The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-26-26 | Patriots-Seahawks Super Bowl and Dallas survives the ice storm

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

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Click, request a quote, and then on the drop-down menu, see, tell them the dumb zone sent you. Hello, friends. Hello, Frozen DFW. This is the Dumbzone. I'm Dan McTal. I'm Jake Kim. I'm Blake Jones. Clayton is here as well.

Foodie, C.K. Although he's here, but he's not here. Where Dan and Jake are together is not the Game Day Men's Health Studio, gameday.com. Here is high top of my garage. Covered by a qualis roof. Covered by snow. Snow, darling.

ice shingles. But that Quallis roof has kept that snow out. There's no snow in here. It's incredible. How many people can say their roof keeps the snow out?

Qualis. That's who. Other people are just sitting there all freezing inside their living room because of all the snow that's seeping in their inferior roofs. Well, maybe they should call community.

I don't know how many we want to do here. Roves, hooves. That's a word I mess up. Roves, roofs. It's two wolves adjacent. Anyway, Dan and Jake are here high atop my garage. Manly enough to make it over here, both of us. Yeah, no doubt.

Doesn't matter how you got here. And we have in different corners of the Metroplex, the DFW area. We have Clayton and Blake. Clayton, where do you, I don't know, sit today. Where are you? I thought we had Clayton. were you under the impression we did parts unknown

okay we have a muted clayton and the only reason he's just video guy folks oh there we go there we go the only uh the only uh

the only reason dan has to ask is because clayton is a heterosexual male and has not shared his location with his partner like Blake has so Dan doesn't even have to ask Clayton doesn't have friends

oh yeah he's my friend and I don't need to know where he is that's his choice voice, he would admit it. Clayton's off the grid. He's never going to let him know who he is. That's true. It's like De Niro and Heat or Patino and Heat.

When Clayton does Zoom like we're doing today, he doesn't even put like his background because then you might be able to like, oh, look, out that window, there's a tower and I could. I don't need y'all knowing anything about me. That's what I'm saying. There's two or three of y'all that are getting coordinates if shit goes down. And one of them is sitting here with computing glasses on. He's not getting those coordinates. Yeah.

The two boys up top are safe. Blue light is not hitting these retinas. So, and Blake making fun of Clayton, he's just a video guy. He doesn't get the audio. Yet, of all of our setups, our home setups, it feels like Blake has the inferior audio product. Like, it looks really good. It does look really good. It's a cool, like, studio mic.

You've got awesome headphones. Now you've got these whatever blocking glasses. No, Blake's setup makes me feel like he's about to go on a rant about who controls the media. He looks like a streamer, like a, he's ready to take some. I've received documents. I know what Charlie Kirk is right now. If you subscribe and sign it to the newsletter, I'll tell you. That's 100% Blake's vibe right now.

It's a limited time only today will I tell you where Charlie Kirk is. Get in here and sign up. Doing ads for MREs. Yeah. There's water sack behind him. He's ready to go. Yeah. I got the marrow head back here.

I'm stocked up. Well, I've got howl water here. No doubt, baby. That's what we prefer here. Champagne of waters is what I call it at my house. For real, my kids, no. Don't drink it. Don't touch it.

They're not allowed to? No. They get the hose. Well, I mean, they don't appreciate it. No. I would say a few people do appreciate a good water like me. Hmm Just

Hold on I forgot to paperwork Uh He's got to go Uh Answer to Cheryl What were we doing

During like 18 months And now you're water guy Yeah It's kind of happens Blame it on Cheryl It forces You're forced into it

Yeah I'll blame it on Cheryl Like during COVID Speaking of I got Uh Great use out of my COVID glory hole this weekend That we had for the emergencies Any emergency

I assume that's what it was for Oh, yeah? Yeah. Glory holes. You're back. Yeah, it was a nice weekend, man. It was a... I'll tell you, Mike, this is not even weekend check,

but I got up this morning. It was really early, and, you know, I have some hours. I've got some stuff to listen to. You're a grinder. And I went to the gas station that I know is open early. And let me tell you something,

if you just want a cop. There's two gas stations that I, A, and B from. One of them, despite the entire staff being from places where you think they'd be on the phone all the time, they are not. It is clearly a strict mandate from the man in charge. And he has a personalized license plate on his rangerover out front, letting you know what country he's from. Like, he runs a tight-ass ship. They're closed. The other place where they're on the phone 24-7 and you might see a chicken in there,

A guy smoking cigarettes every time I pull up, like, oh, I gotta put it out. They're open. So I popped in there this morning, and it's like kind of towards Dan's house. And I was like, why don't I just, what do you, it's like a walkthrough, you know, visualize it before you have to do it. So I just drove all the way to Dan's house before the sun came up and was like, well, that wasn't bad. It's only going to get better when the sun comes up, so I can just do this later. and I had already eliminated the unknown. Okay.

If I had just crashed, I wouldn't have come back over late. Yeah, I suppose not. You'd be in a ditch. Yeah. So I don't know if that was brilliant. Yeah. But I just needed out of the house, man. Okay, yeah.

Two kids in the house. They already canceled school tomorrow, which is a wild play. Let's do a weekend check. Let's make it brought to us by Community Mechanical, I'm about those boys. So if you signed up for preventative maintenance, did you guys get the email? Oh, yeah. That was so cool to know.

Community Mechanical, that's our HVAC company. Let me try and find the email. Oh, here it is. You sign up for preventative maintenance. They sent an email out to all those who did and said, we want to let you know. We will have technicians on call this weekend due to the extreme cold. Please give us a ring or respond to this email if you lose heat and need emergency service. So that's happened to us in the past.

And then we, you know, scramble trying to find different companies that I remember one time it was like even we'd try to find one of the big advertisers on the ticket. And we're like, okay, well, I'm sure at least, you know, they'll get me the ticket host. No, they didn't, they weren't given anyone any service. No. Community, though. Tier 1 for everyone. They're just, yeah, they're ready for you, man. They're out.

Preventative maintenance is very important, but, you know, the emergency services, the personal service. Do you have anything detail-wise from Travis, you want to add, Blake? They're probably still in the same mode right now of just, hey, you need them, they'll be there. No, provided it's safe. Yeah, they're standing by. It is communitydifw.com. That is the website. You can call or text Travis anytime at 469-667-7-290.

Nary a bad word about our boys over at Community. Had some opportunity to talk to them a couple weeks ago at Wired Will's House. And like I think I've told you guys, you just get good report cards. Report cards. Every business we talk to is like, yeah, we get regular customers and then we get Tumzone customers and we know that those are going to be smooth. So community dfw.com. I was listening to the NFC game yesterday, and I'm obsessed.

Is this weekend check now? Real quick. I've always been obsessed with this guy's voice. Am I up? Do you have to unmute me? It's playing. No? You can just, if you just want to leave me up, then I'll just...

You're up. I'll control my volume. Okay. Well, that's a problem. Is this what we... Thought we trouble shot? Started late to figure out? If I unmute on stream yard, does it work, Blake?

No, change your... Oh, there it was. Okay. The Verizon halftime show is brought to you by Verizon, the NFL, powered by Verizon 5G. The Verizon halftime... I love that guy. Yeah, sure. So I thought we'd try it with a couple of ours.

This segment of the Dumb Zone brought to you by Community Mechanical. They don't forget. about the V in HVAC. Just do one for a... Is that vagina joke? What? Damn. Is it what everybody makes of it?

Because when I think of V, bro, that's all I'm thinking about. Yeah, buddy. All right. That was cool. Sorry for the technical difficulties. What are you going to do? Work through it.

I would think people will give us a tiny bit of grace as we are in. We're iced in. in Dallas, Fort Worth. Did the ticket go in today, Blake? Do you know? We talked to our boys? They did.

They did. I'm sure that some of the hosts paid for their board ops to just stay in a hotel. Yeah. Because that's just the way I remember it being. Yeah. Yeah, I could do. But it does bring up an interesting bit of dumb zone history. Like, people ask us, like, how did you start doing this?

Like, how did you start doing this at the den? Whatever? It was just COVID. It was that. Everybody set up during COVID. And when I found out that you could just buy this and that we didn't all just have one of these, like we all, meaning the Musers, the hard line, and that you had just bought one on your own. And that was the only reason that our broadcast sounded good.

Yeah, Blake owned this setup, and it was like a thousand bucks all put together, just for some headsets and the... You need the unit. There's a special unit that hooks up so that it sounds like you're actually in the studio at the ticket. or at any radio station can hook this thing up. And importantly, you don't need a phone line. It's internet. But it's higher, it's better than that.

It's not like an ISDN type thing. It's better than the tinty sound that we all got to know over Zoom. And still, like, oddly enough, still exists, like, on some ESPN programs. Yeah. They'll just sit there with their headphone and mic at their house, and it sounds real tinty and bad. But this sounded like you were, like, uh, Conrad, the guy that voices the liners and stuff on the ticket, lives in Canada, and he has this Comrex line that it sounds like he's sitting next to you.

So it's beautiful, and it was $1,000. Yeah. So one, I guess the company that makes whatever could pay for it, but also the hosts that make 200 grand a year could be like, I don't know, maybe I would make sure that I have this and now it was great. And then it sounded really good. And then if somebody needed spots cut, oh, you went home, but, you know, Pat needed the commercial cut.

Well, I could just do that at home. It sounds like I'm right there. And it's... Well, I mean, and honestly, it saved our show because we... What, dude, imagine if one and a half months into doing this, they're like, you guys can't be in the same place together anymore. That's what the hard line had to do for months. Yeah.

But I was here every day. And we didn't get to see Blake until he, like, grew hair on his chest the next year. We missed a whole leap. It was longer than that. Dude, while we're on this topic... Just went downtown, right? Yeah. While we're on this topic...

Oh, dude, it was the greatest drive downtown for a year and a half. It was amazing. I'll tell you what. I had a great time driving over here today. I'll tell you what. The roads are wide and there's nobody else on them. Even knowing this was all coming, like, Friday, I was really looking forward to it. in that just the

seclusion the only thing that I had trepidation over was if our power goes out it's going to be horrible and it does suck that we live in this stupid state that you know can't get their act together on that at least

but otherwise I didn't lose it this again it was like an excuse like I can't go out I can't go to the store I can't go anyway like I have to stay home ahead. You like that?

And it was very cool just to get, I don't know, got a little, got the house cleaned up a little bit. A lot of organization, a lot of prep for the next week, just stuff. No, I joke. I wish it was a little warmer. I could have cleaned that garage out, but I didn't. I joked about my wife and I having sex. That obviously did not happen, but I did instead reach my proverbial climax when she would walk out of a room with two trash bags and be like, I just decluttered.

I'm not allowed to throw anything away Because like Clayton I don't own anything I don't have anything So I'm not the arbiter of that But anyways I was just thinking about when you were mentioning the audio We used to laugh about how You know the Musers draw 20s in the ratings

And you would hear like a shitty phone clip Like from Twitter or from themselves With a hoarse no fate at all Garbled audio and it's like if you spend 20 minutes You can go get That is what I see. think of when I think of watching the NFL and even like announcers who will just lean on momentum momentum momentum and sometimes they'll say things that are just actually backwards like well you know

now they're able to run throat they don't understand the like oh it's like I'm getting 20 carries the Cowboys record right they'll bring that up that is wrong but coaches will bring it up so are they ultimately right? Do you know what I mean? Like some of the fourth down stuff, it doesn't, like if I have math that says that's actually the wrong decision, but the coaches think it's the right one, they talk about it like that and nobody,

like I have a hard time feeling like I'm right, even though the numbers sort of show it. Well, I mean, how many decades did they do it literally wrong? Right, but it's kind of like goes back to Brad and Bay. Like way literally wrong. Like, do they ever say, hey, we had that wrong? No, no, it's just the media still is idiots and... Like, I mean, does Chuck Noel look, but, you know what I mean?

Yeah. Parcells, even? Does he say I should have coached in a different way? Do NBA coaches say, God damn, we could have just started shooting threes in the 90s. We could have been that team. Like, it was available. There wasn't a rule change. I bet you there was a bunch that wanted to, too.

And deep down, we're like, I know this would work. And there's a math guy who laid it all out. And there's, he's like, well, maybe I'm wrong because the whole NBA refuses to. Anyway. Anyway. What do you got, Clayton, from this weekend in this place that you live that you won't tell us? I see, Saturday we had a big UFC premiere on. Paramount.

So they're doing all their fights on Paramount now. So it's no longer on ESPN. Yeah, it's not on ESPN. And you basically just have Paramount Plus and you can get it. Yeah. So when you had ESPN Plus, did you then have to pay the fee on top of it for the event? I think I never watched them on there just because I always thought like there was an extra fee for the pay-per-view. Or like you had to have like the UFC pass on ESPN.

but as a guy who will watch yeah as a guy who will watch two days of a wrestling event this was way too long it was like if it started at 5.30 and went

till almost midnight and it was just like I was like is this going to end like and there weren't there you know there

trying to put together this showcase card because you know it's the new paramount plus got to do the big you know blow up for the new advertiser deal and everything like that but there were so many commercial breaks that it was just like why you know why i don't need i don't need 500 ads on paramount about what's coming up on paramount plus like i already know you told me yeah yeah that's That's the thing when they make those avails. Yeah, how many streaming things do you watch that end up just being the same commercial over? It would be like if we took, I don't know, 50 breaks in a show and then, but just ran promos. I was very close to doing a spot right there, by the way.

Oh, I'm sorry. But, no, I watched a film room for the National Championship, and it was clear that we had overestimated the event. I mean, there are no ads. It's just internal promos for like volleyball on ESPNU. Right. So what is the... It's added value, I think. Yeah.

It's just a cool thing that you can do. But are they saying to their salespeople, well, sell the film room. It's freaking Mike Gundy. Yeah, but there's probably just no money in it. It's like when they used to tell the people to sell the stream, but nobody was paying anything for it. The problem is when you have two things to sell.

Cannibalization. ESPN proper, or I could sell the film room for one-tenth of that or whatever. Dude, but I remember, you know, my dalliances in the fight game as like through buddies and partying. I get this fight. Every single time I remember thinking, holy shit, this is long. How are you, like, if you start at the beginning, dude, even boxing. Oh, yeah.

And the fight might be five to ten minutes. It's just three. Four, five hours. Remember we did a... Did we do a Tyson thing here? I never did that on the air, did we? No, I don't think so. We were going to do the Tyson...

Jake Paul, yeah. Yeah, okay. I did it. But yeah, there were early prelims, which was like four fights. Then there was like a show to lead into the prelims, and then the main show. So it was just like...

Imagine going there. God. Well, the thing is, is for the early prelimbs. limbs and the pre limbs, no one's in there. Like, it's just an empty arena. It's like the girls basketball game before the men. You can literally like hear the coach just like yelling at the guy what to do like top of his lungs and it's just like an empty arena.

So it's like it's an all day thing. Whereas like I remember watching like UFC growing up and it's like yeah, you go over to a buddy's house for three hours, watch, you know, four or three smaller fights. and then the main fight. And then now it was just like, let's just run everybody out there. Like half the fights just weren't good. Anybody die?

A lot of the big... No, but the big boys just gas out so fast nowadays. I don't know. Like that guy... Two of the heavyweight fights, just like the guys were just taking... The fight ended with a guy taking a knee because he just was done.

Well, because of the ICE execution situation. You just wanted to protest. Okay, Jake. That'd be really funny. Some badass, like UFC goes, like, actually... No, there was a speech. A guy went a little ham. One of the big boys went a little

wild and crazy kids during his speech and ended it with Britney Griner is a man yelling that at the top of his lungs. And Dana wasn't too happy about that. Dana took to Twitter. It's like, yeah, don't, uh, don't want that on our premier night on paramount.

Don't sully the name. Dana White's woke? Of UFC. No, he's a corporate capitalist who doesn't want to lose options. I don't care. I'm canceled. I'm not going to watch that wrestling anymore. Yeah, he got canceled for it.

That's a Kemp's been. No, but he wouldn't allow himself to be canceled, right? Because then he said it would just hurt the UFC, so he's not going to step down. No, I haven't seen him since he hit his wife. He had to go underground. That's the point of cancel culture. No, I think he's doing well. I've been canceled.

No one will, you know, on this podcast. No one will let me say anything anymore. Still playing 100K hands of blackjack at the hard rock. Well, let's tell you about Flooring Direct DFW real quick. And then we'll move on. Flooring Direct DFW. I was texting with Dan. Okay.

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I believe you. Does he live up that way? No. Okay. We have a listener. Dan's from Flooring Direct. I know we have a listener who's a coach. Like, was it Rockwall?

Oh. Where was JSN? Where'd he go? Rockwall, right? Rockwall. Yeah. Oh, he did. Okay.

Maybe that's why Dan, Dan, oh, actually, yeah. Doesn't he live over sexy way? Well, the point is. Yeah, we can all claim them, I guess. Anyone east over here? He came out to the Cane-Rosa remote out there,

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And I think I... Well, no, you have to ask if there's been another one. Because I blame Bill Simmons, but there's like four Woodstock documentaries, Woodstock 99. There's three Kennedy Montgomery ones. Exactly. Yeah, because for a while it was like, oh, this is the place that does sports documentary. This is...

What was the one? I saw a one. one-hour documentary recently on CNN. God, who was it? I watched it, too. I'm trying to remember. The point is, oh, was it the... Wait, Chevy Chase? Yeah. Oh, that wasn't... I've seen another one recently.

Chevy Chase, bad dude. But it was on CNN. Like, all of a sudden, you're just going to randomly do a documentary on a... Like, who's the documentary place? I thought it was HBO. I thought it was Netflix. The point is, Elizabeth Smart. kidnapped

you've had a history of kind of ridiculing her a little bit yeah I mean I think I probably it's fully lifting the bit from Chappelle but it definitely did seem to me when I learned about it Chappelle's thing spoke to me because

I mean I feel like I grew up outside and I still maintain it would be impossible to kidnap me and so the fact that you found out she was like from my house to the bowling like yes it's it's well she was she was she was kind of holed up in the woods they had like a tp a tent is where this uh homeless guy ended up taking her i just want to say it's probably so much worse and legitimate i'll talk about what i the perception of the jokes or whatever sure yeah no you're being raped and stuff

um it's not fun months yeah and then they actually went down into town he took his wife who was in on the bit. Wanda. And Elizabeth Smart. Well, she's 14 years old. Again, she'd been raped nightly for months, whatever. This guy had high tea. Gameday.dumzone.com.

Wow. I don't know if he was doing the game day. So whatever you're after. Utah. But he would have enjoyed that 10% off. That's for sure. But they went down into town. they went into the library

so they're covered in the big whatever it is Muslim but they just got the eye slit the ladies only had the eye slit they don't talk and the guy's in charge and they actually had a cop they were online looking for stuff in the library

you know homeless people go do that mm-hmm cop came up to him and said I need to see under this these hoods because I'm looking for we're looking for a missing person. This is like weeks later.

And the guy convinced him that, no, it's against our religion, and our heads would blow off if this happened, and you just can't do it. And she also didn't speak up right there. Run to the cop. Run behind him. And say, you know, just because, again, now you don't know the 14-year-old girl's mind.

Also, 14-year-old Jake and 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart, probably way different people. definitely she's compliant she's very very overly Mormon you know Mormon yeah they I mean they that's a thing is they were raised I assume she was raised again like you said in a compliant right obedient and that was not you no I wasn't but again yeah obviously it wasn't me because I wasn't raised that way like my you know what I mean so it's what I had seen was like no but at same time there's Stockholm syndrome there's yeah yeah concerns of you You know, nobody's going to believe me.

Good documentary, though. Very good. Also, I'd like to date Elizabeth Smart. I could never be a bigger asshole to her, right? I could not. No, she's also a piece, too, I think. When she was on, did they go over the mass singer? They never did.

No, it was all about the... It wasn't her whole life. I guess CNN's going to do that one. Yeah. But, um... Oh, so we kind of knew Friday, but we're like, all right, well, what if the weather report's wrong? We'll go ahead and broadcast.

the game. The weather report wasn't wrong. In fact, it's wrong the other way. Like, it's still cold and it's still going to be really cold tomorrow morning. Schools are being canceled already for tomorrow. Yeah. And so I was just thinking about it Friday night and I'm like, I got to call. I know Jake really wants to do the game.

But I got to tell him, we have to at least cancel for guests. Because now we're not just two idiots. We're two idiots who, in theory, own a business. And what if we invite these guests and they get injured on the way? And what if, because we've been kind of secretly hoping and praying that somebody does get injured and calls the Frankles. Listen, one of you needs to get in a car accident. We're having high-level meetings. They're like, it's okay.

The traffic is okay, but ultimately show us the baby. So we were thinking, what if it is someone who is on their way here? We're talking about two birds. They get in a horrific accident. Uh-huh. They decide to sue us and they employ the Frankles to do so. What kind of a tangled web would that be? On one hand, we'd be extremely excited.

Yeah, the deal stays. That Frankel has gotten this windfall, that one of our listeners is going to get a bunch of money. Top shelf care. Yeah. Like, just the easiest time for that listener. And that's what it's about, is the Frankl's want to help. Someone would be getting helped. Yeah.

But then they'd be after us, though. That's okay. So, anyway. 24, 817, 33, 33. I talked Jake out of a... 33. This segment of the dumb zone brought to you by Frankl and Frankl. Even if you die in a car accident, we could help your living family get the bag.

Frankl and Frankl. I promise that's the only two. I have. That's all right. Also, two more quick hits. One is that the Endicott women's ice hockey team defeated Curry on Friday night. Casey Moritz from Trophy Club made 36 saves in the victory. She only needed nine, I believe, to get to 1,000 for her career. So she now has 1,000 saves. She, of course, is the goalie who it was her fault that we lost to Tyler Sagan and the Tyler Sagan skating challenge years ago and Bob, Dan, and Jake with Casey and goal skated against Tyler Sagan, full court, right, full ice.

Oh, yeah. He had no goalie, and he beat us like, did we score one goal? Yeah. I think Bob did. I had a nice dime. cross-sized pass to him. Did I get a secondary? No, and the reason you didn't get a secondary is because you skipped the workout.

Bob and I went there one morning to skate for like 90 minutes. Did you really? Yeah. That's cheating! Well, I hadn't skated in like 20 years at that time. Neither had I, but I said, I'm going to do this and I don't cheat. I don't, this didn't feel like a blake-shed. Here's a guy who's taking pitching lessons at the age of 40, though, so.

Yeah, for sure. And it made me think then. I was like, God, I miss doing this. I loved playing ice hockey. It was a lot of fun. And then my last note is... Shout out to Casey. Congrats.

Proud Papa. Yeah. And my last note is it's really cool because I'm learning fun features about the iPhone update. And it's great how you can either swipe left to go to a new tab or you can kind of barely touch it.

This is what we need an open for. So in the morning, I'm trying to play all my games. I'm going from Wordle, then I'll go to Immaculate Grid, and then I'll go over to the connections. And it's cool how you can kind of barely touch something when you're switching tabs,

and then it just deletes all of them. Yeah. And then you have to go search months back to actually find the... It's really cool. I'm having so much fun with the new iPhone update. I can't wait until I finally figure out every goddamn thing on this update,

and then they can send me another one. And then it'll be like, Oh, look, but a bubble. It looks like a bubble. Okay, I don't care. It's liquid glass, dude. I just want the time. Yeah, I don't need it to go.

Ooh, look. It's like a tear drop falling down. And you can kind of see the time if you squint. Like, God damn. Yeah. Dan would have complained about the score bug on NFL games, right? I can't see the game. I can't see the game.

I got to see their feet. Footwork is very important when you're blocking. Who cares what the time and score is? I want to be on the naming committee. They've got to be running out of words. Sequoia. Oh, well, yeah, is the phone update the same as the whole Chrome or the whole, whatever. The point is, it's time for your.

Will there be an Apple 54 Skibbitty? Skibbity. That's probably right, yeah. Who wants to weekend check? When they switched from numbers, here's what we have from this point forward, Dan. Jaguar, Panther, tiger, leopard, lion, Maverick, Yosemite, El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave. Now it's just pretty much all California. What if we go to Indian?

Catalina, Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia, Tahoe. Honoring the Native Americans in the only way that we can. Naming operating systems after them, after taking their stuff. I'll run through some quick stuff. A lot of ball watched yesterday. I ate three quarters of a Walmart cheesecake. My wife was pissed at me saying, like, well, you dumb bitch bought a cheesecake.

I ain't almost the entire cheesecake. I knew you'd enjoy it. I started eating them. I mean, it's a Walmart cheesecake. It was probably $12. But I started eating the individual slices by hand like a calzone or a piece of, just no fork. Like, by Saturday night.

It was just, let's just go for it. Oh, she bought the sampler one? Yeah. So do you feel better eating like four individual pieces than if you'd add one big cut piece? Yes. Yeah, because the guy's just a small one. It contributes to that for sure. We bought a couple of tubes, just basic little tubes, got the ropes, and just went out front on Saturday and had a blast.

Oh, that must have been great. It was. My street's flat right there. There's a couple of, I have a neighbor. A little swinging around. Dude, the slingshot. That's all I was doing is getting going fast and then throw him. And Carter's, dude.

He's a wild man, too. He probably wants it. He wants it. And I don't know. This is so messed up the male-female thing. Like, I probably shouldn't say this. But I don't want him to get hurt, but it doesn't bother me. Like, he hit the curb one time and popped off and just his face just hit right on the curb.

And I'm like, you know, that's not going to hurt him. but it is going to leave a mark. And it kind of, like, if that was my daughter, I would have driven her to the emergency room. Yeah. But now the neighbor kids, I have a neighbor who's got, like, a bunch of kids. They're all, like, teen to college age. And now there's two teen boys over there, and they're like, let us throw him.

We can get him going faster. And now me and the neighbor kids are working together to sling Carter faster on the tube, down the ice into the yard. But I don't know. You know you live in an uppity neighborhood whenever people can break out the skis. Like I saw a couple people who had skateboard decks with the trucks and wheels off like we used to do. Cross country skiing?

Yeah. Then they would just get behind a truck. Now, it was an old beat-up truck, but there were people skiing in my neighborhood. That's cool. It was cool. I think Blake brought this up a few months ago. I don't know if, I guess this is why there's always the joke about people at an old folks' home needing a blanket, but my ability to deal with the cold or to convince myself that I can deal with

the cold is completely gone. Yep. It's gone, gone. Basically, my life is so soft at this point, anything that makes me uncomfortable. Like, I heard some comedians talking over the weekend about that's the main difference. It was a guy saying he had lived with like a Chinese family, some immigrants before. The main difference is just that they don't mind being uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable, like all the time.

Their water doesn't work properly. It's not hot. They're heating. They can't. I walk outside and I'm like, ooh, I don't like that at all. And before, I think I thought I was like, whatever, man. Yeah, you're tough. I have a high pain tolerance.

And now, like, I would never say that. Do you have real wood fire? No. Do you have fires gone? We had fake fire. We have, it's gas or... Is that warm? Yeah, it's really warm.

Okay. It's really warm. And dude, I'll tell you, I mean, it's not community time, but if you, that mini-split that they put in my little side, it's by far the hottest thing you can sit in the house. Is that real? It's not even close. Your office? Yeah. And it's above your garage, too, right?

Yeah. And the garage will stay kind of cold, and above, it's just, it's awesome. Just a lot of time in the house with everyone. And so you have to like try to find time where each person is going to get to go do their own thing and like actually designate that. But this is SG, but when you get to this point, it doesn't happen often, especially with the age difference we have and male-female. But when you can just sit and like without them knowing it, listen to your kids actually play together, it's not even really that they're being nice. They're passing time without you involved, and they're both fine. It's like the sweetest symphony you've ever heard, except you wrote it with your balls.

Dude, once, I think it was because grandmas were here or something, so we had them. They had to sleep in the same room. And I put a recorder in there. Oh, yeah. When I tucked them in to go to bed. And it's a great, it's an amazing listen. I did it right after. I haven't gone back.

I should go back because now, of course, they're 15 years older. I don't know. They were, you know, five and seven or something like that. And just them talking, just their, what do they, what's their conversation as they go to bed? Yeah, no, I, once they started, I started recording too. Because I do, I think of you all the time. I record the audio of very, very mundane stuff. But, yeah.

Just the two of them talking, I'm just like sitting there looking in the sky. It's almost like, um, The analogy of organized sports, and nobody plays just regular sports together. Unstructured. But you're always kind of structuring, doing something with your kids, or planning this, or let's do this. Yes, to let them just have their own free time together. How did they, because they act different in front of you. Yes.

Like I say, when I get my two girls together, they're terrors, and each one of them individually is a, gem a 10 of 10 to deal with but once they get together they either i don't know if it's an inside thing like but maybe the girl will start beating up the boy more because you're around i don't like him i need you to know i hate him that's it and if you saw me playing with him nicely it would be you might get this weird that's why i was in the other room i because she does want us to think that she hates him um so she's like in those moments of weakness because she doesn't but i don't it was stuff like that that you're forced to get to actually see

that's kind of a cool part of being at home but not cool enough that I wasn't willing to risk my life and limb to drive over here today I needed out of the house Dan out of the house you'll pay for it when you get home because your wife will say oh here now is my free time because she's thinking that you're having free time

this is a job we're doing a job We are... Don't... Do they understand that? They don't understand that. They don't understand that we have to tell everybody that own well is a place where you can contest your property taxes.

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And you know, you got an account, you got a portal, stay signed up for you there. You can have them take a look at some of your bills. They've saved Blake a lot of money on his phone and internet bills. And you only pay if you save money with Ownwell. That's a thing. It's a very low risk commitment. You're just giving them their address, answering a few questions at ownwell.com slash the dumbzone for just a few minutes. About 86% of people get a reduction on their assessed property value.

So there's no reason not to do this. Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. You know, you see these things on, you may have come in here and get a free coffee or come in here and buy one, get one free. That's like you're saving 10 bucks. With Ownwell, it can be hundreds of dollars. Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. Save some money. Hey, Blake.

Hey, fellas. So pretty boring weekend for me because I've got the boys. Benny is too young to really do anything. Brooks didn't really want to get out and play in it. It wasn't real snow. And so the first time he went outside to try to make a snowball and he couldn't, he was kind of out on it after that. Let me tell you something that the northern kids, I bet, have internalized.

My daughter is very cognizant of how long it takes to, to get bundled up. That was the other thing, too. He's like, well, then we're only going to be out there for this long, and then I got to, it takes forever to put the stuff on. It takes forever to take the stuff off. Like, is it worth it? Yeah, because I ran into that, and I'm definitely.

She's unfortunately right. Like, I know she's right, but I make her do it, but it's like, if you do that every day, it doesn't bother you. Yeah. For her, it's like, geez. But if you have three days in front of you and just time to kill, yeah, it's worth it. We're just, like, what are you in a hurry for?

We did it. I just, I didn't want to bundle up the baby and myself and Brooks to go outside and watch him play for five minutes. I ran into that same thing. Yeah. Nice not having a dog on this weekend, huh? That was so appreciated. I reminded my wife every day. Like, we'd have this dog just taking dumps in our utility room because it's cold outside.

The timing was awesome. Another checkmark to have a small dog because my smallest dog, yes, he just refuses to go to the bathroom in the cold. But it's a lot easier to clean up. I just don't know that I've ever heard anyone. Two kids' family dog within one week be saying things like the timing was awesome. I'm so glad my dog died. It was a bonus that it arrived at all grow up. Do you call it what it is?

Do you have suffered? Of course I do. Because Jake's in the same spot. I'm happy to, I'm happy for you to join me. So my wife had to go to work and it was up in the air whether she was going to stay at the hospital or not because the hospital would pay for your hotel room or they had beds at the hospital if you wanted to stay overnight. Ooh. And I was kind of.

Do you want to stay overnight in a hospital bed though? Is this where someone once died? Well, it might not be the hospital bed. It could be like both times we had a kid, you know, they've got little rooms that have, not much, but it's like a little futon built into the wall type thing. And they'll have maybe two or three of them in there. Well, I never really thought about this. If you ever had a hospital stay, which I have. Someone.

I bet someone died in that bed. Probably. Or had sex in it. Or had sex in it. Well, I know they did now after I was there. Oh, yeah. So I was kind of trying to push her to stay. It's one less thing to drive back and drive there.

It would make me feel so much better knowing that you were okay. But with the baby, it kind of came out in the wash. It's not like I'm partying over here. Yeah. Yeah. So the baby factor. I know. I know.

And Jake was saying like watching his get played together. It makes you actually want your wife to be home. Unbelievable. It's powerful. I got about two more years before I have two. two boys just busting each other's heads open. I can't wait. Yeah.

I can't work. You can put that on autopilot. I know. Now, I don't know. Are we stopping it too? Yeah, we're done. He's pulling out. Yeah.

Yeah, I think we'd be overloaded. And yeah, maybe we're not great parents. I don't know, but I think two's enough. So my dad came over. he's Jeep man he'll give you the Jeep wave he's got he's got big tires on his Jeep he drove over

Saturday morning and took my wife to work at 5 a.m. The roads were fine at that point so not a big deal but I couldn't take her because we didn't want to put the boys in the car going downtown and then from there it was just it was a kneel down time

how can we kill these 48 hours with no mom and two boys and so I did drive over in a parent Yeah, so she stayed overnight. Oh, I thought you were... Because it got bad Saturday. Okay. So, but then again, like, he's never been put down by anyone besides his mom.

So I was worried about the boy sleeping through the night. I don't know. It was not a great weekend for me. But my wife's car is in the shop, and we had to get a loner, which is a Subaru. And for some reason, these Subaru's can drive like it's nothing on ice. So when I went down there Sunday to pick her up in the Subaru, there are people going slow. For some reason, people had their hazards on. I know the situation.

We're driving on ice. We all are. What is that supposed to do? Hey, whoa. With their hazards on going really slow on the right lane, fine. But the person with their hazards on doing the same speed as everyone else, I don't understand the point of that. We get it. Just a little extra lookout.

We're all in the hazard here. Yeah. It's now worthless. It's only to set you apart from the other cars. You should be driving extra fast with the hazard. Something. So, yeah, I'm all wheel drive in this Subaru, and I'm thinking, all right, I got to just take back roads all the way downtown from Wiley.

It'll take an hour, 15 minutes. But the longer I go and the more confident I'm getting in this car and the faster I'm going, I just decided to get on the highway Once I got down to like 75 In Northwest Highway Because I didn't want to go on the highways Just because of the overpasses You heard that the overpasses were bad

But honestly when I got down there It was fine So I just driven an hour on the roads On the ice Kind of figured out what I need to do You know there's lanes that people have been driving on If you stay on those you're fine for the most part If you get in the snowy parts

And the icy parts then you could You know slip a little bit But mind you, I'd been doing this for an hour. I'd got myself down there, kind of knew what I was doing. And within the first two minutes of my wife getting in the car and me taking off on the road, she's like, oh, you might want to slow down a little bit. Yeah, I know. I just got myself down here.

I don't need your help. I kind of feel that just whenever my wife tells me to slow it. Like, we've made it this far. Me driving. Yeah. Like, maybe you should just sit back and just. understand that I when you're not in the car

I also see that car that's turning like yep yeah like I'm aware of all the things that you're now informing me of it drives me absolutely crazy I try to just let it go but then there's like we're at home for a few days and I realize there's

lots of stuff too that like when we remodeled our house my wife got to me it's fancy like somehow you don't see where the soap comes from You know what I mean? Like it's in the... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it was out the other day, like on Saturday, and I'm like, I don't have a clue. I don't know where this thing is. How to put the soap in it? And then it occurred to me, I don't know how to do... I don't know how any of that ever happens. And she saw me, and she's like, magic? Do you think it's magic? And I'm like, damn.

Oh, yeah. Well... Up until now, I did. That kind of negates the... Slow down. Turn here. Yeah. Go this way.

Well, did you flip it back? back around, well, the magic must be out. Yeah. It's also a nice time to be reminded that, I mean, you were talking about this moving the firewood last week, but I'm all for a quality. This doesn't bother me in the face of that. But just the idea that it's 2026 and it's still, hey, something outside that's going to be kind of uncomfortable and hard needs to be done, go do it. There's no real consideration of... Was there ever a thought that she might be the one that cleanses it? up that dog poo off the...

Absolutely not. Right. Hey, the pool pump might be freezing. I need you to go out there, chip all the ice off of it, kind of restart, unplug this thing. You know what I've said... Yeah, I know it's snowing right now. I've said, hey, I'm afraid of spiders too. Why do I got to be the one that...

Yeah. How have I not done enough to exhibit how womanly I am. Why do I go get this snake? Me? Yeah. Get a snake? You've been around? Yeah, like, what do you...

Eek. should I do? Change the oil after that? No, I can't do that. What do you want me to do next? Defend you? So I don't know if your algorithms are like this too, but after I finished the Fort Bragg book, I had an opening. And I'm almost to the point of Jake where I'm not quitting books. I'm quitting nonfiction.

It's a tough day, but yeah. I really, really enjoyed the Fort Bragg book, and I think I learned a lot. and it was very enlightening. But after I was, you know, after I'd just finished a chapter or whatever, I didn't want, not want, but nothing was bringing back to keep reading.

Something fake, you know. Wait, no, what are you? He's saying that he's quit. Go ahead, Blake. You'd finish a chapter and then. Like, I was learning as I was reading, but I don't,

I don't want to, I don't strive to just learn more. See, he said he needs. I want to read a story. Oh, he wants. It's the fiction. Yeah. Yeah, I want the fiction because I want to know the ending. I want to know how we get there.

Fort Bragg was like teaching me things and that's cool, but I don't have like a draw to just like get back to that. Right, you just stop reading you're like, oh, I enjoyed reading it. Yeah. Well, that sucks. Yeah, and it's great. You know, I enjoyed reading it, but nothing was like, oh, I got to find out what happened. But you're the option. what she reads is celebrity biographies, which sounds corny, but I always end up learning a lot.

Like, uh, the Jessica Simpson one is a great one. Yeah, the Jessica Simpson one, the Pamela Anderson. I, I, I think it makes you a smarter person or a more well-rounded person if you can work in fiction. And you've done a lot of it in your day. You're a voracious reader of all types. I just, I don't think I was ever smart enough for fiction. I think it requires more imagination and, I don't know. I'm more tiny, this, this, this. Smart or whatever, but it just, I don't know.

I typically read before going to bed, and I just think, do I want to learn more about these soldiers and they're running drugs? I don't know. But if there's a murder and we got to find out who did it, that for some reason draws me in more. And the problem is me. It's not everyone else. So I wanted to find a fiction. And for some reason, I think Jin Ziers are picking up. like old like really old uh like staple like you're charles dickens your whatever they're picking up

the classics and for some reason i've seen the count of monte cristo go around heavily and i remember halfway reading this book in high school because we had to and i say halfway because i didn't read it i read spark notes just so i could pass my quiz but i remember picking it up towards the end because I was like, actually, this book might be pretty decent. So I've started back on the Count of Monte Cristo. And it's amazing. Is it really? Yeah.

Because I think I'd read bits and pieces of it before, trying to read the whole thing. But just revisiting something you read before to see if it holds up. And yeah, I don't know, Jin Ziers have it right. It's an amazing story. I'll report back. But my big thing of the weekend was our softball draft occurred yesterday. Oh. And I'm back on the Cardinals.

How did, one, one? No, and that's what I'm bringing up. Because after a slightly down year, I fall into the second round. Wow. Not even a first round. Value play, though. Yeah. So.

Is this a draft father, son thing? Yeah. So whoever takes me has to take my dad. And is that a big... Bit of an albatross. Thing around your neck? Yeah. He's like Phanasis.

Attenta Coupe. I don't think so. He moved up around, actually. Oh. So he did well for where he was slotted. No, I think it's... So there was 10 guys people thought were better than you?

No, they were like 24. Boy, this is going to drive him. I know. See, and that's the thing, is when I saw it, I immediately got upset. He'll be in the gym. He's already been in the gym. Yeah, he'll be evading this.

But the thing is, it's like, I'm maxed out. I can't go play softball during the week. I should have fallen. I don't play anymore. No, I don't want to hear this. But the competitor is like, F these guys. Yeah. You had a great ear.

Where'd you ring? Oh, really? Not really. No. No. Not about my standards. He had the best ops on his team. That wasn't saying much.

So, but the thing is, is like, I do want to put my head down and, you know, I'm going to prove everyone wrong. I'm going to hit the case. I can't. I can't. I'm saddled down on the weekends. I got a lot going on during the week. I can't hit the cage. I don't want to hear that.

But that's it. So now I don't, like I don't know what to do. I'm super pissed off. I'm really pissed off that I fell that late. But now I understand. Like I'm no longer softball guy. This is so simple. I'm a dad.

I'm a dad of two and I work. No. Game Day won't allow this to happen. There you go. You don't have to get started right now if you don't want, but you're going to. And it's going to help you. Just stop in there. You don't have to go for an hour.

You'll stop in. You'll get a nice little boost. Yeah. We'll get you on the peptides. We'll get you on the vitamin. They got different vitamin concoctions as well. Oh, yeah. Gameday.

com, blake. They'll hook you up. Get your T-tests there. Mention the Dumb zone. This is easy. You don't have games to do on the weekend anymore quite like you used to. Your kid, just take Brooks with you, the cages, put Benny and a stroller right outside there and just start letting Brooks

hit in a cage. Let's go to the cage. Yeah, let's get him going early. I bet he, I've seen him hit the kid. Now Brooks can hit. Yeah, I've seen him wait on something, which is like in a very advanced move for a four-year-old. Like all these guys that are good though, in fact, I was thinking out about Tyson. Like they had, they were at the age of 13, they were telling him he was going to be the heavyweight champion of the world before he had ever had one amateur fight. You know, they're all starting real early. So get Brooks out there early. Yeah, what, you go hit?

And then Benny will just be around it. Drake May. Osmosis. Drake May's dad was a quarterback at North Carolina. Like, he's been around at his whole, you know, you got to be around it to be great. We got to build a major leaguer here. And we're going to start. Go get some cuts.

And it'll start by you going to game day men's health, then taking the boys for some cuts. It'll also, in your journey of making a major leaguer for us, you're going to get better at softball. And next year, you're going to be back in the first round, my friend. No doubt. Gamebay.com. I'll go to game day. I'll get my 10% off, and then we'll just compare the stats from last year to this year.

Easy. It'll be our case study. Easy. Well, it's like we've got another day of this. We'll get another day of this So let's do this From the wonderful world of sports Radio Sports

Scoreboard Oh yeah, I like that A lot of sports this weekend I know the Luca game was happening We'll talk about this probably more tomorrow Yeah we're going to talk with our friend Kirk Henderson Who got the invite from Luca and his team To be in a suite

Yeah I saw that story So cool. I don't know. It's like I thought I couldn't love Luca anymore and then he's doing this stuff. It's like, you know, some guys will buy a full page ad. More on that, but news. Oh, really?

Yeah. Okay, but just something tangible and that those fans would really be into. It seems, I don't know what the weather was like. It does seem like it got worse throughout the day Saturday. So the fact that they even had the game was pretty controversial. Yeah, they couldn't get out the next day, right?

Oh, did they never make it? Well, they didn't. They moved the game. Oh, okay. It has not taken place. I don't know when it's rescheduled to, but, yeah. Yeah, we're grounded. Luca beat the Mavs.

That's all I know, and that's all I really care about. Otherwise, I want to start with the game we didn't broadcast that we were going to? Yeah, I mean, you can probably do that one a little bit quicker. We can kind of do it quick. Then we'll get some audio later. You want to do audio like right after a break or something? Talk about the games, break. Sure.

Denver, New England. Very cool to see the time lapse video later. Dude, I mean, that was of the mini wild all over the map things Romo said. I mean, I think he's right about that. I don't think I've ever seen a game where it happened that fast. So sunny. One into the other. Right. The beginning looked beautiful.

It's insane. Chilly but sunny and, you know, crisp and what a great day for football. It would have been like the day we were there. Yeah. If by the fourth quarter there was a blizzard. Which is kind of awesome. Don't know the yard line markers and even Nance is kind of, you can tell in his head. He's trying to do the 5, 15, 20.

Okay, I think that's the 23. They were doing it throughout the game. And to their credit, they were questions. I have questions about the question. the question of should Sean Payton have kicked a field goal and gone up 10-0? They're questioning it slightly when it happened. And of course, if you end up losing by three, that's going to become a little more air in your chest and like, eh.

You said it, Tony. Totally should have done that. You said he was a dumb fucking retard at the time. It's like in reality, Romo was like, hello, I might say hello. And then, yes, I've more on that later, but in my audio is, They are over-crediting Tony Romo with getting a prediction right. They have to now.

When he kind of just said, I don't know, you could either throw or run here. And then they run. He's like, bad, Tony, you nailed it. You said they might run. Romo Stradamus. Anyway, later in the game, though. Well, what did you think of that real quick? I didn't have any problem.

I had no problem with it. At the time? At the time? At the time? At the time? At the time? I mean, I guess maybe there was a forecast, but I don't think you could have assumed that that that was going to play out in a game where three points was going to be that big of a...

It was second quarter, right? Yeah, they were inside the 20. Okay, so then tell me this. I'm pretty sure. Why? And I went back and listened to the New England broadcast of these plays as well. New England broadcast of that play, Sean Payton not kicking it. The guy was going nuts.

He's like, why? You got to kick that. You got to kick. Okay, and that was a fourth and one. correct? Mm-hmm. From the 10. Okay.

Eight minutes left in the third. 7-7 game. Fourth and one, New England at the Denver 7. Romo doesn't mention it. They go for it. They get it. They ended up not scoring a touchdown. They enleptaking a field goal.

Romo didn't even make a peep about that. And the New England radio guys also didn't. Ah, there's Rabel. Like, it's kind of like a, is this a, we have a preconceived notion, maybe because he had an onsite kick in the Super Bowl, that Sean Peyton is a mad scientist, wild, just slain, who knows what he's doing next? That's the reason we had confidence in Jared Stidham,

because he's got this crazy mastermind Sean Peyton there. And, oh, what's he doing now? Not kicking a field goal, because that's the chalk. He generally kick a field goal. Wild, Sean Peyton, we're going to. criticize everybody criticized him and then in the third quarter bravo goes up fourth and one from the eight or the seven or whatever it was same exact situation that's a good point now we've already seen and the weather i think is starting to get a little and they're like uh that's rabel i mean that

tough nose rable just does things right everything he does is right he's brable yeah i mean it kind It kind of goes back to the Sean Payton, Mike McCarthy thing a little bit. I saw people comparing McCarthy and Harbaugh. I haven't thought about that one much, but a lot of it is how you sell yourself and how the media proceeds of you. Like everything, McCarthy and Harbaugh look almost exactly alike. Number of seasons, number of wins, number of titles, number of, you know. It's not, I'm telling you, man, when David Moore was making that case about Sean

Peyton and McCarthy, it was almost identical for them at that time. So it's just how you're perceived. And I don't know. I still think it was the right call, but you're right. Vrable, especially in New England. It's like anything he does. But they didn't kick that right away. That's my only thing.

It's just that he got heavily criticized in the second quarter, and now we're in the third quarter, and we see what this game kind of is. Did turn into an awesome snow game. Confusing in the snow, I noted, was the – they have a first-down pylon now. I was like, wait, are they that close to the goal on? Oh, wait.

No, that's at the 30. Like when he was running around the end and like kind of diving. And they showed the side view. You can see that. I don't know when this is up there. They now set a first down pylon. Makes sense, though. Yeah, one other, I don't know, the game was not great.

Very early on, they had a big pass place, Stidham did. and perhaps that was kind of a, we're testing you, see what we'll do because they never really went to that again. You know, obviously the biggest, it was a stid of mistake that gave New England the ball at the 10-yard line and allowed them to score a touchdown. We'll hear more of that audio later as well, but the Gene Sterator has a bag and just the whole,

was it a fumble, was it a pass? I mean, it just looked really bad when you saw Stittem. Like, ugh. Did it a few times, too. Did it a few times. It's weird. You think that that's, you think that that's kind of the benefit of having a guy that's been in the room, 10 different rooms for years,

and, you know, Josh McDaniel wanted to go get him, and Sean Peyton wants to go get him. And all these things you hear about him, Davis Webb, the Broncos O.C., I got to get this guy. And maybe that means he can run the play, whereas maybe Ben Danucci wouldn't even be able to get you to that point, just because he hasn't, he's not spent enough time as a backup. But when the pressure gets there,

you could not tell that Jared Stidham was not a fifth, like an undrafted rookie. It just gets on top of him and then he would panic. And sometimes he would hold the ball too long. But dude, I know that they ended up not moving the ball much the rest of the day. I'd love to see a world where they don't turn that ball over right there, and they continue to play an even game back and forth with their defenses. That just...

Yeah, how does New England score? Because Drake May had like 65 passing yards when you take out the sex, like net passing yards, and his legs were effective, but it wasn't like New England's offense was good by any means. No. So I would have like, you know, that just sucks because that tilts the whole game one way. And unlike in the Ram Seahawks game, there was never a chorus. responding fuck up on New England's part to level things out, like the taunting and the muffed punt word that both directly led to scores.

So the other thing I'll say is they ran stood him once early, and I thought that's genius. Put that in their minds now. And with Dobbins out, I was surprised they never went back to it. Because I always think when you're quarter, especially in the snow, that's the last thing that's going to come to you is like everyone's run off, just take off. Well, I feel like in games like that, run the play, but have the quarterback know in his head. I'm never throwing this ball. I'm running it. I'm going to drop back like a normal pass play, and we're going to do this over and over and over again. That's probably what they would have done if they had Knicks. By the way, I saw a tweet. This is just something you can just say.

And I kind of believe it, though, because I'll believe anything, that somewhere there's video evidence of him breaking his ankle in the locker room celebrating. Yeah, I saw that. I heard that. It almost feels like Occam's razor. Like, we would have known if the guy broke his ankle. Right. They were trying on the kneel down, people were trying to say,

yeah, I think I can see him limp there a little bit. You were broken, seeing somebody break an ankle at, like, pick up basketball? I'm not saying that Bo Nix would react to saying it, but it's very, Peter Griffin. Like, you don't just walk off. But that sucked. It was a fun game, but... Like the longest...

So I thought this, one of the longest plays they had, New England was a flea flicker. It didn't even work. Well, what do you mean? They got 30 yards out of it. I know, but, like, it had to be a perfectly thrown ball, and, like,

he wasn't... Mac Hollins wasn't that open, is all I'm saying, is that it was a good call. It's just that even in the... Even in that game, you're like, I don't know, Mack Hollins was covered. My thought was, though, and yeah, those New England live receivers were blanketed all day.

Yeah. They've got awesome coverage slash not great wide receiving core, right? Yeah. I just thought, because the next play kind of looked the same, they handed it off, and then I was like, has anyone ever, not, now I don't want to do the flea-flicker-based offense. But if you ran that the next play, that would have worked again. Yes. It would have worked better. Yeah. I mean, it's not the same as the people who were...

Like, there's no way you would do it twice in a row. The Colts fake puns. It's not quite the same, but look how well that worked. There's no way. I think that's a next step somewhere. Someone's going to do that. Like, that should be done in the Super Bowl. That should be what variable pulls out. That'd be awesome.

We had the flea flicker. I need two in a row. All right. Well... And Drake, you know, Drake, the Drake made called his own number thing on the, the play at the end that picked up the first down. He looks like, not a, what's the older, other old guy in the Simpsons with the glasses. That's who he looks like to me.

Nothing about Drake May inspires any confidence. Oh, Hans-Mollman? He looks like Hans-Moulman to me. His eyes are kind of recess, his hair's all. But, dude, he looks like an all. an all-time great as far as testing his medal and him responding. Calling your own number with Vrable is your coach? Like that's Romo Parcells type stuff.

And he's obviously a freak athlete. Did you see this is really weird because everything is forever on the internet? Somebody, one of my buddies sent to the group chat this morning a tweet of a guy saying, uh, Drake May. I'm going to pull this up for you here. The important thing to note is this tweet is from 2012. That's 14 years ago.

So Drake May was 9 or 10. This guy tweeted in August of 2012, holy crap, Drake May is the best athlete I've ever seen, playing up a league and still the best in the league. Now, this man was tweeting about a 9 or 10-year-old. That's probably, though, every one of these. NFL players. Right.

It probably is, except now we have a tweet for it. Yeah. So people go find it. And they're like, what was the context of this? Because he was like 12. Yeah. The guy said he was nine. He was four and a half feet tall and 80 pounds playing up a league with 11 and 12-year-old

stiff-arming them and running circles around them. You remember that I saw Kyler Murray when he was eight. Oh, yeah. I mean, my brother was kind of like that. Against 10-year-olds. It's just funny now because you have Twitter. And 15 years later, the guy's in a conference championship. Absolutely.

If we had, when Bob and I were at the, and Gerbs dressed as a chipmunk, we're at the championship game that year for Kyler Murray's Little League team. If Bob had Twitter, he would have absolutely been tweeting it out that this Kyler Murray is amazing. Yeah, it's just a different world, but it was cool. Yeah. He's a baller, man.

So make sure you tweet about every kid you see is the thing, just in case. And then act super surprised when they come knocking on your door with a bunch of tweets printed out about third graders in your neighborhood. Before we move on to the next game, let's just mention Qualit. We've already mentioned Qualis a couple times, but they are the sponsor of our new drone that will be here when we do the Super Bowl. It was out at Coné Roso, but they have drones, and that's how they will give you a free roof inspection.

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You're going to have a lot of people realizing they got jacked-up roofs. Yeah. So this is the time. None of that door-to-door, you know, two... What do they say? Two bucks in a truck? Two chucks in a truck. I don't even know the phrase.

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You think we'll talk to Brandon in the next couple weeks? Absolutely. Why? I want to talk to him about kicking in that because I didn't listen, but I read a quote from Will Lutz, the Broncos kicker, because they had one blocked, you know? Kind of.

It got tipped. And he said that they're a line. was all jacked up because none of them knew the yard lines. They couldn't tell how far back they needed. He was like, all right, are you far back enough on the snap? Am I far back enough? The guys on the end of the formation have to know if they're, so he was like, you couldn't see anything. It was a wild day to kick.

But Darnold is going, man, and I'm not mad at it. I have a Seahawks fan friends. It's tough to be mad about the Seahawks, right? but I would have been cool with Stafford and McVeigh. It's just a hell of a football game, man. A lot of fun. The two best teams. Yeah.

Controversial play didn't matter later, but what did you think about the whole unsportsman-like penalty called? Third quarter, Seattle's up by 11. Third and 12, the Rams do not get it. defensive back, celebrating, starts kind of yapping at the Rams bench as he, you know, after he made the play. Referee standing right there as well. Mm-hmm. And ends up getting a 15-yard unsportsman-like penalty, first down, next play, touchdown.

So if the Rams go on to win, that's, you know, heavily pointed at. Oh, yeah. But it didn't seem like an overly, you know, I don't. don't even know if I believe in the taunting calls, but the standing over a guy and flexing or the getting right in someone's face, you're a good 10 or 20 feet away from whoever you were kind of yelling over at. Okay, well, this is a rare one for me where I may be the handoff. I'll tell you how this went for me because I'm kind of barely watching the game and

then knowing I'll go back and do it in the morning. I was driving some spaghetti down. Actually, it was the soup, Blake. It was the Nyoki soup, the top ranked soup. That's how you say it? Yes, Nyoki. All right. So I was driving down to my parents' house.

I said nochi. Two blocks down, but I get in the car and the game is on the radio. And Ross Tucker is the sideline reporter, who I like a lot. I think it was Kevin Harlan and Kurt Warner. But I've told you guys before, like in listening to the Cowboys broadcast, Christy always brings a lot, especially if there's some bullshit happening between players. She's tracking that.

And it just, I don't know why they don't let the sideline reporters do that during the game. Maybe it's because, I mean on TV, maybe it's because they can kind of show you what happened and you don't need it. Like, you knew the fight was brewing because you've been watching it. Whereas on the radio, you don't necessarily know that. But here's what Ross Tucker, who played in the league. Ross, you know, there's nothing like it. It starts out with, we're going to go to Ross coming out of a Hawaiian roll read, which I love.

Ross, you know, there's nothing like it. No, they are delicious. And Kevin, I'm watching a video of exactly what Rick Wollin did, and it's exactly what I saw. He went down for 10 yards. The side judge said, okay, enough, and kind of told him to go away. He went down the Rams sideline for 15 more yards. I mean, my daughters wouldn't even do that. I would have said, okay, don't do it again.

He did it again. They said, don't do it again. The ref gave him a chance to taunt for a little bit, and then he would not stop pauling. I don't think I've ever seen that before. And then I get home out. That is fantastic context. Agreed.

Fantastic context, yes. That is absolutely what the sideline reporters should actually do if you're on TV and not worrying about make sure the snow is in my hair and that looks cool or whatever. outfit I got on or I know and it sounds just whatever bullshit that you do and it sounds

coded gender I'm saying this started with me realizing how much Christy brings to the Cowboys broadcast and then I started you know more NFL games and comparing it to there and I'm like that's what that guy's down there for he can tell you like hey I just saw this going on again you know what

give me stuff that I don't know it's like I say about if you're in the color commentary show me you were an NFL quarterback Tony Romo if you're just going to make ooze and oz and say real generic stuff, put Jake in the booth. I'm not saying you would just say generic. You know what I'm saying? Right, right.

You were never in a huddle. Tom Brady has been letting us know he was in a huddle, and he'll tell you some fascinating shit. It makes you feel like you're in the huddle sometimes. But yes, if you're on the sideline, go ahead, sorry. I'm sorry, I listened to most of the game, and Tucker was all over it. Like, almost ever, once a series, he said something about,

hey, Sean McVeigh was in the officials here. He wanted a flag on this and all this kind of stuff. I mean, he was right there in the action. It just makes me think, like, I guess it's kind of the idea of the Booger Mobile, but somebody down there who's like, hey, you know. There's a lot of cool shit going on on the sideline. Trayvon and such and such. You should be reporting it.

Yeah. So I don't know, man. I think when you get to the, when you get on to the other sideline, you're probably going to get a penalty. Okay. So just what I saw, none of that context. Yeah. You're looking at it going, and then I'm thinking what I'm reading a lot of this morning is,

Should you make that call in game three of the regular season? Maybe as you're trying to establish that you're not putting up with this shenanigans name, but in a playoff game and all that, in such a high leverage position. But knowing that, without knowing that, I still thought, I don't know, do you call it? But, oh, my gosh, you have to call it. Yeah, and I feel like he knew. But I also thought, well, you have, the guy is an idiot anyway because of the way they've been calling it this year. Like by now, we really know.

And you do what you're trying to tell your eight-year-old girls who are on your team or soccer team. It's like, celebrate yourself. Yeah. And in fact, you should think about that in life, right? You celebrate, like, you're happy for where you are. You're not yelling at someone else for sucking. You want to be grateful for your, celebrate what you're doing. No reason to trash talk those.

And it's going to happen, but you just. have to be, not just be smart about it, but, you know, you have to, I guess, read the room. But that's very interesting to know the ref was like, kind of letting him know. Look, dude, I said, we're done with this and you didn't listen to me. Yeah. Wow. I had a follow-up point, but I don't, you know, if you just want to hear it real quick, this is, this is Blandino and KB and TB talking about the call.

15-yard penalty from the deadball spot It's an automatic first down This is number 27's first on sports for life towards disqualification That was fourth and 12 Okay again They really KB in particular gets very focused on that It would have been more disappointing

If it were fourth and one It was not fourth and 12 It was third and 12 It would have been fourth and 12 Well that's where KB is wrong Because And this is my question then. If it was fourth and 12, and that happened, is it now you just possess the ball 15 yards

back? Because now change of possession has happened. I think so. And I get a penalty. I think so. But change of possession had not happened. It was third and 12. They were going to force them to punt. Yes. That's a big, uh, important point on it as to why that's a worse. It's a worst. It still would have dropped you back 15 yards, but I don't think it would have given them a first down. I could be wrong on that. But I think that's, but I think that's, The way it is. Dead ball file. That's a good point.

I just know it's an automatic first down. So the down and distance. But you're right. Would it not be automatic first down? If it was, I don't know. Yeah. I would like to know. Blandino's going to kind of tie it all together.

And you see he's yapping at the Rams bench team. Exactly right. He's going at the Rams bench. That's directed out of an opponent. That's a big penalty because going fourth down, now it's a first down. That is unbelievable. That's it. I'm not wrong, am I?

Wasn't it third down? Yeah, you're not going for a fourth and 12 in the third quarter with eight minutes left. No, you're right. You're right. They keep saying that. But what Dean adds is that the Rams, they're an opponent. He was yelling at the Rams, they're an opponent. You can't yell.

I know that it was the opponent. And he's like, because it was four. Now it's first down. Back to you guys. No, he's got nothing. Bag of all bags. All those. official guys.

Oh, I know what I was going to say. And we can't put the image up. But a couple of series later, the big middle blitz that the Rams sent and they got Donald, how was that not a taunt? The dude sacked him. And then I took a still shot image of it. I don't think we can put it up. But he starts out with a flex.

And then he takes his right arm and kind of puts it in front of his junk. And I'm saying any time a man has a fist at Dick level and his level. looking down on it, they're simulating something sexual. And Darnal got up. That might have been the loudest I heard. But I'm looking at the picture now. He's doing it at his teammate. If Sam Darnel was lying in front of him, they would be realizing him.

Well, you're probably right, but I think anything sexual doesn't matter. I don't think you're allowed to, like, simulate. You couldn't run around your own teammate. What do they call it? I don't know. On sportsmen like? It just seemed to me, like, right after it had happened, this was a very, very, you very dangerous move to get up and dance like.

The crowd freaked out. And Donald, maybe that's why I was feeling Donald yesterday's. He seems much more emotional than he ever has. He's always kind of been a spectrumy quarterback to me. And I feel like he can feel the importance of this one. So it's fun. So if you are a... Don't know that I trust in the Super Bowl, but I'll just keep saying.

that until he wins one. I got a great, great chance. How many times is a guy who led the league in turnovers won the Super Bowl? I'm sure it's happened. Probably Peyton, but... I'll bet it's happened quite a bit. Well, I don't know about quite a bit, but like back in the 70s and stuff, those are the... Wild ass.

Part of your game, right? Joe Namath had more interceptions than touchdowns in his careers. Yeah. Although, so that, also if I'm talking this out, that might... mean, like the guy who led had double the amount of interceptions. Right. Right. Back in the 70s.

But, yeah, man, Darnold in the Super Bowl, he was drafted that same year Baker was number one. Oh, yeah, Josh Allen, too, right? Josh Rosen, I would think. Yeah, Josh Rosen was 10. Not in the league anymore. Josh Allen at 7. Let's see here. Oh, yeah.

Lamar Jackson. 31. The last pick, or almost last pick? Okay, I, yeah, I remember, I went to go see Sam Darnal with T.C. and Machine at the Cotton Bowl, USC played. And I remember then thinking, this is just, this guy doesn't have it. Because there's nothing really about him that you see and you're like, okay. He doesn't have the rah-rah like Baker, right? Everybody's around around him.

They say he's, you know, throws an accurate ball, but he wasn't that athletic. I just never really saw it. And then he got to the Jets and it just feels like confirmation bias. Well, then he's one of those quarterbacks now that they said is not worthy of the, I'm going to break the bank and get him a second contract. But it doesn't mean he's not worthy of starting. You know, like. On a winning team.

He's won 14 games in the regular season two years in a row. Yeah. What is Minnesota thinking right now? Like if you are a Vikings fan. Dude, and it's not like when he went there, you were like, well, they're stacked. Yeah. Offensively. You know, like, they don't have pickings in CD. You didn't know JSN was going to turn into this. You're moving on from Metcalf and Lockett. That's one thing before we move on to audio, I do want to say, though, because I've been, like, very complimentary of both Shottie and Clayton Adams because the Cowboys' Run game looked way different this year. They used way more play action. They used way more motion. They protected DAC, they scored a lot of points.

At the end of the day, though, while they may have installed a lot of Clayton Adams stuff, Shottie still calls the plays. And I felt like yesterday, on both sides of the ball, multiple times, I felt like there was play calling going on that is entirely a level above anything Shottie has touched yet. Like the chess pieces of them, how they use Puka, on one side and Jackson Smith and Jigba on the other side. The stuff that Sean Payton

was doing, I just want to slow down a little bit. Like I could see a scenario where they let Clayton Adams call plays. I mean, it denied a request for him to become the Eagles OC over the weekend. Lateral move,

you can block it. But I don't know. I mean, I'd kind of like to see it before we find out that Shotties maybe not. You know, the guy's never been thought of as an expert play caller, which is why it's weird the Cowboys interviewed him as a playoff. But I was just looking at some of the stuff those teams are doing yesterday and thinking, this is a different level.

This is a different level. I mean, watching all four of those teams, the downtimes that each of them have had recently, I don't know if you call the Rams. They had such a high time, and then they traded away all, literally all of their draft capital. And then that they're back here after the Cowboys were kind of like laughing at them publicly. Like, okay, that's nice. You get one Super Bowl.

Boy, you're going to be paying for it later. And now they're right back in the mix. I would think about the Seahawks and the balls it takes to move on from Gino Smith. Well, the balls it took to move on from Russ. Yeah. Plenty of up and down. They'll make a decision. And then, you know, the Broncos, they traded for Sean Payton.

How weird was that at the time of like, you're just going to trade picks? Like how big of a difference is a huge difference. The Patriots, oh, we screwed up. We're going to pull the rip court after one year. This was not a good idea. We're making a play for Vrable. Just realizing the same thing as the Eagles did with wins or whatever. But just losing Belichick and Brady.

Like, were you disgusted to see, Robert Kraft up there last night? I was. Yeah, I can handle it when it's Vrable. I can actually get excited for him. But when I see Robert Kraft, it's dumb-ass family up there, I can't handle it. That's hard.

Like, oh, I... Somehow they make the people from Walmart feel that you're like, all right. These are our people. The Waltons. All right. Well, Blake, you want to take a little break here? Seems like Blake has to go potty. Okay.

All right. The dumps, in tonight's turn Love in the Frozen Friday picture sharing Bridget's snow-covered windshield in Fort Worth. In Mesquite,

Jennifer's daughter isn't feeling the snow and in Farmersville Joanne's cute dog was either having fun or saying, Mom, it's freezing. I want to go inside.

And then we've got Lisa in Farmers Branch enjoying a walk barefoot in the snow. Lisa, you got it. And Judith is showing us her cutie in Paris, Texas. Lots of fun there. But we've got Jessica and Mesquite, bad snow.

She's already got Cabin Fever. Not her favorite, but look at this cutie from Troy. Briley and Denton bundled up to go see you and T. Play some hoops adorable. We've got more Friday snow picks coming right up. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Yeah. Yeah.

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But do you guys, does your wife ever try to send you a meme? You're like, okay. Go on. On Friday night, I think. Maybe it was Saturday. It must have been Friday. My wife sent me a link that said encore outages. And it had a little link to click to enter your address here.

And this must have just been in her lady group chat. I did notice her laughing really hard, like 15 minutes prior. And she sent me the link. And it was just that Barry Wood guy. the black guy sitting on the corner of the bed with this huge, huge slong out. Okay, well, at least you laughed. What was the caption? It's just a picture of that guy from the COVID.

He resurfaced. It's a photoshopped like 18-inch dick. Yeah, I know that. No, I'm familiar. Yeah, no. It's just the link redirected to that. It just said, click here to enter your address on Encore's website. I think that's that.

You don't think that's funny? I didn't laugh. I was like, okay, yeah. But obviously in her group chat, it's like the funniest thing in the world. I think that's great. All the grapevine moms are sending it back. That's awesome. I was like, all right.

Yep. All right. Is it real? I'm like, I don't know if it's real. It does. All right, I'm producing on the fly here. I know we got audio to play. We got time.

Whatever you want, man. I was wondering if you wanted to emergency book Brunig. Did you see his work? Oh, yeah. Dude, I don't know. This has to be his greatest troll ever. Are you sure? Which one?

I saw a couple, I think. He had a troll that has, this isn't like whatever, you know, the replies? Yeah. 1.6,000 right now. That's, when you're going to do a troll. Nearly a thousand retweets. See, that's actually backward from what you normally want. want, right?

Right. A normal tweet, that's called getting ratioed. But Brunig, with his powers, is hunting for ratios. Right. No, it's... As of when I saw it yesterday, I had like 30. 30 people going back and forth, and that's what you'll usually see. Yeah.

When he does something so out there. I mean, he... I don't know. I just want to congratulate him. Matt Brunig, our labor lawyer, and Internet troll. He's an internet sports troll. I've talked to him about this before. I wonder if he's talking about socialism and Greenland or whatever it is,

you know, renewable energy. Like, are you trolling there or is this how you think? Because I think it's only sports that he trolls. Yeah, but you have to have a certain type of mind to arrive at that level of trolling. So it all kind of is tied together. Like the thing about how you shouldn't be able to put your knee on the ground, when you're the holder? I think he's probably serious about that.

Well, he says the NFL needs to really do something about to solve the crowd noise problem. Aside from hearing loss issues, nobody wants to watch a game where the players can't communicate strategy to one another. Some of the replies are great too. You know, now some people get it. Yeah.

Very few. One of his replies is this is why LeBron's bubble championship is the purest and most impressive of all time in American sports. I laughed extremely hard at that. And Brunig agreed with him and said, Distraction-free basketball, like an artist in the studio. But then, of course, most people are, dude, that's what Seattle's famous for, the 12th man.

And Matt replies to that. He'll go back and forth for a few minutes until he gets bored. It's like going to a play and screaming so loud that the actors can't perform, or heckling a comic so much he doesn't have time to do his material. All fair points. Someone else says, hey, every major American sport has significant crowd noise outside of the very small market teams. Matt Brunig, tennis and golf have solved it.

Which I've made the flip side point many times, which is that I don't understand why golfers can't be yelled at. It doesn't make any sense to me that quarterback, or kicker, you're going to have 80,000 screaming, but golf, it's, you need, that doesn't make any sense to me. Wait, he had some famous people arguing with him to you. And that's what I was going to look. That's what you know you. Oh, it was like Ryan Glass-Speagel, I think, one of them. He's a guy that's always on.

Front office sports. Yeah. He's on Ethan's podcast a lot. Just great work. Yeah, he's. Matt Brunig. It takes a special kind. Do you have Brady audio or do you want to just go right to Romo?

Let's start with Brady. I feel like Romo is probably the, under. And look, we've got the basics. This crew nicknames itself to high, holy hell. TB, KB, EA. It just never stops. And while we had the TB12 method during Brady's career,

I don't remember people just referring to him as TB. Maybe they did in the room. And I was just unaware of that. But it feels like a new thing. I'm going to say never. The problem with this booth is Kevin Burkhard, purely, because Tom Brady, I think we're going to have audio to play from Brady for the next several years. One, because sometimes he's awesome.

And two, he's just a weird cat. Brady's a weird guy. Now, maybe he's about as regular as you could be for being the best of all time at our most popular sport. Like when I think about the European guys that are the goats, they don't even seem like people to me. They seem like a brand, like a cor. I can't imagine them just talking like this. You can't really imagine Jordan doing it. When you've seen Wayne Gretzky in the studio, it just feels weird.

So maybe it's just bound to be weird. But Burkhart feels like he needs to be entertaining. And it just, to me, it never works. So this is them throwing it down. to preview the halftime show. Unmute. Oh, is it on the, you have to do it on that one. Okay, my bad. I'm sorry, guys.

Both ends of the floor. I feel like I've been a bit of a broken record with it because I said it last game. I don't know what that is. But that's exactly what you want from a really quality team. You want to. You got to have a tab open or something. I know.

I'm trying to figure it out. This is part of the problem. All right. Fitness with the program. Yeah. I'm just going to have to have you play some audio, and now we've got dog, dog chaos. Hey!

All right, you want me to go? Yeah, might as well. All right, well, we'll all start it on the sideline. I'll at least play some sideline stuff and see if you get back, because we're sending it down to Tracy on the sideline. I've tested. Okay. Sending it down to Tracy on the sideline.

Thanks a lot, Jim. If there's one thing you know about Sean Payton, he thrives in a crisis, He thrives in a challenge and he thrives with a backup quarterback. I'd like to do this first of all. Are you a reporter or are you the PR tool for the league? And now specifically for Sean Payton. Is that one thing you know about Sean? First of all, that's three things you know.

But what are we doing here? I'm sending it down to our sideline reporter. She's been studying the game. I'm to understand your, these aren't just. just eye candy down there. These are people that are there to give me information, kind of like that guy you played that told me that the guy with the taunting call actually had been told 10 yards prior to stop the taunting.

And then he kept doing it. The ref didn't want to call that. That's awesome information. That is reporting. I don't know what this is, but it continues. Thanks a lot, Jim. If there's one thing you know about Sean Payton, He thrives in a crisis.

He thrives in a challenge. And he thrives with a backup quarterback. He spent all week instilling confidence into Jared Stidham. His message to him, I'm not worried about you, Stiddy. Let it rip. As per Bow Nix, he did have surgery on that ankle this week. He is here today in the stadium watching. I had a chance to speak with him before the game.

He told me it hurts not being out here with his team playing in the AFC championship. But he said Stiddy's got it. His message to him this week was take advantage of this opportunity. and compete like crazy. All right. Number five would be like, what do I care about? Bo Nix's, like, he's almost a rookie quarterback himself, and now he's like, now the sage wise, oh, I'm going to tell Stiddy.

Now, of course, number two would be, if I'm going back to my points of emphasis here, Stitty. We're going with Stiddy. And we're going to learn how that, happened in the first place. He knows how important it is to have a backup quarterback. Your whole season can be over if you didn't really plan for that in the off season. And they understand that, and that's why right now they believe in the study.

The study, Stiddy? Okay. You know, so he's thinking about Stidham. They're talking backup quarterback. Romo's saying more generic stuff that anybody could tell you. We don't know he was a quarterback because of this. He didn't talk about the time he went down and Dak Prescott. He doesn't relate to anything anymore.

He just talks generically and he says, you know how important a backup quarterback is? Because if you're, yeah, yeah. That's why they're kind of like the fourth highest paid player on the team sometimes. You know, they're very highly paid. But he's going to say the word study. he had just heard Tracy say Stiddy, and you'll hear the moment when Tony Romo's mind works,

and he puts it all together. And they understand that, and that's why right now they believe in the study... There it is. He wasn't going to say anything, and then he put it together. In the study, the study, Stiddy, Stiddy who's studying

You're starting to hear some chance here for Stiddy And by the way, that nickname was hung on him by none other than Tom Brady His rookie here at New England He's the first different call on that And he says, now everybody knows me as such First and 10 All right, so that's going to be the first in a long line of Jim Nance notes

That he'll give you a note Oh, also the note on that is Tom Brady gave him that nickname and his punctuator is... Everybody knows me as such. First and ten. Whatever the down and distance is I can get out of this note. I don't have to wait for the... Buffoon next to me to...

Either the buffoon next to me to not really have anything or just the tumbleweed to pass by because it wasn't that interesting what I just said. But I did get to thinking, starting quarterbacks are the... You know, if all these guys have their hangers on and yes men, starting quarterbacks, the rest of the team always ends up being yes-men to the starting quarterbacks.

And Dack bestows nicknames. I shall call you Butter, and from hereforth, you're going to be known as Butter, and we're going to use that in broadcast. Like, guess who gave him that name? Dak, is there anything this guy can't do? Hey, Brandon. He gives out cool nicknames. Brandon, we heard you have a walkout song.

No, Dak actually picked that. But I mean, Jared Stidham And we're also acting like this is Like Butter is actually a bit more creative Than his name is Stidim I'm going to call him Stiddy What are we in hockey? Like I'm supposed to, whoa, Tom Brady,

Whoa, the creativity on you. You took his name, you took the first syllable and you added a Y. Bravo. You can't have another one after Brady gives you one though. That's what I mean. Yeah, I know, I know. Because Brady did it.

Yeah, it's attack is an all-time offender of this, but I love him for it. Do you want to go on to some of your audio, or do you want to slide into Nance Notes? I'll try you a couple things here before we get to Nance Notes. We're talking Brady, so we're going to try to have some chemistry. I hope. It's been a crazy fourth quarter. Oh, no, you know what?

That's not it, but I will play that for you later. This is it. Take the lead. And coming up the Verizon halftime show, Kurt, Terry Howie, Michael Grunk, down on the field, ready to go and they're saying there you go give us a little dance muggle i love it those two on the right love to dance right there i love that you know and terry's just playing it cool right now he's just having fun but he's always cool tv's like you guys you young bucks what are you talking about you're trying to jiggy with it right there grong tried to spike the salmon in the pipe place market

did he did not go over well no that'll be quite the splatter of it yes all right let's see what the seahawks have all three timeouts it's just not there's really no flow to it at all Yeah. Like, he didn't spike the salmon. Again, it's just a, it's a weird bit because he has such an aura. Yes. He's so big. It would be hard for anybody, but I think Jim Nance might be the guy.

Right. You need someone with big broadcasting skins, you know, somewhere in the same neighborhood as your playing skins. Yeah. And that would be Brohard and Romo. Yes. Both guys, no one really knew who they were. All of a sudden, here they are. and they can't believe it.

Neither one of them can believe it. But Nance feels like he belongs on the Mount Rushmore of sports. Like Nance certainly believes that. If you were to ask him who are the top four broadcasters ever, he's putting himself in there. He wouldn't even think about it. In fact, he has a painting over his fireplace to prove it. And then Tom Brady of it.

He's just so big that he can't just have back and forth. I'm going to have him having fun with this guy. You can't do that with Gretzky. You can't do it with Michael Jordan. He's so big, he'll do one interview for the whole year. He's not going to be in the MBC studio every week. And I think the problem is that Nance wouldn't even really try, but Kevin feels like, I'm going to make this, he's my guy, I'm his guy,

and it's just a bit odd. We've highlighted before that Chris Collinsworth and several other broadcasters, probably ourselves at times, will struggle with pass rush. But I think everybody's aware of it. And I don't know that Brady messes it up, but it's kind of like you're walking around after you're trying to hold in a fart

and it just causes you to mess it up in a different way like you're walking funny so here's how he says it I have a few finally get a little momentum okay cool we just can stop him on first down and we can settle into our pass rush okay so he goes like really high A

pass rush so as to avoid running it together he does it every time pass rush it would be a third down at a About two that time. The time it was Jones in on the tackle. The Saffer just taking what's there.

Yeah, and you see the pass rush. There's just nothing to be seen from this really vaunted pass rush that Seattle's had all season. He wants to say it a lot, but he has to really say that first part. So that's one to look out for. Here they are just having fun. This is, I want to say, during the muffed punt that the kid from the Rams dropped. The Seahawks get the ball. JSN scores a play later.

back from break and they've got one of those booth shots um to show you that everybody's having fun and it's a slow mo of like t b and kb doing a fist bump whenever they realized there was a fumble like hey the game's exciting and it just showed them fist bump it's not like they were us during a freaking stream you know they fist bump and that's it that's what you're seeing while this is happening two guys just having fun they're just two fans just two fans just Just like you. You know, we could be fans, too, even if one of us are the greatest player of all time. Like, we were shocked at that fumble.

We're like, whoa. Yeah, I mean, don't show our bosses that we're having too much fun here, actually. This is something. Rupert, Lachlan, Shank Zager. We have a blast, as you guys know. 31, 27. We are having fun. Feels so forced.

And that's why I have to tell you about how much fun we are having. Right. But even the way to, you're being, I guess he's being, deprecated to himself, but just that you have to keep pointing out, I'm here with the great, like Joe Buck, you know, it's a quick, Hall of Fame quarterback, Three-Time Super Bowl winner. All right, let's get on to this because now we're not that anymore. We're this. We're the best at this.

I don't even think Brady likes it. He feels uncomfortable. Right, that's what I mean. It's just the constant, even if one of those guys is the greatest quarterback of all time. Like, how about we're actually just two guys? Let's pretend. But you can't. You just can't.

He's too big, and that's why it doesn't fit. Because he's so big and because he's the goat, he does occasionally go on these little soliloquies where I feel like I'm in the huddle with Tom Brady. And after we had the taunting penalty on the Seahawks, they go over and there's a little bit of fighting going on. And I first started cutting this because I thought it fit perfectly with the bullshit narratives that we create.

This team is so tight. Like, Shottie's just got these guys play. Like, every team is tight. And every team is tight until somebody commits a penalty that hands the other team a touchdown in the championship game, and now they're pissed off. That's why you should focus on the football, I think, and not the dinners early.

Sure. But Brady makes a great point in here, and I think it ends up being pretty cool. Well, you talked about this team has been so connected under Mike McDonald, but after that sequence those three plays from woolen there's some argument going on this nick even warry the rookie you see leonard williams and cobi brian in there yeah i just think there's a human intricacy to all these team environments and that's why we're never going to be replaced as robots

as uh nfl players because it's too dramatic there's too many emotions sideline emotions infield emotions such a great game and all the details matter kb as they say and you never know which one matters until the game's over. That's why they're all important. Here is Chiquin. I was thinking earlier in the day, maybe this is Gummey thought. I've been at home a lot.

Time doesn't matter. I was like, man, this game is in Seattle because of that two-point conversion, which swung our picks game. Oh, yeah. Hit somebody in the head. Yeah. And then, you know,

if somebody goes, whoever goes and picks it up in the corner, and you can boil it all down to that, but there's a million other things. but if you're Tom Brady, you're saying, we don't know which one of the things it'll be. So it's very important that from Monday to Sunday, you take every little thing as important as I do. Because one of these little things is going to be the thing

that makes us move on or not, whether it's a dumbass penalty or forgetting this or that. And it felt almost like you were with Brady where he's like trying to explain to you why the little things matter. Imagine the Brady and Belichick over the years as they develop that together. Yeah, because you come out of college and that's who Brady is talking to.

As guys who are like, I can slack off on this or that. It's not going to matter. I've always been able to get by on talent. He's like, now we're down to the margins. But to him, it was like, yeah. So is it his diet? Is it the exercise he does?

Is it the study he does? Is it that he didn't go to Cabo? Is it that he had a projection of, like, it's everything. Cover it all. Yes, because it might be one. like you said. It could be one of those things. This is before the game, Aaron Andrews report. As we go downstairs to Aaron Andrews.

And I started off with head coach Sean McVeigh about what to do in terms of disrupting. Okay, that's halftime. Whatever, it's generic, blah, blah, blah. I just thought there might be a drop in here. When they're in the red zone and of course he screamed, let's go. We can use this. Let's go. She sounds crazy.

This is one I just labeled... I just feel bad she had to work yesterday. Oh, I know, especially in the conditions. A lot of people were with their families at home. She couldn't be there. And then my final Brady one is just... This is just called Brady sounds like a stoner. And the one-two punch of Walker Charbonnet that they haven't had today,

Walker definitely has stuck up in his role and played a tremendous game. Catching past it out of the backfield, making people miss. Challenging the edge of the defense. Two and a half minutes to get to the Super Bowl, man. Man. Two and a half minutes to get to the Super Bowl, man. Yeah, man, two and a half minutes, and then we'll be there. Brady's great.

He's come a long way, arrow pointing up. Yeah. Really like listening to him to a game, even if he's a bit goofy. He is way better. Well, let's go into Let's see, where do we end with? Let's do some Nance fun. Some notes.

Second and seven. Not a big Nance fan over here. If you haven't figured that out. But I don't know whether to call this word play, but it's kind of like the Romo butterfly. He sees something and then he has to try and say something about it, where Nance tries to be creative about it, and especially when they're coming out of the break.

and he's doing live reads. And by Verbo, private vacation rentals. Well, when it comes time to renting a backup quarterback, it's interesting in the offseason. The Patriots tried to bring Jarrett back to New England. Yeah. Yeah, so he's got the rental read, and then wait, but the Patriots tried to rent a quarterback.

They also are going to do something with, like, they had pictures. It was like this old-timey car museum was the B-roll. and by Royal Caribbean. It's big time. So is the Forney Museum of Transportation here in Denver. One of the kind collection of over 800 artifacts relating to historical transportation. Now, who's going to make the little travel trip over to Santa Clara?

I'm only laughing because I know how happy that made him. And then they're promoting a big movie, a big new... Odysseus Odyssey Christopher Nolan's new film The Odyssey July 17th Okay the Odyssey comes out in July

but this is a little winter Odyssey taking place here in the Mile High City Yeah I don't know That one felt a little more There's a lot of you could have done with that But that That felt failed

So we have Nance notes Because he gets notes And he's going to work him in somewhere if he has to, you know. Dude, hold on real quick. I was just thinking about, who are we talking about? Was it Martin Luther King or Jackie Robinson that Romo did the man?

Wow. Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King, certainly, yeah, it must have been Martin Luther King. Yeah, it was. It was, MLK. Okay. Go ahead. Well, it just, I have a bunch of those. Okay, it would have been.

I just in my head now, I imagine. Can you find that one, Blake? Or can you play stuff, Blake? The point is. But if you just search MLK, it's in there. All right. Find it while we talk about poncho for a second. Oh, absolutely.

Pancho is the best fitting. It's the most comfortable shirt in the game. These are button-ups. You've probably seen us wearing them. Blake wears his under his suit because they got long sleeves. They got short sleeves. Wick away. They're made for me because I have a weird body and I need stretchy fabric.

I also sweat a lot. They don't really show the sweat because it's not cotton. You also have SPS 50 built right into the shirt, so you're outside. That's keeping you safe from the sun. Simply put, these are the best outdoor shirts buttonups in general I've ever had. I used to see the guys who would wear the fishing shirts, and I'm like, I want a shirt like that, but I don't want to look like a dumbass. And then Poncho made it to where you can wear that shirt without that at Poncho outdoors.com slash dumbzone. There's two O's in there.

P-O-N-C-H-H-O. outdoors.com slash dumbzone. Get you $10 bucks off and free shipping. Please let them know the dumb zone sent you. You play that, and I imagine if there was any hang time, just Romo. Like, wow, Odyssey. Okay, well, let's get to some of those now. We all know Homer.

Here's, they were talking MLK. We can all contribute to MLK's legacy through acts of volunteerism and social change to learn more. Visit realize the dream. Dot p. What a day. Martin Luther King and he was to have a day

named after him. Most of Pittsburgh fans made the drive up here three hours away. What a day. What a day. Martin Luther King. I thought that too

when they were in the Super Bowl a couple years ago talking about that female ref. This is what. We've had so many games that she's done. So respected. Here is the handoff to Williams for a couple, but then it'll be third and long again.

Yeah, she's inspiring a lot of young woman up there, and that's great to see. Great for everyone in the NFL. She's talented, too. Dude. So, yeah, I don't know what to label. I don't know what to call this, but I'm calling it non-ad. Like, he's not adding anything to it, but he's trying to because he's the guy there. So this is where if Nance doesn't have a second intent to get to, he's, it's hang time and Romo is.

And let me just say this too. I'm not saying that, like, I don't stay out of politics or whatever, but I've heard so many times where Joe Buck has read whatever, like the league wanted them to note that. And you know who doesn't say anything about it? Troy. Troy knows his. Joe goes right into the next play. And Troy waits for the next football thing. that happens to talk on, rather than just going, wow, look at her.

Here's one. In this Patriot story, it's amazing. They just got pelted the last two years. They won eight games in two years total, and then they, what do they do? They go out and get Mike Grable, and man, can he coach? Now they're firing back in people. And you don't want to be in their way. And on the road, they haven't lost.

And if they win here, they would be the first team to ever go 9-0 on the road in the history of the league. season. They got the right man at the top of the helm to do it. Here's May. Starting this drive out of the gun. And that's a football one and he still just had nothing. The right man at the top of the helm to do it? There's the Kraft family.

Oh, by the way, if you think Al Michaels loves owners. Oh, my God, dude. No one messes their pants more than Jim Nance when he sees the craft. Oh. There they are and they're so. Sweet. Oh, look at them just all rich. Being all private jetty. They've gotten themselves back here again.

So deserve it. Such great work they do with the committee. Second to only, or maybe third, to Mike Vrable and Drake May. It's Robert Kraft. There's the Kraft family. But what could Romo add to the conversation? What they're seeing here in the last few minutes. What a job they've done right.

their whole careers and now coming back and getting back here in the championship games they can get this win here today would be the 40th playoff win all time which would tie for the most in NFL history with the san francisco 49ers yeah him and jonathan they're at the top of the food chain for a long time and now they're back here just he had nothing anything he had nothing to add he had nothing to add there's so much they could have talked about from like the belichick standard point, you know, of like, oh, had a rift with Coach Belichick. I feel like they didn't mention Belichick at all. At all?

Yeah. But that's a big part of the story. And instead, it's just... There they are. Boy. Yeah, he also has a son and I know his name. Boy, there's Jonathan. There they are.

Good at what they do. Which is for you now to tell us, Tony? Other people to do things. Also important to note that it was the AFC championship game when Robert Kraft was flying from Jupiter, Florida to Kansas City, and he got that hand job. fingers slipped into his butt crack at Orchids of Asia, which there is a outback steakhouse and a Taco Bell in that parking lot. And the reason you know? Because I went there. You were there. Nance note. Morning of. This is where Spalane got hurt. Spelane, the grandson of the Heisman

trophy winner. 73 years ago, Johnny Leitner, the hatback from Notre Dame. It's a third and You know. Tell you what else he loves. Halfbacks in Notre Dame. From 70 years ago or 50 years ago. All right, here's a note. It is true, but I just don't know that it fits. I don't know.

Interesting matchup you got. McDaniels, the offensive coordinator. Joseph, the defensive coordinator, pitch against him. Both of them, former head coaches of the Denver Broncos. Here's a second and eight. Yeah. Yeah. It's true.

They are both. former head coach of the Broncos. Here's a note. We're also going to get a new nickname because Jim Nance will give you a trace or a tone. I've never heard this nickname before. We're looking at the halftime crew, who for some reason, you've got to bring them out and make them stand outside. Oh, yeah, playoffs. This is like I was watching the news this weekend.

And I can't remember what nice little Fox 4 coworker was up there. who I respect totally and wouldn't say anything about. David Centender. But it was a somebody was out. They sent them out in the middle of the thing. Like you can't just be in the studio saying, God damn, it's 12, it's nine degrees out there. No one should go outside. No, they go nine degrees out there.

No one should go outside. Let's now throw it to. And then she's standing outside. Yeah. And she's, it's like, why? Why did you go drive outside? You just drove in this traffic that you all told us, or this roadway, that you said not to get on.

It's not safe. Typical media. The halftime crew, they also do that. They're freezing their ass off. They're standing there in their suits. And we're going to get a nickname and a note. Verizon halftime report coming up, J.B. How long?

No. No way. Never. No one has ever called them how long. Howie is already short for Howard. We're not doing how. How long? Come on.

How water maybe, but. Coming up, J.B. How long. Nate for Cousins and Coach Cowher, you know, all time hosting AFC championship games. Denver is 6 and 1. The only team to beat him was 20 years ago this week. Bill Cowher and Spitzburg Steelers in the AFC time. Yeah, Bill was pretty good coach against people didn't know.

He talked to Vrable this week. We've seen it. And it was Vrable's first NFL coach as he came into the league through the Steelers and the draft pick. First and ten. First and ten. Yeah, that's... Romo likes to remind people of stuff that I think everyone knows, but also I am old now. And Bill Cowher hasn't coached for a long time, but how long is the worst? That may be the worst attempt at a nickname I've ever heard.

Because you're taking off the part that people normally. we add two nicknames. E. Right, the hockey thing. Did I, am I wrong, or did Reble get released? From Pittsburgh. I don't know. I mean, he wasn't much of a player, a note of a player when he arrived in New England, right?

No, and that's what I, I read the Belichick book and finding Rable was a big part of it. Is that on the pro football reference real quick? Transactions. Free agent. Yeah, they released him. Okay, so does that hurt the, what a great coach? In fact, he was Rayble's first coach. Yeah, thought he kind of sucked, released him.

And actually another coach had to pick him up and actually say, I see the talent here. Right. You released him. You just gave him to another team. You gave a, is Rayball Hall of Fame player or just like a really, really good player? He'd be really, really good, but still. I just don't know the day. He's a 10-year starter.

So did that fit the whole narrative of Bill Cowher? He's so great. We have... Okay. Here's my last Nance note. Oh, this is my second to last Nance note. Sorry. Here's the thing that's interesting.

Both of these teams were 14 and 3 in the regular season. Dipper got the one because of a better common opponent's record. Basically, it got down to the fact that the Raiders had beaten the Patriots week one. Otherwise, it's possible this game right now would be. and that's no storm instead of this one. That is interesting. I thought it would have been a nice tie-in to say. So in a sense, Tom Brady kept this game out of New England

because Tom Brady is a part owner of the... Yeah, I mean... Raiders. I don't think there's a 0% chance that Tom Brady ends up hiring Clint Kubiak based on the game I was watching yesterday. The Raiders have an open open coaching position.

It is very weird. It doesn't really bother me at all during the game, but it is weird. It would piss me off if I was a league executive, like on another team. Obviously, it's not like it helped them all out this year. No, but you know how we talk about the margins. I mean.

Yeah, yeah. So here is my last Nance note, and this also goes to the rich people like to pretend that they're normal people and that they're not as rich as they are and Nance will also speak up for other rich people to let you know that they're kind of, they're just normal.

Like what, he had a story about one player who got to go to a game, but it was a Super Bowl, but it was like the third deck. I mean, it was a, like he went to great lengths to tell you that it, oh, it was Patrick Mahomes,

whose dad is a former Major League Baseball player and it was like, oh, they just somehow had to sit on the corner and panhandle and try and get themselves into this game. Like he was very well-knit. Anyway, we're going to do the same thing to Drake May. It's just an amazing story here. You look at May. He's going to be now heading to Santa Clara.

He'll be the second youngest quarterback to start a Super Bowl. Second only to Dan Marino, 23 years old. When he was 13 and the game was Super Bowl 50 in Santa Clara. Growing up in Charlotte, he was a big. Carolina Panther fan. And as they were making their way through the postseason, as dad Mark said, we got to go. So they traveled from Charlotte out to Santa Clara.

They didn't have tickets. They found some out there. And he's set in the second deck. Okay, so let's make sure we say it's the second deck. So you can just up and go. Right, we'll just find tickets. Just find tickets. That's the most expensive way to ever get tickets.

And you can just go stay in the San Francisco area. Oh, I can just pick up and go. That's insane. I'm not saying you're private jetting it, but you're, just stop with the, um, I'm just, he had to, like, he's got to say second deck, though. He had to say that to, it wasn't a sweet. It was a second deck. Yeah.

Again, and to, in Nancy's world, that like a little boy might be like, oh, the second deck. It's the Super Bowl. You drove across the country, right? Or got there somehow. Or got there somehow. Yeah, I mean, I, I, the, we, used to drive to games in Austin, my dad and I, and go to UT games after the first quarter was over because we could get in for, they make it sound like that's what he's doing. It's not.

This also is kind of the Romo adds nothing. And he's set in the second deck and watched that Super Bowl. It was the only Super Bowl he's ever been to. He was 13 in the same building. Yeah, most people. Wait, wait, wait, he was 13 and he hadn't yet been to a Super Bowl. And he didn't go back either. He's only been to one Super Bowl as a spectator, and it was when he was in eighth grade. By the time I was 13. Right, I was tired of. I'd have, yeah, first of all, I'd have, you know, sex with three different women.

Right. Yes, I'd been to 17 Super Bowls. I'd three national championships. Did the coin toss? Yeah, I mean, what a loser this kid was. That's is as disconnected from a normal person as anyone in media. Right. My first three Super Bowls was in a suite. I would never have sat in the second deck.

That's ridiculous. Yeah, and down there they have to pay for food by item. Each item you have to pay for it. It's not even a spread, tones. We're two weeks from now. He'll start and try to lead the Patriots to a world championship. I wonder if that 13-year-old kid said in 10 years, you're going back to the Super Bowl, but you're playing in it.

What a moment for him. Yeah. Didn't need that. All right. Let me wrap this up. I have a lot more. We'll play it tomorrow, okay? And I know we want to wrap up.

I feel like if Troy was standing there, and that's how I keep trying to do this in my head, Troy would have been like, not a lot of my friends in Oklahoma going to Super Bowls. I guess he would have made fun of that. Do you know? Like the idea that you're an eighth grader, those tickets are like five grand each for the second deck.

Disgusted, sorry. Should I wrap it up or should we say F it? because it's a cold day and what do you want me to do? I'll do whatever you want. Because I have. I don't care. Well, I have this. I have an argument with Tracy Wolfson.

Jim, a big reason Jared Stiddem is here in Denver. It's a relationship with quarterback's coach Davis Webb, who he's known since his high school days in Texas. Do we think that's a big reason? What if I told you? that Jared Stidham signed with Denver March 13th, 2023, and the Davis Webb was hired two weeks later. That would certainly invalidate. He went there because Davis Webb was there.

That would at least officially not be the case unless Sean Payton had kind of assured him that your buddy Davis Webb will be here. I'll bet they all kind of know each other, though. Yeah, especially those guys. These guys come from Texas. which is a billion of them. He's known him since high school. That's not that big of a deal. Right. Like I'll bet Baker knew 10 current NFL quarterbacks in high school.

And coaches, offensive coordinators and QB coaches now. And I'm not even saying I'm disagreeing with our leader Dan here. But it is very clear, boys, that he just doesn't find her attractive. Because Michelle Tofoya, who I view physically as the same person as Tracy Wolfson, just gets a pass on all these. Tracy Wolfson is fine. She's normal, but... Yeah, but Michelle Defoyer doesn't do this in the beginning. Thanks a lot, Jim.

If there's one thing you know about Sean Payton, he thrives in a crisis. That's true. She's the ultimate... She was down there reporting stuff. Yeah, she's the ultimate friend of the coach, it seems like. Did she get her mole removed? Did she used to have like a honker up top?

She did. Is it gone? I didn't note that. You know what? I will save some of this for tomorrow only because it requires us to dive a bit deeper, but it's the, they are overly crediting Romo with predicting things. So we'll do that.

That'll be our special, our special subscriber-only audio for tomorrow. I'll leave you with this. And it's, what is Romo saying here? That's the title of this cut. Stidham. Really aggressive. sending a message to his huddle near the end of the game.

This is why you, like, every time you coach. Okay. Already, dude. So it's cold? You just know. It's cold. There's snow. Stidim's yelling at the huddle.

All right. Now here's a guy. You know what? I don't really get what's going on here. I need a guy who's played in the NFL. What can he tell me? This is why you, like, every time you coach, You sit there and somebody teaches you stuff

And Parcell's taught Belichick I mean Sean Payton Vrable they all know this It's like one year in this situation You protect the football And you figure it out And you expect your defense to hold up

But it depends on what direction you're going We'll see Man I love this so much You're watching this with your wife Or your mom or whatever I'm sorry to be stereotypical You're a lady who doesn't really understand football And then she's like what

what did he say? Like somewhere in his head he's putting together these things. You remember, oh, Parcells once told me about hidden yardage. Yes. And he's like,

so I'm going to say Parcells. But then also Sean Payton is involved here. Wait, wait, protecting the ball. Yeah, let me just bring this up. Let me do, like just a lot of different things. It's word association. But he's not explaining it to any, like somewhere in his head,

it makes sense. It all fits. Yes. But not to people listening. Yes. I think he's obviously got a brilliant foot football mind, he is not a great communicator. I don't know that he plans even one word ahead. It just sounds like he's speaking extemporaneously. That's the clip I was going to play for you guys.

I think this is Patient Zero. And obviously it's a movie quote. And you went back and watched Dumb and Dumber recently and like in the last 10 years and found it not that funny. Romo, every time he watches it, it's funnier. And so this is when we first heard him do this, and it was kind of cutesy and a joke, but now you hear him do it every game. But this is back from 2017. It's been a crazy fourth quarter after dominating Pittsburgh defensive performance.

Now they kind of pooch kick it right under the arms of smooth Schist Smith-Schuster. He's out of. Samson and Swanson. He's out of that. at the 24. And Nance has no idea. But Romo does that, that's steady, study. He's out of bounds and out of town.

And out of town, if you go on the road, you will be travel. It's just, it's just insane. It's just insane. A lot of fun. Warby Parker is a new sponsor of ours. It may be a new sponsor of ours, but I've been in the Warby Parker game for a very, long time, Dan. Yes, Warby, W-A-R-B-Y-P-R-B-Y Parker, eyeglasses. Yeah.

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They got like a virtual try-on you can do online. I have two pair of these and I've been rotating. When I lose one or break one, I buy another. These are my glasses now. I did an order this weekend. It took like five, ten minutes. Whatever. I got a lot of stuff done that I've been putting off.

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I started to say that like Romo and then immediately felt like that's not a great selling point. Here's Jay with the dumb zone. Yeah, now here's where we need to pull that last closed tab up because I had to nuke the whole thing so that we could stop playing the... Okay, so we'll make it sort of quick today. The news is the weather. That's what we've been talking about. There was a very sad story out of Frisco,

but, you know, I saw kids in my neighborhood getting pulled behind the jeeps and thought, you know, it, uh, guess who was told about that immediately, guy with nurse as a wife. Oh, she sees it, huh? Boy, Brooks and Benny are never allowed to be on an e-scooter, an e-bike, none of that, because all she sees is kids who got hurt on this kind of stuff. That's why they all. And there was, the last freeze, she took care of a kid in the ICU.

Same thing happened. It was being pulled by a truck that stopped. and she went flat into the back of the truck that's why also why your kids always know to use a flared base yeah because she's seen it I thought you might say something this stuff no no it does happen but she you know just enjoying it yeah it happened

this happened yesterday afternoon in the afternoon a Jeep Wrangler driven by a 16 year old boy two girls on a sled sled hits a curb and then it collided with a tree and one girl died and the other girl got life-threatening injuries

and is in the hospital horrible, dude. But I don't know, I want to say it's like random because people are doing that. Like, this is what happens in my mind is that I hear, boy, back in my day

and I even think back to what we did and... That's because... Did I just not know that people were dying from it? It's a... They were always dying from it. Yes, that's right.

They were always dying from it. But it's still a very small amount of people. That's also right. But it's the, you know, one kid out of a million kids that gets into a fridge that's on the side of the road and gets locked in there, then you're going to be like, that should never happen, right? Yeah. So never, you know, you tell everybody not to do that. And same thing. So now the ones that didn't die are going to be here 40 years later saying,

why do you need a bike helmet when you ride your bike? The survivor's bias. I was fine. Yeah. Now, some people weren't. And they're the dead ones. Right. And they're not here to say, no, no, no, it's bad.

Or they probably through their tube have to say it or something, you know. So these are probably good things, but it's also just woke. That's right. Right? I'm way more worried. about slipping and falling during these four days. Oh, my. Then I am the car.

Just getting from my house to my car, it's like no matter how much I plan every step, I still, whoa, there's a little slip, getting out of the car here. Which is weird. And that's how you, that's how you hear about people dying. What, slipping? Yeah.

Yeah, you hit your head. Yeah. Like, it's hard for me to imagine a car accident on the way over here that would have really Well, you're driving so slow Yeah, that's what I'm saying There's nobody else out there By the way, I did watch

Marcelo Hernandez this weekend Oh yeah Pretty good Yeah Pretty good Kid from S&L He's got a lot of Bob Full House jokes

So Bob Saget was on my mind Oh, that was a very funny Yeah The last 10 minutes or so Yeah Dan and Jake Is generationally share Physical discipline

Being a big part of our And sometimes it just felt Like your mom was mad not really disciplining you for anything. And that was a big player in that special. A couple of other small local weather notes. We did have a handful of power outages. As of 530 this morning, we had 13,000 people without power.

Oh, wow. Yeah. That does suck. That's been the one thing. I'm just like, just keep power. I don't care if we run out of food or I run out of food. or I run out of dry firewood, which I'm up against right now. Let's just keep the power on.

That's great. You know? No, it really is. And it's a, I mean, this is an annoying thing to do, so I try not to do it. But it is definitely a be appreciative, like we were talking earlier, just about the level of comfort you live in. Do you even look at the news to watch? Like, do you remember getting up to watch the scroll to see if your school was closed?

100%. Absolutely. Yeah. So. Get up early. My wife works at a school. I'm like, all right, bass drop. You knew, like, the school was around yours in the alphabetical order?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So, yeah. So my wife works at a school. So she got an email and she knew school was canceled. But she's like, we were starting to watch Family Feud last night on More 27. You can catch DZTV on that at 9 p.m. But we're watching that at about 5.

And she goes, oh, I want to see my school come up for school closing. Her school begins at the W. And we watched one episode and we got to maybe the M's in a half hour. Like it took an hour. to finally get to her school, but she had to see it. She had to sit for graduation.

She just wanted the feeling of seeing it. Like, that made it real. And maybe it was nostalgia to. How about seeing it as a kid and then you got to drag your parents in there? No, no, no, no, no, it was on there. Just wait, wait right here. Oh, my gosh.

Ten minutes. Hold on. Wasn't that the greatest thing, though, watching for that? Oh, my gosh, yes. Because you did not have, you couldn't go search it. It's glorious. Or the anger.

or you felt when your school wasn't on there. Right. No way. Yeah, your rival. The next city over is closed. And yours isn't? Kanye West has issued an apology, Dan. This is out of character.

Very out of character. He doesn't apologize. He is going full mea copa. He purchased a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal. Okay. Now, there are some funny parts about this. If you're just wanting to do stereotypes, his primary reason for this apology has to do with anti-Semitism. I haven't read it because I don't know if we have an active WSJ subby, but it's been listed out everywhere.

So he said, I am not a Nazi or an anti-Semite. I love Jewish people. So this is what he's fighting. And I guess in his mind, and maybe some of his advisors, he was like, aha, the Jews, money, the Wall Street Journal. I will buy a full ad and adjudicate this there. Why not put it in the Hollywood Reporter or something, right? Yeah, it was just a weird, it was a bit weird.

Didn't he? I thought about a year or two. straight up. Dude, I've had a brain injury since I got in that car crash. Oh. People have said that and like his mom dying. Yeah.

He just lost it. The car crash where he had his mouth wired shut? Through the wire. Yeah. A couple good albums after that, though. No, no, no doubt. And I even think Pablo is good. I think he still kept doing some good stuff

when he was going crazy. It's just when he got full on and then you watched the documentary. He's definitely bipolar. Definitely. Sorry, I cut you off. Like you gave a bipolar guy a billion dollars and said, here, have it. Yeah.

And that's what you're getting? Yeah. No, I thought there was a couple years ago where he was watching some show. It was 21 jump show. The star of that show was Jewish, and then he's like, oh, I like Jewish people now. It was Jonah Hill. Okay. And it was hilarious because everybody knew that Jonah Hill was like either still asleep or not online yet.

It was early in the morning on a weekend. Like, he's going to be so confused. Like now I'm pro-Jewish, this show's awesome. Let me see if this will play or not. This is from, this always made me laugh, but since he's apologizing for his anti-Semitism, this is, I guess, when he was in one of his unmedicated states. The thing about the red hat that drove me to a point of exhaustion, which was misdiagnosed by a, I'm not going to say what race was. what people, uh, doctor and what hospital and what media went to. We know I can't say that.

It was a Jewish doctor. Uh, he writes that, um, you know, he just, he was, he was scared. He has bipolar and he leaned into basically the swastika as, you know, I'm going to do the most, shocking thing possible because I am a manic, paranoid, impulsive person. And he's like, listen, this is real. I'm bipolar. I'm treating it. I'm Kanye West again.

So, yeah. Full page article. Never good. Unless you got traded or something to a team that's going to pay you like a lot more money or something like that. But it's probably not ever. Like if we're doing it. I don't love the optics.

It's hard for me to figure out a way where that's a win for us. If we ever take out a full-page ad in something? No, I think that means that it is a win. Like we're thanking people? Like we're never doing it for a negative. Yeah, we're doing it like we have so much money now that we are, we're putting out a full-page ad to flaunt it. Okay, that's a fun way to think of it.

Because I'm just imagining, like, I don't know, they somehow they get Blake's computer and it's, Scott. No, if I'm on the way out, I'm not wasting my last few dollars on a full page ad. That's a good point. I'm worried about health care in the future. So Kanye's back, folks. And we'll make that the news for today.

Well, I'm fully on board. Me too. I mean, I'm on board with people not espousing. Nazi stuff. Yeah, I'm not on board with that. That was a good news. Sometimes the music is so good. If he just keeps that part, we'll be fine.

I mean, if people are still on board with Michael Jackson, right? Yeah. Happy birthday. Viewer male birthdays. Want to give them any quick love out? Let's give another shout out to Game Day Men's Health. We're not in the studio today, but gameday.com. You probably can't get over there today either.

Put it on your list. Call. Yeah, Game Day is... Put it on your list, Blake. Game day is a real treat. Don't be drafted in the second round like a pussy. Yeah. Go to gameday.

Dot dumbzone. com. A few birthdays today. We start with, Hello, Munchies McDowell. Please give a shout out to my wife, Shannon Reed. She turned 40. Hot.

Yeah. Regular DumbZone listener, and we enjoy our Did You Listen to Today's episode? conversations. She loves bragging about how many times her emails are read on air. She loves her bit of secretly starting a tiff with Plashley. Good bit. She claimed at first that she was the real Plashley.

Then she didn't tell me it was her. And when I brought it up later in conversation, she would be laughing to herself, knowing of her success. That's a great bit. I love that we can help bits. within relationships. That's fun. She also came up with peace in the middle crease. Very good.

Anyway, listening from day one up here in Iowa from Andy Reed. His name is Andy. All right. I call him And Reed. And? That's the worst I've ever heard. Like, imagine that guy at pick up basketball. It's so annoying.

Good evening, Brad. at Dan. Saturday was my son's Rowdy slash Demarvian Overshown birthday. That's right. Over the weekend, my wife pushed a human out of her gash.

I'd like a Jake name rating. Oh, yeah. Harrison Lee. Pretty good. Pretty good. Nothing crazy. It's a little, you know, a little uppity, but perfect.

I think it's good. It's distinguished. I wanted to make him your youngest subby. However, my finance-minded wife told me how stupid that would be to double pay every month for a podcast. I will chalk that up to her still having pregnancy brain. His leader is Dan and Jake wanting to live stream a game that had fewer than 400 total yards because they had to be tucked into bed by 8 p.m. Never punt, go brew crew.

That's from Nate from Michigan. I was looking this up the other day and it gave me a whole new level of respect for Blake. did you guys know that naturally even though you're not the one pushing it out of your gash that naturally when your mate has a child

and you're there for it your testosterone naturally lowers so as to make you more caring and nurturing and low-key probably to make you not freak out because everyone else in your family's all jacked up and really annoying and evolutionary

way that was probably a thing so 99% of dudes their T's goes down so that they can really be loving and nurturing and in that moment they handed that baby to Blake and we're like would you like skin to skin and he was like

fuck no pussy this kid's gay yeah and I'm not so take it back to the ball here all right so like God in itself is trying to get you to be caring

no Blake's like uh-uh I got a Greetings, soft squash of the slit. Happy Giovante Williams' birthday to great dude and aspiring sitting guest Josh Remington. Rubby. He is an elite friend with a smoke show of a wife and a hammer between his legs. He says he's widely renowned as that. His leaders are Sarah Heppela's Mommy Milkers, the Why Hillary Lost List,

Lake's Halo Literature Collection and drop Beth cutting audio live at Conne Roso This is a G. She was out there doing that. Josh would like to also put out the call to the entire DF Nation for sweet tickets. What are we doing? Not to see the Dallas stars,

but to cheer on the Dallas wings. They begin their fourth season of 2026. More unarchived, Blake Adreads, and just the right amount of Jared Sandler describing the genetic selection process of his future children, which seems a bit backwards given his heritage, but we're not here to judge. A contribution to the DZ Venmo has been made to ensure this gets read live to tape from Andrew Chuckles Collier, Day 1, number 194. I see. Dear Hedrick, the entertainer, I'd like to wish my buddy Adam, Happy 30th birthday.

Leaders are Jake's Piss Bottle, benefactor Blake, and large hardware store walking Dan. More defensive Jared Sandler over losing picks. Keep grabbing life by the box and striving for those imps, playboys. That's from Garrett. Great email.

And finally, good frigid morning. I'm writing this email from the warmth of my restroom to wish good dude Alex a happy 40th birthday. He's been a good dude since six years old. I didn't buy him a yearly membership. I just got him to buy month to month himself over a year and a half ago.

If Jake said he's a good dude, that would be great. 690 has been sent from Matt V. Great dude. Grab life by the box. All right, let's go here. Game Day Men's Health presents on this day in history. And today is,

we're a bonus-sized episode today. It's not fun-sized. No, platinum. But what else do we have to do, you know? Besides a little of the old in-out. Put that game day to work. So it's Monday, January 26th. Oh, I was super impressed when I saw this this morning,

so I got excited and read about it. It was on this day in 1985, Wayne Gretzky, scored his 50th goal in what was the 49th game of the season. And he did it on his 24th birthday. So I go there, I'm searching, and I'm like, oh, it's incredible. I come across another story that three years before that, Wayne Gretzky scored his 50th goal in the 39th game of the season.

21, 22. I'm like, what? Okay. Yeah, I thought this would have been the most amazing thing ever. He was averaging a goal, not a point of game, a goal a game. And, no, it was the most amazing thing except from when he did it a few years prior. Maybe I should retire any and all great one related trolling. Yeah, I was about to bring up, I think you said he was not that great.

Well, I will tell you, there's a problem called being a sports hipster. And a lot of us have suffered from this at different times. But I just, growing up, I didn't want Gretzky to be my favorite player. I didn't even want Madonna to be my favorite player Like I wanted two-way guys I wanted powerful Yeah Well he'll play both sides of the floor

This is 15 year old me Buying a Josh Howard jersey instead of a dirt jersey Yes that's all it is And we've all done it And now you're looking at that Josh Howard jersey What did I do? What did I do? I can get to a UT Dallas game and get it signed I guess

Like he's like oh you're the one But yeah that that that That inclination is why I was like God, Wayne Gretzky. Come on. Can he check into the boards? Can't patrol the middle. On this day, in 1986, it was Super Bowl 20.

This is the Bears Super Bowl. They win 46 to 10. Destroyed New England. Super Bowl shuffle all that. This Super Bowl is of note because it became the most viewed television program in history. overtaking, Blake? Now Super Bowls are commonly, they are always the most watched.

Even I know this. The finale of MASH. I wonder if we should make Blake watch the finale of MASH. I'd like to watch it. It would be funny to hear his thoughts, but Henry's thoughts or something, but I've never seen it. The concept of the show still baffles me, but... Would you have to watch the first episode ever and the last and then say...

First and last? That's a good idea. Yeah. On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton on the TV forcefully denied having a affair with a former White House intern. He told reporters, I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. Pondless fist on the, that's the playbook. You got to deny, deny, deny, until they find out. And then you're like, all right.

Was it that bad? Palmyro. Yep. Ooh. On this day in I want to say 20, it's 2009. I got caught in the middle. It's fun.

Two thousand. A lady named Nadia Seulman. Do you know her? Of course. You know I know her. What do you know her as? There can only be one. She gave birth to eight babies on this day.

Yeah. And I'm pretty sure, well, This is very obvious now. I didn't know this at the time, but anybody who's doing that, because I remember thinking at the time, that poor woman. But I'm almost positive she was just juiced out of her mind on fertility meds. Yeah, she had already had six kids. Then that's...

All conceived through in vitro. Yeah, that's... And this particular batch was six boys and two girls. That's a mental illness. Yeah. I think she did porn. I think you probably don't just think that. Yeah.

I bet you know it for sure. Octo Mom Home Alone is a... It's probably still all put together, right? C-section. You see-section that thing. You don't... I'm going to find out. You just drop them out. I'm trying to get a dollar amount.

Although they were kind of smallish. Some of them were like only a pound and a half. Yeah. They just kind of fall right out of you then, right? So you're saying it doesn't really count. I'm just saying it doesn't hurt as a childbirth. It just slides right out. Like you ever have, what are those things you order at a Chinese or Japanese sushi place?

The pregame meal. They're full of protein, the little peas in the pod type thing. Adamame. Edomame. That's what it is. He kind of like, just give them a little squeeze and it pops right out. And once the first hole is made, the rest just go through that. Yeah, it's easy.

And then you can salt them or put a little garlic on them sometimes. She said later of the video, it was such a positive experience for me and helped me embrace my sexuality. She described it as empowering and liberating. She was solo, by the way. Solo porn? Yeah, it's just 30 minutes of her flicking the out of amame bean. Hmm. I'm not interested in that.

Also, pregame meal also known as appetizer. Damn. Everyone knew what I meant. And Jake, should I wait for, on this day, died on this day? Or should I just say on this day in 2020, Jake made some money on a parlay? Ooh, buddy. Miami Super Bowl. And two things happened on this day.

I'll save the name for died on this day. But one was Jake made money on a parlay. two was the Mavs retired the number eight. Elsewhere on January 26th, this day in Dumb Zone history. I actually have a lot on this day. Obviously it was Kobe Day, so yeah, Jake made a lot of money. Some numbers started coming out from quarantine that everyone thought there would be a baby boom during COVID, but there was actually a baby bust.

People weren't horny during that. Can you two? You two might be a good study on that. this though. Not me. No, I'm saying like this weekend, you're shut in. Oh. With two kids who demand 24-hour attention, right?

Yeah. That's not a good atmosphere for making babies. The good atmosphere is being able to go out, being able to have someone watch your kids, being able to do something, whatever. No, it's the classic experience is the best birth control type thing. So for sure. But there's not a lot of free time, I mean, this past weekend. No, but I guess you hear about like, you know, we used to.

And you're both mad. Right. Right. We used to rib with Bob about 9-11. You know, the 9-11 baby. And you hear about those, but I guess that's more like. He did have a night. I don't know what's going to happen in the world and I want to make sure my seed carries on type thing.

And nobody's thinking that during COVID. They're like, whatever. No more. Yeah, I want my kid. Take one. Also on this day in 2021, Jake explained that his wife's mom was. in the delivery room and Dan thought that was really weird. He was right about that.

Everyone who thought it was weird was right about that. Do you think it's weird, Blake? Yeah. Was your mother-in-law there? No. She wasn't there for the second one, so somebody else must have also agreed it was not their preference. Or maybe she's just like a first time type thing, you know?

Break the seal. Like was she there when she lost her Virginia? A Game of Thrones style. In 2022, for some reason the Sean Pate and Dallas rumor started and just looking back how much better that would have been if that had been true. I kind of can't believe that never happened. Through all the different ways. Like here's the one that got away.

Yeah. And Jerry, you just think would make that right at some point. And then there was the rumor that the Cowboys were going to trade. for him in 2019, but the, what the, uh, New Orleans owner didn't want to lose Anthony Davis and Sean Payton in the same month. I remember hearing that. If you think that the Cowboys are a mess organization wise, everything the Benson's have going down there, going on down there is insane. The saints, the pelicans, they're constantly being investigated for their, uh, relationship with the Catholic Church constantly for helping them cover things up.

They're a, I don't know about shady, but they're a mess. And think about that. Since they had to give up draft picks to get him, then they go to the Rush thing. They're in cap hell, in draft hell, because they gave up draft picks to get him to. And here they are. They're in the Super Bowl, like two years later. Aves, you know, close enough. Oh, yeah, sorry.

I think this is the first Jake has a buddy and wasn't even labeled this at the time. This is back in 2022. Jake has a buddy who got a Wall Street Journal subscription to impress girls. My roommate. You can see that full-page ad. He would walk around with it under his arm back when people did that. I love that bit. Yeah.

Jake thinks drug dealers lack the sense of smell. I think you're on to that too. I bring this up because now it's kind of come full circle, Because in one of the few years ago, Dan didn't pay for family's groceries because he didn't know if it was a scam. And turns out you were right. Yeah. I, uh, I, uh, you know how I've told you guys like, uh, you hear about like a murder trial where a guy's getting tried for killing his wife or something, but he didn't do it. Um, and then they're going through all there like, he used to call her a bitch and there was a joke.

There was a curb episode where he was pretending to slap Cheryl in the car. Okay. And everyone's like, oh. I was looking at my, I was doing my expenses the other day. And I looked at, my wife had paid for the Ukrainian gypsy grifters, like groceries to the tune of $600. And I felt bad. So I Venmoed her for half of it. And the note is just like $300 for being a dumb bitch.

I'm paying you for half. should be able to get my shot in. Right. You know, but I don't know that the judge is going to love that one. This was also the day in 2023 we were supposed to have Marlon Wayans on. Oh, man. You know what yesterday was? The anniversary of Dan watching Requiem for a Dream.

That's right. Then it just became one big long segment about Requiem for a Dream. That is why there's never been a needle in these arms. That movie. Oh. Dude, the pan out when the guy's lost. his arm from an overdose and they're just like your arm is rotten dude that is that stuck with me in a way that and then i'll leave you with this a bad bit from 2024 alisa milano takes to

twitter to ask for money for her son's baseball team that might be that certainly is on the mount rushmore of bad bit right it's got it all a celebrity who doesn't need the money asking people for your kid, sports. You know what Snoop does? He buys his team a bus. A bus, uniforms, ice chess. He doesn't say, here's a GoFundMe, help me pay for my kid. Yeah.

That's just, you love it. You love it. All right. Other birthdays today we have, you know, there are some people who contributed. we have like a document DFW sports birthdays and we would have I don't really reference it too much anymore

but I still do occasionally because I just want to make sure I'm covering everybody but as we've had different interns over the years they will put their name on it sure so I can tell you that today is former intern Margo Myers 32nd birthday I was thinking Margo

she loves the bills folks does she still out there like is she on social media and stuff She was cool. She had four fingers on one hand. Well, so do I. All right. Freaking Nora.

Just being accurate. She had only four fingers on one hand. It was an interesting look. So do I. What's this? That's a thumb. I'm sorry I came over here. I want to go back to my kids.

Dan Bailey, 38. I almost don't like saying his name. Just because it ended so quickly? It's out there. Look, all pro athletes at some point, except for the one we know, will have diminished skills over time. It just happens so fast, dude. And I don't really feel like he loved me bringing it up. Like, do you ever talk to these guys?

He's like, why don't you shut up? Yeah. And I'll keep making kicks. I know, but it's like. I don't bring up. Why are you being so negative? Dude, Brunig's tweet is on the Today's News trend. I was just looking at that.

I told you, let's book him for tomorrow. I just want to talk, I just want to credit him with an all-time troll. Like I saw it almost immediately, and I knew right then, like, this is gold, but it'll never really get its due. Dude, he followed up this morning retweeting himself with, you could solve the crowd noise problem while still retaining a home field advantage by giving the home team. the power to invalidate one play a game. So once a game after the play is over, the home team can force a redo, in parentheses, same down distance, et cetera. And that one's got 134 replies and only like 10.

Game ceiling interception. Nope. Uh-uh. We're the home team. I was holding this all game. Problem solved. God. He's so good.

Vince Carter is 49 He I was at that game That's a top five sporting event for me Which Says something right It's like the first round of the playoffs At a series

The Mavs didn't win Yeah It was pretty sweet That was game five? Yeah Saturday Five or yeah game five Because then I think they won't They won't lose two in a row

Yeah Joshua Dobbs is 31 Genius The pastor not The pastor not Pastor not. He also, I think, as a backup, didn't he beat the Cowboys? Oh, yeah. With Arizona? Yeah. Just like Colt McCoy before him.

And he is on his way. Speaking of Verbo, he's on his way to San Francisco, as he is a patriot. Who knew that? I didn't. I did not know that. I don't know if it's practice squad or what string he is, but he's a current patriot. Travis Etienne is 27. He... I think I helped finance his career.

Yeah, you did. You did. He owes you. Wayne Gretzky, 65. He made a major mistake because he elected to stay in college another year and then COVID hit. He got caught. He got caught up in it bad. Stay in college.

Running backs will certainly be more valuable next year. Sometimes you miss the boat. Mantai Tayah. Why? Why? He's good on TV. Is he? Yeah. Merrill Hodge is 61. Did you watch the Manti documentary?

Yeah, it did. Yeah, it was good. I hate Merrill Hodge because he said Vince Young would not be a good NFL quarterback. Yeah. He said a bunch of wild stuff, but then I think he started having concussion problems. And he was right. Yeah. Today's, I'm going to give this for today's, he's still alive, is

Scott Glenn is 87. He was an urban cowboy. He was also in... Oh, what's the one with Jody Foster? Silence of the Lambs. Oh, wow. He was an awesome badass and urban cowboy. Why do I know this guy recently? Made Sissy pick up those eggs.

She threw on the ground. He's definitely in training day, right? They go rob him. Why do I know this guy? What do we just see with him? him in. The White Lotus. Oh, yeah. He was like, what's his name's dad, right? Uncle Rico's dad. Yes. Or was he...

Not Uncle Rico's dad. Shane's dad. Well, Gogan's dad. He thought, but he... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That guy does rock. Well, he's still rolling mid-80s. He looks good, too. He looks good, too. I'm there acting. Do you remember that part in Training Day? Do you remember him, Blake? It's not... No, it's not Cutman back to me. He looks really familiar in. something else you haven't said yet. Training Day is 25 years old

now. Ellen DeGeneres is 68. Oh, he's in the leftovers. That's right. He's also in the leftovers. Yeah, he's Big Dick's dad. Yes. I should watch that again. Ellen, very funny.

Legitimately, I think, like one of the funniest people of our generation. Her stand-up that she did a couple years ago, I thought was great. She's also, probably a horrible person. Wasn't that confirmed a few years ago? Everyone who works for?

Yeah, everyone who works for is like it's not good. Yeah, that bothered me. I like her. I've always thought she was funny. Good stand-ups from way back 90s. Really? I need to go back and watch some of the older ones then because she's got serious fastball

and command of the crowd just like... She's Dory. She's also Dory. She's Dory. That's huge. She also never raped my kid and like suck. all the adrenachrome out of their

necks to live longer. Some used to call her Viginefeld. She was very similar to Jerry Seinfeld. She was a lady. God, I bet that killed for you. And Dumb's own birthday the day, Nate Mooney's

54. Want to look up Nate Mooney? He's not Paul Mooney. You'll support this. McPoyle? Yeah, that's fantastic. He's one of the best. Ryan McPoyle, I know he's sunny.

I don't know he's in Breaking Bad. Born on this day now dead, Bob Euker. Blake. Once wrote a letter to Pat Murphy. He penned in October and complimented the Brewers OPS in the month of February or something. Yeah, there's splits against left-handed pitching in December. that year. We'll be around the aura of Yucre in just three weeks at Brewer Spring Training.

Oddly enough, we're going to cover Brewer Spring Training. Why not? And dead on this day is still dead. You got Kobe Bryant. And you have Henry Briggs. I want you guys to tell me, when did Henry Briggs die? Engine? What year?

No, he was a mathematician. He invented long division. But his name is Henry Briggs, not like, you know, Sissius Methusus or something. That's a very, but long division feels old, old. All right, I'm going to guess. Give me 1840. I'm going to guess 1,700. He died at the age of 68 in the year, 1630.

Okay, yeah. There's a hint. Wow. He invented long division in the 1500s. Before that, you would just fall off, like the edge of the one. Yeah. There was no... I think it was just Girl Math, wasn't it?

What about a Girl Math? And that's what happened on this day in history. Girl Man. What are you guys doing tonight? Have you... Oh, you guys have both driven. Blake's been out driving. I'm not driving.

Don't worry about it, man. I'm not driving until it's... It's over freezing. What's that? You don't want to go to Cash Soroy's house? No, I'll be here. All things, you know, stay the same. I'll be here tomorrow.

Hell, I'll probably just stay here. It does look a little icy out there. How mad would your wife be? Baby, you want to put me yourself at risk? All right. Adios, mofo. We've got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my video.

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