Here's a milestone day here at ninety seven won the freak. Not only did
the MAVs win, but we now celebrate Show one hundred of the new Downbeats
didn't take long? Yeah, just one shows. Who knew it take about
five months to get there. It's a shame Mikey's not here to enjoy it.
We think he's doing right now, sleeping or still going, getting ready
to go to bed. Yeah, because Mikey is in New Orleans, KA,
grabbing some food, his mouth drunkingly about food, hanging out of his
mouthful of bit well happy one hundred keV Oh. Yeah. I've been following
Mikey and Christina's adventures via her Instagram stories. I think they found themselves at
a Bourbon Street jazz jazz bar last night. You gotta do that, which
there's you know, a million of those you just kind of pop in and
yeah, I believe in Normans once. It was awesome, but yeah,
it was great. I just like I barely remember it though. There's a
lot of drinking going on, but it was good times. Yeah, the
first handful of times that I went there, it was pretty pretty much based
on how much can we consume in liquid? Form as much as possible.
But once you got to get past that and realize what a incredibly diverse and
wonderful and historical city it is, that stuff takes, you know, a
back seat for sure, when you realize that, oh my god, pretty
much every restaurant in this city is insanely good. Yeah. That's where I
think you would get older, baby. Well maybe not everyone's like this,
but you get a little bit older, you start caring a little more about
good food, putting a premium on that maybe, yeah, and more than
for me at least, getting just absolutely tanked up. And don't get me
wrong, I'll party if you need me to party, but I'd much rather
just go to a nice restaurant and put delicious food in my belly or find,
you know, the little crappy hole in the wall spots that are delicious
and not necessarily upscale. Yeah. No, Yeah, when I said premium,
I guess I didn't mean luxury, just the good places. You know.
There's a spot I guess gosh, twenty years ago, it wasn't very
well known and it was probably somewhat dangerous to go there. Uh, it's
a place called Willie May's Scotch house and it's in tre Mae and known worldwide
now for their fried chicken. It's a soul food spot. They have other
stuff too, but it was one of those places that ended up on a
Food Network show or you know, one of those Triple D type type things,
and the popularity gained and the next thing you knew there you would go
there and it was I mean it's in the heart of Tremae and it's a
you would walk up and there after that show premiered, there was just a
line of wealthy white people standing around to go in and get chicken. Gee.
I can't wait to go get my food. Yeah, and you have
to be careful when you order because you kind of order for the table,
not for yourself, because if you're looking, okay, yeah, I'll have
the fried chicken and the the butter beans and how about some okra. The
plate of butter beans alone is enough to feed four people. It's so much
food. Well, I mean that's I mean, that's for set style of
food and you go ahead and get that and get it like basically for the
table. But you never know that. Well you should know that at places
like that, Yeah, you should know that. But I think sometimes it's
how restaurants get you. They get people. It's that was the food great,
It's incredible. Yeah, and even after you know, because a lot
of times when a spotlight gets yeah, shown shined shown on onto a spot
like that, the quality can kind of I don't know, is that because
you need to make more of it. Yeah, you get busier and you
cut corners and rush stuff and you have to make it in larger amounts and
you kind of lose the ability to control the recipe, I believe, and
you're making stuff in like much bigger pots and pans. Yeah, it's it's
still the same it was as Yeah, I've been as recently as I've gone,
which has been a while, probably like four or five years, four
years. It's it's still outstanding and we're and worth the walk. It's a
good long walk from the French Quarter. But it's so delicious. I tend
to hesitate when I see a lot of Caucasian people going into a fried chicken
spike. That's why I asked, well, I didn't tell you guys this
story, but the week that I was off, did I tell the story
about it having a hankering for Thanksgiving food and made the track down to Leadbetter
and forty five to go to I don't remember this, but I remember and
I remember everything. Sweet Georgia Brown's. I don't remember this. Are you
familiar? Been there? Yeah? Damn my god. So for Thanksgiving we
did Italian Thanksgiving, which I love to do every couple of years, and
I don't know, for whatever reason, on that Friday, I was like,
man, I need some Thanksgiving kind of food. So I had a
hankering for some fried chicken and I saw I was looking up soul food restaurants
in my neighborhood, which there's a few, but then, uh, Sweet
George, it's Sweet Georgia Brown's right. Yeah, yeah, Sweet Georgia Browns
popped up on the maps, like, oh my god, this nip place
is legendary. It's in South Dallas oak Cliffe type area, and I've never
been there. I've always wanted to go. I'm by myself, and I
just pop into the car, hit the maps. It's only like fifteen to
twenty minutes from my house because it's all highway, you know, thirty four.
Let better go west, and it's right there. I'd never been and
I roll up and it's were you blasting country music in your car when you
rolled up. No, I think I had the windows down with some Otis
redding, just to be on the safe side, which would be normal anyway.
But I roll up and I am the only white dude within probably a
mile and a half radius. Yes, but it was awesome. And I
love soul food spots. Every time I go to Memphis. There's this one
joint over by Gracelam that I have to hit that's so delicious. But it's
that type of Now Willie May's in New Orleans, when I was talking about
a minute ago, that's sitting down menu. They come and, you know,
take your order. This is an old school soul food spot, Sweet
Georgia Brown's where it's kind of like almost like a cafeteria serving where you go
up you you pretty much tell them what meat you want. They got barbecue
as well, like ribs and brisket, but their main thing, I think
is probably fried chicken. And that's what I wanted. I wanted fried chicken.
So I get the fried chicken and then you go down the thing and
you get your three sides and they throw a corn bread in there. And
I'm telling you, my meal was like fourteen Bucks, and it was served
in two of those large styrofoam containers half clothes, yeah, have a tape,
and one of them is just the chicken. The other is just the
sides. And I went home and every you know when you have those meals
where you take a bite and you just go damn. It was that,
like every bite of everything. I got. Greens they don't have ocra anymore,
and have it for years. They just haven't changed the menu since the
fifties, I don't believe, but greens, and some I got mashed potatoes
with brown gravy and one other thing like oh the beans of rice, and
dude, incredible, absolutely incredible. And the servers that are working there are
probably it looked like a bunch of like mostly like dudes my age that have
probably worked there for thirty years, and then some some youngins that are like
the up and coming. Yeah uh forced to be so yeah, yeah that's
probably gonna take yeah, forced to be there, but dude, it was
so good. I couldn't wait to get home. And it was everything that
everyone that had described it to me had delivered incredible, and it was it
was Uh. I think I worked on that for like two or three days.
I could not could not finish it. Hidden gyms out that way.
I don't think people realize. Yep, a lot of food places catfish.
Oh, you can find a lot best catfish I ever had. You remember
David Robinson from over at the Old Station, right, him and Kevin Newham
we had to show uh in evenings called the hot spot that I think ran
for a couple of years in the early two thousands over at the Ticket And
it was two lifelong friends, brothers that had known each other for a long
time. And David Robinson he was always I think he was from South Dallas
and he brought up this catfish one time to work, and I'm telling you,
it was the best damn catfish I've ever had in my entire life.
And I was like, where is this from. He's like, oh,
man, it's from a gas station in the hood. Like what He's like,
yeah, man, And now it's like pretty much half the restaurants I
eat at or attached to gas stations. Yeah, they're usually excellent. Yeah,
shout out Taco's Labynketta on Gaston and Grand. But yeah, it was
a wonderful experience and I got my Thanksgiving, Soul Food fixed and all was
right in the world from Sweet Georgia Brown. Okay, so hold on,
you told me you wanted you had an observation somethm driving to work for a
second, most down the food thing for a minute. Please, you're gonna
get too. At eight thirty people like talking about Jason Garrett doing Oh yeah,
it's funny. I've got this from from Soul Food to what sounds like
the widest restaurant pretty much so Jason Garrett. I I saw this yesterday,
but I didn't read the article. I just saw the headline. But he
is partnered up with Babe Laufenburg and a Highland Park restaurant tour named Julian Barsatti.
I've heard that name for years. Apparently he's had a stronghold on Italian
cuisine in the neighborhood. He also owns Barsatti's Nana or Nona Nona, which
is where our buddy Biel worked. Yeah, that's right, and Faccini.
So yeah, this guy's known as excellent. Yeah, I want to go
there about. I saw Biel recently and he's a longtime Dallas server, like
probably the best server in Dallas, and he I need to go there anyway,
So they're opening up a new joint. It's called Cafe Luca. It's
named after Babelfenberg's son Luke, who passed away in twenty nineteen from a rare
form of blood cancer. It's expected to open next door to Barsatti's, which
is the Italian restaurant on Oaklawn that was formerly known as Carbones, and the
restaurant will move into the former TJ seafood spot, which closed just a couple
months ago. But it looks like they're going to open an Italian cafe that
would serve breakfast, lunch, cocktails, and dinner. Also likely sell Italian
specialties to go, like housemade ricotta and meatballs. Kevin Jason Garrett is a
restaurant tour Yep. Now did you see his quote here? No, on's
it gat. One of Babe's things is let's go get coffee. It's not
about the coffee, It's about the experience. But Garrett admits it's also about
the coffee. We'll have the best coffee in Dallas. I don't doubt it.
I mean, hey, dude, there's nothing better than Italian coffee.
It's the bat the absolute best. I will often splurge on a on a
fifteen dollars ten of lily that'll get you about three pots or Illy my bad.
A pretty good deal for Julian Barsatti too. To just take money from
uh Garrett and baby, it's cool if they maybe after Luke, Yep,
very cool. It's also cool like for a restaurant tour to you know,
you obviously typically don't want to spend your own money. You want to bring
in investors. Yeah, but to have investors with the kind of longtime Dallas
profile that those two names you know, carry with them absolutely. Yeah.
You know, Jason Garrett, maybe we do this too much. I know
someone who is like who knows him pretty well, and they he was like,
yeah, you guys got it all wrong on him. I was like,
I know, but he doesn't do anything to make any of us change
our mind. But the whole time he was like, you guys, he's
he's like very like cultured, which is you know, and he's like he
will party sometimes not I'll something guy's throwing a rager. I've heard the same
thing, and it's like we did. But he because probably because of that
job, had to be a shell of him his actual self and we're kind
of probably doing that to McCarthy a little bit too. Although I don't think
any of the things that have been said about I don't think many of the
things have been said about Mike McCarthy are unfair. I do think a lot
of these things are true, and I think he should get credit for all
the good stuff. I think there are things that are like one hundred true.
Yeah, But like there are some people who will say, he's not
lazy, He's not that that's crazy. He's not some idiot and he doesn't
know what he's doing. He's never been that. Dude. He was on
the field two and a half days after having his appendix taken out. Now,
is he unaccountable after lost? This is absolutely he is. But he
also deserves a lot of credit for what the offense is doing right now.
Would you not agree? No, No, he totally does. Absolutely,
And I mean go look at the Chargers. They can't even score a touchdown.
Yeah with Kellen right now now, the quarterbacks broke his fingers out for
the year, the very not hot justin Herbert, Yeah, I answer it
at seven. That's kind of related to this because guy was for the Bills
this week. Is that some Cowboys type people yesterday, you know, followed
us and they're like, I got no idea, man, coin flip,
I got no idea. I don't I don't know if I feel good about
it or not. I read this thing on the Bills coach right now.
That kind of took off. Oh my dude, the Bills are going through
more stuff than I ever knew. And this coach had his Oh I don't
know, his character is assassinated. It's an article when it's written by a
guy who's pretty good as a reporter, it hasn't been for a long time.
And he's the guy who wrote the famous Mike McCarthy massage story. Okay
that McCarthy denies, But wouldn't you wouldn't you deny that you were to reset
the details of the McCarthy massage story. I'll do it at seven, Okay,
I'll do it. It's a part of this whole thing, the Cowboys.
You're playing a team on Sunday who is not only a contender, but
also whose head coach might not be there Sunday. He might not make it
through the week. I pulled a couple of pieces of audio that you can
definitely use to kind of elevate the story a little bit. But yeah,
Sean McDermott, I mean, is he in a little bit of hot water?
If you ask his teammates, maybe not. His teammates will say no,
that article is damning. Is so bad. I mean, yeah,
we'll talk about it in a little less than an hour, but yeah,
it's that was pretty fascinating to see that. I'd seen a little bit of
something about it because some stuff kind of came trickling down over the weekend and
I think SNL yeah, Colin j just but yeah, seven o'clock for Sports
at seven will hit that obviously. MAVs here in a little bit at six
point thirty. Humongo, Hu mungo, big boy, big pants win last
night? Bro, Yeah, my god, second on a back to back.
No, Kyrie know a lot of people, you know that team is
pretty dang decimated by injuries, facing arguably the hottest team in basketball with arguably
the right now top three player in basketball and Lebron that's what is he forty?
Now? My god, that man is forty. It's ridiculous. He's
insane. And for them to win that game incredible, And we'll talk about
sweet sex them too real quick. So I drive to work every day from
East Dallas, and you got on the Johnson typically no, typically the ways
will tell me thirty to seventy five Central Expressway north and then six thirty five
up here to the tollway, and there is when and look, I'm telling
you this has been here every day this weekend for all I know. It
was sitting there over the weekend as well. So if any of you guys
are out on the roads at all, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
When you hit the six thirty five exchange to go west, after you're
coming up north, going north on seventy five, there's a big little overpass
that curves to the left and right when traffic starts to merge with the other
access road that's going west before you get on six thirty five proper, think
of like a triangular, little little island, a little median that's right there,
that's not raised. It's flat like the rest of the highway, but
it's it's you know, lined off with paint to kind of separate the two
lanes that are merging together, and sitting there is a big ass white suv
that's just right there. We're both like right on the inside this triangle that's
just been sitting there, and it has like orange stickers on it from the
warnings that cops are putting on this car to let the owner of it know
it needs to be moved or it's otherwise going to be towed. Why is
that thing still sitting there after at least three days? For all I know,
it could have been there Friday night until this morning. Yeah, that's
that usually gets handled within twenty four hours. In my neighborhood, they'll put
a damn ticket on your car for parking against the flow of traffic in front
of somebody's house. Jeez. Yeah, that sucks. Okay, so across
the street from me, it's not safe. That car is not in a
safe spot to be sitting there, and it's and people are hauling buns.
Yeah, there merging right there, you know, especially in the morning in
traffic when it's before the rush hour hits, and you got it's pretty open,
but there's a little bit of traffic and yeah, you find yourself doing
nighty before you even realize it. And that thing's just sitting there, just
waiting to get smashed. I guess they'll move it when a family of four
plows into its hard to get a tow truck in that spot. Dude,
you guys do it overnight. You do it overnight, You cone off a
lane and go for it. But yeah, that thing, and it's not
like they don't know what's there. They've stuck big ass orange stickers on it
to tell they owner of it to move it. The owner ain't coming to
pick up that car. It's not like it had a flat and it's not
like a bad car. It's you know, looks like an early two thousands
white I don't know Ford or Chevy or something like that, but it looks
like a car that somebody would want. But I don't think anybody's coming back
for that. So I don't talk to my neighbors. I don't just how
long have you been there? Pretty introverted, Betty? A little over here.
So but there is a basically my house on a street album on a
very quiet street, drawing in richardson a very quiet street. So here's my
house right here. Okay, so listen, I got a little driveway.
But across the street from my house there's an old lady who lives in a
house. You're going to say shoe. There's the ad that lives in a
well the house is shaped like a shoe. That is one of the dumb
ones of all time, along with three men in a tub. There once
is an old lady who lived in a shoe. Why did she live in
a shoe? I'm tired, and she was so tired. She got so
many kids. She didn't know what to do. Do. Well, stop
getting railed, old woman. What's the rest of that line? Old lady
in a shoe? Poem? Along came a spider and so different one.
I think it's one of the ones that we know. There was an old
woman who lived in a shoe. She had so many children, she didn't
know what to do. She gave them some broth without any bread, and
whipped them all soundly and put them to bed. Jesus, I'm having kids
just so I have someone to beat, Good Lord. Not only that is
a shocking. Not only are we living off broth and bread, you're beating
the crap out of us before we go to sleep every night. And we
live in a damn shoe. And you're an old lady, Okay, the
life of these children? You sure you didn't look up an Andrew Dice Clay
version. No, I would have been able to tell the difference. One
this muffet setting a tough eating the curds and wait, all right, so
yous from you, cross from me? And then the house next to her
is a guy that just lives there, and I see him. It's not
a woman that lives sits on a tough end. Yeah it's not. And
it's not three guys who hang out in the tub a lot. Just one
guy. And he parks in my neighborhood. He parks his car in his
driveway because he's alone, right, I believe I've only seen one car there.
And then the old lady she parks her car and her driveway because she
lives alone, right, only seeing her there. And then for me and
rocks with a you know, we have a one car garage, but we
need that garage for storage. So one car in the driveway, one car
on the street, all right, not a big deal. About a month
ago, and I thought about saying something, and I've just decided not to
because I'm like, I don't want him do it. And then I told
myself, I'll wait and if it's still there in twenty twenty four, I'll
make the call. A car has been sitting there, was parked and dropped
off and I don't know, and it's in front of this guy's house,
but but it's like on the corner of his lawn, Like you wouldn't think
that car is definitely at this guy's house. And it is just set there.
And it's to the point where I back out of my driveway if I
backed out straight or wasn't paying attention one day, I just go right into
it. You know, it's just kind of in the way. But it's
clear that it's not this guy's and it's clear that it's not the old lady's
because it's in between them. And then I started thinking, and I haven't
had this thought until like yesterday. I was like, what if someone like
is dead and that car was dumped in a residential neighborhood. It could be
like a missing person's thing, and that car is just there. But then
every day I'm like, well, I want to be the guy who's a
rat in the neighborhood, and I'm like, what if that someone just needs
to park that car there for a minute? But how you say, dude,
A couple of weeks since before Thanksgiving, Okay, so I should call
the authorities. Probably does it look beaten up? Is there a flat on
it? Is it an old car? Looks very normal. It's like it's
like a twenty twelve, you know, yeah, you know Civic or whatever
it is. That was an insert generic car name here. I believe it's
a Chevy. A Chevy Chevy car is a well, honta Civica. What
became my go to for a second. I couldn't think of a Chevy car.
I'm not a car guy. It could have been abandoned and just left
there. I'm tired of this car. I think I want to I want
to get a toilet in this date age and in this economy. I did
that once. He just left a car, Yeah I did. Did you
leave it in front of my house? It wasn't in front of your house,
but it was in front of somebody else's house. Because one morning I
was driving to my pizza job and I was given a nineteen seventy three Pontiac
Leman's fourdoor by a waitress that worked at pizza in She told me and my
buddy, she said, look, my grandma's got this car in her driveway.
We drove to South Dallas. She goes, you can get this thing
out of her driveway, it's yours. We drove down there, put a
battery in it, put some gum out the carburetor. It fired right up.
This is the car that notoriously caught on fire on a pizza delivery and
installed at the rat Cheap Chick Trick concert on the overpass going into the Reunion
Arena parking garage that I left, and it started up after the concert,
but held up traffic and made half of the venue miss half the show,
and it stayed there anyway. This car finally gave up the ghost when I
was on my way to work, when the transmission went completely out except for
reverse. So as to not have to walk more, I drove the car
and reverse down residential streets to get as close to my work as possible,
until it became evident that to to get any closer I would have to get
on beltline. So I just left it in front of someone's house and walk
to work. But it looked beaten up. Oh it had a skull spray
painted skull on the hood. Yeah, see this car, so this could
be like it's been washed, even it looks I'm saying it looks new,
but this is a modern car that has been washed and maybe nothing. It
may just be there. Someone dumped it is just keeping it there for for
a little bit. Maybe, but it's been there for over a month.
It could be a relative. You know, hey grandmama, can I park
my car in front of your shoe? Absolutely could be And I'm not gonna
be around for over a month, ye two months. He's going to Vietnam.
But I at least take down the license plate and maybe make a call
and just be like, you know any cops. No cops know me by
outlaw, all right? Coming up next, can you believe it? The
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