This is the downbeat on ninety seven to one The Freak. We started at
six am. If you didn't know, I'm Kevin Turner, Danny Baylist,
Mike's Roy and JJ Jackson. Covered a lot of things today, including the
insight on the new Apple VR headset, some of the sports stuff, including
the search for the Cowboys new defensive coordinator after Dan Quinn took the commander's job.
Learned more about the toxicology report on the KC Mystery Three Dudes. We
found out they had a lot of cocaine THHC and triple the amount of fentanyl
to kill a person in their system, and learned a little bit more about
Jordan Willis, the guy who was the homeowner at the time. Billboard Bayless
at eight caught us up on hot music trends two days ahead of the Grammys,
and then we just told you about how drinking could change. Two stories
of flight. I'm gonna do mine first, Danny real quick, before we
talked to DFW aviation reporter Tales of Flight Alexander Scores. Just see the Mark
Andrews story I did. Ladies, He's on a flight and this lady is
kind of trickled in it out of consciousness and found out that she was diabetic.
Well, he is type one diabetic too, and he helped stabilize the
situation because he had a diabetes testing kit on him and he stepped into action
and found out what she needed and that she needed to have some sugar in
her system and she was passed out and he saved the flight right there,
saved the lady on the flight. So good job, Mark Andrews. You're
a Baltimore Raven player of the day. Have some wings. Have some wings
from water Burger. We get more than some get. The whole party.
I told you unbelievable, honey, butter boneless. Okay, yes, they
brought it to us, and there's not like an agreement, but there's a
lot of food out there and they certainly would appreciate it if we mentioned that
it's delicious. We don't have to forget all that. That was amazing,
honey, butter boneless wing. I'm so full and I'm gonna go have an
It hits good too when you have like a hot one too after that and
then you go back to it and then you just get a fry or too.
Oh my god. That is in a world of wings that we live
in where they're everywhere, those are efing no cap speaking of being in a
world of wings. What happened in Florida? Danny Well Mikey The FAA reported
that a small aircraft, under unknown circumstances, crashed into a mobile home park
in Clearwater, Florida. The small plane smashed into this mobile home park.
Not only did it kill the pilot of this small aircraft, who was the
only person on board, but it also killed two people that were in mobile
homes on the ground. It turned into a big fiery situation. There was
a post crash fire. They don't know why this happened, but it's just
another story in what seems like one every day of these small planes, single
engine planes that are just dropping from the skies. Not to mention all the
other big airline stories, the door plug flying off, the lady that said
that it wasn't a real person on the plane from last year. I mean,
it seems like it all started with her. Yeah, And it seems
like every day or every week, we've got some big top of the headline
story about some wild ass aviation stuff. We've asked this question a lot with
ourselves, like is this a media thing where this is a thing where media
companies that are saying, look, really be looking for airline news because that's
popular now. And obviously we have our occasional stories of an unruly passenger here.
There just another one today that's someone on a Jet Blue flight. One
thing we've really asked multiple times. I feel like in the last month on
the show, as we've been like discussing is it happening more often than usual?
Are we just seeing it more often than usual because of our phones and
timelines and on the internet all the time. It's just like anything else.
You know, you you you buy one pair of plaid pants from Instagram,
and then your entire feed is filled with different companies that sell plaid pants.
It's the same way with news stories. I see that on Google, and
when I go to Google and I open up my news page and I've reported
on something two days ago, there's two or three stories that are related to
that, it is self fulfilling. Yeah, but you look incredible in those
plaid pants you have on Thank you you do, thank you so much.
It's a wild choice on our phone, so a wild choice. But he
pulls it off. He does pull it off. Hot forever plaid pants.
But this is won't believe it? Why to get the answer. We have
our suspicions on what might be going on, but let's get an answer from
an expert. Joining us now in the Freak Hotline, the home of the
Dallas Maths and Inside Sports Medicine with too sorrel ninety seven to one the Free
k E g LFM. We're joined by Dallas Morning News d FW aviation reporter
Alexandra Scores. Good morning, Alexandra, Good morning, Welcome to the Freak.
Have you ever have you ever been on the radio before? I've done
a couple of little hits here and there, but not not recently. Actually,
don't be nervous hands. What stations have you done hits on before?
A couple with KR and then Texas Standard, So those are all good stations.
I don't even view them as competitors. So that's good you didn't name
any of the enemy. I have something for Alexandra for number one. I
was kind of surprised, more of a statement than a question. I was
surprised that the Morning News actually had a created job for someone with your credentials.
The question is what what qualifies you as someone that expertly reports on these
items, right, I think it's a We're in a huge aviation market right
now, Southwest and American or headquarters here and so there's a lot of a
lot of poll for aviation and folks that are just genuinely interested in what's going
on. So I've covered business in North Texas almost a little over two years
now, but I jumped into the beat about a year a little over a
year ago now, and it's a monster of a beat when you have two
major airlines here and then Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, which is massive and
the second busiest airport in the world. So it's a lot to learn,
for sure. But we've been chugging along. Alexander, your right about it?
Talk about it. Have you ever actually been on an airplane? Question?
Yes, I'm originally from Chicago, so definitely fly back home every now
and then, and you know, I fly for you know, vacation,
and you definitely try to get out and see airlines that I cover and be
ingrained in the communities that I cover. All Right, we got a lot
of questions for you. MUSA start with this one because this is what led
me to finding you in emailing you four days ago. Dallas Morning news headlines
small planes are crashing almost once a month and Dallas Fort Worth killing flyers.
Right, why is this happening and is this happening more often than usual or
is this just something that's in the news more often than usual? Right?
Right? I mean, statistically speaking, it's going down. If you look
at the National Transportation Safety Boards data, we are seeing a decrease. However,
you know, when these things happen, it's reported, you know,
if it's fatal. There was a really tragic incident with a father and his
two sons that left for a trip and never came back. Yeah, he
was in North Texas surgeon. So again, these horrible they're horrible tragedies,
and it's just you're inclosed on a small plane, there's less protocols compared to
you know, a standard commercial fight which may have more over one hundred passengers
on it. You know, there's a lot more that the FA makes those
flights do. So that's why we don't see you know, commercial commercial airlines
are safe. You know, they have protocols, there's a lot of checks
that they need to run before they run one of those flights. But smaller
aircraft. It's just you. Obviously, you still are working with air traffic
controllers. You know, there's still rules, but it's it's smaller and there's
more opportunities for something to go wrong. Alexandra Scores from Dallas Morning News joining
US now on ninety seven to one. Okay, so let me ask you
this. You said that statistics are going down as far as these smaller aircraft
incidents happening, But I feel like the amount of these stories has increased.
Is it due to a the fact that I've clicked on a couple of these
stories and now the algorithms are are assuming that I want more of these stories,
or has there been some kind of directive from possibly publishers or editors across
the board that are saying, hey, we need to make sure that these
airplane these aircraft stories are being reported on with maybe a higher frequency than normal,
Like it's the hot topic right now, so therefore it gets more attention.
You know, I don't. I mean, I'm sure the algorithm thing
is definitely there, but I don't think it's necessarily coming from media outlets.
I mean, I know at the Morning News, you know, if there's
a fatal accident or you know, it's something that impacts our community, We're
going to report on it because I think people have a reason to know there
was a crash that in Plano, and you know, it was really obvious.
People saw the plane. You know, people ask questions. So I
think we have a duty to kind of the public and our readers to tell
them what happened, investigate, find out what we can because they're incredibly tragic
situations, especially when they're fatal. So there's definitely that kind of you know,
fear amongst people, like why why did this keep happening? But again,
it is our job to get that news out and make sure that folks
know what happened. We had one of your colleagues, Jason Janic along time,
a long time friend of mine, that was actually on site at the
small plane that crashed in front of the mother's daughter diner. I guess not
a minor ago, yeah, about two months ago, and it just seemed
like right around that time, boy, it's like every day more airplane stories,
and that led to obviously, I mean, look, look we can
say, like Tiffany Gomez, the you know that m effort is not real.
Crazy plane lady is what she's been dubbed as online or whatever. That
did almost start. But planes are interesting inherently because they're huge things that fly.
It's kind of always awesome. But here's my question for you now.
But yes, are you gonna ask Alexander to explain lift to Mike? Uh,
don't make her do this. I'm not ask her to explain it,
Alexander. My question is would you feel safe flying in a Boeing seven eighty
seven Max nine hundred at this point, that's a great question. I actually
to the Boning Boeing earnings call this week, and you know, the FA
has done a lot to make sure that folks are flying. Those are flying
again. So I think you know what our government and what our elected officials
are saying is, you know, air travel is the safest form of travel
ultimately in the US. And you know you can see that. The proof
is in the statistics if you look at we haven't had a major air crash
since two thousand and nine, and you know it is a safe way to
travel. The FA has done a lot of checks on those planes. Again,
it's you gotta go with what they're saying, and you know, at
the end of the day. This is the largest manufacturer. They've run the
checks, and you know, I think it is the safest form of travel.
Do you cover hot air balloons? I don't. I don't, but
it would be that would be cool. That would be an interesting a whole
separate wing of the Dallas Morning News with all the disasters and hot air balloons.
Alexandra have a question, So the aftermath of a major plane crash has
got to be one of the most devastating events to have to investigate. Have
you You said, you've only been doing this for about a year, but
God forbid, if anything like that happened, would you have any type of
access to be able to report on the I hate to say it, but
just that that that whole scene of carnage, because that's a that's something that
we never see. We see films of on on YouTube or whatever, of
the aftermath of car accidents. We see war footage, but that way.
Yeah, but that mystery of the immediate aftermath and investigation of a plane crash
has always just been kind of like something that better better reported on and never
seen. Is that something that would ever peak your interest at all to to
to get, you know, to be privy to what actually goes on in
those investigations. Oh, of course, of course, you know, we're
always trying to investigate. Even look at like the near miss calls and the
runway incursions that are happening. I think the probably the one that hoot headlines
the most in the rate last year was probably the south Last jet and the
FedEx jet in Austin last year. So when those sorts of things happen,
obviously we're looking for investigative reports. I hope you know that. You know,
we don't have to report on those things, right, we want to
hold our elected officials accountable that this is the safest form of air travel.
And you know those incidents don't happen, you know, but when they do,
of course you know we're looking into it. Given that you're an aviation
reporter, this might be This will be my last question. If the guys
have anything else that's on them is your favorite alcoholic beverage aviation gin? You
know, I can't say I've actually ever had it. It's Ryan Reynolds,
right, I think it's Ryan Reynolds. She's a ten ger ay girl.
Come on, nah, Yeah, you do any stuff with drones like the
delivery stuff we got or the future of personal drones because I'm waiting on that.
We've got a retail reporter. She's amazing, Maria Halkias, who's covering
Walmart's introduction of drones. I actually covered a drone museum in Cato Mills last
year and they have some cool historic drones over over there. Well, thank
you Alexander for your time this morning. We appreciate it, and you kind
of cleared up the question we'd been asking asking. You know, this is
kind of just it's algorithm based, man, yea truly, numbers say it's
safe for a number numbers say it's safer than ever. Just like, thank
you Alexander for your time. You can find Alexandra's scores over at the Dallas
Morning News. For ant of your plane based in inquiries, just log onto
Dallasnews dot com and find out Alexandra's stories. Bye, Alexander, thank you
for your time this morning. Thank you have a nice weekend. You two
there, she goes, Alexandra scores. What score? That's k oh r
E S y S. Kris. There's the answer. We've been asking to
ourselves for a month and none of us did anything about it. She said,
you were right. I said it was not clear. It was it
was clear. Just because you didn't didn't land was confirmation you didn't get the
points for it. We're we're pretty much doing better at about most things,
but it feels like we're doing worse at all of them because every single time
it's on Twitter and everyone for free. Microcosm of the way this business works,
this business of this world, this world and the media and how things
are reported, and the and the fact that that we show interest a little
bit of interest in one subject and the next thing. You know, you're
led to believe because of the way that the algorithms are designed to give you
what they think you want, that the sky is falling. Well, how
are we going to take it back? Turn off your cookies? I don't
know, Kevin, I don't know the answer, but I'm tired of it.
I want to tired of it too. On a playcepthing for you guys
here, all right, this is this could be your challenger for the Olympics.
This is the Enhanced Games. And they a billionaire, Peter Thiel,
is funding this thing called the Enhanced Games, and it could be a rival
to the Olympics. And they're going to allow athletes to use performance enhancing drugs,
which they should have baseball on their on their list of games that they're
going to do that. Here's the trailer for the Enhanced Games. I am
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the one of the coin guys or coin base guys. It's not going well
over here for me. Let's advance and steroid on my picks. Oh,
this is pretend pretend commercials does sound like a bayliss Bit pro PD competition featuring
five events swimming, gymnastics, weightlifting, track and field, and combat,
which I think they're just gonna shoot each other. Combat that was the free
game you got with Atari twenty six hundred. I need to hate combat that
game. Yeah the tanks, right, yeah, find like two tanks.
But then as I matured, I started liking a little more more a pitfall
guy. It's just pa, that's all it is. Okay, this sounds
dumb. It does sound real dumb. But when you let it simmer for
a minute, because what's their tagline, Uh, we support science, you
know, they kind of trick you at the end. I don't know.
I don't know. I mean, look, I'm not gonna want to.
You know, we barely watch and cover the Olympics. But why why are
we all so steadfast on that? Now? If you're talking about like anabolic
steroids that kill people young, like, I get that, but there's probably
some yeah, probably some middle ground of enhancing one's performance to make you better
at it, and I don't like it. It seems like no why because
no, why? Okay, because it's not good for the body and people
die Okay, that's a good reason. No, But if that is as
science advances being eliminated, then why not in a world of more choices?
Well that sounds weird. In a world of more choices, yes, Like
think, for example, Live Tour you can go get and there's a money
element there. So it's not a direct comparison here. But if you want
to go play sports that will allow you to do steroids, that there could
be money there if enough people and enough funding was behind it, and enough
people were like I wanted to go do that. But who's going to break
the seal two to cover this stuff? To carry it? You know?
I mean there's such a dark cloud that that that kind of looms over the
whole idea of performance enhancing has got anything that's labeled with that, No,
no legitimate network is going to touch something like that, right. This would
have to be some online only streaming thing that you know that which you can
be PayPal guy gets supports and that's the thing. It could be more profitable
there and then maybe not have the wide Baseball Like, look, these sports
that I mentioned out there, but if a big sport were to dip their
toe into that, Baseball was never more exciting than what everyone was roided up
and bashing home runs now wrong, right, well, agree, wrong to
do that, cheating, unfair, We all get all that, well let
off. All the guys are like, yeah, I'll do that, and
I have success, and then some network did take it. I mean,
the Lift Tour is still trying to figure out how to get more broad appeal,
you know, and the CW is certainly not it like they're still trying
to figure that out. But ESPN's probably gonna bite on that at some point.
If someone like that was gonna bite on the Lift Tour at some point.
The problem is you're going to have to get exceptional athletes to take part
in this, because if you get guys that are, you know, Class
A baseball players that probably were never going to reach the majors and they have
to take steroids just to get as good as somebody that's already in the majors,
there's no interest in that. You've got to get record like this guy
claims I'm faster than Hussein Bolt. You're gonna have to get that. You're
gonna have to got I hit eighty eighty seven home runs at one hundred and
sixty two game season, I'm faster than you know what I'm saying. You're
gonna have to get somebody that's already accept and then take them above to be
better than the guys that are doing it clean. Otherwise there's no there's no
interest. Yeah. And if you're watching a one hundred yard dash or one
hundred meter dash, which every one which one is it? Hundred yard meters
und right, and the winner runs it in eight eight second whatever the record
right in the record mid to high nine seconds, and some guy runs the
sub nine right, I don't know, I don't do math. Is that
awesome? And you know that they're completely Ben Johnson juiced up? Like okay,
I guess he's running a little faster than I saw Bolt run, Like,
what's the real value there? Or if they break Sergey Boupkaz or whoever's
got the pole vaulting record and they break it by a foot like that just
hit me? Oh cool? Like that just hit me. The only people
would be interested in this are people who are doing steroids themselves, because it'll
be very relatable. And I guess to think in scream that you ran one
hundred meters yards faster any human ever has done it. Yeah, okay,
there's that's somewhat interesting. But I'm talking more overall, made sure our professional
leagues. How is this monetized? That's what it all comes down to.
Can you make money off of it? If you can, it'll probably happen.
Damn. Well, there's the enhanced games will be on top of this.
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