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Yeah, we have the the nine to one one tapes from the Sandman
Hotel explosion have dumped. We've got them all. We also have a cell
phone recording of an Atlanta airport employee getting fired and she absolutely loses it and
it's hilarious. Yes, please, lots of airport stuff almost every day in
the US, borning news. It makes me have tensions are high. It's
airports and Hamburgers. Fister clinched airports and Hamburgers. I wouldn't have it any
other damn way. I have. At eight o'clock some of the hits from
Mark Cuban and his one and a half hour sit down Went to Bend skin
Show yesterday. Can I just say excellent? It was excellent text. I
loved it, not long form, open micmfortable, comfortable. Yeah, he
was comfortable with people. They're great. I don't know. I just thought
it was great. I got you got so much info, including which one
of our coworkers got a huge bonus. That was amazing. That was incredible
radio. We'll get that to your ride at eight o'clock. Not to toot
our own horn. And there are a ton of very talented people that do
this job in this market, but you couldn't have asked for two better moderators
for that interview with Dark than Ben and Skin. And they kind of do
good cop bad cop in a way. They're brilliant, where Skin is is
sort of the more knowledgeable about the MAVs and everything, and then Ben resets
everything from and even you know, does it with hey, look I'm an
idiot. Yeah, but he asks it a little bit, that topper question
that Skin may not feel comfortable doing. That's really a brilliant, hard question.
He asks it very simply, and it's a perfect question too. Yeah.
Oh, I thought it was I thought it was really good. I
need too A lot of stuff too about the game. I felt like I
knew more about gambling and if that's gonna get legalized in Texas, And maybe
I'm not so sure. Maybe it doesn't matter for the money that was put
in, but we've learned no matter what, whether gambling gets legalized or not,
the Addison family put money into this town because Yeah, DFW's growing,
like, climate's pretty good. Probably the state income tax thing, probably,
and probably we'll be able to sway some legislation if we're being totally real.
But that interview I opened my eyes to some mother things as well, So
that'd be fun eight o'clock, isn't that at eight? DA have into some
of that noise? He said Venetian like four times. Venetian was said multiple
times, And he's absolutely right. I've always thought, you know, we
want a new thought. But why do people come here? You know,
why do you say, where are you going on vacation? I'm going to
Dallas. No one says that unless you have family here. We've said that
for years. Right, we need an answer to that question. We need
gondolas on the Trinity River. Dude, maybe the three of us could get
jobs. Is gondola operators? You're kind of yeah, dressed for the part.
I kind of a striping shirt on, and I have a beret in
my back. Let me fish it out, gondola man, and I love
boats. I'm predisposed to be successful in boats. Hi. I'm Mike Siroy
from Going Going Gondola. Is there a new podcast that's your new business,
Going Going Gondola? Yeah? Also, I have a stick to push this
thing around. I don't quite know how this works. If you look to
your right here on the Trinity, you'll see Syringe Beach, the story we've
been dodging at eight thirty, the hot air balloon story. Yeah, finally.
Also, I've been trying to bury this for three days. Oh you
have? Yeah, I was, we weren't. You're part a big balloon.
Yesterday the listeners started challenging us. They're sitting in talkbacks saying, what
are you guys gonna hit this? Yeah, you guys are running from the
truth, Like, no, we'll get it and we're gonna move it.
And I was gonna do it in his normal time slot of eight thirties the
scuttle buts at eight thirty today. Damn it. As as we have forced
Danny to comment on a Tragedy, the Truth, the Hot Air Balloon,
the Truth of the Skies, something call it nine involving television. The Emmy's
put out a thing of the seventy five most iconic TV moments of all time,
and they showed a little video of it, but they didn't show you
the list. And I found the list. I have it, and I
pulled some adio from some of these cool ones, and it's fun. I
think it'd be fun to for you guys to think about in the next,
you know, a few hours before we get to it. I told you
guys not to look at the list. What is the most iconic TV moment
of all time? What is it for you? Text in to one four
or eight one seven seven eight seven? Can I just asked one? Is
Clarice saying the mountain climber was gay not blind? Is that on there?
Okay? First of all, Notchlorice said, Cynthia is a Ghanta. Okay,
I don't think you're pronouncing that properly. Should be just because you have
a Latin wife, you don't have to roll your ours, dude, I
would like, can we do our top ten? Pause? I go through
a J. Clemente, the news guy from from North Dakota is the number
one news moment in my life at least. What's that one. It's the
one where his co anchor Van two, why do you don't make me get
my hard drive out? Dude? Do it later? Van two is his
co anchor and she introduces aj Clement. It's his first broadcast, and then
the off the side off Mike's going gay s k s h oh oh,
yeah, I'm used to being from the East coast. Yeah. And the
teas was a deadly avalanche kills five. No, the tea's for the newscast
was a fun time for the disabled and it shows a couple wheelchair ridden kids
snow sledding, and then a deadly avalanche kills five follows it up, Like,
don't put those two stories together. Was there an avalanche on the same
mountain they were sledding on? Oh my god, speaking of what you just
said, we all pretty much make the same trek. And once we get
close to work where we have to go kind of north on the tollway and
then flip around at the Spring Valley exit. And we've talked about the little
homeless encampment that's there. Yeah, I saw an unfortunate addition to it today.
Maybe it's been there before, but I noticed it for the first time
today. The wheelchair. Oh yeah, right outside one of the little makeshift
tent sleep sleeping bag zones that they have. I saw a wheelchair sitting there.
So if things weren't bad enough for these folks out there trying to navigate
eleven degrees overnight, one of them can't walk. Well, you don't know
that. That may just be acquired merchandise, you know, it could be
should have a chair, Yeah, definitely, it's a chair. I mean
wheels on it. It's a pretty nice item. All of our chairs have
wheels out them, exactly. We have a couple extra ones in there.
Do me just take one of these chairs after the Spring Valley exit and just
see if anyone needs it. Please. That's kind of cold out there.
How do you think they feel? Well, I think they feel very cool.
You should take them your your power bar. That's why I donate to
the Warm Fund, which my friends as Sharing Life, who buy hotel rooms
for as many homeless people as they can fix two donations from quality citizens like
yours truly. Klamath National Force Radio host of the Year Kevin Turner quality citizen.
Kevin Turner, Well, Kevin Turner just gave a big ass rundown of
our show. I hear a lot of action, I hear a lot of
fun. I hear a lot of reasons to tune in. One thing that
I will ask you to do. If you're listening right now, just give
us an extra segment. You know, when you get to work, maybe
you're driving in, you're listening, you're really enjoying what you hear when you
get to work, Flip it over to the iHeart app and just give us
one more, one more segment, two more. Let's start with one,
because let's be honest, this is kind of an acquired taste. And if
you don't like it at first, maybe you hear one segment you're like,
I don't know, I don't get those guys. Give it a chance.
Yeah, I'm trying to love it. You will love it. Give it
one extra segment, and before you know it, you're going to understand the
vibe, you're going to understand the language, you're going to understand the senses
of humor, and you're going to become addicted. Yeah, don't judge a
book by one segment. Give us one extra one another reason to listen.
No, not too w you may break into something. What if we can
learn something about something you might give a damn about. We're not gonna beat
you over the head with ins and outs of cowboys minutia. But what if
they do hire or fire a head coach today? We'll be the first to
tell you first before even Jerry station. I can guaranteemn to you that you
can. Yeah, they'll be over there talking about God knows what. How
can you guarantee that though, because I dude, I'm on top of stuff.
Oh, but you can't guarantee it. Oh, I guarantee it.
I'm dude, you're gonna like the way you look? I guarantee it.
I So we're gonna be on top of that for you too. We give
you another thing, Danny, Text one friend and tell them if you like
it, give you one more. Even if you don't like it, give
it one more segment. That's what I'm saying. The most colost minded people
in the world just go, Okay, what language was that? It's dufus,
that's what That's how dufus is talk. No, you don't know yet.
It's easy to like the the popular band that's been around for thirty years,
like you two, that just keeps churning out thoughtless records. It's the
same thing every time. But don't you want to be in on the the
cool hip band that nobody knows about, and then you can tell your friends
it's like, Hey, listen to these guys. This band is awesome.
I think it's kind of hard to like you too, to be honest.
You know My point is, and we're Nirvana, Yeah, Nirvana maybe more
like sound Garden. Garden's dead. Don't say we're sounding I'm talking in the
past. You nutsack sound Garden before they did like Black Hole Sun, like
the New Black Crows. You're a dingling. Come on, we're having fun
today, so let's getting down on it. Tell yeah, Mike, you
did something. I went on an adventure I want to tell you guys about,
and I think everyone listening could with a little effort, because it took
a lot and significant investment, anyone listening could go on a similar adventure.
Can I tell you on my home front? This has come up? Has
it multiple times? Just because I know what you're about to talk about.
Yeah, because this has been a big story to me. In the Dallasmore
News on that Sarah Blaskovich brought it to our attention. I think on the
Speakeasy a while back. I think that's probably the first I was made aware
of it was when Sarah Laskovitch was on and told the tale of going to
on this food journey and I did it on Saturday afternoon. And I want
to tell you, guys, want to share the story. This is something
anyone can do. Yes, I think I'm on the wait list, are
you. Yeah, let's cut to it. There's a place in town called
she By Scratch that I visited along with Sweet Christina, my brother Cash Siroy,
and my sister in law Mary Siroy on Saturday. Now, once I
heard Sarah talking about it, there's a big article the Dallas Observer about it.
This thing has been successful in assorted cities in America. Like I know
one of the first ones open in a penthouse suite at the Beverly Wilshire four
Seasons, right, Like this is all fancy boy stuff. And they have
a Montecito, California location which got a Michelin star in twenty twenty one and
retained it in twenty twenty two. Damn, right, is it hard to
retain the Michelin star. I think it's very hard to retain hard to get
one. Have you ever ead you, guys, to your knowledge, have
you ever eaten a Michelin big settar. I'm aware of the significance, but
I've never enjoyed be sixprised. You. What I would be surprised is the
hostess there, the Michelin man. Yeah, the Michelin man, agree too.
Hello. Awesome were in Italy last year? We went to one restaurant
that had a Michelin star and it was awesome. And it wasn't even like
that fancy. It was just fun and cool And I ate a taco join
a lot and their next to a tire store. Does that count? It
does count. Look, I'm not bougie boy, but once or twice a
year I try to do something very nice for people who I love. So
I gave Christina and I gave Cash and Mary, my brother and sister in
law, a gift on Christmas Day that we're going to go to this dinner.
So this was a Christmas present for people who do nothing but love me
and take care of me and do incredibly nice things for me every chance they
get and that does include food and beverage and all sorts of things. Trips.
No, I don't think I've ever been taken a trip from them.
But whatever, the food and beverage, Danny, I'm just playing the seed,
lots of food and beverage. So I heard of this place, Sushi
by Scratch, and I was like, all right, I want to check
it out. The rules here are. You have to get on a website.
You could just google Sushi by Scratch. You have to get on this
website. You can just google, it'll pop up. I googled it,
nicyck something, Dallas News, Dallas Observer, Joe Rogan's favorite sushi spot comes
to Dallas, Okay, because there's one in Austin that I know Joe Rogan's
a huge fan of that's huge, tons of articles. So the way you
do this is the first of the month, and obviously check it out.
Because don't know if I'm getting this exactly right, but I think it is
the first of every month at ten or maybe eleven a m. This says
noon, but yeah, okay, noon Central, Yes, that's right.
So they open up reservations and you have to get on there just like you're
buying brand new Nikes the second they drop or whatever crap you've ever bought online
where you have to go nuts and get lucky tickets right tickets to a concert,
refresh or fresh, get lucky, get lucky. You have to kind
of do that. And I was there the second that clock struck noon and
refreshed refreshing. A date popped up, which was Saturday, January thirteenth at
five pm. I'm like, so four fine now allegedly, like in Seattle,
there's one hundred thousand people on the wait list. It crease yeah,
like it's it's cool. Wow. But anyway, this was I think December
first that I booked it for January thirteenth. Okay, so you have to
book it six weeks out the next month, right, and uh, anyway,
the day came Saturday. So I told them about this exciting dinner we're
gonna have, yeah, dressed nice, but you don't have you know,
if we're a tie or anything. It's nothing crazy, And they kind of
figured out what it was, so we mobilize. You get there about a
half an hour early. And the trick is this is at the Adolphus Hotel
and you don't know where it is. It's not at a restaurant. You
wait till that morning and then they text you. That's part of the fun
of it. It's if you feel like you're going to a speakeasy or like
a very secret dinner society something like that, and they text you the floor
and hotel room at the Dolphice that you need to go to and knock on
the door. We do that, knock on the door in the second they
open it. They're all well dressed, very like eyes wide shut, low
light, Oh, what the hell's going on? And they knew our names
instantly, like mister Siroy and they said Christina cash Mary. I mean they
said all their names. They knew who we were. You didn't even have
to announce who you were like the second No, not like Kevin walking into
a room and screaming Kevin, Yeah, Kevin. I wonder if when you
submit your your reservation and they have your name, I guarantee you they've got
somebody working inside that gets on social media, maybe finds your photo. They
know what you look like, they may know certain things about you, because
I think that's a thing in some of these higher end restaurants. I think
that was even was that illustrated some what in the bear or was I think?
Am I thinking of something? Oh that fancy one a homeboy went trained?
Maybe? Well, let me tell you this. There's only eight people
per sitting yep, and we were the only four top so they knew when
four people arrived that it was four top r so in this case they didn't
have to do that. But and again not intimidating. It was beautiful and
cool but not scary. So you roll in there and you sit in this
kind of waiting room. They bring you a welcome cocktail of some kind,
and everyone's kind of whispering other people. Another couple filters in and you kind
of, you know, nod or whatever. It's just kind of not weird.
Just you're excited. You know, it's like exciting. But you're in
a hotel room at the Adolphus and they bring you like a couple of little
bites. One of them is like an oyster with a sea foam salted sea
foam on top, just a little thing with four oysters on it, and
you're like, oh my god, it's the first thing you eat. They
explain it all eat that thing and it was delicious, And then I'm like,
wait, are we just eating in here? What are we doing?
And you do that for a drink and then they say, we're ready to
go to the sushi room. So this is sushi by scratch and the style
is omakase, which like literally means bring whatever what that's not the exact trend,
Okay, I leave it up to you. Oma case is a style
of food leave it to you different than bring whatever? Is it? Yeah,
meaning you're leaving it up to the chef to there's your food. Yes,
you go to make sense sushi room. There's like sort of a desk
and there's these three chefs who are cool looking and a cool looking and they're
well dressed and there and then there's a board behind them with these wooden planks
with all the different types of fish and that you're gonna be eating. There's
Japanese whiskeys and sake and it's just a clow lit, badass room. But
again everyone's friendly. They're like, welcome in, we'll take your jackets.
Like it's not stuffy, it's just cool. And then oma case begins,
which is you don't get a menu, there's no silverware. Yes, you
just sit there and what you're about to do is eat seventeen courses. Good
grief, that sounds so stupid. Seventeen courses. Oh, I love it.
But dinner is seventeen courses. And it's also exactly seventeen bites of food.
Okay, what sushi? Oh yeah, of course, sushi by scratch.
You're just rocking chopsticks and that's it. No chopsticks, oh, finger
foods, fingers. Did any of the patrons eat with their feet? Yeah?
Any two of them made with their feet. I don't know, maybe
some armless showed up. It's a great question. It's fine, it's a
great question. So you get in there and then they start. The two
sushi chefs on the side are cutting this beautiful fresh fish. The guy in
the middle is sort of doing the dressing and adding the little accoutrement, not
visual like you know, whether it be two scallions or a tiny pinky smear
of the perfect real with sabi. Whatever. And you sit there and you
have seventeen courses and I'll say they include I'm reading this now, but I
remember most of these hamachi. They have three different styles of blue fintuna alba
cores in there. Salmon, of course, unagi is served, which is
eel. They have rendered bone marrow. They have a scallop, they have
wagu prawns, campachi which is yellowtail, and ooni is the last bite you
have, which is sea urchin. Did duh? They tell you do?
They tell you you'll explain it. That's part of the fun. They explain
every bite, everything that went into it. And it's like the wasabi,
for instance, it's not the wasabi we get, you know, they have
they have a wasabi root where they shave the side and then they make it.
It's whatever. It's all table side with sabi. Hey, right front
of the table right there. Yeah, incredible. Our names were sitting at
our seats. They told us to sit where our names are and then they
put the They make eight pieces of this. There's eight people at the table
and they just put one piece in front of every person and you just with
your fingers grab it and let her rip. No soy sauce, right,
No soy sauce. Although one of the dishes had like a housemade soy glaze
mixed in there, and honestly it was so so so good. Were you
full? I was comfortable, comfortable. I wasn't full, but I was
definitely not hungry. It's good you and stopped by jacking the crack and get
a smash burger on the way home Taco Box Family a restaurant, and then
I'm like, damn, I need to bo need a hamburger. No,
I think I did eat later that evening. Yeah, but just a little
bit. It was incredible again, It's called sushi bi scratch. Anyone can
go do this experience and it's a once a year, once in a lifetime
for many. When I tell you the cost, which I will in just
a moment. People ask about drinks. You can get a cocktail whatever you
want, but they recommend, and you know understand why they do. You
choose either the sake pairing or the Japanese whiskey pairing. I wonder which one
you went with. I did go at the Japanese whiskey. All he wants
cash and I went with Japanese whiskey. Christina and Mary went with the sake.
They loved it. Thesak was seemingly perfect, matched to the window of
bites, maybe two or three bites per style of saki. I want to
do this. It was really like magical. Now, I will admit fully
me buckling. A few of these bites were as far as what delicious?
Oh okay, was there anything that you got, because sometimes if you leave
it up to the chef, they will bring you something that hits your palette
in a way that you're kind of like, WHOA, I don't know if
I like this. This tastes so foreign to me that it kind of takes
your breath away a little bit. You know, when you eat something weird
that you're not familiar with, that that you're not sure if you like it.
Yeah, and and it almost you almost might want to spit it out.
Did you have any moment like that, like something so gamey or weird
that it was just I loved everybody. That's amazing. The only thing I
wouldn't have eaten would have been Tomago, which is egg, and I would
have given it to Christina or cash or whatever, just because I'm a baby
bitch on that. But everything else I was, you know, I know
eel and and obviously I love scallop, and I love I love everything that
was on there. So there was nothing like shocking or surprising. I mean,
there was a the bone marrow, good god, it's just so delicious,
just the second you put in your mouth, it just all starts melting
down. And it's like you just sit there and you almost don't even chew.
You just wait for it to disappear inside your body. You got directly
into your veins. You look like you need a sig like heavy right now,
I'm telling jokes. They had the wagu it's and it's the A five
wag you. It's sourced from Iron Table out of Gatesville, Texas, Okay,
and that's one of the only places in the US that's full blooded Japanese
black Wagu cattle. All the fish and selfish or shellfish are from Tokyo's Toshu
Fish Market, which has flown in twice a week, one of the most
famous in the world. I mean, they tell you this stuff and it's
just fun to hear. But that wag you, I don't I've never had.
I don't think A five like whatever the highest level. You know.
You can go to half the restaurants in town they're yeah, sure, wag
you. And I don't know how legit it is or what level it is,
but this was it was a piece of meat on on some rice with
a little something and it just melted away, dude. Okay, okay,
now come on, tell us answered the big question. Everybody wants to know
how much did this put you back? Fascinating meal. They have three seatings
at night Wednesday through Sunday, five o'clock, seven fifteen, and nine thirty.
Again, you have to get reservations the first of the month. So
if you're interested in this, especially after I tell you the price here in
a second, on the first of February, get on there and get in
there. Maybe for the next month, maybe from March. I don't know.
I think we got on the list January first, Okay, so you're
in February, I think, But maybe we're not because she handled it.
Now. I checked last week and I saw one, Papa, It's maybe
not as impossible this is. It was hot when I got on it.
I don't think it's impossible right now. You might be able to have it
in a week or now, but two months ago it is brand new.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So again, this was a Christmas present for
Cash and Mary and Christina and I were there and I had to pay the
tab okay one million dollars. It was the one where I had to check
welcome back a couple of days before and check my credit card room, you
know, make sure I use the right one so you didn't suffer from what
do they call it sticker shock? Oh no, okay, you knew what
you were getting. I was getting to. What I didn't know is how
many people would get the saki tasting of the whiskey to, you know,
like, oh, so this is like at all just one flat rate and
all you can drink is say the food is one price per person, and
then all the drink options are a whole. That's why I get hammered home
before I go out to eat. I tried, Can I guess? Please
guess? I would say the flat rate per person is four to twenty five,
and then each person probably had about seventy five dollars in liquor average.
I'm gonna say this bill before tip was two grand. Okay, that's ridiculous.
No it's not. Oh Kevio granted. The most famous place I've ever
eaten that is in El Chicos. Yeah. I think they still have one
in Mesquite. I'm gonna say. Because there's a bunch of buzz about this
online, big articles, I want to see twelve hundred dollars. It was
a shockingly round number because we got the food. We had four pairings,
and we had uh at the end of it, you like, if you
want one more of something, they'll make it, or they have a couple
other off menu items. And they had a foi gras, I know cash
and married love foa grass. We have four pieces of that. So that
was another seventy five bucks on the on top. But the shockingly round number
for four of us to eat sushi by scratch, an exclusive place to the
Adolphice Hotel, which I encourage you to try if you want to get wild,
was exactly fifteen hundred dollars. Jesus, Jesus. That's for everything,
everything, and twenty percent gratuity was already included in the They auto graded it
and they were really cool about explaining it's autogratedy and then even I think they
even scratched out the tip line. Really yeah, which is an odd move.
That is an odd move, but a incredibly unique experience that I had
in Dallas that I didn't know existed until Sarah Blaskovic and you know came on
the free you can mentioned it, and I know Steve went with his lady,
and I was fortunate to go and look, it's a once a year,
once every few year type thing, and I can't believe how much I
liked it. I was closed twenty percent autos three hundred dollars to twelve hundred
plus three hundred and fifteen hundred. Yeah. Good in the neighborhood scratch.
Thank you Mike for sharing. I want to go, I really do.
It can't get more local than that. So local, uh. Coming up
next, mix Roy is going to hit you with a live spot. But
first I'm going to tell you what's coming up next, which is an update
and if you missed this yesterday, we'll reset it for you. An update
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