The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 12-18-25 | The Brandon Aubrey Show and DeeZ Picks from Cane Rosso!

Episode Date: December 18, 2025

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe're live from the Cane Rosso in Sachse! The Brandon Aubrey Show details his feature on the latest Hard Knocks episode, Julie Dobbs is with us today for a big Thursday Viewer Mail bag featuring a Roseanne, Why Hillary Lost, an Anchor Phrase, and things movies get wrong. Plus, Matt Eberflus has been relegated to the booth and the Oscars are changing platforms (00:00) - Open: The Brandon Aubrey Show (26:41) - Sports: Eberflus up to the booth (43:41) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail Bag with Julie Dobbs (01:29:10) - DeeZ Picks with Cirque Du Sirois: Week 16 (02:01:04) - News: The Oscars are moving (02:22:06) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Yab? Are you going to go, yeah, baby? No. You got to cut down? What's Yab? There are occasional times where I forget you didn't really ever listen to the abusers. But this is just a very high school football. all far-flung, what's our friend's name that Blake's trying to be?

Craig Wade. He says, Yab? Yeah, it was like a drop on the ticket where we used to work for a long time when like a small town would come up that felt kind of, never mind. All right. Am I the only one here who remembers that? Blake, are you familiar with Yabab? Jab on.

No. There's listener, there's listener. All right, no, I'm just going with two-thirds of a dumb zone proper is like, what? Okay. Fair enough. I guess everybody thinks like Jake. Hey, look, Julie Dobbs is here. Hi.

Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Yeah. And do we have guests? We do. To start the show? Okay. Let's do that live from a place that looked like it was a field like last week.

Doesn't it look like this? You used to be a field. That was what I was in toning. Yeah. Yeah. Go last week. Huh? Oh, me kick it off the turf.

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Yeah, it looks like you're at the star. So, Scott, he's kind enough to let me use his office for 30 minutes on these days. Appreciate him for that. Now, this isn't what makes you late to go out to practice that gets the quarterbacks giving you shit, is it? No, and I'm going to be clear. I was not late. I didn't think there was any chance.

No, my period started in two minutes. So I'm running out there for kickoff. We're in the indoor on our own because we're playing inside that week. So the specials are inside until our period's called, and we have to do kickoff on Wednesday. So I'm going out there to hit some kickoffs and just running past the quarterbacks as they're jogging off the field and they're giving me a hard time for the tackle. So they couldn't really hear what I was saying, which was disappointing.

Oh, the cameras couldn't hear it? Yeah, because Dag was miced up, but I was not. So he was giving me a hard time for being late, and I was defending my honor saying, I'm not late. I got two minutes on the clock. They're doing drills. I'll be in my position when I'm called on. I haven't even had time to sit there and talk with them.

This guy makes one effing tackle, and he rolls into practice whenever he feels like it. So what was it like having the crew over at your house? Like how long do you find out ahead of time? Does your wife freak out? She's got to clean up everything and got baby stuff everywhere. So talk us through the process of HBO ending up at you all's house. Yeah, I had a great game in Detroit. So I figured it was a good time to follow up and follow us around.

So there was a couple days after the Detroit game, probably Monday when they made the request. And luckily, Jen had already had some cleaner scheduled to come in, some professional cleaning help. Because we're going to host Christmas. and by we, I mean, she's going to host Christmas for her family while I'm up in Washington playing the game. So she was already planning, cleaning a place up. We just put Christmas decorations up, so it's kind of timed pretty well. And so we had the whole place cleaned actually the morning before they came. Then they had a crew of like six, seven people with a lot of cameras, big cameras,

a complete guide just for sound. All he was worried about was the sound. But, yeah, it was a little surprising. They let us kind of do our own thing naturally, but then sat us all down at the dinner table with the food and asked Trent to ask a question, ask Bangor to ask a question. And then, you know, they've heard my story a million times.

So a little change in perspective, they had Jen tell it instead of me to see if it kind of matched up with what I told everyone in which obviously it does because it's just a real life story uh who paid for the food uh the NFL films crew did okay good i just want to make sure make sure they're taking care of you um yeah so banger and trent are just available they got to be available as well do they live near you they do not they was kind of a big ass to get them out there and they were all for it because you know HBO is pretty big network to be on big platform so they were excited about it and

And then they remembered where I lived and asked him to come after practice during rush hours. It was like the day of, they were both kind of hesitant. Luckily, Brian's family, his parents were in town. So he left the kids behind and they made the solo trip out. Trent brought his wife and son, but they hung out with Colton in our playroom. That's what I was going to ask, is did they ask you if you could get the kid on camera? yeah they did um we asked for no face but when we saw the shots um gin reluctantly approved them because you know it was cute and he uh wasn't like the star of the show but like he was just he's

making appearances and it wasn't like full full face shots kind of side but yeah i don't know jen reluctantly agreed to it yeah no i didn't even notice i guess it was just in the suite then it wasn't at your house was it yeah yeah okay no you did a good job protecting the house shots yeah and we asked for no um external shots of the house of the neighborhood to keep our privacy and they they did that they just used like they had a really zoomed in close up of our window so they could use the brandon abry's house um you know so they they they were really respectful of our wishes yeah you should have had them zoom in on that hvac system Yeah, I like how well this thing's running.

But nothing fuels Brandon Aubrey, like a cold house. It's like a nice 68 degrees. I could pull it into our recovery, for sure. For sure. Cool room to sleep. They slide you any coin for that? No, that is... Nothing extra?

Fahitas. Fahitas, yeah. They were very surprised that all we asked for was... I like Medea from scratch, I think. Oh, yeah. He is our fantastic crowd-pleaser, so that's what I asked for, and they're like, wait, that's all you all want? I don't know what they're, like, maybe Wagyu steaks for me to grill or something. I don't know what they were expecting, but I kept it simple.

Yeah. Got free, Blake wouldn't have done that, man. Blake could be ordering 12 pizzas. Well, Blake's got to feed Angelo. No, that's right. He's got to pack up food for that. Yeah, last week, not this hard knocks. I guess the last week's hard knocks.

They were showing the Giants doing a walkthrough in a hotel meeting room. Is that how that works before a game? Yeah, you don't have really anywhere else to go. Those are only private areas you have on the road, and you got to run a little practice. It's maybe like five, ten minutes for special teams. Just walk through all your assignments, make sure they're top of brain,

and everyone's focused and locked in. So, yeah, that's pretty accurate. Did you guys walk through, like the fake? Was there a potential, is this new for this week? Or was it something that you could have possibly done any week? How does that work? It's something we could have pulled out whenever the moment was right. We've been practicing it for probably 10 weeks.

I mean, we'll see, yeah, it's been up for most of the year. It's just that's something that every team probably has one in fake on field. to assume that they practice and then you just expected to never be called but it was the perfect situation for it so um even running on the field when i got the call because i don't get the call until i'm there um on the field and so i was shocked it's called and i'm like let's do this thing why was it the perfect situation um i don't know if i want to go too too much into i'm sure other teams would be able to piece it together on their own but i don't want to give them the answers to the test okay are there other times this year

that you've seen that look and thought this would work, but it just wasn't on? In film, yes, but on the field, no, I'm so dialed into my steps and what I'm doing that I don't even peek what's going on outside of Bangor and Trent. You ever throw the corner in practice? Yeah, that absolutely gets thrown if they were to sprint at me right off the bat,

I would toss it. You know, he was open this time, but the guy played it pretty well. He was kind of splitting between the two of them. And I got running a lot faster in the game than I do in practice. So I got to the line of scrimmage before I could get my head up. And, you know, when I looked up, I saw his back turned at about like eight yards, took a little peek at the first down marker, and like, I can get there before him. So just went.

Damn. That's awesome. It was a throw. Well, I mean, it's, I just, it looked exactly like a quarterback playing. get the linebacker played it exactly how he needs to. He's just stuck in no man's land. Yeah, he can't be right. Exactly.

And once he had his back turned and you had it, yeah, no, but he was also open. And I'm glad that. Just go with the low-risk option and put the ball back into the playmakers who are paid to do it in his hands. Okay, I don't know if we can produce on the fly. I meant to mention this before, Blake. But if there's any way we could pull up during this interview,

the video of us that you have on Twitter. reacting to Brandon's because we were, as you know, Brandon, we were doing a game stream this week. Yeah. So let's see if we can find that, possibly. Just let me know if we can. I apologize for that. But finding out on the feet, how do, okay, so how does that work? Do you have a radio in your helmet?

How does that work? No, Brian and Traynor up by the team's coordinator. He'll pass on the information to them. And then they're just going to communicate it to me. however, they're going to communicate it to me as I run on the field. Who told you? I'm so locked in. Brian, I'm so locked in.

It's like Trent tried, apparently, but I'm so locked in on what I'm doing. I saw them doing something out of their normal. And as I got to where I addressed the ball, the spot with Brian's on his knee, with his finger on the spot, asking him, hey, what am I? Did you guys say what I think he said? And he goes, yep, all right, there it is. We're doing it. Wow.

So after you know, then what's going through your head? Because I'm watching it, you know, when I watch the replay is he's got to now pretend he's going, you know, doing his actual stuff to sell it to the other team that he's going to kick. So, like, what's going through your head? He doesn't change into, like, different running receiver cleats. Well, I don't know. Yeah. I know what you mean, though. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm just, I'm staying calm, listening for anyone to call it off, because anyone can call it off if they see the look change. So just waiting, wait, and wait, and then go through my normal routine, give banger the nod, and if it hasn't been called off, get ready, because it'll be an athlete. That's the perfect play. I got to just go play football. It's way easier to execute than kicking a field goal.

Just get the ball in your hands. You have an option. use your eyes don't overthink it and just let the game come to you so i would say i didn't really have a thought in my brain until i took the slide and as i slid you know i felt really powerful running like i hadn't felt that my body hasn't felt that good in a long time until you get the ball on your hand the adrenaline's going and all the pain and soreness and aches and um worries go away and i slid and then for a second i'm like he was about to go down and probably try and take my legs i should have hurtled him at that moment i realized like, okay, that's why George Pickings does that.

So I, for a second, almost tried to hurdle it. I thought you were going to plant and then, like, spin and then head to the sideline and high-step-it, and we have the video? Okay, so this is, we were watching this, you know, live from high top of my garage where you've been before. So let's show you the video of our reaction, if we can. J.J. McCartney's. Oh! Hell, yeah. Yes.

Signed to deal. It really looked like he was going to try to throw that, like draw the defender in and dump it over. What a great angle for that, too. Holy shit. He thought about it. He thought about it. Oh, my.

There's a lot of fun. Oh! Love that. It's fan club. Yeah, man. You're making tackles. You're running the ball. You mentioned this earlier when we were talking about the hard knocks thing.

And, you know, we've heard your story a lot. We know you. We know your family. The other specialists are tired of hearing it. But it really does sound like when your wife tells the story, like you wouldn't have kick to football had it not been for her? Like sometimes people get successful and then you hear that there's 10 other people and they're like, oh, I was the reason that this or that or this or that. Like it sounds like that she actually convinced you to try football and now here we are.

Yeah, she opened up the possibility in my mind. And obviously when I'm setting out, I explained to her exactly. Because I've been a professional athlete before. I've figured out how much work it takes and what a schedule looks like for a professional athlete training in the off-season. And she's been through it before as well with me. So I let her know this is what it's going to look like. This is the sacrifices both of us are going to have to make once the possibility opened up in my head. And she allowed me to be able to do that. And she worked a fantastic job while I was playing the USFL, where I took a pay cut of more than 50% to do that and chase this.

So she is pivotal to why I am where I am, and I'd be crazy not to mention that as often as I possibly can. Gets me browning points with her as well, so I got to keep saying it. It's funny to see you guys at dinner there. Just because, like in the hard knocks, when you go to the bench after making the tackle, Trent loves busting balls, right? Like, that's all they do is,

The three of you seem to just make fun of each other all the time. Absolutely. And now they have to be at dinner and treat you like you're an important person and be nice in front of the camera. Oh, Brandon, tell us the story. It doesn't come supernatural. You know, they got the job done. They figured it out. Yeah.

Conversely, so that's like big high-fiving. Then if you miss a kick and you go to the sideline. And the camera shows you It just looks like that's a lonely existence Yep Yeah, it's never where you want to be Miss the kick, obviously It's a big play in the game

Setting them up with some good field position Which they capitalized on You never want to be in that spot And they kind of assign blame in the game With the camera, they'll throw it on who they think Made the mistake in the game Whether it's a interception, mistackle, misfews,

field goal, whatever it is, the camera's going to be right there to pick up the reaction. So for me, yeah, I'm trying as soon as I kick it to figure out what went wrong and then put that in the back of my brain and move on and focus on the next one. So luckily, I got a lot of attempts that game. I was four for six on field goals, two for two on extra points. You don't like to miss multiple kicks again. You don't like to miss any kicks ever, but it's the game we play that you can't be perfect as much as we try and I feel like I let the team down and the camera is kind of capturing that

in the moment so hopefully we don't go back there but we've been there before with a couple of games one each season previous seasons one of them was blocked so this time just feels more like it's on me because it is and we're going to get better and not do that again two things one when dan and i are in charge of producing NFL broadcasts um not a fan of the i don't need to see what or your coach look like every i know so how about a replay how about breaking down what happened on the play how about we uh they never even showed your tackle again on the broadcast like i had to go you know you go home and watch it because they were busy showing the guy who got who you tackled or i think it's too much and the second thing is i've been thinking a lot about you saying that really you

hitting long kicks early is what got you the latitude in the leash to keep trying and it's that tricky thing of younger players you have a tighter or quicker leash on them, you're pulling the hook, you can miss two in a game, and nobody's really doubting you. So, like, I feel like what you've accumulated the credibility to where

you're just right back at it. But if you were a young guy worried about being cut, I think it'd be harder to get back to normal. Yeah, it's definitely a confidence thing, and even someone like me, going after the game,

confidence waivers a little bit you think about geez really let the team down don't want to be there again and especially laying down at night it's hard to relax for the night and get to sleep so you just try and push it through your brain and pull up the stat sheets your highlight video and you show yourself

look this is what you've been your whole career you can do this so move on and get into practice the next week and it's gone so I wish I would have been available Tuesday so we could have this conversation earlier in the week so I don't have to pull it back up but I'm sorry move on a fast spot no no it needs to be addressed obviously it's part of the game but yeah you try to move on as fast as possible and remind

yourself of course you can obviously kick a ball pretty sweet jacket at that post game yeah yeah that's I like that one that is a fanatics special get a flax every year so end of last year I was about to expire I'm like

how can I spin this the team gives it to you or like the you the PA yeah huh yeah talking about going to sleep

thinking about that stuff that really sucks that that's how it seems to be for the pro athlete or coach or whatever that you focus on like you had that other

really cool play where you you ran for a first down and you're lying there thinking about how your missed field goal right yeah exactly because i mean it's just human nature to think about your mistakes and if you don't think about them and kind of troubleshoot then you're likely to repeat them so i think it's helpful as much as it sucks and it hurts to do you've got to do it you've got to dive into it and troubleshoot make the corrections and move on.

What do you make of Philip Rivers? I didn't get to see the game. Incredible that it was close. I'm not sure what happened in the course of the game, but to lose on the last second field goal, he did enough that he did his part. I'm sure his team rallied around him, and they all did their part,

but that game that close against a really good team is impressive at 44. Oh, yeah, they were just showing at 44, let alone at 44 and has not been on a roster this year, yeah. Yes. Yeah, just because they were the hard knocks again, they were showing just the different teams, you know, quarterback rooms, reactions to this happening. And I just figured that was a topic amongst all of you. Yeah, crazy that it happened. I heard all of the memes about why he's doing it.

Only he can answer that question. Do you know about that, Dan? Yeah, the 10 kids or whatever? Health insurance. Okay, well, that's silly, right? I mean, it may be, but legit, it's about to lapse. Five years after you quit playing, you get off of the league plan, I guess. Oh, I thought you were on it.

Like, I thought that was forever. They can't afford to do that. That would crush. If we tried to get that in the CBA, that would just be such a big, big ask. They'd ask for so much in return. As for that 18th game. They're asking for 19 at that. point. What do you think about 18 games? You think that's going to happen? I have no idea. I'm not

too involved in the PA. As a specialist, I played 21 games anyways. I have to take away a preseason game and make it a regular season game. I'm getting paid more, so I like it. I know it's tough for the rest. There's so many things like this where specialists kind of want, contrary to what the rest of the team wants, so I try to stay out of it as much as possible. Yeah, you'll take more preseason games, more everything. no less preseason those checks don't hit yeah just make them all

I'm gonna play concussions be damned let's have to yeah no I hear you well good luck this weekend I mean

there's still a chance and you could go help ruin a Michigan man season it's hard bar right there's something yes yeah get one over at him

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i've heard that but he says it real fast you said it oddly and the way they used to okay well i i can't find the drop though i did miss that uh just say it to julie and then see if she just pops up with a noted P1. I'm a P1. What do you mean? I'm a P1. I sat there with ears and for years and years. Watching the guy who played Olaf cry when you're supposed to be writing a ticker.

Yep. I didn't know back then, but I definitely have ADHD, and that was a prime example of it. Just watching Olaf instead of paying attention to y'all. I have a quick piece of audio from Hard Knocks episode two. I got caught up on two and three because we knew Brandon was featured in three I don't know why you didn't play this for me but have we heard shoddy yeah I don't have we heard

shoddy do this hey never lose sight of the magic of this football team okay it's about our competitive spirit but really it's about that the love for one another now let's talk about this okay December football's the best because the good teams become what Why are we doing that? He's doing it when he yells too now. He's mid-scream, and I'm getting pumped up.

Like, I'm actually feeling shoddy here a little bit. And he goes, what? Now, let's talk about this, okay? December football's the best, because the good teams become what? Great fucking teams. Some teams start to do what in December? Well, he just keeps doing it. And he doesn't give the guys enough time to provide a meek rhetorical answer.

He just... Some teams start to do what in December? They change. Oh, shit, it's December football. Fuck that. We play free. There's two words that pop up every time you watch us play. Okay, now that was a great speech,

but the two words that popped up were penalties and losses over the next two games, unfortunately. Well, what did he think they were? Violence and passion. Oh, okay. Yeah. It's good speech. Doesn't mean you don't give it,

but I just hadn't heard him scorn. dream his questions up to that point. Do you think they answer the questions in their head? One of them's kind of like, well, he already hung it. He already. Like, what am I? Do I answer or do I not? I'm starting.

You didn't give me time. Actually, I have a couple more questions from him from the press conferences. Okay. We'll be brought to us by One Day, Texas.com slash promo 30, which is what, Julie? What, one day doors and closets? Is that what you mean? Or what is the promo? Anyways, we'll take it from here.

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Yeah, such as a gateway drug of remodeling. Yeah, the doors were so fabulous. everything else look bad and now the doors match the rest of the house okay it's kind of like the carpets and the curtains thing yes and sadly that's where my head went too i need to stop hanging out with you yeah no they use the 3d technology they uh measure all the doors and then they replace all your interior doors in one day not like when josiah was a kid this would take two or three days they'd have to come back they'd kind of leave their stuff uh you know put their stuff away and he swore i can make this an easier process i can make this take one day

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Fix up her closet for her. She'll be happy. From the wonderful world of sports, radio sports, scoreboard. Oh, yeah, I like that. You know what? We don't dump them, but I just figure you jump in if you're going to... Did we miss anything from the stadium? Did you have anything for Brandon?

No, not really. Hey, Blake. Hey. Everything does sound dope now. Now. It does. We're hanging on by a thread over here. Okay.

Yeah? You feel okay, though? We're working on it. Okay. Yeah, we're staying above water for now. Okay, that does not mean he feels okay. No, but he's honest. I asked him if he feels okay.

I'd like to have him say yes. He's honest. working on that all right well anyway i got some shoddy for you some shoddy audio shoddy oh we have boy i got i got stuff from uh the last two press conferences and it's going to end with a really good uh discussion about what they're doing in shotgun because we were wondering about that the sawed off shoddy yeah so let's talk first about uh some bingoes because he will do like he did in hard knocks there and like ask questions.

They're talking about the lack of pass rush. Yeah, you know, we looked at it. We've talked a lot about that. Again, I think the biggest thing for us is we've got to affect the quarterback and there's different ways to do it. You guys have seen our ability to do it with our defensive line and four-man rushes.

You know, we have the five-man line. But at the end of the day, you know, we just didn't get home. And were there enough blitzes? Eh, maybe, maybe not. Okay. They're having red zone issues, or he was asked about their red zone issues on offense. They're not scoring touchdowns, yeah.

Well, again, I'm going to make an adjustment in the red zone. Again, the stats are what they are. And again, that's why I think I'd be a little careful reading stats. You know, we were two for five in the red zone, but really we were kind of two for three. Why do I say that? We had one at the 19-yard line where we ran a play just to burn the clock. Okay. Okay, so now this is an interesting one.

This is a little extended. I want you to hear all this. Does the question bit, but then I also thought he's getting a bit defensive as far as the questioning of how good their red zone offense is. Right, if he feels the need to break down each granular possession. Right, this almost sounds like a guy, you know, defending his job, like, hey, I'm good at this. So I wanted you to hear about 30 seconds here. Why do I say that?

We had one at the 19-yard line. where we ran a play just to burn the clock. We had like 18, 17 seconds left, maybe a little less than that. And we threw the out route over the top of his head. We weren't trying to score, right? And then we went down there. We got to the 19 or the 18, and we tried to draw them off sides and we kicked the field goal.

The stats are the stats. But I actually looked at the red zone and thought we were better. I stayed committed to running the football down there. The first couple drives, we punched it in. I thought, you know, Giovante and Malik both had some really good finishes down there. I thought that was really good. And I got to tell you something,

when we tried to draw them off sides and kick the field goal, that's red zone failure. You shouldn't have done it. You shouldn't have kicked that field goal. You shouldn't have tried to draw him offside. So yeah, that counts if we are to go back and forth and to argue about each and every individual thing. He was asked about back to the theme,

is asking himself questions. He was asked about George Pickens. Again, that's why it's important to have two guys. George has been, you know, superhuman almost for most of this season. And two teams have kind of slowed him down. Does that mean we're going to stop throwing the ball? No. And he was asked a question from Christy Scales.

You'll hear her. Christy Scales, Cowboys Radio 153, the fan. More on the defense. High number of interceptions, and it looks like they spread the wealth with that, lots of different players. Could be that in pressure? Yeah, it's a great question, Christy. They, you know, they play a lot of spot drop coverage.

You know, so what's that mean? It means they're dropping to locations. He's got to educate you. All right, a couple more before I have a new bingo for you, and then we'll do the shotgun information. One is called, oh, this is short words. He has shortened a word. Our focus right now is, let's just, let's go finish strong.

Let's go play well this week. And again, we've got 17 guaranteed ops, and we're going to maximize them all. Yep, yep. He's an ops guy. Not operations, it's opportunities, though. We also have, this is called, is this a funny story? On the defense, Derwin-James is a guy that moves around and plays in a lot of different spots.

What makes him kind of different from some of the other guys that are versatile in terms of where they line up? Yeah, he's a stud, you know, he's good in coverage. He's a great blitzer. He's a good run defender. You know, they're using them a lot in what we call Buffalo Nickel, where they put the bigger body in there to get them closer to the ball to try to impact the game and make plays. Funny story, I remember we were playing in his rookie year in Seattle,

and I was out for pre-pre-warm-ups, and I was like, man, who's that defensive end? And they go, no, I'm not a defensive end. So who is it? They said, that's their first round draft pick, the safety. I was like, oh, damn. That's hilarious. No, yeah, he should be opening.

Give him a Netflix live. I like how he starts laughing. He's thinking about it. Oh, yeah. Funny story. I remember we're... Funny story. That's the perfect shot he laugh.

I'm playing that, and Beth is getting excited because she's going to cut that off. All right. Drop Beth is out here, folks. If you wanted to meet Drop Beth. Or T.C.'s family. T.C.'s family is here? T.C.'s whole family is here to question my running time.

Oh, is this T. Talk trash to me. Is this the legendary T.C. Grandma? Yeah. Oh, my gosh, that's so exciting. Yeah. TC's always talked about having a grandma, and we've always doubted him. What?

Yeah. I've never believed he had a grandma. I know, right? It's like, how could this? Yeah. Like, he's always bragging about him. In the flesh. Yeah, bro, I got a grandma. And she walked in, and the first thing she says, she was like, you look slow.

To you, yeah. It's all of you. So, I have a new bingo for you. We have him asking himself questions. Intentionality, his dad. Yes. But I have a new bingo. it started a well i think i've just begun to notice it more but it's that's who i am yeah no that's a

cool one i this is the way i do things you remember even when marshawn kneel in that situation it's like i called up our team cap that's what i do i go i take that extra step others a lot of coaches probably wouldn't this is what i do or when micha was traded he called a bunch of that's how i deal with things not everybody would do that I do, though. So this is just who I am. Evidence number one. Yeah, again, I thought, you know, we didn't protect very well overall.

You know, I've already talked about my part in that, which is a big part of that with some of the blitz looks and the plan and all that stuff. So like I always do, put myself out there. Oh, no. That's so embarrassing. Yeah. That's just who I am. Number two.

Nick Harris, four-star telegram. A few weeks ago, you guys talked about a competition at Wright Tackle. Now that you've seen Terrence Steele and Nate Thomas start a few games consecutively, how would you evaluate that competition right now? Again, I think, you know, when you talk about the last two games, we haven't protected Dak very well. You know, Nick, I think I'm always going to put myself out there first. I thought, you know, again, Flores frustrated us with some things and needed to be better.

Yeah, it's what I do. The whole thing is it's not that he does. does things poor it's just that he has to tell you every single thing that he's doing rather than just doing it and that's the type of guy who's like oh yeah you know grits important to me that's why i got a tattooed on my hand that's why he can't just do things he always has to tell you he's doing things which kind of means lame i care about my family oh do you that's what i well that's interesting and yeah the the thing about it is it subtly uh puts forth the idea that everyone else doesn't.

Yeah. Like, well, no, I don't really have to say I love my family. I thought that was kind of a given. Okay, so Sad Yusuf jumped in, and he asked about the shotgun situation. We were talking a lot about the Sautoff Shadi. I don't know that he really got into the Saut. Because I think you're over, T.C. and I talked about this. I don't know that DAC is changing his depth that much.

Okay, it looked like it. I think there are times when he has. But the main thing was just that the back is lining up like right behind the guard. The back is not lining up next to DAC or a yard in front of deck. He's lining up at the front of the pocket. And time and time again, especially when it's Malik Davis out there who's a little guy, it looks like when the ball gets snapped, the guard steps back. He's now in the back's lap.

And as you're going to hear in the audio, the edge can get in. And there's no way for that back to get out there. He's already swallowed at the front of the pocket. Yeah, and if they're trying to disguise things on which side what's coming from, he's not going to be able to flip over, right? He can't flip over, and he can't carry the ball because he's too far up, so you know that when dad gets the ball, it's a throw, and now you've got a guy who can't block in a bad position,

and it all comes back to you they don't trust their running backs to block. So this is a way to try to fix it, but I don't think it works, but I'm interested in hearing him talk about it. Saundi's of the athletic. Brian, kind of a broad type of question. Often we see in the shotgun, running backs are next to or slightly behind the quarterback. When you have the running back ahead of the quarterback,

just what's the in front of the quarterback, what's the intention that when offenses do that? Yeah, interesting question. Great question. There's different philosophies. The number one thing you would say is, obviously, I've always talked about how you want to create the depth of the pocket starts in the A gaps.

When you keep your back at depth, if the guy blitzes, There's a collision that usually happens about two and a half yards deep in the backfield, and the quarterbacks are trusting that the back's going to get there. That's one reason. The bigger issue is now there's so many pick stunt side that they pick the guard, or they pick the center,

or they pick the guard, and they'll wrap the defensive line with the backer. When you're at different depths, it's almost impossible to pass that off. So by moving them up into location, they can work together. It'd be like, Tad and I working together to pass the game would be a lot easier

than me and you working on a game because of the proximity to one another. So that's one of the reasons why we do it. If you're back is, Dave. He's going to follow up on that, but. No, it makes sense. There's a pro and a con to any sports strategy, right, or anything, where you're like, I'm going to take away from this to put this over here. I'm going to make this harder so I can make this easier.

So I get what they were doing, but I'm just telling you, we were watching it Sunday night, and it never worked. Every single time they did it, the back became useless. and DAC is having to fight off the edge by himself. It wasn't working at all. If your back is there, and if you need help on the edge, is it still possible for the back to get over and help the tackle on the outside?

That's why people do it, because they know when you get stuck down in the A gaps right there, that's why they know, hey, you can't help the tackle. So we do a lot of our chips with, what, tight ends and things like that on the edges. Yes, that's great. That's great. You can't help the tackle.

So we do a lot of our chips with, what, tight ends and things like that on the edges. the edges so it's just different philosophies and not right or wrong but um again it's it's designed for a reason and everybody has it i don't know sometimes it's right or wrong right yeah yeah i mean if it doesn't work we're going to say it's wrong but i uh they do it because they don't have running backs that they think could block and certain parts of their offensive line we're getting blown up but that's a i like hearing him talk about it also uh sneaky sod he put the word in tension in the question oh yeah yeah he knows what he's sure that that shoddy would stay locked

in an answer. That's cool. Yeah, that's good stuff. So thanks, Sod. Yeah, I do think the depth is different. I got to go look back. I think there are some of the games from earlier this season compared to last game. It just felt like last game was exceptionally, he had a two-yard drop instead of a three-yard drop type thing. And it just felt like they were getting on them right away.

Yeah, and then the flip side of that, too, and just maybe we do viewer mail after this. looked it up. They ranked 29th out of 32 in Blitzrate over the last two weeks. So for all the like, Eber Flues, is this, that. You can't have two must-win games against two quarterbacks.

One golf, all you have to do you're trying to do is affect the pocket. McCarthy is figuring out life. And you went down not just not swinging. You just kind of laid there. And that's a tough look, which is probably going to cost him

job like there's nothing he can do in the last three games where you'd be like all right well feel better about that who flus yeah yeah so i think that's probably where we are uh game day men's health they have you feeling good oh yeah oh yeah did you get the boost uh i get a weekly boost i get 10% off my TRT game day men's health i go to the grapevine location but there's 12 there's one out here in roulette yeah yeah pretty close gameday dot dumbzone dot com where you find those locations it's just about feeling like the best you if you have injuries you're trying to recover from if you're trying to get back into working out the main thing is just not letting your kids wear you down to the point where you can't even enjoy it so TRT helps me with that there's lots

of other stuff they can do there peptides if you're looking to lose weight or gain muscle they can help you with your Poon drive I think is what they call it Julie I think that is officially the term at gameday.comstone.com. You're in and out of there. These are people they care about taking care of men's health. They take care of mine, so hit them up. Yeah, I mentioned the dumb zone and all that kind of stuff. Or Julie.

Yeah. Or Julie, or Poon. promo code Poon. Jesus. Yeah. What we're going to do now? We could do some viewer mail if you want. Oh, yeah, that's right.

I like that. Profits and Outlaws here. The song will be part of the sub-a-thon on Monday. That's right. Monday, we're doing a 12-hour program. Julie will be there at some point. Yep. I'll be there.

You're not available early? Maybe really early. I just have something like between 10 and 12-ish. Tennis? Yes. It's me and the kids, though. Because the kids are out of school that day. It is tennis.

I'm taking the kids to play tennis. Riders got a hockey thing, Anna's got a tennis thing. God. I know It's all about tennis Are you a pickleball person? I'm both, yeah I would think

Oh yeah, come on I'm ambidextrous Yeah That makes sense For court sports Yeah, I play both Okay Do you dominate in pickleball?

I'm getting better I'm getting a lot better I always think if you're good at tennis You'd probably be really good at pickleball You have a giant step up on everybody else That hasn't played tennis Is tennis for people who don't want to move?

For olds. Kind of, yeah. Yeah. But it's hard. It's fun. It's great. Well, I'm pushing against it. Against pickleball?

I once vowed I'd never play softball, too, because I only played men's hard. I played hardball. Right. Yeah, we know. I like when he mentions it. He's giving Blake the look of death. Oh, you play softball? You play hardball.

Yeah, you know. No, actually, I have a top. Let's get into viewer mail. All right. Um, because T.C.'s family is here, uh, and it's, they're runners, folks. And, uh, a guy emailed me. Basically the point of this is, um, being a part of a group that you're not really, uh, thrilled about being a part of. Like, I am a big golfer, but I'm not golf guy. Yeah. I'm a big crossfitter, but I'm not, I don't, I don't love the crossfit guy. We need a name for that.

Hmm. He said, as someone who runs halves, it's from Zach. There's a breed out there that is absolutely insufferable. Last week, a night runner passed me in a residential area and obnoxiously pointed to his chaotic strobe light so as to say, where's yours, chief? Oh, gosh. Mind your business.

A gayer interaction I have not experienced in my 33 years of life. A guy like me, I just don't run into oncoming traffic. Similarly, I'm a grateful dead guy, but made a conscious decision last year to stop wearing the shirts. That's a good one. It's always a 50-50 proposition that you be stopped down by a male Roseanne to talk about their actual best decade or about how John Mayer is ruining the scene.

We need a word or phrase that describes the active disdain dissociation of a group you are voluntarily a part of. I think this about being in, like, media. I'm like, I promise I'm an a-hole, but not like the worst kind. About on board with weed. Oh, that's a great one. Love weed, hate weed culture. This has never been a funny weed movie for the most part.

Don't want my, don't want to look like a weed guy. Don't want my apartment to smell like incense. Right. But there's some weed guys that you know their weed guy. They got to let you know. It's their whole identity. They got a pot leaf bumper sticker. Yep.

Maybe at home they'll have the bud of the month from High Times magazine. Federal Bud. Do you know about High Times Magazine? High Times Magazine. It was like porno for weed. They would have a bud of the month. And so in the middle, like Playboy you would open up and you'd have the Playboy of the month, the girl of the month,

you would have a bud of the month and it'd be a big piece of pot. Just a big nug. And they would shoot it like really seductively kind of. Like the guy across the hall for me in college was absolute weed guy, like identified as I'm the guy for weed. He had pictures all over his room of buds of the month. Some kids had. Heather Locklear, Michael Jordan.

Right. No, he just had the Cush. The bud of the month. I knew those guys too. It's got like red hair in it, man. Yeah. Like, I don't know. And then they know the names of it, too.

Oh, for sure. Oh, this is the blah, blah, blah. It's from California. It was grown this way. And I'm like, all right. My second favorite civil engineer. I bet there's a lot of people who are like this with religion, too, or whatever. Like, yeah, I'm into it, but I just don't.

I don't like everything that comes with... I believe in God, but I don't want to be... So that's where I stand on runners. Like running, don't like runners. I got two follow-ups on the concept of a set of brothers marrying a set of sisters. Oh, okay. At me and my wife's engagement party, this is from Logan. My brother met my wife's sister.

They started dating six months after our wedding. They dated for like six years before they got married. We called it high risk, high reward because family get-togethers could turn awkward real fast if something bad happened. Today we live three blocks away from each other and hang out at least a couple times a week. Our kids are different ages, but they get along as double cousins. We have to endure people saying, quote, the holidays must be easy then, huh? Which always makes me think of Blake's awful brothers-in-law. Um, my brother and I both moved from ticket to the dumb zone.

Um, oh, I have to read this. My brother and I both moved over from the ticket to the dumb zone with you guys and vow for, vie for who can get the least amount of shit from you guys for our birthday shoutouts. Speaking of, this email already feels too long and Jake is about to say something. Well, you asked me to not. So that's the only reason that I didn't. And, uh, one more from Jorts. We all know, Jordan, Richard.

Sure, the son of Stan. My grandpa and his brother married my grandma and her sister. Say that one more time. His... Grandpa. And his brother married, okay. Married my grandma and her sister. Okay.

So Stan, who is his dad, has double first cousins, which genetically is really close to having brothers from different mothers. Yeah. None of them had slaves. We pointed out Chang and Chang and Angbunker, the 18-inch sideshows, did own slaves. Yeah.

You ever known anybody who did that? Like, if you ever known anybody who dated a brother or sister, there's a brother-sister? I haven't, but I guess it sort of makes sense. They're, like, kind of different versions of each other. I could see why they'd like the others. Yeah, it almost seems like it should happen more. Right. Yeah.

Is there anything of a little, you're letting the fox into the hen house a little bit. bit here? It feels weird. You know, what if she likes you, but with, like, one degree different than you, that's going to be, like, three blocks away now? I wonder if there's any ever swapping in that world. Man, that feels too close to a... The swapping is kind of a rarity anyway, and this is also a rarity.

But what a... What a situation that would be. Send us emails, folks. I do have a brother-in-law update. The one that keeps his wife on an allowance... wonders why she goes to Starbucks because it's too expensive. He got on to her for decorating their two-year-old son's birthday because he wouldn't remember. Hey, I don't know.

Why do we have all these balloons? Why does he have a personalized cake? I mean, there's something to this, though, right? Like, women don't like, or moms don't like it when you say this is all for you, which is, it's not bad. I just wish they would accept it is because of them. The kid doesn't care, doesn't know, won't remember. you can hand them a cardboard box and some styrofoam,

and they'll have a good time. But the moms do it for themselves. They just don't ever say, yes, it's just because of me. I think that's the disconnect. The guy's right. In a way that he won't remember, but you could splurge on your kid to make his day special. Whether he remembers it or not is not the point of it.

Yeah, that's a good point. But you've got to find a, the decorations, though, don't make the kid feel special. Like a cake. balloons they know that's happening it's for future kid to see pictures right maybe it's just for pictures maybe i mean a lot of it is you just want to have evidence whenever they're 14 and they're yelling at you like you never cared about me ever and you're like look look what i did the mom like competition aspect of it that is very real like who can have the bigger party

who's going to have a real pony it's an effing arms race it is that's all it is it's just everybody stacking on top of stacking, on top. It's just, let's just go back to dive left and dive right in the playbook. As someone who attends way more parties than throws, I like the stacking. Let's see how much stuff I can take home. Maybe there'll be a camel this week at the party. Got a hypothetical for Jake from Garrett who writes, Dear Mr. Skin.

Hypothetical for Jake. Would he rather have his daughter become a competitive cheerleader? Because you don't want that, right? You've already stated that. It seems, and I've gathered info from friends, it seems like the worst thing that they could end up into. It seems terrible. Or he joins me every month, this is Garrett,

for a nice round of golf. Oh, that's 100% easy. Golf. Yeah, no, I don't even have to think about that. Oh, why? I thought you're so anti-golf. Well, I am anti-golf because of, golf guy, right?

But if it's just, you know, let's go hang out, do something semi-athletic. Get some steps. Kick it for four hours. As opposed to the absolute toxicity and poison that is the entire cheerleading culture thing. Four times 12. Yeah, I was up there picking up my marathon packet on Saturday. And they call all of them nationals. Right.

Everything's the nationals so that they can bilk you out of thousands and thousands. It's not a national. There can't be 50 nation because there's only one nation. So everything is nationals, nationals, nationals. I'm like, how's the team, how's this 2A high school from Heath in nationals? Where are the schools from not Texas? There aren't any. So there's six-year-old girls with, like, caked on makeup.

And I'm just like, dude, this, I'm not trying to be approved, but this can't turn out well. This just can't be good. Get me a big bertha. and pop some lucies some hybrid irons and I'm out there the smaller the town the more makeup

and again I know that this is judgmental and mean but there's always some lady a big woman like a cartman type and she's super made up to

and she's just like girls get over here and she's in charge and the football coach type effect and I just I'm afraid of it so I was actually

out in Frisco at the Comerica Center where the Stars practice but Ryder had a game this was like last Sunday or something and there was a competition right in that same arena um out there at a cheerleading competition and my daughter Anna was kind of just quietly staring at everybody like exactly like you're talking about to the nines you know you could tell they drove in like two or three or four hours for this and these tight clothes and all these sequins and makeup and they're all about her age and Anna's just quiet kind of processing and as

we're walking out she's like mom that made me feel really weird And I was like, that's actually a really, like, deep, profound comment from you. She's like, I don't think... Something's off here. Something felt off with all of these girls, and it made me feel strange. That's good. I know. So we had a pretty good talk about it.

She's like, I don't think they want to be wearing all this stuff. Like, they're kind of like me. Don't they just want to be in, like, a t-shirt and, like, have pain on your hair and face and just go be a kid? Not get yelled at? Yeah. Now, some of them might love it, but it's a whole thing. I got a quick why Hillary lost. This comes to us from Joel, the British D.F.

It weighs in often. He said, I was watching an old episode of Modern Family, and there was a flash mob. Made me think this is why Hillary lost. Oh. Just a bunch of kids who are going to get silly and dance at the mall. Get a job. I always like the flash mob.

Why are you against the flash mob? It's kind of cool. It is cool. I love choreography. Yeah. I'm going to be flash mobbed. Tina Faze. They're there in the back of the background.

around somehow. Anti? Yeah, I don't want that. You don't want to see that happen? Yeah, you establish the run guy wants a bunch of theater. Could you imagine if you were there and saw it? Outside the Ace Hardware when he's true.

What if you just saw it? How cool would that be in the wild? No, that doesn't sound cool at all. I think it'd be so cool. It's like you'd be, you'd live inside a movie where, uh, it should. Where glee, where glee breaks out? Yeah, yeah, it sounds awesome. Everyone.

Glees the best. Um. I've got Oh, another one if we're keeping lists This is movie and TV stuff I've mentioned, you know, the movie fire Because I'm a guy that makes a fire And I know it's tough to keep a fire going

And it can look like a movie fire for like three minutes And it starts to fade Fires are the best But at a movie nobody's ever like constantly feeding it Or poking it or making it's just perfect Yeah movie babies They kind of don't cry You have a baby, but then where's the baby?

Oh, I just put them in the room. It's fine. They don't eat. They don't poop their pants or... Yeah. I don't know if I'm allowed to mention mine, but it's movie sex. Oh, it's always perfect. Well, there's no, like, there's no clean.

There's no thing after. There's no, like... Hey, let me run and get a towel. What happened to the stuff? Like, it never comes up, as it were. It's just like, well... Just lay there and bliss. And I'll tell you, I find that to be one of the biggest parts of the process

as from a planning and awkward and in the movies, they're just... Well, it's because they're not really doing it. Well, I know, but they have to have that as like a prop. But I feel like it would be way... Like, what would they use and why would it be worth putting that in the scene? No one's running to the bathroom. It would hit way better if you saw Brad Pitt get up and like awkwardly fumble over a hand towel. Yeah, toss her a towel or something, you know.

Never. Or are they so in love. They just don't need it. Is that an in love? I don't know. Like in the movie, in the movie scene. This person says doors that people don't lock and unlock them. They just kind of close them and open them.

Unless, you know, you're being chased and you're blocking five locks or something like that. That's a good one. The movie door. I've got to follow up for that. Hiding things under floorboards. Like you just always have somewhere in your house where you could hide something. Yeah, training day is a big one. I've always wanted that.

I know, why don't we do that more? I definitely want to pull this book out from the bookshelf and then it opens. You can do that. Oh, for sure. It's cheaper than you think, too. Did somebody give us an estimate? Yeah. On the false bookcase?

Yeah. Yeah. I got a bunch of email about Brad Sham leaving the Cowboys for three years. Yeah. Oh. Really? Yeah. We were talking about it.

First. Yeah. What does that make you think of? It kind of makes me think of Chubbies. Chubbies, because Chubbies does make NFL shirts and shorts, bathing suits. I own several of many. They got a Cowboys one. Chubbies, they make the Hawaiian shirts I've worn for years. They make regular colored shirts. They make breathable, stretchy, collared shirts, bathing suits, whatever you need.

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So... Hey, say by to my dad. He's leaving. Hey, see him, Blake's dad. Oh, man, I haven't seen him forever. I feel like Will Ferrell and old school. We got dad. Family and got in eight years.

Did he meet T.C.'s grandma? No. You should have made that connection. We'll break soon. All right. Bye Blake's dad. So Brad Sham, Blake's favorite broadcaster, we were talking the other day about, you know, he had a brief period where he wasn't doing Cowboys games.

And somebody said, actually, he was doing Rangers games for a few years with Eric Nadell. And I thought that was weird. I'm like, you know, doesn't happen too often that somebody starts with the team, does several years, leaves, and come back. Also, when I was looking at it, I was like, wait, this is in the heart of the Cowboys, being good and stuff. Why would you leave the Cowboys in 1994? Well, it was after 95, right? After five? I thought the Wikipedia said like from 94 to 97 or something. He finished out the 94.

Finished out 94. He left. Okay, so I was trying to dig into this a little bit as to what happened. And there's an article that Dale Hansen wrote in D Magazine in 1996 or 7. and he details the whole thing of first of all he loved working with Brad but he did say that when he first met him I'll make sure I have this quote right for you the first thing sham said to me this is I think in 1985 point blank to my face was I don't like you I don't like the way you do sports on TV and I really don't have much respect for you as a professional holy shit when when they met like they were going to be working together?

Correct. He knew I'm about to work with you. Yes. And that's the first thing he says. Dale replied, Brad, that's okay because I respect the hell out of you. Started doing team broadcast full time in 85. I loved working with sham. So our kind of deal, my deal of like,

Plettingly, maybe kind of a jerk to people. He actually is a jerk. Yeah, but Dale just took it as it was. And so, but I will tell you, in reading about this, gained a level of respect for Brad for sure. because what happened was Jimmy got fired and Barry got involved and Dale felt like he always could go back and forth with Jerry and everything was cool. I'm going to take shots at you back and forth.

You get it. And Jimmy seemed to get it. But when Barry got involved, Barry was coming from college football. He was very worried about the media. He thought that Dale was like against him because Dale was a Nebraska guy. And Barry's from OU. And Dale said he kept having to tell him, I don't give a shit about that. I don't even know what you're talking about.

But Barry had it in his head that Dale was like a Jimmy guy and that Dale could get to Jerry and talk trash about him to Jerry. And the whole thing shifted with Barry. Barry's like, I'm not coming back if Dale's coming back at the end of, I want to say, 95. Barry said that to Jerry. That's the word. Wow. And through all of this.

So he said, I'd just fire the radio guy. Yeah. And through all of this, Brad was, like, standing up for Dale. Okay. And so Brad had had enough of them. So that was Dale's in the article, I got to show you who he was and who he became. Yeah, and he said he always loved working with him, but that, like, they kept making Dale, like, apologize and go do this with Switzer and, like, kind of castrating him on the air a little bit. And Brad was like, I'll beat you to the punch.

I quit. How about that? Wow. And then Dale had to do a year with a guy named, like, I want to say his name's Brad Wait, Brad quit before Dale? Yes. Brad quit, like, over all of this, like this BS. He wasn't getting along with Barry.

Right. Because Jerry had fired him from the pregame TV show. Dale. Brad. Jerry fired Brad. Brad from the TV pregame show. Because from what I read in the Star Telegram, there was a lot of infighting when Jimmy left because all these assistant coaches were held over, and it was just a lot of.

a power grab. Yeah. And Barry was caught in the middle of it. And so Brad brought up Jerry's name and all of this on a pregame show, and Jerry fired him from it. And him and Barry never got along. In fact, Barry wouldn't do pregame interviews with Brad. Yeah.

And so sensing all this, Brad's like, I don't want this. I'm out. And so the Rangers needed a guy, and he just slid over. And Dale did one more year but didn't finish the year. And as soon as Barry was gone, Brad was back. Oh, that's true. Yeah. And Dale said in the last year that he was there.

Barry was complaining to Jerry because he would have people listen to the broadcast and then he would go to Jerry and say like they don't talk about me enough and Dale said he'd say like what do you want me to do and Jerry would say we used to talk about Jimmy a lot and it's like well yeah Jimmy was good

and he talked to us he's like Barry doesn't give us anything pregame he doesn't he hates all of us and then he would get pissed that the broadcast like didn't highlight that he was a great coach and they were still winning games I mean, hell, they won a Super Bowl that year.

But the reason Brad left was because he was like, I don't like what you're doing to my boy. I don't like what you're doing to me. I'm out. I'll just bail. And then Dale quit sometime during that season. Wow. It's a wild story.

Yeah. Of just power playing. Got to give it to Brad then. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Although a couple people told me they were annoyed when he started doing baseball, which this makes perfect sense because he showed up.

and was just, everybody had a nickname. And it was like he'd been in the clubhouse for 30 years, and he's like, oh, there's Smitty over here. We know Smitty. Just coming off of, not three, two Super Bowls, and like, hey, I'm the guy. Yeah. Ever the play, I'm famous, right?

He was. And it's like, well, but that's how it happened. And it was him and Nadel in the booth? Yeah. That's really weird. That is. Really weird. That's what happened.

Huh. And now you know. the rest of the story. Got a couple of, well, one Philip Rivers type email. I got a couple of pictures in there that you'll need Clayton to show Jake, because this is from Benji in Virginia Beach. Oh, hey. Credit card Benji.

He was in the den. He was a sit-in last week. And he says, Dan, good times during my sit-in this past Tuesday, I thought so at least. He's been getting a little public. Some people that get a little public scrutiny Perhaps on his, you know So that's what he's referencing there Yeah, the next day someone said

I don't care what you do As long as you never have him on again I thought he was great A little harsh It was a bit much It was the closing remarks People are mean Not us though

No Anyway he says More importantly it seems Unretired Philip Rivers' head size Is uncannily similar to pre-rehab Jake's. And so we have, this is Philip Rivers last week,

who just unretired. No, it's good at it. And we have pre-rehab Jake. Who certainly looks a lot different than today's Jake. Geez, just putting Jake on blast and. Oh, I don't care. Whatever, that was a fat F. Yeah, this is, this is what happens.

I do think about your puff face reference you've made about yourself, Because now I'll, like, see someone. So go over here, you have Philip Rivers. And then let's pre-gameday.com. Yeah. That's the, that's the advertising. Big old boy right there. I got my remote of the week, if you want to put Carly's up there, Clayton.

Remote of the week? Yeah, I'm collecting overconfident remotes where people put native buttons. This TV remote has. This is my remote of the week here at Conne Roso. It's sexy. Disney, Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount Plus, all the favorites. And then, of course, they needed their own button, not just for IHeart Radio, but something called Stingray Music.

Like, somebody thought, this is going to hit so hard. This is going to be here for so long. Let's just put it on the remote. Next to Netflix. Or does Stingray Music have... And some guy makes a million dollars a year to come up with that. Does Stingray Music, though, have unlimited budget, and they can pay together? get on to this remote.

Either way, there's a lot of money being wasted. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of time being wasted. Thanks, Carly. I have a couple remotes for you, too. Let me see. And it's all, like, were we in the era of streaming music? Because all these seem to be music-based.

Does anyone listen to music on their TV? Like, we've done occasionally, like, a Christmas party or something. Yeah, yeah. Every once in a while. But other than that, it doesn't. If it wasn't available, it wouldn't hurt us. Right. Like, oh, no, there's got to be another way.

Let's see, throw that. Let's see. Is that the Sony Pictures Corps? Have we done that one? Oh, that's a great one. Yeah. Crunchy roll. Yep.

And then the other one, I think, from Carly. Is it RDIO? Radio. Yeah, the RDIO app. Because when you buy a new smart TV, you're like, where can I get KVIL? Yeah. We have to make sure I have a button for that. Or M-Go.

It's a waste. Yeah, they're out of control. I think that's all I got to. Do you remember Jordan? She was a lady who had us come out to her wedding. She invited us to her wedding, and then we actually went. Brought to us by Lone Star. That's right.

That wedding was basically brought to you by Lone Star Beer, where you can go to Lone Star Beer.com. Use the code Dumb Zone 21. You get 21% off your merch. Sweet. Get some gifts. Get some holiday gifts. They get some cool stuff.

stuff up there. Wouldn't your grandma love a nice Lone Star Beer hoodie? I mean, T.C. Come on, look at her. Look great on her. She's freezing over there. Lonestarbeer.com.

Now you must be 21. Are you, uh, see that's what grandma's love that too. Oh, yeah. Can I see your ID? Can I see your ID, please? Um, anyway, we got to know her in studio the next week, too.

She was Hot Jordan. You guys remember her, right? Good looking lady. Yeah, Blake made sure to a walker to the door, which is literally never happened for any other guest ever. Some people call me a gentleman if you want, yeah. That was weird. I think of that every time we have a guest.

Yeah. Because I often will walk the guests out to the front. The front and like, just like, thanks for being here. The one day ever. After the show, Blake's usually just head in the computer. I got to get the show out. I've got to do all this work. But that day is like, oh, geez.

Oh, Blake's impression. He's wearing a tail. Top hat. Tails. Put my jacket down for her. All right. Lay it over the puddle. She writes,

Dear Uncle Judge Roy Cream. Love that one, Grandma. I'd like to present you this nine-month update from the first DZ wedding. This can't be good. She's presenting us an update. In the form of the Irish toast, it's a boo-ye.

Okay, same as Boo Ye, right? Uh-huh. So she'll read first part, and then it'll be the boo and then the yay. She says, I've already broken my weight clause in my pre-up. Remember she? Yeah, I mean, records are made to be broken. She said she had a pre-nup with a weight clause. She's not allowed to gain a certain amount of weight.

It should be noted here. She married a guy with a lot of money, who I think is not like a lot older, but a little bit older. Was that real? Like a real weight clause? She says, I've already broken my weight clause in my pre-up. Because I'm three months pregnant. Yay. Buy another guy.

Oh. She says I'm experiencing a few symptoms. The biggest one is I'm horny. Gee, that's a yay. Okay. You need to save that, please. I've always been a part of the itty-bitty committee. Yeah.

But I've lost my membership. All right. These are boo-gayes, okay? Yeah. They won't stay like this forever, boo. Because I've earned my new uptops. I'm getting. a C-section, but my bits will stay perfect.

They're due on July 4th. I'll never plan to have a birthday. Let's see. We're keeping the gender a surprise. Dan's next wife may be brewing. Because I need my Jordan Hudson. If Dan married this Jordan's daughter, he would be closer to her in age

than Bill Belichick is to his girlfriend. Oh, my gosh. Think about that, grandma. That's insane. That is insane. She's about tired of you. This is from Hot Mom Jordan, who says no pick attached since I'm self-conscious about being pregnant. Well, congrats to her. Yeah.

I have another anchor word, dear Dan the flounder-pounder. Okay. I haven't heard you guys mention this. I know. Halcyon. Oh, yeah. Halcyon Weeks. You don't hear about them.

It's on there. It is? Okay, that's from Dean. I got a quick one. On set. onset you don't really hear too much about late on set Alzheimer's or whatever

it's always early yeah you don't hear it's only early onset got an email from someone called him calling himself hammer who says Nora had every right to be concerned

about frostbite in New York City this was a thing where I can't remember if you were in but quicksand one of The other things we're always worried about is Nora very worried about frostbite. Like if we're outside too long.

Something been on the movies or something. I'm like, I don't think that happens. Right. You have to be like a trapped climber, but Hammer says otherwise. Eight years ago, my wife was in Steamboat. Steamboat Springs, Colorado. With her family, okay.

She had down your basic wool gloves. She had a minor slip, used her hands, stop her fall. The moisture from the slushy snow got under the wool gloves, trapped all the cold inside. Several hours later, her fingers started to burn, then progressed to concerning levels. Her dad took her to the local clinic to check it out. They did not hesitate for a second.

They told them, get in the car immediately, drive to Denver to the ER burn unit, which was four hours away. Her dad got pulled over multiple times when the cops got to the driver's side window each time he explained the situation, showed them her hands, and they immediately said,

keep speeding and keep going. No ticket, no questions asked. When she got to Denver, they say she was ours, if not minutes away from losing all of her fingers on both hands. She still has a hard time feeling her fingers when it gets cold. Yeah, and he asked us not to use the photo, so we won't, but I've seen it. It's way worse than I thought it could be. It's so bad. It looks like somebody dipped their hands in acid.

Like her fingers are cartoon size. And that's from over moisture getting trapped in your glove. Right. and you're just forgetting about it until it starts to burn or not noticing it, not like direct exposure. I didn't know that could happen. Yeah? A couple of other follow-up things.

One was a Linda Tripp has recently brought up. Has she ever been mentioned as a Roseanne? Definite, definite, definite. And once you've been played by John Goodman, you're in the Roseanne category. This is from Matthew, who said, Dear Undersecretary of Labia. he says also the

you why don't bathroom stalls have floor to ceiling I said cleaning I said it was cleaning he said another is prudishness for the same reason there are big gaps between the doors to make sure people aren't having sex and doing drugs in there that has to be a

that has to be part of it is it not giving you like a little compartment where you can just do whatever. Those are the best bathrooms, though. A little hotel. Who doesn't love some sex in a bathroom? That's something I could say I've never done.

In a, you know, public bathroom. Okay. Right? No, I love... I love... I love... The Cane Roso remote. It's, uh, yeah.

Public bathroom? I'd have to say probably I have not. Right. You've certainly done the other thing there, though. And I have two more. One is it's a guest pitch. So we get guest pitches. And I'm saying now they are using bots to write guest pitches.

Oh, yeah. I'll believe it. Bots are doing everything. So let me just read you the first pair. They're trying to get us a doctor. Grandparent comment. Doctor to talk about something, right? Yeah.

But this is a world I used to really be into. Like when I was in Youngstown, Ohio, they would send out a book of different people who have written spare books. And it was like, you can book this person and we would book those people all the time. Because it was just about, we just have four hours and we just need people to talk. We knew no one was listening. So the guest, this is, I'm guessing it's a bot. You tell me. Okay.

Hi, Dan and Jake. so far so good except they didn't it doesn't say like hi uncle right hi man

I was cracking up during your recent chat with Brandon Aubrey all right he made the bot laugh you're you're sucking me in here you're actually we were great with him

you're a listener yeah about his game winning kick and the chaos of big sports moments yeah very buddy yeah that's where they lost this sure

Like at first, if someone is like, hey, we listen to your show over here, I got this pit. We've gotten those actual personal. Had a call yesterday. Yeah. And they'll pitch us a guest or something. And yeah, I think that's a good. And the fact that you do listen, that'll get you a level higher. That blend, okay.

I'm not sure, though, does she listen about his game winning kick in the cast at big sports moments? That blend of sports insight and unpredictable storytelling is exactly why. I never miss an episode. Okay, yeah. Another happy customer, folks. After hearing Brandon described the mental and physical challenges he faces under pressure, I couldn't help thinking about Dr. David Traster, someone who specializes the optimizes. Same.

Same. I was thinking of Dr. David Traster. Who else? That's from Adrian. And like, why they need to lie? But here's the thing is like, Dan's, during Me Too, Dan's whole deal was like, here's the thing is that this must have worked a lot. of times for these guys otherwise they wouldn't be doing it so much that they got caught you're finding out about when they got caught who's booking dr david taster like how is this ever working

right is she getting any nibbles off of this like in youngstown you had a number you called you talked to a person boom this is who is taking this are you and emily interested i have remember we tried something with this in the past we tried a bit we've always had the idea we tried a few And I wanted to play it, and you didn't. Oh, yeah, I did something. That we actually booked some of these people. Julie talked to a guy from Australia. It was awesome.

I did. We never played that. I had fun with that guy. It was like a fake guest booking league thing where we just had to work in ticket terminology or whatever bits. Yes. That we decided. Not all the bits hit. I don't, I didn't like it.

We did it. We had them all in the can off the air, but it's felt mean. Yeah. It's like, if we did it. If we're interviewing DAC or somebody and we're working in bits from the show, I think that's good. But if we're getting this guy, it's a layup. Like, he's begging us to be on the show. And then we're like just saying our funny bits and then giggling behind his back.

It seems, it's mean. So that's where you cross the line? Yeah, that's great. We don't want to punch down generally. Except this guy when he screws up. This was your idea, though, right? It was my idea. Okay.

Just because we all did it. We were like, great idea, Dan. We're going to do this. And we're like, wait a second. Well, you don't have to do. You don't run everything. This is part of, yeah. Hearing Julie, my pig, a guy from Australia was awesome.

Yeah. That was really, and we still have it. Yeah, Dan. Okay. All right. Oh. Well, hold on. Let's see if Blake can find it.

I'll give you my last email. Okay. And this is, I don't think officially we have early bird on the run sheet today. But you know, a gummy thought is brought to you by early bird CBD.com. DumbZone 20. promo code DumbZone 20. If you like that CBD with that THC, Grandma. Hmm.

This is from Eliseo. What's up, Dan? Kryptonite of the Poon Tang. You, uh, okay. This is his gummy thought. You ever think about where all the clothes go that get made every fall, winter, spring, and summer when they don't sell? I want to say that it seems that however many clothes are being manufactured each new season

that don't sell over any period of time, they're somewhere, right? They don't just physically disappear. They take up literal space. Like over the last five years of, let's say, a popular blue gene company. Yeah. They have an excess amount of product each season that doesn't sell. Add it up for five, ten, fifteen years. are they? It covers the entire island of

Greenland. Are they in the same country that gets all the Buffalo Bill's Super Bowl winning T-shirts and caps? Or a different country? Did they get recycled into other new clothes? Are they repurposed into car upholstery? Space missions? Do they throw them

into an open pit like the one from the great hit show Outer Range on Amazon Prime? I don't know. My gummy thought all comes down to is this. Do we really need to be making all these clothes? That is a great question. I'll hang up and listen.

Yeah. I don't know what happens to it. Do they still, is that still a thing like where brands are like, hey, it's our new fall line? Yeah. Okay. Because think about how you want to buy a winter coat like after the winter, right? Yeah. But before the new ones.

Both of my daughters call me and they're like, hey, we need new coats. And it was right when the winter coach are coming out. So they're all real expensive, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, it's a good question. All these new winter coats. A new winter coach, new styles. I think this goes back to my point that, and no one's going to like to hear it, but this is the best time of year to be homeless. Like by far, I mean, think about it.

We're all pulling out all the stops for them. Clothing drives, food drives, 12 hours sub-a-thon. Have a meal for the North Texas Food Bank. You know, like, there are people who just don't, who have homes who just don't have family that don't get a Thanksgiving or Christmas meal. But if you're homeless, maybe have three. it's okay everyone can lay out if you want but nobody's taking care of the homeless on July 4th you're doing a big food drive I wasn't laying out I just thought you were making so much sense what else could I add to that so clothes there's a there's a lot of excess clothes around this time

I think this is when they get hooked up put on work there put on a little weight for the for the hibernation come on out to Connie Rosso yeah come on out we're in a few minutes we're going to be hooking up with the Soroy Twins, and we're going to do our D's picks, which we do every week. But I made some choices this morning. I went over to Underdog. Ooh. Underdog Fantasy. And, of course, you know Underdog Fantasy.

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If the Cowboys signed Tim Tebow, every reporter in America is going to be in Irving. ESPN probably moves there. And while so many continue to talk and even argue about Michael Sam, we all know his name. There's a 49ers player who's accused of beating his pregnant fiancé. Anybody know his name? Rangers finish their 10-game road trip with a game. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. I have a couple of Cane Roso notes before we get to picks. Are we ready to do picks? Okay.

One is amongst all the family members who have showed up here today, including Blake's family. How about that? I note Sean Kernan from 360 Wealth Management. Yes. Who I also talked to yesterday because that was business. Wednesday. If you would like to help your business Wednesdays, we invite you to check out Sean Kernan at 360 wealth management. Dallas Financial Planner.net. Also, bathroom rating. Oh, real quick on Sean Kernan. He brought me some stamps. Yeah. A page of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

stamps for my daughter. Oh, wow. We'll leave out the part that she, uh, like wrecked American democracy for sticking around too long because she was a woman and everyone was afraid to tell her. I'll give her those. And then drop Beth, there's a bunch of bags of chocolate up here. So anybody who's here before you leave, if you want to come grab a bag of chocolate, Beth brought gifts. These are a lot of gifts.

Yeah, yeah. We've got gift givers. Time to cut all the drops and do all of this. Must be going on a game day. What does she not do? Yeah. Then bathroom rating. Of course.

Because we are at, it seems to be this, this is a newer Conner Rosa. We're in Saxi. Yep. Newest. It looks like Saxe used to be a field last week. I think everything used to be a field. Okay. This is super close to field times.

But I did say last week. It was a field. I did cut you off. Yeah. Like it's one of those places the parking lot all has the teeny trees that they hope in 30 years will be able to shade your vehicle a little bit. But I have a new bathroom rating for how clean that. This bat, it was the nicest bathroom I've ever been in, I think.

Wow. For Dan. And we were just talking about a story, like, I can't remember what email indicated, something about doing drugs or having sex in a bathroom, why they have the doors like they do. Yeah. And I did note that I have never had relations. with a lady in a bathroom noted lady no i said lady sure sure a little larry craig and i

there's a new bathroom rating because the highest rating is it's it's what can we term it's sex clean or relation like yeah yeah clean enough yeah i would have had sex in there if had the opportunity that's the highest usually i would not because it's just a bathroom right but in there you are in fact a little horny yeah because it was so clean eating clean like could I would actually, if Kanye Rosa was... Why don't you take your pizza in there? I was going to say, if it was really booked and there's no seats and they're like, well, it's going to be an hour wait. Well, what if I ate in there?

I would absolutely do that. That was how good that bathroom is. Anyway, shout out to Jay at Conne Roso. Julie's out here, too, if anybody wants to meet Julie. She's a little standoffish, though. very mean they're yours okay it's not mine

okay ready to do it now yep want to do the thing okay we have our buddies join us every week they are from

Cirque de Soroy they have a program on YouTube as well tonight every Tuesday and Thursday so they say and okay

here we go Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. It is time for these pigs. Yes indeed, there they are folks. Danny Bayliss, the one non-sroy twin. Then we have Mike Soroy, just like he was Sunday, watching wrestling. Yep. And Cash Soroy, who are all coming off a big week.

What a game that was Sunday. I mean, it was what we wanted. The reason we all picked the Cowboys for last Sunday is we just wanted juice on that broadcast. You got it. It turned into negative juice. Negative juice is still juice, but yeah. And they won all three of their triples. And they won all three of their triples.

I didn't win much else. No. Still got a game. If you look at the games, like, you would have to say the dumb zone clearly superior at picking games. Like, look at all the red on Cirque de Soroy. All the red, that means they got those games wrong. But the green ones they got right were all worth three. on the map the blue is water

so congratulations to you this is kind of like is this like a congressional map can we do we got a politics thing in here with the red and the no this doesn't work not at all okay well what do you want me to say like just that if there's red on the screen

we're going to do a map oh hey wait we have a breaking sports News. Oh, yeah, that's right. T.C. informed us in the break that they've made the decision. It's now time to turn the Cowboys defense around for real, for real, so we're going to send Fluse up to the booth. As predicted. Now, I thought they'd do in week three. As predicted. After they got their heads kicked in by a couple different offenses in month one. What's the point now? How embarrassing. That changes things. Yeah, he's got to go up there. Hey, we think this would be best. As predicted by the dumps.

That is 100% moving Milton to the basement in office space. Like, yeah, yeah, yeah. We fixed the glitch. Hang on, let me change my picks. Yeah, right? Not the only NFL movement this week. There's been a couple of things announced, including a new quarterback in Miami. Wow.

We go now to the Soros. Welcome. Hello. I have a shit connection again, don't I? That's not good. Not great. I'm trying it on my phone right now. So you say hi to those guys.

I'm going to try this. No, I do appreciate the approach of just connect the same way each week and hope it gets better. I tried it on my hot spot. I'm trying that. You should do like that one. He sounds so old right now. Is him trying it on his phone now like moving flus to the booth? the booth.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, I got that. It's performative. You're going to wait until week 18 or whatever. My hot spot's broken. The reason this is happening is because he's taking up too much bandwidth by streaming some old wrestling broadcast from some pirate website. Very clear.

Now, crystal clear Brett Hart in the background with the connection a little rough. Do you guys remember when we had training at Cumulus for like getting hacked and one of the multiple choice answers was in fact? walk away, take a walk, come back and see if things have improved. Turn it off, turn it back on. Yeah, that was not the right answer. It was not. What's our Zoom meeting ID, anyone?

Shut up, God. If I just had that, I think we'd be on top. How do we feel about the dolphins these days? Does this indicate that Mike McDaniel is definitely back next year because he's allowed to now just kind of see what we got in Quinn Ewers. Is Tua back? What are we thinking? We're sad on the inside that we're 52 years old.

We've never won a Super Bowl, and we're going to die without ever seeing a Super Bowl. They feel further away than me. As a Cowboys. We are further away. Way further. Like whole lives. At least you guys have a sprinkle of memory. Is Tua bad?

No, I mean further away going forward. Like in my head, there's no way I get to 52 in the Cowboys having won. We're done with them. Yeah. You're done with, we're done with Tua. Done with Tua. I never even liked Tua, but we are absolutely done with injury prone, undersized, left-handed Hawaiian quarterback.

Okay, because it did seem like there was, it seemed like there was a time when Mike McDaniel was going to lose his job. He won the power struggle with. the GM right and now I feel like this this move indicates that he's absolutely going to be back but he was the guy that told the Dolphins owner we got to lock up Tua right when there was a lot of question marks about Tua he got Tua to be the leading passer in yards and completion percentage and touchdowns and scoring and and and so he did turn around Tua and and shiny up the penny. The problem was, was he got him to where he was then signed, and they owe him $99 million

on the cap over the next two years. So we got a Russell Wilson situation where we just got to get rid of him and bite the piece of shit and chew on it. Is that what they're going to do? Just eat the money, like, do a... Probably. Probably. Or straight up trades for Kyler. Or trade him for Kyler. Oh, my gosh. How about that? You on board with that? You don't like your shit show? We don't like our. A couple of changes of scenery. Yeah. I mean, look how fast Denver got good after getting rid of Russell Wilson.

Yeah. Let's just see what Quinn Ewers does against Cincinnati. That's an interesting game. Yeah. I've been thinking about it. I've been thinking about it again. I've been thinking about so much. I've been thinking about a lot of things.

Oh, go on. mostly just just finishing you guys off putting our throat our hand around your throat and crushing it into dust we got this week and next that's it

that's right just because I think if we keep going beyond that then we're into the playoffs and then we don't have funny round number to end on where we've we've picked 150 games

this week then we're going to to break for the holidays and then we'll come back on the 5th of January and that week that'll be the last week of picks yeah and that week we will pick nine games this week we're picking our customary 10 Julie thus far we've picked 150 games to this point so by the end of the season how many will we have picked you were you paying attention to anything I just said that little boy sliding down the turf hill out there. It looked like so much

fun. It's a 69 joke. Oh, okay. I knew there was a reason I was tuning it out. Now when we come back on the 5th, we will be picking wild card playoff games. Is that what it'll be? Yeah. Okay. So we're not picking games next week? No, we're

going to be out. Like, we're doing our show Monday. You guys might even join us on the sub-a-thon for the North Texas Food Bank. but then we're going to be off. So I just think that would be not climactic if it ended and then we talked about it two weeks later, right? Deal.

Okay. So let's have one more week of picks when we come back. We'll beat you this way, we'll beat you that way, whatever. Boy, a lot of cockiness. A lot of cockiness. Write those checks. Yeah, the Soros are five games ahead of us. What?

Yes. If we had won that game, oh, it'd be over. We'd be like 10 games up. Yeah, that would have been cool for you. Man, cocky castoroy. Watch them live. Watch you guys live, just have your hearts ripped out on that stream.

It was so fun. I was doing the math the whole time. Just, yeah. If we get to OT, then we score first. Then, of course, it's when our guy misses six points of kicks. The car It's like It could not have gone worse

Well they're going to make him kick 12 times a game He's got to miss a couple I know Right This is not his fault It's shoties We all know it

All right So this week We have to pick The Cowboy game As unfortunately we always do What's my record in Cowboys Let's take a look here Two and 12 now

Jesus Well that triple didn't help That's almost impossible, right? It's tough. It's very tough. I am 2 and 12 picking Cowboy games. They are favored at home this week as the Chargers come in. The Cowboys are favored by 2.5.

What are we doing? It doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And I'm just going to put this out there, too, as, you know, honor here. we got a really weird Bears Packers line I guess triple play that game if you want to be a giant pus but that game opened up at Packers minus one and a half and now it's Bears

minus one and we got it at Packers minus one do we change it? We can change it what do you guys think? Like we got a fucking line it's a three points. It's always been it's always weird we always get our lines way early then they change and then it turns into you're either in a really good side of things or it's but it just changed last night you could have changed this this morning I guess but

yeah if you want to be a a pus and triple play Chicago I get it it's free money but if you want to you know I mean if it's free money why aren't you triple playing because then we all will why why don't we all do it it's the most jacked up line on the board this weekend by far so you know aren't those the games that generally then Green Bay ends up winning Mm-hmm. Certainly possible. I think there are 20 and two in their last 22 games or something like that. I thought just against Greenberg or against Chicago.

Well, that doesn't matter. Can you verify that, T.C.? Green Bay, very good against Chicago, correct? Yes, yes. All right, so you got to pick the cowboy game and you got to pick a triple play. Let's take a look at the standings. We have a change at the top these days. for the first week, Jake Kemp, who had a 10-0 week mixed in,

is now in second place, and at number one of all the games picked. We had 150 games picked so far. Mike Soroy with 77 correct games. The Brett, the hitman heart of Picks with Buddies, is here. And I will go first. Thank you. Well, yeah, first I'm just reading off the standings. We got Mike Soroy, then Jake, then Danny, then Blake, then Cash, and then all the way at the bottom.

Sinking like a rock is everybody's favorite game picker. Everybody's favorite what? Me. And gay picker. Gay picker. That's what I heard. Blow me up, Julie. Good call.

Not from Julie. Of course. Don't you feel safe? Safe if you're with Julie. usually. No, never. She's evil. Ah, Danny. You, you are evil. That is so, that is not true. Yeah, I'm, that candy exterior doesn't fool me.

Okay, you're on to me. All right, Mike Seroy. Thank you. These picks are going to be a tribute to Ruth Vader-Ginsberg, businessman Sean Kurnayan, and most importantly, mom game, Game, episode 300. Congratulations. Hey. Thank you, Mike Zeroy. He's a real friend.

I'm a real one. I was on like three of the first 12 mom games and they've never asked me back. Which is okay. Felt like we were going to the well a little too much. No pun intended. Remember when Julie let Mike just watch your kids? That was so fun. I had like a two-year-old at the time.

I thought that was the most insane shit I thought. ever heard my life. I really needed to go have a margarita with a friend. He's posting pictures of them. Yeah. And my kids were little like hard ages. Yeah. It was great. I was like text usually on the side concerned. Like dude, are you sure? Secondhand concern. Mikey, I used to work on their show and they never let me on. Oh, Danny. That's not true. We had this whole big thing like Danny's on the show now. And then like three episodes later you were just gone. We never Do not put a camera on him. All right, Mike.

All right. I think the Cowboys will be eliminated by the time they kick off Sunday. Not that that matters much. And I think the Chargers are simply a better team than the Dallas Cowboys, no matter what the scenario. So give me the Chargers minus two and a half points to cover against your fighting Dallas Cowboys. Triple play. I want Oregon to cover all.

them delicious points. Look at all those points, Mike. I don't give a damn. They're going to prove why we should have like Texas versus Oregon in the first round of this thing and Notre Dame against Ole Miss in the first round of this thing and not have James Madison farting around with the big boys. So Oregon minus 20.5 points is my trip, trip, triple play. All right. I'm going to take the Cowboys. It just seems like it's another... They've got one more, like, 40 burger in them. And now the pressure will be off.

I feel like somehow this is going to come down to... Philadelphia is going to lose this week. They'll lose to the bills. And then the Cowboys will be there on week 18. Like, all right, we got a shot. Then whoever Philly has in week 18, they'll just throttle the... It'll be over at that point. So I think this is one where they actually come out and play pretty well.

Philly might have Washington. then another game and then Washington again. Washington, Buffalo, Washington. Okay. So I'll ride with Dallas this week. And then I am going to, I'm going to triple play third leg Greg and those Miami Hurricanes, getting three and a half on the road at Kyle Field. I am taking, I'm betting on the best player I saw in college football this year. Carson Beck.

By a lot, Malachi Tony. Miami has a receiver that should still be in high school who's already an NFL player I can't stand their quarterback I don't like betting on Carson Beck but two badass fronts, badass pass rushes I'm going with Miami's big playability and I will triple play the canes

Whipple Whipple Whipple So now I can't do Aggie right? Yeah we don't make up ground that way Right well I mean I would negate his three losses If indeed keep us afloat that was the case darn it all right

who's next Danny Danny Belize Danny Danny Danny Danny Danny Danny I called Mikey just before this not to try and collude like you guys did last week

but I did want to know who he was taking in the Cowboys game and he told me but dude it makes no sense to take Dallas in this game but I'm taking him because I believe what Jake said. This is a game that they'll win.

It's the dumbest pick that I feel stupid making this pick, but I'm taking Dallas to win this game. It'll probably be the best game they play all the year. Pickens are great. Right, Quintenna Williams everywhere. Aubrey hits from 70. And then he'll be like, man, if we just had everybody healthy all year. Oh, yeah.

And had Quinn and Williams. I mean, next year's going to be. Do you see Fluse up in the booth? See what he was doing? Man, he's really made all the, yeah, he could see everything. Yeah. And if they lose, it cancels Jake's pick out. There you go.

For the triple, another pick that makes absolutely no sense, but I am going to bet all the marbles on Team Gardner as the backup to come in and at least win by a field goal against Tennessee. I think they can beat a two-win team rallying around something, a good showing going to their final couple of games of the year. rallying around the Mahomes season-ending injury and you know what gardener's a wild card anything can happen i'm taking kansas city jeeps minus three yeah minus three and all you need is a push to get the win i like i like them both both ugly picks danny and you know we like horrible

he's so gross they are danny's so great when he goes sloppy yeah sloppy dany Yeah, gross There's no reason The Cowboys should win But just I'm with you guys There's just, I don't know It's just weird Dak at home

They'll bounce back Give me Dallas minus two and a half And then for my triple I'm doing this really for Jake Who's been carrying us All year, just ask him He really has The numbers are on the board

And for the past few weeks He's been begging for help And he needs someone to step up and I'm going to with my triple play because the game is tonight. It is not the Xbox Bowl, which I'll be in the building. Missouri State looks great, guys.

Okay. But I'm going to head out west. Oh, no. To a place that is expecting heavy rain, maybe a little snow. I don't even know if the Rams are there yet. They've had a lot of travel delays. They don't have Devonte Adams.

Puka Nakua's in trouble somehow. They're banged up. Seattle coming off an easy game. Back-to-back home games. Give me the Seahawks to at least cover one point. Yeah, I like it then. Seahawks took it easy last week. Yeah.

Getting by Phillip Rivers. By the way, Pooka Naku is not in trouble. He's in the news. Yeah. He went on Aidan Ross's stream. Is the Xbox Bowl the one with Ohio University? No, that's the Frisco Scooters Bowl. Oh.

I heard like the Ohio University coach got placed on leave. Relieved of his deal. Yeah, something happened. What happened? I just thought he was, yeah, fired four cause. Yeah, he got in trouble. And also, who can Nakuwa's brother stole a car? Oh, okay.

So think about that. Luca? That's in the news. It's not Luca Nakuwa. Oh, I thought, yeah, is his brother named Luca? Oh, my gosh. No, it's not. But it's real, right?

Jay. He violated the school's alcohol policy. Ohio's universities He had stored alcohol in his desk drawer while also admitting to the consumption of alcohol in his office during business hours That is a line forms to the left And football offices everywhere

So this They fired him? You probably did something else Or you're just like hammered all the time Yeah, I don't know, he's in a bowl, isn't that great? And cumulus offices a few years back, evidently Sure. I want to keep it there

You don't have an office That's wild That is wild All right So Blake's on Seattle Yeah Seattle please And we have Cash Soroy

I don't know what the hell I'm doing this week I'm really conflicted I'm really Because you've known all the other weeks Rick who got out of the bottom Now we're here I really was excited about a triple for next week, so that's why I was not happy that we're not doing picks next week.

All you guys are crazy. You all started the sentences with this is the game that the Cowboys shouldn't win or have any chance to win. That's because they're not going to. So I will take the Chargers, and you can give me a couple points. That'd be fantastic. That would be great.

I'll pick the Chargers. And then my triple... What's it going to be? I would like, I like Gasparilla. I always have. And I know a little bit about NC State. I don't know much about Memphis, but give me Memphis in four and a half points

in the Gasparilla Bowl. Wow. Tomorrow, tomorrow, 1.30. That's right. I'm going to have a play. In the morning. Dan, what does Gasparilla do? In the morning.

I don't even know what it is. That ratings grab. I don't know if I've ever heard the word. I've heard it in conjunction with the bowl, and that's it. I don't really know what they do. Yeah, it's a big party in Tampa. It's pirate stuff.

Yeah. What? Gasparilla. It is like a pirate festival in Tampa in Ebor City, the American home of piracy. That's why the Buccaneers. That's why the Buconians. The Buccaneers are pirate theme because of the rich pirate history in the Gulf of America in Tampa.

Wow. The Gasparilla Pirate Festival. Yeah. Oh, it's a great party. This feels like it would be like the Dumb Zone generic summer event having a bowl. Like this doesn't feel that like that's like big enough of a deal. It's like a tiny Mardi Gras. It's a bit.

Okay. There you go. All right. And that's why give me Memphis. All right, now it's on to me. So the cowboy game, this really bothers me. And it bothers me when I'm tracking the picks over the weekend. As like Danny said, he's staring at it all weekend.

I'm staring at the whole thing. And then I'm always like, oh, my gosh, I picked, because I'm not picking the cowboys. I'm picking the chargers because Brandon Aubrey got mad at me for picking the cowboys. Good point. But then I'm going to be looking at the sheet and going, gosh, I want to do best. better, but our team, it would be much better if Chargers were, right? Because, or the Cowboys, because you guys both pick the Cowboys like

Simps. But here I am. Like a fan. We're not colluding for juice for the stream or anything. So I'm going to pick the Los Angeles Chargers, the Super Chargers. It cancels out my pick. So what? That game won't even matter to anybody. Let's just pick you.

All right, let's just pick games. So I'm looking at a lot of games in the NFL. Aggies. Aggies. Well, I can't do Aggie now. Because I can't. I don't want to just cancel out Jake. That's not the juice.

I was wondering if you were going to somehow back Quinn Ewers, I would have probably jumped on Cincinnati. Oh, that's an offer. But you didn't do that. Gasparilla. I'm also pretty into the Denver Broncos. That's my team now that I have adopted to follow during the playoffs. That's my AFC team, because Baker's probably going to make it for the NFC.

I'm a Bo Lever. I don't know if anybody else is watching Bo Nix these days. Okay. So I'm torn now between that. and I like bits and juice for the show. And the other one I'm on the fence with is, should I jump on board with Blake's Seattle pick? Because I also like Seattle tonight.

I don't hate it. And then by Friday, we're just sitting here with, all right, boys. Let's high five. Let's high five about six games. Oh, I love it. You want to potentially be a game up tomorrow when the show starts? I'm down.

I think it's a great idea. Or do we do bone it? You guys kind of like the Seattle? No, I like it a lot. I think as long as we're just, putting it all on Sam Darnold in December. I feel great. That's right, folks.

Let's do it. You convince me. Ripple, whipple, whipple. So what did you do? Trippling up. We're going Seattle tonight. Six wide tonight. We're going six wide, yeah.

And you know Denver's going to win by 50. Yeah. And Seattle. Matt Stafford is going to be awesome. There's going to be four intercepts. I think Darnold has thrown multiple interceptions. to the Rams the last three times he's played him, once with Minnesota.

I think he threw for like three picks last year. That is true. In fact, there was a theory that they had, quote, figured Sam Darnold out with the Rams Def. Tell. With the rain and the snow, they're going to run the ball. We're all right. Or do you want to flip over to Denver with me?

No, no, no. We like this? We want juice tonight. I want it tonight. All right. Is the Cirque on tonight? There it is. We are.

We're live. 8 o'clock. Well, maybe I'll jump in and trash talk you when Seattle's up by 50. We accept your invite. Sean McVeigh is doing a retirement press conference at halftime because he's never seen anything like this. All right, boys, my pick again was... What was your name?

G-reg. What you do? Get how you drop my drawers and let us see my third leg. Chilling on the 7th floor, I got to let these chickens know. Be Greg is in the house. I'm a fit to make these s' chow. I'm a bids on my d'nobuses, I'm a busting a quick. On a f***, on a t'stick my dick between the s' come on, fellas, let's get weird.

Stick your dick up in the ear. While I'm laughing at these guys, a second n'u'all in a iret. Go Miami. Cool. That flows. Thanks, Cirk. Thanks, guys. You guys.

Love you. Shout out pizza. All right. Time for the news. News, news. Brought to us by Frankl. Here's Jay with the Doves Zone News. And Frankl, it's not just one of the Frankl's.

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You're calling from your phone, you know, you're underneath. You're gurgling blood. Yeah, yeah. Two and four. The jaws of life are about to get you out of that car, but you're dialing because you've got your phone right there. Just threes. Remember Dumbzone.

I forgot to do this at the top of the show. We do have a listeners out in Tyler, Texas. Jimmy's out there this weekend. Jimmy has shows in Tyler, Friday, and. Saturday night and he's wanted me to promote. We showed up at Tyler one time and there was like way more people there than I expected. So Jimmy's promoting a show out there

this weekend. For the first time in 2029, the Oscars will be exclusively on Crunchyroll. No, YouTube. They have their own remote. They have the exclusive global rights to the Oscars starts in 2029. That's a four-year deal through 33. I think this is a

very very big story the Oscars is like the only one that people care about anymore you have parties I don't know the Grammys the Grammys and the Oscars yeah it's a big thing it's watching parties it's it's uh ladies Super Bowl some say

sure and it's not I don't think it's moving because it's failing I think it's moving because YouTube has lots of money and it's like all right well yeah I mean they say that there eight-figure bids from Disney, Paramount, et cetera, and that YouTube topped it with a, quote, nine-figure bid. Yeah.

I think it's a hot property that legitimately... Some things go to streaming or whatever because, oh, this isn't as big as... Right. Yeah. They can't stay on the networks. Yeah. But the thing here is that YouTube is as big as the networks. They're competing for everything.

Yeah. But the Oscars seem like it's a little bit of an older demographic that maybe isn't used to watching stuff on YouTube. The only thing about that, Julie, is that at some point, you and I are going to have to realize that when this goes to YouTube, you and I will be 43 or 44 or 45. And that's going to be us. Yeah, you're right. You're exactly right.

The olds. So if we can figure out YouTube, they're good. We're not the old's quite. Well, I mean, 44 or 45, dude, like they're thinking of you as old at that point. Your perception of old. It's so messed up. Cheaps movie, right? Yeah.

Because, yeah, when you were obviously 20 and the 32-year-old guy hit on you, you were like... Old dude. Yeah. You're right. Old cowboy. Make it stop.

Weren't you an intern with the Cowboys? That's why I said that. I was. Yeah. Well, no, I've worked there, actually. You ever had anyone hit on you? I wasn't an intern. I wasn't an employee.

Oh, okay. But in my brain, I said yes, because it felt like I was. You ever get hit on? by a player yeah we've talked about this and they won't stop him new listeners all the time

I mean it's a whole thing we got time we got time make him stop asking you right that answer there's a lot more leading

than it needed to be like always I never really say much besides that if you don't know how to carry yourself as a young girl walking into that locker room Yes, you will get hit on a lot, and it's about how you handle the situation. And I wasn't, like, I didn't handle it perfectly, but I at least wasn't somebody that was, like, going to bite on everyone that was trying to go fishing.

Now, do we want to throw out any names that might have been? No, that's not what I'm trying to do. We have in the past, though. Yeah, we've talked about it a little bit. There was one particular player who once upon a time, had whatever it was 10 million reasons to live hit on you oh he could have been one of many that he owed money to over the next 20 years because I'm pretty sure he owes about 15 women you could be getting child support that sounds great that's what I'm saying for your d1 little

baby division one where did I go wrong I know you screwed up yeah The best you can do now is aspire to be a video coach in the bloodline. Speaking of hockey, did you know that former Apple of the Cowboys draft eye linebacker Miles Jack, UCLA, Jacksonville Jaguars? He had like drop foot kind of. He was a freaking terror in college, played both sides of the ball. Then they ended up drafting Jalen Ramsey instead of him. They're both guys who had major degenerative injury issues, but Miles Jack, what did you say?

Jaylon Smith, I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Y'all correct me. Miles Jack since 2023 has been. The Jacks took Jalen Ramsey in that draft. It was Ramsey and then Jack for them. Yeah. Sorry.

No, no, no. That's what I thought you were saying. The Allen Americans have been co-owned by Miles Jack since 2023. I actually knew this. He co-ons the team with his mom. With his mom. What? Yes.

Yeah. Winner League hockey team. Yes. Okay. And I found that out because last night he was on stage accepting a trophy for a title they won. Is that the one where Tony Daniels. No, no, I found that out because he got arrested for shooting a gun at his home and a standoff with police. And now they're like, by the way, he owns this hockey team.

You never would have found out. Oh. He was in a standoff with police? Last night. Oh, dear. In Friscoe. He lives at Friscoe. A gated community.

called Hills of Kingwood. They were called to the police whenever somebody heard gunshots, they show up. He broke a second-story window and climbed out, falling to the ground, Omar-style.

And, yeah, there was nobody else inside the home. They arrested him. I don't know. There's very little details. But then the story concludes, the Allen Americans will have a statement later issued by the co-owner,

his mom. Which is, I don't know, all kinds of, Athletes have a lot going on, man. I guess. You're running a hockey team. Did he ever get a second contract? It's very seriously doubt it was a real one.

He might have got a flyer, but I don't think he got a real one. I thought he was good. He was good for a while. Man, I wasn't expecting that story. He was eight seasons in the NFL. He signed a four for 57. Wow, so he did get the line back. And then now, quite eight years, so he probably saw almost.

I went to Pittsburgh, two for 16. Yeah, he made some money. Okay. There you go. I wonder how much the Allen Americans will cost you. Do you all want to buy them? Are they on sale now? I'm going to say, hold on, let's guess.

They're minor league hockey, but they're not like, are they anybody's top affiliate? No. Yeah. At one point, they were affiliated with the Dallas Star. but they're not anymore. Because like Jamie or Jordie Ben played there. Let me say that it costs.

That's their claim to fame. $10 million to buy this minor league hockey team. Is that too low? I mean, I wouldn't even begin to know. And there's no numbers in a quick look here. Huh. Could do it. You know hockey people, right?

Yeah. Had a body recovered. uh that matched a missing kayaker out in a lake in fort worth marine creek lake uh it went missing sunday they found him yesterday i bring this up because i uh i now feel like kayaking is dangerous because i see one of these stories like once every few weeks is it just that old people think they can do it like when you drive over the bridge in grapevine you see tons of guys out there on kayaks but once every couple weeks it's like yeah well dead kayak and it doesn't seem like the sort of thing

that people should be dying from. You're just kind of out there. What's happening? Are they falling off their kayak? Well, they don't know, you know, unless without a video when it happened. Yeah. Okay.

You're a thing, it turns over, now you're in the water. And sometimes you're strapped into it. So the problem is that it's a solo thing. Yeah. Guys out there by himself. Somebody finds his truck on Monday. And he wouldn't come back. So if I was to fake my own death

Think about it That's what that guy did in Wisconsin, right? Yeah But I got to start doing it now We're kayaking now And my plan is It's like by the time YouTube is airing the Oscars

And Johnny Mansell's a professional golfer On the PGA tour Yeah, like I'm saying I'm going to shoot for Oscar night 2029 But now I'm going to Because you know I'll get into different things

Oh now he's into kayaking Okay he's kayak guy I didn't used to be salmon guy you know and now salmon guy so grounding guy yeah there you go I don't know that I

I bought those damn shoes but I don't know that I used him very often briefly you were kind of UFC party guy well I was just getting invited to a lot of them because one of my softball fellow softball coaches would have parties so I'd go

I'm a guy that likes to just go hang out you're a big party guy yeah yeah never turned out an invite. We have had the cause of death released for Rob Reiner and his wife. That's what you thought it was. Stab wounds.

Did you see who his son's attorney is? Tony Busby. No, but if it were in Texas, it's almost a slam dunk. Although he doesn't really do criminal as much. He's about trying to bleed people for money with mud slinging. F. Lee Bailey. No, but did anybody watch him? the Karen Reid documentary nobody okay there was one lawyer in particular on

there Karen Reid was the lady in Boston who got accused of killing her cop husband it was a huge story nationally oh I did watch boyfriend boyfriend yeah the snow yeah yeah yeah do you remember the lawyer that thought he was hot shit her lawyer his name is Alan Jackson he was always on camera like talking slick okay he's Rob Reiner's son's lawyer okay and I was reading something where this is actually kind of cool and a very terrible story as you might have gathered

from Trump's comments about the death Rob Reiner not a fan of Trump's not a fan of the GOP generally pretty left-leaning which means he was no fan of the death penalty

right but his family who's also no fan of the death penalty they're paying for the son's defense attorney and they're paying they don't want him to get the death penalty.

Like, they are fighting to keep him from being, like, they don't want him to die. It's a very odd situation where the victims are paying for the accused attorneys, and that a lot of times might be like... Yeah, basically Rob Reiner is paying for this guy to try and get this to argue that this guy didn't kill Rob Reiner. Correct. And at a minimum, that if he did, that he's, like, insane,

or that he doesn't deserve the worst type of punishment? I saw the L.A., whatever, prosecutor, and he was saying in a press conference that we take heavily into account, or at least take into account, the wishes of the family, the victim's family. And I thought that's idiotic. Aren't we, we have laws,

and that's, the law. law. That's what we take into account. We take into account the laws on the books, not the emotions of the victim's family. Whether the victim's family say we want you to push for the death penalty or not push for the death penalty, I don't think should matter on what your personal beliefs are. Like, because we are here to uphold the law. That's just a job that we do. It's always a tricky thing, right? With, what if I said I want them to be released? Well, this is tricky. You don't want to make it seem like the person who actually experienced the pain

acutely, like mothers in a drunk driving, like you can't say, well, your opinion, but clearly they're going to be a little more emotional about it, right? Well, they're ladies. Like, should John McCain be the one who decides what torture rules are? Like,

I remember him being like really, really against it. And I remember thinking at the time, maybe, but I don't think we should ask you. Because, like, you know you lived it or maybe that's why you do ask him but like he's thinking this sucked

I don't think anybody should have to go through this maybe the military is thinking yeah but it works and you're not thinking about that because it didn't work on you it's it's tricky but in general I'm with you I don't think they should swallow the whistle in the last two minutes

rules or rules we carry them throughout and we have a rule against what this woman in Houston did was booked into Harrison County Jail. So maybe that's not Houston. Where's Harrison County? Okay, this actually is a Texas woman in Mississippi. She was charged with attempted mayhem.

Sounds fun. You didn't even get mayhem done? She had gone into a Walmart Super Center out in Mississippi and was putting razor blades in loaves of bread. What in the world? that actually happens your mom's warnings about Halloween right yeah that's what those same people do in like November and December once Halloween's over so one person finds a razor blade in their loaf of bread they call the Walmart and Walmart's like I noted two days later someone else calls that same Walmart says hey there's a razor blade in my loaf of bread so then they

now we got to look through everything now they looked at the security camera and all that found several more loaves that had been tampered with and identified her as a suspect. Get the metal detector and just hold it over. How are metal detectors doing? Clayton has one. That's so just the easiest play

on any board we're going to have today. My daughter had a friend whose brother went out metal detecting and they found something worth thousands of dollars. Wow, that's something worth. Lake for you, dude. Yeah, yeah.

Just had a Super Bowl ring or something from some. Yeah, I can't remember what it was, but it, like, helped this kid go to college. Wow. Whatever it was, was a big enough deal, but he... Man, I bet you 100%, especially knowing your daughter's, like, that kid was just trying to pull some hipster shit. It's like having a record player. He's out there in a cardigan with a... Yeah.

Man. It's stories like that, though, that keep metal detecting going. Right. It's like my daughter's friends... Right, no one really... Did that actually happen? I don't know. He actually got something really big.

Right. And then someone hears it. It's no one you know, but it's somebody you know kind of someone. They kind of know, but they really know. And everybody just wants money that bad that they're like, oh, baby. Over in Fort Worth, a 19-year-old was arrested. He was a waiting trial for murder, but he had been on the run for about three weeks after removing his ankle money.

now this is weird to go for sure and I would have been tracking this and congratulating him from the start had we known and I find it odd that there's sometimes we find out when there's a fugue and sometimes we don't like that one dude we had to cut off his ankle monitor in Johnson County we knew right away like this guy's on the run you only find out about this guy whenever they they caught it did you go fugge It felt good I was confused by that okay that was a shortened word yeah but 19 being on the run it makes me think you know we never found that kid in

over in was it Garland yeah went to Mexico he was like 14 oh really shot a couple people at a gas station got in the car with his dad did his dad go to jail or his dad turned himself in like 36 hours later once

it was going to be impossible to find his son. Is he being bullied by those guys or something like that? That was the story, but he also shot an innocent bystander or two. I don't think I'm going to jail for my kids. I... They have so much life. What if they just spend 20 years in jail?

Well, whatever. They'll be... They'll get out. Yeah, but those are 20 good years. The 20 years you have left, I have news. They're fine. We're going to have good stuff going on. If you marry...

His second marriage? Yeah, my new marriage. His third child? The kids I'm going to have, and then since I've made all the mistakes, I'll now raise these ones right. Dude, I mean, I think it's just noble of you to just put it out there right now. Because everybody's going to say they would take the charge for their kid. But how many people... Just to be honest.

When they're putting the handcuffs on you... Like, I don't know. And you know your kid did something. Right. And I've been telling her not to. stop killing people and she does it anyway like is that any way

to teach your kids responsibility and that your actions have consequences well couldn't you spin it as they would learn by seeing you go to prison and they would have to live with that every day and that would think they'd be worried about that would have them result in yeah take a vacation

I don't think they would be upset at all if I went to prison would you do it Um, I, she, no, probably not. There you go. Wow. I feel like I 100% would. I would do lock.

So it doesn't matter what they did. They're pulling a domer. They're making kids do new jumping jacks in the locker room. Oh, bro. That was a real story. I know. I think I'd probably have to say, yeah, I'll do it no matter what. They're Weinsteining.

God. What power they've amassed. Well, yeah, no, this is a... You're proud. Yeah, at first you're proud. You got Magneto, mate. No, I... They have to have some...

I don't. You're doing something terrible, like... I know, but I think you still gotta just eat it and hope for the best. They're not going to always be there to coddle them their whole life. Did you know what sucked, too, is you would take it, and then they would never come visit you. They would never call you. It would be exactly the same as being, like, a regular grown parent. Oh, yeah.

Except you're in jail for them. And you think your wife would be real happy with you and she's not? Oh, she's upgraded immediately. You're just rotting in there, getting soap-bens. Yeah, she's tagging your neighbor. Right. Probably the lawyer. He's nailing her.

Fucking bad all the way around. Never mind. You're screwed, bud. He really thought through it, didn't you? I don't want any part of that. Take it back. Let's see. Is there anything else we need to get to today, Dan?

I don't think so. Yeah, that's good. That's good. That's good stuff. That's good stuff. It means he's wanting me to do this. Yep. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe.

That was the good news. Do I have viewer mail birthdays? Hey, there's Henry. Maybe he has a birthday of the day. In turn, Henry is here. Really? Give my mic. I agree.

It's up here. Let's see. Yeah, where's your mom? Happy birthday. Thank you. Got a grandma. Is it mom birthday day? Also, speaking of families, Blake's son gave each of us a gift.

Oh, yeah. He did. He's walking through the Crayola experience. And so that's what he got for Dan. For me, he walked up and he was like, I know you love Indica. Thought of you guys. I tell you what, I'd go to jail for that kid. Yeah, I would bet on him.

Yeah, I think he seems squared away. He's so cute. I would buy stock in that kid. Yeah. Now, there may be the small problem that he thinks that, like, the biggest success in life is winning at video game tournaments. So I don't know how high he'll aim. Oh, Jake.

Did he get a little treat? You want a little treat, buddy? How creepy do I sound? Jeez. Not an animal. Exactly the way my wife talks to your kid. I know. Or a cashier.

Ladies be doing that. You're welcome. Tom thumb. He liked it. Like Julie's never said, you're welcome to me. No, why would I? You want a little treat, Dan.

Dan, do you want the penguin? Or do you want the moose, Dan? I'll eat this chocolate right now. I'll take some moose. I've been staring at. You want a moose? Dear Dan, today is the 19th birthday of my nephew Reed. His leaders are Blake's birthday party world tour.

Jake not realizing that Virginia Beach is in Virginia. and you're back in parking. Les? Go ahead. I just want to tell you guys, I hear terms like Manhattan Beach, Daytona Beach. I don't know where any of this shit is.

I thought Virginia Beach was in California. Or Florida. It is confusing. I thought it was like some elite place. Like Manhattan Beach isn't in New York. Why'd they make it so tricky? That's what I say. Less Vegas Mike, like never again less, more Sarah Heppela's Dairy Dynamo's punt on first down and flip the field.

Hashtag established the punt from Shane in Colleyville. Love Shane. Very interesting that the guy that is on the Morton's side is on the less manisphere side also, but we're complex. Yeah. Scroes. Today is my Rashid Wallace birthday. My leaders are people who dab it a little after they go number one. Yep.

Okay. What did I miss? They'll do that. Well, you're going to get there. No, I'm not. Yeah. In the last couple years, I never know what I'm done peeing. It happens, right?

You don't know. It used to be a open shut. There's all these people in the crowd agreeing. They're like, yes. Yeah, it's true. There's an age where you're like, whoa. Why don't we hang out for the after party and make sure things handled here. Well, isn't that, don't men like sit?

I do. Yeah, and this because you just aren't sure what's going to happen. I mean, that's a feature. Because to sit versus Dan, you have to make a decision and commit. True. It might as well just cover your bases. Right. There is legit research that it's better for, of,

Prostate cancer. To sit? Yes, because it gets everything out. It's the same as like a squatty potty when you sit down. The idea is to get it. Okay. Julie doesn't understand how to prevent cancer and we do. Because you've got cancer, right?

Right. You're 0 for one. Not like testicle cancer. I knew a guy who used to try to use that on ladies in high school, like for blue balls. They'd be like, you know, this could actually could get cancer. She'd be like, cool story. Yeah. I'm still going to do it.

Did it work? Yeah. Must have sometime. Clean the pipes. Does Dan still shower like a toddler? Keep the scroll tight from D.F. Trick Ruiz. Tricky, tricky. Let's see.

We have a... Where am I? I need another birthday. Oh, I guess that's it. Sorry. That's okay. Hey, thanks, man. We now go to a little of this.

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And then Fairlease's deal was so good. Fair lease ended up buying them out of their lease. And now they lease all of their vehicles. I think he said even his wife leases from there as well. So people be leasing. Yeah, if you're looking for a vehicle, at least start there.

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The one you can barely see or the Dumb Zone. Oh, gosh. Anyway, we love our... We love some Fairleys. We do. Oh, we do. We love you Fairleys. Thursday, December 11th.

Thursday. I mean, 18th. Why did I say the 11th? On this day in 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the government's wartime detention of people of Japanese descent from the West Coast. So you're like, yeah, we're at war with Japan and stuff. you have a relative from Japan

real black mark what if we put you in a cage that's not cool uh Sulu from Star Trek was in there really little boy little boy Sulu

just sitting in there thinking one day I'll captain my own starship which he did in Star Trek 5 wait are you telling me that Star Trek deals with actual real world earth events No, I'm telling you he actually was as a boy.

The actor. Yeah. Okay. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, his name in Star Trek is Sulu. I guess his name is actually George Takai. Oh, he just wants something.

Yeah, okay. Putting it all together. Got it. On this day in 1966, Dr. Seuss' animated special How the Grinch Stole Christmas aired for the first time on CBS. You guys watch that? Yeah, he's a big fan. Okay.

Grinch and Max. How about you? Oh, yeah, a little Max. Yeah. He's the star. We don't like the Grinch. We don't like the Grinch. We watched the Frosty, the 60s Frosty the other night.

That played well. Okay. That's a pretty good one. I was confusing the happy birthday, right? Yeah, right when they put it on the head? I don't know. Yeah, what does that mean? Yeah.

The crunch is so mean, man. It really is. Like, his whole identity is just trying to ruin the thing. I was also thinking that, too, about, I was thinking that about the devil. What, doesn't he ever take a mental health day and be nice? And so today is December 18th. What do we have on this day in Dumb Zone history? Nothing.

Oh, wow. We've never done a show on this day? Not of anything that is worth a shit. We've not done anything of the consequence. Nothing. Well, now next year you'll be able to say we're at Conne Roso. Talk to Brandon Aubrey about his fake field goal. We learned what Gasparilla.

Man wanted to have relations in the bathroom. Dan says he would not go to prison for his kids. Julie told us about the time T.O. tried to put it on. We didn't say his name. I didn't confirm. She didn't. Nope. We have other birthdays today.

Jade and Daniels is 25. Need a dub this weekend, my young man. I believe he's been shut down for the season. Last year, I thought you were crazy when you said he'd be out of the league in five years. Maybe you're right. That was a tough, hard-knock scene. I feel bad for Dan Quinn. Just looking at his body type and his style of play.

I can pick things like that. If our game picking was five years in the future, I'd be great. His mom is also way up his ass, which I think is troubling. Jaden Daniels? Oh, yeah. What does that mean? She's, like, constantly talking about protecting him from women? Women that are coming for her baby.

She'll, like, hop in comment sections and stuff and be, like, why don't you settle down? Oh. Yeah. Well, I'd like to see my mom. I'd give her a week to hop in the comment section and do something. What does that mean? Yeah. She would go to the Apple Store and then tell them.

Because she was like, oh, yeah, there's something weird going on with my TV, and I think it's because of my phone. And so she went to the Apple Store to ask the guy about it. That is a tough one. Ronald Acuna, Jr. is 28. Condor. So, number one, he has a dad. Condor? The other one.

Number two, what happened to his stats? Did he just get hurt? Yeah. Like, he had 73 steals and 40 home runs. That's where his ACL. Oh, he did? All right. I'll stop ripping him.

Charles Oakley is 62. Ban from MSG at one point. with like facial recognition technology or something by Dolan Don Bebebe is 61 oh man that was a

begrudic idol Leon Let Bougar McFarland is 48 No Tess What an era of Monday night football Bougar mobile Jason Witten and Booger

A bugger A beauty cam Keith Richards is 82 I think they just can't to tour, which is, like, the first time they've done that and ever. It's crazy. 82. It's still, like, I read a quote from him where he's like, yeah, I got arthritis, but I'm

figuring out new ways to do this. If you were like, he's 60 and still touring, I'd be like, that's crazy. 82 and, like, in great shape. Kind of kicking ass, right? Big time. Which just perished heroin ain't that bad? Like, weren't these guys always just wasted? He was smoking heroin in cigarettes.

Wait. Does it not prove that heroin's not bad? It proves that we all have this inner, like, we are what we are maybe. Maybe you could change it by a little. Yeah. But like our teeth. Like, I have very bad teeth and lots of cavities. I'm sorry.

And my wife has never had a cavity. Me neither. Really? I just feel like you're just predisposed to that, and it's not because I have terrible... So, like, some people could put up. with drugs and alcohol and not just lose it completely more. Is that what you mean?

Yeah, yeah, that's certainly the case. Anyway. Stephen Spielberg is 79? He has a new alien movie, doesn't he? Is it going to be good? Okay. Because I will watch that. Comedian Ron White is 69?

Funny. Brad Pitt is 62. Also funny if you consider the scene where he gets hit by that train. You ever seen that scene? Yeah. God, it's good. I was in the theater for that, dude. We were like,

the whole theater? Day was over. All the dudes are laughing. Hot a 62-year-old? I can't think of a hotter one. Male or female? Oh, you're doing Brad Pitt, my bad. I think you're moving on.

Wow. He's a bad guy, though. Oh, why? I thought he's good. He's adopting kids and... Don't read about it. him and those kids man oh dude you never read about like his own kids the adopted ones and a dog yeah dude like there's that scene on a plane he he was like a blackout drunk and he would just start hitting her and hitting the kids and screaming he's a bad guy oh man i don't want to do that come on i don't want to know it he got his wife die head was cut off it's in a box and no that's that's bad for him that's film oh he's a bad guy steve austin is 61 good guy good guy

excellent excellent Texan no is he fake Casper Van Deyen is 57 Oh he got arrested too Stone Cold did I didn't know that who was that Cat Stevens? Casper Van Dean Fill me in Starship Troopers

Oh wow Thought you would know that one I don't know the actors names at all to be honest None of them really Rebecca Romaine Country rapper Cowboy Troy is 55 You could have stopped it He was on the ticket a lot, right?

Yeah Is he the one that said Bo, Bar, or what did you say earlier? Hobb? Oh, no. Bobo or Bar? I knew it had a B in it. DJ Lethal is 53.

Limp Biscuits D.J. Hell yeah. Katie Holmes is 47. Robert Wolonski once said that she was subject to the most public kidnapping in the history of America. Surrey? Well, yeah, the whole thing. Like when she joined Scientology, it was very clear that I know exactly what you're looking for and I should have had it ready. What?

No, no, no. I'm doing something different. I know whose birthday it is. Well, Billy Eilish is. 24? Unfortunately, getting way too hot. Don't love it. Yeah. She hides them things.

Sometimes. Sometimes not. I thought the documentary on Apple TV was very good. It was amazing. Very as much as I think. Bare bones look at the songwriting process

that was very cool. Yeah. And those things. Unfortunately. They're like, whoa. Really? and see this is the birthday of the dumb zone birthday of the day but it was yesterday his birthday actually isn't today but i was doing birthdays yesterday and i said this is such a big one we're going to have to bring this up tomorrow we have a 27 years old today

I don't know if I should just play the audio or say the name let me just play the audio yeah Okay. 211 yards rushing. What does this kid not do? He's churning the clock out in between the tackles and then bam, lightning on the outside, the explosiveness to go down and then up and over the top to put that ball over the goal line for a touchdown. What a day for J.K. Dobbins. Absolute dominant performance from Dobbins and this offensive line.

J.K. Dobbins' mom, Maya. became pregnant when she was 18 years old. She went to the doctor because she was thinking about aborting the baby, but changed her mind. That baby turned out to be that young man. J.K. Dobbins, who she calls her miracle baby. So proud to have a fun fact.

Yeah. No, he overcame a lot. It would have been... Oh my gosh. Much, much tougher to make it to the NFL with like half of a developed buck. He avoided tacklers on that run, like he avoided that coat hanger. Oh, God. 17 years ago.

17. He's flushed to the outside, just like his mama was trying to flush him that day. J.K. Dobbins. Take Dave. This is terrible. I'm not the one who was the guy. thinking about aborting him. That's right, no.

No, just that whole clip was terrible. It was odd. Joel didn't really have much to add. No. Big game. Back to the action. What in the world? Also.

How'd that make it in the media notes? Favorite ice cream is strawberry. He's just listing down a couple of notes about it. He just got done watching Handmaid's Tale. So he loved it. He binge watches. Yeah. Born on the Stay Now Dead, Archduke.

This is almost an anchor word. Archduke. Ferdinand. Franz Ferdinand, yeah. What other Archduke's can you pull out? Yeah. Let's do that with all of these. Just see.

Okay. Because Archduke is easy. Born on this day now dead. Joseph. Stall it. That's right. Born on this day now dead. Ty?

Okay, dead tie, uh, yell it out, anyone? Anybody? Cobb. Oh, okay. That's correct. And born on the stay now dead, Ray. Guy. Leota.

Leota. Dead on this day is still dead. Chris? Cringle. Farley. Oh. And you'll never get Mark Felt. He is the deep thrift.

Throat informant in the Watergate scandal. Aha. Died on this day at the age of, in 2008 at the age of 95. That was a big deal when I was growing up. Are we going to find out? Who deep throat is? Yeah, and it kind of just happened. And there was like, well, second down.

And that's what happened on this day in history. Didn't get a Henry birthday. I thought we. said Henry come grab the mic and I don't see a Henry anywhere just stood there I don't even know where he is oh he's way back there don't get some pizza

you see this Greg Biffle helicopter crash the race car driver can you just respond to what I said no I did look at everyone else in the room I didn't see this Greg Biffle helicopter crash what's the word he's dead him and

yeah we lost Greg Biffle Him and his family were in a helicopter and it crashed. Quite a few people who have not cleared Christmas, right? Not a helicopter. Unless... And first Rob Reiner and now some guy I kind of have heard of. Who is this? Oh, okay.

He was just flying. Yeah, I wonder if he was flying or somebody else. Julie, any closing remarks live from Kanye Roso? Thank you, Kanye Roso. Hey. Stop by all the Cane Rosos. For holiday catering. You got company, family in town, Christmas parties.

This is the spot. That's right. We have them cater each and every one of our game streams high atop my garage. So they're great. Check out the PILF group. PILF. What do you think that stands for, Julie? Pilf, knowing J.J.

You're the owner. And he named his group of... Can I just forget what the P is? Yeah. Pizza! Isn't it like he told his grandma or his mother pizza I'd like to finish? To finish. Was that it? Okay, yeah. There we go. There we go. It's been fun.

Now, Blake, which one of his 19 wins was most impactful to you during the era of Greg Biffle that you were so... Or Julie can weigh in here too if she's got something on this? Probably the Chili's 375. Like this is so much lower than the Zee. easy top guy really that's all over twitter and stuff great biffle what are we talking about right now what do you know about like looking at us what have what do you think i mean i've heard the name from being alive but do you feel a large segment of our our audiences there were a few people in the chat that wanted to hear it yeah all right well i don't know rest in power to gregg

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