Ask The Downbeat

Mike and Danny answer some questions from the listeners. 

Episode Transcript

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This is a downbeat on ninety sevento one the free I don't want to
juggle, Mikey juggling days are over. He will juggle once again, my
friend. We're not jumped off.Its just me and day today. Know
Kevin Turner here on the down beat, this will not be interesting. I

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don't know to most, but Kevinis on a boat right now on Lake
Como. And I told you mydad used to race on Lake Como and
race against this guy named Fabio Bootsywho's a propeller maker. And I don't
know if I even knew this,or I just don't remember if someone sent
me a link to an article aboutFabio Bootsy dying at age seventy six in

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a high speed boat race. He'strying to set a new record from Monte
Carlo to Venice, and that isa race my dad was in. It
was Venice to Monta Carlo at thetime where they race all around the boot
of Italy. And there's just abig article about Fabio boots He killed in
boat speed record attempt crash at seventysix years old when the boat hit an
artificial reef near the finish line inVenice. They'd put these boulders under the

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water, lowered to the sea bedto protect the dam, because you're always
trying to save Venice, because it'sthe only floating city, right and the
thought is it might be just gonein a few years. And they were
going about eighty knots, which aboutninety two miles an hour, and they
hit a man made dam. Theboat flew thirty meters through the air,
landing on its stern on the otherside of the causeway where victims died on

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impact. There's a picture of theirjust mangled boat. We're this racing world
champion who had some wars with myold man died. That was in twenty
nineteen. If anybody was looking foran Italian boat racing update from all disgusted
earlier in the show from five yearsago, you are now complete, as

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we know the whole story of Italianboat racing. Fabio Boots. You've said
it before. Listen to the downbeat. You can have it all, You
can have it all. Yeah,you didn't think you're gonna have that.
You want five year old speedboat storiesat ending tragedy check. Kevin is on
the lake, so there is atie in and he's not here with us.

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Kevin will be back next Thursday.It's me and Danny today and next
Tuesday and Wednesday. We're off.Friday and Monday. I am destination Las
Vegas. I'm going to see Fishplay at the Sphere. Their first show
is tonight. They're playing four nightsand I can't wait to see the spear.
Can't wait to see Fish again.And I will come back and let
you know how it all goes down. It's gonna be pretty cool. It's

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Christina's first ever trip to Las Vegas. She just showed me a picture of
her sweet mom, who it's reallycute. Her mom stays with her like
once a week because they live,you know, an hour out of town,
but her mom works here and doesn'twant to drive home all the time,
so one day a week, usuallyWednesday night, she'll stay at Christina's
house. It's nice, it issweet, and they get to watch shows,
and they got dinner and they usuallygo get a petticure together. It's
really sweet. But a trick hermom does, and this is such a

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mom move, as she usually hideslike dollar bills under like like in the
toilet paper or under the kleenex orunder the remote control like places where Christina
will find it. And her mom, who likes Vegas, I think,
knows that she's making her first trip. So she left like twe hundred dollars
a couple hundred dollar bills that Christinajust this morning stumbled upon. She's like,

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I want you to go and gambleand have fun. Oh that is
really sweet. So I think Christine'sa good mama. Gambling budget has increased
from one hundred dollars maybe over twohundred dollars. Now she is going to
have to share winnings with mamma,and she'll dutifully and gladly do something.
She'll offer, but Mama won't takeit. But she's under my gambling tutelage.
Yeah, so she's going to comehome with nothing. She's gonna lose

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one hundred thousand dollars right in threedays. Get your GM card one more
time. Imagine drug Christina, Ineed an F and marker yelling at the
pit bosses. She's running that placeand two out like by sundown tonight.
She's the best. So we're offto Vegas this afternoon and it's going to
be fun. We got talkbacks andeverything coming up in the hot mob,

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next birthdays. All that fun stuffwill be the nine thirty segment right now.
I don't know. We just calledit as the Downbeat. I think
we've done it before. I don'tthink there's an open of any kind.
I don't think so. But youopened a Pandora's box on Facebook. We've
done it via text. Any questionspeople want to ask, I don't know.
Lot have some fun anything going onhere in ninety see in the freak
place we used to work. Ithink everything's on the table as long as

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we're legally allowed to answer it andhave a little fun with it. I'm
down. Why the hell not?Yeah, we put it out, like
you said, on Facebook and ontext, and I got a ton of
jokes, a ton of funny questions, and I was kind of hoping for
some questions that might make you andor I squirm a little bit. Sure,

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that's the ones I was looking forwardto. So, I don't know,
do you have one that you wantto ease into it with? Uh?
I mean, and I can getto some squirmers ease. I mean
someone asked, no, I don'twant to do Danny, what happened to
your truck? Any updates? Wedon't want a full update there. Someone
said, Danny, will you playAutumn Leaves for us later? No?

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And what is that that is?It's an old song? Yeah? I
did a classic country record about gosh, fifteen years ago. I guess,
okay, why wouldn't you play alittle piece of that. I haven't performed
those songs in about thirteen years,and I have no intention of doing it
now. I think they just meanplay it on your Is it on Spotify?
Yeah? It's on Spotify, butit's the worst song on that record,

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So no, I don't want tohear it. Can we hear thirty
one song on your record? Youhave a record on Spotify? I think
that's interesting. You can listen totrack three. This was the song that
actually got some radio play. DannyBayless artist, is that tethered? Yeah?
Do you want the core here?Good grief? You have you never

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even listened to that? I havelistened to it multiple times? Oh you
really have? Yes? Oh?Okay absolutely when it came out. Really
yeah, I was pumped friends backthen. Now did I even know who
you were? Yeah? He saidI was a Beefer that's right? And
it maybe lose twenty five pounds andlook at you now. This is from
Danny's country albums Oh Ends Glove sosoftly Now I can better in the field

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pain of the promises of springtime disguisedas a general rain. Do you have
a lyric in the blurry sides DowntownNuts made it hard to stay you around.
I could always let you go,but I can never let you down.

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The alcohol in text Stuard Walls willholdly down once more, Dinner tain
a life of change. Seemed betterto ignore her. Then the roll glance
that caught my like a form littlecloud should mu red and turn men from

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the lyric girls of the It's greathe stopped it right before the chorus.
If I could pull myself together,could you find the way to hold me
once again? But only food couldbe so tether de lover, you should

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have only been a friend. God. Well, I hadn't heard that in
Forever. Yeah, that was somesad, bastard self loathing country music I've
actually got. I didn't ever lookedjust You up on Spotify, So if
anyone wants to listen to the wholealbum, it's called Too Much Living Nanny
Bayless on Spotify. That was thatwas part of my dark period. I
was going through some dark emotional time. Really. Yeah, well it's pretty

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as hell. I thank you,thank you so much. Yeah, I
don't really think about that that muchanymore. Things are looking up, Eric,
I'm doing good since I love that. Since we don't know which direction
this is go, we'll prove it. There's a guy on the phone who
wants to ask you a question live. I don't know if it's a bit
or if it's real. Hey caller, Hey man, what's your question?

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Hey? So I grew up inboat racing too. Who are some people
that you would suggest your fans lookup? Because apparently they love it?
So who would you say they shouldlook up and learn about? All right,
thank you for your your call.I don't know. I don't know
that anyone was. And all mypeople that I remember from boat racing were
from the eighties and nineties. Imean they would be well. I don't

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want to say legends of boat racingbecause it's such a niche sport, but
Billy Sebold is the uh the hydroplaneor the tunnel boat racing greatest of all
time. He was a I meanyou could look up my dad Bill Siroy.
There's not too much out there,but there's enough. You can find
some stories and some pictures and it'sit's pretty cool. And then it stems
off into some wild drug dealers.Will and Sally mcgluda race the Seahawks boats

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and they were the stars or Iguess of the cocaine cowboy Miami thing.
They got busted for a lot ofcocaine. There's a guy named George Morales
whom my dad raced against, whowent to jail for a very long time
for doing all that. And thenAl Copeland, the guy who owned and
conceived Popeyes. He was my dad'sboss and they raced together for a whole
lot of years. And there's somewild stories there. But anyway, it

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was fun times. All right,you got one? Yeah, I do.
This is an interesting one and Ithink we can speak to this always.
One is from Sean. He says, I always wanted to know how
the personalities get paid for leave,for reading live spots. Yeah, and
it's different, I think for eachradio station. But essentially, I mean

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at the old station, you'd getpaid you know, X amount of dollars
depending on how famous you were,what tier you were. Yeah, the
tier system was in play. Indeed, and you'd get paid for every read
that you would do, and ityou know, it anywhere between something that
you don't think is a lot ofmoney. It doesn't sound like a lot
of money, but you can addhim up over a month's time and you
know, just supplement your income alittle bit. I think, here it's

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a flat rate per month and thatcorrect. Yeah, at the old station,
I got twenty five bucks per read. I think that's what I had
too. But it was so weird. I'll tell you this. When I
first didn't have that mini over there, when I first started Cirque, we
got paid twenty five bucks an hourto do the show, right, so
it was a two hour show.I'd get paid fifty dollars, right,
And then I saw the sheet ofsomeone else who's probably Davies or mine,

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and what were you getting? Uh? What was I getting? I think
one like a hundred or one hundredand fifty an hour? Oh my god?
Really yeah, I was getting twentyfive an hour. Yeah, so
I've made fifty dollars before taxes tonew Cirq. And then I think cash.
I saw his or someone and hewas putting in fifty dollars an hour
making getting one hundred, and I'mlike, oh my god, And but

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we would write him by hand there. Yeah, So I just switched mine
one day and nobody said I justdoubled my pay. No one said a
word. And apparently I could haveput one hundred or one hundred and fifty
an hour, because they all benefitfrom no one knowing when anyone else gets
paid business in America. Fine,kid, but they know you should be
getting more. So I just gavemyself a double the money raise and then

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I was happy getting fifty getting onehundred dollars. Yeah, which turns out
to be way less than the GreatOrphanage got, which is understandable because you
guys, don't. I think Daveygot less than I did. Okay.
I saw him fill out his sheetone time, and I think he was
getting one hundred an hour. Reallyyeah, yeah, And I never said
no I should. I'll tell youthis. I won't say who, but

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one of the hosts would get paidtwenty two fifty per live spot and I
was getting twenty five. That's weird, and it was just because that's the
number that they were at. Andif he never changed it or never asked
any questions why would they come toyou. Yeah, I think they went
to a flat rate over there too, per month, and that's what we
do here. They just you know, bonus you per month and it shows

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up on your check. It's probablynot as much as you think it would
be, right, but if youhave a lot of clients that up and
that's not absolutely I got an here'sanother one, this from Freddy. He
says, was it quote unquote suitswho stopped the fun sponsors and took out

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the jokes at the end of Dingu'smorning News. I'm not a mind reader,
but I'm sure a lot of uslisteners miss it, so believe it
or not. No, that wasa decision of mine after I believe Christmas
break because number one, when Iwould write those fake sponsors for what was

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it for Sports at seven, Yeah, I'd come up with it was a
segment that wasn't sponsored by any ofour clients, and I would just make
one up. I started literally runningout of ideas. Yeah, and it's
really and I was always come upwith those in the break before and that
was kind of the fun of it, to just get put on the spot,
just come up with something insane.It's brought to you by a reference

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to something that happened in the hourbefore, something dumb that came up.
You would have said, by FabioBootsie's propeller factory, Yeah, had it
been today, Sure, absolutely,and number one I got it became kind
of hard to do that with almostthe same thing with the jokes. I
wasn't coming up with these jokes onmy own. I was searching the internet
for him, and man, I'mtelling you, you will run out of
joke sources. Yeah, for somethingthat's actually funny. The sponsor thing,

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I don't know. I felt likewhere we were at the time and the
way we were viewed by the peoplethat do make decisions up here, it
was almost a preemptive idea because itseemed like they were trying to eliminate some
clutter, for example, the mixesin between shows, and I felt like,
we need to tighten up our showa little bit, have it moving

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a little quicker, not waste timeon little silly things like that. So
it was kind of a combo platterof laziness, lack of creativity, and
doing what we thought the people thatmake decisions on our employment wanted at the
time. So combo of all thosesomeone just set this one in. It's
to me, Mike. After youwent full scorcher on Gordo's twitch stream after

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a drunken night at Trey's birthday party, did you get a textor call from
any the hosts of the OULD station, either the negative or positive reactions?
So when I left the ticket,yeah, I went to a livestream with
Gordon and I drank a ton ofwhiskey. But I wouldn't say it was
full scorch here. I mean,I know, I didn't say anything that
wasn't true. I got calls ofsupport from a couple of people. I

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didn't hear one negative thing from anyoneother than listeners who interpreted it anyway they
wanted it. But I've never goneback and watched it because I'm kind of
embarrassed because I did get trashed tothe point where Cash was texting me.
He said, probably time to pullthe plug on this thing. Cash is
advising you to put the Probably needto listen to your big bro. I

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know I didn't say anything I didn'tmean, and all I essentially was doing
was advocating for people who weren't gettingpaid anything, you know, and people
who had worked there for twenty plusyears and getting paid an embarrassing amount of
money and if that's the worst thingI do, And I get hammered and
yelled that the little guy maybe shouldbe compensated a little bit better, and
that maybe the big guy should beaware that the little guy is who wakes

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up at three in the morning everysingle day is getting not taken care of.
Yeah. I have no shame infighting for that. So no,
but actually a couple people hit meup and supported that work there. Yeah,
we're like, that was awesome,and one was like, I couldn't
have said it better. I totallyagree. And I talk to Gordon the

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day after that and I helped himwith twitch ideas and stuff like that.
So there was really nothing negative thatcame out of that. And I got
no problem with him. Man,I loved it. I was glued,
very yeah, absolutely glued, becauseI left the station about I don't know
a month or a month or lessbefore you did, and uh, I

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was. I was fascinated and andand you were just echoing things that I
probably just didn't have the encouragement ofwhiskey to say when I did Gordon's twitch,
because I did the same thing.But I was probably a little more
measured because I didn't drink, butI could see how my wheels would have
completely flown off, And I'm Imight have even gotten more acerbic than you
did. That tendency it bears justbecause I got wasted. But I don't

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I didn't. I don't know.I guess said anything that didn't mean so
not at all. Uh, herewe go. Okay, it's coming close.
This is from Harry and this wasfrom the Facebook group. He says
it is coming close to a yearsince the host show name swap. Can
you tell us how your expectations orconcerns. I guess what he's saying is,

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how are your expectations concerns? Howdid they compare to how it actually
has gone so far? I havesame question essentially, how how was your
initial reaction of being told you weremoving to mornings from afternoon drive? So
same thing that was the first theaudio of me. I can tell you
this without any any reservations or anyfear. Mikey and I fought this like

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absolute hell yeah, as hard aswe could until we realized that it was
it was a fool's effort to eventry to fight it. And once we
accepted it, and once we gotin here, I think it took about
two or three days of working together, which we had done before, but

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working with Kevin and seeing what thechemistry and the dynamic could turn into,
I was delighted. It took meno time at all to be absolutely thrilled
about working with Kevin, and myhesitation of moving to mornings was too old.

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I thought the afternoons were growing.I thought we had a better chance
to get good ratings in the afternoonconsidering the competition. No slot or no
slight on anybody that shares that timeslot. But the musers are an effing
juggernaut and most I don't care howgood you are, you're probably not ever
going to beat them. That wasa concern. And the second concern was

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one hundred percent selfish about having towake up every day at four in the
morning. Yeah, that's it,completely agree. I hated it. I
came up with a lot of logicalreasons why I didn't think it made sense,
and it wasn't the best thing forour station here. I thought we
could make some headway, and wewere, albeit small, but we were
really heading in the right direction ofthe afternoons, and I thought we could

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do a little damage there with whatwe had, but it was out of
our hands. I made a verylogical pitch condensed to why I don't think
it's a good idea. I thinkpeople, you and I people kind of
would like to come out and drinkwith us at remotes and more afternoon vibes.
But yeah, once we started Kevin'sAwesome, my stress levels plummeted because

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in the afternoons, let's just therewas a lot more weight to carry as
far as preparation for the show.I was drinking a lot. My doctor
said, you need to stop drinking, and yes, my stress levels are
so much lower. Anxiety is waydown in the mornings. It's a pleasure
to work with Kevin. That's whatI didn't know. I didn't I would

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love and we discussed this. I'lltell you that. I tell you this
off the air. We just havingconversations. He's like, what if they
asked us to move to afternoons andthey said it's completely up to us us
three. I'm like, I don'tknow. I love this too. I'm
in the system now, I'm inthe rhythm of going to sleep at a
reasonable hour, I'm proud that noneof us have ever been late once.

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Had you asked me that on theday we switched, I would have thought,
no chance. I like being doneat ten and having the whole day.
So the only thing that I don'tlike about, well, there's a
lot of things to not like aboutwaking up at four in the morning and
starting your day a lot. Letto be honest, the thing that I
missed the most is being able tobe flexible to stay up and watch the

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late night games YE like. Forexample, next Tuesday, we're going to
have MAVs out there in LA andthat's going to be a soup or late
night for us, and you justend up feeling kind of, I don't
know, not your best. Thenext day, when you're trying to do
a four hour show on three hoursof sleep, it's it's really difficult.
I did it this week and Ifelt horrible. I felt like I was
a terrible broadcaster. But to answereven further with that to that guy's question,

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I echo exactly what you just said. Stress level is way down.
I do sleep better at night,and it feels like a real team and
Kevin is one hundred percent and absolutejoy to work with every day, And
this is my favorite show that Ihave. It's my favorite collection of talent

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that I've worked with on a showtoo. It's the funniest show I've ever
been a part of. Yeah,and I love it. We'll see adore
it, We'll see how how wemake it all right? Is nine twenty
eight? I don't know. Wegot a couple more of these left over.
We can start the next segment,maybe play some talkbacks, see what
happens next. Ninety The Free