The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 12-19-25 PREVIEW | Insane Rams-Seahawks game and Whitecotton to replace Eberflus?

Episode Date: December 19, 2025

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all that kind of stuff. So as I was looking for stuff, I was searching just in my computer the name Jake. A couple things came up I thought we needed to get. Take a listen to. Okay. One is a legendary piece of audio. This is Jake, I think, and T.C.

They're doing a podcast back then. This could be 2011, maybe 2012. But they're actually talking about another woman, but then it'll circle back and you'll know why I'm playing this, okay? I don't actually desire to have relations with her. She's just one of my favorite humans alive. Yeah. And for that reason, I think I'd marry her.

I mean, based on all reports. marriage is a platonic thing in any ways you know I think I'm about to expose myself as someone who might as well just punt entirely everyone's going to say like

oh you just don't understand and oh you just haven't done it yet and you just don't get it and you're not going to do this are you but I'm telling you that's not how it's going to be for me there's no way here's the guy we found them

yeah no trust the guy who's going to and you know what I know people that it's not like that for so I know it's possible like I mean they're young still. Well, I'm just saying it's definitely possible. And I don't care if I have to get some weird stuff involved

to keep it going on. It's definitely still going to be going on. If I got to go, like the second I feel myself not being interested, I'm calling the 1-800 number on the every stop set and getting some pills. Like, there's not going to be a point in my life where that's not

in the mix. Well, I didn't call the 1-800 number, but I did go to game day.dumzone.com. I know, but I feel like there's some flawed logic in there as well, because if you're like, if I ever find

myself losing a little interest, okay, are you forgetting there's another person involved that, that, you know, I don't know. There's a lot of things. A lot of things happen. You've got kids. You've got things, bullets are flying. They, you know.

There's just no way to say this without being the most arrogant asshole of all time but it's just never been a concern of mine i can i'm good with ladies i don't know what you want me to say if that's what you're asking like am i worried if they're going to be interested i've never oh i've never but that helps if you aim lower and that's what you did with your wife what are you saying in general throughout life i haven't you know i'm not i'm not taking big swings okay yeah okay well anyway You're looking into the logic, and I'm saying if I'm that age, I'm thinking, if you just keep mid-game hunting. Okay, so I thought that was interesting.

And then I'm, so now I'm in this Jake rabbit hole, and I'm trying to feel better about the football game that we're losing. I'm knowing we're 11 games back, all this kind of stuff. And I found this. I didn't really remember this at all. But you're talking TV, and you were talking about the show Mad Men. This is from the year 2012. And I get, like I said, I get that there's like really large thematic things that play, big life questions being kind of pondered through drama.

And that's great. But I hate that show. And I watch two seasons of it before I realize like, I really effing hate this show. It does nothing for me. And again, I used to be very scared to say this in front of the mics. And is that your stance on Madman? Oh, yeah. I don't think I ever knew that.

well i mean just it's have you ever gone back or anything it's the chalk right i'm not a big tv guy and this is probably at the time where it was becoming apparent to me like this all sucks like it's just not for me like i don't west wing shows like that you know they were all the same to me at the time like it's just it's just schlock to me i don't like it but it's all yeah that's always been my at least you're finding some consistency here okay so you don't like okay yeah i didn't know i just never knew that about i remember you didn't like dragons at first and then got into Game of Thrones. Was it you that didn't like any show depicted in the woods?

That, I think, is kind of me and T.C. T.C. won't watch anything. There doesn't have to be a computer in the show, but in the universe of the show, they have to have computers. Or he won't watch it. For real. Interesting. So he won't watch a show about the 19 boardwalk?

No, hell no. 99% of his consumption, he's going to say, like the president show about the 1800s or whatever he ain't watching that because they don't have computers all right i know i know the problem is me when it comes to the i honestly last night when the seahawks were down two scores almost started the vince gilligan show i was like maybe i should do it i've got some time my kids were gone oh the pleuribus yeah as evidence in that audio i don't have sex anymore yeah i'd like you to have it try at least one i think i will i just well blake blake won the bet before the show

Henry showed up right before the show and Blake said you got to open the garage with your app for Henry and so I did and I said do you think Henry will close the door? Leave it open because I got to move my car apparently. I was going to say Blake and I completely forgot what happened 13, 14 minutes

ago. Go now. Oh, did that remind you that you have to do something? Yeah. Yeah, I got to move my car apparently. According to who? Your wife. Why? I don't know. No. Just leave it there. Do not get up. Do not get up.

I do exactly what was it. Sit down. It's just in the street across from the neighbor. It's fine. She was urgent. Sit down. Well, no, I parked behind Clayton now because I used to park under the trees and a limb fell and kind of scratched my car. Listen, if it were a busy street, it would be a problem. She wants you not behind Clayton? Yeah.

Because the bumper, his back end is sticking out into the street. But it's not even further than my car. Just do it in the break or something. Just sit there, dude. Now she's mad at me. I know. Don't worry about it. I'll take it.

I'll take this one. No, you won't. I'm going to leave. You're like, I told Blake to move it. I don't know why he didn't. I absolutely won't do that. Because we've argued about your car before. Get the list.

Where do you want it? She didn't want it where you used to park it where you say a limb fell because she's like, well, that's in front of the neighbor's driveway. and I go No one's ever over there Ever I go no one's there And they have two

Outlets for that driveway It's like a Whatever you call that Kind of a curvy driveway Yeah I don't know either It's not a roundabout I Caved

Then just tell me where to park it To make everyone happy Middle of the street Yeah park it At the stadium An Uber Here We have a shuttle

Down the street That can take you here It's fine. It's fine. Oh, okay, but anyway, Henry didn't. That did remind you, though, huh? Yeah, we both, Blake and I forgot. Oh.

Do you guys want to watch? We don't want to watch video right now. That's too much. Too much for a Friday show, I think. There's a video going to run on Channel 27 this weekend. Oh, yeah. We'll probably post it to social news. media. We'll use it on social posts as well

as a promo. Promowing. Yeah. The sub-a-thon on Monday. I wanted to say something a little bit gay, but thanks to Blake. This is now before we get into

Seahawks, or if you guys got anything else for a pre-ken check or something. Yeah, I got one. Jake's, or Blake's kid, how old is Brooks? Four. Four. He brought presents. yesterday and maybe jake didn't have the feeling that i had because he has a little kid or two now but uh like it's a hand-drawn whatever oh go grab that bag for me henry there's a bag over

there on the uh there's only one bag right that yeah that's it he a hand-drawn thing as kids will do and it's just a couple of cards and, you know, from Brooks and then he points at it and he spells out Brooks and shows me how he wrote and it's just like, it's a terrible drawing, right? You ever see that account with the shitty drawings my kid made or something like that?

Have you seen that? I've not, but I, again, have two kids and, you know, neither one of them are Picasso. Or I can't remember. There's something in the past where some guy would just rip every one of them and like it, like, what is it, is it a hamburger? Is this a...

What are we looking at here? Now, he explained it. Oh, yeah. And it, you know, it was some kind of a Picasso type thing. And then, you know, just Dan, it's written to end his backwards and, you know. Then he misspelled it on the back page and all this. And this is the greatest gift you can ever get. Like, it's so cool.

Like, this is when I had little kids, when my kids were little, like, this is the best. this is the like one of the reasons to have kids is just like they make something for you and they were thinking I don't know

it's just like it was a gay warm feeling I had last night that what a The yellow things are uprights because he thinks you work with Brandon Aubrey

Okay Wow So that was I know that was that part and I typically don't like when kids do that because it's like I bought it for you

but the kid gives it to you but he was seriously was walking through a store and saw the Dan and Jake thing and got it for you. Oh, a key chain that says Dan on it, too. Yeah.

Sorry to do that, but it's his idea. No, I thought it was, like I said, it's like pure. Like your kid is pure. Your kid is four. Probably had some kind of daycare, but not like in school yet, so has not been influenced too much by outside society. Like still, like this is the, the, if you could freeze it right here. Yeah, I definitely would.

Like, this is kind of, he's not too argumentative. I'm sure there's some stuff, you know, but nothing like it's going to be type thing. Oh, yeah. Our fights now are like brush your teeth and get ready for bed. There's no chance he's going to pull a Nick Reiner on you. You know, he's not been in and out of rehab. It's just love. It's all purity, like I said.

The world has not tainted him yet. But they're old enough to express real love, though. So it's like that, it's the middle. It's the sweet spot. But yeah, I mean, I don't know. I don't know if it's my algorithm or what, but I feel like I get a lot of content. It's just people talking about talking to people when they're old

and asking them about their life and to a person. They're like, yeah, if I could have one time period back, it's when I had little kids. And so, like, it's a, I think it's universal. And the tricky part is, you know, acknowledging and that while you're experiencing it. Yeah. You know.

Yeah, because whatever you're experiencing always is a beating, you know? I mean, I try not to, I honestly try not to think of it that way and treat every day like it's, I mean, I'm also on, like, drugs. Yeah. Happy pill. Happy pills. Like, you know, take it with a grain of salt. But.

I remember not really thinking it was a beating. You never acted like that, though. You never acted like that. I was around you the whole time your kids were young. And honestly, it's part of the reason why I was like, oh, okay, people can be normal about this. Corby was like that. I was around him all the time. Not that many people my age are hanging out with somebody who has two kids of that age every day.

And I was doing that my whole 20s and my whole 30s. And people seemed to like embrace it with enjoyment. I'd never known that. Everybody I knew who was a parent, including my own, seemed terribly beaten by the deal. Yeah. But even if they enjoyed it, it seemed. really hard. I guess I just kind of enjoyed

living or something because I look back now. I don't think that was a beating. I didn't think it at the time. But I look back and I go, I drove to the AAC 40 nights a year to do Stars post game. Like right now, when I see a Stars game on TV...

They could freeze your backyard. Give a little PTSD. But when I see the Stars on TV, I just think, gosh, 10 years or whatever ago, would have been there already, had been there already for an hour and a half, and then would be there again for another four or five hours for $125 or whatever the, you know, it wasn't much at all.

It was cool. I don't know. I thought it was cool. I liked it. But now I think, how did I do it? I would not be able to do that now. There's no way I would. I couldn't do it.

No, I feel you. But I also used to be late-night guy, too. But I think you might have actually just said it. Maybe you just enjoy living. And last night I was not late. Gay. Yeah, that is gay. So I'm sorry to be gay on a Friday, guys.

No, I want to gas up Brooks, too. He switched half of the show yesterday. He's not kidding. He just told him what each button does, and he's a little video game kid. He remembers what buttons do. So he just sat there and just pushed it. He waited for you to talk.

Dan. That's an engineer's boy. Yeah. Really? Yep. That's great. That is great. So last night I did the Xbox Bowl.

Oh, that's right. If you knew there was a bowl game last night. I forgot. You were playing. Yeah, you were working. I saw the photo. Yeah. Yeah, I had a good booth. Anybody I know?

Kyle Yeomens was play-by-play. From the Cowboys. Elvis Gallegos, who may or may not have been a part of a poop dollar story that we've told on the show. He went to high school with me and played at TCU. Works up Blake a lot. Yeah, does sidelines for TCU. And then Chris Mikoski, who's a big listener of ours,

did sidelines. I agreed to do the bowl game before I found out it was the Xbox Bowl, but that didn't hurt. And so fire the video. Did you get some swag? Unfortunately, no. All the players got the little handheld Xbox game, but I recorded this.

Oh, my God. And they brought out the Xbox Bowl. trophy, there's Master Chief and a Wart Hog driving on the field to deliver the trophy to Arkansas State who won last night. This is at the Star in Frisco. How many?

Eight. What? Not many. They got a bowl that holds eight? Yeah. I mean, bowl games are not very well attended. It's families. I don't even know how they do on TV.

It can't be that good. No. I guess that's why the selection process they're looking for it as i was watching the hosts yeah they want to be able to get people there i was watching that arizona bowl whatever or the sun bowl pregame show yeah they were just saying uh boy they might pick this school because they're their fan base travels well you know yeah that's a big big part of it okay so yeah they had uh master chief walking around the field they had the fallout guy fortnight it was just well that reminds me it's kind of cool right at my alley

Then, like, after extra points and stuff, they played the Xbox sound when you first turn it on. I don't know. It's pretty neat for me. It's exciting. Pretty neat for me. Yeah, listen, if I were in the, like, play-by-play game and I showed up and there was just a fully jackass themed bowl where... Yeah. ...just like shot Steveo with a paintball gun after every field goal.

They're really after your heartstrings. Yeah. I have one quick piece of audio here. here. This is, speaking of NHL postgame shows, this is from an NHL broadcast. Have you already heard this, Blake? No, I saved it. Okay. This is from the Flyers broadcast last night. Their play-by-play guy

is named Tim Saunders. And he is headed to break here. Sometimes the Flyers get a sense of urgency when they're playing from behind. Now they're going to take the TV time out. We'll take it as well seven gone in the third it's three two buffalo in the philadelphia flyers broadcast network while you're down there would you mind blowing me while you're down there would you mind blowing me i think we're still on the air tim No, we're not, are we?

And one time. Let's go shoveling. That's not fair. Wow. Tim Zonders has been suspended for the time being. Well, now we need to picture who is on the ice. Well, I mean, I think you have a pretty good guess, right? Well, I don't know, just make sure it wasn't a child.

Yeah, now leading the high school drill team. No, no, he sounded like it was just their host. You know, there's always the All-D on skates or something. And he's like, yeah, why are you down there? Oh, I picture, like, somebody, like, was chasing something under the table or something. I thought he was talking about the person on ice. Or maybe they weren't on ice. Maybe that was just an announcer in their arena.

Either way, right, I don't think. Ice girl. That's kind of what I was thinking. But maybe Blake's right. it was someone there but either way i mean i've never actually i was never involved in anything quite like this i don't think there was uh there was a time where there was a fight night and i couldn't get it to break but you guys like wouldn't couldn't hear me yeah and that required that was a lot of like just me talking hitting the that's okay though letting it build back up because we think

we're on the air um it's if you think you're off the air right but then yeah so i don't i don't know that i ever had i was listening one time when the orphanage was left up and that was an insane shit in a jar yeah that's amazing yeah there's good weekend stuff but i don't recall i don't think i mean and i was the stars board off for a long time and i'm glad it wasn't the social media area because i definitely never had anything quite like that but i mean that's as simple as like somebody spacing out for 15 seconds you got to hear clear you got to hear clear you do it 20 times a game 80 times a year while you're down there

would you mind blowing me and he's saying in his announcer voice we should try that on our wives so he's laughing at the funny joke yeah yeah that the guy told him and then he actually did

pull him down the guy looked over at it probably and was like no Timmy yeah engineer could have helped in there Oh, engineered did him dirty. I mean, not just the board op.

No, no, no. Oh, his own. Yeah, on site. Yeah, my guy throws it to break and I don't hear anything from the studio. I will mute mics. There you go.