The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 12-23-24: Cowboys take down Baker, Saban vs. Shane, and Brandon Aubrey

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Hear every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneThe Cowboys take down the fighting Baker Mayfield's in a game that has no bearing on them anymore. We're joined by Brandon Aubrey fresh off his 4 field goal performance last night and we sit back and enjoy Shane Gillis versus Nick Saban (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (41:27) - Sports: Cowboys beat Baker (01:18:51) - College football weekend (01:36:51) - Brandon Aubrey (02:06:04) - News: stuck on a gondola (02:24:44) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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ah might have to hear the whole thing in the break. Want me to do that? In the back of the car. Blake, do we have a break? Want me to do that? Yeah, we can do that. I'm Dan McDowell.

I'm Jake Hilton. Blake Jones. And here we are, recording live to tape from high atop my garage. Also, we're live streaming. If you happen to be, get that Patreon link or whatever Blake sends out, whatever magic smoke signal. A pigeon. We're live. Live streaming with a still image,

I guess. I don't know. It's a cool image, though. Is it? What do we got? It's the Dumb Zone Universal logo. Ah. You know what's cool?

Hollywood film made for us. You guys think we should close that door? Is that driving anybody else crazy? Yeah, close that door. Hey, Tyler, can you get that? Thanks, Tyler. So here with us today, we have a... We have Tyler, but he appears to be brought by Skyler.

Got a guy named Skyler who was brought to us by Qualis. Do you guys have a troop called Dude Mid or something? Tyler, Skyler, Myler. Ooh, got a little hum. What's that? That's the vacuum. That's the vacuum cleaner, my man. He's there cleaning your home.

Well, you just hit a button and it ended. His mic is turned up because he's a quiet talker and it picks up more than most. That's not the vacuum. You guys get all your shopping done? Or whatever we're supposed to do here. I'm thankful for. Well, I was going to just say. What are you grateful for?

Let's. What was it? Switch to the 3-4 defense. Yeah. They brought in Parcells and Zim. I want to tell you what was cool. And we should use this as a open for a video or something, one of our shows. But the house in Dallas that has a dumb zone themed Christmas lights.

Incredible. Isn't that cool? It's synced up with the song, and I love to sync it up. Yeah. And then they got the dumb zone logo the words and going across their house. Like, it's amazing. It really is. I got to find it.

I need that address. I can give it to you. You have the address? Yes, I can find it. I am driving by there tonight or tomorrow. Bluff. Not a bluff. Huge bluff.

What if I go there and knock on their door? He doesn't have much else. That'd be great. Give them the surprise of their life. Yeah, you got a big check. Well, no. Doesn't have to be worth anything. Oh, okay.

Oh, speaking of big checks, so I guess that's part of my weekend check. But anyway, Skyler, what's your bit? I don't know if I have a bit brought here by Qualis, though. I'm thankful for them to... So you got a roof. We're thankful for Qualis, too. From Qualis Roofing.

Qualis Roofing gave us a roof, too. Well, I mean, they work, you know, there's an exchange of... However it works. Monetary exchange, yeah. That's not the vacuum, Blake. No, it's not, is it? That's just crappy mic. It's not a crappy mic.

Okay. It's a great mic. Would you birth it? Let's give Qualis some love now. So, Qualis, you just said, I need a roof. You heard the ads. Yep, exactly. Heard the ads through you guys.

You went to qualisgc.com or whatever. How did you get to them? I emailed Brian directly after he did his bit with you guys. Wow. I needed a roof. I needed a free Dumb Zone shirt as well. So just for the call, just for the hookup, come out to my house, they'll give you a shirt. Absolutely. Or a subbie, they'll give you a shirt. Absolutely.

Or a subbie, but you're already a subscriber. But I was already a subscriber, so I took the shirt. Were you taken aback when someone from Qualys was wearing the shirt when they came to the call, and they just took it off and gave it to you? Shirt off their back? Yeah, they would do that. They did the rest of the inspection. That's how much they care.

They would. Yeah. Yeah. So's how much they care. They would. Yeah. Yeah. So experience with them was great. You know, not every day you're buying a new roof. Didn't really know what I was doing. So they... The thing is, what they'll do is they'll install like seven different roofs,

and then you just choose which one you like. Yeah. It's like a seven-week period, but it's great. Yeah. And then so Just for getting the new roof And they handle the insurance company And they'll

They They hook you up with a little sit in here Yep Alright Well hey Skyler Merry Christmas to you my friend Happy holidays Yeah

I say Merry Christmas You're not going to take that Away from me Okay Well Good deal You have some closing remarks prepared For later that away from me. Okay. Well, good deal. You have some closing remarks prepared for later?

I'll be thinking. Oh, okay. You don't have to. Well, they brought us some gifts it looks like. Okay. Well, that's what's important. We'll do that later.

Also later, Brandon Aubrey will be on our show. Wow. Monday Aubs. Yeah, he said they got today and tomorrow off and he chooses today. So you'll get to ask Brandon.

Think of what you want to ask Brandon Aubrey. We're going to give you the opportunity to ask the Cowboys all-pro kicker, not a pro bowl kicker. All-pro. Anyone can make the pro bowl. You know what occurred to me last night? The reason that he's so popular with the play-by-play guys yes he's the best kicker of all time yes he's a first ballot hall of famer yes he's a sweetheart of a guy i

mean you just can land a line of that for anywhere mike so so the thing is but even torico who's not is over the top guy the reason they all love brandon aubrey so much is because they all love golf is he golf guy, Brandon? Well, they love to talk about him kicking like it's golf because it's the only thing in football that kind of looks like something that they do. Okay. You know what I mean? Where he's like, boy, just like butter on the approach and the draw there.

That's why the play-by-play guys love him because none of them ever played football or kicked, but they see the ball go up, ball curve to target ah look at it hooking they're like look at that yeah he faded that when i do that that's so they just they can't handle it yeah he's awesome man for more more than just his kicking but uh author that's right father yeah husband yeah good dude brandon aubrey will join us later uh as we talk about a winning cowboys game somehow the cowboys beat baker we do want to uh do a weekend check and you mentioning a big check. So my problem this morning is not my problem at all, but it became my problem.

This is a wife situation where she is frantically running around and she lost this envelope that has a Visa gift card because apparently at her work they gave her a Visa gift card because apparently at her work they gave her a visa gift card for a bonus. And like a check from her mom. We just got done with,

we were visiting with her mom and her brother at Clemson, of course, for my daughter's graduation. So that was kind of our Christmas with them. And her mom gives her a check, which is sweet. Now more than ever. Yeah. So anyway, now it's my, all of a sudden it's like, I have this envelope.

And then she's, the whole recycle bin poured out in the driveway, going through it. The whole, like, now this is my problem that I have to join the hunt. And already this morning, I got a lot on my plate. We're cutting a cowboy audio. We're going to do a special Christmas show for tomorrow reviewing the Lifetime Travis Kelsey slash Taylor Swift inspired movie. Christmas in the Spotlight.

So I had to cut all that audio this morning. So I'm like, I got a lot to do. And Blake wants to start at 11 because he's Blake. And I'm like, I don't know. Anyway, that was like my big deal this morning. So did she. And we haven't found it yet. Oh, that's the worst thing in the world.

But she's like, identifying that the Visa gift card was, my daughters were playing with it yesterday or they picked it up going, what is this? Why do you have this?

All this. It doesn't have a name on it. It's just Visa, you know? And then, so we are aware it's in the house. It has to be in the house. Unless some,

like you said, some trash has been taken out. Right. Well, yeah, I said, you you said, some trash has been taken out. Right. Well, yeah, I said you better go through that trash can down there. Did Trey steal it? Could be Trey. Oh, my gosh. That's the big weekend check.

I forgot. I forgot to write it down. I thought you would lead with that. I've been waiting. So Trey watched my house. Former intern at the ticket, of course. Now he's just Trey and he's watched my house

in the past and you know the stories like what is it the towel rack I think was on the ground when

that you hang your towel in the bathroom it was like out of its whatever socket just lying on the ground like many things have been broken

throughout the years a precious you can't replace it, flower pot that was painted for Mother's Day by one of my daughters when they were like four or six or something. And it said, love you, it's all misspelled. You know, one of those things. Trey broke it. Like, and then tried to glue it back together, but he did a poor job of it. So like the Elmer, you could see the whiteness and it's not, whatever.

So this time we come back in and you may remember. Don't forget the pee. Oh, and the last time, yeah, just a month ago we let him, or we had him watch the house, didn't let him. let him uh and yes came back and there was multiple you know puddles of urine where apparently the dog ended up having to go downstairs because they weren't taken out uh often enough so and i'm aware that he you know i would think that's why there wasn't p this time because he was aware of his review we give it publicly we it's kind of like a google review or something if you wanted to hire trey to watch your dogs we walk in this time or so i pull up to the house so we've been gone six days five days or

whatever and uh long trip Long day Like a whole day of Travel is the whole day Pull up to the house and Trace Carr is there Oh no And that's not what you want Not at all Like why you're here

And so my wife is really polite And like she'll small talk him And ask him how his Christmas is What are you going to celebrate with him So he's just sitting there Yeah Because I would be afraid of walking in on something with him So and I walk in as my wife is politely

You know Oh man it's great to see you How's the family I'm like Trey why are you still here I told you we would be landing around 7 Oh man it's great to see you How's the family? I'm like Trey why are you still here? I told you we would be Landing around 7 And he's like Oh no I thought you were

Whatever And I'm like Oh okay Like I'm not Small talking though Of course not I don't want to continue this I want to be

Just sitting at home By myself Or whatever Just kind of watching TV And then he goes Hey I don't know how this happened. Oh, no. So, you know, your wife gave, or no, your mom gave us this Santa, which is holding its arms out, holding two trays.

So I don't know what you're supposed to put on those trays, and my wife doesn't either. She's like, maybe a candle. I think it's kind of like a ceramic serving tray. Cookies or something or whatever. Yeah, my mom still got Christmas. She loves it as a decoration, but then it's got empty trays. So what she did is she put these ceramic balls on there.

I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what you would call it. It's just a decorative glass ball. Yeah. Well, and when Trey says, I don't know how this happened, he walks over and points to a pile of broken glass ball on the table. And then new glass ball bought at Kohl's. And these glass balls that she set on the tray

were a certain shade. They were kind of like Aggie maroon. And the one he bought, and it's like a set of six or something, now five. The one he bought doesn't match it. Of course not. Look, with absolutely no...

It is nice that he went and bought it, but, and he's like, I don't know, I just came home and it was on the floor. And then after he left, my wife's like, I don't know, I just came home and it was on the floor. And then after he left, my wife is like, that can't be true. How would it just go on the floor?

I'm like, I don't know, it's round, it might just, and she's like, no. Dog, maybe? Yeah, I don't know. But, but. I know that Trey has

some slight hearing issues. Something was broken. And I don't know for sure if this is true or not, but just based on being around him, I bet you Trey's colorblind. That makes sense. Yeah.

I have nothing to support that assertion, but he probably thought it was the same color. Otherwise, though, great job. Doesn't look like any plants are dead. Why did he leave the remnants? The dogs are alive. Yeah, he couldn't clean up? Was it because maybe he thought last time he aired it?

Well, no, he did obviously swept it up and then put it in a pile on the table, like just to show us these are the... All right. This is what happened, and it was very nice that he bought a new one. Okay. But, you know.

Anyway, it's not the... One year, it was the whole washing machine was broken and there was just a pile of wet clothes there so we're we're making great progress hold on though you on one hand you are but on the other hand you had like an awkward hooker dismount like so is that gonna become a thing what do you mean where he's just here and you're like, why aren't you leaving? No, I hope not. No, I told him we're landing at 7 so that he would know, like, yeah, okay, I could leave by like 4.

Maybe he wanted to tell you in person about the broken glass bowl. Maybe. Yeah, no, I prefer him not to be here when I get back. Sure. Because that just delayed the sex that I had. Oh, man. Yep. I'm surprised you were able to go again after joining the Mile High Club.

Absolutely. I was thinking about that in the plane. Oh, got upgraded to first class. I don't know why. That's not. The real question is how many members of your family got upgraded to first class? It was perfect because actually my wife did as well, but my daughter did not. Okay.

And my wife saw it on the phone, and I didn't see it. And she's like, oh, they upgraded us, and how come they hadn't upgraded me? And I'm like, oh, that's fine. You could just have it. And she's like, are you sure? Are you sure you don't want it? And I'm like, yeah, fine. It doesn't matter.

I'm sitting next to Eden. It'll be great. Because then I wouldn't be near my my wife i thought that'd be fine um but it ended up so it really worked out well for me because then i actually got the upgrade a little bit after her but i also had already told her hey you keep the upgrade that's how much i care about you to bake it yeah yeah now the only real situation would have been if you had to decide between sitting by your wife in first class or sitting by yourself and coach like if your daughter had been like i really want up there and you're like uh which is better yeah i might have i might have gone back to coach but uh she did not ask because i think she was

happy we weren't near her too. Yeah. Fair. Yeah. The only thing it really got us because it was real turbulent so they couldn't even bring the cart. They just had to hand deliver. The only thing it got us is a glass instead of a plastic cup for my water. Which I would not prefer, to be honest. Yeah.

And then they have like a tray full of uh you could choose you want a cookie or a peanuts or whatever or chips instead of like just the little crappy peanuts or whatever so it didn't really give us much yeah you need the towel need the hot towel Need the hot towel. You need the hot towel. You need the hot peanuts. Yeah. Oh, my gosh. I had a pretty sportsy weekend, I suppose. I'm also sick, in case you can't tell. Dan came back. You seem like you're okay now. You were a little bit hoarse last week.

Yeah, I feel great. Are you giving me COVID again for Christmas? Because you've already done that. I did do that once. Don't re-gift it. You know, in hindsight, though, especially now that there's two kids, that. I did do that once. Don't re-gift it. You know, in hindsight though, especially now that there's two kids, it really wouldn't be that bad. I just stayed in my

room and watched lower tier bowl games all day on Christmas. Oh, I wasn't upset that I had COVID. I mean, you make the best out of things. Yeah. So a couple notes from the weekend. I went to the Gaylord ice sculpture thing last night.

Okay, what is it this year? Rudolph. Like the old school Rudolph. Hermie. Yeah. Rudolph. Okay, love it. Hermie sculptures and the whole dentist office.

The Charlie in a box. Yeah. Are you familiar with Charlie in a box, Blake? No. You don't do the old school Rudolph? I thought we did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you do.

He's from the Island of Misfit Toys. Yeah. He's potentially homosexual. Yet he's in a box. Yeah. How can that be? Perhaps that's like a code. Of course it is.

For I'm, yeah. No, I mean, I think that came up when we did the segment with Brunig. Really? The whole thing is just imagery. But the gay character has to remain like hidden? Yeah. In this box. Oh, interesting.

Yeah, I think so. You know, that's the whole, kind of the whole message. But no, I've actually never done it before. I've been to the christmas village at the gay lord a few times they have ice skating you got to put on like this big giant you do heavy parka yeah just to even go look at the ice sculptures it's great yeah and there's some cool backstory to it like there's this one particular group of people in china yeah china you know they come over and do i mean it's there forever. My family's been a bunch of times. I just was always like, ah, I don't know that I'm going to love that.

But now I've been, and I'm here to tell you I was right. It sucks. Oh, you didn't like it? No. But there's like an ice slide and everything that the kids go on that? Yeah, it did. The kids like it. Oh, your kids didn't even like it?

No. Are they not stoked on Rudolph? Yeah, no. She likes that one. She's afraid of the snowman, of course. Pretty aggressive villain for a kid's movie. But, I mean, she didn't dislike it, but I had just a repeat of the situation with my son at the GILF

where we had to wait in line with stanchions and ropes, as I now know they're called. So how do you think that went? at the gilf where we had to wait in line with stanchions and ropes, as I now know they're called. So how do you think that went? Is he just running apeshit wild up and down underneath those ropes, trying to put a parka coat on him? He's running up to all the ice and punching it. Like, can I break this?

So who was the traveling party? Just you and the wife and the kids? Me, wife, kids, and Chappie and stepmom. Oh, okay. Yeah. So Chappie's notmom. Oh, okay. Yeah. So Chappie's not going to help? He tries. Grandma might help. She tries.

Okay. But no, he doesn't really respect anyone. What do you think about the kids with the harness? Dude, we saw one when we were leaving yesterday because we had a... I just think it's funny at this point. It really flusters my wife. She gets pretty anxious about it. But you guys saw how i was that day at jared's deal i was just like whatever dude yeah as long as i can see you yeah um and he was running around and like i said

he was i was worried he was gonna break some ice like he'd crash into it and the whole thing would fall but she kind of pulled the ripcord and got him out of there halfway through the exhibit because he was just not having it um and then on the way out we saw a kid on a leash she was like we we might need to actually look into that yeah i used to ridicule it but it sounds like he might be able to use it never crossed my mind with my daughter but uh what if you do the leash around the neck forget the harness i feel like you'd probably be going to jail. The spike? But it'd be very funny. You can't put your kid on a leash.

It's got the, like if he yells, it's got the shot collar. Yeah, what if he has like the whole gimp outfit? Because that guy was on a leash, right? In Pulp Fiction? I think so. I think so. Something happened to me yesterday morning. It's a common occurrence, but it always makes me feel weird.

So I went to the track at the middle school to run in the morning, and there's a group of gentlemen out there, probably my age and older, who play soccer. They have enough people to play eight or nine-on-nine soccer. Okay. Yeah. Soccer, Greg. They're out there every Sunday morning morning pretty early a group of guys

trying to have fun gay so when i was so there's like i said there's probably 20 people there the parking lot right next to the track in the football field so i say this to tell you there were people there probably like 20 dudes but none of them were in the parking lot when i left so i'm walking in my car and right in front of my car on the grass tucked into the like where the curb is is a ten dollar bill all right mr hamilton now because of my history with the richland poop dollar i am conditioned to first look around and see what is amiss here is there a prank a bit is there feces on this dollar and on first inspection it appeared the answer was no so i picked it up and now in my head i'm the dr laura caller like what am i supposed to do with this money like i kept it but there was a part of me that was going to just walk down to this group of 20, 25-year-old middle-aged dudes and be like, hey, is somebody missing?

Did one of you lose a 10? But, like, then I'm thinking in my head, well, I don't really need money. This is a white guilt in me. They're socialists of, like, maybe somebody else needs it more. Then in my head, I'm thinking, yeah, but what if somebody who has more than me gets it yeah now i lose yeah so i just i just picked it up and stared at it for way too long and then i just sat in my car i was like i have a ten dollar bill now it's a basic thing but it does make you really think through like that would happen routinely if anything when you were like in in school. You might stumble across a dollar.

Man, you ever run across a $10 bill in your pocket from months ago, and you're like, whoa. Oh, it's the best. It's great. It's the best. That should teach you the value of saving. It doesn't. What's the lowest currency that you won't,

or the highest currency you won't even bother picking up? Because I picked up a quarter. I was excited to see a quarter. Were you? I don't think I'm picking a single coin up. When I dropped off my car, the rental car, and I found a quarter on the ground, and then I'm like, where am I going to use this quarter, though?

Well, I can tell you this to tie the two stories together. At the Gaylord last night, and I remember this because my father-in-law went with, the one from Louisiana went with us a few years ago. And let's just say he's a cash-only guy. Okay. Do with that what you will. And they don't take cash anywhere in that hotel for anything, which doesn't matter until your daughter sees a wishing well,

and you're like, I don't have access to a coin. And dun-da-dun, dun-da-da-dun, here comes. I know, that's the thing. It's funny, I looked in my wallet. A grandma will have a coin for sure. Yeah, and I think they ended up having one once they arrived. But I looked in my wallet, and I was like, well, I have this 90-day AA chip. Oh, wow.

Do you want to toss that in there? No, we held on to that. Did you just work in a – try to tell us how many days you've been? Yeah, I think you did. I got the chip, so it's like you might as well. How do you get it? Do they mail it to you? I went to a meeting on Saturday. Oh, okay.

Don't be – What day are you at? That shouldn't – It was fun, actually. How do you get it? Do they mail it to you? I went to a meeting on Saturday. Oh, okay. Don't be – What day are you at? That shouldn't – It was fun, actually. You shouldn't say it in that manner. I'm not – Well, I haven't exactly had the most glowing opinion of AA over the years, but I figured I'd give this one a shot.

It was cool. A lot of talk about – The dragons. Memories of how I used to get sauced on the holiday. No. Are you allowed to talk about it? Yeah. It's different. Like the one that I've to get sauced on the holiday? No. Are you allowed to talk about it? Yeah, it's different. Like the one that I've been to that's like actual therapy,

they're very clear about, you know, let's not glorify your situation, which is interesting because then when I got to the Hab, that rule did not exist, as I told you. So there was like nothing but telling war stories. One-upsmanship. Yes, I'm snorting this off of her or whatever. And he's like, oh, that's nothing. But, you know, it was a cool meeting.

But, yeah, two things from that meeting. One, if you want to know the type of guy you're in league with, with your style of parking, the entire row at the 7 a.m. Southlake AA meeting at a church is just all back-end. It's all guys with back-end trucks and SUVs, so that's your people. And then, two, yeah, a lot of buzz about the Dragons. Ah, yes. Probably fell on Saturday, but hopes were still high that morning. I was talking to my buddy from, what's that power washing place that hangs the Christmas lights?

Is it ARP? Is it ARP power washing? Let's confirm. Anyway, I got a buddy who is a part owner in that and yeah, he was at the Dragon game

on Saturday. I was texting with him. Yeah, ARP wash. ARPwash.com. Good dudes. Yeah, so.

So anyways, now I have 10 bucks. Did they win? They did not. They did not. They lost to North Corrales. I bet you knew that. I was a little down on high school football, so I didn't take much in. Oh, you're a little depressed? It hurt

Friday night when the team that beat Argyle lost. I typically want them to go on and win. A little transit of property state championship. Sure. Like, we should have beat them and they won state. So, really, we're state champions. You're an Aggie.

Yeah. I apologize. On Friday, we didn't wish you a happy 100 days sober. Sorry. That's okay. So, he's been tracking it. I just did math. I mean, I'll never forget his last drinking day.

Yeah, it was September 11th. Never forget. Oh, okay. Never forget. That gives us a reason to not forget that. Saturday we had, remember I explained to you guys how there's an A set and a B set of grandparents? Yeah. The A set typically will have christmas day thanksgiving day you know they get the holidays because they know they're the most important is that your parents yeah okay

and so it sweeps the the b side of the b side had their christmas on saturday because they know they're not getting christmas eve they're not getting christ Day, and they're not even getting the day after Christmas. They've got to get a weekend before or after. What do we have? Just divorced parents on her side? No, just... How do you have a B-side of a B-side? Because her side is the B-side. Yeah. And then on her side, there's

an A and B-side. Oh, okay. So the B-side of her B-side. You've got a mom and a dad. So you've got to go to her... They're the real extended family. Alright. So that's what I did her. They're the real extended family. All right. So that's what I did Saturday. It's just Brooks and I went to. Just the two of you. Just the two of us.

Not your wife, and it's her family. Go ahead. Hero? Is that what you're going to call me? I just don't understand. Like, do you know if maybe somebody that your wife went to high school with has a kid with a soccer game this Saturday you could attend or something? If they got an event going. How far does this go go if they got an event going on a saturday or sunday when i got brooks i'll be there so this gets you i mean do they help with you big pointage

oh my goodness for hey where's your wife because you're taking the beating of dealing with the people that she doesn't even want to deal with yes and they but they get to see brooks yeah and it's always fun to see a little kid running around. It's like your thing doing the dishes. You don't mind doing the dishes and everyone applauds you for doing the dishes. It's a win-win. Right. I get to show up.

And I'm over there by myself. I get to show up, eat free food. He gets to rip and romp and I don't have to deal with him for a little bit. And then I get all of these brownie points that I get to spend on something that I get to decide on later. That's what Skylar was telling me how it is for him in muff diving. Is that he just – That's why we all go down there. Yeah, right.

We love it. We love it. We're all doing it to – yeah. We need some reciprocation. No, you're selling me because my thought was just why don't you just hang out with him on your own? Well, he gets to play with his cousins or whatever you call them. He gets to go to the park. It's something out of the house.

And now you just got to – because you would just go to a high school football game that's not even your team. I would, yeah, find something else and spend money. Yeah, this is free food. There's the angle. There's the Blake I know. But now you got to – you just got to talk to them. Yeah. Where do you think my lunch came from today?

Okay. Leftovers that they sent me. Sent me home with. There's always a grandma trying to push leftovers on you too. For sure, because they don't want them. Yeah. And I'll take them. Yeah, I took home a bunch of tamales.

Nice. I'm very familiar with tamales. Yeah. Very popular Christmas food. Yeah. And then, so we went from that party to we had an engagement party. One of my cousins is getting, or got engaged. And so I've had a big celebration for him.

That's gay to go to an engagement party. And to have one. Yeah. I mean, not even I did that. Like a party just because you got engaged? Yeah. I'm with you. I mean, I'm down.

I'm a long time defender of anything that gets you together with your people to hang out fine that's kind of what it was yeah don't label it that just call it a Christmas party did he propose right before that or was it unplanned no I think

so this is this is one of my cousins who I think he is what you wish I was. He studied abroad. He travels the world. Has an interest in life? Has a personality, you know, that kind of stuff. Okay.

Anyway, he studied abroad, met a girl over there, and is living over there. And so he proposed over there. So I think anything he does over there, when he's home, they want to recreate so that they can experience it with him. Have you noticed that Blake is so worldly, he hasn't even really indicated a continent on which this person lives. Over there. It's all just over there to him.

It blends together because he studied abroad in Spain, but he met a girl from Germany, but they met in Portugal, and they live somewhere. I don't care. Even I know that's all the same. It's just Europe. It's all over there. I don't care. Okay. Anyway, so then... You know, who's the first guy

to do the have a photographer, like, jump out of the bushes and take a picture? What we need... When I get to Time Machine, I'm not going to kill Baby we need I'm gonna not when I get to Time Machine I'm not gonna kill baby Hitler

I'm gonna kill that guy cause isn't that a bad bit like now everybody's gotta take a picture do a big thing like if you don't do it now

yeah you're probably she's not gonna be too happy about it yep like she needs a story that she can tell her friends

it's very stressful too because I mean I don't know how to pro, but I had a friend's wife do it. But it leads you to, like, having to hit a mark. I'm like, all right, I got to do it. Yeah. Like, right here. There's an X on the ground there. Yeah, pretty much.

It felt very unnatural. Yeah. Well, I think I went above and beyond, and I don't think I get enough credit for mine. What'd you do? We took a trip to Malibu. Nice. Took her down to the beach. Had my buddy waiting

under the pier. I mean, I did it good. I did it right. You had a buddy in Malibu? Yeah. Just for that? Again, though, if it wasn't for whatever

the first guy that did this, Well, yeah. You would just have, you could have done that in private. For sure. Yeah, yeah. You could have done that in private. For sure. Yeah, I texted her. Yeah.

Hey, will you marry me? But no. And then I thought like every. With a wiener shot. Every. Put a ring around. Put a ring on this. No, but I thought this would come up every year.

Like, oh, I knocked it out of the park. And then I don't think I've heard about it since, so it's kind of a waste of time. Anyway, I bring up the engagement party to tell you that his wedding is going to be in Portugal in 2026, and I've decided I'm going to go. Look at this. Let's go do the show. Let's do the show. I love Portugal.

You want to go to Portugal? His wedding date is 6 6 26 flirting with a kind of flirting with it there but i guess it's memorable it's an amazing place and then finally i'll leave you with this i have a new grift uh the i've told you that i've i caught myself spending too much money at starbucks because i have to have a coffee every day and then I discovered, oh, hey, QT has really good coffee. 7-Eleven has good coffee. Gas stations have good coffee now. There's no need to spend a bunch of money at Starbucks. Well, the gas station by my

house has a drink subscription. So for 10 bucks every month, I can get a drink, one drink every day. And I've, for three weeks straight, I've gone every day and gotten a coffee. That's a great deal. Yeah. What are the parameters? Yeah. Do you have to, can you get the extra large coffee?

Yeah. I take in my ice shaker from Ski, 26 ounces, fill it up with cold brew, and then I just charge it for like a coffee refill, claim my drink for the day, and walk out of there. Nice. So, that's drink for the day, and walk out of there. Nice.

That's probably $100, $120 a month. I'm saving a ton of money. I'm saving so much that I feel bad, like I'm taking advantage of them. And so what I'm trying to do is be nice to the clerks, because I see the same three ladies every day. Connie, Tanya, and Phyllis. Wow. That is a very whiskey tango. Yes. That's not the common. Older white ladies from the sticks. Got a couple of Roseannes in there. One of them has to live in the trailer park over off 78. I just know it. Anyways, I'm trying to be

nice to them all the time, remember their name, try to remember something that we talked about last time. And I was waiting in line the other day, and a guy walks in. All he says was, hey, you ready for Christmas? Oh, kryptonite. Okay, that's all he said.

Phyllis comes back with. Oh, somebody's sick. No, I'm not really into Christmas anymore. I lost a child on December 23rd. Oh, dear. That's a lot of info for that. Okay, then the guy goes, oh, man, I'm sorry to hear that.

Phyllis comes back. Yeah, and his brother lost the fight on December 5th, so I'm not really into the month of December either. Whoa. There was another guy in line with me. I wouldn't be into any month. And I just looked at him. We made eye contact like, what the fuck?

Why did this just happen? Out of nowhere. She must have to tell that story a lot because people are probably all the time. And it says when you walk in the gas station, we're open on Christmas. Yeah, that's tough. So that's like you're weighing, hey, can we open on Christmas? Hey, I'll see you or whatever. Have a happy holidays.

I had two kids that died around Christmas. It's not like people routinely come up to you and like, what do you have planned for April Fool's? And also, no, I like Dan's point, though, because it makes it sound like I just got to get to January and then everything's great. Hey, happy holiday. Well, for you, maybe. Not really for me.

I don't know that any month is better when you've lost both of your children, but she makes it sound like, boy, January. Yeah. Flying high. This would be great. Yep. That's so tough, man. Yeah, but I know. that's so tough man yeah but i know i guess if you're gonna lose two of your kids you might rather lose them both in the same proximity then you could just late rip the band-aid that month

is a stain but to have it on the month of uh the greatest holiday yeah so thanksgiving they're they're having good times i don't know but the other one losing his fight is right around the corner from Thanksgiving. Yeah. Like you're probably thinking about his last Thanksgiving, every Thanksgiving. Yeah, but then you're like, oh, it's also so-and-so's last Thanksgiving. Yeah, it's a tough one.

See, I feel like losing a child puts you in the ultimate, for most of us, judgment-free zone. Yeah. And then here we are. Well, no. I mean, it feels like you would be thinking about it all the time, but how often do you bring it up? Should I ask?

Hypothetically, let's say, because most of the time, whenever people lose a child, there's a divorce, right? Statistically proven. Yeah. hypothetically let's say because most of the time whenever people lose a child there's a divorce right statistically yeah yeah do you ever lean on the lost child thing as a as an angle in the dating game so wait that's the way i can get a divorce i gotta sacrifice a child sophie's choice Which one of them Give it all back Which one of them Do I choose I know you just put them

Both through college Like Yeah I would hate to Sacrifice a child now You wanna do that Before Five years ago Right before college

Would be the time Cause then you get All the good times Yep All that kind of stuff Alright Because then you get all the good times and all that kind of stuff. All right. From the wonderful world of sports, radio sports, scoreboard. Oh, yeah, I like that.

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Distilled from corn. Copyright 2025. Crafted to be savored responsibly. Dallas 26. Baker 24. Certainly wasn't Baker's fault. It looked like he was ready to lead them to a game-winning field goal drive right there at the end.

Yeah, it was a risky play. Well, I mean. But. I thought, well, that play was indicative of why the Cowboys won this game. First of all, unbelievable pass rush. Yeah. Right away. Like, he was under fire all game.

I mean, we saw this with Brady versus Mahomes, where it was the other way around. It was the Tampa Bay pass rush. Like, just inundating Mahomes. Like, even the best quarterback in the world is going to look terrible. Can I call a quick timeout? Huh. I just want to talk to Blake for a second.

All right, here we go. We're going to say he's saying Mahomes is Baker. Well, it is interesting. To illustrate the idea of a quarterback under pressure. That's just a very – I'm just going to grab anything out there. Everybody has seen that. Daniel Jones, no.

Drew Locke, no. Brock Purdy, no. I'm trying to get the Cowboys pass rush. No, no, you're right. Because that play was – like all of a sudden they're on him. He's trying to get out of a sack. Then he does a Baker thing, slings it, the shovel pass.

But then, also indicative of the game, the defense just makes another big play. Who was that? Was that Deron Bland? Yes. With the play of the game? Yeah. Causing that fumble? And really, that's how they've wanted to play all year.

You know, we talk about playing with a lead. They get out 10-0, 10 plays seemingly into the game, and they're able to just go. Even with Micah clearly still sick. Like, I don't know if you know this whenever you were gone, but he popped up on the injury report with the flu Friday. So, I don't feel like they mentioned that last night whenever he was over there huffing and puffing.

No, they were like, he's exhausted. I know, and I'm like, you know, he was on the list. Okay, that's interesting. McCarthy was even saying it was kind of touch and go. They're like, oh, he just winded over there. But in any case, they had enough guys that they were all over Baker all night. I mean, he really kind of kept him in that game. He's good, man.

He is good. It's tough not to think about how perfect he was for Cleveland. You know what? Let's just hear him pregame. We can't celebrate, but he was on the field with Melissa Stark. Baker, your offense is rolling on a four-game win streak. What gives you confidence in this team down the stretch? Starts up front.

Those guys are playing unbelievable. See, what we have here is a leader. He's not taking the credit. It's the guys up front. Although I haven't seen what – Okay, so you know how the bad bit is that you got to hire a photographer or whatever to take a picture while you're getting engaged? Mm-hmm.

How about the quarterbacks giving their linemen the gifts? Yeah. Because it's never – this might have started with Dan Marino. Back in the way, way old days, Dan Marino would do sponsorship for Isotoner gloves. And one year, he gave all his linemen Isotoner gloves, which

must have cost, you know, 20 bucks each, right? And he didn't pay for them. And then he didn't pay for them. And now we have Brock Purdy giving all of his linemen Toyota trucks or whatever. Which he didn't pay for. Which he didn't pay for.

It was just his sponsor. Because somebody put pencil to paper on that. And the amount of money he would have had to pay for those trucks would have been like almost his entire salary for the year. But, yeah, that's the new bit is someone else did it, too. There's a couple guys yeah i mean like joe burrows is the sword he gave samurai yeah what the hell is that awesome is that just i have way too much money so i've already got i bought the batmobile that's pretty cool too but i have so much money let me just buy something that you don't want or need yeah but that's cool

though like that's what i would hope we would do if we had money. Anybody can go buy a Toyota Tundra. I'm sure it's a great car, but most people, one, already have a car. Would you want a sword or a TV? Don't ask him. Ask somebody who makes millions and millions of dollars. That's what you want.

I mean, think back to... So you're giving to someone else that also doesn't care. Bits. When we played that clip from Burt and Tom Segura where he bought him the Fuhrer's Cup for his birthday at an artifact auction. The truck is the most Brock Purdy thing ever. It's boring.

It's milk toast. It's cookie cutter and pretty mid. Joe Burrow, a sword? Some of them are like centuries old. That's awesome. It's. Joe Burrow, a sword? Some of them are like centuries old? That's awesome. It's very Joe Burrow. Very. All right, let's continue to hear Baker just say the right things.

Starts up front. Those guys are playing unbelievable. The way they're able to establish line of scrimmage in the run game and just protect me back there when we need to pass. It starts with those guys, but trust all of our skill guys as well. Also then threw in a little something for the wide receivers and the running backs, even the skill guys. You're facing a Cowboys defense that has a number of injuries.

How do you exploit that tonight? We just got to do our job. It doesn't matter who we play week in, week out. We just got to do our job, and that's the main focus for us. You grew up in Austin, Texas. You won a high school state championship and a Big 12 championship. Do you think she opens her mouth a little too much on these because she doesn't want to be slurry mouth like Pam Oliver?

Here in this stadium, how special is it to play tonight in front of 50 family members and friends? Like, have you ever done that, Baker? It's not special at all. In front of 50 family members and friends. Unbelievable. It's special. So surreal for me to be able to come back seven years now in the league

and still have that support from all the loved ones. Humble guy. Humble. It'll be a fun one. the loved ones. Humble guy. Humble. It'll be a fun one. Thanks, Baker. Have fun tonight. Appreciate it. Man, he's humble.

Doesn't even know how good he is. Boy. If we were in a situation where Dak Prescott had a chance to go seize hold of the division by beating the lackluster Cowboy team, or Buck team in this case, who was eliminated from the playoffs, didn't have their starting quarterback. Their coach is a dead man walking.

How many drop passes did they have? A lot. Yeah. And pretty crucial situations too. No, I think he's... He's awesome. He's great. I'm just saying.

I'd be hearing about it if Dak pissed away the division. The winning gene. Yeah. You guys like Bucky Irving? Yeah, fourth round pick. Yeah, same draft, right? That's a fun one to always... Everybody's got to bring up Trey Lance

every time Bucky Irving does something. Or they have Rashawn White. Oh, take another one. Yeah. You might need more than one. So, obviously the game was a little weird. The start was like, because of the Washington thing.

Man, that Washington thing hurt me. My Monopoly game. I had big money on Philly. And I won that bet all day until like 10 seconds or less. Did you see the end of that game? Oh, yeah. Heck of a game.

Unbelievable. Devontae Smith catches that pass. Right. I mean, so many. I mean, they probably are going to let me just win because they're going to see how unfair that was. Completely forgot Kenny Pickett was with the Eagles. Absolutely.

Not going to lie. Tiny hand Kenny Pickett. Eagles are good, though. Yeah. Did what's-his-name take the Offensive Rookie of the Year back? We think Bo Nix was going to win it. Bowers? No. No, Jaden Daniels. Oh was going to win it. Bowers? No.

No, Jaden Daniels. Oh, Jaden Daniels. Bowers is balling out the last month, though. Really? But Jaden Daniels did have a moment. He had five touchdowns and then the game-winning touchdown. Yeah. Where were we?

Oh, yeah. So the game starts because Washington won. That knocked Dallas out of the playoffs can you imagine how geek we'd be right now if they had beat Cincinnati they should've because think about it

right now the Bucs did not play poorly the Bucs played pretty well they had drops but that's a good team and they played okay they didn't just fumble the game away, at least

metaphorically they didn't. Pittsburgh is a confusing team, but they're not bad. Washington has a long way to go. They're young, but they're good. Good wins. Not great wins, but good wins. If you could add Cincinnati to that,

you'd be looking at them like, hey, this is a team that should be on the verge of the playoffs. Seconds plays away. They're doing it in a way, too, to give McCarthy a new contract just because they were playing crappy at the beginning of the season. Yeah. Maybe it's a little Zimmer, too.

Maybe he didn't really know how to use the parts that he has. Or the guys didn't buy in. Something like that. One or the other, yeah. Because that's – like this defense, that's the way the defense helps them win games. And they still don't have digs. Or they haven't.

They haven't had digs, bland, and Parsons out there together much at all. But, yeah, the McCarthy thing is very interesting because I think there are a lot of people who were watching that game last night who were like this was almost perfect where your team plays really well, but somehow you still find a way to lose. Yeah. Like by one, giving up a game-winning field goal, so you end up with another loss on McCarthy's ledger and a better pick.

But, you know, they were never going to do that. I'll tell you what I was really tired of throughout the entire game. And as the game got longer, you know, later in the game, I got more tired of it. Because, you know, I hate the narrative of, look how hard they're playing though, Mike. I mean, these guys have nothing to play for. What do you mean you have nothing to play for?

That guy makes $30 million. That guy makes whatever. People have paid hundreds of dollars to get in here and to park. They have a lot to play for. They're pros. This is their thing. They're playing for next year's contract they're playing they're like is the only reason you go out there is because you have a chance to

win the super bowl and if that evaporates then it's like we now have to blow every one of the players who is uh oh my god look at it or same thing with CD. Like he blocked on a play or something. There's a guy. He got paid. He's doing that despite the fact that he – oh, maybe that's why he got paid because he plays like that. Maybe, you know, do you get paid just because you try hard for balls thrown your way but you don't try any other time?

I don't know. No, you're right. But I would offer the caveat on CD, partially because I wrote my article about it this morning. What he's doing is pretty incredible. He should not be out there. It's almost hard to watch. As far as him being injured?

Now, that's a different thing. That's what I'm saying. That's a different... Yes. The shoulder is hurt. Now, of course, Collinsworth jerked it on that as well. He was very excited. A little more of me, I'll say that's an approvable jerking on. Now, maybe the team should have stepped in five, six weeks ago

and been like, you're not playing. Yeah. Because it happened in Atlanta, the game Dak went out. There's been two or three times since then where you're like, he's not getting up. It happened last night. And then he left the game and came back in one play later and tried to fight for the end zone.

And then he only played a couple snaps in the second half, caught that one pass, and then got down as quick as he could. He's in serious pain. Yeah. But the thing that bothers me is the fighting hard and playing hard. And look at him, despite the fact. What a team. Okay. What I really hate is using that.

But that's really a McCarthy feather. Like, oh my gosh. I can't stand that. Look how he hasn't got it. They don't quit on him. That I don't like. That should not be. The fact that you don't quit at the end of this year

should not be what gets you another four years. Now, he may get it. I'm kind of starting to think that. He will. I mean, I listened to Jerry's postgame this morning, and he says the same thing every time. There's really nothing that interesting about it. He's like, hey, he's doing a great job.

Certainly will take it into account. Okay, he's not guaranteeing it or anything no it's it's ben johnson or mike mccarthy if they can't if they can't get a big name then he'll be back i can't remember who i heard talking about this heck it might have been on the broadcast yesterday it was collinsworth like you know pointing out hey you know ben johnson's great and all but you do kind of have to know what you're dealing with when you get to Dallas. It can be a little overwhelming if you're not used to it. And Garrett was a noob, but he grew up here, you know. He was part of the family.

So, who knows. That'll be interesting. But I don't know. Overall, it was fun to watch him win. That's how I know I'm still a fan. I was wondering. But I still got fired up watching. It was like a team win.

You guys are busting ass. Okay, here's something. Cooper Rush, not bad. Pretty good backup quarterback. Yeah, he's fine. One of the better backup quarterbacks in the league, I guess, at least. Yeah. At least not a below average backup quarterback.

No, I agree. However, did you want to see him playing? Isn't that still a weird thing that you're not putting in Trey Lance at all? No, it's the same thing that I was saying to you a couple weeks ago. They're playing him thinking we're going to bring him back, Cooper, and the more he's played, the next time he has to play, the better. Who knows? Maybe Dak's not back at the start of next season.

Yeah, and there's no incentive to play Lance other than. Who knows? Maybe Dak's not back at the start of next season. Yeah. And there's no incentive to play Lance other than just to see what it looks like. Yeah. They don't want to. I mean, that looks so horrible in retrospect. The fact that Cooper Rush is good. You're like, well, why did you want to?

You didn't need a backup quarterback then. You knew that. So is Trey Lance just a home run ball in the event that he can replace Dak? Absolutely. That's insane. Well, and they just don't value that fourth round pick.

Well, what a disaster. What a disaster. Do you guys know, have you heard Collinsworth talk about why the slide went away? Did we ever talk about that? What slide? The slide in where you thought that it was real, that one time that it was being played in like an English pub.

The slide in next to Al Michaels? Yeah. I don't know if we played it. Well, the reason it doesn't happen anymore is because Al Michaels is gone. Because Al Michaels' contract, a la Jason Statham in The Rock and how many punches they could each land in their contracts. Here, do you want to hear it? Yeah, sure.

This is on the Maining cast, right? Yeah. Yes. Oh, my goodness. Do you like that? Do you like how it doesn't play? How about this? So Al's got it in his contract that he's the only guy on camera

for the first minute of the broadcast. I don't care. It's less I got to try and remember. I'm happy about it, right? So fine. I got no problem at all. So they would say, all right, so Chris, you're there, and I'm right next down.

He's like, Chris, Al's got to be the only one on. You've got to get out of the shot. I was like, well, you put a piece of tape down for me to put my legs on either side of to do it. What do you want me to do? Have my legs around this piece of tape or do you want me to get out of the shot? He goes, well, just lean out of the shot. You don't have to. We just lean out.

So I'm like, what are you talking about? So I go like what you talking about? So I go like this So yeah, so literally every game we open the broadcast and I'm lying on the table Over here like this while I was you know waxing poetic on the other side Yeah, and then he gets his partner coming in and I go up like this, right? And so this whole thing becomes a totally crazed sort of thing. And they started putting it like in a World Cup bar, and the winning goal was made, and people would scream.

And I don't know what the heck happened, but it made me famous. So I'll slide anytime anybody wants me to. So he's saying that's fake? I think he's confirming that it's fake, yeah. That's really weird that Al Michaels had that in his contract. I know. Like, what's the point? You're already, like, the lead announcer on the number one game of the week.

And I feel like you'd be like, oh, man, my agent just put that in there. Like, it's no big deal, dude. Yeah, but Al Michaels is like, yeah, lean over. Lean over, Chris. I like Collinsworth. Man, I loved Collinsworth. He really wanted to see Baker get a game-winning drive as well because they're talking about it.

Baker Mayfield. I mean, Mike, you'd call him a gunslinger, wouldn't you? I mean, he's got the touchdown. He also might have the interceptions for you. So I'm talking to Baker Mayfield, the production meeting we had this week. Of course, his favorite player was a guy named Brett Favre. I asked him, who's his favorite quarterback? He said Brett Favre.

I was like, oh, Mike, hold on. You got a towel? I got to clean up after that. I can't believe you said Brett Favre. Of course you said Brett Favre. Of course you said Brett Favre. Oh, yeah. You know, there was a play where I think he might have scrambled and slid. I hate when Baker does this because it's so performative.

They don't even have to be in the dang hurry up. He runs back to spot the ball with the official. I'm like, dude, you're just going to get back. This play clock is going to go down to eight. He loves football. He's fired up. Just let it go, dude. We know you try hard.

That's awesome. Oh, okay. Here's another Collinsworth bit. You know he says pass rush. A lot of that last night So I'd like to prove it He has unleashed the pass rush a bit this year

As well with those five and a half sacks You're going to end up taking a shot Right there just like that And that is the basics Of their four man pass rush We can't get into a drop back passing game And let their pass rush get going But Kalijah Kansey is really proving to be a very dangerous pass rusher

on the inside for these guys. You do get just exhausted in the two-minute offense. The offensive linemen don't have to work nearly as hard as those pass rushers. I think I do it too. Pass rush.'ll put the H on the pass pass pass

maybe they've all always been doing it and we just never noticed because Greg will do it also occasionally but he does Collinsworth does it every time he says it

so that's why we're highlighting that here's a little – Collinsworth does it every time he says it. So that's why we're highlighting that. Here's a little more Collinsworth. We'll end with Tarika stuff. But here's – it's something else he likes. When the Cowboys quarterbacks are calling the signals, you will hear – here we go. 20. 20. The Cowboys quarterbacks are calling the signals you were here Here we go. All right, set. All right, set. Jack's got a little more vibrato.

Here we go. We'll work with him. We'll work with Cooper next time we see him. I might say, you and Cooper often try that out a little bit. It's a movement on the right side. Boy, I hate Tariqo, man. Afterwards, he's always got to try to add his little comment and like, hey, I'm part of this too.

He's also, they have no chemistry. I thought of this later in the second quarter, and it's like, well, if I was marking every one of them in the first quarter, maybe I could have got it. Just the whole, he leads Collinsworth into everything. Like, Collinsworth has his own brain. He'll talk about stuff, but he'll be like, and, and, right, Chris?

He'll set up whatever Chris Collinsworth's thing is, but I don't want to get off the here we go thing just yet because we're going to go to Melissa Stark. Yeah, Mike, we heard both of the here we goes right there. I asked Dak about it. He laughed and said, Cooper's is okay, but definitely not as good as mine. And then he started getting really revved up about it

and said, I mean, I'm the originator. There's only one Michael Jordan. Not even sports funny, but they laughed at it. And this is my illustration on your quarterback is the big dork. This is not positive evidence from our side of the earth. I originated this awesome thing that everybody loves. He's the Michael Jordan of winning games?

Of changing the cadence. Of saying, here we go. Now, certainly, this change in cadence, it's creating a lot of strategic benefits where guys are jumping off sides, right? Like he's getting a lot of free plays from this. No, it's just to quiet everyone down. Okay.

Yeah. No, Tirico is a huge pain in my ass. He's my least favorite play-by-play guy. Something, again, like you said, that I didn't notice until late, I think he complains about his job a lot too like what like yesterday there was a time where uh i think they might have been talking about aubrey to be honest they were talking about one specific player uh or kickoffs or something they're like three goes like yeah know, uh, we just put on breakfast and watch tape of kickoff after kickoff of after kickoff. He's like, I know it sounds, that sounds riveting to all you folks out there, but that is actually, I mean, that's what we do. I'm like,

yeah, well, it's your fucking job. Yeah. You get paid pretty well to do it too. Like doing the, like, Oh, I know it sounds boring to you. No, actually that sounds awesome. It does just hang out with other, your friends and watch the best thing in the world. Like, oh, man, this sucks. I mean, I know you think this sucks that I get to just sit here and make jokes about teacher-sex student stories with my friends. Yeah, it is awesome. I can't stand it. Man, he gets to watch film on kickoff and finger production assistance. Attempt.

Attempt, yeah. Attempted finger. Pretty sweet life to me. Here's, okay, so. He also called Melissa, Melissa. No. God dang it, I'm sorry. I'll give you that now then.

Well, the 15 after the penalty rush inside. Dowdle with the reception. He's got about nine. Melissa. Oh. He is right hamstring week nine. I knew it was coming, and I still wasn't prepared. Well, he did it for the Here We Go thing, too,

so he must have done it more than once. This is Tariq Bro. Okay. Tariq-o-Bro. He ended the game with that as well. Yeah, just show us who we are. We're out here competing, a bunch of guys who love football, and want to go win for each other, and that's what we did.

Awesome. Well, congratulations, guys. Enjoy your gifts. Thank you. Merry Christmas, Feliz. No. I've never heard it in my whole life. What are you saving there? An uh? And Melissa. He thinks he's going to get some of that.

Here, he also just likes bad bits. He thinks things are funny that aren't funny. This was during the Tampa Bay player introductions. I don't know if you even pay attention to that. Yeah. But on Sunday Night Football, and one of the players let his daughter read. Sterling Shepard.

Alright, here we go. Oklahoma. Rashawn White, Arizona State. Mike Evans, Galveston Ball. Sterling Shepard, Oklahoma. Jalen McMillan, Washington. Payne, Durham, Purdue. Tristan Wirfs, Iowa. Ben Bredesen, Michigan. Graham Barton, Duke. Cody Moutt, NDSU. Luke Guttekie, Central Michigan. All right, that's maybe the best player introduction ever, right? That was great. Sterling Shepard's girls girls callie and cassie help out dad from oklahoma they're gonna start with a couple of tight ends so dad's not on the field to begin this one but really really cool love that one i bet you did oh my god he definitely loved uh riley curry right i think that was a great moment. Oh, my God. Look at it.

Oh, Zeke. It's like the old Cowboys here. Zeke scores a touchdown. We got Zeke a little pity. His last highlight of his Cowboy career. Yeah, they granted his wish. Yeah. We got Zeke a touchdown. I'm stunned we didn't get a feed me. of his cowboy career. Yeah, they granted his wish. Yeah.

We got Zeke a touchdown. Stunned we didn't get a feed me. Just one for old time's sake. Stunned. Like that was his only portion that day, right? One carry, one yard, one touchdown. Yeah, one carry, one yard, one touchdown, baby. Okay, can you imagine if you extrapolated that across a whole season?

Still would be one yard attempt, but you would have a lot of touchdowns. You would have to have 100 attempts a game to get him that 100 yards. And my question is, I think the answer is obviously yes, but I also don't really think that it is. Is Mike Evans a Hall of Famer? We've talked about this before. I think he is, but then whenever everybody...

Full disclaimer, I don't care about the Hall of Fame at all. But if you're going to engage in these, it seems like what Hall of Fame hard-on people do is they always say, were you one of the three to five best at your position? Ever.

One year. Yeah. Because Romo was for at least two years, I would say. But that was it. Eli never was. Eli never was, but he's got the rings. Frank Gore never was.

Frank Gore played like whatever, 17 years. Longevity aspect of it. Yeah. But nobody's ever thought of Mike Evans as a top four, maybe not even top five. But then I've also always thought of him as really dominant and his numbers are insane. Yeah, I mean he has a thousand

yards every year. Yeah, and it's not exactly like he's had. I mean obviously he had Brady, but I guess Jameis was putting up numbers, but it's not like he's had the best quarterback play ever. At some point, was Dez higher ranked than him? Yeah, I mean, he's a lot younger than Dez. No, I just mean Dez was at one point one of the top five wide receivers in the game.

I would say so, yeah. Whereas you'd never – yeah. Like, think about even fantasy. Would you ever draft Mike Evans high in fantasy? Never. Handcuff? Shut up. Okay, but here's what I started thinking about when

the Mike Evans talk came up during the game last night. Because I remember saying this the night that he was drafted and got yelled at. But I say a lot of dumb stuff projecting the future for football. Is CD on the

way to the Hall of Fame. I mean Like you do this for five more years? On the way, yeah. I guess Well Then you have to look

at the era too, you know. Well that's what I'm saying. Like there are a ton of people doing that. So right now I think he is But right now he's one of the top

five wide receivers in the game. I think he's three and I think he was three think he is – But right now he's one of the top five wide receivers in the game. I think he's three, and I think he was three last year. And if you can continue being one of the top three wide receivers – Then you are, right? Then I would think so. He's only 25, I think. Yeah.

So he could be on his way. I think he's right below Burrow and Chase. And what he's doing banged up, I don't know. I'm very impressed with him. Burrow and Chase, Jefferson and Chase. You don't know that much about CD, it seems like. He doesn't have the podcast. A lot of people don't have podcasts.

A lot of them do, including Amon Ra, who gets a pass from you in your attempt to tear down Micah. Cowboys were 14-2 and headed to the Super Bowl and were in the conference title game last year. Yeah, have your damn podcast. CD just seems kind of quiet. He just kind of does his thing. But the fact that he's balling out like this hurt a team that sucks.

I got a lot of respect for him. Isn't that the whole guy trying hard bit? Well, that's what I'm saying. You're commending him for playing? No, he should not be playing. I don't think. I mean, it's pretty clear he's hurting. What if he wanted to get his 1,000 yard and he won't play the rest of the year?

I think there's a very real chance that happens. Maybe that's it, yeah. All right, well, they won. It's weird. I mean, I still was – like I started out watching the game thinking, this kind of sucks. I'm doing this now because I have to. It was a fun game, man.

Yeah, then all of a sudden it's like a really good game and I like it. And my second favorite Cowboy at this point is J. Lou, our friend Jordan Lewis. He had a great game. And the broadcast crew were slobbering all over him. So between that and Aubrey, it was a good time. Yeah, Aubrey was great. We haven't even really mentioned that, but we'll talk to him in just a little bit. 58-yard field goals like nothing. I'm just looking at my notes here.

A little notebook dump. The Buccaneers GM on the sidelines. So they mentioned this. Is it Jason Licht? Lichty. They're like, oh, yeah, he's a guy. You don't hear much about him. He's just a guy who really stays out of the limelight.

Here he is on the sideline, which he's done every game for the last four years. He just watches a game from the sideline. Okay. Yeah. Those two things don't match, right? It reminds me of when we played the Aaron Rodgers audio from the documentary last week, and he's like, no one would leave me alone. And then I started doing these State Farm ads, and it just got worse.

I'm like, well, yeah. That's right. If you watch the game from the sideline, it's probably going to happen. So we're not on again this week. Or no, tomorrow we're going to do, we're actually recording it today. But we're going to have a Christmas special show

on the Travis Kelsey movie that we watched. It's that much. Yeah, there's a lot of content there. But I just want to mention that because we won't have a chance to go around the NFL and all that kind of stuff, and I don't know what jumps out at you at all. I know obviously the Philly-Washington game jumped out for me, or for everybody.

Washington knocked the Cowboys out of the playoffs, and it was a great ending to that game and all that kind of stuff. Did you see the Jonathan Taylor touchdown? I guess I did not. Amused me. Do you guys know what I'm talking about? Oh, did he drop? Wait.

Last week. I know about him dropping the ball. Last week he dropped the ball at the one half yard line on a long touchdown run, which we've seen a million times and just still can't understand it. I personally can't. Deshaun Jackson.

Yeah, but of course maybe I would understand it if I scored lots of touchdowns. But this week it was kind of funny. He held on to the ball. He wouldn't give the ball up. He ran across the goal line. He ran out of the end zone. He ran into the tunnel. And then as he came back with the ball,

he wouldn't hand the ball to the ball. He wouldn't give up the ball. I'm watching it now. It was just a funny bit. Okay. So that's really my around the NFL thing I want to note. He messes up. And then the next time he over-exaggerates

because of his previous mistake. Right. And then it's like, oh, look how great it is. Was he wronged or something? Right. That's the point. up and then the next time he over exaggerates because of his previous mistake right and then it's like oh look how great was he wronged or something right that's the point he wasn't he made his own problem and is now making fun of his own problem okay yes and probably going to get a sponsorship with uh uh life lock or some kind of a thing that uh you know like holds on to you, whatever. How's the club? What was that thing you put in your car?

The club used to be a huge thing. I saw one the other day. For real? You've seen a club? Yes. It's an artifact. No, honestly, outside of the Philly game, the best two games were Saturday during college football.

Yeah. The NFL just trying to flex their muscle. Like, they have a Wednesday game this week. I think that's why they do it. Oh, is it Christmas? Yeah. That's the thing. To buy some time.

They make the teams playing on Wednesday, but on Saturday. Right. Yeah. Yeah, Kansas City. Yes. And I don't even know who else is playing on Saturday. Whoever else played on Saturday. Right. So it's like this. Yeah. Yeah. Kansas City. Yes. And I don't even know who else is playing on Saturday. Whoever else played on Saturday. Who?

Pittsburgh. It's a round robin. So this Wednesday is Kansas City, Pittsburgh and Houston, Baltimore. Okay. But yeah, other than that, I mean, I think I proclaimed last week, Dan, because I was so horny about having NFL game Saturday and big slate Sunday and college game Friday night, college game Saturday, all day. This could be one of the most exciting weekends of football we've ever had.

And it was not that at all. I watched a lot of it, but. Well, college wasn't exciting. There was excitement, but it was not exciting. Yeah. College football fans are but it was not exciting. Yeah. College football fans are the worst. Go on. I kind of logged off on the...

The discourse? I just don't care. Somebody had a... Actually, I think it was Jason from the internet. He had the perfect tweet. It was, you know, college football fans will be mad unless every game is decided by one score and their team is the one that won.

Otherwise, it's SMU shouldn't have been in there. Indiana shouldn't have been in there. Insert whoever team should have been there. These two teams should play. This team should have been higher seed. No one's ever going to be happy. I loved that after the first, was it three games? All the complaints were just about how these also ran teams

that aren't blue blood programs shouldn't be in there. And then Tennessee got spanked the worst of everyone. And it's like, ah, okay. I can't say that they didn't play anybody. Yeah, so if this is what a two-loss SEC team looks like, imagine what their three-loss teams look like. Yeah. And, I mean-loss teams look like. Not helping matters at all.

My position is the same as what Dan has said. I just love all of this. I don't have a team. I don't really care about the integrity of the sport that much. I just like watching college football. Viewed through that lens, sure, I'll welcome Lane Kiffin in here with a can of kerosene.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, it was just the, hey, we're on the edge of our seat committee. And, I mean, it started Friday night, obviously. And, man, I felt bad. Obviously, I felt bad for SMU, but just coming out of Friday night, there was a lot on the line for them. The entire nation was looking to SMU to be like,

don't make it true that we fucked this whole thing up. We saw what Indiana did last night. All of us wanted to bail by halftime. That Indiana-Notre Dame game was not as close as the score. They got manhandled. So extra pressure of like, come on, prove that you deserve it. And I actually didn't think SMU was that unmatched with Penn State. They just had a couple of really unfortunate errors,

including on the first drive of the game where they decided to go for it on a fourth and one from about the 25, and their quarterback easily could have run for it, and he decided to throw to a guy who was wide open at the goal line who dropped it. And you're on the road at Penn State, you're underdog. Not to say it was all over at that point, but I felt like Penn State had the athletes.

But, yeah, I mean, when you see teams down four touchdowns at half, and there was already controversy over who got in and who didn't, that's what the whole weekend became about. I'm tired of the NBA only being people talking about why they don't watch the NBA anymore. And I was tired of college football weekend really just being about how they have it all wrong. It was a bad internet weekend.

Everyone's worried about where Hawk to a girl is. She issued a statement. Did she? Oh, she did? Yeah. On Twitter. Just how she's been wronged as well. Solid play.

Yeah. So I texted you and you're like, i know i'm watching it that because i was in a uh restaurant or a bar or whatever actually a both i think and uh just saw you know i just saw um you know shane gillis up on well, at first I saw Belichick was on game day. And then Shane Gillis was on there. I'm texting you guys like, hey, do you guys know Shane's on? And Jake's like, yeah, I'm already watching it. Yeah, we got done on Friday. And then game day started at 2.30.

Was there anything else on there besides the viral clip? Yeah, so it started with the kicking challenge, right? So you've got – which I've got to be honest. I'm a sucker for it. I've seen one kid make it, and it's enough to get me coming back. I like it a lot. It's not appointment television, but if it's on in the background, I'm like, all right, let's see what happens here.

So it's cold out there. They've got some dorky kid from Penn State, and he's going to kick a field goal with McAfee. But they usually have the guest picker down there. And in this case, they had – Did someone knock at the door? Perhaps they did. Would you mind if I took a break real quick?

Sure. Sure thing, Dan. Sorry. On live stream. The Dunza, Dunza, Dunza, Dunza. We were texting for a while, and then I find then 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 i 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 into 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 you went from there you get into the you get into the suv you get in the front the back where are you i got in the front yeah and so he's like okay are we gonna do this or not i'm like i guess so it's that quick he basically is just we're gonna do this we're gonna well he had like some small talk like oh like how long did it take you to get here and like whenever i left he was like drive safe and then after i left he texted me he's like you know like you're actually a really cool person he's like but you just can't say anything like it'll ruin my career and at that point i was just like yeah like i'm not the type of person to like say anything or do anything and then a few months like passed that like for a few weeks where I haven't talked to him. So I was like, I literally forgot about him, and I get blocked on Twitter.

All right, so you get into the SUV, and then what do you do? I mean, a little small talk. And what does he do? He just whips it out? No, well, we got in the backseat, and then he did. Okay, so he whips it out. He s got in the back seat and then he did okay so he whips it out you slob the knob did he mount you actual sex or just oral sex oral oral just oral okay did he give to no no he just received the oral geez that's what happens when you're rich and famous you just

get to do that in the back of the cheesecake factory. What a gentleman. Did he even buy you a piece of cheesecake after? No, actually. What a guy. All right. So did you guys kiss, too, or just go right to that? Just small talk, and I went right to it. Right to it.

Whenever I left, I was literally like, you know, going to do business with you, like joking around. Go do business with you. Yeah, and he was like, don't say that. And I was like, I'm just kidding. And then I lost my jewel in his car, and we had to look for that for a few minutes. And then he's like, okay, well, drive safe.

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And I thought my family was here to handle it, but apparently they have all scattered. And so, yeah. We had to take care of that. We did so. We're back. We were talking college football. Yeah, we had like a—

I forgot. Sorry. No, you're fine. To interrupt you. But I forgot the whole deuce. Yeah. I was almost right our nil guy what did you say where deuce would go colorado deuce robinson oh with dion yeah he went to dion's alma mater right and dominic's yeah he's uh he's going to florida state uh i you know i have no way of making sense of or predicting what team is going to be what two, maybe even one year from now in college football.

I have no idea. So to say, boy, that's weird. It's Florida State. They don't seem very good. Florida State could be the best team in the country next year. Could he transfer again next year? Yeah. I don't know what the rules are on the court.

There's a rule after that, though, isn't there? Is it not the Wild West still? Like the third time? I'm pretty sure there is. If you're not a graduate and you didn't get a COVID or a medical year, I believe there is a rule after a certain number of times. I don't think it's unlimited, but could be wrong about that. But I guess my point is just everybody saying like, oh, why would you want to go

to a team that sucks? You don't know any team that sucks. You don't know any... The good ones are still probably going to be good, but any team... Dude, look at what Tech has done in the last week. Now, again, it's all prospect rankings and ratings. It's just paper. But Tech has

gone and picked off the top 10 out of 20 players in the portal because of oil. This is the proof. One business guy had a good quarter and was like, I want to win a championship next year. The key to parity, if you like parity,

and I don't know that we do, but it's free agency. Yeah. You can have true parity if you just had full free agency. Remember the thing that Marvin Miller was afraid of

is if the owners figured out if we have full free we grant free agency every year that will hurt the salaries. He only wanted a few free agents every year because that bumps up all the salaries across the board. That's crazy to think about. But he's just like, I just hope they don't figure this out because if they

just say full, okay, everybody's a free agent, they will be able to sign guys for way below market value across the board. So back to game day, they did have Belichick on. That was pretty interesting. And then, you know, they're out there in State College. It's freezing. They're all bundled up. And we go down to the field for McAfee's kick,

and he's got Shane down there, Shane Gillis, the comedian, huge Notre Dame fan. And he's holding the big check, looking all goofy and probably half in the bag already. And it was cool because before they let the kid kick, I don't know if this was planned or not, but they had Matt McCusker appear from the Matt and Shane Secret Podcast, his partner, and let him try a kick

so that they would double the amount or whatever. Shane looked kind of surprised by it, but it was weird just seeing Matt McCusker. From Matt and Shane's podcast? Yeah, on television right before the college football playoff. It's like, boy, times have changed. A month ago, you know, it's Tony Hinchcliffe's on there. It's like, man, Rogan, okay. Shane is still kind of weird, but it's getting there. But then to see those guys, it's on there. It's like, man, Rogan, okay. Shane is still kind of weird, but it's getting there.

But then to see those guys, it's just weird. So he took a couple kicks. He missed. Then they got to do – what the heck was that? Certainly mine. Dan joined one stream yard. I bet. We got dogs getting into Jake's lunch.

We've got an echo. How do we get rid of this? Apparently not. Hello. Doing what I thought. Okay. So they got a little witty banter there with Shane, and they ask him how he's feeling about Notre Dame, et cetera, et cetera,

and he decides to work a little shot at the coaching. Hey, that's great news. I cannot wait to watch. You obviously very noted Notre Dame fan. How do you feel about a guy from Ohio wearing these on his shoes? Herb Street has, like, little covers on his shoes. I mean, as soft as that program's gotten. That's a soft program.

Obviously, he's an Ohio State lad. You're a Notre Dame boy. Love Notre Dame. How come? And what do you think about this particular team? I think, I don't know. This is, you know, it's always with Notre Dame. It's like, here's the big game.

Let's hopefully win it. This feels different. It feels like we can win it. Okay. There's some parity. Now that, you know, now that everybody can pay their players, Notre Dame has a shot. It's not just the SEC. It's not Coach Saban.

Now you're going to be on the set. Hey, Coach Saban ran a good operation down there. No, he didn't. Okay, I want to keep playing, but I thought that was... Both times this happened, Shane has to get whipped back to... No, no, no. Hey, Coach Saban ran a good operation down there. No, he didn't.

Good program. This is Chris Daly, I do believe, right? All right, so there's your first one. But as Herbie alluded to there, he's coming up to the set. He's going to have to pick games. So he's up there with Desmond and Coach and McAfee and Herbie and Rhys Davis. Hey, we talked earlier at the kick when you almost gave that kid $ 000 you're such a good man such a good man we talked at that point you said you know it feels different

than normally okay also i should uh have you note that nick saban is wearing an overcoat and like uh a weird like explorer's adventurer hat so i'm not a big game day guy. Is it always Pat McAfee talking? Pretty much. The whole time? Pretty much. Does he ever slow down? He sits in the middle. So in two years, he has just taken over the whole show?

Completely. He sits in the middle. He never leaves. It used to be he was just added as a little guest. No, the show is built around him. Like, the intro, you know, Rhys Davis may talk for 30 seconds to set the scene, but then they've got a whole

bit. It's their A block. It's McAfee talking to the crowd, riling people up. That's the whole show. For these big games, as you walk in here and we're getting closer to kickoff time, does it still feel different? Is this Notre Dame's night?

I don't know. It feels like there's more parody this year in college football. There's, you know, Coach Saban's gone. That helps. There's not like a team that you're like genuinely afraid of. I don't know. You called him a cheater earlier. I was just joking around. I don't think the SEC paid players ever.

Period. I'm joking. Is this not a fun show no no serious serious football alabama jones is very serious i'm not serious okay he was sitting over there not smiling not laughing he did not smile he didn't smile the whole time shane was sitting there before that you know because he's still thinking about the slight from 40 minutes ago. And when Shane did the, no, they haven't paid their players ever at all. He gave the, hmm?

And everyone was looking kind of over and saying, what do we do? Dad just hit mom type thing. It was really, really uncomfortable. That's awesome. You got to give it to McAfee because McAfee is the one that brought it back up. Kept setting him up. He's like, yeah, you said Coach Saban was a cheater earlier. McAfee handled this great.

And then McAfee was tweeting out the clips like, Shane Gillis is a bad guy. There's a reason McAfee has risen to the ranks he has. It sounded like you were upset about it, Blake, that he's running this show. I'm still in the camp that we're over McAfee, and he annoys me. Like he's good. Yeah, he's made for this, for sure. He's brightened up that show. I just don't want to watch an hour of it.

I've got to admit, it's pretty entertaining. Is this not a fun show? No. Is this serious? Serious football. Alabama Jones is very serious. No, I'm not serious. Get the whip, Indy.

I do believe in integrity. Yeah, hell yeah. I always try to run the program. Hell yeah. She goes, yeah, hell yeah. Hell yeah, integrity, bro. I do believe in integrity. Yeah, hell yeah.

I always try to run the program that way so players had a better chance to be successful in life. I agree. We make more money in the NFL than any other school. 61 players in the league. That was how we cheated. We developed players. Overlaugh, overlap.

Yeah. Blake, what are you saying? I was trying to be cool and professional and say Brandon's ready. Oh. And thought we could transition into it. But if you just want to hop right into it, we can bring Brandon on. Okay.

Who's got a Dumb Zone shirt on? I do. And a Christmas hat. Man, look at that. Cowboy Santa hat. Hey, dude. They give you those? Yeah, they did when we go to the hospital around Christmas time every year

and just hang out with the patients there and try and make their days. Does anyone know who you are? Not year one, but this year, yeah. Okay. It's funny because some people, you kind of show up and they have no love for sports or football. And they're just like, why are you shoving these people in our face? And then some people are just over the moon, excited to see us. There's a little bit of mix there.

How do you handle the first one? You just treat it like a genuine, kind interaction? Yeah, just try to be a normal person and just chat with them, take their mind off what they're going through for a little bit, and just hang out. You're also not like a 6'4", 325-pound lineman, like football player sometimes. And then you'll hear stories about certain athletes

who get stopped by security at their own stadium. Like, hey, you're not supposed to be in here. Do you ever get that? Because you don't look like, you know, next to the definition of football player in the dictionary. It doesn't have a picture of you. Absolutely. It still happens every once in a while. You know, week one, walking into the stadium, got stopped by our security guards who were there all last year.

Still look like Jared White guy. They know who I am now. And they got those facial recognition cameras when you walk in. It just, I don't know, gets a little glimpse of your face from the side and just puts a little green check that says cleared for entry. It's pretty cool but scary at the same time. Boy, I didn't realize that. That's new this year?

Yeah. At least I'm noticing them this year. I don't think they were here last year. Hey, Brandon, can you get Dan's dog to chill out? Yeah. Just open the door and let it out. Yeah. Kick him out and then close the door.

What's your pet situation? Have we talked about that before? Two cats. Two cats. Yeah. Kick him out and then close the door. What's your pet situation? Have we talked about that before? Two cats. Two cats. We've got a big, fluffy, old cat that just sits around and cuddles with us all day. And we've got a small little orange cat that's still got a little bit of energy but still loves to cuddle. So just two little cats. Well, congrats on the win yesterday even though thank you i guess you guys found out

what was it what was it like finding out that you couldn't make the playoffs anymore yeah so i was sitting at home watching that one um you know very emotional you know pretty comfortably confident that the eagles would take care of business. And it looked for a while like they would, and Jalen Hurts going out early doesn't help. But no one really talked about it at the stadium. We all prepared for a game and put a lot of work into getting ready for that game for this week and wanted to go out and put our best foot forward and show that we kind of deserve to be in the playoffs,

whether or not we have a shot at being there, playing for our coaching staff, for ourselves, for our brothers on the team, everyone. You know, it's a business. At the end of the year, a lot of contracts are up, and we want to show that we belong here and that the coaching staff has been great for us, and we want them back.

Yeah. I was criticizing the broadcast earlier only because the broadcast of your game, not this broadcast. But they were going nuts over. Collinsworth was going nuts over. Look at these guys. They're trying so hard. They're playing hard.

And even though they learned they're out of the playoff and i was thinking that's kind of ridiculous like would you be especially like would you be less apt to make a field goal knowing that like i don't really need to try to make this field goal we're not even in the playoffs yeah we're played we're paid to play football um and at the end of some year one year another we're gonna be looking for another contract and we want to get paid to play football longer um and you know why would we go out there and tank or lose a game on purpose or just not give effort and give our staff and our front office a reason to move on from us and a better draft pick with a better shot of finding a player

that may or may not be able to compete with us for our job. So, I mean, it's ludicrous to think that way. The only people that would be incentivized to go and lose a game would be the front office. Yeah, and that's a whole other topic because unlike in some other sports, you know, really any other sport, you can get seriously injured playing this game. So anything other than giving it everything you have physically is dangerous. So you had a pretty sweet night last night.

None of those looked like you had any trouble with them at all. We were talking earlier, I was saying about the broadcast, Tirico really loves you. I don't know how often you go back and watch the broadcast. Have you met Mike Tirico? Yeah, I've met him. He's a big special teams guy. He's one of the first broadcasters to kind of reach out to the special teams

units. He talks to all the coordinators. He talks to all the kickers and maybe a few of the punters and long snappers here and there. But he made a point to kind of give some love to the specialists at some point in his career. I'm not sure when that started. But last year, he sat down with me and talked to me for a while. He got my story and made sure to put it all over the broadcast. And then called me this year before our first sunday night game just

chatted with me to catch up and then he's out at our practice um this week before four games you know he was on a scooter it looked like a really nice scooter because he tore his ac or his uh achilles so he's not very mobile i don't know how he said he he claims he he tore it jumping up celebrating opportunities to kick long field goals for kickers. I don't know how true that is, but he loves special teams. And we have someone kind of rooting for us and telling our stories on the broadcast. Yeah, you can tell. You can definitely tell.

I kind of guessed that he seems like he's really into golf. And I feel like the play-by-play guys really love what you guys do because they love golf. And it's kind of the only part of football they can sort of compare it to. So I wonder, do people who play golf, just random regular guys you run into, do they try to talk to you about their golf game in terms of kicking? They do, actually. And it is the same exact thing.

It's just instead of a club, I have a leg that I use. So it's a really, really good comparison. You know, I can turn my foot a little bit different angles and get a different loft for the club. Just different swing paths generate a different ball strike. Really, the contact is the most important piece. Just being smooth, thin, and replicating that form. Not over-swinging like the one on the 70.

You guys compared to golf last week, and that was a perfect comparison. Just like this week, I'm in my comfort zone. I can go and hit my nice, smooth 80% swing and just watch it go through. Just get up and down. Yeah, exactly. So from 58, that's your 80%? Yeah, I'd say 80% is that sweet spot where it's bringing enough to the table that I can get a good amount of power behind it,

but I'm smooth enough to be able to control it. And, you know, when you swing, when I swing the golf club, at least anytime I try and swing at a hundred percent, I have no idea where the ball's going. When I swing 80%, at least it's going to go straight. I don't know how far it's going to go, but I'm not very good at golf yet. But with, with kicking in particular, there's a certain threshold of power you can control, and it's definitely not 100%. I don't think any kicker goes out there and swings 100% unless they're out of their comfort zone.

Didn't they pass up an opportunity to get you a 66-yard try last night? They did, yeah, up nine with like five minutes to go. Obviously, you want to win the game first. Not me. Yeah, well, coaching staff definitely wants to win the game. All the players want to win the game. And as much as we want to see a record, the right call there is to punt, pin them deep.

And Brian and CJ and the rest of the punt team did an incredible job. I think we pinned them at the five there there gave them a long field to to work with and they ended up putting back and then we punted again is a is the right call for sure as much as the fans and the stands definitely want to see see the long one I want that long record but um still it's still less likely to go in from there than probably it is likely to go in, I'd say. Okay, so obviously we now watch every one of your kicks frame by frame. I love it. If we can.

That 53-yard field goal, it looked like your plant foot slipped a little bit, but you still got it. Yeah, weird one. I made contact, and then I wasn't able to get through the ball. I kind of fell out of it. So I didn't really slip. I haven't seen it yet, but just feeling it, yeah, I felt like I didn't get through that one at all.

But I made good contact before i fell out so um it was just kind of a weird look is after after contact you'd ideally like to get down through the ball and then come out of it i come out of your swing but i made contact and pretty much right away came out of it but luckily the ball was off my foot before um i fell and it was just a little little tiny slip did you get to meet baker mayfield oh my gosh i'm a big fan the pro bowl last year um he's a he's a great dude and you know he single-handedly doubled my my paycheck got the the win the win bonus for the pro bowl you know doubles your your pay for being there. In the flag football game, we were down big and then he got the fourth quarter. He came

back and we won that thing. He's one of my favorite quarterbacks in the league for that. I didn't realize that. There's a way to make you play hard, right? Exactly. I guess I probably tuned out on this

year's pass. do you just play regular during flag football no so i as a kicker don't do anything during flag football they have a competition called um like kick tack toe which goes on the day before two days before depending on how they run the event um and just tick just tic-tac-toe with kickers, and whoever wins gets three points for their team, and those points go towards the score at the start of the game. So that's the only way we contribute, and obviously the scores get up to like 50-something.

So unlike a normal game of football where the kickers have a huge say in the outcome, in the Pro Bowl, we don't really have much to do with it, but still get the win bonus if your team wins, which is awesome. You get to sit there and be a cheerleader. I don't know if you guys have anything else about yesterday's game, but I was going to move on to

some stuff earlier in the week. In fact, I was still at Clemson last week. Was it Thursday Night Football? Yeah. The free kick. Yeah, the free kick. Yeah.

Did you know about that rule and everything? Yeah, that's actually one of the ways we were hoping to get the record. We talk about it every year at least once. We talked about it a couple times this year already. It's a weird situation, obviously. The timing of the end of the quarter kind of has to be perfect, and the punt has to be a little subpar. We, in that situation, got to be like 10 to 8 seconds left on the clock they're punting backed

up probably or maybe from their 10 and and back uh and kind of still need the punter to put it in play because our punter i'm pretty sure we would tell him to put it on the white paint which means the sideline uh just put as much hang time and don't give the returner a chance to to field it that way if you don't catch it if you don't get your fair catch then you can't obviously call fair catch free kick so um yeah it's just a once in a blue moon situation obviously it would have been a 72 yard field goal which they probably don't even try um in la because it's you know sea, the ball doesn't fly all that well out there. So that 15 yard penalty just put them into range. And it's not often that that situation comes up and you're in comfortable field goal range.

And for Dicker, that is comfortable field goal range. He's a great kicker. I've kicked with him a lot. He's, you know, a Texas guy. He works with my kicking coach. So in the off season, I I've kicked with him a lot. He's a Texas guy. He works with my kicking coach. So in the offseason, I get to work with him a lot. He's an incredible kicker who deserves more love than he gets out there. I think he's still sitting at like 92%, 93% on the year.

It's his third year in the league, and every year he's been 90% or above. So he deserves more love than he gets too. I don't think you want the record like that. No, I do. No, I'm just saying because people would always say, like, oh, that was on a free kick. Yeah, but they're talking about him. Yeah.

But he knows he can make it from the other straight up, though. A free kick is just a field goal. It's just there's no rush. And honestly, with no rush and no rhythm and kind of everyone just staring at you and you go at your own pace it's a different thing that you don't practice so it's just as difficult as you know a normal kick where you got all the the rush coming you don't even you don't notice the rush as a kicker so it just gets you in your rhythm with the play clock and all that um so kind of i i wouldn't know the rhythm for a fair catch free kick.

It would throw me off pretty significantly, especially with a timeout called by both teams going into it. It's a long time to think about that kick, and he put it right down the middle. Would your trajectory change at all? Could you hit further without a rush? Absolutely, yeah. It opens up the ability to just line drive it.

Yeah, I thought it was interesting that he only – well, how old – Dickers was like 40-something though, right? 57. 57? Okay. Well, I thought it was interesting. He did just take the three steps back and a couple over. He didn't do the running like I'm doing a kickoff start. Would you do the running kickoff start if you had the record?

Depends. If it's 70 and further, probably. If it's 67, 68, probably sticking with the three steps. If it goes to like 69, 70 and on, it depends on the day. I'd probably, from 69 on, switch to the kickoff steps just to give myself a little more comfortable distance. But with those kickoff steps, the accuracy is not what it is with the three steps. What's your personal record with kickoff steps?

75, just through the uprights. But that's the T on the fair catch free kick. I can't say that I've hit more than one fair catch free kick, um, with kickoff steps. Cause that's, you know, hold or holding it on the ground,

doing your kickoff steps. And that's not something that, I mean, it's, you see, it's, I mean, I think maybe three or four attempts since I've been watching football since I was like 10.

So it doesn't happen very often. So back a minute ago, you were talking about Dicker kicking in L.A. And you said since it's sea level and all that kind of stuff. So are you familiar with the altitude of every city? I'm starting to. Because you go out to these road trips. I'm like, geez, why is my ball not flying very well out here? And then talk to Banger.

He's like, oh, we're at sea level. That's why. Oh, that makes sense. But in Vegas, I felt like I just had the kid, and I hadn't slept very well. And like, geez, I'm going to struggle today. And I got out there, and I felt like I wasn't kicking the ball very well, but it was flying.

I'm like, what is going on? But it's a hot day and altitude, pretty high altitudes. That's probably the best place to kick. And everyone brings up Denver, but Vegas, I felt like I had 10 extra yards on my ball and I kind of felt like crap. So I was very impressed by how much of a difference the altitude makes. What's the Dallas altitude? Does anyone know?

I don't know. Not even know. No one even knows. Average? Wouldn't average be zero? That's a good question. Well, I don't know if average is zero, right? Because that would be

somewhere between Denver and LA see that shirt what that says you fit right in so you poked a little bit too far on my understanding yeah so Chad GPT's for yeah my wife was complaining yesterday or the day we got back from vacation. We had a pile of mail there. And I got to tell her a Brandon Aubrey story based on her complaint. Because she got this piece of mail, and then she was like, even that night, she couldn't go to sleep because she was thinking about it. And thinking, I can't believe this.

How do I get out of this? This jury summons. Oh, no. And I said, if you think you're getting out of it, let me tell you the story of all-pro kicker Brandon Aubrey. Well, he just did her a disservice putting it out on public airwaves because she could just pretend she didn't get it, but now she can't. Oh, you're allowed to do that?

This guy's a vet. You're not really allowed to do it, but I guess that's what people do. That's in the playbook? Okay, yeah. Yeah, it's in the playbook. Yeah, well, no. I want her to go serve her nation and do her civic duty. Maybe see if she can get one out of town.

Yeah, maybe sequestered for three months. I heard nonrefundable air travel will do it do it too i heard that one a couple times oh interesting she did tell me she's gotten one in the past but if you have kids under 10 or something you can get out of it so pass that on to jen yeah that's how i do it if you're the main care provider yeah oh because you tried getting out of it that way and yeah they made very clear to say main care provider and you know i've been on public airwaves saying how awesome jen is handling colton all that what a backfire yeah yeah exactly so don't praise your wives that's the lesson that we're learning here yeah yeah

all right well uh oh my one more note from last week's games. This wasn't just yesterday, but last week, did you see Jalen Hurts got fined? Ah, the shoes. He was wearing two different color shoes. I did see that, and I got a little bit nervous. Yeah. But I think it's more about, like, what brand those cleats are, because I couldn't see a brand on them. They're probably just not approved.

Yeah, I think part of it is as long as they're black, white, gray, or team color, you're going to be able to get away with it, I think. So if it's team color... I don't know. Yeah, he had a neon green on with a regular color. So I think that's what they were getting him for. But he also said that he'd

worn those before and got nothing. I don't know. It seems kind of arbitrary. You'll have to ask CD about that. He seems like he'd find them a lot. The way fines work for equipment is in warm-up, you go out there and what you're wearing, and then whatever guy's in charge of fines that day

will take a peek at all the players' EQ and write up what they're finding a player for and give it to your equipment staff, and they come to you in the locker room, and if you don't change it, they find you. So for us, I know week one with the Browns, we had an issue where we'd been wearing blue or white tights underneath our pants all last year, and apparently you're supposed to all be in one color, the team issued color.

But our EQ staff was putting out both for us because we'd been getting away with it for at least two seasons. So then week one, half our guys that were not wearing the team color that were wearing white got fined. And the EQ staff wrote the league and said, hey, that's on us. We'll take care of it going forward.

They got rid of those fines, but that's the process. I don't really know the rules. If I get a little note from my EQ, I can make sure to change it quick. Yeah, and I don't know if this is true or not, but I did see former Cowboy Jesse Holley. Do you know who that is? I don't. Okay, so he was a receiver for the Cowboys for a couple years. You're not going to believe this, but he actually won a reality show that

the Cowboys hosted called Fourth and Long. Michael Irvin hosted it. Their special teams coach at the time, Coach Joe, I'm sure you've heard of. He was a part of it. Jesse Holly won that reality show and got a camp invite and made the team that's incredible so he's in sports media now and he was tweeting the other day about how fines work and i'd never thought of this before but he put out the idea that if you do get fined that is considered a donation and it is written off on your taxes yeah that is i don't know if it's considered a donation but there's definitely a line item on all these tax forms we fill out that

says fines and fill it out interesting because i think i mean you know maybe you're right at like a certain tax level and you're like let's take the fine i'm going to wear the blue tights this week. Sure, yeah. Smart. Yeah. And then put a logo for, like, your cancer foundation on there and be like, oh, okay, you're going to fine me for that? You're going to fine me? Sure. Okay.

Because that's you. I gladly will pay that fine. Because that's you. Christmas. Oh, yeah. You have Christmas off? How does that work for the team? We have today off. We go that work for the team we have today off

we go in tomorrow for our normal wednesday practice and then we have wednesday off which is christmas so yeah we got christmas off gonna go over to my parents house and hang out with the in-laws and my parents and just have a jolly good time the first uh baby's first christmas did you go get the Santa picture and all that? No, we did not. Doesn't sound like me. I heard Blake had a terrible time. I'm sorry.

Unrealistic expectations, I guess. What was your time? Oh, you missed it. I just convinced my wife that we're only going to do this a handful of times and it would be awesome, and I decided to opt for the big package, the digital prints, all the different prints.

Brooks was ready to go. I'm going to ask Santa for a blue car. I'm going to sit in his lap. We had it all planned out, and I thought, yeah, this will go great. And then he got there and just had a meltdown. Was afraid of Santa, didn't want to sit on his lap. You didn't even get the crying picture on his lap? We got it, but I'm still...

He's traumatized? Here's the worst part. Blake grounded him from television for freaking out about Santa. I was like, dude, what? You punished him? Yeah, a little bit. My kid would not last a day in Blake's house. Mommy and Daddy asked you to do something, and you didn't.

This guy's a disciplinarian. Anyway. Yeah, anyway. Okay, yeah. I didn't know if you had any extra cameos to do for people. I do. I do have a backlog that I need to get to today. I think a couple of them expire right before bedtime, so I've got to get to that.

Okay. Well, maybe you could do them in your Dumb Zone t-shirt. Just a thought. Maybe it will. Yeah. Maybe this will be my attire for it. Who knows? Yeah. With a Santa hat. With a Santa hat.

Do I look ridiculous? No. You never do. Killing it. Yeah, well, thanks, man. Yeah, absolutely. Hope you have a good time over your nice little break, and maybe we'll do this next week.

I don't know what your schedule is. I'm not exactly sure what ours is, but I will be in contact. Sounds good. Appreciate it. Thanks for having me. Go Irish. Enjoy Philly. Oh, that's right.

Go Irish. Did you watch that game? I did. Fell asleep a few times. A little tired, but it wasn't the most exciting game. But you got the win, and I felt comfortable the whole time. So, yeah. Go Irish.

All right, man. Thanks a lot. Yeah. There he is, the great Brandon Aubrey. Blake grounded his kid. Oops, excuse me. I meant to hit that one. Boy, I forgot to tell you guys.

You grounded your kid. Not really ground. I mean, we're trying to get him off TV anyway. So I pulled a move last night. You tell me. I think you'll both be proud of me, but it was also kind of an a-hole move. I forgot that in conjunction with the ice sculpture viewing last night, we got Santa picture.

So we got reservations or bought tickets for 615. Okay. You have to get reservations for the line now? That's what they said. They said, hey, 615, get that. So our ice sculpture tickets were for 6.45. It's on the opposite side of the hotel. But I'm thinking, well, if it says 6.15, we're getting our picture taken at 6.15.

Right. What's the problem? So we showed up at about 6.05 in line. And it was a long line. And I'm trying to figure out, like, okay, well, what's the point of the reservations then? So I walk up to somebody and I'm like, hey, did you get a reservation? And they said, yeah, 6 o'clock. I'm like, oh, you're already in line.

All right, well, walk a few more people back. And I'm like, do you have a reservation? They said, yeah, 6.30. I was like, oh, okay. So I find a lady. So you don't get to slot in to where you're? No. Well, that was not available.

So I waited about five more minutes, realized that if we wait in this line, we're not going to make the tickets we already bought for the ice thing, which are like $40 each. Yeah. So I went over to a lady, and dude, there's 100 people in line. And I went over to a lady, and I'm like, hey, you know, we must have misunderstood. We thought when we bought tickets for 615, we'd be getting our pictures taken at 615. That's why we bought the 645 at the ice place.

So what do you want to do about that? She's like, well, you kind of just have to wait in line. I was like, yeah, but then we'll miss the ice thing. I was like, it's not a big deal. We can leave. I just need my money back for both. I was like, I'm not, it's all good. I was like, we'll just get our money back for both and left it right there. And she's like, let me see what I can do. She walked over, talk to somebody, walk back and walked us right up there. Wow. She handed me a deal and she was like, tell him you're a retake, and handed me a card,

and I just cut in front of everybody who was in line. That's awesome. Wow. That's like having a sick kid, but you didn't have to get your kid sick. The wife looked at me, and she was like, don't look at the crowd.

Yeah. Don't even make eye contact, because she caught a glimpse of you. What's the point of a 630 reservation if you stand there at 605 in front of people with 615. There should be a slot. It's like the Southwest boarding.

Yeah, that's why I didn't feel bad about it. This is the number I have, and I will slot in right here. It wasn't like we were late in trying to have them make up for our mistake for us. Yeah. But I was surprised. That does not usually work out well for me. No. Maybe this is just new you. You have a new aura.

Are you talking about the upcoming year of Jake? Are you promoting? I've never had a year, baby. You feel like last year certainly was not it? Yeah, no. I think it got a rise from the ashes. Okay. Now that's a bold statement in predicting that,

that you're going to stay out of the hab. That's where it starts. We've all been waiting for you to... If that's the minimum. We've been waiting for that call. He's back? From the wife, yeah. Jake won't be in this morning.

I don't think she'll be calling you. Should we call him the lawyer? Yeah, I was going to say, yeah. You may hear from Phillip. Hey, so either Brandon Aubrey or the news, whichever one you want to say, is brought to you by Elite Rides DFW today. Elite Rides DFW. Hey, New Year's Eve is coming up.

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that resulted in almost 200 stranded skiers and snowboarders. This is in Winter Park, Colorado, over the weekend. You been there? I have. There's really no way for me to say this without sounding like a complete douchebag, but I think I've been to all of, if not most of the mountains for skiing in Colorado. Because many, many years ago, there was a deal. I don't know if you saw these when you were in college, but these companies would advertise group trips, you know?

They'd put flyers up around campus. And you could get a trip for cheaper if you and eight buddies signed up together type thing. Okay. So they would advertise a ski trip where if you could get eight or nine guys together and stay in one lodging place, you could get a ticket to seven or eight mountains in Colorado and just drive to whichever one you wanted. It was awesome. But I saw a thing the other day about this, the price of skiing. I don't know.

You're out of this game. So it just kind of happened, and we all accepted it. But even the really nice mountains, your steamboat, whatever, 25 years ago, it was like $100 a day, maybe a little more than that. In Ria Dosa, your New Mexicoxico that was like 60 to 70 bucks a day like a really nice mountain lift ticket for one day now is like 250 dollars really and oftentimes more and yeah like utah park city was was almost 300 and i mean i'm sure there's more to the story than this but apparently all of these mountains got bought by private equity.

And they're just assets now, and they just keep jacking the private. They don't care about, you know, they used to be, not to be like small town Aspen, but they used to be owned by people from that area. And they just loved the mountain, right? And they got bought by all these firms. They're just like, hey, what if we just made this expensive? There'll still be people who come here. It just can't be regular people anymore. That makes sense because they all take you to the same

website. It all looks the same. It's all the same $330 a day. Like Porto. All in the same umbrella. Look, one goes down they all go down yeah I regret

getting out of the game only that because my kids have friends who have grown up skiing and they're like a bit jealous as they are with anybody

who has anything they don't have yep that's the name of the game they're just like, oh, how come we never went skiing? That sounds so much fun. Because I did it a ton when I was a kid. You were in ski club. I was in ski club.

That's right. But dad took us skiing every other weekend or whatever during the winter. Yeah, I mean, you can't do it with that frequency, but you did miss an opportunity somewhat because New Mexico is pretty close. Now, it's also kind of spare. I bet it's better than what you had in Ohio, but it's nothing close to what you get in Colorado or Utah or wherever else. But we went a lot as a kid to New Mexico, and it was cheap. I don't know if it's still this way, but the place we went to New Mexico was called was cheap. I don't know if it's still this way

but the place we went to New Mexico was called Ria Dosa and it was owned I believe, it was owned by the natives. And so they would run the lift and you know, they were not exactly like if you fell, they're just like fucking just keep it

running. You know, now it's like they stop and you gotta have a helmet, and they hold your hand. It would just be like some 70-year-old Native American dude. It's like, you fell? Get out of the way. So for your $300, do you get skis, too?

Or do you then have to rent skis? No. Okay. You've got to rent skis. Because that was another thing, is renting skis is going to be a big deal. Well, to go back to the original news story, these people were stuck on this gondola for over five hours.

Damn. Just sitting up in the air? Yeah. The ski patrollers entered the cabin of every gondola. So you know gondola, right? Just, yeah, not just the seat. Right. The going in the thing.

Yeah, there's a cabin. Usually it's like a peak-to-peak type deal where it, you know... I would rather be stuck in that for five hours than stuck... The ski lift? I think so. Yeah, just because it's enclosed. Well, the whole time you'd be thinking, could I make this jump down? Yeah, so the ski patrollers entered through the cabin

and then lowered people's equipment to the ground before lowering them on a rope 174 people in total that many people can fit in one of those? well there's uh you know it's huge and there's probably 5 to 10 people in each one of them

the whole thing was stopped after something cracked a structural piece yeah man i've i fear falling off the ski lift yeah i do too yeah and i don't know you're always dicking around with something like oh let me get my phone my bottle of water and each time you get on it you get a little more confident yeah by the end of the trip you you're just, I don't know. There comes a moment where you're like, I got to reset and sit back, put the thing down. You ever seen anybody fall off?

No. I've seen somebody jump off. Not from very high, but I saw somebody do it. They will kick you right out of there immediately. You should get back into skiing. Yeah. If we do a show in Colorado Will you go skiing? Yeah sure

I'll say yeah to anything right now Let's go I want to go to Colorado Like that seems like the dream Is to live in Colorado Yeah it kind of does. You don't have any of the weirdo stuff like living in California? No, I don't want to live there.

Too many libs. A credit card skimmer was found in Plano at a grocery store during a citywide sweep. I actually saw this also. What? Dude, I'm afraid of the credit card skimmer. That's why I'm doing the story. Citywide sweep? Yeah. I'm afraid of the credit card store. That's why I'm doing the story. Citywide sweep. Yeah. I guess they got a tip or they had a hunch.

They found one and figured this is a crime ring. Let's look at all the other ones. I saw this gas station I pulled into didn't have the strip across it was broken. You know how it'll have that strip and say if this is broken? So I'm just like, all right, I'm not going to get my gas here. Oh, wow. I saw one on social media today where a guy, a customer, is filming, and he sees that there's one on there.

It looks like it's at a 7-Eleven, which is surprising. And he tells the guy, he's like, hey, you know you got a skimmer right here? And he pulls it off, and the cashier receptionist kind of freaks out and grabs it from him. He's like, no, no, no, no, no. He's like, I call police. He's like, yeah, I bet you will. Ah. Interesting.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, but they say that this is a real problem up there in Plano. Gas stations, big box retailers, grocery stores. I like that accent you did yeah no no no no i had to put the phone down first to interact with my customer actually no that doesn't fit the stereotype i don't put the phone down you have a bluetooth in your ear that's right they are always talking on the phone man man yeah you want to know like what do you got going on

my brother pointed that out to me one time. Boredom? And I've never been able to. Because, like, dude, what time is it where the person they are, where they're talking to? You feel they're definitely talking overseas? I mean, I guess they could be speaking certainly to somebody else who speaks with, you know, Farsi. else who speaks with you know Farsi but that's what I knew that it was a big deal uh that I'd quit drinking because you know family's happier you guys are like oh good job and stuff but when I went to the grocery store or excuse me the gas station and the cashier actually broke stride from

his conversation to be like no beer oh man oh wow, wow. That's when you knew? That was the one I went for just for that. When I went, they knew. He's like, well, congratulations. I'm like, all right, dude, don't worry about it. I was wondering if you would do a show. You know how we've done some Business Wednesdays about rehab? Sure.

Would you be up for doing a show where we could just quiz you about the sordid details of your dalliance with the bottle? Like, yeah, I'd drive to the gas station and I'd drink a beer at 9 in the morning. No, but it was definitely like... But would you ever, would you let us do that? I don't want to do it all now. I'm saying I would like a show just dedicated to – I mean, I'd rather not. Like, I want to know, you know, just the –

like, you know, you hear about people hiding it in their house or hiding it in their car or whatever, and, like, I kind of want to know that stuff about you, and I want details. Yeah, I mean, I don't know't know what like what that serves me mentally at any point yeah but no but it's not for you us yeah it's for the subscribers i mean the only thing i would which look if you find that entertaining i guess i'll do it but to me that's i tried to pick the things that i thought could be just like funny and not sad you know what i mean like yeah yeah you're right there's a considerable amount of stories that i I tried to pick the things that I thought could be just like funny and not sad.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, you're right. There's a considerable amount of stories that I heard at rehab that I did not tell you guys because they're horrifically sad. Yeah. But, you know, a guy who will whip it out and beat off in front of a staff member, I found that to be humorous in a comedic vein. Well, yeah, but then Louis C.K. does it and you're like, oh, no, he should be canceled. Like, mixed messages I'm getting from you. Sure.

Let's see here. Where I supported you, Louis. All the way, just remember that. You think that's going to pay off for you? Yeah, yeah, when he joins me on the show and not you. Have you guys been keeping up on the show and not you. Have you guys been keeping up with the trials and tribulations of United States Representative from Texas Kay Granger? Yes, at arm's length. I've seen the internet stuff or the Twitter stuff.

Yeah, so there is a... You know what the other Twitter thing you didn't mention about this Twitter weekend, Blake? Kay Granger is one of them. But Travis Hunter's girlfriend. Oh, yeah. We talked about it a little bit before you left. Yeah.

We talked about it, but did her publicly... Saying she's not going to talk about it? Yeah. Okay. That was while I was gone? Okay. I thought that was the weekend. Yeah, okay.

That was while I was gone? Okay. I thought that was the weekend. Well, there was a lot more between, I mean, the internet sleuths are out there now. Like, oh, you said you were dating, when? They find this video. What about this music video? Oh, with her or some guy? What about this?

What about this? Nice. Now, I knew that it really... That's why she should just leave it alone. Just let the trolls say stuff about her. Don't go... Yeah, don't engage people. Don't engage.

That's the key. But... Sorry, this is really bad. I knew that it had reached... Like, the conversation is over point when Dez weighed in. He jumped in on her? Oh, yeah. Of course.

What do you have? I mean, I can pull the direct. Just paraphrase. What do you think he's like? She seems like a great woman who's really in love with you? No, he's like, get rid of this bitch. Nice. Oh, the post was deleted by the author.

Aw. Let's book Dez. We got to get Dez. You got to pay him. You think? Yeah. He's made that very clear. Unless we tell him...

How much? We're talking crypto. We're talking crypto. You want a chance to promote your crypto? I'd love to just sit and listen to him try to explain crypto to us. Yeah. He had a bunch of... It was like, I've seen this before. Get out while you can. So anyways, back to Kay Granger.

There was an article published in something called the Dallas Express News over the weekend. Kay Granger Hutchinson. Sure. It's an independent paper. Kay Granger Hutchinson. Sure. It's an independent paper. I think they lean right, but in any case, they did an investigation into where she is and this went kind of viral because she has not cast a

vote since July and they wanted to know where she was. They actually went to an assisted living facility and were told by the director there that she was and they actually went to a an assisted living facility and were told by the director there that she was there quote this is her home the assistant executive director for that senior living facility um she was apparently at one point, lost, and confused down on West 7th a couple of months ago. And she's been in this unit since then.

And this person is still actively in the House of Representatives. See, then I saw something else on Twitter where like one month ago she was at some fundraising event. And there's a picture of her schmoozing at some fundraising event and there's a picture of her you know schmoozing at the fundraising event let's see do I have okay something else when I was gone that was alleging that you got ball sacked by the yeah we did talk about that Cody the Aggie quarterback Brody Hagen's is that all fake yeah the. Totally fake. I mean, it was just that tweet, yeah.

The video's fake. Well, no, the video's real. Like, is this fake? Is this Kay Granger Hutchinson thing? Well, I mean, her office put out a statement. And a Democrat congressperson put out a statement. Kay Granger's long absence reveals the problem with a Congress that rewards seniority and relationships more than merit and ideas.

We need term limits. I mean, she's not like a functioning person right now. They're never going to have term limits, right? Now, her office says, yeah, right. Wasn't there a big thing about them voting themselves some raises? Yeah. Like, can we do that? You just vote yourself a raise.

She gave a statement to WFAA yesterday. She says, since September, my health challenges have been... It said, applesauce and jello. Camera person, woman, TV. Sorry. Sorry. Yeah. A written statement. Yeah, I mean, she's just basically saying, like, no, I'm totally fine.

It's all good. Don't worry about me. I'm 81 years old and kicking ass. 81. 81 and needing care and still capable of voting on things that affect your life yeah lots of olds man

who's the guy the Clemson guy Strom Thurmond right he was like a thousand or he was a hundred I should say yeah I mean there are people there's an article every couple weeks that comes out basically saying that Biden can't brush his teeth. That he's just gone. Dude, the whole Biden thing is amazing.

Although, did he pull something slick on the death penalty this morning? What'd he do? Commuted 37 of 40 death row inmate sentences. I think this happened like right before we started recording. Okay. Nearly all federal inmates on death row. Merry Christmas.

Yeah. It's a good gift. Although maybe the families of the people that they killed don't think it's a good gift. So 37 out of 40. Three remain. Would you like to be one of those three? No. Robert Bowers convicted for the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue.

Dylan Roof. You guys remember him? I know that name. Why? School? Something? Church. Black church, I believe.

Okay. And I believe it's pronounced, does Joe Carson and I have, of Boston bombing. Oh, okay. So he's like, hey, man, don't mess with Boston, man. Spent a lot of time there. Hard-working people, man. All right, there's your news. Oh, really?

Well, I'm not quite ready. That's what she said. So now what she said is good? No, that's just how it really goes for me. Oh, man. Today in history is going to be brought to you by Frankel and Frankel. Frankel and Frankel. They are personal injury attorneys.

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Go put that dog down, Blake. This has been a slog. Happily. Let's see here. The Dumb Zone presents Today in History. Oh, I have some viewer mail birthdays, too, that I didn't get to. Should we do that?

Sure. Where'd I put them? Hey! Jesus. The dog's an idiot. It's definitely having a tough day. The thing is, though, when I walk in, like, he goes nuts barking. Like, don't most dogs get to know their owners, at least, and they don't go crazy when their owners walk in, he goes nuts barking. Don't most dogs get to know their owners at least

and they don't go crazy when their owners walk in? Is he blind or gay? Is it wrong to say I'm an owner? You're a governor of a dog. I'm his governor. Viewer mail birthdays. Hoping to get a shout out for myself. I turned 55 today.

55. I work with Johnny Outlaw. Oh, wow. At Scenario. Scenario. He told me you guys are entering into a sponsorship agreement and I couldn't be more excited. I love the show.

You guys are killing it from Sean Bloodgood. Is that another fake name? Sean Bloodgood. Who thinks blood is good? You need it. You do need it. Good point. Birthday shout-out to my boy Adrian Delgado. He turns 36. You need it. You do need it. Good point.

Birthday shout out to my boy Adrian Delgado. He turns 36. His leaders are you and Blake. He said Jake can suck it. He's not a fan of hentai. Hentai? I think it's hentai. Oh, Blake's quick to address it, but then says it real dismissively. Hentai.

Did it right. It. Tentai. Did it right. Tentai. He says he wouldn't mind tuning into a Bukkake Fest featuring Lois from Family Guy or Marge from The Simpsons. Happy birthday, bro. From Juan Johnny Ramirez.

You know, if you get technical about it, I think all Bukkakes are kind of a Bukaki fest. Hi, Fanny Fuhrer. Hoping you'd send a birthday shout out to my best buddy, Josh Loinette, who turns 43 on Christmas Day. We know him. He's a marketing guy.

He's the marketing guy we talked to. Oh, okay. And I'm sure he's great at it. Josh is a Christmas baby, so I'm going to claim your shout-out as both a birthday and Christmas gift from Zach Groover. I don't like talking to him

because he makes me feel dumb. When we talk to actual pros at what... Yeah. But a lot of them, that's just what they do. They just talk like that. Like to business people? Their whole job is to make it sound like they're doing stuff. I'm starting to figure that out. Greetings

man in the boat search party and the lighthouse that is Jake and Blake. Day one, number 54 Subby here. Shout out for my own 46th birthday. No clever sports jerseys I can think of. My leaders are Roy Sullivan, Blake's background typing,

and Danny's ads with the blood-curdling screams that somehow make me laugh. Less AI songs as the epi outro. More video man and Danny same day producing. If you need an expert on dual

residency relationships overrated or cyber security practices I am your Huckleberry. residency relationships overrated or cyber security practices I am your Huckleberry. God, that's a long email. From Daniel Garner. But happy birthday.

Happy birthday. At Dang Daniel. I think, what was the guy's name that he said was his hero? Roy Sullivan. I think that's the guy who got struck by lightning seven times. Ah. Let's see.

Yeah. Yeah. Dear Uncle Hot Pocket Pounder, It's my buddy Campbell's Jason Terry birthday. I tried to get you guys to come out to my lake house in Eagle Mountain for a remote back in August, but Blake refused to do weekends. And now we're selling that house, so thanks for crushing our dreams, Blake. Dang, Blake.

Dude, I would love to go out there. Shut up. No, you wouldn't. Dude, Eagle Mountain? In August? On a Saturday? Anyone who knows me knows that I don. Dude, Eagle Mountain? In August? On a Saturday? Anyone who knows me knows that I don't pass up

an Eagle Mountain weekend. On a Saturday in August? That sounds like the dream. I'm just on the front lines defending you guys from things you don't want to do and then now you blame me for it. Yeah, what a rich life

you guys live. You guys didn't want to be out there any more than I did. Projecting. If you're selling the house It probably must not have been very good Wow Sorry I guess happy birthday there

Oh but happy birthday and thanks for the email His leaders are Jasmine's Crabs Blake's Maturing Voice And God Damn It Dan. More Florida Man Saroy. And then he says, P.S. to Jake, Showdown in Fort Worth got a makeover somewhat recently. No.

The crappy bar you're talking about? Yeah. The outside looks hundo pee, but the inside is very grimy, just like we like it. You can still rip heaters in the back. Okay, good. That bar is so low rent that one time we were there, and I didn't know that they even had food, but they do, and it's just microwave stuff that you would get at home.

And I remember KJ ordering like 40 pizza rolls, like the little squares that you just... Of course, you're all hammered. So they just hand you at like 1.30, you know, 40 pizza rolls, and we're all like... Yeah. You take a bite, and it just explodes all over your mouth. Yeah, just like,

what are we doing? It's a good bit. It's delicious, I bet. P.P.S. The boys is fine. Please read this email. Never stop moosing from Garrett O. O. O. Elsewhere,

today is Monday, December 23rd. This is our last broadcast. I keep saying that. We're going to record another broadcast for tomorrow. So it's not totally our last broadcast. Are we back Monday? Yeah. I mean for this week.

Okay. We're going to have Danny Bayless filling in and doing a couple shows later in the week. So we will have broadcasts put out, but it won't be with us. This day, December 23rd, in 1888, in a fit of depression, Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh cut off his left ear. 1888? Yeah. I might have thought van Gogh was a little earlier than 1888. Yeah.

I was going to say 1600s. Like 1500, yeah. Yeah. Like he saw a train. Yeah. I think. Maybe. I think. Maybe. I don't know. 1954, the first successful human kidney transplant took place in Boston.

They removed a kidney from a 23-year-old named Ronald Herrick, put it in his twin brother Richard, old named Ronald Herrick put it in his twin brother Richard. Because his brother Richard was dying of chronic nephritis. Richard Herrick

lived until 1962. Ronald, the guy who gave away a kidney, lived until 2010. Okay. That's pretty sweet. It is. Oh, today in 1972 was the Immaculate Reception.

Blake, what is the Immaculate Reception in NFL history? I'm going to go Steelers Raiders. Franco Harris may or may not have caught the ball before it hit the turf. Don't really have a good camera on it, but he caught it. Bradshaw threw it into triple coverage or something. Harris caught it, ran it in. Steelers win. Perfect.

1999, on this day, Nobel Prize winning novelist Saul Bellow. You ever hear of him? Can't say that I have. He was 84 years old. He had a wife who is 41. So she, what is that, 43 years

younger. Your wife hasn't even been born yet, Blake. There's Jake's. Jake's wife hasn't even been born yet, Blake. And there's Jake's. Jake's wife hasn't been born yet. She will be born when you're 43.

Wouldn't that be sweet? No. Well, get this. They were already married because this is the day that she had his baby. He already had three grown sons and several grandchildren.

And his wife had a baby on this day when he was 84. So what would his grandkids be to his kid? What? Like his older kids' kids? They would be nephews. Great nephews. I don't know.

I'm just imagining... Where do they bury the survivors? Like a situation where... Okay, so he's got... You're saying it's weird when you have an uncle that's younger than you. Yeah, that happens. Yeah. But what's even weirder is if it's another generation.

So he's got grandkids that are already born, and then he has a son that's born. Uncle. I guess that's right. Great uncle. Yeah. No, the great uncle would be the dad's brother. All right, what else?

On this day in 2005, Ben Harper married Laura Dern. Jorts. On this day in 2006, Bob Knight tied Dean Smith for most wins in NCAA history. 2006, Bob Knight tied Dean Smith for most wins in NCAA history. Oh, on this day in 2007, Queen Elizabeth II launched her own royal channel on YouTube. What?

What do we got on here? I don't know. I think she makes trick shots. Yeah, she does ASMR. Doesn't she drink a lot? Is she alive? She's dead, right? Who was the one?

Because now they got the King Charles. It was her kid. It was Charles. She might have drank a lot. But like, wasn't considered, uh, considered a drunk.

It was something like, uh, her schedule got published and it was like two every three hours. Look, she's a functioning, you can be a functioning alcoholic,

right? This one says, four strong a day. Four strong cocktails a day. Spaced out. And on this day in 2013, two members of a band were released from prison in Russia. This is...

Oh, I know what this is. The band's name? Pussy Riot. Pussy Riot. Yeah, and I was just thinking... Now, it turns out this band is, they are Russian citizens who were writing some stuff that they,

you know, anti-Putin stuff, and then they got put in prison. Mm-hmm. But it's hard to, I don't know, if you're like, well, who would be fighting? Is it Amnesty International? Somebody would be fighting to get that,

you know, wrong, or write this wrong. But it Amnesty International? Somebody would be fighting to get that, you know, wrong or right this wrong. But it's kind of like when we're in court and they're talking about the dumb zone or just stupid things that we say here and then they're reading it in court. It seems really weird. Did you have to call it that? Yeah, like pussy riot.

Like here I'm trying to, I'm going to bat for you. Yeah. You couldn't be called the Monkees or just something. I got to now say, no, no, no. Judge, I really feel that Pussy Riot has been wrong here. Yeah. You need to let Pussy Riot out. From the makers of Didn't Think It Through.

Birthdays today include Jim Harbaugh 61 Jordan Shipley 39 man you know he had a roommate I don't know if you guys knew that was it the quarterback yeah they grew up they would hunt together too oh like they're friends off the field too you better believe it and that made their connection on the field better. You know, sometimes the backup quarterback has better chemistry with the backup wide receivers.

Like who was the guy that was catching all them balls yesterday? For the Cowboys? Fournoy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is it 80? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 80. Is it 80? Yeah.

Yeah, that's a weird number. I don't think we talked about this enough at the time, but Texas went to prominence with Colt McCoy and Jordan Shipley, and then some few years later they decided, let's just get their brothers. Cason. Cason Jackson. With an X.

Joe Jervicious, 50. Dude. That'd be in your wheelhouse, right? Huge Joe J fan, yeah. Rob Palenka, 55. Looks like Rob Lowe. Hanley Ramirez, 41. God, I loved him.

Victor Martinez, 46. Harry Shearer. Tough name to say. 81. Eddie Vedder, 60. Harry Shearer do... He does radio, right? The show?

Yeah, that's what it's called. He does the public radio show. Yeah. Or did. Holly Madison is 45. Wasn't that that website? Oh cheaters yeah ashley my boy you jumped in quick there oh yeah holly madison was one of hugh hefner's girlfriends on the reality show and uh finn wolfhard is 22 you You might be saying, 22?

Really? I can't even believe it. Yeah, it is crazy. Because, yes, Mike Wheeler on Stranger Things. Yes, he's still playing like a high school kid, but now he's 22. Final season. What are they going to do now that they have boobs and stuff? Coming to Netflix near you.

That's somewhat of an actual question. How are they handling this? I'm interested. I guess we'll find out. I think Eleven is really the only... Well, I guess there's a couple girls in there. Well, I mean, they all have to be adults now. Yeah. As long as the show's been on.

That's always awkward. Born on this day, now dead, Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum-d The founder of Mormonism And Corey Haim Who's one of the two Corys Do you know what that means Blake? Do you know the other Corey? No

Corey Seeger? Feldman right? Scott Feldman, right? Scott Feldman. Oh, don't write me, Dan. He was recently in the news for something. I don't know how in the news he was, but I know he was playing in a band

that was opening for Limp Bizkit or something, and people were sending this video of it. Corey Feldman. He was... What are these people? They were actors in the 80s. Yeah, they were like... Corey Feldman. Heartthrobs, right?

Teen heartthrob type thing. Yeah, Corey Feldman went on like a Hollywood is abusive thing. Is that what you... Maybe that's it. This bio note says, both of them grew up in Jewish families

and had a passing interest in numerology. Don't hear that a lot. Just a passing interest. Yeah, it might have been a Hollywood abusive thing. Dead on a Stay Still Dead, we have Rosa Jackson Lumpkin at the time of her death in 1991

the oldest person in the world 115 years old I want to be the oldest person in the world do you really? you really don't I do like I definitely want to hit 100

that's insane why I don't know you just get tired of it not tired yet let's go why am I gonna be different I don't know though it's gonna be all this AI I'll be great I'll feel like I'm young like

I'll be tagging Pam Anderson or something like as I'm 98, right? With my AI bot. Like my brain will think that I'm doing it. That's all that's important. Like bring me the Matrix. Just plug it in. Give me the blue pill.

Is it the blue pill? Which one is the one where you think you're in the computer? I don't know. You've never seen The Matrix? No, we haven't seen it. You know what you should do, though, is email me about it. And then when you wake up at four in the morning one day,

you might just watch The Matrix? It's a good movie. I'm sure that it is. Skyler, have you seen The Matrix? Yeah, it's been a long time. Would you say thumbs up? I was in like seventh grade. So you're not willing to stick with him.

Yeah, I don't know a lot of details about it. Keanu Reeves. I'm going to be totally honest with you, Dan. Are you against Keanu Reeves? He was great in Speed. Okay, I don't want to have that. And the replacements. Yeah, Shane Falco.

And? Footsteps Falco from Ohio State. That's not what he's going for. Hardball. No. The bank robbers. There you go. That's all you need.

Point break. We get it. Point break. I just wanted to make sure I didn't have to ask you to leave. I honestly avoided watching the movie The Matrix because I didn't want to add any evidence to the

are we sure that dude doesn't have a trench coat that they'd be asking about you watching The Matrix or wearing Matrix shirts in junior high, that was like, let's keep an eye on him. If he gets into ICP, the insane clown posse,

this could be a real problem. And born on this day in 2013, excuse me, died on this day, Mikhail Koleshnikov. AK. Invented the AK-47. That's sweet.

That's a real gun too, by the way, Blake. It's not just on a video game. No, I think Call of Duty invented it. Like the Gulag. Yeah. So here from Qualis Roofing, because of Qualis Roofing Because of Qualis Roofing They have sent you here

They have forced you to show up It's Skyler And he brought his friend Tyler That's cute Sky and Ty We're not Aggies Not Aggies Massive upset

Tyler always He always shoots an email for my birthday And I've never quite been polite enough to return the favor, so I figured I'd bring him along to join today. Has that bothered you, Tyler? No. Do you have a mic? No, I'm good.

Oh, you don't want a mic? I'm good. Okay. He said he's afraid of Reddit. You're afraid of Reddit? Pase. It's the end. It's the end of the show.

If they're still here, it's their problem. He paid for the room, not me. All right. So what's your bid? I don't have a lot prepared. But you did bring me a can. Oh, yeah. What's going on back there?

A skull long cut wintergreen pouches. I brought milk and cookies. Milk and cookies. You're quitting the chew, so you brought me a can. That's right. All right. Thanks. He's going to want that back the chews, so you brought me a can. That's right. All right, thanks. He's going to want that back later. Just going to need a bum a pinch before.

You want it? Yeah, I will take it, sure. Milk and cookies is an odd touch, but I would. Christmas. You literally brought milk. Yeah, there's a half gallon over there. Excellent. I think there's some woke milk out here.

That rules. They don't have woke milk out here? Okay. I was wondering why you said cow milk like you had goat prepared or something. Cat. You can milk anything. Alright, well, so...

I don't have a bunch of notes on my phone or anything. Been a fan of y'all for a while a while well i guess since i moved here in 2013 i ran into a guy at a bar one time told me i needed to listen to the ticket kind of been listening along since then um when you guys left definitely followed your your story um i was telling Jake earlier, you know, been in corporate America for a while and always ready to leave corporate America. So,

followed along. Love what you guys have been doing, how you did it. Yeah. I always try to explain your story to people and it's like,

well, it's these guys, they're at a radio station. It just gets really complicated. So, but I love it. Try to explain it. Does it win over the party? They're like, so, yeah, they're at a radio station. It just gets really complicated, so I love it. Try to explain it. Doesn't win over the party. They're like, so,

yeah, they're on a podcast. No, but just try explaining it to your in-laws. If you're the guy. I'm a month behind on the pod, but you guys just finished Jake Paul and the Tyson fight. Why won't you use the goddamn mic? I don't know, it's really weird. Yeah, like at least turn the mic on so we can kind of hear what he's saying in the background.

I want a shirt from Fight Night. I was wondering if I could get that autograph. Of course. I was going to sign a Fight Night t-shirt. Yeah. How's that going? That is my Fight Night night. Yeah.

That is the night. Great night. 2016. Oh, okay. We lived in the village at the time, so we always were there. We went to the factory. Did you guys live together? We did.

Tyler and Skyler? I was down here. You're early. You always kind of hate on the DFW area. Not hate on it, but you grew up here. Oh, yeah. That's love. Yeah, it's great.

I have a differing opinion. Yeah, it's great. Here? Yeah, compared to the Midwest. I think this is where I say, well, this has been fun. Yeah. Tyler, for a guy who doesn't want the mic, wants to talk more. I know.

It's very confusing. All right. Well, if you want, you guys can hang out while we do a movie review, because we're going to do that for tomorrow's show. They're like, ah. There you go. Adios, mofo. can hang out while we do a movie review because we're gonna do that for tomorrow's show so they're like ah adios mofo we gotta go before this becomes a zoo thank you for watching my video Have yourself a merry little Christmas Let your heart be light. From now on our troubles will be out of sight. Have yourself a merry little Christmas, Make thy will, take care.

From now on, the troubles will be miles away Here we are as in olden days Happy golden days of yore Faithful friends who were dear to us Gathered near to us once more Through the years we'll all be together, if not fate alone. Have a nice day And have yourself a merry little Christmas now.