You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak cleaning up something from last segment, Dirk said that in two thousand and one, Dirk said that Utah was a bad city Salt Lake. Now in recent years he's cleaned up the fact that he knows that Utah is a state and not a city. But yeah, and what he definitely didn't know that he just moved here. You though, it is bad city. That's pretty funny. There's
one their first playoff run there and they beat the Jazz. Utah is a bad city with the average nineteen year old European knows that there are fifty states. Ooh, maybe might know fifty because it's such a round number and it's kind of weird, you know, fifty, but not the fifty for sure? No, yeah, I think so? Is that you said? Night ten year old? Yeah, I don't know. I'm just picking a lot of night year old Americans that don't know how many states there are. I'm
not kidding, dude, I'm with you. I don't think so. We're starting to see more and more data that kids are getting dumber. Okay, I don't disagree with that at all, all Right, some stuff about gen Alpha yesterday. What was that? The one that's behind gen Z. These are kids of millennials. I hate. Gen Alpha has their own way. They have their own language too, the same way gen Z does. It's nuts, is that? What is that? What? The next one is
being called gen alpha? Yeah, and that means being born now. They are being born now, they are happening now. Malcolm would fall into the category of Gen Alpha. Yeah, he's stupid. He answers every question with the word car wash with the idiot. Yeah, ask him how many states there are car wash? This stupid. Every time we get in the car seat, he has to remind me that we're not going to the car wash. I know, dude, it's it's training. You see, no car
wash. I'm like, no, we're not going to the car I took him one time. Do you think Malcolm is can be here ago forty years old, smoking SIGs, beat down and still just have this thing where he hates car washes? Do you think let's you know, his stuff gets ingrained real early and you don't know why. Cosh, Okay, that's so cute. Gosh, he's a beautiful boy. So what percentage of fifteen year olds in America are not aware that there are fifty states. It's under like one
percent. Dude now not naming him. And there's probably states they've never heard of. I don't know, but I've I think it would shock you to be aware of the number of states. They don't have to do anything, and they will always use COVID as an excuse for a couple of years. They did and go to school to make it seem like they're not educated at all, but they did not have to try for a couple of years. It's amazing, Like I told you this the other day or a couple weeks
ago, the ACT stores came in. It's one test score, whatever, but it's a six year decline. And one thing the article was very adamant about was like, now, a couple of these years, would you know this. In fact, this year's class would have been the class that were freshmen in high school when COVID hit, so that probably doing class from home and maybe not as engaged. Well, that doesn't explain the full six year decline. Getting dumber. We don't read anymore. Reading is the only way
to boost your IQ. We don't do that. We live in skim culture, not being preachy. I'm just saying, like, this is a real thing that's happening. It's where we are. We are getting dumber natural evolution. Yeah, anyway, move on, next topic. Go go all right, tell the most an important thing in the world. Evolve it evolve. The Sun's probably is it? The sun just didn't come up one day. I remember when a wig out and then the day was just pitch black all
day, and then the next day it was back. Wow. What would happen? What would happen? Would the earth freeze? No, just one day of no sun? No, but it would change. It would be big changes, huge changes. But I think it'd be more humanity and mental. The whole season of wheat would definitely be ruined. You know, we lose it. We would lose a lot of wheat, wheat and grains. Guys, I look to welcome in the Monday money medics. JJ, crank me up here, we're here. Please tell me I have a live singing
open that seems very business y. Yeah, that's really good. I'm very irritated by two stories that came out this weekend because I feel like I do my part in helping the community. Boy by eating chili yeah, and judging things for ture and vomiting that with a mixture of tequila out of your passenger window. There was no vomiting. I bet there was that you know of. There was no vomiting. Two stories that involve a massive waste of money.
Jimbo Fisher is the Texas A and M head coach. He was fired, let go, and this move is going to cost the school more than seventy six million dollars to buy out his deal. He will make seventy six million dollars to just hang out and go away. Jesus, it's triple the highest note coaching contract buyout, is that right? Yes? Wow? So he will make a and M will owe him nineteen million dollars within the next sixty days, and then they will pay him seven million dollars annually through twenty
thirty one, and nineteen million in the next sixty days. Yeah, just stroke him a check. And that's after he signed a ten year deal back in twenty twenty one. Boy, the best job in the world. The fired head coach. He owes Javis Winston a five million dollar check because I've convinced he didn't get that job without jamis being awesome in college, so he should give him some money. You're right, this send me die or an old story back in the day, And I don't know if it's true or
not. I know there's an article written about it back in the day. There. Well, this is Russ Martin, Okay, former radio host rest in peace. He back in the two thousands, he worked at CBS Radio and there was an incident at home, a bit of a domestic dispute. And read into the article what you'd like to I'm not going to say there was a pistol whipping or not. I don't know. He then sat out because CBS let him go, and then he set out and didn't work and
making a million dollars a year just to not work. And I was like, what a good job and does not feel like a good punishment if there was a wrong deed done at the home, And like, you can read into that article whatever you would like. Now this is over fifteen years ago, but it's a story that always stuck with me for many years. Make a million dollars to just not work, Jimbo Fisher makes seventy six million dollars to just not work. Does that go away? If he takes a job.
I don't believe so I hid because be the case, I don't think there's a non compete here. No, that dude, that's got to mean that he he's the contract is for employment right for him to be employed by Texas A and M for a decade, And they're basically saying we hate your guts so much that it's worth US seventy six million dollars to never see your
face in college station again. That for him to take a job anytime soon, it seems like there would be some kind of he's not gonna get double paid from another institution and an M. There's no way I think so. So the last biggest one was twenty one million dollars. It was a Gus Malason and Auburn about just saying get can Jimbo Fisher or will Jimbo Fisher still
get money if he takes another job. Isn't it incredible though, that that a relationship can become so sour that it's work with it to the institution to just write those checks to never have to deal with the dude again. A great man once said, you know why divorce is expensive, because it's worth it. How was that great man, Willie Nelson legendary. I always assume it's Gregor who said every time you do that, Well, he probably Gregor
probably you know, lifted him from somebody else. Yeah, that one seemed a little too wise for Grego. That was very good. I don't underestimate the wisdom of the Hammer. By the way, we're going to hear from the New Jersey Hammer later. Really so, he signed a ten year, seventy five million dollar deal, and then at one or twenty one they extended him to the tune of ninety five million, full guaranteed. Yeah. One and it's three. Yeah, jesus, it's twenty one and it's twenty three,
So less than two years ago. Yeah, Fisher is ed the entirety of what remains on his deal, regardless of whether he gets another job in coaching. That's insane. But why does this only happen in college football. It's because there are universities with unlimited money, and there's so many universities to pay whatever they want. Yeah, they're making but like in the pros, this doesn't happen well because the pros they have so much more expenses with I
don't know, paying their players were in college. You're basically getting free labor and making all of that money. So yeah, this is nothing to A and M. And in like every state they do the you see that the highest paid state employee. Yeah, it's almost always football man. Yeah, because they have no they have no uh, they have no payroll. College football has no payroll when it comes to the one hundred players that are sitting
on the sidelines at every game. Let's stop with ten year deals. Like, you don't have to have to entice or make it performance based this perfect coach who is the answer? And every time on signing day, your message boards are lit up with titles are coming to college station. I mean, and there's some context clues here that you go about before you give the guy tim he knows here. Here's one that really jumps out of me. His name's Jimbo. Yeah, like I'd be writing, Nah, no, Jimbo
should have a million dollars, much less seventy five million. You come in for an interview, I guess, but we ain't hiring you have the name's Jimbo. Don't give long contracts to anybody named Jimbo or Booger. You'll be fine. Yes, what's Jimbo's really Jim, It's probably not. It's John James, Jimbo Fisher, James Beauregard Jim another red flag. He's from West
Virginia. Don't hire a West Virginia guy. Everyone knows that. Never Gosh, I have a good friend who I won't mention right now, but if you listen at all, you will you'll know who received a college football head coaching buyout not too long ago. Oh yes, for about eight million books. And it was allowed to go coach elsewhere. Oh yeah, what a life? Eight million dollars to do nothing so they could bring in I don't
know, just another guy, crystal Ball, whoever crystal Ball. But it's pretty cool when it happens to me, and I've been I've not it always sort of went in when here out the other the buyout. But when you know someone who, oh yeah, received eight million, much less seventy five million. How long before James Beauregard Fisher gets a relevant D one job again? Is he hirable? Yes? Yes, whenever he wants one? Really
yes? I mean, doesn't that send such a message. It's like A and M thinks you suck so bad that it's worth it to them to cut you a check for seventy six million dollars. I think it shows how much money they all have, because I don't know if it's you suck so bad, it's more we need you out of here because all these rich bastards that make it so we have seventy five million dollars are up my backside. You know, all these envelope toting check writing big sweat A aggies of which every
school has. I'm like, make no mistake, it just happens to be a big one for A and M today. Jeez. But it's like, you know, story as old as time, the boosters. You're gonna get the boosters happy. I mean, it could be three boosters. They're the shareholders of the cup of the corporation. It could be three boosters who strut into the the uh what sid or whoever and demand result. Yeah, they're like, we're done with them, So do you want us to be done with you? Or do you want to be done with him? Yeah?
And they say we'll be done with him, sir, because guess what, there's going to be another one hundred million dollar contract for the next big name if they go that route. They tend to it goes cyclical. Usually they probably won't go with the biggest deal in the world. I don't know, maybe they will, But A and M also is just trying to prove that they are on that level. They belong on that level. We are Texas A and M. We are a legacy university. We are the best football
program in America. That's what they want to be or dream of viewing themselves as they're just not. But they're willing to try to legitimize that by paying for it and get who they believe was the best coach in America at the time, which there was an argument that he that old jimbouregard was. And somewhere out there is one Jonathan Manzel just laughing at the whole thing, going, you know what, you ain't able to do any of this without me, And he's right, yeah, one hundred percent. This is all the
Manziel ripple effect. It was eleven years ago this weekend that Manziel beat Manziel beat Alabama. What a time changed everything. And then a story of wasting money as your Monday money medics are here. Yeah, So Warner Brothers is shelving a movie called Coyote Versus Acme, which is going to start John Cena because he's a roadrunner. Animated movie. It cost seventy two million dollars to
make. They spent over three years working on it. Now, this is the same studio Warner Brothers that just shelved Batgirl last year, which is ninety million dollars, I believe, and a Scooby Doo movie which cost forty million dollars to make. So all together was that's two hundred million dollars for three movies that they're not even going to release. They had spent the money to
make these movies and now they're not releasing. Him. The filmmaker for this Coyote Versus Acme movie, which is gonna be like a live action animation but a little bit of a hybrid, he said, I'm beyond proud of the final product, and I'm devastated by Warner brothers decision to not release the movie. So thirty million dollars goes to waste there. I've never heard of that. That sounds awesome. How many third world countries could we have saved with
that two hundred million dollars for those three movies. And Jimbo's seventy five million dollars. Seventy five million dollars. We could save a country, right or two. There's some tiny countries out there, Yeah, like Liechtenstein where you could feed some of the hungry people in your own Yeah. Nah, just the thought. But they'll write this all I could buy one more airplane.
Oh everybody one airplane? All right, So there's that. Somebody said, just think, not only do they have to pay Jimbo, they have to pay a six since plus pay a new head coach and his staff, possibly one hundred and fiftywo hundred million total. So do they clean all of the house. I'm sure they should start the Aggie network. Then that will help pay the bills. I don't think that's probably not around the corner. Who's their interim head coach? No, they can't because they're in the SEC.
They already have the SEC network. I think they're they're getting George Jones to do it. He's dead. Elijah Robinson all right, well good, yeah, uh huh are they good? Do you have any uh? You know. We'll start with some things that were released on this day? Yeah, fantastic, mister Fox two thousand and nine, never heard of it. That's the one where they do the cussing. They cuss right a little bit. If they're not cussing, they use other words. Yeah, like smurf.
Pretty good. I watched it again a couple months ago. It's Wes Anderson stop motion. Really yeah, I've heard it's great and I've never seen it with George Clooney among others. Never even heard of this. It's it's stop motion, so you'd probably slotted in the animated beIN You Busy twenty nine too was I was the craziest amount of asps and always deep. It was either knee deep in ass or just at the gym. I had chex with over three hundred women in two thousand and nine at the gym, a dozen plus
at the gym. You're an idiot. That was known to be one of the grossest saunas in Dallas. Uh Gerard Butler's fifty four. I was just wishing there was a twenty five hour fitness at that time to fifty Yeah, I like too. And there's a movie I just watched He's three hundred man. Correct, Yeah, that's what people know, h man. But god, dang it, what was it? I don't I wish I could tell you because there's a cool, like on Netflix movie that I'd never heard of.
It's like a cover to me dirty cop for something. Yeah, I think I've seen that, but really cool. Yeah, it's called uh, it's like a one word. I think it's Den of Thieves. No, no, is that a different One's a cop in that though? Yeah? La already crime drop? Yeah, I think's Den of Thieves. It was a pretty good law abiding citizen too. Yeah. Yeah, Jimmy foxx Neil Flynn, I want to watch Den of Thieves. Yeah, it's cool. Okay, Happy birthday, Gerard tall In Gerard Neil Flynn sixty three. He
was the janitor on Scrubs. It's probably not gonna help anyone, no, whoopee Goldberg sixty eight, Yes, he got Did you used to have Dary Black Queen sex with somebody dancing? Was it? Yeah? That Ted dancing? Yeah? Were they married or just dated? She's never married. She says she don't want a body in the house that was que feel that? Whoopeek Goldberg boyfriends Ted dancing for sure? Ted dancing? Sure as heck. Yeah, there's a whole episode of Cheers about it. They're all talking about
it around the bar. Joe Montana seventy six, I wants to dine next to him. I'm assuming you pronounce that properly. Yes, Joe Montana, not Montana. Okay. After Joe Montana from the great film Babies Day Out, you dined next to Joe Montagna yeap. And we were discussing. It was me, Bend and Skin and my friend Jesse who used to work on The Kimel Show, and we were discussing, how do we get out of
here by acknowledging Joe Montana but without interrupting his dinner. And we were just going around what scenario, what can you do to acknowledge make eye contact but not bother him or say anything to it? Not say anything? Yeah, So it was very fun. Skin gets up first, looks him in the eye and points at him. Play ben. I think just waved at him. I did. I went with the I kind of looked at him and just turned and I kind of gave him like a I threw up a fist
like I was gonna dap him, and he raised his fist. Oh we air dapt from how far from a booth? Like a booth behind us? You gave him an air Okay, yeah, as we're leaving, we look at it. We just get a quick air dapt do He acknowledged all three of you. He did. It was incredible because wal Chewing we we were once left, we felt like idiots, because we were like, we should have gone back. It actually interacted with him because he was cool with it.
He was that would have been He would have loved to have been noticed. We didn't want to bother the game. You were wrong on all fronts. You should have let Joe Montana enjoy his damn Caesar salad alone in peace, uninterrupted by the likes of you. Never do well? Is it Cafe Fiore? He can't have one damn nice night at Cafe FIORI though idiots like KT and skin Right doing three different gestures messing with him, I forgot what
Jesse did something funny too. It was really good. The helicopter, I think it was like a hat helicopter, a hat tip hat tipo a different plays. Mikey would have saluted properly and just I locked it in until he's sluted back, and then I knew, I knew I could be at ease because Joe Montagna Mikey goes to parade rest and then you're stand there and he kind of eats more, glances up. It's like that'll that'll be all soldier.
Steve's on fifty six. Steve's on great movie that you've never heard of, is called safe Men, starring Steve's on one of my favorite movies of all time. Big character actor great in the movie Strange Wilderness and joy Ride. Steve's on, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Dinklage, Margo Martindell. No, these are big names character actors. And I'm missing another. Oh Sam Rockwell.
The Great Themes and Sam Rockwell are the main two. With Mark Ruffalo, there's a little Peter Dinklish, Michael Lerner if you know him, he's in it. Paul Giamatti, what cast? Yeah, God, and no one's ever heard of it? What's it called? Trash Men? Faif Man. It's like the tiptoes of our time. It's excellent and it's funny as hell, especially if you're Jewish, because it is about the Jewish mode graves. It's hilarious in Rhode Island, Okay. Directed by a guy named Mark
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amazing. Governor Greg Abbott is sixty five for Happy Birthday. Greg Abbott's only sixty. Sometimes I talk like this, and sometimes I'll talk like this. Y'all caught his mic check audio. No, it's be fantastic. Sometimes I'll be talking like this, and sometimes I'll need to be a little more sincere. Yeah, yeah, just going through all of his different personalities. Coven, I'm next man. The Giants had quite a quarterback situation yesterday. We'll discuss next on Ninety's even one of the first