The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-19-26 | Recapping an awesome Divisional Round and what's Schotty's license plate?

Episode Date: January 19, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe recap an awesome weekend of the NFL Divisional round which includes some great quarterback play and then there's CJ Stroud. Big weekend check including something from Dan that didn't go to plan and taking bets for what personalized license plate Brian Schottenheimer has (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (55:18) - Sports: Bronocs move on without Bo Nix (01:32:28) - CJ Stroud was horrible against Patriots (01:45:30) - Chicago can't keep momentum in OT (01:56:43) - News: Rejected personalized license plates (02:11:07) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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we do have a wide open parking lot down here at the Fox building because... Yeah, no Canadian tickets today. People aren't coming into work. Clayton was concerned, so concerned that he warned me last night about some kind of a goings-on on I-30 that might delay us, but he did forget it was MLK Day. Oh, I thought maybe the delay was like MLK-Selly-related. Well, I said we have, the person we have to thank for this is James Earl Ray.

Or the FBI. I think he was on his way to get in his own holiday. James Earl Ray? No, MLK. I was going to say, because I feel like if anything is. Yeah, if he just died of old age. That's actually not a topic you want to think about. Like if MLK was still alive, he'd have a holiday.

I don't think he would. Well, it's not so much the holiday. It's just, just think about it. it, dude. You would have been caught with something? Not caught. I mean, we already know. But in the public? Yeah, dude. What do you mean? I mean, I'm definitely, I've heard somebody else do this bit before, but given how MLK was living,

had MLK continued to live and he'd maybe gotten, even if it's not just how he was living, if he went to 80, 90 years old, I promise you, you would not think of him the same, dude. You just wouldn't. You'd know way more about that. all the chicks he was tagging or about all this or all that and he would have lived old enough for there to be a lot more video. I'm telling you dude. Like think about like Jesse Jackson. Would he be on TikTok? Jesse Jackson when before I was around was a legitimate political force. He was not a joke. And like by the time I turned to you set MLK would have been on South Park is what I'm saying. And so we wouldn't have this day off.

Well That's why we're saying Thanks to James Earl Ray We have this day off And would we have as many days off Like did James Earl Ray make us He opened the door Well we

Yeah Would we have one less holiday today? Would you have less days off Or is there a certain amount of holidays You have to have In the natural order of things? No No

Because if it was the natural order of things Then it wouldn't vary by location like other countries, right, that also work? I don't recognize other countries existing. Well, you should in this regard, because if you wanted to talk about having more holidays, they'll take off for anything. Bully?

Oh, my. Yeah, I mean, I think that's... I mean, we got Thanksgiving and MLK Day. They don't. That's very true, yeah. But, I mean, even, you know, I don't know how this works industry-wide, but in China, you know, like in my mom's business,

they take like a month for the... the new year. I don't think I have that wrong. People go home. You know, if they work in the city, they go home. That's when they eat monkeys and bats. Jeez, we just went right to the end of the racist bingo card. I thought that's how we got COVID because of a monkey. Yeah, but in all seriousness, folks, MLK. My daughter did ask me last night, I told the boys, this is like, do you guys know what Ruth Conda is? She helps you clean up your place And you want to have a

Ruth Cond is a reference I want to be able to make It's not Marie Condo It's a thing on Twitter Okay Thank you My bad That's really good If I have to explain it though

I shouldn't yeah There's a thing that A certain type of I guess liberal woman Usually white does on social media Where they're tweeting about Their daughters or their sons Having reactions to social events

that there's no way the kid had context for. Oh, yeah, I like that bit. So around the time that Black Panther was popular. I was just sitting, I sat my four-year-old down yesterday. Yeah, yeah. Told her about Greenland. That's what this was. Oh, no.

So around the time. Why would he go after our allies, she said? And I was like, we sat and had a cry. And Braden was like, what is this say about the future of the West in its relationship? I love this bit. Okay, so this is it, Ruth Conda. So it was around the time that Black Panther was popular. you'd have kids saying like Wakanda forever everybody wanted to be black panther at the same time

ruth bader Ginsburg after ruining the future of our republic died oh wow i'm just hearing that for the first time uh and so she posted a photo of her daughter like doing the x thing it was like just told my daughter about the death of r bg and she's you know crying said we'll carry her legacy on Ruth Konda forever. It's a thing that people do. I just told my daughter about Trump winning, as you said, Greenland. So this is not

that, but it's approaching it. She wants to know about how this Venezuela right. She couldn't understand why the opposition leader isn't more fit to lead than the second in command. She's got opinions on the crude oil. And then I dropped her off at preschool.

Right. Right. To go sort fish into colors. So she asked me, how are we going to celebrate MLK? And it seemed like she was making a distinction of the day and MLK. She was celebrating

his existence, yes. Yeah, so it just felt like she was asking for more than you're off school. Yeah, that seems pretty good. Mike, I'll get back to you, so I don't know. Oh, like you got to do something at home, like put up the tree. Yeah, I was going to stop by and pick up a bunch of

like, you know, props and face paint all the way home and have an evening with the family. Just kind of get into costume. All right. You're James Earl Ray. Right. Right. Have my, give my son a rifle and have him assume that role. No, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Well, we're working. Yeah. Hardly. Are we hardly working or working hard? Has anyone ever said that to you, unironically? Oh, without a doubt. Yeah. Yeah, you grew up in Texas.

Oh, yeah, exactly. And your dad is your dad. Exactly. So he's probably said it to you within the last month. Okay, so you know what? I have not. We still have a couple of people I'm waiting to hear back from. So probably we have all the seats filled for this weekend's game,

but I might be reaching out to you pretty quick. coming up next week, or excuse me, yes, next Sunday we're going to do the AFC championship game from the Den. We're going to do a live stream. And on Thursday, we will be at Coneyrosso, the White Rock Lake location. We get thrown off, Blake especially, when there are two locations that have the word lake in them. And he cannot compute that. He doesn't know the different between Michigan and Ohio and New York for the same reason. Yeah, I was going to go to the Lake Worth one.

Now, in his defense... It is Gaston Avenue, White Rock Lake-ish. It's a little south of White Rock Lake. White Rock and Lake Highlands are similarly positioned. They're close to one another. They're both down there. But this one will be the White Rock Lake location. And our friend Jimmy Nelson

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The other game is going to be way more fun. It's a Stidham revenge game. Could be. Against... Possibly the Nuch. The Nuch. What if the Nuch gets in? Stidham was a Patriot.

Just throwing it out there. Remember Ben Danucci time? Oh, yeah. Then it was... So punt time for Brian Inger. Yeah. It would always be within a couple of minutes of each other. You'd hear those things.

Um, I understand. I just like that. Oh, this is about bedtime, isn't it? Um, the other one's not bad. It's not like it's, uh, it's not like it's 7 o'clock. It's like 5.30, isn't it? I think so. We can move it if you want.

We would need to check with our guests, though. That would be the only thing. But I'm down. I don't know. I'm kind of a Denver guy, though. I did note that you are kind of a Denver guy. Machine who's going to be joining us, if it's Denver, is kind of a Denver guy, too. Bronco guy, I guess.

Well, when we watch the 15th punt go in the air, I'm going to say on the stream that I wish we were doing the other game. And you'll have that right. Seattle? Are you one? You want Donald? In Stafford? It's the two best teams in the league. So there's an argument to be made.

But I feel like if there's a bunch of punts, that's time for Blake's set. I think it might just be the game of the century. The most important, what are you? I'm not going to settle this now. I'm just throwing it out there. All right. Who wants to go first? I was going to go last. I'll go first. CK. Booty CK.

Yeah, let's step into Clayton's Content Corner real quick. All right. All right. On MLK Day. All right, thank you. Where he's from, too. We got new dragon show. Started Sunday.

It came back last night? No, it's a whole new dragon show. Oh, okay. Night of the Seven Kingdoms. It's like the prequel, right? No, this is a tangent. It's a branch of a branch, brother. Is it?

Oh, the other one was the prequel. Yeah, it's in the universe. It's the book, Sir Duncan the Tall. Night of the Seven Kingdoms. I can't believe Jake's excited. Remember back when Jake hated dragons? I like the whole universe of that stuff. I would give it a chance.

What did he say he didn't like shows in the trees or something? In the wood. That's mostly, I think you're confusing me with, it doesn't matter. No, this I just did Command F and search C-O-M-E-D. It is listed as a comedy drama, at which point I know I'm out. So that's the departure here, Clayton. It's a little more light. Yeah, it's a little bit more funny.

Laf track? Within the first three minutes, there's a shot of a guy taking a shit next to a tree. And you literally see it. Yeah, they're going to do that for you. Boy, I'm out on that. It's a little jarring because it was just like, this show used to be about pageantry and like these big, and then now it's just a guy taking a dump on it next to a tree.

That's why I don't complain about that. stuff when it comes to the movie bits and realism. I don't really need to see bathroom. I don't need to see you going to the bathroom. That's fine if in the movie universe, no one ever goes number one or number two. Yeah, that's actually a little bit of untapped territory, you know, for a long time, if you wanted to push the envelope,

you would just show peen. Right? It's like, oh, HBO is showing. Look, every episode's got a dick. No, now it's a stevo bit five seconds into the show. Yeah. Yeah, we're at, it's probably, we can't be that too far away from like Timothy Shalamee starring in a Sunday night series where he just like drinks. It's just just fear factor or.

That came back. Jackass, I know. I'm avoiding it. Like, think of what you're saying. Should that go on the list? On HBO, they just show guys taking a shit. Well, then the other show is, your parents. It's two hockey players, you know.

Yeah, I've heard a lot about that. Getting down with each other. I can only watch it like 20 seconds at a time. What were you saying, Blake? Things that are back? Fear Factor? Yeah, I mean, it is back. No, and I think it does go on the list

because, as I was alluding to, because I heard Rogan telling Johnny Knoxville why the show ultimately ended, I don't think you could have twin sisters drinking donkey come in 2018. There was too much going on from a conversation standpoint of like, oh, is that demeaning and representation?

Like they were getting fired from the bachelor For being part of like all white sororities Which are just all of them And like attending actually it's not an all white sorority They just had an antebellum party Chris Harrison got fired from the show The host the producer for being like I don't have a problem with that

I seriously doubt that in that moment You could have flipped over to the other channel And saw women drinking donkey come WHL Why Hillary Loss? There you go. Perhaps. Not a good action.

Bit collision. The list are connected in a way. Yeah. For sure. All right. So do you like the show? It's kind of hard. At the first episode, there wasn't much action.

There wasn't much. It was just... You haven't heard as much hype about this one, have you? Not really. And, I mean, the guy's kind of got this bumbling, idiot, kind of of mice and men feel. And he's got this little bald-headed kid running around with him. That looks like he has alopecia.

Yeah, I was aware of this book because I got super into the show and then wanted to read the books. And then whenever you're caught up, you need other GRRM content. And this was kind of related. But the book sucks. Don't watch this show. Oh, wow. Yeah, I might be with Blake. I might be out.

But I don't have Landman anymore. It's over. This is just another. It's like Karnaki, man. It's another thing. where immediate companies like this worked, bleed it till it dies. Yeah. We'll figure this out.

I'll go next. I don't have a ton from the weekend, but it did start with an Argyll basketball doubleheader. And I bring it up because I don't know if I know who I am anymore because of just the melding of everything from the show and like... That's real. And yeah, and like the one ethics class I took in college, there's a blank sentence. slate theory that like there is no you you're just like remnants of what you take from other people and so when i sit there and i see the birdville point guard dunk the basketball up by 11 as time expires inside of me i want to get angry at the 17 year old then i'm like you know what i made fun of the

granberry guys for doing the same thing about argyll running up the score i got to remind myself i'm an adult this doesn't matter he's dunking it from his student section just a very confusing moment in that time. I didn't really know what to say. Can I offer you something that may be easier for me to say than for you to do? That is, it's weird as shit, but you can actually trick yourself. I coached a very bad soccer team with the girls. The other team scored, I would go congratulate them like they were on our team. If I'm going to do it for our team, I'd do it for theirs. You could have given him like a highlight call. You could have been like

as soon as he got the ball and went to the other end. If he's going to go up there, you could have been like and he hammers it like it's a home call. Because you don't really care, so why not make it sound cool on the tape for the kid or for whatever? You kind of care from an Argyll standpoint. You care, but the game is over

and you have it, you're putting calls together is going to go better for big calls or for excited calls and chill ones anyways. And also, here's the thing. Nobody else knows it. You're saying fuck you inside and doing it sarcastically. And you just get away with it. I think you end up just saying,

and they slam dunk it, and they go up by 13 as time expires. That's better than being an old man about it. Yeah, no, no, but I had to catch myself. I don't know. I mean, you're an Argyll fan. You want to live, you're living through you. What kind of class they have in Birdville? That's just probably indicative of the whole area, really.

But who actually thinks that? Anything below Grapevine Lake? Yeah, I don't know, man. I just, that feels like Brad. It's fun. It's a weird feeling, because I've told you this before, I think, but like as a coach of a 12-year-old girl's softball team. And while, you know, we're mounting a comeback in the final inning.

And there's an 11 or 12-year-old girl on the mound who's almost in tears. and I'm hoping that she throws another ball on the dirt so that our runner from third can score and win the game. She's in tears because she gave up a five runs. That's not a problem for me. Her fans are yelling or screaming. Like people are wondering what she's doing. And I'm thinking, and then later I'm thinking,

I mean, if it was my daughter or anyone on my team, you know? Yeah. And it's just weird. I'm rooting for a 12-year-old. who is currently in tears to keep going south. Because it will barely make, it'll make my girls fear better for the time being. And they'll forget about it right away. I want her to learn.

And for her to learn, we're not calling in the lefty. You're going to get yourself out of this jam, sweetheart. And you'll remember if you don't. But it's just weird to root for the pain of a kid. I, if you're a rational person. It might make my kid feel a little bit better at the time. It makes total sense. If you're a rational person.

But my kid wasn't tear-rid. We were already losing by five. If we had just lost at the very end and she held on to win, that would have been the best outcome for all. Yeah. But I didn't want that. Rationally, you are correct. A little worse as a coach.

Sports makes us irrational. I have no problem. It's like driving. Driving and sports makes me a different person. Totally illogical. It's terrible. Yeah. We should outlaw both of those things.

Driving and sports. For women. We had a birthday party Saturday, not the good kind. This was one of Brooks's classmates. Yeah. So I was walking in blind. Didn't know anyone, didn't want to talk to the parents. Brooks has a better time because he knows the kids, but I don't care about him.

But this was at Chuck E. Cheese, which is a home game for Brooks. So you would rather go to a listener's party. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense. The word is out. And I think, I can't tell if this is a good thing or a bad thing. But when we walk in, Saturday was the cold day.

Yeah. And so everyone wanted to go to Chucky Cheese. There were a bunch of birthday parties there, but there were also just others that just wanted to get out of the cold. And so when he walked in, he was just like, this is crowded. He's used to like a wide open Chucky Cheese. Yeah. And so now that he has to wait on every game, he's not loving it.

And then I think this is a good thing. When he's walking around with his other classmates, they're just button mashing. They're just enjoying what's on the screen. and Brooks is like, no, dude, move your guy over here. Get this guy and telling him how to play the game. He's getting so mad at this other four-year-old for just hitting these buttons really fast.

Yeah, he's advanced. The proof is in the pudding. I felt proud. It was a proud moment. You should. And then yesterday, I got an email from a good listener, Alec, who I think does the Blake NBR thing, which I don't like. But he's got a membership at this warehouse

house where people keep their luxury and vintage cars. It's pretty cool. If you have a membership, you have access, then you can look at all the other cars. It's a really sweet place. When this place was the ward hog from the Xbox Bowl, and Clayton, I threw a picture in there. And I got to take Brooks, and Brooks got to see a real-life wardhog, which... Dan, that's from Halo. Which is from Halo, which is his favorite game right now. He's all about it. he now in his spare time will watch campaign walkthroughs of Halo.

Walkthroughs. He's understanding the story. He's obsessed. He's obsessed with Halo. It was a cool moment for him to see a warthog in real life. He went to get his picture taken next to it, very excited to do so?

Yeah. Because I want to follow the story of young Brooks as his favorite book is Brandon Aubrey's book, and you've told us that he had an opportunity to go actually meet Brandon Aubrey and he did not want to. Yeah, or a couple years ago, Santa Claus.

But yeah, Wardhog above... The vehicle. Santa and Brandon Aubrey. I mean, I guess culturally, it would be like if you could take him to see the DeLorean, like when Back to the Future came out, that would have been cool, right? If you could just walk right up to that car. And the age again, he's four...

Four. How close to five? But it feels like he would have rather just seen the car and not met Michael J. Fox. Yeah, yeah. And I don't know enough about the lore of Halo to know, but I don't know. I think my kid, my son is physically pretty advanced, and he's about a year younger than Brooks,

and I cannot imagine him successfully navigating any video game, much less Halo. That is, I think. Well, Brooks has raised his second parent is an iPad. That is true. He does have like a Kim, dot com level hacker skills. He's going to be like by seven.

Yes, he knows how to code. Yeah, I mean, he won't even, he'll write the program that codes it for you. Clayton taught him how to switch. He can do that. Switch the show. Clayton's got to stop doing that. Just because it makes me, it's like, Clayton's job is that easy that he just? No.

Okay. That. The button pushing part, maybe. But then one final thing, and it's kind of a handoff light. And it was recently my dad's birthday. My dad wants to start playing Halo with Brooks. Through Xbox Live, he could play at his house. Brooks could play at our house.

They could talk over the headsets. Your dad already plays? No, but my dad was always around whenever I had friends over. And so if we had an odd number, my dad would play. Okay. And he loved it. I think that's a great bit. Spend time with Grandpa on Halo.

Yeah, I do too. But now the kid is gaming online at first. He's gaming over an internet connection. Oh, you know what else? So I play a couple little games online. It's not like Halo. But I was coming up with this opinion that that is the least politically correct arena in the world.

Gaming? Yeah. Oh, bro. That's how we got here. Because one of the guys I was playing against was Charlie Kirk's neck pain. Oh, yeah. Like that's a name of the person. I'm like, You missed this era.

You'd be kicked off of everything. You missed this era entirely. This is where he was born. Oh, yeah. This is why nothing phases you? Dude, you don't. What's the Bain quote? I was born.

I don't know. Born of the Dark. I don't know. You adapt. I was born in it. Yeah. A call of duty lobby? Yeah, I put hair on your chest.

There's a lot of people who, and this is not making it political. Like, are they like, now, oh, look, gaming is pointing out. It's not, is not, it's very misogynistic. Oh, really? This is how. History books might write this. Do you know what GamerGate is? I've heard of that term, but I have no idea.

Well, there are people that would tell you that that and, like, everything around it is the domino, or at least the canary in the coal mine for Trump. It was around 2011, 2012, right? I don't want to go through the whole thing, but it was a female journalist writing game reviews. And people didn't like her. The level of treatment she got online and for anybody who stood up to try to defend her, doxing became very big, swatting became very big, and there's like no cap. What you just said, Charlie Kirk's neck pain did not register as a popcorn fart to me is for an online game. Like you didn't use, I'm talking like all of the words that you can't use in succession all the time.

the racist ones, the gay ones. Like I, I missed that a little bit. You know, I had jackass, but I didn't have 13-year-old Swedish kids using like in as a commentary. Yeah. There are parental control. But why is somebody doing that on words with friend? That's insane behavior. No, it wasn't that.

It's a different, it's an interactive. Yeah. So anyway, it was his birthday recently. I bought him an Xbox, a headset, and you kind of walked him through how to do it. Your dad? My dad. Yeah.

That's a weird turn. A son buying the dad. They say it all turns around. Yeah, that's true. You'll catch him beating off. Maybe. Dad. Come on, man.

Why are you playing that volleyball game? So, yeah, on a 65th birthday last week, he was at the tax office. the second it opened to freeze his school taxes. He's got some established run in him for sure. That's where I got it. Yeah. But now he wants to play Xbox with Brooks over heads, you know,

they can talk with the headset and all that. But, and I was telling this, like, when he was buying me the console, it was you plug it in, you put the disc in, and you can play. Oh, here we go. Now it is, let's set up your account. Let's add your credit card. Let's sync your phone. Let's agree to the terms and conditions.

You got to download the store. download your avatar you got to download all this your speed isn't fast enough you got to open up these ports on your router it's in i was over for there for two hours setting this thing up yeah there's something to that it's too hard yeah i don't mind everything you need a login from the physical uh disc but i suppose everything that comes with it does just make it impossible to just open it up and play i i i don't know making it better dude it legit might be my first memory. I'd have to look at the timeline, but going

home and plugging Nintendo in with my mom, with like Duck Hunt, like I remember we got home, plugged it in, and we're playing, and it was magical. Yeah, my, my, the Christmas morning, me and my dad woke up early to play PlayStation 2. It was the greatest. You flip the switch, they'd make the sound,

we played Madden. I did this last year. Which one has Sonic? Sega. Yeah. Sega Genesis. I remember that one. But those days are gone. You need an account and a login. Yeah, when I bought the Wii, is it the Wii or the Switch? The Switch last year, I was told ahead of time, don't think you're plugging.

You need eight hours. Yes. It has to download everything, so do it the day before Christmas. Yep. I had a huge weekend. Wait. Did you take advantage of the mini split in your office at all? Oh, you know what I did?

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Yes, so I will string this out across the week. I'll give you a couple nuggets here. I went and saw a comedy show on Saturday night. Matt McCusker of the Matt and Shane podcast with Shane Gillis and Matt McCusker. And he, I didn't, I don't really know him as a stand-up up until the last like three or four years. I only know him through that podcast and then went back and watched some of his stuff. He's kind of had like a late come up. But he sold out the Majestic.

And he had a Netflix special in the last four or five months that I thought was okay. I thought he was way better this time. It just showed, it's so obvious to me when you see somebody do comedy and then do it a year or a two year or three years later. Like maybe once they're to the point of being really good, you can't really notice much of a change. But I feel like if somebody's in their first five to ten years of doing it and you see them a year or two apart, I think usually I can tell like a way big, a huge difference from just working every night. So I thought he was good. Nothing special. But it was kind of funny trying to keep up with the NFL in a room.

I was like 90% dudes. And when somebody asked like, all right, just so we know what I'm dealing with here, how many have you voted for Trump? It's probably 75% of the room. A lot of bros. And it was kind of funny walking out. We had the Broncos. game had just ended. We knew the result. Then we were walking out. Everyone's like, what the

he's broke his ankle? It's like very confusing because we had watched the last play. And then I think this is funny. Machine's kind of Broncos guy, but he's just NFL guy. And I was like, who's there, who's even Bo Nix's backup? And he was like, I'm pretty sure it's did him. And then we saw a guy like in a Broncos hat. And we were like, oh, yeah, who's the Broncos backup? And he was like, I think it's like, like, Stide. Stide, and we were like, you don't fucking know. Do you take that, like just clowning this dude for not known his team's backup quarterback?

Did it to another guy with a jersey on on the way out. Just what? This is my rule. It's like wearing a jersey to the grocery store out in public when the team is playing. Don't rep that set if you're not ready to answer some questions. If somebody asks you, it's playoff Saturday. You're wearing a Broncos hat of Broncos jersey. Boy, what a sports bully?

I know, man. Let's get out of here. You're wearing a hat. What happened to let the world live? Did you wear the hat? Did you wear the hat because you wanted people to ask you about it? This is the NFL. This is a different story.

You wear the hat? Hmm. Okay. So you have to know the team's backup. Like, what is the line? Definitely backup. Backup guard? No, but I would say backup quarterbacks are pretty big one.

Who's your lame soccer team that you hopped on board on the pandemic? Red Bull Leipzig. Yeah, can you name their center back or whatever position they have in soccer? Hey, if anger gets hurt, who holds on extra points? I do think that there's a difference. I wear the jersey for casual wear. To me, if you wear a hat or an NFL jersey out, the day the team is playing in a playoff game, like, out that night,

I assume you're trying to talk ball, right? That's the problem. That's why I wear, in general, I try to wear plain shirts. White T's. Because if you're wearing your Oklahoma shirt to a kid's soccer game, it's like, hey, when did you go there? I mean, I visited there once. Then you got to start doing that.

Yeah. And then... You wear your Q-Dog shirt and all of a sudden. Everybody's trying to tap you up. We started basketball this weekend with the girl. And it's at a church. I guess it's a church. It has a league.

It's with a bunch of her friends from school. Met a good listener. Nathan Miller. He's actually a pastor himself at a church where I grew up skating. That was my favorite church outreach. Did you have a skate park at a church where you grew up? I don't think so. Man, ours was like two, three blocks down from me.

And I was like, he's like, oh, I'm at the corner of this and this. I was like, are you serious? And I spent like all of my time there. That was a big thing. There was a ministry outreach at GPX. In Grand Prairie, really? That's cooler because it's a real skate park. This was like a shopping center church that would set up a full, like,

street park. And, you know, they had to catch some souls, at least, you know, what, get a few and it's worth it. But at basketball, and I haven't been to youth basketball, so this is probably not news to anybody listening who has kids who play basketball. So this is for first and second grade girls on one half of the court, first and second grade girls, excuse me, boys on the other half of the court, and they run like horizontally, you know, so you can play two games. Yeah. There's intros. The intros are through a, like, you know, what you run through for football, but there's no, like, tunnel.

It's just like, what do you take your pictures in front of when you're getting married? It's just like an arch type thing. And the coach is on the mic. And it's his job to be like, bro. Come on. Oh, buddy. We ain't done. What are we doing?

They're putting these things ahead of, like, the importance. the importance of the whole thing is supposed to be the game and the teamwork and the team building and not the standing three one like everybody's worried more about the the uniforms and all that kind of this is the whole now this is my established the run guy right off it's third and the established the run guy thing is that you know this is why organized sports at the ages at these young ages like was it better when you were just kind of thrown outside and you all kind of figured stuff out. Might have been better, but that's no longer an option. And you made your own rules and you made your own

first base and second base is the tree and this and, you know, backyard football, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, you know, I don't. Might I say smear the queer? We're allowed to, yeah. Yeah, I, who was it? Bejan.

Bejan. I know I tell you this all the time, but I think I grew up on the cutoff because I did all that. You did all that. I didn't have the internet until, you know. But then you did all. all organized sports from the time you're in kindergarten, right?

Full uniforms. But we did both. He was also kind, yeah, we did both. I didn't certainly didn't travel or full. It was pretty spare uniforms. But Boyd's also kind of small town. For sure, but hey, why don't you get the fuck out of here, old man?

Because the smoke machine's turning on next. Yeah. It's the LeBronification. And I'm not kidding here. No way do they have a smoke machine. 100%. For the first grade girls. Yes. That's what I was trying to get to why you were

so mad about the introes. Then it was like, Bon, pop, pop, pop, and it's front starts. And I'm like, dude, there's no windows in here. This is a problem. It's a small gym. And there's just smoke on both sides of the floor hanging over. And to his credit, one of our coaches, he clearly has MC'd before. He crushed it.

And by the end of it, I was kind of like, why not? Why not? Just make it fun for them. Who cares? Like, it didn't make them not try. So, you know, It was fun. The basketball is not great. No, I wouldn't imagine.

You're spending so much time on this other stuff. But it was, uh, it was fun. You're going to be a basketball coach in the future? Um, yeah, I don't know, man. I'll do whatever anybody needs me to do. I like, I like sports and I cannot lie. That's why it sucked. I missed, I skipped flag at the behest of everyone.

On Friday, we were doing some pitching at a Wired Will's house. and everyone was like, you cannot go try to run in two days. You will die. Oh, you have a bum foot. I had a calf. And that's the one that everyone keeps telling me, if you push it,

it's not like, oh, it'll hurt. You will be on crutches for six months if you tear your Achilles. It happened to my father-in-law. Six months. Like, that ain't just, oh, Jake's in a little pain.

That's like having to rearrange the studio type. There's a lot of conversations. while you were pitching over at the table while we were watching you. All eyes were on Jake's throwing motion. It's unlike anything we've ever seen. And they thought that you might throw a pitch to a Milwaukee brewer, minor leaguer, and they will take you yard. I will say yes if you can get it anywhere near the plate.

It doesn't feel like control is your thing. Yeah, I mean, obviously what I had to do was just go out and do it because you guys were all standing there. You know who Nuklilush is? So now it's obvious, like I, I don't know. It's like Nuclel with out the speed. This is where I get like is, this is bogging down because I didn't want to do it because I didn't want you guys to talk about it. Pre-breathing through his eyelids? But, I mean, I have video of what it looks like if I actually warm up, get on a non-child's mound or whatever.

But I don't care. You're going to see it at some point. But I like, I mean, the bit you guys do is. So you did this on purpose to set the bar low. No, I did it because people who... Your fans wanted to see it. Like to be entertained by us, did it? I mean, Will went and set the thing up.

He's like, when's Blake going to be over here to hit? And I'm like, he won't. He won't. When's Dan going to be over here to hit? He won't. They'll just kind of stay back there. I'll do it. Once again, it is weird how you guys just won't do anything.

I had to put the show out. We hung around till well after you could have been. The show was out. The show was out. You could have come and hit. Now I got to wrap all. all the cables and put all the crap back and get to my other games. Sorry I couldn't entertain.

I was helping Blake clean up. It is kind of the job. But entertain? Yes. Take hacks. And inform. I went out there and threw four pitches. You did.

I was impressed. The sound my back made after the first one was scary. He looks like an athlete stuck in that body. There's an athlete in there. And then you look like, you look like an athlete. It's like they switch souls. Yeah. You could hear the difference when he got on the mound, though.

Like, he's a mound pitcher. Yeah, when the lights are on. I love it. I loved it. But now Jake's mad, and I didn't want that to happen. I just won't do it again. Okay, now we got this. No, not do it again ever.

I won't do it again when it's not for content. Like, we're not actually, because you can't do. But it is for content. You can't do anything without. Look at that great content. Yeah. So much content. All right, my weekend check.

I didn't do a lot. My daughter left. I have a daughter who is in college. She was with us for an extended break. They get like a month off. Mid-December to mid-Jan. So she left Saturday morning, took her cat. She has a cat named Daffodil that she brought from New York with her.

Oh, okay. I was very confused. The cat did not step outside of her bedroom. Cat terrified of two small poodles that are smaller than her. Cat was bigger than the poodles. What sort of maintenance does keeping a cat, I guess I don't know what like a college apartment is like. It lives inside?

Yeah, litter box and a bowl of food. Hmm. And apparently her bedroom at home is not that much smaller than the, like her entire, she has a very small apartment. in New York. She complains about that a lot. Daffodil is a cool name. It is.

But so, yeah. I'll do cats too, folks. We got rid of her. Let's see. Went to the gym. Talk to my mom. She certainly gave me a very chilling weather report. I believe the high will be five on Saturday.

She's very concerned about the weather. She knows about everyone's weather. Wherever you live, she will contact you. If she sees there's a cold front coming through Houston, she'll actually contact me just in case. I just... That could touch us. I know we talk about this a lot, but I guess I'm the type of person.

I wish I could sit down and talk with her and ask, why? What is the utility? What is itch is this scratching? To know the weather across the nation? Yeah, I mean, in your hometown, obviously, especially if you're old, you need to know. But if it's like...

She never leaves her... Rarely leaves her place. Rarely... So I don't know that she needs to know it every day. And she talks to you in another part of the country, but it's not like she's working the phones all day and needs to know when she talks to her contact in the Bay Area. Like what the...

It doesn't make any sense to me. She can always tell me the weather in Clemson, the weather in New York, and the weather in Dallas. Like she always knows. She just wants to know what... I just don't get it. Oh, her granddaughter's cold. I just don't get it.

Her granddaughter might want to get an umbrella. Like she just needs to know that every day. Watch the, I know this is an entertainment spotlight or anything, but the Marcello Hernandez Netflix special? Yeah, I heard conflicting reports. I liked it. I'm a big fan of his, so. I'm not.

I don't really know anything about him. My wife lauds his work on SNL. I don't really watch a lot of SNL. When we got home from McCusker, Nicky, Bueno Nikki was watching it. But we switched over to S&L, which was... Colin Joseph's Hegsef, I think, is hilarious. Have you seen it? When he comes out, he's just got a huge thing of creatine.

He's like, what's up, Homo? Yeah. But the rest of it, I don't know. They don't have Bowen Yang to do J.D. Vance anymore. What are we going to do with that Bowen, guys? I know. This is the first show in the post-Yang era. How does Bowen Yang leave mid-season? What is that all about?

I don't know. Is he mad? They've had Shane on again? No, I don't think it was that. He was mad about something. But in any case, I'll give the name again, Marcello Hernandez. Marcella Hernandez. It's on Netflix.

Yeah. It's popping up. If you liked this, you will watch. It's good? I see Ricky Jervais has a new one, too. We just haven't gotten into that end. Headset. That one yet.

Maybe, I don't know. Certainly black T-shirt. Yeah. I do everything he does. Went to the mall. Did a little walking. You mentioned the cold day. Yeah.

So I actually went to the mall at the behest of my mom. She said, why don't you go to La Moll? I said, you know what? That's a great idea. And then I got to talk to her while in the mall. I don't know what they're doing up in Minnesota because they could just go to the mall. There are some malls. They've probably figured that out up there, though.

There are some malls that are just dead. Like you ever go to that music one, Music City Mall? Oddly named Music City Mall, but it's in Louisville. and one out of every seven stores is actually open. I was under the impression when it became Music City Mall and got bought it came back. No, it's still dead? Last time I was there, it was horrible. What did that used to be?

Grafine, nothing shows. They have what? That's where my gun show is. Oh, okay. Great Fine Mall, though, unbelievably teeming. It's a parking lot's packed. Every store is packed. They're doing great.

Yeah. Decided to forego Sabarro because instead I went to, you know, the Black Bean CrunchRap Supreme. Got some points on my new Taco Bell app. So I think I asked you this last time you went to this spot. Did you see the Asian area of the mall? The Asian area. Yes. It's not walk, whatever the...

No, no, but there may be something like that near there, but there's definitely candy stores. There is an area strip in Great Bine Mills that is like Asian fashion, candy, toys, games. It's like a whole, even the kiosks in the middle are like all, and I don't, it mostly looks like Korean to me, but I'm not great at that. But like everyone working there is Asian. Really? There's like a video, like there might even be like an arcade, an Asian arcade. It's cool. Like there's, I mean, I don't know.

It's not like it's a theme. park, but I think the idea of being able to walk through a mall and go to different spots. Like Chinatown. Like you were in a city? Yeah. It's kind of cool if they had something closer to that, you know. Fubu down that way. So Sabaro is the Italian area?

Well, maybe, but there's an actual place there. I don't know. I thought it's interesting to walk through. It's like Epcot, but a mall. Kind of. Yeah. So the mall is thriving. I'm here to report.

Not all malls are dead. And finally, I came up with a new anchor word. I thought of this last night. Kind of a gummy thought. But idly. Idley? What do you think of with idly? Standing idly by?

I told Jake yesterday. Sitting idly by is a... Sitting by? Yeah. You don't think it's sitting? Sit idly by? Clayton? You're on?

Yeah. Anyway, I thought that was... I kind of saved that for the end, because I thought it would hit a little bit different. I, uh, again. I, um, I don't know. I was kind of thinking about how, seriously, last night when I thought of this, I'm really surprised by your reaction because I was thinking that it would go differently.

I was just thinking to myself, how would it go? It was just, all right, so at least one mall is, uh, still kind of thriving. Oh, and one more thing. I came up with a new anchor word last night. idly. What do you think of with that? Sitting idly by. Wow, man. That's incredible. No way. That's not one out of the park. Yeah, make sure, but there's no way. We've been doing this for years.

Yeah. Never come across that one. This doesn't belong on this. This needs its own list. You're right. The Hall of Fame of Anchor Grace. Dumb's own Hall of Fame moments overall, I would say. Yeah. Dude, chat is blowing up right now. Yeah, dude. You're a Dan. Hey, look, who walked in. It's John Kukla from Fox 4. John, what do you got?

Hey, I don't mean to interrupt, but this just got delivered to the station. You're holding a big trophy. It's a major award. It says, best podcast moment by a guy who really does know lots of words and is smart and well respect. Wow. Dan, dead, dead, speak, speech, speech, speech, speak, speak, speak, speak, speech, speak, speech, I'm not, I mean, this just got thrusted on that. Please. I'll see here.

Actually, I'm just shocked and humbled by this prestigious award. I have a million people who have contributed to the lead-up to this moment, and I will now thank them all. Miss Van Meter, my fourth-grade English teacher, she always told me to reach for the stars. Baker Mayfield, the embodiment of never giving up, despite nobody believing in you. All my fans, tons of them without you, there is no me.

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Once you get past the wild card round? It's always, I guess this is a generic thing to say. It's always been my favorite. Yeah, no. Great weekend. Big boy time. The NFL honored Martin Luther King by displaying Choose Love the end zone, I was informed.

Okay. Yeah. And then 250 on the ball for that. What does that mean? They've got the 200. They were forcing that this weekend, too, the 250th anniversary of America. It's on the ball. It's on the sideline.

You get one rejoin a game where they remind you about it. Oh. What's going on? Yeah, we don't have to worry about that just yet. I would think, but okay. Okay, NFL. I thought every game was entertaining for different reasons. Not all good games, but entertaining.

Yeah, I'm proud of myself for thinking of something on Saturday, and then it became very prevalent yesterday. The thinking that I was doing was regarding the Denver Buffalo overtime game as it was playing out, and the thought was, Boy, should you just be so eager to kick off first if you win the toss in overtime? Have you been thinking about that? No. Okay, because we determined throughout the season...

I've always said, yes, kick off. We determined throughout the season, kicking off in overtime is the right decision because then you get a slight psychological advantage, which also can turn into a slight actual X's and O's advantage as well because you will know, yes, if the other team kicks a fuel goal, you know you need a touchdown, but you also know everything's four-down territory. So even if you're at your own 20, it's fourth and 15,

you have to go. So that's a slight technical or, you know, logistical, advantage as well. But in the playoffs, if you're saying I'm definitely kicking, there's a couple of reasons here why you might not want to because, number one, you'd be throwing your defense out there if you're definitely kicking, a defense that might be very tired after a long playoff game. But the big thing is if you actually do get a stop and then they get a stop or the other way

around, right, because you kicked off. So you get a stop yet. Then the third possession of the game wins it. Right. So you would want to have received. And this actually played out in both games that went to overtime. It did. That's very rare, I would imagine.

I don't know the numbers. But no, these are all logical things. My guess is that just... Like logically, would you actually in the playoffs want to change your mind? Well, I mean, you're just... What is the word? Bayesian probability You're just like ranking the percentages

of things that will happen And when you get to Like, thinking about the order of effects that it is If the overtime gets to the third possession And valuing that in your decision making Obviously it's important Is it as important as what's going to happen in the first Or the second?

I would say less But you're just factoring all that in Now, to your point I would think that if I didn't have the bye week and my team looked like it was dying, if ever there was a case, it would have been Buffalo,

but they went out there and got a three and out. You know? Buffalo kicked off. Yeah, both teams that did that this weekend ended up, it actually worked, but then it didn't work. Right. Yeah. Yeah.

And so that's where, you know, I mean, I don't know. There's so many factors. That Buffalo Denver game, it felt like every play was just, I don't know. Like, Romo is annoying with, oh, this is the biggest, most important play ever. It wasn't even that. It was just a crazy stuff was happening every time you turned around. So then, you know, the most boring thing was the bills kicked off in overtime and got a three and out. You're like, all right, well, that's the outcome.

The bills are going to win this in overtime. But, yeah, no. So I've never really thought about it, but you're really. right. There is an argument that tilts a little bit in the playoffs. Yeah, I was thinking about that. During the Denver game, or after the Denver game, and then

of course it happened again last night. Yeah, really the weirdest thing is Bo Nix broke his ankle. I don't, I still don't know when. Was it on the kneel down? No, there's a play before, a couple plays before.

I've seen it played back. I obviously did not notice it in time, in real time. But yeah, it was... Well, he didn't notice it bad enough to, like, I can't play. Oh, no, yeah. Yeah. He, uh, we found out in, in Sean Payton's post game. Which is insane.

And so their backup is Jared Stiddam. Has not thrown an NFL pass since the 2020-3 season. Has one NFL win in his career. And he will be starting the NFC championship game. A lot of people were online like, could they go get Tom Brady? Philip Rivers. Could they just get Philip Rivers? I certainly don't want to bet on the Broncos.

I mean, we'll see what the spread is. Hey, guess the line? I haven't looked. I haven't either. It's still wrong. Let's see. It's in Denver. Denver's one, right?

Oh, that's right. It's in Denver. They're the one seat. So New England at Denver. with Jared's dead of I'm going 10 and a half Ooh Denver's got a good defense

New England's got a really good defense though too Or do they I guess we don't really know Yeah I'm gonna say nine Yeah let me go double digits I got the benefit of Blake already It's weird to go in the middle of you two guys

But I want to be Eiffel Tower Right now it is five and a half Damn Yeah Boy I would be all over over that. Let's check back in on that on Friday. Because I was about to say what I thought was kind of a crazy take, but it's just because I've always liked Jared Stidham. But Sean Payton

made that offense very easy for Bo Nix. And as the year went on, really right about the time we showed up, he started making some pretty big time throws. But they were getting by on boomer bust, screen, just chunk it down the field. And they would complete them. occasionally, but it was not good. People were convinced their offense wasn't going to be good enough to get it done for most of the year because Sean Payton is going to make it easy

for you if you've got the right guys. I think Stedham will be able to move the ball, but I don't think he'll be able to stay with five and a half. So, and then, you know, crazy stuff, whatever. Turnovers, but that's a bit surprising to me. So, yeah, I don't know what direction do you want to take it, but I have a lot from the Bill's Broncos game audio-wise. Got the controversial interception?

Yeah. On the past of Brandon Cooks, what do you think? I think, and I wrote this down several times in my notes throughout the weekend, is I don't know crap. I don't know anything. I don't know past interference. I don't know holding. I don't know what's a catch.

I don't know what's an interception. I don't even really at this point, after watching C.J. Stroud, I really don't even know what's an incomplete pass and a fumble because half of his incomplete passes get thrown into the ground in front of him and I'm like, that's a fumble. Who? C.J. Stroud, I'm just saying like, so there was so many. Like he's obviously deciding to pull back.

Yes, and the ball slips out. That happens to him all the time. And so. But your hand was officially moving forward. I look at the past interferences in overtime that Buffalo committed. and one of them looks obvious. The other one doesn't even look close to me. But there was earlier in the game, there was another one that Gene's like,

oh, you, let them play there, boys. That's great football. Two plays later, it feels like the same play. He's like it's a clear arm rake. He's ranking his arm. Right. Say, what are we talking about? Gene is only there to tell you that the refs are doing a good job generally.

Yeah, and if he accidentally guesses against them, then he'll be like, I could see what they were saying. Right. You could see the confirmed indicator. But I don't know, dude. Like, to me, in real time, I thought, I didn't think it was a catch. I thought it was a pick in real time or somehow incomplete, like if the ball came underneath him. But here's the biggest thing you could tell.

Brandon Cooks didn't think he caught it. Like, he stayed down with sad face because he knows that he got jacked before he ever had that ball. I guess if you slow it down a lot, there's a shot where he's down. and has, quote, has the ball, but man, I don't know. I think that's just a great play. Yeah, if you have to slow it down to a split second, should that count? I think that was just a great play. I also think they got kind of screwed on the past interferences in overtime.

But I also, the story of the game to me is anytime you think somebody has to go be Superman, in the process of doing that, they might, but they're going to do a lot of dumb stuff and maybe make some mistakes on the way because you're not, It's not a game where you can play like that. It's not basketball. Well, he's been winning games all year, though, right? Oh, no, and he almost won this one. Yeah.

I'm just saying when people are like, look at all these mistakes. I guess I'm the type of person that I tend to think of the mistakes as related to the greatness. As like if you amp the slider on aggressive all the way up of like, effort mode. Because he has to do that in order to win. Maybe he feels like he has to do it even more than he really does. Because there's like, you know, that's part of it. how to match the

what does my team need for me? And if you're going to be thinking I got to go God mode today, I feel like you're going to fumble more. You're just not as locked in on the play-to-play thing as you are if you feel good about your chances.

But of course, it's quite obvious. It seemed to be the path was this year for him. You know? Yeah, but you know how this is, bro. Think about Dirk. Look at now,

before I said to myself, or actually on the show, and you guys are like, do you feel bad for Bill's fans? Like, no, I don't, because I don't feel bad for anyone. I'm a cowboy fan. I feel bad for them now, and I feel bad for him. But it just feels like the way that the sports cosmos work out, that if he ever does get one, it'll be when he walks through, like, the three best quarterbacks in the game,

whatever year that is in his career, just like Dirk did after everyone rode him off and he put together the greatest title run in NFL, or excuse me, NBA history. When back in 06, you know, they had a much better team. I'm not saying that it was a weak conference by any means, but, you know, it wasn't 2011, that's for sure. Yeah. Don't you just think about when they show him on the sideline?

I know he's got a lot of money and hot pune, but don't you just think immediately about, in that moment, you're like, I got to do all of this again exactly right just to get right here. This is where we start. What do you mean? Like next year? Yeah, you're like thinking about August and July. And you're like, dude, I got to do every single one of the, that's to me the real agony of sports is just that feeling of we don't even start here.

I got to do all that again just to get to here. Yeah. That's where I feel like the Cowboys mindset kind of grew into, well, we're here. and they forgot about the we actually have to do all that other stuff just a couple years ago when they were whatever

13 wins three years in a row 12 but yes 12 wins great seasons and yeah you're there's something to that I think for sure and now their coach is fired that's incredible send him to Guantanamo

I feel like just the names that are available on the coaching market this year is kind of incredible Do you think would John Harbaugh have rather taken over the bills had that opportunity been available to him? I'm not sure because I don't know a ton. Or like Stefansky? What if I actually, I'm going to a real franchise now? So I think a lot of this stuff is there's a dynamic involved, maybe behind the scenes, relationships and whatnot that we don't know about.

For example, excuse me, I have a cough button. Brandon Bean, the general manager of the bills, does catch a lot of heat, but he catches a lot of heat because he built an awesome team that hasn't been able to take the next step or get over the hump. And he gets criticized a lot because he didn't go get George Pickens. Think about how different that game would have been. They threw one backside slant against a one-on-one for a touchdown. It was so easy. They should absolutely have gotten Joe George Pickens, dude.

He could have done that all day. No. So I'm just, Brandon Bean is thought of as a good GM. Does Harbaugh want to go in to a situation with a good GM that's like drafted, built the team? Or does he want, I mean, I guess I don't know what they think of Joe Sheen, but it seems to me like I think I actually saw the quote unless it's a fake. But he said something to the effect of like, I kind of am dealing with John Mara. Like I don't think Joe Sheen signed John Harbaugh. So that is appealing to him.

What's a better job? The Bill's head coaching job or the Cowboys defensive coordinator? Obviously a head coach is better, but you know what I mean? You have to win the Super Bowl. You have to. To become the bill, when you're the Bill's head coach. Whereas if you could just be, you know, bottom 20 now with the Cowboys defensive coordinator, somewhat average and now you're a better team overall. But you're going to get head coaching offers because you brought this terrible.

Now, we don't know of anybody. Maybe the Giants is a better job just because you've got a young quarterback who you think can be really good. You've got a direct line to the owner and you've got. Yeah, the GM's kind of there, but. The bar, like you win eight games next year. Oh, yeah. You're a genius. Yeah.

Whereas you have to win 14 games and the Super Bowl next year for the bills. Yeah, I mean, you might be catching the Giants on the upswing and you're trying to keep the bills even at status quo and take them higher. And that last little bit is obviously the hardest part. At the same time, these guys are. competitors. I mean, there's a lot of reasons why guys take jobs. You're like, why would you do that? But if you're a football coach, a football lifer, and you're like, if I could be the guy who coach the bills to a Super Bowl, like, they're clearly not that far off. I mean, you're going to regress at some point, but I'm just, you know, that's a, that's a draw. How about McCarthy?

Now, that's exactly what I was about to say. I don't know if you like that name. I mean, I think, you know, I'd rather have him than... Because to me, he doesn't make sense with the Steelers. I would have rather had him than Stefansky for sure. And I like Stefansky. How, would you see Tom Pelliseros post about that, like announcing that there was some interest between Mike McCarthy and the Steelers? It's just an AI image of Mike McCarthy at a bar in Pittsburgh with, like,

Steelers Beanie and a big Stein. We need to not do that, right? official news sources being... Well, why do we have to have the second George Pickens was traded for? There's a picture of him in a cowboy's uniform on field next to C.D. Lamb. Some reason that doesn't bother me as bad

as a cartoon-looking Mike McCarthy. But in any case, I think McCarthy, I don't know what kind of staff he'd get, but man, I'd love... I like Mike McCarthy calling plays. I think he'd be fun as hell with Josh Allen. But I also think Joe Brady's really good, and they had a good year. So who knows, man.

Is he getting head coach interviews? You haven't heard as much. You used to. He's not as hot in this cycle, but kill me. I shouldn't, I don't ever want to say that. Do you want to do Ramos stuff? Or do you want to do some audio or you want to go to other games? Let's do a little bit of audio and then maybe we could take a P break and we can spread this out throughout the week.

I have a little, let's see. Oh, here's my, I'm just going to. start with the end and I this is just my uh Tracy Wolfson is overrated. I think she's overrated because she's not hot. Oh. Think of that. Like oh, she must really ask good football questions. Oh, really?

Okay. Well, let's go to the post game. Here's Bo Nix. He's, uh, finishing answering one question. Then she's going to ask him another question about the game. It wasn't always pretty. We had a good lead and they came back. It wasn't looking good, but, you know, fourth quarter and overtime, we just found a way to win.

Well, what a difference a year makes. You beat the bills, and you are on your way to the AFC championship, holding it here in Denver at mile high. What is it about this crowd and having the opportunity to maybe go to a Super Bowl with a win next week? Well, it's all. What is it about? What is it about this crowd and having the opportunity to maybe go to the Super Bowl next week? And then he's got to just, he's like, I'm on national TV, so I got to say some generic things.

Awesome. It's great to have a home field advantage for a situation like this. Generic. And, you know, they're going to be a good team, whoever we play. Generic. So, you know, it's exciting. Generic. It's just, this is why you play the game.

That's why you compete. You get to play off football and good things happen. Go rest up and good luck. Enjoy this one. We'll see you next week. Thank you very much. All right. That's all I got.

on that uh i got a few things um they do really like nicknames over there on the cbs uh call actually i guess this is everyone chase we have different versions of it this one is uh yeah pre-play first down called on forsyth we go down the trace and the broncos are down a second wide receiver today all right then we've got uh we've got romo this is an interesting one this is uh romo with nance and this is actually i think great call from Romo. We criticize them a lot, and I think this was a good one. I always felt like you could take a shot to the end zone here.

If teams play sidelined defense, they don't want you to get it out of bounds. I'd send someone right down field, but the safety's there to make the outcome. On second of ten, he's rolling, planting, going. Here's you go, Tony. To the end zone, it's Humphrey, hauling it in for the Bronco touchdown. You said it, Jimmy. Jimmy. But never really heard anyone called Jim Nance Jimmy.

He's not a Jimmy. No. If anything, he'd be a James. Yeah. And I think maybe his son's name, I don't know. But then Romo wants in on the phone. You can see Josh Allen standing still there for a couple counts before being knocked backwards. I think progress is the right call on the play.

Nice, Gino. Hey, Gino. Doing Gino, Trace, Tones, and James and Jimmy. And Jimmy. Boy, this is one of my longer cuts, but this is, uh, Well, let's just set the table on Romo. There was an article that came out last week in front office sports by one of the guys who writes about these things, Michael McCarthy. And the headline, Tony Romo is not in trouble at CBS.

So basically what this is, McCarthy writes a media column, and he lives in media and online, and he talks to people. And he's like, boy, it seems like everyone hates Romo. all I see is negative Romo negative Romo, negative Romo all the accounts are tweeting all this What is this noise Tony Romo is making? Here's a clip just called What the fuck is Tony Romo talking about?

You get one of those once a week. So he started asking CBS And I don't really think he got CBS To comment, But he got a lot of background And he got a lot of Uh I think he got some comments

from a producer, and they're fine with him. They're putting up massive numbers, which McCarthy uses in an odd way, to say that Romo is actually great, because that's not answering the criticism. You know what I'm saying? Like he's saying, oh, there's a lot of criticism of the way Tony Romo calls the games

and his lack of preparation. That's actually not true. The reality is they had the best season since returning to NFL coverage since 19. On Thanksgiving Day, they're the most watched game, Cowboys Chiefs, blah, blah, blah. But so the gets to, it doesn't really matter. It doesn't. It's just for us, for fans who either like or get annoyed by listening to somebody call a game, right?

It's not going to affect their bottom line. It kind of doesn't matter who is in the booth. It really doesn't. I don't think people are actually tuning. It matters for your experience. Tuning in or out, yeah. But you could probably, you could save tons and tons of it. If that's got to be somewhere that they eventually when all this money starts to regress.

I don't know if it ever will, right? But the NFL billions. Do we start with announcers? Like, should an announcer make $18 million? No, I mean, I'll tell you, I have more confidence in the Fern to sit next to Jimmy than I do for the Fern to coach the Cowboys. Yeah. And one of them makes like almost five times as much money. Talk about what's the tougher job.

Shottie's coaching a football team. Like Sean McVeigh doing what he's doing. For 12. Because they had talked a few years ago about maybe he'll just ride off into the TV sunset. And he could make $18 million a year. Some guys. 15 million a year, yeah. So I think Romo's very aware of this.

I'm not saying he's necessarily bothered by it, but the CBS angle, you know, off the record on background from McCarthy's article, appears to be, they're totally fine with them, and in fact, they wish everyone would shut up about it. They think this is an unfair media narrative, which now appears to just be what you say about everything. If somebody's like, being critical, that's an unfair media narrative. So I listen to him almost every week, though, and I do think there's an obvious marked difference between him and Greg Olson, and even Tom Brady now has lapped him. Here's an example of a really confusing part of their broadcast.

Once Josh recognized its own, he looks one place and has an affinity to use his legs first down and guess what's coming. Well, he hurried. Okay, so first down, right? They had just picked up a first down. According to Romo, they had just barely picked up a first down. And has an affinity to use his legs first down and guess what's coming? Well, he hurries the team to the line.

No down in distance on the TV. He gets shoved and he keeps driving and he got about halfway home, but he's got the first. Down. Oh, they didn't give him the first down. Yep. Yep. He's got it now. Okay. Dude, that was a, they'd converted.

The whole sequence was just a disaster. That's an NFL broadcast. Yeah. Why are they running to the team doing that quick play if he had already got the first down? Exactly. The down and distance were never displayed. Might there be an indicator somewhere? Like having been a player and stuff, you kind of know.

And going to games every week. That sort of stuff. me seems like it happens a lot. Well, let me say, so you're saying at first they were talking about an unfair narrative, let's just take a quick pause here to talk about something that is fair. Oh, man, sorry,

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Maybe this is lame to like as I'm going through and I actually notice things he does well to pull. But I feel like if we're going to do it. Sure. This is a moment. Because you're fair. Exactly. This is a moment late in the game where he noticed that the clock had been reset. and it allowed Josh Allen to take more time to try to draw the defense off sides.

Five-yard penalty results in a first down. Cooper, Cooper got twitchy, first down for Buffalo. The key to that, Sean Payton's going to be upset, is because Josh Allen said, hey, reset the play clock. You guys told us there was a catch, not a catch, and they reset it. So he was able to go on two leg lifts. Haven't been able to do that recently, and that's why you got Cooper. I rounded back, and sure enough, it was like the only time he had been able to

actually kind of fake the leg lift because now go on two or go on one means one leg lift. You can't hear anything in there, right? Yeah. But then he does this thing. We could have done to watch this montage again. If you listen to a Romo game and you got one more left, it doesn't matter if he's telestrating or not. I want you to watch this.

He always wants you to watch this. He's worried that you're not watching this. But then this runs into his bit where. I don't know the name for this. Maybe there's a name in script writing or in the English language in general, but it's when you're using the word like, but it's when you start putting yourself in other people's positions to tell a story. And then if that were me, I'd be like, but then if that were me, I'd be like.

And then you could see over here, they're like. So if I'm a Bears fan, I'm like... It's an odd way to progress as opposed to just saying Bears fans are. Right. So this is the combo. Watch, Sean Payton's special. Here's crumb. He's going to act like he's blocking.

I'm blocking, guys. No one cover me. I would never catch a touchdown. Yes, I will. Denver takes the lead. No, I'm over here. No, I wouldn't. Yes, I would.

No, I wouldn't. This is a nice, nice, a romo shot. This either allows you to go down and take it and try and get points at the end, or if you give it back to them, then Buffalo gets what? A double up chance, right? Yeah, they deferred at the top, so.

There you go. Let's see here. Ooh, there's one more nickname. I don't think I did this one. You're exactly right. Those two have to create some plays that are little outside with is normal, and they have so far. 32 seconds again, out of timeouts, Tom.

Got to get this ball out of bounds. This is Romo taking it to break. It was at 200 consecutive passes in the postseason without being intercepted Before this throw, Josh Allen tries to pump fake. No, back to Denver. Okay. That was all over the place. No, back to Denver.

This one, to me, sounds like, what was it that Miley Cyrus had taken a big bong rip of? Salvia? I think this sounds like Salvia Miley Cyrus Romo, because he just starts talking fast sometimes. Bozo is coming after him in that past. Wide of the mark. Coming for Prentice. That's why you've got to be prepared.

Like, at the end of the half, we talked about, I'm like, Buffalo got hurt and all these other things with the run going through. And you're going to find, here comes Milano. It's going to create a free rusher because they only have five linemen blocking here. And I don't like that call knowing that this team's coming after you pretty consistently. Third and nine. Okay. I'm going to play that again because this is very similar to,

Tracy Wolf's, there's no sentence here. I don't think you could write this out and make this make sense. Bozo's coming after him in that past, wide of the mark. Coming for Prentice. That's why you've got to be prepared. Like at the end of the half we talked about, I'm like Buffalo got hurt and all these other things with the run going through. And you're going to find here comes Milano.

It's going to create a free rusher because they only have five linemen blocking here. And I don't like that call knowing that this team's coming after you pretty consistent. I feel like I just had a stroke. And so does Nance. Third and nine. He's like, all right, man. I'll just wait. Whatever you say.

And then my final clip here is just when the machine becomes self-aware, this sucks, right? But people know their catchphrases, that sort of thing. This is now customary as they head to the fourth quarter in any close game. Tony, we're heading to the fourth with a spot in the AFC championship. championship game at stake. Here we go, Jim. Yeah, it's over. Yep. It's over.

It's fun, everyone. This early in his career, he can't be leaning into his caricature. I know. You know, it's not, that's now his catchphrase, and he knows it, and he's just too aware of it. And the tricky thing is, is like, I don't know, I think it's just, Because I'm really lucky to have partners I can talk to about this on a show. It'll be like, that's not good or that's good. Like maybe Romo thinks Nance loves it because he's saying, Jim, here we go, Jim.

And Nance is quietly sitting there like, I hate this so much. But it's his thing. And they just don't know how to tell each other. Because their broadcast is a disaster as far as getting what each other are trying to say at certain times. It just, it doesn't work. I wonder if Jim would prefer if it was still Phil Sims. Dude, truth serum, I guarantee you, except for the old Rising Tide lifts all boats things where...

His paycheck. His paycheck. I think you'd kill for Tom Brady. Oh, yeah. Oh, my God. He wouldn't be able to handle it. Absolutely, no. No, and I've even said, I do think they would fit better together.

Brady, I think Brady is too big for the booth he's in. Like, Brohard is you or me. He's to Tom Brady. Tom Brady doesn't have any idea who he is. He knows who Jim Nance is. He was a veteran who was announcing all of his big games, you know? So, like, that kind of fits. And I also think the NFL, it's the NFL.

They control everything. You can't say, well, but they signed with this network. So the network, they should be able to say, I want this announcer crew on this game. And I think Tom Brady, I think Tom Brady should. should have been on the New England game. I think, you know, Troy Aikman should be on whatever is the biggest game. That's the way I think about, you know, Troy and Joe feel like the adults in the whole room. You know, and then put Romo, wherever the Texans go, let Romo do that game or whatever.

I'm on board. Obviously, that mixes up because the Texans were actually playing. Whatever. We'll figure it out. I'm on board with that. Can we also do playoff seating by revenue? Okay. Oh, we're taking shots here? Shout out quickly to Lone Star Beer and Lone Star Light. Don't forget the Lone Starlight.

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I can't any help you know. Yeah, that's a good one, right? I don't know. 5,280. Yeah. Who's on the $5 bill? He was a kid. Oh, God.

Hey, I don't know. Doesn't carry anything that low. Can't care anything lower than a C-note? No, I've been rolling with Shaq. Shack doesn't carry anything less than Benjamin's. You know he's on a $20 bill? No. You don't have an ATM car?

I do. I don't look at it. I don't pay attention to things like that. All right. What's the Western? most state in the United States? What? The westernmost state.

It would have to be California. No. It would be Hawaii. Oh, f*** it. Trick question, I'm sorry. I kind of bagged you on that one. Who shot Martin Luther King? Yeah, I wish we knew.

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Right? Oh, yeah. Something? No puppet. Here you go. A little, uh, A little memory there, too. So back to a couple other games, then we'll do news and stuff.

I'm going to just keep going in order, right? New England, Houston. The big question coming out of that, I think, is, are we going to offer that C.J. Stroud? Do we want to lock him up? Does C.J. Stroud get his second contract? Man. Because first you have to pick up the fifth-year option, right? You got to do that.

They've probably already done that. Got to do that. Yeah. Just to get another look. But when you're able to pick up the fifth year option, some teams, if you know you've got your guy, let's lock them up now because if we wait another year, it'll cost more. Yeah, and you can live with whatever. They haven't done it yet, by the way.

You can live with whatever that is. You have to do the fifth year option. 20, whatever. Yes. But, man, I don't know. I don't know. We're wrong about these guys so much and then you're wrong and then they get better and then you're right. Then you're wrong and you're right. But Baker had his fifth year option picked up, right? Yeah. And they just never, he never got that James.

For example. Daniel Jones got it picked up and then had a pretty good year and they locked him up. Yeah. Now, it didn't end up breaking the bank. So it's not like if C.J. Schrad has a good year. I mean, he literally have to be MVP for you to come to him and think, I'm going to pay this guy 60 plus million a year. But maybe, dude, I don't know. This is a longer sports gummy thought. But I don't think it's just, we talk a lot about the mid-tier quarterback and the Sam Darnolds, the bakers.

Patient Zero for this is probably the Stafford Golf Trade. But there's fascinating little experiments playing out all over the NFL. and we talk about how maybe that makes it less likely that a team is going to pay a mid guy all the money. I mean, I think maybe it just means we start seeing mid guys get mid offers on extensions. And C.J. Shroud, it sounds crazy, but it gets like an offer that's $43 million a year. And the cap's going up to 260 or 252. And then you're like, okay, well that's. So, yes, now we're dealing with the feelings.

And, yeah. And the long term. Right, but I mean, because in all those other cases, guys got humbled. Right. They got humbled by another team. But like, you know what? I'd rather go somewhere else and make, I don't know. Well, my thought is that seeing Darnold, Mayfield, all these guys,

is going to make teams more likely to say, I'm sorry about your feelings. You have done nothing when it counts. I can find another guy now. I know that I can go find another guy now. You say it's a linebackers. You know, you say you want to move and maybe risk or whatever, or do you want to just stay here and take this lesser offer? And that makes sense, by the way.

I love football because every position is different, and you do need to treat the quarterback differently because the whole thing revolves around them. Their level of buy-in and confidence. That's another one. Confidence is all this is about to me. You just see it over and over and over. Look at this.

You see it in college more now. Like this Drew Mestemaker kid's going to be my new example. There's a no star player. He's a backup at U&T. He sees what it looks like to get in and effing deal for a few weeks. And then he's like, oh, I can do this. I think that's really the biggest thing. So I think you have to treat your quarterback in a way where he's not on edge that he's about to get run at all times.

You also can't let him bend you over to the extent that DAC did, but there are many other examples of guys who kind of held their team hostage and ended up with getting way overpaid. I'd be surprised if Houston does that this offseason. That's the worst I've ever seen a guy play relative to expectation in my life in the playoffs. Would you have considered benching him at halftime? Yes. Yeah, because their defense was keeping them in the game.

So D'emico Ryan's, how are we grading him? Another big thing coming out about him is number one that he didn't bench him. And he claims he never thought about it, which I think should be a bad thing. I know you're trying to show your quarterback that I really believe in you. But you won games with Davis Mills, though. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You can't say that I didn't even think about it. No, you should.

You should say you didn't think about it because you either going to do it or not. and there's no point in planting the seed of lack of confidence unless you're going to get the benefit from actually doing it. So you did that fourth downplay. Did you think about a past play or did you think you only thought I'm just running the – like, don't you want to say I think about all situations? Of course I think about everyone. I think about every player on the team.

I know what you're saying, but I also know what he's doing. Oh. Okay. But also I've seen some conjecture that, oh, you know what? You had to leave them in because you have to find out what you have for the future. The divisional round of the NFL playoffs is not the time to be determining the next five years. It's about winning that game right there. And if it does damage his confidence, well, guess what?

Then he shouldn't be there anyway. Agreed. That's really where the rubber meets the road. And kind of a two-a-sit. No, it's a Jalen Hertz situation. He's the one that got benched. Yeah. during half time of a national championship game.

And it's going to hurt his confidence, but you know what? I'm worried about this game right now. But I think I'm going to come up to this again with Chicago. That's a big, big decision that maybe you have to have Nick Sabin-like untouchability to make it half-time of a game. If Domeko Ryans makes that move and they just finish the game the same way, is he heavily criticized because oh you're not sticking with C.J. Stroud? I mean, he's the guy. Normally. And he's worried about that criticism as well. Normally, I would say you're on to something,

although a couple things. I think they're in love with D'Amico Ryan's. I think they think that D'Amico Ryan, I think they think they got their guy more in him than they do in Stroud. But even if I'm wrong about that, I'm just going to go eye test here. And you could tell you. how Troy was all over this and really kind of bothered by it. There was no getting up off that mat, dude. You knew within the first three or four possessions of that game of watching Stroud play, something's wrong. He's like panicking. He's not able to complete basic passes with no pressure because he is, you could see it in his face, and I hate to be that guy. But if there was ever a time where the country was watching a guy pissed down his leg and had you replaced him, I don't think

everyone would have been like, Michelle was going to kind of work it out. You could have done it then, dude. He threw a flea flicker, a pick on a flea flicker to a lineman last week and had three plays worse than that this week. That's when we talked to Landry the other day, my thing was like, you know, he wasn't actually horrible. It's just that he has two or three plays a game where you're like, whoa, dude, what are you thinking?

Where Dak might do that once in a season. In this game, CJ had five or six of them. them. It was crazy, dude. I mean, I know New England's defense is good, but that was a different level of just... Yeah, right before half, he was a met. How many tip balls that weren't picked? But the pick he threw trying to throw to Kirk deep down the left sideline that got picked was a yellow ball. He throws yellow balls. The other D'emico Ryan's thing was down 12, the final score, 28 to 16. You punted with four minutes left. That was weird.

I know it was deep in your own territory, but what was your plan? Go ahead and let's play out the math. Yeah. How were you going to end up winning that game? You had to go for it there. One more note from that. Also, it was fourth and 18 because C.J. Straub took another sack because he's just awful. With the Patriots moving on to the championship game, it's nice to see there.

drought end. They had had an AFC championship game drought. Do you see the list for NFC championship game? It's with the bears not making it. If there was no cowboys existing,

the bears, it would look like forever ago. They are the longest since the championship game. And it was 2010 was their last appearance. Fifteen more years. Yeah. And then that's where the cowboys were. Yeah, I do. I actually look at

That chart I favored it on Twitter. I look at it a lot. But the last 17 AFC championship games have had at least one of three teams, Jets, Chiefs, Patriots. Jets, the anomaly, of course, but they made it two years in a row. That's wild. With Mark Sanchez. And then the Patriots and the Chiefs, of course. Here's what sucks even more about the Patriots.

It was so easy to hate their other teams. I hated the Patriots, dude. I hated Tom Brady. I gave him a brief pass when they had Randy Moss, but I hate Robert Kraft. Bill Belichick, I just don't, I didn't like, I don't like. They started to be also like the team of Barstool. This is something you missed, but like I grew up on that part of the internet.

It was like, man, fuck these guys. They're the most annoying fans in the world. Just this boss, I hate it. And their team was just so white and so there's no swagger. I just hated him, dude. This ain't that. You like Vrable? Holy shit, man.

Do you like Vrable? Do you like Drake May? You like the whole vibe of the whole thing? Like Stefan Diggs is fun again. Dravion Henderson's a fun player. It does seem like that's for Vrabble. Between Christian Gonzalez. I mean, obviously, Barmore has got some domestic issues,

but that's a player that's fun to watch. They're just a different, this is a different Patriots team. and it's hard not to like and it sucks because it's the same fans but I uh my sumer brain thing of the week I looked up my football AI rank NFL quarterbacks based on efficiency I use a thing called EPA but just think of it as like yards points whatever generated on non first read throws as I was watching the Patriots on uh on whatever day and Drake May's number one Because I don't know.

I guess I kind of like, I've watched them, but he does a lot of Bo Nixie basic stuff to me. But there were a few times in that game where I was like, good God, you don't lose that. He's got it. Like they got a guy. Third, fourth, just shouldering around and then just ripping something. Like what Caleb Williams can't do type thing. He's for real. And he'll be, Ray Bowl will be the coach for 10 years.

And they don't have a huge expensive bat. Like when DAC took over, they were still paying Tony Romo a ton of money. Oh, yeah. They don't have a huge much of a... But this could be a big window for them to go nuts in free agency. Sick. Like if... Kalevon Chase-on somehow is like a pro-bole-y type player for them.

Like if Pickens... Oh, yeah. John Stephen. Was a free agent? They would have to break the bank for Pickens. I wouldn't be surprised. You know what? We forgot. I said I was going in order. We forgot the Seattle game, but Seattle won 41 to 6. The power plant. It finally just affected the whole team.

And how about Darnold? How about Seattle might be awesome? Just keep it clean. What do you know about Mike McDonald? Nothing. He was Baltimore's guy, right? Yeah. That's it. It's just that when we talk about trees, you know, and almost all of it, Shanahan except for Ben Johnson. And that's why Ben Johnson hates all those guys in their little club. But McDonald is a Ravens defensive coach for 10, 12 years.

He didn't even really play in college. But he's a linebacker through and through. That's cool to me. It's weird. You could have a Darnold versus Stidham Super Bowl. Let's do the Bears game. All day. Snow in New England, snow in Chicago.

Oh, my God, it's the elements. Silas love this game. Obviously, snow games are great, right? If they were all in domes, would we have been sad? Could yesterday have been? That's Donovan's bit. It drove me crazy. What, he wants them all in domes?

Oh, yeah. Okay. It's insane. That was awesome yesterday, I think. Just seeing the snow. It just makes you sit down and watch the game a little bit. Speaking of I'm not sure if I know everything, or what's going on. You said that about a catch earlier, the interception, controversial interception.

Kairn Williams scores the go-ahead TD at the time with 8.50 left, the Bears, right? And as he's going around the right side, he was pretty much wide, there was nobody there. He jumps for joy at the one-yard line, over the goal line, and lands. out of bounds. And that's a touchdown. Don't you find that interesting? Just the way you have to complete a catch and this and

that and two feet and even when you fall out of bounds, then you got to but you could just be holding the ball. Yeah, who, somebody. But he never touched the end zone. That kind of sounded like an Al Pacino sound I just made briefly. Who? Whoa. Weird.

Somebody with the bills lunged for the end zone. And I know, obviously, you break the plane, but it's kind of weird that you can just And then if the ball dive as soon as it hits drops out of your hand? Yeah. Barely in your hand as long as the nose, you know, but it is weird, but it's kind of cool because you imagine like a laser, I do,

going up all over and it's like did the ball at any point sneak in here before? The whole, so two narratives, narratives were ruined this weekend. I know, that's the thing. If you think the NFL is fixed, maybe the NFL is fixed it the other way just so you wouldn't think it's fixed. Because Josh Allen should have won. That would have been that that's absolutely what the NFL wanted. And the Bears should have won. You would think that's what the NFL wanted.

Or at least it's what Collinsworth wanted and Tariko. I just, I started recording this as it was happening, thinking to myself, okay, they haven't won this. game yet, but they, incredible last touchdown in regulation for the bears, right? Amazing. Yeah. Runs back. To the 40, from the 10? It was a 40-yard, 10-yard pass. And it was just incredible.

So, they're just going nuts. And Soldier Field is absolutely nuts right now. What a seat. out of the Wizard of Oz. I have never seen anything like this one. For the Chicago Bears, I've been around football my whole life. I've never seen it.

What is the Wizard of Oz thing? What are we saying? Ding, Dong, the Witch is dead. Like they're celebrating that the curse is finally over type thing or something. Is that the closest I can get? Chat, holler at me.

Anyway, so then... Can I sidebar? I know I'm making us late. I hate that movie so much. The Wizard of Oz? And part of it is that my mom used to do the witch impression. And she had a good one. And she liked doing it too much, you know?

It was like a free pass to just use that. Oh, God, dude. Ech. This is Wizard of Oz free zone from now on. But, you know, do you think Collinsworth is a bit superlative sometimes with what is right in front of him? Do you think that's ever happened to Chris Collinsworth? Mike, let's just, let's see.

This is the 1006 season of Chicago Bears football. They've been championship seasons, great championship teams in the earlier days. There's never been a season like this in this city. Any city. Yeah. What are we talking about? The world. What are we talking about?

Every city. They go like 11 and 6? Because they won a playoff game? Well, they've won a lot of close games. I know. one score games. It's the division. No city has ever seen.

And let's actually wait and see if they win this game. Spoiler alert. They did not. So lots of Bears, Destiny. That was the feel I got through the whole fourth. Oh, Mike, this bears and you're there and it's the crowd and they deserve this. And then, of course, the Rams are just yet another. team. If you're a cowboy fan, if I'm a cowboy fan, Jim, you're like, I'm like, I can't believe that

New England is kind of back in the mix already. I'm also saying, I thought Denver, when they signed Russell Wilson and then had to eat all that money, I thought that cripples a franchise for like a decade. That's what I've been told why you can't pay Pickens and Micah and DAC and CD Lamb because that would just ruin your franchise. Oh, and you know what? What if you trade all your draft picks? And you sign big, big contracts to guys you made trades for like Aaron Donald

and you just sell your soul to get that Super Bowl win. Well, certainly, now you're going to be in hell for at least a decade, probably more times. A lot of pain. Actually, they're right back there. they've all were good got bad and then got good again in the same

time that the Cowboys are still just muddling along. You've seen Philly do it too. Yeah, I was going to do the Philly playlet if you wanted because I mean they gave Carson Wince the same or more than you know what Dak was looking for at the time and that went poorly. They had a

coach and quarterback fallout. Now both those guys are gone and they've already they've won another one and they've been back. Yeah, it's You just look around the league and you see plenty of cases where teams figure it out because they're not committed to this is the only way to do it, which typically Dallas has been. Okay, so one more point of potential controversy in this game to me.

Ben Johnson loves going for it. You'll see people lamenting that fact. If they wouldn't have gone for that fourth down, they'd have three points there. Then they would have won the game. I don't know if that works out. I don't believe in that. I believe in going forward on fourth down a lot like Ben Johnson does. Would you have considered going for two at the end of that game?

Man, no. Okay, number one, if you do believe in momentum, you would have considered that. Number two, if you do believe in momentum, why didn't they carry the momentum into overtime and win the game? I thought that there's no stopping that. They did get a stop. Yeah, no. And then they threw an interception.

I love go forward on fourth down, but I'm a little more sketchy on two-point conversions. And for a while, maybe that wasn't the case, but it just... Like, do you save a play that you don't use until... Yeah, and like, ideally, having a quarterback that can move, which every quarterback can move better now than, you know, the average quarterback 20 years ago, you would think it would improve the percentages, but it doesn't seem like it's getting... getting easier. It seems like teams really struggle inside the 10 these days. Two-point conversion or not. I don't know, Caleb Williams was not down-to-down making plays. I just don't know, man. It's a low-scoring game. Let's see if we can make a play in

overtime. Well, can you imagine? Like, I feel more confident that Caleb Williams would have been able to complete a 60-yard touchdown in overtime on third and 11 than I am that he can pick up two yards right there when he knows he has to. Can you imagine the criticism though if they did go for it and didn't get it? He would be destroyed. You'd be destroyed because Chicago, unlike Buffalo, and maybe this is not true because Buffalo just fired their coach. But I don't know, I think in Chicago, even though they haven't won in forever,

if their coach cost them a chance at this magical run, yeah, I don't think people would have been supporting him. I think there are people asking for be fired this morning. Legit. That's why I do kind of think the go-for-2 crowd now. I don't know, man. But it is interesting you point out the momentum thing, because that guy should be consistent.

Momentum guy should be way more go-for-2 guy, and you never hear that. Because they had the moment. Yes, they just did that. What's a more momentum-changing play? Now, let's say, though, you get to overtime, though. Did they win the toss? Yeah, they won the toss.

And they got a three and out also, just like Buffalo did. Do you kind of say, hey, let's keep Buffalo's defense out on, or not Buffalo, the Rams defense out on the field because we've been out there on the field. Yeah. No, I mean, that's. But it did work. But it's actually the same situation, too, as we talked about in the other game. And I can't remember if it was McVeigh or Sean Payton who said this. But at the end of halftime, that's when one of them was like, this is where that biweek's going to show up.

We're about to outlast them. So the coaches that had the week off were aware of it. it you would think, you know, I don't know. I actually learned something from a sideline interview. There's some good McVeigh post game. I'll save that for later in the week. Yeah, I want to hear that. I heard a couple of clips.

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can't stand your website Fort Worth Star Telegram um we're just going to say that again here because this story just went away while we go to another story. Oh, you know what, let's play the video. Because I want us to follow this trial. I told you guys last week that local rapper Yelah Bezzi was set to stand trial for the murder of fellow local rapper Mo 3. Oh, yeah. Everyone's talking about that this weekend. Well, Yellow Bezzi did not appear at his hearing on Friday.

This is a murder for hire plot that took place back in 2020. Not real surprising knowing Yala. Watch this, Dan. You don't need the sound, but this is 35, dude. This is broad daylight. And I'm just going to let this video play for the video listeners. But there was a beef and that's highly suspected that one individual planned the murder of another. You basically have a guy kind of like fake and kind of cause an accident on the first.

way and when the other car stops to check on him he runs up and check that out dude that's that's right here right on 35 just gets out of his car and starts chasing him and then gunned him down yeah goes back to his car yeah on his way

so they know who did that but they're looking for they're looking to pin the murder on yellow bezi and I also was was searching in our files see if that yellow besy video was in there already. There's a tweet in there, Clayton, that I also thought maybe we could

put up because Yellow Beezia, a Dallas guy, you can see Yelabizi 2-14. This back in August of 2025, okay, the murder was in 2020, which he allegedly orchestrated. This is his review of the Cowboys documentary. The message I received from that documentary is pride and ego is the death of success. Too much of both will destroy greatness. Catch it before you're good. There's just a words of wisdom. Yeah. From Yellow Veezy while he awaits trial. I'm going to call this

a thumbs up because it's entrepreneurial spirit as an employee of McDonald's, a 19-year-old employee stole a little over or almost $700 using a device to double-charge customers during credit card transactions. This took place

in Springtown. And I'm just going to say that guy is 100% the geek squad of Springtown. The fact that there's someone able to pull off that scam out there. So what did he do? It's a device that you install to

they make it sound like it installs to the legitimate customer payment thing. It's just double charges. Yes. Actually, it would add $10 to $20. It wasn't a double. It was a random amount there that that went into a fund that he had control of. Okay.

Brilliant. And I, because how many times do you just run your gas, your card at the gas station, you don't go back and look and make sure, hey, wait. I don't, man. I spent 20 bucks on gas that day. This says I spent 25. I've always theorized that the companies can do that. This goes along with my theory of insurance companies actually incorrectly bill you on purpose,

knowing that only half the people are going to catch it. Yeah. And that if they just do this at places at the coffee shop, you write a $1 tip, let's say. What if they just change it to three? Are you going to know that a month later when you see or actually look at your thing if you look at it every month?

My high school girlfriend's dad would stop the gas pump at like a certain, I don't remember, but like $0.34. That way, if you saw a charge of the gas station for anything other than 0.34, he knew someone had used his card. That's genius. That's worth the price of admission today right there, folks. Like, I want to marry you. No doubt.

I know we love whenever police departments do bits. The police department down in Round Rock made an arrest late last week. I guess it was on the 14th. They arrested a door dash driver who had a pizza so if you're a cop and

they don't let them finish delivering it you like bits they delivered the pizza oh okay and then they put it on social media of course they did yeah yeah yeah he's got these walking up to the door he's got the body cam footage

the whole bit all right and then they killed the homeowner I was going to say did they ask for a tip nice no No tip. I've had something similar to that happen.

Do tell? So it's a sad story, but a guy in the apartment next to me died in his apartment. And I came home one night and there was just cops everywhere lining the hallways and stuff. And I had ordered Uber Eats before I came home, so I didn't know it was going to be there. That's a baller move. I love doing that. Time it out. Wait.

I do that too. You're on the road. Yeah, but. You order for someone else to pick up your food. You could have picked up your food. This is today's youth. Okay. I lived right down the street from the studio.

You don't have to explain. Go ahead. Well, fine. I've done it. It's not good, but I've done it. And I kind of forget that the cops are there, and then I get a knock on the door thinking, oh, it's the Uber East guy.

But no, it's... A police officer with my on the border back. And I open the door, I'm like, we can't let anyone outside of the building in right now. So we're just going to have to deliver it. Here's your fajitas. That's great that he would do that, though. Yeah. Could have been sitting there forever.

Like that body. Uh, yeah. Like that Bart Star body. We've got the list of all the personalized license plates that were denied. We get this every year, almost 2,000. And everybody's got a news story about this. There's so many that are just lame. Like, okay.

I think Shottie might have a shoddy. No. That's a good call. I'm just saying doesn't he seem like personalized license plate guy? Yes. Or grit or something like that. Someone find out for us. Yeah, it's got to be that.

Yeah. Faith. Like, oh my God. F-F-F. Yeah. Just like my tattoo. Or is it some like coach's son? Is it like somehow, like no vow, some sort of, someone's got to find this out.

Get back to us. But like if you want to put this word, K-W-I-C-K-I-E for Quicky, that's getting rejected. Why? Is it sex? Does not list the explicit reasons why specific plates get rejected. They just, they just rule over us with this iron fist. I thought this is America. And I thought this was the America's, the most America stayed in America.

Let me tell you what's the most American thing is trying to get one over on your government. Because of the 2,000 that were rejected, 350 were occurrences. of the letters DV being used in ways that were clearly meant to designate disabled veterans. And they were rejected? Yeah, because they weren't disabled veterans and they were thinking, possibly if I get like DV-425 parking a handicapped spot, people are going to think. Oh, really? Yeah.

Oh. Hmm. It's pretty good. Yeah. They banned that and they have to because it was a seventh of their rejection. Last year were just people trying to get... Trying to steal Valor for parking. I have a Dallas Marathon finisher shirt.

From the makers of somehow a song about jizzing on window shades was number one in America for many years. They do say that the Department of Motor Vehicles is trying to catch up on slang, which is a tough thing for them. them and you really can't get away with any usage of AF. How about TF? Authorities also blocked all 101 variations of atomic references, anatomical reference, excuse me, which was dwarfed only by 100 requests featuring the number 69. Yeah.

Big Pien 69. Six-seven out there, though? That seems harmless. Yeah. Yeah. There's a... Six-seven, the new six-nine. There's a couple of other, I think, funny ones that got rejected.

Any four-twenties? Can I get a four-twenty on my plate? Boy, I bet not. That's not listed in here, but I bet. I mean, yeah. You can't do F-A-F-O. How about... That screams big truck.

Oh, my God. Go ahead, Dan. L-M-B-A-O? It's not listed, but I doubt it. I guess we should just try some of these ourselves. Somebody tried U-R, letter U-R space broke. Stunt on them a little bit, and that got denied. Oh.

Okay, Karen, with a four for the A, got denied. Yeah. These are all pretty good, aren't they? Chapy's got a chapy Chapy definitely has a chapy If you see Chappy in the wild

I'll get people sometimes sending me a note a little DM Hey is this chappy No it's the other Yeah

Yeah I am a little surprised He paid for it too But he also loves him some him You know I mean I've told you guys this But I wonder

If you think that's Better or worse Not than our former boss his Premier League team that he started being a fan of a year before he got the license plate. But when my brother was in college and he was playing quarterback at Tulane, my dad had a license plate that was the digit 2, L-A-N-E-7, which was my brother's number. And it's like, it's already really hard being the quarterback family. It is, dude.

Yeah. Especially if you're not like the tits. Like if you're going to be having a one-to-one TD to pick ratio, there's going to be a lot of criticism coming your way. There's going to be a lot of people looking at you. And he just, I mean, do you get kid exemption? Because to me, that's pretty gay. I think there's a kid exemption.

I mean, yeah, what's better? That or? Because they rejected mine that said, I-S-U-K-B-Y-Z. And they were like, on my kid exemption? And finally, Lamar Odom was arrested in charge with DUI in Las Vegas. He's very young, Dan. But I'm doing this because I think he's my entry for. I didn't know he's still a lot.

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former NFL player Ray Carruth, acquitted of first-degree murder, but convicted of conspiracy and two other charges in the fatal shooting of his pregnant girlfriend. All the news about your football team ain't been good news. He was sentenced to a minimum of 18 years, 11 months in prison. And he's out, right? He's out. 19 was too harsh of a punishment? 18 years, 11 months.

I said 11 months. It seems like you could round up. Since he nears seems silly because we want him to be out when that baby's born and the baby or when the baby turns old enough to kind of know who he is. Although I believe the baby's had little problems because of the bullet in his mom killing her. Yeah, baby's not able to live a regular life. Anyway, he's out. He is out. He's been out for eight years. He lays all the way low. Yeah, he does. You don't.

That's the right move. He didn't OJ his Twitter account and he's getting a podcast. He's not on a cameo. People would pay him money to send a cameo. People would pay him money to do a podcast. Some gambling company get, oh, by the way, I think Michael Irvin's podcast on Netflix dropped today. That's very interesting to me.

It's the real house in the promo too. It's very interesting just that Netflix is doing podcasts. I got part of my take And Michael Irvin, who was a very good radio guest, but he's never been like a good radio host. Never. For sure. Now they're like, you know what?

Let's stop giving you the constraints of radio that makes you try to at least know what you're doing for 10 minutes at a time. Let's give you like an hour. Just I don't know that the... I mean, no, it will be a lot of... There may be some diamonds in the poo-poo, but I doubt it'll be good.

And I love Michael Irvin, though. On this day in the year 2005, the American Cancer Society reported that cancer had passed heart disease of the top killer of Americans. All right. Eight and younger. I guess 85 and older, you still. Never ever quit. That's right. Cancer kept striving.

On this day in 2010, Shaq became the fifth player in NBA history with 28,000 points. He was playing for the calves at this time. Jeez, that's an all-time Jersey dissonance. Here's something I just learned this morning. I was today years old. Do you like people saying that? No, I don't.

When I learned that doctors on this day in 2013 performed life-saving surgery on Carl Pavano. Do you know Carl Pavano? Yeah, Red Sox? Or no, where did he pitch? Pitcher, I don't know, all over the place. Yeah. Twins? Okay.

He slipped on ice and fell onto the handle of a snow shovel while cleaning snow. What? While shoveling snow. And they had to remove his lacerated spleen. What's that thing for anyway? Didn't Ramos? This was always all jacked up. No one knows.

Literally no idea, dude. He said that he was determined to pitch again. Ron Howard narrator voice, he never pitched again. Oh, no. He's with Johnny Manzole. Because you need a spleen. On this day in 2016, Mike Francesca announces he's going to retire from the fan.

Aaron Boy. So today is January, whatever, 19th. So January, 2016, he announced he would retire from the fan at the end of 2017. So he gave a two-year window. That's amazing. I think your level of self-importance tends to be directly linked to how long is your retirement runway. Didn't Nancy do something like that recently?

Oh, yeah. He did it for the NCAA tournament. He went on for like another year, right? Like, Dirk is the other end of the spectrum where you're like, how about nothing? I'm trying to look for some, I'm trying to just see if we have any Francesa that, I don't know, without previewing it.

This says C-bomb, but it's probably edited. Let's try. Nothing exciting to talk about that game. Titans over the Buccaneers. They stay in the wild heart. Sniffing around. And on this day in 2024, Japan became the fifth nation to land a spacecraft on the moon. Didn't they go to the other side?

Blake, all five nations to land a spacecraft on the moon. What do you think? Blake Jones, try to answer the question. Five nations. You're giving me China, because you just... I said Japan. Japan. It's very racist that you would even say that.

Well, give me China. Okay. You say Japan? United States. China. United States. That's three. Russia.

Russia's four. Germany. Can I ask the audience? Yeah. I actually don't know, but my get, I know nuclear capability-wise, I was going to make a wild play and say like India. But I don't think that's what that's right. It's probably Canada.

Dayton? Canada. The answer is India. Oh. About that. Because they got news. So does Pakistan. I'm not saying those are the same, but I feel like, you know.

Yeah, I was thinking about when I was looking at this this morning, thinking about that whole theoretical power plant we're going to build on the moon, like a nuclear power plant. I'm not sure all the other countries in the nation would be, or in the world would be like, oh, okay, cool. They probably have something to say about that. They'd probably be a bit concerned about it. Yeah. They're like, I think we all share the same moon.

Yeah, yeah. So today is January 19th, this day in Dumb Zone history. Back in 2021, you were in your weight loss journey. You got down to 177, Dan. Good Lord. You said you did it by, you stopped eating ice cream. That's your big trick. Well, I did soda.

I know, soda, but I think you lost another little bit to get down to 177. Yeah, I gained about 20 of that back, but I'm glad I did. Yeah. I feel like this is where I belong. I agree. Because I was 20 higher than that. No, I was looking at pictures of Not Beth.

Taryn. Beth went to McCusker on Saturday. Oh, yeah? A couple extras. That's why I was confused. But Terran sent us some pictures of Fight Night 2016. Big boy. Chubby Dan? Big boy. I don't remember what weight you were

whenever you included your ball sack in a picture of your scale. I once included my ball sack? Reflected up. Yeah, we can see your carriage. For real? And you tweeted it. I was naked? Yes.

Well, of course you were. You're trying to shed some LBs on there. I've never deleted a tweet. Are you telling me that's out there? Probably. And yeah, it's out there. We talked about it on the show. It'll be tweeted in five minutes, I'm sure.

Yeah. Oh, no. Why'd you tell me? I don't want to know that. We were also trying to figure out the new name for the show. And today, on this day, in 2021, we eliminated the Bone Zone, Bitberg and Vadge Radio. Victor and Jake.

Yeah. And then on this day last year, Romo was doing the game, and I think he was... I don't remember what he says here, but I remember we had a fun time of this. This is Roma on MLK Day. Now you've got life if you're a Steeler fan. It was looking real bleak when they were driving down.

Well, the NFL was proud to be supporting an initiative called Realizing the Dream, a movement of the Ravley communities to perform. 100 million hours of service leading up to the 100th anniversary of Martin Luther King's birthday, which is today. And we can all contribute to MLK's legacy through acts of volunteerism and social change. To learn more, visit realize the dream.org. What a day, Martin Luther King and deserves to have a day named after him. most Pittsburgh fans made to drive up here.

Three hours away. Wow. Dude, that's so good with that music in the background. That's great. It deserves it. Tell us more, Tony. We actually have a break right now. And it's also low-key, just so funny when you forget to say Jr., but then want to add it.

Let's do it again. He goes, Martin Luther King, Jr. What a day. Visit realize the dream. What a man. What a day. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Deserves to have a day named after him. Yep. Go on. Most of Pittsburgh fans meet. That's fantastic. Let's do Romo versus Nora. And who... Oh, my gosh.

Who could tell you more about why Martin Luther King has a day named after him. I want him on every holiday. You know, it's a day of memorials. What a man. You know them.

You love them. Memorials. I never... I never heard that. What a day. Martin Luther King, Jr. Junior, I think. Had a dad.

That's so good, but we're less concerned. Less concerned about him. Oh, Marty. Call him Marty. Dude, you know the disease I have right now is, especially with the playoffs going on. Do you guys do Trump to yourself? Oh, yeah.

A lot. For me, it's just like, yeah, yeah, yeah, just like walking around. I'm like, oh, not going to do it. Yeah. And everybody's got one. dogs, me boys. Dude, I can't stop just saying the names of white, white receivers.

Like a Trump voice. Braxton Barrios. We don't know about Bucca. We don't know about Puka, but we know about Ladd McConkey. They all have the funniest names for him to say. We love Alec Pierce. Sorry, back to you. We're going to make a phone call.

We have a special birthday today, but first, the dumb zone birthday of the day is also a sports birthday. Like I can't not call this the dumb zone birthday of the day. You tell me if I've made the right call here. Deuce Robinson is 21. Wow. That's a future first round pick. Now, one dream in front of the other.

We don't know which sport. Son of Dominic Robinson, former USC two sports star, but I don't think they were letting him play two sports like to. So he went to Florida State. You know what's funny is he wrote a letter to the NCAA. He literally, he actually did. Yeah. Requesting like he wanted to be able to practice more.

Right. And they were like, you know what? We don't really have any control over anything anymore. Yeah. So we're going to exercise. Like, they're the mall cop of the world. Yeah, that's true. They actually are like, you know what?

We're not allowed to do anything. We can't control the NIL anymore. We used to. We can't control where players go. We can't control coaches, never could. You know what we could still do, though? We could limit your practice time. That's a great.

I never thought of that. And try to make it seem like you're still required to be a student because we don't want to take... Yeah. Yeah, but what about when a team now has to play like three playoff games and blah, blah, blah, are you worried about their student? Hey! I said you can't practice more baseball.

Very weird. Shout out Florida State. Can we make a phone call? Mm-hmm. All right. Dialed up. Great acting. What?

I think Blake's dialing. I was thinking she might answer. I think she did. Hello? Oh, yeah. Hello, it's my mom. Hi, birthday. Thank you.

You know who this is? Listen to this. All right. Thank you. That's Sydney, Swartz. Sweeney. I didn't hear it. Oh, you can't hear what's going on?

Okay. What do you know about her? Kid me, Sweeney. I don't even know who that is. Okay. You don't know who that is? Well, we are calling to wish you a happy birthday. Happy, happy birthday.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for Dan. Oh, you're welcome. What is the weather like in Cleveland? It's very, very cold. It's about, I don't know, 10 degrees, and we have lots of snow. And what is the forecast for Saturday?

What did you say was the cold day this week? Let me see. What's the forecast for Saturday? You can tell me what you told me yesterday. I don't really need the up to the second one. But go ahead. I will. Let's see.

Well, well, why is it not coming up 30? is. They say it's going to be 21 here today, but 15 tomorrow. Geez. They're swimming. Right now it's not. Right now it's, okay, right now it's actually 14 degrees. And it's going down.

Okay, well, you still didn't answer what I asked you, though. Saturday? Saturday is going to be nine now, they say. Nine, all right. That's the high. The high of nine. What are you planning on doing then that day? Probably staying home and doing nothing.

Hell yeah. What are we watching on TV these days? What am I watching on TV? Yeah, anything good? Hell's Kitchen. I love Hell's Kitchen. Oh, nice. Who's the guy on that?

Is that Gordon Ramsey? Yeah. Yeah, it's a Gordon Ramsey thing. But it's almost over. The finale is coming up. You ever find it odd that I'm not? on these shows, they tend to always get a British guy. And if people like listening to British guys yell for some reason,

I don't know that you'd take that from an American. He's a very mean man. Well, I guess he's, you know, a very, very famous restaurateur, very, very famous chef, has lots of mission with dars and all that. Yeah, Jake. What's on the birthday agenda for this evening? Peanut call. Nice.

Keynuckle, who are we playing with? Claire and Nancy and Pat. Ages? Claire is 93. I think that Pat is 86. Nancy's 79, and then there's me. Okay, you're a baby. I'm the baby, 76.

The baby of the group. Any movies coming up with Rose? No. What was the last one? The last time I went to a movie with Rose was to that Superman movie. Ah, with the dog? It was pretty funny. Well, I haven't seen it, but I think Dan was disappointed in the trailer anyways.

I don't know. I don't know if you want. I didn't think I was going to like it and I did like it. I refused to see it. Oh, you did? Yeah. He said it was too woke, which is what he just. He says that all the time about stuff.

What exactly does that mean? Yeah, I don't know. You'll have to ask him. I'm serious. What is too woke, Dan? Um, you know, just too much of that DEI garbage that you always hate. I'll have to ask me this morning. She's going to call me this afternoon.

I'll ask her what it means. Ask her what woke means. Please do. What's any Cleveland Brown? Usually I tell these guys you will update me on Cleveland Brown's news. Nothing right now that I know of. I haven't listened to the local news in the last couple of days. Any unclaimed funds?

Yeah, I was telling about your unclaimed funds. Why did you go to get the unclaimed funds? Oh, because they want to, the governor wants to use unclaimed funds to fund the new Brown Stadium, which is just crap. I'm inviting everybody who even has a dollar and I'm saying funds to go and get it. Respect. What do you think this grassroots effort, like how much? A dent? Yes.

I guess the dent that you'll make is, yeah. What did you get back from it? Me? Yeah. Oh, I think I'm getting like a buck 65, something like that. A dollar 65? Yeah, but I don't care. Better in my pocket than.

Heck yeah. A new stadium. I'm not going to put a roof over my stadium. That's ridiculous. They're talking about, I don't know, like millions of dollars coming out of unclaimed funds. Those money belongs to somebody somewhere, and those are the people that shouldn't have it. Not the stadium owners. Any names that you know who share a birthday with you, famous names?

I'm looking at today's... Robert E. Lee is correct. He's not alive. Also, big time back. Yeah? There's somebody else I can't remember who it is. He's not woke. Who's not woke?

Robert Lee. Right. Well, I mean, not alive as well, but yeah, but he wouldn't have been woke in his life. How about this? Shelly Faber. Is it Faberese? Faberre. Faberet.

Yeah. We know her from the wife on coach. Oh, okay. She was also, she's the one that recorded that song that was popular in the 60s, Johnny Angel. That's right. That was written about Johnny Mansell. No, it wasn't. Johnny Mansell was even born yet when it came up.

How do you know? She was also in the John of Reed show. Okay. Also, I have here, Dolly Parton. She's 80 today. Wow. Today, serve her. Yeah.

She dressed up as a cowboy cheerleader like last year or two years ago on Thanksgiving. Oh, good. So you still have time? Yeah, she was 78. You could still be a cowboy cheerleader. Oh, no, I don't think so much. Paula Dean's birthday is today. Whoa.

Are you on board with her? Yeah, is she a chef? Yeah, I thought you liked chefs. Yeah, but not all chefs. No, all right. She had a particular birthday party once, I think. That's right. She's not woke.

Didn't she get in trouble for using some racist language or something? She did, you know, but she makes biscuits, so what did you kind of expect, you know? Yeah. Lots of people make biscuits. They do indeed. Well, happy birthday. I hope that you win. And thank you for calling me on my birthday.

I hope you win at Peanuckle. Well, we talk this weekend as well. I don't just save it for your birthday. That's right. I know. I know. You know I'll call you when I go to the mall? Yes, you do.

Anytime you're walking around the store or in your neighborhood, you call me. There you go. On your walk. That's right. Very kind. Very sweet. You know what? I am very kind.

Not enough people talk about that. Am I, I'm, rank, rank your sons. You're both my favorite. I don't want to hear that. All right, well, happy birthday. Happy birthday. Tell Rose to call me. Okay, bye-bye.

Bye. Oh, there she hung up. Sound effect. Elsewhere today, I knew she wouldn't be able to name these people. Javelle McGee is 38. Remember the quaint days when we were like, boy, that's the worst move you've ever made is signing Javelle McGee. This is going to set us back. I want to go back there.

Yeah, me too. Like, I will thank him. Please sign Javelle McGee. For an 18.7 rebound, six turnover game from Christian Wood right? Yeah. I want to be mad at the Christian Wood move, not at. Oh, man. Jeff Van Gundy is 64.

Jonathan Taylor is 27. Do you think he has Carly Ursay Gordon's number in his phone? He better. Yeah. Remember when she was the genius of the NFL and like, oh my gosh, look at that. They're 8 and 2. She's holding the clipboard. This is awesome.

I know, but then Daniel Jones got hurt. How do you recover from that? Well, I thought it was her on the sideline with the clipboard that was making the awesomeness. I think they're going to be fine. You guys get your licks in now. Okay, I'll stay over here on Carly Island. They're going to get Kyler? That'd be fun.

Carly and Kyler. Kyler Ursae Gordon. Walter Jones is 52. The longtime Seahawks left tackle. Oh. Jim Morris is 62. He is a, was a Major League Baseball player. Never got his shot until the age of 35.

And he inspired the movie The Rookie. Which I'll bet you were fired up about. Yeah, I've seen it hundreds of times. The Dennis something? Dennis Quaid. Dennis Quaid, all right. My grandparents were extras in that movie. How does it just run in your family?

Well, because they filmed it during the dark days of the Rangers. And so just on a random Tuesday or something, they had everybody come down and sit in the first level, and they got to move down. They were just at the game. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to find out that like, I don't know, Blake's great-grandfather was in the background of Casa Blancers. Richard Lester, movie director, is 94. What's he got? He was the movie director for Superman.

Okay. The real one. The one without the dog. Sean Wayans is 55. He's the one that's not in Requiem. Dre DeMateo is 54. I met her Sopranos

Frank Caliando is 52 Pete Buttigudge is 44 That's nice Hospital bed That's nice He's got a little He rides his bike He's got a little hospital bed there

His husband sits on the back You ride together That's nice Rapper Lil Scrappy is 41 Man It's fight music And Katie Seagal is I think recently played a show with Jorts to celebrate Donald Fagan's birthday.

Oh, yeah, that's right. George has a weird. Very weird. Forrest Gump type. He's like Forrest Gump if Forrest Gump was actually watchable. Great movie. Born on the Stay Now Dead besides Robert E. Lee. Interesting, my mom, that's the one she pulled out.

Pretty quickly, too. Yeah, like as if she was like busy celebrating. Yeah. She had the mustache and the whole get up. Yeah. Anyway, also born on this day, Janice Joplin, junior seow. Oh. And Mac Miller. Damn, what a day. Yeah, that's really tough, man. There's a guy what, what, what, Macmillan who plays for the, for the Broncos. That's how Dan says his name.

Every time. I'm like, damn. Dead on the stay still dead. And then what is Romo? Like, great man. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome.

Totally deserves to be alive. Dead on this day, still dead. Earl Weaver, Stan Musial. And Bam Bam Bigelow. Wow. Is that a wrestler? Yeah. That is the first wrestler that I ever saw.

Dan that had the full-shaved tattooed head. He had like flames on his head. Hell yeah. Oh, my God. Another level has been unlocked. Bam-Biglo was a beast. Intercontinental contender perennially. Never really the big guy.

There you go. There you go. And that's what happened on this day in history. You guys got any closing remarks? Don't forget about the PLE. Thursday at Connor Rosso and White Rock. Not White Rock. Well, yeah. It is White Rock. Sorry.

Damn it. Adios, mofo. 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. Gettysburg. Wow. I go to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to look and to watch. And the statement of Robert Lee, who's no longer in favor. Did you ever notice that? No longer in favor. Never fight up hill, me boys. Never fight a pill.

They were fighting a pill. He said, wow. That was a big mistake. He lost his great general. And they were fighting. Never fight a pill, me boys. But it was too late. Gettysburg.

Wow. That was a big mistake. He lost his great. Wow. I got to Gettysburg. That was a big Gettysburg. Wow. Fight up hill me, boys.

Never fight up. Gettysburg. Wow. Looking to watch. Looking to watch. Look into. to look and to watch. Never fight up Hill me, boys.

Never fight up Gettysburg. Never fight up Hill me, boys.