The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 2-23-26 | The USA wins hockey gold medals and The Brandon Aubrey Show

Episode Date: February 23, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneU.S. hockey takes home two gold medals over the Canadians, Dan is scared by this new Apple technology, and we visit with our favorite restricted free agent, Brandon Aubrey, back from the Pro Bowl (00:00) - Open: Dan scared by technology (20:35) - The Brandon Aubrey Show (50:15) - Sports: U.S. wins hockey gold medals (01:45:45) - Weekend check (02:04:26) - News: Tourettes at the BAFTA Awards (02:27:09) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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This is happy Monday. We are back in Dallas. the Game Day men's health studios, Game Day.com. I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Jake Kim. I'm Blake Jones. Clayton was going to jump me.

What a battle going on over the territory that Blake is crab's unwilling to give up. It's all right, though. Here we are with our brand new Milwaukee Brewers sweatshirts on. It's nice. Because it's freezing. I've said it before, but I'll say it again. And I think this time it's real.

The last fire of the season yesterday. Yesterday morning, very chilly. Well, I think if you... And how do I want to watch hockey with a fire? It's America. Yeah. Love America. I think you should probably just keep predicting that

because if you want fires, they're going to keep happening. Keep being wrong. I don't think so. You're a climate reactionary. It'll be literally 80 degrees like tomorrow or the next day. That is true. 75 tomorrow. That is true.

And it's particularly pain in my ass. Small, relative pain. Because I can't get a sleeve over my cast situation. I have only one hoodie that our business lawyer, Dustin, once gifted us. And it's too big for me. The great hoodie. Which is good because you guys both wear yours a lot. And I would wear mine a lot, too, if it fit.

but it doesn't really fit, but it does fit over my hand. I have the same pause situation that I had last week for anybody wondering. How's the smell? I don't think it's good. I don't think it's good at all. I try not to hold it close to my face

so as to not remind me. I can't tell. Yeah. I haven't been able to smell it. I have not noticed it. I'm not as worried this week because we're not as in close of quarters as we were at spring training.

But I'll have this until Friday. and I can't get a jacket on it. So then Friday you're back to Raw Dog? I think there may be some level of like little pad or bandage type, but it won't be anything hard over it at all. I think the worst is behind us. Yeah. You can start throwing in two weeks?

I'm going to start throwing Saturday. You're going to get back out there? Throwing, yeah. I throw right-handed. Oh, you mean flag? Yeah. I really want to Mark Bavarro will

I really want to Well here's a thing Don't you think when a guy gets divorced All his buddies are at I'm never going to get married again Ever This is the worst pain ever And then you know

A couple months How does this relate? Well I just think when you guys asked me Right after it happened I'm like absolutely I'm done There's no way I'm playing A sport where I could break a boat again And the further I get away from me

It seems that the biggest problem is surgery. And people just don't want to get surgery. Now. Those idiots? The cost. The cost is no fun. But I've asked, and I'm pretty sure I can write off the deductible I have to pay. I'm out of, I'm out in the thousands.

Write everything off. That's what I've been told. That's what I've been doing. So that cost does suck. I don't want to go around paying five grand every year for a surgery. But. But this is only the second time I've been hurt in like 13, 14 years. You've had some scares, though.

And they've been more often. Yeah. It is what happens with age. Yeah. But you're going to sit in the den, watch the NFL draft, and see all these highlights, and then you'll be back out there. You think it'll take him till then? I think so.

Because he's in the old man league now. Doesn't play with the young guys. The young guy league is coming back, though. He plays in the league where he believes he can be good, and that's why it gets him injured. That is an exact diagnosis of what has happened here. Yeah. But if I go back to the other playing with the young boys, then I just kind of hold my ground.

The problem is... And you play your game. And I actually think I said to Blake leaving one Friday. I was like, I'm going fucking Ocho Cinco this Sunday. And in my head, that's what I thought. I was like, they're just going to throw the ball up to me. And it's going to be over. And then I left and went straight to...

I've been playing with 25-year-olds. And now you've got to come down. Yeah. Yeah, but, you know, I got Game Day Men's Health in my back pocket, though. That's right, fueled by Game Day Men's Health. There's no doubt. Blake shaved again. It's just very, I don't know.

He wasn't mustache last week. Last week, though. I don't know, just even when Blake shaves beard, it's, he is the guy who looks the youngest no matter what. Yes, but I now view Blake as mustache or. no mustache. So last week is the same as this week. And what I mean by that is... He doesn't have any authority now, though. Optimal or suboptimal. This is suboptimal.

Yeah, with no mustache, no one's going to listen to him. That's why Clayton's just cucking you, jumping all over you. He doesn't care about what you say now. I know, but the power behind the mustache is I don't have it all the time. If I had it all the time, it'd just be normal. That's not how Superman works. Just save it. You doing the Mastash? Yeah. I'll be there.

No. I'm glad Dan's double. Let me clear this up for you, Dan. What? He's going to do the, When is Women's Basketball Offstash? Yeah. Because he doesn't like having a mustache during high school women's basketball season.

That is probably a good idea. Am I wrong? Yeah. I'm not saying you're wrong, but if you want to ask about a month, ask if they play women's basketball. One of their six drafts. But like, yeah, what are they going to do? Are they going to, you don't think that if they're going to be creeped out by you, they're already creeped out by you.

there are levels because they come over for postgame interview and if they're talking to a weird guy with a headset and a mustache, it's weird. I guess I could see it. So we have an odd show today for a Monday. Generally, we start off with a weekend check. Today, Brandon Aubrey,

we've been going back and forth with him, the kicker for the Dallas Cowboys, about to get paid. What's his minimum? Is he like going to make at least $6 million next year? That would be the tender, I believe. I don't know that that's actually how you can say that, though, right? Because they could do an extension.

But he will make over a couple of million. Oh, yeah. He's going to do fine. He'll have a 5x raise, I would say, minimum. Anyway, he'll join us today, and he wants about 1145, which is like 10 minutes from now, or so 10 or 15 minutes, he says. he's watching his own kid. Yeah, that's way better.

Yep, that's babysitting, but... He said Jen won't be home or whatever. She's running late. Also, super unnecessary if this was just a situation where Brandon Aubrey was watching someone else's kid. That'd be weird. Yeah, I guess it's little service. You know, maybe it's Blake's kid.

Maybe Blake went over there for a party and just left his kid. I think Brandon Aubrey would, if you, if you, if Blake called him, and was like, dude, I have a really tough situation today. Could you watch my kid? He would do it. I think he would. I put that on the question list to see if he would. But I have a short, I'll give you a short weekend check,

and then we'll see if Brandon interrupts us or whatever. And then after Brandon, we can get into the Olympics and the great pride you feel and just all that kind of stuff. I don't know if we'll get to Shottie today. Oh, man. But we got a good week lined up of Shottie. And this weekend I did actually get in the mail. Another email from Ownwell.

Always forget that Ownwell already has all my information. I signed up last year. In fact, what's the promo code or the... Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. Yeah, I signed up last year, and then now I'm just already in. I'm in the system. They're going to check for me. So it was five minutes.

Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. And I know they advertise elsewhere. Why don't you use ours? Why don't you be cool? Why do you got to be a dick about it? Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. Not only property taxes. So they saved me a few hundred bucks last year.

A bunch of people would send emails like, oh, I saved $3,000, you know. They will take the lowest amount of any of the companies that do this type of a thing, about 25%. But they also can sign you up for other bills as well. Didn't you do that, little tiny Blake? Yeah, I'm here in my business. own well portal and it says their concierge service has eight plus ways to save you money. Yeah, concierge. I don't even know what that means.

It's very nice. Ownwell.com slash the dumb zone. That is where it all starts. That's your way to sign up. It takes just a few minutes, zero downside risk to protesting and 86% get a reduction at own well.com slash the dumb zone. Oh, one thing. I did for the first time ever is so I have YouTube TV and if you want to subscribe or whatever.

So the DVR saves your show, just hit the plus sign next to the show. And I did it next to the Jimmy Fallon show. Okay. Cooper flags on tonight. Okay. Apparently. So. Okay, very confusing.

Yeah, why? now it doesn't seem to make sense but also Jimmy Fallon like having really good ratings doesn't seem to make sense. And that's the case? I think, I don't know. Wasn't he doing better than Kimmel? I don't know.

I don't really care or no. Jimmy Fallon, not a big fan. No. But, you know, let's just see what Cooper Flagg has on there. So I'll watch that so you don't have to tonight. or you can go watch it as well. Wow. Wow.

They say wow. In Q4 of 2025, by average share, Colbert in his walkoff, is at a 10.5 share. Campbell, a 9.7, and the Tonight Show featuring Jimmy Fallon of 5.5. Oh, wow. Yeah.

How's DZTV? Not listing. Channel 27. Because they didn't list gay only listeners, which is where we have a 16.3. Sweet. You're saying that as if it would be bad. No, I'm telling you the pride, yeah. Ladies, even ladies.

Going to grocery store to restock. Everything, because I'm back home now. I saw a guy with a car that looked kind of cool. It was electric. I didn't know what kind it was, and he ends up telling me it's a Porsche. But he told me it's a Porsche. Yeah. Yeah.

They'll let you know. If you own a Porsche owner, it's a Porsche. You have to do that. Yeah, no, I don't say it that way, but I think around the time that I learned what a Porsche was, whatever car guy, you know, you had car guy in high school, middle school even? Like, I know what car my parents have, but I don't know cars. he would tell you, they say Porsche. It's Porsche.

But I don't know if that's like a European thing or, you know, like how it's actually pronounced Buenos Aires. We don't say that. But just occasionally we'll toss that in. Right. Yeah. Right. And then I had a freaky technology situation yesterday.

You know that some of your TikToks and Instagram, they frightened and confuse me. I've recently been a. unfrozen by a group of your scientists. But one thing I do know, and that's that gameday. Dot dumbzone.com, no. So the, I'm paying the knock,

we paid the rest of the knockout winners. I told you, so we have this knockout contest where during the fall, during the football season, you got to pick a winner every week. That's all you have to do. It's so easy, except it's not. So we had hundreds of entries. thousands of dollars to pay out.

Let me go to that. I should have the exact number in front of me. It's like we ended up having like $16,000 or $17,000 of winnings. Side note, this is a major gummy thought, I guess, but does it ever occur to anyone that what makes football so popular is that it is unsolvable and that in and of itself attracts the most amount of people trying to solve it? Like the reason football works is because the parody and because of the unpredictable nature of it.

They've finally tuned the marketplace to where you have no effing clue what's going to happen. Yet it's the most bet upon sport because people somehow have the most amount of confidence that they're going to be able to unlock the treasure. Because I want to trade more football than that's watch. I'm watching all the time. There's some sort of like gambler's fallacy or something. Yeah, but it's they grow in unison, right? people's confidence

to anyways knockout winners we had to pay him and we had to pay them like a real company so actually what was it seven or eight on the winners pool and then there was like a second chance pool as well

so we had a few winners in that that got all the way to the end they were paid out about a thousand dollars the winners the winners pool everybody got like $2,000 so I was wondering is that

If you are in that, were you upset that we didn't extend it longer into the playoffs, would you have rather won maybe $8,000 or the whole $17,000? But they lost. And not just two. Well, no, yeah, I mean, would you have rather had that chance? Or is everybody that won $2,000 pretty happy? I don't know. Because I've been in fantasy leagues before where you get to the final four.

And so the pots a few thousand dollars, if you're, win the whole thing. But then the final four, they'll email each other and be like, hey, why don't we do the, let's just do a four-way split now. And it's like, I don't want to be the guy that says no, but I'm also in this for the juice. Yeah. So I'm not the guy that says no, though. Anyway, so computers open.

Jake had given me a document with the winners and their Venmo handles or Zell. People want either Zell or Ven. So on my computer, this is important. I need you to follow this. This is technology that really freak me out. So my computer is open. And in that document, Jake, to show that I paid them, I wanted to double check everything because I paid some last week

and then I had to do a transfer. I paid over the week. So I would highlight yes. So there's a yellow highlighted word, yes, sitting on that document. So on my phone, I'm paying a few people from the Venmo. and on my phone, I got three people to pay. And then it says subject line, why are you paying him? So I wrote in Knockout 2025.

Okay. So on my computer, I want to, as I'm checking people off, I will take that highlighted yes, I control C it, and I paste it in my computer, Control V, right? So I did a highlight yes, control V. So now I'm on my phone. Venmo, I sent them Venmo, but I didn't want to have to type it out again. It's just exhausting.

I copied Knockout 2025. So the next Venmo I send, I will be able to just paste it there. And on the computer, the next time I confirm, I will just paste my yes. Do you follow that? Yes. Computer, I control seed, yes. On my phone, I control seed. knockout 2025.

Now I go back to my computer and I'm like, okay, I paid that guy. Let's paste it. So control V on my computer, it says knockout 2025. I go, wait, what's going on here? I copied it on my phone,

but even went now... They're connected. How? Why? Because you're using the same browse? I want to opt out. It never did it before. No, it's because you have handoff turned on. What is that? You can share stuff,

between your phone and computer. When? It didn't put it in there and they didn't tell me. Don't you like it when the browser windows do it? I like that. Like, oh, I was reading this on my computer. Now I just open it on my phone. And it's got all my windows right there.

Although sometimes it doesn't work. I burned my computer. I took it downstairs. We had the last fire of the season. Yeah. I'm like, this is evil magic. We have branded. Because nowadays it'll be like, I'll be thinking about,

um, own well or whatever. And then I'll like, oh my gosh, it's, it's, it's, I'm there. They're in your head. They're in your head. It's a tough time to be like a psychopath or like a schizophrenic, I bet. Yeah, like, oh my God. Because it's like legitimately happening. Yeah, you talk about.

If they're looking out the window, there's that car that's following. You and your wife talk about diapers, it's going to show up on our Instagram feed. And I know it doesn't even have to be the audio. I want to go live in that cabin. I don't know if that's true. I've been thinking about implants and talking about it in front of her phones. All right. You say Brandon's ready?

Let's do it. Oh, he knows about computers, right? Yes. What's the community mechanical make old up? What's the community mechanical CTA? CommunityDFW.com. CommunityDFW.com or 4696677290. All right, ladies. He's here.

Hey guys Brandon And ladies Brandon Aubrey at the breakfast table the dinner table where are you

kitchen this is yeah the kitchen this is the bar right in front of the sink got a new mic it's got an armstand so this is the only place

in the house the armstand actually connects to the little lip on the the bar so this is where we are damn a new mic

and everything wow spending that contract money before you even sign it yeah I'm just worried about y'all's audio. Oh, it sounds great. He's set up a mic for us.

Okay, got it. Got it. He's not using Bluetooth in the car. I love it. He cares. He cares. How was the Pro Bowl? Pro Bowl was good.

We went to Napa beforehand with both my parents and Jen's parents, which is a lot of fun. Toured a couple of wineries, then made her way over to San Fran for the Pro Bowl. and I was there for way too long, stayed there through the Pro Bowl, through the Super Bowl, left Sunday morning before the game started. Yeah, but it was fun. This year, my competitions meant nothing. There were no points associated with the game. So a little disappointed there, but it just meant there was a true vacation for me.

Are you wine guy at all? I'm not a wine guy, but I'm not going to turn down a good glass of wine. So I'll drink pretty much anything. and my father-in-law and my mom, I guess my mother-in-law too, all really like wine. So it was a fun trip, but it's gorgeous out there. It was perfect weather, really cool scenery, very quiet, felt like a nice vacation. Now, are you trying to fit in and like spin the wine in the bottle, smell it, do that whole bit? Well, they were guiding us through exactly what to do.

So I just, I like follow simple instructions. So that's what I did. I followed the instructions. You said there was nothing that counted at the Pro Bowl, but I saw you do some kind of golf simulator thing where you killed it. Yeah, they had a long drive competition for us. You know, my typical drive is about 260 to 275 when I'm swinging nice and easy. But the punter went before me for the AFC hit it 322 yards.

So I knew I needed to just swing as hard as I could. Yeah, so I swung as hard as I could and got 336 made perfect contact somehow. That's pure luck. If I swung that hard 100 times, that's by far and away the best result. And this is what the- That was with the right club, right? Yeah, that was at the correct club. They did, I know what you're referring to.

They did hand me a left-handed club and say, go ahead because both Cameron Dicker and Jordan Stout are left-handed. So they went first and they used the left-handed club. and then they just kind of handed it to me. I wasn't really thinking about it. So worried about my setup when I got there because I wanted to change a few things to increase my chance of really hitting a home run drive.

So I was really worried about my setup. Looking down at the club, like that doesn't look right. It doesn't feel quite right. But you know, it's a rental. Maybe it's just a weird club. So I swung. And yeah, it was left-handed club. Make good contact somehow.

It still went like 150, but destroyed the club. Big, big old dent in the back of it. Do they have, because watching you on that golf simulator, I'm just amazed, it's cool looking. I love being on it. Do they have a field goal kicking simulator? Ooh. I'm sure somebody does. I've not seen one yet, but it can't be any different from a golf simulator.

It's probably an easier task because the ball's bigger, camera, pick it up a little bit easier. And, you know, it's just kick it extra bird yards through the uprights. Pretty, pretty simple solution or problem there, I think. So somebody's probably got it. I don't know if the use case is nearly as big as for a golf simulator because it's just about everyone golfs and, you know, it's a niche thing to kick field goals. It is now, but once the kids get a load of Brandon Aubrey and, you know.

Right, we get the tour. Yeah. Hourses everywhere. It would be really funny. Yeah, it's windy. Yeah, it's snowy, you know, put the conditions different. It'd be funny if a buddy of yours was like, yeah, no, I'm just doing it. I just, I work on a field goal kicking simulator.

Yeah. Like I wanted to get a jug machine a jugs machine well into my 30s. I just thought, you know, maybe that's because I grew up without a, without a dad around to throw me the ball. It's not feed the jugs. How was your throwing project coming along? A little hiccup. I broke my wrists, my non-throwing wrist and forearm at flag football last week. I had surgery.

I got screws in a plate last week or two weeks ago. Damn. What happened? Just fell on it? Yeah, just, I'll tell you what happened is I started playing with a group of guys my age. And I started thinking I could actually make plays. And I went up to defend a ball and then you have to land. And I landed with my wrist backwards and it just shattered.

But Super Bowl Sunday, right? Super Bowl Sunday. Yes, yes, I did. The PBO was worth it. Was there. The past was not completed. But I think I can keep messing with it. The truth is it's hard, dude.

I don't know. It's really hard. It's interesting. I want to write like a long article about it at some point. I think of it almost like if I were old and messing with tools or something. They're trying to fix. I'm trying to figure out a motion in my body that is foreign to me. And it's understandable. I look at the film and it's hard. It's you don't understand how important it is to teach your kids how to do basic stuff when they're kids because it's very hard to unlearn it later. and you're kind of like, I don't know, you cut the other direction on that because midlife, you learned a new way to kick and it worked out great. So most of us are not you, though. I mean, I'm still young at that point. It was 24 or so. And to be fair, it's striking a ball. It's like, you know, if you went from throwing a football to throwing a baseball,

you'd think you'd have been able to figure it out much quicker. Yeah, that's true. So did you do the Radio Row thing at Super Bowl again? Did you get any cash? I did Radio Row this time a lot lighter dose. I was only there for an hour, which is nice. Got in and out. I actually got to go around with Tim Howard, which is really cool.

He was somebody I grew up watching and absolutely enjoyed his company. He's fantastic. He's a commentator now, so he's really, really good at socializing. So it was pretty good. He led and I just followed. and yeah, it was a good experience. Olympics, you end to that? I've been watching all of the curling, the women's curling.

I missed the bronze medal match. Tried to record it, but it didn't work. So not sure how it ended, but I watched just about eight women's curling matches. I watched one men's curling match, but they got smoked and they didn't look very competent. So I went on to the women's and stuck with the women's. I don't know if that's a fair. I only watched one game of the men's curling. So they probably had their good games as well, but the one I watched wasn't very good.

So of all things, the Olympics are on, like for two weeks, and I watch all the women's curling. Yeah. It was exciting. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, it's just something new that's way out of my realm of expertise. You know, it looks a little silly at first, but then you get into it. And the rules are different than what I expected them to be.

You would assume like you get three points for hitting the bullseye, two for on like the little ring and then one for the outer ring. But no, it's like the number of stones you have closest to the center that are closer than the other team. So if you have five on there, but they're all on the edges and they have one right in the middle, then they get the one point. That does sound exciting. A lot more strategic than just, you know, throwing darts. Oh, speaking of that, do you know that, I don't know, we've never really talked baseball,

but we were just out at a spring training site. You know that they have an automatic balls and strikes situation this year where the player can challenge it. So the pitcher or the catcher can challenge, really any player can challenge the call. and go look at the, you know, the computer. So there's like a debate over the gamesmanship of it. If some guys are going to be too hot with it,

some guys are, you know, you can't trust them. You can only be wrong twice in a game, so you have to be judicious with them. There's nothing really like that in soccer, right? It's just the VAR thing that everybody gets upset about. Yeah, there's no real coaches challenged in soccer. You can just stand there and scream at the reps over and over, work them that way, be, you know, a little coy or not.

to them, whatever your strategy is. Most coaches I was a part of until college were the scream their ears off. Hopefully, scare them into giving you a call, but that doesn't seem to work too well. Yeah, soccer is just kind of, it's beautiful in the way. You just let the players be out there and play for 45 minutes and then make your adjustments at halftime and then go again. So that's the nice part about soccer. Wish you could get rid of all of the time management stuff where guys are flopping,

faking injuries and that. That's a different story, but I'm not too familiar with baseball rules. Sounds like a good change. I know umps can miss a call here and there, just like every other human. So anything that gets you closer to being correct and adds another element of strategy on top is fun to watch because you more to talk about. Indeed. I'm sorry to do this. I want to go back to Radio Row now.

So now when they're taking you around, is it a weird thing to tell them? the origin story over and over, the origin of, oh, well, my wife was watching a game and Yeah, it can be. It's nice for me because it's pretty easy. I've got it down to where I can tell it in like 40 seconds pretty efficiently without missing too many major details. So it's easy for me. It gives me a talking point where, you know, it eats in, like you said, we only have

like five minute segments on those radio row shows. So I knock out 40 to a minute, 40 seconds to a minute talking about that that I know like the back of my hand, that's less places for me to trip up on difficult questions. So I enjoy telling my story over and over again. There's no way you remember any of those guys names, do you? I always love radio names. Yeah. I was just more worried about the message.

Stinking and Jackhammer or whatever it's. All right. We got Brandon Aubrey, BA. Steve O'N. And Rock. Yeah. Speaking of the media that we find a little

bit annoying, is it weird to have people debating how much money you're going to make for the first time? Like, I had to write a Giovante article last week. They asked you to write it. It's like, I'm a huge cowboy fan. I like when people get paid. I like talking to the guy, but

you know, you have your opinion. And then it feels like I feel like a hater and people are writing about your mind it just feels weird because we know you this is the first time you've really been through it yeah uh i don't know it's far for course with just being a cowboy people are talking about performance all the time and it just boils down to a performance conversation again um people are like well he performed this well so he should be paid this much uh everyone has their opinions the the two that matter will we'll talk it out and get something and sort it out.

So it's all noise. It's fun. Speculation. I enjoy listening to it when I was a fan. So I get it. It's something that it's a very calm time of year. There's nothing really going on. We've got the combine coming up this weekend.

That should, you know, pick things back up for football storylines as far as those go. So, yeah, there's nothing really to talk about right now. So they've got to find something and, you know, contracts are the low-hanging fruit. Well, so your agent. it's all in his hands, right? Obviously, you talk to him. His, her? I don't know, them. Is. Yep. Okay. What are you understanding? Like, what's the process right now? Where is it? And how will this lead to you actually signing a deal? Yeah. The process is something that I don't think is really mapped out. It's just kind of whenever two parties feel like talking on a certain point, then they talk about it.

I am trying to remove myself from this as much as possible because, you know, it's not my job, not my realm to negotiate multi-million dollar contracts with a billion dollar corporation. So I hired someone whose job description is just that. And I'll let him work on it. Right now, we're just kind of putting together our game plan. And then we'll see where it goes. I think combine time is typically where those two parties, agents and front offices, start meeting. No, free agency comes up soon.

The league year ends March 11th. That's the deadline for the Tinder, which is what the Cowboys have talked about. So that's what we're expecting. Doesn't mean the contract won't happen after that. So we'll see where it goes. So what's the tender mean? The tender? The team that they have to like you're a restricted free agent, right?

Yeah. So the way it works, they can offer you a tender sheet, which is associated with the draft round, first round, second round, or the round you were drafted. Since I was not drafted, it would be an undrafted. There's no draft pick associated with it. It just basically makes me a free agent at that point. But you sign that, it's got a specific amount of dollars that was pre-negotiated by the CBA associated with it.

So if they do first round, it's a lot of money. If they do a second round, it's slightly less money. If they do undrafted, it's not a lot of money. The players association handles it based on your position? I don't know what they say? I think it's just based on the draft round. I don't think position comes in to effect on this one, like the franchise tag. Oh, okay.

So like if they attach a first round pick with this offer, let's just general, these aren't the number, like $5 million and a first round pick. We're offering you $5 million a year and a first round pick. So some other team could say. So at that point you have like a month or a couple weeks to negotiate with other teams and they can write up a contract however they like it and then submit it. If you sign it at that point, then it gets submitted to the league office.

The league office notifies the Cowboys. Cowboys can then either take the draft pick from the team that's offering the contract or say, no, we want the contract. And the contract will be exactly the way it's written. But the Cowboys will inherit it and not take that draft pick. Okay. So they can, it's a minimum of amount of money. And then the other team can be like, actually, I think he's worth $10 million a year.

So they sign you for that. And the Cowboys could say, take him. But we take your draft pick. It's basically not going to happen. They'll place a tender as a purpose. But I'm saying at least it gives you peace of mind that I'm going to make a certain amount of money. Like you know already, you're guaranteed to make a certain amount of money this year. Yeah, that's the thing.

The issue with the tender is it's not guaranteed. It's just like you get your prorated salary per week. But if I got cut week five, then they don't owe me anything. If they do the tender. where the franchise tag is fully guaranteed. Sure. The amount is that when you sign it, you're getting it. Oh, do you know the franchise number for Kickers?

I don't think they're going to do it. No, franchise deadline is March 3rd, so that's a little quicker. And I don't know what it is for Kikers at the top of my head. Like if things went very poorly, that would be something we might find out next year. But in any case, if they went poorly, they're not going to. Well, no, I just mean, I think he probably wants to get something. done where they're not, we're not doing this at all. You want a multi-year deal. That would be the best case.

I mean, everyone wants long-term stability, but you're not going to sacrifice a lot of things to get it done. Would you take a one-year $40 million deal over long-year security? Yes. Yeah, he's a... He's a math guy, though. The hell. Oh, yeah, and I do have more on this, but how is it to catch up with your once pal?

Oh, yeah, you were with Micah. Yeah, and I know you guys talked like when Green Bay came back and everything. You guys were both captains for that game, right? Yeah, yeah, it's fun. I enjoy talking to Micah. He's got a lot of energy, a lot of passion. So it's always good to catch up with him. Sounds like he enjoys being in Green Bay, which was awesome for him.

Happy for him, he got what he wanted. He got a successful season, obviously, making the Pro Bowl. So hopefully he continues to perform well. and hopefully we can use the draft picks we got and make our team better as well. Dan and I find, we love him, obviously, but we found that he makes an uncommon and almost uncomfortable amount of eye contact.

He really locked in on Dan hard, trying to figure him out. That was an interesting back and forth. No, my thought was going to be, Blake's a big fan of the show in Practical Jokers. Dan and I, maybe not so much, but I don't know if you're familiar with the concept. I feel like you should get to listen.

in when your agent is at meetings and give your agent like lines. Like when he's with Stephen. Well, don't you want to know? I used to have an agent, right? Dan did too. And I trusted them. But sometimes it's like, I wish I was in the room. I want to know.

How did they actually, what was his face like when he said that? Yeah, sometimes you don't want to be in the room, I would imagine. And I guess that's the flip side. If they're just trashing you. Because their job, yeah, their job is to pick you apart. Right. Yeah, 50-yard field goals, but what about he didn't make that 63-yarder? Yeah, that would, it's just secondhand info.

I'd like to have a little earpiece. Like they always say the arbitration stuff in baseball is like really nasty. Yeah. And players that actually do get involved, like walk out of it scarred. That's not fun. You're just trying to rip you apart to say, yet their low end is still 18 million or whatever. So it helps, but everybody's got pride. Yeah.

Yeah. I'm in the category of not wanting to be in the room. But, you know, if you have to to get it done, then go in there and get it done. Do you get a new haircut? I actually got my haircut today. Yeah. I'm going to see some family we haven't seen in a while. Colton's godparents.

So me and Colton go to haircut today. Where were we on the godparent idea? Like the list down. Would we have gotten anywhere on there? Top 100? As a unit, all three of us as one person. We could be fine. You have to have a document, like, if you and the lady die, who takes them over?

Ours was the state. We just put the state on there. Yeah. Y'all are pretty busy with your own kids right now, so maybe not too high on the list, but not off the list. Okay. What's the kid got going on right now? What's day-to-day like? Yeah, how old is he?

Um, he is a year and a half. Um, right now. How'd the haircut go? What do you mean? Well, that's not a, dude, one and a half year old boys. Oh my gosh. How do you keep him in the scene? Uh, he sits on my lap. Um, we play videos. His only time he gets a phone is when we're either cutting his nails or his hair. Um, play video. Um, play videos of himself playing in his playpin and it calms him down. Then the guy just kind of is videos for himself. He's, uh, narcissistic. It works. Rather than do that, they'd be watching some other dumb family. No, I told you a lot. My kids.

Dan just recently discovered that there are families on YouTube that have like 80 million followers. And it's just a family. It's just 10 people broadcasting their entire life. Yeah, they're eating dinner. Yeah, 26 million views. That's awkward. It's so weird, dude. They all have sponsor deals.

And anyways, Dan. Do you have rules of, like, what he can't watch? Like, I won't allow Peppa Pig. Well, he doesn't watch anything. The only screen time he gets is when we're cutting nails and hairs, and it's literally videos of himself from our camera roll. He watches football and golf. I was going to say, it wouldn't kill him, though.

I saw a clip on your Instagram of all your 60-plus hits from last year. You just run that on a loop during the haircut. Tell him why you don't let your kid watch Peppa Pig? A buddy of mine let his daughters watch Peppa Pig, and they came home with British accents, and I'm just not going to have that under my root. Yeah, that happened to my niece as well. Yeah.

It's poison. She's over them now. Yeah. We fought too hard. All right. We're still on the, on Colton's. And your wife is pregnant, right? Yep.

Super pregnant? About 22 weeks in. Yeah. Well, not super pregnant, but 22 weeks. It's a little fast halfway. Plenty clear camp, though. Yep. It won't be training camp this time.

did it right. We'll get like three weeks in and then training camps. It's tough. There's not really a great time. That's about what you want to leave anyway. This is the Schottenheimer influence on Brandon. He said, I want you to have intentionality. Yeah.

And with intention, he put a baby in his wife and said, this baby will be out before training camp because I can't miss, you know how it is? You miss one day. Yeah. That might be it. Yeah. this baby was put in there before

Shawty was hired, I think, right? Maybe it was a shoddy celebration, right? It was like, oh man, I had dinner with Shottie. And I'm so fired up now. I need to get intentional. I can't get my time straight anymore. That doesn't add up what I said. No, no, it doesn't. We've been

doing this bit, though. I was going to say, like, I think like apes have a three-year gestation period or something. One of our listeners, though, started us on this bit where we will do, um, What was it? Nine months out.

Nine months prior. Birthday minus nine months to try and see where your parents celebrating something. I think Jakes was Ronald Reagan was elected. Correct. Is that true? Nine months to the day after. And my mom was a big Ronald Reagan fan. When I hung signs and stuff.

And she's like, awesome. He won. Let's go. Now I feel great about the country. Yeah. Now America will be safe enough to raise a kid. Exactly. Yeah.

Exactly. This is very popular around wars and things like that. So yeah, with the new kid, boy or a girl, do we know? Boy. Heck yeah. What do you mean, heck yeah? You just hate girls? You're misogynist.

I think boys are easy. Oh, no, no. Well, I'm at the early part, but the early part of girls compared to boys is not even. I was not. I'm saying in the long, I think if you take the first 18 years as a whole, a boy is easier. Maybe. Who knows? You got a wild man?

It's Colton Wild? Yeah. Oh, my God. He has so much energy. He never stops moving. He runs everywhere. It's fun, but exhausting. Yeah, thankfully there's two of us because I get a little break here and there.

So you wouldn't have us as your godparents, but we were wondering before you came on, like, would you, if it was a big emergency and Blake said he had to drop his kid off at your house for a couple hours. Now publicly, you're probably going to, like, I just would think you'd be a guy that'd be like, yeah, bring him on. as long as he leaves Angela at home, we're good. That would be a bit much. That would be a bit much. I can watch Brooks, but I got Angela with me too. That's why you need to watch Brooks.

Can I drop Angela off for just a half hour? You just want to have food. Well, it's great to catch up with you. Once upon a time, do you know who Gordon Jago is? He's the founder of the Dallas Cup? No, but he puts on a fantastic tournament. Yeah, okay, so you know him. Oh, okay, okay, you just did the Dallas.

I know the tournament. So he played in the Premier League back in, like, the 60s. He was a manager forever ago. He was an English legend. And he once helped Dan coach his youth soccer team. Wow. Because he lives in the area. So if in the off season, it's about what they learned.

It was a, yeah. You know how it is. What's a witness thing? It's the process. Man in the arena. It's not. Man in the arena. It's not the, uh, it's not the, uh,

winning early, right? It's the journey. The journey. So if you want to stop by a Grapevine South Lake soccer practice at any point over the next like four months, you just let me know. We start back up Saturday. Jake's the head coach of girls soccer. What do you all practice? We practice at Bob Jones in South Lake. We play in college, whatever. You know, I'm, if you want to He's saying, contact him if you actually want to do this. Yeah. But you don't. I'm probably more likely to come to a game and just like Colton run around and watch. You could. You're good to see me.

In action. Lake for just ways to kill time. Yes. See? Yeah. We went to our friends, seven-year-old football game. Nice.

I don't, it was an indoor football field in South Lake. We would have to go. But that was fun. That is good because then the kid. Yeah, C's. This is fun.

Sports. Yeah. They're very observational. And there are their kids. You're like to send you up on the birthday circuit. Yeah, you can come to birthday parties with me if you want. Do you see, any parents get heated at football? I have buddies who's.

No. For seven-year-old? Oh, dude. If it's football, you're going to, it's a chance. It's a chance that dads are fired up. Last thing for me. Something wasn't particularly close and not a lot of heat there. Good.

That's a long flight to Brazil, my man. Oh, Blake's mad. He doesn't want to go to Brazil with Steve Berlin. Wow. Well, I'm excited. It's a big soccer. You should be. A big soccer place, a mecca of stadiums for soccer players.

I wish I was playing a soccer game there, but I'll take a football one. They probably love kickers as much as any other position in football. So hopefully get a chance to make a few new fans, maybe kick a long one there. Don't they have, don't they kill you if you get an own goal or something? Yeah, rare occasions. Or bad breath calls like in Brazil, right? Now, to be fair. No, no, I think it was like Columbia.

Yeah. But to be fair, if we had a huge game and they snapped the ball to Brian, and as a cowboy fan, Brandon turned around and kicked the ball through our own uprights. I would be on board with trying to hunt him down. No. Is that actually three points for the other team? How does that work? It's a great question.

No way. You can return the two. Wow. A lot of questions. If they kick off to us after that, that might actually be something. and you do. Take the three. He's having a run up to the line and run back and kick it.

All right, let's go to Gene. All right, thank you, Brandon. Yeah, thanks for having you. See you, man. New Mike and all. There is. Yeah, the great Brandon Aubrey, brought us by Community Mechanical.

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Can I be honest with you? Because this is kind of denying your bit here. I thought that was going to be much worse. I thought you were going to say, like, it actually checked the box for you or something because I feel like sometimes stuff like that happens to me. The Control C thing though is weird. I understand the website.

I'm looking at a website here, but I hit copy on my phone. I would have thought it was weird because it was against two different apps. That part I think is weird. Right. It's in Venmo and this one is in Google. Chrome makes sense. That would have been weird to me, but not like in the same way that talking about, hey, you know, have you ever thought about going to Taiwan

and then you, and I by the way, don't know how to make sense of all that. For a long time, I was firmly on team. They don't need your audio. There's everything else that you're producing. Trails of data, they don't need your audio. They don't need to be listening. But even I don't know anymore. Like now I'm like, and you know you read all these books,

like the Fort Bragg book we read where they're just like, openly telling you like, yeah, I think if the NSA wanted to look through your computer or your TV at any time they could. So maybe if, maybe that's why I just keep seeing dildo ads on my Instagram. Yeah. So anyways, yeah, sports. So Javante is coming home. Yeah, he is. He is.

You wrote that article about him the other day. what is interesting to me because it does seem like a a good deal as far as 8 million a year for a good running back that's not a lot no it's just do you do you want to be a team that has to pay

anything for a good running back I mean he made 3 million last year which made him very valuable if you pay guys to like the best running backs in the league last year if you if you use

there's a tool that you it's intuitive, so I don't want to make it sound too complicated. But in baseball, we have like wins above replacement, right? You get a maybe this guy's a two win above replacement player. It's about average. And then you'll say, well, that guy's worth a win. We've decided in this economy is worth like $5 or $6 million a year. So that guy should make $10 or $12 million.

See what I'm saying? There's a price per, and the way that you get good is to always be getting surplus value there. So even if you pay a guy like Otani, 50 million, if he produces 120 million in wins, the best running backs in the league produced about 10 million last year on value. And Javante was one of those.

And the number on this website I use, put him at about nine. And if you watched him play last year, I think you would say this guy was one of the better running backs in the league. It all checks out. Number one was Bijon, by the way. So like it is what you think it is. And his was like 12, 11 and a half.

It's just not a position that generates a lot of value. So if you can get a guy who can produce at a $7, $8, $9 million value for three or close to free in the draft, it's definitely better. So you would say he was like a $9 million value? Yeah. Okay. But like for example, OSA, when OSA was making $2 to $3 million a year, right? He was a third round pick, I want to say. Somewhere.

Before they paid him, I wrote this same article about him. And he was producing at an insane level for a defensive tackle of like $13, 14, $15 million a year. But to keep him, they had to pay him 21. And at some positions, you just have to do that. Quarterback is sometimes one of them. But there's just some positions where if you want to keep the guy, going to have to pay him and you just do it knowing this guy will never quote truly be worth that but it's part of building a team at running back though it is one of those positions where

we kind of decided we can change him in and out and it doesn't really affect continuity that much so my opinion would i would prefer to save money where i could and try to get another running back that doesn't cost you anything more than two to three four million dollars now the flip side of that is it ain't that much money you know what i mean when we're talking about paying a guy three, three and a half or eight or nine, when the cap is skyrocketing the way it is, it's not that much. But it does all add up. But if you were to grade positions where guys could overachieve and hit that market,

it would be running back. But he did it, though. They did it. That's what I'm saying. Now you're paying him $8 million a year. My guess is he will not produce ever more than he did last year. But even if he did it again, you're paying him for that now. You're now paying him like a good running back.

Yeah, I guess what I'm saying is like if you want to get a left tackle or a quarterback, I mean, you're going to have to spend high draft capital. If you get somebody you voted for in the Doke Walker Award in the third or fourth round, there are odds of being Giovante Williams last year are significantly better than other positions. Ben, high draft. What just happened? I think that was me. Okay.

No, me. Okay. Yeah, I guess what I'm wondering, because it does seem like they got this done real early for the Cowboys, for sure. And the Cowboys don't ever seem to really know the market. So I wonder are there going to be other free agents, you know, is Breece Hall going to get an $8 million a year deal this year? Yeah.

And so like did they get in too early like they did when they traded Amari Cooper, got a fourth for him and then all of a sudden found out, hey, wait, wide receivers of his category are getting much more than that. And they were. Same thing with when they signed Zeke. Or when they declined to get involved with Derek Henry or Sequin Barkley when they were free. Because those guys certainly were, Sequin for sure,

they're way level above. You know, Giovante? Yeah, yeah. And so you get one of those guys, they're worth a little bit more, and you can expect them to be worth a little bit more. That's my concern is, it's not a great concern. Yeah, there's no, you're right. There's no level to this where he's going to, I mean,

a good test case for this is what you think of Kenneth Walker, because, I mean, we saw in the Super Bowl and really down the stretch, that guy has a level of, like, you could throw the whole thing at him, for a few games if you had to. I'm not really sure you're ever going to do that with Javante. I think they need another running back badly. Is Ken Flalker free? Yes.

He's projected. I mean, I don't know. I use a bunch of different websites. Yeah, it's like 9 to 10. But Javonte, PFF, had it projected at 3 and 7 and 0.6. So it's about what it was. But there are other guys. You want to find the next guy.

Najee Harris. J.K. Dobbins. Yeah, I saw J.K. Dobbins, but, you know. Brian Robinson. A lot of injury concerns with J.K. Dobbins, for sure. Listen, we're not in the, we're shopping in the discarded toy bin. That's what this is. That's how you got Javante. Javante was two years clear of that injury when they signed him.

A lot of people had given up. I just wonder what he would have gotten on the open market. This year? Yeah. Well, more? Well, I don't know. I think RICO will be an interesting case because they kind of, Like the same year almost.

To bring one of them in another. Yeah, bring Rico home. Too late now. Bring back our Rico. I mean, it's cool because I think Javante's a fun player to watch. And he, you know, you really grew to love him over the year. But I could do without my teams ever signing, you know, running back contracts with multi-years and guarantees. Yeah, what was your first reaction to reading that?

It had to just be, eh. Well, I just was, I would, I had just written the article, so my thought was, I wish they wouldn't have done that. They've been on. There's your answer. A lot of heaters. Your snap decision answer. But I was also still in the, just the distraught state that I was sent into by the losing Logan Wilson, the release of one half of Wilson family playbook. See, there's another thing that happened during the year.

And it was like, oh, no, no, this is good. Yeah, isn't it weird? really bad defense is relegating this guy to the bench and, oh, no, no, no, you just don't understand the dynamics of it. He's actually really good. It's just that it's the stupid Bengals

who are just trying to pay somebody less and blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, the Bengals had, you know, as much hope at the playoffs last year as the cowboy, right? They were trying to push for the playoffs. Very quick encapsulation. The idea was they had, once they lost borough they sucked and they were more interested in development than they were in any

players that actually could play so they wanted to get him out of there they were doing him a solid then it's on the cowboys at that point to try to sell it as hey this guy's a leader and he couldn't get on the field they forgot to play him for a game which is which means he's not good right they don't you don't forget to play a player who couldn't have any kind of an historically bad defense yeah yeah and i what's the what um What's the podcast called? Wasn't it Wilson Family Playbook? Yeah.

I checked. No recent episodes. Okay. That's what I'm wondering. Are they... You'll know. She'll tell you. I'm subscribed.

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Yeah, it seems cool. I got way more interested in the women's side. That was sick. Yeah, they won it overtime as well. But I got way more interested in that because I started seeing rumors online that two of the best players, one for the U.S. and one for Canada, were dating and had recently broken up. Oh, wow. Yeah, it was being called the female heated rivalry.

Wow, okay, yeah, my wife's been really on me to watch. watch heat of rivalry. Because apparently there's a similar situation where, like, it's a Russian player and an American player who are pleasuring each other. And then they got to play and, you know, that's the old story, the oldest story in the book. I don't actually know if it's true, but it's Caroline Harvey from the U.S. and Daryl Watts from Canada. And there's a lot of... Daryl?

Darrell. Darrell Hannah. There's a couple of female Daryls out there, right? Yeah. People are digging through their social medias. And they're also, again, they're like the two leading scores in the tournament. And the women's division has always had, it's probably because it's more even. Because obviously the U.S. men haven't won a gold since miracle.

And they haven't beaten Canada consistently in big games. But the women's side is more even. Do you remember like they fought first? The U.S. team in Canada fought at four nations. Was it last year? Everybody freaked out about that. Do you remember that lady fight between the U.S. and Canada in like 2013? No.

The full line, five on five. Like there's a couple of oral histories of their rivalry. Way more heated than the men's side. Oh. Way more. They hate each other. Also, they didn't have a pro league. where they got to know each other.

They didn't even really start playing college hockey. I guess NCAA, perhaps, until, you know, 20, 25 years ago. So for most of the time that the U.S. women's team played the U.S. women's Canadian team, they genuinely hated each other. They had no co-fraternization. They had no, oh, we both play on Phoenix together. Hmm. Look at you and all this women's hockey knowledge.

Yeah, and the U.S. team has a lady from Coppell. Who I just threw reading a couple quick articles about her. It sounds like had to figure shit out because she played women's hockey in Coppell like in the, you know, 10 years ago. And it's like, there's no one recruiting. There was nowhere for me to be seen. Like I just had to grind out, you know, emails and making my own tapes. Who's she? What's her name?

Is it Hannah Bilke? Book her, Blake. Why are you ignoring her? Anabilka. Actually, yeah, no, she seems to have a very interesting story. Like, she worked for the statistician for the college hockey team just to try to hang around the game while she was trying to get herself picked up. She had a badass tournament.

So I had this weird, I had a, this was my experience yesterday. So I have the fire going. I'm watching the gold medal. game, The Men. And then I'm all, like, before that game, I started watching the documentary. It's on Netflix. It's called Miracle, The Boys of 80. And I've seen documentaries before you've seen the Disney movie.

But then there's another documentary that had come out about, I don't know, around the time of the Disney movie, just before that. So it's 10 or 15 years ago, which is fantastic. Just based on memory, I think that one previously was a little bit better. This one was certainly different because all the guys are now 15 years older, and they have all the guys, you know, from the team there. And we now have a new way of doing documentaries, which probably started with The Last Dance, where, okay, let's have them watch this,

and then we're going to film them watching it, and then you will see their reaction of them watching it. Sure. And so that's done throughout. And, you know, big smiles or whatever, you know, great little comments. But it's just a different way of doing documentaries now. And I thought, I think of this in the lens of like my kid. All right, if she's watching this, is she kind of lost?

And I think she would have been for the first half hour at least. Just because they are broadcasting to an audience that's already. seen documentaries on this and we all know the story and we all know you're going to take it to your effing grave still when they tell that story it does still give you chills there's a lot about it that gives you chills a lot of the herb brooks um way that okay certainly it was all you know amateurs all college kids against a russian team of 25 to 35 year old men who that's all they did was play hockey. They were professional, yet, you know, they said that, oh, he's a farmer.

But, you know, that's just the way Russia did it. And it really created a scenario where we're the true underdogs. Very few times. Huge underdogs because Finland was better, Czechoslovakia was better. Like, I think they were in maybe the seventh or ninth. you know, Vegas would have had them ninth as far as the odds to win that whole thing. And, you know, Herb Brooks, who had to, who got a bunch of guys from different colleges, but they were from good programs like he was the Minnesota coach,

and he took like four or five of his own guys. So it wasn't necessarily just the best hockey players and like an all-star football. team, but it was some guys who had some chemistry. However, they are college players, all from really good programs. So they all kind of hate each other. Yeah. We saw similar stuff play out in D2 and D3 as they built out their roster. Okay. Legitimately.

So they now are not just us. We got to get guys from other parts of the country. Yeah. So they hate each other. So whether, I mean, they're laying this out as if this was his idea. So he kind of worked them so hard and was such an a-hole and really like verbally as well would just insulting and that kind of thing. As, you know, coaches you grew up with were to where they all said, you know, all of a sudden we're all best friends because we all just hate this guy. So was that his genius?

To create a common enemy, a common enemy, that's actually going to be me. now these guys will be really bonded. We used to ask these questions often. About who? People we worked for. Is it intentional to make everyone? Oh, okay. Hate you because it is one thing we all agree on.

Seriously, I mean, it's like I've actually thought about that because it's in any leadership position. That is something that people try to do. That's like, you know. Yeah, and I've, I'll personally say I've never been involved in a situation where I believed that my leader was in, intentionally doing it to bond the guys. No, but you started looking for answers somewhere.

Yeah. At some point. But in retrospect, these guys all seem to believe that that was Her Brooks method in that he actually was wanting to do that. And maybe part of it was afterwards and years later, they would go on to say like he, like as they won the gold, he went into the locker room and let the players celebrate on their own.

Herb Brooks also had a pretty interesting relationship to being the head coach of the U.S. hockey team because he was a player and he was the very final cut on the 1960 team. And I guess when he brought in the guy that was his final cut, he reversed it on him a little bit to where the guy who came in to be the final cut, you know, he kind of knows if you get called in by the coach and we're two days before. the Olympics or something. And Herb Brooks is bawling. Like he's got tears streaming down his face.

And he knows how the reason he doesn't want to do this is because this happened to him. Like he went through six months of training, of skate, you know, becoming one of the best conditioned athletes in the entire world because that was like Herb Brooks thing is the Russians are the best conditioned team. And we're going to be. Like we're going to. So he's working him to death. yet six months you're doing that you're there every day you do everything that you can and you're the very

last cut like you're told a couple days before the Olympics actually yeah appreciate you and he was bawling and so now the guy who you would think he'd end up bawling is now like feeling so bad for her brooks that her brooks has to do this to me yeah i mean if we laugh about this is going to hurt me more than it hurts you when you're growing up but you can really I believe it for him. I think you can believe it. He did go through that. Like, you know, if Ken Hitchcock is cut it, you know, they're like,

yeah, you've never done, you know, you don't know what we're dealing with. So, and the way he coached, you know, like, I guess part of the lead up was like they're skating, you know, it would be like running lines in basketball, but they called them Herbys, and they just, they tied Finland in one game. And they were like thinking, ah, that's pretty good. Finland's one of the better teams. we tied them in a lead up to the Olympics. And Herbie thought, you know, Kerr Brooks thought you guys were ass,

you guys were not giving it at your all. And, you know, had them stay afterward. You've seen that video probably. They turn off the lights in the arena. Like they're there so long. They were just dying. I don't know, like, I don't want to be nostalgia for, you know, coach abuse or anything, but like they certainly couldn't do that today.

Yeah. With NHL players. And another thing I don't know, you might not be able to do it with any players. Yeah, ask Jerome Tang at Kansas State. Yeah, you might have to, you might not be able to do it anywhere, period. Okay, and I guess, yeah, that's a great point.

The big difference too now and then is that Russia was the bully. And I feel like the USA right now is the bully. not so much that there's so much better at hockey than anything else, but the USA, just in general, even using our pros, there was something to the Olympics saying, you know what, we're almost going to, we're going to play this with a handicap. Like we are so good,

and we're so far ahead of everyone else that will handicap this thing. And we're using our amateurs. and you guys can use your quote amateurs, but everybody really knows. And that really made you feel good to win that. Like, the country could never have felt as good as 1980 yesterday. No, no, because, I mean, and I just looked.

They were almost dead even odds pre-tournament, pre-tournament to win with Canada. They were slight underdogs heading into the final eight, but I knew they were underdogs back then. I didn't know they were eighth or ninth. I just knew that they weren't two or three, but that's, there's nothing like that. I mean, the dream team is never able to experience anything like that.

But going back and forth, I'm watching the U.S. game, and then they get to the first period. So, all right, let's go watch this documentary. And we'd watch the U.S. game a little more. Well, let's say another break. Let's go watch this documentary. And it was a weird dynamic to me doing that. And then I did my thing of, all right, so they talked about the U.S. in 1980.

And what this meant to the country? There's some economic tough times in the 70s. But you know what? We all swelled with pride. And all right, now we've had a long time to look back. What did it mean? Did it actually mean anything? You know, let's look back at the New Orleans Saints played again.

And this really is important as we dig out of Katrina. Really? What? What did it mean? Yeah, I mean, I don't. It's tough to have a conversation like this because my side has no proof on it. But I do think if you just wanted to start, let's take them together. There's no way to quantify people feeling better and how feeling better can

ultimately in some small way translate to you performing better. Like certainly if we take this to our logical... Performing better than what? Whatever you do. So if you take this to your logical extreme, you know, if you were like, hey, I'm going to come in and do my job today. Would you rather be sick or not sick? Well, you'd rather be not sick because you know you'd do a better job.

So the general contagion of positivity that it sounds like these people are purporting exists by saying, hey, the Saints hat. I think there is something to it of vibes or people being in a good mood. I think it makes things work smoother. It's impossible to quantify. And the problem is, at least from my view, is they never mentioned the downsides.

Like, there may have been, like, legitimate downsides to the Saints playing that year. We don't know what costs, the logistics. You don't ever get presented with an alternative reality where we just didn't. So you can't compare it. and I guess you could say the same for the Cold War other than I wasn't there,

but people say that it was a big moral boost. And frankly, that's all the Cold War was to me in retrospect. It was just a dick measuring contest of like which way's the right way. So if that's what you're fighting over, having your people believe that you have the superior way is very important. And if it helps them to believe that, if they win a sporting event, it's got to mean something, right?

I mean, the big reason why they needed the cold war, they needed to have people convinced that our way is the right way. The other way is evil. This is like a perfect event. Look, we won. Yeah, but the Soviets had won every year prior to that for 20 years. And nobody was like, hey, man, cool. We should be communist now because the Soviets keep winning.

That doesn't happen. You're right. That's why I just, I would, you say alternative reality like I would like to see. What if they had just got bounced right away? There'd be a lot less documentaries. You wouldn't know who Jim Craig is or that they had a dad. Yeah, what if they made it to the final but just got skull points? What if they got pasted by Finland?

Because that was the thing. Was it Finland or Sweden? The final? Whatever they, they actually beat, you know, the Russians in the, the first game of the four semifinal. Yeah, four-team tournament, and then they ended up playing the gold medal game like a couple days later. And that's where I guess Herb Brooks

very short speech before the game just said, if you guys I guess even the day before they were kind of signing autographs and they had a morning skate after they had beaten the Russians and now they're huge, huge stars.

Like the first game of the whole tournament, they were like the ninth seed, like I said. So the arena, which I think only holds like $8,000, it was a pretty tiny arena, was half empty or half full, if you're an optimist. But there was not a lot of people there. They weren't fired up about the USA. But they had to at least tie that game.

If had they lost that first game, they would have not been eligible for a medal. So they tied it. And it was a very end of the game, too, like a very late goal. And that's where a Ruzioni on the documentary is like that was the biggest goal of the... It did not know that. The whole thing, actually, because they would have just been playing. And you'd never heard of them, and they would...

But they did that. They won again. It's like, oh, wait. Hey, the U.S. hockey team, they're not supposed to be winning these games. And then it started catching fire and everything. and it got huge. But yeah, I guess the next day after the morning skate, now they're in there signing some sticks and whatnot,

and Herb Brooks came in and just throws everything on the ground and starts screaming at them. And like, what are we doing here? Who do you think you are? Like really shocked them back into reality. Like, we have another game and then told him, if you lose this game, this is right before the game. Because they had a cut.

They had slayed guns. Goliath. He's like, if you lose this game, you're going to take this to your fucking grave. And I guess that was huge to these guys because Herb Brooks was a guy who never used profanity. He didn't say the S word. So he never, like he was a hard, hard ass, but he wasn't, I don't have to scream the up. Like, you know how didn't Jason Garrett seem fake when he used profanity? Even shoddy in a way. Yeah.

Like, all right, I'm using, because I'm trying to be a tough guy and all right. We don't buy that. Well, this guy was a tough guy. He didn't need to swear to be a tough guy. He said that, walked out the door, and then right before he got to the door, turns, and looks back. And they're all, like, already in stunned silence.

And he says, you're fucking grave. And he walked out. And they were all like, I mean, talk about putting pressure on them. It's pressure, but it's also perspective, right? I mean, how many, you probably have games from, like, junior high you remember that you're like, fuck if I could have just. Yeah. So that's what you're trying to convey to those guys.

Like this is what you will think about for the rest of your life. So think of it in those terms. Yeah, that's, I mean, it's why it's one of the, you know, one of the most famous historic pregame, post game, any sports speeches ever. Like I said, if you've seen the other documentaries, you're like, okay, I have seen that. it doesn't mean that this won't bring chills and maybe even a tear drop welling up just as you're watching like it's that was probably the fire it's pretty odd it might have been the fire that you know just their celebration the russians watching it uh the the russian coach

had pulled the greatest goalie in the world trecheac after the first period he gave up two goals um which then at the very end of the game when russia trails by one There was 10 minutes left. And they were like, that was the longest 10 minutes we've ever played. Because it wasn't like the U.S. is going to keep pushing. Right. It was like, all right, now we're ahead. We can't effing believe it.

Can we stay ahead? And they had a huge flurry. And even though with two minutes, one minute, the Russians never pulled their goalie to get an extra attacker. Was that something they didn't do? Probably pride. They never had to. Huh.

Well, pride or whatever, that coach, that's some serious tactical errors, you might say. And I didn't look it up. I probably should, but I'm concerned about what happened to him when he got home. Oh, you don't think he was given us. Like, hey, man. Bronze medal reception. Oh, you tried. Your record is 60 and one.

Well, now the thing would be, your guys played real hard. They never gave up. Right. Yeah, we're giving shotty's A's for the season. Of course. You know what? I mean, they just showed up every day. Which is truly the socialist way.

Whereas in Russia, they probably cut that guy's hand off. No, the other story, I didn't cry watching the Americans, but I do think the Hughes Brothers story is interesting. We have way more brothers in hockey than I realized, Dan. But this family had a kid go one, four, and seven three years in a row in the first round. And somehow my wife had become aware of their. Their mom. Their mom was a big-time hockey player.

Okay, yeah, yeah. And I think she was actually hired by the men's team at some point in like the 2010s as like a psychological coach or something. But the dad was a hockey coach, obviously. The mom was an Olympian. She won a silver in like maybe 92, 96. And yeah, one of them, I believe, scored the overtime goal. He's about to be the captain. Their third brother will be on the team next time around.

It's a cool little story that lets you know you never had a chance at sports. Because two superhumans from cold weather got together. The next thing you know, they have three first round picks and three consecutive years. All from Florida. No, I blame all my athletic failures on my parents for sure. And I mean, you had four or three cracks with the dad apple and none of them. No, well, they all didn't. They didn't all at the same time.

The DNA. I don't have all their DNA. It wasn't like a suicide My mom got all that We just mix it up I didn't We don't call it a suicide anymore No I'm sorry

That's an offensive What if you put coke and Sprite orange Yeah like That was the big drink at the pool Well yeah no we always call it a suicide The public pool You gotta have a suicide

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Those were fun times in the Big 12. When Missou was good, Kansas was good. You big fan there, Julie? I am. Aren't you, aren't you Missouri? Yeah,

was out a lot of those games when they were good. Really? It was fun. Once a part. a time. You weren't going there when he went there, were you? Who were you talking about? I was listening to Olaf. Tell me that it's okay to cry about this coronavirus situation. But who were you talking about? Way to go, Dan. Who's Olaf? Yeah. Josh Gad, the actor that

plays Olaf on Frozen, he made this video and it just captivated me. I'm sorry. He's sitting here on Twitter crying, telling everybody that it's okay to cry and it's the same voice as Olaf. Who were you talking about, though? You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Cry for a second. I was going to do it by myself, and then I thought, you know what? It's just a bad. I never saw it.

It's important for everybody to understand that we're all going through so much uncertainty right now. We're going to get through it. And it's hard, and I'm emotional because I hate seeing our kids deprived of their normal lifestyles and not being able to understand why all of this is happening so quickly but I'm also emotional because of all of the incredible things that so many of you out there are doing on a daily basis

and I know it's a struggle right now for so many people. Yes, this just ends to the CNN election desk. Harrisburg County goes to provide 13 points. We've lost a important county of a swing state here for the Clinton campaign. Oh, my God, another. Oh, looks like Orange County out in California. Another big one has gone Trump plus 22 here on election night. Listen to that.

I didn't even know who Olaf was at that point. And now look at you. For a whole catalog. Now you're crying along with him. Yep. I want to promote a couple of things. One is this Thursday, we will be out in. in public.

Many are saying, you guys are so reclusive. When will you show your faces? When will we get a chance to ask you the hard questions? Thursday, we will be at Conne Roso at the Star in Frisco. So right up there near football. If we have enough people, we'll play a little game on the small field next to the restaurant

in front of the practice facility. I'll bring a ball. Want to have a catch? I do. So Thursday, 1130 to 230. This Thursday, the 26th, and it will be pretty warm, we understand. There will not be a fire. Kick off that weekend.

So, yeah, join us at Connie Roso. Also a thing to promote. We've been talking to a guy from AirDNA. Air DNA. Luke, he's actually a buddy of intern. Brad Kellner. Intern Brad Kellner was an intern in 2014. And apparently Luke is his childhood best friend.

And we said, well, that's really sweet. And then he says they got a bit going on next Tuesday. March 3rd. Free food and drinks at Community Beer Company for Dumb Zone listeners and others. Air DNA, they're like this company that helps you set up your house to be an Airbnb. They're putting on a World Cup Road Show. You can find out how much money you can make renting out your home on Airbnb for the World Cup. So, Blake, you want to leave town, right, when the eclipse is here?

I do. They got you set up here. This AirDNA thing can help you out. Go to airdNA.com slash Dallas Roadshow. Yeah, go get some free food and some free beer and find out if you can make some cats. You can RSVP there. AirDNA.co slash Dallas Roadshow. Might be some serious money in it for you.

I'm going to do it. You're going to leave town? Yeah. Bro, the beautiful game. I think of eclipse or soccer much the way that Blake thinks of eclipse. You're going to have all the greats are going to be in town. My favorite soccer player quit soccer and plays football. ball now.

That's true. I wonder if he's fired up. Dallas Roadshow. Yeah, I saw. We haven't had him on lately. We could have asked him. Well, I don't care. Oh.

I mean, I saw, like, I looked at some of his Radio Row interviews was, it's a lot of people asking him about soccer, you know, the Brazilian TV station or somewhere other Latin Americans or. Nobody else asked. What happened nine months before you put a baby in your wife? Yeah. No, nothing like that. So I did, my only other couple of quick Olympics things.

When I flipped it on yesterday, I guess this is something that's grown over the years. I was not aware that they basically do marathon skiing. The 50-kilometer mass start event was on. It was wrapping up yesterday whenever I flipped it on, the women's. 50, dude, 30-something miles. It was two hours and 18 minutes. It's not like it's all downhill. It's cross country.

So you flip it on there, they're going uphill. I was going to say, is there a mountain that big? Going uphill and like basically walking. But you can just watch it knowing that woman cannot feel the lower half of her body right now. And they get to the final stretch and they're just dead. It's a two hour and 20 minute race for the winter. Yeah, I didn't take that in. I didn't even know that existed.

I mean, I guess when I think of ski sports and the Winter Olympics, I think of fast. jumps. I was, again, a marathon for skiing. Like, it hurt just seeing the time. I'm like, oh, two hours and 18 minutes. Speaking of that, when I was telling you guys about the heated rivalry thing, which is a lot of, like, fan stuff, social media clues, indications that these two women might be together and now broken up.

It seems like that might be kind of unfair. except the captain of the U.S. Olympic women's hockey team proposed to Olympic speed skater, her girlfriend, at the games. And, like, made a big show out of it. So, yeah, as Clay just said, it is a bad bit, but it's also, like, I felt kind of bad when I found out, oh, man, they're just trying to make these girls, like, it's a lesbian thing. Like, they're just trying to go over there and play sports.

What's the, and then you find out the captain of their team, proposed to her girlfriend who's on the Olympic speed skating team the second they got to Milan had cameras there turned a whole production out of it but that was kind of interesting because you're definitely not allowed to say

it kind of feels like you're making this about this and they're like we're just make it about the sports and then the other thing obviously which is way better than I mean if you have that opportunity it's way better than a February 7th game against the Grizzlies in the second period on the Jumbotron at the Mavs game, right?

It's better than almost anything you can do, but you have to know also that if people think that like ladies are, I don't know, you're not beating a stereotype. I'll put it to you like that. Because like a dude wouldn't do that. With another dude? What are you saying?

I don't know that. I think we would all thought it was pretty weird if like Clay Thompson, as soon as the U.S. got to China or something, plop down on a knee and proposed to his girlfriend. What if Miles Garrett proposed to Chloe Kim? And the cameras were there. You wouldn't think that... At a game, basically at a game, like if he went on the road and was like,

all right, now that we're here in Cincinnati. Haven't we seen that before? Haven't we seen like a player proposed to a cheerleader on the field? We've seen it once. Boise State. Well, that, then we've seen it twice, because we also, we talked to the bill's receiver who proposed to his cowboy cheerleader girlfriend. Yeah. Yeah.

And then Brandon kicked her in the head. With the ball. The other thing that people were fired up about, it's really a two-prong, is the republicanism of the U.S. men's hockey team. So there's the video going around of Trump on speakerphone with them in the locker room afterward. To me, it doesn't even really sound like him, but I guess it is, where he jokingly says, like, you know, he's inviting him to the White House, and unfortunately, I got to invite the women to, and everybody starts laughing. Oh, did he?

Yeah. He said, unfortunately, okay, I think I saw some, you know, people mad about that. Mad online. Yeah. Is that a segment we used to do? It's that. And, but the U.S. women's team, I think, by the way, declined his invitation. but the other thing was Cash Patel.

The bug-eyed little guy? Yeah, he's the head of the FBI, and he's a big hockey guy, plays hockey, recreationally, and he's in the locker room pounding beers, and, you know, that's not. There's apparently a certain subset of people who are still going to get pretty upset, based on the political beliefs of their sports heroes.

I feel for those people, but you're chasing a fruitless endeavor. Like you were surprised to learn that the hockey players are conservatives. I guess it's kind of interesting to think about from a thought, maybe thought experiment idea, like why it is that athletes generally lean that way. And maybe that's too much of a blanket statement. But there's something to the level of like their lives are very simple.

it's like a you work hard you do this and it becomes very you're incentivized to be convinced that you did it on your own like part of your mental moving forward is like only i can do this i did this i am the one making this happen. And that's helpful to motivate yourself, but I don't think it's a helpful way to understand, like, society. So it's, it's not just that I did this, it's that anybody could, but I'm choosing to work this hard. That's, I think, like, what a lot of athletes think. Yeah. And obviously, there's a level of starting with genes that could be... Right, you have to start in the first 99 percentile or whatever. Right, but then you could apply that to general society, too, right? I think I'm a pretty hard worker,

but I also had a very lucky life situation where my parents were not poor. You know what I mean? Yes, you could go intern for free for... Right, or work, yeah, work at a family business. Many days, yeah. You know, and get over... So my point is just, I think athletes,

it's very easy for them to be like, I fucking did this. Like, I did this. Why can't other people just do what I work as hard as me? I don't think it means they're like bad people or anything. And I don't think celebrating with cats Cash Patel. I don't know.

I saw some people, Stars fans is probably how it showed up in my feet. They're mad at Otter. Like, oh, find out this guy's a Republican. Like, don't look.

Trust me. You don't want to. I mean, but then how do you know he is? And who cares? Yeah. Well, how does that affect your?

They care because the idea is like. But what if he wasn't? How does that change? Because you get to know them and support their journey as a person. And it's certainly, if a guy's cool, you're more, whatever your perception of cool is,

you're more likely to root for them and want them to do well. Okay, so like if they don't... It's easier. Try to remake their own version of impractical jokers. That's not fun. It's so much easier. It's so much easier.

There are many different ways it can work out. But... Yeah. It didn't lend itself to some funny, like, Nancy Guthrie jokes. You know, because, like, she's still missing. Well, the guy from the FBI is like, fuck, yeah.

Founded domestics. Dude, what's going to happen? Nothing. We're never going to... It's over. You'll never know anything. Oh, did TC say that? Yeah.

Last week, we were talking about it. We talked about it on the show. Like, what's the chalk now? Like, if you could place a betting line, it would be you never have a resolution of the story. So does Savannah Guthrie ever go back to host the Today Show? That's a more interesting question. And he's like, oh, we have a little, we're doing a cooking segment now. Right.

And then I'm going to interview... Here's a 14-year-old Jim. Yeah. Yeah, there's C-suite's going to make her make an announcement on the show. Ratings will kill. I mean, yes, but when can you ever publicly? I mean, how long, too? And how long does it take for NBC to be like,

well, we're paying your $14 million salary and you're not at work. And I'm sorry, but like if the, if the, the, uh, the doorman's mom was kidnapped, uh, we'd give them some leash, but you think, uh, you're coming back to work at some time. Maddie L, just staring at that phone. Like, you know, I hadn't forcibly fingered anybody. I haven't heard that name. In my office in a long time.

Well, they already called Hoda off the... Oh, yeah, I did see that. They tagged her back in. Yeah, Hoda's bad. Well, like, here's a better question, maybe. What would you do? What would she do if it was her kid? Like a 10-year-old.

She'd never be back on the air, right? There's no way. You'd find a different avenue. you may be not out of the media forever, but I don't know that you're coming back to the Today Show. But with a parent, it's like they weren't going to die. You know, like, you can't really let it wreck your whole thing. Right.

Like if your mom did just die, you'd take a couple days, maybe. You'd have your period of morning and then you would be back to work. Right. And so you probably almost have to look at it like there's no, yeah. What are they doing with her? If they didn't kill her right away. I can tell you this.

unequivocally, I don't have her. I know there's a lot of people that have been asking questions about my new trafficking old women operation. I saw Horny Amy last night at Jimmy Show. Oh, you know, the Jimmy Show. She's a candidate. Nancy Guthrie is not. We don't have her.

Not interested. Oh, you may kidnap and traffic horny Amy. Beth. Oh, you already know she's horny. When she gets old enough, yeah. For sure. I did go to Jimmy Show last night. Jimmy was Scott opening.

good time. Early show, man. I was home by like 915. Really? Yeah, it was nothing. Damn. He's getting better and better, man. I mean, I've heard a lot of the jokes

because I go see him with decent regularity. But it is cool as like a guy who really likes learning about that world. Like, I feel like I can pick up on things he's better at. Because I'm seeing the same jokes a lot of the time, you know? Yeah, that's interesting. So, no, he's a machine. No, that's a true art.

Yeah. To be able to delete. deliver it as if you've never delivered it before. Very cool to see. You guys want to do a little more weekend check or write to the news? What do you want to do? Let's do a little more weekend check. Okay.

Because I think that might end up spilling all throughout the week. Yeah. Because I did go to that show last night. Big long drive home. Matt Grimm beat me back to my house. Do you want to read that email? Or at least part of it? I didn't know that what had happened had happened.

with regard to the dueling return routes home between the RV that left Thursday night. We'll get to it later in the week. What do you mean what happened? You guys got home within like five minutes of each other or something and he was doing the math on how unlikely that was. Yeah, he said it's like a one in three thousand a chance.

He was doing math. The thing was to my wife who knew about my trip, knew everything. She drove me there. When do I pick you up? It's going to be Friday at like two. Can you get out of work?

Absolutely. I just have to plan ahead. I'd blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Friday morning, it's like, when are you coming home? Today at two, like, you know, I don't know if I can leave work. Can you wait? I can get there by 4.30, she says. Are they not listening to us either?

No. What? We don't listen to them. But are they retaining anything you say to them? No, I send calendar invites. Okay, well, then it's like, well, I could be there by 430. How much would an Uber cost, like, because she's costing? Okay, I guess so then I Ubered.

Yeah. Solid Uber, based on after the one we had in... You didn't find out about any domestic violence? This dude didn't say a word. This is the greatest Uber driver I've ever had. Just business, all business. Little mint. There was a little jar of mince there and then charging cables at the rear end.

That's good. You'd have to move a bunch of stuff because everything was just clean. Yeah, that's nice. Window was closed. The air conditioning was on. The pool was Luke. But it smelled good. He had his bag out next to the door before Dan even, like, turned to get out of the car.

Wow. That guy was solid. I told him, I was like, dude, this is the greatest ride. He didn't hear me compliment because he's back in the car. Right. No time to gloat. Anyway, yeah. So, like, that's why I was, I could have beat Matt Grimm there.

Had the old ball and chain. Not been doing whatever she was doing. Working. So you guys, but you got back and they were there minutes before you? We were already unloaded. Okay. We were just finishing up with like T.C. stuff. Still, the timing's pretty incredible.

You consider all the factors and the variables of driving. Oh, that was. Yeah, drove from Arizona. the day before. We hit traffic in Odessa, and Matt was just fuming. Oh, because it was going to lose this race? Yeah, and he was like... Did he ever stop?

Fettler? Like, he drove the whole way, right? You don't drive half hour? He stopped outside of Tucson for a quick 15-minute nap. Why don't you drive a couple hours for him? Help the guy out. Matt might not want that. You don't know.

You don't want me to drive. When he's in, when he's in Reaper mode, driving through the night, like, you don't mess with them. You just let him go. You just let him cook. So it turns out they needed that extra hour jumpstart. Oh, that it took us. Oh, because you guys went to such a bad comedy show and came back early and he got to leave early.

More on that later. And we were delayed, right? No, that was on the way out. Yeah. You were delayed. Well. What do you mean? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

We weren't sure you'd make the flight. Yeah. we'll get to that too okay what do you want to get to you now then who's who's going you got anything foodie no it's just a great drive back Matt's a amazing

director of logistics and any talking more than the trip to Denver you guys did not talk much at all on the way to Denver I was like hey yeah we're gonna have the guys in the van we're going to be hanging out yeah Blake's back there reading his book Dan's on the computer

Jake's just trying not to throw up And on the way back, T.C. was out within like 15 minutes of us being on the road. Sleep mask on, blanket, pillow, full Dan. And the seats reclined. Yeah, he was, he was using every angle you could on that seat. But you left it late at night. Right? You left it like when, yeah, when we were going to bed normal.

But I didn't sleep. Like 9 o'clock. I didn't sleep at all. I was up the whole time pretty much. Doing what? Uh, servicing Matt. Ask grass or gas. That's right.

A little roadie. No, I was doing a little editing. Put together something for Jake and, uh, put T.C.'s hand in warm water. Catching up on. Oh, my God. Draw a wean around his face. Freeze of shoes. Has anyone here ever woke up with a wiener on their face? Oh, come on.

I haven't. No, I've drawn one on, but never. I woke up to a dude telling me, look, dude. And I wasn't friends with this guy, but he was like, I'm telling you this because you're friends. We're friends. Go right to the bathroom and then look in the mirror. I'm like, what? What?

Yeah. Yeah. No, I... It was when I was at home for Thanksgiving from college. Ooh. And now my mom is at home. And so trying to scrub that thing. It was like a Sharpie.

Oh, yeah. No, I've... It was very disappointing. I've showed up at a family event with the remnants of a popular World War II insignia on my forehead. But your face is just red because you're just got to scrub it. Why do you have like a red rubbed swastika? Yeah. Your forehead.

We did have to stop. So just east of Midland and Odessa, or no, El Paso, there's a Border Patrol stop. So you go through, it looks like a toll booth situation. You stop at the Border Patrol. There's someone there that go, how many passengers do you have? And Matt's just like, there's two guys in the, back. Are they American citizens? He goes, yes. And then we just go right through. The shades are all down. T.C. and I are just in the back. You can't see us. And I'm just like, wow, they have a border

patrol stop? That's pretty, that's been around. Yeah, it's always been there between El Paso and Midland Odessa. That's what, like, people would always tell you, there's a certain way you can drive and avoid ever having your car searched, and there's another, not so much that way. Like, I think Willie Nelson got pulled over there some years ago. It's a good thing there's not a gummy patrol search. Right. They have dogs. They had dogs out walking around, so.

But that was just interesting because they didn't know who was back there. It was a dark sprinter van with the shades all down. Like, they just saw Matt and were like, you know what, this guy's good. He looks like a guy that's good. Yeah. So that's always, that's a good plus to have him in the pilot seat. Well, it's too bad you didn't get in a, in an accident on the way home, you could have called

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They know all the tricks. They've helped thousands of people in the DFW area. They are DFW located. So Frankl and Frankel, personal injury attorneys. would have helped you out had you gotten in a terrible accent. Unfortunate that you didn't.

You really could have used the Frankles. Could have cashed in. Blake? I thought we had a great trip. It was nice playing TC and NCAA. Clayton was a fabulous audience for my Oklahoma State Dynasty. Land at Friday, 3 o'clock. I've got about five or six hours until bedtime,

and then it was just right back to two boys on the weekend. And you always used to say this, Jake, that the show is the fun part, being with the family's not, and now I get it. Did I say that? You did, and you do. Yeah, no, there's something to do that.

This is the oasis. So, yeah, a week in Arizona with the boys was great, being back home. It's not that it's bad. It's just that you, you know, I kind of live, at this point, I feel like I live like a video game character. because I'm very into like power-ups and objectives.

Sure. And it's just way more when you're with your kids, like there's a way to act, there's a way to talk, there's a way to, it's just like I'm on duty. Whereas when I'm actually at work here, I don't.

Like, this is how I actually am. Right. Well, you know, you're always subconsciously or whatever to their subconscious, you're shaping a life. And I take it, I know this sounds gay.

I take it probably too seriously. Like where I think, think about afterwards like, gosh, I've said that? That was kind of a weird thing to say. Will that affect her when she's... I remember things. Random core memories of something that my one parent said to me when I was seven, and I'm hyper aware of that. And in here, just kind of fart. No, I'm constantly running in circles where I'll think of Dan and Dan always says the best time in life is with the young kids, and then I get happy, and then my six-month-old starts crying. Like, this sucks. This can't be the best time in life. Yeah, no, there's just,

No way. I have no freedom. And then I think of Dan again or whatever, what I'm going to be like when I'm old. And then I'm happy. And then they piss me off again. It's just like, it's just so exhausting. You have to know that you're in the good times when you're in them. Yeah. Now, I mean, a lot of other people around the world may be having bad times. I understand that. I see that. But I'm having. These are the good times of my life. So I have to think of them that way to appreciate them. Ever since you asked if our animals have ever having a good time, that puts me in a better mood. Man. Nervracking.

Softball started Sunday. Oh, now we're to the main event. Opening day. Yesterday? Yesterday. Flyover? Didn't do a flyover. Not sure if they sang the national anthem before the 8 a.m. games.

Was Chris there? I did not see him. Okay, that's how he operates. And that's, yeah. We have a scout that recorded. every Blake at bet. I didn't see him, so he must be good at hiding or something. We're pretty good.

Now, Garza's Cardinals were pretty bad last year. But it seems like in the draft, he re-evaluated how he was going to build the team. And he basically did so by taking guys who are really good, but that other people don't want to play with. Okay What I'm saying is

We got a band of outlaws on the team I like it This is lean into the bit So you got a guy who slid into the sixth round Who is supposed to go in the fourth But he made no call no show on you Grab him You got a pitcher in the seventh

Hell of a guy Can really swing the stick Doesn't say a word to anybody Take him Me for instance Take him Yeah You know

So we We did really good on Sunday, and team chemistry is going to be something that we work on. But if we can just all come together and rally behind winning, maybe that'll fix it. Look, I think that's the easiest way. I know Shoddy thinks it's dinners, and I think winning games will bring you all together. Yeah, I agree. You'll be Eiffle-towering chicks together before no time.

I felt way better after the game Sunday than I ever did last year and played with a great group of guys, but after we run-rolled two teams and really just smoked the hell out of them. How'd you do? I felt pretty good. I think I broke a windshield on Sunday. That means he did well.

Unless it was a foul ball. I had some wind behind me and I hit it over the net protecting the cars. Nice. Listen to this guy. This is one of two bombs. That's some modest saying he had wind. He's back because he's in the gym.

He's going at 7 a.m. Like, you know how, and I do this too. I just don't have time for the gym. We're doing this, then we're having meetings after the show, and I'm not getting home to like five. Okay, then I did. He's like, yeah, same thing. And I have two kids.

So I'll get up early and go to the gym. Because he fell out of the first round this year in the draft. And we're going to make sure that doesn't happen again. Oh, I did? Oh, yeah, I was picked 26th. Hmm, we'll see. Two home runs. And then I wanted to do.

to give you guys something. Well, how does it work when you hit a car? Does somebody go, do they... You win a stake? I mean, I know how, like, in youth baseball, it would be a parent, like, does somebody, do you have to go, hey, whose car is that? That's a YP, right? I didn't know what happened until we were walking out, and a teammate of mine said,

hey, I think you hit a car over there. There's a bunch of broken glass. It's like the natural. So I walked over and, oops. But they had left. So I don't know. Hey, it's part of the game. Shouldn't have parked there.

Don't park where Blake could hit it. I've got family coming into town. Good. And I'm pretty sure it's going to be for the next three weeks. Horrible. My brother-in-law, sister-in-law, and their two young kids will be staying at my house. At your house. Wait, so this isn't your...

This is one of the good ones. It's her actual brother who I like a lot and his wife. Okay. And they have two kids like three and two. Oh my God. And they're going to cram into our extra room. Four people in one room? I guess we'll survive.

I don't know. What's the impetus for this? They live in England. And they're coming back. Wouldn't it better when she went and visited them? Oh my God. Flip side of the coin. You never see this bill come and do.

Yeah. That was the greatest two weeks of your life. And you'd take it 10 out of 10. The tab has been set on the table. Yeah. So they're just going to hang out? Do they talk British? God, they better not.

Do we have to watch Peppa Pig? They better not. I don't know I'd do any weird shit. Don't they get out and face the Big Bend and get down and pray. They pray towards it a few times a day. The little kids will have accents. Yeah. Because they get at school and stuff.

You'd have to figure. Yeah, I'm not going to tolerate that. Will they show Brooks how to make a urine bomb? Yeah. For soccer games. What? Do you know about this? Soccer hooligans would, like a water balloon, they would fill it with urine instead.

Oh. Throw it at teams? I don't know, dude. Try to tax your son without letting him represent himself in a body of government. I typically like them as people. Don't laugh. Don't encourage me at all. That should have fell flat as fuck.

Trying to be nice, soaping up my home, but I got to be honest. I'm really nice. not looking forward to this. No, I mean, did they know that you currently already have like an extra half person on your payroll? They don't. Which, happy birthday, Angelo was yesterday. Oh, for real? He asked me for an iPad for his birthday.

Oh, come on, man. I got a really old one. I'll take it. You want to give it to them? I told him I'm not going to buy him a new one. Can I tell you the problem that as part of the planned obsolescence, when you have an old one, it won't update the new, like if you want to... Right. New apps and stuff.

But even it doesn't even have to be a new app. It's a new version of an old app. Like you might may want to use FaceTime, right? Well, the new version of FaceTime won't work unless you update the operating system. At some point. And the operating system won't work on an old iPad. Because I try to use my family's old iPads because I only use them for reading. I asked them.

Eventually they box you out. What he wanted to do with it? Like, you know, check his. Can we back up a couple questions? Did you ask him, what do you want for your birthday? Or did he just come in and say, Hey, it's my birthday. And I want an iPad.

I asked him when his birthday was, which is my mistake. I shouldn't have. Okay. The chat was curious, so I texted him. He said February 22nd. What? They're curious. It's just very funny.

Yeah, they have their own show going on. They should have gotten the Jimmy's show. And so this was around the time. He had lost the card, so I had to meet him at a Waterburger, give him his new one. And then, of course, he was like, why are you asking me about my birthday? You're going to get me something? Yeah, maybe I could. He said, well, I could really use an iPad.

An iPad? I said, oh, to check your email? He's got a phone. Yeah, he said, no, I just like to play games on it. And the screen is too small on my iPhone. I'm with you. That's correct. It's just, it's harder for me to play Prince of Ruins.

It's hard to crush candy, a tiny little candy. I know. So he needs a bigger screen. Oh, God. every day they challenge me more yeah you want to borrow him oh I just want him to not make it so hard to support

they get here on Thursday they're having a birthday party for their youngest at my house on Saturday so my life's over well that's not all bad dude you get some some what does that sound music

oh sorry they just seemed like it switched really quick and it was all I could hear was the one guitar e-string playing. My next question would be, why is it still playing? Yeah, so do you have anything? You already went, Dan, because if so, I'm going to wrap up here and just say we'll do all of mine throughout the week. I had a major issue getting on the plane on Friday. Major issue. And we will package that. Okay. Let's do that because right now we'll do...

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which feels like an urban dictionary term, or like a group that Donovan's wife would be a part of that travels, you know? Like somehow there's a black woman an acronym in there. Like, me and the BAFTAs, you know? I like it. It was...

What was the name? It wasn't sisters. Grits, grateful, respectful, intelligent, talented sisters. Yeah. There you go. So, this is an award show. It's taking place in England.

It's on the BBC. It's not live. It's about two hours delayed. So here's where things get interesting. There is a movie called I Swear. And it is one of these dramatization biopics where it's about a guy who's still alive. And he's no one necessarily famous. He's a guy who has Tourette's.

He's battled this. Now, his name is John Davidson. And he was present at the award show last night where the young actor who actually portrayed him in the movie won an award for Best Actor. I don't know what you guys think or know or feel about Tourette's, but to me it's kind of the quicksand of diseases and that as a child, I think I thought it was about as common as cancer. Like, dude, you're such and such as, yeah, they just yell.

And you're allowed to swear. They just yell pussy. Yeah. It's your dream. It was every kid's dream. Yes. I had so many questions about how it worked as a kid. I'm like, do you just get to pick?

Which word you use? It sounds like a made-up disease, right? Like if you're telling a child about it, and that's why it was so appealing as a kid, it's not fun at all. It wrecks people's lives. It's horribly debilitating. You dreamed of having Tourette's as you are a playboy photographer.

Right. These are the great jobs, great things. Who tests Doritos. Yes. So this was two hours delayed. Now, there were some edits made as there was somebody on stage who made some free Palestine remarks. Those were edited out. What was not edited out, though, were some of the other outbursts that this guy had.

I took a YouTube video and just edited a guy's reactions out of it. This is the closest I can get to the actual audio. The first thing you're going to hear here is Alan Cummings. He was the host. You know him, right? I think so. If I saw him, I'd know him. Definitely.

I know that name. British guy, gay guy. It feels like he's been in a bunch of hilarious Christopher Guest stuff, I think. But in general, just a face you know, he's, He's a lovely fella, and he's doing this first part here. He's explaining this after the outbursts have already happened. You may have heard some strong and offensive language tonight. If you have seen the film, I swear, you will know that film is about the experience of a person with Tourette's syndrome.

Tourette's syndrome is a disability, and the ticks you've heard tonight are involuntary, which means the person who has Tourette's syndrome has no control over their language. And tonight, especially, I just want to say that for people living with Tourette's, it's the buzz around them that help define. what their experience is so to quote the film and they need support and understanding okay so that's the the host and the guy who just won an award for portraying mr Davidson the guy with the Tourette's now we're going to go to two of the stars from the movie centers delroy lindo and michael b jordan now they walk out on stage they of course both black first bafta of the night for a vital part of movie making we're here to

celebrate the artist to expand. Okay. No way. Now to answer Blake's original question of, why are we doing this? So he yelled out the N-word. Loudly. And they both stopped. You know?

Michael B. Jordan. Michael B. Jordan and this other venerable actor, a guy looks like he's at his 50s, just kind of has the biggest. Who is he? Is he a black guy? Delroy Lindo and Michael B. Jordan. The first bafta of the night for a vital

part of movie making. We're here to celebrate the artists to expand. Okay. I have two more smaller outburst that you can kind of

hear here. In a place, which is very... You just don't think on the hell and those are funny. Fock this. Troubled.

In a place, which is very troubled. This is Maggie Gyllenhaal and another woman presenting. We are delighted to be presenting

the Bafta. for supporting actor this evening. Shut up! I got cut off a little, but it was like, shut up. Okay. Shut up. That's considerably less controversial. So it is reported.

He removed himself. Like, he called his own foul. He was not kicked out, but he knew it was getting, I guess, getting a little out of hand and left on his own. I read a little bit about, I read an article the guy did

with one of the, the British papers, and it does sound horrible. What the award show is catching heat for is, one, they obviously had editorial power if they edited out Free Palestine, and they left this in. Two, their initial sort of statement and apology was about him and not about, boy, it probably sucked to be them, too. And people were not thrilled about that. You know, their statement, and even Alan Cummings there is like,

well, as you know, it sucks to have threats, and it's going to be hard if you've got threats, and people've got to understand. But at no point was he like, I also apologies to the two black gentlemen who were, you know, that didn't come up. Today that's come up. They've issued a statement apologizing for not editing it out

and apologizing to the stars of sinners. I mean, just a hilarious story all the way around. That's really drawing a lot of attention to that ailment. Awareness raised. Yeah. Yeah. And the movie. Yeah, I'd never heard of it.

Probably now in another way, sympathetic attention for Michael B. Jordan. Many, many celebrities, many of the black persuasion weighed in, including Texas' own Jamie Fox. He said, nah, he meant that shit. Out of all the words, you could have said. Tourette makes you say that? Right. Well, why didn't, yes, why didn't he yell that when the white lady was up there? If it's just I can't control the words. I don't think that this is something I'm going to be able to explain properly.

That's never stopped you. If you think that word, if, let's say you saw somebody and you thought that word and you thought like, that's a word somebody could offensively call them, that word is still in your mind. and if he doesn't maybe he doesn't it doesn't that doesn't mean that he uses that word regularly but it doesn't come up when he thinks of maggie gillen hall because that's not something that somebody like in his mind he may literally be thinking the worst thing that somebody could say right now would be to call this guy the inward and then in his mind he yells it that's the as deep as the connection is so he has no choice but to say the thing that somebody if you were going to try to impugn him as

being racist would say, oh, he's just being honest. But, right. Like would he yell, shut up, cunt? Like while Michael B. Jordan was up there? Probably not. That wasn't England. Ah, good point, and he is English. Hey, does your, uh, he said he, he, he,

do your nephews say cunt? Okay, we'll find out. Yeah. Like, it's nothing over there, right? I think it's, it's different than here. Is the N-word nothing? No. No, that still is a big deal.

Okay, I just find that weird. The C word is, or at least at one point, we used to think that was like the worst thing you could ever say. That one's straight. Yeah, over there, it's kind of like, uh, yeah. I just kind of call you that like you might say the word jerk. I think if I was Tourette's guy, I would not have been there. That's what a lot of people said.

Yeah. It's like the Rain Man thing, right? But if you know that this could happen or in public social settings. He just can't go anywhere then. if this is the alternative, I would just choose to not go anywhere. Yeah, but he's never going to get invited to the Oscars of England. This is the only way. You're right.

It's a big deal to go to the BAFTA Awards. It might be over there. Michael B. Jordan was there, dude. Great. I mean, he was good in Hardball. He's a L.O. He's Creed, bro. You guys see what's happening in Puerto Vallarta.

Is that where they got... Kevin Minch? Let me check my notes. Yeah, El Mincho. Yeah. That's where they got El Mention? Yeah. Okay, I didn't know you're doing a El Mincho joke with Kevin Minch.

Well, this is an area of Mexico where a lot of people, probably people who are listening, have been. Oh, yeah. Or have family who have been. Where is it? Where's the Viarta port? West and down. It's under California? Yes.

Okay. Um, I went like two years ago. Donkey show? No, no, it's resort town. Cockfighting. Do you guys remember me telling you, I went there? Cheap drugs. And, like anywhere else. I went there and was amazed by the presence of the Canadian.

That's right. 90% of my hotel was Canadian and then went walking around in town and 90% of the property owned by Canadians. Now I remember. Because, and dude, at 3 o'clock, and boy, this is when I was still drinking, and I was like in the bottom 10% of people drinking there. And my wife could vouch for that. These people, the Canadians were smart. They all showed up with double Yeties, because it was like, they'd fill your own, it was open bar. And so I'd go up and get a little 5 ounce.

They would fill up like a 128 ounce coolers and just sit there all day. and at around 3 o'clock, they would play Canadian drinking songs. On the beach in Mexico, it was wild. But it's a nice place. It's not like the nicest nicest, which is why I think the Canadians have seized on it. It's kind of a whiskey tango spot. But over the weekend it was on fire

because some combination of Mexican and U.S. forces decided that they were going to capture this guy and decided that they were not going to take him alive. Like I found some substack of a guy who actually does like Mexican intelligence and has sources and was like, this dude was not coming in alive. They know what that kind of problem creates. It was, we're killing this guy today. And what do you mean that like having El Chapo that creates more problems?

Yes. And they put him on a, I think they say he officially died on. the flight. It's way riskier. You're sending guys up close and personal to get this guy. You're losing some people. So you might as well just shoot him. And... It doesn't seem, though, like,

I don't know, legal or... It's definitely not legal, but nothing... There's no legality happening here, especially whenever half the government is involved with the, quote, bad guys. Hey, can I... I think you should turn your audio off if you're not going to use it. Do you hear that? There you go.

nice they've just been going on the whole time since you played your audio oh I've been thinking about it good call good call hey so uh

if you look on the news it looks like oh shit Mexico's on fire the cartels are in charge and like I'm not here to tell you Mexico is doing great but our I saw plumes of smoke oh it looked crazy

is it because criminals across the country or like they're lighting yes it is like from what I've heard And I'll expound on that in a minute. Like, it's a cartel thing to do to just in rebellion for like FU, you took one of our guys to just light everything on fire. Bus stops, buses, banks, train stations just cause mass chaos.

And that obviously affects the logistics, which affects tourists. There was a hilarious post on like R-slash-Mariot of a guy who was trapped there. It was pissed that they wouldn't grant him in a late checkout. He's like, I'm a gold number. Do you think that's fake? Maybe. Yeah. Maybe.

This, though, not fake, because it comes to us from our buddy PJ. PJ lives in, is it Cancun? I know I get it wrong every time, but he sent me a picture. I guess I'll pull up. But it's important and helpful, I think, to have somebody who actually lives there or lives in Mexico. He says, he sent me a couple. Is it going up and down? I'm trying to find it so I can.

He says, yes, there is a lot of arson, a favorite of cartel members when they get mad, but to make it sound like all of Mexico has descended into chaos is disingenuous to say the least. It will be a bit until the military gets all under control, but as long as people stay indoors or at resorts, they should be fine. And then he sent me the blue dot to where he lives. He said, unless they start swimming 800 files, I'm not impacted. Same with 90% of the country. Please make sure people understand.

It's like saying the fires in Texas have threatened the. whole country. It's a problem, but it's isolated. That's what we do here. So that'd be kind of cool. We fight fear with facts. But if you were stuck and you, you know what, the safest thing to do is stay in this resort. Yeah. You'd be like, oh, I can't leave, I can't get on a flight. Now. You call work. Like, it's better than my daughter is in New York City. Have you heard about New York City? What do you got? Snow? Blizzard?

Huge blizzard, biggest in whatever, since. Lake Placid. Is she in the city right now? Yeah, she's in the city, and she had a bus ride got canceled the other day. Dang. So she's just stuck there.

Mavs are not going to play Brooklyn tonight, I think. That's been canceled? How will Chris Middleton stay hot? Oh, wait. What about Jimmy Fallon? How's that going to affect Cooper Flag?

See, yeah, Jimmy's PJ's in Cabo, which is across the, ocean, not the ocean, but you know, the Gulf of California from Puerto Vallarta. But I think his point in general is, you see this on TV and it's, holy shit, Mexico's done, you know? Usually when you talk to, it's like my buddy in Portland a few months ago when Trump was like, it's so deep, descended into chaos.

Now, when we went there, everything is kind of like locked up, but, you know. Cool donut place, though. Great donut place. Bookstore. A business professor at Texas Tech has been arrested. He, along with two others, he's facing federal charges

in a drug distribution ring. Okay? The Fenty. This 50-year-old man, Daniel Taylor, is an assistant professor of supply chain management. Oh, and he was... Breaking bad.

Yeah. Well, at least he's legit. Now. You know, because how many professors are you like, well, have you ever done this in the field? Classic praxis argument. Yeah. Have you done it? Have you applied this?

Are you just in your ivory tower? Not in the case of this guy. But that, of course, presented an opportunity too good for the U.S. attorney to pass up in his statement, Blake. instead of focusing on teaching students supply chain management, the defendant, we allege, was developing and implementing his own supply chain of lethal fentanyl into the streets of Lubbock. This is a gnarly case too,

because a lot of times when you find out about a dude like this who's in a distribution-type level, he's not involved on the street level at all. But they have this guy... He's on the corner? They have people coming to. to his house, leaving his house, and overdosing in their car on the drive home. That's something people don't think about a lot of times on how drug dealers get busted.

Usually, if you are a drug addict, you're not, it's like me whenever I go to Taco Bell. I'm not waiting until I get home. We're doing it in the car. So a lot of times, that is a way that people get busted is people will not, off or get too effed up in their car leaving a dealer's house and they can at time i've heard of this happening like people who got their dealer busted because they got arrested fit and all you pick it up you're doing it and then they go to this guy's house i guess you're pretty fired up you're pretty fired up yeah you're not like it's not a set it and forget it investment it's one you it's one you

it's one you hit right then so anyways yeah so was he just hitting him with texas tech football when come over. You gotta figure, dude, can you believe it? They front-loaded the NIL payments. Yeah, could you just get me the... Yeah, I just kind of get... The bag.

Do you think we could compete in the FCC? We're a new team now. This is a fun little note. You guys remember the story. I don't know. It was probably like when people were first getting mad about ice. But we had the story in Alvaredo where there's some people who are at,

accused of like attacking an ice facility. Remember? It was like they lured them out. Oh yeah. So a federal judge declared a mistrial in Fort Worth last week over one of the people involved in that case, one of the shooters. The mistrial was declared because one of the lawyers was wearing a t-shirt with a Martin Luther King's face on it under her blazer.

Is it on MLK Day? I don't think so. Just a big fan? I think it was a message, right? But there is a dress code. What would the message be? I don't know. Three are people.

Like, I got shot too. I'm MLK. It's not that bad. You can get your own day. if he gets shot. So this guy's not guilty. I don't know. Yeah, it doesn't say that it was on MLK Day.

I mean, that was... Plus, the courts don't go on MLK Day. That's a good point. Thanks. Guy, you're on fire today. Yeah. Just like Mexico. It doesn't stop.

It seems like a great move by the lawyer, though. Like, if you're looking for a mistrial and that's all you got to do, you know? Yeah, he's got to spend the money to get the shirt. I'm sure you're charging your client that That's about all I want to do today A bunch of kids died up next It's uh today It's true

The dumb zone news Like and sense I'm against kids dying That was a good news Just in case Happy birthday Thank you I don't know man

90% of the news now is A dead kid or a touch kid. I'm trying working hard here, folks, to try to... Do you guys, do you think there's something to that? Like, I was actually thinking about this the other day. Is there a local news

meeting where they sat down and like editorial or something and they're like, the Pito thing is nationally hot right now? Like, we need to do a story on every single local person who gets wrapped up in this. Because it has, it's not everyone.

You know? There are people that get arrested. for stuff all the time. Don't hear it. And I actually wondered to myself after looking at the news for the last two, three months locally and regionally, being like, are they just hidden?

What are we doing? Probably. This is a news thing now that we're actually hidden every single one of these. It's half the page. Anyways. Viewer mail birthdays, we can say today this is brought to us

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Hi, Brackett, Dan. It's Elaine again. I want to give a birthday shout out to my boyfriend, Ryan. He's turning 30 on 222. Cool. Last year, I wanted to include some

sports thing, but it didn't hit like it should have, so please just insult him. That's from Elaine. 22 Jisleine E lane The big 3-0 There it is

There you are buddy 30's the new 18 The new 20 right That one doesn't seem like it fits If you do You could see doing 40s the new 30 Mm-hmm Like when you're 30

Are you cognizant of the fact That you were an idiot when you were 20? Yes I think you are Yeah You got a fully developed brain now Because once you're 40, you can probably be like, yeah, it was probably pretty similar when I was 30. That's why I pulling up 18-year-old, like when the person is 18 tweeting, there should be some kind of a...

I think I heard you guys talking about that at the kitchen table when you were doing IJB, something about... Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on some stuff? Like, if I get 18-year-old Jake, he's certainly spouting off a lot of different stuff than this Jake. You shouldn't be held accountable. for what that guy said. No. Totally sucked. You only partially suck.

I tend to agree. And I think we're headed that way for the most part. Dear Stone Cold Steve Autism. I'd like to give a birthday shout out to my buddies Walter, Tyler, and Jamie. It's their Willie Collie Stein birthday. Wow. I could not even begin to tell you. Their leaders are Greg Biffle's pilot, Rachel Starr,

Castor Troy in Sweden's involvement in World War II. Wow. That's a great list. All three of these gents have the same birthday? Tell Jake, we're the crew of cronies with the house behind the DZ remote

at the Byron Nelson. Oh, hell yeah. Would love to have him stop by again this year to celebrate his courage with some mock tales and Heineken Zeros. Tell Blake he can come as well. well and to bring Brooks. There will be babies and toddlers present.

Thank you. Let's go to the Byron. Or go party out there, Blake. More chappy. Donate the kid, not the car. F the haters, and always onside kick to start a game. Thanks from Lino. God, it's a good email.

Boy, how many people are just hoping that they could get their email read and then Jake to say that afterwards? Well, the Castor Troy thing was bait. You know, Kastor Troy is? Who is it? That's the character played by John Travolta. Or was it Nick Cage in the movie Faceoff? Wow. Put IMDB in a spend cycle.

Who was who? It's crazy watching the documentary on the 1980 Olympic hockey team because they were kind of showing pop culture at the time. And I get, maybe they had a story about what they were doing in the hotel room one night, and they were sitting, they said they were watching Saturday night fever. And they kind of showed up on the screen, John Travolta walking. And it's like, wait, that guy's still around doing stuff. And he's still doing bits from that movie.

Al Michaels, they were showing him on the broadcast, like kind of the pregame. He was so slick. And he looks so time, Blake Young, you know. He's so. But he was smooth, man, back then. He was great. Yeah. I got to tell my wife how he never had a vegetable.

Pooka Nakua. Who else did we find? T.C. Oh, yeah, for sure. You're like, no way. All right, that's viewer mail birthdays. Now we got this. Game Day Men's Health presents on this day.

Tell us about Game Day Men's Health real quick. Have you been back? I went from the airport. Oh, you did? Oh, that's right. We landed pretty early on Friday. And they were still open. And I was in and out of there in two minutes.

That's how long it takes for me to get my weekly T shots. But they got everything. They got the GOP ones, peptides. You're looking to lose weight. They can help you with that. Matt Grimm. So we're out. Yeah, yeah, he's peptide guy.

Eating dinner the other night. And he was just, just started talking about Game Day men's health. I'm like, yeah, I know about Game Day men's health, dude. I'm, uh, I'm me. I'm the man in the title. No, and he's like, no, no, no, you got to do the peptide. So he started reeling off to me these peptides. He's like, my.

face feels fuller, like it's not as sunk in. He's like, I feel better. Like, I can't believe how good I feel. Yeah. And he's like 50 years old or whatever. So, like. He's also worked that body pretty hard. Yeah.

It's a guy who's, uh... But he, then he went off and did a 24-hour drive and beat us back. Like, Game Day men's health, man. Matt Grimm. Be more like Matt Grim. Gameday.com. You got 12 area locations. Hit it up.

You'll feel better. Be the best you. Cheat at life. You're just using, are you cheating? You're eating if you're eating vitamins? No, but it sounds cooler. Are you cheating if you're lifting weight? Like, they didn't have that, right?

Adam and Eve didn't have like a big thing of free weights. That's not cheating. You're just using advance? Is it cheating living under a roof? No. Great point. Isn't that a gummy thought? Like you look at a bird's nest and you're like, oh, that's nature.

That's just the roof. Well, look over at this house. That feeling seems to be nature too. And an animal made that. Nate at Silverback Construction. Today is Monday, February 23rd. On this day in 1836, the siege of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas. As far as I know, that's a great, great time.

So everything went real, real well. We'll keep you updated on that. On this day in 1985 is the day that Bob Knight ejected five minutes into a loss to Purdue. because after two fouls were called on his team, Knights screaming at the refs, and they gave him a technical foul. So while they're shooting the technical, he picked up a chair from his bench area

and threw it across the court. And I remember back when we had Bob Knight on, he had this big, like I was talking to Brandon Aubrey about how you got your set. This is the story, the origin story. He's told it now a million times. Bob Knight has been on speaking. tours, you know, for years.

And he's like, oh, yeah, guys. Well, I, uh, I saw this nice little old lady across the way and she didn't have a seat. These other two gentlemen were, beautiful. We're sitting down and I noticed she didn't have a chair. And I thought the gentlemanly thing to do would be to, to give her a chair. And we had a free. By this point of crowds. Oh, right.

Loving it. Yeah. Thereby skirting any accountability or responsibility for your own. I love it. extra actions. We could all learn from Bob Knight. That's not to quote you from his, you always tell we should put on our sales decks and stuff, though, right?

I'm not familiar with where you're going here? Did he ever say the N-word? No, he did. Didn't he do Connie Chung? Didn't he do rape? Oh, lay back and enjoy it? Yeah. Yeah. Look.

A philosopher. On this day in 2018, the UFC held its first women's bout as Rhonda Rousey wins, 11 seconds left in the first round of a bantamweight title fight. At UFC 157. How many of those do they have? About a thousand now. Because I think what's the one that's going to be next year? Have you ever liked the UFC? Define like.

have you ever watched it not on my own but I have you know probably not all that dissimilar to what you did by going to some buddies except

yours was kid related buddies my real buddies a lot of them got pretty into it and we would go out on Friday night or whatever Saturday night and go somewhere to try to watch it

I would maybe go three or four times a year but it was fun too and depends on what you mean by fun because invariably there'd be fights. Just like when we went to a UFC fight bar in Canada. That was awesome. Ottawa.

Those two big meatheads are just three straight hours of like talking shit to each other. That's how it would be every time we go to the bar. Like you could see the play unfolding. Oh yeah. That was great. Oh yeah. So, but no, like, I can't say that it's ever. I'm not an individual sport guy, man. That's the biggest thing for me is I just don't like individual sports. And I got pissed off. I heard somebody talking, doing an Olympics thing. It's actually on the radio and thought, this is the type of people who are really into individual sports or losers is my general take. And I don't think that's a nice thing to say because I think some people are just better at them.

Their personalities built more for it. But in my life, in my brain, the people who are like, I really, really love the Olympics because I love it. You don't like golf. You could separate golf. You separate golf? I don't at all. I think it takes a special type of narcissist to be like, I love individual sports.

I heard Rhonda Rousey could beat up dudes. She did. She never lost a fight after that. She went on to beat up all the men, including Joe Rogan. He was the champ at the time. Damn. Actually, she's the one that took down El Mins show. She just put them in a headlock.

And on this day in 2021, golfer Tiger Woods, seriously injured when his SUV crashed into a median and rolled over several times on a steep road in suburban Los Angeles will Tiger play in this year's masters. Didn't that happen during the show? It was either it either happened during the show or the reports started coming out right after because that was a big day. We were in the den. I had his leg. I had his leg.

I had his leg gone. Bob came charging into the studio. Was it the den or we were in the den? No, we were in the den. There was some food related thing too. Mango slices. Yeah. People were looking up the...

Yeah, somebody mailed us some. Some freeze-dried mango slices. Because he was eating them? That's the trick to hitting a nice draw, mango slices. Because it was like the one piece of evidence you could see in the car. Wouldn't he doing $100 and a 35? Yeah. Probably pilled out of his mind.

Having just played with Dwayne Wade. He's Tiger, man. The truth will come out. He'll be exonerated. And so we have February 23rd. and Dumb Zone history. Let's see. Back in 2022,

no, 2020. Dan used to say on the weekends he'd go a little crazy with his daughters. Peanut butter and jelly waffles. That was like your Saturday staple. That's a good play.

They got protein waffles now, though, so. I have now gone to, I mean, the waffle was the bread. Yeah. It was the peanut bread and jelly waffles. I have now gone to

seven days a week of the exact same breakfast. used to be I would mix it up for the weekend. My life, I am becoming Jim Harbaugh. Which is oatmeal? Yes, oatmeal followed by yogurt. Which I told these guys, and I know this now, on the trip, like even though this is like healthy me,

I'm never going to be, I'm never going to eat broccoli on a trip, even if it's a work trip. I'm never going to eat a salad. I went a little crazy on the trip. I'm not doing that. But I did bring my cereal mix. Define crazy. Me?

Yeah. I mean, we had pizza a couple times. I mean, you know, I don't usually eat a lot of carbs, me and LeBron. Who had the donut ice cream? Him. I was treats maxing. Yeah. He does go crazy.

I had the donut ice cream and we went by the Phoenix's most famous cheesecake shop. If the donut ice cream was like there next to me, Right after dinner, I might have gone. I'm not going to like three hours later drive a half hour. That's what this guy did. Suck the juice out of life. Like middle of the night. He's driving to... The donuts weren't like too much.

No, because we went a second time. So it's like an ice cream sandwich with the donuts was the bread? Yes. Because I understand what you're saying. You might think glazed donut, like that's just way too big. The best way I could describe it, and if you don't like a waterburger, bun that's fine but I like a waterburger bun because it's

a little thinner and that's almost what it was like it was like a piece of bread thinness but it was donut so it had glaze on it and it was crispy it was fucking magical dude like I'm telling you

because it's just an ice cream sandwich which people eat having two cookies is worse than too thin donuts do they have a rehab for ice cream yeah it's called overeat It's anonymous. Yeah, I mean, there's definitely, and this is what the guy who warned you

is trying to warn you about. It's just all dopamine hits, you know? But I can't just go out and mash 400 feet like Blake, so I've got to get my dopamine hits from donuts. Don't bring me into this. I'm saying. TC did fire off that second piece of cheesecake in the middle of the drive. That was a nice little smell aroma coming through.

He packed a floater, a cheesecake floater. And then I want to play you some audio from our show in 2024. I think I'm convinced that no one finds this as funny as I do, but we had Bradley Folsom on the show. And these three words have never been said in consecutive order before. So I'm thinking, I don't know what my next project is going to be on. I have a couple ideas, but my dad, when he was eight years old, he was in Indiana.

He was playing Cowboys and Indians, which is very 1950s thing to do. when him and his buddies came across a car with a naked gay body in it. Okay, see, a lot of people don't describe bodies that way? Yeah, how can you tell? I mean, we find out later it was naked gay body. So, um... You find out later he was gay?

Yes, so this is the story my dad heard. The naked bar probably presented itself pretty quickly. Right, right. Yes, yeah, but then the later on, like, they didn't determine at the time he was a naked gay body. Right. We found a naked gay body. A very unique brain at work there.

I like that guy. I do too. Other birthdays today. Ed, Too Tall Jones is 75. Jackie Smith is 86. I went and looked at his Super Bowl. Are you familiar with Jackie Smith? Was a cowboy?

Just search, go to YouTube, Jackie Smith, Super Bowl, and there's like 8 million of the exact same video. It's the most perfect. Nobody's covering him. Roger Stalbach hits him between the 8 and the sick, or whatever his number is,

and he just totally dropped it, and then they lost that Super Bowl. Mm-hmm. Because I thought it was another cat, like... Was that after Dwight Clark's catch? No, but well before. Yeah. Well, Dwight Clark was a NFC championship game.

Oh, okay. This is in the 70s when they lost the Steelers. I've just seen some. Have you ever seen like Super Bowl catches or? I thought Jackie Smith was the one. It must be some other cowboy dove for the ball. Maybe it was like Drew Pearson. Clearly fumble.

And it was ruled a catch? Yeah. Yes, 100%. Like so many clearly like they just act like. If you just act like it's. A big one is the rollover. Like they would catch it while rolling. The ball would clearly...

Bounces away. He would fly. Oh, he got it. And they'd put their hands up and everybody just kind of... It was great. Yeah, it is great. But then you're like, well, I guess if the goal post is going to be on the goal line, we have a number of things.

Remandre Stevenson is 28. Maybe it was even like a directive from the league like, hey, offense. We're going to rule on the side of offense. Yeah. We want offense. At the time. And they're allowed to club you in the head with their... Remando Steve said

Andrew Wiggins is 31 Draft Day Bobby Bonilla is 63 July 1st is it Bobby Bonilla Day Where it used to be a huge thing He gets a million dollars Now you're like all right

Yeah Like Shohei is going to get 80 million Yeah no the deferred On his birthday It's still very cool Tom Osborne Is our still alive today at 89 Holy shit really

I think Wow You can research that He was the enemy when I was a kid. That was a big deal. Texas is breaking their streak. Home wins. Did he get into politics?

I bet he did. I bet he was like... That sounds right. Yeah, I ran for governor. Ain't politics funny like that? Yeah, I'll just vote for the guy who ran my football team for years. You know? Why not?

Yeah, he's in charge. He knows how to be in charge of stuff. I mean, Shottie will be your mayor in... That's an interesting one. You have to win and be good. That's part of the becoming a politician, I think. Trying to think of a certain profile that fits this. Because Tommy Tuberville is not a tough guy.

I was going to say that tough guys can do it. Like Fred Thompson was kind of a tough guy. What was his bit? No, go ahead. It doesn't matter. Fred Thompson, the actor? Yeah, but wasn't he involved in football too? I know he ran for governor, but.

Patricia Richardson is 75. She's the wife in home improvement. That's pretty old. Can that be right? Yeah, I mean, think about it. That show was on 30 years ago. Tim the Toolman, though? Almost 30 years ago.

Maybe she was a little old at the time. Did he like him a little older? Richardson. Is there any way I wrote that wrong? No, you're right. I mean, the show was on from 91 to 99. So she was 40 to late 40. to late 40s.

Uh. Oh, no. At 74, Patricia Richardson reveals why she hates Tim Allen. Oh. I mean, I don't think he was like a peach, man. You know, one, his politics obviously cut way different than the norm out there, but he's also like a notorious Coke dealer. She got divorced in 95.

So she's on that show. She's like, yeah. I'm hot. Yeah. Went to SMU. Oh. Damon John is 57. Sharks.

CEO of Fubu. Who knew that? How did Dan not have a Fubu era? I know. How? Crazy. Were my kids a little at that time? Was I not paying attention?

I should have Fubu gear. There should be at least a photo of fat Dan. Why don't I have... 260 Dan or whatever? We're 250 there wearing a double X. 248. 248. Double X Carolina Blue Fubu jersey at like a car dealer ship.

Richardson. Why not? We can still make that happen. Kristen Davis is 61 from Sex and the City. Oh, speaking of Kristen, your Kristen, that is. My wife started watching Downton. Oh, well. She's just starting the ride.

There's a lot ahead of her. And it's so... She's going to start talking British. It's so British. That's gateway, though, dude. To everything else? Yeah, because from there, it's not that horny. But the next ones are...

I'm pretty sure Blake's wife got into all that, too. Like Bridgerton and all... I don't know, maybe not. But the stuff after Downton is just softcore porn. A lot of effing. Yeah, my wife. prefers the UK version of Love Island. Oh, definitely.

They're hornier than we are. Kelly MacDonald is 50. She's an actress in Boardwalk Empire and Train Spotting. Yeah, she's great. Josh Gad is 45. She's a real Scotland. We all remember Josh Gad. Cryed for a second.

And I was going to do it by myself, and then I thought, You know what? It's important for everybody to understand that we're all going through. Kill me. Yeah, I wouldn't have known that unless I saw you crying, Olaf. Thanks, bro. Emily Blunt is 43. Dakota Fanning is 32.

I think I thought she was going to have like a very long career. I guess it's a problem with peeking early. She's in Man on Fire, though. She's only 32. She can have... She's got plenty of runway left. Man on Fire, that may be my second favorite Denzel movie.

You ever done your Denzel rankings? Runner up for Dumzone birthday of the day. Aziz Ansari is 43. Yeah, and I'm like, it's a fork, but it's a spoo. I call it a sport. Is that one of his bits? I don't know.

He just... I thought we were on a date. What, I just told you to blow me. Now all of a sudden it's a bad date. I call it head, because you put your head on fetus. That's good, yes. Dumbs on birthday of the day, Angela. Heck yeah.

Yesterday's birthday. Good for you, dude. Born in this day now dead, George Handel. He is a composer, maybe him. Handel, the guy who parked his Porsche could probably tell me. But he wrote the Messiah. Are you familiar with the Messiah? Nope.

The Hallelujah chorus comes from there. You're familiar with Hallelujah. Oh, okay. So, Handel's Messiah. Okay. I once went to see it with a lady I was courting. What? Like, oh yeah, I'm so into the Messiah

Because it was like her favorite thing Okay Hell yeah, I'm into that Anyway, when did George Handel live? Oh, damn it, I already looked Oh, you did? Sorry. 1570

1658 He, born in 1685 Died in 1759 We're getting better, we're like AI We're learning Didn't know, never knew about the United States of America, though. Did he live?

1759. Also born on this day now dead, Magell Barrett. She was Nurse Chapel in Star Trek. They searched the land far and wide to cast her. Oh, she was also married to Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek.

Just lucky. Has been today's Star Trek birthday. Dead on this day, still dead. John Quincy Adams The sixth U.S. president. You dog. And Carl Goss Hot.

He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of all time. And he invented algebra. Damn. When do you think he lived? Inventing old algebra. Wow, that's interesting because Carl Goss sounds like

like a 20th or 19th century name, right? It doesn't sound like there were guys named Carl in 1400. Goo Gaga, Carl. But I feel like there was algebra. You see what I'm saying here? So we have a bit of a dissonance. It's tough. I mean, math is... Give me 1450.

1812. 1600. We will give this to Clayton because he died on this day in 1855. Wow, algebra. I mean, damn. relatively new. How do they know any of it's even right? Hasn't been in the world that long. And that's what happened on this day in history.

So Brooks' picture day is tomorrow. Should I worry about his picture showing up anywhere? No, you shouldn't worry at all, as long as you're cool with it being fed to a Pito archive that the world's elite will use to reach climax to. Adios, mofo. We got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video.

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