You're listening to the downbeat on ninety seven to one the freak. How many radio stations in America will play this as a return came at least wants to do? What the world? What is this one? I know it? What's the December by Collective Soul. It's called December? Yeah? Oh, Happy December to you, Kevin, thank you, Happy to December to you. You guys want some December fun facts? Absolutely, we'll get into the Cowboys game a little more specific. Happen in December fun facts? God?
Okay? Right to too much? Really that was a wild game. You know what day Hannaka starts? I should know that it's just the same day every year, and it's a change and sometimes Hanaka, I think can start in November even it's weird. Uh, I don't know seventh? What December seventh? You're saying it starts everything through the fifteenth, eight crazy nights every year. It's the seventh through the fifteenth. No, just this year. Oh okay, okay, but you don't have like this the reason it starts
on any particular day. No, I didn't do that much research. I was watching the Cowboys Happy Kwans of Mike on December eighteen, twenty sixth. Next Wednesday, here on the downbeat, we have got or we're getting the shipment in allegedly of the Downbeat Singing Christmas topper. Yeah, we got ahead of this one a little better than we did the uh, the singing Pumpkin.
Those damn supply chain issues. You know. That's next Wednesday. We have it sext Wednesday, and then also next week the ninety seven won the Freak Clip of the Year clip show countdown fifty to one. You can go vote over at you Gotta find it on at KTI fun Tweets. At this point on Twitter, I posted on Facebook two the ninety seven one the Freak Facebook list gup a lot of votes last night, and I'll tell you what, it is starting to spread out a little bit now. We're starting to
see a little bit of a gap. We're starting to see people at some of these clips start to differentiate themselves and the race to get into the top fifty. I'm closing the voting at noon on Sunday and we will count down the clips. I've put a description of a clip on there. You can vote for as many of them and as much as you want. Yeah, and it's gonna be a tight one. I'm ready to tally votes on Sunday. Yeah, as they sit in my chair and watch the Red Zone channel.
Is your I looked at the whole list a little more closely last night. Is your explanation of why you'd be an incredible actor on there? Oh? Man, I forgot that one because I don't think I have that clip. I don't think anyone ever said that clip to me. Well, I played it. I have it, so I know you or Danny having Yeah, Christina pulled It'll pulled it secretly because I think that's the funniest thing all year, either that or your uh whatever, whenever you said she looks like
she likes stadium food. Yeah, a lot of Kevin, A lot of people are joining my strokes apparently are funny to people, but they come when you say something funny every day, So every day I'm the favorite. No, no, we're not seeing that another one. You know. I'll tell you what my favorite clip of the year is. I'll be straight up with you. It's Julie guesting on our show, and she absolutely accidentally said the D word. Oh for yeah, I remember that, and I think a
lot of people are like, why isn't that on there? And I was like, well, I might have labeled it weird, but it's labeled Julie shot clock slip up and it's actually turned out like it's gonna make the list, but it's it's gonna be fun counting that down next week. We'll start that on Monday. We think eight o'clock. Yeah, eight o'clock, fifty to forty one, and then we'll we'll keep it yelling and we'll save the
honorable mentions for later in the year if we need to do that. But Kevin Honaka observed for eight nights starting on the twenty fifth day of kiss lev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur anytime from late November to late December Ah in the Gregorian calendar. We're gonna give away some Trevor Noah tickets at eight thirty. We have two pairs left to give to give you to see Trevor Noah coming up in March at the fair Park Music Hall, So
that'd be cool. And also we'll get to the Von Miller story at seven thirty. It's a little weird wow, yeah, happening here in Dalla Us. He still plays with the bills, right, he's just hurt, hurt his achilles. I don't even know. I was like, why is he hanging around in Dallas or that they're on by this week? Ah. I mean it's not crazy that he would hang out in Dallas, No, because
he was born here. But uh, that story is wild, and I think there's a little more detail to this one than some of these NFL domestic violence charges or accusations. I feel like this the details are a little more cut and dry here. We'll get into that at seven point thirty. Let's do the most important thing in the world now. Because I'm worried about something, Mike Cool, I'm worried about Wake up, you little sleepy head. It's time to get your stupid ass out of bed. About the most importing
thing and the most important thing. Tiger was back yesterday. Yeah. I got home and I watched a little bit. He was doing all right, and then he hit it in the bunker and he had to do one of those shots where you just kind of make contact with the ball to move it a little bit, and he said he was sore. Afterwards. Hear something funny, yes or no? Yeah, I saw this, Uh, because I speak ended up playing pretty good, I think, but he didn't have
Michael Greller on his bag. He had his friend Eric, Eric. Because this is not even a real tournament, right, I don't know. Yeah, this is the Hero World Challenge where it's the top twenty golfers in the world. You know, I learned yesterday. Hero is apparently motorcycles. Huh, Like I thought it was some Tiger charity thing. Dude, Hero is like a motorcycle company. We should have taken Zach to the Bahamas. Yeah, yeah, but it's got a great feel whatever. Who cares. Speith
is in this thing, right, But Michael Greller is not. So he brought his buddy Eric to be his caddy. That's essentially a trip to the Bahamas. You want to come hang out for a while. Greller will be on the bag when it matters a serious tournament, No, come chill. So his friend Eric is caddying on the first whole Thursday. Eric, his caddy, promised Spith that for every birdy he made today, he'd drank one beer while they watched the Cowboys game last night, and then he said make
an eagle. Eagles worth three beers. Okay, he had a wild round. He had a wild round, but his scorecard includes eagle on three, that's three beers, birdie on five, bertie on nine, birdie on eleven, bertie on twelve, birdie on fourteen, eagle on fifteen, birdie on seventeen. Oh no, I hope they don't have an early tea time, says twelve beers. Sweet Eric has promised a pound in front of Jordan's speed last night while watching the Cowboy game, and then have to get up and
carry the bag, lug the bag this morning. You think Sweet's gonna have a bad round today. He's in third place at four under. No, he's gonna think it's funny as hell. That's fn Eric is just barfing in the bermudas that would suck two eagles, and it was the most Jordan speeding, a round where you just can't have a par right, Yeah, just wild times. I mean, and look, I don't I don't drink nearly as much I used to. When I do drink, I drink some whiskey
and this might come off as pea. I don't know if I can drink twelve twelve beers in a day when I have and I just know this, I can't if I'm about getting close to a six pack. Okay, yeah again, I've I used to be able to do this razy with beer, but I've had to back off beer because beer goes straight to your movies. All right, your movies are perfect, dude, don't don't sweat that. But over you know, over the break a little bit. And if I get on like beer five, I just need to go poop. Yeah,
I ain't do a lot of that. I ain't go too hard on beer. And when but when I drink beer, I'll have like a cup two I pah, two beers is great, but it's kind of like real thing hangs with you for most of the day. But I know there's people listening who that's their bit is. You'll get a case of beer, assume light beer, light beer, and go just pound beers and make a little beer emitd next year your table ram at home. That's a perfect weekend. But like, is it normal for someone to have ten beers? No, on
a not normalat day? If you're watching college football all day long, and no, that's that's actually normal. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, if you if you're just watching football day, yeah, I think it is more the doing. That is more of the Saturday thing for sure for college football, which we got a doozy of a college football schedule tomorrow. More on that at nine, because Sunday it's tough. She gotta go to work. A lot of people do it, though, a lot of people. A
bunch of cowboy fans. They went, they stopped by the beer store when they got off work yesterday and they got them a case and they handled it. I wonder how, and they're going to work today, Give me a case of beer. And that's the playing because I do always drink brown drink or vodka, Tito's whatever, I don't know, maybe five six, maybe maybe seven beers over five six seven hours and kind of get hammered, but not twelve beers during a three four hour If you're out in your inter mixing
it with some snacks, it will not seem as yeah, filling. That's probably beer. You know beer. I've discovered a beer that he'd kind of like a little bit. And if you're listening, Midello, it's called Medello Outro. And I had my first one at Game seven in Houston. Remember when I and you went down in the fifth inning, yeah, and they dressed it up for me put some time. But it's like a you know, three carb ninety calorie. It's some of that Troy Aikman stuff that doesn't
taste good. Okay, Look, I'm sorry, I don't like Troy's beer. I was trying to book Troy Aikman as a regular guest on our morning show here. I love Troy, I don't like his beer. A lot of people do like his beer, So drake what you want. Look, some people I like the Dave Matthews band. Okay, so we all had to like different things. Okay, but you like modelo Odo well because I do kind of feel like it's not the worst for me, and it tastes fine as long as you jam a lime in there and you salted up,
and then you'll fool me. I'm usually going to some yeah, props to Eric this morning shout. So there's a rumor that John Rahm has been offered a six hundred million dollar deal to go to the Live Tour. I think that's been I don't know if we'd call that a room or anymore. I
don't know how that's almost considered fact. Look, as of this morning, they are they are fairly reputable sites saying multiple sources are saying that John Ram is a done deal to take six hundred million dollars to go to the Livy And this isn't Assar gonna be golf about golf, and I don't really even want to be about live because I feel like who cares? Yeah, but I think the influx of the Saudi money is interesting and what it could you
know, the next steps that thing. You never know what direction that could go. And the way I read it, it was like a six hundred million dollars signing bonus. And again I'm not positive that's true. A lot of this is kind of rumor based, but yeah, dude, I mean we all grew up doing hypotheticals. Would you cut your finger off for a million dollars? Would you make out with that man? Would you go to prison for a year for a million dollars? I mean these are like dumb,
fun hypotheticals. We've all done, not prison six hundred million dollars to play less golf And what what's the worst thing comes out of this? Some people on Twitter will be mad at you. You know, if you're friends with John Rang, you ain't gonna lose any friends over this. What Justin Thomas won't text you funny Thanksgiving memes with the girls stuffed up and she looks like a turkey. This is a like, yeah that stuff, that stuff
got way overblown. Okay. But the other thing I'd say about that is John Rahm would be the first quote unquote good guy saying sorry, guys gotta go. Like Kopka and Bryson and Dustin Johnson. Yeah, they're huge names and people go. It kind of seems kind of some of the bad guys on tour, you know, yeah, they're sort of the heels, not yeah, the heels, not bad guys, you know, not they're terrible
people. But just like so when they said it's okay, well and part of this is like you didn't go on Rory leaves the board and they did kind of fudge up this merger, which Tiger says might not get done by December thirty first, so the PGA Tour might not even exist next year and they don't even know, like so like yeah, Rom's like, yeah, well, if y'all don't have a plan, then they're want to give me
this much money. I should just take this much money what I can't get past to me is that watching live and then people who have gone to live events tell me it does still feel like an exhibition. Yeah, it doesn't feel competitive, and that bothers me because I want competition. I don't know
if it's even a fair equivalent. But I remember in the ooh that early nineties whenever because they just love IndyCar racing Indy five hundred, and then Indy Car had this big blow up and they split and they created what Kart, and then it just all felt deluded and you're like, wait, what's the what am I supposed to watch? And I like golf way more than I liked even Indie the full season back then, you know, And it's just I can see how to the casual fan this might delude things to a point
where you're like, I just don't care. I only care about the majors. But we're are we already there? Anyway? I find college football to be a little diluted because you split up these car references in weird ways, and you have different sizes of schools, and they're gonna have a fourteen playoff like it should be a twelve team playoff and will be next year. You know it should be a sixteen team playoff personally, but now these players are
making money. Who cares if they play a couple extra games? They don't care. And the people close so close to this kind of thing that make these decisions are so self important about their thing. Yeah, I mean, you don't think the people who had an Indy car were like, oh, why you're kidding me? Who's not gonna watch Indy? Yeah, who's not gonna watch open wheel racing in the United States of America. But you misjudge how many fringe people you have. That's why NFL, NBA, and MLB
have done a great job. They keep it as one thing. Nfls make sure there's parody, which is all great and stuff, but like this is where you're the dangerous thing that happened here is I think they didn't take a live serious enough too, and when they have infinite amounts of money, and now they're about to get a second wave of players because John Rahm going even if he may not be a household name to some people driving to work right now, John rum is one of the best players in the world and people
like him. They didn't like him in the first couple of years on tour and then he calmed down. Yeah, and he has basically said, no, guys, it's okay to go. I know we were all hesitant, it's okay to go now, and a bunch of guys are going to go now. I mean he's the reigning Master's champion, he's number three in the world. Yes, he's one of the most Yeah, he's a very famous athlete. Yeah. Yeah. And I kind of thought this wave was done when that merger, whatever the hell it was, was announced to her,
if it was even official. Like, I don't know where we stand on that either, which is all sort of a new shit. I don't eve want to really get into it. But what's really interesting is this the Saudi money and what the next steps are and how it applies to other sports. Like it's almost bad because baseball is the one sport where you think, all
right, it's unlimited, you know. I mean, they could I don't take anything off the table, including Saudi's buying the Yankees, because I have a feeling if they want to do something, they you know, they want to go huge with it. They could buy the Twins, sure, and turn the Twins into the highest spending team, not even close. What if they bought the Rangers. Now it's weird that we just won the World Series.
So it's a little bit different because six months ago, I said, what if Slady's buy the Rangers and we have the highest payroll in baseball and we are a juggernaut that is always battling for a World Series? Do we like that? I don't know, man, why because you're so moral? I'm not because you I'm talking to everyone. You know so much about the history and where the money came from from your owners, and it's so pure. I don't know, you know, I mean what I wish I was
more educated on it all, but I'm not. So I'm kind to be. Yeah, there's enough, dude, every day already I'm like, there's not enough hours today. Why is it already time to go to bed? So like, But the one that makes sense to me is the Chargers. Okay, so lacking a fan base, LA then they go. But it could You're absolutely could happen. It could happen in a way. Not that we're thinking it's like one hundred percent ownership of the team, fifty one the
team. As we just saw what the the mavericks. But football has a structure, and all sports except for baseball, I guess, have a structure that makes it sort of impossible just to have the most money and say, ef it, do anything you want. Basketball you could pay pay the tax. Yeah, you know, baseball too, they have a way. They've you know, enterned a luxury tax system to you don't help out with that. But basketball you can, you know, you can go over the salary
cap and just pay the luxury tax. Yeah, so most football doesn't hurt. Football has wisely done it because it's kept every team and every fan base involved. Genius. I mean truly gene is. Jerry Jones gets a little bit of credit for wanting to do the salary cap, which is ironic because they haven't done anything and the sits then, But like he was a fan of it, and he's right from the business aspect, it is the right way to go. But you're right, dude, they have infinite funds.
We've always known this, and more people are just going to keep saying yes to their offers as we as a society get numb to the negative impact that you know is associated with it. It's it is still the definition of sportswa washing. Yeah, I don't. They don't. They probably don't love that term, but I do. I don't think that they have much of a problem with it. I mean they own Newcastle, right, Newcastle United, who's a team that I like, and that was a team that was bad.
I mean they got relegated like a decade ago or not even and they're good now again. And it's because this money came in and how you're getting better players and you're just that's a sport with no salary cap. Yeah, baseball is the one they could do it. But I don't think they would not want to make us slash. And I don't think it's insane to think, what if they offered twenty five million dollars to buy the Cowboys? What
if they offered that amount or more to buy the New York Yankees? Like, there are numbers where these people will have the owners, even the Jones family, there is some number I don't know why, where he would at least have to sit down and pour a glass of JW Blue and say, well, y yes, I can't say I consider this is being an option. One day, probably in the NFL starts on a smaller scale like, let's get a Saudi Arabia game first, you know, like they do the
game in Germany and the games in Europe. Yeah, it probably starts there. I wonder how much that's been talked about and how long until that happens. Yeah, it's happening, I think, I mean way different. But when they did NFL Europe years back, I mean that was part of the idea globalized the game a little bit, but that became diluted to in the XFL and you fls all, like you said, just all, it's all the same and not a higher quality. This is the best golfer in the
world saying. Now it's not official and it's just rumored and it's like some big but it seems I mean everybody's talking about it. Six hundred million go to live because guess what the PGA Tour can go. No. Stay, Here's why you should stay. So you can win the Buyer Nelson for fifteen million dollars or less and have to be in Dallas. Yeah for that, I mean when you can just go to what whatever far less tournament. And the thing is, I think again, decisions like this numb the fans to
react to it. So if he does it. You know how many people who are like I just I have two hundred million sitting on the table, say yes, and it's just going to create something that no one cares about either of them, and we only all care about majors. They need Tiger and they need Charlie to save them, well, they really do. Tiger needs to go to be the commissioner of the tour like tomorrow. Okay, what if? And look, there were whispers that Tiger was offered a billion
dollars for this. You know, he might just just screw it. We have to now, it's that's the new tour. Tiger has a number. And if John Ram's worth six hundred million dollars, what if Tiger plays good this week, plays you know, good in the Masters this year whatever, they're like, oh my god, Tiger just top five to Augusta and he's healthy and he's good. Hey if they offer Tiger two billion dollars, and that's so dumb to say out loud, but it's not. He's Tiger blanking
woods. John Rom's worth six hundred million, Tiger Wood is worth two billion. I don't care what his age is. And it's not for the Oh my God, look how he flushed that six iron. It's for the name Tiger Woods. This is just starting, and even Tiger Woods would be like Jesus, Charlie. Two Bill, you like we gotta do it or not? Oh it's good, juicy. I We're doing Cowboys next if you want to call into and am on it two and four eight one seven seven eight
seven one nine seven to one. But uh really are kind of in depth takeaways of last night's Cowboys went over the Seahawks next to a nice seven won the freak