The Opener: April 18, 2024

Happy Thursday! Mike and Danny might be going a little crazy without Kevin around. 

Episode Transcript

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I played today with a ton ofgratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to do
this. I'm really glad I getto do it again tomorrow, and I'm
gonna remind myself I'm a dog andI'm ready for this moment. Oh well,

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no more, damn time, sixo'clock, right on the butt,
Thursday, April eighteen, twenty twentyfour. It's a dirty down beat Mike's
royd Any Baylist, JJ Jackson NokevioToday. This Italian adventure continues. But

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we've got a good little show.I was just scrolling through the run sheet
and the thing that popped out Isee Toronto gold heist. Yes story,
I didn't even know about. Ithappened a couple of years back. They
made some arrests, but the detailsof this are fantastic. I did a
glance at that last night while preppinghard and uh yeah, give me heist

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talking any anytime we can get it. That'll be in Dingu's morning news.
Who would miss that? Who wouldmissed that at a thirty nothing better from
eight thirty to nine o'clock? Whowould miss it on the radio than Dingo's
morning News. I he asked theDownbeat at nine o'clock. We got some

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good ones coming in on that.If you want to participate in that bad
Boy, you can text us goodmorning. Somebody text us good morning.
Where's a normal good morning? Downbeatguy usually hits us at exactly six o'clock.
Maybe something happened to him. Maybewho's on a plane over the Atlantic?
I know who's not in a planeover the Atlantic. Yeah, yeah,
our sweet prints. It's nice tohear from him. We got some

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Cavio updates. He seems to beat peace with the way things have worked
out. Yeah, just thirty minutesago, he finally hit us up.
Confirmed alive. He's on a boaton Lake Como right now. The picture
looks great. I don't know toomuch it's about Lake Como, but I

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know that George Clooney has a housethere, and he did just send us
a video of George Clooney's villa whereMichael Jordan and Obama have been seen hanging
out. And he is on thewater of Lake Como right now. Went
to Lake Como when I was alittle kid. Because there's a guy named
Fabio Bootsy okay, who was theAli. I can tie anything back to

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powerboat racing, but he was.He's an Italian boat designer and propeller maker,
and my dad would get all ofhis propellers for the race boats from
Fabio Bootsy. But I think theywere kind of rivals. But you know,
sometimes you have to get your stufffrom arrival and not too many people
in this game. You can stillbe friends with the arrival. Yeah,

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of course, of course you can't. And we went to his shop in
Lake Como. And how little wereyou that trip? I was probably high
single digits, eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve. That's speedboat life

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or powerboat life. Probably afforded yousome travels that otherwise you wouldn't get access
to. You. No, thatwas the coolest thing. Like I've told
you before, it felt we gotto do rich people's stuff. You know,
my dad was just a hired gunthat because rich people own these race
boats and pay for these race boats. And then if a rich person,
think about it, if you're forty, right, and you want to be

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an athlete and you're rich and youhave no athletic But you know, it
was really, at least back thenand still now, one of the I
think few sports, if you wantto call it that that you can get
into with a lot of money andnot I guess a lifetime of skill or

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whatever would be required to break intoa sport. So if you had a
couple hundred million dollars and you're like, man, I need some adventure,
you know, you want to bea rich eclectic person, like, maybe
I'll get a powerboat racing, becauseto drive a powerboat, I'm not going
to lie. I've never driven aboat over one hundred miles an hour with

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me driving, But I don't wantto say anyone can do it. But
you know, you just have tohave a boat and have some balls and
learn it and do it. Butyou have to hire someone who knows how
to build a boat, rig aboat, engineer a boat, put the
engines in, make it reliable.Anyway, that's what my dad did.
So rich people would contact my dadand hire him and say, hey,

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I want to try to win thischampionship and I need a boat to do
it. So does it kind ofbenefit them to especially if they own a
company like I know your dad wasaffiliated with the Popeyes guy Popeyes Louisiana Chicken.
Yeah, it kind of helps them, I don't know, in some
way promote their brand. Yeah,although you know, it's boat racing,

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so it's not that popular. ButI guess it's just like you know,
a NASCAR has a main sponsor andyou know they painted all over the boat.
A lot of people see it,and in the South, I mean
there are a lot of people thatyou know, relatively, I guess,
but no, the Popeye boat,you know, it was kind of the
most recognizable boat, yeah at thattime. So yeah, it does that
work as an advertising arm I supposemarketing, but it's kind of just a

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plaything for wealthy people. But yeah, that was al Copeland. He was
great. You know, he hiredmy dad and they won a bunch of
national championships and some a couple ofworld championships. Is amazing. But anyway,
so we got to do a lotof crazy stuff on the dime of
these incredibly wealthy people who you know, my dad would be like, yeah,
we'll go win this. We'll gotry to win this race, and

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I want my family to be there. So yeah, we got to you
know, go to Italy a coupleof times and do races there. But
my dad grew up racing for real, and he told us I'm pretty sure
it was on Lake Como where Kevinmore death near near where Kevin walks in
near water, in near water.But he said there was a race,

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and I think it was like home. It may have been have Asu because
he used to erase tunnel boats inLake Havasu and he won nineteen sixty nine
and seventy world championships. I thinkin Lake Havasu. But he's like,
there's a race. I think itwas like Coma where they were racing and
this there's a wind, or thisguy got pushed off course on his boat,
or maybe there's a malfunction and hewent under a dock and essentially was

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beheaded Jesus, Yeah, while racing. And I think it was like home.
And I think he told us thatstory when we were there, you
know, probably on our way toBobby O Bootsy's propeller factory. He got
beheaded by the by the doc.Okay, so they went under the dog.
Yeah, he was. It wasjust one guy. These are it's

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a boat like not much bigger thanthis table. You know. My dad
was numbers nine eight, up upand away. That was his boat,
God Almighty. But yeah, therewas Jim don't stand up him Jim and
Re. Oh no, my god, growing up with your dad, I

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mean that that sounds like something that'sincredibly time consuming to dedicate your life to
to be as excellent as he wasin that world. Like with anything,
you got to put in the hoursto be elite, and your papa was
an elite racer. Yeah. Diddid you feel like he was gone a
lot? Or and when he wasaround was here? Because I would think

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that, you know, seventies eightiesdad, you know, yeah, I'll
be in the garage tweaking this engine. I think both. But he worked
really long hours and it was kindof well, it was year round,
but it was seasonal where he wasreally slammed, like six am until you
know, seven or eight pm working. But it depends on what they had,

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you know. And it's funny becausewhen you're I didn't realize this.
I just knew, ooh, weget to go to the boat race this
weekend. You know, when you'rea little kid, you don't really understand.
Yeah, the work and then it'sjust your life, you know,
you get to I don't know,it's not abnormal, but yeah, it
sounds like he was cool about likeincluding the boys and all of the trips
and races and probably as much ashe could, Yeah, best he could.

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The thing was that's I mean,that's why I am from Miami,
Florida. You know, like it'sa weird I don't know, not too
many regular ass white dudes from youknow, native home is Miami, Florida.
But he had a shop that wasby the water. And if you're
a boat racer, you need marina. You live where the industry exactly.
Yeah, So that's why we grewup in Miami. And there were probably

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a half dozen races in and aroundFlorida, so we went to all those
races. The World Championships are inKey West every year still are making it
just a couple hours down the roadto go to Key West, So we
would go to all those races.We didn't go to too many in the
Great Lakes, although we did goto a few, Like in the summer
they would do the Great Lakes andthe Mississippi River, and then there was
a few in Europe that we didget to go to, but most of

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them were probably Florida where we went. Yeah, I told you my first
time ever in the state of Texaswas I was a probably sixteen or something.
Never been to Texas and one summer, you know, your parents might
hire you to do a summer jobtype thing. Maybe I was fourteen,
it was my first job, soyeah, I was younger in sixteen and

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my dad he got hired by someguy and the boat was called the sp
to Houston. I don't know ifthat was a sponsor or oil or something.
I have no idea, but mydad built this boat and to transport
it, they'd put it, youknow, like kind of leaning on its
side, like maybe to twenty degreeangle on a big truck, yeah,
and drive it otherwise would take upall three lanes. Yeah, exactly.

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Why is a wide load anyway?But yeah, even on a tilt,
you'd have to to do that.I mean, and like, among the
crap my dad was in charge offor the really rich guy is yeah,
the truck, how to get onthe truck, how to transport the boat.
You know, it was just basicallyin charge of everything. So then
the rich dude could fly in ona helicopter, you know, with his
Portia sunglasses on and his racing suitand get out and wave and get in

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his boat, hopefully win a trophyand wave a checker flag and then fly
home, you know. And myDad's like, all right, I got
eight hours. We got to getthis boat out of the water, cleaned,
put on the truck, and startthe transportation to begin. Anyway,
just a lot of logistics, sweepthe hellapad. That was your job.
No, not that bad. ButI kind of assisted in the guy who

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drove the boat from Miami to CorpusChristi for a summer for a race.
So yeah, that was the firsttime I was in Texas As. We
drove that boat. You drove aYou and one other dude drove a boat
across the gulf. No, no, no, no, no, in
a truck. In a truck,okay, Yeah, drove on land all
right. From my seems like hewould just take the straight line. Just
I don't get across the gulf.It's like saying, we're going to be

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in the Indy five hundred. Won'tjust drive the race card in the Apples.
You'll get their way faster. That'sa good point. It's not it's
not how it works. But yeah, that was my first time in Texas.
Was just what you have to do? What was your job? Nothing?
Really, probably I was fourteen.It is probably to keep me out
of trouble, get me out ofI guess it was Sarah, so the

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time, get me out of Sarasota, get me doing something. And your
your job was to listen to offcolor jokes. Yeah, and inhale cigarettes,
cigarette smug. Who is the guy'sname. He's a character man.
He was funny. I mean,it does like teach you a little bit

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about travel and life and see andstuff and and and a little bit of
work ethic. Although I didn't haveall that much responsibility and didn't it really
impact positively my work ethic. ButI don't know how that started. But
yeah, talking about on Lake Como, Yeah, that's awesome. Well,

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we do have a big show today, Mikey. But I can't think of
a better way to start the realmeat of our show than with this what
white where is he is? Hepopping up from under the table. We
could only be so lucky, reallypopping up from under the table with bags
full of segment ideas, bag prodabags and segment ideas. All right,

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just me, one person surveyed me. In the top five answers are on
the board, and there's only onecontestant that you We did this once before.
It's just family feud, only youdecide it is an impromptu family feud
in honor of our fallen hero Kevio, Who's I don't know, bobbing around
in Lake Como avoiding docs? Allright? Top five answers are on the

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board. Things on the downbeat thatwould make Kevy Oh cry if he missed
them while on vacation. Okay,five answers are on the board. Dave
Matthews in studio appearance. Okay,these are more jokey answers though, No,

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no, no, you're in theright field, you know what.
I kind of should give that oneto you. An in studio performance and
interview not with Dave Matthews but Paramore, Okay, the band that he won't
shut up about. He does loveParamore. Don't get it well, he
can't stop. No, seriously,bro, Paramour. Isn't that that band

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with a girl in it? Idon't know? All right, we'll give
you kind of that one, soyeah. In studio performance by a band
of one of his favorite bands,Road Uh Saturday Night Live hits the Road
does a performance in the Iheartbuilding andno SNL on this list again. Top
five answers are on the board.One person was surveyed. A doctor live

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on air with us cures and narcolepsyand has one person that he can hand
the cure for free to and hegives it to us, and we don't
We just put it on the groundand leave nopem. I don't know,
I might need clues. Come on, Mikey, you can do this.

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Me one more. Scottie Shuffler andJordan's Feith and Bryson de Shampau all come
in a studio together. That wouldbe awesome. I don't know if that
would make him cry. Alright,you ready, I'm ready, okay.
Number five an endorsement deal with AviationGin. Number four a canceled show meeting

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with our boss you already got anin studio interview with Paramore. And number
two an erection. Yeah I shouldhave got that. Yeah, you should
have got that one because he hasadmitted to the world that. And number

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one the number one thing on thedownbeat that would make Kevy Oh cry if
he missed it while on vacation.An impromptu game of family. You think
of things, you throw them againstthe walls. Sometimes they stick, sometimes
they slide right down onto the floor. Myke like Coasta when cooking it properly,

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right? Would you start that musicagain? What's that first instrument?
You're the music that Yeah, thatrising sounds like a slide guitar maybe the
se Yeah, it's like some kindof slide guitar lap steel. Yeah,
we've got a heavy banjo track onthis one. That's some banjo band and
it's just some studio cats that theygot to get it out. Now the

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bass players get that. That's trumpet. Yeah, trumpets. I hear pretty
quality, AMBI sure, yeah,most most good trumpet players have a quality
of you. No, not anymore. Kind of sounds like it sounds like

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Elvis is bad, don't know,Els walking out? Yeah, it's the
family feud. I hold, Ihad a banjo to my band. Slod
guitar, slod guitar, James,pick up that lap steel? You see?
What do you see? Kevin summerline? The great Kevin summerline. It

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does amazing photoshops? Did one ofKevin walking through airport security? Did you
not see it on the Facebook?No? I didn't. I didn't scroll
around too much. I just postedour posts. Yeah, I know you
posted a thing. If anyone wasto want to jump in on ask the
downbeat. You can do that.It'll be at nine o'clock today, but
we'll keep it on the texts andlike I think you said it well,

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like Sam's getting us in legal trouble. Yeah, and look, answer anything.
I was happy that we had someparticipants, but it was a lot
of jokes. Tell me the storyabout your pig, stuff like that.
It's that's funny. But we're kindof half serious on this. If you
want to go deep, you wantto ask about the old job, you
want to ask about anything. Nothing'stoo on comfortable for us to tackle.

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Yeah, we will filter out acouple if we if it's you know,
we can't how I might read thequestion and be like, we can't do
that one. Yeah, but youtext too. We put up a post
on the Freak Listener facebook group,but also text texture questions. If you
got something that you were just curiousabout, you want to ask me and
Mikey nine o'clock will do it here. Two Oh my god, oh wow,

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they got it all. Yeah,you did get it all. Rubber
ducky, a little oversized ducky,the what do you call those water weenies?
And his his his shark lamit.Kevin did a photoshop of KT.
Kevin Summerland did of KT walking throughthe freaking airport security machine holding all of

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his toys that we gave him,and we came up with a care package
for yours transatlantic flight with his DaveMatthews band shirt on. Kevin's amazing both
Kevin Summerlin and a Turner. Okay, he keeps sending us stuff Richard Branson's
villas all he does, miss us, but this efforts on the water in

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Lake Como having the time of hislife. He did say this place is
pretty awesome. Yeah, I'm happyfor him, dude, because for somebody
that seriously that this job consumes asmuch thought and brain space, it affects
him. I think this job stresseshim out because you and I, look,

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we were kind of cut from thesame cloth. When it comes to
preparation for this that you stress aboutit a little bit, you realize it's
gonna be fine, We're gonna beokay. We end up showing up here
and ends up being just yeah,you get through it. I think Kevin
thinks about this a bunch, andhe, more than anybody I think up
here needed needed a break from it, Yeah, and deserved man. But

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even while he's on big cation,he's just wired that way. He's he's
thinking about it, he's thinking aboutus. He's sending us videos of Richard
Branson's house. Should we tell himwhen we got back that we had Mario
Lopez on and then be like wecouldn't podcast it. No, he's too
good. He'll go back and beable to find it. Yeah, I

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wouldn't. I wouldn't put it pasthim to have a secret earbud in this
idiot have an earbudd listen listening tous and ROXI what are you doing?
Oh? Just listening to Dave?No? Yeah, translation, no translation,
translator. If I can talk,let's talk about Italian I'm on dueling.
I'm just trying to learn about thecultures, gigglings, dumb thing.

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I asked everyone to say Hi,it's a bunch of people, say good
morning. So morning everybody to textingin participating and yeah, if you got
any questions, fire away man seethis guy? First? First question?
Who was line four? Guy?Now? Can I do that? Although
he is challenging our legal you know, our claim that will answer anything,

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They won't get us on legal trouble. We wouldn't do that. Yeah,
that's kind of blowing the cover.Man. I don't really know. We
know a little, but I knowpeople that have met him. Yeah,
yeah, rtt Miller's met him.Really yeah. Rett Miller's singer from the
Old ninety Seven's has when he wasout in l a m. I just

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know that Rhett was on tour andLine four guy came up to him and
introduced himself. Oh really yeah yeah, and he said the voice checked out
and everything, and they ended uphanging out for like a couple of hours.
But yeah, he's he's been exposedto some I've never met him.
Imagine him. I have neither,I don't think imagine him introduced himself as

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line for guy some foreign port thedouble take Rett Miller who's in a show
and probably walking off stage and OldNight, Old ninety Seven's and oh wait,
I mean, if you're Rett Miller, you're a big listener and all
that. Like the crap that someonecan say to you and you walk off

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stage. I mean this is asea of oh yeah, cool, well
thanks. It's sort of basically whenwe asked Bieber, what what about eggs?
Yeah, it's like something wait whatnow? Knowing Rhett and what a
big fan of the things that wedo over there and over here, and
he listens a lot. He couldhave been off just gotten off stage in

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a conversation with three Swedish supermodels,and if that dude walked up and said
hey, rhet unlined for guy andhe recognized the voice, he would stop
what he was doing with the Swedishsupermodels and turned one hundred percent of his
attention to this dude. Yeah,he'd been like, what holy crap you

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are? And those sad, nervousgirls are just standing there going I guess
we leave now just reapplying their makeup, mister Miller. But your sweetest accent
accent is at pretty good. That'smy list. Yeah, so I don't

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know, we're not gonna blow anycover like that, but we're gonna we'll
have some fun at nine o'clock,man, ask the downbeat whatever you want
here real quick. Have you everready to walk your mom through how to
work your TV at home? No? I haven't because when my mom has
come to stay with me, she'sa she's an educated New England woman and

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she's one of those people. Ihave my books. I'll be fine.
Doesn't want to watch TV if it'snot Boston Sports. I don't think she
watches television. She is a hardcoreBruins freak and Red Sie freak. But
yeah, when she comes down here, I don't think we turn the TV
on at all. So my mom, my mom's in town when she kicks

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the door, and that's what shethat's all you hear. Yeah, so
my mom. We're leaving town thisafternoon one o'clock and my mom's in town
and she's like, I want tocome in. Dogs hit. She loves
coming to Dallas, especially when theweather's nice or mild, like it is
right now, and she's taking careof the pups while we all leave town.
She's at my house and I hadto try to walk her through how

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to use the TV. But Imean, my TV runs through my Xbox,
so you have to you're holding anXbox controller to watch TV always,
And she still doesn't really get that. She thinks I'm playing games always,
and I'm like, I do playsome games, but no, I need
this. This is how I doit. And to get her to turn
an Xbox on, holding the Xboxcontroller like, no, you have to
hold it down and then yeah,there's a for the power and that's volume

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as well on the TV. Andwe just did a couple of dry runs
all the way from all right,you walk up this star here, you
go through the whole process. Wefinally get the thing on and I got
Hulu, you know, Netflix,and like, just stick with those two
Hulu Netflix, watch whatever you want, left thumb, use the little the
little paddle thing to look around.And we finally get it on and she's

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like, Okay, how do Iget on Fox News. I'm like,
come on, I might take acouple of days off Fox News. And
she's like no, I'm like,all right, once we go up the
search and find it, and thenI think she's just gonna leave it there
for the for the for four days. That's all she needs, that and

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her companionship of sweet puppy dogs.Yeah, I mean whatever, Yeah,
I don't care, right, No, I don't yeah, whatever, fine,
I don't have given up any whatever. I would say the same thing
if it was ceing in or right. It's not even really the point.
It's just that's I think, allmom, I just going to watch the
news, yeah, and have theiPad going for research. But it's more

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about just getting the TV on andoff. And there's a couple of little
detours. If you take them,you're never you not once you get off
the right track. If she decidesto divert from her news intake, you
will get a phone call, yeah, on to reset the instructions. Yeah.
Now, I did tell her i'mnacall me, call me, h
for sure. If I can walkup walking through it, I will,

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you know what it? Okay.So when my adopted mom, Evelyn was
still alive, she passed away intwenty eighteen. I've been connected with my
birth mother for almost twenty years now, and she is still very young and
very much alive and very vibrant,and we see each other and communicate all
the time. But when Evelyn wasalive and she was very old, she

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died. She diesn't in twenty eighteen, and she was about to turn ninety
one. But we got her aTV, a new TV, like her
first flat screen out in Knox Citywhen she still lived out there, And
I do remember having to type outand laminate instructions and what the channels were

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that she liked and how to getto them, I mean, like right
on her little end table next tothe recliner, so she would know how
to navigate the whole system. ButI mean, that's just straight TV.
That's not going through any cable box. It's a hardwired thing. You turn
it on, here's the channels,the input set. But yeah, even

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that was somewhat of I can't onlyimagine trying to get my mom to navigate
an Xbox. I don't know.That's kind of a BS system to drop
on your mama. Well, Idon't have a choice, you do.
What's my choice? Stop using theXbox to watch TV. Just get an
entire new cable system for when mymom comes in for three days. No,

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no, no, no, no, there's got to be a way.
I mean, unless you're doing somethingweird, which are on the Xbox,
I watch it just like you.But it's that's it. I start
the Xbox. So basically your Xboxacts like a fire stick or a Rocus
stick or anything like that, rightinto your HDMI and that's the that's where

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all of your your platform is forYouTube and turn it on. It's it's
as Hulu, Netflix, and thenthere's also Call of Duty and See of
Thieves. Like the games that makessense, they don't make a more user
friendly remote, like an actual stickremote as opposed to the damn controller or
TV. But they do. I'msure they do. But it's pretty easy,

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I know. To you and me, No, I get it.
I mean, hell, if Igo to my brother's house, I don't
know that I know how to maneuverhis stuff. He'll tell you what.
I'll be in town via if youneed, give your mom my number,
and if she wants me to switchit over to MSNBC. Yeah, I'll
be happy to drive to and helpher out. Yeah. Sure, you
appreciate mad out. Your mom lovesmad out. Probably some hs O is

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mad out? All right, No, Kevin, Today we do have JJ.
It's Mikey, it's Dingo. Wegot a fun morning planned and it's
time for the most important thing inthe world. Pretty cool. The second
band ever to play inside the Spheregoes tonight. We should go snacks