The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 1-8-26 | Cowboys postseason press conference and The Brandon Aubrey Show

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneTV's, Ted Emrich, sits in with us today as we have our final week of picks with Cirque Du Sirois, Brandon Aubrey has his final regular season appearance with us as he's headed to his 3rd Pro Bowl in a row, then we have a bad bit involving AI playing with your emotions and a ginormous baby born in Arlington (00:00) - Open: With Ted Emrich (16:10) - Today in Twitter: AI clickbait bad bit (22:17) - Cowboys postseason press conference (38:16) - December MBR (01:03:59) - DeeZ Picks with Cirque Du Sirois: Week 17 (01:32:28) - News: 13 pound baby born in Arlington (01:54:42) - The Brandon Aubrey Show (02:30:40) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Now, on to today's program. Don't have me. What a business Wednesday it was yesterday, Jake. Indeed, you copy. I do. I read you loud and clear. We had a call with the folks at Ownwell. Ownwell said they've had tremendous response from the dumb zone listener,

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You're the singular studio. Sounds bigger if you throw an S on the end. Anyway, I guess anything does, right? Because then it means you have more than one. The point I'm making is we're downtown. Thank you, Game Day, men's health, gameday.dumzone.com. Jake out once again, but in.

So it's like you look at the ledger in the end. Did he miss a day of work? He didn't. Was he physically here? He wasn't, but will we mention this during contract negotiations? We won't. It's okay. He's working.

It's fine. You did because Jake's a lot like George Pickens. Not a big fan of Thursdays. No. But he shows up when we need them. I've been just walking around my house combining Bill Maher's new rule thing with ins and outs. Like I'll just see something and be like, in. Out.

That's awesome. I'm in. Ins and outs are in. Resolutions are out. He went back to school today. I feel much, much better as of right now. but I will be coughing and ejecting quite a bit of foreign material from my body throughout the show. And it felt like it would be weird to do that next to a guy I've given COVID half a dozen times.

If I don't see you in person until Monday, that'll be great. But if it's tomorrow, that'll be fine as well. We'll see. Anyway, you're not here so you don't know all the fun we were having off the air just a moment ago with TV's Ted Emmerc. Ted Emmerich is in the studio today. He's just going to be hanging out. He's in a certain chair. Like, he's not a guest that we're trying to probe an interview necessarily, but he's just one of us.

One of us. What we'll call this as the dumb zone, we can call that little area, the place where you hang out. Oh, I like that. A zone of hanging, perhaps. Not hang man, maybe. Could be the hang zone. Yeah. Sure.

Where you're sitting is the hang zone. Jake, you sound great, even though you're still afflicted. Does anybody else feel like when Ted Embrick tells you you feel great? It's inherently sarcastic, or that you sound great, rather. Why would you think that? Hey, last time I was in this studio or studios, I had the biggest coughing fit of my life, if you remember, Jake. So trust me, I know what it's like to not sound good.

You sound great. I hope you're feeling better. I appreciate it. You know how it is. it's the kid thing that you're just being separated from them. It actually does suck. Like being away from your family for a few days and not being able to get your little. So you're being a-

You're being a quarantine cuck right now? Yeah, they have, yep, I have the center for disease and cucking requested that I stay away from my family. No, yeah, it's fine. We're all good. We're all good. I didn't even have to pay for this. This is not a $690 sit-in.

I appreciate you guys having me, but I wish that I had the Burline deal where Blake would pick me up on the way to Fox 4. You know that they asked me if I would be the one to pick up Burline before they asked Blake. I never told Blake this. So this was before the season started, and the guy says, so, you know, Steve's staying down at the jewel. for home games. Is that on the way for you? Could you pick up Steve? And I said, you know, it's actually out of the way.

I'd be going in the opposite direction. But you know who lives on the other side of the Metroplex? I didn't say that. The guy then follows up with, huh, well, I wonder where Blake lives. And I said, boy, yeah. You know, I don't know. I mean, you know, I really don't know. You'd have to ask him.

They did. Well, the lessons we learned and the knowledge we gained, the relationships forged, you know, the political issues covered. The FaceTime calls listened into, yes. Yeah. And he got to hear himself bomb at Last with Legends. So I would say it paid off. That would have never happened if you were not the Uber line. No, it all worked out.

Didn't you guys? You've used that. I've never used that, right? I thought for sure he used that. Have we used an Uber line? Yeah. Yeah. As recently as 25 seconds ago. I thought, well, thanks for giving me credit for something that it's already been said on the show. Well, you're going to get that from me. Because you get respect from me. Not necessarily from the other guys. Anyway, today is... We start a quick list of in the event that we do move with Fox 4, what we want,

in the new studio. These are going to come up on the air. We might as well just note them on the air. Yes. I mean, Coup was right over here. We should say the Fox 4 is moving their building. Yeah.

Their operations. Oh, yeah. That thing is sprouting up. We have an artist rendering here in the building. Off 114 and Beltline. Yeah. They cut a ribbon, didn't they?

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. It's coming up. Did they bring a golden shovel before they broke ground? Hard hat. Yeah, it's in the hall. The hard head, the, with the Fox 4 logo. Let's work on cough buttons

That would be nice That would be nice In Yes Coff buttons That's right A couple quick things Dan I just wanted to run by you

While Ted is here I told you that I had lunch with Jared Sandler the other day And he and I were talking about something Big happening boy I wish I could have lunch with Jared I can't get on this schedule yeah i had him over for dinner during christmas break oh why not why what have one not just let me feel like i had a good time just the lunch huh cute uh i actually

yeah his whole family over my daughter's godfather uh at that dinner i swore him in and he's now no so something came up when we were at uh when we were at lunch certainly we're not the only two guys who if you asked us our most recurring dreams at this age it's that I'm back playing high school football does this happen to you or does this happen to you Blake or like do you wake up like do you dream of still being the current age that you are but being back in that time

ever because I'd never heard anybody else say it and then he brought it up and I'm like oh I wouldn't have told me one well and you guys were both receivers too I mean you know You guys are round over the middle, the contested catch. I mean, Jared at Greenhill, you at Richland. It makes sense. It's just like the whole dynamic. You're back in it.

And it's like, well, I think I can do this. Because he was saying when he watches the state championship games, even at 30, whatever he is, he watches it and thinks, I could do this. I could go out there. I could go out there and play. You guys were at lunch talking about your dreams? Yeah.

Totally. I don't want to do like what did dreams mean. But it is a sign I think of being really washed. But you don't ever dream of being like your current size, Blake, but playing against high school kids? No, I have the same nightmare, I guess, all the time. I'm in a situation where I need to run, but I can't run very fast. And it pisses me off.

Yep, that's a common one. Falling. Yeah, those are all very common, I think. and, oh, what is, are you stuck in light? Whatever. I'm not trying to draw any deep from this. I just routinely, I'm like, I'm going to set this crack block. And people in the stands are going to go nuts. Even Dream Jake can't, like, catch a touchdown or run around.

No, not at all. You still just want to cover a kick and throw a block. He's going to get that shout out in the film session from Coach the next day, Saturday morning of film. What does he yell for his game winning? He doesn't yell Kobe. he like what is he as when there's a cobb does he box out someone else is taking the game winning shot sure ambitious uh and another quick thing for the break that I was interfaced with while talking to some friends who have kids in

travel baseball so I of course remember this whenever I was a kid you'd hear about uh like you're where your birthday mattered and then Malcolm Gladwell wrote outliers and it spoke to me uh because I was born in August and was the youngest kid in every class I ever had. My brother was born in September. It was the oldest kid in every class he had. So I was talking to my buddy who does a bunch of different sports with his, I don't know, eight or nine year old.

And he's an assistant coach in the baseball scene. And he told me that in baseball, they do it by your grade. So when they play a team from, he said, Southlake, the entire roster just says age exemption next to it, not like one or two kids, the whole roster. And I'm, I'm like, well, what does that mean? He's like, well, it means the eight-year-olds are playing against 10-year-olds. This is just, and I'm like, so that they actually hold the kid back. And according to my buddy, certain districts like the one where you live, this is not, when I was a kid, it was like, oh, did you hear about such and such? Like, they just

held it back because of sports. It's not because he was dumb, but that he explains it as like, it's just, that's the way it is now. That, yeah, you're reclassifying. For a male, you're at third, second, third, fourth grade, you're, you're staying back. And we're just going to start this now. Yeah. And that, you know, because when I did it, Dan, uh, or didn't do it, people would do it in like ninth grade. Uh, and maybe you do it when you were a little, little kid, but it just wasn't common. It wasn't common. And he's like, no, that's just the way it is now, which, you know, I guess is a part of the downstream thing from just the monetization and professionalization of youth sports. But personally, I was not aware that

that had become the norm. I guess it all happened by accident at first, right? Like, I remember when I was a kid, someone that was in our grade, fifth grade, or whatever, he was a average basketball player, but he got held back. And we all thought it was funny because he was dumb. And then he was like a great basketball player. He was always really good after that. What a surprise. Yeah. So it happens by accident at that point. And then some parents start to notice this bigger kid. Oh, actually he got held back. Oh, he did? Oh. And then you start thinking of it when they're five and when they're first going to kindergarten, like, okay, well, let's not, let's think about where they are. I think it was a I can't remember who did this. A friend of mine though had the daughter and

they were on the cusp and their decision was based on we're going to hold her back because we don't want to go her going off to college at 17 even though she was answering all the the sight words and all that kind of stuff. They wanted to they're like she shouldn't be in nursery school. She should be in kindergarten now. It will not do her any good. And they were like, yeah, no, I don't even. even so, which then, I guess, speaks to Montessori. Maybe you'd rather do something like that where you can learn at your own ability space. Yeah. Yeah, then some parents, I think, you know, my mom was like shocked.

I wasn't dumb. And she's looking at my dad, you know, and so the fact that I was advanced and had an early birthday, she's like, well, why would I hold him back? Yeah. I'm like, well, this is going to catch up, you see. But in any case, the reason I bring this up is she foolishly was not thinking about your athletic career. Exactly.

Yeah. I do this to sort of chum the waters for viewer mail. Because I imagine there are a number of our listeners who have crazy stories regarding age exemptions and some of the chicanery that they've seen at the youth sport level. So hit me up. No viewer mail today. Ted said he would not face the public. You guys have a busy Thursday, it appears anyway, with what, MBR, picks? Oh, I forgot about NBR.

Many other things? I got it. Jam packed, as we like to say. Thank you for promoting. We're doing picks with CERC. We're doing Brandon Aubrey at 1.30. Wow. So we brought you in to ask the hard questions.

Blake, are you going to make fun of any media questions for Brandon Aubrey today? I might. Find a couple. We also have today in Twitter. Just a quick hit for you guys. and my printer wasn't working today so I can't tell you

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The Dumbzel presents Today and Twitter And bad bit But I'll let you guys vote Clayton I got a picture in there With the hilarious Today and Twitter acronym And I want you guys to take a look at it

This is from Twitter And a lady named Maya Put a picture of a little girl She appears to be five-ish, right? Five, six Crying holding a picture and Maya says

my daughter drew this all by herself but she felt very sad because no one complimented her and with three sad emojis and ending with a quotation mark for some reason so

as you know this is obviously a bad bit yeah bait tell my kid they're awesome and certainly show the flood of comments that will all be positive to the daughter

to try to cheer her up so that's the thing I have a lot of questions but I imagine you're about to answer them what do you mean well this temporarily doesn't make sense where was the photo originally posted

she's coming back now with a photo saying hey nobody was nice to my daughter in this picture she drew where did she probably drew for school right that that that's what i'm assuming but okay well if she drew it for school then her peers determined it sucked and that's just school do we think though this this is all fake though well that's what i'm getting at it's not her daughter it's not right but okay number one i do like to look at the comments because it is very funny um i do you know twitter is a a cesspool, a hellhole, uh, social media is terrible. It does nothing, but it's, it's just so

negative. But this is the problem with social media. It has that label. It's like Shottie has a label of this. I do this and this, but you don't actually do it. You say it. Um, then you go to all the comments. So they're like, uh, the first one is John Heyman. Famous baseball. The baseball. Who says absolutely fantastic. Your daughter is very talented. Um, um, Um, people are like, uh, jumping on, uh, great job, well done. That's a pretty picture. Quite a nice drawing. Uh, did Shams weigh in? Like, where are we going with this? So that was all the comments I was looking at last night. And then later, after we're all sucked in, uh, Maya post a picture of apparently Maya in a bikini. And it says, uh, check out more pictures. And you can just click on this gallery here for pictures of Maya. and her big giant jugs. What?

So this has sucked us in to, hey, I'm going to get engagement with this picture. Oh my God. And now, and. She's brilliant. It's it. And she had art in the handle, too. She doesn't exist. Yeah.

Maya is fake? Yeah, AI. There's no way. What's the point that? Why are we getting engagement? What is that doing for Maya? Flooding Maya's account. Does she get?

money for it? Well, yeah, because more eyeballs on her account, more clicks to her only fans link. The daughter doesn't exist. Yeah. Yeah. I'm perplexed. Because at the same time, it's a, it's ball sacking a bad bit. Like they know this is a bad bit. Yes. Well, they know it works. Yeah, that's a new one, if that's the case, because... That's pretty good. You know, if we were to just examine all the theories, it is not beyond the pale of reason to think that John Heyman or other assorted media members of a certain generation just reflexively follow only fans people on social media.

Yeah, that's their algorithm. And respond. That's not the first hot John Heyman has replied to, you know, but it does feel a little different. I don't know. Heyman tweets. Good on the host. Hamon tweets are, yeah, fantastic.

Your daughter is very talented. His next tweet, Michael Lorenzen to the Rockies, 8 million. And that was today and Twitter. All right, you want to do a little of the story of the day with the Cowboys? Sure. Which would make this more of a sports segment. But then we do have MBR. Oh, yeah, I like that.

Would you rather do MBR leading into, I don't know, what to do. You weren't asking me. I already did the sounder, didn't I? Did you listen to this, Jake? Yeah, just about all of it. The press conference. Yeah, the Cowboys did a end-of-year press conference yesterday.

Which I got to tell you, man, here's my takeaway. Overall takeaway. Listen to the whole thing. Get the music ready. What? ESPN Oh Let me tell you what

folks It's going down This team will never get better Until Jerry hires a GF No My overall takeaway is I'm just flabber I'm beyond words

For how Like the question was Why should fans be Happy about what's coming or you know the future of this franchise having made it number one reason the number one reason jerry gives this guy sitting right next to me brian schottenheimer not stephen it was brian schottenheimer yeah but the rise of brian schottenheimer from obscure passed over his time was long ago if it ever was it kind of like to all of a sudden well i got to make sure

Brian Schottenheimer's getting his word on who's going to be the D.C. I got to make sure Brian, like, I just need more guys that Brian Schottenheimer likes. When they asked Jerry about the new defensive coordinator, we'll get to a bunch of that. He's like, I need a guy that's just like this, but on defense. No. Like, what? Why? Did the offense not s the bet against Arizona?

Was the offense not as in-com? consistent as anything on this team? I know they put up good numbers overall, but let's, you know, you're not, he's as a head coach, I thought he failed tremendously. He didn't, he didn't play offense to compliment that,

like he just said, I'm just, like he kind of was a good offensive coordinator, but I wouldn't say as a head coach, yet it's like, gosh, this guy, if we just had more players that are like this guy,

like this guy, like somehow his Tony Robinsishness, has just is he a con man is he somehow he's he's made everybody believe that everything we just got to do what he says more Schottenheimer like I'm not I just it's an odd feeling they did have an inefficient offense and the red zone was a problem and that became more of a problem because their defense couldn't stop anybody so every point was at a premium but they still were a good offense. And we can invalidate that however we want. Well, they had a healthy DAC and they had CD and GP or, you know, they didn't beat anybody, but they were a good

offense. But the problem is Jerry's saying that. We don't know if he means it, but he's saying it because he wants people like you to think he's empowering the coach. He wants you to think that this is like, look, you guys are always up my ass and I'm the only one doing it. Like, you've got to make all the decisions. I think he knows that he, the people like it more when we feel like the coach is in charge. So it's all he's doing is just saying it's, you know, that Chattie's very involved here.

Well, let me, dude, we don't know. I mean, listen, they were, the, what he's saying to me is this guy didn't suck. You all said he was going to suck. It didn't totally suck, okay? And you knew he was never going to hire an outside the box. type higher. It's going to be somebody whose dad he knows, and

this didn't go terribly for them. I know he's frustrating, but it didn't go as bad as you. It's not considered terrible year? Well, I guess it's up to you guys because you were the ones and I'm not trying to be argumentative or sarcastic.

I couldn't, like you, it seemed like you guys genuinely thought he would probably not win a game and get fired after him. And he was the offensive coordinator. He hired Clayton Adams, who somebody else is going to hire in the next couple of years now. Well, he's going to, he better ride this way of a long time. Like, besides that, I don't really know what you throw on Brian Schottenheimer's resume to

tell me that he should be hiring other coaches. He hired the special teams coordinator, too. That was his guy. Yeah. And it depends on who you want to blame more for what. Like, didn't McCarthy bring in Mike Nolan? he was the worst coach they'd ever had at that point. And then Mike Zimmer, is that more Jerry?

I don't think it was shot. I don't think it was McCarthy necessarily. Maybe it was. But my point is they've all got their hits and misses. And I don't care about it as much as I do their talent acquisition pattern. And so I'll pick and choose the things from yesterday that made me excited. My genuine thought, this is like, living in conspiracy football land my genuine thought is that how the cowboy's season goes

and the trajectory of their franchise all it really is is are the good ideas that the media puts in front of jerry taking hold or the bad ideas or how is he interpreting what's coming from the media because you heard it yesterday he started saying hey i mean we've got dack in this window we've got to really we may break the budget you know we may bust the budget like He's just saying that because he knows that's what people, myself included, but a ton of people have been writing about is that this is

the time right now. The time was what was it, two or three years, it was the Green Bay game? What was it after that? After that year, they were moving on from McCarthy. Yeah. But it was not moving on from McCarthy necessarily, but it was invest more into this team. This team is

really good. They're right on the cusp. Don't take this one anomaly loss. Because that's, at Philly got bouncing the playoffs that year too. And so they went and added Saquan Barkley, didn't they? I'm trying to think of the time. But their thing

is like, add, add, add. Boy, we're on the cusp. We're really almost good. Let's add. Whereas the Cowboys were like, you know what? Gosh, it's kind of good to be this good. We're fine. We're going to be fine. That was also the year of all in. Yeah. ironic.

But so look, setting the offseason, I'm not as down on shoddy as you are but I don't think you're like out of pocket for thinking it. I'm a fan too. So it just it just didn't go as bad as maybe I think you guys thought. It's just odd this guy that we all laughed that was even getting hired. Even you who thought he'd be better than we did. And that the mica trade or mica shenanigans kind of overshadowed the shoddy hiring and made us forget what a laughable hire that kind of was but now it appears he's kind of running this whole thing with more input maybe it's just jerry smokescreen but it feels like they're giving him more credit for

input than jason garret ever got i would agree with that too which is odd and jason garrett was a member of the family uh i also think it's really funny point number two coming out of this was we're just we can blame this idiot look at that iber flus look at him you could tell look at him. Simp. He doesn't look. He doesn't look like Dan Campbell or like he just, he looks like a pussy. And he was. And basically we had, in fact, I'll give you Stephen Jones here.

They're all talking about getting a new coordinator and what we're going to do with that. And Stephen Jones had a thought, but it was echoing the thought of Shadi and Jerry. Yeah, the only other thing I would add is just that, you know, when we're looking for this guy. We obviously have, we think, some really key pieces in place. And so you want this guy to have a vision for how he's going to use Q, how he's going to use Kenny, because we've made big commitments there, how he's going to use him. So obviously easy at the end. You got overshone at linebacker, you got bland. Stop banging the table. I know. Right. He was doing that. But that is,

don't you think that was a common theme, Jake, is that, oh, look at all these great players. we're not we're pretty we're kind of pretty good we just need one guy who's not an idiot is he that much of an idiot that he had like one of the worst all time a 511 points 30 points per game they were giving up that's all because of that guy and now that we got him out of here no it's convenient for sure i mean sam williams is it looks like a bust right uh so if you look at some of the things that they've done to build up front they're not mentioning that Mazi was a bust. You know, obviously there are other reasons they don't have the same death they had up front,

but they're bereft of talent. And they, that's what it is at this point, right? And what's funny about Stephen saying that is if you go back like two weeks ago is when Jerry said, you know, I don't know that we were really that good defensively for the last five years. We just, we were kind of able to paper over it, which to me seems like a smart football take. But then they go, they have to do this. and Stephen's like, it's basically the O3 Ravens if we could get this fucking moron

out of the picture. That's how they're presenting it now, yeah. I don't know. I doubt Iber Fluse is going to be calling someone else's defense next year. So there's a little bit of truth about. The viral one right after we tell you about one-day doors and closets. I always forget about the closets, too. But the one-day doors part, take a look at your doors.

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This was the viral clip when, well, you'll hear Clarence, and the theme of the day is, you know, we've got this new defensive coordinator. We're going to do about that. Clarence, Adela, L. Cowboys. My first question, Jerry, you intimated, I already said that you were the one who hired Mattieberfluse. Moving forward to the next coordinator,

who was shot in a number to get to hire his own coordinator. Trump just said it. I'm running. Venezuela. Seriously. Shottie had everything to do with hiring Matt Eberfuss last time, and that's not done. Done him done as a negative.

It had no way in the world he's here if Shottie didn't want him here. I'll tell you why they hired Matt Eberfleash. Now, now, Dan, I know you're a fan of play the full clip. I heard the follow-up there. He says, and also Iber Fluse wouldn't be here if Stephen wasn't. He was just saying it's a collective here. But Blake's reaction there, I thought the same thing, like, oh, really?

This was all shoddy. Okay. We're pinning it there. That wasn't necessarily the place. But don't you love that Jerry watches the news? And it's very much up on everything going. on internationally for sure first thing when i first heard it all i could hear was that jerry was about to be like uh grabbed by the pussy he's like trump said it uh the other funny rhetorical

thing is it unwinds there is jerry realizing that he's he's trying to give the guy credit but he's like but also that guy sucked and everyone hated him so i don't want to say it was all him because i'm telling you i'm putting it all into him so he's like not to put that on him that's right it was spot. It's kind of also all of it. And then just, I don't, I don't know how many times I ever heard my grandparents say the name of that country. But if they ever did, it sounded like that. That was horrible. Binzuela. So Iber Flues is the Maduro here. He has been removed. Who is the Maria Carina Machado in this. Yeah. It's, you know, it's like a lot of people is waiting. He knows that it's a news story. He knows.

the quote, but if you were to ask him to draw out the full parallels because on its surface, what it means is this guy next to me is a puppet and he has no power because I'm in charge. Like, that's what it means. Right. But then he's like, now I'm just playing. I'm not a murderous

dictator. I'm a collaborator. I'd like to save some of this for tomorrow or maybe even later in the show because I want to do NBR, but another big thing that did come out of this is Jerry tried to say. We just, we couldn't even dream of having Pickens here long term if we didn't make that mica trade.

And I don't think that's real. I think they could have figured out how to have both of them. We see other teams that manipulate their salary cap. We heard a couple years ago that Denver was going to be in hell for the next decade. And they're now the number one seat. So stop it. There's plenty of ways they can do it. But you know how it is.

They see this in the news occasionally. They set the situation for why they can't do things by their own doing. And then afterward tell you, look, you see this. We can't do it. You're like, yeah, but the reason is because of the thing you did before that and before that. So the best you can hope for is that they see it differently going forward, which for whatever reason right now, I feel that way. All right, let's do an MBR.

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You're no fun. You don't like hanging out. December 15th, Dan wants the Space Force to have a football team. Yeah, Air Force does, Army. Army Air Force, they all run the option. The Space Force would just run the run and shoot or something. Air raid. Yeah. They got to do something crazy.

That may be where you could get the flea flicker offense up and running. Yeah, like make a lot of. it totally you hire Kevin Kelly yeah it's like whatever dude just think outside be real weird hire Elon let him be the coach I mean the Coast Guard has a football team

you're telling me yes they do I mean I they obviously don't compete at the same level not quite they don't compete at the same level as Army Navy Air Force right the commander in chief's trophy those three schools but no the Coast Guard has a football team so

Space Force get on board have you done one of those games? I have not. Uniforms. A quick production question. If I'm going to laugh hard and sound like Pete Rose's mom, should I mute or not? I suppose it's something people just cough like annoying cough? Because I sound like... Just do some coughing. OK. TC didn't care. That's for the whole experience. Laugh cough, I'll keep in. Thank you, Blake. Proceed. That's up to us to say something funny enough.

Only one Jake has a buddy from the month of December. Jake has a buddy who was on mushrooms at the Cowboys Raiders game and was happy when Nellie performed at halftime. Yeah, he's a good friend of the shows. Oh, hey, there's Nellie. Yeah, that is, this was the first year, really, because it had happened to Blake a little bit before, and I suppose Ted as well,

where if you're not, if you don't know who the halftime show is, that's a real treat. Yeah. Like you was, she was too, it's nothing, right? You don't go to an NFL game and you're like, bro, stay down here. Don't get beer. Tina Turner. It was in Detroit.

I think the temptations were in Detroit or something like that. Yeah. No, AT&T doesn't really do anything, but other stadiums will. Right. One Roseanne from the month, Linda Tripp. Definitely. It's like a layup. Yeah.

I wanted to follow up on this. I'll get to that in a sec. We'll do Dan fights with his wife, one from the month. Oh, yeah. And it was because you didn't want your wife to go to the Christmas party. Oh, well, yeah, because she asked me, this is a thing. I want an honest marriage. I want you to always tell me the truth.

And she asked me if I wanted her to go to the Christmas party. Or did I not want her to go to the Christmas party? I said, yeah, that's right. I'd rather eat it. I got enough on my plate here. Did she follow up after? Was Jake's wife there? Luckily she didn't because that...

I was going to highlight the fact that Blake's wife was not there. Right. Yeah, only one of our wives attended. That's right. The guy who just does whatever his wife says. Yeah. Am I allowed to go to the Christmas party? I'll hold it open further.

Thank you, honey. Yeah, I don't... I have no say. Because, I mean, I didn't want to harp on it, but if you're going to bring it up, I straight up told it. I was like, it's, it, I would have, I'm going to have a worst time if you go. She was like, that definitely sounds like your problem.

Like Carson, like Carson telling his wife about the, uh, bringing a ham sandwich to a banquet. Which I know you've referenced before, Dan. Do you remember that, Jake? I'm pretty sure Dan brought it up, but Johnny Carson. I like stories. Yeah. So it was in, what was it? One of the divorce proceedings, I might be getting that part wrong, but it became public, right?

the discord between Carson and ex-wife or one of his wives or whoever, significant other. And the wife or ex-wife said at one point that, you know, she wanted to go to an event that he was attending. Some Hollywood big get-together. And Johnny Carson's response was, why would I bring a ham sandwich to a banquet? I don't know that we can say it's the same thing there, but there was. There were some nice-looking ladies at our Christmas party. I mean, that's similar to the Nance story, right? Yes.

You'd find out he would let him hang the painting. Yep, the oil painting above the fireplace. Yes. Of just him, not the family, just him. So this is what I wanted to follow up on. And I don't know if it ended up turning into a Dan fights with his wife, but it certainly put me in an uncomfortable spot because one day in the din,

Dan's wife asked me to move my car because I think the I think four inches of it was sticking into the sidewalk she said come up I think you need to move your car Dan says don't move your car I went out and took a peek at it and it looked fine to me

but now she hates me because I didn't do what she asked Has she ever said anything or is she just thinking it? Probably just thinking it's definitely she hits you she hates you but I mean the reason I would have moved it was not because it was sticking out, it's just because she asked me to.

I don't care about it. I would have just done when she said so she didn't hate me. But now she hates me because you told me not to. Well, we were up against it. We had five minutes till the show or whatever. Wasn't that the day you're kind of late? Like you're in here. They all run together.

Yeah. But it would have been fine. It was just, we don't all live in dance world. And maybe you could do this with your own wife easier, you know? But like what it was, strip all of it away, laid bare, the wife comes up and is like, I would like you to do something and Dan scanned it like the Terminator and was like, not worthy

and moved back. Not necessary. Like he just straight up said, don't listen to that. And when I walked out later and saw the car still kind of sticking out the road, I was like, she's seen that. Yeah.

She knows it's three hours later. I feel bad about it again. Okay, things that are back, hazing, apparently. we had a hazing story come up we had a couple we had a couple we had a local high school uh let's see who it was flower mound boy they seem like they really flower mound high marcus what are we talking uh yeah flower mound marcus what did they do marauders they uh made the kid get naked and then like i guess while

he's holding his sack, shoot at him with a BB gun. Gee. Not even just tying to the goalpost and leaving him there, but the BB gun. But they let him cover. He got to protect the jewels. But you know what's crazy is that this, oh, this hazing, I have video of me shooting a friend of mine in the nuts. And he's not, he's just like holding his shaft. Like we were blasting him from.

also with a baby gun Airsoft So it wasn't even hazing It was just like let's do it It's just jackass Yeah this is just me and my cousins Being left alone for the 30 minutes That's just Wednesday afternoon

For Jake back then If we fire a bunch of these plastic pellets At you're nuts Why Hillary lost We have three submissions One I don't know if I can say correctly Roger Deach Richard Deich

Yeah Okay Very good writer Reporter but yeah He's He can't wait to let you know That he's watching some women's sports Just so you know he's an ally

He was on the beat for a long time At Sports Illustrated But yes Context Yes But yeah he just If somebody If somebody's being mean

He gets really upset about it Okay He's on that wall for you So he stays on the list What about calling things coded? It's possible. I do it. And it came about after Hillary,

but it feels like the sort of stick-of-the-ass thing to say. All right. And this one is staying in just due to popular vote in Flash mobs. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Flashmobs in, I don't really know what Glee is,

but it seems like that sort of. Yeah. Yeah, like you guys brought up before, Modern Family, you know, it appearing on that show, around that time. Yeah. Yeah. So two newer lists, and then we'll get to the notes from the show. We started a There's Too Much Money List.

I think this started because Tom Brady cloned his dog. But in the month of December, we added two more. One, the guy that lives in Granbury that built a golf course for himself. Yeah. You ever heard of this, Ted? No, I haven't. Pretty awesome. What's the name of the designer that everyone wants?

Tom. Pazio. Yeah. Kite. Yeah, I just didn't know if people do how to take. Tom Kim. A golfer, so that works. Yes.

But he had that guy. The guy. Wow. Just design his private golf course. Yeah, he flew him from like, I believe, Australia to Granberry. Like 12 times. in 18 months and he spent 75 million on it

Damn Joe is definitely using Tom Kite, right? Yeah. Oh, for sure. I mean, that's a thing. So, Nance has the replica of the famous

par three at Pebble Beach in his backyard, but that's one hole. You think if Nance could have all 18, he wouldn't get it done? I mean, he's got to have the land. And that's probably the issue.

He doesn't want to live in Granbury. That's the other side of it. There you go. There's your biggest issue. The other one is buying the Robert E. Lee statue, which I think is placed at another golf course. But just the fact that, hey, we're removing this. But no, no, no, I want to, I'll buy it.

That's right. I need this. Turn into a water feature of 17. He should buy it because maybe it's back. Make it a mountain. Maybe he's coming back. Yeah, maybe the move is to just, Like, take the arrows for being thought of as a racist or something.

But just as culture shifts, just buy all this shit and hold it until people change their mind again. And you're like, well, the price of the brick went up. I'll sell you the Robert Lee statue back plus 20%. Yeah. What if the city of Dallas loses the stars, but we got the Robert Lee statue back? Right. I have him just bring it back down from the golf course. Dan hates this in movies or just things that aren't accurate in movies

We started this month I think in or started this list in November So these are some more of listener submissions Jake's isn't here though movie sex is too clean Yeah I think you you guys ask yeah Jake's looking for the towel It's a big part of the process and they leave it out Right let's see movie doors don't need to open or be closed The floorboard

Maybe locked Or locked There's always a trap door Or something where you can put your stuff Movie fires are perfect I think that's dance Movie babies don't cry The sports book in a movie is just a random person

Like they don't have an app They got a guy They got a shady guy Yes I may call my guy Food getting stuck in a vending machine And then this one is definitely dance Turning off the channel

That's talking about you Yeah I've had enough of that That's good And then Notes from the show So back on December 1st Dan explained how he asked the

I believe Chinese restaurant To take the tails off of his shrimp And every time I've eaten shrimp Since I think about Dan What a baller move Unreal Don't you get your hands all messy And

Yeah I hate it Or you can go knife and fork it's not really that big a deal and yet they do it for you no that's what you should do well why don't why don't they just give me you know the uh give me a whole tomato okay and a head of lettuce and a hamburger and then give me a knife i'll okay i'll cut the tomato that's cool no no no that's i got it wow you were in the kitchen again you you were in the kitchen with the food And you could do it all there and then give it to me. So all I have to do is hold a fork and eat it.

Not, oh, now they take these out or do this surgery on it? No. And some people will be like, oh, no, no, no. That retains the flavor. It's not retaining any flavor. The non-tailed shrimp and the tailed shrimp blind taste test, nobody can tell. Nobody. It's the same with wings for me.

Like, who would, why would you want to eat bone-in wings? Yeah, I don't, I don't. You know what I really hate? Is it called Chiapino or? Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Italian seafood soup?

Right. Because it's got all, it's like, jever, uh, muscles. We had this one place in Miami. They would bring that Chiopino out or whatever. And then they would deshell everything for you at the table so you could watch them do it. And then you could just have your fork and eat. Yeah, there you go. It was great.

Yeah. And the best part, the reason Dan really liked that one, they would feed you. they would actually go a step further for him. They would feed him his food, and then they would say, Mr. McDowell, do you have to do a poop? And they would take him to the bathroom? Would you, would you, burping on the way? Would you get the baby bird feeding if it was from Stormy Daniels?

That is the most uncle Dan. I was trying to think of a real old. Let me think of hottest woman on. Earth. Rita Rudner. I don't have many like, I don't have Ball Poundstone. I don't have many like just definite nose on sex, but food is

100% one of them. Food is in fact sacred. What do you mean? You don't. There's no food. You don't mix food and sex? Yeah. Absolutely not. You don't spray in the whipped cream down there. You don't put the sushi. Don't put the sushi on the body.

You don't want to deal with any of that. No. Those are separate. It's church and state, food and sex. I think Jake would eat some shrimp off from Margaret Cho. No, definitely not. By the way, I forgot earlier when Clarence was identifying himself during the press conference. To me, when they have to identify their outlet, it sounds like they're doing like sushi eating action. It sounds, is Clint deal a little.

He does not like saying that. Hey. That kind of reminds me of Flooring Direct DFW. Oh, yeah. Don't ask me how I connected that. Because they're sexy. Oh, there you go.

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972,449-9-456, but they get most of their business through the website, FlooringDirectDefW.com slash dZ. Please put the slash dZ, because that'll indicate to them that you came from us. Just schedule a free in-home look. They bring the store to you. They have a showroom in DFW, but they know that you're busy. They know you've got stuff going on.

So they will bring their showroom to you, show you, show you their whole catalog. That's their thing. They're from Dallas. They will move your furniture when they do, do your floors. They don't do-do on your floors. They'll not just move it, Dan. They'll move it back. Whoa.

Yeah. Yeah. So they'll move it, do the floors, and then move it back. Clean as they go. It won't be a big disaster zone. Sounds like they'll remove shrimp tails as well. They would. If they were a restaurant, they'd be like, of course we remove the shrimp tails.

Like some, I swear to God. We do here at Shrimp. Some flooring companies, though, I got a buddy who got their floors replaced, like last fall. And they were like, yeah, we had to pay a moving company to come move our furniture out and then move it back in. It's ridiculous. That's a flooring direct says. They won't stay in for it. Flooring direct, DFW.com slash dZ 972-449-9456.

Why not? Let's get profits and outlaws in on this. too. Let's see if we can time it up. We love to time it up. Our pros are the nicest. We've got those prices for re-direct. Hey, they got there. Not bad. Not bad. Really good.

Okay, back to December 1st. Sarah Heppler was in studio, and she told us that she went on a date with a much younger man, and after the date, the guy requested money from her on Venmo. Awesome. For the date. Awesome. I think that same guy gave her a hickie, too. So I don't know if that was a good date or a bad date.

That's the way to go Dutch now. Yeah. He also, she had, she's a New York Times bestselling author who's traveled the world. And she said, I have to leave. I'll let you ask me one question. And his question was, do you do anal? Incredible. Which I remember is a scene from the, from Gone with the Wind, I believe.

answered that question. Vivian Lee, I believe. December 2nd, Dan got mad at Jake for coming to work sick. Here we are. We learn. Jake's like AI. Constantly learning and evolving. He's the AI human.

See, we learned about the lady who jerked off that dolphin. Jake's drug dealer would have a sugar glider on his shoulder. Yeah, I had a guy. I was thinking about that the other day, just how much I missed those guys. You hated him when you had to deal with them. But he was your guy. I know you can beat me at Techmo Bowl again. But I'll go home.

You're leaving already? But the more exotic the pet, the better the drugs. For sure. That's good. Yeah. Slighting scale. This stuff's going to hit. Dan bought us a pizza buffet.

which we noted on. Still need to plan that. He's hoarding it. Dan had a buddy who lost $200 to the guy with the one ball in three cups. New York City. Oh. Early college career, I think we just took a summer road trip, drove to New York City.

And yeah, we had zero, very little money anyway, but my buddy's like, dude, come on, seriously, just give me, I gave him my 100, and my other friend gave him his 100, because we wanted to double it. And we lost. He just knew it was in Cup 3. He's like, I just saw two other people win. Unlike Ali Larder and Landman this past week, who won after losing like five consecutive times on black at the roulette table. Finally, finally, you hit it big.

Of course, that's how it worked. This guy's got a wife show, I bet. you're not into land man you guys played the uh the audio yeah yeah first season it's entertaining so you know i believe yeah i believe it is i just don't watch tv so you know how like philosophers will have their picture it's a really old portrait and then it'll have their quote underneath it and then it'll be signed their name it's like they were important because they thought of this this question sure i have three of those from jake this month where i would like jake portrait and then this

statement or question underneath it because this is awesome having people over is the star testing for your wife very good so check up every so often how are you doing okay they'll cramp for it it's not really how they live

but they'll get ready for the test yeah the next one are animals ever having a good time I think it's I think it's a fair question just in the wild or even at the zoo are they ever chilling

are they ever like kick my feet up here this is a good day for me they're on vacation instead of just surviving looking for the next meal yeah yeah and then when talking about

the natural history museum you said it's just wildlife on pause yeah that's God that's technically what it is if they just hit Paul as in a zoo and you're like what if this intrigues you

for double the price if yeah if I ever have pictures in my office I want those three quotes up December 9th we talked about the Wichita Falls man who's 79 arrested for soliciting a prostitute but he was doing it to homeless people

yeah mark it yeah and we thought not that bad if you're gonna do it trying to help. Yeah. Generates them.

Yeah, for sure. Create jobs. Right. That's what Jesus wanted, you know. If you teach a man to fish. That's right. Mary Magdalene. Come on down.

We did the story about Bob Lavel ordered to pay $5.7 million in restitution for sexual assault, which I guess I should add this to the list. I want the documentary of the crooked people that were behind the Texas Rangers payroll in the year 2008.

yeah so all of that local ad money that paid for prince fielder to get here one day they were all crooked there's a lot of them there definitely are daddy's baby girl yeah we did that one too yeah um and then uh let's end with this things a woman can say but men can't Dan's wife said Nora is going to be a knockout. Yeah, my wife freaked out when Danny said that when she was two.

We had a moment. She's like, he's like, this is going to be a hot piece of ass. Settle down. There's your December. All right. What a guy. Well done. What a butt.

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I bet they've broken bread with the Frankles. We've had a meal with Gene Burkett. He's a very tall man, and he has awesome shoes, as I recall. At first time I met him, I was like, are you both Frankles? And he's like, no, I'm just one guy.

I'm Gene Burkett. I'm tall, though. Yeah, he's one of the partners. Shake your head at me. But the humble man. you don't need to put me on the marquee all i want to do is help people in need like if they have a personal injury and they need an attorney i want to be that guy and we said jean we appreciate that about you they don't take no shit at the frankles so

call them at 214 817 and then all threes this isn't a game now here's picks okay are we ready to do picks you want to do picks We welcome in our good buddies, along with Ted Emmer here. He's our good buddy, too. I'm just kind of resetting that so they know. Yeah, who's this guy? So the scene coming up, yeah, if they hear just a beautiful voice. They will know it's actually not me.

So, yeah, we do picks every week with the Soroy Twins and Danny. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. It is time. for these picks. Here they are. Hello. Mike Soroy, Cash Soroy, Danny Bayless.

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Now, last time before we did the Picks, how many games behind were we? Quite a few. Right? Four or five? Yeah. And the tables have turned. The Dumb Zone had an incredibly lucky week. We're blessed and grateful, humbled really, by the week we were able to put together.

Where, if you remember, the previous week, we had done the first ever triple, triple play. And it blew up in our faces. It was terrible. It was the worst cowboy watching experience I can ever remember. Wait, was it the cowboy game? What did we triple, triple play? It was the Cowboys Vikings. It ended the season after Brandon Aubrey told us not to do it.

That's right. I was sure that I was sure that was going to end our season. And we were discussing, are we going to choose a 24-hour broadcast or are we going to go with the stand-up comedy? And Avin opened the open the old. old notes app, Jake. Oh, you kind of looking at the old, you know, occasionally write something down. Maybe this could be used if we ever revise it.

Flesh it out a little bit. Stand-up comedy. I know. I definitely have that. The shell of some terrible jokes started. And then it all started. Yeah, don't worry. You got the greatest two-point conversion in NFL history for one of your triple. Holy, you know, something meaningless 99-yard drive against saw us for one of our triples and there's your six points right there it was the sea hawk or the

sideways pass at the moment off a helmet that zach charbonnet picks up just because he's a gentleman to give back to the referee and he's got those two points yes and then i would for the first time ever i'm just locked into real i don't know what was the game you had Oregon jm u Okay, yeah, JMU. I would never be watching a JMU game, and especially it was over. It was like 30 to nothing in the first quarter. And I had set, resigned to it,

but I fired it back up and saw, wait, they could backdoor cover this. Yes, they got the ball on the one-yard line, a 99-yard drive, and scored a meaningless touchdown to most people at the end. Yeah, but yes. The Dan Leinings got about the 20 and a half, the second game. That's where Mike, like, you must have felt so good all that evening.

Yeah, I'm like, they're killing. This is done. I was like, I'm mad. I didn't suggest the triple to Danny and Cash, who've had their problems hitting triple plays all season long consistently. So, yeah. And then stuck it right at the end. God, that sucked. No, it was quite a turnaround.

So now we are actually six games ahead. How does it feel? Does it feel good? Actually, I don't think so, yeah. I mean, that's so volatile. I'd certainly rather be six games ahead than six games behind, but, you know, we saw what happened last time. This can turn.

This can turn very easily. And I'm also, I'm trying to not, I'm trying to, I'm like AI Jake. I'm learning as I go and I saw last time once the Soroy's took a lead Cass Soroy came on here just talking about how great he was and me I just want to say I'm grateful

I'm not great I'm grateful that we've had become this lucky to actually be this close to the Soros this late in the season so okay yeah you're lucky to be a part of this thing and you recognize it

there will be no trash talking from me He is grateful, but what you guys don't know is that we are too blessed to be stressed. Oh, no, that's the one thing that the paper covers up. Didn't factor that in, did you? Didn't factor that in at all. There's six games right there. Yeah. And we're basically even.

Okay, so the individual standings would have, number one is Jake. You've kind of gone stem to stern, right? yeah yeah Mike's right there and I was the thing about Mike sorrows I just respect his pick so much and perhaps there's a future in this league where these guys team up and can just sort of shed all the rest it's kind of like what college football is doing with most teams I feel like next year maybe we just have a Mike and Jake thing and then we have an everyone else thing and then we can kind of how you guys like I can sort of do it that way like for the four of us get as many wins Mike and Jake as you too

So you two get 20 games to pick. Because if you look at the math, it's close. We get 40, right. If we added up all of our wins, could it equal your wins? That's how good you guys are. It's the power of four versus the group of five. Yeah. That's right.

So Jake's number one. Mike Soroy is number two. Those are the only two guys above 50%. Followed by Blake. Then me. then Danny, then cash. And that thing got all jumbled up just in one week. Yeah, four games separate.

Right, Blake's one game ahead of me. I'm one game ahead of Danny. Danny's one game ahead of cash. This is anybody's game here. Gasparilla got me. We're not going to catch Mike and Jake. No. It's, I think, impossible.

It is. Yeah. So we usually pick the cowboy game and a triple play, don't have a cowboy game and why not well I thought Shottie had a good year yeah because Shottie had a good year yeah

Jake told us he had a great year so wait why don't they're on Thanksgiving so we just put our triple play on the air also we're picking that cowboy game is a seat at the table like when Jordan Rogers was the bachelor it's just going to be

empty. We're not going to pick a 10th game. We're just going to remember the Cowboys. And we're going to watch a TV, a blank TV for three hours on Sunday, pretending that that could be a cowboy game. We're having a watching party. Yeah, we're doing a stream and everything. It's going to be great. Blank screen stream.

And by doing that, after this week, we will have all picked 169 games. Can you believe that? If Burline said 69 and you said nice, would he get it? There's no way. Absolutely not. I don't think so.

Is Berline into 6'7? Did he bring that up at any point? I don't remember that. Yeah, I don't think he did. Would you be more likely? Oh, you're not going to pick him up again this year. Yeah. I want you to explain 6.7 to him and roll on it.

And then explain 69 to him and how it works, Steve. You were probably very familiar with this when you were playing. There's no doubt Steve Berlin loves 69. Anyway, so we pick first place, gets to pick first, and then those behind him because of that can try to catch him and maybe even go against his triple play. Who knows? But here we go.

So Jake, go ahead and... Dan, if I may. Oh, here we go. Here we go with their base. Well, no, we're just, we're just, we're just, let's hear them out. Let's hear them out. Go ahead. I feel like I've been pretty consistent in using my ears to hear you through the years, you know?

I mean, you've been a radio guy. I just, I hear you, Dan. And you have been fairly consistent in saying that you love the juice. And I completely agree with the juice being worth the squeeze in every. situation possible. Juice. Juice. Wouldn't throw it out there.

Why not every game be a triple play this final week? Whoa. That would take so much. That would take too much courage, I think, from everyone. Wouldn't it matter what they'd come out to be the same? You might well just put it in your veins.

Am I a dubby? It's the same thing. Okay. Yeah. Let's do that shit. It'll be like every game being worth one, right? You're basically just taking a triple play off the board then because every game is the same. Right.

Well, you're in. Isn't math fun? Right, no, we don't want that. Yeah, okay, yeah. All right. Yeah, sure. You're giving a triple play chance to come back. We decline.

Wait, you're declining your offer? We accept. It wasn't an offer with an idea to discuss that I think we've declined. And catch declines. too, so. Unreal. Yeah, we did discuss and we decided that's a great idea. Yeah.

Man, he was all excited about that idea. Well, we didn't think it through. Is this a guy with the business hat? Yeah. He's the guy that does. And the rope. Yeah. And party in the back.

That's the greatest hat I've ever seen. Incredible. That is great. It says party on the back. Of course it does. And we know that Ben Danucci did not make that hat. No. Yeah, because the letters aren't upside down.

Right. All right, so we're not doing the every game. I guess not. What if we made them all worth 10? Okay, now. I'm sold. He's going out of control. Make them all worth a million.

All right. Jake, you want to pick a triple play? So, Blake, on Zoom, my output is supposed to be interface or headphones? Uh-oh, but's coming. Uh, your Zoom is fine.

You just, your, your computer source needs to be headphones. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I thought.

Uh, this, this is not something that I take any pleasure in doing. I'm aware of the Mike Tomlin trends. I'm aware of the Monday night, the home,

the wild card. Um, but I'm just doing this based on what I want most to happen in the first weekend of the playoffs. And what I want most to happen in the first weekend of the playoffs. Well, hold on. Let's do this.

All right, piss babies. Open that mouth up. The moment you've been waiting for. It's Jay Triple Play. I'm taking Lexington. Lank three on the road in Pittsburgh

because all I want out of this weekend is no more Aaron Rogers in the NFL ever. I'm tired of it. I think we're finally going to be done with it. The Texans have the ability to ragdoll just about anybody. You know, he gets the ball out quick, but I'm looking for the Texans to terrorize Aaron Rogers.

In this, let Mike Tomlin retire. Let's start over. Let's just be moved on. Give me the Texans. I'm going to extend this. That's bad for Aaron Rogers. Is he the longest tenured coach? Tomlin has to be.

He's got to be now. Who's second? Well, Arbaugh being gone. That's why I said that. Yeah, yeah. At some point, you're going to get to like... Andy Reid? For sure, Andy Reid.

But I was going to say even like Matt LaFleur. We're already from Matt LaFleur. I guess Shanahan's been around a while too. Shannon. Pull it up there. Oh, McVeigh, too. McVe, McDermott, Shanahan, or five, and then LaFleur is six.

Where's uh Tampa what's uh feels like he's been around at least five years Todd Bull 10 2022 mm-hmm all right so you got the Texans yep as your triple play for Monday night you get to wait until then up next would be Mike Soroy oh yes you're the hope uh I am I am the hope And I love the National Football League. And I am avoiding it. I am avoiding it for today's triple play. I want Indiana. Oh.

My models have been looking something about cocaine and not liking work. It's Mike's triple play. Thank you. But I can't be rattled. My models have spoken. Oh, yeah. Yeah, your model. You've been working on your model this weekend.

They won't be shaken. I called Mike Soroy. He couldn't talk this weekend because he was working on his model. No. A whole city block horse. You've simulated these games. Pumped into my house. I've simulated these 10,000 times, each and every one of them.

I'm going to college football. I'm taking Indiana minus three and a half as my triple play. They went on the road against this team. They have the best coach, the better quarterback who will not throw a stupid pick six like he did in the last time these two play a neutral site, Indiana University minus three and a half, triple play, lock it and lock it three times. All right, Mikey. Google him.

All right, up next is Blake Jones. And I have no, I do not know what I'm going to do yet. Yeah, this is terrible. But so I might just, I might just at the end just fade Mike or something. let me get this old man take out of the way first I'm looking at the college games I'm seeing a team from Florida playing a team from Mississippi

and we're playing that game in Arizona for some reason and a team from the West Coast in Indiana playing in New Orleans what do we do flip the flip them Malarkey yeah Miami versus Ole Miss in New Orleans

would have been awesome but no that's the point silly Anyway, Dan, I hate my pick. Can't stand it. But I think big underdogs in the wild card round is for some reason a decent play when you look at the history of it. You look at the West Coast team going to the East Coast. You look at the Rams playing the afternoon game in Week 18.

Losing travel time to Carolina. They lost to Carolina. Ten and a half has a lot of points. They're the first game on the docket. The Rams have too much to overcome. Give me the Panthers. What is wrong with you? That is interesting.

Throughout the year of just not betting on teams in the NFC South. Like I've said this to you guys over and over. You're like every other Bryce Young hater. He's had to overcome it his entire life despite being a five star and going to Alabama. It's two, it's Bryce Young's time now. He will not win the game, but he won't lose by 11. But you want a fun fact to have you.

Listen, when we are doing the payoff, Whatever it is, just make it open that's him saying, it's Bryce Young's time now. 10 and a half points is the most points. Any home team in the playoffs has ever gotten in NFL history. And road teams favored by four or more points in the playoffs. The last time a road team covered four or more was 1971, Johnny Unitas and the Baltimore Colts. I like your play, my friend. Thank you.

One and the same there. Wow. Models. That's all from the models. That's all from models. I didn't think of that stuff. That's from models. Keep pounding.

Blake has the Carolina Panthers. Damn it. I like that. I hate that I like it. Owls. Wow, wow, wow. Surper. All right.

I also believe that it is difficult to go. west coast to east coast but I think it is less difficult if you're playing later you know what I mean like if you're playing at 7 p.m. Like on Sunday and so

an underdog traveling out east from the west coast will be the Los Angeles Chargers, they are getting three and a half points against New England. Now, I realize Drake May is great, but what else do they have? I just feel like the Chargers are going to keep this close. It's been a nice little story for the Patriots, but it is over now, as the Chargers will cover.

You might even sprinkle a little taste on the Money Line. Oh. The Chargers are my triple play. The Superchargers. Say what? These were all the games. These were all the game we're considering. We now go to Danny Bayliss, and you could fade one of us.

You know what? I might change. I'm going to reserve the right to change my pick. But once you give the pick on the air, you can't, like we can't call it. tomorrow and change it. That's the rule. Okay. Is it really? Yeah. Danny is unbothered right now. I as well have been consulting my models. One in particular. She was a plus-size lingerie model that I met over the weekend. She was from Bloomington. And she also thinks that I should triple play Indiana.

Oh, wow. I'm taking her advice. Are you serious? I love it. I love it. Yeah. The Hoosier model. Mm-hmm.

Put the eggs in the basket. My hip is still hurting. She crushed me. I was thinking of doing Carolina too, but I don't want to just in case it loses. All it took was an ankle, Emmerich. Just an ankle. Let's remember we are all.

It was thick. Wait, who's in the, oh, we are all organ. this weekend. All the good people. Dan Lannning. Yeah. All right. Easy.

Indiana kind of won their national championship when they beat Ohio State, right? I mean, that's their goal. Yeah, I don't know what this is it based on just like, can we just talk frankly here? Is it based on that it's like a mostly or a lot of white players in Indiana hasn't been good for a long time? Like why are they getting the like Corby tweeting if you're a human being, you're pulling for Indiana? Yeah. Well, they haven't won the big. break 10 since like 1943 or something.

No, it's way more than that. It's way more than that. Northwestern just passed them this year as the losingest college football D1 school in the history of the sport. They were the bottom actual worst team up until this year, including the last year. See, I guess we, to me, I feel like we almost need to reevaluate, like, how fired up we get about a Cinderella. because it's just not the same as it was before.

But I don't know. Indiana. What do we do it? White has something to do with it, though. There's nothing cool about that at all. I don't know. I don't get it. I hope they lose and lose by a lot.

Well, yeah, now we really do. That would really help us. So Cash, Soroy, you're up. Hello. What Jake thinks is uncool is what I find. to be the coolest. The undefeated number one ranked team in the country. Wow.

They're triple-triple-triple-playing Indiana. Who's the team that they just played? What? They're about to play earlier this season. If it was any other name on the side of that helmet, they'd be minus 300 to win the national title. Instead, they're plus 135 right now. Put some money on Indiana because they sure is shit are beating Oregon.

Cirque triple play. You guys got to stream the game. Wow. Do a search stream. We have not talked since before Christmas, the three of us either. This is amazing. Yeah, no one believes that. And you know what?

I think we all now trip. We now triple. Oregon, Indiana. Oh, I'm just kidding. No. That would not be fun. Live stream tomorrow and I? No.

Tonight, Ted. Oh, I know for you guys, but I'm talking about the Oregon, Indiana game. as well. That would be... Tim, we worked two days a week. What do you ask? What are you asking? They're not consecutive. It's a different number, Ted.

These are different, Ted. This is not the show that is right here that will do live streams outside of the usual schedule. Well, I wish good luck to Jake and Blake on their picks. and to Oregon. And we invite you to tune in to the Cirque du Soroy tonight on YouTube. Sign up for their Patreon. Oh, you got a Patreon?

What are we doing next? What number am I? What is that? Well, we'll reveal what's probably next week. What's that called? The Cirque jerk. Wait, hold on. They have a Patreon.

You've been on for 28 minutes. None of you have mentioned this to promote it or thought, like, we have you on to promote your show. show we're not good right yeah so i don't we're not our producer in minute 30 has to be like you guys uh yes we do have a brand new patreon we just launched on tuesday our first episode will drop on friday it's going to be a lot of fun uh exclusive stuff wait you do launch it Tuesday you do work on Friday so you didn't launch a Tuesday you're launching it

Friday well it's open for business open test to me on Tuesday is the first episode drop yeah Okay. Tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. So I guess we did it wrong by actually having content on there when we open it up. All right. It's just some more. Get it? There's a free podcast on there right now.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, everybody go do that stuff. And thank you, Cirk. Thank you. That is a Cirk, Bues, Siroy.

Who did Dan pick? I stepped away. I forgot. Chargers. That's right. All right. So, are we done? I want to stay.

The Home Depot Pro, it's about time. And it's about time for Dak Prescott, who was quoted last year as saying, if you see me and a bear in a fight, pour honey on me, well, he is in a fight with literal bears here in Chicago. And there's got to be a beehive around here somewhere. first down at the 28 press got you're listening to the dumb zone is that

berline like first hearing that cut oh for sure he had never heard that and at the very least he gave me the courtesy laugh but no context whatsoever is like huh that was always my favorite part

is Ted drops an easter egg in the Burline's Ted That Ted Knucklehead What's he saying What's he saying What's that?

Game stream next year Burline Are there any that Burline doesn't do Like I know Is there any that it's Burline does every game I'm pretty sure

Okay Yeah But you guys got to have him on It's something Yeah What if we have him on The Super Bowl stream Or the

I mean seriously Playoff stream Lives in California Just book Just book the playoff one next year I mean on Get it over. Online.

Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, all right. Yeah, like, have him join us for a quarter or whatever. Tell them to get five minutes ready. Tight five. Yeah. Yes.

What if, if we end up losing picks. Oh, here we go. And we do stand up. You invite Steve? We fly him in. Yes. You invite Steve. We fly Berline in.

We each do stand up. Does he close? Yeah. It becomes last comic standing where he. he is preparing you for your different sets? We're in the Game Day Men's Health Studio, gameday.dumzone.com. Wanted to mention that.

Wanted to shout out Sean Kernan. Sean at 360wm.net. He is 360 wealth management. He brought us business Wednesday yesterday. And bringing us the news today is going to be fairlease.org. So we had a game day. Dot dumzone.com. We have 360wm.

dot net and it's a fairlease.org using them all yeah and if i have if i'm going to be honest if i had to i would rank those other two as less trustworthy it's just what it is uh dot org organization okay they're locked in they know what they're doing uh it actually does mean they're affiliated with the credit union of texas which is a community bank they can get you a better rate uh better rates they're a lot easier to work with uh that's That's the upside of working with Fairlease.org. I actually met somebody over the break who was a car dealer and asked me, could you introduce me to Fairlease? Like, this guy works at a lot.

He said, you want to become one of their preferred like vendors because they are, you know, sort of a gold standard for taking care of customers. So they just went ahead and named it Fair lease. It's Fairlease.org. Click on to the, or go to that website, click request a quote and then select the dumb zone. on the how did you hear about a page that drops down there fair lease dot org so you're saying their old name they used to be the gold standard for taking care of their customers dot org and now they've changed just simplified things yes hey jake did you see whitten i did i wish we had to talk a lot of NFL stuff you know there's there's stuff happening man tell me what's

The University of Oklahoma has hired as their tight-ins coach, Jason Whit. Whoa. If I believe joins their running backs coach, DeMarco Murray. Really? Yeah. So we all knew after he took the job at Liberty Christian, or perhaps we probably knew before that, like when he was playing before he went to the booth and we thought this guy needs to be a coach, starts out in private high school.

And I don't think he'll be at the position. in college ranks for long. So what does Shottie's record have to be so that Witten's not the coach next year? You're saying for Shottie to get a third year? It's the first thing I thought of immediately, right? Yeah. I'd say he has to make the playoffs.

If they don't make the playoffs next year, and they have a healthy deck, they will fire Shottie. and in some way I do legitimately think Witten's presence probably doesn't bring our probably makes it more likely bring our Jason home

bring it down bring our Jason but you could also see a scenario where even if the team is good next year who's their tight-ins coach right now it's not Lunda anymore is it or is it

but you could see a scenario where even if Shottie's good they're bringing in Witten and there's just he's going to be on the staff And there's always going to be a threat there. You know how Jerry likes it? Yeah, why not?

All right. Speaking of, I... It's fine. Did you guys see, is Aiden Dirty been hired by anybody yet, Blake? Did he get wrong? He's interviewed. Okay, he's just getting interviewed. Yeah, I saw somebody...

Did he not... Check the brick box? he's dude he fits the profile of what you've said though like if somebody wanted to take dallas's job you're seattle's defensive coordinator i mean they're good but they have a lot of dogs you know so is he african-american no but i believe he would be a minority uh you know by by the definition of the rudy rule but it is a very interesting question like did mike McDaniel count. I just meant if you're black and you grew up in England, are you African-American?

Right. Yeah. It's an edge case. So like Mike McDaniel, again, who, the point of it is that people look at you and think that you're a minority. Right. But with Aden Dirty, I saw somebody tweet the other day. He has a son that I think works for the Cowboys or is at least like in the mix, maybe an

intern. That will help. Yeah, his name is Cain. Like, what are we doing? That sounds like a rapper's cane dirty. Anywho, all right, let's start with... How did your flu start? Did you feel soreness?

Because, like, I feel great, but, like, my muscles feel sore. Oh, no. like and I didn't I haven't worked out in a couple days I haven't done anything but that was certainly part of it because I I didn't really that wasn't how it started yeah are you feeling any chills no no but the chills is how it started right legitimately that's what I do like okay that's not good sweaty when it was cold hot blanket whatever then a few days in I got a little bit sore but the guy who gave me my IV put torridol in it nice what's that what's that Which is, it's a drug that they, among other things, give to NFL players at halftime.

So they can power through. Yeah, why not, dude? I might stop by Game Day Men's Health for an IV. I bet you they can hook you up with, at least in grapevine. We're outside of the spot right now. Oh, boy. They can hook you up with something. Yeah, that's, I know.

Anyway, okay. Back to the news. I'm trying to get. Yes, back to this. Oh, this is sad news. And I only have an update from right before the show. But did you guys see what happened with Colt McCoy's former roommate, Jordan Shipley? Yes, man. He, as on brand is on brand gets. And I think, you know, I tacitly follow his life on social media. I'm not a big Instagram guy. But he works exactly where you think he does, Dan. He works on a ranch. He works on the land. He works with animals and machinery, and that machinery is dangerous, and he was involved in an accident on the property. It's in critical condition.

The machine actually, I think, caught fire, and he was burned by the machine, like, while you're in it. It's crazy. Did you see the image that they put out, Jake? of him with the the wrap I mean covered the entire arm and the hand but he was still giving

hook him horns it was pretty badass I don't know if that is fine that that is awesome that is awesome yeah he's he's hunting guys

fishing guy you always had that was a mainstay of Saturdays man you know they go hunting together. Yep. Their dads were fishing buddies.

They both had siblings. Like, are we going to get that anymore with NIL? And I'm not being like, no, sarcastic guy who just says, because sometimes, you know, we get those, like I'm just going to say AI to any conversation. Are you going to get backup quarterback who sits there for three years? That's what I'm saying.

And their families grew up, you know, and I know it's romanticized, but that's a cool thing about college football to me. like even the arch thing are you going to see that again because most people aren't like arch able to do that are they going to just wait i can play right now let's go somewhere else like someone else would have started arch had he transferred do you have to put uh like five different types of uh soil underneath your kids crib just to make sure that you yeah there it there it is look it cover all the stories well

done plighton bird unit hook of horns yep uh baby news we had a baby born in arlington that is so large it's making national news oh really how big yeah this happened back on december 18th what's a big baby should be guess um yeah okay okay so First of all, can I give you, can I give you, well, what do you think the average for full-term babies is? Seven? Eight? There's a window in here of six to nine. Seven to obviously eight and a half is the tightest cluster there.

Seven to eight and a half. Okay. So nine pounds is a big baby? Yeah. But this made the news. Yeah. Fifteen. How is that coming out?

That's my serious guess. If it made national news, it can't be 11. It's fixed right. You're on a today show. Right. 14. I'll cut to the chase. Yeah.

It is 13. All right. Wow. Still. Does he have a scholarship yet? He's on his way because unlike when my dad. Baby news. tried to clock me as a child and say uh rock or brutus or some tough name clearly that would

have been quite funny right like he might as well name me fatso like that's how much of a rock i am uh this kid though not not cut from that cloth his name is canyon oh boy canyon he's a big big boy grand canyon go ahead dan what i don't know make the joke i don't know about a canyon joke about the the mother who went through labor and that right speaking incredible way of life ted you go ahead no i'll stop short i was going to let you i mean this is this is you this is i'm trying to put it on the tea for speaking of a canyon okay like i came to this club for one reason she had to get many extra stitches okay not just one

like the doctor didn't I had so when I was in the delivery room I had a crumpled up 20 in my hand and I shook the doctor's hand after and he gave me that wink and he knew what that meant right yeah but the doctor it is gross just knew when that giant baby comes on I don't know that I recall any these are mostly just email I suppose but everybody you've met who knows an OBGYN is like yeah they are gross really yeah like when you raise you grow up to think like okay sometimes women are around men in a medical sense and it's not sexual because otherwise you wouldn't let like your imagine a hundred whatever years or a thousand years ago there's a village doctor. I seriously doubt that you let your wife just go to the village doctor and he would

just finger her and be like, I'm a doctor, right? Like, that didn't happen. Whoa. So there's some level of implicit trust now that like, okay, I guess there's guys who could just, for medical reason, they're dealing with a woman and they're not creeps. And then every time we bring it up, people are like, the only guy in a college I've ever met were really pervy, creepy guys. Isn't it the thing like as a young kid You want to be either playboy photographer or a gynecologist You think that'd be the greatest job ever I get to go in

People joking about that I never I could say I never really No Yours was I think he knew even then just how clinical that is And no you don't want to be Down the guy To be assistant special teams coach

He dreamed of that Yes Yeah The woman, actually, in this scenario, quite small. She's had three other babies, and I guess... So this one just fell out. Gestational diabetes, like, something that I guess you can get during pregnancy, but then... That results a bigger baby.

So she's got a 10 and a half, a 12... 10 and a 1, 13, and an 8.5 also. So those are all bigans. Do you guys ever... Do you have any interest? or did you ever? I think Blake may have actually done this. Now that I think about it, I think Dan has as well.

But would you ever want to be an extra again? Because the opportunities are coming up quite often in North Texas. In a movie or a TV show? These are like the Taylor Shared series. There you go. Prestige TV. Like the aforementioned landman. Go ahead, Blake.

I enjoyed my day of doing it. And Dave's shooting at the Cotton Bowl? I have two days. You get paid nothing, but I don't know. It was fun. How old were you? Early 20s. I mean, clearly I had two weekdays to give to this company.

Sorry, what was this for again? They were shooting... For mine, they were shooting my All-American. It was a movie about the Texas Longhorns. That's right. We had to fill out like a couple sections in the crowd and then they, you know, made it seem like it was full. But then they put me in the, in the costume, they made me one of the cannon guys. Wow.

And so in some of the montage is when you see the guys shooting the cannon, that's me. It's a movie? Yeah. You and Brian brought us a son. We have to find this. Something in common. Yeah, my All-American son. I'm one of the canon guys.

And then whenever they go up to, they pan up to the crowd. and it focuses on the quarterback of the team. They go up to his parents, and they moved me right behind the dad or the girlfriend. And you can see me Clear's Day right there. Wow. Photogenic Blake. Yep.

I guess I look like a 20-year-old in 1960. That he's a star. Yeah, now I know that there's been a lot of, you know, cinematic type stories regarding the Texas football program. Was this the one where, so this team, I'm sure, was integrated? I don't think so. I think it was just about a white quarterback who got hurt. A movie about before that.

I think other teams might have been doing it. They were just, they just had a quarterback that was sick. Okay, with the culture shift and things that are back, is there any chance we can get a movie to glorify the 1968 or whatever it was, Texas Longhorns, the last all-white national champion? No. We're not allowed to glorify it. Like, because think of the deficit, talent deficit they were playing with.

They held the line. They consciously said we don't want to go after the best athletes because of our racism. And they overcame their own racism to actually win the title. A true underdog story, Dan. It really is. It's so funny. Go pitch. Let's go pitch this.

Can we get a pitch to? Warner Brothers, just get in the room. God. They start out the year. Let's talk to V.J. Boyd. Let's see if B.J. Boyd would pitch this movie for us. There's no fans really at the start of year. Just a couple guys that have viewed as crazy. And if V.J. is pitching it.

They're going to be like, oh, wait. I don't know. I guess. Right? It's not a, I guess. Oh, my God. Yeah, you can do this right now for, there's a number of shows. I've heard Danny talk about this with his bar, Twilight. But there's a show called Lioness.

There's another one, Dutton Ranch. These are both being filmed in North Texas this point. Dallas, Fort Worth there. I mean, they're there nonstop, it seems like. Summer. Dude, if you've read, like I know you're not interested in the shows, Dan, and I'm not either. I have like a visceral, I don't know, Ted, like, I'm not like Texas guy necessarily. Right.

But he's tapped into that. And I know you're not, right. Yeah, and I know you're not like also, you're also not like Louisiana guy. No. But there is still something about like when you see the nationalification and popularization of something that feels like just was regular for you. Right, right. It feels weird and it, me even saying that, I sound like an asshole. It just, it just, it's like a, it's almost like I'm sure how people here felt to an extent about the show Dallas when it was on.

Right. Yeah. And it, it becomes the image for anybody. I mean, you know, my, my wife's family is all from Ireland and they loved Dallas. And that's exactly how they pictured, you know, all of us. us like that's not how it is but yes it it portrays it that way for sure so i'm not necessarily lead to the shows dan but i feel like you should read about that guy's career uh because the ringer did an article a year to ago on some sunday or i guess you know friday before the weekend and he

had five shows premiering that weekend that he wrote yeah and he's a empire famous for like You know, he wrote like Sicario. Yeah. And, you know, a bunch of those, some gritty movies and stuff. But then he got this massive deal and basically just admitted, yeah, now I just, I'll just write for like 70 straight hours. And I'll just turn out like a season of television. And he just does that over and over and over. And people keep buying the rights to his shows for a billion dollars.

And all 75% of it is just filmed here. we don't participate in it at all but we are the minority almost everyone I know watches one of these shows oh yeah I hear people talking about all the time yapping they won't shut up squawk you guys let me know if we have actually let's let's just go let's let's shut her down here so we have a clean break

there's your news we're not breaking I know but stop and we can wait for branded and we can like talk until the dumb zone news like answers I assume we don't have to you that was a good news awarded a scholarship to the University of Texas at Austin a small but scrappy Freddie Steinmark gets a chance to play football for coach Darrell Royal

and the Longhorns in the late 1960s so we're right How late? How late? Well anywhere in the 60s you're going to be yeah true that maybe this movie was it the 69 team what was the last national champion 69 without a person of color it was either 68 69 or yeah but and i had a one of my high school coaches was on that team this was on the uh faith and family channel the up faith and i'm looking for a free streaming but i can't find it i think i'm going to pay for it on

Amazon. He used to be on Netflix. Really? Get mailbox money? When Freddie suffers an injury that leads to a shocking diagnosis, what was it? Bone cancer. The young man must utilize his indomitable

anchor word? Spirit. Spirit. Not snowman. Very good. Encourage to rise to the challenge like a true champion they took without any of those

undesirable teammates around says then here okay yes they amputated his leg during his junior year 20 days later he observed from the sidelines and his team won the national championship

that is that real is it true story yeah yes Freddie Steinmark yeah He was on the city. They won an Addy with a guy with people like Freddie Steinmark. You can't tell me that's not an unbelievable story.

They won it for Freddie. That's right. It's not as if he was out there like Rudy. So this was an end around. How can we do a cool movie about this team? It's really starting to sound that way. What if we do like a Steinmark thing? Yeah, but nobody even knew him.

No one cared about him. I know, but remember that Rudy movie was good. Okay. Freddie was covering So we can somehow celebrate Darrell Royal Even though He's probably looked And now Darrell Royal is not looked upon

Like Adolf Rupp Let's go to Brando's Oh is he ready? Well, no one told me I've been yelling it Thank goodness Our man is kicking holding balls

With his foot down on the gas This is the Brandon Aubrey program And every week, mechanical, make oldie, blue baby, baby buckle up. It's the Brandon Aubrey Show. And every week, it is brought to us by Community Mechanical, our HVAC company. They could be yours, too, like they are, Brandon Aubrey's HVAC company. They're fantastic. Could he kick those long field goals without getting a very comfortable, nice sleep,

night's sleep with what do you keep no I'd be dehydrated in season I'd be sweating all night no energy left for game day what are we keeping the thermostat at um 68 uh usually

but I'd like it a little bit colder gin wants it a little bit hotter so it's a nice compromise the common the most common argument passive aggressive do you do the uh I'll hit it down a notch as I walk by it and she'll do that as well was that's our our household is just very passive aggressive sometimes when when she's already

asleep and i'm struggling to fall asleep maybe i'll knock it down or two so i can join her in sweet sleep yeah do you try to tell them that it's like backed by science i've tried that no i have this thing it says this is the yeah they have doctors who yep you send the same instagram posts They send to prove to you other things, and it just doesn't work. So are you working on your ins and outs for 2026? What's that mean? I don't know. My daughter tells me that we don't do resolutions anymore.

Like search on Instagram ins and outs, and you're going to see a million. Like, what's your glow up for 2026, Brandon? What are we doing? Gloop for 2026. I don't have anything planned. We should try to be the best I can be, which is kind of, of the same each and every year. Yeah, that's boring.

Yeah, sorry guys. I did have a question about sleep because I wanted to ask you about this because in Detroit, the hotel that we stayed at, the door to my room was about an inch off the floor and so the light from the hallway like was in, like I could see it. And it sort of bothered me, but it, I don't know, I can sleep through anything. Counts cushions. I throw those over the door. Oh, is that which, okay, so I was just curious.

Some of these hotels, you can't be getting. the best night's sleep. I get fantastic sleep at the hotels as long as they have a nice comfy bed. And most places we go, we're staying at nice places. So I sleep great usually. The one place I didn't sleep great was New York. The pillows there were oddly large, but offered no support. So your head just kind of sunk through them. And then neck was bothering me all night. She couldn't quite get comfortable. And when you sink into a pillow like that, It gets really hot, no matter how cold the room is. Well, you've got to bring your own pillow.

Like, Dan. Yeah, that's what Trent does. He brings a suitcase, and the only thing in there is his pillow, so I might join in that next year. We've got to talk to Trent. Yeah. He sounds great. He's hilarious. Jake just had some baby news, do you?

Oh, yeah, we've got another one on the way. Baby news. That's right. Brandon Aubrey. Congrats. Thank you. And we learned... Looking forward to getting restarted.

We learned about your baby news the same way we learned about Blake's wife being pregnant. Yeah. I wasn't allowed to tell anybody. First go through, I was so excited, kind of, you know, told some people that were close to me. And this time, kept my lips absolutely sealed. And then, you know, I was out and about practice or wherever I was doing my thing. And then I saw the post and I was a collaborator on him. I'm going to accept that real quick.

So I didn't know that post was coming, but I'm happy to not have to have my lips sealed anymore when that hit. Now, do you have friends that were like, because Jake was upset with Blake that he didn't tell us. Jake learned from his wife seeing it on Instagram from Blake's wife. Now, did a banger come up and be like, bro, I thought we were buddy. We told them. So we told my parents, Jen's parents, and then kind of the specialists. That's about it. Jen told a couple of her friends.

And then everyone else found out through the post. So, Jake, you thought you were like Bangor or Trent to Blake's Brandon, but yeah, you're not. You're not that close. Yeah, that's fine. Although I did laugh briefly. They're thinking about Brandon calling turrets. being like, hey, number two is wrong away. Yeah.

No, but it does take the question off of, what are you doing in the off season? Like, hey, you got any vacation plan? Yeah. I guess you could do like the baby moon. Did you guys do that last time? Like, we would somewhere in the wife really got to relax. Yeah, we did the baby moon,

went out to like Hermosa Beach and what's the other one right next to it? I can't remember it, but it's somewhere in California, nice, right by L.A. Little vacation, just one last getaway, panicking. This is actually happening sort of the deal. But I don't know if we'll do that this time since it's the second time through. And we've got the one that makes traveling tough. What's a baby moon?

It's like a honeymoon, but right before you have a, I mean, I guess it's not like a honeymoon since the honeymoon is after the wedding. But it's right before you have a baby. It's kind of like a, oh, crap, we only have a couple weeks left before our lives changed forever. So let's go enjoy each other's company one last time. So, yeah, we went out and just lived it up. You know, she can't drink, but I'm drinking.

You have a driver. Yes. Okay, is that a very common thing now that I missed out on, the baby moon? Yeah, that's a big thing now. Yeah, it's recent, I would say. Last, I don't know, 10 years maybe. We went to Sedona. You did that too.

Okay, so you got to take that, but you also have to do couple showers too. So you take the good with the bed. Yeah, we didn't do a couple shower. Not on board with those. Okay. Brandon still has some scene control. So is a gender reveal going to be you kicking a ball and it's going to explode? Oh, dude, it has to.

Yeah. If you guys come set it up for me, I'll kick whatever you want. Awesome. like a due date due date middle of June from late middle June

was there I have to manage that birthday that's right on the line for an athlete that's going to be tough yeah if he's athletic he'll figure it out so dude I think I

we talked about this earlier in the show but apparently that's happening like way way more now like I'm 40 and it wasn't that common but i'd hear about it were kids doing that when you were in junior high high school like at a more than just occasional level they're like oh he's not that i'm aware of okay not that i'm aware of i know the book outliers talks about yeah now everyone thinks their kids going to be that outlier so they're doing everything in their power to make sure that happens um i'll kind of kind of take the

hands off approach and if he's good enough to play sports it's not going to matter whether he's playing slightly up or slightly down in the end the cream rises to the top the best players find a way that little age gap might make difference on on the average player getting into college or not

to play D2 but if you're a D1 athlete you're going to find a way into a D1 college to play your sport when your dad's a two sport professional athlete do you have a better chance hopefully and hopefully they even want to do sports that's yeah about all I can help him with that in coding, and

those are my niches. I went really hard down those things, so if he doesn't want any of those things, he's going to have to lean on mom or someone else. Sit down here. Here's Java. I never did a robot to get the ball that far, though, ever. Yeah.

So quite a busy offseason as you get to do that, and then maybe even wonder if you're going to be here next year. Are you a free agent? I'm a restricted free agent, which really means no. The team has the right of first refusal, really just the right to assign me to what's called a tinder. And they can assign a draft pick to that first, second. I'm not sure if you're going to do third or original round. For me, since I wasn't drafted, that original round does not carry a draft pick associated with it. And that's just a slotted contract that has a value already associated.

associated with it. So this is the most likely outcome, not sure what draft, what type of tender it will be. And from there, after I get the tender, I have a month to negotiate a deal with another team. And if the Cowboys want to match it, they have the option to take the contract and me, or they can take the pick associated with the tender. So if it's a second round, it'd be a second round, first round, it'd be a first round pick. if it's the original round there's no draft pick associated with it so pretty much a free agent if that happens but we'll see you never know what happens between now and then that that deadline would be the

new league year which is in March for them to decide what they're doing with me no idea what the process looks like that's the first time for me haven't seen any of my close friends go through it because they're like you know banger and Trent were actually free agents when they're contracts expired because they've been in the league for so long. So, yeah, I have no idea what to expect going forward. It's in balls totally in the Cowboys court there. But you said your agent says that's the most common or most likely scenario is that they will slap a tender on you?

Yeah, I'm not, that's, let's put it this way. If there's no contract between now and then, that's what will happen. Okay. So they're working now on, they can talk now and you could sign a three-year deal. talk now. Okay. I think I think traditionally teams at this point of the season are focused on coaching staff, especially in our situation now. Um, they'll focus on coaching staff. They'll focus on scouting for the combine, scouting for free agency and keeping all of their thoughts to themselves. They don't want to have any leaks on what their plans are. Um, so they don't really,

I'd imagine don't talk to agents until the new league here when at that point, if they, if they're talking to my agent and telling them what they're going to do and he has, represents like 15 players and he you know like it gets out what they're planning to do then other teams can use that to plan their offseason so to keep the competitive edge I don't think really anything happens that's why you don't see a lot of players signed between now and the new league year do you need to be the highest paid kicker in the NFL like what's what's the goal um the goal is to be paid fairly for what I've done and just get long-term commitments that we feel comfortable with and make sure the terms of the

contract are what we want. I'm letting the agent handle most of it because I don't understand a lot of the language and details in the contract. So I trust him. He'll get something done for me the way it should be done for the players. All right. Probably not exactly the way that you wanted to end the year to go into this. But, you know, I think body of work, it all shakes out.

But I wonder, though, like, I'm going to try to spin this for you a little bit. Like, I wonder if having a little bit of a downturn at the end of the year, just a couple missed kicks. If you're a guy like, I mean, you've got to get up and do this every single day. I wonder if it made me not even be not the worst thing to have a couple of back down-to-earth type. moments after you're the greatest kicker in NFL history for a significant portion of the year. I mean, do you think of that sort of like, do you think of needing motivation like that at all? Or, I mean, obviously, you'd rather make the kicks. I'm just trying to think of how you go into the offseason mentally. Yeah, we look at the total body work, like you mentioned,

most of the season was fantastic, ended missing a few. But on the season, perfect insight. of 50 second straight year without missing an extra point other than you know the 15 yard penalty extra point um so we're we're happy with the way we performed obviously i want to perform significantly better towards the end of the year making every single kick but if we look at the kicks that we missed we missed 68 59 58 57 and 51 so geez yeah yeah that's incredible it's not it's not usually i make those kicks and that's what yeah i know but it's incredible even to be saying man it's a little rough end of the year like those those are kicks people wouldn't even try and uh you know maybe before you you really even

wouldn't they would have never tried those kicks around here for sure right and that's that's what you have to keep into perspective that's what i keep telling myself but um yeah you make slight mistakes from that range and you're punished like the kick i hit In New York was perfect, perfect execution, put it on my line right where I wanted to, and, you know, I moved it off target line, off dead center when I was aiming by about a foot because the wind was mostly at my back, slightly to the left. And it started on that line perfectly, but I just miscalculated for the wind. It must have shifted since I warmed up about an hour and a half ago. So at that point, it blew left by about three inches more than it could. So that's the kind of margins we're dealing with as kickers.

And I have to be better. I need to put it a little bit over to the right. That's just lining up properly. So I've been thinking about that one for a long time because I can't execute the kick perfectly and still miss. That drives you crazy. That's just to line up and take the right line. But then, you know, there's only really two kicks this year that I was upset with. The 68, obviously, I hit it far enough just when you're trying to add as much as you possibly can.

I pulled that one by a bit to the left, but there's two, the one in Washington from 58 and then the one at home from 59 where I really miss hit the ball with the toe swinging a little bit fast, got deep on my plant and just pushed it. Those are the only two that I'm mad about. Those I missed by quite a bit. The rest of them were misses, which aren't great, but they happen. So I'll live with them. The thing that makes me happy this year is my protection was perfect. We didn't have a single block. And if we can keep that going, it's all on me to make my kicks, which the previous years, I've had three blocked in two seasons, which you can't do anything about.

So the guys were perfect for me, so I've got to be perfect for them. What's your average yards per carry? Six. Pretty good, actually. It's probably one of the better ones in NFL history. I'm not making you ask anything, but I should introduce you to the guy in the room that you might not know. This is TV's Ted Emmerick. Hey, I'm doing, Dave.

Hey, Brandon, what's up? He's a longtime broadcaster. In fact, he broadcasts all the Cowboys games. on Westwood One radio. He's the lead announcer on that. And when Brad Sham is out, he is filled in for Brad Sham in the past, too. Just so you know. Big shoes to fill there.

Not just some slubs in here on our couch. Yeah, right. I'm just hanging out, Brandon. No, it was a complete joy to call those games this. And obviously, I think of, you know, all those, you're talking about the kicks that you miss there. I mean, I think of the kicks that you made, especially week two against the Giants and, you know, regulation and overtime and just what a thrill it is for a broadcaster like you want to do a moment like that justice and you know that any time that I mean you are a part of a game like

we know that the calculation is completely different compared to most teams like oh yeah they are already in range like this is a possibility and that's that's the awesome thing about you know again, keeping in mind the NFL record, right, and all of that, that is always a possibility. So it's a, man, it's a pleasure to call those games and those moments. I am really curious if you saw, I'm sure you did, but of course, Tyler Loop with the Ravens and the way their season ended, just as a kicker, what goes through your mind? how you process that. Obviously, it's not you. And I mean, you probably shudder to think of, of all that.

But I'm curious, what enters your mind when you see something like that play out? Yeah, that was, that was heartbreaking to watch. He's been fantastic this season. It's the situation you fall asleep dreaming of as a kicker. Obviously, if you make that, you're a hero and that's what you want. you miss that, then you're a pariah for all the wrong reasons, which is kind of sad because there's a lot of things that go into a season and a game. To leave it up to the kicker at the end is not where you want to be as a coach, but it's something that they were comfortable doing

in that situation. In that situation, he was confident he was going to make the kick. And we all are confident we're going to make the kick in that situation. But every once in a while, you know, you miss hit a ball and if it times up at a moment like that, it's just not ideal and you're going to get a lot of flack for it. And he's been getting that and he's been handling it really, really well for such a young kid as a first year professional. I've listened to a few things that he said and he's really, really handling it well. I think as much as it sucks what he's going through, he can use it to fuel him to get better and be ready for next season. I know next season's a long way away and it'll feel even longer for him, but he's a professional. He'll bounce back. He's going to be able to handle it. The people that are on social media blasting him and that are, they're sad and sad individuals. Got nothing better to do. And I wish they wouldn't do that. But that's part of the job, especially as we are so engrossed in the social media as our job. So.

I take the bad with the good and right now there's a lot of bad and eventually when he gets another chance to make another kick in the NFL you can start setting the ship straight and I think he'll bounce back. It's just one kick. Can't let it consume yourself. I know it's easy to say I'm not in his shoes dealing with what he's dealing with but it's just one kick. He's still a fantastic kicker. He's still drafted by one of the best organizations scouting specialists in the league. So he's still a fantastic kicker. Can't let this moment define him. People will try, but just tune him out.

I think it really, that whole thing just drives home the psychological nature of your job. And it's one of the reasons why, like, I actually, it's an honor to talk to you. And I know, like, I know that sounds weird, but it's hard for me. to imagine there are many people on earth that have more pounds of pressure per square inch on their brain in any given moment. Like, I'm just never going to know what that feels like, you know, ever. And Dan will never know what that feels like. And so just the level that your brain has to get to to operate like that, I think it's

really cool. And that's why I hate thinking about it going poorly. But I also know that you are very into the mental side of this. and I wonder if like around here I'll just you know obviously I hate talking about this around here people remember Dan Bailey is a guy who was great and then he went away very quickly

what you don't think you know the more common thing is that guys kick forever right kickers have long careers a lot of times but I just wonder do you talk to guys who are retired and in the summer or whatever and just talk through when did you how did you avoid it being like i don't know how do you how do you work through the off season as you go forward you talk to guys who have retired at all that sort of thing

yeah i don't um have a big rolodex of uh former kickers in my phone i don't know a lot of people that have done this um except for the guys that i've played against um and trained with so because i haven't been kicking my whole life i don't have those connections um i've got you know the coaches i've worked with before um john carney and nick novac uh that were veterans that have done they did it for a long time and carney's actually where i draw on a lot of my insight and how to um think about um failure and success um you know we have a mental strength coach um in the facility and he's got a good um framework for us that we use on game day talking about neutral thinking, positive thinking, negative thinking,

and how much time you can spend in each bucket during a game and how quickly you've got to snap out of it and get back to neutral. So we've got a lot of resources. It's up to us to use them. And at the end of the day, those situations are few and far between. I mean, I had three kicks of that nature this season and 17 games with one or two in the New York game and then one in the Eagles game at home.

And, yeah, you can't prepare for those in the off-season. You can't really prepare for those in pre-game. There's no way to prepare for it. It's just in the moment it's a different animal. Your senses are really heightened. Your heart's racing no matter what you try to do to get it down. You can probably bring it down 10 beats per minute or so, but you can't get it back to a normal extra point level.

or even just like a, if I'm hitting a 60-yard field goal, it's not the same as it in that game-winning field goal. There's no way to make it the same. You just need reps in a game. So he got his first. Can learn from it. Maybe he can understand what's going to what's going to be asked of him and what he's going to feel as he's going out there, be prepared for it this time. And, you know, he already knows as soon as he's kicked the ball what mistake he's made. so mechanically he's he's sharp he's in tune with his body and he knows how to fix it so he'll be fine and yeah for the offseason what I'm what do I do I take a long break physically and mentally to make sure I'm ready to go because it does beat down on you there's only so much

mental pressure and taxation someone can take so there's no need to go seek it out in the off season. So I'll do my best to just relax my brain and relax my body. Yeah, you tell us you're playing golf. Oh, yeah, that is so relaxing. Um, opposite. Because I know I suck. I'm not going to try and be good. I'm just going to go out and have some fun with, with my guys. That was a farewell specialists round. Um, so yeah, we, we had a couple beers and played 18 holes and, um, cheated like crazy. So I shot a 90, which would have been like 105, um, but I had some good shots. It keeps you coming back. You got the Pro Bowl coming up too, so you can't disappear forever.

Where is the Pro Bowl? It is in San Francisco. It's going to be at the Super Bowl from now on on Super Bowl week, which is odd. We'll see how it goes. Every time something changes, it seems to have a lot of, what do you call them, roadblocks, not roadblocks, but bumps. Yeah, they have things to iron out, I'm sure. I'm sure we'll be kind of the test dummies figuring out what we're supposed to do at the Super Bowl. Because, you know, they had a couple in a row out in Orlando.

And the second year you could see that made so many improvements for the family with activities for family members and just amenities around the hotel. It was an all-inclusive resort. So this will be interesting. I haven't had the meeting on what's going on for us just yet. They sent out an information packet. It looks like it'll be fun. The nice part is it's at the location of the Super Bowl, the week of the Super Bowl. So a lot of guys go out and do media stuff at the Super Bowl.

So the pro bowlers can just extend their stay at the hotel and then go from there. Do that what you'll do? Hang out for the week? The pitch man back in the game. Yeah, I don't know. know what I'm doing yet. Yeah, I have no idea. No, you've filled in last year for DeLaw, right? Yeah. Yeah, but yeah, but that was then. This is now. Yeah. This is a lot of 60 plus later. Yeah, you're Brandon Aubrey now. We'll see. We'll see. We're definitely, we have a marketing agent. He's trying to work something out. So we don't have anything set in stone. Yeah, which is tough for flights. Right now, we're trying to decide when to fly home and don't have a good answer. get a you could just walk around and tell people about us

JSX yeah what was the thing Clayton took some special yeah JSX right did you all get a spot at that radio row or whatever it's going we probably honestly we haven't even tried yeah we didn't try

we kind of save up for cowboys and we they will let people our caliber and lower it so what's that I mean you sell yourself short we decided to go to spring I don't have fans in Denver. Yeah, we went to spring training instead.

We have a certain budget, and I guess we allocated it towards spring training and making sure we go back to Cowboy Training Camp. So you better be there. Well, you'll be there. I should be there. Unfortunately, no Baker this year at the Pro Bowl. That stinks. I know you always sought him out.

Well, I'll tell you what. He had like a week four. His odds of the MVP were. Oh, yeah. They had money on that. Great value. You can get way better value today. I had one more thing I had to make sure that I asked you.

So the Cowboys put out a video. I think maybe Dak had given everyone glasses. And somebody, when they went to go pick up their glasses, it might have been DeMarvie and Overshone, dropped something off at Dak's locker. And they basically just caught him being like, I just need him to sign this. Like, I just put, like, so it occurred to me that there are guys who are like, hey, I'm a guy on the, on the roster in the NFL, but my, my cousin doesn't want my autograph. He doesn't want my autograph. Like, I'm a nickel. Have you ever asked Dak to sign anything?

It's common practice to kind of put out. Okay. Yeah, you just throw a ball on top of the, like, desk of our security guard when you're, walking in and he'll put up a sign and says please sign for so and so so I've done that once because I wanted to for myself just a ball signed by the whole team and got like 30 30 guys to sign it so I'm not going to go around to each individual and ask just because I don't I don't feel like that's appropriate but if you have a good relationship with guys like me and the specialists will sign balls for each other all the time so like we have like for the round of golf we get a ball signed kicking ball game ball and then give it to them and try and get it for free but and have you ever asked sometimes it works what's that have you ever asked post uh

yeah jen got her hat signed by him okay yeah cowboy hat i wouldn't ask but jen would how do you get your cowboy's news in the offseason do you have a group chat um instagram and And yeah, my brother or some friends will send me stuff. Yeah, like I found out actually about Fluse. I was walking into the Players Lounge after my exit interview to talk to just some of the guys that were still around. And just it was on ESPN, the bottom row there, the ticker thing. I was like, what did this happen? exit interviews are we doing a little put-putt or free throws what are we doing just giving honest feedback on the whole he asks about every single department and he asks about your performance and any feedback you have for him positive negative that sort of thing and then you know it was it was good it was a good year good to be in the locker room we had a lot of a lot of adversity outside the field

field this season. So I think Shawty handled it really well and kept the team together better than just about anybody probably could have. What feedback did you give him? Did you have some stuff besides that? Yeah, I had to, I had a few things. We'll keep it in

house. I don't want to get him or myself or anyone in trouble. I mean, he's a captain. Like, he's a vet. There's an expectation that you're going to tell him what you think. And he absolutely should sit first class going there. And he absolutely should sit first class going there and coming

back from the game. Yeah, did you tell them that? That's about years of service, so that will probably be a couple more years until that happens. Tell him Blake needs a worse seat. Tell him the, fix the freaking Wi-Fi. Put Blake in the middle seat. What, the Wi-Fi didn't work in the plane? It worked the last couple of weeks.

Yeah, it worked the last couple weeks. Okay, I'd kind of giving up on it. We did. Blake is trying to watch. Blake is trying to game over here on the plane. A two-hour flight, you can't stretch the limit on the Wi-Fi. It's not going to work for...

You can watch YouTube or download a movie. You're probably not download a movie, but you can watch YouTube or listen to music. That's about the extent of it. Okay, well, my Fortnite game kept skipping. I was a little ridiculous. Of course, here we go. Oh, we never got the final update on...

Didn't we have some kind of a golf tournament going on? Oh, yeah. Oh, I ran away with that. Nice. Yeah. Okay, so video golf... Now if you want. Yeah, go ahead.

Video golf, you're great. It's pulling up. You have a Google doc. Actual golf. The final leaderboard of the specialists. Beggar's got a 15-year head start on. Ted does up, we'll work for Westwood one for the Masters. So he could, we should get Ted in there to announce a video golf match.

A little EA sports, PGA tour. That is an excellent idea. This is our, well, we can't really see. It's pretty blurry. But that's the scorecard for all, all competitions. It's a shared. You get three points for a win, one point for second, zero for last, and two for a hole in one. That didn't happen this year.

They make it hard on the game now. The first segment of the season, Trent got 28 points, Bangor got 55, I got 88. And then second segment, Trent got 12, Bangor 38, me 41, so they're close to gap there. Trent's got to put some word in. This is Tiger at the 2000. Open at Pebble Beach. Dang, Trent. No, contest.

The final round, which kind of double, Trent 13, Bangor 33, and I got 42. Wow. Now, are you playing Augusta National every time, Brandon? You know, being that, I mean, that is the draw. I'm assuming it's the EA sports game. Are you mixing it up with the other courses? Mix it up. We, winner picks.

So Trent loves Wolf's Creek. So, never play it. On chance he wins. We're definitely playing there. Hey, let him play from the ladies' teas. Even it up. Well, actually, I played as a lady once, and they don't let you pick where you go. So I was at the men's tea with Trent, and I still beat Trent.

Played as Nellie Korda. Yes, actually. Hey, she's awesome. That's great. Well, it's been a good year for having you on the show, at least. We think so. Yeah. I had fun.

Yeah, so hopefully we can. sign you up over the off season sounds good renew the deal yeah that's right you guys have the right to first refusal

in this space I'm sure absolutely I think the doomsday podcast is coming after you I don't even know what that is he could go back to clip that for them but we have it

whatever yeah no we did decide like if you signed with the Titans then we're going to have a A weekly show with the kicker of the Titans. If he's not with IDM, we'll be like, oh, did you mail the code this week. Yeah.

Engineering Weekly on the dumpster. Yes, let's go. Well, good times, man. Thanks a lot. Look forward to talking to some over the break as well. Maybe we'll do something on a football stream. Who knows? I mean, who knows?

Nobody knows. Weren't you on our Super Bowl stream last year for a little bit? am I high I was on one of your playoff streams it might have been the Super Bowl yeah I was on it

for a quarter yeah I think I went upstairs in my in-law's house I'd be up for that again all right man well hit him straight or whatever

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You didn't even come close to hitting the post. No, I don't... That was terrible. Happy bread, thank you. I needed more solo there. This whole flu thing has changed you. Yeah, I'm starving. That's a good sign, I think, right?

I am two. What is it? Feed a fever, starve a cold, or what do they say? Tell us, Blake. Oh, I know. Blake is the guy who would have all the little ifs and butts

I was so drenched and sweat when I woke up this morning I was waterlogged which apparently means that your body is getting over like I didn't have a fever

anymore when I woke up Oh okay You got to sweat Are you sleeping alone? Yeah I hadn't been in a bed Many days I'm on couches Hmm

Up in the the office? Yeah, but it doesn't pull out. So one night I went to downstairs because there is a pull-out small couch. But yep, I know. Pull me up, dog. Yep.

Wasn't that, is the pull-out couch the one you originally started trying to carry up there and it wouldn't fit? No. That's just gone. Oh, you just got rid of that. She sold it. Okay.

You got to get that chair I sent you. We have I do need a new chair A bunch of your mail birthdays For this Thursday Dan can I get a shout out of my 50th today I sat in The Day After the Eclipse

What a claim to fame With my three boys I remember this guy Yeah He's great Yeah yeah That was fun I have an example of Jake's why Hillary lost

Okay The Ace Hardware Jingle has changed the word man to folks. They'll say ace is the place with the helpful hardware, folks. Oh, interesting. What it used to be? Ace is the place with the film and all the bird. Man.

Yeah, okay. Wow. Jake's nine month after this date example. On my sit-in, it was April 9th, 2024. Jake filmed his commercial with Patrick Mahomes. About nine months after that day, Brittany Mahomes had a third kid. Golden Ray, born January 12th, 2025.

No coincidence. Awesome. Must be the sport coffee. He then asks about an anchor word. Hile. Jesus. I don't know if I've heard it anywhere else. My leaders are Bart Rager and Dan step on up to the yeast feast McDowell

Stay away from Texit coin, it's a scam From P1 Chris in Rancho Bernardo Good dude Good email Why weren't you at work yesterday? Why don't you feel good? wheeh, boo fucking who cry your way to the weak zone

cry your way to the loser don't I forgot about the weak zone I'll sit with you and listen to your weak ass but how many times have y'all heard me crying I don't have I can't be crying

because I got to take care of a lot of cry babies Greetings, Daniel. Thursday is my O.J. Simpson minus Henry Ruggs the 3rd plus pre-Colorado Kobe birthday. Man, a lot of trouble. It's a lot. It's 29. My leader is Jake saying he doesn't watch movies in 3D because it ruined Moana 2 for him. Okay. That was great. Jake's mic is weird now.

It's soon. Tiny. Just wait. Yeah. Come back. I don't know what my subby number is because I'm not gay, but I also have no idea where to find that number. However, I am gay enough to send you an email telling you my birthday is this week. More TC, more Jake, less Dan, less Blake. Never punt unless Brad and Babe really think this situation calls for it. From D.F. Nate, possibly the only D.F. in Michigan. Sounds like it just wants IJB.

Hey, Dan, it's Taylor's birthday here on Thursday, January 8th. His leader is the guy who would call into the crow line while taking a bath with his dad. No. Not a good leader. He would like a drop request of Jake in his Obama voice saying I did not have sex with that woman from Daniel. Mangler of the Meat Curtains. My birthday is Wednesday. Oh, I might have done this the other day.

This is from Greg Day 2DF. Leaders are Brackett Dan, Blake's dating tips, and Sarah's milk cannons. What's your favorite synonymous? or that body part as it relates to Sarah. Cannon, worship, hammer. I don't have any favorite, because I don't like them at all. I don't like that. I don't like objectifying.

Of course not. Just a fabulous author like Sarah. Right. Anvles. Yeah. Yeah, I can't do it. Yes, you can. And you've done it before.

I can't do it. Can't do it right now. Yeah, it's not a, it's not, move on. Dear Slayer of the Sprayer, it's my 47th birthday, my leaders are Lewis and Clark, the Dinosaur hunters. More Sarah Heppala drop request, a Dutch pentameter joke from Josh Wright. Where did Dutch go?

I don't know, I think he died. Rainbow Bridge. Okay, and then there was another shout out for Chris Bailey from the chat. Apparently Chris might join the chat. Didn't suck her? Didn't fuck her. All right. Let's go to...

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In China, they make you. So it's Thursday, January 8th. This is the day in 2016 that El Chapo was captured for a third time, six months after he walked through a tunnel to freedom from a maximum security prison. Let's see here. Just turn this one down. I think I turned down the wrong one. also on this day in

23 supporters of that real quick not just walked out didn't he have a motorcycle yes oh did he ride a motorcycle motorcycle at the end

in the tunnel there was a motorcycle for him to ride out he doesn't need all those steps incredible this day in 2023 supporters of former Brazilian president

Jair Bolsonaro who refused to accept his election defeat stormed Congress, the Supreme Court, and the presidential palace in the capital a week after the inauguration of his leftist rival. And I just think this is silly that these third world banana republic countries would, this is their system where they just go storm their capital if they don't win the election that's just so beneath us. And then we're We have January 8th, dumb zone history. On this date in 2021, we called Hawkeye because Hawkeye was a little upset.

Dan was wearing the finisher shirt for his Dallas. He remains upset about it. So I was thinking about that the other day, I was outside Home Depot, and they have, like, veteran parking. And I was wondering, what else could I do? Like, could I – I was thinking about the time I bought, like, a – a cue dog's shirt at the or whatever it was no it was a rambling prairie view and i think grubes bought one of their uh fraternity shirts and they asked him if he was a member of the frat and he said yes yeah like how far can i take this what what can i do next besides wearing a

finisher and could i get one on ebay like boston marathon finisher shirt or you know Of course. Why do all the stuff? Like, Jerry paid for the big stuffed animal at the fair and gave it to Gene. It's a famous story that he couldn't win it. So at the end, he just paid for one. Look at him. Yeah.

So why don't I just buy some stuff that says I did good things? Yeah, you should put honor roll on your kids. Like, that's what I should do. Yeah. Like, I put, like, number one student at the elementary on my car. Yeah, ace, a student. Just put a. Yes.

A bumper sticker. We were also in this era. I think this reads funny. Jake says he didn't buy the big phone. Claims we do not get to him. He's just clarifying. Well, remember that era? Jake's big phone.

Yeah. It's so angry. It's the normal phone. Dude, I got, I got, I got, uh, you don't get to me. I got tiny bone shame. It didn't. dinner over the break you got tiny phone shamed because i was with people like my age so they're like what's your phone wow this is so weird i'm used to dan who at this point

now has like the from the will feral fashion designer sketch phone like how fast do you have your backpack for belon birthdays today we have jesse holly 42 oh good dude Yes. Called a couple of Cowboys games with him in the preseason for Compass. He's great. Blake's first couple of broadcasts as well. Jaden Blue, 22. All right. Louis Vuitton.

Where's this guy been all year? Did it Berline? Brad, Brad. Could have used him in week seven. Shane Bouchel, 28. Good dude, I think If I had a dollar for every time It's all been great fast

Didn't you once push me up against the wall Tell me how great he's going to be Oh wait, I thought you said Steve No, still no No, I don't Yeah Is he still bouncing around? I know he was on the Bill's practice squad

Right, he was with the Chiefs before, wasn't he? Yeah, the Chiefs signed him whenever Mahomes got hurt, right? Right. Zach Charbonnet, 25. Thank you. He was the one that converted the two-point conversion for all. Okay. Our triple play.

That meant so much for us. Yeah, it looks like he's on the Bill's practice squad. Still hang around a little bit. Bruce Souter is 73. He is a Hall of Fame closer. His war is 24.1. It's a bit low. It is the lowest war in the Hall of Fame.

For context, Babe Ruth, as a pitcher, had a 20.4. He had a 20 war as a pitcher only. Bruce Souter had a 24 war. As a pitcher only. Mike Cameron, is 53

Jason Giambi is 55 Kim Jong-un is 42 18 holes in one yeah

Nick Nulte is 84 that's we need to review today are still alive yeah uh

today's he's still alive is game show host Bob Eubanks 88. Okay, Nick Nolte to me hits harder just because Nick Nolte is, more well-known. He's got a lot of like, wow, or just wild bad.

Yeah, there's wheels off to him. What were you going to say we should review? It's not trading. Yeah, it is. What's the one where he takes Eddie Murphy out of jail? 48 hours. 48 hours. Yeah.

Oh, my God. I've never seen it. Oh, dude. just how shocking that is today. Just the first half hour or so. It's probably not a dusting of racism. Not an N-word. They're probably just pouring it all over.

More than dusting, yes. Yeah. I think he had little nicknames for him that weren't necessarily the N-word, but they might have been like fruit that's difficult, or you might smash in front of an audience with a sledgehammer. Yeah. Thank you, Gallagher. Yes.

Kelly is 59. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Just, you know, it doesn't really make any sense that it plays out this way where just for years, everyone's like, that guy's doing this. And everyone just jokes about it and laughs about it. And then at some point, they're like, we're going to arrest him for it.

Yep. You know, like, okay. He was doing it the whole time. Right. I mean, Chappelle does a whole sketch on it. Yeah. You know, yeah. Not after.

No. We're going to give our dumb zone birthday of the day to director John McTiernan. He's 75. He directed Die Hard and Predator. Man, Mr. High T. That's great. Predator, Blake. Have you seen Predator?

The first one? Did we do it for the show? It's Arnold. So it's way more about Arnold than the thing. I remember growing up thinking I don't like thing movies. You know what I mean? I don't. No, I don't know what you mean.

What do you mean? Like Avatar, like, Avatar. Like, what is, like, I don't like, I just like humans. You don't like creatures. The dragon was an exception. That's what I'm saying. Like, you see Predator and you go through your, stay with me, though. Like, it came out in 87.

By the time I'm a junior high high school, I don't know if you co-signed this. Predator came to mean the thing, like the Predator Alien thing. Right. And it's Predator versus Alien. I never saw it myself. But the original one,

you don't even really see the thing. It's about Arnold. Gotcha. But this is where the- The handshake meme is from, Predator? Right. Okay. With Carl Weathers.

Uh-huh. Right. Born on this day now dead. David Bowie, Elvis Presley. I'm scared. Hmm. And I can predict what Jake will say after I say this name. Okay.

He's writing it down. And is writing it down. No pressure now. Great. Karnak over here? Stephen Hawking. Yeah, they retrofitted a little sub for it to put him on Epstein Island.

He always wanted to travel. Exactly, but I wrote it was on the Epstein Island. It was on the Epstein Island. Yeah. Dead on this day, still dead. Was he the one with the whiteboard slightly out of reach?

Never wanted anything to be true in my entire life math problem. And it was also math problems that were just too complicated. Just a little complicated. That's my cake. Watching you get close

to solving an equation. You might be able to make some progress, but you just can't write up there. Dead on this day still dead, we have Harvey Haddicks. I'm going to, I know that Blake claims to be a baseball fan, but definitely not a student of history.

He doesn't know who Harvey Haddicks is. Does Ted Emrick know the bullet point next to Harvey Haddx's name? No idea. Okay, so you weren't a baseball nerd. Because I was reading baseball books when I was a kid. Nerd. I know. And I was always fascinated by the fact that Harvey Haddx had a perfect game through 13 innings.

And in the 14th gave it up. Should he be credited with Is the reason Hillary lost Because eventually Bud Seelig Awarded him the perfect game What? After his death He didn't finish it

He didn't finish it off Yeah Postmortem gave him a perfect game Why? Posthumously perfect game They like they kind of said Yeah you know what We should we should celebrate this in history

Because he went 13 innings Okay Well then celebrated in history but you can't call it a perfect game. The whole sport is built on this. So the records. They also took like the Roger Maris asterisk away. Did they get anybody who had gone like three and a third scoreless?

Just give it one. Just give it to Armando Gallagheraga then. They should. They really should. Well, the Cowboys defense had a shutout until they gave up a touchdown in overtime. It's still a shutout. She'd have won if she parted to Pete Rose. Also dead on this day still dead.

Dave Thomas. the founder of Wendy's. Square Burger. And died on this day, what year? For Galileo, Galilee. Apparently his name is Galileo Galilei. Listed as the father of observational astronomy. I wish you would have just said observation.

Died at the age of 77. Was he alive to see Picasso? or the godfather. He's 1650. I'm going to say I think that actually sounds pretty good, but I'm going to go 15, 1550. 1470.

1390. Died on this day and he was 77 years old in 1642. Yeah. Okay, so we're not, we're at least blustering. We're learning our lesson a little bit. Yeah. That's wild. He sold a Fowlery a bash.

Yeah. And that's what happened on this day in history. Well, Ted, thanks for being in the hang zone. Of course. That is not this show. That is this seat that you're in. That's right. That's right.

This is this couch that protrudes from the middle for some reason. I have one gift for you. I'm going to get up and give it to you for the grand reveal. This is something that I picked up. I've been saving for just this moment. I picked this up from a tailgate scene in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I did a little bit of Maxion in the middle of the season, Toledo and Western Michigan. The Rockets and the Broncos, dozens of people were watching. And this was handed to me on my way in. And I thought, that you might enjoy it. Seems to be a coozy. It is a coozy. And it's Dan. Excuse me? Yeah.

I said handed to Dan. Yeah, I was just narrating. And it is, um, apparently this is a place. I have no context for you. Leave her in No context What does it say under it? It says playing varsity since 2021

So it says varsity on the back And then leave her in With a kind of a long horn But it's more of a shocker symbol Yeah But it's not in like I-NN So it does not indicate a bar We complete the joke

But you're right, Ted. This is for me. Merry Christmas, Dan, and Happy New Year. We can still go Happy New Year, right? No, I think the Larry David rule, I think we're past that at this point, but I don't care. What's up next for Ted Emrick? I have Memphis and Florida Atlantic basketball. Penny Hardaway leading the Tigers down to Boca Raton for Sunday afternoon hoops on ESPN.

2, noon Central, 1 Eastern, just as the Bills and Jaguars are kicking off. So, yes, huge game. Too bad we don't watch Mavs anymore, because Ted's been doing a few games. I've got the Mabs and the Knicks on January 19th,

Martin Luther King Day, at Madison Square Garden, filling in for Mark Fowal. Because he and I know he refused to work on MLK, that's right. That's right. Mark has a game on Peacock. Thank you. Thank you for watching my name, subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my video.

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