The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 11-27-24: Mike McCarthy not dead yet, the Kyrie Irving transformation, and DeeZ Picks Week 12

Episode Date: November 27, 2024

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneA fat 3 hour show the day before Thanksgiving. Jerry Jones seems to intimate that Mike McCarthy ain't dead in the water yet. A brief check on the Mavs and the transformation Kyrie Irving has gone through. We review Barstool buying a player for Michigan and how much does a hit man cost? (00:00) - Open: Trey watched Dan's house (32:12) - Sports: McCarthy not dead yet (52:55) - Today in Twitter: Dez and holidays (01:05:01) - Big Thursday Viewer Mailbag (01:26:21) - DeeZ Picks Week 12 (01:53:05) - Jake's Jumper: Kyrie's transformation (02:14:40) - News: How much is a hit man (02:32:21) - NCAA lite: Barstool bought a player (02:44:08) - VM birthdays/TiH: Dan upset Nick Van Exel ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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dinner rolls, 500 cases of cranberry sauce, but the paste de resistance, we got football, Thanksgiving Day, Cowboys and Redskins, and, of course, Joe Buck. Thank you, Pam Oliver and Troy Aikman and Chris Collinsworth. Guess what's coming up next on this Thanksgiving Day? That's right, a kickoff and football. Woo-hoo! All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. And football! Woo-hoo! I miss Joe and Troy.

How could you not? On Thanksgiving? Yeah, just pretty much overall. It just doesn't seem the same. You see them every Monday. Yeah. You know, I'm not

locked, I gotta be honest, I'm not locked in every Monday night for the whole game like I would be kind of every Sunday afternoon. Agreed.

You're gonna take in whatever game they're doing. Agreed. But, you know, things change. Sometimes people move networks. They're not the place that they used to be. And then people adjust.

And, again, all the other people that do that do it because a giant pile of money is is thrown at them and they're like, yes, I have to go for this. I still don't really understand the whole Joe Buck thing. Like how they had to bring Joe Buck to? And how Fox let that happen? They just wanted to be cool?

Ah, that's interesting. Knowing how corporations deal with stuff. I wouldn't have blamed ESPN. Some corporations are like, well, how I want to be able to, you know, I want to look good to the other announcers that are, you know, I don't want to, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like the way NBA franchises are like, oh, I got to treat this guy well so that other players might want to come here.

It's interesting. I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kellen. I'm Blake Jones. I'm sick. Aw. But you guys are aware of that, I did say. If you want to not be here, feel free.

I don't know if I'd be here with me. I don't know. Well, the good news is... It's like moving around. It was in my chest, then it was on the left side of my throat, and then the right side. It's a weird bit. Do you want to say it or do you want me to?

Oh, no. That it's because he didn't shower? Is there a correlation between you not showering after two airline rides? Yeah. You have to think about it. You were breathing in... You went to a football game breathing in plain fucking filth. A football game.

The chemtrails were right above you. I did go to a football game in a stadium where they wouldn't let you in if you were vaccinated. Well, the good news for you is

I brought gallons and gallons of Vim today. Okay. Now, if he can step up with a little... You got vigor? I forgot my vigor. That's okay.

I have enough Vim to cover for the lack of vigor and him having AIDS. What is Vim? I think it's the same thing as vigor. Yeah, it's just energy. Okay, you need them both. Where's some Vim from you guys? I had a single banana this morning. Rable?

Okay. Yeah. Did you have it as part of a... It's a total solo extra. I think I just realized I don't know what a group of bananas is called. Bunch? Bunch of bananas. There you go.

Solo banana, that's extra. It's not usually in my game plan. But I thought, you know what? This is going to change things. Potassium. I tend to just hit those packets of stuff. Your emergency or whatever. None of it works, I'm sure.

First I kissed it. You worked out your 20 inches hypothetical. Yeah, I still don't really understand that. I don't either. We're not here to go over that. We're here to prepare you for football. Tomorrow we have a cowboy game. We got a Lions game. I don't remember the Chris Collinsworth era of being with Joe and Troy. Well, it was Chris Collinsworth and Joe, right? And then they added Troy. And they added Troy when he was done with NFL Europe. Back in the old days, Blake.

That sounds like a fun booth. A broadcaster would work their way up even if they were a Hall of Fame quarterback. What do you mean? Romo and Brady? Yeah, Romo, Brady. Olsen? Everybody, yeah. Even when Phil Simms started, I'm sure he didn't start in the number one seat.

Right. They were like, eh. Oh, everybody's sick. Dog's coughing. Daughter's sick, and that's why she will not be here today. She was going to perhaps do a movie review. She's a film major. Roasting Rocky.

I don't know if she would roast it, but she had a pretty interesting take on it. So I thought instead maybe we could pop on Trey. I'm not sure if we should, but he recently was a house sitter. He watched the house when I was gone in Clemson, and he usually does it. And in the past, we've had very mixed results. Well, no, they've been very negative results. I was going to say, what is positive? Well, I mean, the dogs have been alive.

That's good. They seemed happy. They like him. I think they like anybody. They're pretty friendly, as you see, when people come up here. But anyway, so that's why my wife signs off on Trey, like even though literally she's had plants that she loves die because of Trey being here. I think one year there was a flower pot that one of the kids made for her. It said, I love you, Mom, when they were like seven or something. One of those things.

Wow. And then we got back, and it looks weird, and then it's got that line in it where the elmer's glue like seeped out like he tried he obviously dropped it and then tried to fix it but it was fixed really poorly and then she was even more upset at that like because she could have fixed it better um but but effort something for effort one year we got back and the uh back and the towel rack in the bathroom there was on the floor, like out of the wall.

I thought that was a TC special for some reason. I don't know. TC, I may be getting it mixed up. Well, either way. I'm positive once he was doing his laundry and broke the washing machine because we had to get a new washer dryer. And I had to go over to the laundromat by your house.

That's right. Why do you keep asking him back? a new washer dryer. And I had to go over to the laundromat by your house for a couple of weeks. Why do you keep asking him back? And here's what else I want to know about him. Or do I want to know this? You guys tell me. Where does he sleep?

Oh, he stays here? He stays here. Then that's why. I pay him because I want somebody to be here with the dogs and I got something on that in a moment. But because I want somebody to be here with the dogs, and I got something on that in a moment, but to be able

to let them out all the time, not just like somebody swoops in, like a neighbor swoops in every 10 hours or something. I want them to have it's weird. You know how people are with their dogs, and I'm like that. I think they're good little people, and I want somebody to interact with them and just live with them

and sleep over. It's currently ruining my dad's retirement. His dog? He's got two dogs. They'll put them in the car to come bring the kids back. Okay, well, that's a little silly. We really can't leave them. I don't want to board them. They don't like doing that either.

Bodie's very, I don't know, he's a tender little guy. I just can't picture him being in a cage with all these other dogs. He gets nervous enough with just people. There's being so white that you go to a really nice boarding place, and then there's being so, so white that you're like, I just can't imagine my dog. Even at that nice sporting place. You know what, though? I think there are some nice ones with a video camera there.

You could just tune in all weekend, kind of check in, make sure he's okay. Yeah. Maybe I will do that. So a sleeping location was not discussed ever? Like, hey, you just grab this. I think sleeping in your bed. He once said he would sleep on the lovesack. Okay. Which we call

the pile. Because we go jump on the pile. But, uh... I don't know. It just seems weird. He's like a 35-year-old guy now. Is he just laying, sleeping on a lovesack? That seems weird. Would the den couch be an option, or is that locked? Oh, no. We left it open. Okay.

I don't know. I had locked it in the past, but then I think he locked Bodie in. That's right. That one time, remember? I did that. Oh, you locked Bodie in, but yeah. You didn't have to say that.

I wanted it to come clean. I didn't want to pin something on Trey. So my thing is that I don't know where he slept, so that means we washed everything in the whole house. Jeez. But if he had told me where he slept, then I would wash just that place. But no shower, Blake.

So that's why you fumigated the house? Yeah, we had the whole thing on. Yeah, I was wondering why the circus tent was... So where else would he sleep? I mean, if it's not the sack... My bed. Your bed, right. He's not sleeping in one of the girls' beds. Where would I sleep?

If I was at your house. The couch. I would go couch. Everybody would go couch. Like, I wouldn't want to sleep in the bed that Blake slept in with his wife. Guest bed or couch. Yeah, and if you're guest bed. Well, we have a guest futon, but it's covered with stuff.

You got to go couch. Unless there is a legitimate guest bed, meaning nobody regularly occupies it. Daughter at college is 21. Mattress on the floor. Her boyfriend's going to come visit for Christmas. Holy smokes. Interesting. on the floor her boyfriend's gonna come visit for christmas holy smokes interesting and so i'm already thinking do they want to sleep in the bed to get like they're 21 yeah yeah that's would mom allow like i mean obviously she was getting around

you know when she was that age yeah ain't like if Grandma was in town, she's going to have a problem with it. She didn't learn all that stuff in a book. I can't recall the specific age, but it definitely by 22 or 23 when I was post-college. Yeah, I would do that. Yeah, I feel like once you leave for college. That's kind of my thing is like you've been living by yourself. You have a car. You do this do that. Yeah, I feel like once you leave for college. That's kind of my thing is like you've been living by yourself. You have a car. You do this and that.

They probably occasionally stay at each other's places. Oh, yeah. At school. So, no, that's the move. Yeah. Don't be weird about it. Yeah. They'll be weird about it.

They'll be weird about it. I was saying you don't be weird about it. But she has like a bunk bed. Not a bunk. The loft bed. And that would just be weird too. I don't even know if that would hold the weight.

If nothing else, you do the like, put an extra mattress on the floor like a blow up mattress. Yeah. But you don't do like the, you can't be in the same room together. That'll only make him want to do it more.

I know. I know how that is. Make it forbidden. So, what day that week will he be with us? You want him up here? I want to find out if I want him up here. Dude, it's already hard enough on him.

I don't care. Just let him live. There's no way. What? He listens. No, I think he's tuned in. Oh. I think somehow he got wind that she was on and then wanted to find out and stuff. Supportive boyfriend.

Yeah. He knows she's a roast twin. So this time with Trey, you don't know where he slept. What else happened? Oh, yeah, that's right. I forgot to tell you. So was it last night? What night?

Whenever we got back the next day, it was like I saw a little puddle of urine. What? It was over, you know, kind of on the, behind the, you know, the kitchen. You never really eat in the kitchen. I don't know if you are like that, but we never eat in front of the TV. And so it was like in the back area where, you know, you go plug in the phones, and I'm like well wait

what's this oh man that's I stepped in it and then it turns out like there was another one over there by the computer

and then there was another and like my wife spent like good thing she did it because then I I had to do something but she spent the next hour like finding

just pee all over the house I think like the sheets you just gotta do the whole house that she's like oh this, you just got to do the whole house. She's like, oh, this is dried up. This was obviously three days ago, but she's now down there with the Windex

and all that on the floor. I just wondered, did he let them out at all? Did he do the, I'll let them out every 10 hours and just go live my life, which is fine, but that's why I paid him a pretty fair amount to be here, to sit, to be here with the dogs all the time. You're confident it's dog urine. I'm not.

How are the YouTube searches this time? We didn't look at that. I still don't even really remember what was and wasn't real on all that, but I don't care. Trey had a good bit, actually. Years ago when I got back, we turned on the TV, and it's always weird when somebody watches your house and then you turn on the TV and you're like,

what's this movie? I didn't watch this on Netflix. And it's like, oh, okay, Trey was here. And we went to YouTube because we like to watch some YouTube videos. Maybe we were watching the Norm MacDonald Show in order at that time. I can't remember why we kept going to YouTube every night. I went to YouTube and it was like, what is this? And it was breastfeeding videos.

And there was like four or five of them. breastfeeding videos. And there was like four or five of them. I'm like, God damn, Trey gets off on watching breastfeeding videos. They're out there. And then I went,

you know, what did I do? The first thing I did was tell you guys. And then we were like, should we say something to him? And it seemed like it was so, it was too out there to confront about. That would be too uncomfortable. It would be mean to bring him on the air and confront him about it.

But it was also somewhat believable. He's Trey. Yes. So we're like, yeah, I could see that. And so then it just became our little thing. And we were still like, he still did work for us. A friend, I like him. He's a good dude.

It was just like, all right, if he's a guy that watches breastfeeding videos, then that's what his bit is. You like your video, your missionary, you like your gangbang. What was your buddy into? Big black women. Big black dudes with big butted white women. Can't go wrong there.

The guy I used to share a porn password with because he his wife would bust him so I would buy the porn site on my credit card because I have seen control and then he would we would just share the account that was fair he would pay for it and the problem is not just what he's watching but you see like how far into the video he got well I didn't really

follow that but the point is so now Trey was watching breastfeeding videos we thought for like three years and then he showed up to our Super Bowl stream last year and he said, hey, how do you guys like the bit I did? And he just thought we never, I never saw it. Like he released to us, like I did that on purpose. Or no, was it Austin that did it or somebody? No, I came clean. Oh, you knew about it?

Yeah. Oh, that's right. Your bit was the best of all. Well, yeah. So Trey is watching your house and he texted me because this was back when we were still doing the – he was doing the weekly rap for us. And he said, hey, I searched some – I forget the word he said, but I searched some naughty videos on YouTube on the smart TVs. Let me know if Dan finds it. And so that next Monday, Dan walks in very pale,

and he's just like, he's got a look on his face. He's like, I got to tell you guys. Trey watched breastfeeding videos on my TV. And Jake flips out. Probably came everywhere. Ham starts laughing, and I just thought, this is too good to interrupt So I just let it play out for a while

For years For years And what was great was Anytime breastfeeding came up on the show I would make Ham play The Cray Trey laughing drop As a joke for just the five of us And then Yeah Trey was drop as a joke for just the five of us.

And then, yeah, Trey was up here for the Super Bowl stream, and I just said, hey, I'm sorry. I never told them about your breastfeeding video. Okay, so it was your brilliance, actually. I needed to come clean. I'd been holding it in for a while. I wonder how it feels, though, to have something seemingly revealed about yourself to your friends, and then their first thought is kind of

like well yeah makes sense like they're like sure right if you had seen that i was doing that i would hope you wouldn't i would hope you'd be taken aback yeah yeah like oh my god what are we like we weren't like oh my god we were like oh yeah that's certainly learning what the perceptions of you are like he's too scared to go to a porn site so he just finds the limit that youtube allows that's what it is yeah shoegazing adult content so we're not calling trey yeah probably not no we just did it i have well you go ahead what i was just gonna tell tell Blake I saw a new text outside today. Okay. Does it say gobble, gobble?

Close. Don't be a turkey. Buckle, buckle. Damn it. Yeah. Thought you'd enjoy that one. They had a real R-rated one a year or so ago. Who's out there not buckling?

Oh, that's out there. Apparently it's still a thing. Like all the cars yell at you if you don't. My father-in-law doesn't. And I think the last time I was in the car with him, it was pretty clear to me that he had just normalized the beep and didn't care anymore. Yep.

Feel that. Yeah, I think Blake. He just drives with the beep. Yeah. It comes away. Yeah, I think it does. Does it? It's a long time.

Maybe I'll test that. Do you buckle now? Most of the time. See? We've talked about this before, and I was shocked to learn that Blake just doesn't. Never unbuckle the dead man. That's what you hear at cops. The theory is that cops have said that.

I don't know that any cop has ever actually said that. Yeah, that doesn't sound cop-ish. Yeah, so text.sign, getting ready for Thanksgiving. I also told these guys last week, Dan, when you were gone, I told you I was thinking about it, but I signed up to go to boxing class. Yeah, you told me a little something about that. After the Paul Tyson fight. And I forgot because I've been out of the group gym or training game for so long.

And really, generally, for the rest of my life, I want to stay out of it. I like working out at home by myself. But I'll mix this in every now and then. I forgot how super broed up, teed up, Garth Brooks headset mic guy gets on the class before Thanksgiving. Anybody who's been in workout classes

who's listening to this right now knows what I'm talking about. He's like, all right, we're going to push ourselves extra hard this morning. Get ready for that big Thanksgiving feast. Oh, okay.

You're going to be putting on those cows tomorrow. Let's burn those cows this morning, 630 class. He definitely says cows. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's just the whole thing is like, I want you thinking about the sweet potato casserole. Give me another punch and kick and punch and kick and punch.

This one's for the gravy. Knees and elbows and knees and mac and cheese elbows. It's like, bro, I was going to work out to my liking already. You did that this morning? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's already kind of one of those classes where they yell a lot, but when you give them the juice of Thanksgiving, they really go after it.

I have to do two things before we start getting into sports. One is promote our calendar. That's right. Nice. What's the situation with that? Because you're a calendar guy. DumbZoneMerch.com. If you hate the calendar, blame Jake.

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It's the photo from the Washington Post. It's just dumb zone merch? Yeah. Okay. zone move of it's the photo from the washington post it's just dumb zone merch yeah okay and uh it's it's a screenshot of a web page on the uh on the cover how a podcast called the dumb zone could transform u.s labor law but then the rest of them are could good didn't no no chipped away at it a little bit A lot of speculation We have mostly all original photos in there There's some bangers We've previewed one of the images

On the streams The boys Image But it's fun People like the calendar It's fun for the whole family It really is Order yourself up a calendar.

Give it to somebody for Christmas. Yeah, you can pre-order it now, and then they'll start shipping. You'll have it in plenty of time, right? Yes. Is this the first time? Because we used to do this at the ticket. Did we ever get one out before Christmas? I don't think we did.

We might have been one for three or four, but not much, no. See, look, we're improving. Just had to get a business guy in charge of this operation. Yeah, like you. And then one other thing is, and credit drop Beth for reminding me of this. Apparently I said this yesterday, why we don't miss radio. Yeah, that was a big tease that we didn't. It was a tease.

I didn't follow up on it. Oh, yeah. And so I'm listening to The Fan the other day. I was wondering what this audio was doing in there. I didn't listen to it, but. Whipping around. I don't know. Just driving around, just see what's on live, and then go and listen to our podcast.

And so this is the segment they had, and it's not really indicative of the fan, it's just indicative of radio in general, but this was the segment they had a couple days ago. I cut out a little of the banter in between to give you the meat. This is about 30 seconds of audio. Ready? Tell me when you want to punch out.

Top 10 Thanksgiving foods 2024. God bless it. Are you serious? Now, if I'm their program director, here's what I'm saying. This is gold. I like the idea. What about a bracket? Top 64.

Yeah. Thanksgiving. Yeah, and you could do regionals per dish, like, oh, the sides. Sides of the Northeast. By the way, I'm pretty sure the guy talking right now was an intern of ours or mine to my recollection and then when he got hired at the fan i could be wrong about all this got hired at the fan like kind of disavowed ever having anything top 10 oh sorry because he definitely talks like this hey i'm a cowboys post game show i think it's g bag oh is it but i'm it? But I'm not. Okay, I thought this was Zach.

Is that his name? Like he just stopped being your friend? Sort of, yeah. It was weird. Okay, I'm already mad. Go ahead. Bought into the radio wars. Yeah, right.

Gotta do that. Management tries to instill in you. Let's see how much. Yeah, let's just get excited. Think about what you think number one might be. That's the excitement. Top 10 Thanksgiving foods 2024. Number ten is the turkey gravy. Number nine is the mac and cheese.

Number eight is the stuff. Real quick. So you're not going to go into why you put stuff where? It's just here's my top ten? Like I said, I took out a little of the banter. Did you want to hear seven minutes? Well, no. I just thought if you're going to do a list, at least break it down. Why you have mac and cheese at number nine.

Number eight is the stuff in your dressing. It's my number one. It's the only time of year I have it. Right. Seven is pumpkin pie. Six is the cranberry sauce. Five is the dinner rolls. Four is sweet potatoes.

Three is green bean casserole. Two is the potatoes. Okay. Maybe that guy wasn't an casserole. Two is the potatoes. Okay. Maybe that guy, maybe this guy wasn't an intern for us. I don't remember. But I do hear his voice a lot, and I hate it. Okay, hold on. We got to number one.

Should we guess? You'll never guess. You'll never. I swear to God if it's turkey. Hold on. Pecan pie? You'll never guess. Pecan pie. And number one is indeed the turkey. No, I guess. That'll never. I swear to God if it's turkey. Hold on. Pecan pie? You'll never guess. Pecan pie. And number one is indeed

the turkey. No, I guess. That's horrible. That's the top Thanksgiving item in 2024 Thanksgiving here in the United States of America. Oh my god. Turkey. If you've got a lather in gravy or cranberry, it's not on its own. I'm going to do a list.

No, turkey's the number one item. First of all, screw Blake for seriously engaging in this with why that doesn't make sense. The point is, if you find yourself- Top food at a movie theater. Number one? Popcorn. You're never going to guess. That's so good.

Top ten foods at Bob's Steak and Chop House. Number one, steak. Oh, you got to put the carrot number one. No, no. The way you guys are doing it isn't funny enough, though, because it has to be with the countdown. You know what I'm saying? Like the fact that there's a countdown where you're like,

boy, he didn't do – I'm still missing turkey. What's missing? All these other things are good. I bet he goes turkey won. God, that's terrible. That's absolutely terrible. You got segments to kill. Yeah, but that's even –

I remember one time hearing a promo when I was working overnight for one of their national shows, and it was about a 45-second sizzle of them talking about the best types of fries. And like Blake said, they would go into what makes each one better or worse. At least do that, right? Like, oh, here's what you do. Maybe a waffle fry, get a little more dip. Like I said, I cut out table talk in between each one of these.

Or I'd have to play you ten minutes. Ten minutes. I got ten minutes. Okay. Well, I'll go find it.

Give me crinkle cut. That's a good fry. Mm-hmm. Why? I don't know. Anyways. I enjoy the tinier ones. Anything tinier

because then it has more fry coverage per shoestring piece of uh perhaps per piece of uh you know per pound of potato i don't like the big giant sliced potato one like i didn't like the one fry yeah i didn't like those ones at fuddruckers i don't like the steak fry either very popular in europe and my number one fry the curly fry it's undefeated i don't understand why we don't talk about it more and here Very popular in Europe. And my number one fry, the curly fry. It's undefeated. I don't understand why we don't talk about it more.

And here's the thing about the curly fry. It's tough to dip. It can be. You can dip a straight fry. Like how are you going to dip that curly fry in your Frosty? You scoop it. You get a group of them. Wendy's fry.

I don't like Wendy's fries either. No. Too fat. Too fat. Here's the thing that I don't understand. The curly fry, what are we doing here by the name hold on that what sets it apart is that it's curled it's a shape but my thing has always been it tastes different it's not the shape right why can't they make regular fry

taste like curly fry it's not the curl that makes it taste that way. Yeah, it's a different oil that they fried in or whatever. That's what I'm saying. It doesn't make any sense. By the way, as I was explaining that, I did something. This is my favorite Trump thing right now. When he'll talk about something

and either not make it plural or he doesn't put an article in front of it. So, and there I am and I go on airplane. And, you know what I'm talking about. He does it all the time and I love it. No more buffet. So on today's show, I'm trying to look at what we have. We'll have the big Thursday mailbag on Wednesday.

Other people would do it whenever their last show is. Today in Twitter, Jake's jumper. I think that's kind of it. Did you guys have something else? I got some college football for you. Oh, some college football? Yeah.

And Cowboys. You want to just get going on some Cowboys stuff right now? Sure, sure. It is going to be brought to us by... How about Factor? Factor Meals. I'm a big Factor fan. I'm a customer for, I'll just say, the foreseeable future.

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That's a little fantasy-type tie-in for you boys over there. I know exactly what you're saying, yeah. And I'm like, man, I bet I end up getting something I don't like. It's a little fantasy type tie-in for you. I know exactly what you're saying. And I'm like, man, I bet I end up getting something I don't like. It's never happened. I've never received a factor meal that I did not like. It's really, really solid stuff. Portion

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of sports radio sports scoreboard oh yeah i like that i will uh start and then let you go because you got a lot of Cowboy stuff. My only thing is, so while I'm listening to the fan the other day, I stuck around to, you know, McCarthy was on doing a press conference. They'll air those sometimes. And so he was being asked about, like, you know, his personal satisfaction that he had with the recent win. personal satisfaction that he had with the recent win. And I thought his answer was different because of Micah Parsons.

So the answer he gave here, to me, he would not have given this answer four weeks ago. But if you remember a couple weeks ago after the game, people were talking about this season that's going down the drain, and Micah lamented that he really feels bad about Zach Martin, but he doesn't really care about how it's affecting McCarthy because McCarthy hasn't put in the sweat that Zach Martin has. Kind of what he said. Kind of. Yeah, yeah.

That's definitely the way that it was. But here's McCarthy talking about his satisfaction that he had with this recent win. But the reality is, too. Oh, and the other thing is, I think, he also a bit sounds like a dead man walking like he knows he's not going to be coaching here again. But the reality is, too, I do not take it for granted for every opportunity that I'm a part of in this league. I think the year off in 19 really just really brought that home for me personally. So I do, I can't, I can't get to the stadium early enough on game day. I love every minute of it. I've done this a long time, so I do enjoy every moment.

When you do win, on paper, you're probably playing uphill. Definitely, it's gratifying. But at the end of it, this is a player's game. It always will be. I understand my role and the importance of my role. Most importantly, the ability to be consistent, especially in these times. But it's about the players. I just can't – that's the locker room. That's what I'll think about on the porch when I'm done, just those moments to see the gratification of what those guys accomplished yesterday.

Yeah, why don't you start talking about the porch? That, but then it's about the play. Yeah. We got to put the focus where it should be. Like, I'm just saying, he wouldn't have said that a few weeks ago. You're probably right. And Micah and that thing kind of blew up. And then it's like he's got to make sure, okay, if these guys, look, I'm old. I'm out of touch.

I don't really, I don't have any idea how to relate to Micah. Like, imagine, you know how tough it is for us to talk to Micah, let alone Mike McCarthy relate to Micah Parsons in some way. Like, he's looking at him like, what? You do what? You have a podcast on the, what? We have a three-day week and you're doing a podcast? Like, okay.

Like, he doesn't even understand. It doesn't compute with him at all. No. And so he's. He's from Green Bay. It doesn't compute with him at all. No. He's from Green Bay. So he's got to speak. Yeah. He's speaking now through the media. And, you know, maybe he's even thinking he was losing some of the players

if he ever even had them. Well, we'll get to Micah's podcast in a second. This made some headlines. And I don't know. What's Jerryerry gonna say but the fans morning show uh had this question for jerry i don't know if anyone's even asked you this but is it crazy to think that at the end of this season we could be talking about an extension for mike mccarthy well i don't think that's crazy at all that That's not crazy. And listen, Mike McCroth is an outstanding coach. I was listening to the game last night watching it,

and Aikman was talking about it, and he's reiterated that several times publicly, this Super Bowl winning coach. He goes on for a lot longer, but I wanted to note two things. One, Dan has this dream that the Cowboys go undefeated and make the playoffs, and then do we actually have to consider a McCarthy extension? There's no considering.

He'll get it. He would get it. For sure. And two, many times this year, many times over the years, Jerry mentions Troy. I'm not saying he's always done what Troy said. But he pays attention to what he says. But he definitely pays attention to what he says.

Also, that's kind of silly, too. Like, what is Troy going... And, of course, Mike McCarthy's a good coach. He's not a horrible coach. I honestly, if they were able to get another offensive coordinator, I wouldn't mind him being here. But if he's here, he's calling plays. That's the thing.

And he's going to also have a large influence on the offense. But he was here, and he wasn't calling plays. Yeah, but that was Jerry's deal keeping Kellen. But they also, I would gladly go back to, let's win 12 games a year and roll the dice in the playoffs. That's fun.

It was a lot of fun. Every week was fun. I mean, there was thoughts that he'd be fired last year, though. Yeah, and I guess the difference is evaluating it in a vacuum or evaluating it as a has time just run out. At some point, you know, same as like if you hire a coach the first year and you go four and 13, but you're like, all right, we see a little building blocks there as opposed to year five and you say we just can't, we can't keep doing this.

But McCarthy was asked about it. Calvin Watkins, Dallas Morning News. This morning, Jerry Jones said it wouldn't be crazy for you to get a contract extension. Why are you laughing? Crazy, I mean. Mr. Kostad, we're still talking about this, and here we are in late November, about your future and that kind of thing. Well, I mean, I really haven't talked about it all year,

so I'm definitely not going to start on a short week in an important division game. But I'm not going to throw away positive vibes either, so I'll keep them coming. But that's all good. But, no, yeah, that's not something I'm really focused on. I guess also, for me, I don't dislike him. Oh, yeah.

He's good. Yeah, he's occasionally he gives good answers. Big, friendly, bears. He's friendly. Just he's not. I had no reason to personally dislike Jason Garrett, but for the back half of his tenure, I thought he was, I was certain that he was

a bad coach, and I started to really despise hearing him talk. But with McCarthy, I just, I'm never going to be able to get to that. He's coach. Like, he seems like he's in the dictionary by coach. Yes. Looks like a coach, kind of acts like a coach. And I mean, we were talking, doesn't want want control over everything like Mike Shanahan or something. But that's today's coach who's young and hot and fit.

Yeah. Well, they're not going to hire that. And it doesn't have to be that. There's other ways to do it. I mean, obviously it's easy to pick Dan Campbell when they look like they're going to go 101. But I think there are other ways. Yeah, you just – as far as McCarthy, you just don't know what is his –

I mean, obviously he's an offensive coach, but, like, what is his thing? You know, Mike McDaniel's real innovative. And same with, you know, Shanahan. I guess anybody off the Shanahan trees, you know, they're thinking outside. They're trying to do something different. You know, McCarthy's not that. He's like good coach who can lead good players to good record. That is valuable.

Right, yeah. Speaking of Micah and his podcast, though, and then we'll turn it over to you, Blake. I listened to his podcast this week. Shocked that it exists. Blake and I had this debate off the air yesterday, and as always, I should have just believed Blake on what the kids are going to do.

You mean like just this particular week? Yes. Like they had a road game Sunday. Is there another NFL player that does an hour-long podcast every week? Oh, yeah. Who? Doesn't Amon Raw? I guess Travis Kelsey does.

Travis Kelsey. That's true. But I don't know. An hour, maybe not. I stopped hearing about the Kelsey podcast. Oh, well, you're about to hear a lot more. Because I know that the streets were clamoring for it, but Jason's wife, Kylie, launched her new podcast yesterday.

Okay, sweet. And I watched the trailer, and she's like, you all said we need more Kylie. Well, now you fucking get it. No one said that. Yeah. A lot of F-bombs. That's edgy.

Very. I think there are maybe some others that do podcasts, but he seems very committed to it. A lot of times he's by himself, which is weird. You know? Yeah. He doesn't have a guest. He just goes around the NFL for an hour. It's interesting because he, didn't he bail on, was it Stephen A. Smith?

Mm-hmm. He was supposed to do a weekly with him. I think it might have been Skip. Or was it Skip? Skip and Shannon maybe. Okay, but he bailed like week one. Yeah. And then kind of decided, yeah, I need to focus on football.

Right. And this season of all seasons, he's like, nope. But it is a different thing where it's him. He's not relying – he's not helping someone else's show. Yeah. It's his show. So this week, short week, I mean, Brandon Aubrey doing it is one thing. It's 20 minutes.

And also, let's be honest, his job is pretty specific. Right. But he's also on some level doing it for us. Yeah. Micah is doing this because he has thoughts and opinions to get out there. Yeah. Which I do respect. I do too.

He's a takesman. I will also just add as someone who listens to this every week, a lot of the takes are just basically this. The Giants, bro. And you're going to hear a little bit of that here because the only part that I did think you guys needed to hear, he talked for about three minutes about Kevontae Turpin's kickoff return for a touchdown.

It was interesting, you know. He's like, I've never seen anything like that before. In person, live, I've never seen it. And he wrapped it up the way that only Micah can. And I mean, he reached 21.35 on that kick return. He has a different type of gear and speed. Like, man, I'm blessed to be on his team. I'm blessed to have him as a teammate.

I mean, like, wow. You know, I just really tip my hat off to Terp, bro. What do you think is about to come next? Tip my hat off to Terp, bro. He's going to get paid. He's about to get paid. I just really tip my hat off to Terp, bro. Like, he's really a special cat.

You know, I hope he get paid what he deserves. Because he's going to get paid. He's about to get paid. I just really tip my hat off to Turk, bro. He's really a special cat. I hope he get paid what he deserves this off season because he's going to get it. Always on his mind. First thing he thinks is, when's his contract up? And I think the difference now, it's kind of like, what is it, police brutality or something. Man, is it more now? No, it's just that you can now document it. So it seems like more. You just know it now.

And players have always thought this. They've always thought about money first. But now they're just saying it. There's something that I don't like. There's something I do like about that. You want authenticity and, you know, it's cool to be who you are and real. And I want to know what you really think. Tell me.

And then when you tell me, I'm kind of upset that you think that. Like I like you playing the game of I just hate the Redskins or whoever and I love the star and I live for this. I like that. The theater of it. It's always been a game. Like, Deion will play for San Francisco one year and then Dallas the next year, and then you hated him last year

and now you love him. But we all, like, I don't know. It's just weird. It's a weird examination, I guess, of my own or of all of our, I guess, of my own, or of all of our, you know, hypocrisies and psyche. Well, Silence of the Sideline was back. That almost sounded like you said Silence of the Sideline. I thought you did.

What did you say? Sounds of the Sideline? Sounds, okay. Sounds from the Sideline? The sounds of the Sideline. They don't do it after losses. They do not. We haven't had this for a while.

It's been pretty light this year. Which I've been thinking, do they just roll during the game and then it kind of gets out of hand and then they stop? They don't stop. But they keep it just for. Same as how they do a couple different versions of All or Nothing. Or in season. There's a lot of stuff out there. a couple different versions of All or Nothing or In Season Hard. There's a lot of stuff out there.

The NFL has more that you don't see than what you do see. Oh, yeah. And he's just sitting there thinking, kind of hoping that they lose so he doesn't have to put all this together. Sounds like a producer. That's what I'd be thinking, yeah. So there were a couple good things um i'll end with something that happened before the game but it was cool because obviously there's a lot of uh crossover as far as former cowboys on the commanders that dq took with them and uh one

of them and jake since you watch this a lot you know the best group for this feature is the defensive line. By far. By far. Between the departed Dorrance Armstrong for Washington, Osa, Lawrence was always great, Chauncey was always great. They're the most vocal and animated. They have a lot of personality. And so they caught Quez Watkins, Osa, and Chauncey Golston with Dorrance Armstrong after the game.

And Quez Watkins is like, you can kind of hear it here. He is kind of saying to Dorrance Armstrong, hey, thanks for letting us beat you. We really needed that win. And it's very condescending. Yeah, enjoy your day, man. I really do appreciate that. We needed that for morale. DA's like, oh, they're day, man. I really do appreciate that, DA. We needed that for morale.

DA's like, oh, they're effing talking. We really needed that for morale. Thank you. We needed that for morale. Love from the bear, brother. McCarthy with the otters. Then it goes back to the defense line. Now we're about to rally off six of these.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Giants. Yeah. We about to beat them last time. We only got one. And so they're joking with him like, you know, we're about to rattle off. And DA's like, y'all suck. Shut up. Like, you got lucky.

We won today. Six of these. So pull up the video. Or I time stamped it for you guys in the text. I'd like you to see this. Because before the game, Dez was on the field, and he's talking with everybody, walking around, and it shows CD running out of the tunnel. And Dez wants to talk to CD, but then someone gets in front of Dez.

Hey, CD! Hey, hey! Hey, hey! You know what's up, yo? front of Des. Then he finally gets a CD. So he's yelling out, CD, CD! And then in comes Zeke. Of course. Like, hey, remember when we used to play together? And Des is like, get the fuck out of here. I want to talk to 88.

But it's so funny because it's, I don't know, if you're in a group and you're trying to talk to just one person in the group and another person is trying to include themselves, it's weird. But Dez is like, I don't have anything to say to you. I just think Zeke kind of thinks everybody's always wanting Zeke. And usually he's been right. Yeah. He's fun.

But not anymore. The team mask, yeah. Dez does had no time when he was kind of good and fun that's one thing yeah when he's him now and fun it's like all right very very interested in what the post-playing career of zeke looks like he'll go away i think he might because he's never really been a guy who wanted to do a bunch of show appearances. Doesn't really talk. Yeah. So it's not like he's a guy who's like, oh, that guy will hop on.

He'll get into media. And by that now, I no longer mean like he'll be in the CBS studio, but just want to be podcast guy, stream guy. I don't think he'll do that. Someone will probably try to get him to. He might stream video games or something. I could easily see that. And you just get pictures. People will send us pictures like,

hey, I was at such and such bar. I vote for we'll go away. Zeke was just chilling by himself, yeah. Yeah, I think so. I think you'll just never hear him again. He'll be back for things with the Cowboys. But even then, maybe his ring of honor. Yeah. Is that a definite, you think?

What do you think? I guess I haven't put that much thought into the criteria for ring of honor. Are we surprised Romo isn't in there yet? He'll be in there. How long does it take? Yeah, but Jerry's the guy who makes decisions. And if Jerry does think his days on earth are numbered, wouldn't he want to get that one going?

Yeah, maybe next year if the Cowboys start off really good. Wait for a CBS game. Yeah. Yeah, got to wait. Yeah. I wonder if the triplets are mad that they went in together. Well, wasn't there someone else? It was during 5 and 11 years.

Recently? No, like, was it just them? I thought there was a... I believe so. I don't think they would have done... Okay. I thought it was like when Jay Novacek came to Ticket Stock. God, what an awesome scene that was.

Troy was the headliner. Yeah. And he brought his blanket. Yeah, it's like, okay, we paid you. We don't want him here, but you can't do that. Right. So you had to funnel questions to Jay Novacek? Oh, yeah.

You had to kind of pretend they cared about. Yeah. To Jay Novacek? Oh, yeah. He had to kind of like pretend they cared about. Yeah. Like in this situation, Jay Novacek was the boner pill or the CBD or the whatever that you have to mention on Radio Row. You want to play the Today in Twitter theme? You don't have to, but it's cowboy related.

That was Today in Twitter. I think that was the right theme. I think you should play the other one. The Dumb Zone presents Today in Twitter. I think that was the right theme. I think you should play the other one. The Dumb Zone presents Today in Twitter. I'm off. It's okay. I'm sick. We're going to power through.

Thank you for powering through. So this is Today in Twitter slash the group chat. You have to clean up piss. Me and the boys were laughing about this one yesterday. But as Dan mentioned earlier this week, Dez has been tweeting a lot lately. A whole lot. He's a mix of grind athlete guy, tech bro, you know, Silicon Valley tech bro. He's also confident that he's never been wrong about anything in his life.

You know what I mean? Like whether it's Jason Garrett, whether it's this, that. He says a lot of stuff and then people don't keep receipts. Well, some people in my group chat do. Yesterday, two days before Thanksgiving, in the afternoon he tweeted, I have a confession. I've never really celebrated a holiday. With that being said,

What does that mean? I won't be celebrating until I reach my life goals. Which again is a very like grind bro, hey. Upper, you know, rise and grind, more done before, blah, blah, blah. I would have thought a guy like Dez has reached his life goals. Oh, no. If I had gotten where Dez is, I would say I've.

No, he's got to do, what is it, the player's personal corner or. Personal corner. Whatever weird. He's trying to help athletes. He keeps saying that, but I still don't really understand it. Well, we're going to have our own platform. He's helping them with their brand. Yes.

By investing in crypto. It's interesting because I know that certain players have not followed his lead on this and their brand has suffered like Patrick Mahomes probably could have really used a... I feel like when Dez starts pimping something like this, I feel bad. He's getting taken. I feel like he's getting scammed by someone. He is.

They're using him to pull people in and do something and take money from people, and Dez is not going to see the riches that he thinks he's going to see. And he's also a big post-his-gambling-winnings guy. Listen, we're at a point now where we all know if you're making real, real money without real, real losses in gambling,

it's because you're a quant, right? You have a computer that can help you with these. It's not just a hunch because you knew a guy on the Ravens and he told you, like, boy, we're geared up for this one. But he doesn't post losses, obviously. So, again, the tweet, I have a confession. I've never really celebrated a holiday. With that being said, I won't be celebrating until I reach my life goals.

So that was the first tweet that was sent to the group chat, this one by landry uh everyone else david kj just followed up by simply searching through uh des's twitter uh here's a just a photo of a brightly lit christmas tree from december 25th 2021 that says Merry Christmas to everyone. Okay. Oh, yeah, from his house. Yeah, of course from his house. Next one down.

Just a photo of him and all of his kids in front of Christmas trees. Merry Christmas, everyone. Oh. Right there. The next one down was a tweet from Des. This is from 2020. My boys wanted the ps5 or xbox series for christmas i told them daddy couldn't get them because they was sold out little do they know i got both the xbox and the ps5 for them this christmas i remember the times christmas was

just another day as a kid i do everything for mine quote tweets are also very funny you know now did your buddies in the chat send these to him one of them okay yeah because if you go back to the original post the first reply is that's so sad

and that's from someone who follows me it's a lot of that like life's too short to celebrate you know and uh it's just it gets crazy because and i it's just a guy who is every single day able to just create his own narrative that's a therapy thing, which I suppose could be a big Hab thing, is that you have to realize that you're telling yourself a story all the time. And it doesn't really mean it's true. And that's the whole, like, you think that other people are thinking about you a lot more than they are.

Yeah. And so you put people in these roles of, like, that's the villain, I'm the hero, or this and that. That's how you live. But Dez does it to a degree that is wild. And he just constantly lives in this like, see? Nothing that I ever said before, none of that actually ever happened. That's very sports talk.

For sure. Just remember the good stuff. It's very sports talk oh you know for sure for sure just remember the good stuff it's very weatherman speaking of very sports talk and uh very uh and today in twitter and that oh what have we done did you see do you guys see the other day that follow well uh tweeted out like some great numbers from the Mavs TV stuff. He hinted at it, yeah. What do you mean great numbers? Well, I think it's just that it's going well. A lot of people have purchased it.

People are happy with it. I don't know the specifics, but let me see if I can find the exact number. No, go ahead. No, you're right. I should have had this. No, I'm skeptical that Mavs TV is going great. From everyone I've talked to, and I guess what are they going to say, they're pleased with how the rollout has been. Okay.

And they're pleased with subscription numbers. Well, you may recall there was, I think, a hardline segment where Bob and Corby were pretty upset about it. I didn't hear it, so I can't really totally speak on what was said. Did you? Or do you know enough about it? I think there was just some displeasure with it costing. Just the general fact of having to pay...

Yeah, because the Stars one is free. Yeah, coming on the heels of the Stars. Right. Okay. And, you know, it's all been free. Forever, right? Baseball. Everybody.

Correct. It seems to me there would be an acknowledgment that business changes and that this one's changing a lot. But that and I think because some games are on channel whatever, some are on WFA, some are streaming, some are national. The free ones are all on television. Like the on the television ones are all, it's 8, 29, and national. And before it would have been Fox Southwest and national.

But I think that was a part of their presentation was where's the game tonight? Do I have to buy it? Whatever. Um, well, yeah, here's the original.

It's not for me to put out the numbers. It's for Tegna or Mavs management to share that how they want. But thank you to the MFFLs supporting us on KFAA, WFAA, Mavs TV. Things are looking very positive. What we hope for is happening and it gets better from here. We appreciate y'all. So yes, there are no specific

numbers offered there. But somebody had to immediately tag Bob and Corby in it. Somebody said, oh no, this is terrible news for sports term. So he just sat it out, right?

He's like, okay. Who? Oh, Bob? I'm joking here. There's no way. Well, the reason I said who is because I didn't know which one you meant. Oh, okay. Who's going to get to it first?

What, like Falwell? Of course. Oh, okay, yeah. He also doesn't sit out a nice debate. We're really in the arena right now. Yeah, okay. Follow-all.

It will certainly put a damper on he and Corby suggesting how stupid this whole thing was. Ooh. Wow. I didn't know follow-all was interesting.

Bob simply with, geez, dude. And then the listener kept trying to egg it on. That's probably when the text messages started. If I know how. You know, it's only in the past few years I've even had a thought of a certain person is an autist. Yeah.

Like, my daughter accused me of that. There's some... I've had some thoughts. And I guess that... I don't know exactly what that means, but, I mean, I prepare... Let's just say I prepare a snack bag. You know, the Ziploc snack bag size.

Of course. I pour a third cup of, what is it, All Brand Buds and a third cup of some other cereal in snack bags. And I will prepare like 50 of them for the next 50 days because that's what I'll pour in my yogurt. And it just makes it real easy to eat in the morning then. And she's like, that makes you autistic. I don't know that that makes you autistic. But if you're real organized in certain ways or whatever. I don't know.

I don't know if that's what it is. Well, it's a lot of things. You've called Engineer Tony that for his... That, yeah. But we never used to. Ten years ago when I discovered what Engineer Tony has logged every sandwich he's ever eaten at Subway and put it on a spreadsheet, I didn't say, oh, that's autistic.

I just said, boy, that guy's kind of weird and I love it. Yeah. You know? Or Matt Brunig apparently is autistic. Sure. But – wait, what were we just talking about? Now I can't remember. Oh, Sturm.

So these guys, they're sports autists, right? In a way, yeah. Like Coop, Bob, Followall. They know these numbers right away. They love to engage. They love to get into it. They love to show you that they're right. They're always right.

The three of them are always right, even when they are at opposing viewpoints. Sure. So, like, I just feel like that – I would now describe them as autists based on if somebody's describing me as an autist in a certain way. They certainly are in certain ways. Yeah. Well, it's a spectrum for a reason. Okay.

I don't really even know what it all means, but it just seems like you're – it's just spectrum for a reason. Okay, I don't really even know what it all means. But it just seems like everybody's different anyway. Well, yeah, okay. You know more about autism, I guess, than we do. I hope so. Yeah. The thing, the core of it that you have to know, and it is confusing to everyone, is that it didn't really exist until around the 50s or 60s.

And then we started doing vaccinations. Oh, I see. Okay. And then there was a huge spike. Right. And now it's only gotten worse. And you either got autism or you were left-handed. That's right.

And gay. Or trans. Yeah, and gay. All these gays just started. That started in the 70s, right? It was today on Twitter. Oh, okay. And that...

Okay, was today on Twitter. Yep. So we also have Jake's Jumper. I have a big Thursday mailbag on Wednesday. You know what? Let's do that. Okay. Let's do sports in a minute.

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we were talking about this last week okay dear uncle kmpd king of mass pussy destruction it's on urban dictionary please forgive the ignorance of my gmail efforts however jared sandler is an african-american his dad is an african the country of south africa is still in africa uh-huh um african-american doesn't distinguish which country in africa someone is from egyptians have fairer skin tones compared to somebody from the Congo, yet they are still considered African. I'm the guy that drove up from San Antonio to attend the Steelers' watching party

with Matt Hintz. I brought the Alaskan salmon for you. Remember this guy? His name was Francois. I was up here. Oh, you weren't at that game? No. It was the day I got home.

Okay, he's the guy that, and he wants your thoughts on the Aggie Marconi Award plaque. Where he gave us that Aggie plaque. Oh, I love it. Fill in the date here. Yeah, that's very solid. He says, like Jared, I am an African American, as well as my kids. And he's like the whitest dude you've ever seen. My dad immigrated from South Africa in 1969 and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force to become a citizen.

Like Jared, my dad went to USC, and after commissioning, my parents were stationed in Europe. Hence my very French name without being French. Both my kids are African American, and it's marked on their birth certificates and passports. If you need an expert on explaining how someone can be an African American and not someone of color, I'm happy to render my services from Francois. Did he just kind of do it? Yeah, he did. So I wonder if you get the college, you know, the whatever.

Doubtful. Whatever pros there are to be, like, I remember Bob saying he, his kid being half Hispanic would get that whatever qualification, get something out of it. I mean, again,

white man. I know. What do we get? Signal the sidelines. What are we getting here? Edged out again. Kicking the teeth. Yeah, I just, I wonder how often a guy like Francois uses that terminology when talking to people. Andrew also emailed, well, same subject. He says, dear Sergeant Squirt Sniffer. He said he once got sent to the principal's office in high school

because they had to write a paper on a famous African-American and he wrote about Dave Matthews, who is from South Africa. Genius. He got an F. Well, that's academically dishonest by that institution. Was sent to the principal. The principal laughed, told me not to be a smartass.

Then he says, ask Blake if he ever read that book I gave him or if he threw it out the RV window from Andrew Brandt. No, I just haven't gotten to it, Andrew. Whatever. I would have read it if he gave it to me. I definitely didn't throw it away. It's in my office. I have several emails on this specific topic, so I will not read

any of them in particular, but the votes are in. I am purchasing a Nintendo Switch. Nice. Okay, this must have been when I was gone because I saw a bunch of emails in the show email about video games.

Yeah. Apparently it's just... Yeah, my kids love the Switch. Do they play it on the television? Sometimes. But she'll also... The TV will be on it, but then she'll be here with the Switch in her hand

playing it. What is she looking at? She's looking at the thing in her hand. Then why is it on the television? I don't know. Okay. Do you know, Blake? I'm enjoying listening to you two talk about it.

Okay, because we're like 80. Do you play this on the television? No, my point is I'm confused by his daughter's move here. Why would you cast it or have it on the television if you're going to use it as a handheld and look at the screen? She'll have a buddy that's playing it too

and then she'll be looking at the TV. You've seen that? You don't find it weird that somebody would be looking at a game like in my parlance a Game Boy while that image is on the screen? No. Why is that weird? Because that's never existed in the history of

gaming okay so there shouldn't be advancements in gaming my question is just if they put on your xbox controller if they put a screen on it and you were sitting in front of a television which one would you look at uh i mean it depends i've played a game on the television with like a mini map on the controller or a tablet I mean they're getting to second screen they're getting uses for it in the case of the Switch is it a mirrored image yeah

because you're typically playing with other people that still seems really weird to me but I guess I'm going to find out and apparently it's there are 10 things I have to buy with it. Including shit tons of controllers. The reports on the Wii were not good. I loved Wii Sports. I do love Wii.

Oh, what? It can't be advancements in gaming? I'm just saying. I know for a fact Wii Sports is fun. Definitely fun for the family. You do some Wii bowling. You won't go wrong with the Wii. You're not going to want to play the Switch with her.

Why? You'll play the Wii. Everyone is raving about the Switch in family time. Oh, all right. Yeah. They got Street Fighter. Just come back. He'll get a Wii next year, though.

That's good, though. I mean, we told him. We had both. We's good, though. Yeah, I mean, we told him. We had both. We got both, eventually. Alexa emails, and this says the subject line is Cozar's Porn Daughter. Remember, you said Bernie Cozar? Lexi Silver?

Is that her name? I think so. I don't know. Dear Foreman of the Fallopian Tube, I was half listening to a soad yesterday when my ears perked up. I thought I heard my name. Growing up, everybody told me I had a stripper

name. Even going so far as to make T-Pain's I'm in love with a stripper their ringtone for me in high school. So imagine my surprise when I learned that Bernie Kosar's daughter goes by Lexi Silver for her porn name. I'm just proud that someone is finally living up to the full potential of my name. Sincerely,

Alexa Silver. Wow. And she signs off, not a stripper slash porn star. My current leaders are Jake's pronunciation of wolf, timber or otherwise, and the infinite power of momentum. P.S. Obligatory comment

about the greatest show ever, the boys to get my email read. Yeah, I don't know what Lexi looks like, but it would be tough to have that name and be kind of a frumpy lady in HR. It'd be kind of like if my dad had named me Rocker Brutus, and then you saw me, but my last name was like Crawford.

But then again, you see me. Yeah. Lexi Silver is just too porny and strippery of a name to be the case of the Mondays lady from Office Space. Yeah, she sounds like she's from the

Mid-Cities. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Mid-Cities, Haldim City, for sure. Hung out with the Ice Queens. Is that like a low-rent stripper place? Uh, just Jake made the point that most Britneys are probably from one high school town. Crystals. And I love them. Anchor word from

James, fruition. It always comes to. Yeah, it's a good one. He says, never heard it except for coming to fruition. Dustin, our business lawyer, Dustin. Ah, yes, this is a good one. Dustin Keller said his plan for going to first class,

we were talking about first class walking on an airplane and looking at them, wondering what they do. He says, book your flight and coach, whatever you'd normally book. Then you open up your reservation on the app or computer. It gives you an upgrade to business for X amount of dollars. Watch that number. The closer you get to the date, the lower that number goes. I'll occasionally click to upgrade. get to the date the lower that number goes i'll occasionally click to upgrade um so then i go to seat selection just so i can see how many are available and see how patient i can be i've done this several times uh end up getting on first class for like a 94 upgrade versus 800 if you

had just bought the business class tickets it seems seems genius. My theory is no one pays for those tickets. They just use my upgrade system. That seems genius. Sean of money, Sean Kernan, seen. 690 seen. He said a comp for OJ, for, you were talking yesterday, Blake had no concept of what OJ was other than a murderer would be Snoop Dogg. And Sean,

scene did include the comedy in there that, you know, except for the fact that Snoop Dogg's already kind of been accused of murder. It was a long time ago. America seems to have forgotten about that. Snoop is everywhere. And he's like America's entertainment mascot now. If Snoop Dogg cut his wife's head off,

that'd be a huge deal. You don't know Snoop as a murderer. You don't even know him as like a gang member. Right. No. And I can promise you my mom doesn't or martha stewart etc yeah that's interesting it is someone who's everywhere yeah who transcends sports and whatever their thing is profession is yeah they but then everybody kind of knows who

they are uh the difference is that i think oJ somehow outwardly, maybe it's kind of like Tiger, just outwardly had a real squeaky clean image. You just thought so, you know, he speaks so well. That's true. You know, white people embraced OJ back in a time when, you know, that wasn't. He was like, you couldn't market black athletes necessarily. Well, you know, that wasn't... He was like... You couldn't market black athletes necessarily. Well, I mean, he...

Like, the old white man did not like Muhammad Ali. Yeah, O.J. famously... But the old white man operated... Joined O.J. I'm not black, I'm O.J. Yeah. That was a big thing. Whereas, yeah, Snoop does still remind you that he smokes pot and stuff.

I got two more. This is about the... Dak says, if you see me in a bear in a fight, pour honey on me. So? Dear What's Behind the fly guy at all um came across this on another podcast somebody referenced the lebron james meme it seems like dac was paraphrasing this when he made that quote lebron posted if you ever see me fighting in the forest with a grizzly bear And then he put a little The King emoji.

The crown. Okay. In case you weren't sure who was tweeting. And then Shannon Sharp responded, I'm pouring honey on you, goat. It's illegal to kill a bear unless being attacked. So Dak is being overly online and expecting others to follow from Nick. I do think now that you say that, I've seen that phrase other places.

And he's just not nailing it. But also he's just... Yeah, Kobe. He's not that guy. Like that's... Yes. he's not that guy like that's yes that's not who Dak is you don't think of him

as this badass who would just fight off like he's just Dak uh I definitely view him as mental robot yeah

like that he's very locked in to an almost annoying degree but not like I think it initially was a Kobe quote if you that he's very locked in to an almost annoying degree. I think it initially was a Kobe quote. If you see me in a fight with a bear, pray for the bear. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, well, apparently this guy is saying it was a LeBron James meme

that got 4 million retweets or whatever. Yeah, I'm sure that after LeBron said it, he's like, no, I didn't hear from Kobe. I said it before. I told Kobe it whatever. Yeah, I'm sure that after LeBron said it, he's like, no, I didn't hear from Kobe. I said it before. I told Kobe it earlier. Yeah. And I have Dear Uncle, insert vagina reference. Please have Jake break down That Summer by Garth Brooks.

Ooh, yeah. TC did this once many, many years ago on IJB. It's a song about a teenager going to spend a summer working at an older lady's farm, and they end up hooking up. Whoa. It's pretty clear from the lyrics. It's Jake's dream scenario, and I guarantee it's in his Country Music Saturday playlist from Ryan. Yeah, it's a great song.

I mean, yeah, he's nailing her. I don't know if we could just read the lyrics if you wanted, but... Sure. It starts... Go ahead. You know this song, right, Blake? She had a need to feel the thunder. Yeah, this sounds...

Yes. Yeah. But there's one thing she can't do on her own. Uh-huh. This is a great song. It's interesting hooking up with an older lady. I envy you. You've never done it? Both needing something from each other.

Yeah. You needed a job? When I worked one of my first jobs out of college, so I'm like 23 or something, living in that small town where I met Rick. Uh-huh. I don't know if you would say I dated, but I messed around a little bit with a divorced lady.

And it was really interesting because she had kids. I was like 23. That's awesome. The chorus will really... It's just weird. But we gave each other something we didn't have.

There you go. I don't feel like I was given any thunder. Yeah, it's quite presumptuous to say you're loving is a thunder. We never did it. No? But just making out and stuff. Oh. Thunder. We never did it. No? But just making out and stuff. Oh. It's just kind of weird. Yeah, that's the song.

I'm sorry we never did it. That bothered me. Yeah, he brought the thunder. Wow. Goes up there to work on a farm. All right. I want to... I think we should probably

drainage some vantage, right? Aight. And then picks? Oh, we're going to do some picks today? I forgot. Yeah, I told them 115. Okay, we'll have picks

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How great is that? So little. Balled up little fist. Even giving birth. I love that even giving birth. That was the copy they gave me. Do you guys think... Do you buy...

So my wife went to buy me cold medicine yesterday, which is cool of her. Don't pop it! After cleaning all the pee off the floor. She buys the CVS, like the generic. Because she goes, oh, it's like $10 less, or whatever less than whatever. But I like...

I want it to be... I want it to say Tylenol or... No, I buy generics. You'll go generic? She's like, it's the exact same ingredients. It's the exact same everything. Do you guys believe that? Yeah.

Okay, because you know my thing is, when I buy generic paper towels, they are definitely thinner and they're not as good as Bounty. So you're telling me if I buy this generic drug, it will be as good. For some reason, I just don't believe that. No, it makes sense that the only reason you buy or believe that the generic bounty sucks is because you've experienced it, you can touch it, you can feel it. That's a very tangible thing.

And I feel still sick. You can't. Yeah, but I buy generics on that. Let's pick some games. We've got some football pickers here. Kind of a last-minute remembering that we were going to do this. So we might not have all our pickers here. The interesting thing about it is the only one who remembered

that we were going to do it was Blake last night, and then the only one who that we were going to do it was Blake last night. And then the only one who forgot we were going to do it was Blake today. He's got a lot going on. A lot going on this Thanksgiving week. Oh, I feel you. You got three Thanksgivings? I had a, yeah, the in-laws Thanksgiving on Saturday had a Friendsgiving last night. I got one on Saturday, but I don't think we're going to go.

Thanksgiving Thursday. What was Friendsgiving? Did you bring your kid? Yeah. It's basically the friends you don't get to hang out anymore get together and bring your kids and call it Friendsgiving. Have some pops. I thought Friendsgiving is like if you don't have family in town. You do both.

It's an excuse to get together. Yeah. We've been doing it for. It's getting out of control. No, it's awesome. Really? I love it. Yeah. We've been doing it for... It's getting out of control. No, it's awesome. Really? I love it. Yeah, I wish we were going Saturday.

But I'm moving. Oh, you're moving? Oh. Finally? Yeah, I got picking up a U-Haul Friday morning. And calling old Pops into action. Okay, well, let's bring him on the show. He is Greg Chappie Kemp.

He is your dad And Jasmine Chappie Kemp is with us as well To pick games Love it, I'm digging the look on Chappie Thank you This is some zaddy shit No, this is some zaddy shit, Chappie Very much, yeah

Ray-Ban, this great Close-cropped goatee that's funny none of that'll seem to matter come friday if i'm loading a trailer at your house yeah well that stuff just gets pushed off to the side huh you look like a guy who would have a trailer i stayed pissed off i know you know what you got trump what do you have to be upset about anymore i was around trailers all my life so you know i wouldn't have a problem living in a trailer i wouldn't have a problem pulling a trailer i feel like taylor sheridan needs to do like a character series on chappy oh man you know what i mean one night yeah i ran into him over

one of them highfalutin places places in Fort Worth that he hangs out. Did you pitch him? Yep. Wait, no, he didn't hear what you said. I said, did you pitch him on a chappy character series, like this one they're doing? He had a whole bunch of people around him. I forgot what the name of the hotel was. Drover, probably.

No, it wasn't the Drover. It was the other one. Yeah, the drover it was the other one yeah but no that other one on like camp buoy or somewhere he's been telling me he quote should have been big time for 38 years now 39 years yeah i actually about i don't know 15 years ago thought i really cracked in and got my break um I was in Rodeo Boulevard down in SoCal. Familiar, yeah. You know all those richy places down in there. The street comes to a Y and I found myself eating at a Chipotle but the wind was kind of

blowing. It was kind of tinkling my hair back and these two women came in. They said they were with an ad agency and wanted me to come to work and maybe start doing some photo shoots out in L.A. Yeah. I thought that was going to be my break. It just didn't pan out. This all went down at the Chipotle on Rodeo Drive?

Chipotle or whatever he called it. Kind of. I kind of drifted over to some of those high department store frontage innings. But, yeah, you know, it almost played out. I had been saying this for about four decades. Yeah. Well, you still got time. At least he's consistent.

True. I mean, I could show you some pictures of me at 22. That's okay. No, I want to see these let's go i sent one to jacob about a week ago you're saying a cousin back in 1980 there was about eight women down the stairs trying to get into the back door of my house i said hey hold on i got some family time right now just slaying poon? The hoes got away. Yeah.

An 80s poon was like next level too. I'll send it to you. Jake, put it up. Put it up there on TV3. How much ungroomed poon has Chappy used his sickle on. Yeah, all right. Here you go. Here's a photo of my dad.

Look at that. That's some Tom Selleck shit. Look at that muzzy. Okay, yeah. With my cousin. No wonder all those women were beating down your door. That's 1980. I got the pearl snap

about halfway up. Yeah. Got the chest hair sitting a little bit. Busting out. Chest hair was in between. Yes. Anyways, what do you guys got going on for Thanksgiving? So I look at Dee's picks.

If you go to our website, you can see all the promo codes and stuff there as well. Blake does a good job on that. That's another thing Blake does. If you're wondering what Blake does. What does Blake do? Go to the Deez Picks part on dumbzone.com

and you'll see the updated standings. You can see last week's picks. Oh, last week's picks. Oh, last week's picks aren't even updated yet, are they? So why did I send everybody there? Because by the time they hear this, it'll be updated.

Oh, okay. Chappy was the only one that took the Cowboys last week. Yeah. Yeah, we all knew at some point, but I was just too deep to get off of it. Yeah, yeah. Yep.

But I see that you took the Chargers for your triple play. He won't stop being obsessed. No, I'm done with them. Okay. What a bizarre game. I don't know. To go for it on fourth and one on your own 18 with five minutes left in the first half.

I don't know that I've seen that recently. That turned the whole game around. That is interesting. That's very interesting because that's three points for the Chargers, maybe seven, but man, hats off to him because once that play happened, it was like, here comes Jackson and here comes Henry, and you can't stop us. Well, it looks like everybody else cleaned up on their triple play, though, as far as people here.

Jasmine had the Eagles. Ugh. What? They won. I know, but I don't want to say that I rooted for them. Oh, okay. I just want to act like it didn't happen. Of course, I had Baker.

That was the easiest triple play of all time. Jake had Carolina, who kept it close with Kansas City. Very close. Last play of the game. Blake had the Dolphins, and they won pretty big, didn't they? Yep. So, yeah. Everybody except Chappie, and he's the guy that's like,

oh, look at me. Wait a minute. Just to be clear, your leader went 0-5, so we'll go ahead and throw him in there as a miss. Okay, you're watching that because he started the week at 37-18. Like, unbelievable. So anybody that had any success last week, you know, you're working again. I picked up two on him just going 2-3.

He's obsessed. You are obsessed, aren, you're working again. I picked up two on him just going two and three. He's obsessed. You are obsessed, aren't you? I am. Well, you know what? It's numbers. So, no, I'm obsessed with numbers. Alright. Well, let's pick some games this week. Don't know what you think is tasty out there, but we're going to pick that Cowboy game.

What's our spread? Cowboys by three, correct? Yes. Yeah. That's a spread? Cowboys by three, correct? Yes. Yeah, and that's a weird line because it was for – it doesn't look like DeVito's going to play, which is why it's down. When your starting quarterback gets hurt, you actually have a better chance of winning. Locke is a good backup. So they've listed him as questionable. They still haven't, they didn't fire their coach, correct?

Correct. Correct. Okay, so they certainly have a Malik Neighbors is still upset. Just a whole, I mean, they got to know everybody's dead man walking around there. Oh, yeah. If you're concerned about McCarthy, at least, you know, there's a 50-50 chance McCarthy's back. I think it's 0% on Dable.

So who knows how they'll play. But we got that. You got to pick a triple play And then you gotta pick a A knockout game Which is becoming harder and harder to do Because We've burned all of our squads Yeah and

I don't even know who I have left So we still in the Dumb Zone Knockout League Still have two players going head to head right? Mm-hmm And are you aware Did they both pick the same team this weekend? They haven't turned their picks in Dumb Zone Knockout League still have two players going head-to-head, right? Mm-hmm. And are you aware? Did they both pick the same team this weekend?

They haven't turned their picks in, but we're hearing from some people that they're worried that there might be some conspiring going on. They're colluding? Like they might be talking behind the scenes saying, okay, let's both pick this team just so that we can split it in the end. Right. Interesting. Maybe we need to discuss what we do

about that. If anything at all. Actually, that crossed my mind four weeks ago. Because the probability of that continuing to happen every week is zero. I don't know if you realize that, but it's zero. How many weeks in a row have they picked the same team?

I think Chet was right. Four. Four? Yeah. Now, they have been layups of games. And it might also, you have to factor in that they've both eliminated a lot of teams. No, you can pick whoever you want. In that week, you can pick whoever? Okay. Yeah, you can keep picking the same team?

So maybe starting next week, we make them bring them on air and say it or something? I don't know. There you go. We can talk about that. There you go. We can talk about that. There you go. Well, they can conspire before that. But whoever says it first, you've got to pick someone else. They could have talked before that.

Oh, seriously. Yeah, that's interesting. Coin flip it to who goes first. Okay. Alternate who goes first, whatever. Yeah, we'll discuss. But we're going to fix this mess. If it's the last thing we do.

All right, who's up? You want to go? Sure, I will go. I hate to say that the Drew Locke, Tommy DeVito thing makes that big of a difference for me because that's a ridiculous thing to be contemplating, but it really does. I think Drew Locke is a very capable backup.

But man, I just don't know if it's enough points. I'm going to take the Giants. Wow. I'm going to take the Giants in three. How far you've come. And if DeVito plays, then I will immediately want that pick back. But I'm just going to say I'm a Drew Locke homer. He's legit. And it would be very much like him to just show up on, But I'm just going to say I'm a Drew Locke homer.

He's legit. And it would be very much like him to just show up on, have one big game, one game all year, and it's Thanksgiving in front of everybody, and they're like, the Drew Locke story. I don't know if he's legit. He's locked in. He's legit compared to Tommy DeVito. He's a legit backup quarterback.

He's a legit backup. He is, yes. I had to watch him when he was in Seattle because my boyfriend's a Seahawks fan. So I'm very well-versed in the Drew Locke. I hope we get the backpack of cash celebration this week. I hope he does it in the kettle. By the way, I listened to a little bit of – oh, this was Jerry on the fan too. Did you know that Thanksgiving, the Cowboys, that whole bit,

it is Charlotte's whole deal? Yes. Like that's all she does? Well, that she – so initially, to hear Jerry tell it, nobody wanted that game, either of those games, because it was primarily about the gate. And you couldn't get anybody to go to the games. What do you mean they didn't want that game?

The NFL teams didn't want to play on Thanksgiving. It was, Jerry described it as an orphan game. And that the Cowboys saw an opportunity, so they take the game. And that at some point, Charlotte went to Dick Ebersole, who of course at the time was the chief of CBS, and said like, hey, we want to keep this game, but she wanted him to put halftime on television. He said, as long as you can make it something Super Bowl-like, it's yours.

So the league has tried a couple times, and they'll only get four or five votes among the owners to move it off of the Cowboys or the Lions. So she's the reason why the Cowboys play on Thanksgiving every year. Well, that's not the origin, Origen. No, but it's the reason it stayed that way. Because you know the origin, Origen, we've talked about it before. Remind me.

Was they wanted the – I thought they wanted the Steelers to do it because they were actually America's team. No, wait. You know what? That's just the origin of the name America's team. I'm mixing things up. I do remember – They were trying to call them the Steelers America's team. No, wait. You know what? That's just the origin of the name America's team. I'm mixing things up. I do remember that. They were trying to call them the Steelers America's team,

and Art Rooney said, no, we're Pittsburgh's team. So I've just conflated stories. That's okay. I'm going to take the Giants. For my knockout pick, it looks like I haven't been to the bake show yet. So I'm going to take Baker and the Bucks over the – I think it's the Panthers, right? Yes.

Last I looked it was them, six points. Yes. Okay. Only six is the way I would describe it. So triple, this is a weird one. I'm very tempted to just keep riding this. There's no way the Chiefs can beat anybody by more than five points thing. As they are minus 12.5 now hosting the Raiders.

The Raiders are pretty bad. It's also Aiden O'Connell instead of Minshew. So I think my play here is going to be... Let me scroll back down to the one I wanted. We could be dealing with like a Mahomes MVP push too. That's very true. Because his numbers are not that impressive. No, they're not.

But, you know, if they end up with one loss and he can get himself over four, because I don't even know that he's on pace for 4,000 yards passing right now. Don't believe he is. But I think he's kind of picked it up in the last couple weeks. I'm going for my triple play. I don't even know what we have it at. I think two and a half. I do not believe in the Steelers.

And I am going to take the Bengals at home. Minus three. Minus three. The Bengals still have something to play for. Burrow's really good off of a loss. He would be the MVP if they had flipped like three of their losses to wins in one score games. He would be the runaway MVP.

What was the Steelers game last week? Oh, it was the Browns. Yeah. Boy. I missed Joe Burrow before he became a lesbian. I do. Ten days to prepare.

Yeah, I mean, I just don't think the Steelers are any good. So I'm taking, that's my triple. Lock it up. Three points. Cincinnati hosting Pittsburgh. I'm going to take Dallas. You know, I just feel like they really got a little

momentum cooking here. Riding the ship, baby. Kind of get things right. Two wins in a row. Then you got to have, then you get three and who knows, man. Right. In fact, no, no. Why not lock up McCarthy right now with a nice shiny new 10-year deal? Beat the market. Yeah.

Oh. If someone has to get his job, he probably will. My knockout is going to be Houston at Jacksonville. I believe I haven't picked Houston yet. I also think next year we shouldn't do a knockout because it's weird to do it like 10 weeks in. Yeah. But if you're still in a knockout league, then we're going to go Houston for you. And my triple play, I do not believe they will lose two in a row.

I think they're a pretty good team. And I think they're going to try and help Baker get to the playoffs. I believe the Chargers will knock off Atlanta at Atlanta. The Chargers favored by one. So they basically just have to win that game. And they will. And my triple plays have been red hot lately, haven't they, Chappy? Yeah, you're zooming up.

You're just nipping right at the break-even point. Thank you, my friend. I knew you'd be following me if no one else here would. So, triple play. The Chargers. Minus one at Atlanta. Jasmine.

Jasmine. Alright, well, yeah, let's do this the Cowboys pissed me off by winning last week and they did like now you show up with your balls out no one cares can't even tank right don't get me started but

I know what they do they're going I mean give me the Cowboys and minus three you know they're gonna win the Giants are absolute turds right now. They're in a disarray. There's just, you know. So, Cowboys and minus three. I'll pick that.

Think Zeke gets a nice goal line carry? Get him in that kettle again? Get him in the fucking kettle. Maybe turn the kettle over on him. That would be awesome. If he gets one carry goal line and he does the kettle. Yes. Dude, the crowd will lose their

minds will they all 400 of them that paid 50 bucks to be there if you're there you're into it though if you're there on thanksgiving why you're there well also tradition after they won the other day as much as we all hate it look on monday Monday's show, Dan came in. He's like, look at the schedule. No. If you're a real Cowboys fan, you are not happy that they won last week. Also, it's supposed to be cloudy tomorrow.

They won't have any sun. Oh, yeah. There you go. That's why I took them last week. It worked out pretty well. Anyway. Cowboys in minus three for me. My triple play, I'm going That's why I took them last week. It worked out pretty well. Anyway. All right. Cowboys in minus three for me. My triple play.

I'm going the Seahawks minus two and minus two to beat the Jets. They're in New York. Now West Coast teams on the East Coast with a one o'clock start on the East Coast. E dicey. But I feel like the Seahawks are just a better team. And, like, they're sitting first in their division, so they've got something to play for. So give me Seahawks and minus two.

And then my knockout pick, I'm picking the Colts at New England. New England sucks. Colts aren't really any better, but I feel like they're better, and I think they'll take this in New England. I saw this headline, and I don't know why it made me laugh, but they were like, it was like expert warns, Colts are putrid. I

don't, it's very ominous. Who cares? But anyway, I saw that and was like, alright, I'm in. The putrid Colts. Give me the putrid Colts for my knockout pick. The Colts aren't that far out of it. I wonder if Gerard Mayo makes it for year two. Man, I don't know. I don't think so.

Because he's had a pretty rough first year. Obviously, Kraft sticks with a coach. He sticks with a coach. And I wonder if they would let Vrabel go somewhere else. Vrabel seems like the perfect fit for there. That would be pretty great. They better get Drake Mays some help else. Vrabel seems like the perfect fit for there. That would be pretty great. But then he would have to... They better get Drake Mays some help

because that guy's not going to be standing around there much longer. He got the bejeovans knocked out of him last weekend. But he seems good. More so than Anthony Richardson. You take three or four years of that and that's a car

in the making back in the Houston days. He's getting hit hard. Blake Jones. I'm really torn on the Cowboys game because I think they're a way better team, but if we're looking at the Cowboys cycle, it's win a game you shouldn't have. People then ride high and it's immediate letdown. The only thing is the ride high usually

lasts a couple weeks. The funniest thing would be that they lose to the Panthers. That'd be even funnier than the Giants, I think. Although this would be funny. Giants are always a trap. You've got to watch those Panthers because they set Bryce Young down.

And, you know, since he's came back, not to steal any thunder, the last three games, the Panthers have been competitive in every one of them. You're right. I'm going to switch my pick. I'm going to go Cowboys minus three. The Giants don't have a coach. They don't have a GM. Their players are mad.

There's no way they win, right? Unless they – you know what? The other theory is they just – they give it to Malik Nabors on reverses, jet sweeps. They get him the ball and open – like they do whatever they can to pacify him. That's kind of a blueprint for a receiver that – He's a threat. That didn't get touched in the first half last week.

You're probably going to see him heavily involved early. And he might go nuts. Okay, let's switch back. 260 yards receiving. Cowboys haven't won a home game all year. Give me Giants plus three. You want Giants? Yeah, let me go Giants.

Wow, so pliable. Knockout, yeah, we're getting real thin. So give me the Commanders as they are going to avenge their loss to the Cowboys last week. They got the Titans. And Will Levis proves to be not very good. Kind of a must win for them. I don't know. They got to write things, man.

Yeah, and they will against the Tennessee Titans. And Chappy, I'm with you. It's hard to make up ground when everyone around you is doing well. So I'm going to start attacking those above me and I'm going to set my sights on Jake this week. Give me the Steelers plus three with ten days rest. Come and get it. Showdown!

There you go. This could be the game TJ Watt wins his MVP. Yeah, and Orlando Brown is supposed to play, but left tackle could be out there, but we'll see. Well, Chappy, you are left. This is why people actually, if anybody does listen to this,

they want to hear what your picks are. That's why I'm here. I would pay attention to Akash and Jasmine first, but, you know, I would have preferred to see Tommy Cutlass back there myself. Um, Drew Locke is a serviceable guy, but you know, the last two games, Cooper rushes, he's put up some yards in there. I mean, it's not like he's just turning in, You know, he's been 300, 275, 300.

What I think – I'm taking the Cowboys minus three. What I think is a bigger issue, forget neighbors, forget that you might have an upgrade at the QB position. I think you've got a lot of problem with that team with dissension on how they handle Jones. There were people pissed that they benched him There were people pissed that they benched him. They were pissed that they benched him. They were pissed that he went to fourth string

and he was playing safety on the scout team. That's no lie. They had him back. You know, that has a huge effect in the workplace. I don't care if it's in an industry or if it's in an organization or on a football field. I think there's some people there that aren't going to let that go. And they got the brakes beat off of them, Dan, as you know,

picking the Bucs last week. That game looked like a sophomore team versus varsity. So who knows? But I'm going with the Cowboys minus three. On my knockout, I still got a couple of teams decent left. I think that was more luck than strategy. But I'm going to take the Broncos at home playing the Browns. And, you know, the line's like five and a half.

But, you know, just straight win. I'm going to take the Broncos at home. That's a Monday night affair, standalone game. I made an outside wager at the beginning of the year on the over-under on the Broncos win total. It was six. So, man, I said at the time, and I've said a lot of wrong things, but I said, Drew, I said.

Bo Nix. a lot of wrong things, but I said, Drew, I said, uh, Bo Nix to me is a, uh, basically just, um, a starter kit for Sean Payton and the stable that he used to have with, uh, uh, Breeze. I mean, I get it. Breeze is the hall of fam. But, you know, Bo Nix is 25, 26 years old. He played a lot of college games, probably more than anybody. So I like the Broncos at home. Yeah, that's interesting how that's been a – you know, you think it could be a positive, but, like, who was the Browns quarterback they drafted?

Brandon Whedon. Was it Whedon? Yeah. He was like a 26-year-old rookie. Yeah, 28. Yeah, but that wasn't because he played a ton in college. Yeah, he was baseball. Oh, is that why that was? Yeah. Okay. So, like, for example,

Bo Nix. Who's the other one we were just talking about the other day? It was transferred all over the place? Yeah, because, like, Trey Lance didn't play in college hardly at all. Yeah. But, especially now with the portal and with COVID, there's guys with five years under their belt. Yeah, five and six.

Didn't Bo Nix play in college with Justin Herbert, something like that? Yes. Yeah. That's the weirdest stat. And Herbert's on his second contract. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of weird to think.

By the way, that portal and the NIL and all of that stuff, you know. We don't have time for that. Oh, well, there's a lawsuit already out there. My lock of the week, I'm going down into the college. I'm going to take Duke minus four on the road against Wake Forest Saturday. I love the basketball, football shit. Yeah, that's a guy right there who definitely needs a reason to pay attention

to something on Saturday. That is a degenerate pick. Yeah, that really is. Duke's had a scrappy year. They're sitting at 8-3 right now. They played some boys pretty tough. Okay. Maybe they didn't need that head coach.

You look at similar games that Duke and Wake Forest have played and do the matchups. I won't. Yeah, nobody does for football, though. Well, Duke minus four on the road is my pick. Chappies, lock of the week. All right, well, gobble, gobble. Huh?

That could mean something else around other parts. Whoa. Wow, Jasmine. No, I had a really, I'm serious. I had a really, so back when I had a fantasy football league that I did like every year, we had like the token slut that was in our league, and she would do her picks naked. I'm not joking. Why would you do that?

What a good time for the meeting to end. Oh, it says Zoom meeting. What happened? I guess we're done. What happened? So now we're done. Jeez. All right.

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Hey. All right. The Mavs have played a lot of games since we all last spoke about the Mavs. And they've played some fun ones. This team is not boring. Let's go back to Friday night. Friday night, they were on the road at Denver, the first of a three-game stretch.

And that was a wild-ass game. It was no Luka. And it was relatively healthy Denver. I think they were without Aaron Gordon, as they've been for a while. And that was a game where Dallas was up and they were down. They looked like they had it wrapped up. And then basically, I guess the long and short of it is they won a close game against a really good team, and it was on the road in Denver to boot.

And without Luka. And without Luka. And without Luka. Didn't they recently have a team meeting too? Yeah, I saw something about that, but I don't know which game it was after. I think that was during the streak, wasn't it? It was before this Denver game. Yeah.

I thought it was right before the Denver game, or right after the previous game, whatever. They had beaten New Orleans, after the previous game, whatever. They had beaten New Orleans, who's, surprise, Zion is in and out of the lineup again. Did you see his back tattoo? Yeah, I saw something.

What was it? Well, he got a back tattoo, and the tattoo artist took a video and put it on Instagram. I mean, he's just really, really flabby for an NBA player. Yeah, because I saw a side-by-side with that. LeBron. Yes, LeBron at 40 and Zion at the peak of his athletic, what should be his athletic career. Yeah, and –

23 or whatever. Yeah, to go back to that Denver game, Denver was shooting the ball pretty well in that game, so it's like, man, that's the win of the year right there. They'd already had the win over Oklahoma City. That's two pretty good wins. The Timberwolves' win is a good win. And if you just look at a couple of those games in that streak there,

the Jazz loss is inexcusable, but Warriors, Nuggets, Suns, the Jazz loss was by two points. They flip a couple of those. I still think the exact same thing I thought about them at the start of the season. They're really good. After the Denver game, there was Miami on Sunday night. That was a super close game that Dallas easily could have won,

but they had played the night before in Denver, flew to Miami. So once they sort of ran out of gas a little bit towards the end of that one, Miami was on like a 10 or 11 days rest, like some sort of scheduling quirk. Maybe that's not it, but it was some sort of scheduling quirk where they had played in Mexico. Let's see here. They had, okay, it was six days off. And at that point, they had only played like four home games.

They've played way fewer games than anyone else in the NBA. Like Dallas has played 18, Miami now is at 15. But I say all that to say once that game was going to overtime, Dallas was not going to win it. They were out of gas. And in both that game and really the Denver game, even though they won the Denver game, the problem is when Kyrie leaves the floor.

Because the great thing about having Kyrie and Luka is that usually one of them is on the floor. But when Kyrie's not out there, you're looking up and you're seeing lineups of like Jaden Hardy, Spencer Dinwiddie. You're probably Marshall or Grimes, Maxey and Gafford or something like that. They ended up getting down 10 or 11 against Atlanta the other night. Atlanta's not any good. But a big part of it was Kyrie leaves the game. Now, the only thing that's really kept them afloat is Najee Marshall has been incredible. Like, I really think once football's over and everybody's all in on the Mavericks,

you're going to love them, folks. P.J.'s been great lately too, right? It's night and day. You know, the games that he missed was those are the games where everybody is just nonstop complaining from coaches, fans, whatever, about rebounding. And he makes a massive difference. Massive, massive difference. He's also been scoring quite well, but Najee gives him a punch. P.J.'s a great rebounder.

This is the first time in a long time that I could say, looking at the Mavericks team, that's their team. There's not really a big trade. There's no talk of that? I don't know what they would even go do. They have everything they need. That's their team. There's not really a big trade. There's no talk of that? I don't know what they would even go do. They have everything they need. They just have to play a little bit better together,

as evidenced by the fact that they lost four games by a combined seven points or something historic like that. They were all games that they easily could have won. They weren't just claw back and make it close at the end type games. They're just – that's their team. Every year it's, God, they need another big. Got to get a wing defender. Could use another shooter. Who's going to be the other ball handler?

There's stuff to figure out, but none of it is going to require them to go make a move. Like, Klay, since I told you guys I needed to bench him, has been better. He's still not great. I think in the stretch that they're on right now, he's at about 38%, and that includes a night where he went 0 for 8, so that from three, Which would be fine. But for the season, I think he's still sub-37. And in fact, the other night in Miami when they went to overtime, he didn't play

until a minute left. They went with Dinwiddie. So you had Dinwiddie out there at the end of the game. In Miami? He was horrible. He was so bad, there at the end of the game. In Miami? Yeah. He was horrible.

He was so bad, especially at the end of the game. Really bad. But then turned it around against Atlanta. Big time. You get a lot of Jaden Hardy these days. Which I like. I do, but you just have to accept that you're never going, I'll speak for myself, like we're in therapy. Let's make I statements.

Okay. I will never be comfortable watching Jaden Hardy play basketball. Why? He's too chaotic? At all times, I feel like he's, you know how they say, like, Luka's at his own pace, he can slow down any time? I just feel like Hardy is always, is like, fuck, I'm late to somewhere. Holding the sprint button at all times.

Yes. Like he'll take a shot way too early in the shot clock, but he's hitting better. His shot has been better, but he just – he's a really nervous-looking player to me. Yeah. You're probably right. But he had a good game against Atlanta, and I think when you throw him out there and he knows he's going to play 20 24 minutes he can score oh he's he's a he's a scorer for sure but you're right i mean i think when he has scattered minutes here and there and he plays

six seven eight minutes he tries to do too much yeah i mean in that in that atlanta game there was a stretch where he was just he was turning the ball over seemingly every other possession he ended up with six in the game. But he scored decent in the second half. I like him. He's just not young anymore. They've already decided they wanted to bring him back on a three-year

deal. I don't know if it's ever going away is what I'm saying. But there's a place for him in the NBA in a rotation for sure. And then Kyrie has just been incredible. He's amazing. And it got me thinking, this is probably a conversation for another day, just about how weird following Kyrie has been. Because for sure, when he wasn't a Maverick, we were pretty critical of the guy. And I think, you know, I described him as he's like a college student who just learned a few things.

And now thinks he's the smartest person in the world. Says big words. Yeah, which I'm sure people have accused me of still to this day. But he spoke his mind on some things and it got him in trouble. The whole thing is weird because I think he's grown

as a person, but I also think society has changed a little bit to where some of the stuff that he was kind of espousing, a lot more of the public that he was kind of espousing, a lot more of the public agrees with now. Yeah. Like, for instance, the mandates on vaccines and all that.

Yeah. Which was, even we said it at the time, and I'm pro-vaccine for sure, but it didn't seem logical that you could have to mandate that for him in an arena full of people that it wasn't mandated for. And then you go on the road. Right. He could play on the road, but he wasn't allowed to play in New York.

And he wasn't allowed on the team bench because he wasn't vaccinated, but then he bought courtside seats and could sit next to the team. Yeah. I don't think anybody thought that the protocols made any sense. No, and even now. And that's the thing. There's a medium point of either all vaccines make you autistic or everything that you are told you should just do blindly.

Yeah. You know, there has to be some kind of a medium. And it was just a weird time. You've got to understand science too, right? That we just, if there's something you don't know about, you tend to err on that side of caution, which we were doing early on, you not touching any or you know cleaning every surface right away and the whole even yesterday i was thinking this is i went a lot went out of

the bathroom at uh was it was it kane rosso they had the the foot thing yeah where you could just pull the bathroom door open with your foot and that didn't exist before covid uh because we were worried about touching the the handle and it was going to stay on the handle and it turns out like you know it couldn't be transmitted that way but you know we they just didn't know that so i don't know yes you're right as time went on all of a sudden it's like, yeah, Kyrie. Maybe he was on to something. But even we played the audio, and when I say we, I mean you two,

played the audio of him saying, yeah, I want a life outside of basketball. And I don't know. I feel like that's lightened up as well. Society, yeah. Let's allow Simone Biles some mental time off. It's also... And that's not the way it had been in society. You do not... There's time, mental time off in the offseason, my friend.

Not now. You also have to be playing really well. Yeah. That helps. And he's doing that. Yeah. For sure. There's also kind of a weird helps. And he's doing that. Yeah. For sure. There's also kind of a weird thing.

But he was an asshole to media. That's what I was going to say. I don't think all that stuff was made up. To everybody around him. Yeah. Like he was a product of growing up, being able to fire your coach when you're 11 years old. And that's how good he's always been. you're 11 years old and that's how good he's always been and then he you know he was a jerk in cleveland like a total asshole and he was an asshole in the room and he wanted out of that room

and then he did go up and blow up boston you know it there was a lot of reason for hating kairi he's not that guy anymore and that's just the same way as you, you know, with your wife or whatever. You're like, how'd you learn that stuff? You know, like she used to do stuff. Like she's, it's not, that's not the person she is. Don't ask your wife if she ever had a threesome with two dudes. Don't ask her. You don't want to know.

Maybe she did, whatever, but that's not who she is now. And that's not who Kyrie... Kyrie now is a stabilizing veteran presence. It's crazy. He is actually the leader of this team. Luka's the best player, but it actually did matter. All the things he's been through has made him be able to be this person,

to have been in LeBron's shadow. And then KD, to have been in LeBron's shadow. And then KD, to a certain extent. He was clearly the better player. He knows how to be a superstar, yet still somehow not totally be subservient, but defer to the guy that's on the next level up. And he doesn't mind it now. He probably, you'd probably be great at him when he was a young player.

Like this LeBron came in and I was the guy and then all of a sudden now he's the guy and I'm just his little buddy. He pats on the head and, you know, I won that championship without that shot. Like, and it's true. You know, he's... That's a natural mindset for a 23 24 year old right and now he's a

33 or whatever he is now i don't know how old he seems like he should be like 35 but he's probably early 30s yeah i guess i just i know there are a lot of people that would say like oh you guys used to you guys used to kill kairi what about now because he's a maverick and i'm saying like part of it part of it but also legitimately i do think it's a different public person. He treats people differently. He treats the support staff around the Mavs differently than I have heard. That's all you hear. How he used to treat support staff around the Cavs.

He is a different person now. You should judge people on who they are, right? Not on who they have been. Lord knows I'm hoping for it. Yeah, yeah. There's also a weird thing that I can't really prove, but it's kind of in the background. He was saying some wild stuff and has had some wild beliefs before

about this geopolitical thing or that religious thing or this thing that the government did. Which, to be honest with you before the republicans and the conservatives did a very good job doing what they do that's kind of what people used to mean when they said the word woke you know like hey did you ever hear very people's history of the united states type stuff yeah He's always kind of put that stuff out there and was viewed as a kook. Now I feel like a lot more people without even knowing it, the people that are like, oh, trans people, that's woke. A lot more people are like, interesting. I'll watch your documentary.

Conservative and liberal or left and right. They're like, I don't know. I don't know that I believe everything that they're telling us anymore. Right. I mean, in a weird way, the entire questioning the government over science, that is the definition of what black people meant when they started using the word woke because of like the Tuskegee experiment and, you know, on down the line of different things that the establishment had told you, this is the way that it is.

It'll be good for you. Right. That's what that word used to mean. Yes. And now it's just, it means, you know, you dress up like a cat to get fucked or something. But, but I feel like all of society has sort of moved in this like, are you sure about that? More woke.

Yeah. Yeah. And so people don't look at Kyrie as much anymore. Like, oh, this guy's just, he's off his rocker. Where's he? Where's his head at? And I think that's how the Earth is Flat stuff started. Yeah. He was just more of like, why don't you go find out for yourself?

Right. They're just going to tell you that and you just believe it, which is a fine position to have. But even people who have that position, you have to be able to still be reasonable about some things like the shape of the earth and say like, all right, my whole milieu, my context, what have you think, that doesn't have to apply to everything. Yeah. I can still take it at their word that they got that one right. You need a safety net of something to agree on. Exactly. Gravity is real.

My last thing, I want you guys to yell at me if I walk back on this. Not game to game, but overall, Jason Kidd is a good head coach. Sorry. Get over it. Just going to have to deal with it. You're saying overall. Yeah. They have won in so many different ways.

And maybe that's part of the problem is that every year they have to figure out how they want to win. So not micro in a game. I still have my questions on that. X's and O's. Hell, I would have played Clay over PJ to start in overtime the other night. I'm looking at that like, why is Spencer Dinwiddie out there right now? This is crazy.

It's Clay Thompson. I don't care what he's been doing. He does a lot of stuff that I find maddening. I wish we didn't have to go through this charade of starting Gafford for seven or eight games when we know that's not what's going to happen for the rest of the year. But, dude, now they're in like the bottom eight or nine in threes per game when they've always under kid been really high. And they can run it.

They can win at pace. They can slow it down. Their defense is consistently top ten with him when they're healthy or under his tenure. I wonder if he's also coaching for the whole season too. He says it all the time.

Some coaches don't do it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Realizes just like players have to. You have to pace yourself for the post. That's the season that really matters. So this does matter to an extent. You can't – you don't want to be a play-in team. They are in the West, I mean.

Yeah, the West is stacked. This feels like the old days of, you know, when the Mavs – like their record right now, they'd be the ninth seed and they'd be like the fifth seed in the east yeah well what i think about kid is he's a really good like manager where x's and o's and day to day he's probably not the best but if we went to like let's go back to football like kellen moore was really good at drawing up plays and concepts and designs right but he was missing that element of just get seedy the football right and i think that's where jason kidd is good is like let's simplify it let's just do this and right he's not carlisle where he's like

you're never going to have seen this play before right but in the playoffs kid excels because he's like well we just take away their best player and make them do things they don't want to do. And he gets that from his playing days of this worked. So yeah, I'm with you. He's great on a macro level. But when you dissect it game by game and decision by decision, yeah, you're probably going to find some things you don't like. Yeah, that's a perfect way to put it.

They're much better than their record indicates. But again, the problem with the West is it might not matter. They play tonight. Even the last play, even looking at the bottom of the West is the Pelicans. Who are good when Zion plays. Yeah. And there's just no bet.

The Rockets are good now. The Trailblazers are not bad. The Rockets are good now. And here's how you know when your team is starting to get good. When you're like, maybe we make a deal. The trailblazers are not bad. The Rockets are good now, and they're... Here's how you know when your team is starting to get good, when you're like, maybe we make a deal. Yeah. Like you've built out the bottom half of it,

or the young part of it. They have so many picks to play with. And you're like, all right. Yeah. But the Jazz probably stinks, but the Kings, Timberwolves, and Spurs are all underneath you, and they're pretty good. Yeah.

Another Knicks matchup, no Brunson, no Luka again. Oh, no Brunson? Well, that they're not both out there together. Oh, right. But, yeah, they have not played. All right, that's my Mavs. I'm pretty fired up about this season. All right.

Well, now. Here's Jake. It's Jake again. He's still here. Yep. Let's get back over to that proper page dan uh we had this story earlier this month i believe actually one of the the dudes in question spoke to fox4 the guy who was on a plane it's a flight from milwaukee to dallas earlier this month there was a guy who was trying to open the door of the plane mid-flight

and he has been charged. He is a 29-year-old. Will it not open? Well, he was... He got let's rolled. He got Wahlberg'd. Someone tackled him? Three guys. One of them from McKinney

and another guy from Wisconsin. What if you were the closest guy to him? I would do that. Would you? Yeah. What if he hadn't showered? Well, what if he was naked?

Everyone on the plane is disgusting. Everyone. And naked is a problem, for sure. That's why some comedian many years ago had the bit of, if you hear something in your house, Dan is the safest guy in this room. He's dong out all the time. I'll run down there naked.

They'll be so taken aback. Yeah, I had a moment this morning where sometimes I will sleep naked. I prefer it. I think it's better for you because you're cooler and uh being cooler leads to better sleep like that's why they sell those cooling mattresses and you're supposed to keep your temp lebron level like it's 67 or 68. i i found that i can't i don't like uh the flannel sheets because of that. Yeah. The thin one, whatever other thing they're called.

Whatever the other regular sheets just are much cooler. Yeah, no. Sleep, they call it sleep hygiene. But it's the whole thing of getting it as, and it's all LeBron, all the stuff LeBron does. Get it as dark as you possibly can, which is why people use the eye mask. Love the eye mask. Ideally, don't be looking at a screen for, they say like two or three hours, but even if you can just get like 30 minutes to an hour.

What? And no one does it. Yeah, I'm looking at something five minutes before I go to bed. Yeah. I wear headphones though to block out noise. What do you wear? Big Sony headphones. You do?

To fall asleep. Do they not get uncomfortable? Yeah, then I don't wake up with them on. Yeah, I'll wear the... I have those Bose pods. Yeah. That someone gave us, but... You're not supposed to drink water

a couple hours before bed. I do abstain from that. Not supposed to eat a few hours before bed. Same. That helps in other ways too. But sleep, being cool at night, that's very helpful. So you're sleeping better and

rub one out. You can do that anytime you wanted. But I did think this morning, I have a weird setup at our house where I lay my workout clothes out outside of the room. Because once I get up, I don't need to go back in there because I'll get something thrown at me. I get up before everyone. Get something thrown at me. She'll wake back up and be like, what are you coming back in here for? So I just lay everything I need out the night before outside of the room. get something thrown at me. Like, she'll wake back up and be like, what are you coming back in here for? Oh.

So I just lay everything I need out the night before outside of the room. But in a world, if she got up before you... Oh, just come back in there. Slamming shit around in the kitchen. Why do you need pots and pans in the bathroom? Coffee. Closing the dryer.

Are you weed-eating the bathtub? Yeah. Why'd you bring that in here? Running the lawnmower through the living room. No concern at all. It's just a tornado if she's up before you. But yeah, I'm sneaking around, getting dressed in the living room. Oh my god, dude.

I'm pulling a caper. Close the door, catch it right before it latches, and then just slowly turn it and just do my best. You and I live the same life. Yes, if my sleep mask slips off, my wife will just fire up the light. Like the big light in the room. Not the little one next to the bed.

Unbelievable. Then she'll be like, oh, sorry. No, you're not. Like, yes. Well, you know how it wouldn't have happened? If you were thinking about it, which is how it doesn't happen to you whenever I come in because I think about it. Boy, I just had a flashback of what were, in my case it was my mom when i think we know dan's uh your parents methods for getting you up

because my mom would that light was a big player oh was it yeah yeah probably probably a light it was lights and then if if if we really needed really needed it, it was the pots and pans. Really? I never got that. My dad liked throwing stuff from the freezer in my bed. That's a great one. I didn't find it funny. That's a great one.

Anyways, the guy who was trying to get out of the plane, 29-year-old Abdul Al-Jabbar Oloruntube Olaye. Okay, so you'd have tackled him because you had your eye on him the whole play day. Right. He has been charged, and he could face up to 20 years in prison. I didn't know that was that. Air law. It's out there.

Nobody knows anything about it. Charged with interfering with a flight crew by assault or intimidation. He told flight attendants... This guy saw too many movies and was clearly crazy. Told the flight attendant, quote, I am the captain of this flight. But he wasn't? No. No, he was not. Would it suck everything out?

I think so. If the door did open? I think that's the deal, right? I mean, I think you've seen like a window burst or get smashed out, but that's like a small little... What do they do in that case? I mean, I've seen people sucked towards it. Wasn't there a woman who broke her arm?

I don't know. A woman in Dallas, an influencer, 35-year-old Ashley Grayson. She's been sentenced to 10 years in prison. She tried to hire a friend to kill three people. She ran a business as an online course coach and developed a following on social media. Tell me how much this bio description makes you want to vomit. Business coach, course creator, and philanthropist.

Of course. Every person on The Bachelor. Those are anchored phrases. She offered to pay a Memphis couple to kill three people in 2022. So the three people, she's, what I respect about this is that she just had a slew of people in her life that she really hated for different reasons and thought, why don't we just take care of this all at once? The three different people.

One, her ex-boyfriend. Two, another Texas woman who made negative social media posts about her. And three, a woman in Mississippi who ran a business online similar to hers. Was she looking for like a bulk discount?

Right. Yeah. Black Friday deal. You know, if you can think of a fourth, I could really do you some solids on the finance front. But this is funny to me. It's not like, hey, I'm going to have all my business partners whacked. Do murders for hire ever work? Oh, yeah.

You just don't know. Yeah. Definitely. That's cool. I mean, I could see if I was going to have to kill someone, I would probably want to hire someone just because I don't think I could pull it off. I know you couldn't. You can pay them in Bitcoin.

You could. This way they can't track it. Yeah, now I believe in her case... But you would have to do all this verbally. Yeah. Unlike what she did. Which was use PayPal. To send.

You think she put like the ninja emoji? Yeah. The knife or the gun or something. So she's getting 10 years and airplane guy is getting 20? Airplane guy could get 20. That doesn't seem right. And he probably won't, but you'd have to think if he's facing 20, he probably gets 10. His name is Abdul.

That probably didn't help it, folks. If he's facing 20, he probably gets 10. His name is Abdul. That probably didn't help him, folks. The woman in Memphis that she was trying to hire recorded a video call. When she was told – so the woman in Memphis is the potential murderer. And she was told that the paying lady, one of the Mississippi women, killed as soon as possible and offered, quote, an extra five grand for the murder to be carried out in the next week. Like, call while this ad is running.

What was the total she was looking to pay? 20K per body. She ordered overnight shipping. Okay, see, that's more reasonable, though. We've heard of other stories where she paid $800 to kill her husband. Something weird. Like $20,000 per person. That seems like a good amount.

I would think it'd even be more than that, but yeah. So if you're saying, yeah. Like what does the actual... Going rate? Yeah, the real hitmen that really get away with it. Before I hit enter here... Probably 100 grand. I want this record, the logs to reflect,

this is research for the show as I search murder for higher costs. Could you go to the dark web and find that out? Oh, yeah. Like, does Craigslist still exist there? How much money do I need to hire a hitman to kill someone? Backpage.com? I'm seeing... Okay, this is wild, dude.

Killing Eve. You ever watch Killing Eve? No, I know I should. It's pretty good. Oh, my God. There's a post here on Quora. And I don't know why. I've never seen this on Quora before.

But everything is written in, like, weird font. Like, to people responding. Like, it's all extra spaces and someone changed the script font of people saying, I do this. Here's my contact info. Whoa.

What's he charge? This guy says, information like this are hard to come by. If you ever require the service of a hitman, a simple way to do that is to go to the dark web and find one, but the issue is that not everyone will have access to it. I will make it easy and refer you to someone. I met the dark web and he did a clean and professional

job. He can also make it look like an accident. I can tell he is best in game. And then there is a... That doesn't seem sketchy at all. I'd click right on that. It says you can find one for $5,000, a beading for $2,000, or death by torture for $50,000.

So it's like an a la carte thing. You can pick what you want. The beading, that's cool. Yeah. And we could whip his ass for $2,000. It would be cool to go to work Monday and you see your nemesis with a broken nose. Look at Jay Leno. Yeah.

Yeah. That would be. Like, you'd feel satisfied you spent that money. Yeah. It's way less guilt. Yeah, and how long are you going away for if you get caught trying to hire someone just to beat someone up? For a rough up? Yeah.

Probably not that long. Yeah. If it's 10 for three murders. Yeah. Take a little vacation. It'd be great. Get some meals, get a workout in every day. You can make friends of all different types of people.

Maybe get yourself a tattoo. You've always wanted it. Yeah. Teardrop. Yeah. Could I be in prison and never get a tattoo? I'm sure it's possible. I don't want to desecrate my skin.

Have you desecrated your skin, Blake? Does a nipple piercing count? No. No. Tattoo. You don your skin, Blake? Does a nipple piercing count? No. No. Tattoo. You don't have any desire to have a tattoo? No. What if the boys win state? I don't think I'd look cool with a tattoo. What about a little Playboy bunny?

Where? I don't know. Your ass. Yeah, maybe at 15k. You'll get a tattoo if we get 15,000 subscribers? Yeah. I'll do that. I mean, I guess for me it's not as big of a deal, but yeah, I mean, I'm up for a lot.

I think I would do anchor on my bicep. That'd be awesome. That'd be funny. Yeah, I'll go play anchor on my bicep. That'd be awesome. That'd be funny. Yeah, I'll go play boy on my ass. Have you guys, my last story here, this is the only Thanksgiving-related story I want to do. You guys tracking these Texas, Texas A&M tickets? No, but I'm intrigued.

I saw it was like the highest-priced college football ticket ever. The average ticket to get into the game Saturday at Kyle Field is $1,100. That's incomprehensible to me. I wonder what they can make pay-per-view, because I'd pay $50 to see it. Like, I'd rather pay to watch it on TV than to go to it it's like my overhead bin bit yeah like they should charge you to watch it

not to go to the stadium who wants to go to the stadium college football is a little different though I don't want to go I know you don't but for most people that would not that would be a tough sell

yeah yeah and of course there's a big No, you don't, but for most people, that would be a tough sell. Yeah, and of course, there's big concerts all weekend. Pat Green, Randy Rogers. What do you mean, around Dallas? No, around down there. Oh, okay. This is a big deal. Yeah, they're back.

How long has it been? 2008 or 2009? I was going to say 2008. I just had it pulled up. I mean, it was kind of ridiculous that they haven't played. Why wouldn't they schedule this as a... When did Tucker make the kick? Is that Case McCoy?

2011. Okay. Why are they what? Why wouldn't they have tried to keep this alive for their non-con? Because they explicitly, that's the thing. They don't want to be playing now. What do you mean? They want nothing to do with each other.

Why? And, I mean, I think it's A&M wants less to do with Texas. Because Texas was kind of, Texas is the asshole in this whole thing. The Longhorn Network screwed everything up. That's why A&M ended up in the SEC, which is better for them. But, no, this is not like a – like if Texas and OU somehow ended – I don't know. That would have to – the situation would have to be different.

But Texas and OU fled a conference together. Their rivalry is not bad blood. It's good for both. Texas and Texas A&M legitimately don't want to play. I'm not saying there aren't people who are fans who don't want to play. But they've had plenty of opportunities to schedule this non-con for over a decade now. And they haven't. Because they're both pissed at each other?

Yeah. So Aggie was pissed that Texas acted like they are the biggest deal in town, which they were. Yeah, but you can still care about the rest of your conference. And said, we're just going to profit, not you guys. Yeah. And then so Aggie said, oh, guess what we'll do? We'll go to the SEC.

We'll be the recruiting hub for if you want to stay in Texas, but be in the SEC, play the best brand of football. So then Texas got mad at that because they thought of it first. Exactly. And now Texas A&M is probably pissed at Texas again because they're like, oh, fancy that. Okay, then a different thing. I would think Oklahoma and OSU have to play every year,

but they're not going to. They aren't, but I definitely could still see that somehow becoming a non-conference. That has more of a chance than this ever did. That's what sucks about all this college football stuff. Yeah. Okay, I do have one more college football story for you, but I'm going to do it outside of the news, so play the thing.

That's your news. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. We think we'll have a little, like, hour-long post-game show on Friday morning just to wet the beak. But, hey, you know, maybe you're out there running a turkey trot or something tomorrow. Catch you some content for Thanksgiving.

Turkey bowl. Turkey bowl. Never really did that. No? We'd go throw the ball around in the front yard. Yeah, I don't think I had an official game. Certainly the night before Thanksgiving, like tonight. Hoard. The biggest drinking night Thanksgiving, like tonight. Horde.

The biggest drinking night of the year. You go hard. Like it was the real one. Not like New Year's Eve was amateur night. Yeah. Because everybody's out and people that just have a beer or two. Olds as well. Yeah, everybody's, you know, that didn't count.

I mean, we'd still get, you know, go hard. But this is the one where the real ones are out tonight. The boys are back in town. My God. We had found... Back from college. This is a great night. A good friend of mine, Sean, who we talked about last week because it's his 40th birthday,

his current wife had found some... I think maybe her mom had started going there with her group of friends, but it was like this really shitty hotel bar at a really shitty hotel over in Fort Worth. And for some reason, we all started going there every Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. We went for like eight years in a row. That's a great tradition. It was, and it was, again, people, they would have cups made. Yeah. They're like the night before Thanksgiving. That's a great tradition. Again, they would have cups made the night before Thanksgiving. That's awesome.

It would be like 30, 40 of us. And again, never went to this place the rest of the year. That's even better. It was awesome. That's special. So my college football story for you, and I don't know if Blake's tracking on this at all, but Dan, do you know what's going on with Michigan LSU

and recruiting right now? Tell me. Is it something about we're money whipping? Is a barstool guy involved or something? Yeah. Okay. Dave Portnoy? So Portnoy is a Michigan man.

Yeah. And he's pretty loud about it. He said on one of their shows a couple weeks ago, one of their college football pick shows, it might even have been last week, because Michigan coming off of a national championship, they're not doing well. They suck.

He said something, because he's a guy who will take his money and exact revenge or piss people off or just whatever he wants to get done. You can hate the guy, but the way he treats his wealth is very funny. Yeah, he makes everything a bit. He'll get, hey, I'll buy this company and fire you. Yeah. So he made a comment of like, we are not going to have another season like this.

I'm going to make sure we always have a quarterback. I'm going to figure this out. You know, two, three million, whatever the case I got to throw in, we can't have this anymore. He will NIL it. Yeah, and you say it's a barstool thing, but it's his money. Yeah. And this has always kind of been the case where you know the money was under the

table and it's a group of faceless oil men or you know uh real estate guys and they liked it that way and then even in the first little bit of nil it was it's going to be these collectives right so texas oil guy might still give a ton of money to the nil collective and the nil collective is the one who pays out to the player the the guy giving the money he may want to be known to the coaches and the administration but he's not out doing interviews saying like i'm the guy who got quinn ewers he would say that to his friends maybe, but not publicly. Well, with Portnoy, it's an entirely different deal. So you have Portnoy, extremely wealthy, very obnoxious publicly into Michigan. And then you have one of the richest men in America who was dating and is now married to a Michigan fan who's a Barstool fan.

So I'm going to play a little bit of Portnoy describing this. You know, I saw, I was trending worldwide when it happened, I think all the way up to nine. Everyone's like, oh my God, Dave got Michigan Bryce Underwood. And it all stemmed from the pick-em when we were just talking. I said, you know, I'm going to go get us a quarterback. It should be noted at this point, if you don don't follow he is the number one quarterback in the nation it was committed to us or to lsu okay when we were just talking i said you know i'm gonna go get us

a quarterback and i'll put my own money two to three million into this thing and i'll make sure we have a quarterback and this will never happen again that started the ball rolling on what will be known forever as the Renaissance of Michigan. I got a call from the Michigan football team, right? And they said, hey, there's this donor who wants to talk to you. I said, I'm doing this myself. I don't need to talk to anybody. Please. This woman's a big fan of Barstool, big fan of you. She'd love to talk to you. Her name is Jolin. Like, all, all right, yeah, listen, I don't. I'm working on quarterback.

I'm studying the field. What are we going to do? They said, oh, her husband, by the way, is a guy by the name of Larry Ellison. You ever heard of him? I said, Larry Ellison? Like the number two richest guy on the planet? Yeah, I'll take that phone call. That night, we're on a Zoom.

Me, Jolin, Larry Ellison. do you guys know who larry ellison is i've heard the name he's the guy from oracle and we're talking oracle you know software he's uh i don't know what his rank is but it's it's high he's like a steve ballmer second wealthiest in the world yeah and i guess he's dating a woman who's into michigan now it's not his wife i think i said wife he's been married four times i think portnoy said wife it's just a lady he's dating okay jolan larry ellison and we're talking and i like, Larry, where'd you go to school? Oh, Illinois. All right. Jolin, what about you?

Michigan. Interesting. When'd you go to school? I believe she said the guy who didn't wear headsets. Brady Hoke. That era. Brady Hoke era. And she said, I never want to live that era again.

We're the national champs. I have two kids. I can't stomach waking up on a Saturday knowing that we're not the best team on the field. I said, I'm with you. What do we have to do? What do we have to do? I know what we'll do. Let's set up a call tomorrow night with Bryce Underwood and his parents.

And we talked and we pitched Bryce. I said, listen, first of all, Barstool and the marketing, but more importantly, Larry Ellison and Jolin, nobody can match us. This guy's a legend. And we pitched and we pitched. But oh boy, Michigan's back. And I didn't know how it would come about or the role I would play. But Jolin, on that first phone call,

she's like, I needed somebody to step up from Michigan and show that they cared as much as I did. And then it was like the mega powers uniting. Listen, and I knew it. I texted Jolin. All right, he keeps going. The point is, he's obsessed with Michigan. This woman is obsessed with Michigan, despite the fact that Michigan has been contacted. They say no one named Jolin ever graduated there.

Doesn't mean she didn't go to school there. Ellison has been photographed at a couple tennis tournaments with a woman wearing a Michigan hat. But other than that, there's not a whole lot about this woman online. It might just be a lady that one of the second or the second richest guy in the world is nailing. And she really likes Barstool and she really likes Michigan. And she's like, you know what I'm going to use this pussy for? I'm going to make sure the Wolverines have the number one crew. Did they get him? He flipped like two days later. For what? For Michigan. For how much? For what?

For Michigan. For how much? Reported 11 to 12 million. Damn. Wow. Yeah. Now, there are a hundred different things to talk about on this. Like, you know, what if he's not good?

Yep. And it's not, like, we know the guys that we're getting, hey, they're throwing the money bag. The bag man is behind the scenes making sure you get Chris Sims. And, hey, the NIL, next stage NIL, you know, that's how they got such and such guy at Alabama. But it is a different deal to me. If you're walking into college, Barstool is super popular on college campuses and with college football players.

And it's like, that's the $11 million barstool guy. Yeah. It's big pressure. Big pressure. Big pressure on him. Big pressure on the coaches. It's kind of what we've always seen, but it is on a times 1,000 steroid pack now. We said, I mean, when this all started, it was like, this is going to be interesting.

This is not the final form of how this should be. Like, it's wrong. We knew it was wrong from the beginning. And it's clearly playing out there. It's just... Guys are going, you know... College

quarterbacks are like NBA players. They're just going team to team to team and probably other positions too, but I just hear more about the quarterbacks. It's more with quarterbacks, but yeah, it's a lot of them. I saw a funny tweet this morning that was like, this is all fun and games until some Saudi businessman gets obsessed with Temple football.

This will probably – Colorado tried. What's going to happen here is parody. It's already happening. Just because that's what happened to the NBA. That's when you stopped having the same champion five years in a row or whatever. Yeah, you were right about that. And it's already happening in college.

And it's more the depth, right? I'm the backup and I need to to play i want to play sooner i need to you know get out there so you can't just own them for four years and well you just do whatever i say and one great running back goes down and now i got another one because that great second great running back's like i need to go somewhere that'll let me play now yeah it. It's wild. Kind of Dion came along at the exact perfect time for it all. Boy, that's the truth. Because there's no way he recruits without it.

That's the truth. And now that's even attractive. Are they still in the playoff race? It's a tough road, but yeah. The whole playoff. Oh, did they lose this week? Yeah, they lost to Kansas. Oh, okay. It would be hard for them to get in. SMU's going to get in, though.

That just makes it all seem that diminishes the whole thing. Boise State is going to be the 10th or 11th seed, and they're going to be the 10th or 11th ranked team, and they're going to be the 4th seed and have a bye.

Yeah, I'm learning about how that's all set up. I'm just learning that, and it does seem messed up. I think it's awesome. So you have four conference winners get a bye, but you could clearly have a conference winner

that's not as good as the 5th seed, and the 5th seed will have an easier road than the one seed in theory. Possible. Yeah. It's wild. So it's going to be. I guess it scratches the itch of chaos if people like chaos

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You know what I forgot, Blake? To transition with some viewer mail birthdays. I know people like to find that if you want to put it on the notes. I have two for today. Pre-Thanksgiving. What's up, Scrotes? First time listener, first time caller. My wife just went into labor.

Can you wish a happy DeMarvion Overshawn on the Longhorns' birthday to my son Preston Ray? Here's to hoping he is born with his head bones in good working order and that Julie Dobbs stops by the nursery to pick out her next husband today. Pause for laughter.

My leaders are Jake's Elite Rehab Breakfast and Ben Herbstreet's Soul, which is currently trapped in purgatory. I forgot, what was it? Breakfast? Yeah. It was just great. Oh. so there was always good scrambled eggs hard to mess up almost always breakfast potatoes hard to mess up one or

two meats two or three days a week they would have tortillas and salsa uh and then there was sometimes it was chorizo uh but i was i was one day they made breakfast enchiladas twice they made omelets i was telling the guy who's there right now about it the other day I was getting kind of emotional Because like at home I eat A protein bar and a Spinach or something you know That's my light meal

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Did he get fired? I think so. It's understood this is his last season there. Yeah. Todd's a great dude. He's helped us out a lot over the years. Todd Meaney? Todd Meaney.

From Todd Krumholz. Let's see. So today is Wednesday, November 27th. Is it Ash Wednesday? What is that? It's Moana 2 Wednesday. This is the day in 1924 that Macy's first ever Thanksgiving Day Parade was held. Billed as a Christmas parade. Would you watch that? that Macy's first ever Thanksgiving Day Parade was held?

Billed as a Christmas parade. Would you watch that? Are you familiar with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade? I'm familiar that it's on, but no, it was certainly never stopped down. No, it never did. Would you? I remember being a little kid.

That's on the TV and you're just watching it. I don't know. Oh, look, there's a big inflatable turkey. I think when you grow up in Cleveland, that's probably pretty cool to watch. Yeah, it's a big deal. Okay, so this is a story of the media and how the media wants you to know how important they are and why you should be nice to the media. Two times it happened.

In 1941, Joe DiMaggio named AL MVP. So Ted Williams that year batted.406, which is incredibly difficult to do, right? .406, 37 home runs, 120 RBI, 135 runs, 10.4 war. DiMaggio, that's the year he had his 56-game hitting streak, hit.357, 30 home runs, less, 125 RBI, comparable. 122 runs, less. 9.3 war, less. Still somewhat close.

You can make an argument, but certainly, you know, being an asshole to the media hurt Ted Williams. But it especially did in 1947. So Joe DiMaggio becomes the second player ever to win a third MVP. Ted Williams would never win a third MVP. He has two. So Ted Williams that year, well let's just tell you, he had he lost by one point. And you know how they vote for MVP is you vote for a top ten. And it's weighted ten to 1. Stableford scoring.

So Ted Williams lost by one point. That year, he hit.343 compared to.315 for DiMaggio. 32 home runs compared to 20. 114 RBI compared to 97. 125 runs compared to 97, 125 runs compared to 97, and a 9.5 war compared to 4.7. So clearly the better player. DiMaggio plays in New York and all that kind of stuff.

He loses by one point because Mel Webb was a writer who voted and didn't have Ted Williams on his ballot even in the top ten. He was a writer from the city of Boston. So it was a hometown writer. But this guy, he has to be with him every day, and he was kind of a Kyrie, Kyrie Cleveland back then. Gosh.

I hope he felt good about that. If there is an afterlife, that'd be cool. Ted Williams goes, Ted, but he doesn't have a head. I was going to say, yeah, he left that down here. Goes to confront him.

But back then, I'll bet you the sports writers like made the same money that the players did. So they're like, yeah. And they were all, you know, they probably viewed him as, like, uncivilized farm boys. Yeah. They're the educated ones with the words. And on this day in 1978, the mayor of San Francisco and the city supervisor, Harvey Milk, who was a gay rights activist, were shot to death

by former supervisor Dan White. And it became a movie and stuff. Corby cared. Birthdays today. Pudge Rodriguez, 53. Pudge. Larry Allen, 53. He was really special.

A lot of playground stories and debates about who he could beat up. Couldn't he, like, bench whatever, 1,000 pounds? It was like over 600 pounds, something like that, I'm pretty sure. Kyle Kosar, 63. Or excuse me, 46. Kosar? Kosar, yeah. You would say Kosar.

It's spelled like kosher. Former cowboy. Former cowboy Martin Gramatica is 49. Barely remember that. Yep. Tiny guy, right? Is this his brother that hurt himself celebrating a field goal? His brother, yep.

Billy? Phil? No. What yep. Billy? Phil? No. What's his name? Steve. It wasn't Martine Gramatica? Bill Gramatica. Bill?

Yeah. That doesn't sound like it should fit with it. Your brother's name is Martine. And Bill? Well, his name was Guillermo. Former Mav Nick Van Exel is 53. Who'd he punch? I can't remember.

Got mad at us, though. That's the one that jumps out at me. Really? Oh, yeah. We had a weekly with Nick Van Exel, and it was when the Gulf War started, so early 2000s when Jake's wearing

Bush with a Hitler mustache. T-shirts. No, you guys are right. Bush was right about that whole deal. It's not great for everyone. And I don't know, you know, end of the interview.

I'm like, hey, so how about that war, huh? Got to start the war. And you had to know at the time. It was kind of like being at the Clemson Stadium when there's a flyover. I mean, it's chanting USA. You're not questioning anything. No.

Unless you're a dirty pacifist like me. I think it was like 98 of 100 senators voted. But everybody was stoked on Moore. And I just asked, hey, what do you think? And he's like, yeah, the locker room is, we're embarrassed that Bush is our president

because we have a lot of foreign players on the team and we're just kind of distancing from it, and he was not on board with it. Well, that caused a big thing, a bigger thing, because then the next morning, Jubb replayed that audio,

and Jubb, very fired up about America, is like, live somewhere else, and if you're not going to be with us, and all this kind of stuff, and then it became a big thing in the media. As big as it could get in the early

2000s, you know, without the media that we have today. Cuban got in on it, was pissed at me, emailed me, told me he'd get me. Because it was my fault to even ask that question. Why are you asking that on a basketball?

You're supposed to talk basketball. And I'm like, I don't know. It's asking about stuff that's happening. Like I do. Yeah, and then everything was, you know. Everybody forgot later. So we should ask Brandon Aubrey about Gaza. The Iraqis, yeah.

They kind of had to deal with it. Former Mav Brendan Haywood is 45. And then Nick Van Exel was always – I don't think he did the show again. Yeah. Like, I think we were doing a celebrity – we're doing a broadcast from, like, Dirk's celebrity baseball game, like, out in the field one – or out in the Frisco. And Nick Van Exel was down there, and we tried to get him on the show

and he wouldn't come on and tried to reach out. Yeah, he... He wasn't a fan after that. But hey, at least we got the story, right, Turley? Catherine Bigelow is 73. The director of?

Zero Dark Thirty and Point Break. That's the one I'm looking for. Former wife of Jimmy Cameron. Bill Nye, 69. Woke. I always think it's funny when people call, when you do the Jimmy Cameron, like Bobby De Niro.

Oh, okay, you're real close. I'm a film guy. You're real close Bobby De Niro. Oh, okay. You're real close. I'm a film guy. You're real close with De Niro. Yeah, because I'm a film guy. Robin Givens, 60. Mike Tyson's ex-wife. Kirk Acevedo is 53 from Band of Brothers and Oz.

Oh, yeah. Jaleel White is 48. Urkel. Were you an Urkel guy? Family Matters guy? I loved Family Matters. Yeah, that's a great show. I was a big TGIF guy.

And my week kind of revolved around it. Actor, what's TGIF? What was the lineup? So you had like Step by Step. You had Family Matters, of of course it rotated a little bit i can't remember if um home improvement wasn't a part of that was it blake i wasn't on this you were not on tgif at all no let me pull it back up here it rotated quite a bit. TV programming blog. There you go. Oh, who's the boss was in there? Yeah. Actor Fisher Stevens is 61. He is Hugo in succession. He has a funny looking face now and neck because of disease.

But in the 80s, he was really hot and dating Michelle Pfeiffer, I think. Wow. Dinosaurs was on TGIF. One day, I want you to watch a few episodes of Dinosaurs. And I want you to make your film daughter watch it too. Okay, I've seen some online stuff about that occasionally. It's incredible. And that's why it was only a season, really a season long.

Curtis Armstrong is 71. He is Booger in Revenge of the Nerds. Perfect Strangers. I was not a fan of Balki. Revenge of the Nerds, another 80s movie that promoted date rape in a positive light. Where little nerds like me were only hoping we could someday commit date rape. Like maybe I could get the hot girl in school to be drunk and left with me. Different time.

A better day perhaps. Oh, Blake, I know you watch Step by Step. Steve Bannon is 71. Wow. Steve Bannon? Definitely a Wow. Steve Bannon? Definitely a Roseanne. Oh, yeah. And rapper Twista is 51.

Could rap really fast. He's got a bit, you know. Twista. Place up these hoes of luck. Apparently in the Guinness Book of World Records for fastest rap. Yeah, Steve Bannon at Definite, Roseanne. Yeah.

I know the whole thing, I was trying to do 600 syllables in 60 seconds. And so I don't know what it broke down to. I got up to that, like they counted 598. So I got like, the record was 598 at the time. Okay, so that's just under 10 syllables a second. Somewhere around there. Can you give an example just under 10 syllables a second. Somewhere around there. Can you give an example of what 10 syllables a second sounds like? It was fast like that. Damn! Can you do that one more time?

it's a cool bit give or try it blake you absolutely did i was trying to think of what song i liked by his overnight celebrity no so this was back in the day when some sports video games would come out with their own soundtrack. Sure. And one year, and maybe they did it for a couple, but NBA Live would ship the game disc and the soundtrack disc. And I wore that soundtrack disc out, and I think he was on it. Probably. Probably. Born on the Stay, now dead.

Chick Hearn. Let me see what this is. Lakers. Lakers play-by-play guy from 1961 to 2002. Got a statue. Outside Staples. Does he? Yeah.

He probably should. Yeah, I remember this. But he's rapping? Yeah. He probably should. Yeah, I don't know who he is. But he's rapping about basketball. It's cool. Okay, that's all. Eddie Rabbit, Jimi Hendrix, and Anders Celsius

invented the Celsius scale of temperature. I was thinking the energy drink. What do you think old Anders Celsius saw pop culture-wise? When do you think he lived? That's a good one. Anders Celsius, because of course Fahrenheit was the standard until the Celsius is like, what the hell is this? What if we make this by 10?

Man, I got no idea. In fact, I have so little idea. Just give me one year that he lived. Any year. 1780. I was 1888. Born 1701. I was 1888. Born 1701. Damn.

Died 1744. See, you said one cultural thing that he saw, and my remark was going to be like, oh, he saw the construction of the Sistine Chapel. Then I realized, I don't have any idea what that was. No, I just thought it seemed like that's a guy who could have lived in 1940. Sure. Maybe they didn't come up with Celsius until then. Who knows? That's really weird. He was mad that

Ted Williams didn't win an MVP. Yeah. He was like, he was clearly the best player. But no. He didn't even see America. Or the United States of America. Hadn't lived. Dead on the Stay Still Dead.

Steven Hillenburg. He's the cartoonist who invented SpongeBob. All right. Marvin Miller. The goat. Increased the average salary from $19,000 to $240,000. That's pretty sweet. Robert Cade invented Gatorade. Salary from $19,000 to $240,000. That's pretty sweet.

Robert Cade invented Gatorade. And died on this day in 2007, Sean Taylor. Damn, that one hurt. And I have a Kemp spin right here. That did hurt. Beyond, like, his death? It says his number retirement is Kemp spin. Oh, yeah, his number retirement is pretty.

Jackson Mahomes dancing on it. They threw it together because Daniel Snyder had been caught with another DVD of naked cheerleaders at a photo shoot with Thunderstruck playing or something. God, I would love to just... Or pour some sugar on me. I swear I think it was pour some sugar on me. I would love to picture Dan Snyder

with those DVDs but not having a DVD player. So he's just in a panic and he's just all horny. Like, God, I could have watched it right now. Is there anything more, like, horny, old, like, boomer businessman than, like, dude, I got the DVD for you of our coworkers' news? That's so scuzzy. I was going to say awesome.

You're saying, okay. That's disgusting. Yes. I was going to say awesome. You're saying, okay. That's disgusting. Yes. Because someone has to touch it. Who would want to see their coworkers naked? That's, I guess, us since we all just work together. We can do that any time. Is this the longest epi we've ever had?

It's got to be. Oh, damn. Look at this.'s got to be. Oh, damn. Look at this. Did we hit three? Oh, yeah. What are we at? You take out the beginning and middle. Probably 310-ish.

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