You're listening to the Downbeat on ninety seven to one The Freak. We have a news of the week recap coming up at seven thirty at the Scuttle, but also one of the wildest stories in the world involving a professor at Penn State and what he was doing out in nature, a thing that only Kavanaugh could relate to, coming up shortly. I also want you to stick around in about ten minutes because we're gonna have audio of an NBA player who I swear to God he might be a ghost. He has two different voices.
It's the weirdest thing. It's coming up in a few minutes. But sports slows down this time of year. Things kind of check out. The Rangers are at spring training, the Cowboys are just goofing finishing up their hirings. The Stars got a big nine to two win last night. The Mavericks are on All Star break well well Luca in the All Star Game Sunday. Very
typical All Star weekends. They'll do all those tired bits and then the average start back till next Thursday, when is h dunks Saturday night and three points Saturday night and chest pass into the little m H. Yeah, little circular net skills, drill, and then the point game with the WNBA players. I actually like that one. You do like that one. I kind of like the hot spot shooting. No three point shootouts the only it's worth a
damn anymore? Right, three point shoot that's pretty great. But I will I won't watch the dunk contest. I don't know. If I'm doing nothing, I will throw it on. I just wanted to do like a thirty second thing, or maybe it's yeah, thirty seconds and you lay up a bunch of mats with it and spray paint of number you know, and form the hot spots you know, and you basically get thirty seconds shooter's choice.
You just run around and gives me points as you can. Now, a lot of people might go safe and just do a bunch of one point layups and basically do the mic and drill, but you had some wild what's like
a fifty points from half court? If you don't waste half court shot, drone rebound, you have thirty seconds and surely just a free for all of Just get as many points as you can and then the next person goes Me and Donnie did a bit where because we argued about how many half court shots it would take to make one, and we went to SMU and Herman Hudson let open the practice court and let us go out there, because it was oh yeah, it was like, you have twelve shots to make a half
court shot or you go to prison for a year, you know, a million bucks or pre you know one of those. And we both made it for a lot of shots number five and six. Yeah, twelve is but it's a fun thing. No, it is a fun thing. And you're getting nervous if you hadn't got it by nine. Yes, are you doing he sent to prison? Right? Are you doing like kind of dribbling and right up and launching it? Are you just standing at the half court line
doing granny shots? Because that's probably what I would do, one big step throw it just like Luca. My shooting form is almost identical to Luca. Donc okay, I don't believe anything. You asked what form we used, and I tried to paint a beautiful picture that explained it. You've got a pretty good game from ten plus years ago when we used to play. You have to probably run ten yards just to get enough strength to get the ball
to that rim. Yeah, like master strength. You act like you just are standing in one spot and just kind of lazily take a jump shot from half court. It's like two steps and then you know, step into it and hook it is probably running and then just winging it from your chest. Well, I just told you it wasn't. Uh huh do you think you guys? One shot? He just told me it wasn't, so must be.
When are you going to believe him? Man? Never? I mean it's not that hard to get a basketball from half court to the rim. I mean you have to something then a nice chest pop I don't. I don't need to to high full swing of the thing to get it there. A real man could hook shot it from half court and make it dealish. No, a real man. Do you think you'd have any chance on like mister mav MAVs man one chance? No practice, full speed run with his
little trampoline to succeed in dunking a ball. Oh my god, no practice, and the mats are all there, it's safe. I would say no. And the reason I would say no is because you would be questioning how your speed and it's real hard on your first time. I'm going from and I don't know what this trampoline's gonna do when I hit it. No idea, no confidence in that, because you got to really throw that ass into the trampoline. You would be so timid when it game time to jump on
it. I would over calculate that and go flying over the backboard, crack three ribs and get a concussion. Just smash into the shot clock. Yes, dies stunt, flailing over the top of the back gun, just hanging help me. No, you go like weakne right when you hit the trampoline, and you'd make it like halfway like that. There's a meme of the big boy trying to do gets halfway. You need more momentum than you think. I think. Okay, So Sunday, though, the big event,
dude, is the Daytona five hundred. It's the great American race. Dingo. Yeah, they start their season with their super Bowl, the super Bowl of stock car racing. Really strange. I like it. It's strange. I I do like to watch the Daytona five hundred year. But you're a racing man. I'm a racing man. So roy is French for hal ass. Another lie. No one told me to stop lying. Recently, so like I maybe spiraling. I gave that up after the Alamo Draft House promo.
Yeah, this kind of rehab. So I realize, you guys, I don't know. I'm gonna watch a good chunk of it of of the Daytona five hundred Sunday here. I always fly by that, some bitch. It's a spectacle. The coverage of it is just exceptional. I like watching the first ten laps, and I like watching the last ten laps. Okay, that's fair. And then the last ten laps take an hour and a half. Yeah, you're right. You know, Malcolm has taken a liking
to the Disney Pixar show Cars with Lightning McQueen. Yeah, cochell, and I've watched it probably I don't know, four or five thousand times in the last month. That show has got me interesting. Really want to watch. Yeah, for whatever reason, Cars and like, within the last month, I consider just sitting at home and watching it. It's cute. I bet, yeah, it looks funa. Yeah, Pixar rarely puts out a dude.
All right, so we're gonna bet on the Daytona five hundred. Okay, I can give you give you a little action for this Sunday, after after last night's Daytona Duels, we have the starting grid. We know who's on the poll, that'd be Joey Logano. We know who's starting dead last, that's Noah Gregson. And we're gonna have to make our picks for and each pick three dudes. And the way it works, you want to do good in this, Unlike the Royal Rumble. You want to just have your
three dudes finish well. And like Danny, if you pick and you get the second, ninth and twentieth, that would be twenty plus nine plus two thirty one, so you're totally thirty one. And if Kevin finishes one, two three, obviously his total is six six, so he you know, and then Kevin would beat you. It's whoever has the lowest number of combined finishing positions you win. Second place is good. If you have the highest number, you lose. One guy could screw you. Yeah, one guy
finished thirty or something. You're like, damn it. So that's it. Forty three cars, right, I don't know what was it used to be. All right, here's the bet payoff I've purchased, and we'll soon procure a very special daytona five D T shirt. You'll you'll procure it when it's tend to put in the size. No, it's gonna be excel. Damn it, that's not works. It would be real tight for me. Did you wear two X? I mean, if I want to be safe, well you got two weeks too. Don't drink any Baja blasts and I never
have caramels. I wasn't gonna I spent forty on his bit T shirt last night. I wasn't gonna buy multiples, but I suppose yet I thought you were excel. Can you get a medium and stretch it out or large and great? And you have to wear this shirt for a full week, every single day? Damn it? Okay, no washies, I don't care if
you hate when people to the T shirt, the T shirt. You have to wear a T shirt for a week, right, I figure you also, we'll have to put full effort, piece of paper pen however you want to do it and draw the most beautiful picture you can of Bill Elliott? Okay, okay, who's Bill Elliott? Former NASCAR driver He drove the ninety four McDonald's car. Yeah, awesome, Bill from Dawsonville and you'll have to present that paint picture to the winner as a gift, yes, as a
gift, and be very sincere about it. And it has to be beautiful. And then just because it came up last segment, you have to three times in a week retweet something with only the phrase would smash. Okay, okay, So loser was a T shirt for a week, beautiful picture of Bill Elliott would smash three times? All right. The order was predetermined in the break prior to this. We each have the starting lineup, and I
even told you guys look up the odds to help you out. And Danny is first, I'm second, Kevin is third, and it's a snake So Kevin has three and four And this Snake draft is brought to you by Gary Garfield. Snakes plus all right, not Spider Town. Don't go there, all right, Danny, are you ready? Do you want me to explain my strategy is rapid fire pick No, I'll want you to very thoroughly explain your strategy. Denny Hamlin has ten to one odds. He is also he
has the highest odds to win. That also has the highest pole position. I'm gonna pick him first. Denny Hamlin. I think that's an excellent pick, and I think he is a one two two time winner of the Daytona five hundred. Denny Hamlin, I don't know, it doesn't matter. Is there any women in the field, Mike, No, God, there's still not allowing they have many times. I mean, Austin Dillon could be a girl. Yeah. The only people with names that could be girls, Austin
Dillon. There's a person named Corry, Corey La Joy, Okay Corey. Oh it could be an adult film woman, yeah, Corey, Jimmy Johnson, Chase Briscoe, Oh, Chase Brick good one. How about a j Almondinger? Okay, that could be a girl. Oh, how about it? Two fifty to one long shot. BJ McLeod. Please take BJ McLeod with your next pick. All right, you've taken Denny Hamlin. Yes, locked finally, he locked it in. I can't give keV Oh the favorite in this race by odds, so I will take the favorite off the board,
even though he's starting halfway down the damn grid. I will take Brad Keselowski as my first selection. Okay, you should have to only draft Kevins No, but I am a fan of a couple of drivers here. As I told you, haven't paid attention to ASCAR in about twenty five years. Give me without hesitation, okay, Joey Logano, Poul Sitter, that's a great pick. Kevin, thank you. It's a little down on the odd sheet for you guys, but really not too far. Twelve to one that
ain't bad. No, not bad at all. And there's no away in the hell that I will vote for a bush brother. No, I hate those guys. Ryan Blaney, welcome to team. Keev Damn. Where's he starting? Boy? Being at the elbows? Pretty nice right there? I can't see. Okay, Big Big Mic, it's a great pic you just took back to me and back to you. Yeah, I will take the great Kyle Busch. Kyle Busch to Big Mic. Danny, you get two Becauzlowski's off the board, Bush Hambling. It's a live Snake draft, brought
to you by Gary Snake Snake's plus. Okay, Hey man, let's go take your time. I am, I am be sure, don't let's go. I gotta did you take did somebody take Ryan Blaney? Yes? Okay, and somebody took Kyle Busch? Yeah, because I'm not writing it down, you pecker. I don't know any of these people. We'll just take the next one in the line. All right, fine, Chase Elliott. Sure he's great. Probably he's ken to Bill Elliott. Awsoin Bill from Dawsonville. I assume you gotta be right. He has to be all right.
So that's too. This is my final pick. You know, Danny gets to go twice. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I'm gonna take Ty Gibbs. I thought you were gonna take Richard Petty Ty Gibbs. Okay, that's got to be the son of Joe Gibbson. You took Kyle Larson, right, someone did? Yeah? You know what, No, no one took him. No one took Kyle Larson. Yeah, because no, those you're racist. Then I will relateuctantly. I was okay, sadly, I was about to take Bubba Wallace, but instead I will think Kyle Larson.
Oh my god, it's a bad moment for me. Bruh, that really was. And because you're doing that well, Kyle Larson's the best driver in NASCAR. That leaves me. I mean I was thinking about Chris Bell. Who's hot? You know, just pick? But I'm gonna go with Bubba Wallace that a boy, which I did text Garrett would part time board up here as a freak his fantasy pics this week. Or Denny hamm won, Michael McDowell and Bubble Wallace. So and now he took Michael McDowell. Huh,
No one took Michael McDowell. All right, So locked in. Add your three finishing positions up. Whoever is the highest number worst overall finish has to do those three things. Wear the NASCAR T shirt for a week, a beautiful picture of Bill Elliot hand drawn, presented to the winner, and tweet three times, retweet three things would smash. That's fun and that's all you got to And now I have a reason to care. There you go, lock it in. Good job, and thank you Gary Snakes for sponsoring
Drift. We'll save the voice thing with with my guy, uh the NBA player with the weird voice for seven thirty. I think you guys are gonna love that. Tiger made his return yesterday. He had and played in a long time. He shot one overpart and around one of the Genesis Invitational. He was doing okay, he was kind of hanging in there and then this happened on hole eighteen. JJ, if you don't mind cranking me up here, here we go. Here is Tiger on holy eighteen? Oh hell yeah?
That cut hozzle? Yep, I'm wad right away. What there's something in there that? What did he call hustle? Hellas? Hello? Oh hello, guys, listen to the co concerned. And then the other guy said something weird played you? Oh hellas, Yeah, that caught hozzle yep, pleenty help please. He clearly said that caught hozzle. Yeah, that's
what a shank is. When you catch some of the hozzle, that little part that goes into the iron face of the iron, and if you just hit the very side of that, it goes bing straight to the right. You see it a plenty when you golf with Kevio or I or anyone. I mean, none of us are above the shank. Have you caught a lot of hozzle in your life? Plenty of hozzle, plenty of hozzle, but you don't often. You do see it sometimes, but not with Tiger, I'm sure he I don't know. Yeah, but not everybody hozzle.
But eighteen is a really hard hole. He hits the fairway at the hardest part he's in perfect position. I don't even know wedge whatever he had in his hand, and he shanks it into the trees and he was even par like he finished plus one. Trust me, finishing even pars a whole lot better than finishing plus one. For whatever you go out there, shoot even park cool and frankly, he played decent. He got a bad break on
one of the par threes, bad line of the bunk or whatever. I would say, hold all tickets to the people who believed in us, whoa taking a fifteen hundred to one or one hundred and fifty to one Tiger Woods, But shocking that he shanks one on the hole that the most people are looking at. Listen to the accountability though in the post golf press conference, I'm not going to say the word, but on eighteen oh, I definitely
I shaked it. What happened there? And is that still a shock to the system for you when that happens, Well, my back was spasman lost a couple holes and I was locking up. So I came down and it didn't move, and I presented Hozele first and shanked it. When's he presented hozzle first? That he can't finish around without his back flaring up right now? That sucks? Yeah, And he was like even in the press conference, he kept doing the leaning back. I had so many surgeries. He's
had fusions. He had the same thing that I did. I don't play golf. Well, you wanted the golf tournament once? It's the most Let me ask Kevin this, and you know you too, Just place your bets. What's the most embarrassing thing in golf? I got the yips one time and it was I was playing what kind of yips? Putting? Chipping? I lived? I was duffing the ball every time, Like, what's worse?
Fairway? Iron? My brother, Me and my brother and two older guys who we didn't know, Like, you know, they put you with strangers. I do. If I told you, I said, will you go apologize to them? I'm like too embarrassed. This is a long time. You couldn't even face this. This is back when I cared about what people thought about me. It was a long time ago, but I mean it was like it was funny, you know, looking back at it, it was really funny, but it was really embarrassing because you're like holding up
around and stuff. The most embarrassing thing. What's worse? I would say for me, I have one sure. It's between hitting it fat on a two inch putt. Okay, you don't often see putts chunked or missing the ball entirely off the tee. Okay, the full whiff off the tea is the worst thing I think they could ever happen on a golf course. It's just the swooshing noise because everyone's silent. Ball's still there, damn it. What's worse out of these three or so? Topping the ball off the tee?
Just rolling it off the tea, let's even say short of the ladies tea, which in golf parlance danny is a d out. You're supposed to take your d out of your trousers if you don't hit it to the ladies tea and let it hang the penis That's exactly right, It's true. Uh, topping it off the tee, leave it in the bunker or the shank.
What do you do with the ball? Leave it the Bucker's understandable because the bucker people trouble, yeah, is that when you're trying to shoot out of the bunker and it lips off the top and comes back to hit you in the in the tummy if you're lucky or you just one there. It is still what happened to uh Rory yesterday? Yeah, yeah, it happens. It goes back into the bunker, and it's a worse line than the one yet before when it rolls into your little divot fell apart yesterday today.
Fine, and I watched golf yesterday. Beautiful course. Huh yeah, it's great. Santa Monica is great well, of course. Oh so tigers went over, Go golf, Go golf. Hey, coming up next, what I got an update on a big thing happening in Arlington, and of course your news recap of the week, plus one of the weirdest damn stories you'll ever hear, Swear to God. Next on ninety seven one, The Freaking