The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 2-12-26 | What to make of Sam Darnold and TCAP with Ted Emrich

Episode Date: February 12, 2026

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And tell them, what is it, Amy Polar? Yeah, the Good Hang podcast sent you. All right. Hello, friends. Welcome to a Thursday edition of the Dumb Zone. Today, we broadcast live to tape and live on YouTube, apparently, from the Game Day Men's Health Studios in downtown Dallas in the Fox 4 building. I'm Dan McAllen.

I'm Jake. I'm Blake Jones. Who DCK? Who DCK is here? and on the couch, the casting couch. Can we get a sponsor for that? Boy, that's a layup. Pornhub?

I was going to say, I probably need something that's allowed in the state. Oh, I never got that Pornhub news update. They haven't released it yet. You're not VPN. Me either, bro. Let me check. Saving up.

Anyway, he is in a little zone that we live. like to call the hang zone. He's hanging out. It is Teddy ball game. Ted Emmer. We all know him. We love him. He's basically just part of the show. Maybe on the TV, Ted show. How we doing? How are we doing post-surgery? How about Ted is brought to us by Game Day Men's Health?

No doubt. Oh, wow. In the Game Day Men's Health Studios. Congrats, Ted. Which, uh... That's big time. Do I get peptides? You can. What are peptides? Peptides are... Go to Game Day Men's Health.

that are going to help you achieve just about anything you want. You want to be stronger, peptides. You want to have clear mind peptides. Are they similar to riptides? No. Oh. The wave? I've just heard of that word.

Let him cook. Well, if you want to cook, go to gameday. dum.com 12 area locations. It's where I get my TRT. I'll be in there tomorrow. Go see Jake at the grapevine location. Just hang out there all day in the parking lot. There is.

Get a picture, send it to Harvey Levin. Smoke with him later. How about Harvey? Get a shot together? Which used to be like late night and it's funny and we're going to laugh at it. We're going to do a tour and everything. They're like at the heart of the whole Savannah Guthrie's mom investigation. Like everybody's having Harvey Levin on because people are sending him the ransom information.

Yeah. It's like the New York Times in the 1870s or something. Right. Yeah, I saw that last night that they got 4,000 tips by releasing the ring camera video, and that cannot be helpful. That's too many. Imagine being the data analyst who has to comb through all of that and check it out. Yeah, I've always been curious about the tip line, how effective it really is. Because you have 19-year-old Jake on there.

Yeah, that's why I was curious about how effective it was. One of our guys sitting in the other day told me that he saw a report, or maybe he was in Arizona or something, but They were looking for information that could lead to the arrest of, you know, whoever took the mom. And they were offering up to $2,500. Oh, man. Earth-shattering. This is where. You know, I can look up her salary.

Who's the guy that died yesterday, James Vanderbeek? Do you see the money thing associated with him? Do you love James Vanderbik? Wouldn't he in, like, movies that you love? Yeah, I was not a – Certainly not a Dawson's Creek guy. That was like what all the girls were into, but I was definitely into varsity blues. Let me tell you who else is really into James Vanderbeak and Dawson's Creek.

Nurses that are like 35 to 40. Oh, they were sad yesterday? Because when I woke up yesterday, the hospital was a sad place. Oh, wow. A lot of women. That happened while you were under, too. It did. I woke up and it was a hectic.

place. But no, what was the money situation? Oh, it's that they said James Vanderbeek because of his cancer. Mm-hmm.

Like, and what probably is, like a really robust and healthy healthcare system that we have, ran through his money trying to get rid of his cancer. And so their family is like,

yeah, we just don't have any money. So they've raised like $1.5 million on a GoFundMe and they're like, oh, cool, we're just going to, this is going to be great. Thanks. They were going to struggle to keep their home.

Oh, okay. Otherwise. So, I mean, he may have, like, debts to pay off and stuff. Are you saying they should just be giving back everything over the cost of a funeral? Well, I don't know. If people want to give money to John Boxer. Again, oh, I'm sorry that you're going to lose your $3.5 million home that you probably shouldn't have got. Well, you see how quick TV Ted jumped in.

He's like, think of their Palisades place. I don't know where they live. I'm just contributing to the story. That's what I read, too. I don't know how to feel about that. But I'd still rather be the wife than James Vanderbeek today. Yeah. She's alive.

And on the market. I guess. Okay. It is weird how... Let's set that meet up. There was a lot of people yesterday... I guess I couldn't really recall the last time I had surgery, but it was like almost 20 years ago. But everybody yesterday was like, good luck.

Stay still. No, we'll see you on the other side. There was some of that. And they sit down to tell you like, hey, you know, we're putting you fully to sleep. You could. There could be a complication. Yeah. And then they leave you in the room.

And you don't wake up. For like 45 minutes. And I just started thinking like, you know, I'm not trying to get super deep today, but I was just like, I'm good. I feel good. Nothing about yesterday was negative to me other than the idea. The IV. The IV didn't work. It was not working well. Did they have a new guy like trying to find the vein? Just jamming them? No, and I think maybe it's a little bit deeper or more serious of an IV than if you're just going to get fluids.

But whatever it was, past that, there was nothing about it that sucked. I just kind of looked at it like a field trip. Met a lot of people. Did you meet the lady that overheard me asking you? I think so. If you could just give a blood sample by ringing out your tampes? Yeah, I think I did meet her. She liked it. She thought that was a great line. I think my dad met her too. And I wish I would have put this on wax on Tuesday

when I first went to pre-op because I met a lady at check-in and I thought to myself, knowing that my dad was going to be my pickup the next day, I thought to myself if my dad meets this lady, we're going to have sparks.

There's potential here. And then I kind of forgot about it the next day and when I woke up you know I'm like hey because I was very clear I didn't want anybody there with me and I didn't want him there until I was fully ready to leave I don't want anybody waiting on me and so why are you very clear about that that seems like a weird thing to because my mom will just show up because she's like the type of person that says good luck and thinks that if if she's there she goes it's just always nice to have somebody there for surgery Kristen's mom too.

I'm like, that's what you want there. Why don't we think of what I want since I'm the one getting cut here, not to be a D, but I don't want anybody there. Just doctors. Right. People that are thinking about. And like that hour beforehand, I wanted to be by myself. You don't want to entertain somebody.

But anywho, I'm like, hey, is my pop's here? And they said, yeah, he's already trying to get a job here. That checks. Outstanding. I was like, what do you mean? And then I started thinking of the lady out there. He's out in the lobby. Because this lady was doing her own show anyways

with just kind of adding a little zest to all the problems of the hospital. You tell somebody to go that way and turn left. No, the other left. The other left. She was Cajun. And she's doing a show with her. It was kind of like a court show

where then it was an old Cajun white lady and there was like a black security guard. Because you know, the bailiff and the judge are always, they're always different because they just play off of each other well. And I witnessed that the day before. And then I guess my dad got in the mix and was like, I could clean this place up. And that was it. And then now you have the steel plate or rod.

What is it? Like my elbow to my wrist. Damn. Yeah, it's serious. You could knock somebody out with that. I plan to. And like I said the other day, I understand that the, what am I having to fill out all this paperwork over and over?

again like that's becoming what's the deal with grape nuts right or what's the deal with airplane food but genuinely it is insane that they were able to do this to me yesterday and i feel fine today yet in the hours preceding that i had to tell the same story to seven different people there's no way this is an efficient use of everyone's time seven different people come in and they say, what medications are you on? And what's the dosage? And how do I spell that? And I'm like, man, it's the same shit.

It's flu-ax-team. Counterpoint? Do you think they are making sure, like, if one person comes in, you give the information, they kind of write it down wrong. No one else double-checks it, and now all of a sudden they're giving you different medication. If I believe that, first of all, they weren't giving me the medication. This is, they're asking me, what do you take at home? Right, but they're giving you something that could. You would have an adverse reaction, yeah.

That would take me believing that person two and person five actually compared notes. But I don't think that they do. Well, maybe they're all just looking at that first note. Maybe, but it's not, then why ask me how to spell it? I don't know how to spell it. I didn't make the medicine. Okay. I'll give you that one then.

Why do I need to tell? I just saw a lot of people laughing and dancing in the commercial for it. Why do I need to tell all of them how it happened? Oh, how your arm broke? Yeah. every one of them come in. So why? What happened?

Why do we need to do that? I don't know. This makes me sound crazy because it bothers me. It doesn't make everyone else crazy. But pain is relative. And I wish that if you paid $6,500 for a surgery and you have to pay thousands and thousands for your health insurance, they should have a cap. Like they have it Brain Topia, like they put a brain cap on you. and the computer says how much pain you're in.

And they dose your pain medication to that. How they're not brainwaves? Because you know what there is now? There's a piece of paper with ten faces on it. And they have different levels of upset. And they ask you a 40-year-old man. Circle one. Which one of these looks like you right now?

I'm like, I don't, it hurts, but I don't know how bad. Try being on the other side. My wife did ER for a few years. and went out to say, all right, can you please point to the smiley face that represents your pain

at 10 or 11? And they would have the flu. Yeah. You know, they would have a fever. Yeah, everybody's bad at judging their own thing. So I was like,

I don't know. I mean, I'm here, you know, I'm obviously not dying. But there's got to be a machine that could just put on you one day and just say,

oh, I see, you're at a 6.2. Again, make it all like Madden. But like a rating system. Seriously. And then people wouldn't overdose? Like, they would just,

you with what you need. Yeah, it's like the, like the Jared thing. Yes. He was going through to pick. That's exactly what I was about to say. It's, you know, the person who played collegiate volleyball but wasn't like, that went and didn't go pro. She's, I'm a seven.

Yeah. A lady who does yoga. But yeah, the person that does CrossFit, boy, they're 10. I do CrossFit. So, yeah, you're in there. You know what it could be. So you said, I don't know, five, but then, yeah. Angelo said he's in the most pain he's ever felt when he's.

A little hungry. And I'm like, is this, oh, God, the wussification of the unhoused. And I'm like, is that, I mean, you gave me pain medication. So do you mean before, after, there's just a lot of talking for something that I don't think really relates to words. Sounds like Business Wednesday. It's like a science project. We don't need to talk about it. Isn't there more too much talking in Business Wednesday and meetings?

Good God. Like, I really, the more we do business and stuff, the less I think, I think. of people who do business and stuff, just because there's a lot of just, you're not working eight hours a day. No. If you're a guy who has a bunch of meetings and you do a lot of stuff,

I'd like you, you know, if you are someone who likes to look at the NFL and be like, wow, they actually only play, what is it, like 14 minutes of actual game action. Yeah. Whistle to whistle, yeah, add it all up. Same thing. I'd like to whistle to whistle your actual interactions to when,

you know, if you have an hour meeting, probably 40 minutes out of that is worthy, right? Half hour? If that, if that and that's being generous with the term worthy. There's just a lot of small talk in the beginning with people that you know really well. I know these people great. We're on to you because we used to get hit. What do you guys work?

I mean, you've worked three hours a day. Yeah, but there's like a lot of the shit, you know, we got to do for this or that. We're on to business, man. We know. The jig is up. Yeah. You're not doing more than three or four hours a day. How much your time is driving listening to us?

But it's counts his work, right? I had to drive an hour and a half to get to my client. So overall, go ahead. How much do you have to endure the business talk? Like, let's double click on that. We try to. People are kind of. We try to keep that hip to sideline, yeah.

I hope so. But if we're talking to like a national thing or a- It'll come up. Yeah. Synergy. So overall, thumbs up. Thumb up that I can barely give up. Thumbs up on your.

It was cool. I just the experience of having surgery. And that's how I looked at it. Like, oh, this is an experience. Like, I get to think about dying for a minute. It was very peaceful. I just don't think they should be coming up to me in the hour before. And a guy pulls over a stool and says, what are we doing for you today?

Like, this is not a haircut. He thinks he's a tattoo. I hope. Fixing this. It's obvious, I would hope. Got through it, though. And I don't feel too effed up, like nauseous or groggy, I'm spacing out the meds. Can we sign the cast now, the soft cast?

Do you play for the Milwaukee Brewers? So you're limiting that? Yeah, and it's actually like a brown cast with blue stitching. Okay. It's like brew crew colors. Oh, nice. You asked for that. Yes, I did.

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It's a sick idea. Check it out. Send one of them to her work, because it's important that the coworkers see. There it is again. The door. That's good. That's right. Yeah, the court courier just carries it to the front desk. There's a giant ribbon.

Yeah, if we could for Cheryl in fulfillment. And then she can leave it like. We have a door up here for you. Leaning against her desk and then everybody walks by. Her work husband is pissed. He's like, God damn, I didn't think of a door. Yeah. Hell, they get it.

That guy's got it on lock. Are they doing the buy one, get one, you said? Oh, yeah. Bogo. side piece and your wife. Sure. Why not? Perfect. All right.

So, all right, we'll call this a SESH. Because I have some Mab stuff to get into you. That's more sports. But I'm trying to hit you with some audio that you haven't got. Because I know we've doubled up on some of this stuff, apparently. But I think I have something for you that you guys don't have. I think it's right here.

So apparently there's like some tennis thing going on in Dallas. Have I know about this? Yeah. I mean, I know that John Isner is always promoting it, and he was promoting it in the last couple weeks. The Dirk tennis thing? Maybe.

No. I don't know. It's tennis and it's Dallas. Yeah. And they had a press conference and John McEnroe is there. One of the all-time greats, John McEnroe. And there was a reporter on the scene.

So you guys don't have this audio? No. Nice. Mr. McEnroe, champ, champ, knowing your love for both the great game of tennis and for being a talented ax man, this reporter would like to know, which would you rather do?

Go back 100 years and battle Big Bill Tilden on the green grass of Forest Hills, or pick up your six-string and jam with the father of Texas blues from right here in Dallas. us, Blind Lemon Jefferson. Confused looks at the... That's good energy.

Could you repeat the question? All right. Pretty good. Very good. It's awesome. But I would rather go at Blind Lemon Jefferson. Got an answer. We're having good times.

That's right. That's excellent. Scoops Callahan. What one of the great. I'd say Texas Radio Hall of Fame worthy bits. Yeah. The Texas Radio Hall of Fame is worth anything. Hawkeye in the morning.

You want my other piece of audio? Yeah, hit me. Even though you already have it, I think. But somebody had, well, and I had seen this clip floating around, but I never watched it to the end. And then one of our listeners said, watch this thing to the end. You're going to love it. So this is Julian Love, Seahawk.

who had an interception in the Super Bowl. Yes. And he had a... So this is very, very cool because it's like they were noticing a tell or something. It's like seeing a guy tipping his pitches. And so they had him miced up on the sideline and you get audio from before the interception

and then after the interception. And it's very cool. And at the very end, you're going to hear Sam Darnold walk up to him and give him a hug. It's like when they're celebrating the win. And that's the really key part of the audio, but the whole thing is pretty good. Julian Love. Before the interception.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all right, though. I'm going to stay patient. I'm going to give me one. Classic young quarterback. He's, no, he's, as soon as that backfoot hits, as soon as the back foot hits, he's going to where he wants, but he's pausing for a second to confirm that he's open.

He's not a blindly doing like Stafford. He's, there's like a little hits there. You can show you jump that. May from the shotgun. Second down and three. Steps up in the pocket. Going to let one fly down the seam and it's intercepted. Julian Love.

Julian Love is right where he's supposed to be at free safety. You're New York. I'm telling you. You've been in the right spot the whole time. I've got a little pig in the soupy. Come on. The soupy. Yes.

We're calling the Super Bowl the soupy. That was Darnold? Yeah. Oh, my God. Kind of think I love it. No. Kind of think I love it. I mean, Natty just works, right?

But soupy. There's not much you can do with World Series. Like the whole clip is very, very cool. And is worthy of, you know, celebrating it on its own. But yeah, if you're going to toss in soupy at the end. I think that's excellent. Amazing. I just have a couple of quick Olympic notes from the things we should have predicted.

We have a Ukrainian Olympian disqualified because he won't take his helmet off that has his dead friends on it that died in the war with Russia. And it, I don't know, I like to try to get in the mind of people in the center of these stories. Good on you for taking a stand. like did you spend all this time training for the i mean they told you exactly like what may be at debate i suppose is uh what is a political message yeah because the elympics are saying like no political messages and he's like this isn't political these are my friends who were killed in a war who are also ukrainian athletes yeah yeah but like everything by nature is political because

countries are political entities right it's a state but i just think it's funny to train that hard and then show up and be like, no, I'm just not going to do it because of this helmet. All we hear about is how dedicated they have to be for four years, eight years for this one moment. Yeah. Very odd to me.

What was his sport? It's what, not bobsled, but skeleton. Okay. Head first. That ain't that tough, is it? Well, I guess it looks pretty gnarly, dude. I don't know how tough any of it is, but it looks scary.

Do you know what I mean? I don't. Imagine going. 70 miles an hour on ice. Do you ever wonder how many people are actually trying? Like, is he only one of five people in the whole country that said, yeah, let's actually, I want to do this. So is he that good? I mean, in Ukraine, there's probably a lot of them.

But, you know, for sure. We talked about it yesterday with not Bo Jackson, right? Is this a way to get out of military service? I bet so. Herschel Walker. Herschel Walker. I keep screwing that up. So, I mean, that was what we did, right?

There was nobody trying out. so we just went and grabbed him. The other story I have is an Olympic media story. Just a reminder of how some of the rest of the world works. There's an Italian state broadcast channel. I think it's pronounced Rye. It's R-A-I. And they carried the opening ceremonies in Milan on Friday.

And I guess their director of the sports division, like he's an old head. He's been there for 25 years. He saw this as his opportunity to go on the mic and be the guy. And he apparently was awful. Like he misidentified a dozen different people. He misidentified the stadium where the, in Italy, is an Italian broadcaster.

Here's the president of the IOC. He misidentified her as the daughter of Italy's president, mixed up two women's volleyball players who were torch bears, mistook Brazil's delegation for Bulgaria's, and then once he realized he was

looking at Brazilians remarked that, quote, dances in their blood. There's four or five other ones in here that just, I don't know that he was like if he was impaired or what, but he was just all over the map. Well, as a result of that, the entire staff,

of this the sports division of this TV station have made it be known that they will be going on strike for a week at the end of the Olympics to protest him and how bad he sucked at his job. Wow. That's how much Euros love protesting. Yeah. And how much they love telling their friends

that they sucked at their job. They're not during it during the Olympics though? No, they're like, look, we're going to work. We're going to work. We'll cover it. No, we really know. I mean, no one will know except I just think a funny concept to be at work and your boss does something and you can just get together with

all of your co-workers and be like, we want him to know that sucked. We're not coming to work for a week. That is just such a foreign concept. Yeah. They're just out. That's the only other Olympic thing I had unless you want to do the... Well, I have an Olympic story about a Norwegian biathlete. There you go. Did you have this one? Yeah. Stirla Holm-Lagreed. Yeah, I listened to the audio, but apparently they have a different language in Norway. Where's Norwegian, Blake? It's over there.

Yeah. Norway. Blake is never going to Norway. It's not going to Brazil. Viewer mail. So he won bronze in the thing where you ski and then you shoot. Remember Sven or Swen told us that the U.S. The U.S. has never won a medal in that particular. It's not where you go work.

And the Norwegians dominate. Yeah. That's their thing? Yes. One of a few Winter Olympic sports, but yes, definitely biathlon. So you might need the context, too, because first they interviewed the gold medalist, also from Norway. So they're real good, like you said. And so he says, you know what, I got to dedicate this win to our teammate.

He was actually found dead in his hotel room in December. Oh. Wow. Don't have to follow that. This guy won first. And then won the sadness. We had been training with this guy for three and a half years, right? And now we were right at the cusp of the Olympics and dead.

Wow. So then they asked at, all right, man, that's somber. Let's go to your teammate. He'll probably say something pretty similar, but we'll still get the audio anyway. And this guy's name is Sterla. And he says, well, last night I kind of had a revelation that I should drop this bomb. Then we'll see what happens. I have nothing to lose.

So interest peaks in Norway. He says, there's something I want to share with someone who may not be watching today. And he starts crying. Half a year ago, I met the love of my life. The world's most beautiful and nicest person. Sweet. Three months ago, I made the mistake of my life. I cheated on her.

Oh, no. One week ago, I told her about it. This has been the worst week of my life. I had the gold medal in life, and I'm sure there are many people who see things differently, but I only have eyes for her. Sport has come second these last few days. Yes, I wish I could share this with her.

So there's a lot here. Post game rules over there. Yeah, it does. This is way cool. So why, though, the Olympics just started a week ago, and he told, like, did he think, what was he thinking as he went to the Olympics? And they're dating. Yeah. She didn't know.

Yeah, but he's thinking, like, I can't have this on my conscience. Let's just tell her now. I'll tell her now. And then if she's mad and I perform well, I'll be able to use this platform to apologize. Didn't know this A-hole over here was going to best me in the race and then give you. getting to the dead teammate first. Actually, he had to know. I bet you there was a moment after the first guy thanked the dead guy that he's like,

this is not stacking well for me. She, the Norwegian media won't release her name, but they have talked to her. And she's like, yeah, no. No, I don't want to be brought into this. I respect this guy, though. just like this is my shot I could do it here like why not pull out the ring

why not on live TV like here I got this ring and I now ask you to marry me yeah she clearly meant so much to him that he cheats on her three months into their relationship that to me that doesn't even count you're three months into a relationship

that's barely even your girlfriend if anything that's the weirdest thing about this that he'd known a lady for three months and that he's that wrapped up in it But I'll tell you as a longtime watcher of reality dating shows, this is not going to hurt him with other women. This is vulnerability. You know how much this took from him just laying it all out there?

Like, yes, I understand you cheated, but I'd rather have a guy who's honest about it in front of the world. He claims she's... This guy's swimming in Poon right now. The world's most beautiful and nicest person. Don't you feel like there's no chance in hell that would ever... Those two cannot be. the same person.

If you're like the hottest person in the world, you will definitely not be the nicest person. Probably subjective, but you're right, right? There's only one LeBron. Who has it all. Yeah. That's good stuff. I have more sports stuff.

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pick was costing him millions and he couldn't handle it. So imagine year two with a highly drafted rookie on the bench. To me, it's a theory why we should have just franchised him was always flawed. I think he needed an actual contract for him to have the stability to play with confidence. It's not like they didn't try. They tried to keep Daniel Jones, but he left to take a deal with the Colts that gave him a better shot at starting. So I get what the front office was doing. This is a franchise that's essentially not had a franchise guy since what fran tarkinton even when we tried with cole pepper injury ponder sucked bridgewater injury it never worked out everyone around him is also rands randall cunningham jeff george brooks bollinger brad george sam bradford even cousins was good but

literally won nothing at some point you need to draft a guy not just someone but the guy and they thought they had that in mccarthy first year was rough we'll see what happens but i get why they wanted a cheap rookie and to build out the roster around him. The drafting and free agent signings were the mess up, but that's why this GM is gone. It's not based on Darnold alone. So those were people we were thinking about after the Super Bowl. What are they thinking about this? And I've always kind of understood where they were coming from.

Just because it depends on what your objectives are. Well, it's also your ability to evaluate talent. in McCarthy Yeah Yes I've been watching that Aaron Rogers documentary Not finished yet

But you know Kind of the same thing for Green Bay To say you know I really man this guy on scout team Like Parcells would say about Romo Like and he had the skins And the confidence to say I will bench a

You know What I thought I don't know if Bloodso's in the Hall of Fame But when he retired he had Or at that time Wasn't he in the top five of passing yards all time of that kind of thing. Seemed like a Hall of Fame quarterback or borderline

and to bench him for a guy who was undrafted a couple years ago. Yeah. But massive swing. Yeah, the McCarthy thing is not the same because it was a very high draft pick. And you put a lot, you know, that's a huge investment to put into somebody. And it takes a lot of balls to just bail from that. for Sam Darnold. I also like in there when he said you wanted to get,

he, his opinion was give him a contract for stability to play with confidence. I love that bit. I mean, I wish I could have used it somewhere along the line because I love it in sports. Oh, that's why he's not, he's just too nervous. It's his contract year. I thought that guy played his ass off because it was contract year. Like different guys, we can just put whatever label. quarterback nuance on it.

Like I do think a quarterback knowing that it's their team has to have some level, but that's kind of like the coach argument. It's exactly like the coach. I can't coach on the last year of a contract. Right. Nobody's going to listen to me. Yeah. Which is bullish because most players are on the last year of their contract in theory.

Right? You can cut them. You can get rid of them. They're all playing for next year. No one's really just doing this because this coach, I know he'll be here next year. I know he'll be here next year, so I better listen to the coach. Yeah, so I thought that was an interesting email,

and then somebody followed up also with just trying to find a place for Darnold in history, just wondering, but is the closest representation of this Seattle team with Darnold, the Flacco-driven Ravens, both great defenses with a mid-QB that did just enough to win. Collinsworth brought it up during the game. That's right. So what I did was went and looked. I used my little AI thing and asked it a couple of questions. Sumer sports.

Sumer sports. Dude, here's the thing. Joe Flacco was awesome in that playoff run. Yes, he was. Yeah. Perhaps. The playoff run. The elite conversation.

No, not career. And I have some stuff for you on that. Yeah. That playoff run would run. would rank as the either best or second best playoff run by EPA ever. It's right there with Mahomes from 2023. Wait, no, what?

That's the improvement. That's what I looked up. Okay. Darnold this year had the third largest improvement from his regular season, you know, game-to-game production to the playoffs. Darnold finished third.

ever uh flacco's year would be number one by a mile if you look at his regular season to his postseason just like the biggest jump and it's double what donald's was the only other one that was uh the 2023 mahomes was the year that he wasn't very good during the regular season and then went nuts in the playoffs but um yeah you'll have

i mean drake may just finished with the fifth yard largest decline from regular season to playoffs for minimum three games but I don't know. I think I forget how good Flacco was in that run. Like Donald was pretty good. Like what was his yardage of game and all that? He was just way more than he ever had. Just going from leading the league in turnovers with 20

to playing such clean football in the playoffs. That's where you start. 11 touchdowns, no picks. Yeah. About 260 yards a game. One fumble, but he was dealing, dealing. And I don't know. I think I think of him closer to Dilfer and Brad Johnson and whoever else than balling out.

He balled out. I think him as one of those guys as a quarterback, but then I do know that I do have a memory of like him going nuts. Like he played way above where he had ever played in his career for one four game stretch. Yeah. The numbers bear that out. But he also had a great defense. Sure. And Seattle did too.

It's just being able to put that together for three or four games. It's special. Got a little Mavs for you. I hope you do. Tim Kalleshaw, not done. As he tweeted a link to a MAV's story written by Brad Townsend. He's their Dallas Morning News Mavs beat reporter, and he says in the tweet,

here's a Mavs story from Brad Townsend that isn't, and isn't is in all caps, that isn't vague in detail or murky in substance. He's the best. And I feel like we are firing more shots or sub-tweeting Mark Stein again. Without a doubt. And I love it. Why not?

Right? No, yeah, I agree. Let's have a media fight. I agree. Let's get, you know, Jared and Ted Emrick to really say what they think about each other. I've got to be honest with you. And I've never told him this. I probably never will.

But when you're an Alki like me, everybody who's quit, is a hero to you. Like, you're like, oh, fuck, they did it, I can do it. But Tim was a big one for me because he still generally seemed to kind of be an asshole. And I was like, I don't want to lose my sauce. You know, I don't want to lose my fastball. You know, a lot of people I talk to in recovery seem really good.

You're now saved and you're, yeah, dedicate my life to helping others. We talked to Tim and he's just still just throwing at people's heads. There's a chance. So I think that, so first of all, read that article. And basically, it's, hey, even Mark Cuban is saying, yeah, I don't think this is a thing. That was weird. People ask me all the time. In fact, points to the Dumonts who put out a statement that says the Dumont and Adelson families remain

fully committed to the Dallas Maverish franchise and to the Dallas community. They remain focused on building a championship organization for the long term. The team is not for sale, and the families look forward to expanding their ownership stake over time. And the clear, easiest way to expand your ownership stake is to just look at the contract and take advantage of provisions in the contract when they bought the team. apparently their contract gives them the option to buy more of Cuban's stake. So he has 27% still in the franchise, and they're allowed to buy 20% more, whittling him down to 7% if that is their want.

So I read that, and I'm thinking, oh, you can get stuff in writing in a contract that you want to happen in the future. So clearly Mark Cuban, I've always thought one of the smartest people I've ever met is when he came out and said he will still run basketball operations, he knew that that wasn't true. He's a guy that knows why I don't do handshake deals, right? I don't know that he knew it wasn't true.

I believe that these people, people with a lot of power, are able to delude themselves into thinking, I'm going to be able to pull this off. I don't need it in writing. I'm going to be able to insulate my, I just think he got, he got beat. But even if he, I think he believed it because, but even if he deep down didn't believe it,

he wasn't going to let anybody know that he was on his way out. Hell, I find it very funny that in the weeks after Needs, Nico was let go. Cuban was back. It was like Cuban's advising Dumont. He's back in the driver's seat. He's back in the room. Where was he around the trade?

He was nowhere to be found. You think he's getting ready for the draft? Like he just was back in the news when Nico was fired. And then I really haven't heard from him since then. Didn't hear about him being involved with the trade at all. The AD trade? I don't know, it's really strange, but I did hear Stein say on DLLS

that since that got posted, and I'm like kind of thinking pizza gaity here, like connecting all the dots, is there something else going on? Stein says that after that report, the number of people he's been contacted by with interest in buying the Mavs has only grown and said,

this has been a big thing rumbling in, Dallas and in Maverick circles for a while. That doesn't mean the Dumonts would want to sell. But it does mean that there are a lot of rich dudes in this town with massive egos who would love to be viewed as a savior. Right. I heard Jr. saying this morning, there's no way that Cuban would ever want to be known as the guy who sold a team for $4 billion and then bought it back for six.

like you would just be known as the worst businessman of all time. But you know what else you would be known as in Dallas, Fort Worth? Jesus Christ, if you bought the dean back from them, and even then, God forbid somehow you bring Luca back. It's almost worth $2 billion because people will feed you for the rest of your life. Especially if you paid more than you sold it for. That's how much he cares about us. It's like a biblical story of like, I will sacrifice for,

the now. It's too late, dude. I would say that you'd be sacrificing for mistakes he made, but if he could sell it to himself as, like this just went sideways, and only I with hero complex can save it. And if it's not him, I think what Mark is saying is that it might be someone else.

I don't know. I know that they can make a lot of money, but TC made the point to me the other night. It is undeniable. This is a bad experience for them. owners do like people to think that they're cool and that they're the reason why things are good. Oh, yeah.

I'm sure he enjoyed being at the Rotary Club or wherever he had those comments about... Oh, yeah, Big Man. Yeah, oh, they're inviting me to speak. But nobody's doing that now. Because I run the Mavs. So I do think it's very, very unlikely that they get out for any reason

other than finances five years from now They can make a buck on it. You know, they hired CAA, apparently, which is a Rick Welts move for sure, to pilot the new arena thing. But I do think that Cuban would get this out there for no other reason. This is my Pizagate thing,

than to get other people interested and to just have some buzz around the idea of, you know, you could probably get them. So that's a question. Because the odd thing about this rumor getting out there is that the MAVs have been the most effective at being a secretive organization.

They sold it, and we didn't know. Don't you think you'd hear rumbling somewhere? Yeah. Somebody's going to get wind that Cuban's actually talking. They just all of a sudden announce it. We just sold it. Yeah.

There was never a... The Porcings trade. We didn't know. The Kyrie trade, we didn't know, and clearly the trade. no one knew, you know, there was no hint about it because if there was, it wouldn't have been made. And then Cuban selling it, too, for less than market value, what people said, just like the Luca trade, right? It was kept quiet.

And that's, well, we at the time had the opinion that, well, it's because he is going to retain basketball control. we'd listen to a podcast was it Wynnhurst or somebody was saying that there's such a thing called the control share maybe McMahon was saying that that the owner of the Golden State Warriors did a similar thing sold like more than 50% of it

but kept the control share like there's one share of the stock that actually means I control the company it probably just means you can write it in a contract It's like being player one. You're the only one that can back out to the menu. Should have been in succession. The control share.

With proxy bid. It's all very succession. That's another thing we were talking about the other night. You know they have another son who's like into basketball. Who? The Adelson's. She has an actual son, an Israeli son, who like runs a team in Tel Aviv. He's basketball man.

He was the one who interned for Cuban some years ago. I'm hoping Kendall Roy steps in I don't know I don't know what the hell is going to happen it's really weird this story is very strange Do you see Donnie Nelson's name

attached to one of the groups? No that's for buying a team in Italy I want to say that Luca is buying with him Oh Yeah So Donnie Nelson's around

He's been around The last few months Like there's a lot going on That we have no idea about could we book David Beeler or Donnie Nelson first? I think we could have David Beeler by the end of the show. Okay, well, how many times does the guy have to say it?

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They just want me to unblock them. Have you done that a lot to people? Unblocked them? Yeah, because I remember when we first started this endeavor, you said you will unblock anyone who follows us. I've unblocked a lot of them. I have subscribed. I think I've only blocked one guy post sobriety.

I don't do it anymore. Soft. I know. No, wait, what? I'm confused. David wanted to, so a lot of these are follow-ups on things we've been talking about, but he says in response to Blake's concern over a couple of adults making out at the nursing home, remember you saw that, that grandpa's nursing home?

Kissing on the couch? Yeah. No, I feel like it was quite concerned. No, I would love if they were doing it in front of me. I was just saying the other residents were taking offense. Blake wanted to join in. Offer a thing or two? I got a call from the facility

my mom was at a couple of years ago while doing bed checks they found her in another patient's room having sex with him. No way. Good for her. Slet? I love it.

I laughed and thought good for her. Then I realized with her dementia. Oh, no. I was going to have to ask her about it to make sure she wasn't being taken advantage of. Oh, no. So I asked her. She was upset that the facility told me about it, and she just told me she wanted to happen to clear her head.

Whoa. I will say she was more lucid during that conversation than she had been in months. He knocked the cobwebs off that thing. Post-nug clarity. I say, let them bang. Of course. That's from David. Heck yeah.

That's very good. That's very good. This is going to be the video Clayton from Alec. This is something we've been talking about a lot. I've actually referenced this specific email multiple times, but this goes back to the girls on TikTok and Instagram that are posting very sad life updates, followed by subscribe here for spicy content. Yeah.

He found the video, so I just wanted you guys to actually see it. Play it. Here you go. This is, I think this is a... You see that... Can you pause it? Oh, no, it just went through, but you could get the idea here. There was the first photo was a black and white photo of a woman holding a stillborn baby.

Oh, no. In the hospital bed, you can see it come up here. Oh, dear. dear missing my angel baby so much today two months ago lost them uh maybe not yeah i guess still born and then just immediately when it plays through it goes over to just a cutesy photo kind of messing with my hair than a titty photo all right it's hit me up for more it's a real thing boy it's an attention grabber it is uh a couple weeks ago this comes to us from the great bankhead of Grady's crew.

A couple weeks ago during the Buffalo Denver playoff game, pretty heated debate broke out in our group chat over hook and ladder, hook and ladder or hook and lateral. I mean, realistically, it has to be lateral. Just because I don't understand unless there's some kind of a tradesman's thing for when you hook this onto your ladder,

that it... I think what it is is one of those things where it is a, as he says, as a colloquialism that is just formed over time, and now you just say hook and ladder. Right. Is that what you go with on the air? Oh, so ladder is actually short for lateral?

In this case, yeah. No, it's just, yeah, it's another abbreviation, which you love, exactly. I've always said hook and lateral, and that, I think it was probably drilled into me early on. You know, you use, oh, it's not hook and ladder, it's hook and ladder. Like, who cares? People know what you're talking about. but because it's a lateral, that's kind of what I've gone with. But I don't think there's anything.

I'm not upset when I hear somebody say hook and ladder in that situation. You know, this would be a good conversation for Berline. Just to see what he says? Yeah, we need to have foot like just, yeah. Football with Berline? Yeah, it's just an old time. No, book him. It's an old discussion.

What does this mean? You know, does Berline have thoughts on hook and ladder? Hook and ladder. Sure he does. He was in that Bo Jackson video that's been going around. Huh? What's this? Bo Jackson suffered like a pretty severe concussion in a game.

And so much so that when the play was over and they told him he had to leave the field, he ran to the wrong bench. And then when he got back to the other side, apparently the concussion protocol back then was you had to, like, answer a like what do you do on this certain play? I could show you you got your memory working. He could remember this. He could remember the day, the month, the year, whatever. And he said, it wasn't until Steve Burline said, when it's payday,

he said Monday that they let him back in the game. I love it. Lance Forehead, who had a sit-in where he botched his closing remarks. No, that's, that's y'all's fault. Followed up with a couple good things I like here. Good bit, a kid came by the house selling squares for the college football playoff final as a fundraiser for his U-10 baseball team. Wow. Would

much rather spend money on a chance to win money than buy a stupid discount card or tens of popcorn I don't want. Yeah, I guess they do raffles and whatnot also, but that's a... Yeah, that's great. That's a very great. We'll have a party, maybe a little sauceed up. Yeah, I don't need 10% off

at random chain. Do we know any kids that are 10? Yeah, lots of them, probably. Could we send them out to try and sell like my sponsorships hey lacrosse season's underway for my daughter we're raising money for so we're trying to send no we're selling them uh you got to subscribe to the dumb zone okay and then yeah you'll be in a lottery to win something door to door but we're using the

this is why they did it for us right the the heartstrings of you're gonna yeah you might talk to a 10 year old yeah it's a shield if jake knocks on your door you're no you're calling no chance No chance. Yeah. Neighborhood, all the neighborhood bring the more bells. Yeah, that's right. They're all converging.

We'll be reviewing the To Catch a Predator documentary later as a tie into why maybe. And Lance also had a great unrealistic movie act. This is something that's totally illogical, but something I've always wanted to do. That is throwing a whiskey glass into a fireplace.

Oh, yeah. The fire grows 10x. John Dutton and Yellowstone. Yeah. Why? I have no idea why anybody ever does that. But it's a pretty good one. I have one for you. I wrote it down. And of course, it has to do with announcing or play-by-play. It just struck me. During the Ice Storm, we did a Mighty Ducks marathon. And so you get to D3 when they're going to college or whatever it was. Boarding school. And the, exactly. Boarding. It's right. High school, boarding school. And you have the kid announcer who has, you have. both a headset mic and a stand-up mic. Excellent. They doubled up.

It makes no sense to it. You don't need both. On top of that, if you remember the Titans, among other sports movies, the public address announcer in the stadium just doing full play-by-play. Yeah, that's a good one. I mean, that's a huge one across many movies.

That would never be done. Never done a game in Paris. The broadcast set up in any movie. They do that? And the colony. Oh, my God. As an engineer trying to get a good crowd mic, and the guy is just,

oh, carry by Williams for seven yards, tackle by Williams, second and six. Stop talking. Cougars are driving. Jeez. That's awful. Yep. I agree.

I've got one. Actually, a couple. This from R.B. Tell Dan, my best friend, got a clean bill of health from his doctor. And then passed away a week later from a heart attack. He advises get the calcium heart test for $50 at the hospital. Too many tests. Why don't they just tell you the ones you need? He'll pay whatever you want.

Just tell him what he needs. You shouldn't have to find out about this stuff from email. He says get the calcium one. I've done that. the calcium test? Years ago, because I saw somebody like on Letterman, it was like Mike Myers or one of those guys, maybe the Mike, the Garth, whoever that is.

Dana Carvey. Somebody was like, yeah, I went in, got the calcium test. I was like 98% blocked, and they said if I hadn't done this or whatever. So then I got the calcium test. I'm kick ass, they said. Nice. You got nothing. You're fine.

You have the heart of a horse. You could drop dead though, man. And the penis of a mosquito. Then did you say you could give them some calcium? I'll give you calcium. Yeah, there you go. I'll give you some white stuff. Is calcium always white?

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It is. Or for swimming around in gummy thoughts. I'd say the end of the day. Best time, in my opinion. I-M-H-O. I-M-B-O. Dumb zone 20. What's the B?

Black. In my black opinion, right? L-M-B-A-O. What? my black. In my black opinion. So, yeah, earlybird CBD.com. It has THC in it. You got to know that.

Some people are like, yeah, sweet. That's who we're talking to. Others are like, ah, because your job tests for THC, and you can't take earlybird CBD.com. That's why it's better. That's why it's better. And it's why I'm asking, and this was an issue because I had some dietary restrictions on the lead up to my surgery.

You pee out milk, right? Obviously. Like you drink milk that's going to turn into pee. Yes. Okay. What if... But not, I mean, it turns in it. What if you just ate...

The way you phrased it. What if you just ate vanilla ice cream? How's that coming out? Isn't that just frozen milk? Yeah? Chat's going to love this. I'm asking you a question. Yeah, keep going.

Of it are probably going to kick to your solid waste and parts are going into your... But I mean, how much? We don't know. Why would we? What benefit would it? They were like, okay, you know, we want to make sure you don't have any, you know, you got to have everything out of your stomach. Stop eating. Oh, did you have to fast the night before? Yeah, but not like a crazy amount. But they were like, the earlier you stop eating, the better.

You can drink liquids all the way until six hours before the surgery. Oh, so can you eat ice cream at... Which column does it go in? Is it a liquid or not? I'm serious. Don't look disgusted, Blake. That's a real question. Don't worry about what I'm doing over here.

It's not a bad question. What a live gummy thought right here. Also, did you not ask anyone there? No, I mean, I kind of just played it. When you got home and said, I need to have some early bird CBD. Yeah, I didn't ask him there. I didn't ask him there. It might have been the night before.

And then the other one is my wife was out of town and I was by myself. I was ordering, I ordered food two times, which is, you know, you got to be careful. It's very expensive. Because it's very expensive, I just want to let everybody know it's probably a move you're familiar with. But if you're paying that delivery charge and you're paying that tip, are you familiar like from your drinking days, Dan, with a floater? That's like when you go get a margarita and you're like, hit me with the floater. And they'll put an extra shot of tequila on the top. Oh.

Like whatever drink you're ordering, there's always a little room at the top. Like I, Julie's a big Morgan floater. Oh, I was going to say, maybe all the guys in rehab are more familiar with this. I've not heard of it. I've not heard of this. This play? The floater. Have more alcohol than I know.

So you hit the extra protein or whatever you're ordering? I order another item. Like, if I'm ordering something out, I'll order one small, like, lunch type item for the next day. There you go. So then if it's like, oh, this was $35. I don't feel so bad because I have an. another eye because you're already paying this is why you don't order pizza for one person right right the charges don't work out but if you're going to pay for delivery get you something

you can eat tomorrow make it worth your time that's the food floater brought to you by gummy thoughts then you drop a food floater later hey whether it's ice cream or not hey so I hadn't gummy thoughts sent in just the look at the year 1990 to 2026 is 36 years and then 36 years prior to 1990 was 1954. So this is kind of gummy thoughts because

okay so obviously things are changing less slowly in a sense. Like 1954 to 1990. 1954 you know my mom's

four years old, my you know if you're watching a TV show like friends, like What's TV in 1954? Music, it's pre-Beedles and everything. You probably have like a big band song is the number one song in the land. On AM radio.

Yeah. And then up to 1990, I mean, it's just so exponentially changed. But then you can look back at 1990, watch an episode of Friends, and you're like, oh, that looks kind of like today. As one person pointed out, except for the fact that people on mid-jobs can afford huge apartments in Manhattan. Was her grandmas. Huh? Oh, that's how they explained it?

Yeah, it was still in her name. Okay. Rent control or something? Yep. All right. Nice. That's definitely what that was intended for. So they thought of it. Blake knows the cannon.

Also, if you drive for IPS, you can get a totally hot wife. He's funny. And they lived in Queens. Yeah, sure. Which is super affordable. But you think of it, too. Okay, so things changed real rapidly. And you even think of like 1900 to 90s.

1950 or whatever, you know, now we got a million planes in the air and then we had none, like whatever. They were on the moon, all this stuff. So things were happening real crazy. And now it's actually kind of slowing down to where culture and everything. But for a weird little period, this is my own gummy thought now. You're in the 1880s and to 1980. Whoa.

That's, that's, I mean, Michael J. Foxx and back to the few. future three showed. That's ridiculous. So now go back to 1,200 and 1,300. Probably the exact same. Right? Yeah. There wasn't 1,200 and... This is a logarithmic expression, right?

200 and 700. I'll bet they're pretty much the exact same. Yet, during this one little 100-year period, it changed incredibly. But now we're slowing down again to where things are kind of the same as they were in 1990. I tell that to the AI do-ers online. The problem is the problem is that yesterday, the newest version of AI threatened to blackmail the programmer by exposing his extramarital affair if he threatened to shut it all. Fantastic. That's a real thing?

Dude. It can't be. The stuff from yesterday is I stopped reading it. I was just like, no. Yeah. All right. But no. Again, it's a gummy thought.

But I also, you're 100% correct. And that's why we read this, that wait but why thing at the ticket at one point, right? It's not linear. At some point, we entered the logarithmic improvement where the difference between 5 and 10 is not the same as 10 and 15. It's. But at the same time, I kind of feel like since the iPhone and since maybe like Twitter and social media. your phone 15 years or so yeah we're kind of in the same spot yeah like once you had

that's what I'm saying are we back to I know because they're all spending their time on that right and that is according to some people going to ruin the economy by Christmas so there's a fun one speaking of a fun one I assume I can read this on the show howdy boys I live in Alito and my neighbor went to high school with the chick that was banging Bobby Petrino. All right. Oh, the wild hog. The back of the motorcycle lady?

Story goes, her fiance, who was a strength and conditioning coach at Arkansas, found them at the lakehouse and was chasing them in his truck and caused Petrino to crash the motorcycle. Wow. Would that be your play? Fiancé is totally cucked. After all that, went down and ended up marrying her. He is a strength coach at Blank High School now.

Local. He's actually a nice guy, parentheses, too nice, obviously. And their daughter was on my daughter's softball team. He was our pitcher. When my neighbor told me who he was and his wife, I'd never felt so close to greatness. She's still hot, and she gave me a hat since I was a coach on that team. My neighbor sent she was a slut in high school. Now you know the rest of the story.

Oh, you know the rest. Oh, boy, hot and a slut? How great is that? I got a little bit of a viewer mail extra for you here, okay? Got an email from a guy that said I was driving through Houston and I couldn't help but notice that 95% of the billboards along 45 from like Spring through Webster are what? Buckees.

Very close. Okay. Legal advice. Yeah, right. If you're driving on 45, it's lawyers, lawyers, lawyers. I have no idea why. I don't know if Houston has more wrecks. I think probably that the industries down there, there's a lot of injuries.

And there are a lot of billboards with bits too. So many bits. And I'd seen this one attorney duo before. So he brings it up. Just south of downtown, there's a legal practice called push and win. Push. Yes, I've seen this. The first guy's last name is P-U-S-C-H.

Yep. A white man. And W-N-N-N-E. It was W-Y-N-N-E. Instead of N-G-U-Y-E-N, which would also have been very funny. Well, that was the name of the firm previously. Oh, wow. Push had a falling out with when

N-G-U-Y-E-N. and in their battle over the name replaced him with a new partner who happens to have the last name W Y N-N-E. There's a long article in the Chronicle in Houston about it about how the old win is like, you've got to rename this. And the judge is like, well, as long as they go out of their way to let people know it's a different win. And it's apparently a big legal controversy.

out in Houston. That's great. So that this guy doesn't have to change the name of his firm. If we had hired Steve Hang as the producer of the show, could we have been the hang zone? He signed off anyways. Houston is such a shit hole. Okay. Do you think if the name of our show on the radio was the Jake and Dan show?

Would you be able to say, no, no, no, we own that? You can't call yourself the Jake and Dan show? That's a great question. Hey, thanks, man. Earlybird CBD.com. Yeah. Brady. Dumb zone 20.

His name is Brady Boyd, so you knew he was going to have a message like this. Punching my dashboard this morning, listening to Tuesday's epies. Steers are cash-traded young male calves. You cannot breed them. The kids will use the money for college and future projects. Most of the time, it is businesses buying these animals

for tax breaks. So a kid at the Fort Worth Stock Show sold a cow for half a million dollars and apparently somebody's just going to buy it so they can ride off half a million dollars towards their ag exemption. Brady Boyd sounds like an

outside linebacker for Permian in the 1980s. Yeah. Or someone that definitely knows we don't know anything about cows. Yes. Great name. Chad wants to follow up on World War II talk from Sven. I thought that was an interesting story.

Yeah, about his dad who had to pick potatoes for the Nazis. Yeah, and why Denmark hates Sweden? He said, I have to throw a flag on his and his dad's notion that Sweden enabled the easy conquest of Denmark by the Nazis. If you look at a map of Denmark. Blah, blah, blah. What a dork. You will notice two things. One, it shares a land border with Germany. Two, it has no land border with Sweden.

The German invasion force is a combination of a land over their shared border and seaborne, with German forces traveling from their own coastal cities to invade the major islands of Denmark. While German ships did travel through Swedish waters with no resistance from Sweden for the invasion of Denmark and Norway, German troops were never in the country of Sweden and did not invade Denmark from Sweden proper. If Sven's old man wants to blame anyone for having to pick potatoes for five years under the boot of the Nazis, he needs to blame his own armed forces in government that surrendered to the Nazis in, now this is bold,

less than six hours after invasion. Not six months, not six weeks, six hours. Somehow the French get tagged as little bitch boys who put up their white flag while the Danes fly under the radar as the biggest surrender merchants of World War II. Wow, surrender merchant. Damn. He signs off with, always have a promo to start the show,

always play the extended version of the show theme on Fridays and never punt. That's Chad. Okay. You have to forward that along to Olympics, Finn. Just know that if you need to get your Nazi sympathizer email read. God. It's Brackett Dan. He's not sympathizing with the Nazis.

He's just saying that he's ripping Denmark, bro. If you're going to rip Denmark. I don't want to rip Denmark. It's just in comparison to Sweden. in Norway, though. I mean, let's say you got to pick one. F-1. Okay. Dr. Garrett weighs in on

penis pumps. I don't really know why we were talking about that. Were we? A ski jumping controversy? We were looking for a new sponsor. We were. That too. We're available. Game day doesn't take care of that for you? Gameday.com, actually... They can shoot you the P-shot. They actually can take care of that for you.

That's why it was a hilarious joke that I said I would look for a different sponsor. Regarding, Ted's so good at this, regarding the blue pill and injecting weeners to achieve full rigidity, in med school while dissecting cadavers of men that were older than the invention of Viagra,

there were a few male specimens that had an implanted device that would provide an erection. A small pump, not unlike a Reebok shoe pump, was placed between the balls and the man would

squeeze it in order to pump a saline solution into his penis to cause an erection. I'm not going to embed a picture of it, but you can Google penile implant if you'd like a visual aid. This technology existed in the 70s and 80s. I had no idea. Wow. It's like the Austin Powers thing. It's a real thing.

Can you imagine how shoddy getting an implant into your genitals in 1973 must have been? That's disgusting. Imagine that doctor, though. You're mad at yours. Oh, my God, yeah. What brings the end today? Yeah. Well, then, boob jobs went bad too, right?

Yeah. Like the things broke. A lot of them from back then. Knox says his wife and I bought a house a few months ago. At some point, with the all advertising own well, I realized, do we have to pay property taxes now? No one brought that up while we're signing documents or going through this process, young homebuyers. How do you do it? Is it in the mail? I finally tried Googling to see what the amount is, and apparently the county website needed a quote, property ID to look for my records. Don't know

that either. So I guess we'll see what happens. Onwell.com slash the dumb zone, by the way. He says then, also as annoying as the doctor's office form situation is when you go to apply for a job on LinkedIn, you attach your resume PDF to the posting, and then they make you go to their company website and literally fill in the same information that's on your resume. We're rife with redundancies. My last one here, I think, is from Joel the Brit. It's our regular Brit. Is your least objectionable Brit? I love this guy.

Yeah, because you hate Brits. It really makes me uncomfortable how much I like him, because I do hate his people. I've struggled with how to write this email, and first I want to reiterate my loathing for the guy who approached you in Spain and condescendingly asked you about eating McDonald's as the average Brit goes to Spain and behaves like the average spring break teen American when they go to Cancun. You guys remember that story? Did you come all this way just to eat at McDonald's? Dude, I'm starving. But, like the girl who took. told you that people like you were the reason 9-11 happened.

Unfortunately, people like Blake mad at a free trip to Brazil are the reason that the smug Brit chastised you. I can't think of a better thing that an all-expenses paid trip to South America, plus Dan and Blake would love how they drive down there. Speed limits are more of a guideline. So we're going to Brazil. Yes. Are we doing that trip?

And then in other news, that'll be tough. from Joel the Brit on sports. He says to confirm a topic you guys spoke about in the majority of the sports world, the owners are nowhere near any trophy celebrations. Typically, team captain lifts the trophy first, and then even the manager is kind of a side note. The owners and GM applaud from the sidelines.

Tommy Boy should not be near our trophy. Joel, the British D.F., who is also American, I have papers, I promise. You have to tag all your, emails to be with that now if you're a foreigner. I drove Jake today, speaking of Dan and Blake driving, and I held back.

Like, do you do this with your kid? Oh, yeah. Kid, no. Oh, you just drive like a maniac? Yeah, what does he know? I know. Well, I guess once my kids started becoming conscious of they could see the speed limit and they knew what it was. And now they drive and stuff.

Like, I don't want them to know who I really am. so he just knows yeah if I pass the 80 or the 90 it's like oh hey we're going fast but he doesn't know like speed limit could be 120 for all he knows but with Jake we were we were in the fast you know the whatever lane the pay lane and I could have gone around this guy who was literally doing 75 in the 75 miles per hour he's like well that's the limit I guess I can't go over the limit and I'm with Jake and I was just shaking the whole time while thinking in my head, if I pass him, we're going to inevitably come up to R.L. Thornton and he'll be next to me. Like, it won't matter. Yeah, that's the crazy thing. Because we're all going to get bunched up in traffic. He didn't pass

the guy and then we missed the first 15 minutes of the show. We were late because he didn't pass the no. I'm saying I was logically thinking in my head and it's a battle within me. I know I'm wrong. I know passing this guy is wrong. And I should just sit there and you helped me. Again, you help me just be a better person, but I was shaking. Like it was bothering me. Like this... You're just pent up.

Yeah, you're bored. It's just... What are you doing? Why are we in this lane? They're not doing anything to you. Are we paying for the privilege of just driving the exact posted speed limit? What are we doing here?

And finally... I have a follow-up about the Brazil thing. This from Riley. He says, consider looking up local customs on toilet paper and a lack of disposal via toilet. That's most of the world, you idiot. Do you not know that? Most of the world do you wipe

your ass? Then I don't want to go. We're going to be in the Rio de Janeiro Westing. I don't want to go. Like Ted said, he thinks he's in the favelas. We're not going to drive the walking tour through the favelas, Blake.

I was there for a month for the Rio Olympics. It's no big deal. It's awesome. It's not worth that. Come on. He's dropping his who's in the Olympics? Yeah, you're damn right, Dan. All right. First trip to Yankee Stadium this year, and we're so glad

that you're with us here on the field. I'm Ted Emrick, in for Jared Sandler, alongside Mike Bassick. Yes, it is a little chilly here. Temperatures in the mid-60s. We're in the shade as well. I would love one of these RSN pullovers. I'm just going to work with what I have. At least I'm not asking for a blanket like Jared did once upon a time. Well, the great thing, Ted, is.

You're listening to The Dumb Zone. We'll never know what the great thing is that Mike Bassick was about to tell us. It was legitimately chilly on that May afternoon at Yankee Stadium. But yeah, just went right over. Bassick said. Bassick is focused on sports. Yeah. Have you ever seriously like...

Oh, yeah. And I worked with Bob for a long, long time. And Mike Bassick is the most into sports person I've ever met. Like more than Bob. I never thought I'd say that. Yeah. Yeah. It checks out.

All the all fair talk. It's, what do you think about this? He's awesome, man. He's really fun to work with. One of the... I was surprised to see he's on the list of never Mavzers. Is he not back? Yeah.

Like, I saw him on Twitter proclaiming like he's just been out. Well, that was some time ago, right? No, it was like a couple weeks ago. Okay. Like, he's totally out. Totally, totally. He's got this Jordan Montgomery thing, though. Yeah, but see the news in the morning.

What is Sebastian Walker or something? The Bashan Walcott is having an elbow surgery and it will miss much of this season. Had Velo. He's a shortstop. On the throw from shortstop to first phase. I actually did know that, but only because I messed it up last. Who was it? Ellie did occur?

Who has the real strong shortstop arm? Ellie or O'Neill, they both do. They're both. He's, and he's like them. He's tall. Yeah. I forgot one thing during viewer mail. Benji Harmon, Benjamin Harmon.

Good dude. Sent us a gift to the den for us to take on our trip this weekend. It's first class mixed nuts. Hell yeah. Oh, nice. Because Benji is our points guy that hooked us up with flights. Not just any flights. Two spring training.

Well, only the flight that would allow us to eat these. We made it, boys. I know. Let's heat them up. You guys are going to look over. They're going to be a towel on my eyes. The only time... You got the up grizzy?

We're first class on Saturdays. We've got the upgris. But I've only... Maybe it's only once I've ever been in first class. I've only done. All done. Yeah, all points. Was going to a fight back in the old day before 9-11.

The ticket would send us... HBO would like send a variety of radio. stations from across the country to go see a fight in Vegas for free because they want to just promote HBO and so whatever it was just spare rate they would hit the ticket up and ask who wants to go uh the hard line amuses were like no why i guess chris arnold used to take it all the time and then that show ceased to be so then bob and damn were like yeah i'll just do anything yes let's go And Bob was really fired up because it was a fight against some guy against some guy that I didn't know. I knew one of the guys generally.

And then we'd go to the fight. That's where we got to interview the Sopranos because it also coincided with like the season two of the Sopranos opening on HBO. So we got to go to a very exclusive Sopranos party. Anyway, so one time Bob couldn't go. and so I went with Corby instead. It was the most fun I've ever had in my life. Like if you think, ah, Corby sounds like a fun guy.

But then off the air, he's this. No, he is the same person. He's wild. He's fun. We got hammered on the flight. We were in first class because there was some ticket listener that would upgrade us back then. Before 9-11, everything was a lot easier. Just got hammered.

I had never been in first class. I didn't know what I'm doing there. like we were stuck on the runway or something in D.C. for like an hour. But we didn't, it was great, didn't care. Went to like an HBO party. Met Conan O'Brien. Then when the fight, Corby talked me into, it took about a half second to talk me into scalping the tickets. And we each got a couple hundred bucks for our tickets and just went out, met my buddy Joe, who now works for the calves.

And just had a great night. Heard the sports princess. Back then, she was working in New York at WFAN overnight. So, you know, when we roll in at three in the morning or whatever, passing out in Joe's place, the sports princess was on the radio. Kate Delaney. And I would love to have her on this show. We tried very hard.

Just to talk about the OJ interview. She was my dad's boss at one time at KRLD. Oh, really? Yeah, she was sports director. I think it was after the time at the, however long it was, I don't think it was very long at the ticket, right? I don't know. I was never at the ticket when she was there.

Exactly. It might have been very brief, but yeah, she was in Dallas at KRLD. She was the sports director. Was she the one, would she do like Ranger post game? I'm sure at some point. Because I have a great memory of driving home from a Ranger game before kids used to go to a ton of Ranger games. just because I had a press pass

and I didn't want to go home to her so I'm going to go to this Ranger game. So I was listening on the way home to the post, and I'd stay the whole game. Yeah. Like, we change. You keep score.

That's why the ticket gives you a five-year contract, right? They're like, yeah, and maybe this guy will be different. Like, that's what you got to do in marriage. And driving home, she had a poll question and you would call in and give your answer to the poll question. So the poll question was, what would you rather be? Would you rather be a player, a coach, or like the GM of the Rangers? Awesome.

Line them up. It was like her and buzz or something crazy. That sounds like an incredible segment. And it was so they'd get a call for and it's like, well, all right, well, I guess we're 100% still. Seems like everybody calling in wants to be a player. Okay. Like, yeah. That's, and then, but the callers were totally sincere.

They weren't like, oh, busting their ball. They were like, yeah, you know, I was thinking about this. And I've sideline player. I mean, they make a lot of money. They're really famous. Oh, okay, thanks. Thanks for the call. What did you think about the pitching tonight?

Like, it's always a suck you in to call because I'm going to talk about the game. But if I just say we're going to talk about the game, you're not going to call. But if I give you a little hook, you're going to call. I'd rather put the roster together. I'd rather take care of the salary cap floor. You want to do a little TiVo talk? Sure. Okay.

Should it be brought to us by Franco and Franco personal injury attorneys? Where's my TiVo bed? I had a theme and everything. I'll find it. But Franco and Frankel, they're the personal injury attorneys that you should call. If you're on your way to Houston and you're being inundated with other advertising. Those are fake. The Frankl's are the best.

They are located here in Dallas as well. When you give them a call at 214 or 817 in all threes, you'll talk to a partner, a very experienced gentleman as well in this field. So they can help you out. Just remember, well, I was talking to somebody about this yesterday on Business Wednesday. It was like, well, how do you know you see Frankel advertising on a bus? You might hear about them on the eagle. You might hear about them wherever. So it's weird because you're in this car accident.

Your lungs are filling with blood. It's hard to talk even. And now I'm asking you to be lucid enough to remember where you heard about. Don't just remember it's the dumb zone. That's very important. If it's the last thing you ever do. Don't say Pugs and Kelly. No, that's only if you want to sandwich it, Weinberger.

That's right. Dude, so funny, too. My dad drove me home yesterday, right? We don't do a lot of that type of thing together. And I was like, yo, I want to grab an energy drink. I was like, I want to work. I'm going to get to work. So he goes into the gas station with me.

It's the gas station I go to every day. And they serve food. but it's the same food that every gas station serves. The same menu. Do you mean the rolling hot dog thing? No, it's a specific menu that you'll get it like talkeries in Texas. You would know it if you saw it if you're a frequent gas station eater. Well, Alpasteur.

It starts there. Okay. And they've got the same breakfast menu. And my dad is like, this place looks amazing. I was like, it is, it's good. I was like, it's the same as, I was like, there's one. two streets over has the same thing. He's like, they got a case of D either.

I'm like, I know. He's like, have you had it? And he leaves my house and he's like, I'm coming back. Not to see your kids. No. For the Philly. All right, TiVo talk. I just have one thing I wanted to get into.

I am trying to get through that Aaron Rogers documentary. The episode that starts the morning after they take ayahuasca is pretty great. he's kind of just sitting there looking all hippie and talking about how they had an experience together. Okay, that must be three. It's good. So I think I'm midway through two. It's, it probably is three. I'll say this again later, but like the Aaron Rogers documentary at first, you're really turned off.

Like, okay, I don't need to hear this guy. But then he starts to, like, talk football, and it's incredible. Like, he really can suck you. Like, he's a brilliant guy. Yeah. And it's amazing to hear of people who are brilliant talking. about their process of why I'm throwing it here on this particular play. I'm very interested in it.

Anyway, I was also interested, and maybe because I was listening to a little IJB a couple weeks ago, but I heard somebody mentioned this, there's a to catch a predator documentary. So I did what you always do. I'll go to Just Watch. That's an app that searches all my streaming services and says which one it's on. That didn't help. I don't know It's so hard

Is this an old man? Should I stop talking? All right I'm not going to say anything I agree that it I found it could be cleaner But I Eventually I found it

To catch a predator The worst is when you're like Hey you got to see that new Kanye doc And then they're all on the same They're all on Apple TV But there's like four of them Like which what? What?

So this one's called Predators And it's on Paramount Plus I loved it It's fantastic. Great documentary. They clearly, this is, well, it's about the TV show to catch a predator.

And the controversy surrounding it. Yeah, and, you know, I was a huge fan of that show at the time, obviously. I'm in college, so funny. You're like, look at these dirt bags. The guy who's making this documentary also grew up watching it.

He was a victim of sexual assault. as a child. And he said that the reason he watched the show was he was always interested in the part where Chris Hansen would say, why do you do it? And his conclusion was the TV show was never really interested in answering that question. And it is wild, dude, to go back 20 years and watch Chris Hansen go on Oprah or Kimmel. And they're just playing clips of it laughing about the guys. They're like, look, he came back.

He came back. What an idiot. And Oprah's like laughing. And Kimmel's like, well, even John Stewart, lefty-lib, John Stewart is like, anything you got to do to put these guys in June. Might as well just execute them. And that's how I thought at the time, too, I'm sure. And I'm not saying that now I want to let the petos walk free. But I do think that 20 years later, society in general probably has a little bit of a different understanding of sickness.

and even Chris Hanson in some of his interviews back then was like, I do believe this is an addiction and they're acting on compulsion. But the show, the controversy over the show was twofold. One, it was they were sort of acting extrajudicially. Like they would contact a police department and say, we'd like to work with you on this. And then the police department would say no. and they would still just show up and do it.

They were kind of skirting the line of legality on a lot of this stuff. Well, they were saying, like, you weren't really telling the guy that you just caught his rights. No, and he would just start talking. Start incriminating himself. Would start talking based on you saying you were egging him on. Right. You were trying to, you know, so, yes, I am working hand in hand with the police department, which a lot of times he was.

It wasn't always. Right. So, like, they are outside. They want him there. He showed up. They took pictures with him. They're like, this is great that you're coming to our town to do this, probably because their budget isn't crazy.

And now here's some TV money, and we're going to help you. We're going to catch, we're guaranteeing you're going to catch 10 or 20 child predators. You don't want us in your town? Yeah. That's a bad look. Let's let them run free. So, yeah. But you are working with them.

So in conjunction, they are signing off on you doing this. They're watching the video. They're waiting outside to when you say. Like, you're free to leave. Oh, cool. And the guy walks out and he gets tackled. Get the walk on the ground. A little excessive.

Way excessive. Perhaps, but they're not there for. But yes, so Chris Hanson kind of acting as an interrogator for the police. He works for the police in this sense. And you do have to inform them that they don't have to talk, but he does not do that. Yeah. So I wonder for a lot of those, they never really got into. Did they get cases thrown out of court because of the?

that the one guy did say yes one guy said once i realized he was talking to them that this is going to screw me he was a prosecutor um but then they got into you probably have seen this there's a bunch of different versions of it where people now just lure pedophiles online and then punch them maybe they'll lure them to like a grocery store i hate that or like an arcade or something and then they'll just try to like beat the brakes off of them it's really really gross. I don't know. This is kind of like another, a different level of who's the guy that supposedly is a right-wing YouTube guy. I feel like hardcore right-wing or opening presence, really good for YouTube.

YouTube numbers. But the guy, and then he supposedly exposed the Minneapolis scandal, which was actually like there was a New York Times big expose on it a month prior. like all this stuff was well known already. Not to John Rocker. Right, but it didn't. It was well known in the world and in news, but not to a certain sect that get all their news from right wing YouTube, I guess.

And now it's like, oh, look, this is, he exposed it. Well, he didn't expose that. Yeah. Same kind of a thing, I guess. Like he's acting, he's putting on a Scoops Callahan hat and I'm going out here and I'm going out here and I'm going to make some, well, you're not really, it's already been done. Yeah. It's already working on this.

Same with these predator, kind of imitators. And you learned that a lot of those people have been abused, like the decoy lady they use in the new. And the guy's name is Skeet Hanson. Okay. And when he is talking to them, he does it in a Chris Hansen voice, but he's like, well, if you have nothing else to say, you're free to go. You've been skeeted.

No way. He's got to use his catchphrase. He says, you've been skeeted. And the guy sucks bad. But I got a short word out of this too Because they busted a guy And then, you know, the cops show up And those guys are kind of weirded out by the fake

To Catch a Predator guy. Like, what are you doing here? But anyways, now they're doing post game. That was some heavy shit. That was crazy. He said he'd seen one of my videos before at some point. And he was last. Laughing at it, laughing at how dumb these guys are.

All right, lock in here, okay. Dumb these guys are. What we do, I quote, is better than T-CAT. He did say that. I don't know if I can agree fully because T-CAP is the OG, but. T-C-C-K-K-K-K. Okay, to catch a predator. T-C-A.

Oh, come on. And then Ski-C-C-Hanson says, I don't know if we can go that far. T-CAP is the OG. He did say that. I don't know if I can agree fully because T-Cap is the O-G, but I'm flattered by Eric's words. Eric is in the back of a squad car, by the way, but... Because they will lure them to, like, a hotel room. Yeah.

And then be like, you've been skeeted. But his buddy, who's in the bathroom of the hotel room, once the guy gets in there, he's got to call the cops and be like, hey, we got a pedophile here. Yeah. Like, so they're not really working. with the cops, but sometimes, though, this happened once too. The cops are like, look, we're pretty busy right now. We can't be there for like 40 minutes.

And then they have to kind of keep them there. And they had one guy there that was like literally, I mean, he was suicidal. He was going to kill himself. He's like, my whole life is over. This is going to, I'm trying to go to college. I'm trying to, was that the sportscaster? Yeah. Why are you looking at me?

Well, I mean, you're the guy who went to college wanting to be a sportscaster. and I thought you guys had a lot in common here. God. At least those things were in common, right? Did you or did you not go to college wanting to be a sports guest? I'm not answering your interrogation. He's got you there. Skeet McDowell.

You've been skeeted. But yeah, so now they've got a situation on their hands. Cops aren't coming. This guy says if when I walk out of here, I kill myself. They're thinking of, you know, not every, all pieces of pub or good pub. This might not be good for us. Yeah. And yeah, then they had a mess on their hands. Just the point of the show, though, just to sort of think about to catch a predator,

like, according to most of the people they were talking to, the show was just for show. The stuff that the guys had done online was already illegal enough to arrest them. So, like, when they've got Dell or whoever there, their little decoy typing online and getting them to say, I'm going to come over, they could arrest them right then. The show, they needed them to come over to get them. the show. Oh, and in fact, the big thing was the one time they were like, you know what, this is pretty good. Let's go to him instead. Do you know this? It's the one that ended it, or pretty close to it. It was in Johnson County, wasn't it? Somewhere in Texas. Yeah,

is that Murphy? Kaufman County. Sheriff killed himself in front of the tactical team as they were trying to come into his house. It was like a local sheriff was the guy who was saying he had to. And they went to his house. that was wild too because they had like you know 20 year old file footage of chris hanson in some neighborhood in coffman county and the cops are out there like laughing about it like yeah there's one lady cop heard a gunshot yeah one gunshot in there and she's laughing she's like i can't remember if he had said he wanted to poop on the kid or the kid to poop on him but it was something weird it's like the guy's dead it's just a trippy watch man yeah they were like yeah this is going to

be good enough. We should go to they had never done that before. Yeah. How about this? Decap. Because I'm for inclusion. Do you know that? Generally, I think the first thing somebody knows about you.

Diversity. I think that's all important. Representation. And I feel like predators are very racist. They're keeping this only to white males. There was not one, they didn't show one black guy. I know. I know.

Are black guys just too smart to drive to some location? I don't think this is one you want to be. I generally think I know what you're saying, but once a month, there's a story of a 60 person sting where a bunch of people got arrested trying to pick up underage girls and it looks a lot more like the normal crime blotter. I just don't think that they're doing it. Maybe they're, I don't know. Maybe it's just, these guys are online.

Are they just white rural, rural, you know, white areas? Yeah, I don't know. Out in the country. I don't know. Because at least on the show, they were just showing all the, like a big, a lot of white screen. It was all white, all white males. Chris Hansen still does this bit now.

He's got like 100,000, subscribers on YouTube. And their last story that they did, because they sat down and talked to Chris Hanson. Kind of got him on the run a little bit. And they're asking him about the last episode that his show did where I guess this is illegal in Ohio, but it was an 18 and a 15 year old.

Oh, this was from his YouTube show. Yeah. Right. And the guy was like, well, if it was Michigan. The neighboring state. It'd be okay. But yes, it was an 18 and a 15 year old. The kid wasn't allowed to live in the house with his little brother anymore.

Or was this? It was like nine. This wasn't the sportscaster. This was a kid who wanted, you know, you're going to ruin his thing. He was going to college. He's going to college. He was trying to hook up with a 15-year-old. He was going to his senior year, actually, but he was an old senior.

So he was 18 entering his senior year. And, yeah, he had to drop out of school. He stayed in the house for a year. And yes, they ended up clearing. his record, so his record is clear. Yeah. But when you Google his name,

but you know what I thought was awesome? Just a little chef's kiss was they interviewed Chris Hansen last and the shot they used to end the documentary is Chris Hansen leaving like the Predators would leave.

Oh. So the guy says, you're free to go. And then Chris goes, okay, you're free to go. And they never get up and follow up with him. It's kind of the filmmaker's a little bit making it about him. Yes, it was a little dirty at the end. Because he just kind of sits there and like ponderes, but they just film Chris going to the elevator.

Then they go to the elevator cam. Then they go to like the parking lot cam and it shows him leaving. And it's supposed to be like who's the real predator. Into his car. Yeah. He has a driver. Yeah. I know.

Interesting. T-Cat money. They also showed him at. You got his Blake to drive him. He was speaking, was Chris Hansen speaking or somebody was speaking at a convention? It's called CrimeCon. Yes. Which was just full.

It was like Comic Con or something, but you're just into true crime and stuff. Seriously. And the guy, because the guy up on stage was like, the only thing more powerful than law enforcement is you people out there. It was like people who solve crimes. Yeah. Like, what was the cat one? Oh, yeah.

With Luca. Wasn't the cats name Luca or something? Cat. I hate cats. Was that it? Bought cats. Something like that. You guys remember that?

No. No. It's 2020. Don't F with cats. Yes, yeah, 2019-ish, maybe. Hunting an Internet killer. That was a phenomenal document. Yeah.

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She was visiting her father with her boyfriend. Her dad was super stoked on Trump. And they got into a big argument about Trump. Her father, who was an alcoholic, who had been sober, I guess, according to him for some time. That day drank a lot, got in an argument with his daughter, and he shot and killed her. Oh, no. Yeah. Well, that ends.

My next question was who won the argument. That's clear. and at the time this was this is a case where I wouldn't want to be the one still alive you know how it's like husband and wife one of them dies

yeah I'm like I'd rather be the one that's alive in this case I don't know that I'd rather be the the father okay this actually happened January of 20 in 2025 this is only just now being reported on because in prosper the police decided

we're good here. What do you mean? Like, you had an argument in your home? Something went a little wrong. Family dispute. You're fine. Yeah. Just a little dust up.

They didn't arrest the guy? No. For killing his daughter? No. What? What's her name? There's a photo. I wasn't asking.

Dan. Eden. Dan. I would have to arrest him for killing her for sure. British, though. That's why she's smiling with her mouth. Okay. So yeah.

Collin County grand jury decided against indicting him. Oh, okay. It was being investigated as a possible manslaughter, but no criminal charges were brought against him. Wow. So why is this rearing its head again? I don't really know. There's a BBC article about it yesterday, and I saw it popping around on the internet the last couple days. Damn. So he's just been walking around with the knowledge that he killed his daughter.

Yeah. And he'd been to rehab. He was drunk. The officer who responded to the call said we could clearly smell alcohol on him. Like, I'm not... It's because of the British coroner's report. Okay. What do you got? That's how it's according to the... Oh, they're just now doing it. They are just now doing it. And they found that she was killed, shocker, quote, unlawfully. Yeah, well. A finding that came after a Texas grand jury decided last year not to indict him. I guess a grand jury. That's different, right? It is different.

It's not like they decided not to prosecute him at all. Am I crazy to think that politics plays some level of a role here? Like if... Sure. If this is the other way around, she was stoked on Trump and he was stoked on... Yeah. He was stoked on... Bernie.

And he killed her. I don't know. It seems weird. There was a couple of lines from the fight in here. Apparently this is like when there was a lot of Trump's sexual assault type stuff in the news. I can't turn it off. I've tried a million times. I said I can't turn it off.

Answer it. It's a spam risk. She said to her dad that morning, how would you feel if I'm not? that morning, how would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted? Her father replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him much. Then she became quite upset and ran upstairs. Half an hour later before they were due to go to the airport, her father took her by the hand, led her to a bedroom, shut the door, 15 seconds later they hear the gunshot.

He apparently said in a statement that he lifted the gun to show it to his daughter and immediately heard a bang. I don't understand what happened, he said. He wrote in a statement. Yeah. Yeah. A lecturer at... Mistake. Mistakes were made.

Just a little kerfuffle. That's all. what was I about to say? Lecturer at Texas State suspended after he hopped on Facebook and started firing off comments in particular the comments that he sent to a very famous breast reconstructive surgeon

Dr. Divya Serenvasa who has 275,000 followers on Instagram but I guess she's like woke and he just sent a bunch of stuff to her about how she hopes ICE deports she gets deported by ice she's a leftist whore and then she with her

275,000 followers post that says it looks like this guy works at a place called Texas State University and he was gone the next day yeah then she proved proved him right he was a faculty member

only leftist whore would have him that's true fired this is funny he was a faculty member in the department of organization workforce and leadership studies not going to be working here anymore I don't think you should get fired for saying somebody you hope they get deported

or calling him a whore I agree I guess if you work for a state university you work for the government there can be different different laws different criteria but that doesn't feel like fireable to me. I don't think you should be fired,

but I also just don't think you should do it. Like you should post that. Kind of just fun, right? I know that's your new attitude. Can we have some fun? Just kid stuff. Jake's been hot on Twitter lately. Just getting in fights for fun.

It's been awesome. I'm just loving life. Jake's back in a big way. This might be. This is the new year of Jake. We were a month and a half in. For a week this time. You just broke your arm.

Pulled my calf muscle, got the flu, and broke my arm. Can't stop you. What a comeback. Can't stop you. I don't think anybody's calling this the year. February is never your month. Right? The Luca thing?

Now this. Dr. Divia in her Instagram bio, breast reconstructive surgeon, opinions and outfits. Okay. I want that to be dance. I mean, that's perfect for you guys. Opinions and outfits. A student, an 18-year-old student at Dallas Baptist University,

helped save a stranger's life in downtown Dallas Tuesday night. This happened over in the Oakland area. A man was unconscious on the sidewalk, needed his inhaler. But what he needed in that moment was CPR. And despite having never done so on a human, she did it and saved him. Do you guys know, CPR? I remember doing Annie. Annie, are you okay?

help please call 911 did you have to do that no like you had to say that when you're laying there with the dummy thought it was the beegey staying alive yeah and now a pink pony club chapel rone that's a new one yep for CPR

yeah we didn't do the begis we just we had no rhythm in northeast Ohio you're just you're to the grindstone some old wives tale you're just working on your hips don't move Yeah, they just saw a guy lying on the ground with a crowd of people around him and they run over and she's like, I can do that. She's training to be a nurse.

Yeah, I don't know. Well done. Certainly if there's a crowd of people, I'm not going to volunteer for that. I don't think anybody was curious about that. I've probably messed that up, though. Because they say, you know, I don't know, I've heard actually you're not even supposed to do that anymore. Because you could break ribs and stuff. Can you give mouth to mouth?

Would you do that? Yeah, I knew that's where this was going. Would you do it to Ted? Is mouth to mouth CPR? It's the same, it's part of it, right? I thought C. Is it? Chest compressions.

And to do it right, don't you have to like break someone's chest cavity? Well, that's what I was just talking about. That's what they say in the ER. If you're not breaking ribs, you're not doing it right. Okay, you're saying that's what you say when you mean do it wrong? I thought you was doing it wrong. Yeah, like you could break a rib. No, I think you're supposed to.

Oh, yeah. Doing it wrong, I think, is. they die. Would you give me mouth to mouth? 100%. I'll do anything it takes to keep you around. I knew you were gay.

Yeah? Whatever. I was just testing. You'll be lucky if my mouth is the only thing touching that mouth. God. I'll give you some protein while he's added too.

Calcium. I'll take it all. I need it. That's not how you intubate, Jake. Ice cream. Yeah. Should we just practice just in case I?

Yeah. Do it for the show. What if I get into a bad situation and you had never tried it. I feel like we should do some sort of moratorium on pedophile stories after today's episode. It's just a lot of stories. Now, is this Epstein thing or is this a teacher?

There's so many of them. This is an interesting one because I've always been interested in the jailhouse phone. Like, of course you're thinking they hear everything, right? But there's no way they do. What, do they have somebody in real time listening to every single phone call? They could. They could, and that threat is there, but they could also search or sell it anytime, and they don't. So you know guys are doing stuff on those phones.

This 46-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison for child sex abuse crimes. And while he was in, continued to assault and prey on children over the phone. Can you assault someone over the phone? He gained access to a girl through his connections with her family. She was 14 at the time. And he had actually assaulted this girl on the outside. And then inside, he's just on the phone with her, having phone sex, doing lewd acts over the phone. Anyway.

Yeah, that seems bad. But again, they're not putting them in there to rehabilitate them. That's true. They're putting them in there to punish them. Yeah. And law enforcement officials seized over 200. dogs from a couple locations around Dallas this week, as we have the largest alleged dog fighting bust in a long time in Texas. I also got 66 firearms, a bunch of cocaine, a bunch of

weed, 207 dogs. Sounds like a Hank Schrader bust. It does. That is funny, though. That's the whole thing that gets you fired up about that, not all that other stuff. The dogs? The dogs. 200.

Now you're telling me that there's not a way to turn this into some level of legal public entertainment. These dogs are... Right, they're going to euthanize them anyway. Come on. They're not going to somebody's home. It's just a dog when you say treat someone like a dog, that means... That's intimating that you're allowed to treat them poorly.

Because they're merely a dog. Like how happy Blake was when his dog died. Yeah, huh, yeah. Freedom. Like, what if you could have also entertained some people? Like, it just feels like we've already trained him to fight. Like, yeah. Do you want to rob them of the opportunity to...

In fact, they say they're happier that way. Like, the horse knows if it wins the race. Right. Let the dog's fight. Make it the prelims for the big fight on the White House lawn in the summer for America 250. Doing what it wants to do? I don't. I want that dog to be.

free to live its truth as a fighter. All right, there's your news. Oh. Oh. There you go. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. That's a good news.

Happy birthday. Thank you. We can be pure male birthdays. I think Dan would really like Dr. Divya. Oh, there's no doubt. Divya?

The breast reduction. You said? Reconstructive. There is no doubt. Oh, you know what? Dang it. I forgot a news story. Go ahead. Play the opening.

Extra news. No. I'm searching Dr. Divvian. News over time. No, it was just because I pursue it to my shit talking on Twitter. And I don't know if every promo runs every sponsor or if just some of them don't run the supporting sponsors. But the ticket stock promo I heard this morning. did not have Texit coin in it.

Oh. And it sounds like the world might not have Texan coin in it for much longer. They're sponsoring tickets talk, though. I know, but they got hit with a very serious legal order today. An emergency cease-send-assist order issued by the Texas

State Securities Board. Welp. Here's to be a fraud. No way. way. No way, man. I know. I know.

They have billboards and everything. I know it. And the text right there in the name. Yeah. So she also will be like, if you add purple blush, that will neutralize. Makeup tips. Yeah, what do you want her deported for? Not even really any hot opinions.

I have nothing against Bad Bunny. But why would you, they choose music in Spanish for the Super Bowl halftime? Okay. Ooh, try the winged liner, she says. All right. She might have some hot opinions, too. Booker. Booker. Booker. No chance.

How much? What would be your limit? I think I'm now in love. Yeah, Dan wouldn't be able to handle it anyways. Oh, wait. Is this the right one? Oh, yeah, $275,000. Might be a T-Cap situation. Might be it at that one.

Dude, there was one part. It was so funny. We're liking Dr. Divya. I should have pulled the audio, but there was one black guy that showed up for to catch a predator, and he said something sort of slangy, like he might have said, Hey, dog. And Chris Hansen immediately goes, yo, I don't know what up, dog. It was so weird.

It's just going to switch. Just making fun of him. Total upper hand alpha move. It's feeling comfortable. You're never talking to that guy like that outside of this room. I promise you that. I don't know, dog. Yeah.

He is in charge. The cops are outside in the bushes muscles you have. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Judge, jury, and executioner right there. Anyway, viewer mail birthday is brought to us by Game Day Men's Health. Gameday. com.

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Maybe tomorrow. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe a live one. He'll be with us. Dan, today is my 24th birthday. My request, oh, I have a picture in there for this. My request is for Jake to retell the Martellus Bennett flag burning story. See attached photo for context.

Never punt. That's from Jack. He doesn't need the context. and it's Michael Bennett Yeah Who was burning the flag in the Seahawks locker room With Pete Carroll cheering on Yeah

Look at everybody's cheering him It was a big topic in the country at the time Yeah I mean the story was We were talking about the Seahawks on the shake joint one morning And you know how they were really in disarray What Russ was fighting with the defense And then Sean said Plus they had that situation

where Michael Bennett was, what, burning an American flag in the locker room. And then when I said, I think that was fake, he said, yeah, but that perception is out there. And one of the greatest back and forths in sports talk radio history. Dear Master of the Sausage Wallet, my brother Kray and I would like to wish our little brother, Truitt, a happy birthday. His leaders are Mike Leach and updates to the... W HL list. It's a good family right there. Is that why Hillary lost?

He'd like an Angelo update from Blake for his birthday from Lauren Cross. We like Lauren, folks. How do people say it? I'm a little mad at Angelo right now. Oh, no. Yeah, I had a little

trouble getting his money to him on time, which didn't go over well. and then he texted me, no offense, why is my money not ready? And I just... Bold! I just haven't been roasted like that in a long time. How late were you? You didn't make it Feb 1?

Well, it... And what was the hold-up? The amount... I got putting it on him. Bitch, where my money is. The amount of maneuvering I have to do, because it is my personal Venmo account. Yeah.

So when someone sends me money or something, I have to immediately rush to transfer it out before he can use it. And so there's just a lot of... lot of moving and I just sent it to my wife and I pull from that. Well, we had to pull from that for something else. And so anyway, I had to initiate a bank transfer, which takes three to five days. So I was able to move like $17 in. And I said, your money will be, your full amount will be money are ready on Friday. There's a little bit in there for you now. He blew through that immediately and then texted me, no offense, why is my money not ready?

Do you block it? Block the number. No, you can't block the number. Yeah, I don't know. You can't block the number. It's taking a toll on me. It's too much. No, it's not. Just keep on. You're doing a good thing.

I don't feel that way anymore. You're doing a good thing. Let's take him to Rio with us. We leave him there. Sell him. Oh. Whatever. How come the white man never gets trafficked?

Yeah. Although I don't know if he's... He's not, but we could... There is no such thing as white, though, right? Right. So he's fine. And finally, dear Fupa Destroyer, want to wish my fellow DF Beech Good Year, a happy Kyle Gibson birthday. He's celebrating 44 years sober today without the help of Jake.

He wants more Jones family audio at Cowboys Press conferences and chappy in charge of the NFL halftime show. Dude. Run the ball and F. Patrick Dumont from Zach, Jake's Hab Buddy. Oh, right on. Good deal. Was he the pond guy? No. No.

But he went to the exact same place I did. You know ZK. Community Mechanical presents on this day. Ah, yes. The greatness of Community Mechanical, Travis is our guy out there. Travis at Community Mechanical can be your guy too. That's the problem with him. Like when the freeze thing was happening.

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I wanted to be, like, treated like a VIP, and it turns out he's going to treat everybody who has preventative maintenance like a VIP. Yeah. So he did personally text me. I will say that because it was just from him. But then apparently he sent that out from the company's text to like everybody. And then I felt a little less special.

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Oh, yeah. Today in history. I thought we were just done. I was ready to be done talking. Today's Thursday, February 12th. On this day in 1878, Frederick. Douglas. Thayer.

The captain of the Harvard University Baseball Club patented the baseball catchers mask. That early, huh? Harvard. Yeah. Those guys are on top of everything. Plus, it was like the only college, right? Have they been involved in any sort of other? And Yale.

Yeah. Like questionable sort of research projects or anything that have been in the news lately? Probably not. Go ahead. He knows so much more than we do. He loves to do the show for the three people that are cheering him. That are checking the same files he is. Yeah, bro.

I'm glad you mentioned that. They are doing something fishy. Fishy. Oh, good. I'm seeing Mark Tashire is out on the campaign trail. Oh, yeah. This will be fun. On this day in 1995,

Philip Kramer, they call him a computer entrepreneur here. He also was the former bassist for a rock group called Iron Butterfly, Iron. Yeah, I know them. Wait, who is this? So this guy was the basest for Iron Butterfly. On this day in 1995, he disappeared while driving from Los Angeles airport to his home in Thousand Oaks.

He was not found until four years later by hikers inside his smashed Ford van below Decker Canyon Road. So what, he just veered off the road somehow and a crash vehicle was not found until four years later? That's crazy. You know, they did Anagata Davita. Iron butterfly? No. It's a classic.

Sing it so you do. Oh. Oh, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma, ma. And on this day in 1998, Fancy sample by Knows. Chan Galey is announced as the Dallas Cowboys' fourth ever head coach. Can you name all the Dallas Cowboys head coaches?

Probably not. Landry. Then Jimmy, was Jimmy next? Then Switzerland, Galey, Campo, Garrett, no, Wade. Bill, Parcells. Then, McCarthy, Shottie. There you go. Cachio.

Had an assist. And on this day in 2019, Mexico's most notorious drug lord, El Chapo, was convicted. and running an industrial scale smuggling operation. He is now serving a life sentence in Florence, Colorado. Supermax. That's where Joe Karsarnayev is. The federal Supermax prison. And today is February 12th, this day in Dumb Zone history.

We missed an important day yesterday because yesterday in 2021 was the first ever show for the hang zone. Whoa. Happy birthday. That's why we were off. We take our birthday off. That's why we had dead. in today. Yeah.

That was also, I want this added to the list of reasons your mom will call you, Dan. Because in 2021, we were fresh off the heels of that giant wreck in Fort Worth. And Dan's mom called him to make sure he wasn't involved in the wreck. There was a lot of people in the wreck, Ben. And then what if I was? A greater chance than none.

You're not answering. He must have been in it. Yeah, that was a big, that was a, let's think about how Dan does things came up. In those conversations with my mom, my wife, whoever wanted to be there for the surgery. I was like, well, what are you going to do? If it goes wrong.

I mean, if I die, there's someone there, you know quicker. What exactly would the... Do you want to be there so they'd make sure to pull up plug real quick? What would be the benefit? Yeah, how's it going to help anyone? Her, you, the doctors? Doesn't a Dan too much. In 2024, we find out that Jake doesn't follow the rules in regards.

to wearing socks. Like, if I have socks and it says L on it, I'm going to put it on my left foot. It's insane. It's insane that we've been suckered into paying more for socks that are listed for left or right feet. They put it on all of them now, too, and there's just no point. Even the lady yesterday, the lady

at the hospital. Because, you know, socks are no easy task for me right now. She's like, oh, I want to make sure I get them. I was like, I don't give it. I don't care. Give me double L's. Why don't you? Woo-hoo. You're crazy. Now you're living insane.

Actually, the socks I wear the brand are double-ells. They do it as a bit. Wow. As a bit. What's the payoff? Right there. I guess. Hopefully one day someone will report this to a larger movie.

And then this was the first show after our first Super Bowl stream back in 2024. And I'd forgotten about this. But your wife had a party downstairs That got a little rowdy And someone broke the love sack Yeah, some neighbor Dude drank too much

Was in the kitchen And saw in the living room We have this big love sack Everybody knows what the love sack is? Giant beanbag Of course Well, this guy's like 40 Or whatever, 45, you know

And he's somewhere in his head It's like I should run full speed at that and dive into it. Yeah, it's Super Bowl. It's soupy Sunday. Yeah, sure. When we had kids,

that was huge. That was their big, they would run around the house, like get a good thing going, and then just dive into it and lay and laugh, and it was great. The love sack is great for kids.

Not really for 45-year-old guys. Because then all the stuff's coming out of it. Did you find, like, little white bowls? Oh, my gosh, yeah. We might still find it. Like out the vacuum and, you know. Good deal. likes to party.

I want to know and I never did that. Diving into furniture. It feels like a very rookie move. You just destroyed the Bud Wilkins and sweet. Tommy boy? That's all. Well, you were a professional drinker. This guy was like, oh, it's a Super Bowl.

Let's drink. True amateur. Hand hang. Like, because people will be calling you out and ask you to stop a little sooner. Before you, yeah. If you're just breaking all the shit, everywhere you go. You're like, hey, how can I keep this thing going?

Right. I'm going to be cool. I'm just going to sit back over here. Under the radar. Other birthdays today, Derek lively is 22. And according to my notes here, he has a dad. He is Derek lively the second. I had a mom, too.

Okay, yeah. That's unknown. She was very instrumental in his life. Ooh, that's right. Josh Young is 28. Back? I hope to meet him. Jungle Cat.

DeMarco Murray is 38? Free tan. Going to the Chiefs. Did I see that this morning? Yeah. Chiefs New Run. Yeah. So he and Witten will not be on the same staff at OU.

That's a bummer. Good for him, though. Yeah. Shante Carver is 55. Damn. Speaking of that era of coaches you were just naming. Was he a first? I think he was.

Like late first. Larry Nance is 67. Is he a hero of yours? Yeah, he was a cavalier, the human pogo stick, they would call him. Like they acquired him and he had won the dunk contest a few years prior. And I'm like, whoa. We got a guy who could win the dunk. Not just can dunk.

A lot of guys can dunk. Chonte Carver, 23rd overall in 94. Those are tough times. Former Cleveland Brown Doug Deacon is 77. he was also their color commentary commentator on the radio broadcast, a role which he did like 30 or 40, I don't know, he did a long time. And I would see him, like when I worked in Cleveland, Bill Belichick was the coach in Cleveland. And I would go to some press conferences to cover them.

And Doug Deacon would always stand in the corner. He's a little better than all the other media, you know, if you're an ex-player. Think Razor. You know, he's a little. Maybe babe. He doesn't really belong with us, and he carries that aura around with him. Like, I don't belong with you guys. Here I am on the media bus.

But clearly, you guys are all looking at me a little, you know, which I can see. Yeah. Anyway, he would stand there with an unlit cigar in his mouth and a giant wad of, like, red man. Like, it was the real chewing tobacco. It was a real man. We say Red Storm these times. days, by the way, Dan. Oh, that's right.

What do you mean? We talked about that. St. John's. They used to be the Red Man. Oh, really? They were now the Red Storm. I never put together they were the Red Men because of Native Americans. I just thought they were Red or something.

But it was a Native American thing? Apparently? I guess. Yeah, and it's not because we changed the name from Red Man chewing tobacco to America's best, right? That's the story we did. Look how sad he is. Oh, no, my cheese is not racist anymore. Red Man, you know.

I think you know a country. We made you look up the logo a few months ago. Even you've taken him back. Yeah. It's pretty gnarly. Paxton Lynch is 32. Oh, what could have been? Who'd have been a cowboy?

What could have been? Well, he would be a great player right now, because from what I understand, And he was developed. Dak was developed by Jason Garrett. You can't just give an ounce of credit. So he would have just developed Paxton Lynch. That's how it works.

Moving targets all around. And this is the thing he does. He makes me defend Jason Garrett. Yes. And how do I feel about that? Dirty. You are the no puppet guy. That's right.

Scott Pollard is 51. Scott Pollard has one T and is the name Scott. He was a weird character, man. The hair. Yeah. Weird guy. Brad Kozlowski is 42. He's a racing man.

He probably knew Greg Biffel. Shed a tear. Christina Ricci is 46. And always had a thing for her. Casper. Yeah, just weird. Did you see her in yellow jackets? No.

My wife loved that showtime. Is that good? I think it started out good. I've heard great things. Season one was good. It kind of tails a bit, but I get strong still overall. It's like lost with like a high school girls team or something, right? So soccer team or something.

I think there's some cannibalism. Yep. It's a happy show. Arsenio Hall is 70. Oh, Jake. Jake. You know what? God, I should have held that for my dumbs on birthday of the day.

Yeah. I remember that for next year. The best place to try to score with a late. lady or meet for a joint back in Arsenio Hall Did you always swing your fist like Arsenio while you were there?

That was whenever you entered you had to do that. That would have been great. So you had a picture like a framed photo of Arsenio Hall in this hallway? Yeah, we ordered one on eBay. Yeah, it was just like this weird random hallway that connected one part of the house

to the other. and we would just always end up there. And so we just named it Arsenio Hall and put a big photo of Arsenio Hall there. It's what people knew. I like bits. We had a lot of them. Michael McDonald is 74.

Oh, Javier. Michael McDonald's awesome. Big fan. Now a Super Bowl champion. All right. Ooh. We'll allow it. Ooh.

Gucci Main is 46. Wow. That's a legend of the streets right there. Many, many years in and out of the clink. Josh Brolin is 58. I don't really know what all he's done. No country for old man. No country.

Yeah. I know he played W. I think he had a famous dad. Oh, did he? Daughter was in Yellowstone. James Brolin. Isn't he famous? Yeah, super famous.

He was married to Barbara Streisand. Oh, there you go. Still is. Oh, really? Today's still alive. Judy Bloom is 88. She is an author. Wow.

And how I learned about periods. I mean, as much as I know, which is very, very little. You could have told me. Except that you can give a blood donation with one. The Judy Bloom wrote some of the books from the 1800s. And I would have been like the classics. Yes.

Oh, really? A hundred percent. Wuthering heights. Yeah. Did you never read any Judy Bloom as a kid? No. No. Yeah, they would probably ban her books now.

I think that, in fact, they probably, I've heard that, are you there, God, it's me, Margaret is banned. Yeah, that's probably the one I learned about periods. Because it was a book for young girls, and so for some reason, I read it. Of course. You want to know what's going on in there. I kind of did. Oh, Apo.

What are we doing here today, birthday, is Emily Mameda. Harper has turned 18. Blake, I know you're counting that down. She's from the YouTube channel, Emily and Evelyn. 1.8 million subscribers. They will

open presents sometimes. They'll just do some stuff. Okay. Talk about what it's like to be a girl. Yeah. And the dumb zone birthday of the day it really should be Arsenio Hall. It will be next year.

This year, it's RG3. is 36. That's a pretty good one. I would have thought older. Older? It just feels like... Just because I know when I was in college and when he was in college, it's easier for me.

But that almost feels old. He was very stoked on Michael Pennix, Jr., doing a game. I think he was still with ESPN at the time. And in the open, he leads a chant of Big Pennix Energy. Big Pennix Energy. You did a game with him?

No, I didn't do the game. I just remember him doing a game. Let me tell you. That's a great bit. Great bit. Let me tell you what RG3 loves. I would love to do a game with him. And you would be awesome.

Yeah? He loves a little, little, oh, it's kind of funny. I get you there, partner. And what's his wife sound like? I can't do it, dude. Swedish chef? Swedish chef, but hanging out with black guys. This is Fab?

I can't do it. I can't do it. Here's Soroy from Fight Night. Let's say kill. The Normandy invasion runs their record to 2 and 0. The shake joint suffers their first loss of the evening. This was a first. I've never seen a shoulder get thrown out.

This is the famous one. There you go. Oh, gross. Sorry about that. He needs to go to hospital. Look at that. That was so wrong. It is.

Is break time. Seven 25 to time. Tons of big fights available left. Users kick around next. Why did that relate to what we were just talking about? I just wanted it before we got out of there, I thought you were done. It's the Soroy pregame for tomorrow.

The guy said he wanted to hear slurry sororoy, and you said tomorrow. Oh, I thought he wanted to hear the N-word. There's no way. Oh, you think? Slur. Yeah, his live spot. Oh.

When he said slurry, I just thought he meant all the times we have of him drunk. That's why I was like, we're not playing that today. He met the actual slur, not. I just feel like there's no way we'd remember to honor that guy's request tomorrow. Well, I know. When I said it, I knew we wouldn't honor it. When you asked if I'm coming to your party and I said maybe. It's just tricky because.

I knew the answer was no. Soroy is a guy we have a lot of slurry audio from. But he also happens to be. the only guy we have of him saying that slur. Right. More than once, actually. That's kind of his signature. I stand corrected.

It's like you've been skeeted. He'll say that at the end of every show. Born on this day now dead, Charles Darwin invented evolution. Before he was born, everything was kind of the same. Staying as was, yep. And then all of a sudden, things started changing. Abraham Lincoln.

He was born in a log cabin. Chris McCandless, he was the subject of the book, Into the Wild. Do you remember him? Of course. I did not read it, but I've seen the movie. Bill Russell and Lenny Randall was born on this day, now dead. Isn't he the one that beat up his coach? Lenny Randall did?

I don't know that story. Didn't he beat up Frank Lucasey? Frank Lucasey's like 70? Oh, yeah. Now I do remember this story. Lenny Randall might have also been, like he was a pretty, a red ass, as you might say, although not a Native American. But isn't he the guy that, I think he laid down a bunt, the pitcher went to field it,

and he just bowled him over on purpose against the Indians, like a week before 10-cent beer night. Like make, like so. Yeah, there was a big, tempers were flaring before they ever had that game. game. And Lenny Randall was at the middle of it. Nice. Dead on this day, still dead. James Cash Penny.

J.C. Penny. Hmm. That on this day. Charles Schultz, Ivan Reitman, and Tom Landry. Why do I know Ivan Reitman's name? He did a bunch of stuff, right?

Ghostbusters. And then isn't Jason his son? Yeah. Also a director? There you go. That's what I was looking for. And that's what happened on this day in history. Well, you know, us Nepo babies.

Like, we stick together. We know the stories. You have to know every one of them. Oh, this is still playing. Yeah, how's Shadi doing? You guys get together at the... All the time, man. In fact, he's got his drink, the Shottie, right?

The vodka lemon. I got the Teddy working. Wow. We're workshoping that drink. What's the NOAA like? So how about some closing remarks from Ted Emmerich? Where are you going to be soon? Are you doing any games?

Well, I got a travel story for you from over the weekend. I was at Allen Fieldhouse. AFH, if you want acronyms, I'm starting to see that now, the home of Kansas, when they knocked off number one Arizona, who was undefeated on the season. So, flight out there, we're on the runway. You feel like we're ready to take off? Nope, got to return to the gate. It's even worse, you've got to deplane.

Go back to the terminal, find a new gate, new aircraft. All right. Three hours later, after the original scheduled arrival time, you land. Flight attendant gets on the PA. as we are taxiing there in Kansas City, mind you, it is 11 o'clock at night. We're all tired of this. And she says, I have a favor to ask all of you.

I want you to sing me happy birthday. That's the worst. She says, it is also recently that I lost my husband. husband, 40 years to cancer. No, not my problem. And it is my birthday today. I thought, I thought about taking the day off. But I decided to work.

And it would mean so much to me. Oh, my God. If you would sing me happy birthday. And yes, Dan, I know your question is, why in the hell did you not roll on this? I was shocked. Yeah, I don't know if I would have the. I mean, I couldn't, I had no idea, I had my phone with me.

My jaw was on the floor. I can't believe that she was asking this force field, the husband force field. At 11 o'clock. Multiple force fields. You don't think at one point in that delay, it didn't cross her mind of like, I got a shell of the bit. Everybody's going to be upset. We're four hours late. She was going to ram this thing through no matter what, no matter what.

So it would mean a lot to me if you would sing me happy birthday. Oh, my God. Dead silence on the plane. She gets back on the PA and she says out loud. Let me hear it. Happy birthday. That's how it's, I mean, it was just like a golf crowd. Gun to the head.

Happy birthday day. And Al-Qaeda video. Happy birthday. She gets to happy birthday dear and everyone's just like, and, you know, she says her name. Amazing. And everyone finishes the sign. Thank you so much.

That means so much to me. I can't tell you what that means. Their unions are too strong. She should have been fired on the spot for that. It's like, are we not going to be allowed off this plane if she doesn't get? I did not sing a word. I just looked around. Like, people are actually doing this.

That's incredible. That is incredible. Those people walk amongst us. Wow. Well, thanks for being here, Ted. Thanks for the invite. Adios, mofo. We got to go before this becomes a zoo.

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