The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 12-12-24: Dan's Cowboys Belichick dream is over and Mavs eliminated from NBA Cup

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneDan's dream of Bill Belichick coaching the Cowboys is over. The Mavs are done in the NBA Cup tournament. Jake victim blames a little bit and Dan's sweet Jerry Lee Lewis punchline is ruined by fake teeth (00:00) - Open: Cowboys Belichick dream over (21:56) - Today in Twitter: Dan quoted in gay magazine (36:41) - Cowboys: Dan listens to Micah's podcast (59:39) - Mavs: Eliminated from NBA Cup (01:13:22) - Big Viewer Mail Bag (01:47:30) - News: Movie jerking (02:09:20) - Today in History: Dan ruined punch line ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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happy Thursday everybody I'm Dan McDowell I'm gonna listen, I'm gonna listen, I wanna listen to the drums rollin'. Happy Thursday, everybody. I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kemp. I'm Blake Jones. And today, we broadcast live to tape. I'm gonna listen, I wanna listen, I wanna listen to the drums rollin'. You doing okay? All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

I'm trying to make sense of it all. All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. I'm trying to make sense of it all. All right, all right, all right, all right. I felt for you. I'm trying to understand why wouldn't you want to come here? What's going on? Is it because you're a kid? Did you really get your kid a job? Is that really in the contract?

Oh, yeah. Steve Belichick is going to be the next head coach afterwards? That is correct. I'm sure they have some legal outs, you know, ways they can. It's not like, what if he just doesn't want to do it? It's not like they can force him like he's a slave. But maybe the guy, speaking of Papa, just loves being around college-age Poon. Like he's seen the light now.

That's certainly a heavy thread on how they got Bill Belichick there. Here's Bill Belichick looking at Sorority Row. He just wants to help them with their education and their careers. Like he's dating a girl that could be in college. Well, I guess anybody could be in college. She's like grad school age. She tested out of college. She's so smart.

It's insane. And it's going to be awesome. I love, even if we weren't in this job, just as a fan of the drama of sports and the soap opera nature of it, I love whenever we see a story like this because I know it's going to bear fruit for many years. He's going to twist off on some 18-year-old reporter. Other coaches are going to get crossways with him for the way he does things. Dabo, somehow that's going to be a thing, which I can't wait for. He'll be pissed off about the playoff.

It's going to be awesome. I don't think it's going to work, but that's even funnier to me. What if it does? I know you're... What if he leads him to a natty? It won't. I don't think it will. They can pay money. Yeah, that's part of the deal. They upped from

$4 million to $20 million on their NIL. I have a lot... No, it's interesting. He was on McAfee the other day day and I'll play you some of that in a little bit at regular speed by the way because I would not recommend listening to Pat McAfee on 1.5

because you're trying to it's insane I didn't edit it in 1.5 I just listened to it like that I want to know about Belichick yeah yeah why not we're here It's insane. I didn't edit it in 1.5. I just listened to it like that. No, I mean, what do you got? Oh, okay, yeah. I want to know about Belichick. Yeah, yeah, why not?

We're here. So let's see here. This is kind of interesting because he goes on McAfee every week. And, of course, I found this out at rehab. So I would make sure every day I'm like, okay, today's Belichick day. Today's Aaron Rodgers day. I'll make sure I'm in the room for that. And it's weird because same thing with Saban, really. He's pretty great.

He's talkative. He's verbose. He doesn't just answer one word. And we've kind of always said that about both of them. When you ask them something they were interested in, they would talk. Yeah. But when it was questioning their decisions or asking about, what was it, political stuff in the league.

That was Seattle. That was about the Trump letter that Belichick received. But even stuff. But if it's like break down the history of punt returns or something. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly your thought process. One gap schemes.

What they don't want to answer are, how big is this when it comes to the program? of punt returns or something. Exactly. Yeah, exactly your thought process. One gap schemes. What they don't want to answer are, how big is this when it comes to the program? Well, guess what? That's what student reporters ask. I was going to say, yeah. And I don't know if you're getting the depth of question from the Tar Heel Gazette. But I think this McAfee thing,

it might not have been for college, but I do think it was part of an image makeover. I think he's a very calculated individual, and I think he's generally viewed as an asshole. And you saw that with some of the interviews he had last offseason where NFL teams and owners are kind of scared of him because there he goes just as big as his. Was he on the Brady roast?

No, I don't think so. Was he? Oh, yeah. But it was kind of timid. It was weird because, yeah, him and Kraft and Brady were all there. I mean, did he do roasting? Yeah. I'm trying to remember that.

Okay. But you're just talking about his image makeovers. Yeah, being out there. Certainly him and Peyton. Him and he does Peyton for sure. The girlfriend. So it's just weird hearing him be like this because I'm used to the other him. He was on it.

Yeah, we can play it later if you want. So here he is kind of dodging a question. It's kind of funny. I think it's good for everything to get you back around ball, especially at the college level. You said you talked to the chancellor. Schefter told us you talked to him for five hours yesterday. Is that real?

Five hours? Yeah. Let's just leave it at that, Pat. I mean, I don't want to give out too much information. I'll lose my press conference. I'm going to get my press conference or I'm back. Okay, so it has been reported that you met for five hours yesterday. Okay, so he's trying to slide back into,

oh, yeah, I'm supposed to be an ass to anybody who asks me anything. But he did give some really interesting answers. And if you're on team, maybe this will work. I think the reason has to be because the college game is turning into the pro game. Typically, it's the other way around when you're talking about on-field stuff,

but now with the NIL and the RevShare and the portal, and he kind of explains that. Well, I think that there are, I'll just say this, I think there are a lot of football programs that are being structured similar to NFL programs. So in college, you now have high school recruiting, but you have college portal. In pro football, you have the draft and pro free agency.

So you have a salary cap and negotiations with NFL agents. In college, you have negotiations with whoever represents the player, whether that's a family member, a high school coach, an agent, or some other financial advisor or whoever it is. You have players changing teams in college as you have players that could change teams in the NFL with a little different set of rules, but the same general structure. with a little different set of rules but the same general structure um and you have to value your players uh in some way uh because you have a you know limited amount of money whatever the revenue share is uh there's an nil component it sounds like there's legislation that'll um be structured around that that maybe it's not in place right now, but it's probably headed in that direction. So I think it's a little different version of the NFL model, much more so than it's ever been before, let's put it that way. Coaching staffs now, there are no limitations on that like there were in college.

There are some recruiting limitations, but the size of the staffs and so forth aren't the limitations. The scholarships have been expanded. So there are a lot of changes in the college landscape. I'm not going to say I'm an expert on all of them, but I think it's a little bit of everybody's trying to find not only their way, but what's best for their individual situation. Yeah, I mean, we saw the Andrew Luck GM of Stanford football.

I was going to say, now there's GMs for football teams. And an important thing. The Revshare thing kind of will be a salary cap. Eventually. Not yet. Right, eventually. So right now, I mean, what does make sense is college coaches, their heads are spinning.

They hate it. Like Saban hates this. Guys who have been college coaches forever. Dabo. Oh, my God. Dabo hates, you know, phones. But certainly hates, you know, can't stand what's going on here because the way they kind of had a hold on things is changing.

And now they have actually way more competition. That's why the college coaches hate this. Think of a pro coach going to college, though. Might love it because there's really not a salary cap. And I could steal any player on any team. And if you think it's attractive to have your son, I was

going to say son or daughter for some reason, play for... It's a new world. You know, like Dion, he could attract free agents, which they are in the portal. Like, what if... Deuce Robinson is in the news. He are in the portal. Like what if – here's a little – Deuce Robinson is in the news. He's in the portal, our guy.

Yeah. What if Dominic's like, you know what? I would love him to play under Bill Belichick. Yeah, no, they actually kind of talked about that a little bit. And he specifically – McAfee was like, I have a feeling a lot of former Patriots kids are going to be directing their kid. Like, what about Gronk's kids?

But where college coaches hate these changes, pro coaches going there might think, this is freeing me. I can now pick and choose, or I could say, boy, these are five quarterbacks across that I have already seen play college football. Let's go after them. Yeah. And whoever we get first.

Wow. And Belichick said that, too. He said something effective. I've heard from a lot of people who have been in the NFL a long time that are getting contacted by college programs. Like, you got a crappy quarterback in the NFL? You're stuck. Wait for the draft.

Hope that it's a year that, you know. Yes, but in college? Wow. Yeah, and the other thing too is. This might make sense. It might. The other thing is. Because I couldn't make sense of it.

Well, you always used to say, and Belichick is like an extreme example of this, like why would an NFL coach want to deal with all that? Like you got to go to a living room and deal with this family and you got to deal with boosters. But if the money ends up just being like, if the recruiting part just ends up being, here's the money for some kids, then I don't know that you really have to be that much of a glad hander.

And you just have to produce wins. Right. His assistants are doing a lot of the legwork for recruiting. That's true. He's probably just coming in and doing the final say, but here's his, too. He's probably just coming in doing the final say. Here's his pitch, too. He's not knocking on doors. This is the last piece of audio I have,

but this is going to be his pitch. Now, the whole thing would be what you don't know about and what you haven't had to do. AJ has a question for you. Pat, can I just interject two things in here? Yes, sure. Let me put this in capital letters. If.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I-F. If. I was in a college program. things in here one sure let me put this in capital letters if yeah yeah yeah i f if i was in a college program the college program see how he did that he just put that in there so he can tell you exactly what he's going to do when he gets hired on thursday yeah i was in a college program the college program would be a pipeline to the nfl for the players that had the ability to play in the nfl it would be a professional program, training, nutrition, scheme, coaching, techniques that would transfer to the NFL. It would be an NFL program at a college level and an education that would get

the players ready for their career after football, whether that was the end of their college career or at the end of their pro career, but it would be geared toward developing the player, time management, discipline, structure, and all that that would be life skills, regardless of whether they're in the NFL or somewhere in business. And I feel very confident that I have the contacts

in the National Football League to pave the way for those players that would have the ability to have the opportunity to compete in the National Football League, whether good enough or not. I don't know, but they would be ready for it. I don't have any doubt about that. So that would be the first comment that I would make relative to the structure of the program. It would be an NFL program, but not at the NFL level. So getting five stars are almost the, okay, you just pay them a lot. But he's saying those guys that are 4'3", that think,

I don't know, I might be able to play in the NFL. He's saying, no, you can, but you have to do it here. I'm going to teach you how to manage your time, your body. But you always want a player who has come from a bigger college that most closely resembles an NFL system. Yeah. That's the quicker. Sure, not just quarterbacks.

Yeah. Yeah. But mainly quarterbacks. Quarterbacks are a big part of it, but I think. And that's a big part of winning. And, yes, you're going to attract some top, top quarterbacks. Because most of the guys who bust in the NFL, it's not because they're not talented.

It's either because of injury, or it's because they simply don't know how to be a professional. Think of some of the Cowboys. Tristan Hill had all the talent in the world, and he was just late. He fell asleep whenever Garrett had Isaiah Thomas come talk to the team. It's just guys who end up dicking around. He's basically saying, we're not going to produce that type of player. Thomas come talk to the team. It's just guys who end up dicking around. And he's

basically saying, we're not going to produce that type of player. They'll be gone. Because he can cut you now. Immediately. With no implications on a salary cap. I mean, you probably still got to pay the guy, but you don't have to carry a dead number around for the next

five years like you do if you get tired of a guy. Yeah, if you make a mistake on a guy, you just move on to the next guy next year. Yeah. This might make all the sense in the world. I mean, he's shown definitely, even more and earlier than Saban did, a willingness to change his schemes to whatever the next big thing is. You know, Saban waited way too long. Yeah.

Whereas Belichick was always ahead of it. You know his freaking staff is going to be ridiculous. I'm just happy to see him working again. Like, is Wes Welker his OC? Wes Welker's a receivers coach with the Dolphins, right? Is he? I think so. Then you're right.

If Warren Sapp wants to run to Colorado and make it. What about Josh McDaniel? Why not? You think you're going to play in an NFL system? Yeah, you're going to play in an NFL system. All these NFL coaches here. Now the D.C. They know what it takes to play in the NFL.

Rabel? No, the D.C.'s his son. So he's going to be kind of hanging out with his mullet. That's got to be weird, man. Matt Patricia. Yeah, it is weird. As his son, maybe there'd be a little thing of, hey, I want to show I can do it on my own, or I would rather not.

Yeah, you think. Don't make that contract. And he's like, yeah, cool. I probably wouldn't get a – Well, he's a DC at Washington, so, I mean, if he played his cards right, he could end up doing the normal route where he's the coach at like – Right, he's still got a better path because his name is Belichick. For sure.

He's going to get a shot. But I don't think he would have started – your first head coaching gig is probably not at UNC. You're at Ball State. Yeah, I don't know, but it is funny that we opened with that clip because, I mean, you do have to – let me put it this way. I'll be interested to see how much he tries to adapt to what is now being a college coach,

which is you've got to film a stupid fucking TikTok dance every now and then. Recruiting videos. You've got to film a stupid fucking TikTok dance every now and then. Recruiting videos. You got to do the Brian Kelly uncomfortable dance with a player and just looking so fish out of water. Or is he just like, no, I'm not doing any of that. Yeah. I'm Belichick. Yeah.

You want to play in the NFL, you come here. I'm not going to be tweeting hype videos. I only do TikToks for my girlfriend. So you're saying 13 months from now, Belichick could be in the Pop-Tart Bowl? That would be so funny. Or being doused in mayonnaise. They're going to be in the playoffs year one. No, they're not.

Yeah, they are. No, it's going to take a little bit. Will you give me year two at the very most? Because I'll accept that bet if you want to bet. Two years for the top 12? Yeah. Well, hold on, though, because I'm pretty sure this contract is only for this year and next year, the playoff. Oh, this current iteration of the playoff?

Yeah, so you may have like a 2014 or something in your – Yeah, that's right. Just give me two years. Are you going to give me two years? Yeah, sure. Why not? Okay. What are we doing?

We'll have to figure it out. Well, I'll tell you this. One thing that definitely helps, and at least as presently constructed, I mean, they play a pretty easy schedule for a major conference team, right? It's just Clemson, basically. SMU. Yeah, I mean, that's really maybe the bones of Florida State turned back into something, but I don't know.

He's wildly unqualified to do this job. He's never coached college football. He's just been around it a lot. Yeah. He never coached college football? I thought maybe he did. He was definitely around. A little bit.

But I don't know that he was actually a coach there. Boy, this is great. Good stuff. Can't wait. I'm going to watch every game. Or at least, you know, be interested in the score. Triple play every game. Triple play. UNC and the other, you know, along

with the little memes about Belichick, what he's thinking, or how they recruit him. The other little joke on the internet was that UNC got younger at the head coaching position because they got rid of Mack Brown, who was 73. And Bill Belichick is 72. Yeah, I guess they both seem pretty old. I mean, what would you do if you got to see

Prime via Belichick in a playoff college football playoff game? Because that's not... Colorado had a path this year. A very real one. Yeah, they don't lose to Kansas. They're probably in. Shadur and Travis Hunter are moving on, but they just

a couple weeks ago flipped one of the top quarterbacks in the country from USC, like Deuce. Yeah, USC is – I mean, dude. What if Deuce plays for Prime? I have not talked to Dominic at all about this. The news was just, what, yesterday? Yeah.

Dominic knows Deion pretty well. Oh, yeah. That's right. Florida State. No. Yeah, That's right. Florida State. No? Yeah, it's awesome. Well, Belichick really likes to incorporate the tight end in his offense as well. He does.

Would he be able to mold an NFL tight end? You might also just look at the fact of, hmm, this guy plays baseball and football. Who could I go play for who has some experience doing that? Okay. What if Dominic and Deuce get Dan to both Dabo and Belichick? And Dion somehow. Dude, yeah. Come on, Dominic.

Well, we already got a Dion tie, so we've interacted with Dion before. That's true. You were actually friends with him. All right, Dominic. We need you to, yes, I need to be sitting in Belichick's true. We've interacted with Dion before. That's true. You were actually friends with him. All right, Dominic. We need you to, yes. I need to be sitting in Belichick's office for his pitch to Deuce. I'll do anything for you.

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The Dumb Zone presents... Now, Deuce Robinson entering the portal was the most sent-to-me thing yesterday. Man. There was no picture of any World War II leaders as a kid wearing shorts or anything floating out there. That's an underreported story, man. Not dues, but just what the hell happened to them this year?

USC? The big money for Lincoln Riley. They land every recruit in the world that they wanted. The world is changing, Jake. God, they were bad. I watched them quite a bit, too. They were on TV a lot. Yeah, Big Ten. Yeah, not a fun team to watch so luigi mangione has been supplanted in uh twitter traffic i think trending

by the lady who had sex with 101 guys in one day and apparently we have come across a documentary on this lady yeah it was this is the point the reason she kind of did it i started reading about this a few weeks ago i'd never heard of the woman but i saw some pre-interview stuff with her and with the filmmaker. They're British, right, Blake? Yeah. And then I saw the clip of her coming out of the chamber like a week, not a week, maybe four days ago, and was like, oh, this seems like the most horrible thing I've ever seen.

And then it got picked up, as I would say, just by the culture in general, which means now people have – it's like Hoctua. It starts out as like, that's fucking wild. And by day three, you have to comment on what this says about humanity. You know what I mean? That's what people are doing now. Yeah. And I don't know.

I'm here for it all. And I don't know. I'm here for it all. The point I want to make is apparently some of this stuff from the documentary is so explosive that we're going to bring it to you tomorrow. We're going to break it down and put it behind the paywall. We want this to be exclusive. Thank you for those who are subscribing to the podcast. We're trying to put some extra really good stuff

behind paywall and Blake has assured us that this is great. So we'll head into that full bore tomorrow, Blake. Can we tease that? Yeah. Be prepared for that. Yeah. It's a lot. I got a lot I want to play for you guys. It's very good. When Blake came in today after having just finished it, he looked like she does when she walks out of that room. It's kind of a thousand yard stare. Yeah, not out of body experience. It was a wild drive over here this morning. Did you finish? The documentary? Yeah, I did. I'm excited for this tomorrow. So elsewhere on Twitter yesterday, and yesterday was Business Wednesday, we've told you before, more tiring than a regular day for sure. It's just so many phone calls.

People in business. I know, but you know what I did? Because all you do is meet. Yeah, pretty much. I told Dan this yesterday. I drove up to Prosper. Met with my guy Chaz up there. We had a better –

Drove home with the bookkeeper on the phone. We had about an hour phone call yesterday, Blake, and I decided this is how business people do this. I went and got my car like a deep car wash because I'll talk to – even my wife is like, oh, I did this. I did this. I did this. I was like, how do you have time for all this? It's like, oh, I just did it. I just took a call while I was doing it.

I took a call. I got my nails done. I just did a call. I had to be on the phone for an hour. So I'm trying to hack my business Wednesday into this. Do one from a cold tub or something. Yeah, you're taking care of – business people don't just do one thing. Yeah, I like it.

You got to do a variety of things. That's just the way the world is these days. Anyway, something else that resurfaced on internet for some reason, Philip Kingston sent this to me. He's like, why is this... For some reason, this was just dated yesterday, though. And it was the day after we were talking about it. Do you remember a couple days ago?

We were talking about when I was talking to Troy Aikman with Donovan on the ticket. 2011, apparently, it is. It's when Troy Aikman was mad about Skip Bayless having speculated about him being gay. But that was like, it was 1995, right? Skip Bayless' book came out and had inferences that Troy Aikman was gay. But for some reason, just yesterday, For some reason, just yesterday, Phillip happened to be reading Outsports.com,

which is the gay website. I've once done an interview. You've never heard of Outsports.com? No. Like when an athlete comes out or when they're, you know, issues of... I once did an interview with Outsports.com. They needed my comments. do you want to know what it was about? no

you don't want to know okay wait yes I do want to know I'm sorry I thought you asked I'm reading the top 20 best

LGBTQ pro wrestlers of 2024 yeah I don't I don't recall no I'm ashamed nothing comes to mind. It was because I think because Gabe Kapler was named their something of the year. This is so many years ago.

Somebody called me and wanted comments about Gabe Kapler because he would pose. There was pictures of Gabe Kapler with him wearing just a speedo. Yeah, banana hammock looking. And holding a bat. Like he knows he's extremely hot. Yeah. And the gay community loves Gabe Kapler as they probably just love any hot guy. Right?

I mean. Any hot guy that's not anti-gay. Gabe was always a cool. Yeah, maybe there's some of that, though. You know, sometimes that even makes them hotter. Like me loving Fox News ladies? Yeah, yeah. Maybe.

Knowing that they wouldn't be into you makes it even hotter. But anyway, yeah, the Troy Aikman, there was just a whole write-up on... Again, dated yesterday, but Troy Aikman, and then it just talks about how he was mad, made his remarks on Dallas radio station, the tickets, and I even got a little pub here. Dan McDowell pressed him on the point.

Okay, Aikman said, when a guy like that comes out, and whether it's intimated or stated, there's no substance to that claim and he's doing purely doing it purely to gain interest in the book that's a problem because i think i had said to him did he intimate that or whatever and he said i will tell you this i've not seen i've not physically seen skip bayless since that time that was in 95 and i still kind of wonder what i might do to him when i see him dan mc McDowell pressed him on the point. You certainly will say something, McDowell said. Oh yeah, yeah, Aikman replied. But you don't think it'll get physical, do you? Well, I mean, I don't know. I don't know. Aikman also tossed in this, quote, I'm not so sure Skip's not gay. And then Outsports adds,

Snap! Exclamation point. Again, I will preface this with my, I used to laugh when Bob and Dan did this and think that everything that happened that they possibly could have been the cause of was. There's no way this article gets written if we don't talk about this the other day, right? There's no timeliness to this at all.

There's no anniversary. The out sports writer might just be a fan. Well, or someone is someone who. But then he writes, the author of this article writes after that snap, Aikman should just STF about this. These rumors have been around for 20 years, and Bayless is not the only one who have mentioned them, blah, blah, blah. What do you mean?

It's not like Aikman's sitting around talking about it. That was 13 years ago. Yeah, I have to think that that only came back up because somebody four levels down the line told him about it. But, yeah, that's a really random story. But good for you, man. You are out-corresponded. That's right. But good for you, man. You're our out correspondent. That's right.

Now I've been featured twice. Jim Harbaugh has a gay son. Are you against that? I just didn't know about it. Jim Harbaugh's gay son says his dad got him hooked on musical theater. Gotta think that was in there, though. Would you like to... Ooh.

The other one is Bobby Petrino Jr You know it's funny Go ahead You have something on this My mom when she was in high school I remember this growing up Her telling us this story The coach, the high school football coach

At Richland at the time He was a Texas high school football coach He's exactly what you thought he was. And his son was gay and was into dance and theater and stuff. And that was a big story in our town. Like the legendary football coach and his son was very effeminate. And I remember even as a kid being like, that sucks for both of them. That would be so weird.

You're talking the fucking 1968. And it'd be a big story if the guy was cool about it and said, no, I love it. Right. And that part I don't know. But yeah, Harbaugh, that's weird. But very cool. The other thing I saw on Twitter, so I don't know if it's even a news story elsewhere, is do you have the flag-planting thing in the news?

I do. I do. No, let's do it now, though. I've got to pull the story back up here. Representative Josh Williams put it out on Twitter. Yes. Puffing his chest out, has a Superman cape on. He's here to save the sanctity of midfield, especially in Columbus.

So, yeah, Bill introduced the OHIO Sportsmanship Act that will make flag planting at midfield a felony. A felony? In the state of Ohio. He posted this with a video of the brawl. Behavior that incites violent brawls and puts our law enforcement officers in danger has no place on the football field. And, uh, ESPN wrote an article about this, which he had had tipped and posted like, Hey, they're, they're actually writing about why we're doing this, that this is something that

could cause violence and it puts our officers at risk. And, yeah, I don't know. It feels like a real grandstand here. Yeah, of course. I wonder where he went to school. Right, yeah. Oh, one more thing about Business Wednesday, and then we'll move on because all this stuff is from Business Wednesday, and then we'll move on because all this stuff is from Business Wednesday, I think.

I was talking to Jake yesterday. Another business call. How many business calls did we have, man? We're just doing it all. We're just doing it all. But it was, remember you called me because we were going to jump on our next call, and I was like, hold on just 30 seconds because I was walking out of Central Market and I saw him again.

Xander. Still there. The greatest grocery store cashier. He wasn't even on the clock. The greatest grocery store receptionist. He was on the clock. I picked the wrong lane. I didn't know it.

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Of course, he had ushered everybody through. What's he doing? You think he's looking over at his phone? Or just chatting up the cute bag girl or something? No. He's got a spray bottle. He's spraying down the thing. He's wanting it all to be totally clean. The revolving belt thingy.

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So I Drew the It's a great assignment, but I listened to Michael Parsons this week, so you wouldn't have to. He does an hour-long podcast. I'm surprised he didn't do it on his normal day, just the morning after the game. He had Ashton Jante and interviewed him for like 15 minutes or so.

Bruh, can't wait to see you in the league next year, bruh. Bruh. Talk to him about coming to the Cowboys? Bruh, can't root for you. Can't root for you in your game, man. Wish you luck, but I've rooted for you every game, but I can't root against Penn State. Bruh.

Oh, I forgot about that. Yeah. Boise's playing Penn State apparently. So anyway, he was addressing, once he got done with Ashton, he started addressing the aftermath of Cowboys-Bengals. And remember, he was so upset. He just walked off the field while the game was still going on and almost crying, if not actually crying, after the game. And he wanted to tell you why he was so upset.

And I thought, you know what, he's very humble in the way he will tell you why he was so upset. The frustration is, and why I was upset, not only am I the most incomplete competitor, I don't think there's anyone in the world, except for some of the, maybe the top three greatest players of all time, like MJ. Maybe R.P. Kobe Bryant, but I think I'm in their category of competitiveness.

Of course you are. Where would I rank as competitors? Probably one of the top three who's ever lived. Yeah, Muhammad Ali. Not. Yeah, no, that's very Cam Newton self-portrait right next to Obama and MLK. Yeah, and he's like, maybe Kobe. Yeah, maybe.

RIP, Kobe. RIP. Okay, he's got a good point here when talking about, because apparently, do you think Mike is online at all? Do you think he knows what people are saying? So he's got a good point here when talking about because a parent – do you think Mike is online at all? Do you think he knows what people are saying? So he's online and he's seeing that some were criticizing him for leaving the field early. And he does have a good point, but it's funny too because, like,

he's just figuring – are you just figuring out what fans are like? And, you know, I just feel like, you know, it's like, damn if I do, damn if I don't. You know, plenty of fans, if I was willing, if I went over there and was all laughing with the competition after we lost like that, a lot of people would be mad. I walk off the field because the game's over and people are mad. It's just like, you know. Yeah, Blake. What do you want him to do? I don't know, act like a professional?

Here is a butchered cliche. Oh, man. It was just tough, bro. And then I think the icebreaker that really crushed my heart was... Yeah, no, that's... I'm glad you got to experience a Micah podcast. No, no, it's really good. I mean, it's fun.

It's not good. Right. It's really... It's coming to America good. There are five really funny little 30-second clips that you can play on your radio show. And Micah, in an hour, I've got you 10 little 20-second clips that we can play on our radio show. The icebreaker that really crushed my heart was finding out about Demo when I came into the locker room.

I think I was emotional then, and then when I heard that news, I just broke down. So the icebreaker that broke his heart. My typical icebreaker with a female is telling him about my grandma passing away. Really sets the mood. Okay, and then this is fun too. So then he's done with the Cowboys, and then what does he do, guys? Do you know? Questions from the chat.

No. First, there's a segment sponsored by Nationwide where it's like the such and such player of the week or something. Okay. Yes. Sorry. He does those little things that are sponsored. But you got it right, Blake. Second time.

We're going to go around the league. Yeah, sure. Okay. Let's get it to around the league. The Eagles won a close one over the Panthers. We played the Panthers this week. This is really interesting to me that he has HSOs. Well, listen.

And there's been a lot of questions surrounded by A.J. Brown's frustration with Jalen Hurts. And to me, after the game, he said they didn't approve the passing. Honestly. If it wasn't good enough, what are some things you think that the offense needs to improve on? Then they play a clip of A.J. Brown telling a reporter that, yeah, he's not happy that he only got four targets and blah, blah, blah. So we'll get through that clip.

Incredibly tough. All right, so let me see that clip. Three and a half. clip incredibly tough all right so let me see that thing right now honestly man i do i do not blame his frustrations so no way yeah you you just gave aj brown a you know 33 million dollar extension bingo it's hard to fathom how he's only getting four targets in a game. He's only had one game of double-digit targets since week one. Are we serious? Producer note. There's no way your number one receiver should have four targets in a game.

It's unexcusable. I just think it's funny that he's commenting on an NFC East team about the turmoil they're having, but then he's taken a side. Yeah. I'm with A.J. Brown. You know why? Because he got paid. He should be getting a lot of targets.

Now, you have to remember, though, that if he hadn't been paid and they weren't giving him targets, it would be the Dez thing of, hey, you're just trying to suppress his value by not getting the stats up. Right. One way or another, someone's out to get you. Some way money is always involved. But, yeah, he's commenting on how an NFC team's offense could be better. Right.

This is what they need to do. Try to get him more touches. Come out and hang 180 on Dallas. Second matchup this year. Four touchdowns. Here, we're going to preview the Cowboy game coming up this week. Who do they play? Carolina Panthers.

What's their record? Atrocious. It's like 2-10, 2-11, something. Like, yes, they're one of the two worst teams in the league right now. But Mike is going to set you up for when the Cowboys lose. And obviously, it's Week 15. We play the Panthers. I think the Panthers are a year away from being a playoff-caliber team.

Bryce Young is looking like the number one pick he is. Their record don't describe how really good of a team this is. Their record does not show this. This is a really good football team. Maybe. They've been playing better, for sure. Yeah, they have. But that's definitely.

I mean, that's what coaches would say, too. Do you know the story of how Bryce Young got his job back? Is it the rapper? No. Go ahead. Andy Dalt? You know what I'm talking about? Oh, yeah.

Oh, I don't know what you guys are talking about. Someone lifted a curse from him or something. I don't even – No, I want to give you the real story. It's Easter baskets, all right? You don't want to know. I don't really want to know, I want to give you the real story. It's Easter baskets, all right? You don't want to know. I don't really want to know. I just know it's something.

But somebody's got the receipts, and it kind of makes sense. It was like right when he started playing. Yeah. Okay, well, you know, he got benched, and that was like a huge deal because you know you're a bad team already. Why would you bench what – it's kind of like why won't the Cowboys play Trey Lance? Let's just see.

It's Bryce Young. You put the number one overall draft pick on him, and you traded away everything to get that number one overall draft pick, right? So isn't that how it worked? What? Yeah, they moved up to get him. Yeah, and they gave him what ended up being the next year's... Caleb.

Ended up being Caleb, which most people were saying at the time, that's just terrible. You would never make that trade. You would never trade Caleb for Bryce Young. So the point is then he was so bad that they actually benched him for Andy Dalton. That's certainly nobody you think is going to help you in the future. Andy Dalton got in a car accident,

and that's why Bryce Young got the starting job back. Boy, I completely missed that. Andy Dalton and his family got in a car accident, and then he did not play that weekend. It was like on a Saturday or a Friday. It's with Panthers quarterbacks. Didn't Cam get in a big car motorcycle accident type thing? Well, anyway, that's the only reason Bryce Young is back,

and then he's been playing great since then. And it didn't look good when Andy Dalton's first game he threw 300 yards and three touchdowns. No, that's right. I forgot. Like, hey, the Panthers might not be that bad of a team. I just don't know how they're getting by without Jonathan Mingo.

Let's give you a, boy, what a revenge game that'll be for Mingo. That could be the secret weapon. Get all the feature packages. Let's give you one more butcher cliche, and then we'll lead into our last segment you know we're going to keep going

we're going to keep fighting and if we come up short we come up short but I'm still not done I can't fold over I can't bend okay I feel like that's a butcher cliche but I'm not really even sure what the real

we're not just going to fold we're not just going to bend over I can't fold over I can't bend I refuse so I'm going to fold. We're not just going to bend over. I can't fold over. I can't bend. I refuse. So I'm going to keep going. Let's take some final questions from the chat. Yep.

That's a nice way. Who would just defer a big portion of the back half of their show to just viewer mail and comments from the audience. Final question from the chat. Final questions. Here's one. Have you ever wished you played baseball? Honestly... Dude.

Does he say with this Juan Soto deal? Hold on. Honestly, no, because I did play baseball a little bit. Baseball is hard. It's one of the hardest sports in the world.

It's one of the hardest sports in the world, man. I didn't cut it off, but he did go on to mention Juan Soto's contract and that he's going to have his son play baseball. Okay. I mean, I know where his head is.

I should do that next time I do this. I'll just mark every money comment because he does make four or five money comments throughout this. Yeah. Thoughts on why he – so someone was asking him about Belichick coaching in college, and he has thoughts on why Belichick should not coach in college. I don't think kids care about coaching anymore.

They care about the money. Okay, money comment. They, not him, but the kids these days. The generation is lost. Not present company. The opportunity. It's hard to be mad at them, but it's just not the same. I think the best coaching job right now is probably NFL or high school football.

So he thinks college is bad because the kids just want money. And one more for you. He just theorized on, I don't know how they got into talking about Puka Nakua, but he did. And he has a theory on why Puka is so good. You know, I think Puka got superpowers, man. He got real, real deal superpowers. People don't understand. I think he's the island guy.

Here we go um you know i think he might have some type of you know witchcraft voodoo out there that people don't know about because some of the catches he makes is pretty pretty um voodooist so um that's a low-key racist that's what i was gonna say could you say that and awesome not low-key at? That's what I was going to say. Could you say that? And awesome. Not low-key at all. Well, yeah. I mean, he didn't get real in-depth with it. He's just saying, man, I don't know what those guys have going on. Dancing around fire.

Something weird. I have a little bit from Stephen Jones for you if you'd like to hear some of that. Sure. I saw some of this going a bit viral yesterday. And it was at the NFL League Winter Meetings where they get together and talk about rules and stuff. And he was asked about a whole host of things, one of which was Belichick.

I don't know. I never thought he was coming here. But I wanted it to happen for you. I wanted it to happen for Cowboy fans so they could see winning football again. Yeah. I don't know that he's still capable of doing what he's always done before, but who knows. He was asked about McCarthy, though.

This is going to be the question constantly asked. He was just the job like he's done dealing with all of the things that have happened. I think he's done outstanding. I mean, our guys are playing hard. You know, he's got them competing. I mean, that was a tough game the other night. The guys played hard. I mean, I thought our defense did a great job against two of the best players in the NFL in Burrow and Chase. Cooper did a nice job. He can't say Cooper either,

by the way. Keeping the ball and keeping us in it. Rico did a great job running it. You know, the guys are competing. Hats off to Mike. You see it, look around the league sometimes and see a lot of teams that start like that and they're thinking about next year. But Mike's got everybody focused on winning each and every game. You made a decision on his future. We're talking about the next game. Okay, so that's what we're doing on that one. We're talking about the next game.

He went on to – he was asked about, hey, how much do all these injuries you've had matter and is that a big part of this? You've got to factor that in when you're looking at McCarthy. Of course, gave the – yeah, you know, that's part of the deal. But the really interesting answer he gave is we know they did absolutely nothing in free agency, nothing. And it's really showing up. And then they tried to sell us on the idea that them being all in

simply means that they retained two players who would have been here either way. Well, I guess CD, but still. They just kept their own at full market freight. So last year was a reset year. According to Steven, it's not over. Do you take a look yet at next year and where you guys are and, you know, restructure this and do this? Is that an ongoing process? Yeah, we're always working behind the curtains

thinking about those type of things. Is this... Everything we're doing right now, how it affects next year, that's Will and myself and Adam and Jerry always taking a look at that. Is it any more challenging this offseason? Coaches are worried about winning a game. Is this offseason more challenging than it was this past offseason in any way? No. I think we knew we were going to have a challenge this year and next year.

And 25 coming up. Yes. It's going to be really, really tight. 25 coming up. Yes. That's going to be really, really tight. You know, because we still have some money left over from some guys who aren't here today. And you're going to have, you know, some other guys that won't be here

in the future that you still got their cap count. So, is that the carryover money that you guys have when you look at deals for the voids that have come and due on Zach? Yeah, some of that's there. All right, guys, I got to go. Thank you, Stephen. What did he say, really tight? Really tight.

Thank you to John Machoda for that audio, by the way. Yeah, he's prepping you for like, boy, it's going to be exactly like last year. We're just so tight. You know, we're really just under the gun here. It's disappointing. It's extremely disappointing. I mean, you may forget that they're paying Zeke $6 million in dead money

this year. Tyron $6 million in dead money this year. Gallup $4.3 million. So in addition to Zeke's... Actually, he's making the league minimum or whatever, right? Correct. But that's all part of it. You know, Philly is also paying players dead money. Right.

And the way that they did Dax. Baltimore, dead money. Plenty of, you can do it. They've also both got big, high-paid quarterbacks, and at least in Philly's case, high-paid wide receiver as well. I don't think Baltimore has any of those. No, but they do have some other highly paid players. Yeah.

Some very highly paid players. So, yeah, that's how it is. It's called the way it is. And other teams are more willing to spend to the real cap. Yeah. Cowboys are not. Because when you do it, as Ben Baby was talking about the other day, you do it and you are guaranteeing you have to pay that money.

But the way the Cowboys do it is probably – it's just about they don't want to have a year where they take anything approaching a loss. So they're like, oh, this is – the point is they're just going to do the same thing this offseason. They're going to lose some guys and then they're going to tell you they're going to replace them in the draft, and they won't. Well, they'll try, but this is what it is now.

I don't get it because you look at all these cap tables, and they have room. Are they just trying to roll it over for the next year? Yeah, because right now Dak has an $89 million cap hit. So they're obviously going to have to work that around. I don't know. Man, I'm not super confident. And you know, the backdrop of all this is,

okay, well, does that mean you just bring back McCarthy again and let him ride out the fail? Because otherwise, okay, you're going to bring in a new head coach. You're also going to say, we're not really going to give you anything either. So good luck in your first year. The team's going to be roughly what we had last year plus the draft.

Doesn't seem good, guys. Seems like they're behind the curve a little bit yet again. And everything that they say hamstrings them, like dead money or being tied against the cap, well, that's everybody. This is not a problem unique to the Cowboys,

but other teams kind of figure it out. Yeah, involves a little risk. You probably don't want to end up being the Saints. Who, looking at next year, they have to somehow come up with $70 million to get underneath the cap. Yeah, the Saints go in a crazy, crazy-ass direction and level in it.

But there's something in between New Orleans and Dallas. You really don't want to be the extreme on either side, and it's really frustrating. Feels like Dax Prime is over. Don't laugh at me. Definitely. He was an MVP candidate last year, though. But after another significant injury? Yeah. He wasn't the player he was before anyway.

He was an MVP candidate, but so was Brock Purdy. When you have all your weapons around you and you have a humming team, that will elevate certain quarterbacks to MVP level when they're actually not. Brock Purdy is no MVP. He never will be. I love the value on it. But Baker is more of an MVP than either one of those two guys. Because Baker has been showing that he can do some stuff with no one around him.

Yeah. And that's kind of the big key. Like Lamar Jackson obviously has done that for years. I think by taking away Diggs, you know, Josh Allen is showing this year that, yeah, he's – I'll just carry this thing on my own. And, you know, there's nothing wrong with being a really good starting quarterback like Goff or Purdy or Dak.

No. But they're not – there is another level, and those guys aren't really close to that. Nope. And you see Zack Martin probably hanging him up, and with Tyron in another city, it just feels – it's sad for me, guys. It's sad. I don't mean to laugh at you.

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Mavs are off until Sunday now. Don't have to play an extra game if they would have advanced to the final. So building in a little rest here by getting bounced from the Emirates Cup in the quarterfinal round in a game that they were never in, despite only being down, I think, five at half. They got their faces stomped

by Oklahoma City. They just shot the piss out of the three. That was insane. Oklahoma City did, but the numbers are not that different, are they? Yeah, they both shot 40 and 41%. Maybe it was just the eyeball test. Well, they took 14 more.

Yeah. Oklahoma City took a lot of threes, yeah. And they shot 30 at the half or something crazy. Yeah. It was a tough night. No PJ, no Hardy, no Maxie. The PJ thing is a big deal, but that's not an excuse. Their two losses now since he came back are with him out.

Or they've lost one game, the overtime game, since he's been back, and now this one he's been out. But Dallas beat Oklahoma City without Luka a couple weeks ago. Now this time Caruso was back. Hartenstein was back. Were you saying last year you'd rather have Oklahoma City moving forward? Like, would you trade full rosters? Of course.

And I wonder, are you still thinking that? Yeah. The way the Mavs have redone their roster? Because you still have Luka. Still have Luka. And I still think Luka's better than Shea. Yeah, for sure. I mean, again, he's one of those extra one little level up, you know.

But, I mean, even making Chet the wild card, like you never know if he's going to play or not, that roster's incredible. There's about three rosters. And they probably still have a bunch of first-rounders. They do. They do. Okay, and the Mavs don't have any of that.

Right. That's where they can, like, trade those. Yeah. To, you know, enhance what they've got. Yeah, I mean, they have enough picks to keep swinging. But the better Jalen Williams, that guy's an absolute problem. He's scoring like 20 a game or something, isn't he? He's 21 a game.

I know last year he was the best pure shooter in the league. When you combine threes, twos, free throws, I mean, just shooting the basketball, he was the best pure shooter in the league when you combine threes twos free throw i mean just shooting the basketball he was the best you get a 24 year old there making 20 or scoring 22 a game chet scores 17 and basically averages a double double they're really good and they were without chet the other night the mavs were without a couple guys and it was exactly what it looked like whenever they were losing to good teams in the stretch where they lost four or five in a row.

They turned the ball over a ton and Luka was very at fault for a lot of that. He's way too in love with the full court pass on the inbound these days because it looks cool. He gets follow-all super excited. And he doesn't have to run down there. That probably doesn't hurt.

I mean, they work a good enough amount of time to where there's enough cool ones, but 50% completion on those is not good because the other team has the ball now. It's not like it goes out of bounds usually. It's usually he tries to keep it inbound so he never overthrows it. He underthrows it and now it's just an easy bucket the other way. Dort gives him all kinds of problems. And let me tell you something.

Make your cursing mark. Fuck that guy. I hate watching Lou Dort play basketball. The Dortcher Chamber? I love it. I love that, but I'm tired of this. Yeah, if you just foul the shit out of somebody and call it the Dortcher Chamber. I love it. I love that, but I'm tired of this. Yeah, you can just foul the shit out of somebody and call it the Dorcher Chamber. The first foul on Dort, I think, was a three-and-a-half-minute mark in the third quarter. He's been guarding Luka the entire game.

They were matching their minutes almost step for step. Luka's first trip to the free throw line was 3.30 left in the third. I don't know. They didn't lose because they had a pretty tight grip on the whistle, but it is frustrating. The player like that can be a problem for Luka. And Kyrie didn't give you a whole bunch

in relief. And Luka did have some dimes. He just barely brought the ball inside the three-point line. It was just an off night. Turnovers, offensive rebounding sucked. That was not a good... That was the worst game they've played in a while. In a long while.

I obviously taken a backseat with the Cowboys going on, but I did not know, like his OMAX getting some regular rotation. As of last game. Okay. Made a couple corner threes, which was cool. Made one last game too.

Uh, so nausea was back last night, but that was his first game back, which he looked awesome. He was the best player. He was, that was his best player for most of the game. So with Najee out, you get a little O-Max.

And then last night with Maxie out and Hardy out, everything was crunch. And PJ, obviously, at that spot. I don't – O-Max scares the heck out of me. I don't like watching him play basketball. Yeah, he makes me nervous. Super nervous. But he has been okay in spot duty. So now they're off until Sunday.

But I watched this game. Obviously, I did make it to halftime. I told you guys I was excited to stay up and watch it for an 8.30 tip. I made it to half. But when I watch it on replay, I'm getting all the in-arena stuff, right? So the bits they do, the free throw three-point layup contest, and the kiss cam. Again, we're in Oklahoma City here.

Very loud crowd, very good crowd, but let's just be honest, a very weird crowd. Oh, yeah. Anybody who's ever been there can tell you that. So they had something in the arena that made me laugh because typically what you get from in arena songs it's rap music or dance music but oklahoma city and i kind of remember this from my uh days you may have heard i was in a band the like pop punk thing was really popular up there because pop punk would be really

popular in areas that were kind of up upper tier suburbs but not close to real cities that had urban culture you know what i'm saying like if you were in uhper-type area or Salina, it was very popular. Like, there was money, which you needed to play in those bands, but also you weren't near black people. Okay. Big in Utah. Very big in Utah. Some of the biggest bands in that scene came from Provo and Orem. Okay.

Oh, yeah, Seattle area. Seattle is dirtier. So you need a clean place to produce this type of music. And I haven't heard a new song like this in 20 years. But in Oklahoma, they run a video showing

cool things you can do in Oklahoma like riding ATVs or looking at birds. And they wrote this song with it. We are a state of thunder! Oklahoma! Where the wind comes sweeping down the plains and the

waving wind. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh! Every night my honey women and I sit alone and talk and watch I'm sorry. You do what? Because at this point...

Sit alone and what? At this point, they showed a bird, making me think they just described one of their recreation options, watching a hawk. Every night, my honey, when I Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk. Every night my honey women and I sit alone and talk and watch a hawk making lazy circles in the sky.

Making lazy cycles in the sky? Oh, circles. Yeah, you're just watching a bird? What is this? This is what we have to do in Oklahoma? The Oregon Trail? Like you're at an NBA game, dude. We look up in the sky and that's what we have to do.

There you go. We just kind of watch a hawk come to Oklahoma. Not great. Hey, we're only saying you're doing fine. Oklahoma, Oklahoma, okay. Not great. So this is their arena entertainment? Yeah, and so the video plays for about the first 35 seconds of it on my feed, but that's the video that's playing in the arena on the Jumbotron.

From there they cut – you might actually hear it here. They cut back to the arena, and there are people doing, Oklahoma. This apparently plays at the arena, and there are people doing Oklahoma. This apparently plays at the end of every first quarter. Dude, and they're going to have the best team for a decade. It's looking that way. Also, I just want to zero in here. They have to use okay, like you're doing okay.

But it doesn't sound great. Hey, we're okay. And then to say, well, yeah, they're using it because... They are, but they also said we're doing fine. You're doing fine, Oklahoma. That's fine. Oklahoma, okay. Instead of we're doing great.

Right. I mean, we're still in Oklahoma after all. How good can we be doing? That kind of fades up. But yeah, that really still in Oklahoma after all. How good can we be doing? That kind of fades out. But yeah, that really made – it was perfect. It was a perfect Oklahoma City bit of culture there. That's a perfect song for Chet Holmgren. I know.

I know. So good times for the Mavs. They're all right. They're all right. They're okay. They're all right. They're all right. They're okay. They're doing fine. My very special guest, Coach Bill Belichick of the Cleveland Browns. Bill, welcome to the show.

Nice to be here, Mike. Thank you. I know we have a very special recipe, one you've held secret for many years, but you're going to share it with us today. Right. It's the BB PBJ. BB PBJ. What is that?

Bill Belichick's peanut butter and jelly sandwich. How divine. I see we have all the ingredients here for you, so I'm just going to stand back. You're the master of this. Let you go and follow you as you make the sandwich. Well, we'll start with the raisin bread. Why raisin bread, Bill?

Well, my mother used raisin bread. Oh, mothers are divine, aren't they? Oh, they sure are. They're just the best. She made the best ones. Yeah. Oh, and chunky peanut butter. That's quite a risk because, you know, the shards of peanuts can tear the flesh of the bread.

That's quite an advanced technique. Well, it has a little more crunch to it, and that really gives you a little extra energy. But the key to it, Mike, is to spread peanut butter on both sides of the bread. Oh, why? So that the jelly doesn't leak through in the sandwich. We'll put the jelly right here in the middle. That's why you're the head coach. It's forward thinking like that.

It's just, I've never seen that. Oh, wonderful. And you spread it out nice and evenly. And by the end of the day, it's not leaked through. You can have a nice sandwich. Right. This jelly won't leak through because of the peanut butter on both sides of the bread. Wonderful.

Now, you're going to cut it, I assume. You'll cut it diagonal or straight? No, actually, I like to cut out so that we use the dog bone. Oh, that's wonderful. Well, actually, I don't know. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Hey, I'd like to promote DZTV Channel 27

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I know, that was fun. It was a lot of fun. So, a lot of follow-up stuff in the big Thursday giant mailbag, which we don't do on Friday. This one is not a follow-up, though, but it's something I've gotten from others, besides Grant, who says, Please tell Dan to use his mute button when he coughs. Be a professional. I don't know.

As you guys know, I haven't been sick for years, except for the COVID. And now I got sick, like, what, two weeks ago? Like, I've't been sick for years except for the COVID. And now I got sick like what? Two weeks ago? I've been coughing for two weeks. I don't know what's going on. It happened to me too. I might have the aid. I'm holding one back right now for people.

We don't have mute buttons. Is that the problem? That's one thing about not being in a studio. I could have one? Yeah. Couldn't I get those headsets that you just pull it up and you wouldn't hear those are wild yeah those are like 500 bucks these are like couple hundred yeah 200 yeah i was i was dealing with the cough for a couple weeks i did a round of my antibiotics thinking i knew better than the doctor and they didn't really work it just kind of had to wait it out.

And it was two weeks. You're like a troop, basically. Dear Mr. Peanut, the baby in the TV show Dinosaurs, you were telling us we have to watch this show called Dinosaurs. Not the mama. Which was on like in the 90s? Yeah, early 90s.

Was voiced by Kevin Clash, who also voiced Elmo. Oh, no. That Elmo? Then he went on a six-year hiatus from acting after two charges of sexual abuse of minors. He eventually beat the charges because the statute of limitations ran out. He later made conflicting statements that nothing happened, but that what did happen was between consenting adults. Happy Christmas from Justin. So he Kemp Spin dinosaurs for you.

That's tough. I mean, now that I think about it, the baby does have Elmo voice. It's kind of the same voice. Baby, much funnier than Elmo, though. The baby's great. Stan will Kemp spin Superman for us. He addresses it to grocery store receptionist Shake and Blake, and welcome back, Jake Kemp.

Let's see. He tells us some nice stuff about Jared Sandler. We don't have to read that. It says, I was doing intense research on Christopher Reeve on Wikipedia. He tells us some nice stuff about Jared Sandler. We don't have to read that. It says, I was doing intense research on Christopher Reeve on Wikipedia, but his Kemp Spin is that Christopher Reeve was 16 years old dating a 23-year-old. Nice. Is that really a Kemp Spin?

If he was 23 dating a 16-year-old, that's more the Kemp's been. The other way, it's like, you are Superman. Right, yeah. Luckiest actor in the world award. No, I don't know. I mean, it was a different time. He was probably a pretty strapping 16-year-old, so I'm not even mad at her for this one. Yeah.

He's Christopher Reeve. Jake was right is the subject line of this email. I'm surprised it's being read. Look how Jake, now he's quiet, like, oh. He's intently listening. Good afternoon, senor coochie lover. Went to the Cowboys-Bengals game Monday

night, and the majority of the music being played during breaks was Mexican music. The Cowboys are fully aware of their Hispanic fan base, and the majority of the music being played during breaks was mexican music the cowboys are fully aware of their hispanic fan base and the majority of the demographic was heavily hispanic not surprised they tend to be more loyal even when this team is having a bad year and it's also a good excuse to drink as a mexican myself i'm allowed to say that. Okay, good, good. We sure do love our beer and our trash-ass cowboys from Alfredo. Well, I'm not allowed to say this, but if Alfredo has sort of opened the door for me here, I'm going to tell you also that there were a lot of tickets available for that game

at cheaper prices than normal. So you've got real fans in there. Had a couple of follow-ups on Orientals versus, or excuse me, Asians versus Indians. Yeah. I don't know how we got into this. I'm sure it's because I messed something up. Brevig.

No, I think you asked me if Indians are Asian. Yeah, and then I was thinking of my affinity lately for the hot Indian woman. But in my head, I was thinking Asian, and then it's not the same thing, maybe. Yes, and I also blew your mind by telling you that a lot of people in Russia are technically born in the continent of Asia. So one thing is that Brevig says he's been watching a

hit show, not as good as The Boys, but on Apple TV Plus called Slow Horses. Gary Oldman is in there and there's a bunch of stuff there where British folk Anyway, they said

they had to chase an Asian woman but they were chasing an Indian woman. And Brevig said he was confused by that. But apparently that British folk don't differentiate between Asians from India and Asians from China or Japan. They will just say that's an Asian,

according to this television show. Well, yeah. But then Derek emailed. He said, Dan hit on a frequent area of disagreement within my household on this one. And his subject line was Oriental versus Asian.

Do we now think Oriental is a... Is that not proper to say? A slur? Yeah. You don't hear it too much anymore. He says, Oriental conveyed a very specific description. It was a useful word. Now I got to say I have a fetish for Asian gals, but not Russian, Hindu, or Pan-Pacific Islanders.

Yeah, you don't want to be looked at as a weirdo. Yeah, because Oriental very clearly meant East Asia. It meant the Asia you think of when you think of Asia. Right? But now, you could be grouped in as some sort of sicko who likes the whole continent. I just want to know about these household disagreements. Like, why is that coming up so much?

Yeah, that'll be an interesting follow-up next week, maybe. Yeah, let's go to the call then. We'll see if we have time for another. So we were talking the other day about the – or to the aforementioned Jared Sandler and how he's going through the fertility process at a very involved level where one option for he and his wife is an egg donor and he got a hit while he was here with us like a match like he's on a dating app where hey this woman is uh wants to donate their her eggs now you can look at their profile photos of their whole life their

athletic abilities their musical interest, etc. Grades. Grades. The obvious ones like health and family history of health. But then my friend Shauna, who is a listener to the show, I've met her a couple times, and I knew that she had a kid. I wasn't totally sure the route she went for fertility, but I knew she wasn't with man. And she hit me up and said, hey, if you ever want to hear about the other side of this, buying the sperm, hit me up. So we did. Hey, Shauna.

Hey, Jake. How are you? I'm good. How are you? I'm doing great. It's very nice to talk to you. So so wait you did the same thing as jared like you got to look at profiles of where your sperm came from yeah so i did the man search instead of the woman search is it the same sort of deal where they just you go to an agency and they like you're not out at bars looking at guys that look kind of decent and being like,

will you go in this cup for me and let me collect my... We did all paths, but no. What we ended up doing was, we being me, was you just go online. I ended up using a reputable sperm bank and they have profiles online and you just enter your criteria and the criteria is pretty specific, you know, height, race, hair color, eye color, education level. And of course, depending on who you choose is how you pay. And then you purchase vials based on what your plans are. And I ended up purchasing two separate donors.

And then go from there. How much? Well, I spent total, I think, about $75,000 to $10,000. Wait, $75,000 to $100,000. $7,500? Yeah. Oh, that's not horrible to $100,000. $7,500? Yeah. Oh, that's not... Yeah, $7,500. That's not horrible. Just on the sperm.

But so for two hot guys' sperm... I don't know if they're hot. You only get kid pictures. You do not get adult pictures for very obvious reasons because they don't want you tracking them down and being like, hi, honey, here's your child. So you only get child photos.

That's interesting because Jared had adult photos. Yeah. Well, yeah, and I think it's probably different. I don't know if you were looking at surrogate photos because if you're looking at surrogate, you'd want to know kind of what she's, how she looks health-wise because she's carrying her child. But for eggs, I don't know.

I didn't know they posted female. I think they did, but either way, the fact that you have to do the selection process and even select race, it just feels very strange. You've got to do it, but yeah. And you said based on who you choose is based on the money that it costs.

Can you get some dollar store cum? Yeah, so education definitely ups the price. So I definitely went with at least a bachelor's education because I have an advanced degree. And then height also affects, and I chose tall because I am 6'1", and I wanted to up the ante. So that ups the price. I'm going to be pretty cheap.

Yeah. Oh, Blake. Yeah, well, what do you think? You want a nice alcoholic over here? Is that in the record? You're on the bargain then too, bud. High upside, but, you know, things go wrong. So the funny thing, I think the girl side is probably a little bit more strict

than the man side because it's all self-reporting on man's side so i don't know like you know you get to look at it and you have to purchase patches packages early right so i purchased like five different packages so i could look and see their their detailed health history um they give like their breakdown on like what they like to do, and then the bank actually interviews them and then gives you a write-up of what they think about this person, depending on what he said. He was nice to speak to or had a great affect in his voice

or I don't know, those things, whatever. It makes it sellable, I guess. But the interesting thing for me that happened was after I had my child and that's a whole nother story but um I had my child and she was two um I received an email from the bank and they notified me that one of the donors that I had purchased um had a medical emergency and the medical emergency related to him having a, he died on the table under anesthesia because he had an adverse reaction to like one of his chromosomes had

like something happened that way. And I had freaked out because I was two weeks away from getting tubes in my kid's ear. And I was like, Oh my God, she's going to die on the table. And it ended up being the other donor that I didn't use to make my daughter. But it definitely is an interesting thing to think about because if I just met a guy at a bar and got knocked up, I never would have received that email if he'd had a health emergency down the road because they at least keep you impacted on things like that. Wow. That's very interesting.

It's definitely weird. The other embryo that was his, does it exist? I don't want to get into a political issue here. Frozen sperm, right? I've got a whole issue on that. No, I'm worried about that right now because I have some frozen that I need to address. Frozen embryos or frozen just sperm or eggs?

You have frozen embryos. Currently, I have eight eggs frozen and three embryos frozen. And so I have to figure out, I've gotten too old now, I think to actually have another child. Plus I'm on my own. And one child has been way, way more than I expected, even though she's perfect and amazing, but on your own, it's, it's a lot. Um, and so, uh, the, I, now I have to deal with that. And so I'm trying to figure out what I can do. I'm not exactly sure. And being in the lawyer field, I'm a little bit worried about it,

and so I don't exactly know what we're going to do. Maybe we can auction them off here. I mean, the embryos are definitely a no-go because they were genetically abnormal, and so I definitely have to figure out what to do with those. But, I mean, my eggs, who knows? Maybe Jared wants a tall girl. Who knows? because they were genetically abnormal. And so I definitely have to figure out what to do with those. But, I mean, my eggs, who knows? Maybe Jared wants a tall girl. Who knows?

Yeah. In fact, he does because he has already told us that. Dude, what if we make a baby? Yeah. It would be one of the first podcasts. That would be a story for sure. Would you give some to us, and then Blake could raise us a little intern Look I know she's a hard worker

Yeah That's right Sweet So I want to go back to something You said earlier when you said A reputable sperm bank Does that mean you've run into Shady ones and is it just a guy In a van When you said a reputable sperm bank, does that mean you've run into shady ones?

And is it just a guy in a van? Yeah, at the Menards parking lot or something? Yeah. So, I mean, you Google. You definitely do your research. There are sperm banks. The weird part about this whole area of the world that we live in now is there really is no laws associated with this area. There's best

practices. There's established groups that, you know, set out rules and regulations, but there is no actual law. So at the end of the day, enforcement of the items that you're trying to do is pretty much non-existent. So you're kind of in this very gray nebulous area as to kind of what Jared was talking about, like again with surrogacy. If she decides she's going to keep that baby at the end of the day, if you're in a certain state, you just spent maybe $80,000 to $100,000, and your child is going to, your genetically related child is going to be raised by someone else. And so it's very, now that I've done it and I'm out of it, I can't, I can't believe I did, especially knowing the law and the things that I've looked into. But it is, it, I think it

will be more regulated the more we go forward, not regulated the way I want it to be maybe right now, maybe down the road it'll get better. But it is definitely the wild, wild west. You can buy sperm on Craigslist. You don't have to have to i mean it's not illegal to sell sperm out of the back of a van if you did that though like how how how do you get it i mean we recently had a story about two prisoners who were just passing it back and forth in a paper towel and god bless they saved themselves when you said that jake i was like i feel you on that sir if only i could have done that um so for me they sent it directly to the doctor you could choose to have it delivered to your house in attempts of turkey bracer style that's

what i was gonna ask people actually do that i mean they they they offer the option so i guess it is technically done um when i spoke to my fertility doctor obviously she was like you can do it i I don't, I haven't had much success in it. And considering you're here right now, because you're of the older generation at this point, you're geriatric. We don't think it's the same as if you were young and you wanted to do it, you know, at home with a turkey baster, but you can try it. I chose not to, I felt like a little distance from my purchase was probably better. But you can have it delivered to your home and try it that way. So it's a very, it's just, it's going to be very

odd now. My child's turned three. We're going to have to have a conversation about it at some point. They have books and you can read about it, but I'm going to have to explain to her, you know, mommy really, really wanted to be a mommy and she spent a lot of money and you're 85 about it, but I'm going to have to explain to her, you know, mommy really, really wanted to be a mommy, and she spent a lot of money, and you're 85 in the hole, so you owe me a lot of money, kid. Just kidding. I'm not going to hold it against her, but, yeah, it's crazy. It's amazing. I love that it's out there.

I think we're going to be really surprised going forward. Women aren't, you know, I saw something on some newscast that was talking about that women are less likely to get married now than they were 10 years ago because now they have jobs that they can support themselves and they don't need men. And now that you can buy sperm online, what's the point? What's the point of a man? So, I mean, I think it's going to be a really interesting roller coaster that we're going to go on. I'm a little worried about the next four years and what that means and what people have been saying. But who knows?

Well, the lawmakers are probably, they're almost done with this flag planting thing. They'll get to that. Focus their attention towards the outcome. I know we've got to go, but does your daughter look like

the pictures you had of the donor as a child? So thankfully, she came out looking pretty much identical to me. So it's not like abnormal where I was like, oh my goodness. But now that I'm pulling out some of the – you get three photos. And all three of them were him doing sports, baseball, basketball, and soccer. So yay. He's probably seven or eight in these photos we're not talking but you know um now that i'm looking at some of her features compared to

mine i'm seeing a little bit more maybe of his nose um or his ears a little bit more than mine maybe it's definitely something you look at a lot more i think closely because i don't have a lot to go on and so i definitely blame everything she does bad on him yeah like her temper tantrums right now definitely his fault yep um loser definitely about that but yeah no it's I did choose someone that sounds kind of creepy but that looked kind of like me in the sense that like strawberry blonde hair blue eyes that kind of you know look yeah I wasn't going for like sibling but I was at least going for you know someone similar. I wasn't going for like sibling, but I was at least going for, you know, someone similar, I guess. We're going to... But it's a very...

Yeah. This is borderline pedophilia though. I mean, because the only people you can choose, you have to look at little kids' pictures to choose the father. I will say... Like this seven-year-old is hot. Hey, hot stuff.

Yeah. But you don't want... I'd love this kid's cum. Well, so they put on there because my doctor was explaining it to me and I hadn't thought about this. But she was like, you don't want women who may be feeling lonely and wanting to have kids to look at a picture and think, ooh, I would date that guy. Right. An old enough photo that's like I can make a family with that man. Yeah.

Because then you get the people who are like, this is my family, and then tries to track them down. And it's like, we're a family. And this guy's got three kids and is established. And he's like, I did that when I was 21 and trying to make money so I could buy beer and get some pot for Saturday night. I didn't do it to make a family. That is an interesting one of the self-selection process

of the pool, as it were, is nobody who's doing great is donating semen. And mine was actually based out of California. So all of them were either struggling actors or some sort of something going that way. Yeah. And so I did the open sperm purchase. So at 18, she received some sort of contact information from the individual who donated. And it's very like broad as to what that means it could be an email address a phone number or just a letter um but now what's really interesting is you can go online and take her donor number and you can

enter it into a website and i can find out if she has like half siblings and she'll be able to like across like across the country she may have i haven't done it because it's kind of creeping me out and i don't want her to like haven't but at some point we're gonna have to because think about this she's gonna have to ask every man that she dates hey do you know your dad yeah wow that's gonna have to be an opening now for most men you would think they would not have a million kids but at the same time it's easier, allegedly, to make a baby out of a sperm bank donor than it is to run around and get laid, unless you're Nick Cannon, I guess. But so, you know, she's going to have to, like, that's going to be her opening line. They're supposed to limit, again, because I used a

reputable sperm bank, they're supposed to limit the number of samples that are sent to certain geographical areas so that, like, if he had 10 samples in his bank and two people from Texas chose them, they would like geotag it if we're talking – love and geotag. If they're geotagging it for restricting of Texas, right? So no longer. But who's to say that that works right? And people move. Yeah.

And people move. That's crazy. It's's kind of a wild ride. Well, from the dumb zone, we just want to tell you how happy we are for you. That's the main thing. Well, thank you. There's a whole other story as to how bad getting her went. Like, I lost two, and it was awful.

But she's my miracle baby, and she's amazing. And I'm so thankful I did it. And if anybody wants to reach out to me, do you do have female listeners? I know you guys don't believe it. But if there's any females who are out there that would like to talk to me about the process and how I did it, I did it at 35.

I was old. They were calling me geriatric. It went badly. COVID hit the whole time. It was an absolute disaster. I had emergency surgery, 17 weeks. She was six weeks early. But I'm happy to talk to anybody.

I'm on Twitter. Hit me up. I'm'm happy to talk to anybody. I'm on Twitter. Like, hit me up. I'm on Sky or whatever it is. I'm not trying to, like, sell me or anything. But it can be scary if you're alone and you don't know what you're doing. I'm happy to talk to anybody about it. And I'll give you all the nitty-gritty if you really want it. Very cool.

It's very nice to talk to you. All right, guys. All right, there she goes. Talk to you later. Bye, Shauna. Come purchaser Shauna. Yeah. Let's see.

Bad bit. Hello, President Pum Pum. A co-worker named their dog Micah Pawson's. I think pets named after current athletes is a terrible bit that ages like milk, especially when Micah signs with the Eagles. Yep. I consult the dumb zone from Darian McBrayer. P.S. If you need an expert in the field of echocardiography, let me know.

That's a good bit. That's a good bit. Yeah, I know a couple dogs. One was named after Rugnetto Dorr, which didn't do well. The other one was... Was that Joe's dog? That would fit. Anchor word, dear Gestapo or the Gash, death knell.

Yeah, what's a knell? It took me a long time to figure out that wasn't nail. It's like a drum, right? It's just a sound, but you never hear it. Sound the death nail. Okay, I guess I've heard that. K-N-E-L-O I believe just means

a drum or a beat, but it doesn't. When do you ever... This beat, sick nail. 690 scene jumps in hearing Dan read not allowed to improvise ads for vodka sounds like a bit because it's so

jarring I love it can you please make me the financial advisor for dog people Blake thank you for your courage in avoiding the ridiculousness of the elf on the shelf. What did you say? You don't do that? I'll never do that.

I would threaten to cancel my sub and overall undying DZ support based on my formerly fearless leaders being such wusses, but I'm in way too deep. I'm sure they will soon be wearing dresses while playing flag football and getting their steps in.

Hey, Jake, have I ever mentioned I went to West Point? That's Army. Who is going to get destroyed by Tulane? Oh, ouch. That was a tough one. Wow, you really uber-fluted that one. Uber-flute. Wow, you really uber-fluted that one. Uber flute.

Yeah, that was what you had there. You've seen it a couple times, right? It happened when Texas beat Georgia. Tulane gave no Fs about that game. I didn't see that coming. And their quarterback entered the portal like the next day. Dear Slit Sommelier, Dear Slit Somalia,

any chance you can send me the acoustic or piano version of the Dumb Zone intro with no words? I want to walk down the aisle to it at my wedding on New Year's Eve. What? So he's talking about... Let's see. Do I have it here? Yes, this is the original that Jameson made. You've heard it at the end of some shows.

The beautiful little... He took Caitlin's song and made it into an instrumental. Anyway, he made him a new one. And I have forwarded this on to this guy. But yes, so... He will be walking down the aisle that's the coolest thing ever to the dumb zone theme when is this wedding new year's eve wow it is a beautiful song got the strings in there he's totally gonna get Oh, no doubt. How can Jameson do this?

Well, he's a musician. I know, but he's a goofball. And he's able to make something this nice. Beautiful? Yeah. I bet Lindsey Stirling likes to cut up a little bit. Oh, he also got actual mail. A Christmas card from Plashley.

Oh. Fantastic. Her dogs. Dang, this is great. Oh, we get a little Now we gotta buy a win. I'm hooked. When's the win?

I'll be there. When is it? You're never gonna go. And again, it's New Year's Eve for the fifth time. Well, thank you, Blashley. Do you guys do Christmas? You do, for sure. I'll bet your wife does.

She loves taking pictures. Yeah, yeah. We have before. I don't remember. We definitely didn't do anything new this year. You don't have one out? I might have your Christmas card. You might. I don't have anything to do with it. We've never sent Christmas cards.

And I've always thought, I wish we did, but I'm not going to be the one that does it. That's what the lady does. I don't mind taking the pictures. They're nice. Sorry you guys hate your families. So do we want to do one more or no? Sure. Do you want to?

Okay. Okay. Um, so do we want to do one more or no? Sure. Do you want to? Okay. Uh, so we started talking about, about glory holes and whether they actually exist. Do you remember this Blake?

Um, yeah, it was probably the prison story. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, uh, I don't know if he wants his name out there or not. He seems pretty okay with it, but I'm just not going to do it. name out there or not. He seems pretty okay with it, but I'm just not going to do it. I'm a week behind, but just popping in to say that I've been to

a Czech-style glory hole once. That is the C-Z-E-C-H. Czechoslovakian. Like the pastry. This is where just a woman's ass is protruding through a hole in the wall.

It was about six years ago. Day of, I was told to be there at a specific time, like 745, so I'm assuming someone else was there at 730 and someone came in behind me, no pun, at 8. But I didn't ask the guy about it. I know it sounds gross and risky, and it probably is for most folk, but I've spent a lifetime chasing

experiences and tattoo... Taboo... Taboo stuff always entices me. the woman was in her early 40s and pretty not smoking hot or anything of course but her body was banging anyway i walked in the front door and right there at the end of the hall was a big round ass coming out of the wall there were nude photos of her hung all around the ass and an ipad on a table was showing a video of her sucking D. After a few short pleasantries, I dropped my pants and started using my hand on her while trying to get hard. Imagine the pleasantries.

Hey. What's going on? You think they keep McCarthy? Good to see you. Man, it's a little cold out there. I'm glad you guys have the heat on in here. This is great. You think they'll catch the guy?

Yeah. All right. Let's get to it. I wasn't sure I'd be able to, meaning get erect, but I did slip on the Connie, went to town. It was short and weird, and I do not regret it. They messaged me later to see if I wanted to hang out, but I don't have time for that. So, yeah, it's out there.

Just got to know where to look. You can just walk in. There's a big round butt. And you just kind of hammer away for a couple minutes. Then you walk out relieved. I'm very confused by this. And maybe it's just because I've had a day of yeah you're traumatized right now

yep so obviously he had to go looking for it yeah wait you're traumatized by what by watching a girl get nailed 100 times oh you just did that documentary yeah so they email be here at 745

and then she just wanted to hang out after maybe he was special you know you hear those stories Be here at 745 and then she just wanted to hang out after? Maybe he was special, you know? You hear those stories. You'd be the one guy that they're like, hey, at the strip club, they're like, hey, I actually liked you, bud. And he's like, no, I'm above that. That's disgusting. I'm not hanging out with you.

That's so weird. Could you date a girl that did porn? Would you rather date a girl that did porn or someone who did a glory hole? I think porn. Because then it's like work. That's professional. You're all tested and all that. But the glory hole thing seems like... Well, we're in a condom.

I guess you work there too. Yeah, that's work. But you're not... It's work with two professionals. Like you're two actors. You clearly don't have any – Yeah. I mean the difference –

I mean one of them, it's going to live forever and anybody can pull it up. That's the downside of the porno or pinot as we call it side of things is your face is out there, your whole body, right? Like you could still be a mom and be a glory hole person. Not that you can't be a mom and be a porn star or a porn actress, but it certainly presents complications. Like, I've seen video of a porn star that was very popular throughout my 30s at, like, Parents Day at Wisconsin in Madison. That's great.

Yeah. So, I mean. God, that's hot. Glory hole, you're not getting that. I would take glory hole because in porn she's taken some biggins. That's true. There is, again, the selection there. Maybe the average guy is not leaving a big imprint down there.

Not a lot of two for or eight for ones or 100 for whatever in the glory hole game. Give me glory hole. Yeah. I'm going to take that as well. Okay. It's honest work. All right. Today's news will be brought to us by Fairlease.

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Okay. Here's Jake with the Dumb Zone News. Dallas City Council. There's a bit of a misleading headline here from the local paper of record, the Morning News. Dallas City Council banning vaping in public spaces. They're coming home and they're saying, Mom, I want to vape.

So when it says public places, basically it just means they're doubling down on reminding you, you can't vape in places where you can't smoke. So if you can't smoke at a park, they're saying don't vape at that park. You're outside, it's open air. That's lame. Also, no one saying don't vape at that park. You're outside. It's open air. That's lame.

Also, no one's going to get it. It does seem kind of lame. Like, I don't mind when you vape in here or anything at all. Good. It wouldn't matter. Yeah, no. I'm just playing. But if you were sitting there smoking a cigarette, that would be quite.

Yeah. Like, the vape doesn't really seem to. No. No, and if they're leaning on some... To bother those around you. Like, if you've vaped on a plane, I wouldn't care. Yeah, people do. Have you noticed that?

Have you ever gone to the bathroom to vape? On a plane? Yeah. Of course. But they tell you it's like a... Huge fine or a misdemeanor or something? No, you definitely... Now, the Lucy's work just fine at Lucy.co.

What, the little pouches will get me through. Okay, yeah. I think I was on a flight where they said you couldn't even do that, and I was like, pfft. Yeah, they try to tell you that, I'm sure. Like, oh, nicotine. Firing in a chew. It's all so confusing, too, the wording of it, right?

Like, they'll still say, so even like thinking about being at the Hab, they would say at the start of every class, like, no smoking. That includes vaping. And people still did. If you try to be real sly about it. But, again, a lot of the type of people that are in rehab are the types who just want to blow a huge cloud to piss you off. Yeah. And I don't do that.

Do they have like fat, really full of stuff vape, like a cigar vape? Is there a big vape? Yeah, yeah. Like vape can suck in more than... Oh, yeah. I mean, the old way of doing this is like you would buy like a full what soroy had it's like a rig with four pieces and you'd buy the juice those are disgusting but that's kind of how it first started but my point was just that they would say um no that includes uh

chewing tobacco no nicotine products or something about chewing tobacco. It's like, you know that you didn't cover the pouch in that. They would say no chewing tobacco. I'm like, all right, well, I got a pouch in. Ah, okay. And it's kind of the same thing here in this morning news article. You're that guy. Yeah, where they quote, I am. Doesn't exactly say that.

Where they quote somebody from the American Lung Association who said, unfortunately, the rise of e-cigarettes has led to a significant expansion of tobacco use among our teens. That is not true. It has led to an increase in nicotine use. So even the guy who's in charge is like, vaping, tobacco use is out of control. Okay. It's not. Because there use is out of control. Okay. It's not.

Because there's no tobacco in it. No. And ironically, whenever Juul had all their flavors banned, again, don't really know why, because I have a cool mint of my vape right here and like a fruit one in my bag. But they banned all the jewel pod flavors other than cool mint and tobacco that's just tobacco flavored so jewel is like a different company like it's marlboro yeah and then there's another vape there's a million of them like you do there's a million virginia slims yeah whatever i the lady one. Yeah. I'm just trying to think of a cigarette.

But that's where we thought Vape, what's his name? Baron had gotten in trouble, was the Jewel. So they came after Jewel because that's the big boy. But my point is just if you're worried about this transitioning people to actual cigarettes, I would think the tobacco flavor would be one you don't. But my point is just if you're worried about this transitioning people to actual cigarettes, I would think the tobacco flavor would be one you don't. More so than out there? Yeah, but they're logistic. Juicy fruit or whatever, yeah.

We talked about this a few weeks ago about how they don't want to market it towards kids. They don't want to call it bubble gum, even though the edible industry is basically candy, which is weird. I could see it both ways. But you want to make it taste bad so people don't want to do it. Yeah, the tobacco thing is more like... See how gross this is? Yeah. Well, it's more like it's what you're used to, and it's like a Beyond Burger has to taste

like a burger, although burgers taste good. That's maybe a bad... I just don't think that many people that are hitting the jewel are actual smokers anymore. But I don't know. The point is they're saying that this is going to be enforced in Dallas now. That if you're within 15 feet

of entrance to a public indoor area, it would be very hard about enforcing it in bars, which means I would stay away from that bar. Dorks. Let's see here. Oh, this is a wild story.

So I told you guys a couple of weeks ago that I went to go see Moana 2. Not as good. Not as good. It was okay. And maybe on my 1, my 1000th watch i'll check it out uh at that point approve of it as as good as number one but it just wasn't exciting to me it certainly wasn't exciting enough for me to lower my pants and start jerking off in the theater i was gonna ask if there were any juicy scenes in there which is what a man man in Red Oak, Texas did up in Ellis County. He was arrested. 26-year-old guy arrested for indecency with a child.

Now, I don't know the exact particulars of this case, but if you walk into a theater and you whip it out and you start jerking it and there's a kid or kids in the theater, indecency with a child? So he was just alone? He didn't have a child with him? Correct. At least that's the way it's being described here.

That a witness saw the man while leaving the theater with her children after watching moana 2 when they made contact with the man police said he appeared to be intoxicated me said he was in the theater but denied any wrongdoing also it's really weird to me we've talked about this before but the worst place you want to be is trying to jerk off whenever you're intoxicated you're just like can come on, we can do it. You can do it, bud. Just no. Just give it up.

Give it up, my man. Another strange note about this story is it says that police responded to the theater around 1.15 a.m. for an indecent exposure call. Why is Moana showing that late? Don't know. I mean, you would get like the late night release of an adult, not like adult content, but of a grown-ups movie. Yeah, rated R.

9 o'clock or midnight, but. That was always fun to me. I used to love going to the midnight movie. Yeah. I went to a handful of them. Yep. Dark Knight was sick. Everybody's totally effed up.

Oh, my gosh. I went to that with a buddy. I think he listens. And he got so drunk. We all had some to drink. But, you know, the thing about the Dark Knight is it feels like that movie is about to end three times. is it feels like that movie's about to end three times. And he had fallen

asleep around the time of what you think the first ending was and woke up like an hour later and he was really confused. He's like, how is this movie still going? Like, a lot has happened since you nodded off. But yeah, those were always fun.

I might victim blame here a little bit and say if you take your small children to go see a movie at midnight on a Saturday night. That certainly changes things. Yeah. What are you doing? Do you guys get judgy? And maybe Blake is going to feel judged here. But do you get judgy if you see a child that's 2, 3, 4 out somewhere at like 1030 at night?

Oh, yeah. I'm like, what are you thinking? I do if they 4 out somewhere at like 10.30 at night. Oh, yeah. I'm like, what are you thinking? I do if they're out at 8. Yeah. I'm on both sides. I will judge someone for doing that and then do that myself. And then do it. Yeah.

For sure. But then I feel like I'm a cool dad. Yeah. If I have to pop into Walgreens or something, it's 11 o'clock or 10 o'clock and I see a kid, I'm like. I definitely would be judgy with just how my brother raised his kids. Just all over. And I think he was the same way with me. Oh, I'm sure.

Because I was too helicopter-y, I'm sure, for them. But my kid was in bed at 7.30 like every night until they were whatever. Eight years old. Because you're setting up all the rules. If you set up their whole life, they're just going to adhere to it. They don't know any different. You're a god. You don't have to.

Yeah, but he likes staying up until 11 on the weekend. Guess what? My kids don't because they've never done it. Like once outside influences start to get on them, then they'll know that the neighbor is staying up or their friend from school is up, and then they'll start asking. This is my bid on why we never opened presents

till noon on Christmas morning after I woke up. They actually did not complain about that until later when they learned that other kids don't. And then in retrospect, they said, oh, you ruined our childhood because now they'll rip me for everything. But when they were six, seven, five, they didn't complain about not opening presents until noon because it's what we did. Some families open presents like Christmas Eve. So am I terrible for not doing it until 6-8? Whatever.

No, I mean. They're just little pieces of clay that you can mold. Now, they're going to break out of that mold someday. But, yeah, I think his kid always slept with him. Never did that. Good. And I do get judgy about that, and it sucks,

because I have friends who are in that spot, and I'm like, dude, why don't you do something about it? They're like, we can't. But that is, if you get too far down the road, it's impossible to turn around.

And I guess that's Dan's point. But yeah, the kid sleeping in your room, or co-sleeping, that's a really hard one to get out of. We, what is that? Were you sleeping in their room? Co-sleeping? They sleep in the bed one to get out of. What is that? Where you sleep in their room?

Co-sleeping? They sleep in the bed with you. Okay, yeah. Well, that's what I meant. Yeah, he'll sleep in the bed with. We experienced a couple month stretches where she would come in there in the middle of the night. But they always go away. Like it'd be three weeks and then it would just, you know, where it was four nights.

But you had at least established this is not the norm. Right. And you know what we did, which felt kind of messed up, but it worked? I think Kristen must have seen this on some mom blog or account. We put, like, a sleeping thing on the floor. Basically, like, a padded sleeping bag. Like a... So if you do come in here, you can...

You're sleeping down there. And it wouldn't destroy... Get one of those big dog beds. It wasn't that far off from that. And you know, one, it didn't bother us when she did it. And two, eventually she was like, this isn't as good. Yeah. So she's kind of like,

I guess I'll just stay in my room. But it was weird the first couple times whenever she comes in, Kirsten's like, there's your bed. Make him sleep on the floor. Our kid only came in a couple times, and what I would do is I would just start having sex with my wife right away. Yeah.

And that way the kid's all turned off by it. Sure. I mean, you're naked in there. Yeah. That was a weird thing the first time. You sleep naked, and you're like, you know, turned off by it. Sure. I mean, you're naked in there. Yeah. That was a weird thing. The first time you sleep naked and you're like, oh, God. Kid comes in. For some reason, I'm more likely to sleep naked when my wife is gone.

Same. I don't know why. But I prefer it. I just don't always do it. Anyways. Do you sleep under the same comforter as your wife? Yeah. I'd never, again, never heard

of that until I met you. Same here. You do? Yeah. And maybe that's why you don't do the naked thing. Like, because I just got my own comforter. She has her own comforter. And so, yeah. Yeah, I just tend to try to think, would I want to sleep next to a naked dude?

And I would say no, and so I'd try to not do that for her. But if you had your own comforter, I bet you would. No. And your life would be better in so many ways. It's the same reason that I'd... Why don't you guys listen to me? It's the same reason that I'd... Like, when I go to bed, I'm dressed like I would take the trash out.

Shirt on, shorts, because I wouldn't want to be next to a big ugly guy with a shirt off, so I don't want to be that big ugly guy next to her. I just try to think of others, Dan. Two North Texas men arrested for a $400,000 Lego crime ring that spanned

multiple states. Lego? Yeah, so what they would do, and this was mostly from Walmart, I believe. They were arrested in Fort Worth. They would buy cheap items from Walmart and then alter the receipts. And they would make them look like they bought

expensive Lego sets. So then they would go back, they would take the new receipt with them, grab the expensive sets from the shelves and walk out. If they were questioned, they would show them that altered receipt. Be like, look, I bought it. They just gave it to me.

Huh. Like Blake at Costco or wherever he was. Love it. Yeah, $400,000 from Walmart and Target. $400,000? Yeah. Wow. I think that's a lot of Legos.

Maybe it's only like two boxes. And also, like, some of them, you know, go for a lot online as collectibles. Do they? Yeah. You know what? You know, it's kind of like when a free agent signs, like Soto or something,

you want to look back through all the big free agent signings and be like, how many of these work out? How many of these are still good year eight? How many, whatever. Like, the collectible bit. The collectible crazes. Do you guys remember Beanie Babies? Of course.

You ever hear of that? Oh, yeah, dude. I think when I was a long time ago, Cabbage Patch Kids were something. Every once in a while, there becomes a collectible craze. Right now, if I search Cabbage Patch Kid, is that a high dollar item? I bet you that there's still narrow communities that do. Reddit is big for this. Maybe Tickle Me Elmo.

That's probably a different thing. Tickle Me Elmo was just a scarcity thing for the one item that everybody wanted that year. Whereas Lego is more akin to trading cards. Not Lego. Excuse me. Beanie Baby. Pokemon

was kind of like this. Right. Was Joe somebody we know is really into Pokemon? My brother was so into it as a kid that they banned them within 100 feet of his elementary school. He was hustling kids.

Like they'd rather have him vape? Yeah, exactly. I don't think I really ever had a phase like this. I would buy a comic book every now and then, but I wasn't really really into it. I would buy baseball cards, but I wasn't obsessed. I never really had that.

I don't like having any stuff. Just be able to walk out the door and go. What are you looking at? You're distracting me. I'm looking at Beanie Baby Price Guide right now. looking at? You're distracting me. I'm looking at Beanie Baby Price Guide right now. The point was trying to collect all of them,

I guess, or have certain themes. The Lego thing, though. It says they were hitting stores for multiple thousands at a time. That's crazy. I know they're expensive, but getting to that number seems like a lot. They hit stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and Philadelphia.

Okay, random. The Beanie Baby Princess Bear, released in 1997 to honor Princess Diana. Right now will go for $900,000. What? I thought you were going to say $900, and I was going to be pretty taken aback. But I think that looks like it's pretty rare if we get down to the top ten. Sorry. This is a cautionary tale for all of our women out there.

Dan, are you familiar with the brand Stanley? The cup? Yeah. Oh, yeah. The daughters? I don't know. Just life. It's mainstream now, Yeah. Oh, yeah. The daughters? I don't know. Just life, living. It's mainstream now, probably.

Oh, okay. I don't know any men who own them. Okay. So that's why I say that. You do? And what's Gronk's or Ski's thing? Ice Shaker. Ice Shaker, yeah.

Yeah, I bought some, including a gift for somebody. Stanley or Ice Shaker? Ice Shaker. Nice. Copeland has a big Stanley. That almost makes sense because he's a very for somebody. Stanley? Or Ice Shaker. Ice Shaker. Nice. Copeland has a big Stanley. That almost makes sense because he's a very hot guy. Stanley recalling two and a half million of their stainless steel travel mugs due to a burn hazard.

There's a flaw in the lid where the threads shrink, exposed to heat. 16 people in the U.s have been burned in recent use but that's like zero if you look at the percentage of people in the u.s it's not like zero to their legal department yeah that's what really matters uh okay do i want to do this one? Oh yeah, this is obligatory. Plane crash in Victoria, Texas. A twin-engine propeller plane crashed into the highway

down to Victoria. That's like Houston way, right? Splitting in two, leaving debris scattered. Survive? The pilot... Let's see. Yeah, everyone's okay That's just great

Just wanted to check in on flight Pilots license Lessons Me? Yeah No Totally out I was into helicopter piloting

I get that wrong every time Yeah Yeah the video of this is insane The plane basically splits in two I was into helicopter piloting. I get that wrong every time. Yeah. Yeah, the video of this is insane. The plane basically splits in two. Is that the video you're talking about? Well, I just... They said he was trying to make an emergency landing on the highway. Yeah.

That'd be awesome to see. Not if you're trying to get somewhere. Yeah, it'd be awesome to see if you're not on the highway. Oh, man. There's your news. Should have ended on a high. It didn't.

Now you're waiting on him to lean back. Yeah. And it's ruining your display. There are shirts available at dumbzonemerch.com right now that are Christmas themed. You can get your moose Christmas tree for $13.10. Why are you mentioning that now? I'm just telling you.

We didn't mention it earlier. And that savings is $6.90. You'll get a t-shirt for $13.10. You can also get a moose ornament. So that's Raymond's bit. Yeah. Because that guy is a walking bit. Oh.

He'll also do anything for you. You're not going to meet many people more bit-laden. Good dude, but you can't just have any common little idea with him. He's like, well, what if we... No. You're like, hey, can we do Christmas ornaments? Yeah, but what if we also... I'm thinking about renting something in Times Square.

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40% alcohol by volume. Distilled from corn. Copyright 2025. Crafted to be savored responsibly. The Dumb Zone presents Today in History. Excuse me, viewer mail birthdays here as well. Which I failed to do earlier, didn't I? You okay with that, Blake?

Do I do those now? Sure We're going to talk to the coach who never punts About the lady that had sex with a hundred dudes In one day tomorrow Greetings, Lieutenant Landingstrip It's D.F. Matt F.'s birthday

Let's see It's DF Matt F's birthday. Let's see. Idea. Can we get a spinoff show called The Dead Zone with Danny, Jake, and Blake? Or The Dad Zone. Sorry. I guess I didn't stick that landing because I read it wrong. That makes more sense as you guys are dads of young little kids.

I'm down to do the Dead Zone show. I mean, I think he had a really good season for Optic this year. He was like the unsung fourth. But when you come in second, you know, they're going to want to replace you. So he's currently looking for a team. Blake's slow morph – leaders. Blake's slow morph into typical suburban dad. I look forward to his seggy in a couple years called What's on Blake's Big Green Egg.

Oh, you got to post the pictures. I'm going to put my foot down. I'll never become that guy. You're not going to get meat-pilled? No, I'm not going to tell you about grilling. I'm not going to tell you about the internal temperature of my brisket. I won't show you a picture of my food, and I'm not going to get a big green egg and i will guarantee it there's nothing wrong with getting it especially if they would like to have their word spread about their

fine products right here on the dumb zone but that's the gateway but the problem is when you then publicize it like i have a pit boss smoker that our father-in-law gave us. I intend to take more use of it in 2025. You won't see photos. Still, one of the greatest bits of all time was to subtweet Ryan Medellin, who would

constantly post meat stuff, and it would really bother Monty, and Monty posted a photo of a piece of black forest ham deli meat on a kitchen counter and took a picture of it and posted it. It was like, hey, how does the bark on it look? My internal temperature got a little high here. How are the rings?

Great bit. You know what's weird is those meat pictures get real good engagement, if you like engagement. People love it. Here's the thing. It's called engagement for a reason. Most of the stuff that jumps off, it's bewildering. Oh, you've been sober for a year.

Whatever, dude. Dear Tio Coño, do you know the amount of days you've been sober? No. That's how we get more followers. Here's how I know how many days it's been

when you guys tell me to make fun of me. Tio Coño, it is my buddy Ty's birthday. His leader is Dan's Bar of Soap, which could last up to three years. He just converted

to one shower every four days and feels better than he has in a long time. I don't know if he'll hear this. He's tried Pussy Jake's theory of driving in silence and no longer subscribes to any podcasts. Oh, no. Did I? Another way I've caused this.

Uncle Hotmail, it is the 39th birthday of Preston Doo-Doo Lennertz. His leaders are Emily Jones and Dan Showering Habits. He wants to know if Blake can name the mascot for Gainesville High School. Gainesville High School from K-Mac. Well, K-Mac. Oh, so cocky. He knows it. It's the Leopards. Wow. I don't know if that's true or not.

It is. East Texas? I don't even really know where Gainesville is. It's up by the border. They don't call it Gainesville for nothing. Yeah, okay. Today's Thursday, December 12th. On this day in 1957. Very controversial marriage

because singer Jerry Lee Lewis married Myra Gale Brown while he was still married to his second wife, Jane Mitchum. So there's so much controversy and I think it was because he married this girl while... Wait a second. Oh, there's more much controversy, and I think it was because he married this girl.

Wait a second. Oh, there's more? It says here he was 21, and his bride was 13 years old. Shopping veneers over there? You guys are ruining my great story here. I'm sorry. I got an autoplay. I had the back and forth. I had the timing. I know. I know. It was a classic

bit. I'm not shopping veneers, but obviously I'm being so targeted. Yeah. I would love veneers. I'm sorry. She was 12, right? You too? 13. Yeah. I want it. This has always been a me and him thing.

Yeah. I don't think you guys need them. I would also go for just fake hair. Let's do it. Let's get implants. You both would look weird with fake hair too. I mean, Jake doesn't need it. I was going to say.

He's got terrific hair. Lowest scoring. Fifth lowest scoring game in the NBA since the 24-second shot clock introduced. The Mavs lost 68-66 to the Jazz in 1997. Good God. Did I keep this up? I was searching the box score of that game this morning.

It was interesting. What was interesting is I was looking at that Mavs season. They were terrible. They won like 20 games that year. Of course. One of their away games was like Golden State, 1997. Attendance, 8,000. There was no way there was that many there.

And on this day in 2010, the inflatable roof of the Minneapolis Metrodome collapsed following a snowstorm. They had to play their next game in Detroit. Is the Tampa Baseball Stadium done? Never use it again? That's the last I heard. Never use it? You know what I mean.

But it got ripped off, right? During one of them things. Hurricanes. Dude, listen to this. In that game. The Mavs game? Finley played 48 minutes. Oh, look what else at the box score. They only played seven guys.

Yeah. What are they doing? Hubie Davis played 48. I don't know because it's not like this was a normal thing because Malone played 38. Stockton played 21. They went nine deep on their bench. 48 minutes.

Today's birthdays of somewhat famous people. Tyron Smith is 34. I miss him. Former Cowboy Alfred Morris is 36. What a time. A lot of controversy there. On the show? Yeah.

About the pronunciation of Alfred Morris. It was a touchy subject. Alfred. Alfred. Former cowboy Raphael Septien, 71. Former ranger Cole Reagans, 27. Traded four? Chapman.

Or Aldis Chapman. And then he turned into a dynamite starter. He's very good. Which might happen with first round draft picks. Not here. Andrew Whitworth, 43. John Randall is 57. He got skinny.

Kind of. Not Joe Thomas skinny. He looks good. Yeah. He proved that linemen are all using steroids or something. Yeah, something. But also you're consuming 4,000 calories a day.

Mike Glennon is 35. He has a long neck. Very long. Earthworm Jim. Career earnings, 32 million. Damn. Billy Smith is 74. Billy Smith did something I would love to see.

He is the first NHL goalie to ever score a goal. You ever see a video of that, of somebody doing it? No. It's a good bit. Like, I always thought, was it Turco who was really good handling the puck? Yeah, that sounds right. Which, they had a goaltender who was very good at handling the puck. The trapezoid?

And then they, yeah, right when they had changed the rules. Ben Bishop was good at it. Was it Ben Bishop? But I don't think that was. He didn't play very much here. Yeah. I think it was Turco then. I don't know.

Somebody who was very good, like, I always thought had a real good chance. He would get long assists occasionally, too. But, you know, you get an empty net or something like that. Anyway, never saw it. Bob Zamuda, comedian, 75. He was Andy Kaufman's partner. Hmm. Actor Sherry Wilson is 66.

She was on Walker, Texas Ranger. Jennifer Connelly is 54. Oh, my. She was in Top Gun Maverick. She was also in Requiem for a Dream. Oh, that's her? Yeah. Fun movie.

That's going to be my Christmas movie with the family this year. Is Nora old enough? I don't think so, but, you know. Kids are growing up faster these days. They are. That's going to be my Christmas movie with the family this year. Is Nora old enough? I don't think so, but, you know. Kids are growing up faster these days. They are. Technology and stuff. I mean, you started with Chainsaw Massacre, but Chainsaw Massacre didn't have two women

using one device together at the same time in front of a group full of businessmen. That's very thrifty. Yeah. And actor or actress Mayim Bialik. Bialik? How do you say that? It's 49. Blossom.

Yeah, I didn't really, I didn't know anything about that show other than girls were into it. And then they had Joey, right? Oh, she's Big Bang. Jennifer Connelly? No. Oh, okay. Born on the Stay Not Dead, Orlando Brown.

The Alignment. Zeus and Bob Barker. Who almost, remember that was the bit. He died last year at 99. And like he remember that was the bit, he died last year at 99. And that was their bit. He went one under 100.

Closest without going over. Yeah. Dead on this day, still dead. We had quite a few deaths on this day that we will report to you. Did Bob Barker ever do anything else? I mean, I guess you could say the same thing about, like, Sajak. Right.

Sajak tried. He did? What, like acting? No, he had a late night show after. In fact, it's in one of my TV books about how, you know, the Sopranos changed the game, the early 2000s television, how it kind of changed the world. Is that the Sepinwall book?

I think it's in that book. The revolution will be televised or something? One of my TV books, I like reading about behind-the-scenes TV, but it was talking about Pat Sajak, and when he got, or probably it was like a late-night wars book. Why would it be about the other thing? book why would it be about the other thing pat sajak got a late night show and he wasn't really interested in um the guest booking process or the bits that they were planning what he really wanted to make sure he got like in his contract was he needed a billboard overlooking how like he a certain place in hollywood that most people would see it he wanted to build a billboard overlooking how... A certain place in Hollywood that most people would see it,

he wanted the billboard for his show to be there. It was a big vanity type thing, and he had really no... He had no reason that he should have been... That makes total sense to me. Yeah. But it feels like Bob Barker was only that guy. Whereas, I'll bet you people today might think,

oh, Drew Carey, has he ever done anything else? Yeah, yeah. They don't realize the vast library of... He was pretty popular in the 90s, man. He was. You should be very proud of him. Okay, died on this day all in 2006. We have Peter Boyle.

The dad in Everybody Loves Raymond. And I believe he was John Lennon's best man at his wedding to Yoko Ono. Really? Huh. Don't look it up. Same day Elizabeth Bolden at the time

and I don't know if they call her this for all time the world's oldest person. She was 116 years old. That sounds pretty good. No, it doesn't. And Keiko the Killer Whale, the whale from the Free Willy movies.

Were you into that? Oh, I was. No. I was super into it. Did you cry and stuff? Yeah, of course I did. His fin humped over. Because he would get sad in captivity, and that's actually what happens to him.

It just kind of falls over on its side because they're all bummed out. Lori Petty. Lori Petty and Michael Madsen. Ironic thread there because they actually had to use a whale in captivity to film this movie. He died metaphorically so others could be free. Died on this day in 2020, Charlie Pride. COVID.

Remember that? Barely. Norman Bridwell. He created Clifford the Big Red Dog. Spare. It's making a comeback. I know. Is Brooks into it?

I see it every now and then. Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's fine, I guess. It's just kind of a give up. Well, I don't know. But to a kid, hey, look how big that dog is. Oh, didn't you get to see Clifford or something?

It was a, yeah, Clifford day at Brooks' daycare. He was stoked. How'd he get that name? The big red dog? Well, I was... Louis C.K. has a great bit on that. Clifford wasn't big. You just drew him bigger than everything else.

And died on this day in 2022. Mike Leach. Damn, man. That's no good. I heard a story about him. that's no good heard a story about him but uh he did it one of his famous radio interviews or whatever he's driving through a chick-fil-a drive-thru and he stops the interview yeah i'll have a number one with a sweet tea and then it goes viral or whatever espn can't believe it mike leach because it's so mike leach and one of his assistants was driving in heard

the interview was like he's supposed to be in the office right now Parks walks in and Leach was doing the interview from his desk like he faked that just to feed into the Mike Leach aura he definitely seemed like a guy who was always, he was like if Ham were a football coach. Like he's just kind of always doing a bit that might just be for him. Ham as Mike Leach actually makes perfect sense to me.

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