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in Dingo's Morning News. We have a pretty big celebrity death and uh Andrew
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hot uh. Eight thirty Dingoo's Morning News. MAVs won last night. We
are the home of the MAVs, of course. Mavericks improved to fifteen and
eight, now two and a half games back of the one seed in the
Western Conference. Pretty impressive when you consider just a little over a week ago
they looked like they were in the middle of a pretty big slide. Yeah,
they were coming sliding a little bit, but they've got it together by
winning four straight and so fifteen an eight, two and a half back of
the one seed in the Western Conference. The one seed in the Western Conference
is your Minnesota Timberwolves, who the Mavericks play tomorrow night. So it does
not get much easy year. They're fun too, with Anthony Edwards and and
Karl Anthony Towns of course, and they run Rudy Gobert out there Uh,
so that's gonna be a good one tomorrow night. You can hear that game
here on ninety seven to one the Freak as well. And if you missed
any of our math stuff, we talked about him at six point thirty look
out Duel Lebron last night, so very very nice. So here we got
Luke said two after the game, he said, everything hurts, I'm getting
gold Man. It was like, oh, but there's that. I bet
he didn't hurt as much as little Timmy Hardaway though, well, Tim Hardaway's
back his his cockys has got to be hurting. I don't know if I
said it right. Coxsicks Cox six. I believe that's correct. Yeah,
yeah, gotta you heard he took so many charges. So there's that.
Gotta do some year and stuff back on Monday, we'll have JJ's top ten
movies of the year. We did some songs and stuff yesterday. Today we're
doing the top ten twenty twenty three TV shows. TV shows that had to
have came out into twenty twenty three calendar year. And Danny and I are
both big time TV officionados. I think probably I watched less than I used
to because i've morning show you know, so not all the time, and
I like to work at night. So I bet this happened to you when
you were compiling your list. Because I had to, I ended up doing
a search of TV shows that came out in twenty twenty three just to kind
of helped jog my memory on stuff that I saw. I don't know if
you did that as well. I did, But man like reading reviews of
stuff that either I don't have access to because I being a Rokuse subscriber,
I can't add the Apple Apple Plus app to my screen. I have to
do it on my computer. So I've never watched anything on Apple TV.
I think there's a lot of stuff on there I'm missing out on, And
just like so many shows that sound so good that there's just not enough time,
you know, to consume at all. I feel like I feel like
the show. I feel like I watch a lot of television, but I
also feel like the shows that I have watched kind of only scratch the surface
of what's really good out there. Yeah No, And I kind of I
get mad at myself when I miss stuff that people talk about and I'm like,
I just didn't do it, and I just didn't jump in, and
it's like, if you just do it and get started, then it's on.
But it takes that push and you never know how much time you're gonna
have. Football season doesn't help when there's a lot of football going on and
a lot of stuff happened. Falls a busy season, like summer's a good
TV time. But either way, we had a big strike and all that,
so there's less kind of it seems like there's less shows than usual,
and there'll be more kind of picking back up for next year. But I
like to kind of wrap up the year this way. So I think the
way I kind of want to do this, let's just go back and forth,
starting at ten and work our way up. Okay, you want to
go first, you want me to go first, You to go first,
Okay, number ten. And I think the only reason I have this this
probably would have been a couple of slots higher. And the reason that I
put it at number ten is because it's in the middle of a season.
It's incomplete, and episode five dropped last night on FX, and I'm talking
about the latest season of Fargo. I know that you are watching this as
well. I find so far five episodes in this is, in my opinion,
if not the best, it's one of their best seasons so far.
I love it. The casting is great, the story is great. It's
got all the quirks and weirdness and goofiness that you would expect from from the
franchise, and they're hitting the damn mark. I caught up last night too
and did watch it. And for those of you who haven't seen Fargo,
you know it's a play on the movie a little bit. Each season is
different, loosely related at times, mostly standalone, and they've kind of gotten
away from that over the years. Too fantastic, And I'll save any other
comments I have for a uh number ten for me, Danny. It's gonna
sound crazy that I'm putting this here, but I'm putting only putting this here
because they had a really good season Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which I know
everyone talks about, like, hey, it's as show that you know has
been on forever. But and maybe it's because I started listening to their podcast
too, so I was kind of fifteen and this was I believe seventeen seventeen
seasons. That show was so funny. Yes, I'm sorry, it was
a season sixteen and they had a season that was you know they've of course,
when you've been on for sixteen seasons, Yeah, not every season's gonna
be a masterpiece at some point, and it's seen maybe a little bit of
a drop off. I'm a fan of the show, so like I'm gonna
be a little biased to the way, but I was like watching their podcast
where they're rewatching episode one, i mean season one, two, three,
four and doing it. But they were also did a few episodes with their
while they were in the writing room, so I had a little bit of
insight into it. But there's a couple of things that were great. And
there was one episode that was about a Chuck E Cheese type place. It
was called Risky Rats, where they were going back and it's the same things.
For some reason, I got obsessed with that a couple of times of
Chuck e Cheese and there was a big John Oliver piece on it, and
we were talking about maybe going to a Chuck e Cheese and they just hit
on the idea of once it's not the same because they've got rid of the
animatronics and there's a big scene where Dennis and Charlie always liked this one it
was like, you know, would be the bird character maybe here I was
like, she had just these amazing boobs. And they go back to the
Amatruks. They want to go see her the animatronic but it's basically just the
nostalgia sucks getting old. And they did an episode to end the season basically
Dennis takes a mental health day and you know, and the other ones are
ganging up on him for the stigma and he's like literally going through it and
it's a good commentary on mental health. It sounds weird. He was like
a off key episode for them, but always Sonny had a great eight episode
season. They get the number ten spot. Awesome number nine. This television
show I think this was on Disney Plus believe it or not. And I
don't know anybody that watched this, but I freaking loved it, starring Lizzie
Kaplan, Jesse Eisenberg, and Claire Danes. It's a show about a forty
something recently divorced doctor and he's trying dating apps for the first time and he
starts finding romantic success that he was never able to achieve in his early years
when he was you know, going off to college and trying to become a
doctor. Well, his ex wife ends up disappearing without a trace and leaves
him with their twelve and nine year old kids. She goes off and just
kind of goes nuts and I can't take care of the kids. Leaves this
guy who's in the middle of this crazy dating app, you know, rediscovering
his life, and now he's got to have this twelve nine year old in
his house. It's so good. It's very human, it's very heartfelt,
it's very funny, and it's called Fleshman Is in Trouble. I don't know
anybody that watched this. It was one of my absolute favorites of this year.
Watched three and did It's kind of forgot about it. I was not
getting a lot of stability on the home front there, so you know,
that's how it goes. Sometimes you gotta watch the show with I could see
that watching this with a couple as a couple, especially if you're at or
near this age group that is being represented in this show, Yeah, could
be awkward and uncomfortable. She didn't love it. I love Lizzie Kaplan,
saying I love she steals the entire show. She is phenomenal in this.
I also love Adam Brody and he's got kind of the fun, you know,
fun role in that show too, But I quit after three. I'm
gonna get on that. That's gonna to be a holiday duty for me.
I love it. Cavn in Trouble. Number nine for me, I think
you should leave sketch comedy. Yeah, but it's six episodes. They're all
about ten to fifteen minutes long. Worth it alone this season in my opinion,
for season three, although I do think season three was the weakest of
them, but worth it alone for the house party where he's telling the guy
stop talking about your kids, and this is the brainschild of what's the guy's
name? His name is Tim Robinson, Tim Robins, who was a you
know writer on Sarah Alvil's Castme Life for one year. So funny, so
weird, so offbeat, so bizarre. Yes, it's if you like this
show, it's that brand of humor. Yes, and go watch all three
seasons. Just go do it. And it's not a time commitment. Literally
each episode's under fifteen minutes long. So that's my number nine this year,
they're very very good. Number eight for me would be the Paramount Plus's mayor
of Kingston Kingstown. Now this is the Jeremy Renner vehicle, and the premise
of this is he is what you would call an inmate advocate, and he
lives in this town called Kingstown. It's like I think it's like in Pennsylvania,
but the city is basically supported by the prison system where they the city
is home to within like a three mile radius, they're like five penitentiaries.
So prisons we all know, are very big business and the city survives on
the business of prisons. And what Jeremy Renner is, he's like an advocate
and his role he helps inmates and their families navigate their sentences. And he's
kind of placed in the middle of this increasingly savage conflict between law enforcement and
it's the factional prison system of the of the neighborhood, of the of the
of the city. So he's kind of the go between, go between,
the liaison between law enforcement. He's cutting deals, he's dirty, but he's
kind of a good guy, you know, he's a he's it's what basically
all great protagonists are, or I guess maybe they're antagonists. I'm not sure
how you would describe them. But the people that are they do bad stuff,
but they're heroes, you know. But it's really really good. It's
incredibly gritty. It's not great, but it's it's it's really hard hitting,
very gritty, crimey TV col Chandler two, right, uh yeah, well
yeah for a bit, yeah, h oh uh. Number eight for me
The Curse on Showtime incomplete anably. I think they're through five episodes, but
the first two episodes alone and the third one was a little you know,
for the first two episodes alone, I'm like, Okay, this is gonna
be amazing. So I don't know where it's going still, and it's kind
of impossible to explain on radio quickly. The Curse on Showtime. Number eight
for me starring in the Stone. Yeah. I like that show a lot
too. I haven't finished it ort or got a to speed. I think
I watched either the first or the first two episodes, but it's something that
I will definitely revisit. Number seven for me is Hbos the last of Us
Pedro Pascal, the little gal from Game of Thrones what's her name? Can't
remember anyway, It's basically their journey across America to get this little girl who
basically holds the antibody that protects you against zombie attacks. Yeah, it's so
much more than a series about zombies. In fact, the zombies are are
something that are kind of an afterthought. You don't really have a lot of
zombie warfare, which you do in shows like The Walking Dead. It's more
about the relationship that develops between this fifty year old man and this younger,
this young girl that he has kind of been awarded the guardianship of to make
sure that she arrives safely to this clinic that is in the western part of
the country to you know, find an antidote to uh to to ward off
zombie attacks. But it's really really mindful, it's really good and uh and
very human as well. Bella Ramsey, Bella Ramsey yep, yep. I
was kicking myself on that. Thank you, JJ, You're number seven.
Number seven for me is going to be the righteous Gymstones on HBO. And
look, this is a show. I didn't really love season one of this
show. I liked aspects of it, and then season two it got better,
and then season three it got even better. I've still got it in
Q. I haven't gotten to it yet. I think it's pretty funny,
and I've heard from everyone that season three is baffo. Can't wait. It
gets a little better. They enact a kind of a White Power Malicious featuring
Steve Zon and Stergil Simpson. Yes, so once you add that aspect to
it, it gets really really insane and uh yeah, yeah, I just
I can't believe it's getting better, but it is. And it starts to
lose the tone of your classic Kenny Power show the more and more it goes
on. So yeah, number seven, my number six was number one on
pretty much everybody's year endlist. And that would be HBO's Succession. I don't
know more you can say about this. Everybody knows about Succession, even Sleepy
Joe. Uh but Succession, it's one of the it will go down in
the pantheon of iconic HBO series. It's about a mega media company. Basically,
it's kind of uh loosely based on is it Robert Ales? Uh yeah,
I think so. Yeah, kind of like the guy that owns the
f this fictional Fox News. Maybe it's Murdoch Ales or an amalgamation of of
all of those people, the Ted Turners, whatever, But it's these guys
that is this guy that is is the CEO of this massive, massive media
corporation, very uh right leaning, and he's got three children four I guess
one, two, three, yeah, four kids, and they're all just
pretty useless and trying to find their way in the company. And man,
I did not love this show when it started. As a matter of fact,
I watched a couple episodes and quit. I went back to it,
and when I went back to it, I realized what this show was really
about, and I fell in love with it. And it is so good.
It's not my number one, but it could have been. Uh yeah,
no, I love it and I will have it later. Number six
for me, a show that will end up in my top ten of all
time TV shows probably, but it's last season was its weakest season in my
opinion. Season four of Barry on HBO. That's number six for me.
I love the show. Barry could have all and Berry. Barry could have
made my top ten. I think season one and two of Barry and really
even season three just hard to top. But number six for me this year
because there are five shows that I liked more than that. Yeah, that's
crazy. In the top five. Next, let's see the Top five.
Next, I've got some good stuff for morning news and if we have time
to get to it, great or not, they're things that will definitely say
for tomorrow. So yeah, let's do our top five top TV shows of
the year twenty twenty three. Coming up next right here on ninety seven one The Freak