This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one the free I don't want to
juggle, Mikey juggling days are over. He will juggle once again, my
friend. We're not jumped off. Its just me and day today. Know
Kevin Turner here on the down beat, this will not be interesting. I
don't know to most, but Kevin is on a boat right now on Lake
Como. And I told you my dad used to race on Lake Como and
race against this guy named Fabio Bootsy who's a propeller maker. And I don't
know if I even knew this, or I just don't remember if someone sent
me a link to an article about Fabio Bootsy dying at age seventy six in
a high speed boat race. He's trying to set a new record from Monte
Carlo to Venice, and that is a race my dad was in. It
was Venice to Monta Carlo at the time where they race all around the boot
of Italy. And there's just a big article about Fabio boots He killed in
boat speed record attempt crash at seventy six years old when the boat hit an
artificial reef near the finish line in Venice. They'd put these boulders under the
water, lowered to the sea bed to protect the dam, because you're always
trying to save Venice, because it's the only floating city, right and the
thought is it might be just gone in a few years. And they were
going about eighty knots, which about ninety two miles an hour, and they
hit a man made dam. The boat flew thirty meters through the air,
landing on its stern on the other side of the causeway where victims died on
impact. There's a picture of their just mangled boat. We're this racing world
champion who had some wars with my old man died. That was in twenty
nineteen. If anybody was looking for an Italian boat racing update from all disgusted
earlier in the show from five years ago, you are now complete, as
we know the whole story of Italian boat racing. Fabio Boots. You've said
it before. Listen to the downbeat. You can have it all, You
can have it all. Yeah, you didn't think you're gonna have that.
You want five year old speedboat stories at ending tragedy check. Kevin is on
the lake, so there is a tie in and he's not here with us.
Kevin will be back next Thursday. It's me and Danny today and next
Tuesday and Wednesday. We're off. Friday and Monday. I am destination Las
Vegas. I'm going to see Fish play at the Sphere. Their first show
is tonight. They're playing four nights and I can't wait to see the spear.
Can't wait to see Fish again. And I will come back and let
you know how it all goes down. It's gonna be pretty cool. It's
Christina's first ever trip to Las Vegas. She just showed me a picture of
her sweet mom, who it's really cute. Her mom stays with her like
once a week because they live, you know, an hour out of town,
but her mom works here and doesn't want to drive home all the time,
so one day a week, usually Wednesday night, she'll stay at Christina's
house. It's nice, it is sweet, and they get to watch shows,
and they got dinner and they usually go get a petticure together. It's
really sweet. But a trick her mom does, and this is such a
mom move, as she usually hides like dollar bills under like like in the
toilet paper or under the kleenex or under the remote control like places where Christina
will find it. And her mom, who likes Vegas, I think,
knows that she's making her first trip. So she left like twe hundred dollars
a couple hundred dollar bills that Christina just this morning stumbled upon. She's like,
I want you to go and gamble and have fun. Oh that is
really sweet. So I think Christine's a good mama. Gambling budget has increased
from one hundred dollars maybe over two hundred dollars. Now she is going to
have to share winnings with mamma, and she'll dutifully and gladly do something.
She'll offer, but Mama won't take it. But she's under my gambling tutelage.
Yeah, so she's going to come home with nothing. She's gonna lose
one hundred thousand dollars right in three days. Get your GM card one more
time. Imagine drug Christina, I need an F and marker yelling at the
pit bosses. She's running that place and two out like by sundown tonight.
She's the best. So we're off to Vegas this afternoon and it's going to
be fun. We got talkbacks and everything coming up in the hot mob,
next birthdays. All that fun stuff will be the nine thirty segment right now.
I don't know. We just called it as the Downbeat. I think
we've done it before. I don't think there's an open of any kind.
I don't think so. But you opened a Pandora's box on Facebook. We've
done it via text. Any questions people want to ask, I don't know.
Lot have some fun anything going on here in ninety see in the freak
place we used to work. I think everything's on the table as long as
we're legally allowed to answer it and have a little fun with it. I'm
down. Why the hell not? Yeah, we put it out, like
you said, on Facebook and on text, and I got a ton of
jokes, a ton of funny questions, and I was kind of hoping for
some questions that might make you and or I squirm a little bit. Sure,
that's the ones I was looking forward to. So, I don't know,
do you have one that you want to ease into it with? Uh?
I mean, and I can get to some squirmers ease. I mean
someone asked, no, I don't want to do Danny, what happened to
your truck? Any updates? We don't want a full update there. Someone
said, Danny, will you play Autumn Leaves for us later? No?
And what is that that is? It's an old song? Yeah? I
did a classic country record about gosh, fifteen years ago. I guess,
okay, why wouldn't you play a little piece of that. I haven't performed
those songs in about thirteen years, and I have no intention of doing it
now. I think they just mean play it on your Is it on Spotify?
Yeah? It's on Spotify, but it's the worst song on that record,
So no, I don't want to hear it. Can we hear thirty
one song on your record? You have a record on Spotify? I think
that's interesting. You can listen to track three. This was the song that
actually got some radio play. Danny Bayless artist, is that tethered? Yeah?
Do you want the core here? Good grief? You have you never
even listened to that? I have listened to it multiple times? Oh you
really have? Yes? Oh? Okay absolutely when it came out. Really
yeah, I was pumped friends back then. Now did I even know who
you were? Yeah? He said I was a Beefer that's right? And
it maybe lose twenty five pounds and look at you now. This is from
Danny's country albums Oh Ends Glove so softly Now I can better in the field
pain of the promises of springtime disguised as a general rain. Do you have
a lyric in the blurry sides Downtown Nuts made it hard to stay you around.
I could always let you go, but I can never let you down.
The alcohol in text Stuard Walls will holdly down once more, Dinner tain
a life of change. Seemed better to ignore her. Then the roll glance
that caught my like a form little cloud should mu red and turn men from
the lyric girls of the It's great he stopped it right before the chorus.
If I could pull myself together, could you find the way to hold me
once again? But only food could be so tether de lover, you should
have only been a friend. God. Well, I hadn't heard that in
Forever. Yeah, that was some sad, bastard self loathing country music I've
actually got. I didn't ever looked just You up on Spotify, So if
anyone wants to listen to the whole album, it's called Too Much Living Nanny
Bayless on Spotify. That was that was part of my dark period. I
was going through some dark emotional time. Really. Yeah, well it's pretty
as hell. I thank you, thank you so much. Yeah, I
don't really think about that that much anymore. Things are looking up, Eric,
I'm doing good since I love that. Since we don't know which direction
this is go, we'll prove it. There's a guy on the phone who
wants to ask you a question live. I don't know if it's a bit
or if it's real. Hey caller, Hey man, what's your question?
Hey? So I grew up in boat racing too. Who are some people
that you would suggest your fans look up? Because apparently they love it?
So who would you say they should look up and learn about? All right,
thank you for your your call. I don't know. I don't know
that anyone was. And all my people that I remember from boat racing were
from the eighties and nineties. I mean they would be well. I don't
want to say legends of boat racing because it's such a niche sport, but
Billy Sebold is the uh the hydroplane or the tunnel boat racing greatest of all
time. He was a I mean you could look up my dad Bill Siroy.
There's not too much out there, but there's enough. You can find
some stories and some pictures and it's it's pretty cool. And then it stems
off into some wild drug dealers. Will and Sally mcgluda race the Seahawks boats
and they were the stars or I guess of the cocaine cowboy Miami thing.
They got busted for a lot of cocaine. There's a guy named George Morales
whom my dad raced against, who went to jail for a very long time
for doing all that. And then Al Copeland, the guy who owned and
conceived Popeyes. He was my dad's boss and they raced together for a whole
lot of years. And there's some wild stories there. But anyway, it
was fun times. All right, you got one? Yeah, I do.
This is an interesting one and I think we can speak to this always.
One is from Sean. He says, I always wanted to know how
the personalities get paid for leave, for reading live spots. Yeah, and
it's different, I think for each radio station. But essentially, I mean
at the old station, you'd get paid you know, X amount of dollars
depending on how famous you were, what tier you were. Yeah, the
tier system was in play. Indeed, and you'd get paid for every read
that you would do, and it you know, it anywhere between something that
you don't think is a lot of money. It doesn't sound like a lot
of money, but you can add him up over a month's time and you
know, just supplement your income a little bit. I think, here it's
a flat rate per month and that correct. Yeah, at the old station,
I got twenty five bucks per read. I think that's what I had
too. But it was so weird. I'll tell you this. When I
first didn't have that mini over there, when I first started Cirque, we
got paid twenty five bucks an hour to do the show, right, so
it was a two hour show. I'd get paid fifty dollars, right,
And then I saw the sheet of someone else who's probably Davies or mine,
and what were you getting? Uh? What was I getting? I think
one like a hundred or one hundred and fifty an hour? Oh my god?
Really yeah, I was getting twenty five an hour. Yeah, so
I've made fifty dollars before taxes to new Cirq. And then I think cash.
I saw his or someone and he was putting in fifty dollars an hour
making getting one hundred, and I'm like, oh my god, And but
we would write him by hand there. Yeah, So I just switched mine
one day and nobody said I just doubled my pay. No one said a
word. And apparently I could have put one hundred or one hundred and fifty
an hour, because they all benefit from no one knowing when anyone else gets
paid business in America. Fine, kid, but they know you should be
getting more. So I just gave myself a double the money raise and then
I was happy getting fifty getting one hundred dollars. Yeah, which turns out
to be way less than the Great Orphanage got, which is understandable because you
guys, don't. I think Davey got less than I did. Okay.
I saw him fill out his sheet one time, and I think he was
getting one hundred an hour. Really yeah, yeah, And I never said
no I should. I'll tell you this. I won't say who, but
one of the hosts would get paid twenty two fifty per live spot and I
was getting twenty five. That's weird, and it was just because that's the
number that they were at. And if he never changed it or never asked
any questions why would they come to you. Yeah, I think they went
to a flat rate over there too, per month, and that's what we
do here. They just you know, bonus you per month and it shows
up on your check. It's probably not as much as you think it would
be, right, but if you have a lot of clients that up and
that's not absolutely I got an here's another one, this from Freddy. He
says, was it quote unquote suits who stopped the fun sponsors and took out
the jokes at the end of Dingu's morning News. I'm not a mind reader,
but I'm sure a lot of us listeners miss it, so believe it
or not. No, that was a decision of mine after I believe Christmas
break because number one, when I would write those fake sponsors for what was
it for Sports at seven, Yeah, I'd come up with it was a
segment that wasn't sponsored by any of our clients, and I would just make
one up. I started literally running out of ideas. Yeah, and it's
really and I was always come up with those in the break before and that
was kind of the fun of it, to just get put on the spot,
just come up with something insane. It's brought to you by a reference
to something that happened in the hour before, something dumb that came up.
You would have said, by Fabio Bootsie's propeller factory, Yeah, had it
been today, Sure, absolutely, and number one I got it became kind
of hard to do that with almost the same thing with the jokes. I
wasn't coming up with these jokes on my own. I was searching the internet
for him, and man, I'm telling you, you will run out of
joke sources. Yeah, for something that's actually funny. The sponsor thing,
I don't know. I felt like where we were at the time and the
way we were viewed by the people that do make decisions up here, it
was almost a preemptive idea because it seemed like they were trying to eliminate some
clutter, for example, the mixes in between shows, and I felt like,
we need to tighten up our show a little bit, have it moving
a little quicker, not waste time on little silly things like that. So
it was kind of a combo platter of laziness, lack of creativity, and
doing what we thought the people that make decisions on our employment wanted at the
time. So combo of all those someone just set this one in. It's
to me, Mike. After you went full scorcher on Gordo's twitch stream after
a drunken night at Trey's birthday party, did you get a textor call from
any the hosts of the OULD station, either the negative or positive reactions?
So when I left the ticket, yeah, I went to a livestream with
Gordon and I drank a ton of whiskey. But I wouldn't say it was
full scorch here. I mean, I know, I didn't say anything that
wasn't true. I got calls of support from a couple of people. I
didn't hear one negative thing from anyone other than listeners who interpreted it anyway they
wanted it. But I've never gone back and watched it because I'm kind of
embarrassed because I did get trashed to the point where Cash was texting me.
He said, probably time to pull the plug on this thing. Cash is
advising you to put the Probably need to listen to your big bro. I
know I didn't say anything I didn't mean, and all I essentially was doing
was advocating for people who weren't getting paid anything, you know, and people
who had worked there for twenty plus years and getting paid an embarrassing amount of
money and if that's the worst thing I do, And I get hammered and
yelled that the little guy maybe should be compensated a little bit better, and
that maybe the big guy should be aware that the little guy is who wakes
up at three in the morning every single day is getting not taken care of.
Yeah. I have no shame in fighting for that. So no,
but actually a couple people hit me up and supported that work there. Yeah,
we're like, that was awesome, and one was like, I couldn't
have said it better. I totally agree. And I talk to Gordon the
day after that and I helped him with twitch ideas and stuff like that.
So there was really nothing negative that came out of that. And I got
no problem with him. Man, I loved it. I was glued,
very yeah, absolutely glued, because I left the station about I don't know
a month or a month or less before you did, and uh, I
was. I was fascinated and and and you were just echoing things that I
probably just didn't have the encouragement of whiskey to say when I did Gordon's twitch,
because I did the same thing. But I was probably a little more
measured because I didn't drink, but I could see how my wheels would have
completely flown off, And I'm I might have even gotten more acerbic than you
did. That tendency it bears just because I got wasted. But I don't
I didn't. I don't know. I guess said anything that didn't mean so
not at all. Uh, here we go. Okay, it's coming close.
This is from Harry and this was from the Facebook group. He says
it is coming close to a year since the host show name swap. Can
you tell us how your expectations or concerns. I guess what he's saying is,
how are your expectations concerns? How did they compare to how it actually
has gone so far? I have same question essentially, how how was your
initial reaction of being told you were moving to mornings from afternoon drive? So
same thing that was the first the audio of me. I can tell you
this without any any reservations or any fear. Mikey and I fought this like
absolute hell yeah, as hard as we could until we realized that it was
it was a fool's effort to even try to fight it. And once we
accepted it, and once we got in here, I think it took about
two or three days of working together, which we had done before, but
working with Kevin and seeing what the chemistry and the dynamic could turn into,
I was delighted. It took me no time at all to be absolutely thrilled
about working with Kevin, and my hesitation of moving to mornings was too old.
I thought the afternoons were growing. I thought we had a better chance
to get good ratings in the afternoon considering the competition. No slot or no
slight on anybody that shares that time slot. But the musers are an effing
juggernaut and most I don't care how good you are, you're probably not ever
going to beat them. That was a concern. And the second concern was
one hundred percent selfish about having to wake up every day at four in the
morning. Yeah, that's it, completely agree. I hated it. I
came up with a lot of logical reasons why I didn't think it made sense,
and it wasn't the best thing for our station here. I thought we
could make some headway, and we were, albeit small, but we were
really heading in the right direction of the afternoons, and I thought we could
do a little damage there with what we had, but it was out of
our hands. I made a very logical pitch condensed to why I don't think
it's a good idea. I think people, you and I people kind of
would like to come out and drink with us at remotes and more afternoon vibes.
But yeah, once we started Kevin's Awesome, my stress levels plummeted because
in the afternoons, let's just there was a lot more weight to carry as
far as preparation for the show. I was drinking a lot. My doctor
said, you need to stop drinking, and yes, my stress levels are
so much lower. Anxiety is way down in the mornings. It's a pleasure
to work with Kevin. That's what I didn't know. I didn't I would
love and we discussed this. I'll tell you that. I tell you this
off the air. We just having conversations. He's like, what if they
asked us to move to afternoons and they said it's completely up to us us
three. I'm like, I don't know. I love this too. I'm
in the system now, I'm in the rhythm of going to sleep at a
reasonable hour, I'm proud that none of us have ever been late once.
Had you asked me that on the day we switched, I would have thought,
no chance. I like being done at ten and having the whole day.
So the only thing that I don't like about, well, there's a
lot of things to not like about waking up at four in the morning and
starting your day a lot. Let to be honest, the thing that I
missed the most is being able to be flexible to stay up and watch the
late night games YE like. For example, next Tuesday, we're going to
have MAVs out there in LA and that's going to be a soup or late
night for us, and you just end up feeling kind of, I don't
know, not your best. The next day, when you're trying to do
a four hour show on three hours of sleep, it's it's really difficult.
I did it this week and I felt horrible. I felt like I was
a terrible broadcaster. But to answer even further with that to that guy's question,
I echo exactly what you just said. Stress level is way down.
I do sleep better at night, and it feels like a real team and
Kevin is one hundred percent and absolute joy to work with every day, And
this is my favorite show that I have. It's my favorite collection of talent
that I've worked with on a show too. It's the funniest show I've ever
been a part of. Yeah, and I love it. We'll see adore
it, We'll see how how we make it all right? Is nine twenty
eight? I don't know. We got a couple more of these left over.
We can start the next segment, maybe play some talkbacks, see what
happens next. Ninety The Free