This is a downbeat on ninety seven one in the Free. We have multiple
preade updates. So what's happening at our host locos? Why do we say
that earlier all the iHeart vehicles are going to be there? Okay, so
if you want to see an iHeart vehicle, okay, I think personalities too,
but I don't. I mean, the Freak is a little compromised to
day, although it's never a compromise to go to Pluckers because Pluckers in Dallas
for the freaking the weekend series and a great alternative option. If you don't
want to go deal with the mess of the parade in Arlington, then Pluckers
in Dallas good place to hang out. Live praade coverage there will begin during
the Bin and Skin Show, as your prede correspondent Kevin will be there.
I've seen Kevin fired up before, but I have never seen this man glow
like he's glowing right now, knowing that he's heading off to Arlington. Trade
guy. Through and through that we've known, but now this is like your
parade. It is they've actually blocked off an entire section. For me,
I'm going to o host Locos, then go go with me. You can
go with him. I can hold this thing. You're just gonna leave right
now. I've been telling you to get out of here. You want to
go to host Locos. I support Pluckers and host Locos and the Rangers and
this parade. But I'm going to go play golf instead. I want to
go look at freak vehicles. Bring monkey. If there's one freak vehicle and
you can ride in it. If you want to go in the parade.
Is one of these people on my phone Rescinda? Well, uh okay,
the fact that you don't know who Rescinda is offensive. We should drive the
freak vehicle like around a larger loop around where the parade route is and put
ca in there. You can wag to people and pound drinks. Hey,
everyone, you just keep going by. Kerrie standing by himself waving at you.
There he is again, Viva Mexico. We got a damn World Series
parade today. This is unreal and everyone, I think a big pary tradition
is you buy an eight pack of cold wingers and you just kind of throw
them at the vehicles, and you're supposed to throw hot dogs at the people.
I don't think you are that's not a thing. Tortillas. Can we
do the tortilla Frisbee Texas Tech? You could? Don't. Let's just throw
tortillas on the field. If the possum can't play football, the hell love
it. I got thrilled with how many marshmallows of the damn sat Patti's parade.
Yeah, so marshmallows are a nice throw up. That's an Irish tradition,
though, is it marshmallows? Are you sure? Yeah, you're not
sure. I think you're very unsure of almost everything you say. Dude,
No, look it up. I think you're just repeating things that you've heard
that you think you're supposed to say. It's pre No marshmallow is at a
parade because people want to throw crap at parades, wacky charms. I have
marshmallows in them. There's a reason for that. Well has them too,
and nobody's throwing them at Transylvanian parades, a Romanian parades. You should bring
a trash bag full of dumb dumbs and throw them at everyone at that.
I know a guy, I know where exactly where one sits. I'm going
to use them like I would use brass knuckles and keep away anybody who tries
to rob me or a cost a famous radio reporter as he covers the parade
live in the cut today, you are going to be in the cut the
scene with the gangsta lean and be sleeping and you're a cord for two hours.
Tell people what I drive? I'm too popular? Well you all that
at the parade vehicles that go by, yes, ye oh yeah, fishes,
fishes. Keep the challenges going and going. I'll add them to my
note card of bits. You have nothing planned? Why are even going out
there, dude, you don't represent I'm a little just after all these years,
I'm giving the bin and skin show my energy again. Like I tell
like ten years of that was enough. Look at all the people out there
now they're setting up scaffolding. Now what's been earlier? That was earlier?
Well we go live? Yeah? Can we let's go live to five minutes
ago from the parade. I have two live parade reports. Okay, j
J. Please, good morning, speak easy. This is keeps it from
the other day. I'm at the Rangers. Parade hasn't started yet, of
course, I'm in the parking lot next to seven eleven, right outside the
Globe and it is packed. There's a ton of people here, a lot
of Rangers fans. A couple of lots are already full in the outside of
the entertainment district. So if you got plans to get it here, I
suggest you get here soon. It's a little nipplely, but it's gonna warm
up later in the day. All right, love y'all, all right,
you're gonna be real Nippley out there. He had both a hispanic and cowboy
accent mixed together, crush and he gave a traffic update, a weather update,
your vote, a future page Ellenburger type. You're voting Q tip.
Let's give Daniel a shot. Here's Daniel's retort. Hey, guys, this
is Daniel for Marlington with your official parade watch report. I am driving down
stadium, rapped by the field. There are tons of people already lining up.
Traffic is chaos. There's some cones. See some cones out there.
Uh, it's already getting wild and it is only seven point thirty. Gonna
be crazy. That's from two hours ago. Jeez, we have live reports
on cones. Yeah, there's some cones, so look out for those.
If you're heading out to Arlington. There's a lot of things that parades and
cones are one of them. This is good. We need a couple more
parade up dates on the talkback. You can access that be the iHeartRadio app
a little microphone bottom right hand corner if you're listening to ninety seven on the
freak, and do it like you're doing to try out to be a local
news person. Yeah, because I like this we're getting. We need information
like I don't need to hear. Oh, there's a lot of people.
This is gonna be cool. Do it like a news person, give your
unique, unique perspective, right right, but do it like a thirty second
stand up. And we know a lot We know a ton of people that
work in local news, local media, and this could be the break that
you're looking for. Go full, I mean full, Mattlur when you're recording,
don't different. They tell me that part press a button and it locks
you into the parade. I'm now seeing that you shouldn't do that. I'm
not learning. Okay, So here's some weekend crap that you need to know
about a lot of concerts. Tonight Queen once again American heron Center Mike went
last Night Queen with Adam Lambert if you missed my review earlier in the six
o'clock hour, and we started at six am each and every day. That
was awesome. I had so much fun. And if you're just like on
the fence and considering, go see Queen with Adam Lambert tonight. Loved it.
Twenty four songs. I think I probably knew eighteen nineteen of them,
and the ones I didn't know were great too. Like I said earlier,
that's about as much just pure fun as I had a concert in years.
It was. It was great. It was a big rock show. Yeah,
it was a spectacle. They're amazing. Adam Lambert's perfect. I can't
remember the last time I was at it. Well, you know Rolling Stones,
I guess Cotton Bowl a couple of years back. That was a big
rock show. Yeah, but you know some I don't know, there's ebbs,
andaloes of these things, and certainly there are some quiet acoustic stuff.
But all in all, just fun and the fact that I saw it last
night and you can see it tonight. Go see Queen tonight at Texas Trust
see You and Grand Prairie, Goodie Mob, Bunby and Juvenile where you can
back then I bet there is a good ten songs everyone will know from this
and party Yes, cast money girl, you look good? What? Yeah?
Crank? What are you just between that? Kidd? Crank it all
of it, the whole song now until we get to the parks? One
word money? When do we get there? Because you get her hands in
the air. She's got a dumb dumb. Oh, they might be a
big cross in now they're gonna get throwed tonight with bun Be good times.
We never made it tonight at the Long Worm Ballroom. It's been promoted as
the one concert you don't want to miss this year. Christopher Cross, that's
tomorrow night, That's tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, I heard that promoted on
our very station. If there's one concert this year you don't want to miss,
it's Christopher A. Cross. Is that the sailing? Yeah? Sailing?
I love boats, I know, and you know what, Christopher Cross
is good. But the one concert that I don't want to miss. That
might be the one concert that I kind of do miss and I afford to
miss. Yeah? What else does he sing other than sailing? Right?
Like the wind right? I know that that songs that's right like the win,
That's a good jam. Yeah, all right. What else is on
your lift? Free one Tomorrow night at Carrollton, It's the festival at the
Switchyard. Go see AO out there. It's fuel and collective soul. Who
Sunday at the House of Blues, bullet for my Valentine. We've talked about
these a lot. NFL looks good. Sunday Mikey eight thirty AM. Got
to get up early. Dolphins cheef, we grind, and we go to
damn Germany and get a big, big win. Take notice, American Football
Conference. It's time for the Miami Dolphins. Arise. Dolphin can swim across
the Atlantic Ocean and not get tired, not even get tired. They're gonna
be ready. You can if you want to catch a napter in the noon
games. Seven noon games, not a lot of them awesome Cowboys Eagles three
twenty five, Beautiful Night one, Bengals Bills. Sunday night Yeah, that's
a hot sex. Yeah. And Saturday College football, who's pretty good too.
If you want to nap it up, you know, not nap it
up on Why I'd say that, but eleven AM starts are not great,
although you do have number twenty three Kansas State at number seven Texas and number
seven Texas is still very much in the hunt for the top four. You
and T at two pregame at one here on the free absolutely Live coverage,
number twelve, Missouri at number two, Georgia at two thirty. Mike Yeah,
Oklahoma number nine, number twenty two, Oklahoma State at two thirty.
Bed level bedlam, Mikey, So two goodness that last year of bedlam,
right, I believe? So maybe I don't know. I don't know either
fully, not not enough to come in on it like an expert. So
two goods at two thirty, and then two good ones at six where you
have Washington number five still in the mix at number twenty usc Caleb Williams look
out, and then you've got LSU and Alabama. So games, pretty good
stuff, Big prey. MAVs play tonight all for a reason against the Nuggies.
It'll be a late one first game of attorney. And you can hear
that here on the Freak of course. And then MAVs to play Sunday right
around six point thirty. I think, so hear that on the Freak as
well. Because we are the home of the Dallas Mavericks. Guys, I'm
going to pray You're not Dahn. You work here. You don't just leave.
I do what I want. You don't say what I want. I
do what I want. You do neither of those. Neither of those.
You sit and talk until ten o'clock. That's what you do. He left
to play golf for charity. I was told to leave by our bosses.
I was told to leave an hour ago. They want me at a host's
locos set the scene. Bring my phone. Yeah, make sure that your
camera lens is clean. Yeah, I don't want any fuzzy photos coming back.
Well, you can stay if you want or leave. It doesn't matter
because we have a special guest joining us on the telephone because we have another
big event going on here in the Metroplex, and this is one that's been
planned for a long time. It's a big boy. This is pickleball related
and I've never played pickleball, but we're going to talk to a dude who's
really, really good at it. He's also the GM of the Dallas Pickleball
Club. As we have out at Brookhaven Country Club Major League Pickleball MLP event
from yesterday, November fifth. It's going on through Sunday, and we got
the GM of our local team, Dave Fleming joining us. Dave, do
we have you? We do? Good morning fella. How are you doing
man? You good, fantastic? How are you? Life's pretty good?
Sports around this area are treating us very well. And I know you guys
are excited to have a big boy event out at Brookhaven. Why don't you,
I suppose just tell everyone what's going on out there this weekend, the
center of the pickleball universe has come to Dallas and specifically Brookhaven Country Club.
The best players in the world are playing as teams and the Dallas Pickleball Club
will be playing on center Court today at around noon and then later at five
o'clock. And this is a team event Major League pickle Ball, where teams
that represent cities all over the country are playing against each other. And you
want to see the excitement of team competition within the fastest growing sport in the
world. Brookhaven Country Clubs the place to get a question for Dave Fleming.
Go, well, you're we have him on the phone. Oh he's here,
Yeah, great, God, how are you okay? So fastest growing
sport in the country. Maybe briefly explain to folks, pretend we're all idiots.
Man, in some cases you don't have to pretend. But kind of
what is pickleball and why do you feel like it's become the fastest growing sport.
Yeah, so, pickleball is you use a paddle and it's played on
a surface like tennis, with the pickle ball is actually like a wiffle ball,
and it's plastic and the net is just two inches lower than a tennis
court and tennis court net and the court is twenty feet by forty four feet,
so it's a little smaller. It is a very social game, and
I think what has made it catch on so well in the United States and
around the world is the fact that people can play with all age groups.
So you can have my eighty year old father playing against my nephews that are
collegiate that are in college. You can have friends and neighbors playing and you
get a good workout, you get to have fun, and people are actually
getting out and moving their bodies and having fun about it. So I think
that's why it has caught on so much. And I don't know anyone that's
quit. It's one of the most addicting sports that I've ever seen. Okay,
So one more follow up on that. Is it always played in a
doubles format or is there singles pickleball matches as well? Great question, there's
both. On the pro side, doubles is the most popular because what people
really love about pickleball is when folks are close to the net and you get
these really fast exchanges. But you can definitely go out and play singles as
well, just like tennis. Says the most obvious comparison, and is it
always a volley situation or is the ball allowed to touch the ground? O
it absolutely cannet the ground? Okay, yeah, but just one time,
right like in tennis? Yeaherka, Okay, got you? Got you?
I think there's a lot, there's a net, and then there's a line
and nothing happens in front of that line. What are we doing? Yeah,
so you're referring to the no volley zone as we call it. When
this game was originally created, the forefather said, we don't want the dad
dominating and being able to stand right next to the net. So there's a
seven foot area on both sides of the net where you are not allowed to
step in there and volley the ball. You have to stand behind that line
exactly what you're referring to. Who were the four fathers and why were the
four of them? There were several of them as a family up in Bainbridge
Island, Washington who had some kids that were and they took the equipment they
had around the backyard and sort of put this together. The dimensions that I
described earlier are the same as badminton. So they had a badminton that they
lowered it had a couple of paddles and literally a whiffle ball like we all
played in our backyard and created this game that's now exploding across the country.
How did they market this to make it a worldwide phenom? I mean you're
talking about a family in a backyard and now there's leagues and tournaments and it's
a asked this growing sport. Did they actually have a forward thinking business mindset
to actually put this out there? Was it discovered by somebody else and said
hey, I know how to monetize this? I mean, how did it
become so popular if it was just a backyard game by one family. Yeah,
so I think they would have had no idea that this could happen and
I think this has evolved over time. There's been a lot of people that
have put a lot of effort into this to grow it. Tom Dundan,
who owns the Carolina Hurricanes and lives here in Dallas heavily involved now is the
owner of the PPA, which is like the regular like if you think tennis,
where you're playing matches as an individual or with your partner, and that
will actually have its national championships at Brookhaven after Major League Pickleball. So we
have Dallas Pickleball Club going today and then that's next week. And the one
thing I think your listeners will really want to know about it's Tuesday night,
November seventh, at seven pm. We have the following studs from Dallas playing
pickleball. Scottie Scheffler, Dirknovichki, Jason Kidds, Tyler Sagan loaded for who
is in. I'm the lead broadcaster for the PPA. I'm gonna have Tony
Romo by my side in the booth, and we got John Isn Theer the
tennis star out there as well. It is going to be epping. That's
on Tuesday night at brookn Tuesday night at seven o'clock, Okay, and fans
can go out there and watch. Yes, you can get tickets by going
to USA Pickleball dot org slash Nationals. Those guys I've been practicing with all
week. Scottie Scheffler got game, my man? Really? Yes? All
right? Lastly, this is Dave Flemy is the gym of the Dallas Pickleball
Club. There are some big money, big support and a Mark Cuban,
our buddy Todd Wagner behind this thing, and Dirk himself. Have you uh,
have you traded volley's with the great Dirk Novitsky on a pickleball court?
Definitely have this week. Dirk Dirk's first Dirk's first sport was actually tennis,
So Dirk, Uh, Dirk is uh, you know, the wingspan forever
and uh, the dude could swing the paddle. So he he and John
Isner will be team tall out there on Tuesday night. But Dirk's a fantastic
uh guy, and uh loves playing a little pickle boy. I guess you're
when you're playing against a John Isner or Dirk Novisky, you're happy to have
that seven foot no smash zone around the net, right, You got that
right? Dave can't thank you enough for jumping on with us again. Give
the website one more time for anyone wants to go out this weekend or hell
next week, next weekend, it seems like it's pickleball central here in DFW.
Yeah, you mentioned bedlam with Oklahoma and Oklahoma State. Well, we've
got our own this week. So for this major League pickle ball Dallas pickle
Ball Club trying to get another title like the Rangers, go to Major League
Pickleball dot net and then for all the excitement next week you must say pickleball
dot org slash Nationals. Thank you guys so much for letting me talk a
little pickleball with you. Hell yeah, man, it's a busy week,
but we are more than happy to have you on. That is Dave Fleming
at GM with the Dallas Pickleball Club. See you dude, Bye David,
Bye, Dave, Dave Fleming, I've got him. How about that?
He's a former stand up comedian too. Really Yeah, if we had time,
I was gonna let him do a workout some material, Yeah, knock
out of set whenever's on his mind. All right, Well, thank you
Dave Fleming. Go support that, check it out, go watch dark Play.
Anything but pickleball. Certainly fun left. I know you freaking left and
we were talking. He left his mic on too. What a baby?
What a bitch? Do you want to wear? The last half hour?
I want to drive to Arlington. Bitch boy, Kevin Turner. He's a
nasty bitch, a nasty little bitch, little baby. Kk's on the road.
So if you see a Corolla swerving in a half asleep driver behind the
wheel, steer clear. All right, hot mops coming up next. I
think we have a couple more talkbacks. We'll wrap up whatever we got.
If you are live on the premises of the parade that's about to start in
a couple hours celebrating the Rangers World Series, you can call in still,
hit us up whatever you want, man, We'll do a hot mop and
wrap this bad boy up next right here on ninety seven one, the Free