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a Saudi Arabian Bahrain. What time is it very luxurious now? When I was there, not really, there was a gold district in Manama, which is the capital city, and really Bahrain's a small island in the Persian Gulf. So our Air Force base, Shaikisa Air Force Base, was on the very southern tip of Bahrain, and a few times we would drive shoot forty five minutes. I don't even know, like how long it takes to go
across the whole island. An hour, an hour and a half. Maybe we would drive up to Manama and you know, eat something and check out the city a little bit. But generally we were just down in the Air Force base on the southern tip. But uh, it was hot as balls. I was there in the summer, yeah, one and fifteen, I don't even know. We had to do some sand bag filling. Oh that
sounds terrible. I remember getting off the plane. We got off the but we flew to uh Saudi Arabia, and I think we drove to the base in Bahrain because it's just a huge bridge that connects Saudi Arabia to Bahrain. But I just remember getting off the damp plane. You get off this giant Sea five and you get off like the they lower the thing at the back. You know, it's crazy when you travel. These things are bigger than seven forty seven's and the whole bottom part is filled with like jeeps and cargo
palettes. And then you climb up a ladder to the passenger area in a I think it was a C five and I think it was. Someone correct me, And it's a real small and you're sitting backward by the way, like you're facing toward the tail of the plane. Cool. Yeah, it was just different whatever. But you climb down this ladder and you climb out the back of the ramp thing, and I just remember getting smacked with heat that I don't know if I've ever felt before. It was so damn hot.
There's Sunday. Sunday's usually the F one race. Yeah, it's early today, so this morning at ten am our time, we have qualifying in Bahrain and it was the first F one race of the season. The race is tomorrow. The race would be to yeah, tomorrow morning, our time, but I'm gonna rush home and watch qualifying. Is kind of fun because this is the first race of the year. So you know, last year Max Verstappen won absolutely everything. He won every race but one or no.
Red Bull won every race but one. Carlos signs one in Singapore for Ferrari. But yeah, it was total Red Bull domination. But the optimism of going into a new year, you're like, all right, well, let's see what happens. Maybe. I mean, look, everyone fully expects Red Bull to win the constructors Championship and Max for Stapping to win the Drivers' Championship,
and he probably they probably will win both. But you had practice last night and it was under the same conditions that they're qualifying today, and Mercedes Lewis Hamilton was the fastest in FP two free practice two and the other Mercedes
car, George Russell, was the second. So everyone's kind of like, all right, maybe, but we'll find out this morning at ten am when everybody throws their cards on the table and you go for real qualifying, and yes, I expect Max to somehow pull it off, but I don't know. It's just more fun one of the year when you're like, all right, let's see what happens. Can you tell you this Lando guy is that people are talking about? Sure? Lando Norris is this is coming out here?
Oh no, he's been around for four or five years, but he hasn't won yet. Right, he's never won a race, but he's always he's one of the more consistent drivers races from McLaren. His teammate is an Australian Oscar Piastree. But yeah, Lando is like a He's a popular one on Drive to Survive, the Netflix show good looking Kid, although they all are beautiful, beautiful young men. He's a sweet dude, smart dude. And the thought is, if he's in one of the best cars, he's
absolutely capable of being one of the best drivers. But he's my guy. Making a pick? Oh can I pick a guy? Please? Lando? You got Lando? I know Norris is gonna be my guy. Looks like a nice guy. Great choice, I'm going But that also by proxy makes you a McLaren man. Damn it. No, No, that's okay, that's cool. McLaren's cool, okay, And it's not like taking the Yankees or taking Okay good. I don't want Duke Hoops. Yeah, I don't want a front runner. You're taking as someone who's in the mix, and
if they did win, it would be cool for everyone. It's a perfect choice because the story McLaren could absolutely off win this year. It's been not backfiring on me like Stoke City and the EPL and twenty eleven. This is better than Stoke City. The choice you've made. But the other controversy going on with F one is Christian Horner, who's the team boss of Red Bull. He's the one married to Jerry Hollowell. Yeah, I've been seeing his name a lot later. He's wrong with him. He's spent most of the
off season half in trouble, oh for a improper behavior. Oh. He's the team principal, right He's the dude in charge of all of Red Bull Racing who's dominant right now. He's been there since Red Bull even started in the aughts. And he's married to a spice girl. And he spent a lot of the off season getting investigated for improper behavior. Is including like WhatsApp messages to a female staffer, And just yesterday, after I guess Red Bull's
internal investigation, they cleared Christian Horner of all wrongdoing. And then a couple hours later a Google drive dropped with all of his WhatsApp messages and photographsay so, I was just looking at some of them and it's real shady and honestly, there's no like dong pics or anything. There is a picture of his finger, which is kind of odd. Was he throwing it through the through the zipper of his pants? No, no, doing the classic bit. I mean that is a good one. Walking the room. That is great.
And I haven't looked at all these texts, but most of them are just yeah, they're flirty as hell for sure. I mean he is this is how you poorly flirt, flirt with someone. Or he's asking her to send pictures and but she seems to be fighting him off in these texts, you know, like can you speak and she says audio yes, and he says video no, you know I don't And she says, I don't need to see you in bed, Like he's asking if you want to see a
pick or something. I don't know, she seems to be fighting him off but not trying to get fired away. Part of that it's almost like worse. I don't know if that uh yeah, like I do, like we're making them, making them like run away from you. Right, She's not exactly into it, but she keeps him going. You know, He's like, what's what do you have on? She says, skirt. You could have said the baggiest pair of jeans, just dirty. Yeah, I have
not shower, I'm wearing I'm wearing lazagnya like. But then there's one where she's like, maybe if you bought me another pair of shoes, shoes something, and he's like, yeah, gladly buy your shoes. Anyway, if you care about Formula one, it's awesome that it's back. It's back today. I cannot wait, and I look forward to Kevin coming to work wearing McLaren papaya after Lando Norris pulls off a shocking victory in the bar rangp which is this week. So I said, all eyes on the Middle East.
I don't know if more people care about Formula one or golf in the world or someone listening probably really doesn't care about either one. But whatever, we've
been tracking the Anthony Kim story, which does have a local angle. Anthony Kim ten second reset is a legend, well now legit or name was a very good golfer twelve years ago, got up to close the top ten in the world as a Ryder Cup player, Presidents Cup player, one of the potential futures of American golf, A California kid, but he lived here,
lives here currently. Dallas went to Oklahoma and after twelve years of living on an insurance policy that was worth out the ten million dollars because he couldn't play again and if he did, it voided the terms of his insurance policy. He this week, this morning returned to the course for the first time in a dozen years to play on the Live Tour which is in Jetta, Saudi Arabia today. So I was it started at three fifteen am, give or
take two fifty. I don't know local. I didn't obviously wake up for that. But first thing I did when I when I woke up this morning was check the status of Anthony Kim and he has just completed his round. Okay, first round we had twelve years. I'll give you two choices. One of them is true, Anthony Kim is either in first place or last place. Ooh, I'm gonna have to guess last place. You are correct.
Anthony Kim shot a six over seventy six. His over under was set at seventy four and a half and this is a par seventy track, and he is in fifty fourth out of fifty four spots. Dead last. You shot a six over, two shots clear of Bubba Watson who shot a four over and then a tie for forty ninth, or a bunch of guys we just shot two over, so he was pretty distantly dead last. He started
out find four pars to get well. He started on the eighteenth hole, which is funny because that's a par five and I think it has the widest fairway. Like they did him a favor of, like we're going to try to give you the easiest start possible, and there was a lot of eyes on his first swing, and he did hit the fairway in his very first shot. They track. Yeah, Yeah, Anthony Kim is back. I think his second shot on the par five from the fairway on his first hole,
the eighteenth, I think he cold topped it. I can't find video of that. But he ended up bogeying in the first hole he played. Then he did rattle off four pars. He went bogey. Then he made his lone birdie on the on the sixth hole, on a par four. He rolled in about a fifteen foot putt for birdie. But he ended up with seven seven bogies, one birdie and the rest pars. He also straight shanked a shot. It was from the rough on like a brutal downhill lie.
But the word is he cold topped. He shanked one and he is in dead last place after one round. Yeah, that's probably not what they wanted there, but what we do you expect? He played professionally in ten years. We were talking about this yesterday. He'd shoot is he gonna shoot
over a seventy five? You know? Yeah? And I guess think that six over is over son, Yeah, twenty seventy seven or seventy eighth, seventy shot seventy six seventy So John Rams your coal or eight under, yeah, Adrian Mornka, John Ram shot eight under and Anthony Kim is fifteen shots off the pace, dead last. I'm just looking at each leaderboard. There's more up and comers over here in the PGA Tournament, but on the Lift Tour there are bigger names just side by side, and it's kind of like
that every week. Now. Yeah, it's kind of crazy it happened. I mean, I know, I mean, I I definitely thought liv was a thing to be worried about, not worried about, to be the PGA Tour should have been worried about him. I think the PJ Toorges a little cocky with how they thought everyone would just stay. Yeah, John Rahm might have been the dagger there. I'll figure it out, hopefully one day and get it back together. But yeah, Anthony Kim, it's I think that's
give or take what I expected. I said it yesterday that I thought yesterday was the last day we have real optimism Franthony Kim, And I don't want to say a seventy six today dooms his return. I mean, he could shoot even par tomorrow. He makes a big put for the team. He's not on a team, that's the thing. Put him on the team. Oh, he's one of the wild card plays him and like Hudson Swafford,
I think they're not actually on a team. But he's earning the right to potentially have his own team or be on a team if he showed something. Yeah, but like I said yesterday, I fully expect him to play out whatever amount of tournaments they've greenlit him for, which is the remainder of the season, cash whatever money he can, and then disappear entirely once again. And the whispers are that loud whispers, or that he has been He enjoys party, he likes to hang out. He loves to party good late into
the night and into the early morning. And the thought is, you know, you make another ten million or twelve or fifteen million or whatever you make for the remainder this year just by showing up, and I think he disappears entirely again. I'm a most surprised that more athletes aren't that way. Just get as much money as you can, as quick as you can, and get out, Yeah, because it is a job. Well, I think that's what Travis Frederick sort of did. I Relux sort of did. Yeah.
I love that. I love it for them when you're thirty. Yeah, and Travis might have stayed, like before the game, Beret, Travis might have stayed another year, but you get Gambret syndrome you're like, ye, huh, oh, this is good. Andrew Luck's nick. Yeah. No, but Andrew didn't feel like you got who's gonna play it until he was forty, Like he was a guy who cut it off because he's interested
in doing other stuff, you know. Yeah, Now, Anthony Kim interested in doing other stuff is a little different than maybe what those guys are doing. I don't know if anything Kim's creating a Dungeons and Dragons company or starting his own book club and trying to run the University of Stanford like Andrew Lucky is right, but it's interesting. They interviewed Greg Norman this morning and he
said that they contacted Anthony Kim like two years ago. And the guess is that, you know, Anthony Kim pulled his head off the mirrored table and answered the phone, said what and yeah, and then no, like basically two years ago, said no, I what. I don't even know where my golf clubs are They in the trunk? Yeah, And he hadn't touched him for years, but maybe he got his game as put together as he could over the course of a year. And he has a young daughter,
and there are thoughts that he's turned his life for round settled down. Yeah, his twenties anymore, Those hard years certainly take their toll. And then he got into the best golf shape that he could and then he went out there today and again he shot a seventy six. And that's hell. I can't shoot a seventy six. You know, not many listening, Ken, Yeah, so didn't have your tour card. You've ever played in the Ryder Cup. True, so there's a lot of a lot of a lot of
green in there. Yeah, but uh, okay, well cool at KIM Live. I'm gonna do your Middle East report. Thank you for the Middle East Report. We'll have more on what's going on in Gaza now. I think we'll probably just avoid that today. Let's do quickly because I think we have a short shorter break here. Quickly. MAVs and Cowboys quickers Okay, yeah, one of my first quicker than I want to do here the trailing. It's trade. Do you remember that I do? So the numbers came
out trailers. The Cowboys has picked up his option for next year. He'll be like four point five million dollars, which is more than you would ever want to pay your third QB. But they will have a decision to make, and there's a deadline for this at some point. I'm not sure when the deadline is to pick up a fifth year option, but on the first
round picks, you can obviously extend their contract for a fifth year. So the number for Trey Lance if you wanted to pick up his fifth year option so he's with you in the year twenty twenty five, is like twenty two million dollars. Yeah, so more and more, And I didn't think about that when the trade happened. The more and more I think about this, that is a terrible trade because you're not going to do it when is his
fifth year though, is it? So this will be his fourth year coming up in twenty twenty four, so you still having fairly cheaper rookie deal. Yeah, four million ish now, and then they need to decide like soon, or they did decide they are picking it up. No, they are on for year four, so like coming back next year, yes, okay, but the twenty five so they haven't picked it up and they're not picking
up his fifth year just yet. But they can do that. Yeah, And they wouldn't have to do that until the time that they have to do that I'm a little uncertain of. And I tried to look this up yesterday and it was it was hard to get an answer because I'm not sure when the fifth year option Okay, I think it is. Uh Okay. The team, however, it won't pick up Lance's fifth year option, which jumps a twenty two point four million. The Cowboys have until five days after the
NFL Draft in April to make that decision. Yeah, okay, so the team is going to decline the fifth year option. Yeah, because you're not gonna pay Trey Lance twenty two million dollars. But just like the more and more other so they got him to have him come in at the end of training camp of one year and then sit on the bench for a year two at five million dollars. And you gave it a fourth round draft pick for that. Okay, that's bad business. I don't I don't know if I
agree fourth round pick because I always want them to draft. Draft, draft a QB. You know, Jordan love it. Draft. I mean, maybe not quite that early, but draft somebody and stash him and let him learn and all this stuff. But they kind of did that for the price of a fourth round pick. For what was not too long ago believed to be a top three pick in the NFL draft. Like, they kind of did that and they stashed Trey Lance and he was there for this last season
of Dak. Obviously they believe in what Dak did enough to where they're about to give him the entire bag. But if Dak faltered this year and led the NFL in interceptions, then you would have had at least someone with some potential that you're grooming underneath him. And so I feel like that's what they kind of did is instead of drafting him, but they got a high potential quarterback to have as some sort of insurance policy that they turned out not needing
because Dak. You can argue what you thought of it, but Dak proved it again and proved that he is worth. Yes, this massive cash that they're about to give him. So is Cooper Rush on the team next year? Because why does Cooper Rush need to be on the team if you're paying Trey Lance four and a half million dollars like Trey Lance should get ever opportunity to be the backup quarterback. Yeah, that's fine, I'm okay with And that's kind of what I want them to do. I don't think they're gonna
do that. I think they'll bring back Cooper Rush and Trey Lance will sit there and get no work at improving, and then he's just gone after twenty twenty four. Right, and then you gave a fourth round pick for some insurance policy that I just sort of described. Yeah, and then you after he leaves, because you don't take that fifth year, then you're back to having absolutely no middle or long term backup plan for Dak. Put a fourth
round pick, you get your running back. Oh yeah at this point, Yeah, I know, it's just it's just the other scenario if Dak sucked this year and the team said, fine, not start over. But yeah, then you have a now three or four year season back up who might be ready to take the helm and in a world that Dak's not there any
Yeah, so that's what you were getting for that fourth round pick. I think maybe, Yeah, I think you can say both sides of it's just the money adds up and he goes, this is gonna feel like it's just he's just never gonna play for the Cowboys. He's the most likely thing that's gonna happen. Yeah. Meanwhile, your fourth round pick could be a starting player for you, or he could be another tight end, or it could
be another tight end. Yeah, of course. Well it's a some MAVs later because this is one of the most exciting MAVs games of the year tonight that's coming coming up probably about nine thirty. We'll do a touch of MAVs. We're gonna give you a chance to win hooting the Blowfish tickets at eight o'clock. Two and four eight one seven seven eight seven one n one is
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