You're listening to the downbeat. On ninety seven to one the free A bunch
of Texters said to look up Icon of the Seas, which was Royal Caribbean
Cruise. That we're just talking about the cholera. How you said, cholerale
cruise that they wouldn't let doc near Mauritius. Icon of the Seas just entered
service January twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, so one month ago today.
That's a freshy, a big freshy, the largest cruise ship on earth.
They ordered two Icon series, one to be delivered late last year, which
was this one, and one more in twenty twenty five as the two new
largest in the world. Cost just over two billion to construct. The amount
of people on that ship is over three times the amount of people that live
in the town that I grew up. Yeah right, yes, that's about
the town. Yes, as of only it takes them a long time to
build these things. They build them overseas and then finally give them to roll
Caribbean. They outfit them hard, make them beautiful. This thing has an
ice skating rink. What the only thing that was missing was clean water?
Fifty six or no, seventy six hundred passengers. Maximum capacity this one was
they said it only had thirty one hundred total people on it, including crew.
I found that amazing that the crew was only out number two to one
passengers to crew. That's about what this is. Well, if you go
mac this new one, this icon of the sea, seventy six hundred passengers,
twenty three hundred crew. If you go maximum capacity, bananas, crazy
stuff going out out there at SEEA. You guys, yeah, we may
have another story, another story of that includes a disaster at sea. Disaster.
Yeah, if there's one tease you know works, it's disaster at see
what times Stingers Morning News Today, eight thirty, eight thirty. You might
hear that tease at around A twenty four twenty, very loudly and authoritatively say
disaster at sea and then we'll go to my when I ever live spot I
have come. You know who's turning the radio off when you hear that tease?
Nobody? No one, No one person. What about the classic Ben
Rogers Te's tragedy at UAB No one usually gets people to stay too. Oh
yeah, after you said it was very clear like oh that's gonna be can't
cut and saved that's the best form of drops is taking people's teases and just
keeping them for years. Yeah, seven years later, disaster at sea thirty
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this sevennight and now lord, hey, somebody else real quick said my dad
played in the house fan on a cruise ship and banked big dough. Yes,
big dough interesting, so interesting. Maybe I need to look into the
world. Me and you Okay, well, double ocuvency get our own little
room by the size of this table. I've already offered we can live together
my services a couple of segments ago, yes, and I haven't answered yet.
If you notice, I still want to catch up on a few text
messages. How about this one from six twenty three This morning, Dick Shale
for school board seat four. Dude, write me in yeah right right,
me and Shale in right in a fictional cardboard character, draw a little badge
next to it. I'll be there at ten to ten thirty. You boys
will have signs all around the voting booths of Fort Worth. Yes, that's
so yeah. If you missed it earlier, got a bunch of vote ninety
seven on the freak signs and there's a big contest to post it on Twitter
and Instagram and everywhere and Facebook, and you have a chance to win some
money and stuff like that, and a trip for you and three friends,
a trip up here, a cruise trip up here. You have to actually
drive up here. No one's gonna pick you up. We'll have a big
drawing. But if you go post these signs at polling locations and post you
know, your picture proving that you did it or a video, then you'll
get an entry. And you can also use your front yard as a polling
location as well. Yeah, you can get up to five. I'm not
gonna give anyone more than that, but you'll have five a chase to have
five entries in a drawing and only about one hundred signs, so your odds
will be really good no matter what, especially if you've got five entries and
they win what ninety seven dollars plus, you and three friends can come up
to the show of your choice, one of our three shows and hang out
in studio for the s We'll have some food catered. I do. Just
have a big party on the air. What a great idea, cool idea,
Kevin. That's Kevin's idea. I want signs. Yeah I can.
I can have three. I can has three. I can give you as
as you want, just three. You know, I don't. I don't
want to take away from people that are actually, you know, really really
want them. I just I want to put one in my yard. Yeah,
that'd be fun. Two places to see us to get them today and
then if I hope I don't have any left over tomorrow, I hope we
get rid of them today. You have ninety ninety seven of them after I
get mine. That although freak Jesus did say set us five for me,
these are going to be littering your home for the remainder of your time living
there. I do fear that I'll help you get rid of them. So
today you're gonna put one in your yard? Yeah, that'll be fun,
and it will be fun. I don't wan people to know what about you,
Kevin? Are you gonna put one in your yard? I don't want
people to I'll put them my neighbors there. Put one in your yard across
the house. Are you not proud of what we do? I don't want
people know where I live. No one's going to know it. You don't
know when you had nothing in your house anybody wants. Yeah, it's not
like there's a string of dishwasher thieves Roman Richardson right now. Yeah, if
they catch me, commonary and it's just be weird crap. So what ten
to noon today, coming down to the lobby at the station, if there,
if we're not down there right at ten, I don't know it just
south iHeart on the building fourteen thousand and one. What is it North Dallasway
dark right between the toll way and in Wood. Yeah, can't miss us.
Absolutely. We'll probably put a couple of signs out there, right,
that'd be a good idea. That might be a good plan. But then
so I could just take it. It's one sign. Here's yeah, I
really didn't The tallying doesn't happen until you've posted it online. And then five
point thirty to six tonight in Irving at Alamo draft House, I'm gonna take
a haul him out there. I hope I don't have to. I hope
y' all can get him before noon today. And I don't make it that
on my draft house. That could happen too. So there it is a
chance to win stuff. Check the for official rules and details. Check our
post on Facebook and Twitter. Let's start out real quick. In sports,
So Dallas Morning, I'm sorry. A four star Telegram Clarence Hill wrote this,
The Cowboys want running back Tony Pollard back, but at a much cheaper
price. So if last year they franchise tagged him, gave him ten million
for a one year deal, and they said that he is basically coming back.
They thought at the end of the year that he was back from his
leg injury. They're like, Okay, he's back to what he was.
I think it'd be great to keep him. They're not down on him,
and they want him to return. So it's a chance that Tony Pollard is
here again. The franchise tag number would be twelve million. They're not going
to do that. It won't happen. So he can sit here and go,
okay, I could take the Cowboys playing a low ball and take five
million dollars. Any why do that? Or he can go you know,
I'll see if the Giants want me at eight million dollars because Saquon Barkley is
free. Is that one of the ways. Did you just say that I
apologize if you did Giants because I heard Ben Skin tease Tony Pollard talking to
another NFC's rival, or heard somebody tease that on in here the segments.
I did not know that he was talking to another rival. I have not
heard that. Okay, in the free agency's March thirteenth, so were two
weeks away, or so two plus two and a half weeks away. I
don't know if you saw the RG three tweet yesterday. I didn't. Yeah.
RG three tweeted out that the Cowboys should jump on signing. Then that's
where that's where National went. Okay, Yeah, I didn't know. It's
stemed from RG three. National's going because the Giants, same situation, gave
Saquon a little deal last year. Yeah, he got franchise tag last year
for a little over ten million. And Josh Jacobs is the other of the
Raiders, same thing. Raiders are going to try to sign him, but
they're not going to give him the franchise tag. You also will have Derrick
Henry who will be free. You also will have Austin Eckler of the Chargers
who will be free. I don't know how much Eckler's got left as in
terms of a running back you know, he's more of your past catching guy.
You know Pollard get last or last year the franchise tags of ten million
dollars and it would be twelve this year. If you wanted to tag him
again, I would. I found him largely unimpressive last year, as everybody
else did. But I thought he was good at the end. You know,
he was Him and Gallup were both good at the end, like a
year after their I don't even say it was good. He was fine.
He was serviceable. That he was nothing more than serviceable if you look at
the season in total. You know. I was talking to someone about this,
Oh yeah, it was the podcast to do about them cowboys on the
Athletic and with my buddy John Michoda and Kent Garrison and sad Yusef and John
Michoda was like, well, look, if they like Rito doubt Rico dubtell
enough, they just need to get a guy with some size. And I
was like, Okay, Well, if we're gonna just talk about getting a
guy for size, then you just draft a six rounder. I can get
a running back that has size and pay him minimum wage if that's the way
we're gonna do this, Like I'm cool with that. I vote for that.
And we've tried pay running backs in some form for a long time,
including franchising Pollard, and we obviously the Zeke thing well I'll never forget.
We've also run out some no names and see how it really looks. We've
also tried not paying running backs, which led to your Joseph Randall and you
know Darren McFadden year's which the McFadden year was fine, that got hurt,
you know, I mean, I'm sorry, you know, Romo got hurt
that year. It's twenty fifteen. I suppose it matters what they did to
bolts for the old line for me more than I agree. You know that
money sent to Tony Pollard that could be used in are we getting tiring back
or are we doing Tyler Biattish m hm. There's a lot of things you
gotta figure out there. Or they're probably gonna draft of the probably drafting off
its Vineman in the first round too, and they usually do good at that.
But it's some sexy names if you take one Barkley, Josh Jacobs,
Derrick, Henry Eckler even or they're all available. Some other names. DeAndre
Swift of the Eagles, who's good like Eckler. Aj Dillon would be your
guy of size if you wanted him to kind of be a partial running back
one. I wouldn't do that personally, but if you're like and one on
of the Cowboys gonna push for though brings it back? No, I mean,
z Heke's getting like two million to play for the Patriots. Why wouldn't
he come back for here? For two million? Who's the starter? Then
ric o'daddell ric o' daddle start, Oh my god, it doesn't. But
Rico's good. My point is Jerry, with the the high profile names that
you just listed, I think it's completely within the realm of possibility, even
maybe leaning toward probability, that he goes after one of the bigger names.
Were the other ones you listed? You said, Henry Henry or Josh Jacobs
or Austin Eckler, But couldn't you see that happening? I mean, Jerry
wants to go for it. This is the year. He keeps saying it.
He says that every year, but yeah, this is really really the
year. But someone's gonna pay Saquon a good amount. I think someone It
might be Jerry. Dude, there are some teams like the Cardinals who have
just cap space out the Wazoo, who are just like, yeah, we'll
give a big name. I personally, outside of Saquon, I think Tony
Pollard is the best one of all of them. So I would do that.
But they're not gonna get They've they've almost certainly earmarked four million dollars in
budget for running back or something like that. You know, like, there's
probably a number that they're not gonna go over. Josh Jacob's still good too,
but I have a hard time believing that Jerry's going to trust a sixth
rounder to come in and start for this team next year. I would jack
around with former first rounder Clyde Edwards Hilaire of Kansas City, who hadn't got
a lot of run. The old LSU running back had got a lot of
run there because Pacheco passed him by when he got hurt. I would jack
around with something like that and do running back by committee before I did that,
because my third wide receiver is probably going to be more, you know,
important to this team than my first running back. You know, it's
it's just the way I look at it now. But oh, that's interesting.
Just because that's some sexy, sexy names out there. Mm hmm.
And we'll have a solution in a few weeks. Cowboys fodder. MAVs are
back tonight against Cleveland. That's at six pre game at five point thirty with
great Kevin Gray Coople. I they caught six, Mike. We have a
local dude back in the news. Dude. We talked about this couple weeks
ago where there's out of absolutely nowhere, the whispers of the return of the
enigma that is Anthony Kim. The I don't know, I don't know about
golfing legend. I don't know. I mean, he assisted in Team USA
winning a Ryder Cup and then he just disappeared twelve years ago from the game.
And he's a Dallas site. He's from California, but he lives somewhere
in Dallas. So he's kind of a magnified mystery in our town here and
in the golf world, it's like, Anthony Kim, whatever happened? And
you know, allegedly he had ten million bucks or so on an insurance policy
that paid only if he never played golf again, So he was all banged
up, and he's like, all right, I don't want to play golf
anymore. But every year it's like, oh, where's Anthony Kim. What's
Anthony Kim doing? So a couple weeks ago or a month ago, this
news broke that, my god, Anthony Kim wants to golf again. And
we didn't know if it was PGA Tour or live or what it was going
to be. But this thing's kind of snuck up on us and out of
nowhere. Anthony Kim is playing this weekend on the Live Tour in Saudi Arabia.
I saw just this morning. They have the little placard with the name
Anthony Kim on and on the driving range like he is gonna play this week
It starts this Friday at two fifteen am local time, so we actually might
get to watch love Anthony Kim. That's crazy in here on Friday. That's
wild. But after a dozen years, I think he got up to fourteenth
ranked in the world. He was very charismatic, cool kid who you know,
was one of many to be, Oh, my god, the next
Tiger style guy. Obviously you never did anything close to that. But now
he is returning to play this Efan weekend and live golf, so is he
just did he sign on with him or is he just kind of doing a
little He has been test run. He's thirty eight years old, which is
just bizarre. He's reportedly been signed to a wild card deal by Live Golf,
and he is competing in the third event of the twenty twenty four season,
that's in Jetta, that starts this weekend. He's not on one of
their teams, so I think he is committed to play in at least three
events, but he has not been assigned to one of their teams. I
think it's kind of a tryout. They got to know, can this dude
play golf at a level where you're battling John Rahm? And the answer is
probably hell no, no, especially right out the gates. But who knows.
He's the legend of Anthony Kim. He started as a mystery. He
started out at one hundred and fifty to one to win this thing, and
then it quickly dropped down one hundred to one. He has better odds to
win this week's Live Tour than Phil Micholson, Lee Westwood, Graham mcdowal,
Charles Schwartzel, Martin Kaimer. Can that's Danny? A question? Because that's
that's just more juiced for live, which is killing it. I want to
ask Danny something just because Mike and I are golf dorks, But Danny,
at this week's live event, you will have John Ram, Dustin Johnson,
Bryce and d Chambeau plenty more huge name when you think of liv are those
the big names you think of? Just because he's kind of the figurehead of
the smith is, you know, right there with Ram as the best player
there. Maybe not as big a name in America, but yeah, huge
This week at the Old Honda Classic in Florida on the PGA Tour, Rory,
Matt Fitzpatrick, Tom Kim, Cameron Young. Which one interest you more?
Danny obviously the one with the bigger names, uh. And the fact
that we can come in here and probably catch the back nine. Yeah,
but we'll be getting the front nine on Thursday of He's a good rep for
that though. If you talk about visual recognition, we could probably go eight
plus deep on live and I bet you can go too deep with Rory,
Ricky Fowler, giving Ricky Fowler and Matt Fitzpatrick. Shane Great did do anything
for you? Shane Lowry? Yeah, I know the name he doesn't heston
Rose back in the day. But I was just thinking, like, dude,
to live and I was always on. I was always on the boat
of that Live is a threat. Like but just because of the money.
I know, there's some people who are like, no, it's not gonna
that's not real, it's not gonna last. I'm like, no, they
and it to me week in and week out. We just watched the Mexico
Open last week and it was like the winner. There was one big player
in the field to who is not wouldn't be a normal day's a top ten
player in the field and he was only there because he's the defending change.
Yeah. Other though he wasn't defending, he would not have gone. They
PGA Tours in trouble, not like they're not going to exist in it.
I don't know. I know, but when they do the elevated events,
but they need a twenty million dollars purse and then all the boys come to
the yard. They need speak and Justin Thomas to play every week and these
other huge names. And imagine the pressure via text and phone call to those
guys to get him to play in a non elevated event. Yeah, I
think it might lean toward they only they only all play in the majors,
the elevated events and whatever thing they're hosting, you know, or that they
previously won, you know, like female I don't want to plan a local
event. No oh no, I mean he doesn't, and that that was
probably more of a beating for him. A Scheffler too, Yeah, yeah,
probably more of a beating for him to do that with the media obligations
and stuff. It's just it's interesting and Anthony Kim is just more Just like,
if the PGA Tour could have got Anthony Kim somehow, you know,
I know he doesn't, he would be able to qualify, Like, I
get it, what do you think he'll shoot? But like, because this
one load of mid seventies, I think you'll hang. How about if I
gave you seventy I assume it's a part seventy two. If I gave you
seventy four and a half as an over under, I was thinking's seventy five.
From my head, I'll say over non competitive for that long, I'll
say over I think I do too. Unlus, the course is super easy.
Where is this Saudi? Okay? Are these guys? They're not moving
over there? Are they just they're flying to these tournaments whenever they happen.
They're private planning because they got private plane money now, and they're all in
that world over there. No, I mean there's live tournaments in America.
Yeah, there's a bunch of Vegas, Miami, there's four here. I
think, I think what I'm gonna be in fo wurth in in there?
Are there? I think? So, No, it's kind of a good
idea. I mean, honestly, it's Formula one. That's like the model
that they're that they it's less I mean Formula one' up to I think twenty
four races this year beginning this weekend and by right. But yeah, the
PGA Tour is essentially the United States, the DP World Tours kind of Europe
that they have the Asian Tour, but live is massive of in all of
them moving fairly with the same groups. But yeah, they all live here,
Hong Kong, Miami, Adelaide, Singapore, Houston was the Texas One,
Houston, Nashville, Andalusiah UK and then the Greenbrier Caroline Dumb Golf question,
are there certain courses in the United States that are strictly PGA sanctioned like
that the PGA would have rights on Pebble Beach, for example, LIB wouldn't
be able to host a tournament at Pebble Beach. I don't think officially know,
I don't think, but there's fifty year relationships that they wouldn't do it
out of respect. I think, Yeah, But you know what can trump
respect? Cash? Look at all those big Well you just went down a
list of eight dudes that I would if you told me that they were playing
in a watchable event here, you know, in prime time, I'd be
excited to watch that. Well, it's funny you said, so, yeah,
you can trump respect because Durrell the Blue Monster in Miami is a longtime
PGA tour venue, and they stopped the tournament because of Trump his ownership of
It's Trump Durrell, and then that quickly became a live tournament event. It
was where their championship was last year. So there's a lot of that.
Yeah, yeah, but I don't I don't know. I don't. I
don't know. Like, if you're in the rotation for US opens like Pinehurst
and Pebble Beach, sure, or you know, Beth Paate, whatever,
you probably think that would screw you up if you agreed to host a live
tournament there. Well first and Texans. The problem is, I've never been
able to find any of it on TV. Well it's on the Country and
Western CW now and it is still you could still like know if that if
little things in broadcast bother you like just kind of being a little all over
the map. It's a little wild ass. But they do have kind of
cool graphics, and they have David Faridy a familiar voice, and it's faster,
it's Shotgun Star. I mean, there's a lot appealing. John Rahm
just sat down with Marty Smith, I think on ESPN just a couple of
days ago, and he kind of said it finally. He's like, it's
more money and I have far less obligations that I have to fulfill. I
get to play less golf and make a lot more money. Yeah, Because
that's the thing is these guys all sign and they can't go out and be
like I took the bag, yeah, which is the truth. But Live
doesn't even want you to say that because LIV wants to validate themselves as a
competitive the best golfers, you know, so they don't even want you to
say it but everyone knows it. But Rom kind of said it this week.
They need to create some PGA versus live events. Make this like an
NFC AFC type thing that would be that would benefit the PGA. To or
live might be like, no, we're taking your sport. And I thought
that's what we were getting close to doing last year and had a merger the
pitch, but the merger never officially went through. It was all scheduled to
go through. So okay, all that live PGA whatever. I'm here for
Anthony Kim's return, which is this Friday, while we're all sleeping. It
starts at two fifteen Central time. After twelve years, he comes back and
we get to watch it. Do we have the Country and Western channel to
watch golf? Why don't we don't have anything? I mean behind his head
on our computers. We'll figure it out. Yeah, we'll find out.
Youtubeer. Why does the NBC news team look like they're in hell? Don't
ask, don't leave them alone. It's just a bad backdrop. I think
it hit ninety degrees yesterday. I think that's what they're going for. Good
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