The Downbeat, the Freak Salona. Have you gone Fight six? At the time, it's just Danny and Mikey. Kevin's not where us. JJ is here. We're gonna be off tomorrow and Monday. Well, Pugs your strips. Good off Pugs and Pugs and Pals tomorrow morning and Monday morning. Please tune in support them. Yeah, give them some love. But he will. He will definitely come in here with two excellent shows planned. Hell yeah, no doubt. He's a pro. And then Danny and I'll be back
on Tuesday. We'll do Tuesday and Wednesday, and then Thursday Kevin will be back and we'll be full send. I will have a review on Tuesday about the Spear. I'm off to Las Vegas. I'm gonna watch Fish plate the Spear. They also have like smellovision there. I think they have the ability to pump in smells and temperatures. Okay, and Fish has been working on these four shows since last June. They said, I have not and they're being real KOI on like that stuff. I don't know if they're gonna use
smellovision. I mean, what's going to overpower the overriding scent that's going to be in that. Damn yeah, that's true. So they're pumping in fake weed smelling. No, that's a guy standing next to Wait, that's me. Oh crap, it's in my hand. They've pumped a joint in my hand. The spear did it. That's illegal. I'm really excited. The first of four shows is tonight. Not going to this evening, but I'll be going to Friday and Saturday and uh yeah, we'll review fun times at
the Sphere next Tuesday and uh maybe gambling successes. We're laying bets, me and Danny. We're laying one hundred bucks on the MAVs minus one Sunday Night or Sunday Day against the Clippers in Game one, one hundred bus on hopefully seven to one odds. I don't know what I'll get when I get there, but that'll be on two hundred bucks. One hundred bucks in each of us on the MAVs at seven to one to win the Western Conference and sixteen
to one to win the NBA Championship. We're getting dirty on those. We're the home of the MAVs ninety seven to one, home of the MAVs. We take ownership of that, don't we pure ownership of our being the home of the MAVs and inside sports Medicine with doctor TiO Sorriel. We'll get to some talkbacks here in a minute. I guess I have birthdays if we need to get to them, but we have some leftovers. We just had asked the down beat. We're just kind of kicking around stuff around the station about
our previous station. Whatever. We're down for it. You got any more? Got a couple? So I get what this person Brandon on the Facebook group is trying to ask, and I'll read the way he worded it, and then we'll try to interpret it a little bit. He says. My favorite mix is with Danny Skin and Reiner talking music while Soroy mediate mediates. I feel like that was the old lineup, but I loved hearing those segments. Would that mix ever be a thing again, I don't really remember doing
much of that. If they're asking about the actual mixes that we would do, like when our show would end, we would, you know, do ten to fifteen minutes with the show that's coming up afterwards and just kind of cross pollin eate and what do you guys got going on? And usually we'd have a loose plan or somebody have a topic that we could all discuss. Then yeah, that was something that we did over at the old station, and I think it's a really fun thing to do. I don't know if
those will ever come back again. They've been gone for a while, so usually once those those horses are out of the barn, they don't go back in. But a doubt they'll come back. I think the thought was to because if you do, if you have a mix like right now, for instance, if we were beginning a mix with Ben and Skin, they're going to walk in any minute, we wouldn't really have anything planned for this segment. I think the thought was just to put not to have a give up
segment at the end of every show. Now we come from a school of those often turned into magical moments yep, but a more based management based viewpoint is that you should have something prepared, you know, at the beginning and an end I suppose, and you know there may be a disagreement there, but ultimately we are trying to improve what this show is and obviously our whole station's ratings and if not really working, so we want to make changes that
hopefully would benefit this thing. So yeah, I mean that's the thought. And we're not really in a position to argue that that won't work because what we were doing wasn't working all that well. So in that possibly antiquated way of determining how successful or how good a show is, you know, we do have a scoreboard that does not indicate where playing great football. Yeah, so yeah, we're willing to make the changes necessary to try to increase that
score. And we can be willing soldiers and make those changes, and the other thing can be true that we see things quite differently. Yeah, and that's fair and there's nothing wrong with that. But in fairness to them, doing things our way hasn't yielded the results that we all hope to date, so you know, we'll try whatever. And that suggestion was to eliminate the mixes and cool they're gone. Here's one from Brian on the Facebook group. Will Jake and Dan join the Freak? If not, can we at least
get them to rotate onto the different shows. Let me answer the second question we have had believe the Speakeasy had Dan up for an hour or two. Dan McDowell, formerly of The Ticket, now on the Hangzone podcast and Jake was up here or at least an hour yesterday on the Bent and Skin Show, So aren't that dude? Was he he was? Did he bleed in? I think two hours with them? Twelve? Yeah, they started at noon. He did two hours with them and then did at least the first
segment with the Speaks. Okay, I don't think that that is something that will happen with much frequency, but it's nice. They're old friends of ours and we talk to them all the time, and we love them and are super excited about what they've got going on and real proud of of all the moves that they've made. And there's no reason why they can't be guests if they if they agree and we have a reason to have them up, or if we don't have a reason to have them up. It's it's nice to
have those friendships intact and to have the flexibility to do that. As far as them joining the Freak, I don't really in this business. I will never say anything with one hundred percent certainty, but I can say with almost one hundred percent certainty the answer to that question, will Jake and Dan join the Freak? The answer is probably know, And that's a real hard, probably almost definitely. Yeah. The answer to that isn't no. The answer
is no, they will not be joining the Freak. We get some form of this question a lot. You still talk to any of the ticket guys or do they all refuse to acknowledge you off the air the same as they do on the air? And then what do y'all? Who do you want to know? Who y'all still talk to the old place. They don't say a word about y'all and barely even planning old drops from what I Yeah, Yeah, we're Yeah, we talk hot. I mean, we work a
f and morning show here, so we don't go out as much. And you know, I mean you kind of mingle with the people that you work with and whatever. But we text all the time. I text Donovan yesterday, actually butt dial Donovan yesterday. He's like, use butt dial me, Mike. Yeah, sorry, I love you. Seeah, we chat, we talk. We're cool. I am at least text texted with Corby for about a half an hour last night. Yeah, yeah, talking about Showgun.
How much we love effing Showgun. Yeah yeah, just catching up And I haven't even asked, but something came up and I don't think I could be wrong. I don't think there is a big mandate. I don't know. Maybe there is a mandate not to say our names or mention us or play audio. But I don't think it's as much as as speculated. I just think that's just how it works. And I've listened in the afternoons.
I've tuned in from time to time, and I've heard them, oh, this is back Danny did this, or this is back when Danny did this thing. I've heard, and that's been a while, but I've heard it mentioned Davy just uh, him and Marissa they just had a new baby. Yeah, and texted those guys and texted Davy personally. He's like, dude,
congratulations, if you need anything, let me know. I'm in the same boat, old man, and we got little kids and it's awesome and yeah, dude, we went to dinner with David murrisa just a couple of months ago. Jake brought up yesterday. It is odd that, though, because of the legal portion of it, Jake and Dan don't get mentioned. I don't know if maybe there's a different mandate for them because their whole legal battle was it was a little more, yeah, far more. You know
serious our departures, so one thing too. But it's a shame and those guys Jake and Dan, I mean maybe not you, but Dan specifically was there for a long large portion of the Ticket's history. Yeah, Dan, I was there when Dan started, right, So to eliminate him from ticket jargon or the history is feels pretty disingenuous. But I'll say this anything that if there's any perceived negativity between any of those camps, it has nothing to
do with the people that are our friends that are on the air. Right. There may have been some hard feelings at first, but those things have subsided, and it was just it was probably just more disappointment that they weren't able to work some stuff out and keep us there. Yeah, but our issues were never with My issues were never with Kirby or No or George or
Gordon. I've texted Gordon. We were chatting last week about typewriters. Yes, we've been friends for I've been friends with Corby for almost thirty years. Just because we changed jobs doesn't mean we can't or don't still connect. It's not as much because we don't work together, right or what would be the point, Like, who do you tech don't you know, text with someone every week, no matter how close you are, really unless you work together, well, especially if you're a dude. Yeah, exactly, Dudes,
you just don't do that. But our issues were never with the guys that we were in the yeah, in the trenches with on a day to day basis. And Jake said that yesterday too, He's like, I don't have any animosity to anybody over there whose name you've heard of pretty much. Yeah, I thought that was very well said one. And you know what, Concur, Yeah, exactly, Concur, there are some bad actors. None of those guys that are on the air, I would consider any of them
bad actors. So and so we missed the guest appearance on each other's shows. The different personalities and different dynamics makes it really fun to listen to. Yeah, we have nothing against that here still, and we're allowed to do that. But I think we were pushed kind of toward provide news and information because it's too much of our personalities. I think, so us mixing and
circle jaying. Not to say it's frowned upon and you can't do this many hours or radio and not do that, you know, But I think generally speaking from management as a strategy was to provide news and information and evolve those topics in a fun and interesting way. Is what is going to cast the net out wider than us circle jaying about each other, which I can't really
in theory disagree with you. You can't because the way that this station is promoted is we promote ourselves, and it's if somebody's just tuning in or they're you know, flying down the dial and they land on ninety seven to one, what is going to draw that random person in the most hearing me and Mikey talk about some trip that we went to Colorado fifteen years ago and a story that happened that was really funny. Because they're listening, going, Okay,
I don't know who these guys are. I don't know what is relevant about this story to me. I just tuned in. I'm lost in the middle of this. Yeah, they want to. They want that person to tune in and hear a funny story about an airplane that had to get rerouted because the toilets backed up and there's diarrhea all over the floor. Right, that's funny, that's interesting, Okay. And then and then quickly move to
another story and then quickly to another story. Unless you write a Jimmy Buffett theme song about the diary of airplane, then you can yes, play that. Yeah, but it's true. They want stuff that you're gonna hear and then go to the water cooler and chat about Hey, where you hear all? I heard about that on ninety seven on the Freak. That's the playbook theory on how to improve things, And again, cannot argue with that.
But we come from a school where it's deeper form of entertainment where the listener tends to know and get to know the people and like those stories and sort of the behind the scenes, behind the curtain interactions and all that. I mean, Hell, this segment right here is probably not in the playbook as far as what's good. But I guarantee a lot of people listening to this is like this is juicy. Yeah no, And then that's the difference.
But it's easy to do those stories about each other and circle Jane when it's you're getting nine and eleven and not twos. It's not twos. Yeah that I get it. But I have seen a little bit of a shift in
the philosophy around here. Lately from the people that make decisions, and it's kind of more akin to the old school way that we grew up doing radio, which is you have a fairly small group of people that listen, and the idea is you want to get that group of people to listen as long as possible, because that equates to good ratings just as much as having a bunch of people listening that only use you as a tool for information or a
quick laugh. But they're jumping around listening. I need some news. Oh okay, I know that seven thirties of scuttle, but they'll hit some local news. Okay, I get a couple of stories. Time to go back to my country music or podcast or whatever, you know. I like the
if it's my preference. I want to treat the people that are listening to us like they're in the room with us, like we're all having a discussion and it's story time and it's a longer form radio, And I get I can see both sides of it, but I think the quicker path to success in their minds was to cast the wide net, get as many people as you can listening for shorter amounts of time, maybe turn them into p ones and then you can grow that in a different way. But yeah, we
really don't know. It changes all the time, so we know. And someone's asking, are you adding an evening show? We're I don't, no, no, We're we got buckets and we're getting water out of the boat. We're not adding a brand new engine. And there's holes in some of those buckets. I wish our buckets levels in them. We wish, but who knows. Maybe things will turn around for us and it'll I don't even
know. They good know what we all want. Seriously, though, good questions, thanks for participating on Facebook and on the on the tech stapp. I wanted questions that were going to be have me and Mikey looking at each other going how do we do this? I wanted to squirm. I wanted to give you guys something honest, something you know, transparent, and be as honest as we could without hurting anybody's feelings, without threatening our livelihood,
threatening our employment status. And also there could still be legal ramifications on certain topics, so we tried to filter those out. But most of most of these questions were just exactly what we were looking for, and thank you, and maybe we can do it again as honess in ten minutes. We don't walk out of the studio and there's arms crossed and toes being tapped and clipboards, clip clon boards. Here a box with a plant. It is handed to me. We have some talk backs. JJ, yeah, I know
you got a bunch of them. We got time for a few. Think I love it. Hey, Dingu, when you were talking about fish in Vegas, you really think they're gonna do do at the sphere? I mean Stroy's probably never seen them do that on stage to be caught the show to see, So hopefully they do it on Friday or Saturday. Oh maybe a minor slip of the tongue out of you. You do do something? And I said the words do back to back, and that guy thought it was
funny because it sounds like do do you. One of the first texts we got was asking if any of admit it. Did either of you guys also do do it? The Masters? Uh? No, I did not. Did you do do it? The Masters? You know what? I don't know I should have. I was my head was on such a swivel. I t teet at the Masters, But I did do do it? The Vatican do you need to make the poo poo. So I wanted you do
do it at the Vatican. Do do it at the Vatican. You know that's worse, right, I didn't ye, that is sacred holy land. Well, I didn't sneak off behind a bush. I mean there was a giant entryway. You were on Vatican grounds and there's a large public facilities. I didn't sneak into the papal private quarters smearing it all over the system chapel. No. I did want to go to war with Corby, so I had to do do somewhere more prestigious. Hey, Mikey and Danny, it's
Larry the dog trainer. Hey, guys, I just wanted you to know I've been a listener of the other station for about twenty five years. Mikey, when you and I worked at Serenity at Granada together, I remember complimenting you on your tickers. Anyway, I started checking out you guys on commercials and on the redundant sports segments they kept having. And now I don't turn off the freak. You guys have turned me for life. That's cool, man, thank you. And that's the idea. That's all been the idea
look, we've said it on air. The pie chart over there is about seventy percent sports and thirty percent fun times, and no one ever remembers, for life or quotes of their friends anything from that seventy percent sports. So the idea was, let's flip it and make it seventy percent fun times and thirty percent sports. And that's still the plan. The legendary topics and segments that are part of ticket lore are never about dude when they talk MAVs that
one all go, oh my god. It's random wheels off stuff. It's conversations that get derailed and go into a ditch and organically just take a life of their own. It's a bit that Gordon does or a song maybe that I did or or Korby did. Those are the things that that that lasts that people remember your station for. It's not about the reason Ranger discussion you had, but the reason it works is because that's seventy percent sports. It
is a lot easier. Sports are a fountain that feeds you stuff every day you can talk about. So that's what allows that thirty percent to be so good. And there's an argument maybe we're not good enough to pull off the seventy percent required of fun times and unique conversations and wacky songs or whatever. So yeah, I guess you could argue that, but the format and the
idea should work. Yeah, this is Jack with Jack Pocket. We've been trying to reach you, Danny. You actually there was a mistake in that email. You were supposed to win seven million dollars. We've been trying to reach you, but you gave us the wrong phone number and he didn't respond to our email. So we're gonna need you to respond to that email and you can get that seven million dollars thanks to Jack. Let's no dude, the other guy who runs it. That was Jack. That's Jack, mister
Pocket. Jack Pocket, respond to that email. I will trust me. I'm on it all right. Last one, hey, boys, Fox News presents This Old Democracy with Bob fieland Vitas to Roy, where they discuss the my Pellow guy in CB receiving Vanilla of Honor, AOC worse than Hitler, and if Anakin, Skywalker and Robberie Lee had listened to Trump and never fight uphill me, boys, would we have lost the Alamo. All this brought to you by Bidden for Tools. Anyways, boys, We're one hundred and
seven days away from SummerSlam. Dad is the biggest part of the summer, Daniel, I love your f and buns. Vida. Hey here, rightful spot on the podium today, Brody Well deserved might name that number one spot after you. Legend. Legend Danny, love your buns, Love you baby, Dale travels to me. I'm off to Vegas. We're off tomorrow support Pugs and Company. They'll be on the air Friday and next Monday. Danny and I'll be back next Tuesday. UH for JJ Jackson for Danny Baylist.
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