Good morning everybody. Here we go. It's gonna get mild before it gets
wild. It's gonna warm up for the downbeat. And we have stuff all
day long for you. Gonna pay tribute something turning twenty five years old today
at nine o'clock. It's gotta butt for you a little bit later. Didn't
go this morning news? Of course? Did Aaron Rodgers apologize to Jimmy Kimmel?
Did he cuss a lot on National TV? Have that for you?
A quick way to get rich? Sure? How we can save Mike Siroy
get that seven o'clock. Let's do it now. It's cowboys stuff, tons
of cowboys stuff. Cowboys. You're gonna win, right, I got another
bad thing, though I had another bad note. There's more good notes than
that notes, mostly good notes. At seven MAVs we're gonna have Jason Kidd
today and the MAVs lost by a lot, and uh, I don't mind
either getting in touch at the PR guys, and like you know, we're
gonna have to do it tomorrow. When do text him right after the game?
Uh yeah, near the end. To me, the guy that I'm
going with now is Alan. It makes to be bff with Scooter, I
know, and he was awesome. And I'm sure Alan's great. Who's been
great? Yeah? Yeah? Did he work under Scott, I don't know.
I'm sure sure know if he was brought in he has an understudy.
Yeah, because Tomlin was my favorite in twenty five years in this business,
My favorite. Pr got to deal with yeap the best, so good,
no disrespect to any others, but you know, it got to be a
goat. It was him takes That's a tricky job, man. It takes
a certain kind of person, it does, and there are some people that
are really good at the nuts and bolts of that job. But Scott was
not only great at that part, but he was always in a fabulous food
And that is honestly the key to be positive attitude not and put that vibe
out and it makes even it makes when you get declined for interviews that much
better. You don't get mad, you don't think it personally, you know,
I doubt anyone is confused, but every sports team has at least one
I mean usually a team of media relations people and there's sort of one point
person at least, I mean, there's different levels because like John Blake,
is it for the Rangers, but we tend to deal with rich Rice unless
you have like a really big yeah, unless you're the manager or an owner.
So it just kind of works itself out. And then the relationship over
time, you figure it out who you should go through and what and every
team has them and that's who we need to go through, and they need
to decide when to ask. The coaches of the players, you know,
you got to do some stuff. You don't have to say yes everything.
And then the player's personalities come into that, and then the relationships with the
media outlet goes into that, and then the importance of the media outlet goes
into that. And what are you asking for five minutes on the phone?
Are you asking for a twenty minute, well lit, green screen television sit
down? And there's just a lot of spinning plates that they have to manage,
and it's a really tricky job. It's interesting. I havn't really,
I don't know, sat down for a minute and thought of but you're right.
So the annihilated last night by maybe the worst offensive team in the NBA,
and we already had an agreement to have Jason kidd on and I wonder
what time an hour after the game, how far after the game? And
then you're like, so, Alan, what's uh? What's so? I
hid scheduled tomorrow and he'd been working. We have been talking for seven days,
you know about and I wanted to get this in the middle of the
week, you know, away from cowboys madness and all that stuff at the
beginning of the week. And he's really great. So last night I just
sent him a about ten o'clock, I sent him an email said, not
the result we wanted there, but just let me know if he's still down
to do it. I'm sure asking or reminding of nights like these isn't very
fun. And that's just me being mindful of the job they have to do
well. It shows your experience as well, yes, and that I'm not
a selfish a whole. I think it is a big part of that.
Does a lot of people do this, I'll be honest. This in general
fair or unfair, And I'm gonna say specifically radio types, although there are
different forms of radio types. You're people who go play music and don't have
to talk for four hours, no offense or your you know, the sports
A lot of the sports talk people, which we are not but is you
know, in my opinion, weird DFW's talk station. To me, that's
the way I see it. But like the the people, the sports people,
I think, especially nationally, just have such a e f and high
opinion of themselves and act like they matter. And if I'm a John Blake
or a white Joe Trahn or An Allen okay, you know, doing the
PR jobs here, I'm like, well, you know, I got partnerships
I gotta think about here, and you know they've got a multiple interview requests.
The thing that I think also, I've always this might be over the
last five to six years, I've really thought about a lot these jobs a
or more like what players do is more than what anyone ever knows. But
coaches Bruce Bochie one hundred and sixty two games, okay, pregame meeting with
the media, postgame meeting with the media, plus other obligations. Are we
talking about five hundred interviews? Are we talking about one thousand interviews? It's
a lot. Yeah. In at three hundred and sixty five day year,
you may do three times that many interviews. Now you get a little bit
time off granted. Pictures and catchers reporting a month Okay, baseball is really
stupid. I heard the other the day the red Zone guy was like game
two hundred and seventy two of the NFL season. I was like, God,
they've played one hundred and sixty two games per team in baseball. It's
pretty insane. And that's my point. You did the right thing for giving
the responsibility of having kid on today a soft place still land in an option,
and I would imagine Alan didn't even ask I mean didn't ask him.
It never you know, And that's part of the job, is managing that
and maybe asked him prior or not not even do you think Jason Kidd cared
about and inevery he was going to do in two days? No, So
Alan has his calendar or however the hell he organizes all this stuff, and
he's like, all right, after the game, I'll set him up ninety
seven to one, okay, And then you text him and he's I bet
a lot of almost majority of requests never make it to the player. It's
not even like a request to the player. Yeah, I mean, Jason
Kidd listens to Alan and he's like, where what do I have to do?
Where do you need me? I don't think it's hayy, can you
do ninety seven won the Freak on Wednesday? No, it's do radio to
care. He's like, hey, I got a radio for you at you
know nine am. I mean, that's it. It's it's part of his
job. It's that, it's absolutely But part of Allen's job is managing when
the requests go in, when to lie to us, which is fine and
say hey, coach, isn't availab tomorrow because it's not like he asked him?
And he's like, hey, I really am not available. Allan's the
liaison. He knows how to read the situation to if he doesn't need to
lie to us and go yeah, he's not available. He knows when to
ask even ask at all yes and then and then if the interview is set
up, then it's on Alan to you know, the day of depending on
how long before the interview, to remind him and then to text him to
the exact number. So now all he has to do is press the button
when it's the time to call in call now, Jason Bam. Part of
that media aaison is making the job as easy as possible for the people you
work for, which is the Mavericks not us for the coaches and Jason Kidd
could have an ESPN or an NBA TV interview this morning, and they're like,
you know what, No, I'm already doing NBA TV man, I
don't want to. Yeah, the juggling f that job for me. And
that's why we brought up Scott Tomlin. And honestly, I like everyone.
I don't think I like every one we've dealt with. I love Sarah Melton.
Oh so that was great. Rich Rice has been great. John Blake
has been great. John Blake is famous around here and like John Blake's awesome
and he's been there forever, Like he's the kind that would be like,
no, you know, but I like John Blake. Yes, I did
too. I really like him. All it takes it takes a special kind
of person to have that job. But even though he tried to kick me
out a Yankee stadium once you know what a time, you know, and
supported your arrest as his stadium, he was a witness for the get out
of right dugout. You have a good reputation at that time, either,
you know, yeah, like I do now, so uh well, I
could have just let him dangle and just like see what he says, but
he said, sorry, yes, he'd like to reschedule with Friday following a
win, work if we win. Okay, so he's got a caveat what
should I play the nick? I don't want to talk to Jason Kidd the
day after a loss. I know that a lot of people will go,
let's go grilling. I have no interest in doing that. Honestly, I
don't have interest in that. But I watched that game even more closely than
the average MAVs game. I watch knowing that we were at the time going
to have the head coach on, and I had some doozies. Well,
you know what I keep coming back to, you had your weapon loaded?
Well, I was like, how do you ask this? How do you
ask is defense just about effort? And I was like oh, and then
some things I kind of write and I'm like, I wouldn't do But it's
like, are there nights when NBA players take the night off. That's what
they did last night. They did. You know what they did, Mikey?
They cut corners. They cut corners down, the cut cut cut Okay,
Dave, it's not his birthday anymore. Cut these cone It's birthday week
for Dave Matthews. Do you celerate the whole birthday week? Absolutely? Did
you wait till rocks? He went to bed last night and light a single
candle and put it in a sad Kroger cupcake. He went Tom thumb idiot
said, Kevin's favorite band is the Dave Matthews Band and his birthday was yesterday.
And did you get were you on the text too of Kevin's LP mural
of the Dave Matthews Band. I glanced at it and I assumed in on
every album cover, So you've got this. It's nine right. Those are
an album covers. Those are just pictures. Those are pictures from discs on
live albums, all right, Because is that what you were talking about yesterday
when you're talking about your your your LP shrine. Yeah, yeah, okay,
but those are pictures from different live albums. And you're engaged to a
woman that lives with you and she allows that she likes Dave. No,
she does. I don't think she does. After your response yesterday when we
asked you that I know how this works. My brother's cash the roy He
loves fish more than anything in the world. And sweet Mary that doesn't really
like fish Well, I believe that people can be different. That's the dumbest
thing you've ever seen quick on this world. You're much smarter than both me
and Roxy. That may be true, but you're hesitant to when we asked
you yesterday. Is Roxy like Dave Matthew's band and you're you're the cash coming
around? Or he said something like that. Even goes far to say that
if you're in a relationship the woman that you're with, if you're a dude,
there's a nine out of ten chance that she hates your favorite band and
just tolerates it. Because your favorite, she kind of likes you a little
bit. I like her favorite. Who's her favorite? Harry Styles? Okay,
yeah, I sure you like Harry Styles. Harry's House just added to
the Rolling Stone Top five hundred albums of all time. Thank you. Yeah,
that does nothing to do with you. I love Harry Styles. No,
you don't know. You don't. It's amazing. You do not sit
around and spind Harry Styles Vinyl at your house. I le do not on
your own. I got all three albums. You don't do this on your
own. I saw him live. He's amazing because of her. No one
because of her. You would not seek out Harry Styles before. If you
lived in a second bastard bachelor apartment or a duplex on Lower Greenville somewhere and
have a little record player set up, I guarantdamnity you you would not be
well but to go home tonight and put on the Harry Styles LP. Yeah,
well I know you would. I get it when I met you,
you know, ten to fifteen years ago, when I was a part time
guy at the Ticket I know I was really cool and everyone knew I had
great music days. So it doesn't seem like I would be, you know,
spinning Harry Styles records. I'm not saying that you don't appreciate Harry Styles
and you realize that he may be misunderstood by guys that go suck. Yes,
it's guy, I agree. I agree. Yes, half off Harry
Styles at your house unless it's brought on by her. Are you with me
on this? I am. Although I I don't hate Harry Styles. It's
sort of like what Timberlake was for most of the decade. Yeah, Gary
a boy band who broke out, for sure, and you're and you're kind
of like, he's kind of cool and plus he has the acting crossover,
although I've never seen him act, and they go on Saturday Night Live and
they're really funny and engaging, and they you see a version of them that
you're not used to, and it's like, you know what, I like
Harry Styles, but you don't really like Harry in my life press play on
a justin Timberlake anything on my own time, even though I was like,
ah, he's cool, and I think Harry Styles is cool, and I
think I know rat what's he got? Raspberry buttercut? What's his song?
Yeah, Raspberry Buttercut. He's got like two or three songs that I know,
and I'm like, they're catchy, man, they're pop songs, and
pop songs are fun. But I've never pressed play in my own time Harry
Styles song or bed Bath and body Works flavor the cat name of candle,
Watermelon Sugar. There you go, yeah, yeah, you can probably do
that. I'm just saying that we make it. We make consolations when we're
when we're betrothed. The guy who's single. Yeah, right, And guess
what I'm not doing tonight going home and putting on a g D Harry Styles
record, even though I like him and I respect him, but he's really
good. You know when when he comes on, I don't turn it off.
But I'm not buying the albums and jamming them out. Throw it on,
jam it out to it and then maybe yellow Yeah, with what my
dog, don't do it with your a, your dog, your god.
Speaking of that, we got a letter from prison speaking of that. I
don't know all of our fans and cool people in prison. That's how you
transition and speak of speak of them. Kidding. So I actually posted the
picture of this on the down on the ninety seven one the freak TikTok page,
and when I get time, I'll put it on the Instagram and and
Twitter and I'll I should have time right now. But he's so busy.
It's he's so busy cleaning his hairy Styles LPs, dusting your hairy styles collections.
This is from I'm not No, i'man like today like now I hear
at work, not what I'm doing at home. It's our listener Picasso Picasso.
Yeah, okay, so we're number one in prison. You guys can
do freak out all you want over the ratings. We're number one in prison.
Uh here, ninety seven won the freak and uh, he drew a
picture of us without ever seeing us, and it's great and I've posted that
to go check it out. Now, this is a he's an incredible artist,
Yes he is. He's really good. I've seen stuff he's done with
like just pen on a sheet of paper in the past. But then I
don't know when months ago or we redid it a few days ago. We
challenged him to draw us, and he's color on a regular good quality stock
or something that is a plus art. Now, if he nailed us or
not, I don't you know. I don't know, but we never seeing
is yeah, pretty good, incredibly good. Yeah, yeah, he nailed
my athleticism. Yeah, I mean yeah. And you're smoking a cigarette.
I think, no, you're playing with a quarter. I don't know.
Let me see that in the picture. Doesn't have a mustache, you heard
a mustache, and you're bald with the hair on the side. But you
know, it's kind of the detective Dick Shale. I'll tweek that out from
a at down Beat DFW as well if you're a Twitter type, because it's
so damn good. It's really good. This is written on twelve thirty,
twenty three. Okay, all right, ready for the big prison New Year's
Eve blowout? All right, down beat, I've been listening, just too
lazy to write or draw for a bit. I did get your request,
so I put them in at the letter. You guys also had some questions
about music in prison, so I'll talk about that. And I don't remember
this, but we're wresting about how do they get music? I guess.
So they used to sell us MP three players about the size of a zippo
lder, but they've replaced those with iPad many tablets. These tablets can be
used to play video games, rent movies, play radio, purchase EMP three's.
I've got the old MP three player which only has radio, and purchased
EMP three. So there's a database of MP three's that you can buy music
from. The database is limited, and no one understands how they pick what
they could choose from. One song costs a dollar fifty. The player as
a whole cost ninety five dollars. They can damn purchase you said, a
tablet, mini iPad tablet, But they can, you said, look at
internet and watch movies. Yeah, okay, play iPad iPad mini sized tablets.
They can be used to play video games, rent movies, play radio,
or play purchased MP three's. Yeah, I bet it's all some weird
contained network that's super limited. Yeah, you don't play Dick Dug. Yeah,
so he says, we can purchase our own little archive of music to
listen to after you guys go off the air at six pm. Sorry news
junkie, but yeah, one song cost one fifty The player was ninety five
dollars. A new style tablet is one hundred and thirty five dollars. But
maybe you have a loved one who comes in and brings you some you know,
Okay, I always think that video games in the penitentiary would be a
good idea. Yeah, are you too right? Yeah? I guess you
could limit and maybe not play grand theft auto. I understand that, But
is that really? Is that having the problem? You know? Madden and
FIFA? Yes, maybe what are you in for? I stole a car
back in ninety three city, But here's some grand theft auto. No,
I understand that might be what you solicitation of prostitute aggravated as ault. It's
a common one. Yeah, here's a grand theft auto for you. But
don't they want uh? Their inmates to go chill for four hours. I
would think so, and not be an ass whip and like have not be
plot and whatever, like just go kill some time, whether it be reading
a book, I would think so. But playing some games. But then
again, is that a reward for, you know, someone who's screwed up.
It seems to me like you'd want the mind occupied rather than just sitting
there spinning around thinking of slam. Yeah, where does crab walk? What
wall to crab walk up? And what shed to hide in cavalcante? Our
friend Picasso writes also, and he's in prison by the way. Also,
people can check out instruments from the rec center and form bands who play during
the various holiday weekends. We have an r EM cover band, but they
play you two as well. This could be my road to platinum. Danny
Bayless's prison jam band. Uh. The quality is varied, but some guys
can play. I'm no musician, so to me it all sounds all right
to me, So to me, it all sounds all right. My friend
tells me the equipment is very nice, at least as far as finding out
about new music very difficult, he said, I'm a huge music fan.
But they only put new stuff on the database once per month, and all
the indie stuff is very limited. I hope that answers your questions. If
you have any new questions or drawing requests, you know what to do drawing
request. I feel terrible for even asking no. Well, but he's clearly
good. Much like we just said, occupy the mind. I mean,
if you don't have a new xbox S, this is a way to spend
time. That's beautiful. Also, no pressure on this one, but I
would like for you to draw Danny in a cow suit but realizing he wore
athletic shores and I know that's a minute made part in Houston with the Rangers
celebrating and him scared to stand up because he might have a half bone,
wearing sleep shorts. I would also like to see a picture of Mike's a
Roy Whiskey in hand, pacing in his living room as the Bills are up
by a touchdown over the Dolphins, because that's a visual that's been in my
head. Kind of old. And his dog Simon's in the corner just kind
of staring at him. Yeah, and I'm standing in front of the TV,
hands on hips like a dad on election night. Come on, only
you can't call it? How do you call it? I doubt there was
a whiskey in your hand on a Sunday night game night. Hold on,
we got a chance here. Yeah, wait till all the precincts are in
this robs. Uh shut up, Chuck Todd. Todd, Okay, so
uh he said, I did want to throw my hat into the scorching hot
predictions for what's gonna happen in twenty twenty four scorching hot prediction picasto from prison
for the whole year. Yeah, well, next time you're right it tell
us when you the earliest you might be getting out. Yeah, I want
to know how long he in. I don't need to know what you did.
I think he probably told us in the past. Doesn't matter. He
didn't know know who those letters are. We get him somewhere. Number one
Tite gonna announce her baby. She and Kelsey will announce, not have the
birth of their child. They're gonna announce it, but not have it.
Extra point if when born in twenty twenty five, they name it Dragon and
he goes on to be the first platinum selling tight end in the NFL.
Dragon Kelsey swift Man, AS's got chance for extra points? Pretty good?
Number two? Oh, chalk dust everywhere. Next summer, In a last
ditch effort to fight climate change, a coalition of world governments shoot chalk dust
into the stratosphere to create a solar shield, which is designed to cut the
amount of heat the sun radiates into the planet. And there's two unforeseen consequences.
The sky turns a haunting gray green color and zombies raise up, starting
an apocalypse. Okay, picasso, pretty good. Fertile mind here and number
three, A conflux of TikTok, trump Mania and mass gun violence creates a
new trend hashtag shoot the Vote, where people record themselves recording their votes for
Trump by shooting the hole in the ballot. Instead of using the punch lever,
the're just shooting the electronic voting machine. Shooting the electronic voting machine.
That's funny. They gotta get out and shoot the vote. Okay, Minor
on record, thanks for the post year or for the past year of great
radio. And I'm looking forward to the next Find the Bunny Holiday, white
Sannah and all the rest. I think white elephant. Yeah, yeah,
his hands not white. We know that. Just look at my emojis and
all the rest. Do you guys truly do a great service to those of
us who are in a low patch of our lives. I consider you all
like friends, which is kind of embarrassing. But my hero, Kurt Vonnegut
said, isn't it embarrassing to be human? And he is right, love
you all. Picasso and he cites Vonnegut. I think Picasso is a guy
I want to hang out with. I know right, Yes, he makes
great predictions. He likes Kurt Vonnegut, and he's an excellent artist. What
do you do? Maybe find that out for you? Does that book that
reservation for two? He was a serial killer of middle aged white men.
Change that idea. Yeah, non platinum middle age. That's cool, man.
That's why the that's why the bare necked ladies are still living because they
went platinum. Yeah, just made it. It's ben being okay, thank
you for goss so for real, thanks for listening. Man, So movie
out there thinking that you got through you know, the weather, it's been
a little cold, but you know, let's go warm back up into the
sixties. Beware, because we're on the brink of chaos here in DFW,
and are you prepared. I'm going to tell you what you need to know,
what you need to do so you don't have chaos at your home due
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