This is the downbeat. You had a little bit of breaking news earlier.
Reset that for you before we get to the scuttle butt featuring Shale. Excited
about this. So the big lawsuit that was filed, when did this happen?
Last February, Dak Prescott was sued by a woman claiming that he sexually
assaulted her in twenty seventeen, and she was demanding one hundred million dollars in
exchange for not reporting this to police. So Dak's legal team filed a civil
countersuit and a criminal report a month later, and his lawyers denied these allegations
vehemently and claimed that Dak was the victim of a massive extortion plot. So
this woman receives the countersuit and her lawyer sends a statement to Channel eight and
doubles down on the accusation. What we just learned today that details are somewhat
limited, but the woman has dropped her lawsuit against Dak Prescott in Dallas County.
And this is according to court documents. They say that her attorney submitted
a request for a quote non suit without prejudice and this was filed on April
eight. That means the accuser is voluntarily giving up the case. It does
say that she could refile in the future if she wants to. The judge
signed this five days ago on the twelve, so it's not clear if these
cases involving the woman are over now. Some filings, including Dak's countersuit,
were filed in Collin County, now where the alleged assault happened, and it
wasn't immediately clear if the case would continue in Colin County as opposed to Dallas
County. So we don't know if Zach Zach, I'm not gonna suite anymore,
if Dak is going to drop his countersuit, but you kind of would
expect that he wants this to go away and get on with the bigger business
of National Football League football important stuff. So this is about the last we
hear this. Yep. I think we might get a quick blip on our
computer screens that say that Dak's team has dropped the countersuit and they're happy with
the results, and everything goes away, and Dak's out a few hundred bucks
for to pay his attorneys or whoever covers those costs, and we move on.
We move on. So that's the latest on the dak lawsuit. So
un all likelihood he's going to go into training training camp with a clear mind,
yeah, and a willing heart, looking good and a full wallet,
looking good at OTAs and training camp. So that is breaking news that we
wanted to get to you. We've also got other news, and that usually
occurs deep inside the Scottle but usually caveo, No caveo, toda kevio on
an aeroplane, no caveo. For those scoring Kevin's flight at home, he
had a three hour, twenty five minute delay. Still he's in the air
right now, still over water, so uh for much longer though now he
can maybe see land. I don't know, hour and thirty seven minutes till
he arrives in Barcelona. So no Kevin today. I'll when he sees land,
when he sees the outline of the of the coast that Kevin stands up
on the plane and puts his hand above his eyes and as if to shield
the sun, and says land Ho. Yes, screams land Ho and sits
back down. It's funny I have I don't know why I follow air Live
and it just lets me know of any anything going up in the skies.
And in air France to Montreal, they declared an emergency. They diverted due
to an undetermined odor in the cabin. What is the uh? You have
his flight number? Right? Yeah? Hang on a second, I'm going
to text myself so is American? Yeah? AA one two? Okay AA.
Don't want to try that trick that we learned in Dingu's Morning News about
texting yourself the the airline and the number. Yeah, So just just type
an yeah, and I'm texting that to myself and then you click that and
it says preview flight. Look at that. Look at that. This is
so cool. Yeah, that is so damn cool. Is this like the
juke boxes at a bar where maybe you can text and get some music to
play in the plane or get him to honk the horn or something. Flash
the lights. They caused some chaos on this thing. Isn't that incredible?
How far his trajectory took him over the United States? Because when you think,
like you're leaving Texas, you would just go across the Southern States,
across Florida and then a straight shot. Yeah, but man, he went
all the way up through like Nova Scotia. Yeah. The Earth's curvature is
always odd when you're seeing that, like you always have to go far north.
It's weird that Europe is essentially like the same latitude as like Canada.
It's way further north than US. And yeah, Barcelona is about equal to
Hell, New York, maybe a little bit south of that. Yeah,
and Dallas is if you went like drew a straight line around the globe.
I mean we we intersect northern northern Africa. That's crazy, exactly in the
globe. Weird, bro Maps Are maps are interesting? Mikey, Sure as
hell are all right? The scuttle Butt is brought to you a advanced hair
restoration at the home of the Advance fue. Speaking of air travel, I
just I like these. They just saw the list Forbes drop the world's busiest
airport list just yesterday. It's there's a shake up and I don't have a
family feud music, But if you'd like to play, I'll tell you half
of them us, half of them outside US. The ten busiest airports on
planet Earth. The DFW's on there, DFW is on there, DOFW on
the podium. Third busiest airport on Earth, eighty one point eight million passengers
up eleven point four percent year on year. Here's another weird fact. This
article starts with close to eight point five billion passengers took a plane trip last
year. Eight point five that's crazy. Current population of the planet Earth.
We're just about almost at eight Are you kidding? We're almost at eight seven
to nine? Well, alright, we are at eight actually, because it's
seven point nine to five one it says in twenty twenty two. Wow,
well what does that mean. It's not like there's a world census, you
know, like we can get close to accurate for United States. But I
remember when I was in like high school that the number that was always thrown
around this would have been in mid eighties, that it was four point five
billion people in the world. Is that right? Yeah? I remember six
being a player. So there's another site World o Dometers, and it's this
is it actually has the number going up Bampa one two through faster night count
baby baby Babby, Babby baby baby bad by baby eight point one billion people
on Earth. And I remember what is our United States is what now at
about three hundred and fifty million, I think three sixty three seventy. But
I remember the way that I knew when I was a kid. How many
people there were in the United States? Was a Coca Cola jingle? Oh
yeah, and it started off two hundred million people, No two of us
the same blah blah blah, and I remember the rest of it, but
two hundred million people. Yeah, And then what what is the that you
knew the New York population because of the Was it the eight million stories in
the Naked City or whatever it was or six million stories in the Naked City?
What's ten million smiles and growing ten million smiles and growing ten million smiles
and growing. That's somebody too. It must be from your list. It
must be babies. I have to look it up, dumb secnd no,
no, no, no, tell me population US three fifty three thirty three,
three thirty three, Okay, ten millions, give me that mile and
growing. I don't even toothpaste. What's flintstones? We are the flintstone kids.
Okay, ten million smiles and growing. It should be toothpaste. But
yeah, ten million kids at the time, flintstone vitamins. But this current
world past, so one hundred and twenty thousand births today, jeez, in
a wild thirty nine and a half million berths this year and people are living
longer. So I mean deaths today right right now, fifty four thousand deaths
today today, fifty four thousand. Oh my god, I'm geting panic attack.
I'm gonna die so soon one day we're all gonna wake up. Dad,
mikey oh uh, India the most populated nation, China right on their
heels, Team USA in third place. Is India at a billion? Yeah?
One point four, That's what I thought. As to one point four
as well. God's where the USA Indonesia fourth? You'd think focused on fifth,
you'd think that India with the just the sheer amount of people that they
have, would be a world superpower MILLI tarily, but you never think of
India. I think they're pretty tough, but not with tech. Nobody messes
with India, right, I bet India would differ. I don't know that
Mumbai thing when they attacked a resort. I mean, I don't know.
But you never really hear about India in some type of world military conflict.
Now, no, I think they chip in. Are they allies of the
US? Yes? Okay, but yeah, I think they are. The
density of the population of India is crazy. If you look at like you
think there's a lot of people here, dude, there's stats they you know,
images where you can The density of people is crazy. I remember a
few years back reading articles and maybe it was just because of a certain incident
that at the time, but the because of the density of people, they
have massive sewage problems, like what to do with all of this manure?
I think you were watching slum Dog Millionaire. I watched that too, which
is great, a great film, and he had to hide in the sewage
area. I know we have some Indian listeners. You can call and educat
us if you want. Anyway. World's busiest airports okay, DFW, I
want to say Atlanta, oh On lasting eight point five million passengers eight billion
people on Earth, so more passengers than there are people on Earth. I
think this means number of trips obviously, but it's still odd the percentage of
people on Earth. You think we're on a plane last year? I mean,
I know a guy that twenty flies every week, sometimes multiple times for
his job, and there's a lot of people that are like that. There
are also people that have never been on a plane. Right, That's okay?
I bet no more than twenty percent of the people on Earth flew and
maybe that's wrong. I don't know. He was thirty fifty. I haven't
been on a plane since twenty twenty two. Really, yeah. I flew
to n Ashville and see John USh and that's the last time. I haven't
flown anywhere. You're so poor. I have a toddlers. They suck on
airplanes, man, So he hasn't been in a plane yet. Obviously he's
been. Yeah, he was. He was three months old and it was
easy. Easy. The little babies fly all day, no problems. When
they put him now, oh my god, I couldn't handle it. He'd
be worse than Number three in the world, as you guessed, is Dallas
Fort Worth again from last year. I want to say Atlanta because it's a
big hub, but I don't know if they get that much traffic. That
is uh, but I'm putting them on there an old tail. That is
correct. Hartsfield Jackson the number one busiest airplane on planet Earth, and then
you've got a hundred and five million and they're up twelve percent as well.
That's crazy. I would think that lax Lax is in the top ten.
Yeah, Lax number eight, and then the obvious other choice would be Leguard.
No, what about a hair o hair is number nine? Is that
the five US? That's the that's four or five US? You're missing one
a guest the guest Miami, Nope, San Francisco not JFK. No,
San Francisco, okay. So nothing in New York. Nothing else in California
Nope, nothing else in Chicago. Denver makes sense. Denver is number six,
That is the five in the United States. All these are up such
a high percentage from last year. It's crazy. The ones outside of the
US. He throws number four. I don't know the names of the ones
in Paris, and is Paris up there? Charles A. Gall Right,
but no, it is not on there. Number two busiest airport on Earth
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. So what about Tokyo, Yeah, Tokyo
is number five, and then Istanbul Turkey number seven. Nope, Delhi,
India has discussed. So Atlanta won Dubai to Dallas for it were third busiest
airport on planet Earth. Wow, Atlanta the atl is number one. That's
kind of badass. Yeah. Now they're a hub for Delta. For Delta
and DFW is the hub for American American, and we got two hubs and
then love is for Southwest, right, wild wild stuff. That's weird,
wild stuff. We did some sports and sports at seven, but I had
a couple other things that I think applied. Some are pretty interesting. So
I called Christina two nights ago, like what are you doing. She's like,
I'm watching the I'm watching the draft. I'm like, what, She's
watching the w NBA Draft. And I saw the ratings for this and this
has has been big story, you know, I mean people, So the
WNBA never cracked a million people watching their draft coverage, but because of this
Caitlin Clark craziness, two point four million views watched the WNBA Draft on Monday
on ESPN. Okay, two point four million. She's the best thing to
happen to this sport. Maybe ever believe it? And maybe it was trending
on Twitter. Yes, it was trended everywhere. And I don't know,
I know the ratings when she played was through the roof tom. I just
we're a little detached from how big this is. And I don't know if
it's just because not just women. I watched her play, you know,
I watched the LSU games I knew that was gonna be a cool showdown,
but it's just bigger than I think we can really quantify, Like, I
mean, what do you attribute it to it? It can't Is it just
solely based on her? No, they're getting way more eyeb Like. There
is just more opportunities to watch because they're showing them more on TV. It's
just that's how it's been every year. And you can say that about all
women's sports, call it so of all all that. But I don't know
if it's all creeping up at the same rate as the Caitlin Clark effect.
I don't think without her you're much over a million viewers, which it's still
respectable. I mean, the NHL Draft has six hundred and eighty thousand on
ESPN, and this quadrupled it. The MLB draft Major League Baseball had seven
hundred and forty four thousand ran. That's a weird draft. That NBA draft,
the NBA Men's Draft three point seven million people watch. That is unbelievable.
And what did you say that the two point four watched the w NBA
Draft. Shock It's it's it's got to be all her, right, I
mean, it's not all her. But yeah, that she was the first
one pick. So after that, why you know, what's you know,
what's funny he watching it if she's already pick, you know what I mean?
I think I think it's all it's she hasn't contributed, but well by
by people putting eyes on her, they are you know, by osmosis learning
about other players. Yeah, and this class was a pretty good class.
Angel Is coming out Cardosa from soccer. It was a good it was a
good draft class coming out. Okay, so I don't watch and I haven't,
and shame on me. I'll take it. What is the allure of
her other than being a well tall white girl that shoots the hoop? I
mean, I mean, honestly, her being a white girl matters for that
amount of viewership and the relatability for that section of people. I guess she's
kind of a regular looking I mean, in any sport, I mean even
the NBA, the tallest gigantic dudes aren't relatable, but when there's someone who's
a little closer to normal size, it makes you feel differently about them.
I think she's and she lit it up and set the damn college scoring record.
Yeah, so she she fills it up and scores thirty plus, like
every time she plays. She's really good. But I think she's just relatable,
maybe to a white audience. I don't I don't know how you get
two point four million? Can she dunk? Does she have a trick?
Her trick is that she makes everything from anywhere. She's a Seth Curry of
women's Okay, exactly right, Okay, Curry shoots eye and quick release.
But she also got handles. You know, she solid at everything? Is
there a little bit of Luca when I was watching her because she controls the
ball and if anyone else is controlling your ball, like dude, get it
back to her. At least on Iowa, you know, Like I said,
when I watched that game, she was the best player on the floor,
right yeah, and then the next six girls from LSU or the next
six best and then maybe you start sprinkling some mother Ira girls. She just
stood out as being skilled. They said her jerseys sold out on fanatics.
I saw that after she got drafted and it said it just smashed her record
for Indiana Fever jerseys is nuts. Yes, And the other thing that I
can't get over is did you see this? You do you know what her
salary is going to be. Oh God, please don't tell me. It's
something embarrassing, like one hundred and ten thousand dollars a year. It's not
one hundred and ten thousand. She makeing over a million, right, it's
way less than that. Danny. She's going to earn seventy six thousand,
five hundred dollars in her first season. Well, it's the rookie contract.
I mean, that's gonna blow up in three years. I don't know how
it works after four years, and it's structured to where I think the top
four picks all get the same amount. But Caitlin Clark seventeen, who's one
of the most popular or famous athletes in the war in America right now,
is going to get seventy six thousand dollars in first She'll make her nut in
Oh Pals, and she probably already is started. Me. Hell, she
was offered five million from the Big three, right, yeah, and commercials
galore, Like we're not worried about her income. But she gets to pick.
Yeah, Like she gets to pick the soft drink she wants to endorse,
she gets to pick the shoe the I don't know the financial investment company
whatever she wants. Oh, she is pick of the litter. She's a
multi millionaire right now, and she doesn't even know it. Yeah, no,
she knows it. Her bank account doesn't quite know it. Does she
already have? Yeah, she has Nike, Gatorade, Exfinity, State Farm
buick. Good god, imagine just checks from all those. It's like Tiger
Woods, dude, just dinging your your automatic income? What is that?
Direct? A positive? Yeah? You get the little little ping on your
phone. What's that? Oh? Wells Fargo, Okay, we check our
account every two weeks, you know, and you're like, all right,
yeah, making sure there's not a minus in front of it. Yeah,
and she's just getting ding. Emails of Gatorade came in. But anyway,
that's a crazy low number that will blossom over the next four seasons into her
peak in twenty twenty seven, when she makes ninety seven five hundred dollars.
Wow, pretty well seventy grand anyway, all that stuff cool? GHO,
scuttle butt, go did some sports in there. We're gonna do sports nine
o'clock. Kevin Gray's gonna join us in just about an hour. He is
our MAVs expert and we just want to kick it. Where do we stand
after the play in night last night? Are we homers or are we realistic
fans? Yeah? And I write this say, I damn think that the
MAVs might win the NBA Championship. I'm going to Vegas. I'm in a
bet at least one hundred dollars on them winning the NBA Championship. I want
him to tell me if I'm a psychopath or not. I fear I know
the answer to that question. All right, coming up next, it is
eight o'clock and a time for some entertainment crap. Right, we got big
movie reviews. JJ and I both have seen Civil War and I want to
go over man. It was nominated for an Oscar. It won a few
awards, but Zone of Interest, Wow, we'll talk about those and Ministry
of Ungentlemanly Warfare. And Mikey's been watching three three Body Problem. A lot
of reviews, a lot of movies, a lot of TV. Coming up next