Good morning, DFW four ten two four. That's Wednesday, and we are
the downbeat today. We will have the Big Master's Bet at nine. Comedian
Dusty Sligh calls in at eight ten and way more, way more. I'm
Kevin Turner. We have Mike's Roy in here and filling in for Danny's Grego
witch you gregor wherever you are? I want to do no tired Greg,
Greg tired greg O. JJ Jackson is taking a very discreet, a mysterious
trip to Boston. So filling in in her steed stead is a steed filling
in her in her Jake Steed, her steed. I think it's steed.
Maddy is not sitting atop a horse right now. Solar eclipse, Maddie,
Hello, Maddie, Hello, Solar eclipse Maddie. I Solar eclipse. Guys.
Did you get to see it? Because you had to work? I
did. I actually went downstairs my camera and I put the lens over my
camera. So I took a really cool shot of the eclipse and total that
worked for you because I tried it. It looked like just an orange black
and then you see like the small Yeah, I took it in Pa so
it's pretty cool. I didn't take one picture just because I knew there was
a million and there's no chance i'd do anything successful here something I'm gonna do
it once? Did you? So you're run on the board. That's the
end of that. You're running the board during Bend's skin right. Yeah?
So did you talk to them like off air, You're like guys during the
segment, I'm gonna run down Nope, I just you just went for it.
I just found an opening stairs. Yep, well down the hallway.
Did you do kind of a little jog. Yeah, I ran fast so
I can get downstairs quickly and then get back upstairs to take them to break.
You timed it so you got to see all of totality right right,
Yes, I because it was you could see it from the corner of right
there where you're sitting, and I was Danny's cardboard camera propped up. So
I go back and forth. Zach was watching me go back and forth,
and then I ran downstairs, took a quick video, saw the totality.
About a minute it was done, I back upstairs and it was It's perfect.
It's perfect. Yeah, it's perfect. Get to see it. I
assumed that you were one of the people in this world who had to I
had to work, you know, like a lot of people missed it because
they just had to work, when every company should have said stop what you're
doing. I bet fiutes unless it was like an essential job, I don't
know what that's fun. What's a job that you cannot stop? Like a
a assmbly line building planes? Okay, yes, you can stop building buoying
planes. But that's also in some form an assembly line. You can stop
an assembly line, right, you would think, do the assembly lines have
a giant red button that stops everything? Yes, they have to write safety
it's stop everything. You remember working on an assembly line just because you picture
it as a lever. Oh, yeah, I've worked on the floor.
No, you watched cartoons, you watched the floor? Yeah, I did
watch the floor. You worked on the floor, Kevin, I have a
like for a more than like a spring break period. I've worked on the
floor. Yeah, what floor? Yeah, tell us more about that.
It was more like cleaning parts, though it was less uh, piecing something
together. So technically on the assembly line of building something, no, but
on the floor of you can't move and you're getting handed stuff and you're pushing
it. I've done that. You worked cleaning the floor. People handed you
stuff and then told you to push them. Yeah, you're getting it,
and then you handed to the next person. They did the next part because
that was just a spring break, you know. But the part you were
in charge of doing was nothing other than keeping, so you were sort of
the assembly line. Yeah, I mean I was on the line, but
you didn't have a role. You can't leave. And it sounds to me
like the job only lasted like six days because it was during spring break.
It was five, definitely it was five. Yeah. Okay, wow was
this an air tractor? I mean this Turner Empire air tractor and they only
made it five days. You don't own it, Yes, they do.
No, they don't trust me. They don't. So you just cleaned the
floor. The floor had nothing to do with it. I was on the
floor. Well, don't keep in mind he did hand things to other people
and also pushed these things. Hey, you push them in a little box.
Look, I get it. It's hard for you guys to understand.
I understand, but when you think deeper about these things, like I tend
to do, then you do realize that I've got lots of experience. I
mean, you would think after the whole moon period thing, you guys would
start to believe me a little more often than you do instead of looking at
me like I'm a buffoon. And it funny when the insect gets caught in
the little whirlpool, it never really seems to make it back up to the
top and swim to safety, but it keeps swimming faster and faster. Yeah,
believing that they're on their way out of what they get out. Well,
whatever, I don't you know, maybe I'll run it by my guy,
Dusty Sligh at eight ten. You know that guy grew up in a
trailer park, kind of like me. You've never lived in a trailer.
Yeah, it was probably well a mansion was being exactly no air tractor money.
No I lived in in Denton, I lived in I lived in an
RV for about three months one summer was that with machine. No I lived
alone. Because he claims he lived in a trailer, he is always very
temporary. Oh yeah, yeah, when you say lived in a trailer,
doesn't mean. They were rebuilding the clubhouse to the only country club and they
had to use a little trailer as their pro shop for six months. Okay,
First of all, I feel like you need to walk through the Only
country Club one a time or two, and then I got it. If
you're if your imagine the way you speak of it is that it's some luxurious
place. Uh no, how's the Nineteenth Hole. It's good. They've done
a lot of work too. Sometimes when I go there, I crank up
the Secret Wizard. We have a good time there, his mysterious billiards game
that he invented that he did tell people about at Cash's house. The other
day, he finally unleashed the Secret Wizard. Was anyone able to stay awake
during its description? I stayed far away. There wasn't enough action on it,
and it was kind of at a bad time because it was when the
game started. But trust me, the two guys that played, Cash and
Matt were mesmerized. I don't know because I asked him, I'm like,
so, how a Secret Wizard? And they both kind of gave me the
Larry David like, I mean, well, they sends up two people who
were defeated by the Secret Wizard. All Cash said was it's a game that
could go on forever. That's okay, now, that's technically true. That's
technically true. But I actively didn't pick up any of the rules. I
was really disappointed you didn't come over and just really buy in for a minute,
because I think you would have loved it. It's the monopoly of billiards.
Yeah, it's like a risk. I set it up. Christina goes,
yeah, I've seen I've seen you do this before. I was like,
yes, absolutely so, I think you've played it before. You just
don't remember. Oh it's amazing. It's so fun and so frustrating. I
love hearing about how Kevin did his part in the Industrial Revolution. Yeah,
of central West Texas, irregular Rosie the Riveter, that's where Teksoma. He
can do it. Rosy the Riveter. You don't understand that. Nuh huh,
what's the reference. Well, it's not like I was around for Rosie
the Riveter either me, either believe it or not. But we just kind
of well, y'all know more about history than me. I think that's that's
fair. I think what she represented women during World War Two, As you
know, the men went off to war, the women had to bust their
ass here on the home front. And you've seen the old posters. Uh,
when we the US put out its propaganda as well with the fist.
Yeah, she's got the making a muscle and she's wearing the cool red bandanna
with her hair back and a denim shirt. It's like Flow from Progressive.
We can do it. Looks like Flow, Well, we can do it.
Yeah. See on a group trivia team, Kevin the Riveter. I
can help, but Kevin the Riveter, I would need you guys to carry
the history history. And I wouldn't be great with movies. I think I
wouldn't be good with movies pre nineteen ninety. I feel that we got you.
I got you there. Yeah, that's what you think's got everything.
We're very good general. I was. I went to a brewery the other
day and just was having a French dip and a beer just for dinner.
And they were in the midst of trivia night, right. Yeah. The
first question I heard, I couldn't believe it because I'm like Danny would get
this in one second, and I didn't know. And it was who replaced
Ozzy Osbourne as the lead singer of Black Sabbath in nineteen I don't know,
seventy nine or something, seventy nine. I don't know. That's a list
of pretty long. Yeah, in seventy nine, it might have been that
would have been for Born Again. I think think that might have been Ian
Gillen. Okay, so it wasn't something nine. The answer was Ronnie James
Dio. Okay, it was either or Gillan. Yeah, I didn't.
I couldn't remember the timeline on who replaced him. The question in and the
first thing I thought was I need dingu with me. Lost. No,
the trivia master said the right year. I didn't. Okay, you would
have got it. Yeah, what are we gonna do trivia night with our
Jeopardy This is the greatest. This is like I'm entering a scramble at Stephen's
Park. I don't know. And guess what, my best friend Bryce and
d Schambau just showed up and he's gonna be on the team. Yeah,
we need to go clean up. We have a Jeopardy tournament champion's friend that
wants to be on our trivia team. Yes, in the gift card.
The last time we had him on after he got eliminated from Jeopardy, he
didn't seem like he was in a very good mood. Well, he just
got beat. Well, that made it was his low point. It may
play into him blocking your number, Kevin. No, No, he's been.
He's been texting me. No, I could prove it often. I
just to delete all my text for space. But I can prove it.
I can't because he needed to get in touch with the Rangers about something.
What not gonna it's his private information. We had a gift was sent to
us by listen. Is he gonna go to a game and throw out the
first trivia question? Actually? Yes, about black Sabbath throw the first ceremonial
trivia question of the night? M M just delivered to us. I so
hand it to Danny. Read this. I guess it's like some type of
plaque. Yeah, what do they call this, Mikey the silicon? What
is it? I had it a placard. No, it's a little clear
late text either. But oh, look who's trying to get on the team?
Science Transfer trivia science work the floor and it looks it's like an award.
I guess it says the number one morning morning show on k E g
l's ninety seven to won the Freak and iHeartMedia Company is presented to the Downbeat
all right, great, we'll suck that news junkie. The number one morning
morning show, Morning morning show. We always do need an asterisk on all
of our awards. Absolutely, Is that a misprint or is that what they're
going for? Do we call ourselves? I've never heard that before. Actually
right morning twice? Well, the thing is for a lot of people,
morning doesn't start until ten yep, like my life used to. And uh
yeah, so we are the morning morning show. That is funny. We're
the number one morning show on k eg L's ninety seven on the Freak.
There's subtle jokes in here. Yes, what did the licensed plate maker guy
in prison refit the thing to do acrylics and make this for us? I
don't know where it came from. I know I can't from a listener.
Got name? Well, yeah, yeah, go first name. I'll just
get out his Twitter account that's not on the envelope that Maddie actually is not.
I do know his name, but there you know, you're working with
award winners today, but he is a we just keep piling him up,
Maddie, stack him up, let's throw him in the award stack. Let's
quiet. His Twitter name is ah not his handle his name is Danny's Banana,
but it's at day one. Glenn. I love that guy. That
guy's awesome, and that's gonna be a weird Twitter handle in a couple of
years. His last tweet said, dear hotel employees, I do not need
you to call my room and check if everything is okay in my room.
I'll call you something wrong that is true. I'll just let you know.
If there is blood on my sheets, you don't have to call it as
me. It makes me wonder what happened here before I stayed. I don't
know, That's just me. He is one of the many supporters of Dusty
Slay being on the show at eight ten. For those that don't know,
Dusty Slave is a comedian who's very popular. He actually did a podcast in
Nate Bergazzi, who is maybe the fastest or the biggest rising comedian of the
last three four years. I would say like he got huge to playing like
Dicky's Arena and stuff when he might have been at the Majestic two years ago.
Like he got huge and he did a podcast with them, or did
a podcast with them. I don't know if he still does. He lived
in a trailer park I heard a story where he was talking about in Tennessee
or he grew up, if you lived in a trailer park, they had
very specific tornado warnings or the news. Like on the news, they'd be
like, and if you live in a trailer park, just go lay down
in a ditch like everyone else. They'd be like, go to a neighbor's
house, you know, or do I take cover? If you have a
seller. Oh, if you of a trailer park, just go lay down
in that ditch over there full of water it's been raining, because that's safer
than being in a trailer Tornado hits. I don't know. One's a funny
part I'm saying. I'm just paraphrasing the bit I went a little happened a
little hang on me too throat. Okay, boy, this is not high
energy. Look. I walked into the hallway and there was a music morning
show playing Open Arms by Journey, So suck it. I don't think any
of our stations are doing well though, so go ahead, okay, we
need to compare ourselves to them. Maybe what I'm saying is I did do
a little bit of a dive on Dusty Sleigh last night on YouTube because I
wasn't really familiar with with him. I think i'd recognize, you know,
what he looked like, but I hadn't listened to any of his bits.
Pretty funny, dude. How about that voice. Yeah, he's got a
unique thing to him. It's almost like he's a I wonder how much of
that is really him and how much of it is his uh kind of creating
a character. It's almost like he's wearing a week. I think he's Sam
Anderson at the Quacker City Nighthawks. Sam's much more handsome than Oh. Absolutely
no, Sam's banging all the time. Well, actually, I don't know
what his current is back in the right person all the time. Yeah,
there you go. I don't know the situation either. But he did a
ten minute bit breaking down the lyrics of It's five o'clock somewhere and pointing out
all of the problems with it. Really good, man, really really good.
I love when comedian comedians take song lyrics literally and break them down.
Well, he says it's four thirty, but then he says it's it's half
past three, but then he says it's five o'clock somewhere. It's like that
math does not work. It's not time because you change time zones. Just
it's always at the top of the hour. It was really good. Have
you watched it on the you? I can't wait for eight, eight,
ten and nine ten. Yeah, nice to slay. Somebody said the assembly
line I work on, they adjusted our break so we could go see it.
Yeah, yeah, that's a that's you get a little the quick break
the ten minutes and I think this is our chicken plant guy he called in
once right, chicken plant had evacuation fire drill so employees could see it.
Okay, smart, that's how you do it. Knock out your fire drill
and ruin that peaceful moment with a gudy alarm going off. That sounds like
I heard of cats being crushed by a press. That's that's pretty that's pretty
good. But the thing that's going to really endanger the factory and the assembly
line culture is the phone. It comes really in tune with factory culture.
For the five days he spent mopping, he's not mopping or push or were
you tell us what you literally did? Were you hard to remember from the
assembly line? You were just moving things? Yeah, just physically moving things
along. Yeah, it sounds to me like you were trying to do things
that made you appear to be busy. So no, we were clean.
Yeah, it it was busy work, there's no doubt about it. Was
it a job that before you began and after you left, no one else
had that? Yeah, well, you know it was a take advantage of
the spring break kids. Not take advantage of them, but like it was,
did you kidn't spring breaking might need some money. It's like four or
five of us. Did you feel it's like you can kind of know what
a real job's like. Did you feel like your position Did you feel like
your position was essential? No to the functionality of this. No, not
at all. We were cleaning like boxes and they're putting small airplane parts in,
like parts of all as I'm holding in my hand, like d real
bits and stuff like that. You're cleaning them because they come in these little
crates. It's not that interesting too. That's why I kind of wanted to
go away. But it was. I mean, you're there and you can't
go anywhere, and that's difficult if you're not used to it. You're used
to it, I'm sure it's just my numbing and boom boom boom, move
it on down the road. But for a sixteen year old who's not used
to standing on his feet all day, you know, or just not being
got used to, like, and you're sitting there going, oh my god,
I've been doing this for twenty minutes, two and a half more hours
to go till first break, and then you run to the vending machine and
just spend more than your made. Absolutely so, did you not have any
type of job prior to that, Well, at that age you were when
you were sixteen. When you can legally start working when you're fifteen, I
believe, yeah could when I was a kid, I was twelve with the
golf course picking up range balls like then golf cart. It's the best job
in the world. It's fun. And then you'd wash them with put it
on the washing machine, you know, which is weird. Okay, that
washing machine could take a lot the big golf ball washer. Yeah. Yeah,
what a great job because you can smoke a spliff. Yeah he's twelve.
I was smoke a bowl in the range thing and just kind of listen
to tunes and it's sort of like like a phone game, Like you just
kind of clean the whole driving range with this trailer head thing with yeah spinners
on it, and then you see how close I can get to the flag
stick and you're like, oh, I got that one. It's like a
ball that's two inches from the flagstick, No problem, because I got the
touch, I've got the power. It's a little bit like mowing. Yeah,
the satisfaction of mowing. You're pressure washing, yes, because you really
are like, Okay, I get this done. It sucks when you got
to get to their manually lift the bucket up. Is that almighty to lift
the bucket up, take them, dump the bucket of balls, the big
baskets basket basket into the washing machine. But if you're super baked, you
can try to like I'm gonna get every ball off the range I'm getting without
getting off of the tractor. Yeah, some of it's impossible. Sometimes there's
plugged balls, you know. People have like someone who starts at a job
and you give them fake jobs, you know, and you mess with them
kind of like Kevin's spring breaks exactly, like hey, you gotta wash them
drill bitsy, wash the boxes that hold the drill bits. And when the
works, there's like, okay, looking at him, he's doing it.
We had a couple of those in the driving range. The new people.
He would tell them they had to go, uh, they had to go
out in the range while while there's people out hitting balls, that go out
on the range and wash the flagsticks. So we had a football helmet and
they put a football helmet on and they run out with a rag and like
a bottle of spray and spray the flagsticks wash with that wonderful moment that you
are, that wonderful motion that you have of cleaning a pole. Yeah,
exactly. But the football it's the funniest thing. And they're trying to not
get blasted by golf ball. Go out there going to watch the flag six
Like who needs clean flags stick? Yeah, you basically sent him snipe hunting.
Yeah, exactly, exactly that same thing. I love how all jobs
have yeah, especially like assembly jobs, like work jobs, they all have
that bit. Yes, you know, like it's the air force, like
hey, go down and get it, grab me a two hundred yards a
flight line, you know, like the flight line is the whole thing and
there doesn't exist. It's like when I sent Grego Fernando to look for nic
fifty feet of ISDN line, I was thinking about that the other day.
Fifty feet whatever reason and in turn from ten plus years ago. Yeah,
and what do we have them looking for? Like left handed adapt or left
handed headphones or yeah, I don't know whatever. And we set him in
a cat's office to ask him. Yeah, I remember that, I need
to find the d in line. Mike says he needs it, but they
were all I need fifty feet of it. Then we had a Rich Phillips,
the assistant p D. They were all in on it. Hi,
She's like, well, I don't know where it is, but he needs
that. Yeah, no, I know, I'm trying to find it.
And of course everybody's recording. Yeah, yeah, every office there was recorder
rolling of the urgency of the guy who's in on the bit to come in
and help with the set up. Yeah, well he needs that, he's
got to have it. He needs a panic Grego Fernando. Yeah, that
was so weird. That was a long time ago. Damn we had knowles
or at the Stuart's food store. Was the real job. I think might
have been doing like a student and I do like a you bring your family,
Maybe I can make a wish to simply this person says he works in
trash collection was not able to stop and be the eclipse. Uh what I
mean? Trash primarily outdoors. They suspend. Did trash pick up on Monday?
In my neighborhood. They didn't even pick it up until yesterday. This
guy says, just open the stream golf talk again, Jesus, that doesn't
even count. Can we have a little context, sir? Yeah, and
wait till seven o'clock at nine o'clock if you want a hardcore golf talk today.
Yeah, it's Master's Week, It's Master's Wednesday. It's the super Bowl
of Golf. Yes, right, yes, Every time I opened the stream
and listened to your podcast. Guy, you're always talking about windows. Let
me tell you, not that interesting, but thanks for listening. And yeah
I wasn't. We're talking about old jobs. So you know Stuart's food Store
still still opening only ar are you serious? The mom and pop grocery store
is still around. Yes, and the owner the time, Harold Stewart,
has passed. But he had Harold Stewart. Yeah, okay, their whole
website. We appreciate you. Harold Stewart a slab of meat. Can you
see his hand in there? Because he had lobster cloth. Oh he does.
He's missing fingers on his left hand from working in the meat market.
Oh my god. Absolutely, he lost fingers on the butcher shop. Yep,
oh my god. His son was my college roommate. What that doesn't
happen that often anymore? Well, yeah, this guy, you know,
think about it in the fifties. I mean, dude, when I was
a kid, my granddad and all of his friends were missing at least one
digit. And it was all the same reason. Oh, it was for
a result of a combine accident when he was working when he was thirteen,
working the combine in some damn the cotton field out and the rolling planes,
and all of him and his buddies are drinking nickel coffee at the diner with
their pinkies because they basically don't have hands thanks combine. Missing finger at the
combine. That's why Tim White ran a four to four hand fell a couple
of rounds handcrafted, mister finger boy, that is true. Remember that all
old people just were missing digits. Yeah, people used to be so tough.
I had a neighborhood and nub for sure, kidding so cool. And
I don't know if surgery probably wasn't as good back then either that you think
about it. You know, urgency attaching, you know, I mean,
not always having someone on guard. I think the turning point in America's workforce,
like everybody was tough until that one job was created for Kevin. And
that's when the country turns soft. That is the moment America turns off.
The five Days of Kevin. Little Kevin strut out on the floor and the
head's whipped of these hard men, all with seven to eight fingers waving at
Kevin with their nub There, little boy, wait, we got a job
for you. They put the kids moving on one corner at the like in
the middle of the line. It was really bad. Box from Chah to
cha, Yes, sir, I'm gonna do a great job. And then
ten minutes later he's complaining. That's the thing that I was tired playing Nintendo
those summary jobs. I think I had one similar to that. My buddy's
dad owned an oil field supply company and they hired me and seriously, they
give you something to do, and I was done with it and started at
nine. I'm done by nine point fifteen, and then it's just up to
you to look busy yes, for the next seven hours and forty five minutes.
Yeah, I ain't a lot of that going on, for sure.
So many trips to the bathroom, hiding, just sitting, taking out the
trash, taking out the trash again. There's like maybe one cigarette butt that's
been added to it since the last time I took it out your trash bag,
and then trying to get a full. Yeah, but he stayed busy
for eight hours. But I knew I needed that three dollars and thirty five
cents an hour, so one time. Don't age yourself. Country guys,
we built this country.