You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven one, the Freak Yeah, Good
Moon and Gang. It is Wednesday the sixth. Hope you're doing well,
and hope you're telling your friends and you're locking in with us. A couple
things that you need to know about. Almod draft House hosting the Let's Freaking
Jill Movie series. That's Tuesday to simmer nineteenth. I'm told that's freaking Jesus'
birthday too. Oh really simmer nineteenth. Cool. We are going to uh
it's our it's this show the Downbeats movie of the month, and we chose
well off the beaten path a little bit. We didn't want to do standard
Christmas movie. We kind of went off a little bit with Office Holiday Party,
which is good and maybe I just said the name wrong very much.
It's a holiday Christmas party. No at Jesus Holiday Office Party. Don't don't
help him, No, I don't look you just work it out Office Christmas
Party, Office Christmas. We want to do something that a lot of people
probably hadn't seen it right maybe unless they have, but Blake, we could
have done elf like she just like hell now yeah raw yeah cocaine with cocaine
and teas. Our good friend TJ. Miller's at it too, and our
good friend Jennifer Aniston, and our good friend Jason Bateman in it too,
and many others. Our friend t J. Miller is, but the rest
of them are not. The J. Miller really might be our friend.
Now that's December nineteenth. Tickets are at ninety seven one free dot com or
draft house dot com. They're flying one to three four nine tickets available left
in the back part, like the back half. Hell yeah, and then
the front rows are still available. But fine, there's seven bucks apiece.
But we're in ugly sweaters and you're getting a free drink if you wear a
dumb sweater to this thing. And we're getting crammed. We don't have to
work the next morning. Yeah, we're gonna get crammed. We're gonna get
crammed. And I was even thinking maybe during the movie, if we're not
liking it, let's just get up and start messing with each other and swapping
seats and swapping partners. Yeah, let's just go nuts. Let's go nuts.
We'll take this the last one, Yeah, where Alimos just wipes their
hands clean of us. Bevy of inflatable women bring inflatables. Yeah, yeah,
getting support that, I agree. And all you gotta do is go
get tickets for seven dollars that you will be compensated for if you were an
ugly Christmas sweater when we buy you a free drink. Yeah, so it's
free. So men out there listening, go tell your woman right now.
Look, we're going to a movie Tuesday, the nineteenth. We're gonna get
crammed. You're gonna get crammed. Yeah, everyone's gonna get crammed. I'm
gonna bring a super soaker filled with hair conditioner. Yeah. Shooting people's eyes.
Yeah, like when there's a good part of the movie and everyone's locked
on the screen. Dude, we shoot some of it all over my te's
shirts. Eight News and Review continue. I'll look back at twenty twenty three
because you can't forget your cowdown continues yesterday where I nearly peed my pants,
but we will continue that at nine. The Downbeat Singing Christmas Tree Topper coming
up at eight in stores now, trying to make our money back from the
Halloween Downbeat Singing Pumpkin failure, but we got a have of it this time.
Nineteen days before Crimbo, and it is on the shelves at your local
racetracks, hobby lobby, Mardell. It's also at either a Family Dollar and
the Dollar General either one. There now other competitors, so look, oh
yeah, it's also at minards if you ever come across one of those.
There's a couple of those. Weirdly signed a deal last minute at Tractor Supply
Company. So yeah, go what you need, throw it on top of
the tree and it sings to you. Give a little preview of that.
At eight o'clock you're out there buying feed and I'll get a nice down beat
tree topper, a live preview. So before we do sports at seven,
we need to do the celebrity wheelspin for Picks with Glens, which is tomorrow.
Standings have tightened up after last week. Fellas and Lady Celebrities still leads
sixteen nine and one. The Glens are now tied with Danny fifteen ten and
one and then Malcolm fourteen and twelve, Danny's son, followed by Me at
well sorry Mike at twelve thirteen and one, Me at twelve and fourteen,
and then JJ at eleven fourteen and one. But the gaps are closing.
The gaps are closing. It's doable. Even those with losing records are creeping
up. Yeah, I bought a four four and o streak two weeks.
I think between you and myself and Malcolm, we all went six and oh
because we're sharps. Yeah, they're the pub we're sharps. Well, JJ,
you're gonna have a foot phone case. Kevin has put a big white
girl ugg on it. Yeah, that's a big white foot, a white
foot, idiots, and none of us know what that is, but Kevin
just mentions it every time like he knows where to get this. But that's
for the Saturday night live bet what's this one? Pixures Glenn's. It's definitely
about live streaming yourself watching the Tonies and we'll make all the Yeah, she
love that. Anyway, if the celebrities lose, all of them have to
get together and live stream. You have your phone just on you the whole
time while you're watching a three and a half hour show about theater. Yeah.
Great, Joey Chestnut and Dick Valentine and Jim Knox and Uncle Rico and
TC and Hamel and Gary Snakes. We'll all get together after livestream themselves watching
the Tony's that they ate up in the last place. They'd probably be like
twenty five people that would watch that stream. But it would be the greatest,
the greatest thing ever put on the internet. It would be so stupid.
Well, here's our letter. What we do is we spin the wheel,
We get a letter, and then we find a celebrity based off of
that. And I've eliminated a lot of letters already this year, of course.
But here we are a week fourteen edition, you know of picks with
Glenn's spin. Now whoops, Okay, no one's gonna have an X.
Hello, let's see if we have any Yeah, helo X videos log in
and password. Yeah, it's us. Think it's funny to go to something
bad. Oh I have Basil Zeros right above that is Hamster. Yep,
he's one of the dudes who helps out at the Austin Street Shelter. Well
it doesn't qualify though, just I have you have no axis? I don't
think you got a lot of aces handing on hex again, remove that choice.
Here we go. This is the one. This is the one.
Have we aread young c Yes? Because we had Joey Chestnut and Bury Church
remove choice only twenty six letters in the alphabet, so we'll land on one.
Hey, hey, we didn a. No, we did A.
We did. Mike Adams, Yeah we did. We did remove choice.
Jesus dude. Oh here's one that we haven't done. W w Is the
letter all right? That comes after V? Right? Yes, it does
that. Just helping Danny out a little bit. Skin Wade Wade, skin,
don't us get skin. I love skin. But let's get a real
celebrity this Ty Walker free agent, Warren Moon. Okay, write that down.
I have Joe Trey, Hann White, Charlie Waters, former cowboy great,
still alive. Yeah, let's get him on herschel Walker. I mean,
dude, it's maybe a little over the air. That's never heard anybody
who is Roy White, Roy Whye, my good friend of mine in ours.
Yes, we have DeMarcus Ware, I have Will Johnson of cent Dramatic.
I have Ron Washington whoa yeah, angels, you're talking about angels manager
Ron Washington, d a Wybring golf legend. Oh I bet da would do
it? Maybe, Okay? Wellotsky Randy White, the manster dude, he's
half man half Monster. Noah, I actually think he would do it too.
Probably, yeah, he would, Ty Walker he might, Okay,
well, Everson Walls too, Oh yeah, who might? I feel that
that's a that's a good boat also, Levi Weaver of the Athletic, I
think he would. Vernon Wells would I have Kenley Wolf the bass player of
the Coult. That's actually kind of interesting, dude. Vernon Wells always good.
Vernon Wells might might play all right, we got a lot of options
there. That's good. There's your double. Let's just forget about this until
like an hour before and have Kevin stress out about it and pick somebody walks
in skin skin We just come in, dude, pick cowboys and someone else.
We're not doing that. Chris Woodward might too, Woody, Okay,
we got a lot of options for w that's good. All right, that'll
be tomorrow eight o'clock. Right now, Let's go ahead and do sports at
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Okay, that's a great idea. If they do Texas, it's actually Dallas.
I think it's I swear I read something. I love that they've done
Miami twice now, they've done California multiple times, including Santa Andreas, which
was essentially like half of California, and I guess a Vegas and in New
York it's like a little too crowded. Someone you want to do New York
and a lot of games kind of do New York, whether that's official or
not. This would be cool. I think Dallas because then you get out,
you know you can essentially or just to you can make I mean these
maps are so big you can almost do Texas. There's a game called Driver
to back in the day, not Driver two, it's just Driver. Maybe
they didn't make a Driver too and they did San Francisco for one of the
cities you could drive around in. But yeah, Dallas would be great or
Fort Worth, who cares, No, it would be all of it.
It's not just a county. Can you go to Abilene? Like this game
GTA six will have in the trailer, there was essentially the Florida Key.
I mean it's all included. They can do hundreds of miles. I mean
they could do Texas and go all the way San Antonio Hill Country, they
could do Big Bend, include that, they could get all the way to
the Gulf Coast. They got sexy enough, though, is it to sell
a bunch of games? I mean, nobody knows any Look, unless you
live here, nobody knows anything about Tenles. No, yes, you're right,
Yeah, I don't know. Maybe it's not sexy enough. And they
did Red Dead Redemption already, which is some wild West. Yeah, say,
I played that style Open World was great. It was really fun.
All right? What okay? Cowboy's Eagles Sunday. I don't have a lot
on that right now. Today, Wednesday, middle of the week, big
game Sunday night. We know that. Let's cross that bridge. As we
get a little bit closer, I want to talk about something that's maybe the
biggest, most famous, one of the most famous athletes in the world who
has been whispered. You know that the Rangers might be in him. Show
Heotani sho Heotani laid it up very clearly with his management team. Look,
whatever happens here in free agency, I want it secret. I don't want
everyone getting out there and it to be a big story that I'm in this
city and I'm in this city and I'm in this city. All right,
So getting information on Otani has been difficult because it's been kept quiet. And
then if you're Dave Roberts, the Dodgers of the manager of the Dodgers,
he apparently didn't get that memo as he goes to a press conference yesterday and
he's like, yeah, clearly show Heyotani is our top priority, and yeah,
we've we've met with him. We've met with him already. And that's
exactly what O'tani did not want to let everyone know that he's met with certain
teams and camp O'tani has said that if it if a lot of infosts spills
out from any of these meetings, it will impact Why Yeah, I mean,
it's not like it's not the we already know it's the biggest offseason free
agent decision in baseball. What world does he live in that he thinks it's
not gonna be big news when he takes meetings and whispers and rumors. I
mean that's part of all the fun of this. And also when you say
something like that, doesn't that inspire reporters to work even twice as hard to
get the information? Yeah, but I will say odds are being like impacted
by these whispers. I mean it was only a couple weeks ago that it
was like Rangers are one of the favorites in play, and now the winds
seem to be blowing that Rangers are not a likely destination for Otani. So
the Rangers' odds now plummet a plus twenty eight hundred, like the twelfth most
favorite team to get him. Yeah, youll, part of what happened there
is Chris young maid comments. So if we're just going off what people are
saying in organizations, and that's affecting odds, and sometimes that does happen.
I mean, sometimes what a coach says about a running backs of ability to
play a colle football game will swing the line of a game by three points
and then the running back suits up and plays and they're like, well,
why did we drop the odds? Well, people started betting on it with
this. Chris Young basically did mention, and it's not clear cut we're not
going to get in, but he did basically say, look, it's the
TV thing is a it's going to because any of the Sheer effect is the
Rangers are going to affected by nine digit numbers on this TV deal. You
just can't go spend whatever you want if your TV future is in jeopardy.
And the same thing goes to Mark Cuban as there was a big article written
in Sportico about that, and it's basically, the team's facing a twenty percent
cut following recent renegotiation. They're gonna they're facing, or they're jeopardizing fifty million
dollars of annual licensing fees just to get its game on Bally, and if
Bally goes away, you lose that fifty million dollars per year. There's a
lot going on with the Ballet situation. Cuban said in the past like if
we could, we'd make streams free. There are other teams, the Phoenix
Suns, the Utah Jazz are doing their own app and they are charging,
but they think advertising will make up the revenue that they need and then you
know, fans will keep buying over time. Yeah, I just want to
watch the game, so yeah, and then you can maybe make the price
a little bit lower once you bring in a bunch of advertising fees. But
there's a Jazz plus app to watch jazz and who are in town tonight?
Yeah, I'll be there. Is that right? You're kidding the game tonight
weeknight? Are you throwing the ceremonial tip off? I am was supposed to
be a surprised I was gonna announce that right before the Kevin Hart winner at
ninety five. If you follow that ninety seven on the freaking get your details
on how you can get a chance to within Kevin Hart tickets. But I
I kind of think, well, AVI be the guy that says I'm going
at the game tonight, so tonight's game matters. Yes, I'm worried the
MAVs aren't good. You shut up, I know, but I am,
because they're on a little bit of a skid because half of them are injured
right now, injured or like hurt. What I don't know what. I
don't know. Basketball's got this weird thing where if you've got a hangnail,
you can't play, you know, you sit out. And they're trying to
work around load management and all that stuff because everyone agrees eighty two games is
probably too many, okay, and we have a team who after four days
off is gonna run out. We're gonna run Maxi's out tonight. If you're
hurt, you can't play right. So I'm not like a questioning toughness.
I'm not doing that. But it seems like we always have two, three,
four injuries and we are coming off a spell of games that we will
not get this luxury again. This year. We had a week of game,
two days off game, two days off game, two days off game,
and that's when we're the most injured. Like, we haven't been going
at it pretty very hard. It's been just had one back to back,
but we haven't been going at it hard. It's been like this what you're
describing. You know, at least like one or two dudes out every every
game. That's that seems like it's been the status quo for a while,
dating back to last year. You're eleven and eight, and it feels like
whether it's Maxie or Hardaway or Kyrie Luca. You know that was always discussed
at the end of last year. Well, they didn't actually really ever play
together much. How much they actually play together, not a lot. And
look, it seems like that's kind of like been the case over the last
week or two. Yeah, And I'm not trying to be I'm not being
like doing any recency thing. Luca had a baby, missed a game,
right, great, Okay, Kyrie's obviously going to play in that first game
that Luca's not playing. And then Luca gets back for the game too in
Oklahoma City, and then Kyrie doesn't play because back to backs are probably not
a good idea for him right now. And it's just like, but I
think you're thinking of too much load management, which I don't think is the
thing. I think they're banged up, so they're not one hundred percent.
And when an NBA team is missing parts of Kyrie Irving and Grant Williams is
hurt, Hardaway he's playing shooting pretty good, is out, and Josh Green
and Maxi Kleeba are out like that, Yeah, that team maybe is not
that good and to be, you know, cautious with dudes like that in
December, like who cares? Just a bummer. They had such a good
start and had cushion. And it's not like they've ranted any buzzsaws yet,
you know, they've hit like some terrible tough gauntlet of the schedule just yet.
And I'm just like eleven and eight, Okay, were there in the
middle. You're in and I don't know, I mean, it's West's old
jam packed, I know. Actually I'm saying kind of watching closely tonight on
a Wednesday night, finally watching a little bit over the weekend. I regrettably
missed the thirty to zero run, which everyone says was the most awesome thing
they've ever seen. And then they of not losing that game to the Josh
gidtis the fighting Josh Giddish boy, that thing's gone silent. Hasn't no news
on the Josh Giddy thing, Nope, still investigating the other. And of
course it's not nationally televised, so I gotta go through every freaking gambling and
porn pop up to cast the game on my TV. Meanwhile, the stars
are on tn T and HBO Max. You get two options for them,
gravy. I've been at Casha's house when we were watching some screen mirrored illegal
stream, you know, Roku mirror whatever I mean, Cash are watching the
game and then his wife walks in and there raymen chalks and there's a pop
up in the upper right that Yoshinoori wants to chat. It's his Asian chip
with just hammers in your shirt and she did it. What No, it's
a word screen mirroring. It's a sight that like we both kind of turned
and explained it real quick. She's like just nodding her head, going to
all right, but like wants to chat with you, Like she just sent
a post with cash. How many suckers, dude, Just go it's gotta
be a lot because it's been a business model for a long time. Go
you know what, I would also like to chat with Yoshinori. I'm willing
to offer my services to hackers of the world, Like whoever create creates all
these Twitter bots, because I'll get them still like bad, Like we're in
another wave of some busty girl likes my tweet from seven years ago, you
know, and then you click on it. You're like kind of like that
was kind of fun, like, can I help? Can I help you?
Trick? People like, are you make a lot of money off this?
Because with the bio that's got broken English in it? No followers?
Like, just let me be in charge of this. Just write a nice
sentence that makes you sound like a real person, post a couple of pictures,
god forbid, tweet a half dozen times about whether it's beautiful today,
and then suddenly you have twelve followers, you have thirty followers, and you're
like, Wow, this is a real person. And then guess what.
You're gonna get some responses to these fake dms and then we get them credit
card numbers. Well, I think the bots are created me on the back.
The bots are probably creating the bots Mikey, Well, I don't care.
They're not working. Those are fooling people at like a fraction of percentage
clip I could be fooling people at five percent. I stand ready to help.
Let's do it. Let's rob some people. I mean, the hackers
are all they're not listening to radio. But the hackers are. They're more
of them capable than even our government acknowledges. The amount of people who just
sat there and learned how to code ten years ago, fifteen years ago,
and now are experts at it. I guarantee you we would be blown away.
But imagine if all these bots were like professional, like catfish, I
think, with like real emotions. Maybe English is a primary language. If
this is the place you're trying to rip people off, making it really difficult.
And then DM and then you say, hey, you know I saw
you live in Dallas. I was there last summer. It was beautiful.
I went to this rest whatever, normal stuff, you know me. People
would be like, oh, yeah, Dallas is great. Are you coming
back? He's like, oh, I don't think so. And then a
month later, hey, I might be coming a dup like people. Dudes
would just be opening their wallets and getting jobbed. Yeah, there's a way
to there's a way to bots that are terrible and not doing it right,
there's a way to do it properly. I mean I didn't. I didn't
almost buy a piano from Busty Hanoshi. You know that's true, right,
right? A weird story. The Miracle of the Pacific. She is a
Pacific and they're gonna if they're not I mean, they are doing it,
but they're going to figure that out real quick thanks to my input, and
thank you to Grand Theft Auto Garland for sauntering sports at I'm playing right now,
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