The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 2-2-26 | The Luka trade anniversary saw its shadow
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I know.
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Yeah.
Hello, friends.
Welcome to the Game Day Men's Health Studio
Downtown Dallas.
It is the dumb zone.
I'm Dan McVell.
I'm Jake Kemp.
I'm Blake Jones.
Energy up, fellas.
We're back at work.
It's fun.
February.
Let's roll.
We got winter or spring?
What do you mean?
That looks.
little rodent see a shadow or not?
More on that in the news.
Oh, sorry.
Okay.
Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know anything about that.
Is that a national holiday?
Like, is it real?
Meaning what?
I don't know.
I think the banks are open.
Oh, okay.
So it's not.
That's good.
I would hope they wouldn't close for Groundhog Day.
It sounds, that sounds like, what, you insane?
But we do, everyone does their own silly traditions.
I can see it.
But yeah, February.
I thought Blake was doing, what was this spring?
Like, what kind of weather is this out here?
Yeah, no, it is kind of turning into spring today.
It was winter yesterday.
Hey, thanks for stopping by, winter.
I don't want to do the weekend check too early,
but it does seem that I might have had the last fire in the fireplace of the year.
You know what I was thinking about your BS the other day?
What BS?
What?
Oh, that's what I'm saying, is that he,
early on, you were like,
maybe I'm chasing on purpose so that I can get another fire in the fireplace.
I love it.
Phil Jackson, Zenmaster.
He was right when it got cold, it might have been like September.
He was like, this sucks.
It's going to be this way for.
It did suck.
And I'm like, no, dude, you're not in Ohio anymore.
You don't have to worry about it.
We're going to have some good days even when it's winter.
I was taken back last week when we were in that freeze and schools canceled and stuff.
I was thinking, yes, if this is Ohio,
it would be like this for three more months
and it would be gray outside.
Yeah, gray brown.
But it's all melted now and birds are chirping and
yeah, things are great.
They are.
I feel excellent.
If we are to do some promoing,
what is coming up this week, guys?
We got any remotes?
We're going to a stubby's house with Mike Soroy on Friday.
All right.
Where's that?
Salina.
Mm-hmm.
We're going to go get to the bottom of this thing.
We're going to go...
Boots on the ground investigating.
Get to the bottom of them getting to the bottom.
Mm-hmm.
What does that mean?
What's that?
Is that referencing a...
It's been the...
Homer call or something?
No, no.
Well, they were a several-time Homer Call participant,
which we talked about recently
because they've been in the news a lot.
Oh, oh, all the teacher...
Their football coach resigned.
Is that the guy who was making the kids do naked jumping jacks?
Yes.
But you say making, I say presenting an opportunity to.
Yeah.
And it wasn't hazing, right?
It was just like Tuesday.
Have a little fun.
Yeah.
Yeah, so we'll be in Salina.
And then I see Sunday, we're back at it.
Dude.
The last football stream of the year.
Or of the season, I should say, because we'll do more this year.
It's going to be technical.
Can we, can somebody?
The big game Sunday, the big game.
I need someone who's not currently a sponsor.
You don't want to spend any money, but you want to pretend sponsor.
The dumb zone stream of the AFL all spring long so that I can tell my wife that we sold it
and that I have to go do all of the arena or whatever's going on.
What, she's upset about you leaving Super Bowl Sunday?
No, but I don't want it to end.
Oh, yeah.
I like it a lot.
Uh, I was, the Pro Bowl, we could do the Pro Bowl.
I heard the Pro Bowl's like, or it's on Tuesday, or did it already, they do the Pro Bowl already, but then they're airing it Tuesday?
The only thing I've seen about the Pro Bowl is Brandon Aubrey hitting nukes in the golf simulator.
Yeah.
I don't know anything about it.
Okay, so they did the Pro Bowl already.
Well, no, no, it was like a practice thing.
I have it if you want to play it.
Like, is the golf simulator part of the Pro Bowl now?
I think hitting on the simulator is part of the deal, but the video.
that you're about to see is behind the scenes like practice.
This is like ABC's wide world of sport or something.
It's celebrity.
Yeah.
Something.
Just Brandon striping them.
And then Mike on crutches.
Hyping him up.
Ooh, I wonder who is the Packers kicker.
I'm all hobbling around.
Yeah.
I feel like you can hear Brandon's wife in the background laughing.
Oh, Brandon's got a sweet golf club.
or a golf glove.
Yeah.
You see that?
Yeah.
I don't know if it's a golf glove or not.
What do you mean?
Might have been a football glove.
It might just be anything.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, if it's a football glove and you use it to golf, it's now a golf glove, right?
Like, is there a difference between a golf glove and a batting glove?
Yeah.
Go on.
The grip is different.
Yeah, just where the grip points are, like to keep it from wearing down.
Hmm.
Same on a batting is.
A football glove is different than a batting glove for sure.
Because I tried it one time.
And if you do it enough, the barrel.
will wear through that part of the glove because it's not meant to be.
Is there a difference between a golf glove and a baseball mitt?
Yeah, that's the same thing.
I kept running into that problem too.
I would drop my club and they're like,
you should not be wearing a baseball glove out here.
Yeah, I bought my son a,
inadvertently it was a catcher's mid apparently,
but he played center field.
Yeah, that's a common mix-up.
But it looks like that tomorrow night,
we have seven-on-seven flag football and skills challenge.
Well, great.
Extremely.
I could see the Pro Bowl or the President weighing in.
The Pro Bowl is gay now.
I mean, if you, seriously, dude, they did used to care.
I know that sounds crazy.
I know that it's...
I wonder.
I would like to watch the Pro Bowl that your mom interrupted you at halftime.
I know it was probably...
I just feel like football is a type of game where it was either all-in,
or all out. But I mean, I will
go to my grave saying they used to care
about the baseball all-star game.
That's 100% accurate.
Anyways,
that's what's going on with the Pro Bowl.
Oh, and then, yeah, Sunday we're doing the
live stream. We will, if you want
to watch the Super Bowl along with us.
Blake will be back. It's very exciting for us.
For us. Despite his,
for us. Despite his, he's been sending out
resumes to all the Westwood one and whoever
What do you do?
Spanish language?
Because there's like a million different...
Hey, can I produce Gabby's Nickelodeon broadcast?
Yeah, broadcast that will be at the Super Bowl, but no one has bit yet.
He's trying to find an extra high school game.
He can't do it, so he will be in the den.
I did find something to do.
This coming weekend?
Burline asked me to drive him to a Super Bowl party.
No, shut the blank up.
You're not just going to Uberline separate from...
Burline's in town?
No.
Fly out there.
driving around.
Oh, okay.
Oh.
That'd be great.
Wait, am I, you're saying he offered to fly you to California?
No.
Oh.
No.
What are you saying?
Just trying to do a little improv, fellas.
Okay, sorry.
Here's the problem.
Sorry, I can't hang with the big dogs.
No, here's the problem.
It's so unbelievable that you drive Steve Berline at all.
Right.
That's like, every situation, and you have a homeless guy that you do like a lot of
stuff for. So anything that you tell us that's like you doing something for someone, it's not
going to be funny. Oh, I went to a, uh, I went to one of our listeners, but probably did that.
I went to our listeners kids, uh, four year old birthday party. You're like, okay. Yeah. And the worst part
of that was his mom actually did go there. His mom had cancer and said that, you know, the biggest
thing was just for me to be there. So I, I went and spent the day with her. Like, everything that
comes up is right. Yeah. And then you're like, oh, I'm improvving. Like, no, no.
I thought you were joking about the...
If Steve Berline was like, listen, I'll pay you $100,
but I need to drive me to and from a Super Bowl party on Sunday.
I don't know.
I'm trying to figure out to get a hotspot for Zoom.
You're a good dude.
You know what, Blake, you're the best dude.
All right, so let's do a weekend check.
Second best dude.
Second to only Jeremy at Trident Access Services.
Wow.
How do you like that?
He is a good dude.
I talked to him last week on Business Wednesday, as a matter of fact.
I bet you was a bunch of people who have fresh issues with their garages and their gates,
with the freeze messing things up and things getting off track.
Try to access services.
That's what they do.
They do gates.
They do garage doors.
And it starts with getting their tune-up special.
That's what Dan had done.
It's $39.99.
And they'll come out and they'll take a look at everything.
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Maybe you're building a new home.
You need a new garage door.
They can help you with that.
The gate in a new home, a remodel.
Or you just have old crap and you don't want it to suck anymore.
TXTridot.com, Dan.
That's how you get a hold of them.
Julie has a gate.
I have a garage door.
So be like me and get a garage door.
Like, people will just walk in if you don't.
No, yeah, it's true.
You want to take all your shit?
It's true.
Or drive in.
Yeah.
You know what?
We had an intern try to drive into my garage.
So I had to get Trident out there immediately and like put a door on this thing.
You think he does moats?
Probably.
Drawbridge.
That's access.
Be so sick.
All right.
I'll go first on the weekend check.
As let's see, did a little TV watching.
That'll be on What's on Your TiVo tomorrow.
Tell me to tell me to tell me.
I did a little reading.
I'm trying to become more of a reader.
I'm reading the Tyson book right now.
Is it new-ish?
Yeah, it came out like just a few months ago.
I think it was my Christmas wish list.
I wish I give to my kids.
This is one of the, there's a pro and a con to being friends and work partner with Dan.
he's always going to be available pretty much like if i need to get a hold of him our schedule runs
kind of on mine because of kids and school and whatever if we're going to do something dan's like
i'm free but then the problem is i know there's times when he would rather not talk
and i don't know when that is like i know that there's a chance when i'm calling him for some
extremely low-grade idea.
It's usually the evening.
The reading?
No, no, no.
When I don't want to talk.
Okay.
Because I would think, like, I just don't want to interrupt you reading.
And for me, the weekend mornings are the choicest reading time.
It doesn't even have to be super early, but if you can get yourself some time around 10.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't mind you interrupting the reading.
In fact, I have trouble just locking in myself.
Well, that's why I shouldn't be calling you.
I was like, oh, what's on the phone?
I haven't looked at the phone in 10 minutes.
Like, I'll read a chapter.
Any new scandals?
And then be like, oh, okay, like, it's so accomplished that I finished this chapter.
Big time.
It was a four-page chapter.
Yeah, no, no, no.
It was a chapter.
Alpha, locked in.
Anyway, I'm reading it.
And, you know, it's fine.
Isn't that the problem with books?
Some of them are just fine?
Well, no, no, no.
The content is really, really good.
but then I got to thinking and then I was watching TV and I realized what it was because I was watching like a Flauiz commercial and they have this thing in there where you'll see the Fabrease logo and some words or whatever but it's it's inside this raindrop which is shimmering and then I realized why I can't focus here it's that I'm not reading through like so then I held the book up on the out of the outside of the out of the out of the
outside of my window and we poured water on the window like it was raining.
And then I'm like, okay, cool.
Now I can read the book.
Now it looks just like my phone with the new iPhone update with the shimmery numbers.
Liquid glass, bro.
Like I'm like, why did they do this to me?
I could read everything fine on the phone before.
And now I have to look through everything and I have to see a picture of my kids way behind the numbers.
just like, I don't care about that.
Yeah, I can't stand it.
No, you're right.
Can I go on an iPhone talk?
So, Dan has always tried to be current.
He's really good at keeping up with the times.
He's very phone sound, computer sound.
I've always been impressed by that.
And this is where we lost him.
Yeah.
This is the line in the sand.
You've become old.
I'm just, no, no, they're just doing too much.
When they do an update of the past, it was like,
oh, this is better than it was before.
Now it's like, well, we don't have any more ideas on how to improve things.
Let's make it aesthetically different.
It's the same cycle.
They update it.
You hate it for two weeks.
And then it becomes the normal.
All right.
And then you get used to it.
I think you're probably right, but there has to be the case that some of them are worse than others.
And we've known that this seed existed and could turn into a problem before.
Like, when he has to get a new phone, it's bad.
Look, it gets the little phone.
So, like, this is, we just get to buy a few years, but when they don't do anything,
it's like he hibernates from tech anger.
Talk to my buddy Sven.
It's a good guy to talk to when it's cold.
Right?
Why?
His name is Sven.
Makes you feel like you're talking to.
Call your black friend when George Floyd gets killed.
And you're like, oh, it's cold.
I'll call my friend in the Nordic.
So he's like, what are you guys talking about on Monday's show?
And I'm like, I don't know, dude, you know, football stuff.
Super Bowl is coming up.
And he's like, what about the, don't you know what starts a week from Saturday?
I'm like, what?
The Winter Olympics.
Like, Sven is really into the Winter Olympics.
Then that's perfect.
He's like, I don't care much about the Summer Olympics, but you give me some Winter Olympics.
Then he starts listing off the things he's fired up about.
And he's like, how about Lindsay Vaugh, huh?
I go, what?
She's doing the game?
No way.
He gave me a detailed thing about how she's 41.
She's got like a fake knee.
She had a horrific crash last week
But her quest on getting to the Olympics again
Is still very real
And he's very excited about it
And I kind of said
You guys can overrule me
And we could just do this off the air
But I said maybe we'll pop you on
After the Olympics starts
And you can give us a little Olympic update
Because you seem to be really juiced about it
Yeah I mean our general thing is
If you're juiced about anything
Even if it is real estate
And storming the Capitol
we'll have you on.
Twice.
So Svins, and you don't have to get specific, you might not even know.
He's an American by birth, but his family is from somewhere over there, or was he born in, like, northern Europe?
No, he's born here, but yes, his dad had a thick accent from something.
You talked like the chef?
Not, I don't know what, I can't do it.
Sesame Street.
Yeah, it didn't sound like the Swedish chef, but certainly,
They've been over there.
Okay, well, let's see.
This just goes to my point, though, because you've always mentioned you had a friend who lived in, like, Portland or Seattle or something, and all the kids through, like, me.
That's Sven's buddy.
But they, yeah, okay.
But they could, like, jam and play scales on their guitar.
They couldn't just go out and have a catch of a football.
Yeah.
They would not be able to do that.
So that's what I'm saying is that you just grow up not thinking that a little bobsled is super girly and it's not.
Right.
Well, no, he has his opinion on the bobslet.
like pure, but he doesn't like the...
Like speed skating, he can't believe that it exists,
but he loves the whatever.
So, okay.
Yeah, book him.
And then I voted.
I didn't even know there was...
I knew I'd been getting some texts,
but I disregard those.
I disregard texts usually from people I know,
let alone if it's going to be from a Taylor Remit
or somebody I've never heard of.
I'm also on like the Ted Cruz,
list for some reason. I don't know how I get on the list.
Yeah. A lot of lists, folks.
So I went to vote on Saturday, forgot
my license at home, went back
home, went back
and voted. Damn, dude.
That's a serious commitment.
And one of the reasons I
did it, because I saw my buddy
Jake Kemp on Twitter.
Reminded people in that area to vote.
And I thought, you know what? Let's go vote.
And I told my wife, we got to go vote.
and the lady that we voted against lives in my neighborhood
like super close
like lives between me and Sinshu Chu
The din is ground zero for a lot of your right wing
politics in DFW
She had like five of the signs for her
Stuff to miss
In her yard and very very quickly cleaned out
We're not
Well and that's the tough thing
I've never put out a yard song
but it's like with
I don't want to be too condescending here
but I would never put out of yard sign
but my wife got really fired up about Beto
and I'm like I've seen this play before babe
it ain't gonna I know how this goes
but that's condescending right
what if she got fired up about this guy
I remember being like
I'm not taking that sign down
you are oh you're gonna have to walk out there
slowly just to walk a shame of like
pick up one side
You want to take it straight to the trash, a keepsake?
But it's an embarrassing, you know,
it's like we used to joke on the ticket about a UT fan
getting back in the car with his big fake long horns on his head.
How do they never just put an A or a line across that O
and make him call him beta?
Oh, wow, we did.
Did you?
Okay.
Okay.
A lot of what they were focused on was you're a fake Mexican,
but Beta O'Rourke does hit.
But yeah, it's a tough thing.
When do you take the sign down?
But I don't care about the politics of who we voted for and all that kind of stuff.
But I do want to say, so I'm in the voting thing.
First you go to a desk.
There's always an extremely old person there.
They front-load it.
You have to give them your license.
They scan that.
They print a piece of paper, and it's on like a receipt-type machine.
It'll spit that out, and it'll say you're voting number.
is whatever, one, two, three, four.
Then they hand you this big piece of paper,
and then you take it to the voting thing,
and you have to type in your number, and you put,
anyway, so I'm standing there.
This 98-year-old dude is printing out,
or is scanning my license.
And then there's a 104-year-old woman.
She's got a birthday cake in front of her.
Someone else is blown out the candle,
but she's the one that's in charge of printing
out the number now, the little slip, it's on this receipt machine. And so as this is going on,
and he's handing off my information to her, and now she'll print off the thing. And there's
a line. There's an exceptional amount of people there. I really was holding in a,
I don't like to do fart humor, but this is just a, I'm just saying I was holding it in.
Yeah. But this was my opportunity, because I'm about to leave there.
and go over to the voting booths.
So I let it roll.
You know, not audibly, but I knew this could, but, you know, obviously if it's, if it's, if it's not audible, sometimes the, the fragrance can be worse.
The olfactor nerves or whatever can can even be worse.
And I should, there's an important part here, was a white guy with his nice looking Indian white.
life right behind me. So I'm noting this. Oh, it's not two Indians. It's a guy. Makes you think you
have a chance. Right. So, but I, then I let that out thinking, well, I'll be gone in a second.
Well, then all of a sudden, the 104-year-old lady with the birthday cake and somebody to blow out the
candle for her is having some trouble with the machine. And it turns out that this receipt thing
ran out of paper. And now, how fast do you think she can,
fix that.
Not faster than your fart can travel to everyone.
So now I'm standing within the, like I didn't just drop it and leave.
Now I'm in the middle of it and I'm pretty sure everybody knows it was me.
Yeah, they did.
They did.
I think you can read someone's face.
And every woman just excluded immediately.
I just looked down.
I wonder if women take advantage of that.
I would if I were a lady because everybody immediately is like, you're the last suspect.
I would just walk into a group.
groups of dudes and just fart.
Like, which one of you pigs is...
Salmon and broccoli fart, too.
Oh, yeah, healthy farts.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we had...
Yeah, yeah.
That's so bad.
That's so bad.
So that's my voting experience.
And I got a sticker.
I thought that was kind of gay, like when they give you...
Like, what is this?
Well, it's not.
What is is if you take a picture of it and post it.
Okay.
That's why people do it.
And then they put the ash on your forehead.
It's weird.
I know, right?
I don't know why they do that.
Yeah.
That's very good.
Let's see here.
Clayton.
Two quick things,
depending on how much Dan hates wrestling.
We love your passion for wrestling.
I enjoy that it's taking place in other parts of the world.
So I'll just be, you know, looking at my phone at noon, Dan, on a Saturday or a Sunday.
And people like, holy, dude, did you see it?
I'm like, what do you guys?
I thought wrestling was a night thing.
Well, over there it was.
First thing is I got hit with a word by my mom, my weekend mom call.
She called me a smart aleck.
Yeah.
And I haven't been hit with that word in a long time.
And it just brought back so many memories of me being a little shit as a kid and stuff.
Smart Alec.
Yeah, just, uh, it's cut.
I mean, are we anchor wording Alec?
Got to, right?
What kind of an Alec?
Yeah.
It's your regular dumbass Alec.
But, yeah, that...
And I did the call early because she knows,
don't call me on Saturday,
because wrestling's on.
I saw there was complaints about
that you had to pay 30 bucks for it.
Yeah, this whole ESPN thing is...
They're fumbling it so hard.
Because you had to buy ESPN Plus?
You have to have the bundle with, like, Hulu.
Oh, you can't even just have ESPN Plus.
No, because I...
You have the full.
Yeah.
And then you have to pay another 30.
No, you don't have to, once you have the ESPN bundle, like full setup bundle with Hulu, it's a part of it.
But like I have just ESPN on my own, and I couldn't do it.
I had to go through back channels.
Ooh.
Of course he did.
Yeah, so the wrestling event started around one o'clock on Saturday,
only because it's in Saudi Arabia and Riyadh.
in a stadium that they built just for this event.
With highly compensated labor that was getting time off,
that all lived, none of which came home to their families in a box.
Yeah, or have any rights in the country for which they built their stadium in.
But I understand that they're getting a check, right?
They're just getting a check from this.
That's the only reason they're doing it there, because the crowd,
was just not into it as much as like
France has a better wrestling crowd than
Yeah than Saudi Arabia.
Well the euros have a rowdy
A rowdy soccer tradition.
Yeah.
They know how to get nuts.
The thing about WWE going to these other countries is
is like you're supposed to only get really the hardcore fans
to come to these things because it's like we're not coming here that often.
Yeah.
But no, you just have a bunch of people who want to just be.
at the event.
It turns into a Cowboys Stadium.
Yeah, it's just an Instagram thing.
That's fascinating to me.
And there was guys walking around because they had like a whole plaza outside like the
Cowboys do.
And there were a couple thousand people just hanging out outside of the event.
That's what you want in there.
Actually in the stadium.
And they put all these little LED like lights above each chair so they could do different
like lighting effects when people came in.
And it just ended up making the.
the whole event looked like it was empty.
Because, like, you couldn't see the crowd or anything,
but you just saw these lights that looked like they were just empty seats.
They took the passion out of wrestling.
And there wasn't, like, yeah, the pops weren't there for when people, like,
came back or came out.
Like, it just wasn't that big of a deal.
I really am very fascinated and stuff like this.
Like, just how much of the common reaction to things that you think is innate to you
is actually just because you grew up here and that's how we do it.
I've told you guys before that I've told you guys before that I,
I noticed in various places that Chinese people don't wait in line.
They just don't.
They had never didn't.
Boy, they were not even trying to be rude, it didn't seem.
But like, you know, I think that the soccer, this is a little bit political, but stay with me.
I think the soccer hooligan thing, people over there, like, fight their government a lot.
European people are used to getting out in the streets and doing just crazy shit, breaking things.
they're known as like a
hey the government works for us
and in America we have some of that
not as much as they do I'd say it's kind of opposite
but we still will get rowdy
you know we had a revolution and all that
but if you go to a place where like
they've pretty much been browbeaten
into having a pretty chill
why don't you just get along to go along
type vibe or you know
could go very badly poorly for you
are you going to be able to get as insane
over something that's not real.
And I don't mean wrestling, not real.
I mean, like, soccer, basketball.
Like, are you going to be able to cut loose
in a way that, you know, a 19-year-old
that the SEC can?
Because he's never, he's not going to get his ass beat for not going to jail.
I don't know.
I wonder about stuff like that when you see.
And I'm sure that there's examples of this,
because I know people in Japan get pretty into baseball.
And that's a fairly docile society.
but even I was showing my kids clips of
into it and cheering and stuff is different
than what you're talking about.
Yeah, they're not like fighting each other in the stands.
Yeah, and in the baseball in Japan,
that's my dream show trip one day.
Japan?
For baseball.
That would be sick.
And it's all cordoned.
It's awesome and it's passionate,
but you're right.
It's more of like a collective, happy,
it's really the site.
That's very interesting.
Yeah, it was very weird how they,
they played it up like this huge deal and like made this hoopla about oh yeah they're building this
just for us but then it just it didn't pay off like there wasn't and they're they're doing it as
like a tester to take wrestlemania there in a few years and if they do that it's just like i mean come
on dude they can't do it's russomania brother that's a bridge too far for me that's interesting
I will run through a few things here for you.
I was going to say there's probably something else we should run through first.
Well, it's probably just to remind people about Ownwell.
Yes, I've been corresponding with Ownwell.
Property taxes were due last week, Dan.
Yeah.
Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone is your landing page for all things.
Saving money with Ownwell.
It starts with your property taxes.
you did this first, I think, and found out this is just two, three, four minutes and you're signed up ready to go.
Yeah, very, very easy.
You're always, like, taken aback by the property taxes.
And then we got tons of emails from different people confirming.
Because I saved, what was my thing?
It was only about $500 or so, but that's a $500 that I would have paid.
And I say only because I'm looking at a guy here from Carter,
a guy, an email from Carter, 3946.
He saved.
David saved 1,500 bucks.
And then the biggest one here is, oh, Onwell reduced.
This is a, let's see, he saved.
Oh, he just said they reduced his 2025 home value by $32,000.
It didn't give me the exact savings, yeah.
You only pay Ownwell if they're saving you money.
They can also help you save money on your utilities, other commercial subscriptions.
They're here to help you save money.
Here to help you own well at ownwell.com slash the dumb zone.
It took me one year of working with Ownwell.
both personally and professionally,
to have it clicked to me that it was like,
oh,
it's for like a home ownership.
I'm going to help you with that.
Really tough look for me.
In a good way.
Well.
Yeah, that's right.
It's very well.
I'm going to run through some quick hits.
I think I pointed this out to you guys
during the football season
and some of the vernacular
that our sweet prince,
Shottie uses,
intentionality,
which
was a term that Jeffrey Epstein used a lot.
I found out this weekend.
Really?
Yeah.
So what's the Epstein thing?
What's going on right now?
Oh, man.
Just, uh...
Like, I just keep seeing tweets about, like, the...
You know, it's every...
They dumped three million pages of documents.
Yeah.
Seems a lot.
It is a lot.
And my, my situation here is,
I got very interested in this very early on,
relative to, you know, I think most people.
It was a topic on IJB a lot.
And then it just got all the way to,
look, the president clearly is somebody who was involved here.
So were you into this back when he was like being,
they always say he got this sweetheart deal in Florida or something.
It was around that time.
So you knew about it then?
After that.
Okay.
My wife read a book that the lady from the Miami Herald wrote.
in like 2011, 2012.
And so once it got to the point where it's like it becomes mainstream,
it's like we all do this, sports hipster, regular hipster.
Everybody else was into it now.
I was like, ugh.
That's fucking pop culture now.
And also like it reached the end that you know the president is somehow involved.
And at that point, I don't want to talk about it anymore because it just pisses people off.
We can't talk about how funny some of this stuff is because it's like,
and by all means, listen, if I had been a voting age in the 90s,
probably would have been voting for a pedophile.
I would have been voting for Bill Clinton, who is a pedophile.
So it's not, it just gets tricky.
Is it Julie Brown?
Yeah.
Okay, because I read her most, I think most recent book on it.
She doesn't mention a lot of Clinton, I don't think, but.
Well, no.
Or she says he wasn't like with.
But when laying out the Epstein, like, it is true.
It's kind of like, let me,
relates us to Brunig in a weird way.
Your boyfriend?
No, Brunig's my boyfriend.
He sets himself up. The reason he's so good at trolling, like he explained to us, is he's
very serious about all these other topics.
But then he just for sports, he'll troll.
And people think, oh, this is who he is across the board.
They never see a hint of that.
So it feels like Epstein was maybe, I feel like I remember this from the book, that he was
actually a guy who would have like, let's have a scientific summit.
Oh, yeah.
And let's do that. But so he was respected in certain areas because he had lots of money and that
he would just host these get-togethers that weren't actually about tagging ladies or kids.
It was in the background, though, but it was separate.
But just to, just a kind of, it's a front, right?
It's your legitimate, you're, look, he's a legitimate guy.
So there is some, is it ambiguity?
or just some, you know, if your name is associated with Epstein, it doesn't always mean...
And that's what people used to say about Bill Gates.
But it could be with Trump.
Russell Wood.
Or Clinton or whatever.
I don't know.
But, I mean, Trump probably has pictures with girls.
And the whole thing is built out of witness testimony.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
But there are some people.
So Bill Gates, what would you say about him?
Well, I saw a funny one.
This, that...
He definitely was into the ladies?
Yeah.
Okay.
Very.
To the point where one of them gave him...
For some reason, we woke up STD and the STI, like the inactive list instead of the disease.
It's not a disease, Jake.
It's now called STI?
Yeah.
I miss this.
So, what's I?
Infection.
I was trying to think of what else it could be.
It would be funny, but it's just infection.
There's an email exchange where he, I think he might have actually drunkenly, they say Epstein sent this to himself,
but it was supposed to go to Bill.
But there's, he's emailing him about like,
I kept it quiet when you needed medication for the STI that you gave to Melinda
and you didn't want her to know where it came from.
And now you're kicking me off Xbox Live
because he got banned from Xbox Live.
That was, my algorithm brought me that.
I'm sure it did.
Not all the rest of the stuff.
I'm sure it did.
I don't sure about that.
I wanted to know his screen name.
Yeah.
And if you go back and look, somebody knew it at the time.
Like somebody screen captured it in 2013 or something.
And it was like, this is definitely Jeffrey Epstein.
So he got an STD from like one of the girls.
So he emails the guy that hooks him up with the girl.
What do I do for this?
He's like, I got you.
And then he kept.
So my point is that even some of the guys like Nome Chomsky, my, you know, wrote this book right back here.
One of my favorite books, one of my favorite thinkers.
Was he tagging?
I don't know if he was tagging, but he definitely knew what was going on and was like supporting it and defending Epstein.
even after my that's a thing it's all after florida it's all after he had already been arrested and
taken a plea deal and that's the what happened back in 2022 whenever it was that he got caught and then
quote unquote killed himself because now we have emails questioning that very literally saying like
he's still alive he's not he did not die in that jail those are a little fuzzy but um when he got like
brought back to trial and arrested again. His lawyers were saying, like, we already did all this.
Like, the fact that you're finding that he has all this, you already knew all this.
And I think the government at that time was like, this is underage. You got it with prostitution.
They can't just say prostitutes. You're federally running underage girls. This is a different
level. We're going to come in and take you down for that. But it just becomes a political story.
and I don't like making people feel weird
because like you might listen
if you want this for your taxes
and you want this regarding immigration
and this regarding abortion
you might have to vote for a pedophile
in the 90s if you had told me like
hey you're going to get free health care
if you vote for a pedophile
I probably would have done it
so I'm not faulting anybody
basically it's just like to me
like
it's like anything else you know
like I used to be way more into pedophilia
before they made it all political
like I was into it whenever it's just
kind of the love of the game.
What are these boys up to?
And now, like everything else,
I can't keep up with pedophilia
without just politics being thrown in my face
time and time again,
which is kind of where...
It's sad.
Go woke, go broke.
It's sad, really, that you can't...
But it was a big weekend for that,
just consuming information.
But...
Back to Shottie.
One of the things I told
you he says is he says the fill in the blank piece he doesn't mean a piece of pie he means like oh
connection piece that's one of the things we went through whenever we were trying to get into the uh connection
piece is a big one but the execution piece and that's where the unity piece really comes in that's where
the bonding piece comes in and that's where the communication piece is most important and i'm telling you
I get somehow I think I have a LinkedIn through the company now so I get their emails and I also follow I don't know I guess enough like self-helpy business guru type who's emails LinkedIn emails of just like here's a top post from people you might like okay and it's just a lot of guys writing today we're going to write about the planning piece and I'm like I you guys snuck this in like bomb cyclone we had another word for that before you just didn't say
it. We're going to talk about planning.
You replace not needing a word with a word.
Speaking of Shottie, I've determined this is his favorite time of the year.
Phone calls.
Well, phone calls. He loves dinner, too, and I've been reading that he's, this guy was in, like, he's, he's doing all these assistant coach interviews.
Like, Jerry ain't handling it. He don't care. Yeah. He, he handles the big ones.
Shottie in his, in his bag.
But your tight end coach?
Yes. What if I can have five different dinners to determine who's our next tight end coach going to be? He loves it.
I got a scam DM, which sucks because...
You fell victim to the scam DM? Not yet. But, you know, you just, when you first just see the little one pop up there, that's a little dopamine hit. Like, ooh, who wants to talk?
Yeah. And then you see it's Dana Larson, and you're like, well now. And you click it and it's like, vote for my podcast for...
I had one of those last week.
My God, damn.
Who was that?
Why couldn't this have been from Carrie Mounce or something else?
It didn't get me sucks.
It's Dana.
So, yeah.
Yeah, I wanted to book Dana Larson for, like, the game stream or something.
Dude, she's awesome.
I did a Jamie Newberg class with her a couple years ago.
It was the first time I'd ever, like, actually talk to her at length,
and it was after we had gone through all the court stuff, and she's down.
She's on the team.
The F-the-Man team.
But her Twitter account is fucked right now.
Like it's been posting when a PlayStation stuff for like two weeks.
So as soon as she DM me, I knew.
IsTalk too, right?
Yeah, but I think he got his back.
Oh, yeah.
That's who I got it from.
Yeah.
Was Ishtok.
But I also, I'm waiting.
Like, Tim McMahon, I bought a MacBook pro from him.
Dude, you're, it's got to be doing any day.
A while ago.
Any day now, man.
I keep calling FedEx.
A guy email.
It'll have the OS you like on it, though.
That's right.
Good point.
The old one.
Yeah.
It's the only way Dan could get what he actually needs is to get scammed.
Big email on the weekend guy.
I replied a lot of emails.
And a guy sent me an email.
I replied.
And then he replied.
And I felt like I needed to acknowledge it.
In a text, what would you do?
Wait.
Well, I have read receipts on, so you know I read it.
God, I...
That's the acknowledgement that I saw it.
I...
That's why it's there.
I...
I wonder if I should put that on.
Because I'll drop a heart.
Don't.
I like a heart.
You don't want to be thinking about, did someone see when I read this?
Blake keeps it on to play mind games.
No, I don't.
Yes, he does.
He likes you to know.
Yeah, I saw it.
It's very hell of responding.
I saw it.
I don't need to say, got it.
You don't need to do it?
Thumb up. I read it.
You need a thumb up.
You can see I read the text.
Yeah, Blake, I do that with Blake because I'll text him like, hey, I got this up, and I see that he read it.
And I'm like, cool.
And we need no further communication.
Thumb up.
We got it.
I like a heart.
A heart is a funny thumb up.
Okay.
I like dancing.
Blackfish?
Blackfish is very few people.
It's because he cares.
Yeah.
When he sends me that, dopamine.
Yeah.
Because you know you're in the club.
I've trusted you not to cancel me.
That's when they, because they rejected his Trayvon Martin emoji that he kept trying to get made to reply to people.
You're doing the Trayvon Martin hoodie in hindsight.
Just really a banner moment.
Yeah, what's wrong with that?
Nothing.
I was showing support.
At the time, LeBron.
But this guy, we go, he sends, I send, he sends.
And I'm like, this needs an acknowledgement.
But instead of hitting reply and then hitting an.
emoji, which also felt really weird because it's an email.
That's extra.
You can just hit an emoji.
On the email now?
Yeah.
And I think it sends him a thumbs up or a heart.
So I just didn't know if you guys thought that was like, is that?
Is that okay?
Okay.
Yeah.
I'm up to an email.
Why is it okay to do to a, you're right, though.
To a text message.
Try to be nice.
I have a new top-ranked most annoying cheese
It was previously fondue
I don't know if you have thoughts on fondue
But it's like
Where's the meat? Where's the meat?
It's not coming
You just put stuff in it
We just have cheese
Fondon don't
No I make a lot of frozen pizzas at home
Like a lot to pretty much all my kids eat
My new lowest ranked
Most Annoying cheese is everything that falls
off of the cheese pizza, those little
mozzarella, and then gets everywhere.
There's got to be a better way to, you know what I'm talking about?
Absolutely.
Like the cheese's fault.
But like a third, the way they package it,
like a third of the cheese just falls off.
Don't get mad at cheese.
And it's all, now I've been, oh, I've taken to open it.
I've seen you open things.
That may be it.
And you're ripping it off and like you're not
carefully cutting it so that you can pull it off.
Like you're...
Dan does this with a blow torch.
Like it's it perfect.
I do.
It is aggressive, so I have to do it over the sink.
And now, because I found myself, like,
kind of sweeping the cheese back onto the Vita.
Yeah.
Now I do it over in the sink, like, to where it's in a bowl or a little plastic,
like a paper plate, something to get it back on.
I hate that cheese.
I hate that cheese.
Extra pack of cheese, little craft.
Ooh.
A little something from the, from Kroger or whatever, and you sprinkle your own on.
You add to it, right?
I, uh, don't.
Dude.
No, I mean, I don't really eat for...
I've never done that, but I'm suggesting it for you.
Throw some deli ham on there or something.
Definitely extra cheese, yeah.
Okay.
Deli ham.
I like that.
Whatever you want.
Whatever you're in the mood for.
Don't just throw what they give you in there, add to it.
Never put enough pepperoni.
You know what I hated was the little square cube pepperoni.
What are we...
Dude.
I don't like that.
French bread.
Put that on the French bread.
I made adult bagel.
Bragile bites.
What's wrong with that?
I don't like those little pepperonies.
You use pepperoni bits?
I got to log a pepperoni and I cubed it up and put it on there.
Like that, that sounds adult bagel bites.
Oh, that's so crispy, so good.
Everything, yeah.
Getting adult, the ability to buy things as adult is just doing the exact same stuff you did as a kid, but better.
Like a little bit better version of it.
Get more freedom.
A full-size bagel and make a bagel bite out of it.
And speaking of, I'll tell you about this more in depth later this week, but
It was the annual stock show trip yesterday.
That was a great time.
It's just we get to do it better than whenever I was a kid
because my kids don't know what a budget is.
So we spend...
Is it just you and the main family?
Yeah, my mother-in-law met us out there later in the trip.
And then, you know, as I've told you,
I don't think this is like me.
Like my wife's grandfather was a carnie.
he was in Vietnam and after that he was a car and a big one like he would go all over with carnivals and he had horses miniature horses you know effed up looking animals I think and they've had a booth out at the stock show this is the only thing they do now they don't travel they don't go to fairs everywhere like they used to but they have a booth where you can get your picture taken on a pony a little miniature pony
and you can hold little baby goats.
And they've had that booth for like 60 years now.
So it is the one thing that we get to just kind of walk up.
There's always a line.
We don't wait.
It sucks.
I would wait.
But my wife is a type.
If someone offers something for free, she's doing it.
No matter what.
No concern if it looks like it.
She's like, I don't care.
I do.
And that's why when there was a group of listeners in line,
when we walked up and cut the line yesterday,
and they're like, oh, radio star.
Coming through.
Good bit.
Guess the dumb zone's going well.
One of them actually said that.
Awesome.
I was like, bro, this is my, never mind.
We know him.
Yeah.
Yeah, Kim's fan.
Gay, super gay.
That's a sad pony.
That's funny.
Dude, that pony is not sad.
It is on every type of,
it's suited out of it.
It's Terry Shivo, bro.
Just along for the ride.
I think we're on to the portion where Blake gives us his weekend check.
And that reminds you.
Well, it reminds me that you're probably really toasty worm inside your home this weekend.
Thanks to community mechanical.
And if you had any things that need to be put on tall shelves.
It's just kind of a bonus.
Have the community guys come out.
And you'll be like, holy crap, this sales guy is.
really, really tall.
Travis and Chris put my Christmas stuff back up in the attic.
I can't wait to meet the technician.
He'll be a normal...
No.
No.
He's like two inches taller than him.
Yeah.
They're giant people.
With giant hearts.
They care for you.
Yeah, but they do care for you, man.
Really, during the freeze, they were offering to anybody that signed up for the preventative
maintenance, they kind of send a pre-email out saying they were working all through that.
any problems.
They will, that's one of the benefits.
I've talked before about, like my old HVAC company that an old man owned, he was like
a listener of the ticket many years ago.
I was hooked up with him.
And then it passed down to his children after he got out of the game.
And they would call me and, or they would say, yeah, we got an appointment set up for you.
They'll be there between nine and four.
And I'm like, actually, I really can't do that.
I've got to, can you at least give me a window of three hours?
Can we do like a morning window?
And they're like, I go, your dad used to always do that.
And she's like, yeah, dad used to do a lot of stuff that we're not doing anymore.
So she was upset.
The bottom line wasn't like.
Yeah.
But I think Travis, a community mechanical, realizes, look, we're trying to treat you like you would want to be treated.
and we might even get you to be a customer for life by doing that.
So, yeah, they kind of go above and beyond.
You could actually text him what you need.
They're wonderful.
Give out that number and all that kind of stuff.
Communitydfw.com.
I've glazed them enough.
You can call or text Travis anytime.
Did I glaze them?
Oh, yeah.
469667-7-290.
469667-7-290.
Hit them up.
CommunityDFW.com.
I had another listener birthday party over the weekend.
Uh, Chuckie Cheese again.
It's the happening spot.
It's a home game for Brooks.
Was this the Fort Worth one?
No, that's next weekend.
Okay, because I was fielding emails for Blake and sending them to him.
Yeah, I saw one of them.
Yeah.
That one's tough, because do I want to drive over an hour to go to a birthday party?
Is that Allen?
No, the Fort Worth one.
Oh, that's an hour?
For me.
Wow.
Anyway.
No, this one was closer to me, and kind of hope that guys not,
listening because
about to get ripped
no no no I'm just about to
I nailed his wife
I'm about to expose myself for how dumb I am
his wife was not American
and her mom obviously
not American either
and they were very impressed that I
had two boys on my own
oh
where's mom she's working
oh I brought both boys here by yourself
yeah and so they were very eager to help
American women are
like, what are you doing here? Who are you? Do you know my son? What's your bit?
Yeah. So these ladies just impressed at the...
Impressed that a... Look at this guy. Does he wash the dishes too?
I'll tell you what else I do. Yeah, I don't... That's also very interesting. I don't know this for sure,
but I would bet that the American man... And it's just because they browbeat us into it
to good results, I guess, but I think we're way more involved than like cultural.
most other...
Yeah.
You know, it's just
it's way it seems.
I always thought it...
Well, when I lived in Mexico
just for...
Very masculine.
...extained student.
I thought they were 20 years behind
just on everything.
Movies, pop culture,
just the way things were.
My papa had a mistress
that everybody kind of knew about.
Yeah.
And I was like, whoa,
I don't know that would fly today.
Maybe it would 20 years ago.
Maybe it's even more behind.
But they are behind in certain areas.
I just like that, that they were impressed.
It's an appreciation.
It's one of the reasons to have a kid.
To impress women?
Yeah, to impress other women.
You go out to the park or something.
Oh, look at just the dad with the kid.
Although, we're trying to get over the...
I don't like to talk about it.
Just do that, and then all of a sudden she thinks your wife died.
Next thing you know, you're up on that slide, up in the top part.
But in my small dalliance with the French au pair that I've told you about,
they liked a fight, and I was really not about it.
Wait, what do you mean?
I dated a French girl for a little bit, and she just, everything turned into a fight.
And I was just so beaten by that.
The French?
Yeah.
Are these people that you met this weekend, French?
No, I don't think so.
Okay, what's just foreign women?
Just, yeah, non-American women.
Oh, you think non-American women like to fight?
Yeah, I think so.
All right.
I think they're very, like I said, welcoming and appreciative, but I do think that they'll give you some live.
If you compare it, and it's weird because it's American and like we're all from over there.
But in general, I think you're like you thinking, oh, I need a Brazilian woman and me telling you no chance.
Yeah, don't we have a listener with a hot Guatemalan?
Andy.
So I think if you're like, if you're saying, if you're not.
you were to just in general say like
maybe this is where Irvin comes in
italian or
but like a French woman
I thought some cultures are subservient
though. See this is
the duality of woman right
I feel like they're more high
more low and the
you might get more of an even keel from
the American woman as crazy as that
sounds
but yeah this this truly felt like my first
divorced dad weekend because it was the first
time because Chuck E. Cheese wants you to pay
for the socks to get into the trampoline area
and the jungle gym area.
You get to keep them,
but it's like,
can I just bring the ones back from last time?
I don't care about the socks.
But yeah,
I think they want 13 bucks
for your kid to jump on the trampolines.
And it's a no thank you for me.
But this was the first weekend
where I looked around,
saw no attendant,
and said, all right, go ahead.
Wait a second.
He wasn't the only one.
You can't just wear your own socks?
No.
The socks are a tell for who paid
for access to the trampoline thing.
Yeah.
They can tell if the kid doesn't have...
So you're already in Chuckie Cheese, but they're like,
don't go in the ball pit unless you pay more.
Yes.
They're doing add-ons now?
Yeah, but the add-ons are just stuff that they should just have.
Yeah.
And so before I would try to be a responsible role model,
hey, we didn't pay for this, it's not right.
I've now where I've got two kids on my own.
Chapified.
This is a divorce...
I feel like a divorce dad.
Have at it.
Yep.
So he had a good time, and then the attendant comes up and starts checking socks.
in there without the Chucky Cheese socks.
So I feel like in a very chappy way, I walk to the other side of Chuckie Cheese.
Just let him handle this.
You're on your own, bud.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I mean, it's way more likely if he's there by himself that they let him keep going
than if you come over and now they can assign blame to an adult.
Because the first thing he's going to do when the attendant looks at him, he's going to look
at me, he's going to out me.
Right.
And so I just feel like if he maybe just went in there on his own.
You need to go hide in the bar.
He didn't know.
You didn't even know.
Duck behind the salad bar.
You're appalled.
Yeah, so I hid behind the Paw Patrol game when my kid got in trouble.
He's learning.
Yeah.
He's learning a lot.
He's learning.
Hit the cages yesterday because it's softball season.
That's right.
And you were not a first round draft pick.
I fell in the draft.
And I'm still kind of in limbo whether that makes me mad or not.
It makes you mad.
I kind of don't.
I don't need that.
I know you need it.
I don't need to be angry and stuff, but it felt good to be back.
And maybe I will try to up my game this season and get back in the first round.
I'm at the point where I still get pissed off playing sports, even rec sports.
And then, like last night, I was in bed and I'm like still kind of ruminating, as they say,
on a couple things people said to me.
And then I was like, this is beyond ridiculous.
I'm going to sleep.
And now I can actually do that.
And I woke up and was like this, that was, but I was pissed thinking about it.
Like, what did you mean by that?
No, and you've unfortunately seen this side of me where I was acting like a fool at pickup basketball a couple weeks ago.
And then when I got home, just what am I doing?
I'm 34.
And it's okay to do it.
You just have to be able to recognize it afterward rather than doubling down and being like, you know what?
Yeah.
That was a bitch.
So true.
Did you guys see that the like, A.O.
AI bots made their own fill in the blank.
I hate to be bubble buster.
Social network.
I don't think it's really,
I don't think it's as real as you think.
Because I've heard of that, like, how do you even say it?
It starts with the M, right?
Bolt something.
Sure.
That it's a lot of,
it's almost like the,
you remember Boston Dynamics?
They would do the robots.
And the robots would be badass,
but then they would kind of also fake the video
to another degree where you're like, what do we...
I think that's kind of what this place is known for.
Is a little bit of like gimmicky,
but it allowed us to think about it.
Well, here's my takeaway,
because I did just see what it looked like,
and it looked like every Reddit post I read
where it talks in paragraphs,
and it makes you...
It has these hooks where it's not this, but it's this.
You know, they kind of talk in the same way,
and that's most of the internet to me.
So I'm now going to approach
of the internet like it's not real and i think i'm gonna be better for it i got you yes that's if you
can shift your frame but the problem is like all the epstein stuff that came out this weekend like at
the same time and there is there are some fake ones out there people being funny like can you believe
that he wanted the uh chucky cheese band replaced and there's just like text you know copied in there
but almost all of it is real
and I did not mean to say that like that
but
there are there's a lot of international
politics happening
as David Ruff put it to me
and T.C. this morning
it's very weird to have your
entire worldview validated
so for like the last 15 years
if you had asked me anything about this
like is it real
global pedophiles who control the
financial and
so is this kind of what?
It's like, holy shit, it is all of it's real.
Is it kind of what they were saying like PizzaGate was?
Yeah, yeah.
There's a, this is actually the real thing.
There's a quote from a dude on Chapo, another podcast who he once said that the
Pizza Gate people had a square peg and they were trying to get it in a round hole.
But they were, it very much is real, is real that that's, that whole thing exists where
there's blackmail.
And I remember saying on the ticket 15 years ago, maybe with you and Bob, in a weird conversation,
because Cuban had gotten accused of something years past in Portland, remember?
And we were just talking about Cuban, and he seems like a normal dude, but it's like,
it just is the case that the overwhelming majority of people that have billions of dollars
are doing super out there sex stuff.
And a lot of it is out there to the point of illegality.
and if they all do it, then they can all hide it.
And there's a level of blackmail involved.
But it's all true.
I mean, it's a higher level of, you know, cheating is exciting,
so that makes it better.
No, I...
You know, now if I can cheat with my buddy's wife,
that's even higher stakes.
Oh, gosh.
What about a slave?
Well, no, that's not as exciting because it's...
Right?
It's something that shouldn't be done.
You can do whatever you want with your slave.
Yeah, but you shouldn't own a slave.
So the root thing is the fair.
I mean, Tiger, what if it's the 16-year-old from the neighborhood,
or the 18-year-old?
I don't think Tiger ever went underage, but who knows?
He knew her before then.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's all a different level of chase,
but that's the thing, is that you see this AI thing happening on the weekend,
and you're like, people are saying this is fake,
and it's next to the most.
insane emails you could ever possibly imagine.
But that's real?
Yeah.
It's very hard to sort through.
It was a weird weekend on the internet.
But then this morning woke up to our new UIL alignments where...
I heard a little something about this.
Yeah.
The interest for me is, yeah, Argyll got their new football district,
new other sports districts for going on next year.
And what does this mean?
Are we happy?
Are we upset?
I would like a word with the UIL.
It seems like they're not very good at this.
What's your beef?
It seems like you should just like...
Beef Monday.
It seems like you should put pins on the map and just group them by who's closest,
but that's not what they do all the time.
It is bonkers the way this works.
It's not like school size?
It is based on school size,
but then Argyll is somehow playing a team in Nevada,
which is east of Wiley.
So when they're going to play on a Friday night,
It's good for you.
It's over two.
Well, sure, but two hours to get to the school you're in the district with?
Yeah, it's crazy.
It's not good.
Dude, I remember when I was in, so when I was in high school, and this is actually how you learned what,
this is where a lot of my used to be a field came from.
But like, you know where my high school is, right?
Uh-huh.
On the way to Fort Worth.
But pretty far out, it's on the way to Fort Worth.
We got districted with Irving MacArthur, Irving Nimitz,
and Irving when I was in high school.
Now that I'm an adult, I realize that's only like a half hour drive on 183,
but it is not close.
There's 15 high schools in between there.
And we would be, I'm like, I've never been to, what is Irving Nimitz?
And we would just, we'd drive into these, it was so weird, dude.
Like, not even from a racial standpoint.
It was just like, this place looks nothing like, it's a different city, the different world.
You get into Irving School Stadium, brother.
And then, because you usually are going to get two groupings when you're in high school, right?
Because it's every three years.
Every two.
Every two?
Yeah.
So I guess it depends.
Yeah, but you're probably going to get two.
Next up, Frisco.
So there's no even consistency to it.
Where it was like, okay, so before, and Friscoe had one high school at the time.
I didn't know it existed.
And it was an hour and 15 minutes on a bus.
Yeah, you guys, you would also play South Lake.
eventually but that was also we would definitely play like birdville haltham and usually like
keller but south lake was also smaller you got to remember when i went to high school
south lake was still a 4a and then getting to 5a when i was driving around south lake
putting uh super gluing red stickers on the back of g wagons and lexuses they were a five they were
barely a 5A high school.
That was like 2002
when I was vandalizing over there.
So we didn't always play them.
But my point is just yes.
Blake's going to be driving.
He's got grapevine in the middle.
Nevada on the east and then Argyle northwest.
And Eagle Mountain.
It's just like it's all spread out.
And I know like you got a group of Frisco schools
that didn't, I understand that you got to keep some schools together.
But for Argyll to literally drive past 15 schools on their way
to get to Nevada community high school
seems weird.
It is weird.
Especially for volleyball.
Just think about volleyball, dude.
That's my beef Monday.
But thanks to Tepp and Step,
they were awesome this morning.
Ah.
That's where I get my high school news.
You should.
Is that your ender?
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there's the Brown's helmet.
Who is that?
Oh, dude, that's
Listen, that's
why when the news was broken to me
The Cowboys might have had 10 guys in that team in 1995.
It was basically like watching a Cowboy.
Yeah.
The Luca Trade anniversary was officially yesterday.
I've always thought it was February 2nd.
Yeah, me too.
But I guess it was made the night of February 1st.
Yeah, I guess.
And officially, you know, almost taken out with the track.
Let's just drop this at 11 p.m. on a Saturday night.
Do you think there's actually any real world impact of that?
Like even doing the Epstein files on a Friday or what is time anymore?
Well, I don't know.
New cycles do come and go so quick these days.
So by the time you get to Monday from Friday, but back then it was there was not a lot of news.
I don't know that like, I understand, but it's trading Luca.
Like I don't know that we could have like tucked in the bombing of.
Hiroshima on a Friday.
There's more of a joke.
But seriously, though, I don't, with what's the point of it?
They all do it this way.
And it seems to, it seems to assume a media world that is gone.
Oh, yeah, maybe this will stem the tide a little.
No, we're talking about it a year later.
Yeah, but it's weird.
You had even texted me yesterday because we didn't really talk about it in our weekend
phone call as far as a topic that's coming up on the show.
And I really wasn't, I don't know, I know Brad Townsend like put out a,
let's do an oral history in the, I didn't even click on it, like in the Dallas
Morning News.
I don't, I've been so deep in it.
I don't need to go back.
I am interested a little bit.
I think Stein, Mark Stein, talked to Cuban.
I saw some quotes about that, which just pissed me off a little bit more.
Did you see it?
No.
Let's try to.
I saw that Stein had something and I did not.
I did not read it.
I don't, I don't, uh, it.
The Luca trade.
I have a hard time reading too much anything about it.
I mean, if you listen to us a lot, then you kind of know.
We don't really talk NBA anymore.
I used to listen to a ton of NBA podcast to try and, as they were pontificating about
what could be up at the trade deadline because I cared about what Portland or San Antonio or the
Lakers or whatever we're doing because of the way that might affect the Mavs.
And then what could the Mavs do and just this quest on building around Luca
and into a title team, which they did.
I mean, they were right there.
And now to have it to have it be where it is today, I'm very upset that they got Cooper
Flagg.
I'm upset because I feel like they got rewarded.
and if you're still telling me there's no conspiracy there,
then I'm even more upset.
I searched the emails.
Nothing.
What do you mean?
Oh, the Epstein emails?
You're just hoping Dumont would be in it?
Oh, yeah.
No, and listen, the Adelson.
What's that going to do for the Giants?
One of the Giants co-owners is...
Dude, and that's what I was kind of starting to get to
in the weekend check is just,
I gave up on this story and was like,
I don't, what is, it just sucks now.
It's all, it's a political thing.
Epstein.
Yeah.
But with this most recent thing over the weekend, I'll admit, I'd kind of checked out to a point where,
yeah, dude, of course, there's going to be a lot of famous dudes in here that you,
random, just random ass dudes catching strays.
It's like, okay, you know about the president, Bill Clinton, and whatever.
But also here's, and then the Sixers owner has been known, Josh Harris.
So will this be like a Billy Bush thing where these people lose their jobs, but not the big politicians?
Yes, in short.
But it's also tricky because it's like, what if it's Hollywood and you get named in here?
It's like they're not going to hire me anymore.
Wait a minute.
So is this why both sides?
Because I thought there didn't like Trump while running saying this is a huge deal,
we're going to make all the Epstein stuff public.
And then after he's in office, he's like, oh, that's fake.
Why are you even bringing up Epstein?
But then people would say, well, why didn't Biden release it all?
Like, why didn't they?
I asked that.
So is that because there's both sides and Biden had to protect his buddies?
Yeah, that's probably, and now I'm straight pontificating.
That's probably part of it.
But I think in general, the Biden thing is we're going to protect normal, like,
we want to protect the powerful.
Whether it's their friends or not.
They just want to keep the status quo.
I don't think Biden so strangely was boning,
but he's definitely making a fortune off of everything working the way it works
and keeping all the behind closed off.
Anyways, there's just a lot of sports figures in here,
and there's going to be more.
So yes, I immediately searched Jerry Jones, Mark Cuban, Adelson.
And Adelson's in there.
He definitely knew him.
but nothing that I think is going to force their hand to force the self-team.
Yeah.
Well, the Luca trade, though, in short, it's numb me to all that is NBA.
It's totally turned me off on the Mavs.
I'm still at arm's length, somewhat interested.
But I mean, Paul George got busted.
Okay.
Although he's Eastern Conference anyway, so I don't care as much.
but any NBA news I mean the Yonest trade is the it's interesting that's about it just because
but it's also interesting like he's involved in it and I'm very interested to see the hall they get
because then you can add to that to whatever the hall of Luca could have been if you did say
we were going to trade Luca if you made it a thing you would have got so much
and what you did get, you have to remember that Cooper Flag was not part of the Luca trade,
despite the fact that their GM, after getting Cooper Flag and the number one pick in the lottery,
said, I hope the media and the fans are starting to see our vision now play out.
Because their vision was not making this trade.
Their vision was Anthony Davis, some other guy, and won first round pick when they had two.
and Anthony Davis has played in 29 games since he was a Maverick.
What, maybe 27 of those?
He actually made the whole game because of no injury, maybe 26.
I can't remember.
I thought the one that was really telling was he's never played,
I think he's never played five games in a row.
It's either that or more than five.
But I don't think he's ever played five consecutive games.
That's like a week and a half.
And this is not just, oh, man, bad luck.
It's not bad luck.
that's who Anthony Davis is.
His nickname was street clothes
because most games he would be in his street clothes.
Yeah, I hate that.
I hate the, that's bad.
Cooper flag luck, yeah.
The Anthony Davis thing was established fact.
The Cooper flag thing is luck.
And I hate when people get bailed out
straight by luck.
It happens in every sport.
The ball bounces a funny way,
but it's better when it works out the way
it should for you for better or worse.
And the one thing I did see,
and I don't know how many,
man was able to do this, but Tim McMahon was being interviewed by somebody, and he was giving
Nico quotes that I guess at the time were off the record, and maybe now they're not, but he was
definitely saying these were off the record quotes. And Tim is describing after that last
calf strain, which had been his fourth or fifth one, at least in Nico's eyes in the last like 18 months,
that he would just get Tim on the phone and bitch. And Tim was like, listen,
you're going to have to put your, I'm tired of getting him pissed off
and everybody pissed off at me for this, anonymous sources.
Put your name on it.
If you have a problem with the way your superstar is acting,
you or someone else put your name on it.
Okay, so like maybe it's like the wind horse thing after the finals game.
Yeah.
That probably came from Nico.
Yeah, and from Brian.
But yeah.
And then it's like, okay, but yes, exactly.
That's what I mean.
That was like the first one.
But that's, it was, you know, team officials are increasingly,
frustrated that he will give up and blah, blah, blah.
And, yeah.
And it piss, you know, it makes Luca pissed at Tim, and Tim's like, put your name on it.
Because otherwise...
Right, Luca would call out Tim McMahon in the press conference.
Like, it's always you saying something negative.
And I think Tim said something the effect of, I would say to him, well, what are you going to do about it?
Like, you're just bitching to me about it.
I do the story.
You guys are obviously not talking to him about it.
What do you want to do about it?
And Nico was like, I'm going to trade his ass.
That's what I'm going to do.
and that he started just like kind of throwing that around like i'm going to show him if he thinks
he can do this so when you say his objective was not cooper flag it was anthony davis and a couple of
other guys i don't even think that was his objective his objective was to show up and put up
what he viewed as a petulant child and he was in charge so he could get away with it because it
was a power vacuum but i think he just fucking hated luka and here's my problem is you never
know who to believe, but
when time goes
on, it feels like Jason Kidd was really
really involved. Oh yeah.
At a minimum,
he ran no interference.
He saw this as a
play for him because this would give
him more longevity.
And so now, maybe we'll hold this for tomorrow
because I want to talk about it more tomorrow.
I'm actually excited to talk, Luca,
this feels good.
Kid had this rant about
flag playing point guard last night, because
people are asking him questions about it.
And he's just being a dick.
I know what I'm doing.
You don't.
I develop players.
And like, that was almost sort of acceptable and cute when they were winning and he had
not had a hand in ruining things.
I'd be like, well, the guy does win.
You know, I would bring up Janus.
Like, he developed Janus.
You would correctly be like, it's Janus.
How much are we really putting on kid?
But I would let him say that stuff because he was good and they were good and it was all
working.
Now, when he snaps on a media member and tries to do that little, I'm going to show everybody up thing, over cuss, it drives me crazy, dude.
Like, I have no tolerance for it now.
That asshole, I know all thing.
I see through it now.
Because if you knew all, 77 would still be here.
Knowing all means being able to shelve your ego a little bit.
And I always had the suspicion with kid of like, dude, his ego and his anger is, he's,
little finger conniving shit. It's a problem. But it was, you look past it. Now,
it just feels like he's rearranging chairs to always have power even more. And it's hard
for me to watch it play out because I know that he has more power because he got lucretrated.
That's what makes it tough to get in, you know, really at all. Yeah. And it's not just,
if I go back to the 29 games played as a Maverick for Anthony Davis, I really wouldn't have
cared if he played 82 and he played well.
I don't.
That wasn't, it still was a bad trade long term because Luca Donchich is 24 or 25 years old.
And it's a lifeline to the Lakers who were about to enter an actual world of irrelevancy.
Because they're like, all we have if LeBron leaves is this guy, Anthony Davis.
And we really aren't going to be able to get much for him on the open market.
Like, that's the really, I, we're, this is almost such a bad trade that I think back to Major League Baseball actually deny.
You know, you have to get the trade approved by the league office.
But in the 70s, maybe 80s, I don't know.
I read baseball history.
They denied some trades because they were like salary dumps.
I denied the Chris Paul trade to the Lakers a few years ago, you know.
Yeah.
That one changed into history.
I almost feel like this could have been denied in a different time if it was somebody actually looking at it going, wait, no, you're, this just can't be.
But the league wouldn't.
The Lakers.
Yeah, this is great.
It's a lifeline to the Lakers.
Yeah.
And that's why I continue to believe, even though it's vetted and there's no way they could have changed.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't believe it.
they've somehow kept this Epstein stuff under wraps,
if we're going to bring it back to that,
all these people for all these decades.
And you're telling me,
no, there's no way they could have rigged the NBA lottery.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm sure there's no way.
And that's why I look at that fat F,
the owner of the MAVs,
and I can't support the MAVs.
I can't put a dollar into what he is involved in.
because I do think it was a Nico thing, first and foremost,
but I also think it was an easy sell that Nico made to that guy.
Like, hey, you don't want to pay.
He didn't talk to you either, does he?
No, he didn't talk.
Of course, oh, you know what?
You want to give him like the Supermax next year?
He doesn't even talk to you?
Like, this is bullshit.
How about we show him who runs this team?
How about we run this team?
Like, were we that good of a team last?
year. This is Nico talking to
Dumont. We were kind of
good. What were we like 500?
Then we made some trades at the trade
deadline, didn't I? And then
where were we, where do we end up?
The NBA finals?
Right.
All right. I'm going to make a trade.
Let me sell it to you, Dumont.
Let me just first test your
basketball knowledge.
Give me some of your favorite players in history.
Colby,
Shaq. What do you like
about them? They were hard workers. They worked hard.
12 months a year. Oh, really? You think Shaq worked hard?
Okay, good. That's a good answer. So I know the baseline of your basketball knowledge.
So let me then tell you that what about a guy that plays defense and offense?
Look at that. 25 points a game sometimes when he plays. He often plays.
Yeah, it's tough. And then all the pieces they put around Luca don't fit the new team.
and I see some online, like I follow the MAZ at arm's length.
I'm in Dallas, so I can't miss it, but you see some online of,
boy, a lot of these guys that Nico gave these extensions to,
they're just not playing as well as they used to.
So weird.
Yeah, I must just be a deal got paid and fat and happy.
Yeah.
Or is it that, as you would point out, Luca would put his teammates in a different position,
in a better position to score
and in a game that it's a game of millimeters,
you know, that really matters where you get the...
Anyway, I'm numb to it.
I have to pee now.
Don't care.
I'm going to pull the rip cord on this.
Jake has to pee now, and we'll keep talking sports.
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but they were tweeting something.
And some fan replied,
how about you try winning a playoff game then talk?
And her name was Jennifer, Jennifer Williams.
And C.J. McCollum simply replied,
I'm trying, Jennifer.
So that's another way of the dumb zone.
We're trying, Jennifer.
I'm trying, Jennifer.
Just give the time.
So because as part of that effort,
whatever percent better every day.
This year we're planning ahead, a little farther ahead.
Look, it's February.
We were talking about this last week, which was pre-February.
Yeah, yeah.
Nobody knows what month that was.
So the point is we now need a location.
So if anybody has an idea, I don't know the side, you know,
if you were there last year, you certainly, you know,
we're just looking around the DFW area,
actually asked the guys at profits and outlaws over the weekend.
Maybe you guys, you know, you travel around, you play gigs, music, shows.
We're looking for a place about that same size, you know.
We don't want it to be.
I think if we play Jerry World, it might look like a sparse crowd,
so it probably shouldn't be that big.
And I think if we played a, you know, a small inside venue,
I don't think that would be enough for us doing a show and bits.
and anyway.
Let us know.
I said that to say that Qualis Roofing is great because they are the title sponsor,
or they were last year.
Not sure if they're on board again this year, but maybe we can get a bidding war going.
I remember community out there.
It might have been the Lone Star talking, but Travis at Community was like,
we want to sponsor this next year.
I was like, all right, well, you got to get through Qualis.
Get through Qualis Roofing.
There's a guy who.
G.C.com.
Never mentions an opportunity to mention that his bowlers.
had a few.
Never.
What do you mean?
Every time Travis comes up,
yeah, of course, he was not going back.
Well, I said he was boasting this and wanted to sponsor it this year.
Just bad friend.
Always got girls around too, man.
I'm not going to mention it, not going to mention anymore.
This is a guy who...
I know, but I felt it before.
It was like, Jesus, every time?
All right, we continue with some sports.
I probably should have pulled the clean audio of this.
This is lazy of me, but this is a lazy of me, but this is a...
is what we're missing out on.
Earlier, one of the hottest stretches he's had this season,
obviously Cooper, Fag, come off of that game.
You're going to expect him.
Just imagine how much more we get to hear people mess that out.
There are so many of those, and we could just play it now.
I know, over and over.
At the ticket, they wouldn't let you play that.
They were prepared to offer us our own section of tickets
that we could fill out every night called Cooper's Flaggits.
We were going to just give to Dumb Zone listeners only.
The flag capital of the AAC could be over here.
That's too bad.
So in the NFL, they are noting that all the head coach openings are full now.
And if they are still doing the Rooney Rule, like following that, like just kind of the look.
One, would you say Robert Sala is the head coach of color?
Yes.
Yes.
I mean, I certainly don't believe you should hire based on color.
I certainly don't.
But it does seem like if you don't have those rules kind of in there,
that that's going to keep things the way they have been.
I've noticed something somewhat interesting, too.
Go ahead.
Yeah, I was just going to say, the way that the NFL does this now,
and certainly this is probably what people mean when they say woke,
it's an affirmative action policy.
but it's going to take a long time for it to get downstream to the point where it affects head coaching cycles and head coaching hires.
I'm not saying this is not a little bit of a tough look, but they just in the last five to ten years, five to five years instituted the whole draft pick compensation thing where if you, let's say team A, if you hire a young black assistant in the front office.
side or in the coaching side
and they move
up through your ranks
to a point where someone else wants to hire
them for a higher role
you are now getting
a second or third round
draft pick back extra
not from the team but it's an extra
one. Like a middle
of the rounds or something? Yeah so
like a compensatory. No you
get an extra like second or third round
pick. Look this up like the draft
yeah but I mean between the second and third
round now of a sudden you get this. Yeah, yeah, but I just meant it's not a big story that it's not a fifth.
But if you had the first round pick of the third, the first pick of the third round, you now are
bumped a couple back. I believe so. Because of the teams that did the hiring. Yes. And so that
creates a, the idea is to not have a deal where black guy from team A gets hired by team B. If
team B gets the draft pick, and now it's like, oh, this guy, we know why we hired him just to get the,
But you know what I mean?
If you flip it, then it does actually incentivize you to grow the pipeline.
And really, that's what this all comes down to.
It's been my contention for years.
It's just, it maybe takes longer than people want it to.
But the reason that there are no black head coaches is because there didn't used to be black quarterbacks.
And the more you have black quarterbacks, the more you're going to have black quarterback coaches, black receivers coaches, past game coordinators, offensive coordinators, and ultimately,
head coaches. Well, they are pointing at offensive coordinator these days as there's been 11
offensive coordinators hired. Eric B. Enemy was the only person of color unless
Mikey Mike. You count Mike McDaniel, who was the new OC for the Chargers. Eric Bianami is an
interesting study, only that he never got his head coach shot. And apparently he's just like a very
difficult person to deal with.
I've heard it for a long time.
And it always made me feel weird because he was being held up as like the poster
boy of,
uh,
of racism.
And part of it is like,
yeah,
but it is Andy Reed's offense.
Yeah.
And he got hired back by the chiefs.
Yeah.
But then the other thing is,
yeah,
I mean,
obviously the guy had a couple of like drunken brawl arrests.
Whom amongst?
Yeah.
But at the same time,
like you don't get interviewed this many times and get past.
over without it being a bad vibe.
And I'd heard that for years.
Didn't, because he got hired in Washington.
Yeah.
Then the player said he was being too mean.
I remember hearing something about that.
Yeah, he's just, he's an old school guy.
By the way, back-to-back third-round picks.
If a team hires your coordinator or front office guy.
Yeah, and it doesn't have to be coordinator.
If you hire a coaching assistant for a quarterback's coach, you'll get some level of
Do the Cowboys get something for hiring their new D.C.?
No.
No, but if he goes on to be the head coach somewhere, they would.
Yeah, I think it's...
I thought it was any...
I don't know the particulars.
But there are lower levels where it does work.
But the point on the O.C. thing is, apparently offensive coordinator is a much
quicker, a better pipeline to get you a head coaching job than a defensive coordinator.
Yeah.
Just the way, you know, your mind works.
You want offense.
you want.
That's where you, at least you can see the innovation.
You can see, oh, this is a wildcat or this is a this, you know, whereas Mike McDonald
apparently is pretty innovative as a head coach and defensive play caller for Seattle.
But, you know, you just never hear unless it's a world-class all NFL, you know,
DVOA history, defense.
You just don't hear that as much from the defensive side.
And you do seem, maybe this is anecdotal,
I feel like you'll hire,
there are more defensive black coaches.
Yeah.
And there certainly are, like you said, position wise,
how many white running backs coaches,
how many white receiver coaches are there?
Yeah.
And I think in the past it used to be,
there would be no black quarterback coach.
because no black people played quarterback.
Yeah, that's all it is.
Same kind of thing.
And on the defensive side of the ball,
there's not necessarily one position that stands out.
But if you look at who has, it's mostly DBs.
DBs have mostly been the ones that have become coaches.
Why?
They understand the passing game.
And that's what everybody's after is who understands coverage
and passing concepts.
And I think it's cool as hell that Jesse Minter got hired,
that Mike McDonald is having.
success. But it is a leap of faith because the most important thing is that your quarterback
succeeds. Why not just make sure that the guy that you're putting everything on, your head coach,
that he's going to be the one responsible for that. Because if Sam Donald failed,
then Mike McDonald could be like, well, we shouldn't have hired this guy, this Kubiak.
So you get a little more leeway, even if you hired the OC, that's another guy you can fire
before it gets to you. You know what I mean? Like the owner just wants to know,
the coach and the quarterback, if I'm going to pay the quarterback all this money,
the coach has got to be able to get the most out of him.
Am I positive that I can do that if I hire Mike Vrable?
It's a little bit of a leap of faith, you know?
Speaking of owners, two things. This will kind of relate.
So Hannah McNair is not the Texans owner.
She's like the wife of the Texans owner or is she the co-owner?
I've lost track of their names.
Cal is the current owner, right?
or is he the dead one?
Bob. Bob. Bob is dead.
Cal McNair. Yes, okay. So Cal McNair and how is Hannah related to him?
Okay, who's Hannah? I saw, anyway, I saw her.
Landry Locker was tweeting about her.
And I got worried about Carly Ursay because I thought she had a contender for a hottest NFL owner.
But apparently, okay, so it's Cal.
The son of Bob is the owner.
Yes.
But, well, he might.
have searched far and wide, maybe got it linked in and gotten a search, but he may, Hannah McNair
somehow is the vice president of the Texans. Okay, so Carly is fine. For now, I mean, on her perch.
Well, the death of Colts owner Jim Ersei is under federal investigation right now. He died at
the Beverly Hills Hotel. That rules.
Would you want to die in a hotel?
I've often thought about dying in a hotel.
Yeah, I'd love to.
Every time I'm at a hotel.
Yeah, yeah.
That's why it's part of the reason.
I think about Daryl Kyle.
I wouldn't say it's part of the reason I like going to hotels, but I do like the, when I go into a hotel now and I go in there, it feels like there's no one else alive for the next 12 hours.
Like, I love it.
Like, oh, I'm just in here by my, nobody, whatever.
And it's, you can take me right there.
So what's the controversy?
He just died in, uh, you know, but whatever.
Well, they're investigating.
I think he had a Michael Jackson doctor, didn't he?
They're investigating the California addiction specialist who had been treating him with opioids and ketamine.
The death certificate said the cause of death was cardiac arrest due to pneumonia, and then there was no autopsy.
So just thought you'd like, I know you like Jim Ursay News.
He got Chandler Binged without sticking his.
thing in a hot tub or whatever happened.
But that's a big deal, dude.
Rich people, I guess when they're not playing naked twister with 10th graders, they get
these doctors.
Like, I'm pretty sure Prince, Michael Jackson, the doctor's just going to give you whatever
you want, and they're around you all the time.
And they just got an IV giving you dope.
Any early thought on if you're going to lay a bed on the Super Bowl?
I don't think that I will.
Maybe some fun ones or something, but it's, what is it at, four and a half?
I think.
It's a tough one.
Well, we'll talk about it as the week goes on.
I would take Seattle.
I would take Seattle and leave the points.
And actually, that's what I want, obviously that's what I want to happen.
I can't, obviously, the Patriots, we can't, we just can't have that.
It sucks that they're back.
The Seahawks are not very hateable.
And even though Darnold, we've clowned on them around, that's part of the reason I want him to win.
and everybody's clowned on him.
It's a great story.
He seems like a cool dude.
Saw a video of him this weekend using his bird watching app
where he can hold it up.
Whatever the chirp he hears is,
it'll tell him what type of bird it is.
And I'm like, that's a special type of spectrum quarterback.
I would like that guy to win.
Did God hear everybody complaining about the chiefs over saturation?
Like, all right.
What if we put the Patriots back in?
You're all tired of the chiefs.
Yeah.
I'm sure somebody felt that way about Michael Jordan at some point.
And they're like, oh my God.
And we'll let him play a darn old team.
That's really make you.
That thrives on their defense.
Really make you smoke the whole pack.
Offense, you think of them as a defensive juggernaut.
And then you go and take a look at like Darnold and what the offense has done.
Like, they're a really good offense too.
They're just weird because they are so predicated on the big play.
They need the big play.
But the thing is, they know how to get them.
Yeah.
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You guys referenced this earlier
So let's dive into it
It's Groundhog Day
Do we dive into it?
Did you see where they do it?
No
It's a place called Gobbler's Knobb
Yeah
What?
Yeah
Like you turn left at the Chisham Trail
And then you turn on Brown Trail
Yeah, he stopped before you get to Brown Trail.
Well, not always.
I don't, not always.
I generally avoided Groundhog Day, probably my whole life.
I think my only reason of even knowing it existed was that I started to work in radio.
What if the movie didn't exist?
Then what?
I'd never seen the movie until in the last five years.
I'm familiar with the concept.
But it made Groundhog Day a thing.
It put Groundhog Day on the map.
If that movie never existed, what?
I don't know.
Because we now think of Groundhog Day as the same thing happening over and over.
Yes.
That's become that.
Yes.
Yeah, that's weird.
I can't remember life before the movie Groundhog Day and what kind of needle it would move.
Did it move the needle?
It couldn't have moved the needle even as much as April Fool's Day.
Because people are doing stuff on that day.
Right.
There's no bits.
Arbor Day.
Point a tree.
It would be more Arbor Day.
Like, because you wouldn't actually do anything with Arbor Day,
and you didn't really know when, at least you knew when Groundhog Day was.
Yeah, but I'm going to make the case for Arbor Day.
People actually do stuff.
They go plant trees.
There are people who will do that.
What do you do for Groundhog Day?
There is no there.
It's just one of these cows, pigs, wars, and witches traditions that we just have to keep doing.
But if we're going to keep doing it, I like the way that we've done it here in Texas,
because you guys may be aware of this, but we have,
a number of offshoots
here in the Lone Star State.
Like, why do they get to do it?
Really?
What made you the god animal
that gets to decide this?
Yeah, down in Bee Cave,
which is in the hill country,
they have Bee Cave Bob
who is an armadillo.
Of course.
And then if he steps outside or something?
Yeah.
He emerges from his burrow
onto a concrete slab painted to resemble
a highway, you know, because Armadillos
are always out on the highway, but they don't want to put it out on
a real one. Then they
observe the behavior.
If he gets smushed. And it is, quote,
interpreted to determine his weather
prediction. So there's a lot
of... All right, this is stupid.
But they do it every year. They've been doing that one
for 25
years. Big Al
in Beaumont is a 94-year-old
14-foot alligator.
He's been doing weather
prediction since 06.
I thought he was on the radio.
In between doing mad bombs and minivans,
they feed Big Al some meat,
and if he eats the food,
it means Texas will have an early spring.
I don't like the energy I'm getting back here
before I get to Prairie Dog Pete up in Lubbock.
Lubbock adopted him as their mascot.
So anyways,
it appears that the global financial crisis in 2008
was actually caused by them having to back a bunch of,
of credit that they owed Jeffrey Epstein and it inadvertently collapsed the economy.
Is that a thing?
Also, did you guys know, do you guys know who Bella Hadid is?
Who is it?
I know the name.
No, I don't think she's a wrestler.
She's a supermodel.
And I don't really know what that means anymore, like how you become that.
Not a simple model.
No.
Like, because we.
live in a world where I guess
there was a time Cindy Crawford
may count as this. Who are some
other ones from like the Bad Beats era
that you were in? Because I would say
now most dudes
could reel off three adult film
stars before they could give you one supermodel.
Those are the supermodels. Those are the females
whose names you know.
Not a lady who
advertises
Kate Moss. Is that a supermodel?
I guess. Is she not
Kate Hudson though?
Rita Rudner.
Kate Hudson.
No, I don't think so.
No, Paula Poundstone just missed the cut.
So Bella Hadid has 61 million followers, Dan, on Instagram.
Yeah.
I'm very dubious about what that even means.
Dude, what I'm telling you is it means that she gets paid a trillion dollars to post a photo with a tag in it.
I'm not kidding.
Like some company will come to her and say, we'll give you $15 million to put this on
and make five posts about it.
I think she'd wear a dumb zone shirt?
She might for the right price.
But here's where things get interesting
because there's a news story out this weekend
that her ex-boyfriend of two years
was arrested for DWI.
Now that's not normally a story I would do.
Wait, an ex-boyfriend, she hasn't dated him in two years.
No, no, no. They were together for two years.
they separated some time in the last handful of months.
But they were together for two years.
But it's still an X.
It's an X, but it's an X of the most, I guess,
one of the most famous women in the world.
His name is Aidan Benuelos.
And he was arrested for DWI Saturday night in Parker County.
Hey.
So there's a 36-year-old dude who is a, I guess, professional cowboy.
who's out there pulling up a bar stool at the Parker County Ice House
where we're doing our little dumb show with joy.
And he was nailing the hottest supermodel in the world.
For a couple years.
Is it the stock show or something?
Nice.
Probably.
Perhaps.
He does the fancy cowboying.
Where do you meet?
He does the Taylor Sheridan Cowboying.
He's the son of a Hall of Fame cowboy.
Ty Murray?
No.
The first ever...
Good call, though, Dan.
She's with Jewel.
Not anymore.
He finally, he demanded she get the tooth fixed.
Wait, Harvey might.
She got more than the tooth fixed, brother.
Kendall Hunter.
No, his was it.
Why are you?
I don't know what that is.
This is too many bits.
Blake's doing Oklahoma State Cowboys.
You're doing Texas Legend Cowboys.
Everyone's doing their part of the lifting here,
but he was the son of the first Mexican-American ever inducted
into the National Cutting Horse Hall of Fame.
So he's got a bloodline.
Sounds woke.
But anyways, yeah, dude, this guy is just having a pop in Parker County.
And, like, within the last six months, he saw Bella Hadid's pussy.
That guy's just out there.
Did he see it?
Dude, if you're dating a famous person, isn't that like the, you're like...
Yeah, you got to get down there.
I think you want to see it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
What's it like?
to want to see it?
Would you ask your buddy that?
Like, because you never want to hear buddies talk about it.
No, not if I was going to have to meet her.
Honestly, no.
I think you'd ask him.
And like, she's, you know.
What if your buddy was nailing to Oprah?
Would you be like, all right, come in.
Tell me about that.
Without a doubt.
What does she do?
Without a doubt.
If she's famous, I think you've got to ask.
Did Bill Gates hold a meeting in Manhattan sometime around 2019,
where he invited the,
elite of the world, Elon, Peter Thiel, and others to discuss transhumanism and controlling the population
of the world?
He did.
Was Oprah Winfrey there?
She was.
Texas has banned popular Chinese apps, including Shian and Timu.
Good.
On state-issued devices.
So many women are mad right now.
I know.
Wait, what's Timu?
I know that one.
Knock off Amazon kind of.
We bought a bunch of stuff in here for it from there.
Yeah.
Rob was a big T-Moo guy.
So T-Moo's banned?
It's banned just like TikTok if you work for the government,
which is a lot more than people than you think.
It's not just like, oh, you know, a teacher.
If they're using a state phone.
Oh, that's right.
That's right, because the highest paid state employee is always a coach.
Right.
So my guess is that right now,
Sark is going to have to find a new way to get, you know, blouses or,
Whatever.
Yeah, it's all about China and data.
Whatever.
That honestly does feel like one where I'm like, just take it.
I know we joke about it, but what are you going to do with my data?
You're already doing it.
Yeah, we're so far gone.
Dallas Fire Rescue had a wild one over the weekend.
This is last night at about 7 o'clock.
Fire alarm can be heard going off from a first floor apartment.
They have to forcibly enter after knocking and getting no answer.
And when they entered, they found a person or the remnants of a person burning on a burning mattress.
Like there was a human being still in the process of being incinerated on a mattress,
which if a mattress is on fire, somebody lit it on fire.
know what I mean? That feels like, yeah, when you'd get out of bed if you were not being killed,
being murdered. It just does make me think, like, and it's hard because Jimmy's such a normal
dude. But just that the ultimate fun house of every door they opened. I mean, I guess you have a little
bit of an idea. You've got the dispatch. You can see or smell whatever's going on, but like,
I don't, you know, you're kicking in the door.
It's like, it could be, this person could have half their body eaten by their cats,
or it could be a lady who pressed the wrong button
and is having a bit of an overreaction, panic attacky type thing.
Who knows?
But I'll bet that happens so rarely that you're never really,
so you're always actually surprised.
Because I would think those things don't, you know, he even says on calls.
What is it?
One out of 30 is an actual flame.
Yeah.
You know?
So when there's, you know, you're almost hoping that you're going to see a dude being eaten by a lizard or something.
Just because it's usually nothing.
It's usually a pretty boring time.
Yeah, that's probably true.
It just seems like with cops, and I don't mean to minimize the cop risk, like,
but it's way less than one out of 30 that there's violence.
You know, a lot of it seems routine, but I know that's probably not true.
20-year guys retire without touching their gun type thing?
Yeah.
So it seems like there's probably, it feels like there's more like.
How did you shoot people?
No, I don't think so.
He has some gnarly stories, but being shot at.
Oh, really?
Yeah, his era was, you know, he was in Saginaw and in Blue Mound in the mid-90s, which.
Sounds like there'd be like.
lot of guns around there? Well, there were for sure, but what there was, um, was a new drug
called methamphetamine. And it was very popular among the rural whites. And it was pretty much
only popular among the rural whites at the time. And it was tweaker city. Guys who would just
stay alive for like three days with basically no blood pumping in their body. I'm sure Blake's
wife has seen this. People can go Superman mode, smoke enough meth. Her funny story about one of
these types of people is they obviously have to get rehydrated over a span of a few days. This one guy
immediately felt better after getting an IV. He looks at it. He's like, can I buy this stuff?
Like what? It's like, yeah, it's water. You just have to drink it. We don't always have to put
it in a needle. Most people are just getting cups.
What is this magic elixir?
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We have, dear Dan, usually I write in with a few bits
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but this year I'm feeling too glum
365 days since we learned
Nico trade a Luca and killed basketball
in 46 days since we lost the 2005 NASCAR
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I know
just feels like too much to make lighthearted puns this year
I'm day two number 1017
gay I know
and I'd love a birthday shout
out in a name rating from Jake for my daughter coming in June.
The name is Rosie James.
Man, I love Rosie.
I love James, but, I mean, let's just be honest.
It kind of sounds like the name of somebody that's going to end up with a guy who runs a motorcycle shop.
She's going to get burned on her leg by an exhaust pipe at some point.
Tattoes are a given, so I hope you're okay with that.
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It might be too cool.
I don't know about my oldest daughter,
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Yeah.
And I've never pushed it on.
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You know, but.
I guess, yeah, I just, yeah.
My whole family's inked.
Yeah, but I've never said anything, you know,
Whatever, but she's just going to...
They're not cool anymore, I don't think.
But I think it's because so many people have gotten them, she's more of that kind of a person.
Yeah.
Like, I feel like if she was 20 years ago or whatever, she might be like, you know what I'm going to get a tattoo because only Dennis Rodman has one.
You know?
Yeah, also, like, there was a time, um, they just, they can be cool.
They can tell stories.
Like, I know your daughter's art.
She's artsy, so it might not have even been like, fuck you.
I want to look like a...
it's just like you're into art.
But she's self-aware and she realizes her taste change.
She's like something I liked three years ago, I think is really stupid now.
Yeah, I think most...
If I throw that on my arm.
Most people are not doing it about like heroes season two
or like the double-decker pizza that they offer.
The chief wahoo I want to put on my leg?
It's more of like if you can get something that makes you think about something
every time you see it.
Something you want to think about.
What if you just think about it instead and don't have to have a visual...
Not everybody is as, and I mean this, as mentally strong as you.
Does blind Josh have any tattoos?
Quite a few.
Why?
He's always fully inked.
Why?
I think because he can just see him a little bit.
Now, we've not told...
Does he even know what they are?
Yeah, we've not told him what he has.
I mean, we don't intend to.
Just parade him into places.
Josh, you can't come in here with that tattoo.
Convincent him it's a swastika.
He's like, no, wait.
You're out, right?
Yeah.
I don't see you as a tattoo guy.
I think I've said on the show before I would do it for a certain amount of subs, but that's it.
Clayton?
Nah.
I will keep going.
Jake's the tattoo guy?
What do you mean?
You'll add more throughout your life?
Definitely.
It's been discussed with the kids.
Face?
Yeah.
I just couldn't commit.
I'm going to do, I'm going to do like the, what was the white receiver we had?
Oh, Ryan Switzer?
I'm gonna do like the Ryan Switzer.
The lip.
The lip.
The inside of lip and it'll just say hungry.
I just couldn't commit to something for that long.
Like Jake has a cool tree, but if I put the tree on me, I'd think it was lame after a year.
Yeah, but only you see it.
It's easier to keep yourself thinking something's cool if nobody else is telling you it sucks.
How about your wife?
She has two.
She's from Haltham.
Yeah, bro.
Homemade?
Looks like it.
How's that little peep doing?
It's not a...
You can barely see it.
You can barely see it.
The skin on your foot falls off.
A lot of people don't know that.
I thought all your skin does.
At a higher rate, I think, just because you sweat right there and it's up against your sock.
Like, it's gross.
Your socks are gross.
Like your sheets, you know?
They're like sheets for your feet that you wear all the time.
It's true.
They have skin in them.
And, okay, back to the Rosie James as his kid.
It's his birthday, though.
He says, for only you, will I drop trow?
And this guy's name is Caleb Williams.
Oh, hey.
And then he signs it with the only Bears quarterback to throw for almost 4,000 yards.
That would be funny to just sort of adopt fandom.
Like, you have no tie to the Bears, but you just start hyping up Caleb Williams.
You know, would it be cool?
Comeback-wise, like.
I mean, there's certainly a person named Tom Brady.
who all of a sudden, you know, he's 50.
Tom Brady's 40, right, or whatever.
Yeah.
He was Tom Brady all these years before.
Is he happy?
Like, it's the Michael Bolton thing.
Now, Michael Bolton, you might think sucks, so you're mad.
Would you be happy, though, if it's somebody really famous?
There was absolutely a Michael Jordan.
Lots of them, but...
But pre-Michael Jordan, I'm saying.
Yeah, that's funny.
Imagine.
That's why it's way cleaner when they're Indian, like Brady,
Tom.
I'm sure it was cool to be Jerry with the G. Sandusky for a little bit.
I don't think that was probably never cool.
I mean, you're on the East Coast, maybe.
Hey, I got the same name as the defensive coordinator of the...
I don't know that that was ever getting it done with the ladies.
No, but sports fine friends.
Like what if...
If my name was...
And Quinn?
Yeah.
Like, oh.
That's kind of cool, right?
No?
And happy birthday, happy 43rd birthday to my brother Chris,
a lieutenant in the Austin Fire Department.
His birthday is actually tomorrow,
but if you read this today,
I can include it in tomorrow night's episode of DZTV,
since he's the only person in Austin that I'm 100% sure
watches the show with any regularity.
I'm hopeful he'll see it.
To hedge my bets,
I will also send him a happy birthday,
email like our dad used to do for a few years in the early 2000s.
This is from Michael Snap.
Happy birthday email from your dad.
Happy birthday to your bro.
Yeah, Michael Snap puts together a dumb zone TV for us.
He feels a little of what I feel then.
You think he's the producer?
If your brother's in the military.
You got brothers a badass.
He's a firefighter.
It's just such a shield.
No pun intended.
Like, oh, you did, what did you do?
You did a little volunteer, raised a little money for a bank sale with the kids.
He pulled a woman out of a mattress that was on fire just last week.
Speaking of bake sale with the kids, so it was Friday driving home.
Yeah.
And it was pretty cold Friday, right?
Cold front.
Yeah, a little late.
It was four or five o'clock-ish.
I see this little girl with a Girl Scout.
cookie table in her front yard.
And I had to do it. I had to do a couple of boxes.
Because you're out, if you're inside in the Kroger lobby.
Yeah.
If your mom at work passes out the cookie thing, I mean, I've done it before, but it's
kind of weak. But if you get out, that's bootstraps, right?
You're out in the driveway.
For sure.
You're setting up, you had to make a sign.
Success is least.
You're setting up, so I had to buy a couple of boxes.
I didn't want to you.
Good for her, good for you.
And then I ate way too many of them.
Yeah, well, let me tell you what I do.
That's gay to say it.
They knocked on my door, and I said no.
And now I'm the house that said no.
Yep.
They're in our neighborhood.
You get teepied.
Yeah.
I'm about to get forked.
That's interesting that you say no.
My wife won't let me answer the door because I will say yes.
Yeah, I'll switch our whole.
No, I know.
Why not People magazine?
I'll switch our electric plan.
How's the magazine business?
Like, I just like, oh, okay.
I feel bad for you.
And then, yes, then you find out those kids are getting zero or very minimal.
All these subscriptions to vibe.
I used to have to go sell door-to-door, you know, for school, whatever, like a box of M&Ms, but it was like for $4.
And you knew it only cost 75 cents or whatever it actually costs.
So now, I don't know, it just felt terrible.
It felt exploitative when I was a kid.
Like, why are they using me for this?
I didn't like it.
Knew I was bad at sales right away.
If you're opening line is you probably don't want this.
That's how I'd work with ladies.
I was like, I don't know.
You're probably not into this.
But on the off chance, I'll take it, I guess, if you feel bad enough for me.
Now, are you one of those guys that actually feels some pleasure in telling this little kid no?
No, because I don't say no to anyone.
So why are you doing it to her?
It caught me in a bad time.
The boys were losing their mind.
I was in no mood.
I don't have cash.
Who has cash?
Who says I was in no mood?
That's such a...
Good Lord.
That's such a dad thing.
Because he had...
His rain gauge broke that morning.
I'm in no mood.
I've added up the year.
If anybody took the trip with me into the Ninja Creamy space,
which I'm probably about to get eliminated from him
because Bluebell is going to shut.
of me out.
I saw the flavors.
They're solid.
But what I've been doing,
this is a little tip,
I make the creamy
like it's going to be healthy ice cream.
I use like Fair Life protein shake,
unflavored Greek yogurt.
There's a little bit of
what would the Yucca app say about this?
Like is jello powder bad?
Like the pudding powder?
Is jello pudding?
Like is it?
Yeah, there's sugar in it.
Unless you got the sugar-free.
When I'm saying sugar-free,
I'm saying is it crazy additives?
Because that's all I have to put in this thing.
Oh, it's real sugar, basically.
Yeah.
But then what I do, so that's a pretty healthy,
it's going to make me like three or four servings of ice cream.
I put two Girl Scout cookies in the blend.
And now the whole thing just tastes like,
man.
It's so freaking good, dude.
Like a scientist.
Protein-packed ice cream that tastes like thin mint
or it tastes like the peanut butter Girl Scout.
And it's only one cookie.
So you're not getting like a...
Anyways.
I heard that's just a path back to the bottle.
Mm-hmm.
Better watch out.
I'm not helping that guy.
I sound like Walter White.
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There's a chance to Jeffrey Epstein is the Satoshi from Bitcoin that we've all been searching
for all these years. And if he's not, he's real close.
Wow.
He was running the play.
I like the little bits.
Yeah.
They're baking bits.
There's got to be some name for these short things.
Raping bits.
There you go.
That's exciting.
Today's Monday, February 2nd.
On this day in 1887,
at Gobbler's Knob in Puxatony, Pennsylvania.
That's where the first Groundhog Day Festival was.
You know why?
Because they didn't have dick going on.
They were in 1887.
Like, well, I'm done stargazing.
I've mapped that out.
Well, I'm done finding out if any of my friends are witches.
I did that for the day.
Well, I took that piece of wood and kind of just cut it all down.
It's now like a little tiny piece of wood.
You know what bothers me about this?
It bothers me that they failed the alliterative association because they punctatani fill,
which does also start with a pee.
Pete.
Yeah, it should be some hard.
Yeah.
Hard pee.
Why did you
would just select any other name then?
It doesn't have to be a pee.
This day in 1949,
golfer Ben Hogan was seriously injured
an auto accident in Van Horn, Texas.
I don't know where that is.
Dude, that is an awesome story.
The fact that he came back from that.
I think that's why this day is significant.
If he never came back,
you might not even bring this up, right?
Yeah, I mean, you might not.
I guess he'd...
Okay, he had won one major before then, I think.
so you might not have ever heard of him
in like present day, you know.
There's a lot of guys who won one major in the 40s.
Like he broke every bone in his body type thing.
I used to hear about on the playground.
I heard Danny say that the other day.
I thought you said that would happen to us
if we fell off the...
The six foot left.
More on that in viewer mail this week.
More on that.
The construction bros are
weighing in with me.
On this day in 1996,
the end of the Canadian Football League
in the United States.
You said really, really trip me up.
It's like, Mobile's not in Canada.
Baltimore
announced that they were leaving for Montreal.
Helwitz.
They were the stallions,
and they were the CFL champion.
They were the best team in the league.
Of course they were.
What do you mean?
Because they're in the United States.
United States? Yeah. That's how in my head, I was like, well, yeah. I mean, what do you think
Toronto's going to hold Orlando? You know, part of the Haralabob story is that he started
betting on CFL games. Like, that was the origin. Yeah. Like he found a...
An edge there? A flaw, yeah. Anyway, yeah, they had San Antonio, Shreveport, Memphis, and
Birmingham. God, that's Conference USA right there. I know. I know.
This day in 2015
was big for me
when I heard that Radio Shack
delisted from the New York Stock Exchange
because
Well anyway
Because of
They can only
If your company is so big
You can stay on there
But Radio Shack
On the way out
That used to be a place
I loved going
When I was a kid
Ever in that era?
Oh dude 100%
You?
There was a fries in Garland by me
Where I grew up
and, yeah, wasted a lot of time there.
Now, Fry is great, because it's huge.
Radio Shack, though, was kind of like a...
It's kind of like GameStop, but for Radio Shack,
but for like AV stuff.
Yeah, and every...
You know, there'd be one in Collieville,
there'll be one in Grapevine.
There'd be one.
There'd be a ton.
Well, if my memory serves me correct,
there was a big one at the Tandy Center,
which we were at all the time.
Did you never go over there?
Was that not a...
Maybe it was after your era.
the Tandy Center. The Tandy Center was a building over in Fort Worth where they had like ice skating.
So how would they do that?
It was where they, by the way, I should mention this. It was their corporate headquarters.
That's why I associated it with Radio Shack. They worked out of there. It was a, I don't know, it was Fort Worth based, but it was a very Fort Worth company.
And on this day in 2020, it was Pallandrome Day.
Oh, boy. How did we ever make it?
it through.
0-2-2020.
0-202-2-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2.
That was the same forward and backward
for the first time since...
1-0-0-0-0-1-11.
11- Okay.
November 11th, 11-11.
Back when...
So it was a pretty big day and we didn't even really...
Back in Picasso's day.
We probably didn't give it its due.
Was 2020 the first official
like that was when...
Let me stop you right there.
Huh.
We, by mentioning it all, which we did, gave it plenty of do.
We lost you for about a two-week span due to palindrome disease.
We all talked about it.
Like, all right, just let him get this out of the way.
It was a big deal.
So that's fine.
That two-week span was a fake...
And that is fine.
That two-week span was a fake.
ago, and he's still on it.
Yeah.
That was a fake span.
This one was the day.
Okay.
Remember this little fake span was when you used the last two digits.
And I learned all this because we made a big deal about it on the show.
So if anything, I just want you to understand.
And how is this different from the eclipse?
We made an open.
Actually, the eclipse is way better because the eclipse is an actual thing.
This is, we invented this.
That's not, the dates are not dates.
And dark.
That's just the date when your calendar decided it started.
And darkness is real.
Like 11-11, you think the world started in zero?
No.
It just, that's when we started keeping track.
You don't know shit.
On this day in 1985, famous wedding, O.J. Simpson, running back slash actor,
marries Nicole Brown.
That'll go well.
And today is February 2nd.
What do we do on this day, besides go nuts in Dumb Zone history?
We went nuts in the year 2020.
That was pre-me, so I don't know.
So you don't care.
No.
I do know in 2021, Jake was dirty.
drinking this raspberry uterus tea.
I guess your wife was drinking it?
Yeah, we got into, I think I was just trying to gross people out,
but you could do a bunch of different stuff with your uterus stuff.
I had Gordon drink some of her breast milk on the air.
I remember that.
That was fun.
You should have put it in a cup or something and not had her come in.
She was available that day, so I figured why not?
I'd never seen a boob.
I'd never seen a grown man.
drink breast milk out of the boob.
Jeffrey Epstein had a bank account simply called Baal, B-A-A-A-A-L.
That, of course, is a demonic being that is worshipped in ancient Israel by some of the Hebrews
before Judaism came along.
It's child sacrifice ritual, usually through burning.
So that's just a fun thing.
Like my bank account is, I custom editing.
it to dumb zone 69.
They'll let you do that.
Mine says checking.
His just changed to Baal,
which is a satanic cult.
Baal.
Baal.
I had to look up how to say it.
Because his,
his, like,
his niece is apparently not afraid of getting killed.
Because she's, like, out front.
Like, yeah, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were, we were,
I was raped a lot as a child as part of a satanic cult.
Is Zorn, his kid?
Possibly.
Oh, Mom, Tani.
That's a thing?
It's a thing because there's a photo of him and Jeffrey Epstein when he was like 11.
Oh, wow.
Because, and this goes to something that could take us way longer to talk about.
Maybe it's gummy thoughts.
T.C. and I have talked about this forever.
I always as a child, even as a teen and getting older,
maybe it was just part of realizing that I wasn't as smart as I thought I was
and I was never going to be like a real famous person,
which I just thought that's what,
If you're very smart, you're very famous, and have a lot of money.
And I started realizing, like, that ain't happening.
The anybody could be president thing, that ain't true.
Wherever it is that I'm from, clearly it's somewhere else,
because I'd see people on TV.
I'd look up where they went to school.
Even some, like comedian that seemed like some hack, like slacker, stoner guy,
Columbia.
And then I'd look at the TV reporter, Syracuse.
It was just, or then it's Ivy League, Ivy League, Ivy League, Ivy League.
They're all from Brooklyn.
They're all, and I'm like,
I feel like they're playing a different game, sort of.
I've always had this vague suspicion
that there's, like,
a class of people that were not allowed to be in.
The elite.
And Zoran Mamdani is a part of that.
Can you marry into it?
I think you can, and you can also become part of it.
Like, a lot of people were saying this weekend,
and I don't even think this is a race thing,
but Chappelle kind of touched on it in his special.
Like, Justin Timberlake,
almost certainly raped Justin Bieber.
But Justin Timberlake comes from the world of, like Bieber said as much, like he's hinted at it.
Did he, did he also?
But Did he wasn't born into it?
He doesn't come from the world of entertainment.
Neither does R. Kelly.
But if you're someone who, like Justin Timberlake is from an entertainment family that got him
into Mickey Mouse Club and whatever else when he was five.
like he's from that world
what about when they say sometimes
that's going on in Hollywood too
100% this is all the same thing
100%
and this is what people have been saying for years
when I first started listening
to
I'll tell you a really funny line
that's not mine
but one of the dudes from Comtown
you can find like a four hour podcast
a compilation of him talking about all this
and it was when Kevin Spacey got buzzed
There's Hollywood, right?
Kevin Spacey got busted and he was like, you know, this is, this Kevin Spacey arrest, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Focus on Berg in that.
Like, it all comes back to international intelligence, which a lot of comes back to the Mossad, which is Israel's CIA.
You go watch a video interview that a facade agent did on 60 minutes last year with Leslie Stahl.
His face is blacked out, voice has changed.
And he said something like, the world is our stage and we are the producers.
Like everything you see, we're making it happen.
We allow it to happen or we don't, but we know.
And so now we're here.
Now what can we do about all this?
Nothing.
All right.
You voted.
I heard that was.
a big. I did. So Zoran, probably not Epstein's son, 100% part of a social circle. You could
never touch. That's too bad. No, I think the way we're doing it is quite nice. We live well and
nobody even makes me say no to having sex with a kid. I got some stuff from 2022.
My bad. I thought you were done. If it even feels right anymore. I don't care. In the open, Dan says
have a power wall 365 days from now.
Damn, dude. It's now four years
later. We're going to get a montage.
We're going to get a montage.
And we're going to have an intervention.
He's like, I didn't say that.
Like, Dan, we recorded you.
See, I got through this.
This guy's been doing intervention.
The past four days, or the four days last week, I was very, very worried.
But then we get through it.
This is the cycle.
Right now is your time, bro.
And then you see.
70 and you're like, I'm good.
This is the, you don't buy an
an umbrella
until it's raining.
You need to put it in your phone
April 1.
Weather's good. Then I'll be like,
oh, look at me trying to prank myself on April
Fool's Day. No, this is buying
the ski jacket in May. You get it a discount.
Oh yeah. You can do it.
We're going to get a
generator sponsor and I'm going to buy it from them.
Hit us up.
It's a dumb zone. Let us earn your business.
I went and tried to get water from Dan's fridge last week and Arthur Fist.
Yeah.
We need new fridge, too.
We had Ted Emrick on because this was the Chris Beard game.
Oh, yeah.
This was the first game after Chris Beard left Tech for Texas.
And the tech fans were, didn't let the Texas bus in or something.
That was serious.
It was cool.
And then I'm going to play some audio for you.
This is from the Bengals.
in the Chiefs game. This is halftime.
So you can't get that
if you play in
if you're in California and you play a team
in Pennsylvania. Like
yeah. That hatred, that kind of thing?
It's UCLA and Rutgers.
Think about the Argyll kids. They don't know anybody from
Nevada, Nevada.
No, but I'm just saying the Chris Beard thing.
You know, that could have never been so big.
I'm with you. Yeah.
Sorry.
Let's see if you remember this. This is, again,
Bingles, Chiefs, AFC Championship.
ship.
Oh, hell yeah.
This is one of my favorite moments.
In playoff history.
Do you remember this?
What is it?
CBS set up their halftime show, as we talked about recently, when it's a playoff game
of import, we're going on site.
So we're going to set up the stage on the field here at Arrowhead.
But we forgot.
Walker Hayes.
Walker Hayes to sing his hit.
And a little bit of applebee.
We had that guy on.
Oh, yeah.
We had him on today.
Yeah.
On this day in 2022.
Yeah.
Because I believe he also is the Ukraine song.
Yeah.
A little bit of chicken fried.
Wes or Anderson, whatever.
No, it was Wolf Blitzer's like you can see as the tear and the bombs rain down.
We'll just let the air horn take it.
When I have no other opportunity or no other chance.
If you blitz pass a bomb.
Anyway, he was a cool dude.
Really cool dude.
And then final thing, this was the day Fox News fell for a ball sack sports tweet that read Josh Smith says LeBron couldn't make it in his era.
That was awesome.
That was awesome.
They entered the league at the same time?
The best ball sack tweet out there.
All right.
Other birthdays?
We mentioned Parker County earlier, right?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
Do you remember P1 Joy?
Yeah.
Of course.
She's 93 today.
Wow.
I hope.
I haven't gotten touched her.
I would like to.
For real.
Call her.
We can figure something out a way to get to her.
We know somebody who...
No, I know people who know her.
I mean, if she's dead...
If she's dead, don't tell us.
But if she is around, I'd love to check up.
with her every four or five months, maybe pick games.
Four or five months.
What if we start with once a year?
Everything's cool.
There's a chance.
We were doing it more than once a year before.
Oh.
Let's see.
Do I have her number?
Woo.
It's the pig.
Suey.
You know you had it.
You know you had it titled.
Do you want to try it?
Parker Guilfpoon.
Dude, if you've got the number, of course I want to try it.
Hold on.
Okay.
Here I should probably just send it to you instead of holding my phone up for you to look at.
Tell me one more thing about Epstein before.
Oh, so this is the part that feels disrespectful, but, and this also goes back to the Pizza Gate thing where this is like a circular deal.
The Pizza Gate people were on to something.
The thing is, a lot of the stuff they were looking at,
was actually being planted in front of them to make them think that.
Like, it also appears that a significant amount of the genesis of the rightward shift, let's say,
like the MAGA thing, I guess, is all a foreign siop.
Like, they control, you know, whether it's Russia or whoever, foreign entities make F...
Hello, Joy?
Hello?
Yes.
Hey, Joy, this is...
Yes.
Hi, this is Dan McDowell.
Okay.
And I used to work at a radio station called The Ticket.
Yes.
With my friend Jake.
Hey, Joy.
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
And we had you on our show many years ago.
We were at the Parker County Ice House.
Do you remember that?
Yes.
Yes, I do.
Yes, I do.
That was fun.
Yes, it was fun, Joy.
We're not at the ticket anymore.
We still broadcast, though.
And we're calling to wish you a happy birthday.
Hey, happy birthday, Joy.
Oh, that's so nice.
Thank you.
Yes, ma'am.
Was it yesterday?
Or is it today?
Today, you're right on it.
February 2nd.
Groundhog Day.
Yes, ma'am.
Groundhog, D.
Another year younger.
What year are we talking?
Yeah.
What year were you born?
Wait a minute.
I had to Google this to see.
I'm 93.
Hell yeah.
93 years old.
So do you feel like you may have been born on February 5th, but I mean it was 1933.
Did they really keep good records then?
Right.
Who knows?
I was born on Grand Hall, but 1933, because I remember it.
You do.
You do.
Then everybody was mad about something. I don't know. I didn't understand it at that age. Yeah, people were always complaining. Did you see your shadow?
I don't know.
No, sir. I haven't seen my shadow a long, long time, except it not.
This is how we decide if it's going to be a long spring or not, or early spring.
Yeah, Joy's birthday.
That old old rotor comes out and decides what's going to happen.
Yeah.
What's his name?
His name is a Pumptitani Phil.
He's a groundhog.
But we'd like to make it joy every year.
We'll call you on your birthday and we'll determine the weather.
Oh, you are so, guys, that would be so much fun.
That'd be something to live for.
Any little, oh, any cocktails or anything?
Any celebration plan today?
Why don't you have a cold one for me?
Oh, listen, I've already had a beer, but I'll have another one.
I'll just tell them it's for you.
Yes, man.
And don't fuss with me about it.
Yes, man.
Unless you get on with my life, right?
We had so much fun with you that day.
That was so much fun.
What's the key to living past 90 years old?
That's a goal of mine, for sure.
I have no idea.
Oh.
I have no idea.
I guess whiskey and cigars.
Yes, ma'am.
You think, you think, or I don't know.
I have no idea.
It's working for you.
Joy, do you still watch the news at all?
Like, what is it?
When you're 93, do you just kind of check out?
You're still plugged in.
I don't know.
I hadn't been 93 that long.
Oh, good point.
Good point.
I was just wondering how, I don't.
I don't get a chance to talk to a lot of 90 and overs.
I bet you don't.
They're dead.
Yeah, you're out kicking them all.
How do you take, like, this Epstein story?
That the news is all over every day?
Yeah, is that something that you are familiar?
Oh, yeah, I'll follow it.
I just think that he, oh, you just want, I just want to get a hold of him and just, well, I'm not sure what I do if I could.
Bring him a little justice.
Yeah, he's a very sick person.
I think that's a great take.
That's a great take.
Well, it's awesome to talk to you, Joy.
We were very happy that you're alive and stuff.
It's so nice for y'all to call me.
I'm excited, and I have a bunch of ladies here playing Marjon.
I love it.
Nice.
Hey, can we send you our, so our show used to be called The Hang Zone.
We're called the Dumb Zone now.
Can we send you a T-shirt?
You bet you can.
Yes, ma'am.
All right.
We'll get that.
Well, happy birthday.
What?
Happy birthday, and we'll talk to you in 365 days, okay?
Would you?
We're going to call you on your birthday next year.
All right.
There's no way that we're going to forget.
Stay alive, Joy.
Okay, I'll try my best.
This is so nice of you.
Thank you.
Okay, bye-bye.
Yes, ma'am.
Bye.
Oh, there goes Joy.
Nobody's mad about that.
We were talking about something, but I'd really rather move on.
Elsewhere, DeMarco Murray is 38.
It's Brayton.
And co-worker of Jason Wooden.
Donald Driver is 52.
The unbookable.
Why?
Dude.
That's right.
He kind of.
lives or he had a workout place in South Lake.
I think he was living there.
And we were trying to book him for Bob for years.
Dude, that's a funny thing about living in DFW, though, is I saw a Zillow listing
the other day for somebody who didn't go up here.
It plays in the NBA.
And it's like a $9 million house in Collieville.
Then I drive by, you know?
It was like.
Yeah, how do they know about this?
It was just like some eighth guy on the Sixers or something.
I'm like, I guess.
Todd Bertuzzi is 51?
Lightning?
Where did he ply his craft mostly?
I think that's wrong, but I don't know where.
I feel like it's a Canadian team he was on.
He bounced around a lot, but it wasn't the lightning.
So I'm going to give it to you.
Dexter Manley is 67?
Primarily the Canucks.
Who's Dexter Manly?
He was a red skin.
Okay, so do you have any of other information?
What tribe?
Maybe he couldn't read, perhaps?
You know what? I'm going to mess this up. I'm not even going to talk about Dexter Man anymore.
He's a football player.
Oh, he was, too?
Yeah. Okay.
Wayne Fonce is 86. He was the Lions coach.
James Franklin is 54.
Who hired him? Mississippi State or something?
Like Virginia Tech. Something over there.
Virginia Tech, yeah. I do that a lot. I think Blake does too.
James Franklin fired Penn State coach.
College Color Confusion.
Tennessee or Syracuse or Illinois.
Mike Tice is 67?
Former Viking coach.
Huge fan of his son, Nate, does a podcast for the athletic.
It's awesome.
For real?
Yeah, he was a Wisconsin quarterback, but not a very good one.
So he just got into the media game, but he is a coach's son.
Really good.
Just the athletic football show.
Or something.
Dan, growing up birthdays of the day, we have Dave Lowe.
He was a Browns wide receiver who upon looking at his...
A little bit of Rathman to him.
Upon looking at his Wikipedia or his page or whatever, I thought he was a lot better.
Yeah.
It tends to happen.
I thought he was at least as good as Collinsworth, but he wasn't.
Stuff.
Pat Tabler is 68.
He was a Cleveland Indian.
And I was really into Pat Tabler when I was a kid because
he is the Major League Baseball all-time leader
for on-base percentage with the bases loaded,
minimum 100 at bats.
He only had like 110 at bats,
but he has like a 495 or 505 or something like that.
Like he would always get a hit with the bases loaded.
He might finish a year six out of seven with the bases loaded.
Oh, okay.
I'm an idiot.
What?
I thought you were saying minimum 100 with them loaded.
And I'm like, that's a pretty significant sample size.
No, 100 at bets.
With them loaded?
With the base is loaded.
Okay.
Yeah.
No, every at bat is so.
I guess that could turn out to six of seven in a year if you're playing baseball forever.
But that feels like a pretty big sample to me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's not a fluke.
Yeah.
Nerds.
Now, I mean, there are other metrics that will say, well, who's the best with 150
minimum appearances
anyway, but he won't get that one,
and I'm not going to bring that one up.
Shakira is 49.
Christy Brinkley,
probably a supermodel.
Yeah, sounds like it.
72.
Actress Zosia Mamet
is 38.
I like her.
She was the in-the-flight attendant,
lawyer friend.
God, I know what it takes to make Dan's list.
You go.
look at her then
it's like oh where'd she come
yeah her dad is like famous playwright
yeah you never had a shot
you never had a shot at any of this
ever you couldn't even be the
the cowboy who's having sex with Bella Hadid
because his dad was a world's famous
cowboy right you're not going to be at the party
to meet her no
where am I going to be able to meet Zosia Mamet
if anywhere it's like
I'm this loser on radio row
and she's walking through and all right I'll
stop and do the five minutes here.
Right. Just disgusted by you.
Dumbs on birthday of the day.
72 years old, Dwayne Chapman.
I'm the dog, the big bad doe.
Bounty Hunter.
He's still alive?
He outlived his wife?
Yeah.
Not Deb.
Paul, Beth.
Born on this day now dead.
Saunders from ESPN. Stay safe. Stay very, very safe. I think he was awesome, but he probably
had a Kempzman, if I had to guess. Ein Rand. Dan. Born on this day now dead. A lot of that
in there, too. What do you mean? Maybe that was something else. They love Ein Rand.
Who does? Epstein? The cabal. The people. Is that a word? Yeah, no. T.C. wanted to know if it's
It's an anchor word.
But I don't know.
Like, it is only really used in, like, the context of pedophile, right?
I don't know.
Pedophile, pepophile, cabal.
But no.
Yeah, you don't have a chance.
And Trayvon Martin, born on this day, now dead.
Dead on this day, still dead.
Chris Kyle.
You know that whole story?
The sniper?
No.
Who do you think I'm thinking?
talking about. No, we know
someone who possibly
during their time of addiction
claimed
to have been at his funeral
carrying the casket.
Well, yeah, that's why I gave a chuckle
because maybe we'll be talking to that person soon.
We're not sure. Yeah, I never know.
I don't want to promote something we don't know. But the Chris
Kyle thing, the actual highlight,
is people didn't know that
that's, that is a thing. And the military
uses that as a PTSD
like outlet. They go
shoot, which on its surface, you can say it makes a lot of sense, what these guys do, it brings
some relaxation, but, you know, when it goes wrong, it looks very like, what the fuck
were you thinking?
Hey, you have serious mental health issues, you say?
Yeah.
Here.
Here's a gun.
And a guy that you're going to be super nervous around because he's a god to you.
Like, let's see if you can make a name for yourself, or don't, whatever.
Bad formula.
Also dead on this day
We have Philip Seymour Hoffman
Some might say
Like the best actor of this generation
You ever see happiness?
No
Dude
I was zooming along
You got Brooks and Benny on the weekend
High note over here
Feeling great about today's show
And then you remind me
You're the one bringing up
Child Sex
That's part of happiness
I saw a long came Polly
It's probably the same thing
He's pretty good in that
And Carl Weathers
died on this day.
And that's what happened.
On this day in history.
I just know that because we then spent the entire three-day trip
just running through every Carl Weather's movie.
Yeah, that was the trip you said you were going to give up skiing.
2024.
So you were doing that because last year at this time you were calling me
and I was in my closet because my wife was still sleeping.
And I'm whispering in there.
And he was talking to me about the Luca trade.
The most vulnerable I've ever heard, Dan.
How many texts did you have?
Dude.
It was near 100 because I had gone to bed.
It is the kind of thing that if you were to say before it happened,
like if Luca got traded, you would say, well, that would break the internet.
And then it turns out it didn't.
Like everything still worked later in that day.
Don't you always hear that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, but can't it like individually?
Like we heard from somebody who works at the athletic that if they want to get their servers to crash and get the most traffic they've ever had, they just need to have somebody in the NFL and the Epstein files.
Their website crashed.
So maybe some parts of the internet, you know, but I don't know.
They said that Kim Kardashian's ass was going to do that that one time and we lived through that.
I want to make sure now an internet crash not the same as a car car car.
crash, but, you know,
Franco and Frankel could use some love from us today.
Franco and Frankel, they are personal injury attorneys.
So if your favorite player gets traded and you're on the internet at the time,
and then it crashes, well, you could be personally injured.
And there might be someone to blame for that.
And now you're trying to get what you deserve, get some bills paid,
and you can't get it done.
That's when you call 214-33-33-33-33.
You know, I know it's in their copy to say 214 or 817,
but it's not like you're dialing out of,
I'm just going to say 214.
Can I do that as a guy who's in Dallas?
How about whatever area we're in at the time?
No, we're used to it.
I talked about this, a lot of people this weekend.
Dallas people generally do have a superiority complex
where they're like, I don't even know, what's even going on over there?
So we're used to it.
You don't have to shout us out.
We just know we're better.
One of my kids has an 817 and one has a 214.
the 817 is pissed.
Like she's upset that we got her an 817 phone number.
I'm proud of who you are.
Frankl and Frankel, they cover them both.
They do. They don't discriminate.
So call 214 or 817.
Then all three, you'll talk to a partner, all that kind of stuff.
We had a one-day streak of at the end of the show,
we would do a show promo to play at the beginning of the show.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And today I wrote it on the sheet.
I think that's great.
I think we should do it.
Because now, okay, that was my question.
Do you guys actually want to do it?
I do.
And here's a problem that I have, and this always happens like when I get home at night.
My wife will say, what did you guys talk about today?
Don't know.
I don't know.
Maybe football?
I don't know.
Epstein.
We talk to Joy.
Ah, there you go.
Am I playing it?
Did some sports.
I can't.
Well, I don't have it ready.
I do.
How long is it?
20, but it's like 15.
Okay, are we going back and forth?
You, me, Blake, and then back to you?
I don't need to be in this.
Yeah, yeah, you do.
So I'll go first, then Dan, then Blake, then back to me.
Ready?
On today's dumb zone is Joy from the Parker County Ice House still alive?
Man, that's the one I was going to use.
I know.
Well, I talked to my buddy who's very Nordic about the Winter Olympics.
And was Oprah listed in the Epstein Fire.
Find out today on the Dumb Zone.
Okay.
That'll get us imps.
Just have fun with it.
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We've got to go before this becomes a zoo.
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