The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 2-16-26 | The Dumb Zone live from Brewers Spring Training in Arizona

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

This trip to Brewers Spring Training is brought to you by Qualis GC and Silverback Construction!Some hit the road, some hit the air (we'll let you guess who) to join the Milwaukee Brewers in Phoenix for Spring Training! Travel stories, the NBA's plan for AI, plus why we're at Brewers camp. We're free all week thanks to Qualis and Silverback! (00:00) - Open: Live from Brewers Spring Training (01:00:24) - Sports: The NBA's AI plan (01:30:20) - TC caused a Dan fights with his wife (01:49:09) - News: Phoenix local news (02:15:14) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm professional broadcaster Dan McDowell, letting you know that you were about to hear one of our free podcast. But if you'd like to subscribe at dumbzone.com, you'll get four shows per week plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus sods like our business Wednesday interviews. So, if you forgot how to use the 15-second rewind, that's dumbzone.com to subscribe. Now, on to today's program. Find out today how much does it cost to make someone else drink piss? And meet the guy who's the digital guy for the brewers. And we're 30 minutes from Nancy Guthrie? T.C. and more today on the dumb zone.

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Oh, okay. I can't hear what you're saying. That means the people listen to the tuning in absolutely can. Can you explain this to me, Blake? Clayton said it was coming from him, but I don't know why. All right. Well, anyway, hello friends, and welcome to Phoenix, Arizona. Or is it Glendale?

Are we in Glendale? Huh? It's Phoenix. All right. Phoenix, Arizona, the site. Should we restart? Major League Baseball spring training, not just any Major League Baseball Spring Training.

One of the teams that owns their own facility. And a beautiful ballpark, it is, the Milwaukee Brewers. Do we all know the Milwaukee Brewers, folks? We do. Yeah. Love the Brewers. Do we all know American Family? Fields, the Phoenix.

Certainly a top three culture lore franchise in MLB. You think? Appearance in movies. I mean, it's the heartland. Right. The slide. Hell yeah.

Hold on, let's clap the hands. This feels good. A simpler time. I know. Anyway, we are out here. We are here because of, do you want to come on for a second? And then whenever you want to throughout the whole week. It's Bob Euker sits with us now.

Well, no. It is a man that Bob Euker once handed a letter to, though, and he saved it and then gave it to the skipper at the end of the season, I believe. No comment on that. Is the thing that happen. This is Matthew Small? Yep. Matthew Small, everybody.

How's it going, guys? He is the Brewers Digital. Yeah, Director of Digital. Oversea all online, social media, all that kind of stuff. And I guess we're digital. You are. You fall into that category. And you are a guy who used to live in Dallas?

You used to live in Dallas for five years from Austin. Yeah, and then got into the entertainment biz and followed it to Milwaukee. Okay, how did, yeah. So you're the digital guy for Milwaukee. You heard us on the ticket, and you're a fan of the ticket, and you're a fan of the dumb zone, and you said, hey, I could pull some strings. I got a little power. Yeah, I think you guys mentioned it was down Rangers time.

You maybe threw out some Milwaukee thing, and I said, this is my chance. We didn't even talk about this. I emailed you guys a long time ago, maybe IGB, when I was at South by Southwest, and then I waited, you know, 15 years for my next move and was like, now I'm on the brewer, so this will make sense. Well, and the thing is that it didn't make any sense, and that's why it made all the sense in the world for us to come here. Yes.

Because we just want to go to spring training. We want to hang out. I've done it before. I've just visited Phoenix just to go to different. ballparks and it's awesome. It's a fun time. It's a great vacation. Yeah, it's a cool spot.

There's so many people that live in Milwaukee, obviously, that come down here and this is like their yearly vacation to get out of the weather. But yeah, it's such a nice stadium. Bring the SPF 50 if you are coming from Milwaukee. Yep. Because you are pasty. Yeah, it's a pretty sweet deal.

People are asking us like, why are you doing this? We're like, I think just because we can't. Yeah. I think that's pretty much it. Because it'll be fun. It's been fun so far. You just got in yourself? Got in yesterday.

Yeah, I'll be here all week. We're doing the player photo shoots for all the end stadium stuff and social media and all that stuff. But the guy has to just throw a ball up and down. Yeah. Dan and I had to shoot something. Make them looking down and they look up. Dan and I had to shoot something that was going to be eventually turned into slow motion recently. And it was hard not to want to move in slow motion.

Yeah. Does anybody slow toss the ball? Oh, for sure. No, dude. We had people this year that were already, last year we had, we were like, we're going to do this cool lighting effect that it comes in from all these angles. It blinded them. Literally, they were walking out of the tent like we cannot see.

So that got cut, but they're already mentioning it. It's day one. They were saying they didn't want to do it. See, next year we need to get into those writing rooms for player bits. Did you do a lot of that over the winter? Oh, since we went further in the play. We had no off season. It was right into, let's go into this year planning.

So, yeah, we're on it. How are we looking this year? We're looking at, we just keep winning the division no matter what they do. So they're just kind of, we're throwing some trades out there, seeing if they hit and they will. It's pretty clear. It's pretty clear that Brewers just overall as an organization really knows what they're doing. It's hard to question any of it. It really is.

Just other teams, I think, are probably, you know, taking notes. Oh, there's no doubt. There'll be a lot of imitators. There's probably an author walking around right now working on the next type moneyball type book. And it will be about the 2026 Milwaukee Brewers. How long have they had this, GM? Matt Arnold. Good question.

I should know the answer to that. No one really knows. He just appeared one day. Back-to-back GM of the year. or executive of the year and back-to-back manager of the year. Yeah, Jake, get off him. Well, I'm not trying to sack him.

I got that stat for you. There you go. Can you guys name... Don't do this. Any... How many of the top ten players who played for the Brewers and Rangers can you name?

Ooh. Man. Prince Fielder. Prince is a great one. Is there a weird one of... of like Adrian Gonzalez. I don't think that's what. We've actually played this game.

We like to have fun in the office. We play the crossover. Nelly Curse, of course. Yes. Okay. That's a big one. I got Jim Sundberg seems to be the all-time war guy for players who have played for both. Carlos Gomez?

Mm-hmm. Julio Franco. Who knew? You should have known that. I should have shown up on a lot of those two-team lists. Yeah, he's played everywhere. Jonathan Lucroy. Oh, yeah.

That's a very, very big one. Chasing a ring. Neftali Files, really? I think that one was very quick. Yovani Gallardo. Oh, yeah. From the same time as the Lucroix trade. Yep.

And Doug Davis, we'll give you that one to you. He was a favorite because of Stacey Davis. Well, we got in to the park pretty smooth. today. You do have the, Dan wasn't here for our first interaction with security, but no matter, no matter if it's spring training, training camp, whatever it is, I, this is a space for people to kind of exercise a little power. You pull into the parking lot today, Dan and I, guys like, whoa, yeah, where you guys are? What can I do you for? And it all turns out great, and everyone ends up on the same page, but you just got to get through that Monday morning thing where everyone's like,

Yeah, I guess. I guess. What's the day with the cats running around? Yeah, we met a couple of cats. Yeah, we need them. We heard. The rat problem around here. Oh, really?

I did hear something about that last year. I don't know if it's actually true, but. There's outdoor cats running around the parking. Do you guys see them? No. Oh, yeah. They have names. They have names.

They have names. What are they? Ginger and Yount. Okay. I figured they were basically. baseball related. We, yeah, do you want to go weekend check? Oh, yeah, sure.

Let's have a sponsor for weekend check since Matthew was here on the weekend, too. That would be, anybody know? You know what? I'm waiting for you to tell me. Oh, you know what? Before we even get into the sponsor for that, we should just mention Qualus Roofing sent us out here. Qualis Roofing, and we can make them the sponsor of Weekend Check. Qualis roofing, QualisGC.com.

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And then you might end up getting a roof. If you get a roof, they'll get you a free sit-in to watch the Dumbzone, just like Matthew here gets to do now. And, yeah, QualisGC.com. Just getting the inspection will get you a free Dumb Zone t-shirt as well. And they sent us out here to Phoenix. That's right. So thank you, Qualis Roofing.

Because they love America. And we're in America right now. I saw some people. American Family Field. America Family Field. Rick and Family Field. So is it open to some level of public today? I saw some very Arizona-looking people.

I think you still have to have some kind of... Family or... Yeah, special access. Tomorrow? Or Thursday? These are all great questions. I wish I knew somebody who... Well, you just got here last night, too, right?

But I guess you're not, like, PR necessarily. No. I'm close with them. But, yeah, there will be some fan opportunities coming up. Our first game is on Saturday, so a lot of this is just all the position players are getting here. Pitchers and catchers have been here. Are you kind of like a rogue outfit within the little skunk works? Oh, totally.

The digital apartment within marketing. Yeah, I'll be careful what I say since I'm working right now. But yeah, like, it's great what they allow us to do and we produce. but yeah, great team. Well, that's what I was going to say is that before I knew that he knew us, we had talked about a bunch of the stuff that the brewers had done, whether it was, you know, in the park, online, whatever. Like, it was clear that they were leaning into bits.

The what? The pancakes. The pocket. Pocket pancakes. Yeah. Yeah. There were a bunch of bits throughout the year that we had, you know, we had noticed. When we travel, so we're the smallest market in the league.

which means our team is, you know, the smallest, our business side. But we get hit up everywhere we go, every press box that we're in on like, how are you guys doing what you're doing with the size team that you have? That's cool. Yeah, super talented. So we can check. I can start because everybody's got some stuff. But first of all, I would just say that I get, I relate more to Aaron Andrews right now,

just because just to not be with your family and loved ones on President's Day. I had a professor tell me that day one. If you think you're spending President's Day with your family in this business, think again. So Dan and Jake and Blake flew. Thank you to a good listener, Benji, for hooking us up on that. Not a PJ, but just about as good. it felt, or at least for Dan and Blake. Jake didn't get the good seat.

But, so Friday after the show, that's when Matt Grimm, Matt Dallas, loaded up TC and Clayton and the equipment. That was very important, the video equipment you have here, and they drove. So Friday, they left my high. house. They drove for a couple days, and we all met at the Airbnb, which is just five minutes away from here. Where are you staying? You stay at a street hotel? Like downtown Phoenix, yeah. Okay. We have apartments over there. Oh, okay. So the first controversy of the trip arises, unbeknownst to you guys, mere hours after you left. And boy, I wish T.C. was here. He'll certainly hear

this because Clayton and T.C. had driven to my house. Matt drove the big van to my house. And so Clayton is like, well, I'm going to keep my car here. Okay, fine. And he parked in the driveway. So no place for T.C. And so he went, I just said, hey, just move the car because it was like by my neighbor's house. And I'm like, can you move it in front of our house? So I live on a corner and then there's a cul-de-sac down there exactly like where you live tc parked pretty much on the corner like maybe 10 feet away from the corner and so now it's right in front of our house and if he had moved it down like past the mailbox now you're in front of a fence and at the end of our house and they don't really see it but it it became apparent before my wife got home from

book club thank you book club friday night This brought to you by Book Club. My dogs wouldn't shut up. They were just barking, barking, barking, and I was like, what are you doing? Well, the window, they were sitting at the window barking because there's this car out there at the front yard. And then I'm like, ah, and then I took them out for a walk,

and we walked down the street, and then walking back from the other end of the cul-de-sac, all they could see was this car looming, and they wouldn't go to the bathroom because they're just looking at the car and growling. And so now my wife comes home, and this is, now, in my head, it was going to be T.C. Spalled, and I'm a great hero. No, no. This is not T.C.'s fault

at all. This has nothing to do with T.C. Why did I let them park there? Why didn't I get the key? Why this? All the neighbors are going to just be pissed. I don't believe any of this, really. Right. But it's all going through me now. And she is, if you thought the, the R slur for not smart people was totally dead in 2026, well, Apparently, TC is an apt target for that. If my wife is talking about his choice to park there. Anyway. Write this one down, Blake. There wasn't a lot of great lovemaking to see me off on my trip. Yeah, listen, they come home from book club juiced up, and you're going to get one or the other.

Yeah, she was very... You got the other. She couldn't believe it. And then the next morning, she's still talking about. Why? Why did he? I go, I don't know. I don't know why.

He's T.C. That's a bad thing. Yeah, it's weird to ever, if you're ever playing the middle, the intermediary between your wife and T.C. You're kind of trying to explain like you're a Chinese friend. Like, he speaks a different language. I don't know. So it's different where he's from. He's a good dude, though. She's got five more days, right? Four more days. Like, they're going to somehow get through this. You would think he leave the keys, though.

I, uh, as I was getting out of the car at the airport was like, I don't need these. right? Like, why would, that's just creating problems. Yeah. So then we did get to fly. We had nice seats. Benji, he's our listener who knows how to manipulate the points. I don't know what that means. I don't want to know what that means. You talk about it like he found the Da Vinci Code. I think it's great. It definitely is great. Because he somehow was like, I have so many points. I could just get you guys flights.

What do you want? Yes. I'm like, oh, okay. And then he got us the flights and he's like, ah, I'm sorry. Oh, why are you sorry? Well, I couldn't get your first class on the way back. I'm like, oh, that means he got his first class at all. You almost have to look at it. I don't know this, and I'm not trying to diminish his contribution,

but I feel like he wouldn't be doing it unless it was like Cuban writing a check for a million dollars. You know what I mean? If it's that easy for him. Oh, yeah, no, I wasn't worried about it. He's doing this at scale. Pity and charity. Now, I had the weird situation where I guess I was packing or something. I might have been napping right before our flight.

And I looked at my phone and I had a miss call from Dan and from Blake about 15 minutes prior. And they text me, I look at the text, that you need to change your flight. Flight got canceled. I log on and I'm already moved to another flight. I'm moved to, let's say our original flight was supposed to take off at 3.30. I've already been moved to a 4.30. and I have a seat assigned. And I'm like, what the hell?

I didn't get to... And the seat assigned to me is the last row of the plane. So they got on. I guess Blake was looking at it like tickets about to drop or something. I don't know how you knew. Well, there's big weather

and you probably want to monitor that throughout the day. I would assume they would just text you, hey, time to pick a seat, not like... Hopefully you were in the queue doing the CAPTCHA at the right time. I got extremely lucky

because Dan texted Big Weather coming or something about a delay. And I knew there was a, yeah. I'm fine. I knew there was a delay. And so when I checked it, I saw that the flight had been canceled, like, within a minute. I just got really lucky timing-wise. Yeah, we both hopped on there, just got our first-class seats moved to the next flight. And it was all great.

Now, the guy... Well, real quick, they changed my seat number, and they gave me row 36. but I was Group 1, which was a very strange experience because I was like one of the first people on the plane, but I was in the back. What are you doing back here? No one's ever had this designation. It was very strange.

You know that's the way it should be. Yeah. Group 1 should be the very last people. And I think we would... So if I save 10 minutes per flight across the board of all the flights, like would I be a national hero? I could solve air traffic congestion. Yeah, you'd have to do it in a way that doesn't hit revenue.

But like if you could do it in a way... I'm helping revenue because I'm making more flights. Maybe we don't make too many more. We just keep the comfort level. But in any case, somebody's going to send it to us. Aren't you supposed to do it to the wings? Yeah, the windows first. I think that's the way.

If you were really going to do it the right way and you would deplane in reverse. Okay. Well, and people don't listen. So they wouldn't do it. It's kind of like when we're landing and they're saying, hey, could you let some people up front? They've got connecting. We had been delayed all day.

So it made real sense. These people on connecting flights are going to be sprinting through the airport when they land in Phoenix. So please remain seated upon landing. The second you land, it's like, everyone pops up and getting their stuff out. Did anybody listen? Am I just the only good person in the world?

Because I'm just sitting there like a good little bit. boy. I'm with you. They built the whole thing out of Dan and Jake. I mean, that's the problem with the world, isn't it? There's not enough. So I am a dirtbag.

I don't fly first class. They know that I shouldn't be there. And the guy next to me knew I shouldn't be there. And he belonged. Like the second she comes over to offer us drinks and like, what, chips or whatever, like three different kind of chips. And you're like, whoa, not just peanuts. I'll take the skinny pop.

Business. Yeah, she had to restock after she left it with me. When I ordered a water, she brought it in a glass. It's not a plastic cup. Beverly Hillbillies. I can't believe it's a glass of water. This is amazing. And the guy, like, quickly, Woodford Neat.

Oh, yeah. He's got it all. Like, anybody that's ordering like that has been there before. And then she's bringing the, before she's bringing the food, I want to get prepped. So I opened, I'm trying to figure out how to get the tray isn't in front of the seat. And it's like in the thing, in the, he reached over and helped me. Oh. He reached over and helped me get my tray out of the seat handle.

So he knew. He knew I didn't belong there. Just quickly then, I won't, we're not going to play any audio now, but just to know. So now we land. We have to get an Uber. And I pick an Uber XL because we got Dan. Jake and Blake, and we got luggage. So I need something a little bigger, and we're not small people.

And then we're waiting, waiting, waiting like 10 minutes. We're looking over at two yellow taxis parked, like hoping that somebody will walk over to them. And then we're like, gosh, if we cancel Uber now, they're probably going to charge us. Let's just wait. Let's exercise patience. This is a trip of Zen.

Let's do that. However, as a footnote in the trip of Zen, in my utopian society, you get to press a button and see how much of Uber's profit is just from them getting people to cancel or not. Like, that shouldn't be something you have to worry about, but they know they can F you there. Yeah. Like, they know that at the airport, it's a lot of confusion. If you cancel it, they're charging you $20, that's probably half their profit margin. So we're waiting like 10 minutes, and then it pops up on the screen.

It says, sorry, we're so long. if you switch to Uber XL priority, it will be an extra $7, but you can get a quicker... This is after 10 minutes, so I'm like, yes, seven more dollars. This is like at the vet. They upgraded me or upsold me.

So now they assign us a car. A car comes and picks us up. It is a Toyota Prius, which I feel like is the opposite of Excel. Yeah, we went the other way. The front seat was full of crap and junk, and she nicely, though, said, I'll just sweep all this off the front seat. She let Blake sit in the front.

Then it was about a half-hour drive. It was a 20-minute drive if you looked at the map. But she missed, like, three turns. She just was incessantly talking. We weren't helping. No. We were on. Oh, no, no, we were egging her on.

I mean, early on, she was... Next weekend. I'm going to Detroit. Ask me why. Why are you going to Detroit? To a pimp and ho party. Where? He's like, where?

Okay. Yeah. We've got a lot more. But, yes, she was going to a pimp and hoe party in Detroit. Did that lead her to telling us about her entire life story? Because she loved, if you heard that phrase in there, was ask me why. Yeah.

She wanted to... Doesn't leave you a lot of options. Right. And we still got a lot of time. Anyway, so that was the drive with her. Also, she was a left lane driver that did the speed limit.

That made me very nervous. People were zipping around us. Yeah. Cutting her off. But she... Okay, I was telling Blake this at dinner last night. Dinner with Clayton's mom. Lovely.

By the way, a lovely dinner. It was great. Stepdad was giving you the side eye. Was he upset that I was, uh, we were just conversating. We're just, uh... I thought it was weird you kept cheersing her. Wait, what were we just talking about? What was I telling you last night?

The Uber driver. Oh, yeah. Just the, um... It gave me a mindset into, so Blake and I drive the same, right? If we're in the left lane, somebody's slow. I'm very mad. I don't think I do it anymore, but I have in the past driven a little too close. close to that car.

You know, it's, it's, you're trying to send them a message and then you zip by them once they move over if they ever do. I'm very upset about these, like, why are they doing this? They're intentionally slowing me down. I'm trying to get to the station 30 seconds before Jake does. She was oblivious to it all. Yeah. Now you know.

She's just talking. Right. She wasn't sitting there with any intention. She, she just thinks that this is the way the world is, that people. People drive exactly 55 miles an hour in the far left lane. And people are mad zipping by her, cutting her real close as they come in front of her. But she didn't even notice that. There was nothing out of the ordinary for her because she was telling a great story about her family

and, you know, how she left her husband because of his physical abuse. So we'll get to that later. Yeah. And, oh, and I'll just make one more note about it. about our, just where we got to, once we got to the Airbnb. Blake set up his video game. What did you bring? I brought my Xbox.

And it seems like much to the chagrin of other people in the house, he brought one controller. And so now people are sitting there watching him play Madden. Yeah. And like T.C. is itching. You can tell, like, they want to play him. Yeah. And what kind of a person?

I thought we'd put on like the Olympics or some sports or, you know, some news or something. And he also has a weird setup that we almost need a photo to illustrate, but there's the TV in front of the couch. This is the living room. In the living room. There's like, you know, two sectionals, I guess. But he has another like recliner closer to the TV in between the couch. He pulled exactly in front of the. He's just blocking the line of sight to the TV.

So if one controller didn't really sell it for you, he's just got the living room to himself. So instead of watching the Olympics or whatever, Clayton will go in there at night and just watch Blake play football. I thought we all had a great time watching me play. But yeah, I took the chair and I thought, well, I need to put my feet up. So let me put the futon here. And, yeah, I'm straight on in the TV.

I forgot TC was coming. He's Madden guy. after that. But we have plans to go to GameStop later. I moved from that nice seating area to our lounge area outside. Just for a little brief respite and recreation, we have a little water. No, there's one. So sad.

Like rusted, busted, a table from like, what? Guard Ridge type era. Man, call that. And no chairs. It's the weirdest setup ever And there's pigeon shit everywhere It's extremely close to where we're working But I feel like Dan got

Spooked by the Denver church And now he's worried But I don't think our place is great It's pretty good though You just know where to sit Yeah I mean Beds are important

Everybody's got a very nice bed though Everybody does have a bed And I do I did the proximity. We are literally five minutes away. Everything else was like 25 or 30 minute drive, and I thought, well, that'll be a beating.

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TC brought it up and TC's not here, but because of the temperature, all of the houses, the windows are small, right? Like, it's a common thing. with like this southwesty construction

but it also kind of makes all the houses feel like halfway houses like in our neighborhood it's all concrete or looks concrete and it's like the neighborhoods are surrounded by concrete out to the road you know

so it feels like you're in a little cinder block is yeah there's something to it that's a little different A lot of rock It's just a lot of rock everywhere Would you say it's called I always thought it was called zero escaping

I think there's an eye in it I think it's Zerescape What Look it up See if you can get to ladies To say the name Yeah Hand it to Matt

Just because he used to live out here too And I have a Matt comment We went on Saturday night Once we did get in We went to a stand-up show in downtown Phoenix myself Clayton and T.C. There's a venue I've been to before.

It's in a little area that kind of reminds me of the star in Frisco. It's just a, there's a bunch of kind of d-baggy bars and restaurants and comedy spot down there. And we went to go see Dave Attell, who is, you know, he's canon. He's, he's legendary.

He had the show Insomniac on Comedy Central when I was growing up. A lot of Dave Attell knockoffs out there. But he's kind of one of the original, like that 90s caustic from the Marin scene and all that. But he's still out there doing it. And he can barely move. It's like you wouldn't want to watch him walk. So he's old?

Yeah. Real old? But when he's time to go, he goes and it's awesome. Okay. But we had a little window. into the local, you know, I always like to, I like, what jokes land here locally. And I'll tell you one, there's the guy who was the host, I guess is also a doctor and does stand up comedy part time. And he's the host at the stand up live in downtown Phoenix. And he had a couple jokes about people

that go missing hiking, which is apparently enough of a thing here to where he said, his basic premise was I've lived here about 10 years and you know that you live here live here when you see stories about two people that went hiking and maybe didn't bring water or not like the proper

communication and now they're missing and you just don't give a shit because there's a hundred of these people a year they should have had water they should have had communication and the crowd went nuts okay crowd goes crazy

You're like, yeah, tired of these people. It must be on the local news all the time. All the time. Like the sort of thing that you're not going to get unless you go to a comedy club. You went hiking the other day, right? Oh, sorry? Yeah. Do I got to alert you?

Not anymore. Well, just, I'm saying people not from here. Yeah. Are flying in. Oh, cool. Do some hiking today. They don't bring all their stuff. They end up on the news.

The locals don't feel sorry for you. That's probably a lot of what it is, people from out of town. Why'd you go at six in the morning? I tried to beat the crowd, but I didn't really beat the crowd. The crowd beat me. This is where again? Camelback Mountain. Scottsdale.

There's a huge. It's like a... It's a popular place. Like a 5K? It's shorter than that. It's about a mile... No, I meant just the amount of people. Oh, yeah.

You all had a bib. Yeah, yeah. And half of us had water. So he was dressed like bluey It was freezing too It was 51 degrees when he woke Yeah it was about 50 I had him drop me off it

I did a hike back from 7-11 Yeah how was that pretty scenic Yeah yeah Right there at the trailhead I walked by all the cinder block fences It was great I walked to the quick trip That's a

I like our little neighborhood there How was the hike It was good It's a You said it was crowded It's crowded And it's a little more than just a hike it's not really on a trail.

You're basically rock scrambling, probably three quarters of the way. So it's... I'd like to check it out. Oh, I have a little neighborhood comment. This will relate to Community Mechanical, one of our fine sponsors. What is their website?

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469-667-7-2-9. I've seen him answer that with his pants off. Ask this to him. Well, that's odd. but ask him somebody text Travis for us right now whatever the number Jake just said

rewind 15 seconds and ask him why in Arizona do they have HVAC units on the top of the house and not to the side of the house does anybody here know that did you note that? No

I looked it up oh you did it doesn't make sense but it's that it's to escape excessive heat on the ground. Seems like there would be excessive heat in the direct sunlight on the roof. Yeah, I have no idea. I don't really know how anything works.

The Earth holds a lot of heat. Right? It could be from the Earth's center. From the core? I don't know. We did at the comedy show witness. I forgot it was Valentine's weekend. And while I wouldn't say that that's like a huge.

huge date idea, Dave Attell. You know, it wasn't like it was a hip comic. There were definitely some couples there. And very close to the stage, we had a white man, black woman date. And she, maybe both, but she was super hammered. So it's just ripe to be picked on by the comedian? Yeah, and they were sitting next to the stage. and they were loud

and it was really, really weird, dude. Like, borderline, it'll be what I remember about the show, kind of. Like, I was thinking back, like, why did I not enjoy that more? And it was fine. It was because every 15 minutes they had to stop and address these people. Like, they should have removed them. But the lady would kind of, the comic would do just enough to engage with them to where it's like, do they want them here?

Because they're kind of having fun with them. And then they would get off of them and the lady would just keep talking. She would get up and walk out, she would come back, and she was right in front of us, which was interesting. But also right in front of us. Never seen this before,

which is weird, because I do have a blind friend. But there was a guy watching the show who was blind. But they had him set right next to the stage, pretty close right next to the couple I just mentioned. But they had him set right next to the couple I just mentioned. But they had him facing away from the stage. No way. I swear to God.

I swear to God. T.C. could tell you later when he gets here. Why don't they get him the last row? Yeah, it's in the back. He was sitting next to the stage. Like if the comedian is looking out at the crowd, this guy was directly to his right in those seats where, you know, there's a couple, except they didn't have him facing, they didn't have him facing the comedian. There's the stage. They had him facing back.

and at first he was a big boy and he was like pounding food and uh and drink and it was it was uh i was uh i was transfixed on him yeah i would be too he was like and i don't know that being blind makes you be so extra but he was super extra and he was like laughing loud enough to where the comedians would notice him um and one time the guy said like oh i guess you're just not even going to look over here. That's not weird. And then the guy kind of froze. And there was a table full of bros next to us.

And they were just watching the blind guy. I can tell the whole time. Yeah. It was wild. It was, uh, yeah, I don't know why you put him there. But he enhanced the show for me. For this, right? And he knew when to laugh, too.

Like, I always look out for people that I think are smart comedy people. No, what I mean is like, He's not developmentally disabled. No, but I guess what I mean is, I don't know if you do this, it's like a snob, but I can tell when people are like, I think the guy goes to a lot of comedy shows. Like he was, I could tell he was someone who knew, like. But because he's blind, isn't his sense of when to laugh even heightened? For sure.

Yeah, I think all of his senses. Yeah. Yeah, he's just hard all the time. Yeah, he's just, any sense, he's just, no, he was cool. He was a fun comedy. comedy fan. Matt and I asked Clayton his take away from the comedy show and he said for like the first 30 minutes of the show he just watched this blind guy eat chocolate cake. Yeah, the guy was ordering food like a medieval king. I'm serious, dude. He ordered like just bowls and bowls of food. And I didn't think we'd go down this road, but he was pouring his own drink. Like he had had them bring him a pitcher of cola or whatever he was drinking because I was watching him every time. Highwire, dude. but he would move his cup over and pick an entire pitcher of cola up and dump his drink. Finger.

Yeah, it was dude. Was he super blind though? Not like Josh? He seemed really blind. Okay, like blind from birth type blind? Yeah. But again, he was like a king. He was, oh, ho!

Like, the jester entertained me. That's a good force field. Yeah. Blind people have it so lucky. They get to park everywhere, anywhere they want. A lot of supplement companies out here. A lot of homeless out here. You get that vibe?

For real, I haven't noticed. I guess it's because it's spread out. We were talking about it on the way up here. I haven't noticed really. Yeah, I think it's been excessive. Wasn't your question yesterday? Did they walk here? Yeah, did they flock?

Yeah. People always say that about the western portion of the country, for sure. I think I found out that young me was right when I grew up in Cleveland and we would see homeless people in Cleveland or whatever, I'd be like, why would they, like I wanted to leave. And my dream was to live in Arizona because of spring training being here. Seriously.

And, you know, name my dog Tucson. Because that's where the Indians used to train. And then subsequently the Cleveland baseball team as well. The... Oh, thanks. What were we just talking about, blind people? People. Homeless.

Homeless out here? Oh, the homeless. Yeah, I used to say, why wouldn't they just start walking? Mm-hmm. They don't have a job. They don't do anything. What if they just walked? Yeah, you're sorting the lazy ones.

If you're in Ohio, you're a lazy homeless. And we had just learned, like, about the North Star or something like, okay, you figure out where West is. Go that way. Just keep going. Then you hit the ocean, and you're like, all right, here I am. Yeah, I really haven't noticed it that much, but I guess I don't know. Yeah, I thought I saw way more than I expected. Three.

different places that I Google just driving by were supplement companies. I feel like Phoenix, Arizona is the home of probably a lot of influencers. Maybe that's more like Scottsdale, but I feel like it's a beautiful pyramid scheme. Do we have a lot of houses that look like Walt and Jesse could live there? Yeah, Dan said that. Very bad. Does Clayton have a mic? no. What do we do with that?

I can run it to men. As far as a, because you guys drove across country. And you know what? I'm happy you guys are here. But. Little tin, little something inside me said. How about a little accident? What if they were able to call 214-3333-33-33, you know. Now, would we still have been able to set up the audio or no? We wouldn't have. we would just be here Blake oh there's a micro center right down the street yeah we may have figured it out I figured it out had they died

would we have still done the show I mean the show must go on would you want what would you can you put it on record now what would you want you want us to do the show 100% let me tell you what we would have done we would have asked the Frankles I would have still wanted you to go dinner with my mom oh I would have done that for sure

I would have comforted your mom in her time of grieving a 214. Right, I wouldn't have told her. I wouldn't have told her for a while. I'd save it. When would you tell her? I'd want to see her cry. Yeah.

Anyway, that's mean. That's not mean. He's comforting her. You'll get it someday. So, yes, you call the Frankles. They have experts. A partner will get on the phone with you. You're not going to just talk to anybody like they're Blake.

So it's Frankl and Frankel, personal injury attorneys if you need to fight those big mean insurance companies they know all the tricks thank you frankle and frankle and so let's see what t excuse me what clayton's got from his weekend then we'll get to some sports in a few minutes so we uh left dan's house and very quick after that tc had the camera out and uh if you've seen the promo that we we put out for uh the drive out Very cool video on Twitter. Yeah, he, uh, the dumb zone handle. He was shooting stuff pretty much from the jump, uh, some Matt driving.

We got to, uh, got to take Matt and TC to my homeland, to Abilene, Texas. Swung through there, stopped at an all slips in a Walmart to pick up some gear. Uh, very, uh, the faces, I wish I could have taken pictures of the faces of people as TCs following me, a large man. with a camera into an Alsupes in the middle of Abilene, Texas. What's Alsop's? It's a gas station. It's the 7-Eleven of the West. Yeah, famous for fried burritos.

Yes. Chuck Wagon Special. Very, it's just the looks we're getting from people. had an amazing interaction with a Mexican gentleman and a black lady as they were walking out of the Alsups. The gentleman turns to the lady and just says, are you from Africa? The prior context between them, or what are we? None. Strangers.

Interesting. And they have a whole conversation as we're trying to like. What she? No. Okay. I believe Jake has claimed that he could tell an African black person from an African American. I stand by that claim. Just an visual.

And we discussed could you tell a Phoenix Mexican from a Dallas Mexican? That's right. That's right. I said regional. 100%. Now that I've been to like Colorado recently too, I have a good feel for my people and different regions for sure. But yeah, T.C. I don't know what value there is to it, but I guess there's something to have an.

friend who doesn't care at all. What he just said of people are looking at us. I've been a lot of places with T.C. He's never concerned if people are looking at you. Or where he parks his car? Yeah. Yeah. Stop for dinner at a local restaurant that I used to shoot commercials for when I was out

there working. Skeets, Texas Grill. They'd like to catch a predator guy. All right. rolled into Odessa about 930 and saw booby miles I think he's dead I think he is dead oh by the way you went to his final resting place did we look up bud diabetes but who

Seleuk he's dead right no he's but he's very much alive okay excellent his daughter run the team still no they're out of the game. They're out of the game. But we do have a Bud C-League exhibit. I saw a sign out there. Former commissioner. A great man.

Did some good things for the game. At the Odessa Hotel, we ran into one of the strangest things. Eastern European lady working the front desk. And we all just kind of were like, once we got back together, we're just like, how does that end up in Odessa? Oh, no, that's like a family thing, isn't it? Like some sort of, like they come in and they set up and... Isn't that where RG3 met his wife?

Odessa? She was prime for Blake to rescue. A common theme on these trips is, you know, we stop at a gas station. I've seen plenty that could... I could take her away from all of this. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's right.

You think she would nag you? Care about where your friend parked? She'd just be happy to have a roof over her head She got out of war-torn Eastern Europe And then now she's in Texas Would you make her stop smoking? No I love it

Blowing in my face Just who she is Stopped at a Waterburger, obviously He's just listing all the places Yeah, what are we doing here? Well, tell me to stop and I'll stop I got a few people Let's get the next sponsor and let's go

Okay. I got to the airport about the same time as Dan, so we walked in together and we both have the TSA pre-check, which is amazing. Jake does not, and he was... I actually do,

so I don't know why it didn't, because I didn't book this flight. You guys didn't either, right? He booked it for us. Yeah, it was all through him. But you're gonna give him your number. Yeah, your A... I did.

The number or whatever. I have pre-new. Oh, you're... But maybe it's just not all my... K. Your known traveler. number. Yeah.

Known traveler, yeah. So, well, anyway, so you didn't, you didn't go to the pre-check line. And I think they do this on purpose because regular boarding makes you do the snake back and forth through the security line. And so me and Dan just walked straight up to the guy. And then we look back and there's Jake just snaking back and forth with no one in front of him. It's a, it's an embarrassing feeling. That's the way you got to look at it.

Look at this, man. Look at this guy. Positive. Steps. And then why did you get swapped? Did they tell you? Because of the... The plate?

Oh yeah, dude. That was a whole thing. And I never really thought about it until they were... They were really putting the screws to it, no pun intended. But you could definitely smuggle something in this. Like, this is loose. I could fit something in here. Okay.

But they wiped it down. And I was telling Dan, the funniest thing is the guy's like, is it metal? He said, is there metal in it? I said, the whole thing? You know, there's a plate, the whole thing in here. And he goes, all right, I got a wand it. I go, well, it's metal. And he goes, I know, but I have to wand it,

and it has to go off four times before the supervisor can come over, and then he can take a look at it. And I go, all right, well. Just so much red tape in the whole world. Beep, beep, beep. He's like, supervisor, he comes over, and they're like, what did we got? And I'm like, well, it's metal.

All the way. All the way. And then they kind of both stared at it and said, I'm fine with it. They're a little nodding. Yeah, they nodded at it. And then I pulled out the, anthrax that I had. Yeah, right.

So I got seat 1F. I was on the very first row. Dude, you know what I felt like? I felt like, I don't know, like a serial killer or like a convicted murderer who knows I didn't do it, and you guys are the witnesses. And you know you placed me there, but you just, you feel bad about it. I get on the plane. I'm staring at both these MF.

Neither one of them will look at me in the face. Neither one of them. It was your fault. To the back, Smurf. I didn't. I'm not blaming anyone. Who texted you right away? I'm not blaming anyone.

I just wanted to at least make eye contact and both of you. No. Both of you were looking at your feet. I don't want to look at all of a sudden. I don't want to look at Coach. Sons of bitches, man. Just sprawled out and I... I wish they had a different entrance.

They could just go in in the middle of the plane so we wouldn't have to see them. I kept looking back because I wanted her to close the drape. Yeah. I didn't want to see them. And then I was getting mad if somebody from back there would walk up and use our bathroom. Yeah, dude. Like, hey. Go to the back.

You got your own bathroom. So I would happily trade where I sat on the plane for the Cowboys Charter. Because the Cowboys Charter is cool because you get the food, you get the snacks, the food, you know, the ice cream. So we're turning this into complaining about the Cowboys Charter now? Well, I just, I didn't know. Compared to regular first. class? I would take the room.

The room is undefeated. Just sprawling, legs out. It was great. I would take that over the scrunch steak. How much of what you think of air travel would just be totally different if you had twice as much space? Yeah, it would not be an inconvenience. I get all. Like it would just feel like I'm just getting on a, I don't know, getting in the back of a car or something.

So either that or if you were four foot five, you'd think that's. Yeah. Yeah. But if I get the window, I do pretty good about I'll hug the window. I'll lean on the window. Because I know if I'm sitting in the aisle, I'm getting bumped by the cart and by people walking. And so it's just, I don't know, I would happily sit in that over the food. The guy next to me, whenever the very nice flight attendant, asked us what we wanted to drink.

He asked, what do you have? Boy, that's, now you've got to list everything they got? Yeah, and she was a little put off, but that let me know that I had another guy who was not supposed to be there like me. Oh, yeah. He thought they were possibly going to say melted gold? I don't know. I don't know, but when she sat the bag of snacks down and left. So it was between this guy and I, or this guy and me, and he took one bag of skinny pop.

And I was like, buddy, I'm used to coach. So I took two corn nuggets, two skinny pops, one chickpea snack, and I'm just hiding them all. to my right. Fantastic. And so then after I get done and I try to like move the bags around to make it not look like

I took half of them. So I sit back and then he kind of gave me the side eye and then he took two more bags and he hit them. Like oh you're allowed to take more. Yeah, so it was a bad influence. Societal pressure.

Yeah. So that was amazing. And then our day yesterday was awesome. Like we went to, we got a grocery store run. We went to Ross. And it got me thinking that after one day

away from my wife and kids. I feel so much more healthy mentally. Just free. And it got me thinking back in the 80s or whatever, if a receiver is going over the middle, you could just destroy them. Michael Jordan would play 82 games out of 82. Now athletes, we take care of ourselves and we also believe in load management. I'm not asking for much. I'm just asking for a day off every two weeks for load management. Think of it. Also, they say that the athletes today are much better, right? They all. They're much better. They're much better conditioned to perform and do their jobs.

Right. So we need father load management. And now we're doing more than ever. We're putting the kids down. We're doing the dishes and the laundry. Right. Our dad's didn't have to do this bullshit. What about some mental?

Yeah, we're restraining ourselves from hitting them. Right. You used to be able to do that. I know. There's a little bit of a let it some steam off. So I want us to grow just like I. We don't cheat on them so openly anymore. Right.

Free agency. We kind of keep it behind the scenes. I just want a day off every now and then. Yeah, that's good. We should sell that. Load management. Get it? And who does that remind you of?

It is crazy, though. That's how Dan is all the time, though. I know, but I don't want to go that far. I still want to play. I just mean, like, he, he's just chill. Like, as far as it, I see it whenever I'm out here with him. He has a little bit less intentionality, perhaps, than maybe, like, I do. But it's because I'm used to somebody always,

being like, you need to be here. You need to leave there and get here. Leave there and get here. I felt bad for you yesterday because you were just itching to work. And I just wanted you to chill. I did. I got to be doing it. And then like, he came out of his room after a three-hour nap, a siesta.

He's like, I feel bad. I mean, I've been doing some email. And I've been like, no, no. It doesn't matter, dude. Enjoy yourself. I did. Just relax a little bit. You don't have to justify to us.

Right. If you aren't doing anything for a little while. It's cool, man. We were all collectively happy that you slept for so a while. long. That ruled. But since you did say, I was thinking this all reminds me of floors. Yeah.

It sucks being in that Airbnb. I would love to have Flooring Direct DFW show up to them. They could use the word. And fix them floors. But they could show up to you. You're the beneficiary because it's Flooring Direct DFW. Very local. Dan Ratcliffe is a man out there.

known him for a long time and they will bring the store to you they bring little tiny floors to you little samples that makes a lot more sense than if they brought little tiny stores right models of little tiny showrooms no they will bring like a little tiny store shrink you down and then you can walk right into it

that's kind of like what they're doing in essence by bringing the little floor yeah by bringing the little floor and then you can flip through. You're choosing your floor. They do have a showroom in DFW, but they'll bring that showroom to you. It's flooring direct.

DFW.com slash dumbzone. Nice. They've got all sorts of financing deals for you right now. So hit them up. Have them bring up the flooring out to you. Flooring direct dfW.com slash dZ apparently works also. Slash dZ. Oh, look at that.

Just within this. Four, nine, four, five, six. Last 30 seconds, they have made it easier for you. They're trying to save you so much time. That's so direct. You don't have to go to the warehouse. You've now saved time with all those letters and buttons and syllables. Yeah, they should let us flip that Airbnb.

I looked up the price. Would you say like $400,000? $450. It's not a great neighborhood. No, it's not a great neighborhood. It's not a great house. but it was recently redone to just like factory reset. Yeah, that's a good way to put it.

But they didn't do anything to it. Yeah. You get first class on the way out here? What do you get? I did pretty good. Yeah. I did realize last year, I have the option when I go to Road Series to travel with the team or just beat them out there.

I won't be just meeting them out there anymore after being on the team flight during the playoffs. Oh, you had not done the team flight until the playoffs? Not here, yeah. So that worked out well. Team flights are great, okay. Hey, want a stake? Here you go, sure.

It's midnight. So? You just got swept by the Dodgers, but still. Look. That's not our fault. I'm trying to recover. We're the smallest market in Major League Baseball. How are we supposed to compete against this?

Took the words on my mouth. That's right. All right. Let's do a little sports, shall we? Steve Berline just texted me. Hey, we're going to Brazil. It was two weeks ago. Oh, that's fantastic.

That is leading off our sports today. He sent me an article from February 5th. Steve Berline learns that the Cowboys are going to Brazil, and he, now, why don't you send him a thumbs down? Because you hate the idea of going to Brazil. You can tell Steve that? I'll tell him it's a long flight. Guys?

What? We've lost. Uh-oh. Robert Duvall. That feels bigger than the basis for ZZ-Z-Tup. I'll tell you what I'll be honest if today's birthdays had

Robert Duvall on it I would have said he would have been are today's still alive I uh in general did you know he was in general I would have

I would have given you the public at large probably thought he was dead I feel like recently I looked him up okay what's standing out for you here why I didn't know that this would affect you so much

it was a big I mean And Lonesome Dove was on a lot at our house. Probably as much as any other John Wayne movie. It was the only, like, non-J-dub movie. I've never seen Lonesome Dove. You've read the book? Read it. Yeah, I figured you'd read the book.

Great book. Damn. 95. I feel like if you're rich, 90's your goal. Well, what does that make 100 to be my goal? That's bad? No, I just think it's obviously a lower percentage, but it's possible. Do you think you have a better chance of getting to 95 if you are rich?

Yeah, of course. I think every year, every dollar probably increases, right? Yeah, you're getting the tests. Who's the big actor that just died? Robert Duvall. No, no, no, the other one. Like last week, there was a go-fund me for his family. James Vanderbeek.

That's right. Have you seen that blown up, kind of? You told me a little bit about it, but then I saw, I saw, his $4 million Austin home. Right. You guys were... They have like three homes.

Yeah, like a ranch. Yes. And then, you know, Hollywood people are making big donations to. And it's... They're also saying that he didn't fight his cancer in traditional ways that he spent tons of money on...

He jobs did? You know, snake oil and Steve Jobsing it. Yeah. Steve Jobs, I think, tried to will it away. because that's how he could get people to work harder for him by just telling them that they would and I think he just told that cancer it's not going to affect him

and then it did yeah that's kind of how I felt when they told me that I wasn't going to have that U2 album they were like you can just tell it to go away and I did and it didn't so I know exactly how he felt that's tricky on one hand dying is cool

because it's not off your plate but it is tricky you're opening yourself up for scrutiny when you ask for money from people like if you had just decided to spend all your money fighting your cancer in a weird way that was not cost effective so be it

but if then after the fact you decide you want people to give you money you're going to be open to a certain level of criticism there and people might not want to give it's just fun online stuff Well, it's fun online stuff, except they're actually, you know, he raised $5 million. What? Wow.

That's what they're up to. So the NBA All-Star game was this week, an All-Star weekend. And, you know, I wanted to watch the entire All-Star game, but then Clayton's mom wanted to go have dinner. So I was like, okay, let's go have dinner instead. It was a fantastic dinner. But by all accounts, I think people are saying the All-Star game is as back as it's been in some years. So they went with the it's the round robin?

They had a four-team thing, and apparently they kind of split it up with the, it was the USA versus the world, and then within that subset, they would kind of go Olds versus Youngs. And I think they're saying like, by splitting that up, So now you do have some kind of a USA pride and you have a, I'm, you know, European pride playing against each other. But then you got the olds who don't want to be shown up by the youngs. We're not ready to hand this mantle off just yet.

And the youngs are going to play a little hard. And Wemby's going to actually give some effort. And I guess at least portions of the games were pretty competitive. Yeah, that's the only thing I've seen from it is just that that they, actually brought about some level of defense, but I still think the idea of having it is foolish. People brought up to us over the weekend. It's actually just kind of a holiday.

Like we were like bringing up, why do you even have this? What is the point of this? Trying to fix something that, as you always say, if you could start again at zero, would you have this? That's interesting. You probably wouldn't.

Because you can see everything all the time and all the players. of All-Star games, yes, from probably baseball was the first one, right? Yeah. And there was just never a time you could to actually turn on the TV and see all of those players that you've heard of. Yeah. It was probably incredible.

And now you don't need that. So if you could, you would probably start over. And I don't know the degree to which this is a real thing. I mean, obviously you hear about it. The travel, like, you just hear it called like the Black Super Bowl. Yeah. But I don't know that that's a big enough deal. I mean, if you gave the players a break, right?

Wouldn't just naturally there would be some sort of all the players would go to this place or that place or, you know, I think sports need a mid-season break. Hell, like, probably get more of them. Do you think they'd rather have a mid-season break or never play back-to-backs? Like, could you somehow... That's a great question. Or, like, what if you put on the table also moving the schedule a little bit, right? I don't think they should play as far into the summer as they do. Our plan to move hockey, basketball.

Yeah, we used to want to make it more into the summer, didn't we? Well, one of them needs to go later into the summer. One of them needs to be earlier. I guess it could be hockey could go earlier. So basketball would play later into the summer, but they wouldn't start until Christmas. That's what we've, yeah. Well, and we've been told that's not going to happen.

Well, right, but it's somewhere, I mean, the NBA, I know it's popular, but it's not the NFL at some point that you would think they would lose on some of these concessions. But to the point that it looks like it makes people care about the... I thought one thing that was interesting that I saw over the weekend was the debate about Yokic because I guess just the fact, you know, his whole bid is he doesn't care. He doesn't care. Yeah. And it's appealing because he's...

Like he just wanted to get back to his horses and... instead of going to the championship parade, remember? Yeah. And he played the first five minutes of last night's game, missed a shot, clearly had no intentions of being out there. And I don't know if this is like a nationality or race thing, but it's like the idea that his bit that people are like, that's so cute is that he doesn't care.

But the American players are often criticized for like their approach to the All-Star game being like, we just don't care about this. And it's not thought of as, like, cute. But again, maybe it's just the guy's got a bunch of rings, too, right? So everything he does is virtually unassailable. And I don't think people are talking about LeBron. It's more probably the second-tier level of players. People are talking LeBron because they were asking him about Israel.

Oh, my God, I saw that. What are we doing? That was real? Yeah I believe so That was not real Not at all It was edited

So there was a There's a question You can tell It's like chopped In the middle Oh okay I didn't watch it I just saw that people

were asking about Israel And I just thought that's Do we want that Or do Indie Sintel Okay But he did I got ball sacked

Yeah Damn it I guess you have to know About that If you're a digital media Yeah Totally I'm always looking at it

You have to be ready I guess, okay. He did not support a ceasefire, or he did. Remember that? San Antonio City Council? What message would you like to send to Israel and what do you think about? And then he said, Denny Avdia, the Israeli basketball player. He said, I've been quoted on Denny already in what I thought about his season.

I believe he's an all-star. He's playing exception basketball. And then if I had fans over there, I've never been there. If I have fans there, I hope you've been following my career. I hope I This is a real quote There's definitely a version to where But you're right

It's like worse Yeah Okay Okay Well because the other news is You're very ripe to get Ballsack But it's

Kevin Durant's Burner accounts being fully exposed What can you tell me about that Because I've seen that too It's mostly A screenshot

Just within the Rockies kids, right, Blake? And, you know, he drops a couple... I've seen, like, Twitter DMs. Yeah, some of them are that too, but he, like, with fans. But he called the teammate, the R-word. He takes some runs at Devin Booker. It's just him talking trash about his teammates.

And it got public, and now he's being asked about it. But, you know, this has always kind of been his bit. Yeah, he doesn't run away from it. Is it really him then? Yes. Oh, wow. I thought that would be ball sack stuff. No.

No, he's a guy who, he's a guy who does not afraid to put things on Twitter. But some of these are DMs, some of them are text. He just, he's blowing people up. ripping his teammates yeah what was wasn't there a steve ker thing i couldn't tell if that one was real or not okay but about calling out staff and film no it was about that he hadn't like black people since michael jordan punched him something like that yeah oh wow but i could not i could not confirm that one see that's the thing about the ball sack sometimes they just get right there and you're like i don't know maybe he said that he wanted to leave golden state maybe he hates steve cur i believe i would

that. But I also think that if Tom Brady really focused, he could throw the ball right back into the jugs machine and then have it go back and he just has catch with the jugs machine. What was the other thing? Oh, Adam Silver. Yeah.

Always taking heat. Talking format. Talking format. Talking tanking. That's a big deal. Have you weighed in on that? Jake Kemp's. No. I'm a tempted. to eliminate tanking?

No, you can't. It's the whole, unless you're going to change the entire structure of everything. I think that's what it is. I think that's downstream from the entire setup of American sports. And the weird thing about them trying to do it like the NFL, the difference is that one player can be everything to you. We're in the NFL. A quarterback can, but then you still got to do a lot of work.

like you could screw that up. You almost can't screw up if you get the next LeBron, Luca, something. You can build around them to at least... You're going to make money. Make money and be a competitive team. You could draft Peyton Manning and screw that up, though. Yeah.

So that's why it really... There's a great incentive to be bad and hope that you get one of those franchise-changing guys. But that is not the audio I bring to you from Adam Silver. He was also talking technology and stuff. And this, so the tanking question, I think, is more of a, it's a fun argument to have and hypothetical and all that, but they're going to still try little things.

But unless they're willing to change the whole, everything they are, like make it a relegation type thing or just make the draft not exist at all. Free agency. would have to work very differently. What is Haralabob's thing? Free agency and a full free agency and a hard cap. Hard cap and auction the draft.

And no max salaries. Yeah. Okay, so there would be a max salary because there's a cap. Essentially, there would be a minimum, and your max would be whatever number that minimum is times 11. Yeah, if you want to give Prime LeBron all of your cap, go for it. Yeah. Then you've got to find some ring chasers for Nike to pay.

There are problems, but I still think there would be promised there in some sort of hypothetical alternative universe. The other, your Nike and whatnot would get involved almost demand that you go to one of the bigger markets and we will then pay you above and beyond. And then there's going to be a lot of complaint. Well, wait, there's no seller cap on that. There should be a set. Then there's going to be, it'll be like the NIL all over, right? People there would be complaining about small market teams. compete.

Well, you have to just be smart and you have to know what you're doing. You have to hire the right people like in your marketing or digital marketing. That's super important. One of the most important things you should do. And then you just go ahead and watch division titles stack up. That's the way I do it after penned. Anyway, Adam Silver is talking about technology and stuff regarding the way we watch games and everything. Many of you had an opportunity to attend our technology summit on Friday where we had several different panels talking about how technology is impacting sports,

predictions on how it will change the coverage of sports and the playing and the analytics around sports in the future. It's the 26th time. We've done that. And not surprisingly, so much of the discussion was around artificial intelligence. And as I look at the world and the predictions, And we're seeing much of it already on how AI is changing everything about our personal lives, you know, our business lives. I mean, for me, there's no doubt that AI will have the same impact on sports.

And one area in particular that I think it's worth addressing is impact on the fan experience. And one of the things that we're beginning to see already is how we're going to be able to, you know, more than personalize, almost hyper-personalize our telecasts and allowing people to experience the game in any way they want. And many of you have probably experimented with this already, but in essence, you'll be able to hear the game in any dialect, any language. You'll be able to hear a hardcore X's and O's commentary, maybe one that's more comedic, if that's what you're interested, or somebody for a novice explaining each foul and the rules as it goes along. And so to me, we're about to witness probably the most significant change, certainly in my lifetime, in how sports are presented.

And beyond that, in the hyper-personalization, if people want to shop during a game, if they want to be on social media and having an ongoing discussion about some aspect of the game, I think it's a really exciting moment and transformation. and we've enjoyed working with our longtime partner Disney, which is ABC and ESPN on this. Of course, NBC and Peacock are now back in the fold and Amazon Prime. They're all experimenting, doing incredible things, and I think it's going to make the game that much more accessible for fans on a global basis. The hyper-personalization there is one that kind of people are jumping on, and that's what they're having trouble with a little bit.

And let's dive into some more stuff about what he was saying. But first, he was also talking technology. Makes me think of the 3D measuring technology at one-day doors and closets. Wow. How do you like that? I like it quite a bit. That's pretty good. I like it quite a bit.

What I just did. Thanks. Custom measured doors. They come out with their technology and stuff. And then they measure those doors. They cut the doors for you. Install them for you. You're saving relative to the big box doors or handymen.

and you know the doors that they fit because they use that 3D measuring technology. This is when you do the, it's like hanging a piece of art. Oh, it's like hanging a piece of art in all the different rooms in your house. Yeah! For sure.

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maybe you're building a new home. The doors, The doors, they can really help you pop. So get that done with Josiah, One Day, Doors. One Day, Texas.com slash promo 30. One Day, Texas.com slash promo 30. They've got technology and stuff. Okay, so the hyper-personalization is one where at least the snarky social media posts will be like,

oh, yeah, cool. I want less shared experience in the world, because that's one of the things that we're saying we like about sports. this is why sports can still get good ratings. It's a collective thing. It's communal. And if you hyper-personalize it for everybody, then we're all not really watching the same thing.

And so I don't know. Why is that snarky? The snarky of like this is bad, hyper-personalizing is bad. And it's the quick comment of, yeah, I really want less. of a shared experience so I could divide our world even more type thing. Like this is what's great about sports.

Is that whatever political party? Yeah. Well, okay. I'm saying it's a snarky response to Adam Silver saying, oh, no, hyper-personalization is the way of the future. This is great. I think it is not surprising to me, and this is my opinion, but it's not surprising to me that Adam Silver does not understand what makes their business work because I think

that's common. But absolutely, community is what makes this work and what makes it viable economically. So, you know, I feel like that's really more of the tail leading the dog. That's because Disney's got a bunch of cool shit they want to play with, and they've got an AI division, and they've got a personalization division. Like, we're going to make the, that's because they are being run by an entertainment company and not a sports company. end of the day, nobody wants hyper personalization.

Well, isn't a lot of this is not about somebody that's 40 years old, though. And that, I think, is like the trillion-dollar question is... I don't know. Yeah, that's the question is how do you... How do you get 20-year-olds to watch the NBA? Because you don't watch TV, generally. Yeah. And maybe you can if you are promised that you can do it.

it the way you want to. You know, everything is geared to you. I'm partly to blame for this, right? I've always wanted to shape-shift the world to start when I want it to. I know, but then whenever you got that, when you got the power, you didn't like it. Like with TV shows, you wanted them to go back to once a week releasing so that you could have the communal water cooler talk about it. Yeah, no, I've gone back and forth.

I will certainly contradict myself. I just think there's something too, yeah. I think everybody kind of being on the same page and hating Romo at the same time is part of the experience. Well, I mean, that is part of it, yeah. But think of the Thursday night game on Amazon, the football. So you can watch two different broadcasts. You can also watch the one with the analytics on the screen.

I don't mind that. I mean, it's not that. You can watch the Manning cast over here. You can watch Troy and Joe over here. You can watch the coaches broadcast. Dude perfect. Drewski's in here somewhere. Do you like that?

Or if there are five broadcasts, I kind of hate that because now, you know, for the show, all right, you go watch this one. You go out, like, let's see if there's anything in these. And in general, most people are watching the main one. Yeah. 90% of people. For the show. But are they trying to, yes. Is, are they hoping the 17-year-old or the, I don't know how I'm old.

you would have to be to say, I'd rather watch the dude perfect broadcast of the Cowboys game than Troy Aikman? I don't know. I don't know what the market is for that. I guess they do and they won't tell us? Yeah. Or do they just count that

if I have five different broadcasts doing that game, I add up all those ratings and that's our rating for the game? Probably. Which only really counts if you had the exact same ads on all the games. Which they don't. Yeah.

But nobody's asking. How do we reach the youth sports fan? The NBA is a fascinating. I mean, Major League Baseball is in the same boat. They're not football, and they're wondering, how can I get the next generation of fans? Yeah. Because, you know, but I was hearing about this when I was a little kid, too,

and now in old. Same. That baseball, oh, my gosh, where are the next generation of fans? This is the last generation that's going to be watching baseball. This is like every video we have. Yeah. This is why you exist. How do we do both?

I think, like, my philosophy is we have the baseball fans. We have the older people. So let's try some new stuff, which is, like, why you guys are here. Like, it's why we have my buddy that does experiential marketing. We're just trying anything new to get new eyes on it. And that could be for five minutes or, you know, a whole game, hopefully. But, yeah. So you're all on board with hyper personalization.

Yeah. I mean, it is interesting when you're talking about watching a whole game like that versus, like, we do personalize videos right now to our season seat members towards like a player. We're not recording each individual name, but there's technology you can use to where it's like they're talking right to them. But to me, that's different than like I'm watching a whole game like that to where it's a completely different experience. Well, aren't you also, you're worried about the potential fans who would just kind of watch clips. But I'm still a Brewers fan. Yeah. And I don't really take in a whole game all year long, but I do watch clips.

I follow them. Or you might come to a couple games with the rest of you're watching clips. So, you know, or, yeah. But if those clips got you to a couple games, then those clips have done their job. Exactly. Yeah, and that's what the NBA kind of has turned into. just a clip highlight culture almost. Yeah, that's why the TV deals don't make that much sense to me.

That's why I can't wrap my, it all goes back to that, is that I hear about all these things, and they all make sense, and the world is changing, and then they're like, well, we just got a hundred billion dollars.

Amazon just signed up for... I mean, is this Succession? In the sense of, remember, Succession, episode one. Kendall's trying to set up the new deals with the new media and all this, and the dad ends up being like, no, we're just going to air the news on all these stations, like real over-the-air broadcast stations.

And that's what still keeps winning. I mean, at some point it's not going to, right? It'll be newspapers. At some point, but we are not there. We have not to the point where media rights deals have stayed flat or decreased. And I've been hearing that it was going to happen for a really long time now. And God willing. All right, you guys want to take a break?

Sure. I bet you have to go to the bathroom. I think I did great. There's this piss jar right there. Vaughn, a juvenile delinquent in the off season in his Major League debut. I'm going to light your ass up, meat. Vaughn into the windup in his first offering. Just a bit outside.

He tried the corner and missed. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Yook. Golden Pipes, they call them. Hey, Qualis Roofing is bringing us to spring training, bringing you this show today and all throughout this week. So thanks to Qualisjc.com, let's not forget about silverback construction.

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That's good for Silverback Construction. That's their copy points, really. Yeah. No, it's a general contractor that specializes in commercial construction. Really, big fan of the show, helps the show. We'll advertise at times, but I think the best benefit he's had from our show is he's one of the original four members of the Dumb Zone Consortium, Business Consortium, along with Wirewill. Qualis and community mechanical. You'd think that Silverback would charge more because of all the permits and licensing they get to have all their employees be guerrillas.

But in fact, they're able to charge a competitive rate with guerrilla employees. Thank you for sending us out here. If you want to construct a commercial, I think that's what they do. They must write copy. They're probably national radio shows, national broadcasts with a less professional setup than we have today. They're really dialed. It just looks great. I feel like people walk by, hell, Jerry Jones at training camp, walked by and was like, what the hell is this?

No, Clayton's got the goods. I got my. T.C. was running the Qualist drone today, and we'll be seeing footage. So this is a big deal. such a big deal. The Qualist drone followed the van all the way down here. Wow. From Texas.

Incredible. So it's kind of like the Goodyear Blimp. What access? They don't get the good year, like they don't carry the Goodyear Blimp in their pocket. It has to fly. And so this Qualis drone flew all the way to Arizona, powered on. I don't know. I haven't thought this out.

Anyway, I got. an email from Phil, who said I was excited initially about the upcoming trip to spring training as a dumb zone listener living in the Phoenix area. Excited about possibly taking a day off work and coming to a PLE. In my head, I was visualizing something akin to a Conneroso remote, or the ones you did recently in Austin and Denver at restaurants. I could then, in theory, sit there and enjoy the show live and drag my girls. girlfriend to it.

I've since come to find that you will be broadcasting each day from the Brewer's Spring Training Facility. We'll invite the girlfriend in. Anyway, he's saying, my question is, will there be any remote broadcast that I could attend with my girlfriend? Phil from Tempe. How far is Tempe? Okay.

Is it like a suburb of Phoenix? It's on the east side. There's a university there, right? Is there? Okay. Anyway, I don't think we're going to be doing any public broadcast. Are we? I don't think so.

No. But I guess each day we'll find out, like if they put us somewhere else, they were threatening that one day they might have a different podcast in here. I'd like to see them try. Ooh. All right. I would like to at least meet our colleagues. Oh, they canceled.

Okay. The other podcast? canceled? Oh, okay. That's right. All right. Well, T.C. has indicated he'd like to meet Phil's girlfriend. Yeah, yeah. So if we can do, uh, try to arrange that. Yeah, we've gotten a couple emails. You might put a listener thing together. I'm down. I want to go to the pizza place, the overrated, well-weight and line pizza place. What's that called? Pizza Bianco. It's not wait for two hours good. I'll wait. I'll wait. Okay. Then I'm in. So hit us up if you want to meet up.

Email Jake. That's right. That's right. That reminds me of Ownwell. In really no way at all, except that, you know, property taxes be happening every year. That seems to not change. Well. I'll tell you what, we're, because what were you saying?

like what were you buying chew or something is like way less expensive here than Texas so Texas oh we don't have any state taxes great to live here then they hit you with this property tax thing man I know what are you going to do about that well you could either go waste a bunch of your own time trying to protest it and get squashed like the little bug you are I did that I had a big sign painted and I was marching and chanting and everything and they were like no they flicked you off like a little

tick it's what we said it is they said get out of here like somehow unlike this the IRS like they can be like here's the bill right they seem to have a pretty good idea yeah and I'm complaining about it well that's why we have own well own well dot com slash the dumb zone they'll protest

it for you they'll file your protest they'll keep in contact with you you do nothing but pay the remaining portion and then you know own well takes 25 percent but that's only if they save you money if they don't save you money no harm no foul you don't pay them anything ownwell dot com slash the dumb zone there's a lot of different ways to save money um and it's really kind of a portmanteau of owning a home and like doing something well a poor man's toe the poor man toe of ownwell dot com slash the dumb zone what's portman to me it's like two words put together i don't know that that one

necessarily qualifies, but you know what it. Come on. Help me. Somebody. No. No. I know. I just can't immediately think of one.

Are you saying I knew that already and you're chastising me for being an idiot? I'm not chastising you. I'm saying you did know it. I was thinking about this. Smog is apparently a common one. Smoke and fog. Brunch? Bork.

Brunch. Oh. Did you know this, Blake? that you call it a portmanteau of course not okay that's the thing I was thinking the other night oh and it might have been when I was thinking in my head

hangary oh yeah I mean I guess like Hange is probably somewhere yeah did you hear the did you hear the did you hear the controversy about the car you parked

in front of my house like you parked it directly on the corner Well, I didn't want to park it in front of the mailbox. What about past the mailbox? Could have parked it there. What's the... The controversy is that my wife is, at least was, before leaving, not pleased.

Because it's a very bright car. Did you tell her it was me? Yeah. We've got a special relationship. I thought she'd be okay with it if it was me. Her and you, yeah. Yeah. The special relationship of

Killing all over plants. She says, would you do something and then you do whatever it is that you actually want to do? That's how we build the trust. Yeah. Well, anyway, it's parked directly on the, and I forgot to mention,

it's like a very bright blue, like, your eyes like, oh, that's a blue car. Like, you wanted your blind buddy to be able to see you when you pulled up. Yes. And you're like, oh my gosh, he's right here. And she's taking a back by. it. Why don't they even bring that up? I had something to relate to it. The drone, T.C.

Oh, because when I was thinking about this and telling the story, I was thinking about how he should have moved it down past the mailbox. Now, the neighbor is just, it's the neighbor's backyard to where our front yard is. So they just have a fence there. It would have been perfect. See, I did think that would be in the neighbor's property. I looked at it. And, well, but past that is the cul-de-sac. And I got to thinking, you know, it's interesting. I don't know if this is interesting at all. When I moved here, I didn't know the word cul-de-sac

until I was over 30 years old. Yeah, there's something to this. Well, my uncle said, because he was telling me how he chose were to live in Arlington, and he didn't see the house ever. He just did it over the phone with like a realtor in the 80s where all he said is, I want this. many square feet at least, and I want to live on a cul-de-sac. That's how you used to buy a wife.

And I was like, cul-de-s, what, on the phone? The 80s, yeah, I mean. So, possibly Uncle Gary. So I'm just saying it's not weird that I didn't know Portman-Tow. I think I've heard it, but I didn't know the meaning of it. I had heard cul-de-sac, but I never really knew. Oh, that means a round street at the end. I wasn't 30, but it was until my dad moved to one when I was probably 16 or something.

And you want to talk about a shock the first time I saw how they were spelling that word. Calde-Sac? What, we're doing French dashes? I think I had that spelled quite differently. All one. Col de-S-A-S-A-S-A-C-K. Yeah, kind of a... C-O-L-D-I-S-A-C-K?

Yeah. Which does make sense. Poor Manto, I'm not sure. Is there any baseball going on out there? The boys bopping yet? There was a little lot of batting practice. There's been a lot of batting practice. I was kind of a portmanteau a batting practice.

Do you know that this year, it's full automatedumps? Well, the challenge system, right? The thing from the All-Star game and from the minor leagues is being implemented writ large. What a great bit that they have the minor leagues to do that. The states are a laboratory. Don't you think it is a good bit? Yes, it's a great bit. bit.

I mean, like why, I guess they can't do that. College football is essentially the minor leagues, but you don't have full control over what they do. Right. Yeah, and in basketball, what you, I mean, I don't, you'll see teams, the rockets come to mine would kind of toy with their G-League team from a strategic standpoint. But I can't really think of anything close to what the various minor league baseball leagues have been doing for the past 10 years or so, right?

It started in like the coastal league. Like an unaffiliated league was like, I don't know. We'll fuck around with a ghost runner. So there's a couple good reasons. So one is you can just test things like that. Like, oh, is the ghost runner a good bit? Let's try it. Let's try the pitch clock.

Let's do it for a couple years. And look, actually, look, games are happening. People are happy. Players are happy. So it does that. It's just an experiment. Now, I don't know. Do they ever do anything and then decide we don't like that?

have they ever tried they changed the robot um substantially yeah it's not the first incarnation of it so that's one thing okay tinker with it but the other thing there's stuff that you just don't hear about I think the other thing is that a big benefit is now

all these players who are going to be coming up to the big leagues in a couple of years right they all have already done this and it's not a big change and boy the first time I remember this being implemented it wasn't a rule change.

Well, I guess it was. But it might be a W.HL. A Y. Hillary lost is when they outlawed chewing tobacco in the big leagues. Or in the minor leagues first. Because they wouldn't do that in the big leagues because everybody always had the big chaw in their mouth. Helps them concentrate. Nice little red man.

Matt had a Y. Hillary lost the other day. Do you still have that, Mike? Did you want to present that to us? I don't think you were there, Jake. Was Jake it? We were going to breakfast. No, we went to breakfast, which turned into going to lunch. Oh, that's right.

We couldn't find a breakfast place. Couldn't find breakfast tacos. Blake said, I'm in the mood for breakfast. And so now it's my goal to find Blake breakfast. And we went to a place called Breakfast Bitch. Yes, breakfast bitch. And we figured that's probably going to be real hot. because it's the name and people are tourists.

So you're going to go to breakfast, bitch. And it was. It was like packed, line out the door. We went to then Matt's breakfast. That's big breakfast. Line out the door, half hour wait. And so we ended up just going to a place that looked like a little food court.

The grapeviney food court type thing. Legacy Hall kind of place, yeah. And they had pizza, which I enjoyed. And then they had this burger place, the way, which these guys went to. And he said he was behind a guy who encapsulated W.H. Yes, we were probably third or fourth in line, and this couple, I'd say, you know, 50-ish-year-old couple was in front of us.

And there was only three or four different burgers to choose from. So, you know, and the board was big writing right in front of us. so Blake and Clayton and I knew or Clayton didn't eat but Blake and I knew exactly what we wanted and as we were waiting and then the couple in front of us gets up there and they're having conversation

with the guy who's taking the orders already a problem and the wife is a little upset with the husband because he's asking a bunch of questions and one of the questions that he asked was do you know how the cows were killed? No and that's a real question

yes and he the guy behind the counter couldn't exactly explain how the cows were killed, except he was able to tell him that they are 100% ground beef. And as I glanced over at the menu, I saw sausage infused ground beef that they made their hamburger. So they weren't. So he's lying about that.

So he's lying about that. The guy got disgusted and walked away. And his wife ordered a burger. I have so many questions. So this guy couldn't eat there not knowing how the cow was killed. Right. Public, $9 hamburger. needed to know how the cow was killed.

But like if you're asking that question, it would seem to me that you do it a lot and it produces answers that you find satisfactory. Maybe he was trying it out that day. He didn't have a first time. He didn't look like that was his first time asking that question. Are sometimes people are like, it's the thing from no country in the head.

And he's like, I'll take two. Or sometimes are they like, well, it was. A beautiful lady cow stroked his head and quietly told him it'll all be all right. Right. I don't understand. That's a, that's really, really strange. Is there a humane way to kill a cow for food?

If it's ground beef, it could be several, right? So does he want to know how each of the 10 cows that ended up in this particular? Don't they do that for chickens? Or at least some kind of like a free range? Free range, yeah. What does that really mean? I think they just got tons of room and they just play with their friends. They hang out.

They're just having a great time. 401Ks on Mac. into this little, you know, coop. All the chickens that looked the same. Those are those funny-looking chickens coming into their range. My thought on the ground beef guy was what, why not just say I don't eat meat then? Like, what are you doing?

Well, that's what I'm saying. It's so important to you to know how this, that this cow died in a, you know, manner that is acceptable to you to now go ahead and I will ingest it. I don't even know what kind of answer he was expecting. He looked like a guy that there was no good answer. answer. Yeah.

And now the wife, is he now, like, kind of upset with her? Looking upon her with disdain. Is she going to bite into that burger? She had to console him. They were at a table behind us. She had to console him. I wish she could have seen this guy. So he, they're told that we don't know how the cows are killed.

He looks at his wife and just does, no. Just quietly like shakes his head, no, and walks off. But she stayed in order to burger, which I thought was great. He had emo. How were they? potatoes picked. I would like to have left with her. She's desperate.

Yeah, she's putting up with a lot, it seems like. Man. And the guy, when Blake and I ordered, I told him, and I don't care how the cow was killed, and he didn't find any humor. Yeah, he didn't think that was funny. Oh, the next guy. So the guy was kind of on board with the whole sentiment.

The guy selling the burger. Yeah, even though he lied because they were sausage-infused. Was upset that he didn't know, and maybe he went home to research. how do the cows get killed here? I want to have a good answer for that next time somebody comes up. I mean, it's got to just be they're all killed the same way, guys. Right?

Like, there's no... I would think a very humane way is the spike through the head. Like, it's quick, right? They don't know it's coming. Yeah. They think they're going in... Oh, we're going inside. Sweet.

I think that's what we do for, like, all animals now. Like, I'm not saying any of it's good, but it's not like we sell tickets and have them, like, are you not entertained? We just kill them, dude. What if we said, actually, this cow was killed by Blake's grandpa and his bat. In round 13. Yeah, he was like exhausted by the end. But he finally did it.

Taking a piece of that MF are with me. Let's do some news. Okay. Here's Jay with the dumb zone. What if this is brought to us by Lola Blankets? I did not bring my Lola blanket home on a trip because my wife loves it so much. Dude, my daughter actually was like, you're not packing this. That's a very nice blanket, my friends.

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We have to make a decision. Not with Lola Blinkets. 40% off. Promocode is dumb zone. Lolablankets.com. Let's see, I know I wanted to do some local news. I wasn't able to watch as much of it as I would have liked last night because we were thick in the Big 12 schedule in the living room.

We've moved to the SEC. What game did you bring? I was playing college football last night. And it seemed like the room was really on board with watching me play, but then I find out on the show that, They would rather watch downhill skiing, I guess. My apologies. The God God.

We also did a segment on the NBA and just wanting to have, we long for a communal, something to watch. We want to be able to give Svan a text and be like, hey, did you see the. Oh, that way. I thought you made communal as in we're all watching the same game, the game that I'm playing. Yeah, we can have a guy on to talk about. Yeah, you get to watch me play. Yes, I meant communal like. the world.

Oh. But I did actually flip on Fox 10 last night. As we were sitting there watching Blake play, I pulled it up on my computer in the very first news story we saw. Open with a bang. A Scottsdale man who was in court, 28-year-old guy, and they were showing his court appearance. He looks like Sharon Tate murders.

Charles Manson. He looks like Charles Manson. Arizona is still apparently very into the black and white striped jail suit. Oh, nice. Which kind of feels like it's being phased out. Does he have an actual giant ball on his foot? No, because he's on crutches. He is in court on crutches.

The black and white? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's the first thing we saw when we flipped on last night. So the orange guy is calling him a lot. Calling the supplier, like, look, I got a great deal for you here. We're going to switch to orange jumpsuits.

Yeah, that are the, you know, I don't know. I guess what do they do with the wrap and the towel around in the photos? Seems like the Northern Burbs and DFW that, but I don't know what they do after that. But anyways, this dude had pulled a gun on his mom. It says his mom and a man, so probably he's 28. He has a 50-something-year-old mom. I'm not going to call him dad. Tagged, exactly.

It's 100% and I'm not going to call him dad situation. He lives there. They estimate, see his head's all effed up too. Yeah. They estimate that he plays roughly 60 hours a week of an online video game that we found out last night is called Total War. We have some friends who play it. It's apparently a series of games that there's, but he's clocking, you know, 10-hour days. But then who's he talking to?

Well, this is what they're going to try to do, right? This is what everybody... So wait, this is the heart of the dispute? Well, it's not as much as the heart of the dispute as much as it is... Like stepdad is telling him? Yeah, well, the guy's crazy, right? He thinks they're trying to poison him. He's being driven to extremism, I guess they say.

But, and this is where Blake's kid needs to watch out. I feel like this is going to be a thing. the next generation of gamer kids, they're going to try to tack like you were talking to extremists on anything they can't. Like they're saying this guy, they're like, well, we don't know.

He might have been ISIS. It's like, I... ISIS got to him. I don't know. Over the game chats. I bet not. But that is the deal. Is they're like,

was this fueled by, extremism fueled by the violence in the video game? or these extremists because they say that there's concerns about the people he plays with, they may have ties to Islamic extremists based in North Africa. You know how flimsy? They may. They may.

Yeah. Who may be Islamic, who may be in North Africa. So those are cool keywords to kind of fire you up. Exactly. Wait. But I mean, Islam. Just to be clear, I was pretty into the story the second I. I saw the guy who looked like Charles Manson on crutches appearing before a virtual court in Scottsdale.

Powerful image. And I bet you, you got to think about this, right? There's a lot of pockets in the country where wealthy, I'm not for sure saying that this guy's parents are wealthy. And I guess Scottsdale probably has some like mid to low mid type areas. But I feel like we're in a part of the country where there are a lot of successful boomers. who have children who have not been able to move out. And they've probably moved, God, we're going to have to bring him to Scottsdale from wherever, you know. It's Phil, it's, it's Clayton's parents.

Like if your mother-in-law retired to Arizona. She may have to bring somebody with her. Your brother-in-law is also moving to Arizona, right? Yeah, one suitcase. You remember that? I do. So this guy lived in a part of the house. They say that he had boarded himself off.

So, wait, what did he do? He shot the guy? He pulled a gun on both shot at the mom, but, yeah, the gun didn't go off. He didn't shoot anybody, but. Well, he's, you know, it's. The thing is, we're trying to just, okay, you're always trying to get it down to, uh, why. Is it video games? Ooh, maybe it's the Muslims that he's playing.

Or wait, maybe they're from Africa. More likely, too. Mm-hmm. If it's a Muslim from Africa. But do we trace this back? Because certainly you remember. It used to be Marilyn Manson was the cause of all evil. And then it was, well, certainly Grand Theft Audio for a while was the reason that people were doing stuff.

Yeah. What was the reason for the Columbine shooters? Yeah, I mean, it was all that. Satanic Panic, Metal, Doom, video games. What was the reason for Charles Manson? Did they did was there some societal thing that we were upset because it was different than it was 20 years prior? Huh? Hippies.

Hippies. It was the Beatles, you know, the music because nobody was no one doing this when Sinatra was number one on the charts. Like every whatever. Totally changed the entire thing around like the youth counterculture summed up by the word hippies. Like that. Because of Manson? Yeah, it was like before it was like, well, these people are about peace and love. And it's like, well, they say.

that, but one of them just killed 10 people. I'm just saying, though, every, maybe it's just mental health and they're going to take in whatever is stimulating them around them, whatever year they live, and then you're going to say, well, yeah, all those things influenced him. The suspect has stated that he has secret apps on his phone that he uses to communicate with individuals that he is playing total war with. I think you're definitely on to something. It's just now you have so much more of an outlet to be crazy.

Can you play? Like a really great outlet. You can find people all over the world. Is it possible to have so much video games you turn Muslim? I'm going to keep an eye on Blake. You have to be super careful. All he's been doing is playing video games. That and studying is Koran.

Yeah. Yeah. I can tell you what he's not doing. which is getting on the case for Nancy Guthrie. I didn't realize how close to the scene we were. Oh, yeah. Where is it? It's like half an hour south of here.

And if you look up Pima County, P-I-M-A and Tucson, it's just down on the border. We drove through. Yeah. I think we should keep our eyes out then. Have you not been? What if we see Nancy Guthrie? Yeah, she posted a Nancy Guthrie,

Samantha Guthrie posted a video yesterday. Savannah. of Guth. He posted a video yesterday on Instagram where she looks extremely haggard, which is how you know it's desperate. I think that there's a scale. So at first, you have less makeup every day? Yeah, sociologists will study this.

Like, the more haggard personality looks, that's... The more desperate you look to get your mom. So I saw something like... They found a glove that they're analyzing they're supposed to know about today. Was it, O.J? I think it was Marcus Allen. Wasn't the ransom of Bitcoin? Yeah.

A Bitcoin. Yeah. Don't they know it's at a 52 week low? Yeah, you got to ask for a couple. They're buying the dip. Oh, then it's smart. Right. It feels like A Bitcoin is way too low.

Yeah. Who is the guy we were just talking last week about the heir to the Corps fortune that got kidnapped and killed? Yeah. So I listened to like an hour long thing on him And the guy that killed him And actually it was the guy kind of killed There was never a kidnapping Corrers tried to

He thought he could get you know Take the guy down right when he and he shot him He was Jake He was killed right away so he threw him in the trunk and thought Well I'll try I'm maybe I'll try to get some ransom money for this But then there was a ton of copycat like apparently The real killer like didn't ask for money right away.

And so tons of other people just started asking for money. Damn. Leave. And some of the reason they knew some of them were fake was they weren't asking for enough. Yeah, the first one was like $100,000 and somebody would call, give me $2,500. Right. Yeah. So I would also just dismiss the one who just asked for one Bitcoin.

Well, all I've seen is that there is a prevailing thought that it was a robbery gone. wrong. And so in the video that she put out yesterday, she's like, hey, there's still time. You know, you can get out of this. Don't do anything crazy. That doesn't make any sense. Explain to me. That they believe that she's alive.

Why would you believe it's a robbery, though? They took an old lady out of the house. They didn't tie her up. Perhaps that they thought that she wouldn't be home? Or, you know, if you kill her by this mistake, you don't leave her in the house. You probably want to go dispose of her somewhere. Well, then wouldn't there be a lot of evidence of a death in the house? I mean, how soon did the pacemaker turn off?

Suppose you can kill an old lady without leaving a lot of blood? There was some blood, right? Yeah, there was a little bit of blood. There was blood and the pacemaker stopped, like, reporting. I guess they got Bluetooth in the pacemakers now? Yeah, dude, that's crazy. They're using, like, fucking drone to look for heat signatures for the pacemaker. Oh, really?

We're so cooked. Yeah. How do you know what they put in that arm? I thought about that, dude. They might have put Apple Airtag. You know what? I need to go back. I need to review my voice memos tonight.

Because I know I was rolling on some of the stuff, but I made a job like a Palantir joke. Like I was like, you guys want to, you guys put a little tracking device in there? You guys on a little Palantir payroll? And there were nobody left. Nobody. What's Palantir? Just a company that... Don't ask the nurses at his place.

They don't know. It's a surveillance. It's a surveillance. It's what... They're going to claim they don't know. Two-thirds of the stock market is now leveraged on... Anyways, they didn't think it was funny. I don't know what you guys experienced.

I don't think we've ever talked about this with caves. But in Texas, I saw this on social media just the other day, like a game war. I think this might even have been a North Texas game warden posted that they had assisted with Terrell County Sheriff's Office for one of the deepest cave rescues in the history of the state yesterday. Terrell? Yes. Sorcerer's Cave is 567 feet deep.

This is something that like the Sheriff's Department, the Game Warden, the Fire Department, Border Patrol. They had a researcher, like a dude, a lady actually, is out there learning about caves. And what happened? Get stuck. Falls way down there. Oh, it wasn't like the, she got stuck in the washing machine video?

She got stuck in the oven. Oh, look, she's stuck in the cave. Do we know if she was a step-off? Sheriff. Yeah. It's a local stepmom stuck head first in Cave. In Terrell Cave. And then she ends up really happy at the end.

Response from multi-agency effort overwhelming. 70 officers on scene, yeah. Are you Cave Guy? I'm not Cave Guy. I'm very afraid of Cave because of claustrophobia. But I've been in a handful of caves on you. I've been at Carlsbad Cavern multiple times. that one's out like Texas, New Mexico

That's southern New Mexico Are there any in Texas Down south? The hill country, those I've been to those Enchanted Rock has caves around it And I don't know if I've been to any out west Other than Carlsbad, but yeah That was a family vacation for sure

Yeah, I've been to a couple Texas caves But I was in one in Mexico when I was like 21 You know, there for school And we went on an excursion And most of the kids wouldn't do it but I was 21 and full of stuff. And there was like this vine,

like Tarzan-type vine. And we were in a cave and they're like, you know they name stuff in Spanish. It's real obvious stuff. Like Agua Zool, we went to visit that in the, it was deep in the jungle.

It was like, that means blue water. It's like, that's not very exotic, but they're very, they're just, they're about the facts. And so I can't remember the name of it,

but the name like, translated into like never-ending hole or just like you couldn't see the bottom of it you throw a rock you would never hear it like it was way and uh they're like yeah anybody wants to get on the vine and swing over it and then back and i did oh nice he's that dude i was that's why you need a five-year contract to get married that is not me i'm not the same person i don't know who that is but at the end of the day you were probably trying to get poon Yeah, probably. That's what everybody's...

Probably quite successfully. I know a lot of the... A lot of the ladies there were like, whoa. Did you come back with a wife like Stevie from Eastbound and Down? Yeah. Ombre Blanco is... I do always wonder about, like, you know, I guess you'd see grad students in college.

Like, it's Sam Marcus. There'd be people that worked in, like, rocks, right? They'd go down to the archaeologists, I suppose. but I just imagine the response of like the fire department and the actual frankly men who have to show up when you just get yourself caught in a cave like looking for rocks. It's like these people out here that are upset

about the hikers getting stuck in the mountains. Like all right. Yeah, you kind of did it to yourself. Yeah. You're looking for minerals. And then I did have one local story that I wanted to make sure I got to. This is an old story that is,

back in the news. This is a 2021 story. We had a hazing story where a Plano boy. It was purported to show in a Snapchat video of him drinking urine. That he was bullied. And

he has now been awarded $2.1 million. Whoa! Where's the piss? I'll drink it. I was going to say. just go to Jake's car there's probably a jar in there okay I knew I had this story

sort of backwards but you guys are going to love it even more okay so there's a black kid there's actually come no black kid is forced to drink piss and white kids are the ones doing the bullying

so we make it it's a hate crime Well, the black family, the mother and the attorney, are now being forced to pay this money to the accused for the racial part of it. Like for the accusations of racism. Like, it's a civil judgment. Wait, the black family is paying the white family? Yeah. And they had to drink the piss? Yeah.

that doesn't seem fair now the aggrieved party said he does not expect to collect on the $3.2 million judgment said even though he prevailed in court the incident has defined his life there was no winner in the end sounds like a guy

who drank piss yeah but the guy who wins 3.2 million is always the one who's going to say there was no winner yeah yeah I'd rather be that side than the other one yeah I'd suspect that there's something complicated going on here because usually whenever you see

the headline it doesn't make any sense yeah you're actually go through the court transcript you're like oh well okay so wait it was immature it was stupid it was nasty but that's not who i am it's not me today it wasn't me doing a racist act it wasn't me hating someone because of their skin color it was an immature stage of my life had a sleepover for my birthday doing immature dumb things oh it was this is white kid yeah but if it was his birthday she'd get a little leeway pass that's actually not a bad point If you're the birthday boy, so laws don't apply. I'm not,

so like, just for bringing this case to court, they counter sued. Yeah. And said to bring this, how dare you say this is a racial thing? Yeah, and they accused them of like,

leaking the kid's name. He's a minor. You know, so they're, obviously they were able to tabulate injurious harm, right, them by disclosing this information. That's why, yeah, I'm not on, I don't think I'm on board with hate crime being a thing.

No, you've made that known. Do you think that's wrong of me? I disagree with you. Why? Like, why isn't it, you think a foul at different times of the game should be? Because the foul at different times of the game is not intended to send a message, like a crime against a group of people. It is intended to be like, this is more than just this crime. I want you to be worried.

Like, if you punch me because I call you a name, that's one thing. If you punch me and I didn't do anything except for I'm black, that feels like a different. Well, you're kind of trying to let other people know you could punch them too. Don't you think the real problem is? Like, let's say the bombings of houses. That's what we're taking this back to, like, right? Mm-hmm. What Jim Schutz wrote about.

in the accommodation. You're bombing black people's houses. Don't you think if the first one that was bombed, I caught this guy, I've showed that you can't do this, and he's prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law of not bombing houses as if it was a white person's house, that could have stopped it in its track. Like if you actually did, that's why I don't believe in the hate crime.

So you're saying just in the way our society is, is we have to have this. Yeah, I think we are at a classic libertarian debate here. Is that what this is? Like I'm... Yeah, where in the world, your world is logical and starts at like zero, and we can just move forward. But as is, I think it probably makes sense to have more serious.

And that's same as Rooney Rule or... Yeah. Well, because then I was reading something else. Explain politics to me. I can't. I promise you I can't. So it's like... But I will drink this for way less than three points.

Affirmative action, you probably do it for like a dinner. Ten subs. Ten subs. I swear to God. Fill up one of those things right now. He might do it to jump the pizza line later this week. I got 220. Who else wants in?

Clip it and send it to the brewers. I just don't want to watch it. Hey, this is how they're growing engagement while they're here at spring training. This one's drinking urine. You taking it? Well, I drink urine for $500? Yeah. That's the easiest question you've ever asked me ever.

Does it matter who it comes from? Yeah. I'll drink it out of you guys's bodies for $500. Well, I'll pay you to do that. Serious, dude. We've got free flights up here, then we're up 500 bucks. Blow me up, dog, make a money.

So affirmative action. Yeah. What it really is, it's that you're saying, I got to do that because of the past. The way the hiring has been, it has not, you're saying that, I mean, you're even saying we shouldn't do affirmative action because it should be based on just,

someone's qualifications. Merit, but it never has. So we have to now even it out with affirmative action, right? Get it back to where it can be zero. That's the goal. Which I think never really happened. And then that's why they're saying now it shouldn't be. But from I was reading this thing that like the current, like they were made, it was like,

I think it was because of a, an Ohio State professor or something. Yeah, I saw that. And like that this guy was hired, it's a form of, like, that universities have to hire this type of a diverse person that is more right wing. Like, so it's actually they're instituting affirmative action now, even they're saying, but they don't like affirmative action. It's very, what you get in? I'm finding there is hypocrisy all those. Yeah, they're giving up the ghost at that point. Yeah.

But, yeah, I want to start. I would like to start at zero and stuff. Can that be done? No. Oh. Well, there was one guy who had an idea about trying to get close. Well, yeah, let's hear him out. What are we saying?

Ted Kaczynski, right? Is that where you were going? Or Hitler. Oh, Hitler, okay. Hitler, no. I'm saying stuff like Hitler would say? Well, I'm just saying, like, the general idea, like, what if we just kind of started with just the type of people we wanted?

No, not that. I'm saying all people are, like the Constitution that says all people are equal. Right? So. Those guys had slaves. Oh, God, damn. Well, it's true. I know.

I don't want to talk anymore. I do worry about the, to go back to this story briefly. Oh. I'm very worried about the. I don't remember what story we're doing. The kid who got forced to drink urine. Oh, yeah. Okay.

Got hazed. I mean, I think. I think they did force him to drink piss. And then ended up on TikTok. But again. Accusations of racism, but I don't know. That's the weirdest part. You're not invited at the party unless you're sort of in with the crew.

I know. It's a sleepover, too. You didn't have a person in your group of friends. The push comes to shove. We're going to see if we can get them to drink piss. Yeah, but... Could have been me. I was going to say, it might have been me.

I think I just realized. The room fell quiet. We realize we're five pissed drinkers here. All right. I'm the one that woke up with Sharpie on his face. Right. The dumb zone. I froze my kid's shoes over the break.

Oh, my God. Just to get a little juice like I did back in the day with buddies pass out. I think it's wrong to play those rules on a three-year-old. You take a nap. You fell asleep. Happy birthday. I filled your water at your shoes with one. water and put them in the freezer.

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some decisions. Tonight? What else is on the docket? Is there anything else we have to do? I mean, yeah, I'm headed to the swamp tonight. What is he saying? SEC play. He's got my Oklahoma State of Florida.

They said they were going to GameStop. Go by another controller. Yeah, they were closed last night. You're going to sell your stock where you're there? I'm holding on. I've been told to hold. Okay. You can tell your wallet story?

I will if you guys want me to. We saw David Tell Saturday night, wonderful experience. Woke up Sunday morning. Couldn't find a wallet in the shorts pocket, so opened up the Find My Friends, see that it has not moved from the comedy store, from the comedy location that we went to. And, yeah, they were closed until the evening,

and then went back, and they had it in a safe, which felt respectful. Dude, I used to love going and get more. my debit card. Why? Because, dude, you just go drink. Like, that was a thing. You know, if you left there on a Friday, you go get it on a Saturday.

If you go on Sunday, you left it on Saturday. There's always, like, when he went to the club last night, it was full. And it's like, you didn't intend on being going out. And I would show up and be like, I'm having two beers. I mean, while I'm here. Like, this is just the people are out on Sunday. Look at this. I love when people lose their stuff and it's not me and they're with me.

You had a close call last night. Well, you're losing a lot of stuff. It wasn't that close at all. It wasn't that close at all, especially if you guys would just accept that it's totally normal to put your wallet on the ground. I did it at the hospital all day. You have to stop doing that. And people were super weirded out by it. And I just.

Well, I saw earlier today, I asked Clayton what he lost because he was kind of going through the couch cushions. He said, oh, I'm looking for Jake's vape. It's annoying. It's helpful, but it's annoying. You can't look for something in front of Clayton without him. You'll start looking for it also. I'm like, man, wasn't that serious? So then I started looking for Savannah Guthrie's mom.

What about a little find my vape type? You need to put a tag on it. That'd be great. Do it. I would be worried about it be like chemicals or like the, I don't want that near my mouth, you know. What hell are you saying? It's a joke, boys. Fur fur.

Because I'm the guy who has to live with. My wife will send me Instagram videos of like the inside of them. And I'm like, fucking feed me. I don't care. I'll eat this thing. I'll eat it. You don't know what's in there. What happened to the vape?

Like, that was a big... Ride it out. Write it out. What? It's like the satanic panic. Which, by the way... That's what I was saying. That was a mom's... We need to talk about it.

Facebook thing a few years ago. I feel like we're in a prime satanic panic area. Oh, yeah. I bet in the 90s this was... Phoenix Daycares. Hot. Yeah. But, yeah, you just ride it out.

Barron grew up. Because for a little while, there was like a... That's all that happened. Boy, if you... A vape is like smoking 10 packs of cigarettes. I know. Yeah. Nazi ones.

You can only lie about things for so long. Before I'm like, I'm fine. You actually open what your wife sends you? That's a good point. I have been caught. Because I've been caught. Like, she'll... No, I...

Did you see what I send? Yeah, I did. I watch every one of them. She'll ask crazy. Sometimes. You be a little quiz? Because if you stay vague enough, she's going to explain to you everything in the video anyway.

That's a good point, but I've been burnt before. She's like, it's three videos in a row you haven't watched. I'm like, the show. I'm busy. This is your premier D.F. in Knoxville, Tennessee, Patrick Hutchins. Originally from Denton.

My birthday was Saturday of the 14th. I turned 55. My leaders are diminutive salad-bearing men who enjoy Michael McDonald and Elizabeth Taylor. Dan saying, oh, and that's it. And Dan saying, oh, yeah, that's Patrick Hutchins. Happy birthday. Dear Maister of the Muff, I hope you can give my dad Scott a shout-out for his 65th birthday. And his last day is a pilot for American Airlines.

Wow. You know, he's going to tell the cabin. Oh my God. Can you guys sing happy birthday for me? What if he has a number prepared himself? My last fly, I just had some words for all of you. His leaders are Eddie Belfour, high on NyQuil, and Skinny Pete. I also hope Jake could give us a name rating for my recently born son.

This is from Michael. The son's name is Lawson, Scott. Lawson. And his dad's name is Scott, so apparently he went with that. for the middle name. I don't hate it. I don't love it. I don't hate it, though.

Law? Can you go by law? Ooh. Lawsie. I think going by law would be badass. I think it could be, but what if he looks like me? Be careful with badass names, man.

You could end up with a beta pussy design. One of the openers was a airline pilot at the comedy show. which feels like your nightmare, right, Dan? Dude. Everybody's nightmare. Yeah. You don't need that.

And you could tell he was probably the type of guy who does it on Mike. It felt like it. Like, how could he not? Yeah. Because that's where he's, that's where he, like all those years. And then somebody was like, hey, you ought to try. He got a little taste. He said, I need more.

You're right. You know what? Yeah, I am kind of funny up there. I want a half an hour. Did you guys consider him airline funny? Or was he funny, funny? It came and went. I was cheering for him.

He had some moments I did not enjoy. My husband's birthday is tomorrow. This was yesterday, and he would love a shout-out from the Dumb Zone. All he wants for his birthday is a Dumb Zone shout-out and to see U.N.T. play this weekend. His name is Justin Kasky. He also wants you to rate our kids' names. Oh, no.

This is from Brittany. Justin Brittany, Cassie. I'll tell you right now, Brittany, great name. Top tier. But here's Brittany's kids. Ret Marley, Clark Weston. That's an A-plus name. Nash Henry.

The first and third ones are okay. They are a bit into the uppity white territory. What was that first one again? Ret Marley? It's a little extra, but it's not bad. John Nash, get in here. But that second name is next level good. Weston. It feels like a 150-year-old manufacturer of elevators.

They're mixing old with new there. Yeah, when I see Clark Weston, I know. But like I have a cousin that TC knows very well, whose daughter's name is Marley, and it's just because he loves weed. You know. Yeah. I'd never really put that together, but now it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, I'm pretty sure.

It's a pretty name, but... pretty name, but... Seems right. And Mason says Sports Hitler, today is the 32nd birthday for Denver Cowboys Road Trip alum Blake McCarter. His leader

is any 50-year-old who thinks it's cool to get in fights in school parking lots. Less Jake trying to play audio. Damn, I'm sorry. More Sarah Hepelah Kitten rescue efforts. More C.K. Foodie chiming in

off Mike. Maybe that's what those. cats were doing out here. He would like a name rating from Jake for his daughter that is due to be born. We've hit our quota. Oh, somebody's not talking about Blake for a minute, so we've got to reroute the whole energy.

How many names do we have to say for Jake to not want to offend our listeners? So he's like, oh, okay, yeah, that's not bad. I said that that... Well, here's his name rating is Wilma. Wilma! That's going to be tough to be bad. That's a good name.

And then he says, Wilma, Wilma nut spit in your mouth. Ha! Yes. Yep. Love that. Me too. Never bun,

that's a great name. Never bunt, you only get 27 outs per game. Love Mason. Fairlease.org presents on this day in history. Say a few words about fairlease.org, shall we? Fairlees, navidad. Listen, if you wanted a car that was out here in Phoenix, Arizona, they would get you that beer. They would have it delivered.

Oh, yeah? You go to Fair Least, tell them what you want. They got a lot of flexibility. They got a lot of options. They're affiliated with the Credit Union of Texas. There's no bank. They are the bank. So you want a car?

You want a car for your business. And it needs like a big box truck type situation on the back. They'll do it. They'll get it modified. They'll get it delivered. They'll get it delivered to you, Fairlease.org. Tell them that the dumb zone sent you. It's important.

that's a really a really big key oh yeah we forgot the spot we have to debut the spot we didn't prepare we have a spot to debut you want to do it now okay yeah how do we want to set this up don't know just play it so we world premiere yeah we told tc when you're out of spring training you you have the qualis drone and you have the uh the world premiere of the fairly spot so we told tc our video coordinator that we like the title wanted to go over that

yeah all right we needed TCRVC we needed a like SPO a spot for Fairleys we've done you know you might have seen these for game day men's health

others and we didn't really give him any direction we just said we need a spot and anything else and we just let it run here I don't know if audio wise this is going to fully translate. You may have to narrate a little bit as my... I mean, when I saw

your idea in script form, I called Jake and I was like, what have we got freaking Scorsese? Like, this is a very big... It's kind of like an... The plot is this epic plot. But Dan and I don't know

anything about how to make video. No, and I'm like, this is going to be impossible. He's never going to be able to do this. But I don't want to squelch creativity. Right. Like, I love ideas. I want, like, if he thinks he could pull this off, I don't know.

And then I kind of think he did. Want to narrate it? Yeah, okay. It's brought to you by Fairlease. Fairlease.org. You can get a whole fleet of vehicles. All right. It says February 2032 on the screen.

So this is in the future. Fairlease's customer-friendly model has eliminated the need for dealerships. Dealerships are now battlefields. Yeah. We have a man running with a gun through a dealership. Two men. A couple men, and they're giving each other, like, the signals. They give each other in war.

They're firing sort of laser blasters. Now here's a young child, a girl. A crying. A crying child. We have to protect her. Like, you know, like you're watching an old nuclear. Right. It's an apocalyptic film and the young girl.

and still on the playground as all her friends have... Now we have two bad guys who appear to be advancing, also firing lasers. They're in the dealership lot. They have red guns. Yeah. So dealerships are no longer needed. Oh, it looks like one of the heroes protecting the little girl has been killed.

Dealerships are a vast wasteland because they aren't needed because of Fairleastador. That's the whole thought, right? Yeah. Now, the dead guy. dead? Yeah, you're dead. But my life, what was it for? What was I supposed to learn? That Fairlease has a new approach to car leasing.

Cuts out the hassles and it's the customer first. What? And then you got the Fairlease logo and the song. I hate dealerships. You don't need a dealership, baby. It's so insane.

So, really, I mean, it's a warning. It's kind of like, oh, I love AI, and I love Fairleigh. But if we play this out, so it's up to you. I mean, now it's real early in the game. You're not going to really have any effect. You go ahead and lease your car from Fairleys, but TC is projecting. If Fairleys continues to dominate and give people this great savings, by 2032, that seems awful early.

Yeah. You're saying six years. Years away from... Why would you ever buy a car another way again? There is... And there's so now there's just weeds and things growing in... They look like the old Chernobyl, the city, right? Right. You're uncovering relics.

Giraffes are running through... Yeah. Yet, in your world, the rest of the world is fine, right? I can still go to... Just dealership. I still go to Kanye Roso. Yeah. The internet still works.

So you can get a fairly stottle. Connie Rosa is even better in 2032. Ooh, I can't wait to see that commercial. Yeah, yeah, yeah. On how that act. All right, so, oh, yeah, doing some today in history. It's Monday, February 16th. On this day in 1999, OJ's Heisman was sold

because they were trying to pay the civil court judgment. Was he okay with that or did he try and get it back? I think he tried to get back different memorabilia. This brought $230,000. Pretty okay we missed on that one. And buying the O.J. Heisman? Yeah. You'd love to have it, though.

Sure. Not at that price, but boy. The first ever Heisman to be auctioned. And the OJ. Heisman plaque has the misspelling of the word athletic. There's no H in there. On this day in the year 2004, the Rangers traded Alex Rodriguez to the Yankees in exchange for Alfonso Soriano

and a player to be named later, which was Joaquin Arias. He was so good. Soriano was. Yeah. They were able to flip that into Brad Wilkerson, I think. You should see Alex Rodriguez. Yeah.

Yeah. Do you remember when they got Soriano? He enjoyed his easy path, to the All-Star game every year as a second baseman. And at the time, Michael Young was the Ranger's second basement. And so they wanted to move Soriano to shortstop. However, there was Alex Rodriguez, who would have to end up moving to third, but there was Nomar Garcia-Para, there was Derek Cheater.

There was a lot of roadblocks to become an all-star at shortstop. So he would not move. And that's where Michael Young made the selfless decision. that he would move from second base to shortstop. Team first. Team first guy. He always would be. Face.

Hit a home run. What do you do? Head down, around the bases. Lay the bat down. Shake the hand of the pitcher as he came off. Respectful. Take his, tip his cap. On this day.

Oh, and that A-Rod trade, another thing with it. They actually had traded him to the Red Sox a few days prior to that. Do you remember? Yeah, yeah. there's a documentary about this. Really? Yeah. For Manny Ramirez.

And Arod wanted out of here, and he was going to, part of that, he would do a salary reduction. And the Players Association kind of stepped in and, like, demanded that they don't do this trade. Wow. Because you don't give a millimeter if you're the Players Association. like you sign that contract pay the contract

it is funny that somebody wanted to not be a ranger so bad that they were willing to take measures that their union to prevent them from taking not a positive commentary it was a different time yeah that was before chuck and chuck greenberg and we have a new portion of today in history we call it on this day in brewer's history

In 2013, after an appearance at a local winter festival, Guido's costume. That, of course, is the costume worn by one of the Brewers' Racing Sausages. That costume goes missing. Later that night, a bar in Milwaukee, they cited a seven-foot Italian sausage signing autographs. So somebody stole the costume and went around bars in Milwaukee to sign autographs. Well, that's fantastic, and it sounds like a story. from 1943. Not 2013.

I feel like you got to call the sausage something else. Yeah, what was it? Well, that was 2013. I don't know. We'll ask Matthew if the sausage's name is Stoke Guido. And it's Feb 16th, this day in Dumb Zone history. On this day in 2022, we had Nico Harrison on, which is just amazing. We've had them on several, we had them on a few times.

Yeah, the first time Norm had him on the run. Do you think you ever will again? No, but did I see a picture of him at like a court-sighted an NBA game this weekend? I don't think it was NBA. I think it was a tech basketball game. It was something, but it looked like college to me. I'm just amazed that he would...

He was not going to kill himself. Yeah, but I just wouldn't be. going court side to basketball games. Yeah, that's true. Not basketball. Like maybe somewhere that maybe someone has some respect, like a shoe, do they have shoe shows? A shoe game?

Yeah. Where the shoes play. Jake, do you remember who Sarah Stogner is? Yes, she was running for either Ag Commissioner or Railroad something. One of the big Texas offices that isn't what you think it is. and she was running for office and she did a photo shoot

like on a horse with her tities out I think they were tastefully edited but she was trying to let you know like hey I'm different Do you have that? She was running for railroad commissioner and she got on a pump jack one of those oil things goes up and down

Yeah Yeah with her big honkers out It was most of the 130 news that day with her crude oil barrels Sarah Stogner She's currently in office Good for her Yeah

OG? Yeah Yeah I would do so much voting Yeah In 2021 This was in the middle of the freeze You commissioned her railroad

Sorry go ahead We had a full segment on Top Shot She looks mean I would vote over and over. And then Jake was doing the show from a friend's house in Fort Worth because they had power and were not going to lose it. And you were in the closet. Yeah.

And to begin one of the segments, Jake feels bad for the smells he creates at his wife's friend's house. Because I think you were farting in her closet. That was a bad time. All of her nice clothes are around and you're just letting rip. I was in like a 30, year old woman's closet. Live by herself.

It was a little TV tray. It was brutal. We had our daughter over there. Dan was just at Cash Soroy's house the whole time. It was great. Did you fart over there at all? Nope.

And this is where this piece of audio comes from, if I can get it set up. Oh, but this was during the time when the stars were playing games and no one had power. Mm-hmm. And sports mayor. said, hey, cut it out. We noted Highland Park had power, but then this is where...

But that was when he was a Democrat. Yeah. Now he wouldn't do. Right, right, right. Do you remember this? Yeah, yeah. Okay. Hold on.

All right, you guys... Keep talking. What do you want me to say? You think we sound funny? are not robot dude Blake do like a harder faster,

stronger give me some that bomb harder faster stronger yo and you get your wife to come listen

I couldn't handle it but we were we were in Dan's house no power we had to call you and for some reason we sounded like robots and we dealt with that

for like a month occasionally one of us would just sound like robots I think that was mostly my phone it's really really weird You find your serious stogner picture. Yeah, she's mean. Looks mean.

Mean. I like it. Oh, I like it in a good way. Other birthdays today, we have John McEnroe is 67. Champ, champ, champ. Recently met 1920s reporter guy. Jerome Bettis is 54. What a great man.

Yeah. Amon Green is 49. Terrible man. Really? No, he's just a Packer. Packer's all-time leading rusher. Boring running back? Cornhusker.

Oscar. Oscar Schmidt is 68. He is a Mexican basketball legend. I remember hearing about Oscar Schmidt. Like, I would hear about Sada Haru O when I was a kid. Like they were just these. Who was the other guy? There was like a...

Sotnam? Just international stars. Yeah, international. Then you'd always wonder. I think the first one that kind of came over was like Kukoch. You're like, ah, that's what I thought. They suck. It's a fine player.

Drazen Petrovich, right? I think he was a little before. The one that died? You remember all this? Yeah, but I guess... You'd pour it in for the nets. I certainly didn't really have much Drazen Petrovich film on me.

So Guido is an Italian sausage, obviously. Yeah, I picked that up. Cinco is a chorizo. He wears a sombrero. Frankie Ferder is a hot dog. He wears a baseball uniform. Stosh John Jack. Not sure on that one.

That's a Polish sausage. And then Brett Worst is a... I like that. It wears a leader hosen. It's nice. Your five brewer's sausages. That's great. Is that the whole food pyramid in Milwaukee?

Yeah, a little international flavor, Cinco. The weekend is 36. DC. Happy birthday to him. How many times you've seen him? Three. Three best nights of my life. Christopher Eccleston is 62.

Been on the show. Well, see, I was thinking that this morning. Matt Jameson in the leftovers. Oh, yeah. I, I, that interview cost me, I think, 70 bucks because I thought I knew how to dial out from the Ticket Studios because he's a Brit.

I did not. So I made you foot it? I've done that. Well, in a panic, I called him on my cell phone. Oh, okay, okay. Ticket Studio called my phone, merged it, and just sat there. Ed Wallace was proud. Sure.

Yeah, he was great. LeVar Burton is 69. Kind of surprised he hadn't gotten caught up in all this. That's rude. Musician Andy Taylor is 65 from Duran Duran. Sarah Clark, actress is 54. She was Nina Myers in the show 24. Was that good?

Well, I used to love it. And I later, was it Jake that told me like it was all just? just propaganda, government propaganda to get me... He has said that before. To cheer for... 24? Yeah, we're going to need to interrogate people like that. We're going to have to do it.

We're going to have to bend the law. Yes. We don't have to use the law. Like, does Jack Bauer... Certainly he's going to be on the run at the end. And like, he will now be wanted by his own government that he just bailed us out of another situation. But...

He did what he had to do. That's just all you got to do. Yeah. No, I, you know, there's a lot of... coordination between actual government agencies and the Hollywood and film industry and TV. What happened to Kiefer Sutherland after that? Like, to me, to me, and I know this is like, I don't even know if there'd be a market for it, but like it is kind of crazy that there's not a movie about the guys who did 9-11 where they're kind of badass.

Like Hollywood making a movie where... Well, how long did it do. take for that Clint Eastwood movie to kind of show things from the Japanese perspective. Do you guys remember that one? Letters from Iwo Jima. Is that it? I think so. Which was actually kind of sympathetic to their side's view.

Yeah. I mean, you get... That took a while. Like the looming tower, Hulu did it, but it's in English. It's very much about the CIA side of it. You know, you're just not going to get that, but there's got to be... Dude, I'm pretty sure in, like... I'm pretty sure in China, they make movies with alternate endings to wars where they just went.

And kill a bunch of Americans, you know? I'm going to bet we never, in your lifetime, we don't get a, you know who's cool, the 9-11 ice-workers movie. I get that. My point is just, you know, there's different perspectives. Although we have a very creative director here that might be able to. I guess I didn't put together that Kiefer really pulled himself up by his bootstraps. No, not quite. No, he's royalty.

He was the best lad at acting school. The best lad. That's the thing. Anyone you look into? Oh, I didn't know. His dad was a producer. Oh, look, his dad was actually like a really, really famous. Except for two men.

Clayton Adams and Christian Parker, ushering in a new era of football with your Dallas Cowboys. Absolutely. A team that would never engage in nepotism. Never. At the coordinator position in 2026. At least, yeah, not. within the last three years, we swear.

Actor Mahershahala Ali. Mahershula. It's 52. Two-time Academy Award winner. Do you ever see Moonlight? I think so. It's pretty good. It's a very moving film.

It did win, like, Academy Awards. Best picture, but you read the other one. Your opinion, too, is it's pretty good. I mean, I saw it before one of the awards, and I have the same opinion. Janice Dickinson is 71. You got stuff like the English patient that won Academy Awards and it's not good.

Or Forrest Gump. Sorry, Blake. I think that movie's great. It's not as good as Bolt Fiction. I bet you the players love Forrest Gump. I bet you if you wanted to get people talking. What players? Here.

Is that our spring training question? What do you mean? They haven't seen it. They haven't seen it. a lot younger than you. Yeah, I would say more... They throw faster than 60. I would say

eight out of ten players that we talk to will not have seen that movie. If not more. You're on. Janice Dickinson, she's a model famous for her plastic surgery looking bad. That's not good. Really?

Let's see. Yeah. Actor Elizabeth. Elizabeth Olson is 37. She is the younger sister of Mary Kate and Ashley. Oh, what happened to her? Janice Dickinson looks horrible. Sorry.

Well, I did just describe her as the model famous for plastic surgery looking bad. She accused Cosby of rape. We just, we held out hope that you were wrong, and we would be able to see another pretty lady. And then. Blake pulled out the, actually this Academy Award winning film is good. And our dumbs-on birthday of the day, I gave it to Ice Tea. It's 68.

Maybe based on John Mullaney's Ice-T bit. I think it should be based on Gribble. Oh, no. And that's Ice-T. One of the greatest bits that nobody talks about ever is sending Tom Gribble on the press tour for Ice Cubes is Are We There Yet? Having him go in with urban

radio, you could probably find this, urban radio of all types, local TV, and he just asks him what it was like and how many tips on acting he got from Richard Belzer on the set of SVU. And Ice Cube said, no, man, that's Ice-T.

That's Ice-T. And then he had another one about like New Jack City. or something. And he was so... Didn't give a... So sincere. To the point where Ice Cube was like,

we're going to help you out, man. He's like, we're going to take care of you. Here we go. What I found was interesting is, kind of a follow-up, what she was saying, is the departure between how funny you were in this movie

and some of the serious stuff you've done in the past. Yeah. Tell me about working in such a serious genre, like Law &R SVU and working with a guy like Richard Bellsard, who's funny, who me?

Yeah. No, you got the wrong guy. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Who? Yeah, he's a comedian. And what movie? That's iced tea.

What? You got the wrong cat, man. That's iced tea. No, no, no. No, that's iced tea. That's my man. Don't worry about it, man. Did he give you any tips?

No, he didn't give me shit. Don't worry about it And who was this dude A couple finish, man Who's the actor? Richard Bell's, yeah, he's an actor on SVU Yeah But he's also, he came up for the ranks

As a comedian Oh, is that right? So I thought maybe he gave you some tips Nah, no, I don't even know the cat Oh, okay, I'm sorry What was it like, man, Even with Mia Long after 10 years? Oh, yeah

There's another one in here Do you want it? Yeah All right, question two Did you find that your acting craft now is getting to a place that you never thought was going to get before? Like you're doing Boys in the Hood, New Jack City, now you're doing, you know, I'll be there yet. Man, New Jack City. That's Ice T.

Ice T is New Jack City. This is the best. Dude, there's so many things. Oh, that's good. Just so straightforward. I would be, I promise you just, I would be worried about like, oh, black entertainer guys are going to think I'm not cool. Yeah. You know, you're worried about gribble.

right past it. I don't think anyone in this room could do that. Right past it. To come back. You just saw how uncomfortable, how terrible it felt. You're like, I'm going to do it again. Yeah, the whole room is against you.

To a point where now Ice Cube wants to learn about Richard Belser. Right, let's tell me more. Was he method guy? That's a little messed up, but you can't recognize the great Richard Belser. There's a little bullets flying. Born on this day now dead. Richard McDonald's, the co-founder of McDonald's.

And Kim Jong-il, the dad. Yeah. Dead on this day, still dead. 54 in Augusta. George Steele, Clayton. Wrestler. That's what it says here. The animal.

Gary Carter. He used to what? He used to bite the turn bubble. Oh, that's a good move. I don't know what it means. The corner of the ring. He'd bite it? Yeah, you're like, ah, and you guys are all like nodding.

Yeah, that's a great move. Brilliant. Anytime you're just clamping your teeth down on something totally wild, you're like, who is this crazy guy? You should call him the animal. Also, Gary Carter died on this day, as did Tim McCarver. Wow. Which I think Blake was happy about it because you hated him on... You're going to throw it inside.

Now he's going to work back outside. Inside. He also got water thrown at his face by Dion. It was an all-time great media athlete story. It was tough when I read Lords of the Realm because I hate Tim McCarver too. And he is a real hero of that book. I vaguely remember that. Oh.

I don't remember that alone. He's like the guy over and over. being like, we got to stick it to these owners. Stick together, boys. We're going to get this labor negotiation done. Great book. One of the best. I would like to get back to it.

How are you liking football so far? I'm liking it a lot. T.C. is reading the Chuck Klosterman book entitled Football. Well, peace? Any, uh... Do you want to throw a tease in on today's show? You don't want to do it, do you? We can.

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