This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one, the Freakinderella coadd of one
time. Okay, so wow. We like to evolve topics on the downbeat
every day. And we spent a few moments earlier discussing a massive liquid heroin
bust in one and a half tons worth of liquid heroin that happened in a
big old federal drug sting up in Oregon and Washington State. I think we
put the call out earlier. It's like, man, if you have done
heroin in the last forty eight hours, please call in or maybe in the
last you know, forty eight months. Who knows? And I believe JJ
says, we've got somebody on the phone right now that might can speak to
with the via personal experience to this matter. Is that correct? Yes?
Hello, how do we got? Hello? Hello? Hey man? What's
your name? My name is Brandon. I'm doing all right. I'm doing
all right. I'm actually I'm not in the forty eight months you know category.
But I'm a recovering addict, always will be. And I used to
used to use about ten years ago as heroin, but three years ago was
mess. So I've kind of gone through the ringer on both ends, and
yeah it sucks. It's a huge thing in the area. Let me ask
you this real quick. So this report was about liquid heroin. We're idiots
self, admittedly, what do they do? You know what they're they're talking
about? When it's described as liquid heroin. I've always seen it, you
know, depicted in television with either a powder or some kind of like black
tar type of thing that's in an aluminum foil. You heat it up,
you smoke it, you melt it down, you shoot it. What's the
deal with liquid heroin? Do you know anything about that? So basically it
starts out, you grind it down into a paste or a powder, more
pure stuff is usually more like a paste from like Mexico, and then basically
they break it down into its more potent parts into the liquid form, and
then that way so somebody can add the additives to it like they do with
mess with spentanyl and all that. They send it to somebody and they break
it. They mass produce it into even more amounts of what you would call
black tar heroin or this regular street heroin. Basically they triple quadruple the amount
of that liquid heroin. So when you get this liquid heroin that say,
you know from this drug bus, is it like ready to go, You
load up your syringe and you're good to go, or does it need to
be diluted with some other type of solution. It really depends on how big
of a party animal you are. To be honest, well, I'm a
massive party animal. I don't know. If you listen to the station.
If you have years of being able to get your body used to the poison
going in, you can do a lot of nuts things. But if it
was just you going off the road and using one of your first time,
you basically immediately overdose, like it's just so pure. So when you were
doing absolutely pure heroin regularly and you wanted to get acquire the heroin for a
weekend of partying, what does that cost you? And I guess how much
do you get in a Luckily this is ten twelve years ago. I actually
used to run it in Dallas. I would run it for people from from
trap houses. I was I was the only person with a vehicle and so
I was the one who would take it to the get it, take it
into the apartments and all that kind of stuff, and be in the apartments
with people with guns and all that kind of stuff, and they'd be buying
either twenty capsules because people basically buy pill capsules, empty them out, and
then refill them with paramount experiences in that way. How long was your addiction
to to to heroin specifically about a year? About a year, so you
would you and when you did take it regularly for that year, you were
shooting in your arm. I did on occasion. That wasn't my main use.
I usually snorted it, okay, And is it is it moretent if
you shoot it directly into the bloodstream? Oh yeah, oh a dozen times
easily, like way, way more potent. It be like the difference between
o'duels and with heat. Damn. So, so why wouldn't you just shoot
I'm sorry, but why wouldn't you just shoot it all the time? Because
it kills you. I mean it's slowly. You can feel it burning your
veins on the inside of your body. If you don't get a correct mixture
like it is, it hurts. It's not it's not always an apusics experience.
Like there's people who miss and then they have to get their arm removed
because they've gotten infection, and infection in their blood that makes their arms swell
up to look like Popeye. It gets very bad, very quick. But
it's so I don't want to say great, but obviously I mean I have
I have done everything under the sun besides medical prescribed you know, addictions.
I don't. I don't. I've never had a pill addiction, and I'm
luckily I've been clean and sober fully for three years. But uh so,
it's it's never worth it. Would you say that when you were using heroin
for the for the year. Is it one of those things where you have
to have it to function like You've got to be pretty much in some form
of of heroin buzz the entire time you're awake. So the different the difference
between it like it. That's also a dependence of how long you've been doing
it. For For me, for the year, it was more of what
you did to not do anything, because once you once that's it is so
much of a downer if you if you do it on a regular basis that
you're basically like a sleep walking like you're almost like in a coma, walking
around like you nothing, nothing you can do is right. If you want
to go get something to eat at a restaurant. Don't go do it while
you're while you're high, because you're never going to actually make it to the
restaurant usually unless you have a buddy who's sober taking you. All right,
I could whip you one hundred questions, but when you when you stopped,
was it cold turkey? And then how'd that all go? It had to
be. Uh. The house I was staying at got busted while I wasn't
there, and I had to just stay with a friend or he was a
friend in high school, and basically that was when I switched to me because
he didn't have arolin and I couldn't find it, and so I had to
basically go off with heroine cold turkey. He took care of me and then
got me on the mesamphetamines, and then I got into a giant head on
collision on Preston between Friscoe and prosper and Eldorado, got careflighted and woke up
in the hospital a day later with my family around me, and they took
me home and I was cold turkey from there. I unfortunately relapsed four years
ago for a year, but I'm good now. Did you ever get in
the system, I mean so this, did you ever get arrested? I
never. I never got arrested for possession or for using or anything like that.
I got tickets for a marijuana pipe while I was using one time.
They found it in my vehicle one time, and it literally was not mine,
like I would admit I was using at that time, and it was
not mine. One of my buddies had accidentally left his box the goodies underneath
my seat my truck, and I got pulled over because I would fallen asleep
at the wheel and ran a curb in a curb Jesus and I got pulled
over. They did a sobriety test on me, deemed that I was definitely
intoxicated in a way which I was, and was driving without insurance, no
license and the rent and it was a stolen vehicle that I had just bought
that I didn't know it was stolen, and the registration was out wheels off.
Yeah, but three or sober? Right? Yeah? All right brother,
that way, Yeah, of course of course inside. Yeah, man,
that's crazy. Yeah, you know, it's cooler than drug use.
Listening to the downbeat on ninety seven in the Freak every day I get take
it to me all I've got to take it to me off like three different
times. Now there you go. All right, we're gonna let you go.
Thank you so much. Interesting, have a wonderful days. There you
go. How about that evolve the topic Mikey. I was going to offer
him tickets to see Australian Pink Floyd, but he I think that might make
him relapse. Yeah, yeah, I think that thought better. He runs
out of the arena during Comfortably Numb? Is there? Just is? It
got wild graphics at the Crocodile Hunter. It's interesting that we went on in.
Yeah. See, we learn, we learn together, we learn,
we learn as a family. Yeah. So MAVs have three games this week,
in the week proper because they played tonight. They played at six pre
game five thirty here on the Freak. They're in Philadelphia to take on the
seventy six ers, who are gonna be without Joel Embiid. Kyrie's probable,
so a good chance you get him back. No Lively, no excell to
night. Maxie and Luca are questionable. The MAVs also play tomorrow night.
So it does feel like in a situation where Luca may not do the back
to back, but he also might. The Mavericks have lost seven out of
their last ten. Thursday is the trade deadline. This is the most important
week of the year for the Dallas Mavericks. It will tell them a lot.
Now. They can't do much in the trade on the trade market without
including players because the only first round pick they have available to trade is the
twenty twenty seven first rounder, which a team might take. But they don't
have first round picks for the next couple of years. But they do make
trades at deadlines. We've seen it here. We've seen it twice with Nico
with and Kyrie being the big one obviously. Brad Townsend wrote the Dallas Wanting
News some names PJ. Washington, Kyle Kuzma, Daniel Gafford, Miles Bridges.
She had some names out there from Charlotte and Washington that might make a
little bit of sense and might take a player back. There's been a little
talk about Dory and Finney Smith as well, but Brooklyn's been asking for a
ton for him, so I don't know if that's gonna work. But the
Mavericks have. They got to get Luca and Kyrie playing together. Clearly,
we all know that it's good news that Kyrie is probable tonight. But this
week is gonna determine a lot about what they do, I think, because
Thursday's the trade deadline, and I think it's very clear they have to do
something. Yeah, they've lost six of eight and they just look, it's
been a month since they basically won a game big Yeah. I mean even
their wins are two points, four points eked out kind of victories. So
I'm curious. I will say it's fun to be a MAVs fan in that
at least there's been big deals the last few years, whether they be off
season or trade deadline. I mean they've they certainly aren't scared to make make
moves and show Luca that they're willing to make moves. So it's happened.
But there's been a bunch of news on this team that I feel like I've
been dangled trade bait for a few years now. So I mean, I
think if you can pull the trigger, it's Thursday, what's on Thursday after
Thursday, I'm not a short time, Okay, find the time. What's
the strategy though, in making a move if you don't have any if you
can't get your existing players on the floor because everybody's hurt all the time.
Well, Kyrie has heard all the time and hopefully comes back, and we
just got Maxi, but back after always seems like an extended amount of downtime.
He's always questionable. Yeah, he was great the other night, knocking
down threes. Traded on two pm Thursday afternoon Exam, who you know,
was proving to be seemingly a pretty integral component of this team. You haven't
seen him much, so it's like, what do you do? You know?
Are you? Are you? What are you trading for to replace guys
that that are playing that have been healthy with with better or just different people
and just nurse this thing along until everybody is healthy. I don't know.
To me, it's just impossible to have any read on this team when every
night it's oh, well this guy's sitting out or we don't want to play,
you know, Kyrie or Luca in a back to back and maybe Max
he's coming back. I don't know. Just so many injury questions that I
don't know what the point is really of, unless it's just an obvious they
just need practice help basically. Yeah, like we're two guard heavy guard dependent
and if you count I mean, you know, even Josh Green or JANEA.
Hardy, like those are the kind of pieces that might have value somewhere
else. And we can thin out the guards a little bit and get something
in the front court. Because if Derek Lively is really your only weapon,
the thing that you can count on, he is so young and we're getting
more out of him than we probably should have this early in his career.
I mean, that's the real wide viewpoint is I think, turn some of
that backcourt into front court help, and like, look, Luca's gotten better
and the team has gotten worse because he's had no help. And I don't
know, he's new here, and you like to give him time to sort
it out. Is Grant Williams someone someone might want, you know, I
don't know. I mean just dangling out names here because it worked so far.
And Luca's playing forty minutes a night, dragging the team up and down
the court, and it is can't last like that. Gotta get Kyrie back.
Hopefully he plays tonight. We'll see where Luka goes. Now. I
was out at a fancy dinner Saturday and got in the car. I was
like, oh my god, they blew a twenty five point lead. What
Yeah, why I was at the game, Kevin, No way, I
was at the game, Danny, Mikey, you had tickets. I had
tickets, and I wasn't just at the game. I did something that I
have never done in my life. Nosebleed, Mikey got to sit where normally
courtside cash does. That's exactly right. Uh So for the second half of
the game against the Bucks on Saturday night, Christina and I sat in a
row one a whoa the very front row at at alas Mavericks game, across
from the scores table or on the side. Oh no, we were on
the on the baseline, so we're basically where Cuban sits, Okay, directly
Caddy corner from that, Okay, like the kind of the flank area of
the baseline. Yeah. I had a ma a man with a little mop
sitting in front of me who would run out there and mop up the sweat
every time the team ran to the other side of the floor. If someone
urinates on the court, yeah, I would imagine they're gonna ahead and get
that. Probably call a time out if it's a full urination. Yuck,
banging official time out there how'd you acquire these seats? Our friend Bob Rigotta,
who is the CEO of Jacobs, which is a very large company in
town here, they have a suite and I didn't I didn't even know they
had these seats, but we got to their suite. He's such a sweetheart,
a great friend of a friend of all of ours. He invited us
to their suite and watched the freight. When the game started, he said,
all right, me and Cash are gonna go down, and then you
guys can go down in the second half. I'm like, ah, yes,
good going down. I didn't know what that meant, but I waited
for them to pop out of the tunnel. They pop out of the same
tunnel the maps run out of, and then I watch them and they keep
going and then they sit front damn Morell and I'm like, oh, we're
going down. I wish that i'd have known. I would have looked for
you. All right, what did you text me? Oh? Yeah,
I don't know why. I didn't know until they sat in the seats,
and I'm like, oh my god, did you not bring your phone to
the floor, Yeah, to take some pics. He wasn't thinking about appeasing
Danny. That's not what his goal was. I'm not a look at me
guy, Danny. If it's just me looking at you, that that's fine.
I didn't take any pics. You tell your selfies, dude. I
took a picture of Christina and I because she asked, and the game's going
on in the background pretty much. Yeah, And then she tweeted it out.
Did did you cram it? Yeah? Yeah, that was my question.
So Mikey bro after the game, did you cram it? That is
what? Did you gram it? Insta Graham? Did you post your little
picture of you and your sweet girlfriend? One of the greatest misunderstandings and radios
and Norm and Bassett were working together and they were talking about late nights or
whatever in the as a player in the clubhouse in Arizona, and Norm asked
basic, did you see down? And Bassik heard it very differently, did
you see Dong? Did I see Dong? Told me about the Dong pound,
So I'm not answering if I crammed it or not. She may have
instagrammed it. Yes, she did take some video of Yanna's scoring and then
like my she clicked over to me. It was unbelievable. It was whatever
you dream of or think of. It was that damn good. It is
a whole different thing. I mean, you could see the game better from
the suite, or from the seats or any hell in the three hundred section.
You can probably see the game itself, bet well, in a different
way. I've never sat that close, and I mean you I told Christina,
we sat down like head on a swivel. Yannis may run full speed
and steam into you, you know, like just a reminder like stay,
yeah, exactly, do I get your little makeup mirror open and fixing some
can see me. What are you doing? You might get your nose broken
tonight. She ready, she did. We'd had some drinks in the suite,
so she was in a good way. And she did mention just being
that close to Maxie like three times, I'm okay enough, Luca yan like,
hell, he's doing the same time. He's right in front of you,
and she's staring at Maxie the whole time. And the third time she
mentioned it, the Bucks were shooting a free throw, so the other guys
are kind of lined up and Maxie is like bent over at the waist with
this firm apple bottom sticking out and she's like, man, Maxi's right there.
I'm like, stop looking at his can. It's five feet away from
Penis. She's looking at Maxie's bud. He's just making the call me sign.
Yeah. He turns around and does the call me at her. It
was incredible for the reason you would guess, being that close to Yannis.
They were the Bucks were scoring our direction that time, and they scored a
plenty, and see Yanna just freight train his way. He scored forty eight
in the game, just to see him freight train his way to the bucket
and no one can stop him. And I imagine on TV it was quite
obvious that no one can stop the Bucks, but stopping Giannis is a different
story. And hell, Luca was matched up with the one I want a
couple of times, and it was a straight drive. By what it was
different about that perspective than maybe watching it, you know thirty hearing things,
yes, hearing them talk to each other, calling out switches, bitching at
referee, seeing Luca do the referee bitch. And granted again we're on the
buck side, so you know, Luca was doing most of his bitching on
the other side. When he thought he got foul. But just to hear
them, to see their faces when they give up a bucket and know that
they could have done better or defended better or slump shoulder is happening again.
Communication with the refs, the ref's communication to the players. It really really
cool to see size. They look so huge, unbelievable to speed size.
Yes, the speed and size, The fact that these are damn near three
hundred pound men running bull ass speed on a hardwood floor out into each other.
You see now when you get that close. The amount of contact that
Luca or any of those guys take on any given play. Yes, they're
beating the absolute thunder out of each other. More violent than you even can
acknowledge. Like Powell got rammed once and he was holding his back and then
it's like, no, you're not even going to the sideline. Like they're
not faking it. No one's being dramatic. I mean, Luca might have
elements of drama, sure, and there is embellishment that certainly helps you to
call sometimes, but these dudes are getting destroyed on most plays and to see
them just kind of God. I just took a knee to the thigh.
Oh, it doesn't matter. The next play has already started. Were there
when Yannis kicked Luca in the stomach or was that the first half? I
think that was first half because I remember watching that on the screen more than
I more than watching it. But to see like Damian Lillard who is controlling
the ball and he gets to the top of the key or kind of to
one of the corners, and his eyes are kind of really wide, and
see what he's looking at. Man, you never see this stuff from another
angle, and just just the chaos between him and the basket and knowing the
simplicity of the game is we need to work together to figureut how to get
this in that and to see him trying to instantly decode what's in front of
him and decide whether to drive, and then you do drive, the help
shows up. I'm describing basketball, I understand, but to see it that
close is really a cool perspective. Another thing, doesn't the court feel too
small for them? Like there's like the court should be bigger considering how big
these dudes. Yeah, the size was amazing. Just I couldn't take my
eyes off Yon. It's just just how like buff his shoulders are and how
gigantic he is, and even Luca lucas another thing. I thought, the
idiots who are like Luca's fat, like they're all so lean. Yeah,
and Luca is like slightly less lean than this different body tie, right.
But I remember being in the locker room in the playoff years and and the
playoff years, well the championships, and I had a moment where I was
just standing behind Tyson chan Or He's getting dressed, and I swear the waist
was so small. He's so lean, but he's just a giant of a
dude. Luca is so damn fit. It's so stupid for us in from
a microphone, Kevin, I got to do it one time years ago with
Mike Reiner and the traveling teams. Radio didn't come with the team, so
there were two open slots and Followell hooked us up with scorers table seats,
and we sat at the damn scorers table for the entirety of this game.
And I can't remember who we were playing, but it was one of whoever
it was. Earl Boykins was on the team. Okay, okay, So
Jason Terry is having one of his streaky jet knights where he probably went off
for like thirty nine. You know, those happened a lot, and it
was later in the game and the other team had kind of just like the
wave the white flag. Terry was still going bananas. And Boykins comes in
to check in, and we were right at the at the place where players
had to come in and and and you know, check in and kneel down
or whatever. So you're kind of like, if there's somebody waiting to sub
in, you're kind of having to look around him a little bit because they're
right there. And Earl Boykin's work walks up somewhere late in the third quarter
and goes to check in and looks at me and Mike and he goes,
now, I gotta go in and guard him. Really yeah, right,
Okay, there's a lot of fan communication I don't have as Bobby Portois,
no, somebody that some fans were just kind of riding and that player got
it was it wasn't by the ports And he just kept looking at him,
winking at him. When he was leaning over at the free throw line not
shooting. He would kind of look up and listen and then no, it
was no, but it was cool just to see that. When they left
the floor. The MAVs lost again and they were They walked out right next
to us. On my Christina, go try to get high fives, you
know whatever. They'll still do a sad high five on their way out.
I mean maybe else there's no other sport where you can get that close to
that type of actions. Maybe you shouldn't. Yeah, but she told Lucas
she loved him. He didn't, he didn't really act. She told Mark
she loved Cuban and he Frankenstein walked right past us. She told Maxie happy
belated birthday because she knew from the Today game his birthday. I'm like,
did you really? Her telling Luca that she loved him was just a distraction
so she could receive the air drop contact from Maxie's phone, and then they
tapped phones as they Butyrie was cool because he was not dressed out obviously,
and he hugged his daughters. Really yeah, his daughter was there. I
don't know if it's a wife, girlfriend, someone else. And she got
a high five from Kyrie as he was walking ice. It was amazing.
Man, It's a once in a lifetime thing. Yeah, I'll never do
it again, but it was so cool when I got to we hat tax
from someone. I think he was right there. I said, I was
maybe a few rows but away from Mikey. It was weird because the cameraman
was facing k Ray, but as soon as she popped on screen, Mikey
shoulder tackled her and jumped in the camera shot wearing his Dallas Observer T shirt,
which I do wear every day. That I elbow her out of the
way, pushing the shirt up to the you're ironing it, ironing myke Dallas
deservery shirt. Well, thanks our buddy, Bob, And uh yeah,
they collapse again and they're up twenty five and you end up getting smoked.
It's so frustrating. And all week leading up to Thursday's trade deadline, we'll
certainly be touching on things they need to do, absolutely and cutting a game
tonight at six here on the Freak pregame at five point thirty. Coming up
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