We're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. At first
I was pitching, kept thinking I didn't live without you, Obama. This
is ken answer return cuts from hours yesterday. No Kevin. Today is me
and Danny and JJ are holding it down today and tomorrow. We're both off
Friday and Monday. I think Pugs and Company are going to be in here
Friday and Monday. They'll hold it down day. We love them boys.
I'd love to say that Kevin will survive this flight, but I'm just not
sure. Oh we got three hours left. I mean, I'll say they're
so far, so good on American Airlines flight one. You ever a cross
reference to flight number in your head with like that sounds alright, yeah,
but like you try to say in your head, like will that be some
that won't be That's not a good number that everyone remembers forever. That's not
a good Uh, it's not a good headline number. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
But doesn't the event make the number? It does? It's kind of
like I know, but I still try to check it, Yeah, cross
check it in my head. Doesn't the the actual output of a band make
justify their name? Because at any level, the Beatles is a terrible name
for a band when you change the spelling even but yeah, not as wonders.
Two hours, thirty seven minutes till he gets there, So six seven
eight, that's right at nine o'clock or so. So if you're a he's
gonna make it. If you're a European freak listener and just love the downbeat,
yeah, we're giving you information that you can show up at the Barcelona
airport with maybe some welcoming signs for Kevio and his like. If you've already
made signs or made pictures of Roxanne and uh and Kevin out of macaroni on
a paper plate, and you're at the airport, we'll have two hours and
thirty six minutes before they get there. But if you haven't considered this,
this could be a call to action. You've got plenty of time to get
there. Yeah, if you're a Barcelona fan fan of ninety seven won the
Freak, it's time to get to the airport. Sweet Kevin's gonna make it.
I believe in him, but he's gone till next Thursday. I'm going
to Las Vegas on tomorrow afternoon. We'll open that can of tu to tomorrow,
right, Yes, yeah, because I am working myself into a TIS.
I'm very pumped up for my adventures. So you haven't even really disclosed
much about the main reason you're going. People have the connotation when they think
of you, and then you say that you're going to Las Vegas that in
their minds. Yeah, the only reason is to just be a debaucherous sloth
and pump money onto a green table. Yeah, with a mountain of cocaine
and me sweating with my comb over, my flower shirt on buttoned half way
and comb over and a chain, a chain and orange tinted glasses, just
screaming. I like that. I wish I was that guy. I'm not
that guy. The reality is something completely different and I can't walk for sure
about that. But that's not the main reason. You've got bigger You got
your sights on bigger events, and I think it's really cool and I cannot
wait for the report, dude, next week, the report back from vacation
tales between you and Kevo. It's gonna be off the chaps. Yeah,
yeah, it's gonna be fun. Yeah, we'll talk about that tomorrow coming
up in here. In just a second, we'll have the most important thing
in the world. But before that, you have a big day. The
little boy of our station, young Malcolm. Yeah, you told me this.
You're like, Malcolm's got something scheduled today. It's funny, It is
kind of funny. So he's my young toddler who just turned three in March.
He possesses boundless energy and trying to find ways to channel that energy.
And last night his mom texted me says, we can try this for free
tomorrow and if he likes it and it helps, it's only twenty five dollars
a class for a month. We need to do something to keep him calm.
Yeah, and I look at the screenshot and it says Tiny Champions Intro
class ages three to four. Our kids' martial arts programs help your child in
many ways. They'll benefit from physical activity, but martial arts offers so much
more discipline, confidence, focus, and leadership skills. So today, at
three point thirty, I will be taking my young child to his first toddler
karate class. It's called Tiny Champions, Tiny Champions, and he will be
well on his way within probably a year or two to receiving his honorary Elvis
Presley black belt, tell me a black belt by by the time it hits
one hundred degrees rip or ball sack. No, that I gave up the
ghost on that a long time ago, because I've told you guys, at
every elbow, knee or shoot a foot has broad laser guided trajectories that are
all aimed at my mid section at all times. Dolly thinks about how to
destroy this area. Yeah, because that gets a reaction. Oh yeah,
it does so three o'clock today, yea a little GHI probably on day one,
I don't will be a gee. Right, that's a free one off
class. But if you sign up and you start getting the stuff, I
think the best way to approach this is we we look at the at Day
one is more of a a recon mission. It's it's we're doing surveillance because
I know it's going to happen. He's We're gonna walk in there and he's
gonna No, I want to go home. I don't. I don't want
this, I think so. Yeah, because of the structure of it.
No, because it's not his idea. Really, he's the most willful child
that I've ever been around in my life. And if he doesn't do it
himself. If it's not his idea, then it sucks. Like if you
play, he'll ask for juice, and if you hand it to him,
he doesn't want that. He wants it sat down and he will come get
it himself. No, no, Malcolm, get it all right, dude?
Here, not there here? Okay, how's that? He's like?
The the the amount of independence that this child is exhibiting at such an early
age is mind blowing. I guess that's good. But it is so he
is, for he is forming who the hell he is as a human right
now with that. Oh and yeah, and you know what, I blame
it on good You know what, I blame it on modern parenting because when
I was a kid, you just get the back of a and and you
do it the way you were told to do it. And now you kind
of give your kids the freedom to be self realized, you know, develop
their personalities, and you kind of just shepherd them and not try to kill
their spirit. Obviously there's consequences to your actions, their cause and effect.
You try to implore those you know, principles as best you can. But
it's not like it was when we were kids, you know, growing up
in the seventies, you did what your parents told you to do. You
did what your parents wanted to do. You didn't have a voice, You
weren't able to express emotion safely. You know, you were if you had
if you were if you were sad, you were told to stop crying.
If you were angry, that wasn't okay. And because I say so,
yeah, that's the reason, the entire reason, and it's kind of irrefutable.
Yeah, because I told you to. And then what little kids do
is they realize that there's no outlet for this, so just to keep the
peace with their folks, they stuff that stuff down and then it manifests with
I don't know, thirty five years of therapy later in life. And it's
true, I really do believe that. Yeah, it's amazing how formidable even
now these years are. And yes, you're right, the threat of getting
the size thirteen boat shoe on my bottom with my primary reason for living,
Yeah, to avoid this at all costs. So sure, I'll do it,
and I'll take the juice from there. Then thank you, right,
instead of no, Mikey gets the juice. What huh? It's not the
way the world works, man, does he like action movies he likes Panda
or anything like seen Kung Fu Panda Action. No, he doesn't like big
loud explosions, or he doesn't like bad karate might No, not yet,
so he does even know what karate is. He likes playing really rough okay,
and wants to wrestle and all that stuff, and he's pretty reckless.
He can't be you could be a karate champion. I kind of probably have
to explain to him what karate is. First. He's gonna walk into this
thing and see these Just show a couple Elvis gifts, and I'll him understand
what he could possibly grow into be. I'll have him watch the Elvis the
Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite special and you can see some really awful karate.
Then just have him to do karate for like three weeks. He'll get his
black belt, and then we'll send him to Kevin's house and he can just
he can demo Kevin's cardboard home with kicks, with his kicks and punches and
just raise that thing to the ground. I will tell you this. I
have seen little kids that are going through the karate program and they've been through
it for like several years and they're handing out belts like their skittles. Right,
I'm watching these kids. You're you're a brown how Yeah? How are
you? Dude? It's a business and it's just like these phone games you
play right where it's like you play and it's like then they eventually ask you
for a dollar and look at all the coins you unlock. I mean it's
essentially the same model as that. Now. I'm not minimizing martial arts to
that level. I really, Despite what I say about Bruce Lee, I
do respect martial arts and I think they're great for development and self defense and
all confidence and all this. God forbid. Yeah, self defense for women.
I love it. But the format of it is, yeah, look,
you're only three weeks away from the yellow belt. Just stick around till
then. Yeah, and it's dangling carrots in front of you with timelines,
and that's just a human nature thing that gets you to want to stick around.
And then, yes, it is still a business where you are then
there for another month. You're like, well, I got an orange belt.
Now, who's scared of the orange belt? No, I can get
that next color. So it's a good formula that works. Yeah, And
I think it's mainly at the kid level that that that dynamic is in place.
Yeah, because I'm sure like once you get to advanced adults and you
will look, I want to legit be a second degree black belt or whatever
that's your objective. I'm sure the criteria is incredibly dude. I'm a friend
of mine who does a kto and he is a multiple degree black belt and
he would whoop my a so quickly and he's way smaller than me. But
it's all about manipulation, joint manipulation and you know, sort of suppressing your
opponent anticipation. Yes, and it's not a movie kick high kicks and all
this. There's none of that. I don't think in ikedo it is.
It is just sort of defense based and it's fascinating. I've had him show
me stuff. We're you're joining shoulder and stuff, and yes, you can
whoop me so bad. So yes, it is. I respect it.
But for little kids, I think it might just be a money ground.
What if there's the serious level of little kids it's martial arts, it's got
to be that too, you know, when they're five, six seven,
I don't know, really little badasses. I don't know what they're doing over
a tiny champions. I have a feeling it's get daddy to buy the key
and buy this next belt. We'll see what happened, and Daddy will happily
write the check. Yeah. Yeah, If little Malkie is tired when he
comes home, yes, that is an investment in our future. You better
have some sweaty, stinky feet when you get home and be ready for a
nap, little bit. I'm ready for the most important thing in the world,
all right? All right? Sponsored? I mean nope, nope,
it's sponsored by Toddler Karate Champion, Build build a Champion Today. I pulled
where is it today? Okay, I pulled this audio last night and I
wanted to play it and we'll explain what you're hearing on the other side.
Uh uh uh uh uh Elephant down the road, Oh my god, oh
my god. Only in the circus elephant got loose. Where are you going?
Where are you going for? And he's darn, where are you going?
Friend? All right? I don't support cigarettes smoking. Put the laughs
that it is provided for us by the very beginning of that just she says
that funny, and then a great sig laugh elephant down the road. Oh
my god, I can hear it in the Oh my god, only in
but the circus elephant got loose. That's so good and friend all right.
So that is audio from a video that a woman shot sitting in her car
in Butte Montana. The streets, the city streets of Butte Montana. She's
saying, Perry appears to be a traffic light. And on the video you
see a giant elephant just going for a leisurely stroll through an intersection. Yesterday,
yesterday, And what had happened was this was a circus elephant. There
was a traveling circus in town, and they were giving this elephant a bath
outside of a big ass tent, and it got spooked by the backfire of
an automobile and briefly escaped. In other words, he jumped here at the
backfire and said, you know what f this, I'm getting away from the
circus. I'm going downtown. This video is so funny because this elephant has
real, no real sense of urgency or purpose. He's just taken in the
sights of beautiful downtown Butte Montana. Viola is the elephant's name. Let's see
the Peta the Animal Well Welfare Group Yes, identified the elephant as Viola or
is it wa La Yeah, said that she's escaped her confines at least twice
before in twenty ten, in twenty fourteen, and they described this elephant as
elderly, and as we well know, the elderly tend to wander off and
maybe not exactly know why they're there, where they were originally going, or
how to get back. Just on the move. Just Oscar, Mike,
there's a picture of Viola womping down the road right toward a casino. Right,
boy, that's gonna be me in seventy two hours. Viola sroy giant
giant beast lumbering toward a casino. Yeah, Viola, I mean this is
you're seeing the same picture I am. Then, right, Okay, So
this wash the traveling circus is called Jordan World Circus and they didn't respond to
a request at the time, but apparently the elephant was only on the streets
for a short amount of time, maybe a couple of blocks, maybe two
or three blocks, and then circus step. You see one guy on the
video. I don't know if you've seen the video yet, but one guy
kind of like quickly walking by the elephant trying to get hey, Viola back
here. Yeah, he's got the elephant stick with him, right, which
who knows what that work. Yeah, so they ended up loading the elephant
back onto a trailer and it took about maybe twenty minutes the whole ordeal.
Yeah, no trampling, no no damage, no injuries. But the picture
of the determined elephant, it's walking towards two buildings. One of them says
hardwood, window coverings, tile and carpet. And so unless Viola is doing
a little bit of a maybe doing a kitchen remodel, I think the only
the only destination for Viola is the what is the name of this Montana Lee's
Casino, Montana Lill's Montana Lill's Casino. They do have the Lusist slots in
butte it appears, is that what it says? Yeah, so I can
see why one hand on black Jack Biela, that's all you got time for
before they load you back onto the truck, which you can know. Look,
I is Viola. Is Viola happy where she is in the circus And
it's a larger discussion. We probably don't have time to get into that,
but I kind of wanted to, but I felt like, if we don't
have enough time covering this, this one story, that'd be a bigger discussion.
Would Would the elephant be happier in the wild? You know, No,
our animal is happier in the zoo. Are they happy in the zoo?
Brought to you in a bucket, laid on a plate? And you
know, isn't the basis of animal existence? Food? Have you met my
dog? That's all she cares about. Reproduction? I mean that's sort of
the baseline stuff. So you got all that covered, and that all you
want, a roof over your head, a nice warm blanket, some snacks
and and what another thing? Reproduction? Right, But then you see him
in the zoo and you're like, that's so sad. You know, poor
poor fella trapped in these confines. I don't know what the answer is rome
free. It's like, well, if you're off her room free, I
might get killed in second. Now you are animals. You're the largest land
animal on Earth, I believe, the African elephant yep, and the least
susceptible. Yeah, they're they're biggest predators man, without question, yea,
even in the wild. Yeah, they're still hunted. But I don't know.
I had Viola not gotten spooked by the car, maybe she would have
just stayed where she was, But I don't know. To me, she
looks like she's having a nice time. Can you imagine, though, just
sitting at a street light downtown Dallas, all right, and then you just
kind of put it in reverse and let off the break a little and start
easing back. Okay, do you always see the elephant like just slowly sitting
down on the hood of a car, Like that's one of the tricks,
the circus elephant. It sits on that little pedestal. Yeah, your Volvo
is totaled because of Viola's butt. You ever an elephant? Yeah? I
have, actually have you. I don't even know where, but yes,
I have, little kid, it was some type of Safari zoo trip when
I was little, and you climb up a little stoop. Did your elephant
have to evacuate its bladder? It took fifteen minutes. It's just high pressure,
oh god, and it was long and loud and stunk all to be
damned. It is traumatic. The elephant take a deuce in front of you,
Like, my god, is that the size of a small human.
Yeah the Deuce. Yes, well, we wish you the very best getting
back to that circus, all the peanuts you could ever imagine. We are
safe. Viola has been captured and returned to her family and friends. All
Right, we got sports. We do have sports, and we actually had
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