The Scuttlebutt

Mikey breaks down the list of the ten busiest airports in the world. 

Episode Transcript

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This is the downbeat. You hada little bit of breaking news earlier.
Reset that for you before we getto the scuttle butt featuring Shale. Excited
about this. So the big lawsuitthat was filed, when did this happen?

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Last February, Dak Prescott was suedby a woman claiming that he sexually
assaulted her in twenty seventeen, andshe was demanding one hundred million dollars in
exchange for not reporting this to police. So Dak's legal team filed a civil

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countersuit and a criminal report a monthlater, and his lawyers denied these allegations
vehemently and claimed that Dak was thevictim of a massive extortion plot. So
this woman receives the countersuit and herlawyer sends a statement to Channel eight and
doubles down on the accusation. Whatwe just learned today that details are somewhat

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limited, but the woman has droppedher 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 suitwithout prejudice and this was filed on April
eight. That means the accuser isvoluntarily giving up the case. It does

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say that she could refile in thefuture if she wants to. The judge
signed this five days ago on thetwelve, 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, nowwhere the alleged assault happened, and it

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wasn't immediately clear if the case wouldcontinue in Colin County as opposed to Dallas
County. So we don't know ifZach Zach, I'm not gonna suite anymore,
if Dak is going to drop hiscountersuit, but you kind of would
expect that he wants this to goaway and get on with the bigger business

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of National Football League football important stuff. So this is about the last we
hear this. Yep. I thinkwe might get a quick blip on our
computer screens that say that Dak's teamhas dropped the countersuit and they're happy with
the results, and everything goes away, and Dak's out a few hundred bucks

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for to pay his attorneys or whoevercovers those costs, and we move on.
We move on. So that's thelatest on the dak lawsuit. So
un all likelihood he's going to gointo training training camp with a clear mind,
yeah, and a willing heart,looking good and a full wallet,

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looking good at OTAs and training camp. So that is breaking news that we
wanted to get to you. We'vealso got other news, and that usually
occurs deep inside the Scottle but usuallycaveo, No caveo, toda kevio on

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an aeroplane, no caveo. Forthose scoring Kevin's flight at home, he
had a three hour, twenty fiveminute 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'tknow, hour and thirty seven minutes till
he arrives in Barcelona. So noKevin today. I'll when he sees land,

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when he sees the outline of theof the coast that Kevin stands up
on the plane and puts his handabove 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 haveI don't know why I follow air Live
and it just lets me know ofany anything going up in the skies.

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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 thatwe learned in Dingu's Morning News about

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texting yourself the the airline and thenumber. Yeah, So just just type
an yeah, and I'm texting thatto myself and then you click that and
it says preview flight. Look atthat. Look at that. This is
so cool. Yeah, that isso damn cool. Is this like the
juke boxes at a bar where maybeyou can text and get some music to

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play in the plane or get himto honk the horn or something. Flash
the lights. They caused some chaoson this thing. Isn't that incredible?
How far his trajectory took him overthe United States? Because when you think,
like you're leaving Texas, you wouldjust go across the Southern States,
across Florida and then a straight shot. Yeah, but man, he went

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all the way up through like NovaScotia. 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 likethe same latitude as like Canada.
It's way further north than US.And yeah, Barcelona is about equal to

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Hell, New York, maybe alittle bit south of that. Yeah,
and Dallas is if you went likedrew a straight line around the globe.
I mean we we intersect northern northernAfrica. That's crazy, exactly in the
globe. Weird, bro Maps Aremaps are interesting? Mikey, Sure as
hell are all right? The scuttleButt is brought to you a advanced hair

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restoration at the home of the Advancefue. Speaking of air travel, I
just I like these. They justsaw the list Forbes drop the world's busiest
airport list just yesterday. It's there'sa shake up and I don't have a
family feud music, But if you'dlike to play, I'll tell you half
of them us, half of themoutside US. The ten busiest airports on

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planet Earth. The DFW's on there, DFW is on there, DOFW on
the podium. Third busiest airport onEarth, eighty one point eight million passengers
up eleven point four percent year onyear. Here's another weird fact. This
article starts with close to eight pointfive billion passengers took a plane trip last

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year. Eight point five that's crazy. Current population of the planet Earth.
We're just about almost at eight Areyou 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 itsays in twenty twenty two. Wow,
well what does that mean. It'snot like there's a world census, you

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know, like we can get closeto accurate for United States. But I
remember when I was in like highschool that the number that was always thrown
around this would have been in mideighties, that it was four point five
billion people in the world. Isthat right? Yeah? I remember six
being a player. So there's anothersite World o Dometers, and it's this

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is it actually has the number goingup Bampa one two through faster night count
baby baby Babby, Babby baby babybad by baby eight point one billion people
on Earth. And I remember whatis 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 knewwhen I was a kid. How many

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people there were in the United States? Was a Coca Cola jingle? Oh
yeah, and it started off twohundred million people, No two of us
the same blah blah blah, andI 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 ofthe Was it the eight million stories in

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the Naked City or whatever it wasor six million stories in the Naked City?
What's ten million smiles and growing tenmillion smiles and growing ten million smiles
and growing. That's somebody too.It must be from your list. It
must be babies. I have tolook it up, dumb secnd no,
no, no, no, tellme population US three fifty three thirty three,

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three thirty three, Okay, tenmillions, 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 thetime, flintstone vitamins. But this current
world past, so one hundred andtwenty thousand births today, jeez, in

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a wild thirty nine and a halfmillion berths this year and people are living
longer. So I mean deaths todayright 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 daywe're all gonna wake up. Dad,

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mikey oh uh, India the mostpopulated nation, China right on their
heels, Team USA in third place. Is India at a billion? Yeah?
One point four, That's what Ithought. As to one point four
as well. God's where the USAIndonesia fourth? You'd think focused on fifth,

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you'd think that India with the justthe sheer amount of people that they
have, would be a world superpowerMILLI tarily, but you never think of
India. I think they're pretty tough, but not with tech. Nobody messes
with India, right, I betIndia would differ. I don't know that
Mumbai thing when they attacked a resort. I mean, I don't know.

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But you never really hear about Indiain some type of world military conflict.
Now, no, I think theychip in. Are they allies of the
US? Yes? Okay, butyeah, I think they are. The
density of the population of India iscrazy. If you look at like you
think there's a lot of people here, dude, there's stats they you know,

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images where you can The density ofpeople is crazy. I remember a
few years back reading articles and maybeit was just because of a certain incident
that at the time, but thebecause of the density of people, they
have massive sewage problems, like whatto do with all of this manure?
I think you were watching slum DogMillionaire. I watched that too, which

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is great, a great film,and he had to hide in the sewage
area. I know we have someIndian listeners. You can call and educat
us if you want. Anyway.World's busiest airports okay, DFW, I
want to say Atlanta, oh Onlasting eight point five million passengers eight billion
people on Earth, so more passengersthan there are people on Earth. I

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think this means number of trips obviously, but it's still odd the percentage of
people on Earth. You think we'reon a plane last year? I mean,
I know a guy that twenty fliesevery week, sometimes multiple times for
his job, and there's a lotof people that are like that. There
are also people that have never beenon a plane. Right, That's okay?

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I bet no more than twenty percentof 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 twentytwo. Really, yeah. I flew
to n Ashville and see John UShand that's the last time. I haven't
flown anywhere. You're so poor.I have a toddlers. They suck on

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airplanes, man, So he hasn'tbeen in a plane yet. Obviously he's
been. Yeah, he was.He was three months old and it was
easy. Easy. The little babiesfly all day, no problems. When
they put him now, oh mygod, I couldn't handle it. He'd
be worse than Number three in theworld, as you guessed, is Dallas
Fort Worth again from last year.I want to say Atlanta because it's a

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big hub, but I don't knowif they get that much traffic. That
is uh, but I'm putting themon there an old tail. That is
correct. Hartsfield Jackson the number onebusiest airplane on planet Earth, and then
you've got a hundred and five millionand they're up twelve percent as well.
That's crazy. I would think thatlax Lax is in the top ten.
Yeah, Lax number eight, andthen the obvious other choice would be Leguard.

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No, what about a hair ohair is number nine? Is that
the five US? That's the that'sfour or five US? You're missing one
a guest the guest Miami, Nope, San Francisco not JFK. No,
San Francisco, okay. So nothingin New York. Nothing else in California

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Nope, nothing else in Chicago.Denver makes sense. Denver is number six,
That is the five in the UnitedStates. 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 upthere? Charles A. Gall Right,

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but no, it is not onthere. Number two busiest airport on Earth
in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.So what about Tokyo, Yeah, Tokyo
is number five, and then IstanbulTurkey number seven. Nope, Delhi,
India has discussed. So Atlanta wonDubai to Dallas for it were third busiest

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airport on planet Earth. Wow,Atlanta the atl is number one. That's
kind of badass. Yeah. Nowthey're a hub for Delta. For Delta
and DFW is the hub for AmericanAmerican, and we got two hubs and
then love is for Southwest, right, wild wild stuff. That's weird,

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wild stuff. We did some sportsand sports at seven, but I had
a couple other things that I thinkapplied. 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. AndI saw the ratings for this and this
has has been big story, youknow, I mean people, So the

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WNBA never cracked a million people watchingtheir draft coverage, but because of this
Caitlin Clark craziness, two point fourmillion views watched the WNBA Draft on Monday
on ESPN. Okay, two pointfour million. She's the best thing to
happen to this sport. Maybe everbelieve it? And maybe it was trending

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on Twitter. Yes, it wastrended everywhere. And I don't know,
I know the ratings when she playedwas through the roof tom. I just
we're a little detached from how bigthis 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 knewthat was gonna be a cool showdown,

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but it's just bigger than I thinkwe can really quantify, Like, I
mean, what do you attribute itto 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 becausethey'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 ofall all that. But I don't know

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if it's all creeping up at thesame rate as the Caitlin Clark effect.
I don't think without her you're muchover a million viewers, which it's still
respectable. I mean, the NHLDraft 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,

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the NBA Men's Draft three point sevenmillion people watch. That is unbelievable.
And what did you say that thetwo point four watched the w NBA
Draft. Shock It's it's it's gotto 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'salready pick, you know what I mean?
I think I think it's all it'sshe hasn't contributed, but well by

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by people putting eyes on her,they are you know, by osmosis learning
about other players. Yeah, andthis 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 takeit. What is the allure of
her other than being a well tallwhite girl that shoots the hoop? I

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mean, I mean, honestly,her being a white girl matters for that
amount of viewership and the relatability forthat 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 dudesaren't relatable, but when there's someone who's

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a little closer to normal size,it makes you feel differently about them.
I think she's and she lit itup and set the damn college scoring record.
Yeah, so she she fills itup and scores thirty plus, like
every time she plays. She's reallygood. But I think she's just relatable,
maybe to a white audience. Idon't I don't know how you get

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two point four million? Can shedunk? Does she have a trick?
Her trick is that she makes everythingfrom anywhere. She's a Seth Curry of
women's Okay, exactly right, Okay, Curry shoots eye and quick release.
But she also got handles. Youknow, she solid at everything? Is
there a little bit of Luca whenI was watching her because she controls the

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ball and if anyone else is controllingyour ball, like dude, get it
back to her. At least onIowa, you know, Like I said,
when I watched that game, shewas the best player on the floor,
right yeah, and then the nextsix girls from LSU or the next
six best and then maybe you startsprinkling some mother Ira girls. She just
stood out as being skilled. Theysaid her jerseys sold out on fanatics.
I saw that after she got draftedand it said it just smashed her record

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for Indiana Fever jerseys is nuts.Yes, And the other thing that I
can't get over is did you seethis? You do you know what her
salary is going to be. OhGod, please don't tell me. It's
something embarrassing, like one hundred andten thousand dollars a year. It's not
one hundred and ten thousand. Shemakeing over a million, right, it's
way less than that. Danny.She's going to earn seventy six thousand,

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five hundred dollars in her first season. Well, it's the rookie contract.
I mean, that's gonna blow upin three years. I don't know how
it works after four years, andit'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 athletesin the war in America right now,

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is going to get seventy six thousanddollars in first She'll make her nut in
Oh Pals, and she probably alreadyis started. Me. Hell, she
was offered five million from the Bigthree, right, yeah, and commercials
galore, Like we're not worried abouther income. But she gets to pick.
Yeah, Like she gets to pickthe soft drink she wants to endorse,
she gets to pick the shoe theI don't know the financial investment company

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whatever she wants. Oh, sheis pick of the litter. She's a
multi millionaire right now, and shedoesn't even know it. Yeah, no,
she knows it. Her bank accountdoesn't quite know it. Does she
already have? Yeah, she hasNike, Gatorade, Exfinity, State Farm
buick. Good god, imagine justchecks from all those. It's like Tiger
Woods, dude, just dinging youryour automatic income? What is that?

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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 aminus in front of it. Yeah,
and she's just getting ding. Emailsof Gatorade came in. But anyway,
that's a crazy low number that willblossom over the next four seasons into her

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peak in twenty twenty seven, whenshe makes ninety seven five hundred dollars.
Wow, pretty well seventy grand anyway, all that stuff cool? GHO,
scuttle butt, go did some sportsin there. We're gonna do sports nine
o'clock. Kevin Gray's gonna join usin just about an hour. He is
our MAVs expert and we just wantto kick it. Where do we stand
after the play in night last night? Are we homers or are we realistic

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fans? Yeah? And I writethis 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 onthem winning the NBA Championship. I want
him to tell me if I'm apsychopath or not. I fear I know
the answer to that question. Allright, coming up next, it is
eight o'clock and a time for someentertainment crap. Right, we got big

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movie reviews. JJ and I bothhave seen Civil War and I want to
go over man. It was nominatedfor 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 beenwatching three three Body Problem. A lot
of reviews, a lot of movies, a lot of TV. Coming up next