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Episode Date: January 2, 2026

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I never listen, I'm going to listen to the dumb zone. And waiting for our next guest is brought to us by Hal Water, our friends at Howl Water. It is Cowboys legend, Andre Gerard. Andre, hello, sir. How about that? He's talking to Grady. Brady distracting our guests. Grady has him cornered.

That's right. Andre, you grab that mic and swing it on over there. Okay, I got you. The arm might come up a little bit, so you're not so uncomfortable. What if we set them up before the second starts? There we go. There we go. Give away books.

How's it going, man? Man, it's great. Did you write a children's book? I did not write a children's book. I wish I did. It would be about food and getting full and going to sleep. Yeah. All the things that are important to the big fellas across the nation.

So right now, what is your job? You're a coach for Dion? I'm a coach at the University of Colorado. Amongst other several things, you know, I'm a husband, I'm a father. Yeah, that's not important. No, absolutely. It's very important because those are the driving factors to everything that you do. And then I'm a part of how water and with my team trying to bring hyper-pure water

and great oxygenated water to everybody so they can enjoy it. That's right. We thank you guys for your partnership with us so far. It is great. I'm a subscriber. We appreciate it. And if you, you know, down a couple. cans it'll keep you from getting a hangover and you know allow you to sleep without waking up

with that thing that you don't want so it'll help you with a 12 hour broadcast as well yeah i'm a big fan of the how water it's like my uh champagne water you know it's like i'm not going to drink it every time i drink water i want to treat myself every now and then pop a bottle treat yourself to the top i definitely understand that that makes sense i got you i got you how'd you get into this business game uh we're recent business guys are Oh, well, it started with another company, myself and one of my business partners, Bryce, and we were looking at it, and we were looking at a different water company, but stumbled upon how, and by chances, we partnered with them trying to grow the brand, get it out there, get a visible, so we've been taking our time trying to do things the right way with my team to make sure that we got the water out there for everybody to enjoy. So it seems like we're making some good steps in that direction. So what's that like when you're a big-time NFL player, got a bunch of money now?

You get a ton of people trying to pitch you, this and that, and hey, I got a good idea. Hey, man. Well, you have to do your due diligence because, like you said, just like being a professional at playing sports, you have to go back and study this situation and try to be a professional and learning business. And you need to take your time. You need to go through. You need to learn from people. You need to have mentors.

So it becomes a learning process, just doing something all over again. Did that start, like, right when you got out of the league? When did you, or what was your, did you have a little like a period of, I'm just, it's on your time? I bet when you're in the league, too, people are hitting you up. Yeah, you know, when you're in the league, you're focused on the game. I think when I was in the league, I was trying to focus on being one of the best to play the position. Yeah, but you play for the Cowboys and they have a room for people to pitch you.

No, not at all. Not at all. Parcell's time, though. It was a different. So, yes, it's a different thing. time, you know, Jerry takes care of the pitching. Parcells was like, don't talk to the media, so it's one of those situations.

And then Jason Garrett, of course, was doing both. But no, you just focus on the game. I think when you get out of the game, you have to take time to really figure out what's important to you and what you find precious that you would love to do and bring joy to yourself without ever getting paid a dollar. And so that journey takes a couple years,

but I was able to figure that out and wind up going into scouting and then coaching. So that's what wound up happening. And to my other teammates who see me as a coach, they're looking me crazy because I was probably the person they gave every coach a extremely hard time. So you would have been voted least likely to become a coach in the future. Yeah.

Some guys you're like, oh, they're going to be a coach. Yeah, I think back to the offensive line coaches that I had and the headaches that I gave them. And I'm quite sure some of them are just sitting back laughing at me right now. But hey, it wound up happening that way. So who was the head coach when you were drafted? What was your draft position? I was drafted as a guard and a center.

Dave Campo, I'm sorry. Dave Campo was the head coach of the Cowboys in 2002. And then a year later, Bill Parcells came in. And for those people that know Bill, life took on a different meeting when Bill Parcells got to the team. Football was rough. How so? If you've ever seen the movie life,

for all my people that are movie buffs. Football camp with Bill Parcells was like being to Camp 8. And there was a gun line. And if you stepped across the gun line, you got shot. It's the best way I can explain it. Much different than the prior year? Oh, yeah. Much, much different than that.

Was that a hard knocks year? The first ever hard knocks was the Cowboys. Yes, yes. Yes. My rookie year was the hard knocks year. Matter of fact, it was one of my least favorite moments. That was the moment where Larry Allen decided to, to get creative and cut my hair in different designs. So if you look on videos,

there's actually footage of me with streams and lines of hair that Larry decided to cut my hair because I was a rookie. And he specifically chose me, which I didn't understand why, but hey, it is what it is. I've heard you tell a couple Larry Allen's story. So was he your vet? Like he was the one who was given you? Yeah, he was probably the one vet that gave me the hardest time.

but looking back over everything is probably one of the most things that I appreciated about them because why I thought I was giving him the business he was actually trying to make sure that he was looking out for me so it worked out well. What are your thoughts on Parcells right now?

Has he done something that I don't know about? No, I guess I mean like a Jordan Hudson type. Yeah, he's got his new... 22-year-old No, I mean, she's legal in Tennessee. No. When you hear old New York Giants or somebody, you know, talking about what it was like to play for Parcells,

they'd be like, I hated him. And then they're like, but then after, you know, after having been through it, I understood it all. And I can't thank him enough for what he did. I would tell you that most players, if you share a Bill Parcell story that's played for Bill, We all have the same story. So, yes, we went through some misery with him. However, he wanted you to take the game seriously. He wanted you to care about the game as much as he did.

And the moment that he figured out that you actually did that, he would actually leave you alone. And that's the part where it would get uncomfortable because you're so used to him cussing you out, yelling at you, staring at you. I can tell you that there was a game where I think I gave up a tackle for a loss. Bill watched me walk off the field, walk to the sideline,

sit on the bench, and as I kept my head down, Jason Whitten walked past me, and I asked Jason, is he still looking at me? And I can hear Bill say, yes, I'm still staring at your ass. From the silent.

And someone got tackled right behind Bill, and he did not break eye contact. I'm like, this is extremely uncomfortable. So, that happens. But I remember, like, it was like Whitten had, like, broken job. Yes, that story is true.

He broke his jaw, and Bill showed up to the hospital, and Bill asked him, I mean, I need to know if you're going to play next week or not. Let me know now. That's how Bill would treat you. But he was doing it to see how you can push yourself past your own limitations. Man. Do you hope to be a head coach someday, or what's your thought? I do. I do.

I hope to be a head coach and, you know, establish my own reign of terror so that people can tell stories about the things that I did to them. So, yeah, there's a couple of guys right now that's got some good stories. There's a player who I think he hurt his shoulder. I told him, hey, rub some dirt on it, take your ass back in. You'll figure it out. It's like there's got to be some kind of a line, though, right? Between doing something that's not smart as far as playing through an injury and all that? And how do you determine that?

I think what you have to figure out is you have to know each individual. Everybody's going to play through pain. You're going to play hurt. You should never ask someone to play when they're injured. And I think that's where you draw the line. If you're going to do something that's going to prolong your healing process moving forward in life and getting ready for and try to shorten your career, that's probably not the thing to do. If it's something that you can push through and we need you this week but we can rest you next week,

that's something completely different. And I think that's where the line has to be drawn. So broken jaw? Nah. Well, you know, wired shut. You know, he has some protein shakes. He bounced back pretty good. It was all right.

I think he put rocks in his pocket on the scale. I think I remember hearing that story that, you know, he lost way too much weight from the jaw. And he's like, I got to play, so I got to make weight here. I remember him in press conferences or whatever, Parcell's talking about, yeah, well, Mark Bavarro was back and gave some story about whatever. The pressure's on. or something, and Mark Bavarro had his kidney removed or his heart transplant and he was back in a day, something like that.

There are people that do some interesting things to get back on the field, and I'm quite sure there are a lot of people that have done a lot of interesting things to get back on the field with Bill, so that probably happened. What do you think as a veteran or, you know, retired player, I should say, and you just told us about the brutal training camp, your first training camp with Parcells, and that really woke you up. just the way they do it now. It just seems like would you love to play now? I think the game is differently now because safety is a little bit more important. I think there's an area of safety that you need to adhere by. And there's also a line that you need to push yourself past. So I think they're trying to do a better job of trying to figure out where that middle ground is

so that players can be ready to play the game, but also not put themselves in positions to hurt themselves for the rest of their lives. Do you ever think you played through a concussion or anything like that? If I did, I don't remember, so I can't tell you. Okay. That goes your answer. You don't really hear linemen getting concussions a lot. Oh, no, no, it happens.

It happens. If you think about it, I would say that when people ask about offensive line play and they ask about, well, you guys just basically run into each other y'all yard away, I would say the way that we simulated or broke it down is if you stood at the edge of your drive, and ran into your garage door full speed, that's one snap. Now, do that 70 times, and then you can figure out how you can make it through a game. Damn. How was like the next day?

Well. When you're at that age, maybe it wasn't that bad. You know what? When you're at that age, you can bounce back. You feel good. But when you start to get older and that day turns into two, three, and four days, that's when you're like, oh, wait a minute, we got to figure out this recovery. But you bounce back pretty quick, though.

You learn how to take care of your body. How water? I want there you go. How do you bounce back? You drink how. I love it. And we didn't put you through a combine or anything out there, but you look like you're moving around pretty well.

Did you do anything right after your career to, like, did you get in any sort of Pilates or anything like that? Did you seem like you move well? Well, I would say. Or an interior lineman, for sure. I appreciate that. I try to take care of my body. But interesting enough, I did not know that.

I was double jointed in my knees, ankles, elbows, and fingers. Wow. Had no idea. And when Jim, Maher told me that I thought that was normal, he said, no, dude, you're double joining in your ankles, knees, elbows, and fingers. I said, I thought that was normal. That's a strength coach at the time, right? No, that was a trainer.

He had a trainer who's still there. Okay, yeah. Wow. So that was a great story. I had no idea. I just thought that was normal. And it's interesting, too. Dan mentions the changeover from Campo to Parcells.

I love Dave Campo, but that had to be as stark of a difference in camps as you're going to get. But what about from Parcells to Wade? Man, that's a great change, too, because you go from a military guy to a guy who is a player's coach and everybody loves Wade.

And so the first time that Wade came out to the team, we were doing mini-camp, remember Wade telling us to slow down and we kind of looked at him crazy like what like we only know full speed of walk he was like I don't need you guys to go that fast I need you guys to make it through the season so it was a different approach to trying to keep us healthy so we can perform on Sunday where bill was like we're going to work no matter what the fans don't care that you hurt the fans care that you play the game so different mentality and it's interesting too like I didn't know this I think I heard Bruce Ariens talking about this recently and like

older days of football they had especially in college where like Parcells gets a lot of hit they had like a hundred guys so they were bringing in like their starters weren't even the guys that were going to play the whole game they had waves and waves of guys but then now you have you know

a CBA and a lot of money involved so I don't know it's easy to say Wade it's like camp cupcake we used to make fun of it right in the media and in my head I was like yeah but they do have to stay healthy yeah I think that and we heard those We heard those rumors and things like that. People would say Kemp Cup Cupcake with Wade and things of that nature.

However, when we went to work, it was time to go to work. So when Wade had you out on the field and it's time to go, he wants to see it full speed. And then he's going to be smart enough to say, hey, you know what? We've done enough today. All right, let's wrap practice up. So he was just trying to make sure guys were ready for the season. Because again, like you said, with the new rules and CBAs and things of that nature, there were rules about how many players you can bring in,

how many practices you can have. And so you kind of want to stretch that out for the duration of the season. You don't want to run out of all of your padded practices at the beginning. Dion wasn't on that first team you were on, was he? No, he was retired. The first time, however, I met Dion was during my first training camp, and I was so excited to see him. And then I walked around a corner, and he called me Baby Nate.

and I walked away. And I was just like, wow. I did not think that I looked like Nate Newton, but I guess Dion said that I did. Call a racist. No. Don't look like Nate Newton? I mean, Nate said that I look like Nate,

so therefore, I guess they're both telling the truth. Yeah, it's fine unless they're looking for Nate back in the day. I'm not Nate. No, no, the new Nate. Yeah, of course. But, yeah, Nate was a great guy. And so when I saw Nate and Nate said, now you look like me.

I was like, well, I guess he was telling the truth. Hey. Nate's a great guy, and I've always been a fan of his bit where he was on trial for having like 100 pounds of weed in his car and transporting it. And while on trial, got caught again doing it. I was thinking, what a great idea. That's the time to do it. They'll never be looking for me.

When I see a, you know, somebody gets pulled over speeding, you just, okay. okay, I'll gas it now, you know? They're not going to get me. And then he got caught again, like, what are you doing? Why are you following me? No one would do this, what I'm doing. And then they did. Oh, man.

You've never hauled 100 pounds of weed. Have you, Andre Gerard? No, I have never done that. I've hauled probably about 10 or 15 pounds of ice cream, you know. Maybe this hot water. Yeah, high water, you know, things like that, you know, sweets, candy, snacks. We've heard from pretty much anybody who talked to who played for the Cowboys that, you know, you could say whatever you want about Jerry. You could talk about roster management, this, that third.

But as far as how he makes you feel as a player and the love that he has for his guys, is that a real thing? Like that Jerry, we've talked to guys who were like practice squad guys. It made me feel like I was going to the Hall of Fame. He's just that positive. Or did you have a different experience with him? No, Jerry has a magnetic way of talking to you when you see him. It's very approachable. He knows every player that's on the team.

I used to think that I couldn't figure out how he did it, but if you see how involved he is in every single detail with the organization, he definitely does it. He'll know when your birthday is. You actually can say, hey, you got a birthday coming up. Like, wow, I don't think Jerry is paying attention to that. but a great guy great guy to work for

can he be a little overbearing at times probably but he really just wants to win and he can't figure out the right formula but hopefully one day the right formula is presented so that he can't figure it out what was it like just

you know coming to the Cowboys after I don't know I guess Colorado is a big time program too but the Cowboys are the Cowboys just just it just feels bigger than going to the Browns. I would say that coming to America's team, it was very big. For me, it was very big because at that time when I was getting out of college, it was my grandmother's favorite team and also my mother's favorite team and my dad's

favorite team. Pretty much the whole entire thing. Every player who's ever drafted, I feel like they've got that story. For me, I also what made it special was that we actually actually, wanted to play in the Big 12 championship in Texas Stadium the year that I graduated. So yeah. Wait a minute. 39, 37? Yep, that was me.

I didn't put this together. I thought that's the worst day of my entire How? I grew up a Texas fan. I understand. My dad didn't go to college, but we grew up Texas fans. And somebody lost earlier in the day. Oklahoma lost to Oklahoma State. And if Texas would have won after that, it would have

put Texas in the next. I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. No, I'm sorry. Earlier that day, you're right, because that was championship weekend, all the guys in front of Texas wind up losing. Right, maybe Tennessee or something. Something like that. Texas needed, they weren't going to have a shot, they needed a win. They're in. Colorado might have been unranked.

They weren't ranked super high. We were ranked. So the week before, we were 15, and we beat Nebraska, and they were number one. And so we jumped up, but Nebraska was still ranked ahead of us, and then we wound up beating Texas 39-37. So that year in the national championship, Nebraska played Miami, and we wound up playing Oregon. Okay, because Texas was still favored, Dan, and this was a game. Colorado deserved it.

Great game. It's when they brought Major in at half. Texas dug themselves a big hole with Chris Sims. And then here comes Major later, and he's rallying the troops, and it's just not enough time. And the front page the next day is Chris Sims crying. That was a tough one. Yes, that was a tough game. I mean, maybe the biggest one in the program's history?

Yeah, up to that point. It was a very big game. It was one of the biggest games in our history at Colorado, especially for to play the game in Texas, 98% of the crowd beat Texas fans, and then for us to come out and win the game, which we almost lost. We almost lost the game.

Coach Barnett likes to make sure, he mentions the fact that he went for a fake punt. He did? And you guys intercepted it and took you back for a touchdown. So, yeah, it was very close. And Major was doing the things that Major Up Boyd does. So, yeah, that was a close game. But still a good game.

We wound up winning and had a great time. Were you on the team in the year 2000? Yes, I graduated 2002. Okay, so you were playing in 2000. Yeah, I'm playing in 2000 and 2001, yeah Only because the first ever Homer Call winner was We would collect audio from around the land And deem a winner at the end of the year

Like the most excited call And it was in the year 2000 And it was Colorado So I don't have any idea what this is I'm going to play it Maybe you know what it is All right, let's see what happens Let's see this is like a big play from that year

Okay Mitchell That tailback There's a handle Up to him. Bumbles above. Kicked up by Sykes. Go!

Down at 30. Jakes to the 25. 15, 10, 5 touchdown. Yes, Colorado! I love it. I love it. Sykes came up with the huge play. Andy Peek, I believe, is a guy who made the hit,

and Jay Sean Sykes picked it up and goes all the way for the score. You gotta love it. This is what got it's football is all about. Get some electricity going in this place. Everybody's on their feet and out. They're loving Colorado football again around here. Wow. Yeah, wow.

Any idea what that is? Man. You know any of those players? I can tell you I know two of those players in that clip. I know exactly who Andy P. is. I know where Jay Sean Sykes is. I just can't tell you the game because if it was 2000, we had a bad year that year.

So it would have to be... It's been the one game you won. We won three games that year. So it would have to... have been against Texas A&M in Kyle Field. And I think Andy Peake hit someone from the call, it had to be close to the goal line, and Jay Sean shot the gap after the guy foamed the ball and took it back to the house for a touchdown, unless it was against Colorado State.

But I do remember that happening. I remember that play, I just can't remember the game. I do know the guys in that call. Did you play like both ways in high school? I did. Actually, interesting enough, my senior year, they moved me to tight end. So I was the number one tight end in the state of Texas preseason. So I played tight end, tackle, and defensive tackle. why couldn't you stick there hands no they didn't throw me the ball oh i mean north shore has been known for running the ball so they would call the play in practice the play to throw the ball to the tight end but never calling in the game and i blame my coach for this coach joe brixie if he's out

there listening he always kept my offensive lineman jersey in the trunk during games and so he got tired of the right tackle we were playing some team and he was playing horrible he moved me back to tackle and the very next play was the play for the tight end. Oh. Yeah, he did it on purpose. That's okay, though. You never scored a touchdown in high school?

Never scored a touchdown in high school. Never. Did you win a title by any chance? Because, I mean, this is, he went to a school where, like, the alumni list of pro athletes is 50 long. Really? Like you're not the most famous guy from your high school? He might be, but there's a lot of them.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we got quite a few people. when we started this whole journey from North Shore we had a coach named David Amon who came in my after my freshman year and from that time to current North Shore has made the playoffs every single year since my sophomore year

and I believe my senior year we lost in the state semifinal the game before the state championship and that was the year that Lewisville won the state title up here when did you first think you could be an NFL player? Interesting story, yeah. I would say one of the I think I was going to be an NFL player.

I was nine years old, 6.57 p.m. at night after Little League practice playing for the TCA C.A.C. Oilers. And I told my mother that I was going to be a professional player. The only reason why I remember the details was because my mother said that, oh, that's nice. And I said, no, you think I'm playing. I'm going to go to the NFL. And I remember the time. Okay.

Yeah. That's a very, remember that for a KT game show. someday. Right. Very specific. Very specific. The exact time you knew you could be an NFL player. Yeah.

And the coach told my mom, he was like, I think your son is going to be so good he can play in the league. And she said, oh, that's cool. He needs to still get his degree and have a backup plan. I was like, I am, but I'm going to the league. And I did do all those things that I told my mom I was going to do, but I also went to the NFL. And got involved with Howwater. Yes. Drinkhowwater.com.

I'm a monthly subscriber They deliver it right to the door They're about to be an H-EB Yeah, you've got to get in more stores, right? That's the bit. Yeah, we got to get to more stores. More visibility, more people asking questions And more people taste in the water.

I think that's the way that we get into In front of people and get it out there Because we just got a great product That people should try. And I think once they try it, they'll like it. Yeah, and I mean, you look at it's like, I don't want to pay for water. It's the same price as bottle of water at the gas station.

And it's far, far superior. Speaking of that, did you ever pee yourself during a game? No, no. I do know players that did. I would have to plead the fifth of telling you who I saw do it. But, no, I never did it. My brother played some ball in college. He was a quarterback at Tulane, but he lived in a house with, like, eight big boys.

And just hearing their stories, you know, your pants are wet already. You can just, if you have to go, you can't go. Nobody's going to know. That is true. That is true. but it would be very it would be advantageous for you to do that if you were dehydrated and you were wearing a white man.

So can't really pull that one off. I think that that would be a situation. You said like one of your most embarrassing moments or something I can't remember how you phrased the Larry Allen cutting your hair. Oh yeah. As a rookie. As rookie, it was bad.

It was bad. It was like one of your worst moments in all of NFL. What about the whole Albert Hainsworth? Does everything bad with you happen with your head? No, no, no, no. So with the Albert situation... He's the guy that's the guy that's... If people don't know, he stepped on your head and your helmet was off?

Yeah, so during the play, the situation was happening. I went to the ground and I guess my helmet got kicked off. I was a little dazed, probably playing with a concussion at that point in time. Okay. But my helmet came off, I looked up, and then, of course, the horrible incident of him stepping on my face. I would tell people that wasn't the full story because years and years later I was working for the Cowboys.

This had to be 2017 and there was maybe 2018. But there was a report that he was in the hospital in Tennessee. And so I actually tracked him down, tracked down this hospital, tracked down this hospital room and called him just to check on him. Because again, he was actually suffering

from a kidney failure and so his brother wound up answering the phone and uh he wound up calling me back like man i really appreciate you calling just to check on me and i have to tell him i said look man outside of stuff that happens on the field you're somebody's son somebody's husband and nobody wants to see you lose your life so i hope you find the person that can help you out and he really appreciated that that's incredible dude yeah i mean the fact that you know it takes a lot of lot on your part but well when you're very cool when you're when you're focused on following what god tells you to do uh you kind of put your feelings aside and you focus on the gifted hand and so that i i can't sit there and tell people to do it and not do it myself uh especially with my

little bro who a little brother bryson who's over there who always reminds me to make sure that i listen to the gift so i wouldn't be able to look him in the face and tell him to do it if I didn't do it myself I don't even remember the circumstance of the game or anything was he pissed was it just heat of the moment I'm playing a game he had a bit of a history he had a bit of history but I think he was getting

frustrated because he was getting handled but what wound up happening which is so interesting is that later on or probably a year or so later maybe two years later he wound up coming to the NFC East because he played for the commanders I was going to say the other name but I got to

say the right name the commanders and we wound up playing them in Washington and again I had a very impressive day against him so I think he understood that that was not an accident you can say the other name because you played the Redskins you did not play against the commanders when I was a boy I went to Cleveland Indians games okay well I'm just saying I was a boy make sure okay yeah

also I was really complimentary of you and your character for calling Albert and I want that stands but now I realize it was way easier after you just manhandled him 120 snaps across the like you called him like I would kick this guy's ass Yes yeah well you remember that also yeah that's a lot easier you want to deliver you want to deliver the ass whipping first and then you know right humble Sometimes it works backwards but it worked out well so back then if you did have a concussion then they don't have a blue tent They don't have spotters looking for a concussion no it was the finger test you remember the finger test like follow my finger Okay.

Yeah, sometimes guys will follow the finger. They will ask you, do you know where you are? You'd be like, yeah, I know where I'm at. No, you know. You have no idea where you are. Did they have the same cowboy doctor back then, cowboy hat guy? He's been around a minute, Dick Cooper. Dr. Cooper.

Yeah, he's the same guy. Dr. Cooper's been around for a long time. I don't know if Dr. Cooper did the concussions, though. I think he was more of. He's the funniest cowboy doctor. He's the injuries with the knees and elbows and ankles and things like that. I think there's another doctor doing the concussions. But now they got a blue tent.

And I've just recently found this out, and it might be because of Dion. There's a bathroom in those blue tents now? Or did Dion have a porta potty? I think Deon might have had one. I think he may have had a porta potty, but typically in the blue tent there's not a bathroom unless you're looking for an empty Gatorade bottle. Okay, is that what's going on in the NFL now? Yeah, the empty Gatorade bottle, and the blue tent really much takes care of all the stuff that you need to run into.

I actually, so in Ben and Skin, we're playing that little game with Ben and Skin an hour ago? as you know, because you're the most famous guy. Ben, that's crazy. I don't know what. I appreciate it, Ben, but yeah, Ben just called me out of blue. He does crazy stuff like that every once in a while. Yeah, no, he's, we stay at arm's length as well. Gotcha.

But you were the most famous guy with the name G. So when it came our turn to play that game, I got the letter D and I look and I actually have Dion's number. He used to be on our show a lot. So I tried to get Dian, but there's no way he's. answering the phone? Probably not. Probably not.

He's probably somewhere in Ken, Texas, relaxing, fishing or something like that. So, you know, he's not going to answer the phone. What's he like? I've always had great interactions with him. And I would imagine, this is a dumb question for me to ask a guy who's, it's essentially your boss. Hey, what's your boss? Oh, I hate him, man.

No, no. He's actually quite a different individual. He's, I would say on one side to see him go through what he goes through. and then the practice be over and him come to you like, all right, our Dre, let's go. I'm like, where are we going? And after every practice, he walks two miles.

I'm just like, what? With eight toes. Like, he's walking two miles after practice. So it makes you rethink that while you're looking at somebody who's pushing their body, even with the limitations that they have, that most people wouldn't be able to do this after a two-and-a-half-hour practice,

not go walk two miles like he does it um he can be funny he can be serious uh but he's a good he's a good guy he's a real good person and he actually you you become to you begin to become normal with the prime effect which is always having a pair of shades on because i never understood why you have shades on all the time until you're around prime and then you feel yourself wearing shades all the time so what does that mean why i don't know i have no idea it's just like you feel uncomfortable unless you have a pair of shades. It's the weirdest thing. Kind of like a mask you can wear, perhaps.

Maybe you're protecting yourself from people trying to look at your eyes. I'm not sure. And everywhere Dion goes, people are looking at him. He's the guy every room he walks into. Yes, he obviously has that magnetism. I mean, you talked about Jerry having it too. Yeah, yeah. But, like, growing up, when I was a little kid, man, Dion was, I mean, he's everything.

He's playing Major League Baseball and football on the same day. I think he hit a home run and had a punt return for a touchdown on the same day. Yeah, the only other person that I think we can even talk about like that was Bo Jackson. Athletically, physically. Yeah, but I don't know if they played on the same. But he didn't wear like Dion. Dion. Yeah, it was all of, like, Bo just kind of did it.

Yeah. And then you had to marvel at it. But he didn't then. Tell you about it. Yeah, Dion brought it all on himself. He loved it. He loved the broad magnifying it. and his falls were you know if he failed it was great if he succeeded which was more often than

failing it was great like just because of the way he was he was people just hated him or loved him he's absolutely a magnetizing polarizing individual with when you look at all the things that he's accomplished um as i tell him i i don't see how any individual could actually do exactly what you did like that would be ridiculous i don't think they're having guys are allowing guys now to play major league baseball and football at the same time i don't think that's happening i don't know that anybody's actually good enough that's that's the thing you know he's that he's that's that's that's that's the thing he's so good um i really wish this offseason that jerry like interviewed him seriously i don't think they ever did i kind of wanted him to be

the cowboy coach i thought that would have been cool yeah i think that would have been cool too it would have been two guys with two magnetizing. That's probably why he's not. Yeah. That would be interesting because I don't know who gets their attention. But I do know that, you know, talking back about the Cowboys and Prime,

I think Prime would have been a great fit if Jerry would have been interested. I also think that it would have brought so much media attention that I don't even think, they probably would have broke the Internet, knowing them two together. They probably would have broken the Internet. Speaking of media attention, there was another hard-knoxy

in there. How was the Pac-Man year? I felt like there was a lot going on. Did you ever get to know Pac-Man? Wait, you're on Hynax twice? Yeah. Because they came back when they had Pac-Man, Marty B. Martellis was in that year. Tio? Yeah, it was a, I mean, your era of just... Yeah, Tio was

doing the Tour de France on the bicycle. That was crazy. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He had the full cyclist uniform out there. He had the full postal service. And we looked at him crazy, like, what are you doing? He was like, well, if I'm going to ride the bike, I might as be with Lance Armstrongstrow. I'm like, what are you doing? But that's what he did.

But T.O. is, he's also another freak of nature, too. Yeah, you have Marty B. there. You had Pac-Man, aka Adam Jones. So, yeah, both of those two personalities in one body. And alongside a lot of other people with a lot of different personalities, Tashore, Marcus, Marcus, Spears, the Marcus Ware. Oh, yeah, you had a lot going on there. I thought you were there for a fun quarterback era where you began with Quincy, Testaverte, Bledso, Romo.

I mean, you were there for a lot of different personalities at quarterback. Yes, I was. And all of them have their unique way of going about the game. I would say that Vinny Testa Verde is probably the most gangster quarterback I've ever seen. Whoa. What does that mean? Vinny doesn't care at all. Lay it on the line?

Like, no, Vinny, if Vinny is talking and trying to control the huddle and someone else is talking, and I've heard Vinny stop calling the play, turn to the sideline, cuss Bill out, shut up, and then go right back to call him to play. Like, okay. Vinny was, Vinny's a good dude. You don't get that from Drew Henson. No. Other people may be a little bit nervous around Bill. No, Vinny did not care at all.

Man, Parcell. So Parcell's got me thinking. And this is just evolution of a football fan, I guess, learning that sacks aren't always your fault. Really? The lineman. Really? So how do you do that?

Because he ended up benching Drew Bledsoe, who had taken a lot of sacks. And Tony Romo didn't get sacked nearly as much. Like a lot of it has to do with the quarterback, doesn't it? Holding on the ball a little longer, perhaps. Stepping into pressure. Obviously being able to elude pressure. Yeah, I will say that a lot of it has to do with the timing of it.

you know, holding the ball, making your read, getting rid of the ball, things that nature. So, yeah, I think Bill was ahead of his time in that sense because he looked at every single aspect of the game. And if you're doing what you're supposed to do, and people are doing what they're supposed to do, the ball's supposed to be here. And so if it's not getting there, then we're looking at the reason of why isn't it getting there. And if it's consistently being the quarterback, then Bill's going to make the change.

He doesn't care who it is. He wants production. Who did you play for Baltimore and Oakland? Is it Oakland? I left the Cowboys, went to the Ravens. That was a very interesting time. Love the Ravens organization. Harbaugh.

Oh, that's right, because he got hired the same year. Garrett did, yeah. Yeah, so he was there. Now, I will tell you that they love nothing but defense in Baltimore. They do, but it's a great place to play. Flacco? At that time? Flacco was cool.

Flacco also cussed out the head coach. That was interesting as well. And when that happened, I was in the middle of it happening. and he was yelling at the head coach and I'm literally standing in the middle of them and the offensive coordinator called my name and say hey just come on over here they do that all the time

I had no idea what to do I was just standing like a new guy on the team but it was cool to play with Ray Lewis very cool to play with Ray Lewis and Ed Reed and Holodynodianat and Terrell Suggs and all those guys very very interesting Now did you sign a one-day contract

with the Dallas Cowboys at the end of your career? No no they didn't do that. So what I winded up doing it was just retiring and then I came back to work for the Cowboys in the capacity of the scouting and then I wound up being an assistant coach. But I never did sign a one-day contract.

Did you guys know Philip Rivers had signed a one-day contract with the Chargers? Did he? Does he have to do it again? A few years ago. Yeah, that's someone does he have to do it again. So yeah, he has to restart. So since he's gone back in the league, I guess the clock of where he would be

eligible for the Hall of Fame, now starts over. So now it's five years from whenever he finishes now. Five years later that they'll have to tell him you're not a Hall of Famer. Is what I'm willing to say? Does Andre Gerard want to second that?

I will say that there are plenty of guys that are in the Hall of Fame that should be there and there are also some guys that aren't there that should be there now. So it just depends. I mean, if we're looking at Phillip Rivers, what are the metrics that we're gauging a Hall of Fame quarterback by? Is it wins? Is it an impact? Is it

yards? Well, see, and this is where... Mine is era, and you have to be one of the top five quarterbacks in your era, and I just don't think Philip Rivers was. And I agree, but then this is where it gets crazy with, like, quarterbacks and context and situation, because Eli's going to the Hall of Fame,

and you can't... I would not say that he should. I don't think he should. And I don't believe he was better than Tony. He just had up, you know, they got... And I don't think he will either. I don't think Romo or Eli will. No. I don't think either of... So you feel like Eli wasn't one of the top five quarterbacks of his era? No. No. No.

I don't think And if you Like during regular It was just like He was so It was Brady It was Manning He went on two great streaks

He did He did go on two great streaks And Romo never had the streak At that time of the year You know I mean his claim to fame Was that he did beat Tom Brady I mean Eli did

So Twice right Yeah he's gonna get in It just My little cowboy heart gets broken Because Romo didn't win enough So we had Brandon

Aubrey on earlier And I was telling him that I think Rowdy needs to calm down. He doesn't need to be in the handshake line when the starters are announced. We also saw the Seahawks mascot celebrating with the team in the end zone, and we were told that you were a mascot growing up.

I was. I was a mascot for my dad's football team. Not by choice. Not by choice. Just let you know. I did not have a whole number. My number was one half. Yeah.

Yeah, this is all true stuff right here. How old were you? I was five. And the kids that my dad was coaching, my dad and my uncle were coaching at the time, I think they were like 14 or 15. But in my mind, I didn't care if they would have said, go out there and play. I would have destroyed one of them at five years. I didn't care.

I wanted to go play. And so it was a little bit different. Like, I really wanted to play. And my mom and dad were like, you're crazy. You can't play. I'm like, yes, I can. I can go play right now. So that was the way you got around the game.

Yeah, that was it. Like, I had no fear. Like, I wanted to go hit them. and the kids were like, you're joking, right? I'm like, no. Like, you can hit me whatever that you got. I will not flinch. I don't care.

So you were kind of mixing it up in there. Trying to. Trying to. They're looking at me like, this little kid is crazy. I'm like, I don't care. I just want to play. You were always the biggest kid?

No. On your team? No? That's surprising. I was actually the second smallest offensive lineman in high school. Oh, wow. Yeah.

Okay. Had to move his light ass over to tight end. Yeah. I claimed to fame in high school is that we ran a Big Man Relay, and I was an anchor leg. All right. And we ran a 48. So we're moving.

Well, way to go. Sorry. Sorry to stereotype you. Yeah, see? Yeah. I don't know. That's all right, you know. I mean, I'm big now, but, you know, it wasn't always big.

Oh, you know. Big and hydrated. Yes. Big and hydrated with how hyper-pure oxygenate. I can't say it. Oxygenated. That's why you should just call it howl water. It's called it high water.

and uh no micro or macro plastics yeah which is very important right yeah we will mention there's no microplastic but there's also no big giant chunks of plastic no just in case just in case you know you were weren't thinking if we just said the microplastics and then you got a big hunk in your mouth that'd be a very upsetting yeah we uh you don't have any comments about like texas high school football or anything before you get out of you want to join your other Colorado coaches. It's a big weekend down here. I'm not sure why Warren said what he said.

I think it's because he's a Florida guy. He just wanted to make some type of comment about Florida and Texas football. I'm just going to say I'm happy about my high school because the Red Machine is won again. I mean, hey. Did you go? They were here, right? I could not go. But I did watch it.

I did watch it. Very proud of the organization. Very proud of the school, the people there. there's a guy that was on the sideline, Mr. Moore. He was my science teacher in sixth grade and is still working for the school district, which is crazy. Wow. But, yeah, I mean, people can go back and forth all day long about which state is the best. I know one state has the most players in the NFL, and I would say that would be the state of Texas.

So I'm not really concerned about anything anybody else to say about Texas high school football. There you go. All right. That's the great Andre Gerard. Thanks for coming up here, man. Thank you, guys, for having me. Drinkhowwater.com. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Speaking of keeping us alive. What's next? Qualis roofing puts a roof over our head. There's roof here? Look around. They're one of our great...

I'm not seeing a roof. Long time smoking. I see... I've seen a ceiling. Popcorn ceiling. A little diff. Yeah. I don't think our house has a roof, Eden.

Do you think we have? That's how stealthy they are. With other places, you sit in a room and you're like, this roof is onerous. Not this roof. In fact, Eden, didn't we go through some issues with you when you got in an accident a while ago as far as dealing with an insurance company and trying to get money from them? Do you recall that? Yep. You probably didn't have to do much of it, right?

No. But I remember at that time. You know who did. I was on the phone with the insurance. insurance company every other day, and it was just a beating because you'd have to, like, call them again, and then you'd tell them the whole story again because you get routed to somebody else, not community, I should say, Qualus Roofing, they deal with that for you. They call the insurance company. All you have to pay for is you're deductible. Get a free roof inspection.

Get a free roof inspection, Eden. Just let the boy inspect your roof. For whose roof? Just say, inspect it. Why don't you go door to door in the neighborhood for us? Point one out. So I can have them inspect somebody else's roof. It's not a horrible idea. Yeah. Now, if you do, let me tell you guys the craziest part.

If you get a new roof, okay, you pay the deductible, they deal with all the BS. You get a new roof. You get two options placed in front of you. On one hand, you can come sit on the couch that you're sitting on right there with Kip, with Bodie. Watch the show. Not with Bodie. Wow. Maybe not with Bodie.

You could see us talk, and then we'll give our opinions about things. Or you can get a Trigger Pellett Grill, one of those real fancy ones. Which would you choose? The opportunity to see us do a show live. Cowboy talk, maybe local news. Frankly, I don't need either of those things. That seems like getting, that's like getting like a stress ball to me. It's just more crap on my desk.

I do not want that. Well, then what you can give. You can gift it to somebody. Wow. Which one do you think has more value as a gift? What about one where we don't have to sit here? You'll give us a day off where you were going to have us come in. Do we get that?

If I don't even buy the roof, then I don't have to come in at all. No, literally. And I get a day off. Yeah, but now your roof's all jacked up. But your roofs all messed up, though. It's probably fine. Yeah, you got a bad roof. It's probably fun.

Oh, and I could come here and sit under your good roof. Here's the thing. You're already paying for home insurance every month. Oh, I, of course Well, my point is when you are You might as well get something out of it They'll come fix your roof Do you feel confident that you'll ever own a home?

No That's bleak Just the whole economy Will not All right No The best news here is they're aware of it Once you die

I'll take this one Oh And guess what Who put a roof on this house? I don't know I forgot the name already Qualis QuallusGC.com

Is it like koala? How do you spell that? Yeah, how do you spell Qualis? I would not know how to, I would not be able to navigate to that website. Right, why do they, yeah. How do you spell that? We did early have a massive. Well, no, early we had a big problem.

That could be a Q, that could be a K, that could be a C. It's QualisGC.com, and for a lot, a long time, we were confusing. People were like finding koala. It was like a koala's G-C football team. Very, no one has ever been confused by this. It's Q-U-A-L-S-G-C-C. dot com I'm an idiot

I'm so stupid we're just trying to help and if you don't want the help go ahead and leave at the door now back to the dumb zones have yourself a merry little Christmas let your heart be kind

from now on our troubles will be out of sight. Have yourself a merry little Christmas make the Yule Tide Gae, Dan. From now on our troubles will be miles away. Here we are golden day. Golden Days of Yo I don't know this part

Yeah this one This one was a little rough Sorry Why don't you let me Yeah take over I thought y'all would be in It's honestly never a bad idea To just go with your

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Remember him? I do yeah The guy who owns a database Of everyone named Will No no no No it's actually to get a will like a legal thing your money, everything you

own when you die. Texas wills.com Yes, Texaswills.com He says I predict I have listened to the Sub-Athon in the most states today Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Can you get to all those in one day? Oh yeah. For each state I'll be donating $20 to the food bank through the link on your website, which at, you know, dumbzone.com and then the sub-a-thon. I'm not able to get... Is it our internet here, or have we crashed our own website?

Can anyone else log on to dumzone.com? It looks like we or someone crashed our website. It's too big. That damn bad gateway. I know. That's the thing is, like, most of my days, I'm just seeing good gateways. Dumbzone here for good gateway. Yeah.

But every now and then I get an air, and they're telling me bad gateway. Well, I don't even know what that means. Pretty negative thing. Or positive? I don't know. Are we supposed to be happy? I don't think we should be happy. I'm hopping mad, as a matter of fact.

Well, it's up now. It's up now. Oh, Dumzom, it's back? Yep. Okay. Can you unhop? No, you can tell I'm still seething. So, George is still here.

Julie is still here. Julie, corrupting Jorts. he's now drinking This is my first drink I've ever had Yeah Is this a Is this a Riesling A German wine

You just needed a sub-a-thon to get you there Yeah It didn't take much But I just haven't done anything fun In a very long time So this means a lot It's been all work Happy to help

Sorry about the Christmas I used That was a lot of fun For quite some I worked with a guy Who apparently was drinking some While on the air And we didn't even know it

But I still will contend And she, this person has drank more on the air than anyone else I ever knew. Thank you. I've been working very hard at that. Yeah. And I'm finally, someone's recognizing this. Yeah. The mom game is her podcast.

Mm-hmm. Where I don't think you're allowed to be on that show without drinking. That's right. We have a wine sponsor and we can't upset them by not drinking their wine. Thank you to Coppola. We just hit 300 episodes. I think we've drank wine on just about every single one. So there.

That's something. Scoreboard. Three hundred episodes in how many years? Well, we're doing one show a week, so we're like at five. You knew I was trying to scoreboard. I just wanted to mention that whatever you say. Today's episode might be. Yeah, and let me tell you.

Okay. It really comes down to. Almost six years. Does that sound better? It really comes down in the podcast game of riches to how many episodes you've done and how many years you've been doing it. That's why TC and I are both billionaires. Oh, yes, of course. We've done infinitely more than anybody in this room for 15 years.

It doesn't matter. You couldn't just let me have my moment there for like one second. I was trying to help you by saying the numbers don't matter. He was trying to invalidate your scene. Either way. I was just trying to, yeah, I was trying to invalidate it by saying we've done many more episodes than that of the dumb zone. But yes, the year's thing sounds impressive. I think everybody's shows are great and I love you all.

Well, let's keep that drinking coming, and you'll start telling the truth. Yeah, who's your least favorite female media personality in DFTU. Me? Yeah. I don't have any that I don't. Besides Gina Miller. I love Gina Miller. And Jane's off the air now.

Jane McGarry's not even on the air anymore, is she? No, she can't rip her anymore. I know your thoughts on her. No, Jane's great. You know mine. You know my. You know my show one time. She was wonderful.

Big fan. Are you? Oh, yeah. of Jane. Yeah. Yeah, we went on her show because they had a segment called Poppin Podcast. Oh, yes. And so they featured us for a second.

And within two seconds, Emily's like, you look so much younger in person. You know, she just said one of her Emily Jones things where she's being nice, but it's like a backhanded compliment kind of thing. And I just stand there like, ugh. That's us. Yeah, I remember one time, this is a mean thing to do, but I think she got pulled over. Like maybe a little sauce or something. And I immediately was just like, I want to meet this one.

Like she was on the news, she was hot, she was partying, I don't know. Jane? Yeah. Yeah, she's great for my one time I hung out with her. Let's give our merch page another plug as well. Raymond put some special stuff up there just for today. Throughout today's sub-a-thon, there will be different specials when you go to dumbzone.com if it's not crashed and then you click on the merch page. but he also has like a special up where you can order a monthly item

so it's kind of a Christmas gifty type thing if that's your game if you get a new hat or a t-shirt a hat like this one he's got a couple new designs up there so I just wanted to mention that also would like to check in on Trey do you know what Trey's doing out there yes I thought him when I walked in but I'd love a good hard reset yeah she's still in separation mode I'll give you a good hard reset He's made no progress. Does it come with a little Lego guy?

Oh, there's Trey. Can you hear us, Trey? Who will eventually slide off the roof during this construction. So he's supposed to... I want to pay him to stop now. Like, I feel so bad. He didn't earn it. But I'm paying him to not make me feel bad.

He didn't even put the roof on it. That's just a football field. He could have sat there and done nothing and gotten just as far. We're not going to pay him. I mean, I feel like... He's got to be so sorry. That is a cement floor. No, that does look like it hurts.

I'd like to have him in here at the end and have everyone in, but it would be foolish to cut him off now, right? Like, we've got an hour left. Why not just let him go to seven? The flip side of that is there's no chance he makes appreciable progress in the next 50 to six. There's just no chance. Like, he's not even close to a symbol, really. No. He's got it laid out very nicely.

he really does honestly this is what I want my YouTube TV to do whenever there's a space there and no commercial and this is your moment of Zen instead of Zen yeah so I think we make him stop at the end of tonight

and then he has to pick back up where he left off next year and we just see how many years it takes to get this link that's a great idea Clayton I like that link letter you know Dan's after the time lapse oh that's right he loves a little boyhood

I love it, too. Yeah. I love it. So 7 a.m. next December 21st or whatever the, whatever, before Christmas, we put, like, he puts all that stuff in a bag. Packs it away. It's, it's, it was built this far last year. Let's see how far he can get from 7A to 7P next year. Because we're already kind of saying we're probably going to do this again. Yeah, I hope so. I don't know what. It's a lot of fun. Why do we put our, why do we do things like that? this. My back is sore and I don't know why. And I'm sitting in a nice chair. See, I don't like to look at Trey doing this while I complain. So can I not see Trey? Okay, now I can just tell you, my back is sore. Now the poor don't exist. Yeah. Like, do you complain to Angelo that

you're hungry? You certainly don't, right? No. Or about your job? Right. You might complain about it. I don't know. No, he called me, I think, on Thanksgiving, and I answered and I told him I was working that day. He's like, oh, you work a lot. I just thought that was kind of rich, like, yeah. Yeah, bud. Yeah. That's kind of what we have to do here. There's a reason. You're a good man, Blake. Another Brandon Aubrey book, keyword in the chat. Has there already been another hour? Well, we feel a little behind. Okay. Okay. Oh, we have a couple of things to play, too, before the end of the show. One of them is, since Julie

was so juiced about singing you know why she likes to sing and tell everybody let's do a sing along everyone because she can sing because she's got a great voice this is the guy in shape like yeah let's play skins bro

she's she's the guy she's that guy that guy's a douche she's the douche of girls because she's like yes I want every this is Mike Soroy saying hey we should have a golf tournament you know Julie's like hey look

all sing. I can't sing. I just wanted to share a warm, cozy moment with William Pace and all of you for the Christmas season. We're all the better for it. It was not self-serving. What if you have him on the mom game and do some singing? That's a great idea. I would be very locked in for that.

Anyway, Dan and Julie recorded a song. Julie and Dan did. And we just must alert you that it was done in a different time. There were things, you know, we don't

want it to be canceled today because we feel like it is art and it should just be the way it was written way back then when we wrote this song we should just air it the way it was we were thinking do we change the lyrics to right for 2025 and we decided let's keep it as is because that's just the way it is I think you're safer in yeah 25 than that's also you don't understand what the song is but also I think what you're what you mean is it was wrong then and it's wrong now we can learn from it maybe i mean it's for you to judge and we recorded it with our friends the prophets and outlaws so let's play that for a moment christmas christmas i really can't stay let's see if i can trick you i've got to go away oh julie forget me too i haven't got time maybe just have

have some wine. Tickers to ride. But women suck driving on ice. My hobby will start to worry. Beautiful what you're hurry. My hubby has been feeling so down. He is always out of town. So really I'd better scary.

I'm taking shots like Steph Curry. Hey, don't you have to dress like a clown? Why don't you put on your nightgown? Just leave me alone. But Julie, a man has need. I'm grabbing my phone. Why don't you just hit this weed? I thought cancer was bad.

You want to stop by my pad. my pad. But this is worse. Don't tease me. I'm about to burst. I'm going to HR tomorrow. Think of my lifelong sorrow. Your sexism is making me gag. Why don't you just sniff on this rag? It's 2018. I'm going to hashtag me too. You're a cutie pie This is the age of me too Your tickers are fine I think you have crossed the line

Look at that face How about I grab this can of made Gosh your lips look delicious I think you are malicious Oh Julie you are making me sad Aren't you supposed to be a good dad Gosh your lips are delicious I think your mind is vicious

It's time for us to act really bad Okay, I'm starting to get really mad What do you think? Dan, I've just gotta go Take a sip of this drink. I said the answer is no. Can I convince you to hit this babe? How come you're so obsessed with rage?

I'm way too tired to make you see. Just how think bad this would be. I'd really like to shoot my shot. But I'm only pressed box hard. Oh, Julie, don't tell. I'm going to hashtag me too. Gonna hashtag me. Oh, you two.

Yeah. Thanks. Thanks. Profits and Outlaws, the camera looks great. The shots look great. She can't sing. That's about it.

That's about all I can sing. That was so fun, though. Singing it with a band like that? That was so cool. What about the MIDI? You didn't like that? The whatever. The MIDI track?

Yeah. Yeah, when we did that years ago. My brain's so broken, I, I have thought about a mid-range jump shot. I did, too. Midi? Do people say midi? Yeah. Mark Jones.

That's what the kids these days did. Pulls up for midi. Hmm. Remember basketball? No. Kind of. That was a big discussion. I told you I talked to my buddy Joe.

Yeah. He works for the calves. And apparently they're doing very poorly. Yeah, there's a lot of what happened. into the Cavs articles out there. Do you feel like it was, like, maybe they overachieve last year? It's kind of the curse sometimes if you get too good too soon. You're like, oh, okay, now you're a one seed.

We expect one seed next year. I'm not keeping track of them, but also I will say 15 and 14 is not as bad as I thought. It's early in the year. They overachieved. They definitely overachieve, but they also have, like, a lot of players that they expect a lot of that make a lot of money. They've paid a lot of people. The Mavs are like 11 and 18 or something, right?

They're bad. I mean, the more I think about the Mavs, the more I think about Jason Kidd, and I'm pretty sure he was trying to make them suck even more to get Niko fired just so he could be done with it and be like, now it's just me. I know Mavs people are thinking he's going to be the GM. Brad Stevens, though. Oh, my gosh. He's going to be here, dude.

He's way better at this shit than NIC. is. Kid has a wall of dead bodies. Nico was trying to maybe get his first couple, you know, and Jason Kidd's going to outlast this thing. The thing is that Nico could have ended up being a GM for 20 years. Oh, yeah. You just build around this guy. Like, he was doing kind of a good job of building around the guy. It's hard to screw it up. But then he got upset with the guy.

You know. Didn't treat him like the king. But, yeah, I think kid. made them intentionally worse. I hope it's hard, dude, because I watched a couple games, and it's intoxicating. What do you mean? Cooper Flag is that good?

Oh, really? Well, I mean, I'm not breaking. No, I've been hearing. I was telling you, if you sit down and watch a whole game, you're going to be like, oh, my God. This is the future. I'm kind of sad that he's there. I don't know.

We have time. You don't know how to feel yet. I don't. Maybe in 2026. The year of Soroy. He claimed it. What? You can't pre-claim a year.

He needs one, though. That's a bullshit. Does he? Does he? I feel like he's doing five. He just got paid for a year. That's right. How was last year not the year of Mike Soroy?

Severance year was the year of Surrey. But we all essentially had the same jobs and only he was him by himself. I guess the date, I'm getting the date. He got one year of severance. We have to remember that next time he's moaning about needing a year. Yeah. That's some balsh. Yeah, the first nine months of this year was his year.

We all left our, yes, we left our job at the same time. Yeah. We ended up having to pay the amount that he ended up getting paid. Yeah, I'd be really honest. I've had his year. I never thought of it. Like, is the exact opposite. Yeah, basically we paid for his year off.

that's fine that's fine what do you got going george uh was your first year married in christmas this is uh this is three year three oh damn time has flown yeah yeah yeah yeah

i thought you might have been wearing a gregg biffle uniform under your no this is a new company i wanted to bring to you guys today because i know on podcast that's what you do this is a place called blockbuster that i yeah i've pivoted sectors a little bit for making music into helping out companies it was a good year for crypto um i'm splitting time between Vegas and miami right now i lived a little bit in Vegas this year with mike our buddy and he kind of got me on the right track right uh within the last three weeks or so things are different i've got these glasses now

you seem super confident i feel super confident i had the ability to ask i had the ability to ask julie to move her stuff that was in this chair when i was I got here. Old Jordan, no chance. With confidence. I thought that was interesting. I would have just set right on the water bottle. Right. He would have. Yeah, he gave me a little, shoot, shoot, shoot your stuff away from me. Uh, but things are different. I'm helping out a company this year called Blockbuster. I just wanted to come on and

kind of rep things. I might still be doing music. If you guys ask, maybe I'll do something. But if you guys want to get into the studio, we could probably work on something together. I've actually took, uh, have taken over Diddy's place. Yeah. in South Florida at a very good premium

and uh premium yeah stuff is badass man yeah 26 is going to be my year I'm a fight okay I'm a fight a lot of people are vying for yeah that's right Julie wants a piece of it but it's going to be the year of blockbuster

yeah it's going to be the year of blockbuster and the manisphere is expanding yeah it's contracting but then it expands Mike gets a little he gets his wings every time yeah Jordan asserts I'm on the double wave. Thanks, Mike.

I wanted to shout you out. I met you for like 15 minutes when you were taking us to that strip club, too, a few years ago. I told you I played drums with Anderson Pack and you couldn't be bothered. But look at us now, brother. Dude. To 2026 to the dumb zone. Just destroying. Oh, yeah.

Cheer. I just want some of this aura to rub off on me just a little bit. And I was saving this for the end of my little bit. bit. Thank you, Dan, for giving me this time, by the way. It's been such a good Q4 that I'm here to pledge real quickly. Real quickly. My father, telephones are very near and dear to my heart. My father, Stan, actually produced the Jerry Lewis Telethon in the late 70s. And so if this happens again next year, love to bring him on. I think he could offer some stuff if he gets his knee fixed and can make it from the parking lot. I want to pledge $25. Whoa.

What a year you must have had. Boy, he wasn't playing around. Right here. Did you crush it this year? That is a trip to Torchies for one. Luckily, almost said. Yeah, yeah, that's right. I crushed it.

I put it in a ball and I threw it into a trash cam from across the room and I made it. Kobe. Oh, what I mean? And I yelled Kobe. Yeah. Yeah, I almost yelled Cooper, but that's not safe in here. But anyway, thank you. Thank you guys.

You're welcome, man. That's the most great. Love your outfit. Thanks, Mike. Thanks. I got this suit at the airport. Yeah. Okay.

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Hopenie. Hopony. Hey, look what it's time for. Hi, you there, folks. It's time for Hood County News with Blake Jones. Did you know that it was time for this? I guess I didn't. Oh, it's Christmas.

We got stuff to complain about in Hood County. To reset the bit for the people in the studio. And for people watching. I don't know what's, maybe it was a gummy. I think it was a THC gummies in an elementary school that took us to a Hood County breaking news Facebook group. And this is where people in Hood County go to help a lost dog. They have opinions on text dogs. Whatever.

Yeah. This is just where Hood County people go to really complain. Can I give you one Hood County update? The other day we were talking about a guy who has a house on Lake Granbury where he built a 50 probably going to end up being $70 million golf course for himself. And I've spent a lot of time out there. T.C. and his family have spent a lot of time out there. And I said, you know, Granbury, it's not like a place you don't think of it as upity.

I said, well, there's some nice houses out there, you know, but somebody sent me an article from 2010. Granbury has the most millionaires per capita in Texas. Now, it's not that big of a place, which means there's only about four or five hundred of them there. Still, you had never said that. Never. Yeah. It's like the Bohemian Grove of North Texas. In a weird way, you're like, oh, they live out there?

The people have, but. Wow. Those people have to, those millionaires live in a place with Facebook comments like this. Let's see. John is asking, anyone in town have four dozen tamales for sale. I just thought that was very, like, oddly specific. Right. Wait, I need four dozen.

Right. No more, no less. And be clear, he's willing to pay. He's a for sale. Yeah, pay, but you need to have the specific number. I love these. This is posted anonymously. it says hi everyone i want to start this post with no intention of receiving gratitude hence why i'm posting

anonymously and then they go on for three paragraphs about how nice they were because they bought a homeless guy a meal okay we see what this is we see what this is you want a little bit of credit yeah yeah not everybody has their podcast job they can take it to and let everybody know what good people they are and then a separate second podcast about that yeah Well, that's his podcast. Sponsored by Cardboard Box. Yeah, it feels like... You can do anything.

It feels like some people know you're not... I probably shouldn't say that. But, well, okay, you know, like, have you ever seen Theo Vaughn talking to Druski about the N-word? No. I write it down sometimes. Yeah, Drusky's talking to him and he's like, yeah, you know, he's like, you can't say it. And Theo Vaughn's like, I know. Sometimes I just get real mess.

and I know I can. I just write it down. And I feel like that's what this person is doing. They know that they're not supposed to take credit and the religious way for this homeless person, but they also need to say it. They have to get it out. They need to get it out that they did something good

for someone and share it, even if they can't put their full name on it. They want it out there. Yeah. They need to be told that they did a good thing, but not outwardly seek it. I hate this circle. There's no chance that.

That person is, like, in a relationship or has people around them, right? They need an outlet just to tell somebody. They're just, like, alone, like, sitting there with this good deed, and it's like, they have to do something with it. They were talking about their husband, but maybe he doesn't listen. Maybe. Maybe. Most of them don't.

That's why they need to call in Teddy Bridgewater. Thank you. Oh, all right. Commercial guy. Dude, now they got Tommy DeVito in there. Okay. This one is from Aaron. It doesn't make as much sense.

I guess he played in New York. Yeah, but he's like a backup one time. Teddy Bridgewater, all the other guys. Teddy Bridgewater makes sense. Gardner Minshew or something. Yeah. Yeah. This is from Aaron, spelled with an E, pretty sure it's a female.

I want to thank the gentleman and the officer who helped me get out of the middle of the intersection. And 377, I was broken down. Everybody was honking and yelling at me while I was blocking the intersection. I couldn't even get it pushed to the side. My husband and blah, blah, blah, blah. She then says, on another note, I'm one of those people who will stop and help someone when they're broken down. And the fact that everyone was just yelling at me, honking, some even flipping me off and blocking the intersection, or going around me honking, next time maybe think it could be your wife or your daughter that's broken down and everybody was doing it too. I don't know what happened to Granberry, but people used to be nice and help each other.

Am I right? Yeah. I feel her on that. She just had the worst day and just ends it with. You know, Granbury used to be nice. Yeah I challenge that I mean I'd love to know The timeline there Like well nobody's gonna stop If the cops are there

I think they probably got it handled Don't the reason you don't stop Is because you don't want to create More problem on the road That and like I can't help you Yeah I don't know what I'm looking at Hey is everything okay

No okay well I'll call somebody fine Right That's pretty empty I'll help you Wow we have a picture for this next one um no name on this it just says is anyone in the shady grove area missing a pot belly pig it's in my yard on action highway look at this big sum bitch oh my gosh what if that was in your yard yeah it looks like it means business too

i got to run to facebook that's what they say they're like i'm going to take a picture of this and run to facebook i guess what else would you do what is your next play right it's not what you call 911. But it's not like a wild one? Like aren't there wild boars taking over the world or something? Yeah, that's not that's not that. That's obviously a pet? I wouldn't know. Would you know? Would you say, oh,

I know that's obviously a pet? This guy might know. T.C. Someone over here seemed to think well, I know T.C. tracked and killed a wild boar. I don't think I would know either. He spent weeks out of him. My guess is, yeah, he was picking up the dust and just sort of.

I know that the wild ones look really... Kneeling on the ground. That's why they call him tracker. Really gross. He tastes it. He's like, yeah, that's the dropping thing. Fresh. That one looks almost cartoonish. But I guess, yeah, you go right to Facebook. Because, like, I'm almost

guaranteeing you the rightful owner of that pig got it back. Yeah, that's bad. Oh, damn. That's some kids FFA show pig. If you were on a desert island or whatever, you're in a space and the only thing that you could eat was that

pig if it's alive though and I say to you I need you to that's the only way you're going to stay alive do you stay alive do you figure out how to kill that pig how to get the meat out of it so let's start with what do you have six to ten days the most no food you're good I assume we're good on water but yeah like yeah a month that's all I was going to say is I feel like I've heard of people going longer But you know, like, you're just not going to survive till rescue will get there sometime, but you're aware somehow. There's no real weapon. You're going to have to fashion like a blunt object or something, right?

Yeah. Hell, let's say even, I gave you a gun to kill the pig. Now what? Can you eat it? I think if I had a knife, I could eat. Would you figure out what's safe part of it to eat? I mean, you're pretty much, I think, safe. It's not a matter of, it may not be, like, good tasting or nutritious, but there's nothing in the house.

Do you have to cook it or can you eat it raw? Go for the fat. Yeah. I think you can eat it raw. Can you? No. No, you cannot eat pork raw. That's bad.

If you, uh, my God. You can't, can you eat any of it raw. No. Like the ear. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like, is there any part of it that's not the, you try out the ear, you can gnaw on it. Like a jerky. Like, yeah, like you're an Australian shepherd.

But I also think like your biggest. Like the balls, like a delicacy. in Mississippi. Cattle. The biggest problem you're going to have still is starting a fire. I might even, I'll give you a fire. I'm giving you a gun and a fire.

Oh, geez, dude, I'm living like a king. I believe you are. I'm talking to him. I've got moccasins made out of that thing. Gun, you're killing the pig pretty quickly. Yeah. The dress, you know, I mean, it doesn't have to be perfect. Okay, let's take away the gun.

I give you the fire, though. Oh. How do you kill the pig? I think a rock and that's going to be... No, you're chasing the pig around? Yeah. You're wrestle it? What's the move? Here's our, yes, here's our guy.

Now, I'm really talking to Jake, but tell us how we should do it. Okay, so depending on the terrain, you would build some sort of corral system with branches and work the pig towards that corral system, close it in, and then with either a blunt object or a stick, you would stick it right behind the ear is the softest spot. That's where they kill the bull in a bull fire. Oh. And put the sword right. Whatever it is.

And then goodbye. With it. His first inclination is, I don't know that I could construct a pen, but you do want to, like, you want to cut the reed of the field down to half, right? Like, you don't want to chase it around the whole island. So you would want to corner it, I would think, pretty quickly with, like, a fort. Like, build up, like, some wall type situation. By the way, you have an unlimited supply of Game Day Men's Health, TRT,

because you got, you know, for this trip, you got on a desert island, but somehow that survived. You have all the... I mean, I would be have it ready for market by night one. I would have cleaned it. It would be perfect cuts of pork, just with game day coursing through my veins. All right, to the other side of the spectrum, this is from William. And I can't read all of this.

I'll just give you some of it. He begins with buckle up because in the next four to eight weeks, the annual flood of we need to rehome our pet posts are coming. And honestly, I'm already furious just thinking about it. Every year it's the same people who sprinted out to buy puppies, kittens, rabbits,

whatever for Christmas. Now suddenly they're allergic, moving, having a baby, too busy, shocked the animal group, can't believe it sheds, or didn't realize pets need food. People who honestly... Not this year.

He's going to get in front of it. People who do that should honestly just go ahead and drink that bottle of bleach, in my humble opinion. Go ahead, ask me how I really feel. I dare you. Oh, wow. They are P-Oed. And he's got a list for everything. Like just sitting there seething now.

Yeah. Preparing you. Like in three weeks. Pre-med. You didn't know you had allergies. Give me a break. Buy allergy meds. Don't you dare make an innocent animal pay for your lack of awareness.

You didn't know you were having a child? Easy fix Within a few weeks Yeah that's That's really weird to rant about He ends it Here's the part that really burns If the roles were reversed

Your dog would never give up on you There's no way that's true The second you stop feeding a dog Yeah And then two more This person Cynthia is trying to help A homeless couple in need

Big Hood County name, Cynthia. Oh, wow, yeah. Yeah. Homeless couple needs an apartment or mobile home rental for $800 a month for their budget. They're expecting a baby in January and living on their own. It's breaking my heart to see this. Guy's very handy and has a job, but she can't work. She's too pregnant.

Does anyone have a rental for them? Okay, Cynthia's trying to be nice. Justice comes in. Justice. Oh, that guy's bad. Let me remind you, a homeless couple in, in need. They're looking for somewhere to rent for 800 bucks. Not unlike Joseph

and Mary. Very good. Very good. Timely. Justice says, can they do 900? Always scheming. Got to find that angle. And then I'll leave you with this. It's very sad to wake up. This is from Natasha.

I'm very sad to wake up this morning to find someone stole our Christmas and Our daughter is three years old, and this is the first Christmas. She is really into the season. Our neighborhood has been nothing but good to us, but it was devastating to wake up and see a true Grinch has stolen this from our family. That's a victim of Christmas mischief. Right there.

Do you ever participate in Christmas mischief? You know, like stealing the inflatables? Yeah, I was thinking about this the other night, and it wouldn't always be Christmas focused, but it would just happen during Christmas. It was something about people having stuff in their, yards that made you want to mess with everything. And I was driving down 1709 the other day, and I remember

throwing a... 25 years ago, I threw a rock through the front of Carroll High School over the Christmas break, just winged it, smashed the whole one. That's a pretty major mystery. I know. But it was the same night that we were driving around and gluing

the, you know, the red circle stickers on people's Lexuses and beamers or whatever that had their like South Lake sticker on there. And that's a thing is like you say Christmas nothing had to do with Christmas right there was something we were off you know yes and it's like all right now let's get out and it wasn't because it was messed stuff up but yeah people created Antifa dude and I remember I remember there was a story probably everybody has one like this of of somebody who was out messing with doing Christmas

mischief and you just you know you'd get one light string and then just drive off and it would rip like the entire light down one like from a house Just, like, come outside. It's going to be the last straw for some, like, 50-year-old dad. Oh, dude, think about how many. To get those things up. It's the last straw for him. And it's, that's, again, downstream effect for her.

How many domestic situations from kids just like. Oh. One step further. Yeah, you took that in a dark area. There's no doubt it spikes during the holidays. There's no doubt, right? Why? Just because of all.

Domestic violence. Proximity, booze. Like you said, yeah, and you're just off. Right. Yeah. Mother-in-laws. And she, how many mother-in-laws died? She tends to get a little lippy.

Yeah. You know, I mean, think of it. Let's look at both sides of this. She knows how you get when you drink. Yep. You do any mischief? I mean, she made the eggnog. What's she expect?

Package not delivered. She'll be row, yeah. Thanks for stopping by Hood County. y'all come back now I hope that guy found exactly 48 tamales Okay we have about 40 minutes left or so We're going to have one more pre-recorded break We have some viewer mail

And we have some viewer mail birthdays Exciting You want to do Let's do one of them Let's do a few birthdays Happy birthday And then we got some good viewer mail but a lot of people send in their birthday.

So we should get that out there. We generally do this daily on our program. And we start with Dear Commander and Quiff. Today is my girlfriend Julie's birthday. I woke her up in that special way by penetrating her balloon knot. Her leaders are Blake's... Good Lord.

What I don't know. Jeez. Read that again? I'm just reading words. Her leaders are Blake's little junk in the moose knuckle. My leaders are Dan. The box's microphone came in. And Duncanville Mike.

We've got to get Henry. Long live Dan's pet bird from B.H. Corey. Dear mayor of Mingetown. Today is my girlfriend's flag capital of the world birthday. She's probably not going to hear this because she doesn't understand that listening to grown men talk sports can somehow be meaningful. I'm an IJB listener for well over 10 years. My leaders are Jake, T.C.

The time T.C. went to live in Vegas but acted like he was in the FBI. And IJB's love for using the phrase, I feel like we've given that arrest. But that's a good man. We appreciate your support. The FBI. P.S., when I opened a package from the Dumb Zone, the car tray that Dan sent me, she filmed me opening it and said she'd never seen me smile bigger or happier.

Call me a flag myself, but I love you. Okay, yeah. A tray unboxing. Yeah, I think this guy has some kind of physical thing and couldn't make the thing, so I sent him a tray. That's nice. And if you guys, if anybody wants to lie to me and tell me that they can't make the thing because they're whatever, I'll probably, I might do it again. I don't know. This guy seemed extra cool, though.

He's Corbyn. Oh, nice. Dear Uncle Ham Fighter, it's my guy, Daniel Gardner's Lawrence Vickers' birthday. Great callback. A fullback? Yeah. Number 17. Wow.

Well, he says 47. Yeah, it would be 47. Not in Colorado, he was 17. Ooh, now we're fighting. He gave you all the Goodfellas poster. Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Leaders. Heppela's Sherman Tank she's working with.

Fuck, fuck the uptops. Didn't we want to do a thing for the year for me to look back To all the things that people have said about Sarah Or to me We have a People will send in euphemisms for Sarah's Yeah, I've heard So is she

Oh What does she expect? Oh Dave Julie? Does she know where she is? Does she know as she listened to the show? Drop request, racist

Soroy from Ryan Payne. I don't think I've laughed harder this year. Then when we found the racist soroy. I don't think we should play without him here. Right. We need to let him defend himself. Yeah. Because he said the word.

Dear Dumbzone leaders, I like to wish my co-worker and fellow D.F. Sean Bloodgood. Happy birthday on Tuesday. Hope he got woken up in that special way. It's almost Christmas after all. Let's see. This is from Johnny Outlaw. Good dude.

Great dude. What's up, Dan, the manual stimulation man. Birthday to one of our dear friends in the chat, Carly, December 30th. Awesome. Oh, yeah, Carly's in there now. The other birthday shout-out is to me. She'll chat and drive on you.

He says also Tuesday, December 30th, it was 1975. You're one and only Elyseo-Arod fighting machine Rodriguez. My leaders are Jake Squawk laughs, weekly chat interactions with my dumb friends, ripping on Vegas mic. loving my new son Henry and of course the dumb bite that effing tongue oh and Carly sent in her own birthday thing but we got some for you Carly

her birthday it's her Joe Milton plus M. Raffle birthday Dude don't even I don't what was M. Raffle was 43? No well she claims her birthday is 28 so

M Raffle He was a big part of things. It was not. He all just love his name and it cracks me up. Ruffle. And Zach says, a birthday shout out to my buddy, Josh Loinette.

You may remember him as the marketing guy who helped you guys in the early Dumb Zone days or so he claims. He absolutely did. He has his 44th birthday on Christmas Day and just like Jesus he too likes being nailed on a cross His heroes are Jake when he was a sexy baby

Joint birthday and Christmas gifts and Kevin Farley's sports opinions Man Joint gifts Because he's born on Christmas day Yeah Oh I see birthday Christmas Yeah yeah I'm doing that for my husband currently

Yeah not the kind of gifts he's birthday on Christmas Day? 29th. Such an afterthought. Yeah, I feel like a week is the cutoff. Kristen's birthday is a week from Valentine's. And it's like, well. Just you can put it together.

I can get you something big. Get big Lego sets. This whole life. An extra hundred dollars. Honey, every day is Valentine's Day if I'm with you. Oh, my God. Do you ever hear about dudes who did stuff like that? You'd hear...

They ruin your life. And like, what are you doing? Guys who are like write a note every day or whatever? Right. His lady will tell my wife and like, oh, how come so-and-so writes a note? And yes, he opens the fridge and finds a note on the milk. It's like, these are bad people. They're not. Oh, but, okay.

They're real. They just truly have that much love to give. Julie, you would They would laugh a man out of your life if you got home and he'd put a little note on the miller. I bet Julie would love it. I would love it. She would love it. I would love it. That's why we can't be

with Julie. That's the reason. Well, I didn't stop the other guy. It's not like he's, what do you think he's main character from the notebook? He's a hockey coach. We don't know what he is behind the scenes, bro. Well, still. I mean, everybody's got a little. He does not write notes. He does not write notes.

Okay. Jake's right on with all that. Game Day Men's Health is our biggest sponsor and... And big thanks. And we're here with Ava and Eden. Yes. And we thank Game Day Men's Health. You know they're the sponsor of our studio.

You were in the Game Day Men's Health studio. Oh, yes. I did see that. It was nicely decorated for Christmas. A while back during the Sub-Athon, some of these commercials, like this commercial, we might be playing it during some of the replay stuff in the sub-a-thon. Isn't that exciting?

Oh, very. So it's not so very exciting. This is live on the tape. We're recording live spots right now. This one's for Game Day. Game Day Men's Health. You know what Game Day Men's Health does? No.

Guess who they help out? Men. Oh, I can't really be caring about that. I can't be caught caring. So just they're a little bit. exclusive like that just men what if a woman needs help they will help the woman as well but they cater to men we're not 90% men we're we're you're the ones putting this in category we said men we didn't say who that applies to that could be anybody like mankind is that what they

mean there you go they may they could start call it man's health and for game to any like man's best friend uh it's testosterone oh what we're gonna start what even is it yeah what is the product It's testosterone. Well, that's one of their main deals. That's the one I can speak to personally. A little gender affirming care. Exactly. Love that for you.

That is what it is. It makes me feel like a man. Now, if you just walk in off the street and you've never listened to the dumb zone, you never heard of us, and you don't mention the dumb zone, you'll pay full price. But if you mention, hey, I heard about you on the dumb zone, like you can whisper it to him because you're embarrassed, right? Why am I embarrassed? You don't want to listen to the dumb zone. Oh, I thought we were embarrassed about that.

No, no. Yeah, the dumb zone thing makes sense. In fact, you're more embarrassed of the dumb zone thing than you are that your dick doesn't work. Oh, is that what this is for him? You can't do it for a wiener thing. All of the above, really. It really is. It's all of the above.

They'll help. Yeah, they can help with a... Put you in a better mood. Way better mood. But the TRT replacement is their main deal and 10% off of that for life. For life. If you mention the dump zone. What is?

That's pretty good. Is this like a gel? Is this like a pill? Is this like, what is this? Yes. All of the above? Could be a shot. Yeah.

Oh. And they will test your tea for free. They do peptides. Could be a little cream. That's like a gel, right? That's cream. They'll put a little cream on it. Yeah, but then you don't want to rub it on other people.

You don't want to brush up on any of your little dog. Any of your lady friends. Because then you'll turn them into a man. Do a man? Is that how that works? What if that's what you're into? Well, you're so scientific. Thank you.

That's what I'm going to school for. Yeah. Anyway, Game Day Men's Health, 12 area locations. Gameday.dumzone.com. We've even heard of people like they live in Austin or they live in Denver. They're like, hey, I went into my game day and mentioned the dumb zone. They gave me the discount. So try it wherever you are.

Try it up in New York. Try it like a Kmart. I seriously doubt there. I don't think I need to start showing. I'm going to start mentioning the dumb zone just next. anywhere see if it you know we should be bumper stickers what why would stickers I've been thinking that is the worst gift that you could give someone is a bumper sticker that you genuinely expect someone to put on their bumper sticker that you're gonna

follow up you're gonna I mean you may not verbally but you're gonna look at their car next time you see him yeah where's the coexist if yeah if it's something stupid then it's like obviously they're not gonna put it on what if mom got me in I heart my wife bumper sticker you would put that in the shredder you know those are only for guys who cheated on their wife well yes or like caught a case or something but it ain't it's not so would you put it on your car it's not for regular people we were in federal court i wouldn't i wouldn't use a bumper sticker i would actually just paint it on my car oh wow if she wanted it wrap get her face wrapped what do you guys think of uh the like stick figures and you put like your dog and your 10 kids

What happens if someone dies? I bet a bunch of those people kill it off. Or your kid gets in like an accident. Do you like turn it sideways? Yeah. Or do you put the prohibition sticker over it? Like the red circle. Like, uh, or you fade it.

You fade it? Well, that's a good one. Game day. Yeah, gameday. Yeah, game day. Yeah, it's a special, special one. Well, this one's just dot com. I don't know if I should trust.

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I want to wish you a Merry Christmas. I want to wish you a Merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart. I have a great Christmas gift idea for all of you out there. Some merch from Lone Star Beer's website. Oh, okay. For your friends. For your frowness.

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I did not say anything about worse I said different I like freaky stuff two more Brandon books first two get it and then we're done oh gosh this is a guy who's short on short on time here not happy dealing with the chat

are you Blake now we're done okay thank you to Brandon Aubrey so let's have everybody come in here before we sign off, but do we want to try to do some viewer mail? Yeah. Before we roll?

Let's see. What have we got here? We got this. Hey, it's prophets and outlaws. Again. Uncle hot mail, look at me. Is there an email in your box for me? I got a quick gummy thought here.

This from Matt. They say water levels are. rising in certain areas, Antarctica, Dubai, et cetera. If the water is all connected via the oceans, why wouldn't it rise a little bit everywhere? Actually, I don't know if it ruins it to know, but... Go on. How is the water rising isolated to a certain area? I think it's the glaciers.

Like, as the glaciers melt, like the... It's not just that the water levels rising everywhere. that certain glaciers are melting and then it pushes the water in a certain direction. Like Miami's especially... In the path? Yeah. And I think it's because like diagonally up that way,

there's a big glacier that's pushing the water that direction. And Lake Michigan doesn't go up like 0.000-0-0-0-1. The Great Salt Lake is drying out. Uh-huh. It's because all the salt. right yeah that's totally doesn't sound so great to me what's uh lake meed

is that the one created by the the big dam there's something unique about like mead so that I'm going to say yes I think it's been very very low for a while there you go we're feeling it in Vegas yeah

yeah yeah I got a couple follow up things movie stuff we talk about the movie fire you know how I'm upset about the movie fire baby yeah Justin says you're dead on about that

you never see a movie guy using a Dura Flame log to get it started either he says even more egregious representation in movies does exist I submit to you digging a hole oh my God yeah these fools will dig a shallow grave

that is five feet long and three feet deep and 30 minutes to bury a body or whatever. God, that's a great point. With just one shovel. It is so hard to dig a hole. Meanwhile, it takes me half a day to dig two holes to plant new plants in the spring. Digging holes is quite hard and effing, exhausting

in real life. Yeah. I have an idea. This is me now. After reading this, I thought this is a bet payoff for next year. Dig a big hole?

Dig a grave-sized hole. or just a live you could not do like a live stream what if it's a whole contest and it's you know we somehow three of us are on the live stream try to win that whole contest bro this will never show up in court my google search subpoena how long would it take to take a crave with a shovel a couple other follow-ups they are anchor words by the way the guess is like four to five days You're just round the clock, dude. Okay, we're not doing that. This is a drug school punishment. I've done some digging in the prime of my life. You're not doing a grave in a day.

The problem is, as I've found, is when you move the dirt, there's more. There's so much more. It just keeps being more falling in there. Think about it's easiest at the beach, and whenever you and Carter are digging something out. You think you could do a grave? No. Some of these anchor words might be repeats, but who knows? We have, from Scott, Tribulations.

That's on there, yeah. Trial thing. No, actually, I've just been going through tribulations lately. Nothing else? No. No trial. No. And then one for this time of the year.

He says, Mary. M-E-R-R-Y. That is a weird one that doesn't really... Go ahead. Come drink and be merry or something like that? Occasionally you hear that, but that's a hedge case. Have I ever heard somebody say that? You might have seen it written.

They're trying to be Christmas-y. But if I say the word merry, what's attached to it? Juneteenth. Could be Juneeteenth. I've got two anchor phrases. First, dispensation, it's always special. Yeah. Never common.

That's true. Average. and this is from Tim after watching the Army Navy game Away, A-W-E-I-G-H. Anchors. I don't even know that's how you say away. I just would have assumed there was the regular way. The other way? Both people are just trying to do their own language all the time.

They live in another world. Starboard. What is that? It's left. Oh, what if you just said left? Well, what if you're a face in the back of the boat? then it wouldn't be left. So is Starboard always left looking forward?

Yes. Okay. What's right? Port. Port. I used to know that. Dad had a boat. Aren't you glad you don't anymore?

Hey, me too. Dad, number two. Okay, go ahead. We got one about where are all the clothes going. I thought that was an interesting email. We had a gummy thought email. Like, where are all the clothes? Like, all the clothes.

There's new fall lines. of clothes all the winter stuff and then spring now it's not in the store anymore didn't all get sold and the next year they have new line of clothes they don't put those old crappy where are they are they in guatemala with the rangers 2011 world series winning t-shirts yeah with uh the Cuomo wins NYC yeah turns out you're not that far off I mean there's probably a bunch of different places but Garrett sent us a National Geographic article about how this works globally and there are massive like clothing graveyards.

One of them is in Chile in the desert. Chile has apparently become the world's dumping ground for our old clothes. And between 2000 and 2014, clothing production doubled and consumers began buying 60% more clothes and wearing them for half as long. So we're just burning through them.

Three-fifths of all clothing is estimated to end up in landfills or incinerators within a year. And a lot of that ends up in Chile. And the photos are dystopian, but cool. It's just a dump that's stories high. That seems really wrong when you are doing clothing drives for the homeless and this and that. You know, I learned a term. You just throw all that away. Yeah, you're trying to give it another life.

Yeah, and some of the stuff does get recycled and, you know, there are, I guess, that they call like circular economic, like people who are trying to make sofas out of them and stuff. But as it stands, Chile is like a dumping ground, massive dumping ground for the fall line of fashion at Gap. I was talking to her good buddy, Justin, at AT&T Stadium who had to work all the high school games. And he said, if you thought like the Rangers 2011 shirts were bad, picture the 1A high school that had state championship shirts made for all 70 players that now have to be shipped somewhere where I don't know somebody gets to wear a Duncanville 2025 state champion shirt that didn't see the lie today

you probably don't have to ship it as far yeah it's true you don't think about that though just dump it over the border in Oklahoma you're fine what about a what about a blindside style movie where a kid in Guatemala receives that shirt is a child and then works his way to America to start for them his senior year in high school and he's Indian yeah he could be Indian

is that what your new company blockbuster is working on it'll be available there we have a way of where you can get movies and take them home damn nice Tom get like candy and stuff Tom checks in real quick

it smells funny too starboard is right and port is left There you go. Well, it depends on which way you're facing them. Just set it confidently knowing if you have a 50% chance to be in right. I have a really good one here. You want a really good one? Yeah.

Always. And this is my last one. This just came in today, but it's called Subject Line, and it's not signed. Insane Elementary Immersive Experience. Maybe you need to first lay out why this is a follow-up. Yeah, so we've been talking about this. I just had the memory of an exercise we did. I think I've narrowed it down to social studies in sixth grade.

So this is 95, 96, and we did a game, an immersive experience in class where they divided the students up by class, by race. I guess you kept your same gender. They gave you a job, and they would give you little cards to tell you what your life was going to be like. Like, you can go to this school. You can afford this meal. You cannot. You live on this side of the room and you're poor and you can't have snacks and you have to do extra homework and so they were just trying to display like hey if you've got this life works one way if you've got this most of you life's going to work another way and it was pretty you know it was I remembered it and then I when I spoke about that heard a bunch of people who had had similar experiences be it about economics or like the holocaust and the experience of being you know subjugated because of your demographic Okay, well, this might have something to do with one of those things.

He said I heard some of the listener immersive experiences growing up. I think mine might take the cake. For context, I went to a private Christian school very close to Jake's current neighborhood. And in the mid-2000s in the sixth grade, we read The Hiding Place. This is a book that centered around building hiding places for Jews during the Holocaust. Do all small Christian schools read the same books? This is a big one for you, Blake? Oh, I remember this, yeah.

My school decided to do a week's long immersive experience while reading the book. Don't tell me they, okay, go ahead. Where a rotating group of kids in the class was selected to be Jews that week. Outfitted with Star of David pins. Uh-oh. We're at the line. But the email's not over. Oh, no.

Those kids got extra homework. No recess. Could not sit with the other kids in class or at lunch, and they had to do all the lunch cleanup. Oh, my God, dude. But it didn't stop there. The group was also tasked with building hiding places in the classroom. All right.

Then there was the line. And, of course, the reason the hiding places were necessary is because there would eventually be a, quote, Raid, where the Nazis, and then in parentheses, parents who were a little too excited to come to the school dressed up in full Nazi regalia. No way. No way. Holy crap.

This whole thing? Would raid the classroom? Would raid the classroom. and the kids selected to be the Jewish kids that week would have to hide in the hiding places. Now, this is a yearly tradition at the school. But I believe my year was one of the last, but they did it because the Nazi parents went a little too over the top,

pulling fire alarms, blaring air horns, screaming into bullhorns that really scared us kids. And one of the kids who had to hide that week, as one of the kids who had to hide that week, I could certainly say I was traumatized. in a way that certainly was immersive. 20 years later, looking back on the experience, it was so insane and insensitive

that I don't even feel good to have my name connected to this. And I feel like I need to apologize to someone for the insensitivity of it all, despite being just a middle school kid. Yeah, man, that is a definite, different level of hardcore involving the parents. Definitely. And why there was like a scared,

straight element to it? Yeah. What's that going to teach you? Right. I promise, I won't be Jewish. I won't be born a minority. Yeah. That's, I swear it off.

Man, that is hardcore. Yeah. I think that's all we got. That's a good place to end. Our happy holiday. Right. Jeez, I don't know. I think it is.

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samples of the I like feeling the carpet Oh, yes. Do they do carpets? Little tiles? What is it a floor, Ava? So they do carpets or floors, you said. Let's think about this for just more than one second. Yes, they do carpet.

They do anything your floor could be made of. Could do. Well, that's on you. To describe it to the customer. That's what I'm doing. Including me. You want a nice dirt floor? They got it.

Dirt floor. Yeah. They'll bring you a sample. And right now. I mean, if they do it all. They have an offer. I gather you two are not too optimistic about the future of, like, the American economy, okay? Floors, 36-month, zero-percent financing, nothing down.

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You could eat on it. Buy now, pay later. You could get a new floor for the Healy. The Healy's your dad got you for Christmas. I saw somebody at Grapevine Mills the other day. Oh, yeah. Just. I saw someone in Ithaca who is, he did that over ice and he kind of ate it.

Do you remember Healy's, Ava? Do. You were great with him. I do. I used to wear those things daily for like a year. They were so awesome. I remember I got a pair and I wanted to wear them around the American Airlines Center because when I went to the post game show after a Stars game, I wanted to, you know, kind of scoot over there and I never could. It just didn't work with my body.

Do you think now with your new game day men's health body? Again, this is a flooring direct spot. I know, but still. I know. I didn't want them to get confused and go back to the. Yeah. They're all friends, though. Flooring Direct loves them, some Game Day Men's Health.

Now, yeah, maybe I could do it. I could do it on my new floor from Flooring Direct. Except we have tiles, so it's going to be like, click, click, click, click. Well, why don't we get a new floor? Get a new floor, man. We're going to schedule. We are going to schedule this when you guys go back to college. A free estimate, have someone come out.

They'll bring the samples. They have a showroom in Dallas. They bring the floor. They bring the floors to you. And, you know, you can kind of take a look at what this might look like against my wall. Flooring direct. DFW.com slash DZ. That's important.

Oh, you should go there. They have like a little bio about us. Oh, which we definitely wrote. No, I don't think we did. Is that what you're saying? What is it? Flooring direct. That's easily my least favorite thing to do.

What is it? Read someone else's bio of us? Write a bio. Like when someone's like, you read me a little bio? I'm like, I don't know, I'm gay I don't know what you want to say. Loring direct DFW slash dZ

Yeah Or dot com You don't even know your own sponsor? Slash DZ I'm asking Who are you asking? It also works slash dumb zone Apparently here

There's a video here Of us Of us talking to Kyle Gibson Oh wow, okay That's confusing, but... All right, I'm going to read the Flooring Direct website to you guys. Okay, perfect.

You like a four-minute live spot? That's what we got here on the holiday week of the Dumb Zone. Pretty exciting. Ready? The Dumb Zone is where sharp minds meet unapologetic humor. Oh, damn, son. I'm never apologizing. I'm a sharp mind.

Really? Hosted by Dallas Media Favorites, Dan McDowell, Jake Kemp, and Blake Jones. Blake made it? I knew that wasn't going to go. Blake's on there? Blake made it to the dump zone.

Where's he at then? Where's he out in this spot? He didn't make it to the spot. You're filling in for him. The show dives into sports news and entertainment with a style that is fearless, funny, and entirely their own. Did chat GPT write this?

Almost assured, Lane. Is there an M-Dash? This is insane. After years of dominating the airways on 1310 to take a Dan, Jake. Dan and Jake launched the dumb zone in July 2020-3 to create without limits. Oh, I see a limit. I say, no, sir. I'm creating.

With Blake rounding out the crew. Well. With Blake rounding out. It's like a neutral assessment. It's not like with like taking it to the next love. Yeah. The chemistry is undeniable and the conversation is always fresh. Oh, yeah.

Except for this one that you're hearing from eight days ago pre-recorded. But this is live at the time, right? This is, but the show is in. Live at the time is driving me nuts. It is fresh. Flooring direct is proud and excited to be supporting Dan, Jake, and Blake in this great DFW-based podcast. Now that, I love.

That's good. How do you like that, girls? What did you say N-Dash? Is that like a giveaway? M-Dash, yeah. What does that mean? It's like the, it's just the, like a dash. Chat-T-D-T throws a lot of them into their paragraphs that they give you.

And there's very much, lots of times when you see, like, blah, blah, blah, blah, wants to thank blank, blank, and blank. There's lots of, like, three different things at the end of a sentence, lots of. Lots of M-Dashes, lots of things that are just robotic, literally. Interesting. And that was giving me robot vibes because that's not who you are. You're not fresh. Flooring direct, dfW.com. I forgot this was a spot.

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