it's amazing. It's old school. It's very old
school. But it seems like we're kind of trending towards infrastructures, heritage buildings,
things that should last into perpetuity as opposed to singular restaurants, which are
just as much part of our heritage as well. This is a hard list.
This is a hard, hard practice. Does anyone know if the Bush
Presidential Library serves oysters? No, but you can bring them in, Okay,
you can bring your own oysters. Huh. Nothing better than oysters to
go? Yeah, oysters to go. A tricky thing. Boy, this
is on y'all because you'mp in S and D's and I have not you try
not having a little cry. Going through the nine to eleven portion of the
Bush Library, there is a part of the World Trade Center in there,
a mangled part of metal. It's very modern, so there's audio from that
day. I mean it is emotional as hell. I mean it is this
borderline a you know, as I think every presidential library kind of is a
national monument of sorts, like there's not that many of them. We're lucky
to have it here, damn it. Just talking. I've talked myself into
voting for the Bush Presidential Library to beat the S andd Westers again. Mikey
votes for Bush, and I will follow follow his lead. The Bush boys,
that's what I vote for too. Just because I haven't been S Andd's,
but I've always wanted to go. The Bush Presidential Center's awesome, it's
a good, good time. Number three Tom Landrys Fedora against number fourteen,
the Salesmanship Club. Let should take about one second. I have a friend
who works who's in the Salesmanship Club, so I'll vote for that. Give
me the hat over the pants any day. Well, we are gonna get
some people disappointed here, I think, because you're essentially asking me to choose
against golf the Salesmanship Club. Of course, the people behind the Byron Nelson
there, they're the red Pants, and the Byron Nelson for many years has
been like the most charitable organization on the entire PGA tour. They've drun up
more money than anything else. It's all for a great cause. We know
many people who are part of it. And frankly, Tom Landry's fedora is
simply a hat. It's just a hat. He's not the only guy who
wore a fedora. It's not just a hat. It's what the hat represents.
What does it America's team, Mikey, is this something you wouldn't know
anything about? I think it out there mammals fish mammals. I think it
represents outdated offensive schemes in his later days. Okay, Salesmanship Club has changed
tens of thousands, if not far more, lives and done it done very
good charitable work. And I love golf. I'm sorry Audio's hat. Wow.
This vote is issued under protest by one third of this team, but
it is registered and logged. Number seven most voted for red pants. Yes,
number seven, North Park, number ten. Swiss Avenue so seven,
I love it. Danny tell us about Swiss Avenue. Oh my god.
Swiss Avenue a stretch from basically almost downtown Dallas all the way to Live Oak
And it's the most beautiful mansion historic neighborhood that we have. It's incredible.
If you walk up and down Swiss Avenue during Christmas, it'll blow your mind.
It's one of the best places to go trick or treating. Yeah,
if you're an interloper trick or treater, like I would be taking my kid
to the neighborhood. It's fantastic, and it's historic as hell. It's it's
old, old, old, It's kind of a boulevard right because there's grass
in the middle. Yes, wide, old, old trees houses sort of
with the streets right next to it are normal houses and a fine neighborhood,
but nothing outstanding. Swiss is just incredibly unique. If you're ever over there,
you should just drive up and down Swiss and just look very bizarre.
They pit it against a mall. Pretty great, it's a great mall.
I'll go first. I'll vote for North Park Mall. I love North Park
Mall so much. I go to North Park Mall more than I do Swiss
Avenue same same, of course, But I don't have any real need to
go to Swiss halves historic. We're not. They're not going to get leveled
if we don't choose these No, no, no, yeah, but it's
the first step. This is the first in just flat to raise Swiss Avenue
because we're influencers. Yeah, that's up to you, guys. Well,
I've picked Northmark Mall, so it's up to you, guys. I think
I'm picking Swiss Allry Mike, I love North Park. Flip a coin,
Mike. I don't need to flip a coin. I'm my own man.
I will take North Park Mall for the win. Number seven at North Park.
What's the last one right here? For now number two John Neely Bryant's
cabin. So that's that little little log cabin right downtown. It's not even
the original location of it. I believe it was moved there at some point
in our in our city's history. It goes up against mister Peppermint, the
father of Gibby Haynes of the butthole surface. Give me butthole, sir,
gives me butthole all day long. Number fifteen, surfa, JJ, you're
gonna need to keep that. No, we're not fifteen, mister Pepperman.
We get through one fourth of the first round of the bracket today, boys,
Okay, I like that. Who did this? Dallas Last Morning News
people are asking to see the full bracket, so support the people that actually
put it together, the Dallas Morning News Dallasnews dot com. Yeah, and
there's a place on that where you can vote on you know, for yourself.
There you can handle that on your own. We just wanted to do
it our way right here and round one and that's the western portion of the
bracket has been handled. We'll get to the south maybe either later in the
show or tomorrow. And again we announced that Stepbrothers Dilamo Draft House in the
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