Good morning you, Metroplex. Big breaking news in the music world today is
we have a passing of music legend Oklahoma. Hold on that a minute,
Kevin Turner, Danny Balis, Mike's royd JJ Jackson. Hope you're doing well
on this Tuesday morning. We got some fun stuff for him today as well,
a more super Bowl action eight o'clock. MAV's get a big win.
At seven the latest trade rumer has a little juice to it. Discuss that
a little bit at seven o'clock. Also, I think Mike Rabel didn't get
a job because he's huge. Nine o'clock special guest in studio. How about
that. I'm looking forward to that more than probably anything today. Yeah,
although we have had breaking news dump in our labs. But his name's Brad,
right, I haven't met this guy. Brad Bolsam a friend of SIRC
deceroy for many years, friend of mine, an expert on many things that
you never knew there was an expert required of. But one of them is
he's the foremost expert on interspecies, animal cage matches. Hell yeah, and
I'm not kidding because right around the Texas border, right around the turn of
the century, the century nineteen hundred, there were some circus types, carnival
barker types that would set up inner species animal fights, like at bull rings,
and if you want to see like a grizzly bear fight, I don't
know if this one's in there, but like a grizzly bear fight a giant
crocodile, or a lion fight a bull. There was like dozens of these
matchups, so they actually did. And he today, our friend Brad,
who's a professor locally and an author, is releasing a book that I believe
is available today that's insane about this time. The people who put these on
and who would win a fight between a bison and a hippopotamus see what might
be seen as like irresponsible wildlife fighting, it's actually like very important research that
was done that's right at that time. And I'm sure there's gambling and all
that stuff going along with it. He was also a navy man. He
spent I think three months straight underwater on a nuclear submarine. So we've had
him on to talk about that. I know. He claims to be the
world's leading expert on presidential sex and genital facts. All right, he's just
like a niche historian. Yeah, a wealth of weird knowledge. But the
fact that he is releasing a brand new book today about interspecies, animal cage
fighting bass, he's reason enough to have old Professor Bradley Folsom in studio with
us at nine o'clock. We had Professor brad in here last year. It
was when the downbeat was afternoons. And I will tell you this, You
will feel and know that you are not even close to being the smartest man
in the room with this guy's here. That's brilliant. But it's also fun
because he's super fidgety and nervous and he's been on the air with me at
least ten times. Yeah, he'll be freaking out. I can't believe him
on the radio, and he knows it, and he knows he's freaking out.
You can kind of laugh at that. Really smart dude. Yeah,
like I wanted to hang out with him. Is that when you're just thinking
that you know, somehow, by cellular osmosis, maybe just one percent of
what you know you kind of transfer to my body. It does, It
doesn't work, never does. He'll bring us some weird gift, all right,
Hopefully it's his new book he will definitely bring us I want to read
it. Uh when y'all had him on last time, was it for the
submarine thing? Probably? I remember that. I generally if I can tie
anything to bring it in Professor Brad, Yeah I will. I will find
a reason to do it, just like I watch him freak. But yeah,
I think it was submarines were all the rage. Kevin, I don't
remember. Why is it public knowledge where he does his professor ing at?
Or Am I asking you any question more online? Hand cut off when I
ask him any real specifics, which also adds to the fun. But yeah,
he'll tell you probably look them up. No, I don't want to,
Yep, maybe I will in the break. Got other things to look
up, Bubba, other things to look up, like what I mean?
And more news out of More Oklahoma. This has become the city never stops
city of the year, right. I think you need to break it because
I think a lot of folks that are waking up, you know, for
the first time today, because I wake up two times during the day,
as does Mikey and Kevin often does as well. Massive, massive, huge,
huge breaking news in the world of music. When you go to the
town of more Oklahoma. Some of their water towers have on them more Oklahoma,
home of Toby Keith. And Toby Keith is dead. He died last
night. It looks like at the age of sixty three, sixty two,
sixty two who he did in sixty three in July. Three hours ago,
his official or the family tweeted out from Okay his official account, So exactly
three hours ago it broke the first thing I saw this morning. Yeah,
Toby Keith gone. Toby Keith. Most of you probably have heard the name.
A lot of you living around here. I have probably very familiar with
him. And then if you're not at all, we'll say he was a
big time country music musician for a long time and weird. He had a
very respected career the nineties and the two thousands. It kind of went into
the like did you jump the shark a little bit? And he saved it
with a couple of sons. But that was when he was at his height.
And then he had put together he the he had a bunch of steakhouses.
He had to Toby Keith's steakhouse. I love this bar and grill.
Yeah, I love this bar and grill, which there was one I know
in talktaw Right. I think it was at Windstar at the time. But
he did have steakhouses too, that was separate. Yeah, yeah, he
had. He was a restaurant to or Mikey and I think a lot of
them were connected with the casino world. There was one in Vegas. Uh,
he had, he had his his hand and a lot of stuff worth
a lot of damn money too. There was nobody in the world of country
music man, there was nobody bigger, I would say, late nineties,
early to mid two thousands. Yeah, no, I think so like you
had the whole Garth Brooks, George Strait, Brooks and Dunn. Even Shania
Twain. I think I would go in there just because of her power in
the nineties. When she came, it was oh totally, but well,
you know what she was late nineties. And Toby Keith, he had a
good sustainable career early nineties through the nineties and then he broke out in the
two thousands, even bigger and almost well it crossed over to pop that's when
he crossed over. But he had top. He did cross over. He
had top forty hits. Yeah, patch, Yeah, so that's onna when
you know, that's when the world outside of the country music, you know,
family really started knowing who he was. I mean, we'll do a
big deep dive on him for sure. I know he'll be the most important
thing in the world at six point thirty. And I know you've got some
tunage and we'll we'll we'll touch on Toby throughout the day. Yeah, he
passed away early this morning of longtime battle with stomach cancer and he was getting
treatment, chemo, radiation, all that stuff. Seemed to have a pretty
positive outlook on him, and heard from him in a while until today.
You know, we're just kind of out of sight, out of mind.
But yeah, we'd known that he was ill, and twenty twenty two it
came out publicly, but they said even then that he'd had it for a
little while prior to that. So I don't know when he was diagnosed officially,
but man, there's a lot, there's a lot to his story,
and we'll tell you a little bit more and throughout the day. I know
there's probably some people too, like if you, uh, this means anything
to you, you can call in two and four eight one seven seven eight
seven one nine seven one. There's probably a lot of fans out there listening.
Yeah, and I think as many fans as there are, which is
a lot. A lot of people love this dude, grew up with him.
There's a you know, there's a lot of people that kind of have
a different opinion about him, and it's probably separated by you know, whatever
political world you live in. But I think he doing kind of some reading
on this guy. There's a really great article on him in the New York
Times that that dropped I think about an hour ago, and in reading through
that, I want to say that this guy might have been by the by
the people that just kind of dismiss him or don't like him because of you
know, what he thinks or believed misunderstood. Possibly yeah, yeah, yeah,
maybe a little maligned by by haters. And I can probably say that
I was one of those back in the day. And usually hate comes from
lack of knowledge. You know, you just hear a song you don't like,
I'll boot your ass, screw that guy, you know what I mean.
Don't really know anything about him. He was a troops guy, way
more than being a Republican or Democrat, right like it looked. He's also
a guy who got accused of and might it might be fair? Alan Jackson
did the same thing of like taking what happened on nine to eleven and then
it was an emotional time Kevin and then benefiting from it. It was a
very emotional time. The two mustached guys who kind of looked the same in
the face, Alan Jackson Toby Keith wrote huge hits at nine to eleven?
Where were you when the world stopped turning? Mike on that September day?
What what are you doing? This? To him? But no, like
this? Where were you? Well? I look forward to learning because I
I know other than being a huge name, and I think I wouldn't say
mutual friend, but our buddy Corby and all the Norman Oklahoma crew I know
is rubbed elbows with him. And I've been up to games there. He
wasn't there when I was there, but the whole Barry Switzer Norman sweet party
thing, and he had a big boat, didn't he was that? I
think I have some other friend that like or was it Corby? I don't
know Corby or Fits or coach. I don't know. Yeah, does Oklahoma
people they love each other and they love Oklahoma. They love Jesse Jane I
will say this though, By every account that we heard of people then interacted
with him, just ultimate sweethearted, you cool dude. Yeah, Toby Keith
passed away just this morning at sixty two sixty. We'll talk about him in
another twenty minutes or so. You guys are gonna play some tunes. Yeah,
yeah, I'll play some tunes for each seven thirty. You finished watching
Pirates another hour to day, and I'm gonna handle that today. I had
to break it up. It's just too long. It's kind of going nowhere.
Why are you watching Pirates? And what is Pirates? Cavin. Pirates
is the most expensive adult film ever made budget standpoint, yes, what year
five? Okay, it's almost almost celebrating the twenty year anniversary of Pirates.
That's another reason we're doing this to celebrate twenty years. Starring Jesse Jane Evan
Stone. There's a villain, villain Charlie Charlie Villa God in the role of
a nice host s bank. Oh yeah, Carmen, Luvana, Janine,
Oh, Janine, Linda Mulder. Yeah, famous, you hit some Tigan
Pressley in this one. Ooh la lah, Genevieve Joe. Let's just say
that the reason I have to watch it is because I lost a show bed
and the show bet was as Royal Rumble. Damn it. We picked random
numbers in the Royal Rumble. Kevin ended up winning it, which means he
lost. They didn't really know this until the next morning when I alerted them
to the results of the Royal Rumble or two days later. But poor Kevin,
who does more work than anyone that works at the station, loses some
bet that's to watch an hour, two hours and eight minutes of Pirates and
do a book report on it. I'd like to have to map out my
you know, map out my days pretty clearly, like rarely is there a
day when I have like nothing. It's like, well, Tuesday is going
to be the day that I go in, pull audio of the first hour
and then watch the second hour. Okay, I can ask you where did
you find it? Okay, that's yeah, let me save it for the
oh and I think we'll do it after the Super Bowl. We'll do it
next week. Okay. Are you watching it on your laptop or are you
casting it to your TV so you can get the full experience my laptop because
I didn't want to cast it to the TV. Also, you're not watching
it on your Apple sunglasses or whatever that thing is. The layout of my
house is such that I like, if the mailman came to deliver a package,
he could look in and see that I'm watching Stagnetti get to town on
Genevieve Jolie. How is that your layout where your mailman can see your porno?
Well, I got a see through door. I know you have a
sea through door. Yeah, it's tough, man. We're coming over,
dude, coming over today. I have to see it. It's tough.
It's Mikey and I are going to be the chip in jojo man. We're
going to show up at your house and with some hammers, start swinging hammers.
Put a couple of silos in your backyard. We get a sponsorship with
some appliance companies and install some get your your first dishwasher. Step one is
demo. Yeah, and then we'll never come back. Why is compost so
high on the list. I don't feel like I need that. What do
you mean you have a sea through door? Well, it's you know,
the the door's glass and spider man on top of it. Okay, it's
old man. It's like like a diamond shape. Yeah. Window. Yeah,
and you can see in the house if you walk up to it.
He's not all like inside the entire house, but you like, if you
just pay a little attention, Yeah, you can see the TV or what's
going on on the TV. Kevin Buck Nana's house. Dude, I got
the hard candies the bowl. Yeah, it is little mint and chocolates.
No, it's terrible. Like I love the street and I love where I
live. I love the location, and I'm pretty good. No, it's
terrible. It's so bad. It's not Do you when people visit you,
when they leave, do you got a five dollars bill in their pocket and
tell them? Don't tell your mom where you got this. No, I
don't let them visit. I don't. I'm embarrassed to have people over.
Don't say that. I'm proudly proud of what you have, so proud of
your homestead. Richardson gives out a free like monthly in a newspaper. Here
are the restaurants that are open closing in town. It's kind of nice you
cut the coupons out of there. Yeah. Absolutely, yes, I have
fifty percent off ajing. There's a bunch of you know investment areas that they're
gonna work on. Here, here's the headliners for Cottonwood Fest, you know,
all the stuff. And they did have the report on like housing value,
you know, and how it's gone up or down over each month.
You look at it's great and still I'm like, god, we are behind.
Oh really? Yeah? Is that? Bought my house for way under
what the average value is. Everywhere else the prices are going up, but
in your neighborhood home prices are stagnanty. My prices are going up. Actually
I have value that value. The value is going up, absolutely is.
But you know the house I bought at the time and what it is now.
I mean, it's a good thing. But you're also like, god,
we were struggling. We were under average by a lot. Yeah,
which what you what? Yours? Your home built nineteen sixty one? Sixty
one? Okay, that's year Maris hit sixty one And I know Kevin,
Yeah, seen the movie, but you should see Pirates. Your house is
three years older than mine, and yours is yours is real old, right,
I think it's six Did you tell me it was fifty six? I
think it's on Zillo. I thought you told me it was fifty six,
nineteen fifty six. Really, that's weird that you would remember that so quickly.
I think your home was older than that. You're built nineteen forty five,
Okay, so that was right after that was a post war home.
Man, that was when things were ticking up, especially in that area of
Oak Cliff. That's really weird that we live in many of us living homes
that are was what yours? Uh mine was built the year after Kennedy was
assassinated. So sixty four just everything that we have that's so new and all
this, But my home was built in nineteen forty five. It's awesome,
dude. The home that I lived in before, the one that I live
in now was on Lower Greenville and it was a It used to be a
single family home and they converted it into an up upstairs, downstairs duplex at
some point, but that original construction was in the twenties. Really, yeah,
like nineteen twenty five. I think does that just mean foundation? Like
you know, it's like, uh is it? The ship of theseus isn't
know what that is? No, So you could apply it to a radio
station too, if you like. But the ship of theseius is if you
have a ship, right, and you replace pieces of the ship, and
you continue to replace pieces of the ship, and ultimately you replace every piece
of the ship. Is it still the ship that was originally built? Gotcha?
I know what you're saying. You could apply that to a different radio.
No, No, I think yeah, I think I think that.
Wow. I think as long as the foundation remains and the walls, the
brick and all that stuff, I think as long as the integrity of the
structure is the same, you can change your your layout. You know,
all of your the walls and all that stuff. You can take on a
different configuration. But where's the Is there a tipping point? I think when
you knock the bastard down and rebuild it, I think it's always going to
be considered. My house was when I bought it in what sixteen or seventeen,
it was completely redone lovely. I'm not saying it's big. It's not
big at all. But I think it's beautiful and everything was new. You
would never know nineteen forty five, including the exterior, interior, nothing about
it. But look, you can also see photos of that area from the
forties. I mean, you showed me a black and white photo of your
home from back way back then. Yeah, it looks the same, kind
of like zero as Ford and backwards stills the same. Whoa. Yeah,
and my house was one of the I don't know about first, but remember
there's an article. I think it was the model home for that neighborhood for
a kid Springs technically, but North Oak Cliff whatever. A true classic,
Kevin. It's just wild to go to your house and see people looking at
the Lee Harvey house just strained people in the street staring at it. I
did. A friend of mine, Dave Ben's who you guys kind of know.
Oh yeah, former voice of the Minnesota Tea Wolves. That's right,
former Mark Followell of the t Wolves, a good friend of ours, and
the dude who Ben tells the story that he invited Dave to Thanksgiving dinner because
he felt bad that Dave was here alone because he's not from this area.
And Dave showed up with like a hot young girl who Ben's family Thanksgiving,
and they were and stayed like forty five minutes and then left because he said
he had another one to go to Ben's Like, felt bad. I just
wanted to invite the guy thought he was by himself. He's got a hot
date and multiple dinners to go to. Anyways, sweet dude, He's doing
something on the Tony Bruno Sports Network now whatever before were the Cowboys Packers game.
He had me on to do a preview of the thing, and it's
like a video streaming. I don't even know. I'm like, sure,
man, whatever you need, Dave, I'm in. But Dave was obsessed
with the fact that I lived next to Lee R. Harvey Oswald's old residence
with a famous picture of him holding the rifle and holding the communist papers in
front of the stairway is So I went out for the video call and I
sat on the stairs, but I was kind of like zoomed in. So
I did the whole interview. It's just like I was sitting outside, and
at the end Dave said something I kind of revealed where I was sitting in
His co hosts they were all kind of freaking out, what You're actually on
the stairs that you know, that's the most Dallas thing ever. Yeah,
I kind of said that. I'm like, in case you're wondering if I'm
in Dallas, Texas Cowboys, Yeah, I'd like a kind of a cooler
reveal. Did I want to see that? Yeah, let's go look through
the Tony Bruno Show archives. Yeah, for for Mikey's Cowboys Packers preview.
We're gonna win thirty five. The Cowboys defense is gonna shut down the Packers.
Packers are gonna embarrass themselves today. I'll have a chance. Michael Parson
is about five sacks. Well, that's that's kind of enough. I mean,
because we had a couple of calls that she's gonna go to. I'll
if being away on the Toby Keith thing, it's kind of the big story
of today. Let's handle that up. Yeah, Toby Keith passed away early
this morning at the age of sixty two of complications with stomach cancer. For
those of you just tuning in, Yeah, from More Oklahoma, the city
who's been in our crosshairs a little bit. We'll see if the ferg is
on this one. We'll have a lot of stuff throughout the day as well.
Got a little map stuff for you at seven, finally getting the win
last night, things like that super Bowl stuff at eight, looking forward to
that, a special guest in studio at nine. We'll have a little fun
today on the downbeat as always, and stay tuned for later in the week
we get our hands on a couple of special things. Will reveal to you
as the week goes on. I think it's gonna crank up this week starting
tomorrow. Well the show or well the show, it's gonna be good today.
But Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, there's at least something playing on each
day that we're gonna crank it up, cranking. We're getting super Bowl fever.
Man, we're cry bar I worked on that one thing that we're doing
the Thursday, having a little fun, little fun direction I was going,
but having just a little bit of fun with it. I hate that I'm
gonna hear this before it airs. I was thinking about that. I may
stay here like all day today and poorly edit it myself, just so I
can surprise you with him. I don't know it did help? Sorry,
go ahead, No, you did something. Danny did a favor for me.
Mike did. Yeah. He needed a jingle for a particular ice cream
company. And that's enough. That's all you get, the return of Country
Cream. We'll see Thursday. Have a bought jingle to just five pianos.
Let me know the jingle takes everything open, notch insane. Let me elevate
your bit. Let's just say later in the week we may have found some
unearthed some Super Bowl commercials that you'll be seeing on Sunday. A lot of
leaks this week, some of the best leaks Wiki leaks, all right,
coming up next, music legend from Oklahoma's passed a little more details on that,
and you can call in two and four eight one seven seven eight seven
next ninety seven to one, The Freak