I played today with a ton of gratitude and appreciation for the opportunity to do
this. I'm really glad I get to do it again tomorrow, and I'm
gonna remind myself I'm a dog and I'm ready for this moment. Oh well,
no more, damn time, six o'clock, right on the butt,
Thursday, April eighteen, twenty twenty four. It's a dirty down beat Mike's
royd Any Baylist, JJ Jackson Nokevio Today. This Italian adventure continues. But
we've got a good little show. I was just scrolling through the run sheet
and the thing that popped out I see Toronto gold heist. Yes story,
I didn't even know about. It happened a couple of years back. They
made some arrests, but the details of this are fantastic. I did a
glance at that last night while prepping hard and uh yeah, give me heist
talking any anytime we can get it. That'll be in Dingu's morning news.
Who would miss that? Who would missed that at a thirty nothing better from
eight thirty to nine o'clock? Who would miss it on the radio than Dingo's
morning News. I he asked the Downbeat at nine o'clock. We got some
good ones coming in on that. If you want to participate in that bad
Boy, you can text us good morning. Somebody text us good morning.
Where's a normal good morning? Downbeat guy usually hits us at exactly six o'clock.
Maybe something happened to him. Maybe who's on a plane over the Atlantic?
I know who's not in a plane over the Atlantic. Yeah, yeah,
our sweet prints. It's nice to hear from him. We got some
Cavio updates. He seems to be at peace with the way things have worked
out. Yeah, just thirty minutes ago, he finally hit us up.
Confirmed alive. He's on a boat on Lake Como right now. The picture
looks great. I don't know too much it's about Lake Como, but I
know that George Clooney has a house there, and he did just send us
a video of George Clooney's villa where Michael Jordan and Obama have been seen hanging
out. And he is on the water of Lake Como right now. Went
to Lake Como when I was a little kid. Because there's a guy named
Fabio Bootsy okay, who was the Ali. I can tie anything back to
powerboat racing, but he was. He's an Italian boat designer and propeller maker,
and my dad would get all of his propellers for the race boats from
Fabio Bootsy. But I think they were kind of rivals. But you know,
sometimes you have to get your stuff from arrival and not too many people
in this game. You can still be friends with the arrival. Yeah,
of course, of course you can't. And we went to his shop in
Lake Como. And how little were you that trip? I was probably high
single digits, eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve. That's speedboat life
or powerboat life. Probably afforded you some travels that otherwise you wouldn't get access
to. You. No, that was the coolest thing. Like I've told
you before, it felt we got to do rich people's stuff. You know,
my dad was just a hired gun that 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
an athlete and you're rich and you have no athletic But you know, it
was really, at least back then and still now, one of the I
think few sports, if you want to call it that that you can get
into with a lot of money and not I guess a lifetime of skill or
whatever would be required to break into a sport. So if you had a
couple hundred million dollars and you're like, man, I need some adventure,
you know, you want to be a rich eclectic person, like, maybe
I'll get a powerboat racing, because to drive a powerboat, I'm not going
to lie. I've never driven a boat over one hundred miles an hour with
me driving, But I don't want to say anyone can do it. But
you know, you just have to have a boat and have some balls and
learn it and do it. But you have to hire someone who knows how
to build a boat, rig a boat, engineer a boat, put the
engines in, make it reliable. Anyway, that's what my dad did.
So rich people would contact my dad and hire him and say, hey,
I want to try to win this championship and I need a boat to do
it. So does it kind of benefit them to especially if they own a
company like I know your dad was affiliated 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,
so it's not that popular. But I guess it's just like you know,
a NASCAR has a main sponsor and you 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 that you know, relatively, I guess,
but no, the Popeye boat, you know, it was kind of the
most recognizable boat, yeah at that time. So yeah, it does that
work as an advertising arm I suppose marketing, but it's kind of just a
plaything for wealthy people. But yeah, that was al Copeland. He was
great. You know, he hired my dad and they won a bunch of
national championships and some a couple of world championships. Is amazing. But anyway,
so we got to do a lot of 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 go try to win this race, and
I want my family to be there. So yeah, we got to you
know, go to Italy a couple of 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 Kevin more death near near where Kevin walks in
near water, in near water. But he said there was a race,
and I think it was like home. It may have been have Asu because
he used to erase tunnel boats in Lake Havasu and he won nineteen sixty nine
and seventy world championships. I think in Lake Havasu. But he's like,
there's a race. I think it was like Coma where they were racing and
this there's a wind, or this guy got pushed off course on his boat,
or maybe there's a malfunction and he went under a dock and essentially was
beheaded Jesus, Yeah, while racing. And I think it was like home.
And I think he told us that story when we were there, you
know, probably on our way to Bobby O Bootsy's propeller factory. He got
beheaded by the by the doc. Okay, so they went under the dog.
Yeah, he was. It was just one guy. These are it's
a boat like not much bigger than this table. You know. My dad
was numbers nine eight, up up and away. That was his boat,
God Almighty. But yeah, there was Jim don't stand up him Jim and
Re. Oh no, my god, growing up with your dad, I
mean that that sounds like something that's incredibly time consuming to dedicate your life to
to be as excellent as he was in that world. Like with anything,
you got to put in the hours to be elite, and your papa was
an elite racer. Yeah. Did did you feel like he was gone a
lot? Or and when he was around was here? Because I would think
that, you know, seventies eighties dad, you know, yeah, I'll
be in the garage tweaking this engine. I think both. But he worked
really long hours and it was kind of well, it was year round,
but it was seasonal where he was really slammed, like six am until you
know, seven or eight pm working. But it depends on what they had,
you know. And it's funny because when you're I didn't realize this.
I just knew, ooh, we get to go to the boat race this
weekend. You know, when you're a little kid, you don't really understand.
Yeah, the work and then it's just your life, you know,
you get to I don't know, it's not abnormal, but yeah, it
sounds like he was cool about like including the boys and all of the trips
and races and probably as much as he could, Yeah, best he could.
The thing was that's I mean, that's why I am from Miami,
Florida. You know, like it's a weird I don't know, not too
many regular ass white dudes from you know, native home is Miami, Florida.
But he had a shop that was by the water. And if you're
a boat racer, you need marina. You live where the industry exactly.
Yeah, So that's why we grew up in Miami. And there were probably
a half dozen races in and around Florida, so we went to all those
races. The World Championships are in Key West every year still are making it
just a couple hours down the road to 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 go to a few, Like in the summer
they would do the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, and then there was
a few in Europe that we did get to go to, but most of
them were probably Florida where we went. Yeah, I told you my first
time ever in the state of Texas was 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 job type thing. Maybe I was fourteen,
it was my first job, so yeah, I was younger in sixteen and
my dad he got hired by some guy and the boat was called the sp
to Houston. I don't know if that was a sponsor or oil or something.
I have no idea, but my dad built this boat and to transport
it, they'd put it, you know, like kind of leaning on its
side, like maybe to twenty degree angle on a big truck, yeah,
and drive it otherwise would take up all three lanes. Yeah, exactly.
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 of for the really rich guy is yeah,
the truck, how to get on the truck, how to transport the boat.
You know, it was just basically in charge of everything. So then
the rich dude could fly in on a helicopter, you know, with his
Portia sunglasses on and his racing suit and get out and wave and get in
his boat, hopefully win a trophy and wave a checker flag and then fly
home, you know. And my Dad's like, all right, I got
eight hours. We got to get this boat out of the water, cleaned,
put on the truck, and start the transportation to begin. Anyway,
just a lot of logistics, sweep the hellapad. That was your job.
No, not that bad. But I kind of assisted in the guy who
drove the boat from Miami to Corpus Christi for a summer for a race.
So yeah, that was the first time I was in Texas As. We
drove that boat. You drove a You 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 he would just take the straight line. Just
I don't get across the gulf. It's like saying, we're going to be
in the Indy five hundred. Won't just drive the race card in the Apples.
You'll get their way faster. That's a 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 of I guess it was Sarah, so the
time, get me out of Sarasota, get me doing something. And your
your job was to listen to off color jokes. Yeah, and inhale cigarettes,
cigarette smug. Who is the guy's name. He's a character man.
He was funny. I mean, it does like teach you a little bit
about travel and life and see and stuff and and and a little bit of
work ethic. Although I didn't have all that much responsibility and didn't it really
impact positively my work ethic. But I don't know how that started. But
yeah, talking about on Lake Como, Yeah, that's awesome. Well,
we do have a big show today, Mikey. But I can't think of
a better way to start the real meat of our show than with this what
white where is he is? He popping up from under the table. We
could only be so lucky, really popping up from under the table with bags
full of segment ideas, bag proda bags and segment ideas. All right,
just me, one person surveyed me. In the top five answers are on
the board, and there's only one contestant that you We did this once before.
It's just family feud, only you decide 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? All right? Top five answers are on the
board. Things on the downbeat that would 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,
no, no, you're in the right field, you know what.
I kind of should give that one to 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 love Paramore. Don't get it well, he
can't stop. No, seriously, bro, Paramour. Isn't that that band
with a girl in it? I don't know? All right, we'll give
you kind of that one, so yeah. 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 and no SNL on this list again. Top
five answers are on the board. One person was surveyed. A doctor live
on air with us cures and narcolepsy and has one person that he can hand
the cure for free to and he gives it to us, and we don't
We just put it on the ground and leave nopem. I don't know,
I might need clues. Come on, Mikey, you can do this.
Me one more. Scottie Shuffler and Jordan's Feith and Bryson de Shampau all come
in a studio together. That would be awesome. I don't know if that
would make him cry. Alright, you ready, I'm ready, okay.
Number five an endorsement deal with Aviation Gin. Number four a canceled show meeting
with our boss you already got an in studio interview with Paramore. And number
two an erection. Yeah I should have got that. Yeah, you should
have got that one because he has admitted to the world that. And number
one the number one thing on the downbeat 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 against the walls. Sometimes they stick, sometimes
they slide right down onto the floor. Myke like Coasta when cooking it properly,
right? Would you start that music again? What's that first instrument?
You're the music that Yeah, that rising sounds like a slide guitar maybe the
se Yeah, it's like some kind of slide guitar lap steel. Yeah,
we've got a heavy banjo track on this one. That's some banjo band and
it's just some studio cats that they got to get it out. Now the
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
Elvis is bad, don't know, Els walking out? Yeah, it's the
family feud. I hold, I had 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
does amazing photoshops? Did one of Kevin 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 posted our posts. Yeah, I know you
posted a thing. If anyone was to 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 and like I think you said it well,
like Sam's getting us in legal trouble. Yeah, and look, answer anything.
I was happy that we had some participants, but it was a lot
of jokes. Tell me the story about your pig, stuff like that.
It's that's funny. But we're kind of half serious on this. If you
want to go deep, you want to ask about the old job, you
want to ask about anything. Nothing's too on comfortable for us to tackle.
Yeah, we will filter out a couple if we if it's you know,
we can't how I might read the question and be like, we can't do
that one. Yeah, but you text 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 curious about, you want to ask me and
Mikey nine o'clock will do it here. Two Oh my god, oh wow,
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 through the freaking airport security machine holding all of
his toys that we gave him, and we came up with a care package
for yours transatlantic flight with his Dave Matthews 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
Lake Como having the time of his life. He did say this place is
pretty awesome. Yeah, I'm happy for him, dude, because for somebody
that seriously that this job consumes as much thought and brain space, it affects
him. I think this job stresses him out because you and I, look,
we were kind of cut from the same cloth. When it comes to
preparation for this that you stress about it a little bit, you realize it's
gonna be fine, We're gonna be okay. We end up showing up here
and ends up being just yeah, you get through it. I think Kevin
thinks about this a bunch, and he, more than anybody I think up
here needed needed a break from it, Yeah, and deserved man. But
even while he's on big cation, he's just wired that way. He's he's
thinking about it, he's thinking about us. He's sending us videos of Richard
Branson's house. Should we tell him when we got back that we had Mario
Lopez on and then be like we couldn't podcast it. No, he's too
good. He'll go back and be able to find it. Yeah, I
wouldn't. I wouldn't put it past him to have a secret earbud in this
idiot have an earbudd listen listening to us 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 the cultures, gigglings, dumb thing.
I asked everyone to say Hi, it's a bunch of people, say good
morning. So morning everybody to texting in participating and yeah, if you got
any questions, fire away man see this 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,
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 know people 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 was out in l a m. I just
know that Rhett was on tour and Line 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 up hanging out for like a couple of hours.
But yeah, he's he's been exposed to some I've never met him.
Imagine him. I have neither, I don't think imagine him introduced himself as
line for guy some foreign port the double take Rett Miller who's in a show
and probably walking off stage and Old Night, 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 someone can say to you and you walk off
stage. I mean this is a sea of oh yeah, cool, well
thanks. It's sort of basically when we asked Bieber, what what about eggs?
Yeah, it's like something wait what now? Knowing Rhett and what a
big fan of the things that we do over there and over here, and
he listens a lot. He could have been off just gotten off stage in
a conversation with three Swedish supermodels, and if that dude walked up and said
hey, rhet unlined for guy and he recognized the voice, he would stop
what he was doing with the Swedish supermodels and turned one hundred percent of his
attention to this dude. Yeah, he'd been like, what holy crap you
are? And those sad, nervous girls 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's my list. Yeah, so I don't
know, we're not gonna blow any cover 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 ever ready 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's a she's an educated New England woman and
she's one of those people. I have my books. I'll be fine.
Doesn't want to watch TV if it's not Boston Sports. I don't think she
watches television. She is a hardcore Bruins 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
the door, and that's what she that's all you hear. Yeah, so
my mom. We're leaving town this afternoon one o'clock and my mom's in town
and she's like, I want to come in. Dogs hit. She loves
coming to Dallas, especially when the weather's nice or mild, like it is
right now, and she's taking care of the pups while we all leave town.
She's at my house and I had to try to walk her through how
to use the TV. But I mean, my TV runs through my Xbox,
so you have to you're holding an Xbox 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 play some games, but no, I need
this. This is how I do it. And to get her to turn
an Xbox on, holding the Xbox controller like, no, you have to
hold it down and then yeah, there's a for the power and that's volume
as well on the TV. And we 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. We finally 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
like, Okay, how do I get on Fox News. I'm like,
come on, I might take a couple 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 then I think she's just gonna leave it there
for the for the for four days. That's all she needs, that and
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, all mom, I just going to watch the
news, yeah, and have the iPad going for research. But it's more
about just getting the TV on and off. 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 decides to divert from her news intake, you
will get a phone call, yeah, on to reset the instructions. Yeah.
Now, I did tell her i'mna call me, call me, h
for sure. If I can walk up walking through it, I will,
you know what it? Okay. So when my adopted mom, Evelyn was
still alive, she passed away in twenty 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 was alive and she was very old, she
died. She diesn't in twenty eighteen, and she was about to turn ninety
one. But we got her a TV, a new TV, like her
first flat screen out in Knox City when she still lived out there, And
I do remember having to type out and laminate instructions and what the channels were
that she liked and how to get to them, I mean, like right
on her little end table next to the recliner, so she would know how
to navigate the whole system. But I 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
that was somewhat of I can't only imagine 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, I don't have a choice, you do.
What's my choice? Stop using the Xbox to watch TV. Just get an
entire new cable system for when my mom comes in for three days. No,
no, no, no, no, there's got to be a way.
I mean, unless you're doing something weird, which are on the Xbox,
I watch it just like you. But it's that's it. I start
the Xbox. So basically your Xbox acts like a fire stick or a Rocus
stick or anything like that, right into your HDMI and that's the that's where
all of your your platform is for YouTube and turn it on. It's it's
as Hulu, Netflix, and then there's also Call of Duty and See of
Thieves. Like the games that makes sense, they don't make a more user
friendly remote, like an actual stick remote as opposed to the damn controller or
TV. But they do. I'm sure they do. But it's pretty easy,
I know. To you and me, No, I get it.
I mean, hell, if I go to my brother's house, I don't
know that I know how to maneuver his stuff. He'll tell you what.
I'll be in town via if you need, give your mom my number,
and if she wants me to switch it over to MSNBC. Yeah, I'll
be happy to drive to and help her out. Yeah. Sure, you
appreciate mad out. Your mom loves mad out. Probably some hs O is
mad out? All right, No, Kevin, Today we do have JJ.
It's Mikey, it's Dingo. We got a fun morning planned and it's
time for the most important thing in the world. Pretty cool. The second
band ever to play inside the Sphere goes tonight. We should go snacks