You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak. We got MAVs Lakers tomorrow night, Danny, it's tomorrow the end season tournament champion Lakers. Kevin, Yes, sir, they got to hoist the trophy. I didn't really care about any of it to be Yeah, hey we got the uh we got the cool new MAVs Leon Bridges jerseys out of it, so hell, yeah that's all we got. Then that's fine with me because that is the coolest damn design. I wish that I could execute a tank top,
so yeah, I would wear one. They're awesome. We are six thirty pre game tonight. They gotta go to Memphis to take on a bad Grizzlies team and then come back for tomorrow night because Tomorrow night it's Lakers, which the game's been on circle in the schedule for a little bad Grizzlies team. That weird that we're saying that, because they seem like that they've been good for so long. They just see jaw back and I think they'll probably
start winning some games. Yeah, because they don't have a bad team. They know they're off to a bad start. Like their their existence kind of reminds me of like those nineties Sacramento Kings. Yeah, like they were good for like a decade, but just not quite you know, the best in the conference to be able to get that finals thing going well. Thatchamrant story is really crazy, dude, you think about it, I hear he rolls
deep. Bro. Yes, I learned that from a an NBA insider, you know, the uh one one with a little more of a I don't know, measured temper. Oh, yes, I mean I think if you're in that field, I think they want every beat reporter right now. I'm not sure that I know one that's calm that's not stress or does it or the ones that are calm they drink a lot. I'm serious. I'm like, I'm trying to go through this thing. I mean, I can tell you I don't think he'd care. David Moore is a Whino. I think
he's very open about that. I don't think he's a what Okay, there's a difference between a guy that is kind of like, I don't know, an amateur expert if that's even a thing, on wine and likes good wine and likes going to vineyards and buys nice bottles of wine and is knowledgeable on wine. Doesn't make him a whino. I think he's a whino because he needs to be because of the stress. Is Evan great? Does he have a temper? That might be the one I'm like, I don't think Evan
has a temper that could be wrong. Evan's chill man. Yeah, Evan's that's the It might be the one beat reporter right now who doesn't have a little bit of a mean streak. And I don't think I've never known Evan to be one that relies much on coping mechanisms like the whino David Moore. That's why he's a paradet. Oh there you go now, yeh, it all makes sense. But that's all about to change. Yeah, unfortunately you can't. Maybe now that buffet's gone, he's gonna turn to the bottle.
No, he's got he would be like teeki bar drink. That makes sense, yea rum based Uh okay, here's what we're doing. Just straight up. I'm gonna tell you I Mike's Roy's gone. By the way, for those of you tune in on vacation for a couple of days, just a quick getaway. He's got some vacation days to burn with him and Christina both went so but he'll be back next week and maybe we can pop him on on Friday because I have him on the docket of my iHeart employee performance review,
which I have been tasked with running through. So, uh, tomorrow will do Ben and Skin. I think Wednesday, every new Jeff and Julie. Look, every person should self reflect as well. Thursday, I'll take a look at myself. I think I will conduct that in Yeah, but today let's start with Danny Bayless. We want to really look at your performance.
Have you really brought everything that you're capable of this year? Have you met some of the goals that we've aspired for good goals that are way bigger than ratings and revenue and all of that stuff, you know, just the little things. What's your Q rating? Is the audience happy with you? And things like that? So you have some examples of some of your work from the years to see if you have succeeded and passed the test on the
iHeartRadio performance review. Okay, we'll start with this. I'd like to hear your commentary. Do you need the cable? Now? Keep in mind I'm in some of these clips, and Mikey and JJ might be in some of these clips as well, and maybe we have some old ones from the old downbeat. But this goes back to the Rangers playoff run where if you you'll remember the play where Marcus Simeon was tagged out by his batting glove, yes,
and his back pocket. It's iconic play. But how you ended it, it was interesting and I thought we needed to review and Kevin will turn it up now. When they showed they did a close up on Simon and the dugout and you could read his lips. He goes, it was my batting blot. He does have a lot of crap in his back pocket there if you look at it, though, that is a big wallet. Is those his keys? Those are his keys to his wagon? Ear? You
can see it, Dad, it's one finger of the betting glove. Did you see the headline in the Morning News Astros finger themselves to a game four win? God, I couldn't believe it. Headlu be the DINGU Morning News pull out edition. You're talking about? How do you? What do you have to say for yourself? Not a lot? Look, I'm not gonna lie. This year has been tough in a lot of ways. You know, I'd been away from the job for a while, and then just a
few months into it, my life gets turned upside down. Where I'm working mornings, which I've never done. I'm awake it for every day. I'm not good at this to begin with, I have no defense. You are good at this. I don't want you to say that. I'm just saying I do not expect a glowing review. I do not expect to get good marks. So yeah, that sounds that sounds pretty uh, pretty far for
the course right there, that I would say something that terrible. Well from that questionable line of humor to this one of my favorite moments of the Danny Baylish because I'm not a believer and just say, hey, here's all the things you did wrong. Let's talk to you about that. I do want some of the good things. I want to you know, do and that's why we're doing these. iHeartRadio employee reviews. And lucky you're going through me. You know, someone you've known for a long time and not some you
know. Yeah, I'm consultant. You know it doesn't know you. That's not lost to me. So thank you. I really thought when you brought Reunion Arena horse to the Old Show. I thought that was a good moment. I know you won't remember this, but this is one of my favorite moments of the year that didn't make the top fifty. Can you remember the first ever concert at the American Airlines Center, A horse, Hello, I want to sing some songs for you. You all were coming, only no
one Mucket doing Yeah. A horse came out and sang Happy Birthday. That was the first time. That was the He was the opening guy for the Eagles. For the Eagles, So Don Hindley, who do you guys have an opening up this this leg of the tour? Well, we got a we got a horse. It comes out sings Happy Birthday? All right? What a horrible, horrible booking. I know that's stupid. That was so funny to me. Why does Don Hinley sound like Nolan Ryan? Well, I mean, I reckon, we got a horse. The little thing horse
is slow and unenthusiastic, got a stupid microphone. He's wearing the Garth Brooks headset so he can dance. He's got a guitar around his neck, but he can't play it. It's just dangling because he doesn't have fingers, he has hooves. Now from a good moment for you to to a mark for you. This is more me and Mike's roy being a little upset with you. Oh, this is about the story with you and Fiona Apple. Fiona Apple, forty six. Oh. I saw her in Tucson, Arizona,
at a tiny bar. Tiny woman in a tiny bar. She's cavil conte eye. Was she performing in a bathtub? No, she's had a little piano in a bar. It's kind of awesome. I've had drinks with her in Austin. You have a Fia Snapple. You are incredible. Did you think you had a chance at any moment we're all having drinks with him that Austin motel bar right on Congress, Okay, And she showed up and was pretty neurotic up to your knee. App Yeah, she's uh dumping down.
Did you pick her up and put her on the bar? I did not touch her. Did she barely even talk to her? Did she say she's been a bad, bad girl? And she was dealing with some some uh dude drama on her phone And she was only there there for like thirty minutes. Now she had to leave to go deal with her. Dude drama interested in hanging Yes, you are hanging out with You were hanging out with my buddy Dave. Dave yeah, Dave. Oh yeah, Okay, Sorry, don't don't act like I was in the red zone, you know, and
and fumbled the snack. You were having drinks with her, had a tiny cool bar in Austin. Weren't on your own goal line? That's the damn red zone. I was definitely on my own goal line when it came to Fiona Apple. You were, I was at least an enemy territory, no fifty, you were well across the you're a field goal range. Did go for it? Field goal range? Go for it? I don't have a good kicker. Yes, you were. You had the line of the day. I was having drinks with Fiona Apple. You mean did you have a
Fiona Snapple? That's definitely six am. Well, so good. My sense censories weren't quite going yet. But Danny, we also have to look at some jokes that you've made that we look okay, we gotta get so we want to be better in twenty twenty four. Yeap to meet our goals. This is a teaching moment. This is called brown eyed Danny. I have people who have hetero chromea that you may not have known. Can I do it real quickly? I'm sorry me, Lacunis. Okay, man, I've
looked deep into her eyes. If you keep biting your lip, I'm biting your lip. I have seeing a Melacunis pick and you can't see her right eyes a little blue and her left eyes a little brown. Yeah. See, and I think it's exotic. Yes, it is exotic. Do you look into when you look at me, Lacunas, Are you looking deep into her brown eye? Okay? Line four guys, God, no, no,
you didn't answer the question. No, I guess just now. Look, we know that you bring a lot of music to the station, not enough ding Sings Volume one and two yesterday or last week one that we didn't get to though, that we should reinvestigate here. And I think you would get commendable points for this. In fact, I think syndication is in your future. This is the World Series Game three song. Oh god, I forgot about this Game three. He's Game three on Monday nights, the World
Series, and it's out of sight. So come on, girls, turn on the tube. Let's watch somebody's fine sirs, firts, let's game go Gay three. That's what I thin you can do Day three, Game three. It's a Monday. You don't gonna wake up her tomorrow. Ka three three. Yes, that was fake a CDC honoring Game three and Mattress Giant fantastic as you hear fake, Brian Johnson go ah, I'm legitimately I love
that guitar briffa silly kind of bouncing around everywhere. I liked. That was dumb to have one song promoting arguably the most meaningless game of a seven game series on a Monday. I can't use it again. Weird. Yeah, we'll get to the Game four song at nine thirty five. There's a Game four song there was well, crap, and we'll get to that. That night. That was yeah, yeah, that was skateboard Steve. Now another
thing, I really like that. But one thing we should, uh this is in your perform inch of you here when a listener sent up a toy to the studio and we were trying to learn to figure it out live on the air. When they sent a bop it and you didn't know how to handle a bop it, We gotta bop it, bop it, twist it, pull it, nip it a rip that thing and get Danny play. We're gonna have to play with no no information. Okay, what do I do? Pull blue? What? What? Oh? Pass it? Pass
it? Do what it says, hold it up to hear the damn thing? Speed bump solo, beatbox solo. Let's go. You're out, You're out? Yeah, yeah, you sucked to you very good? You're out quiet? Hell yeah, all these jobs I think I got rigged. Okay, bop it. What are you supposed to do? Christina said, Okay, this is the greatest thing I've ever listened to. Y'all are stuck on the sound option, so we were trapped on the how to start game area. I didn't know it that beat beat box a and we're like, maybe
it's voice acting, like I don't know what. We've seen this thing before. It's a hot new boppa from the nineties. God, I sounded old there, dude. What's this? What's this artifact that I'm holding in my hands? Jeez, it's like a It's like a millennial getting a hold of a record player. What's that thing? I know? You don't like this when Danny, but the crowd, the audience loves Waterburger Guy. Fine with Burger Guy. All I care about is Waterburger Guy. I just want more
Waterburger Guy voice you don't so good? It's good. He likes describing their menu. So yeah, waterburg slashes a week, fourteen pieces American cheese and a triple shot A man, you should go to Biasca. Good god wa. Burger Guy has a very good Q rating. We've noticed it really in our advanced analytics. Analytics that were email to me as you right now, if you're just tuning in, Kevin is doing my year end performance review determining I don't know how well I did this year. Yeah, so far not
good. Now, I don't know who the masterminded this was. So this deserves to be on Siroy's performance review. But this goes back to the old downbeat the ryans of Mikey, Danny and Groobs days, and you guys were paying tribute to Gordon Lightfoot, and I thought for you and Grooves and Mikey to bring in some your instruments and do a Gordon Lightfoot song live in studio. I thought that was commendable. Risky, you can't really sound check that, so I want to you know, I maybe a bonus here. This
is the old Downbeats Gordon Lightfoot tribute. Well, since I heard about the passing yesterday, Danny Groobs and I did put together. We want part of this should go on Seroy, but I've just got a lot for him on Friday, so I wanted to put it on yours. Siroy's voice here is very good to play a song called the Watchman's Gone for you, Fanny, grab your guitar, crubs, you got the drums. I'll sing because we know that you're the little bomb. We thought this might cheer you up.
A lot of people called him the Watchman Gordon lightfoots, so this is the Watchman's Gone. You're kicking Mike. It's like it's amazing that he can sing and play bass like that at the same time I didn't know. Sorry, actually, no cow bell, that's my bad. Shoot, keep playing man, be professional study. Would you please a craps watching it all? That's face like space, like mim carrying the crying My parent did only very strong.
Right now we're talking while he's singing. Con Eddie Beddard would join ed always in me. That was fun. I'm imagining Mike up to the microphone singing his voice, and it just what he sings. He has the voice of a of a Canadian angel. That was beautiful. And lastly, oh, this is it another good thing for your review. This is one of my favorite things you've ever done in your life. It's stupid, my life. Just a couple of things had happened on this day. Nineteen sixty five,
they aired the first Pillsbury dough Boy commercial dummies, funny mascot. The Pillsbury loved it. He was a little cute guy and you he's going to poke his little belly and he goes that is genius, pills That's only reason we all know the company named Pillsbury, right, Yeah, we wouldn't even know anything about him. To help that little guy. Yeah, you want to give me that finger? Woo wow, look at it. We're losing
it. Fine, I'll poke him again. Jesus all right. Always my whole life thought it was woo woo, you know, and then so dumb. It's very funny though. I like it, alright, do you like it? Kevin? Well, thank you for you know, taking this on yourself to conduct my year ending performance. Review. I hope once the results come back that after vacation, I have a job, yeah, to return to. Don't get me wrong. We still send this off the corporate understood,
and they send it back within six to twelve months. Oh so we'll get the results later. Well, I hope you you know, I don't know. Put in a good word for me. It takes a long time. Thank you. We have worked day. Well, I'm off the hook. But you know who's not one strip mall Steve who will undergo his very own performance review coming up in just a couple of minutes.