The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 3-9-26 | Dak Prescott loses a chance at another ring with Ted Emrich

Episode Date: March 9, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe're joined by TV's Ted Emrich for a big weekend check involving the burger wars and Argyle state championship. A former Ranger is popped for the entire year and Dak can now focus on football. Plus, closing remarks features a Craig Sager bobblehead and a chance at backing a listener's feature film (00:00) - Open: Weekend check with Ted Emrich (59:40) - Sports: Cowboys make a trade and Dak loses a ring (01:27:09) - Sesh: New short word - anti-inflamm (01:42:36) - News: Shooting at pickleball (02:08:31) - VM birthdays/Today in History (02:28:34) - Closing remarks: Once Upon a Time in Carroll County, Iowa ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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He is Fudy CK. And like I said, it's the downtown Dallas. Fox 4 building. Some call it the Moore 27 building. No one's ever referred to it as that. It's probably got a couple of other names over the years. Don't you think like some 70s or 80s anchors had a name for it? Like the Bob

Or something, you know That's the Bankland Ballpark, of course Nobody needs to tell you that Anyway, hey, look over there On the couch The very uncomfortable couch We are to understand it. It is quite firm.

The theme is certainly just like that. Okay. It's an Emery Kruz. Boost this, Clayton. It's an emery front on the dumb zone Sorry Ted Emmerich will be our hang zone guest today on the couch That's cool How about that? Who came up with that?

He's hanging over there And sitting in is Zach Are we allowed to say your last name? Yeah, go for it if we can Shlap Cole No? Coop Cole? You got the K? Shlapp Cole? Did I not say that correctly?

I think you nailed it, yeah Shlapp? It's easier to say than the read. Cole. Yeah. It's like coals. Right? Or you've got to have your own personal colds credit card.

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It's up there every day. It's been up there for years. I'll be damned. Half off khakis. It's not a sale now. Yeah, okay. Anyway, back to the new dumb zone. Hey, Zach, what's up here?

What's up? What are you doing? Not much. I've got a little pertinent bitness. I ran the Los Angeles Marathon yesterday, dressed as an ear of corn. Whoa. And I think we'll hear more about that in closing remarks.

I can't tell if he's serious or not. Wow, what a tease. That is a tease. Yeah, see, this job's not that hard. You've nailed it. What would the time be in Los Angeles? right now. If that's in fact true that yesterday at this time.

Yesterday at this time, let's see. It is two hours behind. What time is it now? Three in the morning, I think, right now. In Los Angeles. They scheduled it on the daylight savings Eve, so that's... What are we doing? Harsh.

Bad bit. Libs. I still can't tell if he's being serious or not. I can't either. I mean, there was a lot of news. Did you see the finish? That sort of made news. Was that where like someone came up real fast? Yeah, okay, yeah, I saw it.

For a race that long, that's pretty wild. An American. I always like to save. An American, you're damn right. I save my sprint for the end, for sure, whenever I do a marathon. I've got a sticker that says 26.2. That point two. That point two.

I was just hauling ass. Anyway, on today's program, we do apparently have some sports. I got a bunch of different sports. I don't know if we want to do today in Twitter. We don't want to start with today and Twitter now, but I'm very excited about the Donna Kelsey home renovation. Man, I saw, yeah. Is that all over your timeline? Huge news.

Huge news. It's good stuff. Oh, want to do a weekend check? Is he only introducing himself? He has his brother here with him. Oh, my brother, Tyler. Okay, I didn't know. I thought that was up to him.

Sorry, Tyler. I didn't know if Tyler wanted to remain. Swing the mic his way. I'm going to miss. It was just didn't know what the situation was. If it was somebody got a roof or some preventative maintenance or what? No. It's a straight 690.

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I know I should I don't prepare ahead of time enough I think he assumed you would know from the invite the party Blake what are we going to do I don't know Neither one of you got invited No Wow oddly enough

Do you think you're the guy who will think this is oddly enough Franco Harris's birthday was also Saturday Wow I was in the same room with them Got to bring that up to him. Once upon a time. He was at laughs with legends. They were both doing comedy, right? Yeah.

Do you think Steve Berline would respond to my happy birthday text? Yes. I think he would heart it. I bet he wouldn't thank you for it like Dan, but he would drop a heart. Send it. Maybe a thumbs up. I think he's going to respond. Don't happy late birthday, Berline.

So in my world, I got a couple things for my weekend check. One is just this morning I got pulled over on the way here. Uh-oh. Awesome. Did it end my streak? Oh, there's a picture. Did it end my streak of not getting a tick? I can't remember how many years now it's been since I got a ticket.

Did it end my streak? So I'm pulled over there. 41 in a 30. And I'm getting my stuff trying to find my whatever license and everything. I'm thinking in my head, well, what if I'm in here digging around and they're concerned that I'm going from my weapon. You're white. You're good.

Oh, geez. That's what I came to a conclusion of in the end. Anyway, so then I see peripheral, oh, okay, somebody is approaching and I turn. Very suddenly, blew into your finger. To see the lady. Uh-oh. Oh, boy. Police person.

Enforce the law. Officer. Pulling me over. and I was not... Adjudicate me. I was not 25-year-old Jake. I was very, very respectful.

Where are you going? Wherever you tell me to. Yeah, why'd you put your hands out together? Handcuffs, please. I'm resisting. Where do you work? I'm going downtown dad. Where do you work?

The Fox 4 building. She's like, Oh, more 27? I said, yeah, yeah. Last call? Couldn't find my insurance in the car. Don't worry about it. I'll just check it on the computer.

I'm like, why do we go through this whole thing? You don't have to. Yeah. You don't have to anymore. Did she even ask you to do it? Yeah, because I was looking through the glove compartment. I'm like, I think it's in the back there. Want me to root around back there?

She's like, don't worry about it. I can get it through the computer. I'm like, oh. The last couple times I've had it, they just, it's linked to your driver's license or your van or something. But as I've told you before, been doing sports radio in Dallas for like 20 years and all this kind of stuff. I'll get pulled over by a guy in Grapevine. And no recognition at all. Guy right in the demo.

No recognition. Not at all. And I never got out of a ticket. But so she comes back just with a warning. Let's go. But she was really being overly friendly and the whole conversation about that. and everything. I think I'm saying it was, you know how I've been eating right and exercise,

all that kind of stuff. I think all of this stuff not only has affected like some objective stats, you know, BMI or weight or things like that. I think there's a subjective Riz level that is, like, Dude, this is just looks maxing. I'm just saying. You just mugged that cop. I'm saying my Riz was kind of off the charts.

It wasn't just the looks. It was once she started conversing and we started going. 2016, Dan is getting reckless driving, a speeding. She might have tased you. Right. I can't believe her. I thought her number she would have jotted it down. Right.

Oh, no smiley face. Leave you a Snapchat handle or something. No, you definitely rizzed your way out of the citation. Does say verbal warning. I'm hanging this on my. Yeah, man. Oh, we got a name. Oh, okay.

You didn't even have to break out the clear glasses or did. you. Is that what? I did not have clear glasses. She was like, damn, a tech titan. And driving a Tesla too. Oh my gosh. No search. No search.

Let's see. What else do I have? Oh, I don't know if you guys are the same as me. You live in Coppell. And we eat out a lot at restaurants, is what I should say. We eat at restaurants a lot. Thank you for completing that sentence. And then they're like, you can't do that here at the restaurant, sir.

Right. Here, put a blanket. over you. So when there's a, but we have a tight rotation. You know? I do. A new restaurant has come into our lives. Because it just opened up and it's called the walk. Okay. Have you seen the walk?

Burgers? Only for, are you? W. Okay. It's not burgers. You told me about it. Oh. Huh? No. No, you, I mean, you told me about it, but I've not heard of it. We live in a is it in South Lake? Where is it? It's either Southacre Grapevine. It's right over there by the big giant gas station. Can't remember which one. It's not a Super K, but it's got the 80 places to put gas in your car.

When you walk into somebody yelled, do you smell what the walk is? Do they have thoughts about the Brown's backup quarterback and if they're starting that day or not? I don't know yet, but what I do know is, so I wanted to buy this online like I usually do. So I got the app. They have an app. Dude, everyone has an app. So here, take a look at the picture of the app. Okay.

So I'm like, what is this? And it says select location. And it's like, Alama, Iqabal. Yeah, you're clearly not in America. No, so what I think is going on here? Yeah, Lahore, or however you say that word, that's in. I think you're in Murphy. It's in Pakistan.

Hey, it's got two ratings, four and a half stars. Look at the next picture. What are the roads? Well, look at the name of the... Okay, yeah, okay. Like, search Johar Town Phase 1 Block A. You're in Pakistan. Go back.

Go back to the first one. Would you like to have delivery to the Muslim town location? It's called Muslim Town. Yeah. So there's an app. That sounds like an ever musical. to Broadway very soon. It does.

There's an map in Pakistan or an app in Pakistan for a place called The Walk in English. And they expanded to South Lake. That's their next. That we can deliver to. Yeah, I think it was the wrong one. Now, when you call local areas that, everybody gets up in arms. Mm-hmm. Whenever you're like, oh, what happened to that part of town?

Muslim town. He won't even acknowledge it. Do you want a really fast mini TiVo? Yeah. Because I did a little Oscar prep. I think the Oscars are next weekend. WHO. Just the Oscars in general?

Yes. Yes. And making movies for the Oscars, watching parties for the Oscars. What are we doing? Watch two movies over the weekend. Bognia. Emma Stone. B-U-G.

Yeah. I watched it because of the show. Stavi. I wanted to see. I've heard he was in a movie. I want to see. And he was awesome. He plays the former molester of a former. Of Jesse Plemons. Hung him up. Yeah. Jeez. Aged out. Kind of aged out. Apologized to him a little bit. Lost the step. Was it like tennis? I didn't know you. I mean, I figure the kids age out, but anyways, yeah, isn't the director like some famed weird?

Yeah, Yorgos, Lantammos. see yeah okay i get it then jesse plemens might have aged out of it and that's why stobby stopped i don't okay well i support all those people i just did you see the movie no man oh why i don't i don't i just don't watch anything anymore i don't watch movies he doesn't even watch tv i don't don't i don't read books i thought you would do the because of stavi no that was interesting i mean if stovie does a stand-up i absolutely watch that uh tires i loved him in tires but i think I just gave up on the idea that I'm a smart person. So if it's a movie like that that I can tell that in my 20s I would have watched and been like,

you know, do I have a critical reaction to this? How does this make me feel? I don't. I just have nothing now. It's kind of a movie about conspiracy theory brain. And you know what it is? But if those conspiracy theories were right. Well, that's the thing.

I guess if we were to dig deeper on this. Like in the last couple of weekends, when I have three or four hours available, all I do is just read the news. news for a never-ending wormhole of like, fuck, the news is crazy. Rather than what... We live in a time where we started World War III right after the Epstein files were released. I can't watch a movie. You know what I mean? So you forget about the Epstein files, right?

Right. But that's like something you'd see in a movie and be like, oh, whoa. But that's just life now. Like, I feel like life is awesome and entertaining enough to where... a movie about pedophiles. I'll just watch the NFL of pedophiles, the news. I came to the same realization because I fell in love with House of Cards a few years ago. I was like, I need another show like this,

where it's politic and deception and all that, and I just realized I'll just listen to the daily or something. There's a reason that VEEP stopped making seasons. They said it. They can't keep up with real life. They couldn't write something this good. But I do like Emma Stone. I do like Jesse Plymonds.

I do support art. I'm just, I'm too empty for it. Support art. You're newsmaxing without watching newsmax. There you go. Whoa. Pretty much. That was my Saturday Oscar prep, Sunday Oscar prep.

So you liked it for the most. Great. Okay, cool. Very good. And then another web, movie I think that is up for the best picture is called weapons. Yep. Anybody?

See it? You saw it? I know about it. did not see it. Ooh, it looks scary. Yeah. I don't think you'd be into it. It's a filler.

I don't do horror stuff. Very, very good. It's not, well, I don't know if you would say horror. There is darkness, a lot of dark. Like, you know, like, Credence is a lot of rain. It's just like watching the movie. It's dark, and it's like, it's on purpose, obviously.

Right. Ruth from Ozark is in it. I love her. I feel like she's a In the future You're going to say Ruth from Ozark Multi-time Oscar winner Mark it down

Now is it like What is the Patrick Schwarzenegger prediction Just that he's going to be like our generational hunk He's going to be around for a long time I don't know that I'd call him No noms Like a De Niro type Great at acting

But he's just going to be in a lot of stuff I do believe that I mean him and since Sydney Sweeney, right? That's a power couple waiting to happen. She's going to be so over in less than five years. Wow, mark that down. We have.

We've talked about this. That is not staying. I mean, if you think about it, the women who have made it the longest in Hollywood, like your two, three, four decade runs, they're not like nines and tens. They're these women that America like falls in love with. Ruth is going to be around.

Yeah, but like Meg Ryan, and like I would even argue Julia Roberts, but these are not. Or, you know, the one that you guys are in love with, Reese Witherspoon, it's like they're not that threatening. So they end up being around for a really long time. Sidney's sweet, Sweeney's built like a stripper. You can't, that's not going to work for a three-decade run. She'll be out with, with gravity. Who are you saying it's not going to make it? Sidney Sweeney.

Oh, okay. I gotta get my note straight. You're about to fight about something? Me? Yeah, he was pissed about Julia Roberts. No, I got to write down. Dan thinks Julia Garner will be a multi-time Oscar winner. Jake says Sidney will disappear.

Julia Roberts, one of the great things about her is it's okay for me to say she looks like a monkey. And as you've noted before, there aren't that many people we can say that about, you know? So when you get one, you feel like you have a way. You feel like you have to... They're ancestors. And it tells the main series of events shown from different points of view. So you pick the story back up. So now you're watching it from Ruth from Ozark's point of view.

But then you pick it back up and now you're on Josh Brolin. I think that's his name, Josh Brolin's point of view. But then you'll see Ruth in the background. Oh, yeah, that was that scene. She was it, you know. But now he's over here. I saw a Columbine movie like that once, I think called Elephant, maybe. Really?

Yeah, same scenes over and over. It's a cool bit. So a very, very good movie. It turns out the two movies that I chose off of the best picture list are actually very good movies. That helps, right? It certainly does. It makes me feel good. So who's next?

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dot com. Clayton. All right, I'll do a quick bounce off the mini TiVo. So y'all didn't have to. I watched the new Tracy Morgan show. Wow. It was heavily promoted during the Winter Olympics. Yeah, it's terrible.

He's a retop... Whoa, whoa. Who would have had that in the pool? You're a hater, though. He's done some good work before. I tried not to be a hater, but Dan's so right. He's got one bit. I know.

And he just does it. it over and over again in this. Second bit was getting hit by a freight truck. Yeah, and I don't know why he's doing anything. He did the love of the game. Chandler Parsons game. But yeah, it was bad. Harry Potter doesn't save it somehow?

That's the problem, is he's the most famous person in there, but it's a show about Tracy Morgan. I'm more interested in his storyline. Isn't the kid from Harry Potter, like you said, like 10 times more famous? than him. Yeah. That dude's just doing NBC.

Yes. Sitcom? Yeah. Yeah. And sitting court-sided in Nick's game with Tracy Morgan to try to promote the show. That's a weird career arc, right? Like that guy has made, I mean, I would assume. Untold.

Yeah. And you're like, all right, but I want to keep going. I'm 36. What if I took the fourth part in a revive of Tracy? Yeah, there's no Apple TV isn't going to give him $10 million to have a, series made about him. Well, he kind of went the independent route after Harry Potter. Like, he did a bunch of, like, artsy independent films.

That's what I would think you would do. Yeah. But he got back into TV with that, it's like a heaven show or something. Wasn't there a show on TBS at some point when they were doing some original comedies? Yeah. And he's tried to lean into comedy. Yeah. It's really weird because it's like, it's not good.

And he's the most, like I said, he's the most famous, Daniel Racklip's the most famous person on the show, but he's like a third or fourth character. So it's really about Tracy Morgan, but Tracy Morgan has one bit, and it's not really interesting. And it's like... And you knew this going in, so...

Yeah, but I wanted to give it a shot because, I mean, I enjoy Tracy Morgan. I enjoyed him on SNL, and... But, yeah, it's just like, the same bit over and over again. It's, the plot of the show is he's like the Pete Rose of the NFL. He got caught by betting on football and got kicked out and he's trying to come back.

But it's just super outlandish and not really good. The other thing is, while y'all are focused on a war in the sand, I'm focused on a war on the grill. Okay. You know, we got a burger war going on right now in America. Oh, no. and not enough people are talking about it.

And the big three are going at each other's throats right now. The McDonald's CEO came out with the big arch, which I tried this weekend. Because, you know. It's you are. Science. Did you take a bigger bite than the CEO did? Yeah, who started this? Who was the first video?

It was him. It was McDonald's. It was McDonald's started it. Want to take a look at that? Do you know about this? Yeah, I have the video here. Yeah, I gave him the video. Oh, there's also some crispy onions on here as well.

Take a look at it's kind of coming out. He gets dragged for this. He looks like such a dork. He looks like the lost manning brother. That is the tiniest bite I've ever seen. That's my kid's bite. That's my kid's so good. Like he might have gotten a millimeter of meat off of that.

It's distinctively McDonald's. Only McDonald's could do this type of burger. Let me tell you something. It's unlike anything else on our menu. It's a delicious product. You know, you've got for the cheeses and the gooiness. Such a teeny little bite. be onions as well gives a nice texture.

And of course, we've got the pickles. So texture. I'm going to enjoy the rest of my lunch. No, you won't. But Big Arch. You're thrown in the trash. You'll eat a handful of kale. It's kind of like, when I picture like the hottest, most famous model in the world.

And she attempts her first beege. Yeah. Yeah. It's not right. Whereas if I, when you hand me and McDonald's burger after my first bite, it looks like. I just completed a Bukaki. My face is covered. The Burger King guy, like everybody's going overboard now.

Just covered in mayonnaise and cheese. Is the other video worth playing? Other guys are going overboard now. The Burger King guy. Here's the Burger King CEO. Yeah. He gets in there. He gets in there.

He looks like a man too. Yeah. He's ready to work. Apron on. Apron. Okay. Ready to go. I like that guy.

This guy looks like. the lost manning brother. He looks like he's afraid of the burger because here's the thing. This guy's not a real person. And the other guy might not be either, but he's not, he's better at pretending. These people don't eat this food. That raised a big bit on Twitter then. It's like, oh, I'd love to see the LinkedIn CEO try to get a job with LinkedIn.

Or, you know, just all of the CEOs try to use their product. 2000s reality did have a pretty good idea here, right? We did undercover boss. Right. That show rocked. Show me Wendy's guy. This is Wendy's guy. Amazing. Absolutely wonderful. That's not even their regular burger, is it?

That's a burger. Oh, yeah. We know. This is exactly the way a great hamburger should be. You got to top it off with a fries and frosty. First time this guy's ever done this. Oh, you can do that? Excellent.

It's so bad. How we arrived at a point where these guys make $10 million a year and their companies like sit down and eat the burger. We have to film it. This is somehow important to operational success. It's time to dunk on McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah, so I went into this and I tried the arch. It's a pub burger.

What is it? It's their new. They're trying to get fancy. But they do this every now and then. Yeah, the Burr Wars have been going on. But I just mean McDonald's has always had. you can go in Big Mac quarter pounder double quarter pounder. But they every five or so years will come up with like the signature select.

Right, a premium option. The McArch or the it's some sort of like, you know, this is a little bit of an upper crust McDonald's burger. And it's trying to be. It's a pub burger. It's a burger you get at a bar. It's easy to eat. The bun to patty ratio on diameter is way off. Oh, no.

patties are about a quarter inch too small. So you're getting way too much bread. That's not good. This poppy seed bun is just a little arrogant. What is this, Jakes? Honestly, like, it's, that's what they're going for. Double onions. I don't understand why you would, don't double my vegetables.

I'm eating a burger. I don't need diced onions and then crunchy onion. Oh, yeah, yeah. Give me one or the other. That's no good. They have this fancy kind of aoli sauce, which I'm like, Jake. Stick to the rivers and lakes you're used to.

I don't know. I don't know, man. I'm siding with Jake. I hit upgrade on sauce anytime I can. But you can't get it on the side. Mmm. That's tough. That is one of the best things about ordering food on apps.

Just being allowed to make decisions and elections that you would be too big of an asshole to actually say. But when I see almost anything that says sauce on the side, if it's delivered, or I'm picking it up. I'm like, well, yeah. Save the, the sog factor, but I would never, ever say that to somebody. At the counter in the moment. Extra crispy on my fries. Right. Yeah, but for the most part, I could get a double quarter pounder with trees in, cheese in the app and mix, make it the way I want it, and it would be a 10 times better than this. I just don't get it. I mean, they're doing, like, they're just I just don't.

Because it's like... Yeah. We need the Foodie CK vlog. I can get in there. If any of these companies want me to get in their R&D kitchen and just make them

millions of dollars off of a great easy to eat in the car burger, because that's me. I mean, I'm like Jake. I'm pulling over and I'm just enjoying this in the car because if I get home, it's going to be soggy. It's going to be a little cold. And that's not how it's meant to be

enjoyed. I also, I think that the McDonald's guy rocking the sweater over the collared shirt, we don't see that as much anymore, but it really doesn't signal working man. This goes, yeah, well, this goes back to Dan's. We're a McDonald's customer here. Yeah, this goes back to Dan's skinny guy, fat guy. None of those three people I'm trusting with fast food decisions. Exactly. Even the guy with the rolled up sleeves, he's just a little too much. I just got out of a sales meeting. Yeah. I'll go next.

We had Phantom Weather cancel both our blast ball practice and our first soccer game. But by that I mean like it never rained on Friday afternoon.

And obviously didn't tornado, which I don't, I think maybe. What's blast ball? It looks to be like a primacy. to T-Bowl where they put the ball on a T and you can, you run to the base, but there's really no second base.

It's kind of like, can you get the ball and play and get to first base? For Carter? Yeah. Why are you doing this? I don't know. They're too young. No, no. It's a waste of time.

He's not. But I'm going to try. You may be right. I shouldn't say that. I'm saying not from an athletic standpoint, but no one knows what to do. This is a mock game. No, I just want him to be able to hit it and run to first. I just want to, I'm trying, we're trying to work on listening is all it is.

It includes a foam bat and ball often featuring an audible honking blast base. You just jump on the base. He's 30 to 50 feet away to encourage running and excitement. Who? There's kids in the field. He turned, he's three and a half. I've never heard. This does the, this is the, we're forcing them into organized sports too early bit, right?

I mean, if you want it to be. Whatever, when we grew up, we'd just play games together and we'd come up with something. Yeah, I'm not sure there's a lot of three-year-olds that are just kind of like making friends in the neighborhood. Riding their bikes. A couple cigarettes. It's just exercise. Latchkey kids. So, yeah, then we didn't have soccer.

which is a bummer because of the weather. But I did end up going to the washed circling back meetup. Our friends at the Circling Back podcast down in Austin had a Dallas meetup at the truck yard over on Greenville. And I went. And the rain was actually nice, I think, because it eliminated anybody who would have been going there for just to go. so it was like just people who were in their fan group and quite a bit of crossover I met a bunch of dumb zone listeners I met a dumb zone listener who was there with a girl a lady who was a circling back listener like they were dating or on a date he didn't listen to

their show she didn't listen to our show but it just so happened so I met a bunch of dumb zone listeners it was a good time it was fun um But yeah. Stopped on the way home and had, have you guys ever had rolled ice cream? Yes. I've seen it. Like stir. I think it's like almost like stir fried kind of.

It's like they. Yeah, they lay it out in liquid form on the slab. Yeah. And then they mix in all your mixings. And then, yeah, use a spatula thing to kind of roll it up and then put it in a cup. Is that just like the marble slab place? It's a little different. It's different.

Different in that... Like, how can we charge seven times what this shit costs? It wasn't. It did scoop and drop. It wasn't. It's just Asian. What was the other thing? Stop saying Risi.

They freeze it right in front of you? Yeah. That's what this is. Oh, it's the same thing? Sort of. This is like an Indian or Thai thing. Because I got it. As I've told you guys, dude, listen.

Maybe I'll go. Listen to me right now. Wow, it does look different. I've never seen those. My weekend. eating habits right now, Greg Abbott would deport me if he saw what I'm messing with on the weekend. Like, every time I'm driving back through Dallas, I stop at the halal place and I go into the

ice cream place next door. Here's the crazy thing about it where you realize that not even at the gas station. There's 15 people in this ice cream place. They're all on the phone. At the ice cream place. Yeah. Always talking. It's a lively spot, but I'm just saying.

Talking to the person at the guest. Maybe or to each other. I'm not sure. But yeah, the rolled ice cream was an interesting bit. Yeah, why don't I hand it off to Blake at this point? I had a big weekend, and if that reminds you of anyone, I'll step aside, but if not, I'll plow forward. I had read, I don't know. I don't know.

Oh, that. If not, then I'll just tell you my Friday evening was spent getting the broadcast ready for Argyll to play in the state championship game on Saturday in San Antonio. Yeah. And so I had to do my normal prep, but I also had to do this because the UIL, while they're also bad at geography, they also don't really care about local radio broadcasts. The parents, the grandparents, the cousins, the extended family that want to listen. Well, you're capped.

We only have a room for two at the broadcast table. Awful. And we have three people that have been doing every game. and so I was not going to tell my stats guy, Seth, that he couldn't come down. So instead on Friday... That would be ridiculous. Come on. To leave Seth out of them.

He's a leader, though. Where we go one, we go all, right, Clayton? I'm putting my foot down on the UIL here. So facetious. Blake, I'm with you. I'm with Blake. That's absolutely absurd. You'll figure it out.

For any... For any... Dan's just eating the media food. Suck, Seth. Kicks the door shut I'd have been telling Jackie Robinson The other hotel is very similar It's fine

I'm okay First off the helicopter last on So I had to make a drive to Arlington I was going to get some wireless gear And while Seth couldn't sit at the table with us I set him up from the stands Nice

Okay A little letterman like bit That's great So was he somehow transmitting his stats to you He's just texting you everything So I had a little bag ready with a portable generator. Did you have to buy him a ticket? Yeah.

Look at that. Do you write it off? Yes. Yeah. As you should. Portable generator, a talkback box, wireless transmitter and receiver. Portable generate. Oh my gosh.

Okay, this wasn't just a text. No. You had him in your ear. Yes. Wow. That's amazing. And knowing that he would be, the crowd would be a little loud, I had a little button, a little push to talk button.

That's great. Push it, three bound. Wrigley Green grabs her sixth rebound in the game Wrigley Green That's great She's a well Yeah So anyway

That's incredible So we were ready And then that means How can we use this setup? I feel like this just opened up a lot for us I don't know It's wireless We can do whatever

Interesting Anyway Went down to San Antonio 600 mile drive that I did right off It was a very Texan way down and back We stopped at Bucky's three times. We stopped to Slovichicks. Nice.

Big debate last week on Twitter. Yes, check stop or Slovah checks. This one was different, actually. It was the what do you call it? That was not a, that's not a real thing. No. It's a Kalachi. Yeah.

Is it? That was a debate. A Kalachi, by actual definition, right, would have like the little fruit, fruit filling in a pastry. And the sauce is. droll is the other thing. Yeah. Klobeznik.

Klobisnick. But we just started calling it a Kalachi den. So now it's one thing. It's like impanadas. There's five different types of impanadas. Tamales are sweet tamales. We just call them what they are. No, yeah, but there was a different...

Anyways. Anyway, sorry, Blake. Stopped at Bucke's and obviously pristine bathrooms. I did not know that they offered dude-wise. In the bathroom? In the stalls. That would have been shocking to you a year ago when you thought that dude wipes were only used for post-sex wiping. Yeah.

He walks into a buckies. He's like, what are people doing in here? His bathrooms are clean, but they still keep it so clean. Did they have the little zip-up, zip-lock bags as well for you on your road trip? No, I have those in my car. Ready to go. Did not need one. But I almost did.

Here, Seth, hold this. Hang on. Tots it out the window. Use the dude wipes. Not bad. Not a bad experience. Yeah, man. They may have a new customer.

Argyll one state. That was fun. You had to call a state championship. That's awesome. Last two times we had gone down there, we lost. So it was good to bring one home. So that was your first state championship that you have called in any sport? No.

No. Okay. Number nine. What? Yeah, he's done. We've carried one of them before. Okay, my bad. Wow.

You as the play-by-play guy have done nine? Been a part of the broadcast for nine. I probably play-by-play for five. Okay. Damn. Wow. So they had a run through 2014 to 2020 where they made it every year. They won five out of seven.

And, you know, I started this segment by complaining about the UIL. But if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be calling the game. Because they limit you to two. credentials. And as the guy, the only guy that knew how to set up the equipment, that's when I started doing games. I see. So then I slid over to play by play just to try to work on stuff. And here we are. But yeah, that day was leaving the house at 6 a.m. back home at 9.30. And well worth it. You guys want to hear the game winning call? Of course. I heard this live. Sure. Don't. Electric. And this is back to a nine point lead for Argyll. Clock down to five.

Barbersill ball right side. Roberson, long floater from two. off the hill iron, no good. Green with the rebound, and the buzzer sound from Citonio. Argyll has captured their seventh state title in their school history with a 51, 42 victory over Barbers Hill. I was going to let the scene play out. Got to let it play out. Because he's going to be on the DVD set. Little layout, professional layout. That's right.

And I give you credit, Blake. And again, this serious, not sarcastic. It was anticlimactic at the end. The other team is playing the foul game, and yet you still had the energy to deliver that final call in that moment. Thank you. Well done. Yes.

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We're breaking it down. We're looking at the Argyle Lady Eagles this weekend. Eagles versus Eagles. Wow. We are to understand. That rare mascot matchup. That hampered me. Who do we play?

You've got to say the school every time. Every single time. I know. It is tough, but you have to do it. Who do we play? Barbers Hill. Barbers Hill. The Hill, as they are referred to, came into the game on a 31 game winning street.

Wow. How could Argyle top that? And if you're tuned into this game, you are on the edge of your seat. When you are tuned in to an Argyle Lady Eagles broadcast, you're like, and then if you've ever watched, like, let's say, Blue Star Network product, you're like, I think that Lady Eagle. is a better production. And here we go to, this is how they introduce the players on the Argyle Lady Eagles broadcast.

Here is the state championship edition of the starting five for the Argyll Lady Eagles. As the clock runs with four seconds and Memorial is going to dribble it out. And the horn sounds here from Flower Mountain as Argyll advances to the state championship game with a 52-41 victory over Friscoe Memorial.

Chance Westmoreman, head coach. And this is my starting five. Left side, Fess, pump fakes. Now to Earhart in the corner who drives baseline all the way to the opposite. Block reversely, it falls in. Lexi Earhart's got an early four, and Argyll back on top at 12-8. Lexi Earhart, number 20, junior point guard. Vest from the corner, she's got it.

So he does this for every player. This is like the TV broadcast where they just introduced themselves. As the Lady Eagles lead 2313. Keensley Vest number two. I'm saying it's awesome. It's incredible. I've never heard that anywhere. The problem I have with listening to Blake is I want to roll in here with like 50 cuts.

Like we make fun of, you know. The advertisers. We can't mention them. Any other broadcast crew. Sure. Right. But I can't. I can't come in to making fun of him because he does a solid job.

Now, I don't know if this is an Easter egg for us. but he did something that is very Bradsham-like. And it didn't even happen till an hour and a half into the broadcast. Emma King on the afternoon, six of eight from the free throw line. Emma King, MVP, by the way. Putting her name in the hat for MVP if our guy goes on to win this title. The King's first free throw is good. And you may ask, how good can Emma King be?

Well, Chance Westmore says the best post in the region. You know, Emma's a special player. You know, last year, I knew group with North Town. You know, she just drops a cut. Dropping cuts in there. Only one cut in all the whole game, but it was dropped right there is weird. Now, you did not do the Brad Sham. I'm going to pretend I'm talking to him.

I don't like doing that. Yeah, so, Coach Westmoreland. How good is Emma? Isn't that? Live from the bench. What do you think? Isn't that the case? One thing pissed me off.

Oh, no. One thing about the broadcast pissed me off. It's when they. go to break, they're heading from the third to the fourth quarter, the all-important fourth quarter. And this is the first spot I hear. When Argyle Eagles hit the court, every play counts. And when injuries happen, orthopedic associates is here to keep you in the game. Orthopedic Associates has two convenient locations.

Do you know why I'm mad? Well, it could be one of a couple reasons. You feel that you should have been asked to record some ads. Because he obviously asked Christina, someone he knows. But also the idea that anybody is doing ads for anything orthopedic related other than Blake is broadcast Harris. This should be the spot in perpetuity. Since 1976, orthopedic associates has provided all-inclusive orthopedic services and expertise to Flower Mountain Louisville. With eight board certified physicians and orthopedic specialties, orthopedic associates offers a full spectrum of musculoskeletal care,

while with in-house physical therapy and state-of-the-art technology, including our digital imaging and digital imaging and open MRI and an on-site surgical center for more patient convenience. All this in one facility, along with on-call availability, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, enables continuity of care close-down. You know what? Let's do a new Mona Lisa this year. Let's just have a, what if we have another Mount Rushmore over? No, no, no, no.

They build one piece of greatness, and that is the piece of greatness. But a couple of dumb zone listeners. stopped me at a North Texas game. I had the game for ESPN, and they said, man, you got to work in musculoskeletal at some point. And so it's on the list. Nice. Don't know when.

I have one more cut for you, but I do want to say, yes, Emma King dominated. I couldn't tell throughout the game. Is it coach Westmoreland or Wes Morland? It's Chance Westmoreland. No, I think it's Wes. More like, have you seen Keithmoreland? That's the guitarist of Limp Biscuit.

Base, right? Borland. No, he could tell us. West Borland. This got tough in the second. The base has died, didn't he? I think so. The lead was cut to four.

But yes, then they pulled away later. I thought this was interesting. Blake on the broadcast, thank the officials for donating their time. They're not getting paid? They are, but we're in a ref shortage, especially in high school sports. We are?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. The whole Iran thing? Either that or Kelsey thing. The Epstein thing, too. Raising gas prices. Yeah, they bombed a whole building full of officials, yes. They only let, since the UAL will only let, like, two refs in for the championship round.

They get no love. Let's shout them out. It's been a deal for at least like the last 10 years. But also, they're not donating their time. So those ones who were there were working. Like I said, Blake is not really doing bits. He's just doing solid. I was even thinking about this after I listened to this game.

Like, remember when we filled in? we got to do color commentator with Blake. Oh yeah, yeah. I did, yes. I felt really, like I wanted to just do bits, but I felt here's a guy who's real serious about this, so I don't want to do bits. But then if I'm on here not doing bits,

then it's just stupid. And so... You're thinking about the parents a little bit? Yeah. Right, right. Like so I didn't know. Anyway, he doesn't really do bits, except he thought he'd slip.

this one pass me. This was the one bit I noticed. Do you know what it is even? No idea. Because you don't really do bits, right? No. I felt like this was a bit. Okay.

It's Roberson against Murphy in the isolation game at the top. Drives, kicks to the left wing to Dumpy. Dumpy, now right side. Lecomp, long three from the top is short. Lacky with the offensive board and putback. Five points for J.C. Lackey, as Barbara Hill now trails by just six at 32. Quickly back the other way.

Earhart to Jernigan in the corner. IFA! For three, Nails the quarter three. Time out Argyle. We have a girl named Eiffa? Yeah. For three,fa? Heck yeah.

That's just having fun with it. I support that. I love that. Yeah, that's just... I an eagle would do that. I support this. Thank you. Good work, Blake.

Thanks. I enjoyed it. We won it. That's what my Saturday was listening to Blake. And then I didn't have to drive six hours back. Sunday I'll speed this up. A little Shalom softball split. And after softball is when I tend to look at the week, check the calendar, and make sure all of our ducks are in the row.

And had this not been on the calendar, I wouldn't have known. It was my seventh wedding anniversary. Sunday? Sunday. And you didn't know until when? No idea. Until I looked at the calendar on the way home. On the way home from softball?

Yeah. Wow. That's when I began looking at the week ahead. You could have dedicated some bombs to her. I texted her. She's at work all weekend. I wouldn't see her until 9 o'clock that night. But I, sorry, happy anniversary.

She said, oh, yeah, happy anniversary. Okay, awesome. Yeah, she didn't say anything to you. And that's when I knew I did good. Dude. Yeah. If she's also not going to be concerned with that? Yeah.

I got a new phone. Remember when getting a new phone was fun? Do you feel it's not anymore? No, it sucks. Why? I could restore the backup and essentially have the same phone I had but on a new, I guess, device. Yeah. That's no fun.

So I wanted to start from scratch and then you got to download all the apps that you use. You got to log into all the apps you use. You got to add all of your email accounts. So you did not do the download. You're doing it manually. Of course it's a beating. But that's the only way it felt like a new phone. I wanted a new layout.

I wanted a new home screen. I wanted it to feel different. What is worse? This is a piss bag. I like that idea. I like the idea. You just can't also complain about it. Why don't we have an easy option?

I want this to be totally new and exactly like what I had before. You put one phone next to the other. What's the answer? It's horrible. I think the answer is you deal with it. Anyway. Are you raw dogging? Or is that you got a clear kid.

but I just thought it'd be more fun and then it's just not. What happened to our phones? And then final thing, Jake wanted an update a week in, I guess a week and a half in, of how my second wife is going. What are you referring to?

Yeah, what is this? His sister-in-law. Oh, yeah. My wife's sister-in-law is in town. Has she gotten stuck in the dishwasher yet? The housewife. She's in from, England. She's going to be staying with us for three weeks. We're now about halfway done.

We're a week and a half in. And I don't ever want her to leave. It's been amazing. Yeah. She, I've noted my wife, not the best of cleaning up after herself. New wife is great about it. She'll clean up after her. And me. Takes the trash out, does the laundry, does the dishes. And this weekend when I was kind of all over the place, she watched Benny, did need help from My parents watched him a little bit on Saturday, but, hey, I'm leaving for softball. I'll be back at 11. Okay.

Have a good time. It's been amazing. When my wife got home Saturday, we had a soda can explode in our fridge. And when my wife got home, everything was out of the fridge. There she was with a sponge cleaning the interior of our fridge. She noted what was expired and what was about to expire, put everything back in there. And even my wife that night said, okay, I get it. I get why a guy would want a second wife.

Because even she's enjoying it. She's not having a fake do dishes. She doesn't think she's being replaced ever. No. Just the idea that we'd bring on a supplemental. A little extra help. Wow. I think we're all hard.

Oh. Yeah. I've been hard. Just hearing that, yeah. Now, does she have an accent? Yeah, honey, that's definitely what it is. That's why every guy does it. That's why every guy gets another.

It's because they like to have their house clean. Just a little extra help. around the house. That's all. Totally it, man. I love whenever chicks clean my house, two at a time. It's the best. If I can get more than that, it's even better. I love it.

Maybe they cook together. And then last thing, Dan, I got you something for your birthday. Kenneth Walker is signed with the Chiefs. Wow. Damn. I don't know if the depth is right, but I have another hat to add your collection over there. Oh, cool. Thanks.

You just turned off the weekend check move. Oh, thank you. Why? Why? I saw it on my timeline and thought Dan needs this. Wow. Is that the leprechaun? Yeah.

Okay, wow, because someone else asked me if they should buy you that. Somebody else. Sure. In our orbit. And you said yes? It's a corduroy. It's a corduroy hat. I was like, he'll wear it.

So fancy. And the rope, too. Yeah, rope hat. Green corduroy rope. The Riz level has now gone to 15. You could do a murder. You got to wear it. God.

Don't stop it. Speeding. That's a great hat. Wow. Yep. I know him. Dead. R.P.

Oh, yeah. The leprechaun died. We did confirm that, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, as much as Epstein was confirmed, right? Yeah. Local man, the lepriccar from Mobile, Alabama, has been spotted in Tel Aviv, Israel. Playing Call of Duty.

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Many things we could get into. I did listen to almost the entire presidential roundtable on college sports. Oh, you did? I had that marked, but there's not much to it. It seemed ridiculous. It is ridiculous. Everything there was ridiculous. Like they all, it was like if you got, you.

your dad and his friends together. And you said, all right, let's talk about college sports. Tell me your ideas. I want to be the way it was. And I feel him on that. I want it to be the way it was. It seemed a simpler time. I like when Tech played Texas.

Yeah. I like when, yes, the college from the state next to you is like your rival. And you don't have to travel that much. I like that a lot. Progress is messy, I guess. But then, yeah, I don't, so I don't like that part of it. Of course, do players get paid too much? Maybe.

Well, that's a question for the market and who's going to regulate the market. Trump hates it, though. I will tell you that. Because he spoke for about the first 15 minutes, and he kept coming back to this. Maybe pay for each player. Not such crazy pay, but just pay for each. play with every player, maybe the quarterback and the third string lineman making the same,

but you're going to tell us about it. We're going to try and get it past. Our goal is not to go back to the days where student athletes were never allowed to receive any compensation, although not the worst idea, but I think a lot of people would overrule me on that. But we must pass reforms. He can't get away from it. He knows they're there to talk about, like, God, we've got to pay him.

The Supreme Court, it's going to be tough. have to get around and he's like although you know this kind of was a better situation but the thing that made headlines from this was uh this is just so funny dude they take questions at the end right and some guy who i gather from following up is a bit of a right wing reporter he's a right wing commentator so there's photos of him with the president but trump meets a million of these people you know so is that hum me i don't know yet let's let's take this out see what it does what about now still there that's weird oh well uh this guy decides to ask a question uh and it doesn't go well thank you mr president my question is for eligibility as you know my son joe is a high-level

D1 athlete third year relief pitcher University of Maryland. Okay, you got that? As you know, my son Joe is a high level prospect, third year relief pitcher at the university. As a ability. As you know, my son, Joe is a high level D1 athlete, third year relief pitcher, University of Maryland. How would I know that? He said, oh, you know, I didn't even know who the guy is. That's all right. Okay. And now, and now, and now, Now, this is where the visual is really tough. Once Trump has done clowning. He said, as you know, I didn't even know who the guy is.

That's all right. Now the guy's going to continue his question. But Trump does what I think is, man, got to be one of the most disrespectful things I've ever seen somebody do. I'm going to let you talk out there in the crowd. But while you do, I'm just going to talk to this guy next to me. I'm just going to talk to this guy next to me up here. So while he's still asking his question. Yeah.

So he's not even paying attention. He's checked out. As you know. Is it a disaster in the NCAA? You have... He's not even paying attention at all. He just lets the guy talk. How am I supposed to know?

High-level D-1 athletes, but you also say he's a reliever in college baseball. In his third year. So would that be... I guess you're a D-1 athlete, that is high-level. Right, among the population. But if you're now saying high-level D-1-ath... Now I'm thinking, oh, you're one of the better D1 athletes, whereas...

Oh, you mean the spare with a 5.7? He should have been cut. Like he knows, but he ducks on him. Now, a lot of NFL news, man. A lot of NFL news, as I just said, Kenneth Walker to the Chiefs, is their never-ending quest for viable running back play continues. Dude, that's... What's the number?

I haven't seen it yet. But what did... Javante came in at a little over eight, right? Mm-hmm. And that's why. Three year it is. Three year deal, 43 million, 28.7 fully guaranteed. That's a lot of money for a running back, man.

Yes. It's a whole lot of money. Super Bowl MVP money. At that position. Wow. Has a Super Bowl MVP ever left that off season? Larry Brown, right? Or did he come back for a year?

I feel like Larry Brown was gone. That very off season? Yeah. If not then, it was pretty quick. Yeah, but then from the Cowboys standpoint, they miss out on Max Crosby. The Ravens. The thing on Max Crosby and the Ravens and the Cowboys being involved, were the Cowboys really involved?

Or was that one of those things where the Cowboys were brought into it because that really makes headlines and they were used to drive the price up? Well, I don't know. I mean, they went out and got Rashon Gary this morning. They obviously have a need for pass rush. Sean Gary, that seems like a terrible acquisition. It's not a headline acquisition. It's a rotation player.

I thought he was on the cusp of being released by the Packers. I think he thought he was being released. He posted that and I'm sure the Packers were if the Cowboys didn't give up a fourth round pick to get him. He said he was hacked. Okay. Well, it was a full graphic and everything. He hacked it. Somebody hacked that I was getting cut.

I hate when that happens, man. So, yeah, I just, I was very underwhelmed by that acquisition. No, but I just mean that they are obviously still, they're looking to bring pass rush help in. I think Sam Williams is probably done, yeah, by all indications. Jadavion Clowny, I'd love to have him back. Why is Sam Williams done? He's free.

Oh, they just don't want any part in Sam Williams? anymore? I wouldn't think so. And why it seemed like Clowny was great and everybody loved him when he left and then they brought in the new D.C. and they're like, I don't know. I don't know if we need Clowny. That's what they say. I mean, I guess I'm out of the loop

because I hear Christian Parker talk about a 3-4 and I just feel like nobody's doing 3-4-4-3 enough to actually say you're a 3-4 anymore. Well, I thought in his initial press conference it was we're going to be multiple. Like, obvious.

Everybody is all the time. But to the point where you would look at a player and say that guy doesn't work here because of this scheme, I don't know. I just don't get that in the NFL as much. I thought the good coaches are like, I'll make good players work in my whatever scheme. And to me, Clownie would be, he was awesome. And also they say, now maybe this has been mitigated some by the full year of Quinn and Williams, maybe overshone. but they said clowning basically became the leader of the defense halfway through the year. So I would have thought he, I would think he'd be back.

Maybe he will be. Think about that defense. So they let DeMarcus Lawrence walk. That's who I think Rishon Gary is about on par with right now. It's like if you got D-Law back. He's like, fine. He's a rotation player. As good as DeMarcus Lawrence?

DeMarcus Lawrence of like now. DeMarcus Lawrence was a part of that defense this year, right? I mean, but they had a ton of guys. I think Rishon Gary can be part of a group of guys. I'll take this for a fourth round pick over Jonathan Mingo or Trey Lance. For sure. These are guys who can, they will play on the field. Okay.

I mean, yeah, he's not a superstar, Dan, at all. I remember going into the Packers. Right, that's right. He was, 20 million, 20 million guys? Yeah, the contract, right. But it's the fifth year option. Right. Oh, they extend, because, you know, they extended him to 20, it's 24.

isn't it, but it's about to be one of the particulars of his deal. If only, I know he's about done. Look that up. Yeah, he's got another, he's got this year and another at 18. There you go. Seems pretty high. It is very high. They're not done.

I know they keep saying that, and that means there's going to be a draft. It's going to be a draft, but also it means like Kenny Clark might not be here. You know, they've got a lot of... Oh, wow. How would that work? I feel like there's a 100% chance Kenny Clark is here because he was involved in the Micah Trade and because Jerry couldn't see cutting him in the offseason.

Well, maybe, but they say that the offer for Max Crosby was a first, a second, and OSHA. So I'm just saying if they're looking to involve players, I think it's work in progress here probably. Do you think they should have gone up to two firsts? No. I think that's probably a little much. I'm a big fan of the guy.

What about Trey Hendrickson? No. What about him just on a huge contract? You don't have to give up any picks. That you can sell me on. Like, what did, didn't Khalil Mack just sign like a one-year, $18 million or something? I love those deals.

Like Vaughn Miller, I think, did a little bit of that at the end of his career. I think Von Miller's still out there looking for a place. Do you want some Vaughn Miller? Not really at this point, but... How about the Tua release? $99 million cap hit. Yeah, they're doing a post-June 1st, which means they can cut that in half, you know, for two years.

But still, I would just rather have nothing, or I would rather have $99 million to pay than have you on my team anymore. What an amazing story at halftime of the national championship game. I remember like it was yesterday, dude. Do you really? Yeah, it was one of those college football moments where I will never forget that. We were tanking for Tua.

You know, I mean, Tua was the greatest next thing. Mike McDaniel, we got fired up about that. And now... When got Tarek, gave him arguably, depends on how you look at it, the richest wide receiver contract ever. What's his situation? I don't know, right? I mean, at the end of the year last year,

he definitely seemed to be doing the Magic Johnson. I'm not going to be here, but I'm pretty sure he's under contract. Would you want three, $30 million wide receivers on your offense? No, I wouldn't. I don't think that I would. The Crosby thing real quick that was interesting, to me was the Ravens have never done this.

They have never traded a first round pick, right? For a veteran player. Wow. For anything? For 30 years. Yeah. There you go.

So yeah. I guess they probably, they might have moved a first in draft maybe, but for a veteran player, never. Uh, I love it. I can't really back this up with data, but it feels like the NFL is seeing a little bit more of the NBAification of guys at certain points in their careers moving on to ring chase a little bit.

Oh, huge. I like that. I mean, I guess it started with quarterbacks a few years ago, but it does seem like it's a little bit extended. I guess guys have always kind of done that a little bit, right? Demarcus Ware. Would you call that a ring chase or he was just looking for anywhere to go? Yeah, but it just seems like it's picked up a little bit.

Because it didn't seem like a real ring chase when DeMarcus Lawrence said he went to Seattle because he knew he couldn't win a Super Bowl in Dallas. It just seemed like, well, Seattle was the only team that was signing him for more than Dallas would offer. Dude, I mean, we talked about it. They had... No one was ever... Seattle had like the ninth longest or eighth longest odds in the conference. It wasn't...

That was not a ring chase. It's not like going to the Rams. Like on a one... Yeah, on a below-market value deal. Yeah. The big story of the weekend also involves the Cowboys, and you didn't even mention it. Dak Prescott and his fiancé call off their wedding. TMZ reported this.

Merely hours after TMZ kind of posted, I guess, a picture which was posted by Dax's fiancé, ex-fiance, which was the wives and girlfriends at the bachelorette party. Did you see that? I did. I did. I did not see Jen. Aubrey? pregnant Jen Aubrey.

But I saw a bunch of other ladies in bikinis. Like 20 lady, 20, 30 women, 40? I don't know. I mean, I know that however many they are, he's paying for all of it. Yeah, he's, it was a huge bachelorette party and a, okay, so on the gossip sites. Hot goss. I'm dance favorites. What appears to be the case here is that they had dual Bachelor at and Bachelor parties

in the same area. Is that a good idea? I think it's pretty gay. Yeah, I've done it before and it does. It is not. I would not recommend it. What do you mean you've done it? What was the scene?

Like they mingle then? Yeah. The parties are out at the... That's so lame. Different places. Then they go to mingle. It's not a... separate again?

Go do your own thing. It sucked. Yeah. So they both had their own boats or something? In Dax's case, I have no idea. In this case, we were all in a city together at the same time. I've actually done it twice. Once in Denver, once in New Orleans.

It sucks. Well, anyway, so the rumor is that Dack has been pushing for the pre-nup. And then it all kind of came to a head. into a massive screaming match on a yacht this past weekend. Dude, I want to get into screaming match on a yacht. I love that. So, succession. Yeah.

I mean, okay. What if you did make $240 million? Is this more of a, don't look at this particular situation, but just look at the whole situation of, marriage and legality and what everybody accounts for in the end and go off like certainly if you are you know you would have these stories i don't know if basos or or bill gates falls into this but it's the uh the woman who you know i was supporting you while you were in the garage messing around with this company that wasn't doing anything and i was uh paying for your insurance with my uh job and

blah, blah, blah, but then it all kind of worked out. And you almost couldn't have done that without my support. And really, that's why I were to get. But what if you just start dating and you're a pro athlete and you're paid a ton of money because you're really great pro athlete? And it's not. Yeah. Well, here's where things get complicated is Dak is he doesn't have a vagina or a uterus.

so he is unable to produce children, and she is. So even though they didn't meet until after he was already $240 million famous, she caught some of his semen. So he's on the hood. That's what I'm talking about. This should be a bigger topic then on how that is dealt with, right? Well, I think in Texas there is like a cap. I don't know this for sure.

It might be like on your third kid or something. Oh, child support. I learned way too much about this this weekend because there's apparently like, there's a shocking number of accounts on social media that are kind of like, oh, no, I can give you a breakdown on how this works, like, that know how athletes get out of paying for things.

Okay. So I guess in Texas there is like a cap at a certain number and after a certain number of kids. Who knows, but. But I mean, you're going to have to pay. In theory, they were a great couple. Everything was fine. They had a couple of kids.

They just weren't married. But once you say, well, now we're going to get married, well, then it turns into a contractual situation. And now there are issues. And they, like, just the specter of marriage made them say, now that's just too much. But if they just had stayed together, they would just be together and everything's fine, I don't know.

Well, I mean, the obvious thing here is that the, woman knows that the man has a lot of options and can do whatever he wants. And so she wants the security of not having to just take it if he decides he wants to nail every other chick that moves. So that's why she needs this sign. She has no leverage. So he even tore down his old house and built a new one in the exact same spot. All I could think about it.

It's the wildest. All I could think about. She made him do that. Because she didn't want to live in a place and have, you know... Cooties in there. Intimate relations where someone else had been in that same space. With her man. Yeah.

She made him hire Dude Perfect. Come over and tear down his house. Rage Monster. Is Dude Perfect... Do you think Tyler is the godfather? Like, if anything does happen to Dak and his lady? I would not be shocked if Dude Perfect's at the wedding. If Dude Perfect took...

Or they would have been. I know one thing. I bet you he texted Dak immediately. Dude, I'm so sorry if you need anyone to talk to. I'm here for you, bro. Stay strong. Also, this is not, dude, perfect is not one person. It's not like run die hard, run.

Yes, they are. Was Shottie involved? Shottie's best friends with Jack, isn't he? Betty was. There's no way. He called Dak. Listen, you need to clean that up. Shottie thinks.

He puts himself out as if he's best friends of Dad. Dack is like Shooter McGavin and the guy who wants to be. wants to meet him at Red Lobster. Like, yeah, yeah, Shottie, sure. We'll call you if we do anything, bud. What did Shottie say to him? I'm there for you. A lot of fish in the sea.

No, Shottie's less of a lot of fish in the sea guy than, you know, you both can just, you both made each other better and it's on to a new chapter. Time to get to work. Positive. Whatever you need from, whatever you need from me. I'm there for you, bro. We certainly had overworked Twitter jokes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Hit me. I guess he got too close to a ring. Ha, yeah. He was uncomfortable being too close to a ring. Funny. Straight out of the DAC playbook. The clutch moment slips away. Nice.

Okay. I'm sure we'll talk NFL all week because there's going to be a bunch of deals coming in. But I had one more football note that I wanted to make sure you guys were aware of. You may recall that some. months ago, I told you the story of Las Vegas Raiders owner, Fox 4 lead color analyst, Tom Brady, and his involvement with the Fanatics Flag Football League. It's going to be a tournament that, a flag football tournament, that Fanatics, which is the company that I'm pretty sure is somehow a CIA or Mossad, Sciop front. I don't trust the guy who.

runs it. Michael Rubin, he's the one who has that white party every year where all the athletes are there on Instagram and it's fucking weird, dude. Something strange is going on. But he is having fanatics, the gear company is putting on this flag football tournament. They have a bunch of current players. They have a bunch of former players. And it's scheduled to be in Saudi Arabia. Or it was. Oh, no. On account of the war. the March 21st flag football tournament will now be held in Los Angeles, the same site that will host the 28th, 28 flag football Olympic event. But it's this month, I'm 100% going to watch it.

There's three teams playing. Who's televising it? Fox. Wow. Fox or Fox Sports. I'm not sure which one, but it'll be on. I reached, I had Blake reach out to the Team USA quarterback that we had on, before because he will be playing.

There are three teams playing round Robin. It's five on five, which is not even, that's almost a different game than like the flag I've played my whole life, but fives. Two teams comprised of former and NFL players,

current NFL players, or Brady's playing. All right. Yeah. Let me see if I can get the full roster for you. Now you got me. Mike is on. obviously out. I'm trying to see who else. Like would he have been in if he was not hurt? Yeah, I bet he would it because he's also a big fanatics guy. He thinks so. He's with, he's with Rubin all the time.

Brady and Hertz will captain one team, which will be coached by Sean Payton. Yeah, the other team is coached by Kyle Shanahan. Yes, Jaden Daniels and Joe Burrow captaining Wildcats FFC. So they have two teams made up of current and former NFL players, and the third team is Team USA, the current flag football team USA with that Hoosh guy that we had on as their quarterback. So I'm interested to see how it plays out. Also, you know, very funny that it's no longer in Saudi Arabia.

But your prediction is that Team USA will destroy those other teams. I don't know. I would honestly have to say if they're going to play a flag football, football format, they will kill them. That's what I think. But there may be some wonky rule changes to try to level the playing field, but yeah, I mean, what is Brady going to get outside the pocket and run? No. The dude who we had on is like 5-7.

Yeah. You know what I mean? He's a slot. He's a soccer player. So much like the LeBron, my theory that LeBron would win the Tour to France. if he actually started training for that when he was a kid, could if Kyler Murray wanted to be the best, Kyler Murray would destroy this guy then, right?

Yes. Okay. And several other NFL players, if training specifically for that probably could. But like, I don't know that Burroughs. Yeah, no, not every quarterback would be able to play quarterback in that league, but a certain. Right.

And in fact, more probably some wide receiver in the NFL is probably a better quarterback than anyone. This is going to be on Fox Sports and Tooby. And Tube. And Ted. It will be hosted. Yeah. By Kevin Hart. No way.

And Truski. Kevin Hart. When are we done with Kevin Hart? Let me tell you why you're not. Let me tell you the best chance. Let me tell you the best chance you have to be done with Kevin Hart, this fucking war. Because that guy is as back pocket of the kingdom is. He's made a ton of money over there.

He headlined that. comedy festival. You bring down the Saudis. You bring down Kevin Hart. We're not at war with the Saudis, are we? Well, no. No, but Iran is at war with them. They might have hit Saudi Aramco.

Iran denies it. I told you all I did. You're just reading the news for five hours at a time. What are you going to do? I saw a real good story, a baseball story. and in a weird way, it relates to Game Day Men's Health, so we can give them a quick plug. Did you get there Friday?

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meeting jerks and pro far when he was like an 18 year old child and at no point that I think this guy's gonna have a serious issue with PEDs like he was so very slight he was slight but very just almost meek he was a quiet guy yeah and he's just a royd freak when my wife had to work Royed Freak. Arlington nurse there. She had to give some

sterilizations to some over the seas players. She had to give shots to Omar and Mazar and Jerksson Profar.

Jerksson very afraid of needles. Interesting. To the point where it was like dealing with a child. They had to give him a sucker after.

Oh. He was the man who famously when asked about the water because he's from Curisal said water is for sharks and stuff.

Very childlike response. Yet out of the mouths of babes. No, they had a, so I read an article in, I guess it's the New York Times, but it's the Athletic. Do we have to say it's the New York Times,

make it sound better? No, I don't think anybody's asking you to. It's the athletic. Athletic's pretty kick-ass. But there was an article entitled, The Problem with MLB's drug policy isn't the testing, it's the contracts.

And the basic gist of this whole thing is that jerks and profile will lose his money this year. But he has a guaranteed contract through 2027. So he'll get paid $15 million next year no matter what. I mean, as long if he just stops doing the steroids, stops trying to, be the best player he can be, game day.dumzone.com. There's no rules against it in life. No. So, and the thought, who was the, who's the Padre?

Signed the big $300 million contract. He also missed a year. Tatis? Yeah. Yeah, he missed a year. The point is, so this, this writer who wrote this particular article said she, was with the covering the orals back in the day. And they said, or she was asking some of the guys, you know, why would these players that are getting busted,

why would you risk your career by using steroids? And they're saying, the risk, you're doing it to have a career. Because first of all, if you're a bubble player, of course, you want to make sure, like Jerks and Pro Farr was. let's make sure that I'm actually a good Major League player so I can get myself that contract. Once you get past arbitration, you know, you want to get that one contract. It's like the second contract in football. So if I can get me one of those contracts by using steroids, then we're good.

I just need one of the contracts. And he kept doing it so then he gets busted. Well, he can now just stop doing it, but he still was signed. to that contract under false pretenses. It worked. It did work. And so now he started using steroids. He got better.

He signs a three-year deal. He keeps using steroids because he's like, yeah, maybe I'll do. Oh, I got busted. I got busted again. All right, I'm going to lose one year of that three-year deal, but I'm still would never have had the three-year deal without using the steroids. And you've seen the big, big-time players do it, too. If you're a pretty good player,

I keep forgetting names, but the A's shortstop of the day, but got signed by the Yankees. You just see it time and time again. Guys who all of a sudden break out, they get a huge deal. How, didn't Gary Matthews Jr. do something similar here? Yes. Got himself a big deal. And then he just turned back into Gary Matthews Jr. pre-steroids. So what is this author suggesting we do about this?

Because it seems like the team is the only one really getting superiors. screwed. I mean, just because they were planning on having a guy who was going to play every day in their outfield, you know, you don't have to pay him, but still, it's March. Well, she says it's about the contracts, and now if it's about the contracts and you're dealing with Major League Baseball, you're going to have a very difficult time getting changes to those contracts. And maybe it could be you would have some kind of a right to void things if indeed you got busted for a season. long suspension. You would just get out of the, you would get out of the profile game now, right? Yeah, right.

You're losing for a whole year, and then next year, like, I got to pay him $15 million. Well, why should I? Like, he signed that contract under false pretenses. Yeah, and you've got to put somebody else in there from a developmental timeline standpoint. I mean, I'm as pro labor as it gets, but it's kind of surprising to me that a second drug suspension doesn't get your contract voided. Well, probably the level. I mean, the whole history of the MLBPA versus the owners probably is getting in the way, too, even if you go back to the steroid history, when they had assured us that all these, you know, the Mitchell report, you know, the findings.

This is going to be totally anonymous. Anonymous. Did I say that word wrong? Amominious? Anyway. Ammon. See anemone. Anemone.

If you remember, the White Sox refused to do any of the testing. and that made me think, oh, Frank Thomas and all those guys, they might be juiced up and they just don't want anyone to ever know it. They claimed it was because they didn't believe that these names would never be released. And guess who was right, them? And guess who's in the Hall of Fame, Frank Thomas? Because you've never been. No ammo. You might have had some thoughts about it, but, yeah, there's no ammunition there.

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Is this a shortened word? Yeah. Can I play mine instead? Why, do you got a better one? I do. Well, I have the same one, but better cut? Yeah. Okay.

Because it turns out. Did you find the full? I record everything, Dan, including every golf tournament. Great, yeah, I thought with golf. Awesome. Yeah. This is Ted. And I have golf story for you.

Ted's Mr. Golf. Okay, so there's an extra little piece in here of a shortened word is former professional golfer Brad Faxon. Is he a commentator? Yes. Okay. Also a prominent putting coach for a lot of players on tour, but yes, he does commentary. Interesting. Well, because he's got a, it's an easy one, but he's got a nickname too.

So before we throw it over, Brad Faxon. Can you guess? Faxie. Just facts. Yeah. Fax. Fax. You got to pull me up.

Yeah. Am I? Okay. Let's see if it works. By the way, facts, speaking of Rory and the player. Yeah, just right out of the game. Fax.

By the way, facts, speaking of Rory and the players, I know he had to withdraw up with a bad back this week. You have any kind of update on Rory at all? Well, you know, he lives down at Jupiter from here, drove home last night, or after the injury, two and a half hours,

had some treatment yesterday, taking some anti-inflams and No way, dude That's a new one. That's good. It's so casual. So casual. Maybe around anti-bys, anti-bis.

Anti-inflams. After the injury, two and a half hours, had some treatment yesterday, taking some anti-inflams and, Boo. Thanks, facts. For the win. Thanks, facts.

Oh, my God. I was just sitting at the gate, flying from Charlotte to Birmingham for a game last week. And a guy comes up to me, and he says, what do you drive with? What? What driver do you use?

Oh, I'm sorry. What? Well, I just saw the logo on your hat. I just thought, man, I could get a driver wreck. Oh. And so... You had the PGA tour? What is that logo?

That's the master's logo. That's where I wore this hat today to tell this story to you guys. So he... What drive... I was trying to get a driver wreck from you. And so then I had to explain, like, well, I've just kind of gotten into the game. I really don't know equipment really well. he's like, man, I bought the new

Pink QI 35, it's garbage. Oh, yeah. It sucks. He's not a hat. It just thought you could, I thought you could help me out. I thought you could help me out. So I look up this driver. It's a $600 driver.

Retail price. It's crap. It's garbage. I just don't know. It's like, I was like Cleveland. I really don't know much about it. You know, I try to hit it straight right now. That's what I'm focusing on. Ranger at the airport.

Is Big Bertha still a thing? Not really. Is that why you're... Blake, what do you use? When I used to golf, uh, Cobra was good. Bryce had made Cobra is pretty popular.

Of course. I just, I might be golf poser. I don't know. Yeah, that's the thing. If you wear the hat, you're kind of, you might be asking for it is the problem. Well, and that's, that's the deal. You go to cover some of these tournaments.

Like, that's everybody wearing, that kind of gear. I mean, they can just talk to each other. But when you're in the wild, I guess you've got to be prepared for that. Sometimes I love that, though. I mean, it's why I stopped wearing... Bit clothing. Yeah, logos on a T-shirt for sure because it'd be like, oh, you went to Oklahoma?

Where did you... No, no, no, I just went... Yes, I went there once and I got a shirt. I like Baker. Or are you a streamer? No, it's a Twitch jacket. I like it when I wear my J.K. Dobbins shirt, because I love talking. about it in the story.

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Don't forget your audio. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. That's okay. Then I'm going to tell this story real quick right here too since Ted is here. My wife sent me a story on Saturday while I was at the Washington. meetup breaking mavericks legend and long-time broadcaster mark follow will move fans to tears after emotionally revealing that he's been diagnosed with throat cancer admitting the 26th season

could potentially be his blah blah blah there's a link the announcement has sent waves to the NBA community it's got a picture of follow well I'm standing there with David roe David rough I was like what the what I search on Twitter there's nothing nothing nothing I'm like you're old well wait wait I don't know, but then I brought it up off the air, and Ted was like, yeah, this has been happening. This is a thing right now with local broadcasters where people are getting ball sacked. Craig Way, down in Austin, the longtime radio voice of the Texas Longhorns. Some post made the rounds on Facebook. Craig Way battling a grave illness and he'll have to step away from the mic after 26 seasons.

What a weird thing to... So this is a Facebook thing? Yes. Okay. Yeah, during football season, Jane Slater died. On Facebook? Oh, wow, I didn't see that. A couple years ago, my mother-in-law went like a whole day convinced the Rock was dead.

A sad day. I know. Better than somebody posing as the Rock getting in the DMs asking for money. Right. Which we've also seen. She does live in Northridge Hills, which is apparently a hotbed for that. I got to get on Facebook more. And then the other thing I wanted to talk about because it was in the news.

We talked recently about how the ticket had been running advertisements for something called Texit coin. It appeared to be some sort of peer-to-peer crypto that played on patriotism and the idea that regular crypto was now Chinese crypto. And there was a play to be made for like a Texas-based mining industry. and it immediately seemed like a scam to me. But, you know, whatever. Check clears. But then they got a cease and desist, Texacoin did, told them to shut down operations.

That cease and desist applied obviously to their marketing and advertising material, so they vanished from the ticket stock billboards. They were no longer advertising on the station. Then a listener who works in the legal field forwarded us an email where they, because they work in financial crimes, they were contacted by a ticket salesperson canvassing for law firms that might be looking for customers of fraud at the hands of Texas.

Brilliant. And we had a good laugh about this. And then we decided we wanted to put this on. on social media, or did we? So we spent Friday afternoon the three of us. This is how this works. Blake's like, hey, should I put this up? Jake, nine times out of ten, says, I like it, but I'd rather you ask Dan.

And then Dan usually... How do I become the conservative guy? It's not the conservative guy. It's more that I just, I think I am a little bit more of like an agent of drama and chaos. You know, I don't want to go chain ourselves to cumulus, like barstool style or something. And you can reference that all the time. Like, there's a lot, like, we'd go to ticket stock with a right, you know, a whoopee cushion or something. Just to create conflict. Right. And I don't want to do that. Drive the dumb zone van around. Right. It's a little cheap, but I also think it works.

And it can be fun. And I don't want to go too far with that. But I think you want to go less far with that. but it is a funny story. Like, a sales guy we know, contacted one of our listeners and was like, I think I might know some people who are subject to fraud. How'd they get frauded? I think I might know them because I recently sold the account that defrauded them. He makes money on both ends.

I think it's genius. It is. But yeah, I said put out the tweet. Whatever. I don't know. This is also my fault, too, because I don't want to just put out.

the tweet. Yeah, he had a little caption. I want to poke a little bit. Yeah. I mean, why not? I don't know. Because should we be cool? Well, it's just a news story.

Well, it's exactly like, I mean, a lot of people were asking. Would you have done it if it was a fan? The fan in Dallas had done this and somebody contacted us telling us about it? I think we would. We'd put the clip out, but we'd still talk about it. Yeah. That it was funny. We have an underlying message here.

Apparently, the. company where we used to work also declared bankruptcy. People were talking to me about that at the meetup on Saturday and emailing me about it. And I'm like, well, I don't know, man. I'd like to address this. This is my official address. Can I start by saying that Quicksand, Piranhas, I thought when I was a kid. The worst thing you could ever do is bankruptcy.

Bankruptcy. They might take you to the guillotine. And then when I was like a teenager or in June. year high, several, or at least I feel like a couple of my family members did it. And my mom, who was at odds with them at the time, explained to me like, this is for fucking cheats. You don't have to pay anybody back. This is just a way, you know, my mom was like, as a business owner had had people. Yes, and she's like, this is all this is. And so I, completely 180 on like what this means to be now. You're watching Wheel of Fortune. You land on

bankrupt. Right. I'm like, I'll lose everything. You're done. You're going to live in the poor house forever, and it doesn't work that way at all. Or you're playing monopoly. You run out of money. You declare bankruptcy. I guess I can keep playing. Yeah. Yeah.

So it doesn't really seem to be that big of news, but people are asking us about it a lot. Well, why I say it's not that big of news is that I've already lived through cumulus declaring bankruptcy. This was five or eight years ago. I think it was early in the Mary Burner era. Restructure. And this is going to be great because she's been through this before, and this will put them back on a path of prosperity. Now, it didn't help certain coworkers from telling me that, dude,

the company just declared bankruptcy, and I just don't know that you should be asking for parking with your new contract. Just one coworker who would talk to me about my contract every five years, but then would refuse to talk about his own. These boots aren't going to lick themselves. But, yeah, anyway, it's nothing. It's not a thing.

It's not like, oh, no, the ticket's going to go out of business. No, no. It's probably your mom is probably more right. Right? It's just so they don't have to pay back much of the money that they owe some different people. A little bit of a restructure. Yeah, I mean. They're getting Terrence Steele.

And the thing is, even when, right, when people would talk to. to me, or, you know, one guy at least like, we should take less money for the team, the company here. I would be like, okay, that's like, do you think like today because of this bankruptcy, do you think their top lawyer who we had interactions with? Did he take a pay cut? Or do you think he actually got a bonus because he helped come up with this bankruptcy scheme that has actually saved them $100 million on the back end, so you get a little slice of that? I think, I was thinking about this last week with the Mavs. And maybe it's just, it's impossible to know what you'd be like unless you were there.

But I think if you were super, super wealthy, and I know Mary Burner and Cumulus are not in the same stratus. They're closer to us. Mary Burner's net worth is probably closer to ours than Miriam Adelson's. Oh, sure. We're talking about different orders of wealth. Yeah. But I still think if I were her or somebody in that position, I think it's so easy. to get people to like you.

Imagine if she actually came forward and was like, hey, I make $3 million. This year I'm taking 2.2. And I'm taking that money. And I'm going to raise everybody who makes $30,000 salary to $43. She would be like, you know,

I just never understood why people with a lot of money don't, there must be a huge difference between making 3 and 2.2 in one year that would wreck her. because I think I'm a type of person I will buy friends like 100% I'll cover the cost if I think it means

we can be cool so I don't know why more of them don't just do that like for example Patrick Dumont that family has more money than they'll ever know what to do with why wouldn't they come out and be like we don't need PSOs because we're going to put our money in this we're going to put some of the family

money in this hell we don't even need the city's money they would live no differently, but you could get people to like you with money. It's a very basic concept. I don't know why more billionaire Cuban got it, you know? Yeah, that's a bit of the... I don't pay for the St. Patrick's Day parade.

Prey-up talk similar just in the Chris Rock bit, the old... If you make 30,000, or if you make 50,000, and you have to give her half, that's extreme... That's affecting you in a great, great... way. Like you say, so if Mary Burner was just to peel that off for the lowest earners, like that affects them in a huge, huge positive way. But then again, maybe even she's thinking, like, why do I got to cut my salary that, but you run the company. You're making the profit. Yeah.

This is, uh, this is, I put the tweet out or not. Yeah, I think so. I think it needs to have your special. Yeah, do whatever you want. Blake, Blake twist on it. But it's not like we spend every day whatever. I think we're establishing. It's not complaining about cumulus in particular. I would say all radio companies are pretty similar in the way they operate, don't you? Yeah.

Yeah. Dallas Wing Star Arrique. Agoon Bawale. Agoon Bawale was arrested in Miami Thursday night. I knew he'd get it. Notre Dame. Nice. She was arrested following an altercation outside a restaurant.

So I was laughing thinking about this. So the wings are in Miami. And she got in a fight with a guy. They're playing now? No, no. Well, they were. Is it from last year or? Their fall season?

Are they not playing right now? Well, no, you know what? No, this is the contract negotiations. This is unrivaled. That's right. So this is the separate league here in the U.S. in the WNBA offseason. It is not.

The WNBA, but it's WNBA players. It's three on three. It's three on three. And they can make money. The games are on Turner, on TNT. And they play, I think they play in Miami. Yes. So she was playing in Miami and got into a fight and was arrested.

And she got in a fight with a dude. I was thinking how funny it would be if you were some guy in Miami and you're like, man, I got in a fight last night. You got roughed up by some asshole pro. basketball player. And they're like, oh, yeah, who'd the heat? Who'd the heat have? Yeah, what? You're like, oh, no.

Yeah, bam out of bio. Did you know that, you know that women's three-on-three tournament that's in town? One of the players. We got a mugshot and everything. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. Striking nightclub security.

Yeah, the guy said he was trying to, like, move a big crowd of people. And it was like five o'clock in the morning. Well, pickleball has finally fully arrived as a man was shot at a Denton pickleball court by the police over the weekend. There's a welfare check. Upon arrival at this pickleball court in Denton, officers found a man who had climbed to the top of the fence holding a metal rod. Hmm. One officer deployed a taser. Usually you need a racket.

Not a metal rod there. Right. I don't know. He's at the top of the fence of a pickleball court? Yeah. Not like the net in the middle. Yeah, yeah, no, but this is at night and everything, too? No, this is going on.

Pickleball's going on right now, guys. This is Saturday afternoon. So he's trying to get stuck by lightning. But what's the point of tasing him? Why not just when he gets down? He really wanted that court next. That's a good question. Why do we have to really worry about the guy on the fence?

The man told officers they would have to kill him and threatened them with the object. He charged them with the rod after climbing down. They deployed the taser. All right. And the taser was not enough, ineffective. Oh, wow. I feel like you should get to live at that moment. Yeah.

You beat the taser. Yeah. We're going to figure out a way to, you're going to jail. But the next move is not. to shoot you, which is what happened. Oh. They went gun next? Yeah.

Is he a dead? He's a dead. He's a dead. He's a dead. But, you know, like I feel you're not really a real American sport until people are going crazy enough at your weekend events to get shot.

Flag football. I've seen guns pulled at flag football, basketball. Yep. I keep to leave, right? Dude, yes. Somebody texted me about him the other day. I know he's back on... He's coaching seven on seven.

That's what it was. Step bomb. That's what it was. Matt Stepp reported that. He's coaching seven on seven. Why not? Why not, folks? Um...

I can see Ted playing pickleball. Damn. That does a... feel like a compliment. What a sick burn. I feel like you would, though. You pickleball guy? I am not.

Tell me that you wouldn't ever. I am not. I've never been tennis guy. You never will, you're saying. Pickle ball. I don't anticipate. I'm trying to become golf guy. I clearly don't know enough to give somebody a driver wreck.

I think Ted looks like he belongs at a country club. Yeah. But also he knows what drama is going on in the metal music community. You know, like that's not normally the same guy. I know. Look nothing like that either. Where do I fit in? Which box do I fit in?

I don't know. There was a large residential fire in Mesquite on Friday night. Now, the reason that this has made news is the Mesquite Fire Department says, this is like several houses in one neighborhood, that they believe that this fire was started by a floating lantern. like those type of things that you see at a wedding or at festivals. Now they say that this could have been related to Chinese New Year, which wrapped up last week. This is like the day, two days after that.

But apparently that's something people do. Just light this thing on fire, let it off into the trees. And they're like, yeah, well, it got into a bunch of trees. And started a huge fire. But I looked online. get them for very cheap summer event oh man everybody releasing them at once at the end of the night after you do another rendition of the dumps in america dumb zone a and m has a 200 million dollar space institute that they have announced this is a massive and it's supposed to create

inside of it they have um like simulators for like what it's supposed to be like to be on mars There's a statement. It says it sets up Texas to be the center of two generations of future exploration. Not just this next chapter for the moon, but Texas will be the center of the next chapter after that for Mars. Hell yeah. And it says here that A&M actually hung a Mars conference champions 2025 bear. As if we've already been there.

Fill in the blank on the year. Did you see the tweet that the Texas A&M? men's basketball team sent out. This is great. Yeah, I did. I meant to get the image, but... Yes. Projected... The caption here, don't

doubt the ags. Projected 13th in SEC preseason poll tied fourth. Yeah. Hell yeah. Like the fourth... I was thinking if it said tied for 10th,

that's funny enough to be a bit because it's still a bad finish. But tied for fourth is not funny. That's the most... Aggie thing ever. Saying Tides for it just makes it even... Yes, even better. Like, fourth is...

Spring break apparently underway across parts of Texas because Galveston saw a number of arrests. Also, it looks like in Houston. Houston has their spring break this week. So starting last Friday, there was a... I don't know if it was contained to one district, but like a Houston High School.

school wide skip day. And the authorities had found out about this from social media. Not the authorities. So there were like 70 arrests at this Buckees right at the entry. For what? For skipping school? Well, for all sorts of stuff.

For playing hooky. For alcohol possession, obviously. There were automatic weapons. Automatic. Yeah. Drugs, cash. And abortion. How'd you do with the spring forward thing?

Everybody fine? I forgot completely. What do you mean? I woke up and just was like, what the, you know? Why was it horrible for you? We had early softball games. So I was home late, and then when I woke up, it was still dark. What's it going on?

What is going on? I find it an amazing look at the psyche. and it's I know I'm about this because I used to be the guy that turned his clock back like five minutes or ahead five minutes to make me be more efficient and more on time. I'll do that. And then I kept doing it, but then I knew. Right. And so then I would adjust in my head. So then I adjusted in another five.

And before long, like all my clocks in my house were like 20 minutes off. And I couldn't remember what it was. I know. But for those two seconds, you're like, oh, thank God, it's not five minutes ahead. Right. Can't beat the machine. But today, like I popped right out of bed at 7 o'clock, and I fell asleep last night at 11.

That's what I usually try to shoot for. And the point is, I guess I woke up at 6. The point is it all because mentally my clock said 11. But the night before, I could not have gone to bed at 10 p.m. I just could not. I've been like, I can't do it. I can't sleep. And lay there awake.

because I've tried to go to bed an hour early before, and I couldn't do it. Last night I fell asleep in two seconds because my clock next to me said 11. And I just was amazed by that. I'm amazed that I'm just that much of an idiot. I think what I don't really need anything I think I need when I'm like, I got to get to bed by this time, or I got to get to sleep, or I have to do the, I don't. But I don't want to admit that because I like my little routine. Analyze me, Jake.

I'm thinking about it You're an analyst guy What Your guy who's been in the chair On the couch Right You know the speak I was hating the spring forward thing

Until I had to take something My grandpa last night And I was walking in about six And one of the workers was leaving And she walked out In amazement that the sun was still up When she got off work Awesome

And I'd never seen someone that happy Oh look at this Sunshine It's magic Wow I'd be away from all those olds. That's mostly it. I would imagine.

Two Texas women were arrested for trying to fly drugs and cell phones into a prison in Louisiana. They were using drones. Yeah. Nice. But they were using drones that were plastic crow decoys. Okay. Oh, cool. Yeah.

Yeah. they look i mean it's it's great so did they have the drugs and cell phones and their little fake talons they were wrapped inside you can see well yeah i don't know about the talent but it's wrapped inside it's a great it's a great bit is a good bit getting creative and uh to continue on our burger wars talk uh wendy's is apparently forcing us to look for a new technical director as they are hiring a chief tasting officer to sample its menu items. CTO.

For 100K a year. Wow. There are some responsibilities. I wish you would have been meaning to talk to you guys. I was going to say, I wish you didn't read this story. Man, CK's already on that. He's got his second round of interviews next week. Says you need to create review videos from home.

I think you could. Can you do that? Most professional-looking review. videos ever. Applicants must submit a video explaining why they are suitable for the role with bonus points for featuring Wendy's products. Well, yeah. I mean, dummy, I'm not going to...

My problem is, is I spent a month slandering Wendy's on here, so... It doesn't matter. Look at Trump. He's like, Marco Rubio's a pussy. Now he's like, seriously, it doesn't matter. Swipes a dog. You could just let's just turn the worm right now. That's a great

burger. Square pad? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's too big for the bun. It's great. Love it. You could talk about the ratio like you did earlier of bun to patty. Diameter. Looks, they're not ready for me.

Too much good content. All right, there's your news. Go Wendy's. We're going to save plain controversy for tomorrow. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe. This segment of the dumb zone brought to you by Frankl and Frankl. Even if you die in a car accident, we could help your living family get the bag.

Frankl and Frankel. That's right. Thank you. Frankl and Frankel brings us viewer mail birthdays. If you do get in an accident, Ted, do us a solid. Getting an accident on the way home. Well, you know, I had the 214 on my phone all typed in. Because I got bumped into at the Reed Arena parking lot last week at Texas A&M.

No damage. Fair play decided to call. But I threatened this Aggie with the Frankles. I'm ready to push these threes. You do that again. He got the message. Their personal injury attorneys, they will fight for you. So unfortunately, Ted was not injured there.

and had no one to sue. But if you do, 214 or 817, then dial all threes, mention to the Frankl's The Dumb Zone with your last dying breath. Oh. That'll help us out. Why are you thinking about yourself? Think about us. Let's make sure no view or no birthdays have come in in the last little bits.

All right, we have, hi, guys. Today is my husband Chuck's 48th birthday. He's currently a bit preoccupied with the missiles in UAE. But I'm sure he'll listen eventually. These people live in UAE. I think this guy might have sent me some... Yeah, he did. He sent me some videos.

The lady, Stephanie, I had to find a flight out to attend my dad's funeral. So at least he has the run of the house and he can order takeaway without a nagging wife around for a few days. That's from Stephanie. So her husband, Chuck and Stephanie, live in the U.S. U-A-E. I am thinking this. Wife's dad dies. Husband doesn't have to go to funeral.

Where do we sign up for this wonderful wife? Yeah. Especially it's on another country. I feel like I might get a, well, my aunt meant a lot to me, and I need you there. Like, what? Wait. Aunt. And it's worse now that we work for ourselves because she would be like,

well, you can just do it, right? Oh, my God. There's no one to tell you you can't. That is the work. I don't know. Jake and Blake, self-employed thing. They don't want me to leave.

Bad enough that you're already in a jack-off job, but once you become your own boss, they really. Yeah. Do you think that, you know how maybe over the weekend, if it was raining on Saturday night, you're like, oh, damn, dude, do I really want to order food delivery?

Like, is that a jerk move? Do you think you have to think about that whenever you live there? You're upset with the delivery? You're putting the delivery guy in parallel? Yeah, people will say, like, don't order food right now, but I mean, the flip side of that is like,

that's when they want to do it, right? But if they don't want to drive, like during the freeze, people are like, oh, you shouldn't do delivery. But it's kind of funny. I guess they should get a different job. I mean, they're out there on the road. They're ready for you. If you're in the UAE or you're like, God, it is a lot of bombing. I don't think I want to do it.

I don't want to get it scudded. That's the worst opinion, though, for the freeze. That means there's a guy sitting in a parking lot waiting for his app to show him that somebody has delivered. And he dejectedly looks down. and he has no one to deliver to, yet I'm out here on the road. I'm ready to go. I tend to agree, but it's a very loud chorus of people telling me I'm an asshole, so I... Those people are W.H.L.

And you know it. Just throw an extra couple bucks on the tip. I do. Yeah. You guys know. You think that $4 makes them feel better for putting their life at risk? But I'm saying he was out, he's... They don't like call him out of bed.

No, they don't wake him on. Hey, Jake needs food. It's like Bruce Willis or something. He is out there waiting for his call. There's a knocked over whiskey bottle. And if Jake decides I'm not going to call because I'm worried by his safety. He's already on the road and now he's lost the same. What if he's not?

Jake needs that baconator. Now he has to have this moral thing. Do I want to risk my life or my car? My car is how I make money. Do I really want to wreck it to make this $7? Shaking them out of their house. They are already out on the road. He hit priority.

He had a on. added the 249. 9.49 then. God damn it. Last run. This is it. One more time. Uncle sleeve of wizard. Oh, this is for tomorrow.

Oh, man. Well. Hey, the birthday recipient doesn't know. Hello, perennium. Parlorizer. Paranium. Peronium. That's your taint. Paranium is a taint.

That's the in-between. They could rip. Belated birthday. Remember when people were tanning that? Like a year or two ago, that was a thing you guys brought up. Because you hate a pale one, right? Yeah. Gross.

I think it's good for you. Yeah, just stick it up to the sun. Instant vitamin D. Is it like a suppository is better? Yeah. Like you quickly. Wow. They say that there's, you know, they say.

I'm going to ask Gabe about Gabe Kapler will know. I guarantee you, Gabe has opened his ass. household of the sun. Yes. This week. Just out in nature on a 200-mile run. Just late. Deshawn Watson-style.

Yep. Got the vitamin D. Happy baby. Hello, perinium pulverizers. Belated birthday shout-up to Shane and Collieville. Leaders are lava lamps, Robert De Niro, Jake's bravery, and Dan's yet unborn second wife. That's from Clark in Portland.

Happy to see that my daughter got a lava. lamp a few months ago just to see the cultural transfusion is making its way down. Did you start with my mom? Probably, yeah. Like 60s children or something? I think so. All right. Let's go here.

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But Qualis Roofing, the OG of our advertisers, QualisGC.com. Don't trust them to order you a mushroom sandwich. But when it comes to your roof, They're there for you. Actually, they did a roof inspection for us. Found we had a lot of damage. We hadn't had a roof inspection in years.

Had a lot of damage. They called the insurance company for us. They got the whole thing done. And all we paid for was our deductible. And I didn't spend hours on, I didn't spend minutes. I didn't spend any time on the phone with the insurance company. That's how great Qualis is. And if you end up getting a roof with them,

they'll give you a sit-in. You'll be sitting right here. Can you imagine that, Ted? I mean, look, these guys are on cloud nine. You could be... While we're doing a show. Beyond my comprehension, Dan. It would be for free. QualisGC.com or 817500, 9-0-0.8. Today is Monday, March 9th, on this day in 1897, Cleveland, the baseball club, would sign Holy Cross Star Lewis Socc Alexis to a contract. He was a full-blooded Native American. Many would call them Indians.

The Cleveland Spiders signed him, and many of the supporters kind of just started referring to the team as the Indians. And now you know a rest of the story. Saka Lexus played only three years with the Indians because of acute

alcoholism. Alcoholism. But the nickname survives. Well, for a while. Yeah. It'd be really funny if they changed the name of the Dodgers. Well, they were calling him that, so.

It just sort of stuck. On this day. It's a tribute, dude. In 1959, the Barbie doll was introduced, 1959. Which one? Was that autistic Barbie in 1959? A rheumatoid arthritis Barbie. Wheelchair Barbie.

Just the original. original Barbie as God had intended her to be. Oh, great. White. Yeah, it was an exact depiction of Eve, right? Mm-hmm. Mm. European, stacked.

Yeah. Obedient. Okay. On this day in 1974, the last Japanese soldier surrendered after 29 years after World War II ends. A gorilla, G-U-E. Oh, Haram. operating in the Philippines.

So this guy still fighting 29 years after the end of World War II. He's still alive. Is he really? Wow. Oh, wait. Book and blink. Hold on, hold on.

Yeah, I think he's still alive. If not, he died in the last little bit. I've seen him interviewed before. On this day in 1990, the movie House Party, starring Kid and Play was released in theaters. And on this day in 2019, former major leaguer Alex Rodriguez

and Jennifer Lopez got engaged. And then they would separate two years later. Okay. Kind of DAC style. Man, he's going to get asked about this a lot, right? He already has been. You saw that clip? Yeah.

At whatever event that was over the weekend? No, no. Yeah, no, it's on social media. He was asked this weekend? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I forgot what it was for, some charity deal or something. And he just ignored the question. Like you can hear it in the background.

He ignored it. End of session. That was it. All right, we have this day in Dumb Zone history, March 9th. Only one show from this day. A lot of sports beginning of the NFL free agency. This was the day Carson Wentz was traded to Washington. I have here, if you need to make the playoffs, Wins or Hertz?

Dan takes Jalen Hertz Jake takes Harsson wins So a win for Dan I stand by that Yeah Before he tore up the knee Did have that MVP caliber season This was well after that though

But I also still think That's an unfair Comparison Get the Eagles whole roster Right Jalen Hurts is mid Not going down without a fight And Brittany Griner was arrested

That'll go well Now, is she the one that y'all were saying had male and female parts? Other birthdays today, Antonio Bryant is 44. Didn't they try the 88 thing with him? They did. Yeah, he threw his jersey at Parcells. Yes. C.J. Nikowsky is 52.

Front of the show. Now with the Braves TV. Brian Bosworth is 60. He cried on bad radio once. Sean Salsbury is 62. Hey, next time you see him. Yeah. Yeah. Naji Harris is 27.

I miss time because he hurt his eye. Yes. He had only like 15 carries last year. People were wondering if he would never recover the eyesight. Jim Harbaugh said, we're praying for healing or something like that. Dude, it was a fireworks thing? Yes. Yes.

God, that's awesome. What a dumbass. That's why O'Marion Hampton was going so high. Clint Dempsey is 42. From the NAC. That's right. From what? The Piney Woods.

It's from Nacadocious. Yeah. Which I think was a pretty unique story. There weren't a lot of soccer stars coming from Texas, let alone. Nacadogosius is a different type of place, Dan. Yes. It's out there. You know, very country.

Not a whole lot of metropolitan field. Aaron Boone is 52. Kay Trevor Wilson is 44. He's from Letterkenny. Which is overrated. Is it Canadian? Yeah. Is that why you're out?

No, I mean, I... I want you to try it and tell me that it's any good. Four or five shows that I think... are the same show. One of them is trailer park boys. Yeah, I think that's this. Same thing. Letterkenny.

What's the one where they say Ferda, the hockey show, that Bob got really into? Shorz. Shorzie's the name of the show, or is that Letterkenny? No, so Shorzie is a spinoff of Letterkenny. See? Okay. I know, I'm saying these are all the same show to me. No, I'm on board with Canadian.

humor is a little. The director and creator of letter, Kenny, did your hockey show, that your wife's watching. The gay hockey show? Yeah. Hmm. Jimmy Haslam is 71. Emmanuel Lewis is 54.

You don't want to have, you don't have a word to say about James? Yeah, come on. I enjoy the fact that he works his, he's a girl dad, and he'll make sure his girls will sign off on any controversial signings. So I like that. Family, family team. Yeah, what do you want him to not?

He runs him the right way because he doesn't do like Jerry. Right. Like he doesn't want to, he's like, I'll hire a GM and I'll let him do his job. And I think that's just the way more teams should operate. Can't wait to go to that Super Bowl in Cleveland. I bet he hates Buckees. He absolutely hates Buckees. Flying J, right?

Yeah, they had a monopoly, but. O'Kalin is 66. Dennis Rader, the BTK killer, is 80. And then rank the rappers. We have Bow Wow is 38. Lower than whatever else you're about to say. Mike was a good movie. Oh, by the way,

pop the top on air bud this weekend. Okay. That's great. It's been a minute. Oh, man. What an insane concept, folks. We have C murder. 54.

Yeah. YG is 35. I'm a fan. Chingy. 45. Everybody in the club get tipsy. Pull up. Is YG Young gravy?

No. That's such a bad thing to say. That's a great thing to say. Because that would vault to the top of whatever list you're on. YG has a song called Donald Trump. It was very popular. Born on this day now dead, Yuri Gagarin. of the league.

The first human in space, he died in a plane crash. How you like that? For real? Yeah. That's hilarious. Yeah. Wow. That's like becoming a sea captain and dying while playing with a remote control boat.

What do you mean he died in a plane crash? You went to space. And Mike Leach. Oh. And, uh, uh, swing that sword. Uh, the Haribo. Dead on the stay still dead. George Burns.

He's older than George Burns. I know that he is not the guy in the Simpsons now. Right. Yeah. But he did die at the age of 100 in 1996. And died on this day in 1997, the notorious B.I.G. Unsolved, this drive-by shooting. I think it was Epstein.

They're saying no. And that's what has. happened on this day in history. I told you all my Mike Leach story. We'll get back on the cameras real quick. So I did coaches shows for two of his assistants. You can guess which one told me this. But the radio interview that he did from a Chick-fil-A drive-thru,

he did from his office. Oh, man. It wasn't real. No, because the guy was listening to it and Leach did the, I'll take a chicken sandwich with a sweet tea. and yeah, he was sitting in his office. So Mike Leach was very aware of the Mike Leach bit. That's a good bit.

Oh, that's too bad. Do you have anything else for the children? Like to ruin? You have some audio from Ted. Great. This was sent to me. I assume you were at North Texas. Okay.

Have you been to North Texas recently? I have. Okay. Ted worked this in. Scrappy and the rest of the mean green fans hoping to see UNT dig deep and pull out a much needed win. That was perfect. Yeah.

Seameless. So well done. While trying to find that, I also listened. He had a good game to call. Yeah. So I watched the last, I don't know, minute, 90 seconds or so. Your color guy that you were working with was not there to do bits at all. He's all ball.

Tim Welsh, former Providence head coach. I do like working with him, but yeah, he wants to get back to the game. For sure. You were trying to keep it light. They were showing a lot of crowd shots because we had a lot of timeouts in the final 30 seconds. They show this little girl in the crowd who's six. She's not having a great time. Probably wants to go home. But she's wearing a North Texas shirt.

They show her and Ted brings it up. But yeah, your color guy did not roll with the punches here. And North Texas ball with four tenths of a second. What a game this has been. with 23 lead changes. That main green fan pretty upset right now. Maybe a win would cheer her up. Well, they've got Devin Williams on the ball.

And obviously you put your big man on the ball to protect and to bother. He thought this girl's almost about to cry. Maybe a win will cheer up. Look, they got their post player on the end-down. This is got a tough. I mean, the one thing they do like to stress is the monitor discipline. Like, hey, if there's something that's out of the ordinary that you see on the monitor, like, hey, react to it.

have some fun with it. And, I mean, this girl was straight up not having a good time at all. Just bawling, right, next to mom. But yeah. No, hey, let's talk about this inbound. And you got the seven-footer. How are you going to throw it up the seven-footer? Oh, well.

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Anybody ever call you slap dick? All the time. Jeez. That's like high school 101 right there. That's what we are. High school 101. We are high school 101. Well, I mentioned earlier, I ran the L.A. marathon yesterday in a corn suit.

And that's in tandem with a larger public humiliation ritual that is launching a Kickstarter for my feature film that I'm planning to shoot in October. It's a found footage mockumentary about a billboard sitting contest in Iowa. So we got 10 contestants up top, duking it out for tickets to Super Bowl 31, which, if you remember, is a Packers Patriots. Then we got an incompetent station manager at the bottom who actually doesn't have the tickets. So comedy, conflict, all that movie stuff. So you recreate the found footage? Correct, yeah. Wow.

It's a gimmick. Okay. I'm into that sort of thing. When you don't have any money to make a movie, you kind of have to lean hard into that kind of stuff. You know, I can't afford. So found footage, Dan, for you, I would say. think Adam Curtis because like that's that style of documentary there was one called body song oh how that's it's directed by the music is done by Johnny Greenwood from a radio head and it's like

we used to watch this on mushrooms so college thing but it's I've told the story before but it's like telling this story of life and it starts with you know like it's nardly found footage of like pregnancy from all over and from historically and it just like tells the story of all of life. Like it's beautiful and terrifying, but it's all footage that existed. And so what he's trying to do is make something that, you know, mocks that style,

but you can shoot it and it doesn't have to look like professional necessarily. It needs to look like the found footage. Kind of these look shitty. Yeah. Controlled shitty. Is this based on anything true or no? No, no. It just wrote it.

It just based on my imagination. Except that there were billboards sitting. Contest, yeah. Like, we did, like, a reports on that a couple years ago. Yeah. It was a big deal, dude. It was a huge deal. It was flagpole sitting.

You ever seen a... Like in the early 1900s. This was a huge thing across the country. Hands on a hard body. Have you seen that dock? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Where it's like you can't take your hand off the car competitions.

Yeah. So what is your filmmaking background? I made a zombie movie right outside of college. It's on a tubi, affer mentioned tubi. We made our money back, but it was very, very low budget. Like, we were just... What's it called? What doesn't kill us?

The zombie mockumentary. We're trying to update any from that because it's very... I'm proud of it, but it's rooted in college humor and college capabilities. And, you know, I'm a lot more. You're very sophisticated now. Yeah, I'm here. You're not into... You're no schlappedic anymore.

No schlaptic. Yeah. You've upgraded to running Los Angeles marathons and corn con costumes. Exactly. Exactly. But it's very fitting Ted's here because I kind of stole your bit. Okay. I planted a lot of dumb zone hang zone Easter eggs throughout the script. We've got some anchor phrase talk.

We've got, there's obviously a 69 joke, but it's a little more abstract than just saying it. Yeah, come on. Higher levels. That's right. Defer thinking. You know us. What else is in there? Remember your parking attendant?

He coined the phrase, sports or sports teams or teams? That's in there. I love that. Oh, fantastic. It's a perfect way to close down any sports conversation. And people just take it and they're like, yeah, you're totally right. I've got, oh, one character uses the phrase absolute milksheds at one point. And then there's a drunken fuck Nico chance that I'm pretty proud of because it's very egregious on my part.

But in the context of the story, it makes total sense. So it would fly over anyone's head if you didn't know about it. Nice. And if I can speak to your listeners just for a little bit, if you go to Bacornstar.com, pledge literally any amount, it doesn't matter, and just leave a comment, DZ. I will credit you as a dialogue editor.

Bacornstar. Correct. What? What a URL? And then... This is the high level. I'm in for 50 right now. No longer a schlaptic.

B.A. Cornstar is the D.A. deep thinking. Yeah, and then the second part of the offer is if you donate a clean 69, I'll give you the $150 reward tier, which is, you know, a lot of little things, but it's primarily the two tickets to a Texas theater screening when we get that up and running, hopefully in the summer of 2027. I know it's a long, it's a long waiting game, but we're starting like a two-year thing right now. Wow.

Cool. Hell yeah. So you're looking, how much money are you trying to raise? This is a pre-production budget. We're looking at 20K. The actual thing will be closer to like 65 to 80. I almost did a 6-7 there. I'm proud of I don't.

Well done. We kind of have to like see where we're at after this and then hit some sponsorship opportunities. Do you have some kind of a help as far as people who have done this before? Oh yeah, totally. Okay. Yeah. So you have a pretty good idea that 20K. is going to get you to where you need to go.

Yeah. And I've got some people who are already in in terms of like the crew and cast and stuff. Do you do everything? I'm definitely going to export some or outsource some sound work because that's something I've learned I'm not great at. But yeah, I'm pretty much doing everything. Visual effects, set design.

My friend Jacob, he's my director of photographer, photography down in Thorndale, Texas. That's where we're going to be shooting a lot of it because if you get a little creative, his ranch passes for Iowa. That's pretty sweet. So you already have the script written? Yeah, it's been written for a long time. Dan, what's all if you can make a couple revisions?

No, I would like to look at it. I don't know. This is very interesting to me. It's, you know, and you have some more phrases he can throw at me. Are you film school guy? I am film school guy. Okay. I went to film school in Nacodotius.

Oh, okay. The nasty knack. And to add to your comment earlier, a lot of people live there have no idea who Clint Demsie is because it's not the kind of town where people watch soccer. Yeah. I remember hearing he had to drive like two hours to practice every day or something because they were like, shocker, I don't know what accent that was.

It definitely wasn't East Texas. There's a lot of accents over there. Yeah. You have a good time there? Yeah. Was it at SFA? They have a film school? Wow.

Yeah, it's small. It's very hands-on. They just give you a camera and send you out there and say, go bring me back something, and that's your grade. Damn. So the marathon and the suit thing, It's obviously, now it all makes sense. Yeah.

Did you have some sort of like a... How were you advertising on the suit? I had a sign I was holding. Oh, my God. That was being corn star.com. I have a picture my phone. And you ran the whole thing. I ran the whole...

The half. It was a full. I'm not going to lie. It was hot as hell. The suit didn't help. And a corn outfit? I walked a good like five to seven miles towards the end, off and on. Yeah, I would have ran the whole thing if I was in that.

Don't tell T.C.'s family. Yeah, I was going to say, dude. Especially the last point, too. That was the sound of them not pledging. That's cool, man. Keep us in the loop. For sure. What's in the box?

I have a special gift. It's a little decor for all of you all, though. Let me pass that to Jake. I think Jake would be better suited to explain it because I think he'll know exactly what it is. He's the smart one, you know. Oh, no, did the super glue stick? He's got a master.

Be careful. That's right. Take it off that? Yeah, take the wrapping off the super glue. Okay. Okay. This here, folks, is a bobblehead featuring a former sideline reporter and crazy suitwear Craig Sager. And featured here behind the bobblehead is the bulls dancer that he left his wife for to marry and left his entire fortune to her. despite the fact that his son had recently gone,

undergone a very painful and onerous bone marrow transplant to keep Craig Sager alive. When his son woke up from that operation, he had been cut out of the will for this bulls dancer. One of the original Kempspins. Boy, you got to get a pre-nup even with your father now. Like, hey, if I give you this, like... I'm still going to get an inheritance, right?

And he has a Yeah, he taped a photo of a guy in a bed A hospital bed Who just went underwent And he's linked to Craig's sake Yeah, the tube The transplant is underway To just shoot the marrow right into him

That's incredible So this was done in off time What you're making your own sets Set design for your own movies Yeah I had a battle Of some eBay sellers for that bobblehead then everything else was kind of haphazardly taped together this morning.

That really is incredible. The Bulls dancers, by the way, they go by the lovables. He found himself a lovable. That's awesome. Well, thank you, dude. Of course, in my friend group, I'm the Kempspin guy,

and a lot of them aren't listeners, so they don't know that there's like a garden I go to to pluck these from. We all have something like that. Yeah. So this is, seriously, thank you, because I'm that guy to them. Well, good luck with the movie.

I never thought about friend groups being, like I'm the Blake. I'm the Kempspin guy. I'm the whatever. I'm the foodie-c-k. I'm the pee-in-my-my-own-water bottle guy. I'm the pee-in-the-bag guy. Beacornstar.com.

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