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A very diverse field. I had a feeling, but I'm glad you just confirmed it a feeling. We also have a feeling we're gonna get a lot of spins today, a lot of spins. What day are you going to be out there? If they want to meet Danny Baylis the twenty fifth, I think it's the three day Appearents. What are you think? I think I'm there all three? All three? Yeah, we Which is a
big weekend for Danny. I mean the the big party at the Kessler tomorrow night for the launch of his new single, The Silver Skylarks project Power Moves as the single have a performance from a large professor, brand new funk will be there. That's gonna be fun. Can I ask where the name came from? Because that's a cool ass name, The Silver Skylarks. How does a band? You know? What's come about? Okay? So I had been trying to think of something to name a post Bastards of Soul project.
Didn't know what it was going to be, but I knew I had this collection of songs and I wanted him to land somewhere, and you go, you gotta have a stupid name for your band, and I'm like, what can I? And I always thought like those old singing groups that named their their their groups or bands after after muscle cars back in the day, you know, uh whatever, the Camaros, the Mustangs, you know, they always had those car name bands. I don't think that either one of those
were bands, but I can one example. But okay, so Booker T and the MG's, you know, the MG the little British car. I don't know. I just always thought that that the I don't know, that just kind of always kind of presented a certain vibe or era or vision. So I thought the Buick Skylark, that's you know, I'm sure, but I think there was a Skylarks back in the day, and I was thinking, you know, we're from Dallas, Silver and Blue Cowboys, Skylarks,
silver silver. You got the alliteration, Yeah, that does work. The problem of it is if you try to abbreviate it, it says SS. So I always have to spell it out, you know, when I want a cool yeah logo, Hey, skin, do you have that SS thing ready to go for tomorrow? I don't feel great about texting that, but I don't know, I just kind of like the way it sounded. It's cool, it doesn't mean anything, sounds badass, and it's the new name
of the Eastwood Record label company. Yes, Skylark Soul Company, the Skylark Sulco Company, that's the label. So Kesseler Tomorrow night, Saturday Night Ladylove Lounge with uh, you know what, Adrian Quesada of the Black Puma's going to be spinning and more and Large Professor's spending too. I think I think, I think Large pro is going to be there. Geez, I'm having a big Danny Bayliss weekend. I'm having a I'm having a big Mike Serroy
and Kevin Turner. Wee. That's what I look at this as is how often do we get to congregate outside of you know, six to ten in the mornings. And I've got the weekend cleared out. Let's go. It's gonna be great. You guys are welcome to park in my house and pre party for the Lady Love. I mean, you couldn't be much closer in Yeah, I'll take you up on that. Come home done. Wait we think I'm gonna uber Yeah on Saturday night. Yeah, definitely, still ut
to my house. Then we can strut in there together and imagine, you know, the needle off the record is airing case Oda looks up at the door and the three the whole downbeat walks in that place is gonna freeze. You guys want to wear suits? I don't have a Yeah, how about hoodies? Oh, let's wear a long time a nice thin, eighty degree hoodie. I love it. We're gonna fu on this weekend. Yeah, I can't wait. Come to Kessler Friday Night, Cassel Friday Night ticket Kesslertheater
dot com. Uh, Kessler Kestler dot org. Yeah, buy a ticket or your chance to win with the Ben and Skin Show today from ten to to or just walk up. The big story today that we're tracking there's a major cell phone outages from Verizon AT and T and T Mobile. It hasn't affected any of us on our show except for JJ and Mike. Well, that's not a good way to say that. So me, Andy looking good. I'm feeling good about Danny's big weekend because my phone's working due I reset
my phone and SOS still there. I am an AT and T customer still says that's SOS, but I am still getting texts but no calls. Yeah, got texted in and he basically said he was talking about his job and he's like my phone. Having a phone is kind of my lifeblood for work, so there's a bit of a problem for him. And his boss is like, well, still come in anyways, and he's like, well,
I can't do anything if my phone's not going to be working. Some people just used their phone all day to do whatever they do in this world. So I don't know that it's a cyber attack that's been rumored, but that could just be fear porn. It's likely just a few outages, but it's still something and interesting. We haven't really experienced a thing like this to this extent with all three companies before. More details as they continue to surface.
Right now, it's time for the butt But what's brought you by advance here restoration? What's in the the satellite fell fell back to meat Ye who got crushed? Did atlant on Mario Lopez's house? I didn't land on Mario Lopez's house, as he was trying some new street tacos El Pistor have some Chili's Chile's El store today. Man, I almost lobbying cutted up last night so close and I opted for fu Really I did. I did not a bad goal? Yeah, weird thoughing a hot night. It was great by myself,
was wonderful. Vietnam Pound for pound best fa in Dallas. What which place Vietnam? The place there's a restaurant called Vietnam. Yeah, that's very creative project, banned like the band they did music. So it fell in between Hawaii and Alaska, right in the Pacific Ocean. It hit at eleven fifteen Central time. Okay, so there you go. We gotta go get it ahead. Everyone's good. I mean, did it explode and all the particles landed in the ocean? Do we? Yeah? It broke up into
a lot of pieces, they think. Whatever. The biggest main piece maybe about the size of Megan Fox landed somewhere between Hawaii and Alaska. That's a lot of space. They don't even know exactly where this thing. It's fine. Are there are there rescue efforts being made to go get Megan Fox from the Pacific Ocean? Because I would like to be I'd like to volunteer. That would be a far quicker response if Megan Fox was bob up and down in the ocean. Yeah, we'd all be off today. God. Why
was that a plotline of the movie Pirates? There was there a girl lost it she was, Yeah, I think it was Carmen Luvigna. It was just bobbing in the ocean. She's shark food, mabey was she she had a little boat or she didn't find she was floating. She was just floating. Yeah, it turns out she they thought it was dead body. Turns out she was alive, and she was alive. And when they rescued her. Was she appreciative? She was so appreciative. Did she show her appreciation?
Did she show the whole crew appreciation at the same time? Is it everything that you would imagine? That? Was it? Okay? I was so thankful that we have porno. I mean, think about it could be it's not that insane of a world where that would be like, oh my god, what videos? I mean people do it like, that's not that crazy. We lived in a world where it wasn't that well, no, it wasn't attainable. That was a technology question. Yeah, I mean more
from a legal standpoint and societ idol acceptance. Oh, it's so good man. There's so many different flavors you can try to. I mean, anything you think of. You think it's free, it's free, like you know, we're we're spoiled, spoiled, and yes, it's definitely affecting the real world life and relationships and relationships. Yes, but you can type in anything, you can type in anything, you can think every day and have a
different option. It's amazing. Oh we're so lucky. We appreciate the good things more instead of bitching about the best serious like we have pretty much everything. You're about to get your second text from Christie. Good morning. I was just in a radio home ownership. According to a recent study, the majority of Texans Texas homeowners bought their first house by age thirty seven. I'm thirty six. I bought mine at thirty five. Look at you ahead of
the game. And the year two thousand, that age was thirty four, two thousand. Were you owning a house? I hadn't own a house until I was forty seven. This house, yeah, this first house. You bought, first house I've ever owned. I've been a renting mofo. So nineteen eighty. It was twenty nine, two thousand and thirty four, and then now it's thirty seven, nineteen eighty. It was twenty nine. Yeah, man, we screwed this thing up. Now we're not going to get
into a political thing and about her greed and all this. But the idea was the middle class. You work a nice, solid job, and the best one was John Oliver did the whole thing on truck driving. Yes, it was a very respected job, and it was enough to work and buy a home and support a family and take the vacation. Thing is design, yes, and go to Disney World if you want. It was it was right, yeah, and our own greed fed it up. And now you have to you can't. Nothing's ever enough. No, we fed it up,
and it's our own greed. It sucks. So median US home values have doubled in the last decade. Meanwhile, household incomes have only grown by thirteen point five percent. So incomes double, that's one hundred percent, right, we get paid thirteen point five percent more. Obviously not everywhere bike on average, household incomes have grown thirteen point five it's not Those numbers are not parallel, No, not even close. And there's no chance of a comeback
story when you're that far behind. You know what, Mikey's right, it's it's not just we did f it up. Our culture of greed did f it up because we had it. It was right. It's not so much capitalism, it's the fact that everything has to represent growth. We have to have growth. If you have a corporation that is incredibly profitable, okay, and they say, you know what, in the fourth quarter, we posted
our best numbers that we ever had. Then you get to the first quarter of the following year and it shows a one point five percent dip that is looked at as failure when in reality, you're still incredibly profitable. You're making tons of money, but you're making less than your high mark. And if you're not consistently beating your higher mark and that raising raising, raising, then
it's considered a failure. And then people end up getting fired because of that, because the people at the top want to keep making the same money and watch their salaries increase. So if the company is underperforming, those people aren't taking less money. Most of them aren't taking less money. They're just they're cutting We've got redundancies. We need to trim some fat. Yeah, we got to make people do that. Two jobs, the same person doing two
jobs. Let me speak to something real quick to that, because this touches a nerve with me. We had to shut down I used to own be a coner of two drinking establishments, one and four worth one here. We shut down the one and four Worth because after five or six years it never showed a profit return. The one in Dallas has been very profitable up until
the pandemic. Okay, we made it through the pandemic and since then, and that's been what a couple of years now, year and a half or so two years since the everything kind of got back to some semblance of normalcy. That location, the Dallas location, has not really touched a profit kick in for the owners. That would not be acceptable in the real world. But you know what would happen if we show it down. People would lose their jobs. Yeah, because we're still able to pay our bills and the
people that are working there are still making livings and still making money. And we're not firing anybody but me and the other owner. We're not making any money off of it. But we're not going to just shut it down, right and that. But a company will do that, and it'll fire people just so that the owners can make more money. Because yours is small and you have f there's eyes you can look into. No, but you're right and that's how it should be. But why and you don't have you don't
go there all that often? You know, I don't, so you won't in some part of your proper thinking is like, I don't need to be making profit. It is credible profit for something that you've put a lot of work into, but you don't actually do the day to day. No, yes, that's not the ideal situation. To be nice if you, as an owner was making a nice chunk every year and it's deserved, but the option to shut it down because you're not, I'm glad that's not on the
table for you. Yeah, I mean, and I do you know the as far as the the ugly or the not so glamorous side of owning a bar. That's what I do is, you know, pay insurance and renew permits and do payroll and run numbers and stuff like that. So I'm very connected to the operations. I'm not in there making orders and restocking liquor. You know, we have somebody to do that. That's Elliott. Yeah,
that's sweet, sweet, Thank God in Heaven for Elliott. Yeah. But yeah, it's just a screwed up mindset that we can't look at a small percentage loss as something that is sustainable. Everybody's got a freak out more. This world needs more steady damn hands, steady hands. Where's the steady hands, Mikey? You know, I don't know you want a man with a steady hand. Sorry to hijack your segment, Kevin, but then hijacking anything that was part of the story, man damn anyway, fifteen minutes away from
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the station. We personally giving you money based on spens. That's coming up at eight. I gotta do this story, man, I've been sitting on it for a couple of days now, just like this guy's been sitting on it. Is this the man KINI it's the horse story. Shane Rose is a three time Olympic Equestrian medalist for Australia. Mate. Okay, so he's gonna be going to the twenty twenty four Paris Olympic Games in a questionism course
things. But he has been sidelined or suspended by Equestrian Australia the organization because he wore an outfit during a show jumping fancy dress event the other day at the Wallaby Hill Extravaganza. And he's fifty years old. And he posted a photo of himself on Instagram. If you look up Shane Rose and just type in man keini, he posts himself. One he's in a gorilla suit riding
a horse. Another one he's in a beer cost to ride a horse, and another one he's in a mankini the boar at Onesie riding a horse. Now he got suspended for that and this could keep him out of the Olympics. It's funny leave the man alone. Let him wear the bar at bikini. Now, any man that is willing to put that thing on, much
less hop up on a horse, let him go should be applauded. Darren Goucher, the CEO of Equestria in Australia, said that there are a lot of complaints that were made about his outfit, along with the fact that miners were in attendance. Oh god, but this dude got silver at the two thousand and eight and twenty twenty Olympics. Okay, and he got a bronze
in the twenty sixteen Olympics. A legend. He's a equestrian legend. And it's now like possible that he's not allowed to go compete in the Paris Games in twenty twenty four because he wore a mankini to a fancy dress event. The hell, let the band compete. That's funny. The pictures are funny. I think we have Australia and Shan Rose joining us right now. Hey, Shane, good day, good to be with you. Thanks glad to have you on. Happening to be walking down the whole way and head you
guys talking about the man Caen he figured it. Pop in and give you a perspective. Appreciate your stick if he so. You're an Olympic legend, you know, prime for the gold. I took home the bronze a few years back, won a couple of sivers. Yeah, we're ready to ready to take home the big hardeware. I want to ask how that man kinny feels. I've seen the boy at bikini a lot is a shocking minimalist piece of clothing. Yeah, on its own, it's quite a big snug around
the crume and it barely covers the nipples. But when you hop on top of a horse makes things even more difficult. I found myself to be somewhat compromised wearing the MANKINI how long is this gonna continue? To save your handlers? Outside wavy out there? I think you have to go to a different station. It's a go. I really enjoyed being on with the damn beat pop on Billy the Kid. Now guy, he's a he's a right dick. Shane Rose added to the list with Kevin from the office. Don't do
that to me to kill two minutes? Terrible. Lastly, Jesse, what's going on with tier Woods? I know we are. I don't wear fifty days for the Masters today, we're fifty days in the mass fifty days. So Charlie is looking to play. How old is Charlie? He's tru a little fifteen and he is looking to play in the Cognizant Classic in Florida next
week. Now, the way he would do that. He's playing around this morning, and if he gets into the top twenty five of this qualifier today against adults, you know, if he gets in the top twenty five of this qualifier, he will go into another qualifier on Monday, and if he finishes in the top four there, he will be teeing up alongside Rory McElroy and Ricky Fowler and the Cognizant Classic next week. So finish top twenty five today and finished top four on Monday in these qualifiers, and he is in
the PGA Tour tournament next week. Huh, come on and begging? I don't think he's good enough to get in yet. He's fifteen. Can you say he's like the third dude on his high school team? People who know more than I say that he's not the best player on his high school team. But he's fifteen. Also, he's playing against eighteen year olds. He's still like he's growing very quickly, and you can kind of seem but he's not yoked yet, like Tiger was. What's it called the Cognizant Classic,
Yeah, it is this? What is this a is this a brand? Or is this a tournament for people that are just aware is awareness. I don't know what Cognizant is. That is one of Them's the Honda Classic. It's a primary sponsor for an F one team too, for the Aston Martin team. Cognizant and I always see it and I don't know what it is. I see a field of golfers that know exactly where they are right now, right here at the Cognizant Classic. Every player but that's is that a
e exactly where they know? It's a basic? But why is Rory playing? Uh? Probably just trying to get ready because the players is coming up and that's a twenty five million dollar pool middle of March, so next week we'll start. They're in Mexico this week. Next week starts the Florida So it's it's the old Honda Classic, is what it is. Yeah. So, yeah, he's playing right now. And if he finishes in the top twenty five today, top four on Monday, fifteen year old Charlie, you
don't think the sports world is going to lose their mind. Yeah, but your little Charlie's four on Monday, So he's basically earning the right to attempt to qualify on Monday for a PGA Tour event, and he'll be attempting that against a c of PGA Tour pros. This is not that different than when Romo was playing in qualifiers and you know they would send out Todd Archer to cover his round Trinity Forest. I respect bringing it up, but he ain't.
He ain't pulling off a Monday qualifier on the PGA. We have early reports that he had a club twirl on round one on hole one, which I had a club twirl in my first two holes yesterday too, and then it went down. We came out hot yesterday. Oh yeah, it was Kevin striping him down the middle. Kevin hits every drive dead straight, dead straight, like two seventy, like he hits a great and then it's just a disaster. That is a mess. But on the till it's amazing.
It just pumps it all day, dead straight. It's magical. You could argue that I could maybe score better with just my driver than my whole collection of clubs. What's the seriously, what's the style of golfing where the two players play and you take the best shot between the two and and make that your score. Well, is it a scramble? Is what you described so if you and Kevin are playing me and JJ and you just want two scores
represented, then you guys would take the best. There's best ball in scramble, and it's confusing because they're both similarly named. Scramble would be Kevin hits it right down the middle. I spray at seventy yards to the right. We both hit from where Kevin Kevin's ball is. Yeah, and then let's say he messes up and I hit the green. Then we both put from eyeball. That's scramble. Okay, best ball is we both just play the whole Kevin makes a par, I make a bogie. We made a par
Okay, that's best ball. Makes sense. I think scrambles more fun, right. Scrambles fun especially for people if you have people in your group who aren't awesome. Scramble and it's usually four people, all four hit, you take the best of the four. So the winning score is usually a fifty eight or something, but you just get hammered. And if Kevin hits the fairway, then we try to just destroy the ball and just do something that
we wouldn't normally do because we already have a great one out there. It's fun strategy. Scrambles fun. You can scramble what you guys would be a good scramble team, right, we'd be all right. You can play with us. You scramble with this sometimes I would love to scram Yeah, because that even if you just ma make a putt. Yeah, you can help. You. You're helping. I'm helping. I'm Danny. Yeah, I'm
helping. I'm helping. There's your golf today, unless Charlie makes a run and we'll update that later in that hell, yeah, you're doing great today, Joe. Well, coming up next, it's time to give our listeners some money. You guys ready two one four eight one seven seven eight seven one nine seven one. JJ will be standing by the phones. Your chance to win money straight out of our pockets. If you have a Venmo. If you don't have a Venmo, do not waste your time and take away
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