The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 10-29-25 PREVIEW | Back from Denver and The Brandon Aubrey Show

Episode Date: October 29, 2025

Hear the entire episode by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneJake tells the story of seeing Insane Clown Posse in Denver and we speak to one of the Cowboys who should've raised their hand when Schotty asked who thought they played well in Denver.The Brandon Aubrey Show sponsored by Community Mechanical. Sign up for preventative maintenance and get $50 in DZ merch as well as 10% off all equipment and labor costs! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hey now, what you were about to hear is a free preview of one of this week's premium episodes of The Dumb Zone. If you would like to hear this program in full, along with the full archive, ah, shit. If you would like to hear this program in full with the archive of all of our past episodes, you can subscribe at dumbzone.com. It was insane, dude. It was a lot of fun, and I would go see them again. The music is like, uh, it's a lot more. Like, did you know South Park Mexican growing up, Blake? No. Clayton's not in his head.

It sounds a lot like, like SPM, but you bring up the Detroit thing. It's just, again, Eminem, Kid Rock, ICP, this is where poor people music for the whites comes from. Cleveland, I'm sure, has some level of this, but it all feels kind of the same, like, dirty white people music to me. I'll dabble in that As a dirty white person Yeah as sometimes So We should mention that today

Is our Tuesday And that means Brandon Aubrey is going to be on the show And we're expecting him in just a few minutes But since it's his Wednesday He's This is not his day off He's going to try and make time for us

At the Star in Frisco And he said 1145 and he's got a tight 30. So we'll try to let him go early and let him go run to Bangor and Trent into their arms in their open arms as he runs through a field.

And we should mention that now we're back in Dallas. We have to start doing back in Dallas stuff. And that includes this Friday. We will be at Cone Roso and Carrollton. Friday, you may know, is Halloween. The 31st.

The night of the, what? The Hallows. Dia de los mortis. The night of... All Hallows Eve. Can you pull off waking up Saturday morning with a girl in a costume? Because that was always the... Yeah, that'd be great.

Anyway... Snow White, I don't remember this at all. We're doing a show 1130. to 2.30 like usual, and it will be in costume, Blake, when I say we, does that mean like the whole show? Are you just going to wear your Argyle hat and be like, I'm a coach? I mean, I will look like a coach. You always do. You really always do.

And apparently Julie Dobbs tells me that Kanye Rousseau has coughed up a $100 gift card, and we're going to have some kind of a rudimentary costume. That sounds great. We won't really know what the rules are. How do you win? Don't know. Maybe you have to appeal to us. It probably starts with having a costume, though.

Starts with having a costume. Or big giant jugs. And if you can do the combo. If you can bring those, then you're going to have a good chance. But the problem is Julie's going to vote on them, too. So we're going to have to keep it somewhat cool. We got Brandon. So, yeah, join us Friday.

Carrollton for our Halloween program. And here we go. This is brought to us by Community Mechanical. All right, Jason. Almost got a chance to give away some discounts the other day. That's right. They have a deal like if Brandon breaks the NFL record for longest kick, stuff, you're going to get stuff. Yep. Let's put it on the website on the promo codes page.

But for now, let's say hello to our good friend, Brandon Aubrey, who is not at his kitchen table because he's been kicked out of his little office because he's got a baby. He is at the star, right? I'm guessing. You're at the star in Frisco? Yes. I'm actually in our nutritionist's office today. Okay. What do they tell you? don't eat a whole lot of sugar take these vitamins and stuff like this he's got these just laying around so um just a bunch of supplements they make sure we're getting good food they take care of us really good so i appreciate them they do a great job this is maybe a personal question

but how is you're seen on the home front with like uh does your wife let you guys use plastic because blake and i's wives are kind of on a tear yeah i think that's the instagram mom feed right now yeah yeah yeah and go and since she since we had colton instagram really ratcheted up the scare tactics on all that stuff so no we don't have plastic colton use the metal cup um he's got silicone stuff which i'm not sure if we're allowed to use or not but um yeah we're we're trying to give him the best possible life and not mess up any of his endocrine system and stuff like that. So he's got the best of the best going for him. And she cares about him more than just about anything in the world. So she's making sure

she doesn't mess anything up for him. It's funny when our heroes have our problems. I know. That's why I asked. That's why I asked. I wouldn't call it a problem. They'll get him in trouble. Yeah. Well, we almost, let me just ask you this. For a kick that you didn't end up taking, were you as hyped as you've ever been? I mean, we really felt like we had a shot at it there at the end of the first half um yeah the end of end of half field goal is always fun um uh our team does a good job setting me up for it um obviously we were down 17 points at that point so we want to go score a touchdown first and then settle for a field goal if we have to so um we're playing that end of half very aggressive and i love that we got to go score points um um and you know

make that completion get up there and spike it and makes it a much more manageable field goal with one shot at the end zone from the offense first. So, yeah, it happens. Sometimes we don't get those opportunities, but they'll be there eventually. Did you feel like you could kick it longer there? Probably. I know the one thing, I hit one touchback that went about five deep, and that was when I kind of forgot that I was in Denver, and I just hit my normal pace on it.

We're about five, six yards deeper, so that'd be my best guess is probably had five yards on it. Hit from 58, and it hit halfway up the net and warm up, usually from 58 and warmups without any of the juice going. I'm just kind of finding my range. That one will land in the net below the upright. So, yeah, I think five, six yards is probably about right for what you get out of being up that high. But you didn't try to, like, hit a 70 in pregame. No, yeah, we know we have it if we need it. Don't want to tire the leg out.

Don't want to create bad habits. Stick to my normal routine. There's no point to go back to 70. You can hit from 58 and see that the ball hit at a certain spot, meaning you would have been good from wherever you think. So no point to go back there in Mash running from 70. Did Blake went golfing out there. Did you feel like it carried farther?

Yeah, I had probably 30 more yards on all of them. my shots oh that's nice uh were any of those like elevated tea boxes too not really um but no just dialing in your yardage was a little weird but fun you got to play wolf's creek okay how how did you provide where Nevada okay did i say it right i said nevada the first time i don't know Nevada Nevada where you guys lean on that i uh I think I started saying Colorado and Nevada because it sounds less Texan. I think the right way to say it is Nevada or Colorado. How did you prepare for the altitude or did you?

I got on the plane and then I got off it, so I had to do anything. You just drink a lot of water. I don't know. I'm not running a marathon, and I'm only there for two days. So I don't want to over-stress my job. I'm not doing cardio-intensive work, so not a lot of work needs to go into preparing for it because there's not a huge tax on my cardiovascular system, which I think is the big one. He had a little cardio because there was a kick return.

Yeah, I got moving. Like you're about to make the tackle on that one. You got hit, right? He had a lead blocker. Yeah, I was going to take my shot in the middle of the field, but he had a lead blocker that he started to kind of, he went backwards and got behind him. I didn't think I could take it on a block. and then make the tackle.

So I tried to get in front of the lead blocker and make him slow down, which is what ended up happening, and then I got tossed. But, you know, that's part of the job. Yeah, but if you watch it again, I mean, I don't know. I know you play football in high school, and, hey, you know, maybe your defense could take a hand on a couple of these.

Okay, thank you, Brad. You took the right angle, though. You took the correct angle. You took the cut off the blocker, and I don't know if it was ready or who, but somebody was able to make that tackle because you put that there. Yeah, that's the job description of the kicker. I mean, if you make the tackle, you make the tackle.

But I'm just going to play safety and keep them in front of me as long as I possibly can and let somebody else who tackles for a living go make the tackle. And, I mean, that's the name of the job playing centerback, too. Like, as a centerback, he just always want to keep the game in front of you and organize the players in front of you. So a lot of practice doing that. And only last kind of ditched effort do you want to put in a challenge as a centerback. So I'm kind of treating it that way.

I've got a lot of practice in my life. doing that. You hated it. Come on. Let's score goals. Let's make tackles, dude. Yeah, I score goals each and every other play. So I'll need to have the highlight deal there. And the worst thing I do is, I don't know how to tackle. I did one terrible in the USFL where I threw my head in there and lucky to escape without a targeting call or concussion. Yeah, you've told us before. Your guys, if you try to mix it up, your guys are coming over to you, like, get out. We don't. Yes, exactly. We don't want you in here. But it is kind of, it sucks, though, because, like, people will put together, oh, the kicker got thrown. The unfortunate thing for you or for a punter is, but I guess really

a kicker because it's the open field, you're never approaching that from an advantageous position as a tackler. Like, the guy who doesn't tackle ever is now being put in a situation that even the guy who's a great tackler would look. Against one of the fastest guys in the other team. You're on skates. you're doing the serpentine looper it's just he's already got a big momentum built up yeah and he's just escaped 10 other guys it's the worst spot yeah i feel for you and that's why you don't that's why i thought twice about meeting him in the hole with um a lead blocker there it's like i can't do both maybe i can tackle him one-on-one um especially if i just shoot my shot um but also could have gone to the house also could have gone to the house if you take that shot yeah

and looked really silly just try to just pick the ball out of his hand next time. You start running. Yeah, I'll do that. That's what I would do, yeah. Or what a brain that comes in with the peanut punch, just tries the peanut tum. Start practicing that. Did you be cut in the next day?

Luckily, I don't need the hand. Now, uh, so we saw you go out to, to, uh, the coin toss. Did you call it? Yeah, I call the coin tosses on the away games. Um, I think I am two and three now with two wins, three losses. Uh, I will blame this. one on osa i asked him heads or tails he said heads and i went with it oh sorry osa throwing you on her bus there okay i didn't know you got to call it yeah i didn't know that either um

and it's interesting being at the game i guess blake sees this every week although he has like a job during it i was just in the stands uh the tv timeouts feel long for us i bet they feel really long for you but you're just out there kind of talking with the ref is what's he got is he just kind of seen any movies or yeah i can't believe you guys traded wika no more like uh getting sick of me yeah especially in the games we score 40 points like it's not gonna point there um when we scored the last touchdown um just get an extra point there that that's sort thing uh nothing to write home about most it's mostly forgettable um some guys ask you how you're doing how the family that sort of stuff but nothing nothing crazy

Yeah, I've seen you out there for most coin tosses this year. So, like, who's telling you ahead of time what to do or what to say? Yeah, so we go through our process, head coach, our strategy guy, and then special teams unit when we're on the road, figuring out which direction we want to go and whatever the strategy is for the week, if we want ball or not, or if we want to put the defense out there first, then it's kind of a communal effort. there. And whatever we're feeling, then it's decided and hopefully win the toss. I only call them on the road, though. Not at home. Give somebody else a chance to talk because they want me to take responsibility for a side of the field we're defending because it matters

for punters and kickers more than anyone else on the field. So you determine that in the pregame warmups? Yes. Yep. And then you, so you call hedge or tails and then you also say we want to defend this side or whatever exactly okay wonder why they don't let you do that at home with the sun it doesn't matter at home yeah it's more about them give somebody else the chance to do it more about it is an honor it's a big honor so yeah it's it's nice to be able to be that guy on on the road were you were you not that last year no um last year with McCarthy we had rotating team captains where each week we had a different set of four um or even i think it was three this year we have six permanent captains and then one rotating and then one of the six permanent

captains will step out of the coin toss for the rotating captain each week uh this is probably just the generic but i am wondering what the message from the head coach is after a game like that uh the scoreboard looks ugly but it's you know it's the kind of the doldrum of the season where it's just everybody's got to stay in the fight type thing at least that's what i think from the outside. So I'm wondering sort of what the what the general tone was from the head coach. Yeah, it's it's not good enough. Look in the mirror. I'm not going to be not going to pull your punches. You got to look in the mirror, see what you did right, what you did wrong, because even though we got beaten up, there's some good in there. We got to build on

that and then figure out what we did wrong, why we got beat, correct those things. But then also remember, this is just one game. Don't compound it with energy in the building where you don't have energy because we just got beat. You got to fight back with fantastic energy, whether we win or lose. Each week of preparation has to be exactly the same. Don't let one win make you think you're the best team in the world and don't want one loss, make you think you suck. So get back to work, figure out what went wrong, fix it, and correct it for next week.

So the ping pong table is still in play? ping pong table is still firmly planted Okay Because like Baltimore took their ping pong table out Did you hear about that? Yeah, I heard that And that sounds kind of like a Overreaction in my opinion

I'm not sure of each locker rooms On individual And have their own flow, I guess But that seems kind of like You're taking a bad thing and making it worse But I guess it worked because they came out and won a game I listened to Shotties you know, post-game press conference

and he said some of those things that you just said that he told the team and he also said he told the team Dude, I was thinking the exact same thing. Go ahead. All right, raise your hand if you think you played well today. And I was thinking then I put myself in Brandon's body

and I'm in there and like sheepishly like All right, I mean. Did have the touchback, he pointed out. Actually, I was wondering if you like have. Like Trent, come on, Trent, you snapped everyone perfect. Operation was clean today. Let's beat together, be together. Come on, all of us.

Great point. At least the three of us. You know? The dungza, dunza.