The Dumb Zone FREE - Cowboys happy with off-season, Mavs in the play-in, and the March MBR | DZ 4-1-25 PREVIEW

Episode Date: April 1, 2025

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This really kind of jumped up on me. But around the time of that ski trip I went on, I told you guys I had another buddy who doesn't drink. He's about a year in and He hit me up after we were just texting. I was like, yeah, we should get together more often and he's like, hey, yeah I'm not like wanted to make like a big deal out of my birthday or anything like that ever, you know, I don't know I've no idea. You know one thing about me. Perhaps. I don't know everybody has a birthday sometimes I don't he's like, but I'm thinking about going skydiving

for my 40th. And I'm good friends with his brother. And he's like, yeah, me and my brother Chase are going to go and we're going to try to get a group of people together. Chase, his little brother's wife, was going to go as good friends with Kristen. And I'm like, I don't know.

Why not? You going to do it? And the date moved around a couple times. And now they've decided on April 13th. So like, I thought this was gonna be later in the summer. And I was like, yeah, whatever, I'll go. And then they now are like, we need a deposit. So I guess I'm gonna go.

You're doing it? Yeah. Why? What is that, a Sunday? Yeah, and I told my friend, I'm like, one, you're gay, because you do care about your birthday. If you're like, I'm going to go skydiving for my 40th. I'm pretty sure that's what my mom did.

She might have been 30. Maybe it was 40. But also, it's the most sober douchebag thing to do. Get clean and go skydiving with your buddies. But I'm going to your buddies but I'm gonna go and I'm... It's probably a big rush though you know that's... Oh it's a it's very popular. It's getting high on life right? Yeah I don't know I'm gonna seem safe right? You don't hear about it that often I look at the news a lot. You

don't hear about like just bodies flumping to the ground. Yeah, you're... yeah. I feel like it's safer than... like would you bungee jump? No. I feel like that's really like a, oh we just kind of set this thing up here. It'll work. It's like the carnival. I've seen people do it at the carnival. In like other countries too. Yeah, no, no. You see the people running this carnival. There's something about there being a plane involved Which makes me feel like to get to plane well and the other have a level of technical Proficiency and safety that I'm like this guy's got a plane. Well, yeah, and it's also a Tandem jump so the guy that guy doesn't want to die, right? So you're trusting that that guy is not on a suicide mission

So you're trusting that that guy is not on a suicide mission? Yeah. Because boy could he make the news if he takes Jake Kemp to his death. But would be an extremely, I feel like if I were Allah and I were standing there with the virgins, the fact that you tried to, what's the word, what are they, what's the word, what's their suicide mission called? Fatwa. No. But in any case. Kamikaze. If they did that and they were like, hey I'm religious fanatic but it was me, people would talk about me more than the religious

fanatic thing at least in some parts of the country. What do you mean? Like their religious bosses would be like, why'd you pick, you should've picked a nobody. Now the story's like this guy who was a crazy religious guy was with this famous podcaster, now the story has less weight. You know, if they had wrecked 9-11

into Madison Square Garden where the Knicks play, bigger deal. What would Sarah Heppler's article be titled? Jake Camp, podcaster, thought rock bottom was rehab. Right. It's. Turns out it's actually this rock. Yeah.

Nine skydiving deaths in 2024. Seems pretty good out of how many went skydiving. I don't know, what are you, the exit VLO guy? What were there 10 jumps? Should I be scared? Yeah. It says per 100,000 skydives, 0.2. There you go.

It's statistically zero. Cool. Well, that's happening. So if you guys need somebody to do the show, if I'm splat, I'd love to. Where are you going? I don't even know. See, what you have to do before it,

though, just to make sure you don't have the guy who wants to commit suicide and make the paper. Like right before you go, you point to your buddy who's 40, you go, I want to switch tandem partners. Like point break where they switch backpacks. Yeah. Or switch parachutes. Test it out. Yeah.

Test it out. If you come back and say it's like life changing, I'm going to be mad at you. I've pretty much burned all that, right? I don't know if I can take rehab skydiving. No, I don't. Yeah, I think that we've pretty much burned that shit as far as self-transformation goes. Yeah, you've gone through a lot of life-changing stuff. Boy, this might end up being the year of Jake.

No, I won't even allow it. Even if I were nominated, I would give the award away. There's a disqualification in February. Yeah, I agree with that. I completely agree with that. Speaking of that. What if he opts out of his contract this summer and come back to the Mavs?

I thought it was next. Somehow he engineers his way back to Dallas because Dumont and Nico were actually, they were going skydiving for Dumont's 60th birthday and a tragic accident happened. And Cuban took over the reins and somehow got him back and everybody's really happy. It could be the year of Jake. I'm holding out hope. Well, it's funny you bring that up because I wrote a Mavs article this morning. I've been thinking about the Mavs. I don't want to talk about it too much other than to just say they're going to play in a play-in game. So they're going to be the nine or the 10.

It's like 95% between the two. It's so funny to hear you talk about the playoffs. I thought a couple weeks ago there's absolutely no way they make the playoffs. Well, Phoenix really, I mean, Phoenix. But I'm just saying, you're, and I like how you make declarative statements. Oh, you're saying me?

Yeah. Well, does the 10 seed count? Well it's a play-in you're right. That's what I'm saying I mean they're gonna they could be below 500 and get in the play-in. I mean they're not good they just recently lost. Do we like the play-in? It's funny too because I googled't I googled it this morning You better put some respect on the 2025 so fi play in tournaments name. I Love when they put little that's what it's called sponsors on having a 33 49 team, but I don't know whatever I'm not backtracking anything. They're not good, but Anthony Davis is playing now And I mean they they won the first three games he played in

against bad teams, and then they lost last night, the game they should have won. He clearly is not healthy, but he's trying. And they can't play him in the fourth quarter for too long. You know the difference between a Luca and an Anthony Davis, even when Anthony Davis does this every now and then Luca did it all the time which is

Can't take your eyes off of him. I watched a lot of last night's game and there are stretches where you forget Anthony Davis is out there That doesn't happen when Lucas on the floor ever or Yannis or Jokic He's not it. They're just possessions where I'm like, where'd he go? But it's because he's also not fully healthy and I get that, but it's the quarterback and tied in. Exactly. That's tying that together. He is the team. So, uh, that, just watching them last night and I don't even know, dude, like Josh Bo from abs, money ball, wrote a thing on a nauseaee which made me sad because I feel like Najee and Quentin Grimes were going

to be the antidote to teams making PJ Washington shoot threes in the playoffs you know like what beat him against Boston they had fixed and in the five games since AD's been back they're taking the least amount of threes by a lot. And they are taking the most amount of the mid-range or close to it. They're just a boring team now. Anyways, I determined that on Saturday mornings, that is the peak of my Luka sadness. I've noticed this three weeks in a row now, because I always knew on Saturday morning, almost always, they played on Saturday or Sunday, and those are the only two games I would watch live.

And now I used to play on my weekend, when did the Mavs play this weekend? And now that's, I realize for me, every week it resets, like, oh, fuck no. Kai Jones is playing. The good news about Lucas, if you want to watch him, they love putting the Lakers on national TV. That is true.

And I've watched a lot of Lakers too. So that's fun. Just doesn't feel the same. Let's see here. Okay. Blake and I both have come across this college baseball controversy story. Are you aware that college baseball, some of the conferences in their Sunday games have a curfew rule?

No. Um, you can't start a new inning past four 30 central on Sunday. Is it like for travel and get away and go to class? Cause they're actually possibly our students actually having to go to class. Yeah. So we had a situation over the weekend where Kentucky and Texas A andM were playing. And Kentucky's up 10-5 on A&M. But because of this getaway rule, Kentucky's up 10-5 in the eighth inning and they're trying to get to 4-30 before ending there at bat. So their manager and their players are like really, really stalling.

Oh yeah, dude, this happens in 12 year old girls softball. Does it? Oh my gosh. I was hoping you guys could fill me in on this whole bit because I enjoy my view of baseball as like not a baseball player. Like the torpedo bat thing, I told Dan off the air. I never once thought about the rules of that Or if it were a football or basketball thing, I might but this yeah, they're showing the clock. It's at 429

The other team is just trying to get to the ninth inning. Yeah, so that they can at least you're going out for a mountain visit Yo, yeah, yeah, you're having him throw it around the horn. You're, you know, whatever the case. So the A&M batter's in there. He's trying to make an intentional out. Yeah, he's just swinging. The manager said afterward, he's like, I'm just telling him, you have to strike out. Right.

No, so what we ended up doing once when the other team was doing that is I think if you step on on the plate when a pitch was coming you're out. Yeah that's the way you make an intentional out. Step on the plate and make contact with the ball. But you can see the aim. Physically or with your bat? With your bat.

Okay, so that's going to require skill. Oh, I'm almost like a bunt. The first time we did it, it might have been the last time too, but I had a very smart assistant coach who had been in the game a while longer. He had an older daughter, so he knew what was going on. And he started doing mound visits and stuff. And he's like, I'm trying to, and I'm like, let's just play the game. I mean, they're 12 years old, they're little kids. The point is that you just want to play. Like you want more at bats. If we end up losing with one more inning,

but I think he talked me into it because we were like a really good team, we're trying to have position for the tournament or something and so we ended up killing time. Girls also like winning. It felt dirty. Yeah. Like you're in youth sports, like who cares?

Yes, the girls do like winning. But is getting someone another at bat more important? I always default to just I'm a slow pitch softball guy and that you play 55, 60 minute games or whatever. And when there's 30 seconds left and you got two outs, yeah, you try to make an intentional out to get another at bat if you're losing. And I just can't stand the teams that will

Walk around Intentionally walk you or just try to kill the clock because you're out there to play but my But the thing here is yeah, I mean they're just they're playing for wins. I mean this they have softball softball Yeah, so I'm kind of conflicted here because I can't stand that kind of behavior. But you know, in football, when teams run out the clock and basketball, I mean, there's a clock we do, but I know, but so is that the difference? Is there's a clock that it feels extremely weird for anything other than

children's baseball to be determined by a clock. That's why it's weird. So who did it? Kentucky was up and did it and they closed this out. There was never a ninth inning, I don't believe. No. So the A&M manager was... But it is the way it is.

It is the way it is. Yeah. And I bet the A&M manager would have done the exact same thing. Yeah. Yeah, probably. So I wasn't going to bring this up because it's a real douchebag move, but it fits in with what we're talking about. I had an incident of flag on Sunday. It's a 32nd play clock, right?

And I only played defense about half the time I play offense. So I want to be out there. So we score in four plays, right? To open the game. Other team gets the ball. The ref is not paying attention to the play clock at all, which, whatever. But I am now. And I'm doing it by looking at the game clock, which is on the sideline.

It's a 30 second play clock. They're routinely getting over 50 a few times over a minute. I said something. I was like, bro, this is boring. That's not bad, right? I said it to him first. He was like, oh, this is boring. That's not bad, right? I said it to him first. He was like, oh, you know what?

You're right, my bad. 10, because he'll yell 10 when they get to 20 seconds. So we did it once. Two more plays. 53, 54 seconds. So then I started yelling 10. Oh, you crossed the line. And they had never played us,

so they were looking at the sideline like, who the fuck, who's yelling? And I was like, I just started doing it every play. And then after the possession, of which they did not score on, down near the goal line, they're coming off the field. And the guy was like, what's your problem? What do you do? What's that about?

And I was like, 10, meaning you have 10 seconds left to snap the ball. And I pointed over at the clock, and I was like, you guys just had a twelve and a half minute flag football possession Like dude look at the this is boring. Yeah, no one's having fun here and they were pissed And yeah, I would be too, but you do they were the guy was standing back there like scanning the line I'm like, what are you doing? You got point Dexter over here keeping track of the time well it was worse because the guy was getting up to the line and then clapping and then backing up and surveying the field.

I'm like, you're showing a cover three. Look, I know that safety's going to bail. You're like four for your first 15. No, dude, you're running a cover two. He's pointing out over here like flip that. Flip that. I'm like, run the play, dude. Motion, motion.

It's so embarrassing. But anyways, yeah that a baseball red-ass situation is always gonna get me paying attention. I got a sports note. I forgot to bring this up during cowboy talk, but I see that I noted it the It looks like the Cowboys have returned It looks like the Cowboys have returned the volley that Micah's agent, who was it yesterday? Calvin Watkins had an article out that was indicating that... 50 mil. That Micah's going for the biggest contract in NFL history, all this kind of stuff. All of the quotes, or it wasn't quotes, but it was sources close to the situation.

But it clearly came from Micah's camp that he's trying to become the highest paid. Now one back from the Cowboys. Cowboys have offered Micah Parsons a record contract without his agent involved. No deal yet. And that's coming from Clarence Hill. Okay. So, the Cowboys are like, look, we've already offered the record, like, just not a deal yet. It's all out there. So, now the Cowboys, and you know, it's all a money get your Guaranteed and this and that and game, you know, but this is going to this is going to be a long time I think yeah, I do too. I do too and again now I know why Jerry was saying like oh, I don't even know the agents

name Because they're just doing this. I'm just talking to Micah. Yeah, and then I wanted to add a run the ball Dan See we're Run the Ball Blake falls on this. Okay. As I see an update that season the season three finale of the White Lotus will be an hour and thirty minutes. Oh no. So this is kind of like George, I won't don't want to watch an inside a show that's set inside outside. You don't want to watch a movie. I don't want to watch a half hour show

when they have the season finale is an hour or Can I tell you that over my TV viewing career? I will make an exception for like sweeping epic shit for some reason like Game of Thrones Breaking Bad started to feel those so they started to feel like a movie by the end of them. So it didn't bother me if occasionally they would do an hour and 20 or an hour and 40, but White Lotus, 10 minutes of things don't happen in a 45 minute episode already. I've never been more upset with myself for sticking with a TV show, and it's completely just because I'm a good husband but it sucks so bad. Same thing I was bagging on it this weekend to my wife like let's we got to get some action

going here. She goes oh but I love I love every second it feels like I'm traveling by watching this. And you know we've been to that island. Oh really? There is not certainly not to where they're staying. Yeah with the monkeys and everything? Oh yeah and yeah I mean there's that's the cool part of it. It looks and sounds and feels really cool.

Do you see monkeys while you're just walking around? I've seen that. Yeah. You see that in a few places. Yeah. Monkeys in Costa Rica, monkeys in, uh, Thailand for sure. They're everywhere. Is it awesome? Yeah. It's incredible. It's also contrary to what you might see on that show with that resort Thailand, extremely cheap, extremely. Really? Your money goes a long, long way over there, which you kind of see on the show. Like when somebody wants to disappear from America and they got a little

money in their pocket, you can live real well in, you know, on us 100,000 in Thailand. I am however, glad I watched it this week because I did get one small piece of audio I don't know if we can do anything with this. Are you gonna spoil it for me? No but if we uh. I'm not even to the pleasure your brother's thing. If we want to use this when we're here in South Lake we can. Maybe I could pick your brain about what it's like to do business in Thailand. I mean you've been very successful. Sure.

Let's take it to the den. Dead Uncle Rika? Like what if that's just our That little thing No, that guy is not Uncle Rico but he's another guy that I've seen in a million things. Who is it? The dad?

No, not the dad. He was just in last night's episode. I'll get back to you. Oh, he's new in the episode? Yes. New in the series? He was the bad guy in Urban to you. Oh, he's new in the episode? Yes. New in the series? He was the bad guy in Urban Cowboy. Oh, right. What's his name? It's this guy.

Yeah, Scott Glenn. Yeah. This guy, yeah. He's like an all-time character actor. You know him when you see him type guy. Yeah, he's great. Yeah, he is great. Boy, I thought a lot about Urban Cowboy this weekend,

going to Billy Bob's. Oh, really? Yeah. I don't know that I've ever watched the whole thing. There were some scenes, I think, from Urban Cowboy at Billy Bob's. Oh, yeah, for sure. And they were doing some stuff like there's a,

there's not, it's not a mechanical bull, but like my wife's coworkers were going up on this bowl, and then a little fake tiny cow, whatever. Is it a steer? What's that? A calf? A calf. So they have a fake one of those, and she's holding the lasso, and then so they hit a

button and the fake little calf starts moving in front. You got the lasso and then so they hit a button and the fake little Calf starts moving in front you got a lasso it sick, and then they do and it looks pretty easy I mean I didn't get up and try it and you know But they're all liquored up and then so all the you know 50 year old 60 year old ladies are And then somebody else gets up there, and it's yeah, it's wonderful. It's fantastic stuff. Got some pictures. I hate what Yellowstone's done to the culture I grew up in. Yeah.

No. This is like when Swamp People or whatever came out, my wife got all pissed. Did you ever do Urban Cowboy? No, that's what I was going to say is I know I've seen scenes. It's certainly not, I wouldn't say it's a good movie, but it's a movie that I've seen like 50 times. Why? It's a fun movie.

Put it on the list. I do love a little... He loves disco, bro. Love a little dancing, a little Travolta. Choreography. He likes Grease. Grease is good. Yeah.

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