The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 2-17-26 | Money in baseball is about to change - Day 2 from Brewers Spring Training

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Brewers Spring Training coverage made free by Qualis Roofing and Silverback Construction!Baseball is about to have a big money problem for teams not named the Yankees or Dodgers. Dan was tempted by clickbait, we call our buddy Sven for a Winter Olympics update, and Ring pulls back on their search party feature after public backlash. All this from Day 2 at Milwaukee Brewers Spring Training in Arizona! (00:00) - Open: Live from Brewers Spring Training (11:17) - Today in Twitter: Dan tempted by clickbait (25:25) - Sports: Baseball and the RSN's (01:07:26) - Winter Olympics Sven (01:52:22) - News: Epstein and schools (02:11:12) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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I'm Jake Kim. I'm Blake Jones. We have Foodie CK here. Here is not the Game Day Men's Health Studios in downtown Dallas. Instead, we are at the American Family Fields of Phoenix. That's right. Phonetic. Which is in Arizona. Which borders quite a few states. We are here thanks to Qualis Roofing.

The Qualis drone followed us. Oh, look, we got a little video up today. Wow. Aerial coverage. Provided by QualisRoofing. QuallisGC.com. Yeah. What a beautiful place.

What a beautiful day. A little chilly. A little chilly. No, dude. This is perfect. Oh, really? Yeah. What are you talking about?

A little overnight shower. The smells are wonderful this morning. Christmas. Crispness in the air. All right. I thought our neighborhood smelled a little weird today. You're saying it was good? Yeah, a little overnight shower.

We made everything bloom. We're in an odd neighborhood. I don't know whether to be afraid or... You're fine. I'm just walking through it. Lots of dogs. Lots of straight cats. No, I told Matt that I went on a walk last night.

A little dark, a little shady. I'm a little of afraid, but he said, no, don't worry, there's no graffiti in the neighborhood. You're fine. So it's all, that's how we base it? Yeah, I don't think you're at danger, but I don't think you're going to be inspired. Definitely not inspired.

It's not an exciting place. I don't think you're like, wow, what vibes? There's not enough grass to be inspired. But I don't think you're at danger. You're close to golf. You're like a block from golf. Yeah, there's a golf course pretty close. It's just a muny.

Let's settle down. It's still golf. It's still golf. Did you guys bring your sticks? I did. I was looking to get around. I was just hanging around, wait, trying to get a pickup game going yesterday. Oh, yeah.

I was out banging some chains. I just brought my bag. Yeah. Oh, okay. Just a disc golf guy now. I bet you disc golf's very popular here. I bet you pickleball is. Yeah.

Actually, what is Clayton's mom? play. Bachi ball. But she doesn't do pickleball. I don't really know what it is. I think I only know Batchie from the switch. It's like a ball you roll or something. What?

It's not a racket? No, no, no. I don't think there's any racket involved in Batchie. I believe I've played Bachi. I'm a little higher cultured than you. We know. You're in ski camp, corner house. That's right.

We know. Lawyer mom. Skeet Club. That's what you're in. Four points, sir. There's five points for Skeet Club. So just a quick touch on our evening last night. We can scatter shoot here,

thanks to Qualis Roofing and Silverback Construction, which I think sounds like this. Thank you. That's what an ape sounds like? I think so. Maybe like this. Pretty scary. Yeah, that's where...

That's why you don't teach kids like the actual sound. Right. Like a, you know, a dog does not say rough, but bark. Barre, snarling. Right. So we had a little movie night in the house last night. Jake, T.C. and Clayton did not realize that we were sort of indirectly cock-blocking Blake from continuing his road to the Orange Bowl.

Well, he has a TV in his bedroom. Yeah, but he had his Nintendo set up in the main room. So condescending. I wasn't going to ask him to move it, but we started the movie at like eight. Tonight will be more thoughtful, although I do want to keep the movie nights rolling. It was time for 2003's Tears of the Sun starring Bruce Willis. This was a Clayton suggestion. Kind of in the vein of a high-team movie, but this movie sucks so bad that it is not fit.

You have to sort a little bit, right? Like not every movie can be a high-team movie review. This movie was dog shit. It was so bad. Wow, I thought those are the best ones for... No, it, like, kind of took itself seriously. It was set in Africa. And of the two-hour movie, at least one hour,

was dramatic footage of African civilians being slaughtered. They just really wanted you to know, things are bad in Africa. So it was partly a comedy? There was not a ton of action. It just sucked. I'm sorry A couple funny things

Right out of the gate Bruce Willis is talking to one of his His compadres And he says We got a 12-click hike And TC says How long do you think that is And Clayton said 12 kilos

Or it's 12 kilometers And it is Okay So there's a guy who just knows that This made me laugh out loud though If I had to guess Which guy in the room would have known that Yeah

That's where it would have been This is kind of message of the movie. They're trying to save some doctor. It doesn't matter, but there's a priest telling Bruce Willis as they're leaving a message. Oh, we've got... God already left Africa. And that one line did kind of booing me for the evening. He just stared right, God already left Africa. Which of course, it's just like the entire Western worldview, you know, of like, God, this place sucks. Everything's disgusting. God, already left Africa.

It sounded, it. And that music, that music is playing the whole time. Like, just what you would imagine. It sounded fun. You guys were loud and I remember T.C. yelling like, they don't have enough fuel. How are they going to, like. There were some fun moments, but. You can't even try that move.

There's no way. Dude, in the intro, in the intro, it's so lazy that the text that comes up on the screen just says somewhere off the coast of Africa. Somewhere. Look. It's huge. It's tough to... Spot to lie. Well, in that way, if you ever want to do the tour of the movie, you can kind of say, oh, I was here.

Tears of the sun. I was on the tiny little state of Africa. My little bit of walking around our neighborhood, there are opportunities for business. I am not in the position to take advantage of most of them because they appear to be selling diabetic supplies. Yeah, the strips. Which Blake says he has family who dabble in. A friend. I thought I was knowledgeable enough of things poor adjacent

that I would have heard of this, but I'm not aware of selling medicals. Like you're a middleman? Yeah, you buy strips wholesale or whatever. Strips. What's a strip? Like the prick of blood. You put your blood there and it takes your glucose.

For diabetics. Yeah. He also will feel. fix your phone if it's cracked. He's just, he'll do any of those little things, but yeah, I guess he does well. I don't know. It's like, so you, when you get your supply and you're a diabetic, you just get too many or something? Are you stealing them from people?

Like, how are we profiting off of it? I think, yeah, Clayton said you could buy them off the dead. Okay. The diabetic dead? Yeah. Yeah, it just seems. They have a bunch of strips. There's, there are signs on the.

the street poles. Like if you're stopped, if you're walking at a crosswalk, there are signs, Realtor, lost dog, diabetic supplies for sale or will buy diabetic supplies. Not something I've seen before.

I got a sign I wanted to show you. It was in our house. We're in the Airbnb. Do you have that, Clayton? Is this the bathroom one? Did you have one in your bathroom? Don't we have the same bathroom? Oh, you have your own bathroom?

I do have a, I have a solo bathroom. Yeah, I mean, you always know when things shake out. I thought that's why you guys were allowing me to have that room, a solo bathroom, and I gave you the TV, because I will not watch TV. It's very nice. I'll get TV. We have that sign, too. Woman, person, camera. So look at that.

Read it. So it's like a live, laugh, love, but it's telling you to flush just toilet paper. But it's in the crazy font that you can't even tell if the F is a B or a. Right. It's written G or a Q. It belongs in a lakehouse or in Savannah, Georgia, HGTV. But they're also at not just the font. They've got some comedy in there because they say flush only toilet paper and natural waste.

That's real small. We don't want to be uncouth. Right. And then it says it's sensitive plumbing. Please do not flush any sanitary items, wipes, paper, towels, hopes, or dreams. Don't flush your hopes and dreams. Yeah. That was written by a lady who's excited to play in the office Christmas party. You know what I mean?

So they said, we're going to buy one of these for every bathroom and just make sure. The no vaping sign in my room is written in cursive. You have a no vaping sign? Tastefully, yeah. Can you call for no vaping? You could call for anything you want. Yeah, it's your house. But there's no way you're adhering to that policy, is there?

Of course I am. Oh, okay. Yeah. He's not vaping in the house. Okay. It's just not something that smells. No, I think probably you have the people writing the rule who don't really understand that. Are you allowed to fart and stuff?

I didn't see any signs banning that. Okay. While I'm playing pictures for you, this is kind of a Today and Twitter. You want to call it today and Twitter? Sure. All right. Then we'll play a little sounder. I like it.

Because it's fun. The Dumbzel presents Today and Twitter. I saw this on an article, at the bottom of an article, but I started the article on Twitter, so that's why it counts. But I had to have all my strength to not click on this. You know that clickbait has gotten better over the years,

and back when it was, what does Honey Boo Boo Boo's mom look like now? It's like, oh, okay, maybe. I saw the most fantastic piece of clickbait I've ever seen. Throw it up there, Clayton, and I want you guys to read it and say, how did he hold off? Oh, my God.

Goodness. Doesn't that look great? Yeah, we've got three hot, tatted motorcycle-looking Nevada women. But hot. Hot, for sure. Not a chubby motorcycle mama. We've got, yeah, these are fresh. With the heading and headline, Hell's Angels girlfriends have to do this when the men return from a long ride.

I really want to know. I need to know. I mean, why don't, yeah, it's obviously nothing. Do their taxes, do their expense report? Right. But they're trying to get me, you know, this comes from the guy who went to goaddy.com, and there's Danica Patrick, and I don't even think she's attractive at all. She's not attractive.

I have a photo in there from the plane that I thought about putting on Twitter, but now my Twitter is just going to be the show. What do you guys, we've talked about breaking food out on the plane before, right? Like what's your yogurt? Yeah, well, I'm, I don't want to bring like a tuna sandwich or egg salads, like the stuff I eat. You don't want to, you will, or do you just want to? If pressed, but I won't. I'm trying not to.

What if it were like a slice of pizza? No, go ahead. I think I would do that. I say everybody should be able to do what they want on the plane. Okay, this is, you can tell. As a guy who's taking salmon. You can tell from the rapper, if you're a Texan, what type of food that is. the classic red and white checkerboarded paper wrapper.

That's just like a... What is it? Sloppy Joe or something? It's just a thing full of barbecue. It's just a whole... Yeah, I don't like that. And that person works for the airline. You can't really tell from that uniform,

but you would think they would have the etiquette. But that was just... That was right there. That was right when we sat down. Is that you in the back row? Yeah, it is. So it's back row you're allowed. to do that.

They may have been thinking that. It's right next to the potty. I think that was the last row on that side. But I had just never seen it. And then they didn't have utensils. They were just eating pieces of sausage and like pulled pork with their hands. I feel like there's got to be some. Look at the fine print on the ticket.

Yeah, you'd have to just ban food at law. You'd just have to ban it fully, right? No outside food. If there's any discretion at all, people are going to take advantage. It's disgusting. My thought was... I combated that by farting the entire flight. But when I did order Papadoes once for the fight...

That's one good thing about being by the bathroom, by the way. I was the last row of the bathroom's there. It's like, God, who keeps going in the bathroom? Disgusting. Sorry. There's nothing good to being by the bathroom. But I like you trying to have a silver lining. Let it fly. But my thought is, if you sell it in the airport,

you should be able to take it on the plane. So if you want airport etiquette to be... Is that wrong? Mm-hmm. Don't sell it in the airport then. I agree. People have to wait for their flights. Okay.

Well, then sell only pleasant-smelling food. But then, now you're in a subjective area. No outside food on the plane when you walk in. Because to me, a nice salmon burger. That's wonderful. Yeah, that's wonderful. Oh, dude. I want you just take your shoes off and socks off.

I would rather someone take their shoes off and have salmon and broccoli on a flight. It's not even really close. I don't know, man. By a lot. Here's another quick one I saw on Twitter. Foot smell is very identifiable. Yeah, but you don't have to eat it. I guess you don't have to eat their broccoli. But I feel like when he brings broccoli around, I feel like I'm eating broccoli.

Like, I should get credit for that. If I'm going to be grossed out by it, like a secondhand type thing. I saw this article about a patent that META has applied for. And this is something that probably I first started thinking about in college when a girl that I had had sex with died. Not during, or was it? Just knocked that thing out. Yeah, you were just so awesome. Shortly thereafter.

Boy, she died doing what she loved. Put her to sleep, never woke up. Just elbow drop. No. Tragically, I believe it was a car accident. But she had a Facebook profile. And this was like 2004, 2005. And we were like, what's going to happen?

This is a very unprecedented territory here. I actually don't know what happens. I know that you can have legacy people contacts where you can designate a family member who can get your account if you die. I don't have that. I don't want to see all the DMs. Right. But meta has, they say they have no plans to move forward with the tech, but they have applied for a patent that would essentially keep you alive on their platforms after you die. It would use the language models and generative AI to keep you liking the types of articles that you would normally like,

commenting and being friendly in the way, even to sending DMs, you know? And there's, there are companies that butt photo. Yeah, he would just. Right. That's honestly immediately what I just started thinking is how funny it would be if you're, yeah, you're dead. You're just dead and racist. just keep getting more racist as you get older. Yeah.

He probably would have, probably would have kept going. Or creepier. You're dead. You turn it to a pedophile. Keep boys out of girl sports. Yeah, you have trans opinions. It's very creepy. And this is something, you know.

It's just like you keep voting, maybe. Somebody, I saw somebody. That was one of the first comments when I saw this news story. He would have voted for, Luke, as an all-star starter. Let's just have him to go do that. Meta is trying to pitch it in some part as there are people who need a break from social media, but don't want to lose their online presence. So you can automate, like staying engaged, like influencers, for example.

Oh, my God. Who need a, they need a breath, but they have to keep posting. But of course, that's not what it is. It's just so that, you know, they have control of your data forever, even after you die. Oh, I thought they cared about you. So this is AI, right? Yeah, and like there have been, we've seen these commercials before for companies, tech companies that deal in like grief and maybe helping you like hold on to an animated

version of your. Yeah. Or like. There's some good black mirrors on that. Yeah, yeah. This would be that, except it would be running, you know, autonomously. And it would be interacting with the world as if it were alive. But I don't know.

Is it like Jesus where it stays the same age forever? What's the early bird? code because this is making me think of I think it's dumb zone 20 is it dumb zone 20 so for gummy thoughts yeah have you ever thought there will be a time when like they could right now

you download all your personality and thoughts and everything and just turn that into some kind of a digital thing and now you do live forever the singularity sort of but yeah is the singularity

everybody's info downloaded and all interminger and it's one being, kind of like pluribus? I don't understand it far enough. That makes sense, but I've never heard it led to that conclusion. But I think it does involve you becoming one with technology. But I'm not interested in that at all.

I've never been interested in that, ever. As one of my favorite rappers of all time, Slug says, I'm not interested in a race with no finish line at all. That's not a finish line? Not under where we all achieve No like your personal story It can't end Like that's the

To me Boy this is gummy thoughts It's like the essence of life Is like tying your human body To what makes you More than that And if you transcend the body I think that changes what it means to be alive

And I'm not as interested in that That's why I have this manila folder Right here that I've brought to brew I don't know Anyways We're here at Brewer's Camp That's right We definitely are

A lot of fun out at Brewers Camp A little controversy about the backup catcher role We're looking into They signed Gary Sanchez Does that mean that the Boy, what was his name? I trust Is it like Yonathan?

Like there's, they have a backup catcher A young minor leaguer Who they're just wondering Is this something to just light a fire under him Bringing Gary Sanchez in? I like what you're doing We're going to take your calls today We should go take calls out front of some gas stations.

We might take a call from Sven. Okay. It depends. Sven loves Costco and he's there today. God, dude. He might be back in time. What is that? Do you know that that's like a thing in other countries, too?

What? He has to drive 45 minutes to get to his Costco. I think Europeans are like obsessed with Costco. Really? And I think Trader Joe's might be the other thing. Like they want to have like a Costco bag. is like fashionable. Oh, really?

Yeah. Yeah, it's something weird. My mom shares a membership with Rose. Love that. Good bit. I think that's fantastic, yeah. They split the membership, so they each pay like 30 bucks or whatever.

I don't know. I don't know how much Costco. I used to belong, but it's too intimidating for me. You know what? It actually is pretty intimidating. I don't want to buy toilet paper and a TV at the same time. And I don't want to buy that much toilet paper.

I thought that was your bit. Mm-hmm. Well, yeah, that's true. That is my bit after the pandemic. I don't mind. I once bought, I once bought like a Razors. That's not a good one. And I had like 800 of them.

That's terrible. And so now I got the same bag of razors I'm dipping into you for seven years. Sorry, go ahead. No, I was just going to say, like, you think you eat the same stuff over and over. And, like, you mostly do. But then when you buy it like that, you really realize, like, no, I need some variety. I can't do this. To lock yourself into one chip for like three months is just not.

It seems like you can do it. Yeah. It sucks. You end up with way too much left. Oh, I have a little Phoenix news. I have lots of Phoenix news, but that's for the news, I suppose. For the news? Well, it's kind of news, but it's a follow-up from some Phoenix talk we were having yesterday.

And it is from Travis Gafford, who will follow up. And we were talking about why he's from Community Mechanical. Why in Phoenix do they put the HVAC systems on the roof? We all wondered. Wouldn't that get them really, really hot and overheated? Because they're in the direct sunlight. And he says, no. The further something is away from the sun, the hotter it is.

Especially when it's on the ground and all the heat is gathering there. When it's on the roof, you're exposing it to more of a breeze, and there's less things radiating heat around it. On earth, the further something is away, the hotter it is, like Death Valley, is below sea level, and that's why it's so hot. Yeah, if you think about, like, football stadiums, they always say the field is way hotter than everything else. And so that, I guess, makes sense.

But I never really thought about it being hotter than, like, the top of the stadium. That's wild. So, a little follow-up. Also, he could have made all that up. It sounds like it makes sense to me. It does sound like it makes sense to me. Because, yeah, you do worry about the ground being real hot, walking the dogs at night or something, you know, in the summer, that is.

I don't think I can add more than the AC guy, but they also, they use different AC systems here because of the different level of humidity. It's a swamp cooler, which you don't have, and it's helpful to have it, like, at the top of the house going down. A swamp cooler. In the desert they use swamp coolers. I have no idea what any of that means, though.

The difference in humidity, like to make your system work, it has to have somewhat humid air, the one that you have at home. Like the way that they, like, you know, using the Frion to get the air colder. Yeah, I don't know. How do you know so much about the HVAC and would you be interested in a part-time job with the community? I would. But I just, I drove around Phoenix many years ago and was wondering why all their things were on the roof and I went and found the answers. The short answer is that there's no humidity in the air here.

And so they have to have them on the roof. All right. We've got answers. That's right. The new dumb zone. The brand new dump zone. Can we get some, well, speaking of that, we can call this sports or you want to call it a sports session because. Got in the car this morning to go get coffee.

Yes, somebody emailed me. Why do you go to 7-Eleven? Why not look for a local coffee shop? Because I like 7-Eleven coffee. And I can just pour... I pour one giant cup of coffee. Take it home. And then I pour half of it into a cup.

And the other half is hot water. Now you... And then I need weak coffee. The person who is emailing him that that he is responding to, you may say, well, the second half of that sentence literally has nothing to do with the first. You could go somewhere else.

And do that. Well, but somewhere else, it's always awkward because then I have to say to them. Can I have a cup of hot water? Yeah, can you give me like half water and hat? And I don't like the, I don't like the real flavorful whatever, you know, your Starbucks coffee.

It's smashing you in the face. I like, you got the regular blend? The little 7-11 breakfast blend. They've had scientists that are working around the clock in lab coats to make that blend perfect for the morning. Yeah. Because it says breakfast on the label. It sounds like you like female POV coffee. Dude, he likes coffee that listens and respects him.

And then the lady at the counter that's talking to somebody on the Bluetooth even at 6 in the morning. Anyway. It's 6 in the morning where she's talking. But no, I like this bit, though, because people should just leave you alone about it. However, I become bothered when you eat at the same place two times in one day. Even if it shouldn't, it doesn't bother, what do I care? I ordered a pizza that I'm going to eat on for three days. But Dan, going to the same burger place twice and one day, you'll go today probably.

Are you saying I did that yesterday? I have not done that yet. Oh, I thought you tried to go back to the talk was. I'll just go back to habit. Where'd you go off that? I just, I didn't eat habit with those guys. Oh, my bad. I'm sorry.

We didn't go to habit. I thought you double-habited. Oh, yesterday for lunch. Right. I didn't end up getting habit. You had a weird. Yeah, TC ended up getting me a meat sandwich from Denny's. It's a long story.

It's a long story, but I had some bread. Easter baskets. I saw the, I saw the bag and was like, that's fine how it is. I don't need to know anymore. Okay, so I got in the car this morning. I got up. It's late for me. It was 7.30, Dallas time.

But that's great for Phoenix. It's 6.30. And I drove, and the car radio was on, and it was on sports radio. Hell yeah. Phoenix. You're welcome. And I'm like, all right. I know Jake's been wanting to do some bits and call Phoenix Sports Radio, maybe revive the Irvin' Joe game or something like that.

I kind of like to just get the vibe too, you know? Oh, yeah. Like you guys used to do. And we know some of the guys in these towns. Like we've played audio from them. Well, I don't listen to a lot of radio anymore. I will listen to why they doesn't suck. But it's like, will you watch your kid do something?

You know, that's my kid, right? I remember when it was born. So I want to see how it's doing. but listening to I do have some just thoughts on radio it's like eight minutes to go to the closest gas station to us

the 7-11 and four minutes of spots getting there and then they come out of the break and they start doing their segment when I got back in the car they were finishing up the segments and then it was six minutes of spots

on the way back like I just thought that's really odd in a two and a half hour show at just about the most we'll do 10 spots and that is 10 spots that I heard in my 15 minutes of being in the car and I just thought it is an interesting thing that if you were starting over right you want me to do a libertarian dan or whatever you call me like if you were starting over you would never say hey let's uh air things an hour at a time and give you like 20 minutes of content or 30 minutes of content in that hour like it just seems crazy So just score one for this format.

No, I completely agree with you. It's just I don't know how you make it all work. Like if you change one part, how much of the whole structure are you changing? Like, you want it to be live. Like, that's part of it. Most podcasts aren't live. Yeah. So it's structured differently.

It's almost like they just tacitly tell you to change the channel. You know what I mean? They do a ticker as like a, I mean, obviously you get ad reads there, but that's like a buffer to let you know that the thing you want to hear is coming back that they pay less. It's just set up in a weird way. I don't know how advertising really works, but I know that if you need your roof. Well, I know advertising works with us. Right, right. This feels very tangible and you talk to the business owner.

They're like, yeah, we pay this amount of money. We get a bunch of calls and those calls turn into this. Whereas if it's just on the rate And hell, I think the radio and billboards And the world likes it like Opaque a little Yeah, like, I mean, hey, it's kind of like what we do on Right, with our social media

Or does it mean anything? Does it, yeah, sure it does. Yeah, that's why you got to have a social media director. Sorry. I'm just saying, no, but what does it all mean? You just don't really know. Is there a tangible, hey, look, they saw this and then they went, even us being here.

What does it mean? Is there someone listening? Can you actually point to one person that will say, hey, that sounded like fun. They were out in Phoenix for a week. I'm going to go to spring training next year. I'm going to go buy a Brewer's jersey. I'm going to, I'll bet it will, but you just can't actually track it. You know, you can't say, oh, this Brewer's jersey was.

was bought because of the guys who were here a year ago. The Franco advertising. Is it because the bus that you saw it on? Is it because you heard it on the radio? It's because you heard it with us? Is it because you intentionally got in an accident that after we asked you 20 times to do so? Right.

And then you got amnesia because you were in that accident? You didn't remember it was us that told you to get in the accident? And you told him it was a good hang with Amy Polar. Anyway. That led to her winning a Grammy. Hot topic here was Kevin Durant. And I wasn't really putting it together until the end of my drive. I'm like, oh, yeah, he played here.

That's why they're so fired up about Kevin Durant. Most of the stuff in the text seems to me to be rockets or possibly Warriors-related. Not as much Phoenix, but yes, they hate Kevin Durant. So they were actually listening to some audio that I went and found because it fit for now. And it was just a short clip. As you know, the NBA, very open arms, welcome. social media people and the new media to All-Star Game, which is an interesting thing for an old like me

to remember going to All-Star Games of the past, certainly the NHL. But and when you're involved, like now, the norm seems to be to ask wacky questions. Whereas that used to be, the 5% or the 10%. Like I remember, you know, how hardcore questions were at NHL All-Star game.

And if I started asking a couple of things, then Bob would back away and you wouldn't be able to find Bob. You know, like he didn't want to be, because the media would turn on you. Now it's like the guys who want to ask serious NBA questions, they're the ones getting turned on. Right. You know?

So. They're actually questioning the players. Yeah, that is an interesting shift. I haven't thought about that. Here's one of the... It makes it less fun because it takes less balls. Right. If we're all asking the silly questions,

like 1920s reporter guy at NBA All-Star Game now, would not look like anything. So here's one of the wacky questions, and it kind of seemed appropriate. If you can give up one thing for the rest of your life, Twitter or video games. Damn. Which one would it be?

What will he say? Twitter or video games? Something else. What would you give up? Kevin Durant would say video games. He would give up video games? What would you give up? Twitter.

Okay. Well, here it is. Man. We lose our apps. I'm going to go Twitter. I'm going to go Twitter because they don't deserve it. To hear this God-level, like, talking. They take it for granted, because.

I agree with him I think Kevin Durant is arguably one of the greatest Twitter users in the history of the platform I love it I love that you know I love that he talks his shit and then plays how he plays I mean he's one of the greatest to ever do it

and he's perfect for this generation it's mentally fragile but comes through so his burner supposed burner account this hasn't been No, it's not confirmed And it's messy too Because it's people like

Throwing a bunch of different stuff From a bunch of different times together It's mostly, it seems to me It's just a group chat Where he was talking with some of his friends Bitching about his teammates And one of his friends let that out? Apparently so

Oh, okay One of the things he said I wouldn't say Kyrie Irving was competing with me But that light skin And that triple double cocaine bear was referring to Russell Westbrook, which is funny. Yeah, that's a good name for him. And then he's talking about Devin Booker and sons coach Frank Vogel said they were two dictators.

Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini, and Kim Jong-un, the sons are my team when we lose and Devin's team when we win. What a dork. Which, so I feel like Devin Booker, though, is probably beloved here, because he's, haven't you seen how he has never wanted to... Let me tell you something else. Huh. Devin Booker is part Mexican, and that is a big deal in the NBA. And it's a big deal in Arizona.

They celebrate it. It's a big part of his heritage. I think you're right. He is God here. When they've talked about, you know, hey, maybe they'd move Devin Booker, and we're going to now, we have to, you know, tear it down and rebuild and all this kind of stuff after, you know, the heights they had achieved in the early days of Devin Booker.

Didn't they get pretty far into playoffs? Yeah, but I mean, that was the early days of Devin Booker after they went and got him a lot of help. This is pre- Kevin Durant, though, right? Yeah, this is CP3 and DeAndre Aiton. Yeah. My point is, though, you know,

media started being like, hey, it'd be cool if they moved you, you deserve better, blah, blah, blah, and he's always been, I want to be in Phoenix. I want to be in Phoenix my whole career. And I think that goes so... Like, that's one of the reasons we loved Luca. He had never hinted he wants gone. He wants to be here forever.

If you get a guy like that that wants... Like even Devin Booker, you get a guy like that good that wants to be here, well, then keep him. You know? And then he could be the face of the franchise. The problem that you run into, and I saw somebody call him this the Palo problem last night, talking about Palo Bancaro.

But the problem is if you get a guy who's really... good but not good enough. Ah, and then he's getting matched out and maxed out. And especially the way that it's set up now, you have to build the whole thing around him. Like Anthony Davis, maybe. Oh, gosh, is that good enough? Yeah.

And that's where it gets, that's kind of where, the only pushback I was giving you on Booker is that I remember hearing back in the Booker, Luca battle days of how great Devin Booker was early in his career, Devin Booker, and the sons were not good. Like this Luca was dragging those teams up and down the floor No he's no super superstar you know They weren't really any good until they got a lot around him I'd say he's never been as good as Kevin Durant

And that's probably where Kevin Durant's Bother comes in But I think when you are that good And as you're informing me now Got a little Mexican heritage and he stated many times I just want to finish my career I love this play like I want to stay here forever That goes a long one

with the fan. Dude, I was listening to the Phoenix Sports Talk Radio this morning, and they were breaking down his performance in the three-point contest, and how bum they were when he got to the final. I'm like, this seems like a waste of everyone's time, but if this is what you guys have, go for it. Why not? Yeah.

Hometown Hero. I remember that. I remember being excited about my guy in skills competitions. Yeah. So I came across another piece of audio, NBA-related, if we're kind of talking to NBA right now, which I think has been floating around there before I found it on Twitter, but it kind of had a skip, so I had to search around.

Texted a good friend of ours who's very into sports and who digitized all the Chicago Bulls championships. And before he could get done golfing, I actually did find it on my own. and it is Bob Costas. I don't know if you've ever heard this. Right after the 1998 NBA Finals. So we've certainly watched the last dance, and we know this is the season.

This is the last year of the Bulls Dynasty. And apparently this was very... Because I ended up watching a lot of the post-game locker room stuff, and it's very weird. They're just talking to all the players like, do you think Phil Jackson will still be here? Like you just won the championship. It's your six.

Not all the guys were there's six, but they'd just be even interviewing the spares. You know, like, what do you think? And he's like, I don't know, I suppose they have a decision to make, but today it's a great, you know, I'm drinking champagne here, man. So it's like one of the great dynasties

of any sport, I would say. the Bulls, it's Michael Jordan. They just win their sixth championship, their third in a row again. But if you also know this time, I don't think there was a salary cap? No. No, not really. And Michael Jordan made like 30 million that year. Yeah.

While other players, you know, I would like to look up the next highest. in the NBA, but it was way, you know. 15, possibly. I've seen this before. But he just, he was worth so much. Anyway, this Bob Costas is very interesting to listen to today as you think about the NBA and the sports landscape. So let's listen.

Well, for Bulls fans, there is, of course, cause for celebration tonight after a sixth championship that came harder than the others. But there's some anxiousness mixed in as well. Who knows how all of this will play out, but it's certainly possible that tonight we saw the last of the Chicago Bulls as we have known them. And whether it ends here or sometime in the near future, it'll be noteworthy not just for the breakup of one of the great teams in sports history, but because given the present structure of pro sports, it may be quite a while before we see anything like this again. Oh, the organizations that have the resources, the Yankees, the Braves, the Cowboys, the Lakers and the NBA will almost always field contending teams. but the days of continuity may be ending.

Even on the best teams, there's now so much turnover that it's becoming ever harder to follow and identify with teams. Loyalty has been fragmented, which brings us to an underappreciated aspect of this golden era in the NBA. It hasn't just been Bird, Magic, and Michael. It was the whole recognizable cast of characters around them that gave the Celtics, the Lakers, and the Bulls their texture and made following them all the more interesting.

Even the jazz, noble runners-up two years and around, are personified by the longest tenured coach in the league and two Hall of Famers who have been teammates for well over a decade. We'll see championship teams in the future but will we see teams that endure this way and as for Michael Jordan all the superlatives have been exhausted and almost all apply. But perhaps the most important one is this. He's authentic. His essence is so much deeper than image. In fact the image is in his case an amplification of something true and substantive. Take all the money, all the adulation,

all the TV cameras away and put Michael Jordan in a gym somewhere with Russell and Oscar, West and the Doctor, and he'd be as genuine and as much in his element as any of them. His heart and his athletic integrity, every bit as impressive as his artistry. So whenever it ends, it's been an incredible ride for Jordan and the Bulls, and we at NBC have been privileged to be taken along for that ride. So there's a lot there. There really is. He hit many notes.

You could just focus on the Michael Jordan part at the end, if you want, to start just with all the money gone. Like, I don't know really what he means as far as he'll be as genuine as Oscar Robertson. I do think, I think he kind of means, you know, even without all that stuff, Michael Jordan wants to, you know, like the last dance thing, take the usher's money and just like he would actually play his hardest. No matter what. Like, and I don't know that you've ever felt that about, uh, about LeBron, for sure. That that's his main goal. Um, I think you think about Kobe, kind of, but also Kobe wanted to make sure that

he also made exactly, you know, what he could make and, uh, don't really care about winning as much. Did, I mean, did Jordan not? I don't know. A lot of that, I just feel like his myth-making. I don't know how to process it as much. But the stuff in there, I guess I don't know exactly what was happening in 1997, 98. But if we back up to the, yeah, the real meat, I think, is more about the league and the loyalty and the fans and what we're seeing.

Great teams, dynasties. Seems like there's some degree of, you know, you read the article and then somebody tells you it's from 1913 in the New York Times. And you just realize that people have been having the same worries and concerns in cyclical fashion for you. Players make too much. But things do change. And, you know, I mean, just look at the cowboys haven't won anything since there was a salary cap. So obviously, there were teams that were affected by the changes in the landscape. The Yankees win, but it's not like before, right?

I mean, the luxury tax is at least somewhat punitive. They've got the draft. They've got all these different measures. The NFL is finely tuned to keep that from half. happening. And I don't think that that's messed with their loyalty, right? It's interesting, though. Are people loyal to teams? Well, the NFL is certainly changing too. As time goes, quarterbacks are jumping around and, you know, as the money gets bigger. I think there's a little bit of Bob Costas being why Hillary lost there, even though I love him. I think Bob Costas is a little bit of a

hand ringer and a pearl clatcher and a things will just never be the way. way that they are now again. Some of that's true, but also what he was talking about there literally, it probably won't ever happen again, you know? All the things, whether it was salary cap, whether it was the right type of free agency, Michael Jordan, that probably will never happen again. So he was trying to kind of sum that up and how special that was, but he, lost his way a little bit to old mandum?

Yeah. Like everyone always thinks it's falling apart. Right. The loyalty thing is always interesting to me because I think when you say that, you are really talking about the players, that they are losing the loyalty. Whereas you don't really point out that, well, the owners never had it. They would have cut people, they would have traded people. it didn't matter to them at all ever

because they're going to remain here in Dallas or here in Phoenix or whatever. And it's up to them on whether the player... I don't know. It's just an interesting thought to me. I think it's interesting, too, to think, because he didn't even know gambling was coming to the degree that it is, right?

I mean, that's all I hear about now is people wondering if gambling is going to change. Like, well, my kids grow up fans of a team. And I'm sure that the people here from the Brewers have to think about this all the time. What does fandom look like in 10 to 20 years? Is it does everybody just come through on the other side of being 20 and kind of turn into the same thing again where you're going to go to games in your town with your buddies? But your teenage years just look different.

I don't know. I mean, the Brewers are really interesting in that just being such a, a small market and actually being able to be competitive, like that also sets you apart. And you feel like it's got to feel even better to be at this level than if the system forced you to. Yes. But you would still rather have a better system. Yeah. And that may happen.

I don't know. I've been reading a lot about that. I mean... There's going to be a work stoppage. It doesn't look good. It doesn't look good. And at the heart of it seems to be it's just the loss of the big... R.S.N.

Yeah, the regional sports networks, like, because they're trying to figure that out now. And that used to be a real source of discrepancy amongst the teams because New York or L.A. could get whatever, a $250 million deal for their, you know, TV broadcast, TV and radio. and Milwaukee or Cleveland could get, you know, a $5 million deal or probably not that difference. But, you know what I mean? Yeah. That's the whole. That's the whole thing.

They don't revenue share that. They just revenue share the national contract. Yeah, and I don't understand all this well enough to know how it's going to work, but I know that as recently as this week, like Manfred has made comments about how they're going to try to get as many of those local rights and bundle them. Like, there's a lot of people watching baseball. They just have to figure out, can we convince the teams that have a lot of money? This would actually be good for you, too. I don't know.

There's probably some level of, like, political tie-in here, like social policy thing, where it's like, yeah, we're going to be giving money to the rich, too. But we can't let that keep us from, you know, helping everyone. Like, if there's a revenue share type deal. So I think it's going to change. It's kind of like it's a bit radio versus podcast type thing. It's the whole, why stay in radio, right? It would be actually, and this is for the good stations,

they can bill a lot more and they could pay you more. You know, they make a lot more. But that was the day, you know, radio in this case would be the RSNs. But now that they're all going to have to do this on their own, I think they're finding that, wow, we can't replicate that. kind of money because the TV station would sell it as, well, we need inventory. So we love a five-hour broadcast every day or a four-hour broadcast. That just fills time.

Then we could replay that again overnight. And then we could sell ads for all that. And we won't actually make that money back. We are investing $250 million. But part of that is because you're going to then come to that station. You're going to see that we have other programming. And like it wasn't, like the NFL doesn't, the TV stations don't. Don't make that dollar for dollar back.

Right. Yeah, not dollar for dollar. Like the Olympics that they bid for. They bid on it as part of it is all the eyeballs that are going to come for the Olympics are going to be sub. Now we're advertising to them that we just have law and order on for the 50th year in row. They hope you'll stick around and watch ghosts. Yeah. But that's why sports.

And I think that's what it feels like baseball is losing that. that there's some other outlet that wants to use baseball as their vehicle. The NBA still got in. You know, and every time we do one of these, we're like, well, will they next time? I doubt it. But, you know, will baseball, you know, they've already kind of had a little trouble with the ESPN Major League Baseball package, right?

Yeah. So I don't know, because we've never seen a league. And we're getting NBC Sunday night this year? I think it was cool. But we've never seen. seen a league's payroll recede. Yeah.

And are you like, doesn't it just make sense at some point you would have to? Like you had never seen newspaper payrolls recede either. Like some sports league somewhere. Yeah, but the argument against that though is that there's this whole thing happening in society, whether it's talking about the form of entertainment you get like in podcast, but the communal thing,

the thing that's live, the thing that's happening, that might be becoming more and more important, like as a commodity, if people believe in live sports. So despite all these other external economic factors, maybe it just keeps becoming people like, I need ball.

I need ball. And they just keep paying more and more. Maybe. It hasn't gotten less popular in my lifetime. Yeah. You see the Savannah bananas are super popular. That's my data point for baseball is, Yeah, yeah, no.

And it's what... Baseball feels popular to me right now. Like, as an adult of youth children. And I don't know, maybe I'm just like in a weird spot in life where I live in a fluent white area. Yeah, you see a lot of travel ball. I guess I do. Or at least the parents of.

I also visit spring training in Phoenix once a year. Yeah, I mean, the games that played at Globe Life. TCU and Arkansas played the other night in front of like 12. 25,000 people. Really? That's wild to me. Yeah. Wow.

I know. College of baseball. That's always been my thing. You know, the ping of the... I got one more baseball thing, if you want to do that before we take a break. And then perhaps talk a little Olympics on the other side, which is the Rangers. Hard just down the road. The Texas Rangers.

A lot of history between the Milwaukee. Brewers and Texas Rangers. We will now highlight all of it. No. What we will do is look at Marcus Sem, excuse me, Corey Seeger was asked because a volatile offseason in which Marcus Semyon was traded. Rangers are cut in payroll, folks. You knew it was going to happen.

Rangers are cut and payroll. And unlike the Milwaukee Brewers, I don't feel that they are set up to succeed because you were just telling me how... Well, the Rangers... Their farm system is... After the McKenzie Gore trade are pretty bereft. And that's not a sentence you want to say.

You know, like if you're going to be... As far as the farm system. Yeah, I'm just saying if you're going to be saying, hey, this trade resulted in a bottom five farm system, you'd like the anteceded not to be the McKenzie Gore trade. But that's what it is. But the brewers, no matter where you look, are in the top two or three.

even after the reshuffling they've done in this office. I mean, they added prospects. Which has to be the only way to stay competitive in the current financial state of Major League Baseball. Like, that's how the A's were back when the A's were. I think it invariably makes your team more fun, too. Like, it's not that you can't have guys who make money, but you need a mix. Like, that Rangers team was just straight up mercenary. Having a good farm system to me was always like you were on Christmas Eve.

You didn't know what was coming. You were really excited. But it was fun, yeah. Oh, yeah, because you didn't know yet. Oh. Like, I thought Louis Brinson would be awesome. And when he was still a ranger, he could have still been awesome. But as soon as he got to the big, for Milwaukee, he was not great.

Well, the coolest thing about it to me, and it never worked, was just that you felt like you could go into a season knowing you could make a trade. Right? Like if you're, if you hit right and you're a few back at the right time, of course now with expanded playoffs, I think it's almost like frozen the trade deadline relative to back of the day. Everybody thinks they're in it, so why make a move? Yeah, the Rangers are not in a great spot,

especially after their number one prospect's going to miss the year. Yeah, and they trade, or excuse me, so they trade. Marcus Semyon, and when they did that, lots of articles, reports, things were coming out of actually, Corey Seeger hated him and never liked him. We heard this towards the end of last year. Yeah. And so now Corey Seeger is going to be asked about it. From what I've heard, Corey Seeger and Marcus Semyon are pretty similar in that they

keep to themselves, right? Do their own routines. and I suppose that's something you can earn over the course of time, and then, you know, you can justify that within your clubhouse by saying, well, they're good leaders by example, because they work very hard, and they show up early, you know, they stay late, and they, they're just about producing. And that mindset can get you one of those huge contracts, and I think if you're a young player, that's what you're shooting for.

yeah, let me work hard just like those guys. But they weren't like vocal leaders and they weren't organizing workouts, that sort of thing. Yeah. Yeah. So anyway, and apparently there was some friction between the two superstars. Those were the guys that were signed as big free agents, you know, before they were good. So, or before the team was good, which is not the usual way you do, the big free agent signing. And here's Corey Seeger being asked about it.

I think he was asked by Evan Grant. I mean, I think that's things that are in-house. Groups? Sorry, yeah, 100%. That sounds like groups. Yeah. Sorry. I mean, I think that's things that are in-house that people don't know about, right?

That's just all speculation. Me and Mark has had a fine relationship. We both respect each other. We were both professional, and we knew how to, go about our business and try to accomplish goal. And we did that at 23. So like I said, you can't take that away from us. Now that's a nice trump card.

That's a great force field. We won a World Series. Well, okay. Yeah, but that's all the... That kind of means there was no problems then. That's what he's intimating. Look. He's trying to get around it, but I would think you of all people would be appreciative of him

being like, who cares about any of this? We won, shut up, stop asking us about it. Well, it's interesting, though. Yeah, I think it's interesting is that we've heard for a while there were problems, and I wonder how much that held up other players on their team from improving. Like younger players that are on their team, like, who's in charge here? Are we going to, what are we doing in the interim? I bet that was like a problem.

But if I said, do you like Blake? Working with Blake, and you said, we're both professionals and we respect each other. That means no. You know? It's like, no, I don't like the guy, but, you know, he's a good player. I have to give him that. He is a good player. But pretty happy he got traded because now it's like my team. Everybody knows I'm the superstar around here. And, you know, we don't really, it's not fantasy baseball. It's not fantasy sports. But you don't really know how it works when you go to two guys who have been the best player on their team their whole life. You know, like, hey, we're going to give each of you $400 million. And, you, you don't. you're both kind of in charge. What if they hate each other? What if they don't like working together?

What if they don't like each other's families? What if one of them, there's a million things that you just, there's no way to predict. Now, at the end of the day, they have a job to do. None of that stuff is supposed to matter. But it does matter. And it impacts the vibe, the culture. I felt like it leaned, or it leaned Seeger's way early on

because Simeon was a shortstop. And he was signed first. And so then you sign Seeger and tell Simeon, hey, we signed you for a big deal, you're going to play second base. How far apart were they? Not far. But I do remember at the time it was weird that we signed Seeger, the Rangers signed Seeger, because they had just signed Simeon, who played shortstop and did really good at it.

So, I don't know. I could see where he would have some animosity. For sure, but they, you know, but I don't know. I'm not sitting behind closed doors. They may have told them early on, we're also going to sign Seager, will you play second base? So maybe, you know. But over time, that's not. could have worn on him.

Dude, that's a thing, too, is you, I mean, we joke about it, but there are a few situations more ripe to piss each other off than being on a baseball team. Like if two dudes who are that hard-up and ego like each other or don't like- Together so much and-so much. And you're like, I'm so sick of this guy. Everybody's asking me about him. Everybody's asking him about me. I don't like him.

Like, I'm around, I just, that's not like football. There's a lot of downtime in football. Get away. Get away from your teammates. There's a lot of games, man. You know, that's the whole thing that you were telling Deuce Robinson, right? Yeah. Tons.

I might want to go for the NFL because there's so many games. All right. Well, let's see if Spend got back from Costco. What's led to our success here in the podcast space, checking in on Sven's run to Costco. Well, yeah, but that allows us to talk some Olympics if he did get back. So, well. The dumsa, dums.

So, do you come to Milwaukee often? Well, I'm a regular visitor here, but Milwaukee has certainly had its share of visitors. The French missionaries and explorers were coming here as early as the late 1600s to trade with the Native Americans. In fact, isn't Milwaukee an Indian name? Yes, Pete, it is. Actually, it's pronounced Miliwakei, which is Algonquin for the good land. I was not aware of that. I think one of the most interesting aspects of Milwaukee is the fact that it's the only major American city to have ever elected three socialist mayors.

Does this guy know how to party or what? Huh? Huh? Okay. Do you run into Miz or something? You're listening to The Dumb Zone. No one knows. It's fine. Do you have to take a little poo-poo?

Special exemption, Blake. Do you have to do-do? No, I got my lunch. I thought we have Blake, Clayton, and T.C. here to, like, you can all back up each other. Anyway, it's okay. For the audio listener, they don't know. It's spring training. that Blake was out taking cuts.

Spring training brought to you by Qualis roofing and silverback construction. That's right. We have a Qualis drone here, QualisGC.com, that overlooks spring training. And, you know, just follows us around wherever we go, taking video.

I don't know how this plays with your afternoon. Look at it go, folks. Look at that. That's the spring training facility for the Milwaukee Brewers, which is at American Family Fields. of Phoenix. Nothing says family like baseball. Nothing says America.

Like family. I'm going to try to have a sitting down to eat by about four o'clock local time for you. Let's go. Or close to it. Wow. Yeah. I didn't even consider asking for that. Well, we want to try this piece of place. But I am hungry.

It closes early. I feel like the earlier we get there and I get in line. I just, I want this to happen. Let's go. be a part of it. What's the pizza place called? Pizzeria Bianco. We've talked about it a couple times.

A lot of people have recommended, but I know you like an early dinner. And I think this may help us. That's great. After I buy some diabetic strips. Want to dial up Sven, too? We're going to talk to Sven. I wanted to give a quick silverback construction follow-up because we're like trying to get some copy points for him yesterday or whatever.

Nate says, look, don't really, not a big deal. They build like entire office. They're big in the commercial space, right? He goes, there's not many people that want to pay to build an entire office. He says, however, like the altered states that we are building in Ulyss, if they use us, I'll pay for a remote at their location that we build or remodel. Okay. I mainly support you guys because I'm going to. I care about you all.

But if you need a building. S-G, I know. But, yeah, that's fine, Nate. Then he made this sound. Why are you doing this to poor Nate? I'm just flying. Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. That's, yeah, he signed off with that.

Want to go? You know, the home of Wanna Go is Phoenix, Arizona. Unavailable. You think we'd be able to track down the Wolfman before we could find Nancy Guthrie out here? Oh, Ron Wolfley? We're in Phoenix. I wonder their play-by-play guy is Brian Anderson.

The Brewers. Yeah. Yes, yes. I was Wolfman and the Cardinals, just to be clear. But yeah. Okay, sorry. Yeah. But the very well-known Brian Anderson, he used to do a lot of the Spurs games, right?

TNT, TNT guy. What do you make of... I'd love to get him on. You got opinions about the... I mean, it's not the death. It's alive. But the old TNT... Post-game show.

It's on ESPN now. And I guess it's just hard to find. It's never on. It doesn't seem to be making its way to my social media feed as much as it once did either. And I think that's because it's just not on all the, like it's not on every game. There's not a consistent, you know, you knew every Thursday night, right? Yeah. That's going to be the bit.

And then they'd stay as long as they needed to. And now it's like, well, they'll stick them in real quick after a game and maybe they've got to throw it to Scott Van Pelt. That was the thing I was always. confused about is they're trying to build this SVP and I wasn't bad I liked watching SVP after a big game they'd throw it you know

you'd have somebody on on the field it wouldn't do it was cool I don't know it almost feels like they just felt like they needed to throw money at it because it was something they could throw money at it was something they could get so they got it didn't really have a plan for it

are we calling Sven? Yeah hi spin Spend joins us? Sven? Yes, Snoop, hold on. I'm on the,

I got another show to do the Dumb Zone with Dan and Jake. I'll give you a call as soon as I'm off. All right, bro. Hello? Yeah, thanks. So kind of you, Sven, to hang up with the dog. Spend is our Olympic correspondent.

Unfortunately, I told him about the Fox4 app. Oh, yeah. The Fox Local app. so he got to go to DZ TV and watch himself, and he's probably now, he's a little full of himself now. Listen, I go in myrival. He diffi's calling me for, you know, to talk about Bob sledding. I mean, all kinds of stuff's happening now.

So you are still locked into the Olympics. Oh, come on. I know. Of course I'm locked in. You've been texting me. I'm very locked in. Yeah, did you see that, the greatest curling

stone ever curled or thrown or whatever it is? You didn't even look, did you? You don't care enough. Why is it the greatest ever? It was crazy insane. It'll just have to look at it. It was really impressive. Well, we're having you on to describe it for us. Well, it curled,

it was a curling shot that I've never even seen take. You know, usually they just kind of twist the stone a little bit as it's gone. This guy did like a super twist. And it literally curled like five feet or something crazy like that. I mean, it was a swede, which I wasn't very happy about. As you know, my disdain to the Swedes. But it was a pretty incredible shot.

But yes, I had sent you that text. So it's kind of like bowling. You're saying it doesn't be. You could say that. Yes, you could. You could throw a ball straight down the middle, right? Or you do a little bit of a curve. Would you be surprised to know Sven loves bowling?

No, I would not. I would not be surprised to know that anybody that you know loves bowling. I wouldn't say I love bowling. I certainly like bowling. I don't love it. But if they put it outside in the cold. You'd be all over. put it outside the cold.

I'm all in. I'm all in. You know what? I'll save the, because the way this talk unfurled last time, I'm going to save my email to Sven about World War II for the end. Or not at all. All right.

We had some people. Not at all. Guy named Chad was upset with your depiction of Sweden, enabling the easy... Well, it's... Listen, Chad, it's just a fact. You know, I mean, my father lived it. He said, looking at the map of Denmark, you notice that they share a land border with Germany.

No land border with Sweden. He said, if Sven's old man wants to blame anyone for having to pick potatoes for five years under the boot of the Nazis, he should blame his own armed forces in government that surrendered to the Nazis in bold, less than six hours after invasion. Not six months, not six weeks, six hours. Somehow the French get tagged as little bitch boys who put up the white flag while the Danes fly under the radar as the biggest surrender merchants of World War II. More like Savender.

Wow. Look at that guy. We got a battle. Well, listen, the bottom line is, yes, Denmark does share a, land with the Germany. However, Chad, the capital of Copenhagen and the main part of Denmark, so to speak, is an island, not landlocked with Germany and closer to Sweden than Germany.

And Hitler invaded Denmark via, I think it's called Malmute, M-A-L-M-O, the north of uh of uh of uh of the island of where cobin had sits so check your uh check your details now listen i didn't know that denmark came up in six hours if that's true that's sad yeah listen we all we all get tricky with the history books you know it's okay right so i might have to look that i might have to look that up later why don't you get a book chad did you did you independently verify this, Dan and Jake? This is all Dan. I support Sven.

I just read emails, that's all. I don't do anything else. He reports you decide. But it is funny to see, it's kind of like when Jared Sandler or your dad gets, you know, guys that don't get emails all the time telling them they suck. When they get one, they're like, oh, I got to like, Sven. People are just emailing him about how great he is. Yeah. It's tough out here.

So it's nice to get, to get humbled a little bit. What happened to the Quad God? Boy, I'll tell you what, right? Dan actually kind of told me about it. He asked me if I knew anything about it. And like I say, I like to go radio silence because I'm very rarely watching something live. But Dan, were you the – did you tell me or did someone else tell me about the Quad God complaining about, you know, maybe part of the reason, right? that he had a tough outing was because he wasn't at Beijing.

Did you tell me that? I did not. Okay. Then somebody else did. And I guess a little bit of sour grapes from the Quad God, right? Who clearly was the gold medal favorite. Do you guys know what place he came in? Not.

He did not meddle. I know that. Correct. Correct. How about eighth place? Oof. Yeah, oof. Oof is right.

Right? I mean, that's, you know, you're, that would, yeah, that's kind of, that's a tremendous fall from grace. I will say, though, right? A couple of musings that I have, you know, I kind of tried to remember a few things to talk to you guys about. Frankly, there's been bad ice for figure skating and the short-skating. and the short track. So figure, this is something that I didn't know that I just learned this Olympics. The figure skating and short track, they share the same rink.

So they will change it, right? They'll do a changeover. You know, like when the North Stars, right, and the math, they play in the same arena. Is that true or not true? Yeah. This is true. So have you ever seen them do the changeover? Yeah.

Yeah, pretty spectacular, right? I mean, pretty amazing. And so we don't have an NHL team, but up here we've got the, what are the monsters called? What is that when you're not an NHL team? Minor league? Minor league? Yeah, but what is that?

ECHO. I think that the focus shouldn't be on that. It should be on just explaining what you're talking about with the ice. Well, so they share the same rink. But short track skaters... So they're tearing it up. The ice is a little bit... Oh, they're tearing it.

The ice is supposed to be a little bit different for short track versus figure skating. Okay. There have been many... I guess there were a couple of soft spots or something like that. There's many falls in short track speed skate. And basically, I don't think the U.S. did anything, you know, Apollo, oh, no, right, would be probably very disappointed. And even the women's short track speed skaters were supposed to be good.

And many falls, many falls. And I guess the same thing happened with figure skating as well. If only they had time to prepare this ice. Well, you know what, though, it is interesting. Like the Olympics, they do have time, but it is like a legitimate. mystical nightmare. Like you take all these sports that are played in places where they just do that for the intervening four years or when they go to Worlds or National Championships

and then they cobble together these stadiums. So like, you know, I never really considered that, but it does make sense. Like I promise you if they let NFL players play, they'll be complaining about the grass once they get the flag or something like that. It'll be because it won't be what you're used to. there's a bunch of people falling here professional skaters fallers

is just funny no matter what it just really is sorry Sven go ahead no no you go ahead no I want to hear your take on because I don't know again I'm not a Summer Olympic fan but I know that flag football is out there

right is going to its first yes you're not a summer ever will be in LA right did you say you're not a summer Olympic fan you will not be watching around the clock? Oh, I'll be watching, but I don't, like, winter is my, that's my jam.

Love Winter Olympics. Don't know why. It might be because I used to play a lot of Sega Genesis back of the day when they used to have the Olympics as a gaming, you know, on the gaming system. As you know, Dan, you and I used to do a little bit of golf online as well. But I think it was maybe even PlayStation. That was after stick, right? Yeah, I've told them about, they know about Ron Divers in my golf career.

You're not right. Anyway. So, Jake, but wait, I want to be, before I give my additional musings on the Winter Olympics, I do want to understand, it sounds like Jake knows, will the NFL players be playing football or do they not know yet? We actually don't know. They've said that they will be allowed to. But it is a very different game.

Like there's a lot of NFL players that think that they would just go tear it up. They would be useless. The way that the game is played, smaller guys, quicker guys, soccer-type athletes. Those guys are much, much better at flag football. So it'll be interesting to see. You know, there's a tournament in Saudi Arabia in like two months featuring a bunch of NFL players. That'll be in the discourse next month. Tom Brady's Saudi flag football tournament.

Taking all that blood money. Yeah, that's right. That's right. I'd love some blood money. Speaking of pure sport, back to the Olympics. Back to curling. Yeah. Yeah.

Hey, let's talk about curling, though, first. You love curling. Listen, how about... Go ahead. How about what? Your connection is dog shit today. Is it really? It just keeps going in.

out a little bit. All right. Stand on the roof. Okay, go. Yeah, let me go stand on my roof. All right. Tell me now. All right.

How about now? I mean, it should be okay. It's fine. It's fine. It's fine. So what about the curling controversy with the Canadians and the videoing and sweet. What happened? Right.

Are you ready? So there was a curly controversy with the sweet. Swedes and the Canadians, and the Swedes accused the Canadians, right, of what's called a double touch. Now, Jake, I'm sure you understand. You can't touch the stone after what's known as the hog long, right? Sure. Okay. So there was a Canadian borer who was a gold belt, right, in 2010.

I'm going to throw on the bus. Do you want to call him back, Blake? Hold on a second. Sven. Do you feel like this is too much? I think it's just our internet here. Oh, all right. We just got power through. Okay.

Well, if it gets too bad, we're going to have to cut you off. But go ahead. Sorry, keep going with the... Accused. Double touch. Yeah, sorry. Right, accused, double touch. And the Canadian curler says to the guy, I've never done that in my life, F off. And I guess it was picked up, you know,

on the broadcast. And so, you know, big controversy, right? And, you know, so who's right and who's wrong? Did the guy really do something or did he not do something? Well, then a little later on, right? Few hours later, you hear about this video, and I've seen the video, and it shows that the Canadian guy literally did do the double touch. and and then suddenly what did the Canadians do they went to the people aren't even

supposed to be video during the matches card so not we didn't do it but hey you're not supposed to be videoing us anyway what's that about that's i agree i find that unbelievably weak you're not supposed to be videoing during the match yeah how can you not Yeah. How can you not be videoing, you know, anything, curling, bob sled, whatever it is. How can you think that there's no one video? So that I guess the accusation from the Canadian was, look, if you have something that is that magnified, right? You clearly were trying to find something wrong. Again, you did it. There it is in the video. What difference does it make? You know. if someone was trying to catch you or someone was not trying to catch you. You were cheating, period. This is fascinating, though.

That is very interesting, but we may have just learned, like, do they do this at Olympic events? Are they that worried about rebroadcast that if you go watch your kid in gymnastics? You can't even yet. They tell you, don't get your phone out and film this. That may be true. Yeah, they own every...

Like the Masters doesn't let you take a phone out. Right. CNN could only show, like, still photos. Right, or reenactments. video, yeah. So that may be actually what's happening. That's very interesting. Canada's like, oh, how'd you have that? Wow.

I think that would be awfully tough to police, though, right? Especially in the outdoor events. For sure. Like, if you're at the big ski hill and everybody's down at the bottom, there's no way you're going to be able to stop that. But you, huh, I've never thought of that. Yeah, yeah. And I don't even know whether that's true, right?

Again, it came from one of these Canadians that clearly was cheating anyway. And then, to top it all off, how about a Canadian women's curler got busted for the same thing? But this time, but this time, one of their rocks was removed from play because the referee, I don't know what he's called, or she, referee, umpire, whatever, right? Was there and saw it. So like the Empire didn't see it when it happened with the Swedes and the Canadians. And then they started looking and for the next three ends, you know, they never did it. Well, of course, if you've cheated once and then suddenly the empire is going to be looking at you,

do you try to cheat again? Probably not. So I don't know. I'm going to have to do a little more investigation of that, the, you know, ultimately what? But you know what I did here? Later that night at the Olympic Village, the two teams faced off the Jets and the Sharks and West Side Story. Now, I don't, I can't verify that, but that's the intel that I received. So the Swedes of the Canadians, they started fighting.

Fifth fights. Wow. That's great. I'd like them to broadcast that. I would too. Yeah. I get it. Wouldn't?

Yes. I completely agree. By the way, that's a fabrication. Just a bad call. And, you know, calls and writes an email and says that Sven doesn't know what he's talking about. Did you guys hear about bronze listed in West Country from Norway? from Norway, and during his interview, he admitted to cheating on his girlfriend right before he went to the Olympics.

We did cover that. We did cover that. I saluted him. I think that was a play he had, and he made it, right? There's not many other options on the board. You don't know yet. Yeah. You don't know yet.

But didn't that play fail miserably? It seems like so far, but who knows? But why did he tell her right before the – Apparently he told her right before the Olympics? He wanted to do the attention bit. Hey, I cheat on you a month ago. Sorry. I'm going to go to the Olympics now.

But I told Dan, that makes him look like a guy who's honest and vulnerable now, and he's probably swimming in Olympic Poon. Swimming in Olympic Poon. They ran out of condoms already, Sven. Listen, listen, speaking about swimming in Olympic Poon, do you guys have you heard about this uh and i've heard about this in the past and then i saw an article about it recently um so condoms at the olympic village right they go like uh i don't know i i can't even like condoms at the olympic village candy on Halloween yeah they uh they've run

through them. Yeah, there you go. Thank you, Jake. Thank you, Jake. I couldn't come up with one, right? Tandy on Halloween or, you know, so how about this? They ran out of condoms on day three. And how many condoms did they have supposedly?

You know, again, who knows if it's true, right? I saw it on the internet. But I certainly have heard before that it is a, you know, it is a true of love in the Olympic Village. It's tens of thousands. Ten thousands. Because... Ten thousand.

I don't know if you know this about your buddy Dan. He'll go just get one for his own personal time, just because he likes to be extra safe. Yeah. So he... I want to last longer. Even when he's by himself. Listen, I do know that about him.

Yes, that's one of the things that I love about. Very safe. So how about Madison Chalk, is it? And Evan Bates, do you know who they are? Yeah, they came in second, right? Yes. Not a huge figure skit. But wait a minute, just real quickly.

Got to get back to this condom. 10,000 condoms, 3,000 athletes. Yeah, well, you know, you got a double bag if you're, like, dealing with somebody from a pandemic country or something. Like, Wu, I don't know. Right, right. It's explicitly racist. So, yeah, no, chalk. and was it Evans?

Who's the other? Again, not a huge figure skater guy. Okay, but it's the U.S. ice dancing pair. They are married. Correct. They've been teammates, friends, fell in love, married. They came in second, but apparently it was pretty controversial. Is that true?

That is true. So, again, even though it's not my, you know, it's not a huge, thing on my dance card, the figure skating, the dance skating, whatever it is. The stink was that the French, and that's who won, right? Yeah. The French judge, if you look at her scores of the American pair, it was far lower than any other judge had them. Does that make sense?

Yeah. So, yeah, I believe it was a thing. Now, look, can they go back and change anything? No, right? I think this is something that has happened throughout the history of the Olympics, right? You're like, hey, if your country is participating, you're going to score them higher regardless, and you're going to score the people that you think are going to beat them lower. Isn't that just a thing?

Yeah, it's probably, like, not very conscious, but yeah. Oh, I think it's fairly conscious. Okay, well. And I think, yeah, I would imagine in some ways, I get what you're saying. It may not be completely conscious. But based upon what, you know, again, like they had this French woman had these guys ranked eighth and no one else had them rank lower than second. So it was one of those really weird, weird things, right?

but I did see an interview with them. They took the high road, very much took the high road, which I thought was really cool. And did you hear about the pair that beat them? Tell me. Do you know the controversy about the pair that beat them? I do a bit, but I was hoping you knew it, yeah. It's something along the lines of, hasn't the guy been accused of sexual assault? So, the connection.

So the winner of the gold, the lady, and I'm probably mispronounce her name, but it's Baudre. Okay. Okay. Right. Yeah. Her boyfriend, she is a Canadian skater who skated with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend was suspended amid sexual abuse allegations. Okay?

So she renounced Canada. Canadian. Right. Right. She renounced Canada. She renounced Canada. She says, I no longer will represent Canada. And she joined the French team saying that her boyfriend didn't deserve this penalty.

And, yeah. So then she joins the French team. And all of a sudden, she's on the gold medal winning team. Yeah. That is wild. Wow. That is wild. And do we know?

Go ahead. I was going to say it's ballsy by that judge to pull this play now. All eyes are already. So, yes, the judge ranked the Americans lower than all the other judges and the French higher than all the other judges. By a wide margin. Right. That stinks.

Yeah. It's fishy. I'm hopping red. But again, but I don't think this is the first time, right, that this has happened. I remember hearing about this previously in previous Olympics. So what I don't understand is get a Bulgarian judge in there. Get a Taiwanese judge in there. Get a South Korean judge.

Get some judges who you don't get to judge your own country. Shouldn't that be a rule? Well, then you're going to have double agents. Yeah, but yeah, you're going to be against, you're going to now go against other countries that you consider to be an enemy of your own country. I don't know. And I would say get robots, but every time they train the robots to get really smart now, They get racist and xenophobic, too.

Do you think any... I mean, it's an old bit, but any subjective, like, unless there's an actual scorecard, it shouldn't be in the Olympics. I could never wrap my head around it. But that's why I don't... Like, you can't just have an opinion. No, I think he ran that race faster. But if you're a fan of one of those sports, I feel like you've already accepted it.

That that's just kind of part of the deal. It would be like running a race around the track or watching... Watching a 40. Okay, I watched him. Now you run the 40. Okay, I watched him. Now you think about it. Okay. Who do I think was faster? That's what it's like. There's no actual... I think ran faster. Yeah. All right. One more topic for you for me. Unless, is there any other like storylines we need to know from the Olympics? I'll tell you what. What's Spent fired up about? Listen, there's a couple I got to throw out to you. But this is not a controversy, right? But it's something that I really like your listeners. Maybe not Chad, if he's still chat.

But I'd like your listeners to go out. There was a ski jumper. And again, not my bit, right? Like I'm not typically watching normal hill, big hill, the ski jumping. And I think part of that, right, is, to be honest, the U.S. stinks, right? And again, when I say stink, I don't mean to say stink. These guys are the best of the best. They're the top 20 in the world, right?

But still, they really don't have much of a chance to get on the podium. So anyway, there's this ski jumper, and I wrote it down to make sure that I had it because I meant to text this to you, Dan, and I didn't. So the ski jumper's name is Kobayashi, just like, what was that movie, usual suspects? I thought it's the hot dog eating champion is Kobayashi. Well, maybe he's a ski jumper and a hot dog eater. I don't know. But he built a ski jump to go for a record.

You're so, you know, like, look, are you making a lot of money ski jumping? No. Are you making a lot of money snowboarding from snowboarding events, from cross-country events? Probably not as much as you're making with sponsorship money, right? Or, you know, like Red Bull pays you to snowboard down a mountain or whatever, right? So his ski jumper, Kobayashi, and I bet you if you look it up, Kobayashi ski jump record. They showed it on, you know, the regular broadcast, right?

Now, I'm going to ask the question. Okay. So typically, what are they jumping when they're going down that hill? Like, I don't know, 100 feet? 140 feet I think so you know like 120 feet 130 feet I know you guys don't know that answer but that's what I believe the answer

to be you know like it's it's you know they're not going a football field long right sure so Kobayashi built a special jump you know to kind of do a YouTube thing right take a guess at how long

that dude was in the airport the distance that he jumped from when he left the jump to when he left the jump to when he landed. Double. Let's go 300 feet. 291 meters. That's three football fields.

Yeah, I pulled a video up of it to show Dan here. Never a doubt either. I mean, I guess really there can't be because if there isn't any doubt you're dead. It's official, right? Because it's an official record. They're like they have a big sign. 291 meters. When the dude is

in the air, Jake, I was going to call you Bob just as a funny, but I won't. When you see him in the air, like it literally looks like he's flying like a bird. Yeah, it's incredible. Isn't that not nuts? Yeah, they should do that at the Olympics. That is nuts. Right, right, right, long distance, long distance, long distance ski jumping.

I'd be watching that. So this is how into its spend is. 9 o'clock Tuesday night, he texts me about Ben Ogden. Okay. You're excited. You know about Ben Ogden? Of course I know about Ben Ogden. Is Jake?

Does anybody? Does Chad? He texts me that it's the second U.S. medal ever in cross-country and the first since 1976. So he's very excited. Okay. 9 o'clock, Tuesday night. Think of where you were.

Think of that Sven is excited watching Ben Arden. Where were you then? On cross-country. It's not even like the cool-looking. ski jay he's just on yeah it's just kind of like a guy going to work yeah look he walked yeah when do i get uh in the steps olympics i walked uh like 7 000 steps yesterday it wasn't it was not by athelon the u.s did not come through no like uh i thought but maybe maybe salt lake maybe salt lake when they're on home home snow maybe who knows they should uh they should uh

put a school out there and see if we could figure it out there you got My mom who lives in Cleveland, Sven lives in Cleveland. My mom also lives in Cleveland, as you know. She was asking me if I knew all about Chloe Kim. Oh, yeah. Even I know that. The Chloe Kim, Miles Garrett. I guess she just caught wind that Miles Garrett is dating Chloe Kim.

Now, do we know how long that has been, you know, was, Chloe Kim certainly wasn't the gal in Miles's car when he had that accident, right? I'm unfamiliar with the accident. I'm assuming that this Chloe Kim thing is a new thing, but yes, they have certainly shown him there. And unfortunately, Chloe Kim did not come through with the gold. I believe she got the silver, though. Very impressive, right? Very impressive. I didn't know they were dating before now, before my mom told me, actually.

I had no idea. I had no idea until they showed a picture of Miles Garrett. And I'm like, why are they showing a picture of Miles Garrett on NBC? And it was because he's Dave and Chloe Kim. He bought her a new car. She just posted it on social media. There you go. Bought her a new car?

Yeah, it looks like it. Wow. I guess when you're getting paid 45, right? 40 million a year, you can afford a new car. is it a Ferrari, a Lambo? It is a hot pink Ford Bronco

for Chloe Kim. Wow. All right. All right. Could have them better than that. I was going to say to say, hey, I got to throw something else out there though that was super exciting. And my wife even said, my wife even said, relax. She was in the kitchen. I was in the liver room and I was

yelling and excitement. Again, because I go radio silent, because certainly it happened earlier, but we talked a little bit about the luge, right? The tandem luge, which I found very odd, have two dudes

or two women on top of a luge. And then, I believe the last time we spoke, we spoke about the skeleton, where you're going ahead first. I find that to be absolutely nutty. How about the skeleton champ was from Great Britain. That seems odd, doesn't it?

I don't know. Why? Why would that be odd? Well, I mean, do you think, do you typically equate Great Britain with snow and Winter Olympic type of stuff? Yeah, I guess that's true. Right? Yeah, why aren't they good at, they're not good at hockey, right?

You never think of them as, they don't play hockey, really. I mean, I think of that as a cold. Yeah. country, but do they not get snow ever? I don't know. It's very rare. But, yes, they do get snow, but it's not, it's not, I wouldn't call it a snowy, a snowy country. I mean, if, is, Jake, you're not a soccer guy, Jake, right?

Not necessarily, no. I'm not anti like Dan, but I'm not sorry. I get it. But think about it. Premier, right? Premier League is during the winter, and, you know, they're not playing in, you know, tons of snow. I mean, are there flurries once in a while yet? So, look, the bottom line is, to me, I would not think that the Great Britain would have a skeleton champion.

But my boy Matt Weston, on his final run, made up 0.47 seconds. Unbelievable in the skeleton, right? So five. again, I found that interesting. I am watching Skeleton because I do actually enjoy it, even though we didn't really have a U.S. guy who was high up. One of the commentators for Skeleton, Luge, and the Bob, I always call it Bob Sled,

but sometimes people are calling it Bob Flea, which just doesn't make any sense to me. But there is a commentator, do you know who Lee Diffy is? You ever heard of that guy? No. D-I-F-F-Y. Go on.

So it also interests me about who these commentators are, right? Like, what does the curling commentator do every other, you know, for the three years? D-I-F-Y? Right, E-Y, but yeah. Oh, E-Y. B-I-F-F-E-Y. He is the commentator, and he's an Aussie, right? Australian-American, they call him, right?

But he certainly has that Aussie accent. And as you know, Dan, I lived down under for a couple of years there. And I do love the, I love his accent, but the, look, the bottom line is he is, some of his commentary is just so cheesy, but that's what makes it so great to me. Right? You're like, he's really trying to go fast on this one. I'm like, of course he's trying to go fast.

What else would have you trying to do? So last night, last night in the monobobob. Have you ever heard the term monobobo? I had not. You know what a bonobabob is? I mean, I guess you could kind of guess. Sure. It's the one person Bob's on?

Yes, what's a mono Bob? Yeah, the one person Bob's. The regular bobsled? Is it the... There you go. One person bobsled. It's like cis male. And I just thought...

I didn't even know there was such a thing. I always thought it was the two-man and the four-man, right? But I think with women, they do the monobob. And there was a woman. The U.S. is actually really good at it. Last Olympics, Kaylee Humphreys, I think her name was. She won the gold in the monobobob. and so there is another woman, Elena, boy, what's her name?

Myers, I'm looking at it. Yeah, Elena Myers-Taylor, okay? So she has never won the goal, but she, like, both she and this Humphreys gal are superstars in Bob Flet, right? And she had never won the gold. she won the gold by 0.04 seconds over the rating gold medalist from Germany, tying her with, Jake, of course, one of your favorite speed skaters of all time, Bonnie Blair. Of course. So tying her with speed skater Bonnie Blair as the most decorated female Olympian.

How cool that? 41-year-old mother a two. How great is that? and by 0.04 seconds and I'm sitting there watching there's no way this German isn't going to beat her but the German had a bad turn 7 Jake, bad turn 7

that'll get you and you know how much that'll get you that'll lead you right up that turn 7 and of course Lee Diffy was on the call dude and he was going ballistic that's a fine that it was just so it was so great

it was so great I wanted to make sure, speaking of trivia, right, with the Bonnie Blair, most decorated female Olympian prior to Elena and the Monobob last night, I wrote down this, they had this stat come up on the TV. and boy, I wrote it down somewhere. Where to write it down? Okay, so the most metals, I can't find it, but I'm going to go by memory here,

which is top right, because I'm starting to that Alzheimer's starting to catch up with the whole thing. the most medals in either Olympics. Okay. Oh, here it is. So this guy is called Claibow or something, and he's, you know, like he's the king. He's the Tom Brady.

He's the LeBron of cross-country skiing. Okay. So he has the second most goals ever in either Olympics. Okay. And that's nine. All right. So nine gold medals is the second most in either Olympics, winter or summer. Who has the most?

And what is the number? I don't like number guessing games, but there's no way we know. Okay, how about who has the most? We'll throw it out that way. Who is the most? The swimmer. Michael Phelps. I will.

Who said Michael Phelps? Give that guy the Cupid doll. Way to go. Yeah, we do. Michael Phelps has... No big deal. Sports guys. How many...

Sports guys? How many is it? Did you look it up? How many is it? No, I just know that it's more than that chick. No. No, I thought the producer had thrown that out. Who said Michael Phelps?

We both did. Proving that it was an easy question. It was not a good trivia question. We all knew it. Okay. But at least we... I got to it quickly. So, hold on.

Part B. I got two questions for you before we let you go. Two? Two questions. When did the Olympics end? February 22nd, closing ceremonies. Sunday. Okay, then we'll have to have you on next week for a wrap up, okay?

So write some better notes. Sad. And the last. Better notes. Are you kidding me? That was heat. I am kidding you. So and the other question is, how was,

Costco. Are we locked up for the next 12 months? My God, it's my favorite place, dude. Totally my favorite place. I was telling these guys, you'll drive 45 minutes away to get to Costco. Yeah, you said you can't stand it, Dan. I love that place. We bought a, uh, a, uh, a tropical plant today. Why not? Yeah, of course. You were there to get corn dogs and left with a sick of a tree. That's an impulse spy?

Is a huge tree. Costco, yeah. No, that was my wife by. She's like, boy, look at these. I'm like, how are we going to put that thing in the car? But we did it. We did it. And by the way, Michael Phelps, I believe either has 23 or 29 medals.

So he has over double number two. You know what else about Michael Phelps, then? Lay it on me. Pothead, that's why we don't support him. That's why you don't support them. That's right. Hardline. Thanks, Sven.

Enjoy the Winter Olympics. Say it one more time. That's all right. I'll see you, man. Thanks, Swin. No, no. Listen, hey, there's one more thing you guys got to watch. Go on.

Especially if you're from America. Especially if you're from America. Jordan Stoltz. He is the Michael Phelps of speed skating right now for the United States. Gold and the football. 500 and the thousand he's got the 1500 and the mass start coming up so he could win four golds it's very possible and uh eric hayden was in the stand sitting with snoop watching jordan stoltz um i think was that lake placid hiding i can't remember i'll look it up and i'll

make sure that i know that for the next for the next time but how about eric hyden won five gold medals in one Olympics. I'm speechless. So he basically, every single skating thing, he won gold. Sven? Thanks for joining us today. We love you.

Thank you for having me. Goodbye, y'all. All right. There he goes, folks. Sven. Swen. On the Winter Olympics, he's really into it. Just to ask him.

We need to just give a little more love. The reason we're out here at Milwaukee Brewers Training Camp is Qualis Roofing. Qualis Roofing has sent us out here. We actually brought a Qualis drone. And you can look high above us right now. There is a Qualis drone.

Filming. Tracking us. Filming baseball. That's right. It's pretty cool. It's very cool. I mean, I've been to spring training before just as a fan walking around

and going to a couple of different games. but it kind of makes you feel like it's almost summer, you know? Yeah. It's interesting, man. I would be interested to talk to some players because I've only been to football camp. And I used to go to football camp. Well, I mean, you had high school camp, and then I went to camp with you guys a handful of times, Cowboys Camp.

We would go down and visit my brother, kind of, during camp in Tulane. I know football camp. Let me tell you something. Football camp sucks. Everybody hates football camp. And it's not laid bad. It's not laid back at all. You're kind of getting into it.

Chill. Get a little rust off. Everyone's in a great mood. A little long toss, take a few swings. Like I know there are jobs up, but there's also a lot of jobs. Yeah. You know, so it just feels like the whole environment is just way more chill than football camp is like death. It just, you can feel how tense everyone is.

It's chill. This would be a great time. And I tell you what, some great gear to buy if you're ever in Phoenix is Milwaukee Brewer's gear. Really, it's what I would choose. It was taking a look this morning at the history of the Milwaukee Brewers logo. Really? Which is very, it's very deep, this logo. We'll have some gummies tonight and look at it together.

Okay. Right now, though, we'll move on to this. We need a movie for tonight. Here's Jake with the Gum So New. On Deadly Ground is a Seagull movie that I've been, uh, wanting to introduce. Matt Grimm gives his approval. Well, how's Blake gonna finish his SEC schedule?

Yeah, I had to pay $60 for a controller for me and TC to play. So we have to do that at some point. I'll just watch a movie in my room by myself. GameStop, proud of their controllers, even the used ones. What are you complaining about the price? Yeah, I know they gave some 13-year-old kid $13 for that controller, and they're going to sell it to me for 60. You could have not bought it.

You guys know how... T.C. really wants to play. When there's like a military operation or maybe somebody wins the Super Bowl, they have to find a local angle at your local news stations. Like, the Super Bowl is an easy one because they can just show you 10 guys who played in DFW. But, you know, if there's like something big in the national news, they're like, and this teacher actually taught in Flower Mound, like, you know, whatever. You got to localize it.

Well, such is the case with the Jeffrey Epstein files, because there's a school in Dallas that received a $28,000 check from him. After he was a convicted sex offender, they have yet to comment. What kind of level of school? It's a Jewish school. The Texas Torah Institute. A Jewish school for boys.

$28,000. And that's just somehow popped up in the, mills somewhere yeah yeah it's it's all of his uh bank account stuff is in there so so is there a chance though like they don't it was just like he just is donating to a jewish school like or is is it definitely mean there is some nefarious stuff going on or no i don't think it means that and isn't that the weird thing with this like a lot of all these epstein emails someone emailed them that didn't like tagging underage kids, right? Underage girls.

Yeah. But if you're just on the Epstein email list, now it's like, oh, okay. It's just, it's a weird bit. The whole thing's... It's a very weird bit. Speaking up, I got an email from my kids' daycare this morning about Picture Day. Y'all canceled? What do you got?

Read me the email. Do you know about this, Dan? The take care that my kid goes to is aware of the current rumor surrounding Life Touch, the school photo provider we contract for student pictures. We appreciate the families who have reached out to share their concerns and take all inquiries seriously. Spring photo day will proceed. However, we respect each family's decision will honor.

What is this about? This is about... I've been prepared for this question, if you want. Yeah. So the company Life Touch is owned in some orders up by, like, by Les Wexner, who is... No, this is the latter-day Wexner. After the 2009 plea deal, Wexner was out, and then you'd say, well, Jeffrey Epstein kept on being a billionaire after that. What happened?

A guy named Leon Black. There you go. Leon, I was confused. million dollars for tax advice. I always confused it too. Leon was the founder of a, like, a hedge fund that they conducted a full investigation into whether or not Leon Black ever did anything wrong with this. And on the same day, they announced the investigation cleared him of wrongdoing and that

he was leaving the firm forever. So if you can kind of maybe see that one of those statements might not be true. And, yeah, he's a hedge fund guy, so he owns everything. Right. So the idea that, I mean, like I get, we should definitely, if they're taking pictures of kids as a company, do all due diligence. But this guy's never heard of Life Touch. He just sucks up the profits because this is what these people do. But you've got, you know, you've got the backdrop of.

We're a name of a company to be associated with it. Yeah. Why isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think you probably also, as a suspect. pedophile don't want to be associated with a mass image harvesting program either, even if it were called something less peto-y than LifeTouch.

Maybe you could just call it the non-pedophile school photo company. You got to change one of the other. You have to change one of the other. At the bottom of the email, they do attach a statement from the CEO of LifeTouch. Yeah, he's very much, we're not in the files, we don't know anything about the files. Frank and Always Sunny. Yeah, I'll be over here. Don't love the kids.

Totally non-sexual way. The first line, as the CEO of Life Touch, and more importantly, a father of five school-age children. Yeah, that's very important. And then in the middle, in bold, Life Touch is not named in the Epstein Files. Oh. This is great. Life Touch actually has a form you can fill out if you want to get your kids photo scraped. Really?

Yeah. Huh. This is funny. I mean, it's without a doubt just Facebook moms run rampant. Like there's nothing here, but it's also, if it causes a little bit of controversy, you know I'm all about it. Speaking of controversy, talk about your all-time backfires. A handful of people were in a meeting room about two weeks ago at the headquarters of ring.com.

And boy, they thought they really had things figured out. Big Super Bowl commercial about the launch. People love this. You can find your dog. You know what people loves? Finding dogs. They love dogs. If they lose them, that's terrible.

Yeah. So let's now try to convince the world that there's actually an epidemic of lost dogs that you actually. Like I said the day after, this is like the snuggy commercial where they show a lady laying there with a regular blanket. And she's like, I can't. Oh, but look at you with a snuggy. Like, is there this lost dog problem? I don't think there is. No, no, it was a little too on the nose.

So the thing that they were advertising, search party, is it's a ring partnership with Flock, which if you read any story about, like if they find Savannah Guthrie's mom, I promise you Flock will be involved. It's these cameras that police departments are opting into, they're everywhere. They're on the freeway, they're on traffic lights, they're everywhere. So you opt into flock? You don't, but your city or police department can. Okay, so if they have... But I'm just saying, can a regular person say, I've got security cameras outside my house,

and I want to make sure I'm doing my part? That's what this ring partnership was supposed to facilitate. They say that they are scrapping that idea after the ad. It's actually been something that they've been doing since the fall, but now they're saying... I wonder if all this is good or bad for a ring in the long run. Or neutral, you know. Well, the other thing, too, was the other day they said that...

My ring is great. I love it. How else would we get faking? Well, that was just... That was actually just a surveillance, you know... It was a much more expensive camera setup that I have around my house. But, like, getting the ring doorbell one is very, very cool, because you can talk back and forth.

Dude, I'm so weird. I know there are people who like let the delivery guy in, right? Like I just put it inside. Oh, yeah, no, because you can get those. Yeah, we used to have one. The Schleg electric lock as well. Yeah, hey, put the package right in there. No way.

Wait, where are you going? Hey. That's my wife. Come back. Oh, actually, keep going. I walked past the house last night. There was a lot of motion-activated lights in the neighborhood around us. Walk past the house and the light turned on,

and then a voice recording came on and said, Hello, you are being recorded. Kind of pissed me off. Yeah, my... It made me want to do something. I know. My mom and stepdad got that down at their house at the beach, because people, it's a public beach.

The voice thing? Oh, yeah. People would get on their property and be like, you're being watched. It's funny to be. Let's see, I had a couple local stories I wanted to make sure I got to. Oh, I don't know. This is sort of local, but the search continues, as we've said.

for Savannah Guthrie of the Today Show's mother. The local news is leading with this at night in the morning here in Phoenix. The news last night was that her family had all been cleared, that the spouses, the sisters, all the family members. But I saw this story out of Houston of a woman who decided she just wanted to help out. I think if you pull me up, Blake. Maybe it'll work. And today an acclaimed Houston crime sketch artist has released a sketch in the Guthrie case.

Ron Trevino is in a newsroom with the story. And Ron, why did she decide to do this? Because she felt like she had to. This sketch has not been requested by any law enforcement. Wait a second. We're going to proceed. But basically, we just have a retired sketch artist. She saw the image of the guy in a ski mask and was like, you know what the world needs?

needs me to solve this crime. So they keep pointing out. Can you play the beginning? No one has asked for this. Because what did they talk to? They called her an acclaimed Houston crime sketch artist. Yeah. Houston Bay, I don't.

Just, I mean, not. Pretty niche. Not more. Yeah, let's not be crazy. But in Houston, though, this person. And today, an acclaimed Houston crime sketch artist has released a sketch in the Guthrie case. Ron Trevino is in a newsroom with the story.

And Ron, why did she decide to do this? Because she felt like she had to. This sketch has not been requested by any law enforcement. It's not an official sketch of a suspect, but Houston forensic artist Lois Gibson decided to do it on her own. We've interviewed her before about helping law enforcement in the past. She says she's basing this sketch on the masked person seen on that doorbell camera at Guthrie's home. The image is released by the FBI that shows someone in a ski mask, the person who appears to be tampering with the camera at the front door. Obviously, she only had the eyes, lips, and mustache to go on, but she decided to give it a shot. So you just felt compelled to do this?

I couldn't stop myself. Okay, yeah, you get the eye. A little bit of a self-importance disease. So she took a crack at a sketch. Do you guys remember a local news anchor who was on CBS? This is in the air when I was watching a lot of news with my grandkids. grandfather at the nursing home. Do you guys remember a woman named Kaylee O'Kelly?

Yeah. She's in Arizona now, right? Oh, yeah. Wasn't her last name different? Maybe at some point. Am I high? Okay. But her name is Kaylee O'Kelly, and she does, yeah.

You see her? Yeah, yeah. Big fan. Grandpa was a big fan, too. Yeah. She greeted me this morning on ABC 15 here in Arizona. Nice. Shout out to her for.

Want book her? I'd love to book. her. I also, I heard an ear eater this morning, so I had to pull the audio. Phoenix, a lot like L.A., but one level down. So, like, you get a lot of the same type of looking women. A little leathery. Uh-huh. But maybe just one grade below.

Here's the weather lady from this morning. Let's get over to Crystal. She is tracking the latest on this Fox 10 weather alert on this Tuesday, and definitely want to see that snow up in the high country. We need it. We do, guys. Our snowpack for the season is so below average that every... Did you hear right out of the gate?

We do guys. We do guys. Our snowpack for the season is so below... They call it the high country. Did you guys know that? No. The area, I guess, like north of here, Sedona, where there's mountains right before I guess I read the reservation.

I heard it on the news a lot. The high country is over sunrise. It is no longer over Flagstaff. But we do have some snow. that's rolling on by. Now it's not as heavy as it was earlier in those overnight hours. Bye. Love a little local news, man. You're being mean to her. I'd like to talk to her over coffee.

You would. You would. Back to Texas. Apparently this is something that happens every year that I was not aware of, but down in Bayer County, San Antonio area. At the Bayer County Courthouse, they hold a mass wedding. every Valentine's Day. This is a bit I've heard elsewhere, right? At midnight. The other night they had a record 154 couples.

That'd be kind of a cool, nice way to save money, right? Yeah. And you still get a memorable experience? Yeah. That's not bad. I'd like to do it when they do the... Don't like they do that with groups of gay people. They get their...

Hey, it's gay weddings. Gay weddings are now legal, and so, like... Like a bunch of people do it. Like, would they be upset if I walked in there with a lady and did the same thing? I thought this was equality. Thought we were all getting to be married. That'd be so funny. You know what would be even funnier is because...

They beat my ass. Yeah, that would be hilarious. No, but just because of the, you know, the slippery slope we were told growing up here, but if you showed up with your toaster. I'm going to marry my toaster. I was under the impression that if you guys are able to do this. I was listening to a show News

Right wing talk show that's told me, yes This is the first step And it will lead to me marrying this toaster So I thought I get it over it Well, you guys are all doing this It's because I want to consummate this relationship And I'm very religious And I will not do so unless we were married

Wild Story My last one from out here out of Flagstaff This is the result of a police standoff But this happened February 4th there was a dude domestic dispute they go to his house

he gets on the roof of his house and eventually shoots two police officers in the police helicopter dang like straight GTA style had an AR on top of a house and was just you know firing at people including

the helicopter which cracks in the neighborhood. So they've got, you know, this dude's just, I bet you there's also, the guy was a former, or was a Marine. I bet you there's also a lot of, like, former military out here. I don't know.

Why is that? I don't know. I don't know. But if you ask me if more people from the military retire or whatever in Arizona or Michigan or something, I think I'd take Arizona. Last night, I felt the appeal.

Because it was cool? Just the whole I don't know If it was the sunset Or the early bird talking But it was I mean It was really cool just to see the mountains

As a backdrop Where were you? Just out and about Yeah I went looking for that habit That I thought I ended up at a There is a college around here Yeah

What's it called? Grand Canyon, University. Yeah, GCU. So it took me into there, so now I'm on a college campus. Hell yeah. Yeah, I was, well, I went to college out here. Years ago, I played football for the University of Phoenix.

That's where I got my degree. Back-to-back Heismans. Didn't you always wonder about the University of Phoenix? Is that totally online? It just seemed like the culmination of a bunch of other shit that was like to fry. But it used to be real prevalent. Is it not a thing anymore? I think they probably.

got litigated. GCU is the same thing. Is it tall online GCU? Oh, well, but there's a, there's a brick and order of GCU. Yeah, you're going to have to have some building. Anyway, it was beautiful. It was, it was a nice, cool evening. I'm using my Spanish.

Really? Well, I was trying to ask this lady, where do you get a fork? I was at a real, I mean, this was as Mexican as a taco place as you can get, because nobody, it seemed like the owner spoke English. He was the guy that took my order. But otherwise, then a lady brought me stuff and was just rapidly speaking Spanish to me. And I wanted a fork.

And then she gave me a quizzical look. And then she said, pork. And I was like, no. And then I said, Como Cési. And I realized, well, I'm just going to say fork now. Yeah. So I was like, Como Cici, fork? And then I'm doing the, I'm holding like, mouth.

Yeah. And then she walked me over to the, and then I held it up, I go, Como Césay? And she said, and I can't remember now. And then. That's who the lady was in our house when we got back. Yeah, then you saw her this morning, kind of leave. She was all shame. One foot, one shoe on, holding the high heel.

All right, there is your news. The Dumb Zone. Book Kali O'Kelly before we go on. She's active on Instagram. I'll tell you that. That was a good news. I'll bet you know that. I looked it up this morning.

She's got a son. Are they still playing ball out there? What's going on? Oh, wow. We got a little interscrod scrimmage going? Let's do a little play-by-play. Let's take a look over there for a second. Working on bass running.

My back. My back's killing me, boys. and it's been killing me for a week, but ironic, like I had to cancel Max and everything, or I went to him and he just made me stretch for 45 minutes. This is what happens, Blake. This is your future. You think it's all great, working out?

And I haven't complained to you guys because it was like the same day he broke his arm and then he had surgery the next day. And he's like, really, he's doing the show without even complaining. And I could tell he's in big pain. and that's the only reason I haven't said anything because I see someone else with a worst situation in front of me But now we're sleeping on concrete out here

What do you mean? Beds are a little firm Oh really? Yeah I'm not the only one that's complained about them Oh, are we going to do complaint? What do we got? I tell you guys about that at rehab

It's a complaint court, go ahead Did we would once a week? They would get us together to do like a suit of Kind of Kind of like somebody would be like I need a bath mat. Here you hold the Jake's piss bottle, and now you're allowed to talk. Yeah, I don't...

I think those Airbnb owners need a lesson in hospitality. Oh. They're just a little bare bones. Like, are there closets full of pillows and blankets somewhere that I'm missing? Like, even if I didn't have a broken arm, I would prefer to... Like, I got two fucking surgery pillows in my room. In our shower, they put shampoo and conditioner, and that's it. Yeah, and that's a problem for you, because...

If there's a bar of soap, I'll use it. I mean, I'm having to. I just assume, like, when you step into a shower at an Airbnb, there's everything you need. Yeah. It's a little light in supplies. It's a little light in supplies. I bring my own shampoo. Did you, would you check a bag?

Are you bringing travel size? It's kind of medium travel size. Are they not hard-o on that anymore? The size of liquid? I guess not. It was inside my shaving kit. Yeah, I'm generally just uncomfortable. But I think that's kind of part of it.

I'm not a complainer anymore, but... You just deal with it? Yeah, I guess. Yeah, no, I don't like... I mean, like, I want to sit outside and, like... Hang out with some buddies, but then you have to move the chairs... You have to move the chairs from inside to outside if you want to sit outside. I think they do that because then the birds would just shit all over the chairs.

There's pigeons everywhere. Okay, well, that's a problem. Mike Tyson would love it. Yeah. Man, that makes me money. Love, uh, love running a little practice, Jake, a little softball practice. I bet you do, man. I love baseball practice when I played baseball.

I just love football practice. I just love hanging out all day. Anyway, let's get to viewer mail birthdays. Might not have a lot today. Got a couple. Greetings me, boys. Former Vermont D.F. here. It is my 48th birthday.

Not woken up in that special way because after nine years, I'm recently single. And she's 2,000 miles away. But the trade-off is I got to move back to DFW. It's always quiet in my apartment. My dishes are done, and the thermostat is exactly where I left it. So I consider it a win. My leaders are Dan, who, like me, is finding out late in life that he's autistic. I really did and it explains a lot.

Blake's unwavering commitment to being anti-travel yet, willing to drive all over North Texas for high school sports and being forced to act as a non-paid taxi for Burline and his fiancé. And final leader, oh, final two leaders, Jake's deep, deep drive into Gmail and bringing all the conspiracies to life all at once, and proving that there is a lot more going on there. than we think there is. All right.

Hope to get to a PLE, meet you in a totally non-gay way. Well, I want the gay way. Punt on third down. Just to confuse your opponent and sell the team. That's from Andrew, who is back from Vermont. And I have Father Dan.

I am 32 today. My leaders are Philip Kingston. Paul Cusimano. and good hang with Amy Poler If you ever want to learn how to climb a rope, let me know that's from Austin who claims to be DF number four.

I wonder if they have ropes to climb out here. Would they set that up anywhere? Spring training? Probably not, right? Need a gym. I invited you yesterday. I haven't seen a climbing rope, though, since I was a kid.

like from in a gymnasium where you would actually do that. They have them at like the tricked up cross-fitty type places now. Dude, I can't go to the gym. Blake was like, yeah, of course it does. Blake was like, when she's come getting the sauna, it'll be good for you. I'm like, can you all not smell this? Oh, because you have a smelly cast?

I put deodorant all the way around it today and like on my palm in case Christian Yellett showed up. Like, what is that? If I can start smelling it, I'll tell you, but I can't. Well, I feel like one way to, find out is if I go sit at 175 degrees for 25 minutes. How was a gym? Hot ass?

There's no sauna. Okay, you're in Phoenix. Yeah. Should I thought ahead. No, it's kind of bare bones. Did you want me to come and spot you? If you want to come ride the bike, I wouldn't mind some company. And you're looking around the room and you're like, okay, I think you're my best option.

Yes. Yeah. All right. Oh, look at how low that. Let's do that again. Three, two, one. We have some adoptable pets in Phoenix. Meet Howie.

Oh, wait, we did the next. The Arizona Humane Society is CGA Forever Home for this rescue Labrador. On this day in history. Yes, thank you, Callas, for sending us out here. To Milwaukee Brewers Spring Training. Well, the weather is nice, but are you guys aware? I'm going to get me a brewer's sweatshirt, I think, after the show. They got some cool stuff.

They do have a good gear shop. You know their logo. It's an M and a B. It sounds like we're going to learn more about that. But that M and B forms a mitt. A glove. Isn't that amazing? I think I was 30 when I figured that out.

Oh, absolutely. I watched the Brewers my whole life. Yeah. And yes, I don't think I knew that until I moved here. And they were, of course, American League East bunkmates with the Cleveland Indians growing up. American. You never knew them as an American League team?

No. Really? No. Yeah, I thought, I was kind of jealous. Like, oh, they get to move over there and do the pitcher hitting. That'd be so cool. Yeah. That's right, folks.

Boy, it must have been one of the only kids in America who is like, boy, I wish we were in the national league. Yeah, I thought it would be great. You know, you get to the double. I think of the strategy. Dude, the double switch. Yeah. I grew up, like, wishing I had seen. Like, would you rather see a cycle or a double switch?

Like, I don't know. A perfect game or a double switch? Like, I've never seen the double switch. So what day is today? February 17th. Tuesday on this day in 1801, the U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. So they're both trying to be president. Okay.

So Jefferson becomes president. and they make Burr the vice president. And I just thought that'd be a cool system to bring back. Yeah. Vice President Hillary Clinton with Donald Trump. Oh, yeah. And then let's just say there is a would-be assassin. All right, I'm fiercely blue.

I can't stand Trump. I want to put Hillary in power. Like, do you do that? Like, I don't know. It just seems all. Maybe that's why they stopped it. Is that why they stopped it? Yeah, I mean, I imagine.

Because of the Steffie Groff stabber, the guy that stabbed Monica Sellis, and his goal was to make Steffi Graff higher in the rankings, and it worked. Yeah. Okay, I just talked that out. Well, no, and they used to try to sell it to you in like civics and elementary of like how that was a better world. Yeah, because now they have to work together. I'm sure they did. Yeah.

I'm sure they did. Well, they did that growing up. You heard, oh, well, the house and the whatever. I mean, I saw a little singing cartoon tell me that that keeps it all in balance. So if you have a presidential thing, well, all these guys, they could keep him in check and vice versa. Well, what if they all just do the... You want it to be one way. I don't know.

But it's the other way. I like the way. In fact, if, like, Trump or whatever, mad that they stopped or started telling you the truth, like, hey, actually Columbus was like just beheading people and stealing everything. And like, they're upset about that. Like, shouldn't it be then the way they taught little kid me? Okay, I'll agree with the little kid me of Columbus was great. And here's a statue and showing you having a day.

But then actually do the way the government was taught to us too, right? That there are checks and balances and they work together. Yeah, yeah. But Little Kid Me was taught all these idyllic things that, oh, this is in and we're a melting pod and we all get together and this and that. So pick the good or the bad. Like which one?

Because I'll believe all the other BS. I'll believe Abner Doubleday if you want me to. Don't. I will. Let's draw a line somewhere. Okay, all right. Alexander Cartwright. On this day in 1997, the biggest NBA trade,

they say, in 25 years. So I'd have to do some math and try to figure out what the other one was. Would that be like Kareem? Corrine. Yeah. So why do they call this the biggest? I don't know, but it's the one where the Nets send away Sean Bradley and others to the Mavericks for Jimmy Jackson and others. I do remember that, though.

Just the whole. Sean Bradley had already, I think, been failed at a couple of spots. And then Don Nelson's like, look, I can make this work. It was all too perfect. I can make this work. Oh, no, another big white guy. Blake, on this day in the year 2001, Arnold Palmer became the first player to shoot his age in a PGA tour event

since Sam Sneed did it. How old? He was 71 years old. Shot a 71 at 71. Pretty good. What's your best round ever? Like you ever break power? Never broke 80.

Shot 80. What was the scene? We were at Cowboys Training. camp. I was playing with Donovan and Bob and one of Bob's Fox's friend or like friend that worked at Fox or something. Troy? No. Somebody else. I don't remember who. Nailed one on 18 within like 15 feet and ran it by the lip of the cup.

I just that much for 79 and missed it. Played well that day. Was it a big, big topic? Did everybody know that you're playing the best golf of your life? Bob was often, I know more about football than everyone else and was trying to impress his fox friend. But, no, me and Donovan had a great time. On this day in the year 2021, nearly 1.9 million utility customers in Texas

still had no power. The power grid was failing us. And I think I didn't feel it at all. I was at Cash Soroy's house. Yeah. I think we provided very good coverage during that event. We had Dan Henry. We had an academic from the University of,

of Houston. I think my wife was home with my daughter, and they were going to, they would gather snow from outside to pour it in the toilet so that they could go to the bathroom and flush it. Whereas Dan was at Cassius' house where the floors were heated. I think we got a seafood tower one night from a local restaurant. It was great.

As a hypoallergenic dog designer. I might have taken an extra shower that night. Cuddles up to you. Just after she told me that, I thought, boy, that sounds really, cold. Just you describing that makes me kind of cold, even though they got the temperature up a little high here. I should go get a shower. I went and did a show at

Dan's house when he wasn't there. When he was at Cache, staying at Caches. It was a weird time. That's probably the closest I've ever felt to lawlessness. Just an extended period of time where none of the road laws mattered.

It was just like, if you can get out here and get to where you need to go, good luck. That was insane, dude. And on this day in 2023, Angela Cotaldi signs off on his last show on WIP Radio in Philadelphia. So what do we have for February 17th, Dumb Zone history? The Open in 2021 was a lot about Dan staying at Cash's. Mike Soroy shaved Cash's head with Dan's bald guy razor while Cash played Call of Duty.

and there were thousands without power. But that was the bit. It was weird, though. I was showing them my skull shaver. It's great if you're a bald. Yeah. Like, I would love to advertise for them just because... It's so important to your life.

Yeah, it's huge. It's great. I've bought them for my friends. Like, I've told people with hair, like, I was telling T.C. the other day. You should shave all that hair off. He's got great hair, though. That's the point. I used to shave my head every summer when I had great hair because it's so fun to grow back.

I want to shave T.C.'s head. I remember that. It was one of the worst decisions I've ever made. So this was the week of the free... You remember that? They're on the headset. Free what? Yeah, it's one of the three people in the room I can confirm.

Dan really, really, really didn't like that. What? Shaving your head? Yeah. Just because it was a lot of like full contact Because I think that we imagine that I would be able to help a little more But I had to have the boxing gloves on This is at the fight night So I'm in full boxing gloves

Well he was going to fight a fight night I was picturing it like the beginning of full metal jacket Or stripes or some movie where you go to Boot Camp And they always show they have this big razor And it's just over the head And I was like I'll do that Yeah

And so I had a big razor thing. And so I go to TC's head and it's like, and it would shave like this much out and I go and then they get to hold like it was horrible. And yes, about 20 minutes into this, I'm like, that hair all over your hands. And I don't like to touch people.

Yeah, and not you, especially. I'm sure that I'm in a lower category than the average person for you. Well, any of you guys, anyone I know I don't want to put my hands all over. Sure. Like I would feel oddly better about if I didn't know you guys. Do you follow that? Sure. Does that make sense?

Yeah. Does that mean you will shave the security guard on the way out? Possibly. But the point is, like, I'm like, we could have gone to best cuts, the mail, whatever. For 20 bucks, I could have had this done in five minutes. It looked awful. And it looked awful because the point was we were going to shave his head into a, A Mohawk.

A mohawk. Like for taxi driver. Did I just ruin a... No. No, that's... No, that's exactly... Yeah. Anyway.

Wait, what were you just saying? Oh, during the 130 news... Oh, because I saw... Yes, I was showing... I just handed my razor to Cash Soroy or Mike, and then he started shaving his brother's head with it. These guys are really weird, like, as far as... They're very sedine twin.

Yeah. Right. If they said they had a secret down low sexual relationship, I would not be like, oh my God, I can't believe it. I go, oh, okay. Yes. Today, Jake was still doing the show from his friend's closet. Farting it up. Farting it up.

And then on this day, he spilled Topo Chico all over her blouses. And during the next segment, Dan had to call her to apologize. I remember that. Now, it is. That's softened the blow. for you. It definitely did. There was the situation where, like, you're at that friend's house, right? You're not at the uptight friend's house to be in that situation. So we were already at the cool, single female friend's house. So it wasn't the end of the world. Are we yet to whenever you left your car in neutral or whatever? That was yesterday. That was yesterday. Jake Kemp, action hero. Yeah. You made some new or some. Yeah, one of those like aggregator type shows. Chive type things contacted me and made me sign.

I think they said I was going to make like a hundred bucks. I didn't. But I did save my family's life. In 2022, we had Jackie Martling on. He's been in the news. Yeah. Oh, he's in the Epstein file, right? Quite a lot.

Really? Like photographed with him at dinners, hanging out. And, you know, it's funny as I was thinking about it. he's got to be one of the only people because like the head of somebody just stepped down Wasserman Yeah Wasserman

but somebody else the head of some massive company stepped down and I feel like if you contacted Jackie Martling right now he'd be like so fucking what they were young He's Jackie Martin rich? No Is he the poorest person that Epstein was hanging out with all the time

That's probably not a bad guess At the time he was probably doing better, right? He's doing better, but I don't know that he was on the Stern show. Was he making a million a year, you think? Maybe. That sounds a lot. Not like an Epstein money. That's not Epstein money.

A million a year is pretty impressive, but I'd be surprised if he was making a million a year, right? Well, when the Stern show was at its peak, I've read that he was. Okay. But that might have been before that. And then a possible W.HL from 2023. which it's funny going back to these run sheets because we weren't calling it back then. I don't know what term we would use, but seeing these in history. Jake, do you remember who Christine Brennan is?

Yeah, me too. I know the name. Is she like a writer that was she a guy before and now she's a lady? No. Okay. Give me a hand. There is a Christina. I'll read from her article here in Golf Week and see if you remember what

this was about. Golf week. Does it mean it's a tiger victim? I can't believe I just wrote that sentence in 2023. Woods' message to Thomas was obvious. It has been the go-to line of silly, often insecure boys for generations. You play like a girl. Really, Tiger?

This is when Tiger Woods handed Justin Thomas a tampon after out-driving him. Damn. That's gold. That is fantastic. And we're writing articles about how terrible that is? Yeah. Yeah. The masochiny. Yeah. You need to go to the store, have a pack on hand.

I feel like we could be doling them out to each other. It is. I mean, think of the foresight for Tiger to say, you know what? I'm going to be a fun guy now. Yeah. I'm going to bring a tampon out of the course case somebody pulls out of short. I see where Christine Brennan's coming from, though. Just, I mean, it is shocking to think of Tiger of doing anything that would like demean or belittle women.

Yeah. So to see that from him must have been. It's such a deep reservoir of respect for women. It must have been shocking. Well, she does put in quotes, Tiger, the girl dad. Oh, yeah, I can come back on you, too. Well, you're not a girl dad. He has a boy.

You can only be a true girl dad if you... He had a daughter and played sports. No, you're clearly correct. Dance right. Don't take our thunder. That's why they called Kobe a girl dad. If he had a boy, then he could have been happy and satisfied like most other humans who have boys.

That's why, I mean... But he actually was a dad and was attentive to his kids and cared about them despite the fact that they were only girls. He got the worst kind and he still loved him. Right. And that's why we hold him up a little higher than a dad like Jake who has a boy. I get it. I 100% get it. I know how much, look, when you don't want the kid.

Right. And that's the case when you have a girl and it takes a while. Yeah. It takes a while for you to want him. Elsewhere. Michael Jordan is 63. You guys showed me an interesting video of Michael Jordan yesterday. It was all fair.

We didn't feel that it needed. There's been some explanation. Yeah, the kid had like ice down his back. Not everything. Oh, did they say that? It looked like he was massaging a kid, like a four-year-old's butt. Like on the one hand, rich, powerful, and accountable people do anything. But it's Michael Jordan.

If he did just love grabbing young kids' butts, don't you think we'd know by now? I do. And don't you think we kind of look the other way? Like, eh. No, now you're saying something different. Oh. Than what he is.

I thought we were all agreeing. I think there's probably like a weird... You see the shot against Utah? Like, I think... Dude he held the thing. Right. There's different generations of dudes who... Didn't push off.

Do more touching. Yeah. And don't think it's weird to like Josh around with a little kid. Yeah, but I wouldn't do it with a little kid. A lot of it is... I feel weird dapping up myself. soccer team. Like, there's something inherently wrong about grabbing a young kid's butt.

But one of the main reasons it's wrong is because everyone else in society understands it's an extreme act. In like the time of the 50s, like that society just didn't think it was a big deal. Yeah. So you weren't transgressing the same way. Like I still wouldn't do it, but like it's a really different, like, context. He's like knows the kid. It's like a family friend type thing.

Like he's not just trying to finger a stranger. at NASCAR. Like, there's something. Yeah. I don't know. Whenever Dan's uncles were goose and him, it was fine because it was a different time. Right.

Yeah. It's comedy. Kate, oh, Tommy Moe is 56. He was a skier. Olympic skier. Hey, Mo. Joe.

Joe. Case Keenham is 38. Go Bears. I know about this goddamn dog. That's Casey Kaysam. David Klingler is 57. Who could have been in those Case Keenham commercials once upon a time. He was a career backup, wouldn't he?

That sounds right. Luke Robatai is 60. King. He has a statue outside the... He does, outside of the crypt, as I call it. Deserving? I don't know. I didn't really look at the...

The kings of the late 90s and 2000s, Blake. Pretty good? Rob Blake. Those teams were great. When was Gretzky? Mid-90s, early 90s? Lou Diamond Phillips, 64. You may know him from LaBamba,

or you may know him from the chair company. He's Tim Robinson's boss in the chair company. He's good. Renee Seiler is 63. I think my sister-in-law at a moment with Lou Diamond-Philip. They're really connecting, laughing together. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

The Hot Pockets girl? Uh-huh. The very same. Not Dumb's on birthday the day. They probably, he probably should be. Tell me once I give Dumsone birthday the day, but I'm sorry, Jake, I gave it to someone else. It's Michael Bay, his 62.

Wow. So after I give Dumson birthday of the day, tell me if I made a mistake. And I'll change it for next year. I feel like that. Like, there's almost no chance he's clean in these files. It's got to come up somewhere. Someone was making the point of he's the only big director, like, as opposed to Brett Ratner that you can trust.

Like, he just loves the explosion so much that's enough for him. I could see it. So who bested him? We'll get there. We'll get there. Sorry. Denise Richards is 55? Man.

I think she was married to Sheen. She was. She was in Wild Things. She was... She was an early Vax crazy. Hmm. So maybe not viewed as crazy as now. I don't know.

But she definitely was a big-time sock death recipient in the early days. Starship Troopers for sure. Jerry O'Connell is 52. He was the fat kid, Vern, and Stand By Me. And who did he end up with? Rebecca Romaine stole her away from Stamos? Wow. What a lady.

Lucy Davis is 52. That is Dawn in the original. original office. Paris Hilton is 45. Joseph Gordon Levitt is 45. Ed Sheeran is 35. Jeremy Allen White is 35.

Wasn't it? Ed Sheeran and Game of Thrones because he was obsessed with the show and then... Just an extra? He was in the show and he did some singing and everyone's like, what, homo? Yeah. And he got real sad about it. Yeah, he got like two or three scenes, got a talking part and everyone just was like, This sucked.

Get out of here. Ed Sheeran. This is Game of Thrones. He's the worst. I hope he gets that and a million times more. Do you remember when, what did he play? Was it the halftime show? Okay, 2021 NFL kickoff.

All I know is I have a shirt with the NFL shield on it that just says Shearin. Yeah, DJ got a shirt. I don't know. They ended up at the station. No, DJ bought them for all of us. I have it. I still have mine. Because when I think NFL,

this British dwarf, fairy, whatever he is, Sprite. Dumb's on birthday today, he got it over Michael Bay. Is Daniel Whitney. You want to search Daniel Whitney? Eli's brother. See if I should be giving this person the dumb zone birthday of the day? Oh, friend of the show.

Oh, wow. Yeah, we met him at a celebrity golf tournament. He was taking a break from working on someone's cable. Larry the cable guy. Great dude. Of the blue collar comedy tour. That was an amazing interview. Yeah, it was really good.

Didn't you like it? Yeah. You're not mocking us, I thought it was fun. I think that. I enjoyed it very much. I wish it could have gone on longer. He enjoyed it very much. I feel like he never gets to just cut loose and be himself.

That's the only time I've heard him comfortable enough. He was just Daniel that day. Hey, let's have Larry the cable guy on. All right, do the thing about the cinder blocks in the front. You were the first person in 30 years that didn't do that. And he was delighted. Born on this day now dead, buddy Ryan. Oh, I know.

I know the next. Oh, okay. Birthday. All right. I'm sorry, Sean. I hope you'll forgive me. We're going to have, I think we had you on last year to explain. that and every we're going to do that anniversary that's going to be a big show for us

it's a big story the death anniversary of pat summit and buddy ryan the competing news interests i'm never going to give up being the crotchety about it so yeah i'll come on every year i don't think you should also born on the stay now dead wallie pitt i don't know he's a big football fan man like what is t shons yelling at me about tc what was this for wally pip Born on. Born on now dead. And it is a big deal that Lou Gehrig was able to take his spot. Wally Pip, after all, led the American League in home runs in 1916.

How many he blast? With... 11? 12. Don't be silly. 11. How could 11 lead the league? Also born on this day now dead, Haroldson Lafayette Hunt.

Oh. H.L. Hunt. the father of Lamar who invented creeping where you would crawl along the floor to extend your life. I don't know, my son's a little funny. Maybe let's drill a hole in his head. Wasn't it like once he turned 75 or like he just thought this will extend my life?

I just crawl along the floor. I will not walk. It's worth a shot. Didn't he change his diet? Like he was one of the first people? I think so. Yeah, there's a lot about him. Probably got Kennedy killed.

Certainly seems like it. I had that too. Born on the stay now dead, Taylor Hawkins. The drummer of the foo fighters. Cocaine. You know, it's hard for me to feel bad for him because I bet he was having an awesome time.

Like, if you die on tour in Brazil with Nirvana from drugs, like, you went out pretty on top. It was his not, It's not his first cocaine overdose. So don't you feel like if you've already overdosed on cocaine once, you should... Give you back off, Nate Newton. You're searching that for that high, though.

He survived the last one. He did. He'd had his electrolytes that day. He thought he could hand. He made a hit about it. He thought maybe if I'd do it again, we'll have another hit. Same reason. Eric Clapton would be friend at his next.

Mm-hmm. I need another song. Dead on this day is still dead. Geronimo. No way. Native American hero. When did Geronimo live? I bet I could get this.

You would think this is easy. Yeah. 1870. 1840. You guys are there. Died in this day in 1909. And somebody like yelled his name. Like, how do we?

we get into that. Do you ever, like you jump off of high dive and you yell Geronimo? That's a good question. It's just a good name. Did we all do that across the nation? Sure. Absolutely. Cleveland, Dallas, Phoenix.

Why do we all yell Geronimo? Out of respect. Apparently it's a movie came out about him in 1939 that made him seem real badass. and then the U.S. Army paratroopers in World War II just started saying it. Nice. Wow. So he was like the Leroy Jenkins of... Basically, dude.

The practice of parachuting from planes began a tradition of shouting Geronimo to show they had no fear of jumping out of an airplane. Other Native American-based traditions were also adopted in World War II. Okay. What are those? So, mohawk haircuts, face paint, and sporting spears on their unit. patches. Boys, that fucking rules.

We went into World War II getting in touch with our native roots. Absolutely. Because they'd all been dead. We'd killed them long enough ago that they were kind of... But that's awesome, though. You're like, look, what do we got? Let's paint our faces. So they were like, it wasn't the uniforms that had them lose.

Right. Because we're going to kind of wear the same thing. We'll take those. I wonder if... I'm sure that Quentin Tarantino probably was somewhat aware of that, because they play up the Apache stuff in Inglorious Bastards. Yeah. The Aldo the Apache.

Nice time. Also, Dead on the State, still dead. Mindy McCready? I think she came up to the station with Roger Clemens once. The country music hero? Wasn't she accusing Roger Clemens of something? Well, I think they were dating when she was way too young. Oh, okay.

But I'm pretty sure she was with him when he came up to the ticket one day. Damn. Yeah. Just like I think Tori Hunter was dating Matt Kemp. No. Close. Close. Close.

Rush Limbaugh died in this day in 2021. Formerly nicotine stained hands, snortly. Clayton, did you ever meet him? Yeah, that's right. Ah, the golden mic. His mic was in. What does that mean? He used to reference it all the time. He used, I presume.

I never listened to his show, but he used the golden microphone. And whenever he was done with it, he gave it to Glenn Beck, who was it, I think that he busted it out for whenever Charlie Kirk died. And he went on the Charlie Kirk show, Glenn Beck. He's like, I'm going to use my special Rush Golden Mike. That's amazing. And dead on this day today, Jesse Jackson. Kiss it.

What's that mean? The South Park episode. When Randy says the N-word has to apologize to Jesse Jackson. People who annoy you. I don't know if I could say it. In order to atone for his sins, all he had to do was kiss Jesse Jackson's ass. And that's what happened on this day in history. I'm telling you guys right now that had they not domed Martin Luther King,

he would have turned into a character that you saw in South Park, and you'd be laughing about him on the day that he died when he was 80 or something. Yeah. Like, oh, I remember all that weird shit MLK did. He'd have been in cartoons, Celebrity Death Match. We would have one less holiday? Yes, absolutely. Epstein Files.

That's how this stuff works. Oh, yeah, there's no doubt. M.K's in the Epstein Files. There's no doubt if he lives. He was on the trajectory. Yeah. Don't you think that there should be some kind of prize for being killed young? Like, of course he got it.

Him and Bobby Fills. He would have traded for another 40 years with his family. Adios, mofo. We've got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type. for my name if you want to watch more of my videos. Yes, folks, game one of the World Series will be played tonight.

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