You're listening to the downbeat on ninety the Freak. Good morning, good morning, good morning. This is your friendly downbeat on ninety seven to one the Freak. We are heard week days from six am sharp until ten AM's not so sharp. You got Mike, Siroy, You've got me the dinger JJ Jackson on the board and uh our sweet Cavio is traveling abroad, making his first ever trip to Europe, landing in Barcelona here and I think about an hour and a half, two hours, two hours and six minutes, he's
still over water. I think we'll start the bubbly is on ice. Let's not even touch it until he gets over lamp. Should be even more scared of the water. Should we start putting up the plastic in the in the clubhouse yet? Yeah? Maybe wait on that. Well I have they were all tape right here in the plastic. So we'll cover all these TVs and sign up here in a few But once he gets over land, we're going to rejoice. I don't know Barcelona was far northeast Spain. I think I
thought I thought it was more central, maybe where Madrid is. So he still asked to get over some land at the end, but yeah, he's two hours. They had a nearly three and a half hour delay and out of DFW they emptied the plane and then put them back on. Did we ever figure out why was some updating some software? They said it was some light it was malfunctioning. But why do they tell us? I don't think
they're ever going to tell you the truth. I don't know. They had a pilot, he said there was a pilot on the plane as a passenger, coughing bullfs into his hand. M hm, what was the what do they call him? Dead? Dead head? Dead heads? Yeah, and the pilot was saying that that's probably all a lie. Who knows why they're creating this this delay seven point thirty you will have all of the news that you need to hear with the scuttle But Mikey's going to handle that. And
then we got some big movie reviews. Now, Civil War was the big blockbuster over the weekend. I know, JJ seen that. I took that in a couple of nights ago. I have a lot to say about that. And I also watched Academy Award nominated and winning. He won several awards at the OSCARS Zone of Interest. So yeah, two very incredible, uplifting films to get your Wednesday morning Morning started proper with civil War and Zone of Interest. We got JJ though she's watched all the fun stuff. Yeah,
monkey Man and the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Huh hit the applause, say you five times? So yeah, we'll do a little lights camera holes here in a minute. And of course we got the Dingu's Morning News at eight thirty. What else we got? Oh, I got some fun stuff in Dingu's Morning News. Kevin Gray of the MAVs podcast that we host right here on ninety seven won the Freak. He does pregame post game. He's awesome.
He's gonna come in and then we're going to discuss some and take a deep dive into the MAVs as they are gearing up start advancing their way through the NBA bracket. Yeah, I believe you can be a part of Uh Mikey's got a April only one hundred bucks to join. I have to vendomode all back. But uh yeah, speaking of sports, it's time because it's seven oh nine right here on the Freak and now sports at seven how many gins you think Heavyer got in and that three hour delay. I mean,
how many could he get in if he's stuck on the actual plane. No, then they let him off, uh huh, and he went and had a couple. He just all worked up about that flight starts pumping some aviation into him. It only makes sense that he would drink ab eight. Yeah, so I tease this, this just hit this morning. I'm gonna read this pretty much verbad him because we don't have much more than the article that
just popped. But if our friend, uh, what's his name, John Sigoty, he just emailed us. He said, if you have any sports lawyer to call in for anything. If you're listening right now, John, here's your first test. You can call in and don't try it idiots, Because I'm an expert. It's right, I know all about loans in sports. Ajay's an expert call vetter. But if you are John Sigody and you got a clarity on what I'm about to read, you feel free to call
in. It's all good. Headline sexual assault lawsuit against Dallas Cowboys QB Dak Prescott dropped so it says Dak Prescott no longer facing a sexual assault lawsuit. A judge signed off on dropping a lawsuit from Prescott's accuser on April sixteenth, so just yesterday apparently. Court documents obtained by CBS News Texas show the case has been dismissed without prejudice, meaning the current case against Prescott has ended,
but allows for the case to be refiled in the future. And this, of course, is the woman who followed lawsuit against Prescott for assaulting her in a strip club parking lot in twenty seventeen. That was after a DACKX rookie season. She claimed Prescott invited her out with two members of his entourage and other women to an establishment in Plano. Later, getting into a black suv or, Prescott allegedly exposed himself and used physical force and sexually assaulted her.
He has denied all allegations him and his lawyers called him patently false, heinous, and with no bias in reality, and Prescott then countersued and denied her allegations, accusing her of trying to extort him for one hundred million dollars, which is while in that countersuit lawsuit Prescott seeking one million from his accuser and the ending of this it probably required three signatures one signing the court document saying
that yes, we have no interest in pursuing us any further. The second was the signing of the non disclosure agreement, and the third was signing the endorsement line on the back of the check that she probably received. Probably that's probably yes, maybe, but possibly the countersuit has not been dismissed. I guess, you know, the one million dollars that Dak is seeking from the accuser not yet right, So I it was only you can only dismiss so
many lawsuits in a day. Any time I can time my name in one day is limited. I wonder if, if, if, and when the countersuit has dropped that it we will will even know about it. I mean,
certainly that becomes public information. Yeah, But I just think if the accusation was untrue, this is that countersuit what encourages her to stop her suit, you know, like if her lawyers are like, look, if you lose this, then we're going on court and you might have to be responsible for a million dollars to Dak Prescott, And if she knows that it's not true, then she's like, all right, well let's drop it all.
Or if it is true, then you're absolutely right that you could take a X amount of dollars, maybe a million dollar, whatever it is from Team Dak. It goes away, the countershit goes away, You get a million bucks in your pocket, and just you go away. And I don't want to be cynical about this, but the only thing that we have to base this on is the way that that organization has done business in the past.
And like it or not, as cool and likable of a dude as Dak is, he's still connected very closely and deeply with Jerry Jones and that's kind of his mo that's his the way he does business. Yeah, and we've seen it time and time and time ago. So it's not unreasonable to speculate that that could be the way that this went down. And if it is the way this went down, then I would Yeah, you're right, I
would expect the countersuit to be dropped pretty quickly. Now if Dak has really asked herd about this and it look if were you and these allegations were made publicly, a suit was filed, you counter suit, she drops it. Don't you keep the counter suit going? Yeah, to say no, you're not getting away with making these statements and accusing me of this it never happened. You follow through on that to the end, right, Yes, because
you want your name to be cleared above all. Uh, yes, but I think that you want this all to go away is your top priority. I think, But again, it just goes back to what actually happened, you know, I mean they both or Dak admits to a consensual interaction of sorts with her, which is probably back to the suv and intertwine your fingers behind your head and lean back, you know, and to him was a very consensual thing. And then five six years later, she decides to start
making these what are in your mind, these outrageous and incorrect claims. But assuming that that happened, well, they, like you said, they both admitted to something happened. And the second that that encounter started, for lack of better term, that's when you start painting the entire scene with fifty shades of great. Yeah, exactly, because no one really knows. Being that that's true, I think team Dak wants this all to go away, and
they wouldn't hang in for this million dollar counter suit. But now, if if it was completely consensual, you're right, maybe Dak is like, you know what, No, And just like Dak would sign a contract that helps all the other future quarterbacks that are going to sign contracts behind him, you have to hold the line and get as much as you can. It might make sense for him to say, no, you're not gonna just try to extort a multi millionaire quarterback with a lie that smears my name. So I
am going to fight this. I'm gonna I want them million dollars. I would think that he would follow through with this if the if he hadn't already agreed that there was some type of encounter. Had he just met this person and shaken her hand at a hotel lobby and that was the only time on the only contact that they had, then yes, But the fact that something did happen, like I said, an incredibly gray area of what goes on
from that point forward. Then yes, he will drop his countersuit, I believe, and and this will all go away, and then we're on our way to the super Bowl. Super Bowl time. Well, and as I read, dismissed without prejudice, meaning the current case has ended, but allows for the case to be refiled in the future. So yes, I guess if he continued the countersuit for the million dollars and they did hook up,
and then you look at all those painted shades of gray. The possibility of reopening the case and saying no, I'm back in you know it was all against my will is back on the table. So I would imagine this is probably about the last hear of it, unless we hear a blurb about Dak has dropped his countersuit and that doesn't look bad to him, right If he tomorrow or today drops his countersuit, that's a yes, no admission. This is just a thing that has now disappeared. Yeah, they played a game
of chicken and she lost. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well anyway, as of this morning, the headline once again Dak Prescott not facing a sexual assault lawsuit anymore. The judge signed off yesterday and dropping the lawsuit, but the potential, I guess for it to be refalled in the future is still up there. We will track this and we will tell you what's going on. You heard it here first. You heard it right here on ninety seven
one. The freak taking in and did you take in any NBA? Last night, I had a recording session with skin but I was monitoring closely on my phone the score and when it got into the fourth quarter, while I'm watching the Great Jorda Ash Grant cut a wicked ass synthesizer part at this studio, I did pop up YouTube TV and watch the final the final quarter. Why was I not invited or consulted? This wasn't our band, this was a different band. I don't like how many I know. I know,
I know it's the side projects that are going to kill us. I need your project, I know, I know I'm working on some stuff. Is using your talent to support me into the next two decades from our YouTube channel that we haven't created yet, come a YouTube channel. I don't like that. I know. I don't like to see my little lady with another man, Danny, I know, but you know what my head, you need
to put a ring on it, girl. I did watch, watched a little bit at the of the the quite a bit of the fourth quarter and the early game Lakers peal. Yeah, man, I could not hang. I tried, tried for about a quarter and a half of of Sacramento Golden State, but it kind of you kind of had a good idea where the wind was blowing in that one early on, and I was not surprised to find out that that Sacramento took that one. But that first game was damn
down to the wire. And how great would it have been to eliminate the Akers and Golden State, two kind of mainstays in the NBA tournament conversations over the last you know, however many years it's to have them eliminated, but LA plays on. It's so like weird and dangerous. Because we're gonna talk to Kevin Gray nine o'clock as I'm getting real worked up about the possibilities for
the Mavericks. But I don't know if we're dumb old people that just cling to oh my god, Lebron oh, Steph Curry, you know, the Lakers, you know, and then and then we're like Pelicans fine Thunder, Oh my god, yes it's thunder good. Yeah, I think there's a lot of that, like they see the league is slowly changing always and you know, the thunder are the number one seed for a reason. But yes, Anie, I'm sure I'm with you. I'm cheering against the Lakers.
Please get the Lakers either eliminated or pushed back into that next game and the play in tournament, but the Lakers end up winning. They were up pretty big and the Pals kept coming back, and dude, this was the Zion Williamson show in his first ever playoff game, I'm pretty sure, which is kind of odd. And that dude has been kind of aligned for being a one to one and you know, weight issues and like reliability issues, and then this dude was having his day. He was unstoppable in the paint and
kind of single handedly willing these dudes back into it against the Lakers. And then he shoots a very kind of innocuous, little middle of the lane jumper and lands kind of weird and pulls his jersey up over his face and goes
to the bench and then goes to the locker room. And that's only with like four or five minutes left in the game, and I think it was either tied or very close, like they were war Daddy, He's getting back into this thing and had momentum, and then it's one of those like he's had so many tiny micro fractures, like I don't know what he's exactly dealt with, feet, knees, and it's almost like he knew something weird happened. That's going to keep him out for a little bit, but he certainly
couldn't return of the game. He leaves the floor and the Lakers, essentially, you know, Seese control of the game, get the win on the road in New Orleans to punch their ticket into the playoffs, and that pushes the Pelicans into the second round, which is against the Kings now, but it was against the winner of the King's Warrior. Okay, did all right? Did you see the shack comments or no? Okay, I saw this earlier and I didn't read it, but apparently on NBA on TNT that the
halftime show, Shaq had some comments. So he said, he lefty. He scored forty points. That's incredible, left early, described his left legs soreness. While on inside the NBA, Ernie revealed that Williamson exited the game early with legs horness. Upon learning the news, Shaq was left shocked by the fact that Zion was unable to finish down the stretch, implying that the superstar should have dealt with and returned to action. Rubbed some icy hot on
that thing, Chico, Shaq said, shutting up the company. He's been partnered with for only twenty years. Barkley chimed in saying, I'm not sure I would even come out of the game. Well, they don't know what the hell he has. They don't, I mean hell, and for all we know, it could be broken. But again, you talk about us being old dude, saying, man, the Lakers, the Warriors were afraid of him just because of the name and the uniform and these are old dudes
too. Just rub some dirt on it, get back out there, boy. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You wonder and Zion knows like he's had enough injuries, and trust me, he was fired up in that game and playing great and like I said, sort of willing them to a home victory. I think they did not want to leave. Like he felt a click of some kind and he kind of limped back and he knew. I don't know, man, It's did not look to me like he wasn't limping so
bad that he couldn't move. And maybe maybe there's something to that where you got to just be a be a badass and not leave, But it feels like he knew something was up. Yeah, it sounds like that. I mean, the latest on this is they're saying it was a hamstring. Yeah, okay, and that might because if you watch that game, eighty percent Zion still belonged on the floor. Yeah. So you know, if it is something he could just deal with and fight through, yeah, I also
do it. Shuck athletics will uh gillery, I don't know, observed Zion leaving the arena without a limp and without any visible wrap on his leg. All right, well, maybe they're right then Zion walking out of the arena. I'm sorry, Maybe you should have just toughed it up. If that's the case, I don't know. Somebody named rod Walker Zion walking out of arena and seems to be fine, and he seems to be in a good mood. We will know more tomorrow, hopefully. I'll tell you this.
Lebron looks pretty old. I mean he's you know, he looks old like his face, his hair, and it's amazing. He's so playing. He almost had a damn triple double. He had twenty three, nine and nine. Are you talking about just his appearance or his play? Oh okay,
he is for an NBA player, Yes, he is old. And that's a lot of miles regards, you know, in spite of everything that that dude does to maintain his body maintenance, and he runs that team like in that fourth quarter, he's calling people out, yelling like get over there, like clear out. I love he's so smart. I actually always love Lebron. I have no beef with Lebron. And I always say, what's the
worst thing Lebron ever did? And it's maybe do his little press conference about taking his talace to South Beach, you know, like he's did stand out of trouble. Good dude. I like Lebron. I think it's he gives off a little bit of phony vibes. You mean when he arrives to the I've told you this, just as his personality seems a little contrived sometimes and that that can I mean, like you said, I got no problem with him either. I like him. I do too. I think he's Do
you ever see like first page Lebron. It's called that there's a meme because they have Yes, twenty picture has been walking into the books, Yeah, into the arena, like with a book that he's reading and he's always on the first page. And it's like Catcher in the Rye but he's always on the first page. So yes, that does the Complete Works of Sylvia Plaiz. It's a page three. It does feed into that. It's funny.
You're never at the end, it's really funny. But anyway, Lakers win, so they punch their tick and the Pelicans have to then play the winner of the Kings and Warriors. Same thing. Warriors gone great just because we our mouth breathers and we're like, ooh, Sep Curry, Klay Thompson scary, but they're gone and the Kings are just better. I mean, I fear some bonus more than I do anyone on on the Warriors. That includes Steph. But they handle up pretty good. Man. They whipped him in
the second half, third and fourth quarter. In the Kings. Then advance will be Kings and Pelicans plan. It's fun to talk about just because we are maths nuts right now, dude, I believe and I'm fired up. And because the Nuggets fall to the two seed, you are now you got to play the Clippers and then you if you win, you will likely play the Thunder in round two instead of playing the Nuggets. And I don't know Thunder for the course of a season or better than the Mavericks, but the
Mavericks are not the team that they were being the season. Man, they are something else. And dude, I heard an interview with an ESPN guy for the Clippers. He sounded scared. They it was like he they don't know if they have Kawhi right or what version of ki is. Yeah, he's got a leg injury, so they don't know what the hell they're going
to get out of him if he's even on the floor. And like they asked the guy, They're like, so, how does how did the Clippers slow down Kyrie or And he's like, oh, they don't, No, no one can like they And it wasn't even really about Luca. Like he sounded scared, and he sounded like the clip this guy covers the Clippers every day and he's like, yeah, no, this ain't happening. Like he in his voice you could hear it, and essentially said it that we can't
hang with them. They said, Paul George takes kind of a back seat, and we had Westbrook and hardened, but no Kawhi, he said, With no Kawhi, this team is so different. They didn't lose a game in December, I think, but that's when they're running on all cylinders, like Kawhi hasn't played in a couple of weeks and just defensively, he means so much and without him they cannot stop the Maverick freight train. I don't think Sacramento is scary. Sacramento is scary. I think Oklahoma City can be
scary. Yes, for sure they are. But keep in mind, you know what the MAVs did to Sacramento and those back to backs. I mean that was pretty damn depressed obviously after the trade. But that's who they are now. I'm telling you the MAVs scare the hell out of people. Yeah, they do, and maybe not to a level we can't beat them, although it sounded like in Clipper Man's voice he was like, we want no part of this. I can't wait to talk to Kevin Gray about this at
nine. Yeah, and the maps, Clippers series times and everything have been released. First game is Sunday, the twenty first, just a few days away. They're playing at two point thirty in the afternoon against the Clippers, Game one in Los Angeles. We'll have Kevin Gray, the pre and post game show host, right here in ninety seven on the Freak, joining us at nine a m uh yeah. A little more maps coming up later on, but coming up next, you got the butt. It's time for the
butt. I actually have a bunch. What's in the butther funt? Well, what's inside the butt? Yes, the scuttle button right is the name of it. I have a couple of sports things we never got to in this segment we're gonna hit and one of them is loosely sports related, because I just can't get over how much damn money Mark Cuban has to pay in taxes, has to wire the government. It's just not our world. I'm getting all that next right here on ninety seven on the Free