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This is a downbeat on ninety seven
to one the free I don't want to

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juggle, Mikey juggling days are over. He will juggle once again, my

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friend. We're not jumped off.
Its just me and day today. Know

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Kevin Turner here on the down beat, this will not be interesting. I

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don't know to most, but Kevin
is on a boat right now on Lake

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Como. And I told you my
dad used to race on Lake Como and

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race against this guy named Fabio Bootsy
who's a propeller maker. And I don't

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know if I even knew this,
or I just don't remember if someone sent

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me a link to an article about
Fabio Bootsy dying at age seventy six in

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a high speed boat race. He's
trying to set a new record from Monte

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Carlo to Venice, and that is
a race my dad was in. It

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was Venice to Monta Carlo at the
time where they race all around the boot

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of Italy. And there's just a
big article about Fabio boots He killed in

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boat speed record attempt crash at seventy
six years old when the boat hit an

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artificial reef near the finish line in
Venice. They'd put these boulders under the

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water, lowered to the sea bed
to protect the dam, because you're always

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trying to save Venice, because it's
the only floating city, right and the

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thought is it might be just gone
in a few years. And they were

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going about eighty knots, which about
ninety two miles an hour, and they

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hit a man made dam. The
boat flew thirty meters through the air,

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landing on its stern on the other
side of the causeway where victims died on

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impact. There's a picture of their
just mangled boat. We're this racing world

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champion who had some wars with my
old man died. That was in twenty

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nineteen. If anybody was looking for
an Italian boat racing update from all disgusted

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earlier in the show from five years
ago, you are now complete, as

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we know the whole story of Italian
boat racing. Fabio Boots. You've said

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it before. Listen to the downbeat. You can have it all, You

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can have it all. Yeah,
you didn't think you're gonna have that.

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You want five year old speedboat stories
at ending tragedy check. Kevin is on

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the lake, so there is a
tie in and he's not here with us.

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Kevin will be back next Thursday.
It's me and Danny today and next

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Tuesday and Wednesday. We're off.
Friday and Monday. I am destination Las

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Vegas. I'm going to see Fish
play at the Sphere. Their first show

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is tonight. They're playing four nights
and I can't wait to see the spear.

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Can't wait to see Fish again.
And I will come back and let

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you know how it all goes down. It's gonna be pretty cool. It's

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Christina's first ever trip to Las Vegas. She just showed me a picture of

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her sweet mom, who it's really
cute. Her mom stays with her like

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once a week because they live,
you know, an hour out of town,

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but her mom works here and doesn't
want to drive home all the time,

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so one day a week, usually
Wednesday night, she'll stay at Christina's

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house. It's nice, it is
sweet, and they get to watch shows,

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and they got dinner and they usually
go get a petticure together. It's

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really sweet. But a trick her
mom does, and this is such a

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mom move, as she usually hides
like dollar bills under like like in the

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toilet paper or under the kleenex or
under the remote control like places where Christina

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will find it. And her mom, who likes Vegas, I think,

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knows that she's making her first trip. So she left like twe hundred dollars

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a couple hundred dollar bills that Christina
just this morning stumbled upon. She's like,

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I want you to go and gamble
and have fun. Oh that is

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really sweet. So I think Christine's
a good mama. Gambling budget has increased

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from one hundred dollars maybe over two
hundred dollars. Now she is going to

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have to share winnings with mamma,
and she'll dutifully and gladly do something.

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She'll offer, but Mama won't take
it. But she's under my gambling tutelage.

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Yeah, so she's going to come
home with nothing. She's gonna lose

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one hundred thousand dollars right in three
days. Get your GM card one more

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time. Imagine drug Christina, I
need an F and marker yelling at the

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pit bosses. She's running that place
and two out like by sundown tonight.

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She's the best. So we're off
to Vegas this afternoon and it's going to

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be fun. We got talkbacks and
everything coming up in the hot mob,

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next birthdays. All that fun stuff
will be the nine thirty segment right now.

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I don't know. We just called
it as the Downbeat. I think

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we've done it before. I don't
think there's an open of any kind.

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I don't think so. But you
opened a Pandora's box on Facebook. We've

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done it via text. Any questions
people want to ask, I don't know.

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Lot have some fun anything going on
here in ninety see in the freak

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place we used to work. I
think everything's on the table as long as

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we're legally allowed to answer it and
have a little fun with it. I'm

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down. Why the hell not?
Yeah, we put it out, like

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you said, on Facebook and on
text, and I got a ton of

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jokes, a ton of funny questions, and I was kind of hoping for

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some questions that might make you and
or I squirm a little bit. Sure,

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that's the ones I was looking forward
to. So, I don't know,

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do you have one that you want
to ease into it with? Uh?

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I mean, and I can get
to some squirmers ease. I mean

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someone asked, no, I don't
want to do Danny, what happened to

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your truck? Any updates? We
don't want a full update there. Someone

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said, Danny, will you play
Autumn Leaves for us later? No?

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And what is that that is?
It's an old song? Yeah? I

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did a classic country record about gosh, fifteen years ago. I guess,

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okay, why wouldn't you play a
little piece of that. I haven't performed

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those songs in about thirteen years,
and I have no intention of doing it

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now. I think they just mean
play it on your Is it on Spotify?

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Yeah? It's on Spotify, but
it's the worst song on that record,

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So no, I don't want to
hear it. Can we hear thirty

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one song on your record? You
have a record on Spotify? I think

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that's interesting. You can listen to
track three. This was the song that

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actually got some radio play. Danny
Bayless artist, is that tethered? Yeah?

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Do you want the core here?
Good grief? You have you never

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even listened to that? I have
listened to it multiple times? Oh you

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really have? Yes? Oh?
Okay absolutely when it came out. Really

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yeah, I was pumped friends back
then. Now did I even know who

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you were? Yeah? He said
I was a Beefer that's right? And

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it maybe lose twenty five pounds and
look at you now. This is from

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Danny's country albums Oh Ends Glove so
softly Now I can better in the field

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pain of the promises of springtime disguised
as a general rain. Do you have

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a lyric in the blurry sides Downtown
Nuts made it hard to stay you around.

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I could always let you go,
but I can never let you down.

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The alcohol in text Stuard Walls will
holdly down once more, Dinner tain

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a life of change. Seemed better
to ignore her. Then the roll glance

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that caught my like a form little
cloud should mu red and turn men from

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the lyric girls of the It's great
he stopped it right before the chorus.

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If I could pull myself together,
could you find the way to hold me

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once again? But only food could
be so tether de lover, you should

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have only been a friend. God. Well, I hadn't heard that in

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Forever. Yeah, that was some
sad, bastard self loathing country music I've

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actually got. I didn't ever looked
just You up on Spotify, So if

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anyone wants to listen to the whole
album, it's called Too Much Living Nanny

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Bayless on Spotify. That was that
was part of my dark period. I

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was going through some dark emotional time. Really. Yeah, well it's pretty

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as hell. I thank you,
thank you so much. Yeah, I

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don't really think about that that much
anymore. Things are looking up, Eric,

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I'm doing good since I love that. Since we don't know which direction

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this is go, we'll prove it. There's a guy on the phone who

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wants to ask you a question live. I don't know if it's a bit

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or if it's real. Hey caller, Hey man, what's your question?

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Hey? So I grew up in
boat racing too. Who are some people

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that you would suggest your fans look
up? Because apparently they love it?

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So who would you say they should
look up and learn about? All right,

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thank you for your your call.
I don't know. I don't know

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that anyone was. And all my
people that I remember from boat racing were

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from the eighties and nineties. I
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want to say legends of boat racing
because it's such a niche sport, but

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Billy Sebold is the uh the hydroplane
or the tunnel boat racing greatest of all

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time. He was a I mean
you could look up my dad Bill Siroy.

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There's not too much out there,
but there's enough. You can find

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some stories and some pictures and it's
it's pretty cool. And then it stems

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off into some wild drug dealers.
Will and Sally mcgluda race the Seahawks boats

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and they were the stars or I
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They got busted for a lot of
cocaine. There's a guy named George Morales

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whom my dad raced against, who
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for doing all that. And then
Al Copeland, the guy who owned and

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conceived Popeyes. He was my dad's
boss and they raced together for a whole

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lot of years. And there's some
wild stories there. But anyway, it

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was fun times. All right,
you got one? Yeah, I do.

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This is an interesting one and I
think we can speak to this always.

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One is from Sean. He says, I always wanted to know how

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the personalities get paid for leave,
for reading live spots. Yeah, and

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it's different, I think for each
radio station. But essentially, I mean

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at the old station, you'd get
paid you know, X amount of dollars

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depending on how famous you were,
what tier you were. Yeah, the

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tier system was in play. Indeed, and you'd get paid for every read

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that you would do, and it
you know, it anywhere between something that

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you don't think is a lot of
money. It doesn't sound like a lot

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of money, but you can add
him up over a month's time and you

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know, just supplement your income a
little bit. I think, here it's

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a flat rate per month and that
correct. Yeah, at the old station,

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I got twenty five bucks per read. I think that's what I had

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too. But it was so weird. I'll tell you this. When I

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first didn't have that mini over there, when I first started Cirque, we

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got paid twenty five bucks an hour
to do the show, right, so

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it was a two hour show.
I'd get paid fifty dollars, right,

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And then I saw the sheet of
someone else who's probably Davies or mine,

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and what were you getting? Uh? What was I getting? I think

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one like a hundred or one hundred
and fifty an hour? Oh my god?

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Really yeah, I was getting twenty
five an hour. Yeah, so

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I've made fifty dollars before taxes to
new Cirq. And then I think cash.

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I saw his or someone and he
was putting in fifty dollars an hour

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making getting one hundred, and I'm
like, oh my god, And but

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we would write him by hand there. Yeah, So I just switched mine

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one day and nobody said I just
doubled my pay. No one said a

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word. And apparently I could have
put one hundred or one hundred and fifty

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an hour, because they all benefit
from no one knowing when anyone else gets

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paid business in America. Fine,
kid, but they know you should be

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getting more. So I just gave
myself a double the money raise and then

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I was happy getting fifty getting one
hundred dollars. Yeah, which turns out

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to be way less than the Great
Orphanage got, which is understandable because you

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guys, don't. I think Davey
got less than I did. Okay.

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I saw him fill out his sheet
one time, and I think he was

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getting one hundred an hour. Really
yeah, yeah, And I never said

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no I should. I'll tell you
this. I won't say who, but

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one of the hosts would get paid
twenty two fifty per live spot and I

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was getting twenty five. That's weird, and it was just because that's the

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number that they were at. And
if he never changed it or never asked

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any questions why would they come to
you. Yeah, I think they went

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to a flat rate over there too, per month, and that's what we

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do here. They just you know, bonus you per month and it shows

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up on your check. It's probably
not as much as you think it would

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be, right, but if you
have a lot of clients that up and

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that's not absolutely I got an here's
another one, this from Freddy. He

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says, was it quote unquote suits
who stopped the fun sponsors and took out

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the jokes at the end of Dingu's
morning News. I'm not a mind reader,

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but I'm sure a lot of us
listeners miss it, so believe it

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or not. No, that was
a decision of mine after I believe Christmas

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break because number one, when I
would write those fake sponsors for what was

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it for Sports at seven, Yeah, I'd come up with it was a

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segment that wasn't sponsored by any of
our clients, and I would just make

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one up. I started literally running
out of ideas. Yeah, and it's

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really and I was always come up
with those in the break before and that

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was kind of the fun of it, to just get put on the spot,

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just come up with something insane.
It's brought to you by a reference

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to something that happened in the hour
before, something dumb that came up.

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You would have said, by Fabio
Bootsie's propeller factory, Yeah, had it

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been today, Sure, absolutely,
and number one I got it became kind

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of hard to do that with almost
the same thing with the jokes. I

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wasn't coming up with these jokes on
my own. I was searching the internet

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for him, and man, I'm
telling you, you will run out of

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joke sources. Yeah, for something
that's actually funny. The sponsor thing,

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I don't know. I felt like
where we were at the time and the

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way we were viewed by the people
that do make decisions up here, it

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was almost a preemptive idea because it
seemed like they were trying to eliminate some

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clutter, for example, the mixes
in between shows, and I felt like,

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we need to tighten up our show
a little bit, have it moving

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a little quicker, not waste time
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it was kind of a combo platter
of laziness, lack of creativity, and

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doing what we thought the people that
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time. So combo of all those
someone just set this one in. It's

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to me, Mike. After you
went full scorcher on Gordo's twitch stream after

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a drunken night at Trey's birthday party, did you get a textor call from

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any the hosts of the OULD station, either the negative or positive reactions?

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So when I left the ticket,
yeah, I went to a livestream with

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Gordon and I drank a ton of
whiskey. But I wouldn't say it was

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full scorch here. I mean,
I know, I didn't say anything that

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wasn't true. I got calls of
support from a couple of people. I

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didn't hear one negative thing from anyone
other than listeners who interpreted it anyway they

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wanted it. But I've never gone
back and watched it because I'm kind of

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embarrassed because I did get trashed to
the point where Cash was texting me.

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He said, probably time to pull
the plug on this thing. Cash is

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advising you to put the Probably need
to listen to your big bro. I

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know I didn't say anything I didn't
mean, and all I essentially was doing

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was advocating for people who weren't getting
paid anything, you know, and people

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who had worked there for twenty plus
years and getting paid an embarrassing amount of

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money and if that's the worst thing
I do, And I get hammered and

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yelled that the little guy maybe should
be compensated a little bit better, and

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that maybe the big guy should be
aware that the little guy is who wakes

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up at three in the morning every
single day is getting not taken care of.

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Yeah. I have no shame in
fighting for that. So no,

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but actually a couple people hit me
up and supported that work there. Yeah,

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we're like, that was awesome,
and one was like, I couldn't

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have said it better. I totally
agree. And I talk to Gordon the

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day after that and I helped him
with twitch ideas and stuff like that.

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So there was really nothing negative that
came out of that. And I got

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no problem with him. Man,
I loved it. I was glued,

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very yeah, absolutely glued, because
I left the station about I don't know

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a month or a month or less
before you did, and uh, I

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was. I was fascinated and and
and you were just echoing things that I

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probably just didn't have the encouragement of
whiskey to say when I did Gordon's twitch,

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because I did the same thing.
But I was probably a little more

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measured because I didn't drink, but
I could see how my wheels would have

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completely flown off, And I'm I
might have even gotten more acerbic than you

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did. That tendency it bears just
because I got wasted. But I don't

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I didn't. I don't know.
I guess said anything that didn't mean so

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not at all. Uh, here
we go. Okay, it's coming close.

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This is from Harry and this was
from the Facebook group. He says

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it is coming close to a year
since the host show name swap. Can

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you tell us how your expectations or
concerns. I guess what he's saying is,

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how are your expectations concerns? How
did they compare to how it actually

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has gone so far? I have
same question essentially, how how was your

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initial reaction of being told you were
moving to mornings from afternoon drive? So

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same thing that was the first the
audio of me. I can tell you

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this without any any reservations or any
fear. Mikey and I fought this like

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absolute hell yeah, as hard as
we could until we realized that it was

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it was a fool's effort to even
try to fight it. And once we

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accepted it, and once we got
in here, I think it took about

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two or three days of working together, which we had done before, but

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working with Kevin and seeing what the
chemistry and the dynamic could turn into,

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I was delighted. It took me
no time at all to be absolutely thrilled

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about working with Kevin, and my
hesitation of moving to mornings was too old.

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I thought the afternoons were growing.
I thought we had a better chance

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to get good ratings in the afternoon
considering the competition. No slot or no

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slight on anybody that shares that time
slot. But the musers are an effing

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juggernaut and most I don't care how
good you are, you're probably not ever

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going to beat them. That was
a concern. And the second concern was

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one hundred percent selfish about having to
wake up every day at four in the

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morning. Yeah, that's it,
completely agree. I hated it. I

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came up with a lot of logical
reasons why I didn't think it made sense,

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and it wasn't the best thing for
our station here. I thought we

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could make some headway, and we
were, albeit small, but we were

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really heading in the right direction of
the afternoons, and I thought we could

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do a little damage there with what
we had, but it was out of

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our hands. I made a very
logical pitch condensed to why I don't think

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it's a good idea. I think
people, you and I people kind of

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would like to come out and drink
with us at remotes and more afternoon vibes.

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But yeah, once we started Kevin's
Awesome, my stress levels plummeted because

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in the afternoons, let's just there
was a lot more weight to carry as

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far as preparation for the show.
I was drinking a lot. My doctor

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said, you need to stop drinking, and yes, my stress levels are

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so much lower. Anxiety is way
down in the mornings. It's a pleasure

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to work with Kevin. That's what
I didn't know. I didn't I would

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love and we discussed this. I'll
tell you that. I tell you this

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off the air. We just having
conversations. He's like, what if they

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asked us to move to afternoons and
they said it's completely up to us us

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three. I'm like, I don't
know. I love this too. I'm

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in the system now, I'm in
the rhythm of going to sleep at a

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reasonable hour, I'm proud that none
of us have ever been late once.

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Had you asked me that on the
day we switched, I would have thought,

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no chance. I like being done
at ten and having the whole day.

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So the only thing that I don't
like about, well, there's a

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lot of things to not like about
waking up at four in the morning and

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starting your day a lot. Let
to be honest, the thing that I

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missed the most is being able to
be flexible to stay up and watch the

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late night games YE like. For
example, next Tuesday, we're going to

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have MAVs out there in LA and
that's going to be a soup or late

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night for us, and you just
end up feeling kind of, I don't

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know, not your best. The
next day, when you're trying to do

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a four hour show on three hours
of sleep, it's it's really difficult.

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I did it this week and I
felt horrible. I felt like I was

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a terrible broadcaster. But to answer
even further with that to that guy's question,

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I echo exactly what you just said. Stress level is way down.

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I do sleep better at night,
and it feels like a real team and

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Kevin is one hundred percent and absolute
joy to work with every day, And

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this is my favorite show that I
have. It's my favorite collection of talent

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that I've worked with on a show
too. It's the funniest show I've ever

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been a part of. Yeah,
and I love it. We'll see adore

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it, We'll see how how we
make it all right? Is nine twenty

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eight? I don't know. We
got a couple more of these left over.

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We can start the next segment,
maybe play some talkbacks, see what

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happens next. Ninety The Free