The Downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. So I know, I've
got a lot of texts of people, you know, talking about how cool
would be to have it, you know, a rail service here. And
by the way, you can call or text in two and four or eight
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the red microphone. One thing I'll say about with the phone service situation in
New York not great for a guy like me who is struggling with the carrier
that I have. And I've heard a lot about like boost infinite or something
like that. That would be just fantastic because when I would go onto the
train below ground, there's no use in your phone. That's the thing.
If you want to uber somewhere, you can at least still look at your
phone in the back seat and you know, kill fifteen minutes you had a
train ride, no matter how far you're going, my phone was not alive
because yeah, but you ever notice that You'll watch other people on the train
and some of them are just flying on their phones like they actually have service.
That's all kind of man kind of butt hurt that people were able to
use their phone and I wasn't, Well, that's the thing, and Mikey
and I talked about this a couple of days ago. Is like boost Infinite
is now basically the fourth network, and the cool thing about them is that
no matter where you are, boost Infinite will find the best available network.
You're not just limited to one. Like they've got something worked out. They
figured out something that where they will channel you to the most available network so
you never have interrupted service. That's outstanding. I could have used that at
the parade where cell phone service was a problem in Arlington, a lot of
people went to the Burway. I I can't get around. What about game
set been in Houston when it took like two minutes to send a thirty second
video clip via I Tech. Yeah, we're trying to send possible video of
Cavio dancing and we can't even send anything. Nope, that'd be that'd be
kind of cool. I don't know. I've been hearing a lot about boost
Infinite and I was like wondering, like, is that so what people were
having on the subway, Like unlimited data at around sixty bucks a month,
and you get a new iPhone every year. Hmmm, something to consider.
Just heavylikey boost infinite heavy want boosty. I'm gonna go. Let's do the
most important thing in the world on this god day. Boosty. Wake up,
your little sleepyhead. It's time to get your stupid ass out of bed
to about the most impul the most important thing you We're talking about Kevio's epic
trip to New York City to go see his favorite band and experience New York
in a way that he never has before. I'm always fascinated when people get
to go to do cool stuff and hearing the tales of it, and I
think it is a great thing to reset, get out of town, experience
a totally different city a culture, because it helps remind you that this isn't
all there is. Because you if you come just come to work every day
and you live in a certain city and you never really get out of it,
you kind of just think that this is all there is and it's not.
Now, it's wonderful to get a reset to remind it. And by
the way, glad to be back though too. After about five days,
I was like, yep, my feet hurt from walking everywhere, and it's
just a lot, yeah, you know, it is high pace and a
lot of people. And we talked a little bit about, you know,
the World Trade Center site and that they've got the new building up and that's
been up there for now a few years, but the events that led to
the original buildings no longer being there being the one of the, if not
the most tragic event in modern US history. But I feel, I don't
know, from my perspective, when I think of New York, that's not
the first thing that comes to mind. It's definitely on the list, but
I think the history of New York, what it's represented for such a long
time leading up to two thousand and one, and and what's happened there since
it's it's the city and the vibe of that place is so much bigger than
that one day Dallas. To me, when people by and large think of
Dallas, Texas, you know, it's easy for the Cowboys to be top
of mind, but you don't get too far. If it's not number one,
it's not far after that you think of We're the city that assassinated a
freaking president of the United States of America on our streets in cold blood with
a sniper's rifle to the head and it was filmed. It's so crazy to
me. I think you're right cowboys. That do you think is if you're
a sportsman. If you're not a sportsman, you might immediately go to that
day. Yeah. The other thing I think of it, just in general,
the idea of cows and horses. I think people just assume we're all
country people, you know, but you don't. Like in certain parts of
Europe they do. There are people that think that we all have horses and
that a lot of actually ride horses to work. National media doesn't help us,
no, because they still do this. Yes, they highlight the stereotypical
cliche things that a lot of people think about this city. Yeah, they
go to the cowboy life and this is a big, big city. It's
a big ass city. David Artist got on a horse on like Game one
pregame show this series. I saw him do that. Why but yes.
It is November twenty second, twenty twenty three and sixty years ago today it
marks the anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. What time do
you know what time it was? Believe it was at twelve thirty, twelve
thirty one in the around lunchtime, and I think he was pronounced dead about
a half an hour later. It did not take long. And it's incredible
to me that all of those events unfolded that quickly and the information that was
able to get out to the public, considering we had no Internet. The
pros that those reporters and those news teams were back in the day to be
able to scramble to trucks to get a broadcast signal back to the radio and
TV stations, video signals, live video feeds in nineteen sixty three was uncanny,
you know, That's what they did though, Yeah, that was the
only way they knew to do it like that, and that was even more
than today, maybe even more reliant and looking for breaking news. But you
think that, yeah, absolutely, But you think about the timeline of events
that at twelve thirty shots ring out the motorcade Hal's ass to Parkland Hospital and
within thirty minutes of that, we're learning that JFK was deceased. It's incredible
to me. And it's the thing that it's even more well, the thing
is even more incredible when as you look back on history in the way that
this city does it really look on that event as a shameful moment. It's
a marketing opportunity. Yeah, I guess you have two ways you could handle
it. It's like, we all know it's a shameful thing. Maybe let's
just see how much money we can make off of it. I mean it
because it's like, first of all, I'm just amazed that more assassinations don't
happen. As we have seen gun violence go up over the years, I'm
a little bit amazed we haven't seen more like famous people being publicly shot.
That is a dark thing to say. Yeah, I know that, but
you just go if gun violence is higher than the odds of that happening is
higher. Yeah, and I don't Yeah, I don't know what how how
to account for that? I am sure there's some way to explain that,
you know, tighter security, I don't. I don't know, man,
Yeah, I'm not sure, you know. And some I think about that
more than I should when I go to public places, like, yeah,
of course, what if this happened. Maybe I'm getting to our I look
for an exit row. Maybe it's maybe it's because the culture has evolved to
a spot now where if you're going to commit any type of gun violence and
you are a wing nut that has lost his damn mind and is going to,
you know, inflict casualties, it's you want. They want to inflict
mass as many as possible rather than just one singled out person. You know,
I don't know, I have no idea. I'm sure there are people
that far smarter than us that can speak to the reason why that hasn't happened
more often. But I've always found it odd that this city nicknamed assassination City
the city of hate, you know, it just kind of leans into the
whole event is not like something to be mournful of or a black mark on
our history, but it's like, hey, let's turn the sniper's nest where
the president was killed from into a museum. As a kid, now,
granted, let me let me let me complete this thought real quick. I'm
fascinated by all of it. I've been to the six or four museum after
after living here, I've probably been there six or seven times. I'll go
again in the next year or two because I have that curious mind that wants
to see that stuff. You'll take Malcolm one day. I will take Malcolm
one day and it's it's incredible to the fact that that stuff is right there.
You know, yeah, it's it is an historic site. I totally
get that. I ain't think about this much until I got older. You
guys, a kid going to take the tour or whatever. You know,
A part the tour is lean out the window that Lee Harvey Oswald was or
or stand at where he was when he shot and then had an X on
the street, an X on the street where a bullet basically exploded our president's
head on camera. It wasn't until the last few years that I started to
think this was crazy. I had to take much of it until recently.
The same that is wild with the amount of books that have been written,
the amount of films that have been made about this, the amount of documentaries.
I saw a new one that just came out on that GEO that I
think is running on Hulu right now. That's really good. I think it's
called A Day in Dallas or something like that. But it's the most recent
JFK doc that's out there, and it follows accounts of kind of and look,
here's another thing is people that were adults at that time, they're on
their way out. Yeah, you know, much like we are at the
end of our rope with World War Two veterans, which is unthinkable to me
that we are almost at the point where there's only a handful of them left
that served and fought. We're nearing that now, where if you were an
adult at that time in nineteen sixty three, you know you're getting up there.
You're getting up there, and it won't be long before anybody that was
there that had visuals on that scene, that experienced at firsthand, they're not
going to be with us any longer. So this documentary kind of delves into
that day in the day, the day or two afterwards, but it's talking
with people members of the Secret Service, members of Parkland Hospital, members of
local police and how they reacted and what they were thinking and what they saw.
And it's really really good. But there has been so much written and
filmed about that event over the years. I don't know if it's right or
wrong to kind of use that as an earmark of your city's fame to get
people to come here. I think they would probably come here anyway just to
see it. Yeah, because it's one thing to read about it and see
it on television, but when you can actually drive and park a block from
where it happened and take a tour that follows the footsteps of Lee Harvey Oswald
after he exited the school book Depository and went to Oak Cliff where he lived
and freaking murdered Dallas police officer JD. Tippett with a handgun and then made
his way to Jefferson Street, just kind of on the run, confused,
not knowing what to do, and ducks into the Texas Theater and gets arrested.
I mean, all of those things are landmarks for a very important reason,
and it's a sensational thing. It is sensational. And look, I
made the comment in the previous segment about going to ground zero. Is it
any different? Not really, just because I think the main thing is you
want to you want to get some hands on context of the events. Like
I said, it's one thing to watch the towers come down on television on
a screen that you know you can fit in a room. It's another thing
to stand there overlooking the side of you know whatever, Tower one and seeing
the imprint of that and looking at that and going my god, how did
this happen? Good grief. It's it's fascinating to me, and I've been
fascinated with the assassination ever since. You know, it was probably that damn
movie, That damn Oliver Stone movie was probably the impetus for my intrigue.
Yeah, I remember right my dad watching that when it came it came out
in ninety two or ninety three. I remember being too young to fully grasp.
I just remember going, this is a three hour movie, and like
there, like you when you're a kid, you want to watch cartoons or
whatever. But my the cousins, two nearest cousins to me have always been
into this as well. I mean collect newspapers, you know, on anniversary
type days and things like that. I've always read about it, not going
too far down on conspiracy holes or anything like that, but they're like the
love discussing it and entertaining all options and things like that. And I mean,
I know, uh, you know at the old station that you and
I'm able to have worked at, you know me years ago and hardly you
know, there's a fellow there who is almost made it a part of his
character even to like be really into it. But I think he truly is.
If you're around here. I think a lot of people are truly into
it. A president's head get blown off and somebody filmed it. I mean,
do we watch that now? I mean, that's shown on network TV
like it's nothing, no real disclaimer. I mean it's the most violent thing
in granted, look is the resolution perfect? No, but you can tell
what the hell's happening when you see the side of a heads man turn into
a flap that opens up to his brain and watching her, Oh my god.
I mean that's that's the part that you know. Yeah. Yeah.
The other one that's still wild to me too is when you watch the Jack
Ruby video. Yeah, I mean they caught that too, They got that
which you know that was on National camera. Angles. Okay, so Jack
Ruby was he was rich? Right? Uh No, he wasn't rich.
He probably did, okay, you know, he dabbled in club ownership and
club management and stuff like that. So he wasn't like dirt poor. But
I don't think he was considered to be a wealthy man. Okay, but
he wasn't seen as just some you know, just some crazy guy. He
was going to likely Harvey Oswald was seen as right. I mean, Jack
Ruby, his motivation. And look, when you start talking about this with
any semi definitive belief, you're going to have people come at you from all
sides telling you why you're wrong. And look, I think that anything is
possible. I don't know for certain about anything much less this, but I'm
inclined to lean toward after years of kind of going back and forth down those
conspiracies are very exciting. There's so much more interesting than what might be the
truth, you know, and that's I think why a lot of people are
really attracted to them, because they are fascinating. It is a great it's
great fodder for your imagination, you know. It inspires great thought to think
about things from all different sides. But unfortunately, in most cases, the
truth is kind of boring, and it's kind of embarrassing in a way,
because if, in fact, the truth was that Lee Harvey Oswald was a
random guy in his early twenties that had a rifle that had a lot of
ideals in his head and thought that this was a way for him to finally
not be a bullied afterthought, and to make his mark, and got off
a couple of pretty good shots on a very you know, to a very
attainable target, all things considered, it's hard for people to believe that,
and it's embarrassing to think that, how did that nutbag get a rifle into
the book depository, create a sniper's nest and pull off that shot in front
of the world. So he worked there, Yeah, okay, yeah,
he worked there. Just took it to work. He just took it to
work and told the buddy that gave him a ride in his cars. He
didn't have a car, so he caught a ride with a friend, an
acquaintance or a co worker, I'm sorry, and told him it was curtain
rods. Okay, I guess in nineteen sixty three you didn't question anything why
that bull bolly is bringing curtain rods to work. But I don't know.
This sounds pretty brad. He hang a curtain. Yeah, it's time that
it was a time where you just buried your head in the sand about everything.
But it's it's embarrassing to think that that could happen. So that's where,
Well, it had to be in the Russians, it had to be
in the Cubans, it had to be in the mafia, it had to
be our own government all working in coordination with one another to pull off this,
you know, the triangulation of fire and all of this stuff. And
yeah, the reality is probably that it was just a nutbag that pulled this
thing off and got off a lucky shot. Yeah you know, but uh
yeah, that's kind of where I've come around on the whole thing. And
like I said, nobody knows for certain, and I'm not one certain.
It's called a belief because you are not certain about it. You believe one
will ever know, So it doesn't really matter. But every year, you
know, every year on this day it is every year reflect on it and
from one angle or another and look at it through many different lenses, and
it is. It is a fascinating, fascinating uh uh moment in our history.
And the fact that it happened in Ding Dong, Dallas, Texas just
kind of adds to the legend and the whole mystery of it all. It's
it's insane that freaking happened right here, just a few miles from where we
sit right now. Figure on whole number of years too, like the sixtieth
anniversary TV shows made about it as well. Yep, the big reis fifty
you know, ten years ago. I remember a lot more stuff out there.
But yeah, it seems like every year there's some new documentary or some
we're gonna prove that Lee Harvey absolutely pulled this shot off, and they'll reenact
it and get ballistics and lasers and all this stuff. It's just but you
know what I do, eat it up like a bowl of porridge, and
I'm a bear. You're gonna get some more porridge for the next fifteen twenty
five years until you don't exist anymore, and then they'll be doing documentaries about
me and how Kate killed me. I'm not gonna kill you. I'm just
gonna speed up your dad, because that's what happens when you work with me.
Yeah, you're like you're like smoking cigarettes. It's not an immediate suicide.
It's stretched out and extrapolated over years. Rest in peace. Oh shut
up, Mosquito. I missed Mosquito. All right, Thank you, Danny.
I appreciate that. And we'll get to birthdays later because we do have
a few, but not not a ton. I was thinking that maybe we
can get you ready for Cowboys and Commanders in a serious way, man,
Houston nuts and Bolts football talk, Not really. I guess good because I
don't have that for you, but we will get you ready for Cowboys and
Commanders that is tomorrow. I have a couple thoughts I'd like to share them
the Cowboys game for the other day as well, because I've been off the
air for a couple of days and i want to share my thoughts and put
them in you. That's next time. Ninety seven won the free