Oh, wake up, wake up. It's a little sleepyhead. Time to
get your what is it, stupid ass out of bed? Stupid as out
of bed. I don't think you're stupid that all of you. Maybe the
songwriter did. Good morning. You're listening to Kevin and the Downbeat. He
is here, so I don't think it's weird that he and Danny are talking.
I'm looking right at him. He just got a lot on his mind
this morning. You know what he's doing. He's taking a moment to think.
He's thinking. Yeah, he's getting his head right. I'll be ready.
That is Daniel Bayless. My name is Michael Siroy. Kevin Turner is
here. J J. Jackson holds this thing together. You're listening to the
downbeat. Good morning, Good morning one and all. What a time,
What a time in the Metroplex. It's a great day. Why are you
smiling because sports weather from Dallas. Well last night to s Butt City,
which is my favorite city in America at this time of year. I had
hard s Butt City at about nine forty five when the light lightning crashes.
Did you have some some flickers with your electricity in the house. I did
a little bit. It threatened to go off one time. Oh hey,
it's keV Oh sorry, guys, it threatened to go off late today once.
No, he didn't. I had the boo boosing boo boo. It's
threatening to go off once. Yeah. I felt it like kind of dim
and then I was like, oh man, because I was just enough to
clock to reset. No never even that's the worst, right, It's like,
look, if you're going to have a power outage, go all out
or cut. Let's make it fun. Yeah, make it fun where I
have to reset all of the clocks, so just pease me. But no.
It was like right about an hour before bedtime and I just fired up
PBS to watch broad Church. Oh my god, I'm glad I'm not you
me too. Want to squeeze in a little British crime drama before bed?
You see the biggest what Anglo File? I think I'm this is all new,
dude, again, this is all new. This is like in the
last three months because I revisited Top Boy three months ago and got caught up
because I knew the new season was coming back. And then I was waiting
because I finished it quick because it's you know, the British shows they're all
super short seasons. Everything's like four to eight episodes if that mm hmm.
And then I asked a friend of mine who is a real true blue anglophile.
I was like, hey, what hey, what are some other good
uh UK crime shows? And she sent me like a huge list. And
I've just been knocking him the f out and broad Church is the last on
the list. After this, I promise I'm done. I'll get back to
watching good old fashioned American bad TV. Yeah, schlubs, get you caught
up on the mask Singer? Yeah, good stuff. This time it's a
bumblebee whatever it is, the what's the loutaria? Maybe I'll just start watching
Mexican TV. Dude, I I did, just, through self torture,
tried to watch the first episode of Snake Oil. Oh really, I'm interested
David Spade's Snake Oil. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. David Spade
just doesn't care. No, he doesn't give a crap about anything. Like
it was like the beginning of the show. It was the most low energy,
like when he took it out at the very top. I mean that's
his bit. I guess, real snarky, you know. Yeah, he's
a smart ass. But I imagine even the producers were like, do you
want to do that again now? And man, I did Joe dirt.
But let's see there. It is the most surroy industries show ever. It's
all it is. It's two products and one of them is real and one
of them's made up, and then you and your celebrity partner like kind of
determine what you think and then you can ask some questions and then you have
to bet x amount on if it's real or not. And I think they
got the first four wrong, Like the first four pairings of products. What
was it? One was venison flavored whiskey? Why against? Oh yeah it
was. I think it was venison flavored whiskey. Against called like baby memory
bands and it was, uh, like a bracelet made of your baby's hair
and teeth. Jesus, that is so dumb. And I and one of
them's fake and one of those is real. I would say the I'd say
the venison flavored whiskey is fake. Out of those two, you'd be incorrect.
Okay, Venison flavored whiskey is real. That's so dumb. And they
have like a minute to grill the person. So it is sort of how
good the person is at either improv or pretending. Like the baby memory bracelet
thing. It was like a kind of a bigger girl and it's that part's
fun because you're like, all right, this is not an actor. This
is She was like no, this A lot of mothers care about this stuff,
and she really presented it great. I'm like, damn it, she
fooled the hell out of me. And then Venison whiskey guy was like,
oh, yeah, we made whiskey with all anything we find out there.
He's like, we made a whiskey out of beaver Ainus. He's like sold
three hundred bottles. Gosh, and you're like, wait, which of these
people is lying? And that dude was telling the truth. He's like whatever,
we shoot, well, you make whiskey out, make whiskey out of
it, including beaver Rainus, which was very popular. Now was that part
of his pitch true? Yeah, seriously, beaver Anus whiskey. It kind
of sounds like a good show. Yeah, I know now that I'm saying,
And I'm like, it was funny. They should podcasts. They don't
know if that part, like when they're doing the quick Q and A,
if that part has to be true as well, or just is this product
true? So the Venison flavor whiskey was true. It sounds like they should
wait until taping is over to hand David Spade his check. Is that how
it comes off. It's like they give him his payment for the day and
then okay, now I'll go film. He's just like, okay, exactly
do it at the end. Maybe it's his idea or he's him and a
group of his you know, buddies, and he's an executive producer on it.
Oh and I'll be the host and you guys figure out the real details
in the game. But I kind of got a good idea, that's why.
And then boom get the job. That's why it's the most roy and
I love it. You guys all figure it out. You just figured out
the idea the specific details. But it's a good idea. I don't know,
like I feel like I hated it when I was watching it, but
now that I think about it, it seems like seems like a fun idea.
Is it better than is it Cake? Well? There you go?
Is it cake? Who the hell pitch that? And they're like, you
know what, maybe a lot of these game shows are based on the idea
of someone lying. I mean it is a to tell the truth was one
of the original ones. Yeah, but there's so many game shows that are
based in what is false, what is not real, what you at for
is not real. Not all every game show, but a lot of them
are that. And this is the same boat two things, which one's real.
And then make Shark Tank more extreme. And they didn't bind those forces.
And it's kind of why I love game shows. There's formulas there.
Yeah, and you just take pieces of all these other things, combine it
and make a mish mash. There is a Shark Tank element to it.
They're clearly playing on that. I can't think any more of the products.
It was pretty funny. Let's see if I can find out what were the
products. One was soap, three D printed soap that you can make the
head of anyone, you know. You know what was snake oil? Snake
oil was you had these traveling salesmen back in the eighteen hundreds, their wagons.
Yeah, they'd go from small town to small town and their wagons and
they had these cure awls, elixirs or potions or whatever, and they would
the outlandish claims that they would make to try to sell this stuff to the
citizens of the city. We're just ridiculous, Like they cures headaches, uh,
stomach aches, yeah, the flu everything, it's consumption drop. Most
of it just contained like cocaine if that. Yeah, it was basically it
was something to get you a little fed up where you're like, oh,
it was a can of placebo basically, and they would sell it. And
I guess they got the name snake oil. What was there a toilet with
a small sink on the back? Mite? Was that one of them?
I didn't see that one. Ring that you might have been watching the second
episode, then you weren't watching the pilot episode. Okay, there because there
was also a line of luggage made from locally produced taxidermy animals on animals in
this shiit No, that's not the one I saw. They had that one
in the promo. I had three D printed soap heads, and I had
there was one a special towel designed to dry in between your toes, Like
it was a towel with the little like serrated part in the middle where you
could stick your toes in there and kind of toes on the website, But
I don't remember it was realer what was it now? But the bottom line
is they're all pretty ridiculous. Yeah, but what's funny. There's a dude
who had the tie protector. It was just a plastic like sleeve that you
put over your tie and clip on to the top. And then they show
someone like spraying food and mustard all over this guy and they're like, but
his tie is protected. Yeah, And then you're like, why would you
just need to protect your but and then they asked the dude that question in
their minute, like why would you only need to protect your tie? And
he's like, well, a lot of people have their favorite tie, and
if you lose a white shirt, you know, that's not a huge loss,
but if you lose a significant tie, no, And the dude like
explains it and then whatever product he was against, and they're like, all
right, well that thing that's stupid. So I'll say this one's real and
they're like, you're wrong. And then the tie guy standing there with his
product that he's put the last five years of work into whatevery just called it
an idiot one, like this is real. One of the producers is will
aren't it that makes sense? Yeah? Can you imagine. So my problem
with a lot of shows like this these days is the and granted a show,
whether it was going to be on the fall schedule or not, definitely
something that they saw. As well, the whole TV industry, and at
least network television, is leaning into game shows and reality TV. Of course,
all right, we all know that, but who knows how long they
thought the writer's strike was gonna last. And they're still wedding on the actors
strike to end, which should end maybe today, maybe tomorrow. But snake
oil, this is the problem that I have with these games. I like
checking some of these out. Jimmy Follen's got a show on NBC called That's
My Jam two v two and it's like a music game show. The problem
is they give it an hour, and when you start giving a game show
an hour and they don't have a lot of it, and it just becomes
filler and fluff to fill out the time allotment. Yeah, you're like,
come on, man, let's get this condensed to. This could have been
a you could have done this all in twenty two minutes. Yeah, what
were the I mean Back in the day, it seemed like there were very
few game shows that were an hour. Price Is Right was the only one
that even comes to mind. The weakest link was always an hour. Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire was an hour? You know, he Wants to
be a Millionaire? Changed everything I think for the modern show. Like I
think there was a dormant area with the exception of Jeopardy and Unfortune and uh,
Price is Right, but that's daytime. Yeah, and even Jeopardy and
Will of Fortune. They weren't like super prime time. They would syndicate into
six pm. Maybe, yeah, sure, like ABC rolled the dice and
said, here's Regis, let's do this thing at eight pm. But well,
it happened very much like you brought up Millionaire. There was no filler
in Millionaire, and there's no filler in Prices, right, really, I
mean, you're it's game. It's go, go, go, go go.
A little mini interviews, Yeah, you know, where are you calling
from? What do you do for a living? All right, let's play.
But daytime game shows was Prices, right, the only hour long one.
Yeah, And it felt like they were cramming as much as they could
in that out, Like you're getting six games, you're getting two sets of
wheel spins plus the showcase showdown. Yeah, plus all the bidding. There
was not filler in prices, right, no filler and will fortune either you
know the quick maybe, Oh you shoved the puzzle and you got two thousand
dollars. How's Vana looking tonight? You know to that? And then Jeopardy
had the most amazing filler ever because it's funny every time, It's never not
been funny. What were they going to interview you? And you got about
ten seconds and they've given them the dumbest thing. So it says here you
like to collect butterflies. Yeah, let's says hear you read Catcher in the
rye. Basically, it showed how uninteresting these people are. If you what
it is is if the audience wasn't already aware that the fact that you're so
smart and on this show that you're a nerd, we're going to confirm it
with a couple of questions. Quick nerd fact. Yeah. There was a
funny Jeopardy Twitter account years ago, and it was like they always put it
out like daily and it was just the Jeopardy interview. So every day it
was an episode of Jeopardy, just the short interviewspan. Okay, and it
is just so funny because they're like, oh, says, you've got an
interesting story about my dog. Yeah, so I cut his toenails. Oh,
I had to wash his anus glands too. Oh all right, let's
go over to Samantha. Samantha at the Harvard and says here that you saw
Independence Day this weekend for the first time. I did. I missed at
the first time. But seeing it now, I realized what I missed out
on the first time. That's good. Let's go to Bob like not,
it's good. It's never interesting. It was so funny. Did you guys
watch the Rangers yesterday? Orb you make your own venison whiskey, it says
here and Beaver Rangers, Beaver Bogsellers or three other bottles. I did watch
the Rangers. That is back to back days. I spent watching entire baseball
games. It's the most baseball you've watched all year. Okay, combined those
two games is the most Rangers baseball you have watched all year. I have
not watched eighteen innings total this season. You don't have VALI I have watched
it either. I watched eighteen the last two days. It would have been
significantly higher. Than that. If you had BALI no doubt, because it
was a Valley twenty five, it would be on like every day. You
know what. My first thought on those games, the games, both of
the games which awesome, so fun, is that we basically didn't have one
moment of stress, really crazy like, because that's the best part about playoff
baseball is the stress. It's so tense and everything's just so hanging by a
thread offensively and defensively. And they won, they dominated. It was beautiful.
We're going to talk about it, you know, throughout the morning,
and there was no stress. There was never, never anything that freaks out.
And it's coming because some of these other games were high stress, and
that's almost why I like it so much. But I will take easy Street
every damn time. When we started, we were talking about this on Monday
and Tuesday starting the wild Card series, just feeling so hopeless and feeling you
know, the way the season ended, and just kind of like, hey,
all right, fine, you're in the tournament. We'll just see what
happens. We were thinking how fortunate we would be if we were getting ready
to talk about a game three this afternoon, and the fact that we're sitting
here right now. Not only no Game three, but they allowed one run.
Yeah, over two games against Tampa. Insane, just absolutely crazy.
I will say this too, back to the Bally's point that I haven't watched
any baseball this year because I refuse to subscribe to Bally's and it's not available
on my provider. I think that's the reason that I've watched a bunch of
weird TV, because, honestly, Mikey, that time would be taken up
by me at seven o'clock or seven thirty flipping on the Rangers, and that
would just be on in the night, no matter what you're doing, no
matter what you're doing. Yeah, I agree. It's not surprising though.
Baseball is one. I mean, hockey, We've talked about this before.
I think the sport you can go from the eighth seed or whatever you want
to call it and rattle off the title. I mean, the Rangers can
win the World Series this show absolutely, you know what I mean, we
kind of knew that sort of until they lost the division and and the and
when you lost Sures or you know, yeah, the Crown thing happened so
long ago. Be like, all right, we got Sures. I mean
they still have a guy. I mean baseball, you feel like you kind
of need the one dude, whether or not that person is brought in to
be that guy or someone evolves into that guy. In hell, the Evaldi
who has four vowels out of only six letters wow, E O V A
L seven letters four at A seven A lot of owls. Yeah. Yeah,
Like in baseball, vote anything can happen. Hockey, I think is
the number one where anything can happen, Like an eighth seed can just rattle
get hot and rattle off. Like like basketball, it's never gonna happen.
You know, if you eeke into the playoffs, like you're just waiting,
who's going to slaughter us? Maybe maybe you steal the series, but then
you're just gonna get wiped. Football it's all about the quarterback and football because
it's only one game. I guess you always have a chance, but it's
that's the worst team that eaks into the playoffs does rattle off of Super Bowl
Championship. All the wildcard teams have done it. Yeah, But baseball,
it can happen. It absolutely can. And this is why some of this,
like I don't know, negative energy. Maybe we did to ourselves.
Plus it's a combination of meeting in the middle. We did it to ourselves
and the Rangers did it to us throughout their history. Okay, plus going
into literally one week ago, one week ago Thursday, we were going,
Okay, all they got to do is win two games or win one game,
get one Astros loss, and we have a bye, and we were
feeling pretty good. We are in there, and we are in the final
four or the final four in the American League, so like, and then
they just sucked, you know, in Seattle, and you go, well,
geez, I would have to work really hard for this, So like
there's a reason, like we would have felt way differently about the same had
they had a week off to just hang out. And the fact they had
to go earn it and then play good, you start to go, oh,
maybe they could work in our advantage. But you know how this thing's
gone up and down and Ebbden flowed and they've gotten hot and they've been mystifying
with how bad they could be bullpen misery and maybe they just decided or it
just it all came full circle that they started the wild Card Series and it
was their first game of the starting of a hot streak. Yeah, and
you'd rather have that, of course in the playoffs than having to be up
and down. And man, they've shown it the amount of runs they've scored,
how locked down their starting pitching has been. If you look at them
as a whole and not take it in two week chunks or whatever. This
team, what are they this year? They are a badass, powerful offense
that does get some good starting pitching. Yes, yep, so that's what
they did, and they've added to that with Nick or what's his name Carter?
Yeah, yeah, not Nick Carter of the back Boys. Yeah,
Nick, We'll get Nick Carter. It's early. It's good that we have
Evan Carter, who looks like our part time board operator up here, g
money. Yeah, kind of if you saw that a little bit, I'm
like, it's kind of to take Carter now. Plus they have Nick Nick,
Yeah Carter, Nick Carter. I was like Nick, I was like
I thought he was thinking Jordan Montgomery's first name was Nick. Nick on the
team. I don't we have a Nick on the team. Not officially awake
until seven thirty. Good Nick Martinez a few years ago, Hey two one
four eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven one. If you aren't
going to the Echo Lounge for tonight's anniversary party, can we change your mind
with tickets? We want to ask you why you're up, So call in
now right now, like you gotta go now, yeah, right now.
I don't take forty seconds for the phone calls light up. But then someone
though, because I think we should give them either all American rejects tickets or
four tickets to Saturday is DFW Italian Festival. You guys, what are you
guys gonna do after the show today? You're going to take a nap and
then go to the Echo Lounge? What's your plan? Gym? Probably a
couple of hours at the gym? Is it? Do we have to perry
bike if we're there after six pm? Do we have to pay that?
Well? We're introducing well yeah, what do we we have a rundown of
Yeah. Our obligation as far as needing to be there is at six o'clock
where we will introduce the first act. I'm going there at four something probably
and just gonna help help everyone sound check what why oh? It seems like
a fun time. Help Danny's Like I've played in bands my entire life,
sound checking? What are you going to do to help? I man,
I'm pretty good about like hearing some things, you know, going. Who
do we have on the phone? JJ? Hi? What's your name?
Mike? Him? Mike? Is this Miking Grapevine. No, it's not
Miking Grapevine. It's Mike from Nevada driving through Wiley into PLANEO to go to
work. My man, what do you do? I'm a service advisor at
a small automotive reparis shop. Have been on seventy eight right now? I'm
on five forty four already, ditch seventy eight. Yeah, I'm forty four
clearly, all right? I can't find that mikey, do you even know
what seventy eight really is? No? I don't know anything. He doesn't
have a clue Google, yes, of course, talking about all he does
and then he pretends to be knowledgeable. That's all we're all doing on the
radio anyways. We're all not just ash everyone right quickly searching stuff, pretendingly.
We're all just winging it. Absolutely, everyone is just winging it.
Are you sure you're not filming Tokyo drift right now? Yeah? I don't
know. There's some stupid little Japanese car park can exhaust over there. I'm
glad you said car. Yeah, I love that you work at an automotive
repair shop. That's cool some days. Yeah, you specialize in like European
cars, or classic cars or just whatever, a little bit of everything,
except for land Rovers because there nobody walks on those. Is that the dumbest
car? Well? The British are known for a lot of bad things.
Bad teeth, bad food, bad TV shows. Hey, hey, money,
Python, the Holy Grail, Money, Python's Flying Circuits. No,
no, that's great years ago. I'm at crime like bad crime shows.
Their crime shows are infinitely better than ours. What's your dream car, Mike?
You don't really have a dream car, They're just things. I've had
one car since nineteen eighty nine and I'll probably keep it until I give it
to one of my children, her grandchildren. What is that? What car?
It's a nineteen seventy three Mercury Cougar convertible. Oh hell yeah? Yeah?
Did you? Won't you give it to Danny? No? Keep it
for your kids. Who cares these kids get out to Most of these kids
don't deserve all the sweet stuff they get from their parents. The radio seventy
three. Cougar is a badass machine, especially as you've got he's got the
rag top on that nice choice. No, you don't give it to Dingo.
This car looks amazing. Do you have the hidden headlights? No,
that was only up until nineteen seventy seventy one. They got rid of those,
went to the quad rounds. Gotcha? What color is that thing?
It's red? Mike, we gotta go. Why we're having fun talking to
Mike our friend? Yeah? Why do you hate him? I was just
trying to nail these straddle reports guys. All right, go ahead, Hey
Mike, are you going to the echo lines tonight? No, sir,
I am not. Do you straight up honest? At least almost? Could
you be swung in another direction? Or you get concrete plans? Pretty concrete
plans. I mean, if you want to call my seven year old granddaughter
and tell her that I'm going to miss her softball game because I'm gonna go
hang out with a bunch of netwith what's her number, Danny, I'm gonna
let her know that Pop Paul's not coming near her dumb game. She won't
remember you were so close, Dan, It's pop Pop Pop pop. Yeah.
If I have that on a shirt, I can't wear it in certain
parts of town. I love my comedy routine. This needs to do stand
up tonight. Can we add you to the set tonight? Can get you
there? Uh oh, dear god. My wife just texted me. She's
listening. She says, I hear you. Yeah, honey, it's me.
Love you Teresa. We love you, Teresa. Yes, we do
take care Mike. I told her happy birthday today. No, on her
birthday, we did allright. Happy birthday again, Teresa. And thank you
Mike for calling in and considering rearranging your schedule for this Evening's factial. Give
Mike something he's not going to go to. You don't have to. A
couple of weeks ago, I turned down sting tickets. I tell you what,
guys change. Danny Soroy. I'm so happy you guys are back on
the radio. It's just a blast. Listen to you, Danny. My
wife will tell you this. You need to talk about music more not allowed
my world. We're just not allowed. No, we'll sneak it in from
time to talk. I call bs on that. It's the freak. We
say what they want. So they had a KT Mike, Hi KT Mike.
All right, don't don't roll your don't roll your cougar TK, have
fun with your bike, have fun with your boondo. Wait till you get
home and roll your cougar. Well another h Okay, I'm fun. I'm
fun, admit it. I'm fun. A lot of fun. Okay.
We'll do a giveaways later the show because we got a lot of the Echo
Lounge to the Big party. But right now, something that I do every
year and I'm glad that I can now bestow it onto youse guys. The
twenty three twenty four SNL draft is next on ninety seven won the Freak