The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 12-19-24: Mavs introduce Rick Welts, Aaron Rodgers in Enigma, and our Santa Clause issues

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneBig case of "we did it so you don't have to" with the recent documentary on Aaron Rodgers and his drug journey. Out with the old, in with the new as the Mavs "pass the baton" to new CEO Rick Welts. And sometimes kids and Santa Clause cause problems (00:00) - Open: Santa Clause (29:47) - Mavs: New CEO Rick Welts (56:54) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail bag (01:26:58) - Aaron Rodgers documentary: Enigma (01:56:25) - News: Jamie Foxx vs. Jackass (02:16:39) - Today in History: Reggie White on different races ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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that you just think real sexy thoughts. Okay. Like what? Think of Alyssa Milano. She's hot, plus her last name's a cookie. Yeah. Alyssa Milano, huh? She's hot, plus her last name's a cookie. It's her birthday today. Which one?

Alyssa Milano. Okay. Now what you just heard is the portion of the show where we typically put something funny. I thought that was hilarious. And whenever I read Alyssa Milano's name, I think of that. I'm Blake Jones.

I was about to introduce myself. Hold on. For the first time. Welcome to today's special guest host, Danny Heavy Metal Banks. The human

wah-wah pedal. Happy birthday to Alyssa Milano. Hopefully she is going to download this podcast later. Yeah, it is a free episode, which is big for her. Wasn't she kind of the canary in the coal mine of Me Too?

In some way, shape, or form, I feel like she was Capitol Hill hill possibly even in the background of judge brett kavanaugh's confirmation hearing i think that tracks there was something the way i think of her when you bring her up and and yes, happy birthday to Alyssa Milano, who is what, like 40, I'm going to say 43. You are so far off. 50? Keep 52.

No doubt. Yeah. That's in my wheelhouse, bro. Well, I don't know, bro. It is now. I was going to say, I feel like 43 is a little old. He's headed in the right direction. So we all know my good buddy mr chad

mr chad likes the young ladies and more often than not the there's usually about a 20-year gap between him and the person that he's dating but when i first met him he used to he admitted to me that his first source of eroticism when he was a young man was a workout video that had a young Alyssa Milano in it. And the name of it was called Teen Steam. And he had a copy of this on VHS still. Still? How many moves? In his 30s. It just goes to show that the source material that you grew up on

never goes out of style, Jake. Boy, ain't that the truth. 100%. How many times? 1988. So let's see. That would have made her. Wow, she's 16.

Oh, no. The whole thing's on YouTube, the VHS. Teen Steam is? Yeah. It's 45 minutes long. He can trash his analog copy and just take it with him on his phone. How 1988 is it that culturally we were at a place where some guy, some fat guy smokes a cigar in a corner office

was like, I got an idea. What if we had some teens that you know about exercise? Yes. With leg warmers. With a sauna on. Uh-huh. So they're wet.

Damp. And we'll call it teen steam. Teen steam. Yeah. It's very Washington Redskins. We got one order. They're in a bedroom. One order from Terrell, Steam. Yeah. It's very Washington Redskins. We got one order from Terrell, Texas. Yeah. Well, why are they in a bedroom, Blake?

I don't know. Is that not where you think of teens all working out? Blake, are you watching Teen Steam? Yeah, I'm watching Teen Steam, but it's like now that I know how old she is, I already feel bad enough, but then there's teddy bears in the background and a pink rug. Oh, my God. Of course there is.

The bed's messed up. What was the ratio between, as far as the purchase ratio of this video, of kids that were 15, 16 that really wanted to get a good workout and 50-year-old men. 90% the one you just named. The latter of the two? Yeah. Yeah.

Pretty bad-looking push-ups. Yeah, they're working the shoulders. Maybe a little scap push-up. Not a full. Well, Danny's here for Dan today. Dan is gone. However, I think I heard a little rustling downstairs. I think Craytray's here somewhere. There's Dan is gone. However, I think I heard a little rustling downstairs.

I think Craytray's here somewhere. There's a car here I didn't recognize. Is he the new TC? He's been the new TC for a while, and that means not only does he watch Dan's house for a handsome fee, but also he's impervious to being fired. I think the only way you lose this job is if you decide not to do it anymore because both of them had pretty poor performance reviews. Yeah.

Repeated. Trey being here now explains why the fridge didn't work when I was down there. What do you mean? What happened? You just left it open? No, it just wasn't working. I couldn't get water out of it. Oh, well, we'll be hearing about this Monday.

How do you mess that up? I'm kidding, but it just seems like I'm excited to see what happens this time around. Have either of you ever had to watch Dan's house? Oh, definitely not Dan's. I was trying to think if I've ever done it ever. I was just curious what the job description rundown was, what your responsibilities are when you stay here. Well, it begins and ends with Kip and Bodie.

Sure. So that's also been a problem. I believe last time they left, Dad's wife came home, and there was piss puddles everywhere. Yeah. A lot of many of which had dried. Well, that could have been TC.

Yeah, maybe. This time, though, recently, it was either T Trey or the dogs because he was here for that. TC broke a chair that was like a family heirloom. It had been passed down. I'm serious. It was a spare chair, but it was a family chair. And he leaned back too hard on the recliner and just splintered. What?

And he leaned back too hard on the recliner and just splintered. What? One of them, TC got some heat for sleeping in Dan's bed with his now wife the whole time he was here. We don't know where Trey sleeps. That should be, you know, you should be told where you're allowed to sleep, right? I agree. Don't leave that up to the guy watching your house. I agree. So there's that.

There have been some plants, a lot of plants. He just turns it into a morgue, a hospice for all of Kathy's plants. He broke a pot, I think. He tried to glue it back together. Yeah. Like me. Did I ever tell you guys a story about how – did either of you have braces

yeah i got mine in my early 20s because we were too poor to afford them so and i didn't want to go through my life with jacked up teeth so once i had a job that i could afford orthodontics i think i got mine when i was like 22 actually i had them but not long enough i had them my top ones are pretty fine my My bottom ones are not. Hence, our constant obsession with fake teeth. But I had a retainer afterward, and I would constantly lose it. That's very common for kids to lose their retainer. The worst case of that was I would have to take it out to eat, so it was on my lunch tray.

And I threw it away with my lunch tray. Yep. eat so it was on my lunch tray and i threw it away with my lunch tray yep and i don't remember and she listens so i have to try to be accurate about this but either i was so worried that i was going to get in trouble or like my mom was called and she told me to do this maybe i did it on my own because i was so afraid but i went back after lunch got out and it's just the lunch ladies in there and i dug through every trash can post lunch which is the most disgusting you'd rather be in a sewer

it's just chocolate milk and spaghetti and kid lunch just in those big plastic bags and I was just digging through all of it didn't find it no way dude it's like 50 bags of trash i had to go through and then the other one was i broke it one time at a friend's house i stepped on it while we were playing

basketball and i was staying the night over there and with the help of his dad i attempted to hot glue it back together and i wore it like that for several months. Very, very painful. But I just glued it back together. I was like, all right, this is going to just have to do for now because they've pretty well stated I'm going to military school if I lose or break this thing again. Which was always a threat growing up. Yeah. A reform school. You know, the thing about reform school is what they should use because military school sounds too dope. Yeah.

I'm like, dude, I'm playing Jungle Strike every day. Especially if you already kind of have a propensity leaning in that direction. Why not? So Trey's here. Danny's here. Dan will be back on Monday. I suppose he'll join us for picks tomorrow, the final week of picks. Yeah.

I've decided we have to have some sort of payoff. For sure. It just doesn't have the juice. Yeah, I'm with picks. Yeah. I've decided we have to have some sort of payoff. For sure. It just doesn't have the juice. Yeah, I'm with you. Something. You know, somebody gets, like, trans surgery or something. You know, something topical. Tased.

Tased? I'm down to be tased. Well, you don't need to be incentivized to come in last. It should be a punishment of some sort. No, I just mean I don't want to be tased, but I would sign up for that if we did it under the proper supervision. I've just been told you could die. He could die.

In fact, he would die. His heart's fine, but it's had its problems. Whose? My dad. Yeah. Yes, his job almost killed him. Very literally. Raising you probably didn't help.

He had easy street, bro. He was five days a month. He was the release valve. He was fun time. Taking him to blockbusters. Season blockbuster. Polish off a 12-pack on Saturday night watching my brother and I wrestle

while he gambled on it. How old is your pop? Is he 60s or is he already? Oh, yeah. I was wondering, he hasn't hit 70 yet, has he? No, I think he's 66 or 67. Okay, so he was in his late 20s when you were around. Okay, when you were the advent of Jake, he was in his late 20s. So that is the age where if you...

I don't know. He was probably 30. What age were you when your parents split and then you started doing... I was 7 and he was probably like... In his early 30s. If that. Yeah. At that age, you're still, when you have

your kids, a lot of it is looking at the clock, wondering when your time with them is over so you can get back to your fun life. Yeah, yep. And it's different if you start doing parenting as an older person, which I've done both. And there is a decided difference

in my attitude about parenting now than there was back then because now you realize that this is – I accept that this is the most important thing that I will ever do in my life. There's nothing more important that I can do now other than being a dad. But what at 23, when I was a – What about titties? Yeah. And I'm playing in bands. Right.

Oh, it's just – it's so hard, and it's a surprise. It wasn't planned. Most aren't, but it was a different trip, and I was every other weekend dad back then. Now it's shared custody, so I have Malcolm half the time. It's a different thing, and I've talked to Josh, my oldest, about this a little bit, about kind of like do you feel a little like I'm a different dad now than I was for you and if you ever

feel resentment man come at me we'll talk it out because yeah I probably wasn't with the time that I had with him yeah I think that there was a lot of looking at the watch sometimes and wondering god damn is it Sunday at 7 yet so I can make it to clicks to go play pool no dude with paul he did

it he did he did his best to try to keep us entertained and make it fun but there was definitely a feeling of you know i'm sure there were a few times on sunday at the beginning especially like when my stepdad moved in and we were getting close to him. I'm sure there were a handful of times at the beginning of that where he drove off and it was the fucking country song, that's my house, that's my but that ain't my truck.

He's like crying. Probably by time four, he was able to hit the Sunday specials at Broncos in Euless. There you go. Like for the Sunday night game. Yes, sir. Meet up like, oh, fuck, here we go. Yeah.

Back in the mix. Speaking of parenting, I did something yesterday in the afternoon on Business Wednesday that we've done before. It's a big deal in Grapevine, the Christmas capital of Texas, of course. And it is legit. I forget sometimes that it is that, and it's a big deal to people, because I went down there for something else the other day

to pick up a gift. There are people who I think travel to come to Grapevine to look at the Christmas stuff. I believe it. Even if it's from other parts of Texas. Although the night of my daughter's and Wired Will's elementary school parade, all the dads at every elementary school do these insane floats.

And it's a big party. There were a distinctly white crowd. And there were two, a young Asian couple there. And they were stopping to take pictures in front of my mom's store because it's all decked out for Christmas on Main right there. And they were like blown away. They clearly were not Asian Americans. They were speaking some form of an Asian language. And it was so funny, dude.

Just put yourself in this situation. So all the dads, there's dads dressed up as stormtroopers, and their float, they go all out. Like their float looks like the Death Star. For Christmas. For elementary school Christmas parade. There's a group of dads who are on the back playing in a full band, jamming Christmas songs,

and your kids get to be on the float if you help build it. People go hard. But as part of that, one of the floats was like a Christmas circus, and that had a dad on a unicycle in clown Christmas gear, and he was just tearing ass around the float going down the street on a unicycle. He was an Asian guy. He was the only Asian dad I saw. They thought this was the funniest thing they'd ever seen in their life.

The Asian couple? Yes. They saw an Asian guy on a unicycle, and they could not handle it. It would be like if you were in Africa or something, and you're the only white couple there. There's one white guy in this parade anywhere, and he's doing the goofiest shit you've ever seen. That's awesome. A unicycle on its own, hilarious. So anyways, the deal yesterday was a Christmas train.

There's a train out there that they set aside just for Christmas time. You're aware of this? I'm aware of certain family members' Instagram stories. Oh, okay. Okay. Wife did it? Yeah. Okay.

So there's a train station in Grapevine. They deck out the train with Christmas stuff. They run five of these a day for probably a month. It's $40 per person. Of course it is. Damn. How long does it last? An hour. Oh, wow. Okay.

Maybe 40 minutes and there's some stuff afterward. There's a little Christmas village. You get on. They're singing songs. Basically, I'm learning that there's an outlet for gig work for theater kids to be elves and sing and be all jolly and whatnot. So you're on the train with them. They're singing songs. They're handing out bells to wear and shake.

There's a Mrs. Claus. Total Roseanne. Not gray hair. Not a Mrs. Claus total Roseanne not gray hair not a wig just a normal looking hefty 45 year old white woman who was kind of dressed like a fairy not really Mrs. Claus at all

kind of a hocus pocus type vibe didn't understand it then there was a male and a female probably 20s they were elves, they were singing and then it's going to be time for Santa Claus they hand everybody chocolate chip cookies Then there was a male and a female, probably 20s. They were elves. They were singing. Then it's going to be time for Santa Claus. They hand everybody chocolate chip cookies.

Then they come around with chocolate milk. Festive time. We'd already taken one picture with a Santa at her school Christmas cookie decorating party. He was there. She goes and takes a picture. He's your very boilerplate Santa, white, etc so that's your like double a for santa's the school the school yeah i mean the majors is the mall big ball parades maybe yeah minor leagues but i feel like the very bottom is your school sure the majors is the neiman marcus downtown right or maybe North Park or something.

Which we do every year. So we'd already done that one. She's done Santa a couple times before. She doesn't really seem to fixate on race too much, other than she has a really good friend in her kindergarten class. I love where this is going. Who is black. She says things like, hey, her skin is kind of in between mine and yours. That's what she said to me.

Or your skin is in between mine and hers. I'm what she said to me. Or your skin is in between mine and hers. I'm like, yeah, people are different. Whatever. It's not a problem. So Santa comes on and... What was the name of that actor? Black dude. I think he was in the Cosby show.

Theo. He got some criticism because he worked at Trader Joe's, and people were like, look at this loser. Was he, what's his name? He was the boyfriend or husband? Jeffrey Owens. Yeah, yeah.

Black guy. Yeah. Glasses, beard, not really gray beard, kind of gray. And so that's Santa on this train. And Nora's still super excited, but she was like, he looks different. I was like, yeah, I don't know. I mean, I think he's just from this angle. That's honestly what I went with.

He's an emoji on Maddie's phone. I was like, he's the sun. You know? And she's like, oh, whatever, you know. And she kind of was like, are there lots of Santas, you know? And I actually heard Isaac Harris from the Locked on Mavs podcast. I saw him there, and he was talking about it this morning. They had gone and taken a picture with the other Santa you could take a picture with at that spot.

So that spot has picture Santa, old white guy, trained Santa, which you can do back-to-back, middle-aged black guy. Yeah. You got Jeffrey Wright. And I'm just thinking, I phone a friend, a black friend. I said to KJ this morning, I'm like, how does this work for you? Because what I want to know is how black parents handle this. If you have black Santa in your home, which he said he does, how do you then deal with 90% of the Santas you see being white?

Because kids are going to notice like, okay, that's a different person. Sure. I don't know. He said they say that there's one main Santa and that all the other ones you see are Santa helpers who are like graduated elves so they could be black, white, Latino, fat, whatever.

And yeah, I'm like, well, I don't... If we go take her to see another one, odds are he's white. I just don't know how black parents and Latino parents, I guess, deal with this to the extent that they have to. So the kids, I guess they need to understand

that you'll never meet the real dude. That's kind of how you have to set it up. But if you did, what color is he? They might follow up with that. Yeah. I don't know. It's an interesting one. I had the incident. She never said anything about the new Little Mermaid movie.

But when we were in Disneyland and we were in line to meet Ariel and Black Ariel came out, she was like, I'm out of here. We walked out of line. As soon as the Black aerial came out. She was like, I'm out of here. We walked out of line. As soon as the black aerial came out. She's like, I'm tired.

I'm like, okay. We've been in line for 30 minutes. Easy there, Richard Spencer. My kid will not have anything to do with Santa. Seems like it's a bad bit. if i could do it over again i would have never done it this is year four and this was the first time that we got a photo of him in proximity to santa where he's not losing his fucking mind yeah crying that seems to be the

standard so the first three he's on santa lap like, why are you doing this to me? Tears, the face, and Santa's just like. And he's black, so Malcolm's like. No, he's a white Santa. And we always go to the, just because it's kind of fun. It kind of, you feel like you're in a Christmas movie. Sure. When you go to the Neiman Marcus downtown.

And that's where we always go. And it's the same Santa every year so far, four years running. And that's where we always go. And it's the same Santa every year so far, four years running. And this year was the first time that he stood about a foot and a half to two feet from Santa. So the photo is Santa and then Malcolm socially distancing from the fat bastard. Yeah. And he's smiling.

He's happy. But it's like, no, bro, I'm not sitting on your lap. If you want to know what I want for Christmas, it's going to happen from, I'm going to have to yell it because I'm going to be across the room. He's not interested

in sitting on Santa's lap or being touched by Santa or anything. It's just an insane. It's a weird thing. It's very, very weird. And I was glad that there was,

you know, diversity in the holiday ranks on this train, but it was also just I don't really have an answer for you, babe. I don't know what to tell you. I just saw a kid that had a big old jug sippy cup of Choco milk in one hand and a freaking trash can in the other that apparently he doesn't leave the house without. Yeah.

Yeah. A trash can. He. Trash can. He brings a trash can with him everywhere. It's like a dip cup for him. Trash can. That was my day yesterday. Santa? Santa pictures.

Tell it. So, we, wife and I had a discussion, because I think this is a special thing. It's a once a year bit. He's only going to do this a handful of times. We need to cherish it. She was trying to say, we don't need the digital prints. We don't need this kind of stuff. Let's just try to spend $30.

I was like, we never do this. Let's go all out. Let's get everything. Walk in there. We set a time, 12.05, expecting people to be working during the week, be at school. And our plan worked to perfection. We walked in there. There was nobody.

Santa was just looking at us saying, all right, come on down. Where was this? We went to a place in Allen. Okay. There's a little mall up there in Waters Creek. And walk in, Brooks is excited on the way over. He's got it down.

I'm going to ask Santa for a blue car for Christmas. What are you going to ask for Christmas? I'm going to ask for a blue car for Christmas when I i'm on santa's lap walks in there see santa freaks out set like crying yeah or just nervous okay so we walk in there yeah santa's like come on and then he starts doing the the kid like step back step back step back step back and then yeah uh yeah all hell broke loose. Did you get a photo anywhere near Santa? I haven't looked at him yet because I haven't calmed down from being so pissed off. But yeah, no, it's me and her trying to hold him down.

He is flailing away. Santa's smiling. The elves are trying to help. Did you beat him? I love it. No, but didn't let him watch TV yesterday. Because he wouldn't behave for Santa? Blake's an

authoritarian disciplinarian. There was a lot of discussion between the wife and I, but This makes me happy though. Why? Because at times Blake's son is pretty well behaved. Incredibly. And mine's not. And so he, you know so the fact that he incorporates corporal punishment has made me think,

like, maybe he's on to something. So I like to hear when Brooks has a meltdown too because I was faced yesterday with a similar situation to what we ran into at Jared's charity event, which is the line that wraps back and forth with the cue, with the pull out, put it in the post. And it was about 20 minutes of. Like you're trying to get into the start club.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. And he wants in. You ain't on the list, man. And so, you know, before we got on the train, there was like a 15-minute like, whoa, do you guys believe? Do you have your believe bells? And it's two theater 20-somethings up there like popping back and forth. And I'm like, let us on the train. The kid's losing his mind.

All the kids are losing their mind. But none of them quite like mine. Yeah. And we had that moment last night where both, you know, wife and I looked at each other like, our kids, they seem to be the worst ones everywhere we go. Well, at least you had help this time. I did have help this time. What are you going to do?

I just kind of like doing it. If they want to freaking talk to Santa, I don't care. I just don't care. And you know what? The pictures of a kid losing his shit with Santa are great. Yeah, that's true, Blake. I love looking back at those. I know 10 years from now

we're going to laugh at it all. No laughing yesterday, though. The grandparents love it. They think it's true, Blake. I love looking back at those. I know 10 years from now, we're going to laugh at it all. No laughing yesterday, though. The grandparents love it. They think it's cute. But for me to spend $100 on these fucking pictures that didn't turn out pisses me off. Everyone has a bad time. What is better as a parent than when you're in the moment and you're sitting there and you've spent money to do something and everyone is upset?

Vacation. Yeah, I get it. Any outing like that. Going into these endeavors, you've got to manage your expectations. It's rarely, if ever, going to work out the way you envision it in your head. But all you can think about is like, rationally, why are we doing this? Why are we doing something that everyone is upset? I get it.

Yeah, and that was the most exhausting part is just like going through all these mental gymnastics of trying to spend money, trying to have a good time. He doesn't want to do it. What are we doing here? Let's just go home. Yeah, I had a great day with Malcolm last week and spent $0, and it involved going to the post office

where he thinks he's a rock star and talks to everybody. Then he wants to walk down in the strip mall to the laundromat and watch clothes tumble in the freaking dryer. He's obsessed with that. And then we go back to my house where they're building a dog park at the park right by my house, which is just a block away, and there's construction vehicles out there every day. right by my house, which is just a block away, and there's construction vehicles out there every day. We stood out there for an hour and a half,

and he watched front loaders and bulldozers and backhoes do their thing free. Yeah. It was free. A little live thrash and trash. And we capped off the day. They're doing sidewalk repair on my street at the house across the street. We pulled up lawn chairs and watch jack

hammer dude yeah cost nothing so you know you balance it out look to keep your kids entertained like that and spending money it would cost you three hundred dollars so the trade-off is i don't mind wasting three hundred dollars on an aborted mission like santa you do have to do some balancing i'm living in the black here with this. All right, let's talk some sports, Blake. Hey, yes, we do have some Mavs. The Cowboys are in the background for the day. We have a new sponsor.

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Their multitude of days off in a row? Well, that's the thing is that I didn't feel like it was that pressing after they had the mini break because they got bounced from the tourney. But what took place over the weekend was pretty insane uh they had a sunday night game at golden state 143 133 uh i called machine to plan out round ball talk that night and it was like into the first quarter and i hadn't watched any of the game yet and he's's like, this game is on Molly. I'm like, okay, let's fire it up. It was one of the most insane basketball games I've ever seen.

Such a fun watch. Like the Warriors made, let's pull up the box score again here. The Warriors went 27 of 54 from three, and they were really never in control of the game. They made 27 threes. They couldn't miss. Well, hell, they made what? How many in the first half?

I can pull up the exact number. 18? Draymond was coming off the bench and playing great. It was a laser show out there. Let's see. First half, you had the Warriors go 18 of 32. The Mavericks go 12 of 25. It was just a fun basketball game.

A lot of times you see really high scoring and just insane numbers and you think, well, the defenses must be terrible. And it really wasn't that. It was just Luka going freaking bananas with almost having a 30-point triple-double in the first half. And then on the other side, Steph, Buddy Heald, Andrew Wiggins. Just a fun basketball game. And the Warriors might not be a contender contender, but they're a good team. And the Mavericks are one of the elite teams in the league now. It was fun, man. It was a fun, fun basketball game.

Klay. Klay's inching back up a little bit. That wasn't his first game back there, was it? No. No, they played early in the season. Yeah, when they handed out the hats. Okay. And they got smoked.

Yeah, but he played pretty well in that game. He played pretty well in this one. I'm just very over the moon about the Mavs right now. You should be. Dude, I think that was a historical night. Wasn't it the most threes combined made in an NBA game in history? Yes. Is that right?

You know what? I'd have to look for this first half. No, no, no. I think it was for the game. I don't know how it wouldn't be. Clay went 7-11 from three. If you throw out his first game back where he was definitely still

going through it, he's on a 5-game stretch here where he's averaging 20 points, over 51% from 3. If he's going to do that for any stretch of the season, they're going to be a problem. Their defense is awesome right now. They're just a really, really good team. They should probably be

a couple of wins better in the standings. The Clay thing is huge, though. You kind of knew that there was going to be that entering into dating life after being in a long-term relationship or a 15-year marriage, and then you suddenly find yourself single and that awkward transition period before you kind of settle into your new identity. I think that's what's taken him the most time.

It's because, man, he's been joined at the hip with Steph for so many years. It was hard for anybody to realistically think that he was going to come in here from day one, just be the perfect fit. I think those things take time. Yeah, I guess I thought, like, oh, this guy's a shooter, he'll just shoot. But you forget about everything that goes into that, whether it's the backdrop of the arena. Sure, where he's getting little things like that.

And his teammates knowing exactly where he likes the ball, where he likes to receive the ball, how he likes to receive it. I mean, all of those little tiny things that most people don't think of are factors into making someone as comfortable as possible in a new environment. They're really good. There's no reason why they shouldn't be considered a contender. I don't think there's really anything they need at the deadline. I wrote an article about PJ this week, dmagazine.com slash sports or click on sports. Hell, I don't know how you do it. But he remains with only one loss on his ledger since he came back

because he missed the Oklahoma City loss where they got out-rebounded badly. He's so underrated, man. I kind of love how Dinwiddie's only good here. You notice that? Yeah, Dan brought that up the other day. Like, how is it possible this guy couldn't get minutes in L.A.? And he's almost done enough already this season to justify bringing him back. Yeah. Because of the games that he played when Kyrie was out or when Luka was out.

Monster games. He can legitimately run your offense. Kyrie was out or when Luka was out. Monster games. He could legitimately run your offense. And now he's throwing lobs occasionally after the first time he was here. That was a definite work in progress. Because that's

not a guy that lacks confidence. I'm so excited. I'm so excited for the Cowboys to be done and for people to really fully fall in love with the Mavericks. We did have some Mavericks news. We know that St. Marshall, we knew that St. Marshall was retiring as CEO and president.

This news came out. The smoke has cleared finally, Jay. Yeah, and I want to talk about that. The smoke that emitted from Pants DJ's crotch has finally cleared so sin can go away. They cleaned up all the condoms that fell out of his pant leg. That's my favorite part of that story. People are like,

he was watching porn. He was jacking off at work. I'm like, that's super gross, but why did he have a condom in his pants? Why did it fall out of his... That's the most clown move ever. He just starts pulling them out and they just it fall out of his... That's the most clown move ever. He just starts pulling them out

and they just keep coming out. Whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop, whoop. Like a hot dog lynx. Why did he have condoms falling out of the bottom of his pants? It doesn't make... He could have had a hole in his pocket. They were open, I'm pretty sure.

Okay, then you know what he was doing. Was he just wearing it all the time? Yeah. And then just coming? Yes, he was wearing them, watching porn at work, releasing, and then there's no... Like a dick diaper? Yeah, exactly. There's no awkward pant front stain for coworkers to point at and jeer.

It's all so weird, man. It was not that long ago, and it all started with a lady we worked with but anyways uh the scent thing unfolded in a in a somewhat strange way because a few months ago it was announced that she was retiring but included in the stories about her retirement were the idea that she had talked to Patrick Dumont, the new governor, about a new deal and she had decided to retire, which is kind of a fancy way of saying you're getting let go. They weren't going to bring you back if you wanted to come back. So if you said, hey, I'd like to still work here and they said, let's talk about a contract. And then you say, all right. They say, well, there's not one. Then you basically got fired.

It's not firing, firing. McCarthy's not going to get fired. He's just not going to be here. So it's tricky because I do think she's very professional. The people I know that work closely with her say she's a very good boss that people like to work for. She gets things done. And it's basically kind of racist, the term racially coded, the term DEI hire.

And that's basically what you say when you think like, oh, somebody only got hired because of this part of their demographic makeup. But kind of in like the truest sense of the word, she was a DEI hire from the standpoint of she was brought in because the organization was lacking so severely from a valuing diversity

and inclusion standpoint. Well, this wouldn't have happened if- When people say DEI hire, I think they usually just mean like, oh, this person's not white. I don't think any change would have been made unless all that stuff went public. Right. And they weren't going to hire Rick Welts. That's his name, right?

Mm-hmm. From if things were going well, like after paying DJ. And I do know that they had a pretty toxic frat house environment beforehand and that she's cleaned that up and it's a pretty solid workplace. Not a very solid workplace, but it's still odd to me that we had to act like it's basically

the same as when they hired Rick Carlisle. Like, oh my god. Can you imagine what she'll do for this thing? It's like, oh, well, cover fire fire probably. That's going to be a big part of it. And everyone has to trip and fall all over themselves. And I even heard it in this press conference.

I don't know how much of that is in your audio, Blake, but they act like, oh, my God. Oh, my God. This is a legend. It's Scent. There was a ton of questions of like, yeah, what have you learned from Scent? And what has Scent meant to this? In fact, I'll play one.

Well, let's first start with this. Rick Welts has taken over. He was – Let's get to know Rick. Rick Welts – I definitely know the name because I would watch the Warriors championship parades on the off chance that Draymond was going to be blackout. And he was always featured at those. He was with the Warriors starting in 2011.

He'd done PR. He's been around the league forever. He's kind of if you know one of the guys on that level who's not sent, you know him. Big deal. not sent, you know him. Big deal. But I thought it was kind of interesting when I saw they hired him because, and again, you can 100% be somebody who's a conservative and backs Republican views and also be very friendly with different communities. But I know that Patrick Dumond's mother-in-law is one of the largest Republican donors, though that's typically more focused on, like, foreign policy stuff in Israel with Miriam Adelson. But Rick Welts is a pretty out-front, prideful gay guy.

I mean, he was known for, like, I don't know if he marshaled or whatever. He's a big part of, like, pride parades in San Francisco. So DEI hire? Or do you only say that one you know what i mean like he's got a different thing outside of the convention as well but yeah also super successful in the nba so my take on this was uh they hire sent and remember they called her the ceo and we thought well what is she even gonna do and then we thought, well, what is she even going to do? And then we thought it was ironic, not ironic, but just the timing of Patrick DeMont comes in, a legit businessman. And within a few months is like, okay, yeah, since going to be done at the end of the year. Yeah.

Because it's like a legit business person comes in and sees like, well, what do you do here? Yeah. And she came from the world of HR. Right. So, I mean, she was really good at that, at dealing with employees. But as far as business, and in this case, I think we're talking almost exclusively about a new arena. Correct. Yeah. So, yeah. Sent, okay, thank you for cleaning up the condoms. You know,

your time is over here. For installing like a software blocker. Sure. Running a shop broom through the offices to get all the rubbers off the floor. Yeah, so we're going to bring in an actual person with CEO experience. And yeah, the big topic during the press conference was he basically helped plan and execute the building of the Chase Center, which is insane.

If you follow that process along, I'm sure there's some from the east coast that might be more uh involved but i don't know that there's an american sports arena that is more of a how the fuck did they pull that off when i see it it is in san francisco it's there's no land in the room yeah that was his point and so I remember thinking of all, like, reading about all the code stuff they had to go through. And obviously that's a highly regulated city from, you know, red tape and bureaucracy. And I just, like, when I see something like, I'm like, like, even when Yankee Stadium, New Yankee Stadium was built, I didn't understand that. But San Francisco is a different level.

It's on the water, you know, and if you can pull that off i'm pretty sure you can pull off irving yeah or you know fra uh frosker no frisco or prosper frosker yeah so that was you know the big topic was getting the chase center built and you know the future of the nba they without saying as much they talk a lot about what the Mavericks basketball and specifically what going to a Mavericks game is going to be like in 10 years. Because it won't be like a normal basketball experience.

It's going to be gambling. It's going to look like Vegas there in Irving. And this guy is going to help get it done. That's wild, man. It's one of those things that we know is going to happen, but until you see it, you have no idea what that's going to look and feel like. And that's where your kid is going to grow up watching basketball. It's a pretty big bet to hedge that it's just fait accompli that there will be gambling, though.

Yeah. That's such a gamble, you know? Yeah. There's no certainty that that's going to happen. No, but I think Cuban, part of why he sold is he could see that these people may have the funds and the connections to get it done. They definitely do. It's a casino family.

Yeah. So that's what, you know, it's all building to. One thing that CEOs love to do or like to speak through is symbolism. Maybe lay down on the floor. Different perspective from down here. Sure. Along those lines, Sint brought a prop. Yep.

I am so excited that I am passing this baton to a friend. And this is a baton that we gave all of our employees in August. She has a real baton. Where do you even get a baton? That's not... You go to Dick's in the relay section? Are you even selling there? The relay section.

It says it real big on a banner. Relays. They have one thing. A bat banner. Relays. Relays. They have one thing. A baton. One hurdle. Yeah, they got their hurdles. Build your own hurdle.

No, she brought a baton, and then it goes for, apparently this was like a team building exercise. I am so excited that I am passing this baton to a friend. And this is a baton that we gave all of our employees in August when we laid out the theme, mini runners, one team, ready, set, go. Now, earlier we actually did our track and field handoff thing, okay? And then they actually did the exchange. I think we should do more team building exercises, Blake. Write that down.

No, I'm not writing that down because I'm not doing it. He sent hands it to him, and he does the runner. He turns and gets it from behind. Did he yell out stick? No. Isn't that what we always had to say? You know, I've never participated in a sanctioned relay race. I haven't either.

Once. I was thinking you had to. Yeah, you had to. There was no team. So this guy's a big deal. He was with the Warriors during their run, built the Chase Center. He's coming here to do big things. I don't know if he had any history with Scent.

I can't imagine he did. But I thought this answer was funny by him. What's the biggest lesson you've learned from Sint Marshall? Cunnilingus? You know, I – Yeah, it's like when they asked Obama his favorite White Sox player or Trump his favorite Bible verse. I like them all.

She taught me a lot. Like Sean Bass in a Carlisle interview. She showed me how the coffee maker works. What are upper management types going to realize that those types of props and antics, that every single person in the room is just internally rolling their eyes? That is their attempt at creativity. Look at this idea I have. Why don't you go crunch some numbers, you dildo?

Good God. Why don't you go crunch some numbers, you dildo? That is kind of like, I know that I don't understand business, but it seems like a lot of these jobs don't really have to exist. You think? So, I mean, I understand getting a new arena built, there's a lot to sort through there. So having somebody who's done it before, I suppose, is a pretty big job. But sometimes you just think about it and you're like, well, what do you do every day?

Well, I send some emails and there are phone calls and sometimes a lunch. In general, what I've learned over the last year, guys, it's too much talking. There's just so much talking in building and running a business. It's like you get done with it, and 90% of it, you're like, why did we need to do that? Right. Why did we need to do that? Because we're just going to do this again next week and get 5% closer. I'll tell you why you need it. Synergy.

Yeah. What I'm saying is the entire economy is a house of cards. Well, there's a reason the cliche that kind of was born from the COVID area. I went to a meeting that should have been an email. Yeah. It's largely true. So Rick Welts, though,

you think he's met Luca? I mean, he obviously knows Clay. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know if Luca has a lot of time for these knuckleheads. But they did talk about the importance of time for these knuckleheads.

But they did talk about the importance of – because the ratings came up. I think that's a big deal to those in the brass. But they're going to try to market as an international game and do something special there in Irving, I guess. But there is so much business speak in this stupid thing. It was amazing. To backtrack for a second on what you were saying, what do these people do? The reason that the email becomes a meeting

is so they can say to the people that are above them to show them this is what I do, hey, we had a meeting. I got these guys in line. Yeah. It's all taken care of, Bill. That's all it is. Yep.

Okay, good. Stay on them. Stay on them. Stay on them. I know you're doing a great job. It qualifies their existence to make a lot of fucking money and have their title. But yeah. I don't know exactly. They're just like us, Jake.

They're all winging it. I don't know what the guy does exactly when he wings it, but I do know that despite the fact that the owner's mother-in-law or the governor's mother-in-law is funding a religious proxy war, they do kind of seem to have their ducks in a row from a structure standpoint in a way that, I mean, even the biggest fan of Cuban would have to admit. Oh, yeah. This is night and day. This is like getting your house in order. You do this, you do this, you do this, and there is no bleed over. You know, Cuban was the GM, basically.

But they had nominal GMs over the time. They had Donnie. They'd try to bring in Gerson Rosas once upon a time, Blake, who didn't even make it through the summer. He was supposed to be the co-GM. They've tried stuff like that. Haralabob. Haralabob, the guy from Utah.

Dennis Lindsay. But now it's like it's Nico and Finley and there's where the money comes from. Her son runs it or oversees it, and then Rick Welts runs it. Yeah. It's a clear delineation. And the upshot of it for me is I hope they're just considered

an extremely legit, attractive, cool franchise for the rest of my life because that's what you have to be in the NBA. legit, attractive, cool franchise for the rest of my life. Because that's what you have to be in the NBA. That's the only way you keep a guy like Luka from going to California or New York. You can't turn into, like, San Antonio. You have to be cool, which is kind of hard to do if you're Dallas. But they're back at it tonight. Danny informed me there's no Luka tonight.

SI reported it early, early this morning that he's got a heel issue, and I also read in that same article. Now, this may have changed. I don't know. But then it said Kyrie is questionable. Right shoulder soreness. Probably will play. Very weird to me given that they haven't played in a while.

It seems not good. And the fact that Luka, what, 45 and he tripled doubled in that game? Yes, I believe so. Yeah, 45, like 16. I looked up. 45, 13, 11. Mainly because he was nearing it. But 50-point triple doubles. He's had one.

Really? Yeah. It puts him in the top five, I believe. Do you know who has the most? 50-point triple doubles. He's had one. Really? Yeah. It puts him in the top five, I believe. Do you know who has the most? 50-point triple doubles. Who would you think has the most? And it's not the big O. I was going to say, your first answer is big O.

So it's not. I don't think Russ ever scored quite that much. Jokic no not that new of a player but very modern era for sure Duncan? no newer than that

tell me the beard really? yeah Harden's done it five times I kind of forget about James Harden sometimes right you guys it's like a lot kind of just doing stuff and another fun they were talking about how like Steph is the all-time free throw percentage guy and I think he's around 91 and I believe Kyrie is somewhere around 88, 89, like 88.8 or something like that for his career going into the game on the 15th. And I just decided to test out ChatGPT's mathematics skills.

And I asked ChatGPT, how many consecutive free throws would Kyrie Irving have to make to reach 92%? And you would think what? Consecutive, without a miss, how many would he have to make? I have no idea how many he's taken. I'm bad at this. 100? 100 to make? I have no idea.

Okay. Kyrie Irving would have to make – hang on. Let me scroll back up here. This is all my triple-double stuff. Okay. Oh, my God. It was like almost – I think like 3,000. Whoa.

Yeah. It's crazy. It's crazy. Just because every attempt counts against your overall percentage. No, I'm sorry. 1,376 going into the game on the 15th to get his free throw percentage to 92. And that's without a miss. 1,376 free throws in a row without a miss.

Just to raise his percentage by three and a half points. Steph's that guy. Yeah. That guy that guy. Yeah. That guy, pal. Pal. All right, Blake. Up next, we don't have an open for this, do we? No, but before we get to that,

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Uncle Hotmail, look at me. Is there any mail in your box for me? All right, we have many, many. Is that me or you? What was that? I don't know. A couple of follow-ups here. One comes to us from Danny Jeans. It might have been my vape sizzling into the microphone.

It might have been. It does that. Yeah. Yeah. So Danny Jeans, he was here as a sit-in. He's an airline pilot. He lived in the same house as me in college. I can't remember if it was before or after me, but he lived in the same house, which I believe is legendary house, which I believe has now been curved down. Legendary House! It really was. So he emailed in on something that I brought up on Monday's show, a text dot sign or billboard that I saw for

public safety. You'll see, particularly over in Fort Worth, 121, 183 headed into downtown. They have a rotating STD PSA. They were hilarious because they were disgusting. They would be drawn

They would try to maybe get a little creative with it. It would say, be aware of the syphilis tsunami. Whoa! It would be a wave. And I'm like, is that a wave of discharge? Jesus.

Or it would be, you know, don't be a goner with gonorrhea. It would be just a huge billboard. This one said, the one I saw recently said. It's like they're messaging to guys going over to fight in Vietnam. This is like 2024, man. Headed to a strip club at Stop 6. Kind of the same thing. This one said,

one in four hot car deaths are a child left in a hot car. And I was super confused by that. Seems like that number would be higher. Seems like it would be all. Yeah. I couldn't really figure out the other three hot car deaths. Are they counting animals, too?

Don't know. But Danny said, I'm not sure if you remember me from the sit-in. I'm a pilot. Last week, I had an overnight in Buffalo. And while in the hotel van, we passed the exact same sign. I, of course, was dumbfounded. Who the other three out of four were dying in hot cars? Especially because we were in Buffalo.

That's true. In the winter. Do you think they have a cold car death problem there? I mean, stance to reason. Let's see here. This one's for Blake. This comes to us from Joel. Today a friend of mine,

a friend of our wife was at our house, was yapping about going to a concert this weekend. She said it was Lindsey Stirling, at which point I interjected, oh, the violinist. My wife was stunned and silent for the first time in our marriage while our friend responded. Okay. Already this guy said that when his wife speaks, it's yapping. Yeah. Yeah.

And then he says the only time she doesn't, it's the first time she's ever been silent in their marriage. Honeymooners? Yeah. Should we review an episode of The Honeymooners? Yeah. Yeah. You're familiar? Yeah, the inspiration for King of Queens.

Oh, is it? Yeah. Just subtract the domestic violence? Yeah, I guess so. Or the threat of domestic violence. I don't think he actually ever. That was a part of it? Oh, dude, it was the threat of it. I mean,'t think he actually ever. That was a part of it? Oh, dude.

It was the threat of it. I mean, if Alice ever got out of line, he'd ball up his fist. One of these. Pow. I'll give you one of these. To the moon. He's going to send you to the moon. He's going to punch her so hard she goes to space.

She goes 30,000 feet. That's right. And touches the moon. And she's like, oh, you're so silly. Don't beat me. She started silent while her friend responded. After a while, my wife asked, how the F did you know that? I could not keep up the pretense.

I know nothing about music and explain there's only one reason I've ever heard the name Lindsay Sterling. That's you, Blake. And he adds, if you guys ever need an expert on conveyor systems, am interesting i am your man put that one in your back pocket blake does lindsey have a christmas album oh dude you're gonna hear it we've been jamming it oh yeah oh yeah yeah that's what we've been using for she's made a couple but she released a new one this year okay well i say a new one and and she's playing Christmas songs from 200 years. She's not writing new, fresh, original Christmas songs? No. For the electric violin?

No, not Christmas Eve is skibbity. Stop knowing that word. Does your wife like Lindsay? Not really. Does she get the allure for you? Does she understand you? I try not to mix those two together. I think Lindsay is more of my private time.

I don't need my wife. And you really like the music. You just don't want to bone this broad. You really, really just love the music. You don't just find her erotic. You don't eroticize her. Oh, I mean, I bone. I mean, if we passed in the street, I'd offer to buy her a coffee or something. Yeah, I'd find her attractive. Okay, so if she looked like

Roseanne. What was that British lady from American Idol who was, by the way, a Roseanne?. Yeah, find her attractive. Okay, so if she looked like Roseanne. What was that British lady from American Idol who was, by the way, a Roseanne? Yeah. What was her name? Kate something? Was that just generic? I don't remember.

You talk all Google fat British American Idol lady. But if she looked like Roseanne, would you listen to her music? I think so because I honestly started listening to her music before I knew what she looked like. Okay. You know what? I respect you for that.

No, it actually wasn't until pretty recently that I discovered that she was hot, which, of course, blew my mind. Yeah, I bet. I see a lot of – She had a TikTok or something the other day where she's changing costumes in like 10 seconds. Yeah, that's spread. That's all it took, Blake. If you're a fan of Lindsay, you kind of have already 10 seconds. Yeah, that's spread.

That's all it took, Blake. If you're a fan of Lindsay, you kind of have already known that. Oh, yeah. I love being in that space that you're in right now. Seeing her in person. I had dude ranch. How did you see her on TikTok? Do you follow her now too? No, I just ended up on Twitter.

I'm not even on the top. No, it's spread. It's like costume change in 35 seconds or something, and she's running behind stage and changes and back out there. But, you know, she's just talented like that. Susan Boyle. Susan Boyle, that's right. And it's funny.

I just looked this up. Voice of an angel. The New York Post is historically pretty uncouth in their phrasing. But even if you rewind like 25 years or 15 years before Awoke, the headline of this article from the night that she was on American Idol is just, Fat Lady Sings. Oh, my God. That's good. And it says, Boil Over.

Frumpy singing sensation, Susan Boyle. Yeah, from Britain's Got Talent, I guess. So anyways, yeah, she looked like Susan Boyle, who is a Roseanne. Yeah, maybe. Not. I don't know. looked like Susan Boyle, who is a Roseanne. Yeah, maybe not. I don't know. Do you want to do one? I've got one. I'll get to the author in just a second.

But it says, new Dexter original Sin dropped. It's pretty great. It makes you excited right off the bat, which I've decided I'm not going to watch, even though I think Dexter is my all-time favorite TV show. You're not going to watch the prequel series? No, because the last thing they put out was not good. What was the last thing? I remember suffering through that final season where Michael C. Hall walked into the ocean.

Yeah, came back as a lumberjack. I'm sorry, what? Yeah, his sister back as a lumberjack. Yeah. I'm sorry, what? Yeah. Yeah, his sister was in a coma. She got shot because he didn't kill somebody. It's like very, like... What started as a... Does this show have aliens?

I need to get into this with you. This show started out, and for the first handful of seasons, I really was dug in. It took a real soap opera turn after that for the last... Is he a ghost? No. So he pushes his sister into the ocean to finally kill her, to put her at peace and then he decides, you know, I need to end it too.

Drives his boat straight into a hurricane. It goes black and then the girl he was sleeping with and his son get off the boat in Costa Rica where they were supposed to unite and then she never gets a phone call from Dexter she kind of knows what happened and then it just like goes to black again then Dexter comes back is like a lumberjack apparently he had survived the hurricane thing in Miami I regret the last 60 seconds of this podcast I feel like I

should oh no no I got 30 seconds more then they do like it when Jake feels regret then they do another it's not a season of Dexter. It's a spinoff. It's been a trend lately. But then it comes back. Dexter's like in Maine or something, and his son finds him. Somehow his son was able to track him down. And then this spin, oh, it seems like Dexter's son has some of Dexter's dark qualities.

Okay. So now Dexter has to find a way to like shape him. Like Ken Griffey Jr. Yeah, shape him into not murdering people, but then they have to team up together and kill this guy who's like a menace to society. Okay, that's ridiculous. And then at the end, Dexter's son kills him, which I hate. Do we have Dexter's son killed Dexter?

Yeah. No shit. Like the Dexter character arc had been taken on. He had taken down all of these people and it's his own son that takes him out. That really got to me. So I decided I wasn't going to take in any more Dexter character arc had been taken on. He had taken down all of these people, and it's his own son that takes him out. That really got to me. So I decided I wasn't going to take in any more Dexter. I'm already mad enough.

But now people are saying that this is great. By the way, this came from, this is signed by Chase Brown, hyphen, the Bengals running back. So that's great that Chase Brown is a subbie and listens to our show. Yeah, I think probably uh it's uh somebody fooling with you a little bit after you had me prepare to interview the coach

who never punts and it was just a guy who also had the very generic name kevin kelly guy walked in i was like what the you look like you punt. I've been deceived. And all he did to deceive me was just put never punt in his email signature. I thought, oh my God, it's him. Never punt. So I had a question yesterday. I don't remember how we were talking about being stabbed. Blake said that's the worst way possible to go.

To me. I don't remember how it came up. But I just put out there. No definitive answer. Just something I've thought about. Is a heterosexual female more prepared for the idea of being shanked than a man? Because they routinely are penetrated as as part of their intimacy and i have two emails for you the first one your thoughts just i mean you're amazing that you would even think that that's a it honestly this makes total sense into your brain because you're thinking like what does it feel like for something to just go in my body?

I don't know, but half the world does. Yeah, but there's a special space made to be penetrated. I'm not saying it feels awesome. I'm saying, are any of them briefly like, oh, like that? A loving, warm, soft flower that's ready to be penetrated. Not your skin opened up by a freaking blade, man. Anna Kay, who works in the medical field with animals, but we'll take it. She said, penetration being stabbed.

We would have a better idea what it's like from period pains more than from sex. So she says that the period pain, that's like kind of a, ooh, type thing. She also wanted to point out that Celine Dion is greatness, and she saw her in Vegas. I said yesterday, I just don't understand. I don't, I don't. Right. She doesn't really have hits. Got a couple.

Titanic song was massive. Talking about like a 40-year career here, though. Yeah. I know two or three of them. It's talking about like a 40-year career here, though. I know two or three of them. Cody said, I have thought the exact same thing about women being familiar with the sensation of being stabbed. It makes total sense that you were wrong for being dismissed so quickly by Blake and Mike.

And now Danny. Thanks for discussing the important questions that need to be answered because there's no chance I'm asking my wife this. I wish you would have, but... Certain males are accustomed to being stabbed. I know. Or penetrated, if you will. So that's why I said heterosexual. It could apply. Okay.

And a little, like, down to the end of the first third of your finger, that doesn't count. That's... No, that's... Child's play. Yeah. That's a little... That's just taking things up a notch slightly. That's child's play. That's just taking things up a notch slightly. That's Saturday.

I'm going to do birthdays if you're done. Sure. Oh, here, real quick. Dang it. I'm going to have to pull this back up. We never played the Doug Townsend fantasy guy, did we? No. Did you listen to it? No. So this comes to us from yeah, I don yeah i know he didn't put his name on

here but dear piper of the punani and vulva vigilantes i guess that's us he paid doug townsend to do their fantasy football lineup okay he sent this after brandon aubrey was talking to us about how he did the fantasy football lineup for someone on Cameo. It's like five minutes long, and he really didn't prepare anything. Doug, he just kind of rambles, but here's the end of it. Doug Townsend, our used car, the official used car salesman at that time of the dumb zone. Of course, now we'd like to direct you to Fairleese. But he got famous on TikTok for just roasting people.

Anyway, so, yeah, if I fucked all that up, I'm sorry. It's hard to do fucking drafts, but thank y'all for fucking doing the cameo. I hope y'all have a great fucking season. We just did ours last night, and not that you care or anybody else cares, but I refuse to do this with any social media homos so not that other social media people are gay I just don't care about them

but anyway I like normal people I hope y'all have a great fucking season it's awesome seeing friends still sticking together and doing this shit so if y'all need anything, come fucking holler. And hey, Commissioner, change your fucking name.

You sound like a fucking moron. Come holler. That's our quarterly check-in with Doug Townsend on Cameo. Hopefully that's going well for him. Fueled by drinks, possibly. Or just being from Louisiana. Hey, you sweet bastards.

Please wish my son Henry a happy belated birthday. His leaders are Mother Kim's Tamale ladies and Pinchers the Korean. Adrian. Day one DF number 570. Henry. Incredibly strong name. Yeah.

Any era. Yeah. Even the nickname is pretty strong. Henry was on my name. Yeah. Any era. Yeah. Stays winning. Even the nickname is pretty strong. Henry was on my list. Yeah. Dear Fallopian Fuhrer, I'm writing to you today in hopes that I can get a birthday shoutout. Today is my 43rd birthday. No stupid jersey number arithmetic.

Why am I writing my own DZ birthday request? Because my asshole DF buddy Adrian is too chicken shit to write about vaginas and he critically acclaimed show The Boys to get my shout out in. I may have to wake up myself in that special way too. My leaders are Jake's seductive middle distance stare picture in the Sarah Heppler booze article. So much courage and so much sexiness in Blake's happy baby pose. Love you boys to the moon and back.

Bring back my Joey DF. Beto. Bring back my Joey DF Beto. BJ, today is my Metta World peace birthday. Tell Dan I dab after each piss. Why is that so funny to me? Because Dan dabs. Way less Sarah Heppola if you guys ever need an expert on having nothing just to end

an email. I'm your man. Lovingly, Nick Ruiz. And finally, dear guardian of the gunt i want to wish a happy birthday to matthew emerson don't know if he was woken up in that special way but it's his dirk birthday so he should be woken up with anal beads based on the statue my pig and front yard boxing are his leaders. He only reads the opening to Sarah Heppler's book. This is from Dungy. Dungy? That's what it says. Alright, well coming up in the back half of the show, we're going to do a little

we watched it so you don't have to with the Aaron Rodgers documentary on the dump zone. The dump zone, dump zone, dump zone. We were texting for a while and then I find he was like, okay, come see me. So I got my car, and I drove all the way to Westlake. And it was behind Cheesecake Factory in some weird development parking lot. And so he texted me when I was on my way there.

He's like, you have to leave your phone in the car. And I was like, I was kind of sketched out. I was like, if this really isn't him, I have to leave my phone in the car? Yeah, you're going was kind of sketched i was like if this really isn't him i have to leave my phone in the car you're gonna be raped and murdered yeah that's what i was thinking but so i left it in the car turned the car off walked in the like his big like suv like tinted windows and everything and i like just opened the door and looked and i was like oh this is really him and i was like freaking out a little bit and then went from there all right so you say went from there you get into the you get into the SUV mm-hmm you get in the front did the back where I got in the front yeah

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Don't know if you took in any West Virginia and Memphis. I did not. You worked it? Yeah. What are you done with football? I don't know, dude. Football responsibilities? I don't know.

Their engineer decided to take an early vacation, overlapped with the bowl game. Sounds to me like he decided to take an early bird vacation. Could have. I didn't even set him up for that. Wow. How's that clever? So, yeah, I just decided to help them out. Obviously they paid me. But these bowl games hand out swag and gifts and what have you. It was put on by Scooters

Coffee. The coffee company? Okay. Yeah. So instead of pouring Gatorade on the winning coach, they poured cold brew. They didn't want to go hot coffee? No. Get sued like that lady who burned her pussy for McDonald's coffee? Jesus. It's true. Have you never seen that documentary? Yes.

No. It's insane, dude. I've seen it. Because when I was a kid growing up in- It's just that word. It's so- It's a medical term. When I was a kid- What's not? Growing word is so it's a medical term when i was a kid growing up

growing up in you know a pretty small government conservative family i thought that story was uh grifter you know like some ambulance chaser lady got burned a little bit had a little sore and wanted 50 million dollars then you like see the images from court and it destroyed her entire low half. She's like an old lady. They all have thin, real thin, translucent skin anyway. Yeah, they're reverting back to their reptilian form. Can't defend against a hot steaming cup of Joe. Especially McDonald's. They made them make it colder after that actually, Blake.

They really did something about that? Dude, yeah. They burned this lady nearly to death and it cost them a lot of money. Gross. Anyway. They burned her pussy, Blake. The Scooter's Coffee Frisco Bowl. So, you walk into your radio room, and they had these four bags, little gift bags, by Scooters.

There's a Scooter's Frisco Bowl little cup. There's a Scooters big old cookie in there. There's a Scooters coffee little like metal, like just shit to give you. Somebody called 4M Print. Yeah, basically, yes. There's a little bag of Scooter's coffee grounds in there, and then there were two Red Bulls. There was a regular Red Bull and sugar-free,

and that was like your bag. So there were four in each radio suite, and then they gave you another one when you walked in, when you picked up your credential. And so, the reason I love this bowl, Danny, is most people, most normal people, don't care about this bag, but I do.

Yeah. I like coffee and I like Red Bull and better yet, I like cookies. I like cookies. Big old cookies, apparently. Typically what I do after the game is I go to each one of the radio suites and get all the leftover stuff. And this year I had a pretty good haul. How'd you do?

I took home 31 Red Bulls. That's $100 or more in value right there. Six bags of coffee, four cookies, and two platters of cake balls. Why are there so many Red Bulls left over? People didn't want them. People didn't want them. And so I just grabbed their big bag and I took all this crap home and I got a year's worth of Red Bull.

I don't think I've ever had like a Red Bull by itself. I've done, they make shots with them or they used to, like Red Bull and vodka. I think I've done that a couple of times just because somebody ordered them, but I don't think I've ever had a real energy drink. I'll ride the bull on you. Yeah. It's good. Yeah.

My strategy would have been, because this is prime, early 2000s fresh into radio dingoo and was a freaking raccoon for shit like that, but it had to make sense for me. And being a big fan of coffee, what I would have done is taken my swag bag, emptied it out, kept the bags of coffee and went around before anybody even got there and stolen all of the ground coffee. They don't know that it came equipped. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

Oh, look at this cool bag I got. If nobody has coffee, they're none the wiser. And guess what I am? A guy that has free coffee for like a year at my house. I set up all the equipment the day before, and I went into each of the radio rooms and just took one bag. Smart. Because there's three left, so now everyone assumes, oh, they gave us three bags.

Exactly. But I actually had four in my car. You're a psychopath. It's called continuity. You want to make sure that it's always the same. Because if you forget one, it's like, hang on. Something's fishy. Yes, mine has coffee, and Dingu is really awake.

Something's wrong here. Did you have to make tons of trips to your car? No, I got it all in one. How did you get 32 Red Bulls in a backpack? I found a way. I had equipment bags. Yeah, they had bags. So I had just like three bags full of stuff on my arm walking out.

And I walked into the Memphis radio room to get their stuff, and I opened it, and the guy was still in there. So I was like, hey, how'd your broadcast go? Oh, it's all good. Okay, good to see you. Glad everything worked out. And then walked out 10 minutes later. I love it.

Ocean's 11. So the other night I was watching, I don't know if you guys caught this game or not, the SMU Texas Tech women's basketball game. DVR messed up. Hang on. Don't spoil our main content that we're about to get to now, Blake. Jake and I were going to do 20 minutes on that game. I had my notes.

Well, let me kick it off with our good buddy Chris Mycoskie was on the call. Okay. Big listener. Got a few things worked in here. So if you watched SMU Texas Tech women's basketball the other night, you might have heard

something like this. Moppen back out to Briscoe. Inside to Sunogo. The junior from France. like this. And then the car guy's got to come in there. Yes, she is. That might be our first play-by-play Easter egg dumb zone edition. Yeah, might be. But yeah, France is in Europe. Now, you know what's next, guys. This could be any of you. Something tamale related.

I haven't stopped thinking about that. Yeah. Dan just found out what a tamale is. What? Yeah. He had a plate of them. He's like, you guys... Do you guys know what tamales are? Yeah.

He's like, I thought this was like a pepper. He thought a tamale was a pepper? It never is. Because of the candy, hot tamales. Oh, yeah. Like, okay, all right. He's been out of Ohio long enough to know better. 30 years.

I still, anyways, I can't believe it. Another Texas brought up Duke. Yeah, Bailey Moffin. Moffin had to leave town to eclipse 900 career points. Did it against Missouri State. Okay, had to leave town for the eclipse. I love that. Okay.

That's deep. He said he had to leave town to eclipse the point total. So Blake left town. I know that. I like it. Yeah, pretty good. Miss Peterson, player of the game with another double-double monster effort. Jessica has a buddy.

It's our brief sorensen. We'll check in with them in just a moment. First, a look at the final numbers. Pretty good there. Jessica has a buddy. Blake and Dan are very interested in just any time I say, hey, I got a buddy who, and I don't know why. We all have friends.

You know who else is a massive offender of that? Corby. He's got so, I used to stop him and go, you have too many buddies. Way too many buddies. Douchebag just runs in our blood. Yes. And then here's the last one. I think this is his finest work.

A review now for the severity of that last foul. And we hadn't addressed the fact, Coach, that Ella Brow is out day to day, not yet feeling 100-P. So Z has to be more of a playmaker, and she's doing it in spades. And so, yeah, 100-P. It's pretty good. His color guy is hip and decided he wasn't going to just let that go. Yet feeling 100P, so Z has to be more of a playmaker,

and she's doing it in spades. I love that 100P, by the way. You snuck that in as if it was regular communication. I like that. I like that. 100% for those at home that don't know what that means, but yes. I can say, coach, I'm in the zone with some new language tonight. All right.

Did you hear his response? Swagging? I'm in the zone. I'm in the zone with some new language tonight. Swagging. Swagging. Swagging. It's pretty good.

So these guys that get relegated to do, for example, women's college basketball, high school football, the play-by-play dudes, no matter what level they're on, there's always a semblance of real voice, P-by-P talent there, right? Yeah. But the lower you go on the rung, the color guy gets closer and closer to coming from a farm. Oh, yeah. I mean, Blake knows this. I mean, the color guys sound like they're from Haskell. Yeah. It depends on—

I mean, I'll tell you one thing. They did a real good job out there running. Why is that? Why is it that the color guys can never sound good too? Because they're players or coaches. A lot of times, especially at the college level of broadcasting, but also a lot of times in a small town, a medium town even, the color guy is just going to be the guy who talks a lot in town.

If you're a guy who plays a lot in town. Like if you're a guy who's known in the town, it's like, oh, he's yapping again. Like that's going to be the color guy. It's just the guy who won't stop talking. Yeah, I guess. Like he's at the bar, you know he's there. He's the boisterous guy in town. Like does anybody ever grow up, like the play-by-play guys,

this is an aspiration. They practice this stuff. They're looking in the mirror. They're recording themselves at home on their cassette recorders, studying the craft. This is something they want to do. Does anybody ever grow up and go, you know what? I want to be a color guy, and I'm going to work real hard at it. No, I think it's just you're an athlete who loves ball,

and you like to talk. You like to talk, and you get asked to do it. Yes. And you say yes, and then post-retirement money. Yeah, I guess that makes sense. And, you know, again, smaller towns, it is a guy from the farm. He just, hey, them boys out there. I remember 73.

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You finished it to completion? I did. I only made it halfway. It's three episodes. They're long. Hour to an hour and 15 minutes. It was time constraints. I love this stuff.

I actually really enjoy it. I don't care who it's about. You put a sports documentary in front of me, I'm going to watch it. I agree. I don't watch all of them, but this one I really liked, and I'll position it this way. I know there's a lot of people, I see you, Tim, who he's – Aaron Rodgers is in that zone of I just don't Easter baskets.

I don't want to hear it. Whatever it is. I don't want to hear about it. He's too self-important. He's pompous. He's just self, you know, masturbatory existence. I don't want to hear it, but I'm saying I watch this. So you don't have to because I do think there's some kind of interesting stuff in there that we can get in in 15 or 20 minutes

speaking of Netflix and football the first trailer for the Cowboys show dropped this morning the Jerry show which will be out next year 10 part episode I believe the Jerry authorized

deep look inside the team from like the 90s in particular. That'll be a whole other domination of the news cycle for three or four months. It'll probably come out right around summer or something as camp's getting going. They just have this thing down

to a science. The Cowboys. The marketing machine behind it. It's going to be a three-month news story again. We'll ask him about it at camp, blah, blah, blah. But the Aaron Rodgers one, I'm very interested in him as a person. And he thinks that you're interested in him as a person. Sure, sure.

Now, it's important to remember that things weren't always like this with Aaron Rodgers. There were people who thought he was a douchebag. There were people that thought, well, this guy's kind of full of himself, the whole fig jam thing. But he wasn't really hated until the COVID thing. People were like, ah, that guy's annoying. And he was also routinely ripping your team's heart out. So it was easy to not like him. But he wasn't

controversial or anything like that. He had started to kind of make some statements about religion and how he wanted to get a... He didn't feel Christianity was for him, which can be a controversial thing for some people. Well, he kind of emerged. Aaron Rod some people well he kind of emerged the aaron rogers 2.0

kind of emerged and within the the perfect storm of the controversial opinions but also the kind of the the advent of the cancel culture too so not only was he saying things that piqued people's interest and made people's ears perk up, they also had agency to freely cancel the guy in their minds, I guess. So it was a rough, rough, rough time to be Aaron Rogers,

I guess. Not even just canceling their minds. I mean, he lost a bunch of sponsorships when he had the whole dust up over immunized, vaccinated, inoculated, that whole saga

where he ended up getting COVID and then he couldn't play for 10 days and everyone's like, why? I thought you said you were vaccinated. He had said, yeah, I'm immunized. His point was nobody really followed up on it and asked me what that meant so I didn't feel the need to tell you

like he's had his measles or mumps or chicken pox or polio you know but the ones you get when you're little he also as part of this search for greater meaning in life and this is why I think this documentary is interesting he's obviously gotten into the ayahuasca thing he's into mushrooms and all forms of alternative

healing and medicine and he's in with like rogan's whole universe and now obviously rfk who asked him to run to be his vice presidential candidate that occurs in this documentary but i think the thing that's most interesting to me about it is that he's also an incredibly intense competitor so he's this guy who his entire existence is being perfect being the best and winning and at the same time, he's trying to be like a really spiritually tuned in, pure person, which is very hard to do. Yeah, that's a good point. And you get the sense throughout this documentary that it's basically – I'm not going to say that I identify with this because he's one of, if not the most talented quarterbacks to ever play the most popular sport. if not the most talented quarterbacks to ever play the most popular sport. But he talks about how he won the Super Bowl,

and an hour later he was like, this is it. Well, it's a classic tale of you have in your mind's eye, you have this vision of what's going to complete you and make you happy, and once you attain it, you realize that it did not fill that hole that was already always there. Yeah. Now what's next? How do I find this enlightenment and how do I fill this stuff? That was part of his journey is when he went to the Super Bowl.

Yeah. So he's definitely the, whether real or imagined imagined haters fuel guy. He didn't really get offered coming out of high school. Had to go to a junior college, a tiny junior college. Well, it's a decent junior college, but whatever. He's not the starter right away at Cal. Had one of, if not the most embarrassing draft nights ever for a first-round player.

He's got to sit behind Favre, who's not helping him out at all. Then they're losing in the playoff. He is a dude who is fueled by, you think I can't do it for sure. And he's fueled by like, Oh yeah, I'm going to work harder than everyone else. And I'll play you some of this audio in a second, but that works for him. The problem is that is not a healthy way to live so he wants to be again like spiritually in tune and present and pure you cannot do that if your whole motivation for everything you do is fuck you it doesn't work so the thing is he's trying to figure out how to be that yep and be that at the same time and i don't know if it's totally may be possible, but this is the sort of thing that like Joe Montana or Tom Brady would have been like, what are you, gay?

Just focus on football and everyone who screwed you over. That's how you be good. Yeah. I'm not going to meditate. My example is Michael Jordan. Yeah. It's the same. That's the way they garner motivation.

But yeah. You're a miserable person. But this guy is also, you're right, on the side putting mud on his face. Right. Yeah, that's the weird thing about it. Is that he's trying to be this. And the best way I can make sense of it is he kind of tries to treat his spiritual quest almost like a competition where he's obsessed about it. He's obsessed with his rehab physically and learning defenses and winning,

and he's pretty obsessive. He's not halfway into this weirdo shit. He's really into it. Stop me if you feel like what I'm about to say is going to spoil any audio clips that you have, but we talked about how he achieves the super bowl realizes that he's still empty inside and that stuff is that emptiness that that lack of fulfillment has always been there traditionally speaking since our childhoods and he does speak about that about how his parents okay i will play this. Okay. Okay.

Basically, his folks thought he was a pussy. Yeah, and this is weird because, again, he's all about healing, making peace with your childhood or any kind of trauma, not letting things just run your whole scene mentally, but he's obviously still very mad about his parents. Yes. And if you decided like, hey, I just don't want to talk to him because that's what's best for both of us, that's one thing. And any Freud-based therapist or psychologist is going to always point back to those developmental years of why you tend to make the choices you do going on in life and over-correcting,

over-compensating. It's a real thing. Yep. But in his case, it's like, oh, I'm going to get over it. correcting, overcompensating. It's a real thing. Yep. But in his case, it's like, oh, I'm going to get over it. He's definitely not over it. This is kind of a long clip, but this sums it up. I was very fortunate when I was a kid to have parents who believed I had a very low pain

tolerance. There's some lessons that were hard to learn as a child and you react or you adapt or whatever it is. I felt like there was many times where my parents felt like learn as a child, and you react or you adapt or whatever it is. I felt like there was many times where my parents felt like I was a little soft, and because of that, I made sure I was the toughest motherfucker that I knew. Anytime I had some sort of injury,

I was gonna make sure that I could hold it together as well as I could. I could come back quicker than anybody said I would. So dealing with pain has just always been kind of a way of life. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go. You got it. Come on. Yep, you got it, Russ. 40.1 in there.

It feels good, just somehow doesn't feel good enough. We're not giving it. It's just my own childhood conditioning. Huh? My own childhood conditioning can be very good. He said, my own childhood conditioning. It's not good enough. And the therapist lady goes, Jesus.

Like, how many times are people around him like, I don't want to hear about this? We hung out with some Navy SEALs this year. They came into the facility and they said there's a difference between discomfort and pain. We were holding up logs, you know, doing this log hold. And he said, it's not pain, it's not pain, it's just discomfort. Once you drop that log, you're fine. Pain's getting shot in the foot. Discomfort is just the process of fighting through the sensation you're dealing with.

And I feel like I've always been able to kind of push through that, whether I'm dealing with a calf injury, a foot injury, a collarbone injury, whatever it might be. So I'm definitely thankful to my parents for thinking I was soft growing up. That's an interesting take. Yeah, because look, I don't know. It's just messy. If that's me, I'm not thankful for that. I'm not. The path to where you are as an adult would have been a lot easier if your

parents weren't that way because the the speed bumps and unfulfillment that he has experienced through his life has simply been to compensate for the fact that his parents didn't see him nor accept him for who he was and were probably really hard on him and i think he soft he softens it up a little bit you know they were a little tough on me and i bet it was a lot tougher than he's making it out to be but it's that it's that mindset it's him against the world it's him to prove something to you know his folks his parents and which kind of leads to this existential journey that he finds himself on now. And I don't know if he's any closer by, you know, eating a bunch of

concoctions in Costa Rica and eating mushrooms, if that truly does open up a, you know, create a lens to your inner self. I haven't experienced that, so I can't speak to that. But I don't know, man. It sounds like this guy's pretty troubled and is coping. He's working on it. He did win a Super Bowl because of the truck. He's going to the Hall of Fame. He's a short word guy, no surprise here.

But there's a new term that he introduced a couple times here. We're going to use this from now on. You got any trips planned during the off season? I'm going to go down to Costa Rica and do some ayahuasca. Oh, nice. It's so hard to explain to people, man. But after doing ayahuasca, I really just didn't drink anymore. I was like, I don't really like it. You just sound crazy.

How does it compare to other psychedelics? It's another world. It's another world. It's another world. I would say that with other psychedelics you go in like thinking, oh, this is going to be

a good time, you know? I like hunker down like, okay, this is going to be going to be tough. He calls it something else. Play medicine's been a big teacher for me for self-love just to learn how to love myself better.

Looking back, night one of an AYA trip a few years back. He calls it AYA. Going down for my ninth AYA trip. You ever done it? No, fuck no. No, that ain't the sort of thing. I mean, you gotta go somewhere to do that. I'm sure you can do it in like the country.

Hill country or something. But nah. That ain't for me, man. What about you, Blake? Interested, but no. I would never do it. I know people who have. And what's their, I mean, what's the experience? I think it varies. What exactly is it?

It's a plant-based psychedelic? Yeah, there's like a whole ritual. It's like a two- or three-day thing. It looked like a bunch of fucking doped-out dudes playing bongos in a circle. There's going to be a lot of that. So this came up on the show when he did that darkness retreat, which we thought might be interesting. What is it, two weeks?

Three days, right? Oh, my God. My way off, three days? It was a few days, yeah. Okay. At the time, I thought, yeah, that'd be interesting. I think I could do it. After thinking about it, there's no way.

That seems like a tremendous beating. Darkness? Being trapped inside your mind for three days? Yeah. Being on an island with Aaron Rodgers for three days? I think he'd be an interesting guy to be around. Do you ever get the notion that he's, I don't doubt his IQ, his intelligence,

but do you ever get the feeling that he comes off a little bit as fake smart? Yeah, his intelligence. But do you ever get the feeling that he comes off a little bit as fake smart? Yeah, I do. Like internet smart? Like he gets an idea, reads a few articles, and then speaks to it where it's not really embedded,

like the knowledge isn't truly embedded in him and he uses those tools to maybe appear more informed than he is. I said the same about Kyrie. I said the same about Kyrie. It rings a little bit false sometimes. I just don't know how to say it, but you're questioning someone else's motives and heart, so that's hard, but I know exactly what you mean.

However, I did think this was a pretty sick metaphor. This is when they are whacked all the way out of their minds. Sidebar, there's a Netflix camera crew in Costa Rica with him and like 10 or 12 other people while they're out of their epic minds on iOS. Which I can't. Dude, I remember the first few times I did Mushrooms, if somebody got out a phone, I was like, what are we doing with that? It's going to steal us. It's going to steal our souls. I feel like you need to be shepherded through those experiences.

With ayahuasca, you definitely are. There's a shaman. When was this? This is before this recent offseason. He's rehabbed from Achilles, and he went thin. Is this later on in the series, in the three-part?

The back half of episode two is pretty much all ayahuasca. About halfway through that one. So this is when they're really high, and it's not like being stoned. I mean, I don't know what it is, but you're still able to think and talk. And you can say what you want, but I thought this was a a pretty sick metaphor i'm kind of stuck on this idea that hi hi hi butterfly is just another term for the caterpillar it's really the caterpillar the entire time and caterpillar opens his wings and just cannot fucking leave this is my life life now. I get to fly around. I get to smell flowers and eat flowers.

To live like that. Living your wildest dreams every single day. Nights like tonight. Show me. Show us. What is possible and what life looks like living it to the fullest. Profound. I mean, it kind of is.

This is the thing. What is the butterfly really a caterpillar, but the caterpillar doesn't know, and then he has wings, and it's like, whoa. Fuck, man. Show you what life is all about. The thing is that we all participate in this, and then he has wings and it's like, whoa. Fuck, man. Life is all about the flower. We all participate in this, but the second you start talking about,

hey, what does it really mean to be alive? The second you do that, which we should all probably do more of, everybody starts doing the voice Danny just did. Whoa, man. Even a person, man? Dude, it's insane that we exist. How much?

It really is. You don't have to be high to stop and be like, hey. And he even talked about it. He's like, think of all the ancestors that came before you in your bloodline who made this decision or that decision. And it leads to now. Brought us to this one thing. But to say that, you're like, God, you're high.

You're a hippie. Go sell some cars. But the thing that's funny about that clip, the one that you just mentioned is he says think about all the ancestors that came before us and it all allowed us to be in this place together right now but then right before that he says i don't believe in coincidence that's the definition of coincidence he's a bit all over the map philosophically theologically but he's trying. And that's the thing. I got up qualms with him. That's the thing.

He's winging it. He is, but again, like you said, all of us are, but most big-time competitors, they don't even mess with this stuff. They're like, what are the rules to the game that I'm playing? Life, the sport, finances, whatever it is. I'm just going to spend every waking moment i have

trying to crush and kill at that have you seen that's what it takes to be great did you watch it too no okay the i wonder how much editorial um input and or control aaron rogers had over this this mini series he definitely had some i feel like he did because some of the um the way things are framed are not necessarily the way i think just a straight netflix producer would would frame them for example the the show basically opens with him on a table getting a new tattoo i have that audio audio if you want. Oh, God, please play it. It's like... This is...

Now, I'll defend him on the butterfly. I'll defend him on his quest for religion and spirituality, and I do like listening to the way that he talks about God. It's very interesting to me. This is a tough one. You just wanted to get some dope ink, bro. That's all this is, but listen. And it opens, opens of course he's

got a tattoo artist that doesn't know who he is right yeah and then you know like people then told me like yeah he's the most famous quarterback quarterback right yeah in the whole league and like yeah one of the best and i i was like oh okay whatever that means me making a number change this year from 12 to 8. i wanted to get some sort of symbol and eight sideways is infinity so yeah definitely one infinity symbol that i woke up this morning infinity symbol that I woke up this morning and I had just had intuition about a dragon and

then it just all came together from there. Yeah. Yeah, that's the theme. You know what I've never woken up to? An intuition of a dragon. That's very Jordan Peterson.

Oh, it's like dragons eating his own tail. The egg goes forever. I used to be number 12. That's too dumb. Now I'm number 8. And dude, if you flip an 8 on its side, it's infinity. It's an infinity dragon. It's what?

The dick. So the last one I'll play for you, another thing I can't really defend him on, is he does say that after he won the Super Bowl, he's from a small town in Northern California, he played at Cal for two years, went to a really small JUCO, was the backup in Green Bay.

How many years did he back up Brett? Two? Three maybe? Three, I think. Really three? Yeah. Holy mackerel. So it doesn't get more under the radar for a first-round pick NFL quarterback,

most likely. He's not playing right away. He had come from not a huge program. They didn't really go into anything more than the position of where he held the football of why he dropped in the draft as far as he did because some people had him possibly at number one. I think it was maybe some of it was his attitude. Really?

They kind of hinted at. He had a big – I remember in college, Mack Brown was lobbying for Texas to play in the Rose Bowl one year. I think it was the Rose Bowl. And Aaron Rodgers was a very loud college player. He's always been a guy who will speak his mind. So maybe that scared some people off. I don't know.

It was weird for sure that he fell that late. But it was relatively unknown. And then he got really famous. He won the Super Bowl. And he does bring a lot of this on himself, and I thought this was kind of interesting. Aaron Rodgers. First of all, I had to leave that in.

That's TMZ showing up on the beach. Aaron Rodgers. I want that voiceover job so bad. Aaron Rodgers, Super Bowl quarterback. I'd never been paparazzi'd until I went to Hawaii in 2011. And there was like all these pictures of me like in the water rubbing sand on myself, you know, exfoliating my skin. And I was like, fuck, life's different now.

Aaron, you're all set. Great, thanks. Mike, thanks for doing that discount double check. And then the State Farm commercials, my whole ability to move around with relative anonymity changed. Rogers! Discount double check! No, I didn't do myself any favors with some of the girls I dated after that that were in the public eye. So he's talking about, like, boy, it all changed.

It sucked, you know, and I had no control over it once I did the biggest commercial campaign in America at the time. Yeah. My life really started to suck once I started making more than I was as a football player by doing insurance commercial and banging hot ass. Yeah, why didn't you just not do that if you wanted to? Don't do insurance commercial. Don't bang hot ass. He, why didn't you just not do that if you wanted to? Don't do insurance commercials. Don't

bang hot ass. He's learned that. He's reflecting when he was a younger man and those were some of the mistakes that he made. This is worth watching just for Marshawn Lynch appearances. I got a little of that for you. Thank you. I can't believe you and I are the same clips

needed to be pulled. I didn't believe you and I are like the same clips needed to be pulled. I didn't put all of Marshawn in here and I don't think I left the N word in here. I mean he's saying... We were debating whether or not we put that in there or not but I think it's out of this one but yeah. I don't think you're going to get in trouble

for playing... The first thing Marshawn says is just awesome. Oh shit. He was saucy as fuck in college. I mean, he helped me elevate my shit to another level. Marshawn Lynch, touchdown! There's been a couple times

a nigga pulled me to the side like, I'm going to throw you in a little bubble. I'm like, you know I can't do that. He's like, I ain't tripping off what the coach has said. This is what I'm telling you to do. And that boy throw that ball up to him. And then, you know, the coach comes, hey, what the fuck you doing? Ooh, ooh, ooh.

He's like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. I told him to do that. So if he's going to be mad at somebody, he mad at me. I was like, oh, shit. Oh, he really, oh, he mean what he said. He's great. God, I love him. Is there anybody that's ever been in the NFL with the exception of maybe Ray Carruth and Aaron Hernandez that are more street than Marshawn Lynch?

I mean, really, it's kind of crazy that he's still accepted in proper commercial society where he can be on Conan and do this or that. He's had a lot of charges. He's like the Snoop Dogg of sports. That's actually pretty good. The guy that's been able to outrun that. That's because he's funny. Because he's actually funny. You ran a couple people over more than once.

Drunk. You're having a goof. Why do I love it? It's on Netflix. It's called Enigma. Enigma. Enigma. And then, yeah, the third episode is almost all about the vaccination stuff. So if you want to.

No, no, no. I'm watching it all, man. It's really fun. Yeah, it's a lot on that part. I got no problem with him doing whatever he wants to do, man. Aya? Sure. Do some Aya.

Have some opinions about vaxes and all that stuff i'm kind of like of the minds i could see a time where i would have just come unglued about this and just hated aaron rogers you know 13 years ago if if this came out then but i kind of it's the the uh the keanu reeves meme. I don't know. Where it's like, dude – One plus one is five? Sure. Go for it.

Yeah. Do your thing, bro. He does talk about the family part of it because I've always pointed out that I watched that season of The Bachelor with his brother. Mm-hmm. Where his brother – it's a visit with his family and the girl JoJo is from Dallas. It's a visit with his family and the girl, JoJo, is from Dallas. And they left two seats at the table empty for Aaron and whoever it would have been at the time, Danica Patrick. She didn't show up.

What's her name? Is that her name, Danica Patrick? He dated her. Yeah. Indy car driver. But he said she's super, super out there for Trump. Who? Danica. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, she posts a lot. Super, super out there for Trump. Who? Danica. Danica, yeah. She posts a lot. But Aaron Rodgers' side of the story was, look, we'd had kind of a little bit of a separation of communication. I hadn't talked to anybody publicly about it because I thought that was the right thing to do with family. It was just, hey, we're having something going on behind the scenes. We don't see eye to eye on a lot of stuff. We just don't talk about it. And then he's like, and then they go on this fucking dating show and set a table for me.

And the words he used really made a lot of sense to me. He's like, everyone in that room agreed this was a good idea. Right. It's like, how? How are the six adults here are like yeah let's air this out on national tv on primetime some network television some people are judgmental of him because of the fact that he dissociates from his blood relatives to some degree i guess that's pretty known i don't really have a problem with that no no i really don't uh it's sometimes that's the best decision sometimes you need to create your own family and he's involved

in a whole thing now with ryan clark on espn and pat mcafee's like the go-between here because aaron rogers made some comments today he's got a bunch of people giving opinions for money on espn now you know it's not highlights of news like it used to be. The obvious counter to that is, well, you're currently on Pat McAfee's opinion show, taking money to give your opinion, and back and forth we go. And they claim he's never been paid for it. McAfee said, yeah, we pay him because I wanted to pay him because that's how we do things. He didn't ask for money, but we pay him because it's fair.

That's the way we think about it. It's worth your time if you're into the sports documentary. And no matter what you think of the guy, you really do have to remember that 10-year run or so, I think it might have been the best I've ever seen, just from pure quarterback play. I have never seen anybody like him. And maybe it was a lot of times it was the Cowboys.

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What the? There's Jake with the... Here's Jake with the Dumb Zone News. It's kind of got a TMZVO style. Oh, yeah. Let's see here. Let's start with this. This THC band that Dan Patrick has. He's pushing real hard here.

The Observer has an article where they went around and interviewed several of the breweries in the area. We were talking about this on Tuesday with Saroy about the THC seltzer. These are probably going to be going by the wayside. Community Brewing is a very popular one here in town. They sell their own THC-infused drinks. It's a THC 9, I guess, the one that's been able to skirt the guidelines. Delta 9. Delta 9, yeah.

So, yeah, this has become big business for a lot of the... Oh, it's your babe you keep freaking me out move the mic it's thc bro uh i'm enjoying it while i can that's true uh yeah these these these breweries have built this into part of their business and of course the government is saying hey they're targeting children exposing them to dangerous levels of THC. And I got to tell you, I don't know about that targeting children part, but there is absolutely no world in which it should be completely unregulated or just available for you to walk into a store and buy a 12-ounce drink with 100 milligrams of THC. A hundred?

Oh, wow. Oh, yeah. Jesus. Oh, yeah. Do you know what that would do to you right now? Yeah, I mean, I think I would not wake up for a week. I'd probably have to go to the hospital, the panic attack. I took a 50 one time to get through back surgery

because I refused to get on hydrocodone or any of that other stuff. And I woke up thinking I was another person in the middle of the night. It was, oh, man, it was, I sounded probably like Aaron Rodgers with the Caterpillar quote. I'm just thinking about the Caterpillar. Yeah, they make drinks out there that are 50, 100. Picks punishment? You just got to do the show on a 100-milligant drink? 100 is probably too much.

That's 50 and you got to record it? 50 is too much, yeah. 50 is too much. I mean, everybody's different. But drinking a drink like that, I mean, that's, to me, that's, I don't know. I don't know how you regulate it, but I guess the thing with alcohol is it has, like, maybe a limit. Yeah. Because it can only be 100% alcohol, right?

There's a proof at 200 proof or a limit. Whereas THC, they can just put as much in there as they want. And it's in the same size can a lot of times. You know, you'll see it's like, oh, this one's two and a half, five, ten, one hundred. They're all 12 ounces. That's insane. So I kind of understand where the Dan Patrick's of the world are coming from on that. How about just regulate it and come up with a system rather than eliminating it?

That's never worked. Well, the funny thing about the drinks is that anybody can get weed however they want to get it. And you can probably get gummies however you want to get it even now. But getting a hold of those drinks is not easy. I mean, how are you going to get that? Like if you're not, you have to have somebody. Your dealer doesn't have that. And you can't really ship them as easily.

Like, if you go on a flight, you could pack a year's worth of edibles in your bag if you wanted to, but you're not traveling with a bunch of seltzers. Well, the vape shop near my house, and most of them sell this stuff anyway. Yeah, but that's what I'm saying. There's no mystery there. But they sell the syrups. Oh, yeah. That you mix with the drink.

Tinctures and stuff. Yeah, tinctures that you can kind of control your own dosage of that stuff. Well, I'm not sure how much longer that's going to be the case. But we're going to get gambling in Texas. Boy, this is a classic debate of which one's first. I really don't know. I'm just saying, hedging your bets on gambling is probably about as safe as hedging your bets on weed being completely legal in this state.

I have no feel for that. I could see both of them taking another 20 years. A McKinney North High School graduate named Trevor Dutton, he was in a car crash on the way home from Seaside, Florida. This was during spring break. He was subjected to a new technology as part of his surgery. And I'm only doing this story for one reason. That's because Danny's here.

He's got a fake skull now. The whole thing? He's got a fake head? Part of it. Skull implant. New technology. What percentage of his head is fake? Let's see.

Neurosurgeons in Alabama saved his life by removing a portion of his skull, allowing the brain to swell and then heal. He wore a helmet to protect his brain where the skull was missing. And then, yeah, they were able to construct a piece of bone that would fit exactly on there. It doesn't look small.

Another issuance of verbal issuance of me taken out of context. We were talking about the Alcatraz guy that fashioned a dummy and it had a head that wasn't a real head. And I said, have you ever seen a guy with a fake head? It really made me think deeply about life. Have I? Are we all just guys with fake heads? I just didn't properly frame the question.

And all of a sudden, people think that I believe that you can do a head transplant. I mean, people have tried. People have tried. There's also a reason why I get the meme of the pig going from one pen to another. Like he's Ronaldo Nehemiah. Known for something. I get that. Here's another Danny-centric news story.

Do you recall the bonanza that was COVID relief funds? Of course, there were the PPP loans. Blake probably dipped the pen pretty hard there. Contractor loans or something. No, I never did that. There was all the bailouts for businesses that you didn't have to pay back. But, I mean, it felt like for eight months in the 130 News, it was this business owner caught, this business owner caught misappropriating or stealing them. Well, if you recall, a big point of concern during those times was what's going to happen to the arts?

What's going to happen to venues, music venues, smaller musical artists, graphic artists, whatever? graphic artist, whatever. And the government, the federal government, approved hundreds of millions of dollars to be paid out, in theory, to keep the struggling artists in small venues alive. Well, an investigation by Business Insider has dug into where a lot of this money went. And they know how to get it with their lead

because Lil Wayne... What? Who had recently sold his back catalog for $100 million, he received something along the lines of... What was the total? $9 million. So not Danny and Mr. Chad and Sam Anderson and Jorts.

He got $9 million from this pandemic relief program. He spent $460,000 on Gucci clothing. Great. $1.3 million on private jet flights. Gucci clothing. Great. $1.3 million on private jet flights. $175 grand for expenses related to a music festival promoting his marijuana brand.

And $15,000 worth of flights and luxury hotel rooms for women whose, quote, connection to Lil Wayne's touring operation was unclear, including a Hooters waitress and a porn actress. Hmm. I think it's pretty clear. Yeah. It does feel pretty clear. Let's see. He paid off a bunch of his debts. Mystery Women is listed as $15,000.

I love a mystery woman. Chris Brown threw himself a nice hundred thousand dollar birthday party with the several million dollars he received is this look if if the stuff's out there and these guys know how to apply for it and it gets due and it gets granted is that on them and their agents no that's on the government for not vetting these things properly. Part of the problem, though, is the optics of it. For example, Alice in Chains, the top, I think, four members of the band, like Jerry Cantrell, who does not sell Nissans, took in $1.4 million. Their guitar tech got almost nothing and then got cancer and had to post on GoFundMe and other crowdfunding sites saying,

Hey, I don't really have any money and COVID. Hey, Jerry. And then he died. Jesus. So I think the issue is that the people who kind of make things go, the behind thethe-scenes folk didn't get much of anything. Whereas DJ, the DJ known as Marshmello, received several million dollars. He's very talented.

I'm a fan. So the guy that's collecting man-in-the-box mailbox money needs the 1.3. Right. Or Lil Wayne, who spent a lot of the money on Mystery Women.

Uh-huh. Only 15 grand on Mystery Women.3. Right. Or Lil Wayne, who spent a lot of the money on Mystery Women. Uh-huh. Only 15 grand on Mystery Women. Makes you think it's attainable, doesn't it? Yeah. I mean, between the three of us, we can come up with 15 grand by the end of the show, right? We can share. So,

knock knock, wasn't there recently... Who's there? I can't remember which sit-in guest it was, but somebody brought us a laser pointer Yeah the dick laser That was TC's brother Okay so it's a laser pointer A staple of my youth

Dean if you'd like to play with it Wreaking FAA havoc across the land Movie theaters Cats Principal during an assembly Well we got one given to us and that very specific sort of laser pointer is back in the news

did you guys hear that Jamie Fox makes a wiener Jamie Fox had a an argument and a fight at a private party for his birthday recently uh huh you don't know what I just said something about Jamie Fox had a fight at a party recently.

Damn. Did I get it? I don't look like I'm listening. You got a dick on my face? You got balls on your forehead. Okay. I shouldn't have given too much. Too bad this isn't on camera.

Have you guys already burned this bit on video? No one's seen it. It's fucking cool, man. So a bunch of the guys, so Jamie Foxx is there with a bunch of his friends and family having his birthday party. Of course, he almost died last year. He recently had a comedy special come out where he talked about that. And upstairs at this famous Hollywood restaurant having their own party where a bunch of guys from the crew,

the production crew for Dickhouse Productions. Oh, jackass. The jackass crew. And apparently some crew members, like actual cast members, were there. And they were shining

the penis laser pointer down on Jamie Foxx's table. Awesome. And on his face. And he got really mad about it. Why? It's fun. You didn't get mad. He went upstairs. I was a little mad about that.

He went upstairs and was pissed. And one source, I love when TMZ gets quotes like this. One source says Jamie stood there. Oh, because they got in a fight. Like they start arguing and then somebody from Jackass Crew throws a glass and it hits him in the face. One source says Jamie stood there bleeding and said, it's my birthday.

What is wrong with you? Aw. That's sad. On Jamie Foxx's birthday? Come on, guys. What's sad. On Jamie Foxx's birthday? Come on, guys. What's wrong with you? So Spike Jonze throws a glass at Jamie Foxx.

Or Jeff Tremaine. Yeah. I don't want to hang out with those guys. Why not? I'd rather do a week of, I don't know, some type of aya some no a week of security working working some type of military security in islamabad or aleppo then i would want to be roommates with the jackass crew for a week let me live a little just never know you're gonna walk out your every day you wake up you're gonna get punched in the head with a big boxing glove that's been constructed right outside your door.

You're going to get a scorpion in your underwear. You're going to incessantly get punched in the midsection. Your balls might not work anymore. Right. Yeah. I don't want that. There's going to be a snake in your bed. No, I don't want to live with those guys.

Dude, that's not a bad idea. Is there a safe way for me to get sort of an outside-the-box vasectomy for a subscription stunt? What do you mean? I don't want to have any more kids, but what can we do on video? Brandon Aubrey kicks you in the nuts. Kicks my dick into a funeral. Jesus. Right through the uprights, folks. Hey, did you guys have him on Tuesday?

Yeah. Yep. What did he say about the 70-yarder? What happened? It was just the conditions. He said when he went out there, he knew there was pretty much no chance. Kicking into the wind. Into the wind.

It was the wind. Yeah. Then to try to boom it, he's got to take a different swing on it. Kicking a cold ball. Okay, because I'll be honest with you guys. When I realized that I was off the hook for pulling audio from that game, I had it recorded. It took me about 26 minutes to watch the entire football game.

You're not that far off from what I did, to be honest. Hillary Hickland, she is an incoming freshman legislator. You can look it up if you want. I will. Dan's not here. Someone has to. Hillary Hickland. She's a state rep from Temple.

And she has filed a new bill, HB 1549, which calls for, quote, restrictions on the sale of obscene devices. What we're talking about here is selling your rabbits, your wands, your dildos at Target, Walmart, CVS, Walgreens, and other major retailers. This is something we've talked about in the

last handful of years. You've started to see the discreetly packaged personal massagers at Target and at other large retail stores. What's the problem? She wants to limit it to sex-oriented businesses only.

They're not putting them, as long as they're not just graphic on their packaging. Next to the Dunkaroos. Yeah, or they're right next to the Hot Wheels. Yeah. That's fine. It just seems so weird to me to be worried about that. I mean, just walk this through, right? Mm-hmm.

So you are a parent, I assume, and you're worried about your kid seeing that and being like, what is that? It's a massager. Yeah, and also— Conversation over. I don't know. I mean, I guess this is a much weightier topic, but I feel like when you have the conversation about sex with your child, you should also have a conversation with them about what personal pleasure is. Because they're going to find out anyway when they start rifling through Mommy's nightstand.

Or through their pants. Yeah, like you want them to know what that is so they know what not to do with it. Yeah, don't put it in your mouth. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But, boy, it seemed like Blake was going to a far-off place there. Yeah.

Picturing what Hillary Hicklin can do to me. Oh, my God. You're a fan? Yeah. Does she play electric violin? Watch her hat fly off. It's like, okay, but your kid your kid's gonna be like what is that you'll be like oh well people actually experience orgasm on their own like i think that's a healthy thing you should talk to a kid about if they understand sex

for if for no other reason then they might be like so i don't have to go like actually bone yeah i can just do this like i can understand my sexuality and my sexual thoughts and my body without possibly getting a syphilis tsunami. Nobody taught me how to do that. I had to learn it on my own and after sustaining much injury, I figured it out.

Right? I'm doing this wrong. It would have been so much more helpful. Our kids are going to have sex robots though. Education. It would have been so much more helpful. Our kids are going to have sex robots, though. Education. That's probably true. This is all for naught. Don't you have a meeting in like 10 minutes?

Don't they want to... Is it just that they want to make you feel bad? That you have to go to a dingy place to buy a dildo? I mean, I guess you've got your upscale-y sex stores, but... They just don't want it at the highfalutin aisles of Target. I think it's just there's kids around. Think of the children.

Here, son, what this is is a 36 pack of beer. If you drink all of it. I know. Our priorities in this country are very confusing. You know, when Brooks is picking out his book or his toy, he also doesn't need to see a pocket pussy there.

Look, there's a section for that, and maybe it's like the little back room at the Mom and Pop video show that's over off Plano Road and 635 called I Heart Video. Yeah. All right, well, there's your news. Just be discreet. All right, bye, Hillary. The Dumb Zone News.

Yeah, I mean, listen, if you are going to enjoy brewskis, Blake, I suggest you do so with the National Beer of Texas. Let me see. Would that be Lone Star? Of course. The one and only, Blake. Come on. Because it's the National Beer of Texas celebrating 140 years of brewing in Texas.

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The Dumb Zone presents Today in History. We've got a lot of shit going on over here, okay? I'm not complaining, dude. Why don't you just relax that it's not perfect. I didn't say anything. And just chill out. No, you didn't say anything, dude. Why don't you just relax that it's not perfect. I didn't say anything. Just chill out. No, you didn't say anything, Blake.

Come on. Today is Thursday, December 19th, the 354th day of 2024. Just 12 days left in the year. I don't know anything about this. Hopefully you guys do. But in 1985, AT&T threatens to cut off phone service to 46-year-old Edward Johnson of Atlanta. He was upset at the amount of money his mother was giving monthly to the moral majority. programmed his computer to dial the 800 number of Jerry Falwell's old-time gospel hour twice every minute around the clock for eight months. That is the sweetest haterade I've ever heard. He was mad that his mom almost gave the family farm away.

Yeah, it's probably his money. In time. The phone bill came out to about's probably his money. In time. The phone bill came out to about $500,000. Holy crap. Dude, that's expensive. Do you remember this? I remember, I kind of

think I thought this was a myth, but I do remember there was a story, this must have been it, of a guy who got really upset that his mom had gotten hoodwinked. That was a common thing, though. Oh, my God. You know, and even, like, the son being, you know, in church, religious, is like, no, this is not. It's a scam.

Boy, we got on the, me and my roommates, my buddies, back in the day. Yeah, buddies. It was like six of us living in a two-bedroom apartment, each paying about $60 a month collectively, you know, or once we put it all together. We got on the Robert Tilton mailing list and the shit that they would send us. Oh, yeah. Trying to get your cash.

They had this one thing called a prayer wallet. And you open it up and it's just a paper. It's a piece of paper that's folded over. It's basically an envelope, but it's got his head on it and money. And I guess you're supposed to put your money in it. Yeah, write the prayer. And then send it to him. Yeah let him know or what you what you need and then he'll pray over it and then all of your wildest dreams will come true for a fee for a fee yeah it depends on how much you've seen

there's not a single person i've ever met in my life who's a christian who believes in that is that what jesus had in mind when he was trying to share the message? No. Prayer wallet. I kind of get the sense that Jesus was a pretty weak hustler. That's where I see myself in him. Where it's like, this guy was too soft, getting ripped off.

My daughter the other day had you send them to school with money and they can buy things for their uh for their family members you write how many family members are on the envelope what they can spend is like five bucks each and then they spend up to what they had to learn about transactions money whatnot she gets in the car she has a one dollar bill left it was out of 50 or something so no you had one dollar left she said no5. But such and such, one of her friends, I asked her if she wanted to trade the $5 that I had for the one that she had because I wanted to be kind. And I'm like, you're an idiot.

No, she's just being raised by a bunch of liberals. By a pussy. I know. This is why I sucked at dealing drugs. Somebody come over. They'd be having a terrible day. I'm just like, just take it. I don't care.

Same. Just take it, bro. I'm just like, just take it. I don't care. Same. Just take it, bro. I'm not really trying to. Other than personal stash, I don't think I ever cleared a penny from moving weed. Just look sad, and I'm like, you need this, bud. Yeah, you'll be all right. In 1996, the school board of Oakland voted to recognize Black English, also known as Ebonics, in a decision that set off a firestorm of controversy.

Well, you talk like we talk. Says the board later reversed its stance. Yeah, that's whatever. In 1999, Orlando Brown of the Cleveland Browns was ejected from a game for pushing referee Jeff Triplett to the ground. Triplett had accidentally hit Brown in the eye with a weighted penalty flag. It messed him up too, didn't it? Oh yeah. He threw

that flag pretty hard and those things are full of sand. He went temporarily blind for several years. So yeah, Triplett, maybe you get what you, uh, reap what you sow there, buddy. In 2001, the fires that had burned beneath the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York

for the previous three months were declared extinguished. Isn't that incredible? Did we need that? Did that make people feel better? You know, I don't know, Blake. In 2010, Philadelphia's Deshaun Jackson returns a punt 65 yards for a touchdown as time expires in the Eagles' 38-31 comeback win at the NY Giants.

It's the only game-winning punt return touchdown in NFL history as the Eagles came back from a 31-10 fourth quarter deficit. I was watching this game because I had Deshaun Jackson on my fantasy team, and that got me a lot of points. Yeah. But it was also a pretty cool comeback. There's one person in the world that gives a shit about that fact. In 2011, the Ham Fighters announced that the Texas Rangers

had won posting rights for the pitcher Hugh Darvish. It was a big time, man. I was checking my Newberg report every day. Golly. That sweepstakes. Is it really what they say it is? We had punched the card. Remember all the internet memes about his release points the same?

Oh, yeah. He showed up. There's 12 different pitches, and it all comes from the same place. Yeah. This voice is making a comeback. You think so? It is today. And then finally

in 2014, President Barack Obama said Sony Pictures Entertainment made a mistake in shelving The Interview, a satirical film about a plot to assassinate North Korea's leader. Go ahead. Seth Rogen. Seth Rogen.

Seth Rogen. Sony defended its decision, saying it had no choice but to cancel the film's Christmas Day theatrical release because the country's top theater chains had pulled out in the face of threats. That whole saga was very, very important for me. Because I was obviously a big Rogan Franco guy. And it's like some of your comedy heroes are now the target of a rogue, whatever you want to call North Korea. But they've made it to the international threat level.

It's always awesome. Who thought that a silly comedy movie would poke a bear that big? The guys from Freaks and Geeks pissed off a nuclear power. Yes. To the point where the theaters, it was actually the motion picture companies that held it back. Yeah. Amazing. Is it good?

I've never even seen it. It's fine. Yeah, I saw it. It's definitely not worth all that. Yeah? Yeah. Yeah, I was gearing up to see something explosive all that. Yeah? Yeah, I was gearing up to see something explosive

and then I was like, okay, that's not even that funny. Birthdays today, Jose Leclerc is 31. I believe you've had some funny comments about his demeanor before. Yes, he is the pro athlete that in my mind, when in the

field of play and asked to perform, most looks like he would rather be anywhere else than doing that job. He would stand on the mound. He would look up. He's a right-hander, so he would, I think, look up at the left field foul pole and just kind of stare at it like, fuck, I wish I wasn't out here right now. I can see that. Even when he was pitching well, it felt like he was like, just let me stop this.

I always felt like he looked like he got into the transporter on the Starship Enterprise, and the planet they beamed him down to was a baseball stadium. So he's just kind of like, oh, man, there are a lot of people in here. Where the hell am I? Ian Kennedy is 40. Of the Diamondbacks? Dan says, look at his stats and explain 2011. So I will.

His career stats, he is 104 and 114. His ERA is 4.16. His WIP is nearly 1.3. His ERA is 4.16. His whip is nearly 1.3. And in 2011, he went 21-4 with a sub-2.9 ERA in 222 innings. He got votes for the MVP. So, yeah. That's a pretty weird year.

Brady Anderson spike there. You don't see it as much in pitching, though. No, you don't. Mike Sherman is 70. He figured things out that year, Jake. Aggie coach. Yeah. Packers, too, right?

Of course. Jake Plummer's 50. Good friend of mine. Yeah. He's a cool dude. He seems like it. A really cool dude. Misunderstood. He was there. Yeah, he's a cool dude. He seems like it. A really cool dude. He was there.

He was there. Yeah. I mean, he's kind of Aaron Rodgers before Aaron Rodgers. He was there the night. He didn't even really announce himself, but we noticed he was at the table next to us the night that me, Donovan, and Saroy watched like Bruce Smith and Steve Berline and other NFL legends do stand-up comedy. It was so weird. Hell yeah.

Berline losing the crowd. Yeah, it was like passing out. Kid was there. And then the table next to us, I was like, I think that's Jake Plummer. It's like this little tiny little hotel ballroom. Berline's up there fighting the crowd, which is like 90% black. Then he starts telling jokes. He's like, oh, nobody wants to listen when the white guy talks in here, huh?

This is incredible. Warren Sapp is 52. Colorado defensive line coach. Kevin McHale, 67. Damn, I hated that guy. Alyssa Milano is 52. Of Teen Steam, I've heard. Yeah, which Blake has seen a clip from today.

And I will watch more later. Jake Gyllenhaal, 44. He's pretty great, I think. I think you're right. Annie Murphy is 38 from Schitt's Creek. Don't know a player. Jill Talley is 62. Says married to Tom Kinney and was also in Mr. Show.

Okay. You should go back and watch that, Blake. Mr. Show? Yeah. It's very good. Sorry, y'all are big Tim He heidecker heidecker fans have you watched his stand-up from like four years ago is it not good holy cow it's amazing and i don't know if it's funny okay so is it there's one where he's talking about e-trade that's that's in there yeah

yeah it's just on a it's anti-comedy is what it is. A different plane of... It really is. But the clips... It depends on what you think. I don't know how to say it. It kind of depends on what you think it is. But he's pound for pound the weirdest entertainer of my life. It's taking Andy Kaufman to new heights is what he's doing. He's kind of a dick too.

You dealt with him? No, I've just heard from people who have. Oh, yeah? Venue people. He's just way... Real complicated? Yeah. Wow, he's got a vision.

I don't know if I see it, but it's pretty interesting. I think Dan probably loves him. They've gone to see him, I'm pretty sure. It's wild, man. It's on Hulu. Give it 30 minutes. Loser's still using E-Trade.

He doesn't know about all the bonuses and customer portal upgrades. I LOL'd quite a bit, but there's other times where I'm like, man, I think I'm watching something genius. I just don't know yet. Tim Reed is 80 from That 70s Show. Ken Marino is 56 from Children's Hospital. That's a damn thing for sure. Jake Paulina Gretzky is 36.

Oh, God. She's so, so special. She's unique. She is. Born on this day, now dead. Bobby Lane. Who's that? Football? I think a Texas quarterback. Got his stats up right here. this day now dead. Bobby Lane. Who's that? Football.

Texas quarterback. Got his stats up right here. Like the galloping ghost or something like that. No, seriously. I think that's his nickname. 196 touchdowns. 243 picks. Okay. Highland Park High School.

How many picks? Is he the galloping ghost? No. Who is? I don't know. Did you look it up? I looked up Bobby Lane. Who's next? I was just reading up on Bobby Lane.

Al Kaline died on this day in 2020. Red Grange. Red Grange was the galloping ghost. Okay. What a dumb name. Both of them. Red Grange. Reggie White.

Born on the stage, now dead. Dead on the stage, still dead. He had some wild views. He was cray cray. Yeah. In 1814, Joseph Brahma invented the hydraulic press. It's pretty good. Boy, you can suck me into 20 minutes on Facebook videos watching that hydraulic press break shit.

Here's a basketball and a hydraulic press. All right, what's next? A marble. What's next? In 2009, Kim Peek, the inspiration for the film Rain Man. Didn't know that. In 1915, Alois Alzheimer. This is invented dementia.

He just doesn't know it. All right. And dead on this day, still dead in 2008, Doc Ellis. Is that the guy that pitched on acid? Can I read these Reggie White comments to you guys? So he was like a Baptist preacher, you know? I wish that was clean. Go ahead.

He said that each racial and ethnic group, because he would just talk. And he was upset that he said he was offended. Homosexuality is one of the biggest sins in the Bible. He was offended by gay and lesbian groups that compare their struggle for rights to the struggles of African-Americans. He said each racial and ethnic group has its own gifts that when taken together form a complete image of God. Okay.

Interesting. Trying to follow. But in describing those gifts, he's basically saying, look, we all have something. White said that blacks, quote, like to sing and dance, and whites know how to tap into money. He said that Hispanic people, quote, are gifted at family structure. You can see a Hispanic person, and he can put 20 or 30 people in one home. With Asians, he said they, quote, know how to turn a television into a watch.

What? Look at them over there tinkering. They're electronic. And that was Today in History. Blake says he's not wrong on any of that stuff. All right. That was just in your ears. Today's show brought to you by our friends at Fairleast,

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