The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-5-26 | Cowboys season and Trevon Diggs's career in Dallas are over

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneFinally, the 2025 Dallas Cowboys season is over. How did we grade Schotty's first season? Could Mike McCarthy have taken this team to the playoffs? Plus, why Trevon is no longer in Dallas and we have a lot to catch up on over the holiday break (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (01:13:54) - Sports: Was Schotty a disappointment? (01:35:18) - Cowboys cut ties with Trevon Diggs (01:58:45) - NFL coaching openings (02:07:08) - News: Stabbing over being asked to cook (02:25:09) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm professional broadcaster Dan McDowell, letting you know that you were about to hear one of our free podcast. But if you'd like to subscribe at dumzone.com, you'll get four shows per week plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus sods like our business Wednesday interviews. So, if you forgot how to use the 15-second rewind, that's dumbzone.com to subscribe. Now, on to today's program. Jake, it's a new year. Did you know it's a new year? How about some financial savings, New Year's resolutions? You may have a higher bill than you expected and you forgot to protest.

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Gameday.com. 10% off your TRT for life. But the Christmas decorations are gone. The Christmas tree is gone. And Jake is gone. We've lost everything. Of course, we don't have the tree hooked up on Zoom. That's where I believe we have Jake.

one Jake Kemp, who is now muted. Cannot hear Jake Kemp? Yeah, that was my fault. Okay. That was my fault. Yeah, the tree, not on Zoom. Tree unable to give you a 50 to 60%, which is what I have for you today.

But we've done more with less. So I'm ready to go. I had like the greatest break of my life. I set down and ranked all of. Until. Until yesterday morning when I tested positive for the flu. Daughters here with me. Yeah, the China flu.

God, that was good. What a freaking banger. Kung flu, folks. But my, I'm also audio program, but I'm not in my normal office where I hung the Jake Crayola nameplate that was given to me. by Brooks Jones. That's special. And not up there, because my daughter is inside,

also tested positive for the flu on Friday. And my wife's not here, so I need to be inside. My mom tested positive this morning. So her... Oh, damn. Face timing. It's telling of Jake's relationship with his wife, because anytime he gets sick, she doesn't.

Right. Yeah, I thought about it. And then I also started thinking about that. And it was just because we're never face-to-face when we're upset. Oh, yeah. Glory hole. Somebody's glory hole, yeah. But we're 10 years in.

We don't kiss. Was that? That was not real during the pandemic, right? The government actually didn't recommend glory holes. No, 100% they did. It might have been Canada, and it might have been, like, Canada's health department. It might have been, like, certain boroughs in New York

were coming up with their own ideas. It's still online. I looked at it within the last year. It's like, you know, have you tried something? separating you and your partner it's like we have a name for that we you guys talking about what we're talking about so uh yeah we're no glory holeing at the house right now we'll have updated like we'll have the full numbers from the month of december sabbathon the north texas food bank i have had some communication with them but you know people are off for the

holiday and they kind of get back up and flying today so then we'll have to talk later But I do know that at least the Dumb Zone with a minimum of $10,000 that we have donated. And I think the Dumb Zone listeners rallied for another 8,500 or so. So there's no way to do that math very quickly in my head. I can do the math for you. I think it is seven meals at Torchies. yeah for one guy yeah any indication it's not going to go as far as you hope it would we're having a little fun here folks we certainly are so uh we'll have that all updated

we got a bunch of new subs mostly on the you know the youtube side but that's great that's what we're looking for so um a lot of people i think also i think maybe financially this didn't turn out well as well for us just because I think a lot of people went from monthly subs and they upgraded to the annual, which is a big savings for the person who is subscribing. You get two months free. But that's good. Yeah. Yeah. We sometimes do forget the should we try to take the option. Should we try to screw people? And some businesses, dude, I think it ended up being AI, but But good God, that Uber engineer post that got viral over the weekend, do you guys see this?

They don't get the tips or something like that? Yeah. Or the delivery fee. I did find something that indicated that was fake. That makes Dan feel like, yeah, yeah. I mean, somebody wrote it with AI, they say, but who knows? But it definitely confirms my priors, so I believe it. Right.

No, and I tip bigger on Uber to try to get my. delivery quicker, and I don't think it works. No, because they're not seeing it. I wonder about all that stuff. Is all that stuff fake? Like, I've always heard, hey, if you're going to book a flight, do it Tuesday night between, you know, four and six or, like, there's always like the time you'll get the cheapest flight. And it's always not when I'm doing it.

Yeah. Yeah. buying Bitcoin at the height yeah no I I know what you mean but

I don't know I don't want to rip people off if they do a year commitment to us that just means we can have more cash on hand to spend before the robots takeover so let's all go to Vegas yeah because we know how to put that cash to work for us

Hey, we had a great sub-a-thon It was fun The numbers were great The programming was fun Oh, as far as people that watched I never took a look at that It's close to our highest watch thing It all worked out

So we either need to Quit the ticket again Or do another sub-a-thon For the highest-watched Didn't are like, hey, we're not going to be at the ticket anymore video. That did pretty well. Yeah, they did well. Yeah.

Packers. Packers? Yeah, the Packers wild card game did really well. Get blown out by the Packers. Just got to get in, dude. Where's the sub-a-thon? Oh, here it is. 24,000 views. Like, we're all happy about that, and then Dude Perfect

walks by and laughs. I know. Patch on your long. Fuck, dude, dude. Whoa. This guy's trying to go viral. He is viral, technically. I'm going to say the new year is leaning Dan because I remember December starting with Dan complaining about Jake coming to work sick.

And the first day in 2026, here's Jake at home. Doing me a solid. Yep. Got sick on purpose just to show. And he came over today to pick up some equipment. Because our equipment is like our forks. We don't know where it's going. I start $380 forks.

Did anyone ask Clayton? He seems to have a handle on our equipment. But he's not audio guy. Trust me, I wanted to blame. Clayton's not audio guy? This morning when we were like, how does this happen? Yeah, we bought like three remote units when we first started this. Like, two and a half years.

September, 2023. And we can't find any of them. We've had one of them that we passed back and forth for the last couple months. months, but then I can't find that either. And so Jake had to come over and just try to patchwork something. Clearly it kind of worked. It doesn't sound that great, does it? What do you think?

It's passable for today. Yeah. Okay. No, it's a lot better than if, yeah. But the point I'm trying to make is we're idiots. And that has not changed for the new year. We're looking to change that. highlight my face my face diaper oh yeah yeah i was jake came over and actually wore a mask

okay he just he called did barge into the house bade a cuck at me i had a barge in the house when i said the equipment's in the garage oh you left in the garage yeah i assumed you put it like on 114 so he doesn't come anywhere near your house i should have done that because he walked around coughed a few times on me he was like what i got a mask bro got his wife sick yeah you'll get you'll get you'll be great dude i mean you know my wife and daughter went to a movie last night it was the greatest two hours i ever had go ahead oh see i was interested in the whole dynamic there but i guess we can unpack it because i knew your wife was leaving but then i'm like are the girls still here no she left she left for two days around new year and that was it

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This is at the Lake Highlands location. Yeah. Which I was at the grand opening for. I got to go to the... Soft friends and family? Yeah. The soft opening. Yeah.

And that's where I saw the monkey picture that he got us a monkey picture. That might have been when I felt like I had made it. Even if I was still making like 28K, when somebody's like, wait, you can invite me to your restaurant before it opens? Yeah. And then you like eat for free, right? Oh, yeah. I don't remember if we had to pay. And drink for free.

Oh, that's that. Okay. I want people to be like, I had a good time at this. restaurant, I'm going back. Let's open the bar. Ah, okay. Well, anyway, yeah, that's Thursday the 22nd. Not this week. And on the docket for today is deciding our playoff game.

I certainly have a pitch. I have a request into a potential guest if it would sway our thinking. But we got a playoff game to choose, boys. We got deliveries to make. Yeah, we have to do. We're going to do a playoff game. We're going to do a Super Bowl. one of the Super Bowls.

We'll pick one of the Super Bowls. Texans didn't get Saturday. Monday. It's crazy. I love that. Texans Monday night? Yeah. Let's just do the Baker game. Okay.

It's what I said. None of our boys made to playoff. Dan Campbell. Baker. You're following the Broncos. Yeah. I'm kind of a Broncos guy now. I'm a Bo Lever.

Yeah, I don't really have a team that I'm fired up about. I mean, sadly, dude, just because I'm a good friend, and I like the way they ball. I would probably, I'd take the Bears. If anybody, I could see anybody go, like, win a Super Bowl this year. For me, it would be Chicago Bears. That'd make me happy. Happier than any of the options.

Do it for Virginia McClaskey, Hallis, or whatever. She died last year on this day. I believe since then they've dedicated their lives to making sure her ghost doesn't haunt them. Yeah, that's an interesting one, because I've been thinking about Jerry. I wrote a column for D Magazine this morning, dmagine.com slash sports. I've been thinking about Jerry's death a lot. It's like, it will make sense, right, that when he dies, the next year, they'll have like the most magical run in forever.

like what's happening with the Bears right now. But the Bears won four games last year, didn't they? Do they put his little hairpiece on the on the jersey? Yeah. That's fantastic.

Yeah, did you see what they're doing with the NFL? The NFL 250? No. That's a little bit. You're going to be reminded of that this is America's 250th birthday year, Dan. Yeah, we're starting to get that trickling out. yesterday it was on the field not as important as ending racism or stopping hate smaller on the field

but it's also on the ball what is what just says 250 way to go yeah cool but no uh i i bought a mask at my local convenience store yesterday and uh these are my boys they don't talk on the phone. I have two stations, but the one I like to go to, it occurred to me today. I think my guy has a rule. Don't be on the damn phone. And it's, it makes it a much more engaging place. They serve food. There's people that hang out there. I know all these dudes. They know me from the old days. So I went in there and I was like, do you guys happen to have a mask? Because I know they used to have them out of ass. Did they call you a British cigarette? No, he did not. He may have wanted to, but he did say I think we have one

like there's one in a box we actually were going to order more because people had started asking for him in the last week but so he gave me the mask and I'm still in the store talking I put it on immediately I'm 15 feet away from the guy towards the door and again these are the fellas I'm not worried about it but then I walked outside and there were like two or three dudes who were covered in paint laborer types

two or three other dudes who just look like Southlake finance alphas and then there was me with like a really weak in 95 on I don't know you forget how gay that feels bro it's so gay yeah when everyone's doing it it's different no problem you're the only one yeah that's why we make fun a car guy right like if you've got it on your car it's like what do you do oh I've never understood that one of the exciting things that I did my wife went away for two days and it was right around it was the day before it was funny the way she framed it was she was gone for four days but she had left late on the 29th or no on the 30th she was gone to 31st and then the first and then she was back the next day so i only consider that to be a two-day trip you may be able to get away if she said two and a half she sold it to her mom as she was

a four-day trip to visit her mom when you can sell it to the shareholders how you want your employees know you're not gone for four days yeah she was gone for two days she was i was with her for two days two of those days anyway it was great and what i did number one it was great because she was gone on new year's eve and then my daughter who was home also went out to her friend's house on New Year's Eve. And I had the greatest New Year's Eve ever where I cleaned the house. I cleaned the kitchen. I did, you know what I did?

Whatever I wanted to do at this time I wanted to do it. I didn't have to ask everybody and, you know what the temperature was at in my house, the thermostat? Whatever I last said it at, that was the thing it was at. You didn't pull a Christian Barmore? Dude, I heard about that. The NFL player who did a little domestic violence because of, the third of that

No that's one where you don't want me on that jury I we will be or frankly any man who's like I don't know

if I could get one thing to change it's the most passive aggressive thing about and I live a whole my whole thing is passive aggressive yeah yeah so but this is where she plays too and it's just this

battle, this back and forth battle. That's why I want to, you know, community mechanical can hook you up with a thing where you got the temperature. I got this for the den, but I could change it right here on the phone. So I could just do it. I need to get this done for the downstairs thermostat. So I'm just sitting there at the, you know, watching TV and I'm like, I'll pop it up here. Let you just keep. God vote. Yeah. This is kind of not relevant, but all I want to do is talk about Fort Bragg with Jake. Oh, it's so good. And one of the stories that stuck with me was a murder suey that started because the wife was mocking the guy for tipping over in his in his kayak yeah this this somewhat um those are some high tea guys oh my god but that thing is

i think they got high i think they have ladies who not like they're asking to be murder suey but i think they mess with them and i think now this is going to sound like i'm calling myself a delta force operator that's friday But over the last couple days, and I want to get back to your thing, Dan, but over the last couple days, I have been not that helpful. And what that means is I'm not helpful with my son because you don't need help with my daughter. And she's got the flu. I haven't said or done anything annoying in at least three days.

But just the fact that I'm kind of lounging around, she can't take it. Like she just used to me doing shit all the time. And she'll kind of poke me. And I'm like, you know, I have the result of the test right here. You spoiled her. Stop doing so much. You pulled a Brandon Aubrey. You're hitting 65-yarders first year.

Exactly. My suggestion would be if you know that your husband once returned from a night raid with brain matter all over his combat boots, that you don't make fun of him for tipping over a kayak. Yeah. And if I'm dating an NFL player, I'm not fucking with the thermostat. So back to my wife being gone, just that little two-day period. Number one, great New Year's Eve, went to bed before midnight. Not before midnight Eastern.

I was going to add, 9.9.30? No, 11. Okay. 1115-ish. Can I bring something? I know we're not going to do it all today, but I went to the New Year's Eve party Dan used to go to this year. Because it's at 5 p.m.

Maybe 6. It's the British New Year. It is British New Year. There's like a Brit bar in Grapevine. The brewery right down the street. And my wife's, I bet her friends were there. My wife's old neighborhood friends were there. The old neighborhood we used to live in.

And we still go back every year just to, let's do the British New Year. Oh, cool. Everybody gets drinking and you're out of there by 630. Yeah, I mean, we left at 6.30. Certainly there's people that. They got a band. Yeah, it's fun. A lot of, you know, people that are stoked on England.

And so that I think brings up the interesting isn't racist that I have here. So you'll see people in soccer jerseys. You might even see people in a Union Jack jacket. But I was sitting across from the middle of the bar, and I noticed the gentleman who had a Wrexham FC hoodie on. There's a lot of those out there now. because of Ryan Reynolds and, uh, whatever. But he also, Mac, I was trying to think of how he changed his name.

Yeah, that was tripping me up. Do you know Rob McElhenney changed his name legally? Rob Mac. It's just Rob Mac now. Yeah. They say he's been heavily influenced by Ryan Reynolds in his French. That's what I think hates it. Not helping you beat the case right there.

Yeah. So I see this guy. he's got a rexmfc hoodie on he's got like a little uh helmet on like a little black and it's looking to me like it's like a costume british policeman helmet you know they got little goofy helmets they wear and then um he opened his mouth and he had like extremely gnarly teeth to the point where it felt like did that guy buy a british disguise not disguise but costume to where to this party where there are

a lot of actual British people did he was a fake taste I was walking by and we I kind of been staring at my butt I had a buddy there who was in the Marines he lived in England a long time I'm like how do you feel about this we were talking about it

and then I go up to the bar of the bathroom whatever and the guy stops me and I'm like oh shit I was way too obvious about this and he stops me teeth in it all and he's like hey I'm wire will's father-in-law

just wanted to introduce myself and I'm like so the question you know if I showed up at a Cinco de Mayo party you know me guys massive fan of Mexican culture I had my first tamale

well before 48 or whatever but if I showed up at a Cinco de Mayo party with like a massive must and a huge prero maybe they'd be cool but I don't think I'd do it but maybe it's okay to do

much like my because you can do it to white people you can do it to them right this is why I've been complaining about being a white male this is not fair and I'm very upset about it so yeah that was

I went that route missed you there but my wife being gone so number one I have a great New Year's Eve because I didn't have to do anything. And number two, then the next day I cleaned the garage. You won't be able to tell when you come over,

but I took everything off the shelves. I had a bucket of water and a big sponge, and I cleaned all the shelves and cleaned all the containers that are on that shelf, and, like, it was great, and it took all day. And it triggered me to remember that I did this because you guys are mentioning masks. I wore a mat. I dipped into the archives, which is the attic.

I found my old box of the N95 or whatever it is, and I put on a mask because I had to blow out stuff and just a lot of dirt, a lot of dust. I probably haven't cleaned that garage out in three years. And it was great. It was just great. Oh, I also cleaned the shed. The shed with all the, like, that hasn't been cleaned in forever.

And it was just full of muddobber. I had to scrape them all off. It was, I just like to, I don't know, I like doing that stuff. I feel accomplished. Now I walk in and I look at where the Charmin is on the shelf. I'm like, look at that, look how clean that shelf is. There's no dust on anything up there. Yeah, I went four days.

I don't think there was a dish in my sink when they were gone. That's the other thing. That's why Rick Arnett told me this trick. he's like when your family leaves the first thing you do is clean the whole house and then for the rest of that time that they're not there you're walking around a clean house I swear to God everybody I live

and maybe it's because they know who I am and that I'll clean it but there's no thought of I don't know I don't know the world that they live in that it's like a hot girl going to a bar and she never bought a drink you know it's like the world they live in is

I throw this dirty dish down or I just cook on this stove and spill everything all over it and then magically it's not that way the next day. Like your family's not going to hear this so I don't want to just be a massive Ahold here. Love the wife, big fan.

But it's confounding when you're absent of it for a few days. Dude, I'm using two cups a day. And if I need to, I'll clean it in the dishwasher, but it's never sitting in the sink. If I make something, I wipe it off. I put it in the sink. they had been home for like less than 24 hours and I go out into the kitchen. Did she have coffee this morning?

I don't know. Oh, yes, she did because the cup is still here on the counter with the rest of the coffee in it. Did she go work out today? Looks like it because there's a cup of pre-workout with the remnants of the pre-workout at the bottom of here. Baby, what's you have for breakfast? Let's go into the next room. Oh, there's a bowl of yogurt with just nasty. It's still sitting in the room.

And like, this may all just be from one morning. She's not actually leaving it out for days, but I'm just going back in my head to like, dude, I was like cleaning and folding laundry that was still on me. Like, I had no latency in my game. I will save some of the stuff I watched, including the Chevy Chase documentary. I will save my emergency trip to the vet. Oh, no. We'll save that for later in the week.

What a tease. That and the female ref this week. But I will tell you that my, uh, my, daughter tells me, and my daughter's in college, so that's the age of the person you're thinking about here, that we don't do resolutions now. No resis? We don't post resolutions. We post ins and outs.

Huh? So what is in and out? Oh, okay. So if you search Instagram and search in and out. It is not the old in-out. in-out but it's in and out. It's basically resolutions but it's like in going to the gym

yeah we'll see out you know drinking a Pepsi every night like it's resolution but she says like somehow mentally it's not so you're not so contractually bound to it like if you break your resolution it's like well you're whole year is over because I stopped going to the gym in week three. But you're just like, this is what I, it's in for me.

I don't have to do it every day, but it's just kind of my thing. So, like, and she says now a very confounding one, woke is in because it's out. Yeah, I sense this coming. Because it's out. Yeah. Because woke is out. So now woke is in. Like, woke was done.

Woke was dead. Now it's in again for her friends because it's not in. You know what I mean? So, like, if everybody's into it, then it's not. You're describing my entire life. I'm not sure if I actually like this, but I know everyone else does, so I don't. Yeah. It's pretty good to live.

I had to, like, stop myself from asking you if I could sit down and do an hour without you there with your daughters. because like I would love that like when they started talking Blake on the sub-a-thon of like you know I'm explaining Nora's whole bit of whatever not being into what the other kids are into and calling iPad brain rot

and Eden was like she's just the new SJW like when she was in high school the like counter-culturally thing to do until it became the culture was to go up and tell people what you're doing sucks.

You're using that word? That sucks. What's SJW? Social Justice Warrior, which she just reeled off like a term. But, yeah, ins and outs.

How about this? Really, SG, by the way. This is why Hillary lost. You're looking at it? In for 2026, saying, I don't have the bandwidth instead of over-explaining. Scheduling therapy before you hit burnout.

rereading your notes from therapy you can go point by point because I'm a linguist in my spare time read the first one again saying I don't have the bandwidth instead of over explaining you don't understand if you say I don't have the bandwidth

and you're a human being 95% of the world is going to be like can you explain what the fuck you mean by that that's not a simpler explanation that's a way that a very narrow portion of the country talks here's an end for 2026 being inspired how vague and generic is that

sounds like shot eroded but I'll tell you what's in right now Dan is making sure that your roof is doing well or really you know what's out water dripping dripping on your head from your ceiling

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You get a new roof. You're going to get yourself a sit-in. That's right. You might be buying new chairs for the studio. You could be in a new chair in our studio or if you get in here quickly on this old beat-up couch. we're getting a new casting couch folks in chairs out couch or you can get a grill or you can get a grill yeah i was going to say you can also get a grill qualis gc.com 817 500 900908 thanks to brian of the boys for another year

let's throw it to uh clayton hey thanks dan who claims to have a holiday weekend check i had a little fun break uh knock one thing out. Are you sick? The fajita chicken tacos are back at Waterburger and they're amazing. That's all I have to say about that. Yeah. I had a first.

I had to fly somewhere for Christmas. You've never been on a plane? I'd never been on a plane during the holidays like that. You do know he drove to training camp. He wouldn't fly with us. I know. That's so one person could do the show if the plane went down. Yeah.

Me and Matt Grimm. Well, though Blake would have been there late. The reptile of day trading hour. Coin market. But no, I had to fly to Scottsdale. So I did a little double-up family and then did a little recon for us for possible futures. We're going to spring training, folks. it's all set

we will be in the Phoenix area February 14th to 21st we got our flights got our Airbnb but it was a double first because I didn't fly commercial hmm oh military

PJ what they call public charter JSX yeah oh yeah and what are we saying folks this was an airline designed for Dan McDow Yeah, we've looked at it

It'll come up on your Uber business account Like we have the Uber business You're linking with the car It automatically starts showing you that stuff And it's not as bad as you think Public Charter, it's called JSX Yes And why is it perfect for me?

Well, they ask you to not arrive Until at least 30 minutes before your flight Like don't be there two hours Don't be there early. That's bad. Yeah. Okay. We're getting there.

And the check-in's super easy. You don't have a boarding pass. You just hand them your ID. They scan it, check you in, take whatever bag you need. And then it's free range in a first-class style lounge. Multiple drink beverage options. Great cold brew. And Wi-Fi Instant Connect.

Ready to go. Free Wi-Fi. Um, they actually have something that I thought Dan would love specifically is these little cubby seats where you're basically enclosed a little bit on the side. So no one can kind of like look over your shoulder or see you. Um, like a little pod. Yeah, look a little pod. Like the righteous gemstones prayer pod. Uh, but then, uh, you walk through, um, their version of TSA, which is just no electronics out.

Just throw your bag on the conveyor belt, walk through the thing. It's called TNA, just Hots. Yeah, and then you just... It's how it was with the stars. Then you walk out onto the plane. Directly, they have a hangar at Love Field. So you just walk out. So when you say this is not that much different price-wise, what are we talking about?

I don't know. I didn't pay for it. You have no idea what the price was? It depends on when you book it, but then there's also two different seats. So there's only two seats in a row. One, the A side, which is just a seat, and that's cheaper. Then the C seat is a seat with a little side table that has cup holders, a little area to put your stuff. But the legroom is immaculate.

There's so much legroom. And you're a big man. I'm a large individual. 4xLT. and then the bag space so you don't there's this is another great thing there's no standing around waiting

to get off the plane because there's no overhead compartments it's kind of lay in your bag there you got you got well there's enough space under your seat to where you can put a bag and your feet because there's there's space between the seats not you're not crammed in there

free drinks and snacks charter but the best The coolest part is the getting off of the plane. If you don't have check bags, as soon as they land and get the little ramp up, you're off. Get out of there. If you do have checked bags, they say, hey, sit down for five minutes. We're going to get your bags out and lined up.

You walk out, get off the little stairs. All your bags are lined up right there. You just go grab your bag and go. Was this like you went to visit your parents? Yeah. So my parents spend half the year in Scottsdale, and they just want to stay there for Christmas this year. And so we got a quick flight last minute, Christmas Eve. What kind of money is Clayton from?

What are we learning here? I think we're learning a lot. No money. I mean, parents spend half the year in one house and have another house for another half of the year? That seems opulent. It's a, well, yeah, and then you look at the other side of my family. that's like we're from west texas all right my mom my stepdad is a good guy uh yeah his mom he's a nice he's a nice individual and takes care of my mom which is all i could ask for

is she married into oil money no smart investments blake and then uh how do we do that I bought Doge. Yeah. No, no Bitcoin. We're talking hard assets. Silver. Real estate. Then I went to the Netflix house.

Okay, that's on my list of wanting to do. Went to the Netflix house. That's in for 2026 for me. Ooh, I like that. Going to the Netflix house. What is this? Write down our ins and outs. I don't want to do that.

Write down our ins and outs. You got a new list they want. he don't want to write it down? In, new list. The NBR is too easy. You're going to love it. By the end of this year, then you're going to look at our ins and outs, and this is going to be a great segment next year,

next January 5th or whatever today. Dan thinks this will be a great segment. But yeah, this was really fun. Did the Stranger Things experience, which is basically just kind of like a scavenger hunt slash haunted house slash just kind of walk through and see what what yeah it is but the show's gay but that's okay because i think i'll do it oh i say it's gay but i'll do it but it was really cool because like they had a lot of the stuff from like the actual set like real like pieces that looked

exactly like they had different rooms that looked exactly like they would on on the set um you kind of have a little there's a little story to it as well so yeah i mean it's it's made for like hey take your kids to go see this and there was like a group of like a little family when the the little kid was just having a blast how much does that cost the the whole thing was like 50 bucks okay in i'm in write that down yes sarah wrote an article about this blake where she went and see when i first heard of it i thought they were just going to be theaters for netflix movies to try to I don't know they own the theater

why not put it out there but it's more of like that's a good idea not that this is necessarily going to land with you but it feels more like the meow wolf thing to me there's an

there's an experience for super fans and I looked up what else was there and it was anime I don't know but there's stuff out there

that is big enough for them to put out a place like this and it's so out and you and I never have any idea about it. But there's some form of anime thing going on there that does very well.

Yeah, and I talked to the manager while I was there, and not as a plane or anything. He just came up and asked. He just came up and asked, like, hey, how's your experience going? And it's going to have rotating stuff. So it's just kind of like whatever's popular on Netflix right now. Squid Game? Squid Game was the other experience there. So you go in and you kind of have a little point system

and do three or four of the different little games from Squid Games and no one dies. But that was fun. But so it's two levels. Downstairs is all the experience stuff. Upstairs is the gift shop. You have a little game area with like Netflix themed games. and then the food

now when you look at the menu it's very gimmicky stuff from like Bridgerton all the all the Netflix shows have like a certain food item there I mean Alamo was leaning into that

forever so that's yeah we've seen people on that but it was really freaking good nice Had a W.W.E. Smashburger. Of course you did. It was amazing. Good fried. And they have a pizza very similar to our favorite pizza in the world, Conne Rosa. They must have been there and been like, we don't even have to be able to Italy.

So I think they just went and Bogart had copied a Cane Rosa, but really good food. It's at the Galleria. So it's outside the gallery. It's got its parking, very convenient parking, walk right up the steps to the front door. And overall, it was probably like a nine and a half on ten, just a lot of people. But it was really fun. Good, good day. Get out there.

You'll go back for the Tiger King when that comes in in March just to get jerked off by the Tiger King. I want my arm bit off by a tiger like what would they have done with that show if this bit was going at that time they're like it is the most popular thing we have but you got to find her husband yeah

we were talking about that when we were eating like what are the other ones they could do and we were just like yeah how like all the the murder mystery stuff they do like Mont, Ed Gein The Ed Gein

The Ed Gein experience That's got its own menu Do you get to hang with Chappelle? He's always doing a special on there, right? Do you guys see the Chappelle special? I did. Oh yeah, I figured we'd save that for our review and recap whatever you want to do

because I watched the Kanye documentary Oh, I haven't done that yet. I did the whole Diddy. Yeah, so I didn't do the last episode of that if we're going to do it. Diddy's fun. I didn't. There's a lot of stuff in there I didn't know.

I knew all of it. I was busy with little kids. You were in your dark period. I knew all of it. But to have it all put together in one place, and you just, for you, like,

he was the biggest thing in the world. Right. Like everything he touched was, it was, but he was doing all that other stuff too. Cool. Oh, yeah.

That's, but like with like Epstein or Michael Jackson, everybody knew. Like, there's been rap lyrics for years that are like, a dirty part. Yeah. People know what it is.

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Just stop, like, you can wear your shoes in my house. Yeah. You got a bathroom in the middle of my floor. I don't care what you do. And then we'll get the new floors in there and it'll look great. Have sex on them. them, like at the new stadium. Are we going to auction pieces of it off like they did the old stadium?

Yeah, that'd be a great idea. That's a great idea. Anyway, who else? Jake, you want to get into anything? I know you did already. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and that did really. We have a lot of sports for today.

Throw things off the kilter. But I did just want to tell you guys, because I was texting you guys, like, my sleep and I just I'm here to tell you bud I'm back in my nap phase yeah I talked to you the other day yeah this has been brewing

I talked to me the other day he's like I was just out for two hours like what it's three o'clock there's three o'clock in the afternoon and he wasn't said this wasn't sick Jake he was just like no why not

if I can do it why not if there's nothing to do I could do more email. I could sit here and stare at things or read. But if my kid wants to lay down, I'm like, I'm going to lay down with him. And now I'm catching two hours. And then they left. Dude, I was going to, I went to cryo, like three out of five days. Went to the sauna every day.

Played some flag football. Went on a serious amount of dates. So the first thing I did was. went to dinner in Dallas with the boys your TC and machine and Boino Josh and Dr. Chuck who I consulted this morning about the flu like don't you guys feel like you don't really understand it

like if she has it can I be around her or am I making her worse we got it at the same time like at the end of it Oh if you and your kid both have the flu yeah right and then like if I don't have it two days earlier than her yeah can i so uh did that went to lunch with chappie i thought you would enjoy this story blake uh i told him like hey you know typically people have to come to my

side of town because i'm stacked uh but i'm off family's gone i'll come to you wherever you want to go he goes oof say you like beef and chaladas I was like I do I really yeah the most basic food item that every restaurant

and we went to a place and Justin and I'll be damned incredible nice which uh to dinner dad who really has nothing to do

he's like yeah drive to me no I mean I was pushing it I was I was trying to be the cool there's probably a pattern here but went to dinner with Donovan had literally hadn't seen him since we left it was surreal to be like

holy shit because we text but I haven't either and I talked to him like once or twice and it's a weird thing just to even call him and talk and be like yeah so how's it going yeah it's going good I don't know it's just a weird texting a lot is not a weird thing

like I don't feel weird at all but just when we're both talking. It's like when you worked with someone that you talk to for hours every day for 10 years and then you just don't work together anymore, but I still consider him one of my best friends. But yeah, like, isn't that what they say about really good friends, though? You can kind of like then sit down and your friends, it's the same. Sure. And that's why, if that's another thing that's on my in list this year. It's right at that I've got the spreadsheet.

I've told you guys I have a spreadsheet for my friend calls but I'm just going to make you know that. We should do this in a few months and I'm like, I'm going to do that because I told them two months ago I'm going to hit you up over the break and I did it.

And you could just be the fly on people that's like, hey, do you want to go? Do you want to go? Do you want to go? because in a couple days after that I had breakfast with the Sterminator Nice Just see that's another one Me and him always do that

Hey let's get together soon okay I know And you both meet it But I'm a I'm a You're a doer You are doing with this intentionality man That could lead you to one game under Half game under 500

Half son Restaurant Dan former restaurant employee hadn't seen this move in a while but where are we on weight staff drops a bunch of plates we're clapping that's the audience

yeah the people working there doesn't clap no no but the that's out that's out now is that out now yeah okay can I do something really annoying I know there's people but I witnessed it I saw a family it was a black father and a white mother and then their children and uh this guy drops a ton of plates

like a full it was well it's like this little diner by my house no whatever nobody's like leaving a bad review but uh she very aggressively clapped and he didn't and then you know her kids asked why did you do that? And she said, it's a restaurant thing to help make them feel better, which I do think makes sense, and I've kind of always assumed that was the deal. It's like, let's kind of like make this phone or whatever.

But in the moment, especially if you're kind of solo. Was she the only okay? Pretty much. That reminds me, we had to go to a... Join her, but she let it. What do they do? Is it like a play or an opposite?

or something I had to go to when I was a kid. Or maybe it was just a performance. But then sometimes when they would stop, everybody would clap. And then sometimes they didn't. And so I was a kid. I was like seven or eight with my buddy. And so we wanted to try to be the first people to clap. Yes.

But then there were times when no one else, it wasn't the time to clap. So that reminds me of that a little bit. Yeah. quick notes here we got the kids a trampoline i know blake's trampoline guy did you have it wrapped or a big red bow on it dude definitely did not because it was supposed to get delivered christmas eve we had them taken care of for a few hours just watching the tracker it did not deliver until either christmas night or the 26 boy the tracker dude and it's like close to me and now it's yeah this is gold though why

Like, we didn't even really tell them. Like, they got done with all their Christmas morning stuff. And we were like, we got another one. But it's not here yet. No indication of what it was. So they would have been happy if you didn't have any other one. You got to set up these expectations. Slow play it.

And then, as you know, because you just witnessed our studio getting built or decorated, as I was putting it together with my father-in-law, or excuse me, with my stepdad, man's man. my wife was like it'd be hilarious if we had one of those red bows like on the car commercials and he just gets on the phone he's like I need a red bow down here so there was a red bow on the trampoline 15 minutes later nice and when the kid came home we filmed it it was gold my only other note on this and then we'll turn it over to blake uh it's so much fun we had one with my daughter but she's not like my son we got rate we got like remote control cars out there on it

You know, because it's like an octagon for fighting the cars. Dude, we were on it all day yesterday. Or I guess it was the day before because of the flu. Here's my PSA, though. If you're buying a trampoline, you probably have a couple kids. They're probably pretty recent kids. If you're not a male, you need to be careful. That's all I'm saying.

The ladies in the audience will understand. They can't hold their pee in anymore. My wife started jumping on the train. Pimpleina was like, oh, okay. Really? Yeah. Wow, I didn't know that. It's a lot of gravity and a lot of force, and that's working against them.

So it has to do with P? This isn't about boobs? No. Oh. It's about helping everything. Damage pelvic floors. He knows a term. Yep.

Really? I wonder if they have some kind of a lady cork that we could sell. They probably do. They probably do, but it was great, dude, because I was not in the, Trampoline at this point. Trampoline, cork. We got to workshop this. I saw the moment that her eyes changed.

We got a trampoline. That's good stuff. Let's give Game Day a quick plug then. We're in the Game Day Men's Health studio before we send it over to Blake. but new year you know what's in game day men's health mentioned the dumb zone

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They want to help you get through life at a good mood. Never is this more important than the holidays. There's a lot going on. You're going to be around family. You're going to be irritable by nature just because there's so much going on, juggling things, whatever. If you feel like you're starting to get into that pissy zone as a male, 40, around 40 and up, you owe it to yourself to at least get your levels checked and see if TRT is right for you because it is, for real, a game changer for me.

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Like the bonds of our show. Right. So I had two different Cowboys trips to catch you up on, and that's probably all I'll do here. But we, of course, the Cowboys played on Christmas. So which kind of sucked in one way

because, you know, I missed the boy opening press. and that has brought life back to Christmas for me. Because it just, you know, you get into an adult and the presents aren't as good. I don't know, just all kind of falters. But then when you have young kids, it's back. Right, from the time you're 18 or whatever to the time you have a kid, Christmas is like, all right.

Yeah, the excitement around Christmas Eve and rushing them to bed because, hey, I heard Santa's in New York City, better hurry up. It's just a trick to get them to sleep. But you felt the pain of Aaron Andrews. Yeah. Yep. Except I was in a hotel room, a modest hotel room and not in a closet with letters on it. But it was nice. The charter was pretty empty because on most of these trips, there's 30 to 40 people that are flying, experiencing the Cowboys experience. They work for a sponsor of the Cowboys and they get to accommodate the Cowboys on some of these trips. Waterberger, Lou Casey, blockchain, come. Yep, yeah, all of those, yes, anyone affiliated with the Cowboys gets to send, you know, family and, you know, but they're on the plane with us, they're in the hotel with us, they're on the buses with us, but not on this trip. So you thought the Cowboys Charter was awesome, now picture it with no one seated next to you on either side of you.

It was incredible. And I didn't mind working on Christmas because it felt like the ultimate Friday. everyone was happy everyone was in a good mood everyone was festive it was nice from that standpoint the stadium was not as bad as i thought because walking in there the old rfk i i pictured fans falling on jalen hertz a couple years ago and i don't know i just pictured the stadium to be a dump but it wasn't that bad and i don't know if they've renovated it under new leadership or what but i don't know i didn't i didn't hate my time there's not that old that stadium it's Isn't that from like the year 2000?

Yeah, it's early 2000s, I want to say. Okay, anyone you talk to says it's a dump, and they hate it. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's the only cowboy road trip I went on was D.C. And I just, I thought the booth sucked, which is whatever. But you legitimately couldn't see the field or a lot of the place. It's a bad angle. And then just the locker room, the visiting locker room.

It was just eye-opening for me. I don't know. You think about the NFL and you're like, they must all have space age stuff. No. The locker room that the commander's visiting team has is akin to what we had at like visiting Frisco High School in 2002. I'm serious about that. It is, it's, it's rusted.

It's trash. Yeah, I felt like that place and definitely Soldier Field were just kind of outdated as I, you know, I walk into brand new high school stadiums around here and it's a little bit better amenities than that. But being in Washington, D.C. on Christmas Eve was cool. Everything was lit up and festive. And I, they said this was because it was a special occasion. They put us up at the Marriott across the street from the White House.

So we were in the thick of it. We were in downtown. Apparently they normally stay in Maryland or something somewhere far away. But they put us right downtown and getting to walk around, see the monument. Now, I saw what they called the National Christmas Tree on maps. and thought, okay, I'll walk to that. Incredibly spare. Oh, no.

Tree, maybe, I don't know, 15, 20 feet tall. It was in a good location because the monument is in the background on the other side is the White House. But you're thinking of the New York City tree. Yeah, the Rockefeller or something. And it was just, here it is. Not that cool. I can almost promise you that if someone brought that to Trump's attention and we're like, How come the national tree sucks?

Kind of a Biden tree. Yes. If you want it fixed, that'll get it done. So a lot of restaurants. It does look better, though. A lot of restaurants were closed, except for this one place I went to, I think it's got Abbott's Grill or something. Apparently it's like the oldest bar slash restaurant in the D.C. area.

I've heard of that. It was, yeah, one of the only ones open and it was packed. and so I'm by myself and maybe we get into our door dashing conversation later Jake but I just reflect if I'm out in a new city I'm walking somewhere and I'm experiencing like the local cuisine I don't want to go to a chain

I don't want to find a hole in the wall and I want to walk I'm going to go and I don't experience it so walk in there it's packed I have to sit at the bar and I'm sitting at the bar by myself and I'm trying not to be on my phone doom scrolling because of Nora and this lady just starts talking to me and very very kind very very kind lady from El Salvador tells me your entire life story but here I am it just

felt like a Christmas movie where I'm in a bar on Christmas Eve by myself she's by herself and just somehow being a DC makes it feel more like a movie being out of town it's Christmas it like I didn't want it's a Hallmark movie for sure you're the big city guy for sure and i didn't i didn't now you can slow down to simple little dc life yeah i didn't particularly enjoy our conversation i really wish it hadn't happened but at the end of the night i don't know just something compelled me to say like you know we shouldn't be alone on christmas i don't know but i just that what you talk to her about you ask her if she think Stan Lanning's the man or if this NIL thing is out of control?

No, she just... Did you say, hey, I think your country's on the list? Like, what are you talking to? This was before, before that, this weekend. This has been around, bro, but... No, she just kind of enjoyed how white I was. That's a thing. I noticed that in Miami.

We and Soroy and Corby were at the bar pretty much every night in our hotel room. And I wasn't even drinking at that time, but... They like the white guy. The Latin ladies are just, like, intrigued by our goofiness. Oh, as soon as I said, I'm from Texas, I mean, she just had a bunch of questions. I don't know. It killed some time. But, no, they had a dessert there, Jake.

You don't get that if you're from Oklahoma, Dan. No. Nobody follows up if you're from a local. Right. No, Texas is like being from a different nation. Yeah. Yeah. So they had a dessert on, and I'm a sucker for sweets.

In fact, in France, you meet someone and you tell them you're from the United States. That's one thing. But if you say you're from Texas, now they've got a ton of questions for you. You might not like all of them, but it's going to be more. I had to tell her I didn't have a gun on me. That was fun. No, but it's, yeah, anyway, it helped kill. I'm looking at the menu.

What do you got? I went with the oatmeal cream pie dessert because I'm a little Debbie Stan. The oatmeal cream pies are insane. And so they put it, I don't know, they just with a piece of ice cream. and the oatmeal cream pie. Anyway, got that. She thought that was the widest thing ever. She's right.

She had never had one. She tried it now. Anyway, that killed my Christmas Eve at Abbott's Grill. Are you in love? No, it was just a very different experience. I kind of just wanted to, I don't know. But it's good. I thought of you the entire time because this is what you used to enjoy doing at the bar.

This person who you have nothing in common with, now you talk to you for an hour and a half, and it just kind of, I don't know, opens you up to do. different stuff i guess i'm very into that entire experience i'm just mostly intrigued by how blake jones navigates uh i mean i i'm the one asking questions i'm not really opening up you know just whatever gets you going i guess uh they had they had smart elevators in this in this hotel which i thought was awesome where you just walk in and you put in your room number and it'll tell you okay elevator l is coming down it'll be here in seven seconds and then

You and two other people will get in. It knows to put this person on this floor, this person on this floor, and you punch in your room number or your floor number, and then you don't push a button the rest of the way. It's the future of elevators. I like what I'm hearing. And you heard it here first. And then New York was cool.

Obviously, we had been there to play the Jets. So we stayed in the same place in New Jersey. But I had an interesting situation on the back, because the person who sat next to me on the charter was sitting in the middle, Bobby Belt is in the window, Jacob Detamore is in the middle, I'm in the aisle,

if you need a yard on third and one, we got you. Okay, we're a wide row. And Daddy had been smushed on the way out. You know, he's doing his best, big guy arm fold. I'm into the aisle to where I'm getting hit by every flight attendant. it. And I don't know at what point you graduate from the school of flight attendants to where you don't care anymore about bumping people, but these people hit it.

And that's just not in me. If I'm walking through the aisle, I'm doing the scoot. Oh, sorry. And I'm trying to flag football move my hips to avoid people's shoulders. But these ladies will just barrel through you. And I caught it every time down. And so on the way back, he looks at me and he's dead. He asked, hey, can I have the aisle seat? I said, no. Why would I switch you to the middle? Or, like, why would I switch to the middle? Is there anything in it for me? He said, no, I'd be more comfortable. Yeah.

I just thought the audacity of this person to ask if I would just willingly go to the middle seat. That's like a popular thing to post on Twitter or something. Like, hey, a guy asked me to switch to the middle seat so he could sit closer to his family, which is across the row. but I paid for this on time, you know, is this, am I the asshole type thing? You know? Yeah. In which case, I might switch if it's to put a mother and their kid or a couple, whatever. The answer is no, you don't switch with the guy to be closer to his family.

If you love your family, you should have booked this flight ahead of time. You don't do it? No, I'm not going to go sit in the middle seat. I paid for the aisle seat. I booked the aisle seat. If you're a guy, I guess, you know, why am I now the victim here? Will you pay me for this seat? The upgrade?

Because it costs like 70 bucks sometimes if you want to grab one of those aisle seats up front. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing is that that's not a component of the trading here with Daddy. Daddy, he's just like, I'll be more comfortable. Yes. Clearly you will. Right.

And guess he's more comfortable now, me sitting here. Right. Right. Yeah. So, I mean, I think that he's a good dude, but he is definitely audacious, so there's nothing surprising about any of this to me. Yeah, I guess you got to shoot your shot. I mean, I politely said, look, it's not much better on the eye. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, no doubt. But, yeah, I'm not used to, I guess I'm just used to Southwest where it's open seating, so I just didn't. I was always a sucker for that. And maybe I'm an easy target, as you'll hear about Angela later in the week. but yeah that's all I got for now okay

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Didn't we do one of them? Kind of, but not really. Oh, that's right. The day before the Sub-Athon, we didn't end up doing much Cowboys that next day. Who was the day before the Sub-A-thon? Chargers. Okay.

I listened to that whole game with Brad and Babe. Not pleased. As I did with today's Giants game. Not pleased. Not pleased. So much audio. We have a lot of audio. Will we get to some of it today?

We might. Will we get to Shottie today? Shottie is the big deal, of course. They finished 7-9 and 1. So not even a winning record. And they had a fully healthy DAC all year long. Dax's numbers are outstanding. But you still got a little bad taste of Dack in your mouth

after losing to the Giants because they huffed and puffed about how important this was to their culture that they're building this winning culture. So that's why Dax's going to play. Can I play you a brief bit of audio? It's really the only long cut of the game I have. but it's i had not i i went into this game i'm like i didn't even look you know who are off the game doesn't matter i'm not thinking about whether or not dax boy in but then they come out of the gate

it was another guy named kevin yeah kevin cougler kevin coogler yeah moose and then on the sideline we have alison williams i'll tell you more about her in a second welcome have been allison boyd hey there kevin And the Cowboys are absolutely motivated to continue that spreek against the Giants and to finish strong in this division. Cowboys head coach Brian Schottheimer said it's not the standard, but it is something to build on. And this all factored into the decision to play quarterback deck Prescott today. They're going to be smart about it, though. See how they're protecting, especially with a couple of inexperienced running backs out there asking them to, you know, be strong in the past protection.

And Schontheimer said if it's not going well or if it's going really well, we'll use our best judgment at any time. to pull him and while you know team goals have not been met for the cowboys personal milestones on the line for prescott so turn yourself back up i think you turn it down for the audio and get you loud enough oh right you're the same we could we could come to that in the break but uh they just decided that decision was it a half time like there's many don't bullshit me you were taking him at a half time. Like it was a winnable game. And they were protecting fine.

Yeah. What would have been the reasoning then to take him out? Yeah. Like if you're going to let him play. And if you're taking him out to see Joe Milton, why wouldn't you see Joe Milton for a whole game? My thoughts, and reduced the risk of injury to zero.

So I don't know. It's the way teams do it. This guy wants to start this game. We're going to let him do it. But then you're going to pull him at half, so you don't get the benefit. And then Dax on the sideline, laughing his ass off. It's just all around. I hate it.

I hate the way that teams approach dead games like this. It's a middle path, which is typically wrong. No, I mean, if you're sitting Justin Herbert because he's got a hurt hand and you've already made the playoffs, like that's one thing. Yeah. But it's a really weird thing. just to sit any starters at the end of a season. And it's not like Dax's been nursing this and playing could make it work, you know, none of that.

So yeah, it's either we want to really get a good look at Joe Milton while the bullets are flying or we don't. Or shot he's like somewhat of a brain genius and is just playing all sides here and telling Dack, yeah, man, we want to get you out there. And in his mind, he's also like, I'd way rather draft 12. and 15th. So let's get some

eval tape here and get out. Because they did improve for the draft. Yeah, I don't think that Shottie is making any of his decisions based on three slots in the draft. Well, I just know that I don't think he is.

It was with Mingo, Tolbert, and Flanoi for a lot of it. And it's like, you're just not trying to win the game anymore. So don't BS me from the start. That's the part that's frustrating about it. But it's the whole, But if you're huffing and puffing about how it's important to get a win to go into next season and this is our culture and we're blah, blah, blah, in fact, I want to take it all back to culture.

Because this is a guy, the shoddy, this is what he based everything on, is being a culture guy. no one ever said he's this genius tactical guy or actually there's one person who said that him but i mean i've looked you know he's a 50-something year old guy who never had risen above coordinator and even though it wasn't like he was ever a you know like he called plays once maybe twice maybe he did a little bit with the jets but yeah he did it for the seahawks for a few years. I knew he did it with his Seahawks. I didn't know if he also did it with the Jets or not. Barely. If at all. His best best best way is his three years of Seahawks where he was fully in control while also having one of the most, you know, powerful head coaches in the game. Yeah, so air quotes

fully in control. But, you know, I would say he failed miserably as far as if, if indeed, his thing was I build cultures. We're going to have the best culture in the NFL. which he does well I don't think then by the late in the season you're like releasing Trayvon Diggs your like do you think that defense was necessarily

like after the game he was talking about how hard everybody played and how proud he was maybe like Clowny you told by yesterday's game in particular because like the game after they cut digs the defense was like okay but they're facing trash but no i see where you're going um and i uh maybe i'm just a homer i disagree pretty strongly because i think well first of all

they had a teammate kill himself in the middle of the year and i know you can go either way with oh they rallied or they but it is a thing you have to deal with it's a thing that is not on the docket when you look at the month of oh we got these three games or four games And I think that matters. I think they traded their best player the week before their season started in a pretty clear move that was personal. You know, I mean, if they've gotten Quinn and Williams in a whatever back right away, then you're thinking, all right, that's weird, but they did that. That's not what happened.

They save face by trading for Quinn and Williams. In the same way that they save face for hiring Shottie by acquiring George Pickens. I don't think I don't think he's ever Here's a tease One of my things I want to talk about later in the week is I had the mobile IV treatment come out Blake

They'll do more than hangovers Okay He was a huge 49ers fan He's a firefighter EMT You got to shoot the breeze with him for 45 minutes And I'm like, I don't know dude I'm desperate to talk sports What do you think of Shanahan?

He's like, what do you think of shoddy? You're never almost never going to go into a game against one of those top eight to 10 coaches in the NFL and feel like Shottie has a schematic advantage that day. And I think that's how guys get hired and oftentimes fired because that's all they had. Cliff, for example, possibly Mike McDaniel. I think in a weird way, Shottie is like cut out to be a head coach to be. Now, the problem with that is a lot of guys you think of like that parcells bellichick they were x's and those savants um i just think shoddy if he does have anything it is that he has the vibes

and i strongly object to putting cutting travon digs into uh any sort of uh you know knock on the culture that's the greatest culture piece as shoddy could say they could have made get that guy the fuck away from my football team. And he did it as quick as he could. So, week 17? Dude, I mean... That's as quick as he could. Like, we're hearing all year

about this great culture that's built and I thought a great culture... I didn't want anything to do with that. A great culture wouldn't have let this fester all year long. It would have been taken care of by the leaders. Where's your leaders? Where's your DAC? You say you have defensively, I thought Kenny Clark, well, obviously the

the greatest leaders they have on defense are a guy they got one day before the season and one midway through the season, right? And then Clowny is like four weeks in or whatever they got him. Yeah, no, it's a real thing. They needed help, but they signed him a year and a half before Shottie was involved. And they knew what they were getting. You could call it a person. I mean, I thought the guy was an awesome player, but I would have to check our records, Blake.

I don't recall ever being like, you could bet heavily on the future of Trayvon Diggs. And they sort of did and sort of didn't because the contract wasn't that onerous. But the second he signed that, he started giving the organization the finger. And if you want to work out on your own, that's fine. But your results are going to be called into unfair question now because your process was not what they wanted. The only way you can guarantee your boss can't be bad about the results is if you do it exactly the way they want you to do it. He never was going to do that. He's a bad culture piece.

I don't think I don't want him anywhere near my team. See, part of the shoddy thing to me, too, is. I don't think you can fix that guy. He clearly, he wants to be everybody's best friend, but then all of a sudden he's going to be a disciplinarian. Tricky. You know, I mean, dude, we were so, we were so spun up about the pickings and the CD thing in Vegas that we were, I think, rightfully speculating.

that there's shot he could have gone to those guys ahead of time and been like hey dog going to sit you for the first series fam kind of got to send a message but you're going to get 25 targets between the two of you after that I don't know but it also seemed like what he did was he might have told them that but he also then didn't tell them I'm going to make this public because after the game they're like what no Nothing. There's nothing going on. It's PR delivered it to the media.

Right, which was, that was clearly this is what I'm doing. I am publicly pantsing them because I can't really do anything to these guys. One guy already makes $30 million. One guy's going to make $30 million, no matter really what happens, the rest of this season. And I really need them. And that's probably the difference, too, right? If I'm looking at Trayvon versus these guys. It's, are you worth the trouble?

And Trayvon, if he was getting 11 interceptions, is worth the trouble. And see, that's why, you know, Pickens is a larger topic for another day. I think Shottie handled that well, like in the best way he could. He kind of joked about it. And he was asked about that again over the break, you know, like sometimes I got reasons. Sometimes I don't. But he's still, you know, he's not afraid of the guy. but you also have to like put it in the context of he's the cowboys coach dad like

well and that's the problem for 30 years that we have to put everything in the context even dave campo how bad is he whatever and like for our show so that we don't have to do that all the time i feel like that should be an understood thing that's i think i said this on something else i did over the break but let me ask me like what do you think a shot he's first year and my thought is like he's probably like the the best i could expect that of a guy the cowboys would hire because they would never have hired kyle shanahan whenever he was baby kyle shanahan they would have never hired the floor they would have never hired go down the line ben johnson the no way who's the duval guy uh you know yeah leum cole

it's just and that's part of their problem too i think is being too in-house on a lot of this stuff. Yeah, and they knew his mom. Like even, even Iber Fluse. This is not crazy. Well, we know him. We're comfortable. He knows how to get in the building already.

Let's go with Iber Flues. Although that, I can't say that was a heavily criticized move at the time. But sometimes our lack of criticism stems from our resignation over this is just what it is. You know what I mean? Like, if, uh, I'm trying to think of who's looking for somebody's. If somebody else hired Matt Eberflus, you'd hear a lot more criticism of.

I think locally. But locally we wouldn't be talking about it. You see what I'm saying. Like, they were never, frankly, dude, there are teams that would have hired Clayton Adams to be there, like full-time OC, play caller, maybe even head coach this year.

Mike McDaniel wasn't even the OC in San Francisco. He was the run game coordinator. The Cowboys would never, ever do that. Yeah. So you install a guy with... Now, the whole thing, though, too, is does McCarthy go 7-9 and 1? Or does McCarthy do better this year if he was here?

I thought about that a lot since you brought it up. And yeah, you're thinking about like how would McCarthy and Iber Fluse work together? Could somehow McCarthy's offense been better tailored, maybe to Iberflue's defense? But that doesn't really work for me because I think, one of the strengths the Cowboys had this year that kept them competitive was their run game. And Mike McCarthy has about as much use for that as he does Ozympic. He's not really running the ball anymore. And Clayton Adams, I got, I got a half stiffy on like two or three of the trap plays they run yesterday. But that goes, I don't care of straightforward. Okay, now we're

talking about X's nose a little bit. And this is where Shoddy talking about, hey, we're he's the head coach. We've got to be a complimentary team with the offense and the defense, but he doesn't act like it. Because he coaches the offense as if he has a pretty good defense. And he either should coach the offense as, okay, because we have a running game, we have to grind it out, eat as much clock as we possibly can. The Cowboys did this a few years ago with Garrett and their terrible defense. And DeMarco Murray, as I recall, that was the guy they kind of really did that. Or he's got to be super aggressive knowing I have to outscore every other team

and early in the game, late in the game, no matter what. We've just got to be aggressive. They finally did it against Washington, Pat, and it looked really good. But he's never really had that mindset this year. He claimed, oh, I learned a lot from that Denver decision I'd made or indecision or whatever. And they didn't. He didn't really learn that. I think you're learning, I think, I say for sure, Mike McCarthy would have had a better record just because you went through a lot of stuff this year with first year head coach where he did learn some things.

I do think he can get better, but I don't think this is a team that is at, was at a spot where, hey, let's just, it's, it's comfortability, comfortability with Jerry, right? I want to hire somebody I'm comfortable with and just kind of keep things rolling here. it was it was not comfortable for him to hire mike mccarthy mike mccarthy had never been in the building he didn't know mike mccarthy's dad he you know he's all the scale of of hires for a normal team mike mccarthy would be like yeah for the cowboys it was a bit a bit outside the box but he won a super bowl and uh not to compare our owner to the president he won't he right he wanted he is yeah yeah shit that's cool um so at least he had that going for him but you're right um but you know like i put in the column this morning

because i do feel like i don't want to leave the shoddy thing too much but i do feel like they're they're in urgency mode like they went to did pickings they went and did williams they've got the draft pick uh the extra draft pick like the last time they were just getting bounced consecutive years it was five and eleven three years in a row bad and they hired parcels I don't think this is as bad as that was. I don't think that they need a Parcell style makeover, and for sure, Shoddy is not that. But while maybe I could concede to you

that McCarthy would have won more games this year, what were you doing? Was he sticking around long term? At some point, like, I don't love to hear Dax say this, but I did hear Dax say yesterday. We needed this year. It's the first time head coach. This is how it goes.

got we had to figure this year out well that's ridiculous because that's that's why they hired shot he was because he wasn't going to change anything for you yeah i mean that wasn't what was sold is that this isn't it's not a year that we got to worry about a first time head coach you know why because this guy's been in the year 25 in the league 25 years i know you haven't heard about that but we're going to make him repeat that every press conference throughout the whole season so that by the end of the year you will know and you will think he's the most experienced guy in NFL history. Now you've got to hear, like, this is a fresh-faced kid just out of college that's just

figuring things out. The 25-year thing is egregious, but so is the, let's wind the tape all the way back. They brought in Brian Schottenheimer to see if they wanted to hire him to be their real offensive coordinator after being their fake one last year. They didn't bring him in to be the head coach. Right. And all of a sudden, it's like, hey, this guy's impressing me in this interview. And by that, I mean, I can bully the fuck.

out of him. Like, this guy's great. There's going to be no staty. We're going to pay him what Texas Tech is going to pay Cincinnati's

quarterback for this year. So, I don't know. Here's 5 mil. Keep your mouth shut. And within those confines, I think he,

I think I'm okay with it. Let me play you some shoddy. This is not from yesterday's post game. It's actually from before. I got to tell you, too, little cowboy.

what would you call it when you're trying to silence things your oppression a suppression the cowboys are who are the most like hey we don't mind criticism it's all good because it just is people talking this was very odd so you know i'm a shoddy hollick i listen to every shoddy press conference and i love the cadence i love the i love him asking you Do I love him asking himself a question? I do. So I listened to everything over the break, and I couldn't find him talking about Trayvon Diggs.

And I went to their website. I went to their YouTube page. I listened to every single piece of Shottie that was out there. He did not address Trayvon Diggs. Yeah. So speaking of criticism, I was listening to the fan. Some over the break in the morning. And because they'll rip Jerry.

And I heard them read quotes from Shottie about Diggs and Christmas. And I found it odd that I wasn't just hearing him say it. So that's where we started with like, okay. So it's not available anywhere. We have a good buddy who is in, you know, many good buddies that work in the media and cover the cowboys like on the day to day. texted him and he said, yeah, look, it's, it, I was at the press conference. This is the one it was, he talked about it and he gave me the link to the website. And he's like, they cut it out.

The Cowboys cut it out. He goes, luckily, they also live streamed these things on Twitter. So here, here's that link. It's the first thing I thought of is there's no way they're thoroughly scrubbing. So, yeah, it was on Twitter. So I went back to it, and I did find him talking about Trayvon Diggs. So here's the stuff you were reading, or they were reading. Yeah, I just, you know, and looking at it, you know, we came up with the decision.

It was just, it was really a culmination on multiple factors, performance, other elements. He's been an incredible player for this organization, and I really do. I truly do. I like Trayvon a lot. I wish him nothing but the best, and I'm, you know, excited to see where he lands. Well, sure. Yeah, I think that's bullshit, too. He hates the guy.

Yeah, he's, I build everything on being a friend and culture guy, and I can get along with everybody. In fact, I think he called himself elite at that at one point. He's elite relationships. Again, every guy I hear in Dallas, Fort Worth Sports, who comes in saying, I'm great at relationships. Can't have a relationship with his superstars. you know in fact even the way he went through the thing with Micah oh I'm wishing you good night and all that kind of stuff but that didn't change any of the Micah stuff

I don't know I said you're frustrated I get your frustration but I just do want it's just if you label yourself as relationship guy like I'm guy who's a great friend professional app oh you're not supposed to do that go on what out of his plan. Label yourself as a great friend.

Yeah, but my point is just, I think, I just think Trayvon is a bad professional athlete. Like, I think, dude, I came in telling you guys, you're not going to believe this, but he's got a documentary on YouTube, like 15 minutes at a time that has 200 views.

I've watched all of them. This guy does not care about his job. I can promise. And as soon as he's, you know, I promise you, Shottie called. Hey, bro, I think it's going to be me. SIG

you know Booker Traybaud was like absolutely not I'm not doing that I'm not coming to dinner Yeah of course And Shottie if you spurned him on that

Doghouse I guarantee He just didn't want to participate Sorry Seems as if that he wanted to stay In the D.C. area and apparently we said no How was that

How was that play a fact doing to what ends up. So that's the big story is that he actually wanted to stay in Washington, D.C. That's where his family is, and maybe like even a stepbrother who was performing that night or something like that, somebody he's related to, because he was seen at a concert that night.

He did, so that's what happened. He stayed in Washington. It's Christmas. Shottie says everybody's got a few days off here. He said, I'd like to stay in. in Washington, because this is where my family is. Otherwise, I would just fly back to Dallas and then fly back to Washington. And, you know, if Trayvon Diggs is worried about one thing, it's his carbon footprint.

And the word is that Shottie, you know, denied that request, and now he's going to address it because he's being asked about it. Yeah, it was, it was one of many factors. It was not the only factor. I'm not the Grinch that's stole Christmas. I love Christmas. I love my family. But at the end of the day, we have a protocol that we go through, and the process was not followed. First time I heard about it, Trayvon grabbed me after the game.

And I'm celebrating a big win, and I explained to him the protocol, which has always been the protocol of we go up as a team, we come back as a team, and he decided to make a different decision. But I'll say this, Calvin, it was not the only reason. that this decision was made. Clown to the L.S. Cowboys, regarding that pro call, is there, so it didn't matter when he asked.

You go up the team back to the team. If you asked Monday, if asked for the game, it didn't matter when it was. Yeah, it was a... I believe he's asking that because that was another report that was out. Maybe even Clarence had it, and he probably got it from Trayvon,

is that he went through, like, he didn't just ask him after the game. He had asked him earlier that week. So that's... Proper champ. That's what I had read. You know, my protocol, unless there's a family emergency or something specific, the protocol is we all go up. And other players had asked earlier in the week, and they were told the same thing.

And I made that very clear to Trayvon, and he certainly didn't agree. And that's okay. That's his prerogative. But at the end of the day, I want to make this very clear. That was not the only reason that this happened. This happened for multiple factors, performance, other elements over the course of time. And I truly do wish them nothing but the best. I told them that yesterday when I talked to him.

I said, I'm excited to see you continue your career. Why do you not work with him? Did you not buy into the coach outside of the performance? You know, was it a disconnect all the time or when did it become a disconnect with him? No, I mean, I think, you know, it's one of those situations when I look back on it. You know, I mean, like I said, I really do like Trayvon. I want what's best for him. I think at the end of the day, you know, maybe he doesn't like some of the things that we did.

I don't know. You guys have to ask him that. But, again, I thought he was trying to do better. And like I said, I wish him nothing but the best of luck. And, you know, we'll see where he lands. I'm sure he'll land on his feet and continue to play good football. Shift into the Giants game real quickly. Okay.

That's that on that. Well, he's just kind of getting... have another thing with Trayvon, but go ahead, sorry. He's just giving you the whole bag there, right? Of, like you said it, it's headache. It's worth it. You know, I saw a bunch of people. I was very surprised. But when you're in the cow,

it's like reservoir dogs being a Cowboys fan. You're like, you're mad at him? I'm mad at him. What are you mad at? Who you shoot? Because I was shocked by the people that were coming after Shotty for this. I thought this was a big win for him because this is just like a Parcells or Belichick. type move this guy doesn't offer anything we're tired of it be gone yeah back i kind of felt like

shoddy likes telling him like dude i'm so tired of your shit i'm so tired of having to read what you're telling jane slater you were doing while you were watching bad santa i'm so tired of having to google who shy glizzy is and what his concert schedule is just go away dude you don't care. Dude, there were people at the early part of the year that thought he was blowing coverages intentionally after the micotry. That was a real thing that people, inside people were speculating about. Well, then if he's Parcells or Belichick, he gets rid of him right away. Not if Jerry's owner. Yeah, maybe he doesn't actually have that power. But the thing is, too, Parcells and Belichick aren't calling you good night. They're not saying, hey, my big

thing is fun and music at practice. And I'm dancing. and we're going to up the fun this year. You didn't, it's not like you had a disciplinarian coach. You had Mike McCarthy. And so now you're like, yeah, but I got to make it more fun. It doesn't seem like fun was a problem. In fact, let's now go to the 1,000th example of this, of when a player leaves the Cowboys.

And this is Trayvon Diggs. He was commenting to the media. He said that he talked to Micah Parsons. And what did Michael Parsons say to him? He told me it's work. It's a lot different. He says I'm going to like it a lot because the Packers have picked up Trayvon Diggs. So everywhere else, everybody else, and maybe this is overblown because everything is with the Cowboys.

But from Cole Bleasley to whoever, you name it, guys. that go to the Texans, Dalton Schultz, it's, hey, when you leave here and go to another facility, it's kind of refreshing because it's about football and it's about getting back to work. And I kind of like that right now. And that's like, again, you were already with the organization that was viewed as the fun organization, and then you came in and said, no, we need more music. Like, how are you going to fix this thing? all right how about if we have more fun and more dinners because that's it doesn't mean shit

having dinner at training camp does not translate into uh being better than seven nine and one we've now proven that can we at least say that because that was his big thing was hey the more we know each other the more you'll work for your brother and blah blah blah no it no it's not going to help if you if you suck as a player you're just going to suck as a player you're just going to as a player, whether you had dinner with banger or not. I agree with that, but it's just, you know, I'm not trying to be like sports gay

here, but I do think there is some long-term reaping of culture, and it might not materialize in year one, might not materialize in year one when your best player gets traded the week before the season and your coordinator higher is worse than your head coach higher.

But I also know and you don't BS me. You know there's a decent chance they're in the playoffs next year. They can easily win 11. Why? Why should I say that? After what we've seen, the inconsistency from this offense. And I don't know.

There are definite issues. I just, I could spend a whole day on the red zone or inside the 10 one day. But dude, when DAC is healthy, they usually are in the mix. The defense was historically bad. I think the chalk is probably that they're a borderline playoff team. If they win one game in the playoffs, you better get ready for 20, 25 dinner stories. That's when you bring them out. You're like, this started 18 months ago. You know how this all goes. Yeah. Maybe that means it all it means is it doesn't mean anything. Let me stop

you on the Trayvon thing, though, because if it's not apparent by now. And I actually, this weekend worked myself up in it. I'm a lot tall. I think I could think I'd like a run at it physically. That was my take this weekend after watching him talk about the quote you just this is work here is just all going to be work all all work up here. Hey, um, Michael, Michael Parsons is probably my favorite football player, uh, of all time. But, uh, you're going to have to miss me with the Micah Parsons and Trayvon Diggs just wanted it to be all about football in Dallas. This is insane. The guy was hosting a weekly podcast with Trayvon half the time. where they would just talk about the league and who sucked.

And then they'd be like, all right, so we just covered a game in San Francisco. Now we're going over to the Jets. You know what that makes me think of, Blake, nationwide insurance. They're doing ad reads. And I go back to, I listen to Brandon Aubrey, and he's like, yeah, there's people in the facility. I just do my job. I'm used to it. Some guys might not be like that.

I'd rather not have it there. But what I don't have time for is guys who. leaned into that fully like at least jalen smith didn't have the good had the good sense to not go somewhere else and be like this is just all about football he knows a bike is so good that he can just like whatever yeah denucci's like i got the hat to you he's not complained about it but i don't know for travon he's not what he was and i it's easy to say that part of that is because he didn't approach his recovery seriously so all told i'm glad he's gone i do You concede that shoddy's in an interesting spot of being buddy, buddy guy,

and I'd like to disappoint you guy. And honestly, this is why you have to have good coordinators? Yeah, is there any way to be Jimmy Johnson and have an asthma field and be best friends with all the players? I don't think you can. Yeah. I don't know. A couple more shoddy things.

Then maybe we'll work in a little break. Sorry, I just miss you guys We miss you too But not enough for you to expose yourself to us Except one way So we have another Trayvon question Which leads us to a shoddy bingo

Ryan Todd Archer with the ESPN Other stops that you've been at Throughout your coaching career Have players been allowed to Stay or take different modes home after games or is that a rare instance? Again, I can't.

Most places I've been, you go up as a team, you come back to a team. That's certainly what I believe in. Why? We're family. These guys had three days off. It's because they're a family. Oh. Family.

I thought you wouldn't just cut your daughter because she didn't do something you like. See, that's another thing. Stop it. Stop this bullshit. it. Yeah, Jerry might. But Jerry just pays his family. It probably is a little bit of BS, but, you know,

I remember this when the Urban Myers story happened. At the time, my brother, I think, was still working in the league. And he was, like, more incensed about that than any story in the NFL ever. Like. That a coach would stay back? He only worked for one team, but he was like, dude, you just, that doesn't happen. Like, Drew Brees flies back. I just feel like the way.

they present themselves, you wouldn't know that. But yes, you would not even dream of asking Parcells, right? You would just know, this is, of course, the rule. We fly together, we fly back, and that is it. Let's put it back in Deddy's world. But you're in the Cowboys world where that seems like it might fly. Seems like they might let me. But don't you think that if you were Trayvon, you would have known, like, they're going to say no.

They don't like me. like i've done nothing to earn their respect and their trust and i like now i just the concussion thing you know like when i fucked up at work uh i would like really keep my head down if i could for a long time be like god you know i don't trevon doesn't have that why would they then why would they release him here's another interesting part of it why wouldn't why wouldn't they put them on there or just suspend them or something and like you know you're not going to help anyone else you're not going to play anywhere else uh now if you just put us through all of this pangled web we weave because on one hand i'd like to say that it's like you know you see this in the

NBA a lot you just want to do a solid so that you're looked at as a team that does people solids but then again you just cut this guy so could you really serve both masters tricky so this was a press conference before the Giants game in fact it was last Wednesday what was Wednesday did anybody have that the number of the day 1231 oh New Year's Eve huh yeah sorry okay

what's your New Year's Eve plans oh he listen I credit John for asking What's he going to say? Well, I unfortunately already know because his wife is super online. Oh.

Well, this is what he said. What do you think he'll say? It's a good time to recharge with family. We're going to huddle together and watch movies. Ooh, I like huddled together. You got the opposite of what he said. Uh-oh. What's your New Year's Eve plans?

Be doing some third down. We're grinding, bro. He's worked. I'm grinding coach But If you guys would like to come up And spend some time Maybe when the ball drops Clarence

We can come and embrace That would be nice You have a little embrace Dap it up Race Is that code Something? Nah

I know that I Should not be the governor On this But white boy from Florida Who played football They showed a picture of him The other day Or I was like

This guy probably said the word At some point Absolutely I'm just saying He was just saying You have a little embrace, dapp it up. I won't do that until I leave the building league office. But no, I'll be here with the guys working.

So many must have sent shoddy. You're going to have a shoddy. Oh, okay. That was the... I can't drink at work? No, I love drinking, bro. It's probably frowned upon. I don't know.

From the league? I don't know. I don't know. Certainly, there's not a chance that, Johnny Walker Blue is not in Jerry's office. Yeah. You watch the draft? I got a keen eye for the viscosity of liquor.

I know exactly. Yeah. But I can tell you this, though. If it's not outlawed or nobody said anything, he certainly likes the idea of putting it out there because he's a bad boy. You know, might just take a little nip. A little nip of word, bro.

So one more thing here. they went 7 to 9 and 1 right no playoffs but there is something else to cover that we need closure on today is Wednesday the day they're recording this anything special plan for the final competition Wednesday are you aware of competition Wednesday

vaguely like I've seen the beat reporters talk about remember they had a training camp one, a champ for competition Wednesday, and then they shoot baskets at the garbage can, and they do stuff like that, because the more you compete, the better you will be on the field. Let me just show

you the 2026 or 25 Dallas Cowboys. Anything special plan for the final competition Wednesday, or is it just... Well, thank you for asking. We were in the finals of the sharp shooting championship. We had a big upset today. The past champion,

Sam Williams lost. Yeah, he was He was defeated today by Juanier Thomas. And then Will Greer beat Terp. So we're working through that. And I'll let you guys know later in the week who the champion is. Hey, Will Greer's still here. Who knew that? Yeah, that, yeah.

I mean, me, because I have a special camera that follows him on the sideline. Yeah, he's on the plane. He's got a huge beard, so he's hard to miss. But, yeah, he's hanging out. out, I guess. There's no way you could tell me he's not better than Joe Milton, like tomorrow. But I guess if there's a development play, I don't know. Joe Milton.

Does he have veneers? Great teeth. Probably. Great teeth. He's got veneer money, huh? Yeah, I looked up the price over the break. I'll tell you why in the news. What are they, like, 10 grand?

Yeah. A thousand a tooth? or 500 or tooth? Yeah, it depends on the type you go with, but it's like 8 to 20 grand. 20 grand to get new teeth. It can be.

Damn. All right, well, you want to keep talking little cowboys? Take a break. After the break, what do we want to do here? Do we care? Do we know? No. All right. Let's take a break. Have fun.

Carl, hey, give me a second. I want to talk to you In my role as executor, I've had passed to me a rather worrying piece of paper. Hmm. Okay. And... Who else knows? As it of now, as far as I know, just you and me. So what are you thinking? Well, I honestly didn't want to start thinking until you were here.

I mean... Could it, might it just go away? I mean, it might get lost. I hope it doesn't. But what if your hand goes a little wobbly and the draft takes it away and it gets flushed on a toilet by mistake? I'm kidding, of course. No, sure, you're speculating in a comic mode.

Yeah, in a humorous vein. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Another year, Jake. Another year of... The BJ, the promo guy. Another year of... Silently wishing that one of our listeners or viewers gets into an accident. Uh-huh.

Significant enough that they've got some kind of a personal injury and that they need the help from, Frankl and Frankel. You know the number 214 or 817-333333. Yeah, listen, people are going to get hurt. We don't have to wish for it. We just want you to call the Frankles in the event that you do. They got people who used to work with the insurance or for the insurance company so they know they're coming forward. you the second you get into an accident mail starts coming phone calls start coming none of that

is your job it's the frankle's job and no handle it for you 214 817 and then all three so when we used to do that spot sometimes we would say they've they like since they have some people that worked for the insurance company that's like if you were a defensive coordinator but now you work on the offense you know and we would relate that to belichick and because that was his bit defensive genius but then he actually later became an offensive genius and part of that i always thought was because he was in the room like this was his whole job is trying to stop offenses what what what threw him off what did he think was bad what it was tough to deal with and that's how he was able to help develop, you know, the Patriots offense and do a good offense and having

the greatest quarterback ever. So that probably helped you. The point is, by one of one, but go on. The point is, though, Rahim Morris just got fired. And that was the thing. It was between Rahim Morris and Bill Belichick to coach the Falcons a couple years ago. Do you think there's any Belichick regret with the Falcons or seeing Belichick and what his hat? Like, would his girlfriend, Jordan, be such a big part of the picture?

By the way, that's something else you should have asked my daughters about. They've got hot sports opinions about Jordan. Damn it, I wouldn't even have thought they had a clue. No, my older daughter is like, you would love it if I brought home Bill Belichick. And I go, damn right, I would. That'd be awesome. Don't be bringing home some, you know, if you're going to date outside your thing. Right.

Like that far outside, it better be Bill Belichick. Bob Vance, Vance, Refrigeration. I don't know. It's just, like, clearly they're going to have money no matter what. But give me a little more than that. Give me a little, what were you saying at halftime against the Falcons? What were we doing? You knew Kyle was a little bitch all along, didn't you?

Yeah. So I should have asked about that. But I just want to point out, or I don't know if you're done yet. No, it's just the whole, the Falcons first team to fire. Yeah, okay. And their GM got fired too, who might be. I've been the guy who fired my brother in New Orleans. So I sent the standing at my funeral making sure my haters dead text to my brother

it's part of working in the NFL right people get fired you get the laugh at it um you know how i checked up on the other day dan and blake was uh brandon staley who we were briefly pretty chargers right he was a quarterback and he played quarterback and i think pretty quickly switched to coaching defense in his early 20s and he did not do well as a head coach but He is a, he's the Saints coordinator and wasn't he the, uh, Rams? They're quite happy with it. Yeah. Rams coordinator, yeah.

And the Saints have, uh, have overachieved, I would say. Yeah, not sure what they're doing a quarterback, but I mean, they have a coach that we all thought was a decent coach. I think they think Chuck is the guy. I, yeah, I know. I think they, I think that you're right that they probably think that. Okay. I think they should. I don't know.

Oh, I guess I should. should just flush all of college. Dude, is Joe Shane staying? And watch more NFL? Yeah. Is that official? I mean, I don't know if a team's, but I've seen it from reporters. That's an incredible job to me. Holding on to that job after what, you know, all you've been through.

Like, how? Is that just the, he's a white guy, like a boardroom guy? He's somehow, you know, the Maras feel comfortable with him and that who else he definitely seems very good at the corporate speak game yeah and i think he should be fired but keep just as a refresher

you're like man this guy sucked for like five years how is he keeping his job as a gf what the jerry thing there's one other city where five is nothing yeah one quick thing from the game because joe shane was up in the press box for some reason. Normally you don't see the GMs. But he was walking around and he ran into Steve Burline. And he walked up to Steve. He was like, hey, Steve, you know, haven't seen you

a while. I hope you're doing well. And, you know, congrats, all that kind of stuff. Steve had no idea who he was. So in this world, Steve is like looking around like, who, who is this? Who am I talking to? Well, he's the GM of the Giants. Steve. You can't remember his face. Who did your play-by-play yesterday? Jerry Recko Got from the fan Oh, you've been with him a few times then? You guys boys?

Yeah, he's a great guy He's telling Craig Carton Gambling stories yesterday God, I Oh, didn't he get put in prison? Mm-hmm Yeah, he came back to his show afterwards Yeah, of course

Yeah, he'd get on the plane And accompanied Craig to some of these games And it was pretty wild That's awesome See, you're so boring, bro. All me and you do is give each other COVID. You're not getting gambling schemes. Him and me up.

Are you guys snot rocket guys? Is that when you do this? Yeah. I don't do that. Yeah. No. All the time. All the time.

Not just in junior high football? No, I like every... No, as allergy guy, I mean, I did it this morning. You did this. I did it in the break, eight of the ten minutes we were gone. You don't like, I mean, I blow my nose. No, I just blowered in. You're saying I don't blow it into anything.

On the ground. Not in my house, but like getting out of my car. Yeah, this morning, I did it this morning. And I'll do, like your pants and foot and. I'll do the, no, it's a rocket. It's straight. Not a shower. I'll do it in the toilet.

rather than blowing my nose I'll just walk over the toilet Yeah, I'll do it in the sink Just turn the water on and push it in there Yeah And I found out like You guys are animal You're an animal

Bro even my brother over the holidays Was like that's so gross You should do that shit when we were kids I'm like you think it's gross I agree with your brother And I've never thought twice about it I'm I'm rocketing all day Yeah it's in there

And he needs to get out Quickly you ready for some news i have a ton more but i figure let's we do have more shows this week right yeah we should calm down all right here's jane with the dumb zone news although i guess the issue here is i've been compiling news stories for two or three weeks yeah i got this female ref thing i want you guys here yeah we can start with this one because a local couple

who was involved in the home renovation game they had a company called Judge DFW LLC Christopher and Raquel Judge they were marketing themselves as sort of like a new take on Chip and Jojo they come out they're all hot I tell you they're going to do your custom home, your renovations, interior design service.

And as you know, Dan, maybe you don't, but in this remodel game, they really kind of got you by the dick. They're doing things called draws regularly and you're like, okay, well, I guess I owe you $20,000 more. But you don't really always have an accounting of where that money's going. They say where it's going, but then if that work doesn't get done, you've already paid for it. This is what was happening. These people would show up. They would advertise on social media lower prices. Then they would show up, get your introductory schedule of payments, and then just

ghost you. 40 homes to the tune of, I guess these different stories have different amounts. So what? You have to put half down or something? Yeah, sometimes they'll set you. I mean, they've got your bank info. So they'll set you up like, hey, over the next seven months these five days were taking X amount and it's just it's happening and uh they did it to the tune of about five million well it looks like they bought new teeth okay so this is what i was going to tell you and you beat me to my punchline oh i'm sorry it's okay the picture i'm not in studio so we can't run the pick and roll so uh when this story came out It was sent to be a lot because I think I might have been a senior when she was a freshman,

but my brother, my cousin, whatever, my wife graduated high school with this girl. And let me tell you something, Dan. I didn't grow up broke by any means. My parents paid for my college. We were comfortable. Very few people that grew up where I grew up have teeth that look like that. And the indictment says, nurse rich on the hills

they don't have teeth like that those are not mid-city's teeth those are not mid-city's teeth and uh the indictment says and I dug hard boys but it says an unspecified plastic surgery

of $10,000 um and you know it doesn't what if we pan down just to see if there's any other yeah I told you I looked hard I couldn't really find that he significant changes there, but both of their teeth are perfect.

I have to say, though, because his teeth are perfect, yes. I think he's been a bad influence on her. I would throw the book at him, and I'd offer her leniency. I feel like she can be rehabilitated. And a forum to teach. Well, there we pan down. Okay. Well, they both pled guilty.

And they're both facing up to 20 years in prison. This is a, I mean, this is not negligence. This is not, uh, I got a, my books got out of control and I had to cut, this was a This is the, the plan. Yes. How could you, that seems odd to do that thinking it can go on forever. Like if you did it and then left town or something. Yeah.

Or you did it once or twice. But to keep doing it, that's, It's got to catch up to you, right? And, you know, there were signs, like, in 2022, a Texas board of architectural examiners had to issue a warning to the guy to tell him to stop saying he was a licensed architect because he's not. Cut it out. Quit. Was it a stern warning? Yeah. Stern. That's really the only time you hear that, right?

yeah oh can we still put stuff on lists is there's something with a boat about stern oh yeah that's not bad people were really fired up about this one over the break and I think this is one of the things about being like

really like out front about your political beliefs like if you're going to wear a certain political party or certain political candidates gear at your wedding and put it on social media and be like hey look this is my wedding mega like don't fuck a kid at your school

because people are going to be like mega rapist you know what I mean not not the move So that's the only time not to have relations with the kid at your school. It's definitely the top, it's the one of the day. So what happened? It's all about Maga Hotties out there.

Well, he coughs. That's why I won't put a bumper sticker on my car. Like I don't want to say, hey, look at me. I'm a TCU fan, and then I'm driving 90, cut you off. Yeah. It's a bad look for what you're into. you're a considerate guy on that front unless i put a marathon sticker then i do it on purpose i yeah i was dying laughing at uh eden's suggestion of stick figure families when they put their figures

on the back what happens if a kid dies like you have to slowly peel it off like a like you put down your no they'll just flag after they lose in the orange bowl or something you know that type of person puts angel wings on them. Oh, yeah, there you go. That's right. That's right. A friend of his teacher's called the police. It's just like it was in that show.

Where the lady, who's a 30-year-old woman, who's not, like, you know, not... Name? Madison Jones. I already know what she looks like. Yeah. but here's the thing she along with another male were arrested

for these child sex charges this is not even just this is like a child child five year old and she told a friend of this and she recorded

she recorded the video with the child hmm it's kind of like the teacher Yeah, that's what I'm saying It's like bragging it out Yeah Yeah Blake Chai's just tried to pass

I thought you weren't listening But he realized it wasn't a clear path Am I wrong? Yeah, I should probably give leeway Because I do that a lot Yeah, well You wouldn't be wrong That I might have missed

Him saying It's okay Uh Yeah, I mean Her boyfriend's involved They were sending the videos back and forth I mean, just beyond sick, right? I'm sorry, but 15 and 5, 16, it's different.

But, yeah, I mean, people just go right to her social media profiles. And, you know, yeah, not good. Oh, he had the Christian Barmore. Oh, Midlothian, okay. Yeah. We had the Christian Barmore story, the Alabama and Patriots tackle, who assaulted his girlfriend over the temperature. in their home.

A 32-year-old woman in Fort Worth. Now, this is not a great sign, although I certainly understand that people find themselves in different seasons of life, but a 32-year-old sharing residence with her uncle, less than stable. She killed him. She stabbed him to death.

The day after Christmas. Boy, women don't stab a lot. That's a good point, I think. Although, you know, you got like y'all's axe lady. Maybe that's just a... Our axe lady. Yeah, y'all are all stoked on Axe Lady for a while, aren't you? Are you talking about Lizzie?

Is it Lizzie Borden? Nah, I remember that one, but this was the Texas lady. Texas Axe lady. I thought Blake's was into... I thought Blake was into this or so maybe it wasn't an axe. but there was like a there was like a hulu show on it oh candy montgomery long time ago oh yeah the wily the wiley yeah okay yeah i was interested yeah i got into it whenever jesska beale played her but yeah okay uh so here is the uh the situation

uh they lived together in the living room of a home which was being leased and rented out like this is a crash pad type situation so uh what preceded this was he she got pissed off when he told her that she needed to start cooking she told detective she was upset because he had locked her out of the house earlier that day and had pissed her off by telling her she needed to start cooking. What's her name? Oh, you don't want this one. Actually, it's a fun one.

So Ashley Marie Sign Banalor. I don't know, man. You're just going to have to give it a go. Ashley Marie, Fort Worth stabbing. She looks like, as Shane Gills would say, it nicked her. And also possibly like she, could have

started in Snow White and Seven Dinkled Dinkled ruined it for everybody and I kind of like her mugshot too because she has like a bad boy look on her face

but in any case oh yeah she does look like somebody that might stab you speaking of Midlothian she just told hopefully she did it too

hell yeah did it he told me start cooking i'm not into that trad wife stuff so um this is kind of a wild story that uh has been superseded by other wild i guess military stories but uh there were two cases that i saw over the break of uh the fbi doing undercover operations to bust people who had designs on doing a terrorism in the name of jihad. One of them was a dude from Midlothian. And when I say, dude, I'm pretty sure he was like, he might have been 18 at the time of the arrest, but they started talking to him when he was 16.

And I don't know, man. I don't know the law on this stuff. entrapment and all that. You kind of groom them to do it almost. When you read through the indictments and you're reading the stuff that they're in a chat room saying that or chat room telegram or discourse,

I don't know. Like it's just, it feels like they just throw fire or throw gasoline on it. And eventually the guy's like, yeah, I think I could get you a bomb. Yeah, that was a few years ago. some similar thing happened in Dallas, yeah.

Yeah, the AT&T. It just seems like you're... It feels like busting small-time drug users or something or drug dealers even and not the source, you know, it's not like this isn't a real... This isn't causing real problems, but it is getting our... Look, we made an arrest in this area type thing. Yeah, and I get it. Like, I say I get it.

I try to get it. That combating terrorism is different. But to have to convince him over two years to do terrorism. And then once he decides, like, this guy has convinced me enough that I will do the terrorism and then he slaps, cups on me. Yeah. It seems different. It seems different. And it made me think about, you know, I think, I don't know if this is a culture-wide deal.

but I think people have some reservations about like to catch a predator. That one seems more clear cut to me. But that was, a lot of those cases got thrown out because of entrapment. And I did not confirm that this is real, but I saw a tweet that there's a movie about to catch a predator coming out this year with Robert Pattinson playing. What? answer. Please tell me this is fake. No, it's called prime time.

And it's Robert Pattinson. It's an 824 movie. So this is going to be insane. Robert Pattinson, the subject of one of the more insane Trump tweets of all time. Do you guys remember that one? Continue. He was extremely invested. in the celebrity of

Robert Pat you know you gotta remember who this guy is back in 2012 he was just like watching inside edition and being like this sucks or this go back to 2012 no I was thinking about that this weekend like Trump it's just the only reason you know about it now

is because he's president and they have to like report on everything he says yeah but he acts like this all like his whole life you you've played us those videos of his It's like Cuban, too. Like when Cuban hit it big on Shark Tank, he had been doing shit shows forever. He's, it's not like he just happened upon this, you know, he's been, this is what he does.

He throws, this is just who he is. That's kind of like why you want to teach kids, do what you love, and, you know, you're going to figure it out with that. Like, if that's just who you are, just do your thing. Yeah. Trump's been tweeting and going crazy and making a. videos forever it's just nobody paid attention to the videos before well back in october of 2012 he simply tweeted robert patinsid should not take back christin stewart she cheated on him like a dog it'll do it again just watch he can do much better wow that one that one apparently

was a home run because the next day he tweeted lots of response to my patinson christin stewart reunion. She will cheat again. 100% certain, am I ever wrong? That's great. A couple days later, everyone knows I am right that Robert Pattinson should... Why? Why is he end caring about them?

In a couple of years, you'll thank me. Be smart, Robert. How does he know? Why? A month later, Robert Pattinson is putting on a good face for the release of Twilight. He took my advice on Kristen Stewart, I hope. And then, you know, never lacking a chance to get a shot in at the dick-tard centrist media, he concluded, everyone wants me to talk about Robert Paddenton and not Brian Williams.

I guess people just don't care about Brian. Yeah. So anyways. That's gold. Be on the lookout if you're sexting with a minor or somebody who starts to ask you what's so cool about jihad. If you're going to sex with a minor, make sure they have a little light on the helmet. There you go. Yeah.

Very good. Really? I like it. Kind of a does start the new year. No, no. We're now supporting those. Most U-Tip football players are of age, so probably should be good. Now we're going to let him get away with that.

after you let me get away with that. I think we're all trying to end the news. Oh. Oh. The Dumb Zone News. That's not what I felt. Like and subscribe. That was a good news.

Let us make... Oh, what I'll do is I'll have today's viewer mail birthdays brought to us by Lone Star Beer, where you can go to Lonestarbeer.com, get 21% off your merch. like this awesome hat that I found myself having to put on again today. I thought it was going to be a million degrees today. What happened? Do you know last week it was 87 degrees one day? We put the pool cover on that day.

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This is viewer mail birthdays. We have. Uncle Dan Happy New Year I'd like to wish one of the most faithful and dedicated D.Fs Drop Beth

Wow a happy birthday Her birthday is January 4th Leaders are Dan Blake Birthday Yeah Is it the one-year-old birthday or do you backdate those

To the day they were installed Oh drop best cans Installation date Yeah. Okay. I wonder she has that day. That's the one we won't. Do we have a birthday for that?

Yeah. And if your wife, if you'd like to replace your wife's birthday every year when she got augmented, we'll take that. If you gave your wife that for her birthday, is that a gift for her? You got to read the room. Certainly you don't go in a Kool-Aid man. like doing the pencil test but you can read you know let's see

this is from Jameson who says lots of nice things about drop Beth total sweetheart she would like to hear Blake read Antonio Brown tweets and a montage of Jake saying a cuh instead of okay. Does Jake do that?

Did we make a montage of that? Yeah, I think it was kind of like the guy. Probably after like a minor's joke. Anyway, happy birthday to drop Beth. She is a woman that we met

after she told us like casually oh yeah, you know, after I, you know, after I cut all my drops at night, and we're like, what? She would, like, listen to the ticket and then later listen to us, and then she just makes drops for herself

so she could just hear them. And then she now sends them all to us. We have them. We have them. Dear Emperor Smooch to Cooch. Well, here we are again. I'm back to brag on my amazing wife of 22 years. January.

Hot. who turned 43 yesterday. I'll skip all the boring stuff, cut right to the chase. I dare you to find another wife that keeps track of the number of BJs she gives on an app on her phone. What? She only gives these to me, by the way. The number for 2025. That's what she tells you.

The number for 2025. I'm not. No. Like, do we not want to? to know this? I don't think so. Well, I'm not. It's not going to be real. It's just going to piss us off. I'm going to have questions about

the committee. Like, what counts is a little did you. You're saying, it counts to them. Are you counting? It's a full on. You got to go. Oh, that's, there's no way, bro. There's no. She has, he says here 51.

Every Saturday you're sitting here. Good for that guy, I guess. It's nice. weekly. Lord's work. Except she gets one week off. Yeah, her birthday week off. I knew it had been more than I've had all the...

I don't want to hear guys tell me about their things. He's just happy. He just wants to share. Be happy for him. I actually am. This is what you get when you have an ADHD wife that is task-oriented. God, he's manipulated her to put her effort into that. Kudos to that guy. Isn't this the one guy who, like, he met her when she was, remember January, hot name?

Then we meet him, Justin, this is from Justin. P.S., her leader is woke Democrat Jake and his courage to live another day, and Blake's love for his wife and her ability to overlook his trafficking his children to the homeless. Yeah, she's 43, he's 68. Oh, really? No, I don't know. No, he did send the history of them. He's 51, or a couple years ago, and she was his wife of 17 years.

And then we were like, oh, what? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There might have been a 17 somewhere else in there. Totally legal. but happy birthday good for you dude

yeah this one I think was sent maybe to the gram Blake just sent me a screenshot my husband Chris Kossi loves you all you're still his best friends

he loves Brandon Aubrey please give him a birthday shout out it would make his day to hear from his favorite group of guys what's her name or do we just get Chris's name we just got Chris Kossi

okay well to the lady rewind about 90 seconds maybe 60 that would make his day yeah you think this is cool we're not saying you need 51 of them he knows more about sports than anything else he can't remember what I said yesterday

but he will tell you what college a player went to in their stats oh yeah Blake if we were having a birthday party you'd be invited. That's sweet. Chris Kossi. There was an email or a Reddit thread sent to me of some dumb zone dads trying to put together

like a dad's day out. Like just some Saturday. We don't even have that to do a show. But the Rangers captain pizza bus was brought up. Oh. Why would they use it for this? We can use it for whatever we want. I forgot we had that.

Yeah, get the kids on there, let them meet champ. We're not doing it for a dad's day out, though. As I just said, we could do anything we want. Not that. We just don't want it. He's got to invite a few weeks lady. Dear Cunney linger of the cock holster, you know what we could do with that pizza bus? Just four of us.

We just eat. We're just four pizzas each. champ you haven't touched your meat lovers yeah let's make it be like just Blake no that's a bet payoff a bet payoff is that you host the pizza bus and then they show up and it's just you and you're like I just want to hang out with the Rangers mascot

on this bus and we have 17 pizzas here and it's just me and you got a roll on it Dear Cunninger of the Cockholster, I want to give birthday shout out to strong listener and good dude, Brad Brant. He's in the Mesquite chapter of the Beehive. It's his Jadavian Clowny birthday. He was awesome yesterday.

Brad is famously known for getting the boys together for a birthday round of golf, but this year's the first year we didn't do it since it was deemed gay by the dumb zone last year. Don't let Dan Jek gets you, dude. His leader is Blake's scene control and disdain for fatherhood. More Tarrant County remotes, less shoddy claws. From David Draper. Old Dad Raper. I didn't see Jonathan Gannett got fired. Yeah.

Okay. So we got two now? Yeah. They're saying Pete Carroll, man. Can you imagine that? He did. Oh, that's done? Mm-hmm.

Okay, well, then we have three. Three? Three firings today? Yeah. Or is there more? The Pete Carroll thing, they're paying Gruden still. Like, how many guys are they paying? Well, how many?

You know the deal now is Brady wants, he wants Patriot. He wants Brian Flores. Have you guys seen the thing about Brian Flores to the Cowboys as D.C.? Yeah. Why? Why would Brian Flores like, oh, yeah, okay, I'll leave this defensive coordinator job to go to this mess? I mean, in a just world, you would pay them more. Do you count Stafansky?

He got run? Oh, yeah. What do you mean do I count Stifansky? Earlier today, I said there's one firing, and then after this one I said, now there's two. Like, how many do we have? Read them all. Well, Giants and Titans happened during the season, but today Falcons, Cardinals, Browns, Raiders. And F and Andrew Barry is staying.

These GMs, man, they're the ones just sitting there talking to the owner. I don't know, man. This guy is Stefansky. I mean, he hasn't done shit for us. Of the Jerry model. I thought he was a good coach. And look, he can't even make Shador good. I heard Shador had the lowest Qadour had the lowest.

of any Brown's quarterback in history like for this as this season rolled out. Had to be a minimum of a certain amount of whatever, but, like, didn't you win yesterday? I had like 110 yards passing. I know for some of the stupid numbers I look at, it was the team in the last 20 years most expected to lose based on their offensive performance that won.

Like it took the cake. last 20 but i mean you saw what happened uh what by the way flagging diving into the end zone is the true definition of woke and if the president really had any balls to fix the NFL that's what he'd be yelling about because that is a they just their wives want to see him on tv but dive into the end zone it's insane it happened twice what's up my naysayers oh Let's see. We are congratulating my best friend and namesake of my baby. Austin Newbury and wife Mary

Welcome baby Ella Grace Newberry into the world, December 27th. Nice. Her leaders are the Struthers, Little Wildcats, and Skin to Skin Blake. This is from Kelly, or excuse me, Kevin Kelly. And he says, Austin Waters. birthday was the 30th. His leaders are Tom Brady's jug machine

and Justin Anderson's TV. Am I allowed to give him a belated? Because he and his wife, Alyssa, had a baby. It's a belated one. Am I allowed to give this? May 16th. It's a little late. And

today is my birthday. five. I'd like a shout out. My leaders are Dan's packing. Blake's punishing his son for crying when meeting Santa and Jake's dream of a utopian socialist society. Also runner-up is Julie's inability to broadcast without drinking.

From Matt Beard, he says he's the first official 690 sit-in. Sean was an official scene. He invented it but didn't know that he invented it at the time. Right. so anyway

like uh damn it I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote moby Dick Herbert Melville oh okay yeah it was a great joke I support it because you supported my bad joke

although maybe I was floating that bad joke just to make sure you were still on your game and you weren't well I uh I have the flu Dan you know what I did do Blake yeah he was that beard I made some green tea

and put a little that honey from the beach. Oh, yeah. Local honey, dude, local. We ran through that stuff. Yeah. It's fantastic, bro. I'm making citrus lemon teas at home, honey. Today's Monday, January 5th.

On this day in 1896, German physicist Wilhelm Rentgen discovered X-rays. Thanks. Now we could see through stuff. The most give-up page on any kid's book. X-ray? Xilpha. Yeah.

You're not going to see another choice. Xavier? Like, what else is there? I know, I've done this in my head. I'm like, what would be easier to explain it? Yeah, well, they're the tournament sometimes, so it's an East Coast school. Xenophobia.

Not a bad idea. Do you spell it with an X? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I didn't know. Oh, hell yeah. Nice. Cool.

I guess I've never read anyone right, xenophobia. Warrior Princess No I like No we can run with We can do something with that That's a good beat On this day in 1983

One time her titty's popped out While she was singing the national anthem At anaheb Ducks game While she was dressed as like Wonder Woman It's gold You got to see it folks Do we have a Yeah pull that up Claysona

Warrior Princess Kim Smith Yeah Yeah it's on the list Oh it is? Oh, yeah. On this day in 1983, Wayne Gretzky,

in the 42nd game of the season, scored his 100th point. On this day in 2014, Texas named Charlie Strong, head football coach. A coordinator. Maybe. And on this day in 2025,

ESPN premieres the first episode. of they call it late night with Jason Kelsey. That's still going. No, I think they can't it pretty quickly, man. Really? Yeah. Five episodes. Wow.

I watched the first one. How do you not get more than five? Like, let us get a little footing here. Was it every night? No, it was weekly. So it's like this is so bad. we can't even give you like a 10 week run in a month they would do it was on it like Friday night at midnight and I watched the first two of them and it was you know it made

me think we could do a TV show probably I watched it and I could do we could do better and he had like a sketch with Kimmel he had a sketch with you know his brother like they had all kinds of famous star power and it's just bad and then his wife was like up in the balcony and all she did was curse yeah fucking love you Kylie fucking love dude case

right oh we brag about like cursing our kids here all kinds of fucking shit let's jump on that Kelsey trying to ride that Kelsey wave man

like everybody loves Kelsey yeah he's a funny guy is like a wedding yeah and how about Monday January 5th January 5th

Thumb Zone history. What do we got? It was on this day in 2022 that I learned that you two didn't like fart humor as much as I did. Because earlier in the day, George had read a story about a woman who were drawing her farts and selling them online. And I couldn't contain myself. And you two were just like, eh. What a weird kink that is. And remember, the reason it came up was, she, the reason it came up was, She was hospitalized because all she ate was beans and eggs. That's right.

She was trying to produce. Smelly farts. Right. Yeah. Yeah, this might have been around the same time that some anime hooker was trying to sell her bathwater. You remember that? Mm-hmm. But, yeah, not a fart guy.

And then in 2021, we got the Von Miller Kimspin. oh wow i'm a let off in that thing yeah and that may be one of my favorite segments we've done we learned so much well you took us through the entire story where he begins commenting on her page and sending little horny devil emojis and then some guys asked him have you been letting off in that thing

he said ben yeah ben had let off of that thing yeah and then um yeah wanted her get abortion Yeah And I think he indicated the abortion With like the baby and the gun emoji I don't know That was a lot of

That was the Houston Rockets Twitter account Yeah yeah It's been It has been It was a lot of emojis though Celebrity birthdays Charlie Huff is 77 Former Ranger

You familiar with Charlie Huff Know anything about him? Not really? knuckle ball pitcher and they said when he was here like Mike Reiner would say after the game they would go to the clubhouse to get interviews and stuff and

he would be on an exercise bike probably like the olds in my gym who I'm upset they're on the exercise bike because they're not doing it they're just barely legs are going like this much they're talking on their phone it's out in front of them it's like this

um he would be on an exercise bike like that smoking a cigarette drinking a beer yeah that's when men were men that's right

you think he stretched before he ran across the the thing against Germany whatever Jeff Facerro is 63 the lineman why don't I know that name

no he was a baseball player okay he played for a million teams actually he was a ranger for seven games one year look it up work done is 51 awesome dude wd 40 that was a little joke about that in the game yesterday because

cougler's like it's hunter lipke who wears 40 daughter his favorite bullback mike all start and this is like really cowboy fullback can't have a favorite you know but man when you were a if you were a kid who was it recently uh and it might have been like derrick brooks or one of those bucks from the the glory days and he recently got inducted into the the bucks hall of fame and he's like no it was great because uh and i think

i'm roughly the same age as him minus seven eight five to ten years he's like it was great because uh all the white guys i played high school football with got to meet their hero they got to meet Michael Stey. Like everybody from that era, you know? How's the Bucks coach? You still got a job? Because they went. Is it right now?

Like they kind of had the playoffs locked up. Hell, so did the Colts. Weren't Colts 8 and 1? Yeah. Like it's impossible to miss the playoffs after that. Bradley Cooper is 51. Like him a lot, but it was very funny when he, like, got that surgery to play a Jewish guy. Did he actually get surgery?

Or is that fake? It was like a prosthetic. It was very, very ethically coded. People were like, you didn't have to do that. Look at the guy. January Jones. Another January is 48. Betty

Betty Draper and Madman Robert Duval is 95 He's still alive That's the note I have For Robert Duval Still alive

Ted Lang is 78 He was on the love boat Are you familiar with that I break Are you aware of the existence Because I had to, so as I recall from being a little kid, the Love Boat and Fantasy Island were on the same night.

Are you familiar with Fantasy Island? And the reason I'm bringing this up is I had to explain the Fantasy Island to my daughter this weekend because we were catching up on South Park episodes. And they kind of have a thing now where, so Fantasy Island was this show. It was an hour long. And it was pretty much the 80s version of White Lotus. And kind of like a little, you know, single-engine plane or whatever would fly into this island.

And there'd be three couples or four couples or something like that. And then they would all be going through some kind of problems. But by the end of the episode, they're real happy and they're together and everything's great. A lot of sex implied that it was sex. and Mr. Rourke was the main guy on the island. He was the man. And he had a little sidekick, and I mean little. He was a midget.

But it was a legend, you know, if you just see these two, they would wear white suits. So there's a real tall, six-foot-four slender guy wearing a white suit and a little tiny guy next to him who only came up to his waist, wearing the exact same white suit. And so South Park has made that. you will fly into Mar-a-Lago and then Trump greet you and little Vance is the little guy and his face is all puffed up like in the meme and it's funny and I had to explain to my daughter why that was funny which makes it less funny yeah to explain anything

anyway that Ted Lang he was on the love vote okay he said he ate from that era as well Pamela Sue Martin is 73. She was on the TV show Dallas. Kristen Cavalieri. Oh, man. It's 39. You watched the show, didn't you, Jake? I did.

I did. What was it called? It doesn't matter, but I watched it. Obviously, Jay Cutler's wife, and it was a very funny show. Because, well, yeah, but then after that, she, they had a show together. honestly cavalry very cavaliery something like that yeah yeah but uh it was great because like watching trevon's youtube uh j cutler as a husband especially when he's not playing football anymore is exactly like you think he is he ain't doing shit he was deer hunting from his counter

he was like well i got the the computer set up he's just watching buck by hitting click look to kill it actor clancy brown is 67 he was the guard in shawshank oh didn't she get mad at him one day because he never did anything but his defense one day was like well I took the kids

to school today yo yeah he's that dad for sure I did carpool yeah that's it actor shay wiggum is 58 he was eli in boardwalk empire he's also a big player in death by lightning

he's a big player and a lot of stuff if you look at him you're like oh yeah otherwise you would never know his name I think correct but he's he's a stepdad in vice principals which flamed out

but if you want some fun Walton and I don't think it flamed out it was great I just remember thinking like why isn't everyone talking about this it must not be but I thought it was great Yeah. Third fight except that.

It's kind of the same as all the other. But great. Catherine Switzer is 79. Now, she is the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon. Not a cheat. Well, that back then they didn't let ladies run the Boston Marathon. So she had to sign up, she signed up as KV Switzer and had a dude go pick up her number.

Nice. And then she ran in the marathon. And once the marathon, like, organizer, whatever, the guy who runs the marathon, doesn't run the marathon. He, you know what I mean. Administrate. Yeah. He saw her out there and, like, started chasing her down.

He would, if he, they say the year prior. somebody was running the marathon they paid the money and they signed up but they were wearing scuba gear like the big giant you know shoes whatever you call them and

uh he he's like that's do you does anyone know flippers you would call those shoes flippers what you wear scuba diving? Yeah because that's what they're called all right

the big yeah they look like a duck feet they're called flippers All right. Anyway, this guy would, like, run and tackle that guy. Like, he was upset at anyone who is making a mockery of the sanctity of the Boston Marathon. Well, he wasn't happy that the broad got in there either. And tried chasing her down and ripping her number off.

And her boyfriend was with her, and he kind of shouldered him, kind of did a little Brendan Morrow on. him and just kind of knocked him down and uh she kept on going he was quoted afterwards saying women can't run in the marathon because the rules forbid it unless we have rules society will be in chaos i don't make the rules but i try to carry him out we have no space in the marathon for any unauthorized person isn't even a man if that girl were my daughter i would spank her and our dumb zone birthday of the day 57 years old

Marilyn Manson Ah yeah recently had a little Marilyn Manson in my life during the Kanye documentary you remember that was one of his plays let's get everybody

who's been accused of sexual assault I just knew he had a rib removed so he could pleasure himself yeah that's what I heard 51 times one year do you guys remember that SNL sketch with Will Ferrell

that was around the same time as that rumor like I don't even know what you're referencing what's got there's a sketch it's a Will Ferrell sketch where he goes to yoga with the express goal of being able to go down on himself oh wow okay and I think there's some sort of like cut and they flash back

and he's still like down there and when he comes up he has like a full like year long beard that's awesome but it did give me my friends talking a lot about whether that was gay like if you use your head bro yeah I mean yeah I don't know there's a rubicon somewhere and that's across it's interesting I guess I can't really comment on it until I can do it you know it's I don't know what it feels like you're not a judgy guy

born on this day now dead George Reeves TV Superman Sam Whitech who invented the no huddle offense Redskine what was he He was the Bengals coach. I was reading about him this weekend when I put this together. So he was the Bengals coach. They made it to the Super Bowl.

Pete Roselle called him. He says four hours before the Super Bowl saying you can't do the no huddle offense anymore. Like tried to no fun league him. And I guess whatever. Obviously they ended up still using it and they lost. It didn't matter. but Pete Roselle didn't like it. He certainly,

Pete Roselle could have sat in there with Brad and Babe. Yeah. They like punts? They flip the field. By the way, you talk about stuff we have saved up. A lot of Brad and Babe. Can't wait. Yeah.

And we got lucky because the team was playing quite poorly down the stretch. So their level of disgust. I'll just give you a little tease. Nothing. And I mean nothing gets them more. fired up than defensively and reflexively putting up armor against the postgame show if a player who hadn't played all year plays well oh why didn't they play them all year why didn't he get 300 touches this yeah i mean this guy's obviously the answer jaden blue jaden

blue up the middle for 23 and touchdown where's this been hey what is he on pace for 700 you retards i was talking to me the whole time and i got to tell you well i was thinking to same thing as I was watching it. I'm like okay, here's Shoddy. I guess his culture doesn't, you know, at least there. See, that's where you've been. I want talent. I want players making plays.

This dude got blisters because he traded out his cleats for Louis Cleats the week they told him he was going to play. Telling that guy he can't play is good culture. That's Dax's favorite to why he has LV because they're going to Vegas for the Super Bowl this year.

But I'm sure it went the way, too, because as Phil Moffa committed three penalties on the day, that's why I didn't get time, I guess. Yeah, it's funny, too. We'll get to it. Also born on this day now dead, Buddy Young, a guy I've kind of recently learned about. He was on the Dallas Texans.

Oh, yeah, okay. And King Gillette, who invented the safety razor. Dead on this day, still dead. Wait, he was named King, right? It wasn't like... His first name was King. I thought you're going to tell me that, like, in his spare time, the King of England was like,

his razor shouldn't cut you. Dead on this day, still dead. Amelia Earhart. She probably bumped your shoulder a time or two. Sunny Bono. Don Carter. Oh, Blake. And.

Jerry Van Dyke I've been to his restaurant in Arkansas as you're driving through Arkansas you might see a sign that says birthplace of Jerry Van Dyke and then you can go to Jerry Van Dyke's restaurant now it's going to take you about 15 minutes off the highway

take a little time off your cross-country trip but you know what? I did it yeah and somewhere in the box and boxes that we have in our attic, there's like a napkin from the Jerry Van Dyke restaurant with the Jerry Van Dyke logo on it.

He was in Coach. He was Luther Van Damme and Coach. The assistant coat. Like, Coach had two assistants, and that was it. And they were bumbling idiots. Yeah, Dauber was not really ever coaching. He was like a, seemed like a GA almost. Yeah.

Yet he still got himself an offer, went to the NFL. The whole team. Yeah. Whole squad. And that's what happened on this day in history. Well, we're all going to pray for Jake. And that's about it, right? I mean, no, you don't need to pray for me.

Pray for something else. Adios. Mofo. We gotta go before this becomes a zoo. Is praying an out for 2026? It's the dumb zone. It's the dumb zone. It's the dumb zone.

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