The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 12-15-25 | Cowboys lose to the Vikings and any real chance at the postseason

Episode Date: December 15, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Cowboys lose to the Vikings... a game that kept playoff hopes alive for Dallas while the Vikings weren't playing for the postseason. Is Schotty a negative right now? Can Eberflus be brought back? What's going on with Trevon Diggs? Plus, a big weekend check and lots of money exchanging hands in the news (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (52:52) - Cowboys lose to Vikings and playoff hopes (01:09:35) - A cold hard look at Schotty and Eberflus (01:22:31) - The Trevon Diggs saga continues (01:59:59) - News: $30 million for a house, $44 million for a wreck (02:26:01) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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So the choice is easy, Dan. It's Qualis Roofing at QualisGC.com. Hello All right, all right, all right, all right, all right. I never listen, I'm going to listen to the dumb song. Hello friends. Sad Monday As far as the Cowboys are concerned

As far as your heroes on the Dumb Zone are concerned And they're gambling on the Cowboys Weather sucks There's not even the Equinox yet My mom told me that this weekend Yeah, that one's on the play card for sure yeah so the days are still getting longer no more rob reiner then you had that why lord on the on the pile uh trump had a touching

tribute to rob riner i got a picture of that in there the kind of hoping you wouldn't see that until the news oh you want to do that in the news i just thought it could be today in Twitter. Oh, sure. Yeah. He died of Trump derangement syndrome. TDS. Yeah, no, it's just weird. We always, I mean, Trump's changing the game in so many ways, and we would, you know, we wouldn't bemoan the fact, but we would point out the fact that, hey, somebody dies and all you can do is just say nice things about them. Right. Even if it's like Harvey Weinstein, you're like, ah, you know, but he did this, this, this, and made these movies, and I raped the girl. You know, And then there's Rob Reiner, who kind of seems fairly unimpeachable, right? Just kind of, or what are you going to say? Yeah, no, that's what I was going to say. I don't know what you could say. Rob Reiner, did he have a Me Too incident?

Did he have something really embarrassing? No, but he didn't like Trump. And, yeah, so it's... Yeah, I mean, it's funny because I... It's up on our video. I guess it's funny and sad. but I tend to think that it's a little too much the way we do it when people die

where you've got to lionize them and you can't even provide it. You can't even mention that Kobe Bryant was accused of rape without people getting mad. But instead of just correcting to the middle, Trump corrects all the way the other way. And it's like, not only am I going to say nothing good. Let's read it.

A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star has passed away. with his wife, Michelle, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind-cripling disease known as Trump derangement syndrome, sometimes referred to his TDS. Like he's a doctor.

He was known to have driven people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness. And with the golden age of America upon us, perhaps like never before, May Rob and Michelle rest in peace. Yeah, it's a unique mind, to say the least. No, I mean, and you know. Have we confirmed?

His kid killed him? His kid did kill him, or his kid's at least under arrest for the murder. Because his kid, I heard his kid found him. And his son was a drug addict. He'd struggled. He'd been in and had a treatment for a long time. Hollywood kid. No word on whether it was more that.

or him just being tired of his dad yelling woke shit at him. Yeah, you don't know. And that's the funny thing is you really can't say that Trump is wrong, right? No. He'll say, no, that's what I heard. I heard that it was because he's tired of his dad talking about me. But anyhow, the Cowboys season, deader than Rob and Michelle Ryan, unfortunately.

Actually not. Because there's not a 1% chance that Rob Ryan stands up tomorrow. That's true. Rob Reiner. For operational purposes, we're moving on. Now, the Dumb Zone has a fighting chance. Yeah. Not much of one.

You know the numbers? But we have a fighting chance. We disobeyed our leader, Brandon Aubrey. We triple-played times triple the Cowboys. Well, the thing was, he told us that after we had already decided on that day. I've got my excuse for him, ready. He had already told you specifically not to do it. Yeah.

And then it was your. idea to triple play it oh now it's the blame game i mean you signed off on it listen it ain't like philip rivers and the seahawks got i mean he was bad but i would have lost that too you know yeah i i actually picked uh i took the chiefs for my other one oh okay so you're just running down the the triples you would have done anyway yeah we were we were cooked yeah but i was going to triple the broncos yeah me too In any case, we could still pull this thing out of the ditch, but it's not looking pretty. We just have to fade every one of their triples.

We just need another triple-triple-triple play. Really? We might as well. We need one of our triple-triples to hit. We'll take all suggestions. Yeah. Searching for answers. If you know Mr. Vegas.

They made it through the last stream, but now we are faced with another three weeks of football with no playoffs on the line. So last I checked, which was this morning, Luca Donchich, still not on the Mavericks. Okay. So searching a little bit today. I want to switch teams, though. Like right now, I want, because I want to follow someone through the playoffs and then do one of their games.

Yeah, which we will do. Now it could be Packers, but now there's no Micah. So that doesn't make sense. Baker, always fun. But they might not make the playoffs. Yeah, nothing is given here. I kind of like Denver. Like Mahomes out, but Denver, it just feels like Denver could be our team.

That was a fun experience. We went to Denver. We mingled with some of the fans. They embraced us. For sure. I like their color scheme. Blake, big Kevin James guy, Kevin James portrayed Sean Peyton in the film. So there's a bit of a loose time in there.

Yeah. Yep. There's it. So we're not, we'll be courted. as to who if you're part of a fan base and you want us to join yours the Eagles doesn't feel good

no but we are for sale it's it sucks dude it sucks yeah let's do we got to think we underrate McCarthy the stars somebody want to pop on and get me like a speed run up to speed

on the stars I love hockey Nope It's a hot stove season Rangers you know Making some big moves I was talking to Jared about that last night We got Nimmo

Yep Or Settle down on Nimmo Dude another year for Jack Leiter Top 5 Syong this year We're going to do this again It's called him

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All right. weekend check is upon us we will get to the Cowboys soon I've a lot on the Cowboys I'm just watching the game again I guess we've proven we could actually not pay attention to the Cowboys all weekend wake up real early on a Monday and watch the game

and then cut audio and listen to Shottie but it was a very busy morning over the weekend though for me wasn't too busy got all the Christmas Christmas decorations down, out of the attic. The attic in here. The storage space above my garage. With a padlock on it.

So put up the tree, did that kind of stuff. I leave the emptying of all the boxes to my wife. Because, you know, I fill the box, bro. Oh, hell yeah. Overfloweth. Yeah. Thanks, bro. I have a question.

Yeah. your kids are here for how long over the holidays a few weeks each well uh yeah the one's here for like a month one's uh three weeks is it that long okay why it just feels like uh why does your wife need to decorate your house there's very little family act like i don't know with my wife i kind of i say to her like you know this is it feels like the stresses you out why do you even do this she says for the and then one of my kids will walk in like i love this decade i'm like she's right all right they love it but what's the but it's a pain in the ass right so is it just because she thinks she needs to do it like there's some pleasantville quota you have to check of yeah you're right

because i i kind of i was at like my dad and his wife don't put up a bunch of christmas decoration. I was at Hobby Lobby this weekend, and I saw this, it was like a glass, little tiny Christmas tree. You know, it was like two feet tall or something, but it was glass and it had little lights on it. Cute. You know, and you've seen them like that before their cookie jars. You could pick up the top of the half of the Christmas tree, but I was remembering it fondly

because my grandma had that, and that's all she would put up at Christmas. And I have been thinking, I look forward to that day where I just take this little thing and that's all that's in my whole house, this one little thing. But it's a good point. Yeah, I don't know. And my girls, they will rip anything. So I suppose if we didn't have a tree up and decorations all over.

Nice give up. You guys just die. Yeah. And then if we do it, they'll be like, oh, why do you do this? Half-ass. We're 20 years old. Yeah. Christmas is cooked.

I was thinking, though, This Christmas is chopped. I'm trying to decide. I did worry a lot about the, uh, we're doing a 12-hour sub-a-thon, raising money for the North Texas Food Bank. In fact, you could go to our website,

dumbzone.com, click on sub-a-thon on the banner up there. And you could see all the info on what we're doing and you can gift a sub. Or you could just donate straight to the food bank, uh, with the link there. But I was thinking, I should get them in here and we'll review a couple of classic Christmas movies or something. Yes. Because we need 12 hours. I was thinking we would do some movie, holiday movie stuff, and they're perfect for that.

Yeah. So I think I think I'm going to do that. No, that's sick. I just, you guys know how I grew up. I grew up in not a normal Christmas household. So I don't, I guess I just. It was overly Christmas. Way overly.

And we had everybody over for Christmas. My mom is now the Christmas house. And her life, like, she lives on a corner near downtown grapevine. She wants everyone to see Christmas house. My kids are there all the time. For her, it's her thing. I get it. But for a civilian, I don't, I don't really see the point if you're just kind of hanging out at home.

I don't, it doesn't. Like when you lived in your own apartment? Did you decorate it at all? I did not. No. Not a tiny bit. No. It never occurred to me.

But maybe that means I'm a grinch. Watching the Army Navy game a little bit, as I will do. That's a Patriot. Do the Marines have a college? No. Because I know Air Force does. No, the Marines are basically a division of the Navy. Oh.

Okay. So does that open it up for Space Force to get a college? Because I want a Space Force college. I want an Air Force versus Space Force game. I guess I don't know the specifics, but I would say that Space Force has a better job. chance than the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps is a different deal.

So, yeah, that'd be... That'd be awesome. I mean, I told you a few weeks ago, UCF, which is in Orlando, was wearing space-themed jerseys, and it looked pretty cool. There's so much... Yeah, there's so many possibilities there. So... It'd be really funny if they just had the most boring offense.

No. Well, that's cool that it always seems like Army does, right? And Air Force does air it out. like it's that's like the last name fits your job type thing like we wouldn't it wouldn't be right for air force to run a wishbone wishbone is that what air force does yeah okay yeah i think i just know they weren't they run weird stuff too but to your point just the idea of academy football it is interesting to me that the military academies are the ones who decide we're going to play the most basic execution based version of football because that's the job of the military

Don't make any decisions. Okay. Like, execute this. If this happens, do this. If this happens, and it works, because you can rep it. I'm full on into pluribus now. Can you give me, again, the elevator pitch? Not knowing I probably won't watch it, but I want to know what everyone's talking about.

The Vince Gilligan one? Yeah, I kind of think watching episode one is what I will say, do it. and then if it sucks you in, it sucks you in. Because I thought it was amazing. So time travel? Not time travel. There is end-of-world type-y stuff, but it's alien invasion type-y stuff.

Realistic version. I'm really loving it. And then Sunday, I acquiesce to my wife's wishes. Generally, I'm good for like an hour of TV, maybe an hour and a half in the morning but then I got stuff to do I like to get stuff done and my wife

also has stuff to do but tends to like let's do it at the last possible second and now this hurts me in general and I think it hurts you too we've talked about this before hurt is a relative term but

because I like to get things done now so that I can be a little relaxed. I don't like the Monday morning watching the game and cutting audio. I like to have a few things done so I can feel like, okay, I can now have a conversation or ease into it and feel prepared. Like, let's go play the game. Let's do the show because I know we have a lot of stuff prepared. So Saturday morning, watch that quick show.

Then I'm doing this, that. I'm getting stuff ready. I'm getting the den ready. I'm doing, because there's a lot, you know, whatever. And she is like, oh, you don't want to keep watching shows? Okay, and then she just keeps watching shows. Sunday morning, though, I acquiesced to her bit. And I was into Plyrobis, and I'm like, all right, let's watch another.

Let's watch another. I watched three in a row. That's as much binging as I've ever done. Did you get an honorary pair of sweatpants? And then, of course, she is. It's Sunday evening. She's like, when are the guys? When are people coming over?

I'm like, I don't know, about 6 o'clock. She's like, oh, damn. She's on the computer because she had work to do for work. And she's really scrambling, and she's like, I can't be bothered now. I can't be bothered. Can you do this? Like, she usually does a few things to get ready for the watching party. And I did those.

But I'm just telling you, pluribus is great. Talk to my mom. What did I mention that my mom was telling me about? Certainly the weather. The equinox. Weather adjacent. You don't get that. Well, your mom lives by you and you see her all the time.

You had something else yesterday, though. Oh, yeah, yeah. So she ran down all of the holiday movies out. She, like, looked at the newspaper or whatever she gets movies with and listed me everything and then had a comment about each one. Did you know? She says Anaconda, Jack Black. You like Jack Black.

I said, I do. She's like, God, that must be a comedy version of Anaconda. I go, I suppose it would be if Jack Black's involved. I think it's a disservice that we're not running just this preview as our break. Like every week, she just kind of gives us a little look at, maybe with her commentary from Rose. Rose is about to head to Florida to spend Christmas with her daughter, so she's scrambling. She needs a movie to watch with Rose. And as she's scrolling down, she was like, oh.

Like she had a momgasm And very excited that Mission Impossible Oh Like the latest in the Mission Impossible thing That's Tom Cruise, bro It definitely is I thought that was And my mom would drive off a cliff holding hands

If they could go see a Tom Cruise movie together Especially one where he's all hot Everyone Yeah I guess that's true But I mean one where he's not like making out He's kicking ass He's doing what Tom Cruise does. Yeah.

So anyway, that's a look at my weekend. Clayton? Saturday had a big content day. We started out with something I do every couple of months. I just go cruise South Irving, the old neighborhood where I grew up, see what's changed. A couple of months, once or twice a year, basically. And I ran across something that falls into our category of old fast food restaurants that are now something different. And this is a church's chicken that I frequented a lot as a child.

Very distinct building. And now it's an auto insurance place. That's a great one. They even lightly kept the color scheme, which you like to respect to the bright orange. But the funny thing about this is, is this church's chicken was a walk-up. only it didn't have an inside oh wow so yeah i was always mystified by those kind of restaurants like you can't even go in what's going on in there yeah so i was i drove by and this is right on o'connor and i was like how are they do first off i don't i definitely smells like

chicken still in there yeah it's kind of and where how are you sitting because there was no ever a place to sit in there it was literally counter chicken fryers Make it work, get your insurance But now, hey, now you get your auto insurance there Would it be cool if we had a I mean, I love Fox 4 And the Game Day Men's Health Studios

But if we had a studio in a former Pizza Hut or Yeah, Sonic. We had one of the former Pizza Hut sign me off Sonic could be funny. Sonic could be very funny Like we could just keep You could pull up and like listen to the show We could have it through the intercoms

You could keep a salad bar. Yeah, no. We could stay looking. Box is moving, you know? Yeah. Then Saturday night, we had a dual watching event. We had John Cena's last match. Oh.

And a little national finals rodeo going at the same time. So I was WT to the max. Wow. Yeah, that is Whiskey Tango for sure. That's a dip night. Yeah. So, it was, yeah, just a little rodeo action while John Cena's tapping out on his last match, the worst riding and ending to a career that Triple H has ever done. And he got booed out of the arena, pretty much.

He's like the main producer's story. Yeah, he's, so he's the new Vince McMahon of WWE. Creatively. Yeah, he's doing all the matches and, you know, basically coordinating everything. and as soon as it was over they did like a walkout with everybody and the entire crowd is just yelling you fucked up oh the wrestling fan will let you know yeah and then the post show he was getting booed and flipped off and hunter yeah

does this mean he's coming back no john sina is uh i was debating i was trying to explain this these morons last night they're like he's retired dude I'm like, well, okay, what's his job? They're like, well, he just still kind of works for WWE now. And I'm like, so you don't think that he'll just, I don't know, appear 15 more times over the name? It's the whole bit. How many final concerts is George Straighthead?

But he's not doing it. He's not doing matches. They fall for it every time. I fell for it. It's insane. He's now the Brett Hull of the WWE. He's the ambassador of fun. I was laughing, though.

to give Dan some life here. The clip of Pardon My Take asking John Sina about announcing the death of Osama bin Laden was very funny. I don't know if you've ever, he knew, but they were at a pay-per-view, a non-broadcast pay-per-view on a Sunday night. You remember it was a Sunday night. And this information had gotten to John Sina. If you remember the Rock actually, you knew before like everybody. Is that in a killing Obama? Yes.

Osama. Yeah, the Netflix thing. But John Sina gets this information passed to him, and he's in an arena of 20,000 people, and he's like, you know, they need to know this. Like, I'd rather them find out here than in their cars on the way home or something. So that's when he hopped on the mic and was like, the United States has compromised to a permanent end. Osama bin Laden. the fuck america it's like dude

that's one of the biggest pieces of news in american history and it was delivered in a paper view or like a house show or something by roid freak wrestler not edward rmorrow i love it

about as america as it gets brother uh i uh i'll go what did we do friday oh smashed him tail you know what i don't even i'm trying to think of what we did friday i don't know but uh saturday uh i went to indoor we had an indoor soccer game i'm in a very unique situation where the buddy of mine and his daughter were like hey we're signing up for this indoor league and uh so i signed up brought her to the first practice and there were some

boys there and i was like oh geez this must be co-ed didn't know and my buddy didn't either um he didn't know that it was actually not co-ed at all it's just the boys league oh i went up to the ref the first game there were no girls on the other team i'm like what's the rule on how many girls have to be out here and he goes there's no girl this is a co this is a boys league if you guys have girls it's fine yeah we're like oh damn all right um so here's the thing though um i think they lost the game we were gone lost the game before, but it was competitive. The four best boys in the whole league are on our team.

So when they're all there, it doesn't matter if we have girls out there. Anytime we need to get the league or the lead, he's just like, well, two of y'all hop back out there. And they just embarrassed the other boys. And it's got to be tough for those kids

because our team is half girls. Losing to the team with girls. And the girls are letting them know about it, too. You don't even have any girls. And it's like, well, I mean, they're not wrong. They are beating you. But then wife had an event, and I went to the Addison Improv to go see a guy that I actually tried to go see in New York last weekend, but timing didn't work out. Little Sasquatch.

He was a young guy, super young, super green, but he's very funny. He's, why, he might be 24, 25, Clayton. Yeah, he's really, yeah. That's an interesting choice of name. Why is he named that? I think. Like you're mapping out your career? I think what we're seeing here, Dan, is a guy who got famous from posting on TikTok and Vine and Twitter at the age of like 15 or 16 with the name Lil Sasquatch.

And he's got to stay with it. Yeah, his name is Harry Settle. Yeah, he tries to go by Harry now. I've seen him build as hairy in some places, but when they introduce him, it was like Little Sasquatch 666. What's his handle? But he got some level of, you know, fame with Barstool. And now he's trying to do stand-up. And he had a 45-minute set, but it's just very different than the week before.

I was telling you yesterday, going to shows in Manhattan. Even if they weren't comedians whose sense of humor were necessarily my style, they're just way more season. Like if you're doing weekends at any of the clubs in New York You know what you're doing You've been around for a while probably So it's way more like There's no crowd work really You know what I mean

It's just like I've got an act And a cab driver in Dallas Yeah I mean I'm sure there's some Similarities to Like these are just a little more seasoned So you say Little Sasquatch Didn't have crowd work He just had his act

There was very little crowd work And his opener was another Barstool guy That he brought with him his feature So that guy does 20, 25 minutes And they were both like They were good Sass more than the guy before him But I'm not a big fan of like

That's a good joke This crowd sucks Like it's the all's fault You didn't get that And it's like Well they threw that out there a little bit A lot And that happens a lot when you're in Dallas too

I've noticed Is there's an assumption That everyone's just dumb or slow Or you don't get that Because this or that I just don't think that's a great bit to be like, oh, okay, this crowd sucks. I guess that's what we're dealing with tonight. It's like, I guess what your job is tonight.

To make me laugh. Yeah, so I, but it was still fun. I like doing it. It's something to do. And then Sunday morning I went and ran the half marathon. I did really everything I could not to, including didn't really prepare the night before. I ate. What does that mean?

Like carb loading? Going to bed at a reasonable time, probably drinking a lot of water. I stopped at the way home and bought, like, there's a, there's like a knockoff Buckees by my house. And what that means is, like, they have all the treats and stuff. And on the way home, I bought, like, seven Christmas Oreos. Oh, you told us what did you eat at the comedy show? A two-itimim minimum, which was satisfied by a slice of cheesecake with a small. scoop of ice cream, which is two items.

You don't do that, you know? This is a walking, you are a walking game day men's health billboard, though. Yeah. Because that weekend, I'm going to go to 11, 8, 11 p.m. or what, 10 p.m. Comedy show Saturday. I'm going to get up at whatever ungodly hour when it's the coldest day of the year thus far. It was like 15, 20 degrees on Saturday morning, because we, We had a fire.

It sucked, and I'm not a fan of running in the cold. I don't know if anybody is, but I'm a real baby about it. And then, whatever you do during the day, because I'm sure you're not just ignoring everything all day. And then we do a game stream last night. And you brought the heat, bro. There's no doubt. Look, it's playoff form. Somebody need to bring it.

Yeah. But I really, in my head, I overslept because I've run this a few times. And it is always cold. It's not always as cold as it was yesterday. But one of the problems you run into, a lot of people take the dart. and you can time out when you want to get there but if you're driving and parking or I've taken an Uber

you don't know where you're going to be able to park where do you start by City Hall but everything is closed Fox 4 oh you can't even get there maybe very difficult to get downtown especially as late as I was leaving and I'm thinking as I'm pulling up I'm going to be late they're going to close the corral which they will do I've gotten to a shuttle I'm in the car with like 10 other people

and they drop us off I had to run to the starting line about a mile to get there on time to start. So I'm already just like, fuck this. Did they let you stop a mile early then? They did not. So, yeah, in my head, I'm like, I don't want to do this, but I needed a mental win. You know what I mean? Like, I just feel like I've been kind of like, yeah, lately not doing the stuff that I, like, don't want to do.

I don't know what you mean because I talked to you on Saturday and I advised you to pace yourself a little bit. I just want to be strong for the night, but you were strong in the night, and you sound fine now, so what do I know? I just wanted to be like, hey. That's all it is, baby. I got my T-shot last week. You had to get some dope. I needed to get some dope, I mean, which you can get by exercising,

which you can get from going to 12 DFW locations, gameday.com, 10% off TRT for life, and press your friends. Most of them. because then then I because I forgot this one piece of running

any of these races is that people can look your time up oh no not people and I have never really I'm slow let's just say that first

that's an important factor here but I have never thought boy I should try to run these like faster I run like a 10 to 11 minute mile pace whether i have the vest on no vest three miles five miles 10 miles that's about

you know my jogging pace and uh the only person who's ever like really been uh an asshole about that is uh members of the fleming family uh because they're big marathon people so daniel his brother tc's brother would like look up my time and send to the tc and be like this is shitty they always he tells tc it's worse than Oprah yeah and Oprah ran the full yeah and even you do and a half your time per hour yeah per mile yeah and it was weird because I like I got through the first five or six miles yesterday and was like I had barely blinked I'm like this is nothing and by like a mile nine I realize I'm not even winded my legs aren't tired like I feel fine i'm like thinking

to myself should i like should i start running faster but i didn't want to be one i'm slow and two i just wasn't i just didn't care what do you think but then you get to the end of it and the problem

is not tc or his brother more his brother but the problem is that running i hate running people and i love all god's children and i love all listeners to this show and um

with underneath that though if we were to be critical of each other's hobbies and judge them as we are want to do i just hate i fucking hate running people i hate it and you don't nobody's you don't i don't just say it until they expose themselves as running people and then you're like you know what this is the thing when you think something about a certain group of people and you're like but i probably shouldn't say it because i that's mean it's a stereotype and then they just do some shit that confirms it You're like, I knew it. Yeah.

I knew it. I had to wait on a back-in guy, big truck man with a Texas tech emblem. For some reason, that makes sense. Yeah, it does, unfortunately. Oh, yeah, cyclist. I'm zero to 100 on any cyclist. Cyclists is the same thing. Road rules don't apply to them.

It's their road. You look at them, you want to be like, God, this guy sucks. I want to make fun of his little outfit. But you don't because you're like, I'm trying to be better about this until they're, like, in the middle lane. and you're like, hey, I think that sucks. And they're like, well, you being an asshole. You're like, also your uniform's gay. You wouldn't have said it until they expose themselves as a-hole hobbyist.

CrossFit people are better than cyclists or marathon people. I'll share the road. I appreciate where you doing. It's a hobby. You're getting exercise. I would love to be you one day. Is that time on your hands? That's super interesting.

You have all that. That's cool. Yeah. Awesome. Love how tight that shirt is, bud. And I'll gracefully. just get around them, you know, I got somewhere to be too. Sorry. They don't love you doing that. I can feel it when I pass them. But when I come to the stop sign, I do my full stop like I'm

supposed to, officer. This MFer will just blow right through that damn thing. Of course he does. Nothing pisses me off more. No. Why don't you have to follow the same rules we do? You need to stop. Only when they benefit them do they follow those same rules. Red light doesn't matter. No one comments. I'll just go through. Do you have the little shorts on? You don't. They have the sports. I guess I need the special shoes that don't come out of the pedal thing. Okay.

When you get those? I hate cyclists. It's the same marathon guys to see. But thank you for your subscription to our show. Do we get it? You can, you've made the decision that your hobby is to spend all of your time by yourself just running. And then you say that and you're like, you realize what a loser fucking behavior this is? And they're like, yeah, but sometimes we do it with like run clubs.

I'm like, you're almost getting the idea. we have teams we have sport like golf people people you golf by yourself that's like golfing by yourself generally a loser activity golf is cool because you get to hang out with people it's the hobby for vices you can run a long ass way you've got the time to do it that's awesome taking four shots and smoking a cigar by yourself not cool doing it with your buddies on a golf course it's the same thing cool

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Blake's turn for his weekend. We always let Blake end because he's got the life we all Dude during football season I know the I know the deal Now this week a little bit different But the contrast Of prior weeks is the subject for today

Like I live vicariously through you Because you said some people's hobby Is running alone Mine is sitting alone And then when we do a game stream It's like running club I'm sitting with a bunch of people doing what I would be doing alone anyway

watching the game. But Blake does all these cool things like go to the cowboy game and stays at the Ritz. Yeah. Yeah, I wish. First, let me say it has a mustache. It feels nice.

This is the closest I felt to Dan in a long time because I just complained about like T.C. Messing everything up last time with the game stream and now everything was put back where we were supposed to. The levels were reset. My headphones were back where they need to be. So this is nice. Just complain about it.

it and the situation will fix itself. Yeah. No, you guys apply a little public pressure. It's just the Bill Parcells method. Shottie in a press conference. And TC has proven. He's not Trayvon Diggs. Yeah. Who will not take those cues.

He's going to be like, okay. Yeah, I don't know if TC listens to every show, but I'll take it a step further and say generally just it doesn't pop and it just sounds better now than it did at the start of the year. Like,

beginning if the volume got high. No, I think T.C.'s actually... There's a lot that's better now. Tweaking it a little bit. Yeah. There you go. Yeah.

Power play. So, Brooks had a performance at his school, Friday night, a little Christmas show. They just played two songs. He's four. So what does that mean? What can he do? They just played songs and they did, like,

some hand gestures and a couple spins and a couple jumps. It's very minor, but then... Do you video it? Yeah, of course I did, because you just turn into your parents at some point, and there I am at the back of the room, filming on my phone. Now, that's a benefit because over here we got smart business people in the Carroll School District, and you're not allowed to video things. Oh, really?

Just go to the lobby, and you can purchase that DVD. Right. For how much? Whatever, ridiculous, $59.99. It's crazy hot. I'll pay it. From family memories, the subsidiary of Black Rock. Yeah.

Yeah. No, anyways, go ahead. Well, I miss, like, the final two minutes or so because my phone ran out of storage. Whoa. And, like, are we going to run out of storage one day? Like, aren't we all just accumulating gigs and gigs of storage? Gummy thought.

For sure. How big is the cloud? Is that what you're asking? Did you just say? that did not laughing just because it does seem like a gummy like are we going to oh yeah it seems that way it does seem like they keep you know every time you blink it's like whoa i can get two terabytes now for a hundred dollars and you know everything keeps expanding is the is the cloud infinite i don't know i'm surprised you ran out of store this is just on

your phone like the heart yeah not the cloud then it's on your phone um i mean i I mean, it'll upload to the cloud, but I, I mean, through years of, I don't delete texts, so those accumulate and all the attachments and I don't know. The 90 phone numbers of Angelo, you have to say. Yeah, yeah. All the deals, all the coupons that are taking up space. But, I mean, as we're all saving video and all that, I don't know, then the gummy thought took me down a black mirror hole of like, what if one day we're not trying to buy property, we're trying to buy data storage? Yeah, man. I don't know.

I'm rich. I got 500 terabytes. You guys remember people were spending like 100 grand on a property on, like, Web 3? A video game or something? Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's kind of that. Yeah.

Like, did that just go away? Like the NBA? So far. Collectible and Metaverse. That's right. Yeah. You got some sweet property in the Metaverse? Man.

I think I tried to get our show. show in the Metaverse. Just cover all bases. So Jake was alluding to earlier. My wife went back to work this weekend, last weekend. Off of maternity leave. Yeah, so she had four months, so it's hard to complain that she's got to go back. But that meant I had the four-year-old and the four-month-old all by myself.

And so I try to pick and choose when I want grandparents' help because I don't, I want them to enjoy seeing my kids. I don't ever want them to feel burdened. So I hardly ever asked for help. So Saturday, he wouldn't really take the bottle. And maybe this is where me not doing skin to skin hurt me. Maybe that's where he would have taken a bottle. Had we just shared a bond when he was born?

Had we met before. Yeah, okay, it's probably more of that. So, I mean, it's great being married to a nurse because anything that happens with the kids, whether it be injury or sickness, she can immediately triage and say we don't need medical professional for this. He just needs this or, hey, he might be sick. Oh, just whatever we need.

However, every little minor thing is he's about to die. And so with him not drinking very much, he could have easily gotten dehydrated. So I ended up having to take him to her at work so that she could feed him. Oof. With the jug? With the jug. Just popped one out? Yeah.

What else would have been? Well, I don't know. Yeah, I don't know. Does she pump? And so it's her milk in the bridge. Yeah, yeah. It's hers, but it's a dude. So it's not the brand of milk. It's just a delivery.

It's a dude with a mustache, give her a bottle rather than. Yeah. Yeah. But does they make her keep working? Like, is she over like a car accident victim with a four-month-old attached to her supple teat? It's hanging. It's hanging. There were, no, she had a preceptor or something because she's still like getting acclimated back.

So she just stepped out for 30 minutes. That makes sense if they don't just drop you right back in the gunshot wound or something. But besides that, I was able to make a listener birthday party. Daughter turn eight, I think, and Brooks went to a gymnastic birthday party. And I did take all's advice. I did give them a gift card for dinner. So rather than show up empty-handed or with a note, another toy that their kid may or may not want.

Here, you and the wife, treat yourself to a nice dinner. And it was great. My favorite bit of this is Brooks in all of the pictures. So they all huddle together on the mat. Yeah, this is like they all those things. I take it. Yeah. So I've got all of them.

My favorite part about this one was they had a sign, you know, happy birthday from, and he's holding the sign. It's like DC at the Waterburger. He's at the front, front middle, holding the sign. It's going to be so weird to explain when he's, like, 18 to him. But she's eight. She's going to be like, well. Who is this four-year-old's this photo?

There were a ton of kids there. He blended in, but I just, that was my favorite. I'm going to put together something. Did you meet the wife? Like, what is their thought? As a listener to us, I'm assuming it's a dude. I'm assuming his wife doesn't know about us. And all of a sudden, this guy with the must-

ass shows up um there were a lot of people there so maybe she just thought i was anyone else so she was very kind okay last weekend the she was a little perturbed but um and this wasn't in their house so no yeah this is this is at gymnastics place um but yeah man it was uh i don't know it's tough it's a it's a coming back down to earth taking care of the four month old where'd you sleep uh we have a good sleep So I'm in my bed, but it's not an easy sleep because every sound he makes, I don't know if he's getting up. When did you stop sleeping on Brooks's floor?

That was a short little phase. Okay. So we're, I haven't done that in a while. Nora has a trundle. I don't know what that is. It's like the bed that pulls out underneath her bed. Oh, yeah. Which is great.

Oh, but she'll make you sleep on it? Yeah. Like, she's like, why would you leave? How long have you been doing that? It's not every night. But it's way easier to fall asleep in there than it is if you're, like, on the ground or in her bed. It is funny. It sucks.

But when you guys mention this stuff, and since I got kids, there are 20, I do remember fondly little phases. And at the time, you don't, is she ever going to end this? But then it does end. And then you kind of, you're a little sad. No. Like that she doesn't do this stuff anymore. You know, it was very childlike. We have a little stretch, this is SG, we have a little stretch, me and my son, who just turned three of either Saturday or Sunday afternoons.

He ain't napping on the weekend. He knows there's action going on. Like, he knows everybody's home. But I can take him to our bed, and he'll lay down and, like, just kind of watch TV with me. Like, whatever game is on, I'll just put on NFL or college for about two hours, and he'll just lay on me. And I'm like, fuck, I really wish I could get up and go. like do something i could really use his time to work out call dan go to the grocery store but he's just laying there and you're like man this is this is not going to last for long

before i'm like so you're trying to damn i miss that enjoy it yeah so there's a lot of quarter quote wasted time a dumb kid who wants to hang out with me yeah i wonder if you bond differently with a boy uh yeah because i was at uh coals or something this weekend and I saw a dude with his like 18 and 17, whatever, 17 and 20, something like that. But he was a big dude and these were two big sons. And it just felt like they had this incredible bond that I do have a bond with my girls. But I don't know, it just felt different. Maybe, but if we're just using outside observers stuff, maybe it is harder.

but like your relationship with your daughters is pretty sick like i definitely know guys who don't feel it doesn't feel like they know their daughters at all and they like never really tried to but i think if you get it right well no it's a great relationship because they're never going to try to kick your ass they're not going to really ask me about i know there's certain things sure and it just feels like you know having a little you that you know you can more relate to like i sometimes i just can't relate at all to what they're thinking i like it it's enjoyable but anyway no i i so my uh that young wife out there my jordan hudson we're going to have a boy we're going to do everything we can have a boy so get it ready we knew a guy who had advice on that no yeah i love having i don't know

even brooks now he just feels like he's into the same stuff i am he just feels like i don't know a buddy but my perspective on like i was dreading it this weekend and i i will continue to dread it but just seeing my grandpa every every week and him wishing he was still like i don't know important in a way of like just being needed i'm trying to not wish these weekends away because i definitely did when brooks was a kid yeah like when early on like i got to bottle feed you i got to try to like my day now revolves around you and it was really hard on me but this i'm trying to stay optimistic positive and have just a better perspective every second kid man they all have it so much easier they all are so much more loved they're all it's they have a lot more freedom

it's simply true like your parents know how to no you get better at what to react to yeah what not to react to you know who gets the best of all the accidents no the uh the new wife kit oh yeah because my half brother or whatever my once my dad like he you think he ever got hit with a belt he has no rap sheet yeah no he's like i made all these mistakes with these other two i'm gonna get this one exactly right and yeah the kids had a perfect life well the the big question is are we gonna run out of the data you're done last night yeah okay picking up burline nothing oh he's my third kid. Yeah.

No. He's great. Voiced a text in the car. I had to drop him at a bar last night on the way home. Oh, yeah. He's like, I'll find my way home? Yeah, the big boss was in town and invited us all out for drinks. I politely declined.

But I dropped Berlin off this place downtown. It seems to indicate he knows how to use an Uber. I don't know how he got back. Out from there. I don't know how he got back. But, no, yeah, the game was cool up until it wasn't. Yeah. It's sad.

Do you go on the, oh, should we switch? Let's flip into sports, because I got a question for you about going on to the field. So let's go to this. Let's have a sponsor, fairlease.org. Oh, yeah, I like that. Fairlease.org. That's where you need to lease your vex, uh, your, at least your next vehicle. Where is it? It's right there online. There is no physical dealership,

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as you may know check it out on our youtube page seem to have some good interaction last night and some of the interaction was with the chat like we will check the chat a few times a game. And the chat was enamored with the picture of you that was sent to us. Great. Do you have any idea what was going on? The comments? No, I haven't seen this.

No. The comments were apparently you had a bit of a moose knuckle in your pants. Oh, really? Yeah. It's just an unfortunate fold near your bulge. A lot of bleak Blake Weiner talk there. Great. And also the fact...

Well, don't show it now. Also, the fact that you were just standing regally as if you are the king in the middle with your hands clasped while you're two less important people around you, the play-by-play guy and the color commentator, have their arms around you, kind of like showcasing you. Presenting you. Yeah, they want me in the picture, and then Ted tells me to get in the middle. I've learned to not open up Ted knows what he's doing Yeah My

Apparently, I don't know My stuff is too small And so I know to keep my hands down Button the jacket I don't know Then now I got to be Aware of a moose knuckle So like I said

I'm getting I'll get a week better So yeah So next time I will know to I cover up or something I don't know You may have to wear a cup I don't know

Yeah I'll wear a cup You look like The proud son of two dad's in that picture. Like, they're really proud of you. It's graduation. My boys on the field. I have to call the game.

That's awesome. Well, the game started out super positive. We got triple, triple play riding on this thing. Yeah. Cowboys to receive. You know, certainly they won and deferred, right? Or Cowboys to kick off. They end up with an interception on the first drive.

Didn't like the first play call. Shottie says a lot of things. This is going to be a theme today when I talk about the Cowboys. Shottie says things, and then they don't really do them. He's good at saying things. It is coach speak, and he's said before, I don't like to just do coach speak, and then he proceeds to do coach speak to follow that statement.

And he says, like, love a nice big play, like a sudden change, big go-for-it play. Haven't really seen that, though. because they get an interception on the second play of the game and then you know what? Let's hand the ball off at the middle here. Let's just make sure we can establish this for one yard. And then, you know, it's kind of like taking a shot on second and one or something.

I don't know, man. I'd never see Shottie do stuff like that. Then, now is this Shottie? Certainly he had to sign off on it because they get to a fourth and three. and the Brandon Aubrey fake field goal we were going crazy I bet it was the most glorious I can't remember a time I've been happier

in my whole life it worked out perfectly like you know like your first kid is born and you're like exhausted and you know like I'm not feeling happy right then because I'm like will that thing ever close up enough for me to enjoy it again you know you're you're thinking all

It could be a school shooter. Right. That's exactly what you're thinking. But with Brandon, pure joy. It was like, my God, what can't he do? And legitimately before, I mean, obviously we're hyper-focused on it because of our relationship with him. I've never seen that run in a game.

Definitely not in the NFL. I've never seen the holder over-shoulder toss. You see it, as Coulinsworth said, in practice a lot. But I've never seen anybody run that in an NFL game. I watched it over and over like 10 times this morning. Sure. I don't think passing ever crossed his mind. Because it did seem like there was a defensive back with whoever was running out, like kind of in both.

Well, yeah. I mean, I don't know if it was in his mind legitimately to do it, but it's just the basic play that every... Dack makes that play all the time, which is just run to the edge and have the fear of the throat long enough. long enough to where you can hold the defender and slide. That was a little of our debate last night. Was that a designed pass? Did he actually make a decision, or was it like you're just going to run? Well, there's no doubt that there's a pass option.

Okay. That's why Spanth Ford is running right there. If that guy sprints right at Brandon and he's meeting him in the backfield, Brandon's got to chuck it, and that Span Ford will be wide open by himself. That's the hope. Okay. Well. But he made the, I don't know that he ever really.

seriously thought about it because he can move a little bit and knew he could get to the marker. He made the, yeah, he made the slide, saw some chatter online of the spot was wrong because it should be where he started sliding. That is only if you directly take the snap. Right, okay. That's the rule of a quarterback. If you directly take the snap even, I guess if you're a running back who directly takes a snap, then you are subject to that rule. but he was pitched the ball

so you're like any runner you could slide and then crawl all the way to the end zone you're not down that's right okay so then Javante Williams scores a touchdown things are great things continue to be great

as the next drive Kenny Clark nice jump looked like he might have jumped the snap but let me say this real quick they did go for a fourth down on the first drive and got it now it was the most obvious

I would think it's a fourth and one at the two. And yes, the Vikings definitely thought that it was fourth and goal. Oh, yeah, because they ran off the field excited. Several of them did. When they made the stop. Yeah. And they scored on the next play. But I think we're going to end up talking about shotty and fourth down and these sorts of things a lot.

They did go for one there, but that's like the most. You had to go for that after faking a field goal from 40 yards or whatever. You can't then be like, okay, now we're going to actually kick a field goal from one yard. And leaving them on the one is a much different situation too. So things are going great. Kenny Clark made that backfield stop. He pushed that Minnesota Center who wears the giant helmet. It's so strikingly, have we talked about this?

Like in the future, will everybody have them? And we will just remember back in the day when they started them or is it like uh you know braces where it's just that when the technology starts it's huge and clunky and and and onerous and then eventually they'll figure out a way to make that helmet smaller it looks really funny it looks so funny it's i don't i can't tell if it's funny you're on a big guy or a little guy like a really little guy looks like he's going to fall over but a big guy it's it's also very goofy and then minnesota punt And you're like, damn, let's go.

And I thought right then it's important to go up 14-0. Definitely. And they didn't. Instead, they punted it. By the way, getting the ball, that's the play where Cavante Turpin did not feel to punt. Went back and watched it. Watch it a couple times. Difficult, but I think he could have got there.

Like, you've got to catch that punt. Cavante Turpin is a guy who will catch a ball at the four-yard line when you're supposed to let it bounce into the end zone. He instead lets the punt bounce at the 30, and it bounces all the way an extra 30 yards. That would end up being a 60-yard punt down to like the three-yard line. And then, of course, you're, oh, well, this limits our playbook. We can't do this or that.

And they didn't even get a first down, so they have to punt. then the defense immediately gives up a 30-yard pass they add on a horse collar and the field is flipped right away and then the next play another 30-yard pass and it's tied 7-7 and all of that good feeling all of that if you will momentum all that had been built in the first quarter is now a tie game and it's it's on it's kind of And like, okay, this is going to be a back-and-forth, you know, battle. It's a real football game. Yeah, and I kept thinking throughout, like, the offense has to do all it can.

Because I've been watching the defense. And, you know, Minnesota's got some exciting players. Besides the quarterback, who by the end of this game, you would, it's a very familiar refrain for playing the Cowboys this year. where whatever announcer is doing the game will be like, oh, the coming out game for, you know, oh, man, this J.J. McCarthy, this unbelievable. Like, he's been going through a lot this year, but look at this game. He had done his career high as yards and everything by halftime,

his career high at the end of the game, and it's embarrassingly low. When you look at his career high, it's like 250 yards, but it's his career high. and this is where he turned the corner, folks, and you're going to watch him go out and just get his ass kick next week by a competent defense. That's the way it works with the Cowboys. Didn't even really feel like they made it hard on him ever.

No, he had a ton of time to throw. Yeah, some of the stats on that are crazy. Like his production with more than two and a half seconds to throw and all that. It didn't seem like it was because they were making these really amazing calls that beat this blitz. Like, I don't remember the Cowboys really bringing everybody at all. So they did on the pick. Donovan Wilson's on a blitz, on the third play of the game.

Oh, okay. And then maybe one or two other times in the first quarter, possibly including the touchdown they gave up. I was trying to count how many guys went on that one, the one you just referenced. But I don't care if they blitzed and gave up a touchdown. That doesn't mean you stopped doing it. They had maybe four or five in the first quarter

and only won the rest of the game. blitzes. They also had no sacks, and I think they only ended up with one or two pressures on the night. So that's one of those deals where it seems very Jerry Jones and, you know, fan man to just be like, you just got to blitz more. But the fact is, they do it less than almost anyone else. And if you can't let Jared, you can't let Jared Gough sit back there last week, I get that. But you also, he's an NFL quarterback. J.J. McCarthy can complete passes to Jordan Addison and Justin Jefferson. If he has all day, it's not like the Cowboys just never blitzed under Dan Quinn because they had Micah Parsons.

They were still about, you know, 10th to 15th in blitzing. But for some reason, since the Cowboys got Quinn and Williams, they blitz even less. It's just kind of like, well, we're going to line up and see if ours can beat yours. And then you give that guy forever to stand back there. And, yeah, eventually that's going to end up with Jameson Williams or Justin Jefferson on Marquis Bell. And there's no prayer. I wonder if that. Iberflus has been not good, my friend.

No, and I wonder if it's like Shottie's fourth down or field goal like every other time thing. Oh, it didn't work. I'm going to do this. It did work. I'm going to do this. Is it because the Blitz did work early? And then they got beat on a big play later? So it's like, well, let's back off on this because you don't want to get beat on big plays.

I think they're the same. So we'll just get beat on plays throughout down the field. And when you ask them about it, you say, well, they would say, well, we do, we're, what's your fourth down philosophy? Or what's your blitz philosophy? That's situational. It's situational. But the problem with when you say you're situational is you're way too subject to the whims of whatever just happened. whether it's recency bias or emotion or whatever like that's what I wrote this morning in the column is like when Dan Campbell took over in Detroit they said we're going to do this this way we're going to do fourth down this way with shoddy it's you're not committed to anything so you can if it doesn't work that's going to suck you know the the lines were oh and seven and fourth downs and yesterday when one came up did they think about it

shoddy they did not they went for it because that's what they do and that's the same thing if you're going to have to live with some of the downside but the cowboys with this coaching staff i mean you know i think schadenheimer is uh or iberflus is just defensive shotenheimer he needs his own clayton adams which he doesn't have and probably means he doesn't have a job next year well let's hold that i i have a thought on shoddy it could be construed as a gummy thought that's why i'm going to say uh remember early bird cbd.com never forget what's the promo code now they've changed it so if you've used our old promo code you can get 20% off if you use the new promo code again i'm going to guess that it's dumb

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let alone how to handle all that comes with being a head coach. I really think if Mike McCarthy was here, they might have a couple more wins. I think Shottie is just, he's feeling. his way through this. I think Shottie in three years will be a better head coach. I don't think Shottie's ready for this job. Despite 25 years in the game, there's a lot of guys who have been around the game for a long time

whose dad you never heard of, and therefore they don't get this opportunity. For sure. That is why he has this opportunity. It's not just because he has a great personality and he got along with Jerry in an interview. That doesn't mean that he doesn't have credentials, but the separating factor is that. Yeah. I just feel like it's been obvious watching him

that he is figuring this thing out. He's trying to. He doesn't have it yet. And maybe you never have it totally figured out, but we'll get into it. I mean, do you want to get into it? The fourth down calls, the field goal decisions, they were throughout this whole year there has not like you said

Dan Campbell has this way I do things and this is what we're going to do and we've talked about this for a long time if you have this like if you're a I go for it on fourth down once we get to this our own 40 or whatever 45 maybe but we it's four down territory if it's within fourth and five we are going for it because then that is your mindset

And that terrifies a defense when you're playing that team. Like, oh, man. Oh, big stop, folks. Third and five, we big stop there. Only a two-yard gain. Nope, not a big stop because you've got to do it again now. And it's just a real, I mean, that's a huge percentage if you think about it. If you've got four downs, you're adding another down.

So you're adding whatever, 25%, 33%, somewhere between there, right? it's a huge shift and it feels like a huge weapon that had gone it's like the three-point line in basketball all these years you could have been doing this and now teams are doing it and it's really working and you see dan campbell go for it six times in a game or four against whatever it was that one game and it doesn't work and gets heavily criticized and it didn't matter because the next game this is how we play and this is what we do and it you know it evens out and i just think shoddy doesn't know series to series play to play time to time and the therefore the offense also kind of doesn't know and uh the opposing defense doesn't really have to worry that

much about it i generally agree with that i mean yeah you got to figure he'll get better as time goes on some guys never get it as you said i mean andy reeds still gets criticized for fourth down calls like the one last week but what what i think is is interesting about the fourth down development in the league is that you know look at the teams that people are like well it's that they do it and you just got to trust it's teams that play smash mouth football and it's teams that actually do run the ball well and this goes back to i think what you said about shoddy says a lot of things He says a lot about how they want to run the ball. And he'll say a lot about how that's how they want to control the game.

But I'm not so sure he actually loves running the ball all that much. I think, you know, he's got, he's a quarterback, and he's got DAC, and they've got CD, and they've got pickings, and he wants to light it up and this and that. That's why I'm not so sure about McCarthy is he wouldn't run the ball either. But I know this is strange to hear it coming out of my mouth, but I feel like they could have run. on the ball 15 more times yesterday and run it on third and the situation you just said

and set up a fourth and run it again you know i mean the two long field goals brandon missed the 50 plus both of those it was third and five on the play before and they took a sack terrible what about running the ball on third and five you got this freaking javonte williams one of the few players left in the NFL that i don't think knows that it is bad for you your health to play pro football so in your head plays like a psychic But in your head, that's what you're doing if you know it's four-down territory. Of course, yeah. I mean, your whole thing changes.

And I think if you're a team that runs the ball, runs the ball well, especially in the middle of the offensive line yesterday, Vikings are a little banged up. I thought there were so many times where they could have just kept running it. And this is also where it pisses me out. Malif Davis might be a fine player. But there's no reason the Cowboys don't have a player as good as Javante Williams as their second running back. you can find him.

Here's how I know. You had RICO Daudo. He signed for the same amount of money as Javante did in Carolina. Why not have both? There were 10 other running backs they could have taken instead of Jaden Blue, including Cam Scadaboo, who, you know, imagine him next to Javante. So maybe that's some of the argument. I'm just trying to think of argument shot he would have for like why they didn't just stick with it.

Javante missed a couple series. But even when he was back in the game in the second half, They don't stick with it because I think it goes back to the, I think he's going to be a good coach. I think he's got command of the room. I do not think he knows what he is. The difference between him and Matt Heberflus is, Matt Hebrflus has had two decades to show me what he is. I get it. If I need help, stop in, you know, Drew Breeze in 2010, I'll call you.

Let's talk about a couple of those situations then. I thought the most egregious one was five minutes left in the third. It's fourth and three from the 15-yard line. And the Cowboys go and try the draw-you-off sides bit. And like it, when they're doing it, you kind of know they're doing it, and everybody knows they're doing it. That is fake. And then they take the delay of game and they kick the field goal,

and they go up 23 to 17. So they go up by 6. You're up three, and it's still now a one-score game. Here, let's go to... You know what, actually, let me go to Collinsworth first, because I didn't like what Collinsworth had to say. How old is... It's...

You know, I just think it's the right decision. You know, there's something about having a six-point lead, even if they score a touchdown against you, you can still win it with a field goal, right? But it's so funny now, every time somebody goes for it or goes for a field goal, you're like, oh, really? I know. It's still okay to say? It's exactly right.

It's exactly right. It's like kicking a field goal feels not politically correct during the game. So they're talking about the people, the analytics people, all this kind of stuff. I didn't like that. And then Shottie was asked, this was... Hold on real quick. Huh. You faded that.

That's funny. What? Boy, yeah. Yeah, Collinsworth, dude, that's just too hot to handle. I won't touch that. No comment. Like, what are you going to get in trouble for him saying the word political? Sorry, that's a funny dismount to me.

So Shottie was asked about it. Fourth and three from the 15-yard line. And you're kicking a field goal. Actually, that might be in the question, so I apologize for repeating that. You're up 23, 17. And you try to 59-yard field goal Rather than try to pin them deep You second-guess that?

No. Wait, am I playing the right one? No. Oh, I'm sorry. You know what? They did ask about that one, too. So now this is 20 to 17, right? Mm-hmm.

All righty, this was... Yeah, this is the first drive of the second half. Sorry. Getting back to the third quarter of 2017, it's fourth and three at your 18. and you picked the field goal. Do you think about going for it there knowing that you might need some touchdowns?

I did. But again, at the end of the day, I was hunting points. I mean, it's a good defense. And what was the score at the time? You're up 2017. 2017, yeah. I did, yeah. I remember it now.

Yeah, we thought about it. We talked about it. But, you know, we were actually moving the ball okay, you know, and unfortunately the third downs caught up to us. But I did think about it. But, again, I wanted to take the points. And, you know, hindsight, obviously, as you know, can be 20-20, but I like this with a six-point lead.

Which I don't know that that explained anything. No. I just liked it with a six-point lead. Why? Did you know your defense was just being a stone wall? Like, what are we talking about here? I just feel like this offense has to go into every game saying we're scoring 35 points. We have to.

That's a lot of points. Yeah, and I've heard the, you know, the, Well, you have Brandon, and that disincentivizes you to go for fourth downs because you think that the points are more guaranteed. Them kicking a 26 and a 41-year-old yard field goal have nothing to do with Brandon Aubrey and everything to do with Brian Schottenheimer. It's a 17-yard line. This has nothing to do with like, well, my kicker, now I feel 100% he can make that instead of, you know, 95%. It doesn't matter who your kicker is. You've got a decision to make.

It's third and eight. What are the next two plays going to be? It can be a throw and a field goal. You know what I mean? That's not because of Brandon. Yeah, so, yeah, that was the, okay. And then let's go to that one where they do kick the 59-yarder. You're up 2317 and you try to 59-yard field goal rather than try to pin them deep.

You second-guess that? No. You know, I actually said it in there, Clarence, you know, again, we're spoiled with Brandon Aubrey, you know what a great player, but no, felt really good about it. You know, he's such a great player. I had no question of my mind. He was going to make it, and I think I feel good about that decision. Now, there lends to what we've mentioned before is, are you, is your mindset changing because

you have Brandon Aubrey? I mean on that one I guess because it's the 41 it's fourth and eight but but did that change your you know that may be the one set too we got sacked that's what I was saying before is that it was third and four and they took a sack so if on third and four you would have run the ball that's what I'm saying or done yeah again but are you like yeah no matter what if we get an incomplete here we'll just kick it we'll just kick the ball I would even if we take a sack, we can kick a longer

ball. Well, if that's the one case where that's the problem, his issues start a play before and that's frustrating. Another shoddy thing to me deals with Trayvon Diggs, too. Now, Diggs, it's a very complicated situation. Because

the season started out very poorly. They're in training camp and they're throwing verbal shots at Diggs in the media. And he then Yeah, but they started it And that didn't seem to make any sense to me And then they find him what they were allowed to find him

For not working out here And instead working out with his people And I don't know That's You know, I'm all for Hey, this is the CBA And this is what we can do But

The Cowboys, unless by the letter of the law Are told you have to find someone don't necessarily always do that i'm not necessarily i'm not giving them a pass really what it is is what do they say when this stuff happens in the news now like it didn't know tiger would eat my face like what'd you sign him for what'd you think what'd you think was going to happen all right so we've got this set of mildly concerning issues let's guarantee you all this money for the next few years and give you your second contract and just kind of hope that it all gets better like you

asked for it. Well, that's their new bit here is we sign a guy to a big contract. We then expect him to even change. And now you're going to be a vocal leader. Now you're going to do this. Now you're going to come in early. And now you're... Well, then the... That's probably not like... Their face deserves to get eaten. If I marry you, you probably won't

be cheating. Right. Right. Yeah. Well, actually... Trayvon Diggs is an exciting player. He's also exhibited every single one of the things they're seeing now throughout his entire time here. So... And... Now, they also structured the deal in a way they can get out of it, but it still is a pain in the

ass to deal with, even if you can get out of it. So here's Shottie saying things. He has said before, he's gone to great lengths to tell us what a great relationship guy he is. And he builds relationships, and then that pays off later in the games,

in the battle. The last relationship guy I remember in DFW sports came in and couldn't relate with his biggest superstar, so he ended up just trading him February 2nd, 2024. Five.

God damn, it was this year. It feels like it was forever ago. I was thinking 23, and I thought, well, that's ridiculous. Certainly it was longer ago than that. Okay, it was actually still this year. So he had dinner with Trayvon. He texted Micah good night. He, just all these things.

And I wonder if the better approach is like Mike McCarthy, like, look, I'm 50 or whatever. I'm the ball. I'm the coach. I'll have a good of a relationship I can with you guys, but I can't pretend that I'm one of you guys. Whereas Shottie, I think, wants to, like, hey, I am one of you guys. Six-seven. Six-seven. I'm wearing a thingy on my head.

It's, it's, we're just having so much fun here. and it all is great in training camp and it's all great when you're playing ping pong and basketball in your office but once the bullets actually start flying once George Pickens is late that's another thing let me shift here this all also went south

when George Pickens put out an article saying look how great everything is it's all perfect and everything's this is who I am then he puts out that article and everything's gone to shit since then for him personally and the whole team. And, like, this is the time.

The bullets are flying. And I'm sure players appreciate it when he starts his press conference with, look, it starts with me, and I've got to evaluate my, okay, how many times are you going to say that? I don't know. You want to hear him talk about Trayvon? He doesn't really say much. No one will.

Trayvon had a better week, you know. And at the end of the day, you know, there's a reason it's a three-week ramp-up period and it takes time. I know he feels healthy and he feels ready to play. We obviously felt a little bit different, but when he's ready to go, I know he feels ready to go. And again, I love that. For him as a competitor, I love that. But at the end of the day, we felt differently. If he tells you he's ready to go, what are you guys not seeing?

Yeah, different things, consistency. You know, I think I've been very honest about that. that. With all of our players, there's things that they need to do from a consistency standpoint to make us feel good about putting them out there. And again, I know he felt like he wanted to play and he felt like he was ready to play. And like I said, we made a decision as a team and I made a decision and we went a different direction. So we'll see how this week goes. Collins were summed up the digs situation well. Let's see here. Let me just jump right to the Collinsworth part because

Tarrico was talking about it, but then Collinsworth said this. There's still stuff going on. I don't know that we know all the stuff. Yeah. Tariko kind of laid it out with, oh, he's had this injury, he's had this and whatever, and there's some stuff going on. And yeah,

that's Collinsworth's comment to that. There's still stuff going on. I don't know that we know all the stuff. So we don't. Will we ever? I don't know. Here's Jerry from the pregame with Christy. Pre-game? Yeah.

Sports. The last few games, how we've not had those turnovers, and it's hard to win them when you don't get those. So hopefully you'll see that tonight as well. Is there still hope that next week that Trayvon Dix may be ramped up that he would be able to play any of these final three games? We're just watching his health. Appreciate it, Jerry. That's the view from the owners. Okay.

You know, he doesn't answer questions like that ever. right he wants to talk and give you the reason why and how much they love him and this and that um now are they concerned for his health because if he got hurt they would have to pay him more yeah once you brought that up last night that's russell wilson and denver and now that they're like now that they're definitely out of the playoff mix i suppose he's definitely out of the opportunity to play but how bad mustings there that all makes sense but you still have a guy with a lot of talent who's on your football team at a position

where you're getting bled. And there was no way he could get out there yesterday. That's why I'm saying it has to just be so bad. And yeah, we get the same two rumors sent to us over and over and over again. What's that? I don't know. I assume everyone,

that it has to do with like Marshawn Neeland or something in a fight. I've asked people it's not true. Oh, I don't know. I do have a story that I think is true, but it doesn't involve a teammate. It involves him hurting himself at home. So the point is it's insane that this has gotten to this point, given what you thought about this guy 18 months ago,

that you look at Savon Ravel yesterday, like, better chance than Diggs. Like, he's talking to the media. Like, I'm seeing quotes from Machota yesterday from Trayvon Diggs. Talking about the defense. And you want to hear it? You have audio of it? I didn't know it was. Like post game?

Yeah, he was around. Yeah, he was on the sideline. And he spoke for eight minutes in the post game to reporters in front of his locker. Wow. The first conversation that we had, it was practice. I guess I wasn't showing them what they wanted to see in practice. And this week I showed them what they wanted to see in practice. And it still was the same result.

So, you know, I don't know what else I need to do or what to show. show at this point i feel like you know it's not even you know it's not up to me or what i do you know it's really up to them and what they want to do so you know i'm just showing up every day i'm going to work um and go to work from wow uh there's one more um going into the week um that was the plan for me to play and i was included in a game plan to play um and uh yesterday i was told i wasn't playing so that's why i thought that i was plan so you know um it was it was a it was a quick decision um you know i didn't know i thought i was going to come out and play but they felt otherwise and you know that's just what it was very strange

what do you think i i'm sitting here very sympathetic to to travon dig side i don't think you should go that far no no dude i don't know i mean i know this sounds like hey you're not practicing hard because I can see that okay I'm going to give my all this week I am going to go out there practice every day and then shoddy apparently told him hey practice was great you actually stepped it up you listen to what I said and did it you're not playing would you feel that same way if he went out and played and then hurt his knee further and guaranteed his money for next year but they just don't trust him dude even I don't think he was supposed to he admitted that he rushed himself back like his knee still wasn't great when he started playing which to me though

that flies in the face of what we've been hearing about travon digs a guy that doesn't care like there's a guy that cares to try to come back and prove the haters wrong and especially the haters my boss sometimes what are you going to say i was going to say that it's because there's been confusion of like which injury did he rehab, which injury did the team rehab. I think he rushed his own rehab back to say, I wanted to do it my way. To prove that his way was correct? And he did not come back right. So I think the team is just in saying we don't trust anything about your injury history,

your rehab or anything, and frankly, we don't want anything to do with you anymore. And you're not going to get hurt playing for us in these final three because we're going to ship you off as soon as we can. Yeah, they don't trust them. Man, like I saw a clip, you know, Manzell will do a podcast on you every now and then. Nice. And he had a Pac-Ban on. That's who he gets on.

Okay. That feels. And Pac-Man was telling a story about how when he hurt his neck with the Cowboys at the end of his career here, like Jerry told him, I got to cut you. And Pac-Man, he's like, you're doing everything right, but you're hurt. got to cut you and Pac-Man's like don't tell anybody about my neck and Jerry's like we won't and he's like I was paralyzed for like a day he's like two years later bengel signed me never knew a motherfucking thing about my neck I bawled out for the next three seasons he's like

jerry never said shit to anybody like we just didn't disclose this injury so what I'm saying is there's stuff like that that happens both ways all the time and if they're suspect of him the idea that he would go out there and then a game and a half later be like oh my god i'm hurt you guys owe me all this money this is the problem with having personal relationships get involved in managing your business whether it's jerry and micah or jerry and fill in the blank right they're at war with travon and have been for like two years

back and forth with public shots private shots Zimmer hated him, you know, this is the problem, is that guys start making decisions based on personal things, like proving this or this hater, that doubter, rather than just doing their job. Well, we really took for granted 12 and 5 seasons, didn't we? I don't know that I, I, maybe, I don't know. That's a lot of wins, dude.

I know. As you're sitting here now, So this is Dax's 10th season, and this will be the fifth time they've missed the playoffs. A couple of those are obviously injury, but that's not great, dude. He's a franchise quarterback. 60 million dollar quarterback. You know what I wonder? I heard someone say that Tom Brady never played in a meaningless game.

Like even if it was the last game of the season, they still had a chance for the playoffs if they didn't make the playoffs. Romo, too. That's what I was going to ask about Romo. Do you feel like that's actually the case? Never? He never played in a game where the Cowboys were eliminated from the playoffs. Okay. That's literally the banner that Jerry wants us to hang for.

That's all they were trying to do for that era, which is... It is fun. You are always, like, right now it feels really weird. This ain't that far off from that, dude. Like, they're going to end up 8-8-1, Philly. Three games, though. and even the last two have been foolishly we've been thinking they have a chance

and that's been foolish you know what you say that but the way the world works Philly's going to they're going to lose they'll lose to the commanders they'll lose to the bills Dallas will win out and they'll end up getting exactly what they would have needed to get in

well how do we not blame the coaching staff then to say I'm watching that game yesterday and it did not feel like one team that's backs against the wall and must win and one team that just got eliminated.

No, that's the worst part of all of it. It didn't, there was no edge. There was no, we're coming out here and ripping the throat out of this thing. We say that we play with violence and passion. I mean, the most, now is the time thing,

was Brandon's fake field goal. And then from there, pretty much everything was, let's lay up. Taking bad sacks. You know, terrible penalties. I know they're a heavily penalized team, but that Kalyn Carson penalty

was ridiculous before halftime. Do you remember that? That was the out of bounds? No, it's the Justin Jefferson was blocking and it continued after the play. Minnesota had a penalty, but it was an after the play personal foul. Sure.

So it got called on the defense and they get a first down like at the 10-yard line. I know Collinsworth was talking. talking about that is there something uh is that worthy of me playing let me see that got us into uh the offsetting penalty debate last night whether that well that wasn't offsetting um you just get the 10 well because that was a dead ball foul after the fact they moved it up yeah yeah so uh yes okay this is that part this led us into uh talk about the Justin Jefferson grill.

When this started happening, I saw two flags. That's not fair. These are good blocks. Jefferson, all those are good, clean blocks. And I thought they were going to call it on both of them. But here's the one that got called well after the play. Jefferson stayed within the game itself and drew the additional yardage. And laughed out.

And you can see the smile. You can see a lot of things. A little bling going. And then we got a sideline report on that grill. And, well, it's... Like, J.J. McCarthy told us he and Justin Jefferson are good friends. And we asked Justin about it. He said, I like to spend time with J.J.

During the game, I just tell him to relax. My brother was a quarterback, so I understand what he's going through. Well, after J.J. did his version of Jefferson's signature celebration, the gritty on the touchdown to tie the game, the first thing he wanted to do was find Jefferson on the sideline. He did. they embraced we're all smiles grills and all. There you go.

So you get a thumbs up on the gritty from the man who's done it before. No, I guess they got to talk about it, but nothing about that felt natural. That gritty was so embarrassing to the Cowboys, just the whole, I mean, it almost

felt like RG3 patting Romo in his head after a Thanksgiving Day game, that J.J. McCarthy is like clowning on you uh by the way that play all right let's i thought he's about to get a sponsor and i'm like how's he going to do this that was more open than one day doors or what do we no no he walked right through that thing no personal injuries i'm trying to find that play oh maris leofow i don't know what

did you watch that play over again uh you talk about him just blowing up the ball kick No, it just feels like he had the edge. So he's on the edge and, you know, you got to hold the edge or whatever. He went straight into the middle to where you watch the fake handoff and then, of course, the dance into the end zone. Just walked in. The dog? He literally walked the dog. Did Brad say that on that play?

Have you listened to Brad yet? I haven't gotten there. I've listened to the point. of the fake fill goal, which I've listened to too much Brad because I now know what he's going to say. Because when somebody texted me what he said on the

Brandon fake field goal, my guess was did he call him slippery butter? And by God, did he? Slipery butter! No, Leofow, like, watch the play again. He crashed right in. Let's say the ball was handed off.

You would see that Leopheel would have been, like, the seventh or eighth cowboy in on the tackle. He wouldn't have been doing anything. He would not have been affecting that play at all. So if you're not there to make sure something else doesn't happen around the edge, what are you here for? Just to jump on and I get a half a tackle on my stats or one eighth of a tackle?

Like, I don't think they give eighths of tackles. But the point is, I think he might have had a job there to do and he didn't do it. just horrible just horrible very undisciplined player but you kind of knew that man we've been going a while I haven't even done NBC audio yet

I have to carry some over to tomorrow should we carry some over till tomorrow I mean it's the last cowboy game that matters you're trying it out yeah no because there's a lot of a lot of Collinsworth, let me just play you one more. I'll save the rest of it for tomorrow, okay?

This one was really out there, I thought. Collinsworth's going to talk about some of the tough times that the Cowboys have had, and I want to see if all these things are equal that they mention here. Just keep a list of the tough things, okay? It's been a tough year for Dallas, right? I mean, they've been through a lot of,

different things starting with the Micah Parsons, suicide on the team. It was, you know, just so many different things. Wait, first of all, let's get more of a space in there. You know, Michael Parsons, suicide on the team. Terrico's going to add on, though. Suicide on the team. It was, you know, just so many different things, Marshawn Neeland. And today was another one of those days around the league where you hate seeing the superstars go out. Yeah, Patrick Mahomes, Taryn's ACL on the fourth quarter there of Kansas City's game. Micah Parsons getting injured in the second half of that Denver Green Bay game. Dante Adams of the hamstring.

So here you have a suicide. Here you have a hamstring. Tough. Both tough. You hate to see both things. Was Adams on Tariko's fantasy team? Why didn't he care so much about that? Shoehorn this in here as well.

That was insane. I thought Tariko was going to bring it on back again to the suicide. He's like, yeah, yeah, a lot going on out there. You see it. You had the shooting in Australia. The whole Rob Reiner thing. The whole Rob Reiner thing. You think a suicide is bad.

And then NBA players popping their Achilles left and right. So society just kind of crumbling left and right. You think suicides are bad? It's freaking 15 degrees. I didn't bring my gloves. My cable guy didn't even get, he gave me like an eight-hour window and he's going to be here tomorrow. You believe that? What's I supposed to do?

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Some kind of brisket? That's a weekend thing. Yeah, it's a Friday and Saturday evening They do brisket lasagna. Really? The perfect amount of smokiness with your with your lasagna and um i could probably eat four slices or four chunks all right well we'll we'll prepare we're going to do the pregame show for that because that's a

friday and saturday thing we're going to do our show Thursday they'll have pizza then and uh i ate the pizza and i will eat the pizza on friday i will say i ate the pizza i wanted to talk about a couple of things from the game just going back and doing the rewatch there were a couple of plays where the the Vikings like to show you a lot of this type of coverage and Jerry referenced this after the game and maybe we'll play some Jerry tomorrow but this is a third and eight from early in the game and this is a play where in weeks past they would just throw a slant to George Pickens. This plays out exactly how you think it does. So they have everybody at the line of scrimmins except for two? They've got a safety deep in the middle, but they've got eight guys at the box.

They're, you know, if you can't see it, it's what you think. It's that there's one guy in front of George Pickens with a huge cushion. Eight yards is a long way. I'm not saying he picks it up. But if you watch, if you go back and watch this play, it's one of many where I'm not saying that it's as simple as they want to do it and George Pickens can do it. But you can tell when he's in the I'm going to get open no matter what type mode and he just wasn't last night he just didn't come off the ball like you can't stop me I can make this work I mean because the Vikings are going to give you a lot of those looks and he just wasn't able to do anything about it um the second thing is not the second image yet Clayton but this is something we were talking about a lot last night

I did not hear Shottie get asked about it um I got enough shooters to where I can probably figure out a way to get this to Shottie or Clayton Adams, but their strange condensed shotgun formation last night was driving me insane. And T.C. said that... Clayton aptly named it.

The sought-off shotgun. Yeah. Did you notice that, Blake? During the game, like, we were just talking, like, why is he... He's like... Usually he'd be standing three or four yards back to get the shot. Three yards, maybe. But he was two yards. But, like, watch the game...

Watch it on TV. Especially started when Javentay left and they went to Malik Davis. They just seemed really smushed up. Like he was taking a very short shotgun snap. And with a pass rush, pass rush that you might be worried about, I would think that's even worse. And then your blocker that's next to you or with you is unable to, you know, get a step into the guy who's charging at him.

It created, it was strange. It created weird angles. It's also obvious when you line your back up like that You're not handing him the ball Yeah So that's no longer even an option And then a couple plays later They put Lipke next to Dak

And handed him the bowl And got the first down And then went back to the shortened splits You're tipping your hand right out of the gate there I am interested in what he says about that It wasn't working either Because like Dan said Your back is now at a zero leverage point

Where he can do nothing He swallowed up by the pocket immediately. It was just strange, and I don't really know an answer for it. And then the third thing, and maybe this is the moment where Shottie got the news that he needed to go to the sought-off Shottie is who's Stephen Jones talking to on this walkie-talkie? I said that during the game. What is he doing? Why are we – you've got a shot of Jerry and Stephen in the booth here, and Stephen feverishly communicated. something into

and honestly dude what is this like I saw a guy the other day on Twitter saying that his seven-year-old son wanted a briefcase for Christmas and he had to like work pretty hard to find one yeah like a movie style briefcase like where are they getting these walkie-talkies like it's still army surplus

like who even still uses those but in any case there's Stephen up there He looks like he needs a Lucy to me. Hey, very good. I got some Lucy's right here. Could you get him a discount on those Lucy's? I could.

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Did you wait for traffic to dissipate? Yeah. Okay, you have a new thing? Yeah, we showed Steve that they open up the tap in the press box, so he'll down a couple. He told us about his rookie year for the Raiders. They had a drinking contest to, like, introduce the rookies, and he won it very proudly.

So he just told some drinking stories. Dude, a couple of the guys in the den last night when we were downstairs getting some pizza. Thunderbird pies, by the way. That's a little subsidiary, what you called, of Tarni Rosa? Great pizza. I don't know if I've had a Thunderbird pie. in the past Yeah, real thick

Anyway, we were down there eating some pizza and we were walking upstairs And the guy asked me What's our Lone Star record And I referenced Beau from Santa Fe Because I'm not sure I think he has it

And I think it might have been like He drank 12 in the first half And he cut himself off For the second half Because he's a responsible drinker sure um and these guys i think we're pushing it because we we went through a lot of lone star last night yeah we need like a board like a records or something yeah i don't know that that's a good idea i get like you get a plate on the wall drink responsible sure that's right clayton

that's what i would prefer our guests to do here in the den not to like try to up it the insane levels. But you know what? Blake is a wild man. Blake's got a mustache. Not everybody can be Burline, Blake. Yeah. Set in records.

He's driven home. I enjoyed someone put on Twitter. They took a screenshot of when Brandon did do the fake field goal. Our happiest we've been on a stream, I think, this entire season, that one moment. When Brandon Aubrey did a fake field goal. Yeah, it'd be. his tackle oh for sure i was telling dan last night though i'm worried they i mean you probably never do that again anyways but

in cowboy land missing two field goals after the after the fake work it's like never again yeah not in cow it's in football and for i mean dude i've been tripping out thinking about brandon telling us the other day like you know what matters is if you make your first couple from distance then they'll let you keep trying that's really it's not that these guys these guys can't do it like the it's like think of a baseball season bro you get a thousand at bats and kicker they're like well if you hit your first couple we might let you keep trying to where you can earn a living like that's crazy how many guys maybe could have i don't know that's

an interesting perspective on it to me yeah like no i'm not really special i just i kind of got lucky the first couple times and it turns out i'm good enough to keep it going and you think about what Brandon did, even they were acting like, oh, my God, wow, Brandon's missed a second field goal. Like, this is the... 59 yards. Right. Do you understand what a 59-yard field goal is in NFL history?

Like, it's an anomaly. To be able to make them at a 50% clip would be an anomaly. To be able to make them like Brandon Aubrey is, it just doesn't exist. and I told him he came home with straight A's on his first report card. Now if he gets a B, it's like, oh, are you okay? Should we start looking around the waiver wire for another kicker? Like, what are we doing here? These a 51 and a 59 are the ones he missed.

And yeah. They know what they got. Also, I was just thinking about this with the Cowboys, too. you're looking at pickings drop the everything is perfect now article and then everything turns out not to be perfect like there's a lot of mission accomplished banners being hung and another thing that got added to the mix here do you remember the hard knocks cameras just showed up and they're like yeah it's nothing big it's just the hard knocks cameras i mean we're the cowboys we're used to everybody's filming us all the time

I just wonder, does it ever have an effect? Can we possibly suggest that there may be an adverse effect? And now I'm watching Hard Knocks, and they have one of these days that was like 28 degrees or 32, whatever, it was a very cold day, and they're practicing outside the star. What are we doing? Why? Don't they have the ability to practice inside, or did they have? have a luncheon that day on the field.

That's very possible. But is that one of those things where if they practiced inside, we'd be saying, look how soft Shottie's team is? Shottie said something. They're going to have to go on the road in December and January, so we wanted them outside. Cool. How'd that work out?

I'm just relaying what the coach said. Well, the interesting thing is that preparation for outside is going to be about as useful as saving Zique for the end of the season was last year. It's not going to matter. because the games they play outside the end of the year are meaningless now. Dalvin Cook was last year, right? It was. Dalvin Cook.

Yeah, former Calvoy Great. How about that? Dude, Zeke was last year. Jerry had some numbers bid if you add Dalvin's number to Zeke, you get the Super Bowl. You remember what else was last year is a significant DAC injury? like to not have that at all like this in fact dach's been so healthy throughout this year i keep hearing that uh it's it's a crime that he's not being mentioned in the MVP right like he's he's playing at an MVP level he has the best two wide receiver he's ever had they got a pretty good run game

they got a good tight end but they do have a first year i know he Has he called plays before a little bit? Yeah, he's got like four years in Seattle, which you do sort of discredit, but to your point, he's never called plays and been the head coach before, and that is a different animal, especially when you've never been a head coach, period.

That's a big deal. Even doing it in Seattle, why was he doing it? Did they lose the offensive coordinators or the play callers that took him to the Super Bowl? Yeah. Because he wasn't a Super Bowl. No, they fired Darrell Bevel in the aftermath of the, The blown slant on the goal line.

Some may say never recovered. Okay. But to be clear, it ain't like Shottie was like super aggressive in Seattle. You know? Well, that's a thing. I think when you are a play caller and you have more time behind you, you develop what you are. And maybe we're looking at what he is, which is a guy who doesn't really know from series to series what he is. It's possible.

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Down here, I'm a copy. 469-667-7-2-90. Call or text, again, that's 469-667-7-2-90. Website? CommunityDFW.com. Here's Jake with the Dumb Zone News. Well, we led the show with the top news story of the day. which is the death of actor Rob Reiner.

Lord Director, right? Hollywood's Rob Reiner. What do you think of him as, I think? Who just scratched and clawed his way. Well, actually, his father was very, very famous. Perhaps more famous than he. In that era, I'm not sure. Rob Reiner once married to Penny Marshall

before she bought the Mavs. Was he really? Yeah. Laverne, from Laverne and Shirley? See, Blake looked up and did it really because he's like, wait, did Penny Marshall buy the Mavs? The Mavs owner looks just like old Penny Marshall. His son gave an interview,

Rob Reiner's son, who's been arrested for the murder. His son gave an interview to people a few months ago. He had actually written co-written a film based around his experiences in rehab. He had 17 stays in treatment from the age of 15 to 22.

Which if you have the resources is not uncommon. Like, if you start rehab at 15, my guess is by 21, you'll still be dealing with it, you know? Not so you'll never figure it out, but 15's an early start.

His son was homeless. homeless for some time right if you do it in your 30s you're more likely to be good at it than if you do it at 21 or whatever no doubt so so that's the son you say he's been arrested yeah 32 years old held on four million dollars bail now whether or not his son whether or not his son killed him because he wouldn't shut up about Trump or not as per the president's tweet today, we don't know. But we don't even know if he killed him, or do we? Or he's pretty good with that.

Well, they arrested him for suspicion of murder. Still. Innocent until proven guilty. Okay, I appreciate. They once arrested O.J. I appreciate the restraint that you guys are showing. I just would, again, like to offer that Trump has not only skipped that step, he has assigned motive to the son.

I am pretty lucky I don't have, like, hella political parents. That shit would get real old, real fast. His new wife looks kind of like the Mavs owner, too. Oh, like, but a dead version. Yeah, just like she looks like. looks like old Penny Marshall a little bit. They start wearing tinted sunglasses. Yeah.

That's a big tell. What did Penny Marshall do? She was in a league of their own. Wait, was she in that? Or did she direct it? I like that movie. Directed it? She's definitely in it.

What's the most famous one? Her father also very famous. Sure. Big? Oh, she's in Gitch Shorty. Hocus, those are movies from our high. fidelity those are movies from our youth maybe that you would have seen but she was in laverne and shirley do you know what that is when it was very popular show about two broads

she was one of the broads uh so that's an odd couple type thing for ladies a woke god couple the first woke yeah uh that's that's a not so fun family story that's a horrible story uh you know your kids killing you definitely not how you planned it going um this is a it didn't end great but this is a fun family story from here locally as a man named david hunt he's got two twin sons who sound like dude perfect characters brandon and balin hunt balin They tried to steal over $8.5 million in tax refunds by filing falsified tax returns under, quote, the names of purported trust they control. Dan, I'll give you a week. To do what?

To falsify some tax returns in the names of purported trust that you control. They, of course, purchased luxury items and posted about them, like a Cadillac Escalade, a house in Mississippi, lots of cryptocurrency. Had they not posted it, would it be better for them? I'm sure it would be better had they not posted it. It would probably be better if they just didn't buy it, right? Like, this is why Dan can get away with something that I couldn't. You wouldn't know. not till it was too

till it was safe yeah good fellows man yeah'll teach you not to buy a mink coat and wear it out in public so jake could wear a mink oh no doubt like michael irvin yeah

that would be the problem uh each member facing five years in prison for the eight and a half but it's family story though you know a dad two sons they're twins you know they probably always that's a good family those guys stuck together And you hear about, especially this time of year, these stories of families tattered. Like I said, the male bonding.

During Trump derangement syndrome murders. Yeah. And these boys. Bros. You know? This dad's alive, right? Yeah. Okay.

He's going to jail, but he's going to jail with his buddies. That's what I was talking about with male bonding earlier. Yeah. You could do different things with your boys. So a chance at $8.5 million and your punishment is if you get caught is five years. I feel like the math. Probably in a cool jail. I would roll those dice.

Yeah. How many people have gotten away with something like this? You don't even know about it. Many such cases. Maybe our guy, they got $158 million. Speaking of that, I saw a story this morning about a university park mansion that was sold. It was listed at $35 million. And the buyers got it at a bargain for $30.5.

And I was just wondering if you guys' friend may have been the one. who bought it. No, I think it was a couple. One is an art teacher, the other professor, with a budget of $100 million. Right, but they want to entertain. If you're in a downtown area. If you're in that range and they're asking 35,

how do you come to 30 and a half? Well, you're... No, no, no, 30. 25. $25. $30,750 or nothing. Dude, but think about it, though. Like, I mean, if you were buying a $1.

$500,000 house? What is that? The difference between paying $410, $420 or something and $500? Right. You would never even offer only $4.10. You'd get laughed out of the building. So to come in at 30 and a half and get out of there, bargain all day. Yeah, is you're just going to fix it up and flip it? Payball, I think, is the – I don't know.

It's the most expensive home in Texas. And it's funny, too, because – I typically don't even do stories like this, but you guys friend won a quarter of a billion dollars. The previous owner, because they don't even talk to the people who buy it. You don't know who bought it. You'll never know. You get a quote from the real estate agent. Alex Perry said the property was previously, how did they say it?

It was previously owned by a trust headed by Joshua Pack, the Fortress Investment Group CEO. That sounds right Died at 51 But like the dude The guy who owned the house No Josh Pack Well yeah okay That's interesting

I didn't Living life hard What he got Still looking But my point Dan is that the guy Who owns the most expensive house In Dallas Know all of Texas

You've never even heard Of the company he works for Yeah That's to talk about Chris Rock And his dentist It's like This is just some guy Fortress Investment Group co-CEO.

I used to think that a lot about, like, living in South Lake or whatever. Dude, I think... Like, I live in the smallest house in South Lake. Yeah, and you're on the older side where, you know, it's not like the other side. You're just like, who are these people driving up and down? Right. And I was like, you know, when we're on the ticket and we've been number one for a decade and all this kind of stuff. And I live in a smaller-sized house in South Lake.

who are all these other people? Who are, and that's the Chris Rock bit. Yeah. He's like, I live in a neighborhood where my neighbor is a dentist. Not the most famous dentist. Right. Not the best dentist. A dentist.

And Chris Rock is like the most famous comedian at the time. He's doing bigger and blacker. Yeah. And to afford to live into this neighborhood. Yeah, it's like him and Will Smith. One other thing you can do if you want to live in that neighborhood. You got to get lucky in death. And I say this because we hear stories all the time.

People killed in car accidents or, oh, you know, a negligent homicide, maybe involving alcohol. Do you guys remember one of the subplots of the 2021 winter storm? What did you find? I'm just looking at pictures of the house. This house is insane. Obviously. Not a fixer upper? No.

What was the subplod of the winter storm? The crash. Oh, the nurses? Well, this one was, yeah, I think there were nurses involved, but it was on 35 over west side of town. It's 130 vehicles. Like, it was just one of those, like, nobody could stop. Just kept like.

You're coming over a hill. Yeah. Yeah. I said nurses, because it was like, what, six something in the morning and a lot of, yeah. So, there was an 18-wheeler, a couple. of them involved which of course are owned by trucking companies uh and soon one family the family of a 49 year old man was awarded 44 million dollars late last week the hammer did well as a driver was the driver was from new prime ink which had not given adequate winter

weather driving training that's the kind of thing frank does no doubt but that's a lot of people are getting hit by cars you know a lot of people are like oh damn my family's dead oh my god somebody with corporate pockets you were hit by blake's car and you died tough luck sorry what you might you might get to meet steve but yeah that's true that's gotten payout there have been a couple of others but again it was 130 accidents that happened that day six people killed as blake said it was 615 in the morning this guy was one of the six people killed um but same as same as eight and a half mil five-year risk if you could write me a check for 44 mil for my family right now and they never see me again i can almost promise you

their life's going to be better and i think i'm a great dad but you know Let's be real about this. It's $44 million. I don't know, though. They end up in rehab when they're 15. They're in and out. Then they end up shooting your wife and her new husband. That is true.

We did introduce the... Her new young husband. Do you think she'd go real young? Have you thought about her next husband? I don't think she would go that young. No. You know, I guess I haven't thought about it. I mean, I thought about her boyfriends, but never...

Yeah. Let's see here. What was our next story? I think you guys are going to be surprised when Rob Reiner's son is found innocent. Well, I, again, I'm really not understanding your hesitancy to go ahead and convict Rob. They know it was a stabbing, which is a very personal crime. It's not a break-in. Well, the first thing I heard was that their son found him

And then called the police Oh, the daughter found him And she apparently ratted out the son said He needs to be your top suspect Okay, that sounds a little suspicious Maybe she did it Interesting This just turned into clue

Speaking of clue There's been new evidence gathered in the Jean-Beney Ramsey case All right, what do we got? Every, every What was that? They've given no detail. 96, 96 New Year's Eve. She was found in the morning of January 1st, I'm pretty sure.

So the 1995 NFL season? No. You would call that the 96 NFL, the 96-97 season, which used to trip me up as a kid. She was killed 1996 New Year's Eve. Oh, okay, okay, 96 season going, yeah. Yeah. Super Bowl 97. In 97. Literally, there's no details about this.

They just, I was watching the news last night and looked it up today. It's just, we got some new stuff. You guys are going to be here. They're basically teasing it like a mixtape. Patrick better be looking out, man. It's like all the Epstein stuff. They're slow releasing that, right? Like now, didn't they release some photos last week?

They did. What does that mean? Nothing. And why is it? It's like Democrats have released these. photos how did they just have them i don't know um we had somebody at our at our christmas party last week a listener who brought a girl that he knew and this girl at some point i mean based on her reaction i'm going to tell you maybe actually currently bill gates's uh personal assistant

in some way shape or form for one of his businesses sounds made up right um except when this woman was leaving and the listener was like hey this is the guy this is jake he's the one who like set this up and um i was like oh hey yeah that's cool like uh you're the one that actually you work for bill gates and uh she was like yes and then the listener goes do you ever meet epstein or any of those kids and she was like are you kidding me and she walked out i was like damn she must really work for bill gates be that bothered now he was impaired and he wasn't getting any but I was like okay

that's a pretty good test if you're actually bothered by that and literally the next day there's a whole new trove of photos of Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein and Bill Clinton do you guys recall us talking recently about the Louisville

police department and their horniness and they were going too far with prostitutes to make sure that they were prostitutes yeah they kept going back to the same massage places to gather more evidence and being like this time i wasn't totally sure if she was going to do it and my favorite story of all time it was uh it was last year and it was like a 13 different officers got disciplined for it so um this story now you go in there you're gonna have to check

it out too she jerked you off too okay you're okay you go make go make sure over and over and over on the taxpayers dying they have to keep doing this you're just checking Like, you want to verify it with just one source? You want to airtight case or what? Yeah, two sources. You're uglier. You go in there and let's see. Yeah, let's get this done.

No, no, no, I want to go today. My turn. My turn. Well, this is not quite that, but it is horniness. A Louisville police officer was arrested Friday afternoon. Okay, so he was charged with sexual assault of a child, which sounds terrible. He's 32. He was taken into custody.

He was actually in Heath. He works in Louisville. He was in Heath. He was having sex in a car in a public place with a 16-year-old. So not six, but also in public, which is... 32? Yeah. And they say...

Yeah. That it was at 6 a.m. Friday morning. Geez. The only time they can get for this forbidden love. Yeah, she's got cheerleading. Probably no lie, dude. Cross country. He was not on duty.

He wasn't in uniform. But he was in public. Again, the charge child, right? Seems worse than when you say 16. It's still rape. still underage is just the term yeah if you say underage that doesn't elicit such a no but then it does it the other way where you might be like oh it's just underage and you find out it was a two-year-old you're like okay i wish that a different word for that that's that's

that would be a child yeah but the public place thing at six a m that's adding adding more levels of danger i definitely it already seems pretty uh high wire there Now, I was 16 at the time, so I think it was in play. But looking for a place to park for some hand-to-hand combat was always a challenge. You know, and I actually found a nice solution. The manual car wash stall. Wow. It was always a big player.

Do you soap it up first? Of course. Wow, what a great idea. You have to. But it'd be weird then if, well, I guess you're 16, so it won't be that long. We have a tight window. It's like it to be 20 minutes in there. No.

See, I always thought parking out all by yourself was fishy. Because why is that car by itself out there? It is. But then what are you going to do? You can park right next to somebody and hope they don't come back to the car while you? Yeah, I don't. Well, that's why it was tough. Completely unrelated.

I did used to really get pissed at my dad for parking so far away. and now I realize, and it's not just the dings on the car, my dad has been steps guys since before they had steps counters, you know? I'd be like, what if parking at BFE? He's like, were you afraid to walk? Get a little exercise. A little blood moving. I'm like, now, I park as far away as I can.

I'm like, why not? I can't stop me. I'm walking. Yeah, it's just like this is the only exercise I'm getting. I'm going to work. I'm doing this and that. Like, I might as well just park farther away. way at Kroger.

Sure. Bothered me quite a bit as a kid. Anyways, this guy, probably not a cop anymore. 32 years old. He's been on the force for a year. Let the power get to his head. If you're 32, okay, I understand when you're a teacher.

Not understand doing it. Follow me here. Follow me here. Where do you meet a 16-year-old that you're going to... Yeah. Can you get, then you get to the level of the relationship that you, like, how do you, how do you even do that? Can I provide for you a very dark take on how this possibly happens? And it's because one of the most underreported, but like gross and real life, because I've read about the Rampart scandal,

storylines in the Shield was when Shane was hooking up with that, like, 16 or 17-year-old girl, black girl. Remember that? I don't. What's the Rampart? scandal. Rampart is the division of the LAPD that, um, what do they call it in the shield? Crash. Strike team?

Strike. Strike is, is based on crash. Community resources against street hoodlums, which was the, Rampart was a district in L.A. where they launched something called crash, which is, the show was going to be called Rampart or crash. And they were like, you can't do that. But that building, the barn is where the Rampart building was. and they were a street they were for they're vick and the boys and it went on for like two or three

years there's a new yorker article about it that is maybe the best thing i've ever read and eventually they had a shame who got caught and he flipped but the stuff they were the stuff those guys were doing i'm telling you dude the shield nothing the shield did is beyond the pale of like oh that's too unbelievable shooting a cop shooting a cop dropping guns on people selling drugs beating the shit out of torturing people they were a gang and crime went down the face on the stove i mean that's obviously stuff stuff like that but there's a they had to let like a hundred people out of jail you want to talk about people getting paid la pd was on the hook for like a hundred two hundred million dollars for cases that they had to

pay there was a guy paralyzed some drug dealer they shot crazy amounts of money that they had to pay out um but in that series Shane started hooking up with like a I don't remember that dude it was weird and it was like she was that doesn't seem to fit Shane well he was it was at the end I know he was losing it but what I'm saying is that if you're a 32 year old cop I don't know how this works in Heath but my guess is you know the downtrodden females in your community be they the ones without moms around this isn't maybe they got what i'm thinking of is a 16 year old i'm yeah no like hey you got a little weed you got keep you in trouble for this you know whatever shoplifting like a little hood rat this may have not been a uh a mary k latourno

situation where they're in love i i said can i offer you said how do they meet and i'm saying a 32 year old cop is one way they're meeting 16 year old girls is them stealing stealing earrings and And then you're like, you know, we can make this go away. We've all seen those surveillance videos. Ooh. All right, there's your news. Girl caught shoplifting. No good news in there, Blake.

Girl and what? That one family got 45 mil. Got what? The one family got 45 million. And subscribe. That was a good news. I just know Blake doesn't like that we have no good news. And then when I do good news, you know.

Now, Blake gave you credit last week. I know. We did news, and he was just like... I heard. Jake's right. I was watching on a plane. You know what my mom would say about that. I don't know that you can say this anymore,

but you'd bitch if you were hung with a new rope. Boy, that's a great old person saying. Yeah. Happy birthday. Thank you. Viewer and real birthdays brought to us by Franco and Franco. We mentioned it during the news there. They are personal injury attorneys, if indeed.

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Man, every time I see his email, I forget there's a female there, too. that's great Mrs. Tithsworth Dear Mohammed bin Salami stuffer

Crown Prince of Saudi Alabia Yeah that's top show I'll take two Today is my brother and former bad radio intern Sean's Jovan Yovan Belcher minus Joe Kemp minus Tony Romo birthday.

Okay, so that's seven and nine, 16. John Belcher was 53, maybe? He was 59, it says here. Okay. Anyway, the end result is 43. Who's Sean? He was an intern back in the Basic days. Okay, I was going to say.

His leaders are Larry Ellison's takeover of the radical centrist news. Hillary Clinton Billionaires in general Future Aggie yell leader Carter Kemp Oh my And the gun deal that went sideways On October 1st, 2017

At Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas This is an all-time email Stephen Paddock, my friends From Will from just outside Boston P.S, if you ever need an expert on developing software that allows users to create complex designs, including artificial intelligence models,

and generate code for deployment on small embedded devices like many computers in your car. I'm your guy. We could talk for hours. Okay, thanks. So good. No, that guy rules.

Happy birthday to your bro. And finally, I have Deer Sports Fehrer. It is my Todd Van Popple birthday. Heck yeah. A's? Journeyman? 44? I have 47 here.

Leader is Brad Sham asking about roster moves while the body's still warm. I'm sad that we won't see UNT in the college football playoff, but I'm looking forward to covering the Ohio University Bobcats in the Frisco Bowl. I told Blake... You going? Someone texted me and asked if I was... Donovan texted me and asked if I was doing the coin flip. You should.

So, Division 2, we used to call FBS that? Ohio University isn't Division 2. I know, but the Division 2 playoffs, maybe championship is this weekend. Yeah, FCS. Is it FCS or is FCS the lower division of Division 1? And now there's something else called Division 2. No, this is FCS. Okay.

And that's what's this weekend. Yeah. Okay. What's FCF stand for? Football Championship. Subdivision. I told Blake I'd pull some strings to make you an honorary captain for your alma mater, but he didn't think you'd show up due to the 8 p.m. kickoff.

You can't say I don't know you. From Chris Mikoski. Good dude. Dude, I might like to go to that. What do we get out this weekend? Some bullshit. Some Christmas bullshit Yeah you know what I was beat by

How was Christmas not over yet by the way We got a Because you MF celebrate it for two God damn months It's true dude It's true The other day she's like We should do something

Christmasy with the kids Christmas lines have been up since November That's why it's not here yet Christmas out It's not special anymore It's already Christmas I can't Christmas over anymore The whole 8 p.m. kickoff

Got me thinking that I'm a little bit beaten down because we got invited to a New Year's Eve party in the neighborhood I'm going to have to go Oh no kids Yeah you can't get out of it can you Well no my kids are here but

I know but our kids are like They're not four Yeah if they were four Anyway Irish goodbye Yeah But I got to bring the old ball and chain I mean she's the reason

that will go. What would happen? I'm not saying... But I could hook up with a neighbor. That might be fun. That would be fun. I know you don't know any of these people like all that well, but if we... You know, I'm okay. Like, what would happen if you and just one of the guys

took mushrooms? Me and one of the guys? Just one guy you know there. You're just like, let's kind of keep this chill. Not like a God tier amount, but two or three grams. I got to think. I wonder if... And just see what happens. If that exists, if I could find a

guy at one of my neighborhood parties who would take mushrooms i promise you there's more there if you could feel the guy that's married to the uh elvis fan i would not rule it out seems like a he's a wild ride like there's people doing stuff that we don't know about like i think all these people are just gen you know drinking tea and whatever but oh no yeah there's probably some dark stuff going on in this neighborhood. I mean, somewhere in here there was a sex traffic slave lady. Yeah. Hanging out, you know?

There could be, and think of all the ones that are getting caught. Of course. She wasn't caught for decades. Most of the moms. Most of the moms are sex traffic ladies, that's what we're saying. And they're all hot like that. It's crazy. Yeah.

Anyway, let's move on. That was viewer male birthdays. And now? Game Day Men's Health presents. on this day in history. We could do a little extended game day men's health love here, letting you know that if you want to be like Jake, if you want to go to a comedy show at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night,

get up, run a half marathon, do family stuff all day long, clean the house before your wife wakes up, because she was out the night before with her friends, and then go do a, uh, kick-ass football stream where you erroneously told your buddy this would be a good idea to triple play this game

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I'd like to stop by there I'm going to stop by there and terrorize them you should with my tea and my boner GameT.com, zone. Get your head ride for the holidays. I might get me a B shot, a nice vitamin B shot to head into the weekend. Can't go wrong.

In Rowlett. Got a big sub-a-thon a week from today. That is a week from today. What are we going to do? Do you have any idea? Tell me if you have an idea. Roast twins. What are we going to do the other one hour?

Harding is playing in this game. bison i had a buddy who played there wow great pool today is monday december 15th on this day in 1973 the american psychiatric association reversed a long-standing position and declared actually homosexuality is not a mental illness 1973 it's a bit of a i don't want to tell the whole story of how i got here

but on YouTube the other day I found some like 60s anti-gay PSAs and they are a lot they are a lot let's hear you bring you in one yeah you have to be suspicious of the homosexual and his aims did they ever do a 60 minutes on that because you did it on fat people not that I'm aware of fat Americans I'll look no well the 60 minutes they did on on on gay people which I believe we've done before is the Leslie Stahl one from the 2000s where they're doing the voice study.

Oh, yeah. Gay. Same day. 1973, a lot happened on this day. Tennessee in college basketball is playing Temple. Men's college basketball. Final score, 11 to 6. Tennessee wins.

did not attempt a shot from 1144 left in the first half to the first half. And they were trailing by two points at halftime, seven to five. So Tennessee's like, all right, we're going to do this. They did not attempt a field goal in the second half. Wow. Not one. They ended up going to the line and hitting four free throws. You should go to jail for that.

That's awesome. They're like, maybe we need to change some rules here. I'm not sure everybody's going to play like it's intended. Did you take the under? On this day in 1979, the board game Trivial Pursuit was created by two dudes. The game was designed in 45 minutes on the back of a cigarette cart. You guys play? Ever?

What was it again? Trivial pursuit. A little round. You put a little pie piece in there. And if you get like an orange one, that's sports. So you draw a card, and they had different colors for the different categories. And we would play this growing up. And I was the Schwab, basically.

I was, like, if there was any sports question, because they weren't that hard. But to me, everybody around me, I was this magician who could. Oh, my God. Wait, it'd be like, who led the Red Sox with a 406 average in 1941? Boys, this is a bit of a deep cut, but I got it. To me, it was really, like, it's Ted Williams, of course. But no one in my family, none of my aunts, mom, cousin, nobody knew this stuff. But I knew every new, and I couldn't get one other, this might surprise you.

Geography, wasn't that good in that? No way. Like anything else, I couldn't do. But you pick an orange one and you wanted Danny on your team. That was me. And on this day in 2001, the last standing piece of the World Trade Center's facade was brought down in New York, a 50-foot-tall section of steel. which now stands

in Boise, Idaho at a 7-Eleven. To make sure no one ever forgets. You know, that's the... I mean, maybe this is a common knowledge. That's the tallest building in America now. What? One world trade, I think.

Freedom Tower? Yeah. Because, you know, The Freedom Tower? I think they might, yeah. Instead of the French Tower. Because you look up, you know, you're going to New York City and you're telling your daughter, you're like, I were going to see the Empire State Building.

You've heard of that? She's like, is it the tallest building in New York? You're like, no, I don't think it's New York or the United States. Then you look it up and you feel like Borat. You're like, it's number 10, not number 10. U.S. says number. And one famous wedding on this date in 1985, Sylvester Stallone, who was 39 years old, married Brigitte Nielsen. She was 22.

It didn't work. It didn't last. And today is December 15th, this day in Dumb Zone history. Big day for guests. In 2020, we had Eddie Robinson on. Bye. Had to call his house phone. I think his wife answered.

Because the Indians were in the World Series, right? Or something had just happened. Is that the time that he hung up the hardwired phone and we used to use that drop? It must have been before that. I thought that was the first time around. Yeah. Okay.

I don't see why we had them on here. All right. But then in 2023, no, 2022, shovel. girl you say what year what did we have mine 2020 shovel girl yeah Dan missed that one the girl who uh was famous

probably was on like tosh point oh or something for getting hit in the back of the head with a shovel in a barnyard fight between two 16 year old white girls internet lore told us the back story plugged our only fans had to walk across cornfields to

get there, yeah, hit with a shovel, and then went to jail two weeks later for something unrelated to that. And then, yeah, now as an only fans, if you're interested. Go! You have a gun, bitch. It's a BB gun, don't ask you. Oh, there's probably too much copyright song on there. Oh, yeah, once you put...

See, you're getting smarter about these things. That's because Clayton, like, yells at me. I don't like it. I don't like to see Mad Clayton. He's turning to mass destruction. We found out last night about Clayton's early-in-life backyard wrestling career. I don't know why. That totally makes sense.

I don't know why I haven't thought about that yet. His character's name was Mass Destruction. He's a big boy. So we had him on Eddie Robinson, 12, 15, 20, and October 15. 25th, 2016. That one's obviously. So that had to be the end of that one. We'd love to do it again sometime.

I already said it. It's our gag. Okay. I'm on the air with you. Thanks a lot. All right. Hi-five. Bye.

Okay. The hang up. That was not. It's not climactic. No. I don't know the opposite of that, though. We have other birthdays today, but I will tell you why we had Eddie Robinson on in a few moments. I'll just tell you right now.

Born on this day now dead, Eddie Robinson, born on this day in 1920. We had him on on his 100th birthday. Heck yeah. That's cool. It has to be the oldest person we've ever talked to. Blake, we'll have to call his son to get him on, call it dumb house. You guys 100. We couldn't hit the Zoom link for you.

Yeah, he didn't have Chrome for clean feed. Dude, switch your source. Old. He's not texting me back. He's 100. I remember that. The interview where Dan was afraid to ask him about why he wouldn't share his glove with black ball players back in the day.

Was I afraid? No. It's just one of those. interviews where right after you do it you get 10 emails or what you left that part out i know look it was a different day we all weren't sure i can't change the past so other birthdays today we have anthony brown is 32 kim spin yeah he uh tattoo right Still never got to the bottom or whether or not that was ironic or not,

but it's one of the funniest athlete tattoos of all time as he has a literal Ruffles chip, potato chip, with Ridges tattooed on his shoulder, and he tweeted at one time and said, always a chip on my shoulder. Like, that's a Brooklyn hipster tattoo bit, not an NFL player. Matt Wolletsko is 26?

that was a cowboy offensive lineman once upon a time eric bjornson is 54 that's a cowboy side end we can play war games we have uh ryan presley is 37 ticket listener ticket listener former houston astro so last time i did birthdays on this day i've taken to uh doing them and saving them and becoming more organized over the years and it was two years ago so I had to change his birthday I just added two years it was 35 back then now it's 37

his war in 2023 was 9.7 that's insane what do you mean no no not just for that year for his whole career I was going to say I was unaware that there was a late career no he was a closer yeah no yes 9.7 in one year is like a Barry Bonds at his top yeah okay if he can ever reach that 9.7 for his career and I thought oh he's still in the game I should check that so I can update the war game now it's 9.5 he's a negative war player these days yeah yet

still out there does he have any competition today he's uh with the cubs no I think he was on the cubs all last year but for war games nobody else oh yeah Former ranger, Rick Helling. Rick He's 55. He's more than nine wins above replacement. I'm going to guess 25 for the career of Rick Helling. 20.2. Mo Vaughan, who is 58?

Not only is he 58. You guys looked at me like I had a third head the second. I don't know. Movaun wore 42 right before they changed the number. Did we talk about this? Did we clean it up already? No. You stopped yourself, though.

Yeah, Dan looked at me all like, he's got a no baseball. But in my head, I was like, that there's no way. Because I think a lot of people, I guess I'll speak for myself, I think I thought that the 42 thing had been my whole life.

I don't recall when I was 13 or 14 them changing that. I just remember Movon had that number. Do you remember the steroid era? Of course. Do you remember, we're going to do a variety, of things after the steroid era to distract you and then you're going to be like hey you're doing great uh have you ever heard of mark aguire okay we're going to uh raise that uh finally

i didn't know all this number that's my opinion it makes total sense is uh yeah what if we uh honor jacky robinson on this day or you have problem of that stop talking about yeah no that's great i didn't know that and then of course the honoring of Jackie Robinson across the league, I think, really, is what led at some point Mark Cuban to jump up and be like, hey, I got an idea for honoring somebody across the league. We're going to start. We're going to retire Kobe's number. And then they actually never did, and no one else did, and we all just forgot about it.

Because they were like, how can we make people forget about that? What if we trade the greatest player this franchise has ever had? Let's do that Tortured logic What if we do that at the Like as he's entering his prime Like even before he is the best he could be Rodney Harrison is 53

Waste of space What happened to him a couple weeks ago He just like lost his train of thought Or something on the broadcast Oh yeah Looked really strange What a loser I don't think we'd talk to him

about it no it seemed almost not strokey but who Mitch Connell like him Mitch McConnell yeah Rachel Brosnahan is 35 why do I know that name she is the marvelous mrs. myzel zee-be-de-d-b-d-b-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-s she in house the cards? I don't know. My wife recently, we were talking about Lenny Bruce recently

on the show. And my wife hit me with the like, you know, you're into like seeing the comedy and stuff. I think you'd love this show. I was like, shut up.

No, I'm just fine. That doesn't seem love me. It doesn't seem like a show. I would enjoy, but. Actor Paul K is 61. Zee-B-D-B. He is listed on Game of Thrones as Thoros.

Yeah. Maude Apatow is 28. Bootstraps. What was her... She's not quite... Oh, okay. She was in the Sydney-Sweeney show. The one where they all have sex,

and they're in high school or something? Euphoria? Yeah. Too scared of it. Thumb zone, birthday of the day. Mark Rabier. Hey. He broke his leg.

He did? Yeah. What happened? I forget, but he's pretty gnarly for a little bit. Looking at this post here from four weeks ago on Instagram. We had to end the tour early because I had a stupid act. accident on my scooter and snapped my leg in half. Oh, wow.

We should have just stuck with segways. We were talking about that last night. You know what happened. Born on this day, now dead. Eddie Robinson. Bye. Gustav Eiffel. he one day had the idea with his friend.

He had a buddy. He had sex with the same lady at the same time. And they would high-five each other. And then that same night, he designed the Eiffel Tower. You know. You know it would look good. I was thinking. What we just did, a lot of people think the other one came second.

Feverously sketching. No, you put your hands back up. Yeah, yeah. I'll pretend like I'm there. I'll draw it. And Tim Conway, who is Dorf on golf. Dead on this day, still dead. Walt Disney.

Oral Roberts. You wonder if he was named, one of those names after thing? Nominative determinism. He's like, I don't want to do it, but I got every dude I see. And died on this day in 2016. Craig Sager Bad guy Let's hear about it

Just an absolute bad person He's the most fun He's always wearing a different Zany suits No he He cut his kids out of his will And left his fortune To the Bulls dancer

That he left his wife for And then When he needed a bone marrow transplant, not blood, a horribly painful and invasive process, which his son was one of the only matches. His son gave him that bone marrow and found out days later he had been removed from the will.

But here he is with Pop, wearing a, what is that, plaid? That's crazy. You never know with this guy. And that's what happened on this day. There was a time where I was looked at like an asshole for saying that, right? But we've come so far that the guy in charge of the country, like a famous person can die and he's like, look at this loser.

And you led the way. It's not even, no one's even flustered by it. And it's not even confirmed that he is a loser. No. Whereas you could have, you had some good. good evidence on your Craig Sager thing. But the lesson there is what? If Chappie ever says, I need a bone marrow transplant,

you make sure you get some shit in writing. No doubt. Yes. Like this is a transaction here. Notarized, Blake. Yeah. Blake, any final words? Yeah, closing remarks.

Here's Blake. Yes, because Ted worked in something for us on the broadcast last night. 37-yard field goal attempt from Aubrey. From the left, hash, and this time, Aubrey connects. It sails right through, and we are tied at 17 with three seconds to play in the first half. I didn't need to hear that, but I appreciate the reinforce you. So the Cowboys made a decision that Steve liked. Ted brought it back to him.

Very much. Steve, I'm here for you. That's why I love you, man. You're never one to lose the room. I just wanted to make sure that you had some support. That's why I love you, man. Thank you so much. Fantastic.

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