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action you could argue that I had something to do with their defeat. I will review a view of NBA basketball that I have never in my life been fortunate enough to enjoy. And I'll do that at nine o'clock. Yes, we talked to nose bleed Mikey at nine o'clock. That's bleed at nine. Let's do a little bit of Grammy stuff. Guys, the it all went
down last night. For those of you who don't care about the Grammys or you didn't watch it, trust me, we're not gonna like get into too many like nuts and bolts and like this is kind of I'm talking about that the big things that happened. But I do think if you didn't watch it, I kind of think you're missing out. Can I a opening statement, please? I watched it. I imagine every year I maybe take a swim
through a click through or some years I watched a bunch. I have no recollection of any history with the Grammys, but I watched I would say eighty five percent of it last night, and I loved it. And these are may a lot of artists that I've never heard of or just have heard the names, a lot of songs that I hadn't, wasn't, didn't know prior to last night. The hell I watched it for three and a half hour.
What was it on? Was it three hours? Ye? Okay, and maybe four minutes over they went maybe they kept teasing Billy Joel playing a new song for the first time in thirty years or whatever, so they had me on the hook for that. But I really loved it. I agree with you completely on the format and how they keep it moving and it's not It didn't feel like other award shows where it's lame and slow. I really really enjoyed it, including performances from artists that I didn't know anything about.
If they'd have told you in a recap watch after watching the whole thing, and they said, okay last night at the Grammys on stage that on the televised version they only gave away five awards. Would you believe it? Yeah? No, is it did not feel like that many. No, I don't know how many the game. I'm sure it was more than five, but it was many. Yeah, it was not many. They made this decision a few years ago. They said, we're gonna change this and let's
just go. Let's just make this a big concert party. And Trevor Noa does a great job of like knowing the job. He's not trying to be too funny, you know, she's not trying to offend anyone. Yeah, we're just kind of keeping it rolling, kind of quick hit one liners. But I'll say the performance is what I enjoyed the most, absolutely, with one exception. I thought they were all excellent. Who did you not enjoy? Okay, it might be not get but Travis Scott. Travis Scott did
the same performance five years ago at the Grammys. No that I didn't understand. So Travis Scott, he smashed a bunch of crap and there was fire. Yes, he had a pit of chairs and fire and sort of speakers or fake speakers in a circle and he just yelled fiend, that's what he one hundred times and then smashed nothing with the chairs kind of I can I make an assumption on why you didn't like that performance? Well, I admit I didn't get it. Okay, was it because half of it was bleeped
out? Okay? Yeah? That that interrupts so much for me and I love the ability to express yourself in this country we live in and say anything that you want on a record. I love that. It's great, But if you know you're going to be doing something live, I think it really compromises the integrity of the performance and the and the flow of your song. If seriously, man, every half second the audio just drops because of an
expletive. You know you need a radio edit that thing? Well, yeah, yeah, get up there and yeah sing it like you would the radio edit, because I would have enjoyed that performance a lot more had it not just been constantly the sound dropped at that account probably played a bigger role than I could even It was my least favorite performance too, and I think it
was because of that. Had hadn't had the energy in the momentum not been stopped and that whole vibe of that tune could have just been continual, I think it would have been a lot more enjoyable. I don't know what it's Kevin's Kevin and a n If you have a direction, no, what do you want to talk about? Tons of audio and I kind of get it in order, but what to expect and I missed the very opening was that du A Lipa didn't see it still on the movable Jungle Gym. You should
go watch that. Yeah, pretty impressive, sexy. Of course it's d a Lipa, Yes, dull a peep. Well. The first thing I saw was they were talking about to Luke Bryan. You're talking Luke Combs, Luke comb Yes, okay. He's talking about his history with his big cover of a fast Car, Fast Car, Tracy Chapman, and they have a nice little story and I'm like, cool, who doesn't like the song fast Car? Like cool? I'm sad to me, but yeah, God,
it's beautiful. And then they come live and they start down at the waist and show hands, and I remember thinking, oh, that's I figured Luke Luke Combs. Luke Combs. I figured Luke Combs be playing the guitar. But they have some guitarists. And then they pan upward and it's a woman and it's effing Tracy Chapman there, who is beautiful and I'm not seen forever and she looks so good and the hair is so cool, and she has this smile that illuminated the whole place, and I got goose bumps, and
I'm like I don't even know. I guess she hasn't performed live for years, decades, and I saw it was on Letterman like during his kind of last week of shows. I was struck by just how gorgeous she was and she sings obviously it better than Luke. And then they do kind of a back and forth duet of fast Car and I was just blown away. And from that moment I was locked. That's probably what made me enjoy the entire the entire night. That's the first time through the evening that my eyes welled
up. Yep, and I got teary eyed twice in this damn thing, And for me, that was the first one. I will say. I love your positioning statement, and I wanted to hear so much what you thought about this, because you know, Kevin and Mikey and I we pretty much have a life thread going via text message, and we just communicate anything that we see or feel or think that could pertain to the show. And you
know, some of the stuff it doesn't relate to the show. But when Mikey chimed in last night and said that he thought that the Grammys were effing incredible, I was like, really, because I think back to myself. Hell, maybe not even five years ago, that what we saw last night is something that I would have gone on the air and absolutely pissed on. Probably really just because of where you're at, just because of where I am and where I was, and a different perspective, a different lens that I
maybe I am looking at things through anymore. And I know it's not controversial and it's not angering people with this, you know, this mindset, and I don't care because I'm not gonna be inauthentic to who I am right now. But I loved it. Every bit of it I thought was just outstanding. Yes, sure, you can have little criticisms here or there, And did every single one of Trevor Noah's jokes or bits just land like a freaking haymaker to the head? No, some of them fell flat, and some
of them were cringey. And some of the moments, you know, some of the camera shots of you know, Taylor Swift standing the whole time and dancing with that makes some people cringe. Yeah, probably, But I don't know. I think I'm just gotten to a point in my life where I'm secure enough in who I am and what I like and what matters that I
see something like that and I just see a bunch of people. They're just human beings that are freaking huge fans that wield a lot of power, sell a lot of records, and everybody knows who they are, But when it gets down to it, they're just dorks like the rest of us. They really are. No, did you strip away all of that success and all that notoriety and fame. They're just goofy people that are there to have a
good time. I like what both of you guys have said about it so far because I used to dump on them too, and then I don't know when it hit me. I definitely did have a big gap from like six to fifteen of not listening to any pop music, like avoiding it like the play, And now it's like, okay, I kind of like to be in the know and be caught up on some of these things. So yeah, I do know that Olivia rod Rigou was, you know, I do know who Siza is. You know, I do know who these people are,
and I don't know why. I just kind of care now, but like this is a since they've been doing this in LA for the last few years. They had a common theme of people showing up late, like traffic being in. I'm gonna play it to start outs. Taylor shows up late and it kind of stops the whole like opening monologue a little bit, as her and her team kind of come walking in late. Look look at this. Look at this, I say the names and they pop out Taylor Shrift.
Everybody, are you seeing what's happening right now? As Taylor Shrift moves through the room, the local economy around those tables improves. Could you see that? Look at this magic right now? Look at this magic? Huh? Lionel Richie now Linel wealthy? Look at that? Okay, I liked that pretty good Lineal Wealthy. I was on board, and I was totally on team team Lionel after watching the We Are the World document around Netflix. Cool dude, man, cool dude, it is kind of cool. Yeah.
I think I might have underestimated how powerful he was or or it is. At the time in the eighties, there was no one bigger maybe Michael as wish I was raving. I did have to pull one thing because there was a couple of times when Ed Sheeran was shown. I think one time I thought I caught him mouthing I didn't have an effing chance, but a little superlative Trevor Nolla. Here, just look at this table of me.
Are you kidding me? Right now? I look at us. Ed Sheeran, huh, one of the greatest live performers of all time, one of the greatest songwriting of all time, flew all the way from Timewan to join us. Are you kidding me? Is he one of the greatest performers of all time? You know what? Kevin? To some people, he probably is. To some people, he probably is. And that's the thing you
got to keep in mind. All this crap is so subjective. Yes, and I used to be so guilty of just blanket hating anything that was popular or pop or whatever. But man, there's a more people than are listening to that than the crap that I listened to that I choose to listen to. So they're affecting people, They're giving people joy, they're giving people a distraction or a respite from their day to day grind. It's easy to get a hold of, it's easy to grasp, it's easy for those hooks to
sink into you. I get it why it's popular, and if that provides some element of enjoyment to a lot of people in the world. Good for them, they're doing the Lord's work, in my opinion. Miley Cyrus had her father's hair from what nineteen eighty eight? Yeah, and she won the award for Best Solo Pop Performance. I did think it was a little awkward when she was trying to get the crowd to get into it. Remembered name and why not time? You don't know this? Off it so Mary,
like you don't know this song? She her, but the crowd the lack of give a damn dude, that crowd bad bitch alert Miley Cyrus last night. You could just tell she doesn't give. Some of the people up there and they say it on Mike say all this means a lot to them. Danny sort of made this point in the break and I mean a crib you please, but yes, that how many he's this Grammy? Did I win
this? This is all that matters? She You could tell and I think, genuinely, I don't know many of you were living a better life than Miley Cyrus, at least with the attitude that she portrays, which I bought. And I thought that performance was great. I think she was going for Tina Turner more than Billy ray Hare. Okay, yeah, maybe because she had the shimmering dress and she was doing the kind of awkward dances that maybe only Tina Turner can pull off. And the way she ended the song,
it was all like it was all a tribute to Tina. But I was I thought she came off pretty damn cool. She seems pretty authentic, doesn't she. Yeah, yeah, and that song bangs. Dude, that song's awesome, And that's like the whole thing. She's like, come on, the crowd kind of sucked every time someone would go up to the microphone everyone was talking. I think that's just a generational thing. I don't think I'm
gonna say this too. Like if Tomrito says, like, if you're one of those people are like I'm tired of award shows, blah blah blah. I kind of get that because the ward shows are way different than they used to be, well twenty thirty years ago or ten years ago, even got like fo were five of them within a couple of months of each other. Oh yeah, it's a word season, right, you all know it's all coming at once, But like it's also a thing where it used to be
before phones and the internet. It was the one night of the year where everyone who is someone as an A lister or B lister got together and they could be seen. And now you see everyone all the time, so it's it is less special in that regard. I do believe in that, but I like the big events and the pomp and circumstance. I have and loved the Super Bowl halftime show so much. A few years ago I went back and watched every one of them, like the last twenty five years. It
was nuts. I like that crap. Now after Miley did that, they had the cool I thought, says this performance was badass to kill bill performance missed it. Okay, So there's a couple guys with like samurai a couple gals with Samurai swords, and then it's just a cool thing where a guy like hung down owen Hart style and punched him and then it showed the guy go up and then he fall a couple of seconds later in the back. Really, it was like a lot of choreography and stunt. Let's not bringing
up Owen Heart every week. Okay, he knows one wrestler Owen Heart, Billy performed her song what was made for the audience is talking a lot through that. And then can I say something about Billy Eilish? Sure? I effing love her. I think she is outstanding, her and her brother. Have you seen her documentary? Yes, it's great, It's so good and she is fantastic. One point that I wanted to bring up when they did Record of the Year is a record of the year when they noticed when they
honor the songwriters or is it song of the year songwriter? Okay, song of the Year is something I noticed and I don't know if I've seen this ever before. Every single song that was nominated, they listed all of the writers, and every one of the artists was represented as a writer and often the main writer. Billy and her brother were the only ones that did not have co writers. Really, yeah, every single other artist that was represented
and Best Song of the Year had it was their name. And then other writers you don't know what percentage they wrote. Maybe they wrote a lot of it, maybe they wrote nothing and they just get that credit. But Billy and Finnigan were the only ones that were solely credited for their own song. I think that's badass. Their process is pretty clear, we hang out in our room at our house. All right, here's hijacker number one of the night, Taylor Swift, Right, why is it down? Hold on my
lucky number. I don't know if I've ever told you that. I want to say thank you to the members of the Recording Academy for voting this. She said, thank you too. Sorry, I thought I edited that. I want to say thank you to the fans by telling you a secret that I've been keeping from you for the last two years, which is that my brand new album comes out April nineteenth. It's called it's called The Tortured Poets Department. I'm gonna go and post the cover right now backstage. Thank you,
I love you, Thank you. I just dropped an album on everyone. Internet blows up. And I equated this to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock WHOA when you go do something like that and you're her. It was the same way if it was Beyonce, someone like that who has that status. You do something like that in the middle of the night, You've deemed the rest of the night meaningless unless there's another hijacker, and there absolutely was.
Because winning the Doctor Dre Award was mister Jay zhil yes and his speech. Uh, I mean, it's like the only thing that could change the topic a from her releasing a new album. It was this. It may have been my favorite, my favorite part of the night. I'm sorry. Cheff and a Fresh Prince winning their first Grammy in eighty nine and boycotting because it wasn't televised, and then they went to like a hotel and watched the Grammys.
I didn't even understand what the It wasn't a great boycott. But then ninety eight I took a page out of their book. I was nominated for the Best Rap Album, and DMX had dropped two albums that year. They both were number one shout out the DMX, and he wasn't nominated at all. So I boycotted and I watched the Grammys. I'm just saying, we just we want you all to get it right. We love y'all, We love y'all, We love y'all. We want y'all to get it right,
at least get it close to right. And obviously it's subjective. You don't gott to clap at everything. Obviously, obviously it's subjective because you know it's music and it's opinion. Based, but you know some things. You know, I don't want to embarrass this young lady, but she has more Grammys than everyone and never one album of a year. So even by your own metrics, that doesn't work. Think about that, the most Grammys, never
one album of the year. That doesn't work. You know, some of you, some of you gonna go home tonight and feel like you've been robbed. Some of you may get rob some of you don't belong in a category. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no iday No. When I get nervous, I tell the truth, all right, some of you might actually get robbed. I mean it's downtown La. So I think Beyonce's won thirty one Grammys and has never one album of the year. Taylor won. So that's that's a we're mad at Taylor. I
don't know. I don't know. You can try, man, Yeah, JJ Mike on please is that what that is? No, that's not what that is? Okay, that's what I'm asking. What is it? That's the fact that she's the most awarded Grammy artist of all time and it's never one album in the year. That's what that is. Well, what if some people don't belong in the category. Some people just don't belong in certain
categories. That's what that means. People can take it how they want to take it, how they is. That's how how do you take it. I take it as some people don't belong in certain categories. You take it verbatim and don't read into it at all, and then I mean people are going to take any run with it as a but I don't understand. Yeah, people on social have speculation. He didn't say names. He was just stating you think Beyonce liked him doing that. I couldn't tell. Her reaction
was like, I couldn't tell. She was just she was just like, Okay, Jay, get off the stage. Yeah, she's not like that, that's what He's not like that. Yeah, but she knows. She knows that she has been snubbed for album with You. Oh yeah, and that's the most prestigious album. And Taylor was of the year last night, her fourth, the most of anyone. She passed Paul Simon, Frank Sinatra, and uh someone else. I'm forgetting weird al it wasn't weird out.
Steven Wan, Stevie Wonder, Steve Wonder, Yeah, Okay. Twenty ten Taylor won Best Album. When she used to sing, she used to sing in a different voice. Taylor used to be Country Carol. She won Best Album both Taylor and Beyonce. Beyonce was nominated that year for Album of the Year two Taylor won. Now look, neither one of them deserved to win. The winner should have been Big Whiskey and the Grugrux King by the Dave Matthews Band, who was nominated for Album of the Year that year. But
you know whatever, you know, I don't. I'm not winning the Doctor Drey Award anytime soon, so I can't go say that. Tell yourself short, Kevin, you may win the Doctor Dray Award one of these days now twenty Yeah, there's a couple of more years like back won over Beyonce in twenty fifteen. Was that for Sea Change? That was from Morning Fase, the sleepy album. That's great. Yeah, No one like that year.
I love that. When when did u Adlee got her in twenty seventeen, that's kind of a perfect store and people were gonna vote for Adele at that time. It seemed like Stgil was up that year as well. And the other one was twenty twenty. It was for Renaissance last year and who won last year from a year Harry styles Harry's house. I don't know who I'm
mad at. I'm not mad anybody. I thought Tate had an odd night because I was loving that because I was like, you know, she gets ripped on and I can find I don't care, but she stands up, sings along, dances big smile, and supports the hell out of her friends and other artists, seemingly all of them know the words, right. I'm like, that's great and that you emit that positivity and then yes, you have everything in the world come back to you and that's one of those secrets
of life. But then when she kind of got up on stage, it was very much about me, including announcing her album and marketing. She kind of no sold Celine Dion. I was surprised she's taking heat for that, is she? Yeah, it's like didn't acknowledge her and look, that could have just been a mister of the moment. Yea, yeah, it wuld have been. I thought it was great because look, and again subjective, but I felt like if anybody other than Sizza was gonna get Album of the
Year, it should have been Lana del Ray. That album is effing phenomenal. It's unique, and I love her and I love her her career and I think she's just outstanding and she is an inspiration to a lot of those girls that are up there, those ladies that are up there. I thought it was kind of interesting that she brought her up there. I didn't know they were great friends. I didn't know a lot of del Raven's friends with anybody. You know. Yeah, yeah, I didn't know that either.
I had no idea that that that she was bringing her up. Well, that was kind of a wild night. Yeah. Taylor went for Album of the Year, the other one, you know, billy one, Song of the Year, Record of the Year, which is recording. It went to Flowers, Miley cyrus So, Three White Girls. You know, well, I thought it was Tracy Chapman stole the show, But I thought Fantasia was awesome. Don great tears for the in memoriam with any Lennox doing said,
I mean that was that was really heartfelt. It's kind of choppy, that whole section, yeah, like moving. Yeah. They and then Jimmy Buffett just pops in out of nowhere and sings five seconds Will come Monday. And then and Rennix was there. I don't know, that was just oddly produced, but yes, yeah, very good. And I thought that Jonny Mitchell thing was awesome too. To man, gonna be eighty something years old, I had a brain aneurysm. I didn't know that. I didn't know any
of that. To learn how to walk three times right, I love saying, you know, Johnny Mitchell is the first one, the first woman to take your clothes off and go skinny dipping, and the rest of the rest of the US are following. I thought that was a pretty cool way to put it. But that was I actually liked the song too, Yeah, pretty old song. I loved it. I can't believe it, absolutely loved it. Some juice. It's good. Yeah, it's good. And then
they arrested killer Mike. Oh yeah. Maybe we'll get to that, you know a little bit later in the show as well, along with other things. MAV's doomsday clock is on. We'll talk about that at nine, plus Mikey's experience there and a lost legend that will pay tribute to as well. But now it's Dingo's morning News. Listen to these headlines. Dude almost dies eating McDonald's liquid Heroine, And what the f is an atmospheric river