The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-15-26 | Cowboys final appearance on Hard Knocks and Cirque's punishment

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Cowboys weren't on Hard Knocks very much this season being eliminated from the playoffs in week 15, but there were a few good moments from Dak and Schotty including Christmas tips for support staff. We open up the Viewer Mail Bag and finally settle a punishment for Cirque Du Sirois for losing the 2025 season of DeeZ Picks (00:00) - Open: Dan's doctor visit (24:17) - Sports: Cowboys on Hard Knocks (01:08:45) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag (01:24:21) - Settling the Cirque Du Sirois punishment (01:54:45) - Back to Viewer Mail (02:10:16) - News: Fort Worth Carsonist (02:29:03) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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It's the Dumbzone. I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kim. I'm Blake Jones. We have Clayton Kimbrough here, Foodie CK, who is here is the Game Day Mencel Studio. See the sign right there. If you're ingesting us in a visual medium, if you're not, just rest assured. We have a 15 foot by 30 foot sign here in the studio.

That's how big it is. Our studio is enormous. It's the Game Day Men's Health Studio. It wasn't that big when it started. No. But it's been getting that TRT. It helped it bulk up. It's been in a better mood, too.

Yeah. Hey, let me try something. Fuck this. It does work. Jake's cough switch came in. I've never seen him this happy. Just so he's such a, I need to have everything revolving.

around me. He's the only guy that gets a cough button. It's crazy how we just cater to this guy. It's in the rider. You want 30 days off, all right. It's in the contract. Yeah, Game Day Men's House Studios. What a burger just brought us a bunch of food. They did.

For some reason. I think the reason was to help promote. Yeah, they have a couple of LTOs. Limited time offering. Monterey melt is a big one. I just devoured one of those. Dang. That is... I saw Clayton eating right when I walked in.

What were you having? That's a top-notch burger right there. Were you eating the big ranch wrap? No, that's going to be for like a little later in the show. Yeah, it's a snack. A little pick-me-up. A house two fajita chicken tacos. That's it?

Okay. Start slow. Build up. Yeah, they got the LTOs. They also have... the WADA deals now where you can go get yourself just a little $3, $4, $5

snack. Well, that's nice. You know, in this time, people are thinking about the they're spending more than ever. Dude, that is such a wife is making salmon tonight. Swing by.

Get you some nuggets. Get you a little burger. No, when the guy, when Travis was here and he was describing it to me, all I thought to myself was 75% of these are going to end up in the bags will be an alley trash cans hiding from wives from quinoa night that's a big deal for sure what you want a deal so yeah so thanks waterburger for bringing in some food and you know just for being available to all of us for all these years frankly just uh very true in my life i bet i've eaten at waterburger more than any other

restaurant in my life. And I bet that's the case for like half of the states' population. Hey, speaking of bets, on today's program, we will wrap up D's Picks with Cirque du Suroy. They will be on with us at one o'clock, which is like an hour and a half away. Hour and 25 minutes, if you want to check me. Truthfully, Wobbs may figure into that segment as well. Maybe.

Maybe. We also have plenty of sports. We actually finished watching Hard Knocks, and today is viewer mail day. We'll probably get to all that. But I wanted to tell you a little tale of going to the doctor yesterday for my annual trip. I do it every year. You ask for the finger treatment? Well, we'll get there.

Oh. The finger treatment, do you call it? Yeah. I can't wait until you turn 50. I'm going to call your doctor and tell me. start doing it earlier. No, by the time I'm 50, they're going to have figured out something else besides a finger. No. Some kind of a magic. Maybe, but if you call my doctor, he'd be like finger? We've been, we've been at Fist for five years now. He's been paying a premium for that.

Bobby Brown. Who are you? Who are you? Speed bag? So it's the annual physical. They now called a well check, which some, for some reason we lost. I feel like a, I feel like a, That's woke. I don't know why. They're like it's a well check. Yep. So if you are 50, you're anticipating the finger bit or whatever Blake calls it. And so you got to make sure, well, you schedule your, thank you, Sean Kernan and 360 Wealth Management for letting us have Business Wednesday. And we scheduled the doctor appointment for yesterday afternoon.

Blessings in no time at 360 wealth. And so if you're, like I said, you're going, he's going to be down there, back there, pretty intimate. As intimate as you've ever been with anybody else in your life, I hope. You're going to shower before. So I showered like at noon after our calls. That's so funny, dude. What? You're just like a little whore.

You should prep your little body. Yeah, you know, you want to. Put a little oil on. Maybe give it a little powder so it smells. okay down there. Clean it up for him, Daddy. If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

Write a little note. He pre-lobes it. Yeah. Yeah, I'll be ready. You don't have to work. Kind of brings in a light dimmer. You don't have to wear those gloves. I'm fine.

You know me. How clean it is. Anyway, so I'm showering before, flossing on the way. You know how I floss in the car. I just want to be well presented. And I love my doctor. He's a very logical guy.

I was sent ever since my daughter said that I was autistic. I'm now on the lookout. And I'm reading about autism. And it says like you have trouble keeping eye contact with someone you're talking to. You'll like look to the side. And I don't know if I do that. I might. But he does.

And anyway, I love him because he's, it feels like he goes home and reads like medical journals. If I ask him about something, he's like, well, you know, 60% of people, this and that, and you could be getting this vaccine, but they don't recommend that now until you're 65. That's a good feeling. I don't know. Yeah, I think he's all about this game. I went to your same doctor's office, and that guy was so highly requested, I couldn't get in to see him. That's how booked out he is. Dr. Shorn. Yeah. Yeah, we know his son. So then he gave me, they gave me another doctor, and as I told you guys, he walked in, he was about my age plus, he can keep the guy for a while, and I think he was Indian. So he didn't have to say a word, actually, about studies or journals. I was like,

you're good, my friends. Right, right. I'll sign the docks. I would, uh, I'll ride this train as long as you'll let me, pal. For sure. Okay, so, um, you know, you get called in. their way, if you get an appointment in the afternoon, I think they must, just, they know they're going to get backed up. So you're sitting there for a half hour without going in. But, um, when they call me in,

I get the cuter's. And she's going to weigh you. She. Yeah. Well, when I said the cutoners, I thought you would know what I meant. So, um,

and she's very, uh, very talkative. And so, like, it sucks me. Like, I'm usually pretty yes, no, all that. But she kind of sucks me into conversating, and I feel like all of a sudden I'm chappy. Mm-hmm.

And she's, like, 30 or so. So, like, this is a definite chappy situation where I'm now just chatting up this young lady who's, and then she's like, oh, you want to take off the jacket? That could add a couple of pounds. Oh, no, that wouldn't add a couple pounds, would it? I don't know.

So I get on there and it's like 207. I take the jacket off. It's 204. I'm like, well, damn, you're right. She's like, I told you. What else do you want me to take off? There you go.

I'm thinking it. But I'm not on the air. So we're just having a great time. And I'm thinking, like I have totally convinced myself. Like, you know, you're at Hooters and you're like, I bet she wouldn't sit down at everybody's table and talk to me. Yeah. So now I'm in that zone of...

She really is. I mean, I am a... I've been a, you know, I'm a broadcaster, a local personality. Like, this is what I do. And so that's probably why she's picking up on that. And like, she's really, like, she doesn't do this with everybody. This is a reprieve for her from all the slubs she has to talk to while weighing the rest of the day. Yeah, yeah.

So it's just going fantastic. And I'm feeling like $100. So, but as you... As you know, I do attempt to set the, or to finish the Rod Stewart challenge every day with water. And so I have already almost drank a gallon of water. I got to go to the bathroom. So I'm like, hey, do you mind if I, can I hit the bathroom on the way? She goes, go ahead.

I'll just wait in the room for you. So I go to the bathroom and immediately, oh, she's like, oh, just in case he needs it, let's do a urine sample. So she shows me how to do that or tells me where. So I go to the bathroom and as I'm getting things ready, and then I, unzip and getting ready to go, I see. Whoever was in here before was a male and just went all over the seat and all over the floor. And there's guys that are limping in with their walkers and their whatever. So I don't know what.

But now I am going to be charged with this from cute nurse. Because now I walked in. They haven't cleaned it. So whoever did it didn't inform someone. And so, yes, the first thing I do is, hey, I mean, it was like this when I got in there. You told her? Yeah. Just clean it.

I didn't want her clean it. It was all over the floor, dude. Well, either you're getting blamed for it. But you told her after you had already gone? Yes. Then I, she's like, well, likely story, piss man. But now she's envisioning life with you and then just like you're going to say like, well, this problem is here. It is not going to do anything about it.

She needs to be rescued. You need to do that kind of thing for her. Yeah, but if he was going to do that. I'm going to get on my knees or the paper towel and wipe off some old guys. While it sounds great. Are you saying she's not worth it? Even if she were, once he leaves the bathroom, now he has to tell her, I cleaned a lot of piss in there. Yeah.

Yeah. You're not going to do that. If she just happened to bond seeing him in there, she would be like, why? Yeah. Weirdo. Yeah, she's waiting in there for 10 minutes for me anyway. Oh, piss man, piss man. That was a bad situation.

I don't know if she believed me. Did you weigh again after you peed? I should have. man oh that'd be great that's probably like 180 yeah so now we do the uh the thing you know the the the appointment with the doctor everything's going for i never saw her again by so um we do the appointment we talk about getting a blood test we talk about this and that you know what's coming up like i said there were certain vaccines ah you don't have to do that till you this time um but he says oh on your thing i have uh

says last year you had a mild hernia at this time. Let's check for a hernia. And this is old school. I haven't had this. I don't know. I don't remember this last year, but he had me drop the pants, turn my head. He's going to put his hand near my little sack there and cough. Yep. Do you remember that? Like, growing up, that was a, how many times did you, did you guys not experience that? When I was growing up trying out for Little League football or everything, getting a line. The guys are in a line. You're wearing your underwear.

You're embarrassed. And, yes, some old man is going to put his hand on your junk, tell you to turn your head and cough. Don't understand why. But I did that. So then, yes, arms on the table. Let's bend over. He's putting on a glove.

He gets lube out. He sets a box of Kleenex in front of me. He's like, that's for cleaning up afterwards. You bitch. And then he goes, yeah, hold on here a second. Got to get around the prostate. So, like, they kind of go in there, and then he goes in there a little more. And you're like, oh, that's the hard part.

The going in there is like, ah, that didn't see. Oh, and then he. Turn the corner. Then he extends it. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, however, he's, then everything, I guess, is fine.

He's, it was in there? Whatever, whatever wasn't in there. He's checking something that wasn't. Say Magnifique. Did he do any sort of like, I need a smoke? So then, yeah. No, he did the Seedy Lamb celebration. Nice.

Yeah. No, I can't wait. The glove is on eBay. I saw the glove. on eBay last night. It does take advantage of my mild small fame. So now it's like,

okay, get back dressed, then whatever gives a prescription for this or renewed a prescription for the high blood pressure pill or whatever. And so now I'm getting back dressed and I'm straightening up

and just making sure everything's right and I go over to the mirror and I... Crying like Sidney- Euphoria. Look in the mirror and just want to make sure everything's okay. And right here in my teeth, the biggest piece of salmon you could ever, like how? You were flossing in the car.

How? But it's so odd, like I didn't, and not even opening my mouth big. You know how? It was the biggest. And I'm opening my, and I'm smiling. I'm talking to this girl. While you were in the bathroom, she was sending pictures of your fish tooth to her group chat. I just had a big five minute long, 10, whatever, with this girl.

girl, I knew I was in love and she was probably in love to. She was just tickled by your... No, she was just being nice to the special needs guy. Because it must be, the salmon was so soft or something. Like, it just worked its way around it, you know? Like, if it was a big piece of broccoli, it would have caught it. But somehow, it's amazing how big... And I never looked in the mirror.

Guy Foss is moving out. Any other human I've ever met. All the showering and all that kind of stuff, I never looked in the mirror. I shaved my neck in the shower, you know? You don't... That's really tough, man. And I don't smile in it. Yeah.

I feel like the receptionist. But I don't have bottom cancer or whatever. The receptionist should have said so. Would I rather have a mild case of bottom cancer, but I didn't, she never saw that. I think you're on the right side of history. I don't know if the average person does that, though. Tells you? She doesn't, they don't know this person.

What about the doctor? There's some relationship. Yeah, but he doesn't. He kind of looks away. He doesn't look at me. That's true, too. Yeah, and he was behind you. So to recap, we've had yogurt pants with the cleaning ladies.

We've had Chinese food shirt with the neighbors. Rice on your shirt. Old. I'm a mess. And now salmon at the doctor. It's all food related too. And it's all healthy food related. But at least some people will be to look at me and be like, well, at least he's in, you know.

That's what I was thinking is. Maybe the nurse is like, that's a guy who's. It wasn't a Snickers bar. Right. Or like a piece of a rib. Something that was stuck in your teeth. No, I, look, I actually, I had the finger done to me a couple times when I was a kid

and in like a teen, because I had wild digestive problems. I tell you guys, I used to throw up every day and all that. And I had it done on 9-11. What? Swear to God. The 9-11? The 9-11.

So you'll always remember that day? It was early, early in the morning, and I was at school, back at school, and it was a day that I had been fingered. Yes. So I, yeah, and I don't know if that's where my proclivity started or not, but I already have a pro. My doctor's going to use like one of those little dino-pincher deals

where you squeeze it and it opens the mouth. And just kind of figure it out. You know, this actually does bring up an interesting topic. I got a, on viewer mail day. I got an email the other day when we were, talking about concierge doctors. Because you said you had to wait a long time because they were backed up, as it were. Well, hold on.

That's a good thought. You don't have to wait a long time to get all these doors put in your house there, do you? One day. One day. I knew it. One day doors in closets, our good friend Josiah over there. This is, to me, a brilliant business idea. As someone who remodeled my entire house, you might not actually need to do that to give

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So fun. You open them, you close them. I was just going to tell you guys about this email I got from Jacqueline. and she said that her and her husband are members at, I don't know, this is a pretty upper crust type thing, maybe a Clayton's mom and stepdad type thing, but they go to the Cooper Clinic. They pay $10,000 a year.

And it is. The funny clinic. The full-on, she said her husband is a software company CEO. He's crazy busy. they're not waiting at the doctor. This is $10,000 a year. You go in once, you get all of your appointments done for the year. Stress test, cardio, blood work, eyes, dermatology, OBGYN, anything you can think of.

And then it includes 24-7-365 doctor access, no wait time if you need to go in for anything ever. I had a dermatology issue. I need to check out. I was able to get in the same day. Beautiful facilities, annual fee, including. membership to their amazing gym. She says that, you know, the fees recently went up. And they backed out of it.

But, yeah, they get it all done there. Pediatrician they have will let you do $6,000 a year for 24-7 access to the doctor. Yeah, she said, given how atrocious our health care system is and continues to get in the growing wealth divide, it makes sense that the services like these will continue to pop up. I told you that this is what my father-in-law goes to a doctor in rural Louisiana. I mean, it's not rural, but it ain't a big city. And it's very halves and haves-nots. And they don't wait.

They go to a doctor that they don't wait, where they took my son when he was bugging. So I'm not saying you got that kind of money. That. Or does he get they come to his house? Maybe, but you're not going to get all the tests done at your house. At some point, you know what I mean? You're not going to have like a full.

Yeah. And I would almost bet Cuban goes to the Cooper Clinic. I've heard of this before. Obviously, you hear of the term. Luke is over at the Cooper Clinic. But it's for civilians too. You just have to have 10 grand a year. But it, you know what I wonder though?

And most people don't have this option. But like if you get your insurance through your, work, you know, if you weren't paying for that, you're definitely paying $10,000 a year. You know what I mean? So like over the course of the year, would it shake out? I don't know how all that works. I don't know if it's how, you know, most people can't just opt out of insurance. We can. Let's ask our business guy. I mean, I think this is something that a lot of self-employed people do. Although I guess, yeah, my wife's insurance covers me now. And so you're saying she's paying 10 grand for that to cover us or more, or more. My wife lets me hear.

about that. But that's for the whole... So, yeah, I'm glad you're well, my man. Yes, for now. You want to talk some sports? I do want to talk some sports. Let's give a quick hit to Lone Star Beer. Lone Star Beer.com. Oh, yeah, I like that.

The promo code is Dumb Zone. No, it's not. Oh, really? No, it's Dumb Zone 21. Damn it. Well, I was partly right. I see testing you. Hey, listen, we've got a decision that we've made.

We're going to do the AFC championship game for a game stream. It's Sunday after this one at 2, and there will be Lone Star Beer Aflowing. That's right. Many people have emailed us wanting to be a part of that, a part of it, not a part of it, because you're now a part of it, but you could be a part. So I'll return all the emails and stuff, and we'll be able to say yes to a few. people and then maybe be able to add some more to the Super Bowl. But also, I think we did this last year in the playoffs.

And I'll try to keep those emails and follow up next year to, if you expressed a desire to be part of the broadcast at one point, or at least come to the den, watch a show, or watch a game with us, I should say. I'll get back to you. You'll probably get in next year if you don't get in this year. provided we're all still here. What does that mean? I don't know.

You know, this is like the Dumer AI year. I try to block all that out, man. The Dumer AI year. We talked about it a little bit with T.C. I don't know that's it. Yeah, yeah. Like the whole, this is the year where all the work is gone. Like by the end of this year.

I don't know what that means. What work? Most of it. Like AI. is going to replace everybody. Well, no, and I, and I'm not as dumer as others, like TC and his cohort. But I definitely, when we talked about it, got some emails from listeners, particularly lawyers.

This is why I was asking Aaron Kelly of Aaron Kelly legal about it the other day. They're not feeling great. And it's a massive industry. That's why I was bringing it up the other day of like, it ain't the auto workers. It's the lawyers. And if they have to be bailed out by the federal. government in some way. It's going to be a very interesting

political situation, social situation as well. But I don't want to get bogged down on all that. I thought it was a throwaway line. Oh, okay. I guess I, yeah. T.C. was on the show and talked about it with us at length. Were you here? No. If he was here, I probably wasn't. Oh, damn. I was hoping

you were here. Man, I got a couple things I want to get into today. The first thing is we've got to issue a major cowboy danger alert obviously there was already just a sleeping no pun intended giant they have been for a long time they'll get a collection of decent players and then they'll do some dumb shit on their coaching front like hey this is kind of innovative we're going to hire joe judge the new york giants some years ago he was a new york patriot uh new england patriot special teams coordinator

it's outside the box the bellichick guy we're going to make this work but just to make sure it really works, we're going to hire his OC for him and make it Jason Garrett for one year. You're like, what? Why did you do that? That you never, so to me, I love their quarterback. If I were to rank the, you know, the Bo Nix's and the Tyler Schuffs and what Shucks, I like Jackson Dart a lot. Malik neighbors, while a head case is a good player, they've got a really good running back for

whatever that's worth. They've got a decent offensive line now, and now they've got Harbaugh and him hiring his coaches. He's already hired Todd Munkin, I think, the Ravens. He's just raiding a staff. They're letting him do that because he's John Harbaugh. And that's like, if you put it in context to the Cowboys, the closest I would say they would get is McCarthy, but even McCarthy was not just rolling in and being like, I'm calling all the shots now. Yeah, John Harp, it's an interesting thing because you could see where you would criticize him heavily for having a two-time MVP in his prime and not ever really going anywhere with that. Yeah.

I've even heard some say that... He made him a two-time MVP. Well, I've also heard thoughts that he was about to get fired when they actually drafted Lamar. And that Lamar kind of saved his job for him. all these years. Now, he did adapt pretty well, right? He kind of scrapped everything they did offensively and said, let's now build around the talents of this guy. And that is what you want from a CEO head coach. That is what Harbaugh is the best example of. He's not a scheme guy. He's not calling plays, but he's always hired bad MFers as his assistant coaches, offense, defense.

they've always had great coordinators. They don't always make great head coaches, Cam Cameron, but they've always had, he's good at that. And that's why, if I'm getting, if I were to try to get excited about Shottie, the fact that they hired Clayton Adams and the fact that the list of guys I see they're looking at for DC, it's definitely different,

and it's letting him make the hire, because Jerry doesn't know who any of those guys are. So Harbaugh's really good at that. And so I would say, you know, saying that Lamar saved his job, chicken and egg. I mean, he hired coordinators that turned Lamar into Lamar. And also John Harbaugh, who's like the most, do I keep saying John? Yeah, John Harbaugh is like the most, you know, rough football guy ever, had about the most robust and progressive analytics staff and execution in the NFL for a long time,

Maybe until the Eagle. And the Ravens didn't give a damn on fourth down before the lions and all that. They have analytics people that are in his ear. And I, you know, he doesn't look as cool as Dan Campbell, but he's kind of the OG on that front. Where does Shoddy rank in the NFC East for coaches? Dude, I thought about that this morning, too. Where does Dak rank for quarterbacks in the NFC East right now? One.

Who would you take? Me? Not building forever because obviously youth you would. probably take Jacks. I would take Dak over any of the four of them side unseen for this year and the next couple years. Okay. Well, that's important.

Not beyond that. Rank the coaches, though? Yeah. Is Siriani one? Siriani's getting ripped. But he has been in the playoffs five straight years every year that he's been the coach there. They won the Super Bowl last year. There's a chance that four or five years from now, history looks at him very differently, and it's like it was lightning in a bottle.

That's a lot of wins for lightning in a bottle, man. I think there's a chance four or five years from now. They're like, wow, he won a Super Bowl with Jalen Hertz. That's also possible. Like, he's a really good coach. But as it stands right now, it would be dumb to say anybody else has won. He's far and away won, and that would make shoty, I guess, tied for third. but, you know, Dan Quinn has been a decent head coach before.

Made a title game. It also had to Super Bowl. Yeah, had some down years too. So probably, you know, if I was hiring a coach, I would hire Shottie fourth. Who looks better with a backwards hat? Dan Quinn or Shottie? Best backward hat wearing coach in the NFCs. DQ is the, DQ is doing like the spin the hat around and get down on his hands and knees.

in an Oklahoma drill. But Shottie's a quarterback who is a rich kid who played in Florida. That's also a pretty swagged out backwards hat. He's a beach quarterback and I don't hate it.

But you know, I've told you guys before about this tool that I use sometimes called Sumer Brain. And it's from this analytics company called Sumer Sports. It's really dorky stuff. They have a podcast I listen to. They put out breakdowns every week.

It's kind of hard to explain what the website is, but they have a tool on that website that is basically like NFL chat GPT. And with any type of publicly available data, so you're not going to get the very, very best stuff, the next-gen stuff. I try to pay for that and they won't let me. but you'll get a lot of stuff for sure pro football reference anything that's in any of the the pressure numbers

the coverage numbers all of that is public and you can also just ask it historical questions i do this all day now and this morning because i was thinking about uh i was watching hard knocks dac you know shoddy's up there like hey we can still have this kind of record in the nfc east and everybody always talks about well, Dax record against the NFC East and that's really the house of cards that his legacy is built on is that he just beats up on the NFC East

and he's not good against anybody else and, you know, the Eagles have been good and he's been good against the Eagles but the Giants and commanders have been dog shit and he has throttled them for 10 years now. So I simply typed in just like you would at Chad GPT. People often highlight how good Dak Prescott's record is against the NFC East over the years

and how poor it is outside of the division. I am wondering about this from a relative standpoint. Because isn't that always your question? You'll say, Dax, this and this against the teams above 500, that's bad. Okay, well, how is everyone else? I need to know that before I know if that's good or bad. How was Tom Brady? How was Aaron Rogers against?

I need the whole league. Is this good or bad? Everybody's going to be worse against teams that are over 500. Because Tom Brady certainly had a bad Dolphins team for most of his career. It was a bad Buffalo team. Certainly Bob used to the Jets. Yeah. I said, I think Dak is great.

So my thought is that is this common for all QBs who win a lot of games? Is Dak somehow uniquely bad in this regard? And like the robot often does, it tells you, no, it's as bad as you think and worse. Oh. In fact. I thought you were here to defend Dak's. DAC has the largest winning percentage gap between division and non-division of any quarterback in football. These numbers are from 2022 to 2025.

He's plus 28% better in division games. Mahomes is plus 5%. Josh Allen is negative 1%. Lamar Jackson negative 6%. Jalen Hertz minus 9%. So the benefit of beating up on your division, a weak division. Yeah. He's got...

Overall week, you would say, over the years, yeah. And then you don't really have the, like Brady had, then the playoff success on top of that to be like, oh, okay, yeah, obviously you beat up on Rex Ryan, but... So that's bad. I'm not excited about John Harbaugh in the division with autonomy, already having a quarterback, it's not going to get any easier. So maybe the late, the swan song of Dax's career,

it'll be able to flip the script against bigger teams. But right now, if you've been eating up on those teams, it doesn't look great. Should we do some hard knocks, audio? Sure. Should it be brought to us by flooring direct, DFW.com slash dZ? I was getting some floors the other day, and this guy came in. he was like, I'm a pro from this other flooring company. He body checked me right there.

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All right, speaking of profits, I actually, I'll jump us off here then. It was NFC East, Hard Knocks. So you got four teams in an hour. Even if the Cowboys get a little bit of outsized coverage on there, you're talking about 20 minutes an episode. They were eliminated from the playoffs halfway through the season. So we just kind of stopped watching it, I think. And this is the way it should be done, really,

if they ever do this again with one or two segments for all seven or eight episodes. It ain't a weekly thing. Hard Knox is already like thin, thin, thin compared to the old days from a juice and interest standpoint. But I did think there was something in the in the Cowboys back half of the season. A few things we could talk about. The first one, you might have seen this and went viral. I don't know that we need to play the whole thing here.

But, you know, our friend Blake has been traveling with the Cowboys this year as part of a broadcast crew. And he'll just, even him. It's hard not to be around Dak and be like, man, this is a good dude. This is a good dude to be around. He makes people feel good. So this is just a scene where he's at the front of the meeting room, the big, you know, movie theater style meeting room, and he's trying, he's handing out forms for people to write down their tips for the staff.

Nope, okay, well, I am plugged in. Maybe it has the cough button attached to the ear. Let's try this. I'm about explaining as everybody gets in here. All right, so if you're in here, obviously, We get paid well. Folks get paid. You'll see the sports staff,

some of these guys get paid very well. However, these others, people that do a lot for us. We want to help contribute to them to just say thank you, right? So all this is, is Christmas bonuses. It's just something we've done every year.

Everybody has a sheet. It's all going to add up once we all, all of our money goes into that pot. Give more to the guys that work with you, right? The guy that's snapping the ball for the line. The guy that's hold the dummies for the D-line,

right? The guys that take care of your, equipment where they clean your locking. That's an opportunity to give them more. Okay, so it's a full sheet and you write the number next to it. To me, right when I saw this, I felt a very heavy curb type moment. And I want to ask Brandon about it. Like, do you ask, how do you know what to give if you're rookie? Is it scaled to your contract? That's the thing. Am I a jerk? I would be like, this is kind of like the Cowboys saying, we're starting a GoFund me for this. Like, you're the Cowboys.

How about you just give them a million bucks or something? Jack makes $60 million. And he probably gives proportionally. Brandon makes whatever, $500,000. And I promise you the expectation is not that they give even close to the same. But you know how this is. It sucks. But your numbers next, like it's public?

Well, I don't think so. All the guys see what you're- I think you turn in your individual sheet. Every name is on there. You write a number next to the name you want. And then you hand in the sheet. somebody collects from you and distributes the money. But you know this is how it goes in like clubhouses.

You got a guy who makes 50 grand a year. And then hopefully, you know, the higher dollar, you end up making, I've heard two or three hundred grand a year being like a clubhouse manager, but you're getting all of it from the players. So the first thing is...

Which I suppose is in a way better because it's tax-free. then, right? Sort of, but I don't even know how all that works. I imagine when the count, when DAC gives you money, it's coming from like an accountant. You might even be 1099 in you or something. So, but I am interested in how this, from Brandon's standpoint, like, do you, do you see your buddy wrote more? And you're like, I don't want to be a, I don't want to see like.

And then I also think, the Cowboys, I would, again, I would say the Cowboys could pay them more. Like, why, okay, yeah, it sucks that day on. make, but if they're that important and they're really doing all this stuff, why doesn't our employer do it? No, I've been here before. As guy who used to pay the bad radio producer a couple hundred bucks to fill in for me because they were making $25 a day, uh, I get it, but you're going to get it done somehow, right? So this is how they get it done. Yeah. And I think it's awkward. Uh, but, uh, a little, uh, little, uh, appearance from our friends prophets and outlaws on this episode.

So the gist of all of this, once again, not to make it too hard. Keep saying? Don't be cheap, man. You heard that don't be cheap. Don't be cheap. Merry Christmas, baby. Short a dream. Their original Christmas song.

The NFL only works as well as it does because an army of people behind the scenes make sure of it. It is the season to take care of them. That's right. Prophets and Outlaws does work with the Cowboys. I ain't know what the fuck white elephant is. What are you saying? Is that turpin?

Yes. I don't know what a white elephant is? I ain't ever there, white elephant. I ain't know what the fuck white elephant is. I'm with them. Across the division, why would you call it this? Everyone's ready for Santa.

Secret Santa. You guys all know who you have for Secret Santa. I've already told everybody who I have. Anyways, I just thought it was cool to hear they're tuning there. You're correct. It is cool. I got a little DAC audio.

I just thought this was so DAC. So have we ever had a quarterback and coach with such symmetry? We could say that about these two. Hey, great day, man. January 1st. How you do this is how you're going to do everything, right? How you do anything is how you do everything. Start your year off the right way, man. It's going to be a great year.

I want to have a great practice, right? Let's go. Control as you control. Effort, effort, effort, effort, intentionality. Intentionality. Oh, yeah. Tensionality. You remember, Whitton used to talk like Garrett and it would drive us crazy.

Romo was never really buying in, but... Whitten would process, process, process. Yeah, go ahead. Oh, go ahead. No, I was going to slide over to Shottie. Same. Well, mine is pretty long. Actually, we might just jump ahead a little bit, but...

What do you call them, like a walking quilted pillow or something? Yeah. Walking Etsy sign. Yeah. Etsy sign, lakehouse, sign, embroidered throw pillow.

And again, I kind of think, all right, what if they ever got Belichick in this situation? And his dad wrote a pretty famous football book, right?

And they asked him about his dad. The art of scouting. What would he have said to the HBO cameras? I got to think it's not shoddy, what he would say.

So they asked him about his dad. A big fan of his dad, by the way. Big fan of his dad Oh, I heard somebody point out I don't know who this was, so I'm sorry. But they were talking about Aaron Rogers.

Remember you played that audio there the day? Wasn't Aaron Rogers bitching about back in his day you wouldn't fire coaches when they're... Yeah, I mean, a guy like Mike Tomlin, that's just not the way the league used to work. We didn't say this on the air, did we? No, no, I know where you're headed.

That's a great point. Oh, that Marty's last year, he was 14 and 2. Yeah. And they didn't get it done in the playoffs, and the Chargers fired him. That's insane. In fact, I think that's when I thought the Cowboys were going to hire him, and they hired Wade Phillips instead. That was Marty's defensive coordinator in San Diego.

So it's been that way for a while. It's always that way. There's always owners or whoever that, you know, you're going to fire a head coach. And that was Marty's thing. I mean, if he's known for anything, it's he never could really win the big one. In fact, he never really could get to the big. Well, how was he not Dax coach? Anyway, or Romo.

They asked him about his dad. During the game, I carry this that says Marty Schottnheimer, Patriots, middle linebacker, 1971, and what it talks about on the back. it says Marty has the longest name in the AFC. During the course of the game, I would just kind of put my hand in my middle pocket and just kind of hold it and that kind of helps, you know, comfort me. Okay, there's things that sound dirty but probably aren't intended to be. During the course of the game, I would just kind of put my hand in my middle pocket and just kind of hold it and that kind of helps, you know, comfort me. I stroke it a little.

I have a hat that he used to wear When he was in hospice And after he passed That was the one thing I made sure I asked my mom And then he's looking at the hat And he sets it down Let me just fast forward some here I'll tell him I learned a lot

Oh this is like he talks to him I felt like I impacted a lot of people In a positive way Okay now this is really For someone who's going to end this phrase With I'm really humble It's just an interesting use of the word I'm humble

I would tell him I felt like I impacted a lot of people in a positive way. I would tell him that we've got the culture piece right. Boy, I love the culture, though. He loves talking about culture because guess what? This subjective thing that you can't really call me on? Aces. Perfect.

And I can't remember who set that. I did. I was the one who installed this. So we got this right. It's so funny when you hear all of these people with the Cowboys. Stephen and Jerry are like, we got the pieces on defense. Just this R-Tard over here couldn't use them. That's what we're looking for a defensive coordinator who is like this guy.

Because look how he's also undefeated in culture. Like we just raised a culture banner and we raised a banner for having the correct pieces that just for some real weird mystical reason we're not in the playoffs and not in the Super Bowl probably because the refs just see the star on the helmet. But everything I've done is perfect. And let's go on. This is why I'm going to talk to my dad and tell him about.

I would tell him that we've got the culture piece right, which he was a big culture guy as well, and that we're working on the... the the ball security that portion of it but I know he's proud man I know he

he's looking down he's proud because I'm doing it the way that I want to do it I'm staying true to my convictions and I'm leading from the front but I'm also leading through a selfless and humble spirit and that would make him proud

I just don't know that you can lay humble on that this is hard for me because I love everything that's happening there. The idea that your dad was a coach and now you're standing on an NFL sideline as a head coach, that's got to be the coolest feeling in the world

to be like thinking about, I stood here with my dad. Yeah. And now I'm doing it. And I want to love it. You know why you're doing it? Because your dad was on the sideline. Because if he wasn't, there's no way he's where he is.

Yeah, but that's a reductive way to look at it. But it's true. Yeah, but I mean, it's... The only reason he got on anyone's sideline, They were showing him with Steve Spurrier. You think Spurier is letting any third-string quarterback you can wear the headset and be on the sideline? No. The reason you were even on my team is because you're Marty's kid.

There's a lot of nepotism involved in the NFL, but it's also true that these people, a lot of times the people, because of the way the nepotism is set up, the people in the best position to coach teams are going to be the sons of guys who coach teams. maybe the best coach in the NFL right now I started watching him play football when he was like a sophomore in college and he was not good he never played it was Kyle Shanahan he had transferred from Duke and

he's been around the game more he's seen yeah he's been looking at playbooks since he was little kid now on the other hand if you do get hired for a job that nobody was expecting you to get and then they ask your boss why he hired you and he's like his parents rock it's not

going to be easy to defend the idea that it wasn't nepotism that got you hired. And that's pretty much what happened with Shottie. And it also doesn't help the way that he talks about himself is difficult. I know we love the press conference question and answer bingo. I personally have come to love when he does it out of the press conference because he has to yell it. And now, and I don't have the sack to ask him this, maybe, but I feel like I know Brandon is been going in his head in that meeting room. There's no way he doesn't listen to our show, because he does, and when Shadi does, do we want to be here? No, that Brandon doesn't, the corner of his lips don't perk up just a little bit, but he did it in this, I believe. Okay, so we came up short yesterday.

Let's talk about why, quickly. The bottom line is, guys, we didn't play this game, the game yesterday, on our terms. And now we find ourselves in what? I honestly, like, three game losing streak. Sure. Does it suck? Yeah, it does.

Okay, yeah. Wow, we didn't need that. Sucks. But here's our challenge. Don't let your circumstances dictate who you are or what you're about. Is it the standard

that we want to be sitting here with this record and having lost three straight games? absolutely not. Absolutely fucking not. I think that's his last question. Thank you, because I thought it was. Hold on.

No, no, no, no. Wait, wait. Let me reiterate this. The standard is not losing three straight. I mean. Yeah. A lot of questions. I like when he yells him.

Do we want to be? We're in what? Everybody's like, what is he looking for it? We're out of the playoffs. Okay, three. Yeah. And then we had a, we had the. Wait, if you're leaving Shottie.

Yeah, go ahead. I wanted to just, it's viewer mail Thursday, so Preston checked in. It said, just checking in on Shottie's prediction that his staff would be rated is one shoddy. And Dave. I mean, technically like those boys in Afghanistan, or excuse me, in Pakistan raided that compound and then Osama was dead. That's kind of where Eber says, rated. I don't know. One of them's never going to work again.

Dave says, dear Ayatola of my favorite hola, think about your discussion with Jake about was this, was this year shoddy any better than having a potted plant at head coach? Think about it. Mike McCarthy won seven games in his last year, despite having an entire coaching staff on one-year deals, starting Cooper Rush and Trey Lance for nine games, having CD hold out the entire preseason,

no free agents added in the offseason and playing a first-place schedule. Schottenheimer won the same number of games despite 17 games of DAC, having Pickens and CD at wide receiver, adding Giovante Williams, a number of free agent signings in the off-season, and playing a third-place schedule. Given all that, I feel like this team could win seven games on autopilot. Yeah, that is, it's a cute email. I'm not saying there's nothing to it, but also how quickly we forget.

I saw some numbers yesterday, too. Micah's first few years in the league have been the best of anyone who's ever brushed the passer. Like his first, three of the first, whatever those years are, it's, it's the best seasons of anyone ever. There's like one Miles Garrett season in the top five and the other four are just, just Mike. from pressure rates to sack hit rates. Right now, he's the best player on that side of the ball in the game. As evidenced also by the fact that his team didn't win another game when he got hurt this year. Now, he missed some time last year.

McCarthy didn't have him the whole year, but come on, dude. Can we not? You guys have all, I know he wasn't. I'm just reading an email. He wasn't fired by Thanksgiving. And now you guys have to move the bar a little bit. but now your two is going to be big. We got a DAC dinner with the offensive lineman.

A lot of gifts in these episodes. You see what everybody's giving each other. A little bit of Kirby there, but I don't feel like it's as bad as straight cash. Because, like, Dak got criticized for giving everybody like a thousand dollar pair of glasses. And people are, bullshit.

But they wanted more? Yeah. Jordan Love got everybody. dunks, which is like a $150 Nike shoe. It's a pair of shoes that I've owned before. That may not be a dump. Did either one of those guys actually pay for those things? Or is it my theory with my wife and if, you know, a flower company gives us flowers on Valentine's Day and then I give them to her.

Yeah. I'm working and I, because of my work is why they gave me these flowers. So they could have given me money, but they gave me the flowers. So now I'm giving them to you. Well, that makes it even worse than, or does it? Let's talk this out. Jordan loves making 40, 50 a year. I think he's a Jordan athlete. But either way, if he's a Nike athlete and he gave them shoes that I could get at finish line. Yeah.

That's also not a great look. You know, baseball players have it lucky. Rich people gifts is a tricky thing. It's a good problem to have, but. But if you're baseball player, you don't have to deal with Christmas in the middle of the season. You never have to do this. That's a good point. So, Dax's out at the dinner with the offensive lineman. And I enjoy the fake questions.

We notice this whenever Trent and Brian Enger were at Brandon Aubrey's house. These are very fake questions, but they're talking about the passing record for Dack. It's 3 o'clock. So when we play at 1, my number will be done. Hey, we just got to start. We got to put that bitch up. I mean, you have a chance. I mean, you lead the league in passing.

What was that mean? Yeah. That's definitely how Cooper P.B. Normally just talks. Normally. I mean, what does that mean? I mean, you have a chance. I mean, you lead the league in passing.

Like, what's that mean? Yeah, it'd be cool. Honestly, it would be. It's not just my record. It'd be cool. That's why it'd be cool, but that's not a lot of weight held into it because, like, I'm not doing unless you guys are blocking, right?

I'm not doing unless we've got the two freaks outside and those receivers that, like, it's a lot that goes into it. We just got to continue to push each other, man. All right. Now a shot at the defense in three, two. Let's not get complacent. I don't know if we're averaging 30, whatever, but why not 40 next year?

So, like, let's put it on us to just get better, man. I might mention while we're here that we're scoring 30 points a game. Should I slip that in there? But we were just having a good conversation. I don't think they are averaging 30 points a game, by the way. The defense is averaging giving up 30 points a game. Yeah, it can. I would like to take a look at that offense because I just remember some nice stinkers against teams they should have run up some offense on.

Let's keep the lively conversation going. Hey, Buck, how's your rookie season, bro? Hey, ask him a natural question. Hey, bug, how's your rookie season, bro? It was a lot of fun, bro. You know what I mean? It was like a lot more fun than I expected. I get to play football every day.

I don't got to go to class. There we go. of Tyler Booker. Yeah. He's just like, dude, I'm here to mall. Take care of my body. That's a lot more fun than what I thought it was going to be. Now, this is going to drive you crazy, Dan.

Because you've already been commenting on how you think that they are hanging a banner, that they have feet up. Is it possible that from a team building standpoint, they had a successful year? Would you allow that? What was the biggest surprise if there was one? Shit. That fucking chick. y'all handed me after the rookie did. No, I'm playing.

But, um, big surprise. I mean, how close we are. As love. Like, that's not given. That's not every locker room that they're this close. So, like, don't lose for a second. Like, this was a success.

This was a good fucking year. Oh. Dan. Please don't yell. Please don't yell. Okay, I didn't. I thought it wasn't a success, but I am corrected now. in realizing it was a good effing year too.

We're going to swear after that one. Talk about the offseason. Actually, they might have averaged 30 a year. Sorry, I'm just going through that. I thought I ended up pretty close, but they did. I don't have a wedding coming up? I do. I have a wedding in Italy.

Oh, yeah. I'll be going to Italy at some point, which probably also like just go over a week early and experience just. Terran Steele's like, I guess my invite. I was going to say, so I know we're sitting here talking. about how they're so close. This followed that too right away.

It's like we're close. This is the best locker room ever. We're so tight. We're the best friends. We're all best friends, like 10 best friends that have ever existed. And yeah, I'm going to go over to Italy and get married.

And none of them was like, yeah, can't wait to join you. Can't wait. Thank you for. Yeah. I mean, if I had to bet, I'd bet Cody, Caden, Kailen are there before Tyler, Tyler.

Yeah. Some of all that over there. Do that. Beep's getting married. I'm not the only one. I'm getting married. I mean, it's good.

Now here, let's go back over to Cooper Beebe. It ain't quite a good old Manhattan, Kansas, but yeah. It'll be cool. I don't know if everybody, they lemonade or whatever, but I'll cheers to that one right there. And simply,

cheers to y'all, man. Love y'all boys. And that honestly kind of made me, not emotional, but feel. Lemonade is a Jason Garrettism. And I like the DAC held on to that.

When Jason Garrett gave one of my favorite interviews had ever happened on the ticket, seemingly lost to history, but it was with Bob and Dan at camp. You might have been there. And you never got Garrett to sit down like that. And he just could not stop talking. And he'd be like, that's when I'll tell you over lemonade sometime. And he thought it was so funny. And I remember him walking off talking to you guys and be like, maybe while you guys are out here, we do a couple of lemonade's.

And I'll tell you that one. It's a lemonade story. and Dak still, you know, they're all holding cocktails, but he's not going to say, hey, let's get that shot up here. He's like, grab your lemonade. I like it. I like it. That's all I've got.

There was a lot of turpin time, but we knew about turpent time. Yeah. The one other thing I have is just Jerry. My question with Jerry, and this is from episode seven. And episode seven, by the way, is five minutes of, oh, look at the Cowboys. and the Giants and the Washington and 50 minutes of the Eagles

because they were the only one still playing. So we got a ton of Eagles in the final episode. This is Jerry on the Iberts flus firing. So my question about Jerry is, does he fly to work every day in a helicopter and get landed on the practice field or only when HBO is there? Because it looks majestic.

It looks very cool. I don't think it's every day. I don't think it's... But it's every day that HBO is there. They show him... They've never seen him driving into work. Yeah. I think it's probably more than just a couple times a year,

but I don't think it's every day. Anyway, he gets there for HBO. They prop him up behind the desk and tell him he's the GM. And he can say something really dumb to the cameras about Iber Flus. Our 2025 season was a roller coaster. We were inconsistent on defense. The Iber Flue's decision of not going forward with him was one of the hardest that I've been involved in in my time with the Dallas Cowboys. But at the end, I think was the thing to do.

Really? If you've owned this team for 30, 40, how many years now? You know, when he said that, I did kind of... That's one of the hardest decisions you've made? It feels like almost the easiest decision you've ever made. It was the worst defense in Cowboys history. It should be, but you know the ones that are hard for him are his guys. Like it wasn't hard for him to fire Mike Nolan.

He didn't know Mike Nolan. He's got flus. He probably last year was telling him how this is going to be. We'll ride this out for a few years together. I don't know, man. I bet as sad as this is, I bet it was hard for him, even though historically literally the worst performance of all time. I have people telling me that this is Jordan Milata singing not prophets.

But I swear that I know they do this song, right? It just sounds like Merry Christmas, baby. Short a dream. It sounds exactly like their version to me. And I guess I actually, I'm probably an idiot and thought that was their song. Because I know they have songs, Christmas Originals. So that's not profits and outlaws.

I don't know. I pulled up their version of it and played it next to it, and it sounds exactly like it. And full disclosure, like they've done other songs for Hard Knocks. Why did I say that like that? Hard Knox. They've done it before, so I know they have a relationship with them. It's Viewer Mail Day, so we're going to get into that after our brief. break, but I got this email literally this morning from Anson, who wanted to shout out Travis and his

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Anyway. He has. We'll let him own that one. For an alternate quote, but also to see if they might have a better response time. Now he says, everything I've heard about this company on your podcast is true. the office left a voicemail, had a return call within five minutes. Explain the situation. The lady I spoke to gave me emails for both Drew and Travis, asked I explain it to them. I sent all the info, including photos of my equipment.

I put in the subject line that I'm a dumb zone listener that needs help. They call me nine minutes later. They gave a ballpark estimate over the phone. It was a quarter of the price of the other company quoted me. They sent one of their technicians to the supply store a couple hours later to get the parts. They have the parts in hand. They were at my house 8.30 a.m. the next morning to complete the work. And really, he goes on, there's a lot longer thing where they also discovered like a gas leak that was in his, because his wife had smelled. Anyway, he says they're the real deal. They have a customer for life. You have my permission to use my name, all that kind of stuff. But we've gotten tons of these, though.

Feels good. Yeah. Just to know that people are, they're saving people from the cold, from getting ripped off. And there are boys. I'm proud of them. CommunityDFW.com and the number that you can't call or text. And they'll return your text, 469-667-7-290. Viewer mail in a moment.

Also, gone but not forgotten, Ardell Nelson. Yes. One of our biggest fans, Stacey Garcia's mom, and that's intercepted by Mesnick to the rack. He goes. He's got eight. So, yes, we definitely wanted to bring that up. So that said, you know, Craig.

Well, and there's one more gone, but not forgotten. And that's our sweet Lucy. At the age of 12, she was run over in our driveway. Oh, like that? Like that? Was she run over like that? As Tyree hammers it down. There's a timeout on the floor as Lakers spurt out to a 4-0, 2 turnover, 2 dunk, start to the second half,

and the Lakers are on fire. Up 16, 17, 20 to go. They are on fire. And yes, our hearts and minds are with your sweet Lucy. Yes. And dog heaven. Yeah. Oh, do you want to know what happened to her?

Yeah, Sabrina ran her over. You know, when you put it on Twitter, I thought you were going a little far. When you had the live action video, I knew you went too far. It was a very, very sad day. But, hey, we're over it now. We're over now. So back the best dress. Yes.

You're listening to The Dumb Zone. What was that? Don't you remember? We played that a few years ago. Yeah. We're just competing play by play. Competing with Argyle Lady Basketball. When is your next broadcast?

Tomorrow night. At Birdville. Ooh. Is that like you're close to where you grew up, right? It's another high school in the area. I mean, it's very close. Yeah. No, we played them.

It's a nine iron. Came out on top, won the last game, rivalry game. This year? Or your senior year? 2002. Oh, wait. One. Yeah, you're not really, you're not that guy.

No. Like I know how my school did this year in the... No, not at all. In fact, I was shocked. I mean, the only way I know, and this is like when you... When you know you're old, man. When you're as old as... the athlete's parents. No, one of my really good friends from high school, his nephew is like a

heavily recruited player on the high school where I went. Like a guy, kid I grew up. I knew this kid when he was two, but now he's like a six four pass rusher. That's where I'm at. That's the only way I know what's going on. It all sucks. Oh, one week from today, our PLE, we got a premiere live at Coni Roso. Which one? It's unknown. People are still talking about it.

They're trying to uncover. They're trying to translate it now with the Rosetta Stone. Uniform. What do you call the Gaston Avenue location? The Garland one? White Rock Lake. Lake Highlands.

Lake Highlands is like the Norther one. Is this the Skillman one? No! I just said Gaston. one week from today 1130A to 230P or you know what we might just close down that Kanye Rousseau

if things are going real fun you don't want to see us on a Thursday what's your favorite thing there Clayton Clayton says he eats something that I didn't know well they only have it on the weekend it's only on Friday and Saturdays oh what is it? Brisket lasagna

brisket lasagna and don't sleep on the breakfast pizza for lunch, folks. It's great. On brunch, on the weekends. That's great. Let's do viewer mail until the Soros show up. Is this Lane Johnson?

Ha, ha. And then if we have more viewer mail, we'll do it after the Soros leave. How about that? Let's not leave them waiting. It's never going to work. I'm doing it. It's going to work. You challenge me.

Kara emails. Remember we're, talking about the what was it the lady cork the what was your thing the you jump on a trampoline a lady on a a pelvic floor they get leakage or whatever carra says listening to the weekly wrap up this morning as i'm getting ready i heard a missed opportunity when discussing a possible name for a cork for woman on the trampoline the tramp tamp good i love you from care. Trampon.

The trampon. The trampon. Here we go. That's nice. Is Dan here? Are you tired of your trampoline being gushing wet every time? Are you going through towels? Like John Madden?

We got the trampon. Let me hit you with a couple here. There's a theme that I'm going to go through. A lot of British stuff. So first of all, heard from our good friend Joel, who is British. And he weighed in on a couple of different things. Why can I not find this? Oh, here it is.

As a Brit in response to your question last week of, is it racist to wear fake bad teeth to a British event, which I witnessed? He said, I'd say no. Is it a dick move probably? But stereotypes exist for a reason. Not all Brits have bad teeth, but it's a fair few that do. It's because dental care is not covered for most adults on our national health plan. It is not covered unless it's considered a health issue.

Our friend... That's interesting. Our friend, uh, Tots, formerly of the Dallas Stars, one of the top photographers in the game in the area. He's in the bubble. he's also one of the 1% cool Aggies He said You mentioned would it be racist

To dress up as a Mexican with a sombrero and mustache While we were doing the British teeth thing I said well what if I go to a deal Here Cinco to Mayo party and I'm Yeah Shaking shakers

And he said Attached as a photo of me and some buddies From a country and Western party We had at a college in the UK about 20 years ago. I think the picture's in there. Maybe. Toad's 4th July.

Yeah, you can see it in there. So I'm a guy in the middle holding the toy gun. We rented these outfits from a costume store. It was not considered racist, but maybe would not fly over here. Wait. Okay. I'm reading two different emails here because one guy didn't want his photo posted. Yeah, so this is what this looks like.

And I've heard of this before, too, July 4th parties in other countries where they dress up. You can see a guy here in a American foot. He's got a Florida State Seminole jersey and a helmet on. In the back, you've got women dressed as like high school cheerleaders. What country is this? England. Oh, okay. Yeah.

So they do this. Over there, they dress like Americans. There's a whole bunch of options. Got a guy, I don't know, got people dressed like Baywatch. There's a hot dog in there. There's a guy. I guess, you know, we do put the July 4th, hot dog feeding on. That Tim Robinson?

A guy has a Raptors jersey on, though. Yeah. There's a lot going on in this photo. The NBA is America. But apparently they do all dress up. But it's Toronto. I know. And then, let's see here.

He says that his understanding is that the. The Brits drive on the left because of horses, swords, and lances. So your question was the jousting thing. And that, I guess, is actually why they drive on the side that they do. It says if you joust, as most people are right-handed as you approach on the left with the lance under right arm. Similarly, if you approach someone to the sword in your right hand, you're on the left side. So it is sort of horse and weaponry-based in the end. And then my final British thing, this comes from Jay.

I've been seeing this all year. I think this guy's actually Irish. But, you know, we've made fun of a lot of different play-by-play this year in the NFL. And I kept seeing this guy on Instagram. And you'll hear soccer calls. We did this forever during Homer call, right? With the Latinos. But for some reason, it just seems like foreigners are better at play-by-play these days.

This is a guy's call from Christian McCaffrey's second touchdown against the Eagles, the day. He sends Born in motion, stumps his foot, gets the ball, looks to his right hand side, steps up in the pocket, throws left instead. Touchdown Niners! Christian McCaffrey right on the G of the Eagles in the end zone. And in the fourth quarter, they retake the lead. San Francisco up 42319.

And there's battered, bruised, and banged up San Francisco team just won't take it lying down. That's awesome. I don't like it. I love it, dude. I don't like the act. I think it sounds cooler. I feel like he was playing soccer. I know, and I don't even really, you know, I don't love the Brits, folks, but this sounds just cool.

It's soccer or nature. They're allowed to comment on those things. Yeah, his, his, yeah, the descriptive. Given the recent play we've played, that was awesome. This is one of Cooper de Jeans picks off of Mahomes in the Super Bowl. Just a two-yard loss in the end, but a third and 16. time for Mahomes to try and make some magic a night where he's trying to establish his legacy steps his foot has Samarj Piroin rushes out to the right-hand side has Amanda.

Those the intersection at the 39-yard line. 20. Cooper DeGine down to the 10, down to the five. Touchdown. He goes. Cooper DeGine goes all the way across the formation, returns the ball. And the rookie has picked off the superstar. That's incredible, dude.

Boy, it's just too distracting the voice. It's so descriptive and it's game. It's like you feel the moment. Could you transcribe that and then put it into your AI thing and have Babe read it or Brad read it? We'd do anything you want. We would know what it would be like to have like actual what's going on. This is my British report for the week. Dear Jeannie of the Jina.

Last month we had my dog cremated. The ashes came back in this bag. On it it says, Until we meet again at the Rainbow Bridge. I, too, had never heard of this Rainbow Bridge shit. Do we reunite with our pets in heaven? Sounds a little gay for the Bible. Consult Blake.

My leaders are Dan's lipstick on a pig approach to personal hygiene, and Jake criticizing him for it after he takes a sip from his pee bottle. Yeah. And naturally, Sarah's heppol uptops. Thank you, God, for smashing the slider to the right on that pair. I also have one regarding Ted Emrick, which the subject line is, is Ted the new Bob? It's from Jared. Ted Slander coming from a Jared?

Listening to last week's Brandon Aubrey show, I noticed that Ted, when given the floor to ask a question, utilize his stern-esque questioning in Stalling the word obviously twice, and clocking in an impressive one minute and 20 plus second question is Ted the new Bob. He says, obviously, and I didn't believe him. And I still not sure I believe him. So I cut the audio myself, and we're going to find out about a length of question. And if indeed this does surpass the one minute mark, okay? That's the forbidden number. got a timer here and let's just see how this goes all right i think this starts though with

me talking kind of introducing ted to brandon obrey he's the lead uh announcer on that and when brad sham is out he is filled in for brad sham in the past too just so you know big shoes to fill there not just some slubs in here on our couch yeah right i'm just i'm just hanging out brandon no it was uh me too it was uh it was a complete joy to uh call those games this And obviously I think of, you know, all those, you know, you're talking about the kicks that you miss there. I mean, I think of the kicks that you made, especially week two against the giants and, you know, regulation and overtime and just what a thrill it is for a broadcaster. Like, you want to do a moment like that justice. And you know that any time that, I mean, you are a part of a game, like we know that the calculation is completely different compared to most teams.

like, oh yeah, they are already in range. Like, this is a possibility. And that's, that's the awesome thing about, you know, again, keeping in mind the NFL record, right? And all of that, that is always a possibility. So it's a, man, it's a pleasure to call those games and those moments. I am really curious if you saw, I'm sure you did. But of course, Tyler Loop with the Ravens and the way their season ended,

just as a kicker, what goes through your mind, how you process that? Obviously, it's not you. And I mean, you probably shudder to think of all that. But I'm curious, what enters your mind when you see something like that play out? Yeah, that was heartbreaking to watch. He's been fantastic this season. It's the situation you fall asleep dreaming of. We got a minute 22.

Jared nailed it. That's all right, because what we have here is the time to beat. Yeah. Like, will, is this the longest question in Dumb Zone interview history? Ted is a member of the Dumb Zone. That wasn't all the question. Ted is not like a guest. Most of it was like, hey, it was awesome to call your games.

The Tyler Loop question in itself was not that one. I mean, it's all part of it, right? Yeah, I mean, you wanted to maybe feel like a conversation to use the Bob defense, but when the other guy's going, yeah, mm-hmm. Yep. I like it started out real Liam Cohen-S. Like it's the Oscars music. Are we still rolling?

Our boys are here. Okay. Our boys are here? Oh, okay. Well, then let's do the last one with them. The last quick one I have. Okay. Because I have more.

Oh, yeah. I promise. Oh, yeah. I got a couple. I promised we'd wrap around. We screwed this whole thing up. You screwed it up. Anyway, we're going to welcome these Soroy twins with their little buddy, Danny,

because, you know, we've been picking games with these guys all year long. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. It is time for D. Yes, you know them from Cirque du Soroy. It is a YouTube program slash podcast. It's hard to describe, right? What do you guys say whenever... Hey, what do you do?

Mike, what do you do for a living? I'm at a party. I'm meeting you for the first time. What do you do? Answer this question. All right? First of all, do you mute? Unmute.

I'm unmuted now. I say, do you... Have you ever heard of the ticket? I kind of work there. Okay, you start with that. Yeah. Okay, so, oh, you work there? Yeah, and then we just talk about that. Sounds like you're new Patreon.

Oh, you know, I've struggled with that. I don't know. I say I do it. It's hard to say I do it. I'm a fucking YouTuber. Yeah. Is that the answer? Yeah.

Podcast. Like that. Not that word. Yeah, I said. I've been going with a broadcaster. And he's just been nailing chicks. Oh, yeah. I met a real cute one yesterday at the doctor's office.

I think we have a lot in common. Hey, can I do one quick? My viewer mail here real quick to wrap up, because I think Cash may be able to actually help us with this. So we were talking about all the gifts that Kareem got on his farewell tour. And LeBron's patch, his little special 23rd patch, 23rd season patch that he made up for himself. He's humbled by that.

He did not make it up. Totally humbled by that. And whether, you know, what teams are going to do when they know it's LeBron's last year? Because you know he's going to want the full rollout. And I was telling these guys that when I went to Texas, Texas A&M, the second that the game ended, it was in Austin, obviously. There was a clip played of Mike Elko, A&M's coach, Puffing his check. out at a press conference going, it's pretty clear the Texas A&M

is now the premier program in the state of Texas. And immediately, Tyler the creator, the rapper, they just had a clip of him like it was a TikTok type thing, was like, psych! And they just started playing Texas clips.

The crowd goes, Elko's still on the field. The game wasn't even over. It was like 10 seconds left in the game, and they're just putting videos up of A&M's head coach trolling him. So Travis's idea, This is where Cash comes in.

LeBron's last game in Dallas. They started out. It's real special. And then you get I show speed or tie with it. Sike! And it's just all eight points he scored in game four of the finals. Oh, legend. And the rest of the misses.

And from there it's just Dirk highlights from the finals, them coughing. See, college is different, right? I mean, honestly, I couldn't freaking believe. never do that, yeah. Most colleges, Texas, I was surprised, but you're right, colleges will do it, but pro teams, nobody. CDC will do that. It would be awesome, though, if one team was like, yeah, well, you didn't do it to us.

If the Mabbs hired Chris Del Conti, we have a chance. Yeah. And by the way, I'm back, too. You hire CDC, I'm back. You're back in on the bat. I'm totally back in, yeah. I think LeBron might laugh at that, right? I know he doesn't laugh at himself too much, but if he's just on a sea of rocking chairs and

and golf clubs and gifts, I think he might be like, all right. Maybe. I imagine sitting there like Trump at the correspondence dinner whenever Obama was making fun of like, yeah, I'm going to make you pay for this. It might be not aligned what you see outwardly with what was going on inside him.

Yeah. That would drive him absolutely bananas. And it would be awesome. That would be great. Well, we're delaying the inevitable here, folks. We're talking picks. We're wrapping things up. There's a reason that Hail Marys don't always work.

No. So it did turn out that the Dumb Zone beats Cirque de Soroy in Picks this year. And there will be a payoff. We can talk about that. But I wanted to know your, because I can't remember, I'm trying to think of our strategy. So when we fell behind and cash just rubbed our nose, in it. It really hurt us.

It really hurt us, gosh. When we fell behind, we had the strategy of let's do a triple, triple play. And it blew up in our face. We lost all of the games. Yeah. It was a nine-game devastation of bloodbill. Oh, and it was

the cowboy game. We were doing a live stream. Brandon Aubrey told us not to do it. And it was the game that eliminated them from the playoffs. So it could not have gone more poorly. Right. And I thought that was it for us. And then the next week we did turn it around. You know, I don't want to say it was totally me in my 8 and 2 record. Well, because it may have been 1 in 19 that got us into that predicament.

Maybe. Maybe. But I don't think we had a strategy then, right? Did we just say, let's just do whatever? That's kind of my thing always. But that week we didn't have a strategy. But then I wanted to get inside the Soroy's heads for what was your strategy last week? because certainly you guys were talking and trying to

I'll freaking try something. It's called we're screwed. I know, but what was this Hail Mary? You don't just say run anywhere. You go, okay, well, you run here. What was, was there a plan going in? Because you certainly did a triple, triple play. And it hit.

Yeah, there was two, like, levels of it. The first one was for whatever reason. And trust me, I understand how next year or whatever, these standings could be completely upside down. Dan dominates. Jake and I are dead last. like I get it. But for whatever reason, I've been better off in picks than these guys this year fairly consistently. So we're like, screw it. I'm picking the triple. I love that Indiana game. And it was

pretty easy to convince them to be like, all right, let's go all in. We're effed if we don't all hit our triples no matter what. So phase one was, especially because it was a Friday game, we're like, screw it. We're all going triples on Indiana. And we liked the pick. And then we hit that. But you guys had so many games in hand. You had nine games in hand just on the triples. It's like even at that point we're screwed. So the plan after that was for cash to consult chat GPT and AI and ask them the best way to attempt to attempt to close this gap. Okay. I love this. Think of them through that seven hours. I love this. If you guys had any idea, you should have seen the presentation that was emailed. I couldn't read it after about five percent of it. Dude, but I, hold on. I just want to say,

I respect Cash doing this because Dan will call me, and it's after the show. I'm like, not really thinking about it. He's like, well, do you think we should do this or do this? And in my head, I'm like, that is a complicated math question. I feel like I need to see it on paper. What are the outcomes that are possible if we do this, this, this, and this, and they do this? And I would kind of try to bumble through it. And I thought the only way I'm going to figure this out if I want to is chat GPT.

Like, it's going to take that. So I'm glad you were on the same thought. I, the little duck paddle under the water thing on Sunday was so chaotic as I spoke, I'm actually looking it up right now to see if I can see, could the questions that I wrote and the information that I got back. But what ended up happening was, was that we got to the point to where it's like, we didn't strategize on what we were doing outside of Tripoli, all Indiana. And then you guys have put your picks in. and Mikey and Danny had put their picks in. And so I was just like, well, that's all the data right there. Yeah, it doesn't really work by yourself.

Yeah. Yeah. And the thing is that what we quickly found out was that it's virtually impossible for it for us to win in any way, shape, or form. Now, the nice thing was that there was two outcomes that were possible. And so that's how I picked my games, one of which meant that I had to take the Rams against everybody. but dude yeah we we tried to figure out the unfigurable

it was so thorough that even chat gpt started hating your guys's team like it started saying what's with these guys if dan did this and jake does it like they were using you by name it was kind of amazing i love it uh fellow guys go ahead because danny and mike match on every game your pick only matters if you choose to force a three out of force a three nothing or a two one majority to shift create a triple for your own team that leverages leverage the changes leverage or see triple the packers this is what it's for dude this is what i use it for and these guys get on to me but like here's an example i coached girls soccer last uh session they all have to play a certain amount some of them are really good

some of them aren't and i want ones to play more and i would ask it here's the names how can i rotate these girls to keep these ones get their minimum time, but play with these ones, and it would give me a lineup card. So you're not going with your gut? No. That's what I'm saying. What about momentum? Yeah. Do you ever ride the hot foot?

Hot foot. So we've got some decisions to make here. I don't know. Waterburger delivered food to us today, boys. What I saw that? They've got the Monterey melt. They've got the chicken fajita wrap.

Oh, that's the best thing on the menu. Yeah, it's my favorite. Oh, Jake. And at least right now, Waterberger, big fans of your boys. And at one point, there was a conversation about a 24-hour sort of situation involving Waterburger. We've seen it with like Waffle House. Is that something we want to investigate? Probably, but probably more off the air.

talk because now what if Waddeberger doesn't end up wanting to do it. Well, that's why we asked him at the start. Okay, yeah. He said,

we'll talk. Let's, he was like, we've got to figure out phase one, who's doing this because there was a lot of talk about the

dead last person replacing the number one person on a losing team. Yes, and I don't think Dan or I should get to vote in that scenario, but you four maybe decide

what you think about that. And that obviously is attached to that post. That was never decided pre. I don't think we could decide it during. Let me leave my eyesight. I've said the whole way. I've said the whole way. I've said

the whole way. It was complete horseshit and it drives me crazy. I hate it. I hate the way they did. But now we're here and they're just like, oh, that never happened. Yeah. It makes me want to break out and hide. They were the ones who brought it up, did it, brought it up

all year and then it didn't work out the way they wanted. I never brought it up. I never You literally are the one that brought it up. You can find audio of me saying, we shouldn't do that. Six weeks after you said, we should. You both did. It was his idea that you were like, that makes a lot of sense. We're going to have to keep a competitive somehow.

We don't want anybody to get too far gone. And then you just never brought it back up. It was introduced as like, this is a good idea. The same as waffling on the payoff. This is why we sit here today. And if we vote, I vote with them. Dan should do the payoff. Mike should not.

Well, wow, wow, wow. This is hot. That's just my vote. That is what, I mean, we were, we brought it up. No, and I remember saying this too during the season. I guess that's how they do things with teams when you have a team, you know, in the NFL. They don't, unless someone says, this is the way we're going to do it. Dack had a really good year.

He can go join the Steelers for the playoffs now. The best player on the Cowboys. That's why Brandon Aubrey's kicking for the Broncos this year. I thought it was weirdest shit, too. That's why there's only two guys in this entire game that proposed it. I said no in the beginning. No, you didn't. You carried it for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Prove it not a guy. Listen, I'm just saying, you guys did this. You created the confusion. You waffled on it. But you can't pay an intern to do it. I don't need an intern. I got the robot. But I haven't had a suggestion all year.

So nothing of, none of this can be held against me. It was Blake's idea. It's never your fault. Dan supported it. We introduced it to them in the same way that when we started losing, you guys were like, I don't know about the payoff. Should we go back to stand-up comedy? We never even settled the goddamn payoff.

That's, ah. What if we just start a new, we do a new season? Okay. It's fine of me. I like it. It's three weeks a, no. we start with the Sony open so you guys let us know when you want to do

whatever payoff you come up with and who if what do you if none of you want to do it it's fine it doesn't fucking matter well just whatever when then we'll just be done brand new payoff where the loser loser has to watch 12 hours

of Brett the hitman heart matches with time served so you're already time served left it in half hours You're going to go back to... You're two things I love the hitman. What about Soroy's idea from the middle of the season

where the losers have to join the Marines? Was that a mid-season suggestion? I hear ICE is hiring. Get the Cirque, you know, one month with ice. Customs the Soroy. All right, so are you suggesting that in what, in what, Here, let me settle this for you.

Let me settle this for you. The three of them will do the payoff and I will do it with them. Whatever it is, whether they choose stand-up comedy, whether they choose 24-hour stream, whether they choose Waterburger, I'll just do it with them. I thought we would all contribute. Well, what you guys have contributed is mucking the shit down into this fucking problem we have now. Well, we've made lots of fun. It's been fun all year long because of us.

Well, fun. I'm going to make you smoke this whole. whole pack of fucking cigarettes right now. You guys had fun all year, and now we have no payoff. We have nothing planned. We can't really know if Waterburger works because we never decided.

So, whatever they decide, I will do with them. I will say that all this indecision also confused my picking all year. That's right. I'm not allowing that. That's not... That's nonsense.

I just was never comfortable. I thought we had whittled it down to either stand-up comedy, or a 24-hour broadcast. Yeah. And if we do a 24-hour broadcast, we could also work out, like if it is a Waterburger deal,

we could lessen that time with possible eating challenges. Yeah, I think that's the tie-in to kind of localize the Waffle House thing is whatever it is. Okay. Waterburgers an hour or something. Yeah. Okay.

Let's talk about that. If Waterberger's down, the three of us, me Danian. So we'd have to still have a cap on, well, it has to at least go like whatever hours. Yeah, I would think like 15 or whatever. 15 or 16, right? Like if you eat eight burgers, you can get it down to 16. Something like that.

God. I think below 15, it would kind of be like, you know, you don't just. Unless you want to eat 24 water burgers and take a camera to the bathroom with you or something. But yeah, 15, 16 hours. Can you eat 24 water burgers in one? one hour. I mean, honestly,

if you can. Yes. So this would be happening at Waterburger? That's the theory. Yeah. Yeah. That's the whole theory of like the Waffle House challenge.

You don't just eat waffles at home. Is that even possible? Well, we have a Waterburger connection. Yeah. I mean, I think before we even answer the question, then they need to say yes to that.

Right. Right. No, This is all still table talk. And that's all we did all year. And that's what Jake's criticizing us for. But the Waterburger thing was brought up. Mike knows about this.

Earlier in the year of us looking for a place to do the 24-hour thing publicly. Right. Yeah. So they're aware. Go ahead, Danny. What's easier on the loser, 24 hours eating hamburgers and onion rings or five minutes being uncomfortable in front of a bunch of people

at hyenas. I feel like that's a guy who thinks he'd go crush. No, that's a guy that would love to just get it over with and bomb and not... I'm fucking a waterburger for a day. Wait, what are you leaning towards Cash? I'm leaning toward the stupid effing comedy.

What's going on here? All I did preseason was tell you how this was a better idea. You guys are like, no, no, no, no, no, can't do the comedy thing. And this is, well... All I did. I agree. I've liked it the whole time. And what happened, what this is? I said it was better. We can promote it. And I'm not going to blame cash thou, though, because cash is running under the rules that your regime has allowed to fester.

That's right. The only reason is he sat in that chair all year and just watched us. He could have said something. Every week, I would say, is this the week we're going to finalize the payoff? You can't prove that. We'll get to it next week. Find the audio. I agree. I think stand-up is great. I think whether you know, you get into the discussion of... Does it have to be anonymous? Does it have to be anonymous? Because if it's your whole circ and DZ crowd, it doesn't hit quite the same.

Right. But I thought you got the reason that Cash at least said months ago that he wanted to do a 24-hour thing is I thought because that would, you know, draw eyeballs to your channel and all that. Yeah, a loser would have to do it on your channel. No, I don't know if we ever agreed to that. That's the point. And also, months ago, months ago, cash didn't think he was going to lose. We don't have to agree.

What month was that? I'm not saying we needed on our channel. Buddy, that one's been pretty in the bar. It was still real. Your perspective should have been the same, looking up. What are you guys next year? So. Well, I'm glad we've settled this.

In a 24-hour stream on our search, all of our stuff in our studio, that's an option, right? Would you guys say that? It doesn't seem that bad to me. Yeah, I want to do. Yeah. And could Waterburger deliver food that we could get out by eating? No, wait. I think what's in it for them?

Yeah. Waterburger. We're going to be talking about Waterburger on the most. Yeah, but dude, if we do it at the store, and my thought here, you were doing like a road kit broadcast. Like you're doing a show the whole time at the Waterburger, and people can go see you. So that's why I think having it did.

They have the ability to do that. Do you guys do, can you do a road show? But you could do. Not really. We have to outsource it, but yeah, we can. Clayton and I have a price. Clayton, I thought, was the happiest guy of all we didn't lose. I know.

Blake, you just got me out of the whole thing. You don't have to stay it a whole time. Jake is installing Waterburger as this place. These guys are saying Clayton will be there. Like, you know, we don't know any of this stuff. We would have known. it had we asked months ago. Let him decide what

he wants the game to be and then we can do this next year. Thank you. That would work great. Let's circle back next to the he wins a couple of games. Double or nothing is that you're going for here? People will ask you what do you

miss about working at the ticket and it is this. It is nobody being able to make a decision. Everybody being like, I don't want to be the one to make a decision. What if people are mad at me about it? and me having to be like, fuck all this, this is what we're doing,

burn the boats. We need your leadership that hand on the helm, man. Seriously, this could have... So we'll talk next week at this time. Of course, it was a fun... Like, we made it fun throughout the year, and then you

just upset about that. You're upset about that at the end, that everybody had a lot of fun. Let's go double or nothing on... Double or nothing on the MLB. The MLB. Yeah. Well, we won't be out of it.

We're going out to a Brewer's spring training. Can we talk about that? Yeah. So we're going to know a lot about the MLB. Yeah. We're going to be with our NL team. I went on in Phoenix, February 14th, 21st. I was on like Brewers.com last night looking through the 40-man roster seeing like,

we have a Jackson Churios. autographed baseball over there. God, that would be such a pain in the buns listening to Jake Pontificate for five minutes for six months on why he's triple playing the Mariners. Third time through the order, it looks like Kansas City. That should be the payoff.

You have to bet baseball. No, no, how about this? You have to watch baseball. Yeah. Settle down. A little report. Sanity. There's your payoff.

Watch one entire payoff baseball game. One baseball game. No. How many beers or hot dogs an inning to get you out of it? Like, you're just looking for what?

What do I got to do? You got to score it too. Oh, you have to go to it? Yeah, you got to go to it and score it in the crowd. Oh, man. Oh, man. Oh, man. What if you had to go to a baseball game and you can't have your phone with

you or anything? You just have to be at the baseball game. Raw dog a baseball game. Yeah, raw dog. All three of us have to raw dog. Okay, one game would be fine. I was going to say to be fair, a series, but that's not nightmare. Three games set.

Oh, God, driving out there. Guys, one o'clock on Sunday, one oh, good, another one. You think Sean Bass like this conversation? Yeah, Friday through Sunday. You have to be there for batting practice. Batting practice. To final pitch. Okay. Okay, hold on.

Is that a good payoff? A three-game series. That's nice. Cash and I are about to say the same thing. If we're there for batting practice, if any of the three of us, catch a BP home run, we inch to kill the whole bet and we're going on. At any point, you catch a home run ball or anything. That's pretty good.

Yeah. So you run over a key. The whole bet's over? Yeah. Do what you get a ball. Gloves three hours before they're going. Yes, you have to catch it. It can't be like you, it bounced off a kid.

It's on the floor and then you pick it up. Clean catch. You have to clean catch. And it has to be on video. There's going to be listeners there watching. So you got to have cash. You're going to have somebody with you. Well, now Cash isn't allowed to have his phone, though.

He's raw dogging. A lot of people at BP today. What's going on? It's fake sports spot out here. Three old men with gloves out in left field Crazy look in their eye And then they're so beat They're so beaten when batting practice is over

Day three they're like I don't I guess give it a shot They haven't been close What a good bet pay be You have to go to every game Until you get Until you catch a batting You're allowed

Okay no That's too much hold on You're allowed to leave after batting practice. But you have to go to batting practice. Until you get a ball. And every game, until you catch a ball. Oh, running over a kid?

They're in left field for a righty, and then a lefty comes up and they sprint over to right field. So it could be, yeah, it could be. Guys working off those. This could be over in one day. This could be over in 30. There would be a cap, right? Oh, my God.

We put like a 30-day cap on it or something. It's not unlimited effing games. We'll agree to go to one. one weekend series, all three games, all right? We'll get there early. If at any point we catch a BP home run, catch, or a foul ball or a real home run, any time we catch a ball live and play, which I'm never done in my life. And you're bringing your mitt.

Yeah. We're bringing our mitts. Three guys bring in their mitts. Bro, I will. So we either stay for all three games in full BP to final pitch or we catch a ball and we instantly get to go home. Yeah, that's really good. I like that.

It's really good. People are going to go to the games. People are going to want to sit with you guys and be there to support their boys. Okay. If any of them as our champions catch BP home run, did that count? No. Absolutely not. No.

They can create a shield. But yeah. You can send out dumb zone warriors to prevent us. We want you guys to succeed. That was funny. This is a week. It's a week day bit, right? Because then they could come on the show the next day.

Tell us about the thing. All right. Well, go out there again tonight. I thought the funny part was doing the Friday, Saturday, Sunday and having to go on Sunday afternoon. Sunday afternoon is very funny to me. I feel like we could get the full report.

We could celebrate Juneteenth on Friday, June 19th, the opening of a three game set against the mighty San Diego Padre. All right. 19th, 20th, and 21st. And then the Sunday game is a 135 start. You could also look ahead to September and maybe every. everybody will forget about it. Why do you think that's bad?

I kind of think Sunday afternoon games are great. Because then I'm home. They probably won't have on-field BP for the Sunday game, so that's a positive. Oh, that's a negative. That's a negative. That means you guys got to stay the whole game, no matter what. I just think if you've already been Friday and Saturday. Yes, I think we might catch a ball.

You can home from the game Saturday night at midnight, 1230. You know, I got to be back. I just think that sounds like the worst part of it. Like they're getting a hotel. You guys have a discount code for that hotel? And you have to sit in different sections. You've got to spread out to increase your chances. How are we ending with like not the payoff that either one of us had in the beginning?

Because you guys left it open. That's why. Look at what it resulted in. It's great results for everyone. I love it. We'll pick the dates, but this is very fun. This is our advertisement for baseball. Yeah.

Yeah. And Waterburger. Going to a game. It's going to be baseball. Well, it all started with watch one game. Right. They were like, no, that's too far. What else?

All right. Well, guys. Thank you so much. Great times. Great to meet you. What I found in my closet. As per. Oh, wow.

You have a rainbow breach thing. The funny thing is, I have no effing idea what pet is. It looks like, yeah. It's a bunch of ashes. Yeah, I think one of my mom's cats died, and she gained this to me. I met a couple times that it's been in my closet for fucking years. Well, maybe when you go to the ballpark, you'll be there early. Sprinkle it on the mound.

Okay. Or now the pitcher's mound. Or agree. And throw away the thing on the way out. Agree to eat the ashes now and get us out of all of this. Yeah, if I snort this whole thing, we've done. like we snorted a cat we're out it's in the fine print

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I told you we'd go back to it. You did. You didn't believe me. Can I do one real quick? Yeah. Aren't you guys both the Greece guys? Yep. It's the word.

I can't play the song, obviously, because we've learned. The man. They're one of the more litigious ones. But this comes from Chris. He says that there's a Capital One commercial with John Travolta. He's done a bunch of them. He was Santa and some of them.

But there's one where he's singing greased lightning. C.K. shaking his head. He's seen this. But he skips one line. Are you guys telling me that, like, Travolta was singing about chicks creaming in Greece lightning? Yeah. You want to watch it now? No, I don't, but I thought this was like a... In the 50s, they would do, like,

they would just euphemism you, but they were doing the same stuff they're doing now. It feels very skeet, skeet, right? And that you say that on the radio, and then everybody's like, oh, I don't know what I mean, whatever. But, I mean, the chixil cream just, he's talking about teenage girls coming. I think it rhymed with dream, yeah. Well, yeah, but there's a lot of options for dream.

The chixel cream doesn't have to be the obvious answer. Do you think there was some ambiguous, like it was possibly he was saying scream? And people weren't quite sure, so they. And it does sound like that kind of because it's the chixel scream. Right. I think it's not as overt. they were able to slide it slide it by. Yeah. I had

no idea. I don't know why. I just, I assume, wholesome content. And I'm like, is this a parody? No, he's just saying, The tricks of cream, they're going to be creaming everywhere. My car makes him come. Yeah, it's a cool car. Speaking of football, Amy writes an upset email

about the Knockout League. At some point, are you Dingleberry is going to address the Knockout League? Is it somewhat of a douchebag move that you guys have been back for almost two weeks and made no mention of it? It is. Could the silence be because there are details still to be worked out, lawyers to be checked with, and or some other type of BS? Quite possibly. At minimum, could you have at least referenced that the knockout league concluded over the break and you're working out the final details? Yes. Clearly, I would love some kind of an update. Yours in Christ. Amy. It's a fair email. We don't follow up

on stuff well, but the knockout league's over. So it ended in a tie, correct? An eight-way tie. An eight-way tie. So we just went to the end of the regular season. I guess we could have chosen to continue through the playoffs, but we didn't. That's pretty amazing, though. Well, they all got knocked out. All eight

got knocked out in the same week. Oh, it's the very last week? Yeah. Okay. Week 17 or 18. It's the second through the last week I think. We were done. Last year we did carry it through because there were two guys who kept getting it right and kept saying they wanted to keep going. Okay.

In this case, everyone actually did get knocked out. Okay, so once you're dead, that eliminated the league from happening. Okay. That's pretty amazing, though, that eight people got that far, I think. And it was a lot bigger this year than it was last year, so that is impressive. I don't know that I've ever made it past like week four or five in the two or three times I've done these. I don't know. Jack S.

Yeah, we're working on payment. We'll get you, Amy. Is she one of the eight? I would assume. Okay. Maybe she's just somebody that wants to hear updates. Maybe. I think, dare I say, the last one I have is an ender. So, Blake, you want to hop in.

I got a couple here. One is from Jacob, who wants us. He says, I wanted to bring to your attention an interesting razor impression. Okay, so this is from A. Starr's game at some point. He's not spitting checklets, but he's spitting blood. And he's trying to draw the attention of the referee. Hey, look, I just bled all over. the ice that should be a double minor hey that is like he's not wrong wow that's an injury

they dropped the puck just two minutes on the board for de mello cleared all the way down those are usually no brainers and shane the stars could not get that second minor stacked up maybe it's like a karate man he was bleeding on the inside not the outside there it was on the Gums. Left wing, the stars, set it up. They're one for two on the power play chance number three. Karate man. Okay.

Is this a, I believe this is a bit from trading places, a movie that I have not seen. Although it is on my list to catch up on as it keeps popping up in every book and documentary that I watch. I'm not familiar with it. I'm going to play this right now. and see if this yields us any fruit. Trading places is a very Canadian move. It's Stan Aykroyd, right? But a dude had his payroll before I made my move.

Tell us how you cut him. You ain't cut him a new knife, man. But you told me last night you cut the dude. With these I come in. I am a chain belt. I'm congenre food. Bruce Lee was my teacher. Watch this.

Eddie Murphy, obviously, doing karate. Let's fast forward a little bit here. You was crying like a pussy. Yeah. That's because one of the cops fell. He threw tear gas in my face. And that's the kind of shit they use on crowds, man. I still walk in here like a man, so get out of my face, all right?

I mean, you're beating up on a man? You're putting a man in the hospital? How come I don't see no marks on you? Yeah. Because I'm a karate man, all right? Corrata man bruised on the inside. They don't show their weaknesses. Okay.

All right. Now, you could say, not that much of a current reference. It's not a current reference. However, I would say that Razor somehow did an Eddie Murphy impression and it didn't sound racist at all. Yeah, no. And it was Eddie Murphy doing a racist impression and still, it just

sounded normal. Canadians can do that. Bogor on left wing side. That's great. Then I have one more, this from Anonymous. I was bored the other day after hearing Brady looked up Osa Odigi Zua

on Wikipedia. I don't know if this is a Kimspin yet, but apparently his father is a school shooter. Wow. Well. I'm sorry. I did not know this. Go on.

The age is confusing. Race as well. He very. That's our thing. The way, ever it's taking the white man's place in the world, huh? We can't even have school shootings anymore. 2002. What is this?

Wow. Healed three people. Oh. At a law school. serving life in prison. He was 43 years old at the time. Peter Odigizua, a Nigerian former student, similar to this thing we saw at like MIT and other school where there was shooting recently.

It was like a former student. Odigizua first discussed his academic problems with Professor Dale Rubin, where he reportedly told Rubin to pray for him. He returned to the school around 1 p.m., proceeded to the offices of the dean and opened fire. So this was a targeted shooting. Okay, this isn't, yeah, what you're thinking. So he was 43? Mm-hmm.

He was in law school or, yeah, some sort of professional school. Yeah, a 43-year-old school shooter, it's breaking all the rules, these, all the boundaries. Dude, but so Oso was born in 98. So he probably doesn't really have a memory of his dad. Not out on the outside. I mean, he's still locked up. But he's alive. Do we remember that for camp next year?

Make sure we ask him about it. Hey, here's a fun thing. Maybe he's your Wikipedia. You just ask all the defensive linemen and act like it's a random. Oh, wait, like you just ask all of them. Hey, was your dad a school shooter? Nope. Okay.

keep going. Go ahead. Do the ender. Okay. So Blake told us a story the other day about him going to play pickup basketball with his buddies. And there was a gentleman there that he was hooping with who had Luca's tattoo, not a Luca Donchich tattoo. He had Luca Donchich's exact tattoo on his body. the shading, the little pyramid eye, like the whole, he's got Luca's work on his body, which just sounds brutal because, again, if you imagine, if you ever met Luca and showed him, he'd be super creeped out, and that's really all you need to know. Is it like, I've been thinking about this, like, what if somebody on TV you saw had a cool shirt and you wanted it? the problem is

I'm not saying that they are all this certainly in the world of tramp stamps and tribal it's not this but a tattoo is sort of a pretty personal thing for most people you know it's like it's got this is my maybe I can't explain it to you

but for me this is what I like yeah my whatever board your vision board is this worse than the Morris twins having the same tattoos they have the exact same ones? Yeah.

Like would you, would Luca being more weirded out if he had Lucas face on his arm? No. Or Luca's arm replicated on his arm? I think the latter is always going to trump it. Okay. I really do. You might see the Luca face thing and think it's funny even. Like, oh, but I just, if somebody else, because Luca probably looks at that and thinks,

so it's my gun and pa, my, uh, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah. Lake in my hometown, you know? Yeah. All right, so this is from Dominic. I traveled to rural Poland for a friend's wedding. The father of the bride was the mayor of the small town, and he could not have been nicer showing us around their small city. He housed us.

Home-cooked meals, they rolled out the slightly stained red carpet for the eight or so Americans that made the journey. Gave us a trip we'd never forget in a part of the world we would have never experienced, kind and generous people. The day after the wedding, we stumbled over to thank the parents and say goodbye. I was wearing shorts and my abundant leg tattoos were apparent. Even though he didn't speak English, the bride's father became quite enamored with my legs and brought his daughter over to translate that he loved my tattoos and ask if he could take some

pictures. My brain was melted with vodka congealed meat and parochies from the night before I didn't think anything about it. Rolled up my shorts a little laughing awkwardly. Flash forward three months and I get this message on WhatsApp. Turns out her dad gets some doctor thought. This is the guy if you watch on the screen. He has this sick leg tattoo that he said, you know, he spent a lot of time

on. His original artist was a great dude in L.A. that was guesting in New York City at a time. So this guy's like traveling to do work. He drew on my leg with a brush for hours before inking and the experience was this beautiful process done by a kind

human that I connected with on a spiritual level. Then Polish dad gets this Dr. Thunder-ass version of my clearly custom piece and sends it to him. It's kind of a knockoff. I was so defeated by this absolute Cleveland steamer the father of the bride took on my soul, but I supported her with a wow cool, given the kindness I showed. I mean, it's the biggest form of flattery. imitation yeah dude but if this happened imagine if your buddies found out like oh you got a little a little gay polish daddy over there he saw your legs took a photo came home and like if a guy's

get a tattoo like that first of all leg tattoos are a different deal guy probably has a lot of sex in my experience those people have a lot of sex uh male female doesn't matter this guy it means this is a very abstract tattoo. There is zero chance that anyone else on the world would ever end up with that tattoo. Potential mistake. Yeah, it's different. And then some old guy in some countryside town in Poland is like, I like it. It's a cute tattoo on the American.

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Nothing. It's nothing. Are we prepared for today's news? Prepared enough. Here's Jane with the dumb so news. All right, so occasionally we get a story that just keeps on giving. And for me right now, this is the story of Evan Banda, the suspected Fort Worth arsonist.

He was lighting cars. The carcinist. Nice. Very good. Thank you. So you just saw that happen. I have a couple. That's not all he did, Blake.

I have a couple of notes on this story because as we mentioned, first we had somebody's lighting cars on fire in this neighborhood in Fort Worth. Then we started to see some ring doorbell video. Then they caught the person. It was a 17-year-old. and they charged them with, you know, mischief and arson, criminal trespassing, and possession of child pornography. Like, okay, that's, you know, and we sort of speculated about that, how that happens. And I got an email from a police officer.

I'll read you on that front in a second. But before that, I'm on social media yesterday, and I see this post from the Fort Worth Police Department. Very, very weird, okay? This is from January 12th. And this is kind of an apology that I then was like, I'm sorry, you did what? I need to find that story. So I'm tracking the Fort Worth-Arson story. They put out this release.

On January 6th, the Fort Worth Police Department became aware of a concerning video shared across multiple social media platforms. Officers immediately began investigating the origin of the video, determined it was initially posted on one social media platform before being widely circulated. on additional counts. The video depicted an individual wearing a hockey mask, delivering explicit threats of mass violence, stating intentions to kill indiscriminately

and expressing a lack of regard for human life. The Fort Worth Police Department has reason to believe this video was developed overseas by an extremist hate group. So, they say, we continue to monitor and investigate this social media activity,

included in the threatening videos and messaging, was footage of Crowley Middle School. The Fort Worth Police Department in coordination with the Fort Worth Fire Arson Unit determined that the videos and messages threatening mass violence were connected to several videos linked to the five arson incidents in the south side of Fort Worth. So this is the video. Looks very Mr. Robot.

Yeah. So what you have is a guy in a yellow hockey mask, Jason Madison. and he's standing in front of a Nazi flag. Cutting. We will be as cool as possible. We do not care about gender or age. We will not spare anyone. Some sort of weird accent that I'm not totally sure.

Could be real, could be fake. But they think this is the kid. He's standing in front of a Nazi flag. He's got a yellow Jason hockey mask on. It looks like he's holding a gun. So this video was out there. and then they solve the arsons and then they are like this is the same guy now developed by a foreign extremist hate group feels like we're probably doing some stretch armstrong there yeah like but they said it came from overseas does that mean you can mask your IP yeah that's a good question i don't know my guess is like every single time that

no disrespect to the forewith PD but my guess is every single time something like this comes up they think they're fucking

Jack Ryan and they're solving an international terrorist plot because it's a kid because the kid had been to

like ISIS. net before or something but yeah just a just a wild story yeah it's gotten

a lot different gotten a lot different so So all the news about your football team ain't been good news. The head coach, long-time head coach, an athletic director in Salina has resigned. Retired. Bill Elliott.

33 seasons. What have we been talking about there? Hazing? His son. Yeah. His son, whom, are we into naked jumping jacks? Do I got the right story? Okay.

Yeah. We talk about a lot of stories here. Yeah, this one, you know, maybe some people would call it. It used to be hazing, but. Making the freshman do naked jumping jacks? Correct. The principal of the middle school where his son coached, she resigned. Because there was all these, there's a lot of allegations.

The story is far from over. They're kind of trying to run a little bit of a double reverse here, where a couple of nights ago, the district, just with an eye to transparency and honesty, you know, they hired their own outside firm to be independent. It was funny to me because you're paying them. Yeah. And you would, you're still in charge of what you release from this report, correct? Yeah.

Yeah. So they get this outside investigator and all this outside counsel. and despite the fact that there are all these allegations that the son had a relationship with another student or why the son was a coach he had a relationship with a student who was a senior in high school at the time and then they moved the son's job to the junior high despite all of the apparent firsthand witness accounts of people coming forward saying that they saw these things and that these things happened to them their investigation found nothing at all

they found that none of these allegations had any merit or any corroboration at all but while we're here tomorrow the guy who's the king of the city who's been in charge for 35 years is retiring

what a coincidence and the principal who's like 32 I'm not she's not that young but she looks like she's in her, you know, she ain't in, retire from your job age, she's going to go ahead and bow out to. Nothing, nothing found.

Yeah. We're fine. You're hearing anything about this, Blake? Yeah, just big talk in the high school broadcast world? Not broadcast, high school football world, yeah, but. I mean, they're a powerhouse, Dan. They were once featured on like an MTV show. When I was a kid, they were one of the first teams I remember going to see

that it was like special to see. It was Salina and Grand Celine in a playoff game at Pennington Field and it was like, holy shit, man. This is like, this is their whole town. What if you look at the record and don't question our process? Some people, you know,

how are the teams that wear clothes when they're doing jumping jacks? How are they performing? Sure. Let's take a look. Take that for data. Maybe there's something. We're trying to create,

these guys now have emotional issues that they're taking out on the other team. Like this is a long play. We're working this. We know what we're doing here. Yeah. Would you like to bring up the standings for all the teams that didn't do the naked jumping jacks?

That's what I'm saying, yeah. I don't see near as many championships next to their names. Like I'm saying, this might affect them terribly, and they're going to be in therapy when they're older and stuff. Those flags fly forever. Yeah, they're going to love that. Team. We're building a team here. You know what's funny.

The culture here is the best. It's not funny. Actually, the culture is not that great, but we win. You want a good culture. Go play for the Cowboys. It's not funny. But a lot of the people who are involved in this series of allegations have got to be dudes in like their mid-20s now. So when you start to think about like victim motivation for coming forward, like it's just not exactly.

a group of dudes that normally or a group of people that normally you're like. Yeah, they would not. I'm going to make up that I got. Yeah, I would probably just be pretty embarrassed a lot of times. Let's ignore that. Yeah. It's kind of courageous to come forward with it, you would think. But they're like, no, it just none of it happened. None of it happened.

That is their word right now. Yeah, dude, I mean, it's not that long. It's only three or four page report. Is it only up to them or does like the police department also be like, hey, I don't know. I don't know if any of any of these charges. have been made criminal or not. That I actually, I feel like at one point Saline ISD was doing like, or Saline of the City was doing like a, it's fine.

Nothing to see here. But at the same time, if nobody really wants to, like, press charges and do it criminally and go on record, then small town, man. That's how it goes. Boy, I don't know. I mean, how many of these grooming stories can we do? What do you mean? Like combing your hair?

No. No, Chris Hansony. I don't know if you've ever wondered about these guys or not, but a Sanger ISD resource officer has been allested for a lested for you. Indians. Has been arrested for engaging in an improper relationship with a student. 26-year-old police officer. You put him in Denton High School. He's all ripped, teed up.

I'm just... Two or three of the nights of the week, he's out working the actual streets. Did you have a cop at your school every day? Yeah. You certainly did that. No. Oh, you didn't? Mm-mm.

Why? Just too small with school? Yeah. I don't remember it before high school. Because I'm taking... By high school for sure. That's... I don't know if we did.

It doesn't seem like we did. If we did, like if they checked in every day or something, they didn't make their presence known. Like now it seems very overt. Yeah. Yeah, we got, I mean, they're basically a teacher. Yeah, like my wife works at the school and knows the cop very well. He knows all the parents. He's cool.

Yeah, I mean. I hope. They're never ugly. Yeah. They always have a guy in there who's like a silver, he's just ripped. You know, you know why? Well, I mean, this isn't going to make sense with the 26 year old. But I would assume that that's like a good gig to do part of the time.

Like, it's chill. It's a fun environment. I would imagine you have to, I would think you would have to have some skins. What you don't need is cops in their 20s in high schools. You're too close to it. Your T is too high. You should be out, well, you got to, you're also going against these kids with high T as well. I know, but that scene ain't, that your high T is needed on the streets.

But also, like, just if we're going to talk about our personal lives. You need someone that can deal with a school shooter, right? That's the whole point. In theory. doesn't seem like that. Rivaldi guys. Yeah. Just if you think about

like when I was in high school ever, whatever fear that there is I was at the forefront of it. Now it may be like you got to remember 9-11, Columbine, all of the school shootings, bomb threats. That hit right when I got to the age

of late junior high high school. And they were like treating everything as if it was going to be this way forever. That's where we had to wear an ID physically around our neck at all times. There were guard shacks everywhere. There were cops. Well, they've been right.

I mean, there's been... It hasn't been like there's been no shootings. No, I guess it's just become normalized, maybe. Because I was there when they started is what I think I'm... I'm sure in, like, urban areas, they always had cops. I wonder if that... We didn't have that, I promise you, 10 years prior.

Do you think that reaction to all of it has helped create more shootings. I don't know. I mean... That's a gummy thought. Yeah, I mean, it's a... I'm going to get back to that later tonight. It's a good policy thought.

It's the old... Well, I don't know if this directly relates, but I remember we used to talk to Madonna about the hard hits in hockey and the cheap hits in hockey that he says wouldn't happen. And everybody says their previous part of their career was better. But he said that wouldn't happen previously because they didn't have all the big padding. Now that we have more padding and more protective gear,

it's like that people feel better about cheap shots because you probably won't get hurt as much. You know, when there wasn't face shields, you wouldn't have the sticks go up in the face very often. It's kind of along the lines of why you have. So if we're always having a cop and I don't know. People you say like that's why I have creating that atmosphere. Having an enforcer negated hits on the better players, right? Like having two guys who would just fight it, like that Gretzky always had a guy because... Well, I guess you're creating that atmosphere that somebody should fight that guy.

Yeah. Because you're throwing him out on the ice. The Minnesota thing, right? We're creating this atmosphere of... Listen. Things are going to happen bad because... I can't remember if it's episode one, but it's definitely in the first couple. of my favorite TV show ever, The Shield.

And it's because it was exactly what the sentiment in Los Angeles was at the time. But Claudette is talking to Dutch about Vic and his ways and the way the strike team does things. And she's like, if crime is down, nobody cares of some in or some S, meaning the Hispanic one, is getting their head kicked in over nothing. like the crime is down

so it's working it doesn't really matter you know it's a bleak perspective on life and law enforcement but speaking of law enforcement this is a little news junior viewer mail extra from our top ranked dumb zone police officer especially after Christobal left the force

this is from Rick 20 year cop he said in Texas you become an adult for the purpose of criminal prosecution at 17. Said it's stupid. For the purpose of criminal prosecution. Yeah. Do they have a different for the purpose of hanky-panky?

Yeah. So I do, here's what he weighed in on, because that 17-year-old carcinist got arrested for child porn, and I said they probably just had a warrant, and they found some photos of a girl that he's dating or something, hopefully on his phone. He said, This is very common.

There's an affirmative defense to prosecution that the person in possession of the material is within two years of the person depicted. So a 16-year-old can have naked picks of his 14-year-old girlfriend. Is this, this is in the law? It's written within two years? But a 16-year-old cannot have picks of a 10-year-old. He said, I don't know anything about this case specifically, but I bet Jake is right. The cops probably suspected him for arsons. Yes, that is the correct pluralization.

Got a search warrant, found him. In general, you can charge someone with all the offenses you can prove, and then that gives prosecutors room to negotiate if they want to avoid trial. His leaders are scuba diving shoes. And from Rick. So there is what I would say in informative news. The Dumb Zone News. You are grading yourself as...

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Please join me on January 15th, wishing a very happy birthday to my lovely bride, the official bisexual therapist of the dumb zone, the shoddy of the naughty, the Romo of the homos, a DZ Hall of Famer, if there ever was one, Kara Lutes. Big ups. Did I flip her? When we saw her last, she said that she's got a number of listeners in her. Stable now that she's helping. Nice.

Did I flip her? I did. Will she flip back? She will. Did I buy her a new set of cans? I did. Wow. Will I demand one of them back when she leaves me for another busty broad?

I will. Never punt dual DZ and IJB subby household. Ty Webb. That rules to have... Great deal. You get this girl to flip back to hetero and you're like, how about a welcoming gift? Now that you're back over here.

Welcome back. How about some? If he really did that, like, are there ever guys who they're the ones to bring it up? Because, you know, you'll have the lady. You'll be like, oh, I'm thinking of this. And then you have to then contain your excitement and do the Larry David stuff. And kind of like, all right, I don't know. Yeah.

I mean, you know. And she's like, do you think I should go this big? Well, I mean, you know, I mean. Whatever you feel comfortable? with. But is there ever a way, what if you did give her a gift certificate for breast enhancement surgery, would that be like giving her a treadmill or a diet plan? Yeah, it's a, it's sticky.

Because so many women do say, yes, this is for me. Confidence. This makes me feel better. And it's like, you know what? I'm all for you feeling better. Yeah. Dear Mr. Dan. I can't bust on the mop.

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were published for the first time by, Dr. James Naismith, who's a gym teacher. Now, this day in 1978, the Cowboys defeat the Broncos, 27 to 10 in Super Bowl 12. The first ever indoor Super Bowl. Next year, they would wear purses and dresses. That was at the Superdome in New Orleans. And Roger Stobach beats Craig Morton. who was his quarterback counterpart here in Dallas.

In fact, was it one year or just one game? Tom Landry, who was, I think, the first coach to call plays from the sideline and then send him in. I don't know, maybe Paul Brown did that. The point is, Tom Landry would call play and send it in with the quarterback. So on the sideline would be, on the field would be Roger Staubach, and he's taking a snap doing the play. Next play, Craig Morton runs in, and he plays quarterback because he had just talked through the play with Landry.

Next play, Roger Stalbock would run in. It's insane. It is insane, but it's interesting, too, to think, what if that kind of worked, and that was the way things are done? Spurrier did it in the 90s. He did? Late 80s or early 90s.

I remember I used to watch it. If you kind of had the same type of player, why not? And also, you know, I remember from, you know, youth football, because I was a receiver, I would run the play. I remember, like, the quarterback, if you're going to give anybody a play, you'd rather give it to him, even if it's the other one. So you know what I mean? Like, that's the guy that's going to go run the play. Having the coach tell him the play and then go run it was, it just seems smooth. Not some idiot who can't remember the whole thing.

Yeah. Like you. Like me. It's also how you become a quarterback despite not being able to fly. throw. On this day in the year 2000, the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Miami Dolphins 62 to 7. Boy. Second largest margin in playoff history.

That was some cognitive dissonance for the ticket at the time. A little hardline boys. Everyone who's taking team Jimmy right around that time. That was Jimmy's last game. Lots in the playoffs did not. Jimmy's last game ever, coaching. Yeah. And on this day in the year 2009, Chelsea Sullenberger lands his airplane in the Hudson River after a flock of birds disabled both engines.

Unfortunately, all 155 people on board survived. That's what it says here in the AP story. Unfortunately. Yeah. I still never finished. I didn't go hard on the rehearsal. I watched the first episode. then.

It's a, I'm not saying you must watch it. It's just wild. And then we have January 15th, this day in Dumb Zone history. On this day in 2021, it's the only show we've done on January 15th. We spent the entire open because I think this is the day Jake explained to Dan that you and your wife split the bills. Yeah. Still in play. Still in play.

What do you think happens when you get divorced? You know that'll happen. I think it'll be easier. Will it be easier? Yeah, I would think so. Because you have separate accounts. Yeah, and that's the thing is like... And you just take the joint one and split that in half and be like, all right.

Yeah, and it's kind of like an operational account. You know, we both feed it every month and then that's just where the money comes from. But if we get divorced, I should not get her retirement. She has one. I don't. She should get that. I didn't... Yeah, but you built this together.

That's the... That's how the dudes. Yeah, but that's how dudes end up losing all their money. I know, but well, the way I've always looked at it is like my wife has always had a lot more money than I have. She's got savings. I have debt. But she doesn't have a job she likes. So in my 20s, whenever I was making 25K and she was making 70, it's like I loved my job.

I was doing what I wanted to do. So like, it makes sense that I should have to pay for that. Not her. she's the one who's going to a job that sucked so she should get to have like the spoils of that now if I get myself to a point where I'm today making decent money

and liking my job then she can go whenever I don't it's fine with me Dan in trying to say he's the same why am I can't why am I blinking on it this says Dan and his wife have different comforters

so he's trying to relate to you I'm supposed to say Yeah, me and my wife have different blankets. I'm not that weird. I feel, I can't believe anyone shares a blanket. It's definitely one of those things. Do you? Yeah, I mean, I've never, I'd never heard of anybody who had their own until you.

But like a lot of things, when you explained it, it's like, well, yeah, of course that's how it should be. But that's never, I've never heard of that in my life until you. And I don't have a say over the blanket. It's whatever matches, whatever she's got going on on the bed. Yeah, I don't have a say over anything. So the idea that I would... I share it with my dog. He sleeps under there with me.

Under the covers? Yeah. I don't know, man. To each throw it. All you have to do is put a little peanut butter down there and the dog will stay under there. It's great. Just keeps refilling.

A little Rube Goldberg machine just feeds more peanut butter underneath. Yeah, that's true. Those dogs do lick us. With your nasty ass. Other birthdays today, Randy White is 73. Hey, wait, Randy White was the MVP of that Super Bowl. He won it on his birthday. On my birthday.

With Harvey Martin. He was a co- MVP. I think that was my mom's favorite cowboy player. Randy White? Harvey Martin. Oh, wow. Randy White would more fit. Like, he's just this badass.

She might have babysitted Harvey Martin's kids or something. There was some story. Mitch Garver, 35. Thought he was going to be awesome. male prostitute I can't get thank you I'm glad there's at least

one other guy I thought you used to always say that oh yeah yeah I just said no similar to karate man

I'm not sure if my references are out of control anymore or not Armando Garaga is 44 robbed he is the robbed

got a perfect game robbed by a bad call says here former ranger was he a ranger really it really says

It does it here, I don't know. As a rookie. Huh. Now that? He was acquired as part of the Alfonso Soriano deal. So good. Like he was with Soriano or? Like when they traded Soriano away.

When they sent Soriano to the Nationals, they got him. For Brad Wilkerson. They can't all be Gabe Kapler. Jeff Bannister is 62. His daughter follows me on Twitter. Is that pretty exciting for you? We're y'all going to start a Bachelor podcast? It was discussed.

It was discussed. Matt Holliday is 46. Debo Samuel is 30. You know, I didn't realize until I was watching that hard knocks that they ran Cliff. You, dude. So Cliff's out there? Yeah. Cliff, Mike McDaniel,

who satisfied the Rooney rule for two teams, much to his own surprise, I think. Mike McDaniel? Yes, I get it, but it's still funny. I'd like to see him in Philly. No. Why? Because he's good?

Yeah. Well, that's what I mean. I think that would fit him. They'd probably take him back in San Francisco. I think that I mean, they'd just, They rehired Sala. That was the dumbest thing ever thinking he might leave. What about the guy with Minnesota?

Brian Flores. Brian Flores. You think he'll be back there? No. I think he'll be a head coach. Oh. Drew Breeze is 47. Bernard Hopkins is 60.

Delino De Shields is 57. Who's Bernard Hopkins? Boxer. Okay. E-Hop. Actor Chad Lowe is 58. He is Rob Lowe's brother, and he was Jesse and life goes on. Huh.

That's right. He was Becca's boyfriend. This is interesting. He kind of looks like a McPoyle version of Rob Lowe. Kind of milky. Charo is 75. Oh, gosh. Mario Van Peebles is 69.

Are we still doing? I can't believe this person's still alive. Is that Charo? It's got to be. Okay, let's give Charo that. I feel like we've been doing her 75th birthday since I was an intern. Actually, she is, okay, the way we should do this is who do I go to search on Wikipedia to make sure they're alive, which I did with Charo today. Okay.

Like I didn't do this. I didn't do it with Bernard Hopkins or. Yeah, I was just like, let's just make sure because Blake will yell at me. musician Adam Jones is 61 says here he's with tool I only know Maynard and Pit Bull

Mr. Worldwide is their drummer is 45 and Dumb's own birthday of the day I guess maybe we Do we need to start putting sports birthdays as a possible birthday of the day because I didn't feel good about today's Let's see.

I just gave it to The Mom in Life Goes On. Andrea Martin. She knows Corky. This damn show. Yeah. Born on this day now dead, Martin Luther King, and Ray Chapman,

who was the only Major League Baseball on-field fatality. He played for the Cleveland Indians. Broken heart. He died on field of a broken heart. because they said, you know, a hundred years from now, they're going to change the name to the Guardians.

Yeah, that is funny, but, you know, it is extra funny, is that Ray Chapman at the time had a certain baseball cap, and if you were like, we're going to change it back 100 years later, he'd been like, well, what was it in between? And if you had showed him Chief Wahoo in 1920, he would have been like, fucking hell, that's racist. How did you guys ever get away with that? So in 1920 they were woke?

I mean, they didn't have the Indian on the hat back then. So I think he would have been shocked. Did they finish the game? I hope so. I paid my ticket. Here's an oddity. So born on this day is Ray Chapman. He's the only person ever to die in a Major League by baseball game. Dead on this day, Bill Masterson. You know that name?

He is the only on ice NHL fatality. He did not have puck luck. He died on this day in 1968. I think for the stars, right? Yes. The North Stars. And what does Bobby Phil's get? What does Bill Masterson get? Jersey retired. Get a nice retired number. It's the key If you're a spare, if you're not a good player. Yeah. Then you've got to die. But not in like an immoral way. And Ray Chapman got hit in the head with a pitch.

That's how he died. What did you think he misplayed a little... Heart attack, lightning strike. He's 29. Line drive off the face. Someone shot him. There's a book about it called... Today, pitch that killed.

Enfielder Ray Chapman was killed by a bunt. Somehow. Yeah, of course. Shout out my soul. You've read a book about him, Clayton? My professor in college wrote the book, and I read it to- Damn, dude. You remember that, I've you cursed too much.

That grift, dude, you get into class. No, I read two Thai cop books. By my, by Charles Alexander, who was my history of baseball professor, which I thought I took because it was a layup because I loved baseball and all that. Hell, that guy took Ty Copse seriously. I know who Harvey Haddicks is. You know, I'm going to do great at this. And he said, everybody starts with a C.

And if you get an A on a test, you'll get a C. But if you do extra. Maybe a B. Yeah. He hit me with the most author lines. I was like, oh, hey, I read your book, Professor Searle. It's like, oh, you're the one. Oh, yeah.

Love it, love it. Also died on this day, Dan Haggerty. Now he... From life goes on. He was on some show, what was it? Grizzly Adams, I believe it was called. I don't know much about him, but what I do know is he was also, I think, an ordained minister, as some people are. Sure.

And he was the one who performed the ceremony, took the vows for Richard Hunter. Yeah. Big Dick Hunter from the P1 Wildass Circus. and hamburger, his lovely wife. And that's what happens, kid. On this day. Hamburger. We took hamburger to death.

Little love for our Game Day Men's Health studio as we end the show as well. Just not for the studio. I mean, love for the studio, but how about Game Day Men's Health? Hey, it's like, I was thinking about this this morning. Blake will relate to this. You're not a pre-workout guy, Dan, but take a little pre-work. work out before you go work out really get you going you're like all right now I'm doing it tea from game it's like being that all the time you're always on the pre work out you never

you never feel like I don't want to do that so that's a my selling point for you stop feeling like your ass is whipped game day dot dumbzone dot com also might make it a little easier for you to pound some limited time offerings from water burger and work them off we tie this whole thing Oh, I thought you were talking about might be a good time to go pound some... Mm-hmm. You could do that, too. Some pee, bro. Oh, yeah.

Because they can help you with the wiener. Make the chick's cream, know what I mean? Mm-hmm. 50 style. I'd rather make them scream. Do-l-do. Anyway, guys, tomorrow we have... We're going to go to old Dub-Dub's house, right?

Mm-hmm. Wired down before then. Well, I think Wire will burns his house down every year, And every year we go. He comes back more lush. Yeah, we go and celebrate that fact. Dedicate it. At his place.

So I think that's the Friday program. Is the button broken? We got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my video. Hand on. Yeah. He's a runner ball guy.

He likes it real simple. Fuck your new age thinking. The play don't need a ring. Belly left belly right blue 22 hut he don't fuck with your reality he takes it up the gut what's his name bitch mr. Blake John's on I formation hit the lablish in the run