The Dumb Zone FREE - DZ 4-9-26 | Dianna Russini outs her source and a Godley prostitute

Episode Date: April 9, 2026

Get every episode of The Dumb Zone by subscribing at DumbZone.com or Patreon.com/TheDumbZoneDan's problem is he found a dead rabbit in his pool skewer and his wife made him clean it up. Jake's problem is Dan asked if Buc-ee's started in Texas. Somehow, we manage. Dianna Russini sheds light on how she was getting inside info, big Thursday Viewer Mail bag, and a wild story out of Godley involving the police, a prostitute, a sex ed class, and a girl Jake went to high school with (00:00) - Open: Dan's dead bunny (24:36) - Sports: Troy Aikman's conundrum (33:37) - Dianna Russini and Mike Vrabel (57:12) - Big Thursday Viewer Mail bag (01:40:13) - News: Godley's prostitution ring (02:02:49) - VM birthdays/Today in History ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

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Now, on to today's program. Don't have me. So yesterday I'm out at Grapevine Golf Course. Whoa. Wow, it was Business Wednesday. It was Business Wednesday and I was talking to Chris from Community Mechanical, and he said that his wife has actually just leased a car from Fair Lease. So you already know, like Community.

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I'm Jake Kemp. I'm Blake Jones. And here we go. The program on hand for you will feature sports. It will feature viewer mail. Thursday usually gets us some gummy thoughts. It will feature at least one mention of us not only telling you to save the date, but save the location. The Dumb Zone generic summer event, Saturday, June 6th, 6 p.m. to question mark.

Ooh. Could be 6.10. Crazy. At Four Corners Brewery. And this event will be brought to us by Community Mechanical. We've mentioned them. already a couple times today. So June 6th, Saturday, that's just our farthest away event that we can promote. And we would...

How a friend. We would like to do... Sure, bring a friend. It's a community outreach. Bring an Angelo. Event, sponsored by community. Bring an Angelo. I heard it is near a Dart station. Oh, and also Community Mechanical, our HVAC company, title sponsor. It's in air conditioning. Mm-hmm. So, yeah, oh, foodie CK, very excited about this fact. He doesn't care how it's going to look.

He doesn't care how it's going to sound. He knows that we're all going to be in air conditioning, and I'm right there with him. Lots of things. I got a couple things from our day yesterday, Business Wednesday. There's so much sports. What's up with Diana Rusini? But breaking news, I take you now to Ohio.

where the whole state is buzzing, they now have their first Buckees has opened. Wow. In the state of Ohio, Channel 11's Megan Hartnett is on the scene. The Buckeye State first Buckees has been opened for about 12 hours, and the chain's owner says today's excitement shows a promising future for Buckees in Ohio.

He says there are talks of a second location already, and it would likely be in the Mansfield area. He says they look at the... locations where there are intersections of busy roadways. I asked about Northwest Ohio with the Turnpike and I-75. He says he couldn't speak to any specific additional locations, but did say he would love- Don't press me here, right?

This is just so funny to me this whole thing. And somehow, maybe this is just America or something, but like the B-roll, the video behind them is it was like it was the day after Thanksgiving. It's the people are pouring in. They can't believe I can just buy beans. It's just they're fighting over the little plushy. It's an incredible scene. And yeah, we're already talking about opening another one.

This is awesome. But did say he would love to have multiple stores in Ohio. Who would? Lots of people took the day to go to the first Ohio Buckees, even one couple from Pittsburgh, but the day became extra special after he proposed. And took the day. So this is what we're getting.

to, and also we have in studio, our sit-in is Rachel. Rachel Carter is sitting in today. So if you want to comment on any of this, Rachel. Is it your birthday? Happy birthday. Absolutely not. No? We would not even be in a relationship if that was in the thought.

I think that goes for most people. I would question, I deeply question. What about we're playing the Orlando Magic? It's the third quarter. It's 86. 72. We're down. We're losing, but, uh, you know. DSJ's at point. No.

Okay, no, no ball game. Okay. Well, anyway, yeah, that's, and, but I know some people love it. Some people love that. Like, some women love to be the center of attention in that type of way. But I also, I feel like it's a, it's a little bit of a give up on the dude's side. Well, let's, let's listen. Let's listen. And the first time I told him I liked him was at sheets after work, because that's our hangout. Yeah. And now we had this whole gas station thing. And we saw Buckees was coming, so we drove in today to be at Buckees.

Yeah. And she did not know this was happening at all. No. You had an inkling I was going to propose at some point, but. I had no idea when. I've been hiding the ring for a few weeks now. The couple says, like imagine it. You had the ring, you've been hiding it.

You know Bucky's his grand opening is in three weeks. God damn, this is great. I don't think that any of this is weird at all. And they looked like a gas station couple. A couple who went from gas station to Cass State. Like my daughter and her little boyfriend, their bit became going to Putt Putt Golf. Nice. Which is a good bit because you can go to any city and you can go find a Putt Putt

Golf course and kill some time and whatever. But yeah, these people are just like, since I first said I love you at a gas station, we now go to various gas stations and try their Mars bar. Oh, it's the same, kind of. The couple says there is a good chance that they're going to incorporate Buckees into their big day. But for today, they were just focused on getting their merch and celebrating. Reporting in Huber Heights, Megan Hartnett, WTOL, 11. Yeah, no, I mean, I'm...

Good job, Megan. If anything, I'm a little bit... This is like when you don't want somebody else to call your mom a bit. I'm not like the biggest Bucky's fan in the world primarily because I'm about efficiency. So I'm not usually stopping at a place that's going to take a long time or add time. I'm expending time for what. Now if it provides some value to the family, when we're with the family, we will stop there. Because it's an experience.

So I'm not even the biggest fan, but I don't like the idea of Ohio having it. I don't like the idea of any other state having it. And I can see, obviously, that there are a handful of them in other places in the south, but I don't like it. Did it start here? Is that dumb? Is that obvious? What do you mean by here? Do you mean Texas?

Yeah. Yes, it's dumb. That's a dumb-ass question. Dang. Dude, think about, like, what if he was like, where? Lighten up. Well, here's a thing. Can I tell you, I'm predisposed to be upset about this.

He went to Buckees for the first time. months ago. Yeah. He's not, not, not, I'm the asshole. His whole life,

he's never been. He's never. He came away disappointed. No, he, I don't think he did. Uh, they just, they had,

they had, 800, they had eight hunts, right, they don't have anything for somebody who doesn't eat meat. No,

because it was started here. And Terrell. This is the dumbest thing you've said. I'm just saying, they literally had

800 different kinds of jerky. I think they're trying to get the, um, Bucies to foot the bill for the wedding. I think they're putting that out there. Yeah, that's a good call.

I mean, that's what Game Day did for those people that said, hey, if it gets a million retweets, well, whatever, we'll fly. Game Day paid for a big trip for them. Game Day? The college game day. Oh, I was like, if you advertise to a company, you can hook the company.

See, she's in get free stuff on the internet by using your online presence. She's exactly right. They get marketing too. That's a give and take. Right. I don't, we've got another two. hours left. And I don't know. I don't know, dude. Did it start here? It's Buckees. It's on the

goddamn flag. Like, what if... What's on the flag? Like, Buckees is basically, it might as well be the Texas flag. Okay. Well, it could have started in Oklahoma and then... What the... New Mexico and filtered over here. Are you just going to sit here and take this too? You also want to tell me how the Alamo was a huge win? Go ahead. Keep going. Texan. I count body. Like we took actual classes, which covered other stuff that actually happened. And my buddy, if me and my buddy get dropped, get jumped by 12 guys and you kill the two of us, but we drop all 11 of you, and then our buddy comes and kills you while you're taking a nap a month later, we won. That's what happened.

Okay. And Bucky's just want to know where I stand. Where we stand? Damn, man. It threw me off. Had a listen to Santo just throwing it out there, Jake. I had a really weird thing happen on my business Wednesday yesterday where I live in the suburbs, but I live in kind of an interesting spot where I'm right between kind of a busy street in Northwest Highway

and then like some apartment complexes that are at the heart of a women's shelter. Like it's Section 8 housing, right? So it's just kind of an interesting drag and checkerboarding of different types of people. And yesterday as I was pulling into my driveway, I heard sirens and looked behind my car and there was a like 90s Mustang driving a very slow like 10 miles an hour being followed by a grapevine PD lights on and sirens. And the guy was at like he was maybe 100 yards away and he kept rolling and he kept rolling and he kept rolling and he kept rolling and he wasn't stopping. So he wasn't running necessarily, but he was not stopping. And we weren't on like a busy street. Sirens, too, you said?

If it's lights, I don't even tell you this story. I don't think. But the sirens are on. And then he stopped at the stop sign. I guess he thought that's where he was supposed to stop. And the cop got out in a hurry, cowboy hat cop. And I don't think he had gun drawn, but he was very like, you know, he just looked apprehensive. But why wouldn't he?

the guy wouldn't stop. I went inside my house and looked out the window maybe 20, 30 seconds later after I'd put all my crap down. There were four cops there. They got the motorcycle cop. They got two more cop cars. And they surrounded this car. It was just wild to see in a neighborhood. Like, I think what I deduced, because they just let the guy go, was that it looked to me like he didn't speak English.

if I'm just being honest with you, it seemed like there was, because they also called over another officer who appeared to be doing most of the talking. You know what I'm saying? Yes. And I don't know. And then they'd look back at him.

That appeared to be what was going on, but I wasn't like listening. And so maybe that's what it was, but it just occurred to me that if you don't stop right away, I'm not saying I'm cool with whatever happens, but that is like the universal. Pisses them off more?

Yeah, dude. I mean, how do you not know? How's that a language thing? I've certainly done that to get to somewhere that I felt was safer, and I've been admonished. That's kind of what I wanted to talk about too. Like, yeah, well, that part on the highway right there was about four feet wide. I thought I would get over to a...

And that's why it's hard for me to know because it did look like a kid. Maybe he thought you have to go to a stop sign. Like, I'm not allowed... It might have been the first time he had been pulled over. Yeah. And remember how terrifying that was? Oh, my. Holy shit, dude.

the high school pullover but what I always want to tell the cop when I've been admonished for it is I want to be like dude I'm a way bigger pussy than you I'm not comfortable up there like I can't pull over in the road like that

they're like I think they expect you to be used to it yeah I'm like I might have to drive to my mom's house to be like fully comfortable but it was wild and it lasted about 20 minutes they never got him out of the car and he drove him off. No, tasing, no.

No, it was just interesting to me. Were you videoing just in case? It got me, yeah, but not for like criminal justice reasons, more for the show. Okay. Like, I thought if something wacky happened, then, you know. Because you got to pull out your video. Sure. Yesterday, it's really funny because my wife had been texting me about this leading up to the event.

But I wanted you guys to know, yesterday was my neighbor John's birthday. Oh, shout out neighbor John's birthday. Great dude. Running to him at T-Thumb every now and then. Very good. No one's calling it T-thumb, I don't think. Exit V-L-L-O-on that one was not good. Didn't feel good off the bat.

If you remember, neighbor John is the one who texted me, happy birthday on my birthday, in the group thread with his wife and my wife. Producing a fight. Then, yes, it was like, well, you have to respond to neighbor John's text, and that's what caused the avalanche of, all right, I'm going to drop a heart on every single person that did text me today. And I just ping, bang, bang, bang, those out the door at 8 p.m.

Just so that I could stop here in this, the squawking next to me. But the thing is, on my own birthday, and I don't care about this, because I don't acknowledge my birthday. We don't like to admit the passing of time. on my birthday, my wife texted me at about 1.30 in the afternoon is like, because she saw me that morning. There was nothing. But she was like, oh, honey, sorry. Happy birthday. Ha, ha, I forgot.

She has been texting me for the last few days reminding me that's John, like she knows John's birthday is on the calendar. Hey now. And she's so well aware that we can't upset John, the neighborhood balance of the symbiotic relationship, you know, because he does some good things for us. Sure. We mentioned his birthday on the air, so that's the good thing we do for him. And I liked his happy birthday wish to me. Yeah.

And then he acknowledged you. I wonder if your wife has a happy birthday wish for him. I don't know. I'd be very, very, I'd be on board with that. Also, as you know, sometimes it is a personal grooming day. I just want to say when you go to get that head shave or head. haircut at the barbershop. One of the great things, I think I'm only really paying the head shave is the extra.

The eyebrow trim is delightful. Yeah. Bro. You can't do it yourself, though. You can never do it like that. I walked out of there on Cloud 9. What's a good example? I moon walked out.

Like, it was great. I'm squared away now. It's like you just got cable for the first time. It's crazy. But I have had the Mark Cuban satellite. Get them waxed. Well, you need it, though. You're like a unibrow guy, right?

Well, then you won't have to, I mean, it's also trim. It's just the comb with the thingy, and it's, there's some weird, weird, cool feeling. It's like ASMR or something. Imagine the waxing. Imagine waxing. Imagine how good and clean that feels on your face. And then I had one big, one big episode yesterday. I should probably mention Trident Garage Doors first.

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Yes. Because it's viewer mail day. And, like, at the very end, they're like, oh, also, when it comes to a dumb zone vehicle, we were talking about should we get a van, get a demilitarized military Humvee. I have one, and so does one of the guys at Trident Access Services. We talk for 30 minutes about it when he came to fix my garage. They're super cool to see, easy to drive, and you stand out anywhere. And then also, Trident does A-plus work, and they're great dudes.

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So go to TXTrident.com or 817-512-1-1-2. The question I have is, because we love equality. we ladies. Everybody wants, you could do stuff that a man could do, couldn't you? Of course. I do every day. All right. Are men inherently better equipped to deal with a dead bunny in the pool skimmer than women? If indeed you were with man and you had pool and you went out to clean the pool skimmer because let's just say that's, you know, you guys do some kind of a splitting up of duties where you do that pool skimmer thing every week and then all of a sudden it's like well he could do everything else no uh but this is uh she handles the pool skimmer and she comes to me and says i can't you got to go

to that one pool skimmer there's a dead bunny not a dead rabbit yeah it's a dead bunny it's a little tiny cute bunny it looks like uh the chocolate one they used that that for the model um and so is it that And men are better equipped, like, through nature and millions of years, and women are less equipped? Or is it that she knows, or she feels at least, that I'm cold-hearted enough that I can just go out there like a computer and pick this bunny up? Because I got to tell you, I probably am cold-hearted, but not that cold-hearted, because I had to kind of look, like when they give me a shot, I look away. So much so that the lady giving the shot is always like, are you okay? Are you going to? I'm like, yeah, I just don't want to look at it. Yeah.

And I kind of took a quick glimpse of the bunny, but then I'm like, okay, I can't look at the bunny. I had to throw the bunny away without looking at it. Well, to your nature-nurture question, it's probably, you know, my thought is it's all of it. It all works together. But we're probably closer to a time where, I mean, your wife mows the lawn. That ain't happened 20, or 40 years ago, right? Yeah. I didn't have riding mowers back then.

Yeah, I, um. That's a double. I was in charge of disposing of a half dozen or so chickens over the last year or two. And they weren't all fully grown. And so was it there when she got home and it's there for hours and then you get home? No, and she might have done one or two of them. Because that's what the case was with me. No, it was more of a she's standing there with a shovel or it's, you know, adjacent.

And she comes inside to get me and says there's a dead chicken back here. And so I'm like, well, you know, there's also a shovel. and you. I'm also cut the head off snake guy. Yeah, I've done that. She'll have a snake cornered. But you know, the other thing you're leaving out of this equation, the nature and nurture thing is just how many dudes are like,

fuck yeah, like excited to do it. They want to throw away the dead bunny. Yeah, and they want to be the guy who answers the call to do grimy thing or whatever. I mean, I don't want to kill that. Everybody's got some of that in them, and I like that too. You know, I'll be the guy who's cleaning the corners getting rebounds, you know. dirty work. I clean up the dog poop. I think there's a part of it as a woman that, depending on the man that you're with,

because if I know I'm with a man who likes being big strong man and he likes that kind of thing, then if he was not there, I could take care of it. There's many things in life like that. Like, yes, I can move the couch and vacuum underneath it if I need to. But it makes him feel important and big and strong. And I don't necessarily want to do it. And if it makes him feel great, then I'm like, honey, there's a dead bunny in the pool. That's not what's going on here.

I think you should have left it for puddle pools. Oh, yeah. New customer, just figure that out. No, I think. That's right, puddlepools.com slash dumbzone. Drive by. Good for you. You answered the bell.

Well, yeah, what was my option? Tell her no. No? I say no a lot. You take care of the dead bunny? Call me. Call Clayton. Call John.

He's a real man. Could you skin it and give us the meat? And we could have dead bunny tacos. I mean, the truth is, you should be proud that she didn't just call John. She was over there. She said, I'm going next door for a minute. As you know, it's John's birthday. Sports guys?

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IG posts. Yeah, a little brush, I guess it touched us, it nicked us, kind of. if Kyler Murray wears his bad radio, Vikings uniform and puts it on Instagram for his million followers? Well, there's 32 teams, dude. He ended up on one that has your radio show's name and that team on it. That's pretty... Right, we sponsored his team, his first ever football team.

There's only one. And it was called the Vikings. And so it says bad radio Vikings, number one, and it's Kyler Murray's car. and he was incredible. We went to one game. All we knew was that Kevin Murray was he has a son who plays football on some guy's team, and that guy is like, hey, would you guys sponsor the team?

We just want to pay for the uniforms. It was like $250. We're like, okay. Never sponsored another team. This wasn't like an annual thing and like, hey, this year we hit on what would be a future number one overall pick in the NFL. That's what I'm saying. There's a lot of probabilities here, improbabilities. It's very cool.

So that was cool to see. I think another football story, if you don't want to get to Diana Rusini just yet. Wait, did you make it clear that Kyler posted that? Not just that like somebody found the photo or something? Oh, I just want to make sure. I don't know if I did, but Kyler Murray, yes, sent it to his million followers. Yeah. And that one much less controversial.

I remember his last Instagram posts. He's a big fan of dogs. And he posted with his dog wearing a Michael Vic jersey. And it's like a pit bull. Oh, wow. He's like, oh, what's the problem? League leader in a split between voice and look, right? Oh, yeah.

Some people tell me they think he's compensating. But, I mean, I also know people who have known him while we all do a long time. I don't think he's faking it. But he definitely talks like a guy who's a lot bigger than he is. I was also surprised on his IG as Instagram he had in his photos I think it's posted by him it's the one with him wearing the braw do you remember that one? That was at practice right? Yeah.

The catapult thing? Yeah. Yeah. But don't you find it weird like the internet made fun of him on mercil, you know, days and but he posted on his like he's like, hell yeah, look at that. I look good. Me and the little bra. Which is cool.

I think everybody should be who they want to be. Everyone should wear bras. Yes. If you want to wear a bra, wear a bra. The Troy Aikman's story is really interesting. Well, tell me about it. What is this? Is this related to him in Clarence or what?

Well, he was doing an interview, was it, Clarence? And they were just talking about him working for the dolphins. And he said, I think the dolphins were wise and understanding my relationship around the league and knowing that I have information that they don't have or can't get. And I think they were smart in taking advantage of that, whether it was through me or through somebody else. And I don't think he means I have information as a three-time Super Bowl winner.

No. I think they mean I have information because every week I get to pick the brains of coaches and players from different teams. And they tell me things they wouldn't tell other reporters. and I know the inner workings of these teams because of my job where I get paid 20 million a year or whatever the hell he makes now. Romo elevated him, right? Well, yeah, that's what I was going to say.

Romo elevated him, but it's funny that this wouldn't be happening if the Brady thing wasn't happening. And that getting a nod. And Aikman wouldn't have been making, like, Aitman's the best, but it took Romo making all this money. And then Aikman's like, no, wait, I should be doing that. Aikman would not be publicly telling you,

you know, I get to talk to all these teams and the dolphins are going to pay me for it if it wasn't tacitly accepted by the league that Brady was doing the same thing last year. We've all decided that's just going to be okay. I don't care enough to have an opinion on it, but on its face looks a little weird to me. Why don't the Browns hire Tom Rinaldi?

He's also in those meetings. Like literally where does it end? Right. Like, why could you not? Pam Oliver is now a special correspondent with the Houston Tech. Because like you'll get stuff, not to get two in the weeds here, but you'll get stuff like there are writers who will write for pro football focus and they will be hired by the Cowboys to do like contract freelance work.

Haralabob once upon a time before he worked for the Mavs was running a lot of Mavs reports like in the background. But if you're an on-camera person, you're paid, you're a star of the company. I don't see how this is possible. And I'm not trying to be, I'm not against it. I think they should be able to go on other media things. I'm not against it from a Troy side. I'm against it from a league side that you're,

it would just seem to me that in the agreement between the leagues and the broadcast partners, this sort of information could not cross streams. And the only way to prevent it from crossing streams is to have different people working for the different job. It can't be one person. I mean, seriously, why would you not just hide? like every reporter. Yeah, you shouldn't be able to.

Here's, the MAVs just hired Shams, but he also still works for... I mean, it was as bad as I hated it when Hugh Jackson got fired by the Browns. He went and consulted for the Bengals that season. Yeah. Like during the season, we're still paying off your contract. You can't then go consult for a team that we're not going to play in two weeks. Yeah, but the players care. very wrong.

Yeah, the players can. Their contracts are obviously different. You're not paying you anymore. But I don't know. But yeah, the broadcast thing seems really wrong because the reason I'm so open with you is because I know you're the broadcaster. You'll use it on Sunday, but you will not give this information to other people. Yeah.

Now, the Brady thing was a very, I mean, he's so big. It's hard to, you know, put anything. comparable to it because he was going to be a part owner. So that's certainly a different thing. You know, then just I'm hired, you're a hired hand. I can just give you a certain amount of money and get this information. It would make it harder to legislate around, but the end product is the same. The end downstream result is you have a guy who is using his broadcast presence to benefit an individual team for money.

So, you know, hey, maybe what this opens up is the Patriots can just hire Diana Rossini. Like, well, it would make more sense, though, or it would be more logical if they did just hire Troy's assistant, who is also in all these meetings, gets to overhear these things, they hire this person. They're hiring the person who already makes 20-some million dollars and giving him more millions of dollars. So I guess as far as that's concerned, too, but it doesn't make sense at all. Anyway, I thought that was a... Yeah. That is a pretty big story.

Is that leading us to Diana Rusini somehow? Yeah, I mean, it's the story that's going to last a few days. You're probably familiar with it by now. I don't know how much we've really discussed Diana Rusini on the show. I listen to her podcast every now and then she does with Dragon Great Chase Daniel. Because it's a newsbreaker show, Scoop City. And the Cowboys, you know, every year have some dumb-ass storyline you need to keep track of regarding contracts. And she's usually pretty on top of stuff, as it were.

So the controversy, she's photographed with Mike Vrable at a hotel around the time of the league meetings. They're at the pool. They're holding hands. They have interlocked fingers. They're 100% boning. They both deny it. They're both married, but, you know, I don't care. And I have no idea what their home family life situation is.

It seems like where the rubber meets the road on whether people are pissed about this or not, has something to do with caring about journalism. If I were to try to get exactly what it is that people are pissed about. I mean, I guess you could be pissed at people are cheating on their spouses. But again, you don't know what their situation is. So that's not really your... But if you're worried about how information in the end of... NFL works. I guess that is a real topic because we talk about like gambling lines and,

you know, guys get traded based on narrative and this story got planted by this person or that person. The question I would ask is just, what is all that different about if there were a male reporter, and this has happened forever, think of Dale and Jerry if you need an old one, male reporter who like goes out parties hard like gets hammered maybe goes to the strip club you know you're hanging out and that's over time how you get to know this person and they tell you stuff well Tim Kallisha and Jimmy Johnson or uh make that of drinking beers make that but more than just drinking beers I would say I want to say not like hey we met up and had dinner I want to say like guys who are partying together like probably

They've seen each other and stuff that they can't talk about publicly, right? Like there's things that they're like, hey, I'm not going to say that. That's not really, you don't think Tim and David and all those guys have seen Jerry. And so for the ones that it works both ways with, all I'm trying to get at is, I understand they didn't have sex, but is it that different if they do? And then what is the- It is favored, right. What if I'm just friends with you, I golf with you, and I give you the scoos.

And what's the problem? The problem is you think that that information is now going to be compromised because, and we've all been through this, you don't have to be in the media to understand this. If you're worried about a relationship with somebody. You're giving their version of it. It's the same way with the agents and stuff. The point I'm trying to make is, while this is funny because apparently Diana Rusini really likes cucking her husband, like she talks nonstop about how much he sucks, that may be their thing.

It's funny, but I don't really see how this is different, that different than Jay Glazer being like, hey, here's me and Guy Fierry and Sylvester Stallone and Michael Strahan and Kyle Shanahan. And it's like, well, I don't know. I mean, you're at each other's houses. You're spending holidays together. You're, I don't, it just doesn't, to me, I'm not saying it's an unfair thing. for the woman because, you know, she popped that pussy for him. And she's a consenting.

Sure. Yeah. But I don't know. How do you think this all works? How do you, not say that every female is having sex with athletes. They're mostly not. But my point is just like you get tight with people and that's how they tell you stuff. And sometimes when a male and female are very tight, they may have sex.

I guess it's just rooted in us that we cheer for the person who works hard. Because if you find out this journalist puts you. the hours in, they're all the way up, whatever, busted the story. And that's one thing. But then it's the same thing if we see someone whose dad runs FedEx and they got this nepotism. Now that's an interesting one. Like we frown upon the person that takes the shortcut.

But the thing is, is that women are going to be accused of sleeping their way to the top if they get to the top regardless. The further up they make it. It doesn't matter how many they boned. or which ones they boned. You'll find some ones they boned, and you'll be mad about it and be like, oh,

they bone their way to the top. I'm not saying that they don't also sometimes use it. Look, we learned in Me Too. There was a bunch of cases of, like, you know, as you would expect, just like human beings would, like females plotting against men to use, to, like, weaponize that sort of thing.

But I don't know. Dude, here's a thing. And you saw I'm asking our media buddies about this. She's not viewed as like someone who slept her way to the top. Danny Rossini is not? No, she's like a... Because I saw one thing where like some redskins... Now, that was an interesting...

GM's wife or something? That was an interesting side road for me. I think the guy's name, I think it's pronounced Scott McLuhan. And I remember him as the first guy that I remember reading about him made me think I was an alcoholic. I swear to God. Because I was obsessed with like NFL GMs and like the... assistant GMs and like I would watch their speeches and coaches clinics. This guy was going to be like the next like hot shit GM.

He came up in Seattle under John Schneider and he was a full-blown alky. Like bad, bad. And then they, uh, he tried to get back into the game. And I remember somebody went and wrote a story about him and he was just like drinking beer. And they were like, hey, didn't he say you like quit or whatever? He's like, no, I mean, I'm not. I'm not. I just drink beer now.

And then there was like a link in the. story. The point is the guy never got back in the game. Blake's buddy. He never got back in the game. I think it did send him sideways pretty bad. And at the time, his wife accused Diana Rossini of having sex with Scott McLuhan. And there was also accusations of Sean McVeigh, who was at the Redskins around that time as well in that Shanahan party, you know. Did you see that floating around? The McVe rumors? Dan. Yeah, I thought it was Sean Pate. It's McVeigh? You're confusing what somebody else told us the other day about someone else.

Was McVeigh? Was McVeigh? Is there like a cat fight? Yes. Okay, tell me about what was that? McVeigh was sleeping with two reporters. Yeah. And the two reporters did not know the arrangement with the other one.

Yeah. And it all came to head at a Denny's or something. Sean McVeigh notoriously known for misdirection. Ooh, that's great. I'm going to give you a little bit of Diana Rusini. My entire timeline for the past 24 hours is just this woman talking about how much she hates her husband. I feel for the guy, unless this is his thing, in which case, he's a fucking pig and slop right now. What if embarrassment is his thing, and that's why he lets her do this, and now everyone's like, wow.

Doesn't it just seem so New Jersey? I don't even know. I don't think I know enough to know what that means. I think this is what they do. Yeah. Is that a... I think they just talk trash about whoever they're married to. Okay. They're, like, complained to their mother.

Like Italian. Yeah. Like the Italian thing of just... Yeah. This guy's a bum. This guy sucks. You know who lets me know my marriage is falling apart my mom, so that's good. Oh, does you?

Oh, yeah. What does she say? Walk over here. What does she say to you? This is real. Are we doing this right now? Yes. Yeah.

Please do it. So I said, hey, thank you so much. Kav told me that you stopped by that. house. Oh, yeah, yeah. He looks good. He looks really good. I go, yeah.

I was like, he doesn't seem as stress this year. She's like, you know what? I'm starting to think he's got a girlfriend. And you know what? Good for him. What? He looks good.

He's successful. His wife's never around. You love this football thing. That's why he looks good. Overlaff? Absolutely. Over laugh. Also, I feel like they were setting her up to do a

Gordon character. Is she going to do it? And then she didn't really change her voice at all. I think she Italians it up. A little? Yeah, she doesn't talk like that all the time. Okay, you're fair, but I wanted, I could have thought a little bit more. To get that laugh.

Okay, I'll say this. That's not how she talks on TV. That's how she talks at home. Yeah, fair. That's why he looks good. I don't get, I don't fight with her. I went right back out. I go, why would you see that to me right now, why I'm on a trip.

Right. that my husband has a girlfriend. Yeah. And, ah, just keeping you on your toes, you know? You know? I don't need to be kept on my toes. I need help. She likes you to be in the most mobile spot.

It's so messed up. Across the country. I'm as far as you can be from New Jersey right now. Right. There's nothing I can do. Yes. And yet she's out here throwing things in my head. This one's not that good.

I'm wondering, I'm like, ah, that one girl in his office is really pretty. Yeah. I guess it just illustrates, why is she talking about that? Like, why is she on talking about her husband? I mean, I guess this is what she does. Maybe she does some shock jocky type comedy riffs. But what she's describing is literally textbook like Irish Catholic guilt. My grandmother was an Olympian at it where they are saying something and they're trying to guilt you into their opinion about what you should be doing.

So her mother is an essence saying you shouldn't be on the road. You shouldn't be loving football. No, I get all that. I just don't care. I just don't. Why is this? I don't. Why is this coming up?

Again, I guess this is what she does. She like host shows and, you know, we talk about our lives. She's talking about hers. But every clip is her talking about some level of dissatisfaction in her marriage. Yeah. Is that just her bit? Yeah. Maybe it is.

So the, but the, not morality. Is it morals, ethics on being a reporter and sleeping with your subject and all that kind of stuff? I think there are a few. different people that get really upset about this type of thing, whether it is morally or ethically. When it comes to the journalism side of it, I think the people that get most upset are either the men who think, Jake said the right word earlier, that they're like, well, women are weaponizing their sexuality. And they can't do that. The men can't do that. So they look at it and they're like, oh, it's not fair. Oh, it's not fair. And you're like, okay, dude, you get to

play golf with him four times a week because your besties with them. And if that's the way that she wants to play her cards, whether they're sleeping together or not. You can't really like, it's her tool and her tool belt that she's utilizing. There was a really funny thing where she was reporting that Vrable was not getting jobs because he's too jacked. People found that story back out. Yeah, like he's big. So, yeah, the thing on using, what's in your toolbox is the same thing as if Gronk walks in

with Ken Rosenthal and they both want to interview Rabel and they're both in the media. Yeah. Then he's going to get a big bro hug and he's going to be loving gronk and telling gronk

whatever he wants to know because they're friends. And then the thought of well, we want to reward working hard, right? That's what Blake said. What is harder than having to

have sex with someone you don't really want to. I mean, that's a... Yeah, but she may really want to, though. I mean, Vrable's a fucking piece, bro. Yeah, he is. But what if she secretly does? She's just doing bits with this husband thing.

She loves him. She doesn't want to do this. But God damn it, if I need to know if they have interest in A.J. Brown or not, I need to... Yeah, I mean, it's possible. That is very hard. I would imagine... We've all done it.

The people most mad right now are other female reporters. That was the other thing I was going to say. It's the other ladies. It happens in my field as well where you work your butt off, but because you're semi-attractive female, they're like, especially other women. It's like, oh, they must be sleeping with that person for business. And it's uncomfortable for you. Right.

No one says that about Holly Roe. Right. She's got it easy. So, yeah, I thought Ethan's take on this one was a good one, his original take, which is like, or maybe his original. take was he believed them when they denied it i don't believe come on what are we doing but i also uh i don't i don't care like i would if i were a patriots fan i wouldn't care right if i were the athletic um i guess you have to performatively care but again i think all this is that and i think it puts women in a really bad spot hey i don't

go in there where everybody's naked get super get to know these guys uh uh drink with them. Just like the dudes do, but like, don't ever give them a hang. Yeah, don't let it go. Yeah. I don't know. I think that's an odd arrangement to be in. Let's see.

What else we have sports wise? I mean, some of them ladies, I don't know that all of them, but there's got to be, are they, I've seen it happen time and time again. I knew the reporter in Cleveland who, was just like the weekend, whatever anchor of something. She was the, I'm not trying to put down Sam Gannon, but when Sam Gannon got here, she was the Sam Gannon of Cleveland. You know, she's from some other market, now she's here.

She ends up meeting Jim Tomey and quitting her job getting married to Jim Tome. She's still married to Jim Tome today. You know? Yeah. How about Tony Romo's wife? Sure. You think she really just wanted to be a newsbreaking journalist her whole life? or maybe this was a cool

this is a great out like one of the best outcomes that could have happened. I think both those things could be true. I think you could like be like think that's what you wanted to do and then as soon as somebody's like, hey, why did you want to do that?

Well, I wanted to do that because I wanted to have this kind of an impact and impact these kind of lives. And had you met McKenzie Bezos or whatever her name is, you know, does Jake all of a sudden like, I don't like podcasting and doing this stuff anymore.

I actually like... Sounds like Dan doesn't believe in true love. No, I think you would... I would do what I... But that's the thing is that I guarantee you if you asked her, first of all, you're going to have to get back to the root thing here, which is a funny way to put it.

I mean, just watch the news, dude. Like, watch when they go to an investigative report. The person who's only on once every two weeks, what does that person look like? They don't look like the person who does the weather that you see every night. Like the news, the news itself admits that there's like a different bar for like, you know, for what role that you're in. Yeah.

So my guess is just spitball in here. But if you go to work for a network, a commercial network and you get hired as a news anchor, you weren't exactly Bob Woodward. You're a PR person that they can, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you might have this. Now, some of you, I'll give, I'll give, seriously, shout out to Peyton, Y, Y, When you flip on Fox 4, she's dealing with some shit. She's at a murder scene.

I mean, there's no shortage of, like, insane stories. So I don't know to the degree that Candace Crawford did that. And some of them, you got to do a little bit of that. But my point is switching over to, like, I'm going to run charities and I'm going to market for kids who don't do so good, that's not a big shift. I don't think she was in it to, like, bring down the system from the essential. state, you know, I don't, I don't think it was that big of a shift. The Rangers go sweep, sweep, so we go from getting pegged to, uh, to anal boys.

Well, I don't know that that's the leap, but at least sex. It was a very Rangers few games, and I was listening yesterday when the fifth inning happened. And, um, I know you say this all the time. I think this about BASIC too, but Eric and they Dale's just so awesome. Getting to hear that the fifth inning was insane. The Rangers scored two of their runs on a wild throw to home on like a infield dribbler, which is just in a nothing, nothing game. Having Eric Nadel talk, I said in my car.

You know what I mean? Like I parked. They had a couple guys on and I'm like, I want to hear him get through this. And I don't mean to attack Matt Hicks here, but I'll hear Eric Nadell like sometimes add color to what Matt Hicks just told me. Yeah, I think it works, though. As a color commentator, he will give the description that he would have given

had he been the play-by-play guy. Yeah. On this part. Like, he's, he's great. I think they, they mix it up well. But as much as I've been bitching to you guys about the, how frustrating it is to watch guys just have to,

you have to go four innings of the bullpen. The Rangers have, like, the lowest bullpen ERA in the American League right now. Now, the peripheral numbers are not so hot. So that's more like a middle ground, maybe top third of the league. But they have like a 1-5 bullpen ERA right now. And it's weird because if you look at their starting pitching, I'm dorking out on this stuff a little bit,

they're starting pitching. Like you've heard us saying that the Rangers have the highest share of hard hit balls on offense, but it's just not fully translating yet. As far as they're starting pitching goes, they give up the second most hard contact in baseball. It's a lot. But they also get the second most swinging strikes, which if you watch them make sense. Like, dude, Gore was untouchable the other day. that guy's well how does it make sense then that they also get hard hit

I think it's because you're throwing hard I think it's because you're throwing really really hard and that's you're going to when you do get hit you're going to get hard but you're missing a lot of bats the relievers by the way have a near reverse split they're not they don't get they don't really miss any bats

but they haven't given up a ton of hard contact which is part of the reason that they're numbers, you know, are a little bit fluky. I was just to say it's a guessing game. Like if you're missing bats, they're guessing. Right. If they guess right, they're going to hit the piss out of it. Yeah.

But yeah, your hard throwers are in your starting rotation. I wouldn't imagine the bullpenny r a stays like that. I mean, Lats is start to, what, 0 for 28? Or 0 for 20? I forget the number, but he's shut down the first 28 batters of the season or something like that. And then you're getting it from Junis. They're searching. Coal win.

Like, I don't know. These are just not names you're accustomed to hearing. They don't have any. I mean, the only guy you've heard consistently mentioned is the guy that you, who is basically just the new LeClerc, your closer or late-inning guy by default, which is Robert Garcia. And no one likes having Robert Garcia out in the eighth, let alone the ninth. Or Chris Martin.

They don't have, they just don't have, they don't have anyone, but it's working. It's working. Avaldi gave up a first pitch home run the other night. Was that yesterday? After coming off two losses and then... First pitch of the game? First pitch of the game. Okay.

Yeah. Yes, first pitch of the game. And then locked it down. But hey, they lost three in a row. They won three in a row and now they go to the... They go to L.A. They got the Dodgers for the next few. Friday night.

Oh, nice. MLBT. So I imagine on Sunday it'll be the national game. Whatever avenue that takes you to. But I'm into it. It's fun. Go baseball. You actually are. Jake talks to me off the air about baseball.

This is how you know. Well, it's, dude, you know, the ABS thing was a big part of it. He believes in the Cowboys, he believes in baseball. The ABS thing was a big part of it because, I mean, I'll just tell you, in the, I want to say second inning in yesterday's game. I don't always know if it was a day. I watched these games way afterward. But early on, Mitch Garver challenged a pitch for Seattle, former Ranger great. Male prostitute. Yeah.

Thank you. and he got it right. And you're like, oh, it's second inning, I don't know. Well, in the second inning, I can't remember. I think it was Gore. There were two pitches that were clearly strikes that got called balls, and those extended those counts, and both those guys, if I recall correctly, ended up on base.

And they got out of it. But you're home run away from... What are they saying? Is there... Are they publicly talking about their system? The most they've done is say we know we have to be more aggressive. That's the most they've done. But they are still, I haven't looked today.

I looked yesterday. They were still bottom five. I think it's the fear of getting that first one wrong and then we only got one more. And that is why the rule will change, right? As you guys have said. I don't know, unless they like this. Like it'll change to three. Yeah.

I would like some sort of early in the game incentive to where it's almost like a use it or lose it. Like you begin the game with three and then after the seventh inning or something, it drops to two. Because all of these, no one wants to use their challenges in the first five, six, seven innings. They're saving them for the ninth. And then they'll hammer them in the ninth. But there needs to be some incentive to challenge earlier in the game. They are dead last with 12 challenges. Now, of course, different numbers of games.

but there is also a there's a stat that tracks how often they should be and they're way, way below on that. Have they had a CB Buckner game yet? Like now I know this guy and I'm trying to just follow him every night. You know? Like it's awesome.

There's like a CB buck. It's like up guy. Who's the old guy that we hated? Angel Hernandez. Don't you wish she was still around? Oh my gosh. I would love that. actually. I love seeing these guys. Get that.

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I used to do it. It was called the C section. The C section. Yeah, it's pretty good. He wants the tongue zone. Oh, sorry it's... Yeah, I agree with Clayton. Sorry, E.

Oh, you agree with Clayton, too. All right. I just thought there'd be a little table talk. We'd throw it around, maybe have a... Do a poll on the Internet, perhaps a bracket of different things. Yeah, and then you guys just want to say this is just over. Avery reminds us that a paleontologist studies dinosaurs and archaeologists studies human histories. Now, to me, this feels like a square rectangle type situation.

Like a rectangle is a square. Like a paleontologist is an archaeologist in my mind because they're digging stuff? Yeah. But anyways, multiple people. wait in saying I should add this to my cue, Travis, Mason. There is a show. We were talking about love on the spectrum. There is a show on Netflix called Down for Love.

Nuh. And it is what you think it is. And you can't watch it without crying. You might be able to, Mr. Bunny removal, cold hard. Not me, man. The trailer was too much. Because the other day you were like, well, at least they're not doing that. I know. I was like, you wouldn't watch that.

But I guess they're, you know. Down for love? Down for love. And I'm the bad guy for watching Life Goes On. What kind of dates do they take? I don't know. I'm sure it's a fun time. It's sweet is what it is. You watch it and you're like, regain a little bit of hope in humanity.

Is it just what we need at this time? It is because they love so purely. Like, you'll hear them interviewed and the heat. one of the guys, I don't know which show it is, but he was like, I just want to meet a girl that's real and that understands me. And it's just one of those very pure, almost childlike wishes to find someone that you can love wholly. And then I think there was a guy and it was made a bunch of viral loops on Instagram and TikTok. And he met a girl and she was like everything that he wanted. And she really liked him back. And he's like, I need to go to the bathroom really

fast. And as he's walking out to the bathroom, he's still miced. And he's like, wow, she's amazing. I've never met a girl like this. Wow, I've got to tell my mom. And it's like, he's just walking to the bathroom, talking to himself just real quietly. And I think every girl just looks at that and is like, I really hope every guy, like the love of my life meets me and walks away and is like, wow. Guys that act like that towards girls, they get dumped on and shit on. Oh, stop. It's super gay. They don't want that. Girls don't want that. I am telling you for a goddamn fact. Stop, stop. Yeah, they're 45 and they've already tried all the other things.

They're like at their last gasp. That's how I got married. Mike Trout has been in the playoffs. One series? They got swept by the Royals. Oh, I thought he was good. And you, Dan, despite having 15 fewer plate appearances in the postseason than Mike Trout, only have one fewer hit.

then the greatest baseball player arguably of, I mean, you know, that's in this generation. That's a shocking statistic. I got another sports one. We were talking about the unique, I guess indexing the uniqueness of the Mavericks title run and whether we over index it. Robert sent me a list of teams that hadn't, that were fully comprised of players that had never won a championship before. So the 2011 Mavs did it. Okay? That was the first time that that had happened since 1991 when the Bulls did it.

So it was pretty unique. It did happen a couple times in the 80s, three times in the 70s, once in the 60s. But you know, you're talking at that point there hadn't been that many championships, right? And then the Celtics started winning him. Right. When you get the 2011, that is a massive gap there. There. It's happened a couple more times since then. Thunder? No.

There's probably a bench player you forgot. But it was the Warriors in 15 and the Bucks in 21. Good God, dude. We haven't followed that story at all on this show. Their implosion? Holy shit. Holy shit. That could not have gone any worse.

Like from the greatest Disney story of all time. The Bucks trying to keep it together around Janus? All of it. Just him getting dissatisfied. satisfied with them, his, you know. Calci? Not necessarily he'll turn, but yeah, the way that the public perceives of him now, that whole thing is just very bad.

Like, we are so lucky to have had Dirk. Because the closest thing you've had since Dirk is Yonis. To that level of, you know, commitment and the brought a title of that. And look at it now. I appreciate what you got. Yeah. Wait, what were you just talking about right before that? The MAVs?

2011. Oh, yeah. So I wonder other sports. Because obviously the least amount of players on a team, it'd be easiest to have the NBA be that. Right. But with the prevalence of player movement, I would guess football might have it. Like that Seahawks team, was there a player that won the Super Bowl previous? I would think in baseball it's absolutely impossible.

with relievers and their one like I think this because I look at the birthday list every day and you just see the baseball names and then you see the variety of teams they've been on and it used to be quite a thing like oh my god he was on 10 teams that's insane now it's many many players it feels like half the players in major league baseball have been on 10 teams most bullpens for sure they're year-to-year things like if you're a 14-year veteran Reliever, you've been on 10 teams. Yeah. This, I don't know how old this is, but...

Did you put in football? Yeah, 12 Super Bowls where both teams had not won previously, but nine of them were in the first 16 games. 16 years? Well, not yet. So you had... Rams Titans was one. But yeah, that's a good...

Okay. Look at the bottom of this. I got a couple of anchor words that are almost certainly already on here. And I'm only doing this because Jay gave me something good to end with. We've got irreconcilable differences, of course, right? We have to. It's a good one. If not, shame on us.

Irreconsirable? On there. Fleshed out? So the word fleshed can only have out or light. But then there wouldn't be an ED on the flesh. Now, how do you feel about embroiled in? Controversy? That might have been too much latency for me to consider it.

No, that's good. Okay, put it on there then. Because his real kicker is this ice cream flavor. Now, obviously, we're going to need to have holiday flavors for our new Bluebell Protein ice cream. Away in a manger. That is W-H-E-Y. That's great. That's really good.

So look for that offering from Bluebell Protein. this holiday. I got a couple anchored words. Kindred. Spirits. And unmitigated. Disaster. Oh, you say losses?

I would say disaster. I thought disaster. Yeah. Do you have anything ever, anything positive that's unmitigated? No, but we should start doing. Is he said losses or disaster? Is there an unmitigated success?

Success. Yeah. Striking? Or is every success mitigated? Big John hits me with striking. Striking, yeah. It's resemblance. isn't it? You never say striking in that way. Oh, yeah, but the word striking isn't always just nailed to that because you could be striking out.

Sure, sure. Or someone can look striking. She can have a striking look or a striking presence. That is the way you would use it, but I don't, I don't, would you say that? Just deny this guy, telling me sucks. I would say strike. Jake, you suck. I just don't know what's up with you. Not Jake, no, this email. Oh, this email is bad. Big John Daniel. Big John Daniel, you suck. I'm sorry. Everything is wrong. We have an anchored phrase challenge Because I think last week we did consolation prize Mentally

No The word isn't challenge The word isn't challenged Point They want to point out consolation bracket It's consolation prize Is that what you're saying? Yeah I don't do you really

I've never heard that block that email as well No listen With all of these There may be like some small little you might be able to come up with how big that is determines if it's on the list I don't think you hear consolation bracket that often maybe if you're a loser yeah let's see here do some gummy thoughts oh yeah gummy thoughts brought to us by early bird CBD gummies and that's the CBD gummies that we like because they have THC in it now if you get drug tested for work

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Earlybirdcbd.com, dumbzone 20. We love early bird CBD. Early bird is what makes us think gummy thoughts. and we have from East Texas Paul, he writes Dan Dan the Patreon man, this will lead to a gummy thought. But he said, I'm not sure if you've ever seen the show Baskets, but this clip reminds me of a certain young broadcaster. Okay, let's see what he's talking about.

Hello, I'm Dale Baskets, Dean of Baskets Career College. I look forward to meeting you and getting your career off to a great start. In this competitive job market, BCC will give you the upper edge you need to make it out there. Sports management, cell phone repair. Learn how to become a legal guardian. Ice cream truck repair. What's the place that you were doing? Learn to make homemade condiments.

All kinds of chutney. North Texas. Orthopedic associates. I did. I just graduated with a degree in college management. Not only am I the dean. I'm also a student. Certainly.

Gallifanacus has young Blake clocked. Orthopedic associates offer the huge spectrum of musculoskeletal care. East Texas Paul, I also have a baseball gummy thought. Has anyone ever purposely swung at a wild pitch to initiate a drop third strike to try to reach first base? Oh, I freaking love it. You're speaking my language. Why not?

Why not throw the bat? Do something crazy. I've absolutely seen it done. Like not... Bush League-type. I don't know if it's in the big leagues. Mm-mm. You know this, right?

Have you seen this? I do what they're saying. I don't know if I've seen it. Oh, yeah. You got two strikes. Somebody throws one and you just kind of do that and run the first. Maybe it's me like you. I was just...

Trying to get on. I was a guy who, yeah, I'm going to use my... Diana Rossini. I'll use these things I got. You know, whatever. I got to get on first. I'm proud. Probably not going to do it with solid contact with a drive in the gap.

Because you let either one of these guys out on the bases? I got two why Hillary lost. I have one of those as well. This one is Ballpark Edition. Okay. Guy who went to the ballpark, Ivan. This could be pudge. He said, run the ball guys, proud to hear I acquired two last minute tickets for $98 a piece in Section 20,

which gives you all you can. eat and drink along with access to the Shift 4 club? Do you know what that is? No. Okay. Apparently there's a big club out at the ballpark. He says why Hillary lost submission is seeing multiple instances where kids will wave their hands and an adult that catches a foul ball or a ball from a player at the end of a

half inning. Waving at players is totally normal. but I say after an adult catches a ball, kids wave their hands at the adult, hoping the adult was looking for their SG Sports Center moment where they could be a hero by handing the ball to the kid. Yeah. He's on to something.

It's now expected. Right. And I've said this for years, as a person who's been going to Major League Baseball games forever, for like 40 years, if I catch a foul ball, I'm keeping that goddamn fall ball. Yeah, it doesn't matter.

I mean, I've been going to the, every year, and I've never caught a foul ball. But so if I finally get one, I'm supposed to give one to this seven-year-old. Because you know his parents are egging him on, like, oh, yeah, yeah, go get that ball. Like, no, you suck. I put in the time. I put in the hours, the work, 10,000 hour rule. You're going to have to, when you're this age, you can do it. You know what this makes me think of?

I got pissed off all over again, thinking about that kid who interviewed Clayton Kershaw in 2022 after the World Series because his granddad had died or whatever. It came back up over the weekend. Where is that kid? Probably leveraging his dead grandpa in some other way. Yeah, dressing up as a clown. Hang it out with Michael Rubin. Another WHL might be the fact that we went around the moon first. before we land on it again in I don't know how many years.

One of the main selling points of why the moon landing was so incredible because they use technology with the computing power of a Game Boy or something. You telling me now we can't go to the moon and land all at the same time because we need a scouting mission first? And to the cost of what? You know, when they run scouting team in college, those guys don't even, they don't have scholarships, right? They're out there.

They're junk. We've got to spend $7 billion to get film. it's a joke dude that's what they're doing it's a joke try to make it make sense space guy why are we not landing on the moon someone give me one good answer because like think about it the government whether you want to call whichever side they know that if they did some gnarly shit like that people would be like all right at the end of the day that's pretty cool it'd be a unity moment yeah right now it was like all right you drove around the moon cool but if Yeah, but we went farther than we did before.

Are you on it? They're running cover too. We got a plan for it. Dude, get on it. One more why Hillary lost. In reference to the April 2nd episode, people like Jake saying, quote, I'm not religious, but I am a spiritual person,

is why Hillary lost. That's from Robert. Yeah, I could see that. I could see that for sure. I don't want to say anything mean, so I'll just move on. That's what I should usually do. But I do have a Hillary... That's no way to have a radio show.

No, because just on the religion one, it just really gets people upset. And I've noticed that you tactfully kind of sidestep that. What do you mean? What I mean is that... I don't sidestep anything. 20 years ago when I started listening to your radio show... I meet everything head on. And your producer was like, I'm an atheist.

And all the room, all the air left the room. and it was like he had said the F word. And you were like, whoa, dude, like doing the bit. But then I realized this is a thing you're not supposed to talk about. Like, this really does bother people. That's always the funny thing about religion is under attack. In the last week, I'm just going to. But people will be like, religion is under attack.

It's never been. Right. But yes, try, okay, go out on the street corner and start yelling about it. There's no God. See what happens. I'm going to sit it up. But I do have why Hillary lost. The Bulls would cut you.

Now, this is a great. This one comes to us from Benji, who admits he may be a consumer of one of the bigger WHOHL contingents in America. That's NPR, and especially NPR covering sports. So they have a podcast called Sports in America. They always, have you never heard of like an NPR sports? segment. A lot of times it'll be British. But it's

exactly how you think it is. And Benji noted a couple of examples in this episode. Absolutely. I think it's something that women's sports fans have noticed and not really said anything about for years. It's constantly being othered in the sports space.

That might have cost us Fulton County right there. So wait a second. Othered? And are we talking about... Stop othering me. I'm in the sports space. Damn, that's good.

Fans of women's sports or fans who are women? She said women's sports fans. Are they saying women female athletes? We are not here to focus on the content of her comments, but rather the way she stated them. Of course. I am guilty. You're not convincing any conservatives to vote for anybody

by asking if they felt other than the sports space. It's not happening. You guys remember once upon a time that the WNBA and one of their officials made it know that they thought Time Magazine should have made instead of Caitlin Clark the athlete of the year, the entire WNBA, the athlete of the year. Conjugation issues aside. This is kind of like that. Volleyball game and kind of just surrounding myself a woman's sports, it quickly turned into, this isn't about proving anybody wrong. It's just about I love this. And I am so happy that this is my life.

And this is like a secret thing. It was just this reality that the WNBA players just there was not pay equity with the MNBA. No, no. As a former female athlete on the collegiate level, absolutely not. You heard him. No MNBA. You heard him, folks. Did he say MNBA?

He added the M to NBA. W. Well, I do want to set up the final four weekend. Before we do that, I just want to kind of pause on one thing you mentioned. There's this new collective bargaining agreement in the WNBA for so many years. I mean, there was just this reality that the WNBA players just there was not pay equity with the MNBA. Thank you. There we go.

Yeah, there you got me going. Oh, my God. Don't get this guy going. Don't get David Green going. I'm going to do anything that gets me closer to getting in your pants. So I'll say WNBA, MNBA, Purple NBA. Now, that is a very valid criticism that we could get to the heart of. And if you're a lot of dudes, I mean, I've probably accused people of it.

You've got to be pretend to be more about women's issues. Sure. Get pussy. Yeah. And here's part of the reason why I know that that's complete bullshit. And I heard our friends on the Brunings talking about this, but I lived it. Bernie was better on women's issues than Hillary was. Nobody cared.

It was about whether or not you were going to vote for her. Her, her, her, her. Had to be her, her, her. Yeah. That's the type of thing that it results in a guy being like, well, this weekend, the MNBA playoffs are starting. Don't you think? Ridiculous. A WHL might just be having a long segment.

talking about the WMBA? Yeah, now I will say, I think any collective bargaining story or union story is interesting. And they are pro athletes, and I think they probably were getting screwed. So I'm interested in it, but I'm also not going to call it the MNBA. What was your athletic endeavor in college? You say you were a... I was a rower in college. A rower?

Did you ever read Boys in the Boat? I did not read it, but I did see the movie. Oh, wonderful book. I was not to say, I was like, that is a very common thing that I hear. But, yeah, I went to college at Kansas State in 2008, and I was a walk-on on their crew, and I have never felt shorter in my whole life. And I am not a short woman. I'm 5-8, and I walked in, and I was like, ooh. But I made the team and everything, and I was there, and I loved it.

It was incredible. But also, whenever we get on the topics of women in sports and things like that, I'm, very, I'm very careful about it because I also have the stance where a majority of women that go to play in college know for a fact. There is a very slim chance that anything that we do is going to be done professionally. So I probably believe women when they're saying like, yeah, I'm just really happy to do this thing because probably when they entered the sport, it wasn't even a possibility to go pro at all. And definitely not make money. So it is really incredible that women can be truly appreciated in something that, you know, maybe doesn't have an Olympic sport.

Most Olympians don't make enough money to support themselves as well. So I think it's pretty awesome when women start getting paid. I agree with Jake that the labor and the unionizing and any sort of labor fight for equal wages, you know, it's a really interesting thing to read about. What documentary were we talking about where they were handing out iPads? Bob Barker or Lamar Odom, one of the other. Yeah. So our buddy Jeff Tots, who used to work for the stars, Fotog extraordinaire, right?

He's a big listener of the show, and he sent me a clip that he did when he was still with the stars, I guess last year. Or maybe he still does stuff for them, but he did a parody of this. So he, after the last dance came out, shot this video mocking this style, and I thought it was super funny,

and I wanted to share it with you guys. I love sports documentaries, and I think my all-time favorite has to be the last dance about Jordan and the 90s Bulls. Obviously, the subject matters undeniable, but the shooting, editing, and entire narrative structure of this documentary series is so elite. They also use an interesting production technique that I've seen a lot of people imitate since then. They would give interview subjects an iPad and have them react to what other interview subjects were saying. This led to some really interesting moments, and I wanted to do the same thing with the do. Dallas Stars. Unfortunately, the only thing on my iPad is the 1995 film House Guest, starring Sinbad and Phil Hartman. They need to hand it to Otter.

They almost come out of the mom? You don't want to see that. Ro-o-Bin-cheasburger. They're all just confused. Is this a movie? What is happening? is this? So they sit him down and tell him they have some serious interview with Toots. He's like, I'm going to hand you an iPad. I love that fit. And it's just a sin pad movie. I love that. Shout out to the great Toots. I got a few. The chat, Jake, is obsessed with your laugh.

You call it the squawk. Okay. But this email from G.G. wants to know what happened to the Kempanzi. Because your laugh used to sound like this. I don't know. That didn't sound. too pansy to me. But there are, there are certainly some in the ticket days that I don't know what happened. Perhaps I was just drunk. So you haven't reshaped your laugh? No. Okay.

Has anyone ever? Did you have a laugh coach? Was this really where he is? That's where he was for 30 days. I've never bought that rehab thing. Working on Australian for 30 days. So we have an update from DG. the artist behind our Goodfellas poster.

He's trying to get us a new couch. Yeah, how's it going? It didn't go well. He set up a go-fund me for us. Only three people donated. He sent us the money, but it was the thought that counts. Thank you, Daniel. Also, shout out for his East Dallas Social Club's Crawfish Boyle on Saturday, if you're interested.

That's cool. And then I got another piece of audio. This from K.L. Who says, You guys missed awards with Dan on Monday. Dan was talking about the guy who shared his lottery ticket. And Kale thinks that Dan was going for finders keepers. But they were just friends. They both, I think they, you know, he bought the lottery ticket, said, I'll split this with you.

Give me the number. Because she gave him the numbers. Okay. She gave him half the numbers. It's still pretty cool on his part. Yeah. Because he could have. But he could have just said, owners, you know.

Yeah. On this day in 1999. Owners. There's some kind of a doctrine. Nine-tenths of law or something. You all know it. Owners. The Louisiana purchase.

I think everyone listening nodded. Yes, he's in possession of nine-tenths of the law, right? I just don't think I've said or even thought of the term finders-keepers in a really, in a long time. It was rusty. And then since that lawyer on the Simpsons said he would refer back to the case of finders versus finders v. Keepers. That's great. The precedent.

I've got two more. The first is a ball sack. It says you guys appeared to have been ball sacked by the girls striking out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. It occurred on April 2nd because they are rained out on April 1st. There's an article in Snopes that said this was originally an April Fool's prank. Interesting. Well, how did I then read that Kennesaw Mountain Landis banned her from baseball? Was it a prank and he didn't know it?

It's just like War of the Worlds? Maybe he was in on it. I don't know. Are you familiar with the World of the Worlds? You know what that is? Mm-hmm. He made it through Com 101. Cool references.

Yeah, it's a big reference on what media can do. And then finally, a shortened word, inspo. For inspiration. Yeah, we've had that one. Really? Inspo board. Inspo board. Yeah.

Dude, I think you're wrong about this. I think she struck him out. Okay, I'm not going to fight on Ryan's behalf. You know why? This is viewer mail and I read it. I'm on saber.org. Because I also read. Sabre.org has the history here.

She threw two pitches that Ruth swung at and missed. She followed that with a called third strike. Ruth threw... This happened. Did you go to Snopes or just this guy? I clicked on it and then the end of that sentence said that when Babe Ruth got to the dugout, he was smiling. Some stories at the time claimed he turned and smiled before he left the field. I didn't plan to fight about this.

kind of just perused it. Well, I think if you want to break it down tomorrow, we can. There's two things I take pretty seriously, okay? One of them is the Masters, and the second one is baseball history. Yep. So if you want to... The third one for me is women in sports. Exactly.

Don't other us. And speaking of women, I have a school yard myth. And to see a 17-year-old girl strikeout Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, we shouldn't ask questions. It just happened, okay? Especially since he was black. This is an odd left turn, but we've got to do. do it. It's viewer mail. Schoolyard myths.

Your friend's dad who had to register his arms, his deadly weapons, quicksand. Street legal. This isn't quite that, but quefs. Justin says maybe not quite like Bigfoot, but this was a giant topic of lunchroom conversation when I was in middle school. It has not had near the impact on my life

I thought it would when I was in seventh grade. Yeah, you hear a lot about it. Yeah. It's so gross. The cue and the F together are just an absolute nightmare. And you know what? Maybe the reason that I think it's such a gross word is because boys in seventh grade at the lunchroom table were just gross about it. Words that sound like they are.

Like, more squishy. Moist. People don't like moist. Yep. Only in movies from Matt, this mostly applies to 90s movies from the days of landlines and answering machines. You ever had an answering machine? Oh, yeah. Oh, okay.

A lot of time is spent on what should my voicemail greeting be. Oh, this is your personal voicemail on your phone. No, my parents would let me and my sister do ours at home. Oh, the home answering machine. Okay, bits? Yeah. It's a big stage right there, man. I would pay money.

I would pay money to hear you and your sisters at like six and seven. We all introduce ourselves. Is Darrell? I'm Blake. Okay. That's good. White people stuff. Yes, very.

Very white people stuff. That's awesome. And yes, I don't know, whatever Rachel would pay, like, whatever those Jimmy Carter chairs cost, I would put that. You want to talk about GoFundMe's? That would do well. Anyway, I noticed the number of times of phone rings varies based on what the scene calls for. Specifically, if someone is calling just to leave a message, the phone just rings once. And then goes immediately to voicemail.

Conversely, if the character is trying to actually talk to whoever they are calling, that thing will keep on ringing and ringing and ring. It works great for dramatic effect. It allows the character to say stuff like, come on, pick up, pick up. Or answer the goddamn phone. But in real life, the answering machine kicks in after four or five rings. Yep, that's a good one. That's an unfortunate thing that's been,

many of these that just removed from life by the way phones. I mean, I don't know anyone who even lets their phone ring. Like their personal cell phone. I'm sure that there are people who do it. I hear it in the store, but it's kind of like... Like that's how far removed you are from having an object in your living room that makes an alert sound when someone wants you. Now you don't even...

That's weird. How do you react? I saw a stand-up comedian doing a bit on back in the 90s or whatever, if somebody knocked on your door, you were kind of pretty fired up about it. Hey, we have a visitor. Like, you just might have a random visitor on a Tuesday night, and somebody says, I was in the neighborhood.

Yeah. And they come in, and you're fired up, and you bring them something to eat. And now if your door, somebody knocks on your door, is it like, what? Why? Who would be knocking on the door? It's 5.30.

Yeah. It's so late. God, it's wild. Showing up unannounced. How dare you? Right. We don't know. Are you dying?

Is something wrong? And Dropbeth sent a couple of quick drops. She just said this was very important because it was from Monday. And she said she has discovered Blake Frog. So let's go to... Here we go. This is the context. I saw a situation.

I had to stand up for my dad because he was getting old man muscle-mogged because my father-in-law is on. peptides like me. Oh. Low energy Blake clay. Blake dice clay. Every punchline. Oh. Oh.

And that's viewer mail. All right. Shout out to the East Dallas Social Club. And shout out to going to the bathroom and taking a break. Yep. The drums are. Got to know the young man

a little bit, but also from a scouting standpoint, you were, you analyzed him over the years at Ohio State and then coming into league with the Washington commanders and then going to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Obviously, it's a terrible tragedy and what wanted your thoughts on that? And also on the player, because you did chronicle his career very closely. Well, you know, Dan, I hate any time anybody is killed or anybody dies. but he was a guy that was living to be dead, so to speak. You know, they told him, don't under any circumstances leave school early. You just don't have the work habits.

You don't have this, you don't have that. What do you do? Left school early. I always can remember this. We invited players to the draft. And he was one of the players we invited to the draft. And we were told no. we're going to have our own party.

His own party was a party at the bowling alley, charged him 50 bucks to get into the bowling alley for his party. It was always something, you know. It's one of those things. I'm never off-side, but they keep calling me for off-side is what it is. So, you know, it's a tragic thing. Anytime anybody dies is tragic. And especially when you're 24 years old,

and you got to hold your whole life ahead of you. But, you know, maybe if he'd have stayed in school a year, he wouldn't do silly things. I mean, when you're jogging on the highway, you know, on a road like that, that leaves it open because I'll tell you, so, a guy has two drinks and he's just a little bit to the right side of the road and gets hit and killed. It's easy to happen.

Yeah. I want to just share this. This is a statement that... You're listening to The Dumb Zone. Yeah. Yeah. That'll all make sense later. Next Friday, one week from tomorrow,

we will be doing a broadcast live and open to the public. Elixir uptown. Elixir. Why will we be there? We're not sure. So I'm looking at their website. It's like a party place. Mm-hmm.

Bottle service, T&A. It looks like an awesome, like, fun club, if that's your thing. And we're going to be out there at, like, at lunchtime, you know, 1130 to 2.30. This place usually, the opening, like, when they open, 10 p.m. PM! What are we doing? Being alive. Like, what, you're opening at a time that I would absolutely want to be.

saying good night and goodbye. Look, I got to go. I can't promise you I haven't been in this building at 2 o'clock when they turn the lights on. At elixir? It was called something else. It's been called something else. No, I'm not saying that I've never done it. I'm not saying that I've never been

a person arguing at the end about the time change. Dude, the time change. We have another hour to drink. You think your boss who owns this place would want you to not, you know how much money we're going to spend on this hour? But we're going to get bottle service arrowhead for Blake.

That's a great idea. Sparklers, big marquee that says dumb zone. Chick's spilling out of it. One of our top listeners is a part owner in Elixir Uptown. So we want to support him. It's Friday afternoon. And it's Friday afternoon. Yeah, let's have fun.

Let's just have one. You can have one, dude. Come on. Just have one. Come on. Blake's been asking you. Rachel, by the way, is in studio here. And during the break, did the worst thing she could ever do.

which was tell us how you know what I should have jumped in on that Trident spot you guys did before because I just had them out like what are you doing that's great that's the best endorsement ever most people are not pros yeah I'm just this is the first time I've ever talked into a mic I know that's not true so so tell us about try it real quick why did they come out to your place so Jeremy came so of course I listen to the dumb zone and I sent him a text message and said, hey, I bought a house. And I would like y'all to come and try to fix. I think it's off the tracks.

There's an issue. And they came out and actually quoted out a new door. And it was a lot less expensive than I thought it was going to be. I was like, oh, okay, that's incredible. I ended up with a really beautiful door and it's insulated. So the custom garage that I'm putting in will actually be protected. And we got the new motor and everything. It connects to the Wi-Fi.

It's incredible. And it was a lot less expensive than I thought. going to be. And I've actually referred them because of what I do for a living to several of our clients that when they are buying a house and they bought a house, they were like, oh, this garage is just trash. And I was like, you know, something that will pay for itself many, many times over is a brand new garage door and a new motor hooks up to the Wi-Fi. So if you leave the house, you can close it. And it was, it's, I'm so glad that we did it. It's incredible. So that's my little little piece there. So thank you, Trident. You all did an incredible job.

Jesus Christ and she let me go on and on I'm like my neighbor got a gate I don't know like That was the best thing I've ever heard The best thing you've ever heard Well the best endorsement I've ever heard Like and we're just you know I'm just saying I'm flounding around

I'm excited for your pool one as well Because I have many clients I have one right now And they're just like I don't We just moved here I don't really have someone that does that type of thing And so it now gives me someone in my pocket to be like, hey, I don't have a pool, but these are, this is someone that's recommended.

Look at that. Look at that. Look at what we're doing, Jake. It's changing the world. Don't tell, don't talk about the bunny, though. That wasn't my pool company. My pool company, puddle pools did not put the bunny in the skin. Oh, man, that would be a, what movie is that where they boil the bunnies?

You could ask. It was Easter. Oh, maybe it was a little gift. I didn't, I didn't even know they had left me that gift. Um, all right. Anything else before we do news? Answer it. No, it's spam.

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So we'll run through a couple quicker ones first. So San Antonio and Austin, I guess San Antonio just launched Waymo. and Austin launched about six, eight months ago. So they're compiling reports of like the sorts of missteps that these cars have taken. And one of them down in Austin that happened over the weekend was one of them ran over a duck. Not a bunny, but a duck. Okay? In like a pretty nice neighborhood in Austin.

The Mueller community, they have a big pond. Did they have one of those signs on the side with just the... the picture of the big duck and then the tiny little ducks behind it? They might have. And there's a tap room and bottle shop down there, like on the lake where there's the ducks come and gather. And it's like a thing that the ducks are irregular at this bar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I like that bit sometimes.

So do I. But the robot car doesn't care. We could have sent that robot car to take the bunny out of the sky. Yeah. And here's the thing. I've read about this in other cities. and it's kind of a nimbie thing. Progressive cities are, not Dallas.

Dallas is leaning in. But a lot of these progressive cities are jamming themselves up on technology and innovation and things that can make life better because of stuff like this. Like, oh, it's going to be better. Like, we're going to have to cut down this tree to make sure that, or what if it hits a dog or what if it hits a duck? and I'm here to tell you, you're just going to have to,

we're going to have to break a few eggs. Like, if it means you don't have to drive a car anymore in 15 years, then they can eradicate the duck population of the U.S. by way of autonomous vehicle execution. Yeah, one duck will get everybody up in arms, yet people, like, go out. Drive the wrong way on the freeway after 10 beers? No, I'm, well, sure, we can liken it to other events,

but I'm saying there's a lot of people in that neighborhood, that might go out, take their gun, their dog, and go search for ducks and on purpose kill them. Like, intentionally kill them. Like, this Waymo wasn't doing it on purpose. Or maybe it was trying to fit in. Yeah, no, we make a distinction between the ducks that we hunt and the ducks that come to our bottle shop, sir.

Do you think that they were upset because they think, well, what if that was the family dog or what if that was a small child or something like that? Is that the argument they're making that if it's going to hit a duck, what if it hits something more important than a duck. Is that what it is? Dante Moore or Dylan Rayola. Or Garrett Blunt or Deliard DeLanman. You were just holding that?

I wanted the story to develop. It was the first thing I thought of. Or Charlie Conway. Or Kenny Wu. Cory Perry. Okay, now you... Y'all are so impressed. Or Julie the Cat from Bangor, Maine.

Anyways, it's probably that, but also the car's not trained to miss the duck. The car's trained to miss a person. So, to assume that it's like, well, it hit a duck, couldn't it then hit a person? No. Not by the same, like, it might hit a person, but you know what I'm saying? Unless that person resembles a duck. A duck. Yeah. And also, I don't care if it hits the dog. I would trade right now residential domestic dog ownership for Americans no longer having to drive cars. Should dogs be out in streets? Without a leash?

Just walking in a street? I'm not a fan of that, but, you know, some people, the people who do it generally seem to be pretty on top of it. Well, I'm amazed by it, but. Right, yes, I got an old guy in my neighborhood walks around with his dog. Like he's freaking splintered, dude. But I'll walk around, because you know where I live. It's near three cul-de-sac, so there's not a lot of traffic.

So I will walk out there and take my dog. off the leash and just let them kind of walk around a little bit. They have this thing. It's like good-looking girls. You don't understand. You girls don't understand what real life is like. Like, oh, I thought it's easy to go to the bar. I don't have any money, but I just went to the bar.

Yeah, I'll just have somebody buy me a drink. That's just how life works, right? They think that is like, if we don't have any money, we can be like, oh, let's go to the bar. It's fine. Somebody will buy me a drink. Well, I'm hungry. I'll fake go on a date with this guy, so he'll buy my meal. Right.

But my dog... I need a story about A.J. Brown. No, I'm just fine. My dog thinks, you know, when he sees a human, they talk like this. Like every human talks like, oh, like that. He also thinks he has the power to stop giant machinery coming at him. Because every time he's walked across the street, the car stops. The car stops.

I walk out. I pick him up. Sorry. Walk back. So, but in his mind, that's how things. work. He does not realize that it's dangerous. Yeah. That's why we need a waymo out there just to kind of run them over occasionally. Yes.

So that, or maybe it runs his brother over and he can say, oh, okay, actually, okay. That's why they yell every time I run to the street. Dude, I keep leaving my dog out, no leash, just preying to Waymo. Oh, my God. It's just. Jake's going to get canceled by the dog lovers. Nothing coming around the corner. No, if you saw his dog and you love dogs, you'd be like, yeah. Oh, we can sacrifice that one?

It's got a big, like, Mount St. Helens' Puss thing on its back. Oh, I forgot. It's always shooting it out. Yep, I remember. What you was thinking about? Just letting it out. The top were there. Maybe something would happen.

I want to put the dog down. I want to put out a controversy watch. It's such a friendly dog, you can't put it down. I'm with Jake. You got to just kind of pray for some other thing that happened to it. So they're doing a bunch of stuff to the alamo. Which I do every night. They're flipping the alamo.

I don't know. They're updating the alamo. Allimo. Every time I go there, they're doing that. Too many load-bearing walls. 20-28, they got a big grand opening. Yeah, they're still dealing with that. They're opening, like, a theater in it.

I want to open concept. And because they have a theater in it. They call flowing direct. They should. Get a new gate, right? Yeah. Right in the front. If Trident was there, however many years ago, they'd never gotten in.

Yeah. So they have a new theater. They're going to turn it in. into a content place, so they need a film. Would you like to guess who's writing that film? The Yellowstone guy? It's a Taylor shirt. Hell yeah, brother.

Of course. I thought he was doing Friscoe King. Bro, you don't know the... Listen, if there's one thing I respect about the guy... Well, I'm just putting this out here to let you know that everyone's going to be mad about this because of wokeies like you who read the book about the Alamo and how it was actually... You want the history that you... want. Yeah, no, people are not going to be happy about this. There's no way. They're not going to be

happy with this. No, because it'll be straight up whitewashed America. Yes, Taylor Sheridan's not going to write the real story. It's going to look like propaganda. We'll be like, where's the where's the real story? Because I mean, Greg Abbott hired him to do this. Okay, so this just be another layer of, okay. Yeah. So most people will be happy. Yeah, I don't know what counts as most. But yeah, sure. If you took Texas history in sixth grade and all those, this will probably be very similar to that. Well, no, let's just, let's play it out both ways. One way, Taylor Sheridan writes this at the behest of the governor,

and it's the exact Davy Crockett story that, you know, your grandma watched when she was a little girl for five cents at the movie theater. Well, John Wayne stars in the movie movie, but yes. Yeah, that's the story. Or we hire, you know, your guy. Howard's in. Some guy with a ponytail or probably tattoos on his arms and a nose ring. And he writes, he writes the tail.

Couldn't we just get like a professor? Like, what is he? Or that. No, he has to, he flips his skateboard up and grabs it and sticks it under his arm. And he hands you the script. Yep. It says, don't change a word. Hey, white man, you guilty?

Right. Let me tell you about Texas. And he's like, I won't take money on the stolen land, but I will give you this. All right, so we got to move. Then they air that. Okay. This is going to take some time. So this comes to us from Godly, and I'm pretty sure that we've done this story before.

Blake, you have any mascot thoughts? Wildcats. Okay. Smallish town, right? Yeah. Got a brand new stadium that's pretty badass. I think we've had their play-by-play guys in studio before. I think you're right.

Yeah, I've got like a godly softball shirt. I think you're right. Unless I went to godly and bought that for some years. Town of about 5,000 controversy in the news. And I, rather than telling you this story, I'm just going to go to Fox 4's David Centendary and his poncho shirt. This is now my favorite reporter in DFW. And I'm not BSing. I'm a local news connoisseur.

I love this dude. He was rocking the mustache for a while. He's just the guy they have on the scene now. He's very to the point. You don't know what he's going to be wearing. He, uh, he's going to be wearing a poncho. It could be polka dotted? Could be whatever. From poncho outdoors? Yes. Okay. But here's the, I think he'll explain the story in this. And we'll have to stop and start it. But this is the way we're going to proceed. So go ahead, Clayton. Allegations involving police officials, prostitution, and a whole lot more. I have not spoken to them. I don't know what their investigation is or what is going on. Ashley Ketcherside at the center of an ongoing prostitution conspiracy investigation by the Johnson County District Attorney's Office and Texas DPS. Her husband, Michael Ketcherside, charged with continuous promotion of prostitution. Former godly chief of police, Matthew Cantrell, charged with promoting prostitution.

Former godly police officer Solomon Omatoia charged with soliciting prostitution. Was there a prostitution between you, the former chief of police and that officer? Absolutely not. We'll get back to that momentarily, but first, remember, in 2023, Fox 4 broke news that catcher side. A convicted prostitute advertising on escort websites was volunteering on a godly ISD committee, which in part designed sexual education curriculum. She was later removed from multiple positions. Give me a quick pause here.

So what we have going on here beyond the current case is a woman who back in 2023 was volunteering a parent in Godly ISD on one of the committees they have that reviews the curriculum. In particular, this committee was reviewing the sex ed curriculum in the district. Who better? She is a parent in the district. She volunteered her time to do this. She's still married. her husband is this former police officer they have three kids she this was 2023 was convicted i believe in 12 and 16

of prostitution and she does advertise herself on an escort website or did and that's how at the time they figured all this out that her email was associated with that people started digging probably somebody didn't like her right she's in godly and i think that's going to be an important thing to note here because I don't care what people Not only what women do with their body The man side of it I think should be legal whatever But you got to know you're in godly

And now you're in a world where the values are a little bit different And if they find this out They're going to try to push you out of society And so that happened back then Right and she was kicked out of the committee And now this story's coming back up It's going to be another pause here quickly but go ahead.

Designed sexual education curriculum. She was later removed from multiple positions within the school district. I truly cannot believe that we're still dealing with this three years later. Godly ISD trustee, Kayla Lane, blew the whistle to Fox 4 about that story. Pause. So this woman here, trustee, they're interviewing her now because she was the one that in 23 found out that this woman was an escort. I went to high school with this person. Oh, wow.

And her husband, I grew up with her husband. And I don't, I, these are very involved in, like, Facebook. I've come to learn. A lot of posts. She's a school board member. I believe their kids are homeschooled. Okay. Whatever.

But wait, she's on the school. Your tax dollars are still involved. So that's always a tricky thing. But it is suspicious. And I'll just say this to avoid any legal. trouble for myself or pissing anybody off. I'm not surprised. Yeah. I was going to say.

That's my first question. Is any of this shocking? Absolutely perfect. It's just perfect. Okay. Go back to her soon. As for the current criminal investigation. I love this guy. Oh, yeah.

Hold of pause. His narrative ways are very. Just the, I'm going to let prostitutes say something. We'll get back to that. I like, uh, okay, here's this. We'll return to her. This guy's got. the whole story going. Checkoff's good. This is great. Okay.

We'll circle back to her soon. As for the current criminal investigation, are you active on any escort pages right now? I'm not. Court documents accused Catcherside and her husband of racketeering, operating an illegal business or scheme to make profit while involving coercion, fraud, or extortion. In defending her husband, she disputes the basis for those claims. He's a great husband, an amazing father to my three kids, and I believe in the justice system. Investigators searched the catcherside's home last month. Court documents reveal they seized Ashley's burner phone and uncovered a large number of prostitution clients, including former officer Omatoia, who solicited Ashley for sex in exchange for doing yard work and other favors.

Omatoia led investigators to former Chief Cantrell. According to the documents, investigators uncovered godly police officers and their spouses would frequently spend time at Ashley and Michael's residence, where Ashley was reportedly. Amazing. So this photo that you see here on the screen now, boys, is her in a Sagan 91 jersey that's long, so as to show like no pants really and like hot cowboy boots. That photo is the photo she was using on escort sites.

Damn. Because that's the one that was coming out yesterday, and that's the first picture I saw. Somebody was like Sagan fan. Then I sit down last night to watch the Fox 4 interview. What's she wearing? The same Sagan. No, she's just straight up trolling.

She wouldn't do that? Yeah. She is just like, she's letting them know, like, hey, I'm just messing with you here. Like, you can't stop me from doing this because she's been convicted twice. And as you'll hear her say, she says, like, I'm not a prostitute. I've never been a prostitute. But what consenting adults do with their body. Right.

And it's not illegal to run. And then he just wanted to mow my yard. It's not illegal to be on an escort side. It's not illegal to advertise yourself on one. They can't prove that you're having sex. having sex. So she, they,

she knows they have those photos of her. Oh. In that jersey on the site. Damn. And she wore them in the interview. Just taunting you. So the other note there, a lot of the police officers and their spouses were spending time at their house.

They were all having sex. Yeah. And this woman in particular was like an escort. Her husband is cool with it. And he will let his. co-worker or subordinate cop come over and plow his wife for mowing the yard.

He doesn't have to pay. He doesn't want to do the yard work. I could see that. You don't want to edge and trim the bushes? You know how it gets out there? Yeah. So they really have a great scheme going on here and apparently lots of the cops are involved in that they're all

kind of hanging out over there. Yeah. And there's some, now there's extortion perhaps because they all have info on each other. Where do we have to move? Godly. How far is that? It's like out. southwest wave of the cleburne well now i gotta know miss long uh-y-tah curls that broke all this story where did she get wronged and how did she find out

and i need to know because well it's a small town and if everybody's involved with it like that doesn't shock me at all she probably knows because her husband that's exactly what i think of it she found out because someone that she likes somebody's husband was with that prostitute or just like if you know it doesn't even take that small town it doesn't He doesn't even take that. Women just don't like another woman. If another woman shows up who's hot, they're like, what the fuck is this? Who's this bitch?

Where'd she get her money? Let's look into her. Dude, like in South Lake, I remember telling you, in retrospect, all the women who knew the lady who was working for the Wall Street, like, Dollar Store Epstein, she was living in South Lake. All of them were like, yeah, we were always kind of like, where are they getting this money? Like, obviously people in South Lake have money, but you at least have some idea. and they would ask, and that's the same thing here as they would say,

this couple owns a bunch of businesses. Real estate. We're never really hearing too much about exactly what it was. And then they, you know, ran her email through enough search engines. Well, they've all been suing each other back and forth over, I think, well, we probably don't have to play the rest of it. But the gist of it is there are also accusations, allegations, and I think probably some evidence,

that they, the police chief, her, and her husband were compiling all kinds of evidence on private citizens using the public or excuse me, the criminal. Like the database. Yeah, the search engine. Like violating warrants. Like they were just searching stuff on people and things that they didn't have access to without a court order to try to compile like complement and hit lists on people within like their enemies in the community

and that this information was on the phones they seized. So, yeah, quite a story. There's so much going on, yeah. Quite a story for godly, no less. And then, of course, like, I see this woman show up and I'm like, you got to be fucking kidding me. That she's wearing that. You got to be kidding. Just that. You're your friend? Yes, but that one, really all of it, but yes.

Just to see like someone you, you know, you went to high school with that we didn't have Facebook then, but but if like they could have been a Facebook posting type person in high school, they were. And you're like, wow, you made it to the big leagues. Good for you. We'll end with a good one, a positive one,

down in Williamson County, which is the last final boss you have to get to when transporting weed down to Austin. So you've heard? Because you just got to get through Georgetown in Williamson County. Once you're in Travis County, Dan, as you might expect, the laws are much different. What do you mean? You're in Austin, Travis County.

The laws regarding possession of marijuana and Travis County are lax. Way different than Williamson County in their neighboring. You just passed through one and you're like just fingers crossed. But if you live down there and you're you, you know that, okay. On March 25th, animal control officers brought a cat to the Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter. This cat had a microchip They used that info To reach out to the owner

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Yeah it wasn't I think it was in the same city but still five years this is like Elizabeth Smart The Elizabeth Smart of cats They've got a new cat already They've moved on

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There was a mother and her friends and a daughter, and the mom was probably in her 50s. The daughter was early 20s. And after the daughter went to bed, the mom and her friend decided to eat each other out, while one of their husbands pleasureed himself off to the side. Now, this is their business. It was private property.

but that part of the property was fully exposed to the front and back doors of several other properties. They photographed it. And then a 80-something-year-old woman who lives not far from godly in Granbury called me the next day and said, there was some sex happening in your yard. And I said, I don't believe it. So you're pointing out that if you're saying you don't, at your book, Airbnb, if you want to be behind closed doors and go to the seafood buffet, you're... I mean, you have to assume.

I just assume... Guys, ladies... I think it's best to assume that if... The worst, whatever the... If you want to say worst, and then just get comfortable with that. So you don't... Because it's an Airbnb, it's probably seetier sex than you have at home. And people have hit us up being like, hey, it's me and the 16 of my guy friends.

I'm like, it's not that big of the house, fellas, it feels like an orgy. And it probably is. And I don't care. That's why you got to lie about how many people are going to be in your party. I always do. You have to assume that whatever has happened has happened, but you can't be doing it where everybody can see it at a rental, I would think. Well, where's the juice of that?

And that's a great point. You know? I mean, there was a floodlight on these people where they were. Like, it's not, you know, think of like a dock of a lake. You know, like the brightest place you've ever been when you stand at a underneath the light of the lake. You're like, Jesus Christ. So that's where they were.

Was the daughter inside and where they're like, I'm trying to remember. She was asleep. She was asleep inside. But were there grandkids inside too? A asleep. The mom had, yes, there was a baby there that the mom was tending to. She's like, nobody was up. My daughter's six months old.

I'd like to think my grandma has never done that, but I don't know. Man, I don't know. But also, grandmas are different now, you know? Because, I mean, girls, I went to high school with their grandmas now. Yeah. What? Yeah. They could be.

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My name's Alicia, yes. Okay, so people can come say hello to you. Disrespecting you. We're just having fun here. What's your name? I'm the manager of the clinic. Hell yeah. Any of the three clinics that Dave owns.

Oh, wait, say that again. Dave owns three. of the clinics? Plano, North Dallas. Really? Plano, North Dallas, and Louisville, yes. Okay. So you might actually like Dave.

Like, you're not BS in us when you say he's a good guy. No, he is a good guy. You know how they call the WNBA, the WNBA, the WNBA, right? Like women's NBA? Do you think it's sexist that they just call it the NBA instead of the MNBA? Like, would you be for changing it? I don't think so. Right? What we're saying is...

Thank you, Jesus Christ. Right. We think men get the short end of the stick. They're always trying to make us change something for you guys, and I think you're saying, what's the point, right? Women are fine. I mean, the WNBA just locked in a killer deal for themselves and their players this year. No doubt. It's way too long coming, right?

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So it's Thursday, April 9th, on this day, so it's Thursday, April 9th. On this day in 1874, Alfred Packer was sentenced to 40 years in prison. Alfred. 1874. Okay. He went on a five-month camping trip in Colorado with five buddies. He killed them all and ate them. Damn.

Authorities determined he killed them with an axe. Got 40 years in prison. was released after 17. Fascinating. You don't think about that too much, do you? Cannibalism? No, no, just the idea that a lot of times it seems like now, of course, if you read like Bill James' book or what these people have been around for a long time.

But it seems like we generally think of like, oh, the serial killer is like a 60s phenomenon. It's certainly a 20th century phenomenon. but imagining a guy at 1874 who's just like... It's once our surveillance of... You were too busy to be crazy, right? But our surveillance of the public was better. I think I viewed as that's when we started discovering people were doing this. That type of person has always been around, I feel like.

That's what I'm saying. Left-handedness also became more prevalent later. But there also is something too, you know, you could make the case that like society drives people crazier. Like that now the society moves. in a way that obviously people are more depressed, right? Like, we know these things. I don't know.

Well, you think them housewives drinking themselves to death in 1950 weren't depressed? Yeah, but my point is... They just didn't have anyone to diagnose. They just said they're lazy. It makes sense that with the... It makes sense that with the more free time you have, that you would be more bummed. The more busy you are, like if you do nothing but work at a field for 14 hours a day, that's why you've always said the slaves are happy.

Singing songs, great songs. Just having the time to go crazy enough. You learned in Texas history. To kill your five friends on a camping trip. It feels like he was before his time. And he was camping. People used to camp, too. I think there is something to be said about what Jake's saying,

where there's a, they always say, like, murder is an expression of power over something. And if you're exhausted all the time, because you're being ran into the ground in the factory. No time. There's no time to be like, huh, I wonder if I would get, like, sexual gratification for murdering 25 people. There's not a lot of brain time for that because you're trying to survive.

I didn't even know guys planned guy trips in 1874. Like, that's really kind of what I'm getting at here. He's like, I hate my five friends. Let's go on a camping trip so I can murder you. Like, dude, you guys aren't answering the text. Like, what are we talking about? Didn't that just be called, that used to just be called living? I didn't know.

Yeah. Like, it seems really gay now that I think about it. Like, hey, we're going to go to New Mexico. Let's just walk. It's 1874. Right. Yeah. That's just every day, dude.

Like, these guys kind of deserve to die now that I think about it. Yeah. Too much leisure time. No red flags. I don't have. On this day in 2001, Troy Aikman announced his retirement from the NFL. Not the NHL. And it's a good thing he did.

I know that's a hard. thing to say, but I'm glad that he didn't have like a, I don't know. Two years with Seattle? Yeah. Or, I mean, in the case of like, you know, Vikings, or excuse me, Packers fans, two years with Philadelphia, right? Oh, yeah. On this day in 2018, Senator Tammy Duckworth became the first sitting senator to give birth.

I thought that was amazing. What year? 2018. Is that just mean we elect old? Yeah. And if we elect women at all, they're probably older. Because young women cannot be trusted. Yeah.

It ended up changing the moon tides with their periods. We're just so emotional. Can't handle it. And this day, what a memorable day on this day in 2019, Magic Johnson quit. as the L.A. Lakers president of basketball operations. You remember that? Oh, my God.

Didn't he just want to tweet? Yeah, he wanted to be free to tweet all his opinions. And the funniest thing, because that means, all right, cool, we'll now really follow your Twitter career. See, this fire. Since you need to be able to tweet. And it's always, like, the most basic, like. Happy Easter, everybody.

A picture of a sandwich, and this is a sandwich. It's, uh... Yeah. It apparently... Last night, Show Hey, O. Tony hit a home run and stole his 50th base of the season. Impressive. That's it.

Yeah. It's not like an opinion about it. You can live a long life with HIV, but it will eat all of your critical thinking brain cells. Right, because he was so deep previous to that. Just watch the magic hour. It's basically like watching NPR. Now, today is April 9th, this day in Dumb Zone history. I think you guys have done.

a show, but without me on this day. So no run sheets from April night. Oh, okay. Well, the one where Kenton Sassman was in the den or whatever. For sure, we did a show that day. I'll never forget. Yep. So other birthdays today include Peter Gammon's 81. He is a Hall of Fame tweeter. He's still a lie. Nah, you would know. Does everybody be like, We will have a, yes, a big giant thing. Big baseball writer of his time. Sure. I'm a fan.

Is he on the list? I feel like he is. Rahim Moster is 34. What's his list? Kempstman? Yeah, if anything, it's pretty harmless. Maybe just tweeted a porn link or something. Oh, yeah.

Well, but tweet on you. Yeah. Rahim Mostert 34. This follows my recent fascination with guys who can have 18 touchdowns in one year, followed by 2, 1, preceded by 3, 0, like whatever, but sometimes you just decide. This guy's our short yardage back. And yeah. Yeah, not a good stat, but it does look very funny.

He had 18 touchdowns. You're like, God, this guy's great. Dennis Quaid is 72 Magic Johnson tweet from 2019 I'll be tuned in at 5 p.n Pacific Standard Time to watch the 2019 NFL draft He's just TV guide

Man Dennis Quaid most recently I've seen him in a movie called The Substance and I thought it was a comical movie, it's good You seen it? I've seen enough of it I don't like body horror

So stuff like that usually gets me like, you know what? I don't think I want to watch this. Kind of gross. Lil. Lil. Nas X is 27. Jenna Jamison is 52. Lisa Guerrero is 62.

Sports reporter at some point. Mark Pellegrino is 61. He played Jacob and Lost. Jay Berberichel. I've never known this guy's name. Jay Barichel. Barichel. Sorry, I didn't know his name. He's one of the go.

I mean, he's one of the crew, right? He's always been. 44. This is the end, Tropic Thunder, Judd Apatow stuff, right? Yeah. This is the end, I'm saying, grew up with the... Severely underrated. Grew up with the boys.

Did he? In Canada. Paulina Porzkova is 61. She was an SI cover model. Of my youth. Cynthia Nixon is 60 from Sex in the City. I think she ran for politics and got trounced. Oh, really?

Yeah, I think so. I could have that. She might have been in... I think it was like mayor in New York. Yeah. Kristen Stewart is 36 from Twilight. Cuomo destroyed her. L. Fanning is 28.

Gerard Way is a singer. He's 49. Blake or Jake, probably. My Chemical Romance. Not me, dog. Oh, that's all me, though. That one missed me. Love my chemical romance.

Isaac Hempstead Wright is 27. That is Brand Stark in Game of Thrones. And our Dumb Zone birthday of the day, Steve Gadd is 80. Why would somebody named Steve Gad be the Dumb Zone birthday of the day? I feel like I've heard this name before. Josh Gads brother. He is Jordan Richardson's favorite drummer.

Okay. And I once made note of that. and had to look up like, if Jordan Richardson has a favorite drummer, he's now the Dumb Zone's favorite drummer. God. The sway that guy holds with Dan McDow. Just wave a wand. Yep.

Well, he's in? Well, okay, I'm going to use that. Born on this day now dead. Howard Edward Butt. Who's that? Hebe. The founder. Hugh Heffner.

A place that'll just give you torch. If your entire family died and act like they've helped you? Brother, you don't know the healing power of those tortillas. They do so much for people, and that's what you've reduced them to. Here's some tortilla chips. Sorry for your loss. Herbs. And Jake, born in the stay now dead.

Eric Harris. Damn. Yeah. Dylan's friend, right? Dead and the stay still dead. So he almost closed the loop. It's always been my dream to die on my birthday. It's kind of an autist thing.

Is Columbine Day coming up? It's in April 20th? Oh. Oh. What do you want me to die then? It's always... That's Clayton's birthday. Well, not if he doesn't have that dream, but...

Sure. I think it'd be cool. Dead and the Stay Still Dead, we have DMX. Man, in his dead. There was nothing like it Nobody had ever heard anything like it Like this guy's insane Better than young MC

Not on Bucky's Day dude Not on Bucky's Day So you're saying I should have just known I'm saying you should shut your mouth now For Like I told you you were killing it And then you just like came out with this Also dead on the stay still dead

Dwayne Haskins You know, Dan Who was living He's a guy I don't know We were asking you What you thought about him as a prospect What'd you think of

Well, he had his own draft party Charge $50 At the bowling alley That's what happened On this day in mystery He's a guy who didn't make many starts in college Which is pretty important as well This segment of the Dumb Zone

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We have closing remarks here with the great Rachel Carter. What is your job? You say you recommend like pool companies and Trident. So I've been a mortgage broker. What is that, Dan? Mortgage broker. So you're dealing with the real estate agent and they're like, all right, you guys are going to make this deal. All right, let's take you to our mortgage broker.

And the mortgage broker has 400. pieces of paper and they're going to be like you have to physically sign each one of these and we're going to sit and explain to you what these papers are as I push them then over the table to you. Is that right? So kind of. So that's at closing. You'll run into an escrow officer and they'll have the 400 pieces of paper. Oh, damn it. So a lot of people think of it as like a loan officer and sometimes we work at a bank or for a correspondent lender, which is like a mortgage company. I work independently. So I'll go and I'll shop with a bunch of different companies like a rocket mortgage or I'll go to like a loan depot. So I basically take your information and then I go hunt for the best deal and whether

it's like a weird self-employed situation or stated income. But I also do like the basic VA, FHA conventional stuff. And then about five years ago, I went and I got my real estate license. So now I have clients where I will do both sides of the transaction where I'll be their realtor and their officer and then I have people where I just do their loan and then I have people I just do their real estate and then I have a team underneath me. That's why I can be here today on my birthday is that I have people that are kind of manning everything else for me right now. Hi birthday. Thank you. But yeah. So is this team thing new? Yeah. Yeah. I established my team probably early last summer. And I love them. They're great. But I've had an assistant on the

mortgage side for several years just because it really does help quite a bit because there are a lot of documents to go through. So it lets me do the part of the job that I really like, which is teaching and educating so that I don't have to do all the calculating of income and that sort of thing, which I spent a lot of time early in my career doing. It's just not exactly the fun stuff. So you're here on your birthday to promote your company? No, I just, I mean, y'all are welcome to follow me on Instagram if you want to. I'm Miss Rachel Carter on Instagram and then my Texas mortgage on Instagram. You're welcome to follow me. But I love the dumb zone. I loved y'all before y'all were the dumb zone. And I think I'm a day

one. I think I'm top 500 subscriber. I actually paid for this sit-in. What was it, Blake, in 24, but I've been a little busy. So I haven't really had time to take a whole swath of a day off. And so I'm just here. I wanted to support. I always have a good time. I've been at some of y'all sit-ins for the Cowboys games, but I tend to sit in the back and tend to be kind of too many personalities in one room can be overwhelming. And I enjoyed my slight, you know, stabbing comedy in the background of that sort of thing. But I kind of wanted to come in and just kind of enjoy the day. And I'm glad y'all, y'all had me. But my last thing I wanted to say is, on Jake's point about men getting waxed, let's circle, circling back to that really quickly. I do not think that men

understand that women notice that type of thing and we love it. When you are getting older and as someone who's dated older and you take care of your ear hair and your nose hair and your eyebrows. Hold on a second. I'm really proud of you. For what? I thought how old was going to be with it? I knew.

I was like, I'm going to say this. I'm going to speed fast. I counted it really fast. Okay. Well, I counted to three. You notice how quickly I went to the next thing. But it's, I think that. Unwilling to share that information?

Oh, no, well. I've dated in 50s. High 50s is, I think, the oldest I've dated. I turned 36 today. I'm not shy about that. But how were you at that time? 34, 35. So I've, you know, I also work in a super meal-dominated field in the finance side of things.

So I hang out with a lot of dudes that are my age sometimes, and I just, no, thank you. So I, I, uh. You need a dude with a little money, maybe? I mean, I make my own money, damn. Okay. No, but I mean, because you make your own money, being with someone that doesn't have money. That is a much longer conversation. But I do find that there are some guys that are like, oh, I love that.

It's amazing. It's great. And then three weeks later, it actually is an issue. And they are a little intimidated by it. And that becomes a problem. And it's very frustrating. Dating in the modern scene, I think any woman or I'm sure dudes have a lot of opinions on it too is just, it can be a pain. pain in the ass.

But I don't know. Do you get, because I'm fascinated by people dating in the modern scene, do you get unsolicited wiener picks? I used to.

I think now anyone that follows me knows that I'm a raging bitch sometimes, so I will not stand for it. I think when people thought that I was like, sweet and innocent

and like just this girl on the internet that talks about sports. Fire my wiener over. Maybe she'll be into it. But no. Especially when I was younger, I think.

But no, now, no, absolutely. I don't. And I think that's another really common thing that people think is that I get hit on in my DMs all the time. And I don't. I really don't. Are you upset?

Yeah, do you want more? I mean, not like all at once, please, because I, no, thank you. But you don't mind an occasional hit on in the DMs. No, I don't. I don't mind that at all. I think that you have to know what you're signing up for, though, because I am a liberal. I think that's another thing that you want to talk about dating in the current age. a lot of conservative guys will slide in my DMs

because they love the idea of dating a liberal woman and then all of a sudden we're at dinner and we're talking about Iran and they're just like, oh, you have an opinion on stuff like that and it's very like, yeah, don't you? No, I really don't think about anything at all. And I'm like, okay, this isn't gonna work. But yeah, not to avoid the topic of waxing your ears and nose, Dan,

but I'm circling back to that. Wax nose? Yeah. The inside of the nose? Women notice that stuff. I've had it, no, I haven't done with, like, a electric thing, though, where she, like, got up in there and it's sort of, like, swabbed around. I mean, I used the beard trimmer there, you know? No.

And that's all we ask. Okay. It's part of self-care. If you want us to look all our fabulousness all the time, eyebrows, get them wax, get them cleaned up. Do you need dudes down there to be all linoleum-y? Lenolium. Yeah, total. Okay.

There's no need for linoleum, I think. But being cleaned up, I always think, is very polite. Yeah, the rough or not the rough, the fairway, right? Just something that's well kept. I think that's the right way to put it. Well kept, it's, I feel like it's a sign of respect. Like, you're just like, if I'm going to expect this from you, I might as well take a shower.

Like, that's nice. Yeah. You know, so. Yeah, shower, Dan. But also, I will say. Mo the lawn, do the edging. Exactly. And then come over.

But, yeah, I think men, self-care. Women are not thinking that you are less manly if you have self-care. Like, if anything, we're like, oh, my gosh. Are you looking at him saying, man, that eyebrow, that between the eyebrow. Okay, I think that's not the between. You're forgetting. Oh, you're just, what are you waxing on an eyebrow? Underneath, it's the side, it's the top.

Oh, they wax all around it? Because underneath, like, it looks like, you know, especially if you have dark hair, like you have, like, draperies on your eyes. And, like, there would seriously be times where you'd be like, are you look fucked up. You look sick. And I would come in the next day with my eyebrows waxing. like, what happened? I'm like, I just, I don't know, nothing happened. My friends that are that do makeup. It looks different. So as a natural blonde, I'm not a redhead

naturally. My brows are naturally blonde as well. So it all blends into my skin, which is, I look like an egg. But the cosmetologists or makeup artists that I've been with on set, they'll do things like, oh, if we darken your brows, it'll frame out your face better. And it's true for men as well. If you shape out your eyebrows, there's no way anyone is listening to this. But I'm serious. Like, hey, dudes, please clean your eyebrows. I was up because women notice that stuff. And you don't have to be like penciled in and everything. But I'm serious.

I thought ladies dream of being a natural blonde. Is this like the guy like you shaving his head, making me pissed? Her skin. Jeff Skin, Wade, I would always get mad at him because I'm going bald. You just go bald for fun and then grow all this hair back. So you're a natural blonde. He's like, all right, I'll just go ahead and be redhead today. Guess what?

I could be blonde tomorrow. And then you can't say I dyed my hair because I am. blonde. Like you're scoreboarding everyone else. Oh, for sure sometimes. But I like being a redhead too. I think it's a different look, a different vibe. And being a redhead, you get creeps. That's the one reason I don't like being a redhead is because you get guys that are like, I love redheads. You know what they say about redheads? And I'm like, oh. Like, I had a guy pet me at a grocery store once. And I was like, oh. Pet your head? Yeah, from behind. He like came came up and he like pet my hair and he's like, I love redheads. And I was like, I will assault you in the

store. Like, no, thank you. That's been a cool story to see. I'm pretty sure he was like 80. So the oldest. It would have been elder abuse. The oldest gap when I was ever, uh, older, younger thing. I was like 20 or something. Maybe even 19. I was with a lady who was 33 because she worked at the place, the restaurant I worked at during, uh, college break. And I thought when we were together, I thought her skin felt pulley. I just thought, boy, look at her. It just felt weird. Because I had only, you know, been

with 20-year-old people before. I say people. You might just say, you mean dudes? I don't know. So, uh, progressive. Anyway, when you're with this guy who's like in his late 50s and you're in your early 30s, you're like, boy, that skin feels weird. I don't think so. Or did anything else stand out like that? I, okay, it's going to sound funny, but like, I, I have long nails. So when I play with the guy's hair and I feel like as guys get older, even if they have a full head of hair, the texture of their hair changes. And I think it's got more of like a, so that's the one thing I feel like I notice is less about their skin and more about like the way they feel like how their head feels. I think that that's one of the things and I'm like, it's not one of these young bucks that's almost like got soft hair.

It's kind of got more of a wiry hair to it. So to kind of answer your question, then it's less of the skin and more of the hair texture. that like I, that's something that I like. So, you know, I think some women would also equate that to like silver foxes, that gray hair has a different texture to it. But I think a silver fox, I think guys that have like salt and pepper, absolutely. Very attractive sometimes. Well, happy birthday.

Rachel wants your DMs. She's asking for your DMs. Yeah, well, I feel like y'all need to do like a, like a bachelorette and we can have interviews and we can do the, what is it, the love game show where we get, we have like, like three guys and we'll do the thing. And I'll be fun. That'll be fun. You'd be in on that?

Oh my gosh. That would be so entertaining. You would do a date. You would do a dating game type thing. Don't we have to take care of the senior citizen that we've been trying to find a date since last year's event? The one. Amy? Well, we got her a date last year.

Now we're moving on. We could do multiple women. There could be a whole thing. Not that I would date the woman, but like that's not my game. That's not my bag. But I think that you could probably do it as a road to do. Never at one time Sarah Hepelope type thing in college or anything or no. God bless, dude.

I just forgot what it's like when you get around a woman. She's about to answer. You're right. But I don't care. You do. It's just. Well, I don't care about McKenzie Gore's splits either. Ladies are not my thing.

It's not for me. I just wonder if there's ever a one time. It is a spectrum. It's not fair. Like if I had a one-time dude thing. Like, yeah, I just blew up. Oh, no. I'm saying you'd call me gay.

It isn't like girls, this is another way that girls have it way better. If you had a one-time thing, we'd all be like, whoa, really? If I had a one-time thing, girls and guys alike would be repulsed. Right? I don't know, repulsed is just a really funny illustration. Like we'd all like gasp be like, oh, Dan, never. But I, uh, but yeah, women are not for me. I can appreciate a beautiful woman, but there's nothing about a woman that makes me

go, oh, I'd like to kiss her. Like, no, thank you. I don't want to kiss her either. Well, happy birthday. Thank you, guys. It's been such a joy being here, and I'm sorry. Oh, I wanted to give you a gift. Oh, wait, oh, no.

It's like, oh, God. The accommodation. Thank you. I've actually wanted a copy. We have a box of them, and I just give one to everybody who arrives into our studio. I didn't want to say comes into the studio, because then this guy, I'd be like, oh, come. Well, it's just, like I said, Got to get it all out.

Maybe two females every quarter. He's just got to get it all out. What's it like to have sex? What's it like to talk to somebody? The dumb zone. I don't understand, though, where this is coming from. If you change your personality when a lady comes in, I feel like I'm reading, I still read the same thing. A lady comes in, you're like, oh, don't read, keystador the, whatever, you know?

No, I think that's probably more when we're at the house with the old lady. in it. I'm just saying. The old lady. But no, that's crazy. Women have sex, too. You and I have had problems since this old Bucky's thing. And I don't even know if we're going to do a show tomorrow. Michael be here. Yeah, Michael, Michael Sub-in.

Oh, he doesn't care. And he's very appropriate around women. Adios, mofo. You guys can all suck it. Thank you for watching my video. Subscribe and type for my name if you want to watch more of my video. Who got Mr. Hatch, not the guy with the... Best stats.

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