The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-6-25: Cowboys lose final game, McCarthy seems to be staying, and Jerry's Landman debut

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Cowboys lose their final regular season game, but honestly it should count as a win as they lock in the number 12 pick in the draft. Those clamoring for more Trey Lance got their wish, but better buckle up for Mike McCarthy to return. Plus, it was a big weekend for conspiracies. (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (34:40) - Cowboys lose (win for draft) against Commanders (01:11:52) - Around the NFL Week 18 (01:32:24) - Seems like Mike McCarthy is staying (02:13:15) - News: big conspiracy weekend (02:38:20) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm professional broadcaster Dan McDowell, letting you know that you are about to hear one of our free podcasts. But, if you'd like to subscribe at dumbzone.com, you'll get four shows per week, plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus sodes 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. The Dumzo. Fair lease. Fairlease.org, Blake. They'll give you white glove service when it's time to upgrade your vehicle situation.

And that means? I now know what it means because I've begun my fair lease process. Whoa. Started that email chain over the weekend. They gave me a call. They gave me some heads up about what to look for and what to not look for. You're probably beaten down after starting this process. It's onerous.

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No payments for 60 days. Do like we're all trying to do this year. Be more like Blake with Fair Lease. The Dunza. The Dunza. The Dunza. Hey, Larry. Randy.

You got it. Yeah. I'm a friend of Susie's. I know, I know, I know, yeah. Happy New Year. Eh, it's a little late, frankly, for the Happy New Year's, you know? Why? Just happened a couple weeks ago, right?

Yeah, that's too long. A statute of limitations. Things kind of run out on the New Year's. Three days. Plenty. Three days? By the way, everything doesn't have to new year. Three days, plenty. Three days? By the way, everything doesn't have to be happy. Why does everything have to be happy?

I'm having a pretty good day. Is it too soon to play that? He references it was two weeks ago or something. No, I think if you're doing Happy New Year today, you deserve scorn, even if you're five. Don't you think the Happy New Year crowd is doing Happy Jan 6 today anyway?

Oh! I feel like that's a specious connection that you've tried to make there, but I don't hate it. It is January 6th. Cowboy season is over. Good friend of mine, the recent kid birthday party I went to, that kid was born that day.

On Jan 6th. Oh, man. Yeah, so he's like, my buddy was like, yeah, we're in the hospital, and wife's panicking about, you know, normal stuff, childbirth, and he's doing the, you may want to see this. This guy's got a Viking helmet on. Like, did you save the newspaper from when your daughter was born? Did he say newspaper? He said something weird.

Newspaper? Yeah, the newspaper. Newspaper. I actually can tell you exactly what happened that day, newsworthy-wise, in what I was watching on the television. Despite all the haters and doubters who said it could never happen, Cliff Kingsbury was getting an NFL head coaching job the day my daughter was born. Oh, okay. I thought you were still on Jan 6th.

No, mine was Jan 9th. So Dan asked about the newspaper. I don't remember what was happening, like, if Congress was about to shut down or something. It's more, though, for the kid to look at many years. But I suppose she can just go search. I guess that used to be a thing when I was a baby. Yeah, I don't think she'll have to search. I think she'll just think.

Like it'll just appear in front of her? Yeah. I've got that poster somewhere at my house of what was going on the day I was born. Price of gas, price of milk, price of bread, number one song, number one movie. And what day was that? May 15th, 1991. Why are you writing that down? It's not on the calendar.

Good. I'm kind of surprised you shared it just now. You didn't put your birthday on the calendar? No. What do you think? Who are you talking to? Yeah, I noticed he put stuff like, Dan falls in love with Indian woman at gas station.

So my wife and kids are looking at the calendar like, what's this? This is why it's an issue. No, but you're... First day Dan had female listener over to the den. Big part of the show. Oh, my God. Quote, unquote, architect comes over.

We may do something in the future. We need to have her... Yeah. I'm Dan McDowell I'm Jacob I'm Blake Jones Along with video man Rob Chickering Also known as the skydiving chief at one point But I don't think he does that anymore

He neither skydives nor chiefs We are broadcasting Back in my day Chief was the Was the parlance of our times We are broadcasting from high atop My garage here on a cowboy Monday We had originally planned to do

The game yesterday Like a cowboy watching party And I think very wisely Begged off of that What? Congrats to me. A walk-off win? Thank you for saving us from that.

We got to watch Trey Lance? I was regretting that decision all day yesterday. Now, when the ball hit the cheerleader in the head. I actually got almost all the way over here just thinking, boy, maybe he'll let me in there and I'll just do it. I don't care, you know? So you watched it live? Well, that's interesting because

so instead of doing that, like yesterday was my daughter's last day in town. My daughter who goes to Clemson is left to drive back this morning. And she gave me a Blake story on the way out.

Before that You know what they're obsessed with me I'll say it They need to chill Leave me alone This'll go over well Okay so the Blake story is That just this morning

We were downstairs And she comes over to me She goes The turnaround Blake just came in And I go yeah She goes so She was, Blake just came in. And I go, yeah. She goes, so she was packing up and everything. She's getting ready to leave.

Drive to Clemson. And she goes, I opened the garage door and Blake's standing there. Like he's just standing there. That's weird, dude. Because the code didn't work. And I said, oh, hey, she says. And she goes, Blake says the code doesn't work. And then so she's like, what about a hi, good morning?

What about a how's it going? But the thing is, they didn't program the NPC. I was just about to say, so which is it? The code doesn't work. Just immediately, though, she says hi, and you say code doesn't work? No. Yeah, because I was explaining why I was just standing there. Because she opened the garage, and there's me.

You just appear. Just with my phone in my hand, and I could see. Whoa. Okay, I'm explaining myself. I'm not creepy at all. Just code doesn't work. So my last, went out to breakfast with my two daughters yesterday when they rolled out of bed. Where'd you go?

At? We went to IHOP in Euless. The IHOP in Grapevine. Is that nostalgic for you? It is, right? Okay. We used to go to IHOP because mom doesn't go out with us a lot. I don't know.

Anyway, it's just me and the daughters, and so we would always go to IHOP. Yeah, so we had a nostalgic visit to IHOP. At what time? Probably 11, 11.30 yesterday morning. Not horrible for a weekend. No, no. And as we were ordering, I get a phone call. I'm like, oh, this guy never really calls me.

And then, you know, went to voicemail, so I go, I better go call him back. Like, he's a good friend. He doesn't really call me a lot. Just out of the blue. So I figure,

oh, he needs something. Something's going on right now. I'd like to give him a quick hello. So I walked out into the lobby to call TC back. So I called out into the lobby to call TC back. So I called TC yesterday morning. Oh, no. And he goes, hey, the garage is not open.

Oh, no. I don't see Blake's car here either. Is there a... Oh, darn it. That's on me. And I go, what are you saying? He goes, Jake asked me to be part of the football stream today. I'll pay for your gas, bud.

I promise. And I go, oh. And then he goes, that's what I thought. Like once he didn't see it, but Rob's cars, you know, we have a few cars. He shows up. The talent usually kind of shows up a little later. Is it worth me making the case that since the two of you decided to cancel it that you should have contacted everyone,

or is that just a losing proposition for me? Was I even aware that TC was a locked in? I didn't. Co-host? I believe that was conveyed. I told my guy that we moved in. It helps me that much. Yeah, I told Jameson and Caitlin.

I don't know. I did inform five other people. I just you know and when I do these streams i will send out an information piece the day before or certainly the morning of but so i could victim blame and say tc didn't get the traditional text from me which says who's bringing food and all that kind of stuff so if you want a table talk what are we going to do for this coming weekend? Because it seems we have two very good games that are laid out for Sunday.

We could also just say, not going to do anything this weekend. We'll do it next weekend. But this weekend, I'm scouting it. It looks like Sunday afternoon we have an Eagles game at 425. Who did Eagles have? Packers. Packers-Eagles. Two rivals. Two really good teams.

But then the evening game, Sunday evening, we have Washington, Pat. At Baker, we have Cliff Kingsbury. We have Dan Quinn. We have Baker Mayfield. That feels like the game. Yeah, I think it's a no-brainer. It's a Sunday night. It's a no-brainer.

Here's a couple of teams. I know, but then we're not going to be able to hear Collinsworth. We're just going to have to imitate Collinsworth all game, which I'm cool with. I quite enjoy doing that. Are we in? Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Sunday night? And if I invite TC and we move it, I will tell him. Okay. That's my ironclad promise to you this time around. Okay. Yeah, I mean, Packers-Eagles, I mean, I enjoy it from a football standpoint,

but it's not that. I don't have a whole lot of hatred for the Packers. No. They're fun. Yeah, whatever. And Blake knows I want to live in Philadelphia. And I got, you know, but we have three teams that we do have an interest in. I think the Eagles are interesting.

I think, of course, Detroit is interesting. That's Monday night. Oh, no, no. Detroit's got to buy. Sorry. And then, you know, obviously Baker. So, let's just ride Baker. Let's ride Baker till he's done, bro. All the way to the big game in...

I mean, I want to be clear. I don't know where the big game is. New Orleans. That's why the things were down. Because they were, like like repairing or testing some new way of or improving the don't run people over system. And they're like, oh, he found a gap. I enjoy watching Baker, and I enjoy that you have love for him. Also appreciate that you have a relationship with Dan Campbell. By proxy, I sort of have one.

But I have an actual friend who's still in the playoffs who is not playing this weekend because his team wrapped up the one seed in the AFC. So for me, I'm riding with my friend Patrick. But we're not just going to do every Chiefs game because those are usually boring. All right. But I'm very much in on the Buccaneers. That'll be a great game. But we're not just going to do every Chiefs game because those are usually boring. All right.

But I'm very much in on the Menders-Buccaneers. That'll be a great game. This weekend, and then we'll do when Baker plays Mahomes in the Super Bowl. Dude. What a Super Bowl that would be. Because you know what we'll get to do? We'll get to re-watch that game in Lubbock again, which I've seen probably five times now. Maybe my favorite college football game of all time.

Did Baker transfer because Mahomes was coming in? No, but he'd certainly like to have you think that. Oh. But it was around the same time period. Mahomes was coming in, but he was like a two- or three-star period. Baker transferred because they told him, you have to earn a scholarship. We can't guarantee you the starting spot next year.

You were hurt half this year. I know it's awesome that you beat Abilene Christian. Well, that's good talent evaluating by Cliff then. What? To see that this Heisman Trophy winner has to, like, I need him to gut it out a little bit. Could also say he was like, boy, I feel like this two-star, three-star I just recruited from East Texas is going to be the best

quarterback of all time. But nobody else knew that. I bet he'll lead us to like a 500 record every year. If only Baker had stuck around. Baker needed to be in an offense that won every game to be considered a number one pick. Mahomes didn't. But in any case, that game is amazing.

It was like 82-73. They were just trading touchdowns. The final was 82-73? I think so. The crowd was just, this was Baker's return to Lubbock. So the crowd is just chanting, loud as you can hear on TV, F you, Baker. It was awesome.

They were both playing at a very high level. It was fun. That would be the dream Super Bowl. 66-59. Okay. O- level. It was fun. That would be the dream Super Bowl. 66-59. Okay. OU. I was off. There was another one, I believe, where they both scored a lot of points,

but I don't know if they were both. Baker, nine incompletions, 545 yards, seven touchdowns. Mahomes threw the ball 88 times. This is regulation? Yeah. In regulation. Maybe that's where I was getting the 80. 734 yards.

Yeah. It was a blast. It was a night game. Everybody was hammered. It was so much fun. And Mahomes, 12 carries, 85 yards, two touchdowns. He was the leading rusher for the Red Raiders. That'd be a lot of fun.

But I'm super in on this Sunday night. That sounds great. Okay. That'd be a lot of fun. But I'm super in on this Sunday night. That sounds great. Okay. Let it be done. As long as we can find a video man, Rob's not going to be in town. So, okay, probably. We got some irons in the fire.

We'll probably be there. Just tune in Sunday and see if we're here. Or just show up like DC. Just show up Sunday like TC. You never know when we might be doing a thingy. Damn, that second half, it started with a tech punt and then touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown. They scored every single drive in the second half. I'm telling you, man.

Scored touchdowns. Go back and watch it. You're not going to have a bad time. Baker's eating it up. That's awesome. So let's do a weekend check. It's brought to you by Community Mechanical. They're my, and they should be your, HVAC company.

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She'll be asleep. You got to come get me. If I'm out, I'm good. Yeah, but I feel like if it's early enough, you can go back to sleep. Oh, yeah, for sure. You don't want us to wake up

three hours in, middle of the night, and you're like oh god no i mean that's when you just roll over and keep sleeping on the floor i was gonna say i don't i don't mind the floor just make a little palette because this room is carpeted i i don't know i'm not having a horrible time down there in fact maybe I prefer sleeping on my kid's floor than my own bed. I don't think that's because of the bed. But that keeps him

from coming in our room. Put down is just a fight. And this is just an easy way to just, you know what? Tonight we're not going to fight. I'll lay here. I'll read. You do your thing over there with your flashlight. We can coexist here. But then, I don't't know just a dad weekend why did it yeah um went to the park rode bikes and killed a lot of time at

chick-fil-a because of the play place yeah but then a squared away sunday and here we are we've talked about this before and i know that there are little things that I just don't know about, but I don't know how parents in the cold states do it. Because I felt like I was in a freaking prison yesterday. I'm like, I got all this time. I'm looking ahead to the next couple weeks. Yeah, and I'm like, dude, it's sunny outside, so he's looking at it, and he's like, bike, bike, bike, helmet, bike. And I'm like, bro, no, but I'm telling you, you're going to get even sicker.

It's cold. And it's not like it's horrible. Yeah, it looked beautiful yesterday. It was 27, but it was— He kept tricking me. Four times I walked outside thinking, ah. Same. Now it's great.

Same. I kept saying to my wife, I'm like, I'll take him on a walk. I'll do something, because he's losing his mind. She's like, we can't. We literally can't. I don't know how people do it. There's probably more indoor play options. I found a new place to walk.

Hell yeah, man. That's super exciting. For walking, you know, you could, olds will go to the mall to do some mall walking. But I don't want to go to the mall. So I went to Lowe's. Oh, my God. Because I needed some weed killer.

And so I walked every aisle up and down the aisle and just killed like a half hour in Lowe's because I needed to get some steps in, but it was too cold. Whatever gets it done, I guess, man. Just walk around the house around and around. But, yeah, no, I was out anyway. Oddly enough, at the gym and then on my way home. That's a curious decision.

Yeah. Where they have a machine that you could just walk on as if you're moving. I like to move, though, and do something. I don't like to just walk in one place. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm not a huge fan of running in one place. Then I got to look at some of the see where some of the things are.

Gave me a couple of new ideas for some light fixtures I might get. Really? Maybe some faucets? I think that's a guy trying to get away from his family. Well, sure. That's all it is. That's all anything is. The ones he cared about were gone.

I love my family so much. In fact, I was thinking that last night. I do love my kids and stuff, right? Lay that out there. Okay. But these people that are in my home now, my girls both go to college, and they're both 20. And so now these people don't belong in this home i don't know who these people are these are foreigners

these people are these aren't the girls that i remember like the sweet girls and we'll watch a christmas show together and we'll just like whatever like i don't know these are mad people these are mad men these are uh insane people this is how our dream starts all weekend i thought how can we get dan to give his inheritance or whatever to someone else yeah oh yeah let's get the rose twins out of here i was thinking personally about what the funniest outcomes would be because the first one that comes to mind of course is he's a recently graduated tri-delt from smu or something right but what would even be funnier given how little respect they have for what we do is a sort of dividend for subscribers so so there's what five five thousand to seven thousand people who just receive x amount of money upon the execution of the will.

I think that would piss them off worse. I like that option. I like that option. That's a good idea. While I'm at Home Depot or Lowe's, I was at Lowe's because I was thinking, you know what? I could do this now. I could come here every day, but then I thought

the people will think I'm weird, so I can just go to Home Depot on the other day. They're still going to think you're even weirder when they notice you have a schedule for it. And if you were looking for any confirmation of an adult being diagnosed with autism, they'll do it for you when you show up at Lowe's Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for an hour.

They're like, what is this guy's deal? Same route every time? Yeah, but I feel like those stores are used to repeat customers. There's a lot of contractors that go in there all the time. Yeah, but they don't look like him. Yeah, I got to wear my jeans with the hammer thing on the side and all that. Yeah, for sure. So at Lowe's, as I'm checking out in line,

first of all, I've been seeing a lot of, I think it's become normalized, people just wearing pajama pants in public. I know the high schoolers do it. And then there was a kid who I'm going to say was from, he was around from 9 to 11. It feels like he wasn't quite a teenager yet, but I could be wrong.

A boy wearing a full onesie. Like, way too old to be wearing a full onesie out in public. But he was walking around in his pajamas. Like, full pajamas. At Lowe's. I'm like, what are these people? What's going on here?

Like, I don't know. I don't think we should all be wearing suits at a baseball game. But then I get mad when I get on a plane and everybody's wearing sweats and pajamas

and let's just have a little semblance of society, people. We're in the comfy era. Which I support. The era of just be whoever you want to be all the time. I'm going to be a hypocrite and say that while that's a very old man take that I laugh at derisively, I draw the line at your feet being exposed. I think that's a pretty obvious one.

You can't have your feet exposed in close quarters to another human's feet. So if you have sandals or you take your shoes off. But if you're at the beach, you're fine with it? Yeah, you're not really like sitting down next to a stranger with their feet out at the beach. Outside of that, I have no problem with a pajama. I don't know really how I normally say that in public. It would maybe have been weird if they were working there,

but even then, why does it matter? It's just a different form of cloth. Doesn't matter. And by the way, if they want to institute suits on the plane again, I'll do it if I can smoke an entire pack of cigarettes. This has got to be a tradeoff. And sexually harass the flight attendants. Yeah, if I'm going to need a handful of butt a couple times.

Well, I'm going to sit in the non-smoking section so it won't bother me. Yeah, you won't smell it. I can't believe that happened. You would be right next to another table in a restaurant. Smoking or non. That was the non-smoking section. I think that to me, more than even like, hey, there were people that supported slavery that you might not have thought they did. I think smoking is the ultimate

the change in barometer that can become normal. And what I mean by that is it definitely smelled the same back then as it does now. But society collectively had just accepted it to a point where it no longer bothered them.

It's really incredible. Because it happened pretty fast. Also, you might have thought it could never happen because big tobacco, money, it controls everything. It's a classic case. The demise of smoking is... It doesn't make sense.

No. And then one more thing. I got vaccinated. Got the double vax. We went flu shot left arm, COVID shot right arm. And then one more thing, I got vaccinated. Got the double vax. We went flu shot left arm, COVID shot right arm. Get some groceries? 10% off my groceries. Yeah.

At Tom Thumb. And then some of my groceries that I bought, we were unloading them at home. Because you guys know I'll cut up apples. And so when I cut up apples, I don't eat it with a fork. I'll have a toothpick, and I eat each piece with a toothpick. And then I had dropped the box of toothpicks on the ground, and there was some left in the box, and I was able to ascertain. I knew right away it was a box of 200 toothpicks,

and 157 of them were on the ground. I could count them immediately. That's crazy. You should go to Vegas. And it was within hours after being vaccinated. Yeah. Is that how that works? That's exactly how.

Usually not. It's usually about a week or two, but. Boy, it happened right away. In some cases, it can. Like all of a sudden. Yeah. I wonder if I could count cards. I should try that. It's a good idea.

And you already have a bit with plane crashes. So that's kind of already been in you, right? What do you mean? Couldn't he remember every flight number of every plane that crashed or knew? That's a part of the movie. I know it is. It is. I'm not trying to not support you. I was just enjoying how this was going. He wouldn't fly

on certain airlines because they had crashed and he knew the flight number and the day it happened. That's why Tom Cruise couldn't get him to Vegas or whatever. They had to drive. Oh, okay. I didn't know he knew the flight number of everyone. Am I wrong? I don't think that you're wrong.

Qantas, right? Yeah. That was the one airline that had never had a crash? That I don't remember. That sounds good. Collectively, we could probably explain the movie. Independently, we can't. It's really kind of a bummer that they didn't somehow come up with some science to say that

the shot made you trans that would have been way funnier because that's what we should research all the people that are going trans did you get vaccinated as a baby for polio started riding with my left hand my gosh crazy right My gosh. Crazy, right? Tripled. That's my weekend. Yeah, I don't have like a ton, to be honest with you. Really wish the kids were back at school today, but they're not. Yeah, what's the deal? Don't know. My wife's at school.

I know. These districts are starting Wednesday. Wednesday. Yeah. Did have a- They want to celebrate Jan 6 We had a Boy it is weird when your kid will just break out into the pledge Cause I just kind of forgot they do that at school

And so she'll start saying it When do they stop? Cause certainly you can't have a high school kid doing Like they'll all be doing bits I remember doing it through junior high I don't remember doing it as a high school kid i don't either so it's not important like when is it do we only do it when we can make the kids do kind of whatever we want yeah i mean but it's weird she'll just and she doesn't understand what any of those words

mean and she'll just kind of randomly break into it yesterday we had the what can be nerve-wracking but really more for the mom or whoever's the primary planner than the dad which is the play date at your house that's nerve-wracking we gotta have stuff to do we gotta have i gotta get some snacks we need this to be fun and then you're kind of like feeling as if the mom when they come to pick up is judging you a little bit based on everything. Yeah.

Like my kid, the younger one was having a meltdown, serious meltdown when they came to pick her up. And yeah, we'll break off the phone for 10 minutes with the two-year-old. We just, we will.

It's sad. We didn't do it with Nora. We will with him. And I'm like, this lady's like, she's got to be judging us. But it's just weird having another kid in your house.

I'm sure you get used to it. Like you had tons of sleepovers and stuff. But when there's another child in my home that I did not produce, it's weird for me. You don't really care about them?

Well, I mean like, they, there's a little down, not downstairs, like, they... There's a little down... Not downstairs, but a new bathroom. It's by where my wife's office is. I was watching the game in her office. At some point, I had to go there. I had to take a dump.

So I did. And then, like, five minutes later, they were looking, Nora and her friend, for a room that was dark. Oh, no. So that they could play with, like... She was like, I want you to see this glow-in-the-dark glow in the dark thing but we don't have like shades on most

our windows right now there's really nowhere it can get dark nor was like i know one there's no window in that bathroom and i was like you guys don't want to go in there and they both started giggling and they're like why and i'm like because i pooped i just took a big poop and they're like, why? And I'm like, because I pooped. I just took a big poop. And they both, it was the funniest thing they'd heard all day. Because we're in the poop zone. I've told you guys that, right? Everything, she'll just replace a subject and a verb of every sentence with poop. Yeah.

Hey, before we do this, I'm going to need you to clean up your room. How about I poop up my poop? There we go. And she just dies laughing. Every time. I'm going to need you to clean up your room. How about I poop up my poop? There we go. And she just dies laughing. Every time. So it was weird having another kid in the home. Speaking of returning to school, I was looking at our PTA little flyer this morning for the return to school.

Here's a scam I didn't know about. And I'm fully prepared for us to be banned from participating in PTA at one point. Next week is hats off to learning. Where you can donate a dollar and the kid gets to wear a hat to school. Really?

That's an affront to my integrity as a parent. You're admitting it doesn't matter if they wear a hat. It's obviously not going to turn into Columbine by the afternoon if they have hats on. So generally hats are not welcome? No. But for a dollar.

But for a dollar we can let this unruly event take place. I don't know. And the only other thing I did is I went to a 5 o'clock dinner with my wife with the kids staying at my parents. Went to 645 Ice Cream and went to bed. We do it even when the kids are not with us. I'm telling you

I'm really a proponent of the 5.30 dinner. I would love to go to 5 o'clock if I could. We probably got there at 5.15, you know. Yeah. It's chill. It's nice. But it is a thing that I-

Dude, it was early enough that we were able to get happy hour prices on food, and it was like a small plates place. This is amazing. I discovered it when the girls were babies. Yeah, same here. And then you're like, wow, this is really great. Why does this have to stop now? Yeah, it's awesome And then you're like, wow, this is really great. Why does this have to stop now? Yeah, it's awesome.

Yeah. Let's eat early. Let's get up early. Let's do some stuff. That was just one of those nights where I realized it's not just the kids. If I want to beat a crowd, I'll go at 530. I always want to beat a crowd. Other than that, maybe we'll touch on this in the news later today,

maybe throughout the week. But other than that, I just spent the weekend learning the ins and outs of various conspiracy theories that are in the news right now. The Cybertruck thing, something smells, boys. Okay, is that in the news? Yeah. Let's do some sports then, if we can. Maybe the cowboy game is where we can. Maybe the Cowboy game

is where we can start as the Cowboys. We're not victorious yesterday. We did not do a live stream and this will be brought to you by OwnWell. OwnWell is the place that helps homeowners

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Well, I've been on OwnWell for some time, and I'm past the property tax phase, and now we're into the other bills phase where they lowered my Spectrum bill. They kind of reentered me as a new customer. They just like to check in on some things. Sometimes it doesn't work. They could not lower my AT&T bill, which is fine.

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So it just tells you that right away. It takes you like three minutes to find that out. But you must have been out an arm and a leg to find that out. No, nothing. Jeez. Didn't pay anything. In fact, what they do charge you, only if you make money. So if they get you $1,000 back, they'll charge you, what is it, 25% of that?

Yeah. Which is the lowest on the market. Other places will do the same thing, but they'll charge you, what is it, 25% of that? Yeah. Which is the lowest on the market. Other places will do the same thing, but they'll charge you like 40%. So check them out, ownwell.com slash the dumzo. They're great. You know what? We have a sit-in. We actually have two sit-ins today.

We have Stu, who is on the couch. And we have Ryan, who is behind Stu. I think it's Stu's birthday. Today? December 11th. Long time ago. It takes some time. It's double digit. It takes some time.

I think I share a birthday with TC, maybe. Really? I think so. I should probably know that also. It's okay. I'm kind of a better friend of TC's than yours probably. That is becoming apparent today. Yeah, you wouldn't leave him

sitting out, make him drive all the way from Dallas for nothing. So what's your bit? Who booked this? Which one of you? So my brother and my wife collaborated on a gift. Nice. Which is, yeah, very nice of them. But yeah, we both subscribers.

You don't want your brother and your wife collaborating too closely. Yeah, yeah. Ask the Bidens. Yeah. Ask the Bidens. Yeah, if I die, I don't know. But, yeah, got me the gift. The most forbidden of all fruit.

Excited to be here. I think my only bit to share with you guys is the car trays. I made the car trays. I made the car trays. The Mavs one? Yeah. Oh, okay. The Cavs one.

You made it? I did, yeah. How did you do that? Are you a woodworker? What is that on it, like epoxy or something? A little bit of epoxy, yeah. Good, yeah. Wow. I use it to eat dinner on the couch. Do you really? Nice.

It's downstairs right now. Oh, sweet. Are they holding up okay? Do they still look alright? Oh, they're great. It's downstairs right now. Oh, sweet. Yeah. Are they holding up okay? They still look all right? Oh, they're great.

It's fantastic. I even had, I lent it to the tree place where we were to see if they wanted to try to produce them. But yeah, it's super solid. I'll take 10%. Yeah. Now I know. Do you woodworking as a?

No, just for fun. Wow. Yeah. That's badass. Yeah, it's really fun. You ever been to Lowe's? Been to Lowe's? Yeah, I like to go and just walk sometimes. You lost out there. But have you been to the one in Southlake though? I bet it's really fun. You ever been to Lowe's? Been to Lowe's, yeah. I like to go and just walk sometimes.

But have you been to the one in Southlake, though? I bet it's really nice. Yeah, super, super nice. People come from afar. The other bit is I'm having you guys out to another remote later this month, at least I think, for a grand opening for Rivian. Oh, nice. Very excited to hear about that.

I don't know if Julie's shared that with you guys. You're associated with them? Yeah, I work for Rivian. Big fan. Oh, nice. Yeah. Very cool course. I did have a question about, and we can do this off the air as well.

I think she has you scheduled on a Wednesday. Yeah. I think you guys also do a business Wednesday, but that's a business. Hey, coming out to a grand opening seems like business to me. on a Wednesday. Yeah. I think you guys also do a business Wednesday. That's a business. Hey, coming out to a grand opening seems like business to me. It is business, yeah. So maybe it makes sense. Yeah. Well, cool.

Are you guys close and stuff? Yeah, yeah. I live down in Austin, and he's up here. But yeah, just came up for this. Nice. Cowboy fan? So yesterday's game, I don't know what level they are. Adam Amin, Mark Sanchez, and then you had one sideline reporter.

Yeah, there's only a single booth that has two. That's your A team. I was only saying it because their name is Pink. Okay. So thank you, Blake. Christina Pink. Adam Amin. I've talked about this broification of announcers.

So everybody sees that Kevin Burkhart has ascended to number one. And so what can I – I would like to be number one. I should probably do stuff like they're doing. Like that's why we're doing a lot of Rogan-type stuff these days. That vaccination bit was good. And Jason Kelsey's wife stuff. I don't know what any of those people do. But because we want to be number one.

So they kind of bro down a little bit. And the way to bro down is by shortening someone's name or using initials for their name. So we've seen EA and KB. KB is with TB. And Adam Amin's like, oh, that's how you do it? It's going to be third down after the bat down by Armstrong. Carissa Thompson has a game break for a CT.

Thanks so much, Adam. Packers hosting the Bears. The second down coming up for Washington. Carissa Thompson's got a game break CT. Yes, I do, Adam. It's a first down scramble of 16 yards. Carissa Thompson's got a game break CT CT. Yes, I do, Adam. It's a first down scramble of 16 yards. Carissa Thompson's got a game break, CT. Adam.

Wow, good stuff, CT. Again, if it's good enough for a first down as we check in with KP. Dallas is the last team we lost to. Our players are not gassed. We have a lot to gain from this game, and we don't want to turn it off. Good stuff, KP. Six penalties to your point, KP. KP, you tied. Chad, if you can win, give me a little sense of the decision

That's been the case so far, KP Great stuff Jeez Showing some cleave, too Christina Pink The little triangle cleave thing up at the top They just cut this piece of your sweater out Just for the sole purpose

In case we weren't really positive You had big jugs Like, it's an interesting, it's just an interesting look. Like, it doesn't make any sense. If you were to explain this to little Nora, who's wondering why the Mavs cheerleaders have fat boobies, she would be like, why? Why do you have that?

Why does that shirt look like that? It'd be like if we had pants that just showed the shaft, like just the top of your dick. Like, here, okay. These are some new pants. Yeah, they just open like this, and that's how – Yeah. And she just wears it like that all the time.

Yeah, or you just – I'm going to show you just enough to get you all horny. Because you can get away with it just side ball. Yeah, just a little – Like side boob, but you just have side ball. A couple hairs coming out of there. Yeah. Anyway.

No, I know what you're saying, but I mean, dudes wear like V-neck shirts to show they have a little. Yeah, but that's not a, well, whatever. Anyway. Were you about to say. I'm not against it. Yeah. I'm pro.

By the, I think it's weird. The first time he did it. I'm pro Christina Pink. She might be right up there with my favorite sideline reporters. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. By the way, I think they are like the C team, the number three team. Okay.

It gets a lot worse. Ooh. There's like Chris Myers. I haven't watched a lot of Browns games this year. Moose is in here somehow. Yeah, Moose is somewhere. CT, that's a funny one. I think KB does it also.

From? Well, he used to be like at least the number two team. Okay, I don't think his talent has changed. Moose? Yeah, he's the same. Yeah, he's pretty far down there. But when you throw it to her, it's weird because it sounds like you're saying CTE. CT, yeah, yeah.

Hey, what's going on with CTE? Well, and they just cut to another guy just lifeless. And Antonio Brown is down there. Dude, he is on such a heater. What a sideline reporter he would be. Do you know about his weekend? No. Did we get a cracker of the day?

We did cracker of the year, which was Shane Gillis. He won. He had like a live stream award ceremony. It was like an hour and a half long. Antonio Brown? We did Cracker of the Year, which was Shane Gillis. He won. He had like a live stream award ceremony. It was like an hour and a half long. Antonio Brown? Yeah. Had a podium, had a trophy.

Wow. How did I miss all that? No, so Notre Dame in the playoff, they are putting their names on the back of their jerseys, which they do not do. But they have made the decision to put their last name on the back of their jerseys, which they do not do. But they have made the decision to put their last name on the back of their jerseys for the playoffs. Now, Notre Dame has a walk-on cornerback named Charles Du, D-U.

He is Chinese. And on the back of his jersey, he has Chinese characters spelling out his name in Mandarin, I assume. And AB took a video that he saw of that and dubbed him Blank of the Day, and it rhymes with blink. And then said, a legend. Got an NIL deal for this kid. Tag his ex for me. I believe the next morning, Charles Du quote tweeted that and said, I'm excited to announce I've signed an NIL deal with CTSPN. Because the New York Post had done a story that said that AB spoiled this kid's moment.

And Charles Du said, at NY Post has it wrong. Spoiled? No way. AB's daily award is a sign of love and respect. CTE SPN is the most trusted source in all of sports. That's really him? Yeah. That's great. He's just having fun with it. So anyways, yeah.

Over to you CTE. I like Adam Amin I do but he is definitely trying to let you know he's a young guy he'll bro down on you I mean I have some more

Adam Amin we'll get to that in a second let's talk actually about the game just a little bit because I mean there's not really a lot

who cares didn't care if who won or lost the fact that a cheerleader got hit in the head because, I mean, there's not really a lot. Who cares? Didn't care who won or lost. The fact that a cheerleader got hit in the head by Brandon Aubrey, that's cool. Unbelievable. Can't wait to talk to him. Hopefully we'll do that tomorrow. Can I ask a question about that play that I'm very confused about

and I intentionally did not look up so I could just ask you guys and see what you thought? So they kicked that ball from the 50, right? Because of the personal foul on was it Deron Payne? On the extra point. So they kicked

it from the 50, meaning that penalty was assessed for a personal foul. By kicking from the 50 the penalty is being assessed. He kicked the ball out of bounds. And instead of starting on the 40, they started at their own 25, Washington. And they said, that's the assessment of the penalty. That makes no sense to me.

That's twice. How is it that you can't – if – Oh, yeah. It feels like double jeopardy to me, but they never even really stopped down to talk about it. I guess it just must be if you kick it out of bounds, it's just X amount of yardage from the kickoff spot. So the rule is not you start at the 40.

The rule is you start 35 yards, whatever. 25 yards from the kickoff spot? From where the kickoff was, yeah. Because same thing, if the penalty went the other way and they're kicking off from the 15 and they kick it out of bounds, then it should be put more towards midfield. That makes sense, but I've never heard that before. That does make sense. It's from the kickoff spot, not from the regular spot

that you would usually return from. Right. We just identified as the 40, but it's actually whatever. So that wasn't that bad to kick it out of bounds? I feel like we've talked about that with him. Have we? I forgot. Okay. To kick it out of bounds? I feel like we've talked about that with him. Have we? I must have forgot. Okay.

To kick it out of bounds there, no. I mean, you might as well. Yeah. Actually, I thought he muffed it, but that was actually totally intentional. He probably didn't mean to hit her. That guy can aim. He can hit the goal post if he wants. It would have been funnier if he had done it the week they were playing.

The other time they played was at Washington, right? And their kicker was dating a cheerleader? Yeah. And all he just drills. Hit rowdy. So Trey Lance finally gets in. Cooper Rush gets screwed on his incentives. We were talking all last week about different incentives that people have.

Yeah. Apparently Cooper Rush, what, 500 grand? Yeah. He started a certain amount of – There was a – A certain percentage of the plays. He'd already gotten the 250. I think this would have been 250 more.

Not another 500. So I don't understand. He'd already gotten the 250. I think this would have been 250 more, not another 500. So, I don't understand. Trey Lance, I don't think he looked horrible. No. In fact, he looked just as much as good as, I guess, Cooper Rush would look. He certainly has. He's not as careful with the ball as Cooper Rush, but he offers more athleticism than Cooper Rush would look. He certainly has, he's not as careful with the ball as Cooper Rush,

but he offers, you know, more athleticism than Cooper Rush. You know, Cooper Rush can't break out of the pocket. You can't design runs for Cooper Rush. I just don't understand at all their thought process on what they were doing to have Cooper. Like you knew what Cooper Rush was when Dak got hurt. Unless you have a head coach who feels that he needs to win as many games as he can to try to trick an old man into giving him another guaranteed contract. So I'm going to start Cooper. Like it's really an odd situation. It is.

We should have been watching Trey Lance for weeks just to see. Let's see what happens to him when people make adjustments to Trey Lance's game. Let's see when people can prepare for Trey Lance because they also gave him this game. Two teams that don't really care, and then they didn't really announce it, so they weren't positive that Trey Lance would be starting, and that sometimes makes a difference.

Yeah, it's weird that he's on the team, but I think it is exactly what you said. I think that McCarthy thought, boy, a better showing could give me a better chance of sticking around here. I also think Jerry wanted to play Cooper Rush until they were eliminated from the playoffs. That seems weird. Because a couple things break this way and that way. They were eliminated last week to play Cooper Rush until they were eliminated from the playoffs. That seems weird. Because a couple things break this way. They were eliminated last week, though, and they didn't play him.

I know, but CD was still playing, so I kind of feel like that had something to do with it. No, wait, he didn't play. Wouldn't that help Trey Lance? Yeah, I think they just wanted to make sure he got the thousand yards and the – I don't know, man. But it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. It doesn't make sense why he's on the team.

But I think they look at fourth-round picks. Clearly that's the level at which they say this is not worth that much, but maybe we could do a little sizzle here. Because, I mean, Mingo was a second-round pick, and a lot of people thought he was going to be A.J. Brown. They'll do that. They'll give you a second-round pick for some guy that people used to think was a future Hall pick. And a lot of people thought he was going to be A.J. Brown. They'll do that. They'll give you a second round pick for some guy that people used to think was a future Hall of Famer.

But if it's a boring running back, they're like, eek. I don't know. Just another Rico Dowdle. But I don't think Dak was ever not going to be re-signed. Cooper Rush was always going to give you a better chance to win. Trey Lance is certainly more exciting. I don't see any way he's back here next year.

Unless they just decide he can be the backup and Cooper Rush is too expensive, which I would bring Cooper Rush back almost no matter what. He's fine. He's fine. He's not Mariota. What do you mean by that? I think Mariota's a real good backup quarterback. Okay.

You know, I mean, maybe the system is helping a little bit, but there's a crop of dudes. Like Gardner Minshew's one. At this point, what's his name? Mack Jones might be one. Guys who can win games if things go right. And I think Cooper Rush is in that second tier. He's basically the DAC of backup quarterbacks.

Just boring but can get the job done. Yeah. For the most part. And then other than that, Micah. Watching Micah do Micah. It's always going to be fun. Yeah, he got a couple sacks right on the first drive. Yeah. It's always going to be fun. Yeah, he got a couple sacks right on the first drive.

Yeah. Even Mozzie got a sack yesterday. That'll be an interesting one to watch this offseason. Why? Is it his fifth-year option time? No, I just think that he has another year, but, I mean, he's not really been – he's gotten better, but he's not really been good, and they could still get out of that if they wanted.

A big topic, of course, is McCarthy. I think we're going to try and get into that a lot here in a little bit because Jerry talked at length about McCarthy in his postgame thing. But, yeah, Trey Lance, I guess he'll just become a free agent. And I don't know that anyone would sign him for more than their practice squad. Maybe. You don't think somebody else? Maybe heavily incentive-laden.

If Dallas were to sign him for a one- or two-year deal, would offer them a fourth? No. It's ridiculous. Oh, you're joking to me. Like, what are you saying? No, I don't think anybody will offer them anything. It makes no sense.

It was ridiculous. So, on the one hand, it was great that they didn't play him because nobody got to see. So many chess games going on. I like watching him play. It's wild, but it's fun. It's different. Yeah.

No, that's why I thought it would have been nice to see him play for a few games, like five games. Give him a nice little stretch. Let's just see. Let's see. Can McCarthy be innovative? They tried a couple things yesterday I was surprised by, whether it was like a pistol where they had Dowdle and Lipke back there

or the keepers where they basically just ran a full sweep. They tried a couple things, but it's still McCarthy. And Brandon made all his field goals. Yeah, they said early in the game, like, he set the Cowboy record for field goals. I was very surprised by that. How many does he have this year? It's not on the internet.

No. Yeah. There's no way to know. But that's also a pretty rough stat. You know, that means – It means their red zone performance was terrible. And that really – that should not be the case if you're playing with a mobile quarterback. Damn, he made 40 this year.

That's a lot. A ton. I think Chris Boswell made 40 this year. That's a lot. A ton. I think Chris Boswell made like 41 to lead the league. So he almost led the league. Is he an all-pro again this year? He's on the short list, but I'd have to look at the others. I mean, he's a pro bowler. You know, Mahomes isn't even a pro bowler.

Really? Yeah. Think of it, Burrow, Allen. Personal slight we take to heart over here. And Lamar. He didn't have that great of a year. Not statistically. So, yeah.

Not that great of a year. He went 15-1. Right. The AFC is stacked. Got some Deuce Vaughn. Yeah. Not that great of a year. He went 15-1. Right. The AFC is stacked. Got some Deuce Vaughn. Yeah. Who I now think of Dan anytime he's on the field. Why? Just because I know you're disgusted by the fact that they made a Disney movie draft pick. Well, you didn't get any Zeke.

No. No, you didn't. Signed with the Lions? That happened? No, you're kidding. Or the Eagles? Well, the Eagles were on a short list, weren't they? Oh, he had a list.

Do you remember that? When he went to New England? It was the Bengals. It was like, wasn't it the year that it was? It was the Bengals and the Eagles. The Super Bowl teams. He's like, all right, 49ers, Bengals, Eagles, Chiefs. The thing is, you just need those teams to also have an interest.

So Mark Sanchez, let's talk Mark Sanchez. Okay. We'll talk Mark Sanchez. He probably won't ever come down from this inflection on his voice in the sentence. He's going to throw a deep here. If they catch it, it'll be a first down. Here's... He's really good to Dak.

He's rookie here. He's horrible. I respect him. On these games. Here's him talking about Zeke. I could see him going somewhere as an insurance policy for somebody. He's still got plenty of tread left on the tires especially for a playoff run. Kind of a weird situation all year for him.

Didn't quite know what his role was going to be in training camp. They kind of rested him. So you thought, okay, they're keeping him fresh for the season. He does talk up there. And then when the games came, he just didn't get a ton of carries, and Dowdo kind of took over. So unfortunate for Zeke and his return, but just didn't work out for both sides.

And I'm glad they gave him an opportunity to potentially pursue a Super Bowl. I'm glad you finished a sentence with a period the way it's supposed to sound. An opportunity to potentially pursue a Super Bowl. The assistant to the assistant district manager. So this is the thing. Mark Sanchez doesn't really say anything.

He doesn't have an opinion Except for everybody's great Because he said about Zeke Plenty of tread left on the tires When he's talking about Marcus Mariota Who he mispronounces his name every time He's just telling of gas left in the tank. You can tell he's got a suddenness to him and a burst in the pocket. He's just telling you everybody's great. He kept saying Mariota, which it's not a big deal,

but it is pronounced Mariota, and everybody else gets it right. So this was interesting to me. I didn't know what this meant, but this was after a big catch by Washington. You see Zaccheaus seals the edge, and there goes Bates. We used to call this the old white trash route. Show like you're going to run a corner and then go across the field. Why would that be called a white trash route? Why? Why is that tied in position trash?

Oh, I thought he said white trash. No, you're like me with 32, I'm gay. I swear to God he says that. No, it's why. Just call this the old white trash route. Show like you're gonna run a corner and then go across the field. I will not believe you. He said white trash. Well, it's the guy who's playing why and he ran

the pickup route, the pickup trash route. But yes, it would be very funny. I was like, why is it called the white trash route? I love that stuff. Because there are so many non-politically correct things that they say in sports that they won't bring to the broadcast. They won't be...

Parcells, the Jap play. Or no, was that... What was the Jap play? Zimmer. He's like, yeah, I love that Mike Zimmer. And Peyton. He's got that Jap... He was talking about both of them. Oh, he was talking about that? How they'll surprise each other in practice. We call it a jab play. You know, Japanese.

And everybody's like, whoa, yeah, really? No disrespect. Shout out Mike Zimmer, by the way. Engaged? Yeah. Yeah. She's older than I thought. Yeah, it said 41.

Yeah. So we're not waiting until the season's out? We're doing it like now? Well, your quarterback did it during the season. You had a week? You had a week to wait. Why? Maybe she's pregnant.

Or a New Year's thing, was it? Perhaps. Let's see. I mean, I'm looking at the post here. I don't know. The New Year's thing is good for the dude. Because you only got to do one thing? Because he'll remember it.

Yeah, that's good. But the lady might be like, oh, I want a different day so it can be somewhere else, you know. Yeah, so they... Okay. yeah so uh they okay yeah his wife has been dead for a long time so I thought we had a close one here because Jerry was in an interview like hey you know if anybody knows what this guy's been through

his wife passed away at 50 in 2009 and then his son who was 38 died from chronic alcohol disorder in 2002. That is hard to do by the age of 38. Chronic alcohol disorder, does that just mean you're an alcoholic? You just drink so much?

Yeah. It's not even like a, quote, overdose type thing. It's just you've done enough for long enough that your body cannot function or recover. But now he's married to an Eastern European blonde that is 30 years younger than him. Good for him, man. Yeah, there you go. Look. Good for him.

That's a man who once wore an eye patch on an NFL sideline. It actually happened. And then Mark Sanchez, they were talking about Rico Dowdle going over 1,000 yards. He never had a 100-yard game. He's had four in the last five weeks, coming off 104 last week against the Eagles. And remember, 1,000 yards in this league in a season

is no small feat. Really? Troy Aikman was broadcasting on Sunday night the Steelers game, Steelers-Bengals. Najee Harris, they were showing a graphic how Najee Harris had like 1,200 yards, but then like three seasons in a row he had like 1,035 yards. 1,034. Like it was really weird how close to 1,000 he was. Like he was barely getting 1,000 yards. 1,034. It was really weird how close to 1,000 he was. He was barely getting 1,000 yards. So they were talking about that. And he has had four straight 1,000-yard seasons. The Steelers

declined his fifth-year option. I think it's probably time we raise the bar on 1,000-yard running back seasons with 17 games. I mean, there was a time 1,000 yards was quite an accomplishment, but it's not so much anymore. So that's the thing, Mark Sanchez. You have to say something. You have to have a real opinion. You can't just be like, hey, that's great. He's great.

I'm great. We're all great. And Troy's right. It's kind of like right now if I said, hey, look at that. and Troy's right. It's kind of like right now if I said, hey, look at that, Baker Mayfield had 3,000 yards passing this year, you'd be like, okay. Like everybody should have 3,000 yards.

That's kind of the low bar for a starting NFL quarterback nowadays. Yeah. I mean, on one hand, maybe you could say like the guys split time more. But if you were good, you wouldn't be splitting that much time. And Le'Veon Bell really isn't. You know what I'm saying? Najee Harris. Excuse me. Yeah, Najee Harris.

But not that many guys are getting 25 carries a game for, you know, 16, 17 games. But a 1,500-yard season is very impressive. Right. 1,000 yards now, eh. You know, they just highlighted he just started getting 100-yard games. But the point also is just that Troy's willing to be like, I don't like this. This is not good.

Yeah. And Sanchez will not. I'm not going to criticize anyone. You know, do you know what else Mark Sanchez loves? Well, this was – there was that muffed punt. Push your guy. If you can't get to the returner, push your guy into him. That's completely legal.

You can't touch him yourself. But that was a rookie mistake by McCaffrey there, and a huge change in momentum. Uh-oh. Oh, the Cowboys got the momentum there, did they, huh? Oh, the Cowboys got the momentum there, did they, huh? Ooh, the Washington had a dropped touchdown. Right there, right after we highlighted him,

he's going to have to pay a little fine in that wide receiver room. That's a no-brainer touchdown and a momentum swinger. Tough drop for him. Momentum swinger. And then at the end of the half. By the way, that was badass. That play? Yeah.

I don't think I've ever seen it run like that. So what was it? A reverse? Yeah, but they had it look like that was going to be the guy who was coming left was going to be the fake, and they had somebody coming behind him. They flipped it. They flipped it to him, and he's left-handed. It looked very cool. And I'm like, whoa, I've never seen anybody try that before.

I think Cliff would be a fun offensive coordinator. Oh, my God. Yeah. But then the end of the half, you get the ball. They were talking about Trey Lance had the ball and what they were trying to do. And this is their trance, you know, with Trey in the game like this, to remind him in the headset, hey, we're trying to double up on points.

We get the second half kick. Let's go down and ensure we get at least a field goal, if not a touchdown. Then we come back in that third quarter with some momentum and go score again. Yes, you get a field goal at the end of the first half. You know what you go into the second half with? Momentum. But they didn't. And then I'll just give you the rest of my stuff, which is the Adam Amin stuff.

Just a couple little clips for you. This was heading into the third quarter, I believe, as this game is garbage. We're watching it because it's our job. Maybe Brandon Aubrey will hit another cheerleader. Like, I didn't know what I'm still watching this game for, but he told me how good this game was. And he'll take it into the red zone. That should take us to the end of quarter number three.

Still a lot to play for, especially for the Commanders. All right, even as he says it, you can tell he doesn't believe it. He's trying, like, it's a lot. Don't tune out. Play four, especially for the Commanders. They're playing for seeding. Packers are trailing the Bears in the third. Mariota is trying to put together some nice tape.

Dallas trying to close out the season strong. Beat up on their rival. Going to the fourth quarter here in Arlington. So, Mariota's tape. I'm supposed to watch this game because Mariota is trying to put together good tape is basically what he told me. Yeah, and the whole rivalry where the guy who we all loved in Dallas is the head coach over there now.

It'd be great to be. I mean, this would be better than making the playoffs if we could just somehow win this game. Yeah, ruin their season. Sure, sure. Adam Amin does try to be cool, and you could do that sometimes with distance. Like if you get a sack or then a penalty and then a sack,

and now you have – it's a long – now you have to punt. Well, it's fourth and fourth here. Oh, right on. Yeah, okay. But were they going west? In any case, that's not that good, though. Yeah, Arlington's right next to Fort Worth. Not that far.

That's a really bad one. And it's way better when – That'd be like fourth and two. It's way better like when Berman or even Folliwell now does one kind of obscure. Fourth and Wiley. Yeah, Fourth and Wiley. Fourth, you know. Fort Worth, it's like the 18th biggest city in America or something.

Put some respect on us. And then you said Adam Amin is trying to kind of be bro and trying to let you know that he's young, and he talks like young people talk. Daniels loved that 33-yard sprint on the keep by Mariota. Daniels said, hey, go ahead, old man. It's the trailer, baby. Might have called him Unk right there.

I bet he didn't. I bet he did not. You're aware of the slang unk for older colleague, but that's about as far as I'm going to take that one. Mark Sanchez loves – like, it was even the fourth quarter. Got to keep pounding. He loves to set up the run. He loves to establish the run.

Well, yeah. He likes to establish the run, run the rock. He didn't like having to throw the football. Hand off to Reggie Bush and what, LT? So I had to look at Mark Sanchez. Did you see how – this is a tough spot because the guy was a really good player in college. Who? Mark Sanchez?

Yeah, but when they do his little subheading when they introduce him, it just says, former fifth overall draft pick. Which is impressive. Yeah, but I mean, he was in the league for like a decade. Yeah, he did make a conference championship. I thought he made two. Yeah. In my head, he was in two conference championships,

so I thought, hey, he's pretty good. So let's play. Don't look at it. Are you looking at his stats already? I will close now without looking again. Let's play guess the stats. All I saw was the record. So you saw his record.

I thought it was better. 37 and 36. That's not surprising to me because he really had like two years where the team was good. Eight-year career. Two seasons over 3,000 yards passing. Well, that was a different era.

No. His career started in 2009. Yeah. Romo's career started in, well, basically 2006 where he actually got to play. 2009. Yeah. Romo's career started in, well, basically 2006, where he actually got to play. And we would say Romo's numbers are inflated because he played in this inflated era where everybody throws for lots of yards.

Nope, not everybody. Not Mark Sanchez. How about the touchdowns to interceptions? How do you think that's looking? For instance, I'll tell you that Romo had 248 touchdowns and 117 interceptions. Is Sanchez about even? 86 touchdowns. 89 interceptions Dang it

He's got to honor Broadway Joe That's a Sammy Baugh Joe Namath Touchdown ratio He didn't even take He's in the take care of the ball era too Yeah So he didn't throw for a lot of yards

And he had more interceptions than touchdowns. It was the fifth overall pick. It was the fifth overall pick. So, I don't know. Then I just got to clicking around guys, trying to put guys against guys, because Tony Romo, then we were thinking, is there like an argument for Tony Romo for Hall of Fame? There kind of is, right?

I remember that thought, and the thought always was, if he had a Super Bowl or if he had any postseason success, we could then make that argument. But without that, we can't. And so we kind of, no one ever really has made that argument because he did put up some really good numbers. But if you look at Eli Manning – No.

Because that's the new thing this year. Eli Manning is eligible for the Hall of Fame. Yeah. He's in the final 15, I believe. And I don't think Eli Manning is a Hall of Famer. But he did win two Super Bowls. And his name think Eli Manning is a Hall of Famer. But he did win two Super Bowls. And his name is Eli Manning. So that could get him in.

His record was 117 and 117. 366 touchdowns. 244 interceptions. touchdowns, 244 interceptions. But I don't know, man. No, there's a million stats you can look at on Eli Manning. If you look at the percentage of games he had in his career where he won with a quarterback rating of below 80, it's very high. Really?

And if you compare that to Romo, if Romo didn't play well, they almost never won. Not never, but he didn't have many wins where he had a rating as poor as those games Eli won. But whatever, it's the Hall of Fame. Who cares? Oh, man. That's what I have to say to not let Eli get one more over on Romo.

Like, oh, you got the Hall of Fame too? I don't even care about that. Yeah. I don't think he will. Any other games you want to mention before we take a break and talk McCarthy and Jerry and all that kind of stuff? Yeah, I mean, we can do some of this tomorrow also. But, yeah, we can do a quick little rundown.

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And Gerard Mayo, Jared Mayo. Doesn't matter now. Not going to work here anymore. So he gets fired after the game. Yeah. And they won the game. So they dropped four or three spots. They dropped to fourth.

And a lot of the thought was, hey, they, at least to get the number one pick, they'll be able to trade out of that to a quarterback-hungry team, maybe one of the next few teams, I don't know, like the Giants, or maybe the Browns, or who's the other one in there? Oh, Tennessee. Because now it's Tennessee,

Cleveland, the Browns. Well, the point is, those three teams jumped up ahead of New England now, since New England won. And now they can't trade. So they could have traded, you know, swap picks there and gotten a bunch more with it, maybe even a first rounder next year. That's how it gets when teams get real horny for a quarterback.

Yeah. Now they don't have that ability anymore. So the question is, did they know they were going to fire him before the game? And if you did know you were going to fire him before the game, why not just take care of it instead of allowing him to possibly lead them to a victory? Like, you can do things to make yourself lose. I think. Yeah, who was it a couple of years ago?

Was it Lovey? Lovey Smith with the Houston. Yeah, the FU. Yeah, he cost him somebody. I forget who. He cost him Taylor. No. No.

It was before that. It was the year before. We've been thinking that was actually a good move. Oh, Stroud? It was C.J. Stroud they ended up with. They didn't get Bryce Young. Well, we'll see. But, you know, what else you also do is your draft position changes in all the rounds.

Yeah, that's true. But also, I think it would be universally viewed as a pretty shitty thing to do to just fire a guy before week 18. Okay. As far as just there is something to... Then gamble with your future. Well, it's a gamble either way.

I mean, you're firing the guy because you think he sucks. So isn't it more likely he's going to suck in that game anyways? He's a bad coach. But you could at least get someone else in there to say, we all get what we're doing here? Yeah.

Like you're going to be here next year, you're on staff. I mean, they did play Joe Milton. Unless there's some sort of extra payout for firing him during the season as opposed to afterwards. That's possible, yeah. But I don't know. You're not wrong. It's just not the sort of thing that pro sports teams do

because it definitely creates a weird vibe for what type of organization you are. But, I mean, they played a guy who was not good at all in college. He could throw it real far. He could throw it real far. He was a prospect, but it's Joe Milton. They're absolutely hiring for Abel, right? It certainly looks that way. It would make too much sense.

They probably already have that deal in place. I would guess. So, yeah, you had – Unless the Cowboys are talking to him. The Giants beat the Colts last week. That screwed them. But the Titans lost to the Jaguars twice in the final month of the season. That's commitment.

They deserve that number one pick for doing that. They absolutely deserve that number one pick. Speaking of the Patriots, I did not realize until he got fired the whole how Gerard Mayo came to be the head coach of the Patriots. They didn't do a search at all. It was very Jason Kidd. Well, somewhat Jason Kidd. There was actually a contractual thing, I believe,

that Belichick was going to hand it off to Gerard Mayo. Oh, really? Belichick picked him. This is the guy you want. Oh, I didn't know that. I don't think they interviewed anybody. I didn't think it was Belichick, though. I thought Kraft was just enamored with him because he was a former player.

Maybe you're right. I just know that the deal was in place a la Will Muschamp, not even like Belichick. I'm guessing it wasn't Belichick only because it seemed Kraft and Belichick had fallen at odds there at the end. But they didn't do a search is what I'm saying. I do know that. Kind of satisfied the Rooney rule by just hiring him.

Right. So there was none of that. How come there's no white Rooney rule? I know. Right? Especially today. You would think with Black Monday being on Jan 6, they'd respect us a little bit.

Unbelievable. So Gronk was asked about this on the Fox postgame show. We've got that video, Rob. We talked about this last week, how ESPN is kind of... They're making their own stories and then arguing about it on other shows

and they're kind of creating all of this drama on their own network. Well, Fox, for once, has someone throw out an opinion and they seem to get away from it pretty immediately. Fox, for once, has someone throw out an opinion, and they seem to get away from it pretty immediately. So Gronk is beginning on the Patriots firing. Gronk, Gerard Mayo out after one season as the Patriots head coach.

I was shocked by that. And to happen that soon was a shocker to a lot of people, especially here at the desk. We were all surprised by that. I think it was unfair to coach Gerard Mayo. I mean, he had never had the chance to develop as a head coach. He was just a rookie himself in that department. And if you judge a coach by their first year, that's really not appropriate.

I mean, Jimmy Johnson, you went 1-15 your first year, and then you won a couple Super Bowls after that. I mean, he really – Hey, we got to go to break. Oh, I mean – We're going to keep talking about that. Much more of the OT later already. That was weird.

Yeah, he's finally starting. But that's not – okay, if you say Gronk in 10 seconds, that's not a subject for 10 or 15 seconds because you have to go to break. And I think Minifee coughs in the middle there. Howie's trying to get his attention. They are clearly saying, we're not going to start this dialogue right now. Interesting. But why even bring it up?

Why let Gronk talk on it? I like Gronk on that show. You guys don't? Yeah, I haven't seen it. I was telling Blake earlier. I didn't watch any of it yesterday. It just seems like a— Just in general, he throws out opinions. Yeah, and the rest of the people won't.

He's all fun and gronky. Yeah, I do like that. There's just a lot of guys up there. Yeah, it's a weird vibe. It's very old. What's Lily? What's her name? How many do we have up here?

Lily Phillips? Yeah. He's like Draymond to me. Thank you, Blake. He's the new guy that's coming in. I think Draymond's going to be great on a set. I think Draymond will be great on a set too. The difference is, I don't know how much of this they want from Draymond.

I think people forget that guy is a basketball savant. What do you mean as far as? Draymond is an X's and O's rain man. Like defensively, he is the guy. I think that's great. So do I. Whereas Gronk, we've heard, was told, hey, Gronk, line here, run here. Right.

By Brady. So it's a little bit different of how they executed it. Gronk is admitted, I think. Like Brady would watch the film for me. Right. But they both end up being very entertaining. I have one video to play. So we talked about Cooper Rush's incentives.

And, you know, they wanted to get Seedy to 1,000 yards. It's cool to have the round numbers and whatnot, but I was really kind of taken aback by how much the Bucs celebrated with Mike Evans getting a meaningless catch in the end of their game against the Saints. Like, it looks like the Super Bowl. He's got to 1,000 yards. Base field.

Rowan Evans. He does it. Jerry Rice and his company. Well, did he get a big payout? A big financial bonus? I think so. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, $3 million.

Oh, $3 million? It's a pretty big deal. Yeah. It's just weird to, like, end a game. And there's, like, 30 seconds left in a game. You're up by eight. You got the ball. You're dealing the ball out.

Right. You could have thrown an interception. Yeah. They could have somehow lost that game. Sure. Wait, did Atlanta win? No, Atlanta. Lost to Carolina? Carolina, yeah.

Okay, so they would have been in no matter what. Yeah, but it's time. Yeah. This is weird. I mean, he doesn't even pick up a first down. They just complete a simple route off the line of scrimmage, and then the entire stadium goes bonkers. Three million is three million.

And then they line up for handshakes. That's a lot of money, man. It is a lot of money. And it's 11 straight. But it also resulted in a lot of Mike Evans Hall of Fame or no talk yesterday, which I know Dan's a big fan of. I am. It's really interesting.

I think he's a really interesting case. Because he's not like Eli, you don't say, ah, yes, but his numbers are the things that have to put him in. That's what you do with Mike Evans, correct? Get the Super Bowl with Brady. No, I'm just saying with Eli, you? Get the Super Bowl with Brady. No, I'm just saying with Eli, you just have the Super Bowls. With Mike Evans, you certainly have

the numbers, but I always think of a Hall of Famer as I would think the minimum has to be you're one of the top five at your position at any given time, or I would actually go two or three.

Never in a league in one year did someone say he is the third best receiver in the game. Maybe we were just wrong. Maybe he was and we just don't notice because he plays there. I don't know. You're probably right. I've always loved him. Big body.

Aggie. Big Aggie. I mean, it starts with how swaggy that Johnny football team was. I mean, how could you not love them? Anything else? I don't know. If you watch any Steelers-Bingles Saturday night, befuddling. I don't know if you saw what happened, but they get the ball back, the Steelers, timeouts, down two,

and late in the game, Russ just scrambles and goes down and bounds. They didn't call a timeout right away. Mike Tomlin, one of the more confusing guys in sports. Because you're always going to be pretty good. They haven't really done anything in the playoffs in forever. And a couple times a year something happens that is very much the sort of thing that people around here would be like, you should be fired for that. So for not calling the timeout?

Yeah. First, it was Russ's fault. I have no idea why he decided to take off and scramble there rather than just throw the ball away. But then once he did, you call a timeout. And they still almost were able to score and get it in there. And the other thing on the Bengals, I kind of thought the Chiefs would have a chance

since they have Carson Wentz to somewhat keep it close. Obviously, they got destroyed. One thing I forgot about, I don't know how much this plays into a team's thinking. Kansas City definitely doesn't want Cincinnati in the postseason. They're their kryptonite. So if they had any incentive to be like,

look, why would we try to win this game and let Burrow back in? I didn't think of that. That makes sense. Yeah. I'm trying to see if there's anything else. Oh, I did want to mention this on the Broncos.

Do you guys remember how much shit Peyton was talking when he got hired? Like about Nathaniel Hackett. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Just like, oh, yeah, there's a way they did things before. Kind of did the all due respect, but those guys were clowns. And then in the first year, it looked like, oh, really? Maybe you

should go back to Liberty Christian or wherever he was with Russell Wilson. And then this year, he handpicks Bo Nix and he plays great. He completed his first 18 passes of the game.

Bo Nix. No, he's been really, really good the past two or three months. Yeah. Yeah. And then the night game, you probably didn't stay up for the whole thing. No, I threatened to. You were making fun of me last week, yeah. It's boring.

Yeah. Detroit just rolls. Aaron Glenn trying to get himself a job. Detroit not resting people. Well, obviously they're playing for the number one seed in the bye, but it's really incredible that they are where they are with all the injuries they've had. Crazy.

Dude, Dan Campbell's so great. So great. But they're probably about to get eagled where both their coordinators get hired. Yeah. But I believe in him, though. He fits the... Looks the part.

He's also kind of the inspirational guy, for sure. You could look like a coach, but not necessarily... Mike McCarthy looks like a coach. Don't know if he's inspirational. Come on, dude. Mojo moment. A little Austin Powers reference. You guys will love that't know if he's inspirational. Come on, dude. Mojo moment. A little Austin Powers reference.

You guys will love that. Watermelons. But then he's also, you would think, okay, now to me, he looks kind of like Witten as a head coach. But then he's also like the, he likes analytics like Mike McDaniel. You know? Like he doesn't look like a guy, like Vrabel doesn't look like a guy that would be really into analytics.

He's not. Yeah. Yeah. But Dan Campbell seems to be into it. He's into mentality. He's into we're going for it because of not only is it good analytics, but it's the way we do things. Like, those players must be ready to die for that dude.

Yeah, and I mean, I can't think of any fan bases in recent memory that I'm happier for. Fan bases for guys, personally. Yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure. Seems like just a great dude. It's a breath of fresh air. He's not a dork.

Yeah. He constantly makes me as my coffee intake increases a little bit. It's just like with alcohol, right? I know a guy who does 10 times this. Yeah, I'm not that bad. He's crushing it. I don't have to dip in while I drink this. Dude, yes.

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So what do we have from Jerry Jones post-game? Is that what we're doing now, or do you have some stuff in the locker room? Well, hold on. Let me set the table for a couple things. All right. We're very aware that Skip Bayless tried to pay a hairstylist $1.5 million to have sex with him. And when she rebuffed that because she said, Skip, you're married, he responded, isn't your dad Muslim?

He's got like four wives. Oh, really? Yeah. It's one of the funniest stories. Very quick on his feet, that Skip. One of the funniest stories we've had in a while, but we're going to have to do it tomorrow. So, you know, behind the paywall

and all. We'll play the video of Emanuel Acho that's now been deleted from two years ago where he was talking about Joy Taylor and seemingly smelling his finger. So our... It's going to be such good content, we're going to make it exclusive. That's right. And I also feel like

notably absent from your weekend check was how are you and the boy vibing? The boy? The potential new member of the McDowell clan. Oh, the boyfriend? Yeah. Oh, yeah. I need to hear all about it. Yeah.

Yes, please. What's he into? What does he think of the show? I met the young man. You did? Yeah. I came over here for a little planning sesh one day, and he didn't make fun of me. It's surprising.

They don't all do it. It appears some of them actually just look at you like it's – So you don't want me to tell you now? You're a normal – no. Okay. I don't. That's teasing ahead for tomorrow because we have more Cowboys to sort through. Yeah, Blake, why don't you go first?

Pick a couple for today. Oh, let's see. Let's do McCarthy stuff. Obviously, it was funny. He goes into his postgame expecting to talk about the game, but every question is, are you going to be back? Do you think you should be back? Then he expected the wrong thing.

Yeah, I don't even buy that. No. We thought we were going to talk about football. I think Clarence asked the question about the game first, but then our buddy Tim kicks it off in a good way. He's looking for pressure. Tim Kalash on Dallas Sporting News. Do you feel like your body of work after five years suggests you should be back for another year? I have a lot of

confidence in myself as a head coach, but I think like anything, body of work, the statistics, I think it's more about the program, the details of what needs to be done. How can we get better? You know, all those things go into these decisions of whether you originally get the job or continue to move forward. So I'm definitely in a position with Jerry to move the program forward. I mean, there's no question about that in my mind. So that's why these conversations need to happen here in the near future.

I find that interesting that he's actually even answering it. Like he's negotiating in the press here. Right. Look at the stats. That's behind closed door stuff. But he's like, yeah, that and not just the stats, because we all can see my record. Right. But it's the stats. That's behind closed door stuff. But he's like, yeah, that and not just the stats because we all can see my record. Right. But it's the program.

It's the way things are moving. It's like he wants to remind Jerry publicly, which is very interesting to me. And if you remember last year, I think people were calling for his head after the Packers playoff game. And I think there was some uncertainty with Jerry. Hey, there's no food down there. And you remember it came down to a meeting with Jerry McCarthy where McCarthy basically gave him all the reasons why he should come back for his final year, and Jerry let him.

So, unfortunately, that's a weird time to be negotiating through the press of like, hey, I think I'm deserving of this job. But unfortunately, that comes with the territory of working with Jerry Jones where that stuff might matter. It's all weird. It's weird that Dak gets asked about it and Dak feels like he needs to weigh in to put a little pressure on Jerry to remind him that, hey, his opinion counts too. Jerry's been asked about it every week for the last two months.

And honestly, these questions for McCarthy have been waiting for weeks. Yeah. You know, they were just waiting for the season to end. Now, the funny thing, though, is each reporter has their own spin on the same question. You know, are you going to be back next year? But everyone wants to say, what have you learned through this? Do you want to be back? Do you But everyone wants to say, what have you learned through this? Do you want to be back? Do you think they have their own question written down?

And so he's asked the same question four, five, or six times. I'm sure he loves it. And he got kind of tired of it towards the end. To me, he went kind of full Ricky Bobby here. To come back here after your contract was signed. I understand why you're asking questions. I don't like to talk about myself that way, but I'll just be clear. I'm a winner.

I know how to win. I've won a championship. I won a championship in this building, and that's who I am. We'll see where it goes. Dang. Red-blooded winning machine. That was pretty hardcore for McCarthy. Now, you know, there's minutes and minutes of buildup of diplomatic.

Oh, you know, there must have been a couple other that were one in this building. Huh. Me? Just me. It's weird. I thought it was great. Like, throwing that in there is about as aggressive as I've heard him be on that. Yeah, never.

And his tone when he says it. Did I remind you? Because the guy that has, he's 174 and 112. It's a great record. It's much better than Mark Sanchez. Yeah. But I mean Belichick has that kind of record too, but he wouldn't say that.

You don't have to say it if you are. Yeah, maybe you only have to say it because you're dealing with Jerry. Listen to his tone. To come back here after your contract is left. I understand why you're asking questions. I don't like to talk about myself that way, but I'll just be clear. I'm a winner.

I know how to win. I've won a championship. I won a championship in this building. Won a championship in this building. That's pretty. That's pretty great. That's pretty aggressive. So one more thing for McCarthy.

Some people are saying, well, the offense kind of sucked. Would you consider hiring an OC that called plays? Coach, to be the head coach, do you feel like you have to be the primary play caller? I don't think that's a – I think like anything, I think you have to look at the whole picture. I think – I look at what helps us, what gives us the best chance to win on Sundays.

And I'm old-fashioned. I still write up the job descriptions. I still write up the job. Fast forward 30 seconds. No. If I'm here, I'm calling plays. Yeah, that's where they put themselves in a bit of a tough spot here. You'd rather still have that option on the table to keep them around.

But you don't. But then it's the Kellen thing all over again. It's not his offense. Yeah, but they were good. I mean, they were good last year too. So he's 12th all-time in NFL victories. You guys get to watch Rain Man at work. Sean Payton is 16th.

Harbaugh is 14th. John Harbaugh, that is. His resume is very similar to Sean Payton's. Tomlin is 11th. Andy Reid, 4th. Braden's. Tomlin is 11th. Andy Reid, 4th.

If all those guys are free, like what's the pecking order there? Where does he fit in if he's a free agent? Like if Mike Tomlin's a free agent, does another team hire him? Yeah. I would say all of them. Andy Reid? Yes. Like who gets hired quicker? And I would suggest Mike McCarthy would be hired last

amongst that list I just mentioned probably but maybe he's it's because he doesn't do that well with PR and now he's realizing he needs to because Sean Payton you don't have to ask him how great he is he'll tell you

so Micah was asked in the postgame, hey, do you think your head coach should be back? Going in and talking about contracts, obviously Coach McCarthy, Coach Zimmer, everybody on expiring contracts. Would you like to make it clear now, do you want them back,

and what would that mean to you for them to come back? You know, I learned a long time, it's not about what I want. You know, it's business. I'm not the owner. I'm not the GM. I'm not the GM. I'm part of the entertainment. They got to decide they want me back. So you're asking the wrong question to the wrong guy, to be honest.

Interesting. All right. So, yeah, I learned already it's not what I want. Parentheses, I wanted Dan Quinn to be what I want. Okay. Parentheses. I wanted Dan Quinn to be the head coach. Yeah. And it's also interesting that this has changed from like three weeks ago. He learned from that too.

Yeah, he was saying I want Mike McCarthy back. Well, he said that after being – After six weeks ago. Yeah, whenever he focused on Zach Martin and everybody got mad at him for that. He said Zach Martin's more important to me than Mike McCarthy. It is funny though, because really nothing has changed other than Quinn leaving. So it's clear that when he says, well, I guess what I want

doesn't really matter. He just means McCarthy being there, right? He's like, yeah, I kind of made it known I didn't want that. That is changed. And especially after yesterday's game, he's looking over there. Oh, yeah. Looking at Dan Quinn.

He's all Dan Quinny. Yeah. He's all cool with his hats backwards. Now Mike Zimmer is nailing a chick almost half his age. I thought that part was funny because all the players are asked post-game, what would it mean to you to bring McCarthy back? Oh, it would mean the world. I love him.

You know, this locker room didn't quit for him. Mike is like, don't ask me. I don't know. I don't know. I just dance. So here's this will check a box with Dan. They ask him about just the team rallying around McCarthy

at the end of the year. We get the checkmark of, well, the team didn't quit. And so he says he's proud of their effort, and then he also answers about Mike Zimmer. When you think about the second half of the season, what did you learn most about Mike McCarthy? What about the way he led his team?

You know, I would say, you know, I would say he didn't give up. You know, that really impressed me a lot. Kept coming in every day. I understand he's fighting to be back and to be a part of his unit still. But, no, just staying in coming in every day. I understand he's fighting for to be back and to be a part of his unit still But no, I'm just staying in locked in every day not giving up on the guys Taking what he's got between quarterbacks the running back situation O-line situation and you know got innovative and Tried to make the best of his situations

You know if I got Zim back, awesome. You know, I think Zim probably want to come back. I told you, I think, you know, he's ready to ride off in the sunset. To him, it's not even about money anymore. I think he got to want to do it. But, you know, he's my guy. We're going to have dinner next week. We said we're going to have dinner before I headed off on my off-season adventures.

But, man, if he comes back and the conversation is right and he gets compensated right because the way he's held up, missing out corners, missing D-linemen and everything, he's definitely earned the opportunity himself. Doesn't sound like he's coming back. No, not at all. No. No, he's got a marriage to tend to now.

Yeah. I also like, again, I'm hyper-focused on this, so maybe I'm making something out of nothing. But when Micah says, yeah, he kind of had to deal with what he had as far as the running back situation, he means like this old fuck that they brought back in here to mope around. And by the way, I guess this is obvious, but I was looking at it this morning,

and the Zeke stopped caring and Zeke stopped getting touches are just when Dak got hurt. Like, he did have six in the one game after that where he had the fumble. I think it might have been Philly. It was Cooper Rush's first start. And from there, he never had more than, it was one, two, three. It was about one and a half carries a game. So whether Dak was fighting for him and advocating for him every week, or it just felt like, oh, look, Dak's there, his buddy's there. They're going to give him six, seven, eight carries a game.

It pretty much stopped when Dak got hurt, which I found interesting. Yeah. That's interesting. So I'll give you a little bit. Let me do a couple more. Okay. I'm sorry. So apparently Jerry spoke to the team post-game. Yes. And this is from our buddy Jordan Lewis, who kind of indicates that McCarthy's going to be back. I thought motion was a lot from Jerry talking, obviously, and Mike talking. I mean, he just really stamped Coach Mike, honestly. He's definitely, you know, it's a good chance of him coming back.

And, you know, we're excited for that because, you know, we wanted another shot at this because, you know, Coach McCarthy gave me a second chance, you know, on my second contract. So, I mean, I'll always be grateful for him. And, you know, hopefully, you know, we can see if that's reciprocated. So, in front of the team, it seems like he's going to bring McCarthy back. It's blowing that way for sure, all indications. All the reports, all the vibes.

That – who had – Diana Rossini? Yeah. Somebody from the Athletic reported that kind of last week. Yeah. It all worked. Troy, Dak, the full court press they put on. So I'll leave you with this. I think McCarthy had a plant in his post-game press conference.

Now, we call this like the Brad Sham effect where it's like, okay, you know, lucky whitehead's arrest. Well, tell me about how Zach Martin's playing right now. You know, there's always a redirect to football. And I think McCarthy had one. And, you know, the first few questions were about McCarthy's future, then in comes Plant. Those components in place to get this thing where it needs to be.

And I think we have a very good foundation there. Edwin Henderson-Gilmer here. Mike, your thoughts on Trey Lance? He had a great game today. Yeah, I thought Trey Lance? He had a great game today Yeah, I thought Trey played well today Did he? He did not have a great game

He did play well Where did that guy say he was from? I had a hard time picking up I mean, he's been there all year I recognize the boys Edwin Henderson-Gilmer Mike, your thoughts on Trey Lance? He had a great game today

And then things were picking up steam again With his future Edwin Henderson-Gilmer. Mike, your thoughts on Trey Lance? He had a great game today. And then things were picking up steam again with his future in doubt. This is from later in the press conference. This is an incredible fan base. Well, Mike, certainly 7 and 10 is not what you anticipated when the season began, but you look at all of the major injuries that you had. Do you look back now and think what could have been and how you would have stayed healthy? I'm still stuck on 7

and 10. That just knocked me over. It just doesn't sound right. No. What happens regardless of the record I need you to bring up the injuries. No one's talking about the injuries and how I couldn't win with a backup quarterback. That was weird. 7 and 10. It just doesn't really resonate because I'm the 12th most winning head coach of all time.

Ray Stone Jr. in there. Just a winner. So I'll play you a little bit of Jerry's stuff from the postgame. This is something that just happens, and it's frustrating if you're on one end of it, but it's also kind of funny. There's really no decorum. Well, there's a decorum, but there's no real written rules on how to ask questions in press conferences and gang bangs.

Unless you're at a big one like the Tyson fight, and you have to submit, and then they call on you. That can happen, but for the most part, it's just who's going to start talking whenever the subject stops talking? This is funny because I have a few clips here where one of our good friends got caught up in this. The first question to Jerry is referencing a comment he made on the fan on Friday. Where the basic question was, is there anything that could happen this weekend that would alter the way you're thinking about the coaching staff?

And he went with, the hay is already in the barn. So that's not to say that he's already made a decision to keep him or not, I guess, but to say that all the information that he needs to make that decision has already been gathered. Did you just mute me? No. When you said Friday that the hay is in the barn about McCarthy and the coaches, does that mean have you made up your mind on Mike McCarthy?

No. Well, the point is that all that I'm going to look at, I was answering that question, and that was does the outcome of this game really impact his future? And I said no. All of the things I'll consider are hay in the barn. All right. So now here's an interesting follow-up. A report came out that you want McCarthy back, but maybe others in the building don't.

Is there any truth to that? Well, I, again, at the risk of talking about something that I don't want to talk about at this time. We've got a lot of work to do, but certainly we're all looking for ways to get better hold on notice he didn't really answer that question he didn't say no we're all on the same page or no we're all pulling in the same direction he just kind of skated on that one uh certainly we're all looking for ways to uh get better five years ago

okay right there at the end, you hear our friend Saad try to start his question. What was he trying? Five years ago... So he started with five years ago, right? Let's keep this press conference going. And so you really got some improvement there. Really, that I

give Rush a lot of credit for. Jerry, five years ago with... Well... Okay. Didn't get it in there. Let's keep that I give Rush Chris a lot of credit for. Jerry, five years ago with – Why not just get Trey Lance a game earlier? Well – Okay, didn't get it in there. Let's keep going. He did really earn some pretty serious incentives this year. Five years ago with – Trey Lance is –

Excuse me. I thought he was really – I thought he really played well. By time three – Did he ever get it? Well, we'll get to that. So there's a thing that Bob and Dan used to call the punchline in meetings. We would have meetings every day before the show,

and if you had pitched something and it kept not getting on that day's show, you just stop. You're like, all right, this is becoming a punchline. Maybe we're not actually going to get Michelle Tafoya today or whatever. Or we're not going to talk about this documentary. You feel sheepish continuing to bring it up.

I feel like if you try three times with a question and you get the first four to six words out each time, you are dangerously close to scrapping it and starting over. You know what I mean? And Sott is time, you are dangerously close to scrapping it and starting over. You know what I mean? And Sod is 18 inches from Jerry's face.

So Jerry's heard him start this question three times, you know? And finally, Sod's like, F it. Today against this team, wanted to take a good look at Lance. Jerry, five years ago with jason

garrett the way that situation played out for a week were you happy with the way that process went were you satisfied with that well i it's a good question right but listen to how little hang time there is between jerry and sod this time uh wanted to take a good look at lance jerry five years ago with jason he's's like, look, no chance. That's good persistence. We're getting this question in. I thought that was funny. And then this is kind of an interesting thing to get us into some McCarthy talk,

some today, some tomorrow. They're discussing like there's a window where McCarthy and Dallas can negotiate exclusively. And then past that window, he could still be back, but he can talk to other teams. I've had coaches under contract that I thought we might consider a change. And they were thinking

maybe a change. Under contract. So this business of under or out of contract is not a an influencer with me. At all. You're not concerned about other teams? Well, but that's I wouldn't want a coach here that are with me at all. You're not concerned about other teams? Well, but that's, I wouldn't want a coach here that won't be someplace else.

So if a guy's like, hey, I'd like to interview for other jobs to make sure I have one, you're like, oh, mm-mm. You want to work somewhere else, and we don't even want you. I don't think he actually would follow through on that, but that's like the dumbest business decision I can possibly imagine someone making. I know. You want to work for another... Yeah, I mean, the thought is,

if indeed your mind is made up that I want him, then why are we doing this now? Right. Why would you even let him go out somewhere if you think he's that good that I want to give him guaranteed money for another five years here? Or whatever amount. Why haven't they been talking about it?

So I pick it up there. I listened to the last half of the Jerry gangbang after the game because they're talking McCarthy contract. Let's see how this starts. You know, most of the fans that I have, most of the fans want everybody to be on the incentive plan. Okay, that's where we get, we're going to lead into this. Talking about, you know, maybe an incentive-based contract.

Like that'd be better for a coach. You know, most of the fans that I have, most of the fans want everybody to be on the incentive plan. Everybody wants it to be on the incentive plan. And so the more you can have the incentive plan, to me, the better you've got the way sports is aligned with sports. Okay. I kind of know what he's saying. Like, you are rewarded for doing well and winning.

That's how sports works. And that's how ultimately sports can be most aligned with sports. Yeah. But if we're all also we're doing things based on what most fans want. And incentives. If fans want incentive plans, I would guess most fans want me to remain general manager of this team and make every move. There it is. It's like Putin running for president or something.

He's like, oh, my, 99%? Voted, yeah. Did it again. To me, the better you've got the way sports is aligned with sports and a goal of having accomplishment, and you align that with the financial end of it. For instance, I might say, look, I'm going to pay you this much, but then I'll pay you not anymore,

and I know you want twice that. But if you get to the playoffs or you win a Super Bowl, I'll give you five times that. But the guy across the street might say, I'm going to give it to you without any escalators. Exactly, and then you've got a decision. You've got a decision, for sure. But how can he know that if he's not allowed to talk to you until january 14th then i would say go talk i really would go talk so it sounds like i just

let zeke do that gotcha oh my god yeah i don't want anybody here that's not healthy to have somebody around it wants to be someplace else really it's. So back to what you were just playing. Yeah. Yeah, go ahead and talk. Because if you want to go there, then... That's the thing. You don't really value him. You don't really value head coach overall. And we're going to get to more

of that, I guess, as he keeps talking about this stuff. It's called tolerance for ambiguity. What? Exactly. The example is the Mississippi riverboat gambler. He's his most charming. He's his most glib. He's his cleverest. When on the next card, he could get thrown overboard or on the next card on the boat. board or on the next card on the boat that's when he's the best if you put someone like that and uh he knows for sure what's going to happen at the end of the night you won't see his full potential to go so you've got to have a tolerance for ambiguity to be on the incentive plan

those that have it are war daddies in a lot of ways you You have your list ready. Bingo, bingo, bingo. Yeah. Just all of it. And as you pointed out, it is hilarious that he is saying, like, that's what true men are made out of. Right. But he's not really subjected to that at all. They don't feel it.

They're not upset at this or that. You have your list ready. Do you follow that? I think so. Well, I'll clear it up for you if you want to. Okay, but go back and look at it. But the point is, some people work better. Some people don't.

Some people have to know that they want the check at the end of the day. Yeah. And then that's pretty much what I got from the McCarthy talk. I suppose I could say, you know what, I'll save this other stuff. He talks about he's defining all in again. Oh, good. Good. And then we're going to get into.

That's going to be the motto next season too. Yeah, but the motto next season, really? He already kind of started this. I can't remember if it was Friday or whatever, but I promise you it's going to be this. All the experience that these guys gained

this year by being thrown into the fire, they're just that much better than they would have been had they not played. And then you come and just add guys who were hurt to that. So Cooper Beebe, what a steal. You got a starter right there. Tyler Guyton got his bad year out of the way. Tyler Guyton.

DeMarvian Overshown, even though we don't know if he'll ever walk again, a lot of tread on those tires. Still hasn't played many games, right? Dak, what happened last time he got hurt? Came back, he was great. It's going to be about growth from within and how they're really well positioned to take that next step because all these guys were thrown to the fire.

I mean, you're going to get Demarcus Lawrence back maybe because you have to sign him. I could see Lawrence and Martin both being gone, but Sam Williams was hurt. Sam Williams is so poised to take over for Demarcus Lawrence opposite Micah Parsons. That guy was killing it when he was healthy. That's basically a draft pick or a free agent signing right there. And Trayvon and Deron Blaine really didn't play together this season.

Barely. Barely at all. So that's like two players back right there. Bring back Jordan Lewis and you agent signing right there. And Trayvon and Deron Blaine really didn't play together this season. Barely. Barely at all. So that's like two players back right there. Bring back Jordan Lewis and you're set right there. That's what it's going to be. It's funny because I was thinking about that this morning. Wrote a column for the D Magazine sports page. They just were like, hey, can we wrap up the season? It's not like they wanted to write about the Week 18 game.

But it was interesting because it was something I've been thinking about over the last couple weeks. And then Jerry made an appearance on Taylor Sheridan's Landman. Awesome. Over the weekend, which we played a clip from before. It's the Texas-based show about the oil and gas industry. It stars Billy Bob Thornton. Jon Hamm is in it.

In the pilot, they're at a spring game because that's what people do in Texas, where his daughter is talking to him about – High school, right? Yeah, high school. A high school spring game. Yeah, he's talking to him about what she does with her boyfriend. A couple other viral clips that have gone viral. Billy Bob Thornton talking to some

liberal arts libtard in a field about how wind power is gay or something. I don't know. It turns out everything he was saying

was kind of not true but it sounded great because it was Billy Bob Thornton with sunglasses in a field. And I have no idea the backstory or the context of what happened

on this week's episode, but somehow John Hamm, who I guess I gather is like Billy Bob Thornton's business partner in some way. Do either one of you know anything about this? He owns the oil company. John Hamm does? John Hamm owns the oil company. So he's in bed. He's in a hospital bed sick, and Billy Bob is over there and jerry is in the room at the

bedside and he is playing jerry very active in uh you know oil and gas com stock when he's taking a break from blockchain com um and so he starts giving this speech do you have it uh yeah okay yeah we're not gonna play the video because we want to keep doing a stream uh he starts doing this speech and throughout it he starts tearing up and of course we know jerry and taylor shared and have a thing of course of course they do uh they've taylor shared in the cast of yellowstone have been at a bunch of games one of their scheduled release videos was Yellowstone themed remember

it just makes sense the Jones family they own a ranch their country whatever it makes all the sense in the world so he's given like this impassioned speech and I thought it was really timely and telling for where the Cowboys are. My daughter, when I was in my 30s, went to school.

By the way, there was a band when I was younger, maybe they're still around, called Explosions in the Sky. Yeah. And they make instrumental music, and it's incredible. I saw them live a couple times in Austin. It's very, very good. It's very emotional music. What about Friday Night Lights?

Well, I think it became a thing with Friday Night Lights. When Friday Night Lights the movie came out, and probably the TV show too, the background in every scene is either explosions in the sky or a rip-off of that, and now Landman and a lot of Taylor Sheridan shows do the same. You'll hear it immediately. My daughter, when I was in my 30s, went to school at Stanford.

I couldn't stand it. She was so far from Arkansas. So I'd think of reasons to make trips out there. Try to come up with a little business or something. I go out there with her. I get an old office downtown Palo Alto. Jean goes to class with her. I said, you know, I need to get some things going out here if I'm going to spend this kind of time. So I went over to Brentwood, about 20 or 30 miles from San Francisco. And I bought about 25 lots, like I was gonna build 25 houses.

Except I drilled four gas wells. And those four gas wells in 18 months paid me enough money for me to buy the Dallas Cowboys. Paying attention to my kids actually led to me getting involved into the passion of my life. And all along, what I was trying to do is hang out near my daughter. A lot of things happened that you didn't have planned or don't have the strategy for. Hey, Tom. Now I'm not saying I've done anything right, but I made my mind up a long time

ago I was gonna work with my kids. They're involved in everything. They're involved in my leasing, oil and gas real estate and so when i got to come with i got it so that we could all work together i thought i was doing it for them but the one that got the most out of it was me okay pause it at this point he's really i don don't know that Jerry's capable of tearing up without meaning it. Maybe he is. He's choked up. It looks like he's going to cry.

Yes. Yeah. He is choked up as if he's... Like, deep in thought about his family and his legacy. And I believe that's where he is. And his life, and he's 80. Yeah. Yeah.

I believe maybe somebody else wrote this, and he took a look at it and was like, I want to say it like this, but this is just the type of speech Jerry would give if you did a living funeral for him right now. I thought he was very good in this show. I've seen him on whatever, Arliss or Entourage before, and it's not been like this. It's crazy how versatile he is. I think he's replacing The Rock in the new Fast and Furious. Didn't you say he was with Sidney Sweeney? Sidney Sweeney.

Rom-Com. Rom-Com 2026, I think is when they're. Yeah, he's playing Mike Zimmer, and she's playing an Instagram. Okay. I thought I was doing it for them, but the one that got the most out of it was me. I just know it's not going to be this time, but you're going to be sitting here sometime in the future, laying here sometime in the future.

Little ad lib. And this room's going to be full of your business associates and the people you've worked with all your life. And more than likely, your children and family are going to be there because they're your children and your family. But you could have them there because they're the people you spent your life with, you worked with, you fell down with, you got up with. Not just Thanksgiving, Christmas.

That's who you want to be with. So when that time comes like this, it's a celebration of your life and you're not wishing you to spend a little more time seeing a few more suns come up. That's the trick. That's the trick. That's the trick. Because that's going to be your glory.

I'm pretty proud of them cowboys. I'm pretty proud of the stuff we've done in oil and gas. It pales in comparison to how proud I am to have lived my life working with my kids. Pails in comparison to how proud I am to have lived my life working with my kids. You've got a chance to do something about that. I hope you will. And I'll tell you, young man, you're no spring chicken.

And you ought to listen to the little issue yourself. Yes, sir. Yeah, I'm a few eggs short of a spring chicken, that's for sure. I think a lot of both of you guys. I feel it's mutual. Thank you, sir. Yeah, a few eggs short of a spring chicken, that's for sure. I think a lot of both of you guys. I feel it's mutual. Thank you, Jerry. Okay. Don't make me get my rubber glove out.

Boy, little genie, I said hi. Good to see you, Mr. Jones. He's not wrong. You need to get those leases together. Okay, well, so that's the scene. Jerry speaking as Jerry, feeling emotional and feeling as if he's Jerry. You know how we've always said the deal where he'll mention,

hey, I don't know how much longer I have left. And we always think that it means that they're going to start running the team in some sort of a Jerry's got to get a Super Bowl before he dies. That's it. That would be the storybook ending. He's got to get another Super Bowl in these next five, six years. I mean, he's 82. But then it occurred to me, that's not what it's about at all. It's a family business.

We all know people who run family businesses. It's a family business. We all know people who run family businesses. How many times has a family business, three, four decades of running it with the matriarch or the patriarch in charge, how often do they say, hey, I know I want to leave this to my kids, but before I do, I'm going to start doing some really risky stuff that could pay off, but it also could leave them in a bad spot. It could pay off, but it also could leave them in a bad spot. The goal for Jerry is not to increase the chances that he gets another Super Bowl before he goes.

The goal is to make sure that when he goes, this thing is always relevant, good enough, and he hands something functional off to Steven and Charlotte and Jerry Jr. They're not going to be in insane cap hell. They're not going to be looking for a new head coach who hasn't won anything and they got to figure that out on their own. That's not what people do with family businesses. They either sell it or they hand it to their kids with it running as smoothly and profitably in good shape as possible. And that's why they're not going to go routinely making big splash trades

that, you know, hell, the Amari one worked out, and I'm still not sure they view that as a success. Because they're like, ah, the cap though, that did end up being a cap problem. That's why they're not going to go hire Mike McDaniel or whoever hot shot changed the league, take it by storm coach. They're not going to do any of that because this might be the last contract Jerry signs for a head coach. He could

die tomorrow and he knows that. It's not going to be with freaking Lincoln Riley as the head coach. What's going to make it to where you can go into work and things will be the most kind of like they are now? Yeah. Mike McCarthy and

Dak Prescott. And that was the mindset with Garrett too. He probably thought, hey man, I'm 75. They were winning games. They were getting into playoffs every once in a while. I mean, McCarthy those 36 wins in three years, that's the second most in the NFL. And Jerry

and Steven used the term, hey, we're hanging around the rim. We hadn't dunked it or we haven't the term, hey, we're hanging around the rim. We hadn't dunked it or we haven't completed the shot, but we're hanging around the rim. That's all you can ask for. He said it again last night. Hey, you get to the Super Bowl by winning a lot of games, and we win a lot of games.

So once you change your perspective from, like, boy, Jerry's probably horny to win again before he croaks, and think of it as they just want to always be a team that you're probably talking about in December. That's what he wants for his kids too because what that does is makes a ton of money. Yeah, he doesn't want to leave it to them like when he bought them. Right. They were becoming irrelevant.

They were not selling out every game. Yeah. And that kind of needed a splash. Right. That needed a Jimmy hire. That needed a complete overhaul. A trade. He did recognize at one point, he's like,

this needs a complete overhaul. This needs something weird. This needs me going and hiring Parcells. This is not what I want to do, but I'm going to do it because I have to do it to get us back to where we should be. And now we're where we should be. This is cool. Yes.

This is cool. Yeah. Because if you go too far the other way, yes, it could be too much of a risk. I think Steven was in the news headlines recently for the Eagles. It was the Eagles because people were going back to what he said about the Rams a couple years ago. Oh, I didn't really put that together. Do you remember the Rams a couple years ago?

Oh, yeah. He was like, you just can't do this. You can't set... Well, the Rams are back in the playoffs. After winning a Super Bowl? Yeah. Like, they're in the playoffs and the Cowboys are not, is the point.

Yeah. But he learned from his dad. No, that's good analysis of that. I didn't really even – I walked away from that thinking he's kind of a good actor. He is a good actor. But he's not acting. He's not really acting. He's good on screen, but, yeah, he's not really acting.

But I also was wondering about his – like he wants to portray himself as father of the year and certainly the fact that he's able to line his kids up with jobs and everything. As a guy with a kid who has graduated college, I'd like to line her up with a job. I'd love to be able to do that, but I can't. Blake, now I know why Blake's nervous around him. Around those kids? Oh, yeah. Where could they fit in?

I don't know. I don't know. To me, they seem way more host material than producers, so maybe I should be the one worried. But anyway, I wondered how... Yeah. Also, he's saying I'm like father of the year because I wanted to spend more time with Charlotte,

so I would go... Okay, so when I go visit my daughter at Clemson, we plan to do some things together. When he goes to visit his daughter, he's like, what kind of business transaction could I? Like I'm buying 25 lots. I'm drilling for oil. He didn't see her at all.

You're probably right. I guess I'm going to be less cynical. That's why he's a billionaire and I'm drilling for oil. He didn't see her at all. You're probably right. I guess I'm going to be less cynical. That's why he's a billionaire and I'm not. It can be both. You're going to IHOP. Were you at least doing some crypto trading or something at IHOP?

What I thought you were going to say is that I do think that he has an amazing relationship with his kids. It's crazy for them to still be as tight as they are with all the stuff and conflict they have to deal with. It's crazy. Yeah, but wouldn't you? Chappie had a billion dollars. Aren't you

over there on your knees all the time? There's a lot of people who still end up sideways with their family. Maybe they end up legally they're going to get some part of it here, but they just don't talk. There are rich people who do not talk to their kids, parents, vice versa. What I thought you were going to say was it does seem like a great dad to them.

You may recall that the opening press conference of training camp was delayed by a couple days as he was in court for a paternity suit. Again, though, even that, I've told you I'd like to be that girl. And he's also trying to not allow her into the will, so he's actually on their side. Because if he said, yep, she's mine, come on, that's 15%, then yeah, they wouldn't be happy. He's fighting for them. They did actually have to move a press conference.

That was this year. They did actually have to move a press conference. That was this year. They did. You may recall. So anyways, 12th pick. 12th pick. Want to do some news? Sure. Here's James.

Glad you said yes. I had no other thing to do. Yeah, so like I said, I spend uh a pretty sad amount of time reading about matthew livelsberger this weekend he's the young man the green beret the active army uh active army servicemen who blew up a cyber truck in front of Trump Tower in Las Vegas. Or did he? Okay, tell me about it. I don't know anything about it.

Well, you get your normal conspiracy stuff of slowing down the video. Because people say that he shot himself, too. Yeah. And people are breaking it down like, no way. There's no way that he got that shot off like he's still alive in this portion that stuff doesn't interest me as much as there is a guy named sean ryan who did not create the shield that part doesn't interest you it interests me in the sense that I believe I have been seeing quotes, comments, or content from the podcaster and veteran Sean Ryan for years

and being like, that's kind of a weird swerve for the FX guy, but whatever. It's two guys. It's been two guys. So you thought it was the Shield guy all these years? Kind of made sense, right? Interviews with special forces guys. I don't know. Sean Ryan did some military show stuff, if I recall.

And the Shield's all law enforcement-y. Don't know. But apparently Sean Ryan, the podcaster, is a big deal. At least in the veteran community. He's got three and a half million subbies on YouTube. That's where we went wrong. We weren't in the military? We should have been a veteran podcast.

Man. Can we do that? Pivot? Maybe. Are you a veteran? No. Okay. He just threw his headset on.

Following the story quite a bit. I would like your input. Yeah. So he's a former Navy SEAL, the podcaster, Sean Ryan. He's a former CIA contractor, special ops, does consult, not consulting, but like he's a contributor with some of the cable news channels. So he does this podcast

and he'll have analysts, ex-analysts from the CIA or from DOJ on, and they'll talk about like future threats. Like, hey, what are we looking at? What are people talking about? They both have, like they have a lot of relationships with people who are still in the field,

both still undercover and not. So he'll have people like that on his show. And last week he had a guy on his show, Sam Shoemate, I believe is his name. He's another guy who lives in this intelligence world. Like, he's ex-CIA. He's ex-Marine. Basically, this is the same way the Rock knew Bin Laden was about to get iced. Remember that? These guys all talked to each other

and he knew because he had trained with the SEALs or whatever. This is just basically like the Department of Defense's which penny stock will hit $100. It's all like, this could happen. Keep an eye out for this. He's all like, this could happen. Yeah. Keep an eye out for this.

And so he's one of these guys. Yeah. And so in this case. Was this because of 9-11? We should have seen this was a possibility. Did this industry. That probably did, yeah. Balloon.

Yeah, the best. That's really obvious. We should have realized that. No more black swans. Yeah. So Sean Ryan does this podcast on Friday with this Sam Shoemate guy. And again, if I'm getting the name wrong, whatever. So conspiracy stuff is popular. Oh, huge.

We've talked earlier. Rogan, this guy. Alex Jones. That's what we need to do. A conspiracy veteran podcast. Yeah. That shows Shaft. That shows what we need to do. A conspiracy veteran podcast. Yeah. That shows Shaft. That shows Wiener Shaft.

Saroy's a veteran. Saroy is a veteran. Contributor right there. Yeah. I've been arrested. It's basically a prisoner of war. I've shown Shaft. We're on to something.

You've got the misogyny thing pretty well covered with that whole Christina Pink thing. Like, why don't you just show her a whole tit? It's not misogyny. So this guy does this podcast where he has an associate in the intelligence world on, right? And that guy comes on and says, you know, basically like, holy hell, I'm pretty sure that the Green Beret that they're saying did this while he was on leave, I think he'd been contacting me. He'd been contacting me on my Instagram page and then on, is it Telegram?

Is that what they're, Signal. Signal, yeah. The like supposedly encrypted app that you can use for communication that the government can't get to. And. Supposedly. Supposedly. Okay. encrypted app that you can use for communication that the government can't get to and supposedly supposedly okay what do you think what do you know you said it like well they can't verify it but this guy's posting these emails and saying like hey these are what this guy sent me here's what he's talking about here's how he said he proved it was him like hey just so you know the first car i ever bought was an 06 mustang because like you know sometimes that'll be a question on like a

security thing that's a weird thing to know to have researched and figured out if you're trying to purport to be this person so somebody was talking to this sam shoemake guy either the guy who blew up the truck or a guy pretending to be the guy who blew up the truck. One of the two things is true. And if it's the latter and it's, uh, you know, all some weird red herring done by civilian government, not sure for whatever reason, it's very, very elaborate. Like the guy has extremely specific details. He goes into in these emails an incident that he was involved in in Afghanistan in 2019 where he was basically, you know, on command for airstrikes. And they just slaughtered a village, hundreds of civilians, or at least it looks like 100 civilians. And it was covered up.

And he's like, I was a part of covering that up. Here's the DEA agent I worked with. The DEA's involved because it was a poppy field operation. Here's the CIA operative I worked with. Their names are redacted in this report that was released. But if you go cross-check that with actual reporting on that incident, it did happen and it was covered up. There was an attack in 2019

where they killed dozens and dozens of civilians and they tried to cover it up. He also claims to have knowledge of what was happening with those goddamn drones in New Jersey. This is where it gets real interesting. He's like, hey, that is a

he uses the term like gravitic propulsion or something that I'd never heard before, but that's no surprise. Basically saying like these anti-gravity drones, China has them. They're using them. We have them. And we're trying to test the capability. Like this is a new level of human warfare that they're testing out. And they cannot let anybody know about it. And he's saying, I was aware of that. I out and they cannot let anybody know about it.

And he's saying, I was aware of that. I was involved in that. I know about it. And I want you, Sam Shoemate, this guy, he's like, I want to get you this info. I think they had a mutual friend. I need you to get this to Sean Ryan because apparently Sean Ryan's a three and a half million subscribers. It's a big deal for veterans. And if you can, to Fox News and Peter Hegseth, who is the incoming Secretary of Defense. At least the nominee for it. Yeah, good point.

I suppose it could happen. But he's like, you got to get this info to them. This is a big, big deal. And he just has these rants about these drones and what the government is doing and all the injustices committed by the government so take that right like that's on one thing on the other you have official releases from the government uh investigating the act of terror saying that they found two small manifestos. I don't know if they were printed. They couldn't have been printed.

He blew up his car, but they were on his phone somehow. Those are way different. Those don't mention anything about the 2019 thing in Afghanistan. anything about the 2019 thing in Afghanistan they don't mention anything about the drones instead the manifestos are like oddly pro Trump and by oddly I mean it says military time to wake up we're being led by weak leadership military and vets move on D.C. starting now. Malicious facilitate and augment this activity. Occupy every major road along federal buildings,

campus of federal buildings by the hundreds of thousands. Lock the highways down around with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete. Different tone. Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight the Dems out of the Fed government and by military means if necessary.

He continues later. A separate one. We are the USA, the best country people to ever exist. Kind of an Alamo art thing there. Right now we're heading towards collapse. Then he's got some generic 1% stuff.

The top 1% decided long ago they weren't going to bring everyone else with them. You are cattle to them. Can you be the best country people to ever exist if you are also heading for collapse? Like right on the edge? It's an interesting dichotomy that it feels like both

politicians on both sides tend to although frankly Trump a lot um he's getting weird now again the thing that he claims that is purported to have been sent to these intelligent community members and talking heads is all about

the government is covering shit up we can't know about it it's very bad I'm doing this to draw attention to the fact that this is happening. The manifesto continues, A lot of us are just sitting around waiting to die. No sunlight, no steps, no fresh air, no hope. Our children are addicted to screens by the age of two. We are filling our bodies with processed foods.

This guy's speaking to me. But it's somewhat normal manifesto stuff, but it's way different than the other stuff. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Well, yeah, and he has two manifestos. Our population is- Maybe he's just trying to see what sticks.

I mean, when I made my notes, I was saying like, it feels like this guy's doing, pardon the interruption. Now I'm onto this. He's like, drones, ding. They're like, processed foods, seed oils. Ding.

He said, our population is too fat to join the military, yet we are facing a war with China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran before 2030. Oh, really? Damn. This was not a terrorist attack. It was a wake-up call. Americans only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives?

So that's what he's doing. That's what he said. He's trying to... Has he looked at the news? Like, this stuff goes away in a couple seconds. Yeah. No, I don't think so. Media literacy on this one, or at least reading the ecosystem a little...

It's like, America's like, that's super wild the playoffs start huh yeah jesus baker got in right with baker he considers uh he detroit needs the rest sure yeah conclude and dude you're gonna look up it's gonna be thursday college football gosh he says consider this last sunset of 24 and my actions the end of our sickness and a new chapter of health for our people rally around trump musk kennedy and ride this wave to the highest hegemony hegemony uh for all americans we are second to no one so i don't know people are trying to say that those emails that he that he sent to that guy uh sam shoemade are fake

sam shoemade has put it as all out there as I can see for proof as like, I'm telling you, this is what the guy sent me. I've given it to the FBI. Yeah. Well, yeah, I think Sam is also saying that the guy is still alive. There is some – I have seen that. I haven't drilled down on it as much, but there is some idea that like, yeah. That he thinks that the reason he got a Cybertruck is some – I have seen that. I haven't drilled down on it as much, but there is some idea that, like, yeah. That he thinks that the reason he got a cyber truck is because –

which doesn't make any sense really, but that he could remote control it, drive it there, explode it. But I don't know how that explains whose body is in there. Yeah, fake body. The video that came out yesterday of, like, the body supposedly moving around. That's the video I was talking about. Yeah. I also saw this one

I didn't follow up on at all. But the guy... You know there's another Las Vegas? It's like in New Mexico. It's called Las Vegas? Yeah. Because I've seen it on the way back.

How do I not know that? When you go to Colorado. I've seen it on the way back from Colorado. We've seen it on the way back. How do I not know that? Yeah, when you go to Colorado. I've seen it on the way back from Colorado. We've seen it on the sign before, and it was like 500 miles. Did they have gambling and stuff? I don't even have any idea. But we've definitely looked at each other like,

that doesn't seem that – we should go. Yeah. It's actually like a 19-hour drive or something. I don't know. To real Las Vegas. Yeah, but so I saw something that he plugged in the coordinates wrong and ended up there first.

At fake Las Vegas. And because he did that... It's like when Rob went to Hearst to go to my house, even though he's been there a million times. Las Vegas, New Mexico. For some reason, my house on Apple Maps is sending people to Hearst.

Because he didn't think the route ahead and he went to the wrong Las Vegas, he had to charge his Cybertruck like eight times. That part was hilarious. Like out in the middle of nowhere. His map is hilarious. It's a straight shot to new Las Vegas and then had to go over. You're in the middle of nowhere trying to charge this thing. He's a Green Beret.

Yeah, he's a Green Beret. Yeah. Yeah. And that's another part of it too, Dan, is that they interviewed his family. And they're like, yeah, if he wanted to blow that whole building up, he definitely could have. Like, this rigged up explosive that you see in this truck. Like, this guy was blowing up buildings by hand on deployments. Okay, so that does lend to the...

I just wanted to create a spectacle. Yeah. They say he was suffering from depression. You know, though, and I believe the right is better at amplifying things. Better at everything. Right? Than the soft left. things. Better at everything.

Right? Than the soft left. But had that been like an immigrant who is anti-Trump, that's, I mean, that's, we would probably have laws passed already. Well, never allowing anyone with a pigment into the country. Well, it's interesting because

part of it is that no one died in Las Vegas other than potentially the terrorist if in fact that happened. And in New Orleans, people did die. But I wonder what it would have been like if those numbers were even. Because you're not hearing anything. I haven't even really seen this manifesto. I saw it on like Talking Points Memo, like a political blog.

I'm not seeing this manifesto in the New York Times or on NBC News where he's talking about, hey, we need to take over the government, root out the Dems in a purge. However, I am hearing quite a bit about how this Muslim guy became radicalized in Houston. A lot about that. But he's not like pro-Democrat or pro-Republican. He's just anti all of it, right? Who? The Muslim

guy. Well, what I'm saying is that the media looks at the Muslim thing and they're like, this guy hates America. We know that play. Yeah, okay. Let's talk about that. How did it happen? Okay, I see. You know? And they say that, you know, he became radicalized, moved to a neighborhood, just in like the last

18 months, moved to a neighborhood in Houston that was predominantly Muslim and even the people in that neighborhood kind of thought like, something's weird with this guy. There was a funny note in the New York Times because they actually did cover his motives where the guy,

to my knowledge, didn't leave a manifesto but he had started a SoundCloud page. All right. And rather than just, like, rapping over old Chance the Rapper beats, he was just posting himself talking on SoundCloud. And in one of the clips,

the New York Times notes that one of his, like, diatribes against society, he's talking about music. And he was really mad about like about partying so the new orleans thing was that like he was really mad about like the culture of america drinking and sex and he specifically mentions this happened in 2023 um that he blames 50 cents album get rich and die trying for a string of murders that had happened in his neighborhood which is entirely possible but that album came out in fucking 2003 like update your software buddy there's been a million other albums you could have gone with

get rich or die trying is still in your crosshairs? It's weird. He's like, I think the kids are killing themselves over classic albums. But anyways. That Vivek guy is also upset about the culture I saw. That's a whole other deal. I know. That's a funny bit.

It's a great bit. It's a great bit. We talked about that a little bit, didn't we? I don't remember doing it here. Oh, maybe not. I don't think so. Well, it was funny because obviously it's over the... I heard Ethan Strauss talking about it. Yeah, it's over the H-1B visas.

And shocker, the people who run the tech companies who threw all their weight behind Trump and the Republican Party because it could help them advance their... Agendas. Their agendas with deregulation and embracing things like crypto. It turns out they actually don't care, really, about America as far as American citizens. They care about making money. Whereas a lot of the people who voted for Trump, at least the ones that were really, really, really fired up about it, they care about America, but particularly the Americans who look like them.

Yeah, but then – And they were promised that. Then this whole thing, though, is – because if you complain about immigrants, they're taking our jobs. Like this is literally – like they're taking the jobs of suburban, white, college-educated people. For the most part, yeah. That's the visa thing that's the visa thing

the tech visa thing that's what they are taking and that's why it's now in complete contrast with it just doesn't fit the other I don't want any immigrants here I thought we didn't want any immigrants here that's cool right

we're all on board with that oh no no wait we want these immigrants here. That's cool, right? We're all on board with that. Oh, no, no, wait. We want these immigrants. But that's actually hurting. Yeah. Well, the other immigrants, a big argument is it's a lot of jobs people don't want to do

or something. Well, the tech gazillionaires, they never cared about immigrants or not. They just knew that was something they could say to get people on board. No, I just think it's a fun... People who are super MAGA,

they do care. And I like are super maga either side and i like i like uh infighting on either side really that's just oh of course i'm just very used to it over here yeah yeah right i'm typically like oh okay so let's see this person uh is old but it can speak and bernie this person is old but i I think he's actually dead. Yeah. Dude, I ended up flipping on the TV the New Year's Day, I think, that night and seeing Biden up there. Holy, holy hell. Unbelievable. How could they ever have thought he can run for president? Like, let alone keep doing it for four years.

No way he would have lived for four more years in office. No way. But just what it takes to run for president is incredible. I marvel at Jerry's energy. I marvel at Trump's energy because I couldn't do it. Like tonight, I got to get to bed. We're doing a three-hour show here today. Oh, I was going to say.

Let alone run. No, I feel you. Run for president. Do speeches every day for months. Be quick on your feet. Like, that's something he's not. Like, who around him was like, this is a good idea? I don't know, man.

It's amazing. Yeah. Like, they tried to prop him up and pump him full of whatever he needs. But the other day they clearly had to surprise him. And he was like, where do I go? But, no, the Vivek thing that was funny, he took that as like a – he's going to take a shot at American culture. Why don't you get your kid out of flag football and into math club?

Which really, that's probably a great message. Sure. But he also there is something to like gonna play american people also really value hanging out in community and getting to know one another and spending time together and not just being about like goal goal goal as much as we get shit for being like the crazy capitalist country, we're not like some of those other countries in that every single thing is about what's the next thing. The goal, the goal, the goal. And so to illustrate that point, Vivek said something effective.

You know, we need to idolize guys like Screech over Zach Morris. And somebody replied. Rest in peace. Yeah. Zach Morris. And somebody replied... Yeah, somebody replied with the image of the scene when it happened. And they're like, yeah, well, Zach got a 1520 and Zeke got a 1350

or 1360 on his SAT, which Vivek would know if he weren't a fucking casual. Which I actually did. Yeah, remember. That was a big storyline. And it's going to be cold here. Yeah, what's the deal with that? It's cold now.

I don't know that... I'm going to pre-do this right now. I'm not going to do it right now. But I'm going to pre-say that if there's anyone listening that has the ability to let me rent say a barn or a

warehouse or some sort of space that is large enough for a bounce house on Saturday, I will pay you whatever it's worth. What do we got Saturday? Norah's birthday. Isn't there like a bounce house place? There's like the trampoline park.

The jump zone or something? She's just not a fan. We were going to do it at a park, but obviously it's risky. You got a January birthday, you're rolling the dice. But once she got her head set on like, I want to do the bounce house at this park

that we go to in Grapevine. And you know, a week ago it was to in Grapevine. And you know a week ago it was going to be 50 something and now we're dangerously close to having to make other plans. Like I think you could do a kid birthday party at 50 degrees. I think that's fine.

Yeah but it's going to be 30. High of $44. Right now, yeah. You can't do that. Well, right now, high of $49 on Saturday. Instead, just give her her first ever iPad in the morning and then just leave her. You don't have to do anything all day. No, I got enough iPad and phone guilt.

It does make it feel a little bit better whenever you play it with them. She's got learning games and I help her with the learning games. Yeah, she can learn chess. I did that BS with my kids. They're going to learn chess. You know how long they did that? Whatever.

Until they were like six. No. Yeah. Look, at the end of the day Then they discovered YouTube. It's like, whoa. The sooner This is what Vivek needs to realize.

The sooner as a regular shmegular guy you realize you have mid kids, the better. Because then you're not throwing away a bunch of money on this or that. Like, oh, my kid's going to get a lacrosse scholarship. Probably not. You know, you got a mid-kid. The distribution just works to where it's likely your kid is mid. Just be happy with your mid-kid.

Yeah. You don't want them to be too hot. Yeah. You want them to be mid everywhere. Sure. Because that's what everybody is. You want the Dak Prescott of kids. The Dak Prescott of kids. No, I don't.

The Cooper Rush of kids. But seriously, hit me up if you have a place I can put this bounce house. I'll pay you. That's the news. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. How about – whoa. Whoa.

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You said it's birthdays, right? Yeah. I forgot to put this in Dropbox, but I think I have a new sounder for us. This is topical given what we were just talking about. Just for birthdays? Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday

to you. Whoa. Happy birthday to you. What is this? Happy birthday to you. Oh my god. That's Biden? Yeah.

I don't know when it happened, but I saw it yesterday. I think it just happened. He doesn't really have any inflection in his voice. The kid looks – He doesn't know the song? He doesn't know the song. And, I mean, yeah, he's wrecked before he gets to, do I remember this Indian kid's name?

And then he just – Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. All right. All right. Hey, Corn Pop.

Greetings to Molly, Dan. It is my Adolis Garcia birthday. My leaders are Dan asking random cab drivers where he can get some pussy around here. And the It's Just Banter slash Jonah Carey Austin Party Bus Adventure of 2015. I have an anchor word for Blake. Okay. Botanical. Yeah, very good. Yeah.

I mean, I guess it makes sense, right? Because root word botan, botany means plant, but is it just calling it like the gardenical gardens? There's not a botanical anything else? How could there be? Here's a botanical Well... Look, it's a botanical. Well.

Look, it's a botanical shirt that I'm wearing today because it has a flower on it. I like that. Anyway. That's going to go between bolster the bullpen and brandish a firearm. Bolster shouldn't be on there. Then I'll take it off. Thank you. Even though you made this list. Let's see.

We grow. We make mistakes. This is from Dan in Austin. Oh, the great Dan in Austin. What if he's the bad Dan in Austin? He's not. Are you sure? Yep.

I can read it. I heard it in his voice in the email. So it's Monday, January 6th, if you celebrate. Happy Jan 6th. You remember that, Stu? Oh, yeah. Where were you? Were you there?

I was there, yeah. On the steps. I wonder if Jen has posted today. Probably, right? Probably. I would right? Probably. I would guess. Yeah. It's an anniversary.

On this day in 1994, Nancy Kerrigan, figure skater. What happened to her, Blake? Give you a little quiz. You've heard of this story, correct? Yeah. You're three years old. I probably don't remember it live. I don't know.

Did she get hurt or something? That's right. Clubbed on the leg by an assailant. Four men, including the ex-husband of her rival, Tanya Harding, went to prison for attacking her. Is that Jeff Galooly? Yeah, the whole bit was Tanya Harding, or they were trying to get Tanya Harding ahead to prison for attacking her. Is that Jeff Gallulli? Yeah, the whole bit was Tonya Harding, or they were trying to get Tonya Harding ahead of her in the rankings. And?

Kind of like Steffi Graf, the psycho fan that stabbed Monica Seles one year when Monica Seles was the number one tennis player in the world. And that actually did work. Steffi Graf became the number one player. I don't think that Tanya Harding went on to be better than Nancy Kerrigan. There was a time where I would have considered sex with Tanya Harding?

Harmful action against Aaron Rodgers to help the Cowboys. It just seemed like it was happening a lot. By the way, your Jenna Ryan update, she tweeted this morning, I just did an interview with the local radio station KRLD. She said, I don't think he was ready for me to tell him about the instigators dressed as Trump supporters on January 6th.

Oh, snap. Ooh. He wasn't ready for that. Just kind of like the people who we worked with were not ready for her to be in the waiting room. KRLD, that's not cumulus. No, it's 1080. This day

in 1998, Barry Switzer resigns as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Unless he re-signed. One of those two things. He either got a new contract or he didn't. Did you ever meet him in person? Yeah. I just don't know what your Corby Berry ticket...

I've never spent extended time like you have. But he was like... He came to the station or something? Something like that, yeah. He's obviously the greatest guy you'll ever meet. It's unbelievable. Yeah. I mean...

It's like Michael Irvin. Yeah... It's like Michael Irvin. Yeah. When you meet Michael Irvin. They act like he remembers meeting you and stuff. Yeah. But I don't think he does remember meeting me. But he makes you feel great. Like, he's really interested in what you have to say.

And I know he's not. And also, I mean, this applies to Jerry. Not as much Trump, because he doesn't really get down like this. But there just are people who are just built different from a party standpoint. To be able to drink.

He was telling us stories at that age of stuff that he was doing that would have ended my partying career for good at that time. And he was like 75. It was so funny, dude. He drove the three of us, me, Fitz, and Corby, up to the gate on game day at the stadium in Oklahoma.

He lives about three blocks away, basically on campus, and he got in his car and was like, we're going to drive up there, and all the streets are closed. And so he would just pull up to every barricade, and there's some whatever, 20-something all the streets are closed. And so he would just pull up to every barricade and there's some whatever, 20-something all the way to 60-something person parking attendant. He's like, hey. They're like, oh coach. Move the

barrier. He pulls forward. That happened three or four times and then we were in front of the stadium. He just does whatever he wants. So I got to thinking there. It's amazing that Jerry hired him, and nobody else, like, no one else was about to hire Barry Switzer. Really? See, I don't know anything about that.

No, he was a disgraced college coach, you know. Recruiting. But there was nobody was lining up to hire Barry Switzer. It's just that Jerry knew him, got rid of Jimmy. They had a great team. I know this great guy who They had a great team. I know this great guy who could lead a great team. So let's hire Barry Switzer.

It wasn't like other teams were like, he had to outbid someone. How many coaches have Jerry hired that no one else actually would have hired at the time? Jimmy Johnson. At that time, possibly somebody would have eventually, but at the time it was thought of as pretty crazy. Yeah. Because that just wasn't in vogue, hiring college coaches to coach NFL players. Afterwards, in retrospect, it was like, oh, no, this is really obvious because he knows all the young players.

He knows the college game coming in. I don't know that Chan Gailey was a hot commodity. Maybe. Certainly Dave Campo. Nobody was ready to hire Dave Campo. Jason Garrett. I don't think at the... Well, maybe.

Certainly by the second contract, nobody was going to hire him if he was free. And McCarthy's a question mark. Probably would have gotten some job at some point but you wonder if he would now even with his record you want to know who's right above mike mccarthy or maybe it's one win below in all-time nfl uh wins i think i just heard this who is it jeff fisher oh wow just if you want to think, like, oh, Mike McCarthy, certainly he'd get another job. I don't know that he would. I just don't know if he gets fired today or just let walk.

Does another team hire Mike McCarthy? Let's say the Bears get Ben Johnson. Who's going to hire Mike McCarthy to say, this guy can turn around this franchise? It's probably not happening. Wade Phillips? Nobody was hiring Wade Phillips at that time. Good thought, Dan.

How does he want me to punctuate this? I'm capping it off. Yeah, Campo. This is the day in 2018 after a book came out

that said people were questioning his competence. President Donald Trump started tweeting. Yeah. And this is the one where he said he's a

very stable genius. Oh. You're about to get all that back. A classic. Well, you're not about... See, he's still tweeting all the time. You're just about to now know about every time because the mainstream media will then report on it.

Yeah, that's probably true. It's a lot. It is a lot. He also does truth a lot. Truth social? Yeah, what he does more... I mean, his Twitter is just hilarious now. It'll just be like I said.

It's so out there. I mean, look at this one from Christmas Day. He just posts gifs. Are we about to be in the Trump learns about AI and what it can do era? Oh my god. Being that Trump learns about AI and what it can do era. Oh, my God. You okay over there?

And a couple of famous weddings on this date. In 1759, George Washington married Martha. And in 1945, George Bush married Barbara. Barbara Bush. Birthdays today, Charles Haley, 61. Barbara Bush. Birthdays today. Charles Haley, 61. Good friend. Marquise Bell, 26. Safety.

Florida A&M. Noah Brown, 29. The Force. Doug Free, 41. You know what's funny? As we joke about that Corby drop, Noah Brown had a great year. Didn't he? Let's see what it was.

Doug Free 41. Is he the cowboy that lived in a modest three-bedroom, two-bath? I think so. Would mow his own yard on the weekend, but made $4 million a year? Yes. Was he in the band? No.

Wait. Yes. AJ Hawk is 41? He's definitely about to make an interesting point. In our, hey, he's alive category, Lou Holtz is 87. Wow. I'd like to see where Lou Holtz is right now. Thank you, Ryan Day.

Lou Holtz, man. That was his last kind of media thing, did I recall. Do you want to listen to some? The Ryan Day situation. What do you mean no? It's pretty quick. This one says, Lou Holtz on coronavirus. How long is it

all right this is just our drop box of the day that's not playing i think it ends when we have the election but when you're in the leadership role laura you have to look at things from both points of view. I don't care about that. This one just says, Lou Holtz, very confusing. Let's give this a run. We anticipate it. They will get to talk a whole lot more at halftime. I promise.

Well, I don't get it. I got a day of rain, man. But they're counting down 765. Okay, I've heard that a thousand times, but it's still good. They're raining the head comb. Howie Long, 65. You're talking about the star of not Backdraft, but another firefighter movie. Anybody? Indomitian Sioux is 38.

I'm pretty sure he was also in uh broken arrow jamis winston is 31 firestorm i'm not gonna let you guys just disrespect the film career of howie long here he was in broken arrow with travolta and uh christater. Terrible, that movie. I'm sorry, what? It's one of the... Somehow remember that as standing out as being... You mean when the guy gets on top of the nuke?

Is this a Divorced Dad weekend movie? Yeah. Okay, so that's why you think Howie Long is like an actor? It was in... 96 was Broken Arrow 98 was Firestorm. Where he's why you think Howie Long is like an actor? It was in 96 was Broken Arrow, 98 was Firestorm. Where he's like a hot shot firefighter. And your dad's like really into it?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Gilbert Arenas, 43. Agent Zero. Gun. Yeah. Gabrielle Reese, 55. She's a volleyball hot.

Kate McKinnon is 41 Yeah, I don't know Funny? No? Is she Is she in love with ladies? Let's go funny or no Pretty quick, Ryan Oh, no

No, no, no Next one Funny or no Rowan Atkinson, 70 Absolutely not Stu, you a bean guy? No Okay No, no one's a bean guy Next one. Funny or no, Rowan Atkinson, 70. Absolutely not. Stu, are you a bean guy? No.

Okay. No. No one's a bean guy. Oh. I mean, I guess somebody is. You guys are like CrossFit guys. Like, you're going to know. Vegan. All right.

Got a few to end for you, Jake. Eric Trump, 41. Wow. He feels like the most fail-sunny. Doesn't really have the riz. No. Wants to.

I was telling TC about this the other day recounting a story from The Hab. There was a guy that I was cool with from West Texas. Good dude. Very conservative. But also kind of just like an all-politician-suck guy. Good dude. Very conservative. But also kind of just like an all politicians suck guy. Big hunter.

And we were talking one time and he was like, man, I don't know. Don Jr., he's just a regular guy, you know? He's like, he hunts, he fishes, you know? He's an outdoorsman. He's like, he does all the same cool shit I like to do. I'm like, did your dad

give you billions of dollars? Did you ever think he's not really just a regular guy? Then it was time for me to pee in a cup, so I left that conversation. Do they test you every day? No. But I suspect they would if they thought

you had something going on, which I don't know how you could. Do they test you now? No, but I do it. You voluntarily, like, just to show the wife or something? Yeah, for now. Don't kick me out yet. Is that why you're like, Carter, aim the cup.

Aim the cup. Aim the cup. Ma'am, I don't know how to tell you this, but your husband is aging backwards. Testosterone levels are very low. People have actually absolutely used their kids' pee. I don't know how all that works. To pass drug tests. Like, to be honest, I... I mean, put it in a Whizinator. Well, right, but does it need to be your kids,

or does it just need to be clean piss? Like, why would you just get an adult that you're friends with? No, you could just get an adult, but yeah. Like, but if you are a guy who needs to get your kid to pee in a cup for you, you might not have a lot of clean friends. That's a good point. You know?

That's a good point. Finally, Hilaria Baldwin is 40. Oh, my God. Big weekend for her. What do you know about her? It's Alex Baldwin's lady yeah but she's from Boston

I remember just there's Kemp Spin is written next to her yeah so she is of English French Canadian German Irish and Slovak descent but sometime around 20 she started speaking with a Spanish accent and I want to say it was she started saying she was from Mallorca which is an island you know near Spain instead of Boston she has publicly misidentified herself as Mallorcan Spanish Latina

and I think she had like a distant relative who lived in Mallorca and maybe she visited once. But she'll go on shows, like cooking shows, and forget English. I've seen her do it a couple times now. One of them came out over the weekend. And she's cooking and she's like, and then you use the, how do you say in English? They're like, and then you use the, how do you say in English? Ceballo? They're like, onion? But so she's.

It's complete bullshit. But, like the big man, everybody says, hey, that's not right. You can't do that. That's weird. You're wrong. And she's like, no, no se. No entiendo. Like, listen to this.

I learned this from when I was a kid. Don't. No, it's not. It's because I didn't know. I learned this from when I was a kid. He learned. Oh, well, you can hear it. That woman's from Boston.

She's lived in Boston and New York and L.A. How you say? Born on the state, now dead, John DeLorean and John Singleton. Legend. Dead on this day still dead, Louis Braille who invented Braille. And until

Josh starts reading Braille books, I will say he has not read a book. So mean. My college daughter finished listening to Misery like last weekend. She's like,

yeah, I read Misery. Do I give her that? I think you have to. No. Like, isn't part of the processing, like, looking at it, and then it goes through your brain, and then a picture is formed in your brain? Is it okay to just listen? No.

You've got to give Josh a pass. He's not choosing that. Of course, he could choose to work a little harder and do some Braille. To me, reading is an active thing, where listening is more passive. So, no, there's a lot more effort into reading. Like if you can drive and do it, that doesn't mean you're doing it? Yeah, I mean, how often do you just space out?

Do you guys have a problem with everyone using the same water fountain too? I only, to enjoy... It's real audio book listener behavior. What's my favorite album? The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. I just, last night I read all the lyrics. Really?

It was great. Here's the thing. None of this is going to matter. You're going to be longing for the days when she would listen to the actual text of a book. Again, rather than blinking, all of the text is run through chat GPT or whatever the 2040 equivalent of that is. That information is simply implanted in her brain, her neural link,

and then seconds later, she can talk to you like she read the book. No, she can talk to you like she wrote the book. Is a three-hour podcast too long to read for you? Like, should it be shorter? Why is Blake trying to hurry us along? Like, should it be shorter? Why is Blake trying to hurry us along? I feel like that's a shot at the link there.

We've been gone a long time. That was Today in History. He did that so to press you into keeping your closing remarks brief, which I think is BS. I've only got 30 minutes or so, so it won't be too bad. 30 to 45. 29 now. Yes, it is time for closing remarks with our sit-in Stu and Ryan,

who now claim to be brothers. We didn't know that when this whole thing started. Yeah, definitely brothers. Ryan paid for it, so if he's got any thoughts to kick us off. Does he have a mic back there? Yeah. Yeah. I did want to ask Jake, what your crossover time was with Grego?

If any. I was an intern in late 2003 through early 2005. So we had 14 to 16 months. Oh, okay.

Yeah. The greatest drop that never was a drop was when I was listening to The Hardline in the afternoon. And Greg mentioned going to Albert A's. And it was so good. His comment was it was so good it made Bob's steak taste like dog food. it was so good it made uh it made bob's steak taste like dog food and then like right after the break it was like very sincere apology oh really man that's fantastic i've never known about that i never heard about it again i thought yeah no you won't that's fantastic that's very much like pizza hut with the sports princess or whatever. I didn't pay that bitch.

Wow. That's great. That is great. The only other thing I just want to mention, I am from Blakeland in the land of Wiley. Oh, cool. And I'm going to spend like $10 in tolls here and there. You can do that every time you come here.

You're really committed. Thank you for knowing that. That all i got nice i just got uh i got three things one jake your obsession with jake from state farm yes is interesting to me yes um the and i was just curious about just you just like maybe because it's jake from state farm i hear it a lot yeah yeah that a lot it seems like it had gone away for a little while but rehab again was it was constant

and I learned I think just reading the room here a little bit a lot of black people only know that name as Jake from State Farm. They don't know it's a common white name necessarily.

And there's a lot of Jake from State Farm commercials on NBA games. Yeah, for sure. A lot. So like all the women who would watch, you know, 30-something black lady would be like, hey, Jake, like State Farm. And it was just brought back up to me that, yeah, we had a white one, but then we went woke. Nice. I worked at an ad agency in Dallas for 16 years. Which one? It's called The Marketing Arm. Okay. And it's an Omnicom agency. It's

responsible for the transition from white Jake to black Jake. Oh, wow. Really? I was there as it happened. I also met my wife at the agency. She was in the room, made the pitch to shift the State Farm client from white Jake to black Jake. Patient zero. She made the pitch. Well, she was in the room. I gave a picture to Rob of my wife handing khakis from the white Jake to the bed. This is the actual moment, the transition,

transitional moment. My wife was there as a creative director helping the shoes. And look, white Jake slimmed down. He kind of looked pretty good as the transition happened. He felt the footsteps. Yeah, exactly, right? But no, my wife

spent a lot of time on zoom calls and that is so good that's depressing jake from state farm that does to lose all that weight and look that good and still not and then they make him hand him the khakis too that's like yeah that's like campo being at the press conference yeah where they fired him anyways your obsession with that's always funny and it was it was a dallas thing like it happened that's incredible it happened here in town that shift i remember talking to our chief strategy officer at the time, hearing about this from my wife, and saying, like, I don't think we can do this. It's weird.

I felt really weird. I didn't touch that business. I didn't have anything to do with it. But it felt awfully strange. The second thing is Mavrelo. I'm convinced that the Mavericks will never be good again. We won't get back to a championship unless we expunge Mavrelo. Well, you know they were in the finals last year.

Remember that? I do remember that, but we didn't win the finals. No. So I think Mavrelo has something to do with it. Mavrelo's Twitter is still up. There's still echoes of Mavrelo out there. Whenever Mavrelo first started, I immediately got online. I was listening to you guys and like your hate just fueled me even more. So I immediately

started a character, an online character, and I was like, who would be the nemesis of Mavrelo? So in the style of Mavrelo, I had a friend design Pants DJ. So Pants DJ was this little character that popped up on social media making comments all over Mavrelo's post or whatever it was. I can see you've been inactive here for a while. Yeah, yeah. Well, there's a story behind that. So within two hours of posting this, creating it, posting it, starting to comment on all of Mavrelo's posts,

I get a phone call. I was working at that agency from our number two guy at the agency and he's like stew this is uh this is weird but i got a call from the mavericks and so the mavericks saw it and because i followed it and probably my brother and other friends they realized that i created it and so he was just like listen i can't tell you to like take it down, but you don't want to be in the business of pissing off Mark Cuban living in Dallas. Mark Cuban is like, who's doing this? I need to know now. Supposedly.

Well, because I will tell you from what little I know, that's a Cuban venture. I mean, without you even saying that, I would have guessed that. It was some weird, what was it called? It was not Mavs Labs or something. There was some weird offshoot thing. Yeah, it was like, oh, this is the Mavs creative thing that's separate, which basically just means not machine. Yeah, anyways.

Get into today's round ball talk, too, by the way, if you want to hear, is it okay for us to now go in on Mad Varello? What changed? I don't know. Yeah, I think now feels like the time to totally get rid and just delete all occurrences of Mad Vrello. And I think that we'll get back to the championship and win this time if that happens.

Just a theory. He's on a heater. Yeah. The third and final thing, we can do our gifts here pretty quick. We haven't mentioned this yet. My brother and I are both Aggies really sorry about that they just don't present that way do they

see that on the shelf I do yeah I was super hyped about that I didn't bring my jar I should have brought it with me it's something we have all our guests contribute I'll contribute later just gotta get it worked up. So I have an active...

That's why we had the Wonder Woman poster. There we go. I was looking for that. I know you guys don't care about this, but I have a campaign to change the mascot of Texas A&M. The mascot originally was a mutt, and it's been a rough collie for years and years. It really reveled in the dog. So if you go to makerevamuttagain.com, you can sign a petition. You can buy some merch. So this is my shameless plug to make Reveille a mutt once again. I'll do that.

I like to support things that will never really happen. That's exactly right. This will never happen. I've sold one T-shirt to some one person who supports me. I don't think my brother's bought a shirt, which is cool. That's fine. Giving him some shirts and hats. I'm not mad. I'm not mad at all.

But, yeah, there's some kind of background information there, a little bit of a history lesson for all the Aggies listening. Three reasons why Rev should be a Mutt again. Okay, go ahead. Mutt's win natties. In 1939, Texas A&M won a national championship when Reveille was a black and white mutt. Okay. Number two, incest isn't best.

Three out of eight of the full-bred Revs, five, six, and seven, have had neurological or health problems that sent them into early retirement. It's true. It's a fact. Number three, Rev isn't from Texas. The last four Revs have been from Florida, Kansas, and Ohio, and the current Rev is also from Kansas. Rev isn't even from Texas? That's ridiculous.

It's insane. It's absolutely madness. That makes good points. So I've got an entire plan baked out. His website is so awesome. Yeah, that's a Squarespace creation. Anyways, I thought the Aggies listening would enjoy that. You don't have to buy a shirt, but please sign the petition.

That would make me happy. Wow, you delivered. Yeah, and then finally we just got some gifts. We're going to have you guys out, I hope, to the Rivian Grand Opening over off Knox Streets. Now what is that? So Rivian is an electric vehicle company. We have spaces or showrooms across the country, so we're opening up. We have only one in Austin right now, the flagship location down in Austin,

and this will be our second one in Texas. So it'll be a place to check out the vehicles, do test drives, all that stuff. They're sick. Yeah, big fan. Are they really? Yeah. But, Ryan, if you want to – oh, there we go. Nice.

We just got a few shirts for you guys to wear. You can pass that over to Dan. And then we got two more. There we go. Dan, I got you a black one. I thought you might like the black shirts. I wonder if I can go through this year without wearing something that I've ever worn before. Because, like, I have this at least every show.

Every video show? I don't think you can do that at all, no. Well, because we have a lot of shirts people have given me over the time. You have to think about it in the morning, though. Yeah, I do like not thinking. I like just going with the black shirt. This is a cool shirt. I like it.

So those are Austin-specific shirts. I like it. But if you guys need some gear to wear to the remote. I'll wear it that day. I will actually wear this because it's black. Yeah. And it's very understated. I like a nice understated front of the shirt.

For sure. No, but that's it. Thank you guys so much for having us. Thanks to Ryan and my wife. Well, happy birthday. Happy birthday a month ago. And you know what? I genuinely mean it.

This has been fun. Happy birthday a month ago. And you know what? I genuinely mean it. This has been fun. I was just waiting for a second from Blake. Adios, mofo. Gotta go before this becomes a zoo.

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