Imagine you're relaxing on your yacht, but you're wearing a cool leather jacket and growing out your salt-and-pepper beard. That's Michael McDonald in a nutshell. 4. He doesn't mind being a punchline.

His beard was gone in favor of a slick goatee ... from Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly. Bruner first heard Michael McDonald's voice on Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja, on which he contributed ...

so I’m shocked when I log on five minutes early to make sure everything is kosher and see Michael McDonald sitting there patiently, white beard matching his slicked-back head of white hair.