Oh, wake up, wake up. It's a little sleepyhead. Time to get your what is it, stupid ass out of bed? Stupid as out of bed. I don't think you're stupid that all of you. Maybe the songwriter did. Good morning. You're listening to Kevin and the Downbeat. He is here, so I don't think it's weird that he and Danny are talking. I'm looking right at him. He just got a lot on his mind this morning. You know what he's doing. He's taking a moment to think.
He's thinking. Yeah, he's getting his head right. I'll be ready. That is Daniel Bayless. My name is Michael Siroy. Kevin Turner is here. J J. Jackson holds this thing together. You're listening to the downbeat. Good morning, Good morning one and all. What a time, What a time in the Metroplex. It's a great day. Why are you smiling because sports weather from Dallas. Well last night to s Butt City,
which is my favorite city in America at this time of year. I had hard s Butt City at about nine forty five when the light lightning crashes. Did you have some some flickers with your electricity in the house. I did a little bit. It threatened to go off one time. Oh hey, it's keV Oh sorry, guys, it threatened to go off late today once. No, he didn't. I had the boo boosing boo boo. It's
threatening to go off once. Yeah. I felt it like kind of dim and then I was like, oh man, because I was just enough to clock to reset. No never even that's the worst, right, It's like, look, if you're going to have a power outage, go all out or cut. Let's make it fun. Yeah, make it fun where I have to reset all of the clocks, so just pease me. But no. It was like right about an hour before bedtime and I just fired up PBS to watch broad Church. Oh my god, I'm glad I'm not you
me too. Want to squeeze in a little British crime drama before bed? You see the biggest what Anglo File? I think I'm this is all new, dude, again, this is all new. This is like in the last three months because I revisited Top Boy three months ago and got caught up because I knew the new season was coming back. And then I was waiting because I finished it quick because it's you know, the British shows they're all super short seasons. Everything's like four to eight episodes if that mm hmm.
And then I asked a friend of mine who is a real true blue anglophile. I was like, hey, what hey, what are some other good uh UK crime shows? And she sent me like a huge list. And I've just been knocking him the f out and broad Church is the last on the list. After this, I promise I'm done. I'll get back to watching good old fashioned American bad TV. Yeah, schlubs, get you caught up on the mask Singer? Yeah, good stuff. This time it's a
bumblebee whatever it is, the what's the loutaria? Maybe I'll just start watching Mexican TV. Dude, I I did, just, through self torture, tried to watch the first episode of Snake Oil. Oh really, I'm interested David Spade's Snake Oil. It's pretty bad. It's pretty bad. David Spade just doesn't care. No, he doesn't give a crap about anything. Like it was like the beginning of the show. It was the most low energy, like when he took it out at the very top. I mean that's
his bit. I guess, real snarky, you know. Yeah, he's a smart ass. But I imagine even the producers were like, do you want to do that again now? And man, I did Joe dirt. But let's see there. It is the most surroy industries show ever. It's all it is. It's two products and one of them is real and one of them's made up, and then you and your celebrity partner like kind of determine what you think and then you can ask some questions and then you have
to bet x amount on if it's real or not. And I think they got the first four wrong, Like the first four pairings of products. What was it? One was venison flavored whiskey? Why against? Oh yeah it was. I think it was venison flavored whiskey. Against called like baby memory bands and it was, uh, like a bracelet made of your baby's hair and teeth. Jesus, that is so dumb. And I and one of them's fake and one of those is real. I would say the I'd say
the venison flavored whiskey is fake. Out of those two, you'd be incorrect. Okay, Venison flavored whiskey is real. That's so dumb. And they have like a minute to grill the person. So it is sort of how good the person is at either improv or pretending. Like the baby memory bracelet thing. It was like a kind of a bigger girl and it's that part's fun because you're like, all right, this is not an actor. This is She was like no, this A lot of mothers care about this stuff,
and she really presented it great. I'm like, damn it, she fooled the hell out of me. And then Venison whiskey guy was like, oh, yeah, we made whiskey with all anything we find out there. He's like, we made a whiskey out of beaver Ainus. He's like sold three hundred bottles. Gosh, and you're like, wait, which of these people is lying? And that dude was telling the truth. He's like whatever, we shoot, well, you make whiskey out, make whiskey out of
it, including beaver Rainus, which was very popular. Now was that part of his pitch true? Yeah, seriously, beaver Anus whiskey. It kind of sounds like a good show. Yeah, I know now that I'm saying, And I'm like, it was funny. They should podcasts. They don't know if that part, like when they're doing the quick Q and A, if that part has to be true as well, or just is this product true? So the Venison flavor whiskey was true. It sounds like they should
wait until taping is over to hand David Spade his check. Is that how it comes off. It's like they give him his payment for the day and then okay, now I'll go film. He's just like, okay, exactly do it at the end. Maybe it's his idea or he's him and a group of his you know, buddies, and he's an executive producer on it. Oh and I'll be the host and you guys figure out the real details in the game. But I kind of got a good idea, that's why. And then boom get the job. That's why it's the most roy and
I love it. You guys all figure it out. You just figured out the idea the specific details. But it's a good idea. I don't know, like I feel like I hated it when I was watching it, but now that I think about it, it seems like seems like a fun idea. Is it better than is it Cake? Well? There you go? Is it cake? Who the hell pitch that? And they're like, you know what, maybe a lot of these game shows are based on the idea of someone lying. I mean it is a to tell the truth was one
of the original ones. Yeah, but there's so many game shows that are based in what is false, what is not real, what you at for is not real. Not all every game show, but a lot of them are that. And this is the same boat two things, which one's real. And then make Shark Tank more extreme. And they didn't bind those forces. And it's kind of why I love game shows. There's formulas there. Yeah, and you just take pieces of all these other things, combine it
and make a mish mash. There is a Shark Tank element to it. They're clearly playing on that. I can't think any more of the products. It was pretty funny. Let's see if I can find out what were the products. One was soap, three D printed soap that you can make the head of anyone, you know. You know what was snake oil? Snake oil was you had these traveling salesmen back in the eighteen hundreds, their wagons.
Yeah, they'd go from small town to small town and their wagons and they had these cure awls, elixirs or potions or whatever, and they would the outlandish claims that they would make to try to sell this stuff to the citizens of the city. We're just ridiculous, Like they cures headaches, uh, stomach aches, yeah, the flu everything, it's consumption drop. Most of it just contained like cocaine if that. Yeah, it was basically it was something to get you a little fed up where you're like, oh,
it was a can of placebo basically, and they would sell it. And I guess they got the name snake oil. What was there a toilet with a small sink on the back? Mite? Was that one of them? I didn't see that one. Ring that you might have been watching the second episode, then you weren't watching the pilot episode. Okay, there because there was also a line of luggage made from locally produced taxidermy animals on animals in this shiit No, that's not the one I saw. They had that one
in the promo. I had three D printed soap heads, and I had there was one a special towel designed to dry in between your toes, Like it was a towel with the little like serrated part in the middle where you could stick your toes in there and kind of toes on the website, But I don't remember it was realer what was it now? But the bottom line is they're all pretty ridiculous. Yeah, but what's funny. There's a dude who had the tie protector. It was just a plastic like sleeve that you
put over your tie and clip on to the top. And then they show someone like spraying food and mustard all over this guy and they're like, but his tie is protected. Yeah, And then you're like, why would you just need to protect your but and then they asked the dude that question in
their minute, like why would you only need to protect your tie? And he's like, well, a lot of people have their favorite tie, and if you lose a white shirt, you know, that's not a huge loss, but if you lose a significant tie, no, And the dude like explains it and then whatever product he was against, and they're like, all right, well that thing that's stupid. So I'll say this one's real and
they're like, you're wrong. And then the tie guy standing there with his product that he's put the last five years of work into whatevery just called it an idiot one, like this is real. One of the producers is will aren't it that makes sense? Yeah? Can you imagine. So my problem with a lot of shows like this these days is the and granted a show, whether it was going to be on the fall schedule or not, definitely something that they saw. As well, the whole TV industry, and at
least network television, is leaning into game shows and reality TV. Of course, all right, we all know that, but who knows how long they thought the writer's strike was gonna last. And they're still wedding on the actors strike to end, which should end maybe today, maybe tomorrow. But snake oil, this is the problem that I have with these games. I like checking some of these out. Jimmy Follen's got a show on NBC called That's
My Jam two v two and it's like a music game show. The problem is they give it an hour, and when you start giving a game show an hour and they don't have a lot of it, and it just becomes filler and fluff to fill out the time allotment. Yeah, you're like, come on, man, let's get this condensed to. This could have been a you could have done this all in twenty two minutes. Yeah, what were the I mean Back in the day, it seemed like there were very
few game shows that were an hour. Price Is Right was the only one that even comes to mind. The weakest link was always an hour. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was an hour? You know, he Wants to be a Millionaire? Changed everything I think for the modern show. Like I think there was a dormant area with the exception of Jeopardy and Unfortune and uh, Price is Right, but that's daytime. Yeah, and even Jeopardy and Will of Fortune. They weren't like super prime time. They would syndicate into
six pm. Maybe, yeah, sure, like ABC rolled the dice and said, here's Regis, let's do this thing at eight pm. But well, it happened very much like you brought up Millionaire. There was no filler in Millionaire, and there's no filler in Prices, right, really, I mean, you're it's game. It's go, go, go, go go. A little mini interviews, Yeah, you know, where are you calling from? What do you do for a living? All right, let's play. But daytime game shows was Prices, right, the only hour long one.
Yeah, And it felt like they were cramming as much as they could in that out, Like you're getting six games, you're getting two sets of wheel spins plus the showcase showdown. Yeah, plus all the bidding. There was not filler in prices, right, no filler and will fortune either you know the quick maybe, Oh you shoved the puzzle and you got two thousand
dollars. How's Vana looking tonight? You know to that? And then Jeopardy had the most amazing filler ever because it's funny every time, It's never not been funny. What were they going to interview you? And you got about ten seconds and they've given them the dumbest thing. So it says here you like to collect butterflies. Yeah, let's says hear you read Catcher in the
rye. Basically, it showed how uninteresting these people are. If you what it is is if the audience wasn't already aware that the fact that you're so smart and on this show that you're a nerd, we're going to confirm it with a couple of questions. Quick nerd fact. Yeah. There was a funny Jeopardy Twitter account years ago, and it was like they always put it out like daily and it was just the Jeopardy interview. So every day it
was an episode of Jeopardy, just the short interviewspan. Okay, and it is just so funny because they're like, oh, says, you've got an interesting story about my dog. Yeah, so I cut his toenails. Oh, I had to wash his anus glands too. Oh all right, let's go over to Samantha. Samantha at the Harvard and says here that you saw Independence Day this weekend for the first time. I did. I missed at the first time. But seeing it now, I realized what I missed out
on the first time. That's good. Let's go to Bob like not, it's good. It's never interesting. It was so funny. Did you guys watch the Rangers yesterday? Orb you make your own venison whiskey, it says here and Beaver Rangers, Beaver Bogsellers or three other bottles. I did watch the Rangers. That is back to back days. I spent watching entire baseball games. It's the most baseball you've watched all year. Okay, combined those two games is the most Rangers baseball you have watched all year. I have
not watched eighteen innings total this season. You don't have VALI I have watched it either. I watched eighteen the last two days. It would have been significantly higher. Than that. If you had BALI no doubt, because it was a Valley twenty five, it would be on like every day. You know what. My first thought on those games, the games, both of the games which awesome, so fun, is that we basically didn't have one moment of stress, really crazy like, because that's the best part about playoff
baseball is the stress. It's so tense and everything's just so hanging by a thread offensively and defensively. And they won, they dominated. It was beautiful. We're going to talk about it, you know, throughout the morning, and there was no stress. There was never, never anything that freaks out. And it's coming because some of these other games were high stress, and that's almost why I like it so much. But I will take easy Street
every damn time. When we started, we were talking about this on Monday and Tuesday starting the wild Card series, just feeling so hopeless and feeling you know, the way the season ended, and just kind of like, hey, all right, fine, you're in the tournament. We'll just see what happens. We were thinking how fortunate we would be if we were getting ready to talk about a game three this afternoon, and the fact that we're sitting here right now. Not only no Game three, but they allowed one run.
Yeah, over two games against Tampa. Insane, just absolutely crazy. I will say this too, back to the Bally's point that I haven't watched any baseball this year because I refuse to subscribe to Bally's and it's not available on my provider. I think that's the reason that I've watched a bunch of weird TV, because, honestly, Mikey, that time would be taken up by me at seven o'clock or seven thirty flipping on the Rangers, and that would just be on in the night, no matter what you're doing, no
matter what you're doing. Yeah, I agree. It's not surprising though. Baseball is one. I mean, hockey, We've talked about this before. I think the sport you can go from the eighth seed or whatever you want to call it and rattle off the title. I mean, the Rangers can win the World Series this show absolutely, you know what I mean, we kind of knew that sort of until they lost the division and and the and when you lost Sures or you know, yeah, the Crown thing happened so
long ago. Be like, all right, we got Sures. I mean they still have a guy. I mean baseball, you feel like you kind of need the one dude, whether or not that person is brought in to be that guy or someone evolves into that guy. In hell, the Evaldi who has four vowels out of only six letters wow, E O V A L seven letters four at A seven A lot of owls. Yeah. Yeah,
Like in baseball, vote anything can happen. Hockey, I think is the number one where anything can happen, Like an eighth seed can just rattle get hot and rattle off. Like like basketball, it's never gonna happen. You know, if you eeke into the playoffs, like you're just waiting, who's going to slaughter us? Maybe maybe you steal the series, but then you're just gonna get wiped. Football it's all about the quarterback and football because
it's only one game. I guess you always have a chance, but it's that's the worst team that eaks into the playoffs does rattle off of Super Bowl Championship. All the wildcard teams have done it. Yeah, But baseball, it can happen. It absolutely can. And this is why some of this, like I don't know, negative energy. Maybe we did to ourselves. Plus it's a combination of meeting in the middle. We did it to ourselves
and the Rangers did it to us throughout their history. Okay, plus going into literally one week ago, one week ago Thursday, we were going, Okay, all they got to do is win two games or win one game, get one Astros loss, and we have a bye, and we were
feeling pretty good. We are in there, and we are in the final four or the final four in the American League, so like, and then they just sucked, you know, in Seattle, and you go, well, geez, I would have to work really hard for this, So like there's a reason, like we would have felt way differently about the same had they had a week off to just hang out. And the fact they had to go earn it and then play good, you start to go, oh,
maybe they could work in our advantage. But you know how this thing's gone up and down and Ebbden flowed and they've gotten hot and they've been mystifying with how bad they could be bullpen misery and maybe they just decided or it just it all came full circle that they started the wild Card Series and it was their first game of the starting of a hot streak. Yeah, and you'd rather have that, of course in the playoffs than having to be up
and down. And man, they've shown it the amount of runs they've scored, how locked down their starting pitching has been. If you look at them as a whole and not take it in two week chunks or whatever. This team, what are they this year? They are a badass, powerful offense that does get some good starting pitching. Yes, yep, so that's what they did, and they've added to that with Nick or what's his name Carter? Yeah, yeah, not Nick Carter of the back Boys. Yeah,
Nick, We'll get Nick Carter. It's early. It's good that we have Evan Carter, who looks like our part time board operator up here, g money. Yeah, kind of if you saw that a little bit, I'm like, it's kind of to take Carter now. Plus they have Nick Nick, Yeah Carter, Nick Carter. I was like Nick, I was like I thought he was thinking Jordan Montgomery's first name was Nick. Nick on the team. I don't we have a Nick on the team. Not officially awake
until seven thirty. Good Nick Martinez a few years ago, Hey two one four eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven one. If you aren't going to the Echo Lounge for tonight's anniversary party, can we change your mind with tickets? We want to ask you why you're up, So call in now right now, like you gotta go now, yeah, right now. I don't take forty seconds for the phone calls light up. But then someone though, because I think we should give them either all American rejects tickets or
four tickets to Saturday is DFW Italian Festival. You guys, what are you guys gonna do after the show today? You're going to take a nap and then go to the Echo Lounge? What's your plan? Gym? Probably a couple of hours at the gym? Is it? Do we have to perry bike if we're there after six pm? Do we have to pay that? Well? We're introducing well yeah, what do we we have a rundown of Yeah. Our obligation as far as needing to be there is at six o'clock
where we will introduce the first act. I'm going there at four something probably and just gonna help help everyone sound check what why oh? It seems like a fun time. Help Danny's Like I've played in bands my entire life, sound checking? What are you going to do to help? I man, I'm pretty good about like hearing some things, you know, going. Who do we have on the phone? JJ? Hi? What's your name? Mike? Him? Mike? Is this Miking Grapevine. No, it's not
Miking Grapevine. It's Mike from Nevada driving through Wiley into PLANEO to go to work. My man, what do you do? I'm a service advisor at a small automotive reparis shop. Have been on seventy eight right now? I'm on five forty four already, ditch seventy eight. Yeah, I'm forty four clearly, all right? I can't find that mikey, do you even know what seventy eight really is? No? I don't know anything. He doesn't have a clue Google, yes, of course, talking about all he does
and then he pretends to be knowledgeable. That's all we're all doing on the radio anyways. We're all not just ash everyone right quickly searching stuff, pretendingly. We're all just winging it. Absolutely, everyone is just winging it. Are you sure you're not filming Tokyo drift right now? Yeah? I don't know. There's some stupid little Japanese car park can exhaust over there. I'm glad you said car. Yeah, I love that you work at an automotive
repair shop. That's cool some days. Yeah, you specialize in like European cars, or classic cars or just whatever, a little bit of everything, except for land Rovers because there nobody walks on those. Is that the dumbest car? Well? The British are known for a lot of bad things. Bad teeth, bad food, bad TV shows. Hey, hey, money, Python, the Holy Grail, Money, Python's Flying Circuits. No, no, that's great years ago. I'm at crime like bad crime shows.
Their crime shows are infinitely better than ours. What's your dream car, Mike? You don't really have a dream car, They're just things. I've had one car since nineteen eighty nine and I'll probably keep it until I give it to one of my children, her grandchildren. What is that? What car? It's a nineteen seventy three Mercury Cougar convertible. Oh hell yeah? Yeah? Did you? Won't you give it to Danny? No? Keep it for your kids. Who cares these kids get out to Most of these kids
don't deserve all the sweet stuff they get from their parents. The radio seventy three. Cougar is a badass machine, especially as you've got he's got the rag top on that nice choice. No, you don't give it to Dingo. This car looks amazing. Do you have the hidden headlights? No, that was only up until nineteen seventy seventy one. They got rid of those, went to the quad rounds. Gotcha? What color is that thing? It's red? Mike, we gotta go. Why we're having fun talking to
Mike our friend? Yeah? Why do you hate him? I was just trying to nail these straddle reports guys. All right, go ahead, Hey Mike, are you going to the echo lines tonight? No, sir, I am not. Do you straight up honest? At least almost? Could you be swung in another direction? Or you get concrete plans? Pretty concrete
plans. I mean, if you want to call my seven year old granddaughter and tell her that I'm going to miss her softball game because I'm gonna go hang out with a bunch of netwith what's her number, Danny, I'm gonna let her know that Pop Paul's not coming near her dumb game. She won't remember you were so close, Dan, It's pop Pop Pop pop. Yeah. If I have that on a shirt, I can't wear it in certain parts of town. I love my comedy routine. This needs to do stand
up tonight. Can we add you to the set tonight? Can get you there? Uh oh, dear god. My wife just texted me. She's listening. She says, I hear you. Yeah, honey, it's me. Love you Teresa. We love you, Teresa. Yes, we do take care Mike. I told her happy birthday today. No, on her birthday, we did allright. Happy birthday again, Teresa. And thank you Mike for calling in and considering rearranging your schedule for this Evening's factial. Give
Mike something he's not going to go to. You don't have to. A couple of weeks ago, I turned down sting tickets. I tell you what, guys change. Danny Soroy. I'm so happy you guys are back on the radio. It's just a blast. Listen to you, Danny. My wife will tell you this. You need to talk about music more not allowed my world. We're just not allowed. No, we'll sneak it in from time to talk. I call bs on that. It's the freak. We say what they want. So they had a KT Mike, Hi KT Mike.
All right, don't don't roll your don't roll your cougar TK, have fun with your bike, have fun with your boondo. Wait till you get home and roll your cougar. Well another h Okay, I'm fun. I'm fun, admit it. I'm fun. A lot of fun. Okay. We'll do a giveaways later the show because we got a lot of the Echo Lounge to the Big party. But right now, something that I do every
year and I'm glad that I can now bestow it onto youse guys. The twenty three twenty four SNL draft is next on ninety seven won the Freak