This is a downbeat on ninety seven to one, the freak all right, here we go, Here we go cover having a good Wednesday morning? Is it is a wet one out there? Be safe on the roads, little slick out there. Let me give you a little weather update and let you know when it's gonna rain. How much all that stuff here a little bit too uh, but be safe on your way into work this morning. We are the down Beat on Kevin Turner with Danny Bayless, Mike's Roy. We've
got JJ Jackson there holding it down for us. Check your calls to two text as well. We also take your voice messages at the end of the show on the iHeartRadio app. Just hit that red microphone button. It's the talk back. The uh scuttle butt is next. You know what, we'll do the scuttle butt Now I have nothing more to promote. That's good.
Mike and I were talking, Kevin. If you don't have enough stories for the scuttle but we can always do an impromptu round of What's that sound does feel like a strategical best play sweeping the nation right now, the best radio stations across America. Who doesn't love playing What's That? Sound. I like playing who's that face? On radio? Well, this is kind of like
it's better because it's mainly for people that are listening to radio. You need a visual, you need to be able to see in the trivia who's playing. Yesterday? In the car on our long drive, Kevin wanted to play a round of celebrity face mash celebrity mashup. And I'm driving and he's waving a what might be Nick Cage and somebody else, and the driver's face today's appears to be David Harbor as one of the very one of the I mean, don't play it, do not play it. We were making fun of
what a bad idea it was. Now that I think it's Dan Levy is who I think that is. But no missed it? Okay? Was it justin throw? Uh No, but I can find out. Okay, Dallas Fort Worth as a thirteen inch rain deficit. We're down thirteen inches. We need it, But here are the chances from laying it up. It's happened all week. We got a chance all week, So that's good news.
A little wet those to be safe, of course, round of storms moving through tonight and that's going to move out tomorrow morning, so big chance of rain tonight as well, and then kind of Friday a chance at rain again, and then you get your Saturday and this Halloween weekend, right, this is the week people do have their Halloween parties on Saturday. And you're going to a big Halloween party. So here's Mike, I am going to one.
I don't know if it's a big one or not. I've already had to lay down the requisite rules of Well, now it's Game two of the World Series, so that better beyond at the house, Do you have your costume ready or do you need to get the Houston stink off of it? Yeah? I need to wash the extended stay bedbugs off of it. Dry Cleaners has a little Mario outfit hanging out that almost fits. It's got a little bit of a urine stain on it, being able to fully get him
down at the urinal at the baseball game. Katie wore a Super Mario costume to the the Alcs Game seven and Mikey and I I don't know if I laughed more at just you in that thing, your dumb mustache, or the fact that it didn't quite fasten in the back. Yeah, as the night went on, it didn't quite fasten in the back, for sure. It was never fast it found out. Oh no, I thought you guys tightened it up. No, at no point of the night was did that velcrow
come anywhere close to each other? Just excellent velcrow just just extended to their limits of adhesiveness. It's a hard v in the back that made it easy for me to slide my arm out then and get to my wallet when it was time to pay for beers. That was a problem for Kevy. Oh, I mean he was trying to He's like, this thing doesn't have buckets. I told you I'd hold your phone in your wallet. I was sitting right next to I didn't trust you. I thought you would go through all
my cash. Yeah, I carry a lot of cash. You did try to pay cash for lunch yesterday, and the lady looked at you, look at two heads, and I said, can we not pay for cash in twenty twenty three? I tried to reverse it. I was like, it's twenty twenty three. How are we not living in a world where you can pay in cash? How are we living in a world where we're still paying in cash? Should be the question? Should it be I thought you had matured and gotten older. Dude, we need to pay my number one.
Okay, as a guy without a kid, if you have kids, start teaching your fing kids the value of a dollar. Okay, all right, dude. Kids just pay for stuff via an app or via a credit card.
They got no idea how much anything costs. Whereas if you would go and buy your soda and candy bar and it costs you three twenty five, and you hand the cash you're a five dollar bill, you actually feel the dollars seventy five come back to you and you realize, and you actually think about it for one second longer then when you just hit a button on your phone app and then I'll go back to the game you were playing. Kids do not understand how money works. Okay, this is why I'm trying to
stop it from being dumber. I got some stats, man. Oh I'm not no, I'm not I'm not mad. I just I have solutions to the world. It sounds like Grandpa, maybe we can start doing our show research by buying a bunch of encyclic pedias next. Yeah, then you have the info right there in your hands. Or I like it just because you guys are trivia gurus, and you guys are good at trivia. Thank you doesn't mean I'm an idiot. I didn't. I don't think you're an idiot.
I think you're right. But that's just now how anything works. The world is a casino and it's all chips, and it's been evolving to that for years now, so that the house benefits by you not realizing the cash that you're holding and handing over at any given moment. And when the house holds your cash, they're investing it. We know that. Yeah, yeah, they're weren't making profit off of the money that you're holding for you.
But education starts at a young age and the fact that we have I mean, can eight year olds need to know how to pay for stuff with cash? No? I don't. Teen year olds not realistically what they need for the future. They don't twelve. You're changing the age to understand it's not about for what you need in the future, it's about how you understand how valuing your money. Yes, I agree with that completely, because it makes you devalue your money or not just fully. It's then you can hold in
your hand. Yes, you see, the house is so good that they have us spending cash on auto pay for stuff that we forgot we're spending it on Yeah, that's the game. Yeah, when's the last time you watched Netflix? Imagine if everything you have on auto pay someone showed up your house and you had to hand them cash for it. That'd be amazing. And Kevin's right that I'd be like, oh, I would like to cancel this service, then realize how little you need it? Yeah, or use it?
Yeah, No, I mean in principle he's correct for big services, though, I'm talking about the minute transactions, you know, amateur level, rookie level, getting acclimated to what the world is transactions. He just hit a button, just charge it with skins and the thing. I don't know, man, I bet, I bet there are kids around that age who are completely like confused by the concept of cash, Like they can read the number that's on there, you know, but you're right that like the value
of it probably means almost nothing to them. It goes on a card. What's that mean? That's how they think about it. This has this one has a one hundred on it. This is a big one. Yeah, I mean, and it's also nuts, just a little flimsy piece of paper, and how much of that you've acquired determines your you know, ability to do anything in the world like get dates. Yeah, how attractive you are and your chances of yeah, fun time is determined by how many of those
pieces of paper you can acquire. I bet there are I bet Kevo's right. I bet there are kids that are six, six, seven, eight that look at cash and think of that as something that, oh, that's what old people you. Yeah, No, definitely no, they do.
And I'm not trying to like sound old managed. I'm just saying I think it would be great, a great teaching tool, just to help you stay out of a bad habit of if you just learned at an early age a little bit about getting money back when you pay for something, getting change, receiving something back rather than just transactions over. I scanned it, h hit the OK button on my phone. It's over. It's done, it's gone. I don't even realize anything's gone. Is it offset by the security?
You know? Like, how do kids not a safe they don't holding a bunch of money And you brought up change. That's a good point. A texter said that too, you know, like if a kid hands over one hundred dollars bill do they count? I mean, they're not morals like they
can count. But then silver change mm hmm. And there's been whispers of that getting rid of the penny forever, but I gotta think we're pretty close, I mean, and get rid of it all change coin change, Yeah, I remember when that was gonna happen, and it kind of should. Think of how much of it's in circulation, billions probably, oh my god, billions of coins in circulation. Jeez, well my point of all already? Do it sounds like a real low priority right now. The ACT Test
reported that scores have declined for the sixth consecutive year. Now that's a record number of test takers failing to reach the benchmark for college readiness. Six years in a row of test scores declining for the ACT Test. I'm sorry, twenty second time out got a great text. Was in a store recently a teenage cashier did not know the difference between a dime and a nickel, dead
serious. I had to show her which one was a nickel. And that is damn true, because imagine you go to pick your European country and I just did this in Italy and they hand you a bunch of coins euros I think, and some of these coins are five dollars bills. I mean over there they have coins of larger value than we have, and I would I did pay for things by holding out my hand, because by the time you acquire a ton of this coinage, I'm like, I don't want to go
back with all this and exchange it at the airport whatever. I paid for a few things by handing out, like a child, a palm full of coins the nice lady to select which ones would complete this transaction. But that I don't know if there's is there still a huge five on the nickel, I don't think there is, or a ten on the die. Maybe a small one, but they're not large. You're supposed to just know it, you know. Yeah, But you can't blame them for not being part of
a society where that is. I don't know. Maybe you can't. That's why I always blamed the parents. I bet you can throw a lot of kids a dime and a nickel and they won't know what's what. Hell. At least ours are in order of size sort of kind of right, No, they dime is smaller than a penny. Oh yeah, oh we're not okay, you're nickels bigger, You're right, you're right, right, sorry, one of them was a different color the penny. Stupid. Oh I
get this. So six years in a row testcony fascinating partially you could understand. Right, So, the class of twenty twenty three's performance in English, reading, math, and science suggest suggested they would not be able to earn b's or c's and entry level college. Now this is a sample size of one point four million test takers. This year's ACT test takers scored the lowest since nineteen ninety one. We are getting dumber and dummer and dumber and dumber.
Know of that too. Now, look, some of these people that took the test this year were freshmen when the pandemic hit and that interrupted school a lot, so a bit of an excuse there, But the sixth year decline shows that we can't just blame all of it on COVID. Six straight years of getting worse at the ACT. Does it go to seven eight?
Does it continue to just? I mean, it's one test too, and it's a test I believe on the ACT I think is the one where you can I think on the act, you if you don't know it, you don't answer. They don't want to get guess, I think, and it doesn't affect your score because one of them is like you're penalized. You're not penalized for guessing, you know, but I forgot what It's been so much
harm and maybe that's the best. Maybe it's that's our MAVs. Uh. Maybe we'll do some over under prop bets on the MAVs season, and maybe the loser has to go take the act next year just to see, and maybe we should all just go take it. Seeing who crapped the bed? I need to be under an hour? Did you guys? Do S A T too or just yeah? Both? Because I always yeah, I was all SAT. But by the time ever took a AC two and SAT was more important at the time when I was going I went to college on thousand
and six. So, uh, the A C T had taken over the SAT is more important. Scene is more important. So I don't know, I thought that was pretty interesting. I've got some streaming numbers here, guys. No, let's do that was the hurricane. We should do the hurricane because that is important and you did tease that too. I did tease it, and I like to pay off on what I tease. I don't any of the you guys, that's a fool's game, Kevin. What paying off on teases? YEA, No, man, you gotta do that. You
got to teach these kids what cash means. Kevin. Oversell and under deliver, Yeah, Kevin. Hurricane otis strengthened to a category five officially this morning. It's approaching the Mexican Southern Pacific coast and it will make landfall in Acapulco today. Beautiful Acapulco. Good. If you were ever on a game show in the seventies or eighties and you want a prize, there was a real good chance that it was three nights and four days and sunny Akapulco. Yeah,
and now your borderline not allowed to go as an American citizen. I think we read some on this in the last few months. But they're trying to fix it, trying to clean it up, but it's it's slow moving. You can go to Acapulco and they have, however many square miles it is. I knew at the time when I read it that is completely locked in by the military that's the idea that you can stay on this beach and I guess be all right. But if you leave these damn cement barricades,
you're definitely getting your organs sold on the internet and killed. And isn't that I don't know. A large majority of the fun when you go to these resorts is to venture in inland a little bit. Yeah, go into the city, get some flavor, some local flavor. You love that, Yeah, I do love that. I'm looking at the like local flavor. Cavio Acapulco on the most recent thing, twenty twenty two, tenth highest homicide rate in the world, the world, top ten. Yeah, only top ten.
I think it's heading in the right direction. Yeah, nine of the top ten in the world. Or in Mexico, they're about to be top five in hurricane homicide Koleema, Mexico the number one. What's the one that's outside of make very strange. It's in the United States. Chicago, no Dallas, no Houston, no Miami, no Detroit, no New York,
no Hell. It does have a Northwest. It is a major sports city though Sacramento, Detroit, and it doesn't have hockey, does not have hockey, and it doesn't have baseball San Antonio, but it does have football and basketball, football and basketball. Okay, this is first of all, I'm gonna take New Orleans. I'm enjoying having fun. This is fun New Orleans, New Orleans. It is New Orleans. And is that the only city
with football basketball that keeps sidetracking your news? Nodded Arlotte Carolin Panthers, Right, football, basketball, they don't have baseball, they don't have hockey. Carolina Hurricanes. Yeah, anyway, maximum sustained wins of one hundred and sixty five miles per hour. The uh, there are no hurricanes on record even close to this intensity for this part of Mexico. This isn't an unheard of
storm for that area. Ramped up yesterday from a tropical storm at seventy miles per hour to twelve hours later a Category five at one hundred and sixty five mile per hour winds and in thing is hitting smack acapolcoa yeah, dead center. Yes, And it's gonna keep going to the north and to the northwest north coast. It's not gonna come our way or anything like that up into America because a lot of rain that way. Well, maybe it could be
causing rain. I don't know how the weather pattern works there, but it's not coming to you know, directly here. They are expecting tons of mud slides, flooding, of course, flooding. Expecting up to twenty inches of rain in Wahaka, so we could be out of Wahaka. Jeez, yeah, damn, damn, damn. Handful of people saying their kids don't know the value of coins. Well, teach them and then this is interesting, text us about it. Teach them. There are teenagers who can't who cannot
read an analog clock. I'm a former teach choice at all the time. That's true. They don't know how to read a circular regular But why are they telling us about it? Teach them. It's a texture. You told them to text in. I did, But they're telling us like we can't do anything about it. They need to teach them. They're going to try and teach them. The kids just aren't awake yet. There ye sleeping eight o'clock. They don't know the clock says eight o'clock. Kids, they don't
know when to wake up. They don't know what time it is. They don't know what money is. The future looks bright, right, guys, No, six straight years of bad acts. Danny, the future looks very, very dire. But well, it looks very dire in my opinion, for one of our local sports teams, which we will discuss a little bit
next. Let's go for the Rangers. Yeah, I'm worried that the future looks dire for a little Mavericks. And we had something that happened at the Dallas Mavericks team hotel in San Antonio, and we will discuss that next. On ninety seven to one, the Freak