The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 4-3-26 | Live from Texas Rangers Opening Day

Episode Date: April 3, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneWe're live from the bus at Texas Rangers Opening Day! We're joined by Texas Rangers broadcaster, Jared Sandler, and former Fox Sports Southwest hall of famer, Jim Knox, who takes out the wireless (00:00) - Open: Live from the bus (27:44) - Sports: CB Bucknor (39:56) - March MBR (01:14:46) - Jared Sandler: 2026 Rangers outlook (01:39:15) - News: Pooh Shiesty Pooh Shiesty (01:53:50) - Jim Knox with the wireless (02:20:39) - VM birthdays/Today in History with Heart Attack Man ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello, I'm professional broadcaster Dan McDowell, letting you know that you were about to hear one of our free podcast. But if you'd like to subscribe at dumzone.com, you'll get four shows per week plus the weekend wrap-up and any bonus sods like our business Wednesday interviews. So if you forgot how to use the 15-second rewind, that's dumbzone.com to subscribe. Now, on to today's program. You are listening to subscriber-only content. Oh, Jim Locke's crazy. Friends, happy Friday. Happy opening day, Jake.

Yeah. It is opening day. Here three in a row. His bus adjacent. If not on a bus. Sometimes we're on a bus. Did we do on the bus? The first time here?

Yeah, the first time. We were joined by Mike Adams on the bang bus. On Lettie's bang bus. Joining us now is Lettie, of course. Owner of the bus. Maybe not. Hold on. We'll see. We'll give them a second.

We are set up here in Lot D at Globe Field, staring at the Dallas Ruff Renegade Stadium. And the beautiful pond out here. It is beautiful. Would you take a dip in that? I'll do it to end the show today. Whoa. I'm not doing that.

Okay. Last year, I probably was pretty close to being ready to take a dunk in there. I would imagine. Letty is the closest human embodiment to Frank the tank I've ever met, right? That just seems to be he knows everyone. Yep. Like Minnie Coop's son. Jeffrey Cooperstein just walked up.

He's like, hey, man, he's hanging out. And I'm like, what are you doing here? Oh, yeah, I know Letty from blah, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. Meeting other guys like, oh, yeah, I went to high school with Letty. My nickname's the mayor. I get that, yeah. So I get that a lot.

And it makes sense for a mayor to have a bus that they parade around in to celebrate with their subjects, their people. Oh, yeah. I was thinking, you know, I was watching some movie that had, like, the coolest reference I can come up with is, like, Back to the Future when they went back and they have a, it's not a bus, but kind of, of a truck it's a campaign type thing and you have a megaphone on the top and you're like we need to do that that we need a dumb zone campaign vehicle i love it i thought you were going somewhere else when you said you watched a bus video yeah oh well those other ones bus videos but so that you got a good idea you have to know this bus is rickety yeah this is not like oh let me picture like um the bus

the Rolling Stones bus. It's charming. Yes, if you were a real estate agent. Sure. Yeah. She's a real fixer-upper. It's been loved. It's been loved.

We thought about washing it this year and it's like, eh. So when was the last time before today that it was driven? So we had to get it to the neighborhood like Tuesday, but other than that, basically last year, yeah. Okay, so yeah, let's get the story of the bus. It is a, it's a rickety old, green and white. white school bus. It's a 1986, I believe, school bus. And we

all went to U&T. We were playing lacrosse together, club lacrosse, and our coach was a young attorney and said, hey, I'm going to buy you guys a bus and we can travel to games and stuff. So he paid $3,000 for the bus, and here we are what... What year was that? I would have been

like 2005, 2004, maybe three, actually. 2003, you paid $3,000 for this bus. And I think us, it was in someone else's hands for a few years. But us, we invested in some breaks last year, new battery. I think since then we put about $2,200 into it. Not bad at all.

Still running strong. Not bad at all. Yeah. Anybody ever slept on it? Oh, yeah. So I don't pass that. The first year we talked about it, when we had it, we put a divider right here, framed up divider with a door, and we had like a couple of couches back there with a little TV.

Oh, yes. Yeah, you could hang out and stuff. And then on the front, what we actually did was flip the seats where you were facing each other and you could play cards or whatever. So, yeah, lots of people in between games or whatever. You know, we just pass out back there. Has there been sex on that bus? Definitely. Definitely sex on the bus.

Yes. Involving two people. Oh, well, that's a good question. Which way is it going to go? Probably evolving more. Yeah. I was going to say, it's the lacrosse team. You could probably run the gamage.

This is the U.N.T. lacrosse team. So how did this? Is this weirdos? Are they baseball like weirdos? Yeah, it's basically like a frat. But, you know. I don't know anybody who played the cross. We didn't play soggy biscuit or elephant run or any of that stuff.

Soggy biscuit. You know what that is, Dan, don't know. I'm going to have to search that. I might know what it is, just not the new terminology. Right. I feel like your world with NHL players. It's limp biscuit. Oh, okay.

Well, anyway, how do you end up owning the bus then? Some other guy bought it for the team. Yeah, well, so he didn't want it, obviously. He moved on to bigger and better things. Like I said, he was volunteering his time, so he was in a turn. journey. And we tried to pass it down to the next generation. Like, hey, you know, it's $3,000. We don't care. Like, take it, y'all enjoy it, do whatever. And they were like, absolutely not. We don't want your garbage bus. They were not the cool. No, so one of the guys running around here that

we run with. His father-in-law took the bus, took ownership for a while. He's the one that added the rooftop. He did cycling. And so he was retired. There's a rooftop platform with a very suss railing. We need to do some tack welding, yeah. I don't know what that is, but whatever, you've got to do something, it seems. Like, somebody's going to fall off. Yeah, yeah, eventually, yeah. Very soon.

We left it in a, you know, someone else's name for that reason. Yeah, getting up is fine. If you see all of us running later, pack this shit up and let's get out of here, okay? So disappointing the next generation just let this slide. I mean, I guess it's good for us. Yeah, but. So anyway, he took it. He used to drive.

He lived in New Orleans at the time. He would drive up to drive all of us, right? It started out as an Uber. Like, hey, let me just drive all y'all. We can party on it. You can hang out. I'll drive you home. And then eventually, you're a college kid?

Yeah, he moved on to other things. And so where I work, I have big enough yard there that I just took ownership and we just store it there. And I've got, we operate our own fleet and stuff. So I have a mechanic on hand. So he can kind of over the year, touch it up. He'll run it a decade, like maybe start it up, not drive it, just keep it lubricated and stuff.

That's how I ended up with it. Yeah, it's all, because you walk through the parking lot. By the way, they brought a bar this year, and I'm not pointing that out to you, Jake, like Blakewood. Like, hey, just have one. Hey, it's opening day. Just have a couple pumps. I'm pointing it out because apparently this traveling bar has a bathroom on it. Yes, there is a bathroom in there.

We try not to let everyone know that, but, yeah, he's got a port-a-potty. That's Don. So he goes to a ton of tailgating everything you can imagine for work, writes it off, I guess. You guys know about rideoffs, right? Sure. So, yeah, he's got, he opens that up. It's a full stock bar, so. Sick.

And then, but walking through before this bathroom was here, the closest I could find was a five-minute walk away, which is great. Got to get some steps. And the people, you know, viewing and opening day tailgate party, it's awesome. It's the best. It feels like real fandom.

Right. But the buses, these are high, dollar these are you know i think covid really kicked off a thing there's definitely some million dollar buses in this line these buses are the fake titties in the front row at the math game yeah you know what i mean they're not the real fans yeah this is we are the real deal here yes we're all natural baby right double mastectomy but she's strong this is the dumb zone of buses it's it doesn't look very impressive that's right uh sound sounds horrible, actually.

Our people lift us up. That's right. Quite a bit of power on this bus. You see, the Rangers are going to, they announce they're going to keep the roof open all year yesterday. Wednesday. April Fool's. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay. That's hilarious. Did they really? Yeah. They had it sponsored, Baker's roof or whatever. God damn it, that makes it so much worse. Yeah. You got to do it, but it makes it worse.

How was the... So anyways, just birthdays sponsored by... Yeah. Jake Ottinger throwing out the first pitch. We were speculating. Like who would it be? Would it be a local teacher? A handicapped politician.

I've got one little ranger thing I'd like to address if you guys don't mind. It's your show, pal. So the stupid silver boot. Whoa. I don't know if I like those words. All right. Well, you know, it's already a caricature of Texas, right? You guys remember my family is Cowboys.

he's Western, right, Letty Boots, that's where I come from. The goddamn spur on the boot is upside down. This is something. On the silver boot? On the silver boot. It's upside down. Spurs can be upside down. So a real Texan. Yeah, I think Jake's Googling it right now.

So Clayton may know. All right, so there's a little, on a spur, there's a little thing called a button. And when you put a spur on, you have a leather strap that goes around your boot to attach to that button. That button should be facing up so that it can go. over the top of your boot. And the damn spur, whoever designed this sculpture, so it's already ridiculous that we have this stupid trophy,

like the six-shooter one at the Speedway. But the spur is upside down. Like, can we just not at least, we're going to make fun of ourselves. Can we be accurate about it? Anyway, I just thought with this forum, I'd like to get that out. I think that's great. That's a niche gripe, but I love it.

Yeah, so. I would have never liked that. We'll take on this cause, though. Yeah, Rangers sweep sex, and we got to fix the silver spurt. That's right. brought your statue back. Why don't you chill out, you know? Well, that was a Ray Davis dog whistle, isn't it?

We forgot about the leady crew. What do we call the collection of people that we met here? Yeah, if the Rangers do sweep, all the wives know that that night, we got to go. We're getting it ready. Sweep sex. Hashtag sweep sex. Two in a row, they got to wear a jersey. While Now what happens if the Rangers get swept? Am I like, oh no, you don't want to know. Pagging?

Yeah, I was trying to think of it. And then the, of course, so it's a bus, it's got the rooftop platform. But from that platform on the way down, like I said, this is Frank the Tank's bus. There is a big giant beer bong. There is. A couple of them.

tradition now there's two unless there's always been two there's always been two but we've got two new ones and new names okay we have brand new one yeah the guy was up there really proud of it show me they're very very new can we get a drum roll uh Blake wants you to try uh like said hey you just one beer bong he's like it'll be fine let's hear it well I think Dan has them okay Dan what's the name let's hear it well the old names were el bongby okay Little Dolly. And Jose La Chuggug. It's mid.

And you could have just replaced them. Right. Like Darren on Beitched or maybe the daughter on Roseanne, right? Right. The next year it's just a somebody different. Those guys are, yeah. Same name. I think the ticket did that on middays.

There you go. Same thing. We're not even going to mention it. It's just, this is what? Everything's fine. Everything's good. This year we have Mitch Morseuds. Okay.

And? And Nelson Booze. Nelson Booze is the best. That's a winner, right? That hits. That's the best one. That hits hard. We also tested Chung Ho Park.

Yeah, there's a lot here. Yeah, we had a list going. Yeah, we've set that up, so if Knox comes by, he can officiate. But we've got four participants that would like to do a chug-off. I want to see Minnie Coop on the Beerbong. Yeah. You know, this is the first time MiniCoop's been back. for about three years.

He ended up passing out on the bus at like 1.30 before the game the first time he came. And I guess we scared him off. You've got to learn to pace yourself a little, Coop. That's great. Was he just rambling about sports? Yeah, he was just sitting in there kind of glazed over and just went to sleep. I think we need to have that wireless ready to grab Mini Coop at some point. Yeah, I think that's a very good call.

Especially for that story, yeah. God, imagine if your dad was Coop. You know, he'll egg us on to tweet at Coop and just get him. He's like, hey, like something will happen in baseball, like a pitcher win or something. He's like, go tweet Coop. Let's go see what we get him started on. Which Jake would do if Coop was Jake's dad. Frankly, I used to do it to Bob.

I would text my buddies and be like, hey, light Bob up on this. Gladly. And he would reply and crush them. So it's very baseball-centric program today. First, we start at 11. because Blake has a streak to continue. Blake has to see the actual first pitch. What's wrong with that?

Did you see who it was? I know you were talking about the other day. Yeah, he was not listening, but that's okay. He had stuff going on. That's fair. Blake 18, 17 of 18? Yeah, something like that. It's impressive.

I had to rake one day my senior year. What a jerk. Is the littlest of little ones coming with you? Yeah, he's got to. He's attached to Mommy's boob right now. I thought it was lactose intolerant. Yeah, not that. Not breast milk.

That's sick. It doesn't count. Ottinger wasn't canceled over the whole White House thing. No, dude, that was a great move that we never talked about. He had something else going on. Oh, he didn't go. He didn't go. But I thought you meant he would get canceled by, like, hockey fans because most of them

once you go to the White House, you would assume. He didn't go. And so, like, the woke part of hockey Twitter that I followed, it all works in. Petco. They were all like, yeah, it's our Jakey. He's got sisters. He's got whatever. And that may have been it, but he sold it as a family thing. I can't remember if it was his, I don't think it was his wife having a baby, but it was something that wasn't like taking a knee, you know? I thought it was coming home to get ready for his next start or something. I promise you there was some family thing to it. Okay.

Yeah, so on today's show. He has a three-month-old. And his thought was he didn't play. Great excuse. That's what I'm saying is it's right on the edge. You really, I went on a Star's Road Trip when my daughter was two weeks old. Yeah. And you didn't have the, you know, multi-year, multi-million dollar contract where you certainly have a...

No, my talents were much more replaceable. I went to training camp when Benny was like a week old. You did. Dude, and God bless him. And I'm such an egomaniac. I claim our show as like partially as we caused this. But as we were talking about, I heard Tyler on paternity leave this week.

He was like, yeah, he's back after week three next week or something. Like, that's insane. Yeah, cumulus is. It's changed. But anywho. He's doling out. Yeah, he's loved, I think. Otter?

Yeah. Big win the other night. Later today, Jared Sandler will stop by, we think. We have a monthly business review. I wonder if Steve Noviello will be here. I know Steve, I know the woman. I've been told he won't. Okay.

By Letty. Okay. Yeah, we were on with him earlier. Okay. Are we allowed to, I thought you were saying don't talk about it. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, I invited Steve. Jen would jump on if y'all want.

That's not a problem. Yes, my friend from high school that had Steve Noviello's babies. She birthed his baby. Yes. They put his seed inside of her. She grew it. and produced him child, him and his partner. So she got paid.

She's here every year. She's friends with her. She got paid or she just did it because she's cool. Love of the game. That's a good question. Some ladies just love being pregnant, they say. Yeah. Like they love the attention.

We have another print here that his wife is a surrogate for, I think, the third time. She has paid. Just another thing men have no access to shut out of. Right. I'd like to get paid to do that. Right. Mine just goes to waste. To just sit around and eat extra for nine months. Have everyone tell me I'm beautiful.

Yeah. Tell me what a hero I am. Rub your feet. Sounds great. Get the HOV lane. Do you think of it? That would be great. Limitless.

You could do very niche porn. Right? Yeah. I guess you could. Also, Jim Knox will join us today. Yeah. So Jim Knox will be here around one. and then I think at

130 we're going to award what are we we don't have a name yet let's just call it the letty bus fan of the game yeah like the all right it's go to the leady bag boss fan of the game that's what I want to hear it's a solid knoxing but yeah we have

just not a whole lot to it and we have gift bags to give away we actually have three gift bags to give away to the fan of the game so if indeed you have a bit we are just getting better at this every year right all you can do is keep pushing right I mean, look at this setup.

It is a great setup, except Blake's scheduled wind this year. Why is that? It is nice, though, nice and cool. It's not hot. It's keeping all this stuff on, though. What do you mean? It's powering. Oh, the wind.

If the wind died, we wouldn't be able to broadcast. Or wind power that we use? Yeah. Yeah. Do you have, like, are people welcome to just grab stuff? How are we? Yeah, I mean, that's our crew's catering. I mean, there's a lot more.

people here. Yeah, I mean, if people are wandering up and they want a sandwich or something, we would prefer they toss us a little cash just to help cover it. Do you consider our listeners part of your crew? Yeah, yeah, the Wire Will bunch, the Coleyville Dad. Yeah, they're all welcome. Did you know Wirewell before? I didn't. I met him last year, I think, for the first time. Through us, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then he invited me to y'all's house recently for a sit-in or whatever. The only thing if we can announce that we worry about is people grabbing beer that are underage in case we get in trouble. Just FYI. Yeah, you don't want to do that, right? Yeah. So, please keep an eye out for that. He's speaking from experience. Yeah. You want to do some,

before an NBR, you want to do some sports snorts or sashi? Sure. Hey, is the moon a sesh? Because people are going to the moon again. I was not, dude, I think I've told you. And we can talk about this if you want, but if you want space news first guaranteed, you're going to have to deliver it. It's just not something I'm thinking about.

Throw the headset on TC, because I think TC likes space. Yeah, but he left for the eclipse. I don't have any... I mean, I saw that kid that everybody was hyping up on Twitter that, you know, you find a fat kid who cusses on the news and he's the internet darling of the day.

That kid who's like, what do you mean? We're going there to fucking moon. With his NASA hat on. That kid is why the drop space is super gay exists. Like knowing that kid in elementary and being like, dude, do you want to play sports? Are you just going to kind of think about how to leave Earth? You want to come out here and wrestle or something? Leaving Earth can help you in sports later.

Because they'll discover something. It's felt like a very like, you know, again, if you're into space, you're probably into a lot of other things I'm not into. And that's fine. That's your back, but I'm not going to bring it up. I love the moon. Are you happy we're going to the moon again? So it's kind of a spare journey, right? I understand they're going to the moon for the first time since the early 70s,

but they're not going on the moon. That's the first 10 Apollo missions, right? But would you just fly to? We did like 15 Apollo's and land. 10 of them we didn't touch down. You got to test it out. Yeah, but I thought we did the testing in 1970. Probably not on this equipment.

I think this is new equipment. What are we talking about? So we have to drive up there just to see if we can get there. To test the new equipment? Of course. You do a little shakeout flight. Yeah, okay. I think they should be landing on the moon.

I think the entire thing is... It is the first female to go to the moon. Really? What if that ruin... Yeah, they're going to go on... So they're going out there... What if it reverses global warming? That's what I'm saying.

They're going to fly... around the moon where they will lose contact with the Earth for 45 minutes. Dude. What if they never... Yeah. Or what if it pulls the moon out farther? It pulls the moon out of orbit. Pull the navs back up.

And what about bears? We don't have any signal. Yeah, no, she could attract. Yeah, that's interesting, I guess. I don't know. I mean, is she a real astronaut or is she like a pop star? It's Katie Perry. I was going to say, yeah, what are we...

I believe she is a real astronaut. Okay, cool. A little toilet trouble on the way up. I heard about that. I did see that, but I didn't click the story. Their toilet that somehow they have a toilet that was unable to accept you going number one, but it would allow you to go number two. I challenge you to try to do that.

Try to go number two without any number one. Oh, wow. What an interesting point. Wow. That's because that's what. It's all connected. That was their thing. It was somehow the number two thing worked, but number one didn't.

I think I do sometimes. I don't think about it as much. I don't think you can. I bet I can. Keep your eyes open and sneeze. I guarantee you I can. No. You're going to have to hold it.

Let's do like a live stream challenge. Yeah. Get a cam inside. Right. Front and back. Like some teachers always running at the Waterburger or whatever. It's such a jackass idea. Kind of an ABS.

You know, I was thinking about that this morning since I over-schedged for my kids, right? Like as the weekend approaches, it's pre-kin check. You're like, all right, we could go to gymnastics at four. T-ball practice at 530, a game ball. Then I started thinking, yes, kids are over-scheduled. And you're like, ah, you just want them to have time to just kind of figure it out on their own, you know, and just kind of get out there and be unsupervised. That approach created jackass in my generation.

They left us alone and we were like, let's light our dicks on fire with a video camera. Yeah, so bring it back. So, no. So put them in sports all the time, over-scheduled for them. Don't let them hang out alone. No, now that you're saying this, that's a great thing. great theory. You're the last generation, really, that was allowed to just roam free.

And just do, yeah. Because we roam free. They handed us a camera. And we were like, check this out. And then after that, everyone was like, what if I put my kid in 12 sports? Right. At the age of three, he is now supervised from the second I get, you know, he's never has free time at all. I feel like if Ryan Dunn doesn't put that hot wheel in his asshole. Now they have like select jackass.

Yeah. It's all like you've got uniforms. Right. Travel ball. It costs so much to be a jackass performer now. The kids running free thing, I think the limiting factor for mine, I think I could let her do anything she wanted, and I don't think she would ever leave the house.

And I've done some thinking about this, and I think it's that I'm way too nice to her. Yeah. I think that you needed a certain amount of hating your parents because they were evil people to get you, give you that little push. This place. We're just chill to her all the time. Would you like something?

She doesn't want to leave. She doesn't want to go to anyone else's house. She doesn't want to go anywhere. She just wants to be with the people who treat her good. Damn, that's very real. That is a good point. It's a big problem. I wanted to leave my house.

So I started hitting. Yeah. So I started teasing her. That's why you started working out so you can get a little stronger to put a little fear into her. Back in the 70s and the 60s, of course, if the 70s had this. There were no toilets on on the spacecraft.

Oh, they do just like freeze-dry it? They just didn't go to the bathroom. Yeah, right. They just had to hold it. No, they went, yeah, they just had a couple of plastic bags like Blake in his car. And you had to go number one and number two in the plastic bag. And then they would throw it into space.

So somewhere out there. Yeah. An alien is coming across like, is this a message? Like that's what's going to happen to us, right? We're going to get something from a foreign species, and it's actually going to be just their waste that they had, and we're going to think this is all. Oh, wow, put it in a museum.

Oh, my God, they've sent something. It really means it's arts. It must be their most beautiful piece of art on their planet, and it's a bag of shit. This is kind of what Joe Dirt was about. It really is. Really? So the story is they're going.

They took off, everybody said, now we're sending them a toilet. Yeah, now they're up there. and we'll see what they're just going to fly around the moon for a little while. Supposedly, though, this is like the first step in what you've heard since you were a little kid, right?

There's going to be a moon base. Okay. I'm pretty... I'm done with the story. I don't have any more for it. What if there's a moon base? It's just not... Oh, right on. Just feed me some meat while we're talking. He just gave you a piece of meat? Somehow he looked at you and, like,

that guy would just eat meat. He doesn't need... Bread, condiment. Oh, my God, that's good. He looks like a guy that would eat meat, too. All right, anyway, move on. Blake, on Sunday, did you watch all of McKenzie Gore start? Now I finished a bite. No.

I thought you said you did. So, I think the most jarring thing for me in getting into baseball, like trying to get into baseball in the last couple years, as I've told you guys, is nobody goes beyond the fifth inning anymore, ever. It just seems like it's, uh, It introduces a level of variance to the game when you have your worst players deciding the highest leverage moments. And obviously baseball's always been like that to a degree.

But he went five scoreless the other day, five hitless, and then get roughed up in the sixth the other day, went and looked at his splits. And it's just like that, it's been like that for five years. Just great through five, terrible, and six. I feel like Jack Leiter has that, although he does give up a lot of first inning home runs. So third time through the lineup.

My experience in baseball over the last 18 months really has just been that. And it's wild because your relievers are going to be such a small portion of your overall spending. The Rangers clearly don't have a closer. Yeah, but the game, so what are you saying as far as you're putting your worst players in? Because that reliever is not compared to Gore through five innings. It's his first time through, right? So that's, you're right. It's not the same.

The reliever is now actually better than that person. Correct. It still just doesn't make sense to me that we haven't figured out a way to where everyone only sees the order once or twice at most. There's just no more expectation of that. And then I would think adjust the way you allocate the money more because right now those guys are not paid. It seems like to me the relievers should make more. Like it should be a higher talent position. I don't understand it. That's kind of what I'm saying.

I don't understand that when I watch the game. I'm like, well, okay. I was reading a little bit about Paul Skeens. Yeah, he got destroyed in his first game and then what bounced back? Well, that was O'Neill Cruz's fault in centerfield. But a part of it too is like if he, let's say he's pitching in the fifth or sixth, he's thinking, man, I don't know if I can go another three or four innings. So what the pirates are thinking about doing with him is starting him in the third and finishing the game.

This is what I'm talking about. That's fascinating. Because what he was saying, if I'm in the eighth inning and I'm thinking I need four more hours, I can push through for that. The juice. Yeah. So that might be the next step. That's fascinating, and that's kind of what I'm saying,

is that riding the game in a way that matches the leverage points, the emotion, the talent, and the salary, just like it's a little chemistry set that is interesting to me. And, yeah. What if that reliever, he comes into a game, they're down for nothing? Is that anti-how you would want to use? Yeah, right. Like we just got to push him because it's a third inning and you're already down four nothing.

Yeah, that's tricky too. Yeah. Like would you rather... And then in theory, you're always going to be in the lead when you have a Paul Skeen's or more often than 50%, right? Much more. So you're going to be handing a reliever going through his first time in the lineup a lead. At least they got a little cushion.

Whereas in the beginning of the game, you're handing this reliever who is lesser than Paul Skeens, every pitcher is. An even slate. Yeah. And the opportunity then. That's interesting. And see, that's why I brought it up. I imagine there's also something to just getting warmed up.

Yeah. But it's not. But they don't think go to the starter. Right. I'm going to, I do have a horse eating's eater than I'm going to put in in the third. Right. So I imagine like physiology. Like the fact that you have to warm up has something to do with this too, right?

That it's very specific of like, hey, if we got you up, for this day. We really can't. I'm led to believe that this is too fine-tune of an art. Like even warming up. Dude, just go the next, yeah. Right. If you warm up four days in a row, you might not want to even have him warm up

that next day. Yeah. Something like that. That's interesting. I watched a John Boy breakdown of that CB Buckner game. The one in particular, we were listening to the crowd really roar. Yeah. The Reds crowd where there's two

two miss calls in a row and it was funny because remember the first strikeout he was like doing a big giant show on it and uh the the next one it was kind of like i'm still going to ring you up but a little more timid about it yeah anyway in that game like john boy did the john boy breakdown and there are certain pitches i guess there were 80 pitches that were around in the zone Like if it's a down the middle strike and a little bit of a circumference around that, you'll be like, okay, that's not what we're talking about here. 80 pitches were somewhere around that. Okay.

Whether outside, you know, they're trying to paint the edges of the zone, which is always what you want to do, right? 80 pitches in the game were that. 20 of those were missed calls. Six of them were challenged and all overturned. Wow, so it's about One out of every four pitches for C.B. Buckner That weren't like something your grandma could call a strike.

It was so easy. We're wrong. One out of four. So that's even more striking. I think if you had asked me, I would have said one out of eight to one out of ten. Like average umpire on a On a given day How many balls and strikes are they missing?

I think I would have said something like that One out of every four is crazy I mean hell it's it's over a pitch account right? Yeah The average of bat is probably right around that A little over that I guess the way John Boy was talking about him too Did you know who C.B. Buckner was previous to this?

No Yeah, he was Angel Hernan's light I was going to say the way John Boy was talking, this is not a surprise that now that ABS is out, that this is the guy that's in our... Well, that's actually good. Our feed, because, like, he was well known before as a bad umpire. Let's just say people knew his name, and if you know an umpire's name, they're not good. Right.

That's good to know, though, because if it was just a regular guy, then you'd be thinking, boy, they all probably just sucked. That's at least some level. I did see where, and I thought about this a little bit while the opening weekend, because Because everyone cheers when the call is overturned. They're cheering because the umpire missed a call. Yeah. This will be brought up whenever they renegotiate whatever deal they have. This cannot be good for them.

No, there has, I think there has to be some kind of a, I mean, players can get cut, players can get sent down, players can lose their job if they are not performing. There should be some kind of a... Yeah, and again, I was thinking about this with the NFL ref thing and it may really test my union bonafides because the NFL reps right now seem to me like they're out of their minds right they want they want they get 350 a year for a part-time job they want more they want it to be a they don't want to work full-time unless the NFL wants to pay them what they can make full-time doing their other jobs right now they make 350 300 from the NFL and they're an aerospace engineer

They're a lawyer. They're the director of some transportation company, and they make 1.3 to 2. And the NFL is like, no, we're not going to make you full time. So these guys are trying to really thread the needle of, hey, we're really the only ones that can do this. So what are you going to do without us? The legal go put out unqualified reps.

They won't be D1 refs. The product will suck. It'll look like the reps have them over the barrel. When in reality, I feel like you could absolutely find professional refs that would do this for 400 grand a year, 500 grand a year, make it a full-time. You get three months off in the summer too. But you've got to stay in shape. You've got to do more than what they're doing now.

There has to be a program where if a player retires, they can get into reffing almost immediately. There should be some sort of training. That's a great point. Because no one understands the game and the speed of the game like a player on the field. That has to be the next step. But I think, yeah, and a couple guys have, right? We saw a guy who was a camp body for the Cowboys, a DB.

Yeah. Who's currently on a crew, but... That's a great idea. Yeah, I think you need some of that. I think in this instance, you should feel totally fine citing NFL. Ref union is cop union, not a real union. I'm ruling now. They're so powerful, too, though.

At least, you know, the M.O. The MEP union? You would just... Are you talking about the Ump Union? The Ump Union, and I guess I don't know... I would bet that the NFL referees union is stronger than your run-of-the-mill workplace. Union. First of all, they are at least viewed as scarce, right? Right now, and that's the other thing, too, is when you read about how NFL

roughing works, or NBA, at least the way it used to, it's just the mafia. It's just a group of guys. Like, all of them lived in the same, like, 20,000 person town in Pennsylvania or New Jersey. It has nothing to do with merit. And the NFL has a lot of very similar situations in, like, Ohio, that part of the country where these guys come from. Yeah, how do sons of referees become? We saw the Hoculi Law Offs during spring training. Really? That's right.

We were standing on a street corner downtown. We saw, there it is. You've always heard that Ed Hoculie is a lawyer from Arizona, and his name's on the building. So if they've fully, like, professionalized it, and I think they should have a combine. I think you should be able to move. The NFL having anything that doesn't spare every expense

is unacceptable to me. It's a mockery of the sport that C.B. Buck, that anyone who's 63 is allowed to ref a baseball game. You should just take yourself seriously enough to set a standard. They're like, no one who's 63 can do this. Hey, you want to fly this F-16? Yeah. No, no, my eyes. Okay, well, why don't you do this other eye job?

Yeah. You would... Well, and then, yeah. And then, well, not only is he just bad because he's old and he gets calls wrong, but I guess John Boy did a quick lip reading on one of the call. It was 3-0 pitch. Pretty humble. 3-0 pitch.

It was well outside. He called it a strike and got challenged. And it got called. And I think he lip read him saying zone gets bigger with like 3-0 zone. You expand the zone. Like that's what has to be taken out. That's in his mind still. Hey, it's a 3-0 pitch.

Get it near somewhere. We're going to give you a strike. It's bullshit. That's definitely how olds viewed the game, though. Right. They didn't want walks. Right. Get aggressive.

That's been... What are you? You're sitting there waiting for a walk? The 3-0 challenges have been egregious because they would give inches off the plate just to keep the at-bat going. Right. That's great. Yeah, the Rangers don't do it, but it is great.

That is great. Bad of challenges so far. They don't. They have the second fewest overall. They're just not challenging at all. I wonder if they have like... There's other teams that have like five times as much and then like the Guardians and Rangers have almost done.

They have one in the field. When are we going to run Schumacher out of here? I know. That's what I've been... I don't know, dude. I have no idea. How about we do a little bit of NBR? What do you always think?

Sure. Just keep her moving. Hey, any one of them wants to Lucy. Those are for free. If you could just take a can, you can pop them open. I got a couple shirts. Later we'll award the... It's that time of the month. Kone Roso presents the Dumzones' monthly business review. And now the king of all note takers, here's Blake Jones.

Yeah, we should mention Conne Roso. The sponsor of our monthly business review. whenever we do it. If we remember to do it on the first of the month, Kanye Roso is going to be there for you as well. Somebody made a big baller decision to have their Easter this weekend catered by Pilf. I wish it was being.

No, I'm just guessing. I'm just telling somebody said, I don't want to call them. I'm entertaining. That's what I would do. We can't forget a pre-kent check because I want to know what you guys are doing. So after the MBR.

Okay. Here's our once a month. let's get on our knees and beg you to please like and subscribe and share our stuff. We don't do it often. We do it to kick off the NBR or lead off the NBR since we're in baseball season. We'd appreciate it very, very much. We like to make Blake do it. Yeah, when I said, hey, we should do this more.

They're like, hey, why don't you do it? All right, let's lead off with Bad Bits. And we all thought the text dot signs were going away. They didn't. and for St. Patrick's Day, they said, Irish, you'd buckle up. Irish. Yeah. As if they were another ethnicity saying that.

That's definitely how I read it. And they may have written it. Thinking. Oh, Jim Knox crazy. Yeah. Your wife coming on your business trip as a side vacation. Dude. Oh, yeah. Brutal. I feel like TC might stand for that.

I shouldn't bring him on when he doesn't have a headset. Yeah, I guess I... You're going to California for training camp, would you mind if we tagged along? They came out for a weekend one time, and that felt sort of acceptable. You kept them on the side. They didn't come to the house,

or you didn't stay with it, or did you for a day? Yeah. A night. Is this a Norman Mary situation you're talking about? I forget how it came up on the show. but you never want to hear that. But it's not, what if I tagged along?

It's not just the guy who brings his woman around without asking. Expand it out. Yeah. Yoko. Yoko. And then finally interviewing Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston while there's 10 puppies around. You guys are crazy.

That's a great bit. Shut up. We should steal that. We should use ferrets. Ten ferrets running around a room, a small room, and we're getting interviewed. Yeah. That little ferret the other day,

It was great. That thing is like a rat, and I won't get near it. It's like a bigger rat. Like it's got bad hair and it does. Bad hair. Pause. Yeah, it's not soft. Why don't you get a ferret then, big ferret guy?

Trust me, it's been discussed and asked several times, but I don't want the ferret. Really? Your kid wants a rat? My kid wants a ferret, but we don't want the cat to kill it or it to kill the cat. Yeah. Yeah. I got, that cat is currently my retirement, whatever I can get for it. Yeah.

I'm gonna be thinking about ferrets have bad hair for a while. Yeah, what does it? Touch it. No. You'll see. Things Dan and Jake want. All right, big list this month for things Dan and Jake want. The first, Jake wants to say, yield my time.

And I yield my time. You know what I want to, I've been watching, well, just some clips occasionally, but I've seen this. I reclaim my time. Like you're talking too much, you're saying shit I don't want. You could just reclaim it? I reclaim my time. You talked. I had a certain amount of time, but you weren't answering my question.

I think I've been seeing this in like congressional something. By the way, what do all these congressional symptoms do? Hey, I reclaim my time. Like, is it just for the clips so I can see a congressman being like, so you said you. Like, they're really up in their face, but what does it do in the end? Like, they're up on Pete Hegzith or one of these people like, oh, so you haven't released the Epstein files, but you said you would.

I mean, what are we doing here? Yes, it's... And then they don't release, then nothing comes out of it later. Correct, yeah. No, occasionally you'll get a banger, right? Like, something like Ron Contra or something, or some congressional hearing, the 9-11 ones, but for the most part. What even came out of that?

Well, it's just interesting to learn about, like, how did this happen? You know, we're doing an inquiry. And then we just go, all right. Yes, it did. No one gets penalized and everything's fine. I reclaim my time. Noam got fired. For what?

For having a bad congressional testimony. Like, a week ago. Well, they had a different DHS. If you want to argue that nothing in the government matters, I'm open to it. Okay. But like. All the changes that are about to occur then. Like, oh, man, she was bad.

We're going to do it different. now. They're not. Some changes are going to occur. Like, they're not going to be big. And, again, if you want to say none of it matters, I'll hear it. Maybe. But she got fired because of what I'm saying.

She did a bad one. Blake, reclaim your time. I can't tell if that guy stepped in an ant pile or a pile of dog poop. But what is it about dog poop when you step on it? It unlocks the smell. Yeah, I mean, that's anything, right? Mash up some spices. It's like holding it in.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. I think the dry parts don't smell, but the moist parts do. Yeah, and the dry parts are the outside. Yeah. Amazing. Jake also wants to say all of this is an outrage. Oh, my God. That's a really good one.

I heard somebody say that the other day. All of this. This whole thing is an outrage. Dan wants a road name. Name, a road named after me? When did I say that? I don't want that. I think, no, I think it...

I think you need a name for you on the road. Like a handle. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah. Didn't you used to have a CB radio? Challenger? The Challenger was his...

The Challenger. We had a white Ford Pinto that could explode at any point. Jake wants to get in a screaming match on a yacht. I think this is DAC related. Yeah, I mean, listen... Your life is going pretty good if you're in a screen... Well, that's a thing. Like, how mad could you be? Right?

You're on a yacht. It just doesn't seem like a play. where you could stay upset for very long. There's probably a jet ski close by. Instant dopamine. Probably. And then Dan wants to get good enough at stand-up comedy to open for Akash.

That was the craziest thing you've ever said. Just in Dallas. I don't mean I can go on the road. Would he ever let me be like the third opener? Oh, he'd let you. He's asked. Yeah, he could do it. He's asked.

And he would do a good job. That's so I can get some Indian jail. He said by the end of the year, and I find that to be, You could 100% do that by the end of the year. Time frame for never doing stand-up. We're at the beginning of the year. We're almost Q2.

It was this guy, C.B. Buckner? It was miss one. I blow me up. One out of four there. So can I do that? I think you could go start working open mics. Don't tell anybody. Quicker than T.C. could run the seven-minute mine.

No doubt. Because that one has an objective time. This one is, could you get up there? Definitely. You could just stand there. He could succeed. If you're talking about filling 20 minutes in front of... 20. Whoa, I didn't ask for 20.

He's the first you want. That's probably 15 and then features 30. Okay, 15. 15 in a historic theater full in Dallas. I think that would take you two years minimum. Maybe three, because you'd need to do 100 open mics to feel even, like, remotely comfortable. A regular guy would. I mean, no, I think I give him a leg up for sure, but it ain't that.

It's not being funny. it's doing the stand-up. I mean, maybe I just have, like, a little different level of respect for the crap. He's got a leg-up doing broadcasting in some degree. Yeah, I'm working in every day, bro. He's a leg-up by being funny, for sure. But I just think that the mechanics of getting up in front of that many people and staying on message for 15 minutes.

Do they have... Like, you didn't say I want to do a 15-minute stand-up set at the improv by the end of the year. You said I want to open up for, like, a guy. who could fill out of... That's a big act. Well, I mean, you can set your sights low. I always have. Time capsule.

I'll cover that kick. I can tell the Oscars were last month because Dan had two hot opinions about the Oscars, and he never talks about them any other time. He says, Julia Garner will be a multi-time... Why would he talk about him the rest of the year? My point, he never talks about movies or anything

until it's the Oscars, and then he says, Julia Garner will be a multi-time Oscar winner, and Jesse Plymins will win an Oscar at some point in his life. Absolutely. All right. But it's all, whether we're great opinions, too. Whether we're shopping for engagement rings or looking out of water, like we're not, we become an instant expert as soon as we see it.

You don't understand just what, my Riz, that I have the ability to become Brackett Dan in March. And then, yes, Oscar experts. Did you see the Lugonia? Is that why the Plemons opinion came about? Oh, yeah. But not just that. He's great in everything. Great movie. Would you agree? Absolutely. Oh, yeah, yeah. Here's just the last 15 seconds.

But all of a sudden, we can get a whole club up and running with electricity and everything. And so that suspends a lot of belief. And then, of course, everybody becomes a vampire. And then you're like, oh, okay, now we're in vampire movie. This is Dan's review of sinners. Great. Oh, okay, now we're in vampire movie. That was a great review, too.

I stand by everything I said this time. So that was pretty cool. That dude, that's been driving. Blake is really... Who said that? Shottie. Blake is really thrown off how he's... The verbal tick that Shottie will make you listen to a story

and then be like, so that was cool. Yeah. So that was pretty cool. I didn't decide that. March 9th, Jake says Sidney Sweeney won't be around in five years. That's ridiculous. Five might have been a little quick, but I don't think she's got

any sort of staying power at all. You guys drive me up a while with this. You don't take in any Sidney-Sweeney-Sweeney content. You have no idea about her talent level. You haven't seen anything she's in. Are you saying she's good? Just White Lotus. That's it.

I saw that jeans ad. She's A-plus knocking it out of the park, all of Euphoria, which is her thing. I've seen a couple episodes of Euphoria. It's, you know, I don't, I think she is a boring person. And I think once gravity hits, she's going to, she's not a pretty person. She's in Hollywood, bro. She's not like an attractive lady.

You think that gravity applying to her is just further proof of your delusion on this topic. America's top scientists will make sure that gravity never hits. Yeah, I mean, that does help science, but she's just not, she's not pretty enough to me to be boring. She's both. Yeah, I don't know. Like, there's just not a whole lot going on upstairs there. I'm sure that you... Miley Cyrus is fucking nuts.

Miley Cyrus deserve to be crazy. I'm not attracted to Miley Cyrus at all. But when she got crazy, I was like, this bitch is loony. She's a talent. Like, this is who I want to be famous, right? Yeah. When Sidney Sweeney gets famous, I'm like, 100% I could beat it in 10 seconds.

But I don't think you should be famous. And I don't think you will for very long. That's just my take on. I totally believe that you don't find... her attractive, I think you should look around and maybe acknowledge that a lot of people disagree with you. But I think her I just think she's got a

Joey Gallo-like curve. Like this is just one trick and I think when it's gone it's going to be tough to I think it's going to be tough to stick around. March 16th, Dan says when Eric Estrada dies, everyone will overrate him. Watch it, it's going to happen.

If we're going to come out, be like, oh, beloved. Beloved actor of the 80s. But right now when he's still alive, no one says anything about him. Right. Okay. That's what I'm getting at. If you mention him now, he's a joke.

If he walks by the table, would you want to have him on? Okay, who's another... He's going to the home opener? Who's another good example of this, if you don't mind? Because I thought you were saying he's, like, disgraced. And that when he dies, people will be, like, you know, the... No, no, no, I just mean he's a... He was kind of a spare.

A silly joke kind of a... He wasn't any great actor or anything. He was just this guy, but you know him because he was punch on this show. John Ritter might be a great example. John Ritter died. Oh, that's good. What a treasure. Yeah.

John Ritter, man, that's going to affect our lives. Like, what? Okay, good, because I had the same thought of really when John Ritter died. I just assume I was too young. Yeah, no, everybody's like, oh, what a part of my youth. Really? John Ritter? Like some guy on one show.

Who cares? What about, like, meatloaf? in the music side of things. Can you think of anyone that we all know sucks that when they die? Maroon 5. Yeah,

meatloaf doesn't suck. Yeah. Two days in a row for meatloaf. And then finally, March 23rd, Jake says it'll be after the year 2040 before Fox stops saying

from the new Fox 4 studios in Los Kalinas. There you go. That's a good one. Thank you. We're not making it to 2040. The show? I would say unlike humanity.

Yeah. We're going to be doing the show in 2040. We should check in with him one quarter in. This is the year he predicted the world to end via AI by Christmas. Not this year, but we're not making it to 2040. I guarantee you that. We'll debate this another time. Reminder about kimspin.com, if you'd like to take a random spin on the wheel.

Five new Kim Spins in the month of March were up to 581. That's a big month. And recently the other day we added Christopher Walken. Yeah, that one I have to give All Glory to God TC on that one Because he's the one that reminds me That he was on that boat when that lady died He might have killed her

Yeah The great thing is there's an interview with him Like a month after Where they ask him And he says I think she drowned I don't got anything to do with that But the way that he says it

Is the most I think he drowned Yeah I mean not him It's probably her husband That was more mad at her than Christopher Walken was but he knows what happened on that boat.

Joel Osteen? Yeah, I mean, I feel like most even, like, evangelicals aren't, like, a huge fan of him. But he got in the news when he shut down the – he shut down his buildings during Harvey. Like, people needed shelter, and he was like, not here, homos. There's one other one. He – oh, of course, yeah. He had hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash in the walls of his church. and like a Travis from community was there doing some work.

Repair guy just busted open a wall and found checks, huge bags of cash, just out of church. Oh. Which is a total, the normal thing for some sort of tax-free entity to be. That's where I put it. Hey, speaking of checks found, have you seen this? There was a bad bit on Twitter. I wanted to bring it the other day, but...

Some lady... Somebody found a check for $10,000 and then returned it to this lady. And then they made this big deal out of it. Like, oh, what a guy that did this and what a hero. It was a check. Yeah. You can't cash that. You couldn't have cashed it.

Like what did she save them? The $10 check cancellation fee? Yeah. Like there was just a big to do about just the humanitarian of the year and this guy who anybody else would have just had taken the money. How? What are we talking about? That's what I'm saying. It was this big Twitter thing, and I was like,

okay, I can't wait to see all the people jumping on this because I'm on the internet. I've heard nothing but Twitter is a cesspool full of hate and bigotry and vitriol. It's going to be, I can't wait to read all that. And all of the replies were this is such a, the story we needed today. I'm like, what?

Now, I guess if you wanted to go through the trouble of doing a little identity theft, but that's, where would you start? I think it's the long road to, To get that $10,000. You never been able to get it. Young people just don't know how checks work. They haven't used one.

They don't have any idea. It's true. All right. Anchored phrases, we've got a lot of them. Circuitous. Route. Yeah. Scantily.

Clad? Topsy. Turvy. Laymins. Terms. Latch key. Kid. Consolation.

Prize. Kiltor. Off. Lorles. Resting on. Very good. Yeah, Yanni. Janice?

What was the Laurel? Yonnie. We had a lot of fun with that. Also a couple shortened words. We have Aya, thanks to Aaron Rogers. Did you hear that? No. He calls ayahuasca Aya.

Oh, God. So it's like a couple days after my first Iya trip. Antion flam. That game from golf. Yeah, Roy's taking some anti-en flams. And Prezo. for presentation. You got to get a little prezzo today.

So you don't count proper down so F didn't make the list? Oh, no. Sof is great. Hey, Sof. And then I've got a new list I would like to debut. It's called Questions from the Dumb Zone.

This off the heels of us asking are pedophiles the only ones to use thumb drives anymore. But in the month of March, we asked... Like, that's a tell. you're going to call the FBI if somebody buys a thumb drive. Right.

It's like what you used to buy. If you buy too much fertilizer or something. Yeah. But in March, our question from the Dumb Zone, does the original kidnapper behind the Amber Alert had the notifications turned on? It's interesting to think about. He could be here right now.

Right. Walking around, getting ready for a McKinsey Gore start. Was she from Dallas? She was from Arlington. It was like miles from here. Yeah. She was both taken and found. Yeah, you got to wonder.

Does he want to think about it? Brunig grew up in that neighborhood, I think. Damn, fights with his wife. I missed one from February, and this is a good one, so I'm going to do it now. Dan asked his wife to do something. She says, I'll do my best. Dan says, I don't want your best. I want it done.

Come on, man. I'll do, but what? I'll do my best. What is this? Like, come on. Like, I need you. I'm asking you, I'm not asking you if it's going to be hard.

Do you think that she's going to try harder after you say that? I don't think she's going to try hard at any point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I agree. Yeah. But what did you get for that? I got, I got a fun argument to talk about it.

We get content. But like if she asked me to do something, I wouldn't. Well, hey, roll up, can you roll up the hose? I'll try, I'll do my best. Listen, I'll either do it or I won't do it. I think sometimes I do say what she said in that sense, and it's when I'm trying to be a bitch. Like when I don't want to do it, I'm like, I guess.

I'll try, I can't even lift it. Preempt. She knows she's going to give it a half-ass effort. And then you're going to have to do it. And then, yeah, she's going to preempt it like, hey, that was the best I could do on that. I think she just doesn't feel like saying no, but wants to. Yeah.

And then the other one from the month of March, Dan didn't want to reply to a birthday text. Who was this neighbor John? Oh, I didn't want to reply to anybody's text. But, yes, my neighbor John texted me, but it was on our... It was on our thread with my wife, his wife, and it was a happy birthday, Dan.

And then she comes over and says, oh, that was so nice what John sent. I'm like, what? All he did was happy birthday, Dan. And she's like, well, you got to reply. I do? You can't be a, you can't be me. Like, no, I don't. I didn't ask for that.

Happy birthday. Yeah. So now it's upon me that I have to reply, so then I replied to everybody who sent me a text. Ten years from now, do you think she'll get how you are? Is it about to sink in? What do you mean? Oh, that she'll understand who I am? Yeah, yeah.

All right, we're going to go to the council. She's going to do her best on trying to. The why Hillary lost judge. Seated to my right. Ooh, I have a Hillary lost from today. Okay. I think I have one, too. It's a text.

Somebody just sent me. Happy birthday, Dan? Where the hell is my phone? No, it was, I'm going to read the text. This is a, and then I read this, and I'm like, oh, this is why Hillary lost. It says here, just so you know, the wind is too much to fly the drone today. Oh, no. This guy.

What? This is a text from T.C. Woke. And I thought that's why Hillary lost. He won't even try it. Jeez, dude. Just do your best, bro. Trump's made it so I can't get a replacement.

Oh, yeah. Or you get China? They no longer sell this kind of drone in the United States. That's how you know it's good. I got to be a pussy about it. This is the time for it. All right, Jake, I have... Why don't they build a plant?

or a factory to make those drones here in the United States. I mean, they make drones of the United States, but they suck. Oh. I have seven of these. All right, let's try. Seven W.HLs? Just don't have those tiny Chinese children's hands. Yeah, that helps.

Does. Rich Eisen. Yeah, definitely. I don't, we get further and way further away from God. You're just saying Rich Eisen in general is why Hillary Lund. Yeah. No, and as you just said it out loud, again, it felt even more right. So, yeah, that one plays.

Al Franken resigning? That's an easy one, yes. Yeah. The Oscars? Just the existence? I give you that. Yeah, because I think average people in Middle America hate that shit. I don't think a single person has ever changed their vote because a celebrity was like,

I'd like to take my Oscar speech to let you know that some bad things are happening. Yeah, unless they change it the other way. Yeah, to be like, all right, I'm not supporting you. Yes, that's the only direction of moves in. What was the audio you played, Dan? They were saying how important it is for us to do this, just the Oscars in general. Because it's, yes, it just shows that we can all be together

and we can all. Okay. Right. The McDonald's CEO. In every couple years, we can do one without slapping each other. I think they should make that. The McDonald's CEO. You remember he was doing the Burger Wars.

He was wearing a sweater. and a collared shirt. Oh, yeah, that guy for sure. He'd never eat a bird. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that guy's just rich eyes and of the food space, so that's a definite yes.

They will dress the same. They probably, yeah. Blast bowl? It's top of the list. Now, if there's no rain, we're going to go tomorrow morning, but we have, no, because I want to go,

I want to collect more data and make a decision. We have practice today, but it also, may not be a good enough weather for three-year-olds. But as I told you guys, I followed the Blake lead on gymnastics. It was successful. I think we're going to go wrestling or like jujitsu.

Yeah. I've seen other kids do that. Do they make them wear the gay little outfit if they're young? They do. They do. It's part of it. But it's at the same place where we do everything else, swimming, gymnastics, all that. And he sees it.

And I'm like, well, if that... Because the gymnastics thing was like learning to fall, I feel like is a huge thing. Yes. Learning how to control your body, especially for a kid as rambunctious as him. The baseball thing is like I just want him to have the technical side of it. So that's not happening right now. So I don't know. It's definitely why Hillary lost, though.

It shouldn't exist. I was also told that if you go over to South Lake, it's quite different. What? I don't know if it's the propensity of like professional baseball baseball. adjacent players, but a mom was telling me at soccer last night, they were like, what you're describing to me is not how it was in South Lake Blastball. They were like, the dads are extremely into it. There's like coaching going on. There's not, there was like a baseball coach, because my coach is a lady, and I'm not saying she didn't play softball or something, but she's not really exhibiting

any, like, sports interests or IQ. Yeah. This lady was like in South Lake, they got three-year-olds that they're like. They're doing drills. They're hitting the cutoff, man. I don't know. It's kind of what I'm looking for. Crow hopping. Yeah. So I've said on this show that I'm not going to be that kind of dad to take it very seriously. But as I coached my nephew's team last night, I got a glimpse into the future and it's not looking good.

Yeah. Because we played the best team in the league last night who borrows players to fill out their roster. The coach takes it very seriously and the dad's due in the stands. And I wasn't happy. Yeah. Even as a mercenary. Yeah, I'm adjacent to the team.

and I'm sitting there stewing on my way home. Thinking about a couple at-bats. Damn, the pitch of this kid outside. I should have known better. And then a couple more why Hillary lost. Digital Nomad. It was just a term that did not sit right with me. It feels like something that somebody who would have voted for her

and told you about it would call themselves. I knew one. And then she was my boss and then she fired me. So I'm against the whole thing. It's just such a silly thing to say. Like, you're just a nomad. By definition. Like, you're moving.

No, it means they're a nomad with an email job. I know, but that's still... The original nomads didn't have email jobs. I'm sure of that. And then, Dan, you'll have to explain this to Jake. This is why he was out. The New York Times wrote an article on the Alabama Lepricon. It made no mention of the Alabama Lepricon.

It was just how much the story meant to the community. Right, not that it didn't mention me and T.C. I mean, it should have. That was egregious enough, but it never mentioned that there was. So they did, like, it was like an oral history of the Alabama Leopardcon. Were you here for this? You didn't know? No, I read it, though.

Okay, yeah, you saw it? So, yeah, it was like we went to this whatever street that Dan and T.C. went to. Hayes Avenue. And they found a couple of locals. And it was just a, oh, it was. It was a fun week. It was a this or that. There was never any mention of midget, Sean, a crack dealer who went up into the tree to perpetrate a hoax on the community.

But if you walk in that community and you're a New York Times reporter, you know that they told you. They told me in TC within two minutes of being here. I think this is a strong testament to how good we are. I don't think they told them. I think that every single person we encountered was initially suspicious. and then because we're so charming and great, we overcame that suspicion. I think they never got to that point.

Because I've been back since with just me without Dan's magic and asked a guy at that Texaco we were at, like, hey, is Sean around? He's like, never heard of any Sean, man. And I could tell on his face, he knew exactly who I was talking about, but they're closing ranks because I'm me.

I think that the reporter was never told. Well, then there's shitty reporters and they're called the New York Times. Yeah, I'm a better reporter than people at the New York Times. A hundred percent. Obviously, we're a lot better. I want to send Dan to like Israel. Dude, get to the whole bottom of this.

Preferably in his mother-in-law's car. We're at crocs. Just don't let any Hamas in the back seat. Done. Two seconds later, Hamas is in the backseat. They're throwing jello shots off the top of the bus. I love it. Yeah, it's raining jello shots here.

So let me do a few notes from the show while Jared Sandler makes his way over. Let's see. On March 6th, Jake said that his wife tried to book the Bloodhound gang for Jake's 40th birthday. Oh, hell yeah. Which got me thinking because I know you're... Because we've talked about it, right? Yeah. Yeah.

You're furiously planning her 40th birthday. Dude, shut up about this. You know she listens. Like, there's a small chance that if you wait another couple years and don't say anything, this could die down. Well, it's all you talk about off the air. Don't you guys. Do you guys know Genuines agents' number? I just wanted you guys to look at all of the brochures that I brought in the other day.

No, yeah, if I could get like, I mean, obviously it would be like the Backstreet Boys or something. Well, I have an idea for you. Oh, good. Because I know money is no object when you're celebrating her 40th birthday. Why don't you get the cast of Downton Abbey together? And then when she walks in, she can say, they're all here. They're all here. What if you got Downton Abbey, uh, imitating?

That's where I was headed was, I just need you guys. And we dress up as. We dress up Clayton's in like a. Lord, whatever. Yeah. I don't know one person's name. Do you? Nope.

Can you name somebody from the show? No. And he saw the movie. No. I mean, it all sounds the same to me, though, you know? Yeah. A little on Dan's spending habits. March 6th, Dan paid $300 in Vegas to see Andy.

Andrew Dice Clay. March 12th, Dan bought a James Taylor jacket for $80. I just see good decisions down the board. I don't. Dude, you might be the only guy alive currently who could stay warm in the bullpen and also rep James Taylor at the same time right now. That windbreaker is a one-of-one. March 27th, Dan got walk-mogged.

There's Mike Adams. In his neighborhood. That's right. shirtless guy, is he back? Yeah, he's around occasionally. But definitely the guy with the weight vest. Oh, yeah. He's too prevalent.

We got to do something about him. March 20th, Jake had a bumper sticker era. Oh, wow. That's surprising. It was limited in brief, but it was when I was just super stoked on no effects. Yeah, it was aimed at Bush, right? Yeah, both of them. Both stickers.

The Paralympics hockey gold medal, the game between the U.S. and Canada, they called that seeded rivalry. So good. I heard from a listener who's got a friend who was wounded in the military, and he won some sort of Paralympic medal, and he sent me a photo of this guy on the medal stand. The other two guys are standing. Just like FDR. So, like, I told you guys, when I saw Team USA celebrating their hockey win, a lot of them were standing.

Just don't know what the line is. Maybe their top half was paralyzed. We're doing it again. I'd love to know. I'd love to understand better what's going on there. Yeah. Yeah. Dan's Wifle reads Spark Notes before Book Club.

That's a solid move. I don't hate that. Dude. If you didn't have time, you didn't have time. I mean, she's busy. My grandma goes to Book Club, and I was very confused because I don't ever see her reading books. The book club is just a lady gets up and is like, hey, I read a book. I'm going to tell you guys what's in it. It's a sermon? Interesting. Book Report Club. Yeah, pretty much book report,

but they call it Book Club. So they're like, I'm going to book club. Do they take turns? It's like outside speaker. Okay. So like someone else is not in the club. Yeah, here's someone who has read a book. Yes, yes. Like an Oracle that they found? Yeah, we found someone capable of reading. She's going to tell you what it says. It's like doing a segment. I think it's kind of the dream job. Every time I read a book, I'm begging for a group of people to gather. No, it's just the library.

By Blake's house. Blake could go to book club if you want. Because like they have shit you can do at old folks' homes. You know, like your choir, you can go sing. They have like improv for old folks, which I think would be hilarious. Just go start whiling out. They don't know what the hell is going on. That's where I could actually.

that's where I should do because I'd rather do, I was going to ask, is there open mics at like 4 p.m.? Honestly, like I'd like to hone my craft at 4 p.m. and then take it to take you to an assisted living. To the nighttime. And then my final thing is Jared joins us. From March 13th, Angelo thought I was giving him money so that he would sleep with me. That was quite the revelation. Yeah. One that I don't know that we've fully really processed.

No, it's something I don't want to think about. Just hit too close to home. Too close to truth. Well, Big Lane, bless my star, Mr. Jones's NBR. People listen near and far to Blake Jones's NBR. Business relief.

From the floor of a San Antonio jail to getting color matched for television. and having his initials stitched into his cuffs. That's awesome. Oh, wow. Jared Sandler is joining us now. Some might have, might say, I've risen.

I've risen from. You've ascended. Yeah. That's pretty timely, right? I've risen. Isn't that a big thing this weekend? Is all that sit in? Yeah.

Look at the shoes. These are actually gifted to me after the World Series. They're like World Series shoes, which I wear once a year, and it's on opening day. I don't ever wear my ring, but I'll wear these shoes once a year. See how he just dropped that fact that he has a World Series? No, I don't wear it. Yep. No, listen, I know that play for sure.

Can I quickly just say something? Take humble. I'll, I will randomly sing the Uncle Hotmail song, but all today, to the poor of my wife's like, what are you saying? I was just walking around and I'd stop and be like, the handoff. Isn't it fun? Yeah, it's great. I was like, the hand. You know, like I picture, I'm listening to the handoff.

the instrumental in my head. And today, for whatever reason, I just keep saying the handoff. Work it in? Yeah, I might have to. We can get that in the pregame. This is exciting times. Dan and I were talking about,

I don't know that I've ever been out here for a home opener that wasn't the season opener. And I went and looked, and they have been very heavily home. Dan thought they were on the road most of the time. And I'm like, I feel like it's been the day most of the time. So I remember growing up, It was a pain because it felt like they would open against the athletics,

the Angels of the Mariners, and it would be a 905 start. And when I was like 7, 8, like, you know, I'd be so excited and then bam, like maybe I get a watch an inning. But yeah, we have recently been at home a lot. And then it's been, I think, 18 years since we've started a full week on the road. So even the times we've started on the road, it's a quick series and back. So it's a little odd to be six games in, but hey, we're here. But can I tell you why I love it?

Because you start your home series, and this is a long one, stand on a Friday. That's fair. Yeah, good point. This is different. Yeah. And the Friday energy. A good Friday, I've heard.

Okay. God bless he is. One of the better ones? Yeah, one of the, yeah, maybe the best, some have said. For most people, you know, there's one guy. Yeah, the J-Man probably didn't like Good Friday. Which is, I learned that Bassick, you know, he's a good Christian. and, you know, he's made mistakes, but he, you know, he tries to stay on track.

And he was explaining to me, I had no idea that Good Friday is the day that Jesus died. I find it odd that we call it Good Friday. Well, it's the start of a good story. Is it? Yeah. Someone's death is a good story? Well, what it represents. Okay.

To you. Do you know what Sunday is then? Sunday is Easter. What happened then? Oh, that's when he's risen. Okay. Yeah. You just never thought that there was a preceding event that needed to.

I just didn't think we would. I didn't think Good Friday would be like a... I agree with you. That's what I was saying. It's not good for everyone. Good Friday is when he hit the eggs. Sunday he comes out and then he gets to look for him. Dude, listen to this.

Okay. I'm getting pitched because I, listen, like the draft lottery, there's no good solutions here. But I don't like the dump all the eggs out, White House style, mega church style in the field. where we just go grab them. I can't stand it. Yeah.

And our house, even though we have like a nice yard, nice big yard, it's not big enough for that, for it to be in any way a challenge. So I was trying to come up with different stuff. Like, can we do some sort of a field day where we award eggs to the winners? Apparently they have like these shirts that are Velcro all over them.

And you put eggs like all over you, almost like a jumpsuit type Velcro thing. And the four or five adult males just sort of run around. So my point is, I don't love this solution, but if I'm going to complain about just roll all the eggs out in a field and go show up, like, this is the solution we appear to have gone with. They were ordered.

Are you guys familiar with the Afi Komen? I feel like I got to represent the 5% Jewish people out there. No, hit us. So that's like the Jewish equivalent is on Passover. You hide a piece of matza. and all the kids, it's like a hide and seek, but it's just one piece of matza, and whoever finds it wins money.

So it's not a bunch of eggs, it's one little thing. Okay. Yeah. True to our religion, we don't want to give out too much money. So just one thing. Okay. He said it. So what if you did, like, one egg?

Like, you can lay out a bunch of eggs, but only one is, like, the golden ticket egg. Yeah, I'm sure we'll have that. This doesn't look, this looks cool, though. Just have kids just trying to grab the eggs. eggs off of you. You think that looks cool. I do.

I think it looks like... Dude perfect? Yeah, dude perfect are dudes that like little kids grabbing at them. That feels a little... That's a good point. So can Kim Colley play third base? He's a Zeke Durant guy. No, I think...

Yes, can he play third base? He can play third base. I don't think we're going to see him anytime in the immediate future. Jake thinks the jungle cat's broken. I get that, and I think that... You know, that he's got to, he's got to prove it. And I would say that his leash is not just this, you know, prolonged runway. Like, he's got to show that, you know, he can get going.

Because here's the thing. When you're competitive and you're coming off two down years, there's more urgency. And the other thing is you got a new manager. None of these guys won a World Series for Skip Schumacher. There are no allegiances in that way, right? So I think that there's a lot of urgency for Josh Young to show that he can be, a part of this thing. And if it's not Cam Cawley, maybe it's Zeke Duran in the meantime, maybe it's, you know, I don't think they want to punt on Josh Smith at second so early and move him to

third, but, you know, that is another option. Yeah, I guess you just, this happens to guys all the time. It kind of happened to Root Ned. I'm sure there are others, but it's just, you're 24, 25, you're an everyday player and you put up like a three war season in your second year. Like, where does this go? It's, it is not. normal. Most guys, there's not a huge list of guys who can just go put out a 2.8, 3 war season, their second third year in MLB. That list is short. Yeah. But I would say that there are a lot of guys who they have, when you look back at their career, their best years, their first full year, or their second full year, because the book is not out and then adjustments are made and they're

not able to adjust back, right? So I think that's what Josh Young is trying to prove. It's not the case. Now, a lot of those guys don't end up starting for the American League All-Star team at a position, right? They just have good years. But, yeah, I mean, he's got to, he's definitely got to show something. Now, you know, the weird thing with Josh Young, he's really had a tough time staying healthy, not just to the big league level, but even coming up through the system. So, like, developmentally. Some of it's been freak stuff? Freak, yeah, you know, like a Jorge Solair line drive that breaks his hand, that he, you know, like, it's just, it's not all soft tissue stuff, but, and then Phil Maeton hitting him.

with a pitch. So it's tough. But yeah, he's, he definitely, you know, you don't want to be left behind. And right now, a lot of the guys offensively are rolling, and he unfortunately, you know, isn't. Although, you know, he did have a good game against Baltimore on Wednesday. Do the Rangers have, like, a real concrete strategy for the ABS? Yeah, don't use it.

Yeah, they. Well, that's what I'm wondering. Is there like a, there's a red light. You're not allowed to use it till the seventh or something. Yeah, they, they. Skip is, Skip Schumacher even said, he's like, maybe I, I was too heavy on leverage, leverage, leverage to where these guys were nervous to use it in earlier situations. They don't, you know, they don't want to use it in a two-out, nobody on second inning situation by any means. But I think, you know, there are opportunities early on in games to use it.

Obviously, if they're like bases load in the fourth inning, that's a leverage spot. But, you know, what about the leadoff hitter of the third inning when you've got. one, two, and three coming up. Like, maybe there's an opportunity, but maybe they're also, like, just not good at it yet. I don't, you know, I think there's a lot to learn. And a lot of strategy in all sports these days, it's so, I don't say watered down, but like, what,

what one manager's- Everyone in the NBA is running the same thing. Yeah, they're running the same. It all just depends on what personnel you have, but at the end of the day, they all have the same ideas. ABS is so new, and it's, it's, there's so many direction you go with it. It's fascinating. 30 teams, I would say, I don't know, 10 to 15 different strategy sets.

And then the player, like, forget what the coaches want. The players in the moment have to know, like, when to pull the trigger, right? And so they've got to be able to think in their head yes or no. And I think the communication from dugout to player is going to be incredibly huge. Because it's just like, you know, with we talk about a head coach needing a time management guy next to him at all times, right? Well, these players, similar thing. They don't need to be thinking each pitch, is this a green light or a red light?

They need to have communication. And the Brewers had signs at one point in spring training, but MLB said no to that, right? They had, like, the college football, you know, go or no-go. That's awesome. But, like, I don't-B said no even to saying you have a green light. Yeah, they, like, I guess they want, you know, whatever. Like, that makes no sense to me because we allow pitchcom.

Why can't we allow a sign to say yes or no before each pitch? And all I do is a player is I step out, I look, green light, all right. If I'm not sure about this, I have the green light to challenge. Red light, I don't have to worry about it, right? Like, I don't understand why I'm doing outlawed. But you're allowed to see the green or red before the abat, not after to see. And there's no disadvantage to the other team knowing whether you can challenge or not.

I don't think that pitchers are going to be like, ooh, this is the time for me to throw a questionable strike because they're not going to challenge. I don't think they're, I don't think they can do it that way. I wonder if it should be by Guy sometimes, too. This guy's got a great eye. I trust him. Yeah. Jake Berger said, that's a great point, Dan.

Jake Berger said, like, I trust myself on pitches that miss inside. I'm more likely to challenge that than a pitch that misses on the outside part of the plate, right? Like, I think guys have different ideas of their own zone. So I think it's a player's ability to know the strike zone and also them knowing their strengths in knowing the strike zone. Yeah, so. We have a contestant for our fan of the game later today. We have Jim Knox going to go out. I just wanted to draw attention to the guy wearing the Texas Rangers suit.

Okay, yeah, I was going to say Jim put on a little weight. Yeah, no. Sorry. I don't think that's possible at Jim Knox. I saw him. He looks great. Pecks are on full display. God, he's got pecks.

Yeah. No, I was just going to say there's a couple articles out just comparing all the different approaches, as Jared said. And Alex Cora is telling his team, like, we just want to be the most efficient team. We don't want to be the team that challenges the most. The Guardians manager, which, of course, is. is. Who do we got now? Stephen.

Stephen vote. Okay. Said it's more about how many we can get right than it is our percentage. Whether you're two for 100 or two for two, you've got two challenges overturned. We want our guys to use them. It's just like the quantity approach of like, look, if you think you can get one, I don't care. We're changing a call in the game. It's a little flawed because you lose them.

It seems like it. All right. Yeah. In the John Boy Breakdown when he was breaking down that CB Buckner game, I don't know if you saw that, Jared. Oh, yeah. The one where he got 20 out of 80 pitches wrong. It's going to expose people. I heard you guys talking about it.

I don't, it was yesterday or on Tuesday, but it will definitely expose people. And I do wonder, you know, C.B. Buckner had a rough week. Did he, do we get like any results? Like, was it a concussion? Or was he just, maybe I need to take a day off or something. Yeah, let's just get out from behind the plate. Yeah. No, no.

In his breakdown, he was like, you know what? They should probably get three challenges. because you're really gun-shy on the first one because if you're wrong, you're going to only have one left for the whole game. Yeah. So you would feel a lot more confident. I bet you they do that

because they move so quick and they're exciting moments in the game that if they could trade it right now, I bet they would. Like, oh my God, people love this, it's moving quick, it's an excitement point, it's conflict, it's got a great, we can sell it.

Yeah. I do think that it will eventually go to three. I don't know beyond that, but I do think that, you're right, Jay. Like, it's very seamless. It doesn't really stop down the game. Let's just go with three, and I don't think it'll make that much of a difference.

Oh, sorry, I'm trying to coordinate something. Dan, okay, sorry, back to this. You know, it's six games. I kind of want to check in with you every, like, 16 games or something. That's my bid is, like, 10% checks. They don't walk at all. Well, I guess it's... They don't walk like they

did in the championship year. Yeah, and I do think that some of that might come, right? Like, their walk rate's pretty low right now. I don't think they're going to be the walkiest team in the league. That's a weird way to put it. But I think they could probably level out middle of the pack because Corey Seeger will walk. Brandon Nemo will walk. Jock Peterson, hopefully, you know, if he can get going, he'll walk.

They got some guys who can draw walks. But, yeah, they're not going to be the team that walks the most. But I do think that they're a team that will have a much higher day. damage rate and they'll be way more discipline overall. Yeah. It seems like thus far they're relying on the long ball a little bit, but. But hey, can I tell you something? I think sometimes people crap on the home run because it's like, oh, like, hit it the other way on the ground. There's nothing better you can do than hit the ball over the fence, right?

And that's honestly a big part of what was missing. Through all their shortcomings the last two years, you can sidestep a lot of that if you swing and miss at a lot of pitches, but you also hit the ball over the wall, and the Rangers just didn't do that last year or the year before. That hitting the ball over the wall makes up for a lot of issues along the way. Yeah, I think my thought on it as a just a complete dube on this stuff still is like it's just there's more variance to it. You don't know that fly balls are going to leave at the same rate. Like if you're hitting line drives, they're more likely going to produce than fly balls,

like different parks, that sort of thing. That's why I would think you just want to like a diversified offensive portfolio, if anything. You don't want your only ability to score runs to be hitting the home run ball for sure. I would say if you can pull the ball in the air, like pull, pulled fly balls are good. Fly balls to center, fly balls to the opposite field typically aren't good, right? But if you can consistently pull the ball in the air, you're going to find results. But yeah, you want to have a varied approach. You want to be able to win on the bases.

But this is a more athletic group. Yeah, it's fun. Yeah, you know, whether it's going to be in base stealing or just, you know, aggression on the basis. I think it's a group that will be able to gain an edge, at least be additive in that regard. We didn't really see that last year. But, you know, we'll have to wait and see it as just six games and we're riding high. But I do think that there are a lot of makings for this team being better offensively. And if they're starting pitching as good, like 90% as good as we think it should be, then you got a team that's going to be competing, you know, almost to the end and maybe

playing beyond 162. I wanted to ask you if you need to go. I probably got like five, more minutes. Just about the division. You know, I kind of thought the Astros didn't have much last year, then they pulled away. Just, are we chasing Seattle or is it still Houston? No, I think it's Seattle. I think the Astros are good, but I don't think they're great.

I do think, and I've said several times over the last several years, the Astros are better than the Rangers. I don't believe that this year. The team that's a wildcard to me is the Athletics. I just, their offense is so 90s Rangers, but they're pitching. is also so 90s Rangers but they're kind of a wild card

not I don't think they're going to be a wildcard team but they like if they won 81 games it wouldn't shock me I don't buy the Angels I know they you know they they show promise in April or March in April every year it seems they don't I might eat my words they don't bother me but I do think Seattle's

really good again and I do think that Houston is going to be good enough they're competitive and I think at worst the athletics will be good enough to where it's like all right We got to show up for the series. The Rangers have had three players win the batting title. Who are those three players?

Josh Hamilton, Michael Young. Did Julio Franco ever win a batting title? Wow. All three? He nailed them all. And he pretended like he didn't really know. I really did. I was a little...

Your trivia guy, so I just thought, let's just throw some random trivia at Jim. I like it. Hey, what do you guys think about? I don't know, like, I'm in this, right? Like I eat, sleep and breathe this. How are you guys like coming off of two down years, but a good start, like excited?

Like what, I guess I lose touch sometimes with like how Rangers fans feel at this point of the year because I, sometimes I psyched myself out into reality too much. My thought is that there's a huge, still a huge opportunity for the Rangers with the Mavericks, people having the bad taste in their mouth about the Mavericks. They still have a relatively new ballpark,

and they're going to do well in attendance, and they have the chance to have the best's rotation in the American League. You could look up at the deadline and have Leiter and McKenzie Gore be your best two pitchers. Yeah. And I think Jack Leiter,

if he is able to consistently be finally consistent, I think he's borderline star And I think they've got I think they've got a chance to grab a lot of people this year I really do I told Jack Lider was a bus But I maybe I'm Yeah

Now just so people know that's not a shot at me No, that's not a shot at you at all That's one of his It's not a shot at anyone I just saw a lot of stuff out there, you know I'll say He's a guy who remembers Yeah

I might have a note of keeping receipts Oh no Just in case I'll say this I don't I'm not gonna pretend to know What the Clubhouse was like for the past few seasons, but I could tell something was up.

Walk-off wins weren't that fun anymore. The dog, like, just little things like that where even in the title run, it wasn't as fun as 2010 and 2011 because it didn't seem like the players were having as much fun. And that permeated to me. I have a little bit of excitement

for a new younger manager. The young guys seem to be, or the new guys, Nimmo and McCutcheon seemed to be bringing it along. So I have a little more excitement than normal, and the good start helps too. So, yeah, I'm, I would say more back-in. now than I have been for a few years.

I do think there's been a little more life injected into that group. I think you're right, 100%. I thought on baseball overall, because I've been, you know, in and out of baseball in my life. But I think it's like such a high point right now with the new rules, the pitch clock. Like these have all been great. Yeah. And it's good talking points and it's good to get other,

whether it's kind of a formerly huge baseball fan like me or someone who's not really a baseball fan just in to check it out. like, oh, this is kind of cool. And now the ABS is another awesome thing. It's great. But there's a looming work stoppage. Yeah. Because of the whole TV deal and the local deals falling apart.

And I don't know how that's all going to play out. So it's a weird, it's probably like Soso-Maguire era, right? All the home runs were great. And then they had a work stoppage. No, no. The work stop has preceded that. Sosa-M-Guire right. They were revital.

Yeah, yeah. They gave life. No, but I worry about it. about that too. Well, don't. One day at a time. Okay. As far as now, it's good.

Well, he's asking about the thoughts. He should be worried. I am, yeah. A little worried. Yeah. But as far as, you know, baseball. Yeah, obviously us, we can go focus on something else if a butterfly flies by. But, like, I do think you're right, Dan.

I think this was a great opportunity. The Athletic had an article about baseballs now ahead of the NBA. I don't know, like, that's such a tough thing to gauge. I don't feel it necessarily always. but it would be a shame if progress, progress, progress, work stoppage, and all that gets thrown out the door. That'd be pretty terrible. Do you still get paid if they... We've got some things in the contract to ensure some protection, but...

You have to be champ for birthday parties. I got to walk out. I got to be champ. I got to... So what do you do today? It's going to say something that would get me in trouble. When you walk in there, what is the day? What is the day to day?

Like today? Yeah, do you go to the manager's pregame thing? That's already happy. Yeah, I mean, I've been here since 7.30. You know, today's the day where every news station remembers the Rangers exist. And so we got all the hits and stuff. And, yeah, and then. Every team's.

Play-by-play guy. Guys, yeah. But I remember the stars are always mad when. It's terrible. It's terrible. It's true, though. Dale Hanson's actually at a hockey game or whatever. The thing is, it's not just the media.

I do it for high school girls basketball. Yeah, he does it. It's not just the media. Oh, nice seeing you around. Dude, Rick would do it. Rick would stare at Matt Mosley and be like, what got you here? What got you out of bed, huh?

Why are you interested? I mean, we don't get a ton of coverage. Right. You know, all of a sudden. No, but batting practice is going on right now. We talk to the manager, the clubhouse. It's a little bit of a different feel because it's not opening day, opening day, right?

So it's not like there's a bunch of, like, Hey, first game of the season type conversations, but obviously still super exciting. And then we have to, the one day a year, we have to wear a suit for some reason. So got to play along, got to play nice. That's mandated by the boss? It was a...

Heavily encouraged? It was, yeah. Someone in our broadcast team was all in favor of the suit, and people got behind it, and so... And it clearly wasn't you. But you've given it a good 90 to 95% effort on that tie, it looks. I don't know how to... I didn't do the tie.

I don't know how to do a tie. I'm saying it's pretty good. Oh, I don't know how to do it. I don't know how to do it. Yeah, you don't want that thing longer on the bottom. I did know that. I know. I'm working on it.

Was it David Murphy? He seems like the only suit guy. No, no, not. It's not Dave Raymond or Nate. I will tell you, Elvis, who's going to be here today, super hung up on whether or not we would have a pin. So I've got, you'll see here. A lapel pin.

Yeah, a pin. He was like, listen, when you've made that much money in your Rangers Hall Famer, I guess, but he's like... He just walked in and said everybody's got to have a pin. He didn't even walk in. Yesterday, he's like texting, hey, can we find a pin? Can we have a pin?

And then someone's like, I don't know. He's like, oh, man, like kind of sad. And they're like, it's hell of this. So they're going to do it. And they're, of course, pins are... I wonder if he just got buddies. Like, hey, ask him this. Yeah, that'd be a great bit.

Does he use emojis? I've always pinned him his emoji guy. Yeah, he does. Boy, that does track. He does. He's a big emoji guy. Hey, Jake Ottinger will be here. though, throwing out the first pitch.

She'll be on pregame with us. That'll be fun. See the gold medal. That is shut out yesterday. He's tall. He is. Have you interviewed the statue yet? I've not interviewed the statue yet.

Don't think that's going to make its way into our wide scope of activities for the year. Coming back from break, are you going to do a dramatic, like, zoom in on the statue as we come back to the game? We're talking about the Beltrate statue, right? I think this is the... Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We'll see it here. I don't want to get fired, before opening day. All right. Hey, guys. Thanks for being here. You're the best. Appreciate you guys.

That's the great Jared Sandler, everybody. TV's Jared Sandler. TV's Jared Sandler. Can you believe that? Let's, uh, let's do the Dumb Zone news, yeah? Yeah. Here's Jay. This won't be super long.

Do you want to use my jar? Blake brought his P-Jar. I've used it today. Really? Can you share it? I don't see why not. Why not? I would say there's lots of reasons why not.

You don't want to touch tips? But I guess I'd rather use Blake's Peajar than go into that porta potty, right? That's crazy. What's wrong with a porta potty? It's horrible. All I do is I go in there and I think of slumdog millionaire. So we've got some more info on the... Oscar movie.

The indictments, the arrest of rappers, Poo Shisty, and Big 30. I think I had mistakenly said yesterday Poushii from Dallas. He's not from Dallas, but he was living as we're going to find out in this news story in Frisco. So perhaps this will be a new storyline

when Frisco King drops. Oh, wow. Pousheisty is accused of luring. You know what? I got a better idea. Why don't we let the extremely ear to the streets

Fox 4's David Sindh Tendary tell us this story. Yeah, well, this was disguised as a traditional business meeting, but then it turned into an ambush. I'll make you be. Lantrell Williams, Jr., a well-known rapper by the stage name Poo Shisty. All right, so I guess you could, you guys see you why we've got. Was on house arrest for a firearms conviction related to drug trafficking when the Department of Justice says he led a group to rob and kidnap three people inside a Dallas recording studio

back in January. The motive? So Poo Shisty could get out of a record contract with rapper Gucci Mains label, the new 1017 records. So that's the crux of this. Well, I hate for Lori Brown to drop off my favorite reporter list so quickly. David's great. Then they go to this guy. Poo Shite, like every name he pauses right before it to Annuncine. We're not talking about low-level rappers here, guys who are trying to make it.

TMZ tells Fox 4 to let go of Poo Shisty. would have been a financial blow to Gucci Main's record label. He had a lot of artists under his label, and then he made a decision that he was going to let go a lot of those artists. One of the very few, though, that he held onto happened to be Poo Shistey, because, again, Poo Chishty, somebody's got a lot of fans, he's got hit music, and certainly somebody that Gucci Main could be profitable. According to a criminal complaint, Poo Shisty was upset with contract terms.

Surreillance images show Poo Shisty, his father, and seven others. before they enter the studio. Once inside, Pouscheisty pulled what appeared to be a black AK-style pistol, pointing it at the head of a victim, labeled R.D. Demanding R.D. signed contractual release paperwork. RD complied. Gucci-Maine's legal name, Roderick Davis, matches those initials. The victims...

All right, so, yeah. Wow. There are some very detailed descriptions online. All I heard is the word Poochistee. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He said it is, that's the best. They say that at gunpoint,

Gucci Bain had his men unscrew the earrings, or Pushai said him unscrew the earrings from Gucci's ears as he was tied up. Oh, wow. The disrespect. But Gucci's been out there on Instagram live himself. I saw a video of him last night because his big deal, he's done time. His big deal, like a lot of these dudes, has always been like, We're not talking to the cops.

So he had to post a video like, hey, if y'all think they found him because of me, I don't have anything to do with this, and I'm not going to have anything to do with this. But here's what I do have. And he started counting up racks, like 100K, 200K, 200K, counts it to 2 million. And he's like, they don't see the end of the year.

And that's like the video. He's like, whoever wants this. This is how I deal with it. And our buddy Landry's a big. Gucci guy. Like, that's who I associate with him. And he's been, it's like, I don't know, it's like Luca got traded or something for him.

He's like, dude, he's gonna get him back. He's chilling. And he is. This is awesome story. It really is, dude. And it's just in a studio in Dallas, and he's living in Frisco on house arrest. I saw another video.

He's on probation, but he's on some streamers stream in the backseat of his Bentley, driving around Dallas, on speakerphone with his PO. Like, no, no, I'm at the house. I'm at home. And then going to find out.

It's live. Oh, it's live. Yeah. There's so much happening. Wild story. So I got to think about that tonight after I, like, go to the grocery store and then, you know what I mean? You know what your Friday night is now? Right.

You've got kids and stuff. It's like whatever. Get the dishes done. Yeah. A little extra early. Like, I got to think about all. all this other stuff that's happening in DFW. Right.

As I go to bed at 11, like that these things are just starting. This is a fun one from the state of Texas. The state will launch a program, our very own program, to research a psychoactive drug. I don't know what Ibogaine is. You got anything?

Ibogane? Okay. But it's a psychedelic that it's plant-based. and I guess it's my internet's down, Blake, if you could look that up. Is anybody else have internet? Are we good?

What do you want to know? Rapidly interrupt addiction. They use it for PTSD. Is it ayahuasca? For its potential to rapidly interrupt addiction, the opioids, cocaine, and alcohol, and also treat PTSD. Yeah, I think it's lightly, it's got psychoactive.

It's a psychedelic. And you know, I never really, And, you know, I never really... But it curbs other addictions? Yeah, I mean, that's what they say, right? Like, if you're somebody who's addicted to alcohol or addicted to cocaine or whatever drug, they would say that mushrooms, even though it's a drug, can help you kick that. Or ecstasy, even though, like ketamine.

You're familiar with ketamine, right? It killed your hero. People take ketamine to get off of other stuff that's, like, way worse for them. Who's his hero? Chandler Bing. Oh, that's right. I didn't know that's what he took I think inhaling all that water from the hot tub

killed him but Well yeah but he passed out because yeah dude He invented a new way of talking Put your thing on Put your thing on He uh Sarcasm No he started doing therapeutic ketamine

And then got hooked on it And started having to do it on his own That's so Chandler TC's done therapeutic ketamine before though Really Yeah therapeutic ketamine Oh well Yeah, sorry, I guess I should ask somebody else.

If you have any questions, I'm here to answer them. I think, you know, a lot of times people will say thank you for your service or support the troops or I thank the troops. And they don't mean it because they're thinking about whether or not they actually mean them going over and doing violence or protecting or whatever. I thank and support the troops because it had never occurred to me that all the fucked up stuff that they've seen at war is how we would get, legalized drugs at home. Yeah. So, like, the PTA, they're the ones who are, like, fighting to keep pot in Texas.

And I think in no small part, the change in culture in America on pot has been because of veterans whose brains are scrambled because we had them. So if you can get a bunch of veterans to petition your governor. It's way better than the three of us. Yeah. And now they, like, psychedelics and psychoactive drugs have, they've shown to help with things like post-traumatic stress, depression, addiction.

So the hippies and those soldiers they were spitting on have now come together. It's kind of beautiful. I find kind of mean tremendously helpful. Really? I listened. The one time I've listened to an Andrew Huberman podcast, it was the one where he was talking up what it's good for. I heard a bunch of scientific terms for why it's true.

And it's right. They're right. You have to inject it? No, no. I'm not answering any. more questions about that. Oh, my God. I will say I've never rejected anything.

I'm trying to find an internet connection. Why don't you do a hotspot off of my computer? I got internet. I don't think it doesn't look like I can. Okay, I got another one pulled up here. Is this like a new benchmark you guys are doing? I guess we shouldn't print stuff out then. I'm the asshole.

No, no, I never call you an asshole. If you're looking for a reason for the modest success of our show, It's our daily benchmark. How's Tom Sandwich? Blake, where's Pine Forest? Oh, sounds Houston-y. A woman is speaking out after she says, three loose dogs entered her property,

attacked her 14-year-old pet. This is something that you now do because it's recorded on your doorbell camera. You can post it online. You can go to the news. And that's the story. She pulled her gun from the side, tried to shoot them.

She couldn't. So she just throws the gun at him and they take off. But her dog is... How beaten is that? That doesn't seem to be a... Her dog is dead. Died in her arms. Oh, because the other dogs killed it?

Yeah. Are you allowed to just shoot other dogs if they come on your property? You can shoot people on your property. I'm sure you can shoot dogs. Yeah, I don't know though. People love dogs, dude. Yeah, but people love guns more.

Yeah. I think you can shoot a dog on your property. I guess I could see you getting sued. Have you seen? Does the Muri not work anymore? Does what not work? Everyone else is connected to it. I've been trying to get on.

Trump weighed in recently on the... They're thinking about getting rid of a base in the Indian Ocean. Yeah. And then I was reading up on how that base came to be. And they took all the people that lived on it, like forced them onto a boat. And while they're standing on the boat, like waiting to be loaded on or whatever, the troops just gathered all their dogs together. an open fire.

What? And I feel like that was a bad move. And it was also not nearly long enough ago. It was like 1966. Just the mass slaughter of everyone's household pet. Well, we're going to try to lift the mood here with a story from Kilgore. Blake, anything? Kilgore, Rangerettes.

That's he done blocked it, right? We've seen a couple of stories recently of like cold case murders that was solved. There's a Houston one that was like from the 60s that they just solved using whatever. Is Knox over there right now? Yeah, he's around. Yeah. And anyways, we'll make this a story. So this is in Kilgore.

In 1975, up until that point, they had a historic wooden owl on their library. It was a symbol for the town. It was installed in 1939. In 1975, it was stolen. and this week it was returned. 51 years later. Wow. That is awesome.

Right? They organized a ceremony to unveil the Al that had come home. Nobody accepted responsibility? A couple weeks ago, the director from the library gets a call from somebody in the city and says, I have a family member that took this years ago, and they recently died, and their dying wish was for us to return it to you. Nice. That's a good. dying wish for sale.

I don't have any good dying wishes. That one's great. I wish that guy would have, I would have wanted to publicly return it, though, because statute limitations, right? You're good? You would have to think so, but maybe he was embarrassed. You know, it's a small town? The guy might have done it when he was like 23.

Yeah, you're a... Yeah. He's like, God, I'm a pariah and Kilgore if I step forward with this. Right. Not the owl. Does I have to wait until I die. Like how Amber Hagerman's murder might be wandering among us. people back then. I could be next

to the owl stealer and I have no idea. To keep this quiet though, I know. That Taltair Hart was beating all throughout his life. He never told a buddy and never got out. That was always my theory on the guys that stole

the OJ bust from Canton many years ago. They didn't make it 50 years. They didn't make it like a few weeks. There was a lot of news stories about it and then they they found it in the median, the highway media. Yeah, but you know it was on, some guy was smoking pot with it on his door, you know, a table in his basement or something, his buddies were around it.

Holding the joint up to OJ. Yeah, and they were like, dude, got to get rid of it. It says here, the owl that was returned after 51 years later, and the story concludes, there was no late feet charged. Oh, just having a little fun. There's your news. The Dumb Zone News. Like and subscribe.

That was a good news. When we're done with this break, we will welcome in Jim Knox from the Fox Box. Yeah. The Dumsah, Dums, a... A lot of young guys making up this athletics lineup. You expect from a team that's rebuilding. But don't be fooled by that.

Kind of do a monthly day. Business Review, Murph. This A's group has been on fire. Best record in baseball since July 24th. They're 21 and 10. You're listening to The Dumb Zone. How's your mic? Let's see.

Oh, it sounds great. It does. It sounds excellent. How's your mic? How about this one? Oh, yeah. This is more like it, a little roving mind. Jim Knox crazy.

That's the great Jim Knox, folks. The great Tom Greve there. Jim Knox from the. The Fox Box is here, the bus. Now it's baseball season. We are here. Who are you employed by today? Because you're out.

You got another microphone. You got a cameras. We're all over this place. We already interviewed a goat, a real live goat, and the Easter bunnies around the corner, too, as well. But it's Rangers Nation. They're called Rangers Nation. Rangers Nation. Got about 150,000 followers, very much fan-engaged.

YouTube show just hit. And this is... Are they follower mocking us? No, no, not at all. Yeah, quite a bit, I think. Seems like it. No. Yeah.

We got... Remember Kevin Mitch? Sure. Shrek. Yeah. Shrek cannot hit the long ball anymore. Your first YouTube show was him against a high school player. It's going to be probably drafted, number one, Grady Emerson.

Oh, yeah. Former Argyll kid. Yeah. And I put him in a home run contest, and Minch had the happy Gilmore baseball swing now. It's like a step and a swing. He like hit... Softball. Yeah.

He like hit two home runs out of like 100 pitches. He had 28 one season, three and one game against the Angels. And one time, remember Dan? The seven consecutive home run he hit in a game? I do not remember that. No. Seven consecutive games with a home run he's had. Oh, okay.

Yeah. So he's off the juice now. Yeah, off the juice and eating a lot of eating a drink and a lot, it looks. like. No, actually, he's slim and trim. He's slim and trim, but he can't hit the long ball anymore. Maybe that's it. He needs to gain another 15 pounds. So what we're going to have you do, our tradition now, though, is to have Jim Knox join us on opening day, and we're going to go around the tailgates, and we're going to try and find our, this is the Letty Bus. Fan of the game. Fan of the game. We have bags.

Fan of the pregame. We have three gift bags to give away. In these gift bags, there's a Qualus roofing hat. There's a Dumb Zone T-shirts. There are Yocchio socks. We have a copy of Jim Shoot's book, The Accommodation, where you can learn about some really dark Dallas history. And a Frankel and Frankel can of mince. Nice.

What a hole. Yeah. So we're going to give these away to the, fans of the game. Like it. If you don't know who Jim Knox is, Google Jim Knox. YouTube Jim Knox. There's some great

stuff on there. I appreciate that, Dan. Where are you hold up now, Houston? I'm in Austin. Come back and forth to Dallas quite a bit. Okay, is that how you knew we were syndicated? Yeah, you guys, I turned on, I think it was Fox 7, Austin. 11 o'clock

I was on a Sunday. I don't watch much TV, but I happened sit on the couch for a couple minutes ago, hey, the dumb zone. That's right. In Austin. You're going to be on in Austin. Austin, man. We're going to make sure Jim Knox gets on the segment there.

So I've been keeping up with you guys through the dumb zone in Austin. Okay. Nice. We appreciate it. You ready for this? You scattered anybody out? Yeah, no. I did see a couple of people looking like bananas over there, so I'd like to see what that's about.

There you go. They do look like bananas. Hey, you want to walk with us? Carry these. He's bringing Letty. There's a former league pitcher Mike Adams. Who's missing a rib, we found out. Did he have the thoracic baby?

Let's check these guys out. All right, what do we got over here? We got the bananas, it looks like. Where are you guys from? Hi, I'm from Fort Worth. Fort Worth, and you? Yeah, yeah, Fort Worth. It's my wife.

Whose great idea was this, the banana suits or the look-a-like? Mine. Yours? How did this come about? Oh, we like to make people smile with some sunshine, but I also like to just match. Okay, very nice. What do you think about that? Oh, I love it.

I love to make people smile. This was my submission for the gay or not gay segment. So I don't know. What do you think? It's extremely gay. It's also very cool. Yeah. Because when I think baseball, I think bananas.

Like, what's the tie in with the... Savannah. Savannah? There you go. Okay. That's good. That works. Baby blue.

Can ID themselves? All right. Now you guys are going into the game, correct? Are you just out here tailgating with the dumb zone? Just tailgating. Okay, so you came here to tailgate? Okay, you'll be out here watching the game and that's good, okay? I think, you know, through their effort, Jake, I think coming out here in banana looking like suits, right?

They deserve the jump zone. Give them a fan of the game back! Let's see what, we got a lot of sponsors in here we want to make. Dan, name off the sponsors in here. We already did. We're good. Oh, we already got them. We got that. All right.

Congratulations. Give me our. Thank you. Abby. Abby. Abby, wow. And James. Yeah, thank you.

There we go. Dumb zone fans of the game right there, the bananas. We didn't even put any Dumbzone stickers in those bags. Yeah. There we go. Okay. Who else we got? We'll be fine.

Which way? Do we, uh. Oh, who? What? For real. Okay. This is Jim Knox's bit. This is in his natural element.

You know, I did. Hey, Dan, I did come across a 94-year-old lady in the parking lot over here. Oh, yeah? Yeah. Is she still alive? She's still alive. Favorite player was Nolan Ryan. I asked her that.

And she's in the stadium right now. So what's your name? T.J. T.J. And you are in a wheelchair, correct? Broke my neck playing high school football and Trinity High School. Oh, man. Wow.

It was a great hit. I went out in style. I love it. And you're doing beer bongs out here from the chair? I'm in a wheelchair. I'm not dead. Yeah, let's go. Let's go. I mean, you don't have to drive. I don't know. I guess you can drive. That was really ablest. Drive my own vehicle, but I'm just not driving today. Yeah.

Let's wheel on over there and see what this looks like. Oh, yeah, this is definitely fan of the game material. I don't know. Do you think he tells people he was really good at football? You got to be kidding me, really? Absolutely. Oh, wow. Apparently, wasn't that? Jake, he drove the car here. He drove these guys here.

They said we got great parking. Wow, good God, he's fast. Holy shit, guys. What, the wheelchair? That guy has achieved my dream. That thing's motoring? He is so fast. Holy moly.

That's okay, Blake. Oh, we got some back. Get away from the speakers. Yeah, I'm back out. Yeah, we got to hear off. Speakers are off. All right, here we go. We got the cameras ready.

Are you ready for this, Dan? All right, here we go. What are we doing? Potential. This is to all the people in wheelchairs. You got to live some lives. As long as I can drink, drive, have sex, and get good parking spaces. Hell yeah, dude.

All right, here to go. Okay, wheelchair guy is going to use, what is this called? Loaded up, we've got a beer bong, the Nelson Booze, and they have turned to the pump, and there he is. There he is. He's just going for it. That's a pro move, and it's done. Wow. The Nelson Boots going down smooth.

Incredible. Way to go. Wow, that was tasty. Yeah, the beer bongs have different names. Yeah, that one was Nelson Boos. The other one's like Mitch Moore Suds. That's right. I got you.

Okay, you've already interviewed me. We just touched them a jello shot here. He definitely will not be driving home after this one. Oh, yeah, that's right. He's a Lettys Bang Bus fan of the game. There we go, yeah. What's the worst thing that can happen to him? I mean, well, that's kind of what I was thinking.

He could put someone else in a wheelchair. That's right. Let's see. What about right here? You always got, okay, we got to get someone from Asia. We got to get someone from Asia. Okay. Am I right?

Are you found? Out of everywhere. Asian Ranger fans. She's wearing a Rangers t-shirt. Now we're talking. Yeah, where are you from? She's twerking? I come all the way from Oak Cliff.

Oak Cliff or Oakland? Oakland or Oak Cliff? Oakland? Really? You're a big fan of Jim Knox? Yeah, he's so... Okay, what's your name? I knew you were big with.

Gowdown. Okay, very good. How long have you been a Ranger fan? The boomstick. This has got to be a plant. This year they got the head nacho. Yeah, the nacho. The Subrero.

Yeah, the Subrero ninth inning round. That's right. What's your favorite food? Oh, oh, the peanuts. Pinnets. Peanuts. Oh. Okay, God, gotcha.

Wow. Okay, so who's your favorite Ranger player? Oh, I like those. The dots, they run around. The dots? Yeah, they're somewhere on the field. They run around. That's not a player, but we'll take it.

We'll take it. Close enough. Okay, we have another bag. Let's get a fan of the game material. Yes. All right. Congratulations. Yay!

This make you miss your old job? The game, way to go. It's got to make you miss your old gig. Oh, yeah. Got to come back to this more often, Dan. We need to do this once a homestand. So you have a 94-year-old. old and an Asian.

And a guy in a wheelchair with a beer bomb. This is like old times. Yeah. This is like brings back great memories. This was great. Look at that. He just attracts him. What a time?

She's just standing there. He's like a little magnet. You want to get him to sit down or what do we want to do? You want to walk over there and listen to Knoxie talk to Mike Adams? Yeah, sure. Mike? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know Mike Adams?

This is where we found him last year. All right, here we come, Mike. Here we come. Look at this. Same spot. Same spot as... Am I too far? What's the best thing about opening day for you?

You've been here a couple times. Two, man. Probably just the memories, the memories that it brings back. Ask him about that missing rib. The start of the new season and... Ask him about missing a rib. There we go. Okay.

Dan wants to know about the missing rib. Did he take the rib out just like Maryland hamson? Yeah, so I'm missing the rib. My first rib on my right side from TOS surgery. Did he keep it? Back in the end of 2011. Yes. You keep it?

I did it for a while and then it got nasty. Made it like a necklace or something. Yeah, well, I used to travel with me in my toiletry bag. Have you ever heard the story about Marilyn Manson and his rib? Yeah, that's a little bit different. It doesn't work that way? Different reasoning. He asked him if he can do it.

I mean, he tried. I mean, he tried. Bottom rib, not a top rib. And that doesn't help? No, not that I know of. Can you do it? Yeah, try it now. Try now.

Now. All right. I think the mics are cutting out really, really bad here. Mike, you're- Not bad. Is it not bad? No. Give me the toughest hitter you ever face.

Miguel Cabrera. Really? Oh, yeah. I think I got him out one time. Actually, I got him out twice. And one time was a fly ball of the warning track. So he probably, I know he hit at least one bomb off me in the AALCS. And I just, yeah, he was a tough out.

Okay, looking at this team, and I know it's early. It's opening day, but they played last week. What do you think? I think they got a chance, man. I mean, obviously we're, you know, what, six games in? But they're showing a lot of promise, and they're showing a lot more they did last year. I'll tell you that. So it's very hopeful, very hopeful.

See, Dan, they got a chance, Dan. Dan earlier predicted, what was your prediction, Dan? They would be caught at the end of the season by one pitch. right right the ABS will be over will overturn the final pitch of the season and they will actually miss the playoffs yeah yeah we got a now got something else over here okay Jim Knox is walking around the other side of us all-time ranger player Pudge Rodriguez Ruggregas getting a lot of those Pudge Rodriguez Knox found the girl with no bra what do you agree I was gonna say there's a thousand

people here what do you think all time favorite ranger I was gonna say Pudge but she stole my thunder nice husband wife? Okay, how many years married? 18. He had to think about that. Right? What's been the secret? Don't ever stop trying to make each other happy. Ainal. Okay. Okay. And exactly that, and she's a Rangers fan so I can put up with her.

Okay, there we go. There we go. Couple big Rangers fans are you going to the game today? You're just hanging out with the dumb zone. Okay, they'll be heading in the game. So, Noxie, are you or you're not, I know they were trying to get you to jump off the bus again this year? Well, we got a problem, Dan. Where you guys are sitting, that's my landing spot. I like the grass. Yeah. And the other side's concrete.

And I've been advised by, I think it was actually the bus owner. I wouldn't do it. Well, somebody else asked if you would jump in the lake. I'll do it with them if he does. I can't do the lake. I got to go to the game. I got to do a little work today. Well, your work here is done, and you've been fantastic.

I appreciate it. I mean, I love. This is kind of like an annual deal with you guys. I'd come here every year for this. We'll see if we can find someone from Australia next year. Anybody from Australia today? Australia? Good day, mate.

Good day, mate. All right. Interview him. Interview a little mini-coop. Which one? In the Seeger jersey. Right here. Do you know this is Chuck Cooperstein's son?

Oh, yeah. I interviewed him like in the seven. Let's talk. in the stands and you were you were bashing the umpires yeah after Frank Catalano it bathed yeah what happened so I is probably 2004 and there was a really bad call and Frank Adelanato he got ejected from the game I don't remember when this was but I remember you it was on Fox Southwest you came up and you're like what do you think of the umpire and I was like he stinks I was like seven years old

your dad Chuck was just sinking in his seat oh yeah he was really embarrassed by that we still talk about that to the day but it is what it is This is like the splitting image, isn't it? It's insane. It's insane. You troll your dad sometimes? It feels like you troll your dad. Every time I call them on the phone, I try to range bait him about something.

Whether it's baseball or the Mabs or whatever it is. Oh, yeah, that's part of my job. It's easy, though, right? It's too easy. Yeah. Get these two guys together. Get them in a little debate about something. These two?

No. You and your dad. Oh, yeah. These two. We listen to all the time. It happens all the time. It's just awesome. I love when you do it on Twitter.

Oh, that's the best because it just brings everybody else into it. Yeah, I love doing it. Have you ever met Pete Delkus' kid? Yeah. I'm not. Okay. Y'all keep talking. Y'all keep talking.

I got something else over here. Oh, okay. It's like he's still moving? Like, he's just, his radar went off. I know. Okay. Is there another Asian person? Come on, come on.

He's like, I sense a bit. Is this, is this like you're, after the game, y'all are heading Hawaii or something, or what have we got? Oh, we're just representing. Okay, what's your name? Wendy. Wendy and David. David, okay, where are you guys from?

Dude, he just saw another hot chick and went right over there. Fort Worth? I'm from Chilli Coffee, Texas. Where is that located? In between Winston Hot Chishas. Okay, good. And you? Fort Worth.

Been married, how long? Almost 15 years. Wow. Okay. I asked this couple over here, I'm going to ask you, what's the secret of this? Patience. That's good. Patience.

And doing everything she says? Absolutely. Okay. Who's the biggest Ranger fan between you two? Probably him. All-time favorite player? Man, when I was growing up, I really loved Juan Gonzalez. But I'm wearing it all in a round jersey.

You? When I was a kid, I liked Kirby Pucket. Kirby wasn't on the Rangers. Kirby Pucket assaulted several women. Yeah, tell her that... Yeah, you know, Kirby Puck is... Jim, tell her Kirby Puck had assaulted several women. A lot of allegations.

Yes. Yeah, why don't you just say Matt Bush? Cancel. Yes. Cancel that. Okay, that's cancel. Okay, you guys are going in and a good time, right? We would make you the...

Second favorite is John Wendlin? We're out of bags right now. We'll just... She should have had it. Okay, yeah, okay. Here, give her this. That Asian girl was really good. Give her this.

I don't want this. What is that? Some peanuts? We don't know. No, it's like a... marshmallow flavored thing. Okay. Marshmallow.

Dumbzone stick. Oh, she just wants a dumb zone stick. Oh, yeah, we got you. Oh, yeah. That's a great price. Dicotine pouches. Okay, guys, enjoy the game. Appreciate it.

Let's go Rangers. Go Rangers. Go Rangers. All right. 15 years of marriage right here. That's awesome. There we go. All right.

Good time. Excellent work, Jeff. Time to get to work. That is the great gym, John. We can go find it. Where can we find you? Rangers Nation, Facebook. Facebook, Instagram, and a YouTube page.

You still own gyms and stuff? We sold out to Planet Fitness. Oh, nice. Cashed out? Yeah, about to head to car washes now. Ooh. Hey. Rangers Nation, that's all we got.

All right. That's the great Jim Knox. Thanks, guys. Good being here. He'll find any Asian or hot chick in the crowd somehow. Wheelchair guy? Wheelchair guy. Olds.

God bless, man. Wheelchair guy fired me up. Yeah? Yeah. Like someday... I mean, listen, if I end up in a wheelchair, we're going back. You think I'm supposed to stay sober in a wheelchair? Yeah, you can't.

All right, let's do viewer mail birthdays. Got some viewer mail birthdays. Or anybody to sit down? Anybody? Sure. Ready or anybody? Yeah, Letty. Hey, see you, Jim.

Thank you so much, bud. Letty. Thanks, dude. Talk to you. You want to hop on? Where's my viewer mail birthdays? How do you think the background? ground noises and stuff.

It's probably tough for people, but I hope the vibe is worth it. My favorite band, Dan, that I went to go see that I told you guys about, that does the moshing. Brand new? No, that's the pedophile. Turnstile. They kicked their guitarist out of the band about a year ago, and yesterday he was arrested for attempted murder.

Dang. For attempting to kill the lead singer's father at their home. Wow. Like he's having, since they let him go, and obviously there were reasons why, a full-on breakdown. Yeah. And he's showing up at the guy's house, and he tried to run his dad over with a car. That seems like, I don't know, yeah, why don't you try to kill him with a fork? I don't know.

Especially an old man. Like, I don't know. Yeah. Oh, you're saying he's too easy of a target? No, I'm saying it's tough to... I think it's pretty easy to kill someone with a car. Do you? I think.

Like, he didn't do it, so... outside and like what do you is letty want to join us do you want to join us yeah pop on it's what is letty's thing yeah and then pre-kin check oh yeah oh yeah we're doing uh some fewer mail birthdays pre-ken check what's coming out how what are your kids ages letty uh one that's seven oh my goodness gracious you're good Blake I know it's a lot today dude how much a lesser man would have cracked seven oh yes have one we had to do IVF and all that too Jake was a real inspiration, a hero. I also stopped drinking for a day because of him.

One day. I remember that. I don't even believe that. It wasn't last year on opening day. I'm not positive. I ran into Letty and the concourse. God, I miss these times. Somehow you're by yourself.

It's the sixth, seventh inning. You guys are both drunk? No, no. I've actually never, no, not out here. But I just ran into him separate from his wife. My wife can tell there's something going on. Hug. I don't want to.

Can I tell you the story real quick? Sure. Because I thought I was doing right by my wife. I popped my head in here. I'm like, oh, I don't see her on the bus. I don't see her on top of the bus. Oh, shit. She went to the game.

She's going to be mad. I booked it to the front of the stadium. And she calls me. She goes, where are you? Yeah. And I got, I'm at the stadium. Where are you? And she was in this little bathroom over here.

And she's like, why would you leave me? You have my ticket. So I made it incredibly worse, even though I thought I was doing the honorable thing. Yeah. We've all been there. I'm sure Mrs. Letty's been there a lot. Yeah. With the Where's My Husband?

Viewer Mail birthdays. Oh, or do you want to do a pre-ken check? Well, you had mentioned you wanted to get back to it. Yeah. Like, what are you guys doing? Well, we've got the double sports. We've got the rain. And then we do Easter at our house.

I don't recall even having Easter sports. Yeah, it's weird, right? Like, I would think they would have canceled everything for Saturday. But F me. Well, it's going to rain. It's going to rain everything out anyway. Yeah. You hope.

So, yeah, we do the thing at our house, so that's my deal. You know, people, I got to take care of meat. People bring sides. We've got to get the house ready. You got to do that. People are paying to have the house clean today so people can come destroy it for the weekend. But that's like our bit now. Hosting.

Hiding eggs? Well, maybe, but like I said, I think I'm just going to put them on this Velcro and run around and let kids grab me, especially, you know, there's no, like, news stories about that being, like, a creepy sort of thing to do right now. Keep the Velcro low. You're going to train them to play flag football. It's not a bad idea, but, yeah, man.

Yeah, we used to, I mean, maybe this is why Hillary lost, but I would always have the equal number of plastic eggs and hide them around the yard. But it was, there would be two blue, two red, like, whatever. So if you found one of the same color, you got to put it back because I got two kids. Is that why Hillary lost?

To make sure they each end up finding the same amount of eggs? No, I think you're just avoiding problems on the back end by doing that. That's what I'm looking for. Yeah, no, no, no. Yeah, but one of them can try harder and they're not going to get more. Also a good point. They're just going to quicker. Yeah.

But like Jason Whitten says, it's about the journey. That's what everybody says that never won a championship, by the way. Fair. Your weekend? Oh, I mean, there's a Kumar Rocker start tomorrow. I don't have a lot of Easter plans. No, you guys don't do bits? I think she's going to hide the eggs before she leaves to work,

but I'm not going to help very much. You're like an Easter Scrooge? No, I just don't want to do it. Dan, you want to come over? Jappy will be there. Who's going to be there? Jappy will be there. Oh, maybe, yeah, maybe.

So she's gone working on Easter Sunday. So there's no Easter dinner, all that kind of stuff? No. And I haven't been invited anywhere. I might come to Jake's house now. For real, you should. You should bring your kids over. No listeners have invited you to their...

They're Seder. I know. I need to, yeah, expand the invitation. I'll come to Easter. I'll come to hell, whatever. Just invite me somewhere. Well, you also have, like... I'd love to see you Sunday.

What about all these in-laws? And, you know, you have other family, like your mom and dad. I don't think they're doing anything. They're not doing anything. You got brother or sister? I offered to take my grandpa to church. He said no. He's running his own church in the old folks home.

He didn't want to leave. Sick. He got, actually this month he got put on the calendar. What does that mean? Sunday church service dash Tommy Jones. He's running it now. He made the calendar. Really?

Yeah. So he's kind of taken over this place. Power play. Kind of. Anybody steps out of line? He reminds him about that doll. And they keep raising his rate, knowing that he won't leave. Like, that's a part of their thing.

It's like, you've been here for two years. We know you're not going to leave. And he keeps complaining about it. The whole deal. He's Blake's Grandpa. Sounds healthy. Boy, he is Blake's Grandpa. Yeah, unfortunately.

All right, viewer male birthdays. What do you do with your seven-year-old lady? For Easter? Yeah, what's your big plans? I think we've got to go to the mother-in-laws, and then we're doing it. Egg hunt with the cousins. We're not Jesus people, so we celebrate the Big Bunny real big at my house. I'm thinking about treating, not like a mini Christmas.

I'm going to give both kids a bike. There you go. And just treat it like, hey, this is, we don't need to act like the Bunny did this. I'm buying you a bike. This is your spring gift. Like to get ready for summer. We're getting them like a bathing suit. That might be raised in the bar for future Easter's.

Probably. But like if you need to get. Bike is a big, but I look at it as setting the table. for summer. So whatever they're going to need for summer that year, water guns, whatever, we're loading up on spring break. We were having the debate on whether we need to, like, ease up on the Easter bunny to preserve Santa. Like, can you keep both lies going, you know? That's a good... Do we have karaoke going on this bus right now?

Probably. You want me to turn down? We're almost done. No, we're almost done. I'm just saying it sounded like the quality of music change. Oh, no, yeah. Yeah. That's one of our stars, our race. rising star. Hudge. He lives for the spotlight. All right.

Let me do view of your mail birthdays at least. Dear uncle. Billy Jean is not my lover. Uncle, inserter of the gurkin into the Merkin. My leaders are the sudden and meteoric rise of Cooper-N-O-L-Flagg. Soroy's reaction to being called out on his inward usage. Today is the Cooper DeGine plus A.J. Brown plus Hollywood Brown on the Eagles' birthday of the one and only trucker. This is the wife of Matt.

Matt Grimm. One of our strongest soldiers. Her favorite sunscreen is SPF69. She types in a specific rhythm that sounds like the song My Sharona. Boy, that's a married thing if I've ever heard it. And she knows why notebook paper is 8.5 by 11. Why? I think I'd like to know.

Yeah. Why is notebook paper 8.5 by 11? Put it in the Google machine. What would you guess, Blake? Any guess? No idea. Happy birthday to the best wife ever. You are awesome.

I look forward to partying balls with you forever. That's from Matt Dallas. Sounds like someone got drunk on opening day with her. He's trying to make it up a little bit. The trucker gave me a car. of industrial society in its future. It sits on my bedside. Dear Southlake Slit Slayer,

I'd like to wish day one DF number 134 Straub Man, a happy Jackie Robinson birthday. His leaders are Jake buying water for billionaires. Buy Curious Blake and Sarah Heppelah's massive moon milk silos. Hashtag a Habitat for Humanity. He'd like to hear any Blake drop or what Jake thinks of space. Stay Game Day Hard from number 371 J-Bird. Two more.

I have Hello Master of the Easter Egg C. A heart attack man. Did you see Jackie the Jokeman in the Epstein files? No, I didn't, but I'm not surprised to learn. Yeah. He was hanging out. Of course he was. What does that mean?

He was just at like a... He probably promotes the thing. He probably promotes the fact. Yeah, he's doing the 4 o'clock there on Saturday at Little St. James. Happy birthday to my own personal Angelo, Zach Groover. He's a day one dumbz owner. Listen to every minute of shows you boys have produced. Your show keeps us better connected than those weird conjoined twins,

Bob Lusted after all those years ago. God. I wouldn't mind turning down the karaoke just for a couple minutes. Just for a couple minutes. We'll be done in 10 minutes. Yeah. Just because it really kicked up here in the last few minutes, didn't it? Yeah.

His leaders are USA Up All Night, the Handoff, and Tony's Dancing with the Stars updates. I hope he gets all the special birthday freebies. Blake has been training him for. And a cake made of early bird gummies. More moosing interviews. with random guests, Dan's Maystache. That one exactly opposite of the way it was supposed to go. You'd get a little attitude.

From Josh. And savant of the Slit, happy birthday to Jesse Hawker. His leaders are Hero Jake's broadcasting ability. Post-Hab and Book Club. He found the ultimate hack to marriage, become a pilot and be gone half the week.

Good bit. Oh. Man, you got to figure that just all. of society would function better if we had a different cohabitation situation whether it's the separate bedrooms whether it's expected that one of you's gone like dude just think about making your whole life if you haven't seen each other for a long time and then you have sex the best you know that's good we'll just do that for everything times we ever had is when i lived in dayton and she lived in cleveland sure but that applies to more than sex

though we don't see each other all the time that i won't be so annoyed when i do Right. No, you're happy. I can't believe I'm seeing you. I might be happy, yeah. And then they have to run it through their filter of, does he need to know this right now? Just give me the good parts every now.

Right, I have a week worth of stuff I could tell him. Oh, yeah. But let's filter it down. Show me the highlights. Right. Less Jake claiming he invented everything and riding Shottie's Dong. More stories of the lives he saved by getting sober.

Never pass and keep cranking. All right, so that's viewer mail birthdays. It's opening day, Dan. Where's your energy? Dude, I know. I wasn't going to say it. I'm glad you did. Me?

Yeah. Yeah, dude. We got McKinsey Gore on the bomb. No, I'm very excited, but I don't know. This offense is humming. Look, if Wyatt Langford's your biggest problem. Let's get Dan on a beer bomb. This is the day that we're all in contention for the Senate.

No doubt. Zero back. We have some gluten-free beer. Does that help? All right, I'm going to do quick today in history for us. Community Mechanical Presents on this day in history. Do you have anything brewed from salmon? There's the boys.

Why did Wire Will shave? He did? He looks too. Clean, nice. Hi. Well, at least he didn't shave down there. Hi there. How's it going, lady?

What's your name? Aw. She's the hard hands. You guys have a ton of fans here today. It worked out. Yeah, you know. People are cool. I know what you mean.

I was on the news earlier. I don't have to tell Lettie what it's like to be. When are we going to jump in that pond? Hounded by fans. I will, if you will. I believe him, too. Or Jake just says shit that he doesn't intend to do ever. I'm in.

On this day, okay, it's Friday, April 3rd, I'm going to give you Rangers history. We'll keep this short. On this day in 2011, Ian Kinsler, Nelson Cruz became the first set of teammates to Homer in each of the first three games in the season. Nelson Booze. Nelson Booze here at the bus. Now, was that like a big group meeting, brainstorming on what to name the new Boggs? Someone coordinated a list and we all voted.

Oh, really? Yeah. Okay, might like to see that whole. list someday. Yeah, I can arrange that. Ian Pilsner? Oh, shit, I don't think we had that. That's brilliant. That's wonderful. That is brilliant. Give me time. I'll see if I can do. And on this day in 2018, a woman opened fire

in a courtyard at YouTube headquarters. Shit, I don't remember this at all. Wounding three people, then killing herself. family members said she was upset with YouTube's handling of her videos and she believed she was being deprived of income and views. Listen, Clayton, I'm not saying, but it... It might help the show. I mean, she didn't show any nipple.

So, I just want to say we... I don't condone that behavior, but I understand it! And on this day in Dumb Zone history, April 3rd. Let's see, on this day last year, we were broadcasting in Austin. Oh, final four. Prevy, right? Right before that day. We went to San Antonio the next day.

Here's our takeaway from Austin. Jake saw a bum fight and Dan waved it awaymo. Oh, damn, I forgot about that. It was in downtown. It was like on the strip, five. 6 p.m. as I was getting into town, broad-ass daylight. And two dudes just, like, one of them just started whacking on the other one. The street with, like, some sort of object.

I don't know. I think I waved at the Waymo for letting me go. You did, yeah. You know how you wave at somebody for letting you go through the stop? Thanks, bud. Give him the Jeep work. Right, thank, bud. Did you see Waymo in Dallas today? As of today, accepting Dallas rides?

I thought they've been here for a while. No, it was like a pilot program. You couldn't really mass use it. I've been trying to use it. So I have the app, and the app sent me a message today, letting me know. You want one, we got you. Yeah, but it's all you sending messages to white people. Does the Waymo?

Does the Waymo Jeep have duckies on it? Does they do a fake finger? Wave? The Gameo. It's a Waymo thing. You wouldn't understand. And then in 2023, we had a guy, I don't know if you remember this, ran onto the field that proposed to his girlfriend at a Dodgers game,

we had him on. I do. Problem was he didn't speak any English. Yeah. So the lady he proposed to had to translate for him, and then we got invited to their wedding in L.A. Yeah. Which I think we would have done had we not left the ticket.

Right. Because we didn't go to camp that year. Or did, no. We took a year off. But we absolutely would have been there. It was like a, I don't know. Unfortunately, L.A. Mexican wedding. Oh, hell.

They were like Dodgers fans. I'd really like to under any circumstance. Dude, I was hyped. We got all the info and everything. The dates coincided, yeah. Ricardo and Ramona. They put them in a Waymo and pointed up towards Mexico. That's right.

And then last thing, this was in the news. The story that started it was a man shot a woman in the neck at 7 o'clock in the morning, road rage. That's really early. Then Jake told the story about how cops will arrest people early in the morning. Where I guess your buddy had gotten in a fight a couple weeks ago, and then they arrested him at 7 o'clock in the morning. Yeah, yeah, that's a thing.

So we opened up the phones to see if this was true. We had cops call in. The first cop that called in, Jake said, What's up, Pig? And then he hung up. And you felt really bad about that. Get him on the run. People were not happy.

Both in and outside the building Immediately hung up I was like damn Comedy is subjective Yeah no that was 23 They hadn't like There wasn't a video of an unarmed black guy Dying that day

No He was like oh dude he was doing He was doing high concept Other birthdays today We have Tyler Smith 25 Great Will Greer is 31 Jake I'll always remember him for Horns down

It's really all he's got Sean Stevenson is 45. I love them on Hello Larry. Koji Yuihara is 50. Ranger Greene. Mike Adams, buddy, in the bullpen. 7-89, right? It was like a gondo, Mike Adams, Cogee.

He had a really cool glove. I don't know if you guys remember that. On the webbing, it had like an actual design. Oh, yeah. Yeah. They'll do that. Who's they? They.

People named Koji. The people Chimogstocks, dude. They do have more baseball swag. We're catching up. Jamal Williams is 31. Do you remember why we love Jamal Williams? Is he the running back? No.

Yeah. Wait, Jamal Williams 31? The Raven? No. Who? No. He was a Packer. He went to the Lions for a couple of years.

One year he had like a 17 touchy. down year. All from the one yard line. And then the next year he signed a deal with the Saints. Okay. And his opening press conference was insane. That's right. I guess I could just give you a little bit. Likeable young man. Tough. It didn't work out for him. He had a Pokemon hat. Who is this? What is your name, sir? How many times am I going to see you all the time? All right, cool. Well. Is him talking to his hat? My, yeah, my time here, you are going to become an anime expert. All right.

So first, this right here is Pokemon. Don't you say Pokemon one time? All right. I have, he, like, 20 cuts from his press conference. He has the confidence of a guy who thinks he's going to do awesome in New Orleans. Sure. And really didn't. Why wouldn't he?

Well, right now he's not in the game. Oh, Jacob Mizorowski is 24. Hey, our guy. Speaking to Pokemon. Yeah. leads the National League and strikeouts right now. So you're a problem. I think whoever faced the White Sox last leaves their league and strikeouts.

How long is the rebuild? Give us another decade. We'll be on solid ground. Alec Baldwin is 68. Eddie Murphy is 65. Black, don't cry. Amanda Bines is 40, Jake. She is so crazy.

Prayers up. Yeah, I think she got like legit. 51-50. Oh, yeah. She's highly skis-a-friend. I think I missed her window. I was too old. Blake was in the wheelhouse.

Oh, yeah. She was in every movie. I was in the proper age for that. Rachel Bloom is 39. Okay. We have runner-up for Dumb Zone birthday of the day. Adam Scott is 53 from stepbrothers. And I guess, Severance.

So much good stuff, though. Party Down, original. I loved. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And then our Dumb Zone birthday of the day, what could displace Adam Scott? How's Derek not winning? Nothing.

There's no way you got one better. What if I told you that 67 years old today is David Hyde Pierce? Oh, Nigel. From Frazier. Man, I can't. Fraser's brother, right? You're not going to believe what all I have planned. Frazier's brother.

Yeah, no. You don't have to tell me. me. He was this sarcastic one. Your good Friday just got better. God bless, dude. It's awesome Friday. It's so funny too because my head, I'm like this moment of panic around like, do I smoke

too much weed? I'm forgetting all the stuff that they think I remember. And then he's like, oh yeah, it's just the guy from Frasier. Well, now you can assure yourself you do not smoke too much weed. Yeah, we're all good. Perfect amount of weed. Right. Maybe celebrate tonight.

Yeah. That's right. Neither do I. Born in the state, Ed William Wallace, Sir William Wallace. We have Marlon Brando, and we have Jane Goodall. She's dead now, the monkey lady. Do they tell her that Robin Williams died?

Dead on this day still dead. They go to the mascot of the sons. He's like, what are you doing? Dead on this day, still dead. Tom Dempsey. Clubfoot. who had a half a foot NFL record for longest field goal, which stood for 70 years.

A 42-yard goal was the longest field goal in the NFL history. He died of COVID. Yeah, that's what they called it at the hospital. Thank you. And that's what happened on this day in history. Letty, any closing remarks? I've got some quick hits. hear me.

Okay, by him. I bought my tickets. Bye-bye. All right. You have notes? I do. And do you have a phone that's raw dog?

You have no case on this? All right, look, you brought this up before. AppleCare, if I break glass on this, it's $30. A good case is 50. To have that feeling, you know what I'm talking about with no protection, right? Oh, yeah. Worth it. It's worth it all the time.

30 bucks, I'd spend that on a case. So, yeah, I rock it. I made notes thinking I wouldn't be as coherent as I am right now. But I've done a good job of pacing yourself. Yeah, I've done a good job of pacing myself today. But I have got to get this off my chest because like three weeks ago, I sent an email to Blake. Words with Jake. He was talking about a rich people house and how you knew someone was rich.

And he said, you know, they have a window on the roof. And I was screaming. A skylight? You idiot? You know, like you go in their kitchen and they'd have a window on the roof. A skylight? Yeah. It's not a light, though.

That's what it's called. But it's a light from the sky. I know, but oh. Lights coming in. Look at these wall lights. I just call those windows. I've been holding all that for a minute because Blake didn't get to it and I was like, we've got to address this.

You don't see them as much anymore, do you? No. Which is too bad. Ask our roofing guys. You know, cutting a hole in your roof, you can seal it, but that's a problem, right? It does feel like a very 80s, 90s idea, but I loved it when you go over. Were you guys on the little light in here from up there? What about the mid-house atrium?

Yeah. I love that move. God, what a waste of space. I actually had a house designed to do that a few years ago. It's beautiful. Completely in the middle. The AirPods twist came up. That was going viral the other day.

Because the dipshit who started that, the instructions say turn and twist. He twisted it the wrong way. To fit them, you put it in and twist to the front. That's why all the ads are that way. So he was going, hey, if you read the direction, you're supposed to and twist it to fit. It's like, no, no, no, you twist it this way. So anyway, I wanted to get to that. It does make zero sense that Apple would put out ads with people.

Well, fuck it to wear it right. I guess we'll just. Just go with it. Yeah, we'll just. Back in parking. Oh, no. Backing in takes just as much time as backing out on the other end. So this complaint about you're holding everybody up is insane.

DFW to the Metroplex. That's our business. To the border, to Oklahoma. You're wrong. Jake is correct. It's going to take forever. Our business. is based out of Keller, North Fort Worth.

We delivered a Sherman. Oh, wait, wait. We're off of back-in parking. He's already nuked you on that. We're done. No, we're good with you. No, he's with you. I back in all the time.

I'd rather back in. I'm good to go. And anyway. He's the mayor. Yeah, he is. But we ship to Sherman from Fort Worth daily. So you're saying the Metroplex

will evolve into... Yes, and we'll end at Oklahoma. If you guys are super interested, I have a heat map for all of our builders and where they're going. Not that inch. The most insane thing. We're in Waco and Sherman.

The East and West expansion is slow. But it will be, the Dallas North Tollway will go all the way to the Red River soon, and it will be packed. The most insane thing is that there's not like a way to just get the money together, to have like an innovative rail project from here to there. Yeah. Because people can live all the way. The problem is just nobody wants to drive that. I mean, there's a lot of problems.

I don't want to live that far either. But if you could do it on a rail, like people go, like remember when you learn that people in, They work for ESPN, live in Connecticut, or whatever, like how quickly Brunig gets to the city. Is it ESPN in Connecticut? Yeah. The other way around. People who work in the city and go to the New York. Yeah, the Brunich situation is...

If 45 minutes is not... 50 minutes is not crazy if you're doing it on a rail. So if people are going to live all the way up there, they just... You mean like the Dart? ...rater. ...whoever does it. Dard's TechSot could make a rail and say, we're going to North Rail. It's something that...

It's like the TRE. Like it looks like a regular train, but it's not like going to Oklahoma City. Yeah. Well, Jake has it by the year 2030. I just think it'll take a little bit longer. It'll take a minute to fill in, but it'll be considered the Metroplex. I agree with him. Sorry, real quick.

I used to be a Cowboy season ticket holder. Nothing frustrates me more than people say, whoa, we just need to not buy tickets. The entire Texan Cowboys Stadium is 99% season ticket signed up on a 30-year thing. So whatever, you cannot undo that. Economically, yeah. So, like, there's never going to be a revolt like you might have with the Mavs and Luca to better that.

Not going to need it after the title this year. And this is a long callback, but in high school I was held up at gunpoint running the grocery store when I was 18. We're just getting to this now? Oh, well. I want to hear this whole thing. Yeah, so.

You can't just revolt. It's like not paying your house. Oh, no. All right. Yeah. So anyway, I was held to. He's talking about getting held up at gunpoint, man. Focus.

Maybe I'm on delay it. One of my buddies said, he goes, if that, he was, that worked with me, he wasn't there that night. He goes, if I got it, I don't remember who brought this up. If I got held up, he goes, I think I would have just dropped my drawers and just started sucking my thumb. He's like, because what is the guy going to do? Like, he's holding a gun going, whoa, whoa. You're the crazy one. Yeah, yeah.

So, anyway. But I think that's all I got. I think we put on a show today. We had a good show. That's a strong list. Yeah. So you're willing to call this a success. Hell yeah.

Okay. This has got better every year. Jim Knox wouldn't jump onto the cement. No, but he did narrate a handy capable man taking a natural light to the dome. Yeah. And you saw the light in his eyes when he was back in his natural environment. He was like, hey, is this an Asian lady? Yeah.

That was unreal. Yeah. She literally. Nacho. We appreciate you guys coming and showing up, and it's always a blast. And where will the bus next be appearing? So we usually show up. We have it in a couple years, but I mean, we could talk about it.

Oh, bring it to the summer event? Yeah, we could maybe working out. Wow, wow. Yeah, let me know. Hotbox. Very exciting. Yeah, last year, I think Jake jumped on the bus last year, and one of my buddies is convinced he stole his face.

Hey. I stole it? Yeah. He definitely did. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. I was charging my phone. I look over it. Now it's charging his vape.

Anyway, love you guys. Thanks for everything. You're the best, man. Good times. All right. Adios, mofo. We've got to go before this becomes a zoo. Thank you for watching my video.

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