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Episode Date: May 16, 2025

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Do you know what that was? Is that supposed to be me? That's AI Blake. Okay. Do you know what that was? Was that supposed to be me? That's AI Blake. Okay. I think it's pretty close. I thought it sounded exactly like him. It sounded really good. Like it was better than the Jim Varney one.

Yeah. The earnest was pretty good. Did that bother you? Do you like it? I don't care. Good. Because that's just the beginning. Here's Jake with the dumb zone new.

Maybe you can use that and I don't have to show up anymore. Oh. Oh. Gosh. Ooh. I like showing up, guys. It's the best part of my day and I'm not even being sarcastic. But you know, Blake's Blake's Blake.

Update, when's the last time you guys heard me use the name Trevor McEwen? Oh yeah. Has it been found? He's not. I'm going to Google it again. Oh, that's right. You were doing that every day for a while. Yeah, he is. You stopped doing your own bit. He, I mean we'll do it once a week or so while he's out there now. He's still out there.

They have upped the reward amount. What do you guys think it has been upped to? Fugitive. Again, let me reset this story. This guy definitely murdered his neighbor back in the fall. He was able to post $2 million in bond after his initial bond reduction requests were denied They let him out. He had trial a week later. He's been gone since then So he definitely killed somebody

I'm telling you that so that you know the value of this reward the danger at play here blake you were saying 15 grand play here Blake you were saying 15 grand what do you think you want more to try and you at least fifty okay that's interesting because i would have been more with Dan it has been raised from fifteen to thirty and in my head of my you are almost certain this guy's a murderer yeah and uh... frenetic one at that. I feel like the 30K.

You know what I'd like to talk to you. It's funny whenever you take that and then compare it to something you could buy with that. So if you're like, well, this guy that we definitely know is a murderer being loose in society, what's that worth to us? 2022 Ford Mustang. Yeah. Seems like more. He could kill another person. But here's the thing. Panda Express regional manager's yearly salary. You know. I know it's posted on every one of their restaurants.

This feels like it's worth more if he's that dangerous. I would like to talk to somebody who has actually gotten reward money. Yeah, hit us up. That's a good call. Don't you wonder if they're real? Are they really ever giving that money away? Well, okay.

Like does your- Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Sorry, sorry, sorry. Okay. So I have talked to someone who, an emailer or something before, who they got money but it was like a, everyone else gave us the same tip so they got like a slice of $20 or something yeah like a class-action lawsuit yeah exactly you won something like that but so who's paying this reward that's a great

question for a robot I'm sure sure it just comes from some general... Because if you have it from Bridgeport, they don't have that much money. No, it's the US Marshall Service. Yeah, that makes sense. So your tax dollars. Or the petty cash that they take from other individuals and all that stuff. Still taxing it though. They should offer some of those drugs in the room.

Yeah, sure. Little Fint. $20,000 or some Fintanil? I mean, honestly, this actually gets us into another story. It's just about practicality, because if you've got all this meth, it has a value. And you have all these people who really need it and when they get it they're super good at finding things and you gotta you gotta

find this guy like I feel like everything that we need here soup to nuts as they say Dan is in house we've got the meth we've got the junkies we've got a fugitive let's it work. Which apparently is akin to what they are going to be doing or considering doing at the Department of Homeland Security. Do you know Christy Gnome is? Is she the leader? Yeah. She'll dress up like wearing camo and stuff. So there's a couple of the kind of hot right ladies. Nancy Mace is the bathroom one. Kristi Noem is the immigration one. And now she's in charge of HHS.

They call her Ice Barbie because she goes on raids, as Dan said, where she's got her makeup and hair done But she's you know wearing Kevlar She was the governor of South Dakota. She's really into guns blah blah blah so like everyone in the orbit she got a new gig and moved up and There is a report in the Daily Mail That they are considering a reality show titled The American, where

migrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country for the honor of fast-tracking their way to their U.S. citizenship. This is where we're heading. This is like fourth and long. We knew it. But, you know what? We're heading to Running Man, the Arnold Schwarzenegger, Richard Dawson movie.

That's right. Yeah, I'm thinking of the game. Where I think if you can get away, you're like a convicted murderer. And you're. Yeah, I've never seen it. Something like that. Yeah, I don't know that I have the whole thing.

But. So yeah, I mean. But it was looking at the future and where we're heading with reality. So to go beyond the headline here, I'll just tell you that this is a report from the Daily Mail, but they say that there is a pitch and it's been made and there is a writer and producer named Rob Warsaw who has quite the skins on the wall of the reality TV show world including Duck Dynasty. Yeah.

Of which he was the EP of. Right? Yes. So, it's not a definite thing but they said yeah we receive her. What left leaning Hollywood idiot would actually be involved with it? Well, wait, what if we grab the Duck Dynasty guy? Yeah. OK, good.

Yeah, now, just to be clear, if there is a lane of TV that they could get their hands on pretty quickly, it's reality, right? I mean, the Mark Burnett, so they are kind of the reality administration and they reached out to HHS they said we receive a lot of pitches this is one of them they confirmed they've received it and another person on anonymity said she likes it we're gonna do it. Let's go. Yeah. So I't know I I don't know where you do this What you have to buy government plus to get like how do you where do I watch? I don't didn't we and Bob got mad at it, but didn't we do this with Bob adopting his kid like we're oh

Yeah, you're at the orphanage doing drills Yeah, who's a better soccer player or something who can move right with their dig dig a ground ball. Yeah So the chat points out this has been done before What was gonna La Verde was a Spanish game show where the winner won a green card? Fantastic, so I'll try to find some episodes. You know what now that they point that out I think yeah like in the weirdo version of the internet that August sent us the card. Ghana?

Yeah. That I've seen this Wikipedia page before. The events on the show often testing a character's stomach or willpower similar to Fear Factor. OK, so what's the funniest like bent of the show? Fear Factor is really funny. Fear factor's really funny. It'd be really funny if you just made it like a spelling bee, because it'd be hilarious if they-

I'm just thinking like some kind of a- A combine? Manual labor type of a, yeah. OK, yeah. No, I don't think that's bad. I think- Like get the demeaning jobs that you would- Demeaning is a subjective term.

Right, but you're subjectively probably looking down upon these people anyway in some way you're not having them code right yeah but a robot can code and a robot at least right now isn't going to do most of the manual labor those guys are safe on that front I think but I mean there's a lot of things we can think of to put in here oh yeah to get here first. I mean, there's lots of racist things we can think of to put in here. Oh, yeah. No, let's do them.

I mean, they know what they'll be. You think Kristi Noem is going to be like, that's offensive. Take the ponchos off of them. They're edging. No, she won't. Yeah, they'll definitely, yeah, it'll be other stuff. OK, this lawn. You're walking along this lawn.

Oh, wow. Look at this lawn. You diagonally cut. They were saying that they were just going through the treatment. There's one where your kid calls you from their school shooting and it's just a race to see who can get there to save their kid first. That's a joke, right? Yeah.

Okay. I like it. You guys are just describing other things you would have to do to prepare. Yeah, You know. I like it. You guys are just describing other things you would have to do to prepare. Yeah, I know. And now I'm... I went from edging a house to school shooting. I mean, it's, other, there's definitely

other stuff on here, right? Like, you know, playing pickleball. Other American things. Now I have no idea, you know. playing pickleball. Other American things. Now, I have no idea. Did we invent pickleball? Had to have, right? But like, look, tennis is too hard. Let's invent something where we've got to run after the ball.

Yeah, like if people started playing flag football in Japan first, you'd be like, yeah, but it's just that you just did what we're doing. So that's kinda what I think of tennis and pickleball. This is a very throw-down newsdesky type story, which I generally try to avoid. But the Post has a story about this judge in Florida who has been suspended from the bench.

He was subjected to an investigative panel in Florida, blah, blah, blah, but the headline caught my eye, so in reading the article, he's a classic, here, I'll see if I can put this picture of him up here. I'll close out my chat GPT first. He's just a, he's a guy, maybe your friend's dad, you know? Great, yeah. And he'll make a few dad jokes on you.

Some of those quote unquote dad jokes, I guess, are over the line to some people. So they say that there were several times where he made comments that some might consider inappropriate. He was presiding over a felony case late last year where he was told, hey this defendant has three kids on the way with three different women. And his quote, and I tried like hell to find audio or video of this but it's just transcripts, was,

oh you've been busy, you were just shooting all over the place, that's good. Do you know their names? First and last. Romantic, are you? Don't tell Susie about Jane. Don't tell Jane about Mary. God bless you, man. OK. He later told the defendant. He's getting suspended for that?

He later, no. Oh. He later told the defendant he was going to put him on pretrial release and said, I'm going to do it, but I'm going to order you wear a condom at all times for your own good, OK? And probation's going to check. No, I'm kidding to do it, but I'm going to order you wear a condom at all times for your own good, OK? And probation's going to check. No, I'm kidding.

I'm kidding. OK, this is the fun, Judge. It's funny. Let's see. Later during a proceeding, he recommended that the defendant get a particular female attorney and warned her or warned him, though, to not get her pregnant. Don't fuck her too

While presiding over this other case he's accused of singing a song about sweet, Georgia I guess the song and said you're telling the defendant you're supposed to say peachy. How you doing peachy? I don't know He then told the defendant to sing she get her peaches down in georgia and you get your weed in california this is a believe a justin bieber song yes but they're in georgia my guess is up until now we were probably okay and this one unfortunately has the least number of lines in context in it

But Farmer was presiding over another felony sketch When he referenced and quoted Extensively from an in living color comedy sketch making fun of gay people So they had the? It doesn't. Hmm. Yeah. And then to round it off one time in court he said, Spring is here. I got so excited I wet my plants. And then what did the shirt say to the pair of pants?

What's up, riches? So I feel like if he leaves... That's as bad as you can get this guy. Oh my god. Like, Blake's jotting this guy. Oh my god. Like, Blake's jotting them down. Oh, I know. Some of those are genuinely new for me.

Let's see here. What else? Are you about to say something? Me? No. I'm just shifting in my seat. The Texas house has passed a new bill that is right up this show's alley. So when I was away at one time during Hang Zone era you guys talked to a woman. Oh yeah I did. Who had caused a bit of a fuss over the HOV lane. Brandy Batone. Because she was pregnant.

Oh yeah. And the officer was like, well tough shit, but this was right after we had had some rulings regarding how the state looks at a mother and a baby in pregnancy. And this woman was like, well if you're saying it's a person then I have a passenger. Love her bit, that's very Matt Brunig. Very Dan McDowell. Well I of course participated in

civil disobedience by riding in the HOV lane. Yeah. Just to bring light to the topic that you know keeping this lane empty is not going to help the traffic problem. It's really illogical it doesn't make any sense at all. I believe he compared himself to Rosa Parks. Very much like Rosa Parks. You Rosa and Johnny Manziel. Just willing to put yourself out there. Station got a considerable amount of feedback on that. Willing to put yourself out there and take the heat. But that's what I do. Alright so Plano representative Jeff Leach who might be a great guy, might be a listener. Is he hot? I know he is hot I know he has some opinions and views that are not my own but I think of him because

They made Tony Romo day in the Texas house and they had Romo down there and Jeff leach was wearing a suit because He works in this the house and buddy was wearing a football helmet and it was the I just couldn't I still can't get it out of my it's the funniest looking thing I've ever seen it's where's Tony Romo day like in Texas Tony Romo gets a search Jeff Leach Tony Romo and see if you find anything how. How the hell? Or maybe it was just Tony Romo honored. By the Texas Talents. I think they just did like a proclamation of like, hey Tony Romo, you retired, you were good.

Yeah. So anyways. Who will ever forget that first round. Shut up. Wait, you never did win a real first round game. The wild card. So Jeff Leach introduced a bill. And it would allow pregnant women to use any and all carpool lanes at any time.

That's so great. What are you going to say? But then. You against pregnant women? Gina Hinojosa. Ooh, women are women's worst enemies. Hops in and says, They are jealous.

You're somewhat on the right track, but not quite. She hops in and says, "'Mothers work overtime. "'Wouldn't it be wonderful if we gave mothers a benefit "'and allowed them free access to the HOV lanes "'so that we can encourage their work?' "'Members, to all the moms here and all the moms across the state, Happy Mother's Day,

if you are a mom ever, the HOV lane is now yours. Okay. Which means nobody is ever gonna be like, that doesn't look like a mom, that just looks like a lady. And pull them over so they can all just do it now you might As well just call it. Yeah, male lane the female lane, and I'm not mad at it like again us men flex it Well, I'm just used to carrying the brunt of society's weight if they wanted to nothing new I thought they want that lane to move faster. Yeah

Tony Romo wearing so funny Jeff Leach wearing a football helmet. Tony Romo wearing so funny. Jeff Leach wearing a football helmet on Tony Romo. Football helmets are are just funny. Why are there so many ridiculously bad memories around the name Tony Romo? I don't know. A better question is why do you bring it up so much? I brought it up though. They signed him to or he had a Mavs uniform on His name is on the court At the practice facility as a former Mavs player. It's a disaster. It's way back then

So yeah, if you're pregnant if you used to be pregnant, I don't know this lady is really now she's diminishing the whole idea now Because you're clearly not gonna vote for the thing that just lets anyone who is a mother. Uh, no it passed The mother one yeah It passed So it's still got to go through some other Itty bitty city. Yeah, the city transportation committee the Senate transportation committee, but I don't know, you know, they have to vote on it, but the bill was put... We can never use the HOV lane again.

Right! Because all these broads are going to be in there slowing it down. Can you imagine how many accidents are going to happen in there? Right! You know, you could just use it now for what it was intended for, which is... No, the other lanes will be faster! I know! All the accidents are going to happen in the HOV lane.

Alright, there's- Let's get those women out of the way, now we can get to where we're going! There's your new- Oh, is that the trick here? The dumb zone news! Like and subscribe!