To streamline the listening experience here are links to all 4 parts of Frankly Frank
Happy Thanksgiving!
Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Saturday, February 29, 2020
Incandescent Proposal
The year was 1996 and one fateful Sadie Hawkins Day I asked
a question of my colleague. This clip is
24-years-young and was found after digging through boxes in the basement to
find the original cassette. I hope you
enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed rediscovering it. Happy February 29th!
Thursday, October 31, 2019
Throwback Thursday Halloween Edition
Enjoy this throwback with Special Guests from Halloween 1996. A stab at scripted comedy on the old show.
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
The LowDown Live Stream
The Davis family requests the honour of you presence at the next snarky broadcast of The LowDown Live: Celebrates the Royal Wedding and Um Like Stuff with Victoria Ann and Rosalind to be held at eight-o’clock in the evening on Wednesday, the twenty-third of May at https://www.youtube.com/user/LowDownVic/live . White tie optional.
Ps. They shall also be wrapping upon the Preakness Stakes, The Billboard Music Awards and Bob Dylan’s new Whiskey.
(Time approximate due to YouTube latency).
Friday, March 2, 2018
The LowDown Live Stream
Join us on The LowDown Live as we celebrate the Academy
Awards--straight from the Red Carpet (actually mauve, but close enough). We’ll cover some stories, make some fun,
visit with our new AI (the Nagatron 41) and perhaps even have some unacceptably
bad ventriloquism. To paraphrase a Best
Picture winner, “This show is like a box of chocolates. You are probably going to get the icky jelly
one and spit it out then put it back in the box for someone else.” Join us live at 7:00 PM Sunday (March 4). (Time
approximate due to YouTube latency).
Awards--straight from the Red Carpet (actually mauve, but close enough). We’ll cover some stories, make some fun,
visit with our new AI (the Nagatron 41) and perhaps even have some unacceptably
bad ventriloquism. To paraphrase a Best
Picture winner, “This show is like a box of chocolates. You are probably going to get the icky jelly
one and spit it out then put it back in the box for someone else.” Join us live at 7:00 PM Sunday (March 4). (Time
approximate due to YouTube latency).
Need to catch-up?
New Year’s Eve: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=9CLkWjegCrg
Saturday, January 27, 2018
The LowDown Live: Welcome to Grammy Night
The LowDown Live: Welcome to Grammy Night
We’re back at it:
We couldn’t get tickets to The Grammy’s this
year—we got wait listed twice. However, our sorrow is your good fortune because
we are now free to do a live broadcast from our dining room before the
telecast. Join us when we share our irreverent
take on the music industry with our latest special The LowDown Live: Welcome to
Grammy Night. The show begins at 7:00 PM
Eastern and ends at 7:30 PM (time approximate due to YouTube latency).
Catch it live here: The LowDown Live: Welcome to Grammy Night
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Submitted for your New Year’s Eve Viewing:
Submitted for your New Year’s Eve Viewing:
The Davis sisters take on their most ambitious New Year’s
Eve broadcast to date. The show begins
at 11:30 PM Eastern and ends after midnight (time approximate due to YouTube
latency). A review of 2017 entertainment
news and celebrity snarkcasm will be part of the broadcast. (Overt politics and coverage of delicate
matters will be omitted for this family friendly broadcast.)
The full show will be available live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdG9FQQCrxE
The lowering of the shark will also be carried live on The
LowDown Facebook fan page:
Will this be the best thing you watch this New Year’s Eve?
Possibly.
Will this be the cheesiest, silliest thing you watch this
New Year’s Eve? Definitely!
Will it crash and burn? Hopefully not--but if it does you'll
want to see it live.
See you soon!
Victoria and Rosalind
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 3: Do You Feel Like We Do
Listen here: SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 3: Do You Feel Like We Do
Continuing on with Snark Week, Frampton Comes Alive and he is Angry! On July 23rd, 2017, Peter Frampton stormed off stage while opening for the Steve Miller Band in Minnesota and then wackiness ensued. Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Listen here: SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 3: Do You Feel Like We Do
Monday, July 24, 2017
SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 2: Phelps vs Shark 2
Listen here: SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 2: Phelps vs Shark 2
What a diff’rence a day made. Controversy erupts less than 24 hours after our last SnarkByte, when it is revealed that Michael Phelps faux raced a CGI shark during Discovery’s Shark Week show “Phelps vs. Shark: Great Gold vs. Great White”. We ask, ‘”Why?” and ponder what is next. Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte #SharkWeek
SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 2: Phelps vs Shark 2
Sunday, July 23, 2017
SnarkByte Season 3 Episode 1: Phelps vs. Shark
Phelps vs. Shark
Summertime is for grilling, swimming and soaking up the sun. It also means another season of SnarkBytes. We open with “Phelps vs Shark”, our tribute to Shark Week. Who and what creatures would you pit against each other? Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Phelps vs. Shark
Summertime is for grilling, swimming and soaking up the sun. It also means another season of SnarkBytes. We open with “Phelps vs Shark”, our tribute to Shark Week. Who and what creatures would you pit against each other? Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Phelps vs. Shark
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
SnarkByte Season 2 Episode 8: The Envelope Please
Too much happened this week to let it slide by. We rushed this one hot off the press, with part of the story only 45 minutes old. This one was so much fun, and la la long!. Almost as long as this year’s Oscars Ceremony. SnarkByte! Enjoy.
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte #OscarsSoWeird
Friday, February 10, 2017
SnarkByte Season 2 Episode 7: Marriage or Flop?
SnarkByte Season 2 Episode 7: Marriage or Flop?
SB 02-07 Marriage or Flop?
It has been a while since the last SnarkByte. This time around we discuss Tarek and Christina El Moussa’s ,the stars of HGTV’s “Flip or Flop”, split (level?). There are plenty of impressions and sound effects as well as relationship advice.
Remember: According to research by psychologist John M. Gottman, who can predict with up to 94 percent certainty whether couples will be broken up or still together, it all comes down to a simple ratio of 5:1. For every negative instance in a relationship, there should be five positive ones. Couples, who bring kindness and generosity instead of contempt and criticism, have a decent shot of success and happiness. It is all in the book, Why Marriages Succeed or Fail. Happy Valentine’s Day! Enjoy.
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Monday, August 15, 2016
Gaga's Bad Romance
Gaga's Bad Romance
It was going to happen all along, Gaga and her man are splitsville. Rosalind sees this as an opportunity! As everyone knows, Taylor Kinney aka Kelly Severide the handsome young firefighter on “Chicago Fire” has been her longtime crush. Will she swoop or will she wait until Christmas and hope to find him under her tree? Debate amongst yourselves. Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Friday, August 5, 2016
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| Replay Misty For Me-The Death of the VCR |
SB 02-03
The Funai Corporation of Japan has announced the end of VCR manufacturing. Sad, but the technology circle of life marches on. Join us as we take a historical journey in the wayback playback machine; from the beginning of the VCR up to today’s streaming. We reminisce and wax not even poetic about our past experiences with the Videocassette Recorder. Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Monday, July 18, 2016
Who You Gonna Call – A Girl?
Who You Gonna Call – A Girl?
SB 02-02
Too much fun this summer delayed this season’s second episode. It is hard to believe we started doing this a little over a year ago. In “Who You Gonna Call – A Girl”, we explore the vitriol around the making and marketing of the all women Ghostbuster’s remake (hey, the haters are going to hate). The movie opened this weekend with $46 million, placing it second behind The Secret Life of Pets. You be the judge on whether all the protesting prior to the movie’s release had an impact or not. Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Honoring Skip, One Year Later
By Rosalind Davis
For those who know,
one year ago today I lost my partner of over twenty-two years, Anthony “Skip”
Turyonas Jr. We were going to the store
so he could buy me roses. He was to go
on a snowmobile trip for the weekend and wanted to be sure I had the
traditional Valentine’s Day gift. We had
stopped for dinner and while waiting for the check, mid-conversation, he
collapsed. We buried him that Saturday, just
before the snow storm. It happened to be
Valentine’s Day.
Today marks the end of
all the “firsts”… the first Christmas, the first birthday, the first
anniversary without him. I am still
shocked and saddened. Intellectually I
know time has passed, but it still seems so fresh and unbelievable to me. When it first happened I counted the minutes
and hours. I stayed up all night and
watched the stars and then the sunrise; the first sunrise in the world without
him in it. In the last year I literally counted
the days, weeks and months. Sadly, from
this point on I will start to count in years and this makes me anxious. Our time spent together will fade into the
past and there will be no new memories. I know he will always be a part of me, but I
am afraid that over time I will think of him as less relevant. That just
doesn’t seem fair to him. He was quiet, funny,
humble, shy and honorable. He was the
greatest person I will ever know and I miss him terribly.
He had two loves,
stock car racing and me. I hope not in that order. In an effort to remember him as he was and to
honor him, the following is from the April 16, 1992 edition of the Hunterdon
County Democrat. The article “Turyonas
Is Looking for Sportsman Victory” is by Fred Voorhees. This story was published just before we
started dating. Skip would end up racing for 21 seasons at
Flemington Speedway. His one feature win
was in his final season on July 6, 1996 in the Troyer chassis mentioned below.
The year this article ran, he came in second in points in the Sportsman
division.
“Hampton’s Skip Turyonas is now entering his 17th
season of local stock car racing. Yet,
he has come up short of achieving one of his main goals set in 1976. Turyonas has yet to capture a feature event
checkered flag. He hopes that will fade
into the past this season with his purchase of a 1991 Troyer DIRT asphalt
chassis.
Turyonas got his introduction to racing when he was in grade
school at the now defunct Nazareth half mile speedway in Pennsylvania. Further along, lending a hand to friend Ty
Constantino on his race car while in high school assured him that racing was in
his blood.
Turyonas entered the 1976 rookie division at the Flemington
Speedway and was on his way. Since then
he has been the owner and driver of his yearly racers. Last year at Flemington Speedway he went to
battle with a converted 1989 Olsen dirt track chassis. For the 1992 season he has purchased the
Shammy Shine racing team’s car from last season because he felt that was the
way to go.
The Flemington opener on April 5 saw Turyonas have problems with
the car in qualifying and not make the main event. “For some reason all the
brakes locked up in the heat race,” he said.
“I never had anything like that happen before. We also had an electrical problem and the engine
would not run at speed. These problems
are hopefully corrected now.”
Still, comparison to his previous car showed Turyonas that
he will now be able to up his cornering speed thanks to the new chassis and the
Tony Feil engine under the hood and greater amount of stability the car now
affords.
“From an owner’s standpoint, I like the asphalt better that
then old dirt surface because everything stays cleaner and I could stretch the
tires longer,” he said. “There is also
less weekly maintenance. But from the
driver’s side, I liked the dirt better.
When a car handled well there was no thrill like going around
Flemington. I’m also less comfortable
yet on the asphalt.”
It’s really a family affair in the pits at Flemington as
father Tony, brother Bill and mother Lois find ways to help, along with Ray
Olsen, Dean Horvath and Ron Gardner.
Turyonas also finds occasional help form the Shammy Shine Car Washes
team when their driver Kenny Brightbill needs little work on their car. Sponsorship backing for Turyonas efforts
comes from Clinton Auto Body, Proven Design Custom Kitchens, Ty Constantino
Ceramic Tile and Rick Allen’s Auto Repair.
Besides the Flemington Speedway, Turyonas has also competed
on the old Nazareth half mile as well as the presently asphalted one mile track
when it was dirt. But Flemington remains
his favorite track... “It’s a real challenge.”
Locally he admires eight time Flemington champ Billy
Pauch. “He can drive anything, anywhere”
says Turyonas. Nationally he leans
towards A.J. Foyt because he tells it like it is. Working Monday through Friday at Bemis in
Flemington as a process technician, his racing aspirations are simple. “I’m happy and content running at Flemington,”
he said. “The fans are great and I hope
to be able to do a good job in the modifieds if I should make the move up from
the sportsman division.”
With the proven success of the Troyer chassis he now owns
and the ample experienced crew on hand each week, Turyonas should not have to
wait much longer before he crosses under that checkered flag ahead of the
field.
If he can keep his No. 8T running as well as his beautiful
blue, white and red machine looks on the track, the wins will surely come.”
Monday, February 8, 2016
Getting Older, Getting Better?
By Rosalind Davis
They warned me it would happen, but I refused to
believe. Then one day it came about. It was so stealth, so unassuming, that it
took me by surprise. It was an ordinary Saturday,
two days before my fiftieth birthday. I
went to the mailbox and opened it. There
with the water bill, an advertisement from a local accountant (it is tax time
after all) and an LL Bean catalog, was a piece of mail wishing me a “Happy
Birthday”. The return address indicated
it was from Washington, D.C.
Interesting. Was it from the
President? Perhaps my local
representative? I was excited. Up until this point the only birthday card
that came for me was from my Chiropractor.
Carefully I opened it. Then it popped
out like snakes in a can! Slowly,
it dawned on me what the words spelled and they hit me like a two ton hammer: A-A-R-P.
Bxstxrds!
How did they know? Do
they have some sort of old age spy unit out there detecting when the populous turns
50? The mailer was my invitation to join,
and if I join today I receive a free gift.
What is it? A can of strained
peas? A bottle of Geritol? Happy birthday indeed.
Monday, January 4, 2016
SnarkByte SeasonTwo Episode One - Mechanization Takes Command
It’s the New Year and time for a new season of SnarkBytes. In “Mechanization Takes Command”, we ponder how far Artificial Intelligence will go with guest snarker, Siri. Enjoy!
Happy New Year.
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
#snarkbyte
Sincerely,
Rosalind Davis
rosdavis@comcast.net
rosdavis@comcast.net
Mechanization Takes Command
Ps. In case you missed it, check out the lowering of the Snark Shark Ball on NYE at YouTube.
New Year's Snarking Eve Edited
Saturday, September 26, 2015
The Apprentinator
Arnold Schwarzenegger gets a new gig at NBC. We are skeptical that this will work, however we also thought the same thing about Survivor when it debut, and it became a huge hit! Who knew?
Enjoy!
Love and Happiness,
The Davis Sisters
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
Rosalind & Victoria Davis
The Apprentinator
#snarkbyte
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