You're listening to the downbeat. I'm ninety seven to one the freak. You
know this one, Mike, This sounds like a popular sitgom sitcom from the
early nineteen nineties. This is a fat, dark country song from the early
nineties. So very close is this? Used to be a cowboy? This
is should have been a cowb should have been a cowboy? What if it
used to have been? Yeah? Used to have been a cowboy? Should
have been a cowboy? He I do know this one. He hascidd to
be a country singer. I guess or fun fact about Toby Keith who passed
away. That's the breaking news this morning from More, Oklahoma. Dad at
the age of sixty two. He was going to be a petroleum engineer,
which normally leave it up. Crank it cuties please. I should have been
a cowboy, I mean, should have learned a road. Okay, we're
in my six suit riding. It's already weird because I've never listen to Toby
Keith, or I've never really thought of him as much more than a kind
of a country music punchline representation of songs that I don't listen to. But
already you play that. I'm like, all right, it's not terrible that
nineties and that's look, that's that's a good era of country music. It
is nineties country is great. I want to learn and now you have to.
No, I'm not gonna put a lot of time into this, but
this, I mean, this is someone's hearing this right now for the first
time. And yes, hearing that. Toby Keith passed away this morning or
last night maybe, but it was announced just three hours ago on their official
Twitter accounts. So that's why this is gonna be the most important thing in
the world. Kevin, Oh it is. Yeah, we'll do the intro
for it. Okay, this sounds like a terbly Keith song mid career.
Who I get time to beat your ass? That's pretty good, Tobe.
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as we told you. The death of Toby Keith, country music star.
Also bigger WWE fan Mike all Right loved wristling. It's also weirdly he
was a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers. The thing you should know about Toby
Keith outside of his music career, I think if you're having trouble visioning him,
I think a lot of people probably do know. But there are people
in our audience who may have never heard of him, seen him. Maybe
they've heard the name, don't know Toby Keith had one of the more powerful
mullets of our era. I mean, we're talking Kenny Powers like. It
was a superior mullet, big curly locks. It is older days. I
think he had not gone that path, But in the nineties when he was
first coming through, he had a mullet like no other. I'm looking up
pictures. I didn't. I don't know that. Yeah, that looks like
the main of a lion. He doesn't. That is incredible, Oklahoma Lion.
It is his first album, Toby Keith. He's really rocking it.
And then he's got another album called Boomtown that was really good in the early
nineties. We'll play a little bit for you at seven thirty. We had
a minute ago, a couple of calls if you went a weigh in on
this or this is as has affected you in an emotional way or not two
and four or eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven to one.
I think Danny Rode up a good point too. He might have been a
little misunderstood politically, and I think he you know, he played Trump's inaugural
rally, so you know when you do that, or one just assumes that
you're that and you're forever that, but he was not always like hardcore you
know, or right you know or anything like that. He played for George
Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump. Yeah, he self proclaimed independent.
He claimed his political views were described as a Democratic Democrat conservative or conservative
democrat. So he liked to kind of, you know, exist in the
middle. And how can you really fault a dude for that where everybody is
picking a side and going to farther extremes of that side. I don't know.
I think sometimes maybe a centrist way of being measured and considering everybody's thoughts
and opinions as being valid is maybe not a bad idea. I think he
was pretty misunderstood, and he did get like a lot of people at that
time. I think a lot of people, because of the emotion that surrounded
the attack on our nation in two thousand and one, probably made a lot
of choices under emotional duress. And I think that his response to in song
to that event with what was the name of that tune, the Courtesy the
Red, White, and Blue. Yeah, I always called it, get
boot in your ass. I'll give you a little bit of that. Can
I give the x's and o's just as we're kind of breaking the news.
Yeah, yeah, so yeah. Toby Keith, sixty two years old,
passed away. He passed peacefully on Monday night, his family shared on a
statement posted on Twitter. Keith was diagnosed with stomach cancer in twenty twenty two.
They said, quote, Tobe Keith passed peacefully last night, February fifth,
surrounded by his family. He fought his fight with grace and courage,
and please respect the privacy of his family at this time, they say.
He did speak about his cancer diagnosis in September of twenty twenty three at the
People's Choice Country Awards, and at the time he said his cancer struggle is
a little bit of a roller coaster. You get good days. You know,
you're up down, up, down. It's always zero to sixty and
sixty to zero. But I feel good today, It's what he said,
and he was joined on the red carpet by his wife in nearly forty years,
Trishia Lucas and then Yeah, December twenty three played his first official headlining
show since his diagnosis. That was in Las Vegas, and he was in
good spirits and all that, and yeah, I ended up some coming to
cancer. Just on Monday, evening. Yeah, so yeah, I mean
it's just sad and he what a battle too. It seems like he'd kind
of gone at it for hardcore for a couple of years and like we'd mentioned
earlier, kind of faded out of out of our consciousness. And I was
pretty shocked to open up my computer this morning and the lead story everywhere Toby
Keith passed away of stomach cancer. But kind of to complete the thought on
you know, we're maybe opinions changed on him, is when he, you
know, did the Red, White and Tune and I was pretty polarizing at
the time, and depending on where you stood on all that stuff, he
either loved it or hated it. And that's just a shame because I don't
think that's what he was all about. I mean, he was just a
regular dude from Oklahoma. He wasn't one of those made by Nashville stars.
You know, he earned his stripes. He in that industry. You know
it was an oil field guy and had a decent acumen for music. And
I'll tell more of his story later on in Dingo's Morning News. But he
kind of walked back a lot of that stuff later in life too. You
know, he got in a big battle with a verbal battle with what's her
name from the Dixie Chicks. They were called that at the time, the
Chicks now Natalie Mains Yeah, And there was some real venom spun back and
forth between the two. And he looked back on that time later on he
goes, Yeah, it's kind of embarrassing to think that I let myself get
wrapped up so much and that conjecture and backbiting and stuff like that. So,
you know, it seems like the guy was a pretty pretty centrist measured
dude overall. That just uh, you know, yea, as we all
did. Man, we were that affected a nation, man, No,
no doubt. He was very good about going to visit the troops to you
know, all over the place during for you know, a good portion the
last two decades, you know, And that song was huge, But he
had other songs too that were kind of and I think there's another song that
was pretty huge about ten years ago called American Soldier and things like that.
So he had a bunch of but he would go like to all these camps,
you know, across the world and go visit them. So I mean,
I think that's something he really cared about Everybody probably cared about that more
than any of the politics. Let's go, we had a Mike and Gravevine
on the line. Let's say what's the way and what's up? Mike?
How you doing? Man? Oh, what's up? Guys. I'm a
little heartbroken this morning about Tobe Key's pass. And to be honest with you,
guys, man like Mikey and uh, you guys know, I'm a
marine veteran sixteen years Uh and you know it was in the Marine Corps where
nine to eleven happened. And uh, you know, he just uh true
American man to me, he spocus, spoke his mind. And basically what
I loved about Tobac Keith is, uh he's supported of the troops a lot,
like you said, Kevin, and uh yeah, man, he's gonna
be sorely missed, especially through the veteran community because we all respected him for
that. Can I ask what, because you know, I don't even know
last year whatever we talked, you know, what we were doing on nine
to eleven. But being in the Marine Corps on nine to eleven had to
be quite a unique experience. Where were you physically and how that go down?
Yeah? It was crazy, Mike you. I was an instructor at
the School of Infantry at Kempdlton in California, and uh we we basically we
had some uh some trainings that we were training putting through. I thought the
taught the on infantry guys. So basically everybody else besides infantry they come for
like a seventeen day course and uh we were out there at the range and
we showed up and our company gunny sergeant was like, Hey, I need
to get all the instructures together and basically got us all together and told us
what happened and said that the Pentagon had get hit two. If you have
any family members that are that were there, if you want to go home
and call them, or if you want to call them, go ahead,
take your time, which I do. I did at the time have a
cousin who was a Navy officer that was there at the Pentagon when it happened,
and uh but yeah, that's that's where I was. And uh,
I'll never forget it. Man. It was quite an experience and seeing the
video footage and all that stuff and on a I guess kind of funny note
all of us. Instructor was like hey, start major. We want to
get out of here where y'all want to go. We want to go over
there and fight. And he's like, y'all leave, who's going to train
everybody? We're like, well, I'll don't figure it out. You know,
we wanted to go get paidback, man. So yeah, yeah,
emotional time. Let me ask you this and maybe you obviously had a lot
of buddies at the time. So when Toby was, you know, doing
this kind of I know it could be perceived by some as like a more
of like a gingoistic anthems. Do you did you ever get the sense that
what did you feel like he was truly authentic about it? Or did you
ever kind of question It's like, I wonder if this guy is just trying
to capitalize on the emotions of a nation for uh, you know, to
to write these songs knowing how popular they're going to be because we were kind
of galvanized as a nation then for for profit. Was that ever something that
crossed your mind, because I know he was accused of that in the media,
right Danny me personally, No, I did post something on Facebook earlier
on my own page, and one of my buddies that's from Oklahoma, that's
all about Oklahoma. Was like, yeah, I never really got into him.
And every time we'd go into chowel and they played that song, he
was like, We're kind of like okay, you know, but everybody perceived
it and takes it different and that's fine. But me personally, no,
I never did. I do. Remember while I was then also to my
uh my cousin, I don't I'm the only sibling or don't have any siblings.
So I had two cousins that grew up with and the young one he
had two daughters at the time that were like ten and eight, and uh,
they were very talented girls. And when I came home one time,
they basically put on me are uh one of the American Soldier and they basically
sing it to me because they uncle Mike's solim, you know, and we
love him and support him and this and that. So but yeah, just
you know, people's different take on it, and that's fine, you know.
Yeah, I think, well, first of all, Mike, thank
you, thank you for calling in and waiting on this. Good to see
you and the wife the other night over at Alamo Draft House. Thank you
for your time, man, Thanks for listening there you go. Yeah,
thanks, so appreciate it. Have a good one. If if you're gonna
JJ for crank me up for it. If you know, if you're gonna
do a song like that, make it aff and banger. You know.
My problem was always with that Jackson who sat behind a little acoustic guitar and
it was so sad. I'll say this. Keith said, screw that,
We're gonna kick ass. Let's be clear. The Toby Keith Red White and
Blue song. I really doubt that that was an anthem for the military.
That was more for the general public, because everyone knows that the soundtrack for
modern war is Drowning Pool. It's not Toby Keith, our local friends Drowning
Pool who love Rollertown beer weirdly, which is you know their balls. Okay,
here here's this. You'd be sorry that you messed with you, miss,
because we have put a boot in your ass. It's Sam Conway.
Put your name at the Tommaha bless and standsted shack miss and eagle will man.
That's gone on me. When you and him on the Freedom starting,
it'll be like the whole line's raining down. O the red wide red wid
I mean it sounds like a like a from a South Park movie. When
you start the song, you know it does. It is a little bit.
But Uncle Sam put your name on the top of his list, and
the Statue of Liberty started shaking her fist. She's getting that fist ready.
Okay, I don't know this song's about sodomy. It's not we'll put a
boot in your ass. That is not a normal act. It's just about
how we are gonna whoop your ass. Yeah, yeah, at war.
We're good at war. We're really good at war. I don't know.
I you heard. I've heard that's on a thousand times that it's a joke
and it's hard to change stamps on the morning that Toby Keith passes away and
I'm not. But that's a funny song. It is a funny song.
Lyrics are pretty crazy. Yeah, we'll have more on this at seven thirty
eight thirty. Let us do about the day if you guys went await and
keep on shooting your text in and calling two and four eight one seven seven
eight seven seven one. But now on the day of Toby Keith's passing,
let's do birthdays. Okay, Because he joins the list if his death date,
it's very important. Well, it's actually not, because that we do
birthdays not death dates. Damn it. Do you have the amount of people
whose birthdays today but they are dead is shocking. It's a lot, and
it's all huge names. Let's go blow us away, Kevin, Bob Marley
would have been seventy nine. This new movie looks interesting. I think what
JJ next week? Yes, I hope they don't see say yes, you
think they're gonna screw it up? I hope they don't. They usually do
when they do music biopics. You know, I feel like they're better now
than they used to be. Maybe, I don't know, like they don't
do they blow them still? I don't know. I think it's gonna be
great. Frankly, as much as I know a dozen Bob Marley songs,
I don't, I don't know enough about the dude, So I'm actually looking
to learn dude. There's a uh Sually, there's a really great little mini
documentary on him in the making of one specific record that you would love.
His story is fascinating and I hope they cover a lot of the real stuff
about Bob and not just the you know, the bullet points and basically like
everybody that I knew when I was in my early mid twenties had the Legend
CD, which is just a compilation greatest hit probably what I have. Yeah,
there's so much more to him. It's it's mind blowing. He died
of cancer, right, yes, but he also was shot. Yes,
he survived the shooting. Yes. See, I don't I need to learn.
Yeah, it's a it's a wild ass ride man. Now, who
was the guy that they interviewed? Was that his son? That was that
was Damien? That was Damien at the Grammys? I thought it was I
thought he said it was Damien. Okay, that was Ziggy's always around too.
Yeah, the guy that you could not understand anything that he was saying
because his Jamaican accent was so pronounced. Where's that on the accent ranking board?
I kind of love it. I love it. Yeah. My neighbor
across from me, he just moved back to Jamaica about a year ago,
was Lincoln and he was a Jamaican through and through, but he lived here
for twenty twenty five years. Wild man. But I would have go out
and have some whiskey with him every year on his birthday, bring him a
bottle of a Crown Royal, Crown Royal, and he's just super appreciative.
And we would always have a drink together and he would just impart bizarre knowledge
on me. But to hear him deliver anything, and that voice was,
you know, it sounded it sounded like it came from a place of knowledge.
Pretty badass. Yeah. I always thought it was odd too, because
when I grew up Miami, I liked the Hurricanes and Rohan Marley was a
badass linebacker. That's right. And I'm like, you're Bob Marley's kid or
grand grand kid whatever whatever worked out, and you're just thumping people at the
you that's wild. Yeah, what a wild fan. Well, there's a
lot of people in that family. And I want to tell you a little
bit later in the show. And now, the bass player of Bob Marley
died this week. Family man, my god. Yeah, tweeted about him
or reposted something about him. We may get into that, like nine thirty
or something. I need to Scientist Spencer Silver would have been eighty three.
He invented the post it note in the adhesive uh rip torn would have been
ninety. Wait a minute, he invented paper and glue of combining the two.
The adhesive on the back of the post it note that was the key.
Yeah, glue, because what's the point if it's a certain type of
glue that stays until you take it off and then it goes. It's an
interesting invention, actually it is. Rip Torn's ninety three. Have you gut
seen the Larry Sanders show? Not much of that. Some rip Torn's great
in that, probably a terrible human, but great. Josh Agabor would have
been one o seven from Green Acres. Ronald Reagan would have been one thirteen.
Well I'm still alive. Nancy and I are doing crack cocaine in heaven.
Okay, just say no. Bavery would have been won twenty nine.
Damn the steak diet his when his meal came out, you'll see that last
year, his whole like his normal meal, Like here's normal food plan.
Insane The amount of stuff he ate. Can you imagine the amount of undigested
meat in his colon the day he does every minute of every day, probably
like thirty seven pounds of old meat. I asked Norm back in the day,
how he thinks Babe Ruth would do right now? And he's like forty
home runs. Oh my god, dude is working at a gas station.
And then we got to a long conversation of what me and Donovan Diad we
laughed so hard. So we're like, what if Mike Trout was zapped back
into nineteen forty or whatever a year, We're like, they would have burned
him as a witch. Oh my god, he can fly. Like if
Mike Trout zap back in a Babe Ruth era, what he would do to
babeper Man? He tryptonite. Aaron Burr would have been to sixty eight.
Aaron Burr known for killing Alexander Hamilton. That's right, they had a getting
charged for it. Did they have a duel? A duel and a duet
coming soon to your streaming networks maybe Thursday. Avera Brown would have been one
twelve. She married Hitler for about forty hours and took the cyanide pill.
He shot himself. Christoffery's thirty nine former MAVs, Oh yeah, and Kardashian,
Yes boy? Right, Mike what har Mar Superstar? Oh yeah?
Got a restless leg, a restless heart, a great album and you know
do you what do you say? Man? Joining the Great list of musicians.
He looked like Ron Jeremy and he sounded like Michael Jackson. He was
He's great, an entertaining show. Saw him at Club Dotta. Yeah,
I think he took a shirt off. He always takes a shirt off and
does a weird handstand mid performance. He's amazing and canceled. Yeah, oh
really, what happened? Everybody in that Minnesota alt music scene got wiped out,
and a decade ago I did not know this had their way with him.
Yeah, man, lady you shot me as a jam. Oh my
goshot I saw it in a concert in someone's screaming, play lady, you
shot me and he just finally stopped and he was like, I'm gonna play
my most popular song. Everyone chill, shut up. I don't play it.
Later he left was a Club Dotta. Well, he left the show
early because some guy in the front row kept trying to grab his ding dong
when he was up there in underwear. Yeah right, I remember that wasn't
me, wouldn't me. Yeah, he has a few allegations there. He
he tried to. He wrote a couple of He wrote a song for j
Lo, proving again that her career as a scam and much more other birthdays
fifty one Amy Robock don't know her for her affair on Good Morning America.
Three. No, I don't know anything. You just said. You know
the Amy Robot story from last year What's good Morning? Where at three?
It was like the third one? What? I don't remember the story?
He always look talking to Bob Marley's kid right now? Uh Rick Astley fifty
eight. Kind of good, honestly, kind of good. Just issue the
line, I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Come on.
Axel Rose is sixty two, Oh boy, he sho probably hat Axl Rose
the same age as Toby Keith Weird, Richie Ziscus seventy five and Tom Brokecaw's
eighty four. Tom Broke call, what's a tough word for him to say?
Brewery brewery. I'm Tom Brokecall, I'm the roller Town Brewery for what
was the ABC, CBS, NBC. I'm Tom brokecall and brewrew they're forgetting.
They're all farge that eaten by a pack of wolves today, he was
delicious. That's enough. You guys did good? All right? Doctor Gold's
up next, but also Juicy MAV's trade rumor from our own mark Stein.
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