Ask The Downbeat Part 2/Talkbacks

The boys wrap up Ask The Downbeat and we play some of your talkbacks. 

Episode Transcript

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The Downbeat, the Freak Salona.Have you gone Fight six? At the
time, it's just Danny and Mikey. Kevin's not where us. JJ is

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here. We're gonna be off tomorrowand Monday. Well, Pugs your strips.
Good off Pugs and Pugs and Palstomorrow morning and Monday morning. Please
tune in support them. Yeah,give them some love. But he will.
He will definitely come in here withtwo excellent shows planned. Hell yeah,

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no doubt. He's a pro.And then Danny and I'll be back
on Tuesday. We'll do Tuesday andWednesday, and then Thursday Kevin will be
back and we'll be full send.I will have a review on Tuesday about
the Spear. I'm off to LasVegas. I'm gonna watch Fish plate the
Spear. They also have like smellovisionthere. I think they have the ability
to pump in smells and temperatures.Okay, and Fish has been working on

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these four shows since last June.They said, I have not and they're
being real KOI on like that stuff. I don't know if they're gonna use
smellovision. I mean, what's goingto overpower the overriding scent that's going to
be in that. Damn yeah,that's true. So they're pumping in fake
weed smelling. No, that's aguy standing next to Wait, that's me.

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Oh crap, it's in my hand. They've pumped a joint in my
hand. The spear did it.That's illegal. I'm really excited. The
first of four shows is tonight.Not going to this evening, but I'll
be going to Friday and Saturday anduh yeah, we'll review fun times at
the Sphere next Tuesday and uh maybegambling successes. We're laying bets, me
and Danny. We're laying one hundredbucks on the MAVs minus one Sunday Night

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or Sunday Day against the Clippers inGame one, one hundred bus on hopefully
seven to one odds. I don'tknow what I'll get when I get there,
but that'll be on two hundred bucks. One hundred bucks in each of
us on the MAVs at seven toone to win the Western Conference and sixteen
to one to win the NBA Championship. We're getting dirty on those. We're
the home of the MAVs ninety sevento one, home of the MAVs.

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We take ownership of that, don'twe pure ownership of our being the home
of the MAVs and inside sports Medicinewith doctor TiO Sorriel. We'll get to
some talkbacks here in a minute.I guess I have birthdays if we need
to get to them, but wehave some leftovers. We just had asked
the down beat. We're just kindof kicking around stuff around the station about
our previous station. Whatever. We'redown for it. You got any more?

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Got a couple? So I getwhat this person Brandon on the Facebook
group is trying to ask, andI'll read the way he worded it,
and then we'll try to interpret ita little bit. He says. My
favorite mix is with Danny Skin andReiner talking music while Soroy mediate mediates.

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I feel like that was the oldlineup, but I loved hearing those segments.
Would that mix ever be a thingagain, I don't really remember doing
much of that. If they're askingabout the actual mixes that we would do,
like when our show would end,we would, you know, do
ten to fifteen minutes with the showthat's coming up afterwards and just kind of

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cross pollin eate and what do youguys got going on? And usually we'd
have a loose plan or somebody havea topic that we could all discuss.
Then yeah, that was something thatwe did over at the old station,
and I think it's a really funthing to do. I don't know if
those will ever come back again.They've been gone for a while, so
usually once those those horses are outof the barn, they don't go back

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in. But a doubt they'll comeback. I think the thought was to
because if you do, if youhave a mix like right now, for
instance, if we were beginning amix with Ben and Skin, they're going
to walk in any minute, wewouldn't really have anything planned for this segment.
I think the thought was just toput not to have a give up
segment at the end of every show. Now we come from a school of

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those often turned into magical moments yep, but a more based management based viewpoint
is that you should have something prepared, you know, at the beginning and
an end I suppose, and youknow there may be a disagreement there,
but ultimately we are trying to improvewhat this show is and obviously our whole

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station's ratings and if not really working, so we want to make changes that
hopefully would benefit this thing. Soyeah, I mean that's the thought.
And we're not really in a positionto argue that that won't work because what
we were doing wasn't working all thatwell. So in that possibly antiquated way

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of determining how successful or how gooda show is, you know, we
do have a scoreboard that does notindicate where playing great football. Yeah,
so yeah, we're willing to makethe changes necessary to try to increase that
score. And we can be willingsoldiers and make those changes, and the

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other thing can be true that wesee things quite differently. Yeah, and
that's fair and there's nothing wrong withthat. But in fairness to them,
doing things our way hasn't yielded theresults that we all hope to date,
so you know, we'll try whatever. And that suggestion was to eliminate the
mixes and cool they're gone. Here'sone from Brian on the Facebook group.

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Will Jake and Dan join the Freak? If not, can we at least
get them to rotate onto the differentshows. Let me answer the second question
we have had believe the Speakeasy hadDan up for an hour or two.
Dan McDowell, formerly of The Ticket, now on the Hangzone podcast and Jake

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was up here or at least anhour yesterday on the Bent and Skin Show,
So aren't that dude? Was hehe was? Did he bleed in?
I think two hours with them?Twelve? Yeah, they started at
noon. He did two hours withthem and then did at least the first
segment with the Speaks. Okay,I don't think that that is something that
will happen with much frequency, butit's nice. They're old friends of ours
and we talk to them all thetime, and we love them and are

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super excited about what they've got goingon and real proud of of all the
moves that they've made. And there'sno reason why they can't be guests if
they if they agree and we havea reason to have them up, or
if we don't have a reason tohave them up. It's it's nice to
have those friendships intact and to havethe flexibility to do that. As far
as them joining the Freak, Idon't really in this business. I will

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never say anything with one hundred percentcertainty, but I can say with almost
one hundred percent certainty the answer tothat question, will Jake and Dan join
the Freak? The answer is probablyknow, And that's a real hard,
probably almost definitely. Yeah. Theanswer to that isn't no. The answer
is no, they will not bejoining the Freak. We get some form

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of this question a lot. Youstill talk to any of the ticket guys
or do they all refuse to acknowledgeyou off the air the same as they
do on the air? And thenwhat do y'all? Who do you want
to know? Who y'all still talkto the old place. They don't say
a word about y'all and barely evenplanning old drops from what I Yeah,
Yeah, we're Yeah, we talkhot. I mean, we work a
f and morning show here, sowe don't go out as much. And

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you know, I mean you kindof mingle with the people that you work
with and whatever. But we textall the time. I text Donovan yesterday,
actually butt dial Donovan yesterday. He'slike, use butt dial me,
Mike. Yeah, sorry, Ilove you. Seeah, we chat,
we talk. We're cool. Iam at least text texted with Corby for
about a half an hour last night. Yeah, yeah, talking about Showgun.

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How much we love effing Showgun.Yeah yeah, just catching up And
I haven't even asked, but somethingcame up and I don't think I could
be wrong. I don't think thereis a big mandate. I don't know.
Maybe there is a mandate not tosay our names or mention us or
play audio. But I don't thinkit's as much as as speculated. I
just think that's just how it works. And I've listened in the afternoons.

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I've tuned in from time to time, and I've heard them, oh,
this is back Danny did this,or this is back when Danny did this
thing. I've heard, and that'sbeen a while, but I've heard it
mentioned Davy just uh, him andMarissa they just had a new baby.
Yeah, and texted those guys andtexted Davy personally. He's like, dude,
congratulations, if you need anything,let me know. I'm in the
same boat, old man, andwe got little kids and it's awesome and

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yeah, dude, we went todinner with David murrisa just a couple of
months ago. Jake brought up yesterday. It is odd that, though,
because of the legal portion of it, Jake and Dan don't get mentioned.
I don't know if maybe there's adifferent mandate for them because their whole legal
battle was it was a little more, yeah, far more. You know

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serious our departures, so one thingtoo. But it's a shame and those
guys Jake and Dan, I meanmaybe not you, but Dan specifically was
there for a long large portion ofthe Ticket's history. Yeah, Dan,
I was there when Dan started,right, So to eliminate him from ticket
jargon or the history is feels prettydisingenuous. But I'll say this anything that

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if there's any perceived negativity between anyof those camps, it has nothing to
do with the people that are ourfriends that are on the air. Right.
There may have been some hard feelingsat first, but those things have
subsided, and it was just itwas probably just more disappointment that they weren't

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able to work some stuff out andkeep us there. Yeah, but our
issues were never with My issues werenever with Kirby or No or George or
Gordon. I've texted Gordon. Wewere chatting last week about typewriters. Yes,
we've been friends for I've been friendswith Corby for almost thirty years.

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Just because we changed jobs doesn't meanwe can't or don't still connect. It's
not as much because we don't worktogether, right or what would be the
point, Like, who do youtech don't you know, text with someone
every week, no matter how closeyou are, really unless you work together,
well, especially if you're a dude. Yeah, exactly, Dudes,
you just don't do that. Butour issues were never with the guys that
we were in the yeah, inthe trenches with on a day to day

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basis. And Jake said that yesterdaytoo, He's like, I don't have
any animosity to anybody over there whosename you've heard of pretty much. Yeah,
I thought that was very well saidone. And you know what,
Concur, Yeah, exactly, Concur, there are some bad actors. None
of those guys that are on theair, I would consider any of them
bad actors. So and so wemissed the guest appearance on each other's shows.
The different personalities and different dynamics makesit really fun to listen to.

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Yeah, we have nothing against thathere still, and we're allowed to do
that. But I think we werepushed kind of toward provide news and information
because it's too much of our personalities. I think, so us mixing and
circle jaying. Not to say it'sfrowned upon and you can't do this many

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hours or radio and not do that, you know, But I think generally
speaking from management as a strategy wasto provide news and information and evolve those
topics in a fun and interesting way. Is what is going to cast the
net out wider than us circle jayingabout each other, which I can't really
in theory disagree with you. Youcan't because the way that this station is

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promoted is we promote ourselves, andit's if somebody's just tuning in or they're
you know, flying down the dialand they land on ninety seven to one,
what is going to draw that randomperson in the most hearing me and
Mikey talk about some trip that wewent to Colorado fifteen years ago and a

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story that happened that was really funny. Because they're listening, going, Okay,
I don't know who these guys are. I don't know what is relevant
about this story to me. Ijust tuned in. I'm lost in the
middle of this. Yeah, theywant to. They want that person to
tune in and hear a funny storyabout an airplane that had to get rerouted
because the toilets backed up and there'sdiarrhea all over the floor. Right,

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that's funny, that's interesting, Okay. And then and then quickly move to
another story and then quickly to anotherstory. Unless you write a Jimmy Buffett
theme song about the diary of airplane, then you can yes, play that.
Yeah, but it's true. Theywant stuff that you're gonna hear and
then go to the water cooler andchat about Hey, where you hear all?
I heard about that on ninety sevenon the Freak. That's the playbook
theory on how to improve things,And again, cannot argue with that.

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But we come from a school whereit's deeper form of entertainment where the listener
tends to know and get to knowthe people and like those stories and sort
of the behind the scenes, behindthe curtain interactions and all that. I
mean, Hell, this segment righthere is probably not in the playbook as
far as what's good. But Iguarantee a lot of people listening to this
is like this is juicy. Yeahno, And then that's the difference.

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But it's easy to do those storiesabout each other and circle Jane when it's
you're getting nine and eleven and nottwos. It's not twos. Yeah that
I get it. But I haveseen a little bit of a shift in
the philosophy around here. Lately fromthe people that make decisions, and it's

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kind of more akin to the oldschool way that we grew up doing radio,
which is you have a fairly smallgroup of people that listen, and
the idea is you want to getthat group of people to listen as long
as possible, because that equates togood ratings just as much as having a
bunch of people listening that only useyou as a tool for information or a

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quick laugh. But they're jumping aroundlistening. I need some news. Oh
okay, I know that seven thirtiesof scuttle, but they'll hit some local
news. Okay, I get acouple of stories. Time to go back
to my country music or podcast orwhatever, you know. I like the
if it's my preference. I wantto treat the people that are listening to
us like they're in the room withus, like we're all having a discussion

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and it's story time and it's alonger form radio, And I get I
can see both sides of it,but I think the quicker path to success
in their minds was to cast thewide net, get as many people as
you can listening for shorter amounts oftime, maybe turn them into p ones
and then you can grow that ina different way. But yeah, we

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really don't know. It changes allthe time, so we know. And
someone's asking, are you adding anevening show? We're I don't, no,
no, We're we got buckets andwe're getting water out of the boat.
We're not adding a brand new engine. And there's holes in some of
those buckets. I wish our bucketslevels in them. We wish, but

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who knows. Maybe things will turnaround for us and it'll I don't even
know. They good know what weall want. Seriously, though, good
questions, thanks for participating on Facebookand on the on the tech stapp.
I wanted questions that were going tobe have me and Mikey looking at each
other going how do we do this? I wanted to squirm. I wanted
to give you guys something honest,something you know, transparent, and be

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as honest as we could without hurtinganybody's feelings, without threatening our livelihood,
threatening our employment status. And alsothere could still be legal ramifications on certain
topics, so we tried to filterthose out. But most of most of
these questions were just exactly what wewere looking for, and thank you,
and maybe we can do it againas honess in ten minutes. We don't

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walk out of the studio and there'sarms crossed and toes being tapped and clipboards,
clip clon boards. Here a boxwith a plant. It is handed
to me. We have some talkbacks. JJ, yeah, I know
you got a bunch of them.We got time for a few. Think

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I love it. Hey, Dingu, when you were talking about fish in
Vegas, you really think they're gonnado do at the sphere? I mean
Stroy's probably never seen them do thaton stage to be caught the show to
see, So hopefully they do iton Friday or Saturday. Oh maybe a

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minor slip of the tongue out ofyou. You do do something? And
I said the words do back toback, and that guy thought it was
funny because it sounds like do doyou. One of the first texts we
got was asking if any of admitit. Did either of you guys also
do do it? The Masters?Uh? No, I did not.
Did you do do it? TheMasters? You know what? I don't

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know I should have. I wasmy head was on such a swivel.
I t teet at the Masters,But I did do do it? The
Vatican do you need to make thepoo poo. So I wanted you do
do it at the Vatican. Dodo it at the Vatican. You know
that's worse, right, I didn'tye, that is sacred holy land.

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Well, I didn't sneak off behinda bush. I mean there was a
giant entryway. You were on Vaticangrounds and there's a large public facilities.
I didn't sneak into the papal privatequarters smearing it all over the system chapel.
No. I did want to goto war with Corby, so I
had to do do somewhere more prestigious. Hey, Mikey and Danny, it's

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Larry the dog trainer. Hey,guys, I just wanted you to know
I've been a listener of the otherstation for about twenty five years. Mikey,
when you and I worked at Serenityat Granada together, I remember complimenting
you on your tickers. Anyway,I started checking out you guys on commercials
and on the redundant sports segments theykept having. And now I don't turn

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off the freak. You guys haveturned me for life. That's cool,
man, thank you. And that'sthe idea. That's all been the idea
look, we've said it on air. The pie chart over there is about
seventy percent sports and thirty percent funtimes, and no one ever remembers,
for life or quotes of their friendsanything from that seventy percent sports. So

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the idea was, let's flip itand make it seventy percent fun times and
thirty percent sports. And that's stillthe plan. The legendary topics and segments
that are part of ticket lore arenever about dude when they talk MAVs that
one all go, oh my god. It's random wheels off stuff. It's

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conversations that get derailed and go intoa ditch and organically just take a life
of their own. It's a bitthat Gordon does or a song maybe that
I did or or Korby did.Those are the things that that that lasts
that people remember your station for.It's not about the reason Ranger discussion you
had, but the reason it worksis because that's seventy percent sports. It

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is a lot easier. Sports area fountain that feeds you stuff every day
you can talk about. So that'swhat allows that thirty percent to be so
good. And there's an argument maybewe're not good enough to pull off the
seventy percent required of fun times andunique conversations and wacky songs or whatever.
So yeah, I guess you couldargue that, but the format and the

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idea should work. Yeah, thisis Jack with Jack Pocket. We've been
trying to reach you, Danny.You actually there was a mistake in that
email. You were supposed to winseven million dollars. We've been trying to
reach you, but you gave usthe wrong phone number and he didn't respond

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to our email. So we're gonnaneed you to respond to that email and
you can get that seven million dollarsthanks to Jack. Let's no dude,
the other guy who runs it.That was Jack. That's Jack, mister
Pocket. Jack Pocket, respond tothat email. I will trust me.
I'm on it all right. Lastone, hey, boys, Fox News

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Dale travels to me. I'm offto Vegas. We're off tomorrow support
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My name is Mike's Roy. Thanksfor listening, man. We'll see in

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a few days. A