The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 3-16-26 | Brandon Aubrey after Arlington Grand Prix and the Oscars with Kent Garrison

Episode Date: March 16, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing to the show at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWith no Jake today, we sub in Kent Garrison from The Athletic to talk about last night's Oscars, Brandon Leak from Atlanta sports radio explains why the Magic City strip club promotion was canceled by the NBA, and Brandon Aubrey joins us post Arlington Grand Prix and mid contract negotiations with the Dallas Cowboys (00:00) - Open: Weekend check (39:12) - Oscars talk with Kent Garrison (01:16:08) - Magic City promotion with Brandon Leak (01:34:41) - The Brandon Aubrey Show (02:03:43) - News: Ankle monitor cut (02:23:29) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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This is the Dumb Zone. I'm Dan McDowell. I'm Blake Jones. ODICK. We have no Jake with us today. If you're anti-Jake. Basking in. Yeah, enjoy.

Remember that wonderful month we once had? Seems like forever ago. Then he came back, but he's gone today. I mean, he's in the same area. Maybe he's at the same place. Maybe he's going there for spring break now. See Pawn guy? Yeah, he's down in Texas, or down in central Texas.

Anyway, Jake's not here. But we do have a hang zone guest sitting in the hang zone today. It is the great Kent Garrison. He is known to our universe as a guy who was in on one of the game streams. Yes. Blake wasn't there. Yeah. Blake was at the game, right?

Blake was not there. I wished he was. Great intro that he produced that day. I do remember that. But yeah, last time I saw you, Dan, we were. crushing some Sheba Hut and watching Caleb Williams have his way with the Cowboys. So good times. Oh, it was the Bears game.

Okay. Which Cowboy Disappointment was it? It was the Bears game. Also known from the one-star Cowboys podcast, of which I am a big fan. Also known from the Mad About Movies podcast. And that's really the main reason that you are here today. because it is Oscar Cisn. The Oscars were last night.

Just to show these guys, I don't know if people understand, like, oh, you're into movies. You watched, oh, so did you watch the top ten movie? Did you watch all the Best Picture nominees? Did I? Yeah. Yes. Okay. You host a movie podcast, we would hope that you'd watch at least the top ten.

But just so these guys understand, I guess everybody listening or, or. viewing as we are live to tape today. From the Game Day Men's Health Studio, gameday.dumzone.com, downtown Dallas, Fox 4 building. How many movies did you watch last year? It's over 10, right? It's well over 10. Dan, let's pull up my letterboxed list here

in which I keep track of all the movies I watch. I'm already setting it up to be bigger than like normal new movies movies that came out in 2025 yeah how many of those could there be oh there's a lot one a week 50

so I don't include documentaries on my list I did watch a bunch of documentaries last year probably 1020 documentaries but on my list I had 110 in 2025 which is maybe my biggest year there's that many new movies coming out there's a lot

I usually go to the theater once a week. I've been doing that over a decade now. Same with my co-hosts, Brian Gill, Richard Barden on Mad About Movies. Yeah, it's something we started doing when I was in college. Over a decade ago, we've been doing it like 13th. This was our 13th, I think, Oscars Postgame show we did last night. So it's just been something, hey, let's pick a movie a week. Usually it's the whatever is the biggest movie that weekend.

the box office, talk about it, and we've been doing it for a long time, man. It's something I would definitely suggest to people out there is go to the movies more. It's becoming less of a thing. I heard Dan talking about this last week with Jake, and Jake doesn't go to the movies as much anymore. It doesn't consume cinema. Maybe I'm weird. I love it.

I love going, sitting for two hours, turning my phone off. My top 10 movies, I think I counted. There's like only two in my top 10 that I didn't see in a theater. And I don't think that's a coincidence. I think just something about being there, your brain, being able to fully consume it. A lot of people say, you know, I can watch a movie at home perfectly fine and understand and appreciate it. it's just not the same. You can convince yourself that.

It's just not. I mean, the amount of times you actually are at home and sit there for two hours, undistracted, don't pick up your phone, don't go use the bathroom, don't go grab something to drink, don't let the dog out, what have you, is almost zero. So even the most ideal home situation is not going to match up to the theater. And like I said, I think my appreciation for that showed in my list, you know, for that experience. and that appreciation that I was able to have by actually going there.

I told these guys last Friday, they, I did a re-release, but Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 was in the theaters. 30 or 35-year anniversary. Secret of the ewes, we just did an episode. Really? Okay. So I'm a bad parent. My kid is four.

He's super into the Ninja Turtles. I took him on Friday night. It was a blast. Yeah. And I don't know how many times he'll ever go to the movie theater on his own. Yeah. Because obviously it's difficult

declining, but... Not much of a thing anymore. I thought it was a super cool experience. You know, you get your popcorn candy and sit there. Now, he had issues staying in his seat for the full 90, but I don't know. It was fun. And I thought it was such a staple of our youth that it's going to be weird for him to not really understand what the movies were all about. You're right. Yeah. I mean, started going at a young age. Remember going to see Jurassic Park and remember going to see, you know, Batman and all those movies when I was like sub five years old, you know, and how impressionable those were on me, I was huge. So it's a lost time. I'm with you. Take your kids to

the movies. Say, hey, I saw this when I was a kid. Let's go see it. You don't get those opportunities very often anymore at all. It's funny. You sound like Richard Linkley or some, I don't know, some legendary Hollywood director like about their childhood. Yeah, I first went to the movies and I hope to get it to Linklater's level someday. That'd be the goal. Yeah. And you rank, so you rank all of your movies, too. Out of the 110, you rank them.

We keep a running, I keep a running list the entire year. Every time I watch a movie, I add it to the list and put it in its appropriate. You just slot it wherever you think it should go. And in his bottom 10, he had a Kevin James movie I'd never heard of. The Solo Mio? No. Solo Mio. came out this year.

The faith-based. This one's called Playdate, Dan. You're familiar with that? He's a huge Kevin James fan, so I just wanted to run this by him. Play-Dade. Play-Date is... What's hilarious?

The movie? Yeah, it's just... You saw the movie? It's in Kent's bottom 10. I know, but it... I mean, it's not good, but it's just... It's hilarious that it exists? Yeah.

It's hilarious that it exists. It's an Amazon. Prime exclusive. So, you know, once a week I'd go on Amazon Prime and be like, what are they trying to throw at me this week, you know, and this was one of them. Kevin James and Alan Richson, who is a super jacked, like, macho action star guy, and they play two just totally normal dads whose kids are going on a play date and then terrorists. Spies.

Yeah. Okay. So you can imagine the hilarious. that ensues. I mean, you had me at Kevin James. You mean Sean Payton, actor Kevin James? Yes.

Wasn't there one where he was a white supremacist? Yes. Yeah. You see that one? You somehow missed that one? White supremacist. I didn't. Don't remember this.

I remember the one where he was the president in pixels. It was very convincing. And Becky. On today's program. Neo-Nazi out for blood. I need to see this. We have a couple of Brandon's on today's show.

One is a guy from Atlanta. I wanted to check in with intern Carlos. He ended up handing me off to a friend of his. Anyway, tonight's supposed to be the Magic City promotion in Atlanta. And I wanted to talk to our old intern Carlos about it. He ended up because of the wind, darling. He said he had a flight. scheduled in St. Louis and it got rescheduled.

And anyway, he can't join us, so he just handed us a coworker of his. And I don't know if this is something I don't, I didn't, he just kind of did it. And then I'm like, all right, well, let's keep doing it because I want to talk about it. I want to talk about it with a guy who's from Atlanta. And so we're going to talk to a guy named Brandon Leak. Producing on this show. Are we calling him? Zoom.

Okay. Did I send this to Carlos? No. I might have to actually give you a phone number. Okay. Which I shall do, along with a wiener picture. Please do. I will text it to you while we talk here. And... There it is.

Brandon Aubrey. The other Brandon. Wow. The number one, Brandon, in our hearts, will be on at one o'clock. I think. Let's confirm. Ooh, the thumbs up. Nice.

The yellow thumbs up. You knew he'd be yellow guy. I'm yellow guy in general, aren't we all? Except for the fist bump? Yeah, except for the fist. Well, no, amongst close, close friends. I don't think Brandon Aubrey wants to do a black fist bump. Anyway, he'll be on our show in a little while.

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I will start. I don't have a lot, but I'm going to morph mine into Kent. Okay. But I do want to say that my wife went to book club on Friday, so it was great. Great Friday night, fun, fun. You know how it is.

Without the wife there, that's what you're saying. Yes. Yeah. Book Club. Book Club, one of the two of the greatest words in the English language. Like, to me, an anchor word is book. If you just say book, I'm in Instantly Thinking Club. But she confessed to me the next day.

She only read half of the book, and then she read Spark Notes for the rest of the... What a cheater. Yeah, I was going to say, that probably happens a lot. Not that it matters to you. You just want her out of the house, but come on. Yeah. Why are you in Wikipedia, that thing? They go, they Wikipedia and they go and they drink together and hang out.

That's the book club, I think. My wife's in a similar thing. They don't have read the books. They just text about it and go have some rosé. I thought, like, do you watch just a 15 minute recap of the movie, you know, the Godfather, if you're going to review it? Good point. People are listening to our conversation, though.

Is that like watching the first half of the Cowboys game, then just reading the box score for the second? Yeah. And then doing a post game show? Sure. I don't know. It just seemed, it seemed cheap to me. And you guys are,

you're right to call her out on it, for sure. I would say your wife's probably not the only one doing it that way. No, no. That's another two. That's the first I ever heard of that. I just thought that's really crazy. That's what I would do. Like you're doing that.

I could see for tests, I guess AI now. Hey, give me a synops. Yeah, when we're in high school, we're not reading those books. I started, Just a couple weeks ago, so I should have started it five weeks ago. I could have seen all the movies. So each weekend morning, we watched another of the best movie nominees. I told Kent, hey, I've only seen two of these.

Which two should I watch this weekend? If I can only have time for two, which I did. So then I watched Sinners on Saturday morning and then one battle after another yesterday morning. So that came in huge handy to watch last night's Oscars. Oh, yeah. because they won all the awards. What a weekend. And then my other...

This isn't a weekend check, but it kind of leads right to you a little bit just because you are carrying... Kent walked in here today and said, hey, I got some audio to play, but he didn't have a... He didn't have his computer. Well, I'm sorry, real quick.

Sinners, two hours, 15 minutes? That's one of my topics for all these movies. One of battles like three hours. Oh, my gosh. You had time for these? It's like 245. Yeah. Not in one sitting.

Yeah, I did it Saturday morning and then Sunday morning. 2.40 for one battle. It's terrible. Ouch. I feel like... And one best editing, too. There was a lot going on. There's a couple movies in there for sure.

But Kent said he has audio to play. And he's carrying a... And I thought, oh, okay, that's his phone. Wait, no, no, that's his phone in his other hand. Wait, I recognize that. Look at that little scroll wheel It has a little Yeah it's got a round thing on the front

And it turns out I'm like is that an iPod And he says yes That's an iPod The next thing I heard Was Clayton Who said Did you mod it?

Oh yeah Modify Is that we're saying here? Yeah Yeah And then you did not You I nodded I modded

You didn't skip a beat there and you said, yeah, you just made one that has a terabyte on it. What are we talking about here? What kind of magic voodoo is this? That's right, Dan. Weapons like, that's a little, if you ever saw the movie, Weapons? Yes. Loved it. I'm glad you watched it, too, even though it wasn't a Best Picture nominee.

I'm glad you watched it. Yeah, so hard drives have gotten a lot smaller over the years, Dan. Back when we were buying these things, you could get 30 gigabytes, and it was like, would barely fit in one of these. Now you can get a terabyte on what's called a microSD card, which is like the size of your fingernail. So

they've got a little adapter you put in these and you can put in microSD cards and have as much storage as you want now in them. So that's what this is. Is that our biggest technological advancement? What? Everything getting smaller?

Storage getting smaller? Storage. In particular storage. Yeah. I would say for sure. It's smaller and cheaper over time. For sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Good job, us. But, yeah, it's twofold because they make it impossible to play audio from an iPhone without an adapter. Yeah. If you're trying to do something like this. And I don't have a laptop. I've got a desktop computer at home. So this was the... Don't have a laptop.

Respect. Yeah. So you can't mod my phone. If I say I need... A terabyte on your phone. I could not. No. Okay.

Yeah. But... But you can... I have a couple iPods. Yeah, you can do it with pretty much any of the iPods. You can open them up, open them up and make them as big as you want.

I mean, I grew up in music, music scene, local scene, things like that. There's so much that I have that's not on Spotify, not on YouTube that I want to have and keep. And so it's the best way to do it still is a 20-year-old technology. Is that the OG? That's not a video or anything?

That's the original iPod. This is a iPod video. Okay. Fifth Jam. Oh, nice. I watched all of South Park on an iPod video. Same, the office back in the day. Yeah.

Yeah. So, it'll never get better than this. Lime wire came up here. So we were talking about, it's just, it's not just me. These are coming back. You see them on TikTok and everything. People are cutting the cord on Spotify. They're tired of paying the subscription,

paying hundreds of dollars a year, not having any of the music, stuff like that. And they're going back to the iPod. So everything kind of comes back around, even technology. Yeah, now that, to me, is like the turntable that my daughter bought. Right. Yeah.

It's... I had a wave. Turntable wave? I just started buying vinals because I thought I was cool. Yeah. And then you realize you got to flip it. Like, it's kind of an inconvenience. I was buying vinyl back when I was touring, doing music.

because we'd show up to a city and I'd have all day to kill. So my main task every day was find a record store and just go kill time in the dollar bins at record stores. And back then it was 2009, 2010. You could get everything, all the Beatles stuff, all the classic records for $2, $5 for all that. So I went and I just, every discography of every band I liked, I just went and just bought everything.

And I'm so glad I did it that way because now... They re-release them in their... They re-release them and it's $40 minimum. Yeah. Or if you want a Beatles record from the 70s or from the 60s, it's like $100. They'll throw that tag. Oh, it's vintage, you know?

So luckily I got in the vinyl craze before it became trendy. Clayton weekend check? I was in the content corner most of the time. Got a show, little mini TiVo. Neighbors on HBO Max. It's pretty funny. So basically, it's short form content. So each episode's like 30 plus minutes, not too fast, or not too slow.

They get to it. Each show has two different sets of neighbors. So you get two stories in the show. And it's basically like anything you've seen on, social media with like neighbor Karen or fighting over like a strip of grass or just any little like neighborly dispute this group of it's like three or four people they are the guys behind it and they just go and in bed with them for like two or three weeks cover whatever you know each side of the dispute and it's a real yeah it's reality yeah it's reality um and they

just get straight to it. That's what the best part is. There's not a ton of backstory. It's just quick. It's made for, like each segment is about 15 minutes. So you could just binge through two or three episodes and not really feel like you did anything

but watch a couple of YouTube videos. But the people on it are the best because they are the craziest people you've ever seen. Like there's one guy used to be male stripper and now he thinks his neighbor is like hitting on him trying to like come on to him it's spying on him with all these cameras and stuff and it's just how do they find these people well okay so i was listening to a podcast this weekend with the two guys who created it they started shooting this in 2021 wow so they've been doing it for a long time and it's

started out, before it even got picked up by HBO, they had just put a Craigslist ad out that said, hey, we're shooting a documentary in your area for HBO. If you have any neighbor disputes, you know, reach out. So they would get these people and then they would just go to wherever they were. There's one or two in Texas, a couple in the middle of nowhere, I think in Idaho or Montana somewhere where there's not a lot of people. Florida. just anywhere they just go and just live with them for three weeks basically six to eight hours a day they're filming with them and the characters on here are just hilarious the guys there's one that's a cat lady who just has 50 to 60 cats stray cats just inner yard in Philly and this guy next to her

just it's like his first house and everything and he just is like I gotta walk out and I'm just I got cat piss and poop everywhere. And they end up taking that one to, like, Judge Judy and stuff. So it's hilarious. It's like, that's what's hilarious. It's like some of this ends up in the national eye. At least one of the neighbors in each thing has the most random job. Like one is a healer, a light healer.

Heels with the power of light. The other heals with the power of sound. and no one uses the power of laughter the healing power of laughter Patch Adams tried that What's that on your list Patch Adams?

Yeah I haven't watched Patch Adams in 20 years Give it a good watch It's good Yeah I need to I wanted to ask about this though I have seen a clip

Is there a woman that thinks she Is an extraterrestrial on here That might be the Philly lady I've seen a clip of a lady on here saying here's what I looked like before. Oh, no, no, no. That's in San Antonio. Okay. Yeah, so that lady is in San Antonio.

So it's on this show, though. Yeah, it's on this show. Yeah, and she has a dispute with a former Texas senator who lives across the street from her, and she's like built this compound wall around her house. And how he describes it is, it's like she built Osama bin Laden's, compound next to my house. And she, he just walks around to the neighborhood with pictures of the compound going,

look, see these walls? See how they're the same? And I'm just, it's crazy to think that these people are really out there and like would want to be on a show like this, but they eat it up. And I just, I found myself watching the whole series.

Like, I've watched the first couple episodes when it came out, but then I just binged it all over again this weekend. and I didn't I wanted to move to the middle of nowhere and just not be around anybody for a while because that was bad it was it's crazy to think that these people have these types of disputes and like one no one gets killed because like these people are going at it like there's one where in Florida where it's a strip of grass a foot and a half wide and they are fighting like they show both of them with guns and like I don't know if she's like one lady pulls it out and goes I don't know if it's loaded here and tries to hand it to the camera and he's like I don't want that like I don't know where that and she's these people's stories these back stories that they start getting into and that's the best part of it you forget about the dispute because these people get a camera on them and they just start telling their life yeah and they just start going down rabbit holes that you didn't even know exist I

that existed in a part of this and has nothing to do with the dispute. But you become more interested in, what was this lady doing in the 80s? Because she's talking about some stuff that is nuts. Did you guys see the Renfair documentary they did a few years ago? I'm sure Jake is familiar with it. About the Renfair down in South Texas? Yeah, it's like the biggest renfair in the country, I think.

Yeah. Well, the guy that runs it is like this. calls himself the king. But he's got a ton of maidens, I guess is the phrase I should use there. Herom? Yeah, all these women down there who think they live in medieval times. I mean, there's a QT right outside this facility, but, you know, they are convinced that, like, they live the lifestyle of it. And that series was so dangam interesting about those women trying to woo this king guy.

to rule over this fake kingdom, this theme park that this guy's built down there. I mean, it was, the level of delusion is... Yeah, it was like the... I think Jake's... He might have done it on IJB or something, but that, like, when the Tiger King thing came out, the...

Very Tiger King-like. Yeah, the guy, both of, I mean... The Tiger King and then the other guy in Florida, the guy that calls himself a doctor. He just had these harems of people that like they just kind of controlled. But yeah, that was me. What do you have, BJ owns?

Thank you for knowing that. Yeah, Friday night was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It somehow missed me. I was not really into them. I think Jake was. I had Pokemon. Okay. That's what infiltrated my youth

and that's all we did with the cards and the show and the movie. So as Brooks has been watching it and getting into it, It's been fun watching it with him. And, Dan, I think you would like this hack that I saw because when you get your big tub of popcorn, you take it over to this fountain. No.

Push the button and then just liquid butter pours on the top. Problem is it only gets on the top. And it's not just a little bit, it's a lot. It douses the popcorn. So what people are doing now is they'll take this little miniature spray bottle and fill up the butter. and as you're eating the popcorn, you just spray it on top. I thought that was interesting.

Another sign of idiocry. I thought you were going to say they did the straw. You've seen the straw trick. You stick a straw so it's midway into the popcorn and then you pour the butter thing through there. I think putting butter on the already buttered popcorn is ridiculous. Not enough. It's ridiculous.

I'm with you. Yeah. It's already buttered. I'm anti-movie. Don't add. You're saying at one, I know you're... I get popcorn every time I go. I know, and now you're unsalted, unbuttered, and you're healthy...

Well, I don't... But at one point you're not unsalted, it's whatever they make it with. I say, don't add more butter. At one point in your life, you loved it. I never liked the wet butter on it because then your popcorn's all wet. Yes. Yeah. It tastes so good, though.

It's like grease. It's not even butter. You're negating your... 7 a.m. gym trip. Don't, don't. Yeah, don't put that in your little app. But that's why you feel good about doing it.

You're like, I went to the gym to this morning. In that moment, it tastes good. You're at the movies. You know, I'm not there to eat almonds. All right. Give me some Swedish fish and a big, greasy thing of popcorn. I'm in my, I always admire the people

that can get to the theater at 9.30 and do the large popcorn and large coke at like 9 a.m. Oh, and then just go to bed? Yeah. Yeah. No, or. He's saying nine in the morning.

Oh, in the morning? Oh, I thought you were saying at night. No, I'm saying the people that take their kids to like the 9.30 a.m. I have a thing about being in the movie, I have to have a thing of popcorn. I guess that's it. But my appetite, I can't touch popcorn or anything like that until second half of the day. No, I mean, yeah, after the popcorn and candy bedtime was a little rough, but we had a good time at the movies. Saturday I had a nephew's baseball game, and I'm not going to put Brooks in baseball for,

a while because the game it's not a game it's just chaos is this blast ball no okay but I think it's an actual game I think while blast ball is just a mockery it may be better for kids because straight baseball is not good for them how old is this kid seven what

and we're now to coach pitch kids can kind of hit but the dimensions are way off you're never going to make a play at first base so it's just how how quickly can you score five runs and switch. And you win if the other team scores three or four runs in an inning. If they somehow find themselves getting three outs. It's great time killing.

It is good. That's what it's about. It's about getting together, killing time, making your kid tired. I think Jake said it. It's teaching the kids to how to play a part or play with a team, follow direction, follow rules, try to pay attention. But I don't know. To think to take your kid out there, you're going to hit twice, maybe three times.

You're not going to make a play in the field. No, never. Nobody knows where to throw. It's just, I don't know. It was interesting, though, because my nephew's team has walkout songs. For seven-year-olds. We can't keep score, but we got walkout songs. They come up, and then the parent hits their phone.

Everything's in slow, boom, and then the bass drops, and the kid walks up. This is why Hillary lost. It's bad. Softball on Sunday was a trip because we played when the Direcho rolled through here. Anything, the wind was blowing. The wind is called it Direcho? Isn't that what they called? Isn't that what Delcas, whatever?

Oh, I don't know. All I know is I went down 10 degrees in about 15 minutes. So that was about 1.30, 2 o'clock, and that's when we were playing. And we went from the wind blowing. from basically home plate to maybe like left center just to straight left to right from third base to first base if you hit a fly ball into right center it was going foul it was that bad unbearable um and then over the weekend my second wife has left it was a good two weeks sister-in-law yeah kent i had a sister-in-law staying with us with her two young kids so i had four kids under four

under my roof. Wow. And it was kind of a lot from that standpoint, but the kids all played together and it was fine. But this woman was the best housewife. Oh. Oh, you're going to go the opposite. No.

She was a blessing. She was a blessing. My wife, not so great at that kind of thing. Lessons can be learned, you know? Yeah. Lead by example. Yeah. And I noted on the show that sometimes my wife would walk in

and see her doing the dishes. She'd know, oh, hey, let me finish that. there you go. You never done that with me? Yeah. Or by yourself. So it was a great couple of weeks. And then I'll leave you with this because we have, I've said this a couple times, but I feel like this is the final Angelou update.

And for those that are not subscribed to the show, you missed a very important update on Friday with Mike Soroy. In that, Angelo had called me and left me a very harsh voicemail. And he basically intimated that the only reason I was giving him money was so that he would sleep with me. That's right. We found out he was gay Friday, too. Yeah. And I had known that. I just, for whatever reason, it had never come up on the show.

And, yeah, he hit me with that one-two punch, and that kind of put me on the mat. So then on Sunday... A little too close to home. A little truth mixed in there. I just... Nothing I could say back could top that. I'm not going to get in a verbal altercation with a homeless guy. So he won.

Okay? He won the breakup. That's all there is to be said. So something he's told me a couple times was that he was going to take that Venmo debit card that I gave him. And he was going to take it to my church and give it to somebody up there. He knows which church you go to? Yeah. And so I said, completely unnecessary.

I've canceled the card. Just throw it away. Did you give him your kid's social security number two? What else did you tell this guy? and Binney's. Yeah, he knows where I live. And he knows my bank routing and account number. So he took it up there. And again, I told him twice, just throw the card away. It's canceled. It's inactive. Just it doesn't matter. But he was just set on. He was going to take this card up to my church. And so I get a call from a guy at my church Sunday. And he said, hey, I have your debit card.

and it took me a few minutes to realize what he was talking about. And I said, okay, and I spared a lot of details, obviously. But this was over text, and I kind of wanted to know what the drop off was like. So I told him I'd canceled the card. I'm sorry that, you know, the deacon or whoever had to go through this. I asked him, you know, did you see who dropped it off? And the guy said, yes, he was. received it from some man and he said the man was very rude. And so then I asked for more details.

Like, what, what do you mean? He said, uh, the guy said Blake was a hypocrite and that Blake said some things to him that made him very mad and they had some kind of verbal altercation. He said he didn't want to associate with him that he was done. But then strangely as he was walking away, he said, tell Blake I said hi. It's tough, tough to say goodbye. I know. So yeah. All right. My weekend check. A quick reminder that Ownwell is there to help you because property tax assessments coming out this month.

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and that is why the great Kent Garrison is here. So you watched the Oscars. I did, Dan, Hollywood's biggest night. Do you feel like they got it right with one battle after another? I do feel like they got it right. It was my favorite movie of the year. I think going into the night, there were other movies that had a lot of momentum,

sinners, a ton of momentum, the most nominated movie ever. Hamnet, the movie that over the last month or so has really gotten a lot of talk. One battle came out towards the end of the summer. So there is a worry with movies like Senors, which came out last March. And one battle, which came out at the end of the summer, that people are going to forget about them. By the time the awards push happens at the end of the year in December, when all the big movies come out, that people are going to forget. that wasn't the case this year.

And so you don't see that often. You usually see something that's released around Christmas time or Thanksgiving time end up winning because of the momentum. It's hard to forget Leo and Sean Penn, though. An extremely unforgettable performance, unforgettable movie. I've had to defend it on the one-star Cowboys pod because Moshoda, not a huge fan.

But, you know, who's laughing today? Well, I like Machota's bit. He's right as far as there should not be 10 Best Picture nominees. And there used to be five, just like everything else. And now, though, I got your trick. I know what you're doing, Hollywood. Because when I see something on Netflix or HBO and it has that little thing that says Academy Award nominee, I'm now going to say, I will give that a shot.

Right. Because at least it's one of the – But I feel like there's often a tremendous drop-off after the top four or five. You might be able to throw your number 10 in there with number 50. Yeah. I mean, you can't have it both ways. They've had it in years past where it was five and some movies got left out. I think they're trying, the Oscars are trying.

This is the college football playoffs. The Oscars are trying to appeal to as wide of an audience as possible. because I think they know they're going to have the olds watching. Yeah. The people who've watched forever, they know they're going to have the movie nerds watching. You need the people that went and saw Top Gun Maverick to watch the Oscars.

And the people that went and saw Avatar, the people that saw Avengers Endgame, those types of movies, Black Panther, that, you know, there's some animated movies that get nominated for Best Picture now. I think it's pretty understood that those movies aren't going to win. I think it was pretty understood

that F1 didn't have a chance, but it makes the people that went and saw F1 feel like they're an Oscar. They're in the game? Yeah, like I'm a part of this now. Well, I don't like those people. I'm conflicted on it. I'm conflicted on it, Dan,

because I do, I want people to have seen movies and I want all types of movies to be recognized, but I also recognize, like, only five. of these or three of these or two of these even really have a chance. So why can't we just choose from those? Do you, so one thing I asked you about, we have, we like lists here. You love lists, folks. In one battle, they did kind of have a movie baby.

Now, generally a movie baby, it's like a movie fire because I'm a guy who, I'll build a fire on you. If it gets below 50 degrees, I'm going to have a wood-burning fire in my house. and it's you can set it up and it's like oh look how well it's it looks great it's a movie fire right now but then five minutes later it kind of topples a little bit and you got to add wood and in a movie you never have to add wood you just walk by for hours and that fire is always perfect same thing with lighting a torch you have a movie tort like try to light a torch at home I would like anybody to try it with kerosing it with everything and see if you can make it look like a movie torch. A movie baby, if you have a baby, you know everything's revolving around that baby.

In a movie, look it out, the baby's quiet. Oh, it just sleeps. It's so easy to watch that baby. Unless you need added tension because a lot of other stuff is going on too. And now the baby will cry uncontrollably at this perfect time. And that was happening in one battle after another early on because that can really drive you nuts. So anyway, do you have any of these other things that we've noted throughout the years. One of my other ones is Kent, let's say, he is unjustly charged with murder. And he leaves the courtroom.

And he's Kent. He's never been through this kind of thing before. And he gets home, and his wife and family, they're watching the news station, and they're talking about the case and they have some opinions on what could happen to Kent in his future. And Kent's like, turn this crap off and he turns it off. That's a movie thing.

You would never do that. You're like, God, they're talking about me on the news? I've got to find out what's going on here. Anyway. Yeah. Anything else on a guy who watched 110 movies last year and probably 100 every year. You do notice these types of things. Is there anything else that fits on this list for you?

Absolutely. I've got my own lists actually here. A big one for me is file scenes. where your character is trying to solve, let's say, solve a murder, I need to find out about who this person was. They go to the library. They're going to go find all the archives of every single newspaper that's been released. Maybe I'm going to go do some internet research on this human.

I'm going to go type into my Google, type into this person's name, see what comes up. to me it's a really cheap easy way to just tell a lot of information really quickly and so file scene has become a joke to me every time somebody opens a filing cabinet throws down a folder of manila folder yes manila folder is a big player let's open this up oh there she is file they did it in one battle actually with the they do the lady the lady who had the kid yeah you can sneak it in there and it's a really effective way to kind of go from point A to point B in the story, but sometimes the screenwriter stuck and he's just like, dang it, I need to really tell a lot of information about that I haven't got to yet. So they just throw one of those scenes in there and

you can throw in everything you need to know about the plot in that one moment. So that's a big one. Over shirts. It's a big, it's a big one to me too, especially in end of the world scenarios. over shirts Not a jacket I'm talking about like a flannel over shirt You often see these in disaster movies Action movies

Jurassic Park things like that In an apocalyptic situation They never once think to themselves Hey maybe I should ditch this shirt that's doing nothing Do you count Leo's robe? I don't count the robe Okay

I don't count the robe But you will see Because I thought many times he should be ditching that rope. Yes. We're running across rooftops here. If you have that thought, then there's a chance that he could qualify. But I'm talking about specifically overshirts because these costume designers... You just have to be able to recognize the character.

Yes, the costume designer goes in and they say, this is our calm character in the story. So he's going to have a green shirt with a blue overshirt. Look at those... Look how calm that is. Look how good that looks on screen, you know? And they think, how am I going to costume this person? More than how would this person actually be dressed or in this situation. You know, so that's one I always laugh at is the person not ditching their coat.

Also, Johnny Depp, can this guy stop painting his face white in every movie? Have you noticed those? Okay, so that's a very specific thing to Johnny Depp. Johnny Depp. You're saying that's a movie thing because if you saw Johnny Depp over sitting in the studio. If you've seen a movie with Johnny Depp, chances are he has painted his face white for that role. Okay.

There's about maybe over a dozen examples of it. Rachel McAdams, same. She's always going to be in a movie with time travel in some capacity. I like that one. Ed Harris, if he's in it, he's going to be in a control room. Okay. Truman Show. Truman Show.

Paul 13, The Rock. Snowpiercer. Radio. Think of some more. I do have a list here on my... His wife, by the way, one best supporting actress last night for weapons. Yeah, Dan, those are some of my main cliches that I...

Which one from weapons? Since it's one of the... It was Gladys, was his... Few movies. His wife. Oh, uh, the... The girl from Ozark? The crazy clown lady in weapons.

Oh. Oh, the old lady, okay. Yeah. I guess I don't know what she looks like in real life. She doesn't look like that, I think. Field of Dreams, Uncle Buck. Oh, okay, yeah. The Field of Dreams, Mom?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I like her. Would you like to get some audio from the Oscars? Yeah. So host last night, Conan O'Brien. How do you do? Hosted last year, he did pretty well.

He said he had gone out over the past few weeks in L.A. and just done stand-up and showed up at stand-up places and tested out this material. So I think that's a good way to do it, see what works, see what doesn't. That's a good bit. Some of it didn't work.

Some of it didn't work, and you could tell, like, he was expecting a reaction because he's like, oh, man, this has been killing for the last two weeks, but it's a different audience. It's a stuck in the mud audience, for sure.

Yeah. Yeah, the people that go to stand-up shows versus the scene at the Oscars, yeah. Pretty big disparity. That's for sure. So let's listen to a little bit of his opening monologue. He started out actually with a parody of weapons, Dan,

the scene in weapons where all the kids are chasing the grandma at the end of the movie. They did that where they were chasing Conan through all the movies that were nominated for Best Picture. Okay, good bit. So it was a good bit. They played sabotage and they ran into the theater at the end. for the intro, so it was good. So here is a bit of Conan from last night. I am Conan O'Brien, and I'm honored to be

the last human host of the Academy Award. Yes! Yeah! Next year it's going to be a Waymo and a Tux. So check that out. So it's great to be back hosting the Oscars. Last year, when I hosted, Los Angeles was on fire. but this year

everything's going great oh you applaud that that's weird that's weird security is extremely tight tonight I just got to mention that yeah I'm told there's concerns about attacks from both the opera

and ballet communities that was appointed at Chalabay I don't know if you've heard the shallame controversy what is that what is the Chalemay controversy besides are we overrating him as an actor

That seems to be a conversation with anybody. But yeah, apparently, I haven't heard the quote. I haven't seen the article or whatever it was. Apparently he said something about ballet and opera are not, no one cares. Or irrelevant as an art form. So the people involved in those art forms that have dedicated their lives to opera or ballet had a lot to say. I mean, on just the scale that he's, I think, referring to, I'm going to have to go on with Timmy here.

Don't you think? You think ballet and opera are... I don't think they're... Neck and neck with the movies? No, but... They're not, like, the legitimate art forms. That's the foundation for all of this stuff? It's a legitimate art form, sure.

That's how it started. And the people that are into it, love it. Was he making a joke or an offhanded comment, but then all these people... I know this. I know how it all works. I don't know. You know. But it felt a little unnecessary.

It's like Tom Brady receiving the Super Bowl is like, yeah, you know, I guess all the people doing CrossFit, you know, not good enough playing the NFL. Like, it's just a shot for no reason. Why? Yeah. But it's true. It is true, but it doesn't need to be said. Okay. Timmy has proven over the years he's going to say what he's going to say.

And I love that about him. I like an actor with charisma and that has opinions. But here we go, let's keep going. He took it well last night. You're just mad you left out jazz. I should warn you tonight could get political, okay? And if that makes you uncomfortable, there's an alternate Oscars being hosted by Kid Rock.

It's at the Dave & Busters down the street. A lot of tickets for that. Netflix, this is exciting. A lot of cool people are here. and some of them behind the scenes. Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos is here, and this is exciting. It's his first time in a theater.

This is what they're talking about. Why are they all together and join themselves? They should be home alone. In Hamnet William Shakespeare's... He, uh... He... Sarandos has said before, like,

I want people to stop going. to theaters. Like he's not shy about that at all with the goal of Netflix. Like we want you to be at home. You being at the theater is a threat to our business. They tried to buy Warner Brothers, you know, um, that recently fell through. It's a real thing. They don't want you going to the theater anymore. Which is interesting that Netflix is even in these categories and stuff. I guess this isn't the, uh, the movie theater. Right. Awards.

It is the movie awards, and the movie can be viewed on your phone. I think Netflix... Although I do agree, the theater experience is a different animal. It's great. Netflix largely is looked down upon

in the movie business. I mean, the phrase Netflix original is an indicator of quality now, not an indicator of where it's going to be. and so Netflix is in the business of the mass culture and oftentimes these movies that win these awards are not mass movies

they're not for the mass culture and so I think Netflix should stop trying to win Oscars personally and is that why train dreams was nominated? They bought train dreams. Yeah, I felt like that's why it was because I've watched it and it was a good

movie, but, like, in the categories it was nominated with, I was like, there's no way this is going to win. Like, yeah. I just figured it was like a placement there to appease Netflix. So you're saying they shouldn't try to win Oscars. I think just, it's like, that's the only way they could actually be noted, though. I don't think so. I think you can have franchises all day.

You can do animation. You can do stand-up comedy. I mean, up to this point, they've gotten 300 million people to sign up with very, very, you little Oscar type films, you know, to lay claim to without the ones that they bought, without ones that they went to a film festival and they said, I like that movie, here's the money to put it on a platform. You know, ones that they thought of, we're going to produce this, we're in it from pre-production until the end.

It just doesn't happen much anymore. Not to say Netflix is bad at making movies because they make a lot of movies that everyone likes. But oftentimes, like the home team one, right? K-pop demon hunters, you know, they put on Netflix. Like, they have some good tastemakers, but I think it's just a different thing now. Stick to Billy Madison movies? Yeah, they need to stick to what they know. Happy Madison.

Yeah, let the algorithm decide and kind of stay away from the artists. you know, let the artists do their thing. And so much of what they do is just determined by data. House of Cards became a thing because they had an algorithm that said, people love David Fincher. They love Aaron Sorkin and Kevin Spacey. So we're going to do a show that's that, you know, and they have continued that and it's been very successful.

But that's where the whole AI Convo comes in and everything, which we don't really have time for. Let me pause this Oscars talk by mentioning another movie thing. I saw in a movie once. And I thought this was just a movie thing. Because they were showing a movie and they had to do some renaos on the home, renovations. And they had a guy come in and replace all his interior doors in one day. And I was like, put that on the list, Blake.

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They typically do an in-home visit, but they do have a Louisville showroom. It is One Day, Texas.com slash promo 30. Back to the Oscars for a few minutes, and then we'll do some sports in about 10 minutes or so. But, uh, okay, sorry. Let's see what else we got here, Dan, a couple more clips. Conan made this short joke coming back from break.

We're coming to you live from the Has a Small P penis theater. Let's see him put his name in front of that. There were, there are some Trump jokes or politics jokes, but they were, I mean, nobody was like throwing, they weren't saying, hey, Trump sucks, but it was always like a, once you get it, what we're saying here, you know? Mm-hmm. Like, clearly this is a, I don't know. It's just a weird, it's a weird bit where it's like not fun joking. Yeah.

You mean, you can make fun. You always make fun of whoever's in power. You always do. But it's like not fun now. It's all mean because you know there's going to be mean coming back to you. Yeah. I don't know. It's a weird time, obviously.

Yeah. Yeah. Conan talked about that coming into the Oscars. He was interviewed about, you know, his joke process, which jokes he's picking. Do you joke about, are you going to joke about Trump? And he was talking about when he worked at the Harvard Lampoon in college. He was the editor. And he said they had a rule where they couldn't make fun of the National Inquirer.

Because it was already so ridiculous. Right. that anything they do, people would think it was just real. And I think that's the point they've gotten at with what's going on in the country and in the world is there's no way anything I could say could be more ridiculous than what's actually happening. So let's just kind of move on, talk about something else, guys. And that seems to be the case. Actually, Jimmy Kimmel did come out. Former host came out and presented Best Documentary, Dan.

So here's what happened there. Oh, man, is he going to be mad? His wife wasn't nominated for this. And the Oscar for documentary feature film goes to. Yep. A little Melania. A little Melania humor. Jab.

There. There was a tie last night. Doesn't happen too often. In what? It was, I believe, best short film? Live action short film. film. So Kumail Nangiani was presenting and opens the envelope and this is what happened. And the Oscar goes to, it's a tie. I'm not joking. It's actually a tie. So everyone,

calm down. We're going to get through this. Focus up. I'm calm down. Calm down. I'm going to name one winner. They'll come up, accept their award, and then I'll come back and name another winner. And then they'll accept their award. Okay? here we go. One Oscar goes to the singers. How did Kevin O'Leary? That's the next clip. So yeah.

There was a tie? There was a tie. The way he did that, though, was great. I'm going to announce the first one. They're going to come up, give their speech. And then I'm going to announce the next one instead of mass chaos. Participation trophy now. Right.

I could just pick a winner. There's only five nominees, right? We can't even pick between them. How far away are we from just like, hey, everyone is a winner? I think Everyone gets an Oscar I think the way the preferential vote works

where I know what works this way for Best Picture I'm not sure about the other awards where you basically rank all the nominees in order of favorite to least favorite until

one of them crosses a threshold as the winner if none of the movies crossed that threshold as the winner I guess you just go to the next two and it's a tie I guess

whichever one's shorter Yeah, they need to clarify If it is the best short film, for sure They need to clarify the process there Yeah What did you, so you love sinners, right? Like sinners a lot Okay, loved it

Begonia, big begonia guy With sinners Which I've just recently watched So it's really fresh in my head Like I liked it If you had told me going in This is a vampire movie then I wouldn't even have pressed play.

Oh, really? Because I generally just, I don't want a vampire movie. Okay. I feel like that was the end for a lot of people, though, because a lot of people have you said this is a movie about civil rights, they're going to be, I'm out. People are in on vampires still? Absolutely.

So the first half of the movie is, am I watching a movie? I didn't know what it was. So I'm like, am I watching Mississippi Burning or something? Am I watching a movie about civil rights? And I get it, you know, things are bad. bad, that's bad time for, for some people, certainly, more than others. But then it turns into it's kind of like Ocean's 11 or the Blues Brothers, where they're on a mission from God and they're just trying to get the old gang back together.

They all have, they seem to also have like 12 hours to do this to buy a huge property, make it into a, you know, in whatever, 1920 or 18. Yeah. I don't know what year we're in. I think it's kind of prohibition era, kind of late 20s, early 30s. But all of a sudden we can get a whole club up and running with electricity and everything. And so that suspends a lot of belief. And then, of course, everybody becomes a vampire.

And then you're like, oh, okay, now we're in vampire movie. But also the depth of it where the vampires are kind of sucking away the black people's talents to use as now they're good musicians because that's how they're getting. there. Like there's a lot of, there's a lot of deep in there for sure. Obviously, if Michael B. Jordan, and I don't know if it's an overworked Twitter joke, but one of the Twitter jokes of the week that I found amusing at least is that in 20 years when LeBron B. James starts winning Oscars will be in a whole new era of discussion about the whole thing. But again, like I said, it's not that funny. use me. Now all of a sudden, you know, they're vampires, but Michael B. Jordan playing two parts,

I think tends to elevate it more. Yeah. Like it didn't elevate, I guess it did elevate, like Eddie Murphy and Dr. Doolittle, but not to where he would get any Oscar nods. Maybe nowadays, if you have 10, you would have slid Dr. Doolittle, not Dr. Doolittle. Not a professor. Another professor in there. A professor.

Anyway, though, but then it had a really cool twist at the end, like post credits, that I think vaulted it up like a letter grade. Yeah. But I had to spend two and a half hours to get to the part that vaulted it up a whole letter grade. It's very cool. The very end is very, very, very cool. You know, it's not six-sensee, but it's similar. I don't know.

Yeah, it's got. It's got a great little twist at the end. There's some movie of the way past when I was a little kid I saw. It was about an aircraft carrier that somehow got caught in a whatever tornado or something, and all of a sudden it finds itself whenever the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, I don't know the year. It finds itself able to stop that. And it's a very moral, ethical, whatever question, should we stop this?

and they end up not stopping it, but one of the captains or whatever from the ship fell off, and then he doesn't go back in time, and then he shows up at the very end of the movie as an old man when this thing from that time traveled gets back to the 70s or 80s. Do you know what you're talking about? Is it the Poseidon Adventure where you're talking about? I don't think it's called the Poseidon Adventure.

The Poseidon Adventure. No, that one's Gene Hackman with the... But the point is it was a similar thing to that movie where this guy, it was time trout, and they show up at the end. So it's a very cool ending. I just don't know that, I don't know. I like the idea of sinners. Well, first of all, Ryan Coogler, just super cool guy.

Former Sacramento State Wide Receiver. Set a few records there. Is that the guitar player? No, the director. Oh, the director of that one. He won best original screenplay last night. Okay. But, yeah, he's directed the Creed movies with Michael B. Jordan, Black Panther.

Super interesting, cool, creative guy, kind of probably my age. Very creative movie. Very cool. Late 30s. So his grandpa died or his dad died. Somebody in his family died and handed down these blues records. And he put him on in his house and just started listening to them. It was like, you know, thought, basically thought of sinners right then.

and sat down there and wrote this thing in two weeks and just one best original screenplay. Like love that idea, the inspiration of that. I like the idea of, that's the devil's music, you know, that whole thing, taking that literally in a movie. Like, oh, yeah, it literally is the devil's music here. I love that. And I love the whole notion of white people taking things culturally that black people started. such as rock and roll music, a lot of other things in culture. Yeah.

Started, you know, in a smaller subset of society and then, you know, work their way into mass culture. Loved so much satire about it, you know, very well shot, great movie. In any other year, it wins, like, every award. But one battle, I just think, is that generational. And it got nominated for everything, right? got it did it got nominated for everything sinners did but yeah i think paul thomas anderson and the movies he's made over the years the fact that he hasn't won but yet all that kind of comes into play and um something i said on our postgame show last night on that about

movies um was paul thomas anderson winning best director is great because he deserves it so much He's made Boogie Knights and Punch Drunk Love and The Master and there will be blood and all these great movies over the years. But he's still that last generation of directors. He's still that Quentin Tarantino, that David Fincher, you know, those guys that James Cameron's, the guys in the 90s that kind of came up during that era. But this year we had Chloe Zhao nominated for Hamnet. We had Ryan Cooleur nominated. We had Josh Shafti nominated. That's the next generation of great directors.

So until those guys are the ones winning every year, Best Director, I'm going to still feel like we're kind of in the past of holding on to some nostalgia. It used to be every year it was Tarantino and Spielberg and Scorsese. And you could almost predict every year who was going to be nominated for Best Director. It's just not that way anymore. I think that's great. I've been waiting for that for a long time that these, new creative voices are finally the best in Hollywood.

So that's awesome. But PTA winning felt like a little bit of like an award for what you've done, not for what you did, if that makes sense. Any other audio we needed to hear before we slide into some sports? We can get back to this a little if you have. Yeah, I've got some sports related audio we can get to towards the end. But yeah. This is the reason, though, this last thing I'll play, and then we'll go to sports, is why if we hate the Oscars, this is why we hate the Oscars, because you get all these extremely rich people in the same room to smell their own farts.

Yes, tonight is an international event. If I can be serious for just a moment, everyone watching right now. See, number one, we don't want Conan to be serious, right? No. I don't want him to get serious for a moment. is all too aware that these are very chaotic, frightening times. See? Like, you don't want to hear it, do you?

It's a moment. It's like these that I believe that the Oscars are particularly resonant. Like, these. Check it out. Like, we get it. Like, the same thing, yes, if somebody had said and Jake will say, you know, somebody is, you know, one person will say, but we say it off the air. Like if they say, hey, your show meant a lot to me during this time or whatever.

You just don't want people to talk about it. We get it. Movies aren't escaped. That's why we do love movies. We love movies. We just don't need you then putting your finger pointing it at the audience saying, hey. But that's pretty rich. Don't forget how important we are.

The Oscars is a ceremony. Right. You know, they're almost taking the thunder of movies and what they represent. A guy having a hard time is not thinking, boy, I'm not going to kill myself today because of the Oscars. Because they gave themselves an award. Sure. They all rank. You set this up for yourself.

Do you think the Academy made them do that? I think there's a punchline, though. Like, doesn't he go to a joke? Across six continents are represented this evening. And every film, every film. Yes, they're important. Yeah, every film we salute. These.

Is the product of thousands of people speaking different languages, working hard to be something of beauty. We don't want. We pay tribute tonight, not just a film, but to the ideals of global artistry. Okay, I don't have to hear it. It feels like the Academy statement. Yeah.

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Brandon Leak. He is from Atlanta. The fan. Am I right, Brandon? Sports Radio. Sports Radio 680, the fan. Home of the Atlanta Braves and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets and the official sports talk station of the Georgia Bulldogs, the college football voice of the South. And you are friends with my friend, intern Carlos. I know him as. Carlos Medina. I call him funky cold Medina. We have had an interesting trek. in our radio lives and he has followed me and I have followed him through different mediums and different radio stations here in Atlanta. All right.

So before I ask you about tonight's situation, well, how are we feeling about Tua there in Atlanta? Is Tua getting the starting job? Yeah, we don't know how to feel. We don't know anything about the man. We don't know anything about our starting quarterback last year, Michael Pinnock, Jr. as he was cut down with injury halfway through the season.

And eight seasons where you throw in college and the pros, Michael Pinnock's Jr. Has had five of his seasons come to an end due to injury. So we don't know him that well. Tua, who has had four concussions as a member of the Miami Dolphins, but a decent quarterback when he's been healthy now has been released and has been done with in Miami. So we know nothing about two quarterbacks who are both left-handed,

who both have injury in their histories and both now have a chance to beat each other out to be the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons and perhaps maybe the face of the franchise moving forward. What do you guys think of Luke Cornett right now in Atlanta? I have the title to his opinion. This is still a free country. You could have a platform and say whatever you want to say. I think what Luke Cornett and most people have not gotten right, And I'm not going to say he did anything wrong, but I think there's just a little bit of a misunderstanding with the Magic City Night promotion that was canceled by the NBA.

I think what we have here, gentlemen, is an inside joke that got outside and is not really understood outside of the Atlanta community. So Luke Cornett saw something on its face value. He saw strip club. He saw NBA. He saw Atlanta Hawks. He saw Magic City Night at State Farm Arena with the Hawks and the Magic. And the Man had an opinion. that was counter to what the Hawks and people who agreed with the promotion had.

And so the man spoke his mind, and he has a right to do so. And I don't think he should have any criticism or ill will come his way. All right. So what this is all about is tonight. Tonight was the night that the Hawks had a Magic City night. It's like if you have baseball bat night for the Rangers game. You know, everybody gets a baseball bat, a little mini bat or something. But it was Magic City.

Magic City is the legendary strip club. This is the lemon pepper wings, right? They served that. Who was that? Who was the guy that left the bubble? That would be Lou Williams. He's an Atlanta native. I grew up here in Gwnet County and played in the NBA for many years.

And also a couple of times in his career, he was a member of the Atlanta Hawks. Okay. So the big thing back then in the bubble was it was all a joke. We thought because Lou Williams got busted going to a strip club. And he's like, no, no, no, no. It was for the wings. that's how good the wings are. And from what I've learned, that's true, right?

Like, you would actually, like, people make fun of me here, Brandon, for getting hooters to go sometimes. Like, why would you get hooters to go? You want the experience. But people actually order these wings to go, right? You don't even have, like, the food is that good and the whole strip club. scene is good. I don't know. Maybe you guys can enlighten me if something is horrific. If it's garbage,

do they serve garbage on Uber Eats? You can make an order of lemon pepper wings from Magic City right now on Uber Eats and they will deliver those wings from that establishment to you. So if this is such a place of ill repute, if this is such a place that needs to be shunned from the ears and eyes of the American public, why can you go to Uber Eats right now? Well, not right now. Well, not right. Now it's a little bit early. After 3 o'clock and order wings that are lemon pepper flavor and the very famous Lou Williams' lemon pepper version of the wings and get them delivered to wherever you are. I ask you to help me out with that question.

I kind of want to eat these. You have to. Like I usually only eat fish, but I will, I'll break that fast for. Anyway, so yeah, so yeah, yeah, then Luke Cornett, on a very, rarely written upon blog. Apparently every couple months he decides he's going to write his thoughts on a blog. Remember blogs? I remember what a blog is.

So Luke Cornett has one. And he wrote that this is bad for ladies and just, you know, women. And you shouldn't have a strip club having, you know, the same arena that's telling you to gamble on your phone and all this other stuff that they're like, shouldn't. This is, this is beyond the pale. We should not have this. The NBA then looks into it. And then they say, yeah, how about we cancel? Come on, Atlanta Hawks. So, but you can enlighten us, though, Brandon. The people who argue against this say, like, this is a, this, it's not just merely a strip club, that it is an Atlanta institution. There's even a, there's even a, there's a documentary out about it.

Yeah. And I've recently learned the owner of the Hawks married Jamie Gertz, right, who was like an 80s actress. It was in the Lost Boys, the vampire movie. Lost Boys, less than zero, maybe? There you go. Was she in that? Okay, so she's part of it. And she made a documentary about Magic City, and I think this was all part of that, right?

They were just going to do a podcast. They were going to have Ti there. They weren't really going to have strippers there or anything, but it was just the fact that a strip club's name was on the whole promotion. But like what don't we understand the layman about the importance of Magic City to the city of Atlanta? As you pointed out from the Hawks, the Atlanta Hawks press release, it was an iconic cultural institution is how it was labeled in the Atlanta Hawks official press release. So there's a lot of a lot to unpack here.

Well, one, I am a rarity here in Atlanta. I am from Atlanta. I've grown up in Atlanta. Atlanta has become a transient city over the last 30 years. So I'm one of the last Mohicans, if you will, who has grown up here, been educated here, I work here as an adult, been married here, and now work here as a grown person. So there's a lot to unpack. First, let's start with what the issue is.

The issue is the mystique of the institution overshadowed the promotion and the point of the promotion that the Hawks were trying to make. The point was the Hawks were playing the Magic. 99% of the breathing population can't name five members of the Orlando Magic. That's number one. Number two, Hawks and Magic is not a Hawks Hot ticket. Coming off of a weekend, you have now a Hawks Magic game on a Monday night. So you're going to have a lot going on to teams that doesn't have a lot of buzz to it.

So they tried to attach itself to a little word play and a little wink wink and a little little tongue and cheek. Hey, it's Monday. Hey, the magic are coming in. Hey, it could be a magic night where the Hawks meet the magic. Hey, magic city is right down the street. And so it just took on a life of his own. They got their own hoodies and specially made hoodies for that night, which they would have sold a whole bunch, but the NBA put the cabasch on it. And so now something that was a promotion generated to get empty seats filled because of the wink week, week inside joke of everyone around here knowing what Magic City was, got out and then turned into what people thought was a lowbrow, some kind of coven of heathens coming together at State Farm Arena to watch

people shake dance or whatever they think goes on. And there was nothing of the sort. So the NBA looked at it, talked to their partners, got some pushback. And ultimately, those that work for others, you're always beholden to people who cut checks. Clearly, they talked to people who had high, high dollar value and high dollar investments in the NBA. They didn't like it, so they shut it down. So the long and short of it is the mystique of the institution overpowered and took over the point of an Atlanta Hawks promotion, which, by the way, was cleared by the NBA. They ran it by the NBA early in the season before they went through with it.

And then once the backlash came, the NBA decided. decided to do a 180. So you seem to be against this. Have you been there? You've certainly been there, right? Magic City? Yeah. Okay.

I've been growing up here. Do they do, I heard they do like NBA type player intros with the dancers? Yeah. So describe it. What happens? Well, I mean, who's in town? If the Lakers in town, they might have a young lady come out in the Lakers Garb and they might have a number on.

and then the things that go on and those establishments go on. Now, I'm an older guy now. I'm in my 50, so I don't have to freak with those joints anymore, but I'm not going to try to put on an act as I'm some kind of Puritan or some hypocrite or I'm beyond somebody else who goes in there or that I'm more dignified than others that have been through. Yeah, when I was in my 20s, in my 30s, right up to my 40s, yeah, I was in there a few times. Okay.

When they say intro, NBA player intro, I was thinking like the Bulls and Jordan and they're like, and it's at five foot eights. And do they do that? Like music and they walk out and cheer and. Welcome to the stage candy. Yeah. As he comes out and it might be a Kobe Bryant jersey. It might be a Michael Jordan jersey.

And then the things that go on to those establishments while you're getting wings, go on. I like how you describe it. You said, I'm in the 50s now. I don't have to frequent those joints when. So that implies that earlier it was mandatory as a citizen of Atlanta. That you have to go to Magic City. I mean, Orlando has Disney World. Yeah.

See the point as a place. We also have six flags over Georgia. But if you're over 21, you have discretionary income. You're a full-blooded American man who chooses. So there's nothing wrong with you if you don't go. But it is not illegal. and it is not in a place where those that don't want to be a part of it have to be a part of it. So, yeah, I've been there before and I don't have to go there now.

I can get, I think, better paying for my buck than what you spend there and not going to leave with anything but your wings. I can get those things at home in the comfort of my own home with my wife. Dude, how are we feeling about the Hawks these days? I remember the early return, your early thoughts on the Luca trade. If we all remember the first Luca trade was actually the Hawks traded Luca to the Mavs. And we thought, boy, you guys are stupid. Who would ever trade Luca?

At least you hadn't seen him, what, be a five-time first team NBA, all that kind of stuff. Anyway, the early returns were great for Atlanta. You guys were then, it was Trey Young. You're in the Eastern Conference finals. Things are only looking up. And now look at both of our franchises now. What are we doing here? Yeah.

Time is a funny thing. If you keep going down the track, you know, look, it's not just that. If you go back in the annals of history, you know, when the ABA and the NBA were merging, Dr. J was going to be an Atlanta Hawk. If you go back through the annals of history, Sharif Abdulaheim on Drap Night has a hawk hat on. Powell Gasol has a hawk hat on and Luca Donchich has a hawk hat on. So the Hawks and Hawk fans have had some close but no cigars throughout the annals of Hawks history.

It just didn't work out. I don't know what happened with you guys. You guys had just gone to the NBA finals. It was on its way now and the next incarnation with Kyrie Irving and with Clay Thompson with you guys. I don't know what your general manager who has since moved on was thinking. That being said, a move like that is not about the GM only. That's your owner. And I think that's what happened with the Atlanta Hawks.

There was a conversation about what was the better fit here in Atlanta. And look, coming out of college, Tray Young led the nation in scoring and assists. I think a lot of people thought a lot of the Hawks talent evaluators thought we were getting Steph Curry 2.0. It didn't happen. And the next thing you know, we made it to the Eastern Conference finals. And we've never been able to duplicate that success. So Trey Young was here for eight years. He's now Washington,

Wichita. In fairness to him, he never had the wingman. He never had the other bona fide, all-star, decorated veteran to roll with him to see if they could put together another run. But I think after eight years and trying to figure out where this franchise was going, it was time to move on for Trey Young. And I think he needed a fresh start to.

Was there GM, Janie Ferry at that time? Or no? Well, the initial GM was, the former assistant GM in Golden State. It'll come to me. Who traded for Tray Young? Correct.

Okay. Well, that makes sense. Travis Link. Okay. He was trying to squint and see and see Steph Curry. And, yeah. I could see it. I wanted to blame Danny Ferry because I'm a longtime Danny Ferry hater as I grew up in Cleveland.

But anyway, Brandon, thanks so much for joining us, man. from 680, the fan sports radio in Atlanta. Tune into you 6 to 10 every morning, right? Yeah, hopefully we can have you guys on our show, The locker room, 6 to 10. The locker room? Yes, my buddies, John Michaels and former Atlanta Falcon, Brian Finneran, the doors to the locker room always open.

We'd love to have a little Dallas talk down the road. All right, man. Thanks very much for joining us. Anytime. Thank you for your time. There's Brandon Leak. And then we'll go to Brandon Aubrey. Next. The dums are dums.

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Maybe I should have asked you if Brandon was ready. I just assumed he is. Yeah, he's always on time. That's the thing. If you need Brandon Aubrey, you assume, I mean, the first time we needed him. He was looking for his helmet, and we couldn't find him. He was a little disheveled.

And I'm here now. And here he is, girls, Brandon Aubrey. Hey, thanks for having me, guys. Hey, thanks for joining. Say hello. We also have a guy here, Kent Garrison. He's one of our good friends. He does a cowboy podcast, among other things.

But if you hear that raspy, sexy voice, you know that it's Kent. Sounds good. Anyway, man, you sound a little got a cold, or is it just being out in the wind and trying to get people to hear you over loud engines? Why do you say it's maybe a little bit of both the weather changes you know over and over and over again hot cold hot cold hot cold it's hard to catch up and then yeah Colton had a cold recently and I think I'm getting it now these damn kids the little baby yeah I can lead off with something on kids because we got to email a while back Jen's very very pregnant right yes 25

26 weeks. Out of how many? 40. 40. Okay. All right. I don't know. Should I know that?

You went through it twice. Maybe. She forgot it. It's been so long. We have a listener. We used to call Hot Jordan. Now she calls herself Weight Clause Jordan because she's pregnant. One of our listeners is pregnant.

And she emailed and says Mrs. Aubrey and I are at the same point in our pregnancies. That's awesome. And now you may know this, Brandon, that we do a little game sometimes called Your Birthday Minus Nine Months, and we try to figure out. What was going on? Like Blake, or excuse me, Jakes was when Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1984. Okay. That was exactly nine months before his birthday, and he said his mom was very stoked on Ronald Reagan.

So she was very excited that night. Yeah. All right. So we have this information from Jordan. I can assure you that their son was conceived on the first weekend in of October. And that her due date is between June 28th and July 1st. 25th. June 25th?

Yes. Okay. It's close, very close. She says, since we love playing nine months earlier games, and what occurred on that weekend, Sunday, October 5th. The Cowboys slaughtered the Jets, 3722. Brandon Aubrey got to fly first class. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, there we go. Back to Dallas. Could that special treatment have fueled his passion? Yeah, I made sure my body was in working order when I got home. Jim, you won't believe the room I had. Everything's flowing. So anyway. Absolutely.

Yeah, maybe it was that day. I also want to... That's a great feeling when you want to do. I want to issue this to you because you're a good friend. I don't want to bother you all the time. We want to talk all the time. I want to text you every day. If you want to call in every day, you can call in every day.

But if you are about to, like, sign something or if you're about to do something very newsworthy. And I want you to know, like, don't feel bad. Like, you're not interrupt. Like, you need to tell us and you need to jump on here. Like, I don't need you on the. fan or some other crappy radio station announcing that you're you know i just signed this long-term deal would you do that for us would you be cool absolutely if it's anything like last time when i signed uh my rookie contract you know that was actually published by i don't even remember who

before i even put pin to paper so i'm not sure how that got out or because at that time i was a nobody and you know no one really cared but by the time i showed up at the facility to sign it it already kind of leaked. So I'm not sure who has that information or who gets it, but somehow it always seems to get out before players would even say anything. You have to tell his agent that is what he's saying. Oh, okay. Yeah, the agents, their agents are in wars with owners.

It's fun. Your agent, who's your agent? Is he the same agent as DAC? Yeah, I've got Todd France, Athletes First, represents DAC. Now, does that mean that Todd, is Todd France as the guy at the head of the thing? Do you have a different guy who's your main agent? Or is it that same guy? No, it's Todd.

I'm not sure if Todd has runners. I had a big agency when I was a soccer player. And I signed with one guy. And then, you know, I was handed off to a runner after my deal was done. And he kind of managed me until it was time to sign a new contract or find a new place to play. but no Todd handles everything. He's got a great assistant, Julie. She takes care of the day to day.

But Todd's on top of everything. You got a direct line of communication with him and Julie. But Julie handles stuff like if you need to send somebody birthday flowers or Valentine's Day gift to the wife, she'll help you with that stuff. Oh, well, well, well. Yeah. That is a huge perk. Yeah.

For real. Now, does your wife get mad at that? Like, we used to do a deal with something called. called pro flowers. You've heard of pro flowers maybe? Yes. Proflowers.com. So pro flowers, they advertise on our radio station, but they would say to me and whoever did their spots, hey, tell us your wife's birthday or whatever, and we'll send on her birthday. And then so my wife would get flowers on her birthday and she go, well, this isn't really from you because. And I go, well, they could have given me $50 and then I would have paid $50,

but what if, why don't we just do it this way? Is that, it's like if they create, criticized Dak for his like Nike or something, giving away everybody Nike's. Whatever. The point is, it's still from you. Absolutely. You still have to tell Julie to when Jen's birthday was. Yeah, telling her that, tell her what kind of flower she likes and the budget. And then I write the note.

And then she just puts it all together and gets the best company to send it out there. Wonderful. Okay, I'm going all over the place because words are triggering things for me. and we haven't taught. We usually talk every week, and now we haven't talked in a while. And that triggered something for me. And Blake saying I want to text you all the time. I did want to text you this weekend.

I held back, and I wanted to tell him. Happy birthday. Thank you. Oh. Happy birthday to Brandon Aubrey. Nice. Oh, thank you guys. I was half expecting a call from a random number again this year, but I figured it was

Saturday so you weren't on air. So I got away without it. Is that what we did? last year? Yeah. We randomly called you and you actually, that's right, you actually answered. We're like, what are you doing? I was expecting some contractors at the house.

Oh, that's right. It was perfect for you guys. Okay, speaking of a community mechanical. And then so yesterday, to celebrate your birthday, you went in a race car. What happened? Yeah, that was really cool. Went in an indie car, an indie car, two-seater. Didn't realize I was going to be on the broadcast to kick the whole thing off.

kicked the race off. I did the first lap before the race went. And, you know, they put me in a headset and were asking me questions as we were going. I was trying to form intelligible sentences, but, you know, my words kind of got mushed up and my brain was going all over in my brain in my head. So I don't know why I said. I imagine it's just garbily goo. Nothing intelligible there to be heard. But I was there. It was a blast. I was really nice. nervous about it and never been over 90 in a car and then you know going 160 around tight corners because there is a turn there that was steeper than 90 degrees and it hits right into the longest straight away on a street course and uh and a indy car uh all the tracks so they took that turn really

tight and then smashed on the accelerator in my head kind of went sideways and then straight back oh man i couldn't have done a second lap even in the passenger seat i was i felt like i got hit by a truck by the time we got out of there. Damn, how did they, how'd you get involved in that? Um, you know, they, they're partnering with the Cowboys for that, um, for that track, put it together around AT&T Stadium and around, um, global life. So the Cowboys and Rangers are sponsors and I'm a local guy. So I'm always around and I'm always willing to say yes.

So the Cowboys sent me down and, um, you know, I got, I don't know how I got picked to be in the car, but it was me, DeMarcus Ware, and Pudge Rodriguez being kind of the ambassadors for the other sports for the day. So it was a lot of fun getting to hang out with those two. The guys are way out of my league, so I kind of feel out of place with them, but I'm happy to be included. Okay, I was first going to say body size put you in that car, but you're kind of tall.

I would imagine Pudge would fit the best in that. Yes, and Pudge is a huge. racing fan. He's already done it. So that might have, might have been why they didn't ask him. He's been to a bunch of indie car races. He's, he's been in a, uh, uh, fighter jet. He's done all that sort of stuff. So I guess they just kind of wanted, uh, the rookie to go in there and have that kind of amazed field and capture that on camera. Did you get to keep your racing suit that I saw you wearing? I got to keep the helmet, not the suit. Um, yeah. So got that one signed by Mick Schumacher. Didn't have his best race, but he's an up-and-comer.

He's just changing over from F-1. So he's got some growing pains to go through, as we all do when we change sports. So he'll get it figured out, and I'm sure he'll be winning in no time. That surprises me you haven't gone over 90. Just I know how you like to perform in front of crowds and you like the adrenaline rush. I'm just surprised you've never hit triple digits driving. Yeah, so my dad will probably hate me sharing this, but I've been in like four or five accidents with him before I could ever drive. The worst one, we were trying to turn left at intersection, the light turned red, and he just went anyways, I guess.

Terrible time to drop. I think his dad had something to do with dropping this feed. He heard he was telling the story. Yeah. Yeah. Brandon Aubrey frozen feed right now. We will try to get back to him. I was out at the, I was out at the Grand Prix on Saturday.

Oh, yeah? Yeah, I went out there for qualifying a few hours. My dad's a big racing, racing fan. And I had a hookup in the David Letterman race team area. So David Letterman owns an indie card team, Dan. Yeah. I'm aware of that, yeah. So, yeah, so we were out there, said, hey, to those people.

And then watch a little qualifying, man, it was unbelievable. The setup out there, the infrastructure they had to put in. to that thing to put a racetrack around the stadium with all the safety that you have to do to have spectators out there and all the regulations you have to do to make it good for the drivers. I mean, it was actually an unbelievably impressive event. All right. Brandon is back. I'm back.

My Wi-Fi is just, it's not worth the money I pay for it. We don't have an internet provider yet. Yeah, we'll try to get a sponsor for you to. to help you there, sorry. But you were telling the story about your dad being a wild man behind the wheel, you said he turned left when the light turned red. Yeah, and long story short, we got hit by a flat bed truck, T-boned. If I was in the back seat, this is the first time I sat in the front seat,

then I would have been crushed because it pushed the passenger side, rear seat door all the way into where the, backseat driver side would be. So like if I was anywhere in that backside, I would have been toast. But luckily he's let me sit in the first shotgun for the first time. And I walked out unscathed and played a soccer game about 10 minutes later. Wow.

Oh, you were on the way to a soccer game. Yes. Dang. Soccer game, yeah. Unless there's, yeah. That's the reason why I don't drive fast. Okay, you drive like Jake. Pretty good reason.

Because we had heard, in fact, I've heard you mentioned. this Kent on your Cowboys podcast. And Blake mentioned this later. I don't remember if we've talked to you, Brandon. He said he's very, Blake says when you guys land late at night, he's very concerned just because there's a lot of fast driving on the way out. Yeah. Was it you that said McCarthy would raise that as an issue?

John said that McCarthy did. It was always something, though, yeah, you'd hear from the head coach. be like, you guys be safe when we get off this plane. You know, don't do anything I wouldn't do. Yeah, it needs to be said. Guys got a lot of souped up cars and they're interested to get home. Luckily, it's late at night, so there's not a lot of drivers out there. But it's easy to make a mistake when you're tired.

And after a full game and long travel, you need to be careful. And, you know, not what guys do typically when they have these souped up cars and they're just wanting to get home fast. And they got to get to Frisco from Arlington or wherever. I guess you guys don't land in Arlington. That would be silly. As far as the plane is concerned. All right, what else you got going in this off-season?

Obviously, getting ready for that baby. Did you do a baby moon? No baby moon. We had a trip to Mexico that, you know, for the NFL PA golf tournament. That got canceled. And then we had a trip to Italy that also got canceled. canceled. So we got nothing going on for the meantime. It looks like a lot of sitting here, training, getting ready for OTAs, making sure we're healthy for that. That means Brandon's

golf game is doing quite well. And I wish. I'm catching up on Colton time. Now it's about a time in his development, I guess, where maybe it's just because I'm around more and I've been gone a lot where as soon as I put him down, he just says, Daddy Uppies, which means pick pick me up and he just says it over and over and over again. Actually, since the show started, he's been sitting in another room with Jen screaming Daddy Upies a little time. That always makes a mom feel great. Right.

When she's asking for dad. Yeah. Maybe this is because when he was born, did you do skin to skin? Yes, I did. I believe in that. It was awesome experience, and I will do that for every kid from here and out. I love that. Yeah, he's shredded.

He looks great. He can probably have his shirt off in front of the nurses and not feel bad. Did you know that Blake won't do that? No, I didn't know that, but Blake's got to be in. No. Blake thinks it's gay to be skin to skin with your kid. That's what you guys took. I just don't want to have my shirt off in the room.

The nurses are walking in. I got chest hair. I don't know. I don't think the kid laying on my chest does anything for us, but I don't know. Who am I? It's not, it's for the whole bonding thing. That's what the mom's for. They're seeing a lot worse than you shirtless in that room, probably.

Yeah. Yeah, she just saw that baby come out of that place. Now she's looking at your fat gut. That looks a lot better. I don't know about that, I think. So I wanted to ask you, have you talked to Dak at all? Like, are y'all that close? Do you send him a I'm sorry or something?

Because we were thinking that Shottie definitely called him. Yeah, I'm close with Dak, but not. close enough to pry in what's going on. So I'll never know what happened. All I know is from my experience with him, he's a fantastic person and he wants to be a family man. He wants to start a family. Obviously, he has started a family and he just wants to be a fantastic husband and father. So I feel for him. I know he's going through the ringer here, especially when it's public, the way it is and rumors are flying both ways. So it can't be easy time for him.

Hopefully he can use it or put it aside and find a way to focus on the things that are important like his daughters. There's going to be the most important thing through this. And I know he's going to be a great dad. So feel for him. I have no idea what's going on. I'm not going to pry around and try and figure it out. Just going to put that Italy money towards new Wi-Fi. And there he is.

Well, I got a couple more questions on that. Oh, is he? Are you back? I'm here. Did you know you were gone for 10 seconds? I did not know that. I'm just going to turn the Wi-Fi off of my phone. Can you hear me now?

Yeah. Yeah, we're good. Okay. We're going to count on AT&T here. Yep, self-service has to be better. All right. Yeah, I didn't see Jen, bikini pregnant Jen in the Waggs Instagram photo.

Did you guys see that? Yeah. The Wage girl. friend's photo on the boat. Yep. And you're here. Yes. Jen's not about that and being pregnant with a young kid doesn't really like traveling right now.

So she wasn't about to travel overseas for that. What was your other thing? Oh, why did the Mexico thing get canceled? That was a golf tournament, you know, with just, Around the time of the drug lord or I don't know what he was that got assassinated or whatever, all that stuff kind of blew up. And there was a moment where it felt like it might not be safe for a bunch of high-profile athletes to go over to Mexico.

So the PA decided let's just table this and move it back to late June, which is unfortunate timing for me. And they'll put it in the U.S. somewhere. So that's a scratch for me. I'm not going to be doing that one anymore because, you know, fresh, probably week old baby when that comes around. So you are, you have been in the news for your contract. How does that make you feel just to see people talking about what you're going to make? Yeah. I don't know.

It's been a lot incorrect information and just people clinging up. on to random numbers that have been thrown out. There's incomplete information dumped from probably both sides at this point. And people are trying to make a story out of, you know, scraps of information and filling in holes that they don't have details on. So I don't care about all that and just focus on kicking the football. If I have a good year, it'll all take care of itself. So that's what I'm going on.

So we have a list going of, I think it started with Dan, just like things we see in movies that are not, that don't ever happen in real life. And one of Dan's is whenever you see yourself on the news or something and they're talking about you, that you just turn the TV off and you throw the remote down. Have you had to do that? Luckily, I don't watch the news. It's all on Instagram. But no, there was a point in time when I couldn't open Instagram without 40 posts in a row being the same thing about my... I use this app for a while. You know, it got under Jen skin for a bit.

She's probably my biggest defender, and she didn't want people having an opinion formed on me based on false information. So I think it got her really fired up, and she wanted to go take to Instagram by storm and just tell everyone how wrong they are. But I told her back, and I think I did a good job. She's now not worried about it anymore either.

Do you, okay, does she consult with you before dropping a quick false? Yeah. Yeah, I let her do that one. And, you know, I did the same thing at that point. It was so overwhelming that felt like just turning the valve on a pressure cooker to open up a little bit to ease the pressure off of us. Because at that point, every time, like we looked at our phone, there was 100 DMs or messages. is saying how selfish and greedy you are that you need to just take that offer. I'm like, okay, we didn't get the offer you think we got.

So let's just move on. And that's all we wanted to say. And, you know, it did help. Then some people in the media picked that up and ran that. And it took people from Cousinatus constantly to questioning what they're hearing. And then, you know, it played out. There was an apology issued. And I think it pulled off.

You know, people that know what's going on are the people that are involved in the conversations. And I don't think it's important to say all the details of what's going on. So I don't think that I'll ever come out. Just know that I want to be here in Dallas and seems like the Cowboys want me here in Dallas. So something will happen eventually. They like to take their time to get the deals right and see if the players want to rush. And it's on the players to take their time and make it. sure the deal's right as well. So we won't rush into anything. Make sure the deal's right for us

and the Cowboys will do the same on their end. Are you demanding $10 million a year? I am not demanding $10 million to year, no. That's, I think, what probably was the most of that vitriol, right? On Instagram or whatever at first. You're so greedy. Yeah. Yep. Yep. But the cool thing, I don't know, I think it's cool. Like, obviously you want a long-term, you want stability, but you're going to make at least $5 million for one year of your life. Yes. That seems pretty awesome. Yeah, dude.

Five million dollars. Like one year at least, no matter what happens, you're going to be able to say I made $5 million in one year. You were a slightly unhappy software engineer, what, three years, three, four years ago? Yeah. Nice job, dude. So having said that. though, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for him, for anybody to be put in this position where, you know, you're a free agent and you could be making this amount of money.

Is there a part of you that just says, I need to go make that money no matter where it is, even if it isn't Dallas? Yeah, absolutely. And that's the issue of being a restricted free agent is there's a big barrier to going to get that. I'm out of money and it's unlikely, but if there's, it just takes one team to want to pull trigger on that. So we can try, but we're still not to that spot. It's kind of why it takes a while because there's only really one team that can make

you an offer until you are unrestricted free agent. And that's where I sit. So like kind of in the Cowboys mind, they have time. they still have the rights over me for another year. So why would they, I guess, go and pay more than they absolutely have to early? I don't know exactly what's going through their brain, but that's what I would guess. And for me, if I just wait one year and have another really good year that I've had, then the price just goes up.

And then when I hit a truly free market, then you can actually see what the price is as opposed to just what the cowboys are willing to pay. Would you take a million dollars less per year to fly first class to and from games? No, no way. I just know how much you love sitting up there. Yeah, it's awesome, but it's not a million dollars a year. Yeah, okay. Would you take a million dollars less a year to never have to see Blake on the road trips anymore?

He doesn't hate me that much. He tells me that you bother him. Okay, I'll leave you alone. Well, he says it between the lines. I'm reading between the lines. All right. He doesn't overtly say it. So you say you're getting ready for many.

Like, have you been kicking it all in the off season? Or what do you do? Yeah, I've kicked twice. I've gone to the field twice and kicked. You still got it? Of course. It's like a bike. But I've been lifting and running, mainly trying to stay in physical shape because that's

most of what OTs are. They're trying to make sure you're not out of shape. They're trying to make sure you can still move. It's just kind of like a physical fitness check-in point with the guys, and then they just start installing plays and whatnot. But we're still a long way from week one. So there's no point in being in tip-top kicking shape, because that's hard to maintain for a long time.

So I'm just trying to make sure not too much rust kicks in, and the leg still moves fine because that does kind of take a while. So I'll go out once a week and just make sure the legs still firing properly and we're not losing any leg speed. And if we are losing leg speed, then you've got to go into the gym and figure it out. So no leg speed loss here. Just trying to stay in shape. Make sure we can survive OTAs, which aren't that difficult, to be honest. Banger and Trent, do they text you happy birthday on your birthday?

They do. Yeah, got a shoddy text. Oh, of course. Yeah, all the guys that I see on a day-to-day basis in the office Give me that text, which is awesome That was going to mean one of my things What is the Shottie off-season? Can I get, does Shottie send the text that throws up like a birthday cake

Or like confetti? Absolutely. Let me see if I can find it here. I'm on my phone. It wasn't anything crazy. It was just... Because my mom learned that. It's definitely some emoji.

She sends a screen effect of some sort. No screen effects. plain text. No big bubbles everywhere. Nope. Hope you're having the best day with your family. Had you signed your deal, I think he sends a screen effect. Does he know how?

Absolutely. His kid taught him how. Well, anyway, dude, congrats on, you know, everything, being Brandon Aubrey. Thank you guys. And you say the due date. Oh, it's a couple months.

away still. Late June. We'll talk to you again before then, right? I hope so. Absolutely. All right. Go work on that internet. Go pick up Colton.

Yeah. Yeah. He's actually quiet right now, so I might just stay away for a second. And then sneak way to the range then. All right. Thanks, man. All right. Later, guys.

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Great. First, a follow-up from Friday, Jake did a story about a North Richland Hills woman who cut off her ankle monitor and is escaped. She was lacing drugs with fentanyl. It ended up killing somebody. She was on trial or headed that way. Was wearing an ankle monitor.

Cut it off. Still on the loose. Well. Which again. Shocking. Why are we still using ankle monitors? What's your answer? There's probably some kind of a...

Well, if you're telling me you can just cut it off and then run away, we have to have something better than that. Does it not alert them when they cut it off? Well, they do, but... Too late. You have a head start somehow. But we saw this case at the didn't kid that was on the run for a month or so. It was founded at his grandparents' house.

She could be anywhere. Yeah, it does beg the question. How long could you stay on the run? Because certainly, you just can't have technology, right? No. Like that good. girl in what was the movie? It was Leo's daughter.

Kept her move, kept the phone. That's why they were a tracker. Yeah. You guys on Bad Radio watched this show about how like detectives told these people how they had messed up. They said, all right, try to get away, get off the grid. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there was some show. And I forgot the name of it. I love that. But it was about getting, can you escape the grid?

Yeah. So if you've seen Lisa Mitchell, it lifts their dimensions here of 5-9-230. So if you see a full back running around, let NRH police know. So airports are not a fun place to be right now with TSA going through what they're going through. Is that the case? Because I've heard here at DFW, not bad. No, I think Austin is bad. I think L.A. is bad.

Some of the other major cities. But no, I haven't heard a lot of complaints about DFW or Love Field until this. Because a guy Was trying to fly without his ID He was here from Oakland He was trying to fly back Home to California And TSA would not let this man on the plane

Without proper identification He was told that he was not going to make his flight And that is when he punched two TSA officers Breaking a facial bone of one of them Mm He is going away or he faces up to 20 years in prison Because he forgot his first wallet.

Wow. And Ethan Couch walks among us. Yeah, that's got to be a federal offense, right? It is. With TSA? Yeah. And it was honestly surprising, because I flew with North Texas, TCU, and now the Cowboys. It's surprising how many people forget their identification when getting on a plane.

Because that's always the first thing. That's the first thing. Do I have my ID? Now, it never leaves my wallet, so it's not an issue for me. I once had to drive home and get, yeah, my daughter's ID for her. How old? When I was driving her to college or dropping her off to go. So she was like 18 or 19 or something.

Yeah, I guess if you're a kid and you don't... But... Your wallet isn't on a part of your day-to-day. I could understand that, but... So you were just driving without a license, too, for some of these people? Do you think that's weird? Don't you normally check to make sure you have your wallet before you get in the car? No, I've certainly driven without my license because my wallet's at home or something.

Because now I have my, you know, you get your credit card on your phone. Yeah. We need to somehow be able to put our license on our phone too. Oh, why do you shake your head, Clayton? Is this just more of the man keeping control of us if we do that? Some states you can, I think. Yeah, some states have digital ideas. But no, yeah, I don't know.

Everything's on the phone, man. Car keys. credit card not for me brother well do you feel like you could stay off the grid for a good amount of time if I started now probably three or four months from now

I could go away and we wouldn't find you you wouldn't know where I was it would take four months though but we have the full disposal of the police department at our four resources at our disposal cool

Oh, I like that. It's a good challenge. I believe him. I do, too. Yeah. Out of all the guys sitting in this room. I want to know what those three months are all about. His prep?

Yeah, why three months? What is this? Probably to find a place. Do we have to get new Social Security numbers? Oh, he's getting everything in gold and silver. Do you have a guy like in Better Call Saul that could just change? Don't you think, let's say we had to change our identity? would you at least ask Clayton, can you hook me up with someone?

Oh, yeah, he's, yeah. He's one of the first few people I'd ask. Could you get us? I got to leave the country. Could you help me? At least steer me in the right direction. Because when it comes to Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul, it's like, oh yeah, I know this guy. And then you have to go to like an appliance shop.

And you have to say, you know what, I'm looking for a lamp for a bedroom. Oh, well, follow me. you go in the back room, it's like, all right, here's your new identity. I need 15 grand. Yeah, here's the money. You're never going to go home again. This is right now we're leaving from here. The problem with Clayton is he could easily do it.

He just, does he feel like it? The thing is, so you build relationships with these people who are already very flighty. Don't trust anybody. and for me to talk to that person and be like, hey, I have this guy. First off, Dan, you're never, you're a famous, regionally famous person. Your names and court documents, you're easy to find. You think your wife's not flipping? I would flip if I was her on me.

and I mean there's ways I could do it but I wouldn't trust that you wouldn't come out of it possibly dead okay the general public though you could probably help one of our listeners I wouldn't you could though I'm just saying you have the research like I wouldn't and I couldn't yeah like even if I wanted to okay the fact that they haven't found Savannah Guthrie's mom yet and they have the entire FBI looking for her and it's been what over a month month now. I feel like I could make it three, four, five months. Probably.

Did she cut off her ankle monitor, Savannah Guthrie's mom? She did not. That's who we need to be chipping, the olds. They're a really hard time finding people in 2026. You'd think it'd be easier over time, but it doesn't seem to be. They just, I don't know if this is in your news, but they just found a kid in Baltimore that had been lost for four months. And it was just like the girl in Utah.

Gabby Petito. Elizabeth Smart. Elizabeth Smart. He was like four miles from where they lost him originally. Yeah. In other news, something that I thought might go away during COVID was cruises. Because it seems like a super spreader event. And the norovirus had an outbreak on this Caribbean cruise ship.

sickened 153 passengers. And I really wish I would have kept the list because we had a thing going of, oh yeah, that's not coming back. That's not coming back. Because I would imagine if you're getting on a cruise, why can't they just screen you just to make sure? I thought handshakes wouldn't come back.

That's what I was hoping for. You said you were going to start bowing. I wanted to bow. I thought, well, what a great bit. That's a good bit. We can just bow. I'm showing my respect, but I don't have to touch your...

I don't know where that hand's been. I just saw you cough and cough into it two seconds ago. Yeah. I saw a cashier cough. So I'm in line at the grocery store. There's only one person left in front of me. All the other lines had three people with full carts, you know.

This guy coughed into his hand and then kind of wiped his nose. I was just about, I got out of the line, pretended I had to go look for something else, just got back in like another 15 minutes to my trip. But I was like, I'm not going to that guy's line. No. I don't blame you. because I know all those other cashiers were really clean. But at least I didn't see what they did with their hand.

Are you not self-checkout guy? No, I don't like to self-checkout. Unless if they offered a discount for self-checkouting, I feel like I'm part of the built-in food cost is that I'm paying for somebody to ring it up for me and ask me what kind of bag I want. There should be a discount for self-checkout. That's a great point.

But if you're just as far as saving time, you walk up, you scan your one banana. If I have one banana, I may use self-checkout. You should go through the line for one banana. I have. They tell you, is this all? Well, then you get to look at the... Yeah, I don't need their comments either. That's...

Like, you know what? Yes, I eat a lot of sardines. That's the best part of self-checkout. That's why I bought 10 things of sardine. I want to be prepared. Don't tell me, yeah, don't go, oh, man, your bottom must be dirty. Yeah, yeah, I'm buying four things of Charmin because I'm stocking in the garage.

You're like, oh, somebody likes apples. Yeah, I buy it for the next two weeks. Like, get off my ad. Are you here to, I need to use self-checkout? That's what I say to them. Oh, the small condoms. I was wondering who was buying these. Something else that's spreading is bedbugs

as we get into the spring season. and Texas is in the top five for cases of bedbugs. They said that this targets budget-friendly tourists who are trying to maybe find a deal, maybe you pick a less-established hotel or hostel, and yeah, it's spreading. And I never think of that whenever I go to a hotel. I think about what dirty act has been done in this bed

or in the shower or whatever. I'm just not thinking of bedbugs, maybe we should. As many as hotels as I've been in never had an encounter with bedbugs, thankfully. Yeah, me neither. I was always scared of them as a kid.

Bed bugs. Have you noticed in hotel rooms how you spill like a coffee in there? They're like, oh, that's 150 bucks. But you can jizz wherever you want. And it's totally fair game. I have not until now, but you make a good point.

That is interesting. Yeah, or people are washing their underwear in the curing in hotel rooms? It's disgusting. All right, then we'll end with two lighter stories. The first was there was a really nice feature done on Fox 4 about these student harpists that went to senior living communities and played the heart for the old people. I think most people would say what a nice story that is, that they're helping these old people

just brighten up their day a little bit, hear some music. I'm going to be real with you. They can't hear what you're doing. This is a giant waste of time. As a man who goes to an old person's home every week? Yes. And someone that has been there

when they try to bring in this guy who plays the guitar and tries to play songs for everyone, they can't hear it. It just sounds like jumbled mess to them. So it's cute that you roll your harp in there. Now the harp person is doing it for free though, right? There's students, yeah. Maybe community outreach or something, trying to get a scholarship.

They were here this morning. Were they? The same harp people? Yeah. They were playing in the little atrium there. So they're also viewing it as reps. They're almost doing it as much for themselves then. Sure, but you know they...

They're not really doing it for the old's. You know, they leave that place air and their children. chest. Oh, I did my good deed for the day. Right. Oh, they loved me. No, you didn't. They loved it. Because I was, my wife works at a school and she was saying a couple weeks ago how they had this. It's odd. Two things happened. So she was telling me about this guy they had in to public speak to talk about kids doing, you know, how you can turn your life around and this and that. And that all he did is just talk about cool things that he had done and didn't really. give any roadmap onto how kids could do this for themselves.

Yeah. And then I was watching like a John Mullaney old special last night. Real quick. I love that guy because it's like if I needed to make a million dollars, I would put 20,000 in this stock right now. Would love to have 20 grand. Yeah, I don't have the 20 grand. I don't have your cool life to do all this cool stuff.

But then John Mullaney, this special, he was doing a bit about assemblies at school and the same thing, you know, just some guy coming in. And I would always think that, too. We had, you know, an astronaut once spoke to our school or if you have Michael Jordan come speak to your, what is that, okay, if I'm, if I have this kind of athletic ability, then I could do what you did? You just got to work hard. That's all. Or Rudy. Remember we, do you know we had Rudy on the show a long time ago and that guy sucks? That guy just, he talks about, yeah, you should, like, Rudy is borderline short bus. And somehow you'd have to say, like, if you were saying to me every day, hey, I'm going to be a doctor. I'm going to, I'm going to be a doctor. I'd be like, yeah, you couldn't even finish college. You're not going to be a doctor. Someone should tell you realistically, someone should set you straight. And the problem is that the fake American dream is that, I mean, everybody's origin story, everybody of success, whether it's manufactured or real, they have.

have had some roadblocks in their way, and someone told me I shouldn't be a director. You know, Paul Thomas Anderson was once told, you shouldn't do that. And then, you know what? He overcame that criticism. So if I told you, you shouldn't be a doctor because I'm going to keep going. Well, Rudy, that was his thing. You shouldn't try to play football. You're five, six.

No, no, no, I have to. I'm going to do it. And look, it worked out for me. Now I'm on a speaking tour, and I make $10,000. an appearance. No, it didn't work out for you. You're not someone that we should follow in their footsteps and just keep chasing your dream.

Because you sucked as a, you wanted to be a football player and you were shitty at it. You were terrible. And now you're a public speaker just because John Favreau saw it and made a movie about it. Yeah, normally the anomalies are talking to you. Or that make it. The person that shouldn't.

So yeah, I'm with you. And then finally, This is a bit of more national story. This norovirus looks bad. They all look bad. I don't want that. A German tourist is here, and he is suing a New York taco spot for $100,000, claiming the green salsa is too spicy.

Go back to Germany. All right. Why are we doing this bit? He said it caused health issues. Silly lawsuit. He said he had non-stop pain, trying to relieve it with fluids and ice cream. The federal judge dismissed the case saying

spiciness is the point of salsa. Yeah, don't put it on there. A little simple. But I thought you might like this guy, Dan, because that wasn't the only lawsuit he filed while he was here. He also put one against the NYPD because they did not accept his international phone number when he tried to report a crime.

and he also filed a lawsuit over poor Wi-Fi service inside Walmart. I wish I was one of these people who could just... Just a grifter. Yeah, just find things to sue about. I'm sure that's like a great living for some people. If you just hit one, he hit one settlement. Yeah. It's the guy that sued us over the...

Or he said he was going to over the no puppet stuff or whatever. The guy that somebody made a ticket logo, a no puppet logo that looked like the ticket logo, And then we got a cease and desist. They were going to sue us. And it's like, we thought that was kind of an automated lawyer type thing. AI lawyer who was just looking for copyright. Yeah. Infringement.

Yeah, we get some of those. And Cumulus didn't actually have anything to do with it. But good on the judge. There's your news. All right. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. That was a good news.

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I'm like 30, 33. That's why they're getting married around then. It's like, all right, kind of tired of working now. I wonder if I can get pregnant. It's time to settle. That's what I, I think that's what I was a beneficiary of. Yeah. Same.

I'm tired of dating, so you'll do. Yeah. Who am I with at this point? Oh, I'm with you. Yeah. All right. That's not right. You know?

She's not going crazy over you, but it's fine. Did you look at the picture? Is it got a Gemini watermark on there or anything like that? She's worth moving to the Northeast floor. It's a real girl. It does look like a real girl, but you never know. Yeah. AI, man. Yeah.

We now do this. Fairlease.org presents. Let me give a little love to Fairlease. In history. Fairlease.org, man, the best story I have about them, I think, as far as trying to let you know how great they are, is from our guy Travis at Community Mechanical, who when they started Community Mechanical,

they had to check out, they had bought some vehicles from another company, and they were under lease from D&M. And so they checked with Fairlease and said, you know, we want to lease a couple of vehicles, and then when the lease runs out on these, we'll then lease a couple more from you. And Fairleast said,

well, let's take a look at what they're offering. And so they did so. And they found they were like, you know what, we'll buy you out of this lease, put you into a lease, and you'll have a better deal, better payment and all that kind of stuff. So they did that. So now community leases all of their vehicles through Fair lease. So they do want to just point out that they will, of course, help you out. What is this?

Would you say like residential versus commercial? They'll help you out just individually. but if you're a business and you want to hook up, they can get you way better deals than you can get anywhere else on the open market. Mention the dumb zone, and we have a special number. You can call 972-705-48-15.

Connor and Nick are kind of the guys who will handle all the dumb zone leases now. It's our little bat phone number. So yeah, fair lease.org. Mention the dumb zone, or use the dumb zone on their job. drop-down menu. And today is,

oh, the 16th. We've established that. Monday, March 16th. On this day in 1953, Swanson introduces the first frozen dinner. It was turkey with mashed potatoes and peas. When is the last time you had a frozen dinner? I was just trying to think about that.

Ice storm. Yeah. This year I had some... This year, I just found I have to go to the freezing. because I'm stuck inside for a couple days. And it was something that was years old and it had freezer burn on it. And it was like, oh, okay, I'll eat this.

I don't know if this counts. T.C. bought some frozen pizzas for us in Arizona. My kids obviously eat frozen. I don't think a frozen pizza counts as a frozen dinner. Okay. Did you all eat those? I didn't.

But no, like the dinner... Our road trips, there's a lot of shit bought that no one ever touches. We have a rule. Everybody gets so excited at the beginning. Don't say everyone. I'm going to eat four pizzas. And then no one touches them at all because then they are like,

why don't I just order a fresh hot pizza delivered here? We spend so much money on extra food. The last three, I think we've had two Red Baron pizzas left in freezers at every Airbnb we've stayed. I'm not to blame. I get Arrowhead, which I bring back, and Yaso bars, which I eat. That's it. Everything I buy is eaten. Can we write it off?

I don't even know what that means. Business expense? On this day in 1983, Herschel Walker signs the largest deal in pro sports history. No others would ever surpass this. It's the USFL. So maybe Trump signed this one. Three years, $6 million, and a 25% interest in an oil well. Hell yeah, that's thinking long time.

I like when those are included in the contract. That's better than like a horse. Right? The horse will die. I think Roy Oswald got a tractor. That's what Brandon needs to do. What, the first class? I would try to get him first class.

Yeah, but you were trying to negotiate him down. You're supposed to add that. Well, I want him here. I don't want him kicking in Green Bay. He ain't going to kick in Green Bay. It's had a better investment than if you had gotten your contract in Bitcoin, an oil well. Russell Okun right now.

Yeah, just kind of. Yeah, right now. Depends when. On this day in 1991, a plane campaign. carrying seven members of Reba McIntyre's band, crashed and then they all died. Reba not on board. On this day in 2002,

13-year-old Brittany Cecil was struck by a flying hockey puck at a Columbus Blue Jackets game. She died two days later. And that is why we have the nets. Remember this. Remember them putting up the nets. We were star season ticket holders growing up, so went to a lot of games. But yeah, there was a time where you could sit behind the goal there just over the glass with no net.

And there was guys doing slap shots directly at the goal. And not a lot keeping it from hitting you right in the face. So it was bound to happen. I feel like the net does not hurt your vision. No. At the time, there was big complaints about it. Probably for me. A lot of advancements in the net game.

I don't know why I think that's appropriate for hockey, but for baseball, I was really mad to see the nets go up. I don't like how if the puck hits the net, they call it dead, though. I think it should be able to bounce off the net and come back into the play. Yeah. It'd be fun. And March 16th, this day in Dumb Zone history. It was a dark day for some.

The dark day is probably Dan and Jake. It was a really bright day for me. This is my first ever day on the Hang Zone. Oh, nice. I was hired March 16th, 2020. That's his first time. So you had done some run-through shows? Two.

Oh, just two? Didn't we have like a week with Daddy or something? Or did we just have a day with these other guys? No. Were you hired the day COVID started? March 13th, 2020? Wasn't that like the day? We did seven shows in studio before they were in Dan's house for a year and a half.

No, I didn't get a lot. lot of run, which was upsetting to me at the time because I thought I needed more because I'd really never produced. But yeah, Ryan Medlin or whoever else was in there a lot, Killer was in there a lot. He wanted the job. But yeah, here we are. And then in 2021, this is a really sad story from North Richland Hills again. I remember feeling really terrible for this lady because her husband of 25 years had died. Then she, she, she fell for an online scam, she thought she was marrying Bruno Mars. And this guy had milked her out of $250,000.

Another good grift. So you think you've found a rebound in Bruno Mars. You got to give this guy a quarter of a million dollars. Bruno Mars, who's playing half-time of the Super Bowl, need you to buy him $10,000 worth of gift cards and mail it to him right away. Well, yeah, I mean, you guys want to talk on the phone. You just don't get it. on the phone.

Like Brandon would have told you, the agent fee, taxes, so many things take away. His $5 million will not be $5 million in the end. Right. Then we were also doing this. So in 2021, Brady had just won the Super Bowl with the Buccaneers. You asked if you would rather be the Patriots or the Cowboys right now. Cowboys had Dak, Zeeke still at the time, just hired McCarthy. Things were looking up.

The Patriots didn't have. have a quarterback, didn't have a coach. And in this time, the Cowboys have still been the Cowboys, and the Patriots are back in the Super Bowl. Incredible. And I think even I would have said I'd rather be the Cowboys. Well, of course, Jake did.

Yeah. But now they got Vrabel. Like, they hit bottom, and they're already back above where you are. So quickly. They cleaned house and got right down. And they're all way young. Yes. Like, none of them, no one's on their second contract. You still have the same quarterback?

You got a dork of a head coach And then finally last one Dan broke his collarbone by running into a tree playing front yard football And you refuse to let them cut off your Aussie Newsom jersey That's right You don't still have that, do you? There's no way My brown number 82

But you're in all this pain And they say we got to cut the shirt Can't cut that one Please don't cut this shirt That was my jersey So they had to take it off over your broken collarbone Yeah. That's awesome.

Other birthdays today, we have Reggie Bullock is 35. Remember Reggie Bullock? He played 40 minutes a game during the Mavs conference finals run. Remember the Mavs? Tim Hardaway Jr. is 34. I wasn't thinking about the Mavs until they, Luca hit the game winner the other night. Then it's all over my timeline. Tim Hardaway Jr., 34.

Man. Does it feel older? It makes me feel old because I remember. Tim Hardaway very well. Oh, Ozzie Newsom is 70. You know what? I knew I was looking up something with Ozzie Newsom this morning. Yeah, that's probably why I came up.

Ozzie Newsom, when I was growing up, when I was an Ozzie Newsom fan, he was second in games with a reception. So towards the end of his career, too, I remember. they would just throw him the ball early in the first quarter, like a screen pass. He was tight end. And he'd be like, oh, cool. Now he's up at a 145.

Like Steve Largent was the longest. So I decided this morning, hey, let me go search that record. Because Steve Largent, that was an untouchable record. He had 177 consecutive games with a reception. And towards the end of his career, it would be, let's get Steve Largent one catch, you know? That record now is Jerry Rice at 274.

Yeah. So what? Eight, seven years, extra years on Steve? Like what I thought was, oh my God, Steve Largent. No one will get to that. Even Ozzie Newsom couldn't get to Steve Largen's record. And yeah, Steve Largen's now ninth on that list. Ozzie Newsom is 10th.

Tim Brown Art Monk, Terrell Owens, Heinz Ward. He played for a long time. Marvin Harrison, Larry Fitzgerald, Tony Gonzalez, Jerry Rice, going 10 to 1. Blake Griffin is 37. Joel M. Bede is 32. Vlad Jr., 27. Flava Flav, 67. Judah Friedlander is 57.

I'm a fan, 30 Rock. Yeah. Chuck Woolery is 85. Old game show host I don't remember what he did Chuck Woolery Family Feud back in the day, right? Love Connection

Love Connection Wheel of Fortune for a little bit Scrabble Scrabble was a show What it says Todd McFarlane is 65 The Creator of Spawn Comics Yeah

Eric Estrada is 77 I have a prediction to make on Eric Estrada. He will die at some point. That's not the, that's the one 100% prediction, but the 99% is at when he dies, there's going to be a lot coming out about Eric Estrada that like really overrates him, just about what he meant to do the industry.

Because he seems like one of those guys. Like when he comes back in the public conversation, which will be his death because he hasn't really been anywhere, right, since the 80s? You're going to hear a lot about Eric Estrada being awesome. Okay, that's good. Just write that down. More so than like his partner on chips. Brooke Burns is 48.

She's from born in Dallas, and she was on Baywatch. Nancy Wilson from Hart is 72. Jerome Flynn is 63. He is Braun in Game of Fame. Thrones. And our Dumbzone birthday of the day, we give to Alexandra D'Dario. Oh, yes. Ah, yes.

From the White Lotus. Newly single. Right here. I saw that this morning when looking at her Wikipedia page. That's what you say she's from? What else? What do you say? Oh, true detective.

True detective. That's the one, brother. Yeah. Do I need to watch that one again? You don't need to watch the whole thing. You don't remember, if you don't know what we're talking about. You just have to watch what we're talking about. 10 seconds of it.

Yeah. What am I missing? What don't I remember? Well, so it, this was from, naked or anything. Yes, she was very naked. Oh, she was? Yeah.

This was true detective. Here we go. Yeah, Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey's season. So everyone was up on it week by week, and everyone couldn't wait for the next episode. And so I remember I was in a bar with Corby, like as the episode is on, we're all waiting until later to watch it.

And he just pulls out his foot. phone, he goes, dude, oh my God. And he shows the entire bar, her tits. Yeah. There's a huge moment in the show. Yeah, she just walks in the room and just

fires off the shirt. Heather Graham Boogie Nightset and yeah. I'll tell you who I saw naked this weekend. I like this. New segment? The whoever Andy McDowell's daughter is. Margaret Qualley.

So I I started watching the Demi Moore movie, The Substance. Yeah. Because my daughter is a big fan. Yeah. You also saw Demi nude then. Sure. But yeah, I wasn't familiar with Margaret Qualey's game.

Great actress. You're right, Annie McDowell's daughter. She's married to Jack Antonoff, record producer. extraordinary. Yeah, she's one of the top stars right now. Greatness. Was she in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood? She was.

Okay. I didn't, seeing her naked, I'm like, that's not the same person that was in that. Yeah, I think there were some prosthetics going on maybe with the substance. Oh, the naked? Yeah. She doesn't look that good, actually. Well, we can't confirm. Can't confirm.

Yeah. Anyway, yeah, that's our dumbs on birthday today. Now we go to Born and the Stay Now Dead, Jerry Lewis. and Sutomo Yamaguchi a man from Japan who survived two atomic bombs whatever city

what was it? I heard about this guy, yeah Hiroshima was first right? I guess he was there and the atomic bomb happened and he was like, oh man, that sucked and then he's like, I got some family over with Nagasaki.

Is that the next one? Let me drive to Nagasaki. and get away from this mess. And then he survived both of them and lived until... Let's see. He was like... He was 94. Incredible.

Dead on it... Yeah, and then he was actually bitten by a spider while. That's a weird. So dead on this day still dead. William Banting. He's listed as a slimming pioneer. He died in 1878, but he was a big fat guy. And he's the first guy to ever say, you know what, what if I'm eating too many carbs?

So he lost like hundreds of pounds. He was the first, like maybe it's the first diet. I bet for a time there was probably like, yeah, there's nothing I can do about this. It's just the way I am. Yeah. Yeah. Boy, I wonder what his diet was. William Banting, look it up.

Dead on this day, in 1985, Eddie Shore, who is instrumental for old-time hockey. And in 2019, Dick Dale, the surf rocker. Classic. And that's what happened on this day in history. This guy was ahead of his time. Low-carb, high-fat diet, restrict sugar, beer, and dairy. And eat a lot of meat and vegetables. The 1800s version of RFK.

RFK Jr. that is. These are closing remarks. We can make this brought to us by Game Day. Just want to give another piece of love to Game Day men's health. Game Day.dade.dumzone.com. mentioned the dumb zone when you go to Game Day Men's Health, 12 area locations. Closing remarks featuring Kent, the great Kent Garrison, who has modded his pod.

I did. And I wanted to give you some closing remark gifts because Kent Garrison is the only we've had many guests who will come sit on the couch during the Cowboys streams. And after year one, when we were doing the whole thing as a pro bono, we started actually, once we started getting a couple of advertisers, we thought, well, we should pay the guests who sit on the couch. And we will, it's not a lot, but a little something. You drive all the way out there hanging out for a few hours.

There's only one person to ever refuse payment. that is Kent Garrison What a stand-up guy Chiba Hut was enough Well so that's why we offer you Today I wanted to give you a book And a Yeti Oh wow

This is a dumb zone Yeti And it's a good book I don't know if you read books Because you watch so many movies I do read books I am a book guy That book is called The Accommodation Learned something about

the city of Dallas. We also have like 200 copies, so I'm just going to give one away to everybody. Yeah, it's a bit of a comedy, some would say. And then, of course, the Yeti is a dumb zone Yeti. You guys are the best. I really appreciate it. And thanks so much for listening to One Star, by the way.

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