Three, two one, and it's over and also begins so Downbeat the weekday
morning Show here on ninety seven to one The Freak. We're six to ten
AM. My name is Mike Siroy Danny Baylis sitting six feet there you go,
touch our longest. We just touched tips. You have long fingers,
not particularly now. Do you think the person with the Guinness Book longest fingers
on planet Earth have a chance of being the greatest guitarist? Maybe pianist penis
would help more than guitarists. Yeah, I think so. We're like,
you know, the people born with six fingers, wouldn't that be a possible
for both? Yeah, Penis as well as long as it's not with the
little baby arm. Baby arm finger went to school for eight years from fifth
grade till I graduated with a guy that had on each of his thumbs,
yeh okay, a little extension thumb that came out like a little tree branch,
like like for where this knuckle is, okay, on your thumb where
the big knuckle bins, there was an extension like a little L shaped thumb
that came out and it had a fingernail and everything on it, and it
was just there. He couldn't like, yeah, it didn't. It didn't
reconnect with his thumb. It just it was separate. Man, it was
like its own extension, little dew Claw Frankie l CDs. Really you think
he still has him there? Yeah, he left him on. I don't
think there was any reason for him to cut him off. But uh,
yeah he had six He had twelve fingers, man, or yeah, eight
fingers and four thumbs. He had a baby four thumb on each hand.
Like, if you're going to have that, don't you want to just be
functional and like an extra finger. Yeah, it'd be cool, you know
if it had some kind of and igalize it somehow. Music would be one
of the biggest Yeah. In that case, you just need like a big,
big, a real yeah, or just a whole nother finger. Uh
huh. I wonder if in another million years we'd vote what evolutionary changes humans
would have? Yeah, like how what could be improved upon? But I
think that would have to do with maybe our environment surroundings. We'd have to
adapt to that exactly. Something would drastically have to change in our world.
Well, no, see, I don't think so. I think I mean
we are in the middle of evolution right now. Of course, we just
have no idea because we're here in the you know, for a quarter of
an eyeblink, you know, so like we can't see it. It's not
like we're the finished product, nailed it. Humans are perfect. I mean
like our appendixes will what disappear? Right? Aren't they useless? Those the
two that we don't need. But we've gotten taller we have. Yeah,
but again, like we said yesterday, the people of the Philippines or Laos
are the men on average are five foot three, so maybe they have got
need to be considering their geographical location. Yes, and maybe we need to
be taller little flying birds. Who's going to reach that Panburger partner on the
top shelf top America? You remember that for the later in the show.
Who's going to reach the top shelf? Boozes. I don't know why why
are we evolving taller? Because we don't need evolve anything for survival now as
as a you know, humanity, right or then are we overvaluing our existence
versus you know, those who still live on the land more than dingu and
shale do because we do come from the water. Yeah, As the Tody
song says I damn sure, come from the water. I'm of the sea.
You are you are? I think, and I've used this as a
bit before, but I think we will evolve into not needing hair on top
of our heads. And I jokingly say, you know, anytime you see
an alien life form, of the guests as to what one is, they're
not hairy. None of them are harry. So the evolved beings are hairless.
And that's probably an excuse I use as a bald man to make fun
of you, beautiful Neanderthals. Why okay, So don't we have hair?
Maybe to protect us from the sun's rays, but also to maybe keep us
warm. I don't know. I've never felt like having hair has kept me
particularly warmer than it would otherwise. It's definitely I feel hotter in the summer
as a result of it. Yeah, and the hair absorbs some of your
sweat, I guess, yeah, I don't know, or hair, I
mean ever, your hair grows on your body. It's above something that it's
designed to protect, right generally, you know, your hair on your head,
your eyebrows and your eyelashes protect your eyes. Obviously, your pubes.
The hair on our heads doesn't just look nice, mikey, it keeps us
warm by preserving heat. Well, we don't want to get any warmer if
you look at evolutionary trends, right, So if we are in the middle
of the process of global warming cooling ourselves, that cooling ourselves, yeah,
might be in our evolutionary future, and therefore we would lose hair. Now,
hair in the nose, ears, and around the eyes protects these sensitive
areas from dust and other small particles. Yeah, eyebrows and eyelashes, eyelashes
by decreasing the amount of light and particles that go into them, that's kind
of amazing. Yeah, your eyelashes and how important they are. One was
the last time you thought of your eyelashes as loose as dudes? I mean,
girls, you know have stuff they do. Yeah, I don't think
about them that much. I never think about them until long gets stuck in
your eye and you're like, God, get out. I do think about
eyebrows when I go to get my haircut and the lady goes, do you
want me to train your eyebrows? I'm like, God, really, it's
come to this. Do you get the old man with the renegade, you
know, wild wild one. I just feel like, if I don't keep
that maintained, I'm gonna look like some London eighty five year old London banister,
you know, like some lawyer ram. And you've seen just the guys
that don't maintain their eyebrows when they get to be like nighty and they're just
these massive gray caterpillars that live on top of their eyes. I have the
big industrial grade clippers, you know, yeah, the quality ones. One
of the best gifts I ever got. A friend of mine got me that
when I shave my head, and you can use it for everything. But
if you have a guard on it and you know which one it is,
you just zip your eyebrows take a quarter of a second. And those British
banisters they go many decades without. I wonder if they're proud of that though,
Like that's like they'll style them like it looks like they're like kind of
like curling them up. And then what about the old men that just refuse
to trim their nosehirs, right, I mean they probably don't have the modern
you know, I have another nose trimmer too, Yeah, okay, for
you just shove it in there. And if they don't have one. How
do you do it? You need little tiny scissors and someone else maybe to
care, or someone to care. Maybe I don't know, but god,
you're right. Ears and nose, Yeah, here it comes. You know
what's funny looking at you right now? Because personally for me, my eyebrows.
When I was younger, I had the biggest, darkest eyebrows, and
they've faded, like there's less hair up there, and they've also gotten a
little bit blonder. You have actually really full eyebrows. They're just like blonde
as can be. So I'm just saying, bottom line is what I'm saying
is it's almost you could just shave them off and nobody would know. And
I dresses Charlie villenuay of it. Yes, uh yeah, no, Well
I think they're very fair. Thank your eyebrows. It's not a compliment,
it's an observation. You said, I'm fair, and I try to be
fair to everyone I meet. I'm in the Golden Rule Party. I'm president
presidential nominee in the Golden Rule Party. Uh. I think if I had
all my hair, I would be that color. I'd be blondie boy.
Imagine how even hotter you look like a surfer. Yes, I know,
like the cool swooping bangs. I had blonde hair when I was a little
boy, and it got a little browner, darker when I was in high
school whatever until we had to bid Farewell, what about your brother? Did
he have blonde hair as well? No, this was always darker than mine.
No. I was a toe head, which is the term. I
didn't know until a teacher wrote it in my yearbook when I was in first
grade. I'm like, what that? What is that? Possibly? Toe
head? A few missus damage. Well, Malki's a toehead right now,
but that's going to go away, do you wish? What's I mean?
Blonde? It's cute as it can be. I was blonde when I was
a baby. His mom was too, and we're both you know, she's
a brune at full on dark hair, and I'm my hair is the color
of a rat. Oh, you're great, Well, it is the color
of a rat. The color is very basic. But you have basic bitch
hair cuting, incredibly nice hair. You're so ridiculous. Yeah, beautiful brows.
Your hair is cool always. Okay, I don't know if that's you,
I don't know. And touch it and woke up out of bed in
a scramble to make coffee because I forgot to last night. This is me.
It's great, this is me, This is me. It's beautiful hair.
You're a good looking dude. Stop we think you're beautiful. JJ,
Good morning, Good morning. Yeah, you know when you get on microphone,
huh, why don't you take I just feel like we should give JJ
every opportunity to, you know, just develop her own self on the air
and everything. So just take a nice thirty seconds to say good morning to
the Metroplex. Maybe tell them have a great weekend, let them know the
holiday season is coming up. Here's here's JJ. Just a nice message to
our restarting everybody. It's going to get better throughout the day. I know
it a little foggy in my throat, but I feel fine. You know,
yesterday we talked a little bit six seconds. We talked a little bit
about if you and I Mikey had read the Bible. I'd like to take
this opportunity for JJ to maybe read it. Of her favorite lead us in
scripture, JJ and Google Longest. So JJ showed up in here as she
does every morning, to tell us how to and I was like, damn,
are you sick? And she said no, but her voice sounds a
little compromised. I think somebody HiT's the weather changing, like it's I have
really bad allergies and so starting to get to me a little bit. I
feel fine, though, I really do. Okay, I can't even tell
you sound great. I bet if she came closer there would be hints of
tequila. Yeah, is this tequila base where you had a big movie premiere
last night that you're not telling us that you're not allowed to talk about.
Yeah, buddy sent me some tequila. What was his name? Josh sent
some socorro Oh, you know, I got a little late last night.
What it is? Do you ever see that meme of some student videos?
Is teacher and it's his old It's like an old man. It looks like
Bobby Knight and he wears just like Khaki's in a different colored shirt. And
they have like a quick cut of twenty five times of him walking into the
classroom. He's like, good morning, class, it down and he says
the exact same thing every day. Have you ever seen that one? No?
I don't know why I've seen it, and it's stuck with me,
but we could do that with JJ because she's so sweet. Every morning she
comes in and she says the exact same thing, Marna boys every day,
and then she tells us to sit down. Yeah, and then she says,
sit down, this is here's your run sheet. This is what's gonna
be on your show today. Pay attention. It is sweet. It's a
nice I love. I love the routine of that. Yeah too, like
see your boys, I see your shadowy figure lurking in the hallways and as
she approaches the glass door, I'm like, ah, there she is,
all right, so real quick, we have fun show today. My brother
Cash is going to join us. Speaking of he's mister fun. He's joined
us for probably a couple hours. He's getting he's a nasty bitch getting too.
Yeah. I booked him for seven thirty AM and before that seven o'clock
during sports at seven, we're gonna go live to London, England, where
our friends friends of the show, Sam Sage and Ben Hawking stand by.
They are two of the three co hosts of the late Breaking F one podcast.
I love them again. They're funny dudes, and just like last time,
probably more of it is going to be about the remainder of their trip
to Austin their first time in Texas. Trust me, they have a couple
of funny observations for Brits coming to Texas for the first time. And we
just hit the tip of the iceberg when we had them on live from Austin
because they had just arrived. But they spend like a whole nother week,
did a bunch of stuff. And then we're obviously gonna get in to a
little bit the madness of F one in Las Vegas this weekend. That's happening
right now. But the reason I even I mean, I want to tease
ahead. So if you like F one seven o'clock, if you just like
funny people, they're hilarious and they're great people. So we'll have a good
time though at seven. But that little countdown I did at the beginning of
the show was I was counting down something I was watching on TV because these
dudes finished racing. They were still racing their practice stuff on the streets of
Vegas when we opened our microphones this morning fourteen minutes ago. Because look,
the sports world, and this is a big thing in sports, you know,
and I understand there's sports that I like more than others, and some
I'm like, all right, I don't really care. And I imagine if
you are anti racing or anti F one, you're probably already whipped. Much
like Taylor and Travis like all right, I don't want to hear any more
about it. But this is huge. They're racing thro the f and streets
of Las Vegas and there's been a multi year three three I think, build
up to this weekend to this specific Vegas race. Oh my god. Yes,
and they're shutting down the strip even street tracks. You don't do anything
as ambitious as this, and this is huge. And it's also this race
is also owned by Liberty Media, which is the company that owns Formula one.
This is the only race that's like their baby. They're saying, we
got this watch. So there were eyes on this from all over the world.
And if you think NBA Twitter is wild or whatever, the wild,
this sports Twitter is, which we know is fun f on Twitter is crazy.
The politics of it, it's just it's very juicy once you get immersed
in it. And I'm not even suggesting you do if it's not your thing,
but it's really great. So anyway, the build up to this thing
was wild, so much so that the first practice FP one was last night,
started at ten thirty pm. I'm usually out cold by then, but
I stayed up. I'm like, I just want to see the cars hit
the track for the very first time. I want to see what it looks
like. I want to see it with all the lights on. I want
to get my first whiff of this thing. So I was up and you
put it on, and there they go, like the clock starts, and
it's like, my god, after all the years of anticipation, they're ripping
it. They're going out on the damn track and they're really trying to fin
I mean, they're slipping around a little, they're trying to figure out the
new, newly paved asphalt, how their tires are gonna work in these cooler
conditions. Whatever. And wean't to talk about some of that with the boys
at seven o'clock. But with all the scrutiny and eyeballs on this thing,
nine minutes into the first practice session, a friggin drain hole cover comes off
on the main stretch and Carlos Sign, who's one of the two Ferrari drivers,
drives over it annihilates the bottom of his car pulls to the side of
the road. They shut down FP one, all cars to the garage,
and we had an instant disaster on our hands. WHOA, did you see
this happen? Yes, you said, nine minutes into nine minutes, nine
minutes into a one hour FP one, which is a free practice one.
This is the first time these dudes are gonna I mean they need this time
to learn the track obviously, to fine tune the cars and twist and tweak
and figure out breaking zones, all this stuff. Nine minutes in and he
wasn't the only one, I think Esteban Oconn and the Alpine Alpine Car,
which is a cool car because Ryan Reynolds is invested in them now and Rory
McElroy. They're going kind of the celebrity investor route, which is going to
help this weekend be wheels off because most of those dudes are gonna be there.
Their car, they're under the underside of the car is just gutted.
What do you do? Do they have a backup car? Surely they got
a couple of backup cars, right, Yes, they have backup cars,
but the chassis is one of the base things that you don't want to have
to replace. And I don't know how many you have, or I really
don't. Maybe you have one or one per one per driver on a team,
so maybe two. I really, I really don't know how many f
and chassis you bre you have replaceable parts and fronted front noses and you know,
front wings, all the stuff that traditionally comes comes off a car gets
busted. How do they run over a manhole or whatever it was? It
was a drain hole. It was about the size of maybe like a fire
hydrant, like a fire hose, like that size of a hose, like
maybe whatever, five inches across, just a hole in the ground, hole
in the ground that the top was supposed to be welded on, but I
guess the ring around it got loose, comes off. So suddenly something now
this size is the size of a giant softball JJ is loose on the track
and you drive over it. And these things are only an inches softball.
Don't worry about it. Yeah, I said, softball, you love softball.
You're the best softball player. R I know that's it. Run over
it and got anyway? Yeahs show nine minutes in. I mean this place
is pretty packed in the crowds, although because the politics of some people wanting
this to fail. You know how it works. Guard F one is like,
oh, great mother, American race. We've been trying to get a
race in this country forever, and you guys give another America race just because
they know they want our money and all this. It's basically like kids at
a school going to the same school for ten years and this new kid comes
to school and he's his famous or his parents are rich. Everyone in the
school's gonna be like if this guy, we hate this guy. And then
on this new kid's first day of school, he pees himself just a little
bit and everyone sees it. That's what happened last night as I was going
to bed, is they finally hit the track, Like are you talking about
on So you're nine minutes into the opening of real racing event of this entire
weekend, and nine minutes into it a car gets destroyed. There's a fault
in the track. Yep. So the haters on Twitter are just oh,
my losing it right, and they're liking it. They're happy that you are
failing in front of us. Well, you also mentioned yesterday that the locals
in Vegas are not digging this whatsoever. Yeah, because they're kind of tearing
up their town, right, yes, and shutting everything down for a long
time and cutting down trees and putting up grandstands. Yes. Now, the
argument from F one is that, and you know this the funniest thing in
sports is you're non factoring in the economic impact that we're bringing in. And
they claim they're going to bring in one point something billion dollars. They claim
the economic impact of this race being in Vegas will be twice as much as
when Vegas hosts the Super Bowl. I don't have any idea why. Okay,
that's where that fantastic. And speaking from someone who has heard that rhetoric
for about the last ten years about how Texas OU just brings in so much
money to our economy. Maybe as a whole, but when you extrapolate it
out over all the businesses, I mean, really is it? Are you
making your nut because of Texas Ou? No? You know what we'll do
on Saturday night at twilight, Maybe we'll ring six hundred dollars more than we
normally did because all of the OKI's and the tea are in town. Yeah,
you don't really see as a business owner a direct impact or or or
a huge huge windfall of benefit from these events. But yeah, when you
add it all up, you know, Nichols, the guy with the biggest
bag of Nichols is going to have a lot of money, and the city
as a whole may benefit from that. But I just don't see how I
can see why the locals are like, is it really worth it to have
this big inconvenience and yeah, no, not to locals at all. Yeah,
even and what which locals actually benefit? And another thing, yeah,
I guess so like that doesn't help the guy who can't get to work,
exactly. But we've seen this time and time again when these international cities go
through so much stuff to obtain the Olympics, dude, exactly. And you
see the infrastructure that it takes them four years to build up, and structures
that didn't exist before, and then you see the aftermath of it, and
it's just like a nuclear bomb went off in those areas Brazil, they just
fall apart not many years ago, and Brazil, which has an incredibly high
poverty rate and millions of people living in favelas, and they build a golf
course and a you know, all this stuff and then yes, they're essentially
defunct. And you look at those areas now and they're just in various states
of entropy, you know, with weeds growing over them and moss and just
no attention to them at all. Really rich people might not be telling us
the truth all the time. They're just kind of doing what they want and
justifying it with a lot of words, and then the carpetbaggers grab their money
and they go to the next town. Of course, of course I think
this is I think this is beeped. So this is Toto Wolf's He's the
day who runs Mercedes, right, okay, and Mercedes for a long time
was the by what Red Bull is now like the best team dominant Lewis Hamilton,
that's where he won almost all of his championships. And Toto Wolf is
this dude who's their team principal. He's also like six' five and he's
really handsome and he's Austrian, I think, and he's like really really cool,
like you kind of can't take your eyes off him whenever he talks.
But it's so funny because I go back front yeah, yeah, like six
five zach Efron, but go to the politics because they're defending Liberty Media,
who owns F one, bought it in twenty seventeen and was responsible for Drive
to Survive and their popularity. Now, so are these guys defending their boss
or are they actually whatever? So here's Toto Wolf after the media in Vegas,
the European media mostly is like, oh, total, this is a
complete disaster, correct, you know, like they are just trying to push
him into a corner. Can you even there? Trying to talk bad about
the event that sets the new standards, new standards to everything, and then
you're then you're speaking about a drain cover that's been undone, that has happened
before. That's nothing. It's FP one. Give credit to the people that
have set up this gruandbrix that have that have made this sport much bigger than
it ever was. You can have you ever spoken good about someone and written
a good word? You should about all these people that have been out here.
Liberty has done an awesome job. And just because in f P one
a drain cover has become undone, we shouldn't be we shouldn't be moaning the
car is broken. That's really a shame for Carlos. It could have been.
It could have been dangerous, So between the fake and the track and
everybody needs to analyze how we can make sure that this is not happening again.
But talking here about the black eye for the spot on a Thursday evening,
nobody watches that in European time anyway, Ah, who's he actually talking
to the media. He's on on a stage talking to assembled media. They
have multiple team principles. So is he just kind of or some ass whip
media member he's responding to a comment or a question because the guy said,
oh, is this a black guy on the sport? Because they wanted to
fail? And again I don't I'm not really on a side. It was
a disaster. It was a complete disaster nine minutes in to shut down their
first practice. How much of what he's saying is accurate or is saving face
too? A combination of about it and backing up liberty media. Who's the
they own Formula one and they are I think he's right at the beginning to
like, how who are you to say this is a black eye for the
sport when we're doing something that's bigger than more ambitious than anything the sport's ever
done. I don't know. I don't have a side of it. I
mean, it's a it's a disaster. But anyway, all that said,
I so I go to bed on my side watching it, watching Martin Brundle
or whoever talking about trying to like sugarcoat it a little bit like surely they'll
get this fixed. They were up all the night patching every drain on the
track, asphalting them down, whatever. And I was shocked this morning when
I woke up and they are in the middle of FP two, like they've
been trying to get this thing finished all night and they completed it is second
we went on the air. They could they know they complete? Yeah,
they completed FP two When we went on the air twenty five minutes ago.
They were still racing in last in the streets of Las Vegas, like they're
planning to go late night with this. But I could I was. I
just wanted to wake up and be like, oh my god, is the
world of F one on fire? Did they cancel the whole Grand Prix?
So basically, if you are staying on the strip, if the light from
the sphere wasn't keeping you up all night, yeah, maybe the sound of
the roaring engines with cars that have three thousand horse powers going in circles all
night long? Did yes exactly? Or the welding yeah, or the welder's
masks geez. Well, I mean they got it fixed and the track is
fine. Now, I guess, well they made it through I think without
a problem. I think I don't know because I was getting ready and driving
here, like, I haven't got the report on how i FP two went,
but it looks like like in that first one they didn't even really open
it up and go, like nobody really completed real laps. So I think
now they have and uh, I don't know, we'll figure it out.
So I think they're okay as of right now. But it's F one so
okay, Well, glass half full. It's better to get this out of
the way now than this not happening and then it happening Saturday night. Oh
yeah, oh yeah, because then the actual race got interrupted by that and
you have to red flag the race because the track was unsafe. Yeah,
and you've got welders out all night long, and you resume the race at
four in the morning exactly. Really yeah, But I mean it's a it's
a pretty speedy timeline because tonight before I go to sleep, I'll watch FP
three, the third practice and qualifying, which is almost as important as the
race is qualifying. And when does that start? That'll be tonight at I
don't know, midnight. I'll find out the exact time. Why are they
doing this stuff so late? I don't know that either. I know they
want it to be under the lights. Well, I mean, didn't it
get dark in Vegas at like six o'clock their time? Yeah, that's it's
a very simple and great question. I don't know, and we can ask
our friends. Look, I was hesitant to even do one F one segment
today, which we were gonna do with our boys from London, Live from
London at seven o'clock, and then there I went off into two. So
sorry, but it's just so damn juicy. All right, it's me and
Danny today, No kevioh. He's in New York having a time of his
life. Coming up next it's the most important thing in the world, and
uh, we're gonna do it again. New Bastards dropped at midnight last night,
and I want to spend a couple of Danny's band's new release songs,
and I have questions. That's next on ninety seven on the Free