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Figgy’s Mixtape, featuring a look at the Top 10 Sweatiest Cities in America, a bizarre story involving someone searching for Reggie from Texas, and a special salute to longtime Audacy engineer Andy as he heads into retirement after a remarkable career in radio.
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00:00Hey, man, I'm finna beat his ass.
00:03Pass the aux cord and crank up the volume.
00:07Figgy Figg's in the driver's seat.
00:09Sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride.
00:12It's time for Figgy's Mixtape on Sports Radio 16.
00:17Yes, it is the Mixtape in the loop, Sports Radio 16.
00:20It's your man, Figgy Figg, holding it down on a Friday.
00:23Happy Friday to everyone out there.
00:26So once I move to Houston, I totally just don't know when it's summer or not.
00:33Like, is it technically summertime or not yet?
00:36No, not yet.
00:36Was it later this month?
00:37Pretty soon, right?
00:38What do you mean?
00:39I mean, officially summer.
00:41We already had Memorial Day.
00:42Is it last Memorial Day?
00:44Memorial Day is the unofficial.
00:45Let me see what the summer school was.
00:47What's the official day?
00:48Summer solstice, June 21st.
00:50That's what I thought.
00:51Okay, yeah.
00:52Yeah, but we only got two seasons.
00:53And it's summer, and then that little bit of winter.
00:57See, in the Midwest, you know when it's summer.
00:59It's like, all right, it's summertime.
01:01It's a feeling.
01:02I felt like it was summertime back in March.
01:04It was.
01:05It was.
01:06We came out of not summer.
01:08Early summer.
01:08Yeah.
01:09We had not summer, and then we had summer.
01:12Late February.
01:13It felt like summer.
01:15So, yes.
01:16So, I say that to say, I came across this list.
01:20Somebody reported a ranking of America's 80 biggest cities from most to least sweatiest.
01:28The sweatiest cities.
01:29Yeah.
01:29I want to know who got paid for this, right?
01:31Somebody is at some publication, and maybe not for long, but somebody is at some publication
01:36where one of their responsibilities that they were getting paid for.
01:39Just go ahead and put that together for me.
01:40Yeah, so, I'm going to just do the top ten.
01:43Seven out of the top ten are from Florida.
01:45That makes sense.
01:46Very believable.
01:47That checks.
01:48Yeah, so, I'm going to go.
01:49Where do you think Houston is ranked in this?
01:51Houston's got to be up there, man.
01:52It's an incredibly humid city as well.
01:54And the reputation, too.
01:56I'm going to say three or four.
01:58Okay.
01:59Miami's one.
02:01So, West Palm Beach is one.
02:05Miami is number two.
02:06Yeah.
02:07Fort Myers, Florida is number three.
02:09I forgot about Fort Myers.
02:10Damn, we're not going to be top five, huh?
02:12Honolulu, Hawaii.
02:13What?
02:14That's not that as hard.
02:15Yeah, I wouldn't know.
02:16I've never been there before.
02:17Me neither.
02:18You got the big money over there.
02:19You're the Honolulu king.
02:20I mean, it's warm.
02:21I would assume people would be sweating over there.
02:24Yeah.
02:25Melbro, Florida is five.
02:27Who?
02:29All right.
02:29We got to.
02:30This has got to stop.
02:32Is this an actual city?
02:32You got to have to have a Melbourne.
02:34Oh, Melbourne.
02:35In Florida?
02:36Yeah, yeah.
02:37They ain't got no dot.
02:37You ain't pulling up no map where the dot says Melbourne, Florida.
02:41There's Melbourne, Florida.
02:42Where?
02:43Where?
02:44Where in the general vicinity of the state?
02:46Aren't, like, okay, West Palm, Miami, Fort Myers, and Melbourne,
02:50aren't they all, like, within?
02:53The 80 biggest cities.
02:55Oh, okay.
02:56Number six is Tampa.
02:58Okay.
02:58Okay, fair enough.
02:59Tampa was sweaty when I went.
03:01Yeah.
03:01Yeah, number seven is Orlando.
03:04Okay.
03:04They get pretty sweaty there.
03:05That's only at the theme park.
03:07Damn, they got all seven of the top seven, huh?
03:10Seven.
03:10Yeah, seven of the, yep.
03:12Actually, six of the seven.
03:13Oh, no, because Honolulu, you said.
03:14Yep.
03:14Number eight, New Orleans, Louisiana.
03:17Yeah, that checks out.
03:18Okay, so we got to be right in here, because if you got New Orleans,
03:21it's not a crazy deviation, the two.
03:24Yeah, number nine, Houston, Texas.
03:26There we go.
03:27There we go.
03:28I'm kind of glad we're underrated.
03:30Yeah.
03:30Right?
03:31And number 10, Jacksonville.
03:32We should be top three or four.
03:34I think so.
03:35I haven't been to all of these places.
03:38I've only been to Florida once.
03:39Yeah.
03:40But, man, Houston, it gets really, really sweaty.
03:42It gets really sweaty.
03:44Yeah.
03:45It was welcome to the lead when I moved here.
03:48I'm like, man, dog, I had to move because I drove here,
03:52and I had to move.
03:53I lived on the third floor.
03:55Oh, yeah.
03:56It was, I want to say June.
03:58It was in June, moving that stuff up them stairs.
04:00Oh, baby.
04:01Man, I was sweating in places I ain't no sweat.
04:04I was dehydrated.
04:06I'm like, man, this is awful, man.
04:08Speaking of welcome to the league moments,
04:09did you hear Alec Pierce recently talking about a,
04:13I don't know if this was specifically his look.
04:15Oh, when he got his face mask busted?
04:16Yeah.
04:17He said the first time they played in the Texas,
04:18Jalen Petrie hit him so hard that his face mask bent,
04:21he couldn't get his helmet off because it was bent.
04:23But he might be, Jalen Petrie might be a first ballot Hall of Famer of hits
04:28when it comes to hits.
04:29Yes, dude.
04:30Because I feel like that's like the fourth player, fifth NFL player that said.
04:34And all was legal.
04:35Mostly all was legal.
04:36Yeah.
04:37Every time somebody mentioned the time they got right,
04:40his name always popped up.
04:41Honestly, those are the best players.
04:42He's always on the scene of the crime.
04:43Those are the best players, like the hood ledger,
04:46for lack of a better way of saying it, right?
04:48The guys who maybe they're acknowledged widely, maybe they're not,
04:50but you go and ask a player and they're like, oh, you know who was one of those?
04:54Do you remember, is it Derek?
04:55I think it's Derek Wolf.
04:57Used to be an offensive lineman.
04:58Derek Wolf.
04:59I don't remember if that's his name specifically, but I know it was Wolf.
05:01But he's one of those dudes that when you go into a locker room,
05:04you go, who's the strongest dude in your locker room?
05:06They go, oh, yeah, yeah, this guy.
05:07Yeah.
05:07Right?
05:08That's the guy that you want to be in.
05:09I feel like Jalen Petrie is very quickly becoming,
05:11like who's the hardest dude who hit you the hardest?
05:13Oh, yeah, yeah, Jalen Petrie.
05:14Yeah, in basketball terms, I would say, like,
05:18the hood legends has got to be white chocolate.
05:20Oh, yeah.
05:21Yeah, like, because I saw somebody online trying to criticize him,
05:25like, oh, look at how many points he averaged.
05:27Y'all keep praising him.
05:28I'm like, no.
05:29You don't get it.
05:31It is not about points.
05:32Don't look at them 11 points a game and all that stuff.
05:34It's not about points.
05:35It's not about assists.
05:36You got to watch him play.
05:37This ain't even a real player, man.
05:39He had to be there.
05:41Yeah.
05:41Yeah.
05:42So, by the way, the least sweatiest cities, if you're interested, was.
05:46Anchorage.
05:47You say who?
05:48Anchorage, Alaska?
05:50No.
05:50Okay.
05:51As not only is it, it's Colorado Spring.
05:53Oh, that makes sense.
05:54Denver was the runner-up, followed by, is it Spokane?
05:57Spokane.
05:58Yeah, Spokane.
05:59Boise, Idaho, and Albuquerque, New Mexico.
06:03That's a little bit of a surprise.
06:04Dry heat, I guess.
06:05Yeah.
06:05Maybe they were right about that dry heat thing.
06:07I never believe them.
06:08When it appeals to dry heat, I'm like, is it hot or not?
06:10It's not the heat.
06:11Is it hot?
06:13Yeah.
06:13Yeah.
06:14Yes.
06:15Yeah.
06:15Congratulations.
06:16We are top 10.
06:17I like that.
06:18Actually, I'll take it.
06:19Even though we know better.
06:23Mr. Mitch Stave, Benalute Sports Radio, 16.
06:26Reggie, are you from Texas?
06:28I am.
06:28I'm from Houston, Texas.
06:29All right.
06:30And another question.
06:31Have you ever been in a fight?
06:33I have been in a fight before.
06:34Okay.
06:35I think you might want to kind of dust your knuckles off a little bit.
06:38Oh, wow.
06:39Oh, man.
06:40Because I think somebody is looking for you, man.
06:42Oh, you don't want to hear those words.
06:44Yeah.
06:45Hey, somebody's looking for you.
06:46Yeah, I'm a little nervous about Reggie, man.
06:48I think, so, I ran into this video on Instagram, and I think you really need to be careful because
06:56this person is really looking for you.
06:58Hey, Reggie from Texas.
07:00You count your motherf***ing days, bitch.
07:03Hold on.
07:03Wow.
07:03So, I'm out here in Houston, and we was like, man, let's go to the malls.
07:07So, I go across this man's page.
07:09His name is Reggie from Texas.
07:11And this s*** said.
07:12I'll meet them all.
07:13It's the best mall in Texas.
07:14It's a three-story mall.
07:15And they got Ruth Chris inside.
07:17Boy, when I pull it up, let me show you the bulls***.
07:22First off, we pull up the grass and cut.
07:25That should have been my first.
07:27I should have knew, Ben.
07:28When I saw that grass wasn't cut, but when stores start with a number, like 363 or some
07:33dumb s***, we walk inside.
07:35I'm talking about, it looks dead immediately.
07:38Crickets.
07:39What's in the little balls of tree branches that go across in the desert?
07:44Yeah, them b***hs around with them.
07:45Tell me, yeah.
07:46Then we keep going.
07:47Obviously, you got the stores that sell the worst clothes.
07:50The worst clothes.
07:52Pleading bucket level.
07:54When I tell you, bro, it's leaking in the mall.
07:58Like, they have buckets of water.
08:01Buckets.
08:02Trash cans.
08:03Catching the water.
08:05Coming from the f***ing ceiling, bro.
08:06The only thing in that m***h they had, they had a foot lock.
08:10I know they ain't making rent.
08:11I don't know what.
08:11They got to be something dope about that b***h.
08:14Reggie from Texas, man.
08:15Dude, he's coming after you because of that?
08:17Yeah, man.
08:18Apparently, Reggie said, hey, Almeida Mall is the best mall in Houston.
08:23And that's what set him off.
08:24Yeah.
08:25Yeah.
08:25But all jokes aside, though, I guess it was somebody named Reggie from Texas on Instagram
08:31or TikTok.
08:32That was saying that you got to get to the Almeida Mall.
08:35Yeah, yeah.
08:35It was an AI image in the back where it looked all uppity.
08:39It looked like a nice mall.
08:40He said, Almeida Mall is a great mall.
08:43You got to check it out.
08:44Got this.
08:45Hey, man.
08:45If you can't do your Googles ahead of time, that's on you.
08:47I'll fight for the honor of Houston.
08:49I don't care.
08:50I was just cracking that word.
08:51Catch me outside.
08:52I was just cracking that word.
08:53You said, Reggie from Texas.
08:54Just count your days.
08:56When was the last time you were in a mall?
08:58In a mall?
08:59Yeah.
09:00Ooh, relatively recently, actually.
09:01Really?
09:02Yeah, yeah.
09:02Because I went to Memorial City Mall.
09:04Okay.
09:05A couple weeks ago.
09:05Yeah.
09:06Biggie?
09:08It's been a minute.
09:09It's been a minute.
09:10You know what?
09:11I'll take that back.
09:11I think it was last month.
09:13It was after the show.
09:14I'm like, let me go in the Galleria.
09:16And I ain't going to lie.
09:18It's kind of sad in there now.
09:19It's a bunch of stores.
09:20Even the Galleria?
09:21Yeah.
09:22Remember?
09:22And the Galleria, they used to have that Starbucks.
09:24I think on the middle floor.
09:26Yeah.
09:26That Starbucks was gone.
09:28I'm like, oh, Starbucks getting up out of here.
09:30Even the, they got the Galleria.
09:32The Galleria, it's still got some stuff to it.
09:35Let's not, let's not play too much.
09:36No, it's cool.
09:37It's taking a step back.
09:37No, it's definitely taking a step back.
09:39But it used to be the absolute exception.
09:41I went to the food courts and they had that, just like the dude said, it was like a little
09:45toy, toys with a Z on the end.
09:47Yeah.
09:48With all the little fake toys, the little power wheels and all that stuff.
09:52The knockoff.
09:53Dang.
09:53And the food courts.
09:55Where the food court is.
09:56Yeah.
09:57I'm like, oh man.
09:58Malls are dying.
09:59I'm like, I ain't even want no food in the mall, man.
10:01I was just kind of going around like, dang.
10:03Yeah.
10:03Yes.
10:05Damn shame what they did to that dog.
10:07Hey, Reggie from Texas, you count your motherf***ing days, bitch.
10:11You don't want it.
10:12You don't want it.
10:13You don't want it.
10:14How do you know?
10:18It's the Mixtape and Loot Sports Radio 610.
10:21Lopez, don't you laugh too hard either, man.
10:23What did I do, man?
10:24I heard you.
10:25He on you.
10:25I heard you was out here wilding too, man.
10:27What did I do?
10:28Hey, so I ran across this clip.
10:30It was actually a news story.
10:32And this is, I just can't believe you, man.
10:36A cross-country United flight from Houston had to turn back to the gate because investigators
10:40say a man snuck onto the plane and it all started with a suspicious boarding pass at TSA.
10:46Court records say this guy showed up to Bush Airport early May 18th and went to the Terminal
10:51C checkpoint.
10:52Investigators say he was staring at his phone and had trouble getting that boarding pass
10:56to scan.
10:57So he was escorted to another TSA agent, had his photo taken, and was still allowed
11:02through security.
11:03After roaming inside the secured area and failing to scan a pass at one gate, investigators
11:08say he later waited until agents at another gate were distracted for TSA boarding pass and
11:13walked down the jetway onto United Flight 469 to Los Angeles.
11:18On board, a passenger says he seemed unsure about his seat.
11:21Then he started bouncing between bathrooms, at one point even giving the fake name Mr.
11:26Lopez.
11:26Flight attendants checked the manifest, realized he wasn't listed.
11:30The plane had to return to the gate.
11:32Everyone had to get off.
11:33Law enforcement and an explosive detection canine swept the aircraft.
11:37The flight ended up being delayed about three hours.
11:39Investigators say his boarding pass was missing key info and the QR code appeared to be forged.
11:45United employees said that his reservation was canceled for no payment.
11:49He is now wanted on a felony charge.
11:51Damn, Lopez.
11:52What you over here doing, Mr. Lopez?
11:53Must have been my cousin.
11:54I don't know, man.
11:56That's no joke right there.
11:57It isn't, right?
11:58Like, it's scary when you consider the safety aspects of it.
12:01Yeah.
12:02However, I can't knock it for trying, man.
12:04These constant flights are crazy.
12:06He was like, maybe I can make this.
12:08And he got a lot farther.
12:09He went through a lot of hoops.
12:10Yeah.
12:10He got a lot farther than I could have imagined.
12:12I'm shocked he got that far, man.
12:14Yeah.
12:14Like, it's funny because my favorite movie is Home Alone 2.
12:18And I'm always cracking up how he just got through the airport so easy.
12:23Where they were just like, okay, go on in.
12:25Yeah, I know that was back in the day.
12:27I know that was back in the day.
12:28But I'm like, man, but he got that far?
12:31And actually got on the plane?
12:34Yeah.
12:34And clearly it planned several different ways of gaming the system.
12:38And that would have scared the mess out of me if I was on that plane.
12:41Yeah.
12:41Seeing somebody going back and forth.
12:43But, damn, Lopez, you got money to get a flight, man.
12:46What's wrong with you, man?
12:47Yeah, you got all the flight money, man.
12:48It was another Lopez.
12:52All right.
12:53I'll get y'all out of here on this.
12:55It's the Mixtape and Loot Sports Radio 610.
12:57Shout out to our engineer, the best damn engineer in the world, Andy.
13:02There you go.
13:03Andy.
13:03There he is.
13:04I told Andy to come in here for this segment so we can praise him.
13:08And just salute Andy, who do a damn good job around here.
13:14Today is his last day.
13:15He is retiring.
13:16Look at that.
13:18Retiring for the second time.
13:19Am I right?
13:20Yeah, second time.
13:21Second time.
13:22Yeah.
13:23So, congratulations.
13:25And I just want to say we really appreciate you.
13:28You've been doing this for four decades, man.
13:30Yeah.
13:31You've been all over.
13:3275 was my first on-air job running American Top 40 and the public service shows on the station
13:40KRLY, which now is on its 93.7s, not even that same color.
13:46Dang.
13:46Yeah.
13:47So, you played Casey Kasem.
13:48Casey Kasem.
13:49Yeah.
13:49It came in on three discs.
13:52And those old transcription gates turntables, you had to go back at least a full turn.
13:58Otherwise, you would get, oh, American Top 40.
14:03So, Andy, I got a couple questions for you before we send you off into, I guess, your
14:10second retirement.
14:11Okay, Vic.
14:13Are you retiring for good this time, man?
14:16You retired the first time.
14:18Do we need to actually save the cake for later?
14:21The only reason I'm asking this is if you decide to come out of retirement again, you
14:25got to come back here.
14:27I'll be going nowhere else, man.
14:28No, no, no.
14:29Are you done for good?
14:32I'll be the fifth on that one.
14:34Oh, wow.
14:35Oh, wow.
14:35Oh, man.
14:37Just don't go nowhere else.
14:38You got to come back here, man.
14:39That's right.
14:40You're Tom Brady.
14:41Yeah.
14:42I was trying to think what football player has been in retirement and out of retirement,
14:47in retirement, out of retirement.
14:49Yeah, I think you would be the first.
14:50Yes.
14:51So, give us your favorite Houston Oilers story.
14:54Oh, and there's too many of them.
14:56There are tons and tons, but as we were talking earlier, Bum Phillips was on our crew, and
15:02every place that Bum went, it was treated like royalty.
15:06I mean, people would line up outside of our box and go, hey, Bum.
15:10And they would bring in little refreshments that he would consume during the ball game.
15:15And I guess one of the weirdest stories, or it was a funny story for us, probably not
15:20for Bum, but up in Cleveland, we were at the old municipal stadium, and you're on the
15:25roof, actually on the roof of that place, in a little Quonset hut thing.
15:29And Bum had his cerveza, and he also had his spit can.
15:35Oh!
15:35I see where this is going.
15:37And in the third quarter, he accidentally chugged back the spit can instead of the cerveza.
15:43And that was, it wasn't pretty.
15:47Did he, what did he do?
15:48He just coughed a little bit.
15:50He didn't, he didn't, he didn't throw up right there.
15:52There were no expletives?
15:53No, no, Bum was pretty reserved for that until off air.
15:57But, and then of course, of course, off air is a little bit different.
16:00And then my favorite thing also is when we, when he broke into, when the Oilers finally
16:06had a lead and didn't blow it in the fourth quarter, he would break into, good night,
16:11Irene, good night, Irene.
16:15And he would sing that, man.
16:16It was, it was pretty cool.
16:17That's awesome.
16:18That's awesome, man.
16:19So, again, congratulations.
16:21Congratulations, I got to get you out of here on this, though.
16:23We need to get your world famous weather report.
16:28Oh, the weather report.
16:29Yeah, yeah.
16:29Yeah, there's a, there's a lot of weather going on.
16:32I pulled up the latest forecast discussion.
16:34Excellent.
16:35And of course, there's, there's a lot of moisture for tropical moisture in our area.
16:38And especially upright, like the northwest part of town right now is under a flash flood
16:44warning.
16:45So they've had like two to four inches of rain in an hour.
16:47And all these training storms from the tropical moisture is funneling over there.
16:54So the rest of the day is up to about a 60% chance of thunderstorms.
16:59And tonight it comes in and alleviates once the cooling and the atmosphere calms down a
17:05little bit.
17:05And so, you know, overnight it'll be down.
17:07But then tomorrow, Saturday, unfortunately, it's going to be another wet one.
17:11But I'd rather have it wet than sitting at June, uh, six, June 5th and a hundred degrees.
17:17Yeah, that's right.
17:18So how about that?
17:20Yeah.
17:21Look at it better.
17:24But I appreciate, I mean, I say this sincerely, I'm working with some of the best pros in
17:30business right here.
17:31I mean, uh, I appreciate you guys so much.
17:34It's likewise, man.
17:35Like, uh, it's been able to, to be able to tap into such a long lineage of radio through
17:40you and the excellence, uh, therein has been one of the pleasures of my life.
17:44I appreciate you.
17:44Well, thank you, Reg.
17:45Thank you, John.
17:46Thank you, Figgy.
17:47And I will miss you guys, but we'll be listening.
17:49You're darn right.
17:50That's right.
17:51And I expect nobody.
17:53Fuck.
17:53Don't do that.
17:54Don't do that.
17:55I think they won last night for Andy.
17:57Yeah.
17:58Five won.
17:59All right, Andy.
17:59You was at the game too, right?
18:00Oh yeah, we were there.
18:01We were there.
18:02Real quick, funny story.
18:04Not a funny story, but, uh, my wife, uh, called me before I went into the stadium because she
18:10couldn't go to the game and said, do you know, we were two years ago tonight?
18:14And I said, no, I said, we were at the Cardinals Astros game and we were sitting in right field
18:19right behind on like second row.
18:21And that night, Mauricio Dubon was interfered with a fan who was protecting his, his little
18:28child that they had in, in the lap.
18:30And he reached over to bat the ball.
18:32And that morning, uh, Seth and was talking about it, uh, with Sean and I, and I come
18:39in and said, Hey, you know, I was at that game, right?
18:40I was right behind that guy last night.
18:42So we had that story my second or third day, uh, uh, here working at the building was like
18:47talking about the Astros, uh, Cardinals experience with the, the, the fan interference with Mauricio
18:52Dubon.
18:53That's awesome, man.
18:55Appreciate it.
18:56Congrats again, man.
18:57I appreciate it very much.
18:58And sincerely, thank you all very much for having me.
19:01Yeah.
19:01If the pleasure has been ours, the pleasure has been ours.
19:03Um, that's how we conclude yet another fantastic edition of the mixtape right here on sports
19:08radio.
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